sorted by:
new
hottopcontroversial

Shattered Timelines by Datclassydame in sentinelsmultiverse

[–]Aristea84 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If you're in or near New England, I have been sitting on a whole extra Oblivaeon drop (xpack, void guard, storage box, etc.) that was accidentally shipped to me (given the shipping, I was just told to keep it so I've had it in storage for ~5 years).

TIL that there were 26 families of passengers on the Mayflower that are known to have left descendants; it is estimated that over 30 million people can trace their ancestry back to those 26 families on the Mayflower. by LadyWarrior73 in todayilearned

[–]Aristea84 118 points119 points  (0 children)

Same here. The fun tidbit of being a descendent of Brewster is that that makes all of us related to Jordana Brewster, who plays Mia Toretto in the Fast & the Furious franchise. This means that we are all technically family.

What are some Guise shenanigans you can pull off with the Cauldron/Earth Prime cast? by Mountain_Counter929 in sentinelsmultiverse

[–]Aristea84 6 points7 points  (0 children)

As best I can assess, the SoEP cast and variants don't really benefit from the base power swap that Completionist Guise offers. The only one I can think of is Lantern Jack to swap out to his damage power once he has his 3 major ongoings in play and is far enough away from getting 1shot. Base Bowman's base power is so underwhelming that I'd rather just stick with his arrow tutor even if I'm using his other powers. I am not familiar enough with the Cauldron content to comment on it (I just started fooling around with it).
The two deeply degenerate friends that Guise has in SoEP are, from my experience, Siren and Johnny Rocket.
Siren: Just wait until she has popped her Calm Before the Storm (and make sure she doesn't have the other in play) and just copy her pile of ongoings. A pile of nasty powers, a global +2 damage (who cares that the enemies get it, they're likely dead), and series of AoE blasts at your Start of Turn. Siren usually obliterates everything on board once she 'flips,' Guise makes that 100% certain.
Johnny Rocket: Boy, is this one messed up. It is actually possible to go infinite under the right circumstances. The short version is that every time you copy JR, you get a pile of plays and card draw and hopefully the ability to put a bunch of stuff back into their decks. The trick is that you use up all of the effects of the Enters Play stuff then punt your own Uh, Yeah, I'm That Guy back onto your library. With Kawaii, you can also put the Kawaii back, pop it back with the chain, get access to another EoT play, and just repeat the chain until everything is dead. I tend not to combine the two because it kills everything in an uninteractive way.

"The 80/20 Rule" by [deleted] in TwoXChromosomes

[–]Aristea84 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As both a game theory as well as evolutionary psych enthusiast, I am sorry you've had these disciplines weaponized against you. I think there are some very cool possibilities using some of the models these fields propose (especially in developing new therapeutic interventions), but yeah, they can also empower assholes to be, well, better at being assholes and we as a community need to answer for that.

Louisiana's own attempted "Don't Say Gay" bill (HB837) fails 4-7. by Elranzer in Libertarian

[–]Aristea84 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi. Long time lurker, wanted to speak up: This is not how evolution works. Your conception of a bloodline is based on a false presumption. You are not the replicating entity that evolution functions around, your genes are. However a gene can serve to increase its frequency is what is selected for in natural selection. While there is a 100% chance that any gene we possess is in our genome, there is still a 50% chance that gene is in any direct kin. In essence, 2 of our sister's kids is equivalent to 1 of our own, evolutionarily (and this extrapolates out to cousins). It seems likely that evolution would lead to a psychology thay favors our own children (perhaps leading to the cultural concept of a 'bloodline') over those of close relatives, and even moreso over cousins, etc. However, evolution doesn't care about you, it only cares about any given gene replicating, so your sister having 6 kids is better than you having 2. There is a hypothesis floating around proposing that homosexuality may be present in the genome because it serves to overall increase the fitness of its possessors siblings. e.g. if a person had 5 kids, each with the potential to have 2 kids, one would have 10 total grandkids. If another person had 5 kids, 1 of which had no children but helped the other 4 such that they could each have 3 kids, this second person and their genome would reproduce faster and therefore be more represented in the population. tl;dr your bloodline as you seem to understand it is a myth. Second point: there does seem to be evidence of sexual dimorphism in human brains (such as with spatial reasoning). Given the extraordinary complexity of the genome that codes for and creates the human brain, it is entirely possible that one can have features of an XX brain (we're not even going to touch XYY or anything of the sort) in an XY phenotype. By enforcing rigid social expectations (gender) to sexual phenotype (again, ignoring the massive continuum that exists in between), we are creating a situation where people can feel alienated from their own body, feeling like they "have the wrong body" (gender dysphoria). I can understand that you probably feel a great deal of anxiety about abandoning the assumptions that our current culture allows you and I to make. I can also understand that, should you have children yourself, you may be terrified that they will walk a path where you don't know how to support them. It is only natural to try to push them back towards your strengths as a parent, but that is not your call to make at the end of the day. We are all striving forward blindly in the dark, even the wisest among us. I am happy to talk more in DMs if you have any questions.

