The Yugioh Card Duel Arena 10.0

It is possible to take the position that people only care about themselves. From that fact they care about other people only because those people are useful to them. If you are told "Some person somewhere died right as you were reading this" you wouldn't be saddened, because while it is undoubtedly true it doesn't have any impact on you. Similarly, the closer you are to someone the more it hurts you if they die or go away, because it has more of an impact on you. In this way, every action that looks selfless is rooted in selfishness. Maybe you don't gain anything material from donating money to the poor.. But then why are you doing it? Because you want to be the kind of person who helps other people. Maybe no one would know that you helped that person, but you would know and that would make you happy.

If viewed from that angle, no one should care that you're going away right now, because we don't really interact with you much anymore. Not much changes. The only exception is Abby who hopes to interact with you more, and now can't.

That said, that is a rather pessimistic way of viewing people. View them however you like. But honestly, it's best not to expect people to look like they care. In my opinion, the people who make a big fuss about anything either want to be look like they care, or want to be pitied. I think everyone here cares to an extent, even people who haven't specifically said anything about it. Just people don't feel the need to make a big fuss about it.

I personally would only make a fuss about this if I felt that there was some necessity that you know that I cared, and I thought that making a big fuss was the only way I could convince you that I cared. As such it would be insincere, as its foundation was not actual regret. If you want me to be insincere, then too bad. I care enough to discuss things in what I feel are clear terms, I care enough to take time away from doing other things to explain to you exactly why I am doing what I am doing when you think I should be acting differently. But I don't think it is worthwhile to be insincere to try to impress upon you the sincerity of my feelings, or even that I have any particular feelings regarding your leaving. If you want to think that I don't care than so be it. If you want to think that I care, that's fine too.

 

Yesterday someone said something that lead me to think a bit more on this, so I'm just going to talk about it to get my thoughts together.

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Originally, I had thought that this lead to the idea that people liked to change things to make them better, but didn't like them being better. For example if a researcher spent years and eventually developed a cure for cancer, they would likely feel proud and happy that they made the world a better place. On the other hand, if cancer never existed in the first place, that researcher wouldn't sit down and smile and think "It sure is a good thing that people don't suffer from some of their cells randomly mutating and killing them" and be happy about that fact. In other words, the pursuit could be summarized as an attempt to make things better, and thus feel better about yourself, since you wouldn't be happy about the result if the world had been like that in the first place.

However, I have now realized that there is another way of looking at things that is not based on happiness, but on unhappiness. In this case, the researcher may or may not be happy at the end, but they are driven by their unhappiness about the fact that people do die of cancer. Then when they have cured cancer they will be relieved of that unhappiness instead of necessarily feeling happy. Using this view gets around the issue of 'What if it weren't there in the first place' where the other does not, as it is based on the precondition being worse than normal, rather than on the postcondition being better than normal.

The problem with this second way of viewing things is that the bad condition has to legitimately make people unhappy. Since this is based on an idea where people don't care about things that don't directly impact them, something about the bad condition would have to directly hinder them to make them unhappy. This could represent as something like "My sister is dying from cancer, this sucks" to a mayor of a town thinking "All of these poor people being poor makes me look bad", but it could not be used in a case of the mayor thinking "I would look good if I made these poor people less poor".

So I guess it comes down to either wanting things to be better, or being upset with the way things are.. But either way it would be based on selfish thought. Either something makes you upset, so you decide to change it, or you want something so you decide to get it.

 

((OOC: Excuse me for not being around. I've finally found a Pokémon RP forum and I've been posting on it. Plus a Pokémon MMORPG!))



"I'm going to miss you, Jay!!!"

 

Still alive! Still alive! Ah-ah-ah! STILL ALIVE! AAAAAAAAAAAH! AAAAAAAAAAAH!

Well, I must say that I'll try to keep the Arena alive since Jaden's no longer. For Jaden's sake!

And speaking of death and lifes, guess who decided to do a soul charge-suicide.

 

Yugioh Duel Arena Season 2 is now live!! 2.1.0

 

Yay! New Season!



I love Jaden Yuki's (the character) pictures! Who doesn't like love that cute hyperactive boy?

Soooooo... What should we do now?

 

Set new rules for duels here that will never take place.

 

New rule: Duels must end on turn one by burn damage, without breaking the rule of no unbeatable combos, or the rule of no FTKs. If you should fail to end the duel by burn damage turn one, you are disqualified.

 

Perfect! But I think that you need to open with all parts of Exodia without breaking no unbeatable combos rule, no FTKs rule and banlist. And that should apply to both players. And if you fail to open with Exodia you instantly loose game.

But Seriously. I think actually making Deck Profile with a little option to edit it before duel should be better. Or rather before duel starts sending one to third party that will post both at the same time. It would make us think about more universal counters and actually make duels playable when you're going second (Maybe?).

 

No, really! Are you freaking insane?!

 

No that wouldn't make much difference. Even more, it could probably make it easier to play when you are going second.

 

NEW DUEL!

LP: 8000
Customs: NO
Anime Exclusives: Yes
Manga Exclusives: Yes
Video Game Exclusives: No
God Cards: No
Illegal Cards: No
First Player: Me
Number of Cards per Deck: 60
Number of Cards per Extra Deck: 15
Other conditions(luck based cards, handicaps, etc.): No Pendulums or Exceeds Allowed!

 

Deal.

 

LET'S DUEL!

I'll go first! DRAW! (Hand: 6)

I'll start by activating my FUSION GATE!



Next, I'll use its effect to fuse Elemental Heroes Avian, Sparkman and Bubbleman!








In order to summon.....ELEMENTAL HERO TEMPEST!




I'll lay 2 cards face down....







and call it a turn!


Cards in hand: 0

LP: 8000

Monsters: 1

S/T: 3 (including Field Spell)

Graveyard: 0

Removed from Play: 3

Extra Deck: 14

 

Well you can set only one since you didn't said we don't follow new rules. (But if you want we can go like you said that.)

 

We'll follow old rules.

 

-Draw Phase-
Hand: 6
-Stanby Phase-
Chains?

 

No chain. Continue.

 

I activate Night Beam from my hand.
Hand:5
Now I will destroy that face-down card!

 

MY HERO RING!