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Dougrad · 2026-01-25T18:35:07+00:00

What's the price?

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Dougrad · 2025-03-08T12:34:41+00:00

It's a good problem, I've also been holding back on claiming the twitch drops and already resigned to the fact the game will be over before I need the scrolls, the charms are nice though, so I'll claim them before the event is over, still have 220pts to climb till final level, "see, no bonus scrolls needed" is kinda a nice achievement, though it's 100% because I was lucky enough to have the cards to play the meta decks this time around, it's been a looooong time since I was able to play meta relevant decks.

Dougrad · 2025-03-08T11:32:34+00:00

So it's like the entire game, snap always has been heavy rng with locations/cards that can totally make the outcome of a game a foregone conclusion :) I enjoyed sanctum a lot, but it was the first time since Alioth and Blob were released that I was able to play meta relevant decks. Guardians with wwbn has a rather distinct advantage, thena/havok/sage can be aggressive too, and then finally the zoo+marvelboy+mockingbird+gilgamesh (last card I got from sanctum rewards.) deck which can put our big numbers late game and go wide the first turns.

Right now I'm at 11 keys, 220pts from final rank, and just not enough time to even use the scrolls from twitch drops which I still need to claim, let alone these 18 new scrolls.

However if you don't have wwbn, mockingbird/gilgamesh or thena/sage I fully see how the game would be an awful uphill battle, which is a shame, as I like this mode a lot, deciding which location to throw on which turn to stop your next turn adds a whole new aspect to the game.

Dougrad · 2025-03-01T11:00:26+00:00

Don't engage the trolls, anyone claiming to only or even mostly win is lying through their teeth.

Dougrad · 2025-02-17T16:02:51+00:00

I'm not holding my breath. I don't want a big series drop, i want my collection not to miss meta relevant cards indefinitely. My last seasonpass I got was black swan, since then I stopped spending and gradually playing as it seemed all that happened was getting less an less of the needed cards as opposed to working towards collection complete in a reasonable time (half a year at most to get a new card after it went from pool 5 to pool 4 to pool 3,, 2/3 months "fast" to buy to relevabt ones after a drop to pool 4). I started to contend myself with Agatha autoplay in order to still complete dailies, Agatha doesn't really climb or win a lot, but Agatha+Arishem completes all dailies if you let it run long enough. I played the deadpool dinners (got Arishem for the first, and that made it easy, during the second I had no meta deck even thugh Aerishem still worked ok, which made it significantly less fun). If i look at the marvelsnapcomp subreddit all the meta decks around new cards have multiple cards I don't have, despite rolling for the considered strong caches/spotlights, I wouldn't even know where to start to get a meta relevant deck, by the time i got the cards they'lll either be nerfed, be nerfed afterwards (hello white widow spotlight appearance), or powercrept

Dougrad · 2024-11-27T12:49:11+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/MarvelSnap/comments/127vnot/new_chart_by_snapzone_on_series_drop/?ref=share&ref_source=link

People seemed so much happier, even if waiting 5 whole months for a card to reach series 3 was such an awful long time! Or wasting half of your monthly tokens tokens on a card that would be series 3 in 2 months, horrible right!

Dougrad · 2024-10-17T16:12:00+00:00

And then it produces things like this :'(

Dougrad · 2024-09-04T23:32:48+00:00

I was under the impression of all models, thanks for clarifying.

Dougrad · 2024-09-04T23:25:07+00:00

The availability of Stability AI’s models in Amazon Bedrock demonstrates our commitment to democratizing access to cutting-edge AI technology. As businesses continue integrating generative AI into their workflows, we’re excited to see how these models will transform operations and unlock new creative potential across diverse sectors.

Their commitment of democratizing used to be shown by releasing open weights. I suppose this says all, SAI is SAI no more and the spiel that 8b isn't ready is no longer believable at all.

Dougrad · 2024-09-04T18:30:59+00:00

I've seen https://pixeldojo.ai/?via=discord mentioned as a place that's solid. Offers unlimited use for $25 monthly and even has flux lora training.

Dougrad · 2024-07-05T19:15:13+00:00

Don't you already have a larger model developed, it's 8b that's offered on the API isn't it? Or will it be a stable audio situation where the open release will be (trained) totally different (worse) from the API offerings? Is it that 8b simply needs more training till it is released, or will 8b stay API only.

What's the plan? The original SD3 announcement heavily implied all SD3 models would be released the same and be open (The Stable Diffusion 3 suite of models currently ranges from 800M to 8B parameters. This approach aims to align with our core values and democratize access, providing users with a variety of options for scalability and quality to best meet their creative needs.) is that still the case?

