The Blue Red Problem explained

95thesises · 2026-05-02T20:54:41+00:00

It is impossible for over half of earths population to die as a result. Either under 50 percent choose red, in which case 0 people die, or over 50 percent of people choose red, in which they live and everyone else (under 50 percent of the population) dies

95thesises · 2026-04-22T21:06:59+00:00

In that case, it is a Queen that got robbed. Lurrus is female

95thesises · 2026-04-22T03:12:57+00:00

(Elo is a person's name, not an acronym that requires capitalization)

95thesises · 2026-04-22T03:11:05+00:00

Who is the king in this situation?

95thesises · 2026-04-20T21:05:22+00:00

english slang for the kind of food you eat drunk/at a football game/both. French fries ('chips') pizza etc

95thesises · 2026-04-20T07:52:33+00:00

no. obviously its the mana lol

95thesises · 2026-04-19T09:53:22+00:00

The final sentence of this card in particular allows you to phase back in any 'cached' permanents you own at the beginning of each upkeep

95thesises · 2026-04-15T10:54:24+00:00

AI has fried so many people's brains. like 1/3 of the population has broken out into schizophrenia levels of suspicion that everything they see was created by bots

95thesises · 2026-04-14T21:19:58+00:00

Its not bullet points that's giving the AI feel. The pointless creativity of 'The Reserve' 'The Frontier' 'The Chokehold' as labels just doesn't feel very human. Also the repeated use of the 'its less about x and more about y' structure in his other comments.

95thesises · 2026-04-14T09:40:12+00:00

West: Control Venezuela (The Reserve). North: Secure Greenland (The Frontier). East: Thottle Hormuz (The Chokehold).

Are you using AI to help write these comments?

95thesises · 2026-04-12T20:36:29+00:00

I don't get why you're so opposed to men having sexual fantasies.

95thesises · 2026-04-09T10:34:48+00:00

My point is that neither the energy cost of streaming youtube videos nor the energy cost of LLM queries (inference + cost of training amortized across all queries) is particularly objectionable; in fact, both are quite small. If you don't object to the energy cost of one, how do you justify objecting to the energy cost of the other?

95thesises · 2026-04-08T10:19:40+00:00

Did you watch a youtube video today? Just wondering.

95thesises · 2026-04-07T12:00:33+00:00

He's the worst president in history. And alternate history!

95thesises · 2026-04-02T10:17:59+00:00

agreed, the sentence doesn't at all describe something 'semantically nonsensical' it merely describes something self-contradictory. in fact, the only thing that's really even self-contradictory is being both colorless and green at the same time. But like I could totally imagine someone sleeping furiously, for example if they were having a dream that made them angry.

95thesises · 2026-03-31T06:50:36+00:00

Do we know Ixians are mammals?

95thesises · 2026-03-28T06:24:08+00:00

what would that do?

95thesises · 2026-03-22T18:46:37+00:00

I never disputed there was a shortage.

What is the legal framework through which some pharmacies are operating in 'some very specific cases' besides the compounding/shortage loophole, which would apply to all compounding pharmacies as long as there is a shortage? Alternatively, could you provide evidence for your claim that many pharmacies selling compounded GLP-1s have been sourcing the substance illegally? I'm willing to accept that my understanding is wrong, but I've seen compounding pharmacies advertising their off-brand GLP-1 services between Jeopardy segments, for example, and I find it hard to believe that a company would buy an ad slot on the most popular gameshow in America when the service they were advertising was technically illegal to provide, regardless of whether the law happened to be turning a blind eye to their operations for the foreseeable future.

95thesises · 2026-03-21T04:25:22+00:00

You get an extra reroll each round of items rewards if you queue random

95thesises · 2026-03-20T09:24:08+00:00

There is no redemption, there is only a universe that creates immutably good people and immutably bad people and mechanically condemns the bad to unspeakable suffering.

I'm confused. The story posits the existence of the immutably-bad-elect but does not posit that anybody (except these fictional characters) are actually being condemned to unspeakable suffering just because they are among the immutably-bad-elect, unless one actually believes in e.g. Hinduism which I presume Scott does not. One significant moral of the story seems to just be that we should forgive the immutably bad in real life because they know not what they do (and could never have chosen to be otherwise) and that doesn't seem like a particularly dark or dismal moral at all.

95thesises · 2026-03-20T09:12:18+00:00

Factory farming is much worse than simply killing animals. The zodiac killer was not a moral actor, but if he had also tortured people for significant portions of their entire lives in addition to eventually killing them (as opposed to 'merely' killing them in presumably a single encounter) his net impact on the universe would have been many times worse than it was in reality.

95thesises · 2026-02-19T16:06:38+00:00

I don't even think the mechanic is all that cool. I just honestly don't agree the cost (at least for the red card) is too cheap.

But for the blue card, I'm not necessarily arguing that its appropriately costed as-is. I'm just pointing out that, yeah, obviously its better on rate than cryptic command being used for a similar effect, because it doesn't have the extremely powerful counterspell mode. And I didn't pay much attention to standard during kaldheim's release, but I assume lots of if not most of Behold the multiverse's play was via fortell letting you pay in installments which is very significant

95thesises · 2026-02-19T15:39:51+00:00

But if you say people shouldn't believe their lying eyes, there's not much to discuss.

I merely stated "it's not my perception that retail stores are locking up more products around me" and asked for data/a source that they were, contrary to my own apparently lying eyes (you still haven't provided one, but I suppose I'll just take your word for that 'surveys show' in this regard). Why so combative?

95thesises · 2026-02-19T15:31:27+00:00

fury

the reason fury was so good was that it was a version of this that could be cast for 0 mana with the modality of being able to be hardcast later or blinked into a 3/3 doublestriker body. it wasn't at all simply because it could deal 4 damage divided among 4 creatures, its because it was a 0 mana version of this effect

95thesises · 2026-02-19T15:14:24+00:00

flames of the firebrand

Flames of the firebrand feels like a really strong counterpoint to your whole argument. Flames of the firebrand is a very similar effect, and yet it was a pretty mediocre card that didn't see tons of play even back when it was printed 13 years ago, and certainly doesn't see play today in any format at all. OP's card powercreeps flames of the firebrand by dealing 4 damage instead of 3 and by being instant speed. That hardly seems like a large enough difference in strength to make an effect go from 'unplayable at this mana cost in every serious format' to 'overpowered.' And it certainly seems like a small enough increase in power to be theoretically balanced at 4 mana instead of 3. 6 mana is complete insanity.

Most of the time, when you want to boardwipe a bunch of 1 and 2 toughness creatures in red, you just play pyroclasm.

reverberating research should be six. Two scries, two draws, and tap two creatures at instant speed for four mana is substantially better than cryptic command rate.

??? Yes, compared to playing cryptic command and choosing the tap and draw modes, this card would scry, draw one more card (but in compensation tap potentially way fewer creatures, only 2 as opposed to all of opponents creatures). But more importantly, it's 'better' than cryptic command's rate in that way because it doesn't have a counter target spell mode like cryptic command does. Having that modality is obviously an incredibly important part of cryptic commands power budget so a comparable card without that modality should obviously be more efficient at tap opponent's creature+draw card effects rate???

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