Shamanstone returns...?
... "I was right all along...! MwahaHA!" Validated Doomsayer
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Shamanstone returns...?
... "I was right all along...! MwahaHA!" Validated Doomsayer
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Sex Toys should be less pleasurable and appealing to sex addicts. Alcohol should taste terrible to be less appealing to alcoholics, Forget about vaping, that should just be outlawed...
Why are companies responsible for the ethical behavior of their clientele? When do people become responsible for their own actions?
This is the precursor to government oversight that deems its populace to inept to make their own decisions, and concludes they should be making decisions for everyone.
Should knife companies put plastic edges on all knives, because someone could stab someone else?
No more dangerous chemical cleaning agents, someone could swallow it!
People are responsible for themselves, and that's all there is to it. If a game is too "addictive" and you can't stop spending money on it, then that's a good sign you need help, and if it weren't this game, your behaviors would manifest somewhere else in life, with potentially worse consequences.
Edit: To add a bit of insight or authority to my views. I played online poker for years to supplement my $300/day heroin habit.
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I need to take a moment and respond to two different videos made by the creator Zeddy Hearthstone. These videos are unrelated, except in that they are both remarkably dishonest.
To the mod(s) who review this post, I realize that one of the two videos deals with race and gender, two subjects that are not favorites of forum moderators in general. I would encourage you, however, to take a quick peek at my post history. You will notice that in most of my posts, and 100% of the threads I start, I do not treat these or any other topics as trivial or worthy of trolling. I am taking this as seriously as one can, given the flaws in the video to which I reference.
Now, the two videos in question are 1) "I should've made this video a long time ago. Please hear me out." Posted 20 Nov 2020, and 2) "Why Hearthstone is GETTING EVEN MORE expensive! |Darkmoon Faire | Hearthstone" Posted 27 Nov 2020. If you have not watched these videos, I can't in good conscience recommend them, but I would respectfully request you don't respond to this by only commenting on the general topics. I am very specifically responding to these videos and their particulars.
Taking them in order, the first video is centered around the streamer-invite-only duel tournament which, at the time of this video's posting, had not yet occurred. Zeddy laments the lack of diversity in the 16 invitees, specifically mentioning "only 2 women" and "no persons of color". He goes on to mention Pathra as his first example of a woman who should have been invited, and names two streamers, apparently of color, of whom I have never heard.
Two major and one minor issue occur to me with this video.
First, Pathra as a person who deserved an invite. This deserves to be called out for the ridiculous suggestion it is. If we proceed from the notion that we should invite based on audience and popularity, there are certainly more popular and more diverse female candidates. Moreover though, some part of the invite process should have SOMETHING to do with the ability to play the game. Pathra was given a position in the premiere GM league season. She was chosen over MANY professional players with far more accomplishments in the game. It was no secret, at the time, that her gender played a huge roll in her selection, and I actually have no particular problem with that. The hosts of the league have the prerogative to choose who they think will make the tournament successful.
She did not make the GM league successful. She made it a laughingstock, to the point where many in the community were calling for special moderation of the chat in her matches. The stated reason was "sexism", but I always had a serious issue with this. Pathra won very few games, to say nothing of matches, during her time in GM. The VODs of those games contain many comments pointing out her blatant, objective errors in EVERY game she played (I do not exaggerate). It was some of the most inept tournament play I've ever seen. So knowing that her play will cause adverse events in chat, whatever the reason, one cannot legitimately fault the hosts of the duel tournament for leaving her off the roster, or if you think you can fault them, you CERTAINLY can't chalk it up to her gender alone. There are clearly other issues with selecting her.
The second major issue with Zeddy's video was the claim that no persons of color were included. There were several streamers of Asian descent invited, and here we have to be brutally honest. The objective, inarguable racism of excluding Asians from the category "persons of color" is disgusting. It smacks of one's personal attitudes toward a race of people substituting for the factual minority status of Asian people in America. This has been done many times, basically from the reasoning that since Asians don't fit into certain narratives of victimhood as easily as other minorities might (which, btw, is an asinine belief. Anyone ever heard of internment camps?), they should occupy some nebulous space between whiteness and "of color". That is a truly revolting practice, and it deserves to be called out to his face.
The final, and by far LEAST important, of the three problems with this video is the open and notorious positioning of such statements as "brave" and even funnier . . . "daring". We live in the year 2020. No matter what side of the political spectrum you fall under, no one who is engaged in the modern world has avoided numerous . . . countless, even . . . instances of gender and race diversity consciousness. At one point in the video he suggests that he doesn't get invited to such tournaments because he makes videos like this. I suspect he is correct, though not for the reasons he believes. I hope I have illustrated the flaws and bigotry inherent in this message to the point where I fully understand why no company would want to associate with this creator.
