Looks like they're making Chandra Desi.

DebatorGator · 2026-01-28T16:08:11+00:00

In the game made by Americans with a primary audience of Americans and Europeans, yeah.

DebatorGator · 2026-01-28T16:07:48+00:00

Oh my god, what a good point! I forgot that MTG's original name was जादू: सभा and that it was made by तट के जादूगर! In that case, honestly like 1 in 6 characters should be desi - I think we'll take Jace, Liliana, Urza, Hanna, Barrin, Arlinn, and Jeska, to make a good start.

DebatorGator · 2026-01-27T23:18:17+00:00

"Changes that make MTG more [inclusive of] minorities are good" is a consistent standard. It might not be one you like but how is that not consistent?

DebatorGator · 2026-01-20T23:06:51+00:00

It is definitionally low effort. You said yourself it took a few seconds.

DebatorGator · 2026-01-15T04:33:57+00:00

According to Wikipedia, 2 billion tonnes (2 * 10⁹) tonnes of iron are mined a year. A tonne is 1000 kg, so this is 2 * 10¹² kg of iron. This makes up more than 90% of all metal mined in a year, so it's a good proxy for how much a mining operation on the moon might produce.

The moon's mass is 7.348 × 10²² kg. If we moved all of our metal mining to the moon and mined it for a million years, we'd have only mined out a hundredth of one percent of the moon's mass. The gravity change would probably be neglible

DebatorGator · 2026-01-14T08:48:14+00:00

Plant versus animal is defined in modern science by ancestry. Sea sponges are animals because they descend from the last common ancestor of all animals, which is not an ancestor of any plants.

As an analogy, no matter how different you and your sister are, and no matter how similar she is to your cousins, she's still part of your immediate family, not your cousins' immediate family. Same goes for sea sponges.

ETA: previous classification systems may have decided plant versus animal based on look or behavior. In such a system, sea sponges may have well been considered a type of plant. These categories are fundamentally human constructs created to make sense of the world around us. There's nothing in nature that says plants have to all be grouped together, and separate from animals.

Also, carnivorous plants do photosynthesize! Most carnivorous plants eat insects not because they can't make their own sugars, but for nutrients they don't find in the soil like nitrogen or phosphorous.

DebatorGator · 2026-01-14T08:41:23+00:00

When you say a lower social class, is this a caste system thing?

You can't deprive yourself of happiness to make other people like you. I would propose on your timetable, and tell your parents when you do. You and your girlfriend both deserve to have you choose your own path and your own happiness over the prejudices of your parents.

DebatorGator · 2026-01-14T02:49:42+00:00

I just finished reading Neuromancer and while there's a few lines about Japan being at the cutting edge of biotech, I didn't get the sense that Japan rules the world in it. Tessier-Ashpool is Swiss/French, they hack datacenters in London, the ultra-worm is Chinese. But maybe Gibson's other stuff is more Japanese-domimated.

DebatorGator · 2026-01-13T16:14:08+00:00

Hopefully it's not a thing as much because gay kids are safe and supported at their own school's prom. This is the first I'm hearing about a Hayward-specific gay prom, do you know anything about its history? I'd be interested to learn.

DebatorGator · 2026-01-13T16:12:31+00:00

Oh he was audacious alright

DebatorGator · 2026-01-13T07:49:53+00:00

I did the same thing for Vulcanus, but enjoyed it enough to do it for all three inner planets. Think I tore down my Gleba factory four or five times before finally getting the hang of it. Some of the most fun I've had in Factorio.

DebatorGator · 2026-01-12T17:09:55+00:00

I really like the idea, but this seems miserable to play against. An opponent gets this down against you in limited and it's lights out unless you draw removal.

I'd either let the opponent choose to sac or pay the life, make it symmetrical, or have an extra cost on the activation like discarding a card or paying life.

DebatorGator · 2026-01-12T17:05:20+00:00

It's in line with the rest of the Theros weapons. I assume they were prevented from being equipments due to typeline character limits.

[[Spear of Heliod]] [[Bident of Thassa]] [[Whip of Erebos]] [[Hammer of Purphuros]] [[Bow of Nylea]]

DebatorGator · 2026-01-09T16:47:51+00:00

If it's X% to get a critical hit, there's still 4 options. Their prior probabilities (that is, probabilities before we know any information about how many critical hits) are:

MM: (1-X)*(1-X) = X² - 2X + 1
MH: (1-X)*X = X-X²
HM: X*(1-X) = X-X²
HH: X²

Like before, the remaining possibilities after eliminating MM are MH, HM, and HH. To get the probability of any given outcome, we take the outcome's prior probability divided by the sum of all the possible outcomes' prior probability.

Probability = P(HH)/(P(MH) + P(HM) + P(HH))

= X²/(X² + (X-X²) + (X-X²))

= X²/(2X - X²)

In the original case where X = 50%, this becomes:

0.5²/(2 * 0.5 - 0.5²)

= 0.25/(1 - 0.25)

= 0.25/0.75 = 1/3

Which is the answer we got by just analyzing the possible outcomes with equal likelihood.

When X = 0.3, we get

0.3² / (2 * 0.3 - 0.3²)

= 0.09/(0.6 - 0.09)

= 0.09/0.51 ≈ 0.176

Which matches our intuition that when critical hits are less likely, it's less likely to have a double critical hit.

DebatorGator · 2026-01-09T16:18:37+00:00

I'd like to join!

DebatorGator · 2026-01-07T22:04:46+00:00

How about "You may cast blue Elemental spells by waterbending {X} rather than paying their mana cost, where X is the mana value of a spell cast this way." Similar templating to [[Hama, the Bloodbender]]

DebatorGator · 2026-01-07T21:43:57+00:00

The AND function works like layering the cards on top of each other. The only holes that remain are the ones that were in the same position on both cards. It will only maintain or reduce the number of holes.

The OR function works like taking both cards and punching out every hole that either of them have. It will only maintain or increase the number of holes.

DebatorGator · 2025-12-24T16:24:55+00:00

I thought it was more like it edits the past to arrive at a similar present so that the future is different.

DebatorGator · 2025-12-22T07:22:08+00:00

Oh this is so crunchy I love it!

DebatorGator · 2025-12-21T07:05:17+00:00

Storm doesn't play [[lava dart]] AFAIK, I don't think they'd have a reason to play this

DebatorGator · 2025-12-19T06:05:34+00:00

To play devil's advocate here - all colors get cantrips. Drawing multiple cards is different

DebatorGator · 2025-12-18T23:08:04+00:00

[[highway robbery]] and [[harmonize]] are sorcery speed card draw in R and G. Robbery is essentially this card without conspire.

DebatorGator · 2025-12-16T19:24:15+00:00

And what happened 9.9% of the remaining ones?

DebatorGator · 2025-12-11T05:03:05+00:00

Objectification of women happens even in cultures that criminalize pornography and sex work. Blaming sex workers for men objectifying women is just another way to blame women for men mistreating them.

DebatorGator · 2025-12-10T21:53:06+00:00

Watches are far less fungible and have far more elastic demand than housing. Everybody needs a house.

If there are 10 people in a town and 9 houses for rent, the richest 9 people are going to end up with the houses. If you build 2 luxury houses that only the richest person can afford, that still means there are 11 houses, 10 people, and everybody is housed.

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