blocker room is unreal

this might be one of Kelly's finest pieces of bait yet

I hate it and I know we can't go back and I don't think it's reparable at this point. One of the Discords I'm on describes it as Magic as Fortnite, but that does a disservice to the low investment point of Fortnite. They took a 30 year old classic and Funko-fied it for profits, nothing else. Fuck.

Nothing really flows organically in the story anymore, the poor creative team just has to figure out ho to tie the next part of the pastiche into the sto-whoops, no, we gotta rewrite it now because we really need that Marvel money and the story's gotta be sidelined for a few months. Look! A turtle!

Duskmourn doesn't matter as a place, it's just the horror movie world. Thunder Junction doesn't matter as a place, it's just the American west with a literal Loot crate! Don't think too hard or get too attached to a location, Magic players, there'll be a new setting in 2 months. Now we're in space!

...worlds that, while inspired by specific settings, have built characters and lore that can stand on its own. I don't think New Capenna did it. Every other set has been a revisit of an existing place (though Kamigawa was wildly changed and mostly good) or slegdehammered set dressing.

I've been in this place all year. Stopped buying draft boxes of each set. I think the worst part of it is that even the in-universe sets have been little more than Magic as pastiche IP rather than Magic as a world-building game. You have to go back to Kaldheim and Strixhaven to find...

ICE Detains Leaves as They Turn Brown: tinyurl.com/37euaejk

Cancel Spotify. Get everyone you know to cancel Spotify.

Spotify needs to become the prime example of what happens when these platforms run ICE ads.

can't wait for the Infocom text adventure version tbh

sadly, the juice of one orange is not enough for carnitas, but that's my favorite thing to make with orange juice

an american citizen, mother of three, who was playing the clarinet in a peaceful protest outside the city has been nabbed by ICE, held in a jail across state lines, without bail nor any specific charges.

i mean, yikes?

grateful portland has risen to the challenge so far in peacefully protesting the ICE facility and that nationally we're all cheering on the frogs but I think it's important to make sure everyone is aware that the ICE goons aren't exactly being peaceful in return

www.koin.com/news/portlan...

Yeah, but it could break the city and the franchise for 20 years like losing 4-1 to the Yankees in 2001 did. I won't believe it until it happens.

This app should have as much venom for the "Woo" of high-protein diets as they do for homeopathy. HP diets have verified risks for several systems in the body, especially the kidneys and cardiovascular. Protein maxxing is way riskier than, say, kombucha.

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#DOOMLOOP #seattle

Tomorrow will be the second time in Seattle Mariners history that they'll play a game in front of their fans needing two wins to get to the World Series, the first in 30 years.

It's not gonna collapse, is it? Is it?

ALSO. ALSO. Needing us to find Europeans who condemned him for his actions at the time--and there are many! So many! My God so many!--is also some white supremacist bullshit, because the TAINO PEOPLE HE WAS MURDERING CERTAINLY CONDEMNED HIM FOR IT AND THEY WERE HUMAN BEINGS OF HIS TIME TOO.

And yet the pit in my heart expects to be let down again. This is how the Seahawks Super Bowl run in 2006 felt. Even the win in 2014 until it happened. Seattle sports fans are trained for failure. Expecting it at every turn. We can't handle success. We don't know what to do with it.

The Seattle Mariners are at a place they've only been three other times in their nearly 50 year history. They are one win away from a place they've only been to twice. They're two wins away from a place they've never been (a win away from the World Series).

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Hoping my Mariners fan friends live the dream (sweep every series, win world championship, pop champagne as meteor erases humanity, die on top and freed from Mariners baseball forever)

They are not planning "a violent crackdown" on 10.18. What they are doing is sending a signal to their shock troops to try to cause havoc. But those shock troops will be vastly outnumbered. Go out and protest freely. Do not be cowed.

"Oh yeah? You like baseball? What if I make you smoke *an entire pack* of baseball?"