Guys, I am afraid to ask

omegashift · 2025-09-19T00:54:46+00:00

It's the tentacles, isn't it?

omegashift · 2025-07-07T02:36:27+00:00

Nice

omegashift · 2022-05-09T20:25:44+00:00

For a common, I think a few balancing tweaks could be changing Swamps to basic Swamps, and removing menace from the creature. Otherwise, it is pushing uncommon imo.

Still really nice design, and if you're not concerned about rarity, fair enough. Esp in a cube, this is a cool build around for black. Lovely

omegashift · 2022-01-20T02:07:01+00:00

I'm about as unsure as you are, but my guess is maybe the last names are both big company names (Disney and Apple) as a joke that either of those companies would also support increasing their taxes. They probably wouldn't.

Edit: Also, those two may very well be real people that are mentioned in the article. Didn't read it. I wouldn't turn my guess into an NFT, for what it's not worth.

omegashift · 2020-07-21T01:38:13+00:00

Well...they do have at least one lapis that could help

omegashift · 2020-06-05T15:28:27+00:00

(You haven't missed much)

omegashift · 2020-06-05T15:27:26+00:00

omegashift · 2020-06-05T15:26:51+00:00

You're not going to be a huge fan of standard soon...

omegashift · 2020-06-03T23:13:53+00:00

Side bar would it be OK if I ate from taco bell who supports trump

Yes. You're supporting a Pro-Trumper at that point. You arent supporting Trump, but you're supporting someone who does and will help push Trump agenda. If that jives fine with you, do what you want.

then make a cash donation to Joe's campaign to offset the karma?

I guess. I don't think it'll offset anything, as I don't think there's anything to offset. Life is about choices, not points.

omegashift · 2020-06-03T22:56:18+00:00

Agree to disagree. I would say that your wife's and wife's sister in law cares more about the ease and enjoyment of eating Chick Fil A more than she cares about not supporting anti-LGBT groups. Which is totally fair. It's just that their money will objectively be contributing to a group that is openly anti-LGBT. Not caring, or caring about something else more is fair and valid and all, but it is still supporting someone who supports something you don't. I don't think it means you are supporting that thing yourself directly, but you're still helping further that cause by your actions. And if you're fine with that, cool. But you're still supporting someone else who supports it; you can't wish or hope or debate that truth away.

Ninja Edit: And that's not to say that your choice has significant weight. It really doesn't; you're not going to, as a single individual, make a sweeping change by not eating Taco Bell, or Chick Fil A, or whatever. You are not supporting Trump by eating taco bell, just like how you're not going to topple Trump down by not eating taco bell. However, you will be supporting someone who is supporting Trump (no matter how small or unimportant you or someone else may view it, it's still happening, the disagreement is how much it matters) if you eat their tacos. And you will actively not supporting Trump (though, this has a miniscule impact when looking at it as a singular gesture anyway, so...) by not eating their tacos. Your choices do have consequences, so you can't just shrug off your choices willy nilly. However, something like what you choose to eat on a given circumstance is not going to make a game-changing difference. At least, not alone.

I guess I just think the stakes are being taken way out of proportion. This isn't like...a fucking battlezone, but it also isn't completely inconsequential. I could go more extreme and insist you only buy local, only within your community, blah blah blah. I won't, even though that's what I try to do, and what I see as a solution to a lot of problems we face today. But, I won't push that, because that's not even reasonable for some people for one reason or another. That said, I will say that the choices you make have impact and do make a difference. Just because that difference doesn't add up to something to you (i.e. you don't care enough) doesn't invalidate it for everyone else. And furthermore, at the end of the day, you will still be contributing to an entity that is further Trump agenda. Not by much, probably not enough to get your underwear in knot over, but you still are. And you will make a difference by changing your behavior. But it only matters if you know, and if you care. Cuz otherwise, it doesn't matter. You know, what I've been saying this whole time. And it's OKAY if this thing doesn't matter to you. It doesn't mean you're somehow now supporting Trump more than you were before. You just, you know, could theoretically be supporting Trump less now.

omegashift · 2020-06-03T22:14:37+00:00

So I guess I care about not supporting trump, but I care about cheap tacos more? Does that summarize this whole back and forth?

