It’s funny to me that the same crowd of people that rail against the continued fucking over of the public by manipulative corporations are the same people who fork over hundreds of dollars for the artificial scarcity and manufactured demmand of collectible cards.
Every time I think of getting into that hobby, I get the same feeling I get when I go to the casino… like I’m just a mark.
It’s such a controversial opinion, but outside of playable games etc… people are basically buying (with ‘collectibles’) the equivalent of bacon and eggs arranged in a happy face to make a kid giggle. What the fuck are people doing with their lives where they need to have a picture of some cartoon character or a bobblehead of it?
How long do your homebrew cards last? It’s hard enough to make good cards at home that I think CardsAgainst Humanity has them publically available since it’s still cheaper for them to print than you would spend for a small batch.
And how do you keep your decks from being overpowered?
It’s tough to comment on how long they last, because it’s going to depend on how often you play. So I started proxying 4 years ago and haven’t had any problems yet, but I also sleeve them as though they were genuine, and only play maybe one game a week.
As for avoiding overpowered decks, I’ve been playing with the same group of guys for nearly 25 years. We’ve worked out where we like to be, and self-balance for fun. It helps that I’m a total Johnny, so I can whiff a game completely and still have fun as long as I “did the thing.”
If you’re just asking how to avoid overpowered decks just because of the ability to print proxies, people with big budgets (or a long history of playing) can get all those actual cards already and there’s banned and restricted lists for each format (and the formats themselves also help, as they limit which sets are legal, so standard doesn’t have to worry about interactions between new cards and every single card made in history).
And for more casual games (that ignore ban lists or allow custom cards), there’s the whole dynamic of “if I always play my deck that just stomps everyone by turn 2, eventually no one will want to play with me, other than to throw their overpowered decks at it, so I’ll save the extreme ones for special occasions”.
Dogs do the same! When big dogs play tug, there’s a certain percentages of times they have to lose if they want to keep playing, no matter how much bigger or stronger they are.
I watched some of her videos on Newpipe, where it seems like Freya India is an EXTREMELY popular men among older conservative men that want women to get married and start bearing children (preferably Christian children).
I appreciate that she sees the rot in modern culture, but I think she’s mistaken when she associates it with “the left” and her prescription of returning to the status quo ante of traditional gender roles isn’t going to fly with most people.
Time for my daily Britt Hartley mention. Remember that scene in Platoon when the new recruits pass the returning veterans on the runway? Well, Britt Hartley is the returning veteran to Freya India’s new recruit. Britt was raised very mormon and inculcated in traditional gender roles and struggled to escape.
Some of Brtitt’s videos that might be part of this conversation are the one about why women want to become tradwives. I hear Freya validate a lot of what Britt says for she mentions anxiety as a big motivation for her to return to traditional values. Britt’s whole thing is analyzing existential anxiety, and, yeah, the modern age is rife with it, and returning to traditional values is one antidote (though it comes at a cost, obviously).
But, again, I do appreciate anyone that might validate what I think the core truth of our age is: “Being well in a profoundly sick society is no sign of health.”
Feel free to link Freya’s video, the one you’re talking about, and ignore the downvotes. Thanks for sharing.
I don’t know that name, certainly not their content, but this sure sounds like the perennial “avocado toast” non-argument to somehow associate young people being (predictably) broke and foolish with, ya know, caring equally for human beings and wanting our society to make that a primary goal.
It sounds like hateful trash, is what I mean. What “left” is this person describing, I wonder?
The interview was not a financial discussion and was not about the debt itself but lack self reflection that the things they like most contradict the values they grandstand. That they mouth one set of values but live out another set of values that are less likely the ones they will give up, push come to shove.
Because they thoroughly fail to understand the world, their own position in upholding much of what is fucked up and awful about it, generally refuse to educate themselves about how and why that is because it means the difficult recognition of their own complicity, and then are often super arrogant toward basically anyone, including folks who know a whole lot better than they do, about almost anything, politically.
