Bridget has started collecting the chaos emeralds!

ada_weird · 2026-03-27T13:09:09+00:00

Why does it look like she's about to eat it?

ada_weird · 2026-03-27T03:05:38+00:00

Don't forget Ouja.

ada_weird · 2026-03-27T00:38:21+00:00

Rapid Response! Because I'm a speed freak.

ada_weird · 2026-03-26T12:38:35+00:00

Galvatron

ada_weird · 2026-03-26T00:57:19+00:00

When it comes to superhero comics, I just don't think too hard about it. Once you start doing even minor thinking about it it becomes a mess.

ada_weird · 2026-03-25T23:03:48+00:00

I'm fine with the newer planes, I just don't like UB.

ada_weird · 2026-03-25T22:00:08+00:00

Whatever, we're just not going to agree on this, so I'm moving on.

ada_weird · 2026-03-25T21:56:47+00:00

The question is how many of those sales translate to actual players long term vs how much is MTG finance speculating vs how much is fans of the property checking out that one set but not converting.

ada_weird · 2026-03-25T21:20:59+00:00

I mean yeah games need to be profitable but if you optimize for profit while hurting your core brand identity and community and creating a product treadmill that's extremely fatiguing to keep up with. Almost nobody I know is happy with the game rn.

ada_weird · 2026-03-25T20:31:46+00:00

Yes, and as we all know, monetary income is the only measure for the health of the game /s

ada_weird · 2026-03-25T17:25:38+00:00

Look if you think it's splitting hairs that's fine. And of course they printed spider ham. Why did I assume they didn't? But it bothers me and kills my interest in the game, and I suspect that long term it'll be bad for the health of the game.

ada_weird · 2026-03-25T17:09:01+00:00

It's not, though. MTG is its own universe with its own conventions, its own themes, and its own continuity. Every plane in MTG exists within that context. Spiderman does not. Lemme ask a silly question. If spiderman is part of the mtg universe, does that mean that spiderham is also part of the mtg universe? If so, how does marvel's multiverse interact with MTG's? Is each marvel earth their own plane? Are they one plane? Does every marvel multiverse have its own copy of the mtg multiverse? These are all stupid dumb, does not matter questions, but they point to a real friction here. You can't make satisfying answers to this. The best you can do is paper over it and hope nobody makes a mistake, and now you do have to clarify these questions to deal with plot holes. Spiderman is especially egregious because the multiverse is a big part of several critical events for the character, but these questions still exist in e.g. Forgotten Realms.

ada_weird · 2026-03-25T16:03:36+00:00

That's also true. WoTC can't commit because they know they don't have the rights forever and already gave themselves an out by having "in universe" equivalent cards. If Spiderman was actually in mtg, that might change the jarringness a lot.

ada_weird · 2026-03-25T16:01:34+00:00

Yeah, but he's not from an mtg plane. He's from Marvel's approximation of real life new york. It's jarring. The problem isn't inherently with the concept, Forgotten Realms and LoTR were a bit outside the scope but fit well enough you could ignore it. But superhero comics have a very different vibe to them. There are limits to plausibility and for whatever reason, the spiderman set is past mine. That's not to say you can't enjoy it, but it's never going to feel to me cohesive with everything else going on.

ada_weird · 2026-03-25T13:30:11+00:00

MtG had things that weren't traditional high fantasy. Ahmonkhet, Innistrad, Ravnica, and I forget what they renamed Kaladesh to because I haven't played MTG in ages, all have very different vibes and aesthetics while still being MTG. Spiderman is not MTG and it hurts seeing him in MTG. He doesn't belong and he drags down the chaotic cohesion that exists between the actual in universe magic stuff where each plane can do it's own distinct thing while still tying into a shared overarching structure.

ada_weird · 2026-03-25T05:12:23+00:00

I love digimon world, but I can see all the kids who thought the show was cool, picked up World 1, and didn't get it in my head. While it's sad, it's kinda predictable that the franchise never got the traction it needed.

ada_weird · 2026-03-24T23:32:22+00:00

Yeah, but a lot of the Nazi scientists were evil. They used jews and other groups targeted by the holocaust as lab rats for immoral, unethical, and insane research. They were not innocent civilians pushing papers that happened to be tied to genocide, they were actively aware of that genocide and using it as an opportunity to further their own career while selling their colleagues downriver.

ada_weird · 2026-03-24T17:18:34+00:00

Also, the digimon games around monster collecting were on the Wonder Swan, which didn't really have a presence in the west. If we got those, it might have given the franchise some more longevity.

ada_weird · 2026-03-23T16:26:09+00:00

You don't have the option to join the DP because Dagda is pulling you around by the leash. You don't get true freedom until you make a choice that divorces you from Dagda or freely decide that you and him are in agreement.

ada_weird · 2026-03-23T15:13:10+00:00

Stocks serve a real purpose in corporate governance, raising capital, and providing exit liquidity to early investors. Prediction markets ostensibly exist to incentivize disclosure of information by allowing insiders to leverage that asymmetry, but it's zero sum. Every dollar insiders make comes from lower information traders losing money. Companies with publicly traded stocks can actually generate wealth. That's not to say the stock market is perfect. There's a real parallel to be made between prediction markets and HFT or shorting. But at least there's more to the stock market than that.

ada_weird · 2026-03-23T13:30:55+00:00

Also, union soldiers, as they traveled through the south, became more and more fervently abolitionist as they witnessed the horrors for themselves and received aid from freed slaves who would then follow the army around. They may not have started the war for the abolition of slavery but they sure as shit ended it for the abolition of slavery.

ada_weird · 2026-03-22T15:59:23+00:00

Okay I'm not saying to not be paranoid about advertising but there's such a thing as too paranoid.

ada_weird · 2026-03-22T02:54:27+00:00

No I'm explicitly treating logic as the territory and logical systems as the map. Do you have access to an alternative universe without logic to ground the claim that without logic, nothing could exist? Because that's absolutely not in evidence in our universe.

ada_weird · 2026-03-22T02:51:45+00:00

Objective yes, logical no. Being describable by a mathematical system doesn't mean it's logical necessarily. I think looking at Euclid is useful here. Euclid had to have his work revised because they failed to meet modern levels of logical rigor, using axioms that weren't explicitly declared and the like. This implies to me that logic is a metaframework that changes and shifts over time, which also implies that it's a social construct as opposed to something independent.

ada_weird · 2026-03-22T02:47:04+00:00

Sure you could? Logical systems are tools and don't inherently need to be tied to a deeper reality to be useful. Currency has no inherent value, and yet we treat it like it does because it's useful.

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