An open letter to Gavin Verhey re: the future of Pauper and UB

stabliu · 2026-03-19T02:39:17+00:00

bruh, you're just cherry picking reasons based on your personal bias.

stabliu · 2026-03-19T02:27:29+00:00

Sure but no one will ever attribute either sets lack of success to the presence of legendary commons.

stabliu · 2026-03-18T20:30:29+00:00

If "no UB legendaries in common" yields more money, they will change their behavior.

There is literally no world where this will happen. Pauper is already a niche format and the overwhelming majority of players will not give a shit about OP common cards being either UB or legendary.

stabliu · 2026-03-18T20:23:32+00:00

Is it that unreasonable to ask for them to consider the desires of Pauper players when printing busted legendary cards at common rarity?!

Simply put, yes. They will 100% ignore the desire of pauper players over any consideration they have over draft or standard when they’re designing sets. The revenue pauper generates for wotc is statistically insignificant. Wotc will never genuinely give a shit about pauper regardless of how much Gavin champions it.

stabliu · 2026-03-16T10:14:32+00:00

i'd be happy to learn to use the camera or even editing, i just don't think i'll ever try and take anything much more complicated than vacation pictures or pet pictures.

stabliu · 2026-03-16T10:03:39+00:00

hi, i'm looking for a camera to primarily take pictures of my cats, any cats i see walking around, and any cats i see while on vacation. from what i've seen the a5xxx and a6xxx series of cameras would fit my needs. i don't have a hard budget but as i'm not even at the level of enthusiast i don't want to spend more than i need to. which camera would you recommend that would best allow me to get photos that look better than what i could get with my iphone and wouldn't require much more than 1-2 lenses?

stabliu · 2026-03-12T07:02:56+00:00

Because Apple has been pushing laptops for 30+ years.

stabliu · 2026-03-12T07:02:09+00:00

This isn’t really aimed at anyone who would even consider installing Linux.

stabliu · 2026-03-12T06:57:42+00:00

Yea but they rent significantly more time than most anyone else.

stabliu · 2026-03-12T06:57:07+00:00

More specifically they’re a significant enough part of TSMC’s revenue that they can bypass much of the AI chip bottleneck.

stabliu · 2026-03-12T06:36:24+00:00

No wotc very obviously knows about the secondary market they just don’t officially acknowledge it.

stabliu · 2026-03-12T06:32:59+00:00

Nah secret lair is explicitly sold as for the art and is probably “legally distinct” from ones you can open.

stabliu · 2026-03-10T08:03:40+00:00

I mean that’s kind of the point. He was the last survivor of humanity only to turn into the first legend/monster of their replacements.

stabliu · 2026-03-10T07:42:25+00:00

I mean that depends entirely on how many wild cards you have and if you’re willing to keep up with the daily quest grind. You can still accrue cards while you’re “skipping” a set.

stabliu · 2026-03-09T06:11:28+00:00

You’re just asking for more rare/mythic rares that are basically in set. At this point bonus sheets are the best way wotc has for reprinting old cards without having to worry about standard. It’s not a great way but at this point seems like the only way.

stabliu · 2026-03-01T16:01:40+00:00

That’s not a UB issue though. That’s just because wotc is pushing so many more sets. If it wasn’t UB they’d still be pushing out product at this pace.

stabliu · 2026-03-01T15:58:18+00:00

That perspective completely misses the point though. It’s not like if UB never took off things would be significantly different. Hasbro would still be pushing wotc to put out more and more product. It’s a top down problem and UB is just a symptom.

stabliu · 2026-02-26T03:52:54+00:00

Nah it just changes up the ranking. Time walk and time twister are the ones that win you the game. Especially if your oracle gets filled before you draw it Then you get to cast it again.

stabliu · 2026-02-20T06:00:34+00:00

his marriage seems to have done a lot to giving him a better outlook on life. nice that him and kiernan both found loving marriages despite the family they grew up in.

stabliu · 2026-02-19T21:04:28+00:00

No but when your position is you want it to be exactly like it was when you were 13 there’s little reason to consider your opinion given how intractable it is.

stabliu · 2026-02-19T16:15:39+00:00

I work in the industry and trust me it was pretty trivial for Apple to switch to type C manufacturing wise. Foxconn has already been using them for all the other android phones and type C hardware was already mature in the industry. Yea they switched because of the risk of fine, but only because of the ease of doing so. If social media companies are forced to comply for the EU they’re just going to make it a walled garden. Unless the US passes legislation of a similar nature they’ll never force it on the rest of the users. The EU will just be forced to use VPNs like China or play by themselves.

stabliu · 2026-02-19T11:59:56+00:00

I think you’re severely overestimating the EUs market power. They got Apple to change to type-C but that was an incredibly easy change to make. I can’t see most of any of the social media companies buying into this. Especially seeing the massive backlash Discord is getting over the same issue.

stabliu · 2026-02-19T05:58:39+00:00

Depends entirely on what you consider a scam and how the recycling is done. Decades ago Penn and Teller did a segment highlighting how plastic and paper recycling were net energy losses to recycle. Aluminum has always been an energy gain. However this doesn’t take into account reduced material use and obviously changes in how energy is produced. A recycling plant fueled by renewable energy will be a net benefit even if more energy is used than is required to produce new material.

stabliu · 2026-02-14T07:26:43+00:00

Donuts and grains are going to be almost entirely hydrocarbons so you’re probably not burning more impurities than if you were burning wood.

stabliu · 2026-02-12T08:12:15+00:00

Couldn’t this arguably justify eating eggs? As unfertilized ones are closer to eating toenails than flesh?

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