The second video is more familiar territory to the forum right now. After making several videos calling specific Blizzard employees liars regarding the reward track, and referring to "false promises" of future xp-earning opportunities (despite him having no way of knowing whether said promises are false), he uses the above-named video to tackle the more general notion of the game getting more expensive as a whole. He claims that his accounting degree gives him the expertise needed to give "a more data driven approach" to answering this question.
For the record, I have a Master of Accountancy, a Juris Doctorate with a specialty in corporate finance, and a current CPA license, so if any such things matter, I have quite a bit more expertise. The reality, of course, is it only takes an attention to detail and the ability to multiply and add to answer this question, so all of this dick-wagging over credentials is completely meaningless, but to forestall the appeal to authority fallacies, I include my own.
It should be acknowledged that in one respect, the game has obviously gotten more expensive. That is, we used to have smaller expansions in the form of adventures like Naxxramas, Blackrock Mountain, etc. Those were cheaper than an entirely new traditionally-sized set of cards. For the past several years, we've had 3 expansions instead of 2 expansions and 1 adventure per year, and that is certainly more expensive.
However, a heavy counterbalance to that change is the introduction of duplicate protections in opening packs. The inability to get duplicate legendaries before you have one of each in a set cut the price of purchasing an entire set via packs by HUNDREDS of dollars, and I know this to be true because I bought every set that way. After duplicate protection was installed in game, the number of packs necessary for a full set was reduced by up to 70% depending on luck with the old sets.
My beef with Zeddy on this video is not his conclusion that yes, Hearthstone is (somewhat) more expensive than in the time of adventures. No, my issue is that he prepared a very large spreadsheet, but he zooms in on one area that lists "cost of required packs" and has values in the thousands of dollars. Now, let's be clear, I have bought enough packs to finish every set in this game, and at NO time ever did I spend more than $220 before I had a full set. So any suggestion that a set requires over a thousand dollars to complete is not only a deliberate lie, it is so out of the realm of reality as to be reasonably deemed a deliberately misleading propaganda. And yet, his spreadsheet lists values ranging all over the $1-2k range.
Now those of you who watch his video and are inclined to defend him will comment that Zeddy himself admitted the numbers were not "perfectly accurate". In that, he is CERTAINLY truthful. The problem is, by including the numbers at all, there is a tacit suggestion that they are at least in the ballpark of accurate, which they absolutely are not. Furthermore, the would-be Zeddy defenders are indulging in his brand of dishonesty if they only tell half the story. Sure, he protests that these numbers aren't adequate, until later in the video when he makes two statements that begin, "As you can see from the numbers . . .", doubling down on the implied dishonesty of including those numbers in the first place.
Now, for those of you who have actually read this far, I want to be clear. Topics like diversity in gaming, costs to consumers, and misleading advertising can be worthy of discussion. I say "CAN BE" because they are not universally and constantly a problem in every gaming community. Diversity based on race and gender has always been the laziest, lowest-IQ proxy of true diversity of thought, but since some people value it so highly, I have always encouraged companies I support to take the easy way and make sure they give some lip service to this rather than be caught up in political squabbles they could otherwise easily avoid. But, just because someone dubs themself a champion of the little people, the downtrodden, the underdogs, does not mean that person is morally pure. In this case, I think Zeddy is FAR from it with his own messed up views on race.
More generally, this constant insistence of "I'm thinking about you. I'm fighting for you!" is generally either a gaslight for efame, and one has to actually show some good one does for "you" in order to substantiate those claims. In one of his videos calling Blizzard liars for the reward track stuff, he refers to Brian Kibler (a person who has been active in bettering gaming communities for nearly 25 years) as a "spineless streamer" who falls in the category of folks too rich to care about such things, before quickly reminding his audience that Zeddy himself is rich enough not to care, "but I'm looking out for my viewers . . . for you!"
Personally, I'm not convinced.
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Quote from PrincessKenny >>Zeddy has a history of abusing and bullying devs online. He doesn't even really hide it. He's an immature manchild that constantly whines and complains. He routinely trashes and bans his own twitch viewers and subscribers if they even remotely get out of line. Zeddy is merely using this outrage to further his views and if you believe Zeddy to be the voice of reason during these times, then you are the problem. He's entertaining sure but he's the worst person to lead this movement or whatever it is.
Nobody else brought nearly as much attention to the problems within Hearthstone as Zeddy.
