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by Alex
Mon Jun 18, 2018 5:16 pm
Forum: Speak Your Mind
Topic: We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]
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We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]

Whoa now Kettle.
by Alex
Fri Jun 15, 2018 7:26 pm
Forum: Speak Your Mind
Topic: We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]
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We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]

Stop being so gay for me, you're making it weird
by Alex
Wed Jun 13, 2018 4:36 pm
Forum: Speak Your Mind
Topic: We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]
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We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]

I'm not the one arguing about sexuality on a forum about magical cards so I think I'm doing alright
by Alex
Tue Jun 12, 2018 2:23 pm
Forum: Speak Your Mind
Topic: We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]
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We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]

My only takeaway from that is when you bring the penises and vaginas of fictional characters into the mix, and what those characters do with them, neckbeards go wild. Even if it's completely, 100% irrelevant to the source material.
by Alex
Tue Jun 05, 2018 5:34 pm
Forum: Speak Your Mind
Topic: We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]
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We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]

idk probably. are you still mad?
by Alex
Mon Jun 04, 2018 8:26 pm
Forum: Speak Your Mind
Topic: We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]
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We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]

The fact that people wrote so many words about such a dead website is a testament to how powerful autism actually is.
Autism is perfect Darwinian calculus, as autism can only be destroyed by a stronger form of autism.
That's my secret, Cap, I'm always autistic.
by Alex
Mon Jun 04, 2018 2:28 pm
Forum: Speak Your Mind
Topic: We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]
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We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]

We did get this gem on the front page though so maybe it's good for something at least.

Image
by Alex
Mon Jun 04, 2018 2:14 pm
Forum: Speak Your Mind
Topic: We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]
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We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]

The fact that people wrote so many words about such a dead website is a testament to how powerful autism actually is.
by Alex
Tue Mar 20, 2018 3:06 pm
Forum: Speak Your Mind
Topic: We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]
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We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]

Thought you guys might find this amusing.

Attachments didn't upload in order of sequence like they should have, but tl;dr got banned from the Magic subreddit for wrongthink, more or less. Even though I didn't think the things that they seem to have projected onto me. The removed comments are from a guy telling me that Sargon and Jeremy had done a few videos together previously, which I wasn't aware of. I guess the mods deleted those since they were direct links to the videos.
by Alex
Wed Mar 14, 2018 2:28 pm
Forum: Speak Your Mind
Topic: We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]
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We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]

Not making good products thats for sure.
Yeah that print run shit looks so bad it hurts. People also now know that not all mythics are printed equally, and their pitchforks are out in full force.
by Alex
Wed Jan 31, 2018 8:02 pm
Forum: Speak Your Mind
Topic: We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]
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We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]

If you're a level 1 at an LGS? Lol, have a pat on the back "keep it up, trooper"

My LGS gives me half off event entry and the occasional free entry.

The only thing you'll ever get from wizards is promos if you go to a conference, and there are basically never any in my area even though we're a high population area. There's been 1 mini-conference in the last two years and it had capped attendance.
My friend Toma (one of two L2s in the area) does alright, but only because there are so few people who can run PPTQs. He's leaving to move back to Michigan soon, so we're basically all fucked once he's gone. Nobody wants to get involved in the judge program anymore because it's horseshit, so there are no prospects of someone else coming along to replace him eventually.

The Southeast region also hasn't had a real judge conference in over a year, the last one was actually pretty close to a year ago, and they ran out of promos because people drove in from the NE region too since THEY also haven't had one in ages. I'm hoping the fact the Nicolette is RC now will change that, but I doubt it. Turner was a great guy, but he was a great guy...way the hell down in Florida.

Can't wait to never have PPTQs in my area again. Add that on to the whole never having IQs anymore because they aren't worth running for the store...

