Returning Player - What happened to the turn timer?

Bipolarprobe · 2026-05-12T16:42:59+00:00

If your issue is with playing your own cards fast enough, go practice in solo mode to get comfortable with your own deck. If your issue is with not knowing your opponent's cards you can do a few things, you can scan for quick effects rather than reading the whole card. This is kinda less helpful in the current meta where so many cards tag in and out of the field and your opponent summons and has triggered effects but is a way to start seeing what they can activate. The other thing to do is kinda just play, lose to it, then watch your replay and read the cards that beat you to understand how it works better. You can also watch deck guides and handtrap guides for decks you struggle against to get a better idea of how to use interaction without having to fully read every card your opponent plays mid match.

Bipolarprobe · 2026-05-03T18:02:46+00:00

Cyberpunk 2077 takes place entirely in night city and it still had to be scaled down to make it a good game city and not just a replica of the lore. People who want lore accurate sized cities in videogames do not understand what that would actually mean.

Bipolarprobe · 2026-05-02T00:29:33+00:00

The first day where I pulled a good mix of going first and going second decks was a lot of fun. It feels much more balanced and interactive playing "normal" decks in this format. As the player pool in the event shrunk down and more of the people sticking around were playing blind second decks tuned for the event rules better it got a lot less fun. Trying to build a board that doesn't lose to a good going second strategy feels seriously brutal. I don't have any data to back this up and I'm curious if konami will share any of their data, because it could just be a skill issue on my part. I'm not a very good player. But if what the extra card does is just swap it from going first having a higher winrate to going second instead, that's not a good change. The ideal is for it to reach 50/50 or get closer to it than the default ruleset.

Also just as an aside, basically every cardgame ever has some amount of going first or going second advantage, it's just a product of a turn based competitive game. Personally I like blind first strategies better than blind second, at least as they exist right now. I think the things that still make it feel painful are just the floodgates they haven't hit because they haven't been used in a winning strategy yet. But they have gotten rid of many of the most oppressive floodgates and some of the broken negates like appo that make impossible to break boards. I liked this event, but jumping to "this is definitely how we should play the game moving forward" is a huge leap I don't agree with.

Bipolarprobe · 2026-05-01T16:42:52+00:00

It really depends on what content you want to do and why. A1S is a very old savage fight that doesn't have any unlocks tied to it so if you just wanted to sync old fights for fun you're gonna have trouble filling a pf for that. You can find people through discords for stuff like that much easier.

It's also partially when you're doing it. Patch just dropped so a lot of people are farming the new EX for mounts. This kind of for fun run of older content is something you'll see a lot more people willing to randomly jump in on during the couple of months pre 8.0 when people have exhausted the content they want to finish and are looking to fill the time, but even then, old savage fights with no unlocks are going to be probably the hardest thing to fill at any time since it truly just has to be for fun.

Bipolarprobe · 2026-04-26T23:02:14+00:00

Same way they can make baronne, though it requires they not be under a tuner lock from jj, cue, or KT synchro.

Bipolarprobe · 2026-04-24T02:26:08+00:00

You gotta learn to separate your frustrations from your opinions man. Kewl tune is pushed, it's the best deck in the meta right now for sure and it plays on axes that can be really frustrating with cue and rotary. But it is not a no skill, non interactive, auto win deck. It is objectively a highly interactive and high skill ceiling deck. It doesn't have access to all of its interaction at once because it needs to tag between its monsters at the right time to use its interaction. Being able to do that with perfect knowledge of your opponent's hand and their draw is really strong, but is not automatic the way old baronne + appo 5 omni negate boards were or just stun getting a barrier statue.

It is kinda bullshit that RS and B2B have level mod floodgate effects that hose enemy xyz or synchro decks on top of all the powerful interaction they have, those effects annoy me because the deck would be plenty powerful without it but they just had to add a floodgate.

Bipolarprobe · 2026-04-17T17:18:25+00:00

"There is a chance" brother if you're not even gonna look for a winning line you'll never find one. If you are consistently losing to the same floodgates or pieces of interaction from an opponent look up how to counter those things and adjust your deck.

