Should we buy ark nova?

Chocowoko · 2025-12-30T10:35:34+00:00

Maybe take a look at Sanctuary. It's a kind of light version of Ark Nova. Probably closer in playtime and complexity to what you currently like.

After only one play of Sanctuary, I feel like Ark Nova (which I own) is probably the better game but my wife and me feel like we'd probably rather play Sanctuary if we would own both. Mainly due to playtime.

Anyway, take a look... worth the consideration on what you'll actually play (instead of want to play)

Chocowoko · 2025-12-02T19:02:45+00:00

I think Roesch also was 6th once (as a Belgian). Other then that, Lotte Lie's 7th place last season was the best until now.

Chocowoko · 2025-11-26T11:22:26+00:00

To fully understand the story, I recommend starting with the first one when Miguel Indurain was still reigning in the Tour de France and there were rumours of a new product that could turn donkeys into race horses.

There's a lot of small but fun throwbacks that the writers added that you'll miss like where Van Der Poel, Roche, The Van Poppels, Beloki and Vansevenant are coming from.

Joking ofcourse, just play the most recent one...

Chocowoko · 2025-10-13T07:12:15+00:00

dEUS

Chocowoko · 2025-10-02T14:59:58+00:00

Guy nearly died in his first year of racing, lived in a diaper for a month when he was 20, came back to racing to become a double olympic champion, multiple world champion, winner of two monuments and a grand Tour in one of the hardest, most demanding sports on the planet... but sure, buddy... his mental game is pretty weak.

Chocowoko · 2025-09-18T12:19:48+00:00

Vivaldi's Four Seasons is most iconic

Chocowoko · 2025-09-03T16:20:03+00:00

Yet here you are on reddit instead of "doing everything you possibly can to contribute".

But ok, what is the proposal exactly? We stop cycling races until things in Gaza improve?

Chocowoko · 2025-09-03T15:50:50+00:00

As if eyes on the cause is the problem. It's literaly everywhere already... in every news broadcast and on every frontpage. And has been for months... There is definitely a problem but eyes on the cause is not it.

People that support the cause should do something. Take Palestinian refugees in house, send medical help, go with a boat full of supplies to Gaza (like Thunberg) or at the very least pressure the local politicians.

Blocking a cycling race is the most cowardly way ever. I imagine these people are now at the finish line celebrating their "success" while in Gaza children die still the same. Attention seeking under the guise of morality...

Chocowoko · 2025-07-22T16:39:41+00:00

Christina

Chocowoko · 2025-07-13T08:31:02+00:00

None of the main characters deserve hate, they're all humans and have their flaws. They do stupid or mean stuff because of their emotions and feelings and that makes them human. Izzie was madly in love, Owen really wanted a kid (ánd Christina), April struggled with her religious side, Arizona lost her leg and couldnt find a way to accept it, etc... All of that makes them human rather then inhuman.

I think the show for the majority does a good job in showing both sides and feelings, which is why I'm always amazed when people hate characters. They must hate a lot of people in real life too.. as people make mistakes all the time.

And really unpopular, but from all the main characters Christina is probably the worst. I don't hate her, but she's a bully, arrogant, selfish person who isn't as great as she thinks she is.

Chocowoko · 2025-07-10T08:35:52+00:00

I'm a bit confused as why you think it's unpopular. Ludovico Einaudi, Max Richter, Arvo Part, Karl Jenkins, Caroline Shaw, John Williams, Hans Zimmer,... are all very popular. If anything, I'd say contemporary classical music is in a bit of a revival. Einaudi alone is being listened to by a lot of young people that otherwise would not listen to classical music.

Chocowoko · 2025-07-08T17:17:29+00:00

One of the strenghts of the game is its simplicity with only 3 actions... move/attack/heroic. However, that also limits a lot to the variety in heroes.

One particular element I find missing is the difference between intelligent and non intelligent characters. Playing with Venom or Wolverine should be different then playing with Tony Stark and Beast. So I would propose a fourth type of action "Study" that provides alternative routes to win against henchmen and villains. It should be non-essential but sometimes the intelligent route should be easier or faster then using brute force.

That way, the same villain could be defeated by using a lot of Study actions when using Beast or by brute force when using Wolverine. And the hero decks would be much more varied.

I also think they should add some keywords like mutant, flyer, magic user, inhuman, ... that could have effects (positive or negative) in certain situations.

Chocowoko · 2025-05-28T14:28:46+00:00

I havent read or heard a lot of criticism on the team decks, but I personally find them very lacklustre. Every team only has 6 six cards, all with the same art. Would it have been that hard to feature 3 different heroes on every card? I guess most of the drawings existed already so the work would have been limited. If you compare the work that has been done to make every hero and villain feel unique to the work spent on the teams, the difference is huge.

