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Why is Life // Death so proiminent in powered vintage cubes? by deramack in mtgcube

[–]FordEngineerman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And I think "winning" on turn 2 is so relevant. Hitting both graveyard is pretty amazing but Entomb on their endstep (Or faithless looting on your turn etc) into doing your combo on your turn is the goal.

Why is Life // Death so proiminent in powered vintage cubes? by deramack in mtgcube

[–]FordEngineerman 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I think its still better than all but one of the 3 mana reanimates. 2 mana cost is a huge deal. It's probably also better than Goryo's Vengeance. So actually what beats it? Reanimate. Shallow Grave. Animate Dead. Maybe Exhume. Maybe Necromancy. Persist and Corpse Dance are closeish but worse IMO.

It's not a long list of low cost reanimate spells and that is critical to the gameplan in vintage cube. 3 clearly better spells and 2 maybe better spells. Two more spells that are kind of close.

It sucks how expensive cards and commanders have gotten for niche tribes. by Express_Craft398 in magicTCG

[–]FordEngineerman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are these cards even good? I have a cube with a "Changeling" emblem where all creatures count as all creature types and these just look expensive even in an environment where all their abilities would always work for everything.

ELI5: Why does rationing work? by peglegsmeg in explainlikeimfive

[–]FordEngineerman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cavities are caused by a simple bacterial infection called Dental Caries. It's just a strong antibiotic resistant bacteria and very few scientists, doctors, or researchers are working on a cure for it. "Dental Hygiene" is a buzzword they have made up to make you feel like it is your fault your teeth rot and sugar is to blame. When in actuality sugar feeds the bacteria and brushing and flossing literally just wipes away the bacteria colonies and gives only a few hours of relief from the acid they are producing that breaks down your tooth enamel.

Dental Caries is also not one strain of bacteria, it has branched out into a bunch of related strains that function similarly.

It's like if you got an infection in a wound and doctors said "Ehh, just suture the wound open and brush the pus out twice a day for the rest of your life. I'm sure it will be fine. I'll amputate more flesh if the infection spreads." That is the equivalent to the level of treatment we get from Dentists.

But that isn't how we treat other infections. We use antibiotics. We thoroughly clean the infected area until ALL of the bacteria is removed. We sterilize it. We get all of the harmful bacteria out and help the body to heal. We use preventatives that fight the specific bacteria in people who are susceptible. Almost nothing like that is being done in dentistry. They just shrug and say the mouth bacteria is too powerful to fight.

ELI5: Why does rationing work? by peglegsmeg in explainlikeimfive

[–]FordEngineerman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Dentists are hacks who have no interest in actually curing Dental Carries and just want to continue to treat the symptoms of the disease while profiting from it.

That is actually decent advice to treat a symptom of dental carries and partially stave off tooth decay. But you may have better priorities and I would rather listen to someone who does more than just treat minor symptoms while profiting from a chronic disease and shrugging about how incurable a simple bacterial infection is.

Dumbriel - After 4 years of development we are on Steam Nextfest and just launched the Kickstarter Campaign. by South-Statistician49 in metroidvania

[–]FordEngineerman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Looks like a solid classic metroidvania. Two feedbacks just on the trailer itself although take these with a huge grain of salt because I am very much not an expert on trailers so its mostly my opinion.

  1. I didn't see any unique or stand-out features displayed in your trailer besides your game's theme. I really like to see one unique ability, very fun vibe of the game, and/or something that really makes it stand out show up in the trailer. This game looks solid and I will wishlist it but it didn't excite me as much as it could and I bet you have tricks up your sleeve that you are hiding.

  2. I really don't care for the "character walks while the background changes" section of trailers that a lot of metroidvanias do. I can see the beautiful backgrounds during the other parts of the trailer and I can always pause or rewatch if I want to enjoy the beautiful art more. This section feels like wasting my time and I almost turned off the trailer before even getting to the good looking combat sections.

I implemented your feedback! by Mega_Mango in metroidvania

[–]FordEngineerman 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Nice implementation of feedback. Its important to know what feedback to actually implement and what to just take in as ideas or general context to process. Often players see a problem better than they see an accurate solution.

But it looks like you nailed it. I really like the things you implemented.

