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Alan
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What makes her so crucial is she can fire again if her attack takes out an enemy. Since her attack is a spread attack, hitting three cards, she can essentially fire up to four times if placed correctly. I loved giving her damage boosts throughout the campaign.
October 30, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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In the meantime, I will just share videos about how the character Robynn was hands down my most reliable pilot in the game.
October 30, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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I saw all the reposts and am not sure if I am too late to submit for a drawing. In case I am not too late, I wanted to present Athena.
Receipt for GoFundMe The Goddess Athena (in actuality, a cat)
October 27, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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I can't find an artist source but found this one.
www.facebook.com/groups/spyxf...
Meme displaying parent polar bear watching over baby polar bear paired with similar set up for Anya and Yor from Spy x Family.
October 20, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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It's the beginning of the letters page for issue 12, at least within the U.S. edition.
Beginning of letters page to issue 12 of The Power fantasy, titled "The End of History"
October 9, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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I'm not sure if this is the part you're referring to but it sounds like the success of this arc determines whether they go past 16.
Page from issue 12 of "The Power Fantasy" which includes the description It's also a crucial arc - it's basically where we decide if we want to go further or wrap at 16. It's a good ending at 16, but clearly there's much more we'd like to show, and it'd be a shame not to. Sales are fine, but there's a difference between "fine" and "able to go for 30+ issues."
October 9, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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I already liked the conclusion of the article based on his discussion of the insatiable nature of greed. I straight up laughed out loud at the end.
Jamelle Bouie NYT op-ed stating, He is abusing lawful authority, as well as outright breaking the law, so that he can construct something above the law — an emergency government that imposes upon and runs roughshod over American freedom. And with every exercise of this ill-gotten power he desires more, proving the minister Jonathan Mayhew’s observation, made a short year before the Stamp Act crisis, that “Power is like avarice, its desire increases by gratification.” The president’s most famous attribute is that nothing, for him, is ever enough. He has never had enough real estate, or enough wealth, or enough praise, adulation and worship. We should have realized, after his attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, that he couldn’t have enough power, either. He still can’t. And only time will tell what that means for our efforts to govern ourselves. I suspect that, as Trump inevitably works to extend his personal dominion over the entire country, we’ll find renewed value in the insights of our revolutionary forbearers. We may even decide to put them to use.
August 13, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Garry Wills's "Bomb Power" mentioned!
Jamelle Bouie op-ed stating, This accretion of emergency powers continued well past the postwar period and into the present — a steady concentration of power in the person of the president. You could even argue, as Garry Wills did in “Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State,” that the advent of atomic weaponry and the subsequent Cold War produced “a permanent emergency” that has “made the abnormal normal, and constitutional diminishment the settled order.”
August 13, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Vinland Saga has over the course of a few pages vaulted into my most beloved manga list through a series of didactic pages talking about the rule of law and peace through trade.
Page from Vinland Saga vol 13 Thorfinn: When you asked me why you couldn't cut me down earlier... ...you said the laws and the Thing, but I was thinking of something else. I thought "we have a deal in place." Something where we both benefit... Like, say... ...a pot of mutton stew. Page from Vinland Saga vol 13: Thorfinn: From what Leif says, the people of Vinland know nothing of wheat, and sheep, and iron. They will surely be eager to learn about them. We can provide them with a stable supply of these products. And they will surely have products that we find enticing as well, products we can exchange for. The important part is that they're products. They can't just be items. There's no dependency if they can simply kill us and take what we have. Trade will lead to more trade. The power of what we offer can change the life of each side. Stability in their lives will lead to stability in our lives. Page from Vinland Saga vol 13: Thorfinn: Peace through trading and dependency! That's it! That's it! Eureka!! That's peace in Vinland, without the use of swords! Halfdan: ... And what if there are no products the other side finds appealing?
July 27, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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In case the DC app is organized only by single issues like Marvel Unlimited is, that Johns run starts with Green Lantern: Rebirth.

Something else that could help get you started is the organized collections on Hoopla.
Green Lantern by Geoff Johns Book One on Hoopla
July 12, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Marvel Tokon: It's the same picture.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fbf...
