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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Again, evolve depends heavily on everything going right (or hedging your bets with blinking, populate, or the like). And it has dyssynergy with bloodrush, which this deck's using a lot of. (Every creature you bloodrush can't trigger evolve. A minor quibble, but it can make a big deal.) Croc's biggest pro is that it's an X/3, which means it can evolve your Simic Fluxmage, Cloudfin Raptor, Simic Manipulator, Experiment One, Gyre Sage, Fathom Mage, or Shambleshark. You...really don't want it if you're not playing evolve.
But to say it's the best green common...only demonstrates why green's invisible to me in most drafts.
It's ideological definition (belief that one race is inherently superior to another) versus pragmatic definition (the above, plus the power to do something about it).
What I mean is, they're charming (how they get victims), incapable of seeing beyond personal consequences (hence the "she wanted it" excuses), and above all, petty and selfish (they're only in it for an orgasm, not an actual hatred of women, but they so little of their victims that they do what they do).
Yeah, it's just that being a sexual abuse victim and all, I have a certain personal stake when I see pedophiles going all out and proud in the media and nobody calls them on it.
True, but IIRC, Commons is American.
When CNN starts saying how their lives are over from the verdict.
Yeah, um, how about don't rape! And especially don't tweet about rape while you're raping! PROTIP: If you commit a crime, you don't want to create more evidence that can be used to charge you.
Also, "we thought she was dead" just makes you look like even more of a sexual deviant. But hey, at that point, you have no refuge save for audacity.
In this case, someone who would like to return to the "good old days", whenever that is.
Of course everyone is capable of it, but in cases of "antidiscrimination" laws, everyone knows it's about affirmative action.
Look at how it is with Indians. Elizabeth Warren (and this shows how quickly the Right can lose the moral high ground) demonstrates perfectly that older people will still hire a white candidate whenever they can.
Hell, had Ward Churchill not Godwin'd 9/11 victims, I don't think the mainstream media would've picked up on his whiteness, though it was fairly well-known.
>anthropomorphism
We can observe reproduction in non-human animals, but we can't very well say that applies to humans, simply because our three closest relatives have such widely different mating strategies. We can conclude that humans, like most mammals, have males larger than females, and that this may well indicate that males traditionally had more mates than females did. But the size of human genitalia, and concealed ovulation, could indicate that females did have multiple mates.
But to say...Since infanticide and postpartum depression exist, and since rape victims are already going through emotional issues before that postpartum depression, and since high infant mortality was common until fairly recently, rape is a lousy mating strategy.
Define "natural maleness" then.
o rly?
Men do interrupt more, though.
Or cultural factors keep them away from politics. You can't just say there's a "running for Congress" gene.
Define "sexy clothing". I mean, when I was sick once, the fever had me in my room, naked except for putting on some shorts when I left my room or when someone came in, AC on full blast, eating popsicles all day, and we know body temperature is different at different points of the menstrual cycle. And again, remember, nothing is more boring to the libido than total nudity.
On this topic of sexualization, anyone hear about how Western feminists are complaining about a Pakistani woman being photographed naked, with a Qur'an near her vulva as a form of protest? The photo cuts off her head, which they thought of as "sexualization", rather than, I don't know, protecting her from retaliation.
"Patriarchy" technically means "rule by older males". That's why I take a particular exception to the use of the word, since American society has done everything to eradicate the extended family.
Nudists don't usually go naked in places where it's not legal to do so. However, street nudity is a tradition in San Francisco's Castro district, but it's male nudity. (It is a gay village, after all.)
But yeah, she's either mentally disturbed or running from someone or something. But it's not a very good way of going about inviting dudes to sleep with you.
Two-thirds of online gamers are women, but they pretend to be men or avoid male-dominated games entirely and (naturally) stay off of Ventrilo because of our "TITS or GTFO!" bull****.
4chan is no way to go through life, people.
Whatever the case, you have to admit, once it got on, wow, Reddit again, it went too far. (No offense to any Redditors here, of course, but Reddit has a history of escalating conflicts.)
I'd even argue that in EDH, green might be a little better than blue at card draw. Jade Mage + Skullclamp anyone? Fecundity can be thrown on this combo. Then you have ones like Hunter's Insight. Toss a Trailblazer's Boots on a big enough critter, cast Hunter's Insight, and have fun.
