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Well, yeah— if Dems outperform current polls by 7, we’re in wildly unprecedented territory.

It’s take a couple years, but Elon could order this right now. For some reason none of them do.

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Trump v US making the law irrelevant to him as long as he’s formally abusing his power means… well, why not? “Because it would piss people off” turns out to be an answer.

Interesting. Not the X-set, then? Deal must go past three.

Anthony Damiani @adamiani.bsky.social · 3h

Have you also considered his deep philosophical insight that evil is good, actually?

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Anthony Damiani @adamiani.bsky.social · 9h

We are talking about where people locate their fandom. Sometimes (90s White Wolf) it’s corporate; sometimes (Swift) it’s a creator; occasionally system; with DnD: brand. We can’t expect them to universally support people who make that thing they like- often they don’t even know who those people are.

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Anthony Damiani @adamiani.bsky.social · 21h

WotC seems pretty directly analogous to the label? WotC has relatively few fans as such.

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Anthony Damiani @adamiani.bsky.social · 21h

I still don’t understand what the right wing connection is supposed to be, even though I know the chuds are crowing about it!

Anthony Damiani @adamiani.bsky.social · 22h

It’s relevant to Levi’s point about how you’d expect fans to support the creators. DnD fans love the system or the brand or the setting. The actual creators are an afterthought to most players. That’s how it’s packaged and marketed. There are games where this very much is not true!

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Anthony Damiani @adamiani.bsky.social · 22h

It feels like this is reading my point as a sort of proxy for a whole different, long-standing argument (‘ugh! Daggerheart is a failure, it didn’t even kill DnD yet!’) which I am not making.

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Anthony Damiani @adamiani.bsky.social · 22h

I’m surprised that this is a contested point. When Taylor Swift left her label essentially 100% of her audience went too. They were there for her, not BMR. DnD players simply do not have the same relationship to Perkins or Crawford. The core fan loyalty is the game not its individual creators.

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Anthony Damiani @adamiani.bsky.social · 23h

Yeah, maybe? But just jumping into threads with Americans to assert that principle unprovoked (because Americans care about the consequences of American elections?) seems a bit randomly aggressive.

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Anthony Damiani @adamiani.bsky.social · 23h

It’s a sex thing, right? Like, I know “it’s all gender.” But at a base level there seems something fetishistic about his need to be seen as butch.

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Anthony Damiani @adamiani.bsky.social · 23h

Best approximation I have is the ICv2 stuff presented to retailers at GAMA, which places them 5th ordinally. Extremely imprecise—would not draw too much from that—beyond the idea that DnD fans did not en mass follow the top creators over. They’re dnd fans more than Crawford fans.

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Having to live through this nightmare of misrule here is a direct consequence of Putin’s invasion. I don’t know what you’re mad at me about.

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Glad you have the luxury of doing that, but I’ve got to live here regardless. Hence: caring about the elections.

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But he can’t aura farm by live-streaming a lethal injection.

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Anthony Damiani @adamiani.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yeah, but: a) they aren’t primarily fans of the creatives. Dnd fan loyalty is to the brand. Perkins and Crawford did not bring huge numbers with them to Daggerheart. b) anti-union propaganda has convinced done set of them that unions make things worse.

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He will dine again when the Michelin stars are right.

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Anthony Damiani @adamiani.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Somebody should probably ask at some point?

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Anthony Damiani @adamiani.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

That’s what the robots are for, silly!

It’s pretty remarkably short-sighted and self-defeating, to imagine that the IP and network will hold great value even if the player base accepts the idea that anything a machine spits out is just as good as what they’re selling.

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2) Because of the risk that any oversight mechanism is staffed by copartisans who will not act as an effective check. This proposal would permit pardons but the only durable ones would be those that are not politically charged; it makes pardoning family members or officials useless.

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1) Because Trump is going to pardon these people, already has pardoned many people. If you are amending the Constitution, saying ‘oops water under the bridge’ is not good enough.

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Which is one of the key arguments for court reform. It’s ultimately been SCOTUS, not the legislature, making these kinds of huge (disastrous) society-altering policy changes.

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This calls for a “Thesis Advisor” Patron Warlock subclass.

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There’s some circular elements; who would I invite?

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He’s governed in such a way as to make the alternative unthinkable. He could have just governed like a normal President and gotten his names on a normal set of things. But he had to use the Presidency to enact his psychosexual dramas and inflict us with (eg) Trump class battleships.

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That complaint doesn’t seem to follow at all. It seems like you’re objecting to some other proposal that doesn’t allow pardons to be revoked post-hoc, and that requires approval by both houses?

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Bear in mind with the expiration of subsidies this costs as much as the next couple steps up— the Equinox or Blazer EVs— did in 2025. And those were nicer cars.

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…. It’s by far not the most important thing, but you’d think a D&D union would be a guild?

Halloween movie 7/31 The Terminator (1984, Rewatch) What is this doing here? It's an 80s Arnold action movie. How is on my Halloween list? "The thing that won't die, in the nightmare that won't end." This is a *monster* movie- arguably even a gosh-darn slasher pic! letterboxd.com/adamianix/fi...

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A quick google puts the most-viewed episode of Succession at ~2.9m; for Game of Thrones, ~19m. Succession was a great show, very buzzy; people who love to talk about TV loved to talk about it. Game of Thrones reached to a more general audience.

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Also did not love how big a polling miss we got in some of the primaries (eg, Michigan). Did not fill me with confidence.

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Well… he hasn’t been in much, and the MCU take on Billy was distinct enough I don’t know that there’s all that much we can know? The interesting bit here is calling it a trilogy; they don’t seem to be in a great position to tie everything up in one season, but Young Avengers has limited traction.

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Does it not read a bit uncomfortably like an apologetic for authoritarianism in this regard?

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Did they actuslly have a big advantage in the Senate map this time? They have to defend 22 seats to the Dems’ 13.

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My proposal does not rely on the GOP as such; it relies on present and future future congresses, some of which will hopefully not be Republican. It severely limits the utility of purchased or political pardons, while leaving space for those that cease to be national political issues once granted.

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If your position is that half the government will permanently be held by a cult of Presidential authority, no system of checks and balances is ever going to work.

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The Black Phone (2021, 1st Viewing) Having done a comedies and kids movies, and an elegiac postapocalyptic film, I was getting kind of desperate for something a bit... scary? Even Backrooms wants you to feel unsettled, not to go "eeek!" Joe Hill has me covered! letterboxd.com/adamianix/fi...

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Hocus Pocus (1993, Rewatch) I have tried, I really have-- but I just can't bring myself to enjoy this campy and widely beloved childhood classic. letterboxd.com/adamianix/fi...

A ★½ review of Hocus Pocus (1993)

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Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983) Bit of a missing-link film that explains a lot about how evil circuses are treated thereafter, it's never quite as good as a Ray Bradbury story with a scene-chewing evil Jonathan Pryce sounds like it ought to be. letterboxd.com/adamianix/fi...

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28YL:BoneTemple (2026) The latest installment in the sprawling, interconnected 28-X-later franchise, released roughly 28 weeks after its predecessor. Companion volume to 28-years, the previous film is load-bearing— a baffling choice that doomed it at the box office. letterboxd.com/adamianix/fi...

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Sort of like mirror-universe Manchin?

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It’s a mix. In the first and last movies, it’s a whole different Mummy with a near-identical backstory (Imhotep thdn Kharis thfn Klaris). In the middle, the cult can use life-giving Tana leaves to bring him back from anything. And by the late period they kinda stopped caring.

Oh, now that’s interesting! I had been turned off by the similarity in the material they chose to advertise.