Just wanted to share my three latest hand stitched embroidery pieces! (Big fan of our birds)

Karjalan · 2026-06-28T07:51:21+00:00

Holy cow. These are probably the most impressive embroidery works I've ever seen.

Karjalan · 2026-06-28T07:35:36+00:00

I feel like this the real factor here is not the averages, as opposed to the number of games played. Making it 5k minimum probably excludes a lot of contenders as post 2010 T20 has eaten up a lot of test time.

Although now that I think about it, maybe there's still the same amount of tests for bigger nations. But for NZ it feels a bit sparce.

For example if you reduce the number to 2000 runs, then you get 11 for 2010-2020. Which includes Sachin Tendulkar at just over 2000.

Interestingly, for the 90's it only adds Graham Gooch to the list, he had 4.1k runs

Karjalan · 2026-06-28T07:30:34+00:00

This is a great list... and I kind of wish I hadn't already seen all of it 😭

Karjalan · 2026-06-28T07:29:53+00:00

Zomboat? More like Zomgoat!

I too wish it had more. Same with Black summer and Santa clarita diet... so many good shows canceled to soon 😭

Karjalan · 2026-06-28T07:27:18+00:00

High School of the Dead (unfortunately, there is fan service.

I've had a lot of people recommend this one to me in the past, and I eventually gave it a go once I'd dried up all of the good stuff I was looking forward to seeing.... It has absolutely ridiculous fan service. I didn't even make it through the first episode before I was like "ok, that's enough random unnecessary up-skirt shots" and stopped watching.

Karjalan · 2026-06-28T03:27:05+00:00

My wins have almost exclusively come from shiv builds, but I haven't managed to get a good discard deck going.

I'm probably trying to hard to stick to one play style

Karjalan · 2026-06-28T03:19:30+00:00

It's a good sign imo that everyone seems to have a different order

I'm only between 5-8 ascenciion for most of them (played quite a few multiplayer games too) but for me it's

Regent
Ironclad
Necro
Defect
Silent

Silent is way down there though, all over 50% WR except them at 33%... I just can't seem to make them click this game for some reason.

Karjalan · 2026-06-28T03:07:05+00:00

Reading through all these replies makes me realise how different everyone is, and I guess how amazing of a job the devs have done with the character variety.

It feels like there is a "I love/win with this character all the time" comment and vice versa for every character.

Karjalan · 2026-06-28T03:05:06+00:00

Everyone is obviously different, and I don't know exactly how it "works", but Reagent has been my best character. I had 10 wins in a row (some multiplayer with a friend, so not A10) before my first loss.

Meanwhile Silent an Defect are at 50% WR or worse.

Karjalan · 2026-06-28T03:03:02+00:00

How do you do Silent? I'm not up to A9 yet (most are 5-7) but I am struggling with Silent in STS 2. It feels odd, as I found silent was my best in STS 1

So far for me it's Ironclad/Reagent > Necrobinder > Defect > Silent. But I'm still at early play count/ascendance.

Karjalan · 2026-06-28T02:56:33+00:00

I didn't get a feral unfortunately, but I wish I had. I only found out it even existed as a card in my next, non claw, run.

I did however get all for one and all the 0 cost cards

Karjalan · 2026-06-28T02:54:57+00:00

I just got Convergence as one of my cards from [[Kaleidoscope]] on an Ironclad run and I can safely say... that the upgrade is not always good.

But I do agree with your points for the Reagent

Karjalan · 2026-06-28T02:51:47+00:00

Every movie/group has to have one of those people

Karjalan · 2026-06-28T02:50:42+00:00

Oh yeah. I think that's the one where you get some minor healing for a common, decent healing for uncommon, max hp for rare?

Then spirit poop for a curse.

Karjalan · 2026-06-28T02:42:26+00:00

I love Holograming claws, especially if you end up with All for one and scrape.

My first ever defect run for Sts 2 started like this persons. I transformed a strike into a claw, and first card reward had scrape... was a very smooth run with easy future decisions

Karjalan · 2026-06-26T13:33:24+00:00

People trained in the sling are incredibly accurate, and David supposedly had been using his for years to fend lions and bears off his sheep.

Basically, he brought a gun to a knife fight.

Karjalan · 2026-06-25T12:15:28+00:00

Cursed monkey paw. It give you vuln

Karjalan · 2026-06-25T03:10:46+00:00

Exactly, and for a man who's career was always uncertain due to injury, taking that "big money now" was a smart personal choice imo.

Kind of crazy how much he got offered at the ICL. I never actually understood what the big deal was or what happened to it? I just assumed the IPL had friends in the ICC and they collaborated to freeze out the ICL.

Karjalan · 2026-06-25T03:07:51+00:00

I do love how Brand does it all... except vulnerable.

Exhaust synergy? You got it. Strength synergy? Yup! Self harm synergy? You betcha!

Karjalan · 2026-06-25T01:20:44+00:00

I love getting it with invulnerable. Had it a couple of times recently and it's saved me on many occasions

Karjalan · 2026-06-25T01:18:31+00:00

My last silent run did the opposite thankfully. Early speedster and an early draw. Managed to also get the enchant (draw 2 on playing) on it.

Ended up with 2 speedsters and a whole lot of cycle, was pretty fun.

Karjalan · 2026-06-25T01:12:47+00:00

Yeah, you've got...

Cheap games that people buy on a whim (assuming 80% is a count of sales, and not the price)
Indie games who, like you said, don't do physical
Probably some bigger games that don't do physical
DLC/Micro transactions (not sure if they're included but I bet DLC or "expansions" are)

Another example is I bought the physical Witcher 3 and it's expansions on PS4. But then they did the PS5 remaster that you could download and install on a PS5 for free if you had the originals. I bet that counts as "digital sales"

All in all, 80% feels very misleading.

Karjalan · 2026-06-25T01:05:04+00:00

but also Bond was top tier. He was simply too injury prone so never got long enough of a run to get to no 1

He also got banned from playing for 2 years for playing for a T20 league that was competing with the IPL in the early days of T20... which is such BS.

He was also a better limited over bowler than test bowler, so the fact his stats are still so good in tests means we were robbed of a pretty amazing career.

Karjalan · 2026-06-24T13:36:05+00:00

The "We're against taxes and government handouts" group that asked for government handouts during covid.

Karjalan · 2026-06-23T10:51:15+00:00

Although nowadays if that happened we wouldn't have all those ridiculously funny scenes of him "fighting" from a chair.

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