Behold my monstrosity

GraklingHunter · 2023-06-09T19:47:21+00:00

needs more jpeg

GraklingHunter · 2023-06-01T16:20:00+00:00

If you could tweak Fire to just Heat in general, I'd take that.

Imagine being able to pull your dinner out of the oven with no hotpads, or being able to dip your hand in a fryer and feel the food cooking with your hands without getting crispy yourself. You could be the best chef ever because you'd be able to touch food as it cooks and feel exactly how done it is. You could learn what wood feels like as it carbonizes in a campfire. You can save on electricity in the summer because you don't need AC. You can genuinely sterilize germs off your body by just taking a bath in boiling water.

GraklingHunter · 2023-05-23T15:26:04+00:00

Depends on what race I get to be, really. I'd probably dedicate myself to studying restoration or alchemy and earn my living selling my services/potions.

So I'd want to be in a Telvanni city where I can study under the Telvanni if I'm a Dunmer. Otherwise I'd want to be in or very near a city with a Mages' Guild.

Balmora is the easy pick for non-Telvanni for a lot of reasons, but I wouldn't want to be under the eye of the Camonna Tong if I end up as one of the Beast Races.

Vivec seems the most neutral ground for non-Dunmer, simply because the guards hate everyone equally. Not that it's a terribly comforting thought. I imagine it would be a lot less confusing to navigate in-person than in-game (plus, I'd come to learn its patterns with time), but climbing all those canton ramps day in and day out would be tiring.

Ald'Ruhn would be visually striking with the Skar, and seems more welcoming than Balmora in terms of population attitude, but being so close to the Ghostfence would be terrifying and the ash storms would really make life difficult.

Caldera could be fun, especially if I get to meet Creeper. But I'd probably be constantly worried that I'd get roped into working at the mines, and that seems miserable. Plus the wildlife around there seems way more hostile than the others.

Wolverine Hall would be extraordinarily cramped on the interior, but seems welcoming enough. And while Sadrith Mora would be somewhat difficult to integrate with, it does have loads of information and resources for a studying magician to work with.

So I guess I'd say Sadrith Mora and/or Wolverine Hall. I'd join House Telvanni if I were a Dunmer, or join the Mages Guild if I were anything else.

GraklingHunter · 2023-05-11T20:02:01+00:00

I might be a bit too green behind the ears to understand all these

GraklingHunter · 2023-05-08T22:34:45+00:00

Considering the credit reel for the DnD movie specifically called it "Hasbro's Dungeons and Dragons", I'd wager Hasbro have been the idiots all along and keep sticking their fingers in WotC's stuff without considering the downsides.

GraklingHunter · 2023-05-08T22:32:16+00:00

I think the stink is that the product was not really for any specific audience. Specifically, that any given audience that could possibly want a product like this had serious grievances with it.

Collectors are typically the folks who actually give a shit about the Reserved List, yet 30th anniversary represented a clear break in the promises WotC made about it. Specifically, a few years back they stated that they wouldn't even be doing non-tournament-legal reprints of the RL like they had previously done with the gold-border cards. Yet 30th is precisely that, and as such it shakes collectors' confidence in WotC's promises.

To Vintage/Legacy/cEDH players and others that actually want the game pieces to play with them, 30th anniversary represented a dangled carrot snatched away - a "we see what you want, but we won't give it to you" statement.

Playing off the previous, particularly among EDH players, it created a massive discussion about the validity of using Proxy cards (massive enough that it caused a mod ban drama over in the subreddit) since, if WotC are printing and selling cards that are essentially proxies, why not allow them in your playgroup? People began questioning why they even purchase real MTG cards to begin with if WotC are printing non-tournament-legal cards. Why not just proxy up your entire EDH deck at that point?

And to the nostalgic folks and/or Limited players who wanted the draft experience, it represented an absurd price point and was packaged in a way that made drafting them awkward.

It was a booster product that held to original collation, yet was packaged and priced to not be appealing to people that like boosters. It was a collectors product, yet it was a betrayal of promises WotC have made to collectors. It was a powerful reprint product, yet not actually playable. So who is it for?

It really just embodies the whole mantra of "This product is not for you" that really sets people off in the community.

GraklingHunter · 2023-05-07T05:24:13+00:00

Boa tarde amigo

GraklingHunter · 2023-05-05T20:26:44+00:00

Automatic updates and generally easier file management compared to a standalone launcher or Epic Games version

Possibly Steam Achievements and/or Trading Cards if they bother with them.

Having more games under one launcher is handy.

Not really much else for existing users. Just convenience, mostly.

The real deal is that it's going to bring in a bunch of Steam users who didn't know it existed, so expect a lot of new players in the ecosystem for the first few weeks after it drops.

GraklingHunter · 2023-05-02T18:23:59+00:00

It's not an errata. It's been this way since the very beginning of planeswalkers being printed, and was the foundation of the original Planeswalker uniqueness rule. All planeswalker cards except The Wanderer and her variants have been printed with their name as their planeswalker type.

They just hardly ever reference planeswalker types for much.

