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EU consumer groups slam 'manipulative' video game spending tactics.
  • Lot of people more annoyed that language is a living, changing thing than the predatory nature of in game purchases (but we all knew the latter already, so this isn't gonna be news to us).

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    Suffragettes In The City [Hark A Vagrant]
  • It certainly sold itself as feminist and forward thinking, but the conservatism of USociety certainly took control of the scripts early on.

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    Rules update/clarification on copying Rooms (Twitter)
  • Having a rules correction before the mechanic has even released is a big headache and makes it much harder for me to grasp the mechanics and how it works.

    Blargh.

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    Maro on why Grievous Wound isn't a curse
  • No, but as Innistrad is the popular revisited horror plane R&D was actively trying to have DSK be in space Innistrad set sets don't touch.

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    Gender roles are important or not?
  • Or ended up as a priest caste, or a third gender, or were accepted as the gender they expressed in some non-European parts of the world.

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    Marvel [Tyler Hendrix]
  • Or maybe both?

    As was detailed by someone else the Doylian reason why heroes don't change the status quo is that people want to see our world in media, not a fantasy one and that this means only villains are allowed to want changes, but since the people funding the production of media tend to be invested in the status quo status quo changing ideas tend to be flanderised and done by people who do evil and selfish acts to reinforce standard morality.

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    Marvel [Tyler Hendrix]
  • I thought he gave some villain speech about getting his gang and people like them what they deserved and bringing down Stark and Co. But I could well be mistaken or misremembering since I only saw it once, quite some time ago so you may very well be right.

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    the sensual santa by daniel clowes
  • I dunno, I think making things like this is Clowes' lifeline. He makes comics about how dirty and self hating he is to keep himself going.

    So I reckon it's no waste of time and reduced global suffering and pain.

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    the sensual santa by daniel clowes
  • Congratulations, you're now at level 2 of the joke.

    Legit though Clowes' work is all about self-loathing and feeling dirty. It's not easy or pleasant.

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    Marvel [Tyler Hendrix]
  • Off the top of my head the villain in one of the Iron Man films was opposed to US war crimes and imperialism, New New Spider Man 1 had the Vulture as a villain whose deal was Stark and the wealthy were screwing people over.

    In Batman Begins 3 Bane is a pastiche of anarchism/anti-capital ideas until revealed that that's a play by Talia.

    Well intentioned extremist is a pretty common villain trope in general.

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    Should we stop splitting sports by gender and just let everybody compete together?
  • Which sports are popular and have the support to be more economically viable?

    Of them, how far away from the top seeds do you get before it can no longer be done professionally?

    If unisex (I know, it's a bizzare word) sports leagues were how it was done, do you think more or less women (including trans-women) would be able to be professional athletes?

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    Duskmourn: House of Horror | Episode 6: Don't Die
  • Edit: I did like the interactions between Tyvar and Zimone (who just happen to appear out if nowhere at the right time.), they're fun together. Zimone as a bishie-Tyvar fangirl is cute.

    Eh, fine I guess.

    All the Nezumi die off screen and everything is OK... Apart from all the ways it isn't. Very linking material this story.

    Valgavoth seems to have Loot, somehow, and Proft too maybe?

    I hope they leave some hooks for more natural storylines once this 3-4 year story is over. Valgavoth with Loot implies him being a villain later in this story.

    But Ixalan is looking story-ful with both the Mycotyrant and the Torrezonian Schism (I'm well hype for Vampire Church Politics set (and hope that that is all it is about, no idea what that leaves Green to do, though)). And also the new warmonger boy-King of the Sun Empire.

    Thunder Junction could try to sort out the "no native sentients" vs. "sentient cactus people already live here" thing with some applied actual anti-colonial rhetoric, Argent Company being implicit good was a bit eh, as is how Niv Mizzet's dickishness seeming to be more informed than seen of late.

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    The Nadu Situation – Mark Rosewater on Tumblr
  • Unfortunately I don't think that changing all those people will change Hasbro's corporate culture.

    They'll milk Magic for all it's worth, Maro tends to spin it as best he can and is a corporate animal but he does love the game. We'll be worse off when he is replaced by a corporate stooge.

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    The Nadu Situation – Mark Rosewater on Tumblr
  • With Oko, the GU Titan, and now Nadu (and I'm sure I'm missing others) I think they're should be an earlier end date for buffs so we don't get quite as many it seemed weak after tweaks so we buffed it at the 11th hour and released without proper testing.

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  • How did you all get on at your prereleases?

    Looks to be a synergy set as despite opening Lumara, Maha, and almost one of each of the reanination spells in the set I went 2:1. =ł ah well.

    Matched up against a fun deck blinking Head of the Homestead with the token class enchantment. Luckily it doesn't do well against Vren the Relentless. On the other hand it turns out that Azure Beastbinder is a top tier threat, and synergy can beat power.

    Still I can't complain about opening chase cards. What about all of you? Any fun interactions or moments from your prerelease?

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    cross-posted from: https://lemmit.online/post/2523251

    > He's so silly! > > ##### This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot. > The original was posted on /r/completeanarchy by /u/antifa_angel on 2024-03-24 13:56:05. >

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    Wow, Wizards really needs to better vet artists or indeed artwork at this point.

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    magic.wizards.com Outlaws of Thunder Junction | Episode 5: High Moon

    At the stroke of midnight, Kellan's duel begins. Tarnation gets some unwelcome company.

    Kellan's duel with Akul takes place.

    Ral sets up the lead in to the conclusion.

    I'd love to see Oko in some antivillain roles in the future, or have him glorious bastard his way across Esper.

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