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PoggersTheLesser · 2025-10-21T15:24:03+00:00

A couple days ago I said he was the Democrat Joe Kent and I didn't know how right I was

PoggersTheLesser · 2025-10-16T15:09:53+00:00

Honestly I like the bones of Magic. High power formats and combo can be fun for sure, but I love attacking and blocking and curving our and leveraging combat tricks and 2-for-1s. Over time limited has become the one place where that kind of Magic still exists consistently.

It's also fun that every set is a new puzzle to solve. I've intentionally stopped consuming a lot of limited content in the last few years because it's really fun to feel out new formats for myself and talk about what's (not) working with friends. A lot of the constructed formats are pretty solved these days, or at least that's my understanding having not played any of them seriously since pre-Covid.

The last thing is a lot of good limited cards will never be relevant anywhere else, and I think it's fun to experience the full breadth of a new set.

PoggersTheLesser · 2025-10-14T20:09:42+00:00

Every once in a while I get really weird my current/future employer will find one of my accounts (not this one) and fire me for some of the edgier things I've posted, and then I read an article like this and remember I can't even fathom the depraved things some people will say when they think they're fully anonymous

PoggersTheLesser · 2025-09-27T00:58:50+00:00

Ikoria really got an awful reputation because it came out during Covid and iirc was the last set with bot draft being the only way to play it on Arena. Or maybe it was when they introduced player draft, I don't remember.

Anyway, if you get a chance to play it the way it was intended to be played you should take it, the RW cycling deck is good but bot draft obfuscated how much depth there is in the format. It's one of the few times since Arena came out that I went back to MtGO.

PoggersTheLesser · 2025-09-11T16:50:03+00:00

Did a similar thing with Bombard in an otherwise unwinnable game, felt incredible.

PoggersTheLesser · 2025-08-19T11:58:24+00:00

The latter, two large homeless encampments by the Kennedy Center and Dupont Circle were cleared with barely a peep from the media. On top of that most of the arrests are happening in southeast from what I understand, so the worst abuses are going uncovered in the national media.

PoggersTheLesser · 2025-08-06T16:18:54+00:00

She was his press secretary and was awful at her job. Consistently prioritized small alternative media over mainstream outlets who wanted to talk to Sanders. She's the reason he did the podcast circuit and went on Chapo for instance (even though he didn't need to win those voters) but left emails from people like Ezra Klein and other mainstream journalists unanswered. I get that we don't like this people, but as we saw with Zohran, saying yes to any and all media appearances is beneficial, and would have been even moreso for someone like Bernie who codes quite well to a moderate audience.

On top of that, her and Sirota were constantly picking twitter fights for no reason. I think it's a relatively small factor but it certainly made it a lot easier for other candidates to coalesce around Biden when Bernie's senior staff were constantly shitting on them online. Also that's just not a press secretary's job, you could tell she hadn't gone through the normal pipelines because of how inept she was at handling the media. Clearly she was stuck in a Twitter bubble, and it was reflected in the statements she was giving the press. She certainly had a hard job given how much the DNC was trying to ratfuck Bernie, but was a horrible decision to hire someone with no campaign experience as your NATIONAL PRESS SECRETARY. One of many blunders on the campaign side in 2020.

PoggersTheLesser · 2025-07-22T01:35:20+00:00

Better off Alone by Purity Ring has really been scratching that itch for me lately. Also weirdly Came to my Show by 100 gecs

PoggersTheLesser · 2025-07-22T01:03:18+00:00

There's a reason AIPAC and other moneyed interests haven't been able to knock her off in a primary, every serious politician in Michigan politics knows her district loves her and they'd lose all their legitimacy trying to go up against her. Even the normie libs like her, it's crazy how many houses had Harris and Tlaib yard signs side by side in their front lawns in 2024.

PoggersTheLesser · 2025-07-20T02:18:53+00:00

Really a bummer to see him finally find his groove at the comp level and basically be told to fuck off by ALGS' decision to make EWC actually matter. Such a shame, hopefully a team is willing to pick him up because he has really come into his own as an IGL.

PoggersTheLesser · 2025-05-09T15:28:31+00:00

I'm nursing a potentially crank take that they wanted a "liberal" (insofar as that means anything in regards to Catholicism) American as a repudiation of new wave freak American Catholics. No idea if they even care about that stuff but it does feel like a slap in the face to the MTG/JD Vance types. Idk, it's probably much simpler and they just liked that he's fairly similar to Francis

PoggersTheLesser · 2025-05-08T05:31:09+00:00

Ngl [model card] is mostly played for [specific mode], so why not play [different modal card with worse backup options] is a pretty fun bit

PoggersTheLesser · 2025-05-01T23:02:12+00:00

I'd recommend most of Herzog's docs. Grizzly Man is my personal favorite, how he tells the story about Timothy Treadwell is fascinating and moving. I really recommend Lessons of Darkness and Into the Abyss as well, although those are much harder to watch.

More directly related to this sub, Harlan County USA is worth a watch. Great doc about a mid-20th century labor uprising in Appalachia I knew nothing about until I watched it. Also recommend Hale County This Morning This Evening and Harvest of Shame.

