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XIII_rocks posted...

The interior of his house
That's why he never invites Ellie in

Does Ellie live in Joel's garage? Or is she living in a garage of a different house?

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Having the dogs whimper when you kill their human and having the human scream when the dog dies hits me right in the feels.

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I ended up buying the Chandra Spellbook and my foil was Young Pyromancer. Not great but also not terrible. Just glad I didn't get Cathartic Reunion.

I also got a prerelease kit too, seeing if some of my friends want to play so I haven't opened my packs yet but my promo was a Temple of Malady, which again isn't great but that's life I guess.

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Xiahou Shake posted...

I haven't played the game yet (I very much intend to, though) but I have a question for folks who have dug into it. How do you feel the game handles the ludonarrative dissonance between the overall theme of the game and the gameplay? That stuff drives me bananas when it's not done well and some of the gifs/clips I've seen of the gameplay look legitimately awesome and fun, which is great in a bubble but seems to run rather contrary to the game's stated mission of making violence seem horrific.

Violence is horrific but I think that in this case we have to make a distinction between killing and murdering. The Last of Us is a world where violence and death is a constant thing and it's very much normalized. Killing people in order to survive is fairly accepted. I think they did a good job in portraying that the murdering of others for non-survival reasons is something of a different beast.

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Yea, the game isn't perfect but it's still really good. I think what is most impressive with me is that they came off such a high from the first game, which honestly, was a fairly straightforward game, and took a pretty big risk in crafting a more complex story and presenting it in a different way.

I personally think they did really well.

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Great_Paul posted...

Ending thoughts:

At first I wasnt sure if I wanted Ellie to kill Abby during the ending scene but it makes sense that she didnt. Its thanks to Lev that Abby didnt kill Ellie and (I forget her name already). Plus if Ellie had killed Abby, Lev would likely try to find her, continuing the chain of revenge. And if she were to kill Lev at that moment, the guilt would probably get to her because he wasnt any part of the group that killed Joel.

Yea, I think ultimately this is a story of anger and forgiveness. Ellie wanted to forgive Joel for what he did but she couldn't. She ended up forgiving Abby at the end to break the cycle of revenge but the journey that led her to that decision cost her everything.

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Beat the game last night. Overall thoughts below.

Thought the game was pretty good. I think the storytelling aspect of the perspective switch was really well done. I went from absolutely hating Abby to sympathizing with her. By the end I really didn't know how I wanted the story to end. The gameplay felt fun, I loved the extras they added from the first game but by the end I felt like it was a bit tedious. The story itself was good but I think I needed a giraffe moment to balance out the bleakness of it all. The museum flashback was wonderful and it was well needed, but I thought something like that near the end would've been nice too.

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BetrayedTangy posted...

Link vs. Draven vs. Shepard

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PLAYM21 for the free packs btw.

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Bump for M21's Arena release tomorrow.

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Oddly enough I thought Shiva was the hardest one in the battle simulator. Had to equip some elemental ice resistance materia just to deal with her. Ended up one shotting the rest of the gauntlet after she went down.

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ChichiriMuyo posted...

Jumpstart has sounded fun to me since it was announced, but I'm sad we won't get to play any kind of in-person release event.

Yea, I keep getting excited about it and then I remember I'm probably not playing in store for it.

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Man Jumpstart is also more exciting than I thought it would be.

Wizards is really going after my money huh.

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turbopuns3 posted...

Yeah I can't imagine anything over about 20 or at maximum 30 minutes of travel each way

Haha I'm not gonna lie when I was reading your post I was like "ah yea the commute su- wait, 10 - 15 minutes?". Would kill for such a short commute.

TBH I generally prefer working in the office than not. If my commute was like that I think it would be a no brainer for me.

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I normally spend a solid 2.5 - 3 hours of my day commuting. Back in March when I first started working from home I missed being in the office but now that I'm used to it I can't imagine having to deal with that commute again.

I do miss the people still though, but there's no chance everyone will be back in the office at the same time again anytime soon so it doesn't really matter.

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Huh, weird. I've never had that happen to me. Whenever the autotapper highlights the wrong lands tapping them manually seems like it does the trick.

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You know I never actually considered using poison against Hell House, probably would've made the fight a lot easier.

I was also mildly surprised when it started to spawn new enemies on Hard. Didn't think this one one of those games that actually had the enemies change up their movesets/behaviours on different difficulty levels, despite it being pretty minor.

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Whoa, shrines.

I don't think I've ever been more excited for a core set.

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That kinda put me off at the beginning too but then I realized I already had like every Ikoria card anyways so it's not like I was gonna get any new cards from that either.

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I'll admit I'm not good at cube, went 2:3 on my free play. It was fun though, will do it again.

What are some of the key differences in selecting cards as compared to normal draft?

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So I was doing some research into this and I found out the government of Canada lists it as "Roma (Gyspy)" in the census. Interesting.

Also, wow I did not know this word was derived from the word gypsy.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gyp

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Not gonna lie this core set is looking pretty great. You can do a lot of really stupid things with Brash Taunter and the damage tripling enchantment. I live for jank like that.

