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I suppose comple(a)tion was never meant to be as perfect as advertised!

can anyone get me caught up on new phyrexian lore, or point me towards something to read?

they don't seem so unified, so at this point they seem to functionally be people with the internet plugged into their bodies

also, i can't see elsewhere flask as anything else but a tiny penis with huge balls wearing a necktie

edit: welcome to page 6 everybody

this draft set does feel a bit weird.

everything seems low power, the synergies don't seem that strong, there are a few ridiculous bombs (as usual) but they cost like 9 mana, the timewarped (or whatever) artifacts throw a big wrench in the works, yet everything ends up being balanced somehow

something about clay champion just feels wrong, even though it's barely technically not more powerful than Gigantosaurus

I attempted ranked 2s last weekend with my teammate, but the queue times were so long I just gave up

I want to play ranked, but the unranked queue is almost instantaneous

Hopefully it's just because players hadn't figured out ranked was available yet

I prefer it to the seven year (or whatever) weatherlight saga/dominaria era for sure

My favorite era flavor wise was probably from mirrodin until Planeswalker cards were introduced

true! that card is nuts.

i misspoke- i meant in the vacuum of with regards to revenue, not in a vacuum ignoring the metagame.

mono black has been incredibly busted on the ladder since DMU came out. it has a ~60% winrate while being ~30% of the meta, easily the highest of any deck

this is one of the most transparent "ban the older card because people are done buying those packs anyway" decisions i can remember wizards making in a while.

in a vacuum, i might have targeted invoke despair instead

the proxy stuff is ridiculous, but it's hard for me to be mad when mtg was the original lootbox game that started it all

nathan for you was a bit sociopathic, especially in the first season. i've seen enough of it (my dad LOVES it) to understand it more

while i still don't particularly enjoy it, i no longer think poorly of people who do

most of the time it's about watching people react to nathan behaving oddly, and using money/tv as a way to keep them from leaving

it's (for the most part) taking the cringe from The Office and applying it to real people

"too much humor" wasn't my biggest problem with the film!

Out of all the fake science fiction things, it seems a bit silly to get hyper focused on something an in universe character decided to name a fake element

Scientists named their research vessel "boaty mcboatface", a newly discovered protein "sonic hedgehog", a mineral "cummingtonite", and a bird species "turdus maximus". Officially naming something "unobtanium" seems tame in comparison!

You do have a point- fiction in some ways needs to be more realistic than real life

LordoftheMorons posted...

how dumb it was that the substance that they were after was called unobtanium

Okay, you take that back, unobtanium is unironically a great name

I cannot believe this is actually coming out

I have no interest, but I have to imagine I'll be roped into seeing it in a theater

Fantasy

tbh i don't understand how and why they decide to allow cameras in the courtrooms at all

BlueCrystalTear posted...

I feel that consoles are a necessity because those localize the GPUs - I don't know how long it will take for a remote graphics streamer to actively work.

i think it already does work if you are lucky- i.e., a PC player hooked up to an ethernet cable living in an area with strong internet reasonably close to the service's data centers. for slower paced or even turn-based games it works just fine for other users, too

gaming pcs/consoles are still equal or better 97% of the time, because all of the streamed games are just normal PC/console games, but streamed. the only current use case is someone who somehow has great internet but a mediocre gaming setup

longer term, i'd love to see large-scale multiplayer games that could never reasonably run on a consumer machine, but can run on a server and stream to a hundred+ players simultaneously

i'll admit it's a solution in search of a problem. and i don't think there's a way for a company to realistically make that financial leap successfully, but it's fun to think about

fortybelowsummer posted...

I've watched the first 2 episodes because I love Evan Peters and his portrayal is great

People with this opinion are the only reason I'm aware of the show!

fortybelowsummer posted...

It's hard to support something that's retraumatizing for the families just to make a buck.

