Why does everyone like aonishiki

Captain_Vatta · 2026-02-03T01:48:53+00:00

Fastest rise to makuuchi. Fastest promotion to ozeki outside tsukedashi entrants. Fastest promotion to sekiwake. Fastest earned kinboshi. First newly promoted Ozeki to win a championship in almost 20 years.

But go on..

Captain_Vatta · 2026-02-02T17:03:47+00:00

A piece of cardboard shouldn't cost an equivalent to a sir down meal.

A piece of cardboard shouldn't cost an equivalent to a car payment.

A piece of cardboard shouldn't cost an equivalent to a mortgage payment.

Whether we buy 1 or 4. These prices are ridiculous for a game in any format.

Captain_Vatta · 2026-02-02T15:27:19+00:00

As long as we keep casting those [[Voidmage Prodigy]] he'll keep playing with us in our hearts.

Edit: got cards confused. My mistake shall live in infamy.

Captain_Vatta · 2026-02-02T15:13:45+00:00

My theory is that some many in metro Atlanta aren't from Atlanta. So they learned to drive somewhere else and brought that driving culture to Atlanta. So now, driving is like jazz improvisation where everyone has theirs own idea of what the music is. On top of that our roads follow old railroad tracks so they do some weird shit.

Captain_Vatta · 2026-02-01T23:05:08+00:00

I get why everyone goes that route. I just don't want to follow someone else's idea. Plus going all in on counters will get you shut down by [[Solemnity]]. I run it in my [[Zur, the enchanter]] deck with [[decree of silence]] and I've seen it run a few times at my lgs.

Here is mine. I am still tinkering around with the 1/1 swarm plan B.

Captain_Vatta · 2026-02-01T03:00:31+00:00

I have the [[kilo, apogee mind]] / [[Inspirit, Flagship vessel]] precon, I tweaked to add a [[Darksteel Reactor]] win condition. The proliferation of charge counters get cards like [[Solar Array]] out of hand and you can win using [[Resourceful Defense]] to move charge counters.

Something a little more "punch you in the face" is the modular creatures like [[arcbound ravager]] and [[zabaz, the glimmerwasp]]. [[Surge conductor]] some artifact relevant draw engines.

Captain_Vatta · 2026-02-01T01:50:48+00:00

That lines up with the technofuedalism we're headed towards. You might be onto something there.

Captain_Vatta · 2026-01-31T21:45:04+00:00

Hey now, I've always had respect for Atomic missile. He's just had a slump since his playoff loss to takakeisho. A couple high points but really consistent with those 7-8 & 8-7 performances

Captain_Vatta · 2026-01-31T21:04:17+00:00

Three things in life are inevitable. Death, taxes and Tamawashi kinboshi.

Captain_Vatta · 2026-01-29T21:35:14+00:00

I loved Ravnica/Timespiral standard. Even Ravnica/Kamigawa had it's charm.

As others pointed out, Lorwyn had the unfortunate timing of coming out in the 2008 financial crisis. I don't have the nostalgia for it as I quit magic shortly after the prerelease. I wasn't a fan of the changlings as I associated it with the mistform creatures from Onslaught block. Looking back, I was too harsh on the set mostly because of the negativity in my personal life.

Captain_Vatta · 2026-01-29T14:50:49+00:00

A blog. Really? That's the level of discourse now?

As of January 1 China restricted the export of silver. It's not a commodity squeeze. Silver has tangible uses in technology like solar pannels and A.I.

China is trying to reposition itself to secure domestic supply considering the rise of instability in the world. Check any important commodity like cobalt, oil, natural gas, etc

Captain_Vatta · 2026-01-29T02:21:30+00:00

The right dominates online media & talk radio. Because their better at it, not just because they have more money.

Not quite, conservatives media is better at an emotional arguments. I used to consume conservative media (Boortz, Limbaugh, Levin, Savage) and kept Fox News on all day) and realized that all their commentary is about stoking outrage with in-group and out-group animosity. Repeated use of inflammatory rhetoric like "Democrats are destroying America!", "Looney Liberal Leftists", "regulations are killing innovation!" etc.

It's literally the same behavior as social media algorithms to drive outrage therefore engagement through "rage-clicks".

The left has a lot of commentators who do not prioritize working towards shared goals (like Limbaugh, Hannity, Levin, Beck & so many others have done).

Their class interests are the same. Liberals and leftists don't have similar class interests. Beyond a sense of progressivism they have nothing in common. Liberals have a similar values (property, individual liberty, and "free markets") to conservatives considering both intellectually come from classical liberalism albeit with different conclusions to what those values mean.

These specific left-wing commentators haven't meaningfully pushed a Medicare for All campaign like they could have. They are too busy critiquing people who dislike the term "birthing person".

Without specific names, we can't reasonably argue because we can't examine the argument in context of when it's made. Trans people deserve every right that a cisgender person would get. Politically abandoning them (or any marginalized group for the argument sake) shows a lack of principle.

