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IanAdams Mar 20, 2023

I wrote an article about my team not listening to me, and why that was good.
https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/mtg-arena/why-i-decided-not-to-do-emrakul-and-how-we-shipped-it-anyway
#wotcstaff

Why I Decided Not to Do Emrakul, and How We Shipped It Anyway

Emrakul, The Promised End is a product owner's nightmare. This is how the marquee card made it into MTG Arena.

MAGIC: THE GATHERING

IanAdams Mar 18, 2023

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Or as my Irish brother-in-law would say “what’s with all the four leaf clovers? His whole thing is specifically about the three leafs! How did you all fuck this up?”

IanAdams Mar 11, 2023

kottke.org Mar 10, 2023

A Japanese company that makes elevator buttons has a marvelous wall of hundreds of working buttons in their factory. What fun to be able to press all those buttons w/o the fear of irritating everyone in the tiny box you're travelling in. https://kottke.org/23/03/a-marvelous-wall-of-working-elevator-buttons

A Marvelously Huge Wall of Working Elevator Buttons

I enjoyed this video on how Shimada Electric Manufacturing Company makes elevator buttons, but I was utterly captivated by t

kottke.org

IanAdams Feb 22, 2023

It’s very funny to me that I haven’t seen any Magic news sites pick up that Arena is taking the prerelease promos from
MOC. I look forward to making some Jund nonsense with

IanAdams Feb 15, 2023

I have seen a lot of really smart people dismiss ChatGPT as being nothing more than a novel presentation and UI for information already on the internet, a presentation that is incomplete and often dangerously inaccurate. This criticism is entirely true and fair, but I think folks are ignoring that it also applies to Google circa 2001, and that wound up mattering a fair amount.

IanAdams Feb 8, 2023

People are right to feel good about Biden getting the GOP to agree that they wouldn't touch Medicare or Social Security, it's worth noting the entire strategy was
- Describe the Republican's goal briefly and accurately.
- Allow them to disavow their obviously heinous plan.

IanAdams Feb 5, 2023

It would be very funny if I suddenly started talking about Magic and Arena all the time here, given how many disappointed people follow me on Twitter hoping I will.

I won’t though.

IanAdams Jan 30, 2023

Namnezia Jan 29, 2023

Amazing! Japanese fireworks catalog illustrations from the 1880's.
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/japanese-fireworks-catalogues

Flowers of Fire: Illustrations from Japanese Fireworks Catalogues (ca. 1880s)

The illustrations from catalogues for Hirayama Fireworks and Yokoi Fireworks, published by C. T. Brock and Company, the oldest fireworks manufacturer in the United Kingdom.

The Public Domain Review

IanAdams Jan 2, 2023

Raigan Burns Jan 1, 2023

I've still got a few free keys for The Best Videogame Ever Created (According To Me), Cinco Paus, if anyone is interested (or know anyone who might be). It's a brilliant procgen puzzle/strategy/micro-roguelike which contains hundreds of hours of unique, mind-melting stuff to figure out. :)

(here's the original, uh, toot: https://mastodon.social/@raiganburns/109574934184815664 )

Please re-toot! ;)

IanAdams Dec 29, 2022

Raigan Burns Dec 25, 2022

Happy Cinco Paus Day, everyone!!

Today marks the 5th anniversary of the birth of the best game ever made (according to me).

To help spread the good news, I'm giving away 25 free copies -- so please message me if you or anyone you know would like to try the most fascinating puzzle/strategy/(actual)roguelike game you'll ever play.

(please, uh... re-toot? I don't know the lingo ;) )