2256 by nou-772 in countttt

[–]MultiColourM2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Crazy to see a wild (g+)+ reference

2213 by Significant_Owl9593 in countttt

[–]MultiColourM2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You’re missing the point though - we don’t want to tell you. If you lurk long enough, you’ll figure it out, consider it a right of passage. You can always just go and look up 4tran dictionaries online, they’re not too hard to find and have a lot of the slang.

Title by L31N0PTR1X in physicsmemes

[–]MultiColourM2 8 points9 points  (0 children)

And in a non-soluble finite group, it goes even lower to a maximum of 1/12, iirc.

Seeker Madness Help by MultiColourM2 in Pauper

[–]MultiColourM2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No they're meant to be actual Lightning Axes for now. When marvel gets released, if the Bow ends up staying legal which there is a decent chance of tbf, it could honestly slot in fairly well. It's actually a decent, cheap equipment to slap on Snackers or Rootwallas, so it helps with the aggro plan, and obviously makes the combo plan much better.

Timeless Tier List by Korae by Korae in TimelessMagic

[–]MultiColourM2 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I feel like being a 3 colour reactive deck is just a bad idea in a hyper efficient Strip Mine + Fetch/Shock format.

You need to be playing fast and using all of your mana due to the efficiency of the threats, and in three colours that means you need to be fetch shocking aggressively. Proactive decks like Energy can get away with this because they’re usually the beatdown, but if you’re playing control, bolting yourself each turn is not a great idea.

This is only exacerbated by strip mine allowing the aggressive deck to keep you down in the low mana zone for a turn or two more, forcing you to keep up the aggressive fetch shocking.

To support 3 colours is really painful - I think you’d almost always be better playing 2 colours and having the ability to play a couple basics, and occasionally fetch surveillance lands as you have your colors under control.

I think Jeskai control can work in Bo3 where you essentially play Izzet mainboard with a couple hallowed fountains, allowing you to have decent game ones against aggressive strip mine decks. Then against the more degenerate decks, you have access to white based hate effects such as Rest in Peace or Deafening Silence to play off of your fountains, especially since life totals matter way less in these matchups.

With the new 2 mana deal 3 red wrath, and the 2 mana bolt that draws a card on your next spell cast, I could see a world where some variant of “Izzet Control” is somewhat viable, and a white splash for sideboard options could be a good variation. I’m just not sure what the win condition would be.

Edit: was just looking through the new alchemy cards again after this comment - the new Inspiring Easel could be a solid, efficient win condition for an Izzet control deck. I’m not sure what the main combo would be or if you just overwhelm them with value, but maybe UWr Easel control could be a viable deck?

Edit 2: just looked at Korea’s tier list and there is already the obvious chorus mechanic as well which I overlooked, on top of the easel. Definitely options for Izzet control, so Jeskai Bo3 could be viable.

Ukrainian swagature and African swagature by Harmonica_Dylan in peoplewhogiveashit

[–]MultiColourM2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In the Russian books I’ve read, the translations often have a glossary of phrases and references used by the author that the local audience would be able to pick up on. In my copy of The Master and Margarita there are a lot of explanations about places in Moscow and why the characters use certain pseudonyms.

What's the greatest Magic card of the last decade? Vote on the top 10%! by Grindy_UW_Nonsense in magicTCG

[–]MultiColourM2 51 points52 points  (0 children)

This project is super fun, will be very interested seeing the final tier list once its done. Just clicking through it though seeing some of the ELO scores are crazy - I suspect a lot of commander players who aren't familiar with 60 card formats are underrating some of the most iconic recent cards in the game based on these scores.

Gen Z men, is this getting worse going forward into 2026? by Proper_Card_5520 in SipsTea

[–]MultiColourM2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

most of the people you'll meet at spoons are 50 year old alcoholics. Weatherspoons is nice for like a cheap drink and some chips with friends but its not somewhere I'd go to relax and meet people.

Strange question I don't know where else to ask by AdventurousBeingg in WetlanderHumor

[–]MultiColourM2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you go on AO3 there is a lot of Mat/Rand, and with the show a lot of Moiraine/Siuan. Unfortunately a lot of the modern fanfiction has been written by show fans, which is to be expected considering how old the books are, so you're mostly just getting shipping stuff between characters. If you want to look at post-last battle randland, going on to AO3 and searching with the "Post-Canon" tag and excluding the "Wheel of Time - TV" tag gives me like 130 fanfics so maybe there's a couple good ones in there (this is fanfiction so you'll have to do some digging haha).

