I was gonna buy one of those Lite phones, but it was expensive so I just deleted time-wasting apps and now my smartphone respects my time. Hardest part was getting people to just text me instead of various social media messenger apps. In the end, I deleted my accounts and now everyone from school thinks I’m dead, but those close to me can reach me easily. Sometimes I still binge YouTube via Firefox on my phone though, so I installed “Unhook” which blocks recommended videos, so I can only see what I search for.

I guess just remember that your smartphone can be dumb too. And still a lot more convenient than a flip phone.

I agree 100%! Butt I’m joking about a façade of optimization. Making code confusing and hard to interface with by making up custom data types. And for more context, their main project is a UI that takes >10 seconds to load and uses 2+GB of RAM. But at least the UUIDs in the SQLite DB are stored as hex instead of strings 😅 (even though I think everything in SQLite is actually stored as a string under the hood?)

I do still admire the desire for optimization - but it might be some sort of coping mechanism to ignore the insanely unoptimized bits of the project

I have a coworker who does stuff like this and it’s always low-benefit optimizations that cost the team time to interface with - but I do still kind of love it

My LGS has a cEDH tournament this weekend where you’re allowed to have up to 10 proxies in your deck

On Arena I probably misread “you and 7 other players” as just “7 players” or something 🙃 But knowing they should be the same, I’ll commit the numbers to memory!

Gotcha. Weird to me that Arena is different - 7 players in Premier Draft, and packs are 15 cards

Nice! I still haven’t even figured out at what pick count a pack has wheeled :P I guess pick 8? Seems intense to remember an individual pack 8 packs later, but I guess you just know that all those cards wheeled so it gives an idea of what’s open.

I was imagining that the overlay would tell you what colors are open, and what a the best picks from each pack are, and maybe even what synergieses with your current picks

Yeah I’ve played a lot of constructed magic. Never have gone to a prerelease or draft event though so I had no experience with limited until recently. Makes sense to start with learning draft skills in general though, rather than only trying to learn a set!

I’m on Linux as well - would people consider tools like that cheating? Or more like “here’s some knowledge you might not know yet”

Yeah I do think it’ll be fun to start drafting a set from its release and keep up with the meta. I wish I had more time with Dragonstorm since I like the flavor a bit more (but I did just pick up Final Fantasy 10 to try since I’ve never played any so maybe I’ll fall in love).

thanks for the channel recommendations! Hadn’t found them and they seem pretty top tier. Even a lot of info about FF already.

Awesome - yeah I definitely see the advantage of being familiar with a set. Helps you draft something with a plan and know how to play against different decks. What I was missing was figuring out how to study a set. Basically I was just playing and watching streamers play. But it felt like I needed to watch hours of gameplay, or play a bunch of drafts, before feeling like I understood just the basics of the set.

Draftsim is so cool!! Thanks! I think it’ll be huge for me seeing cards in a set and having a little fun as opposed to just reading cards for study. Gonna have to use a lot of self control to not mess around on the site while I’m at work…

I’m still so excited to be getting into draft. It feels like a pretty rewarding format to spend time getting good at. Skill and knowledge mixed with gambling, fantasy, and an actually fun game? And I feel like I experience way more of a set’s flavor than I would just seeing the cards mixed into various decks.

My mom is a school counselor at a tiny school in a tiny town in Montana. There is no way the school stays open. Or 90% of our public schools for that matter. Part of me wants to tell her “I told you so” but generally it just sucks so bad I don’t have the energy

Are we that degenerate already??

Bummer, but I do think her second ability might be a little strong and annoying if she also was making a ton of energy on her own. Thanks!

Thanks! I’ll look into a first/double strike sub-theme, and additional combat as well

Thanks!! Definitely will change how I build the deck

My coffee ritual has started getting super complicated, but if James Hoffman tells me I need to do my pour over with two kettles at once in order to reduce acidity, I’ll do it.

I’m thinking about the Christmas letter idea more: each person’s card could reflect a life event from the last year - for example, my dad sprained his knee so his card could be an aura debuf with knee-sprain flavor text or something. Then the letter could go into details on our last year in the sections that aren’t meant to be cut.

Pretty sure I’m 100% doing this next year. Wish I thought of it a month ago!

IMO the Windows Store is why valve has invested heavily into gaming on Linux. Windows Store could easily become a huge Steam Store competitor if Microsoft were an effective company. So Valve wants to enable devices that don’t run Windows. Numerous other benefits for something like the Steam Deck as well, but I’d bet we see another Steam Machine someday - probably after they convince more companies to support Linux

At this point I just stopped buying chips. Feels like such a waste to fill the bag less than half way…