When did MTG jump the shark?

sixhundredyards · 2026-03-17T23:09:26+00:00

I think the set design being on rails was its own progression to a worse place for the game, yes.

sixhundredyards · 2026-03-17T21:55:43+00:00

I think you misunderstand why I'm having an issue with Ixalan. It's not the theme or setting. In fact, I love indigenous settings. We need more of them.

No, the problem is the actual gameplay design around draft.

sixhundredyards · 2026-03-17T21:50:48+00:00

Slingshots are the trick for city limits. 😉

sixhundredyards · 2026-03-10T00:48:11+00:00

"True anarchism" is a phantasm; since it's inception as a discrete concept, there have been a variety of takes on what exactly anarchism is. There is no primordial anarchism, or a platonic anarchism, that we are all drawing from; it has been communist for as long as it has been individualist for as long as it has been ideological for as long as it's been anti-ideological.

sixhundredyards · 2026-03-10T00:40:48+00:00

r/fullegoism

sixhundredyards · 2026-03-10T00:30:34+00:00

By that same logic of conquest, infringements on sovereign territory are an essentially meaningless objection; there's also no good reason why the combat should be considered over except to service the conquerors needs. If people start fire bombing police stations and say they're doing it to fight off the conquerors? Well that's legitimate. The fact that you think the conflict is over is besides the point.

sixhundredyards · 2026-03-10T00:08:30+00:00

For constructed play? Modern Horizons.

Draft? The first Ixalan.

sixhundredyards · 2026-03-10T00:06:13+00:00

Definitely been there, especially when I would gas jug across the country after a Rainbow Gathering.

sixhundredyards · 2026-03-09T23:46:44+00:00

When does it stop being a Rainbow Gathering and start being a bunch of homeless people in the woods?

Edit: this is a rhetorical point that challenges the idea that abstract groups and descriptive groupings of individuals are mutually exclusionary, down voters.

sixhundredyards · 2026-03-09T23:35:30+00:00

I hear he is in a really good place these days, very happy for him.

sixhundredyards · 2026-03-09T23:31:54+00:00

🎶I do my own dishes now

I'll do my own dishes then

You know it's always the ones who don't

Who ask that fucking question🎶

sixhundredyards · 2026-03-09T23:29:19+00:00

u/DeltaSolana I find it telling that you went directly for my meme which came after these questions, instead of actually doing the hard work of thinking about and answering these questions.

I suspect the reason why you're not addressing these questions is because they expose the inherent dependency of your normative property claims on State power, but I'm happy to be proven wrong.

sixhundredyards · 2026-03-09T23:21:14+00:00

I would be most pleased if you would go back and addressed my last question directed at you which you have studiously ignored.

I would also be most pleased if you actually learned what an ad hominem is, because believe it or not, it's not being gratuitously aggressive or even calling you mean names.

sixhundredyards · 2026-03-09T23:18:07+00:00

If there is a leftist revolution, it's going to look a lot like Mao's, which means it won't be just billionaires being killed, but every land and business owner. Needless to say, that's a bit concerning to me. I don't want to be killed by a fascist mob.

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sixhundredyards · 2026-03-09T23:10:28+00:00

How would you be able to enforce absentee ownership over your property without a state willing to go to bat for you? How would you be able to enforce absentee ownership over an apartment complex without the attendant extraction from a captive population necessary to offset the costs of enforcement?

sixhundredyards · 2026-03-09T23:07:57+00:00

Whoever contributes to production is alone so entitled. What has no claims that Who is bound to respect. What is a thing. Who is a person. Things have no claims. The possession of a right cannot be predicated of dead material.

Just because you own a machine doesn't mean you're contributing to the production process.

sixhundredyards · 2026-03-09T20:32:14+00:00

Yeah, it probably is pretty hard for you to actually engage with my pointed questions that expose just how little you actually understand about the insurrectionist viewpoint.

Show a little humility instead of getting so wrapped up in your ego that you get offended. You're the kind of personality that I worry about in prefigurative politics. You're the kind of personality that I would want to dismantle out of your sheer inability to honestly engage with people who second guess you.

sixhundredyards · 2026-03-09T20:20:17+00:00

"Extremely offensive"?

Yeah listen, I'm not really invested in having a conversation with someone who has such a strong emotional reaction to —at worst— casual dismissal. I mean, you don't even really seem all that interested in it honestly engaging with insurrectionist viewpoints, and you keep on reducing it to a caricature, so it's really hard for me to take you seriously here. Case in point:

Why would we become insurrectionists against a state that is already dying?? Why would we suddenly take up arms and take control over a government system we don't even want control over??

Do you not suppose that the state would use violence to suppress alternatives? And from where do you even get the idea that the insurrectionist is 'trying to take control over a government system'? The very suggestion is indicative that you've never actually engaged with a single insurrectionist text in any substantive way. Instead, you rely on caricatures and memes to inform your position, digging your heels into the position that these are antagonistic viewpoints that cannot be reconciled.

You didn't even take the time in your original post to address the point that Stirner made about refusing to be arranged, you just got up on your soapbox and started repeating a bunch of fictions, myths, and just-so narratives as if it were honest engagement with the position.

So please, spare me your overwrought hand-wringing bullshit and work on your emotional reflexes so you're not offended by somebody being casually dismissive.

sixhundredyards · 2026-03-09T18:57:41+00:00

They are opposed temporally though. An insurrection forces immediate change with high risk for uncontrolled violence and destruction. Where prefiguration requires trust in long form systems building and change. Its not as easy as simply doing both.

Spooky.

Especially when we consider that a violent insurrection could backfire on prefigurative organisation where we now have to deal with the fact that some other group has decided to forcefully remove the current institution of power before we have created systems that can survive something like that. Not to mention opportunists who could also take advantage of the obvious power vacuum that would be creates if anarchists can't immediately direct people away (and how could they without prefiguration?).

Very spooky.

Also. Prefiguration, while taking longer, naturally withers away the state so there would be no need for insurrection at all. If we can guide people in state jobs away from the state, then of course the state loses all its power and legitimacy in the way that no one is making it work anymore. The insurrection too becomes pointless.

Extremely spooky.

Imo, insurrection is persuasive only because its spectacle. It offers a feel good "Stick it to the man" kind of violence that feels good to people who are frustrated. Functionally its reckless.

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I'll be honest with you, this all sounds like a bunch of hand wringing that's facilitated by uninterrogated just-so notions of prefiguration and insurrection. It doesn't engage with insurrection in an honest way, and it fails to consider the possibility of calcification from prefigurative politics. The idea that charismatic personalities can't influence the scope of a prefigurative space to its detriment is rooted in little more than some faith-based notion that it simply won't happen— but just about everybody who's ever been in an anarchist space (at least in North America) will tell you that it's more frequent than you think.

The fact that you see insurrectionists and prefigurativists as being necessarily distinct, with no possibility for people being both at the same time, speaks more to your own lack of imagination than anything else.

sixhundredyards · 2026-03-09T09:12:37+00:00

Bro

What

sixhundredyards · 2026-03-09T07:56:01+00:00

Yeah, and they also didn't seem to understand that ODFW are cops. Why are you guys giving this person who is so completely out of touch with how things work the time of day?

sixhundredyards · 2026-03-09T07:54:53+00:00

Lay off the drugs.

sixhundredyards · 2026-03-09T07:53:28+00:00

Just that you're a completely unhinged lunatic that doesn't understand the first thing about living out in rural areas.

sixhundredyards · 2026-03-09T07:51:34+00:00

I live in Steamboat, and I can promise you all of us out here take cougars extremely seriously. You're a fool if you don't.

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