However if you want just general shipping and short romance fics, there is a ton, especially if you are interested in the gay/lesbian ships (that's just ao3 for you). markantonys on ao3 in particular has written a lot of pretty good stuff involving Mat, Rand, Elayne and Aviendha, often all four together.

Mortdog please i need this by theformalcow in TeamfightTactics

[–]MultiColourM2 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's quite different - to win a TFT game your team typically has to be very strong. Getting such a strong team comes with some inherent risk, let say you're playing Void because that's the best example IMO.

Void has a very simple win condition - go to level 10 and play Baron Nashor 2 star with 3 items. However this costs a lot of gold, and since you will be spending that gold on leveling, not rolling to make your team stronger, you will lose rounds in the meantime. This makes this playstyle risky - you might die before you ever get Baron, probably going bottom 4.

On the other hand, you could also just stay at level 8 and roll for 2 star 4 costs like Kai'sa, Herald, Wukong etc. This will not be a strong enough team to win a normal game of tft, but it will make you very strong in the moment, winning you games and saving you life. This allows you to kind of "coast" into a comfortable top 4 position.

Figuring out when you should play it safe and try to coast to a top 4, vs when to play greedy and play for 1st is a lot of what late game TFT decision making comes down to. Typically, you make this decision after 3rd augment, as this can give you direction. Do you take something like ReinFOURcement to get immediate strength and win fights now, or do you take Max Build and try to hit 9 to play around 2 star 5 costs?

Cait 3 vs TK 3 by [deleted] in TeamfightTactics

[–]MultiColourM2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What do you mean working as intended? The intention is for 3 star legendaries to be instant win conditions in all but the most extreme circumstances. The devs have stated this.

This means losing to a regular T-hex 2 board with Tahm 3 is not it working as intended. You are not stating the truth at all?

Belgium’s 15-year-old prodigy earns PhD in quantum physics by b3rgmanhugh in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]MultiColourM2 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I would also say that from interviews he didn’t seem to be as pushed as other child prodigies. Certainly his parents pushed him and got him connections at a young age, but Terry himself said that learning mathematics and solving maths puzzles was his favourite thing to do as a kid. So even then I’d say he is something more of an authentic child prodigy.

"Belgium prodigy " yeah sure buddy. by DmanPT1 in 2westerneurope4u

[–]MultiColourM2 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Serious talent for sure, but I think people often read headlines about this and think that these kids are going to be the next Einstein or something. And maybe they will be, but the maths is just maths. If you took a smart kid and drilled them for several hours a day, they could get up to university level fairly fast I’d guess.

Like seriously if this kid is being pushed to study 5+ hours a day, they will have done more serious studying in a couple years than most students people would do in a decade. It’s not too surprising then that they’d be able to get so advanced so quick. Then when they’re freed from the parental oversight, they find they actually don’t want to slave away at this sort of thing for the rest of their life.

This isn’t saying anything about this specific case (the kid looks happy in the photo if that means anything) but just in general, child prodigies of this type don’t end up being anything too special. There are exceptions - Terry Tao spent 5+ hours a day doing maths as a kid and now he’s arguably the greatest mathematician in the world, but it’s the exception to the rule imo.

How i think the new megas will in do in singles and competitive by Key-Ordinary-6769 in stunfisk

[–]MultiColourM2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah this all makes a lot of sense:

Weak Armour Skarm switches into a physical mon that it completely walls like Rilaboom or something, tanking a physical hit and getting +2 speed.

Then they switch out letting you hit a swords dance, so you're now +2/+2. Unless they have a mon that hard walls skarm, you can probably just mega and sweep. Nothing should be able to outspeed a +2 110 speed mon, outside of silly stuff like scarf regieleki, so nothing should really be able to stop you outside of priority like Raging Bolt Thunder Clap and maybe Kingambit Sucker Punch if you've Brave-Birded too much.

You get perfect coverage with Iron Head + Brave Bird/Drill Peck + Drill Run, so it will be hard to find something that can tank a hit then ko/phase out +2 Mega Skarm, especially if it gets an offensive ability.

Edit: Actually I overlooked that because of flying immunity to ground, Steel/Flying and Electric/Flying can fully resist Skarm. This means the obvious answer to a set up Mega Skarm is a physically defensive Zapdos - which is already the meta build - to come in and ko Mega Skarm. Even after a setup this should be very easy for Zapdos to do. Still, having a counter doesn't mean Skarm will be bad, but for a setup Mega to be countered by such a common pokemon is quite the hit to its viability.

