EPTOn July 27 2017 01:26 jcarlsoniv wrote:
I hear those kinds of flights aren't allowed in the military anymore
I hear those kinds of flights aren't allowed in the military anymore
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ComaDose
Canada10357 Posts
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WaveofShadow
Canada31495 Posts
Does transitioning to another gender require any medical care, whether it physical or mental? It turns out yes. Which pretty much in itself disqualifies you from joining the military. You can't enlist if you have depression, but you can be diagnosed with depression during your enlistment and the proposed change would have put trans people in a similar medical category in that they never would ever be accepted, but technically a waiver could be petitioned. You couldn't enlist as trans last year, you couldn't enlist as trans yesterday, and you can't enlist as trans tomorrow. Absolutely nothing there has changed, and even if the policy would have changed to allow those who transitioned to seek a waiver it would have never been approved by almost any of them because almost all of the therapy and mental care you would seek in order to legally transition would bar you from serving anyway. | ||
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Alaric
France45622 Posts
Also 6-man draft. + Show Spoiler + UR SPELLS YEAH BOYS P1P1 Hour of Devastation and I think pick 2 was Supreme Will over Thirst (partly 'cause constructed playable), but pack 3 has Riddleform, Overwhelming Splendor and Sifter Wurm. Ramp is tempting, and Naga Ritualists let you splash Hour easily if needed... I pick Splendor for the memes. Then I get 3 Puncturing Blows in 4 picks, and Riddleform tables... along with the 2nd one I saw later on. Well the road is paved. By the middle of pack 2 I have like 4 creatures, a ton of removal and some card selection/draw, so I prioritise creatures, and situational stuff still tables (had to choose between Ramunap Ruins and Firebrand Archer P2P11). Pack 3 is weird because I start seeing a bit of G and especially W which weren't there during pack 1, but I get a pick 3 Enigma Drake so I'm the happiest man alive at that point. The 2 sits to my right were BW, but the one "ahead" is less experienced and passed a bunch of cards (like Caracal P3P1 because it wasn't a zombie), on top of our openings being garbage for zombies (one, maybe 2 paramounts, no Oketra's Name, no Binding Mummy... ). The one to their right (in front of me) was a mess, trying to draft UR or something (but passing the good cards like Riddleform) and since me and his own neighbour were in R he got nothing. He moved into G pack 2 since only one people was picking it so far and he got rewarded with a ton of lucky picks (like opening his 3rd Honored Hydra while in green in 4 drafts). My own deck was pretty hype 'cause of consistency, ended up with 30+ playables: 2x Spellweaver Eternal, 2x Firebrand Archer, 2x Riddleform, 2x Thorned Moloch, 3x Puncturing Blow, Enigma Drake, Open Fire, Supreme Will, Strategic Planning, Hieroglyphic Illuminations, Reduce // Rubble, Paincaster, Unsummon and another bounce... Cards in my sideboard included Fraying Sanity (saw it too late to meme, and I'd rather do it in a 8-man to get more of the dumb mill cards, though we had 2x Ipnu Rivulets too), and Refuse // Cooperate, which I'd really have liked to try for kicks and giggles, especially 'cause I knew people were on ramp (Refuse your big guy, Open Fire your face and Cooperate it, boom). Round 1 vs UG ramp + Show Spoiler + The guy in front of me who moved late. He's a bit cocky and though I generally draft and play better than him, he tends to draft tricks and rely on hail mary often, which won a lot of our last matches, so I'm kinda hoping to get him off. Last time he had his sole U cartouche in starting hand twice and won with it on a cheap beater 'cause I never drew any of my plentiful antiair and he topdecked R Trial for exact lethal. Time before he held bounce for Gideon's Intervention and hoped to draw enough tricks to one-shot me in the air after mulling to 5, meanwhile literally half my deck killed him either outright or over 2 turns (while gaining me life), a couple more cards stalling his plan, and I bricked 4 turns in a row. So... yeah. And of course I kept a no-islands hand with cyclers while he mulliganed, took 6 turns to find one, tempo is dead. Next game I have early plays but then blank so do nothing from turn 4 onward pretty much, or terribly off-curve stuff. Both games he get Honored Hydra out ahead of schedule despite only running 4 cards to ramp (including Cultivator) but he's got 2+ of them each time, and he also draws all his top end to go with it (both his Hippos and his Sharpshooters). Needless to say I'm unhappy about not getting to play my deck at all wile he mulls both games and just draws what few pieces he has in the right order. 