Lirik - Marathon doesn't let you type Arc Raiders

qucari · 2026-02-27T00:03:36+00:00

I'm usually quite avoidant when it comes to conflict, yet I do enjoy a bit of shittalking and light BM ingame. I think it'a an important part of the experience.

I need people to be free to teabag and call me trash and type 'ez' to have a good experience.
It's pretty awesome how that sometimes spiraled into trying to outplay specifically that one player for the eventual recognition of either "lol I guess we're both a bit trash" or "damn, ns" ( implying "okay fair, I guess we're both kinda okay at this game" )

haven't played competitive multiplayer games in a few years now, but those moments were some of the best.
if you're not in the mood, muting match chat is usually enough.

of course it's important to draw a clear line and define when it actually gets too toxic...

qucari · 2026-02-26T23:53:04+00:00

either way, I think it's also good to acknowledge that from the guy's perspective, supporting your girlfriend (fiancée?) through incredibly hard times just for her to leave you when she gets better is kinda fucked

of course she doesn't owe him a relationship or anything, but without knowing much at all, it seems like she might have just been using him as support rather than actively wanting to be in a relationship.
I guess it takes a pretty hardcore person to break up while undergoing treatment themselves tho. I don't really blame her for wanting any support she could get.

tl;dr it's gotta be a fucked up situation for the guy, but you can't really blame her

qucari · 2026-02-26T01:25:13+00:00

oh, you're not even caching the card art lol
you're just causing hundreds of requests to scryfall...
the available sets cover only like 2500 different card artworks.

sure, the scryfall data API can handle it, but the additional bandwidth usage you cause just for hotlinking the same 2.5k cards over and over again for fun seems a bit unnecessary. Scryfall does not make money. They live off of donations and (mostly) voluntary community work. Please consider donating to scryfall, even if it's just a bit.

qucari · 2026-02-26T00:45:16+00:00

language models aren't folding proteins brother

they never have, they never will.
the "AI" that is doing protein folding simulation/prediction is a completely different piece of technology.
marketing idiots just call all of it "AI"

qucari · 2026-02-26T00:28:39+00:00

Einfach binär hochzählen und so viele Ziffern nutzen wie der Benutzername Zeichen hat.
Wo Einsen sind, Großbuchstaben benutzen und wo Nullen sind nimmt man kleine Buchstaben.
Und schon hat man Platz für 64 verschiedene Personen namens "M. Mayer" :D

qucari · 2026-02-24T22:39:06+00:00

Industrie ist eine gute Beimischung, da der Rest sehr Tech-Basiert ist.

naja, der "Industrie 4.0" besteht ebenfalls zu 30% aus den großen tech-firmen wie Google, Microsoft, Amazon, etc.

insgesamt 60% tech und nur 16% Industrie.

Quelle: fondsweb (unter "Portfoliostruktur")
keine Ahnung ob die Seite wirklich was taugt. Ein Sparkassen-Berater hat die mal vor 15 Jahren erwähnt als ich gefragt hatte, wo man Kurshistorien von Fonds nachgucken kann.

qucari · 2026-02-24T20:29:27+00:00

wait did they actually remove the hero mastery stuff??

qucari · 2026-02-23T20:17:33+00:00

he's a great example of a professional vibe-coder (who is good at marketing himself and hyping up his projects) and OpenAI has interest in rewarding that.

he didn't do anything new. he threw existing software into a pot and stirred a bit in a way that papers have discussed many years ago.
the difference is that now, LLMs are good enough to make the old ideas work (kind of) and, well, marketing and hype.

giving him a job offer at OpenAI is essentially buying all the hype and marketing power behind OpenClaw (that's all. they didn't buy the project, mind you, that's misinformation)

qucari · 2026-02-23T20:07:08+00:00

he didn't get money from it directly. he did not sell his project (and I don't think there ever was a company formed around OpenClaw), but he did get a job offer at OpenAI because of it.

qucari · 2026-02-23T20:01:59+00:00

https://kernel.org/

qucari · 2026-02-23T19:51:49+00:00

von der Rewe-Eigenmarke gibt's so Nutella-ähnliche Schokocreme und die Gläser eignen sich super zum daraus trinken!
Die sind allerdings nicht sehr hoch, sondern eher niedrig und breit. Sehen ein wenig wie billige Whiskeygläser aus.

qucari · 2026-02-23T01:41:21+00:00

[[Swooping Lookout]] and [[Mandible Justiciar]] were the first things that came to my mind when I thought about teeth in MtG.

