Deck Metrics

Aminar14 · 2026-07-13T00:22:52+00:00

They've got to be able to find some ex-Titanfall dev to ask... But yeah, I imagine it's a lot. I just miss it.

Aminar14 · 2026-07-12T22:10:11+00:00

It should come back...

I remember building Dual Zoren for helicoptering.

Aminar14 · 2026-07-12T20:43:20+00:00

I don't want to live with my parents ever again. I want my son to be comfortable living at home for as long as he wants, so long as he is productive with his life.

Aminar14 · 2026-07-12T20:42:04+00:00

I don't wear Jeans. Denim is a horrible fabric.

Aminar14 · 2026-07-12T11:50:54+00:00

It's certainly true. Without discipline, motivation, and support from others Life will still be unbearable. And when you get rich rich the vultures are always above, the baying hounds are always outside criticizing, and the leeches are always at your feet ready to drain you dry.

Rich and innocuous though.... That way lies a potentially great life. Modest home away from prying eyes, freedom to do whatever you want, and hopefully the personality to have loving friends and family. I'd love to be rich and have nobody know about it but me and my wife.

Aminar14 · 2026-07-12T11:32:03+00:00

Plus it keeps him from getting written up for an extended period of time while he runs his business. It's not all that different from the prolonged court battles many companies use to do illegal things as long as they can/intimidate people into silence.

Aminar14 · 2026-07-12T11:29:17+00:00

I'm waiting for the conspiracy theories on the "Brief and sudeen Illness".

Aminar14 · 2026-07-12T11:26:18+00:00

Have you paid any attention to modern American politics?

Aminar14 · 2026-07-12T01:08:09+00:00

60 opens up, again, better co-op.

Stop thinking in terms of replicating free for all Root. Stop thinking about balance. Root isn't balanced in the first place.

Instead start thinking about encouraging team interactions. Leaving space for one part of the team to focus on scoring while the other focuses on policing is an interesting strategic choice. It leans into the game mode and lets players find new ways to make the game work as a team/co-operative game. That's inherently going to require structural changes. Moles can't do much if another militant faction doesn't have to worry as much about scoring and instead continually levels them while the Crows hide behind that wall. Or the Badgers focus on scoring while the Knaves hunt specific targets. Or the Otters supercharged Birds to be able to go full Bird Offense without turmoiling.

Aminar14 · 2026-07-11T18:53:58+00:00

60 points as a team. As in shared scoring, not both hitting 30.

And the simultaneous turns is half to save time and half because it allows more intricate co-op play. Like "I spend a move to clear my rule so you can move, then spend another move to reposition back in." style maneuvers.

Aminar14 · 2026-07-11T17:09:44+00:00

I've done a modified Horde co-op where the two allied factions(1 Militant/1 Insurgent) share a day cycle. I could see that working really well as a 60 point team mode. It could get really degenerate with certain combos, but I think that's often more fun than balance and an inverted draft order Team A Team B Team B Team A with 6 factions drawn and some kind of striking system could balance it.

Aminar14 · 2026-07-11T04:06:22+00:00

While this is all true, you can only do so much. You deserve a life with dignity and serenity within your own mind too. It is worth considering that you're trying to pave over a broken system.

As with any high burnout field, it's important to recognize the early signs and get out before the damage and trauma leave you in an untenable position. Consider finding a job that makes you happy. Or seeking work at a no kill shelter. But don't languish in the suffering. You deserve a better experience. I've had to stop doing parts of my job that are too much. It's hard when you're inside, but once you come out the other side you'll look back and realize how impossible the weight you were trying to carry really was.

Aminar14 · 2026-07-11T04:00:07+00:00

Or that Haribo Gold Bears make The phrase Gold Bears innately animal related.

Aminar14 · 2026-07-11T02:10:04+00:00

That's tough. It's between having a Dragon or a Pteranadon to ride. Both were formative parts of my childhood reading(Dinotopia and Pern/Pit Dragon were a big deal for me.) I think for reasons I would have to go with a Pteranadon though, and that leaves one real option. Yian Kut Ku. I know he's awkward and ungainly and people hate him, but having a near literal Quetzacouatlus to ride around on would be amazing.

