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Let's not forget that Mind Control is unlimited. We have Change of Heart, 3x Mind Control, and Snatch Steal. Not bad filler for any deck with a going 2nd plan.

Calwings posted...

Normally I don't follow the IRL TCG, but a new banlist update just dropped and it looks like a gigantic meme.

https://www.yugioh-card.com/eu/play/forbidden-and-limited-list/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNfTHOruxa0

Konami just doesn't learn...

They finally unlimited Infernity Archfiend

Is it just me or is the genex decks for the new story mode just kind of suck.

MorganTJ posted...

Really enjoying Nouvelles for this event, though I realize a big part of it is that my opponent usually scoops as soon as I get the level 1 ritual out since they assume I have follow-ups, so it's been a quick event for getting medals.

Nouvelles are a deck that beat anyone who doesn't understand how they work. I bet many of the instant quits are because they lost their whole board to the deck not realizing that the counter is to put creatures into defense position.

That said, the Blue-Eyes loaner is pretty popular and that deck really has no answers to any of the nouvelle monsters. Best thing they could do is summon alternative blue-eyes in defense mode and pop your creature.

Vortex_of_Hope posted...

Ritual events been going great for me, finished the gems. Prediction princess I only managed to pull by accident absolutely clears the missions. Flip forbidden pot racks up a lot of destroyed cards for the stupid proficiency mission too. Only ran into one Mikanko which I'm very surprised at, expected to see a lot more. Blue eyes loaner deck is a constant and almost always ends with them surrendering. Only one drytron and I had a kaiju for herald thankfully.

What does the recipe archetype do exactly? It never seems to accomplish anything.

The recipe archetype has good resource recycling and each ritual monster has an on summon effects. The lvl 5 and below ritual monsters can tag out taking any attack monster on the field (non-targetting) for the upgrade. The lvl 6 can sacrifice an attack monster to summon the burger.

It's not likely going to FTK, but it has solid field control.

I've been enjoying the recipe ritual deck myself.

IceCreamOnStero posted...

VGC has seen stuff like 90% usage stats and it has a rotating ban list anyway.

Hazards also tend to not be as important in VGC due to the fact that switching tends to not happen as much as singles and it's a bigger risk when 2 people can target your hazard setter on the same turn.

Srk700 posted...

What's the reason for not banning Gholdengo? Because reading that description makes it sound like it's the bigger problem.

Gholdengo and Kingambit seem to be the favorites of OU. Both of them are causing issues yet everything else besides them is getting suspect tested.

AbsolutelyNoOne posted...

Pokemon has not been evenly remotely balanced for singles since Gen 4/5 and this has only gotten more and more obvious with each passing generation, but I feel Gen 9 has hit a point of no return on that. Which is so confusing since 99% of the actual in-game battling is still singles.

I do applaud Smogon for still trying to make 6v6 singles work. I'm more impressed they're doing that because it seems like Gen 9 is the single most hated/least fun OU ever with the singles playerbase, or at least since Gen 5.

Let's not pretend that earlier gens didn't have their issues. Baton Pass was a huge strategy that got banned. Before it was banned, they even tried to restrict the boosts being passed.

After Baton Pass there was weather wars in gen 5 which got nerfed by Gamefreak rather than Smogon. But Smogon did add clauses such that you couldn't have drizzle and swift swim on the same team.

Pokemon has never been an easy to balanced competitive game, especially around singles which is why VGC is doubles.

The problem is that this gen in particular, Smogon seems to be ignoring the huge issues and are trying to ban around them.

ZMythos posted...

Volcarona is banned because tera-grass
Gliscor is banned because tera-water or steel
Anhillape is banned because tera-water or steel
Regieleki is banned because tera-ice
Espathra is banned because tera-fire

Terastalization introduces too much uncertainty and mitigates what are usually glaring type weaknesses that keep strong pokemon balanced.

I do not think Terastalization played a big factor in Gliscor's removal. It's largely down to Gholdengo's presence as a meta threat preventing other counters to hazards from existing. Which allowed Gliscor to come and be a hazard threat.

For some reason nobody on smogon OU wants to remove the core problem and would rather ban around it so they can keep using Gholdengo.

dioxxys posted...

Stolen from Reddit, sounds ban worthy to me. I haven't been playing very much recently last time I played palafin was still legal.

