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Mouthfuls of spaghetti with tomato sauce
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Dragonball z movies
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butts
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You did indeed stab me in the back. However, you are only level one, whilst I am level 50. That means I should remain uninjured.

Oh, and this will probably give him a bigger publicity bump than actually taking the role

It's a calculated move for sure
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You did indeed stab me in the back. However, you are only level one, whilst I am level 50. That means I should remain uninjured.

Did anyone else have to read a book in school about a black girl that wanted to be Peter pan in the school play? Was that just me?

I don't know what the employment in acting situation is, so I have no opinion, really. Person can do whatever he wants

Without context, I guess it does feel like it could be a moral judgment from him. Is he implying that Idris elba should have stepped down from playing the gunslinger, or is it more about the volume of acting rules available to minorities?
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You did indeed stab me in the back. However, you are only level one, whilst I am level 50. That means I should remain uninjured.

bumpo

Hey is bicycle metaphorical or no
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You did indeed stab me in the back. However, you are only level one, whilst I am level 50. That means I should remain uninjured.

I do remember seeing watchwolf in ravnica and having my mind blown

I considered that the writing on the wall- even though it was a couple years later that they said it was an intentional move
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You did indeed stab me in the back. However, you are only level one, whilst I am level 50. That means I should remain uninjured.

aw man, and the story just got over the justice league

boo
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i like sorcerous spyglass. it makes me wish pithing needle didn't exist.

Treasure tokens seem like the 'improved' version of that ludicrous 'untap lands' mechanic blue had way back in the day

wow jace looks goofy as shit

and gideon of the trials is really good now maybe

i'm not a huge fan of tribal in general, but i'm still holding out hope. so far, i see a little less 'all Elves get +1/+1' and a little more 'having more of any type is better', as well as tribal cards that happen to work well together, but aren't useless separately

in another set, goring ceratops would cost slightly less and only give Dinosaurs double strike
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You did indeed stab me in the back. However, you are only level one, whilst I am level 50. That means I should remain uninjured.

Johnbobb posted...

Downloaded to read later

same

This is an interesting topic, and I expect comedy is the right path for it. Would be too monolithic for my tastes if it was just 100% sad

by the end, readers will know a lot about your personal perspectives and assumptions, i think
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You did indeed stab me in the back. However, you are only level one, whilst I am level 50. That means I should remain uninjured.

Wait, this game has only been out for a year... Why does it feel like we've had three summer games?
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You did indeed stab me in the back. However, you are only level one, whilst I am level 50. That means I should remain uninjured.

This topic is going to have a very long life!

I blame the lore
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You did indeed stab me in the back. However, you are only level one, whilst I am level 50. That means I should remain uninjured.

I really don't like competitive 'puttering around stimulators'

I guess it's nice to know what genres I do and do not like
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THIS contest has lost ALL credibility!
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You did indeed stab me in the back. However, you are only level one, whilst I am level 50. That means I should remain uninjured.

Well, supposedly if you actually look at it, it's smarter to get the bulk payment and just invest it

Due to the way inflation and compound interest works, you'll end up with more money after 30 years that way

The only reason to take the yearly payments is if you think you're literally unable to prevent yourself from spending all the money you visibly have access to at any given moment
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You did indeed stab me in the back. However, you are only level one, whilst I am level 50. That means I should remain uninjured.

I was paying attention to my design when mirrodin and kamigawa were current, but didn't actually start playing again until ravnica because balance seemed so poor

Jitte was so obviously broken that to this day I still don't know for sure what they were thinking.

Like yeah, you want to have sightly unbalanced good cards that wow players and become iconic, but that seemed too much
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You did indeed stab me in the back. However, you are only level one, whilst I am level 50. That means I should remain uninjured.

I used to think yellow was terrible, but I tried the candy again recently & they were all good in different ways
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You did indeed stab me in the back. However, you are only level one, whilst I am level 50. That means I should remain uninjured.

really like the flavor but won't be regularly around for a few weeks
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You did indeed stab me in the back. However, you are only level one, whilst I am level 50. That means I should remain uninjured.

didn't play this generation, and only recognized lucario from brawl

interesting to see what i assumed was a zubat clone win it!
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You did indeed stab me in the back. However, you are only level one, whilst I am level 50. That means I should remain uninjured.

reminds me of when jackie chan broke his ankle filming rumble in the bronx
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You did indeed stab me in the back. However, you are only level one, whilst I am level 50. That means I should remain uninjured.

