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That being said if Gordon never gets his helmet in game I actually agree with it being removed just all the time. As you can tell my half life knowledge is not super high. I thought he got it late game lol.

Chaeix posted...

is he a 4/week who's rosterable in low and then the paydown triggers the helmet? i got there in the end but could be stated more directly

His passive does the following

1. Removes his helmet
2. Makes him rosterable ignoring current restrictions.

He becomes rosterable low due to his passive (which also removes his helmet)

If you pay him down (or it's mid or high) the passive disappears so his helmet comes back on

There is probably a better way to word it but the intention is:

- Rosterable in low without helmet
- able to pay down low to put helmet back on
- helmet stays on in mid and high

So yeah probably 2 slots, 1 on upgrade. Basically if you want Gordon to be part of your low team after roster caps are hit you gotta pay exp. To me that's fair and would make him more appealing overall vs just outright removing the helmet.

Pumpkinhead (Passive) - Gordon Freeman is considered to be on your active roster and is rosterable for two roster slots, ignoring rosterability restrictions, but will enter battle without his helmet. This passive is disabled if it's a mid tier or high tier week, or if Gordon Freeman has been paid down.

Ability upgrade - When rostered with his Pumpkinhead passive he only takes one roster slot.

Maybe make him cost two roster slots as a normal paydown and give it an ability upgrade.

Is Gourdon without helmet worth two slots in low? I dunno.

4/week

Pumpkinhead (Passive) - Gordon Freeman is considered rosterable for one roster slot without being paid down in low tier matches. He will enter battle without his helmet if rostered in this way.

Idea

Make Gourdon a 4 week

Give him a passive where he's always considered rosterable in low without paying down but has no helmet if you roster him in low unless you pay him down.

I dunno just an idea.

Yes

Best character on a great show (not easily though, fun cast)

If Yuna summons DK is done for. Do not see DK being smart enough to try and juke a summon to destroy Yuna.

The two paths to victory for DK are

- Yuna doesn't open with a summon, choosing to use like magic and stuff (I feel this is unlikely)
- Yuna opens with a summon but DK closes before her dance thing is complete (any sort of fair terrain DK isn't fast enough)

And then on the first one I mean Yuna could possibly win by nuking DK with holy too

Yuna wins

I think Aero is still good but only on turn 5 now. Turn 6 I feel Magneto is generally gonna be more disruptive with 4 more power behind him.

Yeah.

In m4 there are a few builds that pointlessly have the specific weapon in the writeup to enable that but it is hard to remember to do reliably

LinkMarioSamus posted...

The new Ant-Man movie has an audience RT score in the 80s, and yet it managed to not only tie Eternals for the worst Cinemascore in the entire MCU,

Feels like a good reason to take audience score seriously to me

Ant-Man was actually good just not amazing. I definitely think initial bad word of mouth colored perceptions going in more than the movie actually earned.

I mean it's definitely better as not a Mario movie.

But like if I want to watch Dennis Hopper as a bad guy (only half good part of the movie) I'd much rather watch like Waterworld which is itself nothing special.

It's just not exciting and doesn't really build to anything.

"Fine" is a very very VERY generous way to describe it. It's very subpar scifi stuff even ignoring the branding.

Eddv posted...

So the only problem with this is a lot of mercs, like BJ for example, have a ton of shit but none of it is listed in his writeup.

Yeah.

I mean maybe just reroll invalid targets or steal from the pool of all enemy customs instead and ignore the battle write-up

There are ways to do it point is

1. you definitely don't want to implement it in that other way.
2. Lightning bolt was never the problem to begin with, spamming it was.

I said this before but the lightning bolt was never the problem it's Mario only having 5 custom options and wanting to pick the same one every time. I think the boo is straight up a worse idea than the lightning bolt. It's a nightmare to interpret.

I think there's a lot of potential for a Mario "feeling" build if there's a larger set of customization options but Mario has to use them up and refind them again. Ultimately I would like something like this.

? Block (passive) - Each Wartime Mario will find 1 Customization randomly from each of [Group A], [Group B], [Group C], as well as one additional random item chosen from a randomly chosen group. All items can only be used by him unless otherwise noted, and items may not repeat.

[Group A]
Fire Flower, P-Wing, Cape, Ice Flower, Tanuki Suit, Hammer Suit, Super Mushroom, Kuribo's Shoe, Fludd, 3 SMB2 Mushroom Blocks.

[Group B]
Metal Cap, Vanish Cap, Mario Kart Boo (steal a random item from a random post rosters enemy's battle write-up, chosen when rosters are revealed), Mario Kart Lightning Bolt, Starman 15s, 1-Up (revives to full health once per match), Warp Whistle (may choose to give to a teammate if chosen, may be used to teleport to anywhere on the terrain once per match), SMB2 Clock (freezes time for everyone but Mario for 10s), POW Block, Hammer as seen in Smash Bros Series/Donkey Kong Series, Mega Mushroom 15s

[Group C]
His current customs go here. As well as ideally some extras to flesh it out. A Smash Bros inspired item set would be neat for example. Mario Kart expanded to have Lightning Bolt, My Version of Boo, and a Spiked Blue Shell that will launch at the furthest enemy from him.

Customization: Mario may bring 3-5 items with him he has found from his ? block passive with him into battle.

Item Storage (results) - Mario may hang onto one item not chosen from his custom this week. He is always considered to have rolled that item as a choosable extra bonus item until he chooses a different item or it is used, and it will not be considered to be a repeat item. (Upgradeable to SMB3 style item window holding more)

The basic idea is

Group A - Low impact, but give Mario basic combat options. These exist to be used if you want to store stronger items mostly truth be told.
Group B - Theme here is high impact temporary power ups. Arguably as good as Group C situationally.
Group C - Bread and Butter complete power up sets as seen in M5 to give Mario legs. Since at least one of these is always rolled he should always have some good persistent firepower if he needs it.

