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had a fascinating dream last night where there was a new, virally popular trading card game - it was called MOUNTAIN (stylised in all caps) and the whole gimmick was that you couldn’t buy boosters or anything - you had to find them?

nowhere sold MOUNTAIN - I mean, I expect players did, once cards were in their hands.

but acquiring cards meant noticing a box lying around, and just….nabbing it? they’d be in weird places - in a skip, wedged high up in a fence, nestled in the branches of a tree? nobody ever saw who left them there, and there was a lot of debate about how MOUNTAIN boxes were sometimes hard to acquire without risking one’s physical safety - but then, that was also bragging rights. especially as harder-to-reach boxes seemed to contain more elusive and sought after cards…

no, I don’t remember anything about the actual gameplay, we never played any MOUNTAIN. alas. I know there were “frame cards” that were literally transparent but for a fancy metallic or holographic border, which I guess upgraded the card they were applied to? frames were super rare, my coworker literally ran up to me in the pub purely to show off the frame he’d just found

dream brain gimme the deets on MOUNTAIN’s actual mechanics, I’m invested in this controversial unpurchasable scavenger hunt game

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I understand why a lot of fantasy settings with Ambiguously Catholic organised religions go the old "the Church officially forbids magic while practising it in secret in order to monopolise its power" route, but it's almost a shame because the reality of the situation was much funnier.

Like, yes, a lot of Catholic clergy during the Middle Ages did practice magic in secret, but they weren't keeping it secret as some sort of sinister top-down conspiracy to deny magic to the Common People: they were mostly keeping it secret from their own superiors. It wasn't one of those "well, it's okay when we do it" deals: the Church very much did not want its local priests doing wizard shit. We have official records of local priests being disciplined for getting caught doing wizard shit. And the preponderance of evidence is that most of them would take their lumps, promise to stop doing wizard shit, then go right back to doing wizard shit.

It turns out that if you give a bunch of dudes education, literacy, and a lot of time on their hands, some non-zero percentage of them are going to decide to be wizards, no matter how hard you try to stop them from being wizards.

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hi if ur unaware georgia 🇬🇪 (where i live) has officially banned gay marriage, gay ‘propaganda’, gender reassignment surgery and anything ’promoting’ it. a trans model, kesaria abramidze, has been murdered as a direct consequence of this legislation. if you have a queer georgian in your life pls let them know they are loved and let this solidify why we Need pride and hope cause jesus fuck man

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Guys they reintroduced Galapagos tortoises to espanola island and they’ve essentially terraformed their environment, knocking over invasive plants so that endangered albatrosses (who need space to take off using the ground as a runway) have returned and established nests!

https://www.popsci.com/environment/galapagos-giant-tortoises-ecosystem-conservation/

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”which could mean nothing” is maybe my favorite phrase of all time. where would we be without it

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just one of those things that makes me so irrationally angry despite how pointless it is to get worked up about 

ps i’ve just started playing ultra sun and guess who i have on my team

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got a major pest problem this year actually

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doyou think you could rob an empath by holding yourself at gunpoint.

woah

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pour one out for this perfectly fine rx 6800 we're doing minor surgery on to fit into a small form factor case ig

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I always find it weird when someone who has intellectual disability is open about it and instead of being Normal about it, everyone floods to reply with "oh IQ is bullshit anyway!" "I'm sure you're smart in other ways!" "oh lots of people just process things slowly and everyone thinks that means you're stupid but Acutally you just learn differently!"

and it's just. why are people so determined to erase a genuine disability? is it because they see it as horrible and negative? why can't disabled people just Be. like why is someone worse because of having intellectual disability? why do people always want to ignore it?

especially the replies like "oh they made me do testing and my IQ is 140 but I still struggled in school and work because of my ADHD, so really IQ means nothing in the Real World" yes IQ testing has lots of issues! doesn't mean intellectual disability isn't real! also those two experiences are in no way comparable holy shit