Myles

Misanthropologist. Aficionoddo. Head editor for Commander Spellbook. Worst Idea of the Decade award winner. They.

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I made a "Pick Your Quarantine House" chart for goth nerds.

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@nameshiv We also named the largest animal in existence "blue" although it's probably relieved to have ended up with that over Melville's "sulphur bottom whale"

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@MythicMeebo Are you part of any chronic pain communities? They've been a big help to my twin, both for emotional support and for specific fibromyalgia advice.

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@MythicMeebo She's not, but you can try to live the dream with Lady Sif to regain control of your plays, then Ghost Rider to resurrect her for power.

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@ask_aubry Ah, poor nipple assignment discipline, that must be why my twin and I both turned out trans.

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@aaron_radney I've been charged for a library card in France and Germany, plus fees for transporting books between branches in the same city.

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@davemakes the less extreme qualifying tournaments for the X games

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@PleasantKenobi Multiple ringbearers = good flavor concession for gameplay reasons

No drawback = more questionable flavor:gameplay tradeoff

Massive wall of inelegant text for the marquee mechanic and biggest flavor focus = inexcusable

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@MorrighanCorbel I once had a marvelous time watching many hours of someone playing a game of Snake inside Breath of the Wild. https://t.co/u1EtCYO9OP

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@xJCloud It's okay to use flavor to make complex mechanics more graspable. We all know Frodo started forgetting spells and learning new ones during battles the second time he put on the Ring, so there's no need to put the looting-on-attack mechanic directly in the rules box.

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@mtgcolorpie Cute plan. I've been running Hood—>Wong—>Shuri—>24 power Demon.

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@KeithChristma10 @PleasantKenobi Are you playing with a $ limit per deck that every player can afford (or proxies)? Because if not it's a joke to claim that your table is concerned with a level playing field.

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@thesultaiguy

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@sickofit If Richard Garfield didn't want me to make infinite combo monstrosities like this he should have thought of that before trying to make something fun for everyone to enjoy.

https://t.co/SgzezSEz4p

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@aptshadow that's fine as long as it's an electro-stet-ic fence

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@theiaincameron I'm less familiar with UK style guides, but the Chicago Manual of Style recommends apostrophes in the plural of lowercase single letters, and Roman type (not italics) for this specific expression, "p's and q's", and phonetic symbols.

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@lorenschmidt @sourink_ So this is the relative popularity of he/her versus they: https://t.co/x0hkBhpV59

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@lorenschmidt @sourink_ Found the documentation at https://t.co/Mn5eSBWc8l The / symbol is interpreted as division when google guesses contextually you want it to, but can be forced to be read as part of text with square brackets around the term

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@lorenschmidt @sourink_ It's probably relevant that "himself" was a common option for a nonspecific person for centuries. This graph is pretty interesting: https://t.co/1ASBcE2pF4

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@vorrenthalla It's because the rules need to define color identity on these cards, and the rules aren't allowed to care about borders since cards can be reprinted with different border treatments. I agree it's pretty useless for actual people.

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@lorenschmidt @sourink_ I thought I'd observed that trend too, but M-W says "themself" dates back to the 14th century and Ngrams shows it still hasn't really broken into printed text, so both the novelty and the scale of the trend are probably not that notable (yet).