jeff ruberg

digimon tcg graphics & db • ios engineer @youtube, prev @shonenjump • podcast @podigious • avatar by @othatsraspberry • he/him 🏳️‍🌈

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@crossai8

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@maebatsu weird, I thought his name was “Roronoa [DEBUG DEBUG DEBUG] Zoro”

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state of the digimon card game in 2026

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A Toy Story-themed “TS” billboard with 13 clouds has been spotted.

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@vandiiloptcg crazy how much people misinterpret this stuff in such bad faith… they really will do anything to vilify judges just because they view them as “others” and lack empathy 😔

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@Dragoonneth the point is that the amount of money being spent on staffing is wildly outpaced by what players expect based on prize value. it’s not about an individual judge’s wage; it’s about hiring *more* judges, proper breaks and shift rotations to avoid fatigue, more admin staff, etc.

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@East_ML 🤣

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have you ever heard any compelling shorthands for these types of memory-gain tamers?

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i started going down a deep rabbit hole sorting all of digimon's memory tamers into buckets to see how common each category was

(these are the best concise names I've currently landed on, but if you have other suggestions please let me know!)

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have you ever heard any compelling shorthands for these types of memory-gain tamers?

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@translationmon that's great for the collection of all 3, but i'm hoping for something for each one separately 😢

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more interesting data: "memory setters" vs "opp digi memory gainers"(?) over the years (aka, lmao look at how tamer-focused the digimon story game sets have been)

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really i just wish we had a good shorthand for #2 the same way we do for "memory setters". #4 is still pretty rare (just a handful of TS cards), and #3 is trait-specific, but #2 is just as generic as "memory setters" and about 50% as common (47 vs 83)

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@victory_taste it’s not “alibi”, it’s german 😭

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@NathanBLawrence "imagine having engineers that actually care about ui details" ok? sounds good?

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@Karn_EX I’m convinced 99% of the reason this app hasn’t completely fallen apart yet is because people still have that gut instinct lol

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@dy__dk @Lysts_Sin this is fantastic! does calling it a podcast mean it’ll be available in podcast apps?

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btw these complex regex searches are basically just doing what’s described here in how to identify passive permission effects (filtering out things with a “when” trigger event, plus some additional filters to include “in hand”, [~ turn], and not dna)

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Digimon DUAL card PSA:

These 6 warp digivolution permission-granting effects WILL NOT work with Arts Digivolution since they only work for digivolving into a card *directly* in the hand

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also, for reference, here is the full list of warp digivolution permission-granting effects that DO work with Arts Digivolution

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showing off corners of @cardSlashDB that even I often forget about:

BT25 has more average effect text than BT24, but less than EX9 and EX10 (and AD1 is currently the most verbose set)

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75% of digimon rulings questions can be answered by just looking at the precise words used (play vs use, attack vs battle, etc)
25% require a deep understanding of a couple different systems and how they interact
2% require ignoring the laws of math and logic

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tbf i think the professor who was teaching an intro-level cs class to high school students and introduced the idea of regexes only as finite state machines (instead of, you know, as an extremely useful text matching tool) was very misguided

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little did I know when I was struggling to understand finite state machines and regexes in high school that the main place I’d end up using them as an adult was searching for precise phrasing on japanese digimon cards

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Digimon DUAL card PSA:

These 6 warp digivolution permission-granting effects WILL NOT work with Arts Digivolution since they only work for digivolving into a card *directly* in the hand