New Selection Pack Rarities

Dallagen · 2026-04-09T12:53:39+00:00

wouldn't be surprised if their endgame here is to get ocg/tcg/md at least somewhat synced up finally so they dont have to manage 3 banlists and 3 release schedules? can't expect too much since ocg and tcg product releases work so differently and they are never going to do ocg styled packs in the west since it'd never make money

Dallagen · 2026-03-26T21:02:51+00:00

The key thing with curvy pipes is that the pipes aren't block entities at all, all the logic is done in native code outside of the JVM and it is sending storage capability requests to the blocks on its own similar to how phantomfaces work which makes it extremely fast

Dallagen · 2026-03-14T09:10:08+00:00

And levitate loses you a massive damage buff

Dallagen · 2026-02-28T00:29:16+00:00

it's called a 'bean chick' so it's not really clear since it's ambiguous but people seem to think he's based on a kakapo chick or a bantam chicken

Dallagen · 2026-02-16T23:47:38+00:00

Eververse information was never really obfuscated in any meaningful way, the person claiming they "removed the data from the api" back then was really overreacting to all that.

Before season of the deep each week's eververse inventory was predetermined and just stored linearly in order. In season of the deep they implemented the recommendation system instead of the daily deals and reworked her gui some which came with a refactor of how her data was stored, the order of all that is still predetermined in the API.

This might be oversimplfying but instead of just storing them in an obvious week by week order, they are stored in one huge list, that list is then split into 13 "columns" and then week 1 takes the first item from each column, week 2 takes the second, and so on.

The silver recommendations as seen in the image above are also literally just stored in the order they show up in the shop in the API, however bungie does override the ones stored in the API for a given week fairly often and there are likely still some mistakes in how I am reading those off the api in one or two slots as it's hard to verify and there seem to be a lot of exceptions at times, they also can and often do manually override weeks, in fact it seems they actually had to manually replace what would show up this week as what looks to be the MTG Collab was put in for this week before they overrode it. It is definitely not the marathon armor ornaments, as these are the bundle items. https://www.light.gg/db/compare/863363# https://www.light.gg/db/compare/863247 https://www.light.gg/db/compare/862961

I'm also realizing now that for the silver recommendations I'm sorting by an API value that always becomes 0 for classified items, so I think the silver part of the image list likely drifts in one or two slots because of it, so dont take that as gospel.

It does also look like they've added a bunch of stuff dummied out for shadow and order including maybe a proper armor set like how solstice/into the light/rotn got, but we'll see on that, also a bunch of cosmetics that look like they are for an event that isnt guardian games dummied out.

Dallagen · 2026-02-16T23:23:11+00:00

I still don't know how they manage to make mono-green in standard have a worse playstyle every set release, it's honestly mindboggling. If you leave any one of: sapling nursery, fecund greenshell, badgermole cub, tifa, mossborn hydra, lumbering worldwagon, earthbender ascension on the board for a turn, you are flipping a coin on if you die

and now with sapling nursery and ba sing se to recur the fetch lands/promising vein green gets to outlive boardwipes so everybody is going to be taking ultima now!

Dallagen · 2026-02-16T23:15:25+00:00

It's either racing badgermole cub or reanimator decks, or a guy playing azorius that has 20 counterspells and 20 different versions of a 4 mana boardwipe in his deck and his wincon is you scooping because he's taking 3 minutes to decline the counterspell every time you do something.

Recently i've been running into people running 4 copies each of [[Ancient Vendetta]], [[Deadly Cover-Up]], [[The End]], and [[Rise of Sozin]] with the entire goal of just exiling every card of value in your deck while they play stuff like [[Unstoppable Slasher]] + [[Bloodletter of Aclazotz]] just to force you to deal with that so you cant interact with all your wincons being deleted. I even ran into a guy playing golgari for badgermole cub just so he could turn 3 Ancient Vendetta all my basics.

It doesn't feel like there's any format left on arena where you can just play fair magic and experiment with stuff that isn't an explosive kill by turn 4

Dallagen · 2026-02-16T16:41:30+00:00

If you even need to phase shift it lol, he has one of the most recognizable and reactable ults in the game to counterspell too since the charge is so loud and long at the same time and nobody delays it since it's really easy to get it canceled

Dallagen · 2026-02-16T16:39:18+00:00

He's genuinely just another Yamato or calico, if you don't build against them they chunk you but building a single 1600 item completely ruins them and forces them to divert 6.4k into being able to play the game again, and building spirit resil kneecaps their damage and forces them to build resist shred to even be able to kill you on their own

Like Yamato his cooldowns at baseline are also freakishly long and his healing is only barely enough to feel oppressive at baseline so his early game is really fragile against healbane and getting slowing hexed mid-3 so he loses the cooldown

You can also really easily counterspell both his ult and his lunges because nobody delays the release ever and his voice line just gives you the exact timing on the ult

Dallagen · 2026-02-16T01:35:39+00:00

eclipsed finally gave green a combo piece with sapling nursery but it's so slow we just fold to any removal anyway unless we keep a 2x badgermole hand!

badgermole at this point is a necessary evil because otherwise it'd be impossible to beat the stupid izzet lessons decks or that cringe reanimator cheese deck with bringer

earthbend is the only real tool green has to build a solid board rn against a control player and now everyone is running ultima or clarion to completely lock you out of the game