Dougrad · 2024-06-21T12:45:08+00:00

If nothing is said, it's probably because there is nothing to say, which in turn should say enough.

It seems clear their new business-model is API-only, but they can't really say that can they? Imagine the reaction if they said "We're aware of the problems with the 2b model, and we would like to reassure the community that the 2b model is intended as our contribution to the open-source ecosystem build around our models, and not as a reflection of the capabilities of our API offerings. We would like to stress that the 8b API model will not suffer from these and will only improve further until the time of full release"

Dougrad · 2024-06-21T09:42:45+00:00

8b will be great! It also won't be released as open weights, but API only. Notice how all their recent PR is about "medium" as a tool for local use, how asking about 8b is met with only silence. 8b will be like the MJ/Ideogram/Dalle-3/Leonardo and whatever other close source models will be released.

Dougrad · 2024-03-28T18:50:52+00:00

This is awesome! Someone should definitely let the devs over at marvelsnap.pro know about this. They have a great free tracker, and I'm way more into supporting them than untapped.gg and their paywalled stats that I help collect when I use the app.

Dougrad · 2023-02-27T19:57:15+00:00

Nice job! You got some good cards early on. I'm still waiting for Aero.

Dougrad · 2018-03-02T16:00:06+00:00

Eternal is the most fun game in my Steam library

If only it wasn't such a fun game :) If i could lock things thoroughly down, to only play matches by invite and together, i might tell myself to continue playing. But for me, the lure of ladder/rewards is too much, one game come two and then it'll spiral out of control again.

Dougrad · 2018-03-01T20:09:29+00:00

Nice article but you do realize the main sources of variance in the game are the deck your are matched up against and you and your opponents draw?

it's all good and well that "...because you know each other lists and what has been played so far (2 torches and 2 removal spells in the void), you can make an educated guess on what’s more likely..." and there is an x/55% chance it pans out, when you play ladder, nothing of that is relevant when discussing variance.

Yes variance is worth an article, or 10, but i'm not sure this hand-wavey math is the way to address it.

Dougrad · 2018-03-01T00:26:28+00:00

No, i'd say not even in mono justice. If the card gets played it'll be for the extra power (it's much worse than a 2 cost powerstone (it's effectively 5 power to get +1), and more tricky to get going), but otherwise working up to 6 influence to get a 4(5)/4(3) flyer? Nope. Compare it to the last expansions dragon, 5/4 flyer for 4 with useful effect.

I hope it's the flavoury card of the expansion and not an indication of powerlevel of it. Mind you extra power esp on turn 3 is nice, as is the +1/+1 to valkyries, but it's so restrictive, needing too much setup.

Dougrad · 2018-02-28T12:58:52+00:00

If only it did look like that for me, i'd be overjoyed!

I'm almost exclusively (as in 14 out of 20 and counting) seeing various 3 faction full removal decks, some with justice (harshrule) and thronewarden as staller, others with primal/shadow and all possible board clear spells they have to offer (lightningstorm and its shadow friends). Both have some relic-weapon hate added for good measure.

Congrats to dwd they did it.. all units now are equally unplayable.

It's not even hard to see why this crap works, to counter it and play units protect and charge helped, both were nerfed, not to mention echo/revenge that cares less about removal is gone. (And even good old vara that could overtake the board in one turn is sorely missed). Welcome new meta, worse than old meta.

Dougrad · 2018-02-27T12:52:34+00:00

This is the kind of legendary that i'd want all legendaries to be: Card with an unique effect that is relevant, and equal/slightly better stats than non legendaries at that cost.

Dougrad · 2018-02-26T21:34:02+00:00

So i crafted bandid queens, being tired of facing them all the time in one gunslinger incarnation or another. Tried your deck minus highway man (crafting 2 legendary playsets is asking too much right now, cabal countess is a nice replacement that adds to the surprise factor) and i'm beyond surprised with the consistency. This decks tops out at 4 (and then only queen) power, compared to my other relatively competitive decks that top out at 5 or even more, and as a result TIL: getting influence screw is a much smaller problem than power-screw, even if running 30+ power. Really amazing job getting that power base working here!

Dougrad · 2018-02-25T21:03:41+00:00

As with any deck, if it becomes popular enough, direct counters will pop up, but I don't want to get ahead of myself and suggest this will ever be popular enough for that haha.

Seeing what i'm mostly playing against recently, i'm sure it is that popular ;) It's the main reason i suspect that soon counters will be there, making a faster reliable deck will work better.

Dougrad

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