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Moundshroud of the Mists

@KKalvaitis

3 years

Going to pin this thread for all of the movie threads for easy reference. Starting with:

Moundshroud of the Mists

@KKalvaitis

3 years

Tonight's spin to win: The Mark of Zorro (1920)

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If those were the kind of books boys were being given, they would be reading them. But they're not.

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The entire publishing industry has positioned itself to prevent something like this from happening.

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Norman Rockwell — 'Boy Reading Adventure Story' (1923)

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Rogue is the best AC game because it's the first one that lets you play as a good guy.

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He did the thing.

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Advertising from the 1950s ruined Americans' brains because this idealized image of mid-century America literally existed in, like, New England, Orange County, and two suburbs of Chicago In 1960, 10% of Americans homes did not have an indoor toilet

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It is time for The 13th Warrior (1999) It is time for Bro cinema.

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Lord of the Rings "fans" when they find out the "pipe-weed" in the books is just plain old tobacco.

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The Epic of Gilgamesh was written for an audience in a language that vanished centuries ago, and yet anyone who has known friendship will be moved to sorrow by the mighty King of Uruk's grief for Enkidu.

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Its insulting because he's basically the hero in the book and was right about everything.

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Who's a character that didn't deserve their fate? I'll start:

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Mozart released a new song before GRRM finished A Song of Ice and Fire.

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Previously unknown Mozart music discovered in German library

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You had a crush on Dina Meyer because of Starship Troopers. I had a crush on Dina Meyer because of Dragonheart. We are not the same.

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Shout out to Swaglord Haytham Kenway, also.

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You vs. The Guy She Tells You Not To Worry About

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C A L L E D I T

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It's November 19, 2023 and if yoooooouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu can believe it It's a movie thread ONCE AGAIN. David Lynch's Frank Herbert's Dune (1984)

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@DistortedSaint9 Unfortunately, libraries are now enemy territory for young men who want to read.

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The children yearn for TIE Fighter.

𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐤𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫™

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I want a Star Wars game where you play as the Empire (and they don't force you to switch sides)

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No brother wars today lads.

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@josh_cartoonguy Shay's a good Catholic boy who gets radicalized when he is tricked into activating a precursor artifact in Lisbon Cathedral triggering an earthquake.

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@ManletThorin The children yearn for Sleeping Dogs

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"Some of you guys are cool. Don't go to Numenor tomorrow."

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@RegressiveBard He's a veteran of the Seven Years War and is pals with Ben Franklin. (It's an unlockable costume)

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The X-Men were mutants not because of allegories about civil rights or anxiety about alienation, but because Stan Lee was sick and tired of having to come up with an origin story every time he introduced a new character.

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"Mercy, bring up that clip of Grodd tearing Solovar's face off. Craziest shit I've ever seen. Yeah, Ultra-Humanite showed it to me the first time, but he's not a gorilla like Grodd. He's a dude who put his brain in a gorilla's body. You ever think about doing that? It's wild."

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That predator wearing a League of Legends shirt finally gives me a reason to post this.

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Bullshit. OG Nick Fury was the rawest shit back in the day.

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Another brilliant example of how "race swapping" is not inherently bad is Nick Fury. Not a single soul gave a shit about that character until Samuel L. Jackson brought life into it

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The Right shouldn't fetishize The Matrix. Not because it's a gnostic power fantasy or whatever idiotic coding "media literacy" types want to give it. But because it sucks and Dark City is better in every way.

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@Joominmames I can't imagine why Tolkien would have his surrogate country Englishmen characters enjoying tobacco. It is a mystery.

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@ManletThorin This is why Rogue is the best AC game. You finally get to play a good guy.

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The everyman nerd growing and succeeding is aspirational because it tells the everyman reader that it can happen to him too. When you take that away because "readers can't relate," you are, in effect, telling the reader they're a piece of shit who can never improve their life.

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"The villain is always more interesting than the hero," is a common phrase from the last 20+ years. It also reflects an entertainment culture thoroughly denuded of actual charismatic heroes.

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In a fairytale, a young woman is brought to a mysterious nobleman's castle to be his bride. But he has to leave for a whole and gives her the keys that will open every room in the estate. On the condition that she not open one specific door. That is forbidden.

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[Laughs in 52 El Santo movies]

TCU 🍥

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Blue Beetle will be the first Latino superhero to have his own movie.

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"My division attacks the flank of the... Enemy" "Say their name Colonel." *Sigh* "The third Muppet Fusiliers."

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Military Wargames look like really depressed DND sessions

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@chippel Swap out Asimov with Edgar Rice Burroughs, but yes.

