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Professor of Theology, Religions, Philosophy, and Ethics | Mysticism & Spirituality | Attention, Memory, and the Divine Ideas
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Kids are great. I fondly remember the time when my oldest child, then still a toddler, shouted “Power Skull!” During a quiet moment of the mass.
Of course he meant:
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Iowa, too! Lots of windmills in fields!
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Oooh, good share. I love ravenloft so much!
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The propaganda machine that is cable news and talk radio is intense.
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This sucks so much, Chels! People voted for this guy! They think he’s brilliant! And you can’t talk to them from outside their own position… they’re living with a totally different worldview! I’m so tired.
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Banding together with other rebels to save the planet from narcissists and evil corporations / govts
With cool weapons, summoned monsters, and magic spells!
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I mean… any group that can establish a hegemony.
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The pearls matching the emotions. Next level sartorial flex.
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(This refrain is uttered by academic ethicists showing up to conferences in Chicago the first /second week in January each year)
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Yup!
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In my small hometown in 1994, Magic was a game that was sold in its limited quantities not at game stores, but at collectible stores.”Always-already” a luxury hobby is correct, and I think this read is accurate: cost to buy-in has gone up & longtime loyal hobbyists feel discarded & left behind.
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I saw something like this and thought, for a brief moment, about posting something, and then, as usual, said “no, I would rather do some research and then play some final fantasy instead.”
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The incentive is that they left money on the table by underestimating demand with not one but two major IP tie-ins.
If the money is X and it could have been 2X, that’s incentive to change for almost any business.
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I was thinking in that direction…
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faster than a Secret Lair queue!
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*victory music*
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1, 4, 9, Tactics.
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But like… what if I want to? What if “they had it coming”?
Can I have a little retribution, as a treat? 👉👈
(This is a set-up)
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As someone currently living in Iowa: big same!
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Charitably, it may mean rather that the essays, etc that are the indispensable means of fulfilling the ends of (1) are now impossibly compromised.
I don’t think that’s true, but I also don’t take the author to be saying that the project is little more than answering prompts.
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You could call the edited version “The Heart of the Heart of the World”
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Congrats, you got the seed of your next essay!