Earl David Ratliff

Student, writer, loves good music and warm company.

[Earl David Ratliff @EarlDRatliff]

@hiranyou @Harusrl @YuGiOh_TCG "dedicated" as a word does not mean "not at the same time", nor "not having to choose".

[Earl David Ratliff @EarlDRatliff]

@TrevorAllenMD PRB 2024 goes out of its way to be kinda bonkers about minutiae like this, but it helps little hiccups like this become easier to brush away. 4/4

[Earl David Ratliff @EarlDRatliff]

@TrevorAllenMD Essentially, it's not "weird" that we can't use face-down mons even if policy treats 'em public for the moment, bc material usage rules themselves don't care about that. We can only use face-downs we possess bc of an explicit part of the material rules telling us we can. 3/

[Earl David Ratliff @EarlDRatliff]

@bel_zombie @atrocityTCG Apart from about a second or two of making sure we hear the player correctly, we can pretty quickly make clear we have zero interest in entertaining or welcoming absurdities like this in our events, by quickly and matter-of-factly citing an infraction.

[Earl David Ratliff @EarlDRatliff]

@atrocityTCG And that's if we don't instead interpret the behavior as willful misinterpretation of gamestate or game rules. Given the screenshot, I'm inclined to see it as willful misinterpretation, which would instead be the infraction UC-Cheating. Either way, easy to smash nonsense.

[Earl David Ratliff @EarlDRatliff]

@atrocityTCG either a child innocently just doesn't know what "calling" a toss is, or someone older knows and is asking this absurdity anyway. In the former, we calmly teach a kid. In the latter, we state no one is entitled to waste the event's time and cite SP-Minor. 1/

[Earl David Ratliff @EarlDRatliff]

@angelc0ded that is not a reason to apologize. please feel free to rescind the apology if doing so would help you feel better.

[Earl David Ratliff @EarlDRatliff]

@RANK10YGO Thank you for your support, Rata. Are you going to Richmond? If so, say hi!

[Earl David Ratliff @EarlDRatliff]

@CauyGibson @Ryan_on_cEDH Ends up a case of "ygo behavior is always subject to review". So in ygo I advise people communicate honestly and forthcomingly about the things one is entitled to know, AND state "I am not to provide this information" about things that one is not entitled to know. 3/3

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@CauyGibson @Ryan_on_cEDH Related to that, ygo policy is kinda open-ended to prevent safe harbor for things that policymakers and staff find unacceptable or unsportsmanlike - everything is scrutinizable for the sake of "has someone found a new way to take something innocuous and make it no longer so". 2/

[Earl David Ratliff @EarlDRatliff]

@Klinklang4ever @SnazzyYGO My team has translated and localized all of these at https://t.co/YIMHMxZVFa.

[Earl David Ratliff @EarlDRatliff]

@ChaseTownsend92 @SnazzyYGO My team has translated and localized all of these at https://t.co/YIMHMxZVFa.

[Earl David Ratliff @EarlDRatliff]

@SkarlonYGO on some level I find it damn peculiar. I mean, my ygorg translation team in theory has cause to be emotionally attached to fan localizations, but we aren't attached that way bc we understand the nature of localization. Hmmm.

[Earl David Ratliff @EarlDRatliff]

@SkarlonYGO Side note: At events, there's nothing as important as mutual intelligibility and clarity, and official names are clear. As a judge I wonder if this ick factor about official names may only be felt by folks who don't much care about the bigger picture. 2/

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@SkarlonYGO I've never seen the "they changed it so now it sucks" attitude among my team, despite us being *the ones coming up with* some fanmade localizations: so I end up confused by folks who may outright refuse official localization. How often do you see people do that, Skarlon? 1/

[Earl David Ratliff @EarlDRatliff]

@MBTYuGiOh It is not dead, it lives on in my blood. So long as I live, it lives.

[Earl David Ratliff @EarlDRatliff]

@siberianrabbit_ @MBTYuGiOh Hey sib how are you