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28 Years Later : The Boner Temple
Since I had already invested in the first part of this, apparently, trilogy, I gave this a watch as well. I found it not half bad, definitely had its moments!
Kind of hard to say sonething about it and stay spoiler-free, but I guess I can say I thought it was surprising the zombies played only a marginal role in this. Felt … kind of refreshing (?)
Oh and they turned the amount of zombie dick up to 11. I guess it’s always been a staple of the series, but this takes the crown for now.
Rated it 4 stars on Letterboxd, which funnily enough is the same rating I gave the original. Should really reevaluate that, though.
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Coding Trance Music
A while ago I stumbled upon this person “Switch Angel” on Youtube, who makes trance music by coding it inside an editor, strudel.cc
Since I watched the first Short of her a few months back, she pops up in my recommendations from time to time and I almost always click; she is that good.
I can’t wrap my head around how it works, but to me it is utterly mesmerizing watching her work. Makes me feel like it’s 1999 again.
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MtG: Vintage Esper Faeries
About a year ago, Max randomly dropped the bomb that he had started playing Magic the Gathering. Immediately I panicked, scrambling to throw together a working deck that would make up for the head start he had gotten. I had never played or even looked into it, but I guess I was MtG-curious.
FF to one year later: we have semi-annual meetups now to play a few rounds. I guess I have a decent beginner’s understanding of the game and have a few hundred cards and about 10 playable 60-card decks.
Since I’m kind of proud of what I have cobbled together using Moxfield, Cardmarket, Liberproxies and ChatGPT, I’d like to highlight a few decks I have played and note my learnings here.
Last night I got to try out my new deck: Esper Faeries! It was supposed to be a counter to Max’ Goblin deck, but it did perform decently in a variety of matchups (against other noobs).
This is the list. And below are my observations and the performance of individual cards.
Mainboard
Amount CI Mana Card White 2 W 1W Stoneforge Mystic Blue 1 U U Brainstorm 2 U 1U Daze 2 U 3UU Force of Will 1 U 3U Mistbind Clique 4 U U Ponder 1 U U Preordain 1 U 2U Scion of Oona 4 U 1U Spellstutter Sprite 1 U 1UU Vendilion Clique Black 1 B BB Bitterbloom Bearer 3 B 1B Bitterblossom 1 B 2B Engineered Plague 3 B B Fatal Push Multicolor 1 UB 2UB Alela, Cunning Conqueror 1 WUB WUB Esper Charm 2 WB 1WB Kaya's Guile 1 WU 1WU Spell Queller 1 UB 2UB Talion, the Kindly Lord 1 UB 1UB Tegwyll, Duke of Splendor Colorless 1 C 5 Batterskull 2 C Brazen Borrower 1 C 3 Sword of Fire and Ice 2 C 2 Umezawa's Jitte Lands
Amount CI Mana Card 2 UB Darkslick Shores 2 C Flooded Strand 1 WB Godless Shrine 1 WU Hallowed Fountain 1 U Island 3 C Polluted Delta 1 WUB Raffine's Tower 1 WB Scrubland 3 UB Secluded Glen 1 B Swamp 1 WU Tundra 1 UB Underground Sea 2 UB Watery Grave Sideboard
Amount CI Mana Card Blue 1 U U Spell Pierce Black 1 B 2BB Crippling Fear 1 B 2B Crypt Incursion 2 B 2B Engineered Plague 1 B 1BB Golden Demise 1 B B/P Surgical Extraction 1 B XBB The Meathook Massacre 1 B 2B Toxic Deluge 1 B 1BB Witch's Vengeance Multicolor 1 WU WU Dovin's Veto 1 UB UB Drown in the Loch 1 WUB WUB Esper Charm 1 WB 1WB Kaya's Guile 1 WB WB Zealous Persecution I really liked the playstyle with all the Flash interaction: Faeries coming in, cancelling out spells, surprise blocking or just tokens tanking huge damage. The playstyle is awesome because you have a lot of card draw/selection and you can play proactively or reactively, depending on the matchup. It lacks a bit of big creature removal, but I guess at that point you’re supposed to either have won or be dead.
