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Oh. This game is out now. I'd totally forgotten. xD

Just another day on the Trump train-wreck. Personally, I simply couldn't care less about Comey. It's not bugging me, but I'm also not particularly happy about it. At this point, Trump and his remaining Cronies (Ohohoho) are just doing random bad stuff that most people ignore (Selling your browsing history, for example) and horrific stuff that many people praise. (Read: Gorsuch) It's hard to remain engaged. I'm all drama'd out on the political front. At this point, my request to politicians is: "Please stop trying to fuck up my life, and I'll just turn a blind eye to the depraved shit you do to each other."

Oh, great. Now you're using Teen Magazine to figure out how to deal with me. Anyway, it would be nice to dismiss Le Pen as less than viable, but if there's one thing I learned from last year's travesties, it's that no matter how poor your outlook on humankind is, people will still disappoint you. I'm not going to risk my dwindling dregs of sanity trying to predict this one. Que sera, sera.

Oh, look. We (mostly) agree on something. This is awkward.

I actually spend it rather freely. Whenever I want anything for any deck, even for a Tavern Brawl, I just make it. The dust keeps coming in. xD I should note I don't care for golden cards and disenchant all of them unless they're part of my playset.

@Tartar I crafted the mage and druid quests, plus a few assorted epics, such as the mage rune for 2 mana that lets you discover a spell and it costs 2 less. (I forget the name.) I believe I have over 22k dust right now. I never disenchant non-duplicates, because I am a hoarder. =p

Well, as someone who has access to a lot of cards and dust, I'm finding Un'goro to be a blast! Time warp mage is hilarious. I imagine this set would be pretty miserable for players with fewer resources, though. My most successful deck so far:

School has become a place where you go to memorize rather than learn things. That goes for college, too. Too many businesses require bachelor's degrees even when they're completely unrelated to the work at hand. That forces more people into college, which in turn requires that college courses become easier to accommodate students who have no real desire to be there yet feel compelled to graduate. The result is that we've largely pruned critical thinking from the curriculum. That reduces the experience to a largely empty one, where facts go in one ear, roil around until the test is taken, then go flying out the other and dissipate, never to be considered again.

I play every now and then. I haven't tried the new model yet, though. I usually don't play beta modes of stuff because it frustrates me to not get to keep what I earn. =p

So what Trump did is good because people from both parties say it's good and because others have done similar things in this position before. Further, destabilizing other countries brings Americans together. Riiiight... I'll just leave you to it, then.

The generalization of yours I quoted in my last post was absurd and, judging by your reply, even you don't agree with it. That's why I attacked it so vehemently - which, yes, yielded more absurdity. As far as "defending the world" goes, I do agree that something ought to be done about Assad's chemical attacks (assuming they were his), but I don't think an immediate attack is going to lead us where we want to go. If Syria really is such a staunch ally of Russia's, this attack is tantamount to one on Russia itself, and if we get involved in a serious war with that country, we can be sure that our human life calculus is going to tilt very heavily in the wrong direction. And, I wonder... is Trump really that dedicated to defending the world? Those who died in Syria's recent chemical attacks suffered a particularly painful end, but they are far from the only ones who suffer. There are plenty of people who are going hungry, and plenty more tyrannical governments that oppress their people using more conventional strategies. Most of these just go ignored. Not everything can be solved with military strength, and we don't have the resources to save everyone. But we certainly could do more than we do. So I'm curious - why is this particular instance of "heroics", which left more innocents dead and the perpetrator largely untouched, so praiseworthy? Why is it so much better to stain our own hands than it is to give shelter to those who need it, and risk the worst of them staining theirs?

Really? I don't think the U.S. considers North Korea an ally. Does that make us intolerable? Are we supposed to be forcing every single country to consider itself an ally of ours? Do you, like, support taking over the world or something? Trump said he wasn't going to take action in Syria like two or three days before launching those missiles. He did a complete 180. Of course he's acting on his whims. That's what he does.

Democracy not doing its job is becoming a bit of a theme these days, isn't it? I suppose first and last resorts can coincide. If your neighbor is making a bit too much noise at night, and the first idea that comes to you is to murder them in cold blood, then I guess that would also be the last resort you ever have to take. It seems unlikely that will be the case in Syria, though. With Assad - and Putin - still at large, there are a multitude of ways this could develop. Trump didn't try anything before turning to violence, so if another nation decides to retaliate, they have little incentive not to respond in kind. But I suppose it is inevitable that the U.S. will retrace its steps in Iraq - the very steps that gave birth to ISIS. Military strength gives the illusion of invulnerability. I wonder what excuses Trump will offer should that illusion be shattered.

Peace through strength, huh? Not as noble as you make it sound. Anything where you kill the enemy qualifies, really. Of course, that's not what Trump did. He actually just broke some stuff and killed some people who were nearby. Do you really think it ends here? Despite everything history has shown us - even recent history? Violence breeds violence. I won't even dwell on the "last resort" part. It looks more like this is the first thing Trump tried. So, as champions of peace and justice, we're now on the path of murdering first and questioning later. And it's not just Trump. As you say, many people are praising this. This is, in their eyes, right. No wonder we've come to this. We'll just keep doing this over and over. One monster will create the next. And we'll never learn. I can see why some people place so little value on human life.

You're easier to impress than I expected. Regardless of whether ones agrees with the attack, giving the order to "Go bomb the bad guys" doesn't take a particularly lot of finesse. Personally, I can't say I'm terribly fond of this choice. I agree that something needed to be done in response to those chemical attacks that killed innocent people, but I'm not sure an explosive attack killing more innocent people was the optimal solution. If Trump was trying to send a message, I feel like there were better ways. And if he was trying to cripple the targeted base... well, it's still functional. But, who knows? I guess we'll just have to see which direction this attack shifts our human life calculus in. My paranoid side is currently entertaining tinfoil hat theories postulating that Trump did this to throw us off the scent regarding possible ties to Russia. I find it hard to believe he was actually moved by the suffering of others. Maybe I'm just being cynical. In related news, I'm beginning to realize I could write a scathing review of Trump's presidency so far using exclusively Donald Trump quotes. Twitter really is a gold mine.

"Depends" is right, but it mostly revolves around the following: In real life, I basically avoid strangers as much as I can because I don't trust people. Online, I'm way more open to getting to know people as long as they aren't rude or otherwise awful.

We can't always leave our dogs outside, especially in the cold or rainy weather!

That was a lightning reply. =p A bunch of stuff went wrong, but mostly, I'm getting super annoyed by the fact that my dogs howl when the phone rings and my parents yell about that. (If that sounds adorable, I thought so, too, the first time, but it gets really old really fast.) Basically, we missed an important call because the dogs made my mom panic, and she proceeded to blame my dad for not teleporting to the phone on the first ring. Fun stuff.