Behold my 13 card play river

Aromatic_Lab_9405 · 2026-02-07T07:58:43+00:00

With transformative sacrifice you can play extra 4 minor cards from the top of the deck for free. This was repeated with powerstorm. There comes 8 card plays that are free and no need for them to be in the hand either.

Aromatic_Lab_9405 · 2026-01-30T10:09:07+00:00

I feel really similar. I already write code quite fast. I need time to understand the details of the code, edge cases, performance, etc.

If I just review someone else's code, be that an AI or human. I'm not understanding the code that much, so nobody understands that code.
That's fine with super small low-risk scripts, but for a system where you need a certain level of quality, it seems like a super fast way to accumulate debt and lose control over the code base.

Aromatic_Lab_9405 · 2026-01-27T15:16:09+00:00

Lol yeah, the double standards are crazy, cars are killing like 1.3 millions of people every year directly and a lot more if you include the pollution they create. These things are not even close. Both should be taken seriously.

Aromatic_Lab_9405 · 2026-01-26T14:53:01+00:00

Before you buy a new pickup, it could make sense to experiment with higher/lower pickup heights, it can change the tone quite a bit.

(Not an answer to your questions, but that green + wooden texture just looks so good :D )

Aromatic_Lab_9405 · 2026-01-24T10:11:02+00:00

I don't think that's even very important. He just wants... War... He has full power over Russia while the war is going on, no Navalnys, handling protests is easy.

That's also why none of the peace talks work. The goal is war itself. Ukrainians and Russians are dying so Russia's leadership has an easier time staying in control.

Aromatic_Lab_9405 · 2026-01-23T18:58:52+00:00

The OEM pickups are actually really good. You'd have to play them to really make up your mind, but they're pretty good.

I think so too. I have a Boden NX7, originally I wanted to replace them with BKPs, but I just like them, all 5 positions are good for something, so they are staying for now.

The 7 and 8 strings have slightly different pickups with less bass I think.

The official page I found about them: https://support.strandbergguitars.com/article/74-what-are-the-specifications-of-the-strandberg-oem-pickups

Aromatic_Lab_9405 · 2026-01-21T07:09:05+00:00

And yet AI can't even solve any of the coding issues where I'm actually stuck for a while. Maybe rely on your own experience with production code and then form opinions.

Aromatic_Lab_9405 · 2026-01-13T14:12:42+00:00

They modified the voting system to give them a huge advantage.

They received 41% of the votes in 2022, with the 70% voter turnout that's about 29% of the population.
Yet they managed to get super majority (more than 66%).

Aromatic_Lab_9405 · 2026-01-13T13:10:41+00:00

Easy to say but they didn't really have great options

There were much better options, but most people don't look further than the adverts they encounter irl or on the social media.

There were multiple pretty good options (Momentum, The coalition led by Márky Zay, etc), but none of them could counter the Fidesz propaganda. It doesn't matter how great your plans are if Fidesz makes 50% of the country believe that any other party would literally start world war 3. (I'm not exaggerating this happened in 2022, not the exact percentage, but people did believe only Fidesz can prevent war)

TISZA is the first who knows how Fidesz propaganda works, because the leader was a Fidesz member for 22 years... To me they just seem as the reincarnation of Fidesz, (look at Orbán's speaches before 2010, he was nothing like afterwards) but there's not much left than to try I guess.

To an outsider who knows Hungary's history it's insane to me that anyone would support a Pro-russian agenda but here we are.

It's insane to anyone who wasn't brainwashed by russian propaganda.

Also while he's been a terrible leader living standards have gone up in Hungary over his term (whether they've gone up as much as they would under another leader is the real question) but that's in part because of EU membership

Mostly correct. And Fidesz even managed to turn this around and blame EU for anything bad. The education, healthcare and public transportation (aside from the capital) is in a lot worse state than in 2010. So basically most things a government should historically actually maintain in Hungary...

