Mark @markdesmarais.bsky.social · 16/03/2026I totally agree, but I think it's also just more time with the cards. I got to mess with something like Burning Vengeance for a while before we moved onto the next thing. Now the card release schedule is so overwhelming, I don't actually think much about new cards. 072
Mark @markdesmarais.bsky.social · 01/03/2026youtu.be/66yH8RZSwUc?...youtu.beBlur - Song 2, but every "woohoo" is done by MarioYouTube video by ThePandemicLight 020
Reposted by MarkChris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Serial Experiments Lain is a cautionary, deeply political story about how cool the Sharp X68000 looked, and what would happen if computers kept looking like that. 432038516
Mark @markdesmarais.bsky.social · 07/02/2026I've had the Copland symbol as my phone lock screen and the Knights symbol as my background for years. Always makes me smile, would recommend. 000
Mark @markdesmarais.bsky.social · 05/11/2025media.tenor.coma man wearing a beanie and a tie dye shirt is asking how do you feelALT: a man wearing a beanie and a tie dye shirt is asking how do you feel 010
Mark @markdesmarais.bsky.social · 07/10/2025I don't like UB, and would prefer a "default" to no UB. Then bring in the UB cards for relevant theme weeks. I'm definitely less inclined to watch the videos that are focused on UB stuff, but part of it is the over-exposure. If it was a novelty, it wouldn't be as tedious. 000
Mark @markdesmarais.bsky.social · 03/09/2025One of my first commander games was with a Hazezon deck using Gaea's Cradle. That, uh, was probably a mistake. 020
Mark @markdesmarais.bsky.social · 31/08/2025It's a nice design as a "synergizes with hellbent" card that doesn't say "hellbent" on it. The kind of thing I like to see from a common. 050
Mark @markdesmarais.bsky.social · 30/08/2025Yeah I'm not really playing along with it, but we'll see as the weekend goes. 020
Mark @markdesmarais.bsky.social · 30/08/2025Mostly just that he hasn't been doing any public appearances today and doesn't have any scheduled over the weekend. 260
Mark @markdesmarais.bsky.social · 12/08/2025Couldn't agree more. The whole point of "outside-the-game" cards is they get cards from outside the game. We let ourselves, as a community, get bamboozled by competitive play into forgetting how these cards are actually worded. 030
Mark @markdesmarais.bsky.social · 25/04/2025The artist helped me out in a game jam once - glad to see his game is being well-received! 100
Mark @markdesmarais.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Having a rule invites challenges to the rule, which may backfire, but I'm genuinely curious about how's it'll be received. I've worked on projects in the past where we try to help litigate the social contract in multiplayer games but it's not a common problem and it'd be cool if Wotc made progress. 100
Mark @markdesmarais.bsky.social · 10/02/2025It would be funny if the background was just a little higher with short character scenes. 020
Reposted by MarkAevee Bee @mammonmachine.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Many people do not understand game design. Let me explain: game design is when attacking with your primary attack builds stacks of zorp, and your secondary consumes zorp stacks to add additional slow and lifesteal when you plurk 1203706408
Mark @markdesmarais.bsky.social · 27/11/2024The Discord poll resulting in this cube is the worst outcome of democracy this year. 100
Mark @markdesmarais.bsky.social · 22/11/2024My naive pick was Enduring Innocence, it's a pretty powerful synergy piece in most environments. Looking briefly at the list makes me less sure, but the floor is high enough anyway. 010
![[me, trapped in Lalande 21185 observational simulation hell #43233, circa common era one million]
[glowing six-eyed lizard creature, i call him "pat"] so it's like every species has this petroleum gap they have to get over
[me] oh i know exactly what you mean
[pat] like you shoot up to industrial civilization status because of fossil fuels, and then there's like this timer running, can you use the free energy of the fossil fuels to transition to a better energy source before you either run out or wreck your climate
[me] we did the climate thing
[pat] yeah we were totally blindsided. we had a series of glacier formations trapping giant methane bubbles so we were off to feedback loop city before we even noticed the carbon ppm was rising
[me] we actually saw it coming. we had like 100 years between us figuring out that carbon was affecting our climate and the system first going nonlinear
[pat] oh damn how did you allocate your resources during that time
[me] *slowly takes a deep breath*
[me] *deep breath*](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2aebn3xk5t63net43eeepire/bafkreihn7ifncu2wwlwwr54il6ocopyvn5xduxs3kedpuhu3bvelxs7jxq)
