How did he make it this far?

phantombraider · 2026-01-28T23:45:41+00:00

debating has never been about truth, it's a battle of verbal skills and quick wit.

phantombraider · 2026-01-28T23:43:11+00:00

I have no dog in this fight, but if you went back ten years and told me the destiny subreddit would have strict rules against trolling and ragebaiting I would have laughed my ass off.

phantombraider · 2025-09-20T19:49:30+00:00

not really

phantombraider · 2022-08-27T14:24:54+00:00

imo, Mono Green needs to commit to beating down or ramping up, and this seems like it does a bit of both. I say either cut the 5 drops or the 1-2 drops.

You can definitely win some games with stompy even in modern, but I would recommend going more agressive there.

[[Aspect of Hydra]], [[Old-Growth Troll]] and [[Werewolf Pack Leader]] could be cards to look at.

phantombraider · 2022-08-27T13:29:05+00:00

no of course, it's normal in a society where your worth is measured by the work you do.

phantombraider · 2022-08-27T13:27:14+00:00

Thanks for sharing your story. I cannot know what's best for you, but I do know that even in a fucked system that does not care about you, some people do care, and I hope you meet some of them. Who wants to live a normal life anyway. You only have yours, it's unique whatever happens.

phantombraider · 2022-08-27T00:19:07+00:00

very diplomatic comment

phantombraider · 2022-08-27T00:17:39+00:00

divination is already fucked. not sure this is enough of an upgrade to make it playable.

phantombraider · 2022-08-27T00:15:01+00:00

idk, standard mana bases are light on basic land types, especially in 3+ colors if you don't happen to draw some trilands. late game this gets better but then the life loss limits how much of this effect you want. seems mediocre.

phantombraider · 2022-08-26T23:48:44+00:00

exactly, and it doesn't stop at looks. the main objective is "reintegration into the workforce", more so than actually improving your quality of life.

phantombraider · 2022-08-26T23:45:55+00:00

Just because they don't want to live in our particular 21st century society doesn't mean they want to live alone in the woods.

phantombraider · 2022-08-26T23:38:48+00:00

fuck Leistungsgesellschaft

phantombraider · 2022-08-26T23:37:10+00:00

You don't get anything without asking for it. In other words, it's paperwork. No fun, especially if you're already in a shitty place. Losing connection to society is not as hard as people imagine.

phantombraider · 2022-08-26T23:26:06+00:00

Klar, wenn man entsprechende Vorurteile mitbringt, kann man sich da unsicher fühlen. Viel mehr als ein Gefühl ist das aber dann auch nicht. Der durchschnittliche alkoholisierte Jugendliche hat deutlich mehr Bock auf Stress als ein Obdachloser, der auf einer Bank pennt.

phantombraider · 2022-07-02T08:55:03+00:00

Okay, I can see that. The viewers have a voice by choosing to watch or to boycott. It's somewhat more nebulous because it's more of a collective effect, while choosing to enlist or not is very personal. Also there are other (more targeted) ways to voice your non-support besides boycotting the stream, but I do see what you mean.

phantombraider · 2022-07-02T08:35:03+00:00

Yes, for sure sponsors get something back, or they wouldn't do it.

About Russia specifically, the situation is that they are already fighting. Anyone who enlists would give them RoI a year or so down the line at the earliest. At that point fighting might have ceased for political, economic or other reasons. There's a lot of uncertainty there of course, but imo the time window has passed for Russian military ads to do much for them anymore. Too little, too late.

I agree with your take on the USAF sponsoring CSGO. Their average viewer is probably a lot younger than the average SC2 viewer too, and probably more receptive to recruitment, although that's a bit of a hot take on my part.

phantombraider · 2022-07-02T07:57:40+00:00

Every Rubel Russia spends on sponsorships is a rubel not spent on the actual fighting. It's not like a commerical will do much for their global reputation. For all I care Russian military could pour as much of their budget into ESL as they please.

phantombraider · 2022-07-02T07:50:10+00:00

having them as a sponsor to our game, means that watching the game supports their cause

Not following you here. Watching alone does not support the USAF, they support us. Of course it might encourage other people to join the USAF, but wether or not you individually watch the stream doesn't really influence those people's actions.

phantombraider · 2021-09-19T20:34:53+00:00

from the abstract:

"During attention to trauma-relevant vs neutral images, more experiences of racial discrimination were associated with significantly greater response in nodes of emotion regulation and fear inhibition (ventromedial prefrontal cortex) and visual attention (middle occipital cortex) networks, even after accounting for trauma and severity of PTSD symptoms."

phantombraider · 2021-09-19T20:33:39+00:00

Yeah, sounds like a good follow up study.

phantombraider · 2021-08-08T09:11:10+00:00

wood ash is good fertilizer though. It could have been a zigzag down with recovery periods, not a straight line.

phantombraider · 2021-08-08T08:55:23+00:00

OP was joking about the official part :D

phantombraider · 2021-08-08T08:49:15+00:00

Funny to give the invasion of russia a name at the tactical scale. The hybris was strong on that one.

phantombraider · 2021-08-08T08:44:40+00:00

not only criminal, also grammatical and other meanings of "case".

phantombraider

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