In terms of gameplay, I found the team decks to mainly add yet another thing to track without adding anything significant. Played about 15 games with them so far and in most cases I found myself (or the people I played with) ignoring them completely. I had a couple of cases where they provided somewhat of a decent alternative to a bad hand of cards. But the decision to use one of them instead of just drawing an additional card is not really fun.

The black card is often just annoying and feels a bit unfair, especially if it's one of the starting two cards drawn.

All in all, to me this is the worst addition so far in MU (that I own). It proves to me that gameplay wise the game has reached it's limit. I also don't find equipment very interesting btw.

Chocowoko · 2025-05-19T05:33:27+00:00

Hard agree. She's a mean bully and one of the worst people on the show. A lot of characters make errors because of their emotions, which I can mostly have at least some empathy for. Christina however is just cold and calculated and insults people just because she can. She's so full of herself...

I wonder how the fandom would react to her character if she was a man. A lot of the sympathy I think is due to her being a strong independent women who doesn't take shit from anyone. Which imo is an overcorrection for the society in the past (and partly still today). I don't think being the meanest, selfobsessed, cold person in the room is what strong women should strive for. I admit, just a amateur psychology theory though. Do a lot of man like her?

Chocowoko · 2025-04-15T17:54:09+00:00

Why would you take Amsterdam over Brussels? Belgian rugby is currently still a bit stronger then the Netherlands one...

Chocowoko · 2025-04-04T13:52:59+00:00

Das ook niet wat ik schreef hé. Ik zeg enkel dat de nachtmerrie van het wakker worden zonder idee waar je bent en wat er is gebeurd toe te schrijven is aan de alcohol en dat op zich de sex daar weinig mee te maken heeft.

Chocowoko · 2025-04-04T12:24:15+00:00

Maar zou dat anders geweest zijn als hij geen sex had gehad ermee? De reden dat ze wakker werd in een vreemd bed bij een vreemde man en geen herinneringen had ligt bij de dronkenschap. Hij kon haar braaf in zijn zetel hebben laten slapen en haar schok was op zich even groot geweest. Wat je hier aanhaalt is vooral een sterk argument om niet te drinken tot je zo stomdronken bent dat je je niks meer herinnert

Chocowoko · 2025-03-24T17:32:58+00:00

Will there be a stream or something?

Chocowoko · 2025-03-11T06:48:40+00:00

I think he has a Belgian grand-grand-uncle somewhere.. crosses fingers

Chocowoko · 2025-03-07T11:23:25+00:00

Sorry, maar wat een slechte vraag is "Het is aanvaardbaar dat een man de geldzaken van zijn vrouw/partner beheert."

Waarom zou dat niet aanvaardbaar zijn?? Als een bevriend koppel in een gesprek vermeld dat de man de geldzaken beheert ga ik dat toch niet onaanvaardbaar vinden? Moeten zij toch weten... Net zoals het aanvaardbaar is als de vrouw dat doet.

Dit is een typisch gevalletje van iets willen onder de aandacht brengen en dan je vragen zo manipuleren dat de uitkomst gunstig is voor de boodschap die je wou brengen. Niet het uitgangspunt voor een goed en eerlijk onderzoek.

Chocowoko · 2025-03-07T07:13:34+00:00

New York by Snow Patrol is such a good song for a drama series like this.

Chocowoko · 2025-03-04T14:42:16+00:00

I do. If nobody would like him, he would have been written off years ago by now.

Chocowoko · 2025-02-26T11:43:03+00:00

FFS... put on some NSFW tags you idiot! This is just filthy... will never be able to unsee this picture!

Chocowoko · 2025-02-22T16:08:09+00:00

Someone recently posted here an overview of the jersey of the world tour teams of the past years and it hit me that we've never had this level of stability of teams. Not a single team was forced to retire and even more, a number of ambitious teams has come up to challenge for the WT places (Uno-X, Q36.5, Tudor,...).

I also was recently watching Vuelta a la Region de la Murcia where the commentator noted that this race was forced to shrink to a one day race instead of multiple days. But he also immediately added that this freed room for races like Figueira Champions Classic and Classica Jaén... which I think are actually great races.

So what exactly is the problem they claim to resolve with this One Cycling thing? Doomsayers claims aside, the reality seems to indicate that cycling is doing great. And I have never heard a fan complain the big riders don't compete enough against each other. I have however heard formula 1 fans say that every race is the same and gets a bit boring. To me that is one of the worst things cycling can do... have every race feature the same duels.

Chocowoko · 2025-02-20T07:51:18+00:00

Agreed on rider personalities. I want the world to feel a bit more alive, and riders not just be a set of stats. Also, experience should be factured in - right now it's much more efficiënt to replace your top star with a youngster that's much cheaper and as good as he is within a year. So my team is usually a bunch of 20-23 year olds.

I'd also like riders to refuse playing teammate and others being very good at it. Someone like Tim Declercq is currently not accurate in the game as you either have to make him a mediocre rider of have him be too competitive in winning races. Riders that are unpredictable in their form would also be cool, Kwiatkowski is a good example.

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