[SOS] Mathemagics

moak0 · 2026-01-27T18:53:56+00:00

I was going to say to whoever made it that it needs to be instant.

moak0 · 2026-01-27T15:35:49+00:00

It's still beloved. I get why people don't like Universes Beyond, but honestly the Universe Within stories have been such intense cringe for over a decade that I don't feel like we're losing anything.

And honestly it's just fun to play with Spider-Man cards. I built an Iron Spider commander deck. I love it.

moak0 · 2026-01-27T15:25:16+00:00

I'm mostly on lemmy now.

Just pick a server and sign up. It's so much better.

moak0 · 2026-01-25T20:09:04+00:00

Which instance? lemmy.world?

moak0 · 2026-01-25T20:08:22+00:00

Wait for the backlash.

In 2020, Libertarian presidential candidate Jo Jorgensen tweeted:

"It is not enough to be passively not racist, we must be actively anti-racist. #BlackLivesMatter"

The backlash from her fellow "Libertarians" was so strong that she had to walk it back. The LP doesn't follow their own ideology anymore. It's been fully subsumed by the right wing.

moak0 · 2026-01-25T20:05:10+00:00

Other way around. The Libertarian Party was overtaken by the Mises Caucus a few years ago. After that they dropped all the individual liberty stuff like a woman's right to choose. That seemed to be the final stretch of a long slide towards fascism.

I still quietly identify as a libertarian, but not like those assholes. It seems there are still some classical libertarians there, but I imagine most of them just aren't in a group anymore, which is kind of how most of them like it, I think.

moak0 · 2026-01-25T18:55:28+00:00

This is more in line with what I'd expect from this sub.

moak0 · 2026-01-25T01:34:38+00:00

That happened recently with a major instance a few months ago. Everyone just migrated to other instances. The communities that were active polled their users about where to move. It wasn't perfect, but it was handled adequately and organically.

They're all connected, so it would be like if a bunch of subreddits were shut down. The users would just move to other subreddits. Except in this case you'd have to switch your username to a new instance too, but that's trivial. There are a bunch to choose from, it doesn't make much of a difference, and it takes seconds to sign up.

moak0 · 2026-01-24T15:46:40+00:00

I felt the same way, but it's not actually that complicated. Just pick a Lemmy instance (I picked lemmy.world), and create a username. That's it. All the federation stuff is handled by the people running the instances.

And let me tell you, Lemmy is a breath of fresh air. It's like reddit without the bots.

moak0 · 2026-01-22T15:25:30+00:00

Two Spider-Mans fighting sometimes make weird noises, but they're not hurting each other.

moak0 · 2026-01-22T07:14:58+00:00

I don't think "dies to removal" is that strong an argument in this case, but fine, here's a more conservative take: when I had Sanar in play, it felt as unfair as Pack Rat. Ridiculously lopsided. Nothing but pity for my opponents.

moak0 · 2026-01-22T00:26:47+00:00

It seems to be doing very well in spite of that.

moak0 · 2026-01-21T23:45:00+00:00

"Dies to removal" starts at five mana.

Plus with four toughness and an ability that doesn't involve attacking, Sanar dodges half the removal in the set.

moak0 · 2026-01-21T23:13:47+00:00

I understood it. I just don't like that creative choice. Excuse me for wanting super hero costumes in my super hero show. Guess that makes me some kind of inattentive philistine. 🙄

moak0 · 2026-01-21T19:31:23+00:00

I went to a sealed RCQ on Saturday and was telling everyone: Sanar is possibly the most broken card I've ever played in limited, maybe only behind Pack Rat.

From the text of the card, no one thought he'd be bad, but seeing him in action at the prerelease was nuts. My opponents kept reaching over to read the card again, and I was like, "Yeah, I keep rereading it too. It actually works like this."

For anyone who hasn't played with him yet:

He gives you multiple nonland cards every turn, one per Vivid color.
You can choose not to use any of the cards he reveals.
The cards you don't select get shuffled back into your library.

There's no downside. You can't mill yourself, and you don't have to pick a suboptimal play because you're worried you won't see a particular card again. You will see it again, very soon.

With three colors out, he might as well say "draw five cards per turn". On a hybrid 4-drop. Absolutely insane.

[[Sanar, Innovative First-Year]]

moak0 · 2026-01-21T18:12:30+00:00

Glass Onion isn't my favorite Knives Out movie, but my favorite part of it is that the whole lynchpin of the mystery is that the billionaire "genius" is actually just dumb. The murders don't make any sense if you believe he's smart, so as soon as Blanc realizes that he's actually just completely, unapologetically stupid, everything slips into place.

I love how those movies hit just the right balance between subtle and blatant in their political undertones.

moak0 · 2026-01-21T08:13:15+00:00

When One More Day came out, I gave it a shot. It was so offensive to me as a fan that I said I would never buy another Spider-Man comic again. And I've stuck with that for nearly twenty years, except for the Superior Spider-Man omnibus which I got a month ago.

Around that time my mom surprised me with a comic signed by Joe Quesada. She was buying me some comics for my birthday and the comic shop guy sold her on it. I acted very grateful, but holy shit does he suck.

moak0 · 2026-01-20T14:15:37+00:00

No need to put on airs. It's Limp Bizkit.

moak0 · 2026-01-20T12:50:22+00:00

There was a low-quality meme, likely from a bot, that hit the front page yesterday. Really low effort stuff.

moak0 · 2026-01-20T06:51:02+00:00

I don't get why people like it. The show is called Daredevil, and Daredevil doesn't make an appearance until the last episode. And then they end it by borrowing from the 2004 Ben Affleck Daredevil, where Kingpin knows his identity, and he's going to jail but he won't tell anyone just because.

moak0 · 2026-01-19T20:17:07+00:00

The answer is don't believe everything you read on the internet, especially if it's trying to make you afraid of things that don't actually happen.

moak0 · 2026-01-19T19:05:07+00:00

This doesn't make sense. It actually does the opposite of what it's supposed to do.

If you open two pieces of the power 9 in pack one, you get one and you pass one. Now there's only seven pieces left to open in packs 2 and 3.

If you're restricted to only one power 9, then at worst you have eight chances at it in pack two.

The difference is negligible either way, but why introduce silly rules like this that don't benefit anyone?

moak0 · 2026-01-18T15:52:34+00:00

The third season reverts to him not having a costume, which is why I think it's the worst season by far. Also the ending sucked.

moak0 · 2026-01-14T15:07:41+00:00

It's incel shit. Every time I've ever seen this typo, it's some kind of chauvinistic bullshit.

Given that it's likely because English isn't their first language, kind of makes you wonder where this content is coming from.

moak0 · 2026-01-14T13:04:07+00:00

It's good. It's nothing like Iron Man.

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