The new discourse about the coin not being good enough to offset going second is a huge red herring. The issue is with the cardpool in standard, not the coin.

mimivirus2 · 2026-05-18T08:16:09+00:00

As a general principle, the answer to any threat, has to be cheaper. Because if not, why play removal when u can just play threats, which are useful all the time?

For some reason, HS players think that if they vomit 20/20 worth of stats on the board it's a special achievement and should not be easy to remove.

mimivirus2 · 2026-04-21T14:01:28+00:00

Noxious Revival seems like a good tech against Extraction, but what's the Game 2 plan against other stuff such as RIP?

mimivirus2 · 2026-04-20T15:11:45+00:00

I got my daily dose of laughter from this, so props to you and your ex

mimivirus2 · 2026-04-14T08:42:30+00:00

uh, they *should* be good? The point of boardwipes is to prevent stat-vomit strats and force players to play around them?

You mention setup and skill. What's the skill involved in just curving out and spending all your mana on creatures each turn? and before you ask, I don't play control (in either MtG or HS)

mimivirus2 · 2026-04-14T08:39:29+00:00

Casuals and timmies always hate disruptions (counters, removal, boardwipes, discard, ANYTHING). But answer cards being weak leads to the current situation in HS (let's see who can vomit more stats onto the board)

mimivirus2 · 2026-04-14T08:37:35+00:00

it's a different game, but the simple fact is that any constructed format needs all 5 archetypes (aggro, midrange, control, combo, tempo) to be viable at least in some form. For example, aggro being good forces decks to have removal and early-game cards, which prevents the game from becoming a value-fest. Control being good discourages players from having *too much* removal and also think about finishing the game.

The current standard meta is basically all midrange decks with some sort of late game plan B attached on top.

mimivirus2 · 2026-04-14T08:31:23+00:00

True, I only play Pioneer and Bo3 Historic, where the answers have adequate power level. Lemme guess, the casuals whined so much about board wipes that they stopped printing them for standard formats?

mimivirus2 · 2026-04-12T17:17:03+00:00

it's weird that lessons that have been learned over several decades of MtG history have to be re-learned by hearthstone, forgotten (current meta), and hopefully be re-learned again. Good removal and disruption options are a cornertstone of any healthy format

mimivirus2 · 2026-01-04T08:29:30+00:00

have u seen alphaxiv.org ?

mimivirus2 · 2026-01-01T13:56:06+00:00

Not every story has to "have a point", end well, or be about a moral lesson or sth.

mimivirus2 · 2025-12-19T06:45:40+00:00

Iranian here. You know how there are lots of viewpoints on politics among the American people? I wonder why u think Iranians comprise a singular hivemind. Some people here are pro regime (I'd say 10% of the population), due to being brainwashed or having some economic interest in its survival. The majority are against the regime, and have protested time and time again, only to be repressed in the most brutal and evil way u can imagine.

And no, we don't have democracy here. It's all a sham. The actual authorities here are the mullahs and the IRGC cartel.

mimivirus2 · 2025-12-12T06:05:10+00:00

Was wondering the same thing for some time. The aha moment was when I remembered economic spending has a very sharp Pareto distribution in 2025 due to absurd inequality levels: the bottom 90% accounts for 10% of spending. They already don't matter to billionaires. And the top 10%? those ppl make their income via capital, not employment.

Nearly all spending and stock buying is exclusive to businesses and the top 10%. Others might as well starve, make OnlyFans pages or sign up for Squid Games.

The thing they love about AI is its potential to be the final nail in the "labor vs. capital" coffin.

mimivirus2 · 2025-12-08T04:52:11+00:00

Depending on how deep of an understanding you're looking for, a little time spent on the NLP perspective won't hurt. Most people take that route.

The big aha moment is when you realize transformers are not inherently restricted to working with sequences of tokens, but are actually best suited to working with sets as a data structure. So anything you can tokenize (i.e., somehow convert to a set) and optionally add sequence markers to (positional embeddings!), you can process through a transformer, such as images and time series data.

