All's well here at The Dispatch. The snails keep asking us if we can get a horse. It feels like such an unrealistic idea to us that we hadn't really been taking them seriously. But they got a bit upset the last conversation we had about it, so we had to explain to them how wildly dangerous it would be for them to be around a horse and how much work it would be for us to take care of it, not to mention the expense. We think that they are on the same page now, but we really need to find out where this idea came from so that we can intercept these kinds of obsessions before they get so emotionally invested.

Game Boy 👾

• Prerelease for Magic's new set, Wilds of Eldraine
  • Went to the first prerelease since moving back with a couple friends
  • Went 2 - 1 and got some prize packs
  • Had a good time, even if it's more fun to play at a bar
  • Now tweaking my league decks with the new cards that I have
• Magic Arena
  • Played a lot of cube and bought the pass for the next release

Coding Corner 👨🏻‍💻

• Factorio, Mutation, & Lossiness
  • Writeup about how Factorio relates to programming and how making something easy to refactor is valuable because refactoring is probably unavoidable
• Aesthetics of Annihilation | Magic Cards That Bring The End
  • Cool video on youtube that digs into the aesthetics around board wipers in magic
  • Rhystic Studies is the channel and the videos seem to all be very well produced and I'll have to watch more of that
  • Just stopped and watched another video on the Dandân format
• Dev Team Week at work this week
  • Good to see people in person
  • Feel like I haven't been able to really connect with coworkers in a long time, so this was a good reset

Albums 🎧

• "God Save the Animals" by Alex G
  • A familiar go-to, now with some new layers after going so deep into Trick
• "Trick" by Alex G
  • Just a touchpoint this week
• "Punisher" by Phoebe Bridgers
  • Feels like the pandemic

Podcasts 🎙️

• Dungeons and Daddies
  • Getting to the finale of season 2 it feels like. Not quite as emotionally interesting as the first season
• Not Another DnD Podcast
  • DnD Court is probably the best part of the podcast right now
• Lords of Limited
  • Listened to prepare for the prerelease