Screengrab of Marvel Tokon Fighting Souls announcement that mentions 4 versus 4 tag team battles. Onion article about Gillette stating, "Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Blades"
June 5, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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A sizable portion of the Democratic base, apparently:
Tweet from spinozylvannian stating, "Chinese international student in my class was telling me about how his evangelical dad in Beijing believes that Trump was chosen by god to win the election, but that this victory is part of a larger divine plan to destroy the united states"
April 26, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Me looking at my butt after getting back to the gym more regularly:
Bloomberg headline stating, "JUNK HEADS FOR SECOND WEEK OF GAINS"
April 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Why you should read the Odd Lots newsletter:
The chart shows what non-manufacturing (services) businesses in the Philly Fed’s region expect when it comes to pricing. As you can see, companies are seeing a big cost in prices paid (what they paid for goods) while seeing no similar uptick in prices received (what they charge for goods). Costs going up without pricing power going up? That’s a recipe for getting your profit margins eaten alive if nothing changes. (Tracy, our Odd Lots in-house MS Paint wizard, has kindly drawn monster jaws onto the chart for me). These are the jaws coming for your margins.
April 22, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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In case this is not an intentional reference to Immortal X-men, I have to share this panel.
Panel from Immortal X-men of Exodus speaking to Hope, saying "The Nazarene Mutant inspired a church among the humans by raising a couple from the dead. I just watched you beat that in the last five minutes."
April 20, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Bloomberg's @weisenthal.bsky.social is an editor after my own heart.

And kudos for the mea culpa.
So Tracy wrote: The Trump administration says it wants to build expensive things. But at the same time it appears to have destabilized pretty much every form of capital out there and sparked a massive retreat from the American economy. It’s very hard to see who’s supposed to step in to plug the hole. But actually that wasn’t the original version. In the original version, Tracy didn’t use the word retreat, she used the word run. I switched it to retreat, because I’m a squish, and I get really anxious about the word run in almost any context outside of say a straight up SVB-like scenario. You know, using the word run, it’s like shouting about a fire in a crowded theater. It just makes me anxious! After yesterday’s action, ISI-Evercore said the move “reflects evaporating US growth exceptionalism and the reduced attraction at the margin of dollar assets for reserve purposes amid erratic US decision-making.” In a note out today, George Saravelos of Deutsche Bank wrote that “the market is re-assessing the structural attractiveness of the dollar as the world's global reserve currency and is undergoing a process of rapid de-dollarization.” Evaporation. Rapid de-dollarization. This is how the analysts on Wall Street are characterizing what we’re seeing play out. Having now seen the last four days, yeah I don’t think a “run” was a bad way to put it at all. So, sorry Tracy!
April 11, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Are your mentions perpetually filled with Meric pictures? I saw this today.
Front page of Yahoo Finance, showing a picture of Meric Greenbaum above headline saying, "Stock sell-off resumes amid tariff reality check"
April 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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That tweet about the Chinese student with the evangelical dad is a load-bearing part of my current understanding of the world.
Tweet from @spinozylvannian stating, "Chinese international student in my class was telling me how his evangelical dad in Beijing believes that Trump was chosen by god to win the election, but that this victory is part of a larger divine plan to destroy the united states"
April 7, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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The announcement was timed after the markets closed in the U.S. but futures data for large indices like the S&P 500 or the Nasdaq 100 show a sharp downturn.
Depiction of S&P 500 futures turning down sharply after tariff announcement
April 2, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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This is kind of fun: www.bloomberg.com/games/pointe...
Image depicting results of a Bloomberg News Quiz that demonstrate I didn't fully understand that the multipliers were one use per quiz only.
March 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Some examples.
Tweet stating that "Odd Lots is How It's Made for people who have at least once in their life identified as a Marxist, make over $400k working in finance, or both" Tweet from John Ganz stating "odd lots podcast is where you can hear bank of america analysts quote marxist economists"
December 12, 2024 at 7:28 PM
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Though the answer as to why seems pretty simple in that it emphasizes Cable’s leap to get at this guy that just cracked out of an Apocalypse egg. It’s a more kinetic version of the fun Mignola Hellboy asides.
September 13, 2024 at 4:31 PM
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Reading some Cable comics and saw a wild editorial note.
Page from Cable vol. 1 #50 by Ladronn displaying Cable leaping at an enemy Editorial box stating, “WE'RE NOT REALLY SURE WHY LADRONN PUT THIS PANEL HERE BUT IT WAS TOO FUN AND WACKY TO TAKE OUT. MARK.”
September 13, 2024 at 4:28 PM
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My day job is finance-related and I came across this article about how asset managers feel about AI. It was interesting to see this suggestions that CFOs, who you could argue are the most coldly rational in the org, are the most skeptical about it.
www.fundfire.com/c/4603444/59...
August 26, 2024 at 1:24 PM
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And for those without a WSJ subscription that can't see the comments, this is representative of the others:
WSJ commenters angry at a fairly positive article about Tim Walz
August 9, 2024 at 1:30 PM