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i saw walder of house white making milk of the poppy with that urchin jessaerys

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We've lost a lot to the onslaught of enshittification but I can think of none more brazen than Discord getting rid of the send button

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Lore-unfriendly companion who forcibly exits the menu screen to complain that they're bored if you spend more than five seconds reading an item description.

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I printed my next comic, The Red Wizard & The Armies of the Night!

The wandering mercenary known as Life tags along with a hard-luck gang of losers as they battle an evil necromancer and his deranged mutant cultists, and try to retrieve a powerful and mysterious artifact!

This is a whole new adventure and a whole new story! Everything you need to know is in this comic. It’s not “issue #2”, it’s just Life’s next adventure, so if you missed out on my first comic, Shrub, don’t worry.

You can buy my comic HERE, I also have signed and sketch editions too.

If you want to read the story first, you can read it HERE

-Nick

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there's a fascinating type of post on this site which boils down to "what if, instead of being cliché, such-and-such work of fiction instead dodged all genre tropes in a way that instead made it really boring"

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The sourcebook GURPS Goblins provides a fascinating variety of misfortunes that might befall player characters as a result of invoking random lookup tables. Some of these misfortunes have specific conditions, such as occurring only in particular seasons, or only to characters with particular traits; if such a misfortune is drawn while its conditions are not met, nothing happens, to the target's good fortune.

I've just noticed that one such conditional misfortune is that only male characters are at risk of being randomly struck by lightning. The "males only" tag is reiterated in several places, so it's probably not a typo, but at no point does the text see fit to explain why this is the case, or even to remark upon it in any way.

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The funniest one star review of Wicked I've seen so far

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So In the original X-Men comic where Magneto appeared, before any kind of civil rights metaphor was a glimmer in anyone's eye, he was doing a fairly unnuanced "Bow-before-me" routine, seizing control of nuclear missiles because he was a supervillain and that's what you do. In the original Ultimate X-Men by Mark Millar they reproduced that basic dynamic in the first six-issue arc (although not with nuclear missiles, but something equally high-collateral and terroristic.) He had much more of an express ideology there- a very simplistic 2edgy4me blanket misanthropy about humans, tinged with malthusian ecoterrorist vibes- in a way that harkened back to the cartoonish completely unsympathetic and unnuanced silver-age faire while also gesturing in the direction of a guy with enough of a party line to build a global cult following around. This was deliberately incompatible with an eventual claremontian face-turn but it was something.

Anyway I think a lot of people want Magneto to be a hero or at least an anti-hero these days (understandable, he has a very cool helmet) and so for a while I've been thinking about how and if you could hybridize all these beats. I think it's doable. I think you could build a version of Magneto where him stealing a bunch of nuclear missiles from the government is framed as basically morally neutral at worst, honestly kind of a lateral move, where it's more about not letting toddlers touch the hot stove. Magneto who's magneto less out of identitarian mutant supremacy and more in a way where he's exhausted with the human condition and fully convinced that the only way the children are going to stop stealing each other's lunch money is if someone with the requisite power (I.E. him) makes them stop. (In a way that functionally wraps back around to mutant supremacy, but that's not the explicit party line). A guy who'd intervene in the same way Daredevil or Spider-Man would if he saw someone getting mugged or threatened, who then immediately turns around and bloodlessly steals an entire bank vault to fund his asteroid house, because he's not about to take a moral lecture on the sanctity of property from fucking Goldman-Sachs. A guy who's pissed at Xavier at least in part because if he had globe-spanning psychic powers the world certainly wouldn't still look like this. Do you see my vision.

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hey in case you didn't know trans inclusive terminology in healthcare is not about protecting peoples feelings, it's to stop insurance companies from going "well it says here that hysterectomies are a procedure performed on WOMEN and you keep insisting that you're a MAN so we do not in fact have to cover that have a nice day and eat shit"

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According to the average twitter poster, McDonalds is a simultaneously a foundational piece of American culture that has been eroded by the forces of wokeness, and a fiendish trap to degrade American people with some nebulous yet affordably priced spiritual burger poison.

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Sumerian Veteran: *has severe PTSD but doesn't know it because the term won't be invented for another 5000 years* I fight the same battle in my dreams every night and my relationship with my family has fallen apart.

Sumerian Healer: *saw hundreds of veterans with the exact same affliction before* You're cursed by desert demons.

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finally how to train your dragon can shed its childish character design and lighting and evolve to instead have the bold and engaging art direction of a car insurance ad