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𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 3h

ME: How is it instant if it slow cooks?

WIFE: [closes the door]

𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 3h

Actual scene from my bedroom earlier today as I’m laid out, sick and feverish

WIFE: I’m making dinner with the slow cooker setting of the instant pot.

ME: When we use the instant pot, we stray from God.

WIFE: What?

ME: It is a chimera. Adam did not name it in the Garden.

WIFE: Go to sleep.

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𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 5h

This is the cropped version of the one I originally saw.

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𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 23d

The thing that makes copaganda so effective is that it’s very often so entertaining. The writing is somehow both violent and cozy, the production is consistent, the actors are likable, and the experience is fun and reliable. It doesn’t ask you to have a critical eye, and that’s relaxing and freeing.

collage of screencaps from the title sequences of

Law & Order
Hot Fuzz
Pertwee-era Doctor Who
The Wire

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𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 9h

#29 Planet of the Spiders (1974)

This is the end of the Third Doctor’s era, and it brings that era to a close thematically and celebratorily. Regarding the later, it piles on everything that we like about the Third Doctor, as well as about Pertwee himself, who is probably the actor that poured the…

screencap from the Doctor Who story Planet of the Spiders #doctorwho

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𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 9h

…friends is part of that penance. So we see him brush away a tear and accept his fate, regenerating in front of arguably two of the most important characters in the show after the Doctor himself. So the man of action and the thrilling spy has passed on, replaced by a Bohemian goof in a Gothic world.

𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 9h

…Invasion of the Dinosaurs. But most importantly, we get to see the Doctor confront his greatest fears and attempt to atone for being a thief. He knows long before he return to the Great One that he’ll die, and the seeming weeks that he spent in the tome vortex trying to get back to Earth and his…

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𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 9h

…specifically to the Third Doctor (Bessie and the Whomobile). But it’s the themes of the story that tie this together. We get to finally meet the Doctor’s Time Lord mentor, mentioned in The Time Monster. We get to see Mike Yates complete his redemption arc that ran through The Green Death and…

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𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 9h

…most of himself into the character. We have the Doctor’s standard Venusian Aikido fight scenes. We have a variety of gadgets, small on large, and several built on the fly. We have a massive chase scene that lasts several minutes and involves a whopping four vehicles, two of which are iconic…

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𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 9h

#29 Planet of the Spiders (1974)

This is the end of the Third Doctor’s era, and it brings that era to a close thematically and celebratorily. Regarding the later, it piles on everything that we like about the Third Doctor, as well as about Pertwee himself, who is probably the actor that poured the…

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𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 18h

Standardize stadium dimensions for homeruns.

Codify Baseball @codifybaseball.bsky.social · 23h

Completely fix baseball with five words.

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merritt @merrittk.com · 1d

i was at a house party last night with the jays game on and everyone lost their fucking minds and then a local legend did a set and i had a drink that was based on the cover of Nevermind

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Kenny Goblins @kennylogins.bsky.social · 21d

cait
@cait.bsky.social
some of the most pissed off i've ever been is when i learned how much horsepower a horse has. spoiler: it is not "one"
September 18, 2023 at 9:02 AM

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𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 1d

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𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 1d

Titan definitely isn’t for everyone. “Five-hour six-player slog with player elimination as the only wincon” is a hard sell anywhere but outside of a convention. But it is for me.

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𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve been interested in getting Linux ever since I read “In the Beginning... Was the Command Line.” I’ve just never known a good entry point. (And I’ve rarely had the spare capital to just get another computer just to do this.)

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𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 1d

I would add this the sheer contrast of scales. The master board is a maze of disjointed terrains, but once two armies bump into each other, it suddenly zooms in to one of eleven unique battle boards. It goes from a high concept navigation puzzle to a tactical combat game and back numerous times.

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𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 1d

#30 The Greatest Show in the Galaxy (1988-1989)

Ace thinks that clowns are creepy, and that’s enough of a dales pitch to propel this story forward. The circus setting works really well here, from the claustrophobic canvas walls of the circus tent to the dwindling cast of circus tropes that are…

screencap from the Doctor Who story The Greatest Show in the Galaxy #doctorwho

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𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 1d

…that’s a little too cynical. I much prefer this as a story of an ideal gone completely wrong, the Gods of Ragnarok standing in for the Altamont Free Concert, thrusting the world into the post-Nazi and post-Thatcher world argued by the rest of the season. Sadly, history didn’t work out that way.

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𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 1d

…to the galactic explorer Captain Cook and his werewolf assistant Mags. There’s a reading of this story that its about the show itself, with its gods constantly demanding new and fresh forms of entertainment and Whizz Kid being an überfan of the Psychic Circus without any actual substance. I think…

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𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 1d

…gradually sacrificed to the Gods of Ragnarok. The clowns themselves are very effective, hiding the inhumanity of their robotic nature behind the masks of clown makeup and costumes. The supporting cast carry a lot of this story, from the former hippies who accidentally made a pack with ancient evil…

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𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 1d

#30 The Greatest Show in the Galaxy (1988-1989)

Ace thinks that clowns are creepy, and that’s enough of a dales pitch to propel this story forward. The circus setting works really well here, from the claustrophobic canvas walls of the circus tent to the dwindling cast of circus tropes that are…

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𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 1d

Iain, Nate, it’s a roll-and-move game. How hard can it be?

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𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 1d

Is this the year of Titan?

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𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 1d

Can you argue that 4X/civ games end during the height of empire instead of the end?

End of empire games that I can think of aren’t really civ style. Things like Pandemic: Fall of Rome or Core Worlds.

Arguably any Star Wars game is an end of empire game as well, but that’s more sudden than decay.

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