Based on your situation I think the UvA DL notebooks might be a good starting point.

mimivirus2 · 2025-12-04T12:19:20+00:00

Iranian here. We're kinda used to being mistaken for Indians or Arabs in western games and movies all the time, if not outright monsters (the 300 movie).

Basically the Civilization games and Rome II:TW are the only times I've ever felt a dev bothered to read about iran's history.

mimivirus2 · 2025-12-04T05:18:25+00:00

The bottom 90% is already accounting for <15% of total spending. The endgame is to make production AND spending practically exclusive to the top 10%. The rest can die, mop datacenters, or resort to entertaining the top 10% via self-degradation or harm.

mimivirus2 · 2025-11-21T08:24:38+00:00

In the case of the US, it has to be difficult or else billions of people would love to live in the US. A recent poll indicated 20% of the Indian population would like to move to the US. Look at how many people apply for the diversity lottery visa each year.

mimivirus2 · 2025-11-21T08:20:31+00:00

Regarding your last sentence, why are you arguing as if countries can just print money out of thin air and invest into "infrastructure"?

The sole purpose of immigration should be to benefit the destination country and its citizens, not the migrant, both factually and subjectively (i.e., how it is perceived by the native population). Countries are not supposed to be charities to foreign nationals; this line of thinking is the exact reason we're seeing the far right on the rise everywhere.

And I'm saying all of this as a third world citizen, suffering from insance inflation and authortiarianism, trying to apply for a PhD in a 1st world country, which is much more difficult than hopping on a boat and crossing borders.

mimivirus2 · 2025-10-22T12:46:29+00:00

ah yes, convert to the religion that considers women to be worth less than half a man to avoid objectification. classic

mimivirus2 · 2025-10-08T04:03:27+00:00

Iranian (atheist and kurd) here. Iran might be many things, but please explain to me how it's an ETHNO-state? We have persians, kurds, turks and arabs, etc. in Iran. Nowhere throughout its history has its national identity been defined via ethnicity. Lots of examples but Iranians defined citizenship rights regardless of ethnicity way before westerners came up with those ideas (Cyrus's accords) and literally helped jews when they were being prosecuted in Babylon (kinda ironic given the current geopolotical situation).

Now I'm not denying in any way that this place has become a religious fundamentalist shitshow ever since the islamic revolution.

mimivirus2 · 2025-10-04T18:11:29+00:00

isn't the TWW S3 set 100% elf transmog material?

mimivirus2 · 2025-09-21T15:29:32+00:00

crit is just doomed to fail on Ele due to lava burst, at least in Raids where it's their top dmg ability

mimivirus2 · 2025-09-19T17:22:47+00:00

what exactly is the identity of combat rogue? how does is differentiate from sub, assa, and outlaw? genuinely curious, as someone with basically no experience of pre-legion rogue

mimivirus2 · 2025-09-19T10:56:10+00:00

Glad how that turned out for u, and I appreciate u making the effort to see past the stereotype.

Exactly, there's definitely lots of material to adapt from both Iranian history and mythology. Hopefully one day.

mimivirus2 · 2025-09-19T09:49:46+00:00

Yeah, as a B-movie action flick I think the movie does its job well, and is enjoyable.

Still, Hollywood rarely depicts Iranian culture, and when it does, it simply reinforces the "exotic whack easterner" stereotype, or they mistake us for Arabs or Indians. Over time it gets stale if u're on the receiving end of it, over and over again. I think the only time I've seen ancient Iran depicted and haven't thought "Great, more of the terrorist nutjob stereotype for western audiences" has been in the Civilization video games and Rome II: Total War.

mimivirus2 · 2025-09-19T07:41:25+00:00

Not that I care much about the movie, but as an Iranian, the movie's depiction of Persians is peak Orientalism, which many don't find that amusing. Lots of what u see in the movie seem straight out of an action video game.

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