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"Are you stupid? My forever stew is hot! It's soup. How is going to imbalance my humors?"

Then a week later I'll be like

"Sorry guys can't toil today, I have diarrhea. Or as we call it in the medieval era, normal poops."

Northernlion would be an alchemist in the same vein as Van Hohenheim had he lived in Medieval Europe

Too bad God hates him from conception put him here with the rest of us

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Why do I laugh every time I hear "shoots his lightning attack" in a german accent

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what are other non-chrono ark games even doing

i've watched the final battle sequence of chrono ark like 5 times (to get a certain postgame unlock) and I still haven't gotten tired of it. Pogged out of my gourd when I saw the name of the phase 2 specific card was the first time.

is it because i'm chuuuni who can say

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My soul has left my body and my spirit has aged enough to shrink into a raisin.

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Thinking about Nerissa Ravencroft talking Twilight

Nerissa: "Oh yeah it's my 5th time watching the Twilight movie series..."

Me: Oh yeah, that's high but hardly unusual for an unabashed fan

Nerissa: "...this year so far."

Me: "WHAT ON EARTH".

this explains so much about how good her cover of vampire is

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What and have to compete with Hoshimachi mother fucking Suisei? NO THANK YOU. You'll be seeing my ass in the kiddie pools without the sharks.

You heard her

TRANS YOUR GENDER

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pondering deeply if gengar can officiate gay marriages

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Y I K E S didn’t read the sibling post BORN TO DEAD HAND, strikes are a FUCK, 遊戯王combo them all, I am ironclad man. 410,757,864,530  failed runs.

thinking about how I hate deckbuilding rpgs, but not because of anything inherent to the genre. I could love it and I see the path to loving it. I hate a single card that nearly every single one of them has

the "this should have just been an attack button" low damage clutter card. bane of my existence. nail in my shoe.

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I think this is an artifact of deckbuilding RPGs being (spiritual?) descendants of dominion, where you start out with a deck with 10 shitty cards and over the next 15 minutes you build up to a really good deck. 

In that context it makes sense:

1. Since it’s a multiplayer game, with turn order, in general you want to decrease first turn advantage, and first turn advantage tends to compound when you start off with baseline better decks. The entire nature of deckbuilding RPGs is that you, the player is asymmetric so this makes less sense. 2. It becomes easier to teach and pick up, because the base deck will be filled with pretty easy to understand cards and interactions. This is great where you have a game night where someone might be playing this for the first time, but not so much for an RPG you are going to spend many multiple hours on.

3. The games are often built around removing cards from the deck as a vector of deck improvement, and removing that vector would mean that cards either need to be more complicated or the game itself would be too flat. Obviously when implementing a video game card complexity can go up since it’s a program, not a person executing it. 

4. Having deck removal be a thing means that you can potentially have games where deck removal is NOT a thing, so you can have both games where the player builds up very quickly to very powerful decks, or games where the pacing slows down and you have to consider optimizing your deck in other ways. On the other hand, single player deck builders, the game experience that feels most directly awesome is of course when your deck is awesome.

I don’t know which specific RPG you’re talking about, but I have a lot of Slay the Spire playtime so I’ll just talk about that. And there, I think the bad starter deck is exactly what leads to very varied play experiences.

High ascension play with everyone but the watcher involves lots of thinking on how to trade off short term gain vs longer term success since they start out “behind” the power curve, which means you end up playing completely different decks on different runs. For watcher, the strength of the starter deck means you can hold out until you get exactly the deck you want and the game ends up just being the waiting room for “make a rushdown infinite”. Even if that turns out NOT to be optimal play, the period of time where you play just the starter deck can be significantly longer as you don’t need to pick up any card NOW in order to survive the next three fights, which means 20 different runs of act 1 can start to blend together more. 

I think the need to survive while ALSO building the deck is where most of the interesting strategic decisions are and what separates deckbuilding games from preconstructed CCGs.

thinking about how I hate deckbuilding rpgs, but not because of anything inherent to the genre. I could love it and I see the path to loving it. I hate a single card that nearly every single one of them has

the "this should have just been an attack button" low damage clutter card. bane of my existence. nail in my shoe.

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One of my favorite Korone moments is still her picking up the Super Shotgun in Doom 2016 and whispering its name in reverent tone, right after she was humming “It’s a Small World” while happily tearing apart zombies with her bare hands.

I heard that Inugami Korone has an 8-pack. That Inugami Korone is shredded

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rosemi learns about metal gear lore and asks an important question about Ocelot

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https://twitter.com/HiFightTH/status/1337930637597057025

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I love tumblr. I love that tumblr is the best social media site of 2021.

Every other site has spent the last decade perfecting the art of targeted ads. I am a wallet of flesh and blood which must be stripped bare and profiled and picked apart for the maximally efficient way to squeeze profit from my presence. Every other site will fold and morph itself to a shape of my liking - like a fairy tale trickster stealing memories and taking their mold - to lull me into compliance and loosen my coin purse.

Facebook sees me searching fitness equipment and injects my timeline with athletic wear ads. Reddit profiles the subreddits I follow and eagerly promotes a new coding bootcamp or cloud service at every turn. Google overhears me lamenting over my moving to-do list on voice call and fills in my “how much to tip movers” query before I’ve gotten the third word typed out.

Tumblr never even tried.

They could have. The information is there. The basic infrastructure, presumably, exists. Tumblr can recommend me tags based on tags I follow, blogs based on blogs I follow, even posts that for one reason or another may strike my fancy. Tumblr could be - SHOULD be - funneling this framework into advertising, as the only means that free-to-use social media platforms can turn a profit in our capitalistic hellscape.

They just don’t.

Today I saw an ad for treating Hyperhidrosis - a condition, I think, in which a person sweats too much - and I saw it twice, four posts apart, and it is so incredibly benignly impersonally ineptly untargeted toward me compared to all other pinpoint-aimed advertising that I’m endeared to it. Tumblr knows NOTHING about me. 8 years, 51,000 likes, and tumblr has not learned a THING about me.

Advertisements for a mattress? Shitty mobile game ads that don’t make even the slightest pretense at being anything other than a candy crush rip-off? Choose-your-own adventure games either about Royal Espionage or Choosing The Wrong Dress For Your Date with ZERO in-between.

And then this. This here. The culmination, the crown-jewel of tumblr’s nihilistic non-compliance with the state of social media advertising. Any pretense of capitalistic exchange is abandoned at the gas station by the side of the road. This is not a company. This is not a product. This is not anything that fulfills the contract of consumer and seller. 

THIS. THIS IS WHAT TUMBLR HAS TO OFFER INSTEAD.

“Pour vinegar on your bread, fuck you.”

“Put it in the garbage, fuck you.”

“Your wife says you’re a fucking dumbass, fuck you.”

That’s it. That’s the advertisement. You vinegar-breadless cuck. You virgin extraordinaire bereft of bread and garbage can. I am fucking your wife right now in our vinegar-soaked motel bed. She puffs a cigarette which I pulled from the trashcan and we both laugh heartily at her recounts of your immasculine ineptitude. I don’t want your money. I don’t want anything from you. Fuck you. 

Amazing. Amazing. What a state of things to ring in 2021. What a great platform we all collectively choose to be on.

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The girl who became a tiger

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The girl who became a tiger

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For heroes, there are trials

For saints, there are temptations

For me, there is you

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sounds like she has the hots for you

FOUND HYETTA IN THE SEWERS LAST NIGHT