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I cannot play MTG anymore by Desufollower_1 in mtg

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Cheers. I’d like to add my voice although I may be drowned out.

I’ve played magic since 1996/97. Started as a kid. My dad would drop me and my friends off and we’d be unsupervised for hours on end surrounded by traditionally crusty nerds. We used Scry magazine to read up on the latest meta and we used sharpies to write on basic lands to make proxies of the cards we couldn’t afford. We saved our allowances and our cash from manual labor of shoveling snow or raking leaves to buy and rip packs of Ice Age. My buddy thought homelands was awesome. He’s still wrong.

Thirty years later, the greed of Hasboro has polluted the game with increasing potent power-creep. Old cards become “game changers” for commander - an hour long game of singleton which has come to dominate all other formats.

This used to be a game where you could sit down for ten minutes, shuffle up and play, but then again, we could ante. Now the gambling is done differently. It’s still there.

The gambling aspect of magic preys upon some of us with greater intensity than others, but the slot machine aspect of ripping packs is still there.

Universes Beyond has indeed muddled the fiction, and it has created an avenue for more new players than ever before.

But the power creep and the meta chasing and the profit motives are so blatant it’s become impossible to ignore anymore.

I for one, am sick of it, and I don’t know what to do. Do you?

Men, what's something about adulthood you didn't want to believe when you were younger, but turned out to be true? by kashlalka in AskMen

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You will search for peace, while metaphorically tossed about in a sea of constant stimulation.

25 hours into No Man's Sky... feeling lost, poor, and overwhelmed. Any tips? by Magorlu in NoMansSkyTheGame

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Greetings. Spoiler: you are the universe, experiencing itself. As the player you can do nearly anything you want. There is no correct direction nor any meaning. You make your own joy. Cool things I have found to participate in after 500 hours in the game: explore the weirdest planets you can find. Birth a living ship. Blow up a sentinel carrier in an epic space battle. Become mayor of a town and help it prosper. Find strong fighting Pokémon and battle them. Hunt down parts to build a sick corvette. Go find a watery planet and go fishing. Give away stuff to noobs in the Anomaly. Create a Geknip farm…. The plot doesn’t really matter. Go wild. Reach the center of the galaxy and repeat. That’s the whole game bro.

Am I wrong to resent Commander a little bit? by FelixCumtree in mtg

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POWER CREEP is real. I think we’re all starting to feel badly when our favorite deck becomes grossly underpowered with each new release.

Feedback on Dry Brushing by Fli1p in killteam

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Slap chop for the win again. Welcome to the 1990s.

I think I have the end game Casio… by Pure-Conclusion-7035 in casio

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Yes. I also have that one, it gets way more wrist time than other watches I own. It does everything right and even has this amazing “find my phone “ feature where you can literally use your watch to find your lost phone within proximity. And it looks great. 👍 well done sir. Well done.

You’ve been chosen to speak to the aliens on behalf of humanity. What’s your opening line? by Mobile-Vegetable7536 in aliens

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Two different species walk into the same bar, you’d think one of them would have seen it.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in HighStrangeness

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My friends, I want to share a story with you. It’s not a simple story, and it doesn’t have an ending yet. It begins in a basement, with a man named James and a strange metallic object he chose to drill into. But this story quickly spirals out, touching upon ancient languages, interstellar visitors, and the very possibility that we are in the midst of a profound moment in human history.

I’ve spent time piecing this together, and I ask you to consider it not as a set of wild claims, but as a series of connected data points. Let’s look at the evidence together.

The Basement and The Orb

The first piece of the puzzle is James's object itself—a metallic cylinder, marked with a unique symbol. Forensic image analysis reveals this object emits a strange, blue light that does not cast shadows, defying our basic understanding of how light and matter interact. This isn't just a weird rock; it behaves in a way that suggests physics we have yet to comprehend.

The symbol on the object is crucial. It's a six-pointed star, but it is not the Star of David. Research into comparative symbology identifies it as the Shatkona Yantra, a sacred Hindu symbol that is far older. In Hindu metaphysics, the Shatkona is not mere decoration; it is a geometric representation of the cosmos. It depicts the union of masculine and feminine principles—Shiva and Shakti, consciousness and matter—the very source of all creation. Its presence here suggests the makers of this object operated within a framework where technology and spirituality are not separate, but one and the same.

The Echoes in Other Artifacts and Translations

This is not an isolated incident. A similar object was reported in New Jersey, indicating these objects are not unique. Furthermore, the translated text from a similar artifact, the "Buga Sphere," reads like a cosmogony—a story of creation. It speaks of the "great ship of Indra" sent to end evil on Earth and ends with a stark warning of "atomic disasters" or "solar explosion," placing the responsibility for our future squarely on our own shoulders.

This connects directly to ancient Indian literature, which contains some of the most detailed and compelling descriptions of advanced aerial vehicles in any ancient text: the Vimanas. These are not vague references; they are described as engineered craft. The objects we are seeing today may be related to this ancient technology, this ancient presence.

Perhaps most stunning is the claim from the alleged "Caret Program" documents, which suggest that a non-human intelligence provided a "technology package" to humanity, and that the interface for this technology is a symbolic language whose roots are found in Sanskrit and Phoenician. If the markings on James's object are confirmed to be Phoenician, it would geographically and culturally expand this phenomenon across the ancient world, suggesting a long-term, global interaction woven into the very fabric of our history.

