i’m excited for them to make one that makes us more sick. i think zuck is going to invent a new breed of nausea that they’ll name after him.

like, okay maybe it’s a fact that communist parties in the first world are being disrupted by such weirdos, but i think that speaks less to the effectiveness of bourgeois manipulation and more to the ineffectiveness of many communists. i don’t consider it a great feat to be able to smell a reactionary before you see him and simply not take his stupid thoughts seriously. that’s a low bar for a would-be communist party to clear.

it’s a Type of Guy on Twitter, a dying site which mostly just accelerated the development of new breeds of mental illness when it was still popular. literally not something that exists in real life.

i mean, it wouldn’t be the first time british communist orgs have devolved into reactionary tailism.

the fact that this “movement” has zero real world purchase in the US, the nation that gives it all its signifiers and on which it is primarily fixated, should give you an idea of how serious it is. it’s a meme that propagates through the brains of 20th century burnouts who feel nothing but disgust and confusion at pretty much every historical development since the working class lost the cold war, and so latch onto the growing fascist wave – which frankly doesn’t need direct help from the feds – despite also being unable to understand why it’s been successful.

additionally, i recommend that you abandon the thought-terminating cliche of the “psyop.” without any evidence that some social development is actually motivated by a nefarious actor, all it refers to is one’s subjective feeling that what you’re seeing is too bizarre to have a rational explanation. it’s, frankly, antimaterialist, and not unlike the reasoning that motivates “MAGA communists”; observe how they often like to call challenges to their personal bigotries the work of the CIA.

more single use plastics and pesticides, personally

gamers rise up

coincidentally, the Youtuber Salubrious Snail just released a video that’s directly relevant to your question

Consider playing a couple games where you swap decks. Commander players are used to downplaying their decks’ strengths and other decks’ weaknesses. Maybe you’re wrong and you just need to learn some strategy fundamentals, but it sounds likely that there really is a significant deck power disparity.

However, if that is the case, it’s possible that your deck’s shortcomings could be fixed without having to spend more than $5 on a single card. Adding more removal, removing duds, simplifying your game plan, or improving your mana base could help keep you in the game.

Oh also I would be derelict in my duties if I did not remind you that proxying cards is good and everyone should do it all the time. If your play group doesn’t allow proxies, they suck and you should start looking for some cool people to play with.

Ah shoot, you’re right, I didn’t read the card closely enough and see that it’s a triggered ability, not a an activated ability.

you collecting them?

also note that these are the rules for spells or abilities on the stack. some effects have you copying cards in exile, in which case you do play those, and you do pay the associated casting costs unless the effect states otherwise.

From the Comprehensive Rules:

707.10. To copy a spell, activated ability, or triggered ability means to put a copy of it onto the stack; a copy of a spell isn’t cast and a copy of an activated ability isn’t activated. A copy of a spell or ability copies both the characteristics of the spell or ability and all decisions made for it, including modes, targets, the value of X, and additional or alternative costs. (See rule 601, “Casting Spells.”) Choices that are normally made on resolution are not copied. If an effect of the copy refers to objects used to pay its costs, it uses the objects used to pay the costs of the original spell or ability. A copy of a spell is owned by the player under whose control it was put on the stack. A copy of a spell or ability is controlled by the player under whose control it was put on the stack. A copy of a spell is itself a spell, even though it has no spell card associated with it. A copy of an ability is itself an ability.

This means that you don’t pay the activation cost again.

In your first example, X would remain the same for the copy and you can’t change it. If a copy effect says that you may choose new targets, that specifically refers to choosing game objects specified by the word target in the text of the ability, so in Isareth’s case, you could reanimate another creature with the same mana value.

In your second example, yes, you’d place counters on each attack creature twice

ngl, i love those folks. i agree we could chill out in some situations.

i will die defending the hexbear servers from the forces of reaction

downside of lemmyverse: you will get death threats for being a lolicon

upside of lemmyverse: you can send death threats to lolicons

i mean, when the revolution comes *checks calender* sometime in Q3 next year, i expect post screenshots across the lemmyverse to appear in multiple kangaroo trials and summary executions. But of course the same is true of Reddit, so who cares.

I know it sounds like I’m taking the piss, but I don’t think I’ve encountered a kinder, more accepting community than Hexbear, due to admins here actually enforcing civility rules. And I’m sure there’s an equally chill instance for people who aren’t interested in tearing the arms off their boss and drinking blood directly from the limbless wounds.

sexual perversion i assume

does the airport have a bookstore? maybe a paper book?

It’s just because they don’t put enough homeless people in concentration camps. That’s the entire thing. Mind you, California, like the rest of the country, still treats homeless people like they’re less than human, but the weather’s nice and the housing prices have skyrocketed in the past decade, so there’s a lot of homelessness, and therefore a greater call for mass executions.