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Second time I'm trying to make this. I accidentally hit a macro that went back a page...after writing ~5 paragraphs. Not happy.

So, I figured I'd give my views on the censored art situation. And then probably never use this site again since this pushed me over the edge and made me uninstall.

For context. Hearthstone has done their second round of censorship (the first round covered up Jaina's cleavage). The following cards were hit by it: Succubus (now Felstalker), Mistress of Pain (now Queen of Pain), Eviscerate, Secretkeeper, Windfury Harpy, Bite, Deadly Shot and Headcrack.

The worst of which (aside from muh waifus) are, in my opinon, Eviscerate, which now looks like the undead is recoiling in shock at the Rogue's yelling. And Headcrack, which looks more like a Magic the Gathering card than a Hearthstone card, not to give the new art smack, I think it's really comical and funny...but the old art is so, so much better.

I'd like to start by clarifying, this isn't because of social justice warrior libtards or third-wave feminists. This censorship was done to appeal to the People's Republic of China and Communist Party of China's censorship laws. China is a country known for their censorship, and I'm not going to tell a government how to run their country. Save the anti-communist shilling for later, plenty of countries have weird censorship laws. My country of Australia has banned plenty of games although that has decreased following the R18+ rating's introduction (it's the sole reason We Happy Few got released here), Germany removes/removed (I'm not sure if they still do) swastikas and references to Hitler from their games, Saudi Arabia banned the Pokémon trading card game because the normal energy symbol looked like the Star of David (and if there's one thing the Saudi government doesn't like, it's Jewish symbolism...and Judaism, and Israel, and Jews). This isn't something synonymous with "Chinese tyranny", it is how the Hearthstone team handled it that makes it really bad. Censorship is bad, I get it. But unless you want to go to Xi Jinping and get yourself arrested, there isn't much you can do.

This is not a new thing for Blizzard games. World of Warcraft is also famously censored in China to remove skeletons, bones, skulls. The Forsaken's model is censored, etc. The difference is, World of Warcraft's Chinese censorship extends only to Chinese servers. My Forsaken isn't censored in my Australian servers (Well...if I ever played Forsaken). That's their culture and their laws, and sure, they can do them. Hearthstone has decided to institute this to every server instead of just Chinese ones. That is why it really sucks.

I'd like to point your attention towards the censorship policy of another huge company, one notorious for their censorship, and one I never thought I'd be praising. Konami and it's Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise (which, by the way, is far better than Hearthstone...provided you don't play Salamangreats). Yu-Gi-Oh! cards (and the anime, but that's a far different story and infinitely more complex) are censored outside of the OCG.

To give an explanation, Yu-Gi-Oh! is divided into two regions, the OCG, which covers Japan, Hong Kong (though they haven't had new releases since 2016), South Korea (I'll explain it later), Malaysia, and some other places. And the TCG, which is everywhere else.

The OCG receives the uncensored card art, except for South Korea, which uses the censored TCG art and also receives TCG products and even some unique Korean exclusive cards (The Entity series were Korean exclusive at first), likely due to the...really bad Korean-Japanese relations and South Korean laws on Japanese products. It's a complicated mess, but South Korea is basically a fusion of the OCG and TCG.

The TCG receives the censored art, which no one in the TCG likes! Except for Monster Reborn, which was so popular and well liked the Japanese players begged for a Japanese release with the censored TCG art.

This also extends to Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links, where unless you use the Japanese mobile version (which if you're outside of Japan, requires a proxy and a GPS faker...and you have to be able to read Japanese because you can't change the text without removing the art) or an art patch on Steam, you'll get the censored TCG art.

When I'm praising Yu-Gi-Oh! and Konami for their superior censorship, you know something is wrong.

To conclude, Hearthstone should have followed the likes of World of Warcraft and Konami to cater to Chinese laws. But they didn't, they decided to ruin waifus for everyone. There are many possible reasons, it could have been too hard, or they could just be lazy. It sucks, and it's the straw that broke the camel's back for me. This will not be the final wave of censorship.

One final thing, please refrain from the racism. This is a strictly governmental/business problem, I'm sure the average Chinese citizen doesn't give half a flying shit about this law. It's not their fault this happened.

Anyway, I'm probably going to never use this site again since I'm not playing Hearthstone anymore. So go ahead and flame me if I said something dumb, I'll never see it! Bye everybody!

I think that this card, obviously, isn't very good. But that it's a card that should exist.

There's only 2 decks I can think of that "consistently" get you into fatigue. Mill Druid and Mill Rogue. Maybe in a control mirror you'll get to fatigue. But it isn't a regular thing. So, this card most of the time is a bad 7 mana 6/6.

If it's played and gets its battlecry, a Mill Rogue will just Vanish it or something. Unless they've used both. In which case, this is a very strong last ditch effort. But a Mill Rogue will just kill you with fatigue damage thanks to their infinite Coldlight Oracles. I don't know much about Mill Druid, but Druid doesn't have much for boardclears. So they'd probably concede. So that's two decks this card is made to counter. With only one really actually getting screwed by it. Not very good.

Let's look at the other option. This is for control mirrors that make to fatigue. So...maybe a Dragon Warrior mirror? Control Warrior? Quest Priest Mirror? IDK.

