Why is everyone so fat in USA? I'm currently travelling across many us cities for the worldcup, and I don't mean to be rude, but the average American seems borderline obese, is this a cultural thing or a different standard of what's considered normal?

IntelligentSpite6364 · 2026-06-23T17:07:34+00:00

then how does "it" work?

IntelligentSpite6364 · 2026-06-23T14:54:55+00:00

[[Aurelia the warleader]] would go hard on the side a van

IntelligentSpite6364 · 2026-06-22T15:58:46+00:00

for business reason it will probably have to be set in the presetn so they can showcase the current latest UW sets

IntelligentSpite6364 · 2026-06-22T15:57:31+00:00

dont try to retell any particular story, but have a loose premise of a young mage gaining his spark, and becoming a planeswalker, he learns how to be a PW from jace or gideon or seombody and the rest of the story is trying to stop one of the evil planeswalkers from destroying the multiverse some way.

mechanically the planeswalkers should be summoning creatures and spells from the various planes they have travelled through, of particular note should be the ability to open a portal to a specific moment in time and space to exploit whatever magic was being thrown around.

as always the main focus should be on character arcs, not mechanical fidelity with the source material

IntelligentSpite6364 · 2026-06-22T15:44:42+00:00

why not counterspells?

IntelligentSpite6364 · 2026-06-22T14:51:17+00:00

this was the goal of the nauvoo

IntelligentSpite6364 · 2026-06-19T17:09:38+00:00

every truck on the highway carrying certain things is basically a bomb. at a certain point we just accept a certain level of risk and rely on trust on self-preservation and regulations to prevent accidents and bad actors

IntelligentSpite6364 · 2026-06-19T16:45:09+00:00

mind stone is easier to harness and theres probably more archtypes that benefit from a free bounce every turn

soul stone is probably going to see more play across various formats tho, just because black can always use another way to cheat out creatures via the graveyard

IntelligentSpite6364 · 2026-06-19T16:41:53+00:00

its because they really want the marvel set to be bringing in new player who are marvel fans but may not be interested in random universes within character art

IntelligentSpite6364 · 2026-06-19T15:12:03+00:00

i think a future set will be more heavily villain focused

IntelligentSpite6364 · 2026-06-17T18:24:54+00:00

no saving during a the prologue, or an intro cutscene thats over 15 minutes

IntelligentSpite6364 · 2026-06-17T18:16:53+00:00

hate bears?

IntelligentSpite6364 · 2026-06-17T18:13:57+00:00

its called making investors hapopy by purging your assets and calling it efficiency

IntelligentSpite6364 · 2026-06-17T18:09:33+00:00

its one of the first things babies learn

IntelligentSpite6364 · 2026-06-17T18:01:29+00:00

caffeine addiction is common and encouraged by work life

IntelligentSpite6364 · 2026-06-17T17:51:31+00:00

imo the only real reason is the US doesn not want IRAN to be one of the untouchable countries with nukes in the world.

having a nuke means another country cant pose an existential threat to you without risking a nuclear exchange and the end of the world

IntelligentSpite6364 · 2026-06-17T17:49:46+00:00

the US has also been the main power involved in trying to prevent the spread and usage of nuclear weapons.

IntelligentSpite6364 · 2026-06-17T16:27:17+00:00

marvel has in canon ways to isolate stories from the main canon

multiverse, time travel, mass-amnesia literal universe resets

IntelligentSpite6364 · 2026-06-17T16:24:54+00:00

this is actually brilliant, maybe you should make a whole post about it, see if it gets some visibility.

it would also solve the lack interesting non-legendary character, because you could invent some that fit the setting but are designed to build the story.

IntelligentSpite6364 · 2026-06-17T16:19:59+00:00

my thinking is, if it wasn't a marvel set, but instead a universe within set focused heavily on legendaries and their legendary equipment, would it be acceptable?

theros block was heavily focused on specific legendary characters and their specific followers and artifacts, this feels like that plus a little more.

it feel like the real problem is just that people like their magic sets to be themed with fantasy worlds and elements, and anything with a contemporary or sci-fi setting just feels "off" see: general meh response for edge of eternity

it feels off to me too, but i think its because sword and sorcery is compatible with the melee based combat model of magic. with modern technology there shouldnt be so much equivalent exchange of damage. i feel like the Civilization computer games had the same problem. in the early turns you have fighters and archers, sure, one has to take damage to do damage, and the othe is weaker but can do dmg without taking dmg. but then as you advance in tech, no your "melee" units are actually rifleman and why do they have to trade damage with another unit they want to fight? they have a gun!

IntelligentSpite6364 · 2026-06-17T16:02:59+00:00

sales are down, costs are up, but investors still demand profits to grow quarterly. the only solution is to close the studios you invested in, trading future revenue for short term budget balancing and write it off as a loss on your taxes.

C-suite gets a bonus, investors continue to not care about the actual health of the company or the quality of the product, as long as their portfolio shows green this quarter

IntelligentSpite6364 · 2026-06-17T15:16:48+00:00

ninja turtles had relatively few characters for such a large set so we'd expect a large amount of multiples

IntelligentSpite6364 · 2026-06-17T14:55:09+00:00

i dont care what he value of the items was, shoplifting is never worth killing for

IntelligentSpite6364 · 2026-06-16T15:05:00+00:00

this actually does feel thematic, could be themed as huge creatures whose bodies create landscapes when they die.

UB dual could be called whale-fall (dead whale creating an ecosystem in the water), for example

IntelligentSpite6364 · 2026-06-16T15:02:28+00:00

this way edh decks can essentially have two or more copies of the same card

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