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scarletspeed7 posted...

Why is Gamora?

to be FIERCE and GREEN
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Well they released a promo saying new episodes this summer so the wait won't be long, comparatively speaking.

It's pretty sad how much they've fucked up the pacing of the series
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Hoid picked some stuff up on the Elantris world too, though I'm not sure if we know what it actually does.
(Elantris spoils) Or, given how the magic there is tied to country of origin, if he's even capable of using it.
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I really don't think you can call Taravangian a disappointment until we find out what the fuck Cultivation is up to. I am pretty sure he's right where she wants him to be.
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Yeah I have the Tavern Brawl quest this week and I'm not looking forward to it.
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Yeah but it's hilarious BS. I used my HoF dust on Aviana and Kun and now I kinda want to craft Togwaggle because that has to be the king of the meme combos.
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The Emperor's Soul is a novella set in the Elantris world (but unrelated so can be read in any order). I'm not sure if it got collected but don't overlook it. It's really damn good. IMO better than both of the "standalone" Cosmere novels for sure.

Oathbringer put me on a small Sanderson binge but I took a break before diving into Mistborn. I just started it so this topic is nicely timed to make me want to read even more.
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Yeah in Dr. Boom's time everything was sort of midrange goodstuff, and he was the best of that sort of threat. He didn't really warp the meta or force anything out, he was just heavily played and frustrating to see every match. Yeah you had to play at least 1 BGH but I think given a choice you'd play that card anyways.
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I blame PTSD from Boom Bot highrolls
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Tom Bombadil posted...

what have I missed since uh

halfway through the magic dude's party expansion when I hit a wall on the single player stuff

Constructed: Shaman is back to dumpster tier (I think it has one good deck in Wild). Priest took its place for a while then got nerfed. Now Warlock and Paladin are the best classes because they have the best heals+control and face plan, respectively. Meanwhile, Priest has burst damage now and Druid is the armor class. There's a new 6 drop that's a 4/4 that summons a 12/12, and 2-drops are bad in aggro because you only want 1 in your deck. Building decks with only even or odd cards is a powerful strategy. You know, normal stuff.

Arena: You now need a PhD to understand offering rates. But now everyone can play op cards.

Adventures: Are dead but have been replaced with this cool deckbuilding + boss rush single player mode. Though Frozen Throne had a normal adventure mode so we might go back, but people seem to vastly prefer the new model.
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Honestly my impression of Rose has been getting more negative over time, and I think that's an intentional thing the writers were doing, so it feels like a progression of that instead of a 180.

I don't know when it started but it was going on at least since Bismuth (who did nothing wrong).
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I mistook Daretti for Darevi, started looking for my boy Roon, and got really confused. <_<
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Look I'll meet you halfway and admit she was occasionally funny as an apathetic sociopath
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Lapis episode was whatever. I'm sick of Lapis waffling back and forth between being loyal to her friends or herself. Obviously going to result in her coming back to save everyone at some point, but that was a given anyways so who cares? worst gem

Pearlception was great and the Pink Diamond stuff was a looooong time coming so it's great to see it finally happen.
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StartTheMachine posted...

But...this time I only made it halfway through. Perhaps it still does get brilliant or perhaps my memory of it is way inflated. Not sure if I should finish watching it the original way or check out that re-release I also knew nothing about.

It absolutely gets better. The first few episodes are really slow and are establishing recurring plotlines and setups to jokes that have punchlines entire episodes later. The first George Sr. episode in particular is a snoozefest. About midway through the season, things start intertwining and it becomes incredible. Some of the last episodes are hilarious because they're almost all punchlines at that point. I loved the experimental storytelling, and it gets WAY better on a rewatch, but the problem is that initial hump in addition to the format turning people off.

I'm kind of skeptical about the remix for that reason. It seems to me like it would draw even more attention to people not being in the same room, at the tradeoff of smoothing out the pacing.
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KokoroAkechi posted...

And if voidcaller was in stardard now with cube and umbra, etc around it would 100% be complained about. Warlock currently has some of the strongest control tools it has ever had and giving it an okay statted minion with huge upside a turn earlier than lackey is very strong.

