@IanAdams

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I make video games and people, and my two samples of ejaculate verify the vasectomy took, so look out video games!
@chetfaliszek the Metaverse panel at Dev Days moved him solidly into the “not a serious person about social issues” category.
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
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?”
@espercontrol Democracy has failed again.
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

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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
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.
@alma I hope it’s okay, I showed this to Mary Kathryn (Phyrexian language expert) and she’s delighted by it. Very cool project! #wotcstaff
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.

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.