Apcarnist / Zuroku @apcarnist.bsky.social · 29/08/2026@katyptcg.bsky.social Congrats on getting to Phase 2! Keep pushing! 010
Apcarnist / Zuroku @apcarnist.bsky.social · 29/08/2026So someone tried to get in a bar fight with me because I . . . locked the stall in the bathroom. No, this is not hyperbole. This actually happened. And he thought I was going to be intimidated by his drunk ass saying he's a 20 year Army vet. Uhuh. 000
Apcarnist / Zuroku @apcarnist.bsky.social · 30/07/2026So I just had my first code technical where I basically failed walking in because I didn't have an AI coding tool subscription. My gods, fucking wankers, if you want a bad code bot just fucking spin up another agent. 000
Apcarnist / Zuroku @apcarnist.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Trying to maintain Professor-level professionalism while a player who has done things (i.e. skipping out on paying for entry) and there is evidence of other wrongdoings (i.e. their girlfriend literally asking them when they think no one is listening "did you cheat?") is really, really difficult. 020
Apcarnist / Zuroku @apcarnist.bsky.social · 11/06/2026So, need some quick validation: Recruiter apparently has issue opening PDF in Chrome, so they then then try opening in Microsoft Word and seem surprised when it is a mess. That is a yellow flag, certainly, right? 000
Apcarnist / Zuroku @apcarnist.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Do I, for the upcoming regional in Indianapolis: A. Play the deck I won a Cup with, maybe with one or two changes. B. Go fuck it, we ball with Slowking. 110
Apcarnist / Zuroku @apcarnist.bsky.social · 17/05/2026You know, it is. I rather code something up and know what the fuck the code does than play the slot machine of an LLM. 000
Apcarnist / Zuroku @apcarnist.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Okay, @lordravenscraft.bsky.social, I'm watching Speed Racer (2008) with the Mrs at just short of 1 AM in the morning. This is certainly a choice we have decided to make. Even the commercials ahead of the movie are a fucking trip, including seeing the ad for the Wii game. 120
Apcarnist / Zuroku @apcarnist.bsky.social · 05/05/2026This is your unscheduled Apcarnist bitch that fuck AI and fuck all those who worship it. Hopefully I survive this week at San Fran still with my job, not completely having lost my marbles, and not with a record. 010
Apcarnist / Zuroku @apcarnist.bsky.social · 13/04/2026So did 2 League Cups this weekend, with Owlless Bolt. While the first one was 3/2, I just won a League Cup of 21 players! 040
Apcarnist / Zuroku @apcarnist.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Oh, I forgot to update: I am not going to LA for the Pokemon Regional. Tried to get into wave 2 and it sold out in 15 seconds. Ugh. So time to go to San Fran for a bloody Company Offsite that is "optional" (read: mandatory because attendance rates sucked when it was optional) and then home. Weee. 020
Apcarnist / Zuroku @apcarnist.bsky.social · 17/03/2026So my company wants to integrate a feature using weather forecasting... but instead of just manually seeing when weather events were happening and scheduling based on that information, they want to just jam AI into it. We had The Weather Channel for 4 decades before generative AI, jackasses. 121
Apcarnist / Zuroku @apcarnist.bsky.social · 12/03/20265 minutes. 5 bloody minutes for LA to sell out TCG Masters. Well, better hope I get wave 2 or I need to quietly figure out how I am getting home instead. 000
Apcarnist / Zuroku @apcarnist.bsky.social · 02/03/2026This weekend in Seattle was a bit... odd. Like when I was imagining MUs, this was the plan. Hell, on Live (not saying it represents reality), I haven't seen Absol Box in who knows how long. Also, definitely a lot of bricks. Lillie's into 8 items under item lock? Damn you, Tymora! 010
Apcarnist / Zuroku @apcarnist.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Okay, quick complaint time: If you mandate 4 days in the office, it isn't a "hybrid" system. You want the label because you know it is a lot better than a full RTO but at that point you just want someone who is trapped in the city. 000
Apcarnist / Zuroku @apcarnist.bsky.social · 03/02/2026So, @pftompkins.bsky.social, based on that off the cuff w/r/t Robin Hood on Make Some Noise, one of us? 100
