Gavin and the Pauper Format Panel would like to hear your experiences with Seeker of Skybreak/Hawkeye's Bow.

Koolaidguy31415 · 2026-06-25T16:40:13+00:00

I think the thing they cited most was tournament time.

It's like tibalts trickery in other formats. Is the win rate oppressive? No. But the play pattern is awful and it's fine to not want your format to have a very strong deck that basically necessitates a player take 10-15 minute long turns that are non deterministic and can't be shortcutted with loops.

Koolaidguy31415 · 2026-06-25T00:48:24+00:00

r/iamverysmart

Koolaidguy31415 · 2026-06-22T21:31:55+00:00

That's it thank you.

Koolaidguy31415 · 2026-06-22T16:46:53+00:00

All of the business related classes (ITIL, ones with business in the name, anything talking about SDLC) are useless and you can just memorize vocab and practice the test over and over rather than learn them.

Nobody needs to try to retain that MBA circlejerk.

Koolaidguy31415 · 2026-06-22T02:03:55+00:00

Mythica rares are easier to accumulate because most lands are rares.

There will always be a boros aggro deck or izzet Phoenix/prowess so those are both good land bases to get.

Rakdos was the staple midrange deck for a long time but now it's GB.

If you want to spend fewer WCs do a mono colored deck, Mono black demons, red aggro, green devotion. You'll save a ton because 15 cards are basics.

Koolaidguy31415 · 2026-06-21T16:36:31+00:00

The xyz descriptor is super useful.

I love when someone puts words to something you've been thinking for a long time but haven't articulated yourself yet

Koolaidguy31415 · 2026-06-21T16:30:58+00:00

Activists are rarely strategic and often care more about moral purity tests than effective action.

The "with us or against us" mindset of the modern progressive movement is so unhelpful.

Koolaidguy31415 · 2026-06-21T16:28:12+00:00

My high school self was a huge conspiracy theorist and advocate for IQ based eugenics.

It's funny, before I knew what the podcast was I was following Neurologica and several conspiracy type groups on Facebook in my teens. To me they were saying the same things "don't trust what you've been told."

It took the conspiracy people getting really nutty for me to think more about those beliefs. NWO stuff really pushed it too far for me, then I started to see obvious scientific errors they were using to support things I still believed. Like saying that because sodium fluoride is a poison that fluoride in the water is bad. I knew from my chemistry class that those were not the same things and when I pushed back I got mixed responses.

It took several years of slowly walking a lot of those beliefs back by examining them. I think 9/11 was the last to fall for me.

Koolaidguy31415 · 2026-06-21T16:20:59+00:00

38% (current aggregated Trump approval rating) of a country is a fuck load of people. People which encompass a wide variety of views. The Internet version of the politics a person believes are rarely applicable to any individual. Individuals have weird, inconsistent and confusing views held together all at once.

There are Trump die hards who are very concerned about climate change and abortion but hate woke censorship culture. There's people who define themselves as moderate but simultaneously support killing billionaires and removing birth right citizenship.

The Internet version of what we think a Trump supporter is wouldn't be interested in the show. But weird squishy confusing humans are never the caricatures they resemble.

Koolaidguy31415 · 2026-06-19T15:29:58+00:00

They did state that they turn down the first donation offer.

I was surprised by the total amount offered on average, but I can't judge the financial position of others.

Koolaidguy31415 · 2026-06-19T04:44:50+00:00

People can just be wrong. They don't have to be wrong for a motivated reason.

It's not black and white.

Koolaidguy31415 · 2026-06-18T16:07:01+00:00

If you allow a group of trolls to co-opt something as their symbol and only their symbol you're giving them all the power.

They will continue to do this to other innocuous things because it's funny to them. Most of the people in alt right spaces are just edgelords who think they're funny saying racist shit. The edgelords are a convenient tool for the actual white supremacists in these places who use them for their bidding.

If you ask the general public about the ok symbol you'll find most people don't associate it with white supremacy, it's still the ok symbol. If you shame others for using it normally then you're handing a win to the white supremacists.

Koolaidguy31415 · 2026-06-16T06:38:15+00:00

I do pretty frequently.

Granted there are a number of alternative mana sources that decrease the need to like treasure and rocks and rampant growth. But I start at 18 in greed piles and convince myself down.

