Cards that Mayael might like in HOD:
Crested Sunmare
Chaos Maw
Hour of Devastation
Neheb, the Eternal (Yeah, it's only 4 power, but that mana...)
Hour of Promise
Overcome
Sifter Wurm
Uncage the Menagerie
Samut, the Tested
Leave // Chance
Struggle // Survive
Rampaging Hippo is also an option, but more for the "It has power 5 or greater, and if you don't have enough mana, you can just cycle it." than any real reason for using it.
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I'm just concerned about men thinking they can't get HIV because they're circumcised, and women thinking they can't get HIV because the man in question's circumcised. I have exactly as much concern about it in that regard as I do about homeopathic medicine, magnets, vitamin pills, and whatever other woo is put out there.
Also, um, I never make decisions based on what I see in a porno movie.
But you're right. The people advocating circumcision are way too concerned about other people's penises. One of the lead circumcision advocates at the American Academy of Pediatrics, Edgar Schoen, publicly cited the site Circlist, a kiddie porn site that does its best not to look like a kiddie porn site.
I wouldn't consider Hero "anatomically endowed" or particularly sexualized (relative to other examples you could've used; the flavor of Bloodcrazed Neonate of a virgin just defiled because vampires = sex fits this better). Also, I assume all nudity on Mirrodin falls into the National Geographic rule, just because it's a metal world with five suns.
Rakish Heir is a male example. Or some of the Zendikar vamps. Basically most vampires that don't look like Orlok.
Those nitpicks aside, yeah, it's a cultural thing. It's an old, old convention in fantasy art, going back to Frazetta. (Dude really liked big butts.) Throw in the fact that "fantasy" makes people think of the Middle Ages (not a very enlightened time) or things like Conan (not a very enlightened author, and the pastiches aren't a very enlightened setting), and you see what I mean.
Now, for gamers themselves, you have
*the hipster bigot. Oh, you see, I'm being ironic.
*the genuine bigot. These guys are fairly rare, but they do show up. Expect this guy to hide his bigotry well. He's a misogynist, but he never uses the word cell "man" (e.g., swordsman) in a gender-neutral sense.
*the obvious virgin. You can't help but think "Yeah, while you're staring at my chest, I'll just oneshot you with this combo here."
*the white knight. This guy thinks you need protected.
*the sociopath, better known as the "nice guy". Basically this guy wants something from you. He's nice until he gets it.
*the total idiot. This is the guy who thinks "fake nerds" are really a thing. Because I saw it on a meme! Would be wonderful if these fake nerds existed, for the obvious virgin up there.
@Teia:
Yeah, "massive scrub". Oddly, in my experience, it's been more men saying "You played Squadron Hawk! No fair!" But I think what happens is that one woman becomes the
The funny thing is, I'm an Indian, so everyone who doesn't know me assumes I'll play green (or right now Selesnya or Gruul). Which is hilarious because, really, in limited, green's the color I do absolute worst with.
@Commons:
Really? The vidya seems to lower your testosterone. At best, victory boosts testosterone while defeat lowers it.
Of course, I'm not really all that into evolutionary psychology. The whole thing strikes me as "explain X in the most teleological of terms".
@Kage:
Please, don't mention "strong, female characters". What does that even mean?
@Spazik:
We're not bugs, with radically different sexual dimorphism.
Or Happyologists (if you're familiar with TV Tropes) and psych meds?
Hey, all modern medicine depends on natural selection as a theory to even make sense. Why don't we just say Evangelicals can go back to bloodletting and imbibing mercury and arsenic?
Libertarians are your standard stopped clock, really. Yeah, they're wrong about oh-so-much (They are, after all, essentially Social Darwinists.), but they understand, better than the center of Washington, why drones are a Bad Idea.
But it's nice to see the filibuster actually being used. I mean, you see Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, but you never actually see a filibuster.
Anyway, the game goes on for an hour, then ends in a draw. Unless one of you concedes.
The Orange Farm Study also developed an odd protocol not to tell the men who seroconverted that they seroconverted because the men might fear the "stigma" of being HIV-positive. (One: I'm pretty sure the stigma is no excuse not to tell the patient himself. Confidentiality is a thing. Two: I'd be more worried about being Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds than an HIV issue. Three: lolwut, it's inherently unethical not to tell an HIV-positive patient his test results came back positive; why would you go for an HIV test if not to know if you were HIV-positive?) That worked so well in Tuskegee, so why not?
Finally, they decided at the end (really the middle) of the study to circumcise everyone because the benefit was so "dramatic [sic]" that it would be unethical to not offer every man the option, never mind that it was statistically nonsignificant.
All of this in a world where condoms exist.
These circumcision campaigns have, as predicted by yours truly, led to circumcised men simply having a lot more sexual partners. Lovely.
