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Cake day: August 26th, 2023

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  • By breaking production, I’m referring to a situation where someone, most likely in a technical job, broke a system that was intended to be responsible for the operation for some kind of service. Most of the responses here, which have been great to read, are about messing up things like software, databases, servers and other hardware.

    Stuff happens and we all make mistakes. It’s what you take away from the experience that matters.




  • My weight loss started in a thread exactly like this. I read about someone using My Fitness Pal to track their food intake and consuming less than they were burning. I tried the same thing and within days I was losing weight and feeling better.

    I lost 80 pounds over the following year, took up running using the Couch 2 5K program and have been maintaining that since 2018.

    Finished my first triathlon last summer.









  • They’re intending for Magic to go the way of Lego. A bunch of different IPs in the mix and you’ll only engage with the sets you choose. If that’s only UW sets, they’re ok with that. For every one person that says they’re going to quit because of UB cards/sets, there’s likely 3-5 people that are picking up the game for the same reason.

    The unfortunate side of this is that you don’t get left out of competitive Lego if you decide to not engage with a set.

    It’s a business first, so someone has done the math to make sure that this kind of risk is worth it. Starting with Secret Lairs (Walking Dead) was a genius way to test the idea. Same goes for everything else they’ve done recently, new foil types, serialized cards, etc. They wouldn’t do that stuff if it didn’t make them money.

    I’m not advocating in favor of this kind of behavior, but it’s the reality of how product development works. You ship, test, iterate and ship. As long as they project growth, even if it’s at the expense of their most enfranchised players, they’ll continue to do whatever is working. You just have to decide whether it’s an environment you want to participate in.