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Lmao , what did you post here ?
Im guessing it wasnt rainbows and sunshine for Blizzard.

Get with the times old man, Mage yet again pioneers the meta.
Another record, the only class that gets a 2 mana increase in a card and Blizzard calls it a buff.

Cant wait for the devs to raid my dust reserves everytime a Mage card gets a nerf.
Because thats the next level ,we pay them when they nerf the class.

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I’m so tired of their inane platitudes.
They literally hate the mage class, and it would be alot easier to respect if they just said that.

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You brought up capitalism. What I brought up was the word “Soviet.” Nothing more. I didn’t discuss socialism or communism in the context of political ideologies that actual people with actual conscience would desire to implement, and in the interest of civility I don’t intend to, except to say this one thing: it’s okay to believe what you want.

But there is something at least interesting, and potentially disturbing, that when you are exposed to the single word “Soviet,” with nothing else for context, you immediately associate it with the “opposite ideology” of “greedy,” evil capitalism. I mean, if I was a proponent of any ideology opposite to capitalism, or really any ideology whatsoever, I wouldn’t want ANYONE to associate my ideology with the USSR. I would disavow, and hard.

But hey, I guess you give Stalin points for trying.

I don’t want to get overly political here. To reiterate, it was not my intent to tell anyone that capitalism is good or that socialism is bad. I just thought that it was safe to point at the USSR and say that they sucked. Can’t we all agree on that one?

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Dude, this is an old meme internet saying joke. It wasn’t meant to be taken literally or even figuratively.

He might as well said a joke about Chuck Norris and then you went and Bruce Lee’d it.

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I certainly do not. I associate the word with Authoritarianism. Which has nothing to do with socialism or capitalism. It can exist in either system.

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Totally normal opinion. If I say “USSR lul” and someone thinks “there goes Scrotes again, defending capitalism,” that’s their problem, not mine.

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Which is to say, you admit that you started it.

Joking about soviet/communism vs america/capitalism is an old meme buddy. I was continuing your joke. You went political first calling me tankie.

And neither did I. At first. I started just by continuing your joke by pointing out that what Bliz is doing is totally what capitalist companies do.

You the one who reacted and escalated with the tankie remark. YOU turned things political, not me.

Again, the whole capitalism vs soviet is an old meme. Part of the joke includes how there seems to be no distinction between soviets, communism, socialism, the left, and bunch of other labels I might have forgotten, thus my words were “supposedly opposite” ideology.

As is me joking about capitalism being greedy. Or the whole whole soviet/communism vs capitalism thing. I was just continuing his joke, but apparently he couldn’t take it and went for the tankie label.

It’s literally the other way around. He was the one who couldn’t get my joke and went for the tankie label.

Political discussions on a gaming forum should not just be banned, but persecuted on court.

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I generally associate socialism with authoritarianism. But that’s because every country that has tried it follows the same formula. They start off with socialism, it inevitably evolves into communism which, so far, almost always becomes authoritarian.

(Yes I am aware of the various small European countries that employ a few social systems like fiscal safety nets and healthcare. However that does not make them socialist countries.)

Other way around. What is happening here is somebody went “captialism lul”, and Scrotie insults them as a tankie.

Now this take I would associate with the Soviets.

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You guys smoked the wrong kush, capitalism as every other system has insane flaws, but compared to others it’s like a fart in the hurricane.
However, one of the major flaws of capitalism is dehumanization, which can be seen in any entity interested in profit ( capitalism goalpost ).
One can argue that some systems work on a smaller scale, kibbutz for anarchy or comunism, or monarchy and so on, but on milions of people, those systems just fail horribly.
Somebody send a thanking note to Lincoln for Trias Politica.
Yes, it HS forums, but even those can be used for awareness.

As for the game state, nothing changed dramatically, there will be an adjustment period and the complaints will start pouring down, in my opinion.

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You quoted the wrong post, bro

Im just too lazy to link replies to multiple posts, i just picked yours cause it was one of those i wanted to reply to.

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It is indeed. But there is NO “vs America/capitalism” to it. The joke is popular with the British and with Russians who lived under the USSR.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Soviet_Russia

I was joking. You were not joking. If you were joking, no one noticed.

None of this is accurate. The closest is “communism,” but that’s mostly an accident of the USSR claiming that that’s what they were. If that claim was ever true, it wasn’t true for very long.

LOL I just got kicked from the game where I was half a turn away from winning, with a message “Hearthstone has been updated! Restart to continue”

How in the world can they let that happen?

Our Capitalism has devolved into Corporate Oligarchy.
Oligarchs and their corporations have an absolute lock on every vital service in this Nation, and can charge whatever they wish to. If We cannot call it a monopoly, We can certainly call it a cartel.
And in that, lies Fascism.

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I actually deleted zilly in my rogue deck for Flint. I’m not sure if Zilly is worth it in treasure rogue anymore.

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So what you’re saying, on a gaming forum, is that specific legislation should be passed to prohibit certain behaviors?

economics stuffs

As a point of economics, and trying to be as apolitical as possible…

Every entity is interested in profit 100% of the time. The only distinction is whether they are interested in monetary profit, or non-monitary profit.

The nature of human volution is that there are always, at a minimum, two choices: you could choose do something, or you could choose to do nothing. For every such choice, microeconomics applies. We assign arbitrary value to an expected outcome, we estimate costs associated with the necessary actions to cause that outcome, and if the value exceeds the costs, we do it. If the value doesn’t, then we don’t.

You literally can’t get out of bed without profit motive. Capitalism or no capitalism.

The biggest problem with the general public understanding of economics is that they think that economics is the study of money. That’s nonsense. Economics is the study of how individuals and societies allocate resources to achieve goals. And the most important resources of all are human attention and labor. Modern economics proudly states that value is completely arbitrary on an individual level; on a societal level, if there are 1000 widgets then the value of a widget is what someone would pay for a widget after selling the first 999, which is still arbitrary, it’s just a socially constructed arbitrary.

Economics does not say that value is money, and money is value. Money is just a medium of exchange. Profit is value minus costs, not just money in minus money out.

So if you think about this critically, the dehumanization that you’re referring to is not a consequence of “capitalism,” although it certainly exists under capitalism. It’s a deeper issue than that. “Dehumanization” is a consequence of valuing things for their trade value — that is, their value to people other than yourself, instead of their value to yourself. It’s easy to do this with money, but it’s still possible even under some kind of barter system. In other words, dehumanization is fundamental to trade itself. Which means that dehumanization is a necessary cost for specialization of labor, the greatest invention of mankind, the innovation that allows you to live in a city working in a specific economic niche, as opposed to everyone having to be a farmer.

Dehumanization isn’t going anywhere. Capitalism or no capitalism. Get used to it. Resisting it is about taking responsibility for your own values.

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Yeah was about to post the same.
The miniscule value add per unit cost is completely butchered by how much more late the card is available for play. Not to mention it cannot be played by non-discounted void scripture AND it requires more board space on your side to be effective.

On what planet this NERF is called a buff??

GIVE ME MY DUST BACK!!

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Why do you make an unofficial 2nd thread about it? You should at worst say on the OP “go to the other thread”. You’re endangering the feedback you collect here not being read by Blizzard who made the official thread.

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