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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (3 children)

But the Christfuckers we do have are obnoxious and loud enough to make you think otherwise

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (4 children)

You'd get even weirder looks if you said "those persons travel a lot", while also sounding like someone who doesn't really speak the language.

"Those people" can be a racist or classist dog whistle, but isn't always, and also there isn't really an alternative. Say what you're going to say, and don't worry too much about it. The people who would misinterpret it to fit an agenda are probably going to do so regardless of what words you use.

 

Like, is it enough just to have something like a granola bar with it, or do they really mean a full meal?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

First three letters of Abzan are a,b, then z. Then a again. Like a life cycle. You're born, you grow, you die, then you get resurrected by one of Abzan's many graveyard tricks.

Bant is like "banter", like friends do. It's the friendly colours of white, blue, and green. It helps that my group hug and pillow fort decks are both bant to help me glue that association together.

Sultai starts with an "S", hissing like a snake. Vraska has snake hair and she's green/black, but sultai also follows the S with a U to remind you blue is in there.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What extension is that? Sounds like something I'd want.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

It's sometimes used here, I think it depends how English you are. I just use "lol" but my fiancée does use "mdr" with other French speakers.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I think generally it's hard to "fake" being behind because your board state is your board state. Unless you have something giving all your stuff flash or something, in most cases it doesn't really matter if you have an Ulamog in hand and castable if on board you only have a vanilla 2/2 and the green player has an army of 12/12 tramplers. If you have lands in hand, for instance, you're generally better off playing them than holding back to hope that "oh, I'm so mana screwed" gets you further later.

On the other hand, there's also playing smart. If you know there's a boardwipe coming you probably want to hold on to your creatures. I try not to play turn 1 sol ring, even if I draw it, because that makes all eyes turn to you and any big thing that you might drop as a result of that will be coming out when everyone else is most likely to have some kind of removal, and often when there's nothing better to spend mana on. If a player is sitting on two untapped blue mana what are the odds that he's sitting on a counterspell? Can you bait out the counterspell with a threat now so you're able to do what you really want later? Or hold off casting in the hopes that it gets dropped elsewhere?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Depends on how the fight resolved. Sometimes you get snippy for a bit but ultimately either come to an agreement or the fight resolves and that's it. You rankle for a bit after, get over it, and move on.

Sometimes the fight isn't about what you're fighting about. They've had a bad day and it manifests as some bitchy comments about how the dishes were done. You stop fighting about the dishes but you're still upset because they're taking their bad day out on you, or they're still upset because they feel you don't care about them. These can last much longer because the fight revealed bad blood, but didn't do anything to address it.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (5 children)

A French one is common enough that it's used in English- "Répondez, s'il vous plaît" (Respond, if you please) is where we get RSVP. "SVP" is also sometimes used as a shorthand for "please", at least in Quebecois.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I remember Dolly Parton singing about her.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

They sell them cut like that as dog treats, with the hole packed with food. Probably either dragged out as a treat for some camper's dog or scavenged by wildlife and abandoned when the good stuff was gone.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm terrified to respond. Every time I find an artist I like it seems like they turn out to be a completely garbage person. Therese Nielsen, Seb McKinnon, Noah Bradley....

Jeremy Wilson, Magali Villeneuve, and Johannes Voss are probably my highest ranking active artists right now, but now I'm looking forward to finding out one is an actual cannibal or something.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Maybe we also should talk about not needing to work so many hours that it's necessary to ration the sun then, too.

 

Each commander deck I own now has got an NFC tag linking it to the Moxfield decklist. With a quick scan, anyone borrowing my decks or just curious has a quick and easy way to see what's in the box! Really easy, and I thought it was a cool idea so I wanted to share.

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