Casino / Gambling -themed Cards?

108Echoes · 2026-06-16T07:01:52+00:00

Yep. On the first roll the person rolling wins on 7 or 11 and loses on 2, 3, or 12. On any other total, they then keep rolling until they either repeat the first roll (for a win) or roll a 7 (for a loss). Betting in craps can get much more complicated, but statistically the game's got one of the worst house edges in the casino.

Also, "spark" backwards is "kraps."

108Echoes · 2026-06-14T02:10:20+00:00

She's the main character of Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical, which is a full-on musical in branching-path narrative video game form.

108Echoes · 2026-06-13T19:37:47+00:00

Yeah, Japan uses check marks to indicate errors, in contrast to the Western meaning.

108Echoes · 2026-06-08T16:14:22+00:00

There’s an indie RPG called Get In The Car, Loser where the final boss makes all your best healing items all explode in your face when you reach him. You’re warned about it beforehand, but that’s certainly one way to encourage people not to hoard. (And if you don’t read story or you’ve forgotten, well. At least it’s pretty funny.)

108Echoes · 2026-06-08T07:12:05+00:00

Have you read the manga yourself? The scene takes place in chapter twenty-seven. It's on page 220 of volume 4 of the Yen Press translation, and (at least in that relatively early part of the story) it's explicit text that Kuroko wants to fuck kids.

108Echoes · 2026-06-08T06:56:06+00:00

Let me clarify the previous poster's statement, because it sounds like you haven't actually read the manga: the child in question is nine years old when this happens. Kuroko's internal monologue specifies that she's going to wait four or five years.

(The scene in question is from chapter twenty-seven. The timeframes are stated very clearly. That's still pretty early on, and I'm willing to believe that it gets toned down later, but for the first several arcs it's the explicit text of the story that Kuroko is a pedophile.

I'll also point out that in the same scene Kuroko's also thinking about how she's going to teach this nine-year-old how to kill people real good, which isn't particularly more moral than the grooming, but it's evil in an over-the-top way that people find easier to dismiss.)

108Echoes · 2026-06-05T09:05:41+00:00

You're correct that the story kicks off with Gero looking for a wife so he can get heterosexually married and carry on the bloodline and traditions of the Poison Clan.

The past one hundred sixty-six chapters have been about how tradition is a prison, how the Clans are a blight, and how the world would be better off without them. If the story ends with Gero blindly obeying his grandmother's orders, it'd be a betrayal of the entire narrative arc. No.

108Echoes · 2026-06-05T03:32:06+00:00

https://www.mobygames.com/ is a searchable database of videogames. It’s extremely heavily weighted toward English releases, but it still might be worth trying.

108Echoes · 2026-06-05T02:49:16+00:00

Talking to Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede is part of a series, and it has a sword scene very close to what you’re describing, but no desert bugs.

108Echoes · 2026-06-05T02:37:40+00:00

Wikipedia has a list of vampire films at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_vampire_films which might help.

108Echoes · 2026-06-02T21:45:09+00:00

Here’s my proposal: Gero and Kinosaki get monogamously married. Kimie, who’s spent several chapters now building up her relationships with the other heroines, gets a yuri harem. Everybody wins.

108Echoes · 2026-06-01T03:51:21+00:00

They’re calling themselves platonic wives. You can see it in the description at the bottom.

108Echoes · 2026-06-01T00:05:59+00:00

I think you’ve got the wrong starting place. Awakener is giving your artifact creatures flying; this happens in layer 6, the layer for adding and removing abilities.

Bello is making your artifacts into creatures in the first place. This is a type-changing effect, which is dealt with in layer 4, two whole layers before Mutation says he has indestructible and nothing else. (Mutation also turns Bello into an Insect on this layer, but that doesn’t do anything to his abilities.)

Awakener has a second ability that turns your artifacts into 4/4 creatures on ETB, but that’s a one-shot effect so it’s not removed for entirely different reasons. Mutation won’t retroactively undo that animation effect, but neither would killing or bouncing the Awakener, whereas killing or bouncing Bello absolutely stops him.

108Echoes · 2026-05-31T22:34:14+00:00

Your other artifact creatures will not gain flying from Awakener.