Wild Cubelock plays Voidcaller. Lackey is still the stronger card because of the tutor effect.
Skull and Lackey are what make that deck work in both formats. Voidcaller is good, but the old zoo decks weren't built around mana cheating, it was just an occasionally strong upside that your opponent had to respect. The critical mass of demon summoning effects is what makes Voidcaller less fair. It's like how Rez Priest was a dumb meme deck until they printed too many rezzes and clones and it became Big Priest. This kind of thing is fine in moderation but too much of it makes the game degenerate.
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Thanos can absolutely make more resources, but that's missing the point. He doesn't just want to save the universe, he wants to do it HIS way. The people of Titan didn't listen to him and died. He tried it on Gamora's planet and it worked. Why would he consider any other options when he knew he was right all along? He's not out of touch, the rest of the universe is wrong!

or they'll just reveal he has a boner for Death in part 2
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Maybe it's just because the dust has settled by now, but there were plenty of wrong people taking Tony's side when the movie came out.
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It's crazy how the tried-and-true event comic formula that's been done to death is considered shocking when put to film. Note that I'm not disagreeing with you that it was risky to turn into a movie, but from a comics fan perspective, Infinity War is incredibly safe. Not at all like TLJ.
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scarletspeed7 posted...

And, quite honestly, Marvel heroes in Marvel comics are in fact a menace and should be shut down. Iron Man's way of doing it was wrong. Wanda Maximoff's way was right.

So what you're saying is...No More Marvel?
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SupremeZero posted...

I don't know that Captain Marvel was hidden so much as "Somewhere else entirely in the galaxy", most likely.

The premise is that aliens invaded Earth in the 90s during a war, and the whole thing was covered up.
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Anagram posted...

Magneto raises the more important question of how they'd integrate mutants into the MCU, and also of how they'll retcon the Inhumans from having ever happened.

They'll probably do the same "they were always around, just very well-hidden" that they did with Ant-Man and now Captain Marvel.
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No one aaked the most important question.

Team Cap or Team Iron Man?
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Every year, increase the amount of minions needed to complete the quest by 1.
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turbopuns2 posted...

Alright. I heard about it for a while when I was getting back into the game but hadn't actually played since KFT. But now, I know. Not just from hearsay, but from experience.

Doomguard is the problem. Holy shit. Not cube. Not Voidlord. Not Lackey. Not skull. Doomguard is insane. The reddit consensus of making its charge part of a Battlecry is probably correct. As it stands, wow. Just gtfo.

I feel like whether people hate Doomguard or Voidlord more comes from if they play Control or Aggro. Which is just more reason why the enablers are the busted cards, not the demons. Changing Doomguard doesn't stop them from playing a billion Voidlords by turn 10. Cheating out a Doomguard or Mal'ganis has been good since Voidwalker, but was manageable until they made all these cheap combos to summon even more demons with little chance for counterplay.
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When most Wraths are 5 mana, the extra turn is a blessing. Exiling is also really good with Gods and Phoenixes running around.

Speaking from the other side, it's annoying to play around because you want to avoid swinging with everything you have, which plays into single-target removal (or just not pressuring the other player enough, letting them cast other spells without pressure).
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banananor posted...

Are there any decks that are fun to lose to?

I dunno about fun, but if I lose to something like Jund it feels fair, which is close? It can be fun to lose to crazy brews once in a while.

I think it depends a lot on the opponent and circumstances too. People have fun losing games of Commander all the time.
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I was half-joking about King's Dead because even though it's probably the most well known original song to come out of the MCU, it's not actually in the movie. But if we're counting the ending credits as being "in the movie" then it's All The Stars.


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Xiahou Shake posted...

How active is Wild in Hearthstone these days, anyhow? I stopped playing towards the end of Old Gods but at least when it was new I always had the sense that Wild was kind of a dead throwaway mode that almost nobody cared about. I've been playing Shadowverse for about a month now and one of the big things that immediately struck me is that the Unlimited format is actually a big part of the game with lots of players and even events of its own. I figure things must have changed for HS since I quit since the card offerings of the two formats are way more different now than when I stopped.

It's....okay. The mode is decently populated and there was an in-game event promoting it about a month before rotation. There was one set of nerfs targeted at Wild, but Blizzard is just at slow as balancing it as they are Standard. And there are not really any major tournaments. There's been one problem deck (Giantslock) that's needed adjustments since two expansions ago, but apart from that, Wild and Standard are having the same set of problems right now for the same reasons (Warlock and Paladin).

It's a lot more popular now than it used to be, but it still is holding on to its reputation as a dumpster just because certain cards and decks tilt HS players off the face of the planet and they never want to see them again.
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Camden posted...

Wild Brawliseum was fun, people who didn't normally play wild threw decks together and I was playing against all kinds of different decks. This is just the exact same decks I'm facing on ladder.

Variety isn't the point of the game mode. It's good because it's a more competitive tournament-ish mode with immediate payouts. Imagine if it was the end of the month instead and you weren't grinding ladder anymore but still wanted to play Constructed for rewards, it would give you something to do. Instead they put it at the worst time of the month and replace the mode that usually gives you a break, which makes it look more unattractive than it actually is.

Though ideally a permanent Brawliseum would cycle Wild/Standard every few weeks or so.
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La di da di da
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Camden posted...

No tavern brawl this week, they just added a second option to play standard ladder.

