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  • Posted 1 September 2025 by Natalie

    contrary to common misconceptions, the average French person can survive three or even four days without going to a café or bistrot


    1. Posted 28 August 2025 by Natalie

      Caoimhe
      Caoimhe posted 27 August 2025 on oakreef.ie

      Bane of the Living

      2 💀 💀

      🐛

      Creature — Insect

      🛡

      Morph X💀💀 (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for 3. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

      When Bane of the Living is turned face up, all creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

      4/3

      • #CSS crimes
      • #Magic: The Gathering
      1. that's just a little guy...
      2. mtg
      3. css crimes

    2. Posted 27 August 2025 by Natalie

      the server asked if I wanted "sparkling or still" so I asked for still but it arrived well above 0°K and your honor that's why I'm seeking $50,000 in emotional damages


      1. Posted 19 August 2025 by Natalie

        sometimes I wonder how many historical and archaeological data we've tried to understand as serious expressions of their creators' thoughts and impressions are actually jokes someone did to be silly

        1. I genuinely think this is a LOT of how language specifically evolves
        2. less confident about anything else though

      2. Posted 22 July 2025 by Natalie

        im gonna start a band making experimental music and we're gonna go on tour and the opener is gonna be a lecture series on the geological formation of mesas and similar structures and our fans are gonna love it all screaming and taking off their shirts for cliff-and-bench topography and then we're going to take the stage and play a single note for two straight hours cycling between forty-eight different instruments and by the time the audience gets home they will bear g flat in their very bones


        1. Posted 17 July 2025 by Natalie

          nex3 BACKER
          reviewed Elden Ring: Nightreign
          ★★★★★ Completed on Windows PC

          I've played a lot of Nightreign. I'm still playing a lot of Nightreign. In the month and a half it's been out, it quickly became a member of the hundo club, it got me fully back into wiki editing and data mining, and even after beating every nightlord numerous times and completing every character quest I'll still cheerfully hop into a run any time anyone asks. The only reason I'm marking this "completed" now is because I want to get this review out of my head and onto the web.

          If you'll permit a digression, I deeply admire Elden Ring's parsimony. It's a huge game made be a relatively small company who had largely made relatively small games up to that point, and it accomplishes that with an economy of design I consider admirable. I know people complain about the re-used bosses, but there are actually very few of the 165 that are true duplicates of one another. Instead, they add little variations here and there, pair them with other bosses for duo encounters, or ramp up the complexity of their abilities over the course of the game. The small dungeons are the same way: they take a limited set of shared components, then mix and match them in different novel ways. These raw materials are a palette of paints that they re-use and recombine over and over to paint the entire game.

          Most large games work this way to some extent, but in Elden Ring the quality of the design at each point really shines through in large part because it draws attention to the patterns and repetitions. You know a catacomb is going to have imps or skeletons and some sort of clever trick, you know a watchdog is going to do some kind of elemental damage, you know a hero's grave is going to make you want to claw out your eyes. But you don't know exactly how—it sets up just enough expectations for it to be able to play with them and continue to surprise you throughout its massive length.

          If Elden Ring is a painting and its palette, Nightreign is another artist picking up the same palette and painting something entirely different. It stands as much in the tradition of unofficial mods as it does the tradition of classic soulslikes—it's related to Elden Ring in more or less the same way Defense of the Ancients is related to Warcraft III. The nouns and verbs are largely the same, but the context in which they exist is completely different and utterly surprising. After spending more than a decade as industry trendsetters, carving out a new genre and driving other studios insane trying to match their success in it despite going against all conventional wisdom, From Software has now put out a game that is itself reacting to trends in the industry. Not only that, it's integrating two trends—battle royales and…

          1. nat reviews
          2. nightreign

        2. Posted 16 July 2025 by Natalie

          every beautiful Shakespeare line about love comes from one of three sources:

          1. complete idiot who ends up happy despite their every effort to the contrary
          2. innocent and tenderhearted angel who's about to have the worst day of their life and then die badly
          3. sonnet
          1. shakespeare

        3. Posted 15 July 2025 by Natalie

          bcj posted 19 June 2025 on postnow.site

          Replacing Jobs

          My mom is a copy-editor, a job that has been ostensibly replaceable by spellcheck for what, 30 years? 40?

          Anyway, it’s interesting how you can basically always tell when a publication has decided they don’t need a copy editor


          1. Posted 10 July 2025 by Natalie

            attention all impostors masquerading as friends: you are eligible for an upgrade to friend status as long as you return the original friends unharmed


            1. Posted 30 June 2025 by Natalie

              the older I get, the more I understand my grandfather

              1. so-called ai
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