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AmericanTruckSongs10 @ethangach.bsky.social · 5h

The ramifications of gamergate remain hard to believe

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Pigmy Wurm @pigmywurm.bsky.social · 4h

Can I throw in some Matthew 25:41-46?

Then he will say to those at his left hand, ‘You who are accursed, depart from me into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels, 42 for I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not give me clothing, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’ 44 Then they also will answer, ‘Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison and did not take care of you?’ 45 Then he will answer them, ‘Truly I tell you, just as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.’ 46 And these will go away into eternal punishment but the righteous into eternal life.”

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Pigmy Wurm @pigmywurm.bsky.social · 1d

Does it count people who refund it? I could see that influencing things.

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Pigmy Wurm @pigmywurm.bsky.social · 2d

Seems like poor sense of risk is a strong through line here.

Not excited that these are the people working in our military.

Pigmy Wurm @pigmywurm.bsky.social · 2d

Have had a lot of fun with this in Brawl on Arena.
My one big complaint is that for some reason Frogmite is a mythic on arena!
I refuse to spend a mythic wildcard on a common that I have tons of in paper (drafted a bunch of Mirrodin) and that I assume will eventually get added as a common later.

Pigmy Wurm @pigmywurm.bsky.social · 2d

Ah the classic anime/JRPG experience of having a group of attractive adult characters with an seasoned older mentor. Then you find out that the mentor who they were joking about being "old" is only 20 and these characters who look like they are in college or older are supposed to be 15 to 17.

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Pigmy Wurm @pigmywurm.bsky.social · 2d

thinking less trippy and more surreal, like superliminal or maybe antichamber

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Pigmy Wurm @pigmywurm.bsky.social · 3d

So the idea of an FPS (or TPS, it keeps changing) inside an Inception style fever dream where the random doors open out of nowhere and the overall geometry doesn't make sense could be really cool. But, when done intentionally, and as an actual game.

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Pigmy Wurm @pigmywurm.bsky.social · 3d

So, are we okay with an opponents Yavimaya helping you cast a Kitchen Finks in your RW deck?

Personally, I'm for keeping the rule the same, but I was also for keeping "damage on the stack." It changed and the game moved on, in some ways a bit better, in other a little worse, but still fun.

Pigmy Wurm @pigmywurm.bsky.social · 3d

But it made color identity a more important restriction. I think Hybrid would be less divisive in a world where the deck restriction was based more on what mana you are able to generate and less on the literal colors of your cards.

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Pigmy Wurm @pigmywurm.bsky.social · 3d

This now means that you can use treasure and lands like city of brass to tap for colors outside your commander's identity, possibly to pay for costs of cards you steal.

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Pigmy Wurm @pigmywurm.bsky.social · 3d

An example for commander that affects this: when colorless was made its own mechanical thing comander changed its rules for mana. Before if you tried to add mana outside your color identity you got colorless. Once that wasn't always a drawback they removed it.

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Pigmy Wurm @pigmywurm.bsky.social · 3d

When they removed "damage from the stack" for being unintuitive there was debate about if it was needed, but also, it created new issues that they have been addressing since. Not saying it was a bad idea, just that any change has consequences.

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Pigmy Wurm @pigmywurm.bsky.social · 3d

You have this issue with the rules for actual magic all the time. People complaining that certain interactions are unintuitive and it should be easy to change. People don't agree, and some changes are much more possible than others.

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Pigmy Wurm @pigmywurm.bsky.social · 3d

At its core, the problem hybrid brings up is that there is no single way to make commander "make sense" to everyone. For example, 2 of these cards can be played in a UG deck and 2 can't, and you can find arguments for or against each.

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Pigmy Wurm @pigmywurm.bsky.social · 3d

They are asking people to pay to access a site where all the content on it was provided by users for free.

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Pigmy Wurm @pigmywurm.bsky.social · 3d

At issue here is that what is intuitive is not uniform.
"You can cast this only using green mana, why can't I put it in my mono green deck?"
"This card is literally red and green, why can I put it in a mono green deck?"
Both are completely reasonable thoughts. Either way, someone will be confused

Pigmy Wurm @pigmywurm.bsky.social · 3d

Also, who is paying for it currently? The government is currently shut down. We are not paying civil servants, military and police, and park services. Who is paying the people demolishing the east wing of the white house?

Pigmy Wurm @pigmywurm.bsky.social · 4d

I completely agree, but I also feel this might kick the can down the road and lead to other confusion. Have they said how they are handling phyrexian mana? People thinking you can run Firespout in mono red? The battlemages from invasion.

But, at the end of the day, it's not a big deal.

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Pigmy Wurm @pigmywurm.bsky.social · 4d

And making Magic follow the rules of commander. Now all formats have to deal with white card advantage when that was often one of the main things holding it back in 1v1 20 life formats. Red cards often are costed assuming your opponent will regularly start at 40 life.

Pigmy Wurm @pigmywurm.bsky.social · 5d

I help set up smart devices for clients with disabilities, and some are genuinely very helpful for them, but it has also convinced me that unless I physically need voice control for lights and stuff they are more trouble than they are worth.

Internet went out, now your ceiling light won't turn off.

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Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social · 7d

The Democrats need to get a hell of a lot of cameras on the White House and plaster the photos everywhere. It's not just the brazen symbol of a megalomaniac destroying national heritage; it's happening during a government shutdown when ordinary people aren't getting paid. Make every American see it.

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Noor @noorlovelace.bsky.social · 7d

Disabled people should be allowed to get married without losing our healthcare. We shouldn’t have to choose between weddings and staying alive. In 2025 we still have no marriage rights or property rights. We never have, and it’s total shit. Fuck Eugenics, we deserve so much better.

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 11d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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Pigmy Wurm @pigmywurm.bsky.social · 7d

I mean, it is technically possible if drug companies were willing to pay us for buying their drugs.

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Pigmy Wurm @pigmywurm.bsky.social · 7d

Great art, but doesn't really look like an 0/4. Too angular and fluid.
I wonder if it was originally for a 3/2 or something similar.