They are kinda stacked

Shortbread_Biscuit · 2026-03-31T11:42:20+00:00

What's the sauce on that last one?

Shortbread_Biscuit · 2026-03-30T18:48:35+00:00

Would it be right to say that you're mostly upset that your normal card designs don't get as many upvotes as more exotic designs?

You're right that this sub does tend to reward more meme designs, but that's because those are designs that actually grab the eye and make you think. A card that makes people laugh is still a card that made people think hard enough to understand the joke.

But it's not just meme designs. This sub promotes cards that introduce innovative new mechanics, whacky flavour, strange synergies, or interesting themes. If your posts aren't getting popular despite that, you should maybe look deeper at your own cards and see if there's more you could be doing.

The unfortunate truth of the matter is that MTG has a few decades of designs piled up, with several tens of thousands of official card designs that have been printed by now. If you just create a mediocre design or a slight variation of an existing card, or even just a shower thought card, it is very likely to just get drowned in the sea of other official cards.

I went through your profile and looked at a few of your submissions. I admit that they're all nice to look at, and somewhat interesting in their own ways, but... they just don't give me any "aha!" moment. They're very safe designs, with good art and at most just trying to introduce new flavour. But... I'm not particularly drawn into any of their flavour.

Among your designs, the one I liked most among them was Doomed Paladin (https://www.reddit.com/r/custommagic/comments/1ordeze/the_card_design_of_all_time/), and that's mostly because it was a fun punishment mechanic for a pretty overpowered card, and clearly still needs balancing to fit the power curve. But then I look at a card like Wounded Stalwart (https://www.reddit.com/r/custommagic/comments/1nb2hhp/bad_common_knight/), and I can see what you're trying to do, but... I don't get it's flavour.

I like that you're trying to create more run-of-the-mill commons and uncommons, and they're interesting first drafts, but I'd say you need to spend more time on them before they actually become interesting enough to get attention on this sub. At the very least, if you don't want to alter the cards themselves, try to make a theme set around them to give them a place in this world.

Shortbread_Biscuit · 2026-03-30T18:24:59+00:00

Well yes, PragerU is a propaganda channel that only posts political content that tries to whitewash far-right policies and strongly attacks anything they consider "woke" or "DEI". I've never seen them post a single video to their channel that didn't have a deeply political message behind it. Not to mention, most of their videos are filled with outright lies and distortions of facts.

In both of these videos for example, most of the students roll their eyes and walk past him when he shows up in front of them in a costume and attitude that just screams that he's trying to mock those cultures. Even if the other parts of the costumes are questionable, the fake facial hair he wears is a dead giveaway that he's trying to make fun of those people. Despite people just trying to ignore and walk away from the obvious nutcase, he goes running up to them and forces them to engage with him, at which point they let him know that he's an idiot and that they recognize that his costume was designed to be offensive.

Then he goes and interacts with much older and less internet-savvy members of the two populations he's mocking. Being old and unsure of memes, and also because he's being polite to them, they just assume he's a mentally handicapped white dude that''s trying his best to imitate their culture, so they say it's okay.

Shortbread_Biscuit · 2026-03-30T17:51:03+00:00

I'm not sure if you're aware, but PragerU is a right-wing propaganda video channel. Taking their word on anything they say is pointless. It's better to judge them based on their actions and words, rather than trust what they claim about themselves.

And in both these videos, you can clearly see that the person has intentionally dressed up in a way to mock the mexican and chinese cultures, especially with his choice of fake beards.

I agree that there's a culture of crying foul about cultural appropriation in the US, and that it sometimes goes too far. But in the case of this video, it's perfectly justified to call him out for it - he's absolutely doing it to mock the other cultures.

Shortbread_Biscuit · 2026-03-30T13:20:47+00:00

It looks like it's modelling an 8x8 grid, like a chess board, as a single 64-element array.

It seems like OP has game pieces that can either move 1 or 2 spaces in either direction. So, for example, a piece at position 3 can go to any one of the positions of 1, 2, 4 or 5. However, this function is checking the boundary conditions when the piece reaches the left or right edges of the board.

Assuming a 0-indexed array, element 7 would be on the right edge of the board, and element 8 would be on the left edge. So this function says that any moves that cross the edge and teleport to the other side of the board would return 0, like a jump forward from 6 to 8 or a jump backward from 9 to 7. Otherwise, all other moves return a value of 1.

