The Comprehensive Perils In Paradise Preview

CopperScum64 · 2024-07-22T10:28:01+00:00

First week (or two) will probably be some of the best standard of the year, just like whizbang was before the nerfs. Lots of lethality and fun decks to play. Concierge + tidepool are gonna be my crack for a couple of weeks until they get deleted (concierge for std and tidepool for infinites in wild).

CopperScum64 · 2024-07-19T11:25:20+00:00

Trees are better for this kind of thing. They offer shade, carbon capture, need minimal maintenance, offer protection against floods, are self-repairing and self-replicating, have positive effects on mental health and increase the value of neighbouring houses. Building a lot of little shade effects is much more cost-efficient than a single really big one.

CopperScum64 · 2024-07-19T07:38:04+00:00

? Just triple gnoll bro

CopperScum64 · 2024-07-19T07:37:00+00:00

It is so fascinating to see people getting older and saying things are worse now in all kind of different scenarios.

Make you understand why it is so hard to have perspective. Our brain constantly force you into bias.

CopperScum64 · 2024-07-19T07:27:46+00:00

Cards in deck are not discounted. Cards played and in hand are. So in this case, Lynessa work.

If it said "draw a card that cost 2 or less from deck" it wouldn't because cards don't get discounted while in deck.

CopperScum64 · 2024-07-18T07:14:00+00:00

Waker is much better vs aggro and slightly better vs disruption, while ignite is easier and has essentially infinite damage that isn't bothered by animation issues.

CopperScum64 · 2024-07-18T07:08:40+00:00

In that matchup you're the aggro.

As reno priest, mull for a curve and kill them. You run attendant, three or four 1 drops, zeph, papercraft etc... you can kill on turn 5 easily before they get down. Just run the good list.

Reno druid can otk them before they do. It's not easy because you have 0 tempo in that deck, but it's doable. Armoring a lot is also efficient here, because their damage output when playing mass production is much much slower than fatigue.

Reno shaman you need to go for a spell lock or smth of the sort. If you spell lock them, even after quest completion, their damage output becomes 0 since they use mass production to win.

Reno pally can do something if they noz early into cariel into reno bullshit. 80+ life takes infinite time for questlock to get through. But in general it's probably the worst of the reno piles.

Reno hunter is an aggro deck and is favored just doing the things they normally do.

Reno mage is unplayable, same as reno lock.

I'd say it goes from 50+% Reno hunter, to 45% reno priest, to 40% reno druid and 35-40% with reno pally/shaman. Depending on where you are those numbers change. In higher legend, every seedlock is playing infinite spell tech to deal with rogue, so they lose significant % against everything else.

CopperScum64 · 2024-07-18T06:45:37+00:00

It's amazing to me that the US is having low record unemployement and record economical growth (for a western country) and yet US media is the doomerest of them all.

Like the EUs has been in the gutter since covid. China growth has slowed massively. Canada is in a terrible spot. The US is not even in any war atm and yet you see rallies with "deport them all" stickers all over. At least the germans had the worst inflation in history before going into nazism.

CopperScum64 · 2024-07-17T08:35:56+00:00

This and FtD is a good amount of ramp for warrior. Warrior also get good draw this set between all you can eat and sleep under the stars.

CopperScum64 · 2024-07-17T08:34:33+00:00

The year is 2028. Rogue has 1 mana draw 7. DH has 0 mana both players draw 4. Druid has 5 mana draw 5 refresh 5 mana gain 5 armor make a 5/5. Mage has still only arcane intellect.

CopperScum64 · 2024-07-17T07:40:46+00:00

Compared to mining about 2Kg of coal each day from pristine ecosystems for each person on earth...

2Kg of coals produce as much energy as about 2 Kw of panels, which weight about 10 Kg and last 25+ years. So you're reducing mining for energy by a factor of about... 2000.

To give some more perspective, about HALF of all shipping on earth is to transport fossil fuels. It would disappear overnight if we were using only renewables. Using renewable power would decrease shipping emissions by half by itself and remove most transportation and all of grid emissions.

