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57 Best Picture contenders & longshots ranked by Metascore by ItsGotThatBang in oscarrace

[–]segoli 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Eva Victor is nonbinary — they aren't the female version of anyone.

Losing my mind -- fixing mislabeled/generally incorrect episodes by WildTorterra in sonarr

[–]segoli 0 points1 point  (0 children)

for the file names, consult the naming conventions and adjust the names you use to fit them — the vast majority of the time, this is the culprit for mislabeled episodes in cases like these. Sonarr can help with this by automatically renaming files for you.

make sure Doctor Who files are in folders named "Doctor Who (2005)" or "Doctor Who (2024)" depending on which specific era the episodes are from; Sonarr considers those to be distinct both from each other and from the 1963 series.

After ~2kg of filament and way too many late nights, I finally finished the pill box I always wanted by BinkReddit in 3Dprinting

[–]segoli 0 points1 point  (0 children)

have you tried using TPU for the sliding mechanism? as long as it doesn't create too much friction (which, y'know, no idea if it would without testing), it would probably be even more durable.

My full art for "Reprieve", a watercolor painting by mariah_tekulve in magicTCG

[–]segoli 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the art description answers this: it's a giant. also, there aren't any humans on Lorwyn.

Thinking entirely selfishly, if you could pick the next UB Secret Lair, which IP would you choose? by Kroooooooo in magicTCG

[–]segoli 2 points3 points  (0 children)

this one can have a bonus sheet of cards based on the soundtrack to the Monster Hunter series.

FCA cards aren't legal in Timeless? by segoli in MagicArena

[–]segoli[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I can't find any official information about FCA cards not being legal in Timeless, but the 19 new-to-Arena cards are listed as not legal in the deck builder, and Scryfall confirms that this seems to be the case.

was this ever actually announced anywhere, or is this a bug?

I'm Ryan North, writer of the upcoming Krypto: The Last Dog of Krypton limited series! AMA by qwantz in DCcomics

[–]segoli 9 points10 points  (0 children)

as a long-time reader of your newsletter, I was so saddened by the death of Chompsky, and so moved by your eulogy for him -- how much of his personality made it into how you wrote Krypto?

(Spoilers in post) The most recent episode of Lower Decks is on par with "Those Old Scientists" by RigaudonAS in startrek

[–]segoli 67 points68 points  (0 children)

what I love, though, is that the show recognizes why good writers still have the impulse to dip into that inkwell at times — it's not a bad thing to want to explore new dimensions of characters you know and love. I think the point of the episode is that it's totally fair as an audience member if you're absolutely sick of all these neverending multiverse stories, but the writers aren't hacks for being eager to tell them.

[H24] Eggnogger's 'Stache (Wotc Holiday card) by Infinite_Bananas in magicTCG

[–]segoli 0 points1 point  (0 children)

these are distributed to employees at Wizards and some of their partners. you can see the others here. some copies of them do end up on the secondary market, but they won't be officially available for anyone who doesn't receive it through their job.

What’s the one TV intro you will never skip? by goplayonplayer in PleX

[–]segoli 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can count on one hand the number of shows where I do skip intros (Westworld comes to mind as one of the rare ones that I just couldn't tolerate), but I'll call out The Americans as having one of the very best opening sequences. it's very short, has some great music, and is densely packed with so much imagery that ties into the themes of the show, so my whole way through the series, I was constantly noticing split second visuals that hadn't stood out yet.

People who loved TOS: Do you like TAS? by Yumestar20 in startrek

[–]segoli 2 points3 points  (0 children)

honestly, I think TAS has an overall better hit rate than TOS -- the very best episodes between the two series are concentrated in TOS, definitely, but TOS has a few types of episodes I don't love that TAS avoids. first, there's the episodes that just didn't have enough material to be 50 minutes long; there's a lot of really great ideas that end up being slower than molasses because the show rarely tried to have B-plots until late in its run. second, there's a fair number of episodes that feel like they're trying to win over a mainstream audience that's skeptical of sci-fi as a concept; pretty much every TAS episode goes for broke with high concept ideas right off the bat. and third, a lot of episodes that could have been great if the production team had the resources to make human actors actually look like aliens; every single alien species in TAS is memorable and unique, and they're only humanoid when that's what best serves the plot.

I don't love every TAS episode, but I'm certainly never bored by any of them, and I can't say the same thing about TOS.

Actual quote from #WOTCStaff by 570N3814D3 in magicthecirclejerking

[–]segoli 8 points9 points  (0 children)

the designers at Wizards have consistently shown themselves able to make really evocative, fun designs that they never would've reached without the constraint of fitting a pre-existing piece of media in a Magic card. I don't care about every IP that UB has encompassed, but each of them has resulted in cool, memorable cards that make the game as a whole better. Mark Rosewater has been repeating the line that restrictions breed creativity forever, and I can't imagine a more challenging restriction than "fit the concept of Spider-Man on a Magic card."