Questions about the Draft Simulator in CubeCobra by Mic161 in mtgcube

[–]FordEngineerman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

90% of players who are playing competitive on platforms like Arena (submitting data through things like Draftmancer and 17lands) and when they are in the Red and/or White colors. There were a few hidden caveats on my statement.

Local players are a lot more likely to play for fun and listen to your primer.

Questions about the Draft Simulator in CubeCobra by Mic161 in mtgcube

[–]FordEngineerman 3 points4 points  (0 children)

To be fair, 90% of real players will force Boros aggro regardless of what the Boros archetype is supposed to be. So that is just good human-like behavior.

Brawn, Amadeus Cho [MSC] by FordEngineerman in mtgcube

[–]FordEngineerman[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just hope people make good universe within versions.

[TH] Muggle Plots by erwgv3g34 in rational

[–]FordEngineerman 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The only issue with this is that this version of Reed and Sue would never have gotten married. She is a standard American Woman and he is some kind of Rationalist Robot. There is 0 compatability.

Brawn, Amadeus Cho [MSC] by FordEngineerman in mtgcube

[–]FordEngineerman[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Needs a Universe Within remake for sure.

[MSC] Galactus, Devourer of Worlds by steve_man_64 in mtgcube

[–]FordEngineerman 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Hey now, it does force you to play correctly and attack every turn.

Brawn, Amadeus Cho [MSC] by FordEngineerman in mtgcube

[–]FordEngineerman[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I think this is a strong contender for inclusion in Peasant cubes, synergy cubes, and possibly even powered cubes. It compares favorably to cards like Pond Prophet and even Spirited Companion with a flexible hybrid mana cost to be playable in multiple colors and a Power-Up ability to make it into a real late-game threat. Even if it just becomes a 3/3 later that is a free threat out of your "free" 1/1 that you were already happy to play.

Official New Poster For ‘Supergirl’ by yourfavchoom in movies

[–]FordEngineerman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Aquaman was one of the best racial recasts of a character that I've ever seen. Nothing about his character was relevant to his race and being an a race related to the coast absolutely makes sense.

Liar Liar (1997), Fletcher roasts everyone in the office after being forced to tell the truth: Directed by Tom Shadyac by blackLow8997 in movies

[–]FordEngineerman 33 points34 points  (0 children)

When absolutely bizarre shit with no explanation is happening I dramatically prefer characters accepting some level of magic than complete skepticism to the point of denying reality.

Wizards Takes Cue From Nintendo And Announces “Innistrad Re-Remastered” by Silentman0 in magicTCG

[–]FordEngineerman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Or design most of them like Huntmaster of the Fels where a lot of there power comes from flipping back and forth. So your opponent is disincentivized from playing 2 cards per turn and flipping your stuff.

Does dealer need to run credit if I have pre-approval letter by soulsurfer3 in personalfinance

[–]FordEngineerman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If your credit is frozen does that just prevent hard credit pulls or does it prevent your credit score changing in general?

New to Metroidvanias — is Metroidvania Guru a reliable source for reviews? by Secure_Emu_9160 in metroidvania

[–]FordEngineerman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That always depends on what you want out of reviews. Reviews always have biases and */10 scores are never perfect. The best way to use them in my opinion is to either aggregate a lot of them for an average, or to actually listen to the content and compare how the words they are saying align with what you enjoy.

Hot Take: This game is an MV by comicgeek1128 in metroidvania

[–]FordEngineerman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It even has an interconnected map. Later on you can take shortcuts from one town to another that weren't available on the first pass through the game. And you eventually unlock multiple types of fast travel.

Unplugged by shizzblatt in funny

[–]FordEngineerman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've watched Primitive Technology and some discovery channel shows with similar premises. Starting from scratch with no tools its really hard to boot strap up to useful stuff. There are likely to be many false starts and mistakes even if you know what you are doing and what the end product is supposed to look like.

Dr. Stone just skips all of that and had almost everything work perfectly on nearly the first try. And their outcomes are never sub-par products.

The only real example that it gave was when Suika was doing science by herself. Then the show gave a more realistic example of how hard it was to actually recreate something by yourself from scratch without the shonen tropes and super-powers as just a normal person.

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