0-1 Round 2 vs UG ramp + Show Spoiler + The other, who was on ramp from the start and got kinda had by pack 3 which didn't have much, especially since the other guy opened Hydra and got passed the only Naga Vitalist in the pod. Game 1 he floods hard (he cycles a couple times including Beneath the Sands t2, says how much flood), but I have mostly removal so my clock isn't fast without stuff to point it at for prowess. I bounce his Sandwurm Convergence at the end of his main phase and kill him in the air. Game 2 he misses his 3rd land drop, then stays a bit off-curve while I'm playing Moloch and flyers. I feel bad for him because that kind of shit happens often, and for myself too 'cause I haven't really gotten to play my deck so far, with such a sweet draft too. At least my r1 opponent loses to my super grindy BW neighbour (flyers + tappers + a deathtouch blocker, he never drew his P1P1 Grind // Dust which would have been huge too). 1-1 Round 3 vs BW zombies + Show Spoiler + My deck goes off both games, in a pretty ugly way which my opponent probably would have had issues fighting even if he had a 2-drop. Game 1 on the draw Riddleform -> Moloch -> Puncturing Blow his other zombie and hit for 6 (Boneslasher can't block), do that another time, draw, drop Enigma Drake as a 3/4, play a couple more spells and finish. Game 2 one mountain and Puncturing Blow in starting hand, Riddleform -> Enigma Drake -> Strategic Planning and Supreme Will and cycling looking for stuff, I keep another Blow off the Supreme Will then draw a mountain, kill one thing, punch for a bunch, then Blow again next turn and do it again, and the following turn I have lethal no matter what, and had the 3rd Blow and an Unsummon in hand. Pretty nasty, why couldn't I get these hands game 1? Oh, yeah, my opponent drew literally all 4 creatures with 6-toughness to cast early anyway... Speaking of him, his match's the last and he's paired down against my r2 opponent, so we watch their ramp mirror. In a very satisfying turn of events, he loses twice to Sandwurm Convergence (Sifter Wurm and Champion of Wits did a good job digging through r2 guy's deck), including a Thirst on his Wall of Forgotten Pharaohs game 3 to prevent it from clocking before the Convergence produced enough tokens (he had a Hoopoe to keep himself alive longer). Game 2 he kept a 1-lander on the play because he had Naga Vitalist and Gift of Paradise in hand, though. Turn 2 topdeck a land, turn 3 too, he's in it. Then when his opponent drops a Sifter Wurm to block his Hydra, he topdecks Ambuscade to kill the Wurm and punch through for 10. That's just the kind of luck he keeps having and I'm really waiting for him to get punished for it 'cause it's frustrating when variance "rewards" that (and I'm aware that I'm being childish and spiteful). 2-1 UR is sweet! And pretty different from EMN, really tempo-oriented while EMN let you try to get some value and provided you with good defensive options and inevitability. It's nice to see both sides of the coin, though I think I liked EMN more but that's my defensive/safe self talking. I wish I could have gotten more actual, interactive games in since I don't think I'll get to draft such a cohesive, redundant deck again, but man at least I can cross it from the list! One day I'll P1P1 that Overwhelming Splendor or Fraying Sanity and go full meme. | ||
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Ketara
United States15065 Posts
On July 27 2017 05:54 WaveofShadow wrote: Reading through some of this discussion: If enlisting in the military is anything like joining the Peace corps, and I'd assume it's more rigorous than that, I'd have to imagine it's filled to the brim with stupid bullshit that's more about protecting the military from lawsuits than about ensuring the safety of recruits. | ||
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phyvo
United States5635 Posts
VOD marathon here weee gooooooooo | ||
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Cixah
United States11285 Posts
On July 27 2017 10:44 phyvo wrote: I just remembered that I missed SGDQ because I was camping in the woods that week. VOD marathon here weee gooooooooo Swordless LTTP. Specter Knight, Shovel Knight run. Skip Tetris Mario Relay is p cool. 0% Metroid Fusion is pretty hype. Those are my only real must sees this time. | ||
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Holyflare
United Kingdom30775 Posts
 Tetris you can do like one thing and that's just putting blocks in a row. Mario maker, at least blind races, are all crazy varied and always different. Also lttp swordless was great. | ||
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FaCE_1
Canada6185 Posts
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AsmodeusXI
United States15536 Posts
Hollow Knight Brothers: Tale of Two Sons Divinity: Original Sin Crypt of the NecroDancer Dark Souls + Dark Souls 3 Majora's Mask | ||
