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Excited to announce that I’ve accepted a contract as a remote consultant for Magic’s Play Design team. Magic has been a major part of my life for 25 years and getting to touch it in some small way is a tremendous honor.
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Activision worked my whole studio crunch hours for a year and then laid everyone off a week after launch and strangely no new jargon emerged to describe what happened.
A new trend in the workplace: "ghosting." As in, employees just leave for a new job without telling anyone at the old job. They just don't come back. Caused by a strong economy and weak social skills.
Great story by
@DPAQreports
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A country in which a popular protection is overturned by a panel of 9 unelected judges appointed for life, 4 of whom were nominated by presidents who lost the popular vote, and all of whom were confirmed through an anti-democratic senate is not a democracy, republic, or adjacent.
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[at a bar]
“What do you do?”
“I’m a game designer.”
“That’s awesome, what’s the most famous game you worked on?”
“Probably Magic.”
“Sick. I used to play that game when I was a kid. I had this sick deck…[proceeds to describe Phage Reanimator for seven minutes]”
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Have started medication and treatment for depression, anxiety, and PTSD after a brief hospitalization a few months ago. Doing better/worse in ways. No reason to say anything except that seeing posts like this made me feel less alone and I think people feel alone right now, so.
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"This piece of cardboard with rules text in a game I play with my friends shouldn't cost $600; that's obscene. It should cost around $400."
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The comments are a reminder that every proto-fascist roman statue profile pic mourning the collapse of western civilization is just a Comic Book Guy troglodyte.
"And Aragorn gave it a new name and called it Andúril, Flame of the West."
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I believe that proof of vaccination should be mandatory to attend SCGCon.
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remember this the next time someone scolds you for not liking a decision because its “good for wotc”—this is being managed from above as a profit extraction widget with no art or history behind it, and future seismic changes are far more likely to be bad for you than good
@KairiSawler
If we didn't do anything, draft boosters were going away. This whole change was to save drafting (and other limited formats).
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Setting aside the financial implications, the time, effort, talent, and passion it takes to Q for Worlds is incredible, and to wash one’s hands of it in the interest of the greater good is a remarkable display of character.
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Being blackballed from coverage is one thing but finding out I wasn't their first choice to shake down someone at their house is very disappointing.
Wizards of the Coast raids YouTuber’s house to take back Magic: The Gathering cards:
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Proud to say I’m no longer receiving money from this psychopath.
Proud to say I unsubbed from
@TheResleevables
Patreon over this. Patrick's comment was so beyond the pale, I cannot possibly continue to support an endeavor he is involved with. Absolutely shameful display.
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Hard to describe seeing posts from friends, former colleagues, professional acquaintances, who worked on something people love, who cared, and who by all accounts contributed to record profits, sacrificed at the alter of Endless Growth two weeks before the holidays.
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Wish we could reserve the term "price gouging" for things like food and insulin and not things like Scalding Tarns with new art.
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Whatever the future is of MTG, coverage, etc., I think we had a pretty good run. I’m not the type to be “proud” of paid work but the outpouring of love has been affirming and very much appreciated.
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My toddler has shown zero aptitude for tournament Magic until today, when she shrieked “It wasn’t a good game!” at another child during Go Fish.
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100K/yr with no benefits (health insurance, 401K, PTO, employer side SS contribution, etc.) is about a 70K salary gig. If you think someone leveraging their skills to create entertainment and who makes that kind of money is worth of scorn or vitriol, you're a class enemy.
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beyond hysterical to debase yourself like this for months only to run into the reality (known to everyone else the entire time) that you can't win because peepaw thinks you're ISIS, thanks for the memories
There are two genders. And no, a man cannot become a woman.
Iowa, I’m asking for your vote tonight. 🇺🇸
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Having kids isn’t for everyone and its really hard blah blah blah but my middle child is watching football for the first time and without provocation began boo’ing the eagles on each play and if you don’t have kids you’ll never experience this kind of joy.