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Man I need to play the first Horizon game.

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Yea, go for it. You don't need a dedicated graphics card so any relatively new CPU and integrated GPU will be sufficient. You probably want 8 GB RAM at minimum. Hard drive size is up to you.

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CassandraCain posted...

I typically just use it for browsing the internet, but I'm interested in the tablet aspect for the possibility to practice drawing. I don't think the graphics card is too important, the highest quality game I would maybe play is mass effect 2.

You can also look into proper drawing tablets. The Wacom ones come to mind. It might be cheaper to get a laptop + drawing tablet rather than getting a tablet/laptop combo. The only downside is that there's a disconnect between where you're drawing and looking but you'll get used to it.

If you're playing old games then you don't really need a dedicated graphics card.

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The tablet + laptop combos are pretty nice. I have an older Microsoft Surface Pro for work and it's pretty cool to use, but they are a bit expensive.

What do you normally use your computer for? What kind of games do you play? Graphics cards are an expensive component of your computer and if you don't really game that much on it then you could probably opt to get a lower end one.

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Nice, if you hold onto that spot you qualify for a tournament entry right?

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I have a friend who pre-ordered the physical copy of the game and it managed to arrive at his house a day early.

He still hasn't opened it but he's watched someone stream the full game.

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Yea, activation every turn at instant speed. Pair that with Oath of Teferi and it gets pretty stupid too.

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Damn, new Teferi is.. interesting.

http://www.mythicspoiler.com/m21/cards/teferimasteroftime.html

Maybe not as oppressive as T3feri but still pretty good.

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Lots of really good reprints. Not looking forward to seeing Ugin ramped out in standard though.

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Some Magic cards.

Have a physical copy of the Last of Us 2 coming in a couple weeks too.

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Considering picking that up. Chandra is my favourite planeswalker and I've always wanted a Torch of Defiance. Wonder how much the foil one is gonna go for though.

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Random rewards, sometimes it's gold, sometimes it's a skin, sometime's it's gems.

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Suprak the Stud posted...

"Who ARE you people?"
Barret: "AVALANCHE"
Aeris: "Local florist!"

"Lab rat dog"

That killed me.

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skullbone posted...

Doing the dance a 2nd time is worth it to see Aerith's reaction when you don't press anything.

This. Plus the dance itself was a fun sequence.

I think Chapter 9 is also great but the collapsed highway section is definitely one of the low points of the game. The high fives are absolutely wonderful though.

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The platinum is pretty easily obtainable too. The most annoying part for me was that I had to do all of Chapter 14's side quests again because I missed the letter the first time around.

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Yea, craft them for the hell of it. You don't lose wildcards but you get to keep the cards if they become useful for whatever reason.

I've also been trying to win as much as I can with my Fires deck before the ban hits.

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Yea, can't wait for rotation. Not sure if I want to craft a bunch of Uros in the meantime and play some Temur or just play Phoenixes or Boros Cycling casually until rotation hits.

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Companion changed so you add it to your hand with 3 mana. Agent and Fires banned in Standard.

https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/june-1-2020-banned-and-restricted-announcement?asp=4

RIP my Keruga Fires deck.

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Nice, made it back into the top half. Was mostly just playing a ton of FF7R and FFIX last month. Gonna work towards getting the plat for FFIX and playing some I Am Setsuna and the Last of Us 2 this month.

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XIII_rocks posted...

That's fairly normal, Hell House is kind of... fiddly.

It has so many stages and parts of the battle where it's immune, you really have to pay attention to fight it efficiently.

Yea it's a weird one. Glad they kept it in for some classic ridiculousness though.

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Finally got the platinum trophy for this. I definitely felt the itch too, after being the game the first time I almost felt an immediate itch to go and replay it on hard.

Hard mode was fun. The entire game wasn't too difficult but hard gave it a bit of a challenge, which was nice. I think the hardest boss for me was somehow Hell House. I think I died to it the most in both my normal and hard playthroughs.

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If you have the gold or gems lying around, go for it. Day 1 is Bo1 so it's there's a bit more variance though.

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I paid the 20k gold to enter the Arena Open with my Keruga Fires deck. Went 3:3 so it wasn't worth it, but it was fun.

First loss was a fair loss against mono green. Second loss was against a guy who managed to get two Leyline of Combustions in his opening hand, which made removal very painful. Was one turn away from taking it but he managed to finish me off. Last loss was some crazy Winota shenanigans. He played Winota turn three because of his goose, swung with an elf, managed to get an Agent of Treachery out which stole a land, bringing me back to one land. Turn after he swings with the team again, gets two more Agents, and takes all my lands.

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Yea that seems super clunky but I guess doing that means the current reminder text doesn't get contradicted. So who knows, maybe that'll actually happen.

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Wonder what it would be. Having it replace a card in your opening hand seems like a more balanced way to do it.

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Maybe not paying more but there are a few cases where you can pay less if you pay with a credit card just because of a promotion the store is having with the card.

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Linking my credit card to Google Pay and tapping my phone has changed my life. It's so nice.

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