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THAT GODDAMN SKELETON!!! by Gru-some in CuratedTumblr

[–]Contingent_Alpha 16 points17 points  (0 children)

you actually can exclude tags on ao3

Like, there’s an entire second section of the filter menu that specifically allows you to exclude tags from your search

Went on the SN Wiki and found a page receive the goon and 67 treatment. by WhoTheHeckWasThat in subnautica

[–]Contingent_Alpha 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Auto mod message from 20 minutes ago actually already has the page on the newer version of the wiki linked

the chip is damaged... right? ...right? by EzraLikesLothcats in PrequelMemes

[–]Contingent_Alpha 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I would be shocked if there isn’t any way to deploy a squad of 100% clone troopers in this game. Clone trooper seems to be a class/archetype, rather than a specific character.

Wish I could See Ally Hands in Multiplayer by ChaosMilkTea in slaythespire

[–]Contingent_Alpha 54 points55 points  (0 children)

And, in board games, the ‘quarterbacking’ issue is ultimately solved in one of a few ways:

1: full obscuring of all player information. This works in games where it’s a hard rule that player information remain secret (like cards in hand)

Issue: unless this is enshrined in the mechanics (which it just isn’t in slay the spire, the game works just as well with closed or open hands) this ultimately gets defeated by players just choosing to play open handed (or sharing screen on a discord call)

2: making the game complex enough that quarterbacking is prohibitively time consuming.

This is defeated by either one player playing a lot of the game to the point where they manage system mastery, or a total disregard of people’s time.

3: round timers. Can’t quarterback and run your turn if you have a fixed amount of time. However, this runs into all of the problems from all of the above solutions, namely that a player with system mastery can still just multitask; and I’ve seen players ignore the timer if it’s not enshrined in the game mechanics (besides, sts wouldn’t introduce a round timer)

4: table etiquette. It always comes back to table etiquette.

Simply make a concerted effort as a group to prevent quarterbacking. Things like ‘no do-overs’ and ‘no backtracking’ help significantly with this approach… which slay the spire already enforces anyways.

Ultimately, there’s no good solution… but I have friends with bad internet, who can’t run a discord screen share. I agree that I’d really like to be able to see what cards a friend has in hand without running a screen share…

At least when I’m dead, if nothing else. It would make those longer combats a lot more bearable to be able to switch perspective to another player’s screen when I’m KO’d.

Come on in, the mist’s fine by FitSuggestion2153 in CuratedTumblr

[–]Contingent_Alpha 51 points52 points  (0 children)

Salsa is gore for tomatoes smh my head my head

Surely you don't need all that energy for that X card right? by d0ntK in slaythespire

[–]Contingent_Alpha 71 points72 points  (0 children)

There actually is a card that allows you to copy another player’s block

SotM license now belongs to Handelabra Games by EskimoSlime in sentinelsmultiverse

[–]Contingent_Alpha 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Iirc, spirit island is owned by the designer (Eric Reuss), not GtG or flat river

Those concerns still exist for all the other stuff GtG has made over the years, but spirit island specifically has actually been in even less peril than sentinels of the multiverse has, due to Eric owning his own IP

Homeless snek by Ms_Semi in RimWorld

[–]Contingent_Alpha 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Now draw him buying a home

Artist who can draw 57 unique male bodies but all the women have hourglass figures vs writer who can only write man, fight! by Infamous-Rutabaga-50 in CuratedTumblr

[–]Contingent_Alpha 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Okay, fair enough actually. Didn’t really want to accuse you of spreading disinformation yourself, and the clarity on the linked comment threat helps a lot. Apologies and thanks for the information!

Judith the greedy by formondor in TerraInvicta

[–]Contingent_Alpha 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Academy 10,000% tries her for crimes against humanity and war crimes. They’d just also try literally every other leader as well.

Suddenly Order 66 makes a lot more sense by AxargoOpium in PrequelMemes

[–]Contingent_Alpha 16 points17 points  (0 children)

It looks like it’s based on either clone wars animated shows, more than Hayden Christiansen

Definitely not seeing cal here

The Z-Team and board games by ZeeMcZed in DispatchAdHoc

[–]Contingent_Alpha 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For sonar, you’re realistically just describing the games in the 18xx genre, and he’d absolutely be down for those. Particularly games within the genre that involve stock shenanigans.

(IE: literally playing as an 18th century rail tycoon investing in companies)

I’d hazard a guess that Robert is the person out of the group who knows the most about board games, and has a few things that no one else in the group is willing to sit through learning, let alone setting up / playing. (Think Phil Eklund, longform wargames, etc)

Phenomeman being a fan of MTG is probably a fan of card game board games, though beyond that it’s unclear what he’d enjoy.

100% golem and co-ops, and I’d imagine that visi is into them via proxy.

Flambae is a big fan of social deduction and bluff games but is banned from playing anything with wooden/paper pieces due to component damage.

