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RethinkJeff

@RethinkJeff@mastodon.social

I like talking to people about stuff. He/Him

Magic: the Gathering, Game Design/Dev, TTRPGs, Data Science, Programming.

Occasional youtube content: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVctSZNVYpwlTDFATooPXww

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iquaanyin, to random
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whoa https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20211112-the-people-with-immune-amnesia

RethinkJeff,
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@iquaanyin Covid does the same thing : /

RethinkJeff, to random
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One of the most personally frustrating things about twitter falling apart is that content creators are willing to move basically anywhere but the platform where that's not going to happen again.

RethinkJeff, to MagicTheGathering
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There are so many cool events coming up that are laser targeted at my wife, but we can't go because people don't want to act like there's still an enormous pandemic going on. 3% of the American population has covid! At one time! That's an absolute trashfire of a number!

RethinkJeff, to MagicTheGathering
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MTG intro!

Started playing in: 1996
First Pre-Release: Zendikar
Favorite format: Memes in anything, but also Heritage: http://thtourneys.com/
Favorite card: Loam stuff, though probably actually Bolt
Playstyle: Midrange/tempo
Guild: Golgari
Shard/Wedge: Junk
Plane: Alara!
MTGO/ARENA Avatar: BoP
Fun MTG Fact About Me: For ~2 years you could predict the modern meta in 8 months by what people were playing in my shop.

RethinkJeff, to MagicTheGathering
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Fiddling with this: https://archidekt.com/decks/5181303

psychicparrot42, to random
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A bit of context for the rally / WRC stuff I’ve been waffling about this morning.. https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/hybrid-ditched-as-part-of-major-wrc-regulation-change/

RethinkJeff,
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@psychicparrot42 Thanks! I grew up around racing culture but the connections died by the time I became a functional adult, it'll be fun to get back into it!

RethinkJeff,
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@psychicparrot42 I don't know how to watch rally, but I love the sport. My hope is that people start recognizing the benefits of electric on performance and capability convinces folks it's a good thing.

18+ Artemis201, to mtg
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sigh
Oh look. Modern Horizons 3 cards are getting revealed and there's another "free spells" cycle. I'm really getting tired of this

  1. WOTC has admitted that one of the primary features of overpowered cards is free/cost reduction
  2. If they put out a new "free" cycle every summer, it really gets tiring. How long until you can build a whole (bad) deck out of free cards?
  3. Of course it's the obligatory free blue counterspell. At least the other colors have variety.
RethinkJeff,
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@Artemis201 I do think these are more fair than other free spells because you have to sac a non-token, but arboreal grazer into free cultivate seems good lol.

psychicparrot42, to random
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    RethinkJeff,
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    @psychicparrot42 The answer is probably find someone with a flat hosting fee and just have them deal with all the network shit :p

    Artemis201, (edited ) to MagicTheGathering
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    Are you planning on getting the upcoming set?

    RethinkJeff,
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    @Artemis201 An example of the weird disconnect I see when people talk about set boosters is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn4f9zhH5G0 . Even though he eventually goes on to give the product an A-, almost all of the descriptions of set boosters are framed in a negative light.

    RethinkJeff,
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    @Artemis201 Cards are too cheap for LGS's to make money on them, and while I think 7 card booster packs are a bad way to try and increase singles value, I certainly don't fault them for trying it out. I imagine it'll get a poor response similar to set boosters, in spite of a (probable, more information as it arrives) higher card quality to pack ratio.

    RethinkJeff,
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    @Artemis201 Maybe it was just my particular circle, but I saw so many people complain about set boosters. About price, about number of cards in packs, about the inclusion of list cards(?!?). I'm personally angry about the move to play boosters, because the set booster was just that incredible, but basically all the chatter I saw was mad about them, and excited about them going away in favor of the play booster.

    RethinkJeff,
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    @Artemis201 This confirms for me it's a personal circle thing lol, because all of the LGS owner conversations I was a part of was me explaining how they product was better haha. I even see people complaining about how Play Boosters are too close to set boosters, and /shrug. Long live the set booster T_T.

