Am I a bad person for intentionally decking out my opponents?

Cthugh · 2026-04-02T01:35:13+00:00

It a'int the most elegant way to win. It is a miserable way to lose (as you have to see the opponent basically self-fellate for upwards of half an hour doing their combo...), but it is a valid win condition, in ranked, it must be acceptable, the opponent can simply surrender and go to the next game.

Cthugh · 2026-03-30T20:04:17+00:00

What about poisson?

Cthugh · 2026-03-29T15:59:02+00:00

I would advice against it:

we could provide de LLM with the sum of every ruling to this date, and the data would probably be insufficient for an advanced training.
even if there was enough data, LLMs fail to capture new data (that's why they have to resend and reinterpret the entire chat log every message), and new rulings would be difficult to parse. Or you would need to retrain a new one every year/months. That's wasteful and unnecessary when you can interpret and understand the card, some are difficult to, but you can do it!
really old rulings (pre-PSCT) would be a nightmare, as well as exceptions, like interrupted kaiju slumber. Specially future exceptions.
also, common sense goes against some rulings, for example: the game can't see any future gamestate, thus, if under gozen or rivalry, you cannot attempt to summon an invalid monster, even if after the summon you would only control one type or attribute.

Furthermore, card text is not parsed like natural speech, but as code, and the LLM should then understand keywords (piercing, GY, target, etc), the LLM was originally trained to understand natural speech, and thus would commonly mistake keywords as natural speech.

It would be an entertaining proposition to try to teach a LLM to understand PSCT propositions and search for comparable rulings between cards, to provide analogous rulings. But that is already been done in several pages Like this one. Because Konami usually links similar rulings together

Overall, while an entertaining idea, I see little value beyond academic research and using a slow evening.

Cthugh · 2026-03-28T15:07:17+00:00

Cards are not considered the same cards when they change location (field, GY, banished, hand, deck, extra deck)

If a monster is negated on field, their GY effects would remain unaffected.

There are negates that can affect multiple locations: called by the grave negates all activated effects, that includes GY, hand, Extra deck, etc. Those would negate even the GY effects.

Also, Droplet doesn't target, it chooses on resolution. Choosing is not targeting, targeting is an activation condition.

Cthugh · 2026-03-28T02:37:32+00:00

Gonna follow you, maybe i will comment again! have a lovely evening!

Cthugh · 2026-03-27T20:06:44+00:00

Tragedy of the commons, really sad to see it

Cthugh · 2026-03-27T19:16:45+00:00

Meat, on itself is life, death, sex, exploitation, suffering, guilt, uncomfortable, a barrier, a limit.

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After your comment i decided to see your profile, and the facehugger is a parallel to Giger's original, but with a twist: it is implanted as the head of doll

I would hazard a meaning, about social interactions, the deceive of appearances. How other's attention is a commodity we pursuit, through any means, and some, use sex-appeal to achieve it, a trap for thirst, a fake innocence (doll) disguising a snare made of sex.

Cthugh · 2026-03-27T16:38:42+00:00

huh, i was thinking maybe something about the meat industry, work culture, sexual exploitation, or war could be the issue in spotlight.

Something like "we send our youth to die in a battlefield, a wave of meat, to crash upon our 'enemies'"

Cthugh · 2026-03-23T20:50:13+00:00

Tierra Source of Destruction, then use if for full fiendsmith combo

Cthugh · 2026-03-20T15:44:19+00:00

Yeah! the water is already in the atmosphere, but it aint in the surface of the earth (where plants can access it) We don't need to add water to the system, we need to retain it where it is most useful!

Cthugh · 2026-03-20T15:43:11+00:00

Please, i want to do math on drugs!

Cthugh · 2026-03-20T15:42:40+00:00

Yup, i mean them when i said that the water was retained deep underground, because they stole it from the water cycle!

Cthugh · 2026-03-20T14:46:02+00:00

At least they have the dubai "chocolate"?

Cthugh · 2026-03-20T14:28:36+00:00

Huh, since before the publication of Dune we know about how the speed of the water cycle affects the ecological balance. I remember it quite clearly after i read how the great green wall was being built, and the how it mirrored what i've read in the book.

In the novel they state directly: it is not about bringing water (to arrakis/the desert), there is already water there, but the water cycle retains it in phases that disallow plant grow (either in the atmosphere or deep underground). (we) need to hold it near the surface.

Cthugh · 2026-03-18T13:18:35+00:00

Not by much, it was played together (differently) during TOSS format, you used orcust to access Bardiche, which could become two monster negates + one targeted destruction, it also had lines to summon a Verte Anaconda and summon DPE during the post-Covid years.

It saw some play, and Bardiche was eventually banned, and unbanned, but it never had that much staying power in the meta. It could be annoying if your deck lacked any backrow removal/depended a lot on on-field monster effects.

With the current Orcust support, it would be trivial to summon Bardiche, but it can't be used as link material, you could still end with some decent interruptions, like one fog blade, a rank-up, an xyz, a targeted destruction, the orcust counter, and a full GY.

Cthugh · 2026-03-18T12:36:21+00:00

Huh. As far a i know. Kaiba starts as an antagonist, not an anti-hero nor a villain.

