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Wait But Why (2013)
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- Cost
- 3 RAM
- Power
- 6
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Social
- Era
- Modern (2009 on)
- Collection
- The Long Tail
What it does
No ability.
No ability, just Power. Sometimes that's all a homepage needs.
It costs 3 RAM to play and brings 6 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Social cards lift the cards around them, here and in the other lanes.
The site, in 2013
A long-form blog written and illustrated by Tim Urban, who explains big subjects in chatty prose and rough drawings.
Topics include artificial intelligence, space and procrastination. His 2016 TED talk on procrastination, drawn from the blog, had passed 74 million views by March 2025. One post on Elon Musk's Neuralink was made with Musk's help.
Modern era, 2009 on. Phones, feeds and cookie banners. The web got fast, flat and very sure about notifications.
The Long Tail: The niche, the local and the specialist. Most of the web, really.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2013 page.
Put it on your site
Run Wait But Why, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1999. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 2013, then plays a short scene. Want Wait But Why in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
