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Neil @neilbefore.me · 11/09/2026

So excited for this and the rest of the upcoming @flebpuzzles.bsky.social games for 2027. Strange Jigsaws was an absolute delight and I'm happy to have more to play

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Neil @neilbefore.me · 16/08/2026

I've done a ton of work on SimOrg since I last posted about it here, if you're interested, I'd definitely recommend checking it out!

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Neil @neilbefore.me · 12/08/2026

I put in a lot of work to make this happen and I personally love how SimOrg came out so I would appreciate if you checked it out!

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Neil @neilbefore.me · 27/06/2026

Did a bit of long-overdue Yugioh feed cleanup and removed some old allowlisted users who are no longer talking about Yugioh as well as hard blocked a recurring NSFW account that happened to be using the term "blue-eyes" a lot. I've definitely been slacking lately so I'll try and keep up on it more

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Neil @neilbefore.me · 26/06/2026

Picked up some new cards for the slop pile. +5 Franchises getting us ever closer to the ideal Magic the Gathering deck.

Several universes beyond cards with a SpongeBob commander deck, sleeved with SpongeBob sleeves

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YGO Prog @ygoprog.com · 20/06/2026

The Master Duel Pack Simulator is now live for EVERYONE over at YGO Prog! Check it out over at www.ygoprog.com/MasterDuelPa...

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Neil @neilbefore.me · 20/06/2026

Very happy to get this feature out to everyone! Excited to see what you all do with it. Feel free to tag us if you're doing something cool!

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Neil @neilbefore.me · 05/06/2026

I never talked to Alex Cimo. But I wouldn't be playing Yugioh without Cimo. I wouldn't be in this community without Cimo. I wouldn't have these projects that I love working without on Cimo. I wouldn't know almost any of you without Cimo. I wouldn't be where I am without Cimo.

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Neil @neilbefore.me · 12/05/2026

I literally forgot to post that we did this yesterday lmao

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Neil @neilbefore.me · 12/05/2026

Really excited for this one, we've been wanting to do this for quite some time!

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Ryder @ryderpokez.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Thought I'd whip up a realistic banlist prediction

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Neil @neilbefore.me · 03/05/2026

I've been dragging my feet on this one a bit but at this point the site is pretty expensive to run, and I've been paying for it out of pocket. It's also given us some motivation to actually push on some of the features we've been planning. Pretty excited to get some of these out!

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Neil @neilbefore.me · 10/04/2026

I wanna give a huge shoutout to @convoke.games. Last night we were facing an issue on the platforms, and one of the devs quickly hopped in and worked with us to investigate the issue. And they had it resolved by morning! If you're looking to play paper commander online, Convoke is the way!

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Neil @neilbefore.me · 28/03/2026

Finally got in the intended sleeves for The Slop Pile. Really ties everything together

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Neil @neilbefore.me · 07/03/2026

got to use this one today with @daimax.bsky.social @skarlon.bsky.social and @chloeaster.bsky.social. responses were mixed.

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momo @donamomo.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Legitimately, in a literal sense, art in deckbuilding

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port @port.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Imagine sitting down at our pod and Neil is on The Slop Pile and my mana base looks like this

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Neil @neilbefore.me · 06/03/2026

Behold, the worst deck I own. A deck I lovingly refer to as "The Slop Pile". A fully functional Universes Beyond commander deck, organized as all MTG decks should be - by franchise of source material. This is Magic the Gathering as Richard Garfield intended.

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Neil @neilbefore.me · 21/01/2026

did a quick update to prevent new posts from the user that was flooding the yugioh feed with the same post over and over. one of these days I should put something together to make management of the users and such a bit easier haha

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Ryder @ryderpokez.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

3-1 at locals this week playing primite odion. I've been super unhappy with the format the last couple months and none of the decks i have access to were clicking with me or uh....performing at all. a friend sold me his odion core for cheap and then Coder, Neil, Chloe, and Momo helped me build.

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Neil @neilbefore.me · 16/01/2026

I just witnessed THE John NJYugioh show up on the Yugioh feed. What a blessed day.

