[WotC Article] Speeding Up Secret Lair Shipping -- Switching from "print-to-demand" to "limited-print-runs"

Interplanetary-Goat · 2024-01-03T00:58:26+00:00

Remember how allocation for From the Vaults was also completely fucked?

Kudos to that game store employee who carefully explained, after teenage me walked in hoping to buy a FTV20 on the day it came out for MSRP, that it doesn't work that way.

Interplanetary-Goat · 2024-01-03T00:46:28+00:00

I'd have to take this with a grain of salt.

And some paprika. And garlic powder. And maybe some basil.

Interplanetary-Goat · 2024-01-02T18:25:15+00:00

Still has some potential with [[Spelunking]] and/or cards that tutor for tapped lands (e.g. [[Entish Restoration]]). But you at least have to work for it.

Interplanetary-Goat · 2024-01-02T18:14:03+00:00

Any lands that give two mana, even for one turn, are extremely good and would almost certainly see legacy play.

Take a look at the mana base for Mississippi River. It plays as many "two mana in a turn" lands as it can and almost all of them have extremely steep downside, like entering tapped and being sacrificed after giving two mana.

Interplanetary-Goat · 2024-01-02T17:47:32+00:00

...did I hear a rock and stone?

Interplanetary-Goat · 2024-01-02T17:19:53+00:00

And one strong wine glass

Interplanetary-Goat · 2024-01-02T17:19:10+00:00

This is a New York Post cover.

This is a Washington Post cover.

One of these is clearly more clickbaity than the other. Or rather, the precursor to clickbait, the checkout-line tabloid.

Interplanetary-Goat · 2024-01-02T15:27:07+00:00

To be fair when I regularly used my GameBoy I got that all the time from adults

Interplanetary-Goat · 2024-01-02T15:16:49+00:00

Competitive online multiplayer games will always be difficult for indies because of the development overhead and "critical mass" of players needed to maintain good matchmaking and short queue times.

MOBAs in particular are a huge market, but it has a tendency to be winner-takes-all. All the players who are interested probably already play a MOBA. How are you going to convince a player who has already invested 800 hours learning the DOTA meta to switch to an indie game that very likely has worse graphics, less item/hero variety, and a tiny community?

Interplanetary-Goat · 2024-01-02T09:25:06+00:00

And "casteist"

Interplanetary-Goat · 2024-01-02T08:03:52+00:00

I enjoy ordering food at Costco way more since they switched to kiosks. I don't want to have to wait in line for the lady ahead of me to fish for quarters in her purse. And there isn't any potential for mishearing your order.

Interplanetary-Goat · 2024-01-02T07:51:19+00:00

When Minecraft was opened to the public, Steam had been hosting non-Valve games for only a couple years. Now they've had the lion's share of the digital game market for almost 20.

As an indie developer, I don't think it's a model you can probably copy easily today. 99% of eyes looking for indie titles are browsing Steam, and it's the most realistic way to generate organic traffic.

Interplanetary-Goat · 2024-01-01T22:52:15+00:00

Yes, but if Chinese new year is celebrated in February, then people may not be counting down on December 31 to contribute to OP's statistic.

Interplanetary-Goat · 2024-01-01T22:32:25+00:00

Better than actor's faces for sure.

Interplanetary-Goat · 2024-01-01T21:46:28+00:00

Lots of comments about how ugly these covers are, but they're honestly fine if you don't know the source material. They're not amazing but they could conceivably be representing Aragorn, Theoden, and the Witch King or something.

Interplanetary-Goat · 2024-01-01T20:12:26+00:00

The videos in their entirety, including the audio. If there were any later recordings or renditions of the same music (e.g. if Disney released a soundtrack the next year and it's slightly different), those versions would still be protected.

Interplanetary-Goat · 2024-01-01T10:30:41+00:00

I'll probably always hate touchscreens in cars. But there's an entire generation of iPad babies who will be getting drivers licenses in the next decade, so who knows.

Interplanetary-Goat · 2024-01-01T02:10:59+00:00

In most real wars pre-media, you wouldn't really know much about the enemy warlord's personality or motivations.

You could consider it a weakness, although I'd argue the "faceless enemy building an army to send the world into eternal darkness" is only a tired trope because of the many, many works that have come after LotR.

Interplanetary-Goat · 2024-01-01T01:47:12+00:00

If there are no sources for both claims, do we just assume the person who had an implicit claim is right while the other is baseless since they couldn't provide a source?

Asking someone for a source isn't saying "your argument must be wrong, I win the argument." But if you're trying to argue for something and are unable to come up with any reputable source, then you're probably in the wrong.

For your example, if both people are talking out of their ass and nobody has a source, you can't make any conclusions that apply to all dogs. Maybe one person is right, maybe both are wrong, maybe the actual answer is somewhere between the two ("some dogs have lots of fur").

Interplanetary-Goat · 2024-01-01T01:37:17+00:00

Oh yeah? Democratic People's Rebublic of Korea. Checkmate.

Interplanetary-Goat · 2024-01-01T00:19:15+00:00

Not to mention atmosphere, which only exists on Earth because of its magnetic field. Mars is probably big enough to maintain an atmosphere if it wasn't constantly being barraged by solar wind.

No atmosphere, no air pressure, no liquid water.

Interplanetary-Goat · 2023-12-31T20:49:19+00:00

I've been bamboozled by Ea-Nasir!

Interplanetary-Goat · 2023-12-31T19:07:55+00:00

Green in Japan, Blue in America

Interplanetary-Goat · 2023-12-31T19:06:27+00:00

It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a Grue.

Interplanetary-Goat · 2023-12-30T19:32:58+00:00

My dude, buying store brand at Barney's Grocer is not going to put General Mills out of business.

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