The issue is the lack of counters:

If you play SVOU at a serious level about the first thing you notice is that the hazard game is just absurd nowadays. Hazards go up too easily and Ghold makes it too hard to get rid of them, especially since our pool of removers is very small and Tusk is getting more pressured with every meta shift. The culprit most people would look at is Gholdengo, but Gliscor is actually a huge part of why it's this bad lately as well.

With insane longevity, a great typing into many stuff, and access to both Spikes and Toxic, Gliscor can come in on many things and Spike a ton of times. Tusk is afraid to Spin on it since it hates getting Toxiced, and to even touch it back it needs to run Ice Spinner which HEAVILY limits what Tusk is capable of doing with its moveset. Corvi can Defog on it, but Corvi has been getting dunked on by Ghold all gen long. Other removers exist but are exceedingly hard to fit and don't even necessarily beat Gliscor.

Since Gliscor is nearly impossible to wear down passively, Spikes on pretty much everything at every stage of the game, and pressures the few removers we have, it together with Ghold is the main reason hazards are so unbearable to vs right now. There's also a notable amount of mons that fell off or have their moveset options greatly limited almost entirely because of Gliscor, and a lot of otherwise good teams (mostly Superman squads) struggle because they lack great switchins to Gliscor or options to force it out... except for their own Gliscor, but Gliscor VS Gliscor matchups are physically painful to play and watch

The issue isn't Gliscor, it's Gholdengo. There's limited counters to harzards because Gholdengo removes 99% of options.

I wonder if the 2Aers will rise up against government tyranny.

they won't, because it was never about that.

Almost like privatization of space exploration is a bad thing

youenjoymyself1 posted...

so the obvious answer is to ban guns

Yes.

Kradek posted...

Hilarious take. All I'm presenting is actual facts and all you're doing is shitposting and/or trolling.

That hole I'm digging is another well which will objectively help African people, much the chagrin of people like you who would prefer those Africans just suffer and die.

For starters, it would help to not throw strawman arguments out. But I know it's a very emotional time for you.

Keep going dude. It's really funny watching you dig yourself your own hole.

Kradek posted...

You people being so emotionally butthurt

The irony.

invertedlegdrop posted...

first post just delete the space

as for proof Nashville PD are investigating the leak, its in news report videos i posted in the middle part of the topic...

If Nashville PD began an investigation on you for CP, would that mean it's true? An investigation is not some indicator of truth.

havean776 posted...

Very weird how much you hate a guy doing good things with his money.

I never said I hated the guy. That's just your weird obsession with me talking.

Kradek posted...

Either of you have proof and not just your emotional hateboners?

Btw, Tmaster, still waiting for proof in the other thread that nobody actually benefited from those wells.

Surely you have more than just your personal conspiracies and hatred for a Youtuber doing actual good with their money and infamy?

It's weird how offended you get over this

Trumpo posted...

Mr Beast is like watching Pimp my Ride or all those improvement shows. Good for the camera, but deceptive behind the scenes.

It's a shame too many people can't see this.

Kradek posted...

Bro, you are being so fucking obnoxious and unjustly arrogant lol. "I don't simp for Youtubers", yeah you shit just on them for doing good things with their money instead of just hoarding it by spreading conspiracies about them based off your shallow emotions. Such a pinnacle of integrity.

According to CNN up to 500k people will benefit from these wells and with an accompanying fundraiser for water treatment that raised over 300k by Monday.

There's the proof that it's helping people, now it's on you to demonstrate that CNN is less-informed about this than random haters on the Internet.

Sorry I offended you

havean776 posted...

Your argument has changed yet again. So now you are oh so concerned about the sustainability of those wells.... That you said don't exist.

My point of discussion has always been around the effectiveness of the wells if they exist. You weren't interested in discussing it before and I have no reason to discuss this with you now.

Kimberly posted...

If we're going this route...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_woAb8tZ62U

Anyone remember Team Trees...?

Or how about TeamSeas?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDCUYXkNPEI

No one should be discouraged from doing good things just because they don't achieve them perfectly. There are generations of younger folk being introduced into activism thanks to the projects undertaken by the likes of Mark Rober, MrBeast, etc. There's also a good chance that these wells actually did help a lot of people who deserved help! Nonetheless, we can acknowledge the bad things which come from this brand of activism alongside the good.

Shades of grey exist.

A problem is very little people actually want to discuss possible negatives from perceived good actions.

