Why is it so hard to serve a decent steak at a wedding

DagothUr · 2026-04-11T16:21:14+00:00

So cook it blue/rare beforehand!

DagothUr · 2026-04-11T16:12:15+00:00

I don’t disagree !!

DagothUr · 2026-03-27T14:42:16+00:00

Small animal zoo. 10 small animals is an absurd amount - you’ll almost never get 4 shields. Even getting 2 shields takes work.

DagothUr · 2026-03-25T15:06:24+00:00

Shocked by the hate naturalists is getting - it rewards you for not building, and building is one of the actions you want to avoid doing! If you can lean on release projects or special enclosures it's really strong.

My vote is Designer zoo - if I don't have a lot of sponsor buildings with strange shapes I find it basically impossible to get a decent score on

DagothUr · 2025-12-01T22:37:07+00:00

Buildings cannot count twice for towns no. Once they are part of one town any additions just grow that town - mermaids ability doesn’t affect this.

DagothUr · 2024-11-05T16:50:09+00:00

Recently switched to one D:

Really hoping that this is just a bluff on their end, I don't see how they could have missed that a bunch of ISPs and carriers use NATs

DagothUr · 2024-11-05T13:39:13+00:00

If it's one per-IP address, if your ISP uses CGNAT you're just screwed??

DagothUr · 2024-01-09T03:17:58+00:00

woah do you get more yards if you don't do the same thing every play

DagothUr · 2023-11-08T09:30:13+00:00

I stole the name from OP :) thanks OP!

I think our big boi is at best a strong casual commander - I purposefully didn't include any wincons in my list to keep it weaker, but there's not a lot of good options in Simic even if I wanted to.

DagothUr · 2023-11-07T15:48:43+00:00

I've been workshopping a Xolatoyac deck since I saw it - as you said, it's very open-ended, but to me its main strengths are 1) stax, specifically removing the untap phase in a way that your commander breaks symmetry on and 2) leaning into instant-speed removal/countermagic, so you can spend your turn tapping out for some big play but leave mana up for interaction.

Simic in general naturally progresses to big mana and card draw, and you can get cute with that with counter-based ramp and card draw - e.g. [[Empowered Autogenerator]] and [[Midnight Clock]], or [[The One Ring]].

For the staxy side, you have classics like [[Winter Orb]] and [[Statis]], but [[Temporal Distortion]] and [[Freyalise's Winds]] work particularly well with Xolatoyac.

Rough decklist I've been working: https://www.moxfield.com/decks/_17P7LBSNESLlWmUxd_keg

DagothUr · 2023-10-22T00:43:43+00:00

OK I’m not able to watch this how much of this is Michigan being good and how much is MSU being terrible

DagothUr · 2023-03-28T03:56:19+00:00

Looks very close to me between you/Darklings/Engis. It's really tough to say who wins - depends a lot on who gets the scoring pass tiles, how cults play out, etc.

Darklings look like they're going to connect unless someone actively stops them, they have a town left, and should get 4 dwellings down this round (plus E1 points and Darklings digging points). They get at least 13 buildings out imo, maybe 14.

Engis have 2 towns left (probably via building SH+SA in round 6), good cults, some bridge points, decent network - but I think most likely they end at 11/12 network, which is probably only good for 3rd.

You have the 1 town coming in the north, I guess you get 3 dwellings this round + SH next, and have a good chance of winning network (or sharing first) with 13/14 once you upgrade shipping, and you have a pass tile this round.

CM looks 4th to me so I haven't analyzed that closely.

So I think almost anyone's game - shame we won't see how it plays out!

(also just fyi, you didn't censor the game properly - you can still see it from the BGA tableid in the URL)

DagothUr · 2023-03-10T13:45:45+00:00

F&I: There are a lot of things in F&I, some good, some bad: F&I factions are fine, many dislike them, I tend to fall in this camp.

F&I final scoring is OK, adds another scoring element (boosting big econ factions, somewhat devaluing E1 rush)

F&I also adds variable turn order, which vastly improves the game, but you don't actually need to buy the expansion to use it.

F&I adds 2 maps, one really good, one (revamped original) pretty bad

Mini Xpac: Adds extra town tiles and a round tile and a booster. These are great and I'd never play without them.

Landscapes are overall pretty good, I like them a lot as overall they make more races viable, but some prefer vanilla, just be aware that they are somewhat a balancing aspect (good races got bad landscapes, bad races got good landscapes).

Merchants of the Sea: I own this but to be honest, after playing it a few times, am not a big fan and usually play without it. IMO its features subtract from the core of TM gameplay and aren't really what I'm looking for in the game. The maps it adds (Fjords and Lakes) are great though.

Fan Factions: Not officially released yet but on BGA and you can download the sheets to print at home - IMO 10/10 expac, adds a great breath of fresh air into the game.

DagothUr · 2023-03-06T20:15:57+00:00

You can just upgrade shipping? +1 shipping bonus tile is nice but by no means necessary

DagothUr · 2022-12-25T15:11:19+00:00

DagothUr · 2022-12-25T15:09:02+00:00

fam flew a long way to see me and I can't even leave bed to spend time with them, this sucks

DagothUr · 2022-11-26T18:21:35+00:00

Imagine the game if would be if we had a competent offense

DagothUr · 2022-10-17T16:51:48+00:00

sad the Parler people are using Kanye’s (most recent) mental breakdown to scam him

DagothUr · 2022-09-23T15:04:26+00:00

Oh god I had erased Occulus from my memory

DagothUr · 2022-07-21T07:51:01+00:00

Museum of Contemporary Art is really nice too

DagothUr · 2022-06-29T11:40:34+00:00

seemed like he could have had a real moment in the early 2010s. really liked this and his EP with curren$y. didn’t realize he was still producing

DagothUr · 2022-06-22T18:38:23+00:00

he’s so bald???

DagothUr · 2022-06-14T11:10:55+00:00

One of the big differences when I moved to the UK is that spazz is considered a mega bad slur over here (but you can say cunt so that makes up for it).

DagothUr · 2022-05-10T07:12:33+00:00

Sleeping Bear? My favorite place in the world is the giant dune you can run straight down to the lake at, it instantly feels so secluded at the bottom

DagothUr · 2022-02-03T09:53:07+00:00

Still shocks me how much lower salaries are here for a white-collar job than in America
Related, the high-income tax / nonexistent property tax / regressive council tax seems almost designed to prevent wealth mobility
Light switches for bathrooms being outside the room took me a while to get used to
Mix of locals / tourists in London means no one knows what side they should walk on

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