Well done my friend enjoy the feeling and the cardback 
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I find most that believe and proclaim themselves red pilled are the opposite of disillusioned. That goes for many of the ways people describe themselves. If you need to tell people you’re loyal. If you need to tell people you’re don’t care what they think. If you need to tell people you aren’t racist. If you need to tell people you’re not sexist. If you need to tell people you’re not homophobic. And so on and so on, ad nauseum. This isn’t a rule, but often does require some skepticism. And often something is said before the “I’m not X” that suggests the person is in fact X.
good work person! keep it up!
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Um what?
Look, I don’t know what in the world could possibly be more… utterly backwards than a phrase from a movie script that’s obviously about the trans experience — yes, the Matrix is a trans allegory, bro even gets all pissy when Agent Smith deadnames him — where was I? Oh yeah, taking that phrase and somehow turning it into a meme buzzword peddled by the alternative/neo-right. To embrace the term “redpill” is to accept that the world is fundamentally fake, that reality itself is an illusion, and that you are privy to some gnostic revelation that transcends it. Cultish foolishness.
And “based” is pretty much the same concept, except with even more fake machismo bravado. Like yeah, I believe this crazy crap, whatchya gonna do about it? Huh? Wanna fight me? We can go to the alley right now. /s It got paired with “redpilled” because that phrase didn’t have enough unbridled testosterone.
Like I said: cringe.
I really don’t care about The Matrix, and am not arguing about transgenderism. All I’m saying is that very often someone claiming to be “redpilled”, as in they see through the illusions you mention, aren’t actually disillusioned at all. That term isn’t part of my vocabulary.
Could you guys please stop with this stuff and go somewhere else? There are by god more than enough other threads for this.
This is Rambo’s thread and for his achievement.
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You’re right. We should stop turning every thread into a debate, if not into outright insults towards each other.
A big congratulations, Rambo! A job well done!
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Okay. Because you asked nicely.
But I regret nothing.
(Grumbles) Used to be much tougher back in my days (I think I did it for the first time, also as a F2P guy, back in Naxx), with the old rank system (see below), but congratulations anyway!
https://hearthstone.wiki.gg/wiki/Ranked
https://hearthstone.wiki.gg/wiki/Ranked/2013-2020
So, apparently, it used to be 5 stars per rank from 5, which is the equivalent of current D5, to legend, now it’s only three.
I’m closing in, Diamond 4 right now. The influx of bots/noobs or whatever has been immensely helpful xD But this grind of one star per win at the end is rough.
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G to the very next G
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What a backhanded “congratulations”. 
Why, hitting the old Rank 2 (15 net stars after the threshold of no more win streaks) isn’t bad at all.
Please. In 2014 most players barely knew the rules of the game.
Now even from diamond 10 you start meeting people with all the cards and net decks (half of the time at least).
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do you actually believe that getting to Legend now is HARDER than it used to be? 
Legend in 2014: 0.5% of Hearthstone players
https://www.eurogamer.net/only-0-5-percent-of-hearthstone-players-reach-legend-rank
Legend in 2024: 19.3% of Hearthstone players
https://www.vicioussyndicate.com/vs-data-reaper-report-286/ (look at Legend games vs total games)
It’s roughly 20 times easier than it used to be. It got about 8x easier overnight when they changed the rank system in 2020. The other ~2.5x easier has mostly been due to bots, and has been more gradual.
Yes, Diamond 10 is where you stop facing only bots and start to see a real person.
The bot issue is real.
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I mean, technically I faced two (2) humans in Bronze and one (1) each in Silver, Gold and Platinum. I started facing humans with my first game this month!
But yeah, D10 was the line where the bot population went from most opponents to rare opponents.
Five whole human beings between Bronze 10 and Diamond 10. I had 60% winrate against the humans and 100% against the bots. The climb is absolutely free.
Congrats! Still haven’t made it past diamond 2 myself, no mater what deck I use. Several times I actually got to diamond 2, only to have 2-3 straight games of 7+ cards in the starting hand with no opportunity to even really play the round. Ultimately, Hearthstone is a card game, entirely dependent on RNG. You draw the right cards when you need them, you win. You don’t, you lose. However strategic one might be with the usage of their cards, if they dont draw well, it isn’t going to end well.
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Nice soft-evading the personal attack rules by the way by using emotes that personally attack people as “crazy” instead of saying it directly as you did yesterday; you seem to have a need to do it; I’d suggest for the sake of your own calmness of mind to instead try to love people instead of finding new ways to hate them.
Anyway back on topic: your argument is not that great because how do we know you were experienced in Hearthstone in 2014?
Are you not more experienced in Hearthstone now yourself compared to your experience in 2014?
That is also true. My point there was that they’re not even new players usually. Half the people even from D10 appear to have all the cards they need so even if their skill is not that great they probably have experience (and at around D4 you start seeing people who appear to play very well as well).