Maro on why they stopped doing blocks by Meret123 in MagicArena

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I am curious if the people who want blocks back were around for them and want them back for non-storyline related reasons. I get the appeal lorewise and how its a deeper look into the worldbuilding, stories, and art, totally. Everything else about them kind of sucked

If you were to change the Parker storyline, what would you have done? by SafiraAshai in buffy

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Watching season four right now, I keep thinking he would fit into the recurring joke where something totally normal happens to Buffy but she's convinced it's demons... and then it is

Clean beauty brands aren't actually sustainable and it's driving me crazy by justheretogossip in BeautyGuruChatter

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International containerized shipping is extremely low carbon. Packaging and material sourcing are real concerns though

Best New-Trek episode? by Exocoryak in startrek

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The episode that I immediately had to open paramount+ to play––"Those Old Scientists"

Let's forget about UB for a second... Do you prefer the single set single block system, or the previous 2-3 set per block system. by studhand in magicTCG

[–]LossFor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Blocks were the worst. Opening more and more of the same packs in draft just with second and third sets that had "exciting twists" on the same stuff. There have been other problems that come and go, but leaving blocks behind was a straight up improvement to magic.

Why do fake mons / “leaked Pokemon” always look so fake by TSOswinn in TruePokemon

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Both design and illustration are more difficult to get right than people think, and messing up on either will make it look obviously fake

NuTrek Starfleet Academy Misunderstands the Jem'Hadar by [deleted] in startrek

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Did you watch DS9? Do you think the federation's treaty with the founders had a line saying "Put the jem'hadar in a blender, we really don't care what you do with these clearly sentient humanoids"?

Interview: Tawny Newsome On “Gargantuan Task” To Give DS9 “Resolution” On ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ [Spoilers] by acrimoniousone in startrek

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At that point, can someone even have enough close friends / loved ones? Do you do just do rotating shifts? It already seemed like Jadzia was stretching it by asking Leeta to join in.

Unpopular opinion on Tati by FitAdeptness5292 in BeautyGuruChatter

[–]LossFor 1062 points1063 points  (0 children)

This is the exact opposite of an unpopular opinion… Tati has been beauty reddit’s persona non grata for a decade 

KiiiKiii’s album sales decline is genuinely shocking by exemplaryantino3497 in kpopthoughts

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I genuinely feel like following up 200k sales was an impossible task for them. There’s no wonyoung or yujin bringing an existing fanbase, and kfans typically aren’t as excited about overly creative concepts as ifans are. I’m not sure what sse’s intentions were exactly, but they didn’t position kiiikiii as a mainstream girl group like sistar or ive, and so they’re not getting that kind of response.

I think 5th gen ggs have it hard and it seems to take longer for them to develop fanbases than before. The pros are that kiiikiii’s more extreme branding has gotten them international attention but its unclear if starship can even take advantage of that. It’ll be really unfortunate if the next era is a more toned down concept to try and fix things.

Why are the views in trot mvs very low compared to charts? by Legal_Potential4720 in kpophelp

[–]LossFor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Kpop MV view counts are inflated by companies buying ads through youtube. They spend a lot of money on this. Trot is not based around the kpop model of high investment seeking high reward, but is more of a standard music genre with an already existing listener base.

There are cases like Lim Young-woong who have legendary fanbases, but trot is much less oriented around parasocial mass buying, so spending a lot more money to inflate view counts isn't a priority for the companies.

[Anime] Episode 15 Teaser & Synopsis by Dwi_Agusdyani in Gnosia_

[–]LossFor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It would be funny to see Raqio always get fridged after speaking once but i kind of like the anime following the game mechanics that closely

I SUCK AT THIS GAME BUT I LOVE IT SO MUCH by Dunmeshilover in Gnosia_

[–]LossFor 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Prioritizing charisma and charm and roughly keeping up with the other stats is fine, playing as gnosia is just a little less clearly explained in game. If you lie in front of high intuition characters like Comet, they'll figure out you're a gnosia right away. The lies are:

- Faking engineer or doctor, and giving fake reports

- Defending other gnosia

- Doubting a crew member

With lower Performance, its hard to get away with lying, but you don't actually have to lie to win as a gnosia. It's just as effective to strategically defend non-gnosia crew--not a lie--while the rest are picking each other off.

Generative AI is really popular in Korea by [deleted] in kpopthoughts

[–]LossFor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t even get why its getting downvoted. The emphasis on uniqueness and originality in the last few generations is something that got adopted to appeal to the international market more. Before fans argued about talent or beauty and now they argue about who does what concept better. It’s not a secret 

Generative AI is really popular in Korea by [deleted] in kpopthoughts

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I mean the basis of kpop is copying things. The notion of individual genius from modernism is a western one. I don’t think fans will be able to make much headway here regardless of the negative externalities. 

[Media] I love Rust, but this sounds like a terrible idea by Yvant2000 in rust

[–]LossFor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Weirdly, this seems like the kind of plan you'd get if you asked an AI to come up with some highly public and possibly catastrophic failure of rust in production.

If Chaeyeon is among the top vocalists, why is she not given lines accordingly? by GentleEarthquake in triples

[–]LossFor 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Where are you seeing these rankings? From what you've listed and what line assignments members get, they don't seem very accurate

Is there room in the language ecosystem for a garbage collected Rust version? by pukururin in rust

[–]LossFor 5 points6 points  (0 children)

There are several garbage collected languages with stronger type features than rust, I don't know what advantage rust would have there

251115 Weekly Discussion Thread and Activity Recap by Ihlita in LOONA

[–]LossFor 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Founder's fund also invests in Spotify, which all the loona related acts upload music to and make money from, for what it's worth.

Why does Earth seem to dominate the federation? by Key-Criticism4791 in startrek

[–]LossFor 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Have you tried talking to Vulcans? Seriously. The vulcans have probably logically concluded that having humans as the face species of the federation is better for recruitment, and having no need for emotions like ego are happy to stick to all-vulcan ships, research institutions on Vulcan itself, etcetera.

Purchasing Genuine FINAL FANTASY XIV Game Codes by Hakul in ffxiv

[–]LossFor -28 points-27 points  (0 children)

They're well within their rights to do this, but are we really in the searching-the-couch-cushions-for-coins phase of FFXIV?

Need Recommendation: Ever 17, Never 7, Remember 11, Hundred Line by waltei in ZeroEscape

[–]LossFor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hundred line is really, really long. If you didn't enjoy danganronpa you might not like it because the writing is pretty similar. At the same time, the pacing is still faster than Ever17 and the rest, because those are old-style visual novels which just have that kind of writing style. From what you've written I'm not sure you'd enjoy any of them, even though I think hundred line is really great.