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Not to beat a dead horse, but the naming conventions in the Magnus Archives are truly delightful. Jonny really said, “Here’s a cast of fascinating characters! Their names are:
My actual full legal name
The first names of my friends + the last names of famous horror writers
Michael (x4)
They all die horrible deaths :)”
Ceaseless booper smack your paw upon this wretched thing
Let me hit on an important aspect of the current non-block model. The thing that tends to pull players from being a casual Magic player to an enfranchised Magic player is us making a product that speaks to them on a personal level. We make something that excites them so much, that they just have to play more.
The challenge is players are unique and are each excited by different things. The block model gave us one shot a year. If we hit upon something you loved, great. But if you didn’t, there was a whole year to slog through.
The current model lets us take a lot of shots. If you don’t like something, no sweat. The very next product will offer you something different.
The core of designing Magic is making cards people fall in love with. The more variety, the greater chance we make something that speaks to more players. That is the true power of the current system.
"We're churning out as much shit as possible and throwing it at the wall to see what sticks"
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do you know how fucking mad it makes me that the hilltop hole in reality and the panopticon tower can feasibly be read as yonic and phallic symbols of power. can you understand the level of rage I feel.
Annabelle u can’t just leave half the thing in the tags :(
I'm flipping tables op
well anyway. the copyright system exists to commodify art and expression and process it into more money for larger companies, and it is actively detrimental to efforts for preservation, open education, and creation. everyone reading this is morally obligated to hoard and share data because we live in a world that is hostile to the idea that books or music or movies or scholarship have inherent value independent of a DRM stamp and ticket price. btw fuck hachette, harpercollins, wiley and penguin random house.
Learn to torrent
Z Library
12ft.io and alternatives
Get yourself an external hard drive or two and just start saving. The internet is not forever. Things are going to disappear, or (more likely) become harder and harder to search for, and more and more costly to access.
When did you last go looking for an older movie, only to realise it was unavailable on any streaming service and unavailable to buy? Restricted access and false scarcity are the only ways corporations can inflate and justify prices for digital content. In an era when we can carry entire libraries around on a phone, there is no reason to let these for-profit organisations control access to the wealth of human culture.
1TB of storage costs about $30-50 depending on the drive. Let's say an average high quality movie rip is 1.5GB. That's space for nearly 700 movies. The average ebook is around 2MB. That's space for 500,000 books. The Library of Alexandria was generously estimated to house 400,000 manuscripts. You can beat the Library of Alexandria, in your apartment, for $30-50. Start right now.
if this isn't enough to convince you, consider the satisfaction you will get from being the fucking chad in your group chat who's like "yeah I can get you that" any time anyone is looking for anything. it's real and it gets you maidens, take it from me.
this comment on a vid about elon musk was so good i had to save it
I'm 10-0 on Arena on my new tablet, I haven't touched MtG in a long time and people are consistently conceding on turn like 3 because I think they might just be really thrown off by an old golgari midrange deck from 2017 and I am living for it
Unrelated one of them was a guy with 250 cards in his deck, what the fuck is going on with historic it's a new format for me
this is a poem
i couldn’t not draw this
the rat poem is too powerful that’s why they don’t talk about it
I think there’s something so deeply and intimately and morbidly true about The Last of Us’s primary thesis which is that humanity’s fatal flaw, in that very Shakespearian way, is that we are destined to care too much about one another so much so that we discard the collective entirely. like we have such a capacity to love the human race and humanity as a whole, to grow our communities and govern cities how we know best and foster such connection with the masses which we are part of, but it’s overtaken by our capacity to love even just a single other person. like one human can come into your life that creates such an intrinsic and passionate love in you— or maybe two people or a family’s worth or any small number— and you suddenly would burn entire villages down just to keep them safe.
joel doesn’t blink twice murdering to find ellie. he doesn’t look back when he decides to do what he does at the hospital later on. he has no remorse about any of it it, because this one girl has grown to mean more to him than any possible greater good could ever mean. and it’s reciprocal. ellie would— and does— do anything she can to help him, save him, protect him, and, eventually, to avenge him. because that’s what you do when you love someone. not when you love people. when you love someone.
and it’s selfish, in a way??? because we love these people and would do so much for them because they mean more to us than other strangers do. it’s exactly like an iteration of the trolley problem, actually. one track has your daughter on it and one track has fifty people. don’t even try telling me you wouldn’t go onto track B if it meant saving your daughter and her puppy dog eyes from the whimpering and pain and fear. The Last of Us says yes, you would. I would. we all would. and like yeah that is our greatest weakness, that we have such a unique ability to love a handful of people so deeply that our compassion towards community and strangers and the bigger collective starts to slip from view. but goddamn what a fucking great fatal flaw it is to have. we are all going to die and the world will burn because we loved another person too much.
