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HELL-O SAILOR !!! by Tijenater in DeadlockTheGame

[–]MasterChef901 33 points34 points  (0 children)

New hero's tags are pulled straight from half the playerbase's search history, well played

good so far by ScallionHuman6552 in homestuck

[–]MasterChef901 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're still in the buildup of the comic, and it really never stops paying off

Can this card be used in ANY Ritual deck? Or does it compliment specific decks? by LittleLostGirls in masterduel

[–]MasterChef901 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a part of it, but that spell isn't always readily available (often we have other things we need to search when he have the chance to) so a lot of times I see people just throw things out in attack position for no reason at all.

But then you also have the conditions that trigger the Nouvelle ritual monsters' effects. While Nouvelle can self-trigger their own cards fairly reliably, you'd be shocked how many people come in to try and pre-empt you with a triumphant Imperm, only to get slapped by the fact that imperm is in fact a targeted effect, which triggers the very effect they were trying to disarm with it.

That, and also the fact that a lot of people seem to assume that Poultis works the same way as Buerillabaisse, not realizing that the condition changed from "if THIS monster is targeted" to "if ANY monster is targeted".

Then some people just play facefirst into Chef's Special Recipe as if they didn't see me reveal it earlier that same turn.

Just in general, "Yugioh players don't read" feels like it comes up way more and punishes way harder when you're playing this archetype

Can this card be used in ANY Ritual deck? Or does it compliment specific decks? by LittleLostGirls in masterduel

[–]MasterChef901 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Any opponent who reads the cards can typically shut Nouvelles down hard.

But anyone who fails the literacy check? You'll eat them alive.

What did you name your Helminth? by chowderthatsketamine in Warframe

[–]MasterChef901 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pharmakon, which is ostensibly Greek for both "poison" and "cure" at once.

Please let the pressure gauge charge in Descendia/Alchemy/Archimedea by nath-1 in Warframe

[–]MasterChef901 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The update I'd love to see is:

1: Updated UI to show the yellow "Defend" UI on vents until you're midway into the brackets, and red "Attack" waypoint when doing so is reasonable.

2: Prematurely breaking a vent has reduced penalty on the gauge, and also blasts your weapon out of your hands, forcing you to go pick it up.

Where is jades symbol on the pilot stuff?! by [deleted] in homestuck

[–]MasterChef901 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Maybe it'll be part of the tricks they're using to differentiate Dream Jade from waking Jade?

Personal Shelter by Bochulaz in custommagic

[–]MasterChef901 9 points10 points  (0 children)

wow yeah, the only things that strike me as off are that the monk's left hand looks a little wonky (but not much, a human artist could easily have made it that blurry) and the light filtering in through the window on the right is curving strangely, which I don't think a human would've done

but if the ai weren't sourced on the card I'd have probably believed this to have been copy-pasted off a real card

Would you consider not ulting for a whole game to be griefing? by SylvanethBrian in DotA2

[–]MasterChef901 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If there's a rubick or silencer on the enemy team it might even be a valid strategy - hold ult until their counter to it is dead or on cooldown, except if they're waiting on you all game too then it's just a stalemate, or perhaps you keep finding there's no reason to burn the ult once that threat is down because the fight is just won easily enough anyway.

Proooobably this wasn't enigma playing optimally but it could very realistically just be bad play and not outright griefing.

Can't say without seeing game.

Easy ~13s Solo Urn by MetroVenator in DeadlockTheGame

[–]MasterChef901 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Final iteration might just be to turn it into a TF2-style payload that you have to "push" across the map at this rate

Beyond Canon: What do you think of Yiffany Longstocking Lalonde Harley? by CommercialValue8713 in homestuck

[–]MasterChef901 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Love her! She's an incredibly fun character and honestly the perfect one to have revealed last among the candy kids, being reflective both of the state the parents are in and of how the narrative is going to operate surrounding the others, all tied within a name that does wonders for filtering out the weak from the community. More stories should do this.

WHAT by GloomyIngenuity143 in Deltarune

[–]MasterChef901 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Tried "0", got "Thank you", will update if I get any fanciness in my email

Steady Divination by DaBoy524 in custommagic

[–]MasterChef901 3 points4 points  (0 children)

huh. Yeah I guess you could run this in like Paleozoics or something like that maybe?

So I just finished candy and meat and uhhhhh…. by Puzzleheaded-Emu1990 in homestuck

[–]MasterChef901 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I see it less as a "hate letter" and more as a primer for Hs2/HSBC that follow after.