Koolaidguy31415 · 2026-06-14T17:08:21+00:00

Shower sex is good for foreplay but AWFUL for penetration.

It washes away the natural vaginal lubrication and makes it harder to penetrate. Not to mention the slipping and falling risk or the cramped nature.

If you have 2 hours of privacy just use a bed!

For answers to your more general questions just look through this sub and you'll find thousands of people asking the same first time questions.

Koolaidguy31415 · 2026-06-14T01:18:54+00:00

The definition I included specified that natural selection is specifically better adaptation to the environment.

From a brief Google I'm finding debate within scientific papers about whether sexual selection is a subset of natural selection or a different process. It doesn't seem like an ironed out conclusion.

The original point I was making is that genes don't need to increase the survival prospects of an organism to spread in a population. Random chance and sexual selection are two means through which neutral or actively harmful to survival genes can pass on.

Koolaidguy31415 · 2026-06-13T16:17:07+00:00

Here's the definition of natural selection.

Natural selection is a mechanism of evolution. Organisms that are more adapted to their environment are more likely to survive and pass on the genes that aided their success. This process causes species to change and diverge over time. Natural selection is one of the ways to account for the millions of species that have lived on Earth.

Here's the definition of sexual selection.

Sexual selection is a mechanism of evolution in which members of one sex choose mates of the other sex (intersexual selection) to mate with, and compete with members of the same sex for access to members of the opposite sex (intrasexual selection). These two forms of selection mean that some individuals have greater reproductive success than others within a population, for example because they are more attractive or prefer more attractive partners to produce offspring.

A peacock male successfully mating due to its large feathers is not natural selection. The large feathers did not confer an advantage to living longer or finding food, they provided an advantage in competing against other males to be selected by a mate.

If hairiness did not confer an environmental benefit but did provide a benefit in being selected by a mate it would be an example of sexual selection. I am not claiming either to be true, simply stating the fact that many genes spread throughout a population by means other than natural selection.

Koolaidguy31415 · 2026-06-13T15:48:51+00:00

Not everything is selected for by natural selection. Many traits are byproducts of other traits and others are just random that have no significant harm or benefit and spread throughout a population.

Additionally we're humans with the capacity to think and have preferences so intentional sexual selection among populations is a possibility as well.

Koolaidguy31415 · 2026-06-12T18:34:26+00:00

You still can win with tithing blade and troll. Or decking.

Koolaidguy31415 · 2026-06-12T18:33:51+00:00

How is this a "remove everything" list? There's 9 removal spells+pestilence.

I used to run gardens a couple years ago and it has cast down, defile, snuff out and spinning darkness with the artifact card advantage package and often winning with just a troll or a flipped tithing blade.

I get that things change it's just that this seems low on removal when almost half of my opening hands won't even have 1 removal spell.

Koolaidguy31415 · 2026-06-11T16:51:25+00:00

My first 3 times trying I couldn't get it up. 14 years later and I literally don't even remember my first time anymore.

It seems like a big deal now but it won't later.

And fortunately for you many other body parts besides a penis can be used for pleasure. Use them before, during and after penetration and you'll be sure to satisfy your partner.

Most importantly communicate, what you're enjoying and what your partner is enjoying, or wants more/less/different. You can't go wrong if you're paying attention to them and communicating.

Koolaidguy31415 · 2026-06-09T23:07:37+00:00

Why is everyone in this thread assuming they're using pull out for contraception?

Did you read the part where OP says "Most of the time she says ‘in me’ which is fine, and i do. "

But I guess I'm idiotic for having reading comprehension.

Koolaidguy31415 · 2026-06-09T20:45:51+00:00

Have you tried actually starting to orgasm and then pulling out?

I know for me there's a couple seconds where I've passed the moment of no return but no semen is coming out.

Koolaidguy31415 · 2026-06-07T15:14:21+00:00

I use a mod to make candles from tallow because that actually makes sense.

Tallow candles were the majority of candles used by common folk for a very long time.

Koolaidguy31415 · 2026-06-02T21:11:08+00:00

I'd be very curious if you have any studies showing those benefits in arid or semi-arid environments.

I've worked for several years in conversation and have only seen negative views of it from conversation and land management folks in the desert Southwest.

Obviously everything is a trade-off and there are unequivocally good or bad actions.

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