The deal with being in public and somewhat called "harassment" (and i clearly distinquish between a from a court defined harassment and a person just feeling they are harassed) , is that its really different pieces.
As a private person you have no impact on public that even remotely justifies that anyone attacks you directly.
However, as a public person, like a politician or as we have here, a cosplayer that actively presents their body in public on public events to players, its in your right to criticizes exactly that, which is the body, its presented in a sexualized manner, so commenting in that way is not even inappropriate (might not be your personal taste, but thats a different deal).
If a private person gets mails from random persons theres zero reason or justification, so thats an entirely different matter compared to someone that publicly pushes themselves into public opinion.
Its a really important part of projecting this matter to the context its presented in.
If i see a women feeding a baby and i tell her "You are a 6/10, i wouldnt even rape you" , it would be an unbelieavable inappropriate thing to say , but to someone that in public makes money by presenting their body ? If i tell that to a stripper ? Inapprioriate for sure, but still an entirely different deal, as context matters, the environment matters and if you do not want to expose to that, you are not forced, you can simply not do that job.
If you go to the extreme and outlaw any potenially rude comment, you restrict language by a great deal, so much that people cannot express anything without fear somebody will feel hurt or insulted, and if that justifies that your social media gets permanently flagged and you suffer for it, its a way more extreme response than the "rude comment" started out as.
The adult option would be to point the rude comments out and keep it on a apprioriate level of response, you can talk stuff out and discuss it to proof a point without going to war directly , and still keep in mind, that no person is outright evil, for such things.
And yes, the real sick people are the ones that perform the threats, thats just downright cruelty and has no other reason than pleasing a sadistic pleasure, and that is absolutely nothing a society has to, or should accept, but its a completely different animal to a critic from an public figure.
I am on the side to promote that individuals are responsible for what they are doing.
Jeremy didnt incite harassment, he did poorly phrased comments sure, but thats hardly crazy evil, its just rude and if you talk to him about that, yes ofcourse he knows himself its rude, and thats about it, you can stand above it and realize that something thats already enough, realize you gone a bit to far and the moment you are told so, you can better yourself, problem solved ; the sick people that continue to threaten , thats what remains, but thats adults, responsible for their actions, and any adult that isnt insane should have enough intelligence to not even do that to begin with.
Racist comments are a special kind of deal, just as gay-topics etc. etc.
Its highly controversial to many people and especially your work place is a context with special meaning here.
If i make a racial comment in private, thats it, nobody cares. If someone is insulted they can sue me, i get appropriate punishment, and/or we settle the topic before it escalates, thats the potential for discussion and understanding that is much more valuable than taking every little comment and blow it up like its a death threat right away ; its clearly not.
In your context part you clearly see context matters so much.
Context is key for this here.
All the screenshots are mostly out of context and look entirely different if you get the big picture.
Yes people are offended a lot, but its undeniably a thing you have to be able to deal with if you have any kind of public job, or open yourself up to that (and if you cannot deal with it, its simply the wrong job for you, as theirs issues with lots of jobs and you cannot just blame others for that, self-responsility is a thing, its not that others are always to blame for anything you do and anything you do will have an effect on others, if your job is in public, thats a given).
I think america in special a lot of people are highly influenced by what some special individuals say , so they build up some form of responsibility for what they say, simply because of that.
And i think, it again depends on context and what group you talk to.
In the case here the group of people is the magic community, people that watch Jeremys Channel, thats already a very small subsection again and people that enjoy trollish comments, so they are already open to that and have their own problems why they cannot control what they are doing (as no sane person would write a death threat email to anybody, but lots of people do, especially in heated discusions and extreme topics).
But here Jeremy cannot be at fault for what individuals end up doing, the targeted audience are adults, and should totally be able to control themselves.
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Your last part.
I also think he could be much less rude in his comments and from his latest comments he acknowledges this, as often you have to be told you are going over the edge, and if its good to think about it (but again, its about critic and staying on a non-extreme course, you want discussion and not open war).
Lots of stuff i can relate to and the topic is simply overblown by extreme margins.
