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Apparently MTG Arena rigs hands. Specifically, it draws two opening hands and keeps the one that has a land/nonland ratio closest to the land/nonland ratio of your deck. People crunched things out and determined that the optimal number of lands is 22 or 26 because of this. There's also speculation that the algorithm will give the worse of two hands if you are on a winning streak, but I haven't seen proof of this (not that I would put it past Wizards). Of course what really pisses me off about this is that they added official MTG: Arena forums, but they didn't bring back the official MTG forums, nor did they allow you to comment on Gatherer again.

That's how you reach the Korea meme barrel.

I finally reached the bottom of the Japanese Youtube meme barrel

I'd say that I'm glad that the community voted the right way, but this time there wasn't really any other option.

When I started reading Legend of the Galactic Heroes, I said that Reinhard von Lohengramm did nothing wrong as a joke. But now I'm six books in and he's only done one thing that might have been wrong.

Viewcounts check out for this explanation. EDIT: Checking out comments before and after that video. Before that video top comments are mainly people commenting on the "game." A few anime references and other memes. After the humans video most of the comments are either talking about recently finding the channel, things along the lines of "lol wouldn't it be cool if there actually was a game like that," and basic school normie memes like "my biology teacher caught me watching this and gave me an A."

Didn't realize how mainstream TierZoo had gotten until he made a Honey Badger video and there were no Killing Bites references in the comments.

Gog has a vote for free game going on. Problem is that none of the options are that great. Vote for Shadow Warrior II, I guess.

Somehow Gundam has become known as the effective start of anime, despite the existence of famous series like Space Battleship Yamato, Mazinger Z, Ashita no Joe, Lupin III (green jacket) all predating it, not to mention the really ancient stuff like Tetsujin 28, Astro Boy or Q-Taro. I'm okay with that.

Somehow this is all the fault of Watchmen.

In Up one of the main themes was Carl moving on with his life beyond his childhood dreams and his plans with Ellie. So it was only natural in the story that he would go up against his childhood hero, who was also adored by Ellie. Since that went well, and because everyone likes a twist (or so executives think) they just started doing the same thing in later movies. Sometimes it works, but more often it's just something that happens without working with the wider themes of the story. And it's definitely not really a twist at this point.

What do big rocks normally do in Florida?

Ehh... Foxgirls having hair tails with colored tips isn't that uncommon. Consider for example Xiaomu, or Carta Issue from Gundam: IBO. And the design has come up in various places in western animation. But I'll admit that this is the first time that I've seen it specifically with the twin-tails cut. Usually there's either more than one "hair-tail", or they are really bangs with long hair in the back.

This picture really pisses me off: Not because it is an example of this bowsette thing going far beyond where it should have, but because it isn't lore accurate. Miles Prower only has two tails, but you can clearly see three in this picture. (Five if you count the twintails)

Log onto Pixiv. See that several of my bookmarked artists uploaded images, even though none of them have uploaded anything in weeks. Every single new image is Bowsette.

I give Gundam Build Divers a solid 6.5/10 It wasn't great but it didn't offend me on a personal level.

If Doomguy gets in, Daisy should get in.

Recently Japan has just been huge on jumping on fads. I know I talk about virtual youtubers a lot, but that was a great example of how crazy it can get. For a while there's only Kizuna AI and those Eilene videos everyone forgot about/didn't know existed in the first place. But then in like two weeks last December we suddenly have four more superstars, with Nekomasu in particular going from like 100 subscribers to around 100,000 in only a few days, and in a month or two after that there's literally hundreds of channels with at least some popularity. All you need is the right spark. Should be interesting to see what Nintendo does with this. Normally I would say nothing, but Bowsette has gotten pretty crazy so I think they'd have to at least give it a nod. Bowsette's not going to be official though, people who think that are still waiting for Goku in Smash.

On a different anime-related note, I just realized that we are pretty much guaranteed to have a virtual youtuber anime in at most two years. I don't know who it will star. Obvious bets are Kizuna AI and Mirai Akari (since the supposed purpose for her creation was to generate enough money to make an anime), but it could be anyone. Whoever it is there will almost certainly be crossovers anyway.

Artstyle did not turn me off. Was unaware of the vore though.

To be honest, Sam and Max works better when it doesn't get a chance to build up a big continuity. By the end of Season 3 I didn't know if they were mocking the idea of having too much continuity, or actively trying to retcon some events to make it all work together, but either way it felt like it had drawn on too long. That's not to say that I don't want Sam and Max. But I like how I can read the comics, then go to the cartoon show, then go to the Lucas Arts game, then go to the Telltale Games and each time get an experience which is recognizably Sam and Max, but a different take on things with most of the characters different. I'm sure eventually they'll show up again in some other form.