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Comment on Follow up on the username thread: What Tildes users do you recognize when browsing and, without being rude or inflammatory, what is your impression of them? in ~tildes
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Comment on What have you been listening to this week? in ~music
DFGdanger LinkPoppy's new album Negative Spaces released yesterday. Have listened a couple times and really like most of it. I think new way out is still currently my favourite track, but it's had - *checks...Poppy's new album Negative Spaces released yesterday. Have listened a couple times and really like most of it. I think new way out is still currently my favourite track, but it's had - *checks notes* - 5 months of life as a single to embed into my brain. the center's falling out is a little too harsh for me and halo is a little too slow. I also don't like short interlude tracks, and for some reason there are 3 on the album.
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Comment on MTG Arena state of the game 2024 in ~games
DFGdanger LinkHonestly astounding it's taken this long to get almost-Pioneer. I don't know why they were so gung-ho to introduce wacky digital-only formats and cards first. There were only a few years of sets...December will include the long-awaited release of Pioneer Masters, bringing support for pretty much every tournament-relevant Pioneer deck we're aware of. We know this release doesn't include every fun or unique card in the format, but we'll continue to explore ways to deliver fun and relevant cards through products like anthologies, preconstructed deck sales, and more. As an aside for those players who immediately wonder, "When is Modern coming?", let me offer the preemptive answer of, "Modern currently isn't on our roadmap, and we don't have plans to add it any time soon."
Honestly astounding it's taken this long to get almost-Pioneer. I don't know why they were so gung-ho to introduce wacky digital-only formats and cards first. There were only a few years of sets they needed to catch up on.
I can understand Modern not being a priority at all, but that was my format of choice and among many other things that's kept me from using Arena.
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KNOWER - I'm the President (2023)
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
DFGdanger (edited )LinkNeva From the studio that made GRIS, it's another gorgeous 2D platformer, this time with a wolf companion and combat. Its look and enemies are heavily inspired by the anime movies Spirited Away...Neva
From the studio that made GRIS, it's another gorgeous 2D platformer, this time with a wolf companion and combat. Its look and enemies are heavily inspired by the anime movies Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke. It took me about 4.5h to beat. I've been replaying a bit of it to find collectibles. Overall I really like it.
Minor complaints:
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Sometimes they want to show off a scene and it takes too long to walk across it. I'd get the simultaneous feeling of "wow this is so beautiful" and "wow I'm so bored of holding right". Maybe those sections should have just been cutscenes. My gamer brain also made me spam the roll button across them to try to go faster. Maybe they should increase the run speed when you've been going for a while. I will say that later on you get to ride your (now giant) wolf through similar sections and it feels great, and maybe it would feel less great if you hadn't had to walk before.
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Sometimes it can be hard to make out certain important gameplay elements like exactly where ledges are because of artistic elements obscuring them, or which dark streaks in the forest will hurt you. Climbable walls have white dots on them and those are also sometimes hard to spot.
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When hunting for the collectibles, sometimes it's a little frustrating where I can see the thing I want to get, but if I explore a little too far forward trying to figure out how to reach it, I end up in an area I can't backtrack from, and have to restart from quite a ways back.
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The short final chapter is a little annoying. I don't want to spoil it, but there's a conflict that sort of comes out of nowhere and its resolution that takes place in a cutscene is a little frustrating given what you fought through in the previous chapter. The aftermath is satisfying so I get why they did it. But I felt like it needed to be re-worked somehow.
Balatro
Continuing to tear through my new save on mobile. Finally collected all the legendary jokers around the time I completed black stake. I just beat the challenges. 18 and 19 were not as tough this time around for me. 20 (Jokerless) was still brutal! I got a very lucky early game where I made a Steel card with a blue seal and copied it, then was able to go for Flushes and level it up like crazy. On the current patch you can't get the final bosses that probably screws you over (the one that debuffs your cards until you sell a joker), but you also can't get any free-rolls either (the ones that disable your jokers or flip and change their order). Also kind of interesting that I wouldn't have been able to use the strategy I did on the previous patch because blue seals made random planet cards before so I couldn't have gotten the flush upgrades as reliably.