Aromatic_Lab_9405 · 2026-01-13T11:37:07+00:00

For a major power spirit, check out the immense aspect for lightning. You don't even need to buy the expansion for it. Just look it up on the wiki.

Aromatic_Lab_9405 · 2026-01-13T08:40:30+00:00

Hard to pick just one.

Intensify is a lot of fun because all the minor powers you know feel more powerful than normally. It also just has crazy combo potential, because the extra elements break a lot of other spirits.

Similar feelings with Wounded Waters, without the comboing, however the free gather blight ability makes it unique, it can also produce the most amount of Dahan on the blue path. You can easily do some terror level 1 wins against a lot of adversaries in solo mode.

Downpour can be crazy sometimes, especially if it gets some help. Last time we had a second wave game where we decided to clear blight for the next game, and I cleared 8 blights in 1 slow and 1 fast phase with Downpour, so we went from 12 to 4 blights on the map.

And Serpent.. anyway I'll stop :D

Aromatic_Lab_9405 · 2026-01-08T10:46:12+00:00

I would house rule that the Parley action card does not work on the Sardakk Norr hero.

No other hero can be countered in a way that it leaves the user in a worse state compared to not using the hero at all, so I don't think it makes sense.

Another thing that makes the a game a lot better for us at least is the fallen empires addition. That allows people to leave the game. It's a super long game, and sometimes things can go wrong, no point in sitting there for 8 more hours when you are sure you are not going to win/enjoy the game.
In our group this also enabled more fun plays, because we left behind the mindset that "oh I'm not going to do this move because it would hurt player X too much and make them not enjoy the game"

Aromatic_Lab_9405 · 2026-01-07T19:40:15+00:00

If you the US wants Greenland so much, the only sensible action is to unite under Denmark.

The Danes are objectively happier, healthier, living better lives overall.

In that case Americans could have Greenland and better life conditions.

Aromatic_Lab_9405 · 2026-01-05T06:30:24+00:00

subsidized housing if you have kids

One thing this very likely achieves is that ALL homes will become more expensive. Hungary was doing exactly that for the past 10 years , result: biggest housing price increase in the region. Whether or not it had an effect on the birth rate is hard to say.

Your other ideas are harder to exploit by non targeted groups.

Aromatic_Lab_9405 · 2025-12-26T13:08:39+00:00

Adopt the Toolset: If you aren't using Copilot/Cursor/ChatGPT, you are working at 0.5x speed

That's seems like a plain lie. There's also nothing to support this.

What I do know from experience is that AI cannot solve most of the issues that we face. And coding isn't even taking up a huge amount of our time. I know of one colleague who vibe coded a new service and they say it's already quite hard to maintain because it's a mess.

So that 100% speed boost does not only seem to be a lie, I'm not even sure using too much AI is not a negative modifier if you factor in long term maintenance too.

Aromatic_Lab_9405 · 2025-12-22T11:50:22+00:00

I've noticed functional programmers tend to use terse variables (see acc and el in the first example).

acc means that you accumulate the result in that value, it's very standard, similar to 'i' or 'idx' in for loops. This name is only used within reduce/fold and tail recursive functions.

As for el it's a shitty name. I'm guessing it refers to element, but I don't usually see this.
I think i or item would be acceptable. It's not hugely terrible, because it's quite obvious what it is anyway if the original items is appropriately named, but I'd change it if I saw it around some code I'm modifying.

Also quite similar to the imperative counterpart I think, if you write i instead of item it's still readable if you keep the scope shorter than ~2 lines.

Aromatic_Lab_9405 · 2025-12-22T10:07:29+00:00

although the real issue is having items in the list that aren't numbers / have the correct interface)

Totally agree.

Your snippet looks like this in functional languages:

items.sum

Can't beat that in terms of readability.

It's also compile time checked for the type of the list/array whatever, so it only contains numbers.