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Ha ha yeah, who does that kind of thing?

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Now I like the movie. It's masterfully animated. A feast for the eyes. But an understanding of literature and folklore can only lead to one conclusion.

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Eighty Dollars. $80.00 For 20 PLASTIC infantry. Not resin. Not Finecast (lol). Not pewter. Plastic.

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@ExteriorPlywood A collection of Silver John stories by Manly Wade Wellman. Last week was Ian Fleming's Casino Royale.

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Sing, O brother, the anger of Hulk Hogan, that brought countless sorrows upon the Hulkamaniacs for so were the counsels of Vince fulfilled from the day on which the Macho Man, king of the ring, and the Hulkster, of the Mega Powers, first fell out with one another.

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JUST MET HULK HOGAN. HE SIGNED THE ILLIAD.

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@Axenhammer1 They are. That's why you never pay more than 20 bucks for them several years after release. I just happen to like historical tourism and sandbox asshole simulators.

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@KKalvaitis

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It had to happen sooner or later. Time to go back to before Disney, before the Prequels, before Episode IV, before A New Hope, before The Holiday Special. In 1977, it was just "Star Wars" The Despecialized Edition.

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Baja Blast in it's raw, unprocessed form.

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Beautiful Aquamrine Crystal Cluster From Naghar mine Pakistan. Photo ©️ Naveed Ul Islam

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@RollingStone Hey, remember when you were a music magazine? Stick to that.

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>Pursue a PhD for at least 8 years. >Everyone calls you "Mister" I'd be pissed off too.

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"Sci-Fi has an inherently negative view of reality."

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RELEASE THE CHILEAN CUT

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Around 2003 in Chile, when the original trilogy of Star Wars began airing on television there, they did this funny thing to avoid cutting to commercial breaks. They stitched the commercials into the films themselves. Here is one of them, with the English dub added in.

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"Villains are more charismatic than heroes, that's why they're memorable." No. Gaston is memorable because he's a heroic archetype rebelling against the inversion of his storyline. He steals every scene because they are rightfully his.

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"I wish these Conservative pundits would stop complaining about the lack of art and make their own!"

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“The South Park of 𝕏” “Legalize humor!!” 😂 Check the mini PILOT of the first animated sit-com on 𝕏 featuring @larryelder @RubinReport @AwakenWithJP and a special appearance by an animated @elonmusk 👇👇👇 Support this show and help fight the “woke mind virus” with laughter!

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People have no idea how absolutely broken the Flash is

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#Eternals star Lauren Ridloff says Makkari is faster than The Flash. “I'm sure Makkari...because she travels faster than the speed of sound,” she said. (Via: @ComicBook )

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@LordVesconte "It says here you were the President of the East India Company." "Yes, that's right."

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Why didn't anybody tell me Jack Reacher was just Doc Savage?

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Yeah, this dude is pure power fantasy and the show is so stupid, it's genius. But I can't stop watching.

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@ecto_con The world may never know.

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Disney buying a space adventure franchise for boys and trying to turn it into a female empowerment sermon. The boys left, the girls never showed up, and the merchandise just rots on the shelves now. It's deader than Nixon now.

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what broke star wars?

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@GlomarResponder If the jocks or nerds liked you, they were ride or die. The most vicious, mean girls, crab bucket behavior was always from the theater kids.

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Your eclipse may have been good, but it wasn't as good as theirs.

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New Amazon LOTR show costumes look great, guys.

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None of the above. Make new things.

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She-Ra, Thundercats, Rugrats...which other animated shows do you want to see make a comeback?

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*Record scratch* "Yup, that's me. You're probably wondering how I got in this mess"

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@ThinkingAtheist Either is better than this

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>Covered in herbs >No flavor

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This is the national dish of Finland. It consists of meat, potatoes, no flavor, and no happiness

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I vehemently disagree. Despite the anachronisms and small flaws, The 13th Warrior is an outstanding action movie, one of the best historical adventure movies of the 90s, and easily the best Beowulf movie yet made. Top marks. 10/10

Valhalla / Viking Victory

Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupValhalla / Viking Victory · Jerry GoldsmithThe 13th Warrior℗ 1999 Touchstone Pictures, under exclusive license to...

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@KKalvaitis

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Anybody who calls a hobby a "Community" should be thrown out on their ears.

Shadow The Hedgehog🎃

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What opinion would get you like this by your fandom

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That's nothing. This poor bastard just didn't want any coffee.

