Saturday, August 24, 2019

Saturday 30:35 (3ish Google)

One search was just a definition of a word in the clue (multimeter), not the clue itself, another was just to check the spelling of a clue I was pretty sure I had right, but wasn't fitting (wait, Wookiee has two Es and an I?) The third was direct. It was the video game character with the most magazine covers (it's Lara Croft, with apparently 1200+ according to Guinness). It's so specific, the top search result was the answer to 28-Across in the puzzle. I'd rather do a little more work than that. When I'm looking for an actor in a film, I search for the film, not "actor in Hatari."

Despite the help, the puzzle was very tough, and very good, full of great misdirection.

Unbelievable discovery in one's field: CROP CIRCLE
E-sharp?: TECH SAVVY
Opposite of a state of disbelief: THEOCRACY (❤️)

I just achieved platinum status in MTG Arena constructed, mostly on the back of Vampires. The deck has enemies, but even they stumble at times. Sure, Reid Duke can find paths to victory playing Golgari, but my opponents aren't Reid Duke. The Kethis deck went off on me while I smoked a bowl, but he played with his food a little too much, and was forced to pass after drawing his whole deck, unable to loop Oath of Kaya again. Jeez, people, put Jace in the main.

This deck is a little pricy to build in paper, plus the deck kinda disintegrates in a couple of months with the rotation, so I don't want to invest too much, but I'm having fun online, even if I'm wrecking my sleep cycle.

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