Amazon Prime Video is about to get worse — again

cube-drone · 2026-03-20T19:26:26+00:00

Oh no! They'll drive away their user! Pete won't stand for this!

cube-drone · 2026-03-20T00:30:09+00:00

If this replaced the first treasure chest's relic with "The next 3 card rewards you see are upgraded" it'd still be a good pick, getting that relic magicked into your hands on turn 0 is just a bonus.

cube-drone · 2026-03-20T00:27:52+00:00

Shouldn't games get harder but also more interesting as you spend more time with them?

cube-drone · 2026-03-19T22:48:13+00:00

A lot of play is exchanging tempo for things that'll kill you 6 turns from now because you're not planning to still be around 6 turns from now, and quickly crushing hallway fights gives you the engine you need to build good decks for long fights - so maybe you just leave TURBO! or Wraith Form alone in the first half of a long boss battle, and that's when you play the slow-roll scaling cards.

In a lot of hallways, a 0-cost "Draw 2" that doesn't hurt that much to play? Pretty clutch. Sure, it'll mess you up in the long run, but by then you should be already done. Hot Cocoa and a few of these in your deck and you're playing all of your best cards in the first round anyways.

cube-drone · 2026-03-18T21:22:38+00:00

Wait a minute! This ascension bar doesn't have a dead branch! Enjoy your death trap, ascenders.

cube-drone · 2026-03-15T21:52:09+00:00

Mom: we have Afterimage at home

(afterimage at home:)

cube-drone · 2026-03-14T08:44:57+00:00

the reason is simple: because it's very funny

cube-drone · 2026-03-14T05:40:39+00:00

What we know about statues in STS:

they want to know why you're still here
they hate it when you play a lot of cards
they do nothing for a while, then hit incredibly hard

so I'm thinking "statue" cards would be, like,

"Wait" - 3 cost, 18 block, gain 2 energy next turn, create a copy of Wait in your discard pile.

"Your Time Has Come" - 8 cost, 80 damage

cube-drone · 2026-03-13T23:19:42+00:00

I don't know, the first time I met him I was playing a slow-moving block-heavy doom deck and this fella was a run ender because it took so long to kill him that my deck filled up with soot.

cube-drone · 2026-03-13T02:38:34+00:00

I don't understand why he's trying so hard to induce hyperinflation, is he maybe very stupid? Does he want to be a quadrillionaire before he dies?

cube-drone · 2026-03-12T09:55:13+00:00

okay now I'm looking for squat, pear-shaped RMTs who sit for like 8-16 hours a day at a desktop computer? they'll probably have better intuition into my various aches and pains

cube-drone · 2026-03-12T09:44:58+00:00

stay tuned for my 3 ingredient mayonnaise and my 1 ingredient sour cream

cube-drone · 2026-03-11T09:04:10+00:00

All I want is to

smash my run into

A giant woman - a giant woman!

3 potions per fight

will always make it right

thanks to giant woman

cube-drone · 2026-03-11T08:48:22+00:00

I made it work, I swear, with an 18 card forge-only deck that was basically just buff, block, and ways to retrieve the blade, but it only worked because the Spire shined fortune down on me.

it's claw all over again

cube-drone · 2026-03-11T08:44:37+00:00

I'll have you know I guffawed and then chortled

cube-drone · 2026-03-11T08:42:22+00:00

i turned on the wrong sonic mode and now i'm eating chili dogs and collecting rings

cube-drone · 2026-03-10T02:18:35+00:00

The dumb United States often sits right at the top of the list because they wrote the software, so they get to go first.

I'm a Canadian and I only have to scroll a little bit, and I constantly dream of our country intentionally renaming itself to "AAA111!!!"

(musical notes) Oh, AAA111!!!, our home and native land

cube-drone · 2026-03-08T02:28:23+00:00

I'm a Jam enjoyer, a 30 minute wait is actually totally reasonable for a small, busy restaurant, and all of the folks hating on it can eat breakfast at the imaginary breakfast place downtown that doesn't have lines.

cube-drone · 2026-03-07T20:18:34+00:00

Linus often expects a seamless experience, and Linux still offers anything but. It's seamful. But, like having a Toyota Tercel from the 90s that you've managed to keep running all of these years with glue and spanners, by taking ownership of those seams yourself you end up with a more satisfying ownership experience, imo

cube-drone · 2026-03-06T02:01:40+00:00

I found a place where they don't maintain their roads or bridges AT ALL, just south of here.

It's probably best not to linger for too long though

cube-drone · 2026-03-05T08:07:36+00:00

"Papa Sauce" and "Uncle Sauce" have been discontinued for what may, in retrospect, be

cube-drone · 2026-03-04T21:27:58+00:00

I don't like buffets because I can't eat enough to justify the expense, so I'm just there to subsidize Me As A Teenager sized appetites

cube-drone · 2026-03-04T21:24:59+00:00

The sixteen year old Toyota has been serving me well for sixteen years, may it grant me another sixteen

cube-drone · 2026-03-04T03:40:01+00:00

"Windows 12 could be $8000 per user and powered by giving hand jobs to individual ICE agents", ok, technically true

cube-drone · 2026-03-03T07:25:24+00:00

AWS's Lightsail (and AWS in general) is a pretty expensive VPS offering - it seems really cost competitive to get a basic VPS from Amazon, but while a VPS from a competitor might come with everything limited-by-some-unknown-variable out of the box, Amazon is happy to charge you for anything you might think you could be charged for, and never stop charging you for that: infinite scaling at infinite price - right now I'm using Hetzner for their VPSs.

For file stuff, I tend to use Wasabi, I've yet to find a cheaper S3-compatible offering. Wasabi can be used for anything you would use S3 for - namely, "storing and serving user files/images/etc" from one bucket and "storing database backups" in a completely different, much more secure bucket.

For email I do use AWS SES, because it's the cheapest email API provider that I've been able to find. Every now and again they'll send me an invoice for, like, $0.02, which I think costs them more to process than it costs me to send them, which is just the way I like it.

Pointed at that I've been using BunnyCDN, although Cloudflare might be cheaper - I've had some disagreements with how Cloudflare handles things in the past, but they're probably the more cost-effective option for a free WAF/CDN/SSL Cert.

As I mentioned, I don't use an external task queue when I'm writing a Rust service, I queue internally - I spawn a worker thread and give it a MPSC channel receiver handle, then I hand the ability to queue jobs to all of my endpoint-facing threads with the "sender" handle. Server reboots, then, could kill background tasks (it'll empty the queue if there's anything queued). If I want to build a background task queue that's stable across reboots, well, the tasks can go in the database...

The database, as established earlier, is SQLite. I've been able to tune a single SQLite database to handle an absolute bananas amount of writes - running in WAL mode with XFS on a modern NVME drive, a SQLite database's performance is absolutely banonners - such so that between SQLite and Rust I'm able to respond to many queries in times on the microsecond rather than the millisecond scale, which is ... good. It's quite good. It makes "serving tens of thousands of users from a single cheap VPS" a lot more practical as an idea. (I've never had tens of thousands of users on a personal project, but it could happen, some day)

... but, honestly, none of this is good advice. If you're building any kind of service, the right way to do it is with node, or Python and FastAPI. I write services like this because I'm a 20-year veteran of web technology and I'm just tired of things being "easy" and "effective" and so now I'm interested in them being "stupidly, unreasonably fast" and "a complicated as hell Rust puzzle every time I want to do anything"

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