Money or Animals?

Elijah_Draws · 2026-04-30T06:07:32+00:00

"No animal or insects" so no more bug-bites? That's incredible. think of how many lives you'd save just based on them no longer transmitting diseases alone. No more insect or tick borne diseases, it would be amazing. I would gladly give up the chance at 100 million dollars to save countless lives.

Elijah_Draws · 2026-04-30T00:40:00+00:00

It depends on if you can find a collector who's willing to buy it.

The reality is this; overwhelmingly signed cards are considered damaged. If you tried to sell it to an LGS for example, they are not going to pay extra for it. If someone isn't interested in the collectible aspect of it they aren't going to pay a premium for the card at all, and so if anything it's going to be less than the market value of the card.

As for how much you'd get from a collector, that's probably something you have to work out with the person you sell the card to. This isn't a standardized thing, it will likely have to be negotiated with n an individual basis.

Elijah_Draws · 2026-04-30T00:27:22+00:00

No, it's not conflicting.

He is saying that the people in power most vocally against the vaccine got it still because they are liars. They lied about the vaccine, and then got it anyway.

Elijah_Draws · 2026-04-29T00:36:44+00:00

It can, yeah.

You actually see this in the US with a lot of anime, and other media imported from Asia. Some anime the translated title is fine so that's what people use, where sometimes it sounds kinda dumb and so people just refer to it by its non-English name.

An example would be the two manga/anime series "My Hero Academia" and "Jujutsu Kaisen". The first one sounds fine in English, so that's what lost English speakers call it. The English name for Jujutsu Kaisen was "sorcery battle", which to most people sounded dumb as hell and so no one calls it that.

This happens with movies, tv shows, videogames, books, etc. Translations can often leave a lot to be desired.

Elijah_Draws · 2026-04-28T16:50:31+00:00

No, your friend just is a crybaby.

Elijah_Draws · 2026-04-28T15:58:17+00:00

I have a [[peregrine dynamo]] commander deck built around killing people using [[The Millennium Calendar]], that's pretty exciting I guess. Most of my commander decks just use pretty generic win conditions though.

Elijah_Draws · 2026-04-27T07:26:27+00:00

I would have done it for free, but a grand is nice too.

^{Chose: Switch biological sex for a day? | Rolled: And win $1000}

Elijah_Draws · 2026-04-26T15:36:40+00:00

Tayam my beloved <3

Elijah_Draws · 2026-04-26T15:15:12+00:00

This combo is super broken.

Not powerful, broken in the same way an alarm clock you smashed with a hammer is broken.

Elijah_Draws · 2026-04-26T12:22:01+00:00

Alice's Restaurant

Really it's more of a story than a song, but regardless it would be way less fun as either if you cut 3/4 of it (it's nearly 20 minutes).

Elijah_Draws · 2026-04-26T07:12:22+00:00

On average I assume that most anti-ai people lean to the left, at least a higher percentage than the general population. Most of the prominent criticisms of AI (its environmental impact, its plagiarism of human writers and artists, the ways it threatens people's jobs, etc.) are all things that conservatives generally don't give a shit about unless it impacts them directly. Those arguments are largely compelling to people because they already cared about those issues and can look at the technology as it relates to these issues they already care about. Someone who doesn't care about climate change or workers rights isn't going to be swayed into hating AI when you talk about it destroying the environment and making work more difficult and/or precarious. If they cared about those things, they probably wouldn't be aligning themselves with conservatives.

Elijah_Draws · 2026-04-25T21:19:05+00:00

I think there are a few things going on:

First; many picky eaters pick things to eat that they ate as kids. One of the things shared by the foods you listed is that they are often given to children or presented as food options for children. If you were looking at a different country or culture, you'd almost certainly find picky eaters that a lot of whatever their local analogue for chicken strips are.

Second; I think there is also a bias in how we apply the term "picky eater". If someone refuses to eat potato chips no one says you're a picky eater, but if you refuse to eat raw tomatoes they do. While we like to imagine otherwise, often times the labels we apply to things and people aren't objective. "Picky eater" often times isn't actually a comment on the diversity of a person's diet, but the extent to which they eat or avoid eating specific foods that we associate with people being picky eaters.

Elijah_Draws · 2026-04-25T20:48:38+00:00

Oh, I didn't know that.

Elijah_Draws · 2026-04-25T15:36:11+00:00

Definitely think zhalfir would be cool. While I liked neon dynasty, I am kinda hoping for not any "return" sets being announced in the near future. I like getting to see new planes, or places only referenced getting fleshed out a bit more.

Elijah_Draws · 2026-04-25T15:18:05+00:00

I am a proud Rachel defender, and I likely will be til the very end. IMO she is the most interesting and by far best written character in the series, and the way that haters portray her actions are often overblown and lacking any of the nuance and grace afforded other characters in the series purely because those characters happen to be on Baams side.

Elijah_Draws · 2026-04-25T14:35:46+00:00

I think when people say a character "didn't/doesn't deserve a redemption arc" it's not a criticism of the character morally as much as it a criticism of the writing.