Kripp, RDU, Zalae, whoever else, just play their little BG matches day to day and pretend everything's alright with the game, raking in EZ money in the process. They stay silent on matters such as this, they don't care about the little people. Meanwhile they get invited to prestigious events and advertise them left and right. If you think any of these people are better than Zeddy then maybe you are the problem.
this guy is just plain toxic, thats all. all he does is bashing and ranting about blizzard and the new reward system. he lies about the cost of an new expansion. in his excel sheet he claims, that you need 2k$ for an expansion to have all the cards. wtf, is he on crack? i opened ~145 packs from Darkmoon Faire, crafted a few legendaries and i have 124 out of 135 Cards. I even decided to keep 5k gold and i can disentchant all the duplicates if i need to. thats a little difference between my ~150 packs and his proclaimed ~1500 - ~2000 packs. the worst part of this is, people believe him and then they come to heartpwn and post this shit in this forum
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Quote from SoerenShacht >>Quote from Shadowrisen >>
However, a heavy counterbalance to that change is the introduction of duplicate protections in opening packs. The inability to get duplicate legendaries before you have one of each in a set cut the price of purchasing an entire set via packs by HUNDREDS of dollars, and I know this to be true because I bought every set that way. After duplicate protection was installed in game, the number of packs necessary for a full set was reduced by up to 70% depending on luck with the old sets.
I've waited for someone who would point this out. The duplicate protection (only Legendaries before and now it applies to all rarity) indeed saves up tons of investment into the game. Let be honest u dont have to buy such more than 200 packs to get a decent collection, 60 packs at the begin and 20-30 packs later (from rewards or some kind of promotion) should be enough. That said the game to me is somewhat cheaper than old days
They give with one hand and take with the other. I used to have every competetive deck, but I gave up on that a long time ago. Sure, the duplicate protection is very nice but then again:
-They now print 2-3 class legendaries per class and a bare minimum of neutrals. This skyrockets the price of staying on top of the collection for each class.
-A often overlooked point is that the high number of class legendaries make your investments become irrelevant faster because of rotations, expansion power creep and nerfs.
-HOF rotation makes the classic set weaker, which is also very bad for collectors.
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Zeddy has a history of abusing and bullying devs online. He doesn't even really hide it. He's an immature manchild that constantly whines and complains. He routinely trashes and bans his own twitch viewers and subscribers if they even remotely get out of line. Zeddy is merely using this outrage to further his views and if you believe Zeddy to be the voice of reason during these times, then you are the problem. He's entertaining sure but he's the worst person to lead this movement or whatever it is.
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Zeddy is trying to make some quick buck by taking advantage of the situation. He is just pandering to Pepegas.
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These are some serious accusations and, if true, it means this person is not just dishonest, but deliberately lieing to get attention.
YouTube has suggested several videos of the sort to me (cashing in on Hearthstone outrage), but i have yet to see one with detailed false spreadsheets etcetera.
Thank you for bringing this issue to the community's attention. I hope you post it to more forums (fora?)
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Just admit that you wrote this to tell us that you have a Master of Accountancy and a Juris Doctorate licenses
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The only reason to invite someone to an invitational is to get more viewers. Invitationals are not charity, neither they are sports events. Blizzard picks streamers who will bring their audiences to the tournament.
But honestly, I believe that Zeddy will now attack anything related to Hearthstone. It looks very much like he wants to take the niche of a content creator who does nothing but unloads tons of negativity on a franchise\company. It attracts a certain kind of audience.
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Bloated Zombie
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looks really cool, love a good burn deck
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Dragonqueen Alexstrasza obvs with Dinotamer Brann in hl huter
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i wouldn't be crying about anything until all cards are revealed, this happens every time, people being Doomsayers screaming "XYZ IS DEAD" "WHAT ARE THEY THINKING"
its okay it'll be fine, and if its not and it's unbearable, nerfs will happen lmao
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the curator is overall not an amaaaazing card, but for 7 3 draw and 4/6 taunt is preeetty good
he's not played in many other decks, but he absolutely fits into a menagerie kinda build like this one, which who knows might pick up n be good
kharazan isn't a super important xpac, most cards don't see play besides Silverware Golem (the only one i can name off the top of my head), if you have 1600 spare dust and nothing else in mind you want to craft, absolutely go for it
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probably Amber Watcher or Zandalari Templar or Ancestral Guardian
Lord Barov and broomstick might also be good choices
the deck needs enough value or endurance to stand up against renolock/reno priest but also enough to stop aggro, cards need to be higher impact overall
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control shama, literally 30 cards of anti-aggro, no real win condition other than fatigue
https://metastats.net/hearthstone/archetype/Control Shaman/
this is the first list i found when i googled "scholomance control shaman", firebat & dekkster among others also have some videos on youtube
the deck is nothing but heals & board control, galakrond is played without invocations also just as an upgrade to the button
I bid you good luck!!
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based and redpilled
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There's wow classic lets get hearthstone classic !!!!
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how important is Commander Rhyssa?
also +1 i loved secret paladin back in the day this looks like super good deck building which is really refreshing will likely give it a go :)