there used to be cringe here. still is

Now, from Calvin's point of view what has happened is that he spotted actual aliens, and starts trying to bring this to the attention if the adults. But the tourists are like, "that's nice, go shoot 'em with your water gun, have a good time," and the locals are like, "yeah, they're an older couple who decided to retire here. Happens all the time." Eventually, it becomes clear that Spaceman Spiff is going to have to handle it himself.

From Lilo's point of view, Jumba and Pleakley are her gay uncles, do you mind? Calvin does mind, and so the two of them spend the rest of the afternoon terrorizing Kaua'i in the effort to destroy one another while the aliens alternate between bailing them out of trouble and attempting to escape.

and if you think about it, it really does make sense.

like the heat radiates out evenly, until it hits an obstruction(you) and what does that obstruction do to the heat? it absorbs some of it, bounces some off, but the point is that there’s going to be a relatively cold spot past the obstruction.

ok so. standard rice noodles. unusual for something labeled as ramen, and the powder is just a tinge off-white. i can detect blue.

added boiling water up to the fill line and let it set for 4 minutes.

and

IT IS SO SO FUCKING BLUE . IT IS BLUER THAN THE FUCKING COLOR

i’m out of control

There is no evidence that Delores Umbridge didn’t suffer an equally traumatic upbringing as Severus Snape or any other villain in the Harry Potter series. For all we know, the environment she grew up in could have been even worse. And lack of information is hardly any excuse.

Consider Bellatrix Lestrange and Fenrir Greyback. We know just about as much about their upbringing as we do about Umbridge. Both of them perform objectively worse actions than Umbridge. Bellatrix gleefully tortures people to the point of insanity, kills children, and carves a slur into the arm of a teenage girl. Fenrir stalks and hunts children, intent to attack and curse them to torment them and prove his power and dominance over them for the rest of their lives.

Neither of these characters gets the same level of hate as Umbridge.

Look, when I say that the revulsion of Umbridge is largely caused by internalized misogyny, stereotypes, and bigotry, I’m not trying to call anybody out here. The reality is, it took me a long time to take an introspective look and realize that was why I hated the character so much too. And at first I wanted to reject the idea too. I wanted to find some way to justify why I had been right to revoke her so.

But then I realized that I could learn and grow a lot more by being willing to face my own programming and push back against it. I hated Umbridge because the author had given me all the superficial details that were SUPPOSED to trigger those feelings. And in buying into that, I had inadvertently participated in further perpetuating those signals and stereotypes.

I don’t want to be part of that cruel and vicious cycle anymore. It’s harmful, it’s unfair, and it’s dishonest.

Competitive Smash Player Still Using a Gamecube Controller in 2018:

I just wanna point out that all the “No items, stock only, no stage effects” crew all are complete trash at the game. They’re great at FIGHTING GAMES, but complete Garbage at Smash Bros. Because instead of trying to learn the game, learn to play around the items, learn which stages do what, they just turn it all off (when you first start the game all the items and stage effects are on and you can’t turn them off in any of the modes except multiplayer melee).

And then if you do wanna play with items they try to shame you and claim that you’re “ruining the game” or “cheating” because “you can’t win without using items.” Guess what asswipe the intention is to play with the items that’s why they’re their in the first place for free with the base game.

Sets feel kinda same-ish too. Not like wildly so but…. eh

That’s a double edge sword to not making things broken and keeping them consistant.

The stories have been well-written, but all seem to further illustrate just how bad the social and economic inequality are on Ravnica. Not only does this leave me without a clear reason to root for Team Ravnica in the upcoming conflict with Bolas, but it’s just generally a major downer in a season already filled with plenty of darkness and doldrum.

Each story has been emotionally taxing, and I don’t think any of them had a climax with enough payoff to leave me feeling replenished or energized. I don’t feel like I read them out of enjoyment, I just didn’t want to fall behind.

On top of that, I have no idea what’s going on with any of the narrative loose threads that have been dangled in front of us over the last several years. I have no idea what’s going on with Teysa or Tajic. Nothing about Project Lightning Bug or Niv-Mizzet. No mention of Feather or Emmara.

I know they’re waiting for the third set before they start tying in the Gatewatch and Nicol Bolas and the main storyline, but that feels like a very long wait with a payoff that makes me very nervous. (I’m still highly skeptical about returning to Magic novels.)

When it comes to playing Magic, that has been pretty stale for me too. The last time I felt genuinely excited to play Magic was the Unstable draft I attended last December. Since then, every game I’ve played has mostly been going through the motions. It doesn’t feel surprising or new. It just feels like more of the same.

Having said that, I have absolutely zero intention of “quitting” Magic. My wife will periodically ask if I want to sell my collection since I play so rarely, but I have no interest in doing that. I still consider myself a Magic player, and a Vorthos. I’m just not feeling a lot of energy pulling me towards it right now.

That said, the set still has problems, and I think the main problem is that wizards is being heavy handed with trying to force standard and draft into certain patterns rather than just making cards.

another issue is the price of standard. there are currently 27 cards that cost $10 or more that are standard legal, and most of them aren’t things you would only need one of in a deck you get a playset of two of these cards, and that becomes at least $80 for a deck that’s going to rotate out eventually, and most of those cards aren’t very playable in other formats. Wizards really shouldn’t have stopped masterpieces, even if they became mediocre, because as long as they were cards people wanted, boxes would be bought for the chance at a masterpiece, and the market was flooded with standards most played cards, driving the cost of standard down.

I can’t speak for the story, though, I haven’t followed it since the core set.

They are though,