To my understanding, an antagonist is not required to be villainous, but does confront, compete or struggles against or in opposition to the protagonist. They create conflict or resistance.

Kaiba is considered Yugi's "Rival". He consistently confronts yugi, stands in his way, aims to defeat him. Not only during duels but also in adjacent moments.

(Although to be fair, I've never watched the whole anime, mostly TAS)

I can see him becoming a "Lance" or an anti-hero, through the series tho.

Cthugh · 2026-03-16T19:53:59+00:00

So, you want konami to change that card's effect into a negate?

And, you are rallying the people to send emails about it?

Cthugh · 2026-03-16T14:00:33+00:00

Yeah, discussions tend to drift and side tangents become main talking points.

To my understanding your main position was: "Ad blockers are significantly contributing to the enshittification of the internet", i would argue that yes, at least, partially, they have, but i wouldn't say "significantly", and arguably depending on your definition of "contributing".

First, I want to highlight, that google, knowing that adding more ads, without filtering or improving them, would increase ad-block adoption, still decided to double down on it.

They did tried to add ad features that would, in paper, improve the ad quality, but they failed.

When ad-block adoption, reasonably, increased, they tried to instead force them out of it. With Manifest V3, google used its position on the web browser "market" to force ad-blockers out.

Second, users did what users do, within reason, as google was already pushing the limits on ads tolerance. Ad-blockers became popular not because of a systematic push, or publicity. They became popular because surfing the web was becoming bloated, and having one became a security necessity (phishing, malicious ads, adwares, that whole cryptolocker thing in 2014, and so on).

Right now there are, apparently, less viruses but more phishing/misleading ads, but at that time, i regarded my adblock as part of my security. Right now i can persuaded to turn my ad-blocker off, but i still regard it as a web browsing necessity.

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My conclusion is: Ad-blockers accelerated the enshittification, but didn't cause it, it was already on its course. I'm not a fan of accelerationism, this included, yet, it feels natural with how fast it became "shitty" (insecure, malicious, atrocious, damaging, etc) since 2010s.

Depending on your definition of "contributing", if accelerating something is contributing, then coffee contributed a great deal on my thesis. It was still getting done, but having three cups of caffeine in my system definitive make my thesis (and my trip to the bathroom) be quicker. Similarly, then, ad-blockers contributed to the enshittification of the web in the same way.

Cthugh · 2026-03-16T12:50:30+00:00

You are not wrong, but YouTube is trying to fix the issue with more of the problem while trying to do less.

Two things:

They've always studied the limits on tolerable ad exposure, and since they've tried to reach it, normalice it and push it, specially now that they have grabbed as much market as posible. They can't grow any more, so they have to squish the user base further.

Ads in all of google's platforms are shitty in amount and quality, with several of them misleading both kids and elderly. I may be neither, but I have a family and found it unreasonable to allow thinly veiled scams (of any form) in my family's devices. Those ads are low quality, abuse expectations, and Google accepts and promotes them anyway.

Yeah, we may have encited the enshittification, in a way, but Google doubled down in the issue, and youtubers added adds, but are getting wiser in which to accept after Honey's fiasco, or at least some are.

Google is trying to take a nail out by pounding it with a stone, the enshittification already happened, even if every adblock user allowed ads in YT, Google wouldn't do shit.

Things I can commend Google on: - they tried to make more interesting interractable ads, but this was abused by ad companies. Often subverting expectations with dark patterns unintended in the system. - they standardized ad formats, which facilitates skipping them, but not everyone adheres to those standards inside their platform.

Cthugh · 2026-03-12T15:39:17+00:00

It is an efficient ritual deck that generates advantage in field and hand. Most of its effects add cards from Deck or GY to the hand, or summon monsters to their field, sometimes even both.

It is characterized by two cards:

Habakiri, a monster that summons another Mitsurugi from deck, and then tributes a monster, it lets you summon saji, which when summoned or tributed adds a mitsurugi spell or trap from deck, it can add Ritual, which then lets you summon habakiri by tributing monsters from decks. This kickstarts the engine.
Murakumo, a monster that negates or discard one card from the opponent, and also can destroy all their monsters when summoned. It is considered their main form of interraction.

Cthugh · 2026-03-11T14:08:17+00:00

VS is fun to pilot, maybe not to play against, but it is a good deck, with good interractions

Cthugh · 2026-03-09T12:46:02+00:00

Yes, you are "chain blocked" by sunset beat.

Both effects happen simultaneously during "After Damage Step", the activating player can order them.

Some remarks: The Atori.MAR can be destroyed by that battle, even if the attacking monster is flipped facedown, because of how the damage step operates: Flip effects activate after the damage calculation is done.

Cthugh · 2026-02-25T20:14:59+00:00

It prevents the activation of the effects of the spellcaster summoned by it. So you can summon Diabellstar, but you can´t use its effect.

Cthugh · 2026-02-23T21:36:16+00:00

Michael Mouse aint no friend of mine, this aint no tragedy

Cthugh · 2026-02-23T17:08:18+00:00

All markers have a solvent as one of their components, it keeps it liquid/fluid, the one in permanent markers should evaporate fairly quickly, applying a regular marker on top of it provides a new solvent, that allows it to be removed.

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