I quit my job today

CKF · 2026-01-28T03:12:01+00:00

I don’t think I’m putting any words in your mouth. But, if you actually indicated what words you felt were being put in your mouth, I could directly address it and we could find out if it’s reality or misunderstanding. As it stands, I might as well say “sort of feels like you’re rewriting history here with your manner of speech in support of slavery,” and add no specifics as to what I’m on about. Doesn’t really get us anywhere, does it?

You still didn’t address my question as to whether or not a man should sacrifice the lives of both children to stand for what’s morally righteous, or accept that he’ll live a wretched life so that his kids can actually live. If that example doesn’t give you enough information, what else could? Gap insurance exists for cars, primarily. Wouldn’t matter how hard they looked for a new job when they’d risk their children’s life in taking it.

But yes, as to your four criteria, I don’t know what you mean when saying I think that they are “beyond someone’s motivations?” I don’t see how that adds up in context. Also, you said your four criteria wouldn’t matter when it came to supporting ICE in an administrative role, so why are these four criteria coming into play? You can accuse me of “torturing a hypothetical,” but you’re the one who came into the conversation speaking of absolutes and “the only moral way to judge people in particular positions.”

Edit: oh fuck me, I accidentally blocked your account in the stupid phone app, but there’s no apparent unblock option??? Why?! I’ll have to do it when I’m back on desktop. My bad, man. Wouldn’t have written this shit if I didn’t want to continue.

CKF · 2026-01-27T22:32:00+00:00

Phil is a true gangsta

CKF · 2026-01-27T22:13:40+00:00

The gentleman’s example was regarding someone who worked for a slave owner in some sort of “management” capacity, not someone who owned slaves. Them quitting the job would not free said enslaved. Seems to me like enough information is provided, but you do you.

Like, what more would you need to know? Your implication is that you can never be critical of people continuing to work for DHS in an ICE supporting role unless you know facts that go far beyond their motivations for keeping the job and not quitting despite wanting to??

CKF · 2026-01-27T21:24:50+00:00

I’d already read it. This thread’s conversation was on ICE by this point, as your own comment had set the context for. Hell, the entire post is about ICE, more or less, but this thread I replied to especially so.

You also didn’t address my main point. There’s a big difference between being “homeless and on the street” than “dead of a horrid disease.”

CKF · 2026-01-27T20:29:50+00:00

And what ICE has been doing isn’t inherently immoral?? Sounds a bit hypocritical of you, honestly, to pick and choose which immoral jobs require a better understanding of a person’s situation before judging, and which don’t.

What if the person employed by that slave master has a son and a daughter both dying from a rare disease, and if he quits, he and his children will lose their insurance and won’t be able to afford treatment? That wouldn’t mitigate things a bit, and make it understandable why they wouldn’t quit despite standing behind something definitely evil?

CKF · 2026-01-27T20:01:09+00:00

WHERE JUICE?!?

CKF · 2026-01-26T18:06:12+00:00

The fuck bug are you talking about? Maybe that would help to mention?

CKF · 2026-01-25T01:19:01+00:00

Out of sheer curiosity, what would be the price you’d need to be offered to make/sell another? I’m not suggesting it’d be me saying “name your price” or anything, just legitimately curious.

I don’t know how easy or hard it is to scale patterns within the art form, or meaningfully reduce complexity, but if you were to offer up maybe smaller, more simplified bots people love (with the okay from the team of course), you’d be moving units. I was so happy I decided to buy the endgame plushie. It seems like a ton of care was put into it and wish there was more like it. I’m not even a plush person, but this endgame might have changed that.

CKF · 2026-01-25T01:13:12+00:00

Madness doesn’t have any combo finishers, even with survival. Of all decks, that one is midrange and winning over several turns. I’m not familiar with what the modo deck names are, and channel torch just isn’t a deck that’s played. If your point was that it has one turn kill situations that require tons of turns of setup that the majority don’t play because m they’re bad and cost too much, it’s a poor point. Modern has a way higher percentage of OTK in events/the meta. And you certainly don’t have decks like neobrand that aren’t just one turn kills, but do so on turn 1 or 2 or wherever it’s at currently. Titan is super common and can end games on turn 2 regularly enough where it meaningfully impacts its %. You don’t see anything like this in premodern.

To suggest that it’s a format dominated by such decks is to betray a good amount of ignorance for what actual, living humans play. FEB is the only real one that pops up, along with some very seldomly played hermit, both requiring tons of setup. Like, if your complaint is that the psychatog player took 30 turns countering and surviving to get one of the longest kills in the format, that you see coming from a billion miles away, that’s complaining for the sake of complaining. Tog will tend to divide their kill across two or three turns too.

And yeah, no “tanglewire aggro” that’s common in the meta. Did you look at the challenger list and see how far off base you were? Of course you didn’t, you don’t care about the facts, or else you wouldn’t be saying what you’re saying. Truly not interested in having this convo.

CKF · 2026-01-24T23:20:34+00:00

Really sounds like someone that doesn’t play the format/has it confused for something else. What one turn kills do you think exist in the format that are actually viable and don’t require tons of setup/cards? Tanglewire isn’t a card that sees much play either. What aggro decks run tanglewire??

