I can see where you’re coming from with that last point, but I have a hard time following the first.
You’re right that it’s technically always been like this between the political parties. But, with the pandemic, it’s stripped away all other avenues for expression.
Though where I don’t follow with your first point is, say you’re a Liberal/Republican. If you don’t put that aside, you’ll be looking for the political queues to help guide you in your exploration. Therefore, you’re journey has already been predetermined and you haven’t grown as an individual.
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Buffsam89 posted a message on [RETIRED] [Admin] bobthefunny's Strategic ChalkboardPosted in: Staff Helpdesks -
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Buffsam89 posted a message on [RETIRED] [Admin] bobthefunny's Strategic ChalkboardIt’s cynical to believe that is hardly productive to have any sort of political discussion? Specifically on the Internet?Posted in: Staff Helpdesks
I’d just ask that you step outside and leave the political lens at home. There’s a large world out there just waiting to be explored, and tons of fascinating people that you’ll never have the pleasure of meeting if you expect to align with it all politically.
It’s never been this bad before, and I will lay the blame at the feet of the pandemic. There’s not a ton going on, and aligning yourself with a political party is a sure-fire way to feel included in these times of isolation. Its very sad, really. -
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Buffsam89 posted a message on [RETIRED] [Admin] bobthefunny's Strategic ChalkboardNo real dog in this fight, but wanted to give an outsiders opinion.Posted in: Staff Helpdesks
I haven’t posted on this forum in quite some time. Many factors contributed to this, though I still lurk. Mostly here for the spoilers and what not. I don’t play paper magic much at all anymore, mostly playing Arena, and even then my time playing MtG in general is minuscule at best.
With that out of the way, I wanted to address this take in that “Everything is political”. I honestly hear this take a lot, primarily on message boards or when a certain aspect of life doesn’t quite line up with your expectations. However, it couldn’t be further from the truth. You can inject politics into any discussion. It’s very easy, incredibly low effort, and sometimes signals ignorance on a particular subject, or at the very best an unnecessary reason to escalate the conversation beyond what it truly is.
Where we are as society today, politics dominates everything, it’s inevitable to avoid political discussion entirely. However, IMO, it should be avoided at all costs no matter what side of political spectrum you fall under. Identity politics has gone off the rails recently and quite frankly is primarily the reason we are in the situation we are in. I never imagined a day where I’d visit an MtG forum and find #BLM or #Defundthepolice or #Bluelivesmatter or #MAGA or whatever listed at the end of an opinion on magic cards. Seeing that makes me incredibly unwilling to engage with that individual, especially in today’s political climate. Not a single political discussion is ever carried out in good faith, ever.
In closing, I commend the mods for their approach. I find it asinine that folks have a problem with giving both movements equal representation, which is exactly the problem in today’s world, but it’s to be expected. I would argue that they shouldn’t allow any of it as it really has no place here, and there are hundreds, if not thousands, of other platforms for you to have those discussions with like minded individuals. But, WOTC has woven politics into some of their decision making of late, so it’s unavoidable I guess. I’d just say that, you’re more likely to alienate the folks this site was designed for, and attract the worst both political parties have to offer, as they attempt to demonize each other, evidence of which is in this very thread.
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TheOnlyOne652089 posted a message on [RETIRED] [Admin] bobthefunny's Strategic ChalkboardPosted in: Staff HelpdesksI've noted repeatedly that people on this site only came out to support BlueLives in response to my own personal efforts, and your response to that affect remains conspicuously absent.
Maybe the actual solution would be to stay to Magic and avoid ANY political aspect at all.
It would remove this entire issue.
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Otherwise allowing one side of an argument and downright censoring the other is atrociously hypocrisy if theres any remote idea of being a platform that wants to be "inclusive".
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I would much prefer to not have any political implications and make that sure.
