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Monopoman posted...

shadowsword87 posted...

Monopoman posted...

Right but like I said if you want to say work towards being a pro or just want to play in most tournaments and compete, you need cards to build decks and to be good at draft. Sure if you want the cheapest route to tournaments then draft is a good way to get there, but that is a format that probably favors the veterans even more than constructed does.

You can just have fun without trying to be a professional, a you know that, right?

Yep, I am just talking about the tournament scene so people understand what its like. Some people are fine with just playing at the kitchen table with some friends, others want to do well in tournaments.

tbh, I've only ever done one tourney -- a sealed draft release for Planar Chaos -- where I top 8'd but I didn't find any of it fun, partly because of the downtime between fights and the sheer length of the tourney which, afaik, wasn't even *that* big since I played 5 matches (won 4 straight, lost the 5th) prior to my quarter-finals match (where I was badly mana-screwed in both games).

I did get a Teneb the Harvester which I added to my old tri-color zombie deck. Granted, since this happened years after I was an active player, I think I only used that deck again once or twice at most and against another ex-player.
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Jen0125 posted...

my best friend is 25 though.

i've only met her brother twice

Aren't you like 32 or 33?
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I swear, I need a scorecard to keep track of everybody here... I'll add a tag.
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Zombie Ian Fleming is going to kill so many people.
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Well, this mystery just thickened.
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Do I have to eat the ice cream? Because that's the deal-breaker.
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Golden Road posted...

wwinterj25 posted...

Banning clothing is nothing new. Once again the folk screaming racism are the ones actually being racist.

Conner4REAL posted...

Seriously- anyone making the claim that that attire is a black ban is racist against black people themselves.

I don't get this logic of "people who mistakenly call out racism are the real racists." I see it often, and I don't get it.

Because you're stereotyping and generalizing an entire race through a set of ridiculous cliches while simultaneously claiming them to be unique to said race....?
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Ironic, since the bar is called the Tipsy Crow which seems like racist code for a place catering to blacks. Then again, maybe they shortened it from the Tipsy Jim Crow >_> At any rate, given the other requirements it doesn't seem racist . If it was ONLY those cliches, maybe they'd have a stronger case.

And I could be banned based on those criteria, or I could change.
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I primarily use a laptop for everything else, so if I viewed said materials it'd mostly likely be on one of those as well.
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Whaddya know, even unrepentant racists can become sages. And generally you've gotten free pass after free pass for doing shit that gets other people modded. Maybe the mods have a brown bag rule where they only mod you x number of times for the same shitty offenses, though, and then they just let you do it repeatedly.

Mead posted...

My guess is you'll make it on October 30th or so

Sages are lame though

You're only saying that because your sage mode powers suck!
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You're right. It's dangerous to go alone, be sure to take a sword.
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Concept seems neat but the value is meh considering I still own most of those systems and the added functions aren't that important to me.

Kimbos_Egg posted...

i thought this was another stupid "gender"

First thought was an otherkin variant, tbh. Possibly somebody who feels they were born in the past or are speedster born in a powerless body.
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Cacciato posted...

Zeus posted...

In general, whenever I attend a wedding, I joke about it being a person's first wedding which implies a series of weddings.

What a clever and original thought. Thank you for explaining it to us.

Well, if everybody here was as clever as you, I wouldn't need to explain it to be safe. In the mean-time, feel free to give yourself a pat on the back.
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If you have kids, it's not going to be a happily ever after >_>

In general, whenever I attend a wedding, I joke about it being a person's first wedding which implies a series of weddings.
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Monopoman posted...

Only a moron would claim that homosexuality is a choice, having a mind that finds men look attractive is no different from having a mind that finds females attractive.

Sure you can choose not to act on those thoughts, (thus closeted homosexuals) but if you vastly prefer one over the other that is not a choice. When we are hitting puberty we don't then choose which sex we will be attracted to forever. I find cute and hot women very attractive and that reaction I have when I see them is not a choice at all.

