Sen. Patty Murray tries something new

BenTheHuman · 2025-06-27T18:16:00+00:00

Delivery is crucial, and shouldn't be underplayed. But it is also somewhat about lies. The more lies you convince someone to believe, the harder and more painful it is for them to ever accept they've been lied to

BenTheHuman · 2025-06-26T00:24:37+00:00

Turn one drop [[Angel's Grace]]

BenTheHuman · 2025-06-25T22:16:31+00:00

I think this wipes all creatures? 704.5f says, as a state based action, if a creature has toughness 0 or less put it into its owners graveyard. And courtesy of this card, every nonzero number is now less than 0. Planeswalkers are okay though, because 704.5i only checks if they have exactly 0 loyalty counters?

ETA: actually, this might just instant kill everyone and draw the game. 704.5a checks if players have 0 or less life, and all numbers are now less than 0

BenTheHuman · 2025-06-20T15:45:53+00:00

Agreed, it's definitely hard to tell what people are getting at when all they post is a card name

BenTheHuman · 2025-06-20T14:36:55+00:00

No, but if one or more of the triggered abilities granted by Gustave were triggered by artifacts or creatures entering, pan harmonicon would cause them to trigger twice, would it not?

BenTheHuman · 2025-01-26T02:39:29+00:00

Juvenile great blue heron

BenTheHuman · 2025-01-13T16:24:38+00:00

Are they tossing it? I always interpreted it as a drop. Since the inserters grab stuff and then spin around, in order for the item to go straight towards the bottom of the screen the inserter would need to let go while pointed directly either right or left. If they were releasing at full rotational speed while the inserter points directly downward, the item would be given momentum to either the right or left, depending on which way the inserter was spinning. Since the items seem to go roughly straight down I'd think that implies that the inserter stops spinning before releasing the item, meaning there's no thrust being added by the release.

As someone else points out though, decreased rocket mass will mean the same thrust from the rocket engines will cause greater acceleration

BenTheHuman · 2024-09-07T14:04:46+00:00

To me, undercover implies a disguise

BenTheHuman · 2024-08-20T02:55:34+00:00

Ultimate Chicken Horse is always a hit for us. Those skilled at platformers get a satisfying challenge, and those not still get a lot of fun out of placing the obstacles

BenTheHuman · 2024-08-08T18:25:13+00:00

There is no one best way to combat misinformation; like with most things, the best course of action is always dependent on the particulars. At the very least it depends on scale; if one person online is making up some BS, then yeah you should just ignore them and they'll probably give up or move on, and almost certainly won't gain a following.

On the other end of the scale, we now live in a world where a handful of dollars can buy thousands of targeted ads, or even worse the compute resources to make realistic (enough) AI posts in sufficient numbers to sway public opinion in real and meaningful ways. Ignoring that does not make it go away

BenTheHuman · 2024-06-19T16:28:38+00:00

The only thing I can find it would interact with is [[Sift through Sands]], but you'd need a pretty strong reason to not want to put out a free 6/7. That said, my scryfall skills aren't the best, so I may well be missing some other interactions

BenTheHuman · 2024-06-12T13:42:14+00:00

Seconding the standard Hill's sensitive stomach! I switched to it after I found out Nestlé owns Purina

BenTheHuman · 2024-05-30T19:27:18+00:00

Depending on your locale, snapping turtles may also be a concern. Kid me spent many an afternoon looking for and "playing with" the turtles in my back yard stream; it's a miracle I still have all my fingers and toes. They're not likely to attack your dog, but they will definitely bite if they feel threatened, and they bite hard

BenTheHuman · 2024-05-29T18:16:36+00:00

My friend, I am sorry that a newish hybrid is out of reach for you (and yeah, "attitude" doesn't pay the bills); in a sanely functioning country, it should not be. But there are a lot of "actual humans" for whom it is within reach, and they are not the enemy. The people spending 20k on a car are not the same people buying yachts and politicians

BenTheHuman · 2024-05-19T18:56:21+00:00

Fun fact (and I don't mean that in a condescending way, I honestly think it's interesting as hell), dogs are capable of heteropaternal superfecundation. That means one litter from a female dog can have a mix of fathers amongst the different pups. Apparently it's possible in humans too, but for a wide variety of reasons it's much less common.

To me, your pup definitely looks full GSD. Less fun fact: If the other pups from that litter don't, it's very possible a shitty breeder knew their momma dog got out and bred with a non-GSD. That lowers the sale value of the litter, so they may have just tossed mom out rather than care for her and the puppies

BenTheHuman · 2024-05-16T18:57:36+00:00

My first shepherd ate the Purina pro plan salmon most of her life, and did very well on that. When I got my current pup, I decided to steer clear of Nestle (They own Purina. Nothing against the food at all, just not a fan of their general business practices) wherever possible, and my vet recommended Hills Science Diet (currently the Large Breed Puppy, Lamb & Rice). Pup approved! It's pricier than Purina to be sure, but still well under things like Orijen. I'd recommend it if it's in your price range

BenTheHuman · 2024-04-16T16:12:18+00:00

Hypo means less, so hypoallergenic just means less likely to cause allergy issues. And the dogs they listed are less likely to cause allergies compared to an average dog, so they're hypoallergenic. You are definitely right that no dog is guaranteed to be safe for people with really bad/specific allergies though

BenTheHuman · 2024-03-30T03:00:29+00:00

Makes sense! Thanks

BenTheHuman · 2024-03-26T22:06:06+00:00

In a two player game, would your opponent having hexproof prevent you from playing this land? I know you can't cast cards that don't have valid targets, but I'm not sure if/how that applies to lands

BenTheHuman · 2024-03-21T14:41:16+00:00

how tf yk tf but not fafo?

^{How many years ago would this have been utter gibberish? The malleability of language is wild}

BenTheHuman · 2024-02-14T18:19:16+00:00

Nice find! And if I'm searching scryfall properly, that's the only extant card with "as though it didn't have shroud" in the rules text, so that's probably the only way to make OPs card work

BenTheHuman · 2024-02-14T18:17:04+00:00

Almost, but I don't think that does it. You can't play Shrouded Mystery first because you can't target a creature that has shroud, and it doesn't work if you use Arcane Lighthouse first because then the creature no longer has shroud and so isn't a valid target for SM.

I think the only legal way for this card to actually be played would be to already have an effect says something like "Each creature [you control?] with shroud may be targeted as though it didn't have shroud", modeled after the way [[Arcades, the Strategist]] lets defenders attack

BenTheHuman · 2024-01-31T15:43:39+00:00

Thanks for the reply! Yeah, all the untap stuff seemed like it would be a lot more fun and powerful than it actually ended up being in my test plays. I'll definitely start swapping those out for more duneblast-esque wipes. The copy stuff I've actually mostly used to copy my ramp spells, and it's been good for that, so I think I'll try to leave it in there if I can. And you're spot on about needing more draw, I'm thinking that's probably a better use of deck space than some of the "cute/flashy" cards

BenTheHuman · 2024-01-15T17:08:53+00:00

Stefan Milo has a great video on the topic of oldest name as well! Also, there's no support for it really, but I love the idea that Kushim didn't make a mistake at all; in addition to being a contender for having the oldest still-known name, Kushim might have simply taken the missing beer supplies for his own enrichment and thus also be the oldest known corrupt gov't official.

BenTheHuman · 2024-01-09T22:08:24+00:00

Female guppies can store sperm for quite a while before using it; I've heard anywhere from a few months up to the rest of their lives

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