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Δ 🏳️‍⚧️ ＬＩ Ɐ @lunariandelia.bsky.social · 28d

New OWA!

What started off as a comparison between BioShock and BioShock Infinite turned into a lot of me struggling to try to figure out what Ken Levine was doing with Infinite, other than expressing VERY BAD politics. My conclusion was not positive!

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BioShock Infinite: Ken Levine's Big Falloff | Otherworld Almanac

YouTube video by Otherworld Almanac (by Lunarian Delia)

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 1h

uh, if it's no longer protecting consumers, it's because Russell Vought decimated it

Reuters @reuters.com · 2h

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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Δ 🏳️‍⚧️ ＬＩ Ɐ @lunariandelia.bsky.social · 8h

CORE SET 2021: EXTRAS

Actually not that much here.

Grim Tutor (illus. Antonio José Manzanedo)

Blood splashes on the page of this tome and it forms patterns and symbols.

(I'm still shocked they reprinted this card. But that's not related.)

Island (M21#310, illus. Jonas De Ro)

I believe this is supposed to be on Dominaria, since it's part of a set of cards related to Teferi, a Dominarian planeswalker. There's an interesting structure in the middle of this inlet on this island; it looks a bit like that part of the archway from that one Theros island, and water is falling out from seemingly the inside of the rock pillar.

Rin and Seri, Inseparable (illus. Leesha Hannigan)

Not as good as some other printings, but just a nice picture of a dog and a cat sitting together on top of a hill.

Basri, Devoted Paladin (illus. Jason Rainville)

This isn't really the best artwork of Basri, but pickings are slim and the dude deserves at least some showcasing. Kind of a pity he ended up being basically unused by WotC, then got desparked at the end of the Phyrexia story... meaning he was a Planeswalker who was desparked before he even showed up in any story proper. Thanks, Wizards.

Δ 🏳️‍⚧️ ＬＩ Ɐ @lunariandelia.bsky.social · 9h

Okay, I can't lie, CORE SET 2021 has one of my favorite pieces of art in the game in recent years in it. Right at the beginning of the list for us.

Rambunctious Mutt (illus. Campbell White)

Big goofy domestic dog has made a mess of one of the wizard's work rooms and even is chewing on a wand or something like it's a bone. Needless to say, the wizard is displeased while the dog has an incredibly silly look on its face. At least someone's having a good time here!

This set was when they finally changed "hound" to "dog" and really started to cement that you could have more... mundane dogs, I guess.

Sublime Epiphany (illus. Lindsey Look)

Like a more advanced version of seeing inside someone's brain, this woman's face is removed to show a complicated, multi-stage maze which looks like a path for water to flow. The figure is submerged up to her neck, with glowing blue fish swimming around her and birds and butterflies around. It's... more representational, basically.

Mazemind Tome (illus. Randy Gallegos)

A hooded mage hiding their face behind a tome, on the cover of which is a glowing image of a brain... placed right about where theirs would be.

Village Rites (illus. Bud Cook)

An ominous scene that would fit right at home on Innistrad with maybe some clothing changes; it's a cult's human sacrifice, from the victim's perspective, taken just moments before the victim's death.

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AUTOEXEC.BUN @davidxnewton.bsky.social · 19h

Major evolution in the GZDoom community tonight - the regular contributors finally had enough of the project lead, who had been very hard to work with for a long time. He dug in and told them "If you don't like it, go and make your own fork."

UZDoom is now live here.
github.com/UZDoom/UZDoom

GitHub - UZDoom/UZDoom: UZDoom is a feature centric port for all Doom engine games, based on ZDoom, adding an OpenGL renderer and powerful scripting capabilities

UZDoom is a feature centric port for all Doom engine games, based on ZDoom, adding an OpenGL renderer and powerful scripting capabilities - UZDoom/UZDoom

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Δ 🏳️‍⚧️ ＬＩ Ɐ @lunariandelia.bsky.social · 9h

IKORIA: LAIR OF BEHEMOTHS: BONUS

Ikoria had some more comic-book-ish Mutate showcase cards and planeswalkers, and Godzilla crossover cards. Yes.

In retrospect I should be angrier about those. Aren't they sort of like the first Universes Beyond in some way? But I can't be mad at Godzilla!

Porcuparrot (illus. Denis Medri)

Already a powerfully ridiculous creature, this rendition of the porcuparrot (which, you guessed it, is a porcupine with red-and-blue coloring like the traditional parrot and a bird's head) looks even more ridiculous, but while maintaining at least some air of danger. This thing is mad as hell!

