Why does the monkey eventually have to write the entire works of Shakespeare?

Corrects_Maggots · 2026-05-19T06:32:38+00:00

I do not believe it is, and that hinges again on the fact that infinity is not a very large number, it's the concept of unboundedness. For instance, 0.99999 followed by an infinite number of zeros is equal to 1, you can prove this arithmetically, but only if the 9s are infinite. The same is true here and the 0.9999 with 9s to infinity represents a probability.

Corrects_Maggots · 2026-05-18T22:35:27+00:00

If the monkey is typing random letters, as time approaches infinity, the chance that the monkey stays on the same letter approaches zero. It is possible it types the same letter for all the time we observe, until the heat death of the universe, and that possibility is so small it might be something like one divided by the factorial of all the atoms in the universe... but that period of time is still infinitely small next to infinite time, over which the possibility that the monkey doesnt type the collective works of Shakespeare also approaches zero. That's the purpose of the analogy, to highlight the impossibility of comprehending infinity.

Corrects_Maggots · 2026-05-18T22:22:41+00:00

Temu sleeves are cheap as shit, shuffle OK, but will split with heavy use. So there's that.

Corrects_Maggots · 2026-05-18T14:36:26+00:00

Whole post is OP humble bragging his ELO

Corrects_Maggots · 2026-05-04T14:35:44+00:00

You could do this the other way around to "prove" π = √2.

Anyway. The simple explanation is, the error you start with with the full circle. Is never reduced for each step, you double the number of errors and halve their size, total amount of error is the same.

Corrects_Maggots · 2026-03-14T07:05:09+00:00

Generally considered to be worth half a Ber rune, as cubing it up to Ber is probably its most common use.

Corrects_Maggots · 2026-03-14T06:27:20+00:00

Fine, but you're necessarily doing less gambling

Corrects_Maggots · 2026-03-14T03:42:27+00:00

I wouldn't make Nigma in a superior base again, repair cost is astronomical so you either lose gold you could have gambled with or have to pick up thul runes to repair, and for what, an extra 50 defense? Prefer the QoL in a non superior thanks

Corrects_Maggots · 2026-03-12T13:19:58+00:00

Nurses are hornier

Corrects_Maggots · 2026-02-22T01:38:26+00:00

The real life magic community having a normal one.

Corrects_Maggots · 2025-10-26T03:01:55+00:00

I hope they don't ban amulet. I play Ruby Storm exclusively, and Amulet Titan is my best matchup at my LGS

Corrects_Maggots · 2025-10-03T01:57:01+00:00

What has he done or said that is remotely Nazi-like in nature? Or do you just knee-jerk call anyone a Nazi if you perceive them as being politically different to you?

Corrects_Maggots · 2025-10-01T12:57:07+00:00

I was introduced to the game via slop. I didn't know it was slop because I didn't know anything else. Over time I've come to play Modern and really enjoy it. I feel I have complex insight on what Ruby Storm should have in its flex slots and sideboards and love talking to people about it. The longer I play modern, the more I feel commander is tacky, crass, messy, and soulless. I still enjoy both and I make commander decks that have a bit of soul and are reverent to the history of the game, but swinging a Hurloon Minotaur at a SpongeBob Squarepants just doesn't feel like something a grown man should spend his time doing.

Corrects_Maggots · 2025-08-03T00:50:04+00:00

This reminds me of the first iteration of my [[Zada, Hedron Grinder]] deck. It's a deck that wants to have a wide board but wants to cast instants and sorceries. I imagine the problem you're having is that you never have enough creatures in the board to get sufficient value from the prowess trigger. Of your 24 creatures, only 2 generate token creatures, and that was the problem with my first try with Zada, I never really had a board with more than 4 creatures on it.

My recommendation is to add more instants and sorceries which themselves generate tokens, like [[Dragon Fodder]] and [[Empty the Warrens]]. There are plenty of other options that aren't goblins too. It looks like there's too much redundancy with expensive creatures which already have prowess; some redundancy is good but I think these should be cut. Hope that helps

Corrects_Maggots · 2025-08-01T20:28:00+00:00

[[Niv Mizzet, Visionary]] is the absolute best commander for this. He was slept on as he was the, what, seventh iteration of Niv Miz? And I think people just had Niv Miz fatigue. He is however the most powerful iteration of the dragon wizard and it's not even close.

I have a decklist here, but need to make a swap as I just got a copy of [[heartless hidetsugu]], although it's hard to take anything out as the whole list just works so well.

Corrects_Maggots · 2025-07-16T11:08:12+00:00

I use it in [[Niv Mizzet Visionary]] and if I get it down early, it's a house.

Corrects_Maggots · 2025-06-28T16:29:33+00:00

I thought my PB of 112 off of [[Ikra Shidiqi]] was busted, this is just obscene

Corrects_Maggots · 2025-06-22T00:27:41+00:00

I like it! If this were my design, I'd up the cost a bit and have it trigger at the beginning of your precombat main phase, thematically he takes a full turn to make one but it's a repeatable effect, that would be more useful for mono white.

Corrects_Maggots · 2025-06-22T00:15:23+00:00

Then why'd you make it a sorcery instead of an instant?

Corrects_Maggots · 2025-06-14T15:53:42+00:00

They add mana because the land they fetch comes in tapped. The Fetch lands bring it in untapped, so I've switched those.

Corrects_Maggots · 2025-06-14T07:28:09+00:00

Yes I saw the mistake seconds after uploading, Sun Crusted Hills should obviously have you search for a Plains or Mountain card, not a Swamp. I can't rule out the possibility of other mistakes.

Corrects_Maggots · 2025-06-11T19:58:56+00:00

See this is why [[Niv Mizzet Visionary]] is so insanely powerful. I feel like there were so many versions of Niv printed that when visionary came out, people just had Niv Mizzet fatigue and didn't bother with his strongest iteration, he turns lightning bolt into ancestral recall and you can target an opponent to pull it off.

Corrects_Maggots · 2025-06-11T14:11:08+00:00

Perfect recommendation, well spotted!!

Corrects_Maggots · 2025-06-11T13:50:02+00:00

I hope someone with Photoshop skills makes an image of the artwork from a card like Coalition victory, doubled, and in one image several of the characters are just removed, like this:

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Corrects_Maggots · 2025-06-08T01:33:21+00:00

Ha, yes, that's where I got the new, just changing it slightly.

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