BeneTleilax wrote: ↑2 years ago
I mean, I think calling an entire (sub)format an existential threat demands a higher burden of evidence.
If you're going to hide behind "from what I've seen" then I'm going to hide behind "I think". We're all operating from personal experience here.
I'm really not sure what burden of evidence WOULD satisfy you though. I've experienced similar situations in multiple places on opposite sides of the world, I've gathered statistical evidence from EDHrec, and other people have experienced similar things too. Whatever else you want, I don't think it's possible.
Your initial contention with my description of the local cEDH community was that they didn't exist.
I said you lived in Narnia OR you weren't paying attention. Since you claim it's not the first one, it sounds like it's the second one.
Which is why I added "from what I've seen".
From what I've seen of the elephant community, all of them live in zoos. You see how using a broad group category when you're really talking about a very selective part of that group is misleading?
I don't play online much at all, outside of a discord group in the early pandemic, because in my view online games bring out the worst in everyone.
I agree with that, I also don't play online, but it pops up all the time on reddit and youtube too. Kind of hard to avoid if you're online imo.
That's the crux of our disagreement. I think experienced players (and new players who come into the game knowing what they want) will build decks they want to play.
I don't think experienced players (nor I suppose people who are confident about what they want to build) are the problem. If they want to build high-powered decks, they know that they're building cEDH and can go play with those people. The problem is when the inexperienced players try to emulate cEDH decks without understanding the distinctions.
If anything, I think animosity has declined significantly against cEDH in the past 5 years, so you're getting your wish. I don't think it's working out, though.
Then why are you knowingly more of a tool about it online?
Because (I thought) we're adults and could handle some reality. Pretty sure I already said that. Plus it's a lot more fun.
If this thread was "cEDH is the better format" or even another "notice us, RC-sempai" thread, your hostility might make sense.
For how much you've whinged over my early posts, (outside of the last paragraph laying some beatdown on the people who constantly pop up on reddit, who apparently everyone has seen except you) they were almost clinical in their assessment of cEDH's negative connotation. It wasn't until certain people started misreading everything I said and then demanding I account for their misreadings that I started to get a bit annoyed.
This was someone wondering about a name change, offering no hostility towards casual, and you jumped in to berate them.
You don't see why it might come off a bit insulting to respond to people's legitimate grievance with your group by suggesting a rebrand and then ignoring their actual complaints and trying to lock the thread?
This is also why people continue to call you out, it's not just that you're obnoxious in debate threads, it's that you'll hop into random threads and do your darndest to turn them into belligerent debates.
He said he wanted to
discuss the negative connotation. I think there have been some productive discussions on this thread on that topic. Not with people who are obsessed with tone policing, though, those tend to be wastes of time.
I reckon you'll take this as a compliment, but you're impossible to ignore if one wants to use this site.
Neutral, I guess?
onering wrote: ↑2 years ago
I finally bit the bullet and did just that. While he often makes good points, its not worth the %$#%$#%. Responding to people telling him to cool it with doubling down on being a dick shows he's moved on from just being occasionally sarcastic and smug to making it his go to schtick, and I don't have the patience for dealing with douchebags who care more about scoring internet points and talking down to people than just engaging in conversation. He seems to want to have his cake and eat it too, to have discussions and have people engage with his points while being a pompous ass.
If you don't want me to dunk on your points so hard, you should try being right more often.
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