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in junior year of highschool my art teacher would let our ceramics class play music of our choice off of her desktop. we usually used spotify or youtube but she did have one album downloaded on her computer. it was a halloween sound effects/ambience collection. i dont remember why she had it. there was a track on there called "burning screams" which was exactly what it sounds like. just a cacophony of screams alongside crackling fire. she only let us play it on very special occasions, and we would cheer and jump with joy every time. it was like a pizza party to us

As a former high school art teacher, yes. This. This is what it was like.

I also taught middle school English and art. One day, during a lesson based on a piece of medieval historical fiction, I was letting the middle schoolers research specific historical topics they were curious about that the book didn’t cover. Somebody, naturally, wanted to research medieval torture, and, naturally, I let them. That was the lesson when they learned that they could “check pronunciation” of a word by asking the Chromebook to read it aloud.

That, dear readers, is the story of how it became the Biggest Joke Ever on Chromebook days, for our quiet work period to be interrupted from the back of the classroom with a polite, automated voice clearly proclaiming, “TORTURE.”

It never got old for anyone involved. Including me.

Also tagging @vague-magnus-archives for quality Desolation content in the original post.

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God, what a cool fucking pair of cards. Especially these versions, with Kev Walker's art. Black and White getting the exact same effect, because the death of all fits both divine grace and unknowable horror.

And then Mr. Walker nails the fact that they're the same but different, with not just the inverted colors, but the way that Wrath of God explodes outwards, while Damnation draws all in.

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okay we've all been joking about how it's a crime that now the bots are taking ACTUALLY GOOD urls that could have gone to real people but this is my fucking breaking point. you put that back where you found it NOW

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