Yeah, this is how I feel about many true crime shows. I prefer when they're focused on the investigators and their investigative process, rather than the execution of the crimes themselves

This is a little sad, because I want some kind of game streaming platform(s) to succeed. I still think there's a lot of potential for games uniquely designed to be run not on your local machine

I wonder how well Amazon Luna is doing

Don't know how I missed this thread for so long

Just read the top 15 and the writeups are really good! will check out the rest later

Some of them I've never tried, but I like the rest so I'll put them on my backlog!

Maybe you've mentioned some already, but what do you think about the resurgence of boomer shooters?

never seen a group of scientists so happy to crash their spacecraft

it sounds like we now wait for 2 months to see if it accomplished anything!

I've never had issues moving my number between providers- it seems like changing countries might be the only reason you'd have to change (?)

I'm interested in hearing stories about switching

They did the remastered version or whatever a long time ago

Most CEOs kind of suck so I don't see the issue. I had no idea he had 7 million subscribers, that's gotta be some decent money

The only line in the video that gave me pause was "I'm not going to take creative control, but I do want to be involved"

I could be wrong, but that sounds like someone in denial

Regardless- The more publishers, the better in my opinion

The 97 berserk anime is good shit, I don't know what some of you are on about

If you want to read the manga, there's a website literally called "readberserk.com"

Welcome, gay Bowser

Pokemon

super sweet frosting and soft cookie material, and certain types of cookies like chips ahoy don't sit well in my stomach. my tongue has started to warn me about them

but darkish chocolate, ice cream, pumpkin pie, pie in general, harder graham crackers or weirdly enough marshmallows i could eat forever. cake is good, the art/structured frosting can leave, though

my theory is our gut biome gets used to what we eat. i've known people that *only* ate poultry for years, and their body thought red meat was gross for a week or so when coming back. if i go a long time without eating sweet stuff i stop craving it and my tolerance for candy goes way down

as of now, i wouldn't say i really crave sweet stuff, but i do like it when it's there

savory is better tho

In some ways I think it's so bad that it's good

And the final scene is just excellent

Ha, nice/sussy meme. I feel lame for correcting you, but Palpatine is not Anakin's father

What is there, aside from luke & Leia?

That one was for sure a retcon- they weren't supposed to be related until they started writing the sequel and their subplot was awkwardly dropped

Is this a reference to one of the Disney shows?

There were 8 years between personas 4 and 5, we can only hope for 6 in 2024 at the earliest

> Just stop Trump from getting reelected

monkey's paw gets desantis elected tbqh

Mario

Sorozone posted...

Destroy is the only correct option. The child is a liar and his premise is deeply flawed. You cant trust control. No reason to believe that it would work, and once again you are having to trust the same the reaper tech and go trust me bro.

being fully rational for a second- you still have to trust the child that the "destroy" button works as described, too! Or that nobody switched the wires and colors! The whole scenario is quite silly.

destroy is clearly the canon ending (or will be when mass effect 4 comes out), but i'm a little salty about it. i think all three choices are interesting, but destroy is the most boring of the bunch. in real life i wouldn't blame anyone for slamming the destroy button, but it's such a coward's return to the status quo

i like turning myself into pretzels to justify control- use the reapers to fix the relays and then self destruct- but i'd certainly never approve of someone else getting control of the reapers. ultra-paragon shepherd isn't a real person.

the theme of the mass effect trilogy is that if you try to do anything other than destroy the reapers, you've been indoctrinated the whole time. so, thematically, control isn't a real choice.

the entire situation is an homage to Isaac Asimov's foundation series, just not executed particularly well. Not sure if I should spoil or spoiler-tag a 41-year-old science fiction book, but in "Foundation's Edge", the conclusion to the original trilogy, the main character ultimately chooses between giving the advantage in galactic control to one of three factions. First Foundation, based on traditional military and politics, Second Foundation, based on psychic powers, and Gaia, absorption of all life into a chill nature-based hive mind. Those obviously correspond to destroy, control, and synthesis

assuming everything works as advertised, destroy is terrible.

