All of those weapons are horrific. Agreed.

This one was not well-received in the libsphere.

They literally did the meme. “But it’s true though”.

Hey! That’s how I play Warhammer too! It’s worse when you want to play a xeno and the Tau models are the same price or even more for less models. Like fuck that.

Huh, the broken clock is right once a day I guess. Not for the right reasons anyways; personally the ban just doesn’t make sense. I say this because for the reason they banned Lotus and Crypt; plenty of others make the cut too for the same reasons. It’s the end result of a bunch of investor-ghouls running a third party rules committee that has “plausible” ties to Wizards so when shit like this happens Wizards can just shrug or keep it secret.

The Lotus ban didn’t make sense and as someone said; it’s likely to drive speculation in private interests. Mana Crypt didn’t make sense because there are far, far worse combos in terms of mana-ramping. Their excuse was they “didn’t want explosive turn-2 combos” and banned that when I can get a turn 1 voltaic key, turn 2 Sol Ring and have more mana without possibly losing 2 life from a coin-flip. Or using voltaic/manifold on mana vault and others like Basalt Monolith or Grim Monolith. Even if I don’t draw them first turn, I can just slap Trophy, Trinket, etc mages into the deck and guarantee them at some point.

Or using Krark Ironworks, Nuka Cola Machine and Manufacturer’s Academy for infinite life AND mana before turn 5.

Or banning Thassa’s Oracle. Plenty of cards that could make the cut under the same definitions and I have quite a few in mind. The One Ring is still around, which is broken in 1v1 games lmfao.

At the end of the day, while Vintage and Cube has it’s own fun; there’s a certain satisfaction walking into a LGS with a cheap Malcom, Pirate deck and blowing out 600+ dollar decks with my funny birdman. Collectors have always been a scourge and their massive money-drops don’t exactly help them get much farther if you know what you’re building. That’s why Vintage and Cube has it’s own fun though, you don’t need to be a super-duper deck master that can see every connection in your deck at once. It’s just good fun.

I think with even current, possible theoretical models of an orion drive that uses antimatter-matter reactions we would only reach around 40% at most of the speed of light. Not bad, but at 99% it would take 4 years? Not exactly sure how that would scale down.

In addition to what others said; I’ve always thought all the released footage, pictures, etc from hearings and actual government sources was a way of the U.S to flex it’s covert weapons/air programs. Civilians could never hope to access that information and get told only what they want to hear by intelligence-connected folks and other nations get to wonder either or not it’s actually U.S tech. Another person made as point that it requires immense energy to travel interstellar distances. All the footage we’ve seen of “UFOs” have been on Earth, not in space or in satellite detection.

There was a thread a while back that asked if the U.S would beat China in direct conflict. Barring nukes, I do still think China would be successful in the long run; but we’d see some insanely ghoulish shit right out of trillion dollar laboratories and whatever horrible shit is in the Pandora’s box of the M.I.C that they’re flexing right in front of us through Jet-fighter footage.

At a job I worked a long time ago, I had a supervisor who was a polejockey in the D.I.A. He was extremely, extremely tight-lipped on everything. The only thing he ever told me is that America had a vast (he heavily emphasized “vast”), sprawling complex of underground railroads and loading stations built during the Cold War in order to mask deployments or military loads from satellites or espionage. Doesn’t mean they still wont use above-ground railroads; it’s just how they hide a lot of more sensitive things.

So with that infrastructure in mind, the trillions of dollars that have been siphoned out of the Pentagon and the relative power of the M.I.C and intelligence community; I don’t doubt for one bit that 90% of what we see is just the U.S flexing their super-expensive toys.

Honestly, after having six people agree with someone telling me they’re “indifferent to what happens to me” and completely misinterpret what I said into standing up for anti-maskers, I feel you. Kind of realization to put energy and feel a kinship with people who don’t feel the same.

Lurking on hexbear might be the better option for now, I guess.

That’s part of the point. We know COVID isn’t always “severe”. That’s what is insidious about it and any other disease that could follow.

edit: not always severe as in can cause long-term issues and other plethora of afflictions instead of death. Maiming instead of killing.

Exactly. Billionaires get the wall. Where you get to do with your hands.

“I’ve already had to watch it ravage my community. There’s people I knew that don’t come around anymore. Became agoraphobic. That’s not even talking the people that did die in my community, and their families still feel those holes to this day. Most of the people in my orbit, they survived-- but not a one came away without something permanent left behind. Brainfog, asthma-resembling hacking fits, compromised immune systems, the works. I wouldn’t feel so comfortable saying what I did to someone if I didn’t already know, down to the scars at the bottoms of my lungs, what this disease does to the people who are lucky enough to have survived it”

As did I.

“Way I see it, if you’re going to be as indifferent to death as to take up for anti-maskers”

The way I see it is that you’re staring at something as brutally indifferent and deadly as disease and are advocating it upon anti-maskers who will then infect others who may, even by chance, infect people who truly do mask or take preventative measures. Nowhere am I standing up for them.

“I’m going to be indifferent to what happens to you”

So quickly. A shame. I can’t say the same. Peace to you.

Who do they spread it too? Sure, their servants or their “dogs” if you want to say that. Who do they then spread it too? It is not like a nuclear weapon; or any weapon of mass devastation even chemical. It is actual, ultimate desolation that will kill far, far more than you want to.

It is not something to toy lightly with.

The West demands more blood. Only those who serve them are rewarded.

“Why doesn’t the Arab states help?”

You can’t extract more blood from a stone.

I do want to say, wishing COVID on someone isn’t cool. I’ve lost one of my best friends to that. You have lost more. I don’t wish COVID or any disease on my worst enemies. I view it in the same breath as “biological/chemical warfare” sort of thing. There is just indifference to death. There is a reflection there that I see that I wish to avoid.

What a shit-show that thread was. For some strange reason, the warped mind runs sickeningly deep in every corner of the culture of the west. The inherent need for blood in exchange for justice that was designed through every facet of our media, our art, our relationships with each other in an fierce individualism that demands “justification” for why a person themselves should change or adjust to the conditions around them.

A design to slaughter Native-Americans, to separate the sick, the poor, the different. To make a culture where even if there is no divide, to create one. It’s something that we all must fight every day. I wanted to ask, are you leaving? I appreciated your posts.

Like you could literally link the thread posting in that SAME EXACT subreddit of a dude going “Oh my GOSH i’ve been offered to monetize people’s personal mic data! Maybe…” and then the mod posts this shit. Either a complete paid goon or just an idiot.

The most dense people I think I know.

“We have our own system, sweetie”

My favorite part of the dissonance is saying this kind of shit and we don’t even actually know how many or if Russia had lost any warheads (it’s theorized, but no official number exists) meanwhile America is like “WE’VE HAD QUITE A FEW “BROKEN ARROWS” HAHA”

In the area I was in, I was pretty much the only dumpster-diver. Was nice to not have to shop for groceries all the time.

No problem! No need too, it’s just that it’s truly bad country.