I love this kind of stuff where people bend office work programs to do things way beyond what they were designed for.
I love this kind of stuff where people bend office work programs to do things way beyond what they were designed for.
These kinds of gadgets fascinate me. They were only useful for a short period of time before something else came along and obsoleted them. The Telharmonium was like this as well.
Horny instances have the best names.
I’m a fan of Dubmood’s Atari ST cover of Second Reality.
I was struggling to figure out how to express another problem, but I just thought of how to say it. This deeply entrenches metagaming into the game’s formats, since competitive players will even more greatly want to keep secret strategies in their pockets so the wider scene only finds out after they’ve already reaped the benefits.
Basically, it’s the Magic version of arbitrage. Everyone in Modern is sleeping on Séance, so you keep quiet about your Séance brew until it’s Pro Tour time and you get to cheese wins with an undercosted Séance.
Tangent time! During Pro Tour Amonkhet, there was a cheesy WU snake deck in draft. Some of the competitors expected Slither Blade to be badly underpicked, so forced decks full of those and Trials of Solidarity. It worked. Once this archetype went public, it stopped working because people were actually trying to pick that snake now. As far as I know, there was no other deck for Slither Blade, so this was basically insider metagame trading.
Okay, okay, paragraphs. I know you said this was about more than just Magic, but I don’t have enough confidence in my game design or macroeconomics knowledge to say anything insightful in that regard. I mean, some board games have auctions.
One obvious problem would be that some cards are good no matter the cost. I’m going to reanimate an Emrakul even if the card costs 40 mana. Manaless dredge will still be manaless.
In some formats, this would be an excessively obtuse ban list. Obviously oversimplifying, if anything with mana value 4 or higher is utterly unplayable in Modern, any popular cards that “price out” is effectively just banned. People are playing Llanowar Elves to hit 3 mana on turn 2 for a Stone Rain or something. If the price of either changes, whether up or down, that just kills the point of trying to play them.
Could this work in a game that’s explicitly designed around live market prices? Yeah, I’m sure NFT games are ready for their comeback :P.
And now, I present without comment that time Valve tried dynamic pricing in Counter-Strike: Source and people could spam buy cheap guns until the server crashed.
You could have been on countless nano-hops to the sun throughout your entire life and have never realized.
I believe the first one that was electric and roughly similar to today’s was installed there.
Newgrounds is dead serious about preserving its content, even with the death of Flash. Ruffle, the Flash emulator, was created by a former employee and Newgrounds is a major sponsor of the project. The most important movies have been converted to video as well.
When Newgrounds adopted high-resolution thumbnails about a decade and a half ago, there was a big volunteer campaign to recreate thumbnails for the entire back catalogue of the portal.
Thanks to Ruffle, people can and are still submitting Flash content to the portal, in addition to web-friendly content!
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Given the other suggestions next to it, I don’t think they want you to take it seriously.
Strictly mechanically, it’s pie-compliant. Just because no card like that was printed prior to that Great Designer Search quiz doesn’t mean it’s a break. As a comparison, flying trample is typically mono-black, but there’s no issue with those two abilities on a blue-green creature; blue provides the flying and trample provides the green.
Oh, hey.
(2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, and 31 are prime numbers.)
Proper Quandrix representation
You’re gonna chant on the offbeats, right?
My personal “See Also” section to this is the casse-croûte, which doesn’t have an article on English Wikipedia*. It’s a common fixture of fast food in the French-speaking parts of Canada. It’s basically a tiny fast food restaurant, typically with room only for the kitchen and it serves customers out a window or tiny counter or similar.
I don’t know how much it impacts the narrative, but for many decades, street food was illegal in Montreal. It was only legalized in the 10s. The casse-croûte was a cheap way to have what are basically permanent food trucks in the city of Montreal, and it’s still common today across francophone Canada, in cities and by the highway.
Bonus “See Also”: the history and origins of the diner restaurant. It’s pretty interesting.
* Maybe it should.
I loved this back when it was new. I still remember the lyrics off the top of my head!
Stuff like this and Acquiring Potatoes existed in a critical time period when over-edited dubstep montages were still cool.
It made my teeth positively glow!
Man, just abolish pennies already
What’s a human?
In Abraham Lincoln’s day, everyone just rocket jumped to get to the second floor!