Barry Peddycord III @ishara@social.isharacomix.org

Oh boy, last weekend of July has a lot happening in #MTG Arena:

* Precon Battlebox-style event
* Basic Land rewards

Very exciting stuff!

Really spectacular article by Mark Rosewater regarding rules, constraints, and the roles they play in games and fiction.

https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/making-magic/constraints-and-defaults-2019-07-15 #MTG

My cat used to wake me up in the morning, but now I think she wakes up the dogs (which is easy) to wake me up (which is hard).

Oh hey, Destroy all Humankind Ep 8 is out! #MTG

https://manga.fascans.com/manga/destroy-all-humankind-they-cant-be-regenerated/8/2

Really liking the change to the XP track they implemented today. Definitely lets some of the pressure off. Maybe they should turn vault percentage into XP and also add some wildcards to the mastery rewards! #MTG

Oh no, I just learned that the Red Bull Air Race is being discontinued. That's a shame. I should probably try to download and archive the video footage. :(

Last night I had the most weirdly amazing dream. Some computer scientist told a robot to go into the archives of a famous, long gone computer scientist and requested "the second black book". The camera panned to the man's desk and there was a black, hardcover tome titled "I: Physical"

Apparently there were seven of these that could only be accessed by this robot and they were named after the OSI network layers.

I have to say, after playing with it I really like the London mulligan! I was worried it would make mulligans take longer, but it didn't feel that way in the heat of the game. #MTG

Maybe I should make a bot or website that renders the weekly events for MTGA in the way they should be rendered in the client.

Is it just me or does the mastery dashboard look like an advent calendar?

though matrix is a bit slow, I bet a private home server would be quite snappy since it would only need to federate and synchronize with the rooms you are explicitly a member.