Overperformed: Daze, Ponder, Spellstutter Sprite, Kaya’s Guile, Umezawa’s Jitte, my 3-color manabase
Underperformed: My multicolor cards like Esper Charm and the Faeries. Either they clogged my hand or did nothing.
Meh: Bitterbloom Bearer, Bitterblossom
I’ll keep refining this a bit and change a few cards around, but overall I am totally happy with this. (Don’t forget I don’t know what I’m talking about here).
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WordPress Plugin: MtG Block
A few days ago I had the need to display a Magic the Gathering decklist in my post. I could just link out to Moxfield of course, which does a great job with lists. Or I could just paste the list as a text paragraph. Or I could overengineer a custom WordPress block instead!
Long story short: I had ChatGPT whip up a plugin that adds a custom MtG block. You paste a list there (Moxfield, MtG Arena, MTGO formats supported) and on the frontend, a nice list is displayed.
The design was garbage and I wanted an auto update function as well, so I had to fiddle with the knobs myself for a while, too. Now it’s here, and it is for you, if you want it:
https://github.com/oelna/wordpress-mtg-decklist-block
See my other post for an example. And don’t @ me if your site burns!
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TBT: Wörtel Gaming
Ich kann mit einigem Stolz behaupten, eine recht gut sortierte Fotolibrary zu haben. Dateien sortieren, benennen, Metadaten vervollständigen … sowas ist mir halt wichtig (würde man nicht denken, wenn man meinen Desktop sieht!)
Besonders gerne schaue ich alte Fotos aus einfacheren Zeiten an. Oft welche aus meiner Studienzeit an der
FHHSTH Mannheim. Kurz nach der Jahrtausendwende gründeten meine Kommilitonen Martin, Christophe und Tina eine WG in Neckarau (“Im Wörtel”), nur wenige 100 Meter von meinem damaligen Wohnort (“Chez Maman”). Diese WG sollte für die nächsten Jahre einer meiner häufigsten und liebsten Aufenthaltsorte werden.Es gibt zu viel darüber zu erzählen, darum fokussiere ich mich mal auf ein Thema. Irgendwann kam heraus, dass alle von uns, die da in der WG abhingen, irgendwelche Videospiele aus ihrer Kindheit hatten, die sie damals gerne gespielt hätten, aber nie konnten. Manche aus Zeitgründen, Budgetgründen, oder halt weil sie halt nur auf andere Weise peinlich waren als durch Videospiele.
Jedenfalls fasste Christophe den, aus heutiger Sicht brillianten, Entschluss, dass wir diese Spiele aufarbeiten (“nachholen”) würden. Weil es sich quasi nur um alte Konsolenspiele handelte (SNES, GBA), ging das hervorragend am PC. So verbrachten wir die Abende mit Klassikern der Videospielgeschichte!
Um nur einige zu nennen, die wir durchgearbeitet haben: Final Fantasy IV – VI, Mega Man I – X3, sau viele Teile der Zelda-Reihe (Fan Favorite: Minish Cap!), Super Mario World, Castlevania, Super Ghouls ‘n Ghosts, Super Metroid, Metroid Zero Mission + Fusion, Metroid Prime I – III, uvm.
Als Enttäuschung wird immer in Erinnerung bleiben: Super Mario RPG; abgestürzt nach 10 Stunden Gameplay, Savegame corrupted, nicht zu retten.
Ich denke, zu der Zeit habe ich die Grundlage für meine spätere Twitch-Addiction gelegt. Bis heute schaue ich lieber jemand beim spielen zu, der es gut kann, statt selbst rumzukrebsen. Stark, dass sich Backseat-Gaming zu einer anerkannten Disziplin entwickelt hat mittlerweile.
tbc.
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