@Commons:
My bigger issue is that it's nonsense going into AIDS groups. That, and that the study's authors went through a lot of weirdness: Lancet won't take it, so go ahead anyway (You already started the study anyway, so why not?) and publish in PLOS (which prints literally anything). The advocates remind me of nothing more than "integrative medicine" woo.
Cue men going on a johnning spree (Is that a term? It is now. I officially coin the term "johnning spree" to describe "the tendency, after being told one is immune to HIV infection, engage in risk compensation") in Africa. It's already happening in Malawi.
Meanwhile those of us who prefer that our medicine be scientific in nature accidentallied an infant girl's AIDS last year.
But to call Hillary or Oprah a "feminist" is weird. Also, I just think it's similar to how Lysenko got the communists to deny heredity. That doesn't, of course, mean that things were hunky-dorey for the working class. (God, did I just use "hunky-dorey"?) It just means politicians aren't scientists.
Yeah, it only refers to mitochondrial DNA and Y chromosomes, which can trace unilineal lines in mammals. There's actually a genetic Eve and Adam alive today, but only because of the way human breeding patterns are: Eventually one guy's patrilineal line will be the only one having sons.
Individual populations have the same thing. Many Jews with names like Cohen or Kahn or Kahane have a specific Y chromosome, for instance. Which would go a lot farther for creationists than just talking about genetic Eve.
Hilariously enough, Hitler was Catholic, and really, everything he did was the antithesis of the whole "above good and evil" ethos, a huge part of which is, surprise, surprise, trusting your own convictions rather than society's. (But then again, most people don't get nihilism right anyway; it's the YOLO of the 19th century.)
When people say teaching the Bible in schools, though, they're referring most likely to "creation science [sic]". Now called "intelligent design". It'll soon be "sudden emergence". Whatever you call it, teaching biology without evolution is like teaching physics without the laws of thermodynamics, or astronomy without the speed of light.
Actually, the idea of getting sex-related stuff for your own kid seems to fall into
Alice: What if a boy wants a stripper for his 16th birthday?
Bob: No.
Alice: But it's for my son.
Bob: Well, that's different. Then no way in hell should you ever even consider this.
Oh, that's cute. I once was dumped by a girl for some superficial stuff, so I said "And in response, I dump you for having that as your dealbreaker because my dealbreaker is shallow twits."
Then I proceeded to make a deck showcasing copy effects for the next night. (My study group plays Magic to figure out how to split the pizza bill.)
Yeah, the difficult thing is explaining that cancer is genetic (in the most literal sense of the word), but preventable.
The basic reasons are
1) Medicine has become so successful at eliminating infection as a major cause of death, and agriculture has become so successful at eliminating starvation as a major cause of death. (The biggest issues re: world hunger are distribution: The obese now outnumber the hungry.) Eventually, your protooncogenes will happen across the right mutations to give you cancer on their own.
2) Lifestyle changes. If you smoke, work in a mine, or live near an industrial district or over a uranium vein, you're at risk of lung cancer. If you go out in the sun, especially if you have light skin or live in the tropics, skin cancer. If you're overweight, you're at risk for a number of cancers. (Basically any cancer linked to insulinlike growth factor.) I could go on.
Also, the danger with archaeological evidence is biased samples. And I'd like to see further evidence of aging. I mean, Tutankhamun was still in his teens when he died.
Close. Telomeres do have major implications in cancer, but not the way you're thinking. When a healthy cell divides, its daughter cells have shorter telomeres. When the telomeres no longer exist, the cell stops dividing. This doesn't happen in cancer cells, and barring something killing them (such as excision, radiation, or a number of toxic chemicals that cancer cells absorb more easily) or their host dying, they're immortal.
But at least you're not one of the people who thinks human growth hormone can cure cancer. Somehow.
Yeah, but Seedborn Muse likes the Poacher just a bit more.
Also, I really, really like Seedborn Muse. The only way to make her better is to use her with Yeva, Nature's Herald or Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir.
Um, seals and spellbombs. If you're playing white, Sun Titan really loves these guys.
And of course, Kaalia of the Vast has an angel, demon, and (one of these things is not like the others) dragon tribal theme.
Beyond that, it's mostly ones where tribal interactions are more hidden. For instance, Doran, the Siege Tower is a wall/spider/treefolk/elephant tribal (i.e., creature types with a high toughness) general (though he also likes Karn), while Kresh the Bloodbraided has a slight tribal theme (mostly ball lightning variants and evoke) and a goblin and zombie theme. Animar, Soul of Elements has an affinity for the construct, golem, eldrazi, and myr tribes.
Others like Ghave, Guru of Spores fit the saproling, germ, and eldrazi spawn tribes (and whatever other tribes have a lot of junk tokens).
@Glissa: Some shapeshifters do. Actually, one of the most awesome things you can do in multiplayer is Coat of Arms with changelings. "Yeah, it's like Keldon Warlord, only it doesn't stop with just my guys. Oh, and you all get an anthem too."