Jeremy Davis

Cadet Cardboard Connoisseur

[Jeremy Davis @exciteknite]

@PLC_Photo @MoonshinerMonk It’s not any better up here.

[Adam Hintz @SojuConnoisseur]

One of my FAVORITE classes that I had the opportunity to teach in Korea was called 녹지원 ("Green Grass Garden") and was reserved for students who were nearly fluent at the top levels of high school. Unlike every other class I taught in Korea we just approached REAL GRE and TOEFL essay questions.

One time, my class had to answer an essay question about poverty in America -- which of course they had no context for and were extremely confused. I had to stop the timer and break into an impromptu lecture. I consider it one of my finest moments as a teacher.

I said:

"This is going to sound incredible to you, but a lot of children in America grow up with just a mom at home. Everyone in this classroom goes home to two parents. I'm not going to lie to you and tell you everyone here has great parents - I know some of you fight, I know some of you resent how hard your parents push you, I know some of you feel like your parents don't understand you. That's NORMAL. That's how it's been since the dawn of time.

"But you all go home to two parents who love you and care about you and keep you on the right path. Many, many, many American kids don't have that.

"And do you know what happens when you don't have that? You start listening to your friends more than your parents. You start doing stupid things. You put less importance on school, and no one is there to keep you in line. So you end up reaching a lower level than your parents did. You get into a worse college, if you get in at all. You make mistakes, and sometimes those mistakes end up in breaking laws and going to jail. When things go wrong, there's just one less person to catch you."

I ended by showing the clip from Fresh Prince of Bel-Air where Will's dad leaves again. "How come he don't want me, man?" hit in a different way. There weren't many dry eyes in the room (including mine -- though I swear it was just dust in the air or something ;) ).

I got some incredible essays. And those kids went home to their two parents at 11pm, and somehow got up and went to school at 8am and started the whole process over again. And those kids will eat American kids' lunch over and over for the rest of their lives.

That's the power of an intact family. What you're seeing in NYC is the power of a broken family - equal and opposite.

[Jeremy Davis @exciteknite]

@BowserDrip @HaonAberRueck @modalife_gp “It’s not once per turn”

https://t.co/tyS9kRrJ7O

[Glazing Dominion @modalife_gp]

this has been a really good reading exercise for yugioh players

[Jeremy Davis @exciteknite]

@FerMPalazzo @mikol_n You know it’s fake, or demonic right? Either way unworthy of vernacular precision.

[Jeremy Davis @exciteknite]

@IamActuallyLvL1 @JaellionZ Is mentor playable in vintage?

[Jeremy Davis @exciteknite]

@Justin6Bradley @farmingandJesus We know we aren’t Christian enough. The problem is that you think you are.

[FireSpartan @FireSpartan20]

Can't believe we lost the goat. Always thought that if anyone was going to beat this, it was the Alex Cimo.

[Jeremy Davis @exciteknite]

@SteveLovesAmmo Its a green bin doing white face.

[Jeremy Davis @exciteknite]

@DontAshMePls @ygorganization Bro I don’t think this is playable in goat.

[Jeremy Davis @exciteknite]

@CrisAZelaya @petaldairies Did you see KK while they were in town?

[Jeremy Davis @exciteknite]

@LoftonTCG Example # 512 that what’s obvious to you isn’t obvious to everyone else. We need to be more gracious to one another.

[Jeremy Davis @exciteknite]

We don’t need “adultery flags” because its assumed in every other part of life; if we understand the commandment against adultery as any affront against the marriage bed, any sexual sin. LGBT sins are easier to single out because they’re “ickier”.

[Brian Holdsworth @briankeepsworth]

Maybe because there's no adultery flag flying at the public elementary school by my house.

[Jeremy Davis @exciteknite]

@fedpostingHQ @Michaeldudufudu I am not sure if it’s effeminate, but it certainly is cute. I interpreted that as conveying Christ’s complete innocence. We associate cuteness with infants and infants with innocence.

[Lu for Alaska @luinalaska]

Some of you are the reason someone else on the planet chose not to go to church. You specifically. Your specific witness. Your words, your behaviors, and your choices. That should make you lose sleep.

[Jeremy Davis @exciteknite]

@ManagersCounsel @Autism_Squeaks Is Wotc intentionally the most unlikable company?

[Jeremy Davis @exciteknite]

@WiLd_Streams @TheOnlyPunPun @Lampi_Ygo Obviously Komoney was supposed to ban all the cards that players probably still have in the mail.

[Jeremy Davis @exciteknite]

@Cardboard_Crack The social norms around EDH are weird. In other casual gaming experiences it’s understood that players are trying to win at other’s expenses. Who thinks that throwing blue shells or stealing stars are breaches of the social contract? They may get salty but you won’t be uninvited.

[Jeremy Davis @exciteknite]

Fund research of the effect of EDH on the brain.

OC got me to build this deck on a whim; I just got kicked from a TTS lobby for breach of social contract, apparently they had agreed to a "slow game" and I presented lethal on T7 entirely off of another players token doubler.

[Tautog @Intrepid_Tautog]

You enter a Random-Commander Tournament and receive the following card as your deck's General. What 4 synergistic cards do you include in the 99? 🤔

[Jeremy Davis @exciteknite]

@DWHarrison57 @HansFiene I think this is dismissed by the fact that most of them aren’t Presbyterian like him. Even in his S-tier Dr. Cooper is Lutheran and Dr. Orland is Baptist.

[Mike Winger @MikeWingerii]

My favorite kind of abortion is the abolished kind.