If you think you have a match in hand, you store a Group B or Group C. If not you pick all Group Bs and Cs because you can store extras and aren't compelled to actually use the As you roll.

The more items the better, and shouldnt hurt too much. Mario should be versatile, powerful, and reasonably but not 100% consistent.

Corrik is the only town in this game thinking

He had the read

We trust in Corrik. Wallz and Kirby are town

SPECIAL.

SPEClAL.

Vote Death IGCD

##Unvote:
##Vote: Death

Gogogo

We should consider pivoting to Plum or Death it may be our only hope

Last time Death was so thoughtful about the game and so bad with voting he was a recruited cultist

Maybe Corrik was right

The alternative is Ulti thought he could lynch Lea who didn't need any help?

Think what Ulti was aiming to achieve

He was either making Lea an untouchable hyper carry, trying to deflect from Plum, or most likely both

And you won't vote plum either. Then what good are you?

[LFAQs-redacted-quote]


Corrik gave token lipservice to saying Ulti was town and I'm pretty sure it was just so he'd look scummy and wouldn't get shot

I'd totally vote plum here

Uncountered doc be damned

We need soldiers

Who is bad enough to save Kirby and defeat the vile Lea

Death pretty much accurately called Plum's take on Lea's relevance to that lynch a complete fabrication.

Plum pretty much has made everything up about how yesterday's lynch went

Remember when he said Corrik was defending Ulti super hard when that's what he was doing

masterplum posted...

I swear if Lea, who was the pivotal vote on Ulti gets lynched I am checking out of this game

what a stupid lynch here

This false hero worshipping narrative is why plum is scum.

You spent the whole game OMGUSing a cop because he suspected you plum while saying we should wait for scans

If you're town you've been completely miserable here

(That's why I know you're scum)

IGCD you are failing your prime directive do as I command !!

##Unvote:
##Vote: Lea

We have a chance. Kirby is with us. We ride IGCD!

I just don't like the Kirby lynch here. We would ideally fell Lea but hb has had some suspicious moments and lurks

Ignore plum he is either scum or is far checked out of this game

##Unvote
##Vote: hbthebattle

Follow me squire IGCD we must defeat the sub boss first

[LFAQs-redacted-quote]


Depends who scum kills in the power triangle and which are scum

With Corrik as my ally we have a chance

With Isquen or much worse... Plum as my ally... we are doomed.

Good find from abacus

I knew he was being set up as the fall guy by Lea and was good people

I wonder who Lea will lead town into tomorrow

Well Kirby

If town you've only yourself to blame

If you'd tried and help figure the game out with me we would've broke Lea wide open

Like look if Isquen is town getting the fake doctor off board is good to make sure he watches the right target

Let's just lynch plum

Vote Lea IGCD you are compelled

Scumteam final answer

Plum
Lea
Red
Isquen

red13n posted...

Now? What do you even think changed. Your second sentence literally is a load of nothing.

As opposed to the start of the day when I was trying to get her lynched, before Isquen set off a chain reaction, yes.

I'll be here. I'm just tired.

It's all here. But it is beyond me to convince anyone. Too many good players are scum or idling.

Just know this. Scum has to shoot power roles now. Lea can coast to endgame and be viably not considered for a night kill. If you think there is a chance she is not playing a town game now is the only chance you're going to have.

##Unvote:
##Vote: Lea

Prepared to waste my vote here. Lea is not helping to solve the game. She is cycling between low hanging fruit and trying to see what sticks. This is not how town Lea plays.

I think plum has played more overtly scummy but yeah if he's not doc we will know soon enough

That'll be it from me. Have fun.

What I still can't get is why Ulti ever ever makes that play unless Lea and Plum are both scum. It seems impossible to consider. Can Ulti actually be that bad at the game? There's no way he 4d chessed into thinking I would tunnel Lea (nor thought that would matter-- I am clearly failing to do this)

Lea hb being paired is still possible I guess? I mean Lea has to pick some actual scum in her suspects.

Hb's game

Lurk
Challenge me on calling Wallz scum
Challenge me on calling Ulti scum
When addressing me he claimed he was trying to avoid engaging with me this game (yet basically 90% of his content has been engaging me)
Lurk hard when I stopped pursuing him as a scum possibility

To me I still think hb wanting to gloat about Wallz reading Ulti as scum being a bad read on my end was a slip that was a sign Hb knew Ulti was scum and wallz was town because he articulated wallz's argument excessively

maybe I just got so tunnel visioned into Lea being scum that I gave up a good lead there

Hb is probably lurking and hasn't claimed. If we can't do Lea I'm OK with lynching him

Abacus I'm not at all ok with it

Let's not lynch Abacus

Lea is still scum and has been setting him up for a mislynch all day

I'm just calling it what it is, man

It's pro-town to claim here, yet you won't because you don't want to think you can be bullied into claiming in the future.

You are afraid of losing some sort of weird leverage based on rep when... you can just... play well, and be known as "that guy who probably won't claim but might if the game state dictates" one game in a sample size isn't going to change that

Like that last game where you killed Kanzaris who you thought was town so you would not be known as the guy who negotiates as terrorists was just sad

Sometimes (often times) it takes more bravery to just claim than it does to refuse to

If you put out what you have, you face the scrutiny of the players in the game and have to defend

If you don't, you're in a comfortable familiar place, easily defensible

Red13n? Definitely a cowardly player if I've ever seen one.

red13n posted...

red being too cowardly to do anything is the most hilarious shit you've said.

You constantly make poor game decisions in mafia because you're afraid people will actually call you on shit later

Your entire mafia MO is cowardice incarnate