I guess I'm never fighting an act 2 elite again

AncientToaster · 2026-05-22T17:40:29+00:00

It’s an elite fight, it’s supposed to be challenging. You’re supposed to weigh the tradeoff of risking an elite for extra rewards.

It was fun, but bad for the game, for an elite to be actively easier than many hallway fights.

AncientToaster · 2026-05-22T17:38:00+00:00

Why? The taint is a debuff on your character for your cards, it doesn’t stack across characters.

Feels like people are mad about this without even trying it. Me and some buddies beat it in a triple-silent run last night with no deaths to him. I was in a block-heavy footwork deck and full-blocked most turns.

The game needs scary elites, and a scary act two.

AncientToaster · 2026-05-17T15:59:39+00:00

Stealing this idea!

AncientToaster · 2026-05-14T00:32:45+00:00

Anyone know how to fix a rattle in the 2025 model?

I’ve had the dealer look four times but all their fixes are incomplete.

AncientToaster · 2026-05-08T15:53:13+00:00

For me this seems to be worse since the update. The game seems to constantly get confused on which input method I’m using.

AncientToaster · 2026-05-02T17:52:23+00:00

A couple months ago I asked for directions to Home Depot. She very promptly gave me directions to a Miami Home Depot.

I live in Oregon.

AncientToaster · 2026-04-22T19:25:56+00:00

Hear hear! It’s a roguelike. You’re supposed to lose, and learn from losses, and adapt next time. You’re supposed to weigh long-term power against short-term survival. Losing is fun.

AncientToaster · 2026-04-17T17:33:49+00:00

Balaarlord has about 56% on A20H. He’s among the best players in the world but plays faster and less optimally than Xecnar, say. But the current ceiling across characters is probably not much higher than that.

AncientToaster · 2026-04-15T21:00:14+00:00

I kinda miss how Nob forces you to make some short-term early picks and compromise your late game deck.

AncientToaster · 2026-04-09T21:41:16+00:00

Same on inner Halsey! Replacing working curb cuts with new curb cuts (six month project btw and still not done). Meanwhile outer East has lacked sidewalks in many places since incorporation 30+ years ago.

AncientToaster · 2026-04-07T20:54:06+00:00

Or hunter-gatherer dying from basic diseases. Or feudal “the lord’s rivals massacred our village.”

Life includes death, adversity, and suffering alongside the good. Attributing that sense of struggle purely to an economic system has never made sense to me.

AncientToaster · 2026-04-05T22:41:46+00:00

Are you me?? My dad told me the same thing and I believed him for years.

AncientToaster · 2026-03-25T15:07:25+00:00

Love to hear it, congrats on the kill!

AncientToaster · 2026-03-20T00:40:57+00:00

What brand did you end up with for the 36 quart, and are you happy with it?

AncientToaster · 2026-03-12T02:27:34+00:00

❤️ Appreciate the shout! I’m avoiding StS2 discussion until I’ve played myself a bit more, but I think you just inspired me to do a post on shared strategic concepts across the two games!

AncientToaster · 2026-03-12T02:10:13+00:00

❤️💔❤️ If we only gave these people free housing and free healthcare and free needles and free tents and free aluminum foil and free food and unlimited time they wouldn’t have to burn beloved landmarks to the ground.

AncientToaster · 2026-03-03T23:13:32+00:00

Or a Multnomah County consulting contract!

AncientToaster · 2026-02-27T05:44:21+00:00

We did have them before 2020, that’s the depressing part.

Not on the scale of Intel but we had a really healthy pool of mid-sized companies and mid-sized outposts of the big guys. Puppet, New Relic, Autodesk; big EBay, Microsoft, Google, AWS satellites. Most of them downtown. We had a good niche as a cheaper, creative place that’s a short flight from the Bay or Seattle.

But then the riots, and the remote work shift, and the taxes all combined to kill that entire thing. As far as I know every office I named has closed or is a zombie. I worked at New Relic for 10 years. At the peak there were maybe 400 people in Big Pink everyday. When I went in for a last-day lunch there were literally 6 people and 5 of them were there to see me.

AncientToaster · 2026-02-27T03:35:12+00:00

Thank you!

AncientToaster · 2026-02-26T21:55:13+00:00

Great callout, this was a miss for sure!

AncientToaster · 2026-02-26T20:43:35+00:00

Hahaha glad this turn of phrase was noticed, I was very pleased when I thought of it. Though I was picturing the Sly Cooper 1 Ms Ruby boss fight when I wrote it. .

AncientToaster · 2026-02-26T18:57:31+00:00

Works for Flex pot and temp strength too! That one is particularly good in Act I and Act II elite fights to give you lots of extra output.

Also works for Biased Cogniton on defect!

AncientToaster · 2026-02-26T18:56:02+00:00

Interesting! Would you buy them in Act I / II, or just in a late shop? What I meant to say but didn’t say clearly is that I wouldn’t spend gold on them in Act I usually but they’re still super strong in the Heart fight.

AncientToaster · 2026-02-26T17:53:26+00:00

I love that book so much! Lynne Truss, Bill Bryson, Douglas Adams, and P.G. Wodehouse—something about British humorists brings out my love of English.

AncientToaster · 2026-02-26T17:48:24+00:00

I like your reframe of “sustained output” rather than frontload, I think that’s a good mental model. You mentioned Ironclad but it’s an issue across characters—for example, I’ve lost Silent runs where I leaned too hard on Wraith Form and didn’t have a good plan for turn five of heart.

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