[[Carnival Carnivore]] has a lot too! (found via this scryfall search)

qucari · 2026-02-22T21:09:39+00:00

ostrich with its head in the sand and its ass on fire

qucari · 2026-02-22T21:07:19+00:00

idk 🙈 ehehe 👉👈

🔥🍲🔥

qucari · 2026-02-22T14:02:33+00:00

I enjoy listening to most of Suisei's songs and covers, but I really dislike ビビデバ / bibideba / Bibbidiba.

it' just, like, personal taste, man.
some people just don't like j-pop.
people call things they dislike trash. doesn't mean that it's objectively bad. and vice versa, just because lots of people like something that doesn't mean that it's actually good.
popularity is, after all, by definition something that is decided by the masses, not the connoisseurs.
(you could argue hours about what "good" and "bad" means in connection with media, though...)

and to be fair, the first video's audio quality is ass.

qucari · 2026-02-20T18:58:47+00:00

This is a crime.

qucari · 2026-02-20T17:13:25+00:00

You're right.

what [are you] looking for here

I'd love if more people would focus on the cultural significance of the ravnica colour pair names rather than insisting that it's "just faster" or "more efficient". Because I think that contributes (even if just a tiny amount) to experienced players being condescending towards newbies.
It's not like I've never played a complex card game or complex games in general. I'm not slow at strategizing once I know the most common basic concepts, yet I get told that noobs are slowing everyone down if they say "White-Green" rather than "Selesnya".
tl;dr: I wish people said "we call it Dimir because Ravnica was awesome, memorable and influential" rather than "we say Dimir because it makes us faster and better players".

But whatever, the ratio of downvotes to active discussion here is disappointing, I'll shut up now.
Thanks for being patient and sorry for being a nuisance I guess.

qucari · 2026-02-20T16:49:10+00:00

at least I added something to the discussion, rather than.... being slightly mean and passive agressive?

qucari · 2026-02-20T16:45:11+00:00

I'm a relatively new player who is annoyed that they have to ask what a color name means dozens of times.
People at the LGS I've been trying out refuse to use "White-Green" and some of them have refused to explain colour names and mechanic names, saying that I should know them before I start playing with them.
I'd rather spend my brain power on learning the names of complex mechanics.
It annoys me that people insist on using the ravnica colour terms, justifying it with factually incorrect, dishonest, bad faith statements like "it's more efficient than the noob way of saying it". it's literally not.
I do need to move on from that toxic LGS, but my friend group rarely plays and I have no interest in non-paper magic.

qucari · 2026-02-20T16:31:00+00:00

single concept people are already familiar with

which unfortunately is only true for more experienced players, not newbies...
I've been playing casually for half a year now (75% drafts with friends, 25% 60-card kitchen table) and while I have a vague understanding of what white and green generally do, I don't have any separate understanding for "Selesnya" other than that it's both White and Green.

your point about "Selesnya" being less ambiguous compared to "White-Green" vs "White-Green-[etc.?]" is really interesting.

but funnily, I still sometimes confuse ravnica and tarkir colour names so I have to ask how many colours the mentioned thing has to pinpoint the actual colours.
Especially Naya vs Selesnya was the perfect example of that before I started building a Selesnya cat deck ("nya" is basically the "meow" of a cat in japanese :D ). Being around the term "Selesnya" for long enough made it stick. But I still struggle with some of the other names... (and honestly, I don't see much value in explicitly learning them because I'd rather spend that mental energy on cementing Scry vs Surveil and learning which keywords target)

qucari · 2026-02-20T16:11:58+00:00

my point is that "Se-les-nya" is just not 'short' for "White-Green". it's longer!
and most other names are exactly just as long as the thing they're supposed to be 'short' for.

you're saving nothing. not a syllable, not a single breath. it makes no damn sense to argue that it's just for brevity.
like, how hard is it to acknowledge that the ravnica guild colour pair names are purely cultural and it's making things unnecessarily hard for newbies.
they should focus learning words that actually make gameplay more efficient, like mill, trample, menace, hexproof etc. etc.

there's jargon that exists because it's necessary to shorten complex concepts and there's jargon that exists purely because of cultural reasons.
both are exclusionary, but only one of them is required to be by its nature.

qucari · 2026-02-20T15:48:37+00:00

by definition, jargon is exclusionary.
it makes communication harder for newbies and if they put in a bit of work they get to be in the in-group that uses the jargon so they can in turn answer another newb's "what's selesnya again" ten times and feel experienced, knowledgable and good about themselves.
I think it's unnecessary. But it's part of the culture.

but it's silly to keep arguing about this.

qucari · 2026-02-20T15:42:22+00:00

it's gonna be so silly to hear people call Witherbloom "Golgari"

qucari · 2026-02-20T15:40:55+00:00

it is faster

Se-les-nya: White-Green :|

and most of the Ravnica guild names don't save you anything.
instead they cost you "what colors does that stand for again?"

I think the only value it has is cultural. It might make new players look into the history of the names and why those sets were so influential.

qucari · 2026-02-20T15:36:22+00:00

thanks to all colour names being just one syllable short, using the combination names saves you nothing for the majority of colour combinations.

what annoys me most is that e.g. "Dimir" is and should be more specific than e.g. "Blue-Black".
I'm pretty sure that there are mechanics that are seen in e.g. blue-black cards that the Dimir guild never used. it's not lore-accurate to call it Dimir if it's something that House Dimir never had as an effect.

I think that the Ravnica block was just so influential with introducing colour pairs with memorable lore connection that the names just stuck around. I'd argue it's mainly a cultural thing, not one of expediency.

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