The largest prosperity boom in the history of the world has amounted in people being no more prosperous. The largest boom in technological advancement didn’t translate to efficiency, it led to wealth consolidation. No universal health care. Eroded social services. And here we are
The Undecided Case For Harris: If she wins, it will humiliate both Elon Musk and Hillary Clinton at the same time, and no matter your politics at least one of those outcomes has to be pretty sweet.
@SaffronOlive Were you a bit reserved in your takes on the podcast because of Crim and Richard’s enthusiasm? It seemed like you were trying to be more upset but just couldn’t find the gear. Was that acceptance or shock?
No shade or anything. Just curious if my own bias is reading it that way
You make Ravnica, you create a rich world from which you can draw from and add to until the end of time. You make X-Men Storm with “Storm” in the text box, you have whatever that’s worth, and UBs are rarely going to offer anything more than that on repeat.
@LunaArwen03@coflorcana And it’s very obvious this is where it’ll go. Two of the four banned cards were specifically made for commander mistakes that came out of greed / wizards designing for commander.
@SaffronOlive I think the only clarity we can hope for is a technology solution. Any level of human subjectivity in the process is going to be a non starter / too difficult to coalesce around
@LunaArwen03@coflorcana This is good step one explanation. Next up. Today the format, which has been run by volunteers for over 15 years, is now being run by wizards as the volunteers have stepped away. Everyone should rightly be afraid that the profit motive is about to take over something very pure
I just want to thank @goberthicks@elektrotal@JimTSF for everything they've done for our game. We simply don't deserve them.
Thank you three and the others not named... our lives are collectively better for having you invested in our hobbies. Time will be kind to your legacy