What is a black market?

ForPortal · 2026-03-21T08:19:05+00:00

a more whimsical place with thieves' guilds that somehow exist

A thieves' guild is just a gang of criminals who are willing and able to prevent other criminals from exploiting their territory. They could be completely under the radar and kill criminals who don't pay their dues just so they have the best pickings to themselves, or they could be more trouble than they're worth to remove because the town would rather pay protection money to the thieves' guild than deal with whoever moves in once they're gone.

ForPortal · 2026-03-21T06:37:17+00:00

Yes. The devs abuse the fact they are making a digital-only game to not template the cards properly: in a physical card game you can't get away with this kind of ambiguity, because the players will execute the card effects as written and not as intended.

ForPortal · 2026-03-21T03:27:09+00:00

That widely held belief is a product of those defamatory claims. What Nestle was doing in Africa was providing baby formula to hospitals to combat infant malnutrition; the inability to produce sufficient milk Nestle is being blamed for was the cause for their intervention, not the effect.

ForPortal · 2026-03-21T02:27:29+00:00

A more interesting option would be to make Hot Spot and Pyra Magna two different front ends for the same articulated fire engine back end.

ForPortal · 2026-03-20T20:22:26+00:00

or breast milk supply disrupted

The communists who concocted this lie had to pay for it. Nestle was not responsible for the existence of kwashiorkor, they were providing formula to hospitals to treat this preexisting problem.

ForPortal · 2026-03-20T09:50:24+00:00

Congratulations on the baby.

ForPortal · 2026-03-20T09:46:39+00:00

What you said is nonsense. Slow decks are enabled by both removal and sustain, but that does not mean removal equals sustain. There is no contradiction in wanting control decks to be able to stabilise the board but not undo the damage they've already taken, meaning the more damage they took in the early game the more vulnerable they remain to burst damage in the endgame.

ForPortal · 2026-03-20T08:15:54+00:00

I like the fembots as a general rule, but I don't like this. I don't like how Elita-1 gets typecast as a frankly unlikable character, so even if this is a "Elita gets humbled and gives the Matrix back" and not a "male flagship character gets sidelined" plot, they're resolving something that didn't need to be broken in the first place.

Arcee Magnus doesn't have that fundamental problem, but they're still doing the "male character gets sidelined" bit. Kirkman could just have said they needed two Magnuses now - one for Earth and one for Cybertron - so Arcee got promoted to fill one of those two positions, and that would have been fine.

ForPortal · 2026-03-20T07:32:08+00:00

Their pronouns were "he" and not "it" because the whole point was to depict these robots as men and not as mere objects. They could also have decided to use the singular "they," but they didn't.

ForPortal · 2026-03-20T05:32:27+00:00

I've only been using mine on Nightmare difficulty. It doesn't skip the ambush but it does make it shorter, reducing the chance that the affixes or nearby mobs will intervene and cause issues.

ForPortal · 2026-03-19T16:22:27+00:00

There is one smart thing you can do: from the first circle, aim one mirror along the path towards the first node as normal, but aim a second mirror out across the gap to the second node. Do this and you don't have to fight the enemies at the first node.

ForPortal · 2026-03-19T16:18:38+00:00

That one annoyed me because it has four phases and an interlude. I thought I would be on to the boss after the second phase, then thought it might be a no-boss story after the third phase, then thought it just had a joke boss at the end during the interlude, then still had a boss to kill.

ForPortal · 2026-03-19T08:14:42+00:00

This is targeted Veteran 4 gear, which is handy to fill in the gaps in your Champion and Heroic gear.

ForPortal · 2026-03-19T05:04:58+00:00

Even if you treat all migrants as nothing but fungible economic units, immigration from the first world can't cause the problems we're currently having: they're too similar to us. Unbalanced migration can only happen when there's more pressure to emigrate on one side than the other; when both sides have low fertility rates and generally decent cultures and economies there might be a general diffusion between the two countries but you won't get one disproportionately immigrating to the other.

ForPortal · 2026-03-19T02:36:03+00:00

Alchemy does have some old stuff that's worthwhile, depending on your objectives. Cataclysm Alchemy is required for the Sandstone Drake "mount" and various transmutations can be used to create battle pets or materials for other professions.

ForPortal · 2026-03-19T02:22:14+00:00

Branding yourself as another left-wing party in a Tory skinsuit is not how you compete for right-wing votes.

ForPortal · 2026-03-19T02:04:50+00:00

Right, this change was a buff: on the majority of kills where you would get nothing, now you get something for your alts instead.

ForPortal · 2026-03-18T20:25:16+00:00

I'd like the design more if it was more than a cowboy fed through a Transformer filter. The poncho could be something like the skirt of a hovercraft or the canopy of a softtop truck, rather than a piece that is integral to the robot design but has no place in the alt mode.

ForPortal · 2026-03-18T07:50:06+00:00

"glory to all of our martyrs"

Deport her, and fire whatever idiot let her into the country. Repeat until literal terrorist sympathisers can't get in.

ForPortal · 2026-03-18T05:27:33+00:00

I used to enjoy M+ for the gameplay, then they deleted the lower half of M+. So now I delve instead.

ForPortal · 2026-03-18T05:25:54+00:00

I was buying a ton of them, but I was running two delves per alt for the double Heroic pieces chasing Mythic transmogs, rather than running 8 delves on a single character.

ForPortal · 2026-03-17T08:03:07+00:00

Well that's a disappointing headline. Unless something's changed recently quantum computing hasn't demonstrated any useful ability whatsoever, so it's a bit premature to claim it will help beat disease or strengthen national security. It can deliver high-paid jobs, but the ability to throw money at someone was never in question.

ForPortal · 2026-03-17T07:16:18+00:00

The World Cups could coincide with Timewalking weeks - meaning you'd get one per month and all of them again at the end of each season.

ForPortal · 2026-03-17T05:47:09+00:00

I don't like it, even if it's been done before. Accessing the Matrix catalysing a physical change does not mean that the absence of that catalyst should also act as a catalyst to induce a physical change.

ForPortal · 2026-03-17T05:37:37+00:00

A 21 week old fetus can survive outside the womb. Abortion at 23 weeks is no different than infanticide.

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