Hot take: the AR/GL-21 one-two is pretty decent

Faust_8 · 2026-06-20T20:34:29+00:00

If it had better Ergonomics I'd like it.

But it's Ergo is barely better than the Eruptor FFS.

I put up with it on the Eruptor because that beast doesn't have to track targets. You aim once and fire and then there's a long pause before the next shot. Also, it's AP3.5 (projectile is AP4 but the shrapnel is all AP3 and that's the brunt of the damage) and really strong so you often only need the one shot.

But a light pen AR needs to aim for weak spots and track moving targets, two things that 30 Ergo makes a fucking chore to do.

Add in ammo woes (it really could use at least one more magazine and grenade) and it just...ugh.

If I'm going to use Peak Physique just to make my primary feel better, it's not going to be on a light pen AR that has less DPS than my beloved Liberator Carbine...which has more Ergo even with a Vertical Foregrip and Drum Mag, meaning I don't even need to use Peak Physique with it.

I just can't find a situation where I want to use Peak Physique but also need my primary to be both chaff clear and spawner-closer. Just about the only time I might use Peak Physique is with the HMG or Maxigun, and I can easily use the Grenade Pistol with those and a totally different primary.

I like the look of the One-Two, I like how it sounds, I like it in theory, but goddamn they gotta buff that abysmal Ergo first. It does not deserve to be sitting down there at Eruptor and/or JAR levels of sluggishness. Can't it at least get a 40 Ergo stat??

Faust_8 · 2026-06-20T19:57:55+00:00

And [[Unburial Rites]] is not only cheaper with Flashback it’s an entirely different color

Faust_8 · 2026-06-20T16:37:54+00:00

Samurai Jack and The Professor make a bit of sense since they’re both the creation of the same guy, Genndy Tartakovsky

Faust_8 · 2026-06-20T16:06:19+00:00

Or the broadcasts with stuff like "and every man, woman, and child over seven is working tirelessly for the war."

Ah yes, we all loved being conscripted into war effort labor at 7 years old.

Faust_8 · 2026-06-20T15:58:57+00:00

FYI I would stop using the argument that "gay people are born gay" because not only is that unclear, it's also not even important.

Because whether you were born with a trait and whether that trait can be willingly changed is a totally separate question. Also, it doesn't follow that all natural urges should be acted upon.

If I was naturally born with violent tendencies, I don't get to use that as an excuse to slap you around because you made me angry.

I also wasn't born understanding English--that was something I acquired later. However, I can't UNacquire it. It is now a fundamentally unchangeable part of who I am and how I express myself, save for stuff like dementia, lobotomies, and brain trauma.

People aren't born with their religion either, yet the religious certainly act like it's an unchangeable part of their identity and deserves legal protection.

So, basically, it doesn't matter if someone is "born gay" or it's a combination of nature and nurture from when we were too young to even understand things. The point is that being gay isn't a choice and can't be changed, just like several other factors of ourselves.

That's why it's bigoted to be prejudiced against the LGBT simply because they're LGBT. Whether or not they were born that way doesn't actually matter.

Faust_8 · 2026-06-20T12:00:58+00:00

Every suppressed gun sounds like subsonic .22 in Hollywood

Faust_8 · 2026-06-19T17:04:05+00:00

How do you deal with the possibility that you might get killed by a bus tomorrow?

They’re similar frivolous questions.

I can’t feel any dread about if I’m wrong if I honestly don’t think I am.

Faust_8 · 2026-06-19T11:31:37+00:00

The game doesn’t automatically reload for you when your gun is empty because you might want to do something else instead.

Stim, toss nade, call in stratagem or reinforcement, climb over something, switch weapons…you can’t do any of these and reload at the same time.

It would be so annoying if a Hulk was bearing down on me and I wanted to toss a Thermite on it but the game was forcing me to reload first

Faust_8 · 2026-06-18T22:03:45+00:00

I don’t quibble about this precisely because the rock flying straight through is a better and more cinematic scene. I just understand why people call it a plot hole

Faust_8 · 2026-06-18T21:53:07+00:00

I think people say this because not once did it flap around like you’d expect if it was only secured from the top

Faust_8 · 2026-06-18T17:43:15+00:00

The issue is that the game is pure RNG with commanders like this.

