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watching some replays of the us/mexico “friendly” last night and the red card is so funny I get why they do it, you basically have to exaggerate all contact, but the “my cheek! I’ve been shot!” collapse from Berhalter after the slap is sending me

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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/10/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Going Postal

Moist had worked hard at his profession and considered himself pretty good at it, but if he had been wearing his hat, he would have taken it off right now. He was in the presence of a master. He could feel it in the hand, see it in that one commanding eye. Were things otherwise, he would have humbly begged to be taken on as an apprentice, scrub the man’s floors, cook his food, just to sit at the feet of greatness and learn how to do the three-card trick using whole banks. If Moist was any judge, any judge at all, the man in front of him was the biggest fraud he’d ever met. And he advertised it. That was . . . style. The pirate curls, the eyepatch, even the damn parrot. Twelve and a half percent, for heaven’s sake, didn’t anyone spot that? He told them what he was, and they laughed and loved him for it. It was breathtaking. If Moist von Lipwig had been a career killer, it would have been like meeting a man who’d devised a way to destroy civilizations.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/10/2026

if you’ve never chased your friend around a yard cackling madly and spraying them with one of these things you haven’t truly lived

Super soaker 50 20th anniversary edition

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Micah @rincewind.run · 01/10/2026

all I want for christmas

Community chest bank error in your favor card but it’s polling error in your favor

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Micah @rincewind.run · 30/09/2026

need the Red Sox to lock in and support my large adult son in defeating the evil empire tonight

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Micah @rincewind.run · 28/09/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Pyramids

It will certainly show what our ancestors would be thinking if they were alive today. People have often speculated about this. Would they approve of modern society, they ask, would they marvel at present-day achievements? And of course this misses a fundamental point. What our ancestors would really be thinking, if they were alive today, is: "Why is it so dark in here?”

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Micah @rincewind.run · 27/09/2026

Discworld QOTD, from The Wee Free Men

Witches are naturally nosy,” said Miss Tick, standing up. “Well, I must go. I hope we shall meet again. I will give you some free advice, though.”
“Will it cost me anything?”
“What? I just said it was free!” said Miss Tick.
“Yes, but my father said that free advice often turns out to be expensive,” said Tiffany.
Miss Tick sniffed. “You could say this advice is priceless,” she said, “Are you listening?”
“Yes,” said Tiffany.
“Good. Now...if you trust in yourself...”
“Yes?”
“...and believe in your dreams...”
“Yes?”
“...and follow your star...” Miss Tick went on.
“Yes?”
“...you’ll still be beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren’t so lazy. Goodbye.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/09/2026

went to the comic shop today oh look, it’s @gwillow.me

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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/09/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Eric

“But I read where she was the most beautiful—”
“Ah, well,” said the sergeant. “If you’re going to go around reading—”
“The thing is,” said Rincewind quickly, “it’s what they call dramatic necessity. No one’s going to be interested in a war fought over a, a quite pleasant lady, moderately attractive in a good light. Are they?”
Eric was nearly in tears.
“But it said her face launched a thousand ships—”
“That’s what you call metaphor,” said Rincewind.
“Lying,” the sergeant explained kindly.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/09/2026

look if you were into sex pests getting cancelled on main early bluesky was an incredible place to be, sometimes we got two of them at once (thank you @regretagarbo.rip)

King Terence the Golden: “I am in a constant state of fear of being disrespectful and I think more in should do that”

Adam Cerious: “yes and yes”

demon core vidal: “we’re literally talking about both of you”

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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/09/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Interesting Times

“But there are causes worth dying for,” said Butterfly.
“No, there aren’t! Because you’ve only got one life but you can pick up another five causes on any street corner!”
“Good grief, how can you live with a philosophy like that?”
Rincewind took a deep breath.
“Continuously!”