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Very telling to see reactionaries use narrow legal arguments to defend KR but refer to the protestors as “looters” or “rioters” (legal terms referring to crimes they haven’t been convicted of), as if we can pass judgement on actions and motives beyond what the law prescribes.
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“Converted Mana Cost” converted from what? Please don’t mourn this one.
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This rules
Wow Fuck You
@wizards_magic
for blocking me for complaining about your overpriced product
#mtg
#boardgames
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It can be true at the same time that no one “has to” buy $250 proxy packs and also that many players would prefer to have Magic managed more like a public trust than a profit extraction engine and $250 proxy packs isn’t the behavior of a public trust.
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Worth noting that SCG would have absolutely run the Opens they had scheduled in March/April 2020 that weren’t shuddered due to local restrictions had Cedric not spent an enormous amount of internal capital fighting for broad cancelations pending additional information.
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@EricLevitz
"The American Left is simultaneously powerful enough to throw elections to Republicans by not voting (???) and also so weak that they don't necessitate policy concessions in exchange for their vote" is neither well reasoned nor new and that's why it isn't persuasive.
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Love seeing the word “political” debated at length by people who have never thought about anything even once.
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If you read Alex's note and are moved to sympathize with him then you're a sucker.
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That the greatest American catastrophe of my lifetime would occur not because of endless imperial war or eight people owning half the country but because we couldn’t live without Disney World and fucking Red Robin for a few months is perfection, absolutely flawless art.
Current crowds at the Magic Kingdom for tonight's showing of Happily Ever After...
#DisneyWorld
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This is supposed to be a symbol of non-violent protest by the powerless. To have it co-opted by some of the planet’s most powerful (white) people, people who are actually in a position to do something about it, is so outlandish without even mentioning what they’re wearing.
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If I was discussing, say, keeping a known cheater out of the HOF, or pursuing legal action against someone who stole a backpack, it is literally unimaginable that I would be accused of performative outrage. When discussing sexual assault/harassment, it’s extremely common. (1/2)
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Thanks to the fine folks over at
@_ThoughtSeize_
for apparently tapping into my subconscious and designing a shirt out of my dreams, then mailing me a free one.
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Congrats to Dawson Nackos on winning the Bolts and thank you everyone who contributed—a total of $11,525 for
@DevotedDruid
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"You should write for free", says man who could easily GoFundMe thousands of dollars in exchange for never posting again.
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@shaharshenhar
If this is such an existential threat to “your” survival take a break from your 5/10 game and pick up the spear! The IDF takes volunteers, and you can have some fun putting on blackface and blowing up hospitals, looting underwear drawers, whatever your heart desires really.
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Mentioned in a thread about a week ago that WotC didn’t send me any product on the sets I worked on. They made that shit right, whet my beak, all that.
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I love Hall of Fame season. When else do game’s biggest stars and community figures, past and present, gather around to share stories about how their contemporaries are all pieces of shit?
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One thing to intentionally misinterpret me in an effort to launder your support of genocide through your hurt feelings, another thing to say this. Absolute death cult shit.
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Sorry for my friends who lost their jobs, but this experiment was pretty obviously not working the whole time.
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[Driving past rows and rows of homeless encampments that I’d like my city to bulldoze with a Blue Lives Matter sticker on my car in a country currently bombing the shit out of Yemen for no reason] today, will smith normalized violence in america
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Any “neutral” take of the situation presupposes that Iranian lives are worth less than American, that America has the right to assassinate anyone, anywhere, anytime, station its troops anywhere in perpetuity, and most coverage of this you’ll be exposed to wont even be “neutral”.
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"My politics have not changed in 15 years" is not the own these people seem to think it is.
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@shaharshenhar
Israel doesn’t want the hostages released, would remove the one thing they can sort of point to as justification for the genocide they’re perpetrating.
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Sorry but if they are serious they need to run someone else. No one is going to talk about anything else other than "senile genocider" between now and the election, and once they pump Trump with enough steroids and bronzer he's going to dogwalk him all over the debate stage.
BREAKING: White House confirms Biden will not take a cognitive test as part of his upcoming physical exam.
