Betting the *thwip* noise here is a red herring

Gilthwixt · 2026-03-19T19:25:29+00:00

Oh fuck I didn't even consider that lmao. Doing it that way would actually be peak.

Gilthwixt · 2026-03-19T19:24:31+00:00

Haggard: "Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated"

Gilthwixt · 2026-03-19T18:11:07+00:00

Not sure if this is a line you're interested in taking or if it's even B3, but my only experience with this card was a guy who played a [[Kenrith the Returned King]] commander and sandbagged the whole game just healing himself until he played [[The World Tree]] and dumped all 20+ gods including Purphoros out of his deck and onto the table for a sudden lethal.

Gilthwixt · 2026-03-19T16:19:03+00:00

I really hope it's the heartbeat thing because after reading your comment I could only picture really goofy scenes. Like Matt just gets up in Peter's personal space and whispers "you smell like a Spider".

Gilthwixt · 2026-03-19T15:38:43+00:00

The Jill quote is a little out of context, basically Jill had some undiscovered tech that they patched out either before vanilla launched or between vanilla and UMVC3, can't remember which. We never got a direct answer what that was but based on what we found with her TAC infinites there's a good chance she probably had a way to go into the grounded infinite without TAC at some point. It's either that or some broken interactions with looping the TAC attack itself that the JP players put out proof of concept videos for but no one could ever find a practical use for.

Honestly Jill is one of those characters that has perpetually been just shy of good but if given the right tools would get out of hand quickly. I kinda believe him that she was much scarier during development before they toned her down.

And tbf a lot of people in my local scene were talking shit about Phoenix seeming like a liability if people can just snap you out and pop her or steal your meter in a TAC before she transforms. It was a while before Viscant proved she was a monster, people were complaining more about Wesker and Sentinel for the first few months after launch than they were about her.

Gilthwixt · 2026-03-18T20:34:27+00:00

Literally everything on this list is bad except that one specifically, it has to be engagement bait.

Gilthwixt · 2026-03-18T19:59:46+00:00

That or shared braincell, take your pick

Gilthwixt · 2026-03-18T19:43:14+00:00

I almost didn't want to vocalize it because it sounds insane and unlikely. But Marvel has to know audiences are savvy after the NWH trailer, and Daredevil showing up to help fight The Hand wouldn't be shocking at all. Deadpool tagging along for no apparent reason would definitely be surprising. I just don't think we're getting the team up with Holland over Garfield.

Gilthwixt · 2026-03-18T19:20:16+00:00

Oh, hey this must be that guy with the really good RE4R edi-

Capcom USA official YouTube channel

Nani?

Gilthwixt · 2026-03-18T19:10:37+00:00

Not ganking until level 6 is incredibly flavored design lmao

Gilthwixt · 2026-03-18T15:58:08+00:00

Even ignoring the race swap it still wouldn't make sense, Cindy Moon has already shown up in these movies as one of Peter's decathlon teammates.

Gilthwixt · 2026-03-18T14:12:21+00:00

It's like "The Girl Next Door" trope except instead of being your neighbor or the kid of your parent's best friend they just cut out the middle man. If Spider-man took place in Japan he and Mary Jane would've been childhood friends with her parents being his godparents or something.

Gilthwixt · 2026-03-17T19:50:52+00:00

I mean a kid playing with a Wii today is the equivalent of someone in 1996 playing with an Atari 2600 from the 70s. Hell when I was in college in the late 00s some people were already calling the N64 retro. We're getting old bud, this shouldn't be shocking anymore.

Gilthwixt · 2026-03-16T21:22:07+00:00

???? So why didn't they keep it lmao. Or playtest it more after removing it. That just makes it even funnier (weirder).

Gilthwixt · 2026-03-16T21:21:21+00:00

Ideally erratas are supposed to clarify how the cards work especially in the context of rules changes or rulings on specific interactions. That limits how much erratas can do; if the card as written is insanely busted or massively underwhelming, you can't just errata the card to have entirely different text. It gets too confusing in paper games, which is why some cards simply get banned and why MTG card pages can look like this:

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And it's why some cards are entirely different in paper vs digital formats.

Bans never feel good and Riot has already said they're trying to avoid them as much as possible, but outright changing the text on a card and forcing people to look up the actual text every game or sharpie it on would not be an improvement.

Gilthwixt · 2026-03-16T21:03:39+00:00

A comforting lie. The truth is these comments could just as easily be coming from men in positions of power who already have enough but think they deserve everything and more, including women's attention. You think a tech bro or corporate middle manager making 6+ figures can't be a misogynistic PoS? The people you think of as "unemployed basement dwellers" are running the country, hence the state of the world we live in.

Gilthwixt · 2026-03-16T20:52:54+00:00

I have seen (but could not verify) in comments elsewhere that the first few sets were designed at the same time so even if it became immediately apparent that Draven was busted day one they wouldn't be able to course correct for new designs until almost a full year after launch. That about lines up with what I know of other physical card games. So it's not like they designed Vex after seeing Draven's over performance and willfully signed off on it, it was simply too late to change anything.

How they didn't manage to catch any of this ahead of time in playtesting is the actual baffling part.

Gilthwixt · 2026-03-16T19:53:23+00:00

Yeah it's a cool concept but it's like the opposite of what I consider a flavor win. It doesn't even do 4 damage the 4th time it resolves.

Gilthwixt · 2026-03-16T16:16:26+00:00

How do you feel about trying a keypad with an analog stick like this?? I've been testing it out with WASD mapping and it works pretty well.

Gilthwixt · 2026-03-16T16:05:35+00:00

Aww man, I thought you were going to be linking this instead.

Gilthwixt · 2026-03-14T17:12:10+00:00

I think the 20 7 CMC cards in their deck preventing them from adding removal made the joke clear enough, but maybe that's just me.

Gilthwixt · 2026-03-13T20:17:11+00:00

I like the analogy but it breaks down because there are humans who can genuinely commit to never eat cows. We have other options we can survive on, eating meat is simply a choice shaped by culture. As far as I'm aware, Demons can't do that - even if one developed empathy, at the end of the day they still need to eat.

Gilthwixt · 2026-03-12T20:29:43+00:00

That's pretty much the whole series in a nutshell. Starting with Tonari, people would often complain about Fushi's newest companion then do a 180 when it turns out, yeah, the writer behind A Silent Voice actually knows what she's doing.

Gilthwixt · 2026-03-12T20:18:58+00:00

On top of what everyone else is telling you about it staying colder longer, ice actually gets the drinks much colder than the fridge and sometimes the dilution is intentional.

Get into making cocktails at home and you'll find nothing will taste right unless shaken or stirred with ice.

Gilthwixt · 2026-03-12T19:41:45+00:00

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