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Quote from NGW »I hope you regularly donate and send aid to those in need in third world countries or have never in your life complained about any hardship because others have it so much worse than you all around the world you disgusting hypocrite.
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Quote from Teia Rabishu »Quote from Negator_402 »Is it me, or were comments closed for that extremely anti-anti-Hambly article on the main page?
The staff collectively made the decision that due to the level of toxicity in the comment section, comments will be disabled for that article.
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Quote from Teia Rabishu »For those interested in reading a bit more about the greater issues behind these and other incidents, I recently posted an editorial on the subject. It pulls no punches, but if anyone in here finds my rhetoric unsettling, try not to write it off as just the rantings of someone on the far left. Mutual understanding is essential both to understand where harassment comes from and how to unpack those unpleasant aspects of ourselves we don't usually question.
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Quote from RedtoothX1 »Quote from TheOnlyOne652089 »Quote from Monkey222 »
I agree. I also feel that by doubling down on Jeremy, by removing his social media presence, his Patreon account, his Youtube channels, and destroying his reputation all because of this abuse (and I'm not just talking about Christine, but everyone who can supply evidence of his harassment), will set a precedent that can be used in the future for others to lean on when facing similar problems.
Also, by making an example of Jeremy, we, as a community, can go a long way to showing those who are outside our bubble that we do not appreciate this kind of behaviour in our shops, homes, pro tours, GPs, etc. and will not stand for it.
Edit: That's a good read, Teia. I hope that the call for introspection doesn't fall on deaf ears though.
For me this is exactly whats so wrong about even considering this to be any form of "solution".
Its lynch mob thinking.
You just want blood and you want to burn someone for a topic that neither deserves this form of punishment or even such an reaction at all.
Its a topic that could and should be solved without the giant fuzz of the public and without any major casualties.
And to do that you need a neutral judge , and neither person is neutral in this topic, especially as it becomes such a topic that doesnt even allow a neutral perspective, if its so extreme and takes much harsher topics into the mix, just to further bolster sides and make any actively productive discussion downright impossible.
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Nothing Jeremy did justifies any over the top reaction. Critic yes, its even totally fine to blame his behavior, and it should be discussed as what it is, do not make this person responsible for ANY problem just to have someone to blame and put all the blame on.
By doing so you simply push a topic and hurt the community more, as it will further split people apart and make the problem just deeper and persistent.
Every time comments and arguments go further and become more harsh, at some point people have to say so and find a balance again.
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If there is an form of greater issue, especially in your local environment, it should be dealt with.
But putting all the blame and shame on Jeremy alone, is an entire problem of its (thats just wrong).
The truly harmful individuals arent so easily taken out of responsibility, anybody that sends death threat emails is a real issue on its own and cannot simply put the blame on Jeremy (adults should be responsible enough to see they have to think what they are doing and not mindlessly rampage and insult people around them).
Make sure you arent just becoming part of a lynch mob. If justice should be truly done, it needs to have a proper call from a neutral party, it cannot be a fair solution to burn on side to the ground and just ignore them.
Yeah, it's lynch mob nonsense taken to the extreme.
Someone doesn't tow the far Left line? BURN THE HERETIC! /sarcasm
I just read the editorial on the front page of the site. Thinly (very thinly) veiled hard Left call for speech codes within the greater MTG community.
This site can set w/e rules they want for what can and can't be posted here. It's private property. If they want to drive away everyone but people who would be comfortable at some hole of groupthink like UC Berkley (for example), they have the right to do so.
BUT, try that within the larger community of all MTG players, and you'll do nothing but divide the game and its players along political lines.
Just more of what our world needs. /snort
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Quote from DirkGently »Yeah see, I feel like this is very problematic. You've NEVER played magic in a public environment, and yet you're already assuming based on what people have said on the internet that it's a cesspool of misogyny. Are there bad apples? Sure, but in my experience they're pretty far between - and they're way more likely to be well-meaning awkward idiots than intentionally hateful. And giving random people on the internet carte blanche to go "defend women's honor" is going to result in some major-league cringe-fests that are probably a lot more painful than someone being slightly condescending or whatever. Not that you can't tastefully stick up for someone if you feel someone is being treated unfairly, but if there's a problem the magic community has, it's more likely to be awkward social stupidity than it is misogyny (and I include myself in being an awkward idiot as well, btw) and recommend people go play white-knight is more likely to result in more pain rather than less.Quote from Mace »I've never played magic in a public environment, but from what I've heard there are a lot of players who say inappropriate, rude, or nasty things to women who play the game.
Long story short, I'd recommend you actually make an effort to have more than zero experience before making broad generalizations or advocating for vigilante justice.
