Jason Swan

@bartlebey

Builder of digital things. Fan of cardboard things. And cats.

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Jason Swan@bartlebey· 22d

Took me far too long to sit down and make something as simple as chicken katsu curry, but hey, its tasty and I didn't poison myself

Chicken katsu sitting atop a bed of Japanese curry and rice

Jason Swan@bartlebey· Jul 28

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam or Alice In Chains

Smashing Pumpkins' Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

Jason Swan@bartlebey· Jun 9

Didn't expect the Mystical Archive Brainstorm to be beat, but I didn't know this one existed.

Ponder

The art shows a black woman with three eye-like orbs that are surrounded by halos.

Preordain

The art depicts a hexagon with an eye in the middle. Each side of the hexagon has an abstract hand reaching towards it from outside the card.

Brainstorm

The art depicts Urza with lightning coming from his eyes and a large ball of lightning behind his head.

Opt

The art depicts a woman reaching for the stars. The style is similar to some older Japanese art.

Jason Swan@bartlebey· May 29

Expensive to acquire, but The Celestial Toymaker seems like a lot of fun.

The Celestial Toymaker
Cost: White/Blue/Black
Legendary Creature - Rogue Artificer
2/4
Whenever The Celestial Toymaker attacks, look at the top three cards of your library. Exile any number of them in a face-down pile and the rest in a face-up pile. Defending player chooses one of those piles. Put that pile into your hand.

At the beginning of each end step, each opponent loses 2 life for each spell or ability that caused one or more players to guess or to group cards or permanents into a pile this turn.

Jason Swan@bartlebey· May 24

Sara Lance / Ava Sharpe from Legends of Tomorrow

Sara Lance and Ava Sharpe from Legends of Tomorrow. Both are dressed in viking attire from the episode Beebo, God of War.

Jason Swan@bartlebey· Mar 7

So lead with that selling point then break down what that looked like in practice. An example from an older section in my own resume looks like this. I make a claim, then I back up what that looked like in practice. Some contributions can't be contained in a single bullet, so use more.

Acted as the main point of contact and support for Wildstar’s UI Addon developer community
Added C++ API functions to improve the workflow for both internal and external developers
Wrote API documentation and technical patch notes for developers of all skill levels
Spearheaded an initiative to improve the studio’s Lua API documentation tools
Communicated with the addon development community via forums and reddit

Jason Swan@bartlebey· Mar 7

Name a TV show you feel like no one remembers but you: Earth 2 It's weirdly 2nd place for the I identify Tim Curry with after Clue.

A poster for the show Earth 2. It shows a variety of images, from a rocket launch to a space station to an Earth-looking planet.

Jason Swan@bartlebey· Feb 14

Cats are great for reminding you that any expensive piece of furniture you buy is their bed.

A black and brown tabby and orange tabby sitting on a secret lab chair covered in a blanket (to protect it from getting scratched)

Jason Swan@bartlebey· Jan 23

Nice! Same here. I've got a few decks, with Rocco, Street Chef and Golbez, Crystal Collector being my current favs.

Rocco, Street Chef
Cost/Identity: Red, White, Green
2/4

At the beginning of your end step, each player exiles the top card of their library. Until your next end step, each player may play the card they exiled this way.

Whenever a player plays a land from exile or casts a spell from exile, you put a +1/+1 counter on target creature and create a food token.

Golbez, Crystal Collector
Cost: Blue, Black
1/4

Whenever an artifact you control enters, surveil 1.

At the beginning of the end step, if you control four or more artifacts, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Then if you control eight or more artifacts, each opponent loses life equal to that card's power.

Jason Swan@bartlebey· Jan 14

WoW players when a mod let them draw in the world (forget the name, but it was made and banned back in WotLK): "heh, dicks" FFXIV players when a UI improvement lets them draw:

A boss fight in FFXIV. The player has opened the new "strategy board" UI that something new else shared, which shows a happy, stylized bear face.

Jason Swan@bartlebey· Dec 7

A meme of "Lumpy", the orc who lead the invasion of Osgiliath. He is wearing a Santa hat and saying "The game of man is over. Now the Jingle Hop has begun"

Jason Swan@bartlebey· Dec 7

A comic from The Pigeon Gazette. A character is embarrassed about coming out in a swimsuit because she is too pale. When she does, a friend yells "The beacons are lit! Gondor calls for aid!"

Jason Swan@bartlebey· Nov 13

Buddies

An orange tabby and grey tabby cuddling on a blanket

Jason Swan@bartlebey· Sep 22

Rapid Hybridization, just because it was the most Simic piece of removal ever. Yes, it destroyed your thing but now you have a frog lizard so are you really worse off?

Rapid Hybridization
Casting cost: U
Instant
Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. That creature's controller puts a 3/3 green Frog Lizard creature token onto the battlefield.

Jason Swan@bartlebey· Aug 29

I've seen so many Baguette costumes for the first day of PAX, but this is unquestionably the best

A dog wearing a barrett, shirt with black and white horizontal stripes, and sunglasses with a baguette in its mouth

Jason Swan@bartlebey· Jul 1

It's taken 3 years, but Mako has finally figured out the right place to lay on the igloo bed isn't on top of it

Mako, a brown, grey, and black tabby sleeps in an igloo bed with one paw hanging out.

