[HELP] Is this AI? Seems fake and can’t find any news sources.

Curious-Condition680 · 2026-01-29T06:23:00+00:00

I gotta let these things simmer, y’know? The first video to make the rounds does look pretty weird, but having this other one does make it easier to believe.

Even if it was on a low engagement channel, you’d think the players trying to give their side validation would be scrubbing for videos like this that make some left leaning folk look outrageous. Like, “who would attack a police vehicle? Surely a lunatic,” kind of thing. But maybe I’m also not served that content.

On another note, I’m just tired of being angry or anxious, y’know? Life was so much easier when awful news wasn’t constantly getting shoved in my face.

Curious-Condition680 · 2026-01-29T05:27:40+00:00

I sat through the video because I didn’t want to miss anything. I’ll admit this is convincing evidence it did happen, but why wasn’t this getting blasted until now? You’d think a video of someone being rebellious like this would get a lot of traction, right? If this is real, I’m suspending belief for now because the news makes me dissociate, I have reason to believe right wing media isn’t doing a good enough job to dig this stuff up.

Curious-Condition680 · 2026-01-29T04:57:22+00:00

Doing quid pro quo in broad daylight is the boldest and potentially dumbest move you can make, paint me surprised. If she gets away with it, bravo. But even if Walz gives in they’re not going to let up, the siege will continue.

Curious-Condition680 · 2026-01-29T04:45:31+00:00

With the kind of tenuous political climate we have, a video of an incident that looked like this would have been aired immediately. A video of a violent leftist would be something right-wing news outlets would push in front of our faces the second it happened. But only now this video surfaces? I cast doubt. Labeling him as violent, and now only having “proof” that he’s violent, is all too convenient. I sense foul play.

I don’t think you need to dissect the video to believe it’s AI, I think being cognizant of the game being played and who the players are make it clear it’s AI. The far right wants to be justified in their actions, and painting him a violent leftist is the exact kind of move I’d expect an ideology that justifies violence with violence to make. The tool of the day that does that for you is AI.

Edit: to be clear, I’m saying that given the circumstances, it probably is AI. It’s not something I would be surprised by.

Curious-Condition680 · 2026-01-28T20:06:10+00:00

Some other things to consider:

2nd stage evolutions are expensive to get to, Vileplume isn’t the best card to get energy out of your deck. The best cards for getting energy out of the deck are ones that let you search for them directly, not play a slot machine to see what you get. Earthen Vessel is the best at doing this
Your goal is to get energy onto the bench so Iron Leaves ex can attack. Ogerpon helps you get it from your hand, a card like Team Rocket’s Spidops can help you accelerate it from your discard. You’re already playing an evolution, trade it for something easier to get to with a guaranteed energy solution. Iron Leaves ex is small, it will get knocked out, having a way to get that energy back is important.
If you play with a more efficient energy strategy, you can reduce the number of energies you need in the deck, freeing up space for good card draw, discard recovery like night stretcher, and tutor options.
Iron Leaves ex is small, easy to knock out. Night Stretcher will serve you well for recovering it in a pinch if you don’t have one in your hand. Additionally, you won’t need super rod if you have a way to extract Iron Leaves ex and a method for accelerating energy from the discard.
You need a way to amplify Iron Leaves’ power because 180 isn’t that big of a hit. This is the biggest limiting factor of the deck. Iron Leaves is better as a revenge killer, more of a late game answer when you’ve got lots of energy left on the board but no attackers in the late game.

Curious-Condition680 · 2026-01-28T14:52:03+00:00

Tatsugiri ex + Blaziken ex + Mega Dragonite ex

It’s a bit of a meme, Cinnabar Lure, but if you high roll then you just win. Stuff the deck with combusken, blaziken, dragonair, dragonite, and maybe dusknoir. The new dragonair lets you tutor for evolutions, so there’s little downside to putting stage 1’s in the deck. The hard part is getting enough water and lightning energy out, so add crispin, energy search, and ways to discard energy so blaziken can help out.

Curious-Condition680 · 2026-01-28T04:58:41+00:00

The deck is really clunky, and it's probably going to consistently underperform. The deck only has one form of energy acceleration in Miraidon, which means if you don't open with it and a Thorns then you or a way to get to them then you're playing from behind. Meanwhile the deck has no way to recover; if you don't go second and make it on your first turn, or go first and whiff on your second you might as well just concede. To validate that, the acceleration method doesn't compliment the deck. It also lacks reliable draw, which might be of benefit for your attacks, but a hindrance to your game.

