Sam T.

Sam T.

@brixius.bsky.social

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Love me some spinning media and this is an unusual and interesting subcategory of it.

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🧵 Nearly half of recorded history lives on fragile 78rpm discs. 🎙️🎶 From music & comedy to speeches & firsthand accounts of world events, these recordings shaped what future generations could know about the past. 📚 Read “On 78s” by George Blood in VANISHING CULTURE 🔗 archive.org/details/vani...

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No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

news.com.auAI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare booksIf you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.

@fabfoundry.bsky.social I'm disappointed in these Sink Below event swaps for Calling 100. I want things to be fair and I admire moves in that direction but I already booked my flights with your original event itinerary in mind and am going to miss events early Friday that were unknown to me.

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That dirty projectors video where they're teaching polearm martial arts to sandhill cranes so they can flip tractor trailers off the highway etc.

I played in the #fabtcg Battlegrounds at Canadian Nationals. I am going to try to write down a tournament log before I forget what happened.

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Rd 7 vs Marlynn: I hate this MU. Opponent won the die roll but they were on New Horizons. I am still learning Marlynn so I am not a knower but I would've played C(rown)oD. Either way opp didn't really have gold until the end of the game and didn't have much trouble in what normally feels awful.

Ended 5-2 and dropped. Breakers were terrible and I also was starving. All of these (besides Riptide, sorry Riptide) were very close and I had a lot of fun. To boot, FaB players are always so nice.

I played in the #fabtcg Battlegrounds at Canadian Nationals. I am going to try to write down a tournament log before I forget what happened.

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Rd W 5 vs Huntsman: This was similar to Riptide. The opponents Hunter or Hunted? Weren't super impactful. The last one was a BRB but I had already played two. My early intims were hitting dreacts left and right.

Rd 6 W vs Victor: Finally! Rippled a Cast Homes and it killed a turn but I almost threw this. Less obviously than the first game but I was giving my opponent room to get Golden Sun I also got bailed out when they double lost a clash for gold and it immediately let me draw a better hand.

I played in the #fabtcg Battlegrounds at Canadian Nationals. I am going to try to write down a tournament log before I forget what happened.

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Rd 4 L vs Mario: I have prevention gloves for this MU but my opponent saw all three Spinnerets in their first 3-4 hands. Despite this the game was extremely close and had an insane end that I probably didn't perfectly optimize but also opp lucked out.

Rd 4 continued: I had an awkward double BRB hand that mostly converted. Opponent blocks with Mask and random flips to Trapdoor and it was the perfect block to avoid lethal. Any other brood member and they are dead.

I played in the #fabtcg Battlegrounds at Canadian Nationals. I am going to try to write down a tournament log before I forget what happened.

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Rd 2 L vs Meat Axe Rhinar: Awful. Neither of us were able to play BRB. They saw all of theirs but they were either disrupted or random discarded. Mine were at the bottom of my deck. It feels like the game came down to a 7ish damage/armor turn 0 opponent had going first.

Rd 3 W vs Dreadbore D-react Riptide: Game is roll scabs and occasionally pressing so much intimidation that they can't block. If you miss scabs they can barely punish you. Early in the game my opponent mistakenly pitched Collapsing Trap and it let me play around it being in arsenal. Happens.

I played in the #fabtcg Battlegrounds at Canadian Nationals. I am going to try to write down a tournament log before I forget what happened.

Rd 1 W vs Vynnset: This player ended up submarining into top 8 so I am particularly happy about the win. I made some good judgement calls about disrespecting Succumb to Temptation. Almost threw the game by eating my Goldkiss GA with Sash but Scabs bailed me out. Late intim got Vyn off Face Purg.

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Here's Cade Cavalli striking out Willson Contreras and screaming "sit down boy!" at him. Really nice and a great week for it. Does Manfred 1) do the obvious thing or 2) do nothing because he doesn't want a Turning Point spokesman to do a viral tweet about how he won't watch baseball anymore

I want actual LSS people to read this as I think the only way to really, truly fix this is them acknowledging how they have taken for granted the software behind the scenes that glues the scene together, and then doing something about it.

Tyler Luce@looseleaftea.bsky.social

Hello #fabtcg I am super burnt out by the data set and I wrote a ✨ manifesto ✨ about it. TL;DR IMO community needs to chill out on expectations they have towards the software me and other devs provide for mostly free, and I'm working on changes to reduce my burnout www.patreon.com/posts/crash-...

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This is not OK. This is gatekeeping not wealthy players from competing at high levels. Fables should not be essential gameplay pieces for some heroes. Ban Fables from CC please. #fabtcg #banFables

Rewatching Twin Peaks and Andy is such a good and fitting character for episode one. Really makes you feel the impact in a way a normal police procedural wouldn't.

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This makes me SO WILDLY ANGRY I have written and deleted this several times. I don't feel it's my place for some of my opinions and they are way too emotional, but changing the system to disincentivize grander cosplays is such a misguided punt #fabtcg @fabtcg.com

Max Ferocity | Bladesaint ⚔️@maxferocity.bsky.social

Denied. I think I knew in my heart this was going to be the response, but i pushed myself anyway. My first indicator should have been when pictures were considered optional for entry. I think this is going to have to be the last of my complex builds sadly, can’t do this to myself again. #fabtcg

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Denied. I think I knew in my heart this was going to be the response, but i pushed myself anyway. My first indicator should have been when pictures were considered optional for entry. I think this is going to have to be the last of my complex builds sadly, can’t do this to myself again. #fabtcg

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Look Within, painted last year for @fabtcg.com's Compendium of Rathe. Kind of out of my comfort zone, being such a calm and subtle scene, but it was fun to explore different options for this one, especially since I didn't quite know what direction would work best here. AD: Robbie Wen, Sam Yang

Just finished Love Eternal after 3 days of about 4-5 hours total of playing just the final level. I think I will try to make a review of it tomorrow. It made me think.

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In two weeks (6-8 march) I will be at the Calling in Toulouse. These are some painted APs I will bring. :) If you are coming do not hesitate to come say hello. :D