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Gabe @gaminggabe.bsky.social · 5h

Maryland representing.

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Gabe @gaminggabe.bsky.social · 7h

This is Magic The Gathering cannon now btw.

Gabe @gaminggabe.bsky.social · 7h

two men are standing next to each other in a room talking .

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Gabe @gaminggabe.bsky.social · 7h

I have mentioned Tempest three times this week already. It must be fate.

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Gabe @gaminggabe.bsky.social · 1d

Im at the pizza hut, im at the dominos, at that coverted pizza hut into dominos

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Gabe @gaminggabe.bsky.social · 1d

Have you tried Planet of the Apes the Musical?

three cartoon monkeys are standing next to each other with their mouths open and their eyes closed .

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Gabe @gaminggabe.bsky.social · 1d

Im all for helping people and funny hats.

Gabe @gaminggabe.bsky.social · 1d

I would love to have magic the gathering land cards with the are from these covers.

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Gabe @gaminggabe.bsky.social · 1d

I really like Mythic Frames and things of that nature. Ive had custom frames done for cards. Paying artists directly takes the sting out a bit for me.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Today, House Republicans will take their 70th day off with pay in the last 82 days.

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Gabe @gaminggabe.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder how many burn centers this administration has caused to close. Its a shame, because someone needs one.

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Gabe @gaminggabe.bsky.social · 1d

1980s hipsters saw the measles live before they were cool.

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Gabe @gaminggabe.bsky.social · 2d

It has the exact same plot as the c64 game Amazon also written by Michael Crichton. Execpt it features a talking parrot instead of an Ape. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_...

Amazon (video game) - Wikipedia

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Gabe @gaminggabe.bsky.social · 2d

Maroangelo is a party dude.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 2d

I… uh… I don’t think Peter Thiel should be allowed to read

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Gabe @gaminggabe.bsky.social · 2d

Nice shirt :)

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Gabe @gaminggabe.bsky.social · 2d

Also the weird black space typo right before the "14" means they were going back and forth pasting a different number in there until it satisfied everyones ego.

They cant even lie well.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Gabe @gaminggabe.bsky.social · 2d

I once made a Beast token with Fraiser Craine

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Gabe @gaminggabe.bsky.social · 2d

Dwight, Hay King, ruler of the Baltic Avenue plane of the Multiverse.

Gabe @gaminggabe.bsky.social · 3d

At GenCon the line was out the door to get spot for the OVERFLOW of the demo of Riftbound. I got to play and it was a lot of fun. I convinced my local shop to order as much as they could.

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Gabe @gaminggabe.bsky.social · 3d

Doodle loo do doo doot doo

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Gabe @gaminggabe.bsky.social · 3d

Its perfect, i recognized it instantly. Thank you for putting the c64 and magic together for the first time.

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