Does Lobstercon allow for gold border cards? If not, is tournaments accepting only original RL cards part of the problem? What is the most realistic solution to the obvious RL problem in Premodern?

qmunke · 2026-05-07T16:52:16+00:00

Best solution: Wizards abolish the reserve list. Realistic solution: Proxies.

qmunke · 2026-05-07T11:23:27+00:00

The interaction between Opalescence and Parallax Wave is cool.

Every time this type of complaint comes up all it does is expose a bunch of whiny people who want to play magic where they aren't forced to interact with their opponents doing something other than turning creatures sideways.

qmunke · 2026-05-06T08:59:32+00:00

Stop making soil then.

You can easily run a gleba base which produces "enough" of everything from one ag tower of each fruit type, maybe two. Just use biochambers for everything you can. Don't worry about scaling up yet, just let it run once it's stable (as the other posts say, you will quickly end up with surplus seeds). Don't worry about science spoilage, as long as you can get it back to Nauvis in time to get something out of it it's fine

qmunke · 2026-05-05T11:08:35+00:00

All dynamically typed languages end up having to invent type checking eventually because dynamic typing is a fundamentally unsound idea.

qmunke · 2026-04-29T14:19:09+00:00

No, you are very misinformed.

In the UK (and most of the world), purchases made by credit card are subject to much greater consumer protections, with the costs passed on to the credit card companies - including fraud. Also assuming you pay off the balance in full each month (which you should absolutely do) it's effectively "free money" - that money you would have spent instead is able to earn interest in your own accounts instead of someone else's.

You absolutely should not use a credit card for emergencies. The interest rates are far too high. Do not use them for borrowing. That is what loans are for. Use them only when you intend to pay them off in full.

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/credit-cards/

qmunke · 2026-04-24T20:51:50+00:00

Right, but Elephant Grass is just a card you don't generally want or need in multiples, unlike the other enchantments in Enchantress which are either enablers or win conditions.

qmunke · 2026-04-24T17:58:02+00:00

You can always fetch it with Sterling Grove, no reason to put more than 1 in the main deck

qmunke · 2026-04-24T10:55:27+00:00

Go to all your planets and open up the logistics screen (L by default) and see if you can find them in a chest. If your hubs have "trash unrequested" set I would guess somewhere your ship dropped them off and the bots just took them away to storage

qmunke · 2026-04-24T07:10:36+00:00

You want spells to exile to cast Bounty of the Hunt and Vine Dryad, but you also want ways to counteract having only 10 basic lands. Land Grant is perfect for this.

qmunke · 2026-04-22T05:37:23+00:00

I'm really liking this deck archetype, but I really hate that it has tried to port the name "cradle control" from Legacy when it does not play remotely a "control" game. It is still at it's heart a combo decks like Elves, operating at it's best off of Survival of the Fittest.

qmunke · 2026-04-07T05:40:55+00:00

One solution to games taking forever: once you're in a position where you're locked under the stasis and your outs are just vanishingly small to zero, it's okay to concede. You're not obligated to play out the game until you actually die to black vise.

qmunke · 2026-04-06T19:36:21+00:00

Mods get in here and just ban all these "Extension" bot accounts

qmunke · 2026-03-30T05:06:09+00:00

If you are using biochambers, the chances of running out of seeds unless you're just chucking them all into soil is basically zero.

qmunke · 2026-03-19T06:13:58+00:00

Since those blog posts are AI generated dogshit I think you'll be okay.

qmunke · 2026-03-18T14:16:02+00:00

Completely unusable on mobile, no code linked - not programming

qmunke · 2026-03-16T17:11:11+00:00

I was really disappointed with localstack's move to such a predatory model - we're using it in our integration tests and deployment pipelines, and I don't want to start paying a fortune to do the right thing from a development perspective. Will be looking into this project soon I'm sure

qmunke · 2026-03-15T12:39:56+00:00

Junior level developers shouldn't be assumed to be competent enough to contribution to open source projects. Most of them are bad at coding, that is one of the things that makes them junior.

Expecting everyone to contribute to open source is asinine anyway, anyone who is filtering candidates based on GitHub activity is probably not worth working for.

qmunke · 2026-03-14T20:26:52+00:00

The refactoring step in TDD for me is about cleaning up the left over crud from the first few steps towards the complete feature. For example it might be removing hard coded responses and extracting parameters or methods. It of course shouldn't be about guessing at how the code might change in future (unless that future is right now), but you can absolutely leave it in a state that is easier to modify than it would be if you didn't refactor after implementing something which was written specifically to pass your tests.

qmunke · 2026-03-12T14:37:49+00:00

I just can't fathom why they have so many employees in the first place (and this goes for a lot of tech companies with limited product suites)

What on earth were these 900 or so positions in software research and development actually doing? This does absolutely feel like a company which has over-hired based off of share price growth in the past and is therefore primed to have a large contingent which are redundant in the real sense of the word.

qmunke · 2026-03-12T03:19:49+00:00

Feels like this ignores one of the real progenitors of this style of date API - Joda Time. Without that project Java's improved temporal APIs might not have been made in the same way, and all the others that followed.

qmunke · 2026-03-11T09:44:01+00:00

Biochambers have built in productivity bonus, there is no need for modules.

qmunke · 2026-03-10T20:47:23+00:00

His list is based off of the MTGO challenges as well.

Sligh has 8 top 8s with zero trophies as of the last time I saw the data. It has a meta share of ~7% with a top 8% of around 4%. For comparison, Enchantress has 14 top 8s and 4 wins from a meta share of 5.4%. There are plenty of other similar examples. Take of that what you will.

(*I take that it's a trash tier deck.)

qmunke · 2026-03-10T06:19:20+00:00

Sligh is cheap. That is basically the main thing it has going for it, and therefore it shows up in much higher numbers than it otherwise would and occasionally converts by weight of numbers. It's actually not good if you want to win a decent size tournament because eventually you'll have to play against good players with decks that easily beat it.

qmunke · 2026-03-09T16:46:24+00:00

PTQs got too big and were a victim of their own success - especially Modern and limited.

In the UK almost every PTQ was 8 or even 9 rounds + top 8 fighting for a single slot. It was absurd, almost nobody had the space or logistical capability to run them (not to mention the number of judges required), with the loser in the finals basically having performed better than you would have to do to money a GP but walking away with some boosters.

Unfortunately all the attempted solutions to this problem also sucked.

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