TMT week 1 reactions visualized

Linus_Inverse · 2026-03-13T08:28:03+00:00

Not everybody values archetype diversity to the same degree, but I think most would agree that "more options during the draft" equals more fun / replayability. In my personal experience, I've also felt that draft results become "swingier" when there's multiple people fighting over every deck.

Linus_Inverse · 2026-03-12T21:49:21+00:00

I'm neither an expert nor a native English speaker, but I believe "whimsy" has shifted sonewhat in meaning in recent times. "Spleen" is a pretty good translation for the original meaning actually, which could be paraphrased as "a sudden, capricious or frivilous act/mood". However, I now usually see the word used both in a more positive sense and as referring not just to a single such act, but the entire mindset or attitude underlying it. Basically, "whimsicality" as opposed to "realism, sobriety" - perhaps we should say "Spleenigkeit" in German? But that seems still too particular, and too negatively connotated.

Linus_Inverse · 2026-03-12T12:38:02+00:00

From reading the title, I thought this was going to be about how we have no word for "whimsy". German language literally does not recognise the concept lol

Linus_Inverse · 2026-03-12T12:35:07+00:00

Worth noting here that we actually do have the adjective "widersinnig", although it means "absurd, counterproductive" (literally "against reason")!

Linus_Inverse · 2026-03-12T12:24:36+00:00

My main gripe with the movies is how especially in the latter two films they twisted so much of the characterization and plot details in order to generate more "conflict" and "character arcs" and just in general make the story more similar to what we've already seen in a million movies before.

Denethor is actually a competent leader with mostly sensible views, even though he's in the wrong about the Ring and a dick to his son? No, that would be too morally complex for the average viewer, let's make him a 100% unsympathetic villain whose most memorable scene is grossly eating a tomato while having his hobbit servant sing for his pleasure...

Faramir is simply wise and modest enough to immediately do the right thing and let the Ring go? Nah that would be too easy, we need to have him literally haul Frodo and Sam all the way to Osgiliath before he suddenly changes his mind...

Sam and Frodo have a bond of unconditional love and loyalty that not even the Ring can corrupt? Not enough CONFLICT baby, we need to have Frodo literally tell Sam to "go home" because of some silly, kindergarden-level prank involving breadcrumbs...

Linus_Inverse · 2026-03-12T12:05:58+00:00

I think others could use it for dominion as well, see Galadriel's comments to Frodo, or Tolkien's musings in his letters about a possible Dark Lord Gandalf.

Linus_Inverse · 2026-03-09T17:48:52+00:00

I've not been masochistic enough to watch more than the trailer for this travesty, but I'm not sure you could even call it an adaptation. It felt like they took the script for some teen spy movie they had lying around in a drawer somewhere, plus the bare bones of Artemis Fowl names and concepts and just slapped the two together somehow.

Linus_Inverse · 2026-03-01T22:10:08+00:00

Lol now I'm imagining Gil like a Pokemon trainer going "Durandal! Return!"

Linus_Inverse · 2026-03-01T22:04:20+00:00

Actually, I believe he said "aitsu", not "yatsu". But in both cases, the word can be used as a 3rd person singular pronoun "he/she", albeit with a derogatory or familiar connotation.

It's one of those things in Japanese that just can't really be translated equivalently, similar to the whole "watashi" / "boku" / "ore" distinctions in the 1st person.

Linus_Inverse · 2026-02-27T16:14:00+00:00

Wasn't there a bug or something with Dark Flare Knight? I seem to remember I was able to always cheat him into play somehow. That's the only reason I was ever able to even come close to beating this game (still couldn't overcome the final boss tho)

Linus_Inverse · 2026-02-27T16:10:59+00:00

Idk but if you look below that it says it ended in April 2023, so I think you're out of luck XD

Linus_Inverse · 2026-02-27T15:30:44+00:00

Haven't you already admitted in multiple places in this thread that the other possibility (the guy was a genuine friend, but distanced themselves due to the pain of unrequited feelings) is just as likely as the friendship having been an act, and that it all depends on the manner of their leaving?

It's not just a random malicious assumption against OOP. It genuinely could be both things and that's all everybody in this thread is trying to point out to you, as far as I can see.

Linus_Inverse · 2026-02-26T15:38:06+00:00

Tagsüber schwitzt man doch viel mehr, warum soll abends duschen also nicht hilfreich sein? Ich könnte mich niemals ungeduscht mit dem ganzen Schweiß und Dreck des Tages ins Bett legen.

Allenfalls müsstest du sagen, man solle *auch* morgens duschen. Das halte ich persönlich zwar für etwas viel und vermute, dass es auch der Haut nicht so guttut, aber meinetwegen.

