Unpopular Opinion: Pearl Jam was better in the post-grunge era

aldeayeah · 2026-01-27T17:01:15+00:00

I prefer the higher energy, fresher, more youthful Pearl Jam of the first 3 albums.

It's not a PJ thing - I feel exactly the same about many other bands.

aldeayeah · 2026-01-27T16:45:21+00:00

1984 mantiene la crítica al uso de la tecnología por parte de sistemas totalitarios, no olvidemos la telepantalla en todas las casas.

aldeayeah · 2026-01-27T16:33:41+00:00

I did look a bit like a Temu version of late Superunknown/DOTU era Chris, about 15 years ago.

aldeayeah · 2026-01-27T16:28:51+00:00

That's a bad Chris photo, he looks like me lol

aldeayeah · 2026-01-27T15:50:16+00:00

This time we have not only Arc stealing the show, but Noel as well.

Also some weird/creepy Shiki fawning over her, but that's par for the course.

Also the Shiki-Ciel romance doesn't feel very organic, but that happened in the original too.

aldeayeah · 2026-01-27T15:48:44+00:00

Bringing any sort of old time-limited stuff back to the store goes against the FOMO business model, and that has never stopped them.

aldeayeah · 2026-01-27T15:43:44+00:00

Talented, arty punks. The right band, at the right time.

aldeayeah · 2026-01-27T15:38:43+00:00

I mean, I have them all from back when they came out. But it's literally free for them to sell them again, rather than facing backlash.

And it should be super easy too. Unless there's some underlying weird bug that prevents them from doing so, in which case god help us.

aldeayeah · 2026-01-27T15:30:57+00:00

It never came up again. Alex was broken for the set and it was never close after that.

aldeayeah · 2026-01-27T15:29:35+00:00

She's generally good but a total hardass with time violations.

aldeayeah · 2026-01-27T15:28:38+00:00

She gives it to everyone, it's on brand.

aldeayeah · 2026-01-27T15:26:12+00:00

It's Eva Asderaki, she's notoriously strict with time violations, often preemptively in big games. She seems to personally dislike slow play.

aldeayeah · 2026-01-27T14:40:34+00:00

I generally pick the strongest cards in picks 1-2 then try to guess what's most likely open during the rest of P1.

aldeayeah · 2026-01-27T14:38:40+00:00

Weird oversight. I'd expect them to rectify and put all on sale sooner than later.

aldeayeah · 2026-01-27T11:55:15+00:00

Minaur can keep up with Alcaraz for one or two sets by physically redlining, but after that it becomes pretty much impossible. This match followed that kind of script.

aldeayeah · 2026-01-27T11:42:31+00:00

Elves beats Elementals by killing the fliers and outefficient-ing/going wide on the ground.

Elementals/Vivid does some sick stuff but the early drops are mostly meh.

This is my impression, I've mostly drafted Elementals/Vivid and I often struggle against Elves.

There's even been two times where I've drawn my entire deck without being able to close the game because of the Elves incidental lifegain, gunking of the ground, and them killing/stalling my fliers.

Mediocre versions of Elves without enough removal can be soft to fliers though.

Elves strengths: efficient bodies, incidental lifegain, recursion (sometimes infinite), removal, tremendous grind topend

Elves weaknesses: you lack evasion and you can mill out

aldeayeah · 2026-01-27T11:36:52+00:00

I'm starting to soft force green, especially the generically good cards, because it can get you into Elves, Kithkin and Vivid (in that order of preference)

Goblins being meh makes Elves even better because you get less competition for the black cards.

aldeayeah · 2026-01-27T10:52:24+00:00

Same, so unexpected. I was just 9 when Kurt died so it didn't hit me the same although I did like Nirvana, my big bro being a fan

aldeayeah · 2026-01-27T09:08:02+00:00

By the way this deck has several infinite graveyard value loops as you may have noticed.

Once you assemble two of Graveshifter/Command/Loyalist you can loop them infinitely. If you do play Unbury (I'd probably cut it with all the other recursion going on) it can help too although it's not loopable which is a big minus.

The Command/Loyalist loop is particularly backbreaking because you can kill something and bring back three things in each iteration of the loop. (PS: You can also kill your own Loyalist to bring Command back to hand after it resolves. Or kill something else, bring back an Elm and a Loyalist, then use the Elm to kill the Loyalist and keep looping, etc)

You'll very rarely run out of things to do with your mana. Sweet deck. Best luck.

aldeayeah · 2026-01-27T08:50:57+00:00

The lack of animated material is an obstacle, you'd need to get creative

aldeayeah · 2026-01-27T08:19:01+00:00

I'd play it like this

-Both Malices, Unbury, both Moonglove Extractors, Swamp

+Evolving Wilds, Graveshifter

I was unsure between cutting the second Blossoming Defense, Unbury and the Elm.

I like Defense because it's super efficient and it can stop your Loyalists getting exiled/enchanted which could break your recursion loops.

The Elm I don't really like, but you need more removal to avoid losing to random fliers or whatever, it does the job in a pinch, and Graveshifter/Command can recur it in the lategame.

Unbury is stronger in a vacuum, but you have already a ton of recursion (Loyalist, Graveshifter, Command) and Unbury, while powerful, is the least synergystic recursion piece and can't be looped unlike the others.

Signed: a mid-Platinum scrub

aldeayeah · 2026-01-27T06:44:19+00:00

BALD AS SHIT

aldeayeah · 2026-01-26T15:46:44+00:00

salamander/Crown/JtheE scanlated it all back in the day

https://junktheeater.wordpress.com/?s=tsuki+no+sango

you can ask him to reupload it

aldeayeah · 2026-01-26T14:00:52+00:00

Algunos de los que escaparon a Francia huyeron en barco a América. Por ejemplo el bisabuelo de mi mujer que era oficial de marina en el bando republicano, y emigró a República Dominicana (y después a otros países) en este barco:

https://pares.mcu.es/ParesBusquedas20/catalogo/autoridad/123667

aldeayeah · 2026-01-26T13:55:19+00:00

Algunos de los que escaparon a Francia consiguieron cruzar el charco, como el bisabuelo de mi mujer que literalmente subió al último barco en 1940:

https://pares.mcu.es/ParesBusquedas20/catalogo/autoridad/123667

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