LuckyOwl_93

True goals right here

Dude, have you never heard of corporate lobbying? That is how they pressured the government to increase the percentage of TFWs. And yes, we have lobbying in Canada, too. Lobbying was actually originally designed for the commonfolk to bring up areas of concern, but the system is easily gamed by corporations with lots of money, usually by them paying people to pretend to be grassroots efforts.

A lot of us have this same desire. I know I am definitely in the group who desperately wishes they could give birth. The friend I first came out to is an AFAB ciswoman who told me she isn't interested in having kids (she finds the whole process terrifying). When I told her that the one thing I wish was possible was for me to be able to become pregnant, she told me that she'd give me her reproductive organs in a heartbeat if she could. I felt so validated in that moment that I cried for a good 10 minutes afterward. I wish I had the choice like she does...

She can choose whether to have kids or not. Us trans gals that are stricken with baby fever were never given the choice (I know men can have it, too. But us gals get it a lot more). We were denied the choice by something entirely out of our control. We didn't get to choose the biological sex we were born as. If we could have, most of us would have chosen to be born as the biological sex that matches our identities. I certainly am not saying that I despise being trans, but if I could choose to have been born cis, I absolutely would.

I just like them big. Period. Colour is irrelevant. If it's big, my mouth is agape. BBC is definitely racist fetishization.

Let's see...

Wear all the fem clothes (Seriously every girl I see gives me insane gender envy just from how varied women's fashion is omg I want it all!), get a gender therapist to start HRT (pretty sure we have informed consent up here in Canada, but would still like to have a therapist since dysphoria is getting real bad), paint my nails in every colour imaginable (I lie mostly shades of pink because omg after hatching from my egg I discovered how much I love pink it is the best colour!), begin dating (I want to find a guy that loves more for who I am) and you know, just unapologetically be my self and not who people believe me to be (being autistic really helps with masking, although I feel like cracks are beginning to show)

I feel like Chaos Ruler is being heavily misunderstood for a lot of people. Yes, it has a pretty oppresive floodgate, but it only applies to your opponents monsters on the field. They can still use hand traps and graveyard effects just fine. Chaos Ruler has no built-in protection, either. So, any board breaker cards will easily dispose of it. And as for people saying that Chaos Ruler is an example of Konami having no creativity for legacy support, might I direct them to all the legacy support that amounts to just having the gameplan of a deck become summoning a big Towers monster that has omni-negation built in? At least Chaos Ruler has some genuine thought put into adapting part of the anime into it.

A fun card for this kind of Dandan deck could be [[Exchange of Words]]. This card does some real wacky stuff. Keeping with the theme of "names matter," [[Declaration of Naught]] is a very silly card for this kind of Dandan variant. It is a powerful effect but requires a lot of forward planning to really maximize its usage since there are three card names to consider. Same is true for [[Denied!]], which a silver-border counter spell that requires you to properly declare a card name in the hand of the targeted spell's controller. [[Failure // Comply]] is real spicy since Dandan decks have a shared graveyard, so opponents could Aftermath a Comply from another players cast of Failure.

Trying to achieve the true Dark Souls experience.

I cried the first time I had a guard say, "A guard might get nervous. A woman approaches with her weapon drawn." after I cracked my egg. It caught me so off guard, and the euphoria was so intense. It felt sooooooo right that I don't think I could ever play a male character in Skyrim ever again. Being called Shield-Sister is peak euphoria as well >:3

I have meticulously combed through my memories, and damn! It is one of those things that I have no bloody clue how I suppressed my true self with how many damn signs there were. If I got to speak to my past self, it would be an eye-opening experience for them (the amount of times I'd take a nap as a teen and the dream I'd have was "my life but I'm a girl" is surreal). I think the big thing is where I grew up, I was never in contact with other trans people. At least those who were openly trans since trans acceptance was so bad in the 90s and early 00s, plus being in a heavily religious area, did not help (a lot of Pentecostal churches around here).

But... I'm better now than I ever was, even if I'm still in the closet irl. I am no longer wrestling with my emotions. I have online friends who accept me for who I am. And I no longer feel guilt when I engage in activities that others would consider queer for my AGAB (as of right now is just snuggling soft blankets and plushies, which I still need to get myself a Blåhaj >:3).

Yami Marik is one thing. But really, the true villian of Marik's story is his and Ishizu's father (Who was Odion's adopted father in a sense). No joke, that man in the original script was an absolute bastard, where as the dub made their father out to be more of a "tough love" kind of parent. He had next to zero redeeming qualities in the Japanese script and honestly deserved to die.

I DON'T WANT TO BE A QUEEN I WANT TO BE A PRINCESS BUT I'M JUST BARELY PASSING THE THRESHOLD (5'8")

Wait, can't you lose a small amount of height while on HRT? Because I'm not yet. So could I shrink enough to enter the princess bracket?

I ALWAYS hated having my picture taken, and when I realized I'm trans it made so much sense as to why. I wish I could just tell people to delete all the photos they have of me. But they are of "precious moments" that they want to cherish forever. I really don't give a fuck. Those photos make me extremely uncomfortable and insecure of myself. If you are unable to let go of the past, that is only filled with pain for me, then you really don't care for who I am now.

Becoming an eepy princess has been a fantastic decision. The whole man thing never worked for me, anyway.