Yeah, I play so much less Magic now it's insane. Thanks, Wizards.
by Alex
Wed Dec 27, 2017 8:17 pm
Forum: Speak Your Mind
Topic: We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]
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We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]

So basically the plan against preist while playing wild is to press the concede button.
Highlander is lame in standard too.
by Alex
Thu Dec 21, 2017 4:51 pm
Forum: Speak Your Mind
Topic: We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]
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Views: 1390787

We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]

- That guy from russia that was giving out mod positions to everyone on his site

And I'm forgetting quite a few I cannot name anymore
Oh man, Onar...That fucking guy :sherlock:
Also I am confirmed not mad, turns out growing up and becoming an adult instead of an angry early 20-something changes your perspective on...well, everything, quite a bit. :rofl:

Also discovering marijuana helped a lot. :teach:
by Alex
Thu Dec 21, 2017 4:50 pm
Forum: Speak Your Mind
Topic: We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]
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Views: 1390787

We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]

- That guy from russia that was giving out mod positions to everyone on his site

And I'm forgetting quite a few I cannot name anymore
Oh man, Onar...That fucking guy :sherlock:
by Alex
Wed Dec 20, 2017 4:43 pm
Forum: Speak Your Mind
Topic: We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]
Replies: 4544
Views: 1390787

We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]

not even mad
by Alex
Tue Dec 19, 2017 5:58 pm
Forum: Speak Your Mind
Topic: We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]
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We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]

I feel a level of sadness that I didn't expect when I go back to Salvation. It doesn't feel like the same place that it had once been, the place that had helped shaped what I became in my local magic community. Salvation's community gave me a different outlook on a lot of things and it feels like a large part of the community aspect is just gone.
A couple of weeks ago I was asked what would I change if I could go back 10 years. While it was just an innocuous question at the time, it made me remember that was the time that I had just joined salvation, when I was just starting college, when I started making some of the friends that are a large part of what my life is now. Going through depression changed my personality in a way I can't quite articulate, I don't know what mindset I had necessarily back then, so I would change a great many things about what I did, I wouldn't have shied away from confrontation and eventually quit through dissatisfaction and apathy.

I don't really have a point here. I'm just rambling.
The biggest factor is almost assuredly the internet in general moving away from traditional forums and into newer forms of social media, reddit, twitch etc. People who used to post in strategy forums on mtgs might get their daily dose of mtg by screwing around in the chat of popular twitch chats or whatever, and people who would post on mtgs primarily for the social aspect of it do it elsewhere. Leadership issues and the new site (the curse business) have clearly exacerbated this, and you need a critical amount of posters to keep a forum like that going, so it doesn't take that many leaving until it just doesn't work anymore. That's where the site is now, so sally is dead and has been for quite a while.

:shrug:

personally, I overall don't really miss it. Not exactly a time in my life I'm very proud of, and arguing with random people on the internet is something I'm done with, thanks.
He says, as he literally does the thing.
by Alex
Tue Dec 19, 2017 12:58 am
Forum: Speak Your Mind
Topic: We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]
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We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]

This site is about 4yo and we have still to ban our first member.

I did delete a few spam accounts when I didn't have good enough spam countermeasures.
Well except for that one time that Kait and I banned each other.

Those were the best of times.
by Alex
Mon Dec 18, 2017 9:11 pm
Forum: Speak Your Mind
Topic: We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]
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We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]

My 6 posts in the Magic subreddit are basically "I don't get why Sargon of Akkad is such a bad guy, I watched a few of his videos and they're not really that controversial" and I caught a ban. I guess because I didn't immediately side with the anti-Hambly people. I'm not totally sure.

That place is trash.
by Alex
Fri Dec 15, 2017 8:03 pm
Forum: Speak Your Mind
Topic: We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]
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We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]

To the surprise of nobody, they deleted the thread about Teia's article.
FTFY
by Alex
Mon Dec 11, 2017 4:26 pm
Forum: Speak Your Mind
Topic: We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]
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We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]

The funniest part of most threads on MTGS in the current age is that they still think they're relevant. Those dudes take themselves so seriously, and you can tell.
by Alex
Fri Dec 08, 2017 7:48 pm
Forum: Speak Your Mind
Topic: We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]
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We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]

It's funny cause when I saw the shit with MTGHeadquarters starting up, Sally was actually the first place I thought of. It's weird cause I haven't thought about that site barely ever since I got banned 5~ years ago, but they're just so strongly associated with backwards SJW witch hunting that they immediately shoved to the front of the line. I wasn't even really involved in that part of the site, either. They just have that reputation.