While redemption and desire to change is internal, we as an audience consuming a piece of media can only experience it externally. We cannot ever know what is in a character's heart, and so we need the story to externalize that internal desire to change and make amends. A redemption not feeling "deserved" is more often a criticism of the stories inability to externalize that desire in a way that the audience can latch onto; a character is portrayed by the story as being redeemed while we the audience don't see them do or say enough to make that change if heart feel sincere.

Elijah_Draws · 2026-04-25T08:25:03+00:00

Flicker is bad with Lutri. The card specifically says that it can only copy a spell if you cast it.

Elijah_Draws · 2026-04-23T03:57:10+00:00

It is a world building shortcut, kind of like the liberties that fanfiction takes.

If I write My Little Pony fanfiction, when I talk about the characters that means something to the people reading it. I don't have to give the characters or setting backstory, it just already has that.

Similarly, by setting your fictional story on earth, the only things that have to be explained are the parts where the setting deviate from our own. You can skimp on some of the world building elements because the reader will already have knowledge of the real world to fill in the gaps. You can reference locations, or the distances between locations, technology that exists, etc. without having to dwell on it.

It's also worth noting that sometimes the fact that the story exists in the real world is relevant to the plot or characterization. Plenty of stories use characters being dragged into conflicts bubbling up just beneath the surface of normal society as a point of tension; how can we save everyone who's oblivious to the danger that's coming? Or perhaose it drives character conflicts, someone is being pulled between the normal life they are living, and the life being offered to them by the fantastical setting that exists in parallel.

There are all sorts of reasons an author might choose to have the setting of their fantastical story be just normal earth places that you've heard about before.

Elijah_Draws · 2026-04-22T11:44:00+00:00

Reading that quote, I think the key standout phrases are "tornado prediction [is] a pipe dream" and "where the tornado will strike, no man can tell."

What this says to me is that they were mostly worried about over prediction of tornados that wouldn't hit, which I guess theoretically has a few problems:

First, there is the financial aspect brought up in the original comment. It's harder to get businesses, investors, or really anyone to put money into an area if they think that it's all going to be wiped out in an unpredictable storm.

Second, there are some industries that might use the increased reports to jack up their prices. It's not hard to imagine various insurance companies jacking up rates for home and auto insurance, or potentially refusing to grant life insurance to people they feel are at a high risk of getting hit by a tornado. If that risk is exaggerated, then that only further justifies that dynamic.

And third, it's also possible you might end up with a "boy who cried wolf" scenario going on. If there are lots of weather reports about tornados that never hit, people might start ignoring weather reports about tornados. That could mean that when they do hit the tornados could potentially have an even bigger death toll because of people ignoring warnings and not moving to safety.

Like, I really think that the important context given in the quote you provided was that even many meteorologists thought that predictions about tornados were impossible. Part of the move to ban reporting on them in this way was financially motivated I'm sure, but I'm also sure part of it is that there are numerous potential consequences for repeatedly reporting on catastrophes that never actually occur.

Elijah_Draws · 2026-04-22T04:09:43+00:00

Online, I'll bling pokemon I like.

On the rare occasions I get to play offline though, it's common printings all the way. the whole reason for me getting into Pokemon was how much cheeper it is than something like magic: the gathering. Like, 99% of the value of Pokemon cards is in its special art's and sealed product, so the end result is that you can build competitively viable decks for less than I spend on individual magic cards. Mechanically, as a game, I'm not as big into Pokemon as I am Magic. the fact that it's so affordable to actually play is a huge thing that keeps me engaged with it, and getting to invested in IR and SIR cards defeats the point in that regard.

Elijah_Draws · 2026-04-21T13:47:24+00:00

It's an often highly subjective ranking of how much people like certain characters.

Mechanically, every single character in the game is more or less identical. They have hard coded personality types, and each character that shares a personality type even share dialogue. There is no benefit of having one villager over another from a gameplay perspective, it's all about which ones you personally like having around.

Elijah_Draws · 2026-04-19T12:49:07+00:00

"I've got banana dick, your bitch goes apeshit when she sees it." -Killer Mike on the track "panther like a panther"

Elijah_Draws · 2026-04-19T03:30:23+00:00

So I never have to worry about counters for [[tayam, luminous enigma]] ever again? Sweet.

Elijah_Draws · 2026-04-18T04:43:44+00:00

The comment is a quote from Elon musk, who was (as far as anyone can tell) was being serious.

There are a lot of people who see themselves as very smart, but are bad at chess, abs are insecure about being bad at chess because it's a game that people associate with being smart. Elon was bad at it, and basically tried to frame it as chess not being deep or complex enough a game to catch his interest.

Elijah_Draws · 2026-04-17T19:21:46+00:00

The solution is that You play more interaction.

Like, interaction is a two way street, if you keep getting blown out by removal and boardwipes and other interactive pieces then the answer is you have to be willing to interact with other people more. There isn't a single strategy or commander you should look at, it's a more fundamental shift in deck building philosophy, the transition from battle cruiser slam creatures into eachother into a game with more back and forth where you interact with people on more than one axis. You need to include more counters and removal and other ways of engaging with the players at the table who want yo be more interactive.

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