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hey.

if i ever make any of you feel uncomfortable with my online behavior, please just tell me to stop instead of silently blocking or muting me.

...i don't have the best social skills :-(

dork needs friends badly

mastodon is the only service i've seen where i want to fall in love with half of the people and become good friends with the other half. ^_^

so "counter target creature spell" means i can prevent a creature from getting onto the battlefield, but can't do anything once it's already there, right?

got rekt by a [[tyrannosaurus]]. it's a 10/10 for 5! now gonna look through my cards and see if there's a red/blue way of dealing with that. #cockatrice

secret gender, for experts only: doublegirl.

@ComradeEva1917 @Pyretta even cis folks?

good morning, cuties! ^_^

no neo turf masters, 0/10 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SI1NwL75xLQ

i remember reading through tv tropes and thinking "what's up with the 'attractive bent gender' trope? like, sure, it's fantasy, but you can't expect everyone who changed into the opposite gender to become more beautiful than before!"

wow, was i wrong...

bad pro-capitalism argument: poor people deserve to freeze and starve because they're bad people

better (but, let's be honest, still kinda bad) pro-capitalism argument: we _could_ feed and house the poor if we made some fundamental changes to our economy, but these changes may ultimately lead to a massive economic crisis that might make everyone even worse off than before

now please, can everyone stop using the first argument and switch to the second?

met a helpful player in #cockatrice, who explained to me how indicating different game mechanics worked.

if anyone wants to try and play with me, just respond or dm ^_^

<- that's beside the point. the point is, if you are the kind of person willing to ignore all the suffering LGBT folks get due to homophobia and discrimination (as well as all the science on the matter), you might see gay rights as a similar wager.

<- like, the original pascal's wager was an apologist argument for believing in god. the idea is:

if you don't believe in god and god doesn't exist, you gain +X by being morally free to "sin".

if you don't believe in god and god exists, you get hell (-∞)

if you believe in god and god doesn't exist, then you get -X by having to follow the rules of your religion

if you believe in god and god exists, you gain +∞ in heaven.

of course, the argument has lots of issues, but ->

my least favorite part of the "gay people are a threat to birth rates" argument, apart from the fact that my country seems to be in love with it _and_ the fact that, in today's society, low birth rates are probably more of a good thing,

is that the people who believe it have no reason to stop believing it. it's like a version of pascal's wager. ->

disappointing -- looks like scryfall's image database has high-quality images for cards in english, but all their translated versions are low-quality (even when high-res).

omg, it's so wrong...
RT @TheRealDrMcCoy@twitter.com Ayyyy... yikes.

That's from the "Learning C++ by Creating Games with Unreal Engine 4" video course from Packt, from the current Game Development Humble Bundle.

In case you're not familiar with C++: it's basically all wrong

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/TheRealDrMcCoy/status/1043796624173142018