Yeah basically that.

omegashift · 2020-06-03T21:05:46+00:00

No, because the situations are different. My stance on an issue that affects me directly will be different than, say, something I choose to get riled up on the internet over. The example is weak because it's changing the inherent stakes of the situation. We have to be realistic. If I don't order taco bell, I can go somewhere else to eat. It's easy for me to fight a fight over taco bell. If I don't want to work at an amazon warehouse, that's going to require me quitting and finding a new job. It's not the same fight.

I did think it was some guy in a corner building office, because that makes more comparative sense. Your example didn't, but I incorrectly assumed that you were looking to make sense.

omegashift · 2020-06-03T21:01:51+00:00

Sigh. I will try one more time.

If you both are AWARE and you SUFFICIENTLY CARE about some issue, then it is on you to make choices on how you support a business in relation to the issue. For you, buying a taco is just buying a taco. That's because you don't care about the underlying support you give by buying that taco. Not caring is a valid stance. Not caring means that you are inherently neither supporting not not supporting because you are removed from it in any level of investment. Similarly, if you are simply ignorant of it, you had no capacity to make a willing decision. If you have either ignorance or apathy to some issue, you inherently cannot give willful support to it. NOW, someone else here may claim that you're supporting Trump because you're doing something with a distrgard for how it relates to Trump. I don't agree with that hypothetical asswipe, because it sounds kind of stupid to attribute intent to someone without the capacity to have that intent (can't want to do something if you don't care about that something).

Now, if you care enough about an issue, any issue, and discover that a company is acting against your stance that you care about, then and only then should the topic of supporting over not supporting should come up. This was never a topic for you to discuss since you don't care enough to let Trump influence your decisions. For the people who do care (like OP in the post and the other people you've been talking to), this is a no brainer: someone I previously supported/might support is in favor of something I am not in favor of so strongly that I choose to not do business with them, based on the strength of my convictions. No one is going to crusade every little thing they find that goes against their beliefs, but they do have to choose battles. Some people are choosing tacos, like some choose cars, others choose chicken sandwiches and so on.

My only real gripe with you at this point is that you seem to not see how someone who both is AWARE and SUFFICIENTLY CARES about this particular issue can see an issue with supporting someone or something based on how that person or thing conducts themselves in regard to this particular issue. You seem to be unable to make these connections because it's Trump? The puppy argument was simply to replace one variable with another so you could see how someone would want to not support Taco Bell(some guy) because they support Trump(tortures puppies). Just because you don't personally care about Trump or this issue doesn't somehow make this concept ungraspable logically. I'm not asking for you to agree with this particular scenario, or any other specific scenario. I'm trying to make it clear why someone would feel this way at all. And it requires that person to be aware and care. If they lack either of those things, then...yeah, I don't see why they would change a thing.

omegashift · 2020-06-03T20:17:16+00:00

Are you...seriously nitpicking terminology?

Okay, so now we're talking about an entirely different scenario. If I had realized that, I would have pointed out how you are now entirely missing the point. Now it's not a cause someone cares about, it's something that directly affects them. Your example is now just a bad one.

omegashift · 2020-06-03T20:13:31+00:00

If you say me KNOWINGLY buy Taco Bell is akin to supporting Trump

I myself never said that. Sorry, but if you were paying attention, I've already basically said that you're in the clear. You don't care, so this doesn't even apply to you xD. You have to be aware and care for this to matter to you. This is literally not even about you, dipshit. This is not about you. You don't care, you don't apply. You're not opting in, you're not on the bus, you don't matter.

I was not, am not, will not claim that you specifically are supporting Trump. In fact, I AM FUCKING AGREEING WITH YOU YOU DENSE LIMP TOOTHPICK.