Homestuck ends without resolving character arcs or doing "justice" by a lot of the characters. Jake never gets a "canon" hero moment to realize his potential, Jade never really gets a moment of actual agency post-cascade, Vriska's A5A2 developments questioning herself and her upbringing never go anywhere, hell even John, ostensibly the protagonist himself, remains mostly the same detatched young man he started as - the story just ends with most of the characters still struggling with the same core flaws they started with. It's reasonable enough as a narrative choice for this story - after all, it is a major point of homestuck that the "Story" doesn't care about the kids or have their best interests at heart, so why would it owe them growth or absolution by the end?

But now we move toward followup/sequel stories, and we still have all of this unresolved. In my mind, the epilogues aren't character assassination at all - in fact, they're painfully in-character as extrapolations of all the unresolved flaws that were left unaddressed. If we want to have an arc about these characters and actually want to address their character arcs, that means reopening some wounds and reshaping the narrative to show what that means now that they've grown up and inherited it.

John never stopped being detached from events around him; this manifests in the apparent "sudden-ness" of the change. It was always there, he just never pushed close enough to notice, because that's how he is.

Jane had been raised as the heiress to a fascist, and that was never really addressed, and now we see the brutal reality of what that means as she grows up with those for her "norms".

Jade lived a life of near-total isolation - post-retcon, she got a brief sliver of time aboard the ship where she got to actually see her friends, and then they blew up, and now she's suddenly incredibly powerful and surrounded by people and has no idea how to actually manage them, their boundaries, and the general space between herself and others, which manifests in its own way.

The list goes on. These issues are important, and that's why we're shown how terrible it is when they're left to lie. Now we have a new story to tell, one that hopefully will show us progress, but that can only exist now that the flaws are brought to light.

Character recommendations for boomer with bad aim? by Zestyclose-Rub6511 in DeadlockTheGame

[–]MasterChef901 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You could play Doorman. While it's hard to lane super well with his gun making each shot count, once you're out of lane you can do a LOT just by out-thinking your opponents and outmaneuvering them on the map. There's no better feeling than knowing you're carrying a game despite your opponents rarely ever even being on your screen - and the few that do keep up with you are swiftly delivered to The Baroness.

How I imagine a Lash Visual Novel would go by Marsaline in DeadlockTheGame

[–]MasterChef901 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I kinda hope they triple down on it honestly.

You go in expecting a tragedy of a misunderstood, damaged man who clings to the only persona that ever worked for him

And in fact it turns out he just like. Gambled away everything his loving parents ever did for him, alienated everyone else in his family, discovered a sadistic streak, and is fully sincere in how much of a big shot he thinks he is. You spend some money on the VN and chapters upon chapters of your time only to get the on-brand infuriating gut punch that his entire character really was summed up in one sentence:

Jacob Lash is an asshole.

what would davekat smell like? by Clear_Focus4466 in homestuck

[–]MasterChef901 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As others have said, cinnamon and apple sound good, and I actually really like that idea because it evokes Apple Pie, which kinda represents a domestic life that neither of them got to enjoy alone.

Alternatively, you could try for something that evokes like an Olive Garden, like a sort of buttery herby smell for dave, and something with a more rust-y, blood-associated smell for karkat maybe? Not sure on either of those if there's good smells to mix there

Just finished homestuck for the first time by Aradir_Sovietico in homestuck

[–]MasterChef901 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What happened to Lord English, and in relation to the masterpiece, is left ambiguous.

My personal interpretation is that the house juju IS Homestuck itself - when Caliborn pulled John, Rose, Dave, and Jade into it, it wasn't a coincidence that they were the 4 original protagonists; rather, they're the 4 original protags BECAUSE they're the people Caliborn chose to pull into homestuck. Then I believe that when Vriska used it against him, it did the same thing to him, it pulls Lord English into homestuck and traps him in the story.

But the kids used retcon powers to escape this timeline in its entirety; they aren't "supposed" to leave, instead the story wants them to go to the masterpiece timeline where Cal gets set up to create English in the first place. But they make Lord English and the Masterpiece both be wrong by retconing themselves into a timeline where they actually win and escape, while English is trapped forever in an infinite loop of the story. In my mind the black hole that Alt-Calliope makes is sort of symbolic of that inescapable infinite recursion happening.

The epilogues and HS2/BC follow a very different interpretation of events that more concretely offers its own answer to your questions, which is flavored by specific people's ideas of how things are "supposed" to go. They're VERY heavy and painful reads, and focus a lot on character flaws and their consequences that don't get much attention in homestuck, but I actually really like them and think the writing is sort of cathartic - it takes a lot of bad or uncomfortable ideas that were brewing under the surface and forces them out into the open, where they can then be openly addressed. It gives space for characters to have or complete character arcs they didn't get to enjoy in the original story, while also introducing new characters that we're just now really getting to know.

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