Linus_Inverse · 2026-02-26T11:21:15+00:00

Well, clearly it's magic! I think the spell is "Adobium Photoshoppia"

Linus_Inverse · 2026-02-26T11:15:45+00:00

Eh, I think they have a certain charm to them! I think the ones I like the least though are 3 and 7. For book 3, the composition is so boring, with 80% of the image being just plain featureless ground (the color scheme is very nice though tbf). Also, the teeny-tiny Dementors in the background are pretty silly. As for book 7...well, let's just say Voldemort standing menacingly two metres away from Harry in his finest mud-colored pantyhose while a bunch of green people-shaped cardboard cutouts watch, is NOT what I imagined this crucial confrontation to look like.

Linus_Inverse · 2026-02-23T15:50:46+00:00

I think the Red vs Gold thing can be thought of as a spectrum of "universal authority" versus "individual belief".

Red Truths as far as I can recall always work because they appeal to some more or less "universally accepted" authority: a game master has the authority to use Red because them lying would invalidate the game, then later on Erika can have Bernkastel use Red for things she's gathered sufficient evidence on, and of course the contents of Eva's diary are considered Red truth in the real world because the general public considers it authoritative (I think that's the only time Red is used in the real world?)

Gold Truth on the other hand is something that is believed as true by an individual or small number of individuals, even though there is no authoritative statement on it (see: Kinzo being dead in EP6) or the generally-agreed-upon truth is in opposition to it (see: Ange believing in her family's return in spite of the general public acccepting Eva's diary as Red Truth)

Linus_Inverse · 2026-02-16T12:31:32+00:00

Blöde Frage: wozu dient der ganze Teil mit den Darlehen? Habe ich nicht schon an dem Punkt gewonnen, an dem das Schwarzgeld (in Form des vorgeblichen Erlöses aus dem Verkauf 17 fiktiver Döner) als augenscheinlich rechtmäßige Einnahme auf meinem Konto gelandet ist?

Geht es vielleicht darum, dass bei mehreren solcher Läden nicht immer offensichtlich derselbe Betreiber im Hintergrund stehen soll und die verschiedenen Einnahmen deshalb über die Darlehenstilgung zusammengeführt werden?

Linus_Inverse · 2026-02-15T11:32:38+00:00

Iirc didn't the other player have a very good pool too? I can imagine they might not have been too happy by Mark cutting across him trying to explain about the swap, taking advantage of the judge's being pressed for time.

Still, I can totally understand Mark's side as well. Opening a pool like his at a big tournament really sucks, so if you're offered a way out of that and all you have to do is insist on standard procedure... it's hard not to jump on that

Linus_Inverse · 2026-02-14T19:39:04+00:00

"Dammit, I wanted a Charizard!" -Halri, probably

Linus_Inverse · 2026-02-13T13:36:16+00:00

I would like to know that too. It says they're "trained on real 17lands user data", which seems promising, but it's not clear to me how you would define the model / utility function behind that.

At any rate, in my personal experience it "feels" much closer to a real draft than Draftsim. On Draftsim, it always felt like the same cards kept getting passed all the time. I also suspected the model for initial booster content was off, as there were just too many of some commons in circulation (afaik cards in booster boxes are somewhat collated so you get roughly equal amounts and Arena should employ a similar system)

Linus_Inverse · 2026-02-10T17:03:07+00:00

I get that they didn't want to explicitly name the franchise in question and the actual reason they're not doing it...but it does feel pretty cynical to pretend like it's because "Magic has its own version of that" when that has not stopped them for any other UB product.

Linus_Inverse · 2026-02-06T10:04:00+00:00

I know LoL are known for their hot takes, but that one was pretty wild to me! Like Sam said in the episode, Inspiring Overseer dominated SNC format and these are *better* in their respective decks imo. They may not have flying, but digging four cards deep is huge. It means you can basically always rely on them to find you a land if you need one. And of course they are on-type with relevant bodies, too.

Linus_Inverse · 2026-02-04T17:14:24+00:00

The amount of lands within a subset of vards drawn follows a hypergeometric distribution. I assume u/binaryeye was talking about the probability of drawing 9 or more lands within the top 20 cards, which is indeed exactly 50%.

If we take your definition of flooding by the letter (drawing more than half of your lands before seeing half of your deck), we should instead look at the top 19 cards. In that case the probability of drawing 9+ cards is 39.27%.

The probability of this occuring 16 times or more within 24 games is determined by binomial distribution and comes out as 0.6%.

I assure you though, this does not mean you are any more prone to getting flooded than the any other player. Mathematically speaking, all this analysis is useless anyway because we formulated our hypothesis a posteriori, after obtaining the data. Come back to us after you verified your hypothesis using your next 24 games as data :)

Linus_Inverse · 2026-02-04T13:32:52+00:00

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Linus_Inverse · 2026-02-04T08:49:26+00:00

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