:( Stuff hasn't slowed down as much as you hoped?
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:( Stuff hasn't slowed down as much as you hoped?
Boy, ain't that the truth!
I think due to the shape of the packaging, my first impression was that these were Oreo-flavored toothpaste. Which is kind of horrifying to think about.
Old-school, pre-EDH casual constructed. That's also my favorite format even if Commander is included, by the way. >_> Like, Commander is neat, but I hate that it's come to totally dominate casual Magic. As much as I love 100 card singleton, I miss 60-card 4-of's.
Short and frustrating! (Because it's informative about an exploit.) What really angers me is that big corporations would rather spend $1,000,000 bribing politicians than paying employees or their own dang energy costs! 🤬
Really good watch youtu.be/YN6BEUA4jNU?...
This lack has been remedy, for I am now full of French toast! Yes, I made it for breakfast for myself. :D
Bug Knight meets a mimic #HollowKnight youtube.com/shorts/ZpbTf...
Happy birthday, and hurray for good foot news!
Spoiled by beautiful views #mountbaker #sunset #views
It's been one of my favorites of this season, for sure!
The great thing about writing your own program is that it means you can identify tedious tasks and find ways to automate them. In related news, now I can specify how many iterations of an operation I want to have happen, then click one button, rather than having to do each iteration myself.
Just saw an ad for what I think was a perfume, and for whatever reason, the footage was mirrored, which made it much harder to read the labels on the product, especially since the guy advertising it kept moving it around. Like, why would you run an ad like that? Why wouldn't you unmirror it?!
So new studies showcase that the more you know how GenAi works, the less likely you are to use it! 😌 This reminds me of ai advocates who claim that those who refuse to use GenAi do so because they dont know how it works, yet it’s the opposite! The less you know the more you are likely to use GenAi
Sea Level xkcd.com/3135/
![Comic. [Two people on shore looking at body of water] PERSON 1: Hey, where’s that big island we were looking at this morning? PERSON 2 with short hair: Oh, it’s underwater. The ocean’s depth here goes up and down by like ten feet every day. PERSON 1: What? PERSON 2: It’s because the planet has a big moon orbiting near the surface. It causes weird gravity effects. PERSON 1: *What???* [caption] People here are used to them, but tides are one of the weirdest and most sci-fi elements of life on Earth.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreidj2tdqhkgoamiqf5reqt7kvbpt26x3cgjxsp4rtwwb46qumcltdq@jpeg "Click to view full size")
That's sweet. :D
Why does it feel like modern Microsoft is Linux's best advertising?
My life contains an insufficient quantity of French toast. Which isn't to say that I want a lot of French toast, but it's an enjoyable food that I'd like to have at least sometimes instead of almost never.
Have they invented a mouse yet where the scroll wheel doesn't go wonky and confuse the computer about which way it's being rotated?
Honestly, this is why I don't play Arena. When I play Arena, I get impatient waiting for the faceless entity to make decisions. When I play with another person, I can see them thinking, and there's room for engagement. (Though sometimes I do feel the pressure of the round timer when at my LGS!)
Sometimes what I want is a bunch of cheese sticks and BBQ sauce to dip them into. 😋
Ouch!
That aggressively fuzzy sofa looks so cozy. (Insert a happily cuddled up in blankets emoji here.)
Todayborday, I'd like to wish alla y'alls a Mario Paint Labor Day!
Time to remind people about the Commercial Pattern Archive — it doesn’t have instructions and search is a bear but there’s two hundred years’ worth of clothing patterns in here including all the big names new and old: copa.apps.uri.edu
Alika Colour study
Lovely pictures, and a beautiful location. However, I'm now thinking about evaporation, since that's how water rises again (to become rain and snow). :D
Probably a fairly mild take, but I think the End of Dragons final meta on...I think the map is Dragon's End? Anyway, I think the meta fight against Soo-Won should give us ~5 more minutes. So many overall competent-seeming runs fail due to a close time out. :/ @guildwars2.com #GuildWars2
Her Ladyship. Scotland, 2019. 📸 @fionaspence.bsky.social
In many ways, that's evidence for my main point, which is that culture is, generally speaking, far more impactful for shaping who someone is than their religion.
Anyway, I'mma stop this set of rambles here. I do think there were a lot of political actors in the 70s and 80s that warped Christianity in America to gain political power through it (from what I recall reading), and that Fox News (et al) have continued to build on that, and Trump harnessed it.
