Shape the Board
shapetheboard.bsky.social
Shape the Board
@shapetheboard.bsky.social
MtG Commander for Dota and chess players who settles for 2nd or 3rd place in a pod
This week alone, I have uninstalled and installed MTG Arena thrice already. Uninstalling, for the sake if doing productive work, and then installing a day later after the work is done, is my form self-regulating RNG addiction, by leveraging the gameclient's very slow download speed. I love my life.
February 13, 2026 at 3:15 AM
Bunny on electric poles and tall fields is so third world I had a sudden ego's ratatouille scene. Meralco in the 90s will teach you how to put sugar on kuntadors
February 10, 2026 at 12:48 AM
in a leisurely free-for-all game where the intention and expectation of players, spectators, and future spectators alike, is to see the "inevitable" end of it, we feel that dragging the game longer makes everyone salty. EXCEPT when we see a player rise and fall repeatedly in a high risk environment
February 6, 2026 at 2:10 AM
>checks X
>wapo pulitzer awardee, jobless
>empathy kicks in
>see comments of cryingrachelzoh.gif from red hats
>blood boils, journschool flashbacks
>crawls back to leisure space
February 5, 2026 at 1:40 AM
i respect the free market and the inherent injustices it have. Despite, I intend to release this game for public domain as soon as Im done with the base format. I advocate for game pieces to be made of proxies, and mine is no exception. What I do want though is a rules committee based on salt
January 30, 2026 at 3:04 AM
wow I didnt know this is a real card
January 28, 2026 at 1:00 PM
we are pretty good
January 27, 2026 at 6:07 AM
I don’t think it’s radical to demand politicians to study Game Theory and Systems Dynamics as prerequisites for running for public office
January 21, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Despite my earlier optimism, now I understand why not everyone likes wRiting rULe boOks: three words that dont mix well with gamers. Writing demands editing, Rules demands testing, and Books demand effort. Tutorials and mentoring seems like the primary way to teach fun. Rule books are mere appendix.
January 16, 2026 at 2:41 AM
The murder of a white lesbian on the other side of this world irrevocably snapped me out of my pacifism, and I felt there was no turning back.
I welcome myself, an amateur Austronesian game theorist, to an audience of none, into this global, parasocial resistance.
This is for the Good.
January 15, 2026 at 6:50 AM
silhouettes, done. im settling for 18 units
November 9, 2025 at 2:07 AM
pops: games are for pussies--unless theres money involved
me: making my own snowflakes, despite the dark economy
November 8, 2025 at 9:41 AM
A lifetime of daydreaming. A year of theorycrafting. A month of sketching. Now, im writing the rules. Alpha, here i come.
November 7, 2025 at 1:27 AM