Justin

brightwanderer I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned "forever" into the only acceptable definition of success. Like... if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it's a "failed" business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don't actually want to keep doing that, you're a "failed" writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it's a "failed" marriage. The only acceptable "win condition" is "you keep doing that thing forever". A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a "real" friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a "phase" - or, alternatively, a "pity" that you don't do that thing any more. A fandom is "dying" because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things. I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it's okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success... I don't think that's doing us any good at all.

Wish I could internalize this

Is it "remember you're 3x more likely to have an opponent get it instead of you, so enjoy it?" 😶

Lame jokes aside, they should Game Changer Sol Ring.

Yuh looks pretty solid. New staple territory even. Plays great at basically every point in the game and it's a blue flying version of a card that was already good and seeing play.

Actually does not die to bowmasters unless they actually flash it in, unless I'm missing something else here...

Man, maybe I need to be reading Batman

This is true. Also they should print more Slivers.

Posting is incredibly serious 🫡

you could not waterboard this out of me. “we didn’t understand why people use steam”

I'm so sorry, friend 🫂

There's an actual nuanced discussion to be had here but this is social media so

Broke: Mana rocks are bad

Woke: Ramp is bad

You do!

Screenshot of text: unfuck google drive by shooting gemini Hey folks! Google is fucking you via sneaky enshittification again! Want the shit in your google drive to load instantly again, instead of taking for-fucking-ever? Open your gdrive (web OR app) Settings > Manage Apps Gemini was checked "use as default" (and i sure the fuck didn't set it that way, this was a silent push) Nuke that, and suddenly, folders that took up to a minute to populate and sort do so in a fraction of a second.

friend shared this, immediately updated my settings

😻

Broke: Chromatic Lantern is bad

Woke: Mana rocks are bad

Helllllll yeah

This is so real though. How often do you just play your land right away and then draw cards and realize you could have done something else if you waited?

Meaningful reduction of Mana pools 😤

The audacity of misspelling "Christ" in this exact post

a group of men are standing in a field and one of them is saying " i 'm 37 i 'm not old " ALT: a group of men are standing in a field and one of them is saying " i 'm 37 i 'm not old "

Harrumph 😤

“oh so you think the east wing being demolished is worse than-“ it’s a synecdoche, man. a visual metaphor. there’s a reason the aliens in Independence Day don’t aim a huge laser at SNAP benefits

Steam port when tho

No

Who said it's not supposed to go wrong?

Okay but it's a 1/1

I'm 12 pages into this and it might already be my favorite short story collection

Gutteral Response is not a serious magic card

We don't make the rules we just exploit them!

Everyone really wants Krark Sakashima to have Manamorphose, I guess.

So, yes?