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Imagine being created by Jim Henson precisely so that Grover can always fuck up your order. That is the hell this man lives in.

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I hate Communism because it tortured my one grandfather, a musician, by breaking all of his fingers in prison, then sent my other grandfather's brother to Siberia for 40 years.

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"The Conservative case for Usury"

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It’s simple… 👇🏼

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Sorry that Song of Ice and Fire turned out to be a wet fart for you modernists, but Tolkien belongs to the trads.

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"Asuka or Rei? Heh. You don't even know."

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@TheWorsePasha It's everyone's right to live in a country that depicts itself as the gigachad and the current wartime enemy as the soyjak.

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When you're dueling the Jedi and get cut in half only to realize you've been cake all along.

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Your subconscious recognizes what Gaston is despite his "official" villain status because he is the hero. Of the Bluebeard plot.

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You know what's better than a text scroll explaining the premise to the audience? A smokin' hot Virginia Madsen in her prime explaining the premise to the audience.

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This border crisis is getting crazy.

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Yes, but also:

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@BeigeShiba Avatar is about a soldier sent to negotiate a peaceful settlement with a tribe before a deadline and instead spends all his time chasing alien coochie, and he's surprised when the deadline passes and the fighting starts.

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He would take one look inside and see that it's larger than the outside, rightly deduce that fell sorcery was afoot, and would smash it to pieces before going off to carouse with wenches.

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Conan stumbles upon the Tardis and kills the Doctor. Where and when does Conan travel to?

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Remember. Anyone who calls your hobby a "Community" is not your friend.

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"The Conservative case for Aztec blood sacrifice."

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"Why was Star Wars so successful initially?" Let me explain with this simple chart:

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There you go. Backstory done and dusted in a couple of seconds. Our boy was a poet and courtier in Bagdad who caught the eye of the wife of a well-connected man and got "promoted" the hell out of there.

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@PandasAndVidya Do you get to the Space Cloud District very often? Oh what am I space saying? Of course you space don't.

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What you've read is a brief synopsis not of Beauty and the Beast, but of the older legend of Bluebeard. Which begs the question, why would such a plot be put into a Beauty & The Beast story, and then intentionally inverted?

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@BrainLeakage03 @SCWKorsgaard Will & Elizabeth works as a one-and-done story, which is what the first movie was. Their relationship got progressively dumber as more bloat was added to justify their continued presence. Norrington has a natural reason to still be there, doggedly chasing "the one that got away"

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And just like that, the chuds have soundly reclaimed LOTR

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@Tresob Not to my knowledge, outside of maybe some of the handheld/mobile games but who cares about those.

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It also ruins the Beast because in his own fairy tale, he did nothing wrong. He rebuked the sexual advances of an evil fairy, who in her wicked pettiness cursed him with his hideous form in order to make him suffer. They do that.

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Man's on Barsoom living his best life.

Morbid Knowledge

@Morbidful

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In 2014, YouTuber Kenny Veach claimed he found a strange cave in a Southern Nevada desert that gave off strong vibrations. On a YouTube video he wrote, "The entrance to the cave was shaped like a perfect capital M. I always enter every cave I find, but as I began to enter this

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>D&D wheelchair discourse on the TL again.

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Humanity's soul is weighed down by Mondays, John.

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>Carthage confirmed Molochians Scipio Africanus completely vindicated.

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I HATE COLOR GRADING I HATE COLOR GRADING I HATE COLOR GRADING

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Funny things happen when I get into the wine.

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Oh hey distinguished Egyptian actor and one of the top Bridge players in the world at one point, Omar Sharif.

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The unbreakable spirit of benevolent, unifying Manifest Destiny, unimpeachable honor, and brotherhood among peers. John Carter is what every American wishes he could be.

CoffeeWithTheClassics

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For decades, critics have struggled to settle on *The* Great American Novel -- a canonical work of fiction that captures the true character and meaning of the American experience. What work would you nominate as the Great American Novel?

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"Captain Marvel looks bad!" *2 hours later* "Captain Marvel was bad!" And yet they have your $10-$20. Why?

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Dicebreaker

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Roleplaying is the perfect medium for stories of sex and romance – so why is the genre so underserved on the tabletop?

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The most recent Battletech drama illustrates my point that the people pushing to call a hobby a "community" are the most destructive threat to that hobby.

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@CountDankulaTV Oh no.

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That's nothing. I can picture an apple that only exists in my mind unprompted and then rotate it. I can even change it's colors. Right now it's a granny smith.

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It’s magic.

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D&D settings as wrestlers: A shitpost Al-Qadim

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