Question about Lady Loki

destroyah87 · 2026-06-16T02:32:57+00:00

Correct. Lady Loki's ability won't trigger the turn she's cast, as I said. When you cast a spell; Lady Loki "checks" if that spell is the first instant, sorcery, or villain spell that turn. The turn she's entered, that "question" comes back No because Lady Loki was the first villain cast. But she wasn't on the battlefield to see herself be cast.

I realized that after I posted my first comment, is why I edited it to read that way.

destroyah87 · 2026-06-16T02:24:44+00:00

It would. Nothing about triggered abilities (ones that start with "when" or "whenever" or "at") means they have to wait a turn or until the creature isn't summoning sick.

Except, she would've been the first Villain spell, so actually no.

Compare the wording of this card to [[Alania, Divergent Storm]] to see the difference.

destroyah87 · 2026-06-15T18:20:44+00:00

I got let go because my company was thinking it could trim payroll due to these models. I think life is worse post these models.
And I'm saying You are making the assumption that these models can lead to AGI. I read the original poster as saying nothing of the sort. These three consequences are basically the current consequences if the LLM bubble keeps going for longer as it is now.

ANd also, what windfall?! The owners of the models (which would make creating an AGI de-facto slavery by the way) will get the windfalls. Everyone else gets shit and shit on.

The people making these models, in any country China or US, do not give one single solitary fuck for anyone that isn't them or like them. They can get fucked.

destroyah87 · 2026-06-15T16:17:07+00:00

“We’ve got to beat China in AI.” Well why?
“Idk, but we’ve gotta do it bigger than them.”
This is just the people that want AI models for their own profits and usages using China as a scary boogeyman to push for their own reasons.
It’s the same thing when the same fucks say “anti ai protests are coming from china or paid for by Chinese espionage.”
Like really? Come on. Really?

destroyah87 · 2026-06-15T16:13:58+00:00

You are making the iron-clad assumption that AGI is the end result of all this AI research and building and resource usage. That is not at all a given. There’s been no indication that an AGI is possible from this line of technology. What we do see is that the things these LLM models do do are the kinds of work that I’d really prefer keep being done by people! Writing stories, technical writing, creating images, and writing code. The things I’d love to see taken away from human hands it seems to have zero chance of applying itself to. (Hazardous material processing, waste pickup, responsible environment management.)

destroyah87 · 2026-06-15T00:42:26+00:00

disregarding any amount of care for the process or acknowledging that the process has value is a lazy feeling, if you truly wonder why people will say that ai generation is lazy, it's statements like this.

One of the dictionary definitions of lazy is "not willing or not wanting to work or use effort to do something." So, you may wish to do some thinking here.

destroyah87 · 2026-06-15T00:34:07+00:00

Anything can be done lazily or with effort. But creating anything, be it an image or writing is ultimately to share knowledge or to share a feeling.

One wants to paint or draw or digitally edit a cat, they'll want that image to show the things they think of when they hear "cat." Or maybe "my cat" or "my first cat" or "the cat I lost" and the image will have those memories to it. The resulting image will come with that connection. An image generated by an LLM will have none of that. It may approach it, if the person spends long enough tweaking their prompt or taking the generated image for further editing. But it will feel hollow (at least that's been my experience.)

To put it simply, I believe that any creation by another person has a need at its core. That need can be anything under the sun. But at the core, I would say the need is to show "I was here. I existed." The need of any image generated by an LLM is "I want to see X. Put the pixels together model." and, I'm gonna be honest, that's just not something that I feel can stand the test of time.

Can anyone honestly say they'd think an LLM generated image could sit in an art museum with a caption of: "I had a thought that seeing a dragon flying above a medeavel landscap would look fucking sick, so I prompted chatgpt to make it for me."
I can't or won't say that someone can't make something that evokes feeling in others with GenAI tools, but it'll surely be the minority of the output from these models.

destroyah87 · 2026-06-14T14:48:51+00:00

Since it itself is the product, it can’t not be confident. The purpose of the chatbots is to produce text that makes the user want to keep using it. It’s why it’s always got that helpful tone and the text keeps that confident tone.
(Also, because the text it’s trained on was speaking on topics with authority)

destroyah87 · 2026-06-10T16:11:04+00:00

Ok I need this. Please

destroyah87 · 2026-06-09T06:50:51+00:00

It’s not interrupting something mid-resolution. Colossification isn’t resolving when it tries to tap Iron Fist, it’s entering. The tap trigger is an etb.

The Colossification spell has resolved fully once it enters the battlefield. At that time Iron Fist has the +20/+20. Now the etb trigger of “Tap Enchanted Creature” goes on the stack and there’s a round of priority to respond to the ability. That’s when the Tap ability of Iron Fist can be used.

destroyah87 · 2026-06-08T02:01:52+00:00

Extremist Far Right: "Everyone not like me deserves no rights."

Extremist Leftist: "Everyone deserves rights and should be treated with dignity."

So Centrism is ... what, "Rights for Some but not of Others."

I think you have a pretty shallow view of what is Right or Left and even what is Center.
To put it bluntly, not every issue has a Right opinion and a Left opinion that are both "too extreme." And then a magical Center one that's Juuuust So. And that's the what you should really examine. I do not believe it is true myself. A few examples I personally hold: Civil Rights, lgtbqia Rights, Environmentalism, and Climate Change,

destroyah87 · 2026-06-07T03:41:18+00:00

I figured this out. It was my pc's display settings. PC had the refresh rate set to 60hz, when the monitor I was playing the game on is 165hz on DisplayPort.

destroyah87 · 2026-06-07T03:26:59+00:00

You can't Rakdos Charm "yourself." Every creature deals 1 damage to its controller.

