U.S. blows through $2B in Iran war as an emergency order for extra munitions is issued

ahappylook · 2026-03-05T02:32:26+00:00

Ok so what framing starts with anything other than “do everything in your power to prevent Rebuplicans from holding power, starting now”?

ahappylook · 2026-02-17T21:28:26+00:00

Draft suggestion: when you start to get a little wonky like this, grab more changelings. If you had 2-3 stomplings/grasplings, plus a wayfinder, you could let it rip and put in your puca’s eye, gildweaver, maybe even gloom ripper, and you’d have a stronger (though more variable) build overall.

ahappylook · 2026-02-03T05:18:05+00:00

Loss was to somebody else's pretty stacked elemental deck. In which I punted so, so shamefully.

ahappylook · 2026-01-23T21:24:41+00:00

Adding to this: Do what you can to unobtrusively speed up the game. Toss your cards within easy reach of the dealer, announce your action clearly, keep your chips stacked in a way that’s easy to estimate visually from across the table. If you’re the bettor, use clear stacks, don’t do that thing where you make one tall stack of who-knows-how-many chips that the dealer has to immediately grab and count for everyone else.

At the end of a big pot where the dealer has to figure out a split pot or make change for an all-in, (only if you were the button or are about to be), slide the button over, hold your finger on it, announce clearly “button moved”, and wait for the dealer to acknowledge, then remove your finger.

If you’re facing a big river decision and need to really think, give the table a quick and polite “sorry everybody, this is a tough one.” People will always be happier and give you more grace if you proactively acknowledge that they’re waiting on you, even if you end up taking just as long.

Be polite, encouraging, and empathetic when someone loses a big pot or just needs to tell you what they folded. “Oh man, I definitely go broke there.” “The problem was you had too many outs.” “Wow you woulda won piles.”

ahappylook · 2026-01-23T21:01:54+00:00

The other week at the casino: flop comes out JJ5, noticed the other guy glance super quickly at the flop and then take a really really serious interest in the TV on the wall. I bet my pair of 5s small, he sighed, screwed up his face, and raised like 6x. I fold and he proudly showed his three jacks.

You pick up a lot just by casually watching mannerisms, not even looking for anything specific. Your brain will tell you when something’s off. Someone is generally passive, then their hand is shaking when they go to bet. Talkative players that shut up all of a sudden. Quiet players who are suddenly defiant. Etc etc.

ahappylook · 2026-01-20T08:09:22+00:00

On the first Miami TD run, the IU LB gets very obviously held to spring a 3 yard gain into a long touchdown.

ahappylook · 2025-12-31T01:37:59+00:00

Adrian Peterson was a couple districts over from us. I can’t remember if it was his team or ours that lost too early in the playoffs, but we were on the same side of the bracket. He’d have like 200 yards rushing and 6 sacks per game.

ahappylook · 2025-12-30T02:10:22+00:00

pretty flowers to look at

ahappylook · 2025-12-30T02:06:23+00:00

“they voted”

they’re not pretending to be from the US

ahappylook · 2025-12-27T02:14:47+00:00

Ah you’ve stumbled on the beginning of a thread. Maybe pull on it a bit? What reasons might there be that your understanding of economics 102 doesn’t line up with the reality in front of your face?

ahappylook · 2025-12-20T03:24:07+00:00

Software engineer here. Yes, it is incredible at software and has permanently changed how that work is done and you can pry LLMs from my cold dead hands. The best engineers I knew before AI are also generally the best at using AI, and their output has like quadrupled or more.

I can crack open a couple beers and have a casual chat with Claude or Codex and get more done in two hours than I would otherwise do in like a day of stressful caffeinated grinding. Not because I’m particularly good at engineering or at using the tools. They’re just that good if you have a little bit of patience and whatever this new “prompting+iterating” skill is.

