I think it's weird that "hallucination" would be considered a cute euphemism. Would you trust something that's perpetually tripping balls and confidently announcing whatever comes to them in a dream? To me that sounds worse than merely being wrong.
bitofhope
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I don't play TCGs much* but I'm fascinated by them and have friends who play, so I hear some of the big controversies.
In my view the Magic player base is looking at the past with rose tinted glasses. Power creep is real, but certainly not new. A median MtG card from 20 or 15 years ago will beat the shit out of the median card from 25 or 30 years ago**. Genuine question: is the fact that banned cards skew towards the newest sets a new phenomenon in Magic?
Knowing the kind of shit that goes on in YGO, Magic's trajectory seems downright conservative. Then again, a comment Iheard about that game recently that resonated with me was "the only thing more intricate than the OTK combos in this game is the fucking banlist".
Again comparing MtG and YGO, at least I see a healthy ecosystem of alternate formats in Magic. For the latter, the serious contenders for actually played formats are "standard" and "standard but 20 years ago". Maybe commander is the main way to play Magic nowadays, but at least it's not just a choice between two games with the same mechanics (modulo a couple of extra deck summon types) but different banlists.
I might be an outsider, but I quite like the special format cards. The crossovers are mostly meh, but the Secret Lair series includes some really cool cards like these snow lands, the social media goblins, this magnificent goat, and my favourite MtG card art ever.
I don't doubt that the game has enshittified, but for this one I might hazard a "it took you until now to realize"? At least usual competitive Magic isn't an eternal format so power creep is not quite so guaranteed.
I don't meant to defend WotC with any of this. Fuck them and their interpretation of the "open" game license they wrote, but seem to suddenly not like. Just to me it's a bit funny how fans of the OG trading card game seem to be really late to noticing the problems inherent to the medium.
* I have played Magic and Yu-Gi-Oh! casually, but mostly in the form of ancient video game adaptations. Also Pokémon TCG, but with a "one booster pack every two weeks" kind of kid's allowance with no internet access in those days.
** Specifically median because of early broken ass bs like power nine
I expected the same, except the names being Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray and/or Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhanen.
Wait, he's over fifty?
I knew he's older than he pretends to be but I still expected him to be closer to my age than my dad's.
Can't even "OK boomer" him properly anymore. A millennial might at least take offence but the only bit of generational emotion a mid (phrasing intended) GenXer like him has likely neglected to suppress is euphoria from someone recognizing gen x was ever a thing.
You're underselling it. I see the Ukranian poster very politely telling the Russian missile and drone supplier company employee to shut up and handle his grievances through their legal department and see how that works out for them. All while he continues to listen to the daily barrage of missile and drone strikes in his neighborhood and wonder how many of those weapons are running Linux.
Honestly I'm so used to deconstructions of the basic good races vs. evil races dichotomy that when I joined my first long form DnD campaign about a year ago, I ended up having a chat about it with our DM where he had to explain to me that the orcs were intended to be an obviously "we are evil, we are the enemy, you are supposed to fight and kill us" type of enemy. There's been some more nuance since then, but even since we've moved to the next campaign with new characters, mine is once again the "wait, maybe we should listen hear out the chaotic evil demonic minions and find out why they suddenly decided to try and invade our lands" type of character.
Best of luck!
"I want to speak to the manager" energy.
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How dare you spread misinformation on the Internet? True believers know TempleOS comes packaged with a number of Fun and Unfun games.
After Egypt is a certified parish classic. Child commits adultery to child? Really punish.
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What does it take to cross the line of incendiary geopolitics in this thread?
It's the least of this thing's problems, but I've had it with the fucking teasers and "coming soon" announcements. You woke me up for this? Shut the fuck up, finish your product and release it and we'll talk (assuming your product isn't inherently a pile of shit like AI to begin with). Teaser more like harasser. Do not waste my time and energy telling me about stuff that doesn't exist and for the love of all that is holy do not try and make it a cute little ARG puzzle.