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one thing I have learned in my short life as a baseball fan is that baseball fans hit heights of obsession about their fandom that other fandoms could only dream of

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"how can you be blogging about fun stuff while this horrible thing is going on?"

there's always horrible things going on somewhere. if you refuse to calm down until it all stops, all you'll do is give yourself a stroke

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Today’s card is: A 3x5 index card

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It's official Nintendo is literally suing Palworld for patents it made after the release of Palworld.

Yes that's right Nintendo literally created patents after Palworlds release, just to sue Palworld for patent infringement. This is a blatant and unambiguous abuse of patent law that will have reverberating effects on the entire gaming industry if Nintendo wins.

Palworld haters can accuse Palworld of stealing models and copying designs all they want. And even if that were true (which it isn't) nothing Pocket Pair has been accused of is as scummy as this. Nintendo is blatantly using it's power as a billion dollar corporation to intimidate smaller game companies by creating patents just to sue them over. Instead of creating new ideas they are plainly and brazenly trying to prevent the rise of any competition and impose a monopoly over an entire game genre.

I know there are people out their that will defend Nintendo no matter what it does. Nintendo could burn down an orphanage with the kids still trapped inside. And there would be Nintendo fan boys saying those orphans deserved it. But for those of us that are sane, this is beyond disgusting.

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Women. Black People. Trans folks.

Thank you THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! We owe you everything! Actually everything original from this entire COUNTRY!

Thank you so SO much for existing, persevering, and pioneering the way. You're all so strong and I love you all!

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Save My cats The only memory of my lost brother💔😭

My little cat I took care of for two years and she gave birth to little kittens I can hardly take care of them in this situation because of the displacement from one place to another under the roof of war and genocide. Please, I need your donations for my cats as well, so that I can provide them with a safe life with the high price of food for humans. How will it be?The price of food for the pet will be that they are like my children. I cannot bear what happens to them and their family.Donate what you can to help protect my cat and her kittens. I love them so much my heart hurts when I see them in pain .My brother went to rescue her from under the rubble and after rescuing her I lost my brother. killed him. I don't want to lose my cat because she reminds me of him.

This is a link for multi-payment.

I also have a GoFound link One way to donate via credit card .

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Some good news for y’all right now Missouri has overturned their abortion ban!!!!

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while im talking about magic i think its fine and cool when magic does extrmely tropey sets that are just 'magic the gathering does: Genre'. the reason mkm and otj are fucking bad arent that they tried to lean into a genre its that they completely failed to include any of the things that make the genre compelling because of a fundamental lack of specific creative vision behind them

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i keep seeing people say that mkm was bad because it was 'tropey' or focused too hard on the genre stuff and honestly i think its problem was that it by far didn't commit to the (or even pick a) genre enough

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Did you see that Magic: the Gathering now has a game state in which you need to prove that there are an infinite number of twin primes to win? I can explain it more if you are interested.

(With reference to this post here.)

By all means, please tell us about the Magic: the Gathering combo which requires proving the twin prime conjecture in order to win.

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like the idea of unnaturally aged cheese. making my gouda old using dread magics forbidden by the college of sorcery

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living in a village of farmers is the fucking best i just left a party and the butcher was like hey i got some bones for your dog. your dog specifically because i like the cut of his jib. hell yeah

do you know how fucking great it is to get home tipsy as hell wake up your dog he is already exited to see you and you are like here you go a big bone for your majesty...my man thought he was damn heaven!! so good

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Furiously looking up "Should I play Doda 2" and firefox immediately crashes my browser

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I’ve always felt the core role of this blog has been one of information. We make a lot of choices in design, and I try to use my various communications, including Blogatog, to walk the players through what we were thinking when we made key decisions.

The challenge with this approach is that it’s very logic-focused. It uses intellectual justifications to explain actions. But the problems I’m often responding to are emotional in origin. I have a good friend who’s a psychologist. He refers to this (using the words of author Robyn Gobbel) as an owl brain solution to a watchdog brain problem.

When someone is hurting, hearing about why the thing that is causing them pain is the result of intellectual decisions falls flat. That’s what has been causing some tension lately here on Blogatog.

It’s clear that for some Question Marks changes over the last few years represent the loss of something key to what makes Magic special to them. To them, the game is losing its heart.

While I can’t necessarily do anything about that, I want to better understand what you’re going through. So I’m using this post to ask players who are concerned with the recent changes to help me understand their feelings. Let me hear your stories about how your lives have been affected by these changes.

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making universes beyond a central inescapable tentpole of mtg's business model seems ill advised for longevity. like, sure, the data shows it brings in new fans. that's good! but how long are those fans gonna last when the thing that broughjt them in isnt gonna hapepn again. like if you're a new magic fan and you came in on a ravnica set and you really liked niv-mizzet then you could keep playing and be reasonably assured you would see niv mizzet again, and more dragons and wizards and guilds and shit. if you're drawn into mtg on the spiderman set because you love spiderman then tough shit buddy because after Marvel Block is over we're doing the The Office set and youre never seeing spiderman again

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Tezzeret gets an indestructible body and the first thing he does is go to the plane where it is easiest to kill someone without physically destroying their body.