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Had a really great night at FNM draft. Went 3-0, and didn't even lose one game. Just 6 games, 6 wins. I drafted what I figured was a pretty basic Bant aggro list, but everything came together just right.

MVP of the night was Mask of the Jadecrafter, which came out in most of the games and frequently gave me a 6/6 or bigger. Also pulled off a fun combo with Battery Bearer (all your creatures are Powerstones) and Tocasia (all your creatures have vigilance), which let me swing with a bunch of big artifact creatures and then tap them to play more big artifact creatures.

DK can just wind up his neutral B punch while they're running downfield at him and KO a bunch of them at once

JoyMech posted...

It's a great game.

As are III + IV. Which are an amalgamation of previous entries but also put their own twist for a portable adaption.

IV was the first to introduce the item shop that would become a series staple from then on!

Isquen posted...

Other: Will Ferrell

what did will ferrell do?

Never seen it, just played the NES game

I want to get a Gigantamax Rillaboom and name it Donkey Konga

NeatoAnAccount posted...

i think that a diversity tracking tool for an ensemble cast of 3d models is fine because it's an easy way to generate extra ideas and avoid accidentally getting homogenous, which is different from a tool that tracks the diversity of the employees and gets mad whenever you've hired too many white people, but that's just my opinion. what do you guys think?

In the general sense it's not a bad thing, but this tool as it's been shown seems flawed. First because it assigns numerical values to different identities to rank them by which one is "most diverse" feels very close to phrenology & bioessentialism, and also could still lead to a lack of representation among identities that are ranked lower. Like the screenshots shown say that a white character scores 0 Race, but an Arab character scores 7. My understanding is that a Black character would be somewhere in between those two, so this tool would consider it "more diverse" to always make characters Arab and never Black.

Secondly, the way it's set up places greater emphasis on the highest scoring identity in a category, rather than a breakdown of how frequently a given identity appears in that category. Going back to the example of a white character getting 0 in Race and an Arab character getting 7, they could have all support characters in Overwatch be white, and then add one Arab character, and suddenly support characters go from 0 to 7. That's the definition of tokenism, which this tool is supposed to prevent.

It also isn't very useful to prevent homogeneity, as long as it's not homogenized on low-scoring identities. Like making all healers female would score higher than having a mix of genders, even though that's not actually diverse at all and in fact feeds into a stereotype.

A better tool would just be to track the facets of each character's identity & gameplay role, and then be able to view a breakdown of how different categories intersect, i.e., what's the breakdown of race among DPS characters, gender among elderly characters, body type among female characters, etc. The push to metricize everything is what makes this tool weird.

Is anybody still talking about the Blizzard thing or is it just arguing about whatever now

If we are: I think what makes it really weird is the way it quantifies things

Like if we're just keeping track of all these different character traits and examining them among different categories of character to make sure we're spreading things around and not making everybody the same, that's not a bad thing at all

But if you're figuring out what's the most Race race (which supposedly someone did based on the data we've seen and it's apparently Mexican?) then that's getting kinda weird

TomNook posted...

Is this good for a kids card game?

If a kid has $30 to special-order the Secret Lair that has this card in it then I say let them have it, they know what they want.

EDIT: Also ughhh another reason I need to seriously consider spending $80 on a Doubling Season for my Simic Tokens Commander deck, plus another $40 or whatever for Parallel Lives jeeze

Wendy's 4-Alarm Spicy Chicken Sandwich was a good one back in early 2007

Uno's once had a deep dish pizza that was either like jambalaya or gumbo or something like that. It was so good that by the end of dinner I was making real plans to move to New Orleans.

EDIT: Oh and a big one, Dunkins getting rid of Coolattas. The strawberry was my main one but they had some other good flavors too. Now they just have "frozen coffee", who cares about that jeeze

Most of them are having sex

Some of them actually are dying tho

It's kinda weird that Hisuian Sneasel/Sneasler is a thing in Legends Arceus considering that it's old-timey Sinnoh and that's where Weavile originated.

I dunno it just seems strange to me that a Pokemon that got a new evolution in Sinnoh would get a regional variant in Hisui.

Massachusetts is pretty good I suppose. Politically one of the better ones, although I think the elected officials are generally a couple notches below what the popular sentiment seems to be. I guess that's the downside of being a long-term Democratic stronghold. You don't have to deal with many right-wing nutjobs in power, but Establishment Democrats are pretty entrenched. Not a ton of forward-thinking leaders.

Also could be better on racial diversity, New England in general is pretty white, especially outside larger cities.

The only games I play anymore are the Picross S series and Overcooked 2

The mega-rich seem more corrupt than anybody so this would probably backfire

At the very least, a lot of people would be tempted to become President by illegitimate means if it meant that kind of payout

Leonhart4 posted...

https://mobile.twitter.com/TheRealOJ32/status/1508915293111963648

I bet you do

I wonder if he was intentionally referencing Chris Rock's old "I'm not saying he should've killed her, but I understand" OJ bit

Timbits

Gatomon bc it's in this video impersonating a Meowth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS58nPTzWr0

Hillary and Bernie have missed their chances I feel.

