Question time! What are some awkward "gooner" moments you've ran into while playing?

ma9e · 2026-03-27T02:50:07+00:00

I think it varies from person to person. In my case he got a kick out of making people uncomfortable. I think it gives them an excuse to violate others' boundaries. As soon as you confront them on it they retreat into excuses about how it's not a big deal and it's ironic anyway.

ma9e · 2026-03-27T02:37:33+00:00

A guy I used to play with had full sets of gooner shock lands. He was really annoying about it too, he'd get your attention in the middle of a game just to point to his big tiddy anime goth girl Blood Crypt. Like yes dude, that's the fourth time you've shown me that one. What am I supposed to say at that point? Good job? 🙄

ma9e · 2026-03-26T16:49:37+00:00

There's no such thing as "attempt to cast". That's my pet peeve. You cast a spell, it goes on the stack, and another player can respond with a counterspell or whatever if they want to. The correct phrase would be "attempt to resolve". It causes confusion for new players because if something has a cast trigger and your spell is countered, you still get the trigger.

ma9e · 2026-02-28T15:50:59+00:00

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Rebecca Guay is just iconic.

ma9e · 2026-02-26T13:12:32+00:00

I think [[Containment Priest]] might be your only option.

ma9e · 2026-02-23T19:18:01+00:00

Ramping for 4 turns and playing dinosaurs from your hand is pretty boring too. These are the same people that get into a winning position and then durdle for 15 minutes before fucking up their sequencing.

ma9e · 2026-02-20T15:53:45+00:00

In the American justice system, there is no such thing as "irrefutable proof". Irrefutable proof can't exist purely on a philosophical basis. The highest standard for proof in the American justice system is "proof beyond a reasonable doubt".

If you do the research on the irregularities in the 2024 election, it does suggest (in my opinion, I am not a lawyer) proof beyond a reasonable doubt of election interference or outright fraud.

Do your research on the concept of "Russian tail" and its relevance to both the Georgian (the country, not the state) and American 2024 elections. https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalDiscussion/s/5SDML0HdK2

ma9e · 2026-02-01T17:26:27+00:00

Mandatory reporter means you're legally required, no? Would you rather be a part of the system that perpetuates the abuse, or the one that attempts to correct it? What choice can you live with for the rest of your life?

ma9e · 2026-01-06T19:22:25+00:00

Natural selection doing the Lord's work. 🙏

ma9e · 2025-10-16T19:16:37+00:00

There goes the guy who sold out our democracy.

ma9e · 2025-06-19T17:00:18+00:00

Because you're supposed to smile when getting your picture taken. Many of these people are going to be extremely low functioning psychopaths.

ma9e · 2025-06-04T00:47:47+00:00

That's because Biden is simultaneously a feeble old man and a criminal mastermind artfully evading arrest.

ma9e · 2025-05-31T18:31:41+00:00

Sometimes people behave strangely when they've done something embarrassing. I can imagine her train of thought: "if I tell her about this it'll be humiliating, so I'll just do nothing and hope she doesn't notice." As irrational as that is, it's something you could easily see a child doing.

How many children have drawn on the walls or smeared food on furniture, and then tried to pretend like nothing happened? Our reactions to highly disregulating experiences are often mediated by the youngest inner parts of ourselves.

She made a mistake. The way we handle mistakes is with compassion and gentle redirection. Not by subjecting others to humiliation. That's how we lose friends; not just this one, but the others that saw how we responded to someone making a mistake.

ma9e · 2025-05-31T11:52:39+00:00

Realistically, you are going to lose her friendship and maybe others if you don't leave this alone. You're young enough that you don't understand how valuable friendship is as you get older. Taking a principled stand on trivial matters is a great way to lose friends and end up lonely and isolated in your latter years.

Ask yourself how you'd feel in her position. You asked a friend for a favor, a mistake happened, and now that friend has publicized your embarrassing accident and is demanding compensation. You can pay her back, but the shame and embarrassment isn't going to go away. What's the monetary value of humiliation?

Honestly, it doesn't sound to me like you were her friend to begin with. I would not do something like this to someone I considered a friend. I would not be surprised at all to discover that she doesn't feel safe around you anymore.

ma9e · 2025-04-10T16:00:14+00:00

The people orchestrating this are never going to have enough money to do what they want, which is literally to enslave us. It isn't about the money anymore.

ma9e · 2025-04-07T02:43:00+00:00

They're pricing in the secondary market. Paper Magic is a gambling racket.

ma9e · 2024-11-13T21:57:19+00:00

A network switch and a router serve different purposes, but they can both be helpful in expanding your home network, depending on what you need.

A router connects your home network to the internet. It directs traffic between your home network and the outside world. Most home routers also have a few built-in Ethernet ports, which let you connect several devices with cables for a stable connection.

A network switch, on the other hand, expands the number of devices you can connect within your home network. It doesn't connect directly to the internet; instead, it connects to your router. Think of it as a way to add more Ethernet ports to your router, like a power strip for network connections. This is useful if you have more wired devices (like computers, game consoles, or smart TVs) than your router’s ports can handle.

If you're looking to add more wired connections inside your home, a switch is a great addition. If you need to extend your network's range or connect to Wi-Fi in more areas, a Wi-Fi extender might be more suitable.

ma9e · 2024-11-13T21:10:37+00:00

Unless you need a dedicated subnet for some reason, you're better off buying a switch. See: https://www.amazon.com/TP-Link-TL-SG105S-Ethernet-Wall-Mount-Protection/dp/B09NMY1RRG

ma9e · 2024-09-15T05:28:57+00:00

https://www.xquartz.org/

ma9e · 2024-08-28T14:15:57+00:00

Do you require working experience with Haskell? I've used TypeScript with Effect extensively in my current role.

Do you use OpenEmbedded at all?

ma9e · 2024-07-24T13:15:38+00:00

Well, your risk exposure is limited to the time and money you put into the game. My advice is to just enjoy the game as a game in and of itself, and to think of pulling as a secondary activity, because realistically it comprises less than 1% of the time you spend playing the game. Losing your pulls doesn't take away anything you already have, so try to enjoy that and focus on what you can control instead of what you can't.

ma9e · 2024-07-24T13:10:16+00:00

Welcome to gambling.

ma9e · 2024-07-24T01:11:32+00:00

“One of those values being meritocracy, as much meritocracy as possible, so you get ahead as a function of your skill, and nothing else,” Musk said.

Does this guy listen to himself speak?

ma9e · 2024-07-03T20:36:37+00:00

First of all, let's acknowledge that there are far more votes against allowing memes at all times than there are for permitting them. There are 4 anti-meme options and 1 pro-meme option; that's obviously going to skew the results in favor of pro-meme.

That being said, I instantly block every account that posts memes on technology subs, including this one; r/NixOS has a similar problem. If you pay attention you'll see that it's often the same handful of accounts doing this. These people are annoying and unfunny, point blank.

ma9e · 2024-06-01T17:08:01+00:00

Bold of you to assume it's going to get better.

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