Breakfast of Champions

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[markrosewater]

Hi Mark! I have been a huge fan of the UB sets we've gotten so far (both in flavor and gameplay), I had a blast with Edge of Eternities and have no beef with the new aestetic territory Magic has been pushing into (I loved the feel of Thunder Junction.) As a player since Revised, I feel like Magic is only getting better as time passes. I am also a huge Star Trek fan (the Star Trek game from Decipher was also one of my first CCGs).

Even with that high praise, I'm really struggling with the idea of Star Trek in Magic for a pretty simple reason. There's plenty of people who Gather in Trek, but there is no Magic. Star Trek might be the closest thing to true "hard" science fiction in pop culture. For any given technology or event in Star Trek there is an attempt to ground it in actual current day theoretical science. I can't explain how a replicator works or how those time travel gates in City on the Edge of Forever function, but I know there's someone out there who can, and it'll be grounded in some kind of real-world hypothetical principle.

All of our standard legal UB sets so far are in universes that have magic. There are lots of science fiction properties that cross into science fantasy (maybe a big one owned by the people who also own Marvel, for instance) and use magic. Edge of Eternities showed us that space fantasy is a great fit. Star Trek just isn't space fantasy.

I'm excited to see Magic explore other properties, I just would really prefer Magic to have magic, not to put magic in properties to fit them into Magic. I really love both magic and Magic and would prefer them to overlap.

I'm sure I'll enjoy the gameplay, the work you guys are doing is phenomenal, and I appreciate you taking the time to give me this venue to be an old man yelling at clouds.

P.S. Jaws III: The Revenge pretty clearly establishes that the shark/sharks have some sort of supernatural gene-memory and tracking powers or something, so that one sits just fine with me. I assume that's why the property was chosen, I appreciate that careful consideration.

Avishkar is a world of invention, where magical spells are represented by the use of technology rather than magic. Did that upset you?

[rohankishibespinky]

i know MaRo won't even read this reblog and his attitude will never change but like, good god man this is such a disgusting response to this guy who had nothing but positivity to share. he very explicitly said he likes UB and will play and likely enjoy the set anyway and just wanted to express concern about the fit and theme, and here comes MaRo (head designer mind you) with some snarky crude high school mean girl ass reply that sidesteps and ignores everything he said. disgusting, horrendous work, do better.

[redstonedust]

may be a hot take but i think the fact minors can access 18+ content by just clicking a button that says 'yes im totally over 18 trust me' is like. totally fine tbh. its a non-issue. i dont care if curious teenagers are looking at porn. they've been doing that for as long as porn has existed. id rather teens explore their sexuality through images on the internet than rush into real life experiences when they're not ready for it yknow. the UK is trying to put stricter age verification in place (which in turn is becoming an online privacy nightmare) and like. for what. who is it helping. why is this a problem.

[bealittleimprobable]

People panic about "But what if kids pick up bad ideas from it???"

When I was a kid, Power Rangers got banned at school because we all thought it was incredibly cool and kept trying to kick each other in the head. No-one bothered explaining "Those are trained actors and it's all practiced, they don't *actually* hurt each other, and you're not good at that yet", they just banned it.

So we went to the park after school and read Kim's smuggled copy of the Power Rangers magazine and kicked each other in the head there instead.

(This is a metaphor, but it's also literally true. So much kicking in the head.)

God forbid parents actually talk to their teenagers.

[memorys-skyscraper]

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my gift to you: all 184 mahjong voice lines for the scions

order is alphinaud, alisaie, thancred, urianger, yshtola, estinien, g'raha, krile

[imsoglitter]

OP turned off reblogs (and I understand why) but I wanted this on my dash

[puppybytes]

here’s one of them for all of you

identify that card

[gemthegerm]

colossal dreadmaw

[puppybytes]

You’re right!!!! good job :>

[crazy-brazilian]

[cant-ra]

[rockdistributor100]

[tintinintibet]

[coffincoitus]

this notion that if you're an adult still on tumblr it's bc something is wrong doesn't sit right with me... unfortunately I can't refute it bc there is something wrong with me

[zazagundam]

1.

