I completely forgot I signed up for this at some point, and just today got it in the mail. I was shocked to see Cave Johnson himself! Thank you so much! I plan to donate way more! This was so cool!
I sent everyone in the third batch an email today that either confirmed your Holiday Card has shipped or included your eCard, so please double check your inbox and junk folders if you haven't seen it come through yet!
Please also wait patiently for your Physical Cards to be delivered; they can take up to 2 weeks to arrive, especially if you live outside the US.
Thank you to everyone who has donated to my Ko-fi to help with PHSI! Your kindness has helped cover 44% of the cards sent this year!
The astute among you might have noticed that last week 48% was covered but this week it's only 44%, and might be wondering where the extra 4% went. Let me explain: When more people request a physical card, the total cost spent on cards goes up. If people don't donate to help match the number of requests, the percentage of cards covered goes down. This is why I always mention the need to donate in my posts!
I really hope that people continue to donate and help cover everyone's cards this year. After all, doing something nice for someone else is what PHSI is all about! Please visit ko-fi.com/247testing and click the Donate button if you'd like to give $5 or more to cover the cost of a card for you or someone else.
If you'd like to learn more about the Portal Holiday Spirit Initiative or request a Holiday Card yourself, check my blog's tags for #PHSI 2024!
Thanks everyone!
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I think I've posted this before but I'm marinating my thoughts on the themes I see in Control again
yuri between a girl who seeds her torrents and a girl who leeches
i always thought that scene in the taz balance finale where merle reconnects with pan and casts zone of truth to burn away the hunger was kind of a tongue in cheek moment where clint casts his signature spell and griffin as the dm humors him by given it a huge affect. like fun but not too noteworthy. but i literally just realized what a phenomenal moment it really was. because the hunger is nihilism. it's hopelessness and pessimism. but the zone of truth dispels all lies and dishonesty. they cant exist under its spell. and that's what nihilism is. a lie. and so when merle cast zone of truth he burned away the lie of hopelessness and if you don't think that's the best thing ever i don't know what to tell you.
reposting my favorite control pieces of all time
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This cliché is death out of time, breaking the first the second the third the fourth wall, the fifth wall, floor; no floor: you fall!
@jacebeleren did you see the japan exclusive playmat and sleeves of Narset and the Wanderer? Also the chibi stickers?!
I will do this
Play your favorite TTRPG, but with Calvindice rules:
• Make up every rule as you go along, starting at session zero
The more I learn about baseball, the more interesting it seems, which is weird because I'm not really a sports person
Anyways I wanna share something neat that I learned but I'm gonna preface this by saying that I'm not "into" baseball. I'm just visiting the baseball zoo and reading the little blurbs the have on the cages
With that out of the way, when you swing a bat, your momentum naturally goes with the bat, right? So for righties, immediately after batting, their momentum starts to take them to third base, meaning they have to fight against the bat's momentum before running to first
But for lefties, the bat's momentum is already taking them to first! Apparently lefties can, on average, reach first base a sixth of a second faster than righties
Apparently it also makes a difference in receiving a pitch, since a righty receiving a pitch from a righty will see it coming from behind their shoulder, but a lefty receiving a pitch from a righty can clearly see the ball
Because of this, they started bringing in lefty pitchers to counteract the lefty batters and the result is a sport with 2-4x as many lefties as the general public
Talk specifically about the game mechanics, your experience playing the game, etc. Publish your post wherever you will be doing the work for this course (a blog, Medium, Google Drive, somewhere else). Share a link to your work in the #our-work channel on discord. Make sure your work is viewable by anyone with the link.
The one page rpg I played was called “Wonder,” and it was about a band working to make one last one hit wonder. Our band was made up of me “Jerk Jacob” on Keys, Dylan “Dynamic Mess” on Bass, and Loklin “Hopilite Harry” on Lead Guitar. Our band was called “Robot War,” and we worked to make an 80′s ballad. We decided to divide the writing in half to speed it up, so we made a 12 line song instead of the 24 line one. Each musical instrument gets different restrictions on how they can add to the song, which introduced specific challenges. Also, whenever you disagree with someone’s lyrics, you mark down a tension, and when you hit three marks, you flip out literally and leave the band. My character would only approve a lyric if they could change at least one word, and once Jerk Jacob got fed up, Mellow Mary popped in and convinced the other two members that the song should end with accepting all people on earth as one person, unified in their love for each other. The song lyrics slowed down as we got near the end, but it was fun to do, and definitely wouldn’t be my first choice for a one page rpg.
Constantly thinking about gay blade from the Eric Andre show
good news mtg players i've gotten exclusive spoilers for the next set of designed-for-commander chase rares