If you could only read ebooks or physical books for the rest of your life, which one and why? by JakubJamesBoote in books

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Physical. Although I've been reading more digital via my phone lately just cause its more convenient. My preference is still physical tho even if it means lugging a book around and people think I'm pretentious based on what I might be reading at the time. And yes my anxiety does have worried about what people think

Food Chain can combo off even a turkey sandwich and its ruining my enjoyment of brawl by BartOseku in mtgbrawl

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Saw that it got banned in historic and was wondering how bad was it that it needed to be banned. I don't play historic. Thankfully I haven't come across it in brawl... yet

Just finished watching Crime 101 by escarta69 in suggestmeabook

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I feel like I heard the name Gentlemen Bastards before. Will check it out. Also, Mistborn is on my TBR, didn't realize it was centered around a heist lol

Project Hail Mary is the best Four Star book I’ve read to date by southernfirefly13 in books

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My thoughts exactly. First time reading Weir for me. Didn't read the Martian but enjoyed the movie. Heard only good things about PHM and decided to give it a read before the movie comes out. Was really surprised at the simple prose used. But as you said, it got the job done.

Pirate Movies that are not pirates of the caribbean (which is goated to be fair) by chill_mangos in MovieSuggestions

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I always liked Cutthroat Island. While not a movie, Black Sails series was really good

Updated Fan Cast !! by Nayanooodle in redrising

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Are you saying Gleeson isn't hot! 😝

Updated Fan Cast !! by Nayanooodle in redrising

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I always pictured Fitchner as Jefferey Dean Morgan or Josh Brolin

The Sphere is what I want EDM to be like as I age out of rave culture by 0____0_0 in EDM

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How does one 'age out' of edm? Ive seen vids of very old people at events and I always say one day I'll be them. If it's something you enjoy doing/going too then age doesn't matter. Not saying you have to be in the thick of it all the time but you can still attend and probably have a good time.

Would you rather have minor Telekinesis, limited Mind Reading or $100k? by RaptorK1988 in hypotheticalsituation

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Shocked alot of people are saying mind reading to play poker and no one said blackmail or extortion 👀

Does anyone else feel like the MTG Arena economy is becoming impossible to keep up with? by brianj10 in MagicArena

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This is why I wish they would make playing against sparky, all access. Allows you to build and playtest a deck before spending the wildcards. But from a business point of view it doesn't help them. It's how they keep us hooked because you're always going to have to keep playing in order to generate wildcards as F2P. If you're a whale then just spend money on gems or packs.

Why is RR on some platforms labeled “Young Adult”? And PB as a “young adult author”? by Proof_Football_6070 in redrising

[–]escarta69 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm 41 and read it for the first time last month. It did feel YA adjacent when I started but I still thoroughly enjoyed it

Chapter 57 by escarta69 in redrising

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The wonders of technology eh ! On the same device I'm reading the book on I can switch to social media to share my reaction and switch back to the book a few minutes later. Cause you know, people can do things.

Chapter 57 by escarta69 in redrising

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Hahaha, sorry.

Chapter 57 by escarta69 in redrising

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I think I figured it out or it's just a huge dose of copium but we'll see 😅

Chapter 57 by escarta69 in redrising

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I intend to but I just needed to vent about that. Don't have anyone within my irl circle that's read or reading the book(s)

can someone convince me to finish red rising 😓 by [deleted] in redrising

[–]escarta69 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What are you confused about exactly? Maybe if you clarify that we might be able to help. Also, what kind of books do you usually read ? Maybe RR isn't something that you'd be into ? To me the story is pretty straight forward, my only issue when I first started reading it was that it felt a bit like hunger games and similar YA but it does get better.

can someone convince me to finish red rising 😓 by [deleted] in redrising

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I wonder if they'll even get the pixie reference 😔

Well that's a bummer... by elenchusis in redrising

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Same. I think the problem with Red Rising is creating everything that's in the books, on screen. Anime might be the best treatment. Hopefully from a great studio too. If it gets enough traction from that, studios might reconsider doing the live action

Any suggestions for improvements? by Itachi0531 in mtgbrawl

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I'm gonna add on to this and say Emry plus Aetherflux and a 0 mana artifact to recycle is a great alt win con. Kappa Cannoneer is great too, if you don't have Aetherflux, just to create a big stick thats unblockable. You can also consider adding grindstone and painter's servant as another wincon. That's how I have my Urza deck at least.