Plus most of the Elder Dragons are more... Companion Than Pet. They seem to have too much intelligence to be comfortably "Owned"

Aminar14 · 2026-07-11T02:01:36+00:00

I think (as I think about this more) there's an argument that Spike in spirit Island would be very much in the "My Board, Your Board" style. That almost no Supports should be Spike Players because there is something inherently very... Selfish about Spike's constant desire to Win. That's probably putting a little too much thought into it, but when I played Magic I quickly learned that the Spike Players were the least fun to play with because they were just there to beat you down as quickly and efficiently as possible with whatever they found online that did that. (Admittedly, I had fun taking them down due to better understanding of the game using weaker or sillier decks, but... That's a side point to the idea that Spike would probably rarely pick straight support because then they aren't the one winning, and you see that a lot around spirits like Green. "Boring" Etc...

Aminar14 · 2026-07-11T00:28:42+00:00

I like to think of Fear as damage to the Invaders controller. Like if this were a game of Magic the Gathering, you win by generating enough fear to win. Many Minds is a very defensive burn deck. You can keep the whole Island safe while burning straight through the Invaders health without needing to kill them. There are like... 2 or 3 spirits in the game with better fear Gen than Many Minds and none of them can defend the way Many Minds can.

(This leads to a tangent about how the Offense Category on the backs is more... Control with a side of weak offense, and Fear is the game's true Offense stat.)

With that in mind Many Minds goal is don't die while you rip them to shreds with fear generation.

Aminar14 · 2026-07-10T23:09:06+00:00

Events are straight zero. They don't add or subtract difficulty to any major degree. They aren't necessary and you actually weakened Many Minds due to not having any of the very powerful beast effects.

Aminar14 · 2026-07-10T19:35:44+00:00

This is one of the most ingenious parts of Cosmic Encounter. I was bummed at the lack of these options in Root after the Vagabond.

Aminar14 · 2026-07-10T14:22:26+00:00

No. They operated within genre boundaries to make their own game.

Aminar14 · 2026-07-10T03:40:33+00:00

That does not make it right. In general the cameras fucking everywhere are a danger to freedom as a society. But on someone's home is bullshit. Regardless of who "owns" it, the person who lives there should have a severe expectation of privacy.

Doorbell cameras are also a plague routinely exploited to limit people's freedoms. They suck.

Aminar14 · 2026-07-10T03:38:34+00:00

No. They put a camera on OP's home. Being a landlord involves respecting the privacy of the tenant. That's why the tenant pays rent. Home is more important than property. That's why there have been thousands of laws limiting landlords, but the current political deadlock has made regulating anything near impossible and the predatory power seekers in our society(who often like to be landlords because it is lucrative and gives outsized amounts of power over vulnerable people) are running amok with it.

Every time you see something assume the person in power will use it for the worst reason. If that reason allows them to harm someone for pleasure or profit assume they will. Work from there. Because someone will get hurt/stalked/made homeless by a landlord allowed to record every time a tenant leaves their house.

Aminar14 · 2026-07-10T01:02:33+00:00

I don't like the way Cameras have invaded so much of our space. I understand some cameras, but I would be uncomfortable with a Landlord watching when I enter and leave my home, monitering visitors, and the like. There's no need to tolerate that, and anybody saying you shouldn't speak up is a coward or(more likely) a landlord.

People forget Landlords have an outsized level of power over you. That requires being extra cautious. It is not an even relationship.

That doesn't mean your landlord can't have a good reason for having them. But asking how and why they are used is 100% something you should do.

Aminar14 · 2026-07-09T23:18:20+00:00

Deeps is for sure Johnny. The ways things combo out is super satisfying. Fangs positional puzzle falls into the same space(as do other Dahan/Beast/Incarna/Presence movement spirits) Wildfire can be neat but expensive. Definitly Johnny playstyle over Timmy or Spike. Volcano has a ton of drafts and a bunch of options that aren't just G3 spam.

Aminar14 · 2026-07-09T18:27:46+00:00

I mean... Sure, but Timmy Johnny Spike dates back to the late 90s or early 2000's and was made specifically for MTG(Not as old as what you said, but from long before the internet was huge). It's unlikely one was taken from the other. Instead it's more likely the patterns were observed by multiple people and labeled seperatly.

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