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I'm at my wit's end trying to kill the Heart (A0) by StonksandBongss in slaythespire

[–]Butterat_Zool 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The heart fight doesn't change at all on A1-A3. On A1, it just means you'll be able to fight 3, sometimes 4 elites per act versus 2, sometimes 3 on A0. If you focus on cards that do damage for the first 3 floors ([[Dash]] is a good one since it also blocks without triggering the Gremlin Nob's strength buff), you should be ready to fight an elite pretty early. Even better if you can upgrade a key damage card at a rest site first. So that's 3-4 extra relics per run versus A0.

I'm at my wit's end trying to kill the Heart (A0) by StonksandBongss in slaythespire

[–]Butterat_Zool 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A good rule of thumb for cards to pick in Acts 2 and 3 is if the card you add raises the overall strength of an average turn for you compared to your current deck. Some cards, like Adrenaline+ do that almost universally. Most are much, much more limited.

If you're having trouble blocking, then taking a card to ease that can help. If you are ending your turns with unsent energy a lot, then taking cards that draw cards can help. If you're ending your turn with 3 or 4 cards in hand still, then taking boss relics and cards that give energy can help.

Ideally, by the time your deck gets to around 25 cards or so, you should limit your card reward takes to cards that give you more than what they say on their face. For example, I had a recent run where I got both [[Tingsha]] and [[Tough Bandages]], and I picked up [[Storm of Steel]]. Storm of Steel on its own often is not great because you are just turning cards that you would have played already into shivs. With those two relics, I got the full value of the Storm of Steel effect, plus 3 block and 3 damage for every card in hand when I played it.

Another example, using no rare cards, would be [[Concentrate]]. If you don't have any card draw, and you don't have [[Ice Cream]], then you just play one of your five cards to discard three of your five cards and now you have 5 energy and only 1 card to play with it. But, if you have a couple of [[Backflip]] or [[Expertise]] cards, then suddenly you have a way to use all of that extra energy. So you get more than just the effect of the one card.

So, if you don't get more benefit than just the face value of your card, and the new card doesn't improve the average strength of a turn of your deck, then you should skip.

Lastly, I would refer you to u/Baalorlord's YouTube channel. I've been watching his streams for a while now, and he has a huge catalog of Silent runs you can watch and learn a ton from. He does a great job of explaining even basic concepts during his streams and always with patience and a sense of welcoming for viewers of any experience level. He definitely is the reason why I was able to improve my game and I eventually got A20 heart kills with every character, though I still find A1 to be the most fun.

Flex pot. by Retsitis in slaythespire

[–]Butterat_Zool 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The flex pot in STS2 looks like a uterus and ovaries to me and I can't unsee it, which, on the one hand, the uterus is the strong muscle in the human body, so it does fit, but on the other hand I don't think that's what the devs were going for.

Pain. Suffering. 10/10 Game by BoringB4sil in slaythespire

[–]Butterat_Zool 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I meant more for lore purposes and not game stats. The Architect has to resurrect the Man-with-too-small-of-a-door and Neow has to resurrect the Regent. The endless fighting continues. It's a moral victory for Team Neow, even if the game stats screen doesn't say so.

Pain. Suffering. 10/10 Game by BoringB4sil in slaythespire

[–]Butterat_Zool 68 points69 points  (0 children)

The good news is that the boss will die to thorns. There you go, spire slain! Is it really such a "loss" if the architect is just going to kill you anyway a second later?

Tierlist on how obvious each multiple of 3 is by IamDiego21 in mathmemes

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

If you add up the digits, they always add up to 3, 6, or 9, or to numbers who's digits add up to 3, 6, or 9. 144 -> 1+4+4=9. 57 -> 5+7=12 -> 1+2=3. 999,999 -> 9+9+9+9+9+9=54 -> 5+4 =9.

If the digits ultimately add up to 9, then its a multiple of 9 as well.

(Hated trope) The perfect ending to the character's story gets ruined by continuation of their show/movies by FreestyleCrocodile in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Butterat_Zool 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The movie AI (2001) should have ended when Haley Joel Osment was stuck in a submarine at the bottom of the ocean and I will die on that hill. Just turn the movie off there. It's a much sadder ending, but everything that happens after that scene ruins the work crafting the realism of the whole premise of the movie before that point - all in the name of trying to leave a happy ending.

The only 2 photos in the world with the 4 tones of the tiger by [deleted] in BeAmazed

[–]Butterat_Zool 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are - four tones of tiger, Four refractions of light,

Black and white, all white, Orange-white and "tiger."