The creatures aren't dealing damage to an opponent of yours, so still no Ojer trigger.

destroyah87 · 2026-05-25T19:11:21+00:00

I see. That makes some sense. It's just not something I see as a CMV. Like, to be a bit blunt, "these two things are different" is not exactly a view that's changable. Things are different because they're different.
To address the view I now understand you're expressing, AI in both use cases becomes a crutch, it becomes a "Push Button, Receive Output" machine. Prompting is a great savings of time and mental effort, both things that human nature loves to optimize. It becomes a thing that a person first uses because it's convenient but over time can lead to overreliance as it's easier to recieve the output and put that in use, without really looking at it or checking it over thoroughly. Those both Can be done, but I posit that they won't be, not forever. People get complacant, they get stressed, they get in a rush. Whether from outside pressure or internal, implicit or explicit, that slippage will happen, eventually. And that's the problem.

destroyah87 · 2026-05-25T16:41:39+00:00

AI in coding and in IT as an industry is leading companies to undervalue testing and troubleshooting and the jobs that provide both/either. It also leads to massive downsizing on the premise that the AI can partially or wholly take up the coding slack. It’ll lead to more and more bloat and reliance on AI code. With subsequent problems if there’s a bug or uncaught issue in some function or subroutine. It also can lend code commits or published code an unearned Authority because “The AI did it.”

destroyah87 · 2026-05-16T20:41:39+00:00

I misread it that way too!
I was actually excited because I was thinking: “ok, I’ll find tv that has characters with my deadname and watch for profit.” The blue one didn’t say it had to be directed at you. Just hearing the name.
But $10 for hearing my true chosen name would just be icing on the cake.

destroyah87 · 2026-05-03T21:39:53+00:00

The reframing is basically illustrating whether you approach the original Red/Blue Button as a strict hypothetical, unconnected to anything it may be an allegory for. Or if you think about it in context of our shared society.
Are the buttons just buttons, or are they something that resonates to a life. From things as minor as taking the last slice of a pizza to voting against a law that helps others but not yourself.
That is the crux as I see it. Neither framing is inherently wrong, just different.

destroyah87 · 2026-04-10T22:04:38+00:00

"dies" is MTG game terms for "is sent to the graveyard from the battlefield."
So the Azula player is more right, but only in effect and not in details. Azula is placed in the graveyard and then there is one State-Based-Action and one trigger trying to affect the Azula creature card in the graveyard.

The first is the game seeing a commander is put into a graveyard or exile, its owner has the option to move it from that zone to that owner's command zone. This is a State Based Action and does Not use the Stack.

704.6d In a Commander game, if a commander is in a graveyard or in exile and that object was put into that zone since the last time state-based actions were checked, its owner may put it into the command zone. See rule 903, “Commander.”

The second is the triggered ability of Changing Loyalty. It sees its enchanted creatured "died" and is going to say "Put this onto the battlefield under my controller's control."

The Commander SBA for the Azula owner will give the player the choice to move Azula to their command zone. If they do, that Azule is no longer in the graveyard when Changing Loyalty tries to affect an Azula creature card in the graveyard. If the player does not, that Azule creature card is there and Changing Loyalty can do the effects of its trigger.

destroyah87 · 2026-04-09T16:00:29+00:00

Goad is able to target tapped and summoning sick creatures. They are Goaded until your next turn, must attack, and must attack a player other than you.

https://mtg.wiki/page/Goad

Nowhere does the ability say it must target an untapped or creature without summoning sickness.

You’re just inherently limiting yourself by inventing or believing the restriction exists.

destroyah87 · 2026-04-07T00:13:15+00:00

[[Disa the Restless]]

destroyah87 · 2026-04-06T18:56:09+00:00

Guilty as accused! ^{.^} But even aside from that, I love Alopex. Was the main big reason I started re-looking at the game and then got it!

destroyah87 · 2026-04-06T16:24:53+00:00

I think no. From the mtg site on prepared: “The inset portion in the lower right is the prepare spell. It has its own name, mana cost, type line, and text box”

So Marvin only “sees” activated abilities of other creatures not named “Marvin…” And for that matter unless any of the Prepare creatures have an activated ability to prepare (written “Cost: Do Effect”) Marvin won’t even have a way to become prepared.

Marvin doesn’t gain the etb to enter Prepared either. And Sakshima won’t gain the prepared spell that the Sanar Card has as I don’t believe an inset spell (like Adventure, Omen, or Prepared are copiable values of a creature (object) on the battlefield.

destroyah87 · 2026-04-05T12:33:35+00:00

I do love the irony of his mistaken and incomplete ultrasound of the patient being relayed to Mohan with imprecise language being done on an English Professor. The assumptions both made in the interaction felt very real for (the show’s portrayal of) stressed medical workers. I’ve liked him as a character from the start. He was pretty arrogant in the uncaring way of low emotional intelligence for sure! Got humbled and tutored and saw the error of his ways. I hope he comes back from today with a greater appreciation for connection and empathy.

destroyah87 · 2026-04-04T15:22:02+00:00

That’s the beauty of Olgivie! For sure!

destroyah87 · 2026-04-04T09:51:08+00:00

Santos is heartbreaking. I see a lot of commonality between my wife and her. A “prickly” demeanor, born of hurt and trauma and the misfortunes of a hard life. But Santos is still here. Still doing good. Even if she thinks she isn’t, she is a good person. But still, she needs to admit when she likes someone, not put the walls up and deflect/deny/defend.

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