"someone (Jeremy) had the audacity to criticize someone (Christine)and Criticism is Not Harassment no matter how some people wish to construe it as such."
Jeremy went far beyond objective criticism and publicly persecuted Christine for nearly a year. He may not have personally hounded her with hateful private messages, but his actions directly resulted in months of direct online harassment from his fan base. You can't seriously look at all the crap Jeremy said and not call it harassment. When you hold that much influence over such a large congregation of people, you have a basic responsibility to not give them the idea that these sorts of heinous actions are socially acceptable. He could have easily criticized Christine without his plethora of disparaging personal remarks against her, and without encouraging thousands of his followers to constantly flame her. The fact that he did do these things, and unapologetically so, is what makes it harassment.
"The protests, mobs, riots all a sign that someone is incapable of accepting the opinion of others."
You mean accepting the opinion that bullying, harassing, and dehumanizing innocent human beings is okay? Yeah no, that sort of mentality has no place in our society, and entertaining that line of thinking will only hold us back as a species.
"someone who disagreed with the Nazi party during there rain ended up at best in a concentration camp at worst with a bullet in there head."
If you think the experience of a Nazi concentration camp is the best case scenario compared to a quick and painless death, then I can't even fathom how detached you are from reality. I encourage you to quantum-leap into the body of an emaciated Jewish concentration camp prisoner circa 1944 and ask yourself, "Is this better than not suffering at all?"
"but the moment you stop respecting the opinion of others and start attacking, harassing them, posting there personal info and calling for a public lynching joust because thy sad something you don't agree with, that is the point I stop respecting you, that is the point you have become a Nazi"
Is that not exactly what Jeremy did?
"people can not differentiate between Nazi and centre right"
Actually, as the years have progressed, our Overton Window has been shifting steadily to the right. Democratic socialism (a mild leftist ideology) has become regarded as far-left, and centrism has become regarded as center-left. On the other side, traditional conservatism has shifted to the center of America's political spectrum, with semi-fascist ideologies occupying the moderate- to far-right.
In other words, the more that neo-Nazi ideologies become normalized and accepted as a valid political platform, the closer the center right drifts toward Nazism.
I don't call right-thinkers Nazis. I call Nazis Nazis. I know a lot of Trump voters with opinions that I strongly disagree with, and I don't call them Nazis because they're not Nazis. They don't believe in things like a one-party government or ethnic cleansing or the removal of basic human rights (except maybe health care, but that's an entirely different can of worms), so I can't in good conscience call them Nazis.
Do I think Jeremy is a Nazi? Not at the moment, because he hasn't shown me any reason to think he's a Nazi. But I do think he's a scumbag with a startling lack of empathy for other humans, and that his career as a psychologically abusive and hate-mongering content creator should be completely and utterly destroyed.
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Because it's not in a set with wither?
Hey now, Noxious Revival can be Redirected to target one of your opponent's binned cards...! ;D
My playgroup plays Bang! almost as often as we play Magic! It's a lot of fun.
"YAY, GENERAL STORE!"
Whaaaaaaaat? That's a terrible argument on their part. Aura Shards has all sorts of applications, with the most common one being a way to answer many staples (Lightning Greaves, Sensei's Divining Top, etc.), acceleration (Sol Ring, Mana Reflection, etc.), and problem cards (Defense of the Heart, Grave Pact, Dream Halls, Blightst- ...well, not Blightsteel Colossus) that are seen in pretty much every game of EDH.
Saying that Aura Shards is a hate card against artifact decks is like saying that Diabolic Edict is a hate card against Voltron decks. Yes, it answers your deck exceptionally well, but it isn't specifically intended to hate you out of the game.
Boy, are you gonna be embarrassed!
Like "Scepter of Empires", "Crown of Monarchies", and "Throne of Kingdoms" or something.
I have a couple of friends who are sort of like this. They'll sometimes show off their hands to me, but I do my best not to react during sanctioned matches because 1) it would be rude to the opponent, and 2) a reaction would give away more information, and I don't want to be accused of providing outside assistance.
