Real world is extremely hostile to my continued existence on many axes. Here there is only a coin flip chance one will be, usually.
If you’d like to play over online sim and maybe make a (cute, cool, nice) new friend feel free to ping me @itsmiaomiao:matrix.org
With the way power creep tends to go in games like this I think draft is the only truly fair way to play. It flexes every muscle the game has and I love it dearly. I like commander very casually but I agree it is not usually for me. I live in a super competitive area that I don’t have the resources nor desire to keep up with anymore so even constructed formats in-person I find a waste of time often; I keep those to mtgo leagues or arena just because it’s cheaper. I always do limited events if I go to anything physically these days.
I haven't played in a minute but I used to do pauper 5c tron in mtgo leagues years ago, the meta is so much faster now and there have been a couple of bans that have hurt it. Prismatic Prism and Bonder's Ornament are gone. Tolarian terror decks can have a 5/5 out very early and tron decks are just too slow to keep up. Lots of artifact hate going around. Red decks apparently main Cleansing Wildfire these days...many such cases. I am told some mono green variants can still do some stuff but tron is definitely falling off.
I love magic- I am a modern, pauper & legacy (sometimes) player, usually- but I have made an effort recently to not use Discord when I can help it. Let me know if there's any want for a Matrix space or something and I'm in.
Hello, what is this “fedia” instance and why are they all in here
I don’t think people not from here realize how vile American culture really is. It is the most cynical, atomized, detached existence. There are no communities. There is no kinship. There is only me and mine and you and yours and leave me alone, and everyone fucking loves it. They love it. There is no fixing it. I’ve tried for nearly half my life, nearly 15 years of trying to change Americans, and I am exhausted. No one wants it. The third-worldists are right about this one.
His legacy is going to be right there with Nixon and Reagan tbh. Words cannot describe how much I hate this man and the people who enable him.
Fuck it I don’t even care anymore. These people deserve their toothbrush seizure. “That’s not really a thing” yeah well you should have thought of that before the world got like this; hand it over.
The show is often painfully mean and in all of the wrong ways to all of the wrong people and that is what kills it for me. There’s probably some funny writing somewhere here and there but it is extremely “aggrieved white guy” energy at all times. If you go back to a lot of the episodes of Johnny Bravo Macfarlane worked on you can see it there, too; it’s very off-putting. I am also not really that plugged in to modern memetic culture or anything, I understand what you’re getting at because I did get a kick out of a lot of the steamed hams stuff when that was a thing but T-posing Peter and et cetera has never done it for me, I don’t get it. I’m getting too old for this crap.
It is really hard not to feel like we are witnessing another world war unfolding in real time. It is all so much.
That’s it! I am putting it on the record. I know some things, but not enough, and my crappy doomscrolling habits combined with my much less crappy posting habits get in the way of due diligence. So I’ll make a belated resolution to read at least one piece of captivating communist or communist-adjacent literature a month; more if I am feeling it.
I plan to start by capping off March with Capitalism and Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell- this has been a sorely missing piece to my analysis that I am very thankful for discovering has a well-regarded fit. I am living my disabled truth more and more in the years following 2020 despite having this affliction for more than half of my life at this point, and I have never felt a good foundation for a synthesis of my life and my principles through Marxist thought, nor have I found satisfactory answers through community, not really. I hope following this helps me become a pillar for others like me, our disabled comrades and comrades-to-be. After this, my wife found a very loved copy of Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States at a local bookstore being given away for free. I have been meaning to go through it for years, and thus a freebie lands in my lap; it is destiny.
That said, recommend me the good shit! The year is still young, and I am pretty much this IRL:
Seriously, all of these things are massive. Just looking at them gives me carpal tunnel. Nobody needs phones this big. I certainly don't. In fact, I want a very small phone, relatively speaking. The size what we had before we apparently learned better, and there doesn't seem to be many convincing options.
Ideally, my perfect smartphone went extinct with 3.5" displays. I do like reaching the All of the screen without contorting my thumb like some kind of mathematical instrument. I know modern OSes try to work around this by letting you slide or squish stuff around but i don't care. This is a regression, a fix that never needed a problem!
Ironically, Apple's iPhone SE seems to be the closest modern technology I can muster to those halcyon days sans deformed digits at a comfortable 4.7", but those .2 imperial nonsenses do matter, slightly, and regardless I am not keen on Apple's ecosystem. My wife has one of these and I kind of love it anyway. Android at least ought to have some options...? Well, sort of. I have done some digging ahd found a few models that might be OK. I know small beggars can't exactly be big choosers but I am determined to find my glass slippers, damn it.
Cubot Mini/Pocket:
Oh shit. This is perfect! A 4" screen, be still my heart...! However, I am led to believe this entire line of phones won't work in burgerland because this country hates everyone and everything. What?! 
Unihertz Jelly Star:
Love the enthusiasm, but maybe this is a bit too far in the other direction... also, this thing is just kind of ugly. I do have a fondness for that y2k transparency; maybe if it were in a few other colors, but I just can't get into it.
Palm Smartphone:
I genuinely had no idea Palm was still making phones. This actually might be the queen of the crop; 3.3" and from what I can tell, it fits my use case quite well.
And...that's basically it. Everything else that exists won't function with US carriers, near as I can tell. Am I just being a smartphone boomer? I can't be the only one who wants flagship specs on sensible real estate... 
more and more I realize my problem is americans and this specific cultural blight, not just any particular generation of them. I will never be at peace here. I can only hope I will mesh better anywhere else in the future.