As it stands, the next "trend" will just produce the next discussion of what is allowed and what not and it keeps on going forever and might even keep shifting from month to month (in which case, people need to constantly monitor what the current stand of the moderators are to what is they claim to be ok or not, thats obfuscation and not clear rules at all). -
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sleeper agent 2.0 posted a message on April Fools Secret Lair update— White-Bordered TibaltThis is ridiculous. You can't just print thousands of new copies of a power card like this, give them away for free and not expect the MTG Finance folks to be furious. Incoming price plunge. Thank goodness I unloaded all my Tibalts a few months ago when they were at their peak.Posted in: The Rumor Mill -
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TheOnlyOne652089 posted a message on [RETIRED] [Admin] bobthefunny's Strategic ChalkboardThe world is full of bad people.Posted in: Staff Helpdesks
Your perceived problem of police violence is minuscule at best, facing the vast violence and crimes.
Mistakes result in tragic events, that will always be the case and while they cannot be belittled, they have to be served by justice of the court in a proper manner, not a wild witch hunt and destruction of anything and anybody just to satisfy some savage need of vengeance.
Media push the mobs to violence, which is a much bigger threat to humanity than any police violence could ever be.
Police serve the people, they give the lawful protection and people feel save around them (yes even black people, the vast majority will not condemn the police, but welcome them, especially in areas that are crime ridden).
And guess what, especially the crime ridden areas (with people under drugs, mental and physical health crisis and all kinds of issues) will absolutely need a minimal form of law and order to not fully fall to anarchy and chaos.
What we see, when anarchist gangs and mobs riot the streets is the absolute HELL, its like a war zone and nobody should suffer to live under such circumstances.
And the worst part of it, its completely manufactured, people just lose their minds and abandon all basic principles of peace and harmony, they give in for hate and a very perverse form of justice in bloodshed and violence.
If anybody starts a spiral of violence it will never end and just get worse.
All fundamental conflicts get down to that. Somebody has to forgive, and if they cant, they and all they love will suffer for it (in this world and after).
Defunding the people that swore and oath to serve and protect is complete inversion of help, it sabotages the work of the police and lets them face insane violence without the proper tools to face them.
While the police does that job, politics, especially the local politics have to create the means for social help.
That is NOT the job of the police, and right now, especially in the big cities, police is simply send to anything, regardless of if they are trained to handle the problem ; and that will as we see again and again lead to problems as people with less training will not be equipped to handle very stressful situations, which they cannot foresee to happen.
Right now people will intentionally provoke the police, put them in dangerous situations intentionally, stress them further and constantly ; and then when they finally get what they wanted, they will film that last 5 minutes, upload it and make it the new story of the week.
This trend is pathetic, disgusting, absolutely destructive and leads to nothing positive.
So while you might argue for DefundThePolice, you should actually ask for even more money, to much better train the police, give them much better equipment and in parallel start the work with social workers.
But areas with very significant issues in drugs require a lot of expensive work to get the drugs out of the people, their lives, kids in families of drug addicts have a tremendously fight in front of them to get out of that hole.
Violent gangs especially in the big cities roam there forever, and they persist in prison and everywhere. If there is a culture of crime and gangs, thats not a culture anybody should ever appreciate, it leads only to misery and death.
Structural problems exist in many shades. Racism especially is a minuscule problem in that greater scheme, as its more of a symptom that gets really ugly if more dire issues come together.
Drugged addicted gangs will produce such a massive bad image of a group of people, and if that group has a vast majority of a skin color or ethnic background, Racism against that group will spring into peoples lives, not because they are naturally racist, but they are driven into it (and getting them out and abandon it is sadly often only done by an entire generation that starts with a clean slate again).
If people have no proper structure, there is nothing that holds them above water and once they sink in enough, people start to struggle for air, and do so violently, which just drags more people into the whirlpool of violence ; that has to stop as soon as possible, and sadly it is dragging on for way too long already and current events just make everything worse in that regard.
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The police officers are not your enemy.
But police officers are also not super heroes, they cant do everything, and they absolutely need proper funding, not budget cuts that lead to less training, worse equipment and a media that slurs and blames them for everything that the local politics in these big cities so continuously failed to do.
Mob justice is the last a society should ever ask for, we had enough of that in the past, and humanity should have learned enough that this does not make anything better and the problems just persist and fester.
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#BLM as it is now does absolute NOTHING positive at all for anybody.