Or perhaps it's about preserving a sense of comfort, which requires feeling like you're in control. Like you won't be persecuted. (And my goodness, I could go on at length about the persecution complex I see in conservative Christianity!)
And from where I'm looking, that doesn't seem to be about power so much as it's about a culture and the power of memes and the desire to preserve your culture's memes. (Which, I guess, is somewhat definitional for conservatives.) I do grant that some amount is about preserving power, though.
Basically, I look at a lot of the broader rhetoric coming from the Republican party (or conservatives more broadly) that say they care about the Bible, but what they're saying flies in the face of what the Bible teaches. My only conclusion is that their values are cultural first and foremost.
Or why do so many Christians (typically on the right politically) speak so harshly about immigrants when God so frequently states (especially in the Law of Moses) that He loves the foreigner? Anti-immigration sentiment, it is easy to argue from the Bible, is ungodly.
But what I'm talking about is something else, albeit a related concept. The idea of a Christian nation, for example, flies in the face of Jesus telling Pilate that Jesus's kingdom is not of this world (John 18:36).
Sure, power is a part of it, especially those who are manipulating a culture for their own advantage (for example, all the ways companies use marketing to try and change culture to create demand for their products, like how de Beers invented the concept of the diamond engagement ring).
You know you're really doing some wonky code changes when you turn a variable into a property.
You know, I don't care that much about Spider-Man as an IP (it's fine, I enjoy it, I dressed up as Spider-Man in kindergarten), but the mechanics of the #MTGxSpiderMan set look sweet.
This looks like it could be part of an old-school James Bond title song!
Dance in the light Dominique Zuniga, Valley of Fire, March 2016 #silhouette #sunset #figure
I kinda ran out of space there.. Basically, I was stuck because things were ambiguous and I didn't have a clear sense of direction. Once I finally punched through that and tried something, I was able to begin figuring things out, but getting there was it's own kind of work that's easily discounted.
I'm really glad I write a daily diary (which I share on my Patreon), because it forces me to process things, which can be quite helpful for understanding. Like, I felt like I wasn't as productive today as I would've liked, but then I realized I was having to figure out how to approach creativity.
There's more I could say and ramble about on this, but I just finished preparing my supper, so I'm just gonna post this thread and enjoy my food.
Anyway, this is just some stuff I've been thinking about, particularly as it relates to my religion of Christianity. I've seen so much of Christianity become horribly appropriated by cultural forces, and it grieves me so much. Jesus said that we'd be known as His disciples by our love for others.
Abandoning or changing your understanding of what it means to be a good person may require you to admit that what you were is someone that you would now consider to be a bad person. That's really hard! It's also very scary, and cultural pressure pushes against doing that.
This indoctrination sets the framework for our moral understand and what things we value. Abandoning, or even simply altering, those things can be identity-shattering, which makes it hard to do for most people. Often, this is because these things teach us what it means to be a "good person."
Part of the reason this happens is that we're indoctrinated into our culture as children. This is unavoidable, and those who want to protect children from indoctrination just mean they don't want anyone else influencing their children's cultural development.
Like, often religion is a part of culture, but it's terribly easy for the culture to use that religion to validate its values and morals, rather than using that religion to derive its values and morals. The difference between those two things is enormous.
Something I've been reflecting on lately is that when it comes to values and morals, it seems to me that culture eats religion for lunch for the majority of people.
I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is. This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.
Well, I finally gave it *a* title...it might be a bit long, but I had no good, short ideas, so here we are... youtu.be/2rQOc0iL0AY
Ugh...the hardest part of making my life and channel update videos is figuring out what to title them... >_<
I don't claim to be good at YouTube thumbnails now, but I was absolutely horrible at them in the past...
It took a while for me to realize you had a black cloth in front of you in that first one. I thought it was a shadow at first!
Given it was in The Sims for this last LIVE, it makes sense that that one was a prerecord. But I know what you mean, having "It's live, so something's gonna happen!" be a prerecord is extremely ironic. XD
Those are some impressive splits. o_O
It was such an exciting time. :D Also, wow, that old screenshot is making me realize the UI has had a number of subtle changes to it over the years. :o
On the plus side, you can kind of allude to stuff existing without having to make it actually exist like you do with a game, and you don't have to do any QA, and balancing work is arguably able to be minimized. But still! It's a lot of additional overhead!