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Comment on The Foundations of Magic's next era in ~games.tabletop
DFGdanger Link ParentFor 2025, that number is 6. 3 in-universe and 3 Universes Beyond (the last set on the roadmap is not revealed yet but they said it's UB).it would in part depend on how many Standard-legal releases they want to cram into a year
For 2025, that number is 6. 3 in-universe and 3 Universes Beyond (the last set on the roadmap is not revealed yet but they said it's UB).
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Comment on The Foundations of Magic's next era in ~games.tabletop
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Comment on The Foundations of Magic's next era in ~games.tabletop
DFGdanger LinkStarting next year, all Universes Beyond booster sets will be legal in all constructed formats, including Standard. The 2 on the roadmap are Final Fantasy and Spider-man. There will also be sci-fi...Starting next year, all Universes Beyond booster sets will be legal in all constructed formats, including Standard. The 2 on the roadmap are Final Fantasy and Spider-man.
There will also be sci-fi set.
I was really hoping Foundations was going to be a signal for Magic-y Magic to make a comeback. It's not.
Other minor bits of news:
- They are bringing back MSRP to their products
- Standard rotation will happen at the first set release of the year rather than the fall set. This will hopefully make it easier for people to track/remember
- Returning mechanics for Foundations: Flashback, Threshold, Prowess, Raid. Personally I did not like Threshold when I was a new player because I had to keep counting graveyards.
- Minor rules change - when defending player declares blocks, attacking player no longer has to order them and assign lethal damage, they can split damage however they want.
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The Foundations of Magic's next era
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Comment on Balatro: Friends of Jimbo | Reveal trailer in ~games
DFGdanger Link ParentI wish you could choose any theme to go with any suit. Not sure why they're locked to 1.I wish you could choose any theme to go with any suit. Not sure why they're locked to 1.
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Comment on Cards Against Humanity pays you to give a shit in ~society
DFGdanger Link ParentThat would drive me nuts. Is there a way you can request to change your number?That would drive me nuts. Is there a way you can request to change your number?
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Comment on US judge rules Google must give rival third-party app stores access to the full catalog of Google Play apps — and distribute third-party stores in ~tech
DFGdanger Link ParentStill seems bizarre. Like is the Epic Games Store getting access to the full Google Play catalog? Do the stores have to re-host the files themselves or do they act as a pass-through directly to...Still seems bizarre. Like is the Epic Games Store getting access to the full Google Play catalog? Do the stores have to re-host the files themselves or do they act as a pass-through directly to Google servers to download the apps?
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
DFGdanger (edited )Link ParentAlien Isolation "Collection" is on sale for 85% off on Steam and GOG, presumably to celebrate the 10 year anniversary. edit: also on Epic. I checked my library and they gave the base game away for...Alien Isolation "Collection" is on sale for 85% off on Steam and GOG, presumably to celebrate the 10 year anniversary.
edit: also on Epic. I checked my library and they gave the base game away for free at some point.
I've heard good things about the game. I looked up a gameplay video and...turned it off after half an hour, pretty disinterested.
I saw some people making fun of the IGN review of the game (5.9/10) and how wrong they were. I went and read the review and what stood out to me were:
- No Xenomorph in the first hour of the game
- The reviewer thought the game was great for a few hours after that but it dragged on way too long for them (15-20 hours total)
I think for me personally, I probably wouldn't enjoy it. I bounce off of a lot of games that are about stealth, and scrounging for materials + crafting. I recently bounced off of Prey (2017) and Horizon Zero Dawn because of this. Horror is also not a genre I have a strong affinity for (though I am interested in experiencing some I guess mostly due to FOMO). I played Amnesia: The Dark Descent when it was all the rage and thought it was...ok.
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Comment on Fact check: Greta Thunberg ‘vegan grenades’ TV interview is deepfake in ~tech
DFGdanger LinkOK this is hilarious. Yeah, makes sense. Beyond the trust issues discussed in this thread, I think humanity needs to level up its joke detection skills.“If we want to continue battles like environmentally conscious humans, we must make the change to sustainable tanks and weaponry… biodegradable missiles.