I started watching the #TeamTrees video and a point brought up that I hadn't even considered was about the trees being taken care of after planting. The same issue can be present here. Just because the wells were built, doesn't mean that the wells are actually getting taken care of afterwards. Which can result in the same situation occurring again.

People are too focused on the short term feel good solutions to problems that require more systematic approaches. And the minute you try to look at whether or not the philanthropic solution is a good one, people get angry.

Also the article talks about the Blindness Curing video which was another video that I got bad vibes from. It's nice to fix people's sight, but it's not like MrBeast was upfront about what kind of blindness could be cured or not and it was certainly misleading in it's own way. Which is a concern I have about the well video. What isn't being told to us about the wells?

HylianFox posted...

It's because they're idiots and don't realize that "republican" and "democrat" are essentially meaningless designations and the actual words themselves basically mean the same thing (i.e. a form of representative government)

But hey "Republicans good, Democrats bad" = "Republic good, Democracy bad" right?

>__>

Well my point was that based on their own logic, we aren't a "pure democracy".

Isn't it Republicans that love to say how the US isn't a democracy, but a republic. Not that they understand that a Republic is a form of democracy.

Can we really be going down the drain if we're #1 in school shootings?

HashtagSEP posted...

Oh, so now weve moved on to the wells dont even exist!

Next, youll say they couldnt possibly exist since the earth is too flat to dig in.

You guys really love your strawmans.

havean776 posted...

Why do you hate this guy so much?

I never I said I hated him. Questioning someone's actions does equal hate.

DarkBuster22904 posted...

Why?

Because no one has evidence that the wells have actually been built besides the youtube video making the claim that the wells were built.

havean776 posted...

Prove its fake.

I haven't seen proof that it is real. So therefore it must be faked.

havean776 posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwKJfNYwvm8

There you go.

This isn't evidence of anything. A youtube video can easily be faked.

HashtagSEP posted...

You made the claim they were built in areas that didnt need them. When YOU make the claim, YOU have to provide evidence.

I started off stating that I found it weird no one was discussing whether or not the well building video was actually a real good deed being done. I still see no evidence that proves the video actually helped anyone.

HashtagSEP posted...

Why cant you provide any kind of proof for your claims? Why are you just trying to insult people instead every time somebody asks for evidence of the claims you are making?

Why do you think you are infallible, and everybody else must be simps?

I'm the one asking for evidence about the wells actually being built and helping the communities they are built in. But since no one has that evidence, I can only assume it's just a fake video for clout.

DarkBuster22904 posted...

Ok. So some people have done that.

Plenty of people do LOTS of terrible things. It doesn't mean everybody necessarily does, or that every scenario in which a person does something is necessarily done in a bad way for a bad reason.

Prove that that happened here. Because now you may ad well be saying that AOC probably instigated an insurrection at the capital and should be impeached and chargedfor it. After all, other politicianshave done it, so why should we give her the benefit of the doubt?

I'm not saying about AOC am I? It's crazy that we can't stick to questioning the actions of MrBeast and must create your own Strawman argument about something else completely.

havean776 posted...

From one fake outrage to the next...

It's outrage to care about people actually being helped. I'm so glad that it's more important that we simp for MrBeast than care about whether or not the actions were actually good.

DarkBuster22904 posted...

Dude, I don't care about Mr Beast. I've never watched a single one of his videos.

That doesn't change the fact you invented a scenario, with no evidence, decided it was probably true, and have used it as "criticism."

If you want to nail him for something, nail him for making poor people dance for our amusement in his weird homemade Squid Game, in a move that completely missed the point of the show it was aping. You don't need to invent weird "well, this might have happened" nonsense to do it.

I've seen content creators create fake videos about helping the homeless, when it ends up being their friends dressed up as homeless people. It's not as farfetch as you seem to be that people might fake videos including building wells in Africa for clout.

I'm sorry that I care more about these wells actually helping people rather than it being just being a fake video for money.

LightHawKnight posted...

Ah so there are shittier locations therefore he shouldnt help anyone cause there is someone who needs more help defense!

Building wells in areas that don't need well built, isn't being helpful. Which is what I'm bringing up.

But of course reading is hard.

DarkBuster22904 posted...

Nobody is saying it was purely out of the kindness of his heart.

We're saying that you have no proof that this:

happened.

