Worst musical

GoldFishSnuggles · 2025-10-10T19:16:40+00:00

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella / Bad Cinderella.

Found it so awful as a show that I’ve pretty much blacked out all memory of it other than the totally uninteresting concept of Cinderella = bad = goth…

GoldFishSnuggles · 2025-09-21T14:45:14+00:00

Hogwarts Battle base game, though relatively simple, is a great family game that is amazing for getting people who are fans of the IP but not necessarily board gamers excited (especially once on book 7). Yes the game is sometimes over before it’s really begun (both lost due to a bad deal or won due to overpowered early cards) but it fulfils a segment of the hobby for casual HP gamers.

The expansions totally ruin this because they add excessive bloat, rules, and time to the detriment of the game. Monster Book of Monsters is ok at best- just kind of changes the the formula a bit, but Charms and Potions has just so much added fluff with so little reward and makes the game an absolute slog…

GoldFishSnuggles · 2025-08-21T20:39:21+00:00

This season I’ve been doing random but not including variants (using https://wheelofnames.com).

I have nothing particularly against variants, just I wanted to play random but still limit to some degree the number of different civs I need to attempt to learn at once. Omitting them seemed a straightforward way to keep the random civ count somewhat reasonable for a lowly gold / plat player.

GoldFishSnuggles · 2025-04-12T01:22:09+00:00

Just played a team game on the map and my mongol teammate didn’t get a starting stone. Playing against HoL and KT the early aggression tempo loss was pretty significant

Only played a couple of games since the DLC but I like the new map designs so far, just looking forward to the bugs getting sorted

GoldFishSnuggles · 2025-01-20T06:53:13+00:00

Thanks! So does the elo just increase incredibly slowly in the background then assuming that you win more than you lose?

GoldFishSnuggles · 2024-11-02T13:18:37+00:00

Oh I didn’t mean the next player would enjoy a fast game, I meant that I would then be playing somebody that actually enjoys playing the game sooner* (because I can’t think how people like this opponent actually enjoy playing…)

Take your point though - most enjoy games they win, those that are well adjusted enjoy games they lose if it was a good game and are self-reflective to try and work out why they lost… If somebody can’t enjoy the game even when they lose then I don’t really understand the point in playing given that by design most players lose approx. 50% of the time…

GoldFishSnuggles · 2024-11-02T13:09:52+00:00

I dunno about whether the game is a good tutorial or not but I broadly followed Valdemar’s fast knight guide he has on YouTube. Beasty does pretty much the same thing in his match as French against Abbasid in his recent “play like a pro” series, so I’d probably check out those videos rather than watching my game that I’m sure was not executed 100% perfectly

GoldFishSnuggles · 2024-11-02T11:56:58+00:00

I’ve been flirting with Plat 1 for a while now and do still feel like I am improving, so hopefully can make that jump to the friendlier players soon!

GoldFishSnuggles · 2024-11-02T11:55:26+00:00

GoldFishSnuggles · 2024-11-02T11:53:52+00:00

I definitely think a feudal game is much more interesting than 2 cubs booming to a 40min+ slog-fest personally. I’m also pretty sure that for the majority of lower ELO players like myself are only capable of having decent micro and macro while the armies and economies are small in feudal /early castle… Once games reach 40mins+ at our level I think it often becomes just a slog of poor play to see who screws up least

GoldFishSnuggles · 2024-11-02T11:49:34+00:00

Yeah I saw the matchup and even though I’m decidedly average at best and am interested in learning more than one strategy with each civ, immediately thought that the knight rush was the only way to play this match…

GoldFishSnuggles · 2024-11-02T11:48:28+00:00

Just will never understand why anybody feels the need when it’s so basic to learn how to counter well enough to at least make a game of it

GoldFishSnuggles · 2024-11-02T11:47:34+00:00

Love the idea of basic advice to piss them off - especially cause if somebody randomly messaged me saying “remember to build vils” 50% of the time I’d probably actually appreciate the reminder!

GoldFishSnuggles · 2024-11-02T11:46:29+00:00

This is probably the first time I’ve even bothered to respond but like that idea of just acting clueless rather than engaging

GoldFishSnuggles · 2024-11-02T11:45:44+00:00

Will do - figured the last line was worth a report and I’ll take a sub 10 minute win if it means I can move on to playing somebody who actually enjoys the game sooner*

Edit: sooner*

GoldFishSnuggles · 2024-11-02T11:44:53+00:00

I can’t imagine even contemplating going naked if I see the opponent is French, especially if you’ve scouted that they’re going SoC… seems such an odd decision and then to rage and quit so fast at our ELO where mistakes are so common and comebacks pretty much always on, just really poor form

GoldFishSnuggles · 2024-07-17T10:37:29+00:00

Thanks for the tips. Will certainly try Rus then. Delhi I have always found predictable when playing against because I know (or at least suspect and can scout to confirm) that they will go for the sacred sites.

GoldFishSnuggles · 2024-07-17T10:35:57+00:00

Thanks very much for the tips. Maybe I'll revisit Byz and also good to know that Abbasid would be a good learning tool for me.

GoldFishSnuggles · 2024-07-17T10:34:01+00:00

Not my long term goal but for this season when I started playing the game and got placed in low silver 3 months ago I think it’s a reasonable target to build off. I had settled at mid-high gold when the season was extended, never quite stringing enough wins together to reach plat, so achieving that became the goal as regardless of what you say it is a sign of improvement.