Mothra, Supersonic Queen (illus. Nick Southam)

I forget if Mothra is based on a specific kind of moth or not. Anyway, it's Mothra flying through the skies over a busy city.

Godzilla, King of the Monsters (illus. Antonio José Manzanedo)

Godzilla breathes a blast of blue energy down at a wrecked building while a pair of helicopters keep him in their sights.

This card is interesting, historically speaking. It is a reskin of a card named "Zilortha, Strength Incarnate" - but the card was not printed with that name in cardboard until Commander Masters. Until that point, you could only get Godzilla, King of the Monsters. (Zilortha kind of looks like a low-budget bootleg of 'zilla, so it's fair, in some way. I think...)

Beast (Token) (illus. Aaron Miller)

This creature resembles an elk or something along those lines, but with tiger coloration, additional horns coming either out from around the back of the head or along the side of the neck, and an exceptionally long tail that ends in a larger end covered in spikes like some sort of ankylosaur or similar. In a weird way, this is the platonic ideal of the "beast token;" it's a nebulous "big animal" that could be defined in enough ways that it's simpler to just call it a "beast." However, this eccentric mashup makes it look very unique.

Δ 🏳️‍⚧️ ＬＩ Ɐ @lunariandelia.bsky.social · 9h

IKORIA: LAIR OF BEHEMOTHS

Hey! Do you enjoy some particularly bizarre megafauna?

Okay, how do you feel about power creep? ESPECIALLY for Commander, because that started feeling some serious shit happen starting in 2020.

Vulpikeet (illus. Leesha Hannigan)

I know you've heard of a flying fox, but I'm pretty sure it's not as literal as this. This is a fox with bird wings.

Shark Typhoon (illus. Caio Monteiro)

I appreciate the audacity of them just making a sharknado card. At this point, I think Sharknado has rebounded from being tedious back to its original status: funny but mind-bogglingly stupid.

Almighty Brushwagg (illus. Dmitry Burmak)

A bunch of animals look with shock and awe at this confident, vicious-looking brushwagg. A brushwagg, by the way, is something I can best describe as a cross between an armadillo or porcupine and a dry bush or perhaps a rather dense tumbleweed. Brushwaggs became one of Magic's most joked-about creature types, as the only one that exists exists in the Mirage block and it looks profoundly silly; it also has a unique creature type but probably doesn't need to. Due to their rarity, bizarre looks, bizarre name, and just generally being weird little guys, they've become a meme even inside the game itself; at least one card that has an effect based on how many creature types a creature has cannot target brushwaggs in order to prevent creatures who have literally all creature types from getting massive buffs.

Lutri, the Spellchaser (illus. Lie Setiawan)

There they are. Mx. Prebanned in Commander themself. Being honest, if it weren't for the Companion ability, Lutri would be okay but probably not top-shelf. Unfortunately, since you are all but guaranteed to be able to use Lutri as a companion unless you are playing Persistent Petitioners or Seven Dwarves (or maybe something else I've missed...), it is a complete freebie for any commander deck featuring at least blue and red. And those don't need more free shit!

Anyway, Lutri is a blue otter crackling with electricity, charging a spell of red lightning.

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Δ 🏳️‍⚧️ ＬＩ Ɐ @lunariandelia.bsky.social · 10h

this run of dead estate got SO LAGGY. it was kinda hilarious but it sure padded things out!

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Δ 🏳️‍⚧️ ＬＩ Ɐ @lunariandelia.bsky.social · 3d

NOW IN MY DEFENSE the colors available to me were liimited and i forgot what color of blueish-purple tessie was but

i found this pack of, like, watercolor pen-brushes in my closet from literally over a decade ago and decided to test some of them out by painting the best character in earthbound

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 18h

Mandatory age verification to "protect children" is not to protect children. It is to deanonymize every adult speaker and consumer of speech online so the government can retaliate against speakers and speech they don't approve of. For instance: apnews.com/article/trum...

US revokes visas for 6 foreigners over Charlie Kirk-related speech

The Trump administration has revoked the visas of six foreigners deemed by U.S. officials to have made derisive comments or made light of the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk last m...

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 18h

Gavin Newsom is a shitheel who should never be president, but the legislation he vetoed was unconstitutional, poorly written, both underinclusive and overexclusive, a severe privacy infringement for adults, and would have done nothing but cost California lots of money in court (to lose)

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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 1d

When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.

When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 1d

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 23h

Visa and Mastercard have the opportunity to do something really funny.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 1d

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

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Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 20h

This is why you need to not just mask, but mask consistently in public.

