2022 July
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@MarnelEstrada Congrats!
2022 June
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@LaTtEX he doesn't make promises, only aspirations
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@jaymelynilao wag kasi magjog ng 11pm
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@joyarmadamba In 30 years fanatics will remember this time as a golden age kasi may libreng sakay
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@bloodyvints what game is this?
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@paulcatiang ok ba food jan? may quiz night there on the 30th
2022 May
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@jaymelynilao uwi na
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@mlq3 Am currently doing my list; I've found some red flags raised about D'Angelo (mismanagement of some cosplay funds?) and Cabonegro (predator accusations?). Have you seen these concerns and found them to have no merit?
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@ainsleysdad11 it's unnecessary to message me directly, I can see replies to the bot
2022 April
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@wouter reading this made me check my webmention implementation and realize my outgoing webmentions were broken, so thanks lol
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Normally, you should be able to counter Deadly Dispute if you want, so if you were able to resolve a counter spell but Deadly Dispute still resolved, it means there was an onboard effect or such that made his spell uncounterable. This usually indicated by like red aura around the card while it's on the stack. If we had the screenshot, we could easily point it out.
Don't worry, people aren't trying to be mean, it's just difficult to answer your question without more information. At least you know better for next time. Try to get a screenshot or at least note down what the other onboard cards are.
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@mlq3 @ceso the randy david article is backed up on https://web.archive.org/web/20070702200951/http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/columns/view_article.php?article_id=60473
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💬 Reply to a comment by The-Snuffleupagus on 'Why doesn't Vanishing Verse hit Lands?' on /r/MagicArena:
A card's color identity is not the same as its color. [[Tazri, Beacon of Unity]] has a color identity of WUBRG because of the rule you mentioned, but it's still only a white creature (can't be bounced by [[Aether Gust]] etc). Color identity is really only relevant for commander/brawl purposes.
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Your sideboard guide has -2 lantern vs control but only one in the main.
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In paper packs, there is a chance of a second rare/mythic via a foil right? I guess that doesn't happen in Arena? Been drafting on Arena a while but never thought about it. Does that means Arena drafting doesn't accurately model paper drafting?
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@amolith heya. I tried to sign up by sending an email as described but got an "Undelivered Mail" response with the following error:
<~amolith/fediring@todo.sr.ht>: host todo.sr.ht[173.195.146.145] said: 550
Internal auth access denied (in reply to end of DATA command)Is this a problem on my mail server's end?
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@Westraid never read this, how different is it from the film?
2022 March
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During the economy stream they mentioned that there are still plans for future historic anthologies, but no specific details have been announced yet
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💬 Reply to '"Technology" is really not there and won't be (for things you think are easy like ICR).' on /r/MagicArena:
I've been meaning to comment on the whole "technology" meme, I guess this thread is fine for it.
IIRC the original "technology" response in the stream was to the problem of cards being repeated across sets with different printings, i.e. your collection has 8 copies of each temple or 12 copies of Duress or whatever. People are saying why can't these just be cosmetics (card skins) or autodusted or whatever.
It seems pretty likely that this problem exists because they inherited their data structures from MTGO which mirrors the reality of paper, where each of a card's printings exists as a separate "card" object. Since MTGO doesn't care how many copies of a card exist in your collection and you can just sell your extras, this model just works for MTGO (the same way it does for paper).
On Arena it's problematic because you can't get rid of those extras, they just sit there taking up space and annoying the obsessive-compulsives among us. And this data structure probably influences how things like ICRs or duplicate protection works.
Because they're tied to this legacy data structure, they can't just easily treat different printings of the same card as the same. Most likely fixing this comprehensively requires an overhaul of the underlying data structure around cards, decks, collections, etc, and there are probably dependencies on the backend we can't even see. Going through all of these requires effort, so yeah, man-hours.
This is probably just one minor thing. From experience, technical debt in a large system tends to build up slowly but surely especially when the dev cycle is strained for resources, so most likely there are a lot of tiny things in the client and the backend that seem like minor problems but digging into them would break things somewhere else or otherwise require a lot of effort so they have to be really careful what they touch otherwise the whole house of cards might collapse.
A lot of the "small" pain points attributable to "technology" probably boil down to "we can't afford to spend X manhours on this" - basically completely agreeing with the OP here. I would guess the guy being interviewed (was he a product guy or sth? IDK his name) didn't really know the technical details, or figured it would go over the head of the audience, so he just resorted to the "technology" shortcut. I think
I'm not a fan of turning the "technology" response into a meme, as it can trivialize the dev work. Software development is hard. Maintaining and constantly updating a large system with thousands of interacting pieces and millions (?) of users is hard. Keeping software bug-free is hard. Even issues we experience that seem "minor" and could be easily fixed might have related issues or dependencies we aren't aware of that make it more complex to fix.
Obviously WOTC could probably afford to pour more resources into Arena, but that won't necessarily mean problems would be resolved linearly faster (see: the Mythical Man Month). The problem (as it often is with software projects) is most likely with prioritization (and the fact that regular paper set releases means their dev cycle has an unchangeable cadence). Unfortunately, WOTC isn't a software company, so I don't expect them to communicate like a software company, their comms are largely driven by marketing concerns.
(I'm not arguing with the OP or anything, I largely agree with the thread here, just needed a place to post my thoughts lol.)