In the end, people said some mean things and others reacted to them ; thats actually all that happened, thats rude at best, but its not downright evil.
This topic would much easier and smoother be solved in a much smaller circle, or in private between these two.
Pulling it to public just makes things worse, by a lot and it doesnt serve anybody, be they right or wrong, in the end, this open warfare just damages the community and people will bunker themselves into even more extreme sides and become even more unable to discuss anything without directly insulting each other.
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But one thing is guaranteed, this will be a hot topic for the rest of the week and probably the next one, and at some point, nobody will care anymore and just play Magic again.
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Nov 30, 2017
TheOnlyOne652089 posted a message on If You Can't Take Criticism of Jeremy Hambly, You're Part of the ProblemPosted in: Articles -
Nov 30, 2017
TheOnlyOne652089 posted a message on If You Can't Take Criticism of Jeremy Hambly, You're Part of the ProblemThe fact that a comment makes someone feel harassed doesnt mean it is harassment.Posted in: Articles
Just because someone feels insulted, its not automatic evil in nature.
Most important, he never told to her directly, you literally have to seek out his channel to see the comments, so you actively have to search yourself to see negative comments about yourself.
The indisputable issue are the sick minded individuals that go over the top and do exactly that, email directly, twitter to her directly etc. They do the harassment, they are 100% guilty for it, and they qualify for it, as they indeed take a sadistic pleasure in doing that, its among the most harmful type of troll.
Then theres a difference between private people and people in public.
As a private person nobody has any public interest in what i do and so comments about my person would be out of context.
The moment what you are doing is part of a community, like cosplay at a grand prix and doing pictures of that etc. You present yourself in public and so comments about exactly that are clearly presented.
That alone is no harassment and its just as important to clearly draw a line between what people truly say and what is casually said, simply put, if you are talking to a group of people for hours, chances are you will say something stupid and someone will feel insulted ; so it has to be viewed in context and not just "oh god, look what he said" , and finger point exactly that and ignore anything else.
And especially for Jeremys channel, its clearly a form of topics and talking that you might easily find offending, others do not, some think hes right about a bunch of stuff, and i believe you can easily see he has a bunch of points.
All the so called harassment can be put down to context that gives it a background, so that is what makes the topic a lot more slippery than just believing its all crystal clear.
The idea of thinking its downright crystal clear and theres only black/white in it, is already short sighted, as you have to see more of the picture to get a real glimpse of the actual truth.
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Nov 30, 2017
TheOnlyOne652089 posted a message on If You Can't Take Criticism of Jeremy Hambly, You're Part of the ProblemYea, if people truly think theres just 1 problem at hand, and that others, but ofcourse never themselves are a part of it, thats just ridiculous, as it is the kind of finger pointing that just wants to make someone else responsible for what you think is bad.Posted in: Articles
If someone truly feels harassed, seek the police, file a claim, prevent the harassment, thats what you can do as an adult, theres a little bit of responsibility for your own too.
Its not your job to defend your wife, if you truly want fairness, she can do that on her own and she should be absolutely able and willing to do so (and if she isnt, that is a problem you have to start working on).
Its always a big question mark, if you have to drag your personal issues into public.
That just makes everything worse, much worse, as you are suddenly exposed to people that choose sides and over dramatic defend it, no matter if it effects them at all.
The adult way to solve the issue would simply be if she started out to simply ask to stop exactly what she thinks is bothering her. Any responsible adult will accept that and change behavior if its reasonable, and if they dont, you file a claim against them, so they get judged by a neutral court (or you are proven wrong on your feeling of being harassed, thats also an option and as an adult your have to live with it). -
Nov 30, 2017
TheOnlyOne652089 posted a message on If You Can't Take Criticism of Jeremy Hambly, You're Part of the ProblemTheres critic and just phrasing opinions and as a form of entertainer and content provider he has a form of talking that a lot of people find offensive, but there is plenty of comedians i find offensive, but that doesnt make them in any way problematic.Posted in: Articles
Comments can easily be in bad taste and thats undeniable the case for Jeremy, but the real core of the issue to discuss is the small amount of truly idiotic people that take it to a true harassment and violent form of threats ; and the question to discuss would be if you as a content provider are truly responsible for what some sick individuals do , given they are adults, these people are the actual problem, and thats not Jeremy.