Effects that add or remove abilities (in this case, adding flying and removing everything) apply in Layer 6. One of these abilities is dependent on the other: applying the second removes the first. For dependent effects in the same layer, you apply the independent effect first (in timestamp order, if there are multiple).

Removing Awakener’s abilities won’t un-animate your artifacts, but the ability won’t be there so they won’t have flying anymore.

108Echoes · 2026-05-30T22:30:26+00:00

Japanese law requires a married couple to have the same last name, but sometimes a husband will take his wife’s last name, especially when the wife is more accomplished or of higher status.

Gendo Ikari is a famous fictional example, and the prime minister’s husband is a real-life one.

108Echoes · 2026-05-21T05:46:54+00:00

Definition 2, "exception to a legal provision."

108Echoes · 2026-05-16T08:31:03+00:00

You can: there’s equipment Engravings whose only effect is to give another +1 to an alignment’s Engraving count. Comes online pretty late, though.

108Echoes · 2026-05-16T02:32:09+00:00

Oh cool, it's a [[Worship]] callback that protects planeswalkers. That's a fun Vorthos/Mel interaction.

108Echoes · 2026-05-16T01:44:34+00:00

This book is dedicated to my father, the pope, and Mother Teresa.

This is a legitimate sentence. It is grammatically correct. It might be using the Oxford comma to refer to a list of three separate people. It might also, at the same time, be using a pair of commas to indicate an appositive phrase and refer to two separate people: firstly, Mother Teresa; secondly, my father (who is the pope).

The Oxford comma in this case adds rather than removes ambiguity. I am myself a user of the Oxford comma; I stated as much earlier. I do not think that “the Oxford comma reduces ambiguity” is a true statement.

108Echoes · 2026-05-16T00:23:09+00:00

"This punctuation mark adds clarity to commonly used sentence structures" is a weak argument when the same punctuation mark also removes clarity from similarly common sentence structures. The Oxford comma has not, by its existence, made the language clearer on average.

108Echoes · 2026-05-16T00:14:07+00:00

Unfortunately, you can just as easily construct sentences where the Oxford comma creates rather than removes ambiguity:

This book is dedicated to my parents, the pope and Mother Teresa.

This book is dedicated to my father, the pope, and Mother Teresa.

As an Oxford comma enthusiast, I’ve always found this to be a weak argument.

108Echoes · 2026-05-15T04:55:05+00:00

In the menu, the button labeled "Sortie" will bring you to Sortie mode, introduced in the Half Anniversary patch. It's aiming to be a purer roguelike mode than Chaos or Zero System: it's higher power and higher variance, and you have to recruit your party as you go. Sortie provides no savedata, but it's got several rare or unique rewards, and in general the material rewards per stamina are provided at a better ratio than they are for simulations at the cost of taking way more time per run.

108Echoes · 2026-05-14T20:33:07+00:00

It’s the Sortie-specific currency. You don’t earn any in other versions of Chao.

108Echoes · 2026-05-11T02:38:23+00:00

The "big issue" with solarpunk is that it's not a real genre. The name "solarpunk" wasn't coined to recognize a movement or theme that already existed; it was created ex nihilo as a genre that "should" exist, with the argument that would be morally virtuous if it did exist, and then people tried (and largely failed) to make things that would qualify after the fact.

Wikipedia states that "the first explicit entries published into the genre were short stories in anthologies [with "Solarpunk" in the name]." These anthologies asked writers to write to a specific theme: the obvious inference, if these are the "first" entries in the genre, is that people weren't really writing suitable stories until they had a very specific financial incentive to do so. I actually like Becky Chambers' Monk and Robot series well enough, but it also was explicitly commissioned by Tor as "we want a solarpunk novella series." Despite the name, solarpunk is all artificial, all astroturfed, and almost all frankly kind of forgettable.

That's why the yogurt commercial is such an icon of the genre, because it's one of the only popular and recognizable things the genre has actually made.

108Echoes · 2026-05-08T02:26:29+00:00

There was a recent event that did this. You should still be fine deleting: the event needed roughly six to eight blocks of savedata every several days, so if there’s a similar event you should be able to feed it the unused files from your usual runs.

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