it causes trillions to starve to death in the short term. planets are dependent on interstellar trade to function, and nearly everyone on non-farm planets will die

lastly, in the long term- if you cured the genophage like a compassionate person- the krogan slaughter the rest of the galaxy over the subsequent centuries

again, a coward's return to the status quo, and any negative side effects are just a big oopsie

iirc, in the games the prince's magical powers are fairly limited

• he can slow down time, but it's not like he moves faster- he just thinks faster, allowing him to time jumps more precisely
• he can cause enemies to move in slow motion- if he stabs them with his magic dagger first
• when rewinding time, it costs sand and he can only do it about 5 times total

aside from that, he's just an extremely athletic and acrobatic guy with sword training

in the cartoon logic/physics of a donkey kong fight, i think DK just OHKOs him- forcing a rewind- five times

if the setup includes a chance for the prince to rewind before the start of the match and then create an ambush he can win. otherwise, i don't see it

dk

"mind scanners" is awesome. great story balanced by silly gameplay. more hopeful than papers, please

"operator" on humble was a big fat disappointment. why show 10 missions on the initial mission screen if there's only one?

swordz9 posted...

I wonder if every billionaire realizes theyll almost immediately be killed in world-ending scenario because money and loyalty would no longer mean anything so their security/employees would just instantly turn on them

Yes, they go over that in detail in the article/book excerpt!

It's like when people watch the walking dead, then daydream what *they* would do in the zombie apocalypse

The only difference is that these people have hundreds of millions of dollars and can invest more in their daydreaming

When it comes to doomsday prepping, things quickly get into philosophical territory. What you do depends on your goals are.

Do you just want to live as long as possible? Live as long as possible and still have your favorite video games and a basketball court? Have kids and secure a miniature future society where they are royalty?

Technically, people could think about life that way, even without a doomsday scenario. I just don't like thinking about it

Wow, when it comes some of these movies from the early 2000s, I would have SWORN they were 90s films

The 2000s were a wide decade for movies

apparently!

Requesting feats for ramza's brilliant tactics

People have parasocial relationships with celebrities and pseudo celebrities all the time

A guy I know irl went into a depressive episode because the author of his favorite manga died!

I was very young at the time, but I remember everybody going nuts about princess Diana. Granted, that was under more dramatic circumstances

i appreciate the effort that went into this topic

Star

My favorite wong moment was in multiverse of madness when he interacted with Wanda

Wanda: help me find the macguffin so I can destroy the multiverse


Wong: no, that would be evil and everyone would die. I'll kill myself before I help you


Wanda: ah, shit. Well... um... Help me destroy the universe or, uh, I'll kill this wizard over here

Wong: darn. okay, I'll help you (then actually helps)

paperwarior posted...

I dropped out early but it was something. It had an appeal. Kind of hard to define.

This is very similar to my experience

Homestuck was kind of like... being on a long hike or road trip or at summer camp, and making up a story with your friends/siblings as you went along because you were so bored

Pre-smartphone, of course

Nothing really made sense, but it was fun to keep piling things on and exploring creativity

Homestuck wasn't quite the same, because it wasn't made by me or made by a friend, it was just some guy. That's why I dropped off

I suppose at this point everyone knows what they're getting into

i bet it came from normal play- if you straight up enjoy a game and don't care about the progression systems, ironically that's how you end up with the most loot

for a while i had more rocket league swag than i knew what to do with, and i played so much MTGA that i accrued a million gold by accident. i was on track to have something similar happen in splitgate, but my friends stopped playing and i lost interest

https://youtu.be/mOyE_l80D4Y

Real answer- Back when I rode the train it would have been books

But now it's some amalgamation of movies, TV, ttrpg, and watching competitive sc2. And I guess anime is its own category- people I know are getting me into watching more of that. Bad/mediocre anime is much more tolerable in a group

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