The same kind of sick individuals exist on the other spectrum too, some of them Social Justice Warriors that somehow feel Jeremy has to be "utterly destroyed" and death threats against him are "totally fine".
Seriously, its the same kind of sick individuals and its the CORE of a true problem which puts every little issue into full on overdrive roadkill.
It serves nobody and its a form of discussion that is very prevalent in the internet.
Its a culture of trolls and social justice warriors that simply cannot keep their actions behind a healthy line that keeps a minimum of civilized discourse alive.
If people get famous they undeniable have to have a tougher hide. The more people you know and the more people respond to you, the more bad comments you will accumulate.
Thats natural, and people will either like what you do or they will not.
Some of the sick people will downright hate you for whatever you do and this leads to the exact problem of people that think they have to act themselves , right now and fight what they think is the evil, everyone thinks they are in the right to do so and so nobody is able to self-reflect and see they are going over the top.
If matters settle down you could easily see Jeremy seeing himself that a bunch of stuff crosses the line , but bad taste comments and actual harassment should be dealt with in court and absolutely not in public for people to just judge and start their little lynch mobs in every corner burning whatever victim they just found.
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So there is more than just one problem.
A lot of problems and everyone is part of some problem, if they see it, know it, or still deny it. -
Nov 30, 2017
TheOnlyOne652089 posted a message on If You Can't Take Criticism of Jeremy Hambly, You're Part of the ProblemTheres plenty of "good" men that started wars and killed people in the name of what they thought to be somehow the right thing.Posted in: Articles
The reality is, there are no "evil" and no "good" men, just opinions and people that push these ideology with violence over the other, who ever wins will be in the right, the other side clearly must have been wrong.
Its not the job of people to start a lynch mob and "destroy" other human beings and its downright pedantic to think that is in any way what "good men" should do.
Any problem has to be discussed and solved on the appropriate level.
Pushing topics in public only serves the trolls and media hype , people calling out for a single entity to be blamed for everything they think is bad.
The reality is, theres not a single bad person and everyone is usually to some degree responsible for what they do or do not do.
People really like to give small problems horrific names so they sound like much bigger problems, that leads only to despair and misery, it has no positive benefit for anybody, just pampers the ideology of people that really think they are the only legit form of judgment call, self-administered justice isnt the way to go and if you ever get in the situation to think someone is the personified evil, you are guaranteed wrong and simply ignore the other standpoint (so you become evil yourself, just to pretend to defend against evil, thats in no way a solution and only leads to a conflict in which everyone can blame anyone to be in the right and suddenly there are no good men left anymore).
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Nov 30, 2017
TheOnlyOne652089 posted a message on If You Can't Take Criticism of Jeremy Hambly, You're Part of the ProblemA very big issue is that different topics are brought together, while they simply do not fit.Posted in: Articles
Nazi and troll posters are two very different things and should never be put together, just to fuel a cause, thats selling your own arguments cheap and makes them one-dimensional black/white thinking again, which is good for nobody.
Also, there will be critic and negative critic as well, that has to be acceptable.
Nobody is forced to be overly positive about anything.
If you truly dislike something you can say so, and its value to the discussion that this is expressed and not just ignored, or even outlawed as something terrible wrong.
At the same time its very valid to criticize something and not come up with a solution on your own right away. I can critic a cook and not be able to make it better, thats totally fine and it must be legit to do so. The point of critic is that you should never need to justify for it, the receiver can take the critic and see it as an issue, or they dont, thats their cup of tea and its what an adult has to learn to deal with.
But here again, this changes a lot if someone is in private or its brought up in public and presented to a mob of people.
If you just honestly dislike cosplay and say so, thats fair, nobody forces you to like anything.