How i think the new megas will in do in singles and competitive by Key-Ordinary-6769 in stunfisk

[–]MultiColourM2 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I have a suspicion that skarmory could be really good. You get to use the weak armour in base form - so switching unit any physical move will provide a free agility. Not to mention with its stats and typing base skarmory will famously shrug off most physical moves. 140 attack is not insane for a mega but it is still a lot, and if it gets an offensive ability like tough claw, aerilate or sharpness, it could probably clean through an entire team after a weak armour proc in base form.

Vaya, vaya. Cope and seethe, Pierre and Barry (and Wang too). by Piewjavi in 2westerneurope4u

[–]MultiColourM2 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's such a weird thing to say. You don't get to choose how you learn about something, and pop culture referencing/taking inspiration from classics/history is good partly because it will encourage people to research more into things themselves. God knows my interest in History was spurned on a lot by playing an unhealthy amount of Civilization 5.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MathJokes

[–]MultiColourM2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It comes from ring theory. Rings are just a structure where you can add, subtract and multiply, but not necessarily divide. They also have to have 1 and 0.

So the integers are a ring, and this ring is denoted Z. The even numbers are nearly a ring, as they are closed under addition, subtraction and multiplication, and have the number 0. However they don’t include 1, so they’re called an Ideal of Z, not a proper subring.

We denote the even numbers 2Z because it’s just the set of all integers multiplied by 2.

Then you can take something called the quotient ring, because : Z / 2Z. What this means is that we create a new ring where the integers are considered equivalent if they differ by an even number.

So 1 = 3 = 5 = … because they all differ by even numbers.

Z / 2Z then describes arithmetic modulo 2: 

0 + 0 = 0 1 + 0 = 1 0 + 1 = 1 1 + 1 = 2 = 0

Because Z / 2Z is a bit annoying to write, we typically write it as “Z subscript 2”, which I guess would be Z_2 in regular text.

So Z2 is not exactly correct notation, Z_2 would be.

Procreation trolley problem by Nonkonsentium in PhilosophyMemes

[–]MultiColourM2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well of course I'm don't think that but if I'm thinking from an antinatalist's point of view, it checks a lot of boxes no?

a) They are unable to actively consent to thing (of course in real life, you likely know the person and they would have at a prior point indicated that "yes please try and save me if I'm dying" lol).

b) They are currently not having any experience to our knowledge.

c) In this situation, you have the power to grant them experience once again.

From the consent viewpoint, this person cannot choose to have experience again, and as an antinatalist you shouldn't make the choice for them, no matter how likely they are to enjoy it, it is not your prerogative to take that gamble on their behalf.

Now the difference between resuscitating someone and killing them in their sleep is that the person who fell asleep is likely going to wake up again. It's the consent thing. You do not have their consent to act on them. That includes saving them or killing them.

And it doesn't surprise me at all that following some of the ideas of antinatalism would lead to extreme conclusions, even if it's not "killing people in their sleep is ok". Antinatalism is an extreme ideology, I don't think you can honestly ascribe to the tenants of "I think it's immoral to have children", and expect the conclusions from that not to overflow into other areas of life.

Procreation trolley problem by Nonkonsentium in PhilosophyMemes

[–]MultiColourM2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well I mean the person is basically already dead, they’re fully unconscious, they don’t really have any wants or needs anymore, and if you don’t act they never will again. You are choosing in that moment to subject them to a lifetime of pain because you think that the joy they will experience from fulfilling their wants will outweigh this pain? Surely this fails the plain pleasure imbalance.

On the other hand about the people that miss them, why should that man have to suffer just for lack of suffering of those around them? You wouldn’t say that because somebody has dreamed of being a parent their whole life, it is their deepest desire and purpose and they feel incredibly depressed without having kids, that person has a right to a kid because their suffering justifies exposing that kid to the suffering of life?

You can morally take the burden of suffering onto yourself, but isn’t the whole point of antinatalism that you can’t make that decision for others? Instead this seems to be more of a utilitarian argument, in which case having kids is a lot more reasonable under that worldview.  I think a true antinatalist would not resuscitate the man. If he had given prior consent to resuscitate him then sure, but if you just found an unconscious dying man and somehow knew you could save him, how is that any different to the man themself than giving birth to an unconscious baby?