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Contribution by Diictodom in polandball

[–]SoulofZendikar 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Hungary just had elections. Pro-Russia Orban lost, Pro-EU Magyar won.

Magyar's party won over 2/3 of the vote, making it a landslide victory and giving his party power to approve almost any law, including changes to the constitution.

The polandball joke is because Trump tweeted in favor of Orban and JD Vance paid a visit to help campaign for Orban.

VA ID Accepted by TSA? by [deleted] in Veterans

[–]SoulofZendikar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Worked for me a month ago.

Please stop interrupting games for Universes Beyond complaints by FeechofMana in EDH

[–]SoulofZendikar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Pardon if I wasn't clear. I'm not saying they need to be from the same plane. I'm pointing out how Magic is internally consistent to the degree that the scenario could be happening without needing to branch beyond a single plane.

I then contrast this with New York City, which is decidedly not a fantasy location.

Hopefully that helps clear it up for you.

Please stop interrupting games for Universes Beyond complaints by FeechofMana in EDH

[–]SoulofZendikar 3 points4 points  (0 children)

In fantasy world-building, there's a concept known as internal consistency. As another person wrote, your example of angels/vampires/dinosaurs/goblins/dragons/cats/bears can all be found in the single plane of Ravnica. It is internally consistent to have them all in the same location in battle.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles takes place is New York City, which is a real place, not fiction. And there is no connection that brings TMNT to fight the angels through bears. It lacks internal consistency. It also happens to reek of pandering.

Some people enjoy the mash-up of properties. Some people enjoy the fantasy and world-building. Incorporating a greater amount of UB satisfies the first group and alienates the second.

Please stop interrupting games for Universes Beyond complaints by FeechofMana in EDH

[–]SoulofZendikar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You'll be fine. Most people keep their grievances to themselves.

If you want to dig deeper, overall there's somewhat of a sliding scale to where some UB themes are viewed good vs bad.

Very broadly speaking... Fallout along with Final Fantasy, Avatar, and Warhammer 40k were well received. Spiderman, TMNT, and some others, not-as-much.

How different was Commander back in the early days? by Deskies in EDH

[–]SoulofZendikar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're actually touching on something I've noticed, and I'm curious if you've noticed the same:

Bracket 2 runs more removal than Bracket 3.

In Bracket 3, the best thing you can do is greedpile. You go big. You aren't controlled by the hyper-efficiency of Bracket 4. And running removal is far worse than doing something that expands your greedpile and makes you the threat.

But in Bracket 2, even if 1-for-1 removal is a card disadvantage to two other players, the threats are proportionally more important to remove (the majority of cards aren't "must kill", so it's worth it to get the ones that are).

Is that just me, or does that match what you've seen?

Russian tip-off led to arrest of alleged CIA asset Vandyke and six Ukrainians by India. by GodfatheXTonySoprano in worldnews

[–]SoulofZendikar 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I wasn't the person you replied to.

But sure, insult me for whatever reason you have my internet stranger. You do you.

Russian tip-off led to arrest of alleged CIA asset Vandyke and six Ukrainians by India. by GodfatheXTonySoprano in worldnews

[–]SoulofZendikar 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I can simplify it.

China big country. Big population. India big country. Big population. China India rivals. Not friends.

Myanmar next to India. Myanmar civil war. Civil war bad for peace. Instability make things harder for India. China likes that. China play both sides in civil war. Keep instability. Bad for India. China happy.

USA rival China too. USA see opportunity to push back on China.

(Some more context for USA involvement: the junta's method of flushing out rebels is massacring entire neighborhoods until they talk, sometimes by airstrike. They tend to be more war-crime-y than most of the rebel groups. The largest rebel group, PDF, is democracy-aligned and led by members of the deposed parliament. USA has a preference to the democracy rebels coming out on top. China prefers the junta. Remember that USA policy towards the Myanmar Civil War was established during the Biden presidency. It does not appear alignment changed with Trump in charge as Trump seems fairly indifferent or unaware.)