Brawliseum is good tho, the only problem is that they still haven't given it a permanent mode so people aren't pissed when it shows up as the Brawl.
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LapisLazuli posted...

I'm pretty sure I'm gonna agree with that once I get there, but I almost don't even mind. The content up to this point and an enormous chunk of content after this point. Like, obviously I KNOW, but it's hard to wrap my head around just how much good stuff I still have left. I haven't even hit Hivebent yet!

The crazy thing is that Act 6 is literally 50% of the entire comic. It's surreal to think about.
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I reread it during one of the last pauses to refresh myself before the ending. I felt like the later parts of Act 6 weren't as good and I'd just outgrown it or something. Nope, first 5 acts are still incredible. And there's still some great standout moments after that.

It's just a shame the ride will never fucking end.
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turbopuns2 posted...

you learn something new every day....I'd never seen the interaction between Skull of Ma'nari + Doomsayer where a just-top-decked demon will drop before Doomsayer triggers. Was just facing cubelock and his first turn of skull whiffed, and he played doomsayer, next turn he draws a voidlord and it drops and instantly dies. Caused my freezing trap to hit a voidwalker. >_> And yeah, he top-decked doomguard next turn. boo.

Doesn't Skull do it's effect before cards are drawn? I know I've misplayed before trying to burn the Warlock's cards and it'll just summon a demon before drawing normally.
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It's because most people actually playing MTG are more concerned with increasing the playerbase and accessibility than the value of their collection, and the public face of the game is constantly admitting that the RL is one of their biggest mistakes.

Accessibility is a major concern among players of all constructed formats, the RL is just the easiest target.
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That's the same point. I don't know what you're getting at. You're saying that certain versions of cards (7th foil Birds, Masterpieces) have more value due to scarcity, despite being reprinted into the ground like Birds has. I am also saying that they could reprint Reserved List cards, and the original printed versions would retain value due to scarcity of that particular version.

Look at Imperial Recruiter. It was a $250 card. They reprinted it, and that reprint is worth $30. The original is still $190. Sure, it lost value, but the collectible version is still much more valuable compared to the accessible version now available if you just want the card to play.
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TomNook posted...

Special printings. I doubt Masterpieces will ever be reprinted with that same frame.

By this exact logic, the Reserved List cards will never again be reprinted the same way, and will therefore retain value if they were to be reprinted in a modern frame.
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TomNook posted...

I always giggle though when people say it makes them unable to play Legacy. No one is forcing you to not use Shock Lands...

Running strictly worse cards isn't usually what people have in mind when they say they want to play a format competitively.
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Awesome!
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I also had a dude clapping in my theater when Tony got stabbed . Also someone (probably the same guy) went ballistic when Thanos got all the gems and powered up . Pretty funny. And of course the whole theater cheered whenever Thor did something cool.

This was at a matinee, too. It's been so long since I've been at a movie with so much
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KamikazePotato posted...

Actually, I think that any major complaints about the movie I have can be traced back to Gamora. She's one of the few MCU characters who I have never been on board with. Character design feels off (instead of looking like an actual alien like the other humanoid aliens, she just looks like the actress slapped on some face paint) and the acting direction seems off. And Gamora is a major character in this one so yeeeah.

It felt to me like they were trying to hastily assemble reasons for people to care about her. I'm half-expecting, half-hoping that they just tag her out for Nebula in future Guardians movies. Nebula got more interesting character development in Vol 2 than Gamora has period, and since she survived Infinity War she gets another movie worth of screentime over Gamora.

The rest of the movie was good. It was basically everything I expected but actually executed well. I was impressed that they crammed so much stuff in, and it had a good balance between serious and comedic scenes that helped the jokes to land.
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Yeah the timer issue is not perfect. It feels like its somehow too slow for normal spell/response things and way too fast for things like blockers. Plus yeah, so many control players taking 60 seconds to decide if they want to cast Essence Scatter (hint: you do).
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In that case, might as well wait until the show is done and then he can take every fan complaint into account.
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Up

Probably gonna do a draft of DOM next week. For now I've mostly just been messing around with Arena. It feels good to play with Llanowar Elves in a Standard set again.
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I wouldn't expect him to even want to release it while the show's ongoing. Now that he can't get it out ahead of the show, I feel like it'll just get overshadowed.
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Cool, I wasn't expecting TWoW anyways
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I did get to put together a Shalai + Dauntless Bodyguard combo. That was fun. For me.
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I went 3-1 with a janky UW control deck. Basically got carried by two Shalai and In Bolas's Clutches. And occasionally slamming the 2 mana 2/2 first strike hexproof black guy early.

Sealed felt kinda strange. I'm looking forward to trying out a draft of this set.
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Well, you do if you're watching Reynad
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