    Wanderbot, to random
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    Tried out Tribes of the Wind tonight and thought it was neat? A bit hard to learn at first, but tons of cool ideas.

    It's not exactly a point engine game, but you really have to choose what cards you play to maximize value every turn that evokes similar feelings.

    Great art too!

    A player's Tribes of the Wind gameplay tableau.

    RethinkJeff,
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    @Wanderbot Have you tried Flotilla? It's in a similar genre and also, yes please give me more kthx.

    psychicparrot42, to random
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    Wowwww setting up Unreal's enhanced input system in C++ was a pain. Why isn't it added to the build settings by default, since they're demanding we use it over the old one? Makes no sense to me.

    RethinkJeff,
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    @psychicparrot42 My best guess is there's some weird, ancient dependency issue somewhere that compiles strangely because gcc optimizes something in a way that breaks things.

    unormal, to random
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    game where you start really powerful and lose powers the whole way until your just a smol bean at the very end

    RethinkJeff,
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    @unormal I have a pitch for this! Metroidvania based on replayability where you start with X number of senses/tools, and in order to kill bosses you have to give one up. Means different methods of traversal are available to you, changes routes, etc.

    RethinkJeff, to MagicTheGathering
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    Question for : I want to do a set review for OTJ, and I was wondering if there was a website that just put cards up on the screen where I can arrow key through them, because I am terrible at editing. If not, I'll just use scryfall, (and maybe scryfall even has this feature I just can't see!).

    RethinkJeff, to MagicTheGathering
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    Hey if you give me a scryfall link to a non french-vanilIa I will give you an absolutely unhinged take about about that card.

    psychicparrot42, to random
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    RethinkJeff,
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    @psychicparrot42 hashtag contractor life.

    psychicparrot42, to gamedev
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    RethinkJeff,
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    @psychicparrot42 I've been thinking about radial menus too lately! ADHD brain got stuck on splitting sprites though :p

    glassbottommeg, to Games
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    So the Dragonsplague mechanic in Dragons Dogma 2 is invisible, (I think) progressive, transmissible between pawns, and can only be cured by killing the pawn

    Which leads to a logical conclusion: at the first sign of disobedience, I throw my entire party off the tallest bridge into the ocean

    RethinkJeff,
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    @glassbottommeg Knowing nothing about DD2, this might be a weird AD&D/TTRPG thing. There's a lot of classic modules that deal with how do you handle something like this? And D&D in Japan is not what it is in the States, so it wouldn't surprise me to see some of the old tropes come back. (And that the expectation is that some number of people will make this choice, and be judged for it later)

    RethinkJeff,
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    @glassbottommeg I don't have insight into why they'd keep it, just that it feels like some early 90's D&D stuff. Maybe executive interference?

    Artemis201, (edited ) to mtg
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    Excuse me? AshiokJace?

    RethinkJeff,
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    @Artemis201 I appreciate them trying to get MV2 planeswalkers to work, but "You can't cast this spell when you already don't want to" isn't the limiting text they think it is here lol. The plot +1 is incredible though!

    JenYetAgain, to random
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    I haven't listened to it yet but apparently Tycho (the PA writer not the astronomer) went on Haus of Decline's podcast to discuss queer themes in PA and that seems potentially fascinating. https://hausofdecline.com/episodes/1/1920856

    RethinkJeff,
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    @Cher @JenYetAgain They ran PAX for about the first decade of it existing. And were the largest gaming comic, especially post CAD meltdown. They knew people in the industry before knowing people in the industry was something people aspired to. They don't have any perceived iconography, because their iconography became the culture. Sorry, and maybe I'm just old, but even if you don't like PA, basically all of modern gaming culture exists in some part because of it.

    RethinkJeff,
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    @JenYetAgain @Cher I'm not saying other things didn't exist, but nothing has the cultural pull that PA did. And things they did and set up still affect us today. Actual plays, the idea of indie games press, extra life, a lot of their smaller campaigns. You can see their influence in basically everything. Whether or not they deserve it another conversation, but they had office space in downtown Seattle before PAX, and that was a big deal.

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