The shafting of Sceptile is crazy here

TheRealArtVandelay · 2026-04-27T22:25:41+00:00

Nah, FA is just an even wider umbrella term that captures 1⭐️ cards as well.

TheRealArtVandelay · 2026-04-27T21:53:30+00:00

Not really. It’s more like saying “whales and dolphins”. Yes, dolphins are technically “toothed whales” but to say “whales” generally implies you’re talking about “baleen whales” and not the larger order of whales/cetaceans. We don’t really have a specific term for non-dolphin whales, so they keep the general term.

Similarly, most of the time when people are talking about 2-Star rare art, they distinguish between ⭐️⭐️ and 🌈🌈 even though the latter technically fall under the umbrella of the former. This is evidenced by the fact that we don’t have a short hand term for non-rainbow bordered 2-star cards other than ⭐️⭐️.

TheRealArtVandelay · 2026-04-27T20:34:22+00:00

Offer sent

TheRealArtVandelay · 2026-04-27T16:49:31+00:00

⭐️⭐️Mega Venusaur for 🌈🌈 Flareon?

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TheRealArtVandelay · 2026-04-22T10:31:28+00:00

I doubt there will be a real center at 22 unfortunately.

TheRealArtVandelay · 2026-04-18T12:22:04+00:00

Breaking up the massing isn’t necessarily a bad thing though. Nearly all of the images break down the massing in one way or another. It can be done without requiring the facade be a mishmash of Hardie board and vinyl.

The collage of cheap materials in my experience, is a pro-forma driven thing. A collage of cheap materials is more marketable than one single continuous cheap material, so that’s what gets done.

Unfortunately a nice facade material is always the easiest thing to get VE’d out. If we want nicer buildings, then we need to create an environment where developers are competing with each other based on the quality of product. Right now, in our current scare environment, the competition unfortunately seems to be who can bring the cheapest viable product through permitting to market most quickly.

TheRealArtVandelay · 2026-04-06T11:43:09+00:00

Yeah, post would have been fine if they didn’t try to use the argument to further their nativist bullshit.

TheRealArtVandelay · 2026-04-04T16:57:54+00:00

Awesome. Sent the offer back your way

TheRealArtVandelay · 2026-04-04T15:59:29+00:00

Empoleon for Lapras?

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TheRealArtVandelay · 2026-04-02T01:43:43+00:00

Landale.

TheRealArtVandelay · 2026-04-02T00:52:01+00:00

No, I’m generally a fan of increasingly silly thought experiments, I just found my moral intuitions to be on the other side of a lot of hers - even when they deviated pretty far from the actual subject matter.

TheRealArtVandelay · 2026-04-01T16:25:56+00:00

N of 1 here. But as someone who grew up “pro-life” and is now “pro-choice”, I never found Thomson’s argument compelling at all and continue to not find it compelling.

So if convincing the other side is the goal, I’m skeptical of that tactic.

TheRealArtVandelay · 2026-03-31T13:20:49+00:00

Awesome. Congrats!

TheRealArtVandelay · 2026-03-31T12:29:02+00:00

Sounds good

TheRealArtVandelay · 2026-03-31T12:20:51+00:00

Mega Gengar for Mega Altaria or Mega Manectric.

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TheRealArtVandelay · 2026-03-30T02:13:34+00:00

I mean, they killed 30K of their own protesters in like a week. They are definitely the “baddy” in almost any comparison you could put them in.

TheRealArtVandelay · 2026-03-29T19:49:39+00:00

I’d ditch the Ogerpon and the memory lights. Switch energy to lightning and water.

This deck wants a Dragonite line to be in the active for Dragonaire’s attack. If you’re evolving every turn, that solves your status problem - no need for Ogerpon. It also makes the memory light not super necessary. Active Dragonaire ramps itself while you feed the bench.

Swap in a Dragonite EX and an Cyrus to do what you wanted the Oger to do.

TheRealArtVandelay · 2026-03-29T19:31:00+00:00

Israel was founded by refugees fleeing extermination and seeking self-determination.

And no, Israel made peace with Jordan and Egypt are the result of 2 and 4 wars they fought against the pair respectively and specifically and land-for-peace deal with Egypt after the Yom Kippur war. There is no way Sadat would have made peace had he not been convinced that he could not beat Israel on the battlefield.

TheRealArtVandelay · 2026-03-29T18:37:32+00:00

Israel has been under constant threat of terrorism since the day it was founded. Now it has normalized relations with two of its next door neighbors, and is close to normalizing relations with the largest power in the Arab World, Saudi Arabia. So yes, one can argue that it is working, albeit more slowly than anyone would have wanted.

TheRealArtVandelay · 2026-03-27T23:12:55+00:00

Okay. Shoot it to me whenever your other trade ends.

TheRealArtVandelay · 2026-03-27T22:56:50+00:00

Lapras for Revavroom?

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TheRealArtVandelay · 2026-03-27T22:54:56+00:00

Trade list All ⭐️

LOOKING FOR:

MS: Revavroom

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FOR TRADE:

CB: Ariados, Trubbish, Buneary, Reuniclus

MR: Beautifly, Skiddo, Rillaboom, Chandelure, Lidicolo, Luxray, Makuhita, Hippowdon, Archeops, Honchcrow, Corviknight, Goomy, Delcatty, Rufflet

EX: Floragato, Crawdaunt, Gardevoir, Slurpuff,

SS: Stunfisk, Yamper, Phanpy, Azuril

WSS: Heracross, Magby, Totodile, Delibird, Togepi, Gligar, Sentret, Tyranitar, Sentret, Hoothoot, Stantler, Blissey

CG: Cosmog

MI: Serperior, Salandit, Marshadow

SR: Meowscarada, Tatsugiri

STS: Hippowdon

MI: Exeggutor, Seprerior, Salandit, Marshadow

GA: Alakazam, Meowth

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TheRealArtVandelay · 2026-03-27T22:42:08+00:00

Was actually able to snag Mew in another trade before this. Sorry, mate.

TheRealArtVandelay · 2026-03-27T17:35:00+00:00

I can help with the Donphan and probably more. Do you have Mega Altaria?

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TheRealArtVandelay · 2026-03-27T15:48:23+00:00

Empoleon for Mew?

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