• 53 Posts
  • 1.05K Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

help-circle


  • Nee, so funktioniert das nicht. Comprehensive Rules:

    107.1b. Most of the time, the Magic game uses only positive numbers and zero. You can’t choose a negative number, deal negative damage, gain negative life, and so on. However, it’s possible for a game value, such as a creature’s power, to be less than zero. If a calculation or comparison needs to use a negative value, it does so. If a calculation that would determine the result of an effect yields a negative number, zero is used instead, unless that effect sets a player’s life total to a specific value, doubles a player’s life total, sets a creature’s power or toughness to a specific value, or otherwise modifies a creature’s power or toughness.



  • there is an extra timezone to the East of Canada that the US doesn’t have that currently overlaps with Brazil Eastern. You’re missing a spot.

    I mean, if you want to argue that Halifax

    That spot is Labrador and Newfoundland, not Nova Scotia (where Halifax is located). Labrador and Newfoundland are islands, not mainland, and not even as significant as the British Isles. They’re like Hawai’i which I also didn’t count.

    I’m unreasonably

    Exactly. And I need my energy elsewhere. Bye.



  • Ah, see, you missed a spot. There is one extra timezone in Western Africa covering a big chunk of subsaharan countries (Mali, Senegal, Mauritania and so on) that is one timezone to the West of the UK, so it doesn’t really overlap with mainland Europe (unless you include Iceland, which is a stretch for “mainland”).

    Are you blind or trolling? Mali, Senegal, Mauretania etc are in the same fucking timezone as Portugal, UK and Iceland. UTC 0.

    And in South America there is also a third westernmost zone that overlaps with North America, so that’s three for three.

    No, its 2/3, the easternmost timezone of South America (eastern half of Brazil, Argentina, etc) overlaps nowhere with North America.

    but geographically they overlap

    But nobody (besides you) is talking geographically. It’s about timezones, and they’re not always geographical.

    But if you just randomly rolled Europe and Africa together

    It’s not random. It’s based on timezones.




  • I am not aware of any historic use and implications of the term “Eurafrica”, I thought I made it up wile conjuring this meme during my morning session on the toilet.
    Yesterday I had a discussion about a term lumping up the inhabitants of north, central and south america and was made aware that it would be the same as lumping up the inhabitants of Africa and Europe.
    I also looked up the time zones again, found that Africa and Europe share more timezones than North and South America, and derived the term “Eurafrica” from “Eurasia”.

    As for the time zones, this is what I found on Wikipedia:

    And while UK left the European Union and gets made fun of for that (which is fair) it, Iceland and Portugal are still part of Europe and their timezone (UTC, formerly known as GMT, Greenwich Mean Time, named after Greenwich in UK) is the same as the westernmost timezone of mainland Africa, so Africa and Europe share four timezones.
    On the other hand, mainland North America is split into six timezones, the two easternmost are the only ones that also cover South America.
    So while (mainland) North and South America are split into seven timezones of which two are shared, (mainland, even if it’s only Portugal for Europe) Africa and Europe are split into four timezones of which all are shared. Ergo it is far more obvious to lump together Africa and Europe than North and South America.