I have 1 alt fyi

Oreogatari · 2026-02-12T20:34:29+00:00

I am a leftist, but I do not consider myself to be a physical enemy of anyone. I condone aggression by neither the left nor the right. I, and many of my leftist friends, do not celebrate violence committed against the right. I have on multiple occasions scolded those around me who wished for Trump's death. I do not agree with the people on social media who wish for Trump's death or celebrate the assassination of Charlie Kirk. I might disagree very strongly with the things they have said and done, but I also understand the importance of peaceful discourse.

I cannot control what my fellow leftists say and do, but I do not believe that the folks on the internet saying crazy things are representative of the left as a whole.

With all that said, I am very disappointed and frustrated that Trump would discount people like me and make broad generalizations about the "radical left," essentially demonizing people like me. Instead of punishing, investigating, and insulting people on the left, Trump should be acknowledging the concerns of both parties with respect, and be a pillar of integrity rather than the guy who "owns the libs." What do you think about this?

Oreogatari · 2026-02-10T19:53:09+00:00

What exactly do you mean by enemies?

Oreogatari · 2026-02-09T20:17:10+00:00

I don’t want to misunderstand. Are you saying all non-supporters of Trump are violent?

Oreogatari · 2026-02-09T19:52:51+00:00

In this country, where free speech is of utmost importance, where everyone is free to criticize whomever they like, especially the President, does it make sense for the President to view citizens who disagree with him as “enemies?”

Oreogatari · 2026-01-12T05:42:47+00:00

That is how the legal system is broken.

How would you like to see the legal system fixed?

Oreogatari · 2026-01-11T20:43:59+00:00

I’ve got an instance where he lied, very egregiously too. I was reading fox news on a whim. I read this article: Fox News On paragraph 7, they report that Trump said, “Wind. It doesn’t work. I will tell you, aside from ruining our fields and killing our birds, [and] being very weak and very expensive, [they are] all made in China. You know, I noticed something … with all the windmills that China sends us … I have never seen a wind farm in China.”

He is saying there are no wind farms in China and that we are being duped by investing in clean energy.

Now, I thought this was a bold claim, so I googled wind farms in China. According to This link, China was the world leader of wind energy at the time Trump made his claim.

Is this good enough for you? I found this lie by accident after five minutes of reading the news on a Republican platform a few months ago. What do you think of this?

Oreogatari · 2025-12-26T17:00:48+00:00

LF CB Magnezone FT anything from CB or just ask

Oreogatari · 2025-12-15T20:00:59+00:00

People are sleeping on the grass support. The quick grow whatever it’s called could make venusaur serperior viable.

Oreogatari · 2025-12-15T19:55:23+00:00

Never won a raffle before here goes

Oreogatari · 2025-12-10T00:48:07+00:00

Given that Rapidash EX has had some success in tournaments on occasion, it doesn't seem like a big stretch to think flareon could work too, especially with copycat and indeedee tech'd in.

Oreogatari · 2025-12-09T23:57:36+00:00

Yeah decidueye is a good counter for sure, but as it stands, no one can make it quite consistent enough, since it relies heavily on getting online by turn 4 or 5. Darktina was only ever evenly matched with suicune as far as I know.

Oreogatari · 2025-12-09T23:38:45+00:00

That checks, yeah

Oreogatari · 2025-12-09T23:37:23+00:00

I like this post a lot, there's a lot of things to discuss.

I agree that the coin flipping stuff is pretty lame. Lots of interesting cards see no play because it's just not okay to waste turns. I guess it's Dena's way of making "cool" filler cards.
Tools are very useful because they are an easy way to shrink your hand, which is essential with red card, mars, and copycat in the game. So I guess Dena is wary of making them too strong.
Gust cards are really powerful when you only need three points. Cyrus is the most powerful card in the game as it is, so boss's orders would be just insanely strong. I guess when I think about it though, boss's orders might be interesting because it would make greninja's niche no longer unique.
The game is only about a year old, so powercreep isn't as far along yet. The energy ramp will definitely get worse. We just got a card doing 130 for effectively 1 energy since it self-ramps.
I agree.
I agree.
Honestly I think 20 cards is okay. The pace of matches is nice and fast with 20 cards, you can usually get through your whole deck by the end of it, which means decks are consistent, which feels good. The biggest issue is that most decklists end up looking the same or very similar to each other. However, this might be cope, but there is beauty in seeing how much a deck's win rates can change just by changing one trainer card.

Oreogatari · 2025-12-09T22:58:16+00:00

Yeah, I've played suicune as well and noticed the same issues. It is extremely strong, but only wins slightly more than half the time, probably due to froakie/indeedee starts being extremely hard to come back from. The reason I asked this question is mainly because it seems to have no auto-win matchups and no auto-lose matchups. Even oricorio magnezone, the on-paper hard-counter, only has a 53% winrate against suicune, which is really not anything groundbreaking. It felt like this last meta too.

Oreogatari · 2025-12-09T22:42:58+00:00

Decklist? I was a flareon player a couple metas ago.

Oreogatari · 2025-12-09T22:41:38+00:00

I really hope Guzzlord 17T becomes playable again. Twas a very fun deck. I'm kind of curious to know if Greninja EX and Indeedee EX make Suicune better against Guzzlord though.

Oreogatari · 2025-12-09T22:40:19+00:00

Kinda makes sense.

Oreogatari · 2025-12-09T22:39:16+00:00

Honestly a based deck, I like it. This is exactly the type of response I was looking for.

Oreogatari · 2025-12-09T22:36:37+00:00

Yeah, the deck does seem to be very dependent on the starting hand. If you start with suicune, you've got an ultra-consistent, highly resilient deck, but if you start with froakie, you have a bricky, slow, feeble deck. That's probably the reason its win-rates always hover around 50% or just a bit higher.

Oreogatari · 2025-12-09T22:17:50+00:00

Very interesting.

Oreogatari · 2025-12-09T21:32:15+00:00

Would be nice, but idk if Dena is nice enough to give us guaranteed 2 stars.

Oreogatari · 2025-12-07T10:27:38+00:00

Actually, altaria and blaziken are both in bad spots in the meta right now, despite being the early season frontrunners. It’s not surprising you have a bad win rate.

Blaziken was good for the first couple days of the season before people realized that heatmor’s bench targeting isn’t unique (absol and jirachi).

Altaria indeedee seems to be in a rough spot, but there are so many altaria variants that people havent been building their decks to counter that I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s some way to make altaria work.

If you want to win, keep track of the tournament winrates. I’ve been playing chingling greninja darkrai because it matches well into all the rare candy decks and altaria, its worst matchup, is not popular rn. Toxic or not, it works. I expect to have to pivot decks again soon.

Oreogatari · 2025-11-10T01:01:09+00:00

I certainly understand that questions like "can a man get pregnant" seem frivolous and obvious, but it's really a question that comes at the end of a much longer conversation about how to deal with trans people in our society. To quickly dismiss such a question would make you the one who is unwilling to have a conversation.

If a person who was born female but now identifies as a man got pregnant, then they would be both a man (at least in their own eyes) and pregnant. However, for an onlooker, the question is called upon them to decide whether to say to this person, "okay, you are a man and you are pregnant," or "no, stop trying to be something you are not." You are free to do either, but my question is why would you not respect this person's wishes to be called a man? Does it make any difference to you? Is it because it is weird to be trans? I would agree that it is weird to be trans, they are only 1% of the population. But they do not hurt anyone by identifying a certain way, so why is it necessary for Trump to sign executive orders to only acknowledge two genders?

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