Apcarnist / Zuroku @apcarnist.bsky.social · 02/02/2026So, even though Live is on Ascended Heroes, my Slowking testing has been chugging along. And honestly? Powerglass may be my new favorite tool card and I think I have my 60 locked in for Seattle. This was turn 3 of my game against Gholdengo, going first. 020
Apcarnist / Zuroku @apcarnist.bsky.social · 29/01/2026PSA for all those out there: While I normally advise against dropping from a tournament, there is no shame in doing so if you think continuing on is going to be worse than dropping, especially mentally. World sucks enough, you're allowed to say, "Nah, I'm good" when you brick 3 times in 4 games. 000
Apcarnist / Zuroku @apcarnist.bsky.social · 24/01/2026I am trying to decide if I need an Apcarnist Rants edition of this but honestly: if we are trying to push our society into oblivion by use of generative AI that my manager feels the need to tell us, and I quote, "drink the Kool-Aid a little bit," we have failed as a society for all sorts of reasons. 000
Apcarnist / Zuroku @apcarnist.bsky.social · 20/01/2026So, going to give a hot take: 4-0-4 should not be an acceptable record to get to Day 2 of a regional. 000
Apcarnist / Zuroku @apcarnist.bsky.social · 18/01/2026So, another Top 512 in Toronto but no Day 2 for me. Surprise, having like 700 fewer players makes getting to Top 512 easier, even with a worse record. I did brick a lot more than expected yet was a less to play through most of them. 100
Apcarnist / Zuroku @apcarnist.bsky.social · 17/01/2026So today I've changed a single card from my Vegas list. So, let's see if that's enough to day 2. 010
Apcarnist / Zuroku @apcarnist.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Time to start on the road to Toronto (by first picking up a medication). Slowking is coming back for a round 2. #pokemon 010
Apcarnist / Zuroku @apcarnist.bsky.social · 05/01/2026So because my mind so badly is not wanting to work tomorrow, it is trying to focus on testing for Toronto. Weeee. Why have I picked Slowking as my ride or die deck. 110
Apcarnist / Zuroku @apcarnist.bsky.social · 14/12/2025As a random note, I've been back playing the Pokemon TCG on going on 4 years with hundreds of games and the worst I experienced is someone attempting to cheat me once and being called "the luckiest fucking player" by a former Yu-Gi-Oh! player. I've only played like, I dunno, 10 Commander games 110
Apcarnist / Zuroku @apcarnist.bsky.social · 10/12/2025So, even as a Professor, there are days I kind of have to play Pokemom (TCG), but really don't want to. For such days, Pechurant is a best bud. 010
Apcarnist / Zuroku @apcarnist.bsky.social · 09/12/2025So Kalvi is trying to nudge me to go to EUIC in spite of actively listing the cost. So, um, would anyone want to split a hotel right next to the convention center? May put my mind at ease. 000
Apcarnist / Zuroku @apcarnist.bsky.social · 08/12/2025So who do y'all think would be harder to convince to let me go to this: @kalviberry.bsky.social or my job? (Easy question, certainly my job.) Good luck to those going, maybe I'll hit NAIC? (Big maybe.) 000
Apcarnist / Zuroku @apcarnist.bsky.social · 27/11/2025So one of the people I interacted with at a card store tried to give Tucker Carlson "a hand" based on his interview with Ted Cruz and paraphrasing dril, I noted he did not have to give a hand to a white nationalist. He tried to complain about me being a millennial wanting to call everyone a Nazi. 000
Apcarnist / Zuroku @apcarnist.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Hey all. Want me to crash out and rant about this same co-worker? Because it only took one sentence from him with regard to me sharing my Vegas result to want to do so. 000
Apcarnist / Zuroku @apcarnist.bsky.social · 18/11/2025After a rather long day, let me finally get around to talking about the matches! Let's start with Phase 1, so Rounds 1 through 8. 100
Apcarnist / Zuroku @apcarnist.bsky.social · 17/11/2025At Harry Reid International before my flight boards, so I am going to spend that time actually going over the experience of this regional rather than the match-by-match details. 110
Apcarnist / Zuroku @apcarnist.bsky.social · 17/11/2025So, I kind of want to do a mega thread about my Las Vegas Pokemon regional experience but there is a lot to go through. I do need to get some sleep so let me lead off with the two things people are most curious about: my deck and my results before I get into the details. 110
Apcarnist / Zuroku @apcarnist.bsky.social · 16/11/2025So I failed to do logging of my tournament in real time, basically never getting around to it here and stopping after Round 5 in my notes, but I will attempt to once I've returned to my hotel room. 010
