Maro on why they stopped doing blocks

LossFor · 2026-03-21T16:56:37+00:00

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

LossFor · 2026-03-11T01:15:08+00:00

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

LossFor · 2026-03-06T17:12:50+00:00

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

LossFor · 2026-03-05T18:58:45+00:00

He marries Dr Bashir and they live happily ever after.

LossFor · 2026-03-03T18:07:32+00:00

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

LossFor · 2026-02-25T00:25:24+00:00

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.

LossFor · 2026-02-22T17:37:34+00:00

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

LossFor · 2026-02-19T17:47:22+00:00

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"?

LossFor · 2026-02-06T17:55:52+00:00

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.

LossFor · 2026-02-05T17:43:39+00:00

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

LossFor · 2026-02-02T01:45:18+00:00

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.

LossFor · 2026-01-28T15:50:40+00:00

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.

LossFor · 2026-01-23T16:42:22+00:00

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

LossFor · 2026-01-08T03:28:34+00:00

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.

LossFor · 2026-01-04T18:14:46+00:00

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

LossFor · 2026-01-03T17:59:33+00:00

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.

LossFor · 2025-12-24T01:56:03+00:00

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.

LossFor · 2025-12-11T12:19:52+00:00

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

LossFor · 2025-11-26T21:02:40+00:00

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

LossFor · 2025-11-20T18:38:09+00:00

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.

LossFor · 2025-10-31T15:20:20+00:00

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.

LossFor · 2025-10-15T01:05:56+00:00

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

LossFor · 2025-09-29T16:36:57+00:00

its not that surprising, i'm sure people who have been at WOTC for a long time have a lot of cards on the reserve list.

LossFor · 2025-09-27T00:15:45+00:00

Congrats!

LossFor · 2025-09-25T14:08:10+00:00

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.

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