Definitely marooned Culture citizen

Rationalist, NW of Chicago, Partaking from an overwhelming cultural fountain, seething to be over 30.

[gcu-sovereign]

Which IP is best suited to a Universes Beyond Magic: the Gathering set in 2027 or later? [draftable, standard legality]

Animorphs

Dragonriders of Pern

Sailor Moon

Fullmetal Alchemist

Discworld

Voting ended onJun 1

Particular flaws evident from various UB sets to date for your consideration:

LTR: not enough animals/characters who fly, dissonance between novel mechanic playability [Ring Tempts] and flavorful expectation of a drawback.

TMT: overuse of central named characters in the interest of post-booster-collation name recognition [11 Leonardos across 2 products].

TLA: overuse of title character across draftable set+jumpstart [6 Aangs], novel mechanics are variably parasitic, liable to cap cross-set synergy.

SPM: not initially developed for drafting, quiet failure of ACR and MOM: Aftermath drove pivot from miniset.

ACR: not a draftable set, flavor/story largely inscrutable to those outside the video game franchise, imbalance in colors and types among legends.

AFR: 1st novel mechanic was underpowered [dungeons], 2nd novel mechanic was random [literally rolling d20s]

[regina-bithyniae]

Won my tourney;)

[gcu-sovereign]

Good job!

[aslutsdiiiary]

Tumblr thinks I’m a gay man bc gay man blogs post hot men and I like the pictures but it’s not my fault that gay men take good pictures of themselves. Straight men learn a thing or two please. There’s an art to it

[gcu-sovereign]

This would require a feedback system that straight men don't have access to.

[official-mugi-two]

I feel like the modern algorithm based internet is intentionally designed to dehumanize you and make you feel hopeless.

[mrsurlaw]

Have you been using Twitter a lot lately

[official-mugi-two]

yes, cause I still foolishly believe I can make it as a content creator

[gcu-sovereign]

To be fair, you specifically seem to be having an awful time outside the context of the evil machinery of twitter.

[merlinimbus]

[sigmaleph]

ah yes, the cause we've been seeking justice for 44 years of we launched a fucking invasion.

fucking revanchist pieces of shit screaming 'las malvinas son argentinas' and then crying about how bad it was for all the people we sent to die there. do you not have the basic self-awareness to notice that they died and suffered because, in 1982, people agreed with you. because a dictator trying to prop up a failing regime looked at the exact cause you are currently waving the flag for and saw an opportunity to drum up nationalism and stay in power a little longer. every death, every traumatised soldier, every single wrong attributed to that war happened because of the very idea you are, right now, supporting.

[dailymtgflavortext]

One thing I always admired about Magic over, say, Yugioh is their adherence to their own rules.

We often see in Mark Rosewater's asks someone asking about why they don't print a card that does this or that, and he'll say it's because the rules don't allow it. And I respect that, it means the rules actually have meaning. Whereas in Yugioh, they'll print some nonsense and release an errata saying "it works the way we say it does."

Anyway, here's Rulebreaker because rules are for losers just do whatever you frikken want.

[dailymtgflavortext]

For the record, I realize that this card makes sense. Sort of. It's worded a little vaguely and I'm sure we'll get clarification.

But that's not what I'm talking about. What this card does literally doesn't matter. What matters is it shows they're willing to write exceptions to their own rules, and that's what bugs me. Because I've seen where this can lead.

They say there will be eight of these Rulebreakers. Is it really a big deal? No. These specific decks can fudge the rules in these specific ways. For now.

[dailymtgflavortext]

Gang, I don't know how to explain this, but to me there's a difference between cards that "change the rules" for themselves and cards that WotC might print to change the structure of the game or deckbuilding. This is not Relentless Rats. This is not Prismatic Piper.

Even then, to me there's a difference between adding something to the game that wasn't there before (ie. Companion), and changing what's already established (ie. hybrid mana doesn't count any more) (which thankfully didn't happen).

I guess color identity is just something that is integral to Commander at the most basic level to me, and to see them weaken that makes me worry.

Like, I don't even think this card is all that good. It won't be a problem. It's the principle of it.

[gcu-sovereign]

Iirc, the MBC product is meant to be draftable, so this card is a partially open way to 1. Get your commander in play on turn 3 or 4 routinely without loads of durdley ramp/fixing 2. Be an eventual warehouse for current and future Converge cards 3. Work as something you pick in draft that doesn't rely upon combinatorially intensive solutions like partner.

[corvids-corner]

I have a degree in environmental biology you can trust me 👍

[the-grey-tribe]

@argumate

[argumate]

*nodding* cute, empty headed, thinks about murder all day; this is a kitty.

[kangals]

kep's favorite hobby is crawling onto your lap so he can breathe really loudly and wetly 1 inch away from your face. it is so so important to him that you let him do this.

[kangals]

HI HI HI HI

[garbagevarmint]

your beautiful horse really inspired me

[dogpuppy]

[gcu-sovereign]

@internet-sentences i just found out about one strain of videos from this obscure realm: videos of american tourists baiting european pickpockets into vicious beatings!

[official-kircheis]

if terry tao thinks GPT-5 is useful for maths and linus torvalds thinks Claude is useful for coding. you look pretty embarrassing claiming there’s no use. and future ai will only be better.

[gcu-sovereign]

The clueless don't already know who those people are! Where do Tao and Torvalds get off to speak on the utility of these planet-incinerating data centers?!

[fjordfolk]

💯

[nerdfuckerrr]

shocking news: went to a doctor #healthy

[nerdfuckerrr]

medicine is a pyramid scheme. riddle me this batman… why is it that every time i go to a doctor i gotta see another 2 *coughing* *choking* *passing out*

[gcu-sovereign]

So what's your allergies about then?

[nerdfuckerrr]

The outdoor air for most of my family has been replaced with SMOKE from burning Canada.

Normally, my indoor air is about 1-4 PPM of 2.5PM.

This morning as I left for work it was 25.

When I got home, it had ticked up to 109.

what exactly happened omg

[gcu-sovereign]

The Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) is tracking the thick smoke plumes originating from a growing number of large-scale wild

I cleaned the filter on my AC unit yesterday. The absolute level of fine particulates has decreased a little, either from , and I woke up to see my monitor reading 55 PPM.

[galois-groupie]

why don't they just build more housing? are they stupid?

[official-kircheis]

finno-ugric grammarians struggling to delineate the ways nouns can be inflected: many such cases!

[argumate]

Productivity growth in American manufacturing stalled after the global financial crisis. Remarkably, output per worker in 2022 was lower than it was in 2010. Meanwhile, unit labor costs have risen by almost sixty percent.

graphs that make the homies cry