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Brian Transplant @briantransplant.com · 7h

"You do not understand. Shredder did not kidnap me. I'm into this."

Brian Transplant @briantransplant.com · 7h

If you think you know what a Sampo is, write it down on a piece of paper, throw it away, and try not to think about it. You'll be glad you did.

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Brian Transplant @briantransplant.com · 8h

Izzet Guildgate?! I don't know. You tell me! Wocka wocka!

A Magic: The Gathering trading card titled "Izzet Guildgate" (card number C 0691, illustrated by Kirsten Zirngibl). Card type and frame: The card is a Land — Gate with a blue and red color scheme. Artwork: The upper art box displays a fantastical cityscape, featuring massive industrial structures, towering spires glowing with blue and red energy, and intricate pipework. Card text: The text box reads, "This land enters tapped. Tap: Add Blue or Red." Below this, flavor text states, "Enter those with the vision to create and the daring to release their creations."

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Brian Transplant @briantransplant.com · 30/09/2026

"Tell 'em Large Marge sent ya, Hank!"

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Brian Transplant @briantransplant.com · 30/09/2026

Wait. There's a little tiny short story on the back of every box of Dragon Shield card sleeves? Is there lore? Is there like a Dragon Shield wiki, chronicling all of the characters and their goings-on?

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Brian Transplant @briantransplant.com · 30/09/2026

Look. There's only three Dots I'm cool with: 1. The Warner Sister 2. The candy 3. .hack

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Brian Transplant @briantransplant.com · 30/09/2026

The new Meta Mascot looks like a Fall Guys that was left in the fridge too long.

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Brian Transplant @briantransplant.com · 29/09/2026

If you want balance at your TTRPG table, hold a rulebook in each hand.

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Brian Transplant @briantransplant.com · 29/09/2026

My JRPG trajectory is, "Hey. Maybe this one will be different. I can get into this." Then a few days later, "Ughhh... This is such a grind. Why can't I just walk from one side of the dungeon to another without getting pulled into the battle screen?"

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Brian Transplant @briantransplant.com · 29/09/2026

I'm bad at finishing JRPGs. But I'll check those out.

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Brian Transplant @briantransplant.com · 29/09/2026

For a second, I thought you typed "the edgelord of cheese." And I had so many questions.

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Brian Transplant @briantransplant.com · 28/09/2026

Work Dream - 2💀💀 Artifact 🔄 Target player has a dream about being at work, even though they're asleep on their day off. "Dick move, dude." - Everybody

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Brian Transplant @briantransplant.com · 28/09/2026

I actually quit Magic around 1999-2000. I had a brief relapse sometime around 2010-11, then realized I didn't have gobs of money to be competitive.

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Brian Transplant @briantransplant.com · 28/09/2026

I've been told I need to be more social, and maybe playing Commander should help. To me, this kind of sounds like getting a job renovating Camp Crystal Lake. But sure. Maybe I'll try it.

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Brian Transplant @briantransplant.com · 28/09/2026

Growing up in Michigan, one of the first things you learn is that Frankenmuth was the doctor's name, not the creature.

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Brian Transplant @briantransplant.com · 28/09/2026

When you don't get enough fiber.

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Brian Transplant @briantransplant.com · 28/09/2026

Lord Polonius: What do you read, my lord? Hamlet: Fuckin' words. Lord Polonius: What is the matter, my lord? Hamlet: Between who? Lord Polonius: I mean, the matter that you read, my lord.

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Brian Transplant @briantransplant.com · 28/09/2026

I go to work and I'm putting cards in penny sleeves. I come home and I'm putting cards in penny sleeves. What has my life become?

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Brian Transplant @briantransplant.com · 28/09/2026

"Where you going, old man? You didn't see nothin', alright? You saw five happy, jolly clowns sittin' around eating a big plate of beef. White... powdery... beef."

Binky the Clown holding Owen Cheese up to a wall, with a threatening posture, in Shakes the Clown (1991).

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Brian Transplant @briantransplant.com · 25/09/2026

Sickos: "Yes... Ha ha ha... Yes!"

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Brian Transplant @briantransplant.com · 25/09/2026

"Well, that's 300 pieces I've cut off this Gundam sprue. Only 275 more to go. And then the gluing starts."

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Brian Transplant @briantransplant.com · 24/09/2026

"Burnham signals lifting football alcohol ban." Look, buddy. I don't think anyone is going to drink fermented footballs. You might want to workshop that a little.

