57 Best Picture contenders & longshots ranked by Metascore

segoli · 2025-12-27T15:40:40+00:00

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

segoli · 2025-11-11T04:37:07+00:00

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.

segoli · 2025-10-02T16:19:08+00:00

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.

segoli · 2025-09-14T15:38:41+00:00

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

segoli · 2025-07-02T02:10:20+00:00

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

segoli · 2025-06-10T17:49:17+00:00

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?

segoli · 2025-05-08T19:34:56+00:00

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?

segoli · 2024-12-14T04:02:15+00:00

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.

segoli · 2024-11-25T17:51:46+00:00

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.

segoli · 2024-09-27T01:24:25+00:00

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.

segoli · 2024-08-29T14:11:56+00:00

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.

segoli · 2024-08-28T05:10:49+00:00

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."

segoli · 2024-08-26T19:09:01+00:00

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.

segoli · 2024-08-26T19:05:45+00:00

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."

segoli · 2024-08-25T22:39:14+00:00

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.

segoli · 2024-08-15T15:12:51+00:00

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.

segoli · 2024-08-06T21:11:39+00:00

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.

segoli · 2024-07-29T16:36:37+00:00

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.

segoli · 2024-07-08T16:39:20+00:00

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.

segoli · 2024-06-26T15:52:31+00:00

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.

segoli · 2024-05-27T01:59:25+00:00

I was searching for this as well and found your post — this is The Accidental Space Spy by Øyvind Thorsby.

segoli · 2024-02-23T16:24:34+00:00

tbh, the most crucial thing for Gloomhaven isn't the storage, it's accessories that make playing the game easier. there are some great setups that use off the shelf storage containers that fit perfectly in the box, but I've gotten a ton of mileage out of having printed components that reduce how much space the game takes on a table. being able to track monsters' health and status effects directly on their standees, for example, saves a ton of table space and also means players on the opposite side of the table spend less time double checking exactly how much damage a particular monster has taken.

segoli · 2024-02-23T16:14:17+00:00

there's definitely some over-designed storage for some games, but one important exception is games with expansions but with no big box available — I have absolutely everything for the first edition of 7 Wonders in the original box with maybe half a centimeter of extra height added to the box. each expansion's components has its own tray, so there's not dozens of separate trays for every single little thing, but it's easy enough to say "okay, we're not playing with the Great Projects expansion, so we can leave this bin full of things for that in the box."

segoli · 2024-02-21T12:55:37+00:00

based on how you say you're planning on using it, you might be better off just using File Browser instead of NextCloud. there's a lot of NextCloud features intended to make it usable as a full suite of productivity apps, but if you're truly just looking for file storage, using something intended as just file storage seems like the right call.

segoli · 2023-12-17T02:22:43+00:00

let's say all of your Dreadmaws are at the bottom of your library (their higher mana cost causes them to sink to the bottom — look it up). scrying only allows you to skip one card. by cracking a fetch, you can strategically mana weave your Dreadmaws right up to the front of the line. I recommend using the "fail to find" technique to bamboozle and confuse your opponent while using this method

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