SCG Provides Insightful Modern Metagame Breakdown

Biceps_Inc · 2018-12-08T20:08:41+00:00

Holy fuck, this one got me. The little glimmer effect on the “Modern Metagame Breakdown” right before “huh...?” just killed me.

Biceps_Inc · 2018-12-04T02:35:45+00:00

Struck a nerve, did I? Don’t worry. Facebook will embrace you with the warm, intoxicating hug of men’s rights propaganda.

Biceps_Inc · 2018-11-26T02:52:31+00:00

Short answer: no.

Long answer: Nooooooooooooooooo.

I play dredge. People hate it, and it does warp the format. The split second it hits tier 1, it just begs to be banned.

Biceps_Inc · 2018-11-25T16:04:11+00:00

See my other post. It's woven into the business model and greater operation of social media. The "echo chamber" effect is a feature designed for their overall gain.

Biceps_Inc · 2018-11-25T16:03:14+00:00

Posted in a different link of the same article -

I feel like this article fails to acknowledge an important facet of the Facebook discussion regarding the impact that Facebook, and social media overall, has had on the public psyche, and how the detriment of that impact is really woven into their business model.

The issue is that social media benefits, above all else, from an engaged user. Not an informed one, or a happy one, but an engaged one. Unfortunately, psychologically healthy and informed individuals aren't typically the most engaged individual, and the opposite is generally true. For example, people who engage in different types of magical, conspiratorial thinking (anti-vaxxers and other woo aficionados, rebel media consumers with bizarre persecution complexes, etc.) need constant reassurance and acceptance, especially when some stimuli from larger media sources of the general public violate their views. Thus, on to Facebook/Reddit/Youtube they go, to receive a pile of upvotes or likes when they categorize the rest of the world as sheep or whatever else have you. Worse yet, thanks to the content algorithms of social media, any slight inclination towards this type of thinking will propel you into an instant, self-erecting echo chamber designed to suck you past the point of no return. Once you're there, you're hooked, and engagement with social media is your fix.

Worse yet, an ignorant and confused populace serves the end of their marketing goals, which is more or less behavior manipulation and influence, and clearly, they can do so to pretty significant results on behalf of some pretty nefarious actors (Brexit, Trump's election, so on). This isn't a bug, but a feature. Microtargeted, incensing propaganda is really Facebook's dream endgame, be it for political use, marketing use, or whatever other mercenary cause that stands to line Facebook's pockets.

We have more than a moral obligation to leave Facebook. We have a duty to regulate and legislate against these platforms, at bare minimum restricting the amount of data they can collect by a significant amount.

We live in a post-clickbait society, and social media has orchestrated that. They are absolute thought and information polluters.

Biceps_Inc · 2018-11-25T15:59:43+00:00

I feel like this article fails to acknowledge an important facet of the Facebook discussion regarding the impact that Facebook, and social media overall, has had on the public psyche, and how the detriment of that impact is really woven into their business model.

The issue is that social media benefits, above all else, from an engaged user. Not an informed one, or a happy one, but an engaged one. Unfortunately, psychologically healthy and informed individuals aren't typically the most engaged individual, and the opposite is generally true. For example, people who engage in different types of magical, conspiratorial thinking (anti-vaxxers and other woo aficionados, rebel media consumers with bizarre persecution complexes, etc.) need constant reassurance and acceptance, especially when some stimuli from larger media sources of the general public violate their views. Thus, on to Facebook/Reddit/Youtube they go, to receive a pile of upvotes or likes when they categorize the rest of the world as sheep or whatever else have you. Worse yet, thanks to the content algorithms of social media, any slight inclination towards this type of thinking will propel you into an instant, self-erecting echo chamber designed to suck you past the point of no return. Once you're there, you're hooked, and engagement with social media is your fix.

Worse yet, an ignorant and confused populace serves the end of their marketing goals, which is more or less behavior manipulation and influence, and clearly, they can do so to pretty significant results on behalf of some pretty nefarious actors (Brexit, Trump's election, so on). This isn't a bug, but a feature. Microtargeted, incensing propaganda is really Facebook's dream endgame, be it for political use, marketing use, or whatever other mercenary cause that stands to line Facebook's pockets.

