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  Good TV
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  I finally caught up on Riverdale and just... ... so, it's not that it's bad, it's that you have to suspend your disbelief with a forklift. I mean, I get that a lot of people got annoyed because they basically took Archie characters and mangled them, but since I don't care about that so much, I finally decided to let the absolute surreal nutjobbery of this show take me and if you can manage that? It's a nice ride. It might be best for binging, for me, though. Now for the meat of the post: Raising Dion is phenomenal and you should all definitely watch it.
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  Sentinels of the Multiverse
  • Bananerz  

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  @deadculture said in Sentinels of the Multiverse: @Livia Something like that. Who wouldn't want to play Sorin Markov or Sarkhan the Dragonspeaker, though? My best played (as in, 9 w/1 l) deck in Magic Arena was, ironically, a monoblue Jace control/denial deck. I wouldn't. If I had to pick a canonical (printed as an actual card) planeswalker to play in an RPG, it'd probably be Garruk, simply because they've been printing some pretty ridiculous green creatures lately. Hi Questing Beast. Plus, they haven't really done much with Garruk in the narrative; his whole cursed storyline felt like a "meanwhile, back on..." sort of side event.
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  The Dog Thread
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  @Cupcake said in The Dog Thread: I volunteered with Rock at a local festival for the greyhound adoption group's booth. He wore a donation dog vest with little pockets on each side for people to put cash in. Apparently he was very popular because... Someone put a $100 bill in one of the pockets. My boy knows how to shake his money maker! It took me an unreasonable length of time to realise this was not The Rock..
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  The Work Thread
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  @Ganymede said in The Work Thread: @Ghost said in The Work Thread: It would be like getting Stalin-appointed to coach the Miami Dolphins. I'm not sure what the problem is. The problem is that I don't know a thing about sportsball.
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  Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.
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  Dental work is stupid and expensive and terrible and I hate everything
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  The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves)
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  tbh, the best experiences I've had with doctors can be summed up with two (and much as it might surprise people: both were white dudes): The first told me, straight up: 'You know your body better than anyone, so if you say there's an issue, I believe you.' Holy shit, I miss that guy. If you live in the Cincinnati, OH area, I will do everything I can to dig through my shitty memory to remember his name. The other was a doc in SC who had witnessed firsthand how much fibromyalgia can fuck with a person's perception of pain and as a result, he treated anyone with it more carefully and was willing to hear us out when we said we thought something was wrong instead of just brushing it off as 'in our head.'
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  RL things I love
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  On Tuesday I get to see Leigh Bardugo at an event she's doing here in Austin for her new book. Yeeeeee
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  Dead Celebrities 2019
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  Stephen Moore aka Marvin the paranoid android
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  GIF Uno (not for the GIF haters)
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  Arty stuff and Writey stuff
  • Rinel  

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  Every year I say I'm going to do nano and then I don't. I do enjoy the nano forums, though. Particularly the 'adopt a' whatever threads.
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  Random funny
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  @Auspice It is not, but I feel it should be. It so, so should be.
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  What's your monitor setup?
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  Mine's probably a little different: The widescreen is my 'primary', the little one to the right of it is simply a result of my obsessive need to know Everything. It's a touch-screen dealie whos sole purpose is to run monitoring software (Currently has the Graphics statistics in this shot because I ended up having to replace that card for overheating)
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  Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff
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  Hey more on OpenPath being awesome. They contacted me after I signed up to verify that I qualified since I have insurance and I briefly panicked. I explained that yes, I do, but my insurance is one of those '20% after deductible' types for mental health and ha ha I can in no way afford to pay full market cost up front rn (that's like $200+ a visit). They assured me that yes, I absolutely qualify and they just have to double check. So yes, pro service. Totally recommend.
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  RL Anger
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  OH AND WHILE I AM HERE: Dear boss, Fuck off with unspecific critical emails sent to the entire team. Just tell the person involved instead of leaving half a department of overly stressed people hyper anxious about your comments. Don't be bringing that shit at me, because I'm not buying what you are selling.
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  Should Rinel become smol birb?
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  The basketball thread
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  @Autumn I'm sad about the NBA in particular because it had such a stellar record of fostering independent views within its ranks. It backed players when they protested police brutality on black people, it stood by LeBron when he was told to "shut up and dribble", and even was fine with several championship teams outright refusing to visit Trump's White House which was a long-standing tradition to do. But now they issue two different statements between the US and China, the latter stating how "deeply disappointed" they are with Morey's 'stand with Hong Kong' tweet while the former was... well, a word salad. They best they could manage is not firing the guy. Gee, thanks NBA! I get it, I really do. China is a humongous market and they stand to lose a whoooole lot of money. But this is a good test to see where it really stands and so far it's showing some pretty ugly colors. It's also a good test for the Chinese government to see how strong its leverage is within the US in terms of silencing critics. So far the answer is "pretty damn strong". No player has said a thing to back that up (yet many visit China often and have more than a passing knowledge of what's going on there), no official has made a peep and even most journalists have STFU. ESPN is owned by Disney, the chances of them saying anything is somewhere between slim and zero.
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  Good or New Movies Review
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  @Ganymede said in Good or New Movies Review: I saw “The Killing Joke” not that long ago I bet that was a good concert. ETA: oh the movie
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  Wildly Out of Context
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  Heard twice verbatim yesterday: Parent: "That game is called cornhole." Child: "Why?" Parent: <sudden extremely awkward silence>
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  Food!
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  If you have an InstantPot this pulled pork recipe is super tasty.
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  The Football Thread
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  @Auspice said in The Football Thread: What's depressing in life is all I truly want out of the NFL this year is a Super Bowl without the Patriots and that's probably the hardest ask of all. A non-patriots super bowl with a halftime show that rocks. These last few years have been pretty lame.