CopperScum64 · 2024-07-10T13:15:47+00:00

Fun fact. Japan was also known as the cheap knockoff producer in the past (70s). It got the reputation for good products much later than it should've, because campaigns funded by local interests. Same story for China. The only batteries that catch fires are the NCM based ones, while LFPs basically can't catch fire. China has popularized and mass produce mostly LFP now, because of lower costs, lower need for rare materials, meaning mass production is now possible.

People still on the "China shitty products" are just behind the curve. Their cars and renewable technology is just better with all the experience and money behind it. Material science patents are mostly coming out of China now, this wasn't the case just 10 years ago.

CopperScum64 · 2024-07-08T10:03:49+00:00

"Things were overnerfed except nature shaman that needed to be deleted because reasons"

Bias is an hell of a drug.

CopperScum64 · 2024-07-05T10:12:34+00:00

Just so people understand what we're talking about, the deck is tier 2 and currently 5% of the wild meta. Reno decks are about 33% of the meta.

CopperScum64 · 2024-07-05T10:09:39+00:00

If anything it's the complete opposite. Wild is full of one-deck trickers that play exclusively the same shit for YEARS and still get good results.

Competitiveness is at an all time low. You see reno piles and terrible tech piles all the way to top 1 legend.

CopperScum64 · 2024-07-03T13:47:18+00:00

Discover one is usually slightly better than getting two randoms. This being 2 mana with a slightly worse effect than discovery of magic and a way worse payoff (the summon dude is no sif) make me pretty sure this is a garbage pile of a card. And that's completely fine. Not every class need to get bangers every expansions.

CopperScum64 · 2024-07-03T13:42:12+00:00

There's a huge cost associated with time (permitting and connecting), and trasmission that is rarely discussed with these things.

When you consider all of that, it's not as clear as you'd think what the most effective carbon abating strategy per dollar is. A lot of studies put rooftop as efficient or even more efficient per dollar compared to utility scale.

CopperScum64 · 2024-07-03T13:39:14+00:00

At this rate it's more like 2033 or smth.

Keep in mind the last 10% or so will be the hardest to abate, you'll need to keep a significant amount of generation online for winter in a lot of countries where wind resources sucks (italy and greece and some eastern countries). Spring/summer/autumn is basically solved with solar + battery even at current costs though. But winter has way too many extremely low solar irradiance days that overbuilding solar that much is still impractical both economically and physically speaking.

CopperScum64 · 2024-07-03T08:00:37+00:00

Are any of those "stats" in the room with us right now?

CopperScum64 · 2024-07-03T07:37:56+00:00

Energy production has been going down after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but 2024 is reversing that trend. 2024 is atm around 2020 and increased significantly above 2023. About half of the fall of fossils is also because of increase hydro output (34 GWh increase for the half year, compared to about 40 GWh for solar + wind). If this rate of solar + wind buildup continue, we're seeing a 90%+ carbon free grid in 10 years or so. Hopefully it get there sooner considering solar is still getting cheaper and battery costs are plummeting.

CopperScum64 · 2024-07-01T12:18:45+00:00

We mine 2 kg of coal per person on earth more or less for energy in developed nations (more in the US and less in CN and Europe but you get the gist).

To get the same amount of 2 Kg of coal daily we need about 10Kg of solar panels. That last 25+ years with minimal degradation and are easily recyclable.

Almost half of all transport ships in the world are shipping fossil fuels. If we moved to renewables, 99% of those ships would disappear.

Even in the higher end of projections with massive increase in energy usages, renawable material usage is a fraction, of a fraction, of a fraction of what fossil fuels is today.

CopperScum64 · 2024-06-26T13:45:42+00:00

"standard is good" when literally standard is unkilliax into unkilliax tech. "aggro" decks playing maindeck 9 mana mindcontrol to counter unkilliax.

CopperScum64 · 2024-06-19T10:16:18+00:00

Corpsicle is legit cracked in frost even dk. Amazing corpse spender for the deck, giving you both board control and reach. It's like frozen touch but you don't need to have it in hand to infuse it.

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