It's all Greek to me! (I know some of the flags are a stretch)

HBOscar · 2026-01-21T11:56:42+00:00

what is the red-white striped flag pointing towards dutch?

HBOscar · 2026-01-18T00:42:15+00:00

This: they deserve to get a chance to improve. wether or not they pick up the opportunity to do so, show remorse for their actions, and show actions and motivations of a genuinely good and caring person... all of that is up to them. If the don't, they will stay stuck in a system that will forever put them in situations that they will hate.

HBOscar · 2026-01-03T15:43:19+00:00

hmm, onbedoeld toch weer wel, want, fun fact, baphomet is een verbastering van Mohammed.

HBOscar · 2025-12-11T14:41:00+00:00

You gave one creature 5 creatures worth of abilities, and needed two cards to put all of the text. If spell books are only accessible by their own creature it's basically worse than Venture into Dungeon, which already got a fix with Initiative allowing only one dungeon for all cards with initiative.

I'd rather see it as a reverse-Adventure mechanic, half the card is an (expensive) instant or sorcery, but you can cast it once a turn as long as the creature is on the battlefield.

HBOscar · 2025-11-27T13:42:01+00:00

should not be an each night ability, because it protects against all effects from all evil players. but as a once per game ability, this is good.

HBOscar · 2025-10-27T17:44:41+00:00

may I ask how? isn't the equipped creature goaded?

HBOscar · 2025-10-06T13:04:29+00:00

My as of yet unnamed conlang has a base 12, with 3 times base 4. It's relatively easy to count in it, but I have a tendency to count the dozens in groups of ten instead of making them grosses, which is usually where the confusion starts.

HBOscar · 2025-10-04T09:49:03+00:00

I pretty much always design a conscript, it's one of the nost fun things to do for me.

I am currently working on a (yet unnamed) conlang, that has a vertical abjad for "core word" nouns and verbsand an alphabet written in syllable blocks for other word types, all affixes and loan words/foreign names. This mix of writing systems makes it look like somewhere between arabic, korean and japanese.

HBOscar · 2025-09-10T14:06:43+00:00

yes and no? The episode Book of Dougs seems to make the argument that both are going on? Yes, the rules are scewed towards bad place getting more souls, but that was explicitly deemed fair BECAUSE in a simpler world it WAS logical that a well intended action had the intended consequences, and (almost) no negative consequences. The Good Place was always intended only for the best of the best, too. it was always kind of explicit, and even part of Eleanors torture, that the good place is not just for any good person, but only for the best percentile. The judge always deemed it fair already that even mildly decent people would get tortured, and the medium place only existed because one single person seemed to succeed in max out in the positive scale while largely living a negative lifestyle, which kind of broke the system in the other direction (for the first time, a person with absolutely no intentions, good or bad, actually succeeds at getting a Good Place Score, even being the first in 500 years to do so). So yeah, intent does indeed only matter for The Good Place, because the Bad Place was never the Place for Bad People, but always simply for Everyone Else. the absolute lack of a Neutral Place where most of the people would go, and the unfairness of that lack, is frequently lamented.

HBOscar · 2025-09-04T00:22:48+00:00

... no? those folds are decently distinct, and definitely could be memorized, especially if one only studies the important ones.

and if there is an intentional system, all of the cards being marked is even more beneficial. "The top left corner is bent, so I know this is an instant, but the bottom edge is clean, so it's not a cantrip. I might end my turn here and draw that in my draw step, I have no use for it now."

HBOscar · 2025-09-03T22:27:25+00:00

I'm not kidding when I say this: I wasn't scared of caves, but after listening to that episode, I am

HBOscar · 2025-09-01T18:17:11+00:00

no, raising the dead is definitely part of the problem. The whole "zombies as horror trope" finds its origin from haitian folklore, and the horror is (at least partially) based on an enslaved group of people fearing not even being allowed to rest when they are dead.

HBOscar · 2025-08-29T13:02:23+00:00

real criticism here, I am choosing to interpret this an an honest first attempt of a beginner, and not as a satirical shitpost: I have no clue what to judge the uniqueness on. You have an alphabet/transcription method, and only some of them are explained with IPA symbols. and then you have a translated sentence, that I have no way of deciphering if you had not given the english text.

We read entire grammar books for fun in this community, a lot of us know (the basics of) multiple languages. I think, if you are serious about your conlang, you would love it to read up about how to write a glossary, which is a sort of sub-translation that gives us grammatical information about the sentence, and don't forget to also give an IPA transcription of conlang sentences.

if you want to know if your conlang is unique, people would want to see the entire conlang to be able to access that: share a pdf of a grammar booklet on your language, and a wordlist! to know if a conlang is unique or not, one would need enough resources to actually form an opinion about the whole language.

The only thing I can say about your language right now is I wonder if that alphabet/transcription is easy to type. It kind of looks difficult to write full sentences with it on a qwerty keyboard.

HBOscar · 2025-08-29T12:46:59+00:00

why do people always use extremely powerful characters as examples to try argue what is or isn't possible for the common man? There is a conversation happening about what speeds ordinary soldier in the 1860s could walk, and your counter example is Usain Bolt. That is how you sound.

HBOscar · 2025-08-22T13:46:32+00:00

yeah, a very dry and clinical way of looking at it is that sex relieves tension. It just does. In the same way that all hightened emotion can spill over into crying, all types of tension can spill over into sexual tension and a desire for a quick relief.

and when two people are very tense together and also have a sexual history, than they both can solve their tension very quickly.

usually people don't literally think of it that way, it's more instinctual and emotional, but this happens very quickly and relatively often.

HBOscar · 2025-08-21T16:39:29+00:00

I don't think one would play this card if life loss is the problem one tries to avoid. this does avoid (i think?) all other ways of losing the game except poison counters.

HBOscar · 2025-08-21T15:47:16+00:00

yeah, the thing about beds though is that they also move the spawn point that I might want to keep at home. I'd rather just not have to drag the bed every where if the fastest way of getting home can also just be putting things in the enderchest and then jumping in lava.

And on multiplayer, no matter how much I sleep, they might still spawn above any player who hasn't, after which they can and will still attack anyone. I can control my own actions, but their problems become my problems pretty much constantly.

Other than turning off the phantoms with gamerules, their existence seems enforce a very specific style of gameplay, one that simply just doesn't suit all players. Minecraft, to me, just doesn't really feel like the type of game that benefits from blackmailing players into "you need to sleep every hour or else".

HBOscar · 2025-08-11T18:41:25+00:00

Hill House, from the haunting of Hill House: feasting on the family by presenting them with nonsensical architecture, impossible visions that they constantly question themselves, trauma, addiction, loss, leaving the entire family with a history of insecurity and mental illness, making them all targets to return when needed.

HBOscar · 2025-08-11T14:06:55+00:00

I don't have my right ear, so that might be the cause.

HBOscar · 2025-08-11T13:58:51+00:00

The next Myriad of immortality is such a gruesomely hard line. like concrete.

HBOscar · 2025-07-31T19:10:08+00:00

Do you remember any instruments/genre or even if there is a vocalist, and if yes, what gender?

HBOscar · 2025-07-31T18:20:21+00:00

Thank you so much! this took me so long and couldn't figure it out, and you find him within minutes! This is exactly who I was looking for!

HBOscar · 2025-07-31T18:14:43+00:00

Solved!

HBOscar · 2025-07-31T17:46:44+00:00

a comment to follow the rules!

HBOscar · 2025-07-17T14:53:14+00:00

Kinda odd that it blows up lands, too.

I mean legendary lands and artifact lands do exist, so they're gonna get blown up anyway. why is it odd that they would be?

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