I can totally understand the "devil's advocate" mentality, and that's sort of where I used to live.

but you can't just play referee forever. eventually you have to educate yourself on details and figure out your actual stances on things
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You did indeed stab me in the back. However, you are only level one, whilst I am level 50. That means I should remain uninjured.

bumpo
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You did indeed stab me in the back. However, you are only level one, whilst I am level 50. That means I should remain uninjured.

actually scrap that it's still nuts
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You did indeed stab me in the back. However, you are only level one, whilst I am level 50. That means I should remain uninjured.

they also give you 7 grams of gold

i wonder how pure / what karat it is

the price might or might not be insane depending on that
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You did indeed stab me in the back. However, you are only level one, whilst I am level 50. That means I should remain uninjured.

You have to somehow end up being the only single man in the entire room, with two or more single women

It is that simple
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Washington
Oregon
California
Nevada
Utah
Wyoming
Arizona
New Mexico
Michigan
Ohio
Pennsylvania
New York
Massachussetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
New Jersey
Maryland
Virginia
North Carolina
Florida

Washington D.C.

so i guess 20? was fun thinking about this, had to go over a map and remember a few childhood trips
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waiT i thought c*** meant the AUSTRAILIAN body part
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yoU'Ve crossed a line I never may well, foul destrier

Mine is the largest in all the land and nO body stops talking about it
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Peace___Frog posted...

https://twitter.com/TIME/status/895096548056543232

California crops rot as immigration crackdown creates farmworker shortage https://t.co/a02OCLZfah

Who could have predicted this?

wow that wall is actually doing a pretty good job of keeping people out, isn't it
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You did indeed stab me in the back. However, you are only level one, whilst I am level 50. That means I should remain uninjured.

it's the same deal as physical card games

some will live, some will die

also damn, game boy pokemon music was so good
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You did indeed stab me in the back. However, you are only level one, whilst I am level 50. That means I should remain uninjured.

can they use the handlebars?
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You did indeed stab me in the back. However, you are only level one, whilst I am level 50. That means I should remain uninjured.

quite the rallies!
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You did indeed stab me in the back. However, you are only level one, whilst I am level 50. That means I should remain uninjured.

one good thing i'll say is that the three sets had cool expansion symbols. in fact, all the early ones did
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You did indeed stab me in the back. However, you are only level one, whilst I am level 50. That means I should remain uninjured.

that's the tough part- hard to say why one set places directly above or below another

the write-ups definitely clarify why they're in the general regions
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You did indeed stab me in the back. However, you are only level one, whilst I am level 50. That means I should remain uninjured.

but really, i feel like people don't realize what they're doing

when you go full blitz in exiling or shunning well-intentioned people who hold incorrect views, you're essentially handing the far (or alt) right their greatest recruiting tool

i'm not sure what the right solution is
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don't we already screen immigrants based on merit and intent?

this just looks like a dumbing-down of an already existing system in a way that is designed to appeal to idiots

also what the hell, why is 26-30 such an ideal age
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You did indeed stab me in the back. However, you are only level one, whilst I am level 50. That means I should remain uninjured.

Bane_Of_Despair posted...

oh god I read that as 17 y/o Honey Boo Boo is pregnant and I freaked out like fuck I'm not that old am I

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You did indeed stab me in the back. However, you are only level one, whilst I am level 50. That means I should remain uninjured.

o yeah, i also didn't think "the left" and "the right" were things until engaging in discussion on this site

i HOPE it's just an easy parlance for people to have discussions, but i get more worried that people are actually starting to believe in those categories
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You did indeed stab me in the back. However, you are only level one, whilst I am level 50. That means I should remain uninjured.

i gotta say, in the past i thought the democrats were the "feels" party and republicans were the "rational" party

but recently i've come to realize that republicans are just as, if not more, based on feels. they're just based on different feelings.

the alt-right (at least) is based on the "feeling" that our white identity is under attack. Or the "feeling" that immigrants are a ravenous horde coming to vandalize our country. The *feeling* that businesses need to be unfettered and ALL regulation is bad, regardless of context. the *feeling* that the government is going to steal our guns.

the *feeling* that certain categories of people are just straight up better, and helping out the bottom rungs of society makes us weaker

the feelings are just stances on issues that "feel" right. it's like comparing religion to science. in science, you collect data and formulate results. in religion, you formulate your results and then collect data to support it. if you know your stance on an issue without having ever looked at a healthy amount of data, you are part of the problem, regardless of your political leanings
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You did indeed stab me in the back. However, you are only level one, whilst I am level 50. That means I should remain uninjured.

Vlado posted...

the left is WRONG on most/all of these issues, and saying "economics" is particularly laughable, as socialism and communism have failed or are in the process of failing spectacularly everywhere they've been implemented

i guess i mean to say that trickle-down economics is complete and utter ass
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WhoopsyDaisy posted...

