i wonder if there's any way to convert like an ESL (the epaper price tags) into a sort of TRMNL type device, cos there's gotta be a ton you could get for cheap from liquidation sales or anything like that. idk just thinking
listening to the newest mountain goats and got jumpscared by sudden lin manuel miranda
Anarch Program: Icebreaker – Fracter
Install cost: 3 – Strength: 0 – Memory cost: 1 – Influence cost: 2
Interface → 1 credit: Break 1 barrier subroutine.
1 credit: The barrier you are encountering gets -3 strength for the remainder of this encounter. Spend credits only from stealth cards to use this ability.
There have been many golden ages of piracy, each occurring on stranger and stormier waters.
4 stars
While this can be an interesting breaker that requires support to function, I’m moreso eyeing it as a way to enable ice destruction. Barriers are the most high value targets for Arruaceiras Crew, and Corsair can destroy a Pharos using 3 stealth credits and the tag + 2 credits ability on Crew. Logjam can be even cheaper. All of this depends on the set printing enough stealth support to make that package worth it, since I don’t think just Trickster Taka will be good enough to make you run this breaker. I’m not worrying about this. Stealth as a keyword is a tightly coupled bundle of setups and payoffs. Like similar synergy packages, you choose a suboptimal way of building your deck and building your rig for the payoff of getting to use good stealth cards. Obviously, Corsair is total garbage if Vantage Point stealth decks will only get to use the Ashes stealth cards, and I think the review would be uninteresting if I said, “I don’t see any stealth support from the first card spoiled for the set. 0 stars.”
On the other hand… Imagine the future where Corsair gets no support and Shaper tries to treat it like a classic Shaper HyperMantle-esque 1 breaker suite with importing Taka and using Chromatophores and Pelangi to try to make everything a Barrier. It’d be so funny.
Welcome back to Netrunner scoops season! This one is gonna start low and slow, since Vantage Point isn't going to be out until Q1 2026. As per usual, I will be trying to review as many cards as I can until the set finally comes out. Here's hoping I can review them all.
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Breaking news from #NetrunnerWorlds25 in Edinburgh, the next #Netrunner set has been revealed!
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Announcing Vantage Point - Null Signal Games
Announcing Vantage Point, the next expansion compatible with Netrunner from Null Signal Games.
However, there is a catch this year. This will be my first set of card reviews since I've started volunteering at Null Signal Games. While it is very exciting for me to help work at the organization that makes my favorite card game, this still carries some risks. Not to get too inside baseball, but I will make sure to try to alleviate some concerns about compromising the quality of my card reviews.
To clarify how much I would know, I am in the web dev team and not in the development team (confusing, I know). This means I don't make the cards, and I don't playtest the cards. I have seen all the cards (sans art) one time a number of months ago, but I've had no experience with how they will actually play or anything of the sort. Also, my memory is really bad. In other words, I know very little, verging on nothing, and my reviews will still fare about as well as the average person.
My reviews are still my pure first impressions, which will be proven wrong as soon as the set comes out and I will continue to regret my bad reviews as much as I regret having rated Trick Shot at 2 stars.
Hope y'all are as excited for the new set as I am. God I'm so excited to get out of Sable meta.
idk why last week's link roundup broke and is rounding up again
there's links somewhere, but I don't have any stockpiled lol.
Alternate title: I was sent to another world and all I got for it was these 5 links?!
I am not a game dev person, but my own experiences with trying to find a job in the tech job market are pretty similar. (It never worked out. I work in education now.) You put in a lot of work only for the companies you're trying to get a job from to not even give you the courtesy of sending you a rejection email. It feels like what's going on is that companies are, in a way, dropping the pretenses. If you want to read another story about the hellscape that is the game dev job market, there’s more where that came from.
You are an expert in all these technologies, and that’s a good thing, because that expertise let you spend only six hours figuring out what went wrong, as opposed to losing your job. You now have one extra little fact to tuck away in the millions of little facts you have to memorize because so many of the programs you depend on are written by dicks and idiots.
So true dude. Programming does suck. It's also great but you really have to build on top of the culmination of some really bad decisions.
Normally, sharing an article by someone who works at not one but two AI companies should be signal enough that I have been replaced by a doppelgänger and should be killed on sight, but there’s something here I want to dig into more. What I find most interesting is the comparison between Vercel and Cloudflare’s backgrounds. My site is hosted on Cloudflare—it is significantly cheaper to use than Vercel—but I used to use Vercel in the past. From my own experiences, the assertions made in the article are true, but I disagree with the conclusion that these two monoliths need to prove that you should stick with them. Consolidation on this level is itself a red flag, and is maybe a sign to reduce your dependency on one of two giant companies. I'm slowly working out what it'd take to make the move away from hosting my site on Cloudflare, and while I'd recommend hosting your own site on Cloudflare if you're starting out, it's always good to learn how to move away from depending on the kindness of a large company offering a free tier.
The thesis of this video is that, fundamentally, Netrunner has this problem where it is, by default, this flat game state. Where, without card effects, the Corp always loses.
This is a talk explaining what the concept of a "flat game state" is in the game of Netrunner, and what that entails in its card design and interplay. This is a video that's opened my mind to new ways of looking at board interaction in Netrunner, and is the motivating force for some new posts that are in the works on game design in Netrunner. Good game!
I wanted to end things off with another dunk on AI. Sure it's so easy and everyone is doing it, but there's some really incredible writers dusting off their keyboards to sit down and complain.
rolled credits on Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island. incredible game. i know the postgame is the "real" game, but i'd argue that serpentcoil island on its own was worth almost all the price tag. it was such a journey to finally beat. transmutation pots are unrivaled.
annoying all my friends by saying "wow this is a really cool period piece!" whenever they show me a movie made before 1980