They might be ESL or have a disability that affects their ability to write. What they wrote here might be a huge improvement over what their English writing looked like a year ago.
Attack their ideas, not their language. Plenty to go after there without targeting the person behind them.
He scored me 55 points last night! What???
This Thursday, October 24th, the first official Season of The Dynasty Cube begins!
What is The Dynasty Cube?
The Dynasty Cube is a collaborative, living draft format that combines a few concepts, none of which are required knowledge:
To begin, the Draft Pool for The Dynasty Cube will contain almost all of the 500 or so oldest cards from Magic’s history, with the next oldest cards being added incrementally with each subsequent Season. Cards that go undrafted get removed from the next draft, and cards that get drafted repeatedly become more difficult to retain, resulting in an ever-changing pool of cards.
The current Draft Pool for The Dynasty Cube, as well as a more detailed explanation of the draft can be found on Cube Cobra.
In The Dynasty Cube, the decisions you make continue having an effect after each draft. Teams may trade their cards or even future draft picks with each other to improve their draft pool. After each Season, The Teams will vote on new rules and other changes that will take effect in the next Season.
Currently The League has about 30 regularly active members, with each of the 8 Teams having between 2 and 6 participants. Ideally, each Team would have at least 5 active members - the more members on each Team, the smoother The League operates!
What does Team participation look like?
Joining a Team primarily means providing another voice and perspective to help your Team to come to a decision - but you can claim more responsibility than this if you want it!
During a Draft, Team members will discuss in their own private channel their strategy for what kind of deck they want to try to draft, what cards to prioritize with their next pick, what cards may be under/over valued by the other Teams, etc.
They’ll determine one Team member to be responsible for playing out their Team’s matches for the Season, and if that Team does well enough, they’ll have the chance at winning the Championship for that Season!
After a Season finishes, Teams will be presented with changes to The League that they will have the power to vote on to decide whether these changes be enacted.
Who are the Teams?
Below are the current Teams with their logos, colors, and mottos.
Alara Shards
Logo: 🌟
Color: Rust
Motto: "Why not both?"
Kamigawa Ninja
Logo: ⛩
Color: Dark Indigo
Motto: "Omae wa mou shindeiru."
Innistrad Creeps
Logo: 🧟
Color: Blue-Grey
Motto: ”Braaaaaaiiiiins”
Theros Demigods
Logo: 🌞
Color: Gold
Motto: ”The Fates will decide”
Ravnica Guildpact
Logo: 🔗
Color: Royal Blue
Motto: “A Championship is won and lost before ever entering the battlefield”
Lorwyn Changelings
Logo: 👽
Color: Green Apple
Motto: ”Expect the unexpected”
Zendikar Hedrons
Logo: 💠
Color: Aquamarine
Motto: "Good Vibes, No Escape"
Tarkir Dragons
Logo: 🐲
Color: Lavender
Motto: "No cost too great"
Getting started with The League:
Join a Team on our Discord and start collaborating with your new teammates, or you can give yourself the "Spectator" role which gives you some extra access that you won't otherwise have without a Team affiliation.
If you're not sure which Team best suits you, we have a channel specifically for team recruitment where the Teams will try to win you over!
Damn has it been 7 years already? I remember the "pretty good, for a RB" jokes when they were genuine, before Lamar had proven he could pass as well as run. Now the dude's outplaying Mahomes, Josh Allen, Joe Burrow, and has put up a few of the best all time QB performances in the last few years.
Starting to understand all the folks that have been following the game for 20+ years, it's wild how fast the time goes...
It's basically a requirement in the US to file a lawsuit to get anything done with regards to businesses doing shady/illegal shit. There's just too much bullshit for the agencies responsible to go after every single offender. And corporations know it.
Is this... a Cloverfield meme?
TLDR:
Return rates have increased substantially, but not quite to the level they'd hoped. Injury rates aren't public yet, but they seem lower. Expect return rates to increase a bit more in the second half of the season.
New kickoff rules expire after this season, hopefully they reinstate them plus shift touch backs to the 35 from the 30 to further incentivize returns.
Ideally, each team could use another 3-5 members to truly feel like a cohesive team. Weve got at least a couple active members in each team currently, and there's no maximum team size so the more the merrier!
I appreciate the feedback, I'll make that a priority!
For the time being, yes - when I have the time and funds for it, I intend to commission an actual logo but I sadly lack the artistic skill myself.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20472413
The Dynasty Cube is a collaborative, league-style draft in which teams of players draft through the history of Magic, starting with the first handful of sets, and cumulatively adding sets in chronological order in subsequent Seasons. Drafts are done rotisserie style online, with matches played through the following weeks to determine a Champion. The collaborative aspects of The Dynasty Cube have also heavily inspired by Blaseball - expect The League to evolve into something entirely different over time.
