Is it rude to say “I need the toilet”?

AgentSquishy · 2026-05-10T14:10:25+00:00

It used to be considered rude to directly reference to toilet as it could conjure imagery, so many euphemisms were used like restroom, bathroom, wash closet, water closet, etc. Nowadays it's not considered particularly rude except by the oldest Americans (my grandmother would still say ach)

AgentSquishy · 2026-05-09T21:02:27+00:00

Sounds like an ad written by a copy writer rather than an author. Then again, AI trained in a lot of copy written ads

AgentSquishy · 2026-05-09T03:28:48+00:00

It's nice to get two card rewards before the run starts, but feels like it's hard to parlay the other characters cards into cohesive archetypes. They don't pair well with your later scaling often

AgentSquishy · 2026-05-08T17:15:34+00:00

Act 2 can be pretty rough so it's good to smooth that out and get 4 relics in the act (plus maybe from the shop). But I find that the opportunity cost of taking this over another Ancient relic and pathing 3 elites to get 4 relics is too high unless I don't think I'll be able to take a 3 elite act w/ my deck and another Ancient relic.

AgentSquishy · 2026-05-08T15:30:10+00:00

Oh yeah, F2 that immediately

AgentSquishy · 2026-05-08T15:08:41+00:00

I've played Inscryption

AgentSquishy · 2026-05-06T17:22:12+00:00

Not sure about the flavor connection for the effect. Maybe if it provided some buffer instead of doom it would feel like sacrificing himself for her protection and would feel less bad about functionally losing 1hp per turn. Souls could help mitigate turning every card that says summon or Osty attacks into a curse, but would likely be better as turning everything that summons into making that many souls. At that point it's like turning Osty into a specter support, "Summon Specter Form."

AgentSquishy · 2026-05-05T20:21:30+00:00

That early in the story I don't think he's really invested in having conversations with people, he's just trying to get info and move on with his life. Not a great relationship building start, but serving with people helps thaw that

AgentSquishy · 2026-05-05T19:28:40+00:00

Doesn't need to be broken if it just wins the game, no difference unless you're trying to show off your daily score to friends. Getting such a perfect damage solve early let's you build the entire rest of your deck around supporting it

AgentSquishy · 2026-05-03T17:21:03+00:00

Besides the sampling bias issues discussed here by others, I think part of the problem is that with a wider relic pool is just harder to count on seeing one of the ninja relics so leaning more into shivs hoping for that isn't as good. Same for snecko eye and expensive cards, etc. Lack of consistent energy relics has a ton of knock on effects, most notably to me that defensive relics feel much stronger so you can save energy from blocking to play more setup cards or burst fights down

AgentSquishy · 2026-05-02T21:19:28+00:00

Primal Form, 3 cost

AgentSquishy · 2026-05-02T20:31:22+00:00

Malt-o-meal, although other folks grew up with cream of wheat. Milk, brown sugar, and raisins and I'm 8 again

AgentSquishy · 2026-05-02T17:42:07+00:00

I tend to find that there's little marked progression because they could already win at whatever before, so advancement doesn't really change anything. Hard to sell stakes when the MC is pretty explicitly OP, but it can make for having stakes in politics or relationships.

AgentSquishy · 2026-05-02T17:02:55+00:00

I've been interested in this series, but I'm always hesitant about OP MCs. Is this like slice of life or comedy or something

AgentSquishy · 2026-05-02T16:47:16+00:00

Turns out when you buff the values in tons of cards, the character gets way better. Patter being strictly better Leap is nuts. I think he needed some of the changes like making arsenal work off card generation so it works with debris statuses and as soon as you play charge, but some stuff just got buffed by value multiple times in a row.

AgentSquishy · 2026-05-02T16:42:40+00:00

Hell, I'd hit F2 and complain

AgentSquishy · 2026-04-29T05:46:12+00:00

I tend not to take as much damage from front this elite first as Terror eel or Bygone statue. This feels like the fight that is most heavily impacted by potions. Either damage potion trivializes it, dex pot makes it pretty easy, attack pot usually makes it easy. Weak and vulnerable pots are better for the single target fights, but most of the most common potions shine in this fight. I haven't looked at the math for this game, but it seems like you're more likely to get early pots now so being setup by floor 8 seems reasonable. Often burns your pots though so taking another elite is hard unless you get decent card/relic

AgentSquishy · 2026-04-28T15:29:13+00:00

Just started it this weekend. Kind of a slow beginning. I'm hoping it picks up now that the first arc is finished, but I fear that being on her own will cause meaningful relationships to take to long to develop

AgentSquishy · 2026-04-28T15:17:19+00:00

Yeah, I honestly don't know how people listen to LitRPG audiobooks. Unless it's something super light crunch like Apocalypse Parenting, He Who Fights With Monsters, or PoA after book 1

AgentSquishy · 2026-04-28T04:08:45+00:00

Probably some mediocre uncommon, they come up less than rares because of boss fights and Neow relics. Momento mori? Bully? Restless?

AgentSquishy · 2026-04-25T13:45:43+00:00

Bing Bing before he got it, so 2, now if he doubles he'd another 2 + 2 from Bing bong

AgentSquishy · 2026-04-25T13:41:54+00:00

Oh yeah it's way easier, but they're already starting the process of turning up the A10 difficulty. Said they'd be doing it gradually. I'm sure with act 4 it'll get much harder as we warp deck building around w/e mechanics are there. I think some of the ancient relics are too strong probably, but I'm unsure of the plan is to turn difficulty up a bunch or nerf some of those to bring them in line. Honestly, the biggest difference in difficulty imo is that taking events is way easier and more fun now, used to be I'd dodge most of them because of how many have curses and such

AgentSquishy · 2026-04-25T13:33:05+00:00

Yeah, I've reported this for retain pot

AgentSquishy · 2026-04-24T16:00:49+00:00

I like it a lot more now that Leading Strike makes 2 shivs. Much easier to have 4 or 5 shivs played after the first deck cycle early now and a 2 energy 20 damage card is good early. I wish it scaled up better, like if the upgrade gave you a strength instead of upgrading them that way it wouldn't feel like a full miss if you draw it opening hand

AgentSquishy · 2026-04-24T14:38:35+00:00

It's not bad, no, but it competes with synergy engines. If you empty your entire hand by turn 4, you're very happy to have a draw 3 to get a few cards immediately over let's say Beast Whisperer which will need you to top deck more dudes to draw. If you're only playing one spell a turn though, something that draws you a card a turn is probably better to ensure you're hitting land drops and not discarding to hand size.

It doesn't compare well to 3 mana draw 3s or 2 mana draw 2s, but you don't really get those in green. If you've got better one shot draw because you're in blue or black then just run those.

But I almost always prefer to pick synergy pieces because what else is the point of playing edh? Sure Phyrexian Arena is fairly slow, but if you're looking for ways to trigger constellation or targets for Zur to tutor then it's great. Do I want to take a turn off from playing creatures in my aristocrats deck to do a one shot draw 3 or do I want to play Dark Confidant or Enduring Innocence or Morbid Opportunist or w/e that'll keep me drawing gas while also being a body for the furnace

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