Weird for them to just change the stones for another Marvel character, but I've had a soft spot for Terminus for a long time, so I can't complain.
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Weird for them to just change the stones for another Marvel character, but I've had a soft spot for Terminus for a long time, so I can't complain.
That'll always be the classic Black Widow costume to me. That collar!
Get into Shining in the Wood by Tiger you pricks
If the latter song were, it'd be on my wrapped
Neither is Shining in the Wood by Tiger 😔
Just discovered that Calling Your Name by Marilyn isn't on Spotify
To me, as someone of a certain age, he's an Avenger, so I want to put him in an Avengers deck somehow.
If your point about laziness is about the placement of the text rather than the use of existing art, then I'm sorry for missing your point.
I'm afraid I think I disagree. While I'm sympathetic to the unhappiness with where the text is, it makes me so happy to see classic comic art on Magic cards, especially as this is the only place we're going to get to see Spidey with his underarm webbing.
You are correct, because the the main way players should engage with the game is 60-card multiplayer
I know it's been 30 years but it still annoys me that Dreamer by Livin' Joy has the line "Now I close my eyes now"
The reason I ask is that as a child I assumed it was b but I'm now wondering whether it was a
What do you think of dickhead as meaning? A) glans B) someone with a penis extending from their forehead C) something else
Just get in your friend's Camaro
I do wonder sometimes whether Bucky, from a symbolic perspective, was a mistake.
What's the ideal number of non-core Avengers on an Avengers team? Part of the reason that I ask is that I feel like the current run has gone too long with too much of a core membership, and that part of the appeal of the Blood Hunt issues was that we got Hercules instead of Thor etc
I have some time this weekend so let's do this one! Please ask me something slightly more specific than "do you like X". Feel free to ask questions that may lead to hot takes. I'll pick and choose which questions to answer. Please repost and quote.
If it had actually been made in the early 80s as a non-Carry On film, Bernard Bresslaw would have had a good shot at playing someone like Treebeard anyway
If I were President, I would simply fix the problems
I think he has been genuinely surprised and annoyed at Ukraine not being easy to solve
I keep listening to words and thinking they have their conventional meaning
The rowing back on the mooted sanctions is so frustrating and yet I should totally have expected it
I saw the push notification from bluesky telling me that I had been blocked but cannot read it in the app because I haven't bothered verifying my age on here
Someone in the US just blocked me because I replied to their post to say that the UK government has not in fact banned Wikipedia
I live in the UK and Wikipedia is not banned. The Online Safety Act may not be the best drafted piece of legislation but I think casualties of it beyond porn sites are likely to do with it being badly drafted rather than any plot.
The only bad thing about Gatwick is that the M&S is in arrivals when you really want something like that in departures, too. Once you're aware of it, though, it's obviously fine.
There is plenty of hyperbole, a good amount of hypobole, and not enough bole
Ugh I bet they want me to read them before I delete them, too
I understand why the headline is the way it is, but if I'm finding this out through a link to an Irish publication on bluesky, they aren't urging very hard.
Makes me think of one of my favourite Kate Beaton cartoons
I need to drive fast to outrun 30-50 feral hogs
That wouldn't have been reminder text in alpha
It would be fun to have some sleeves with "Localised image not avaliable" on them
It's an incredible idea executed in the most boring way possible
On Nextdoor someone will post "there was a cat near my allotment does anyone know who's it is" and expect everyone to know which allotment they're talking about
It's a weird thing but I don't really like to talk about it
Ah sorry I was born aged 8 so you can't surveil
Also the pokewalker from Heartgold and Soulsilver is one of my favourite game accessories ever. It maintained my interest way longer than pokémon go
If you can't potentially have all the pokemon in the pokedex, it loses its appeal for me.
I was trying to remember a cartoon I used to enjoy - it was called something like Scrappy Doo and maybe his uncle was sometimes in it as well. They were dogs but there were also people in it I think. That's all I remember but Scrappy Doo was great.
Only the Spider-Man set is small
I choose "you"!
I think there's a perception the wokerati made it so the only women in films and on tv were bald black trans lesbians with eyepatches and that she has somehow slipped past the notice of the dei guardians, heralding the return of things like Baywatch.
Clay pigeons are clay rats with clay wings
Timeline stale. Next discourse, please
Not sure how I'm going to pay that upkeep cost in my monowhite deck but I'm not going to turn down a 7/7 flier
Often noticeable in people's reactions to roborosewater cards
They'll always be Infinity Gems to me
Destination X would be infinitely better if all the contestants were top experts on European cultures and geography and bickered about which tiny Swiss village they were next to based on some crumbs of local bread.