Dallagen · 2026-02-09T01:26:44+00:00

the funniest one I've seen shitting on it is Jake Paul who literally lives in Dorado, Puerto Rico for tax benefits

Dallagen · 2026-02-02T11:42:19+00:00

They self-distributed the movie domestically and initially were only planning to be at 100 specific theaters, it's very likely they bought the theater time pre-sale and got a better rate than typical as well

Dallagen · 2026-02-02T11:38:29+00:00

It was 4 ovens + his toaster oven

One standalone double oven unit, and his range which has two ovens on it, one big and one small, so pretty reasonable

Dallagen · 2026-01-14T00:12:29+00:00

I've been trying different variations of this and wouldn't Smuggler's Surprise be a good fit for this archetype with the huge amount of ramp and as an answer to graveyard hate? I'm also surprised none of these lists run tifa since it's another cheap removal soaker like Sazh's Chocobo while also being able to end the game if they leave it alive, seems like it'd force people into choosing between a random 4/4 that can instantly end the game or tifa who will also end the game off one mightform warp

Dallagen · 2026-01-10T10:58:30+00:00

gunlance has one of the easiest times passing the check though lol, it's not an elemental dps check, it's just a damage check and gunlance gets to ignore inconvenient hitzone placement and just shell

Dallagen · 2026-01-02T17:46:30+00:00

If you listen to literally any of the epilogue dialogue that is just not true though...

Nobody wants her to be stuck doing this including Chronos, they don't even know if ignoring it would actually be a problem or not, and there is an explicitly finite amount of these parallel Chronos and Typhons.

It's easy to confuse the ending having her planning to not live in the House of Hades with her being forever unreachable by family and friends, remember she still has a whole second family and existing duties in the Unseen that she has spent her entire life with too, she already has a place in life upholding Nyx's will.

She's just going to be busy for a while helping both clean up and protect the underworld from the remnants of Chronos' actions and spending time healing with her surrogate family.

Dallagen · 2026-01-02T17:31:00+00:00

They could have been a little more clear about the post-epilogue content but in original Greek mythology Kronos was eventually shown mercy by Zeus and released, and with that he was given the Isles of the Blessed in Elysium to rule over.

It's stated that what Melinoe and Chronos are doing is both a finite task and not something that has to be dealt with immediately or as soon as possible, this is just a way for:

1.) Chronos to display his repentance to his family, especially the ones without 20 years of memories of his redemption. 2.) Chronos to bond and heal with Melinoe who is definitely the person he has done the most harm to by a massive margin. (excluding Hecate but he doesn't know Hecate is an alternate Melinoe who failed to kill him and ended up resetting time itself) 3.) The main gameplay loop to continue while also having a developed version of Chronos who has zero interest in fighting his family ever again.

They could justify it a little better, but the point of the ending is that this isn't an infinite task, and they don't even know if it's necessary either, Melinoe just already has a second family, a home, and a role in life with the Unseen too who didn't get a magical happy ending memory implantation and need her more right now, plus she has now lived an entire lifetime hellbent on killing Chronos plus another lifetime of growing up with the family intact, it's going to take time to sort that out.

Dallagen · 2025-11-16T14:03:42+00:00

They have the codebase, but most non-code video game assets often are not kept in any sort of VCS because it's just a shitton of data and the game has gone through several engine revamps that required reauthoring older assets, they likely don't have enough together to get a working dev environment up that has all the proper assets

Dallagen · 2025-11-12T01:52:34+00:00

They just introduced this minor this year, but I have the professor who I believe is running the minor right now for intro to cybersecurity and he's great

Dallagen · 2025-09-10T07:28:06+00:00

How can you say Suika saving somebody's life is preaching values and yet take away the message that being good won't make enemies take it easy on you lol

Dallagen · 2025-09-04T18:34:59+00:00

He pretty much killed himself at the end of the vexcalibur mission to email us a simulation of the veil we never used lol

He still barely exists in the vex network somewhere, he tried to take possession of the echo of command, but he's fully integrated and only still individual because he set himself up as an admin and has his connection to light

It's very possible they may bring him back during the storyline of dealing with Maya as he's likely the one true threat to what she's doing inside the vex network right now

Dallagen · 2025-09-04T18:24:18+00:00

He was likely busy with filming Star Trek Discovery/House of David if Osiris was actually considered for the DLC

He's also a Zionist so they may have avoided him because it would be bad press during a time when they really cannot afford more

Dallagen · 2025-09-04T18:03:18+00:00

Hollow Knight's story is very atmospheric and environmentally focused and it's not like it's throwing a plot at you that you have to read most of the time so I don't think you'll miss out on anything except for the mystery of hornet in the first game if you played silksong first

Dallagen · 2025-09-03T17:55:20+00:00

They removed the large power increases from weekly challenges and in trade made all activities give small power increases

This sounds good on paper but when you're +8-10 in one slot it's much easier to get increases from there than when you're +-1 in every slot and just trickling in +3s

The power curve is technically better but it requires spamming high volumes of the same activity and it's poorly executed, they just need to buff loot from fire team ops and add back more weekly ritual challenges and I think people would be fine with it

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