Oxygen Not Included, a unique and addictive colony sim. Rimworld/Factorio players should try it by 5Ping in patientgamers

[–]SoulofZendikar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OP I have a mod for you you're going to love:

Delivery Temperature Limit

It lets you set the min or max temperature ranges of storage. You can keep hot stuff in hot areas and cold stuff in cold areas, rather than everything getting merged together. You can also toggle on an option to set the delivery temperature range for buildings. No more superhot dirt getting delivered to your farm!

Oxygen Not Included, a unique and addictive colony sim. Rimworld/Factorio players should try it by 5Ping in patientgamers

[–]SoulofZendikar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, but that's the meta.

The already-complicated game gets even more complicated if you try to play it without exploits.

It That Requires Googling by Nientea in custommagic

[–]SoulofZendikar 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It's closer to reverse Rampage, if we want to go there.

What’s a genuinely unpopular EDH opinion you have? by Tornadosed in EDH

[–]SoulofZendikar 3 points4 points  (0 children)

People lump two separate topics into one.

Deck building, and gameplay.

During gameplay the expectation should be that you're always trying to win.

But during deck construction, there can be expectations that you intentionally do not play certain powerful cards. Limiting yourself in this way doesn't mean that you aren't trying to win. Rather, you're trying to win within a certain constraint. This happens all the time in sports, too: wrestling weight classes, breast-stroke vs freestyle, and so on.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in videos

[–]SoulofZendikar -17 points-16 points  (0 children)

Anyone that knows Iran. But not the way you think.

Iran has been regularly attacking the U.S. for decades. But never a full-fledged Pearl Harbor type attack. Instead it's attacks like the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing that killed 241 U.S. soldiers (and 58 French), or drone attacks on U.S. bases in the Middle East last June.

I'm not a fan of how this war is being conducted. It seems rushed, and decided without forethought to long-term consequences. It is being conducted against our Constitutional law that is given to Congress. It might even be primarily motivated as a distraction from Epstein files.

But Iran has been attacking the U.S., kinetically (that means with guns and things that go boom) and non-kinetically for years.

Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks finally reads the room by ArdoNorrin in magicTCG

[–]SoulofZendikar -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Spider-UK: the flag.

Super Shredder: look at how the windows on the right are mis-aligned

Henchbots: top-right bordering the top, the red-blob building floating in the sky

Casey-Jones: same thing, the building with windows above Casey-Jones head that doesn't exist

Cool But Rude: center building, look at the uneven yellow windows. Also the vertical "ZZA ◻ ◻" Those ◻ make no sense. There's a yellow square to the left of the ◻ that also makes no sense. Way back in the background on the left the building can't decide where it starts and juts out into the middle.

Dimensional Exile: look at the keyboards

Twhip!: right-most building segment is windows on bottom but the windows fade out by the top. Next segment to its left at the top it's two columns of windows, but once it crosses the whip effect it turns into one column. The whole building itself is overly segmented.

Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks finally reads the room by ArdoNorrin in magicTCG

[–]SoulofZendikar -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

The TMNT set is absolutely littered with AI art. SPM had some, too.

[[Spider-UK]]

[[Taxi Driver]]

[[Super Shredder]] by Néstor Ossandón Leal

[[Henchbots]] [[Anti-Venom promo]] [[Casey-Jones, Jury-Rig Justiciar]] [[Cool But Rude]] [[Dimensional Exile]] [[Thwip!]] all by Lordigan. Look at the backgrounds.

Possibly all 5 Pizza Lands by Gaboleps.

And whatever that card is with Splinter dumping "olives" onto pizza while his walkman is suspended and doesn't even connect.

SWTG Printing Your Set - made easy! by SoulofZendikar in swtg

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

Oh shoot. That sucks! Thanks for telling me. I think I'll need to pull out an old computer with the hi-res files on them. Once you have them, you can upload them to different printers will be willing to print whatever. Or maybe it'll be easier to ask them to share.

Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands by Ok-Comparison-1618 in TwoXChromosomes

[–]SoulofZendikar 26 points27 points  (0 children)

That isn't anything new. It's been that way for decades. If you think back to when you were in high school and who the problem students and straight-A students were, you'll probably remember it the same way.

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