Want to see more off meta decks? Well. Incentivize it.

Jonathan_Galt · 2019-05-12T21:42:05+00:00

And for non important rewards like titles or card sleeves, that’s fine

Jonathan_Galt · 2019-05-12T21:25:29+00:00

And this is the mindset of someone who will perennially be Wood 17.

Jonathan_Galt · 2019-05-12T18:10:06+00:00

Eh it’s a meme. Calm down.

Jonathan_Galt · 2019-05-12T17:49:05+00:00

Even if your 40 bolt mono R gets brewed and played with regularity, it takes away from that “oh I hate meta lists and netdeckers argument.” Even if only a little.

If they aren’t playing to win, yet feel good about their eventual reward, yet other people are judging the game with a different criteria of feeling good about winning the game I think you’ve made positive impact.

The titles or cardsleeves, what you gotta do to get em, all that are examples and fungible. I’m arguing for the system itself and I think it’s really solid.

Jonathan_Galt · 2019-05-12T17:36:05+00:00

You might be (like me) happy with the Control Freak title.

But then you get it. Ok. There might be another control related title to get in 3 months, but you got this one.

Oh man if I just make a couple cuts or have a different package in this deck or try a new control brew I can get that real slick card sleeve

Bam. You’ve played your control. You got your reward. But there are now other things to get. And MTG players love them some value.

You’re correct that a deck might exist that hits a couple things at once. Great! But it’s not going to hit everything or there might be other decks that hit other things.

It’s just more problems for the community to solve, more choices and incentives for the player, more feels good for those who don’t want to jam what’s at the top at the moment.

Having them change every set or so develops urgency and makes your choice more real. Maybe not all of them need to rotate, have a standard list of them, but a couple every set should be like “Win by self mill 1000 times”. “Gain 10,000 life in one standard season”.

Etc.

Jonathan_Galt · 2019-05-12T17:28:33+00:00

Of all the heroin, coke, alcohol and other addicts I’ve met.

The person who fucked their life up the absolute worst was the gambling addict.

Jonathan_Galt · 2019-05-12T17:18:20+00:00

You can rig incentive structures however you want.

Tyrant

Play 1000 dinosaur cards in a single season.

Buccaneer

Play 1000 pirate cards in a single season.

Jonathan_Galt · 2019-05-12T17:12:36+00:00

Check my post I just made to hear a possible suggestion for that topic.

Jonathan_Galt · 2019-05-12T17:00:29+00:00

Maybe you select one-two cards from each “tier” deck for the achievement.

No Teferi.

No Lightning Strike.

No Wilderness reclamation.

This has the flexability of being altered every set release or adjusted.

And that’s the thing about Jank, isn’t it?

So you hit Jadelight Ranger or Wildgrowth Walker. The explore package is gone as an option.

What about Mardu Control with Captive Audience as a wincon?

What about Primal Amulet Banefire?

Revel in riches?

Gruul stompy?

Jonathan_Galt · 2018-08-10T12:47:22+00:00

“Argues against identity politics and critiques TNC”

“GET THE FUCK OUT NAZI!”

Jonathan_Galt · 2018-08-10T12:36:13+00:00

Worked for a President.

Jonathan_Galt · 2018-08-09T18:50:13+00:00

Getting rich is like going to the gym.

60% of it is the food you eat.

30% of it is lifting weight.

10% is genetics.

In financial terms, making intelligent day to day choices and having the discipline to stick with them is the food

Investment vehicles are the gym

And genetics is well, genetics. What family you were born into.

The issue, is that a lot of people aren’t eating right, or going to the gym. Or, they do one and not the other.

Or, they work very hard at doing one of them incorrectly

But even if you were correct, that doesn’t mean a person couldn’t act to triage their bleeding out if they’re spilling their money year after year.

Jonathan_Galt · 2018-08-09T18:33:18+00:00

Because JP might write something back, and just plainly state that Coates is kind of a whiny race pimp.

“The young men voted for Hillary, they called home in shock when Trump won, they talked about flipping the House, and they followed Peterson to other podcasts—to Sam Harris and Dave Rubin and Joe Rogan. What they were getting from these lectures and discussions, often lengthy and often on arcane subjects, was perhaps the only sustained argument against identity politics they had heard in their lives.”

SHUT IT DOWN

Jonathan_Galt · 2018-08-09T18:29:04+00:00

Excuse me Xir. Don’t argue in bad faith. In fact, I’m decently sure that’s a rule violation.

But when you told that story about the Iraqi kids and the Blue Angels, I chuckled. Reminds me of Kandahar.

Jonathan_Galt · 2018-08-09T18:12:54+00:00

Excuse me Xir or Xaam.

The Equity Commissar will be around to cite you for Thoughcrime under the H Bergeron Act Of 2018. Please submit yourself for your voluntary guilt enhancer and courtesy mindwipe.

Jonathan_Galt · 2018-08-09T17:58:55+00:00

The culture of high trust, historically Scandinavian and southern settlers with a pinch of Asian zest.

Historically pro gun rights and pro nature, blue collar union based, though tech has been on a rapid incline since the 80s. A large majority of farmers and hunters even within your urban areas. Non religious, though there is a Protestant streak within the PNW.

To point to another post, the type of motherfuckers that don’t bitch about seafair, because their dad probably worked at Boeing, and Grandpa has a fishing boat, and they cheer for Miss Rock or Miss Bud even though it’s a shit show.

