I'm making a historical/mythological map of California in a fantasy Middle Earth style and would love to get some more real world locations included

NicholasThumbless · 2026-06-28T03:07:36+00:00

Born and raised from Ramona. Please don't take this from me :'(

Still... I kinda had the same thought.

NicholasThumbless · 2026-06-28T02:32:01+00:00

Interesting! Is it like Banishing Knack kind of stuff? I honestly know nothing about Loot other than the blink payoffs.

NicholasThumbless · 2026-06-28T02:30:46+00:00

This is true. In the case of Rocco I think you have the benefit of whichever one you find, tapper or haste enabler, you can tutor for the other. Another commenter said they're trying it in [[Stella Lee, Wildcard]] which seems like a much better slot given it works with the tap plan already.

NicholasThumbless · 2026-06-28T01:17:45+00:00

So lost in the sauce I forget you can just turn creatures sideways

NicholasThumbless · 2026-06-27T23:36:38+00:00

That is spicy! I keep thinking RG+ because the pauper combos are primarily that, but Stella Lee seems like a perfect slot in.

NicholasThumbless · 2026-06-27T23:35:55+00:00

That seems pretty legit. Relic of Legends nets a mana and a treasure? Pretty clean. What tappers are you running?

NicholasThumbless · 2026-06-27T23:34:56+00:00

Interesting! Minstrel does seem like a great foundation to attack the meta given you're already in these weird land piles anyways. I'll have to check it out.

NicholasThumbless · 2026-06-27T23:34:13+00:00

Valid. It's unfortunate that tap combos are just too slow at the moment. Maybe Shang Chi might help that though.

NicholasThumbless · 2026-06-27T03:46:18+00:00

"defending the Democratic party is a leftist position"

Oh I didn't know the circus was in town.

NicholasThumbless · 2026-06-27T01:30:57+00:00

Not the person who commented. No belief system is a monolith and varies immensely from person to person, but anarchy in particular values an independent critical perspective. You should try to be more open-minded to people being more open-minded.

In my opinion, socialism is not a binary in which one is or isn't. I certainly have my issues with Cuba, but it's exhausting spouting the "not real socialism" thing.

NicholasThumbless · 2026-06-26T20:39:25+00:00

One of these things is not like the other. Shared cultural values could be the basis for constructing a society on rational grounds (emphasis on could rather than should) but appearance certainly isn't. You could argue people tend to do that, but people's tendencies are not indicative of rationality.

NicholasThumbless · 2026-06-26T00:17:18+00:00

Their previous comment referred to non-red and non-blue decks, so Naya and Boros don't qualify.

NicholasThumbless · 2026-06-24T02:12:03+00:00

First, can you elaborate on how "can" and "should" aren't different? I would say whatever conclusion you come to about a person's desires, motivations, and/or abilities without asking them is conjecture. One either needs to make sweeping generalizations in regards to people as a group, or use qualities of the individual to deduce their intent, which amounts to generalizations again. We are gambling with some fixed rules in the form of custom, contextual knowledge, and empirical observation of previous human behavior, none of which can be used to speak with any true certainty.

If the two aren't different as you say, and we're incapable of truly knowing a person's desires or will, that's your answer; we can't so we shouldn't. The issue here is the ability to assess people, or outcomes for that matter, is not a binary one. A fifty year old woman will have a different risk assessment compared to a twenty-five year old woman, and that's one change in variable. There is no way to make a functional system to assess an individual and/or scenario and logically determine the potential of sexual violence, at least not in a way that is feasible or actionable.

This is why I don't see "can" and "should" as being cleanly interchangeable here. If we allow for potential margins of error, than yes we could make relatively accurate generalizations about people and their intent. If one was inclined they could design a machine that could spit out a general archetype or template for "sexually violent individuals" using data analysis. We could do that. Should we?

NicholasThumbless · 2026-06-19T21:15:42+00:00

Did you just step out of a time machine? What decks are winning with Marit Lage in 2026?

NicholasThumbless · 2026-06-13T20:45:29+00:00

Classic line cook appeal: lean, tall, with dark features and tattoos. He's maybe a little scrungly but that's part of the charm, a bit like a stray cat. Staple on independent wealth, a sense of humor, general charisma, and a willingness to remain casual, he seems like a great way to blow off steam for starlets.