Technically speaking, having thoughts isn't a choice but acting on thoughts is. So it really comes down to where you define it. Granted, if sexuality is actually on a spectrum as some claim, then you *could* argue that there's no such thing as heterosexuals or homosexuals.
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It's only just begun.

http://www.businessinsider.com/r-russian-official-threatens-retaliation-over-us-sanctions-2017-7

Once again, the sanctions were stupid and counterproductive. And, had Hillary won and no email hack occurred, we'd likely still wind up in this boat because the US is hell-bent on trying to push its interests which requires bringing Russia to heel. Nothing good will come of any of this.
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helIy posted...

i wish zeus was a fungi

Nowadays I'm a fun guy instead of a fungi.
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helIy posted...

alligators are literally the closest thing we'll ever get to seeing a living dinosaur dude

this isn't just me saying it, this is every goddamn paleontologist in the world saying it

So much wrong I don't even know where to start... Granted, I half suspect that the only "paleontologist" you've heard from is Dr. Alan Grant -- who isn't really a doctor but an actor -- and I think even he might have made the distinction between the two.
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Yellow posted...

OhhhJa posted...

Yellow posted...

Now if I said "Conservatives are going to hell" I would not only have a moderation but 12 angry Conservatives as well.

Doubt it on the moderation for that. And I also don't think that would really piss off conservatives honestly

A) I have been modded for "[EDIT]
B) It did piss off Zues and five other people.

Think I even got warned.

What pissed off who and why?

OhhhJa posted...

Any time you mention molestation or rape you're at risk to be modded if it's even slightly inflammatory

This, tbh.

ClaudiaSAirola posted...

Zeus posted...

Bullshit. Also you're about a post from me ignoring that alt as well.

Do it you bully. The forums better not being reminded of your sexist chats.

You keep claiming that you're not a troll alt despite being created SOLELY for the purpose of harassing me, as half of your posts revolve around claims of non-existent conversations. Not to mention that several people have asked you to post them and, despite once agreeing to it, you welched.

You're as bad as those troll alt who harassed me about cancer, assuming that you're not one and the same since your account dates back to around that same time.
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BlackScythe0 posted...

Zeus posted...

All part of the left's attempts to reframe conservatism as "hate"

The alt rights attempts.

They want to assert they are the real face of conservatism, when they aren't.

You would have a better case if you tried to limit yourselves. But the left has been crying wolf against all conservatives for decades now. It's so much easier to provoke outrage and invoke emotion rather than make actual arguments. Bread & butter in politics to some extent, although the left has been guiltier of it in many regards.

Yellow posted...

It's funny because the only Conservative opinions that get modded are the ones that are actual hateful opinions. Like "gays are going to hell" or some shit like that.

Overlooking that's not a good representative sample of the comments being modded, it's technically not a "hate" comment anyway so much as it is a factual representation of Abrahamic religion. Likewise, if somebody pointed out that homosexuality is illegal throughout much of the world, that's not really a "hate" comment either.
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Currant_Kaiser posted...

Aren't there theories that they live underground or something though?

There's no such theory. Young Earth Creationists claim that they still exist in secluded areas, but that's not true either.

Currant_Kaiser posted...

Pretty sure I saw that in a documentary. Charlie Sheen was in it.

Pretty sure you're thinking of Brendan Fraser.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0373051/
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They obviously don't. You have other prehistoric animals around, like the Coelacanth, though. However, despite occasional reports to the contrary, we've never found a living dinosaur. They either evolved or died out.

helIy posted...

gators could be considered dinosaurs but it's very sketchy

They can't.

Yellow posted...

Reptiles and birds. A lot of fish haven't evolved since that era.

Also not dinosaurs.

SunWuKung420 posted...

Turtles

Also not a dinosaur.
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helIy posted...

well do you have an opinion on this

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I know, troll topic but...

Anisoptera posted...

What do I even do

Japanese chicks? >_>

Duck-I-Says posted...

I've heard that non-Asians slaying in Japan is a myth.

While the ease might be exaggerated, pretty much every Japanese youtuber seems to agree that it's pretty easy for most foreign men to hook with women there (granted, maybe a little harder if you're black, but there's a movement glorifying blacks as well there)
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Because animation is more expensive than live-action iirc and they couldn't even get enough money on Firefly.
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That_70s_show posted...

That's... not how the game is supposed to go. There's no tangible benefit to one person pressing the button.

Make it so that you get a cash reward or something, like $500,000 if you press the button and survive. If nobody presses the buttons, nobody dies, but nobody gets the money.

tbh, the board has a few sociopaths which makes it a legit danger. Plus if you add a cash reward where everybody else dies, you now make people more worried about their survival. Where if you picked 6 random PotDers, there's probably a reasonably good chance that one isn't a complete sociopath who would kill for fun, you now increase the risk of somebody being tempted while encouraging pressing as a preemptive defensive measure because -- money or no money -- if I have strong reason to believe that somebody is about to press a button and kill me, I would press it in self-defense.
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Cotton_Eye_Joe posted...

