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How the Magic: The Gathering Color Wheel Explains Humanity

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Re: How the Magic: The Gathering Color Wheel Explains Humanity

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Post by mat4magic »

notkaiho wrote: post #136
swebs wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What did he say that was false?

I don't want to derail the discussion with irrelevant material, but to suggest that eating a beef-only diet cures autoimmune disorders is utterly unsupported by medical science, for one.

The meat only diet worked for his daughter(she has autoimmune disorder) and him apparently for whatever reason.

He also says its not a healthy diet in general and that he doesnt know if it will work for other people.

I think a lot of people try to twist his words(or assume the worst interpretation) even on "normal" topics because they dont like his Politics.

Re: How the Magic: The Gathering Color Wheel Explains Humanity

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Post by twic »

afiori wrote: post #133
twic wrote: post #115

Not the author's intent, but the descriptions would make fantastic mottoes for a totalitarian state: PEACE THROUGH ORDER HARMONY THROUGH ACCEPTANCE (of your place in society) PERFECTION THROUGH KNOWLEDGE (of the Party's teachings) FREEDOM THROUGH ACTION (go to work in the factory, that is the true freedom!) SATISFACTION THROUGH RUTHLESSNESS

the last one would be probably said in lowercase far from broadcast microphones

No, that's the motto of the citizen volunteer brigades! Feeling a bit down? Join a re-education group and go and kick some subversives' ribcages in! It'll do you a power of good!

Re: How the Magic: The Gathering Color Wheel Explains Humanity

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Post by notkaiho »

swebs wrote: post #141
notkaiho wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't want to derail the discussion with irrelevant material, but to suggest that eating a beef-only diet cures autoimmune disorders is utterly unsupported by medical science, for one.

Well he has a PHD in clinical psychology, not nutrition. I think people like the OP throw these jabs at him purely because they're angry he spoke out against the Canadian pronoun law, rather than any complaints about the validity of his research itself.

Nope, not the reason I said it but nice assumption.

Re: How the Magic: The Gathering Color Wheel Explains Humanity

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Post by brabel »

ericsoderstrom wrote: post #64
omni wrote: post #50

> To keep reading this story, create a free account. Yeah, no. If you're the author of this piece or you have a blog on Medium, get off it. There are plenty of other, less user-hostile options.

What do you recommend?

Static website hosted for free on GitHub or Netlify.

Re: How the Magic: The Gathering Color Wheel Explains Humanity

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Post by kaoD »

praptak wrote: post #95
aasasd wrote: post #88

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By now I'm pretty sure that English-speakers are gradually forgetting what punctuation is. Quotes and commas are already basically dead—instead, we receive titlecase and italics, and convoluted stream-of-words sentences.

Yeah, runs of nouns and gerunds are notoriously hard to parse. Even a short phrase like "Finding Nemo Audience" cannot be parsed unambiguously. That's what you get when most words can function as nouns verbs and adjectives alike. "The old man the boat." - a grammatically correct sentence in English. It's like Perl of human languages :)

What I find interesting is that in spoken language the ambiguity is reduced.

Re: How the Magic: The Gathering Color Wheel Explains Humanity

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Post by YeGoblynQueenne »

bernawil wrote: post #47
saghm wrote: post #38

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> The red (Lightning Bolt), green (Giant Growth) and black (Dark Ritual) are very solid cards and were seen in most decks of their respective colors in the early days of Magic, would be a bit too powerful today. I don't think those three are super comparable; Dark Ritual is much stronger than Lighting Bolt, which is much stronger than Giant Growth. Dark Ritual has purposely not been printed in a "standard legal" set…

Dark Ritual was banned for as long as I remember (I played extended during 2003-2006). It's pretty much the definition of an OP card: if you were to draw 2 copies and a strong creature it'd be almost imposible to lose that game.

Dark Ritual was OP because of the abundance of BBB or 2B threats that it could plomp on the table on turn 1, most famous of them being Necropotence, of course, followed closely by Phyrexian Negator or Bad moon and a swarm of black weenies and with honourable mentions to Stupor or Duress + Ravenous Rats (Stupor and Duress not being threats, but still it sucks to lose two cards on turn 1 before you can do anything about it).

It's interesting to note that when the ability to produce a lot of quick mana with a sorcery was shifted to Red, two of them (Seething Song and Rite of Flame) also got banned (in Modern).

Re: How the Magic: The Gathering Color Wheel Explains Humanity

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Post by swebs »

minitech wrote: post #142
NoOneNew wrote: post #138

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Take responsibility for your actions. Take care of both your mental and physical health. Do something important with your life that's meaningful to you. Respect yourself. Life is bloody hard and you should be easy on yourself when you screw up. As long as you learn something from your mistakes and attempt to push forward again with new found knowledge, you're on the right path. Clean up your room. All of that is the…

You can sarcastically toss out a list of uncontroversial useful or true things that have been said by literally anyone, no matter how often they’ve otherwise been wrong or harmful. It’s not a refutation.

To be fair, there was nothing to refute. Still, nobody has listed anything he said that was wrong or harmful.

Re: How the Magic: The Gathering Color Wheel Explains Humanity

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Post by YeGoblynQueenne »

gpderetta wrote: post #139
TheDauthi wrote: post #40

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Growth still gets printed pretty frequently. Pretty sure it's legal in standard right now. But don't forget all of the other broken stuff blue had from the start: timewalk and timetwister, to name two. We old people used to joke that the most powerful card printed of all item was "island".

I think it hasn't been playable outside of limited for a very long time though.

Ixalan standard had a powerful monoblue Tempo deck that used Curious Obsession and cheap scry cards to draw a ton while attacking with cheap fliers. I think it was tier 1 actually.

Re: How the Magic: The Gathering Color Wheel Explains Humanity

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Post by swebs »

notkaiho wrote: post #153
swebs wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well he has a PHD in clinical psychology, not nutrition. I think people like the OP throw these jabs at him purely because they're angry he spoke out against the Canadian pronoun law, rather than any complaints about the validity of his research itself.

Nope, not the reason I said it but nice assumption.

Well until someone develops mind-reading technology, that's the most likely explanation someone reading your comment would have.

Re: How the Magic: The Gathering Color Wheel Explains Humanity

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Post by rishav_sharan »

ericsoderstrom wrote: post #64
omni wrote: post #50

> To keep reading this story, create a free account. Yeah, no. If you're the author of this piece or you have a blog on Medium, get off it. There are plenty of other, less user-hostile options.

What do you recommend?

I personally like dev.to

looks clean, simple and usable.

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