I think quality hobby communities like the ones that used to exist on Reddit require both smart people and a larger population to create a sense of social investment. This kind of information used to be distributed across forums with fewer than 1k people each, which isn’t so bad, but does prevent it from propagating easily.
The point of the Iraq lie isn’t simply a redirection that “the US also does it.” it’s that the empire is capable of widescale deception to manufacture consent when the need arises. you may have realized it was a crock, but enough people were fooled the wholesale destruction of multiple sovereign nations went off without a hitch. “Bush lied, people died” only became the majority opinion after they had gotten away with it. Even now the popular consensus is that “mistakes were made,” not that there was a wilful deception for the sake of expanding US global military hegemony.
yeah, like all these laws DeSantis is passing are trying to target trans people specifically, but there’s no easy way to write a law that says “you need to make trans kids and only trans kids miserable” without the full ideological buy-in of the enforcers
It’s weird that people always seems blind-sided by the presence of the profit motive when it shows up in the production and distribution of something they enjoy. I’m not saying it’s good or rational, but something would have to be radically different about either WotC as an organization or the structure of the global economy for cards that are more desirable to not get increased pricing.
Blogatog isn’t even close to how bad custom Tumblr styles can get in terms of usability. But the majority of users and I suspect MaRo himself access Tumblr through the app, so such concerns have been forgotten.
I recently moved to California. Before i moved, people asked me “why are you moving there, its so bad?”. Now that I’m here, i understand it less. The state is beautiful. There is so much to do....
It’s just because they don’t put enough homeless people in concentration camps. That’s the entire thing. Mind you, California, like the rest of the country, still treats homeless people like they’re less than human, but the weather’s nice and the housing prices have skyrocketed in the past decade, so there’s a lot of homelessness, and therefore a greater call for mass executions.
Right wing countries do this. What do you think South Korea is? “Economic freedom,” is freedom commensurate with economic power, which means freedom for people with money, and “personal responsibility” for people without. The opposite of government regulation of business is corporate domination of government. You’re conflating these opposites to falsely align organized labor with “big business.” The entire right-libertarian political project is a smokescreen for the Kochs and their economic class to baffle morons into thinking the policies they want benefit the little guy.
are you talking about the years of economic prosperity in North America after the New Deal, the end of the second world war, and the establishment of the United Nations? are those the small government policies that created “real capitalism”? or are you talking about the decline and destruction of global communism at the hands of the Reaganite social order that immediately preceded a half century of malaise and the destruction of the working class? this conversation cannot produce anything for you if you cannot come to the realization. don’t wince. open your eyes and turn your head to the mirror, stupid american. the corn syrup teeth rotting out of your head are the reward they gave you for winning.
I posed this question a few days ago as a comment and was encouraged to make it into a standalone post. I’m asking it specifically within the context of Commander, but suggesting your workflows for other formats would probably be helpful for people who aren’t me :P...
I don’t think I’ve been playing for much longer than you have, but I have brewed some decks from scratch that can hold their own against my more experienced friends. I use Archidekt’s categories feature to organize my candidate cards by function, but I choose functions specifically related to my gameplan. So for example I’m working on a [[Ravenous Squirrel]] PDH deck and I started with a little fewer than 200 cards. I decided I needed creatures that want to stay on the field because they grow or generate repeatable materials (around 12), and creatures that want to be sacrificed (around 23). Then I split the remaining slots up roughly evenly into noncreature spells that provide removal, noncreature spells that give my big guys evasion, noncreature spells that return my little guys from the graveyard, and artifacts that want to be sacrificed. Once I have a sense of these categories and roughly what size I want them to be, it’s a lot easier to successively cull the weaker cards within them, or pick out the top ones. All of the cuts I put in the maybeboard so after some playtesting I don’t have to find them again if I think my proportions were off or a card doesn’t work out like I thought it would.
I’ve been making custom proxies for a while, and these are some of my favorites. Opponents’ reactions are always either utterly confused or hilariously distracted.
if it’s a token it’s not really a proxy, is it? in sanctioned play you’re not required to use any particular object to represent tokens, so long everyone’s on the same page about what is what.
Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge (arstechnica.com)
The outcome was predicted by plenty users in this community, but now the news are noticing it.
fixed cyberghost's "meme" (thelemmy.club)
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Mfw I'm a closeted, AMAB, enby who's on HRT, but has zero clue how to shop for clothes, or dress like anything other than a boring straight guy. (hexbear.net)
Also I’m colorblind. I’ve never felt more disabled than I have since starting transitioning 😳
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Who is Corey and what did he do? (hexbear.net)
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2023 Opel Rocks e-XTREME rule (www.carscoops.com)
no you can’t buy this
are you really going to scroll by without saying "meowdy pardner"? (hexbear.net)
MaRo answers why higher powered sets cost more (markrosewater.tumblr.com)
Surprising level of transparency here when it’s very easy to just ignore these kinds of questions, even if it’s a bit roundabout....
Why do people dislike California?
I recently moved to California. Before i moved, people asked me “why are you moving there, its so bad?”. Now that I’m here, i understand it less. The state is beautiful. There is so much to do....
Google taught me it's OK to be evil (lemmy.ml)
Deck Building: Making your theoretical deck playable?
I posed this question a few days ago as a comment and was encouraged to make it into a standalone post. I’m asking it specifically within the context of Commander, but suggesting your workflows for other formats would probably be helpful for people who aren’t me :P...
I made 18 custom Angel token proxies for all to use (with bonus Human proxy!) (imgur.com)
I’ve been making custom proxies for a while, and these are some of my favorites. Opponents’ reactions are always either utterly confused or hilariously distracted.