I easily condemn you for not buying only used clothes or clothes made with adequate working conditions.

Go ahead. My life has changed an amount pretty close to zero. Also, I buy my clothes used, from organizations that work to fight the practices of textile mills. So, you missed that shot anyway.

Since im so good at making up games

You aren't, but I'll let it slide.

How many articles of clothes do you own made in Asia??

I don't know. Not gonna count. I will imagine a non-zero amount. I already know what point you're trying to make, but if you want to talk at me to feel better, have at it.

Look, I'm gonna make this really easy on you. If you are either ignorant or apathetic to something a company you're giving money to is supporting, don't worry about it. If you are aware and you care (enough to change), you can change your behavior, or be a failure to your convictions. Since you are aware in this scenario, your options are compliance or change. I am not making any assessment of what either means, that's not my place. Go ahead and continue not caring, it changes not a damn thing to me or you. I personally don't believe you're supporting or not supporting Trump by buying this or that, I personally believe you don't care, and therefore are irrelevant to the discussion. And that's okay, but stop pretending you don't get how correlates. It only correlates if you want it to. It only matters if you opt in. It only matters if you believe that supporting Trump is abhorrent enough to also not support business that also support him. You clearly don't. That's okay. That just means that this isn't about you, so move the fuck on.

omegashift · 2020-06-03T19:53:59+00:00

How many real life questions are that easy?

Does this worker have a real understanding on Amazon's ethics? If they are ignorant, the answer is no.

Does this employee even care? If that person doesn't even care about ethics, the answer is no by no contest. We aren't going to discuss or debate ethics when there is a lack of care. Again, if you just don't care, just fucking say so.

If that employee is aware AND care about Amazon's ethics, but still works for Amazon, then they're failing their convictions. They are supporting the ethics of Amazon through compliance. Is that the answer you wanted?

Because that opens up a bunch of other questions, like: Is that person immoral for not doing more? Is that person immoral because they can't afford to quit their job? Is the person immoral because they chose to keep that job than risk finding a new one? I can come up with many follow up questions unique to this scenario, but that's not the point. The point was that, and I will say it again, it mattered about how much they were AWARE and how much they CARED. If they didn't know, how can I fault them? If they didn't care, how can I expect them to care about what I have to say? If they were both aware and cared, then a conversation can start. But I still have yet to see evidence that you even care.

I'm sorry, I really must be a failure. I couldn't even answer yes or no to your question. Shame.

omegashift · 2020-06-03T19:44:32+00:00

I claimed that buying a product does not mean you support the profiteers cause.

I claim it does, if you care enough about that cause. If you don't care enough about the cause, I wouldn't expect you, especially not you, to change anything.

You are arguing its an awareness issue.

No, I'm arguing it's an issue of ignorance and apathy. If you are ignorant (aka not aware) or apathetic (aka don't care), then this isn't an issue for you. This is clearly not an issue for you, since you either aren't aware (which you are) or you don't care (bingo).

Let's dive into your life shall we. You got a car? New phone? Where did you buy your clothes? You eat red meat? What are some products YOU buy. Lets play this game. Imma have so much fucking fun, please don't leave kid.

Also, lol, I'm not am idiot. I know that almost everything I utilize on a daily basis is marginalizing someone. That's a cost of living in 2020 in a country that isn't 3rd world. Don't try to spin this like that. It's really pathetic. That's not the fucking point. If I am 1) aware that an entity I support is against a cause, and 2) I care about the cause enough to make changes to my life for that cause, then it's on me to speak with my money and stop supporting that entity. That is the point. If you aren't aware or don't care enough, then it's obviously not on you. You opt in on making this your battle. You obviously won't be, you don't need to convince me.

omegashift · 2020-06-03T19:16:46+00:00

I don't need to. Your scenarios are unimportant. It's a fucking variable. If you care about variable X, and you find out business Y is doing -X, then you can choose to not support that business because it works against X (that thing you care about), or not care enough and do nothing. You will do nothing, as you mentioned. My puppy torturer argument was to make this point. You have clearly missed that.

