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Ate My Balls Redux posted:Wow I feel like this makes your tantrum about taking the piss out of the deck make a lot more sense I play Nexus sometimes. I play a bunch of decks. lol @ tantrum. I probably said something lovely to you and for that I'm sorry, I just find performative anger over decks super 
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Esper control is just nutty right now. It basically only loses to nailing your first 15 consecutive land drops Edit: which it is super good at doing. Always surveil lands off the top A Moose fucked around with this message at 22:33 on May 10, 2019 |
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May 10, 2019 22:31
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A Moose posted:Esper control is just nutty right now. It basically only loses to nailing your first 15 consecutive land drops Sometimes it loses to opposing planeswalker decks, which are typically also Esper but sometimes are Bant.
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May 10, 2019 22:34
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Owlbear Camus posted:Instead I'll ask: pen and paper for life totals, phone charger, refillable water bottle unless you're packing a shitload of juice, something to do between rounds (book, play on your phone, whatever) fake edit: oh poo poo someone already responded
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May 10, 2019 22:35
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A big flaming stink posted:at the risk of ruining some "sick ownz" about to be had I think we can acknowledge both that the deception involved in carrying on an affair while your wife is pregnant with your first child is way more traumatic than mainstream culture likes to acknowledge Are you basing this on anything besides the likely cheating? Emotionally abusive has a pretty specific meaning - using emotional attacks to control/dominate a relationship and the other person in it, like a physically abusive person would use physical violence, and it usually involves gaslighting. I agree that cheating on a pregnant wife is incredibly traumatic, lovely, etc. but I don't think that makes it emotionally abusive in and of itself.
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May 10, 2019 22:44
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im sorry guys, the reason you haent been refunded for the planeswalker thing is cause the money went to make a uh... "trailer remix" set to a song by some band ive never heard of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ40eZ8WcV0
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May 10, 2019 22:46
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Hellsau posted:Sometimes it loses to opposing planeswalker decks, which are typically also Esper but sometimes are Bant. It may lose against those, but the cause of the losses is drawing 12 lands in 8 turns.
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May 10, 2019 22:48
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mandatory lesbian posted:im sorry guys, the reason you haent been refunded for the planeswalker thing is cause the money went to make a uh... "trailer remix" set to a song by some band ive never heard of I had to click through to see if this was on the official page and not a joke Edit: The Mountain Goats just did a D&D album and I think the lead guy plays MTG, get them to do a follow-up album
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May 10, 2019 22:49
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mandatory lesbian posted:im sorry guys, the reason you haent been refunded for the planeswalker thing is cause the money went to make a uh... "trailer remix" set to a song by some band ive never heard of we made fun of the linkin park cover but lol is this someone at wizards or their nephew's bar band? come on.
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May 10, 2019 22:58
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Owlbear Camus posted:we made fun of the linkin park cover but lol is this someone at wizards or their nephew's bar band? come on. I'm guessing it was a big hit at the office, between D&D and Magic, probably 95 percent of WOTC employees are metal fans.
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May 10, 2019 23:13
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Owlbear Camus posted:we made fun of the linkin park cover but lol is this someone at wizards or their nephew's bar band? come on. He's a Swedish concept artist whose albums tell an alternate history story of, "What if the American slaves had turned to devil worship and revolted?"
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May 10, 2019 23:38
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https://twitter.com/bens_mtg/status/1126903971182972928?s=21 Make sure to watch this dumpster fire before it gets deleted.
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May 10, 2019 23:41
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admanb posted:I play Nexus sometimes. I play a bunch of decks. What makes anger "performative?"
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May 10, 2019 23:45
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mandatory lesbian posted:im sorry guys, the reason you haent been refunded for the planeswalker thing is cause the money went to make a uh... "trailer remix" set to a song by some band ive never heard of
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May 10, 2019 23:48
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insertdumbnamehere posted:He's a Swedish concept artist whose albums tell an alternate history story of, "What if the American slaves had turned to devil worship and revolted?" I wish he'd told that story in a book or a comic or something because it sounds badass.
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May 10, 2019 23:53
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hmmmm... why would WOTC comment publicly on a ban for cheating at Magic that occurred during a high-profile event... and not on allegations of sexual harassment that may be currently implicated in a legal action... it must be Race
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May 10, 2019 23:56
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Ate My Balls Redux posted:What makes anger "performative?" not sure if this is a real question, but just in case when the anger isn't just a venting of frustration, but a publicity-stunt to help sculpt your social image, then it becomes performative.
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May 11, 2019 00:00
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Sickening posted:https://twitter.com/bens_mtg/status/1126903971182972928?s=21 He definitely has lots of bad takes but he's fine here.
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May 11, 2019 00:01
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It's true I want to solidify my social standing in the MTG thread, a true opener of doors
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Owlbear Camus posted:I wish he'd told that story in a book or a comic or something because it sounds badass.