Gandalf in The Hobbit: You are Took and that makes you absolutely suited for adventure!
Gandalf in The Fellowship of the Ring: Who the FUCK let the Took come on this adventure?
He learned his lesson
Nah you guys don’t get it. For all that Gandalf complained about Pippin, he better than anyone else knew that Pippin was absolutely crucial. Pippin accomplishes a very impressive feat: not only does he manage to see something in the palantír (most hobbits would perceive nothing, as these stones were designed for use by high elves), but he manages to close his mind against Sauron. That is a seriously impressive feat of ósanwë given Pippin’s youth and almost total inexperience. The only clue Sauron manages to glean from the meeting with Pippin is that he is in Meduseld: which Pippin probably did not even directly give to him. Pippin did not tell Sauron his name, so Sauron is led to believe that Pippin is Frodo. I remind you, in the books, the Good Guys manage to trick Sauron, by making him believe that Aragorn has claimed the One Ring. They can only do that because of Pippin’s ridiculous feat of ósanwë. Far from sabotaging the mission, he is the one who allows it to succeed (albeit, not on purpose). This is why Sauron doesn’t think anything is fishy when Aragorn wins the Battle of the Pelennor Fields by controlling ghosts: that would be consistent with the idea that he is using the One Ring. Which Sauron believes that Pippin brought to him. This is why Sauron pulls out his old “play nice and weak” card from his Númenor days. He first of all believes that Aragorn is a lot more powerful than he actually is, and secondly thinks that the Ring is beginning to affect him.
He should perhaps have remembered that Aragorn is named for Fingolfin. Fingolfin’s mother-name, Arakáno, would properly be translated to Sindarin as “Aragorn”. Most people would not show up to an enemy fortress with an army they knew was far too small, and start a battle they knew they would lose. But Fingolfin famously did exactly that.
When you read the line “fool of a Took!” It is important to understand that in the context of Gandalf calling himself a fool on several occasions. Galadriel too sees beyond the veneer of foolish naivety in Pippin. She gives him and Merry belts that almost definitely were once her brothers’. A golden flower on a gift from Galadriel can only be a golden lily, the sigil of the House of Finarfin. Galadriel, while all hell was breaking loose in Tirion, raided her brothers’ rooms and took their belts from when they were little kiddos, hauled them across the Helcaraxë, and then held onto them for three Ages before giving them to two hobbits she just met. Merry, of course, is comparable to Angrod and Aegnor: his great deed is done in a moment of beserk rage, and it is a feat of strength. This then implies that she is comparing Pippin to Finrod. That’s one hell of a complement coming from Galadriel: but as I just pointed out, entirely warranted. Pippin manages to reproduce Finrod’s feat of radio silence, in the face of torture by Sauron. Which again, is extremely impressive given that Pippin is far younger and less experienced than Finrod was.
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i dont have any "tinnitus" i have an angel who lives in my blood and she likes to sing songs for me. ok
Here’s a question for you all.
If you could live your life never needing to sleep again OR never needing to eat again, what would you pick?
In this hypothetical, your health is maintained, and you can still sleep/eat if you wish- you just don’t need to do it and don’t suffer the negative consequences of going without.
Which would you choose?
Don’t need food or don’t need sleep?
Food
Sleep
To me this feels obvious. Food and sleep both rule, but food as a category contains a wide range of experiences, and sleep is a monotonous activity that I am regularly compelled to do which interrupts activities I choose to do rather than do out of compulsion
Idk wtf gideon the ninth is but I only started this blog to interact with the MAG fandom/Jonny Sims ages ago and tumblr really thinks I'd be into it apparently someone please confirm if true or vaguely related who is in both fandoms??
out of curiosity is there official art for the characters in high noon over camelot? i havent been able to find any...
here’s the few i can find, i’m not sure if there’s more
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