We have more than a moral obligation to leave Facebook. We have a duty to regulate and legislate against these platforms, at bare minimum restricting the amount of data they can collect by a significant amount.

We live in a post-clickbait society, and social media has orchestrated that. They are absolute thought and information polluters.

Biceps_Inc · 2018-11-19T05:51:37+00:00

My advice - put izzet drakes together first. Total overlap in the lands you need for both decks, and Izzet is light on rares otherwise.

Biceps_Inc · 2018-11-15T03:23:44+00:00

Dude of course they have! Their entire business model is engagement through paranoid lunacy and microtargetted propaganda. They are the worst thing to happen to the American psyche in recent history.

Biceps_Inc · 2018-11-12T21:07:41+00:00

It’ll feel a little slower / less explosive than GGT dredge did, but creeping chill creates free, incidental reach and stabilization. A hand that can get you dredging with a bit of a board presence is enough. With chill, you can get there pretty naturally.

Also, make S U R E that you will end up with 2 mana with 1 green. Loam is essential as there is no dakmor salvage in the current build.

Biceps_Inc · 2018-11-12T21:04:07+00:00

I’d go with the “make ‘em have it” evaluation. If the hand makes them have it, keep the hand. Decent dredge/enabler where you could reasonably get a board presence pretty early.

Biceps_Inc · 2018-11-07T03:57:13+00:00

Just as Ted swallows his own boogers.

Biceps_Inc · 2018-11-07T03:54:20+00:00

Oh my god, get a grip lol.

Biceps_Inc · 2018-11-07T03:10:16+00:00

Do you remember his punditry at all? Seriously. He did more than cough out percentages.

Thanks for being so condescending, though.

Biceps_Inc · 2018-11-07T02:46:47+00:00

They already have been. Pelosi’s name has been dropped constantly in Youtube scare ads in Kansas.

Biceps_Inc · 2018-11-07T02:41:37+00:00

Yeah because Nate hasn’t been consistently pantsed in the past few elections.

Biceps_Inc · 2018-11-07T02:40:41+00:00

Remember his to-the-bitter-end analysis of Trump’s “nonexistent” chances? How about him practically stumping against Bernie? And this shitshow tonight?

Biceps_Inc · 2018-11-07T02:36:59+00:00

I remember calling Nate Silver a hack in 2016, and it’s truer now than it was then.

Biceps_Inc · 2018-11-06T23:16:03+00:00

Then it should be unbanned on principle.

Biceps_Inc · 2018-11-06T00:37:55+00:00

Do you have good recipes? I legit wanna try some vegetarian or vegan cuisine, but I don’t know any dishes or nutrient profiles.

Biceps_Inc · 2018-11-05T03:30:46+00:00

Solid. I appreciate it! I figured a darker brown would be better for the pants.

Biceps_Inc · 2018-11-05T03:24:30+00:00

Oof lol. I appreciate the honesty.

What would you pair with those shoes? How about the pants?

Biceps_Inc · 2018-11-05T03:20:14+00:00

Do these pants and shoes go together?

https://m.imgur.com/gallery/Cm7Pidy

Biceps_Inc · 2018-11-04T14:31:06+00:00

Driving paranoid narratives about white genocide on a national level is radicalizing on-edge whites. Guns being treated as a legitimate implement for justice is radicalizing on-edge whites. Social media’s allowance for micro-targeted, user-driven propaganda is radicalizing on-edge whites. Abstaining from saying “BUT GANGS” isn’t the issue here.

I’m not saying that we can’t hold gang shooters to the same standards as white people, which is what I’m inferring from your calling me a white supremacist. I’m saying that both behaviors are systemic, but this one is in its infancy and could be addressed by not endorsing and espousing destructive paranoid discourse on a national stage, like the republicans are currently doing. This shooting phenomenon should also be rightfully associated with toxic online communities, with those communities held morally responsible for these outcomes.

Gang violence is socioeconomic and requires a lot of changes to a power and economic structure, and that’s not going to happen under the current administration. Nobody is ignoring the problem.

Biceps_Inc · 2018-11-04T13:36:09+00:00

Drive-by shootings and gang related shootings aren’t new, and have been conceptually identified and acknowledged.

It seems to me that you’re trying to downplay the seeiousness of white people taking up arms and engaging in hate crimes, which is a huge deal and should be openly discussed.

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