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MrVerbal @mrverbal.bsky.social · 1d

This is Vincenzo Peruggia. He's the man who stole the Mona Lisa and made it DaVinci's most famous painting.

MrVerbal @mrverbal.bsky.social · 1d

god yes I am at a give way sign, you giving way to me is making the risk of an accident just so much worse. A little caution in case I am a fuckwit can be good, but once past that, take your right of way!

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MrVerbal @mrverbal.bsky.social · 2d

The constitution was written with the notions that partisans in the congress and senate would believe laws mattered and have literally any ethics. Australia has the same issue; yes in theory the PM would get rolled but nothing forces either party to ever do it

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MrVerbal @mrverbal.bsky.social · 4d

Alright, but keeping in the ground is not one of the options being presented. Keep it in the ground is best, but if not, I'd rather we tax the shit out of it.

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MrVerbal @mrverbal.bsky.social · 4d

it's such a joke. We should be building our country's future on this stuff.

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MrVerbal @mrverbal.bsky.social · 5d

there are mechanically unique cards in the welcome decks?

*beleaguered sigh*

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MrVerbal @mrverbal.bsky.social · 5d

oh, this is about tmnt

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MrVerbal @mrverbal.bsky.social · 6d

That they had to,IIRC, make Ironman's position "A transdimensional concentration camp run by wizard nazis" suggests the writers may also have known this.

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MrVerbal @mrverbal.bsky.social · 6d

I wonder if we will discover this was also supposed to be an aftermath

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MrVerbal @mrverbal.bsky.social · 8d

Yea, there are a number of arts shown so far for this set that just feel...off. And maybe they just aren't good.

You absolutely could pick up pizza that way, with a little difficulty, but a real person would for sure have the thumb and/or little finger under the bottom of the pizza for leverage.

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MrVerbal @mrverbal.bsky.social · 8d

If this is inappropriate content, can I draw the committees attention to essentially every advertisement ever made.

or a show like, I dunno, Baywatch, which I think was rated PG.

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MrVerbal @mrverbal.bsky.social · 8d

Among the many problems with these cards, the way this piece of pizza is being picked up seems extremely weird. #mtg #tmnt

Shredder, from TMNT, picks up a piece of pizza with the MTG swamp symbol on it. It does not look appetising.

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MrVerbal @mrverbal.bsky.social · 8d

"Do you want to stay logged in?" the machine asks.

It won't listen. It doesn't care for the answer.

but do you *want* to.

MrVerbal @mrverbal.bsky.social · 11d

Phantom is so much fun live; Has some absolute bangers.

MrVerbal @mrverbal.bsky.social · 12d

Yea, if you banned one site, this would be the one. Even if you just banned it in general.

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MrVerbal @mrverbal.bsky.social · 12d

Oh, on what could be worse or more dangerous than portland: I dunno, Gaza seems pretty bad.

(also portland, not bad)

MrVerbal @mrverbal.bsky.social · 12d

I believe it is Ernst Thalmann (as at least one of the founders), who died in 1944. So this girlfriend is both old and holding on to a lover who died 8 decades ago.

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MrVerbal @mrverbal.bsky.social · 14d

You might be able to do it technically, but i don't know that "tell the government every website I visit" sounds delightful

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MrVerbal @mrverbal.bsky.social · 16d

Fair! But its just about how the pieces move

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James Turner @james.loadingreadyrun.com · 16d

*clears throat*
*clicks on megaphone*

FUCK. GEN AI.

FUCK GEN AI RIGHT INTO THE SUN.

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MrVerbal @mrverbal.bsky.social · 16d

But the ones I like: the various chess ones are pretty good - the "anti knight" (same number can't be within a chess-knight move of each other)

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MrVerbal @mrverbal.bsky.social · 16d

Cracking the cryptic is too very genial British gents, they explain things well, and some of the puzzles are completely insane.

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MrVerbal @mrverbal.bsky.social · 16d

On you tube look for genuinely approachable sudoko or cracking the cryptic. The approachable ones are like 5 to 10 minutes kind of range (in theory, some take me way longer). Cracking the cryptic has some i can do and some which take the experts on the channel well over an hour

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MrVerbal @mrverbal.bsky.social · 16d

I quite enjoy some of the variant ones

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MrVerbal @mrverbal.bsky.social · 16d

Sure, I can make a choice not to play them. But for some decks for some cards they are simply too card to play competitively without paying them attention (and probably playing them)