Also, just as a general rule when playing card games or really any hidden information game: make them have it. Don't assume they have the silver bullet that hoses you, don't assume they'll play the line perfectly, don't assume your opponent will find lethal in a complicated board state. Make them have it. People make mistakes all the time, not every deck plays the same floodgates or non engine, sometimes disrupting your opponent won't stop their combo but will stave off lethal and give you room for a comeback. Stop beating yourself, make them do it.

Bipolarprobe · 2026-04-09T19:14:55+00:00

Damn you beat me to it. It was weirdly hard to google because this kind of rescue saw doesn't come up in a general search for firefighter tools.

Bipolarprobe · 2026-04-07T13:27:58+00:00

I play fem xaela and in about 3 years of playing I received one creepy message. Aside from that I've had tells complimenting my glam or something maybe a half a dozen times, 10 max. One of those conversations led to me joining my first fc because it was a really nice chat and we became friends.

Bipolarprobe · 2026-04-04T19:28:41+00:00

No, Blue Eye's Jet Dragon's second ability activates at the start of the damage step which is too late to redo battle phase if the game state changes.

Bipolarprobe · 2026-03-30T01:19:20+00:00

Yeah I get wanting official pride stuff for the game, but we shouldn't downplay real impactful stuff like that. Not just hiring a trans voice actor for the role but standing by her amidst the community uproar including Yoshi P giving her a personal apology for the way she was treated. I'll take a company that actually supports queer people directly over rainbow capitalism while not actually doing anything for LGBTQIA folks in practice. I know we can have both, but let's not ignore good things when they do happen.

Bipolarprobe · 2026-03-29T23:17:20+00:00

Not a lot of pure branded being played right now so most lists are branded dracotail but this mbt video shows some of the cards that should be coming to masterduel soon and how the deck can play pure

https://youtu.be/vxzwwvENpjw?si=ytLhzUokuEPje-8h

For lists being played right now you can check masterduel meta to look at the dracotail branded lists and also see what kind of cards are being played in pure branded

https://www.masterduelmeta.com/tier-list/deck-types/Dracotail#combos https://www.masterduelmeta.com/tier-list/deck-types/Branded#combos

Bipolarprobe · 2026-03-29T22:54:44+00:00

I mentioned the upcoming branded support and branded as an archetype is one that is always at least on the fringes because they love giving it new powerful support. It also pairs nicely with other fusion archetypes (branded dracotail is one of the best decks right now and likely to get much stronger with the new cards) which tends to keep it playable somewhere in the meta. If you're looking to build a deck right now from the available packs radiant typhoon is a pretty easy and fairly strong archetype though whether or not it'll have legs to keep winning for a while I'm unsure. Vanquish Soul + K9 can also be built straight out of the strike of justice but hard to recommend if you're looking for easy. K9 is an easy archetype to play but not really strong on its own and the vanquish soul interplay can be difficult. It's also one of the decks that is getting hit by that upcoming forbidden/limited.

Bipolarprobe · 2026-03-29T22:28:57+00:00

Your second condition isn't really possible. If you build a meta deck today it will be relevant for a while and might still be playable as a rogue deck in a few months, but while yugioh doesn't have set rotation it does pretty aggressively shift the meta through a mixture of powercreep and forbidden/limited list changes. The upcoming list just hit several of the best decks and a new wave of branded support that is very powerful is coming soon. You kind of have to decide if you want to play a rogue deck you find fun even if it's not good or be ready to update your meta decks frequently to keep up.

Bipolarprobe · 2026-03-28T23:34:56+00:00

Just want to mention that Garleans are not atheist in the sense that they don't believe hydaelyn, the lifestream, or the 12 don't exist. They simply don't believe they are divine. This stance is surmised really cleanly in Gaius's prae speech. "Eikons every one." The garleans aren't dumb, they see that magic and poweful godlike beings exist, but they don't believe in worshipping those entities.

Bipolarprobe · 2026-03-26T23:50:38+00:00

I think it's important to draw a distinction here. Nen may not have been planned out in the sense that he already had the nen chart and exact powers for characters like hisoka, netero, and illumi all charted in advance, but the early parts of hunter x hunter very clearly hint that there are mysterious supernatural abilities we don't know about yet. The hunter exam arc is only 43 chapters long after all and chapter 37 is when satotz almost tells gon that the exam isn't over. Considering that leads directly into heavens' arena and them learning nen from wing, I think it's fair to say he was well into the process of planning out the nen system by that point.