Lightning Bolt posted...

Planet Sheen is the only thing I can watch, or I'm not allowed to do literally anything except watch that thing you said?

Only show you can watch.

idk, still doesn't seem worth it.
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mrduckbear posted...

according to statistics, it's been shown that liberal men are more attractive than conservative ones.

Your trolling just gets lazier and lazier, @Full_Throttle

And, in fact, the OPPOSITE is being claimed by even leftist news sources:
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/conservatives-liberals-trump/512987/

To determine the political consequences of voters preferring attractive candidates, researchers at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics in Sweden and the Ifo Institute in Germany set out to find which parties were populated with more attractive politicians. After tallying up the results of surveys evaluating the attractiveness of politicians in the United States, Europe and Australia, researchers found that conservative politicians in all three places ranked as more attractive on average.
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Yes, but partly just to see the results by default.
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BillySastard posted...

It's everyone's fault but mine

Thanks, Obama

To be fair, Trump has that attitude himself. Actually, I can't think of many who don't.

And Obama's enduring legacy was blaming GWB >_>

and GWB's was blaming Clinton (esp for 9/11)...

Except that it was more OTHER republicans blaming Clinton, not so much GWB. And GWB didn't run a whole 8 years blaming Clinton, unlike Obama with GWB.
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Doctor Foxx posted...

Yeah the event is over but legendary birds are not. Articuno is here until Monday when Moltres will be the next one. In the mean time Articuno and Lugia are still popping. I caught my third Articuno today and hatched my last 4 incubated eggs.

After the weekly events, they'll still be recurring afterward, right? Just not as common?

Doctor Foxx posted...

A bit sad the candy and XP are gone but at least raids will have birds. And you can get those TMs from raids, to fix crappy moves. Higher level raids give the TMs more often.

Given that I'll most likely be solo'ing most of my raids, hiding TMs behind higher-level ones isn't a huge help =x
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What if somebody doesn't realize Firefox or Chrome is installed and clicks on IE to go install another browser?
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WastelandCowboy posted...

Nah, I'm pretty sure Zeus is still butthurt that some people decided to have an actual conversation about things in a topic other than his.

Dude's ego is so big that he gets his panties in a twist if anything he doesn't want happens.

Why would I be annoyed that some people are just jerks? >_> Otherwise it's ironic that I'm accused of having a big ego in a topic somebody dedicated to me. Kinda mixed messages here.
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Legally a man at 18, technically a man by 25. Full-fledged meaning self-sufficient can be any age or not at all. Arctic still wasn't a full-fledged man when he left despite being afaik in his 30s and likely won't ever be one, since he'll rely on the government (as well as his folks until they die).
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Far-Queue posted...

Sharing a common sentiment or opinion =/= elitism. I suggest you find yourself a dictionary, @ Zeus

I supplied evidence that you are in the minority with your opinion. All you can do to argue is accuse me of being some video game elitist, because you have no argument. It's demonstrably an objectively bad game. Just because you and a select few might enjoy it does not make it a "fine fucking game"

@Far-Queue

With all due respect, we're talking about an industry where a 6/10 is considered a bad game and 7/10 is the accepted average. In almost every other thing, a 1-10 scale considers 5 to be the average. Therefore game reviews and reviewers are more elitist by nature.

As for your alleged majority, the rating is based on a smaller sampling. There are only 36 critic reviews -- which curiously does NOT include a lot of the major publications that usually weigh in -- and 43 user reviews. Honestly, the input is so low that it could be easily skewed by a handful of positive reviews today if I was so inclined to sing its praises and encourage others to do likewise.

As for objectivity in matters of opinions, I simply have to respond with a hearty LOL! Granted, that's not to say that there sometimes isn't grounds to call something objectively bad, such as when it's chock full of game-breaking glitches and design oversights (ET's pit, for example) but that's not the case here.
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Golden Road posted...

Trump seems to have some sort of weird vendetta against Obamacare. I don't think he even knows why he hates it.

...because it's a key issue among Republicans. Trump listens to the base, unlike some of the candidates.

Syntheticon posted...

Because it's nicknamed after Obama, no other reason that that. They were stupid enough to let the 'Obamacare' name stick and now it's just a point of pride to republicans to get rid of it for no other reason than that.