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May 11, 2019 00:13
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Marketing New Brain posted:He definitely has lots of bad takes but he's fine here. I agree. Threads like that can’t ever stay civil or rational though.
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May 11, 2019 00:20
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mandatory lesbian posted:im sorry guys, the reason you haent been refunded for the planeswalker thing is cause the money went to make a uh... "trailer remix" set to a song by some band ive never heard of This is bad. It's very very bad. I like to think of that "You're not the smartest guy in the room anymore" anecdote everytime wotc, or any corporation really, does the dumbest possible poo poo.
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May 11, 2019 00:37
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Marketing New Brain posted:He definitely has lots of bad takes but he's fine here. You think takes like "Yuuya did nothing wrong" or that "Owen is being framed by a vengeful ex" are less dumb than thinking there might be a racial element to WotC's communication on both issues? I mean I don't think there is, personally, but I'm not going to go out there and declare that thinking there is is the dumbest possibile thing.
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May 11, 2019 00:46
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just dropping this excellent shop of ben shapiro here
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May 11, 2019 00:49
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ptroll posted:Every game I've ever played against Simic Nexus is an unstoppable steamroll for one of us, no middle ground. I think I hate it more than any other matchup because it feels like playing war with a deck of playing cards. Play UW/Jeskai Superfriends and land Smolferi and Narset on curve and then just... collect the tears. Bonus: Smolferi can bounce both Azcanta and Wilderness Rec. If you're playing UW with Callous Dismissal then with his +1 you can bounce them as an Instant for additional fuckery Dovin makes Chemister's cost 5, Dovin + Kasmina makes Blink of an Eye cost 5 or 7 with kicker. It's hilarious.
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https://twitter.com/RossHunneds/status/1126969023504240641 Hahaha and you thought Ben Stark wasn't a loving tool
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May 11, 2019 01:26
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east asians aren't poc and if we were Ross would have to listen to me saying "lol Yuuya deserved it"
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I don't feel like there's a lot of anti-Japanese animus in MTG. If anything I think theres a lot of overlap with the weeb community.
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At the risk of picking nits about language, am I the only one who thinks "faithfully and dutifully" are weird-sounding choices of adjectives here? "Respectfully" or "thoughtfully" are what I would probably have gone for; "faithfully" and "dutifully" immediately make me think of a fundamentalist type talking about women's duties to their husbands, or something. And of course it's just generally dumb to respond to "here are my conclusions based on the facts we know about a situation and reasonable conjectures as to somebody's motives; where do you think I'm going wrong?" with "well you'd be right 50% of the time just by flipping a coin". Even if you think Stark is missing something (possible), it's a non sequitur.
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JerryLee posted:At the risk of picking nits about language, am I the only one who thinks "faithfully and dutifully" are weird-sounding choices of adjectives here? "Respectfully" or "thoughtfully" are what I would probably have gone for; "faithfully" and "dutifully" immediately make me think of a fundamentalist type talking about women's duties to their husbands, or something. That's not what it's in response to. This is partially my fault for not linking the full twitter thread - the impetuous for Ross saying that is Ben saying this https://twitter.com/BenS_MTG/status/1126960842292047872 He's basically saying that as a white person, he can make the executive decision on whether or not something is racist. Ross is saying that no, he can't do that - his opinion on the matter has absolutely no bearing on whether or not it's racist, as he is essentially the definition of privilege.
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Ben is essentially taking the position that the Heritage Foundation might be onto something
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Sampatrick posted:He's basically saying that as a white person, he can make the executive decision on whether or not something is racist.
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Soooooo, the interaction between Oath of Kaya and Small Teferi is disgusting and Esper Midrange is probably the best deck right now.
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muon posted:this is an extremely narrow and uncharitable read of his tweet and thus perfect for you to post on twitter instead Sure, those definitely aren't literally the words he's typing on twitter lmao
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how's the tcg player app for scanning cards? any better alternatives? gonna catalog my collection this weekend
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Eej posted:Play UW/Jeskai Superfriends and land Smolferi and Narset on curve and then just... collect the tears. To be clear I'm not having problems beating them, boarding in four duress and four Davriels tends to revoke their card-playing license pretty quick. It's just the outcome doesn't feel up to me. My game plan outside of any discard is just play around nothing and smack face as fast as possible. It's like a DPS check if you're not specifically running lil Teferi.
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Marketing New Brain posted:Soooooo, the interaction between Oath of Kaya and Small Teferi is disgusting and Esper Midrange is probably the best deck right now. What interaction?
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Magic Underwear posted:What interaction? Play your removal, bounce your removal to draw a card, play your removal again.
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TheKingofSprings posted:Play your removal, bounce your removal to draw a card, play your removal again. Alternatively, play Oath, minus Teferi, play Oath in order to shoot six points up stairs. Esper is gr8.
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the fundamental point that “WOTC is probably talking about the magic cheater a lot more than the possible sexual predator for non-race-related reasons” is correct ben s is way, way past that, though, and I have no desire to join him on the limb he’s dancing on.
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