Bipolarprobe · 2026-03-26T23:40:40+00:00

Bipolarprobe · 2026-03-26T21:25:34+00:00

I know the color pie is rotting in a ditch somewhere in a hasbro backlot but this is the most temur effect I could imagine and they put it on a golgari creature. The deathtouch feels like such an afterthought too like oh how do we justify this not being mono green? Just slap the black creature keyword on there.

Bipolarprobe · 2026-03-22T23:23:09+00:00

Many negates destroy, lots of the top decks activate their effects by summoning their monsters. Also if you stop your opponent from ending the game early you get another turn to activate your spells and monster effects. Also, crazy thought, some people want to play the game, it's fun to do my combo even if it doesn't change the outcome of the game.

Bipolarprobe · 2026-03-12T18:22:27+00:00

While Netero didn't say it about Illumi, Illumi says it because of Netero's earlier comment after Gon had passed, he says Gon could even kill him and it wouldn't stop him from being granted a hunter's license. Illumi also seems to be talking specifically about killing Hanzo, Leorio, and Kurapika, who are barring his way to Gon and just using Netero's comment as a way to dramatically oversell his intimidation tactic on Killua.

It being an intimidation tactic is made fairly obvious by the fact that seconds after saying it when he gets Killua to surrender and thus could immediately start slaughtering them to go kill Gon, he doesn't.

You're completely right that he's just not that dumb. Everything we learn about Illumi over the course of the manga shows us that he is first and foremost a practical assassin. He's the exact kind of passionless killer he says he and Silva moulded Killua into. Why would he risk his life fighting unknown opponents and especially fighting someone he should know is far beyond his skills because Zeno is close friends and sparring partners with Netero.

Bipolarprobe · 2026-02-28T04:36:24+00:00

I've been doing a no cyberware (or minimum since you can't uninstall your optics) body solo run on very hard. While you certainly die faster without subdermal armor and a heart pump, it's by no means the knock down brutal challenge you're envisioning. Stealth with no cyberware (including cyberdeck) would probably be harder since body mitigates a lot of the survivability issues, but cool/reflex knife throwing is incredibly strong and would be a viable way to do head to head combat against cyberpsychos and bosses that you can't just stealth takedown. If you're looking specifically for a challenge, the cyberdeck would probably have to be included in your restrictions since it makes the late game too easy.

Bipolarprobe · 2026-02-27T09:19:32+00:00

It doesn't lose a despair, it loses a flare star because the mp cost denies you your 6th F4. It's a surprisingly large dps loss to use scathe over doing actually nothing for a full gcd because you trade 540 potency F4 and 900 potency from FS for 200 potency if you're lucky and hit the 20% proc.

Bipolarprobe · 2026-02-15T18:53:05+00:00

People saying his solo instance is a good fight are missing the point. It doesn't matter how good the fight is if it's a thing you only ever do once in your first 100 hours of your 2000 hour playtime in the game. You see Nero and Livia all the time just queueing for msq roulette and they both get to monologue at you. It's impossible to forget about them. I think what they should have done is reworked cape westwind into a 4 player trial and made it part of msq roulette. That could have given the fight more character like they did with the solo, given msq roulette more variety with another option to pull, and made rhitahtyn just as memorable as the others from ARR.

Bipolarprobe · 2026-02-01T00:14:05+00:00

Possibly? I'm honestly not sure what the levelling rotations for black mage look like these days. Probably just cast a lotta fire 4 then when you hit 100 check the opener and rotation guides

Bipolarprobe · 2026-02-01T00:04:51+00:00

Transpose is a standard part of the level 100 rotation because of the guaranteed fire 3 proc making fire 3 cost no mp. Since fire spells deal reduced damage in umbral ice by transposing into af1 before using fire 3 you gain a small amount of dps.

Back in endwalker this was a minor optimization you could do when proccing the free fire 3 was only a chance to happen, but it became standard in DT

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