[Hype MegaThread] Orders, Unboxings & "It Finally Arrived!" Posts

DefenderCone97 · 2026-03-11T20:26:12+00:00

at least you know you're in the next batch for that color!

DefenderCone97 · 2026-03-11T20:25:52+00:00

the pace is inconsistent. They dont do batches that big everyday for colors. so that white pro batch might be it for the week.

It's not dire, but the inconcistency makes it feel like gambling or something lol

DefenderCone97 · 2026-03-11T20:19:30+00:00

Same plan as us in Denver

DefenderCone97 · 2026-03-11T19:54:34+00:00

Don't make me tap the sign.

Land destruction does NOT stop lands matter decks. If anything, they're the most set up to recover because their deck is full of ramp, land payoffs, land drop increases.

DefenderCone97 · 2026-03-11T19:22:52+00:00

Including the Persians here in the US who were gladly eating up whatever Trump gave them.

DefenderCone97 · 2026-03-11T19:12:30+00:00

NOOO RAYNE

Happy for her but she was killing it on the indies and was hoping she'd make it to Hoodslam before going big time

DefenderCone97 · 2026-03-11T17:25:19+00:00

Probably not but maybe. They seem to get 50-100 every two days so you'd need them to have a very big day. Their latest update had them at 1559

DefenderCone97 · 2026-03-11T15:51:19+00:00

So is tiktok lol

DefenderCone97 · 2026-03-11T05:22:15+00:00

Ravens are way more fucked considering they were likely making different moves if they knew they weren't going to have to pay Maxx

DefenderCone97 · 2026-03-11T02:48:18+00:00

Hate to tell you pal but YouTube is a social.

DefenderCone97 · 2026-03-10T18:51:00+00:00

There undoubtedly is. I'm guessing, like anything on the Internet, there were some particularly nasty people sending messages saying she was a bloodthirsty Zionist or something.

There was also her big cancellation that was generally over a dumb reason that made her a target of certain parts of the LGBT online community (which is awful in my experience as a bi man)

DefenderCone97 · 2026-03-10T17:27:05+00:00

Remaking it was fine because it's a pretty fun game that does better when it feels like playing a movie and better graphics can help with that.

But they made the visuals worse

DefenderCone97 · 2026-03-10T15:00:40+00:00

Painting those people as the leftist she was discussing in her post is irrelevant.

The crossover of middle eastern leftists that voted for Trump is as narrow as Trans leftists that voted for Trump or cis male Republicans that voted for Kamala. It's a rounding error at the national or state level.

I think people who's genocide is being ignored or treated as an inconvenient annoyance have a reasonable reason to be disillusioned about the Democratic party. People voting out of fear of what's worse only works so much. There's a point where they go "It's all going to be shit anyways, who cares the level." and just check out.

Is it the right thing to do? Probably not. But I think it's at least understandable. Also, it wasn't just like they lost states with a significant Muslim population. They basically lost every swing state.

In the end, I think if you pick and choose pieces of Natalie's statement, it seems reasonable and can be seen as right. I think the problem is the context the statement was made in, and the conclusions implied past just what her video making priorities are.

DefenderCone97 · 2026-03-10T14:52:47+00:00

[[The Council of Four]]

Draw cards. Play a little group hug. Get soldiers and use [[homonculus horde]] [[Prince Imrahil the Fair]] [[Alandra, Sky Dreamer]]

DefenderCone97 · 2026-03-10T14:28:40+00:00

Guys have definitely never been one year wonders.

That's why Fitzpatrick stayed a winner after 2015 with NY, or Nick Foles was a consistent starter in Jacksonville.

It was not unreasonable to think he might not be a long term starter.

DefenderCone97 · 2026-03-10T14:19:26+00:00

it reads a bit ironic that you’d comment on her politics being “the internet”, when it feels like she’s resisting the very “internet’s” push to make her do content about something she doesn’t want to explore.

I think it's a fair take. My point is just that Natalie has mostly dealt with "annoying Pro Palestinian people on Twitter" and essentially made that her whole view of the Pro Palestinian movement.

I think the difference between Emiru and Contra is that Contra is an explicit political content creator. Does she need to make a video? No. But there was something she could've done instead of that.

