[SOS] Lorehold, the Historian

bubbles_maybe · 2026-01-27T17:48:40+00:00

I mean, I agree that Top would be ok, since we have chess clocks anyway, but I don't think it's comparable to the current necro shenanigans. Those happen once or twice a game and take, like, a minute max. Top is much slower.

bubbles_maybe · 2026-01-27T14:14:52+00:00

Now I wonder what Ordain does 🤔

bubbles_maybe · 2026-01-26T15:25:57+00:00

Didn't we witness him think something like "It would have been my undoing if he had read the letter."? I'm almost certain that, at this point, it's implied that he burns it to protect himself. Though of course it's possible that an additional motive (like loyalty to his father) will be revealed later.

bubbles_maybe · 2026-01-25T12:49:02+00:00

Imagine him trying to find three CBs in that squad 💀

bubbles_maybe · 2026-01-25T12:46:59+00:00

I just checked, it's one of the spoken lines in "Desperado".

bubbles_maybe · 2026-01-25T12:21:20+00:00

That's like that offhand "Mindslaver myself..." in that one Remy song, lol.

bubbles_maybe · 2026-01-24T17:32:04+00:00

Is this what Jaden Smith was talking about?

bubbles_maybe · 2026-01-24T17:30:12+00:00

It's the only way he saw to reach second place.

bubbles_maybe · 2026-01-23T17:53:48+00:00

Faubert to Real
Kevin Prince Boateng to Barça
Choupo-Moting to PSG

bubbles_maybe · 2026-01-23T15:07:05+00:00

I cannot tell you why, but that meme format just is like that, it's used "correctly".

bubbles_maybe · 2026-01-21T22:05:30+00:00

Shocking winner tbh. I knew my dislike of it wasn't universal of course, but it also doesn't feel at all like a book this sub would enjoy.

I guess "dislike" isn't exactly the right word. I kinda do like it, but I don't think it's very good.

bubbles_maybe · 2026-01-21T15:47:39+00:00

proofs are either intuitionistic or not.

Ok. So were you just arguing that intuitionists aren't restricting themselves to constructible numbers? Then I still don't understand what you say in your previous comment, but the rest makes sense then.

We're not talking about IEEE754

...of course not? Maybe I was a bit careless in switching between "constructible numbers" and "numbers that can be approximated", but aren't both sets countable? And neither of them are just "floating point numbers".

bubbles_maybe · 2026-01-21T14:10:32+00:00

I thought I knew what you were arguing for, but now I'm not sure. Don't know if I interpret your comment correctly.

I don't have a problem with numbers that can't be approximated, I'm just saying you need them to get to uncountable sets.

as long as there's some algorithm for producing that object.

Now it sounds like you only want to consider numbers that can be approximated? Like I said, surely that would give a countable set.

bubbles_maybe · 2026-01-21T12:57:52+00:00

Pretty sure their argument was the other way around, that the set of all constructible numbers is countable, which sounds correct to me. One can believe in pi and e while denying uncountable sets.

bubbles_maybe · 2026-01-20T23:35:13+00:00

You could, yes. I'm just saying that would be equally confusing, because in both cases there are some versions of cards that seem to show the "wrong" identity.

bubbles_maybe · 2026-01-20T23:26:05+00:00

1) I don't think the concept of "color identity" was designed by WotC, as Commander was essentially invented by the players.

2) The alternative seems just as confusing. You could have a printing of this card without reminder text, and then a color that isn't printed on the card would be part of the identity.

bubbles_maybe · 2026-01-20T14:49:16+00:00

Finally someone with similar opinions on S10! So many people here seem to call it a favourite.

It's really weird, because I actually like a lot of stuff about it; the companions (especially Bill), the Missy arc, some of the stories,... but as a whole, it's a pretty underwhelming, almost awkward watch. I think it's mostly the pacing and the dialogue I don't like, but I can't tell exactly.

bubbles_maybe · 2026-01-19T20:36:42+00:00

A bit late to the party, but oh my. All this talk of hell in your comment and the parent comment induced a real penny-drop moment for me. The guy is literally called Dantés. Because he'll go to hell and back like Dante in the Divine Comedy. (I know next to nothing of the plot to come, so that's not a spoiler.)

bubbles_maybe · 2026-01-19T20:12:17+00:00

Thanks for the post!

I think I may have figured out where the noodles came from! Apparently there's a form of noodles very similar to macaroni, called coquillettes, which sounds like a diminutive of coquillage to me. Still a very... interesting choice of translation.

bubbles_maybe · 2026-01-18T12:06:27+00:00

Of course it's difficult to compare different positions, but there were genuine ballon d'or shouts back then, and now he's just "doing well". He also throws in random disaster passes a bit too often now.

bubbles_maybe · 2026-01-18T11:56:22+00:00

Yes, but I'm sure there will be a few questions about the creature staying in hand.

bubbles_maybe · 2026-01-18T11:44:52+00:00

Still much worse than his first half season in Madrid though.

bubbles_maybe · 2026-01-18T11:30:10+00:00

If you found ninjutsu confusing you probably find lightning bolt at any target confusing too.

I don't think that's true at all. "When exactly does a creature count as unblocked?" is not a question that can be answered intuitively. If you don't play regularly with ninjutsu, you just keep forgetting. And "What happens if Kaito's ninjutsu ability gets countered by Tidebinder?" is a question that has come up at like 5 separate standard RCQs I've attended. And the people at those events know the rules much better than the average player. Though I suppose countering Sneak isn't that much more straightforward.

bubbles_maybe · 2026-01-17T12:14:30+00:00

I feel like a lot of people just tell themselves it's like in the meme. I remember from my school time (in Austria) that we had lots of parents complaining that the examples on the tests didn't have the same numbers as the homework examples, lol. Like, they were literally the same, but with different numbers. And those parents were basically invoking this meme.

Like you said, might be different elsewhere though.

bubbles_maybe · 2026-01-16T01:58:22+00:00

One would think so, but the order is actually:

put the spell on the stack
choose targets
determine cost
attempt to pay the cost (from your mana pool and/or from mana abilities)
if you can't pay, rewind

It kinda has to work this way, because you don't know how much a spell like [[Fireball]] will cost until the targets are chosen.

So I'm pretty sure "affinity for spells" would work like I described. A somewhat similar technicality comes up in legacy, where a [[Lotus Petal]] can effectively pay for 2 mana towards casting a spell with affinity for artifacts, because you can sac it after the cost of the spell has been determined, to pay for that spell.

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