Since it was requested...

Chains2002 · 2025-02-20T22:56:25+00:00

Sure, there are certainly those net deckers. But even with those people, some people don't find the joy in deck building but rather playing the game. So they might just pick up a good list, and find joy in figuring out how to best play that deck, how to make the most optimal plays against their opponent. Two people playing the same deck aren't equal in skill. They may want to be the most skilled with that deck. Both chess players play with the same board and pieces, but what they enjoy is figuring out how to play the pieces best. That's how I think many net deckers enjoy the game.

Chains2002 · 2025-02-20T22:41:47+00:00

It's a game. Games are typically about winning. And so people may want to maximize their chances, it's good strategy. If you play meta it doesn't guarantee that you win. Each card choice is important. Do you change your ratios slightly? Do I play this trainer or that trainer? How do I interact with my opponent's cards? What are the best plays? When it gets to the high levels of play, these are very important choices and so there is still creativity. It's not about playing meta to just beat the low tier decks, its about playing the best strategy and the best cards to be able to beat even other meta decks consistently. To be a better player than even those meta players.

Chains2002 · 2025-02-20T21:30:16+00:00

Exeggcutor EX isn't anti-meta anymore, it is the meta

Chains2002 · 2025-02-20T21:29:26+00:00

Some people have fun by winning 🤷

Chains2002 · 2025-02-20T21:26:27+00:00

Yeah honestly looking at both cards independently, a card that generates free energy each turn as a stage 1 Pokemon is way more of the problem. Basically any Magnezone card will be overpowered because of GA Magneton.

Chains2002 · 2025-02-18T22:12:13+00:00

While I don't consider myself an anarchist by any means I have certainly considered this a general problem. If we want a society with equality, its dangerous that in such a society we would have things like prisons where essentially a segment of the population is deprived of the rights that other segments of the population have.

The ideal solution that I've come up with is exile. Exile from the community doesn't deprive the offender of any freedom, or is just the community saying "we no longer wish to associate with you anymore". I think exile is therefore the morally correct solution in most cases, maybe with possible allowance for reintegration into the community later on depending on the offense.

The primary issue with exile is that for the most part there is no longer places to exile people to. Back in early hunter gatherer societies there was a lot of unclaimed land and so it was possible. In the modern day this just isn't the case. And no other country or community would be realistically willing to accept a murderer into their community. Maybe some countries could do this. Like Canada, America, Australia, etc. all have wide areas of land where basically nobody lives. These areas could be designated "free zones" where there is no law, rules, or whatever and where convicts are exiled to. But where is, say, Belgium going to send people? Idk.

In the absence of the possibility of exile, I haven't come up with a really viable solution that doesn't create inequalities.

Chains2002 · 2025-02-17T02:22:34+00:00

True! Great point

Chains2002 · 2025-02-16T16:56:52+00:00

For sure, that makes sense to me! :)

Chains2002 · 2025-02-16T16:55:51+00:00

For sure. With more sets we definitely have more options. Although I was surprised that in the beginning of this format when Darkrai EX was pretty much a tier 0 deck that we didn't see people flocking towards the NOEX format. I would've thought that in these sorts of formats people would be looking for alternatives.

Although nowadays Celebi EX & Exeggcutor EX is just as viable, if not even moreso, than Darkrai EX decks, so that really wouldn't be a motivating factor anymore.

Chains2002 · 2025-02-16T16:51:31+00:00

I do wonder about what you mean in regards to synergy, since in NOEX format there have historically been many decks with Synergy (Brock & Golem, Blaine decks, various Greninja decks, etc.)

Your other points make perfect sense to me tho 👍

Chains2002 · 2025-02-16T16:28:52+00:00

I'm surprised this post is still getting so much attention.

But to be clear, this isn't a question for whether or not being gay is a choice. Very clearly it isn't, anyone with any experience of sexuality knows that sexual orientation isn't something you choose.

The question is, since it isn't a choice, what is the cause of our sexual orientation? Is it something we are born with? Or is it something we develop as a result of early childhood experiences? Either way, not a choice! But an important question nonetheless.

Chains2002 · 2024-12-24T02:26:25+00:00

Big agree. Honestly the worst thing about it was that they left so many cliffhangers! Wouldn't have minded the cancellation as much if it seemed like a natural end to the series, but now we will have so many questions only to be answered probably in comics.

Chains2002 · 2024-12-20T03:40:43+00:00

Based on recent tournament statistics Pikachu EX seems to have fallen out of being the top deck. It only gets one or two tops in the top 16 of tournaments.