Also Collective Unconscious and Grim Flowering. Green card draw tends to scale, and in a format where everything is bigger, things that scale get really big.
And the only creatures with reach that shine are either 1) above curve, or 2) for reasons other than reach. *cough*Sylvan Primordial*cough* Hence, reach is irrelevant.
But the most important thing is that the OP is passing on a lot of removal, always a mistake in this format.
People actually were glad Zendikar didn't have that much multicolor.
What happened was that people interpreted hybrid as multicolor. Hybrid is a modular mechanic, in some ways more like artifacts, compared to multicolor. (That is, a Lightning Helix locks you in both red and white, while a Duergar Hedge-Mage locks you in red or white. Artifacts, of course, don't lock you in anything.)
But players were used to each block focusing on a different thing than the old block.
But more than anything, it belongs in a pillowfort deck, though it can be used in some Rafiq of the Many variants with Dueling Grounds.
A certain meme comes to mind. Less funny when you realize the dude who used that phrase said one of his friends was trying to kill him, everyone thought he was just being lulzy as usual, and then...said friend killed him.
Anyway, for me, Pestilence. It's particularly bad when paired with Vigor.
Really? It gets rid of one land, and it can grab only one land (and a forest at that, so none of the Gaea's Cradle Tron Post shenanigans possible with Primeval). It's a 6/8 that doesn't have trample, so its body is less-than-ideal. And TBH, I like Diluvian and Sepulchral more.
Land destruction is only unfun when you have dozens of LD spells, and going from 8 to 12 mana isn't that big of a deal unless you're playing a general like Riku, already have your Izzet Guildmage out, and are planning a mega-Comet Storm.
tl;dr: It's good, but not as busted as you think.
Um, no. Power creep comes in cycles. Urza block was broken; Mercadian Masques was underpowered. Mirrodin block was broken; Kamigawa was underpowered, and nobody seriously believes anything printed today is equal to Raffinity in sheer bustedness.
I would disagree on this point. Vorinclex and Jin-Gitaxias at least are evil enough to attract a lot of hate: Jin-Gitaxias for putting players who don't have a Reliquary Tower or the like in permanent topdeck mode, and Vorinclex for bookkeeping. Elesh Norn and Sheoldred are slightly less so, and Urabrask less still.
Called Team America, Junk, Bug, Rug, and lol nobody plays wbr 'round these parts.
MaRo's said he wants to do a wedge block, though I'm guessing it won't be soon. (Shadowmoor-Alara made a lot of players angry.)
The problem I have with ****walk is, well, this summarizes it better. On a personal note, I distinctly remember reading Erikson's Childhood and Society once where a missionary claimed Sioux fathers taught their sons masturbation (what is this i dont even), and now we know at least some of those missionaries were pedophiles; I even imagine pedophiles were shipped off to reservations specifically because Indians are invisible. Erikson himself was skeptical of the claim, but subsequent citers of Erikson were uncritical of the idea.
I'll say it again, rapists are sociopaths. Something's wrong when the Steubenville kids think she's dead, sleep with her and urinate on her, and think that's a good reason that they're not rapists.
Society does, however, have an effect. In the case of Steubenville, it's because football is srs bzns there, so the people tweeting in support of the Steubenville rapists are somehow convinced the kids are the next Nelson Mandela. Yeah, I'm sure a girl would pass out, get raped, and tell the cops just to ruin your football team.
I've posted this before.
Quaintance, head of the Gilgal Society, used to be on this skeptic group I was on on Delphi Forums, turning everything toward discussion of circumcision. The group's now defunct, but I've kept in touch with a few of them. That's where I know him from. I'll bet I know what was happening on that porn site.
Another pro-circumcision campaigner, Daniel Halperin (PhD in anthropology and Latin American studies, but sadly nothing medical), I can't find the link, listed three "good" sites in an interview: Quaintance's, Brian Morris's (more on him in a bit), and Circlist.
Circlist is a site just north of legality; it doesn't show any images of children in sex acts, but it does have "erotic stories" about underage boys being circumcised, a selfies section, the usual misinformation (Japanese circumcision? Aztec circumcision? lulz!), and a few image macros about how "high and tight" (presumably not hair) "looks so good and feels so right". I won't tell you the password, but it's a ****ty Java dialog box, so a five-year-old can click "View" and "Source". (You'd think their mod, Jake Waskett, would've known websites were open-source.) But Circlist will make you definitely not want to be procirc.