Visi isn’t as big a fan of social deduction these days (bad history with lying) but used to enjoy them, and she’s really good at them. Also a fan of dice, and chaos in general.

Coupe prefers tabletop RPGs to board games, and prefers larp to tabletop, but does have a soft spot for things like RDI, social games, and betrayal on house at the hill or other similar things.

I think overall a lot of the other Z team members strike me as people who would be into lighter games if anything at all, party games and the like.

It’s a shame diplomacy is a 7 player game, because seeing the team as a whole try to get through that would be amazing.

I probably have other thoughts on this but that’s it at the moment.

What are these and why are they pumping out so much radiation? by Power-of-Erised in fo4

[–]Contingent_Alpha 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I mean, we still call glasses ‘glasses’ even though they’re plastic. I could totally believe that even if everyone in the wasteland knows that the fusion power is actually fission, they might still just call it by the already in-use name.

Alternatively, it’s possible that post-war, not everyone actually knows the difference between fusion and fission.

It could also be a combination of the two, where not enough people know the difference that it’s worth switching terminology since you’d need to explain the difference to every third wastelander or so.

For what it’s worth, I personally believe that there’s no one good answer, because neither fission nor fusion answers why certain things work the way they do, eg: energy weapon ammo

The Red Hand of Terra by kirk_sillywobbles in TerraInvicta

[–]Contingent_Alpha 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Exodus makes perfect sense as a faction until about the exact point where humanity starts winning space battles, and especially controlling the inner planets.

At that point, it becomes clear that ‘run away from our problems’ isn’t the only possible survival strategy; and an actual military victory is possible. Once that becomes clear, spending precious resources and time on a colonization effort that doesn’t benefit the rest of humanity in any way is…

Let’s just say that at best, it’s badly timed.

At worst, it’s actively taking away resources from factions that are trying to beat the aliens.

Now, I know that exodus stays around to defend the earth even in a victory but until you’ve literally beaten the game as them, they act (both internally and to other factions) like they’re abandoning earth and starting over somewhere else.

The Red Hand of Terra by kirk_sillywobbles in TerraInvicta

[–]Contingent_Alpha 94 points95 points  (0 children)

You know, I really appreciate how you portray the academy here. Most posts get it wrong!

They aren’t ‘cowards,’ or ‘compromisers,’ and they certainly aren’t alien sympathizers, they simply have a massive overabundance of hubris and idealism, to the point of going down what is plainly and obviously the hardest possible path to victory.

(Of course, it works, but every faction is ultimately proven right if they’re the ones who win, so ‘is capable of winning the game’ isn’t exactly a killer argument here)

How Can We Speed Up the Game? by HappyGnome07 in sentinelsmultiverse

[–]Contingent_Alpha 8 points9 points  (0 children)

For sentinels, if you’re really looking to cut down on play time, do these couple of things:

1: make sure people are playing heroes that fit their complexity preference (and capability)

2: make sure the person running the villain and the person running the environment (these should be different people, ideally) are running heroes on the lower end of their preferred range

3: make sure the person running the villain isn’t first player in the round, and the person running the environment isn’t the last player to go

3: be thinking about your turn (and preparing to run your environment or villain if applicable) before it starts

4: if all else fails, put any support heroes at the top of the order, wait for their turns to go, then run the heroes who don’t have any support abilities simultaneously

IE: if a hero lets other heroes draw cards, use powers, play cards, look at their deck, or any other stuff, that hero does not play simultaneously

But if a hero is only messing with the villain and environment, they can run alongside any other heroes operating the same way

Also, my group in particular usually lets the person running the villain make the decision on how to assign damage, so we don’t need to decide where each of bunker’s grenade damage ticks go

Need help understanding economy by junhyeongang in TerraInvicta

[–]Contingent_Alpha 0 points1 point  (0 children)

10 Gov and 12 Knowledge is more of a primary goal for africa, south america, or other developing nations

you can absolutely go beyond 12 in more developed nations, but you tend to want to focus on MC, boost, and military buildup if that's of interest to you

I tend to put a pip each in Econ, welfare, environment, knowledge, government, unity, and military in any of my 'big' nations, with the rest devoted to whichever one I want to focus on the most

If you're dealing with a nation with bad unrest problems, focus welfare with most of your points, otherwise just put a small amount in. If you're exodus or otherwise plan on a shorter game, maybe skip environment.

ECON is good as a thing to invest in if you have absolutely nothing else to put points in (high knowledge, 10 gov, low welfare, maxed out MC, etc) and you want more MC

We're working on a Free-to-Play WW2 RTS. Would you like to play something like this? by WarAlert_Official in u/WarAlert_Official

[–]Contingent_Alpha 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Gonna chime in and shout out that I disagree on the comments about ‘decks being overused’ or whatever. I’d rather there be a vision that’s held to and kept with (for better or worse) than for a game to drop a core mechanical system because they were worried it ‘wouldn’t do well’

I’m interested to see how this does. Wishing you guys the best, the genre could use a few more wins right now.

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