Yeah, that about hits my opinion, too.

"Israel has the right to defend itself", but their actions fly far in excess of defense at this point.

I think the Democrat strategy this cycle is pretty much this on even a larger scale. The right wing says they're timing trump's trials to interfere with the election, but the thing is I think they're right in the exact opposite way of what they expect.

Trump caught the US by surprise and now people are sick of him, so suddenly he and every other scumbag in his party are the best ammunition the dems could ask for. The dems want to keep them all around and actively give them more chances to be obnoxious in order to scare more voters toward voting blue while splitting the GOP's votes.

Got it boss

(Quietly implements a modulo check but only for a range between the current endpoint of the if branches and the highest value I expect the product to ever encounter)

That's a giratina

It's all the same problem though, isnt it?

Same people squeezing the economy dry are the ones ultimately responsible for fucking up efforts to unfuck the climate.

Keeping lenses on multiple issues maintains clarity on what's at the root of them.

"Middle of nowhere" is the accepted term for that region

METAGROSSSSSSSSSSSS

It was weird to realize that the books and movies were about different things

The movies are about the characters and their struggles to try and beat Sauron obviously

But the books got a lot more interesting when I started looking at them as the stories of a world and its history and the way that that world handled to coming and going of another dark lord. The threats he posed to peaceful places, the peace broken simply by his presence, and also the people and places legitimately above and outside Sauron's reach. The fact that Sam's star or Tom Bombadil would look at this great and terrible evil, the worst ever known to so many in the world, and to them it would be but another passing of an era, the opening of a new story dated to end like all the rest.

The scale and perspective of it all is just so dramatically different that I can't help but feel like reaching that perspective is half the journey for the reader.

If you fell asleep at the beginning of a 4 hour drive where I live, and woke up at the end, odds are very very high that you wouldn't be able to tell any difference in the surroundings.

Before all the apes nonsense, this was where people would learn what "fungible" means

Wish it were for something less depressing

Could you elaborate a bit on that? I'm not really sure how a business that "actually grows" would be functional ina fixed economy without becoming confusing graphs or entering some other major problem.

I imagine a realistic implementation would involve a system of progressive brackets and minimums/deductibles, modeled after the way income tax is. Ideally, things are modeled such that the tax is only full percents among those absurdly high brackets that can afford them

Constitutionality is another matter though, and yeah it seems like it would be awful hard to get that through the current court

Let's be real, if we wanna talk about possessiveness, Anakin was R2's bodyguard more than R2 was Anakin's droid

Little astromech is in absolute control

You ask me, it's like the great quarantine to try and slow down covid

The idealists were hoping to stamp it out entirely but the reality was that covid was everywhere, and would inevitably become part of life. Quarantining served to make sure hospitals weren't overwhelmed (or rather, weren't MORE overwhelmed) until a vaccine could be made to try and get things under control

In the same vein, it makes sense to me to try and stifle AI stuff hopefully long enough to push for UBI and other social safety nets, so that when the lid comes completely off pandora's box, the damage to people's lives is mitigated and the benefits from the tech can be enjoyed in better conscience

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All men know me, all have had me, but none can fit my belt around me.

What am I?

Library of Ruina went nuts with its osts

One time they even patched the game just to buff a boss's music, not even the boss itself

oh shit that works? Ok that's nice, did not realize

how do I do that from mobile? Is it on mobile clients at all, or is it just connect that's missing it?

Almost all the memes I have saved are pretty much void of any real statement or opinion, except maybe "this is humorously absurd". Unfortunately they're all images and I don't want to go to the trouble of transcribing them

In general if something appears to he trying to sway or convince me toward something, it isn't a meme, it's a political cartoon or an advertisement, even if it's trying to be humorous.

"Don't you guys have phones?"

Biggest physical room I've witnessed a misread happen in

I expect opinions to not be the subjects of the memes usually

I come here, to the memes place, to see memes

I'm hoping the push for a 32 hour week gains enough traction that we could actually feasibly negotiate a 9-day sprint (2 week period) as the "middle ground", at least until the next wave of negotiations pushes further.

Gimme every other monday off, that way I'm always working toward either a long weekend or an early weekend

They're pretty good, but the problem I always have with waffles is that the moisture on the underside of a waffle builds up/condenses onto the plate, which creates sogginess. I always prefer my waffles to be very crisp, so this sogginess undermines that and introduces that awkward "crunchy but also ew soft" factor that screws up later waffle sections. I can fix this a little by putting a paper towel under them on the plate, but this feels wasteful and sometimes draws confusion from friends or family who don't seem to care about this issue.

By this merit, I usually find pancakes preferable since they completely cover the plate under them, leaving no air for moisture to condense from, and they're porous enough to just absorb any such moisture without a meaningful change in consistency anyway.

Anybody else experience this? Got tips for waffle technique?

Classic!

Thanks for the explanation. Also helps clarify why it's taken so long for trials to begin - if every defendant can demand "trial within a few months or it's free", of course you'd spend years gathering evidence and perfecting your case beforehand, if you felt you could.

Once got in a conversation about nuclear power that hit the point of "Yes nuclear is safer and more efficient but what about the jobs of the coal employees? Do you want them all to starve?"

Took a while to digest because there's a lot of normalization surrounding it, but after a while I realized what I had been told was:

"We have to intentionally gimp our efficiency in both energy production and pollution generation in order to preserve a harder, more costly industry, because otherwise people wouldn't have a task that they need to do in order to feed themselves."