Morris has a whole page dedicated to circumcision. Same old **** as Circlist, really. But it includes a humor section, which did make me laugh, but not for the reason he wanted. Including a Pussycat Dolls filk "Doncha wish your boyfriend was circumcised?", some old, old jokes, a picture of a baby boy with a cell phone over his *****, and some, ahem, "quaint" poetry.
Morris has a friend, Jake Waskett, a software engineer who until recently edited the circumcision article on Wikipedia, and any article related to circumcision, and also the apotemnophilia and acrotomophilia articles for some reason. (Apotemnophilia and acrotomophilia refer to two different amputee paraphilias: Respectively, they refer to fetishes for the amputee and the act of amputation.) For a while, you couldn't even use the phrase "having a baby" online without Waskett showing up. (I'm convinced he's a basement-dweller just for how prolific he is in writing about circumcision in blog comments.) He's been appearing a lot with Morris in his articles recently.
Edgar Schoen, another circumcision proponent who was on the Penn & Teller show (See, going on a show called Bull****!, and you don't expect they chose you because you sound like a loony?), also cites Circlist!
You can go through the list. Bertran Auvert and Robert Bailey also have Gilgal links, and they're also involved in "circumcision prevents AIDS". Pretty heavily, actually. Auvert's the one behind the Orange Farm study, often used, which involves some pretty big bioethical issues (They didn't tell the subjects when they tested positive, and the study was ended prematurely.) And oh yeah, we're talking about 64 versus 137 seroconversions in a study of over ten thousand men. Bailey actually admitted having to consult with the men about HIV, and give them condoms, to stop risk compensation. (Which, um, if they're using condoms and minimizing their sexual partners, there you go.)
Besides the Gilgal Society, there's also the Acorn Society and the Cutting Club.
So yes, when I say child pornography, I mean child pornography. This site sent me back to when I was 7 years old, but no cutting (if that makes it any better). Does someone have some mindrape music available?
Meanwhile, back IRL, this andthis. Basically, langerin is on those oh-so-evil Langerhans cells, and it degrades viruses, like HIV, into Birbeck granules. Since they'd invested so much time in the Langerhans dendritic cell hypothesis, and it's now pwned, they haven't found a new one to explain Why Circumcision Prevents AIDS...Because It Does, Honest™. So instead they're just focusing on how to market circumcision, and pretend they already know it prevents HIV infection.
Have you actually read the tweets re: Steubenville? Please do.
You're not?
I said doublethink, as in Orwell.
It's not.
"Reverse racism" and "positive discrimination" are terms the Rush Limbaughs of the world came up with.
The Supreme Court banned them back in the 70s. As in, banned across America.
No such claim. Hell, I know I've lost jobs to less-qualified white guys before. I've lost jobs before, and seen a white dude I recognized from felony cases on the news filling the position a month later.
I didn't know American law applied to the UK.
Hmm...From what I understand, women express depressive emotions more. At the very least, this is true with people with mood disorders: Depressive disorders are more common in women, while bipolar is even split.
Except this type of thing. An this. (Remember when Galton measured the beauty of different regions of England?)
Then we have people like Jesse Bering, whose book insists male bisexuality is rare or nonexistent, but female bisexuality is universal. He also says on his blog that hebephilia (sexual attraction to girls who have just started puberty) could have an evolutionary adaptation...somehow. Never mind, um, well, let's just say Bering clearly isn't an OB/GYN.
On bonobos, here you go. Conservatives then said that because they eat other primates, as if anyone actually said they were herbivores to begin with.
Of course, this is all phylogenetically hilarious, because chimps are closer to bonobos than we are to either.
And do we even want to talk about the late J. Philippe Rushton's race, ***** size, and IQ preoccupation?
I mention creationism because 1) I see no substantive difference between sociobiology and evolutionary psychology, 2) therefore I must wonder why they changed the name, and 3) I can only conclude that it's for the same reason criminals change names, or trolls have multiple usernames.
The methodology of evolutionary psychology is mostly thought experiments, not real experiments. I'll give you an example of how an instinct really works:
I like sweets. I like them because they're loaded with sugar, which is a good source of calories. To my ancestors, calories were rarer than today. Therefore, to them, eating more calories would be beneficial, and it was passed down the line, though obviously it can be dangerous (e.g., diabetes) to me today.
For how to do evolutionary psychology right, check this out.