Voroxpete

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[–] Voroxpete 5 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Holy crap, why are these MTG memes always made by people who don't play MTG?

First off, that card background isn't used for artifacts, unless they're artifact creatures. This isn't an artifact creature, but for some reason has an empty stat box in the bottom corner. No casting cost, so you can't cast it. No effects, so it does nothing. Fucking useless.

Try this: Fix the card border, keep the artifact type, and change the body text to "Suspend 6 - 2[R]. [Card Name] enters play with 12 charge counters. Remove one charge counter - Destroy target permanent." That'll let you blow a lot of shit up once you're finally allowed to use it.

OK, rant done.

[–] Voroxpete 4 points 21 hours ago

It's outsourcing the socialism to us so that he can sell it as a "free market" solution.

[–] Voroxpete 9 points 1 day ago

Well that's why I woke up in a smoking crater. God dammit.

[–] Voroxpete 11 points 1 day ago

Same. I had to triple check what sub this was.

[–] Voroxpete 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Different dynamics. Buys require sellers, of which there are a fair amount (though few enough still that large purchases absolutely do shift the price significantly; we've seen multiple instances of Tether bringing the price up by 20% or more for the cost of billion newly minted USDT). Sells require buyers, which are in very short supply.

[–] Voroxpete 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Cool, so it was nice having From Soft games while they were a thing. Guess they went out on a high note with Elden Ring at least.

If only scifi authors had ever thought to warn us that megacorps are bad.

[–] Voroxpete 27 points 1 day ago (4 children)

With headlines like this, it's always important to keep in mind that bitcoin is such a thinly traded (and largely artificial) market that actually trying to sell 8,000 Btc for real dollars/pounds would instantly and catastrophically crash the price.

[–] Voroxpete 19 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Pretty good actually. But the odds of finding it are basically nil. A needle in a haystack would actually be easier.

[–] Voroxpete 3 points 1 day ago

Same way the US squares away their federal system. Some areas of law are federal, some are provincial. Quebec's use of Napoleonic Law only applies to those areas covered by the Quebec Courts. Federal matters are handled in Federal Courts, so they're not subject to Quebecois legal principles.

[–] Voroxpete 15 points 2 days ago (8 children)

That's not really an answer to their question. Canada (with the exception of Quebec), also operates on the English Common Law model, but we've passed specific laws that intentionally codify things like abortion and minority rights. Just recently we added "gender identity and gender expression" as specific categories on which it is illegal to discriminate.

So, unlike the US where the right to gay marriage is the result of a court case, in Canada gay marriage started out that way, but was then codified in law with the passage of the Civil Marriage Act in 2005. And speaking of English Common Law, the same is true in England, where gay marriage was legally enshrined in 2014.

So it's perfectly valid to ask why the US government has consistently failed to do this.

[–] Voroxpete 1 points 2 days ago

Sure, but again the amount of actual player to player interaction involved in that is minimal. Like I said, I'm in a clan, and outside of obtaining my initial invite (which basically went "Clan plz" in chat followed by clicking accept) I've had literally zero social interaction with my current clan. Trading has been effectively automated by Warframe market. You copy and paste something into chat, and the rest of the interaction consists of a pro forma exchange of "ty"s. Also, you don't actually need a clan to trade, because anyone you're trading with will inevitably invite you to theirs, so they're only really important when selling.

This is absolutely nothing like the way that raiding and guilds are core to World of Warcraft. Clans play an almost purely mechanical role in Warframe, they're not remotely the same thing, and do not have remotely the same requirement of social interaction.

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