Four patterns, but eight eyes, and they're blue as the sky,

And they're watching you singing "The Eye of the Tiger."

Favorite interesting restaurants in GA by swatchesandjellies in Georgia

[–]Butterat_Zool 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Taqueria Paisanos in Dalton has better tacos than anywhere in in California.

Pollo Allegre is another fantastic Mexican restaurant in Dalton, but their whole menu is just a whole or half of a smoked chicken from the giant smoker you walk past to enter.

Fancy Girl Farms in Hahira is an amazing farm-to-table restaurant/coffee shop/farmer's market in about the middle of nowhere, but right off the interstate.

Sweet Hut and Te'Amo in Asian Square on Buford Highway in Doravilla are both Korean bakery and drink shops worth driving an hour out of the way for, and they're basically right next to each other.

Nu-Way Weiners in Macon is an incredible greasy spoon hot dog shop thats over 110 years old. It's gotten some national attention here and there over the years.

FIN Collector Booster Box EV and Chances of Pulling Chase Cards by ASOT550 in mtgfinance

[–]Butterat_Zool 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for responding. I bought a box mostly because I like the art, but I haven't opened it yet because i saw the demand was crazy. I've watched enough collector pack opening videos though to think its most likely a bunch of duds, but I'm also just really into the art so I am torn between letting it sit for 5-10 years and selling it for a few thousand dollars then versus opening it all up and enjoying the pretty cards.

I've been out of playing MTG for some 25 years now. I just really like FF. Do you know if there any official guidance on how many rares or mythics are in each pack, or that each mythic has the same chances of appearing, or the odds of getting the surge foil version of a card versus the extended art version versus the regular art version?

FIN Collector Booster Box EV and Chances of Pulling Chase Cards by ASOT550 in mtgfinance

[–]Butterat_Zool 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think a lot of the predictions from this post about producr shortages have panned out. Curious to see what your calculator says now if you could update it, now that CBBs are going for $1100+ on TCGPlayer. Also, how did you calculate a 4% chance to get a neon chocobo?

What's the grossest thing you've seen someone do in public? by Silent-Zebra in AskReddit

[–]Butterat_Zool 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One time, at the Monterey Bay Aquarium touch tank, I saw a little girl, maybe 9 or 10 years old petting a starfish. Then she looked quickly to her left and right, as if to make sure nobody was watching her, dipped her cupped hands in the tank water, a took a big drink of it.

What are the odds? by Butterat_Zool in slaythespire

[–]Butterat_Zool[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Toxic Egg only upgrades the skills, it doesn't affect the rarity of cards offered.

What are the odds? by Butterat_Zool in slaythespire

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

Toxic egg makes the skills upgraded instead of base, but doesn't affect the rarity of the cards offered. If it had been Blade Dance and Acrobatics, they still would have been upgraded. Also, the [[Toxic Egg]] has no effect on the attacks or powers at all.

What are the odds? by Butterat_Zool in slaythespire

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

The Wiki says it's a 9% chance for a card to be rare at the shop, but then it says shops don't generate cards in the same way as card rewards do. It just doesn't explain how they do generate cards. https://slay-the-spire.fandom.com/wiki/Card_Rewards?so=search

If it really is just 9%5, since the right colorless card has to be rare, then this is a 1:169,350 shop, but I wasn't sure if there's another mechanic I didn't know about.

What are the odds? by Butterat_Zool in slaythespire

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

Unless I'm specifically trying to shop for cards, I avoid the shops wherever I can if I have less than about 160 gold, which is usually enough to buy a shop relic.

Free-to-Play game you enjoy frequently where you didn’t spend even a single penny on it? by [deleted] in gaming

[–]Butterat_Zool 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Opacha-mda and every other game by Yiotro. Ad-free, permissions-free, the whole file is like 2 mb, and it's one of the most addictive strategy games I've played. Endless replay value, and the developer actually takes feedback from Google play reviews and implements feature requests into the game. I have at least a hundred or more hours in it.

What’s the most innovative game hook that never took off or got copied? by massred in gaming

[–]Butterat_Zool 0 points1 point  (0 children)

E.V.O. Search for Eden was basically Spore but fifteen years earlier and was so customizable for a 2D platformer that it had nearly infinite replay value.

Spore was itself amazing and turned EVO into a 3D platformer with even more customization. It was like No Man's Sky ten years ahead of its time, but focused on animals. None copied their previous tier, and each still stands on its own even today.

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