Anyway, about the card itself... I recognize its potential, but I wouldn't claim that it's broken until we're given thorough time to test it. Personally, I like it.
It turns Squirrel Nest into a win condition, and it's just great on its own.
I was in a four-player game, running Riku of Two Reflections against Memnarch, Numot, the Devastator, and Azusa, Lost but Seeking.
It's still fairly early in the game. I have Riku, Lightning Greaves (on Riku, of course), Sol Ring, and Cloudstone Curio on the board. Memnarch had gotten off to a fast start, playing several mana rocks and a Clock of Omens. Numot was getting scared of Memnarch, so he cast Armageddon and passed the turn to Azusa. Azusa dropped a couple of Forests, then cast Collective Voyage. Memnarch used Clock of Omens to pour some mana into the Voyage, I used my Sol Ring to add two more, and we all search for six basics.
My turn. I untap, and draw my card.
Earthcraft.
I look through my hand and survey my options, when I spot something interesting.
I tap two lands and cast Earthcraft, tap Riku to untap one of my lands, then tap out and cast Siege-Gang Commander.
I stack Siege-Gang's trigger on top of Riku's, then tap him and his pals to untap four lands and tap them again, floating four mana. I then spend GU for Riku's trigger and make a copy of Siege-Gang Commander, getting three more tokens. I use Cloudstone Curio to bounce the original Siege-Gang Commander to my hand, then tap the copy and the three Goblins to untap and float four more mana. I now have six in my pool.
I rinse and repeat, with a net gain of one mana each time, until I have an arbitrary number of Siege-Gang Commanders, Goblin tokens, and mana. I then use the mana to kill all three opponents with Siege-Gang Commander shocks.
It was awesome.
Rhys is fast, consistent, and can get out of hand very quickly.
Rith, Hazezon, and Ulasht have access to red, which allows for all sorts of crazy interactions.
Ghave has access to black and all of its tutors and removal (Grave Pact, anyone?), and is just good on his own.
I've found that Soul Warden-esque effects usually alleviate that drawback, though they're kind of frail.
It's utterly awesome if they can't find an answer before you find a way to protect it, though.
"Okay, I take 33 and get 33 Soldiers."
"Great, so what's your life total now?"
"Uh, 41?"
"But what about all that damage you took?"
"Soul Warden, bro!"
"...Oh."
I milled one of them out with a Sanity Grinding deck that has Twincasts, four of each blue Spirit Avatar from Shadowmoor/Eventide, a few Wizards for Sigil Tracer, and 20 Islands. No control cards at all.
His response? "That deck is unfair."
I asked him to explain his logic. He simply reiterated, "That deck is unfair."
I explained to him why mill is a subpar strategy, that he didn't do anything to stop me throughout the whole game, and that he wouldn't bother reading any of the cards I played unless it affected his progress of reducing my life total from 20 to 0. Again, I was met with a simple, "That deck is unfair."
Similarly, I also find it sad when people dismiss really good cards as mediocre.
I was negotiating with another friend of mine for his Sensei's Divining Top, and his thoughts on the card were, "Eh, it's all right. I can see how it can be good, but I don't think it's that great."
That would drive me crazy!
Ever since I got into TCGs as a kid when I collected Pokémon cards, I would always keep my rarer cards well-protected. I don't think my Charizard has ever come into contact with human hands, aside from when it went into the sleeve.
If I were to ever encounter a player like that, I would immediately get up, buy him a nice set of sleeves, and say, "Please... For my sanity."
Used Keening Stone's text as a reference.
Of course, this doesn't contribute to the discussion of the legitimacy of the cards (it's been made pretty clear that they aren't real), but every bit of information helps, right?
This, definitely. It's even more annoying when the person doesn't even know the mana costs or stats of the cards they're proxying.
One guy I know who has a 100% proxied Arcbound deck thought that Master Transmuter was a 2/2, and tried casting Doubling Season for 3G. Within two turns of each other in the same game, no less.
And on some of the proxies, the only text he put was the card title and "Just ask."