Because you don't

By your logic, I may as well claim he dragged Kenyan officials out of their houses and shot them in order to get clearance to build the wells. After all, rich people only care about publicity, and they were getting in the way, right?

Because the logistics of shooting a video about building wells in Africa may have resulted in him passing over areas that actually needed the wells built for the sake of good video footage is different than implying he went murdering people.

You should really chill out, because no matter how much you defend MrBeast he's not suddenly going to show up at your house and be your friend.

havean776 posted...

You're not thinking critically you're just despratly trying to find a reason to hate him.

I'm sorry that you believe you can either like a person or hate them.

havean776 posted...

Imagine hating a Youtuber because he payed for 100 wells to be made in needed communities.
Like I can't even understand why hate him for it so bad you have to make up scenarios in your head for why it's bad.

I never said I hated him and frankly it's a shame that more people can't think critically and must resort into an "us vs them"

DarkBuster22904 posted...

No one's disputing that he's leveraging it for publicity. He's a CONTENT CREATOR. Publicity is where the money for the operation comes from. Wothout publicity, there ARE no wells.

Andyou're not talking about publicity. You're saying he built wells that that won't help anyone, because he didn't make sure the communities actually needed them.

Prove it.

I'm saying that despite good intentions, the areas that wells were built may not have necessarily been the areas that needed wells built. Considering the goal of building the wells was for a video, his actions were publicity first and not results.

But I know it's a crime to dare question a youtuber about their actions and that I should just trust that everything done by youtubers is done out of their kindness of their heart.

DarkBuster22904 posted...

I dont need to know the data.

YOU'RE the one levying the criticism. So where's the proof that this is what happened? Because "I don't trust rich people to do things right" ain't it.

You invented a scenario to criticize him for, with no backing evidence, and justified it with am emotional bias. Amd then asked why nobody else is talking about it.

MICHALECOLE posted...

Do you have even a sliver of data for what youre suggesting? Youd think that if he built 100 wells in places that werent needed, hed be getting criticized for that and not for.. making the government look bad

youre just making shit up

Because no one would dare spend money for good publicity. I can't imagine living my life simping for a youtuber.

DarkBuster22904 posted...

You don't see anybody talking about it because there's no evidence that this is what happened.

Saying "it's possible these wells didn't solve any problems" is criticizing him for an imagined outcome for the sake of inventing a scenario where it's OK to say he did wrong.

Well if you personally know the data on the well being built in areas of Africa that were in desperate need of a well built and that it solved the water issues in those areas, you could share it.

But as far as I'm concerned, wealthy individuals are often not great at fixing actual needs and many times the optics of solving a "problem" overshadow the fact that nothing was actually fixed.

LightHawKnight posted...

So you are saying he dug 500 random wells randomly and that makes the government look bad?

It's possible that despite good intentions he built wells in areas that didn't need wells built. It's also possible these wells don't really solve the problem either.

I see no one talking about whether or not the wells built are actually solving a problem when it comes to discourse around this video and I wouldn't put it past any content creator doing good deeds for content to being do so from an optics stand point and not a functional one.

The one thing I haven't seen people touch on which I think is a bigger deal is that just building wells doesn't mean he's helping. Are we certain the places where he's building wells were having water issues in the first place?

It's crazy that the school shooter weapon of choice is the AR15. Almost like it's a cheap gun easily accessible that can be kitted out to be a very deadly weapon against people.

Also weird how the same people who insist that we shouldn't do anything to restrict access to guns share the same political views as the shooters.

Almost like the gun nuts know guns are the issue, but don't want to do anything about it for reasons.

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It absolutely does. I remember having a conversation with one of my more religious friends and he was pretty clear that it does not matter what acts a person has committed in their life that keeps you from heaven. It's a matter of keeping a good relationship with God.

Imagine spending money to not see ads.

Gremlynn posted...

That's one way to frame it, and definitely one i feel a lot of the religious community using their piety to mask the still growing stockpile of skeletons in their closet likes to lean on.

But I prefer to frame it as we are not inherently defined by our past mistakes, no matter what they were, so long as we have genuinely repented of them and make a real, lasting effort to change and be better.

It's one thing to learn from mistakes and grow to be a better person and while many people who do follow Christianity likely do try to be better people.

The fact that the religion teaches that the only thing that matters is to believe in God, then you can be as awful as a person as long as you believe in God. Which is ultimately why you can run into some truly evil Christians.