johnobriant.bsky.social
Husband, father, music teacher, engaged citizen, unabashed nerd. Primarily on Mastodon, but here for the many people I used to follow who don’t post as much there. He/him.
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Seeing the picture before reading the post, I thought: “He made a cocktail with a big blob of ketchup in it?” Then I went back to see how you’d managed somehow to make it work.
What you actually made sounds great!
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The tactile memory of that little red eraser nub is very real.
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I don’t think of this as lore, specifically, but it is the sword he comes with out of the tin, and he discards it fairly early. It’s iconic because it shows up in all the game art, but it’s a very small part of the story.
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Quick: someone pitch the movie that this poster is advertising!
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That Paddington Station is fantastic.
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Oh, I know you didn’t - the article blurb did. (I suppose they used the word “redundant,” but to me that implies pointlessness)
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So I’ve never played X, and I’ve never played Kingdom Hearts, but it feels to me like the Venn diagram of the two (or their fans) has a lot of overlap. Is that fair (or a useful way of seeing them)?
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Also, yeah, this whole construction is banana pants.
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I disagree w/the rereleases becoming pointless once she owns her masters. Albums are, in part, experiences that exist at a point in time. When they came out, these ones in particular served an important purpose for her and her fan base, and that experience doesn’t magically go away if this happens.
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I eventually gave up and started keeping my sunnies in the car all the time. If I’m home, I can get to my car. At work? Car. Out and about? Probably car? I still sometimes forget them while traveling, though.
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Went through a failed tax override here in MA yesterday and feeling this pretty hard.
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You could do worse, I suppose.
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Huge moments in both legs for him. Massive.
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Awesome - thanks!
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Where is this? My wife has celiac disease, so we are forever hunting for GF spots.
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Agreed with all of this. Also, I have never seen that clean a four-player board state in all my life.
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Hit it.
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I mean, he's a local, so...what are the odds you can get him on Wait Wait?
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Sure I'm not the first person to say this, but I'm curious to see how many people will refer to them in the plural rather than the singular. Like, "Mammoths" just seems so much more sensible to describe a team. "Mammoth" makes it sound like you're using the adjective rather than the noun.
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And furthermore that you *must use every one of these tactics repeatedly* if you want people to like you.
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Yup! When I started teaching high school band, one of the first things I had to do was yoink that song right out of the pep band folders. The students were up in arms until I explained why.
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This is magical Christmas land for Ray Hudson.
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Oh my goodness. This is the last thing anybody needs.
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I mean, probably, but I imagine it takes a certain kind of weird to be able to sustain talking to yourself in a room year after year to begin with. All that said, I agree with everybody saying lean into it
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You know they said it specifically to test you, right?