I do. Human rights should not be up to states to opt out of. What someone does with their body is their choice. Period. Abortion is health care. The best way to reduce abortion rates is through education, birth control, and protection. I am not pro-castration, but if someone wants to cut of their penis and is consulted with properly by medical professionals and decides to go through with it, that is their right. Nobody should be able to tell anyone else what they can and can't do with their own body, as long as it isn't an impediment on society. Let's not kid ourselves, the "states rights" issue is why slavery went on for so long. "States rights" was why the Civil War started - states demanded the right to own other human beings. States rights rarely improve conditions for citizens versus federal rights. A woman should not be forced to die because she has an unviable pregnancy simply because she happens to live in the state of Louisiana same as a woman should not be forced to have an abortion because she lives in California (both of these are hypothetical scenarios based of the partisan control of their respective state legislatures). In modern times, with all politicians being corrupt and up for sale to the highest (or lowest) bidder, state legislators are more susceptible to being paid off by smaller sums than federal legislators. Look no further than the current mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, and how he sold out his constituents for free flights and money. Corruption is not a partisan issue, it is an endemic state of politics around the world. Systems of checks and balances are the only hope us plebs have, and the federal government protecting our inalienable rights is an invaluable part of those checks and balances.

@@dameongeppetto cool cool. I do want Trump to win though, but for only one reason. Can you guess it? I will give one hint, no one is talking about it.

@@SonictheBedHog no clue. For the laughs?

@@dameongeppetto second hint. GC

@@SonictheBedHog golden 'chowers? Gay chess? Gastric contractions? Greedy cons? I could keep going...

@@JezterTV thanks for the feedback. I don't hide my political leanings, but I am not a partisan team player. Politicians and parties are corrupt to the core.

​​@@dameongeppetto The biggest problem (from my european point of view) the U.S. have is the two party system. It always ends with a choice between a bad option and a slightly less bad option. Which doesn't mean that something would change but at least the elephants and donkeys would have to fight a bit more for their votes if there were more parties

Yeah. My theory is simple: matchmaker is clearly rigged. The shuffler could be, but it appears to just be bad code. The card grouping gets worse with each update, so the mechanics of how they randomize and shuffle is broken at the core of the algorithm.

It got worse and worse with each update. Now, it is beyond fixing. I finally snapped. Been 2 weeks since I played MTGA and my life is 1000x better.

@@SonictheBedHog MTG Arena. Not even close.

LMAO!

The power creep is bad, but the matchmaker trying to force everyone to 50/50 with a shuffler that is beyond the pale are worse, IMO.

If they ever redo the shuffler, I would think about dealing with the matchmaker trying to fix games. Never gonna happen, so I doubt I will ever play Arena again. Praying for WotC to get sold off is a fantasy. They just don't want me as a customer, fine.

It is simple: if you like new cards, you must spend money more often. If you like your old cards, you don't spend money.

Sometimes, MAGIC happens.

Oh yeah, some broken synergy is my kinda fun.

Honestly, the only card that is going to be hard to replace is Angelfire Ignition. That does so much, but most likely I will find another 3 mana spell that adds lifelink or haste. Good question. Stay tuned! I promise this one will get an update right after rotation.

Thank you! Soy face for the clicks, capitalized adjectives for the incitement. This is the way of RU-vid.

Those are the music videos I was listening to live on stream (I cut the video from my Twitch VOD). Due to copyright laws, the volume of my desktop does not transfer over to my VOD to avoid a strike. Something new I started doing on my streams. This is the first RU-vid video that has that in it. I was curious if there would be any problems, but it is fine since all the copyright strikes are done by bots. Good eyes! Thanks for the watch and the comment.

Link is in the video description, FYI.

I still haven't uninstalled (mainly because of how long it takes to patch now), but I am so frustrated with the state of the game. I might just take a break until rotation, but something needs to change. Who knows. It could just be that I am too emotional right now due to things unrelated to MTGA, so I am doing what I have never done before and pausing before I hit uninstall. You should be able to play more than 1-3 decks to HAVE FUN PLAYING A GAME. I think that is what has been lost in the obsessive greed - this is a video game/card game that is supposed to be fun and make people happy.

Yes, updated with the new set.