That's not a very common matchup spread. And even then, it's not guaranteed to make it to fatigue. So again, this card mostly is a 7 mana 6/6. Now, if a control match has made it to fatigue granted, the players will be far more likely to have spent their boardclears. In which case, this card likely would seal the game. Again, not too common.

In short, I think this is a card that just won't trigger often enough to be worth it. But when it does trigger, it does have a good chance to swing. I would say this is a card I would gladly keep in my collection, just in case. Not playable now, but a card that can be looked to in the future.

This isn't even mentioning shenanigans with Myra's Unstable Element, because I frankly don't think that will be anything more than a meme.

I think this card should, not even as a meme, be ran in Zoo decks.

Think about it, the statline is absolutely amazing for a Taunt body. And if you're cutting out an early game Demon, you can make space for this card. It offers a second chance to get value in the late game. There's a chance you low-roll, but there was a chance to low-roll with something like Yogg-Saron, Hope's End, granted that had a whole deck to go through.

The thing is, you're going to be replacing shit like undrawn/useless Flame Imps with a chance for something higher costed and higher valued. I see no reason why you wouldn't add this as a chance to catch up in late game. Remember, even cards like Hogger are better than a late game Voidwalker or Happy Ghoul (if heal zoo).

I see no reason not to run this.

I think that the only deck that would really care about this +2 Spell Damage past turn 7 is Spell Hunter. I don't think Spell Hunter is going to want to run a Minion...

Got my golden Priest yesterday! I am so happy!

Granted, my 500th win was against an AFK Priest. But I'm still so happy I got my golden Priest!

Racism, sexism, ageism. They're all bullshit reasons to discriminate on people.

The real way to discriminate is based on your deck. If you play Zoolock, you are worth less than a chimp, and are the inferior group of people. If you play Zoolock, you deserve your rights to be revoked. If you think playing Zoolock makes you anything other than the single most worthless piece of filth known to the world, then you're obviously the kind of mentally retarded moron who should be playing Zoolock, as you clearly lack the intelligence to play anything that requires even a slight amount of skill.

So I was playing some Hearthstone, as Priest per usual. And seemed to be encountering a lot of very similar players. All names with a random combination of numbers and letters (I'm fighting one right now called FVV8BNL and my previous opponent was NZT6BN6).

They're all playing the same aggro Warrior deck with only basic cards. They all play no matter what, even when I'm obviously BM'ing them. And I've encountered a LOT of them now. The one I'm playing right now I've been stalling for plenty of turns. And they all immediately seem to go offline once I win or lose against them.

So yeah, am I just in an unlucky wave of bots? Or just a coincidence?

Angery Edit:

2 days, still bots. God dammit.

Quote from Synthetikmisery >>

 If you are playing a lot of bots that means your MMR is low which means you have  been losing a lot and basically playing the worst players online at that moment. Get better and you won't see any bots at all.

 Wow, what a worthless and completely arrogant answer.

Quote from Axiron >>

I personally love bots. Always a free win for me. But I really hope blizzard will take some actions again like in the past because it can easy escalat. For now you can enjoy the free wins vs bots.

 >Free win

Yeah, Astral Druid and Bricked Priest don't do too well against SMOrc Warrior.

Quote from AngryShuckie >>

Yeah I don't like it much either. They once made a point of giving heroes subtle animations to not be distracting, so why they decided to add something un-subtle to what was already a perfectly well animated hero I don't know.

 Honestly, memes aside. It's actually a garbage edit. The green flashing is up more than half of the time, and obscures Rastakhan way too much. The focus is taken away from the hero and given to the green bois.

I would be like if Nemsy's hero portrait was just the Fen Creeper with Nemsy just barely visible on top. It's a really, really bad edit to a great hero.

Big boobies are magical fings, you see

Quote from thazud >>

This is the hearthstone community you are talking about. Breathing and whining is equally important.

 That's the entire gaming community, not just hearthstone.

I don't get it. It's just Steve from accounting

Looks like someone ran out of threads to comment on (stir up the pot) and has now made his own to get sympathy because others don't agree with him. Oh the world is against me, he says. Not enough people are paying attention to me, I have to do something about it. Salud, your salty tears taste delicious good sir. 

Honestly, you sound like an addict starving for attention and when you can’t get it, because you no longer know where to post your “controversial opinions” about Hearthstone, you create threads about yourself. Get off your high horse

if you're in the "i'm the victim"-mode, you already lost

Quote from Sherman1986 >>

Quote from KnivesOut >>

If your profile name is a reference to your birth year, meaning you are 32/33...you need to get a better hobby than posting on the forums 20 hours a day. 

This is what I like to do. Why should I quit if I like it?

 Because it’s obviously taking a toll on your sanity.

If your profile name is a reference to your birth year, meaning you are 32/33...you need to get a better hobby than posting on the forums 20 hours a day. 

No one ever harrsed me on this, or any other forum ever. So i guess you say stuff that you know will get you harassed, and you get what you are asking for. I am not familiar with your posts, nor your opinions, just saying that in general.

On the eve of a new year and new, awesome looking release....

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No, HS hasn't run it's course.