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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/09/2026

here’s mine, which is mostly a collection of RPGs that lodged themselves deep into my brain, Civ 2, and the greatest sports game ever made

Nine PC games that were profoundly influential on me:

1. Baldur’s Gate
2. Baldur’s Gate 2
3. Knights of the Old Republic
4. MVP Baseball 2005
5. Witcher 3
6. Civilization 2
7. Deus Ex
8. Mass Effect 2
9. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

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Micah @rincewind.run · 24/09/2026

Discworld QOTD, from The Last Hero

"That's seven," said Vena. "Seven of us, against one of him. Seven against one.
And he thinks he's going to save the world.
And he knows who we are and he's still going to fight us..."
"You think he's a hero?" cackled Mad Hamish. "Hah! Wha' kind o' hero works for forty-three dollars a month? Plus allowances!"
But the cackle was all alone in the sudden quietness. The Horde could calculate the particular mathematics of heroism quite quickly.
There was, there always was, at the start and finish... the Code. They lived by the Code. You followed the Code, and you became part of the Code for those who followed you. The Code was it. Without the Code, you weren't a hero. You were just a thug in a loincloth.
The Code was quite clear. One brave man against seven... won. They knew it was true. In the past, they'd all relied on it. The higher the odds, the greater the victory.
That was the Code.
Forget the Code, dismiss the Code, deny the Code... and the Code would take you.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 24/09/2026

lmao that’s pretty dire

Laurent says that when she pitches her tech-employed male clients to women, she acknowledges their hesitation right off the bat: “Listen, I have a great guy to tell you about. He’s such a good match for you. Now hear me out: He’s in tech.” The justifications are a new feature of her work.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/09/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Mort

The only thing known to go faster than ordinary light is monarchy, according to the philosopher Ly Tin Wheedle. He reasoned like this: you can't have more than one king, and tradition demands that there is no gap between kings, so when a king dies the succession must therefore pass to the heir instantaneously. Presumably, he said, there must be some elementary particles -- kingons, or possibly queons -- that do this job, but of course succession sometimes fails if, in mid-flight, they strike an anti-particle, or republicon. His ambitious plans to use his discovery to send messages, involving the careful torturing of a small king in order to modulate the signal, were never fully expanded because, at that point, the bar closed.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 22/09/2026

Discworld QOTD, from The Color of Magic

It was the King Color, of which all the lesser colors are merely partial and wishy-washy reflections. It was octarine, the color of magic. It was alive and glowing and vibrant and it was the undisputed pigment of the imagination, because wherever it appeared it was a sign that mere matter was a servant of the powers of the magical mind. It was enchantment itself.
But Rincewind always thought it looked a sort of greenish purple.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 22/09/2026

my parents, with respect to video game violence

Kombucha girl meme

No: guns and blood

Yes: our words are backed with nuclear weapons!”

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Micah @rincewind.run · 22/09/2026

I may still have more hours in this than any other video game - my parents were the “no violent video games” type and so I had no consoles or shooters but between this and Master of Orion 2 I played the absolute shit out of 4x

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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/09/2026

my argument for neutrals to get on board with the Red Sox look at this big galoot

Payton Tolle smiling happily like the big galoot he is

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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/09/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather

“You winked at me! I thought you had a plan!”
INDEED. OH, YES. I PLANNED TO SEE WHAT YOU WOULD DO.
“Just that?”
YOU ARE VERY RESOURCEFUL. AND OF COURSE YOU HAVE HAD AN EDUCATION.
“What?”
I DID ADD THE SPARKLY STARS AND THE NOISE, THOUGH. I THOUGHT THEY WOULD BE APPROPRIATE.
“And if I hadn’t done anything?”
I DARESAY I WOULD HAVE THOUGHT OF SOMETHING. AT THE LAST MINUTE.
“That was the last minute!”
THERE IS ALWAYS TIME FOR ANOTHER LAST MINUTE.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/09/2026

his entire being is focused on being the center of attention in every way and also on the television specifically this is how he thinks it should work

Simpsons meme

“Whenever Trump’s not on screen, all the other people should be asking ‘where’s Trump?’”

