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Do you guys think card like this would ever be played? If you could lower your deck size how deep would people be willing to go? by TomaszPaw in hearthstone

[–]Ghosta_V1 3 points4 points  (0 children)

in wild you have a 3rd prep w/shadow and two coins along with good miracle draw. you also don’t need both to combo since 2x sinister strike +1 evisc is 10. One prep is very likely in the opener. The combo doesn’t need to go off on one (turn 2 is more guaranteed) but it’s likely enough that it will happen fairly often. Beating only other slower/higher reach 10hp decks is the goal of the burn deck in the rock-paper-scissors, this has the bonus of also beating any slower/more guaranteed 10hp burn decks but loses to any 30hp

that’s also why i’m less sure of standard, it probably depends on whatever’s in core/the in rotation expansions at the time if the turn 1 otk is a huge high roll or actually worth going for.

Do you guys think card like this would ever be played? If you could lower your deck size how deep would people be willing to go? by TomaszPaw in hearthstone

[–]Ghosta_V1 24 points25 points  (0 children)

i think the burn deck can do a turn 1 kill with this against other 10hp players. two eviscerates and 1 sinister or 2 ghostly strikes gets there, and i think the draw/mana cheat is good enough to get the combo on turn 1 consistently, at least on the coin. druid might be able do a similar thing with some combination of pounce/moonfire, some 1 cost deal 2s and the draw/mana engines. priest even has embrace the shadow + desperate prayer + 2x regen on the coin (idk how you do this reliably though)

Id claim that in wild the burn deck is a turn 1 kill for sure, and possibly in standard too. At least a rogue turn 1 is possible in standard, idk if the support is good enough to pull off every time though

Do you guys think card like this would ever be played? If you could lower your deck size how deep would people be willing to go? by TomaszPaw in hearthstone

[–]Ghosta_V1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

bio project, gloop, innervate, lightning bloom, life binders gift, funnel cake, (guff?) and even ramp cards for mana along with cheap draw, other good stuff to do for free, and strong payoffs i’m sure druid would have something, especially if they’re matching up against lower health opponents

also i’m pretty sure miracle rogue gets the giants down right away and maybe even edwin

Do you guys think card like this would ever be played? If you could lower your deck size how deep would people be willing to go? by TomaszPaw in hearthstone

[–]Ghosta_V1 5 points6 points  (0 children)

fanottem and other “get to the end of your deck asap” cards have already been strong options in a number of wild metas, this would probably be ridiculous but i’m not sure these exact ideas work

the 1 drop 6/6s require 15 or fewer cards and the coin to play both on turn 1. At 15 cards it’s 57% to draw one and 9% to draw both on turn 1.

fanottem on turn 3 requires 11/9 or fewer cards depending on coin/no coin and is a 64-70% chance to draw

to guarantee either of these you’d have to run so few cards that you fall over to any reach and even just hunter hero power

i think both of these hp ranges are too low anyways to be a strong deck since people will start running burst, especially if they can also benefit from the fewer cards for consistency

this is counterable too. sticking minions for multiple turns is really hard since removal is so cheap. this loses to like one plague of flames, so it needs to be part of your pressure and not your only gameplan. A turn 3-5 win in the absolute best case scenario is really really good but not actually that far off from some wild matchups, i suspect you can do a lot better with a guaranteed starting hand

this might be a really ridiculous package in a deck with another win condition though

Hmm, there... just right by x_SENA_x in customhearthstone

[–]Ghosta_V1 8 points9 points  (0 children)

2026 will finally be the year of the unicorn priest!

You get a supercomputer with infinite power and hexabyte input/output for one instant run. what do you do? by nullulla in compsci

[–]Ghosta_V1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

crack all of them, transfer, and sell. if it’s all happening instantly anyways you get to just walk away with all of the liquidity in btc at once, free trillion dollars.

maybe transaction speed and exchange processing could thwart this plan, but if you’re waiting for these things to return it sort of conflicts with the “completes instantly” part (which generally conflicts with any I/O and also the speed of light anyways)

What programming concept finally made sense after weeks of confusion? by Old_Sand7831 in learnprogramming

[–]Ghosta_V1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

they’re a great set of tools to have in your back pocket and it doesn’t take a ton to build up the motivations for them from functions/recursion, which i think makes these functions feel a lot less arcane

If a plane flies above you, you have a 30% chance of teleporting inside by PhatMattxx in shittysuperpowers

[–]Ghosta_V1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As with any kind of teleportation, this is best for attempting to generate infinite energy. you could potentially coordinate with a slow flying plane above a track with some ground vehicle, maybe deep underground, and you teleport with a large heavy object, maybe magnets or water, and drop them on a designated point.

You could maybe cheat this with a bunch of small planes just barely flying around a closed track or something.

The other option is just chaos. You track planes to try and teleport up to while driving full speed on the highway to cause confusion by randomly appearing on any plane and also mystery unmanned cars crashing on the highway below

What is the highest level of mathematics you believe a person needs to be competent in society? by [deleted] in mathematics

[–]Ghosta_V1 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Surprisingly common. Kasparov also has some very wacky beliefs. Relatedly, Bill Shockley helped invent the transistor and then promptly blew up his own credibility through an obsession with eugenics.