I believe every single charity shop in London has a copy of the Devil Wears Prada on dvd
If Liam Gallagher had chosen to do vocals on Don't Look Back in Anger rather than Wonderwall, the former would be an infinitely better song. This would have wide-ranging effects because, um, yes, it would be, er, I think it's obvious the effects would be huge.
My opinion on this is that when it became popular on posters and mugs, the daughters of the guy who came up with it should have been given lots of money. Maybe I'm only saying that because one of them was my grandmother but I'm sticking with my view on this.
NIGHT OF THE LIVING #MildHorror
I wonder what he meant
I meant to say "one of my strongest opinions" not "one of the strongest opinions".
One of the strongest opinions on it is that "the Oxford comma" is a much more fun and exciting name than "the serial comma". It says "tell me more..." rather than "this is what this thing is"
I bet those foil Ice Age lands are gorgeous up close!
"My science is different" is quite the line!
I don't love it quite as much as the Weatherlight one, put the Portal second age printing with Brom art is also nice
Only sensible way to futureproof the names. I assume there are some pretty special textiles to come out of east London in the near future, too
Caroline sweet af rn
How to make Keir Hardie half happy, half angry
No cheating, post your lock screen
Amazing! Spectacular!
Toby Maguire was probably the most 60s Peter Parker, but does that mean he's the best?
Is he the best Pete Parker though? I don't know the answer to that question
Assuming that was deliberate, nicely done!
If your eye twitches when you see "Duskmourne", you'll understand
Your/you're just washes over me but that arachnid hero without the hyphen... It's elemental
I agree about the butts though
I know it's a dreadful thing to state, but every time I see his name without the hyphen I feel a bit surge of pedantry rise within me
I love flat colours. Modern colourists, you do a great job, but I just want things to look like Tintin
Flat colours 🤤
The answer to the first two is ligne claire
Sorry, but I lick he boom-boom down
I was, I'm pretty sure, the first person to ask about a Gotcha scale on Blogatog and thus in effect named it (it was waiting to happen, though).
I'm no expert, but I think because we didn't repeal GDPR we're in the same zone as Europe in Meta's eyes, which is a fantastic thing!
It was called something like Rumiljita and it was one of those Andean bands parodied on the Fast Show
The album Graceland has a very special place in my heart. It was a key car tape when I was a child and, unlike basically all the other car tapes, I keep coming back to it. That doesn't happen with the Joshua Tree or that tape of pan pipe music my mum presumably bought from a town centre.
It's very rare this happens for translation reasons! I can only assume that it's because the card does not refer to itself and the creature types aren't gendered in the relevant languages
These cards look great but with all these different versions of Spider-Man, is there still going to be space for Big Wheel and Rocket Racer?
Even if you only have a couple of djinns in play that are one or more times the mana from your opponents can's combat, you still get to discover the snivem twice every turn. Or just draw seven cards AND get all the watrices with great ETB effects back. 9 mana is a lot, but it's a powerful woldrence.
Oh, to activate!
Aha you're great at connecting in the classroom and imparting knowledge to those you teach - how about you do that much less and do more admin, timetabling, and stuff that's basically HR?
Especially true of teaching!
The UK is included in this - Meta are doing it with "all European territories", which also covers the UK
I wish he had consistently kept the underarm webbing in school age appearances, but I think that ship sailed a long time ago
There must be some app for making a giant picture of the cast of Bread out of the cast of Bread, like those Yoda pictures they used to have in the window of Athena
I mainly just hate its ubiquity. When I was on a long car journey as a child, my parents would keep my sister and me quiet by having us each choose a colour and count how many cars of that colour we passed by the next service station. I feel that game would be rubbish now.
Silver has to be up there too, surely
The last two words are already a turn-off for me but they've really gone out of their way to make a bad thing worse
You can call him Chubby Checker as much as you like, but I'm not American so I'm always going to say Chubby Draught
The problem I had with this is that it's very difficult to have the right stuff set up without doing it a tiny bit advertantly, and then obviously it's not going to work.
I'm not saying he wasn't enabling some rich people to do paedophile things with him, but I suspect a lot of his dealings were more focused on moving money around
How some people imagine every interaction Jeffrey Epstein had with rich people went: Rich person: hello I am very rich Epstein: excellent I can help you avoid paying tax Rich person: great Epstein: also I am a paedophile Rich person: brilliant so am I
I've seen posts saying that introducing PR would save Britain from Reform UK, and my assumption was the opposite. I think there are arguments in favour of PR, but the idea it would mean less far right representation in parliament is not borne out by other European countries.
I'm assuming the three marvel sets will be Spider-Man, X-Men, and Avengers, and Daredevil could fit in both Spider-Man and Avengers, but they'll have so many characters to fit into the latter set he could well be in Spider-Man.
I know you weren't asking me, but I really want the Enforcers. I don't need separate cards for all of them, but a card with the classic line-up on is my dream.
Something like a Mm'menon