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Ah yeah. Worth noting that some jokers are stealthily powerful for econ. Like yeah rebate is powerful but gift card and chaos the clown are probably consistently stronger econ jokers!

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The strategy for scoring depends on the deck but generally you wanna first get some simple +mult or chips jokers, then scale into xmult jokers. Fixing your deck via tarot and spectral cards is also really important, you wanna minimize the chance of getting bad draws at all.

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Four rerolls by ante 8 is way too low, you need to build up your econ from earlier in the run. Source:

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Joy @joythedatanerd.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

This is probably the most Canadian post I’ve seen in years

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It’s not like those skills you’ve worked on since you were 14 evaporated tbh

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Joy @joythedatanerd.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

It’s a triangle number so it’s pretty cool. Happy birthday

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Joy @joythedatanerd.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

They are infinitely scalable since they’re vector graphics. You can zoom in or out arbitrarily because they’re defined via formulas rather than pixels

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Joy @joythedatanerd.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

@lavuli.bsky.social you really did get a full comp player arc this is incredible

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Joy @joythedatanerd.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Incredible career, I’ve made a YouTube clip of all your best comp highlights:

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I just don’t like that the rhetoric used is toxic at its core, it’s morally compromised and pushes the community towards negativity. I like that the community generally is willing to try difficult things like rehabilitative justice! It’s beautiful, and I’d love more of that, less essential judgment

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I agree! I really REALLY don’t like the guy, but him playing the game has both positives and negatives. We can’t really control what he does so it’s better to try and focus on the aspects we can control to get the most good out of it while minimizing the bad.

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You should instead wonder why the oppressed often reach for the weapons of the oppressor. Mirroring the structure while changing the subjects doesn’t fundamentally change it. It’s because it’s the only structure that’s been modeled, and we can do better than just taking it up wholesale.

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xQc playing Splatoon created a lot of think pieces (mostly on twitter) of whether it’s good he’s getting eyeballs on the community. Most of these posts are invoking language that treat xQc or his viewers as irredeemably evil.

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Invoking safety as justifying any response is pure good-vs-evil dualism and is the favorite argument of evangelicals, Aux. Categorizing it as theoryposting when it’s legitimately bad strategy that acts as a flare gun for trolls and bigots is actively harmful through self-destructive behavior.

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Taking the position of criticizing the rhetoric used dismisses concerns is a choice, for sure. Practically, though, the language used creates spite, which we’ve already seen start to play out. It’s both bad strategy and bad ethics.

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This is a much weaker claim than the attack on my character of “looking for excuses to talk shit ab minorities on your public platform”, stand on business. There’s arguments to be made about the risk, most posts aren’t making them. They’re overwhelmingly essentialist at their core, instead.

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You think it’s talking shit about minorities to point out that the arguments being used are mirroring the oppressive rhetoric of evangelical Christianity?

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Joy @joythedatanerd.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

It’s very funny how a week later the xQc thing brought this out at full strength. Evangelical Christian arguments about essential evil lol

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So you’re saying shawty got low

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Joy @joythedatanerd.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Don’t really see a lot of reasoning why xQc having eyes on the game is good but tldr views are money and money supports creators in the community. It has a risk of potentially being disruptive to Splatoon as a social group, but it’s got pretty sharp upsides for Splatoon as a competitive shooter

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Joy @joythedatanerd.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

(Explain your @) Someone was banned in a community for “Negativity and Disrespect” so that was my handle for a week and I realized I don’t wanna be the type of person that takes on that handle even to mock the admins for their dumb decision so I turned it to “Joy” as the opposite and it stuck.

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Joy @joythedatanerd.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Data is pulled straight from Sendou.ink tournaments

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Joy @joythedatanerd.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Probably worth noting that while viewership might be down, participation has remained steady

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Joy @joythedatanerd.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Generally a good rule of thumb to delete everything after a question mark in a link since it’s just tracking information

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To be extremely clear none of this is a criticism of the post that inspired this, I’m ranting. The OP is a wonderful person I like very much

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I’m tired of seeing perfect being the enemy of good online and it’s why I’ve been taking a break lately from social media because it’s bleak how there’s zero space for grace online. A problematic person is running a charity event? Fuck it, shut it down. Cancel it. Give me my good boy points.

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At least religion ostensibly believes in confession, redemption, and absolution. It has a grace machinery next to the sin machinery and online morality essentially just took the sin machine, gave it a paint job, and ran it. You did the bad therefore you are evil at your core.

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Like man, this binary approach to morality where you just have a checklist for what’s good and bad is fundamentally incurious and does nothing but bring misery. The irony being many of these people are anti-religious while having all of the same values of religion albeit with a secular paint job.

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Tangential rant: I have essentially one criticism of the lay person’s understanding of ethics and it’s that they’re all de Beauvoir’s serious man: aligning to externally defined value systems rigidly so they don’t have to evaluate moral positions. It’s lazy and dishonest while cosplaying virtue.

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