Substitute cards How it is Right now the rule is that you can use substitute cards for double-faced and meld cards. The rule is also that if a card gets marked during play (perhaps someone spills water), the head judge can issue a substitute card. There’s a third rule for “pringle” foils but I’m not sure exactly how...

Let’s postulate a scenario where I, an open borders lunatic with one immigrant parent and one Swedish parent, could’ve been convinced that Sweden should keep some limit on the amount of people who gets to stay temporarily, and/or some limit on the amount of those who gets to move full citizenships. I’m not saying...

Tidö är som vanligt köpta av fossilindustrin: De svenska lastbilstillverkarna Scania och Volvo genomför en omfattade lobbykampanj för att sänka EU:s krav—och har fått direkt hjälp av den svenska regeringen, kan DN avslöja. Det är så så så svårt att komma ihåg att den här avgrundsdjupa grymheten är en emergent...

Okay maybe this is platforming heresy but when I was little I hated the “coyote time” in platforming games. Still do. It’s there in order to make the game more welcoming and forgiving atd I applaud that sentiment but what happened was: “Oh. I can’t reach the other side. Because I’m jumping too early. Because the...

On Fedi, Reverse wrote: On the 6th of May, the Swedish Parliament decided to accept a new law that is supposed to “strengthen competition”, via harder punishments on public companies that compete “unhealthily” with private companies This has been widely (and jubilantly) reported by various media operated by Svenskt...

Here’s a comparison between the three pixel/​sprite/​tile making apps I could find on F-Droid. I know there’s stuff in that vein on Varvara, but I haven’t figured out a good way to run Varvara apps on Android yet, especially in a way where I could get files in and out. (Definitively still interested in that approach...

So there’s a hole in time with pretty clearr rules, right? You can only go back to a specific date and time. A specific September day at 11:58 AM, 1958. From a dark late night in 2011. That’s the portal. No freely controllable time-travel. While the past-hole is static, the future-hole is moving. I.e. each time you...

Yay I managed to re-beat Tetris Plus, the puzzle mode on the GB version! I beat this game when I first got it as a teen on the original Game Boy Pocket but I can’t have been playing on Very Hard (whicth is what I beat it on now) because I’m not sure level 84 (out of a hundred) is humanly possible. The actual...

One of the cafés I really like recently started using those li’l “beepers”. Customers get one when ordering their food and when they start beeping you’re supposed to bring it to the disk and pick up your plate yourself. So far so good. I’m all for it if it makes the job of the wait staff easier. I’m not blaming the...

There’s one thing I wish you all could understand. The way Apple, Alphabet, Meta and Amazon owns the world? It doesn’t have to be that way. It used to not be that way. Their ascendancy should’ve been illegal. I was on the FOSS bandwagon before those companies took over the world. I belatedly fell off it and drank...

Now that I have video game mania, books are piling up at an even faster rate than normal. Therefore it’s time for some “Compulsive Vowing”: It’s gonna be five-out-one-in until I have read twelve physical books. I.e. I can only get two more physical books until I have read twelve; and the first of those two has to...

I’ve longed for so many years for the new Swedish e-id system to finally bring liberation from BankID but it’s going from bad to worse. It shares the incredible drawback of requiring a Google or Apple smartphone, but adds a hard requirement of NFC at all times. (A few years ago I belatedly gave in and got iPad and a...