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Micah @rincewind.run · 19/09/2026

anyway congratulations to Calvin’s Dad on diesel prices

Calvin and Hobbes strip where Calvin’s dad hopes gas goes up to eight bucks a gallon

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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/09/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Wintersmith

It was lonely on the hill, and cold. And all you could do was keep going. You could scream, cry, and stamp your feet, but apart from making you feel warmer, it wouldn’t do any good. You could say it was unfair, and that was true, but the universe didn’t care because it didn’t know what “fair” meant. That was the big problem about being a witch. It was up to you. It was always up to you.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/09/2026

this is so good “win condition: you lost the game in 1925”

The Government
As the Government, you play career politicians from a variety of parties who just want to do a normal and reasonable amount of exploitation and imperialism in a way that will make them rich and comfortable. Unfortunately for you, every time you try to make sensible decisions to avoid wars with giant industrial powers or modernize some part of the national infrastructure to further your modesty evil goals, the two sets of frothing maniacs that make up your military branches start stabbing members of the Diet until their budget goes up.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 17/09/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Sourcery

Discworld meme. On the left is Death, a skeleton with glowing blue eye sockets wearing a black robe. Death is petting a small kitten.

On the right is the text of the quote.

“I meant,” said Ipslore bitterly, “what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?’

Death thought about it.

CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 16/09/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Snuff

Aristocrats don't notice philosophical conundra. They just ignore them. Philosophy includes contemplating the possibility that you might be wrong, sir, and a real aristocrat knows that he is always right. It's not vanity, you understand, it's built-in absolute certainty. They may sometimes be as mad as a hatful of spoons, but they are always definitely and certainly mad.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 15/09/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Wyrd Sisters

Someone has to do it. It's all very well calling for eye of newt, but do you mean Common, Spotted or Great Crested? Which eye, anyway? Will tapioca do just as well? If we substitute egg white will the spell a) work b) fail or c) melt the bottom out of the cauldron? Goodie Whemper's curiosity about such things was huge and insatiable*.

* Nearly insatiable. It was probably satiated in her last flight to test whether a broomstick could survive having its bristles pulled out one by one in mid-air. According to the small black raven she had trained as a flight recorder, the answer was almost certainly no.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 14/09/2026

it’s more impactful depending on the edition (it doesn’t work quite as well in ebook format, where it doesn’t take up literally the entire page like it does in some print versions), but I love Azrael’s response

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Micah @rincewind.run · 14/09/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Reaper Man

ALL THINGS THAT ARE, ARE OURS. BUT WE MUST CARE. FOR IF WE DO NOT CARE, WE DO NOT EXIST. IF WE DO NOT EXIST, THEN THERE IS NOTHING BUT BLIND OBLIVION. AND EVEN OBLIVION MUST END SOMEDAY. LORD, WILL YOU GRANT ME JUST A LITTLE TIME? FOR THE PROPER BALANCE OF THINGS. TO RETURN WHAT WAS GIVEN. FOR THE SAKE OF PRISONERS AND THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS.

Death took a step backwards.

It was impossible to read expression in Azrael's features.

Death glanced sideways at the servants.

LORD, WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR, IF NOT FOR THE CARE OF THE REAPER MAN?

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Micah @rincewind.run · 13/09/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Guards! Guards!

He moved the cleaver to his other hand and hammered at the chains again, aware at the back of his mind that more guards were hurrying up, but with that special kind of run that guards had. He knew it well. It was the run that said, there’s a dozen of us, let someone else get there first. It said, he looks ready to kill, no one’s paying me to get killed, maybe if I run slowly enough he’ll get away . . .
No point in spoiling a good day by catching someone.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 11/09/2026

they should have followed the long history of safe handling of plutonium at los alamos hold on I’m getting a note

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Micah @rincewind.run · 10/09/2026

that’s right the internet started going irreversibly downhill the day Reader died

