MrVerbal @mrverbal.bsky.social · 10/10/2026It sure does make a huge difference. Sets that have their own stories feel alive and interesting; sets which are just a tipped over toy box of references do not do that. 020
Reposted by MrVerbalJessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives 1851931384
MrVerbal @mrverbal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Assuming we mean the set, 4 - rakdos, azorius, selesnya, izzet. The fifth is golgari, which is not. if we mean RTR block, it's 5; Simic is apparently named after a biomancer named Simic who I think has no card; Gruul, Boros, Dimir and Orzhov are not so named. 010
MrVerbal @mrverbal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I've *seen* and read minority report. It was not a guide. 140
MrVerbal @mrverbal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026right? Just functional technology that you buy one time and does the thing for a reasonable lifespan 120
MrVerbal @mrverbal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026And the thousand jobs is probably overstated by a factor of 5 or 10 010
MrVerbal @mrverbal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Signs of aging #417: the comforting background music in the supermarket is "informer" 000
MrVerbal @mrverbal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026also half a percent is hardly an "election winning lead" when preferences exist? 010
MrVerbal @mrverbal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I mean I would suggest that very few people interact with those as different products, there's a lot of looking on scryfall and just finding endless of the same characters. we're all mostly playing commander, and for commander every product is just "magic" 000
MrVerbal @mrverbal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I think that's a good choice, but (including the commander set) I think the count for those two characters is actually 8. Bilbo in the hobbit is 5 (3 main, 2 commander). So while they may not show up at that rate in boosters, it's still a lot of the same legends. 110
MrVerbal @mrverbal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Right, but it's also because there are 8 tony starkes and 8 steve rogers. People will be as excited (possibly more) to get an Iron Man if there aren't 8 of them. 110
MrVerbal @mrverbal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026So if it was this it's just a basic security fuckup and also had been hacked by so many others prior. 040
MrVerbal @mrverbal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026And the correct response to this - well several steps before this - is to tell them to fuck directly off. They need the content. They can pay for it. 031
MrVerbal @mrverbal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026what, and I can't be clear enough here, the absolute fuck 020
MrVerbal @mrverbal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026yea, just eat 2 or 3 small rocks a day, it does wonders for your health. 020
MrVerbal @mrverbal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026so what I'm hearing is there are multiple reasons to be excited for a new double fine game. 030
MrVerbal @mrverbal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026again, I'm talking about androids and assuming it holds for iPhones. But my old phone was ~4 or 5 years old when I upgraded, and it was only because the old one wouldn't work with a virtual sim overseas - the fundamentals still fundamented 000
MrVerbal @mrverbal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026So I'm not an iPhone expert, so salt grains etc, but IMO the difference these days between a year old phone and a 4 year old phone is *much* less than it used to be. 17 will absolutely have a bit more grunt, a few more bells and whistles, and might last a little longer - but for 95% of uses w/e 120
MrVerbal @mrverbal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026From a certain point of view, the techbros *are* right that LLMs might kill us all...but not by any action the LLM takes to turn us into paperclips, but because these dumbfucks keep spending all their time and attention and trillions of dollars on not solving the real problems the world has. 020
MrVerbal @mrverbal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026they're all so extremely r/iamverysmart . Just the same set of dumbfucks who gave us NFTs and bitcoin moving to the next semi-useful scam technology and with their third rate understanding of philosophy and rationality. 130
MrVerbal @mrverbal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Yea, I've had the same argument with people - it's just pascal's wage VS a machine instead of a spirit 010
MrVerbal @mrverbal.bsky.social · 15/09/2026If it was anyone else for this it would be a riot. So good. 010
MrVerbal @mrverbal.bsky.social · 15/09/2026This seems bad, but can I give you several thousand high end video cards to support this comedy. 020
Reposted by MrVerbalJames Hutson @jameshutson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Pauline is the garbage leader of a garbage party. 041
MrVerbal @mrverbal.bsky.social · 13/09/2026So the premise is, in 3 easy steps: 1) it's time to put on music 2) it's time to light the lights 3) It's time to meet the muppets, on the muppet show tonight 020
Reposted by MrVerbalBrian Kibler @bmkibler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Alchemy was a bad idea implemented poorly and the best time to get rid of it was before it ever existed and the next best time is now. 819312
MrVerbal @mrverbal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026You know you don't have to uncritically report this, right? You can explain how this is obvious blatant bull? Because like....if someone knocked down a third of my house I don't think I'm praising their preservation efforts. 0600
MrVerbal @mrverbal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I also am a fan of preserving buildings by destroying the grounds and demolishing a third of them. 0150
MrVerbal @mrverbal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026oh look it's R U OK day, where all our works ask if people are ok and then don't know what to do if anyone says no. 010
MrVerbal @mrverbal.bsky.social · 09/09/2026"we thought this book would be boring without our algorithm, so we inserted a paragraph every other page from a different book" 010
MrVerbal @mrverbal.bsky.social · 04/09/2026it's *exactly* the same argument as the one some religious folk make that it's impossible for the universe to exist because for X to be true is Y odds and etc etc impossible! except, as you say, that P(the universe exists) is 1, because it evidently does. 1180
Reposted by MrVerbalDavid Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The Shot has the right to "self-defence" 24476135
MrVerbal @mrverbal.bsky.social · 02/09/2026is the course "How to cause AI-psychosis in 300 students"? 120
MrVerbal @mrverbal.bsky.social · 31/08/2026It also somewhere between very likely and certain that some or all of these incidents are just lies. Gosh my AI is so powerful, would be shame if that made people want to buy it 010
MrVerbal @mrverbal.bsky.social · 31/08/2026No, it isn't? I mean yes in some sense you start from plants to get to it but that is also true of steak. 010
MrVerbal @mrverbal.bsky.social · 31/08/2026If this was a Venn diagram, one of those circles is entirely inside the other 030
MrVerbal @mrverbal.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Just got this incredible token done by @april-prime.bsky.social at spotlight brisbane. So sick. #mtg 1253
MrVerbal @mrverbal.bsky.social · 29/08/2026tapping your blockers is incredible common behaviour among new players. no one teaches them, it just...it's just a thing which seems some instinctive to heaps of people. 020
MrVerbal @mrverbal.bsky.social · 29/08/2026"Dead civilisation" isn't "country who's successors still exist". Like the USSR is just russia (and some vassal states, but russia) 010
MrVerbal @mrverbal.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I expected little from this cafe but hot chocolate should be more than lukewarm milk with chocolate sprinkled on it 010
MrVerbal @mrverbal.bsky.social · 27/08/2026So this is morally wrong but also feels like bad politics. Who is going to be convinced by this. Feels like it bleeds more votes than it saves 010
MrVerbal @mrverbal.bsky.social · 27/08/2026They'd end up going in for a non disaster, discover a year later the world was safe, and have already started a series of weird sex murder cults 010
