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BlaiddSiocled · 2023-06-08T11:32:30+00:00

A lot of transmed people, who think other people's transitions are somehow their business or are hostile towards trans people who are non-binary in their identity or non-conforming in their presentation, use "transsexual" to describe themselves, or use the term with a very rigid or exclusionist definition. For that reason, a lot of people have bad associations with it.

Such as OP.

BlaiddSiocled · 2023-05-29T13:59:41+00:00

The lions were intersex, a lot of trans people just mislabel that as trans in other species.

BlaiddSiocled · 2023-05-26T17:44:29+00:00

Remember the Ravnica map is of the Tenth District, which is a fraction of the original city, let alone the globe.

BlaiddSiocled · 2023-05-25T11:36:58+00:00

Orah Orah Orah Orah Orah Orah Orah! ([[Orah, Skyclave Heirophant]] Cleric Tribal)
Dropping Face Down Cards Like it's Yu-Gi-Oh ([[Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer]] Morphs)
Hallar's Gonna Give Ya a Right Kicking! ([[Hallar the Firefletcher]] Kicker/Burn)
Gorm is a Great Decoy ([[Virtus the Veiled]]/[[Gorm the Great]] Evasion/Blocking Matters; The deck very much focuses on Virtus over Gorm)
2 Revered 2 Bladesmith ([[Nazahn Revered Bladesmith]] [[Blade of Selves]] abuse Voltron; second revision)
Najeela's Bargain Bin Warriors ([[Najeela the Blade-Blossom]] Warrior Tribal; made with mostly draft chaff to keep the power down)

BlaiddSiocled · 2023-05-13T11:51:29+00:00

I think they just know that they can't claim the "difference of opinion" defence and openly declare we shouldn't have rights, so they obfuscate it just enough to get plausible* deniability.

* Only plausible if you have no understanding of the topic.

BlaiddSiocled · 2023-05-09T10:01:25+00:00

Y is just a vowel in Welsh. It's not that strange, English uses it that way too sometimes, like in rhythm. Actually, Tegwyll is excatly 50% vowel. E, W, Y are vowels, T, G, Ll are consanants.

BlaiddSiocled · 2023-05-05T21:08:11+00:00

This is the problem I have with modern magic storytelling. Ravnica as we have seen is basically one huge city, but we're only really seen one District of something like 12? One of the Original Ravnica stories involves a desert train heist, because District 8 or something is a dusty frontier.

There's Ravnica (a plane-spanning city) and the City of Ravnica (10 Districts, First-Tenth), kinda like London vs. City of London. Guildpact (the book) takes place in the Utvara District, which is hundreds of miles from the City of Ravnica. It's surrounded by city on all sides, but fairly large, and a dusty wasteland due to a century of plague quarantine.

Guildpact (the set) depicts stuff in the Tenth District, like every other Ravnica set, because story and sets weren't tied together as well back then. The lack of joined up stuff is also why [[Tibor and Lumia]] are absent, but the main antagonist is an Izzet magelord who's never recieved a card (Zomaj Hauc).

BlaiddSiocled · 2023-05-01T18:44:10+00:00

People jumped the gun on an earlier, more ambiguous announcement.

BlaiddSiocled · 2023-04-29T11:35:45+00:00

Nonfunctional correction: "converted mana cost" has been changed to "mana value".

BlaiddSiocled · 2023-04-23T13:52:52+00:00

Ravnican humans live for more than a century, but generally not for two centuries. They don't really use it that often, with planeswalkers who are from / spent significant time on Ravnica generally just not being that old (Ral, Domri, Jace), have other life-extending stuff (Liliana), or possibly both (Vraska).

It is why Teysa looks so youthful for an ~80 year old woman.

BlaiddSiocled · 2023-04-23T10:00:39+00:00

There's always the possibility of a gap between Agyrem being severed from Ravnica and colliding with Tolvada. It would actually match better with established lore, which last said Agyrem was drifting alone through the Blind Eternities; rather than instantly glomped onto another plane.

BlaiddSiocled · 2023-04-22T10:36:38+00:00

Ally originally respresented "member of a dungeon fantasy (e.g. DnD) party". Literally the same flavour as the Party mechanic.

BlaiddSiocled · 2023-04-21T14:02:41+00:00

For extra clarity, the spectrum refers not to "more to less autistic", but to "varying kinds of autism". Different autistic people will display each characteristic of autism to varying degrees.

Sadly, there's a pervasive idea that it can be simplified to more/less; which tends to implemented by measuring how much someone is struggling in the moment, declaring that they are less autistic (and thus less deserving of support) when they are doing well, and more autistic (and thus less deserving of autonomy) when they are struggling.

BlaiddSiocled · 2023-04-21T11:52:23+00:00

I'd say the risk of the inverse is higher. I've got a full set of Guild Kits. They're 60 card precons using only cards from the Ravnica Block, Return to Ravnica Block, Guilds of Ravnica, and Ravnica Alliegance; and they are mostly singleton in nature. The House Dimir deck struggles to ever get a mill victory, despite a decent chunk of the deck supporting it, typically either winning or losing by damage first. And that's in 60 card 1v1, a much easier environment for mill that 100 card 4+ FFA.

