The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[payn]

 

[Cadence]

Wow...

After years of saying how the reserved list in MtG was expanded to cover non-tournament legal cards, so they couldn't even reprint them in gold border...

Celebrate 30 Years of Magic: The Gathering with 30th Anniversary Edition | Magic: The Gathering

To celebrate 30 years of Magic: The Gathering, we knew we had to go big.

magic.wizards.com

"[O]n sale for the holidays, available November 28 for $999 on 30thEdition.wizards.com."

 

[prabe]

Wow...

After years of saying how the reserved list in MtG was expanded to cover non-tournament legal cards, so they couldn't even reprent them in gold border...

Celebrate 30 Years of Magic: The Gathering with 30th Anniversary Edition | Magic: The Gathering

To celebrate 30 years of Magic: The Gathering, we knew we had to go big.

magic.wizards.com

"[O]n sale for the holidays, available November 28 for $999 on 30thEdition.wizards.com."

 

[Cadence]

That it's that much for four randomized boosters, so there's a good chance of not even getting any ( not tournament playable versions) of anything on the reserved list, is spectacular.

 

[overgeeked]

The owners of that house in New Mexico where they filmed had to beg people to stop throwing pizzas on their roof. That didn't work, so they put up a fence. People still climb the fence to throw pizzas on their roof.

 

[el-remmen]

It will be a good day for humanity when we manage to mature ever so fractionally and finally let go of presentism.

Hmmm. I find the assumption that no one held the moral positions against problematic social mores because "that's the way it was" a lot more common. For example when people say something like "That attitude against [insert oppressed class] was just accepted back then," without ever considering that those people themselves most certainly objected to it.

 

[prabe]

Hmmm. I find the assumption that no one held the moral positions against problematic social mores because "that's the way it was" a lot more common. For example when people say something like "That attitude against [insert oppressed class] was just accepted back then," without ever considering that those people themselves most certainly objected to it.

"He was a man of his time."

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

"He was a man of his time."

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

 

[overgeeked]

Hmmm. I find the assumption that no one held the moral positions against problematic social mores because "that's the way it was" a lot more common. For example when people say something like "That attitude against [insert oppressed class] was just accepted back then," without ever considering that those people themselves most certainly objected to it.

That's funny. That's basically a restatement of presentism in a nutshell. "We have the right moral position now, but they didn't back then...well, actually, some people back then shared the moral position we have now...so we can judge those in the past who didn't share our present moral position by the standards of today." That's literally the problem. It's the assumption we now have the right moral position which is further compounded by judging the past by current moral positions. It utterly ignores that we don't have the right of all things and that in even a few years things we think of as perfectly moral can and likely will be seen as utterly monstrous. We're certainly getting better in a lot of ways and making progress, sure. But we too will be judged by some unknowable standards of the future.

 

[prabe]

That's funny. That's basically a restatement of presentism in a nutshell. "We have the right moral position now, but they didn't back then...well, actually, some people back then shared the moral position we have now...so we can judge those in the past who didn't share our present moral position by the standards of today." That's literally the problem. It's the assumption we now have the right moral position which is further compounded by judging the past by current moral positions. It utterly ignores that we don't have the right of all things and that in even a few years things we think of as perfectly moral can and likely will be seen as utterly monstrous. We're certainly getting better in a lot of ways and making progress, sure. But we too will be judged by some unknowable standards of the future.

"We are just people of our time."