People either follow it like a cult mindlessly or they cower in FEAR of the mob.
Its in stark contrast to any kind of harmony between the people.
People can have very different world views, as long as they threat each other with respect and have harmony in mind, problems can be solved in a non-violent way.
If conflict erupts and violence is needed, it has to be swift, proper and most importantly, justified by law and order, not anarchy, spite, hate and vengeance.
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#BlueLivesMatter will always ensure that police officers are not the sacrificial goat for a out of control media that is horny for the next violent riot, just to get a headline.
Police officers are human beings, with all the flaws of any human being.
And they deserve, like anybody else, justice by law and order.
As long as #BLM is actively asking for pro violence against police officers, and act like its totally fine to create chaos and instigate violent mobs, any movement that stands in opposition of #BLM is more than welcome to balance the insanity.
People that believe in the actual positive messages of #BLM should absolutely distance themselves from that group and start to act in their local community to start a change ; Hollywood stars and other fancy people will not help any of these interests, they only seek attention and self-glorification, they have nobody else interest in mind then their own. -
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Stoogeslap posted a message on [ZNR] Ashaya, Soul of the Wild: can she cause creatures to trigger landfall?Ashaya's ability makes non-token creatures forests. Since her ability is a state-based effect, will creatures coming into play trigger landfall?Posted in: Rumored Card Rulings
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WarMachinePrime posted a message on Zendikar rising delays2020, the gift that keeps on giving.Posted in: The Rumor Mill
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Xcric posted a message on [ZNR] Full set revealah mediocrity.Posted in: The Rumor Mill
no manlands, no fetches, no quests, no level up, no allies, no traps, no feeling of adventure. this is hardly zendikar. i don't want to hear some bull***** like this was known, or we got this instead. those were the things that really captured the feeling of zendikar, and they're gone. replaced with mediocrity and gimmicks.
party is a mechanic that desperately wants more mana fixing and was designed as if there were fetches in the set initially. its underwhelming in its payoff, and requires too much to set up/maintain without disruption.
kicker is underwhelming with very few cards actually being worth running yet the set was designed as if there was an abundance of good kicker cards so you end up with all these messy creatures that rely on something else that might not even be worth playing.
there isn't really anything all that interesting, new, or exploratory at common or uncommon, even rare is a little lackluster. most of the cards just relying too much on the weak mechanics of the set or rehashing something we've already seen.
landfall got some decent cards, but feels really underwhelming in what its doing too. most of those cards are just rehashes of what we've already done with landfall. nothing really new.
there are some reprints that would've worked out great here, and helped manage their pricing a little, but they too were ignored because of course they were. better to jam them into another product that's just as mediocre so we have a means to push it.
almost all the obvious value is again tied to mythic - be that monetary value or gameplay value. there's a few alright rares, but don't forget that given the way things are set up to push more packs all of those rares are going to decline in value as product is opened as people gamble on getting mythics, or just to get box topper expedition lands since thats the only way, or to get pulls from "the list"
but hey you can get like, an expedition land if you buy a whole box, or sometimes a card from "the list" if you buy set boosters, which has a strong chance of just being a dud anyway as a huge portion of the list is crapola, thats great right? buy more product! consume! don't think about the scheme we've orchestrated to suck you dry. crack more packs!
i just don't see any reason here to buy sealed product at all. buy the singles you want, there's only a few decent ones, and otherwise **** this entire product line. save some space in your bulk boxes. -
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Iceheart_Omnis posted a message on [ZNR] The list - 296 of the cardsPfff, seriously? All that hype with THE LIST(tm) and we have freaking commons or uncommons from sets currently in print? Imagine opening your set booster to open an...Anax? a 0/1 moth for W. I guess they are balancing out the insane value of the ZNR expeditons with like 90% of this list.Posted in: The Rumor Mill - To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
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Cool card to see again though, and nostalgic for me personally as I started playing MTG around the Invasion-Odyssey block.
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If WOTC does put that in the set, it better be rare, because it will have no reason to be mythic.
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Happy beeps buddy, c'mon!
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Just one week, with the full spoilers come Friday.
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