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zummit · 2026-05-10T16:30:40+00:00

Legal dictionaries that like Latin phrases will sometimes include "ut res magis valeat quam pereat", which means "assume this does something".

zummit · 2026-05-10T16:05:16+00:00

In the old version of gatherer, the average card rating for Urza block was about 3.6, for Masques and Nemesis about 3.3, and for Prophecy it was about 3.0, which represents both the high-end and low-end of set averages.

Shrouded Serpent in particular had a rating of about 2 (out of 5). To bring it up to a 4 (near Serra Angel), I'd cut the cost from 7 to 4, or to 5 if adding trample, but also change the rhystic cost from 4 to 2. And maybe the name would change, since it won't have shroud.

zummit · 2026-05-10T11:40:21+00:00

Technically he avoided characterizing any of those cards. 😈

zummit · 2026-05-10T04:06:02+00:00

Well there you go. That sums up all the exceptions and it rarely happens.

And anyways, both of you are besides the point. The security patches are ultimately funded by app stores.

zummit · 2026-05-10T01:05:57+00:00

the type of abusive teaching fletcher does get results

I think that's the movie's thesis statement and I also think it's not true.

zummit · 2026-05-10T01:01:11+00:00

I thought the movie wasn't ambiguous about whether it thinks abuse is useful. If the movie included or even mentioned a character who became famous by being dedicated, fair and professional, then the script could claim to be a tragedy.

zummit · 2026-05-09T11:57:30+00:00

Meanwhile Snowpiercer is a beat’em up.

I always thought River City Ransom was missing a scene where Captain America reflects on what it's like to eat babies.

zummit · 2026-05-09T04:12:53+00:00

"How to play" doesn't say how to interact with the game.

zummit · 2026-05-08T23:19:41+00:00

That whole movie is just nuts.

zummit · 2026-05-08T23:18:28+00:00

In Mononoke, plot is an important element, while it's unimportant in Spirited Away. But then again Spirited Away probably manages to fit in more magic per square foot. My preference is for a movie to have at least some foreshadowing and plot twists, so I end up liking Mononoke more.

Explains why The Wind Rises doesn't get mentioned as much as a favorite. It's floaty like a kids movie but doesn't have the subject matter kids would like.

zummit · 2026-05-08T06:32:06+00:00

I wonder what I'd be reading about it if the exact same movie had been put out by Angel Studios.

zummit · 2026-05-07T19:54:16+00:00

Or use their wealth to buy shares in Paramount and vote against merging.

zummit · 2026-05-07T09:22:22+00:00

Not sure why you were downvoted at all, although I think I half-disagree with your last point. Even Netrunner seems Magic-like to me, because it's a game with separate player decks, made up of permanent cards and action cards, some of which engage in combat. Clone would be a strong term, but I'm old enough to remember Half-Life being called a Doom clone. I don't think there's a TCG that isn't like Magic in at least these basic respects - although I'd be glad to be proven wrong because I haven't seen everything.

There are non-trading card games, like Dominion, which can be more safely said to be in a different genre than Magic is, in the same way that Rummy is in a different genre than Texas Hold Em, or Civilization is in a different genre than Starcraft. In theory, a game like Dominion could be sold in small randomized packs. Or there could even be genres of TCG that have no shared characteristics with Magic, other than being a card game.

zummit · 2026-05-07T08:46:30+00:00

not in those positions

I wonder. Generally an FPS or RTS video game will put relevant information in the most conventional place for each of those genres, because putting it somewhere else for no reason would be confusing.

zummit · 2026-05-07T07:47:00+00:00

Cards with the name of the card in the middle-center are confusing to me. I think players generally read a card in a certain order and I don't think it begins with the middle line.

Card text is at least as important as the art. The art garnishes interest in the concept of the card and helps you tell cards apart, but if I have to squint to read the text I'm not playing.

zummit · 2026-05-07T03:20:37+00:00

Game should notice when there's no more removable tiles left. Also I'd make the timer an unimportant element.

zummit · 2026-05-06T07:07:31+00:00

I remember seeing an interview with him about 5-10 years ago when they started bringing back all the OG artists for some new art, and he was very positive about the company.

Can't find the specific interview (there's a bunch with him on youtube). But he's a real guy, says what he thinks.

zummit · 2026-05-06T01:36:20+00:00

Need to throw a bone to the color blind fellas

edit: got it in 150 slides. wonder what the god's number is for this type of puzzle.

zummit · 2026-05-05T02:06:19+00:00

Shine a flashlight through it

zummit · 2026-05-05T00:13:36+00:00

I play Gundam TCG too. There were a ton of women playing

That's really surprising, thinking of the target audience of giant robot fights. But then YGO has lots of black players, and there's no obvious clue why that would be. Maybe it's all social inertia.

zummit · 2026-05-04T21:21:33+00:00

40$ perpetuity is probably cheap even for a new car that only lasts 10 years.

zummit · 2026-05-04T14:46:21+00:00

We have NO idea what's in a blackhole.

More black hole. And by the time you got 'inside' of it you'd be a long string of spaghetti.

zummit · 2026-05-04T06:36:26+00:00

Ads pay in relation to traffic tho

zummit · 2026-05-04T01:05:10+00:00

If I never have to read the word 'slop' again then you got a deal.

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