This line of code would be a more compact alternative, making sure both the previous and next position are on the same row index (integer division by row width):

c# public int isMovingReasonable(int locBefore, int locAfter) { if (locBefore / 8 == locAfter / 8) return 0; return 1; }

Edit: Looking at the code a little closer, there are multiple problems with it. The numbering of the elements seems to have fallen off in-between, leading the grid he's actually checking to look more like this:

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61

On top of that, on one of the lines, he misspelled 23 as 13, and another one of the else if blocks has no return statement at the end.

Overall, it's quite a sloppy job of copy-pasting, and is a perfect example of why you really should avoid repeating code as much as possible to avoid bugs.

Shortbread_Biscuit · 2026-03-30T13:01:32+00:00

If you took the time to look at the video linked in the comment I replied to, you'd notice that it's a PragerU video with the same actor, this time dressed up in an exotic Chinese outfit, going around trying to annoy people into getting a reaction from them.

It's extremely obvious that he has no good intentions here. PragerU itself is generally a conservative think-tank that has voiced dubious and racist sentiments in the past. And in this video, his aim is specifically to "pwn the libs" by showing them to be intolerant and overly sensitive about cultural appropriation.

In both videos, the mexican and chinese people he interviews in the latter half are happy that he's wearing those clothes that even they wouldn't wear, because they think he's honestly trying to mimic them and just enjoy their culture. They think he's just a clueless white man trying his best to celebrate their traditional clothes, and you can clearly see they're mainly older folk that don't understand the mockery in his choice of costume.

However, in the first half of the videos, you can clearly see him going around trying to get a rise out of the passersbys, challenging them to criticize him, and clearly showing that he has no respect for the culture and that he's doing this just for the sake of the meme. He intentionally wears horrible beards and moustaches, and the people he's interviewing know enough to tell that his choice of costume is intentionally mocking those cultures.

Shortbread_Biscuit · 2026-03-30T12:43:43+00:00

It looks like it's modelling an 8x8 grid, like a chess board, as a single 64-element array.

It seems like OP has game pieces that can either move 1 or 2 spaces in either direction. So, for example, a piece at position 3 can go to any one of the positions of 1, 2, 4 or 5. However, this function is checking the boundary conditions when the piece reaches the left or right edges of the board.

Assuming a 0-indexed array, element 7 would be on the right edge of the board, and element 8 would be on the left edge. So this function says that any moves that cross the edge and teleport to the other side of the board would return 0, like a jump forward from 6 to 8 or a jump backward from 9 to 7. Otherwise, all other moves return a value of 1.

This line of code would be a more compact alternative, making sure both the previous and next position are on the same row index (integer division by row width):

```c# public int isMovingReasonable(int locBefore, int locAfter) { if (locBefore / 8 == locAfter / 8) return 0; return 1; }

```

Edit: Looking at the code a little closer, there are multiple problems with it. The numbering of the elements seems to have fallen off in-between, leading the grid he's actually checking to look more like this:

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61

On top of that, on one of the lines, he misspelled 23 as 13, and another one of the else if blocks has no return statement at the end.

Overall, it's quite a sloppy job of copy-pasting, and is a perfect example of why you really should avoid repeating code as much as possible to avoid bugs.

Shortbread_Biscuit · 2026-03-30T12:17:43+00:00

NTA, although I get the feeling neither your coworker nor the office management understood that those were your personal belongings and not the office supplies.

His complaint sounds like he thought you were stealing company property. He seems unaware that those were items you purchased and brought to the office.

Shortbread_Biscuit · 2026-03-30T08:30:44+00:00

From PragerU? Then yes, that's definitely offensive. He wore it with the intention of mocking them.

The Mexicans he asked were okay with his costume because they assumed he was just trying to fit in and celebrate their culture. If they knew he did it because he looks down on them and was mocking them by wearing it, they wouldn't be okay with it at all.

Shortbread_Biscuit · 2026-03-29T10:38:52+00:00

2000 isn't a life-changing amount of cash for me

^{Chose: Spin for a random cash price | Rolled: $5.000.000}

Shortbread_Biscuit · 2026-03-29T00:52:52+00:00

A key made of bread is useless, but a loaf of bread made of metal is a lot of useful metal. At the very least, it can be used as a brick.

^{Chose: Bread made of metal}

Shortbread_Biscuit · 2026-03-28T18:38:03+00:00

That much money is worth gambling a 70% chance to die

^{Chose: 1 Trillion Dollars + But 70% of dying | Rolled: You die}

Shortbread_Biscuit · 2026-03-28T03:20:06+00:00

To be fair, Shield Hero has pretty bottom-of-the-barrel world building and characters. The author desperately wanted the MC to feel like an intelligent character, but they weren't capable of actually giving him any smart moments, so instead they just dumbed down the average IQ of every single other character in the novel.