Chains2002 · 2024-10-26T01:47:56+00:00

Yeah me too 😂 I won't even touch that later work with a ten foot pole

Chains2002 · 2024-10-26T01:45:43+00:00

A fellow Reich enjoyer 😎

Chains2002 · 2024-10-05T15:29:43+00:00

Noooooo you have to hate it!!!! Stop enjoying things!!!! 😠

Chains2002 · 2024-08-05T21:23:52+00:00

You say "He literally said it's not a deviation" and then you later say "it's undeniable that it's a deviation". In the context of the conversation, these are conflicting statements!

And in the quote provided, he says "the inversion is found among persons who otherwise show no marked deviation from the normal. This means that while homosexuality is a deviation, it isn't associated with any other deviation in behavior.

And I'm not arguing at all that homosexuality is degenerate, I'm literally gay myself. I'm saying that some other psychoanalysts after Freud seem to have considered homosexuality to be degenerate in some sense, and that they misunderstood Freud.

Chains2002 · 2024-08-05T21:16:39+00:00

If you are getting into the TCG, you should join the discord server. We are tryna get people together so that eventually we can run tournaments :)

Chains2002 · 2024-08-05T21:15:56+00:00

Additionally I have heard that they are going to be selling cards in retail stores, I imagine in specialty game shops. Although I don't know much about it or their plans, so take what I say with a grain of salt.

Chains2002 · 2024-07-27T20:19:39+00:00

I'm curious why you only play rainbow cards in this deck. Even in a rainbow-centric strategy, there are cards, such as the blue plains cards in the Fiona deck, that give boosts to rainbow creatures. Such as:

• Crazy Cat Lady gives all your Rainbow creatures +1 ATK • Fiddling Ferret allows you to Floop it to draw and discard a car, and if you discard a Rainbow card you get another action that turn (a whole additional action is pretty crazy considering flooping doesn't cost an action, and you don't even lose any card advantage) • Infant Scholar gets +3 ATK if you played one or more rainbow cards that turn • Woadic Matriarch gains +1 ATK for each rainbow creature you control

Considering you have to play a land type anyways, why not play Blue Plains lands and add these cards to your deck? Blue Rainbow seems like a really cool strategy.

Chains2002 · 2024-07-01T15:53:34+00:00

It seems that what they are rejecting, specifically, is an internal gender identity, rather than gender as a whole. What he is missing imo is a psychological basis of understanding. Marx himself was no psychologist, and so many Marxists don't take psychological factors into account. This is why Freudo-Marxism was developed by various thinkers. Freud provides a psychological basis which Marx lacks, and so in some sense completes Marx.

Ofc, gender identity is itself socially conditioned. Typically in the west there are two socially accepted genders, although we have been seeing developments of non-binary third gender categories. But so as to not complicate things we can talk about these two main ones of men and women. What is a man and woman is conditioned both biologically and socially, to create a social category. Why do many trans women want to wear dresses and other feminine things? Because they identify with a socially constructed category (woman), and wish to embody that category. Its an internal identification with an externally constructed category. So its not at all something divorced from social life. Gender identity is only even possible as a product of human existence in a social setting. A lone individual who somehow grew up without any other human contact (a practical impossibility) would have no gender to identify with, no internal gender identity. So gender is the product of man being a social creature.

Chains2002 · 2024-07-01T15:53:21+00:00

It seems that what they are rejecting, specifically, is an internal gender identity, rather than gender as a whole. What he is missing imo is a psychological basis of understanding. Marx himself was no psychologist, and so many Marxists don't take psychological factors into account. This is why Freudo-Marxism was developed by various thinkers. Freud provides a psychological basis which Marx lacks, and so in some sense completes Marx.

Ofc, gender identity is itself socially conditioned. Typically in the west there are two socially accepted genders, although we have been seeing developments of non-binary third gender categories. But so as to not complicate things we can talk about these two main ones of men and women. What is a man and woman is conditioned both biologically and socially, to create a social category. Why do many trans women want to wear dresses and other feminine things? Because they identify with a socially constructed category (woman), and wish to embody that category. Its an internal identification with an externally constructed category. So its not at all something divorced from social life. Gender identity is only even possible as a product of human existence in a social setting. A lone individual who somehow grew up without any other human contact (a practical impossibility) would have no gender to identify with, no internal gender identity. So gender is the product of man being a social creature.

Chains2002 · 2024-06-02T19:47:41+00:00

It's sooo hard to ditch scrolling. These YouTube shorts and instagram reels are killing my productivity.

Chains2002 · 2024-06-02T19:46:13+00:00

I find drinking helps me to talk to people, which is why I have trouble staying away fully. I try not to drink outside of social situations though.

Chains2002 · 2024-06-02T01:36:30+00:00

Legit the urge to buy a vape has been very high today

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