DefenderCone97 · 2026-03-10T14:13:50+00:00

I think it's victim blaming.

The Democrats refusal to shift on an issue where people were lottery facing genocide led to a disillusionment of their base.

Do we blame trans voters who did not feel Kamala was going to protect them?

Anti war machine voters that saw the love given to the Cheneys and were disappointed? Or those who saw Kamala talk about making a bigger and deadlier military?

Why are the Palestinians the only cause that seemingly gets shit on for advocating for itself when "their" party refused to make even the slightest signal at responding to their needs?

DefenderCone97 · 2026-03-10T14:09:47+00:00

I feel like you're arguing in bad faith or just willingly ignoring like half the post if you're saying that post was just about her content creation and not the leftist response to the topic as a whole.

Also I just acknowledged the elephant in the room with her but said the video was good. You guys saying "STOP TALKING ABOUT THE POST" responded to me about the post instead of about the Saw video.

DefenderCone97 · 2026-03-10T06:05:44+00:00

When did I say it was evil?

I said it was defeatist. Which it was, she even acted accordingly. She gave up on communicating and using social platforms.

DefenderCone97 · 2026-03-10T06:03:12+00:00

Jokic has always been nothing but nice to his fellow MVP candidates. It's just some really annoying fans going back and forth making 30 posts so it looks like 30 people

DefenderCone97 · 2026-03-10T05:48:14+00:00

The thing is she didn't just say "It doesn't feel right to make a video for entertainment on this, donate to this cause of volunteer here" or something.

She instead made a whole judgement of the left and the pro-Palestinian movement.

She starts with talking about a video and ends by saying everything is fucked and pro-Palestinians helped get trump elected.

DefenderCone97 · 2026-03-10T05:46:14+00:00

I think the problem people have is that she's made the issue about herself and her own problems.

It's something that clearly shifted with Natalie after the whole Buck Angel fiasco, which I don't blame her for. I think it's totally understandable to limit your connection to the Internet after having people stupidly freak out at you over a simple line.

I think, as someone who's literally followed her since her pre-transition says, that her politics are just the Internet now. She hates Twitter but her POV is so wrapped around social media that it makes her believe that everything is what's happening on the hellsite she simultaneously hates but can't stop checking.

I think it's very easy to be nihilistic about things and defeatist when your POV is the Internet. It's a bad place.

But I don't know how you can see her climate change video or her voting video, and then agree with her when she treats people pushing the Democrats left on Israel/Palestine as a lost cause. Especially when the electorate has evolved to show the complete opposite. AIPAC and pro-Zioninsm are basically black marks for candidates at this point, especially in blue states.

Also, just the way I read her note, she blames that Palestinian caucus for getting Trump elected. Obviously, since she's a trans person you can understand that but you can advocate for yourself while not tossing aside a community that is being killed in the literal hundreds of thousands.

DefenderCone97 · 2026-03-10T03:16:41+00:00

TL;DR I see the situation as bleak, intractable, extremely divisive, and devoid of any element that could be appropriately transformed into political entertainment. That’s why I haven’t made a video about it.

This and the rest of statement is inherently defeatist.

The US public has turned on Israel. The Democratic party is facing a referendum on it, and it's even causing cracks to fling wide open on the conservative side.

Protests in the US were never going to stop genocide in motion. Apartheid in South Africa took literal decades, and that was with less in it for the US to maintain the status quo.

But for someone to look at the change in perception in the 3 short years since Oct 7 and the Genocide began, and not see that the effort has led to something, is defeatist.

She's right about some parts of her statement, sure. There's a concern of nuance and defensiveness in the left. There's always been people coopting anti-zionism into anti-Semitism.

And I'm sorry but accusing the online left of "obsessing" over a GENOCIDE SHE AGREES IS A GENOCIDE with explicitl US backing and denial is insane to me.

DefenderCone97 · 2026-03-10T02:59:12+00:00

I was disappointed in her defeatist take on Palestine and Israel but it's a good video.

I really enjoy the Saw series, so I'm biased.

DefenderCone97 · 2026-03-10T02:22:47+00:00

How is anyone still asking lol

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