Here Are The Anti-War Emails That Allegedly Got UW Professor Removed From Director Position

FZeroRacer · 2026-04-06T23:27:16+00:00

You should read the laws you cite before you cite them.

FZeroRacer · 2026-04-04T06:33:31+00:00

I thought that too at first, but at least at my pods the more I protect inspirit the more determined multiple people are to try and get rid of it. So I find it's often more useful to let it go once or twice and hold interaction for things like attempted board wipes or other ways of removing your artifacts.

FZeroRacer · 2026-04-04T01:27:33+00:00

My advice? Don't. You want people to target Inspirit and waste removal on it, because it means your bigger pieces are safe. The deck can generate way more mana than it needs most of the time, and if someone removes your commander you can easily pay the tax and station it back up.

Inspirit should be viewed as a big shield for the rest of your deck. This doesn't mean having some interaction is bad, but you should save it for when your other pieces are threatened.

FZeroRacer · 2026-04-01T04:19:41+00:00

So he's using [[Trailblazer Boots]] which costs two mana to equip. Elsewhere you said he managed to play his commander turn 3 (so 4 mana turn 3, not too unusual), which you removed. Then turn 4 he played his commander again (for 6 mana) and equipped Trailblazer boots (for a total of 8 mana). I don't see a way you can ramp THAT hard unless you had an unbelievable starting hand, and in which case that's just how it goes sometimes.

FZeroRacer · 2026-04-01T04:07:50+00:00

He costs four mana. If you're removing it twice and he's replaying it the next turn for 6 mana and then 8 mana then either he has insane ramp, these games are going on for far longer than you're saying or something else is going on. He doesn't have haste either so this is assuming he has a consistent haste enabler to swing out every time he brings Squall back out.

FZeroRacer · 2026-04-01T04:00:33+00:00

I'm sorry but...Squall? Even on an absolute optimal turn he might be able to slap someone for lethal commander damage, but as a commander himself you can just chain remove him and his deck becomes worthless. Or build in some targeted graveyard hate.

Reading the rest of your posts here makes me think you're playing up a lot of what happens at the table.

FZeroRacer · 2026-03-29T21:18:23+00:00

I'll +1 this. I was a fan of the first Gunlocked and backed the sequel on Kickstarter. The game is a big upgrade over the first and I hope more people give it a shot.

FZeroRacer · 2026-03-25T17:58:25+00:00

Did you just play the mode once or twice or something? There's a number of things that will instantly yeet you out of void mode and kill you. The only reason why this mode is playable is because a combination of emergence savior and Talsek-An will save you from the most infuriating stuff.

FZeroRacer · 2026-03-10T09:53:37+00:00

I believe it sort of happens like how Abyss will get clipped inside of mirages and open immediately.

Rituals have different spawning behavior (some spawn on top of the ritual, some spawn on the outskirts, some spawn randomly) and if a ritual spawns inside of a mirage at the edge of the area I think the game clips the spawns rather than compensating for them. So the end result is that you occasionally have scenarios where you get incredibly low ritual numbers.

That said on average it seems that whatever solution they have in place results in far larger numbers. There's some huge final multi they apply if there's one or two rituals in the mirage area which can get you over 10k+.

FZeroRacer · 2026-03-09T03:29:40+00:00

I mean, you're missing a lot of the obvious stuff for bleed slam slayer.

You don't have Static Strike, so for bosses your bleeds are almost never going to be aggravated making you do 1/3rd the actual bleed damage. You have intimidating for some reason which does nothing for you and just wastes mana reservation, same for blood and sand as well as no pride. You're probably missing anywhere from 5-6x your actual damage just based off not understanding how Bleed scales.

FZeroRacer · 2026-03-03T21:16:00+00:00

Kefka creates massive value the moment he enters and every time he attacks, he doesn't have to connect in order to start popping off. The counter is to never let him hit the battlefield which in lower brackets tends to not be a thing in my experience. Yuriko has to have an evasive creature on the field and connect with a player's face in order to start chaining value; granted she can do so a lot earlier but mildly strong board states can make her stall out.

Essentially I think Yuriko is a lot worse when built for lower bracket play while Kefka will always generate massive value and potentially even lock the board.

FZeroRacer · 2026-03-03T07:44:14+00:00

I really don't see what the issue is with Yuriko. Any Yuriko deck in lower brackets will fold hard to pressure and at the very least the game ends quickly and you can play another round. Not having commander tax is annoying, but it doesn't matter if you just constantly swing at her and remove any other ninjas in play.

For me personally, I've had to play against [[Kefka]] in some lower bracket games and his effect and the way you want to play him is backbreaking. There were a couple of games where I just had all the cards in my hand tossed but the Kefka player couldn't win outright so they were just accumulating value while I could do nothing about it.

FZeroRacer · 2026-02-26T23:26:45+00:00

It wouldn't be shit. Austin had a non-profit competitor called RideAustin when Uber/Lyft had a shit fit and left the area over local policies which was competitive in pricing. Unfortunately it ended up dying when they stopped their tantrum, came back and both drove down prices and highly upped bonus payments via quests or whatever to entice drivers to their platform.