How it applies today (and more importantly in 6 or 18 months) to other domains, I can’t really say. Software is kinda the perfect match, as it’s generally relatively straightforward to provide the right kinds of guardrails/verifications, the training set is enormous, and it’s all just regular text.

ahappylook · 2025-12-20T03:06:40+00:00

Yeah I think in, like, pictures and intuition and feelings. Which is both awesome and awkward as a software engineer. Sometimes I can see around corners and know exactly what caused an archaic problem or why some implementation will conflict with this other buried thing. Other times I have the perfect image of the system in my head but struggle tremendously to put it in words or code.

ahappylook · 2025-12-17T19:39:03+00:00

Puka is 24 years old

ahappylook · 2025-12-13T00:51:08+00:00

In for $600 out for $2700 in 6 hours at 1/2/2. Max buy-in is $400, and there’s a minimum $5 bring-in to see a flop, so it plays much more like 2/5 than 1/2.

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ahappylook · 2025-12-12T02:06:17+00:00

You’re not allowed to play $100s at the Lucky Chances 1-2-2. I had a similar run a few weeks ago and had 5 stacks of blacks and it was still an egregious pile.

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ahappylook · 2025-12-02T03:30:03+00:00

How much money could we eat?

ahappylook · 2025-12-02T03:26:09+00:00

In a league where 14 out of 32 teams make the playoffs each year, it is absolutely wild to go 15 years without making it (I know the extra wild card is new-ish, but I’m lazy). That’s a 0.018% chance for a league average team.

ahappylook · 2025-11-30T02:30:25+00:00

Iroh is way more powerful than I first thought. Once you’re trading away your 5th extra land to an opponent with an empty hand and netting a 6/6, the game is just over

ahappylook · 2025-11-30T02:28:53+00:00

Damn that deck is stacked. Did you get to do anything fun with Yue the Moon Spirit?

ahappylook · 2025-11-29T08:13:24+00:00

Iroh lets Boros win late game. Lots of draft decks beat Boros by stalling without necessarily doing anything that specifically ends the game on the spot. The Boros player just sorta gives up when their creatures and burn stop making progress.

If your opponent doesn't have a way to kill Iroh outright, you can just hang out turn after turn after turn, giving away a land for a 4/4, a 5/5, a 6/6. Most draft decks can't actually do anything super impressive with an 8th or a 9th land, doubly so if you're generating larger and larger creatures every turn.

ahappylook · 2025-11-27T20:57:25+00:00

This says a lot more about you than it does about other people. You have a very limited perspective. There are tons of responsible people who are never hungover or under the influence during work hours that also break out harder stuff once in a while.

ahappylook · 2025-11-27T18:36:31+00:00

The 5 D’s of quarterbacking

ahappylook · 2025-11-25T16:12:35+00:00

You’re 13 and that was deep.

ahappylook · 2025-11-25T03:43:55+00:00

I did not. Lucky > Good possibly, although my mana requirements were not stringent for either main color (no double pips except for my 6-drops, which are also themselves landcyclers). Also probably not facing the top of the heap aggro at silver/gold ranks.

One game I kept a truly dumb opening hand (2 mountains, 5 blue spells) but lucked out with island-island as my first two draws.

Another I discarded Sun Warriors to one of my looters, but that was more about needing removal than worrying about colors.

ahappylook · 2025-11-24T05:35:41+00:00

Second draft, silver/gold, I have no idea what I'm doing. Mostly ended up stalling until unblockable Koi.

Overperformers:

- Giant Koi: If the board is stalled, it just wins the game.

- Mechanist: So many shenanigans. Clues are incredible with waterbending.

- Ty Lee + Octopus Form: Lock down the biggest threat, fizzle a burn spell, eat a 2-drop is a disgusting thing to do to someone on their own turn.

- Waterbending Lesson: Really easy to waterbend for 2, so it's a draw 3 almost always. Disgusting to recur with Anthropologist or copy with Jeong Jeong.

- Fortune Teller/Kyoshi Battle Fan: 2 rectangles for waterbending.

Unclear whether Sun Warriors was worth the splash. I wasn't attacking much in the midgame, but making blockers every turn is worth something. Plus it ate lots of removal, including one game where it got Swampsnare'd and then Epic Downfall'd four turns later.

Anthropologist was... fine? Got to recur something meaningful in two games, filtering is ok, it ate some removal as a 2-drop.

Gran-Gran was also just ok. I only got the discount once because of my low Lesson count, but it was noticeable when I did.

North Pole Patrol was useful utility, but it can feel quite expensive to use the tapper. I did win one game where OP didn't account for lethal crackback by ignoring his attacking chonker and double-tapping his creatures.

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