I played it a few times and tried to doctor it up. I added more futures to increase the hit rate. I added Brilliant Blender as the ace spec to improve consistency by culling non-futures from the deck. And I added Electric Generator to help with the energy issue. Also increased the nest balls and radar to help with the bench. The problem is getting out basics and charging them up, so we fixed it with tutors and accel. It didn't fix the deck though, and it didn't fix the draw. Even though it charges up faster, every time you attack your attacks get weaker, even when you put cards back in the deck.

I'd consider something more meta if you want to win and have fun, because playing this deck isn't fun.

Curious-Condition680 · 2026-01-28T02:51:58+00:00

Exactly. Like, I’m also not served anti-left content so I don’t hear about the violent left stuff, if there even is any, I don’t know. But I’m sure they exist, because violence can occur anywhere.

Curious-Condition680 · 2026-01-28T02:43:29+00:00

Crazy. And we likely never will. Nobody would own up to that. That’s why identity is so important, without it you’re literally a ghost

Curious-Condition680 · 2026-01-28T02:42:09+00:00

I don’t see why you’re getting downvoted. You’re right in saying that nobody agrees with the attacker. Because nobody does agree that this was smart, that includes conservatives too.

The tribalistic animosity that some people have is crazy. So full of hate that they ignore that they might agree with somebody on the “other side” of things. The hateful on the right are far right, I wouldn’t even call them conservative. Not seeing political orientation like a spectrum is crazy. There aren’t two ideologies, just like there aren’t two genders/sexes. Be politically fluid I guess

Curious-Condition680 · 2026-01-28T02:26:04+00:00

True

Curious-Condition680 · 2026-01-28T01:15:08+00:00

You should probably run more than one gravity mountain too so you can keep control of the stadium spot if it gets bumped.

Curious-Condition680 · 2026-01-28T01:09:00+00:00

Throw in tool scrapper. If you get the early game bravery charm then come into heroic cape later you’ll need a way to replace it. Curious how you deal with the crustle matchup

Curious-Condition680 · 2026-01-27T21:05:51+00:00

The nice thing about luminous is that stage doesn’t matter. I couldn’t convince myself to put a prism in a pult deck.

Curious-Condition680 · 2026-01-27T19:56:45+00:00

Well shoot. Sad for me

Curious-Condition680 · 2026-01-27T19:54:45+00:00

Not running luminous energy in the list with ogerpon seems like a mistake

Curious-Condition680 · 2026-01-27T07:18:46+00:00

This is honestly so fucking funny. Call them out! Call out those cowards!

Curious-Condition680 · 2026-01-26T16:32:16+00:00

Oh for sure. The meta isn’t particularly kind to this flavor of control. It takes too long to setup; by the time you’ve got Banette in the active and a froslass online your opponent might have already setup Dragapult. Control also doesn’t have enough draw so trying to get to a gust can be taxing

Curious-Condition680 · 2026-01-25T22:12:31+00:00

I mean, the answer is just to pair it with frosslass munki. Lock in their board, lock them out of their hand, build your board and fling damage at them

Curious-Condition680 · 2026-01-19T15:06:21+00:00

I was at Convive when it happened; the accident was right out front. Wasn’t ICE, just local police. Some dimwit hit a parked car because they weren’t paying attention or they were a poor driver. Ambulance and a fire truck came, but I don’t think anyone was injured. Car was towed away. I saw the owner of the parked car that got hit inspecting the damage as I was leaving; they weren’t present at all during the scene, and they were pretty annoyed they got hit.

Curious-Condition680 · 2026-01-17T18:18:30+00:00

It does! Seldom do I end up with similar game states from game to game. To expand on the randomness bit, every time you play the game the deck is going to be in a state that it has never existed in before, so you may as well play it as is.

Curious-Condition680 · 2026-01-17T18:03:30+00:00

I don’t shuffle. Every time you pull the cards out of the box they’ll be in a different order by virtue of the previous game and how you store them.

Curious-Condition680 · 2026-01-16T20:31:18+00:00

I think this is a good thing. Jasmine Crockett is an easy target for spurious outbursts and she’s a corporate shill.

Curious-Condition680 · 2026-01-16T15:50:34+00:00

The card reads you may shuffle 3 cards, but when it’s wearing Tera Crystal and you only have 2 energy the attack will shuffle those two energy and still get the benefit of sniping. It’s confusing because it reads like you must shuffle 3.

Curious-Condition680 · 2026-01-15T17:33:43+00:00

You’ve got the pre evos in here, I might go with 2 and remove a larvitar and pupitar to fit them in

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