Otello @CyclopsCaveman@cyrenesavage.com

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it's too expensive to contain a deadly illness. anyway why can't i find anyone to do jobs

it's amazing how even as short term thinking as liberal economics can't understand that 1 million workers dying in two years might affect economic growth somehow

china's zero covid policy is going to damage its economy any day now, i say as my plague ridden nation enters month two of gdp reduction

saying someone from the distant past "was" gay is projecting 20th and 21st century paradigms of sexuality onto people who didn't see themselves that way. before say, roughly the post WW2 period sexuality was more something you did and less something you were. notably this also erases how the people themselves would have seen themselves. like people in ancient Rome it was more about submission than being gay, which lead to such paradigms as eating your wife's pussy was the gayest thing ever because of it being submission, gayer than fucking a dude in the butt.

i'm currently nose deep in reading up on dredge again since i'm bringing my karador edh into the lab

"whatever your strategy is, you must figure out what you want to do and why you want to do it. It will be mind-blowing to know this, but consider the fact in every tournament, you will play more games against sideboarded hate cards than against an un-sideboarded deck. In a way, your game 2 and 3 strategy must be equally as good or better than your game 1 strategy. You must decide: Do I go all in on turn one? Do I mulligan to a safer opener? What do I name with Cabal Therapy? What is my role in this game?"

"In similar deck vs. similar deck matchups, there are a couple of things that you want to look at to figure out what role to play:

1. Who has more damage? Usually he has to be the beatdown deck.
2. Who has more removal? Usually he has to be the control deck.
3. Who has more permission and card drawing? Almost always he has to be the control deck.

If you are the beatdown deck, you have to kill your opponent faster than he can kill you. If you are the control deck, you have to weather the early beatdown and get into a position where you can gain card advantage."

"I drag on in this section because it is the most important part of considering whether to play with this deck. You must know Legacy concisely, as well as your metagame, the popular sideboard cards at that given time, and what your card selections do or do not do well against them. There is no secret to the fact that this deck is one of the more easily hated against; your job is to make that hate ineffective, or meager, or just irrelevant. Thus, you must learn before you earn (stupid proverb)."

Excerpts from:

RThomas' Dredge Primer (Dredge or Die), 2017
https://www.mtgthesource.com/forums/showthread.php?31901-Primer-Dredge

Mike Flores' Who's The Beatdown?, 1999
https://articles.starcitygames.com/articles/whos-the-beatdown/

Mason (he/him) who’s trans needs some money for food for himself & his pets. Anything helps

PayPal: thatoneweirdkid

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Interac e-transfer: Mason_brownlee@icloud.com

Crowdfunding a bit of aid due to my husband and his mother contracting COVID-19. I have to lose a week of pay and given that I just spent a year unemployed, we don't have any savings to compensate for an event like this.
https://www.paypal.com/pools/c/8Mb1Gh2k9G

I also have venmo and cashapp
#crowdfund #mutualaid

On the one hand, it is eminently possible to date, even exclusively (!!!) non-cis people without being a chaser. On the other hand, it is impossible to give the sorts of people who have earned the term chaser technical instruction on understanding that other people have interiority

It's telling that the takeaway most chasers have from being told about the consequences of their behavior is "wow, nobody likes me just because I am into trans people." The first and only thing they know to reach for is the only consideration they ever actually gave, that "my desired partner is trans so this complaint about me relates to that." The end result is that they hear only echoed back to them the same narrative that brought them to a point of criticism.