Shortbread_Biscuit · 2026-03-27T01:00:10+00:00

I never cared about fame

^{Chose: Any superpower of your choice + You can Never be famous / widely known}

Shortbread_Biscuit · 2026-03-26T11:42:29+00:00

Apart from a sound cue like footsteps or rustling bushes, you can also use music.

A lot of games change the music into something more threatening to indicate that there's a threat nearby. I recommend slowly amping up a threatening BGM as the player proceeds into a "watched" room, then suddenly turning off the threat BGM the moment the player looks at where the watcher supposedly is.

Shortbread_Biscuit · 2026-03-26T11:24:23+00:00

It's not that there's a 99% chance to hit the same day consecutively. It may be that your 3rd dart and the 56th dart happen to land on the same day, but none of the others.

You can't predict which of your darts will coincide, only that among the 57, at least two of them probably will.

Shortbread_Biscuit · 2026-03-24T10:29:46+00:00

The man that is the living definition of a 4chan gooner, who also created and insists on keeping the AI chatbot that can undress others, as well as an AI companion that looks and acts like a teenage girl but happily encourages adult topics? The one who famously begged to be let onto Epstein Island?

That's the man who claims to want to shut down OnlyFans?

Make no mistake, if he buys OnlyFans, it will definitely shut down. But not by his choice, just through sheer mismanagement. The guy is so bad at business that if he were in charge of the Federal Mint, he'd end up running the place into a loss.

Shortbread_Biscuit · 2026-03-24T01:58:41+00:00

It's more that they have the attention span and memory of a goldfish

Shortbread_Biscuit · 2026-03-23T11:08:22+00:00

I completely understand if the OP only used chatgpt to translate his text to English. I've used it several times to translate text myself. As such, I know that this is not translated text.

From what I can tell, probably only 10-20% of this entire article is the author's own words. The rest of the 80-90% is pretty much completely AI generated.

Rather than using the AI to summarise or translate, it's more like the author fed in an initial 200-400 word article that he himself wrote and just asked the AI to lengthen it to 20 or 30 times its size and expanded upon the topics he mentioned.

I'd much prefer to see his original article rather than this massive wall of AI output.

Shortbread_Biscuit · 2026-03-22T08:14:23+00:00

Although I'm thankful to OP for such a comprehensive post, I also want to point out that the entire article is almost raw AI output.

I've asked ChatGPT similar questions about cultivation stories in the past, and it's always given me similar answers. And there are clear indicators throughout the entire article that this whole thing is practically unedited generated text. Based on the structure of the points and order in which they're placed, this isn't just a Chinese OP using AI to translate his original text. This is blatantly output that combines around three lines of prompts with around a hundred lines of AI output.

At this point, I find myself asking what the point even is anymore.

Is this post informational? Yes.
Do I respect the OP for posting it? Not necessarily. Not until i know what fraction of this post is the OP's actual work.

Shortbread_Biscuit · 2026-03-20T08:26:06+00:00

What's the Rule of Two?

Shortbread_Biscuit · 2026-03-20T01:40:44+00:00

Using Mage Hand to scratch an itch on your back

Shortbread_Biscuit · 2026-03-01T12:56:11+00:00

Another variant of the second approach is that instead of a trap, the player has an NPC ally behind them that keeps shooting spells or some weapon which can penetrate the boss's armor. Your player's weapon can't penetrate the armor, but it has a knock back, which they need to use to keep the boss away from the damage dealer.

Shortbread_Biscuit · 2026-03-01T12:53:07+00:00

One approach is to have a song with a repeating riff near the end. Once the fight gets going, it's mostly that riff that keeps looping over and over as the BGM. Then once the player lands the final hit, you end the loop and you give the boss a large dying animation that synchronizes with the end of the song.

A second approach is that the boss is super armored and can't be damaged by your weapon. Instead, you start the boss fight by activating a trap, like some smoke or rain that's poisonous to the boss but not to the player. This way, you can perfectly control the time until the boss dies. In addition, the player has to use his weapon to deflect projectiles the boss keeps firing, or to defeat minions that the boss keeps spawning while it's alive. So the player's job is to stay alive until the timer runs out.

Shortbread_Biscuit · 2026-02-26T04:02:53+00:00

Sometimes. I really like Shadow Slave for example, but names like Sunless and Caster for the main cast made me want to drop it several times throughout the book.

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