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"on god's green earth" is way too fun to say even when you don't believe in god and know most of it is blue, actually

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⚠️Careful! It’s a Dangerous Rabbit Hole!⚠️

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Sorry for infodumping about my special interest out of nowhere, you said a keyword and it activated my unskippable dialogue

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AI industry groups are urging an appeals court to block what they say is the largest copyright class action ever certified. They’ve warned that a single lawsuit raised by three authors over Anthropic’s AI training now threatens to “financially ruin” the entire AI industry if up to 7 million claimants end up joining the litigation and forcing a settlement.

well…darn

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every other doctor ever: i don’t believe in violence i never hurt people

the third doctor: *knows kung fu and uses it every episode* *has used a gun* *ran over some guy one time and didn’t even blink* *has killed a man* *lowkey does not give a fuck*

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Me: I can't believe people are so mean about the Happiness Patrol. Why? Just because the robot looks like this?

Roommate: You know I've been in the toku trenches because that looks like a completely normal robot to me

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Been reading the Marvel Transformers comics, which so far include Megatron being deposed by Shockwave, the world’s most unbelievable CEO because he actually cares about people, Ratchet and the Dinobots kicking Megatron’s ass, an engineer who was hurt by Shockwave turning herself into a weird bikini cyborg to kill Cybertronians, a fake Optimus head being used by the Decepticons to control Optimus’s body (oh yea, btw, Shockwave decapitated Prime’s head to try and get him to use the Matrix to make new Decepticons), Megatron having his brain circuitry fucked up in a fall and being used by a small time crook in gun mode to work his way up in the world, a comic writer being hired by the US government to pretend to be a character he wrote that’s in control of the Transformers in order to psyop the public into hating Cybertronians, and now Bumblebee having a teenager-style sulk about fucking up and nobody caring about him while the Decepticons chase him and try to capture him to mind control him.

Old comics are fucking wild.

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I love that in The Sensorites, said Sensorites steal the lock to the TARDIS, and the Doctor is just like,

“Well. Guess we’re fucked.”

And Ian—understandably alarmed—goes,

“What do you mean we’re fucked?? Don’t you have any other way into your time-traveling spaceship? No backup systems? Emergency override? Literally anything??”

“Nope. Just the one.”

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I fucking love the seeds of doom because the doctor is so unbelievably pissed off in it. usually four can go through an episode being relentlessly tortured, mind-raped, and held at gunpoint and he can walk through it with an adorably creepy smile but not the seeds of doom. In the seeds of doom people find two obviously alien pods in Antarctica and one of them turns someone into a horrifying plant monster and the Doctors like "hm we should maybe leave these alone" but NO some shitty rich guy wants them so the doctor spends six episodes being exploded, bullied, forced to listen to shitty plant music, manhandled, thrown at trash cans, and fed to a composting machine. At one point he snaps a goons neck and later he smashes a chair over that same goons head. He is DONE.

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Dear BBC

It seems that you don't have any money, probably due to the Tories or something. Luckily I have a solution to this problem.

Putting CGI in Doctor Who is expensive but you know what isn't? Asking all your staff to bring in their recycling bins and buying lots of paint.

The Welsh quarries are calling BBC. Disney betrayed you, didn't they? You don't need to worry about them when you use an old shower curtain as a costume.

We don't mind. Our eyes bled when we saw a CGI judoon. We physically retched at some of the environments you placed Doctor Who in.

But we're still watching episodes from the 1970s, aren't we?

Give us cardboard, give us plasterboard, give us foam, give us plastic, give us natural light, give us piles of rubble, give us silver paint, give us props the actors can interact with

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On the issue of the recent UK online “safety” act.

KEEP THE PRESSURE UP

IT MIGHT NOT HIT ITS GOAL BEFORE GOING INTO AFFECT, BUT EVEN THEN KEEP GOING

YOU CAN GET IT REPEALED IF YOU KEEP FINDING WAYS TO SHARE IT

KEEP SHARING THE PETITION, KEEP SIGNING IT, KEEP THE PRESSURE UP AND IT CAN BE TAKEN AWAY

EVEN IF YOU'RE NOT IN THE UK

KEEP FUCKING SHARING IT

SO MANY PEOPLE ARE GOING TO LOSE THEIR COMMUNITIES FROM THIS, AND IT WILL DO MORE HARM THAN GOOD

KEEP PUSHING IT. KEEP FIGHTING THIS. GET THIS TAKEN AWAY.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722903

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The third doctor slowly dying of radiation poisoning: I nneed.......gghgg.......to die with my friends........

The fourth doctor upon waking up: sayonara alistair you military CUNT ! These cute boys are coming with me and I hope I NEVER see you bitches again!!!

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itch is removing all of their adult games now

Oh things are fucking dire huh. There won't be any storefronts left

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that part in Hell Bent where the Twelfth Doctor is walking toward the aircraft with absolute disdain in his Bowie white shirt and unbuttoned vest and in the wide shot, the aircraft retreats as he walks forward. no one has looked hotter on television. ever.

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I know this isn’t my usual content, but I need to rant about the Freeplay Mode in Bandai’s tutorial app for the Gundam Card Game that just came out.

The actual tutorial for the game overall is pretty good. It teaches you the basics pretty well and even goes over all the special keyword abilities you’ll find on cards in the starter decks. So far, so good.

However, the freeplay mode is where the app falls apart. Naturally after the tutorial, you’d want a little practice game just to make sure you’ve grasped the game, makes sense.

However, for some goddamn reason, instead of the sensible options of either letting you choose one of the four starter decks to try out or having a preset battle of two of the starter decks, they make you use the RX-78/Aerial White/Blue starter….and they give the AI a custom Red/Green deck made with cards from the other 3 starter decks.

Now why is this bad, you may ask? Well, I haven’t really parsed out the strategies each color is supposed to represent, but they seem to line up decently with Magic’s color wheel. So a White/Blue deck is probably gonna be more on the control end, whereas a Red/Green deck is gonna tend to be more aggro. Now that may leave you to believe that in this Freeplay Mode, as a White/Blue deck, you’ll have the tools needed to try and manage and deal with the opponent’s board.

Except you don’t. Because you’re using a normal starter deck and the AI is using the best cards from the other starters. The AI has the Sinanju, which has High-Maneuver (can’t be blocked) until end of turn when you attach a pilot to it and it also has the Wing and Aegis Gundams, which both have Breach (similar to trample in Magic, they deal any excess damage either to your base or shield cards, depending on what they were attacking). Add on top of this the Gaza-D (Sleeves) which has the Support 2 keyword (you can tap it to give another unit +2 attack) and you’re left with a situation where your deck has nothing that’ll even remotely help keep you from getting your shit rocked by all the high power mobile suits crashing into you.

This’d be different if this was a situation where this is two players with custom decks battling it out. This is Bandai going “Hi, welcome to our game, now you know how to play, DIE.” My girlfriend has been getting discouraged trying to learn the game through the app so we can play together irl, and it didn’t dawn on me until I was watching her play before bed last night that Bandai decided to be dickheads for no fucking reason. Thankfully, she’s still up for me helping her learn, but Bandai seriously need to fix this shit. If this is how you hope to teach people the game, it is absolutely going to drive people away, and I don’t want that because this game seems really fun and I’d love to collect and build decks based on my favorite mecha series.

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One of the things I’ve had to get used to with Tumblr is random fandoms that I have never heard of or engaged with ending up in my feed with no explanation. Who are these people? How did they get here?