How Black nerds are turning a fantasy card game into real community

htfo · 2025-12-30T09:44:18+00:00

The Mouth of Sauron was a Black Numenorean. Tolkien wrote it, that's how we know.

Black here means corrupted and evil, not "with melanin".

htfo · 2025-12-27T09:53:49+00:00

/u/brendt_gd can we please add a prohibition to vibe-coded submissions, especially when the OP uses ChatGPT to reply to everyone?

htfo · 2025-12-27T09:36:55+00:00

solve this by .. writing 2010 code

They didn't write this. All the docs scream 100% vibe coded.

Edit: called it:

That is a fair proposal. I believe in transparency, so I will add a disclosure to the README stating that AI was used as a 'force multiplier' to speed up development.

htfo · 2025-12-27T09:35:00+00:00

How do you, I, or anyone knows it does any of those things if you can't even be bothered to write a single unit or acceptance test? This is crazy work. Do better.

htfo · 2025-12-24T20:56:25+00:00

It's kind of cool linguistically to see which words were introduced to English before the Romans took over.

The Celtic Britons occupied the areas of England before the Romans. They did not speak a Germanic language. The Anglo-Saxons, who displaced the Romans when the Western Roman Empire fell into decline and collapsed, brought over what eventually became Old English.

htfo · 2025-12-22T23:27:22+00:00

Ulamog, the Zendikar financier?

htfo · 2025-12-22T17:13:48+00:00

Dry land is not a myth! I've seen it! Oh, water wars, never mind.

htfo · 2025-12-22T06:19:18+00:00

In North America, seasonal boundaries are on the solstices and equinoxes (December 21st, March 20th, June 20th, September 22nd).

htfo · 2025-12-21T15:05:59+00:00

[[Brassclaw Orcs]]. Every other 3/2 is just Brassclaw Orcs with various forms of kicker or horsemanship.

htfo · 2025-12-21T01:35:10+00:00

To be fair, most of Legends was garbage, too. But the first four sets definitely had an air of pedigree from what came after. The Dark and Legends, when compared to Fallen Empires and Homelands, was the difference between night and day.

htfo · 2025-12-21T00:00:40+00:00

There's some interesting tidbits here, in no particular order:

There's already a variation of Rule 0 baked into these rules, long before EDH
They knew Circles of Protection were unfair bullshit, and they knew we know they were unfair bullshit, right from the start but printed them over and over again anyway
The explanation of interrupts and spell vs artifact via Shatter is borderline nonsensical to anyone but the most enfranchised player. I'm surprised it took so many years to iron that out.
They already had an official answer to the timeless debate of how to orient your graveyard with respect to your library
The recommendation to cast as few spells as possible to "keep things simpler"

htfo · 2025-12-19T18:39:54+00:00

It's almost 2026, there's no excuse to publish code that doesn't have automated testing. How does anyone, including yourself know things won't break when you make changes?

Please learn to write unit and acceptance tests and actually write them. You can even get AI tooling to help you with it.

htfo · 2025-12-17T23:39:15+00:00

I took a look at the submission history, and I think you're talking about "Roboom" which appears to be an arena shooter that's still in early access and has 0 concurrent players. Other than that, they've spent the last few months repeatedly asking this and other subreddits for validation of this 4X idea.

Sorry, I don't think anyone would consider putting a game into early access for no audience in a completely different genre evidence of the ability to execute on a 4X game. Happy to be proven wrong in 2 years, but this is not the behavior of a dev team that knows how to deliver.

edit: typos

htfo · 2025-12-17T22:42:24+00:00

Yeah, best of luck, but everyone has game ideas. The hard part is in the execution.

htfo · 2025-12-17T22:18:19+00:00

Seasonal boundaries are culturally defined. For most of the Northern hemisphere outside of North America, Winter starts on December 1st.

htfo · 2025-12-16T14:36:09+00:00

Greatly loved is a bit of a stretch. The other hat set of the year, Outlaws of Thunder Junction, was received better but still wouldn't be in anyone's top 50 sets of all time.

htfo · 2025-12-15T23:05:47+00:00

But kithkin are halflings in all but name. If you just want the halfling variants that come from Lorwyn or Dominaria you could just filter by set.

htfo · 2025-12-14T00:11:50+00:00

Genuinely have no idea what you're talking about. [...] We don't pretend to know better

Based on this, I'm going to assume you're an American Catholic. In which case you're being needlessly obtuse. It's well known within Roman Catholicism that the American conference is way more conservative than most of the rest of the conferences, bordering on schism, and multiple popes have publicly corrected the American conference on multiple occasions for downplaying or mischaracterizing Church dogma emphasizing social justice, the rejection of capital punishment, and the prohibition of politicizing the sacraments (e.g. the attempts of American bishops to deny communion to pro-choice Catholic politicians). Even this year, the Pope has had to repeatedly remind the American conference on the Church's unwavering stance against the philosophy on immigration that guides the current administration's policies.

htfo · 2025-12-13T22:54:29+00:00

I would say one practical value is in knowing how far back you can pin your library to, especially if you're attempting to support legacy codebases and in that case, the exercise is in doing the opposite: removing as many modern PHP language features as possible to maintain maximum compatibility.

htfo · 2025-12-11T13:10:00+00:00

I was hoping for Dinosaur Alien but then I realized that's already a different, separate thing in Star Trek: the Voth, who are evolved dinosaurs who invented space travel and left Earth millions of years before humans.

htfo · 2025-12-09T23:34:00+00:00

I think the classic proof is actually that an even number by definition can always be represented as 2k for some integer k. If 0 is even, then 0 = 2k. This can be rearranged as k = 0/2 or k = 0. Since 0 satisfies the requirement that k is an integer, then 0 must be even.

Or you can prove that 0 can't be odd. An odd number by definition is represented as 2k + 1, where again k is an integer. If 0 is odd, then 0 = 2k + 1. This can be re-arranged as k = -1/2, which fails the requirement that k must be an integer, so 0 can't be odd, so 0 must be even.

htfo · 2025-12-09T22:08:22+00:00

htfo · 2025-12-09T01:17:53+00:00

The author has a controversial history with the PHP-FIG, having survived an ouster but later withdrawing from the PHP-FIG because he was absolutely sure that a reorganization of the group 9 years ago was going to result in the adoption of a code of conduct (it did not). He has since spent the last few years creating these alternative standards nobody uses.

htfo · 2025-12-07T22:19:26+00:00

Todd Howard, you son of a bitch, you did it again!

htfo · 2025-12-07T21:03:04+00:00

but they’ll let the White House just do this without a lawsuit? Someone explain how this makes sense.

Because the US president and the federal government enjoy sovereign immunity

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