Aside from how Obama is remembered, it's striking that Obamacare is basically the last serious presidential legislative agenda that wasn't just trying to contort an annual budget bill to fit in everything you can crowbar into it.
A little bit of a lot of things. Mainly sports, wrestling, tokusatsu, and video games. I'm not as good at Magic as I'd like to be (but who is?)
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Aside from how Obama is remembered, it's striking that Obamacare is basically the last serious presidential legislative agenda that wasn't just trying to contort an annual budget bill to fit in everything you can crowbar into it.
Hey @maffewgregg.bsky.social, for when you use CM Punk saying "Bron Baker" in an upcoming video. Hugs.
Spider-Man is the first prerelease that I'm willingly skipping. Between the UB premium and the uninspiring setting/design, I'm just not feeling it.
Someone please kill me right now.
I just bought one a few weeks ago
Whippoorwill
Happy Yes Day!
Goddamn I hate being right about this. The National Guard getting deactivated/reactivated every 29 days so they don't get full benefits and pay ALL ON TOP OF it starts screwing with their IRL jobs was the easiest call happening from this administration. Not taking care of your troops... Bad idea.
Think of how much more "enfranchised" some of us can get because we better understand design, and many additional designers and developers this has helped Magic hire, and beyond that -- how many non-Magic games have spun out from people learning design from Magic and MaRo.
Trump announces he will severely devalue the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Idk stuff like this brings me the opposite of joy this is a reddit custom card with unlicensed art just being printed by wotc with a license It feels a weird level of unprofessional and referential Literal spider man just doing the thing is so on the nose it's depressing At least it's unplayable
becky lynch vs cm punk in mk3
Lots of folks have a really hard time dealing with characters that you're meant to dislike initially, so like if a developer is actually willing to change story based on feedback, those types of characters will just never exist
Not "software" but I wanna highlight Exile 3 which I used to be obsessed with as a child. It can't run on modern windows + there's a spiritual successor on Steam but the aesthetic of the original lives rent free in my head after years.
IrfanView is a perfect example. It's named after its creator, Irfan Škiljan. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IrfanView
Bullies who pretend to be victims are the absolute worst. It's so, so infuriating people buy into the censorship bullshit. It's utterly enraging that it takes one thousand calks from an extremist foreign group to destroy an entire industry, but hundred thousands of our calls for justice are ignored.
very direct evidence that video game piracy is important in the preservation of video games
They were never going to stop at what was "legal" or not. They didnt to begin with! All art/media is on the chopping block. You have to fight this NOW. keep calling, contact your reps. Make some noise!
Cookie Quest - Gator Days
I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field. There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.
He is baby but this is probably not an ideal position for my blood flow
Damn girl, are you Magic: The Gathering? Because I spend every waking second thinking about you while ignoring all your red flags.
Think my biggest issue with the Borderless Source Material cards (which are part of Marvel's Spider-Man Eternal Legal) is that they're pretty hard to read. With the cards using the source material originating from the comics, the linework used makes it harder to read the text. #MTGxSpiderMan
To me, they deliberately chose "AI" to create the confusion, I'm pretty sure. Mixing AI and GenAI as a way to lead people to think that those who are against GenAI are against every kind of AI. I despite them so much I cannot believe that's it not a planned thing.
I actually had to explain to someone recently that the AI that tells enemies in video games how to react to player inputs is NOT genAI and has existed for literal decades. they genuinely had no idea there was a difference. this shit has poisoned the well so bad.
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It's also a bit weird to have back-to-back Universes Beyond releases from a Content standpoint. They're good at bringing new audiences to the game (and to the site), but keeping the enfranchised crowd engaged with the sea of Universes Beyond is something I've been thinking about a lot lately.
what's wrong babe? you've barely touched your rarohire rochi terochichimomo
Hey, why are we organizing society based on what makes the most money for the people who already own everything? That seems like it'd lead to a bunch of easily foreseen problems.
just sayin
So wait why is Path of Exile 2 allowed on Early Access? In that game the classes you don't choose are literally murdered on-screen the moment you make your selection. How much more mature can you get than that lmao
The sucessor to the Nadoohickey, the Vivindicator!
highlight of Clash In Paris
I hate how easy it is to lose information in the age of the internet. Back when Eternal Sonata had recently launched, I remember reading the game was available for purchase at the Chopin museum gift store in Warsaw. I've tried to track that information so many time since then
This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I can’t overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.
100gb Infinity Nikki pre patch download?! Yeah until I can get an upgrade to my SSD for more gigs, no.
JezzBall
For 25 years, Joseph Brent Walker wrote a syndicated column about the importance of “traditional values.” He also led an Utah-based newspaper’s faith section. You’ll never guess why he just got arrested. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/mormon-col...
Funny face Uni, always cute :3
A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment. Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.
This tune definitely has "Genesis-era action platformer" vibes (in a good way)
Been thinking a lot about Pauper and it's rise in popularity. Pauper is essentially 2014 Modern before the time of metagame refinement, where you can see success with something you just love playing - it's the close to perfect for a competitive format (in my opinion). #MTGPauper
I'm also going to tap the sign (again). Called this out years ago in a feature for Dicebreaker. www.dicebreaker.com/games/magic-...
all you do is spam combos
euro truck simulator 2 update: we added some buildings that are unique to germany. you can't interact with them. you can look at them, though. entire playerbase: [going apeshit]
god euro truck simulator 2 updates are so fucking good
The team names when you Fantasy Football with MTG folk...
We have a winner at #SpotlightPlanetary! After an incredible run that saw him post an 11-2 record against Izzet Cauldron with his dialed-in Red Aggro list, Brennan Roy is your champion of Magic Spotlight: Planetary Rotation!