The "locker-room-talk" is a topic entirely for its own. Its something that is widely accepted and always was. Women to the same about men, they even do it among each other, it might just be more subtle than the direct approach of actually saying it out loud, even if its just in the "locker-room" (or in this case a youtube channel, or a bunch of twitter posts).
Its fine on its own.
What really pushes the topic to become a real issue is how stuff completely gets lost and out of control incited to be way bigger than what it really is (and yes, thats a terrible huge deal with the amount of media and the very real interest of media to promote topics into "highlights" and further push the mob to generate more horrific events to report about, its almost a self proclaiming prophecy, so its very difficult to truly say what amount of discussion is healthy and what is just talking it to bits and pieces, as many if not all topics will be seemingly super hot for the moment and meaningless the next week, as there is no real issue beside the illusion of talk at all).
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How would an adult deal with bad talk about them in private ?
You confront the person and actually tell them to stop as its not ok for you.
Solves the issue, unless the person is actively not recognizing your problem.
In public it changes a lot.
Theres either somewhat anonymous people that jump on a topic train and pick sides, which very often leads to extreme reactions, way over the top (any threats via mail or any form of actual harm is absolutely no-go, no matter what the topic is, theres never a reason to choose violence to solve anything.
So if you talk in public, it will have an effect on people and it will polarize the people more and more. Thankfully lots of people can distinguish between a topic that truly effects them and just a rat catcher lynch mob , but some cant, and the poster shouldnt be responsible for these individuals, as almost anything could be seen as an incentive for violence, if the individual has some sick mind, theres an entirely different problem of its own (and yes, you have to ask yourselves why so many "troll" people exist and no matter the topic, they are harmful and actively ignore any productive discussion).
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For the topic at hand, the first problem that ignited this into a public *****-fest was that it was brought to public at all.
Solving these kinds of issues should have been a thing between Jeremy and Sprinkle , in private or by her actively telling what bothers her, its just fair to do so, as it solves most issues and avoids outside people to intervene.
If that doesnt work out and somebody is not taking your arguments, you can take it to the police and to court to actively stop what bothers you with something like a protective injunction suit, which again should solve the issue at hand, instead of putting it up for debate to a lynch mob that just wants blood, no matter from who.
Its a very clear picture if a topic is just instantly brought to public, avoiding any legal options (or doing so later, in hopes the public opinion boosts your side).
See, if a topic is discussed in public, it will never be fair.
People pick side right away and defend it for whatever the cost, even if it doesnt effect them personally at all ; which brings the Social Justice Warrior term to fruits.
Yes thats a problem just as trolls.
Its good to have empathy, but its bad to jam ideals and ideology into a topic and mix topics entirely, just to proof a point that has nothing to do with the topic at hand.
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Believe it or not, neither Jeremy nor Sprinkle are somehow "evil incarnate" , they arent and they arent "toxic" to the community.
The kind of topic and how much its media-hyped and exaggerated , thats an entire issue of its own and overshadows the problem they personally had to solve between each other and makes it like a community issue , which it isnt, the community is fine, theres very rare cases and problems to deal with and they shouldnt be ignored, but also not exaggerated into spheres they arent fit for.
And this is, about a game, a hobby, people enjoy playing the game and enjoy being part of a community, if this is taken to a level of social criticism it doesnt serve a purpose for the game it just harms the experience for everyone, as it puts a stigma to the game, that it neither deserves or justifies at all. - To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
Correct, the ultra fast Zoo decks do not change much, just a tiny bit.
However, your deck becomes also a tiny bit more "random" ; as you need something to make steppe lynx awesome ; and a 2/3 will never trade against the other 2/3 which makes games more stall like.
A pretty good question is how to keep Affinity in check if Red/Green isnt dominating anymore ; the amount of Ancient Grudge and friends decreases enough (as allways, its a matter of how much hate you have against Affinity in your MetaGame).
I played UWb Gifts Reanimator like, pretty crazy against anything except super fast Zoo / Affinity lists (and packing too much main deck against them makes your deck extrem bad).