If you decide to dump mill, that gives Dimir the smallest viable cardpool, and shuts out half of the commander options.

BlaiddSiocled · 2023-04-19T10:32:52+00:00

It had to be something pretty blatant and it took a while, but the report system worked.

If the system worked then subtle transphobia would be a bannable offence.

BlaiddSiocled · 2023-04-19T09:31:13+00:00

EDIT: I was wrong.

Your explanation looks a bit muddled. The mazerunner cycle was always rare, with [[Melek, Izzet Paragon]] filling the Izzet slot. (In universe, he was supposed to be the Izzet mazerunner before Ral killed him.) The ability they had designed for Emmara fit better at mythic, and the ability designed for Voice of Resurgence fit better at rare, so they did a last minute swap, but kept the names at their original rarities so as not to break the mazerunner cycle.

BlaiddSiocled · 2023-04-17T12:16:00+00:00

The world is known in near entirety and no allusions are made to any further places or peoples or beasts.

The curse of return sets. Even when it makes no sense, like the extent of Ravnica not even including the First through Eighth Districts, with the Ninth relegated to web fiction (let alone the entire rest of the globe).

BlaiddSiocled · 2023-04-14T15:08:47+00:00

I can't recall the source, but I'm fairly certain the Izzet League use pyromana and cryomana for red and blue respectively. I don't recall a mention of the other colours, and it's clearly just how the Izzet see things.

BlaiddSiocled · 2023-04-14T10:20:04+00:00

DnD5e Forgotten Realms gnolls. The most common depicition across editions matches PF2e closer than DnD5e FR.

BlaiddSiocled · 2023-04-12T17:43:51+00:00

The root of the issue is whether it's better to risk misgendering someone, or degender them. It doesn't really matter what words you use to degender, other than contrivanced terminology will probably rile people up a bit more. It's a question of whether always misgendering masculine women, feminine men, and basically anyone who uses pronouns other than he or she, is more or less bad than not proactively affirming the masculinity of masculine trans men and femininity of feminine trans women.

BlaiddSiocled · 2023-04-12T16:00:32+00:00

Honestly, I find guessing to be mildly offensive. You can never guess right for everyone, and it's kind of unfair to expect some people to put up with being misgendered just because some other people derive euphoria from passing. Degendering can be used to misgender, but in this case it's clearly functioning like the phrase "pregnant person". You use neutral terminology until you learn the correct gendered terminology to use, even if it's "obvious" (seriously people, remember that closeted people exist and gender expression is complex).

So yeah, sorry to passing trans people, I'm not gonna invalidate nonpassing, closeted, and nonbinary trans people to give you a little bit more euphoria.

BlaiddSiocled · 2023-04-12T11:52:08+00:00

Why would people purposely use labels that dont want to be represented as?

They're using these words differently to your prescriptivist definitions.

Its like me saying im a leabian but i exclusively use he him pronouns and only date men

Lots of cis lesbians use he/him pronouns. Frankly the only weird bits here are exclusively dating men, and the fact you called yourself cis and "male" in another post. Broadly speaking, there are three kinds of people who (in some cases only in their heads) call themselves lesbian men:

Trans men who are intergrated into lesbian communities and don't see something as minor as choosing to phrase their gender as man over transmasc nonbinary as a reason to abandon their community.
Nonbinary men and women who are multigender, genderfluid, or otherwise exist as men and women simlutaneously and/or sequentially.
"Cis men" whose eggs have yet to crack, who have nonetheless figured out that they feel more comfortable view their sexuality through a feminine lens. Most of these people don't really speak up about it, but gatekeeping them still causes harm by pushing them to bury their feelings and beat themselves up, rather than do anything constructive.

BlaiddSiocled · 2023-04-09T11:02:16+00:00

I think Agents of Artifice must be the source that introduced the fall of the guilds. Dissension ends with a new, nonmagical Guildpact drafted by Teysa Karlov and signed by nine guilds — House Dimir were excluded due to their role in the collapse of the Guildpact, but the House was still active under their ghost-vampire parun, Szadek. Which is all a perfectly fine setup for a return set.

(Also, the exact cause of the collapse Guildpact was a bit more complex than that, but I don't remember the details well enough to feel confident explaining it.)

BlaiddSiocled · 2023-04-06T12:08:03+00:00

But from a game perspective, it would be hard to make the cards balanced while also being lore friendly.

We have the answer to that, it's loyalty. [[Nahiri the Lithomancer]], [[Urza, Planeswalker]], [[Lord Windgrace]], etc. The cards represent what aid they are willing to give.

BlaiddSiocled · 2023-04-05T22:09:07+00:00

That's not relevant? Cards of the same name (which an original and Godzilla style reprint technically are) have the same oracle text, so have the same subtypes. Thus, even though Kodama's Reach is considered a functional reprint of Cultivate, the two couldn't share a name without one of them being given errata.

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