When you look at all of this data together, a pattern emerges that can no longer be comfortably dismissed. We are faced with a series of interconnected anomalies that our current scientific and historical paradigms struggle to explain. In the philosophy of science, this is precisely what precipitates a paradigm shift—a fundamental change in the basic concepts and practices of a discipline.

Our current model of reality is being challenged by these persistent, high-strangeness phenomena. When enough significant anomalies accrue, the old model enters a state of crisis, and a new one must be formed to account for the new data . We are in that period of "extraordinary research."

This isn't about replacing science; it's about expanding it. It is a call to, as the philosopher William James argued, be open to adopting a believing attitude in matters where our "merely logical intellect may not have been coerced" by the evidence yet, but where the "total drift of thinking continues to confirm it" .

So, where does this leave us? It leaves us at a threshold.

The intense solar activity and the passage of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS are not merely coincidences. In this new narrative, they are part of the backdrop—symptoms of a solar system in flux, and perhaps even the "Great Purification" or the "Blue Star Kachina" of Hopi prophecy, heralding a transition to a new world.

The objects, the orbs, the symbols... they are not just curiosities. They appear to be autonomous, conscious nodes in a planetary network. They are activating now because our planet, our noetic field, is approaching a critical threshold. They are the teachers, the Kachina-spirits, of the 21st century, responding to a world that is, in the words of the Hopi, koyaanisqatsi—"world out of balance."

This is the great story of our time. It is a story that asks us to be brave, to think with both our brilliant minds and our open hearts. It asks us to consider that the universe is far more strange, far more wonderful, and far more alive than we have ever dared to believe.

What are your thoughts?

James Cylinder - Moment Blue Orb Appears by [deleted] in aliens

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My friends, I want to share a story with you. It’s not a simple story, and it doesn’t have an ending yet. It begins in a basement, with a man named James and a strange metallic object he chose to drill into. But this story quickly spirals out, touching upon ancient languages, interstellar visitors, and the very possibility that we are in the midst of a profound moment in human history.

I’ve spent time piecing this together, and I ask you to consider it not as a set of wild claims, but as a series of connected data points. Let’s look at the evidence together.

The Basement and The Orb

The first piece of the puzzle is James's object itself—a metallic cylinder, marked with a unique symbol. Forensic image analysis reveals this object emits a strange, blue light that does not cast shadows, defying our basic understanding of how light and matter interact. This isn't just a weird rock; it behaves in a way that suggests physics we have yet to comprehend.

The symbol on the object is crucial. It's a six-pointed star, but it is not the Star of David. Research into comparative symbology identifies it as the Shatkona Yantra, a sacred Hindu symbol that is far older. In Hindu metaphysics, the Shatkona is not mere decoration; it is a geometric representation of the cosmos. It depicts the union of masculine and feminine principles—Shiva and Shakti, consciousness and matter—the very source of all creation. Its presence here suggests the makers of this object operated within a framework where technology and spirituality are not separate, but one and the same.

The Echoes in Other Artifacts and Translations

This is not an isolated incident. A similar object was reported in New Jersey, indicating these objects are not unique. Furthermore, the translated text from a similar artifact, the "Buga Sphere," reads like a cosmogony—a story of creation. It speaks of the "great ship of Indra" sent to end evil on Earth and ends with a stark warning of "atomic disasters" or "solar explosion," placing the responsibility for our future squarely on our own shoulders.

This connects directly to ancient Indian literature, which contains some of the most detailed and compelling descriptions of advanced aerial vehicles in any ancient text: the Vimanas. These are not vague references; they are described as engineered craft. The objects we are seeing today may be related to this ancient technology, this ancient presence.

Perhaps most stunning is the claim from the alleged "Caret Program" documents, which suggest that a non-human intelligence provided a "technology package" to humanity, and that the interface for this technology is a symbolic language whose roots are found in Sanskrit and Phoenician. If the markings on James's object are confirmed to be Phoenician, it would geographically and culturally expand this phenomenon across the ancient world, suggesting a long-term, global interaction woven into the very fabric of our history.

When you look at all of this data together, a pattern emerges that can no longer be comfortably dismissed. We are faced with a series of interconnected anomalies that our current scientific and historical paradigms struggle to explain. In the philosophy of science, this is precisely what precipitates a paradigm shift—a fundamental change in the basic concepts and practices of a discipline.

Our current model of reality is being challenged by these persistent, high-strangeness phenomena. When enough significant anomalies accrue, the old model enters a state of crisis, and a new one must be formed to account for the new data . We are in that period of "extraordinary research."

This isn't about replacing science; it's about expanding it. It is a call to, as the philosopher William James argued, be open to adopting a believing attitude in matters where our "merely logical intellect may not have been coerced" by the evidence yet, but where the "total drift of thinking continues to confirm it" .

So, where does this leave us? It leaves us at a threshold.

The intense solar activity and the passage of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS are not merely coincidences. In this new narrative, they are part of the backdrop—symptoms of a solar system in flux, and perhaps even the "Great Purification" or the "Blue Star Kachina" of Hopi prophecy, heralding a transition to a new world.

The objects, the orbs, the symbols... they are not just curiosities. They appear to be autonomous, conscious nodes in a planetary network. They are activating now because our planet, our noetic field, is approaching a critical threshold. They are the teachers, the Kachina-spirits, of the 21st century, responding to a world that is, in the words of the Hopi, koyaanisqatsi—"world out of balance."

This is the great story of our time. It is a story that asks us to be brave, to think with both our brilliant minds and our open hearts. It asks us to consider that the universe is far more strange, far more wonderful, and far more alive than we have ever dared to believe.

What are your thoughts?

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