Another Standard tournament, another display of how lopsided Standard is right now with Vivi + Cauldron. I love him, but that ability should have come with a tap symbol. #SCGOrlando
I somehow totally neglected to post about the 30th anniversary of Sailor Moon's YTV debut a few days ago, confirming once again that I am very bad at posting.
More spicy Day 2 decklists from #SpotlightPlanetary! - Jeskai Weapons Manufacturing (Matthew Oomkes) - Mono-Black Aggro (Raynor Kuang) - Selesnya Kona (Robert Beverly) - Golgari Rock (Rafael Kenji)
all the best windows software in history is called something like "joe's thing doer". it does the thing and nothing else and is available on a html website in plain text and takes up under a megabyte of space and uses default windows ui elements and will work until the heat death of the universe
we must needs reconstruct titan from thine memories
Pokémon Concierge Wooden Tray - Slowpoke & Quagsire - Use our "Notify Me When Available" feature to get an email alert! 🛑 meccha-japan.com/en/goods/164... #Pokemon
There's something sadly flavorful (and poetic) about an existential black mage (in Vivi Ornitier) who wonders if they'll exist in Standard soon.
blankly, without shade — decks are value synergy machines that take ~10 game actions per turn. every card is three cards. just unrecognizable to me as standard.
tuned into standard this morning and watched 20 mins of commander
Important
Home to one of the worst company logos I've ever seen. They didn't even TRY with that one I guess platform licensers let this past certification because the game itself isn't half bad but... Hoofph!!!!!
Paypal ramps up NSFW censorship by beginning to go after not just adult creators but also customers. In a lot of ways, this is even more terrifying than the adult creator bans. With them, it's only me at risk, but how do I navigate a space where putting a game on Itch might put customers at risk?
I was hoping to find a discount for this. Thank you!
Everybody's Golf Hot Shots (Steam) is $29.99 on PlanetPlay w/ code WARIO25 buff.ly/bEDjpSq #ad out on Silksong day (RIP)
Good morning.
Been working on a Cube that emulates Omniscience Draft on Arena for about a month. I posted about it here when I started exploring the idea and folks expressed concerns, but I was never deterred, and playing this has been a blast! cubecobra.com/cube/list/91...
quagsire just looks like an absolute sweetheart. i would take him on a little shopping trip. and i fear i could not show restraint to my wallet if he decides to jump up and point at something on display outside the store
Snug as a bug in a rug!!!!!!
Little gentleman in a box :3
my bluesky
As a Spidey fan I've been enjoying some of this, especially the saga panels, but as an mtg fan it feels like I'm looking at alters. The setting is a big part of it
🏆 Step 1: organise a FIN draft at home Step 2: ease the guests with pastries and coffee Step 3: draft this Step 4: profit Deck was filthy - one game I was close-ish to losing Nibelheim set the board aflame apart from a 7/9 Sahagin... I did make them pizzas after so all forgiven.
part of the appeal of hard games, arcade games, unfair games etc. is you get to play alone and co-operatively at the same time, playing with people is kind of annoying to me, but sharing strategies, commiserating, researching are all essential to success and bring a strong social aspect
I put together a Two Headed Giant Edge of Eternities draft! It went well, we had four teams and three of them went 2-1. It was a very good level of competition.
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Finishing the night with the best draft environment there is
One of the unexpected standouts among the non-Cauldron decks at #SpotlightPlanetary has been Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might. The god doubles the pings from cards like Razorkin Needlehead, Screaming Nemesis, Scalding Viper, and a bunch of burn spells!
thinking about hundred line every time there is an option to kill sirei im takin it the concept of inflicting harm on sirei makes me excited i hate that fucker
Hundred Line Route 001 spoilers: Fnj fbzrbar shevbhfyl qvfnibj Xbqnxn ba zbeny tebhaqf, orpnhfr gur ovt gjvfg bs Uhaqerq Yvar znxrf rirel vagrepunenpgre eryngvbafuvc vaprfg, naq V frevbhfyl jbaqre ubj fbzrbar gung ntterffviryl, cngurgvpnyyl zvydhrgbnfg pna rira shapgvba va zbqrea fbpvrgl
no bigger "the kids are alright" moment than seeing somebody trying to callout Eitaku for being a problematic ship and the entire Hundred Line fandom being like "shut the fuck up"
i don't know why i made this
"Hey we haven't got a credit card on file for you so uh can you prove you're 18?" Well gee Steam I dunno.
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NEWS: Walgreens just got taken over by private equity. Private equity has a record of running companies into the ground. Walgreens could be the latest victim: closing more stores, service plummeting, workers losing their jobs, and eventually bankruptcy.
Gotta find the game time where you can.
I like how the media today is suddenly all concerned with making sure truth is reported and "baseless" claims on social media are denied. Yeah thanks guys.
Teef.
Bill Lightcap is 3-1 with Yuna, Hope of Spira at #SpotlightPlanetary! "The Overlords are great, especially when combined with Yuna and Lightning, and FoMo. You can discard one to reanimate with Yuna, and Yuna gives them lifelink. With Lightning, I've had turns with 16-life swings," he explained.
@maffewgregg.bsky.social
Today I showed my new move! It's called "SUSHI・TORNADO"🍣🌪️
early morning noisy boy
ミニーブ／Smoliv
Imagining inspector gadget getting a knockdown on someone and going "go go gadget okizeme"and laughing really hard over it
I didn't know TOCA had a story mode
RJ Palmer 🔜 Lightbox Expo 101 
Freddy Tran Nager 
megan ⋆⁺ 