An overall good article marred by the gate keeping bullshit. There are a ton of ways to play magic, and just because they are not part of the competitive scene does not make them “not real magic.”

I honestly don’t even think universes beyond is the problem in and of itself. The problem is the high number of sets released per year and the fact that too many of them are universes beyond and in standard. If they did 1 or 2 UB items and kept them to commander decks, secret lairs, or one UB set per year it would leave room for the universes within to shine. Hasbro would never though.

FWIW, the current set is universes within (Secrets of Strixhaven) and is really fun. Of course, the TMNT set before it was also really fun, but they were way too close together.

Get involved with your local community. Donate when you can, spend your time when you can.

This becoming true again because of waves hand at everything going on but trend wise this has not been true for the last few years. It is also not true outside the US.

Seriously! So many sounds for just two people

Because they’re not disruptive. At all.

They disrupt traffic a lot. Especially in the US where we are reliant on cars so much. That is pretty huge. Parades are disruptive in the same way.

despite being not disruptive they make people feel like they’ve “done their part,”

Maybe, but all protests have this issue. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do them

Americans’ pain tolerance is disgustingly low for people staring down fascism while running and manning the world’s deadliest, evilest war machine.

I don’t think this is the case, but this makes it sound like you don’t know what it means to live paycheck to paycheck, which is pretty bad anywhere but very bad in the US. You can’t necessarily afford to take time off, and if you call out you could loose your job and subsequently your health insurance. That could be life or death for a lot of folks The US is fucked in a lot of ways, but especially this one.

here’s a widespread trend of highly underestimating the pain and effort it’d take to drag Trump out of power

This is never going to happen short of prolonged and bloody civil war. I think we may see that unless Trump dies in office (of natural causes, assassination will just make him a martyr). The best we can hope for outside of full empire collapse is pushing out the shitty dems and getting actual progressives/leftists in office.

Ultimately I don’t think these protests are doing a lot, but they are not doing nothing either. And they certainly aren’t hurting anything. The normies that go to these were not going to organize outside of them, and maybe (very maybe) these protest help them see what collective action can do.

On a basic level, weekends are when the most people can afford to show up. And I mean that monetarily. The sheer number if people living paycheck to paycheck without much PTO would mean fewer showing up.

On a less basic level, why are you against weekend protests? Because they are less disruptive?

That is awesome!

Looks neat! Cool that the community is keeping it going. How do folks feel about printing your own? That is how netrunner is still going to this day

For real. Literally before anyone has even announced candidacy is like the best time.

Pet or wild? Pet is any, wild is corvids. Why? I dunno

It was a lot at first, but I only work 3 days a week. Due to the way my schedule works, I also get 5 days off every other week

I work 12 hour days, so re-energizing is key. For me that is taking the first day to just do things I want. That can be chores, but does not have to be.

Hogs?

I had like 2 friends back in my CS 1.6 days that insisted on Xfire, but I paid for a Mumble server shortly after that. Might self host one again…

Shit, I forgot avout Xfire. Mumble and Teamspeak are still going too

Yeah, there is that. There is also the fact that even going to the source I cannot find the actual study/data. No idea the sample size, method, or even list if questions. Mostly this feels like clickbait from PC Gamer.

Based on the username might just be an annoying troll

Check local architectural salvage or second use building supplies. At least around me they tend to have a lot of awesome stuff like the trim in the pictures.

Adding more to your point, voter turnout was 64%, so less than half of less than two-thirds of registered voters voted for him.

Got ya. Clearly misinterpreted that sorry. 12 hour workdays don’t leave much im the way of extra brain space