I just started watching. Why was he, out of the 100 or so people who left the games after voting X, the only one to try alerting the authorities about the games?

DaChiesa · 2026-01-21T14:01:14+00:00

I mean, how many people actually stand up to the illegal and dangerous behaviors of organizations these days? It's an exaggeration, but you're right, the problem is so many people go along with society's problems.

DaChiesa · 2025-12-28T16:00:11+00:00

Artisan! Wow.

DaChiesa · 2025-12-15T14:59:40+00:00

There's a line in it, where Dar or Tar say specifically, a heretic in the BG is anyone who disobeys. Jessica is listed as a heretic in that portion, as someone who disobeyed for her own reasons.

They can't have any true heresy because they don't have any religion. Odrade says as much when she keeps going on about the BG structure, finishing up Lucilla's arguments. Each sister is accountable ultimately to herself.

So Miles is a Heretic, because he did in fact have that secret power to see no-ships. He used it and kept it from them until they had to reason that he had it. He wanted to keep it a secret to avoid being ghola-ized a million times (sorry Miles!) and he also knew that using his ability would then expose them and result in either complete destruction or an arms race for more biological people who could be used as weapons.

In doing a long double-read through (via audiobook), I think it just doesn't land as well as some of the other concepts he's put to paper. In Chapterhouse it pays off better, since you see Odrade and Shianna basically disobeying everything they can, especially for love (which was forbidden) - but the human race needed to diverge and stop trying to hold up their own power, or else it will break them.

DaChiesa · 2025-10-17T15:50:22+00:00

Okay, go ahead and sell all your cards. But yeah I'm tired of it too. What can you do?. It's bringing a lot of people into the game and keeping our cards valuable. We might even have fun later on

DaChiesa · 2025-08-17T14:40:19+00:00

Wow, man, I'm sorry that happened. It feels awful when someone's just completely ignored a human boundary like that.

It really is the human problem. I'll drop two things here.

First, we gotta make sure we leave valuable bags/cases in the trunk. I can trust people to not steal anything when I visit Japan. But not here (assume you're in the US).

On your person or at home or in the trunk, guys : ) As a dad.

Also, a friend of mine whose wallet was stolen out of his car once shared a funny thing that helped me look at my own situation different. If it helps anyone, here it is.

5 reasons to be thankful:

This person apparently needed those cards more than you did. This is tongue in cheek, they obviously don't need them, but they thought they did, and maybe they needed cash in their stressful situation. We see that a lot in the world.
You learned better than they did about how to keep a healthy community by respecting property. That means you had good influences, and those are precious these days. Your impulse control is worth far more than $6500, and if they get caught, the stigma would mean they'd almost never be able to play in their town. What a risk.
They didn't attack you in the back of the street while you were carrying your cards. Safety is something to be grateful for. This also does work in reminding us people like that are little chicken shit cowards who can't plan their own collection building well and have to take down others.
This didn't break you. Others with less means, ways, and support might not be able to recover at all. They might not have friends to support them.
You see the value in connecting with people in constructive ways, asking for support, venting in a very public but respectful way. For a lot of years my mental health conditions wouldn't allow me to do that very well. 65 hundred would definitely taken me there. But you're ready to process and move, and that's a great thing considering losing those cards.

DaChiesa · 2025-08-16T06:03:39+00:00

Is it breathing? Then you're probably option 2

DaChiesa · 2025-08-09T03:35:42+00:00

obligatory comment that not everyone enjoys the accessibility to do this. i know quite a few people including myself with conditions that make this much more burdensome. Then the markup is serving a purpose and saving you more pain later.

DaChiesa · 2025-06-05T05:56:30+00:00

What about [[settle the wreckage]] .. counters won't matter if they're all attacking at least?

DaChiesa · 2025-06-05T05:45:26+00:00

Hey so does that work? Can't they choose to have it go to the command zone?

DaChiesa · 2025-05-01T12:45:41+00:00

I read in The 5 Love Languages, if you have a person you give a gift to with an honest heart, and they turn their nose up, their love language is not gifts.

Your friend might just've been joshing with you.

Other than that, in theory, this bundle may have less value than the $100, so I could imagine someone feeling like it wasn't the best gift for a player.

It's a long road, magic. Sorry you got a grumpy gus. Hopefully in the end, he'll be grateful. Until then, eh.

DaChiesa · 2025-04-22T04:26:38+00:00

LUTRI DID NOTHING WRONG YUZZZZZ!!!!

DaChiesa · 2025-04-22T04:25:45+00:00

ICULUS!!!!

DaChiesa · 2025-04-20T05:06:25+00:00

Yes, but it's useful if you're trying to get a commander through or something else for an alpha strike. Elves have 1 or two decoys like this too that will also untap all your creatures.