It's sad that part of me suspects you actually believe something that stupid.
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TheCyborgNinja posted...

crinalex posted...

I feel a little bad for the other girls competing.

Yeah, no kidding. The game is rigged against them because people feel sorry for a person that, let's face it, probably wouldn't win a beauty contest without a medical condition drawing on people's emotions (thus, making them irrational).

Beauty contests haven't been about beauty in ages. Keep in mind that a previous Miss Universe or whatever picked a winner based on her answers (in private) which espoused various SJW sentiments.
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mrduckbear posted...

Do you think China is an "enemy"?

It's complicated. While we have trade relations with China and both nations are mutually dependent, we have conflicting global strategies and China at the government level state-sanctions cyber-terrorism and espionage. They're routinely a bad faith actor who illegally conducts trade, manipulates currency, doesn't respect copyright law, and either conducts or actively encourages the hacking of foreign businesses. Exactly none of this warrants nuking them, but in many regards we're in at least economic warfare.
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She had nice hair, but the new look doesn't work.
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Who applies to a marijuana plant... oh, a dispensary, not an actual marijuana plant.
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Where's the poll, hippie?! And I don't like the new notifications look.
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Full Throttle posted...

10 y/o TRANSGENDER Daughter Rebekah as she's been transitioning she she was 2 years old!!

Lokarin posted...

how can a 2 year old even fully know what a gender is.

Being accepting is good and I'd support anyone... but this sounds like a case of parents preferring a girl and making it happen.

Yes, the parents should be arrested for child abuse.

Doing a quick look on the actual article, "transitioning since she was 2" is misleading, as it's referring to the child preferring feminine things from an early age and not to any sort of transition. No actual consideration of transitioning was considered until she was 7, attempted suicide, and they sought consoling. And actual process of transition consists of reversible puberty blockers, and no irreversible surgery until she's at least 18 and can make an informed decision. Unless you want to be outraged over the transgender concept itself, I don't really see anything wrong with the process the family is using, as it appears to be the recommended process for children.

The idea of liking feminine things meaning you want gender re-assignment is kind of a ridiculous idea. Otherwise it doesn't sound *as* bad as first stated, although I'm still not sure that the child's best interests are being represented.
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shadowsword87 posted...

Zeus posted...

Specifically a gimmick for the phantoms in Judgment.

Uh, could you be a little more specific?

I probably could have phrased that better. I meant it as more of a "case-in-point" since the phantom gimmick used depleting +1/+1 counters which effectively made them unkillable through damage but they died if they lost their counters or a buff which would naturally put them in a X/0 state. It was a good example of a 0 toughness killing a creature.
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Once major legislation is passed, especially if it includes a benefit, it's very hard to remove it.
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

DorkLink posted...

I don't hate actual moderates, but I'm convinced very few of them exist. Most "moderates" I see are people who are just too afraid of the stigma of identifying as liberal or conservative

An argument can also be made that most "liberals" and "conservatives" are just idiots who can't think for themselves, so they merely parrot back things they've heard shouted by other, louder voices who have far more conviction.

Also, this. I've seen it a *lot*

darkknight109 posted...

Zeus posted...

1) The media is biased

Literally everyone is biased and everyone has an agenda. If anyone thinks they are unbiased, they are simply biased and ignorant of that bias.

Which is a hilariously bad excuse. While bias is to some extent innate, you have degrees of bias.
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DorkLink posted...

Zeus posted...

Given that few people describe themselves as a left-leaning centrist

Yeah, most aren't that delusional

Literally where the compass polls put me. On the left-right spectrum, I'm slightly left of the middle. Authoritarian-libertarian, moderately libertarian (halfway down).

RFC22 posted...

How can a person be libertarian and left wing centrist at the same time?

I thought libertarians were Fiscal Conservative Social Liberal (FCSL) ?

Political compass. And most "socially liberal" libertarians don't actually embody libertarian ideas, since they support laws regulating a business's choice of service instead of free trade.

DorkLink posted...

I don't hate actual moderates, but I'm convinced very few of them exist. Most "moderates" I see are people who are just too afraid of the stigma of identifying as liberal or conservative

Given that the vast majority of the population doesn't have a strong, well-informed opinion on any given subject, they're moderate by nature. The more uninformed ones with strong opinions tend to tout the extremes of either side.
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gravy posted...

coin talk

Tried to google that, but still couldn't find a meaning. Please to be explaining, Mr. @gravy
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