The One “About Saprolings”

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Andy and Anthony talk about saprolings, sort of. Our hosts talk about aesthetics and their own personal tastes, and how that applies to their preferences in Magic. Anthony somehow tries to make the case that saprolings connect to a pattern of affinity for systems thinking, complex iterative processes with emergent properties.

Discussed in this episode:

• Episode 211 — Book Club: The Beauty of Games by Frank Lantz
• Episode 251 — Book Club: Playing Oppression by Mary Flanagan and Mikael Jakobsson
• The Design of Everyday Things
• Why Fish Don’t Exist
• A Pattern Language
• Reading Rainbow (Cube)
• Cod by Mark Kurlansky
• A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
• Law of the Instrument
• The Neoclassical Cube
• 100 Ornithopters
• Sacred Geometry
• What if the 4-Card Limit Was Abolished in Modern? by Frank Karsten
• Saproling’s and Thallid Cards over Time
• Meander Artwork by Robert Hodgin
• Mandelbrot Set
• L-system fractals
• Chaos & Fractals: New Frontiers of Science
• NileRed
• WARNING Little Guys Spotted

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Musical production by DJ James Nasty.

Timestamps

• 0:00 - Intro
• 3:39 - Introduction to episode
• 4:50 - What are Andy’s broad aesthetic sensibilities?
• 12:59 - How do these aesthetic preferences relate to games?
• 18:33 - What are Anthony’s aesthetic sensibilities?
• 27:52 - Anthony’s love/hate relationship with Slimefoot
• 33:12 - Andy’s application of his aesthetic values to Sacred Geometry
• 38:59 - How the aesthetics of Magic have changed over time
• 43:50 - River corner
• 48:17 - Dynamic equilibrium, Magic meta games, and power creep
• 54:14 - “The Fractal Perspective”