So that’s the charitable take, for the libs who are basically kinda decent internally but just super ignorant and unwilling to learn or sacrifice. The ones who consider themselves already “on the right side of history”, and who think that is the hard part - having already done it, they are ready to answer questions from others and be congratulated!
a further rant, lol
I have less generous takes for the “leaders” among such, who of course behave cynically and don the robe of the compassionate and therefore de facto less effective “half” of the very serious people duking it out.
Liberalism is failure, for money. It is the compromising, co-opting, and controlling of the energetic forces that could propel our society, by pretending to represent the same needs and wills of those who would otherwise successfully fight our hellscape. To keep Big Business, doing big business.
Liberalism is a smiling death that peddles its ever-thinner wares as being the best there is, even while ushering the fascists and hate-mongers to the clearly better buffet.
Liberalism was this way for the literal Nazis, too. So you don’t have to take my word for it 🤷♂️
Anyone who wants to help people, must look further left than liberalism. And the sooner the better.
Yeah that doesn’t sound like the left lmao. The American left, whom the whole news-enjoying slice of the population believes to be the left? But which other countries consider right-of-center? Yeah, must be that “left”.
Young people don’t watch the news anymore because they either don’t want to hear about politics or they don’t trust the news for politics. I don’t even know any old left wing people that watch the news anymore.
Yeah, my point is really that all those news media convince everyone that liberals and Democrats are left wing, but they are far from it. Hard to imagine why any actual politically left (I.e. not “American left”) person would watch that stuff, it’s all propaganda.
To address the posts about what “left” is being described - Freya India is specifically addressing young women who fall into a social progressive category that don’t yet understand the businesses they “like” are not on their side and are taking advantage of them. The types who may say they want “socialism” but as far as they know socialism means things like being against Trump or just nice social sentiments. Not understanding that they really like capitalism and the things it affords them. The kind who have no idea of policy but will watch 30 political tiktok videos and thing they know something now.
It’s funny to me that the same crowd of people that rail against the continued fucking over of the public by manipulative corporations are the same people who fork over hundreds of dollars for the artificial scarcity and manufactured demmand of collectible cards.
Every time I think of getting into that hobby, I get the same feeling I get when I go to the casino… like I’m just a mark.
It’s such a controversial opinion, but outside of playable games etc… people are basically buying (with ‘collectibles’) the equivalent of bacon and eggs arranged in a happy face to make a kid giggle. What the fuck are people doing with their lives where they need to have a picture of some cartoon character or a bobblehead of it?
Oh, yeah. My playgroup all gave up on buying official products years ago for that reason. Now we just buy cardstock and toner.
How long do your homebrew cards last? It’s hard enough to make good cards at home that I think CardsAgainst Humanity has them publically available since it’s still cheaper for them to print than you would spend for a small batch.
And how do you keep your decks from being overpowered?
It’s tough to comment on how long they last, because it’s going to depend on how often you play. So I started proxying 4 years ago and haven’t had any problems yet, but I also sleeve them as though they were genuine, and only play maybe one game a week.
As for avoiding overpowered decks, I’ve been playing with the same group of guys for nearly 25 years. We’ve worked out where we like to be, and self-balance for fun. It helps that I’m a total Johnny, so I can whiff a game completely and still have fun as long as I “did the thing.”
If you’re just asking how to avoid overpowered decks just because of the ability to print proxies, people with big budgets (or a long history of playing) can get all those actual cards already and there’s banned and restricted lists for each format (and the formats themselves also help, as they limit which sets are legal, so standard doesn’t have to worry about interactions between new cards and every single card made in history).
And for more casual games (that ignore ban lists or allow custom cards), there’s the whole dynamic of “if I always play my deck that just stomps everyone by turn 2, eventually no one will want to play with me, other than to throw their overpowered decks at it, so I’ll save the extreme ones for special occasions”.
Dogs do the same! When big dogs play tug, there’s a certain percentages of times they have to lose if they want to keep playing, no matter how much bigger or stronger they are.
Listening to a lady named Freya India who is talking about this exact same kind of cognitive dissonance.
The left hammers the points of anti-capitalism but go into debt for regular Disney vacations or high end brands, Taylor Swift Tickets, and more.