Discretely calling a judge if you think something steps over the line into harassment seems like the best policy - I still imagine it will generate plenty of cringe, but at least you have an impartial observer, and if they are in fact behaving badly they can be removed from the store, instead of just getting defensive, making everyone uncomfortable, and accomplishing nothing.
Rudy is pretty AnCap, and Kevin from Rogue Deckbuilder is shoved into the right just by virtue of being a victim of "listen and believe" and having studied divergent mental disorders.Quote from Burning_Paladin »Can you name someone who is on the right that is a well known person in magic?
Because Wizards of the Coast is pretty blatantly on the left end of the spectrum and a lot of its people and "personalities" arent afraid to flaunt it.
I do think part of what is going on is people are circling the wagons because as far as I know this guy is the only "prominate" right leaning one out there, and I barely mean prominent, hes not endorsed and all he does is open boxes of magic cards from what I have seen (which I dont get the appeal of honestly).
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Then you acted shocked that people act certain ways after you cut off all legitimate discussion?
You can't say *****, **** or ********, it gets automatically censored. And yet we can hold discussions. (I'll let you figure out what the stars are hiding.)
The very few terms and subjects forbidden do not preclude discussion. They only preclude useless flaming, trolling and provocations. It's been explained repeatedly in this thread.
If you can't discuss without resorting to those few words and subjects, then the rationale WORKED.
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I think the over 300 players in the GP London Pauper Side event would beg to differ. http://epicstream.com/news/302-MTG-Players-of-The-Grand-Prix-London-Pauper-Event-Just-Gave-A-Round-of-Applause-To-The-Professor
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The reserved list was first created in 1996. There are a lot of players, probably a majority if we're being honest as I don't know the exact statistics,that weren't even born yet when that happened. Really hard to buy something when you don't exist. The reserved list should never have been put in place to begin with, and its repeal is long overdue.
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Also glad I'm not the only one running snow basics. I just picked up some Japanese P3K lands and was going to use those but then found out I didn't have any plains so I stuck with my snows.
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Round 1 against Kiki chord:
Game 1 he won I kept a fast hand but he had natural combo. Games 2 and 3 he got mana screwed and I luckily had a path for his turn 2 spellskite in game 2.
Round 2 against zombie hunt was basically a bye. He had a neat sideboard plan where he sideboard dex out the infestations into a tron plan but I steamrolled him.
Round 3 was an ID, my opponent was on affinity. I took game 1 and game 2 easily thanks to removal and double spirit link both games.
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Because playing paper magic, in my opinion, is far more fun and rewarding than playing online. By your logic, I should just get Xmage then I can play every deck in every format for free. Yet here I sit with 2 paper legacy decks complete because I, like many other, prefer paper magic to playing online against some faceless opponent.
As far as how to remove the reserved list, I think they announce it a year in advance, reprint everything into a masters set, but leave the power nine at a rarity in those packs similar to masterpiece level.
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Round 1: Slivers 2-0. I didn't really wasn't his win. Kid was like 8 and had no idea what he was looking at with my deck. Easy 2-0. In: 1x mechanized production, 1x magus of the tabernacle. Out: 2x pithing needle
Round 2: Mono-red burn 2-0. Game 1 was close but I stabilized at 3 with an empty hand, dropped a bridge and just kept him off burn spells. Game 2 he scooped to turn 0 leyline. In: 3x leyline, 2x Padeem. Out: 3x Needle, 2x surgical
Round 3: Aetherflux Reservoir 2-0. Basically the standard deck and he upgraded the mana base. We already knew what the other was on. Turn 1 needle on reservoir then early bridge game 1 prompts the concession. Game 2 he has plenty of counters but I'm able to bait enough with meaningless things that I resolve leyline and bridge. He scoops quickly when my top card shows Production. In: 3x leyline, 1x mechanized production, 1x Gaddock teeg. Out: 3x surgical, 1x aether grid, 1x collective brutality.
Round 4: Goblins 2-1. Kept a super bad 7 game 1, and paid for it. Game 2 was close but turn 0 leyline was a huge help. Got caught with a leyline in hand one turn and took massive damage but miracles the Glimmervoid the next turn to slam it and get my hand empty again. Game 3 showed turn 0 leyline again, turn 2 bridge, and a mox Opal on board so I didn't care about his blood moon. Scooped in response to surgical on Smash to Smithereens. In: 3x leyline, 1x magus of the tabernacle, 1x Golgari charm. Out: 3x needle, 2x surgical,
All in all a good night. My second FNM win with lantern and my pack pulls were above average.
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