Apcarnist / Zuroku @apcarnist.bsky.social · 15/11/2025A nice to have here in Vegas would be that if they are going to ask us to get here by door opening at 7 so they can get everyone in, have Round 1 pairings early enough as there won't need to be a mass migration because everyone is waiting. 000
Apcarnist / Zuroku @apcarnist.bsky.social · 15/11/2025Highest table number for TCG Masters is 1556, suggesting 3112 matched players. May fortune not drag me anywhere near those depths. Lol 000
Apcarnist / Zuroku @apcarnist.bsky.social · 15/11/2025So, it is 6:16 AM in Las Vegas as I am typing this. For a Pokemon Regional, I feel oddly at peace? Not worried about my performance, whether or not I get to Day 2, even my deck list. It is a bit odd, genuinely. Will I get to Day 2? Statistically, no. But I feel like I am happy with my decisions. 100
Apcarnist / Zuroku @apcarnist.bsky.social · 09/11/2025Okay, Kirby Air Riders demo? It takes a second to get used to things if you haven't played since the '00s but like, once it gets going, it gets going. I even screwed someone over in City Trial by literally destroying their machine with less than a second for time to be called. 10/10 030
Apcarnist / Zuroku @apcarnist.bsky.social · 01/11/2025So I just got an ad about Kalshi, one of those "prediction markets" (read: betting websites) where it is encouraging people to "trade" on how long the US government will ne shut down. Fuck right the hell off with that shit ok so many levels. It is distilled corpo evil if I've seen it. 000
Apcarnist / Zuroku @apcarnist.bsky.social · 29/10/2025Bluesky, I get it, I am a self-identified furry and I have follows that are furry or furry adjacent. Sometimes I ever enjoy some spice in my feed. But is there a way to go no to cub furs when I decide to want over to the Discover feed or am I doomed forever? 010
Apcarnist / Zuroku @apcarnist.bsky.social · 26/10/2025Breaking from my Professor code for a moment: Is this what will finally get the Pokemon TCG scene to move away from that fucking hellhole? Where only clickbait survives and their genuine achievement or usefulness is smoothed by an AI-shaped pillow? Or is the false outreach that important still? 040
Apcarnist / Zuroku @apcarnist.bsky.social · 01/10/2025@panikarcade.bsky.social Just so you are aware, I have managed to crash the game twice while getting to the E27 deadline. It has been random but also kind of funny because I suspect it is because of how many Agains the game is processing due to multiple Number 2s in a single round. Lol 020
Reposted by Apcarnist / ZurokuEric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 19/09/2025NEW VIDEO! FINALLY! Beast Wars Is Shakespeare: The Value of Garbage Media I truly hope this one was worth the wait, because I've never made something so huge. Massive thanks to Dr. Drew Lichtenberg for sitting down with me for this one. youtu.be/8y_KsFaHRQk?...youtu.beBeast Wars Is Shakespeare: The Value of Garbage MediaYouTube video by Lord Ravenscraft 910132
Apcarnist / Zuroku @apcarnist.bsky.social · 22/09/2025@lordravenscraft.bsky.social You clearly know your audience, since I just reached a certain joke after watching YGO: Dark Side of Dimensions right before booting up your video. 120
Apcarnist / Zuroku @apcarnist.bsky.social · 21/09/2025So, 3-3-2 for Pittsburgh for a perfect 1234th place (based on 3rd party approximations). Lots of unlucky things with Poison Bolt but yeah. Oh well! 010
Apcarnist / Zuroku @apcarnist.bsky.social · 15/09/2025So, testing against Tera Box as Bolt, the answer is "don't". The match up sucks, hard. 000
Apcarnist / Zuroku @apcarnist.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Random side thought: I probably should make a Pokemon specific account so I can say what I want on main. 020
Apcarnist / Zuroku @apcarnist.bsky.social · 02/09/2025We know so many choose not to read past the headline but for some reason, despite my Discover feed usually being full of random animal pics, it decided to feed me a TERF who apparently couldn't even read the headline properly. Whoo boy. 000
Apcarnist / Zuroku @apcarnist.bsky.social · 21/08/2025So I couldn't sleep and I decided to go through memory lane (reading through old posts) and I found the Valve dev I argued with months ago still spending all their time on BlueSky arguing that LLMs are actually good, y'all. I wish I could just bullshit everything all the time like techbros. 020
