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Guiding others to a treasure I cannot possess.
[Preamble: No AI. Low effort, have little to add this week, so just gonna smirk like a pedantic know-it-all.]
Winning at Netrunner, something that constantly eludes me because I hate grinding reps1. But, it turns out I’m relatively decent at theorycraft, at least if recent meta evolution and tournament results are to be believed.
No, I’m not saying “hey guys, Deep Dive might be good” is some kind of Gödelian revelation or whatever, but last week I highlighted a LEO list that took down a sizeable tournament in Poland. You can read deeper analysis about this tournament at the The Surveyor who has one of the clickbaitiest titles of all time this week. Yes, sure Sable 0-7, but like… runner Meta.
Several recent performances serve to solidify Transfer of Wealth Seb as an S-Tier runner deck. The ability for Crew to kill ice against Nebula makes it impossible for them to rely on their ID ability and may be what we need to keep No Remote Fast Advance out of the meta. A few weeks ago I had highlighted an early version of this deck, but it’s been refined into a Corp Killing Machine and I’m now willing to call it a format pillar- you need to test against it. Move over Hoshiko, there’s a new boss in town.
Shaper did atrociously in Łódź. If the meta is going to be a bunch of Au Co., Nebula, and Weyland fast advance (and now Holo Man LEO), I’m struggling to see a reason to sleeve up green cards. If Anarch and Crim keep farming wins in this context though, we may see the meta shift towards slower glacier piles from A Teia or BTL that can resist centrals pressure and ice trashing. If so, we might also see Shaper start to pop up more in the cut. My concern is that there are no good glacier builds that can stop both Sable Deep Dive or Seb Value- but it is WAY too early to say that.
Non-Netrunner Stuff
Some of you may remember that last year I was doing a hardcore run of BG3. I am happy to report I made it past Act 2, but have been avoiding doing all the very hard encounters in Act 3. I might get back to it, I might not. Quit while you’re ahead and all that.
Speaking of leaving things half-baked - I’m also doing solo-dev on a personal video game project. Most likely it will end up in the Graveyard of Unfinished Games, but… I have an alpha build with working physics, menus, and a set of challenges. More on this as (if?) it develops. I have been paying real humans real US$2 to help me with some assets, but it’s still only a little bit above “asset flip” in terms of visual quality and style.
That’s it for this week.
Good luck to everyone playing at Summer Showdown, now with >100 registered participants!!!
This is true for anything in life. I don’t play grindy MMOs, I don’t like doing math practice sets, I’ve never learned to play an instrument, I don’t want to write boilerplate code so the LLMs have been a Godsend. The one exception has been experimental science, but I am willing to bleed on the altar of the empirical pursuit of knowledge. Or I was, in my 20s and 30s.
I also use quite a bit of AI assistance. Both LLM and generative AI. There are tools like Rodin-AI that can take a jpg of an object and generate a pretty incredible facsimile volumetric object for import into Blender (or whatever 3D rendering software you prefer). Humans are still much, much better for generating complicated objects with complex shapes and movements, and as far as I know there isn’t an AI pipeline (yet) for text-to-shader… although now that I think about it, I haven’t looked.
I forgot! Another piece of tech against Deep Dive is B-1001 as seen in the 2nd place deck from the Łódź tournament.
https://netrunnerdb.com/en/decklist/5d81f210-534b-4896-b179-69a1be5c6a1f