Cawthorn and Gaetz I don't think could stand up to the scrutiny of a national political campaign. They're Representatives from safe seats and they're already dancing near the line of self-destruction.

Ivanka has a good shot but I don't think she's shameless enough. She'd have to run her dad's playbook and I just don't think she has the stomach for it. She could do it in the right environment though.

AOC I think has the potential to be an Obama-like candidate, if she can win the support of some key establishment Dems. Right now leadership seems to view The Squad with greater disdain than all but the worst Republicans. But win a few over and wait a few others out? She could do it.

I like furry art, but I hate fursuits

Drawings are often good but I feel like it's more a vehicle for fetishes/extreme body types that aren't realistic. It's like being into erotic fiction. I'm not turned on by written words, I'm turned on by the fantasies they describe.

Sadism and masochism I feel could have been condensed into a single option. I am a masochist so I like sadists, and I assume the reverse is true for sadists.

I don't like feet in the sense of like, oh baby show me those feet pics, I'm gonna rub one out looking at feet. I like giving a foot massage and kissing feet bc it feels very intimate and submissive.

Scat is a big no but piss is sexy. Getting pissed on, wetting & desperation, all that stuff. Diapers aren't a turn-on in and of themselves, but they can be part of a hot scene.

Vore does nothing for me, necro/gore is a massive turnoff.

In terms of other, feederism, submission & humiliation, chastity & orgasm control, bondage, tickling, and pet play can all be fun.

GuessMyUserName posted...

tbh I also wouldn't be surprised to see the route where Smith & Rock are buddied up for a bit together joking about The Slap next year

They will absolutely make a jokey reference to it next year

It's up there, I don't know if I have a hard top 5. I guess also I'm not sure if things like Lord of the Rings, Avengers, and Star Wars would be in this category.

Yes, a light lime green tee

As a Batman villain: Ra's al Ghul from BTAS

As characters: Harley & Ivy from the Harley Quinn cartoon

Here's how bad I am at chess:

Many years ago, I was a tester on a mobile chess game. One of the tests was to make sure winning a game registered correctly. I was playing both sides, and I couldn't make either side win.

I had some 4K Blurays I wanted to watch

I ended up getting a Series X for that purpose but I was trying to get either, didn't care which

FFDragon posted...

excuse you

g@mers

gatmers

I liked it but I didn't like the video games so probably not a faithful adaptation

GuessMyUserName posted...

maybe but then each time a piece of star wars merchandise is sold that's a deal

so what we need to find is the proportion of unsold star wars merchandise

Some folks need to learn what a slur is bc it is not just another completely interchangeable word for insult

Maybe just one person with a couple accounts I don't know

Does every piece of Star Wars merchandise count for wars?

If voting for gay is an option, I never need to see the other options

If you liked Tom Holland as Spider-Man, you'll love Tom Holland as Spider-Man as Nathan Drake

mildly derogatory at best

Oh jeeze so many, I don't really "finish" games anymore, I just play till I've had enough which is usually far less than what's there

Leonhart4 posted...

Oh I guess Batman vs. Superman isn't considered a Batman film

Batman is being recast after three films, but it was rebooted after one quasi-Batman movie

He's being "recast" back after this movie, Ben Affleck and Michael Keaton both play Batman in the upcoming Flash movie.

can't beat a hellhound

Season 6 for me

Bart of Darkness
Sideshow Bob Roberts
Homer Badman
Grampa vs Sexual Inadequacy
Homer the Great
Bart's Comet
Homie the Clown
Bart vs Australia
A Star is Burns
Lemon of Troy
Who Shot Mr Burns Pt 1

Now, when I say hello Mr. Thompson and press down on your foot, you smile and nod

I got it but I've just been playing Grapple Dog instead of learning KOF

oh neat, they developed NES Donkey Kong? That (or rather, the GBA port of that) is my favorite game of all time!

I rewatched all of these prepping for No Way Home, and my top 3 are definitely Spider-Man 2, Into the Spider-Verse, and No Way Home. Homecoming and Spider-Man 1 just a notch below.

I'll always have a soft spot for Hitmonlee from the Gen 1 days when he was the only Pokemon with a really decent Fighting move

The only thing normal about me is my difficulty setting

BotW, I don't like Ocarina. It just bores me.

Extra toiletries

I always keep an unopened one of everything I use under the sink so I have it for when the current one runs out. After opening a new one, I always replace it right away rather than waiting for the new one to get low.

Excellent news re: Pokemon Bank

https://twitter.com/SerebiiNet/status/1493768777007308800?t=GZNhB5AxPUBtry_DR_eh6g&s=19

end of an era

EDIT: oh shit pokemon bank

i better get to it and beat Black soon huh

but I haaaaaaate it >:(

I just want Mega Man 12, I don't know why they haven't already put out a new game on the MM11 engine.