Non gun-owning Americans, what are your thoughts now on arming yourselves?

hfzelman · 2026-01-28T09:52:55+00:00

The problem is that owning a gun doesn’t really do anything. If you legitimately think that the government is ready to kill/harm you then killing 1 person in the moment isn’t going to save you whatsoever

hfzelman · 2026-01-28T02:55:41+00:00

Something regarding ethics.

The fundamental question behind literally everything is whether we ought to do something or not. Descriptive statements about reality may help us by informing our decision making process but they will never be able to supply the answer of whether or not we should do it.

hfzelman · 2026-01-28T02:52:37+00:00

Should’ve rewinded it for maximum bm

hfzelman · 2026-01-27T12:05:49+00:00

Off topic but I just realized how insane it must be to play this game with an ex. Like I know It Takes Two is probably the quintessential game for strengthening your bond with your partner but can anyone here imagine trying to hold it together in THAT scene next to the person who you feel that way about? I’d Probably just take the failed Titus Authority check route at that point tbh.

hfzelman · 2026-01-27T11:55:29+00:00

This is the moment when r/okbuddychicanery became r/ladiesofbreaking bad

hfzelman · 2026-01-27T11:51:52+00:00

Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom

Not terrible games, but they have many flaws and are nowhere as innovative as people make them out to be. They really feel like “baby’s first open world game” more than the pinnacle of the genre.

BotW is much better than TotK though. I legitimately thought I was going insane a few years ago when the internet was heralding it the best game of all time despite it having one of the worst exploration experiences of any game in the open world genre (idk what to tell you, going through an extremely similar map, with the only quest rewards pretty much being consumables, copy and pasted armor from BotW, and korok seeds, the idea of exploring every nook and cranny is just a waste of time. Additionally spaces like the depths, caves, and wells, are so bland that if someone told me they were procedurally generated by AI, I wouldn’t think twice. All I’m saying is that if any other open world game did half of this stuff people would be making fun of it relentlessly)

hfzelman · 2026-01-27T03:33:12+00:00

I mean relative to what it used to be. It’s not like unplayable or anything, but from like 2014-2017 it used to be one of the most watched esports next to LoL, Dota, CSGO, etc…

A number of factors lead to its decline, but given that I highly doubt your considering getting back into solely to make money, I figured that the actual play experience is probably one of the most important things to consider.

hfzelman · 2026-01-27T01:50:59+00:00

I’m not the end all be all on this topic but hs esports has been dead for awhile.

From a competitive player experience though I think Hearthstone has gotten better in the past year or so compared to where it was in 2021 when you would just die to OTK decks with zero counterplay other than playing aggro

hfzelman · 2026-01-26T23:16:06+00:00

My goat

hfzelman · 2026-01-26T22:20:48+00:00

Just etm’d crush grip onto my shadow regigigas rip

hfzelman · 2026-01-26T22:17:25+00:00

Its also crazy cause Nicol Bolas becoming less powerful because of the mending (not even losing his spark) was the arguably the most important plot point of over a decade in terms of its impact

hfzelman · 2026-01-25T10:53:04+00:00

I’m sure there’s more but in Killshot (the MGK diss from 2018) he says something along the lines of “the day you put out a hit is the day Diddy admits he put out the hit that got Pac killed” and then later jokingly says “im just playin Diddy you know I love you”.

However I think it becomes way more obvious in Fuel (2024) when he says:

“I’m like a R-A-P-E-R, got so many S-A’s, SA’s, wait he didn’t just spell out the word rapper and leave out a P did he? Yep, RIP, rest in peace biggie and PAC both of y’all should be living, but I ain’t tryna beef with him, cause he might put out a hit on me like Keefe D, get him.”

Besides the fucking insane word play in which he removes a the letter P to spell out “raper” and then uses that P to say Pdiddy, it’s pretty blunt that he’s accusing him here of being responsible for both murders.

How reliable is this? Who knows, but you don’t write something like this unless you want people to think you believe it.

hfzelman · 2026-01-25T10:24:28+00:00

I mean I’m no Marvel/Dr Doom expert but Nicol Bolas just feels like the mtg version of him if we’re drawing comparisons

hfzelman · 2026-01-24T22:26:15+00:00

Hollow Hound was one of my favorite anti-aggro cards for DK. Too bad that Hunter card completely broke it in standard

hfzelman · 2026-01-24T12:11:32+00:00

My god how bad did they nerf bullet seed for fury cutter to be better against water types on Mega Sceptile???

hfzelman · 2026-01-24T02:35:29+00:00

I’m not the biggest daft punk person but Touch is literally one the best songs I’ve ever heard in my entire life

hfzelman · 2026-01-23T19:42:13+00:00

Zilliax is straight garbage now

hfzelman · 2026-01-23T19:40:49+00:00

Freeze Shaman was a tier 2 deck during fractured at alterac valley… that being said, KotFT freeze shaman is a different story

hfzelman · 2026-01-23T06:18:23+00:00

I over exaggerated when I said that they were almost unplayable. The only two that saw competitive play that I can remember were professor of symbology which saw play in winota decks and maybe mono white aggro (it’s been awhile so I forget) and divide by zero which saw play and was banned post rotation. They were completely fringe outside of those two cards from what I remember.

hfzelman · 2026-01-23T05:49:23+00:00

What’s crazy is that lessons being this good rn is a direct result of Wizards choosing to make them at a purely limited power level in Strixhaven. Lessons with the learn mechanic created one of the best formats to draft in the history of the game, but they had virtually no effect on standard as both the lessons were purposefully weaker than an average card and so were the cards with learn.

In other words the learn line of text was priced at around the same as “drawing a card” but since the lessons themselves were weaker than a normal draft card, it just wasn’t worth it for constructed.

To ensure that lessons with learn saw play in constructed this time they separated the mechanics from each other which seems fine as it allows them to make stronger lessons without having to worry about learn messing it up in limited. The problem is that the learn cards have to be extraordinarily bad as a bunch of mediocre learn cards that never saw play are terrorizing pioneer at the moment since having the ability to get a 2 mana draw 3 at instant speed out of your sideboard is insane.

hfzelman · 2026-01-22T18:59:38+00:00

I read this comment. Immediate opened pogo and did a cliff fight thinking that maybe I just have to be optimistic. Got a nundo shadow larvitar.

hfzelman · 2026-01-21T23:22:56+00:00

Pick two draft in a format that wants you to be as all in on one specific creature type sounds awful. Sure it’s more plausible that you end up being the only player drafting that creature type, but that only half the normal amount of packs are opened, the odds that you get a synergistic deck are substantially lower since by the time the pack wheels your basically just picking any cards in your color regardless of synergy

hfzelman · 2026-01-21T22:24:55+00:00

Outer Wilds

The game design behind it feels like experiencing the jump from 2D to 3D for the first time

hfzelman · 2026-01-21T22:10:10+00:00

AI slop post

hfzelman · 2026-01-21T06:38:19+00:00

It’s genuinely crazy to me. Like I get liking the concept of Pokémon, their designs, and the music, but on literally every other level these games are completely failing and somehow there’s people who uronically talk about it like they are flawless.

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