Notices by mixed berry social anxiety disorder 🍓 (monorail@glaceon.social)

i learned recently that some (most?) sign languages have a feature where you sign a noun and "put" it somewhere in 3d space. and then instead of using pronouns, you can just refer to where you put it. i think that's really cool

in the headlines today, scientists have confirmed that 23 is a prime number, making it the largest verified prime to date

i do not believe that sex scenes in movies are worthless. i do not think that they should stop putting sex in movies. i do think they should stop putting sex in porn

primer is so fake. "buy this paint and then buy more paint to cover your paint with" fuck you dude

i have a fun fact about netflix

the era of dolphin being really good overlapped with the era of netflix using extremely restrictive drm that didn't work on linux

for a while, the best way to watch netflix on linux was to emulate this bad boy

achoo

got to make my joke i like today

guy at the melee tournament asked my pronouns, i told him, and then went "switched mains after like 25 years"

it was like two full seconds before he laughed. in the middle he was like "wait, melee's not 25 years old yet..."

achoo

@Aleums @mtgcardlookup [[corrupted conviction|mom]]

there is one card in magic the gathering with oracle text that reads "This ability still resolves if its target becomes illegal."

stuff like "you can disable blood tokens with Pithing Needle because there was a card printed in 2013 that was called 'Flesh and Blood', but that name actually refers to two separate game objects called 'Flesh' and 'Blood', so you can name just the half of that card that shares its name with the token" is probably bad for the game overall but it's the kind of thing that i personally want more of, y'know? part of the draw of magic to me is that they've made so many cards over the past 30 years that of course there are bizzare, arcane interactions like that. it lends a sense of mysticism to the game, and makes its best players seem more like wizards

i fell in love the moment i learned what happens when you destroy [[Oblivion Ring]] with its ETB on the stack. it felt like, if you're wise enough, you really could do anything. it felt more like noita than harry potter, apologies for that but i don't have a better analogy

the most No Fun Allowed decision in MTG in recent memory imo is changing the default name of a token from its types to its types plus the word "token"

they did it so you couldn't use [[Pithing Needle]] to shut down Blood tokens by naming Blood from [[Flesh // Blood]]

there was also a nebulous thing that nobody could agree whether it really worked or not, but there was a good argument to be made that if you could give yourself protection from a chosen card name, you could use the silver border card [[Ninja]] to get protection from ninja tokens

@Aleums @vriskommunism yeah, the game is really strict about allowing permanents to be attached

@Aleums @vriskommunism only card in the game with "loses protection" on it is [[cephalid snitch]]

@Aleums @vriskommunism i can get so close but i'm not quite there

i can turn it into an enchantment but i haven't quite gotten it to be an aura

i'm trying to figure out if there's anything weird i can do with mutate and, maybe a temporary clone effect, to animate the sword and copy its rules text onto another creature that has useful rules text, then turn that into a non-creature enchantment... but even then if i can't make it into an aura it falls off when SBAs get checked

i do not understand nostalgia for when things were worse

is it tacky to wear a shirt with a picture of yourself on it