LMAO!

They know that people will log out after they finish the 15 daily wins. If someone is not logged into the game, they can't spend money. The beatings will continue until morale improves!

Thanks!

Oh yeah! You can hear the true joy in my voice as I cycle into a crime land win. Also, can't counter a land getting dropped on the battlefield. I like to imagine my opponent smashing their keyboard into oblivion after the loss or either just sitting there staring at the monitor wondering how they lost the game. Thanks for the comment!

Much love!

Thanks! Lots of L's were taken to get to this level of competency.

Bernie Madoff pulled off his Ponzi scheme for 15+ years. There were plenty of people claiming he was running one, but he brushed it off and the authorities let him con people for a long time before everyone realized what some knew all along.

@@dameongeppetto Exactly. Without transparency and/or some kind of enforcement of fair rules for all it's not going to be fair since there is no incentive to do so(and the opposite incentive exists instead.) aEOMM and even that episode of South Park on predatory cell phone games all already exist and no one would deny that, but we get people defending MTG Arena like it's exempt from those same rules. Even more maddening is none of this was an issue with the original Magic Online game. Just that it plays like old accounting software and they should of banned bots from ruining the free market economy it had.

@@dagamingsalmon7668 it really is simple: you expect me to trust that a for profit company in a business that has zero regulatory oversight is going to be fair and just because they are benevolent? Do you exist in the real world? I used an example last week on a livestream about how Lake Michigan used to catch on fire in Cleveland before the EPA was set up and regulated pollution into bodies of water. There is no EPA for online video games. WotC is simply a for-profit company that will do whatever they have to do to increase those profit margins.

@@dameongeppetto I am a free player since the last 5 years in there and with all the evidence I have seen that it is rigged or messed up, trust me, I don't regret my choice of being free player. But when I see first hand they are screwing with me, even if it's free, it is VERY annoying because of the lost of time into the game. I hope one day, that company goes out of business. That means Hasbro also. Most people don't care if they are cheating, as long as they are entertained! it's amazing how sheep humankind is.

I have taken several multi-month "rage quit" breaks because of the BS myself. Just got back from a 5 month hiatus.

yup, if you start with 4 or more lands you draw nothing but lands, but if you start with 1 land you dont draw any, same goes with other cards, its very anti-logical and just plain stupid, I really wonder wtf they are doing, a functional shuffler in 2024 shouldnt be that hard

@@FunkMabassUp I played a 150 card OP last night, they top decked two of the same card back to back and then two of another card back to back. Every update the shuffler gets worse.

Well said! I always say on my streams that best case scenario is it is simply horrible coding. One of my favorite lines is "if your five year old child shuffled a deck of cards like this you wouldn't let them do it again."

@@dameongeppetto I just dont see what it would gain them if they rigged it on purpose? pissing people off doesnt earn money, I think its lazy badly coded, same with the fact that they dont even care too add functions like spectate a friend to the game, they are lazy and the game is just a moneymaker with MINIMAL effort too keep it running. Also reflects how poorly optimized the game is for mobile, it eats alot of battery and performs quite shitty for being just a card game with no advanced gaming mechanics

@@FunkMabassUp they are rigging the matchmaking not the shuffler. The shuffler is horrible code, yes you are correct. Who goes first and who you get matched against is where they are putting their thumb on the scale to affect outcomes. Why? Money. If people win too much they don't spend money. If people lose too much they quit the game and stop spending money. They walk a fine line of keeping you angry enough to buy that one card which will make your deck work, but not pushing you over the edge. Think about this: you ever have one of those horrid losing streaks where you are questioning why you even play the game and then suddenly you are matched against a budget jank deck that you beat despite the shuffler not drawing you well? That is the matchmaker helping you stay playing the game (so they can get some money from you or they will beat you down with losses due to bad matchups again).

@@dameongeppetto agree, thats true, I did play on high rank and was top 100 a few times in mythic, still the games felt very little based on skill, more about who went first or who didnt manascrew, most games feel one sided and out of the players control, almost like you are a spectator too your own game, the "on the play advantage" is one of the biggest flaws of mtg in my book

Haha. Gotta love the "variance" in the system.

Satan loves you.

Thanks!