Jason Swan@bartlebey· May 15

The frogs from Bloomburrow had some great flavor text.

Pond Prophet from Bloomburrow. The flavor text reads:
"The rainfall brings us news of the world around us. I've learned a lot, but most of all I've learned that it's very exciting out there!"

Jason Swan@bartlebey· Mar 31

Apparently I have more important things to do than work

Iskandar, an orange tabby cat, is facing left while sitting directly in front of a keyboard

Jason Swan@bartlebey· Mar 23

Notably don't force others to test them for you

Graffiti saying "test your theories" in a metal font

Jason Swan@bartlebey· Jan 30

Email receipt for a donation of $52.50 to Trans Lifeline

Jason Swan@bartlebey· Jan 26

I think we really missed out on Bowie as Geralt

A copy of David Bowie's BBC Radio Theater London Jun 27 2000 album. Bowie is featured with shoulder length, slightly messy white hair that partially covers the right side of his face. The cover depicts threads arcing out of his left eye.

Jason Swan@bartlebey· Jan 18

Tell me your favorite movie not many people know Elvis (who may or may not actually be an impersonator) and JFK (who may or may not have been dyed black) fight a mummy in cowboy boots who is sucking the souls of their fellow retirement home residents. It's as weird and wonderful as it sounds

The movie poster for Bubba Ho-Tep. Bruce Campbell stands in front of an ancient brick wall dressed as Elvis and pointing towards the viewer. The entire scene is tinted orange. At the bottom of the poster is the movie's title.

Jason Swan@bartlebey· Jan 6

My fuzzy gargoyle

Mako, a grey and brown tabby, has her front paws on top of a computer monitor. She is facing the camera and her back paws are on the computer tower behind the monitor.

Jason Swan@bartlebey· Dec 26

Hi yes, I'll have one warhammer of popcorn

A promotional popcorn bucket shaped like a war hammer. The hammer's head is red with two golden semicircles that look like suns. The bucket has a 2 foot long hilt with a fake leather grip. One of the ends of the hammer's head is open and filled with popcorn.

Jason Swan@bartlebey· Dec 16

Turned on the heater for the first time this winter and set up a blanket tent for the cats in front of it. I only wish I was as warm as they probably are.

Iskander, an orange tabby cat, laying on an office chair that is covered by a fleece blanket. Mako, a grey and black tabby, is laying on the ground at the foot of the chair, looking up at Iskander.

Jason Swan@bartlebey· Dec 3

Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty I'm cheating by naming a whole set. It was fantastic from a mechanics perspective, but just look at some of these alternate frames and art! Ninjas, samurai, legendary cards, and normal all had unique borders that worked so well. The full art lands are absolutely gorgeous too.

Spring-Leaf Avenger, a Magic the Gathering card. It uses the alt art frame for ninjas, which has a very techno-organic look, like metal bamboo.

Heiko Yamazaki, the General, a Magic the Gathering card. It uses the alt art frame for Samurai, which mimics a samurai helm across the top of the card and has the card type and rules text framed like a gate.

Invoke the Winds, a Magic the Gathering card. It uses the standard alt art framing for the set. The name and cost are contained in a frame that mimics Japanese shrine gate, while the type and rules text are bordered by neon tubing. All of the framing matches the card's color, blue.

A swamp from Magic the Gathering. It is the full art version from Kamigawa, Neon Dynasty. It depicts a flooded street during torrential rain. There are red, cylindrical lanterns hanging over the street and street signs and box lanterns on the sides. The entire card has a black tint, with shades of red from the lanterns overhead. On the upper left corner is a black mana symbol, with the Japanese word for swamp written above it in kanji.

Jason Swan@bartlebey· Dec 3

Colossus of Akros I was drafting weekly when Theros came out and had a pretty solid win / loss record. That said, I would always jam this guy in the deck if I picked him up later in a pack. The Colossus is big, expensive, and incredibly impractical, but every time I made it work was a personal win.

Colossus of Akros, a card in Magic the Gathering. It is a 10/10 artifact creature that costs 8 mana of any color. It has Defender, Indestructible, and you can pay 10 mana of any color to trigger Monstrosity 10. It has additional text that says "As long as Colossus of Akros is monstrous, it has trample and can attack as though it didn't have defender."

Jason Swan@bartlebey· Dec 3

Thicket Basilisk and Lure was the first combo I found back in Unlimited as a kid. One sided wrath was kinda fun to figure out with such a small card pool.

A Thicket Basilisk Magic the Gathering card. It's a 2/4 green creature that costs 2 green mana and 3 of any color. It's rules text reads: "Whenever Thicket Basilisk blocks or is blocked by a non-Wall creature, destroy that creature at the end of combat."

Jason Swan@bartlebey· Dec 3

Possibility Storm I love big, dumb, chaotic enchantments and Possibility Storm is about as chaotic as they come without getting too silly.

The Magic the Gathering card, Possibility Storm.

It is a red enchantment that costs 2 red mana and 3 of any color.

Whenever a player casts a spell from their hand, that player exiles it, then exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a card that shares a card type with the cast card That player may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Then they put all cards exiled with Possibility Storm on the bottom of their library in a random order.

Jason Swan@bartlebey· Dec 3

Normally not big on these things, but this one seems interesting enough