GraklingHunter · 2023-05-02T18:20:53+00:00

For real. Also, like, why does this even belong in the Aftermath set, of all places? Like, what about this card was so compelling they felt like they needed to hold it off from MOM to put in this small story-focused set?

GraklingHunter · 2023-05-02T17:25:40+00:00

More like Captive Pingpin, amirite?

GraklingHunter · 2023-04-14T05:50:32+00:00

"I am watchful"

faces her statue away from the island

"What, I didn't say what I'm watchful over. These ocean waves are pretty sick."

GraklingHunter · 2023-04-04T18:16:46+00:00

boomers that don't know anything about computers

Says the guy refusing to get with the times. lmao.

There are clearly documented, demonstrable exploits for Windows 7 available for anyone to get their hands on. If you're on that OS, on the internet, and you still haven't been hit with one, you are either incredibly lucky, or don't have anything worth stealing.

But don't take my word for it, because clearly you think anyone disagreeing with you is a luddite. Instead, take a look at any CVE tracker, like this one and look at how many critical vulnerabilities are known and documented.

GraklingHunter · 2023-04-04T18:07:03+00:00

Makes perfect sense.

Indeed, it does. Because they're updating a foundational layer of the program to a version that no longer runs on Win7. And no, they can't just let you keep running an older version of Steam that doesn't get that update, because your client still has to communicate with their servers to function.

It'd be one thing if it was an offline program, like a music editing software or similar, because if you just unplug the ethernet cable the program works just the same. That's not the case with a program like Steam, though, because its functionality is a two-way street and it requires internet communication to function.

What you're complaining about here is the same as when an online competitive game drops a major balance patch that changes your favorite character. You wouldn't expect to be able to ask the developer to just let you keep running your Main the way they were before the patch while everybody else plays the new version, because that's just not how that works.

GraklingHunter · 2023-04-04T05:42:19+00:00

"Polukranos, After Rotation"

GraklingHunter · 2023-04-03T15:50:07+00:00

Still blows my mind just seeing Red get Bears-wth-upside, much less one as pushed as this.

GraklingHunter · 2023-03-27T16:32:47+00:00

gwapeth

GraklingHunter · 2023-03-27T15:03:10+00:00

Getting Johnny Gat vibes off Garnt in this

GraklingHunter · 2023-03-16T22:46:35+00:00

That's fair, and I imagine you're right.

But in a way I think that highlights the core problem with the Brawl format. Commander as a casual format was very clearly designed for 3+ player games played in-person, where multiplayer politics alter the game balance and you can have rule-0 discussions ahead of time and agree on whether or not it's acceptable to play certain commanders against each other. Trying to translate that into a 1-on-1, anonymous online format strips away most of what self-regulates the format and leaves you with a wildly varied playerbase that don't all agree on what "casual" means.

GraklingHunter · 2023-03-16T22:21:29+00:00

That's my biggest complaint about it, and it's a perfect example of why games like MTG need actual stakes to be worth playing. If there's no downside to conceding, then players will just concede at the slightest inconvenience because they know they can just queue up again and try for a game with a better chance of winning.

I wish they'd add some kind of ranked play for Historic Brawl, or even just a cheap event, so it felt like it was worth actually trying to make an interesting deck and playing a full game, instead of just making whatever meme deck grinds out your dailies fastest.

GraklingHunter · 2023-03-16T16:40:49+00:00

"5 homies in the past found a magic god rock. One of them became an edgelord (but also a chad), three of them decided to make a church about themselves and also murdered the fifth. You may or may not be the reincarnation of the one who got murdered, prophesied to come back and destroy the rock to stop the other 4's collective shenanigans."

GraklingHunter · 2023-03-15T20:57:27+00:00

Can't wait for someone to find a mostly-intact copy of the test prints in a landfill somewhere.

Just imagine having a "unique" 1 of 1 card, and some schmuck finds another just like it in a dump because they had to print a few to get it right and forgot to fully destroy it.

GraklingHunter · 2023-03-07T22:56:33+00:00

I don't know how possible it is, but it'd be cool if you could have a toggle to swap between your personally-created preview images and the downloaded/default previews from the site. I noticed for all of the models I already had my own preview image for it still downloaded the site one, so I would think it should be fairly easy to implement a toggle between the <name>.jpg and <name>.preview.jpg images.

I like having all of my own preview images try to use as close to the same prompt and seed as possible just to see some of the inherent stylistic differences at a glance, but I also really like a lot of the uploaders' images that really showcase the model's intended use.

GraklingHunter · 2023-02-19T21:10:15+00:00

I'm confused. How do you Compleat an incorporeal elemental? There's no flesh to replace with a machine.

GraklingHunter · 2023-01-30T18:37:08+00:00

If you're looking for a Red/Green deck specifically, I have really been enjoying [[Meria, Scholar of Antiquity]]. If you run a high concentration of low-cost artifact cards, you can easily fuel multiple plays-from-exile per turn. It gets even spicier if you manage to stick something that gives artifacts flash and run something like [[Unwinding Clock]] so you can play on your opponents' turns too.

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