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Brian Transplant @briantransplant.com · 24/09/2026

"Downtown Nekketsu Story" should actually be River City Ransom. But RCR isn't on this site, so I had to use the Japanese title. I'm sure if you ask me tomorrow, it'll be a different nine games. Lunar is one of the few JRPGs I can beat without getting tired of it. #My9Games

Alt Text: A 3x3 grid of nine video game covers, arranged with three rows and three columns, with descriptive titles below each. At the top, a title banner reads "My 9 Games" and below it, "The 9 Games That Shaped Who I Am".

Row 1, Left to Right:

Downtown Nekketsu Story
Mega Man 2
Doom

Row 2, Left to Right:
Metal Gear Solid
Fallout: New Vegas
Shadowrun

Row 3, Left to Right:
Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete
Shenmue
Cyberpunk 2077

"#My9Games" is readable below the grid.

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Brian Transplant @briantransplant.com · 24/09/2026

I remember an R-rated comedy called Hexed from like 1993. I remember it not being very good, except for one scene. A guy is hanging off of a giant neon letter Y on a rooftop, trying not to fall down, while saying "Why? Why?" I like stupid little puns like that.

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Brian Transplant @briantransplant.com · 24/09/2026

I sell tabletop games and tabletop game accessories.

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Brian Transplant @briantransplant.com · 24/09/2026

Springwood. Springfield. What's the difference?

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Brian Transplant @briantransplant.com · 24/09/2026

Hada Freeblade... And my wife had the lasagna!

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Brian Transplant @briantransplant.com · 24/09/2026

Ran across this Magic card while doing inventory at work today. The Fozzie-tier jokes are limitless. "Hada Freeblade... But then I got one that costs money." "Hada Freelbade... But then I lost it." "Hada Freeblade... But it broke. You get what you pay for."

Magic: The Gathering card "Hada Freeblade". It is a white Creature card with a mana cost of one white mana and stats of 0/1. The creature type is Human Soldier Ally. The text box reads: "Whenever Hada Freeblade or another Ally enters the battlefield under your control, you may put a +1/+1 counter on Hada Freeblade." The flavor text says: "I toiled in Kazuul's mines when I was eight. I think I'm tough enough for a little hiking." Illustrated by Cyril Van Der Haegen.

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Brian Transplant @briantransplant.com · 23/09/2026

The Misfits' 1983 breakup happened at Graystone Hall in Detroit. That building is now a laundromat. You can wash your socks and pajamas in the same place Glenn Danzig announced the Misfits were playing their final show.

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Brian Transplant @briantransplant.com · 23/09/2026

My parents had a TI-99, which they weren't really into, so they gave (or sold) it to my aunt. Then we had a Commodore 128, which could easily become a Commodore 64 by either holding in the Commodore button on bootup, or typing "GO 64" once C128 BASIC loaded.

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Brian Transplant @briantransplant.com · 23/09/2026

It's a little late at night for B-52's lyrics.

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Brian Transplant @briantransplant.com · 22/09/2026

I think this is also why SBC handhelds spiked in popularity for a while. "You mean I can play all my old games without any crap attached to them?"

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Brian Transplant @briantransplant.com · 22/09/2026

This is just to say I have eaten the mushrooms that were uh... that were... Hehe hehehe oh wow duuude Whoa

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Brian Transplant @briantransplant.com · 21/09/2026

I own a reel mower. But whenever I say that out loud, I have to spell it out: R-E-E-L. Otherwise I'm worried people will think I'm gatekeeping lawnmowers.

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Brian Transplant @briantransplant.com · 21/09/2026

I'd love to do that for Death Bed (also filmed in Michigan), but alas, the Gar Wood Mansion was demolished in the 1980s. Plus that island is private.

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Brian Transplant @briantransplant.com · 21/09/2026

I didn't get to see it until 1996 or 1997, and some of the locations had changed between now and then. I was back there recently, and obviously they've changed even more. I'm seriously thinking about doing a bit of a "now and then" photo blog of that film.

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Brian Transplant @briantransplant.com · 21/09/2026

This is actually the Burt Reynolds movie with the highest budget.

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Brian Transplant @briantransplant.com · 21/09/2026

Marc Summers has never appeared in an Uwe Boll film. He wins.

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Brian Transplant @briantransplant.com · 20/09/2026

The guy on the right side of the screen is like "You performed where? For who?!" The two guys on the left side of the screen are plotting out the quickest escape route, to get away from this sellout.

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