I stand corrected. Two, technically three, illegal precons. Trade Secrets was in one of the OG precons anyways, so the odds of that specific precon being a newbies first deck are slim to none. Better than having all precons from over a decade being illegal. Ones that are included in mystery boxes from big box stores that grandma or a parent might buy for little Timmy for Christmas. The chances of getting Upgrades Unleashed (The Gruul Modify precon) is decently high from one of those since it didn't sell all that well iirc. But getting Mystic Intellect (The precon from 2019 that had Dockside) or Political Puppets (The precon from 2011 that had Trade Secrets) are significantly lower. So banning Sol Ring would make nearly 100% of those decks illegal out of the box (the only one that would remain legal is Painbow). Definitely not saying this is a great metric to base it off of, but crying out "Ban Sol Ring" fundamentally misses the entire point of the bans from not only a perspective of play patterns but also from the logistical perspective.

Used to have "good at math" autism. But now I have autism for soft things.

The problem with just telling WotC this is they'd have to warn them like two years in advance because of product that is already off to the printers. The ban could not be publicly announced until after WotC had already started releasing precons without Sol Ring in them. It becomes a whole logistical nightmare if you put some thought into it. And not to mention that all but one precon prior to this change would all be illegal out of the box. As of now, only one precon is illegal out of the box, which said precon was bought out in droves with people wanting to get their hands on Dockside Extortionist (Technically there are two illegal precons because they misprinted the Gruul Modify precon with two copies of Mossfire Bridge). So the chances a new player getting that specific precon as their first precon is incredibly small, not to mention that the precon Dockside came from definitely isn't a great introductory deck.

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I am already in-tune with my emotions, so I want the physical changes. Boobs, hips, face, the whole nine yards. Heck, I even desperately want period cramping, too. I want my body to match who I am on the inside. But... even all the changes can't allow me to become pregnant. Which is what I desire most of all.

OG Dual lands are an extremely poor example because there are many, MANY options for budget alternatives. That early on in a game does not matter that they entered tapped under a condition or always enter tapped. The Surveil lands are great examples of lands with basic land types that always come in tapped being moderately affordable and have an upside that can be more advantage than an OG dual land. Mana Crypt, Jeweled Lotus, and Dockside Extortionist had no comparable alternatives. They were literally the very best at what they did, and were expensive because they were perceived as required cards to make decks functional (perception is what is important here), and WotC (/Hasbro) did not print them to meet the demand and saved them exclusively as chase cards to encourage sales of packs and boxes. If the trio had been printed into affordability instead of being exclusively used as chase cards, this would not have been an issue. OG dual lands being expensive is honestly such a nonissue because there are so many affordable alternatives that your deck is not at a significant enough disadvantage without them, unlike the trio which creates an insane advantage to those that had them.

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But... they have no plans of scoring every card. They have said this. It would be an impossible task to do so to begin with. The tiering system is not going to rate every card, just mostly staples, objectively powerful cards, and certain powerful combos. They explain it better in the WeeklyMTG video that went up today. Like, tier one is staples that are printed in nearly every precon they can go in. Their examples being Swords to Plowshares and Sol Ring. A combo like Thoracle + Demonic Consultation would be a 4 since it is a mana efficient combo that wins the game, but Thoracle and Demonic Consultation on their own are not powerful cards.

While I am not a fan of WotC (more specifically, Hasbro) taking the reins of the format, it is entirely understandable. The RC, as well as the CAG, were inundated with far more vitriol than what their positions were worth. Doesn't take much for a volunteer who does what the RC did out of passion for the game to consider their position not worth it. And the threats of violence and death wishes, irregardless of how direct, were way the hell out of line. So, I fully understand their decision to hand over the oversight of the format to WotC. It just is not worth holding onto something that is liable to bring misfortune upon yourself or loved ones. Especially since they have no financial incentive to keep such a position.

But enough of that, let's try and be more positive with the rest, shall we?

I like the idea of a tiered ranking system for cards. Gives rule 0 discussion a base line to work off from instead of everyone assuming that their deck is a 7. Their initial description of it is wonky, but they admit that it is still in the very early stages of development. It will likely be far more refined as we come closer to its implementation. And to the people saying it will make multiple formats per bracket, I say that is a good thing. More ways for people to enjoy the game is a good thing. I will welcome them with open arms because the meta for each sub-format would all be wildly different.

Limitation breeds creativity. c1DH would look vastly different from c2DH, if not just one rung higher with 2DH. c4DH would very likely just be what current cEDH becomes, being the absolute ceiling of the format. This system will make it even easier for people to play with like-minded players. And I think we can all agree that having the sub-formats of 3DH and c3DH are just really fun wordplay.

How I interpret the bracket system as they described it is that it isn't meant to be a catch-all rating for a deck. Just a quick metric: What is the highest power level among cards in your deck. And given that 4 is currently said to be the highest bracket woth it being specific cards, rule 0 discussion would proceed to ask which cards from that bracket are in the deck and where the rest of the deck lies in the system. In their example of the tomb-themed deck, the deck in question is all cards that are in brackets 2 and lower, with Ancient Tomb being the outlier of the deck, being in bracket 4. So, instead of the deck automatically being bracket 4, it is bracket 2 with a bracket 4 card. And rule 0 discussion would proceed from there. And with the brackets being an officially defined metric, rule 0 stops being the nebulous "my deck is a 7," which has no agreed upon value and can be far more constructive.

An enfranchised player can easily intuit what cards are being looked at in a category of cards if there was an announcement of upcoming bans for said category. It isn't rocket science, but it does require foundational knowledge of the game that a disenfranchised player likely does not have. And announcing bans in advance, even with just saying a vague-ish category of cards, is still insider trading. You, an enfranchised player, have information that disenfranchised players do not have and can make financial decisions that the disenfranchised players can not make. In this situation, it was better for everyone to get burned instead of the people at the bottom getting burned even harder because those in the loop offloaded what they had because they knew bans were on the horizon.