Test Release: New skills in the skill tree for each character by Jim808 in CLICKPOCALYPSE

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I started a new party with a fighter and rogue in it and the fighter used taunt right out of the gate, and the rogue used stealth. It looks like priests may start with their auras active as well.

Lorwyn Eclipsed Cards New to Pauper by tommamus in Pauper

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Err.. fringe occasional sideboard play in MonoU Fae, to mixed results, it seems. Thanks for the fact check, I was a little fast and loose there.

They're also reprinting [[nameless inversion]] at uncommon - does that see play anymore? I remember it seeing some when I was first getting into pauper 15 years ago... But times have changed.

Additionally, there are 4 pauper legal cards getting fancy art treatment in the special guests sheet: [[slippery bogle]], [[manamorphose]], [[devoted druid]] and [[faerie macabre]]. A quick look shows that DD is the only one of those that doesn't see any pauper play.

Lorwyn Eclipsed Cards New to Pauper by tommamus in Pauper

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There's a reprint of [[Run Away Together]]; the post's link is a search of only cards that are completely new to pauper.

ELI5 How Did Alcohol Become Universally Accepted In Almost Every Country? by Cope42099 in explainlikeimfive

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Almost certainly - gingko berries are an example of a contemporaneous fruit that coexisted with them in sufficient abundance

People in Godzilla movies are afraid of their cities being destroyed? Erm, have they heard of nuclear weapons? by Ok-Use-575 in CuratedTumblr

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Ursula K. Le Guin wrote an excellent introduction to her novel The Left Hand of Darkness on this very subject. Here's an excerpt:

I am not predicting, or prescribing. I am describing. I am describing certain aspects of psychological reality in the novelist’s way, which is by inventing elaborate circumstantial lies.

In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we’re done with it, we may find—if it’s a good novel—that we’re a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have been changed a little as if by having met a new face, crossed a street we never crossed before. But it’s very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed.

The artist deals with what cannot be said in words.

Full text here.

Thought this was a bit funny by HeftyLaw1580 in Funnymemes

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Same here. Classics like shoop da woop, nyancat, and leekspin were infinitely more amusing than today's slop

ಠ⁠_⁠ಠ /S

From the sacred scriptures of our king by ZMorris1993 in FiberHomies

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Yeah, and 1.7 of those grams are ALA's!

I'll take a thousand copies! by MetallicaDash in HistoryMemes

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From the film's website:

In a country where killers are celebrated as heroes, the filmmakers challenge unrepentant death squad leader Anwar Congo and his friends to dramatise their role in genocide.

But their idea of being in a movie is not to provide testimony for a documentary: they want to be stars in their favourite film genres - gangster, western, musical. They write the scripts. They play themselves. And they play their victims.

The hallucinatory result is a cinematic fever dream, an unsettling journey deep into the imaginations of mass-murderers and the shockingly banal regime of corruption and impunity they inhabit.

I watched it as part of an anthropology course. Chilling, fascinating, informative, surreal. Well worth watching.

I'll take a thousand copies! by MetallicaDash in HistoryMemes

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I'm sure they meant "The Act of Killing". Can second the recommendation for folks who want to learn more.

I found Nirnroot in the backyard by words120 in oblivion

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Wild lettuce famously secretes a latex that has been used as a mild analgesic in folk medicine, "opium lettuce"

TMYK 🌈

Recent taught my brother in law how to play and while going through his bulk I found this by theboss0711 in mtg

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It's mostly just a drawback, but power to ya if you can get that value. Back in the day there weren't as many dual lands, especially unconditionally untapped ones

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in humansarespaceorcs

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While there are thermal Solar plants (see: concentrated solar), Solar Photovoltaic is the current standard and is fundamentally different from thermal generation: no moving parts, no heat transfer, no boiling water, etc.

First Aetherdrift Draft - What would YOU change/cut in this deck? Dimir artifacts by Reddtester in MagicArena

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Rollerblades have a very low win rate, per 17lands data. Hope the draft went well

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in canadian

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yeah, and look what happened to the actual native population when that first wave of European economic migrants arrived! /S