Highlights
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HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 are preventable infectious diseases with chronic systemic impacts including immune system dysfunction.
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Chronic inflammation, immune exhaustion, and accelerated biological aging are shared hallmarks of HIVI/AIDS and Long COVID/PASC.
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Tissue reservoir persistence drives long-term damage in both HIV and SARS-CoV-2. SARS-CoV-2 mirrors HIV-1 in its ability to evade immune defenses and cause chronic infection.
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SARS-CoV-2 -associated neurological disorders (SAND) parallel HIV-associated neurological disorders (HAND).
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Both pandemics exhibit failures in global solidarity and reveal inequities in healthcare access.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 23h

I have long believed that we should be WAY more vocal about how police and ICE constantly murder dogs, and I think this is great messaging actually.

The reality is that you can mobilize a whole lot of usually tuned-out Americans around a “someone is being mean to hecking doggos” cause.

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Δ 🏳️‍⚧️ ＬＩ Ɐ @lunariandelia.bsky.social · 20h

A couple minutes slow due to OBS loading and my taking the garbage out BUT! Stream is live, gameplay at the top of the hour!

Δ 🏳️‍⚧️ ＬＩ Ɐ @lunariandelia.bsky.social · 22h

Join me at 7PM CDT - about 2 hours from now - for more Ride to Hell: Retribution! Hopefully no two-hour-plus mission at the end this time.

It'll be here: www.twitch.tv/lunariandelia

Twitch

Twitch is the world

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clunse bungis @clunse.bsky.social · 14d

Gigantamax Meowth #pokeblin #pokemon #bungisoriginal

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clunse bungis @clunse.bsky.social · 14d

Meowth, Persian, Perrserker + Regional forms #pokeblin #pokemon #bungisoriginal

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 5d

this is your fucking job that you're being paid to do. Imagine asking your plumber to stop your dishwasher from flooding your apartment and he's like "well what exactly do you want me to do?" The specifics are your part dog idk!

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 5d

"well what are the Democrats supposed to do" I don't know! They're supposed to know! I'm not the one who sought and obtained a political position that would require me to know what to do when the ruling party attempts to install the President as a dictator!

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Δ 🏳️‍⚧️ ＬＩ Ɐ @lunariandelia.bsky.social · 22h

Join me at 7PM CDT - about 2 hours from now - for more Ride to Hell: Retribution! Hopefully no two-hour-plus mission at the end this time.

It'll be here: www.twitch.tv/lunariandelia

Twitch

Twitch is the world

www.twitch.tv

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 1d

The unspoken meaning of regular "If this gets leaked we're cooked lololol" jokes is to remind everyone that they're in a position to coerce or destroy anyone who gets out of line.

Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 1d

the chat logs leaked clearly show members are aware they’re posting compromising messages, they’re even talking about how cooked they be if it leaked

bc the social function of extremist rhetoric is that in-group members bond and attain status by transgressing with one another as witnesses

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 1d

Will Menaker used this as the basis for the best explanation I've seen of Elite Columnist Trans Bathroom Panic in the UK - these people all went to boarding schools where kids doing horrendous things to one another in bathrooms (while everyone kept quiet about it) was part of the curriculum.

La Conquête du Panini @botsnack.bsky.social · 1d

Would read/listen to hours long analysis of this dynamic with historical context.

Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 1d

Mutual blackmail material has always been the backbone of elite solidarity. Aristocrats don't send their kids to boarding schools because the teachers are better; they send them to learn the group dynamic of being above the law. Whether you participate or only witness it, keep your mouth shut.

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Honoo [TFCon Chicago 2025] @honootorch.bsky.social · 1d

I was compelled.

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TransWitchSammy (#1 Koudelka Fan) 🏳️‍⚧️ @transwitchsammy.bsky.social · 1d

Shadow Hearts Covenant is such an absolutely beautiful game

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Δ 🏳️‍⚧️ ＬＩ Ɐ @lunariandelia.bsky.social · 1d

Oh! Apparently COMMANDER 2020 predates Ikoria by a week or two. Huh! I forgot. By this time, I was out of the game, especially with the plague settling in.

Slippery Bogbonder (illus. Mila Pesic)

Get it? Her partner is a Slippery Bogle, one of the goofiest looking Magic creatures ever. I can't help but love this.

Dinosaur Cat (token) (illus. Brian Valeza)

Just one of the cutest critters ever designed for Magic. These tokens should be reused.

Eon Frolicker (illus. Brian Valeza)

It's sort of a... swirling water spell that's formed itself into the shape of an otter. Again, very cute.

Pako, Arcane Retriever (illus. Manuel Castañón)

Barring weird perspective tricks... that's one *big* magical plant-dog. At this point, Magic was starting to incorporate more, er, I guess "ordinary" domestic canines, at least in terms of their appearances.