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It was a fan nod fourth wall break no worse than Robert Downey Jr.'s "I am Iron Man" at the end of Endgame. Which I did think was shitty writing but hey, fan nod fourth wall breaks are par for the course here, I didn't think it was shitty because it messed with my suspension of disbelief.

You're being disingenuous. Whether or not it's easy to keep disbelief suspended is inherent to discussions about whether or not a given bit of writing causes the viewer to disbelieve what's happening.

I'm saying that if suspension of disbelief is hard for you, then the genre of TV with super powered people running around in tights might not be the one for you. Obviously. Was that honestly hard to understand?

Ah yes, comic book shows, the genre most dependent on not challenging the audience's suspension of disbelief.

Found a few new-to-me 70s acts lately that I've been listening to a lot of

Pot-stirrer

New idea for a superhero: The Groundhog His superpower is the ability to turn any day into Groundhog Day / Edge of Tomorrow, living the day over and over, altering events until he gets everything just right. None of his friends believe him about his powers.

Loki was my favorite MCU series so far. Moon Knight is pretty meh. That last episode took a huge dive off a cliff as far as being rushed / cheesy. Rest of the series was great up to then, tho, but the botched landing ruined it. Shortest season finale of any of the MCU series so far...

I was diagnosed with Bipolar disorder in 2020, at the age of 33, around the time I finished chemotherapy. Lithium immediately made my brain work better. Looking back, the series of ups and downs over my life makes perfect sense as Bipolar disorder, but at the time I couldn't see the big...

I thought there was maybe some Legends cards that would prove me wrong, but I was pretty sure I remembered zero heterosexual orgies even back then. Thanks for doing my research for me. ;) They're too woke and blinded by $$s to see that sexualizing same-gender relationships is going to do more...

Are there any MTG cards that show heterosexual orgies? Serious question.

It's actually weird the way it worked out. I did a year long course of oxaliplatin, December 2018 to December 2019, at which point we did a scan and things looked clear. Revisit in 2 months. During those 2 months, my oncologist left Karmanos and got a job at University of Michigan. She said...

I totally forgot the Arena Open starts tomorrow. Traditional Historic even, which has been my jam. And I'm broke since I just signed a lease on a new apartment! Someone PayPal me $30? ❤️ My current deck list: https://mtgazone.com/user-decks/3yz8svb9il3udmr66gw/ And yeah, yeah, I've got...

Professor Onyx as my only win condition, while effective, got a little old. So a couple weeks ago I went hunting through other cards looking for a good artifact or enchantment to run as a win condition, to dodge more removal. I wasn't around during Kaldheim, so this card was new to me: The...

Saw MaRo talk awhile back about how they're trying to slip in a few OP commons, as incentive to really learn a set before drafting or something like that. Which doesn't make sense now that I say it, but I can't remember what a better reason would have been. Then also they've been consistently...

Haven't been around lately, just realized I should let you guys know I just hit 2 years since my last dose of chemotherapy. Treatment ended up lasting from February 2016 to April 20, 2020. Four kinds of chemotherapy, including a stem cell transplant with ultra high dose chemotherapy, two...

I feel like there is some unforseen combo with this card that's going to be broken. Yeah it makes your Walker susceptible to creature based removal, but if you have instant speed cards in your hand that will end up unattaching it from your Walker (destroy it or return it to your hand or blink...

Got excited for this set early on when I heard it would be Shard focused, since I'm still on my Esper Control kick in Historic. Most of the Esper cards have been kind of meh tho. Then I saw this one: Not the sort of card that will make every MTG player write home to their mom, I know, but...

What Quarm did they end up putting in?

How is PoP?

The other day I stole an Embercleave and attached it to my Thief of Sanity and it was glorious

Hey I'm curious, did you get Mythic playing Standard? The Historic metagame is so varied right now that I feel like it is probably a lot more interesting than standard. Standard is more interesting since they started doing more bans and whatnot yeah, but that's lame and frustrating in it's own...

I don't play any formats with a legal Dark Ritual. Do Modern or older have enough good removal that this combo isn't viable even with Dark Ritual? I assumed so anyway, from the little I know. Still a bonkers combo if you did manage to untap with it on turn 2 tho. 😳 especially cause then you...

He's a vampire? Possible to get him in the battlefield on turn 3 with the help of this guy 😳

I'm disabled, lotta time on my hands, gonna start streaming eventually and see if I can't turn my hobby into a bit of cash flowing in. But yeah the fact that it's monthly and the season ends in a couple days is very daunting. If you think of any good advice (on my deck or on turning Magic into...

So Diamond was rough at first. But I (painfully) took out the 3x Thief of Sanity and added another Professor Onyx (now my only win condition), more counter spells / removal, and now I just slow play to every win. Matches take forever but I'm almost Mythic on the back of a deck I built myself...

First time ever hitting Diamond! Hoping I won't have to change the deck too much for a push to Mythic. Dread Fugue might be the weak link but replacing it with Thoughtseize or Inquisition of Kozilek (or whatever it's called) doesn't feel right either. Precognition Field might be a silly...

Took awhile off, just got back up to Platinum from Bronze. Still rocking this Historic Esper Control deck. I like the way it evolved. Tried running Glint Sleeve Siphoner as another threat that generates card advantage. It worked for a bit in Silver, then didn't in Gold, but I think I might...

thanks for the inspiring words, sunshine

That's funny My friend's dog howled along with us singing the chorus to Porcupine Tree's "Trains" when we jammed it out on guitar one night haha

You probably wouldn't pass by any planets either. Space is BIG

Have not seen her with her facemask off. I mentioned out loud one day how I haven't seen any of the therapists with their masks off, and everyone but her showed me their face. She seemed like she was nervous to thinking I might think she was ugly. I'm sure she isn't lol. Besides she has...

We all are headed for disintegration after we die, whether it be from the sun or the dirt.

My cat only ever makes this face when "Beauty in Fallen Leaves" by Yob is playing. Two separate occasions here.

Anyone do anything weird during that magical hour at Taco Bell during which they serve both breakfast and lunch? I haven't gotten too adventurous since I realized you can do it, but the Chipotle Ranch Grilled Chicken Burrito, add bacon, minus chipotle, is awesome. Closest thing you can get to...

Would take awhile and not be that dissimilar than floating towards any other distant point in the vast emptiness of space. You would die from your oxygen running out well before you made it to the sun. Unless maybe it was a future space station orbiting close to the sun I suppose but even...

I mean, yeah that's what you do, but it's not what everyone does. When I had the thought, I was at physical therapy with about 8 people in the room between therapists and patients. Therapist Lacey sneezed, two people said "bless you," then she sneezed again, and then everyone said it. Then I...

You know how some people always sneeze twice? And if there are enough people in the room, more people chime in with "bless you" on the second sneeze? Well, what if the second sneeze actually came about as a result of evolution? Receiving more blessings means you are more likely to live on and...