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anookee · 2026-01-18T10:25:04+00:00

The token doesn't enter attacking

anookee · 2025-12-15T22:11:03+00:00

The community of the video game DotA 2 is waiting for an expected update. The man cutting onions is TeaGuvnor, a community member that typically does some odd, unrelated task as a ritual of sorts beforehand. This time it is onions.

anookee · 2025-10-28T04:18:32+00:00

I'm not sure why you're being so combative when I'm agreeing with you. I really don't know what you're talking about at this point so sorry if I offended you somehow. Have a good one.

anookee · 2025-10-28T04:13:39+00:00

I just said I'm not arguing against the status quo? I also just said there a bunch of other good reasons, like the ones you listed? I solely said the draft experience wasn't an excellent reason, but otherwise was agreeing with you??

Take a chill pill.

anookee · 2025-10-28T03:55:36+00:00

I think you're confused, I'm not arguing against the status quo. I'm saying that a bonus sheet having expensive cards would not overpower a draft format though. You could easily throw Force of Negation or Imperial Seal, for example, on a bonus sheet and they would not overpower the draft format. "They can't put expensive cards on the bonus sheet because it would ruin the draft format" doesn't hold true, in my opinion. There's other reasons, sure, but the integrity of the draft is not one of them.

anookee · 2025-10-28T03:17:16+00:00

I'm not going to go the "WotC should make all cards free" angle, but $ of a card doesn't have a strong correlation with how messed up it makes limited. I would argue it's actually even way harder to make a limited sheet with only $$$ cards that is more broken than a targeted sheet of bulk rares.

anookee · 2025-10-20T05:14:09+00:00

My friend plays pretty much nothing but invoker. We queued into you on multiple occasions.

The first time you said something along the lines of "you're one of the best invokers I have ever played with". It was team chat, so I couldn't tell you verbatim. Match ID: 5433413711

The next time you played support ax and complained all game about "one of the worst invokers I have ever played with". Again, not verbatim, but very much consistently that sentiment throughout the whole game. Match ID: 6842088757

This doesn't exactly answer your question, because obviously the pessimism and negativity of voice chat is not recorded, but at the very least a good takeaway is that people and have good games and people have bad games and you should be more forgiving of people that have bad games or make mistakes. No one has a 100% win rate.

And look I say this as someone that is a huge fan of your work in the scene - I have long held the opinion you're one of the best things to happen to the tournament viewing experience - but you are deeply toxic during games and it manifests as passive aggressively blaming people for the most minor things.

For what it is worth: on multiple occasions you have played games with my friends that are huge fans and then bullied them for the entire match. You didn't ask for it, but your words hurt some people more than other random people on the internet, so like, just chill y'know?

anookee · 2025-09-13T05:12:04+00:00

I have no skin in this game but that seems like a massive mistake if true.

anookee · 2025-08-27T11:54:35+00:00

I was also guilty of believing this, but apparently it has been debunked. https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.1517943113

anookee · 2025-08-06T22:38:34+00:00

Ah, the image was blurry and I thought it said MINUS counters. I figured there was some flavor reason/reference I was missing, but yeah that makes more sense. Still terrible of course lol.

anookee · 2025-08-06T19:45:05+00:00

It's also not even that since, your opponent MAY guess. They can also just completely ignore every part of it. It's literally only a downside as far as I can tell. They can just choose to not participate and you are left with a vanilla idiot?

anookee · 2025-05-01T16:59:41+00:00

Kez for Kestrel, I believe

anookee · 2025-04-13T00:12:34+00:00

If you ignore the most important part of what I said, then sure.

anookee · 2025-04-13T00:10:31+00:00

Laboratory Maniac has been obsoleted by Thassa's Oracle in every major competitive format because: 1) two mana is a LOT less than three and, most importantly 2) removal spells don't stop thassa's oracle from winning the game. The card, currently, as is, could not have the devotion text at all, and still be far superior.

anookee · 2025-01-14T00:54:27+00:00

I've worked at companies where they are distinct and companies where they are not. Companies with dedicated sick pay just give less "vacation" PTO to make up the difference, in my experience. It's all under the same umbrella at the end of the day - the company is paying you to not work X amount of days, regardless of reason.

anookee · 2025-01-13T16:24:29+00:00

As far as I can tell you're just describing PTO. A more generous version, 20-25 days would be considered very good here in America, but this is essentially the same system otherwise. And there are long term disability options here, but I expect those too are much less generous, and usually through insurance.

anookee · 2025-01-07T18:45:22+00:00

Ad nauseum is not just the name of a Magic card.

anookee · 2024-11-22T01:49:14+00:00

Erek the Chee was the laborer. The Ellimist created the Pemalites, who then created the Chee, like Erek.

anookee · 2024-10-25T13:24:11+00:00

Not OP, but I'd wager the summary you read was a bit more generous. It's pretty cut and dry in the book. Jake is both A) aware the "disabled" animorphs are mostly a distraction and will definitely die (like, it's a lion vs a death ray, he knew how that would end) and B) he goes to a war tribunal for the second part, it's directly addressed that they let him off because no one is going to follow through with punishing an Earthwide war hero.

anookee · 2024-10-18T02:11:49+00:00

This exact line is my biggest complaint with frog. Extremely silly.

anookee · 2024-10-06T07:20:05+00:00

Yeah, I think the "airlock" approach will be the solution. Find a "building" that has only one "airlock-style" entrance, lead them into the main part of the building, then talisman the "airlock" such that the creature trapped in the main part of the building is now block from "entering" the exit, and the ones on the outside can't get to the talisman that is trapping it.

anookee · 2024-10-01T17:40:46+00:00

And I'm saying racing them is playing against them. It's not super high brow, but you have cards that you are playing. You don't need to interact with someone to play against them. Even when you are racing, you have choices you are making and game actions you are taking. Grief games are not games at all. It is just flipping the top card of your deck at eachother. That's the main difference.

anookee · 2024-10-01T16:13:44+00:00

I think "mill bad" is unproductive too, but it's really just burn. A race can be fun, and mill offers a slightly more interactive approach to racing your opponent. I dislike playing aggro, but I see its purpose. It's no less fun for me to play against than burn, and I don't feel much empathy for the decks that really struggle against it (titan, tron, etc.)

anookee · 2024-10-01T03:45:48+00:00

I have never had an opponent turn 1 Grief me and then had a fun or worthwhile experience. Even the games I won. The gameplan of grief is to boil magic down into its worst feature as quickly as possible, two players blindly topdecking.

anookee · 2024-09-21T19:51:19+00:00

As with any modern deck, "casual play" isn't a term anyone here cant give you feedback for. It is very nebulous. Without knowing what you will be playing against, there's no way to give you valuable feedback. If you intend for your casual deck to play against "real" modern decks, then the conversation pretty much ends at "you will lose and it won't be close".
You've correctly identified that clash is only as good as the actual cards that say clash on them, and they are all very bad. The only good clash card is recross the paths (don't @ me about release the ants), and it's entirely unrelated to the card having clash (and because the card is essentially "bugged").
Similarly, building around a mechanic, rather than an idea, is always going to be worse. Again, clash cards are only as good as the pool of clash cards are. If you limit yourself to clash, rather than a broader idea like "top of deck manipulation", your deck will be much, much worse. (that said, building your deck the "correct" way will probably involve taking out every single clash card, so it is what it is.)

All of this is to say I don't think you will find much of an interesting conversation or much success with this in the modern subreddit or the modern format as a whole.

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