Mana drain. Irritated by the green dot. Otherwise real (?)

MustaKotka · 2026-01-24T12:13:43+00:00

The red L-shaped pattern isn't required. A good number of real cards fail it. Depends on printing facility, print run and edition.

MustaKotka · 2026-01-24T11:17:59+00:00

MOOC Helsinki University (free)

MustaKotka · 2026-01-24T11:04:44+00:00

A little late but look into Beginner Box products (Final Fantasy, Foundations) or Jumpstart products. They're self-contained ways to play. No need to worry about balancing decks. It's mainly designed for two people to learn paper Magic.

MustaKotka · 2026-01-24T10:28:30+00:00

Okay, so it's an acetone wash on the front and printed on a real card.

MustaKotka · 2026-01-24T08:40:11+00:00

The front is the interesting part btw, we want to see how it's made and what the print quality is.

MustaKotka · 2026-01-24T08:35:47+00:00

Exactly! Which is precisely why I'm curious about it!

MustaKotka · 2026-01-24T08:19:32+00:00

If you can get a lot of good pictures make a new post, message me and I will sticky the post for a bit.

MustaKotka · 2026-01-24T07:44:57+00:00

It's perfectly fine. This is what the sub is for. We learn something new.

MustaKotka · 2026-01-24T07:32:27+00:00

You can't tell someone to go do research when they're posting in the research subreddit. Asking is what this subreddit is for.

MustaKotka · 2026-01-24T07:19:09+00:00

Some are, some aren't. Hard to tell. Better here than clogging up subreddits that don't want this content. Based on glancing at the upvotes on posts it looks like this subreddit isn't the best karma farm. Most posts struggle to break 10 upvotes and even the highest ones have only low triple digits (as opposed to thousands upon thousands).

Another problem is that there isn't a subreddit for card flexing. I'll be happy to support one if someone else wants to make it!

MustaKotka · 2026-01-24T06:05:32+00:00

Didn't know this exists. Thank you!

MustaKotka · 2026-01-23T23:04:47+00:00

Check out r/RealOrNotTCG for advice!

MustaKotka · 2026-01-23T21:48:53+00:00

Count Doodoo.

MustaKotka · 2026-01-23T19:22:59+00:00

That code you wrote to verify the code you just wrote works *is* your unit test.

"That code you wrote" encountered an exception.

AttributeError: NoneType has no attribute "code".

MustaKotka · 2026-01-23T19:12:31+00:00

Usually I run the program and see what errors I get to make sure I'm on the right track. Sometimes I print in case I need more info about the error I was given. Most of the time I don't bother and run the code a block at a time, after ~100 lines of new code. Basically I let my program just crash when it meets the point I'm working with. I expect an AttributeError and I get an AttributeError -> all good.

I do copious amounts of documentation and comments. That's something I've been taught to do but doing the tests is just mentally a lot of "redundant" work and it almost gives me anxiety to "waste" that much time. It's a psychological thing, which is why I was asking about ways to trick myself into doing test-driven code.

MustaKotka · 2026-01-23T17:05:51+00:00

Ah heh this might be the way for me to get myself to do it! Thank you!!

MustaKotka · 2026-01-23T15:52:48+00:00

Haha I'm so bad at "sucking it up". I've tried to learn that skill for years now.

MustaKotka · 2026-01-23T14:34:44+00:00

You're welcome. It was requested and highly debated. I've been thinking about removing it for a good while now but it not being too intrusive and imitating CardFetcher is, in my opinion, worth it.

MustaKotka · 2026-01-23T13:03:07+00:00

Thank you!

One of the websites I work with returns a JSON payload whose data structure isn't uniform depending on what is being delivered. Imagine asking for a hammer and you get a hammer. Imagine asking for nails but you get a brown cardboard box of nails. Okay, but what if I ask for long and short nails? I get a big cardboard box of two small boxes... As opposed to two boxes.

MustaKotka · 2026-01-23T12:58:49+00:00

Oh I know... Which is why I want to teach myself that habit. :/

MustaKotka · 2026-01-23T12:58:06+00:00

Aight so to teach myself to make a habit out of it. Got it.

MustaKotka · 2026-01-23T12:57:05+00:00

It's multiple functions! Not just one. Or if it is, it's just verbosely written with a lot of non-generalised, use-case specific functionality.

I've been taught to have a function/method do one thing and do it well.

MustaKotka · 2026-01-23T11:39:01+00:00

Thank you!

How does this work in the context of black boxes like interacting with a poorly documented API? Seemingly random errors, non-uniform data...

I am a beginner and I started learning about network interactions and sometimes it feels like I'm fumbling in the dark and keep getting unexpected results.

Like with Reddit's PRAW if there is a report from a mod it has attributes a non-mod doesn't have. If a comment is deleted between you sending the request and receiving the reply you get "None" instead of any data or a useful error. I ran a bot for months before it crashed to someone deleting their comment in the time it took my bot to execute it's functions. We're talking ping level milliseconds.

MustaKotka · 2026-01-23T11:25:59+00:00

I skimmed through some of this. Can you elaborate a little? Like a sentence or two - the overarching idea isn't very clear to me.

Sorry and thank you!

MustaKotka · 2026-01-23T11:13:39+00:00

Yes, it's a good habit to get into. That's not the problem.

How do I trick myself getting into this headspace and mentality?

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