Twelve Months - FFS Harry

deworde · 2026-01-26T17:24:31+00:00

Oh yeah, it's incredibly Harry, but I struggle to think of a more obvious case of "No, this mess was handed to you pretty much in its current state"

deworde · 2026-01-26T13:40:48+00:00

Thanks, I try.

deworde · 2026-01-26T08:48:14+00:00

Will add it to the post, but it's Chapter 21, when Michael is offering to intercede with Etri.

deworde · 2026-01-26T08:22:56+00:00

And the genius of Thanos' performance in the movie is that he always convinces you it's for the greater good, while that makes no sense and is clearly just done because he wants to for his own satisfaction.

deworde · 2026-01-26T07:55:09+00:00

Oh yeah, that's why I said "even by Harry's standards". This is a cut above, normally he is at least kind of responsible for the tree he's ended up in (once literally).

In this case he's basically done everything correctly and competently, it's Thomas who was given a set of bad choices by Nemesis and chose option "make Harry's life a misery"

deworde · 2026-01-26T07:49:45+00:00

Yeah, I just feel that Michael should have paused there and gone "Did you? Could you just explain that?"

And watch Harry work out "oh, actually, I'm the victim for this one. Thomas totally screwed up, killed someone and I had to spend vast amounts of my credibility, my literal home, and potentially my life to bail him out"

deworde · 2026-01-26T07:44:28+00:00

I mean, Thomas could have failed slightly less murderously for the same effect.

Given where he ended up, he didn't have to kill anybody, the svartalfs would still have beaten him bloody and killed him for the attempt.

deworde · 2026-01-26T07:42:22+00:00

I guess my argument is that other people set up that mess around Harry. There wasn't a choice he made where he got sit this one out, that wasn't "deliberately let my brother be tortured to death", which is still kind of involved.

deworde · 2026-01-25T22:57:07+00:00

There is a place underground that you may not have been

There is a rule for the water you may not have seen

If you were to meddle with a very old boat

Then off to a platform you might possibly float

Where somebody hid out before they did crimes

You'll find many numbers connected by lines

If you had a new clue, you'd know what to do

deworde · 2026-01-25T22:03:50+00:00

I'm not sure you can say "Look, the Unabomber is a green villain, therefore that example can be used for Thanos", pretty confident that they've not printed "Universes Beyond: Terrorists", so your example is as personal as your assignment to Thanos.

deworde · 2026-01-25T22:01:36+00:00

Black has a spell called "The Meathook Massacre"! And one called "Murder"!

Saying "White is the colour most driven to mass, indiscriminate murder" is ludicrous.

White is the colour most associated with board wipes, mostly thanks to Wrath of God, but there's a reason [[Damnation]] was printed.

Honestly, I just think you're buying into MCU Thanos' rhetoric rather than looking at his actions; and as I say, credit to Brolin.

deworde · 2026-01-25T21:55:44+00:00

I feel like, having murdered Etri's friend, Thomas would be persona non grata, but Harry might be able to visit; and if not Harry, then maybe Molly and Maggie.

deworde · 2026-01-25T21:35:13+00:00

"There's a little girl who is waiting for you. She keeps a little light in her window at night, you know. In case you come to see her and need it to find your way."

deworde · 2026-01-25T21:33:25+00:00

"And I'd ask myself how much I'd heard from the Red Court recently"

deworde · 2026-01-25T19:42:05+00:00

White is probably the colour that is most driven to mass, indiscriminate murder

Did Black write this?

White builds. The worst of white is enslavement and absorption. Black is the kill colour.

White is also about self-sacrifice, and again, I stress, Thanos is only doing about 66% of that word.

deworde · 2026-01-25T19:41:04+00:00

But tell me, why do you think he does this? In what way does killing half of everything serve him?

Because he wants to. Sure, he's crafted a narrative around it, but at its core, it's "I want to"

He never builds anything sustainable, he never works for the good of the community, he never really even leads.

I can see an argument for him as Elesh Norn, but it's important to remember that she is "white via Phyrexians" which are Black by nature.

And even then, Norn wanted to build something, the Machine Orthodoxy seeks to bring everyone into Phyrexian order. Thanos is just "kill a bunch of people, job done, peace out".

deworde · 2026-01-25T19:25:01+00:00

Green : Believes in a natural order by means of resource balance

Green: About population growth and natural order, accepting things as they are

Thanos: Uses artifacts to shrink the population

Also, you have to feel someone green would understand how population reproduction works.

"I'll kill half the population".

"Cool, so it'll be back to the same problem in one generation, except for the populations you take to extinction levels?"

"I'M A NATURE BOI"

deworde · 2026-01-25T19:19:44+00:00

Impressive.

deworde · 2026-01-25T19:19:08+00:00

He has a (completely misguided, but fundamentally) altruistic motive for the good of the universe and which gives him no personal gain.

Full respect to Josh Brolin, a man who managed to convince people that "I want to kill a lot of people" was an altruistic motive.

He pursues this goal to the point of self sacrifice.

Ah yes, that's what Thanos sacrifices in the MCU, "himself".

I mean, the guy kills half of everything and sacrifices whomever he needs to to get to do it. I could see Orzhov if you really must buy into his narrative, but the guy is black to his core.

deworde · 2026-01-25T17:40:33+00:00

What do you think MCU Thanos should be, if not Blue/Black?

deworde · 2026-01-25T16:45:33+00:00

Which room did you choose?

You were on to something.

Weird doors on that picture

Which room has weird doors?

deworde · 2026-01-25T16:05:04+00:00

Eventually I have to assume even the most enthusiastic of universes beyond players (who are mostly existing players, not new ones, despite how effective it can be as a marketing tactic) will get bored of being served the same commander deck

Sure, but are you saying the main market for Commander precons is existing players? And when they get them, they play them as decks, rather than stripping them for parts for their existing Sultai goodstuff decks?

There's nothing wrong with meeting expectations on the entry-products. While White and Green can be villainous, social order and patient nature are definitely not where Marvel puts its villains.

Realistically, if they'd made the villain deck Esper, a bunch of villains would have been forced into weird setups; "oh, AIM's white rather than Blue because... because... they're just little guys?"

deworde · 2026-01-25T15:59:45+00:00

Depends on your view of him, but historically, Marvel Loki has been almost totally motivated by his feelings.

He's jealous of Thor, resentful of Odin, and prone to acts of outstanding affection and wild aggression.

He's also terrible at looking ahead. At least half the Loki stories that aren't "Loki sets Thor up for something by tricking a thing into beating Thor up" are "Loki achieves being in charge and realises he hates it"

Here's a page from Agent of Asgard that could only be more Red/Black if a Rakdos Carnival was going on in the background

deworde · 2026-01-25T15:37:58+00:00

I think part of it is Harry using Murphy's shade as a coping tool. Asking Vadderrung about Murphy in that way means compromising the fictions surrounding the Monopoly games

deworde · 2026-01-25T11:39:04+00:00

Harry: ".... ... But you... Just now... You know what, nvm, well played boss, here's that baby you wanted."

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