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Jake Eakle @jseakle.bsky.social · 21h

probably not my kind of game, but what a joyful article to read :D

JAKE @guiltyjake.bsky.social · 1d

To everyone reading this right now.
I'm JAKE.
I'm the Japanese person who recently published this article and promoted it on Twitter (X).
note.com/guiltyjake/n...

This article introduces Fantasy Maiden Wars, an amazing game I absolutely love.

Everyone, please get to know the super great game: "Fantasy Maiden Wars"｜JAKE

Hello, world. I'm Zyake. I'm born and raised in Japan, and just your average video game nerd. First and foremost, I want to express my heartfelt gratitude to you for opening this page. And if you can...

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Jake Eakle @jseakle.bsky.social · 2d

did you also agree with Matt Tumblrbuyer that this was abuse

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Jake Eakle @jseakle.bsky.social · 2d

thinkin about it

thinkin it can probably digging in the ground for tubers

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Jake Eakle @jseakle.bsky.social · 2d

been playing pad stepmania regularly again. good idea. recommend. has led to the least-fucked-up sleep i've had in maybe years.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 2d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 2d

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Jake Eakle @jseakle.bsky.social · 2d

from there my deck was capable of buying Dominate every turn and theirs wasn't, and that was that. (it was also important that they didn't hit Goat from Search, and possibly relevant that they added Distant Shores which are a neat synergy with BoM-XR, but not nearly worth passing up CQ.

Jake Eakle @jseakle.bsky.social · 2d

game 6 my opponent drew quite a lot better than me in the open and punished my greedy flag bearer pretty hard. they had more Searches in play and more BoM in deck, which is _most_ of what mattered at that point... but I just kept buying CQ and managed to snag the perma-Flag by buying the last 2.

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Jake Eakle @jseakle.bsky.social · 2d

game 5 i'm supposed to win as p1, even with the worse 5/2, but i badly misjudged the usefulness of Ronin, which can never realistically draw more than 2 cards, and opened with it. after that i'm supposed to lose, but p1 tempo plus near-optimal draws on the last shuffle let me barely squeak it out.

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Jake Eakle @jseakle.bsky.social · 2d

game 4 was extremely close, i ALMOST threw it by not buying an estate on what was extremely likely to be my last turn. but i did play better, identified that the raw speed of Tanuki+Skulk meant it wasn't worth investing in Harbor Villages. I probably should have had /one/ though.

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Jake Eakle @jseakle.bsky.social · 2d

anyway i was way ahead but after we both fully dudded they randomly had a dramatically above average final turn and won by 1

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Jake Eakle @jseakle.bsky.social · 2d

game 3 was the sloggiest game i've played in recent memory. i think my approach of going for triple Conquest over double prov to try to have meaningful econ in the late late game was probably correct, but my opponent did identify Rice being relevant before i did...

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Jake Eakle @jseakle.bsky.social · 2d

won game 2 because i understood the Sea Trade + Foray interaction right away and my opponent didn't; I also managed it quite nicely and ended up with like 4 loots to 0 which was way too much to come back from

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Jake Eakle @jseakle.bsky.social · 2d

in today's match against dim886, i lost game 1 i think because i didn't expect the Cutthroat stalemate to last so long and didn't respect the importance of an early GM as the only +buy, so i took a Mapmaker when they took Mill and had very low odds of hitting 6 without copper.

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Jake Eakle @jseakle.bsky.social · 2d

made it to the round of 16 in the Dominion Online Championship! for top 8 i have to beat the newcomer who upset JNails, the first seed... should be exciting!

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Jake Eakle @jseakle.bsky.social · 3d

it was hard for me to believe this post was only two years old so i searched twitter and both confirmed that that is the original... and found this incredible account

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Jake Eakle @jseakle.bsky.social · 3d

the answer to this question is "play Consume Me"

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Jake Eakle @jseakle.bsky.social · 3d

thanks!

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Jake Eakle @jseakle.bsky.social · 3d

so this is a keep right

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Jake Eakle @jseakle.bsky.social · 3d

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrior...

Warrior (TV series) - Wikipedia

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Jake Eakle @jseakle.bsky.social · 4d

Magic Lamp has gifted JNails his 2nd title in game 4, seemingly against his will

Jake Eakle @jseakle.bsky.social · 4d

after 3 years, my Python bug has received one comment. not from the person it's been assigned to for 2 years, but from a rando who also encountered the issue... which might actually be more surprising

github.com/python/cpyth...

ConfigParser read(write()) not idempotent · Issue #96239 · python/cpython

Bug report Due to the the way that multiline values are handled and the fact that initial whitespace is preserved in keys added with set(), it is possible for calling parser1.write(foo) followed by...

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Jake Eakle @jseakle.bsky.social · 4d

JNails has thrown game 2 of the Dominion League championship to tracer in tragic fashion :(

but he only needs to win one of the remaining 4 to clinch it :)

but now he has also thrown game 3 :(

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Nicole Carpenter @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social · 4d

i wrote about consume me for @theverge.com ✨

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Jake Eakle @jseakle.bsky.social · 4d

successfully got C and L to start 1000xRESIST. it's only been like two weeks but it's already great to see the beginning again, noticing stuff in a new light, seeing the craft, seeing their reactions, but mostly just coming home to the characters. i might like this thing even more than i thought.

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Jake Eakle @jseakle.bsky.social · 4d

As someone who's been paying attention for this long, it's crystal clear, for tons and tons of reasons I can go into if someone wants me to, but my point here is, it's genuinely hard to be sure which accusations are true. I don't think there's a shortcut. You have to put in the time.

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