Well no matter what, Modern is actual fun, it just seems that its not that different , a format with Zoo viable allways seems kinda bad (as Aggro decks that run 5-color is just hilarious).
For the color combination this seems to be an super awesome Commander.
With Momir and Animar it can even "combo" out.
Seems to be an awesome card, and i highly enjoy this products exactly for this type of creature / which pretty much does not matter at all for a "normal" magic set and they can easily produce cards that are just cool without a real story background.
The "offical" Planechase rulez kinda suck ; but its not difficult to use them in a normal EDH game to spice something up.
Flavourwise Venser is a Planeswalker of "Teleportation" Magic ; so in this view cards that support this flavour will do best, 187 creatures ofcourse, but not only.
Journey to Nowhere fits quite well for flavour.
Blinking Spirit aswell ; even if it does not work directly with venser ; supports Vensers teleportation idea.
Snapcaster in Red would make way more sence ; but they choose to push it , as everything is better in blue.
I tried the card in some decks from Dredge to RedBurn and it works pretty good.
In Red Burn its allmost like a draw 2 spell, it further helps to power up Grim Lavamancer, fuel your Unearth/Flashback burn and in late can ditch your useless lands for more burn.
In Dredge it works decent with Lions Eye and the only problem is with the Threshold Land ; which is also good enough but produces blue only.
So far, the uses of the card are a lot higher than for Careful Study ; as flashback on this effect is extrem valuable and being red offers uses in decks that otherwise could not work with a blue splash (or do way worser).
But theirs also this draw 3 discard 3 random card ; might be something to consider a more red version.
Maybe it makes sence to say "other creature" , otherwise its a combo with Body Double nearly the same way it is with Reveillark (just even more insane).
If this card is played, then in such combos, i do not know if the part with -1/-1 counters is necessary at all ; as it also limits the possible sets this card can go in ; because normally a set restricts itself to either +1/+1 or -1/-1 counters, but never both.
If the card wants to exist for itself, without a brandmark to be a combo card, it could be a little more work around like:
Another Experimental Specimen 1G
Creature - Ooze Mutant (R)
Trample
When ~ dies, return each other creature card with power less than ~ power from your graveyard to the battlefield.
1/1
Seems strange ? It really is and to make it work you either need "graft" which all are 0/0 in your grave (which is pretty crazy strong) or some other way to increase its power, either with Equipment or anything else.
Another is a heavy Zombie Focus with Living Death / Patriarchs Bidding.
Its just bad that most Zombies are plain bad.
For more flavour the "Necronomicon" , together with Liliana / Jace produce wonders.
With all the self mill you can fuel a lot of the blue/black stuff.
Well Karn might qualify for "super important flavour" , while Tezzeret and Jace are points i take.
Correct. Fighting cheating with cheating on your own isnt the goal.
So if someone does it, call a judge, they explain or give proper answers.
*In FNM telling the player is actual enough so they wont make it again ; as for a bunch its a ritual to stack the decks like that, then shuffle again ; they argue they shuffle after anyway ; but its not that obvisious for them that it has no effect if they properly shuffle (and then they "doom" you for removing their "luck" , quite something).
But it was an exception to have Nicol Bolas "alone".
Normally they want a fair distribution ; while Nicol Bolas is special enough to be the main aspect of a singel set.
So i do not think they will make a set with just 1 walker ; unless they need this super "super" important flavour ; and theirs no real other walker that would justify it.
And even infinited life will only help you if the opponent is really a pur beatdown ; and you have a real chance to win aswell (otherwise they can sit out, and nobody wins, which is clearly worse than winning).
Pulse of the Fields is the best lifegain spell in view of how it actual works.
Its just pure lifegain, but gives a real mini game itself thats not just buying time ; with manaburn viable it was a great card.
Lifegain in general just counters burn spells and acts like "fog" or multiple "fogs" at least early.
So to be competitive , your life must be high enough to give a control deck the chance to get in the late game, while not so stupid much that no aggro deck could beat it.
Stuff like Timely Reinforcement gives lifegain spells a real reason, it works more than good and its a real weapon against red decks / aggro in general.
