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Nu (Sans) font
In today’s underconsideration newsletter I briefly paused at the new Blackletra typeface for Nubank, which they had worked on since 2024.
I dig the sort of trendy style, but mainly I wanted to post this so I don’t get out of the habit of blogging regularly, ha!
https://blackletra.com/custom/nubank
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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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