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Jae Ferret @thelazyferret.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

can't believe they put the yugioh guy in the horse game

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Neil @neilbefore.me · 23/12/2025

they call it glizzard 3 in japan

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Neil @neilbefore.me · 04/10/2025

they put me on a card

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Neil @neilbefore.me · 26/09/2025

Really excited for both this and our other planned features around this! Genesys Prog sound cool to anyone?

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Neil @neilbefore.me · 02/09/2025

Did another pass here. Removed a few more keywords.

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Neil @neilbefore.me · 01/09/2025

It's VERY overdue but I just did a bit of a Yugioh feed update. - Got rid of a couple of the remaining false positive key words. Almost all of them were from a couple keywords. (Sorry Maxx Crosby fans) - Added a couple more blocked words to curb those type of issue a bit more than I already have.

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Top Elestrals @topelestrals.com · 22/06/2025

Congrats to @sirtractor.bsky.social for the Elestrals Premier Win! Check out their list and more from the event over at Top Elestrals www.topelestrals.com/tournaments/...

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Neil @neilbefore.me · 16/06/2025

We have some more written Elestrals strategy content up on Top Elestrals!

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Neil @neilbefore.me · 05/06/2025

I've gotten so much more done here and everything looks so much better than I ever could have imagined by this time. I think I can have my entire intended feature set ready before Elestrals Clash comes out.

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Neil @neilbefore.me · 29/05/2025

This one was a lot of learning and was a significant challenge for me since I'm not generally a frontend dev. Please check it out if you are interested!

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Neil @neilbefore.me · 16/05/2025

Check out our latest post over at TopElestrals! I'm excited to get some written analysis started for Elestrals!

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Neil @neilbefore.me · 08/04/2025

For those interested in Elestrals, this site has been a project I've been working on in the background bsky.app/profile/tope...

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Neil @neilbefore.me · 07/04/2025

There is no other game like Void Stranger.

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Neil @neilbefore.me · 31/01/2025

unrelated to the yugioh feed updates yesterday. there was some issue with integers getting converted to bigints that the atproto lexicon did not like so the feed was not ingesting new posts for a bit.

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Neil @neilbefore.me · 31/01/2025

I'm unreasonably excited to switch over to Primite Blue-Eyes next week. I've been playing Fiendsmith Ryzeal. The Fiendsmith cards are so fun to play with, but the Ryzeal cards are just not.

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Neil @neilbefore.me · 30/01/2025

Did a bit of a Yugioh Feed Update today. Added a couple more things to the blocklist, removed some users from the alwaysallow list as well as some keywords.

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ChaoticMeatball @chaoticmeatball.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Hi, no that's not the case. I don't remember the screenshot but I must've posted it in the GF teraleak discord server when I was in there. Was looking to see the stuff and whether or not there was anything worth making a video about. Really hate that someone took that used a slur repeatedly.

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Neil @neilbefore.me · 24/12/2024

my biggest contribution is either ygoprog or the yugioh feed here on this very site

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Neil @neilbefore.me · 22/12/2024

Pretty happy with the results on my latest yugioh feed changes. Only been a few hours, but I haven't seen any overtly NSFW content on the feed since

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Neil @neilbefore.me · 21/12/2024

YUGIOH FEED UPDATE: Pretty major update here, I added in some logic that should theoretically prevent "safe" replies that contain a Yugioh keyword to a properly tagged nsfw thread from showing up, which will therefore prevent the nsfw parent post from visually appearing the UI on the feed.

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Neil @neilbefore.me · 21/12/2024

Okay - sorry for the yugioh feed downtime, I accidentally broke it in a way where I had to turn it off while working on some algo improvements. the non-yugioh posts that flooded the feed for like a minute should fall off over the course of the day

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Neil @neilbefore.me · 12/12/2024

since the snakes are dead, I'm bringing something fun to locals today

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Neil @neilbefore.me · 10/12/2024

YUGIOH FEED UPDATE: - Removed keywords due to high false positive rate: Genex, Maliss, Trickstar - Added more words to the blockwords list. I appreciate all the feedback, and I do think the feed has improved significantly in the past few weeks. Feel free to reach out if you have any suggestions!

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Neil @neilbefore.me · 09/12/2024

YUGIOH FEED UPDATE: - Added more words to the blockword list - Updated the algorithm to handle the blockwords better - should see significantly less nsfw posts on the feed! - Added @outofcharacters.bsky.social to the always allowlist

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