Wizards of the Coast.

The jitte and sai serve similar combat roles, but the jitte is more traditionally Japanese and hence a weapon Splinter would be more familiar with.

What this doesn’t explain is how the executive branch could do this. Not that scientific fact should be “up for the vote” by any branch of government, but it’s just extra weird that these folks oct like they’re the ones laying out the law.

I’ve got to pin this so I can refer to it later.

I’ve got to say that this part.

After signing up for “The Internet Phone Book”, Metalabel has been sending me emails about some “Dark Forest Operating System” project they’ve been working on with no indication whether it’ll be FOSS-friendly in any way. Today, Siiky posted about Willow Protocol.

Which seems to be a thousand times better implementation of that same idea.

I loved Heiyanko Alien off a Game Boy multicart an a kid and revisit it from time to time and always have a good time; I never knew that it actually predated Lode Runner and Pac-Man.

It plays as a clever combination of both. My favorite (and most played) maze-chase game is Clu-Clu Land, which I didn’t grow up with, I found it ten years back. Other beloved maze-chase games I still replay are Power Racer, Tasmanian Story, Devil World, and the aforementioned Pac-Man and Lode Runner. All of them I did play all the time back then but with Clu-Clu Land I’ve stacked up so many more plays since I love it so much. Just love the cozy fish vibes and the deliberately mindmeldy controls.

For the PlayStation, here’s an ambitious fix of some issues with FFIX’s fighting system.

Here’s a remix of FFVI that’s supposedly okay to start with even if I haven’t played FFVI before. Fixes some bugs and makes the game more thinky, supposedly.

I’m playing the DS remake of Final Fantasy IV right now (belatedly after getting a big spoiler from the Magic card for Cecil) and it made me curious to check out if the SNES versions had any fun romhacks and yes!

This turns FFIV into an open world game. But I’d better finish the story normally first.

Radiodokumentär från i morse där barn berättar om deras upplevelser av antisemitism i vardagen.

I lived through the homophobia of the 70s through 00s and “eww it’s unnatural” was as common and tedious a refrain then as it is now against our trans friends.

Whenever I hear people talk about “basic biology” or “nature” or “common sense” in order to bind the outgroup, this comes to mind.

a doctrine at war with nature

That is what it sounds like.

I know, I know—comparing struggles is gauche but when the rhetoric is a xeroxed mad lib that sounds as wrong now as it did then, I can’t help it. I’m not equating the magnitude of the oppression or denying that the African diaspora holds an exceptional place in American history through our modern day. (Not trying to be like that dumb novel that was like “catholics were the real Holocaust victims”.) The comparison to this unambiguously wrongheaded historical text is a tasteless one but brings with it the comfort that in future hindsight, this might be how all those “it’s just common sense, it’s just basic biology” boot stompers are gonna sound.

Some folks in the dumb phone community linked to Against the Machine and I thought that sounded great but immediately the red flag of “humanity requires a connection to land and herititade” made me look a li’l deeper and yikes.

Jag tycker det här är för lite.

Jag är ännu mer mot falsk balans än vad dom är och jag tycker det är mycket viktigare med fakta än “balans”. Hela texten känns självmotsägande. En av rubrikerna är “opartiskhet = balans” till exempel.

Curiosity is 40 card set-constructed (it’s not BYOB; every deck in the tournament needs to come from the same set) with three singleton rares, eight two-of uncommons, and the rest three-of commons. It’s not clear to me whether you’re allowed to have fewer rares and uncommons. Either way I love it. This is what I’ve been looking for for a long time. I’ve had the idea of singleton rares, two-of uncommons for many years (inspired by the old Wizard’s Chess format from The Duelist.

I’d love to play fifth edition Curiosity. I don’t have nearly the same nostalgia for 5th as I do for revised and 4th so I’d be using other printings but the cardpool is huge. Or even better: 4e+Chronicles or other old sets like Ice Age, Mirage, or Tempest. I mean I would love to. (I’m just so incredibly off constructed right now. The feelbad when losing is just so much worse with constructed. But with these lower-budget formats maybe there’s more room for experimentation.)

I know I said the other day that I don’t wanna play constructed Magic anymore, and that’s still true, I’m not getting swayed by these two new formats but I’m sure getting tempted!

Value Vintage is like Vintage (same banned/restricted list) with the added limit that the cards can only cost $30 total. You look at the cheapest printing on TCG Player so you can still use your bling SLD printings. I love how it’s sorta like Canlander but the point list is dynamic—the more popular a card is, the more points it automatically takes up in your deck.

XKCDs temperaturtidslinje.

För om klimatet brakar är det nåt bortom allt mänskligheten nånsin ställts inför.

Ja jo men vi måste också bromsa ökningen så mkt som möjligt även när den är över. Blir så trött på collapsology när foten fortfarande är på gaspedalen. Som komplement till att försöka stoppa? Ja absolut. Men som “lösning” är det skrämmande optimistiskt. Påminner mig om den där gamla “Tryggare kan ingen vara”–serien där dom försöker skydda sig mot nukes med en lutad dörr.

I need to save this for future reference. Daring Fireball linked to it and it lays things out so clearly.

Some folks very kindly put up a French version of the blorb principles.