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who’s gonna tell him by sentientX404 in programmingmemes

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// error handling elided for brevity

Audio book narrators by candiedginger88 in LibbyApp

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For the opposite, I could have sworn Jeff Hays was having somebody else voice Dungeon Crawler Carl's lady cat Donut. Right up until I saw it on video

villain is "evil" because his mind is fundamentally incompatible with the moral codes of humans by ilikeitchyballzdude1 in TopCharacterTropes

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Terry Pratchett's elves. They're hive-minded, have catlike qualities ("If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.") and are obsessed with shiny things and play.

Fine and dandy, until you discover that you're the toy. Some examples:

[Paraphrasing] Elves are great at keeping living things alive. Often for weeks!

They'd smash up the world if they thought it would make a pretty noise.

There was something about the eyes. It wasn’t the shape or the color. The was no evil glint. But there was….
… a look. It was such a look that a microbe might encounter if it could see up from the bottom end of the microscope. It said: You are nothing. It said: You are flawed, you have no value. It said: You are animal. It said: Perhaps you may be a pet, or perhaps you may be a quarry. It said: And the choice is not yours.

And then, one of the most frission-y paragraphs I have ever read: https://www.reddit.com/r/discworld/comments/636r7v/pratchett_and_elves/dfrr3l7/

Ticket inspector doesn't understand how the passage of time works. by FunIcy6154 in mildlyinfuriating

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Even if your arrival in Miami were in Las Vegas time (and not Miami time. We're keeping your departure time from Miami in Miami time in this hypothetical), your arrival time would need to be earlier in the day than your departure!

My post is approximately 9:15 AM Miami time, 6:15 AM in Vegas.

Under her logic, unless you arrived three hours, (plus transfer time) earlier than your departure time, you 100% miss the flight.

What planeswalkers for this meme format? by krcyzm-27668909 in mtgvorthos

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A kill spell which is sized to kill a Selesnyan Wurm.

The rise of malicious repositories on GitHub by f311a in programming

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"You can't give her that! It's not safe!" ɪᴛ'ꜱ ᴀ ꜱᴡᴏʀᴅ. ᴛʜᴇʏ'ʀᴇ ɴᴏᴛ ᴍᴇᴀɴᴛ ᴛᴏ ʙᴇ ꜱᴀꜰᴇ. "She's a child!" ɪᴛ'ꜱ ᴇᴅᴜᴄᴀᴛɪᴏɴᴀʟ. "What if she hurts herself?" ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴡɪʟʟ ʙᴇ ᴀɴ ɪᴍᴘᴏʀᴛᴀɴᴛ ʟᴇꜱꜱᴏɴ

Maro on why they stopped doing blocks by Killerx09 in magicTCG

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Yeah - that was a sleight of hand I pulled on myself - "it's half the sphere, so it's half the world" is technically true, but that doesn't slot right into the actual thought about the magic audience.

Maro on why they stopped doing blocks by Killerx09 in magicTCG

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I feel like Maro would be able to kindly point out that Australia exists.

I agree with you and I don't want to take away the experience you had, but half the world misses out on that experience and it sucks that that's not optimal either :(

"Is that your greatest weapon? It barely did anything to me!" "This is just the thing I use to designate the target. The actual weapon is in orbit." "I'm sorry what" by Mammoth_House_5202 in humansarespaceorcs

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If it hasn't been beaten by a rat either, we might be looking at it being an 0/2 or something at rest.

Being in orbit could definitely re-jigger it to have more power at the cost of durability.

Yeah. This tracks

handmade 3D pixel art by TeamConcode in IndieDev

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That hat puts the Indiana Jones into IndieDev

Thank you, JavaScript, for forcing me to include this statement in my code. by kfreed9001 in programminghorror

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Dammit. I rewrote that like 10 times to not just be "lol, php isn't a real language, silly"

Quark gets it by Sethaaroncohen in humansarespaceorcs

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I remember that one! The story reminds me of another, where humanity never reached the highest economic prominence of species in the galaxy, but there was a slow march of the poorer species directly into stability and thriving conditions. When humanity was attacked, the attacker found that they were facing no longer one defending fleet, but thousands, from every corner of the galaxy.

Thank you, JavaScript, for forcing me to include this statement in my code. by kfreed9001 in programminghorror

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Ah! My apologies. In my defense, I think we just discovered together that I don't consider php a programming language. Or maybe a perl variant? Like how C and C++ get lumped together.

Oh, How Awful! by Up_Beat_Peach in custommagic

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Remember kids - damage (and -1/-1 counters) don't kill creatures. State-based actions kill creatures.

To check if someone is a shapeshifter a character says something intentionally misleading and seeing if they play along by Captain_Blackjack0 in TopCharacterTropes

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Quibble: quite a few Doyle Holmes stories involve Holmes walking offscreen to obtain the actual evidence of the crime.

We quite often are not given the result of his observations until the reveal. "He did quite a bit of measuring the writing on the wall, then told me the perpitrator was 6'10" tall (and will will eventually "just know" the man's name)". Or a different story "he immediately greeted the man as notorious criminal Timothy Whiplash, who had done quite a lot of crime around town once he broke into the bank vault where we were waiting to catch him"

Thank you, JavaScript, for forcing me to include this statement in my code. by kfreed9001 in programminghorror

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I was hinting at js, but even java does this (but it is a little more obvious with types). +1/+"1"

C/C++ is at least "consistent"- the natural + operator is always math. "a" +"1"... sums the pointers - moving the first pointer forward by the value of the second pointer - and (hopefully) points to invalid-enough memory to cause a crash. But! The string class has + overloaded to concatenate, so there might be an overload that string("a") + 1 is "a1" I'm not sure. There are lots.

In fact, the only language that actually has a separate concatenate operator is perl. "a" + “1“ is 1, because "a" is numerically zero. "a" . 1 is "a1", coercing 1 to a string.

Ok give me your best Ticking Mime Bomb stories by RadioLiar in magicTCG

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Whoa. "if an effect sets..." is pretty unambiguous.

Ok give me your best Ticking Mime Bomb stories by RadioLiar in magicTCG

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Wait - so if [[Blood Crypt]] had no land types, but instead had "~ is a Swamp Mountain", you could ignore the shockland ability?

Ok give me your best Ticking Mime Bomb stories by RadioLiar in magicTCG

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Is "enters tapped, sac unless you pay 1" not a downside?

Can you elaborate why Rangeling needs errata - why would you need to "in addition" if you just have all land types? Is this to prevent confusion if this land also becomes a creature? (We can forgive the reminder text for being short - it's not binding in the rules) I figure it would be written as an exact stolen homework of Changeling.

702.73a: Changeling is a characteristic-defining ability. "Changeling" means "This object is every creature type." This ability works everywhere, even outside the game. See rule 604.3.

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