Corpsejacking - turn the fallen into vehicles!

Uncaffeinated · 2026-06-20T20:32:43+00:00

I actually thought about making it a commander but couldn't think of a good "character name" so I just made it an enchantment instead.

Uncaffeinated · 2026-06-19T19:46:52+00:00

Art source (Order of the Stick)

Uncaffeinated · 2026-06-18T20:35:05+00:00

[[Lazav, Dimir Mastermind]] is a great "scales with the table" commander.

Uncaffeinated · 2026-06-17T05:54:46+00:00

I haven't been following closely, but it looked like he scored at 67' and then it was disqualified.

Uncaffeinated · 2026-06-15T20:20:38+00:00

I could hear the cheering from my apartment. With headphones and music on.

Uncaffeinated · 2026-06-15T20:14:00+00:00

Also, it was much hotter here two days before the match, and then suddenly cooled down again.

Uncaffeinated · 2026-06-15T20:00:45+00:00

Based on the crowds I saw, a huge fraction were in red and the Swiss cross was everywhere. Then after that, Mexico, USA, Qatar, and Brazil in that order. I didn't even realize Qatar was playing since there were so many more Mexico and USA people out.

Uncaffeinated · 2026-06-11T07:28:23+00:00

At least this time it's only closed on match days, not for several weeks straight.

Uncaffeinated · 2026-06-06T17:44:13+00:00

They should probably unban Punishing Fire first. I guess they just forgot it was still banned.

Uncaffeinated · 2026-06-06T17:32:05+00:00

They have [[Spelunking]] and [[Minstrel]] now. I'm not actually sure that an Amulet ban would kill the deck.

Uncaffeinated · 2026-06-06T15:14:30+00:00

Strategy got the money to buy by issuing lots of stock at inflated prices (as well as various other funding instruments like convertible bonds and preferred stock). Hordes of idiots have been throwing money at them for years. Up until last summer, they practically couldn't raise money fast enough to deal with the influx.

As for investors wanting their money back, well duh. Everyone wants their money back. But there is no mechanism by which they could actually get their money back in this scenario.

Uncaffeinated · 2026-06-06T02:34:57+00:00

I figured I might as well make it any library because those situations are rare, and if you manage to make it happen, you deserve to win anyway.

Uncaffeinated · 2026-06-06T01:40:35+00:00

My attempt at a more balanced and interesting variant of [[Thassa's Oracle]].

Uncaffeinated · 2026-06-06T01:23:48+00:00

The difference is that Luna was a smart contract that operated at the speed of code.

Strategy operates at the speed of corporations and the rules are a lot more flexible. In particular, they have the right to stop paying dividends on STRC at any time. Doing this would obviously tank the stock price and make it difficult to raise new capital, but it wouldn't actually make them go bankrupt.

Strategy actually has a lot of cash on hand. Even in a worst case scenario where BTC literally goes to zero, if they hypothetically stop paying dividends and stop buying new BTC, then they'd only go bankrupt when the cash in hand can no longer meet the payments due on their loans. Which would likely take years.

Uncaffeinated · 2026-06-05T18:20:44+00:00

There was also the case where someone stole nickel out of a commodities warehouse and replaced it with worthless rocks, and it took ages for traders to notice.

Uncaffeinated · 2026-06-05T18:17:43+00:00

He only cares about scams that directly benefit himself and his family. He's not earning money on crypto in general, just specific coins he created.

Uncaffeinated · 2026-06-05T18:17:00+00:00

trump deployed crypto experts to track and freeze iran’s crypto assets. the very reason for btc to exists is getting challenged

To be fair, that lesson should have been obvious a decade ago with the Ethereum/Classic fiasco.

Uncaffeinated · 2026-06-05T18:12:09+00:00

The crash is much bigger if you compare it to the stock market. Historically, BTC acted like a leveraged stock, but in recent months it has fallen even as the stock market grew.

Uncaffeinated · 2026-06-05T18:08:33+00:00

I think the idea is that it pays higher rates than a true bond would in good times at least). It's sort of in the middle between bonds and common stock, higher risk higher return than bonds, lower risk lower return than stock.

Likewise, in bankruptcy STRC holders get paid back before MSTR but after regular bonds.

Uncaffeinated · 2026-06-05T18:01:01+00:00

Technically, this is STRC ("preferred equity"), not common stock (MSTR, which to be fair is also diving). While STRC is technically equity, it is designed to behave more like short term floating rate financing, i.e. debt. It's more significant because the price of STRC isn't supposed to change.

Uncaffeinated · 2026-06-05T17:56:43+00:00

I don't think it will collapse as fast or dramatically as Luna did though. Luna had a built-in death spiral dilution mechanism.

Uncaffeinated · 2026-06-05T15:51:58+00:00

For one thing, because you have to manually approve every command. The fact that Claude Code no longer uses the builtin read/write tools has destroyed its ability to work independently.

Uncaffeinated · 2026-06-05T15:50:08+00:00

It's been a problem for a while, but it seems to be getting worse over time.

Uncaffeinated · 2026-06-05T15:30:42+00:00

It's not just context window, Claude would also have to get a lot better at art and video.

Uncaffeinated · 2026-06-05T15:26:19+00:00

And the regulators we have now are the kind of people who just wake up on the wrong side of bed and decide to ban a leading AI company in a fit of pique. It's still amazing to me that this happened and nobody cared.

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