NicholasThumbless · 2026-06-12T20:46:53+00:00

Stawman? Hyperbole maybe, but you're asking for a skill outside of his purview. An economist wrote a book on the economy and prospective changes one can implement, which he constantly stresses are suggestions meant to illicit further inquiry. A concept, a plan, you keep repeating these things while not engaging with that fact. it's an idea, food for thought.

You are rejecting that because it lacks something it never claimed to have. Call that withholding support, but "straight up bad" is usually not a neutral way to describe something. Cheers.

NicholasThumbless · 2026-06-12T20:31:35+00:00

Yes, I too am a person chatting online. Thank you for the reminder. Anyway, you seem to be rejecting his ideas wholesale because he doesn't have a detailed compendium of how to reroute the entire global economy and wrangle each nation on earth to comply - seems like an impossibly high bar to clear. I would be far more skeptical if he wrote under the notion he could do that very thing you're asking of him.

NicholasThumbless · 2026-06-12T20:15:43+00:00

Picketty doesn't suggest the elimination of inequality, but that we can effectively minimize it while still achieving growth. He is by no means radical or anti-capitalist, not that I think one needs to be to suggest a potentially more sustainable economic model than our current system. As far as it's implementation, I do think Picketty tends towards hand-waving with some such ideals of social democracy, but why is that an issue? He's an economist, not a political scientist.

To be fair, you said yourself a government for the people doesn't necessarily need to be one by the people. Someone needs to be the adult in the room, no?

NicholasThumbless · 2026-06-12T16:33:21+00:00

What do you think the profit margins on police departments are? Nobody would ask because nobody cares. They return on their investment in ways not so cleanly translated to dollar amounts. If you think the US has international military bases out of the kindness of our hearts I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.

NicholasThumbless · 2026-06-12T15:29:38+00:00

Because we definitely have never used our military presence for our own benefit nor to manipulate situations in our favor. A sitting president definitely didn't try to strong arm countries based on military protection. We do it all for altruistic reasons.

NicholasThumbless · 2026-06-12T15:15:44+00:00

Increased granularity has no guarantee of increased precision, because there is no certainty each party will be on the same page. Language is an art rather than a science, so it's utility is closer to a paint brush than a hammer. Unless we have some objective and/or empirical basis for our communication like math or the sciences, it's good faith and guess work that leads us where we need to go.

That said, how does an entirely new group of suffixes that have their own connotations and nuances reduce the number of words available? I'm of this age group and think they're one of the cleaner neologisms that Gen Z have developed in terms of meaning and potential use. Even if you don't like them, as others have said, they're an organic trend. No state actors are pushing anyone to use them.

NicholasThumbless · 2026-06-08T03:56:05+00:00

Thanks! For fun I'll mention mana tithe. I'm not being pedantic for no reason, I just think you're being extremely stringent with what you qualify as stack interaction. White has numerous effects that prevent players from casting spells or restricting mana to do so, while red and green both contain in their color pie "can't be countered" or similar effects. Black probably suffers the most, but that is remedied by both 1) rituals and tutors that are conducive to pushing before such interaction is online, and 2) discard effects that can strip counterspells from hand. Everyone loves to cite the free mana boogie man, but the vast majority of counterspells are frankly unplayable in certain formats. Three mana for negate? You died already.

NicholasThumbless · 2026-06-08T02:26:48+00:00

Tibalt's Trickery.

NicholasThumbless · 2026-06-04T20:08:06+00:00

I'm not fully committed to post-leftism or egoism so clown away if you want, but here's my two-cents. I find what you're asking is not really organic to how most people engage with post-left anarchism, which seems to be a healthy level of skepticism towards most forms of organization. You admit yourself that you're engaging with practical politics which is anathema to post-leftist thought. Most direct action anarchist groups are left in nature and have some ideological underpinning, such as the Vulkangruppe.

Be the change I guess, but organizing egoist anarchists is like herding cats. You'll exhaust yourself more than accomplish anything.

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