@MacNCheezus I'm not denying this, just figured I'd bring up that there's a lot that can go towards failing you, privacy-wise.
Apple has it's own host of problems (third-party repair lockouts being high on the list of them when I think about it) but if privacy is the primary concern they seem pretty good.
@MacNCheezus @Interstellar_1 Earnest question - do you read the ToS on the apps on your phone? I know Apple recently has gotten on a pseudo-privacy kick as of late (they were having a bit of a public-facing slapfight with Facebook over it) but the apps may be collecting usage data and using the ToS to say they can. Apps like Spotify and GMaps are *bad about this*.
@rigatti @MysticKetchup It's well written and also makes me sad how poorly the recovery was scripted for the others. Nissa, Ajani, and Nahiri basically peeled Phyresis off like an orange by comparison to this.
@MysticKetchup I've just had a thought. This "Fortnite-ification" of Magic (alongside many other games like, well, Fortnite but also Call of Duty, Minecraft Bedrock & Destiny 2 as of late) with the intense focus on crossover IPs to make quick easy cash with barely-relevant products that are really just tie-ins...
Does anyone else remember the tie-in shovelware platformers of the early 2000s? Not the good ones, the unforgivably *bad* ones.
Magic is becoming a vector for that same market.
@MeDuViNoX @captainlezbian Hello, other weird person heard you from across the bar and decided to interject.
For gaming it's really 2-3 operating systems that are probably going to have the best results.
Ubuntu, for all Canonical's faults, has the widest array of online resources for finding problems.
Pop_OS! is similar to Ubuntu but maintained by System76 and I've seen sometimes said to be better.
SteamOS 3.0 (the OS on the Steam Deck) has two desktop derivatives in HoloISO & Chimera OS.
@fsxylo @Mandarbmax Two of the three direct replies are solid Exhibits A and B of exactly what you're talking about xD
@andrew Why play paper Standard at a shop when you can play Arena Standard in your pajamas? That's the question in need of an answer.
@MysticKetchup A not-insignificant chunk of this problem is the fact that all of those decks are powered primarily *from* Standard, or at least would-be-Standard-if-not-Banned-ard *cough* Fable *cough*. MH2 doesn't help what with the Beans deck but 5C Beans still plays cards from current Standard to facilitate major parts of the engine (Binding and Beans itself).
So I dunno. I just find the idea of having a format where the fun ideas of Commander deck cards can run free without FoW sometimes.
@MysticKetchup I continue to mentally entertain "Chaos Standard" as a format. 60-card, 4-of, constant rotation (ie if a card was released Nov 13, 2020 it wouldn't be legal in this hypothetical format, or date\>=2020-11-14 / today's date as this is read on Scryfall) but any printing with the real card back puts the card into legality again.
Biggest problem with this would be attempting to onboard people to a 60-card format that's currently just the obnoxious bits of present Modern.
@silverchase @Evu Imagine if it's Demonic Consultation + Thassa's Oracle.
It's *not*. But imagine if it *was*.