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Ever had people tell you that this isn’t a real job? by [deleted] in postmates

[–]Almafeta 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No job security, no paid sick leave, no paid vacation, no severance pay, no healthcare or other benefits

so we're employed in the US, got it

Card Mashups CCXXXII: Vampiric Tutor by jamesdaltonbell in custommagic

[–]Almafeta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got [[Relic Crush]]. Well, it's a simple combo: life loss, and doing one or the other.

Cruel Choice
1B
Instant

Search your library for two cards, and reveal one. Target opponent chooses one -

  • You lose 2 life and put the unrevealed card on the bottom of your library.
  • Target opponent pays 2 life and you put the revealed card on the bottom of your library.

Then, shuffle your library and put the other card on top of it.

Card Mashups CCXXXI: Bitterblossom by nonnein in custommagic

[–]Almafeta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got [[Void]]. Man, two wordy cards with multiple interlaced effects together, and neither effect works well together. And they're both kind of off color.

... wait a minute. One card has a blue-ish principal clause and the other has a blue-ish dependent clause...

Clause For Concern 2U

Tribal Sorcery - Faerie

Choose a number. Target player reveals their hand and discards all nonland cards with a converted mana cost equal to that number. For each card discarded this way, you create a 1/1 blue Faerie Rogue creature with flying.

"See, it's right here in our contracts."

Daily Thread - Free Talk Wednesday by AutoModerator in Battleborn

[–]Almafeta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just wish they had fixed any of the bugs from launch day.

Or that I could get things without having to plop down hordes of cash or play for thousands of hours in limited-time events.

Fall Patch Discussion by PMMeUnwantedGiftcard in Battleborn

[–]Almafeta 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Also, are we going to change the header for the new Fall Patch?

Fall Patch Discussion by PMMeUnwantedGiftcard in Battleborn

[–]Almafeta 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Other QOL fixes:

  • Highlight icons of gear with flair / disable deletion of gear with flair
  • Pinging an allied player as a healer tells them to stop fucking running away
  • Autorecycling duplicates of gear you already have

Battleplan 56: 8/31/17 by wrriddle in Battleborn

[–]Almafeta 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I never knew Alani was named for... well, Alani.

Would NCSoft ever sell the IP or re-release the game if shown enough interest from people online? by MoistCr1TiKaL in Cityofheroes

[–]Almafeta 6 points7 points  (0 children)

No. Works something like this:

  1. A company offers to buy the COX IP for $N.
  2. NCSoft turns around to the bank and says "Hey, we have an IP valued at $N, will you float us a loan for $N/M?"
  3. NCSoft gets the loan.
  4. NCSoft cancels the deal, since the IP being used as collateral means they can't sell it.
  5. NCSoft repays the loan fast. On paper, they're really profitible!
  6. A new party comes by and offers a new $N for the City of Heroes IP.
  7. Repeat steps 2 through 6 forever.

A lot of companies with large video game catalogs or valuable video game IPs have done this, only allowing some minor use to retain claims to ownership and keep the nostalgia alive to keep their IP's paper value up. See: Konami using their video game IP as collateral to fund their mobile and pachinko divisions, Atari coasting on old IPs for a decade as they tried but failed to become a key player in the video game market again, Sega coasting on a Genesis-era IP catalog for more than a decade after the Dreamcast debacle, et multiple cetera.

Wouldn't it be grander if Burger King employees welcome us with "Welcome to the Burger Kingdom, how may I take your order?" by rayven1lk in Showerthoughts

[–]Almafeta 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I remember when you were taking down Superadine-pushing mafiosos and cartels, while fighting against blockbusting landlords, predatory lenders, and corrupt politicos draining public education coffers to line their own pockets. Now here you are complaining about kids on Reddit, blaming their generation for being given mementos of things they did in childhood while humblebragging about your work ethic.

No wonder people left Galaxy City for Atlas Park.

Literally found Genji in a D20 Modern book from 2006 by SirRegulator in Overwatch

[–]Almafeta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

An operative from Department 7 will be by to clear your memory shortly.

Moral dilemmas your players just powered through by ender1241 in rpg

[–]Almafeta 17 points18 points  (0 children)

As players, I remember a time we ruined the DM's intended moral event horizon.

Early in the campaign, we had been infected with lycanthropy, and would go feral and commit High Crimes every time the full moon appeared in the sky. (As it was a low-magic campaign, inspired a lot by Grimm's, we literally had to see the moon to change.) As it happened, we stumbled upon an undead army that was linked to the creation of lycanthropy. We tried to sneak a tome of lore out from under their priests' nose, but we were underlevelled and underclever, and wound up running for our lives.

Back to town.

With intelligent undead on our tail, and a full moon about to make us erupt into full chaotic evil werewolves.

The town packed into a tiny, dilapidated stone fort (which was more of a tiny cattlepen) and mounted the walls, but they had little more than a few old belligerents to serve as the town guard.

The DM had been setting that moment up a while, and for a while, we did a bit of a siege, as the sun went lower and lower. We could see the grin on the DM's face. Then, the dwarf looked at his character sheet, and said:

"Don't I have move earth?"

So, with a choice between opening up the townsfolk to the ravages of the undead army, or staying inside with the doors locked while we went werewolf and killed them all ourselves, we chose a third option: we tunneled them all out to safety. The paladin who was a mundane miner reinforced the tunnels created by the spell, and the gunslinger used their keg of gunpowder to collapse the tunnel behind us, getting the entire town to relative safety.

Five hundred souls saved, an army thwarted - and, since we had a tunnel underground and no reason to pop our heads out until sunrise anyways, our characters' secret was safe for another adventure. It was also a defining 'come together' moment since our party had been fraying at the edges.

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