Brandon

@emidln.com

Programming and Magic (The Gathering). he/him

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Ice cold HogWater!

I tried to give @magic.wizards.com $240 today but they wouldn't take my money. Would have happily bought $$$$ worth of boxes of this Zeta set, even with 7 card packs, because it looks fun to draft and has nostalgic cards. I haven't seen anything else worth buying from wotc this year.

Played some Old School mtg today. Went 3-2 losing my last round at the end of time during Chaos Orb flips (no draws in EC Old School).

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Top8'd the @themanavault.bsky.social December Legacy 1K with Turbo Doomsday. I think Fluster might not be good enough without Reanimator around, and Hide On the Ceiling should be Sheoldreds. I suspect the format is fast enough I want to cut the 2nd Surveil land and a fetch for the 4th sea.

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Finished 3rd place out of 108 at the @BcdLegacy win a Mox Jet open. On 3 hours of sleep pretty happy with my performance. Shout out to @ecobaronen for the list and notes. Good for 2 really clean tropical islands.

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The biggest endorsement I can make for Bluesky is that replacing Twitter with this app on my phone probably improved my general mood when I’m on my phone by 20-25%. I know there are better reasons but it is what it is!

4Chan was hacked, its source code was leaked, admin emails were leaked, AND a lot of registered users used their real names and .edu email addresses. Lotta CHUDs getting exposed to sunlight today.

For those that don't have twitter now, LavaOx did a breakdown of the cheating allegations and feature matches of Connor Pattinson, who was disqualified in the Top 8 of the NRG Series $10,000 Standard Show last Saturday in Madison. #mtg #nrgmad docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Connor Pattinson Cheating Breakdown

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You ever forget `do {} while ()` exists while writing c++? Happened to me. Used goto instead and...it was fine I guess. Same with std::bitset, I forgot about it. I should spend more time actually writing c++ so I don't make silly mistakes and then I won't have to explain bit twiddling during review.

It was a sad day today. I deleted my tweets, likes, and friends on the app formerly known as Twitter. Oh I saved an archive first, but I manually deleted the few hundred accounts I had followed and have tried to migrate the follows to mastodon or bsky. Like finding an old diary, the bad and the good

My vintage maindeck is completely borderless now. Might start working on getting those factory borderless cards replaced with painted copies.

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Preprocessor embed is in C++26. You can go bother your vendors to put it in. The offset parameter may make it through as well, meaning it will go in fully complete and not need a second standards revision to patch the offset(3) parameter in. It's finally, truly, over.

Look I agree that Elon Musk appears to be on a lot of drugs every time he appears in public. That's not very interesting to me. I'm more interested in how many drugs he can do at once. I think he could probably do more than anyone ever. I bet he could take way more than the doctors say is safe.

I've been writing a lot of Clojure lately, for the first time in 7 years. It's amazing to the speed of retit+mali, but I miss the aesthetics of compojure-api and schema. 1/2

Premodern 1K is coming up this weekend in Milwaukee at Mana Vault and I'm trying to figure out if I'm playing Survival Elves with lots of Elvish Champion or Doomsday (which is bad, but hilarious). Do I want to win or do I want to play Dark Ritual? I believe these are mutually exclusive.