Of note, I was also not shocked when Travis Woo getting banned was in large part due to Emma Handy. Emma is my friend, but Emma can also be a real fucking bag of shit when it comes to that type of stuff, and I can't ever get it through her stupid skull why it isn't helpful or productive to literally witch hunt people. I've been friends with Emma since before transition, and honestly the difference in personality is night and day, because I used to think she was smarter than this, but here we are. :rolleyes:

I don't get how those people get away with the type of harassment they do. I guess it's okay since it's done from some sort of ivory tower.
by Alex
Fri Dec 08, 2017 2:55 pm
Forum: Speak Your Mind
Topic: We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]
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We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]

sometimes I feel like corruption is confused with stupidity, though. If only I had some good examples to demonstrate this theory :shrug:
Or is that just what they'd want us to think?

This shit has levels.
by Alex
Mon Dec 04, 2017 4:47 pm
Forum: Speak Your Mind
Topic: We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]
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We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]

Phew I missed you, stupid avatar.
by Alex
Mon Dec 04, 2017 4:42 pm
Forum: Speak Your Mind
Topic: We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]
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We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]

It's good to see some things never change.
by Alex
Fri Dec 01, 2017 9:34 pm
Forum: Speak Your Mind
Topic: We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]
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We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]

Man this thread is basically the track for Olympic-level mental gymnastics.
by Alex
Fri Dec 01, 2017 9:32 pm
Forum: Speak Your Mind
Topic: We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]
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We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]

Lol, wouldn't let me see it until I logged out of Twitch cause I'm still banned on MTGSalvation.
by Alex
Fri Dec 01, 2017 3:53 pm
Forum: Speak Your Mind
Topic: We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]
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We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]

Jesus, what a savage. The beautiful bastard.
by Alex
Wed Nov 29, 2017 3:02 pm
Forum: Speak Your Mind
Topic: We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]
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We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]

That's gotta taste bad.
by Alex
Tue Nov 21, 2017 3:01 pm
Forum: Speak Your Mind
Topic: We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]
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We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]

We thought the gutter died for our sins but we were wrong.
by Alex
Mon Nov 20, 2017 8:06 pm
Forum: Speak Your Mind
Topic: We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]
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We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]

I was pretty irritated when I tried to use my email for Curse Voice and couldn't because I was banned on MTGSalvation tbh
by Alex
Mon Nov 20, 2017 3:27 pm
Forum: Speak Your Mind
Topic: We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]
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Views: 1390787

We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]

It's been years. More of a matter-of-fact thing.
by Alex
Fri Nov 17, 2017 4:11 pm
Forum: Speak Your Mind
Topic: We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]
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We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]

Well it’s as someone posted it’s a vicious circle. Less posters, less content less visitors. I mean how many posters did the mods drive off 3-5 years ago.
Turns out when you ban people for arbitrary reasons, other people tend to take notice of it and bail on your forums too. I saw a lot of that back then.

Often a lot of their quality posters were the types of people who tended to be a little edgy and didn't fit into their neat little niche of "can't ever say anything that could even be considered remotely insulting or disagreeable" and when you hand out warnings and bans for such small things, those people will just gravitate towards the website where people can't silence you just for being a little rough around the edges.

A lot of forums practiced this type of thought policing, and people got sick of it. It's a huge part of the reason that Reddit is as successful as it is - people can't ban you for disagreeing with them, you can just make another free account and commit basically nothing to it.
by Alex
Tue Nov 07, 2017 3:21 pm
Forum: Speak Your Mind
Topic: We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]
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We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]

Did I fuck, stayed at rank 3, which is the best I’ve ever done, know what to expect next time, preist is fucking they, what to do against shadow keeper anudin.
This sentence is not the best you've ever done.

What to do about Shadow Reaper? Reap the fuck outta him before he reaps you.
How with all the gay ass removal preist has.
obv make yer dudes 4/x
by Alex
Fri Nov 03, 2017 3:16 pm
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Topic: We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]
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We finally Died to Removal - #BlatherGate [10]

sup playas

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