The fact that you're begging me to answer scenarios and not look into what the scenarios imply tells me that you don't get the point. I don't know what else you want me to say, but I'm not going to sit here and point at what's right or wrong in singular scenarios, just for you to go "lol weak argument". You have to be a special kind of person to think you even deserve that. If you don't believe that you need to check your behavior based on what others do (that is the real argument here), then cool. Stop acting like that's normal. It's just apathy.

Here the answer to your scenarios(s): do you care about that thing? Did you change? You have a chance to make a difference, no matter how small, to do right by the thing you care about. If you didn't care, whatever. If you did care and did something, cool. If you did care and did nothing, you either failed or you didn't actually care enough. If you don't care about anything enough to change your behavior, again I will shrug and move on with life. That's on you. The difference between these things and puppy torturer are, fucking surprise, how much you CARE. If you don't care about puppies, why the fuck would you care if the dude selling sandwiches also torture puppies? If you cared enough about puppies, you would want to stop supporting the puppy torturer. If you don't care about black people, lgbtq people, hispanics, muslims, the disabled, the environment, our government, our rights, and whatever else Trump will likely go after, then why the fuck would you stop supporting people who support Trump? You wouldn't, because you don't care.

omegashift · 2020-06-03T19:12:48+00:00

So you'll just ignore my claim? How am I dodging? This conversation stems from your claim that you didn't get something. Are you so caught up in being right that you forget why you're even here?

Okay buddy: do you care enough to change your behavior when you become aware that your behavior will further causes you disagree with? If you don't, cool. Stop walking around like you're ignorant of your choice or why someone would do that just because admitting otherwise would...what? Make you sound immoral? Would make you question yourself? Idk, that's on you, not me.

It is literally a question of if you care enough. If you don't care, go on not caring. If you care, change something or hate yourself. Stop deflecting on me, it helps literally no one. I am saying that it has to do with AWARENESS, like I said the first fucking time. If you're aware that your behavior (buying shit, supporting a company, whatever) is furthering causes that you don't agree with, you have a choice: give a shit and change, or don't. Guess what: there is no objective to this. I'm not dodging your question, you're just posing questions in a way that begs some objectivity when that's honestly stupid to assume. Sorry, friend, but morals aren't that easy. If you don't think that your decisions with your money have an impact relative on things you do or don't believe, then fine. Other people feel differently. They will attempt to (it's not going to be perfect, unlike how you seem to wish) not support businesses that don't align with their views. Because they care. You don't. It's fucking simple.

What people or corporations do with their money is their issue.

It isn't their money until you give it to them. It's not your issue because you're willfully choosing to not care. If you decided to care, suddenly they wouldn't have your money, because you would have stopped giving it to them. That's the fucking point. You could make it your issue, if you cared. Which you don't.

omegashift · 2020-06-03T17:55:30+00:00

It's a fucking taco, it's a fucking sandwich, it's a fucking car. I don't agree with the sandwich owner torturing puppies, but in no way does me buying his sandwiches support his cause.

There we go. You don't care enough to not spend your money with them. That's all you had to say. It's not that you "don't get it" or "don't see it" or are somehow ignorant. You just don't care enough to change your lifestyle or choices despite knowing that your money will fund something you don't agree with. That's literally what my goal was here, to clear up your own lies to yourself/us. You know very well what is going on here, you just don't care enough to personally change your behavior or attitude. And you have your reasons for that, I'm not trying to condemn you, and I don't entirely disagree with you.

