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A monster. Feral. Tamed but not domesticated.
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One thing about AI tools is that we now have a statistical, mathematical representation of American prejudice (aka what Americans think of the world). See this map (swiped from
@fvehafric.bsky.social) shrinking Mexico and making it Russian + mangling Cuba to be the Florida Keys.
An AI generated map of the United States. The key is "Western US Cities >250K Population" but the cities are not all Western, some of them are not cities at all ("Hond" up in Minnesota) and the ones that are real and Western cities are mostly in totally incorrect locations. (For ex Oakland (one of two Oaklands on this map!) is in the state of Delaware.) Notably: Mexico is shrunk both by Texas consuming a huge chunk of it and also the Western part of Mexico getting shrunk by like 50% and then stapled onto the bottom of the US. There's a city (approximately where Monterrey would be, i guess?) labeled (approximately) "Cobrato Cporoks", which looks like it might be Cyrillic text transformed into Latin characters. Meanwhile, Cuba got shifted to where the Florida Keys should be and the whole of the Carribean islands have been pulled along with it.
December 23, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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In terms of decks i would consider "mine": I think these.

Honorable mention for Teval, the Balanced Scale. Not a deck i set out to build but the precon was good.

Tuvasa the Sunlit should be on here but that deck is like $2800 and i haven't ordered the cards/proxies yet.

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Obeka, Brute Chronologist. A very silly deck that's explicitly intended to be powerful. I wanted to use her as a political tool but there just aren't cards to support that. Still, should the possibility arise it's a thing that can happen. Bello, Bard of the Brambles: A precon i ran and decided i liked. Actually i like a lot of Bloomburrow. I love the "dollmage" archetype and while this card isn't quite there it's fun and hits hard without being degenerate like... the other three (to five) Commanders listed. I mostly built this the old way: With whatever cards i had laying around. No buying cards specifically for deck. Elsha of the Infinite: I liked the idea of a Future Sight effect and giving those cards flash is obviously strong. I originally wanted this deck to feature a Lantern Control gameplan leading into a combo finish but the combo finish is just too strong so it might become a cEDH deck instead. Selvala, Explorer Returned: I don't really like the "group hug" archetype but the Secret Lair art for this card made me want to build a deck around it anyway. I was thinking of sticking Lantern Control and various stax/prison/lock cards in here but optimizing Selvala's ability takes up too much deck space to really permit that. I may optimize this for power and try to push it into the cEDH space instead of Elsha but probably i will not do that. So this one might be getting benched or taken apart or something, sadly, because it's too much overlap with other decks i want to run. Maybe it'll find its own life, though.
December 7, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Hey buddy :D
An image of a hand holding a fixed blade knife. The implications of what's on offer should be obvious.
November 22, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Love this game.
A picture of the "Saruman" card from Middle Earth: The Wizards, an old card game. It features the famous "wizard pondering an orb" art by Angus McBride.
October 29, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Some of us knew the whole time!
The "Saruman" card from Middle Earth: The Wizards. It features the famous "wizard pondering an orb" image, drawn by Angus McBride. Sadly, this game died decades ago.
October 29, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Share this image to terrify a Commander player...

Twice!
A spread of two copies of the notorious and (still banned) Magic: the Gathering card, Upheaval.
October 3, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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Share this image to terrify a Commander player. Traumatize, even.
Upheaval: a blue sorcery from Odyssey. 4UU to cast, return all permanents to their owners hands. Hey, it could be an instant!
September 24, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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I'm tempted to write a big response to Charlie Kirk, a whole obituary if you will, but i should probably just let something like this stand.
@LandPalestine on The Bad Site says: "what was done to Charlie Kirk has been done to countless Palestinian babies, children, girls, boys, women and men not just over the past two years of the ongoing genocide, but decades. And whenever it happened, and it's on camera and we all saw it, Charlie Kirk came out to say: I love this, I want more of this. The people who did this are great and I love them and they should keep doing it forever"
September 10, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Yes, yes!
The classic "sickos" meme image. A man is looking through a window with a pleased but unattractive expression on his face. He says "Yes... ha ha ha... YES!" The man wears a shirt that says "sickos" on it. indicating what kind of person he is. It is intended to not be a wholesome image but the overall effect is humourous because it is over the top. The image originally came from a parody political cartoon.
August 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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I would apologize to anyone who has to put up with my bullshit but my shoulder angel has advised me that preemptively apologizing is for losers. (The shoulder devil is chanting "blood, blood, blood!" if you're curious.)
Chara, the First Fallen Human from Undertale. A shoulder angel... of sorts. Ryo Asuka, the shoulder devil of shoulder devils.
July 25, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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April 14, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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I'm not sure this thing is really testing for what's wrong with me but at least the high points are probably correct.
A chart with nine sections with different manifestations of trauma and a scale, 0-100 (presumably) for my answers. Childhood Abandonment: 10%, Childhood Rejection: 55%, Adult Frustration: 25%, Adult Anxiety: 12%, Adult Stress: 50%, Adult Inattention: 75%, Adult Shame: 56%, Childhood Betrayal: 70%, Childhood Injustice as 50%. Note, however, "Childhood" is misspelled in the image as "Chilhood" each place it appears. Oops.
February 10, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Gotta give some credit to the GOAT.
The picture is taken from the Devilman manga from 1972. In the first panel, Ryo Asuka pulls aside his long coat to reveal an awkward looking handgun he concealed beneath it. He has a somewhat blank smirk on his face. Panel two is a shot of Go, a violent delinquent, reacting to the appearance of the gun. He appears shocked. Panel three shows Ryo's face, with a neutral expression, and he says "Not easy to get a pistol in Japan." Continuing from the previous screenshot of the 1972 Devilman manga. Ryo Asuka draws the handgun he was concealing under his coat, saying "So I modded this hunting rifle." Go, the delinquent from the previous image, says "Whoa!" while he and another delinquent look at the gun, shocked. Go is carrying a long chain with both hands which he was just using to threaten Akira Fudo. The gun is still in the process of being raised in this image and it is framed at the center of the panel, with emphasis on its appearance. It is a basic hunting rifle of unknown design that has had its stock and barrel shortened so it can be concealed. It was likely owned by Ryo's late father for the purposes of actually hunting.
January 21, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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The "Deedlit when [you] grow up" in question...
Marcille from Dungeon Meshi after she got stunned by a Mandrake. Her face is slack and expression blank. If you squint hard enough, though, she does kind of look a little bit like Deedlit from Record of Lodoss War.
January 12, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Got inspired by BDM's recipe here to do something similar.

Details below.
A glass sitting on a white countertop, filled with a dark red to almost brown liquid. The glass is a whiskey tumbler and is only filled with 2-3oz of liquid, mostly empty. The shot is a closeup from a downward angle and focuses on the mixed drink in the glass. The drink is made of cherry and smells slightly cherry but mostly of light Mezcal, smoky and like the desert fruit it's made of. The glass is cold to the touch, the ingredients were chilled with ice as is customary for mixed drinks.
January 6, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Well that upload didn't work. Uh. Let me try that again.
November 21, 2024 at 5:19 PM
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When BLM marched on the capitol it looked like this. There was no violence.

When fascists came to town, it looked like the video above.

You can't credibly "both sides" this.
Dozens of militarized police wearing body armor stand guard in front of the Washington Monument in response to a BLM protest in Washington DC in June 2020. The image is menacing but despite the fear that provoked this police response there was no violence and is none in this image.
November 21, 2024 at 5:16 PM