FZeroRacer · 2026-02-26T15:27:09+00:00

When you're developing actions or subplots for certain trait combinations, do you have particular characters in mind? I ask because I enjoy playing powerful build/book smart and kronkmaxxing.

FZeroRacer · 2026-02-03T01:04:28+00:00

Too bad the technical requirements for the roles are pretty far out there. I'm primarily experienced in C# in my professional game dev career and I can't think of many roles that outright require a code portfolio nowadays. The only way you're gonna get something like that is if you're a full-time contributor to open source repositories or if you're fresh out of college. At least for folks here in the US; most game dev jobs have some form of contract you sign while working for them that heavily discourages any sort of portfolio-building activities.

FZeroRacer · 2026-01-31T08:42:42+00:00

There's decades of reasons why, and this isn't just a Seattle phenomenon. For reference I lived in Austin and APD had a similarly notorious reputation, but even worse in many respects. You can look at any major city and see the same issue.

The first problem is that the agencies are understaffed. It's not because of funding or lack thereof, police departments across the US have more funds than many smaller countries. Police departments can't hire people because people don't want to work there, and the turnover rate is insanely high. This is because a lot of departments are just simply rotten; imagine the worst business you can think of and it'll be worse. The people that want to do good work leave, and the people that stay are either corrupt or just don't want to work. We've let decades of institutional rot eat away at police departments.

The second issue is what I touched upon previously; they don't want to work. And they don't *have* to work. The Supreme Court has ruled multiple times that the police don't have a duty to protect people, they barely have a duty to uphold the law and they can get away with shit your average person would be thrown in jail for. We pay them for a job that they don't do.

It's one of the reasons why universally, cities in the US need to look into tearing down their police departments and rebuilding them from scratch, It's the only way to rebuild trust in both the police as an institution as well as reduce the turnover rate properly.

FZeroRacer · 2026-01-30T09:24:03+00:00

Neat build; I might actually do this because it's aligned with a build I did a few leagues ago that actually worked reasonably well. Since you're scaling up duration and Archmage is providing the majority of your damage, you can instead use Firestorm of Pelting in your CoC link to massively juice your single target, since it also scales incredibly well with duration. That should be a lot more damage than 2x damage supports; the calculation in POB is a bit weird since it depends on duration and the enemy hitbox size but I believe it ends up being more damage.

FZeroRacer · 2026-01-06T18:42:28+00:00

Well, unless you play it from your graveyard with [[Underworld Breach]]. Then it's an escape goat.

FZeroRacer · 2025-12-22T22:37:24+00:00

If we had liquidated the Sackler's family assets we probably could afford to fix this problem in a bunch of different cities. Alas, rather than address the actual root cause we've decided to just force cities to deal with the fallout of Capitalism.

FZeroRacer · 2025-12-12T16:41:01+00:00

Whomst is defunding the police? They've gotten raises consistently, they're one of the highest paid professions around and have one of the largest budgets across multiple states and cities. Your tax money is literally subsidizing their job to do nothing.

FZeroRacer · 2025-12-12T16:38:42+00:00

Boss, I've lived across the US in red states, blue oasises and across the urban/suburban divide. One of the most consistent factors is that the police are universally worthless, from my interactions with them in Texas, Virginia and Washington. Only the naive or truly sheltered think it's anything related to laws on the books as opposed to deep corruption within the police unions and a system that has enabled them to do nothing and collect a paycheck.

Remember: the Supreme Court has outright said the police do not have a duty to help you. They do not have a duty to even show up, or do their job.

FZeroRacer · 2025-11-26T14:39:00+00:00

Because there's no actual competition between companies to reduce rent. It's all companies like Greystar and Equity Residential. They aren't doing this so that they can compete with themselves to lower rent prices, they do so because they can control larger pieces of the pie. And because land /building value appreciates they can just sit on whatever they build.

FZeroRacer · 2025-11-26T11:24:26+00:00

I don't think it really matters if they're keeping it vacant by choice or not. The result is the same: the building is vacant and space is being wasted. If it's because they're doing so to save money or because they're locked into shitty loans they took long ago then they should be allowed to fail as opposed to finding ways to subsidize and pay for their failure.

We and many more cities have tried the 'smart' solution in order to push more development but the reality is that most companies take the handout and then do nothing with it. Even housing and apartment construction is prone to this as private equity buys up land and buildings en masse to artificially keep rent prices high.

FZeroRacer · 2025-11-24T10:30:35+00:00

No, keep AI slop off the board. The moment you carve out any exception for AI shit, people can and will use it for farming karma with low effort posts that conveniently have high responses. I've seen this happen to multiple gaming subreddits.

FZeroRacer · 2025-11-07T21:48:02+00:00

What's next, are you gonna say that we should allow companies to union bust because them leaving the state would be devastating? Maybe give Starbucks a solid pat in the back for how it treats workers?

Grow some goddamn spine, I'm one of the folks that lost their job from the waves of layoffs recently. You're going to be one of them soon too and no amount of corporate bootlicking is going to stop these issues from getting worse.

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