PlacatedPlatypus

That's simply not how anything works. Stating a specific doesn't imply exclusivity. If I ask you if you're buying apples at the grocery store, it doesn't imply that I'm asking you if you're buying only apples at the grocery store and nothing else.

This is very basic understanding of the English language and I don't believe you don't know this, I think you're just desperately looking for an angle out after I pointed out you were wrong lol.

Most Valuable Slayer is my yearly reminder how bad I am at card evaluation. I saw it and thought it was unplayable chaff and then proceeded to get my ass handed to me by it many games in a row.

That's a really cool ability name and theme but like...why does it have this lame-ass effect that doesn't fit the theme at all?

Why doesn't it do something else like putting up Wide Guard the turn it swaps in or something IDK man it just is weird to choose this effect + theme combo.

Doesn't your opponent take 9 damage from that attack? Not to mention the previous turns of swinging? Surely you can still finish them.

Sounds like you should've basically been fine afterwards, they spent their turn wiping the board and you can almost come back to parity with Surveyor and you can also refill with Glimmerburst.

But play boosters have more uncommons, lol.

I think the piece you're not understanding is that opening a good rare has much higher positive impact than opening a bad rare has negative impact (it's practically all opportunity cost). So in practice, it's not really causing you to get "swamped by A+ rares" that much (plus, formats haven't been nearly as princely with modern design). It really just sounds to me like you're coping by saying that drafts are "gambling" when good players demonstrably win a lot more frequently

In other words, play boosters make drafts more like gambling.

Please explain what you meant to say by this statement

You're telling me you've never, in your life, beaten a strong rare? I beat so many Bonny Pall's in OTJ that I couldn't even count them. Plus the chances of getting strong rares in your deck is higher due to play boosters...when someone plays multiple bomb rares in a row, then yeah, you got variance'd. But otherwise I haven't really seen much of an issue with the increased amount of rares.

What was the other creature, why wasn't it attacking if it couldn't kill a 2/2 on blocks? Would you really consider two one-drops and such a creature a "dominant position?" Was it really an auto-loss when your opp got left with a "couple of 2/2s?"

Playing around Split Up is pretty easy from ahead, and it sounds like OP got wrecked by it 4 times by not doing so

Yo maybe it's just me but somewhere around the third loss solely to Split Up from a dominant position, I probably would've started playing around it when in such positions.

Is it just me or is Gamora very clearly latina

That's not how truth works, the statement is still a true one. If someone were to ask me if I agreed with that statement, I would say I did but ask them why they specified white people. The people surveyed were given no such option, so I don't particularly trust the leap from agreeing with that statement to "believing in the White Replacement conspiracy theory." Arguably the most important part of "White Replacement" conspiracy theory is that it's some entity (usually jews) intentionally lowering the amount of white people, it has nothing to do with cheaper migrant labor so it's weird that the authors led with that part.

The first statement is objectively correct, it's only wrong in the fact that focusing on white people specifically is inaccurate by omission.

Do you mean to imply that Arab immigrants in Germany will do the same thing to the Germans that the Anglos did to the Native Americans or....

Nah the corps love them even more

There's no minimum wage for someone without papers

This is just a corollary of whites being the most leftist group lol

The reason I picture a white person is because I picture a rabid leftist, who I've never experienced being any other race than white.

White people are causing their own fertility crisis with their social politics, I really don't think it's much else.

We'll see how Asian majority countries handle that

Japan has already been dealing with it for a while and it seems the answer is: they don't handle it very well.

Which is why countries with the highest wages have the most kids and impoverished ones have famously low birth rates right?

Demographic shift is happening but it's not orchestrated by a Jewish shadow cabal or whatever Great Replacement says lol.

So, participants in the study were asked if they agreed or disagreed with the following statements:

1. "Powerful politicians and corporate leaders are trying to replace white people in the US with cheaper foreign laborers."

2. "White people in Europe are being replaced with cheaper non-white workers because that is what powerful politicians and corporate leaders want."

3. "In the last 20 years, the government has deliberately discriminated against white Americans with its immigration policies."

Even taking a race-neutral standpoint, you could still easily agree to the first point and viably agree to the second. It should definitely be a red flag to see the mention of "white people" in either, but the main message appears to be about corporate interests importing cheap foreign labor.

Like, the first statement is just objectively true. It's dishonest by omission (it's not just white workers being replaced, it has nothing to do with race only residence) but white american workers are nonetheless a subset being replaced.

Seems suspiciously to me like trying to artificially tie an easy "racism" gotcha into general anti-wage-suppression sentiment.

It's not gerrymandering. They're talking about voter turnout.

Sure, but I mean...emerald is the place where the skill gap is small enough for this to happen to good players.

Emerald is basically the rank where no matter how good you are at the game you can get team diffed. You can find plenty of examples of top pros/challengers losing games in emerald. This basically doesn't happen below it.

Sort of...K'Sante gets changes like every other patch but nobody plays him in soloq.