Here’s a fun way to get around this: Navckid Keyd. If people wish to tag Dick without the implied slur (personal opinion here: it is his legal name omg whomst? Really? Uuggghhh? Why…) use the fake name used in Mary Poppins that rearranges to his name in the end credits.
So you can tag the actor in a fun and innovative way.
or just… call him… dick van dyke… because that’s his name…
It’s a name. It literally means a wall to stop water. It’s Dutch. Not a slur.
The name Dick is short for Richard, the ric part means ruler, the hard part means brave. Van means of. Dyke is a wall to stop water. So he is Brave Ruler of a Wall to Stop Water.
I know this is meant to be a funny but funfact! The lotus set in Magic: The Gathering is bar-none the most expensive set in history, getting a whole set for a 60-card average deck would easily cost more than the car pictured. This card alone is worth nearly 20k, with some others costing several thousand dollars.
someone is absolutely a fuckin rich nerd.
WHAT IN THE ACTUAL HELL
It’s because of a few factors all coming together!
First, this set was released in 1993. The cards from it are so rarely in good condition anymore that the ones that are in mint condition are disproportionately valuable.
Second, there is, of course, the nostalgia value of this being the first set ever released for the game.
Third, Magic: the Gathering was the very first trading card game. Richard Garfield, the designer, had no idea how popular it would get, and there was literally nobody else on the planet who had experience balancing a type of game that had never existed before. These days, TCGs are a whole industry, and you can look at the past efforts of other designers for your cues. In 1993, this was completely unexplored territory. As a result, the set this came from is completely imbalanced. Cards they thought would rule the game were regarded even then as nearly useless; cards they thought were fairly balanced or that would be rare in a neighborhood due to people just buying a box or two instead snapped the game in half. There’s a really famous combo using only four cards, all of which are in this set, to kill your opponent from full health before they even get a turn. Black Lotus is part of that combo.
As an addendum to the balance issue–Black Lotus, which gives you free “mana”–which you use to play other cards–at a rate better than literally anything else in the game, is considered the single most powerful card ever printed, because things that generate resources are generally more useful than the things that USE those resources.
Fourth–and this is a point of contention even to this day–Black Lotus cannot be reprinted due to legal issues. After the unexpected popularity of the game took off, Wizards of the Coast released a set called Chronicles that reprinted a lot of cards that were hard to find…which tanked the value of their original printings. Collectors threw a petulant hissy fit, and Wizards made the ill-advised decision to publicly commit to a “Reserved List” of cards that they would never reprint.
The Reserved List stopped getting new cards put on it after a couple of years, but the damage was done. Sure, some of these cards can’t be reprinted in certain competitive environments because they’re too powerful, but it’s been so long since they were last printed that they’re extremely hard to find even if you have the money to buy them. They’re so hard to find that officially sanctioned tournaments that allow those cards often allow a certain number of stand-in “proxy” cards just to make it so that people can play the game. Wizards releases anthology sets on a more regular basis, now that the collector’s market no longer has a stranglehold on the game, but they would be sued to oblivion if they abolished the Reserved List, despite the vast majority of players hating it.
So to sum up–Black Lotus was a “rare” card in the three limited-run sets it was printed in, it can’t ever be printed again, it was last printed twenty-five years ago in sets with extreme nostalgia and symbolic value, and it’s the single most powerful card in the entire game.
So, yes, it sells for tens of thousands of dollars.
reblogging this here because mtg has such personal meaning to me and I wrote a whole-ass essay about it
When I got into magic as a kid it had only been a couple years since the first set but Black Lotuses were still the holy grail, worth a “whopping”…….$200.
Vegans of tumblr, listen up. Harvesting agave in the quantities required so you dont have to eat honey is killing mexican long-nosed bats. They feed off the nectar and pollinate the plants. They need the agave. You want to help the environment? Go back to honey. Your liver and thyroid will thank you, as well. Agave is 90% fructose, which can cause a host of issues. Bye.
So let me get this straight ,vegans should stop eating the food of the Mexcian long-nosed bats, because the bats need it, and instead vegans should instead eat honey, the food of bees, that their larvae need, even though the bee populations are facing ecological issues as it stands.
10/10 post, dude.
Did you forget the whole part where only excess is taken and all their needs are met and then some orrrr?
Like, did you read it orrrrr?
Anyway, BUY HONEY SAVE BEES
It is a 10/10 post. Because OP is right.
Bees do not suffer when beekeepers take their honey, because experienced beekeepers do not take all of their honey, in fact, they leave plenty of honey left for the bees to consume over the winter. If we do not collect their honey, 1 of two things will happen.
1. they will leave for a bigger home. Which at first seems fine until you remember that bees are dying very quickly out in the wild.
or
2. They will start using the areas that they reserve for their young as a place to make more honey. This is bad because if no more young are being produced, then the hive will start to die out because no new workers are coming into the world, and the average live only 150 days, so it would also mean the loss of more bees.
So yeah, eating honey isn’t inhumane at all. In fact, you’re helping the bees by eating what they produce and giving money to the bee keepers who are the ones making sure that the hive will keep being healthy.
the only character I stan is That Bitch from BD who came to clean the house, saw Bella pregnant, and immediately on site wanted to whoop Edward’s vampire ass even though she knew 100% what he was
Bella, white teenager: but it’s love!!
Middle aged Latina, moving past her rolling up her sleeves: get over here you piece of shit no weapons just these fists
Even read in the “best” context, given she’s a prison employee and probably has a specific animus towards criminals, this is still a low thing to say. Especially when it predicates that the American President’s purpose for doing anything is to inflict pain; even when it comes to legal enforcement.
ur telling me the government can easily allocate billions of dollars to kill villages of people overseas but paying for its own citizens to have needed surgeries and medications is too much? Get the fuck out of here.
are you telling me that if the government decided to start spending the money to help its own citizens afford medical care it’s first priority should be people who wanna take synthetic hormones cos they think it’ll fix their mental health problems instead of like, people who are dying because they can’t afford chemotherapy? get the fuck outta here
I literally never specified trans specific stuff and was specifically implying, ya know, everything and everyone. Maybe you’re a tad obsessed?
And yeah, I think trans healthcare should be covered, just like how I think the surgery to pull your head out of your ass should be covered.
the original post specified “hormones” but nice one trying to spin it like i’m a crazy person pulling shit out of thin air
It literally doesn’t say hormones. It literally doesn’t. At all. Scroll up, you can literally see it that it doesn’t. I get it, you’re obsessed. Just fucking move on, Westboro.
Actually, Annoy Squidward Day is January 15th. Although the calendar doesn’t have the month written on it, if you continue to watch the episode, they’re competing for January’s Employee of the Month.
For those who don’t know and don’t want to click thru to find out: Jonas Salk is the reason we in North America no longer live in terror of polio. He also refused to patent or profit from his vaccine. He also spent the last years of his life researching a vaccine for AIDS, long before that was cool and back when a lot of people were secretly hoping it really would just kill all the gays. So you’re damn right people applauded and gave free upgrades.
Reblogging again because this time I did click through, and because of the times in which we live: Jonas Salk was Jewish, and the child of immigrants.