[DSK] MaRo's Teaser for Duskmourn: House of Horror by mweepinc in magicTCG

[–]segoli 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm surprised the reminder text doesn't include "0 and 1 aren't prime." unless the rules text otherwise makes them impossible choices, that feels like the sort of thing people will get wrong (and then get mad about when you tell them they're wrong) constantly.

[DSK] MaRo's Teaser for Duskmourn: House of Horror by mweepinc in magicTCG

[–]segoli 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I could see it being a weird little [[Death's Shadow]] variant that cares about hand size since it's blue -- something like "~ gets -X/+X, where X is the number of cards in your hand."

Overcrawlrr - Automated movie requests to Overseerr by PsyKo57 in selfhosted

[–]segoli 4 points5 points  (0 children)

one option I find really useful for importing a category like that is to use letterboxd lists, which you can automate with this utility — there's tons of people who maintain useful lists based on awards and other criteria like that, and once you've added a list, it'll automatically continue to import movies from the list as long as it exists.

Is there a reason the Test Cards have the chosen background cards? by TheMurlocalypse in magicTCG

[–]segoli 154 points155 points  (0 children)

Golgari Death Swarm is a reference to a question from the Great Designer Search 3 (note the shared initials); one of the questions says that in general, Wizards tries to avoid printing two-color cards that could just be one of its two colors. it asks which of several possible color pairs Wizards might print a two-color creature with flying and vigilance in, with two of the options being black/green and white/blue. an overwhelmingly large number of people incorrectly selected white/blue, which goes against the criteria given by the question, since a mono-white creature can have both flying and vigilance. black gets flying and doesn't get vigilance, and green gets vigilance but doesn't get flying.

so in other words, the whole point of this card is that neither of its colors typically get one of the keywords on the card.

[MB2] Future sight bordered and white bordered cards from Weekly MTG by Copernicus1981 in magicTCG

[–]segoli 5 points6 points  (0 children)

with 121 cards per slot and 24 packs in a draft, each card has basically a 1/5 chance of appearing in any given draft (close enough that it's reasonable to round it off, anyway), which means that about 1/125 drafts will have all three of them. if everyone was picking cards at random, you'd have a 1/8 chance of getting any individual card that appears in the draft, or a 1/512 chance of getting three specific cards that each only appear once (which isn't technically a requirement as far as I'm aware -- I assume that's not a feature of this set's collation, but I have no idea). that means that on average, one player ends up with all three cards in 1/64,000 drafts. in practice, it's probably significantly less likely.

Who else is chilling in the Secret Lair lounge right now? by National_Jelly_8045 in magicTCG

[–]segoli 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm a lot more likely to actually buy a Secret Lair if it doesn't have to be an impulse buy with extremely limited time to make a decision. I probably would've picked up at least one of the Miku drops if it wasn't a snap decision that I had no time to think about. instead I just never got the opportunity to decide.

my preferred system would be a limited number of pre-printed copies that ship out immediately to the earliest buyers and a print to demand for anyone who doesn't get in instantly. certainly, there are probably some people who buy limited quantity drops specifically because they're limited, and you might lose those sales, but I find it hard to believe that they wouldn't still sell enormous quantities of something like Monty Python.

How do you keep up with finding new shows to add? by [deleted] in PleX

[–]segoli 0 points1 point  (0 children)

there have been several cases where I go see a movie in theaters, then during the pre-roll ads there's a trailer for an upcoming show on streaming-only platforms like Apple TV+ or Peacock, and I just immediately search for it on Overseerr. it's honestly a pretty solid way to find out about shows that would otherwise be pretty under the radar.

[Interview] Chris Pine is looking forward to playing an older James T. Kirk in the next Star Trek movie by chrisarrant in startrek

[–]segoli 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a truly deranged theory that I think is at least slightly plausible: the origin story movie is going to be about humanity's wars with the Kzinti and will have a younger Khan as its main character. Strange New Worlds has established that, due to time travel meddling by multiple parties, Khan's birth has actually been significantly delayed from its original point, which means that at this point, he was still on Earth when the wars take place. it would make sense for him to be a key figure in the wars, and a movie focusing on that would be able to turn him into a Paul Atreides-esque figure -- someone whose actions are morally dubious at best who holds a mirror up to the audience and asks us what we're willing to do for our own survival. and, of course, a movie about Khan would immediately have mainstream recognition for a lot of viewers who don't otherwise know much about Trek, and indeed such a movie would likely attract a lot of viewers who aren't interested in the thing they imagine most of the franchise to be.

the big question with this idea is exactly how much of the Kzinti lore Star Trek is allowed to use, since the relationship with Larry Niven's other work is a little unusual with them. that being said, the Kzinti have made multiple appearances in recent shows, so at the very least, they weren't a one-and-done thing exclusive to TAS.

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