I watched some of her videos on Newpipe, where it seems like Freya India is an EXTREMELY popular men among older conservative men that want women to get married and start bearing children (preferably Christian children).
I appreciate that she sees the rot in modern culture, but I think she’s mistaken when she associates it with “the left” and her prescription of returning to the status quo ante of traditional gender roles isn’t going to fly with most people.
Time for my daily Britt Hartley mention. Remember that scene in Platoon when the new recruits pass the returning veterans on the runway? Well, Britt Hartley is the returning veteran to Freya India’s new recruit. Britt was raised very mormon and inculcated in traditional gender roles and struggled to escape.
Some of Brtitt’s videos that might be part of this conversation are the one about why women want to become tradwives. I hear Freya validate a lot of what Britt says for she mentions anxiety as a big motivation for her to return to traditional values. Britt’s whole thing is analyzing existential anxiety, and, yeah, the modern age is rife with it, and returning to traditional values is one antidote (though it comes at a cost, obviously).
But, again, I do appreciate anyone that might validate what I think the core truth of our age is: “Being well in a profoundly sick society is no sign of health.”
Feel free to link Freya’s video, the one you’re talking about, and ignore the downvotes. Thanks for sharing.
I don’t know that name, certainly not their content, but this sure sounds like the perennial “avocado toast” non-argument to somehow associate young people being (predictably) broke and foolish with, ya know, caring equally for human beings and wanting our society to make that a primary goal.
It sounds like hateful trash, is what I mean. What “left” is this person describing, I wonder?
The interview was not a financial discussion and was not about the debt itself but lack self reflection that the things they like most contradict the values they grandstand. That they mouth one set of values but live out another set of values that are less likely the ones they will give up, push come to shove.
Ah okay. Sounds like an attack on liberals then, which I heartily support lol.
Oh yeah? Why is that?
Because they thoroughly fail to understand the world, their own position in upholding much of what is fucked up and awful about it, generally refuse to educate themselves about how and why that is because it means the difficult recognition of their own complicity, and then are often super arrogant toward basically anyone, including folks who know a whole lot better than they do, about almost anything, politically.
So that’s the charitable take, for the libs who are basically kinda decent internally but just super ignorant and unwilling to learn or sacrifice. The ones who consider themselves already “on the right side of history”, and who think that is the hard part - having already done it, they are ready to answer questions from others and be congratulated!
a further rant, lol
I have less generous takes for the “leaders” among such, who of course behave cynically and don the robe of the
compassionate and therefore de facto less effective“half” of the very serious people duking it out.Liberalism is failure, for money. It is the compromising, co-opting, and controlling of the energetic forces that could propel our society, by pretending to represent the same needs and wills of those who would otherwise successfully fight our hellscape. To keep Big Business, doing big business.
Liberalism is a smiling death that peddles its ever-thinner wares as being the best there is, even while ushering the fascists and hate-mongers to the clearly better buffet.
Liberalism was this way for the literal Nazis, too. So you don’t have to take my word for it 🤷♂️
Anyone who wants to help people, must look further left than liberalism. And the sooner the better.
I don’t think most people on “the left” are doing those things in the numbers you think they are.
Yeah that doesn’t sound like the left lmao. The American left, whom the whole news-enjoying slice of the population believes to be the left? But which other countries consider right-of-center? Yeah, must be that “left”.
Young people don’t watch the news anymore because they either don’t want to hear about politics or they don’t trust the news for politics. I don’t even know any old left wing people that watch the news anymore.
Yeah, my point is really that all those news media convince everyone that liberals and Democrats are left wing, but they are far from it. Hard to imagine why any actual politically left (I.e. not “American left”) person would watch that stuff, it’s all propaganda.
To address the posts about what “left” is being described - Freya India is specifically addressing young women who fall into a social progressive category that don’t yet understand the businesses they “like” are not on their side and are taking advantage of them. The types who may say they want “socialism” but as far as they know socialism means things like being against Trump or just nice social sentiments. Not understanding that they really like capitalism and the things it affords them. The kind who have no idea of policy but will watch 30 political tiktok videos and thing they know something now.