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Shawn "Fruan" Poulsen
@Fruan@kind.social
mastodon 4.7.3Useless lump somewhere in the vicinity of Ōtautahi/Christchurch, New Zealand.
#MagicTheGathering shitposter and terrible idea have-er
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Joined December 17, 2022
Born:
1981
Died:
tbd
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He/Him/They
“Be masculine, be feminine, be both, or be neither. But be kind”
https://youtube.com/shorts/LZhS_GTGWFI
Educating haters (again)
I'm probably not breaking new ground here, but LLMs have made it very clear to me that there are broadly two ways that people approach performing a task - people who want the task done well, and people who want the status of having done the task.
LLMs are really appealing to that second group, because it lets you get the status of being a book-writer or app-publisher or whatever without all that tedious writing or programming.
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@rmi And if you try to point out that “Time Machine” is a terrible name for the sharpied up cardboard box they’re selling, some humourless chucklefuck will say “But it travels into the future at one second per second, stop spreading misinformation”
Praying to Heliod that the Echoverse version of Gideon is a lazy, mean and shortsighted bully leading a pathetic little gang in the dirty streets of Akros, and that maybe Jace has to grapple with the idea that heroes get forged by their experiences.
#MagicTheGathering
Today I cast a Toxic Deluge for 26. You will be unsurprised to learn that I did not win that game.
Great news - the devs behind Mtg Arena are unionizing!
They have an open letter to WotC laying out the details, and inviting WotC and Hasbro to recognize the union voluntarily. Everyone who spends money with WotC should put pressure on them to accept this, imo.
https://unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/letter
#MagicTheGathering #MtG #MtGArena #WotC #Hasbro
Scryfall is on point today.
(They're on point every day)
A comedian’s most sacred duty is to hold a mirror up to the world, and this mirror should have a hidden squeezy bulb full of water so you can squirt people when they look in it.
I am a master of the sacred art of talking myself out of running a card in the time between ordering it and it arriving.
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(Was this incredibly stupid idea inspired by the Friday Nights playmat signed by the members of @LoadingReadyRun@kind.social that I’m too afraid to take to FNM in case someone spills something on it? Yes!)
Prior to today, I thought Mr Beast just made bad content for children. Thanks to Dan Olsen, I now know Mr Beast is bad at making bad content for children. Like really really bad at his actual literal job. I don't know why this was a surprise, now that I think about it.
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@alice@lgbtqia.space Honestly somewhat surprised the bill doesn't mandate wearing a marker on an armband when out in public. I guess that's still just a little too on the nose for them.
Attention pranksters! Due to disruption of international supply chains, April Fools Day this year is CANCELED.
We are hoping that a return to normal in the international comedy markets may allow us to reschedule a day of pranks for early May, but this remains far from certain. We will keep you updated!
Oh dear. I seem to have blundered into Christchurch without realising there’s some sort of huge Rugby match on this evening. I’m sure public transport will cope, right? … right?
Zimone: Chandra, I did the math and it proves you're not crazy!
Chandra: Fucking finally, this is the first time I have ever cared about math.
While I cannot (yet) claim to have read every book Seanan McGuire has written, Omens of Chaos is the most Seanan McGuire book I've ever read.
It has weird pets, traumatic upbringings, lying to authorities, a masquerade ball and a mermaid.
It's beautiful and perfect.
If you nap in a dream you nap in real life.
A rising tide floods all ports.
Trying to be funny is like trying to pull teeth: pliers help.
The Secrets of Strixhaven story is doing something actually very clever - It's not really about Strixhaven the way the set is about Strixhaven. The story is more about weird things happening on Arcavios as a prelude to Reality Fracture.
This is actually really cool post-block storytelling, and I'm really digging it. The only fly in the ointment is that Reality Fracture doesn't come out for 6 months, which makes the lead in feel much worse.
It's important to slow down and take the time to enjoy the simple things in life - like laying in bed doomscrolling until 3am.
Oooop! Omen of Chaos ebook is here, time to go read it all immediately.
What are the theological implications of the Daylight Saving shift happening during Easter? Could we end up out of sync with Jesus?
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I'm given to understand there's a similar trick in illustration - turn your reference upside down, and you'll draw it how it really looks, not just how you thought it did. I'm don't have personal familiarity with that one, so I might be misrepresenting it.
I've had this running through my head non-stop for a week:
Tiny Little Lip Balm
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@keysaunt I think both ideas are super cool, and either would be fantastic additions to the craft-along, but from a purely mercenary standpoint I feel that the Silksong design would pull in more donations.
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@dunny0@kind.social I mean, I tried to word it to avoid that trope as much as possible, yeah, sorta, yeah.
RE: @archaeohistories@ohai.social
The piss-yellow filter on Leonardo's original is how you can tell it's AI /s
Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein might have permanently rewired my brain.
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@petrosophia@caw.corbode.com Ok, I've been thinking about this for three hours, and I have some corrections for my first attempt:
1: Bonum is singular, you probably want the plural, Bona.
2: While Struere is probably the verb to use here, to capture the essence of the english phrase we probably want it in the imperative, which...
3: I do not remember enough Latin to actually do this.
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@GrimDeck@mastodon.social This is NOT TRUE. As of a 2020 rules update, commanders go to a zone as normal before their own gets to decide if they get whisked off to the Command Zone.
Here's a quick summary article, again from FIVE YEARS AGO. https://www.mtggoldfish.com/articles/new-commander-death-trigger-rules-change-commander-quickie
Squen and Cragg forever. Ten thousand years of Squen and Cragg.
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@masklayer@slime.global Better not draw anyone in high-heels; they’d be dangerously close to having advertising unfriendly knee configurations!
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@fivetonsflax The title is aspirational. That's why they're so desperate to sell the motorcycles.
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@adrian@discuss.systems I am reminded of the story of how the great Steve Wozniak was extremely pleased with himself after securing the phone number 888-8888 only to realise that toddlers would often grab phones and mash a button…