Biden will be first U.S President in history to refuse a cognitive test.
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I will reiterate that I think proof of vaccination should be required for SCG events, especially the ones at the Valley Forge casino jesus christ.
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Like father like son—just hanging out, sweating his favorite pros
@CedricAPhillips
@MighyLinguine
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guy who was on enough gas to perform like Wolverine has concerns around fairness in sports
Is there not a world in which one can be supportive of the transgender community and curious about the fairness of Trans athletes in sport yet not be labeled a transphobe or a bigot as we ask questions? Do we yet know the answers? And do we even want to know the answers?
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To help my beloved
@DevotedDruid
with her I’m raffling off my Beta Bolts, signed by Christopher Rush, same ones that ripped Merriam’s soul out of his body. $1 a slot buy as many slots as you like. PayPal—psulli81
@yahoo
venmo
@patrick
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“I believe Todd.”
“I’m not sure what you mean; Todd’s apology doesn’t actually deny anything happened.”
“I mean obviously what I meant by that is women just lie 100% of the time.”
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Shoutout to Yang. Disagreed with a lot of his platform, but he was one of exactly two candidates whose campaign was motivated by trying to speak to the material interests of the working class, and animating people who are alienated. Would love to have his Gang working with us.
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Incredible politics on display—the people this is intended to mollify will never believe you while at the same time infuriating your base. Dem 4D chess at its finest.
Biden: "I want to be very clear – this is not about taking away anyone's guns. It's not about vilifying gun owners. In fact, we believe we should be treating responsible gun owners as an example of how every gun owner should behave. I respect the culture and the tradition."
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Not the most artful photo but here is my just-completed set of Arabian Nights. Thanks to
@ToaMichael
for a lot of the heavy lifting and
@TheResleevables
for reminding me how much I love this stuff. Maybe Antiquities next?
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scratch a centrist data guy find a race scientist
@TheStalwart
That's because you're actually a smart person instead of a weird academic and so you understand that capitalism works because it reflects human nature as selected for through thousands of generations of evolution.
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They would not have been okay with it if I was a girl, and I would not have been welcomed at the first place if I was black. So when people talk about “merit”, keep in mind that my career was subsidized by a bunch of shit I can’t control, and continues to be.
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Since Owen’s conduct was made possible in large part due to his fame, supporting him through signal-boosting is particularly grotesque.
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Maybe too outside the box but an option to fill vacated MPL slots would be to hold a tournament of some kind.
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Its hard to know for sure but my best guess is that the best things Magic has given me would be very hard to replace with something else and the worst would have been very easy to replace with something else.
What percentage of your potential/life has been wasted because of Magic or your addiction to it/the lifestyle? Honest question.
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Lastly, what Cedric did was really brave. Canceling the shows cost him money in the short term, on top of whatever happened to his long term relationship with SCG. He did it because he thought it was the right thing to do. He'll never talk about it in these terms but I will.
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Sheldon was indefatigably positive and kind even as his body betrayed him at an early age, and humble in spite of his enormous impact. He will be missed. I already miss him.
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I’ve probably said some version of this before but I wish the powers-that-be would stop viewing cheating through the lens of criminal rehabilitation and more through the lens of addressing addiction. These people literally can not stop.
why are cheaters allowed at worlds? i watched a known cheater who was knocked out of worlds cheat an opponent in a win-a-box side event, opportunistically because his opponent was new to the game. shameful to cheat in a tiny event after being outed already once before
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Turns out free speech is a really complicated subject and anyone talking about it in absolute terms is either full of shit or working you and if you take an litigious, union-busting oligarch's commitment to it at face value you're a fucking rube, nice to put a bow on top of this.
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FAQ: I no longer work for DWD. Nothing but positive experiences and I wish them all the best. Still doing all the same stuff with SCG, though I’ll be on the shelf for a little while with another kid on the way. Contracting for some other studios as well, trying to bet on myself.
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At some point the Democratic Party decided to value money more than voters like me, and I do not consider it a moral failing to let them live with that choice.
