There’s actually only a single card in Magic with the word “union” in the name. There are 8 cards with Reunion in the name but I don’t think you want those

Avoids direct sunlight

We No Speak Americano

He’s not bad but he also smartly chose his role. He plays an exasperated character connected to the outside world by limited one way communication dealing with situations that demand large reactions. The character he plays is very similar to his streaming persona so he just had to change his tone and mannerisms a little

I think it would be an interesting story to hear if you could tell the true story of Michael Jackson. I think it’s pretty obvious Joe Jackson beat the youth out of him and managed to replace it with being the most famous person on the planet since he could form memories. That’s the type of thing that’s going to create a type of person who has never existed before and may never again. However I think by being so successful for so long too many people who bought the myth ended up in his sphere making it difficult, if not impossible to get down to “the truth”

He obviously had a very complicated relationship with youth, identity, and fame. I think focusing on his doubts, internal conflicts, and personal challenges would be the more interesting movie, but probably not more profitable

Pizza Movie 3/5 - Between this and The Napa Boys it seems like the writers thst influence other writers are interested in exploring how you can do the raunchy teen sex comedy without being exclusively gross to women. I’m not entirely sure that this vein is worth mining but like most raunchy teen comedies, it’s fun enough to watch stoned with your buddies

Exit 8 3.5/5 - Liminal Horror is in baby! I think Backrooms is trying to be the tentpole movie for the subgenre but until it comes out this is a pretty fun version. I think this is the only video game movie where I beat the game quicker than I watched the movie

Mortal Kombat (1995) 3/5 - Honestly for being a 90s video game movie it’s not bad. It mostly sticks to the “plot” of Mortal Kombat which barely has one anyway. The CGI is bad but Paul W. S. Anderson can at least pull off edgy cool pretty well

The Drama 4.5/5 - This is nightmare fuel if you’re mid wedding planning. I think there’s a lot of interesting discussions happening in this movie, I like the acting, and it is sufficiently tense

Rat Race 3.5/5 - It’s basically a bunch of really complicated set ups to huge visual gags. It’s not groundbreaking but it’s funny. Also Rowan Atkinson should avoid speaking roles

Mars Express 4.5/5 - Wow! Watching this feels like watching a classic Sci-fi movie despite it being less than 3 years old. So many cool ideas that aren’t just handed to you. They use visual and environmental story telling to just cram in a crazy dense story in 90 minutes. This is a masterful intersection of art and technique. A high recommendation to fans of classic sci-fi like Blade Runner, Nueromancer, Ghost in the Shell, and Akira

The difference between naturalists and naturists is stark

Octopussies is actually the name for a harem of Maud Adams clones

Create ePubs from webpages

Holy shit, this is something I’ve wanted to do for a long time to compile magic the gathering stories but never found a good way, thanks!

Playing with toy carts

Playing with toy bows

Both disqualify Fortnite

Maybe it’s like amphibians and as global temperatures rise we see external stimuli encourage puppy girls instead of cat girls. This may be yet another irreversible trend of damage on our beautiful planet 😢

From the thumbnail I thought Superman was going to ask Goku for a favor

That’s a plot point in The Sting

The books:

• Sold by Patricia McCormick
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
• Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe
• Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas
• Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
• Tricks by Ellen Hopkins
• A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
• Identical by Ellen Hopkins
• Looking for Alaska by John Green
• Storm and Fury by Jennifer L. Armentrout

I haven’t watched Phineas and Ferb but am generally familiar with the concept. There’s probably multiple narrative things happening here

1. Writers are people too. Writing crazy over the top stories gets boring after a while. Sometimes you want to write something more grounded to practice nuance
2. Lower stakes content is generally more relatable and relatable is a high priority in kids media
3. Contrast makes stories more interesting. If you’re always dealing with world destroying calamities then eventually they become route
4. When a show goes on long enough sometimes you try breaking the format as an experiment to see what the reaction is, maybe people like it better and you can pivot
5. Subverting expectations is the basis of comedy. You’ve been led to believe that by their antics Phineas and Ferb would legitimately try to paint an entire continent, the fact that it’s just a regular painting subverts your expectation for a joke

Those are just my thoughts as someone who is relatively familiar with what TV and Movie writing is like

I should have specified, 2024. I’ve seen the 22 one and it’s alright but it’s a little too of its time for me

1. Interview With the Vampire
2. From Dusk til Dawn
3. Sinners
4. Nosferatu (2024)
5. Blade

I introduced a friend to it and she called it a “palliative care joint” because it should be reserved for people actively dying

You jest but a local dispensary will take a joint, roll it in THC oil, then roll it again in THC crystals for a very intense joint:

Since most people are unbeatable at tic-tac-toe I have a variant I like to play that has nested boards. Sometimes I call it tic-tic-tac-toe-toe or nested tic-tac-toe. Here’s some shitty MS Paint to explain (red numbers indicate the board, the blue the squares on the board as they correlate to bigger board):

Rules:

• You have a tic-tac-toe board where each square is itself another tic-tac-toe board
• The outer board is numbered 1-9 going from top left to bottom right
• Each sub-board is also numbered the same way, 1-9, left to right
• When you play on board, the square you play in determines the board that your opponent must play in next
  • For example: if you play the middle left square (4), on the bottom right board (Red 9), then your opponent must play on the middle left board next (Red 4)
• Winning a sub-game wins that square on the overall board
  • You may tie a sub-game by filling a board, those squares are dead and nobody gets them
• Getting tic-tac-toe on the overall board gets you a win
• You cannot play on a finished board
• If a play would force a player to play on a finished board then that player may play anywhere instead

It sounds confusing on paper but once you draw the board and play like 2 turns people immediately get what’s going on. It’s really funny to observers because they watch people make “obviously” bad plays on these disjointed boards and they have no idea what’s going on

I also once nerd sniped an intro programming class because I thought making this in the command line would be a fun project for one of my intro assignments. It turns out updating and printing nested python lists can get very confusing very quickly