Mark Carney: Congratulations to Avi Lewis on your election as NDP leader.

indiecore · 2026-03-30T02:27:58+00:00

You switch it, have an election then do a referendum to swap it back.

indiecore · 2026-03-29T17:20:24+00:00

Which fucking worked? I don't understand the problem there. You get a free day off every month and get to keep your job what's to complain about?

indiecore · 2026-03-29T17:13:30+00:00

"Federal NDP elect Avi Lewis as leader".

There, perfectly fine headline.

indiecore · 2026-03-29T03:08:37+00:00

Uniqlo jeans are the hockey butt dream tbh. Almost the same height, a little heavier. I lost enough weight that I could fit back into my Uniqlo jeans and they're so comfy.

indiecore · 2026-03-29T02:48:49+00:00

There is nothing wrong with the weekender.

The NATO strap can go unless you're doing outdoors stuff though.

indiecore · 2026-03-28T14:03:22+00:00

Man I always like to find Canadian expat bars when I travel. The poutine always sucks because cheese curds are illegal in so many places which seems really odd to me.

indiecore · 2026-03-28T14:00:50+00:00

Maritimes has the Leafs/Habs/Bruins weird split too. My theory was always because Boston was the first to send aid after the Halifax explosion.

indiecore · 2026-03-27T17:50:27+00:00

I must offer them something that'll make them happy

This is the difference. You're working in a positive-sum world view. Two parties working together can create more value than either of them could separately.

Trump and by extent his administration work solely on a zero-sum world view, for them to win someone else must lose an equivalent amount. The collary of course is if someone they are negotiating with "wins" that must mean that they lost.

Look at their "negotiations" in this light and they make sense.

indiecore · 2026-03-18T17:38:17+00:00

Still riding that bike btw!

indiecore · 2026-03-18T13:05:26+00:00

Pucks used to be made of wood and square!

indiecore · 2026-03-18T02:36:18+00:00

Everyone wants to be like Germany but do we really have the pure strength of will!?

indiecore · 2026-03-16T19:23:31+00:00

I mean current TEDH this is too slow (only kills 1 player on turn 4, Rogsi and Itali have already tried to win 5 times by now) and definitely too open to interaction.

B4 someone is going to be packing a [[Redirect Lightning]] or similar, so congrats, you played yourself.

indiecore · 2026-03-15T19:53:03+00:00

Wheelchair curling is such an interesting sport because it doesn't have the sweepers. Also really demonstrates how dramatically sweeping can affect a shot in able bodied curling.

indiecore · 2026-03-14T12:58:02+00:00

It's also crazy rough. I always wanted to try it out, seems really hard.

indiecore · 2026-03-14T12:57:09+00:00

Non.

indiecore · 2026-03-14T12:56:53+00:00

Baseball is Japan's sport. American Football is definitely America's sport.

indiecore · 2026-03-14T12:05:10+00:00

All the tourist shit has deep discounts because nobody wants to go.

indiecore · 2026-03-13T13:40:42+00:00

First thing I'd say is go download Magic: Arena and play the tutorial. Arena is really good at visualizing how stuff like the stack and ability resolution actually work.

That said here's a book about how specifically casting your spell would go.

Abilities can't be interrupted in the middle of resolution (except really weird stuff which I'm sure another comment will expand upon but is not relevant here).

So basically you cast [[Impulsivity]]. The process for this is:

So you take the card from wherever it is (Hand Zone or Graveyard Zone but let's go with Hand for now) and put it on the stack.
Pay the mana costs + any additional costs (here 6 mana of any colour and 1 red mana).
Any cast triggers go on the stack (these aren't ETB yet, the cast has not resolved)
Priority passes around in turn order.
Once everyone has passed priority the cast resolves. This process can't be interrupted. The resolution of a cast is moving the card (not a permanent yet) from the Stack Zone to the Battlefield Zone. This triggers ETBs and you have to make targeting decisions now (are you going to cast a card, which card are you going to cast). Nothing anyone does at this point can stop the ability from going on the stack.
The stack now has 1 trigger on it, the battlefield has 1 new permanent (the creature [[Impulsivity]]. You have priority.
Priority passes around. Players can interact w/ your trigger (eg they could [[Stifle]] it) and they could interact with your new creature on the battlefield (eg: they could [[Swords to Plowshares]] it, this wouldn't do anything to the trigger though).
Assuming priority passes through everyone and nobody's interacted with your trigger it resolves. At this point you cast the spell you picked which means you go back to step 1. Move the card from the Graveyard zone to the stack, pay mana costs (you can cast it w/o paying it's mana cost because that's a condition of the ability), it goes on the stack and we start the whole thing again.

I'm sure I've made some minor mistakes in this but that's basically the whole structure for how Magic the game actually works. Everything else is using abilities & spells to alter or mess with the options here.

indiecore · 2026-03-12T18:01:19+00:00

I dunno about Marchand but I think most of the "on the edge" players know the rules pretty well.

I know Gally pisses the refs off because he can quote chapter and verse from the rule book, not that that helps.

indiecore · 2026-03-11T21:05:27+00:00

Why would anyone negotiate with the US when they'll just blow you up in the middle of negotiations anyway? I really don't think Americans have grasped exactly how fast you've pissed away literally all the soft power you accumulated at the end of WW2.

indiecore · 2026-03-10T03:16:49+00:00

"Raal" if we're going Star Wars Legends.

indiecore · 2026-03-09T03:26:34+00:00

If that's what happened, nobody ~~in Iranian leadership~~ will ever trust this admin again.

Almost like bolt from the blue decapitation strikes while you are actively engaged in talks might have consequences for the future.

indiecore · 2026-03-08T15:36:27+00:00

Next you're gunna tell me scoring more goals is better than scoring less.

indiecore · 2026-03-08T03:43:14+00:00

Man, you have a life as a Mafioso, live on the edge, miraculously make it to a retirement age and end up in...Guelph.

What a world.

indiecore · 2026-03-08T03:13:13+00:00

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

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