The League is currently looking for additional participation to keep the final Beta phase moving before the first Season begins at the end of this month.
The first Beta phase (Season 0) just completed (congrats to the Season 0 Champions, Innistrad Creeps!), and The Season 0.5 Draft begins today, Thursday Oct 3rd. This will be a "Draft-Only" Season intended to work out any bugs in the progression between seasons. The League will reset before beginning the first real Season that follows.
As no matches will be played in Season 0.5 and everything resets shortly after, the stakes are as low as they're ever going to be to jump in and see what The Dynasty Cube is all about!
The inaugural Season 1 will begin the week following CubeCon, with the Draft kicking off Oct 24th.
Additional details about The League and Season 1 list.
Discord server where you can join a Team and start participating!
If you have any questions about The League that aren't answered in the links above (or, hell, if you're just to lazy to click them), I'll be answering them here for as long as people are asking 'em!
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20472413
The Dynasty Cube is a collaborative, league-style draft in which teams of players draft through the history of Magic, starting with the first handful of sets, and cumulatively adding sets in chronological order in subsequent Seasons. Drafts are done rotisserie style online, with matches played through the following weeks to determine a Champion. The collaborative aspects of The Dynasty Cube have also heavily inspired by Blaseball - expect The League to evolve into something entirely different over time.
The League is currently looking for additional participation to keep the final Beta phase moving before the first Season begins at the end of this month.
The first Beta phase (Season 0) just completed (congrats to the Season 0 Champions, Innistrad Creeps!), and The Season 0.5 Draft begins today, Thursday Oct 3rd. This will be a "Draft-Only" Season intended to work out any bugs in the progression between seasons. The League will reset before beginning the first real Season that follows.
As no matches will be played in Season 0.5 and everything resets shortly after, the stakes are as low as they're ever going to be to jump in and see what The Dynasty Cube is all about!
The inaugural Season 1 will begin the week following CubeCon, with the Draft kicking off Oct 24th.
Additional details about The League and Season 1 list.
Discord server where you can join a Team and start participating!
If you have any questions about The League that aren't answered in the links above (or, hell, if you're just to lazy to click them), I'll be answering them here for as long as people are asking 'em!
The Dynasty Cube is a collaborative, league-style draft in which teams of players draft through the history of Magic, starting with the first handful of sets, and cumulatively adding sets in chronological order in subsequent Seasons. Drafts are done rotisserie style online, with matches played through the following weeks to determine a Champion. The collaborative aspects of The Dynasty Cube have also heavily inspired by Blaseball - expect The League to evolve into something entirely different over time.
The League is currently looking for additional participation to keep the final Beta phase moving before the first Season begins at the end of this month.
The first Beta phase (Season 0) just completed (congrats to the Season 0 Champions, Innistrad Creeps!), and The Season 0.5 Draft begins today, Thursday Oct 3rd. This will be a "Draft-Only" Season intended to work out any bugs in the progression between seasons. The League will reset before beginning the first real Season that follows.
As no matches will be played in Season 0.5 and everything resets shortly after, the stakes are as low as they're ever going to be to jump in and see what The Dynasty Cube is all about!
The inaugural Season 1 will begin the week following CubeCon, with the Draft kicking off Oct 24th.
Additional details about The League and Season 1 list.
Discord server where you can join a Team and start participating!
If you have any questions about The League that aren't answered in the links above (or, hell, if you're just to lazy to click them), I'll be answering them here for as long as people are asking 'em!
I fucking hate this rhetoric.
Voting for a third party is not "taking a vote away" from anyone.
You're arguing with someone who would in all likelihood JUST NOT VOTE if not for an alternative option. If you want assurances that fascism doesn't get voted in, how about you direct that passion towards getting people to vote for someone, anyone, instead of staying at home? That is the only certain way of getting not-the-GOP-candidate elected time and time again. Republicans always come out to vote in about the same numbers every election. Just get more people voting, and not only do the Dem numbers go up, but the viability of a third party goes up astronomically as well.
Just VOTE. For anyone!
Oh, hell yeah. Always wanted to watch the ELF while I lived in London, but it was impossible to find a free stream.
I wish I had record of it.
They had reached out to me after years of no contact to catch up and we chatted back and forth for a day just telling each other what was new in our lives and how good it was to talk after so lomg. Then immediately after, they cut me off completely for the last few years of their life. I'll never know exactly why, but I suspect they just didn't want to burden me and others with all the things they were struggling with (a string of bad luck so uniquely terrible anyone that knew them would know who I was talking about if I said everything I knew about here).
A couple months before they passed, they completely dropped off the face of the earth and their Facebook was hacked. When whoever now owned the account got tipped off that I knew they were a scammer, they blocked me and I lost all of our message history.
I have never hated a complete stranger more than whoever this person is.