SOMETHING WRONG WITH ME

[fuckysuckybrigade]

Legendary horror manga artist Junji Ito loved the Barbie movie (x)

[jestergal]

its called the D: drive because you look at how much space is left on it and you go "D:"

[jestergal]

why is this mom joke getting notes

[windup-angel]

bc its true

[sapphic-design-is-my-passion]

It's called X because you should close it and go outside

[hungwy]

FTC: Amazon/Ring workers illegally spied on users of home security cameras

Amazon agrees to Ring and Alexa settlements but didn't admit violating any laws.

In a press release, the FTC said that "Ring deceived its customers by failing to restrict employees' and contractors' access to its customers' videos, using customer videos to train algorithms, among other purposes, without consent, and failing to implement security safeguards." In one case, an employee "viewed thousands of video recordings belonging to female users of Ring cameras that surveilled intimate spaces in their homes such as their bathrooms or bedrooms," the FTC said.

That allegedly occurred between June and August 2017 and invaded the privacy of at least 81 female users of Ring products. "The employee wasn't stopped until another employee discovered the misconduct. Even after Ring imposed restrictions on who could access customers' videos, the company wasn't able to determine how many other employees inappropriately accessed private videos because Ring failed to implement basic measures to monitor and detect employees' video access," the FTC said.

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Amazon completed its purchase of Ring in April 2018. The FTC complaint says that in August 2020, "a whistleblower notified Ring that between March 2018 and September 2019, a former employee had provided Ring devices to numerous individuals and then accessed their videos without their knowledge or consent."

The complaint continued: When the employee left Ring in September 2019, the whistleblower alleged that he took copies of these videos with him—without the knowledge or consent of his unsuspecting victims and without Ring noticing that anything was amiss. In February 2019, Ring changed its access practices so that most Ring employees or contractors could only access a customer's private video with that customer's consent.

"Importantly, because Ring failed to implement basic measures to monitor and detect inappropriate access before February 2019, Ring has no idea how many instances of inappropriate access to customers' sensitive video data actually occurred," the FTC said. "Indeed, Ring only discovered the incidents described above through the good fortune of employee reporting, despite having given employees zero security training and no responsibility to engage in such reporting. It is highly likely that numerous other incidents of spying, prurient behavior, and other inappropriate access occurred entirely undetected."

(emphasis is mine)

[pesky-plumbers]

[graffyn-guy]

The funniest part of this, to me, is that they didn’t use the “G” in Super Mario Galaxy? 

[pesky-plumbers]

[treaclethetortoise]

There is no war in Ba Sing Se

The Moon landing was faked

Major words in Mario games have never used a G

[pesky-plumbers]

please stop bringing attention to my mistakes i already feel terrible

[graffyn-guy]

What about the H in Super Mario Sunshine? @pesky-plumbers

[pesky-plumbers]

[final-justice]

@pesky-plumbers what about the F from Mario Golf?

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[tremendouslysizzlingsandwich-de]

y in mario party

[pesky-plumbers]

this one is actually justified so kiss my fucking ass ok the Y is from Mario Teaches Typing

your ass tryina 1-up me like everyone else but you failed uwu

[grawly]

there was a g in this one too tho

[pesky-plumbers]

[world-heritage-posts]

world heritage post

[pesky-plumbers]

god dammit

[goodscreencaps]

[fwugradiation]

[beatcroc]

the best part of this post is undeniably that it was made by toby fox

[homestuckheritageposts]

Homestuck Heritage Post

[official-mugi-two]

Rare American W

[beesmygod]

americans, i truly believe we can get 100%

[pheygele]

[catgirlforeskin]

Reminds me of how in the early 20th century, the Imperial Japanese Army wanted tall soldiers but starved the peasantry they were drafting, so they had to repeatedly lower the height requirement