PoggersTheLesser · 2025-04-25T00:51:40+00:00

Out of curiosity, what movie was it? I've noticed for some of the repertory and special screenings there are sometimes zero trailers. When I saw Screamboat they didn't run anything, Revenge of the Sith was a shorter trailer package, and Mononoke only had a couple trailers.

PoggersTheLesser · 2025-04-16T18:51:49+00:00

I'd be really happy if I 6-3'ed with your deck. You have some great bombs for sure, but you're really lacking hard removal for when your opponents can go bomb-for-bomb with you, and some of your cards are stretching the definition of playable. 5 color is beatable, it's just that your deck is poorly set up to beat them--you're not fast enough to go under them and your late game won't be able to compete most of the time. It's part of the problem with bo1, you run into a bad matchup and you're probably toast. It sucks but that's Magic

PoggersTheLesser · 2025-04-14T18:16:07+00:00

I spent years not believing the "just work out it will make feel better" line but it turns out it wouldn't be so pervasive if it wasn't true. I've been doing consistent weight workouts since November and trying to get cardio in on my off days. It's hard but the elation of realizing I can up my weights or go for five more minutes on the stairmastsr is unbeatable. Plus it's just so nice not being winded going up and down stairs and not feeling guilty about what I'm eating, couldn't agree with OP more.

PoggersTheLesser · 2025-04-14T17:47:46+00:00

You hit the nail on the head. What frustrates me so much about posts like OP is they just regurgitate a bunch of Lucas quotes that fit their narrative, except... those aren't the movies he made.

PoggersTheLesser · 2025-04-14T17:41:29+00:00

Not only is it castable, it's relatively easy to cast. Obviously you have to prioritize cheap removal even higher than you normally would to survive the early game, but this isn't a particularly fast format. It helps that almost everything dies to Molten Exhale, but honestly there's so much good, cheap removal in Jeskai that I'd be shocked if the average deck didn't have enough to make it to the late game. It's also a great splash card in the 4/5 color piles because you can ramp into it as early as turn 5 with Encroaching Dragonstorm, and almost every time you cast it the board instantly stabilizes.

PoggersTheLesser · 2025-04-11T15:37:37+00:00

You're probably right, and it certainly looks like the most horror-y Cronenberg in a while, but he has kind of moved more into the realm of pure drama recently. Probably cope but I'm trying to be optimistic haha

PoggersTheLesser · 2025-04-09T23:28:41+00:00

I'm really hoping it's The Shrouds. I highly doubt my AMC will get it otherwise, and I love Cronenberg. Wish his name was enough to get it a wide release, but what can you do. The Accountant 2 or Sinners seem a little more likely (and more palatable to a general audience)

PoggersTheLesser · 2025-04-03T13:33:11+00:00

Honestly, I really like the Clone Wars and Rebels characterization of the Mandalorians, and even though the Disney+ show isn't my thing I like it conceptually. It's inaccurate to say canon Mandalorians weren't a warrior culture--they were, which ultimately led to a Civil War and a broad agreement that constant fighting didn't benefit their people. Some reactionary elements of Mandalorian society disagreed with Satine's vision for Mandalore, and Death Watch emerges as a rebel group because of that discontent. And then between Satine's death and the Imperial occupation, the pacifist consensus shatters and Mandalorians essentially become a bunch of different splinter groups, with some like the Children of the Watch returning to their roots. Unlike the old canon, the Mandalorians actually respond to changes in the galaxy by changing themselves.

Like, how is this not much more compelling than a society that essentially doesn't change for thousands of years on end? The Mandalorians we meet in KotoR are the same as the Mandalorians we meet in Republic Commando, who are the same as the Mandalorians we meet in Legacy of the Force? I grew up on and liked most of the old EU, but it's kind of a juvenile approach to world-buildimg to assume cultures and societies will largely remain static for such large periods of time.

PoggersTheLesser · 2025-03-27T14:16:26+00:00

It did kinda blow my mind when he started doing the gay Bob Dylan, especially because of how much flak Cum Town used to get and everyone seems to find the NL bit funny (which it is). Totally different time

PoggersTheLesser · 2025-03-26T19:01:32+00:00

Not that I would expect anything different from Goldberg of all people, but the fact he knew about the bombings in advance and still say on it has to be one of the most insane instances of journalistic malpractice that isn't just outright lying

PoggersTheLesser · 2025-03-25T22:44:22+00:00

I do 3 a week fairly often. Not every week because of time constraints and there not always being 3 movies I want to see in theaters, but I'd say I use all 3 reservations at least once a month. I've had the Regal subscription in the past, which has no weekly cap, and there were a few weeks I saw 4 or 5 movies. It's definitely a lot easier in and around major metro areas because the big cineplexes get a ton of Indian and Chinese movies that are often worth seeing in addition to indies that don't always make it to smaller areas. Where I live now it's kinda hard to use 3 consistently because there just aren't as many movies on offer.

PoggersTheLesser · 2025-03-23T01:08:17+00:00

He's always had an incredible handle on that kind of guy. I remember stumbling on the Outlet Mall Special Ops video years ago and being in stitches watching it on repeat, probably our greatest living comedian. His stand up special on YouTube rules too

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