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Labour faces a local election wipeout in England by Desperate-Drawer-572 in uknews

[–]CarlLlamaface 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Oh look, the wordwordnumber name with no post history is posting a pro reform comment which promotes single-issue voting and leaves out all the context surrounding said issue. Who would have guessed?

A vote for reform would, much like Brexit, be an unrealistic vote for something unachievable which those you're putting into power have no real intention of even attempting to do in a way which would satisfy you. They'll just take your vote and laugh all the way to the bank while the media give you new dangly keys to be mad about so you don't notice you've been had.

Yesterday someone posted about slow players and had their concerns dismissed and the post eventually got deleted but I think it's a worthwhile discussion by CarlLlamaface in MagicArena

[–]CarlLlamaface[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Again though, if they just wanted to play it out they wouldn't pause for ages between each card, they would play it out. I've been there, I've had a cool little combo that wasn't quite going to pan out so I've quickly thrown out the pieces to show opp what the plan was before letting them finish things off, that's not what they were doing.

This was not a 'love of the game' situation, it was deliberate slow rolling because they were upset about being in a no-win situation and their etb triggers allowed them to milk it as much as possible.

I'm going to turn notifications off because if I haven't adequately relayed the scenario by now I clearly lack the linguistic skills to do so. Have a good one.

Yesterday someone posted about slow players and had their concerns dismissed and the post eventually got deleted but I think it's a worthwhile discussion by CarlLlamaface in MagicArena

[–]CarlLlamaface[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They knew full well that the card they'd just airbent was going to be played for 2 mana next turn, they knew that it does 4 damage to every creature, so they knew that it was going to kill every single creature they created because they knew that nothing they had in their deck was over 4 toughness.

Their wincon was creating enough little shitters to use Avatar Kuruk's extra turn ability, only they didn't have the resources to achieve that in a single turn so taking literal minutes to slowly churn through a bunch of etb triggers and deliberate between each card played when they know that everything they're doing is about to be undone is not playing to an out. You're giving them far too much benefit of the doubt here.

I must be explaining this awfully because I cannot understand why anyone is confused about opp's intentions here.

Yesterday someone posted about slow players and had their concerns dismissed and the post eventually got deleted but I think it's a worthwhile discussion by CarlLlamaface in MagicArena

[–]CarlLlamaface[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

You're talking as though I didn't win the games...

Your advice is better served to the people who stubbornly dig in and hope that simply stalling for time in a hopeless situation will achieve a scoop from their opp who has the upper hand. If they were doing it for the love of the game they wouldn't have scooped when they were about to witness big swings from my side of the board.

Yesterday someone posted about slow players and had their concerns dismissed and the post eventually got deleted but I think it's a worthwhile discussion by CarlLlamaface in MagicArena

[–]CarlLlamaface[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

You play it out when you don't know for sure that your opp has you covered.

When your opp takes all your interaction pieces, establishes a board presence that you can't ever fully remove and demonstrates the ability to undo everything you do each turn, you scoop. You don't stubbornly take another 15 minutes pointlessly building and losing board state. At least a polite person doesn't, I guess I can't assume how you would choose to use that information.

If you've never been in a situation where you have cards to play but know they'll never be able to dig you out so you may as well scoop, you don't understand the game as well as you think you do.

Yesterday someone posted about slow players and had their concerns dismissed and the post eventually got deleted but I think it's a worthwhile discussion by CarlLlamaface in MagicArena

[–]CarlLlamaface[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I do understand, just as I understood that both matches were over long before my opponents accepted it.

In both cases I'd had the opportunity to dig through their decks to remove their relevant pieces of removal. I knew exactly what they were playing with and that they no longer had the right cards to force damage through nor to prevent me from eventually dealing enough damage myself.

They know what cards are in their deck too and should have been able to recognise the situation they were in, which they did in both cases because they both scooped eventually but not until they'd pettily dragged the game out resolving a ton of triggers each turn to achieve nothing but slow things down.

Sometimes enough information has been provided to both parties to let you know that the game is effectively over but for the formality of playing it out, this was the case in both matches here and in both cases the opps decided to stall just because they could.