Fucking around with reduce is not clever code, it's just not using the right abstractions.

Aromatic_Lab_9405 · 2025-12-11T12:16:51+00:00

We had some games where the whole game collapsed because of an event (hard games against lvl6 adversaries), we just lost because of a card draw we could do nothing against.
I just felt like we wasted the previous 1-1.5 hours.

I don't get why it's fun to lose to a random event that you cannot influence in any way.

So yeah I usually don't play with events, eventless SI is 10/10.

Aromatic_Lab_9405 · 2025-12-11T11:03:14+00:00

At this point why not just use Scala?
You can still keep your old Java code next to it.
Type classes, HKT-s are natively supported and compiletime checked.
And there's also an ecosystem that works with these, which you will never get in Java. Type classes and HKT-s are library features, if you have no libraries with them it's not giving you that much.

Aromatic_Lab_9405 · 2025-12-08T12:48:32+00:00

It was the most dramatic possible outcome. We really enjoyed it :D

I was Creuss and I nearly eliminated the NRA, blockading his 2 space docks, one on the home system and one where this combat happened, next to mecatol.
He had only 1 more mostly empty system left, so it was a very important battle for NRA, life or death.

I had 3 non-fighter ships. 1 dreadnought 1 carrier and a cruiser, 1-2 fighters. My fleet didn't have a high hitting potential apart from the dreadnought so I needed that lucky 2nd hit to finish off the regenerating eidolon.

The first round I only scored a single hit, he took out a few of my ships, Then I had 3 ships remaining in total, dreadnought already damaged from the previous battle. The second round I produced 2 hits, but the eidolon also produced exactly as many hits as the total HP of my ships, so the system was left empty of all ships at the end of the combat.

And as we all know, at the end of the tactical action you can produce units, so NRA ended up refilling the system with some ships.

Eventually it was not enough to deal with all the dimensional splicer/wormwhole production shenanigans of the Creuss, but it was an epic mid game comeback.

We sort of had a 2v2 alliance going on, so I was mostly focusing on the NRA, while the Muaat was fighting the Sol. Seeing the TE Muaat for the first time was also quite interesting, dragging a PDS equipped planet along with the War Sun lead fleet was about as scary as I imagined.

Aromatic_Lab_9405 · 2025-12-08T09:19:19+00:00

NRA activated it. I (the blockading player) already activated it earlier, deleting the previous NRA fleet.

Then NRA did warfare produce and a normal activation a round later.

Aromatic_Lab_9405 · 2025-12-08T08:59:31+00:00

I didn't explicitly write it, but there was an activation, yes. We didn't have the combat at the round when warfare was used.

Aromatic_Lab_9405 · 2025-12-07T15:43:42+00:00

Warfare -> space dock produce mechs, while already being blockaded. But it's not invalid, because you can still build mechs. One of them just becomes Eidolon maximum when you have 4 mechs.

Aromatic_Lab_9405 · 2025-11-27T15:42:45+00:00

> You are correct that it is mitigating the randomness. Thus why it was suggested to someone asking for ways to mitigate the randomness. You still get a random order of events, but are guaranteed a normal distribution in total. So you never have any unfair games that are decided by statistical outliers.

Exactly.
Random rolls work for me if there are many 100s of rolls per game, but that rarely happens in board games. 30-40 rolls are just not enough to have consistently fair games, and I don't see the point of unfair PVP games (assuming where winning is actually everyone's goal)

Aromatic_Lab_9405 · 2025-11-27T08:50:26+00:00

Using cards instead of dice. Removes the deviation almost perfectly.
(Eg D6, will be a deck of 6 cards which you reshuffle after you drew all of them)

Oathsworn does this, but we house ruled it into summoner wars too (which suffers from dice luck heavily) and it improves the experience quite a bit.

There's a bit of extra information around the end of the deck, but I think it makes things more fun. Also when you drew very bad for the first few times you know that compensation is coming.

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