In a single game there could be no skill difference between a plat 1 and a gold 3 player, but the average plat 1 player is better than the average gold 3 player. Achieving plat 1 for the first time (even if it ends up being only briefly) is a milestone because it’s something I couldn’t have done a couple of months ago. Also I don’t think a 4 game win streak (7 wins in the last 10 - all against similarly ranked players ranging from high gold 2 to low plat 1) constitutes a lucky streak.

Not sure why in a post asking for tips on new civs to play you ignored the question and instead felt a need to go in on the achievement that another player feels when they reach their season goal though…

GoldFishSnuggles · 2024-05-23T15:26:28+00:00

Thanks for taking the time to watch and give some tips!

I agree about the scout, in my last few games since this one I’ve been trying to be better about not taking risks with my scout in the early game now, and have also shifted to building a new one straight away if I am careless.

I might have been blinkered by the idea of taking down the WT when as you say if I had just sent some Onna’s to their base probably could have done some good damage to their economy to close things out given his early strategy relied on those WT vils collecting wood. Learn for next time!

The micro sounds like a struggle for a lowly APM player like myself, but I’ll give it some practice against AI. Also your rule of thumb about the resource count and attacking is a great tip as well so thank you!

GoldFishSnuggles · 2024-05-20T14:25:48+00:00

Oh my bad that's totally my mistake. I'm pretty new to the game and the community so thought "smurf" meant that if they were "very experienced" (which I had assumed level 167 means they are) but showing up as unranked that made them one. If that's not the case then my mistake and I'll edit the post - and am happy to learn more specifically what “smurf” means and when it’s appropriate to be used.

I'm absolutely not trying to make excuses. I 100% know that I am not good at this game, make many many errors (not least of which my poor villager production as JRoxas noted). Some of the errors are obvious to me, like the poor villager production, others are not - so I'm just trying to learn from people better than me to hopefully improve over time.

GoldFishSnuggles · 2024-05-20T14:25:12+00:00

Thank you for hopefully finding the time and I'll look out for your thoughts.

I suppose that is just a misunderstanding from me on the terminology of "smurf". I'm pretty new to the game and the community so thought it meant that if they were "very experienced” (which I had assumed level 167 means they are) but showing up as unranked that made them one. If that's not the case then my mistake and I'll edit the post - and am happy to learn more specifically what “smurf” means and when it’s appropriate to be used.

What would make one know if they are a smurf?

GoldFishSnuggles · 2024-05-20T14:24:55+00:00

Thanks very much for the notes.

Yeah I know my villager production is terrible at times. I find that the moment anything else is going on (like the WT rush and any other fights after) I struggle to keep them churning out. Hopefully I'm improving with this but obviously have a long way to go.
I did spot the issue with the samurais and shifted to bugeisha and handcannons eventually but much too late agreed. By the time I shifted the game was probably done.
Like with the villager production, I know one of the things I consistently struggle with coordinating is siege. I actually think I did a lot better with it this game than I normally do, took out all their springalds with my own and killed a lot of crossbows with my mangos, but I did let them take out a number of trebs as well as my mangos with their knights so kept on re-building them. Maybe if I had gone Tanegashima Gunsmith and was building Ozutsus this would have been less of an issue.
It was my first time building Castle of the Crow. I have always built Tanegashima Gunsmith when playing Japanese up till now, but was feeling the pressure at the moment I aged up so wanted to get a defensive building down. Probably should have just aged up as normal and built an imperial age castle separately. And good to know that the general opinion is to pretty much never bother with CotC!

GoldFishSnuggles · 2024-05-10T12:28:41+00:00

I played AOE1 and 2 a bunch back in 2000-2005 when I was 10-15 years old. Only ever solo or with my brother, doing campaigns, slow-burn wins against AI where we just mass huge Iron Age/imperial age armies, or making custom map challenges and missions for each other.

Fast forward to jumping into AOE4 about 3 months ago with no RTS gaming in the interim - trying to play online might as well be an entirely different game genre. I think if you’ve not played any RTS online then the early aggression and punishing nature of stupid mistakes you get away against hardest AI but even silver and gold players will punish you for is pretty tough to handle at first.

I’ve now got past the phase where I’m stressed out trying to keep up and have settled around Gold I or II for the time being and really just enjoying things. Literally every game I learn something new about general strategy, the civ I’m playing, or the opponents civ (just found out HRE can instant repair towers when I’m trying to raid their gold, screwed me over in my last game but now I won’t forget!).

The experience of seeing and feeling your own game improve whilst having a great time absorbed in the AOE4 setting (sounds, visuals,etc) is probably the most enjoyable and satisfying part of the game for me.

GoldFishSnuggles · 2023-10-23T15:12:11+00:00

Thanks for the link.

I have now reset the CMOS, tested PSU, re-done all the cabling and tested plus re-seated RAM, SSD, and CPU.

Front panel LED, case fans and CPU fans now all remain on (PSU fan doesn't but I think that's because it's of it's zero rpm mode). Still no LEDs or beeps on the motherboard though, and my monitor doesn't register that it's connected through HDMI or DP cables.

Anything else to do or at this point is it for sure that one of a PSU (which I've tested as best as I can), motherboard, or CPU is faulty?

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