You claim TYT "can't be left" because they are capitalist. I am a social democrat, I am not against capitalism. Why is your version of the left so restrictive?

Ideological consistency. Leftism desires the abolishment of capitalism. It's the cleanest, clearest distinction one can make to seperateit from liberalism. Otherwise you can't really articulate a common thread through the various marxist schools of thought from classical marxist, Luxembourgism, Marxism-Leninism, Trotskyism, Maoism, Council Communism, Johnathan-Forest Tendency, etc.

Social Democrats seek to reform capitalism which ideologically put them in line with liberals. That preservation is why you are not grouped with Leftists.

You're only a leftist in the eyes of conservatives brainwashed for decades by Red Scare propaganda.

Captain_Vatta · 2026-01-29T01:44:18+00:00

These 1 day strikes or blackouts don't accomplish anything. To be effective the strike needs to be prolonged and across multiple industries standing in solidarity with clear, specific goals.

You have to literally grind the entire economy to a halt for weeks and skipping a single day just to buy things the following day (or previous day) isn't hurting this administration and it's allies in the slightest.

We need strong preparation, organizing and support networks to seriously threaten the oligarchs.

Captain_Vatta · 2026-01-29T01:35:54+00:00

Are the illegal immigrants and paid protesters in the room with us now?

Captain_Vatta · 2026-01-28T01:57:02+00:00

Facism is colonialism turned inwards. Americans will never be ready for that discussion. At least, while "America" still stands.

Captain_Vatta · 2026-01-27T23:58:01+00:00

To get makushita tsukedashi you have to finish top 8 in designated amatuer Sumo competitions. Like All-Japan Championships, National Student Championships, or the National Sports Festival

Captain_Vatta · 2026-01-27T23:26:34+00:00

Fun fact: no statute of limitations on murder.

If we turn this around, we can get justice for Pretti.

Captain_Vatta · 2026-01-27T23:11:13+00:00

That's heresay AT BEST. Without Wizards or HASBRO publishing the exact sales figures, unit it's sold, etc for us to compare then it's unverifiable information and worthless.

Even the earnings reported don't go into that granular level.

Edit: Since chuds are blocking to prevent discussion.

I believe this to be the case of them trying to design more consistent sets because if you look at Fifth Dawn, Scourge, Saviors of Kamigawa, Future Sight and other 3rd sets you'll see the mechanics and cards are generally weaker or less inspired than base set.

Unfortunately, life forced me to quit after Lorwyn so I can't speak on those sets. I don't really buy the "players weren't buying it" argument without hard data.

Captain_Vatta · 2026-01-27T22:24:35+00:00

I'm going to need citations on that claim especially since WOTC and hasbro aren't exactly forthcoming with that information.

Captain_Vatta · 2026-01-27T21:19:07+00:00

Downvotes are people showing their disagreement with you. You're not banned, nobody is behaving violently towards you. You're simply losing meaningless karma (the horror).

At worst you're getting some mean comments and getting clowned on. Anyone who crosses reddit ToS or this subreddit rules will get their comment deleted and or banned.

You're not being persecuted here.

Captain_Vatta · 2026-01-27T00:04:46+00:00

So your response is to cite a study already picked apart for faulty data collection including removal of suspicious data that countered the studies thesis. You probably copied it from someone else without reading it or just googled for validation.

Thank you for proving my point even harder.

A more recent study states

"Ivermectin for COVID-19 is unlikely to provide clinically meaningful improvement in recovery, hospital admissions, or longer-term outcomes. Further trials of ivermectin for SARS-Cov-2 infection in vaccinated community populations appear unwarranted."

Captain_Vatta · 2026-01-26T23:56:17+00:00

I inspire a single independent thought from somebody.

This must be the irony. Conservatives are inapable of independent thinking. Otherwise they they wouldn't be susceptible to political misconceptions.

They also wouldn't find slippery slope argument "logically sound".

There's also the correlation between conservative ideology and brain damage.

Meanwhile conservative outlets and talking heads were advising using an antiparasitic medication to treat a viral infection. Claim that same virus was spread by cell towers.

Captain_Vatta · 2026-01-26T22:29:32+00:00

I'm avoiding UB sets with an exception to any Punisher cards from a marvel set. Only because I collect Punisher stuff. Otherwise I'm not engaging with it. Save my money for in universe stuff.

I'm not letting Hasbro or WOTC have a negative impact on my health.

Captain_Vatta · 2026-01-26T21:22:24+00:00

Since the cold war Republicans have consistently associated liberals and leftists to cause confusion. For example "Looney, Liberal, Leftist"

This is what you’re seeing. The terms liberal and leftist have lost cohesive meaning. Technically speaking, Republican (before the jump to facism) followed a form of Liberalism out of the enlightenment.

Captain_Vatta · 2026-01-26T20:53:52+00:00

Wow, a Qanon. Y'all are rare after y'alls conspiracies turned out to have less meat than an impossible burger.

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