They are super strong in limited like any repeatable removal, but the only chance to make this keyword work somehow is to give it some kind of interaction that does not simply read "do not block me if you do not need to."
GW = Selesnya
1)
The number is way too low so the cost reduction + removal of colors from spells is a problem.
2)
The number is too high so the cost increase hinders players to play anything.
Both is problematic, an existing "working" card with a similiar idea is Augustin.
He reduces your spells and increases the ones of your opponent.
Has more or less the idea of this card without the problematic parts.
Whats the "actual" idea of the card anyway ?
Hate on small spells ?
Love big spells ?
Be an annoying creature ?
(like Aven Mindsensor, its just "annoying", but pretty usefull actual)
Some specific ideas that could work :
*Use of phyrexian mana.
**No idea how to make phyrexian mana costs here, might edit it.
Blood for the blood mage UBR
Creature - Skeleton, Wizard
Each spell with a converted manacost equal to or smaller than 6 costs an additional 6 mana.
Manacosts can be paid as they would be phyrexian mana.
3/3
Extremly makes spells more expensive, but at least allows to work around and play the removal for this card with a heavy life cost to avoid that it totally locks down.
However, if you play counterspells you can for a high life cost save your guy; which might be pretty good.
Numbers are adjustable, but the use of phyrexian might fix something.
The Guy UW
Creature - Human, Wizard
~ enters the battlefield with 6 anoying counters on it.
At the beginning of each upkeep if no spell was played during the last turn, remove an annoying counter from ~.
Spells with an converted manacost less than 6 cost an additional 1 mana for each annoying counter on ~.
2/2
Might be strong enough and could work with a werwolf theme to keep players from casting spells for some turns (but not for eternity).
Sorcery (U)
Draw two cards, then discard two cards.
The best plan is none at all.
Feels like Winds of Change.
If you place madness in red like they did in Planar Chaos, this card would easily work.
The ridiculous use of "random" in this effects for red is something that makes me cry ; nobody really likes to play random effects like this, it might work with reds "chaos" theme, but its such a niche card. red deserves better : otherwise its the color that just can play burn and is good for nothing else (beside some combo cards).
Offensive Formation :2mana::symw:
Enchantment (R)
Creatures can't block.
Tactics are for cowards.
This is actual a red card for extrem. In White this seems wrong.
Yea it could actual work, as white gets protection, which avoids blocks ; so "somehow" you can justify it, while it simply lacks a real feeling for white.
Phase :2mana::symu:
Instant (R)
Exile each creature you control. Return those cards to the battlefield under their owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.
The Aether takes what it gives.
Well in fact this could be a cheaper, as Ghostly was made with combat damage on the stack and stuff like that ; this could be a cool card for something like an 1U cost, which acts as an answer to wrath effects and allows nice interactions with Snapcaster / Eternal Witness to reuse it.
Like pretty much everything, this is really better in blue.
Revered Nantuko :symg::symg:
Creature- Insect Shaman (R)
:symg:: Revered Nantuko gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
2/1
In fact the shade was a nice card at a time were mono black was really pushed and most opponents did not have insane creatures.
In green the shade just sucks, i have no idea how you can imagine this to be "strong" in green.
Omnath is actual the green shade and million times stronger than this, still pretty bad in the end for constructed and just fine enough for some casual fun.
Spectral Fiend :3mana::symb::symb:
Creature- Spirit Horror (M)
Trample
Whenever Spectral Fiend attacks, if defending player controls no green permanents, it doesn't untap during your next untap step.
8/8
Would work, but making this "mythic" seems to be a kick in the face.
The Spectral Force was nice as a fat finisher for green, which became the strangely aggressive color in Planar Chaos with Ball Lightnings and all that stuff.
In black however, you have way stronger stuff than this, and drawbacks are more or less not done anymore currently ; the rares and mythics are just upside.
I can see this more in blue, which has more fatty sized creatures with drawbacks that do not untap unless your opponent has something ; especially as blue can change colors aswell, which might come in handy here as a mini sub theme.