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Cixah
United States11285 Posts
On July 28 2017 01:36 AsmodeusXI wrote: Unlike this year's AGDQ, I'm actually planning on doing a write-up for this one, but here are a few that I liked just quick (other than the ones already mentioned): Hollow Knight Brothers: Tale of Two Sons Divinity: Original Sin Crypt of the NecroDancer Dark Souls + Dark Souls 3 Majora's Mask You should take a week off, and come to AGDQ 2018 with me <3 | ||
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phyvo
United States5635 Posts
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Gahlo
United States35174 Posts
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Alaric
France45622 Posts
Edit: ^ uh, I didn't expect so much regularity from a speedbag. Then again, you can't know till you've tried and whatever it is, there'll always be someone, somewhere, to try it.  Drafted tonight, Fraying Sanity was opened and tabled, and the guy who ended up with it was man enough to play it and some other mill. When cracking your evolving wilds or using tricks to kill a creature makes you dread... he may not have ended well (issue of the 6-man pod, he and I were in the shafted spots) but you have to respect his attempt! (Got to tilt one tilt-prone opponent to oblivion when he milled his bomb too.) + Show Spoiler + Imma try to keep it short. P1P1 Banewhip punisher, passing Earthshaker Khenra, Abrade and Puncturing Blow, amongst other stuff. Yeah I wasn't happy but I figured "pick a red card then cut all of it pack 1" was risky and I wouldn't get to do it nearly as effectively in a 6-man pod anyway. Started BG then got passed 2 Appeal // Authority so I wavered between BG and GW. P2P1 Pride Sovereign, GW it is. I still don't see much of it, esp. not many 2-drops (and when there's a Rhonas' Stalwart the pack also has Ambuscade, rip), then in 4 straight packs, I see Unraveling Mummy, Unraveling Mummy, Mummy Paramount, Mummy Paramount. From what I saw pack 1 I assume noone's in zombies so maybe a Paramount will wheel (they don't). I actually would have speculated on BW with the first mummy, and switched with the second one had I had less G in my picks at that point. Pack 3 is so poor that I'm hate drafting in pick 4, then in nearly half the pack, taking away U/R cartouches and decent creatures because there's literally nothing from me aside from Oashra Cultivator (I even pick Evolving Wilds to help me splash B). It turns out the guy in front of me is GW, and the usual winner to my right is BW zombies from pack 1 since he opened Unconventional Tactics (which already won him our last draft). We have RGu (splashing invocation Locust God), GW, UR spells tempo, BW zombies, GW go-wide wannabe, and bant stuff. Basically Bant and me got shafted by the nature of 6-man pods. I clearly should have been in B, but no idea if it was BW or BG, I had 0 payoffs at all for BG and we'd have fought for BW, but considering I'd have ended with Wretched Camel, 2x Paramount, 2x Unraveling Mummy, 2+ Boneslashers, 2x Banewhip Punisher, Desert's Hold, Splendid Agony, Doomfall... basically it was hard to gamble on it maybe being open after a mediocre pack 1 when my best cards so far were Pride Sovereign and Appeal // Authority, so all GW. Round 1 I go 2-0 against bant, we play 3 rounds and he's got Fraying Sanity in his starting hand each time. With 2x Appeal I often get one in hand pretty fast and since he's playing mostly defensive creatures (and a Majestic Myriarch) I just burst through for 10+ for the kill after the boards are established. Still milled over a 3rd of my deck with stuff like the Seer or me using Amulet/tricks. Round 2 is paired down against RGu, he keeps a risky hand game 1 while I kinda curve out, game 2 I miss my 4th land drop twice and considering my hand at the time it's terrible as the creatures I'd play can't block, I need to exert not to trade my Brawler and if I do he just blocks with Prowler who received a -1/-1 counter to draw and punch back. Then he draws Hoopoe, and it turns out Pride Sovereign can't be set up with Appeal without taking a turn off if you have to exert it defensively, even with Dauntless Aven (since you have to attack first to untap it if you didn't skip the previous turn). First strike creatures don't care about lifegain. Game 3 starts as a race as he does no efforts to block my Devotee of Strength, so I kinda keep up, when he drops Rhonas' Monument, Saving Grace > trample damage, and Trueheart Duelist saved a bunch too, then he taps out to cast a creature for monument so I know I don't risk dying, don't block, untap with 3 creatures and only 5 mana, but Appeal -> Appeal -> Authority is enough to finish him. Round 3 is against BW zombies who keeps saying his deck is nothing special and how he's not even using rares and shit. The fuck, is