The thing they don't tell you about writing a story set in a game-like world is that you also have to design a game to write it. XD I mean, it isn't a full game, necessarily, but you really do have to at least figure out the bones and flesh out the details to some degree.
I do find a certain satisfaction in getting a program working the way I want.
No, Visual Studio, I do not actually want to automatically escape my quotation marks on copy+paste! >_< (I should dig through settings to see if I can turn that off...)
Congrats on getting your Insta back!
Today in AI Is Not A Good Source For Learning About The World's Most Misunderstood Body Part, meet this ChatGPT gem. Funnily enough, we're actually going to talk about how most of this is kinda sorta right (for small values of right), as a cautionary tale about generative AI.
If your industry can't build a product without stealing from artists and writers, then you should be financially ruined.
hello bsky it is my birthday can I get some rts? I like drawing poke gijinka girls and fancy dresses 🙂👉👈💕
That bed is calling out for an army of plushies, if you ask me. 🥰
On top of the world with @humanoidrhett.bsky.social in the Blue Ridge Mountains
This is a really cool use of mirrors.
If they do, now would be a good time to revamp the system. SSNs functioning as username + password is hella stupid and a practice that should've been illegal decades ago.
Do I feel this!
Littering is a crime, right? That's how this makes sense, right?
It honestly feels like his second term has already lasted 4 years. Can we just hold elections again this year and get a real government again? >_<
"Overqualified" is one of the most BS reasons to not hire someone.
I...uh...might've thought this was going to be a joke about Targeting things, maybe something to do with crimes? >_>
It's interesting how much tension in Magic design comes from the word "may". Tournaments like it because it makes missed triggers easier. (You missed it? You just chose not to do it!) Digital doesn't like it because it adds another click that the user has to go through that's generally a "Yes."
Yeah, it does kinda sound like a "I want the magic words to make the AI spit out something that reminds me of your work."
It's amazing how tedious making up numbers is. I'd much rather make up a system to make up the numbers for me, which I have technically done, but these are numbers with vague amounts of narrative significance, so I can't just randomly generate them. >_<
Happy anniversary!
Your joy, like the sunshine, is beautiful. :D
My hair is longer than it's ever been, which means I'm getting all sorts of new experiences, like feeling it on my shoulders, having to pull it out of my shirt collar, it assaulting my face in the wind, and it occasionally finding its way into my mouth while I'm eating somehow.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh why did it have to end at episode 11?!?!?! It really felt like there was supposed to be more?!?! Why isn't there at least the customary episode 12?!?!
The big photo feels like it was taken right before the model blows the hair off of her mouth. ^_^
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bji... Did this video make me tear up? Yup, it sure did!
Oh, hey, one of my @guildwars2.com characters just had their 13th birthday!
It's so tender.
For some reason, our upside-down ketchup bottle's anti-leak valve thing has a really high pressure calibration. What this means is that when you finally do apply enough pressure to the bottle to get ketchup to come out, it REALLY comes out. It's kind of scary how aggressive it is.
That sounds like one way to get your adrenaline pumping!
I really like the move to two-sided tokens. #MagicTheGathering This message inspired by putting a bunch of older tokens away. I'm especially glad we consistently have tokens instead of ad cards sometimes showing up instead! (Art cards were sort of neat, but also a token is more useful.)
They feel excited to get in the water. :D
with @markwilesphoto.bsky.social
Medli, how do you feel about heights
Nothing has made me more familiar with the alphabet than putting Magic cards away... (This is because I alphabetize them when I put them in my boxes. It makes it a lot easier to find them again later, but wow, is it a lot more work on the front end!)
It was a little confusing at first. Overall, I don't have a strong feeling one way or another.
I love it when water looks like glass. 🤩
Of course not, you're wrapping it around your head! 😜 It is a really pretty piece of fabric, though. I love the framing and use of distance in the first photo in particular.
I really appreciated the perspective shared in this article.
Two-way Post shoot loveliness with @wianamodel.bsky.social
So how many people are using Energy Chamber to charge up their spacecraft? #MTG #MagicTheGathering #EdgeOfEternities
Museums are, almost definitionally, about the past, not the future. 🤦♂️ I mean, that's obviously not the worst part here, but...like...has he ever even stepped foot in a museum? Ugh!