Kinda disillusioned me with the underpinnings of capitalism, just how backwards it was to have to think this way. We can't justify letting people live unless they're necessary to society in some way - which might've made solid sense in older, very very different times in human history, but now means that so much of our culture is tied up in finding more excuses to make people do work that isn't really necessary at all.

New innovations happen, and tasks are made easier, and that doesn't actually save anyone any work, because everyone still has to put in 40 hours a week. New tech lets you do it in 10 hours? Whoops, actually that means that you're out of a job, replaced with an intern or something. Making "life" easier makes individual lives harder, what the fuck? That isn't how things should be at all!

Not exactly an easy situation to crack, but to circle back to the point of the thread - I hate how normal it is to argue on the basis that we need to create jobs, everywhere, all the time. I wish we'd have a situation where people can brag for political clout about destroying jobs instead, about reducing the amount of work people need to do to live and live comfortably, instead of trying to enforce this system where efficiency means making people obsolete means making people starve.

Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds

An AoE2 licensed reskin that added new mechanics like shield generators and air units. Still have fond memories of it, and it's been absolutely wild to see that there's still a community for it after all these years.

Just lack of numbers. Reddit's at it's best when I can use it to discuss some incredibly niche topic. That early 2000s RTS that nobody remembers? Got a few dozen redditors still posting memes. New indie game drops? There's enough redditors on it that we can talk about it.

But lemmy seems really bad for trying to enjoy any community that isn't a big political or meme centerpiece. Any particular game or IP that isn't a lowest common denominator? It'll get maybe 3 posts a month.

No more interesting discussions of gameplay mechanics or inspirations or character analyses, no burning out an entire workday browsing the top all-time and giggling like an idiot, it's just dead here.

The same massive numbers that made reddit insufferable for some are what make niche communities inhabitable at all.

The dream would be that they manage to make their own glorious free & open source version, so that after a brief spike in corporate profit as they fire all their writers and artists, suddenly nobody needs those corps anymore because EVERYONE gets access to the same tools - if everyone has the ability to churn out massive content without hiring anyone, that theoretically favors those who never had the capital to hire people to begin with, far more than those who did the hiring.

Of course, this stance doesn't really have an answer for any of the other problems involved in the tech, not the least of which is that there's bigger issues at play than just "content".

Rising tide lifts all boats, so let's lift the biggest boats. That'll surely raise the tide.

Unfortunately $50 is a hard cap, it's for an LGS Budget League, and in general I dislike when cards like Cathar's eat up so much of a deck's budget. That said, I really appreciate the rest of your ideas, I already have Fathom Mage just for being good in the deck, I hadn't considered bringing Wizard class but that seems like a perfect fit.

I've been considering Approach of the Second Sun, maybe it is worth my time to bring. I'm already packing endless detour just as a general utility card.

Thanks for the tips!

While the combos are nice, what I usually enjoy playing (and what I'm hoping to do most in the deck) is to do "soft combos", things that don't immediately win the game but quickly create out-of-hand boardstates. One of my favorite examples would be Agent's Toolkit/Crystalline Giant + Denry Klin + Goldberry allowing me to put a ton of counters on Denry and turn all my future creatures into super-soldiers.

So while it may not be the best available strategy, I guess what I'm looking for is to make a fun midrange deck with some cool elements that sometimes hits a combo to win faster. It makes me think that maybe the answer is to stop focusing so hard on combo play at all, giving up options like Swift Reconfiguration to supply better midrange consistency.

You are correct that Obeka only works if the player whose turn is being cancelled agrees to do so. However, Discontinuity and Glorious End both work during opponent's turns, and do not give your opponent a choice. The idea is that if you use them at the same sort of timing where you would use Stifle, you cancel their triggers and they can't do anything about it (except counterspells).

It's frequently good to run them in Obeka so you have a backup plan in case Obeka is removed, but if Obeka's on the field then you can use her to survive the downside of Glorious end. So basically, it's just a neat trick you can do with cards that might already be found in an obeka deck.

Pretty big question to analyze for a lemmy comment, but my take is it's as good a start as I could hope for, and even if it's wrong it's worth trying just to learn what happens

(Not sure if we have the scryfall bot here or not so I'm just going to pretend like we do)

Well, there's [[Havoc Festival]] + [[Wound Reflection]], and if anyone survives to make it to your turn, you just start skipping your own turn. Same schtick with the "Pact of ____" cycle

idk if you're already aware, but Obeka plays well with Myriad, making a slower-than-competitive but still explosively powerful style of play.

And [[Identity Thief]] is a fun exploration in the rules surrounding her, since she cancels the part where exiled things come back but doesn't cancel the thief returning to normal, allowing you to just exile a creature every turn until stopped.

Finally, Obeka naturally likes having backup spells like [[Discontinuity]], [[Stifle]], or [[Glorious End]], right? Well, those spells make for some really special fun when you start paying attention for cancellable triggers on opponents' turns. They send their commander for a ride in the [[Golden Argosy]]? Well, if you cancel the "return them all to the battlefield trigger", then that commander is trapped in exile forever. Oops.

"Poor artists imitate, great ones steal"

I have no idea who actually coined this, but I heard once that it was Mark Twain. I'm pretty sure it wasn't, but it sounds like something he'd say and attaching his name to it actually helps convey the message and its tone, so fuck it, Mark Twain said that.

They added VSH to core maps, right? Is that accessible via matchmaking or server browser only?