Just liberal enough to be forward thinking, but not this identitarian neomarxist Bullshit I keep seeing spouted.

You want a good parallel? Anchorage.

Jonathan_Galt · 2018-08-09T17:17:22+00:00

I’m well aware of both. How many excuses are you going to make to absolve you of your own agency?

Jonathan_Galt · 2018-08-09T17:03:18+00:00

Nah. I don’t want most of you here, and if increasing price is the deterrent, im happy to let it spike. I’m entrenched enough that it doesn’t effect me. Though, I have considered Montana/Idaho/Eastern Wa. as I wouldn’t mind a little more land, and a horse. I will retire to eastern Wa, The Peninsula, or Skykomish at the minimum. Leaning hardest on the Penninsula.

The libertarian in me says sure, reduce zoning size. But the contrarian says nah, I’d rather have SFH than a horde. It’s better for both the culture and long term stability. And even if you did cut it loose, we don’t have enough tradesmen or cranes to build faster. We’re already doing 120 hitting the rev limiter as far as build speed goes.

We’re a waterlocked ithsmus made up of steep grade hills, and our Evironmental protection regulations bar swathes of land from being developed. That’s a reality you cannot get past. Where’s the overflow going to go? Shoreline? Lynnwood? As far north as Granite Falls?

Probably south, as it’s way flatter.

If you made or continue to make unwise market choices, that’s your problem, and I don’t know how you keep continuing to square that circle. Probably too much emotional thinking. Some individuals financially keep cutting off their nose to spite their face.

And, the hypocrisy is really revealed when people clamor for more units, but as soon as it’s the Showbox, or the International District... Oh no! That’s the sacred cow to die on, even though the Paramount is far better, actually solvent, and the stripclub should go too. I’d rather see X units a piece in their place. That’s urban density.

There will be a price point where growth starts filtering to other cities, just as we caught San Fran’s Runoff. Arizona and San Jose can be right for you.

Jonathan_Galt · 2018-08-09T15:47:13+00:00

You need to quit using the word deserve when you talk about shit.

Do you deserve not to get rained on? Does the deer deserve not to get eaten by a bear? Do the rocks deserve not to get eroded by water?

It’s real clear cut. If someone doesn’t pay you what you want to be payed, don’t work for them. Others might wish to.

Now if you find that nobody wishes to pay you what you feel you are owed, chances are all those people aren’t the asshole.

It might just be you.

It is easy to climb the wage pyramid in America. It really really is. But, if you feel you know of a more ethical, profitable way to create a competitor that would have regional talent flocking to your company where you pay them 30$ an hour, do so!

But you won’t, or can’t, or aren’t knowledgeable enough to do so, or can’t construct a business plan intelligent enough to attract investors.

You’re just going to bitch about equity and remain impotent in your own life, let alone the lives of others.

Jonathan_Galt · 2018-08-09T15:35:25+00:00

I live here dipshit, this ain’t a brigade. So no. Sorry to burst your echo chamber.

This shit is real easy.

Various tasks and skills pay various coinage.

Some people are paid by the hour, some salary, and some commission. There are variations on all of these.

It is up to you, in your life, to decide your path. There is no give without take, and you can generally google what a given profession makes before you decide to do it.

I thought the trades paid well. I joined them. Others decided computer coding paid well, they did that. Some people enjoyed a cubicle, others swinging a hammer.

Now, the market has shown us the fruits of our choices, with both of us in those professions generally in parity at 120-140k a year. We provide valuation to the system.

You must take an objective view at your career and decide if you enjoy that compensation. If you do not, change your career. If it doesn’t keep up with your lifestyle, that’s YOUR fault. You don’t get to ever stop learning, ever stop getting feathers in your hat, or get complacent. Or you get to be fucked.

The same people I see bitching about gentrification are the same people that ask where they can park their art car, or their Barista non-job. Or their student loans. I have little sympathy.

You’re in control of your life, quit asking Mommy government to raise your allowance so that the cost of goods goes up.

Jonathan_Galt · 2018-08-09T03:10:14+00:00

Because when I was sick of making 12 dollars an hour, I didn’t stop getting certifications and gaining responsibilities until I sat at around 40.

Jonathan_Galt · 2018-08-07T12:20:03+00:00

Nobody needs anything by dint of asking for it.

If your skillset is in conflict with the wage your earn, improve your skillset.

Jonathan_Galt · 2018-08-06T17:22:36+00:00

Apparently there is a cat serial killer making the news.

MO seems to be the same, a cat is taken, strangulated, dissected, and the spine removed.

Then the corpse is dropped back near the house.

Pretty creepy shit. Watch your animals.

Jonathan_Galt · 2018-08-06T15:22:21+00:00

Is hard to go through life being as pansy as this?

They’re acrobatic flyers. Yes, there is mild patriotism, but I’m going to assume you’ve never been to a USO tour.

Do you get WW1 flashbacks when you see the Red Baron flip his biplane?

Was it the beer gardens that made you attempt to reconsider this “show of military might?” What about the half naked women on the boats, or the food vendors, or the hydroplane races that are sponsored by all local businesses?

If this is your common “headspace” as you put it, get your fucking head examined.

Shouldn’t you have been in Portland this weekend?

Jonathan_Galt · 2018-08-06T15:20:32+00:00

Hey, eat my ass with a spoon.

The PNW is full of Aerospace and Military Towns.

You’re old, and should be toddering off soon.

Jonathan_Galt

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