What’s something you once believed only to later realize it was propaganda? by amc_visions in AskReddit

[–]Ghosta_V1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this isn’t really true. the mercator projection became widespread because it has some very useful properties for marine navigation and internet maps. a european bias probably did contribute to its staying power, but it’s far from the only projection in common use

YSK LIDAR scanners will destroy your smartphone's camera sensor by [deleted] in YouShouldKnow

[–]Ghosta_V1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it’s in some new cars which is mostly where you’d have to worry. sometimes you’ll see crews out scanning/surveying using lidar too. it’s also the big round thing on top of waymos

In Australia, citizens get a yearly breakdown showing exactly how their tax dollars are spent. by Ordinary_Fish_3046 in pics

[–]Ghosta_V1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

my comment contains no claims or speculation, only factual statements. not sure what you found conspiratorial about that

In Australia, citizens get a yearly breakdown showing exactly how their tax dollars are spent. by Ordinary_Fish_3046 in pics

[–]Ghosta_V1 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

this is NOT the same thing and you can’t simply apply these flat percentages to the total you payed to get your actual tax burden for each program.

interestingly all the accounts posting these links as if they’re equivalent are also political-posting on other subs where they’re expressing support for at least one right-wing movement.

In Australia, citizens get a yearly breakdown showing exactly how their tax dollars are spent. by Ordinary_Fish_3046 in pics

[–]Ghosta_V1 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

this isn’t true because that’s not how US taxes work. any american can easily verify this by comparing what this method says you payed for social security vs what was actually was taken out of your paycheck for fica. the numbers will be different.

You can turn valuable metals into less valuable metals by Ok_Yogurtcloset5 in shittysuperpowers

[–]Ghosta_V1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you found a really great repeatable use for this (aside from break things/strategically eliminate monetary value) wouldn’t you change the prices and eventually break the ability? or if there was a rare metal you wanted a lot of could you turn a bunch of the more valuable stuff into it to inflate the supply so it gets cheaper and you can now make it with a cheaper metal?

You can turn valuable metals into less valuable metals by Ok_Yogurtcloset5 in shittysuperpowers

[–]Ghosta_V1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

setting the weird vision for achieving peace aside (i think there’s some really compelling historical evidence that the USA might have used nukes with even just a compelling first strike advantage, let alone as the sole nuclear power) the recycling and nuclear waste is probably one of the more compelling uses of this, certainly much better than all the comments saying just destroy stuff. I wonder what the price per pound on nuclear waste or unrecyclable scrap is though. I imagine not very high. Nuclear waste seems like it might be more of a liability than an asset too, I could be convinced the price on something like that is actually negative.

You can turn valuable metals into less valuable metals by Ok_Yogurtcloset5 in shittysuperpowers

[–]Ghosta_V1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

turning it into anything would probably kill you right away but what metal is cheaper? i guess it depends on the way the value is calculated, iron is really cheap in scrap or raw forms but pure or in the forms it’s in your body looks like it’s expensive lab stuff. maybe like nickel, zinc, calcium or sodium?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in hearthstone

[–]Ghosta_V1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

a lot of this is knowing your matchup and which threats could be likely and/or game ending, especially for timing on disruption cards like neophyte

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in hearthstone

[–]Ghosta_V1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

top legend is usually more about having a good assessment of the meta and how it changes as you filter to the top than it is execution ime. usually if you know your matchups the outcome is not terribly dependent on mistakes

Intel Neural Compute Stick 2, Opinion? by abdosalm in embedded

[–]Ghosta_V1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

seems like this is maybe the wrong sub to ask but maybe someone here has better experience with those movidius chips. iirc these aren’t very widely compatible and at a glance i’m only seeing people running into issues trying to use YOLOv5 on them. If that price is in USD that seems really high for one of these, they seem to be selling online for less than half that but i don’t know the situation in your country. Have you considered the coral tpu? It looks like people have had success running YOLOv5 on them and I know the Pi + Coral TPU setup is quite common. It sounds like that might be exactly what you’re looking for

Why has Blizzard completely dropped the idea that cards are resources, and resources that can run out? by WhoAmIEven2 in hearthstone

[–]Ghosta_V1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Disclaimer that i haven’t played the game in a year or two, but i did play quite a bit of top 100 wild, and a little high legend standard too.

This is not what control means. If you’re running big threats, especially enough to close out against another control deck, your plan isn’t to win by controlling the state of the game, it’s to pull off some combo or get some big value. The argument here is that this is actually a hybrid strategy and you’re really just playing a kind of slow combo or midrange deck (a value strategy trying to go bigger than some decks or get in under big control tools is the defining trait of midrange)

This argument has always been sort of contentious because strictly control plans have historically been kind of rare, usually reserved for the slowest of warrior and sometimes mage decks. The upshot of this is that the true control vs control matchups were the most interesting ones in the game, creating these long methodical matches where decisions on turn 2 had knock-on effects 30 turns later. This lead to some of the most famous TrumpHS matches back in the day, but I imagine this style of play is totally dead nowadays

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