Sabertooth Lotus

Interesting take on the AI infested Superbowl adverts from an insider.

Not being American or a sports fan I hadn't seen these ads at all (Though I'd heard about the disturbing Ring advert in particular), so I went and looked at the Svedka advert.

Oh shit wait, I wasn't ready for Marvel Transformers!

As soon as he can remember which cassette that IS.

“Stop being so cynical about it”. UB is a deeply cynical product: something that uses Magic the Gathering’s systems as a framework for rememeberberries to extract cash from your wallet to give to shareholders. Its not good.

“Don’t yuck my yum”. Lorwyn Eclipsed is being interrupted by Marvel previews. Most of the magic cards printed next year are Universes Beyond. My yum is yucked on a biweekly basis but I guess “don’t yuck my yum” doesn’t apply to me. If a random stranger online complaining about the thing you like ruins your day I don’t know what to tell you.

”The game has always been bad”. Factually untrue. The game has never been perfect but there have been many great stretches of years to play. Ive been a loud critic of wotc’s greedier decisions since day 1 do not @ me.

”They just haven’t hit what you like”. Yes they have, I’m a huge FF enjoyer. I don’t need it in MTG and I actively dislike seeing it.

”It’s just a game, its really not that big of a deal. Just don’t buy it.” Sure. I mean at the end of the day it is just a game. That’s not wrong. Its just a hobby I’ve had that’s let me connect with a lot of people I otherwise wouldn’t have met both online and in person. And it sucks that it’s become an IP mining machine that’s also pumped up the price of my hobby. ATLA prerelease was $50 you think WOTC isnt gonna see the turnout and apply that to universes within sets?

“It keeps the lights on, UB funds wotc bc in universe sets are hit or miss”. Wotc wasn’t a small indie company before they started printing UB, nor were they in dire straits. It does, however, print money directly to shareholders. Bc they certainly arent paying better wages. So it does earn wotc a lot of money, but its not like the game was on life support in 2019. That was the end of the bolas arc and the game was getting popular in more mainstream spheres. UB also flops, such as Assassin’s Creed and Spiderman. I don’t believe UB is a “necessary evil” to keep the game around. I think its the most financially profitable. There’s a difference.

“Deckmaster was supposed to be crossover based by design”. Sure, but there’s a difference between one house of a few games vs we have Spongebob, Jaws, and Dr Who in the same arena. I think tcg’s crossing over would be different than what we have now.

“Spoiler season overlap isn’t universes beyond related”. True facts. Duskmourn did interrupt Bloomburrow‘s groove. I will say it gets under my skin more when its UB interrupting an in universe groove. But that’s a subjective feeling.

And the worst take I have been exposed to more than once like the Chernobyl’s Elephant Foot:

4. “Its our time to own the tcg, you get out” or “Mtg has always been stupid and UB proves your game sucks”. Loser takes. I don’t know what to tell you. Mtg aint cheap and if you’re spending that much money to troll someone who’s bummed their hobby is in the gutter that just sucks. Please go outside at least once.

"Solution is simple," says the barman. "Great therapist Freud is in town. Go see him."

Mozilla, in its finite wisdom, embedded LLM bots into recent versions of Firefox for the vitally-important purpose of… naming tab groups. Now, some users are noticing CPU and power usage spikes caused by a background process called Inference.

Ugh. Reminder again for Firefox users to visit your about:config page, search for the browser.ml.chat.enabled key, and set that to false:

If yours says true then double-click it until it reads false.

browser.ml.enable

extensions.ml.enabled

browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled

browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled

browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled

to get rid of the revamped sidebar, which is also trying to incorporate ai:

sidebar.revamp

the webtoons are only relevant for people who HAVE NOT read a comic issue. I only want to differentiate between them. If you have read more than one comic book issue and have read a webtoon you go in to a category below the second. I also am not counting these webtoons as comic book issues. if you have read 200 webtoon episodes, but only 40 comic book issues, you go into the third category, sorry not sorry.

category differences of 100 may seem like a lot, but comic runs can span at least that long. Batgirl 2000 was around 75 issues, Green lantern 1990 was 120-ish issues, Green Arrow 2001 was 75-ish issues, Teen titans 2003 was 100 issues, Green Arrow 1988 was 140-ish issues, the new titans was 130 issues, Nightwing 1996 was 150ish issues Wonder Woman 1987 was 220 issues, ect. ect.. reading a lot of long runs really adds up.

I'm sorry I couldn't get higher than 900!! I know people have read a lot more than that, esp. if long term fans. there's also people reading that many a year! but unfortunately,, tumblr only has 12 options, and i needed a somewhat reasonable difference between each option.