“If you use hand grenades, please use vegan grenades. No animal should have to give their life for all this mayhem and chaos ... I cover all this and more in my new book Vegan Wars.”
OK this is hilarious.
The doctored video appears to have been created by Snicklick, a German comedy outlet posting several videos marked with the same “satire” label
Yeah, makes sense. Beyond the trust issues discussed in this thread, I think humanity needs to level up its joke detection skills.
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Comment on Recommend some new(ish) metal bands in ~music
DFGdanger LinkAllegaeon - DAMNUM Black Crown Initiate - Violent Portraits of Doomed Escape Rivers of Nihil - Where Owls Know My Name Fleshgod Apocalypse - KingAllegaeon - DAMNUM
Black Crown Initiate - Violent Portraits of Doomed Escape
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
DFGdanger Link ParentYeah it's the same horizontal layout as PC.Yeah it's the same horizontal layout as PC.
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
DFGdanger LinkBalatro Bought it on mobile. Wasn't sure I was willing to pay for it again, but caved almost immediately the first time I was bored on my phone. They don't have a way yet to import data from other...Balatro
Bought it on mobile. Wasn't sure I was willing to pay for it again, but caved almost immediately the first time I was bored on my phone. They don't have a way yet to import data from other platforms (though they say its on the roadmap), so started from scratch. It's kind of crazy how fast you can unlock stuff when you've got a few hundred hours of experience under your belt. I've just finished unlocking all the jokers and vouchers (though still need to collect a few), which took me about 5 weeks less than my first go :)Progress pic. The jokers I'm missing are 3 uncommons 1 rare and 4 legendaries. The vouchers are the level 2 hand, discard, and Void. Still haven't gotten a Black Hole or the Mega Spectral Pack. For achievements, other than completing stakes challenges and collection, the only one I still need to get is Tiny Hands (thin a deck down to 20 cards or less).
There was a bug on launch with the Campfire joker that made it not upgrade when selling other Jokers. I had the one that generates 2 commons every round and got Campfire and was sad. Apparently they fixed it already!
Dune: Imperium - Rise of Ix and Immortality expansions
I think both added some interesting things to the game and enjoyed aspects of both of them, though I would give the edge to Rise of Ix over Immortality. Playing with both at the same time didn't seem ideal, at least for my first time trying them.
A potential problem with Rise of Ix is that visiting Foldspace becomes overly important to get 2 influence with the Spacing Guild to unlock the double Shipping action (since Heighliner is prohibitively expensive in the early game, and Shipping replaces the Sell Melange space, which was the easiest way to get a burst of Solari before).
Dreadnoughts are cool! I like having an immortal unit you can chuck into combat just to see if you win anything. I was worried they were going to be too similar to sand worms in Uprising but they didn't feel that way at all.
One of the biggest pros of Immortality is that it replaces your "Dune, the Desert Planet" starter cards with cards that have more upside and that interact with the expansion's mechanics. Seems like a fantastic idea to swap out some of the most "boring" cards so experienced players have more fun things to do from the beginning of the game. Oh yeah, and the other is the family atomics (each player get 1 token they can spend during the game to refresh the card market). Previously I had always played with the "sand worm eats the cards" house rule where at the end of the round, the last card in the row gets refreshed. Since the market can get stale and no one wants to buy a bad card just to see the next one.
I am now curious to see how these expansions play with Uprising, since they are supposed to be compatible.
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Comment on Balatro Mobile coming to Google Play, Apple Arcade and App Store on September 26th in ~games
DFGdanger Link Parentcc: @first-must-burn who replied to one of my comments in the weekly game thread about wanting to pick it up on androidcc: @first-must-burn who replied to one of my comments in the weekly game thread about wanting to pick it up on android
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Comment on YouTube Premium is getting a big price hike internationally in ~tech
DFGdanger Link ParentI use Firefox Mobile on Android for YouTube, with uBlock Origin and SponsorBlock enabledI use Firefox Mobile on Android for YouTube, with uBlock Origin and SponsorBlock enabled
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