Nope, it's sexist to assume that men and women would have sexually-dimorphic nervous systems even though they have sexually-dimorphic skeletal, muscular, and endocrine systems. None of those adaptations would've led to the sexes specializing in certain areas of cognition, that's crazy talk.

there are differences. full stop.

it's just a bit silly for him to claim he knows exactly what they are
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WhoopsyDaisy posted...

What is his actual primary complaint? Can you phrase his primary complaint in a way that he would consider fair? Because it sounds like you don't mention it at all here. Here's a hint: it's not that he thinks he's being silenced.

i'd be more interested to hear how you would phrase it, actually. i'm totally open to hearing that i completely missed every relevant point
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You did indeed stab me in the back. However, you are only level one, whilst I am level 50. That means I should remain uninjured.

i think the first game i played that i would consider firmly in the rpg genre was ff7. either that or pokemon red...
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You did indeed stab me in the back. However, you are only level one, whilst I am level 50. That means I should remain uninjured.

also, call me ignorant, but wasn't it determined that the pay gap was real, but the wage gap wasn't?

that men take less time off and therefore earn more or some shit
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You did indeed stab me in the back. However, you are only level one, whilst I am level 50. That means I should remain uninjured.

parties whip up their base with ignorant catch phrases and then act offended when they're called out on it

unfortunately, passionate rhetoric (as opposed to rational discussions) have been factually proven to be more effective


btw, vlado as annoying as your tone always is this was a good link. i haven't read your actual posts inside of this topic, which was probably a good decision
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You did indeed stab me in the back. However, you are only level one, whilst I am level 50. That means I should remain uninjured.

okay, i'll bite the bait

i agree with most of the spirit of what he said. He has committed some errors, which I will tackle in the order that I see them written. First, I don't like that he labels pragmatism as a right-wing trait.

i would argue that intentionally choosing the option that sounds shittier JUST BECAUSE it *sounds* like "the difficult choice" is just as idealistic, just an idealism of a different philosophy. sometimes, the shittier choice is just shittier, not pragmatic. But that's just word choice

i also think trying to create analogies and apply social and political perspectives to the day to day functioning of a business is the corporate equivalent of astrology and inherently worthless

the entire section about the 'on average' differences between men and women has a LOT of [sources needed]

for example, claiming "women are more interested in people and men are more interested in things" as if it were a fact is just random. if there's no source backing this up, this carries as much weight as the comedy sketch that says "women are interested in things, and men are interested in women, and therefore men only buy things to attract women". It's kind of the opposite, too!

That being said, nobody's expecting this guy to be perfectly correct in everything. He wants to have a conversation and he should get it. Hopefully he is aware and open to accepting that he is wrong on many counts.

I'll be honest with you. It's really tough to see two "sides" of an argument, where one side is 90% correct and the other side is 10% correct, and the 10% side has retreated to basically say "i'm not free to be wrong, people get mad at me when i don't listen to reason". It's also tough when the fringe crazies ON THE MOSTLY CORRECT SIDE go overzealously overboard.

I do totally understand the fear, but it's not a liberal vs. conservative thing, and I hate it when people try to draw that line and put people into color coded buckets.

I have absolutely been in situations where I've felt like it would be unwise to contribute to a discussion because of the social environment. You just need to slow down and actually formulate intelligent positions before blabbing. Yeah, it's tough, but everyone has to deal with it sometimes.

Also, it's an idiotic lie ot say that political correctness is a tool of "the Left" (god i hate painting with broad strokes) exclusively. I see "anxious whites" rant and rave about how people are "attacking" whites verbally and they need to stop. It's complete hypocrisy

like i get it. the left feels more passionate and intolerant. this is because they are actually closer to being correct on a lot of issues, including evolution, climate change, drug wars, health care, and economics. yeah, people are going to be passionate about these topics

it's easy to feel on the defensive when you're factually wrong on so many counts, and it bleeds into other topics that are more nuanced and less fact-based, like race & gender
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You did indeed stab me in the back. However, you are only level one, whilst I am level 50. That means I should remain uninjured.

Grats, that must be a relief. Assume you can't/shouldn't say what you work with
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You did indeed stab me in the back. However, you are only level one, whilst I am level 50. That means I should remain uninjured.

I was away from the board for a few years, sounds like I didn't miss anything of note...

Was going to say there was a brief time when the entire board was mercenaries and lottery games
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You did indeed stab me in the back. However, you are only level one, whilst I am level 50. That means I should remain uninjured.

Damn, don't want to have to make a choice

Chatot
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You did indeed stab me in the back. However, you are only level one, whilst I am level 50. That means I should remain uninjured.