Technology you’re most nostalgic for: Google Reader
Especially when I was a writer and business journalist, but even afterwards, I loved Google Reader as a way to organize news articles and feel like I got through them. It was just a great interface. I use Feedly now, which is pretty good to read news, but doesn't quite hit like Google Reader used to hit.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 10/09/2026

happy update: they apparently heard me because they actually did send it to me at last and man this took way too long but it is sick as hell

the custom lightsaber I ordered from Vader’s Vault with inlaid mother of pearl on the hilt

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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/09/2026

qinwen zheng down 5-0 is the most terrifying player alive, I can’t believe she’s done this in back to back matches

Graphic showing Qinwen Zheng coming back from 5-0 in the first set and winning it 7-5

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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/09/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms

The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.
Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars.
Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.
But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/09/2026

payton tolle is the most charming man in baseball, exhibit 374

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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/09/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Lords and Ladies

Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.
Elves are marvelous. They cause marvels.
Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.
Elves are glamorous. They project glamour.
Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment.
Elves are terrific. They beget terror.
The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.
No one ever said elves are nice.
Elves are bad.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/09/2026

there have been two uses of ‘Hobocop’ in recent years and both of them are perfect

Reacher from the show Reacher

he is very large

Harry Du Bois from Disco Elysium

he is a mess

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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/09/2026

I love so much about the way Batman is animated here - the ease with which he dodged, the way the silhouette of his cowl curves, the full body extension behind the punch launching the thug into the air it’s all just so fucking cool

Batman easily dodging a punch. Only his eyes are visible, everything else is a black silhouette

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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/09/2026

look at this panel! these men just exploded a bank, look at their faces when they realize that Batman is waiting for them on the roof this is all you need to know about Batman and he isn’t even on the screen

The thugs from the Batman TAS opening realizing that Batman is about to kick their asses

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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/09/2026

Discworld QOTD, from The Last Continent

HMM . . . Death picked up a book at random and read the cover.
DANGEROUS MAMMALS, REPTILES, AMPHIBIANS, BIRDS, FISH, JELLYFISH, INSECTS, SPIDERS, CRUSTACEANS, GRASSES, TREES, MOSSES, AND LICHENS OF TERROR INCOGNITA, he read. His gaze moved down the spine. VOLUME 29c, he added. OH. PART THREE, I SEE.
He glanced up at the listening shelves. POSSIBLY IT WOULD BE SIMPLER IF I ASKED FOR A LIST OF THE HARMLESS CREATURES OF THE AFORESAID CONTINENT?

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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/09/2026

my love affair with 4x traces back to the eight gazillion hours I spent playing Civ 2 in middle and high school what a masterpiece

Civilization 2 screenshot with the game title overlaid on it

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Micah @rincewind.run · 04/09/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Thud!

They had axes, too. But the thing glared at them and asked:
“Where’s . . . My . . . Cow?”
They backed away.
“Is that my cow?” the creature demanded, stepping forward unsteadily. It shook its head sadly.
“It goes Baaaa!” it wept. “It is . . . a sheep . . .”
Then it fell to its knees, clenched its teeth, turned its face upwards, like a man tortured beyond his wits, beseeching the gods of fortune and the tempest, and screamed:
“No! That! Is!! Not!!! My!!! Cow!!!!!”

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Micah @rincewind.run · 04/09/2026

someone on reddit made an incredible oglaf parody comic based on pathfinder: wrath of the righteous and I need to share it for the six other people for whom this is a perfect crossover (hi @statsboyandi.bsky.social)

camellia from pathfinder: wrath of the righteous in an oglaf parody strip

camcam on trial:

panel 1: "I put great stock in personal credibility"

panel 2: "if I seem sexy to strangers but then don't fuck them, how can the public trust me on other matters?"

panel 3: "if I dislike somebody but then don't kill them, why would anyone consider my feelings ever?"

panel 4: "if I don't eat what I kill, what sort of spirit could respect me?"

panel 5: "you say I made a 'honeypot cannibal deathtrap' but I had to, my very reputation was at stake"

panel 6: the rest of the cast cheering madly

panel 7: the rest of the cast carrying camcam on their shoulders

panel 8: it turns out they are carrying her to the gallows

panel 9: disappointed camcam says "aw"

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