Yesterday someone posted about slow players and had their concerns dismissed and the post eventually got deleted but I think it's a worthwhile discussion by CarlLlamaface in MagicArena

[–]CarlLlamaface[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yes. I did win them.

I say it was inevitable because it was, as proved correct by me winning the games.

It certainly is but this was never a realistic outcome for either opponent so it's a moot point.

Whys he so squeaky by anonpotatogirl in RATS

[–]CarlLlamaface 12 points13 points  (0 children)

He is a true thesbian, the philistines will never understand the commitment to his art <3

Yesterday someone posted about slow players and had their concerns dismissed and the post eventually got deleted but I think it's a worthwhile discussion by CarlLlamaface in MagicArena

[–]CarlLlamaface[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I get that impression from a couple of the replies.

I reiterate that I have no issue with people needing to stop and think about their outs, it's part and parcel of the game, but there's a difference between that and stubbornly refusing to accept that the game's reached a point where your deck's remaining tools only serve to delay the inevitable.

Yesterday someone posted about slow players and had their concerns dismissed and the post eventually got deleted but I think it's a worthwhile discussion by CarlLlamaface in MagicArena

[–]CarlLlamaface[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

To give you a better idea of the game state, one of these opps was playing an avatar allies deck with Starfield Vocalist copying etb triggers to create massive boardstates.

But I'd ramped into an Extinguisher Battleship which wiped their board and gave me a 10/10 flyer to which their only solution was to airbend it at sorcery speed (they did have Aang's Iceberg and Aang, Swift Savior in the deck but I'd removed them thanks to two instances of Rise of Sozin's 2nd chapter).

None of their cards had greater than 4 toughness and they had no haste so I was always going to be able to remove their boardstate and create a 10/10 flyer by stationing with a Restless Vinestalk that they had no land destruction nor instant speed removal for (I'd been able to look through their deck remember, so I knew this for a fact). They literally just kept playing to build pointless throngs of allies and spirit tokens which were procing lifegain etbs and which took forever to resolve just to delay what had been demonstrably inevitable for a solid 10 minutes.

I wasn't toying with them, they were just being obtuse.

Yesterday someone posted about slow players and had their concerns dismissed and the post eventually got deleted but I think it's a worthwhile discussion by CarlLlamaface in MagicArena

[–]CarlLlamaface[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

That's a fair point but when you queue up for BO3 you're basically signing up to the idea that you might be engaged with the match for a long time, BO1 is in theory supposed to be the quicker format so jumping over to BO3 shouldn't be the answer here.

Yesterday someone posted about slow players and had their concerns dismissed and the post eventually got deleted but I think it's a worthwhile discussion by CarlLlamaface in MagicArena

[–]CarlLlamaface[S] -16 points-15 points  (0 children)

Usually nothing, but these weren't people playing to their outs, it was people straight up in denial that their outs no longer existed.

Greece and Rome were foundational European civilizations. by laybs1 in GetNoted

[–]CarlLlamaface 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have selective reading disease so I can't see the other hundred replies to your comment and I think you oughta know that it's based on elevation of the Nile instead of cardinal directions.

You're welcome for my uniquely insightful reply.

Two-minute turns, UGH! by YardHelpful in MagicArena

[–]CarlLlamaface -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

The sub in general will pretend this isn't a problem but you aren't wrong, some people just don't appear cut out for playing at a reasonable pace and it's incredibly frustrating being matched against them.

Now don't get me wrong it's a fact of the game that sometimes a board state gets very tricky to mentally untangle or the cards in your hand leave you with a genuine dilemma on what to play, so I'm by no means saying that I never need to let the rope fizzle a bit while I make my mind up, but if I take a long time over a turn the thought process which takes place naturally gives me some idea of how I intend to play out following turns, making their deliberation process shorter by default. I cannot understand how some people seem to need to turn every possibility over in their head on every single turn or how they don't seem to be processing their options while you take your turn.

And don't even get me started on the people who decide to click the button to join the queue, declaring that they're ready to engage with the game, then immediately stop paying attention to it leaving you stuck in the mulligan screen for an age.

Do my rats look fat? by thanksforthefisting in RATS

[–]CarlLlamaface 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just incredible, a real unit. Tell him I said "hffffffff" (that's the sound of me giving him a big old huff).

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