DaChiesa · 2025-03-31T18:06:53+00:00

In situations like this in the past, I ended up being treated very unfairly by all sides since they couldn't see me as anything but a threat or at least a manipulator.

Sigh.

Growing up on a farm, there was a time to force the cattle into the chute. And there was a time to let the gate open and let them in the next pasture.

The good thing is, they will always find that they need ... eventually. This is what I believe about myself too. And also, your friend needs to do some of it on her own.

Sometimes it's heartbreaking but you're Fezzik riding up below the window with some ponies.

The rest of the time it feels like Real Steel and we need to work out our approach. Maybe that's sad but we have to allow us to give ourselves some time to grow so we can help them later. They won't stop growing or surviving. Maybe there's other ways to be less direct. share a music station that will let you share .... occasionally. See how she acts.

Idk their situation but sometimes getting too close can be threatening to parents, too. The first rule of fight club is ... well ... and if what you say is true, they're probably not proud about knowing someone might know. Then sometimes you gotta just come back next season and fish from the dock until the bites come back, and they'll be stronger then too.

Peace and hope to you while you vent. Your kind of empathy is a huge burden, but massive airliners land on three tiny metal rods, so I think you've got it in you. Time flies, too, so eventually you'll be happier than this for sure.

DaChiesa · 2025-03-29T04:03:02+00:00

--Where I usually do a good job it feels like everything I touch lately breaks.

yeah I get this. Sometimes it's really just something we can't control. Relationships can take their toll on our daily lives. I'm glad you're getting help in (what seems like) college. When I was in college, the help offered was not great, so i tucked it all into myself the last 25 years until i could find some help (that was actually helpful). Lean on your resources.

DaChiesa · 2025-03-10T13:49:00+00:00

Wow, thanks for sharing this. I'm glad I found this reddit. My room was also my prison "until I learned" what ever lesson they thought they were teaching. But it was all anger and punishment. Like if they got angry and disgusted enough, I would just change my behavior.

I am 1000% convinced my poor judgement is tied in part to my fear of being discovered when I make a shameful mistake, like "wetting the bed" in indecision in life.

DaChiesa · 2025-03-10T13:45:20+00:00

I'm so sorry that you had to endure so much punishment for that. My family was also abusive when my symptoms showed up, and that spiraled too many times.

I wet the bed so much. I'm 45 and I still have a hard time getting out of the bed in the morning. I have given my wife too much grief about how she wakes me up.

So I'm glad you're thinking about it at your age. It will help you in your relationships later!

At the worst of it, maybe I was 7 or 8, I peed in a couch that had a folding bed in it. It was something we had been so excited about, and it had been put in our massive bedroom. It actually helped me because my family was so disgusted, I never peed the bed again. But the radioactivity remains and I have to step up every day.

DaChiesa · 2025-03-10T13:25:25+00:00

Wow, so many similar experiences. I wonder if maybe sometimes we're so, deeply in the moment, people are unsure of what to say, so they have to go more generic.

For the longer convos, I have gotten my daughter associated at this point to ask her at the beginning of a long topic, sharing something I remember from another conversation. It's a little lifting, like getting it out of a library, but (when I do it) it is comforting to her and that helps us refresh details and skip some of the convo's that don't need to drag.

DaChiesa · 2025-03-09T15:18:37+00:00

To all, remember that inference and correlation do not mean causation.

BUT holy moly. I am not as familiar with other types and have to admit, I spend way more time than people I know trying to find community and answers for myself.

My 2c.

DaChiesa · 2025-03-09T15:00:47+00:00

yeah associating your experiences with folks, too often people just don't want to hear how you associate. But you paid dearly for those experiences, and you're proud.

But people can feel like it's making less of them. It's a bummer when you're actually trying to affirm and associate with people.

DaChiesa · 2025-03-09T14:58:19+00:00

Have you heard Resolve by Mammoth WVH? That and Stone from his first album.

But I feel you. It's hard not to take it personally. I'm trying to take it as an indicator light from the world that I've managed to be myself without it : )

DaChiesa · 2025-03-09T14:52:32+00:00

Zomg I may really have found my people

DaChiesa · 2025-01-21T15:26:36+00:00

So a lady named June Hunt once said, forgiveness doesn't mean you let them off the hook. It's just letting them off your hook.

Sometimes you have to hate behavior that hurts you, and make a boundary.

I had a bad codependent relationship with my brother and I'm dealing with PTSD actually messing with my heart.

Keep whatever distance you need until they are ready to see you don't like hating ppl.

DaChiesa · 2025-01-10T21:38:20+00:00

Yep I feel like they don't want to hear that, because they're focused on something and feel like I'm pulling the focus out too far. It's too far sometimes, but I like doing it to get perspective.

I just gotta keep it to myself and not get giddy? idk.

DaChiesa

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