muddlewait.bsky.social
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Anne Marie, and also other Marie
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I was the one weirdo who traded for duals in 1994 because I wanted to make the terrible four- and five-color Rube Goldberg decks I loved barely playable. I still have a full set of 40 from back then, and sleeving them still feels wrong to me.
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Noooo Charlie please don’t
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Thanks for ruining my night’s sleep anyway. 😞
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This 100%! I can’t for the life of me understand why “deck is built to win on turn X” isn’t routinely part of this conversation.
Part of me suspects that some people most involved in the discussions don’t like to bring it up *because* they know it’s a big problem - like casters vs. martials in D&D.
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It’s not that Andor is there to save Star Wars. It’s just an independently a good show with artistic purpose beyond serving the franchise, but which still fits within it. It’s an example of the kind of thing that *could* be done more to make generally better shows and give SW more depth.
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All great choices.
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Yeah, what happened to the words and actions he disagrees with being vile, grotesque and disgusting, and the people saying and doing them being hysterical, paranoid and deranged? Does that not apply to this?
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Considering how this Court treats the idea of precedent, this is practically an invitation to Trump to impeach whoever he wants.
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100%. But I think he’s also realizing that Trump doesn’t think he needs the justices, either, and is begging for his rubber-stamp role to be spared.
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It’s also what you’re best at. I enjoy your critical stuff, but peak bob for me is when you’re giving detailed breakdowns of why you love the stuff you love.
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Note that as far as the fascists go, I am not, in any way, handing it to them.
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It’s honestly the best joke I’ve ever seen from that thing. You can very much read it as both the dems exaggerating the threat AND being sad weaklings.
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Thanks for writing about this. My kid’s ace, and sex scenes are an unpleasant distraction for them at best.
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Just remember that you don’t want that and why, no matter how much people tell you that you do.
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It’s just one example of how the needle moved. And Hogan’s Heroes and Python represented nazis themselves as ridiculous jokes instead of making them the subject of edgy boundary-pushing.
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The line got crossed way back around the time Cartman dressed up as Hitler. A lot of us figured we never really needed to take anything seriously again.
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South Park is weaponized Gen X apathy. "Bad things are bad but people who want to change things are worse" has been the whole bit from day one and it sucks
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We made the mistake of thinking we didn’t matter. As it turns out, our apathy mattered.
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I’m glad that Howard clarified what he meant by “foreigners, aliens” with the rest of that sentence.
That second comma does raise the question of who decides how the Congressional Record is punctuated.
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Thank you!
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They are not playing your game. This is a battle for the meanings of words: not what they meant in the past (because those making the argument lose that fight), but what people want them to mean. The counter-argument must be as baldly contemptuous of their argument as they are of existing precedent.
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I know everyone’s on edge, but I don’t think that’s what’s happening. Just a guy remembering history. Moreno was great (as was Garland).
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Thank you