he going to say RW was bad in AKH when you ran all the cartouches and inciters and gustwalkers and crashers without rares either? The match-up is a shit-fest for me since he's got tappers to prevent me from using Appeal, and a fuckton of removal so I can't go wide anyway, and Unraveling Mummies to grant his zombies lifelink on top of the buff from Unconventional Tactics in his starting hand. I can't go wide, I can't attack with big creatures, he kills about anything I play anyway, so there's not much left for me. Game 2 he complains about mulliganing then playing miamic mummy but he kept lands and Grim Strider so who the fuck cares, he's dropping a 6/6 on my ass and a couple turns later after I chump a number of times he just topdecks Unconventional Tactics for 9 flying damage. But hey that wasn't a very strong deck, just 14 zombies, splendid agony, doomfall, sand blast, vizier of remedies, fan bearer, banewhip punisher, multiple boneslashers, the 2 unravelings, 2x paramount, and his P1P1 Unconventional Tactics. Tactics alone is pseudo-card advantage if you count rebuying it as drawing a new copy since he did it at least 4 times in most of his games. Devotee of Strength was overrated by me, since unless you draw it late you often have to take damage, opponents will gladly trade for it with their 2/3s or 3/3s for the same cost and hold tricks, Moloch attacks into it any day, etc. with the overabundance of 3-drops in this format I wouldn't pick it highly at all anymore, it's not bad but there are other priorities, and Harrier Naga can at least attack into 2-drops or 2/3s for example. Going wide still pretty hard unless there's some sort of board stall or the opponent's passive. I should be more aggressive with switching colours pack 2 when I get passed excellent cards just because something like Unraveling Mummy is busted enough to make it work; but I already knew BW was amongst the strongest archetypes when it comes together, and people seem to underdraft it, weirdly enough ('cause it was pretty popular in AKH). | ||
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Ketara
United States15065 Posts
I'm out in Borneo right. Which is this giant island in the middle of nowhere famous for rainforests and indiginous wildlife and eco-tourism. And oil fields sadly but that's another story. And I'm doing this mangrove forests tour on a little river boat with a private guide. Just us. We are making fun of the bigger boats full of tourists in life vests that we pass by. There's huge mangrove trees, multiple kinds of monkeys, bright colorful birds, river dolphins and crocodiles. At night on the way back the place is full of fireflies. We take a break in the guys village. It's just a little river village with maybe 100-200 people in it. They don't have running water and just got electricity last year. There's no waste disposal system so they're just throwing trash in the river. The village can't be accessed by road, the only way to get there is by boat. There's no physical ground to speak of, just wooden still walkways sticking out of the ground. They have a muddy field in the middle with football goals and the guy tells me about how they can only play at low tide. Kids are running around the place basically naked. I hear stories about the villager who got eaten by a crocodile a few years back. It's rural as fuck, basically. So we go into my guides house to relax for a bit before heading back to the city, right. And what do I see?!?! + Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](https://image.ibb.co/k2uCEk/IMG_20170727_191328.jpg) | ||
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WaveofShadow
Canada31495 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + Another win for me at work today amidst some annoyances. Patient's family doctor calls me thanking me profusely for referring me back to them for testing; turns out based on what I reported and recommended, she got tested, ended up with some form of unknown liver issue, requiring blood transfusion which she had yesterday and is now seeing oncology. Get your eyes checked, people. | ||
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Ketara
United States15065 Posts
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WaveofShadow
Canada31495 Posts
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Slayer91
Ireland23447 Posts
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Ketara
United States15065 Posts
Guy literally had a gaming rig with a nice mechanical keyboard in his house, but didn't have a flush toilet. Priorities. | ||
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Alaric
France45622 Posts
You seemed pretty down/tired yesterday, gotta feel good to have these highs right? You don't talk about work as much recently, but you seemed to feel a bit overwhelmed when you started. | ||
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