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Anyone trying to “back in my day” grinders talking about mental health, etc.—we definitely weren’t okay in 2003, only difference is the abuse and trauma (on both “sides”) was fetishized instead discussed openly. I think the ecosystem is worse for mental health now, too.
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I don’t care if Splicer over Channel/Elspeth over Crypt is “bad” or not. It is cool when someone good ignores convention and wins. If everyone good agrees on all plays, picks, deck choices, etc., isn’t that really boring? Why would you want to watch something like that?
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Spent the morning digging around for SCG Baltimore. Will be fun to dust off the dome shots one last time.
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The difference in responses to the categories above isn’t because of unique differentiating characteristics of each, but rather a reflection of what parts of the community consider to be serious. It is like this because a lot of dudes don’t give a shit.
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Unions exist to fight capital. Police use state-sanctioned violence to defend capital. A "police union" is more analogous to an organized crime syndicate than to a collection of teachers or electricians.
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I hope there aren’t any internal conversations about seeing if Modern can “adapt” to Oko or whatever. I don’t think the format can and I don’t think the puzzle of “solving” it is particularly interesting, either. Nothing to be learned or gained here; please ban and move on.
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The future of sports in a society where all notion of legitimacy has collapsed and only spectacle remains. We’re maybe 10 years away from a PPV of a blue check teenage Fortnite streamer getting beaten to death by a gorilla.
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lots of these ambassador posts read like if a 25mg ssri could talk
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When Smith talked of “The Invisible Hand”, as an example he meant “hedge fund has a 140% short position, position goes upside down, institution injects money into hedge fund, trading app with ties to aforementioned institution then prevents certain trades hostile to hedge fund”
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People try to use this neutral and sacred language when defending "political beliefs" when their position is actually something closer to "I don't mind someone being transphobic if I like their art" because saying that out loud makes you sound like a jackass to most people.
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My two-year-old came bounding across the yard, grinning ear-to-ear, and exclaimed “I caught a ladybug!”, then revealed a fistful of dead ants.
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"Look, you can hate the guy all you want, but you shouldn't be rooting for them to get hurt" is analysis for professional wrestlers, not fulcrums of money and power.
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Look, I know everyone says hedge funds are nine or ten figure monoliths with a fiduciary responsibility to maximize profits even at the long-term expense of a corporation they ostensibly have a position in but what if I like one of the guys involved?
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Abstractly, PWs do three awesome things.
1) Center the game around creature combat.
2) Dynamic permanent with multiple options.
3) Concludes games that are struggling to end and have gone on for a while.
If they are systemically failing at the above, that’s a card file issue.
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The problem with the question isn’t that it has a non-intuitive or “trick” answer, but that it has exactly zero to do with being an effective designer. Removing 75% of your applicants at random is better than giving this weight.
Throwback to the most ridiculous answer from the Great Designer Search 3. I didn't make it past the multiple choice portion because of this question lol.
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It is hard to know for sure of course, but I suspect apologists/supporters of previous genocides didn't whine to the referees this much.
I grew up in an 🇺🇸 where, “we dont negotiate with terrorists!”
Since it’s become,“we don’t negotiate with terrorists.. unless they show us proof of life”
And now, has it really turned into, “nah, let’s just give them what they want, then we can negotiate..
#ReleaseTheHostages
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Why protest at the house of a Supreme Court justice? Just vote them out.
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The way you treat your staff and potential hires is more representative of your politics than the content you choose to publish.
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When I see photos of massacred children I can’t help but imagine my own, and the idea that some act of vengeance would be worth killing children is so depraved I can’t my head around it.
If someone said "The person who killed your father and kidnapped your mother is hiding in a house that has six kids in it. You understand why we can't do anything, right?" You probably would not take that well.
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A new product that's goofy and might actually be fun instead of arbitraging the secondary market for the millionth time? Well I'm pissed.
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@Billtriesagain
I don’t mean to speak for the room but I can “afford” it (whatever that means) and so can a lot of my friends and we all think it sucks.
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