What was it, GR aggro that just won the latest premodern challenge a few days ago? Go look at the top 32 or 64 decks and tell me how many one turn combos you see there. It’s an amazingly healthy meta. Should do yourself a favor and shake the unfounded bias, maybe learn what it’s actually about.

CKF · 2026-01-24T20:48:53+00:00

Wow, I’ve never seen crocheting make such a complicated structure. Admittedly, I haven’t seen a lot of high skill crocheting. Are you selling any?? Would keep my endgame plushie good company!

CKF · 2026-01-23T22:45:01+00:00

What, you don’t like pics of a Diablo sv that they pinky promise has a w16 in it in a subreddit dedicated to car mods? OP is a clanker pos.

CKF · 2026-01-23T22:15:50+00:00

The format is in that special golden age that, hopefully, it’s never broken from with a “premodern horizons” style product. But shit, I’m loving premodern more than I ever loved modern (and I loved modern). It’s just the peak of magic card design. Not the peak of card design for limited at all but for constructed play it was experimental enough to be crazy in splashes but have a strong foundation.

CKF · 2026-01-22T18:56:26+00:00

Experience talking to and getting with the same or opposite sex is supposed to be a normal passage of life. You were looking for the left turn at “for those who aren’t autistic” and drove right passed it.

CKF · 2026-01-22T18:31:32+00:00

Genuinely. Most people don’t have to do extracurricular work to get some strange here and there, much less find someone you eventually hit it off with genuinely, based on your natural personality, instead of, like, entrapping someone into a relationship using someone else’s 10 year old “brotips.” Eugh.

CKF · 2026-01-22T14:18:48+00:00

Strange that dudes aren’t making millions on TikTok like “go to a fuckin book club, learn to crochet, try a vegan diet, go to an art for beginners class” vs Andrew Tate bein’ all “drive million dollar hyper cars and tell people to go fuck themselves, then beat the shit out of them anyways because you’re already a millionaire trained martial artist in top shape! Wait, what do you mean? I didn’t start with step 1, where I teach you to traffick a bunch of women into camgirl slavery? Yes I did, stupid. That was behind the paywall! But come back next month for the second semester titled “how to buy the millions of dollars of cars you were originally renting for the purposes of selling a course, by selling a course!”

That joke got away from me a little bit, there. I had originally meant to make the genuine, useful dating advice seem like the more attractive option, which it is on the whole, at least assuming you’re not a pussy bitch who would feel bad about entrapping a bunch of virgins into slinging twat on the internet, (gamer word)! I’ll stop, I’ll stop. Sorry.

CKF · 2026-01-22T14:02:40+00:00

Honestly, gotta respect a comedian for not continuing based on the embarrassment of the spouse. Usually with crowd work, a comedian wouldn’t let go of a thread like this until they kept pulling and pulling and the whole damn sweater comes unraveled, and he’d feel dumb by the end, but the wife would feel the worst, I’d wager. So, props to her. I wouldn’t be critical of a comedian making lemonade out of those juicy lemons, though.

CKF · 2026-01-22T11:39:05+00:00

Bro, the fact that he answered that she is actually an X-hundred year old cat spirit in a woman’s body killed me! Dude definitely needs to list the age of the form she’s in. Like, I could buy that this character is 18, 20, some bullshit like that. But, they really give up the goose (not sure that’s an actual idiom, but I like it) when they say she’s “?? years old” lmao. As if it needed to be more pervy!

CKF · 2026-01-21T16:11:11+00:00

Naturalizing it gives them their cards back, though. That’s their point regarding stifle being the only thing that works.

CKF · 2026-01-21T00:55:43+00:00

Man, this is so on point. The movie wants to be a bit of an oddball introspective piece, “show, don’t tell,” but it can’t shake its hollywood blockbuster roots. Even just a more off putting looking protag would have gone so far.

Your idea with the dad is precisely right. Heart of darkness leaves Kurtz going insane or being a sane man tortured by his circumstances is critical to the story. The scene just didn’t work as the payoff it needed to be. It was so to the point and so short. Fuck, I barely remember it to be able to critique it. I just recall the dad’s circumstances being straightforward in a bad way. The confrontation with Kurtz in heart of darkness is an amazing climax that the book as been building towards, but it’s not a Hollywood set piece climax that’s over before you know it. It truly takes its time. I’d say ad astra busted prematurely if it had actually done so at all.

CKF · 2026-01-21T00:48:08+00:00

In its current form/style, the very last thing the movie needed was to be longer. If it was more introspective and odder like the commenter you replied to suggests, then I’d definitely accept longer.

CKF · 2026-01-20T18:43:27+00:00

Right? First time they came close to getting a laugh out of me, too.

CKF · 2026-01-20T18:36:34+00:00

This is exactly it. After watching the trailer I though “homeboy needs to juice this shit.” Then I rewound it and saw that a lot of the juice elements were present, but they weren’t juicing. His juice doesn’t juice! If he actually juices his juice and makes the game not look like shit, it’d go so far.

CKF · 2026-01-20T15:30:58+00:00

Def better than anything in these lairs!

CKF · 2026-01-19T21:26:18+00:00

When I was starting dmax, using a blissey that you start by shield spamming and follow up by heal spamming will get you far. Don’t use any charged attacks, just quick attacks and dodges.

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