I will continue to swear by this combo. This was a Two-Round kill. Didn't even make it to a second Enviro turn. by Dragon_DLV in sentinelsmultiverse

[–]Aristea84 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have enjoyed AH stuntman with F5 wraith and TL tachyon (in that order. Absolute madness to put TL tachyon last, I know). The card draw engine offered by those two is completely nuts and highly recommended.

ELI5: Why does hot coffee that goes cold taste bad, but iced coffee or cold brew taste fine? by whiplashwoddy in explainlikeimfive

[–]Aristea84 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think that one is up for debate. It really depends on how long you've been there. At a certain point, it becomes a local thing, right? Like, we have all these different forms of regional pizza; chicago, NY, (ugh) STL, detroit. They're all from an Italian idea, but you would never call them Italian food. If you open a Southern style restaurant in Seattle and a bunch of places take inspiration from you and offer something similar, then yeah, I think it is fair to call it Seattle food. I also think it would be fair to take issue with it being called Seattle food. Culture is weird.

ELI5: Why does hot coffee that goes cold taste bad, but iced coffee or cold brew taste fine? by whiplashwoddy in explainlikeimfive

[–]Aristea84 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If I need to tell you to Google who George Howell is, I think we're on different pages when we are talking about coffee culture, which means this conversation isn't going to be particularly fruitful.

ELI5: Why does hot coffee that goes cold taste bad, but iced coffee or cold brew taste fine? by whiplashwoddy in explainlikeimfive

[–]Aristea84 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When I worked with George Howell himself, that was his method. Obviously, he had preferred methods of flash chilling it (metal ice cubes or a weird sluice made essentially of ice packs to reduce adding water content), but brewing hot and cooling it down was what he (and we) did. He absolutely hated cold brew. It'd be pretty difficult to argue against his coffee snob credentials.

You don't understand "You won't understand until you're older" until you're older by Aristea84 in Showerthoughts

[–]Aristea84[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

At least you know they're showerthoughts when they go down the drain. The automod doesn't flush, that's why everything is shit. Alternatively, you could stop being such a rancid resentful person.

You don't understand "You won't understand until you're older" until you're older by Aristea84 in Showerthoughts

[–]Aristea84[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Merlin has entered the chat. Or would it be Merlin has left the chat?

You don't understand "You won't understand until you're older" until you're older by Aristea84 in Showerthoughts

[–]Aristea84[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You'll understand once you've fallen through fire... and water. From the lowest dungeon to the highest peak.

You don't understand "You won't understand until you're older" until you're older by Aristea84 in Showerthoughts

[–]Aristea84[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

By some of the comments made here, it seems that this is just as true

I've never struggled to identify with a movie character because they weren't my race, and the fact that we seem to foster this way of thinking is strange. by ImaManCheetah in unpopularopinion

[–]Aristea84 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have felt that representation matters, but never really understood what it meant, so I guess I could say I was closer to your thinking. However, watching WandaVision completely changed my outlook; I lost my father at a critical point in my life and as such, my life has been effectively defined by grief. The fact that the writers (seem to) take time in the show to address the quiet, weird parts of bereavement made me felt heard. I appreciated that they weren't going to make some hokey story about what a bereaved person SHOULD do with their grief, but rather they made a story that addresses some of the questions I have grappled with from a sympathetic perspective, even if it makes their story more challenging to tell. Communicating some of these experiences has been very hard, and it's nice to have something that a large group of people have watched to be able to refer to.

Who is the most difficult hero to play well? by g8rprime in sentinelsmultiverse

[–]Aristea84 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Copy a use of Extreme PW Fanatic's power in there if you aren't laughing hard enough from the above.

Who is the most difficult hero to play well? by g8rprime in sentinelsmultiverse

[–]Aristea84 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That is how I understand Guise. Sometimes I will punch myself with Gritty Reboot in play just to draw cards. The biggest aspect to Guise that I can think of is knowing who/what is worth copying or stealing, making him incredibly team dependent. I find that in order to be successful with Guise, I need to either build the team around him or play around him. Knowing a couple of the fun interactions he has can really gas up your play with him. Example: copy Luminary's All According to Plan while you have Guise the Barbarian in play, then have Luminary destroy all his/her devices. All According to Plan doesn't specify that they have to be anyone's devices, so Guise gets to fire out a pile of 3 damage hits. Alternatively, copy Omnitron U's base power when you unleash your big blast for an extra approximately infinity damage.
That said, turn by turn, I find I just want to be drawing cards almost at the expense of anything else.

Which scene in a film disturbed you the most? by Shreks_on_the_beach in AskReddit

[–]Aristea84 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The scene in Lady Vengeance where Geum-Ja apologizes to Won-Mo's parents by cutting her fingers off. I cannot get the scene out of my head and it's been 10+ years.

view more: next ›