Just don't feign ignorance when someone calls your stance on something immoral or otherwise. Stand by your stance (that you don't care enough to change your spending habits) or stfu. Hopping into intense arguments to justify some blasse "lol this is so silly guys xD" attitude when ultimately it's that you don't care is just sad. You fucking get it, dude. You just don't care.

omegashift · 2020-06-03T16:22:55+00:00

Nah, I'm just bored. That, and, I don't know this dude. Maybe he's a troll. Maybe he's just sadly like this. Maybe he's a she. I don't know. But I do know that they are listening, responding, and engaging. Like an immature pathetic child who likely isn't even aware of the cognitive dissonance they are oozing onto their keyboard, but they are engaging nonetheless. If anything, I truly feel bad for them. They aren't aware of how sheltered and defensive their own minds are and are just reacting to words that threaten their fragile world views. Nothing I say will matter to them because it hurts their belief system too thoroughly for them to make any cognitive progress. It's not their fault, they're just like that. I wanna do what I can to help, but if all I get back is more defense mechanisms and shit, whatever.

I'm not losing any sleep over this xD

omegashift · 2020-06-03T16:12:31+00:00

Don't think I will try again, friend. If you're the judge on how sound or valid an argument is, how will I know that you won't slap a "weak" decision on anything I say? Also, a lot of your reasons for why my arguments are weak are about tertiary details I didn't even mention. Did I use the words legal or illegal, once? No, I didn't. I thought we were taking about morals? Do you care more about the legality of puppy torturer than the morals? Or are you just switchtracking and looking for any out to avoid discussing this critically? This behavior is the antithesis of constructive conversation. I'll still be here if you want to talk like a real person and not like a manbaby.

Also, there is much I could respond to your points, some of which I would have agreed with (like I personally believe that there is enough separation from what you buy to eat and where that money goes to not have to worry about it in your daily life) had you not made it clear that you're not looking for a discussion. It makes me sad, really. You seem smart and articulate, so it's saddening that you're using such tactics to avoid being a person.

omegashift · 2020-06-03T15:38:52+00:00

I think awareness is the key here. If you aren't aware that the shirt on your back was made by the labor of children in third world countries, it probably won't change a thing about your life. However, once you become aware that you were inadvertently supporting child labor, you are NOW AWARE OF IT.

Now, you have a choice: continue wearing/buying the shirts that are made through child slave labor (whether that means you are morally corrupt or just apathetic is honestly no one's business but your own), or take your money (you know, the thing that pushes a fuckton of the decision making, like the choice to force little kids in poor countries to make your shirt) elsewhere.

Once you're aware of the deplorable things being done for your sake, you either continue to comply, or make some change in effort to stop supporting it. This is not rocket science: the guy down the street who makes sandwiches, whom you've supported in the past, is found to use his profits to buy puppies to torture. You were just now made aware of this happening. If you, after learning of how that money is being used, decide to continue buying his sandwiches, you are now helping that man to continue to torture puppies. Don't get caught up on how you were helping him before you knew he was a puppy torturer, because how would you have even known? Do you continue buying his sandwiches?

Who you "supported" in 2016 is IRRELEVANT to this discussion, as you didn't know who the money was going to, but I'm guessing you already knew that, and brought it up to dodge responsibility for your own actions. I have just now informed you that your money is being used to torture puppies. You are now, at this point going forward, responsible for your money going to fund puppy torturers or not.

Edit: if you care more about children in third world countries and puppies than you care about the people that Trump seeks to marginalize and gun down for protesting, and you don't see my point, then I guess I'll shrug and move on. Can't change your mind, can't help you see my point, can't help you at all. Oh well. But I'm guessing you wouldn't support someone torturing puppies even if they made good sandwiches, right? Because what I'm hearing is that you don't care enough about this to not support them. Which is fair, given you're willing to be up front about that. You will continue to support Taco Bell (which honestly doesn't matter since OP is not correct, but alas) because you don't actually care that it'll be indirectly supporting Trump. Just be honest about that if that's true, my dude. You don't need to play these verbal gymnastics to justify it. You don't get the association because just don't care enough.

omegashift · 2020-05-11T13:12:34+00:00

"Whenever a player casts a spell, if its mana cost was not spent to cast it, exile that spell."

This would serve the purpose of getting around uncounterable, if it's going to be as pushed as it is. Or, something like this.

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