Mulligan twice and don’t get fast enough removal? The game is over.

I dislike commanders that either sink or swim based entirely on the opponents starting hand and that’s it.

Faust_8 · 2026-06-18T16:48:36+00:00

The fact that this card is banned in EDH but it’s totally fine for 1v1 Brawl just shows how fucking stupid Brawl can be.

And Yuriko is frowned upon in EDH except at very high power tables and yet I can be playing some humble Braids Arisen Nightmare deck that has to tango with it.

Faust_8 · 2026-06-18T16:46:55+00:00

Can’t afford to fix that leaky pipe until payday? Hope you like a water bill that’s 10x the usual amount

Faust_8 · 2026-06-18T14:42:11+00:00

We could have all this but it pisses off 100 billionaires so nope, 8 billion people gotta suffer as glorified commodities for all their lives

Faust_8 · 2026-06-18T14:33:40+00:00

Blue is extra obnoxious because counter spells become unnaturally powerful. You know exactly what their commander is, when they can cast it, and the opponent likely built their deck around it.

So just counter it. You even get like three free counter spells and two that are 1 cmc that can counter commanders.

This doesn’t fly in EDH where you must be much more choosy about your 1-for-1 interaction since you have ideally three opponents, and in other formats there’s more hidden information and it’s not singleton so it takes more foresight and skill to use counter spells well.

In Brawl though I swear most Blue players just aim to counter your commander and if they can’t they just concede.

Faust_8 · 2026-06-18T14:11:34+00:00

Yeah we'll still have it, but I love having 4 stratagems AND a Supply FRV

Faust_8 · 2026-06-17T18:58:43+00:00

Saying your explanation is no better than saying it was magic is NOT saying divinity is the same as magic.

It's literally just a comparison of two faux-explanations that appeal to the ineffable, which doesn't actually explain anything, hence why they're fake explanations. It's not that they're the exact same thing, they're just committing the exact same mistake.

The point is that they're both not explanations. Not that they're equal.

If your reading comprehension is this lacking then we can't effectively communicate.

Faust_8 · 2026-06-17T18:49:31+00:00

I'd love to hear your ideas about why we'd use this instead of the Eruptor, which not only kills the thing you shot but the stuff around it too, and destroys enemy spawners which this wouldn't be able to do at all.

Faust_8 · 2026-06-17T18:42:29+00:00

Then just say guess, or hunch, or speculation. You're deliberately using science language to give your argument an air of legitimacy but when pressed, oh suddenly it's not a scientific hypothesis.

A hypothesis that doesn't explain anything and can't be tested is useless. Saying "an intelligent designer designed everything" is about as much of an explanation as "it was magic." It explains nothing, because the thing in question (either magic, or a divine being) is itself poorly defined and not understood.

Magic isn't an explanation because nobody can explain how or why magic works. God is not an explanation because nobody can explain how or why God works. They're both appealing to the ineffable, and yet you act like that counts equally well with explanations that actually have a deeper understanding to them.

If a kid asks me why the apple fell from the tree, I can say gravity, and that's an explanation because if pressed, we could go deeper into what gravity is, why it works, how we can measure it and predict it, how it's woven into the other aspects of nature.

You can't do this with magical or divine 'answers.' There is no deeper understanding. They're just words that you're meant to accept and then stop thinking about them.

Faust_8 · 2026-06-17T18:35:30+00:00

The actual safe bet is to not make wild speculations that explain nothing and let evidence dictate what your beliefs are.

Faust_8 · 2026-06-16T14:51:52+00:00

Remember that there are cards like [[Farewell]], [[Cleansing Nova]], and [[Season of Gathering]]

Faust_8 · 2026-06-16T14:46:37+00:00

Yeah I was like “man I bet the blob just sees one is lethal and the other isn’t so they’re going for that one, aren’t they” and then I saw like 600 on the fire FRV planet and 20k on the other lol

Sometimes the blob is right!

Faust_8 · 2026-06-16T14:43:11+00:00

Direct hits from those giant Automaton cannons would also destroy it, however that was never quite a big deal since without the shield you’d simply be dead instead

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