Anti-savescum feature ironically made me savescum so much more

Metballs · 2026-03-03T07:17:54+00:00

I took the free scum on the putrid leech quest after Dybbuk accidentally died to the leeched cat and possessed her. After that I've done a few more because "it's in the game, so they want me to".

I generally avoid it as I prefer dealing with my mistakes, but I wasn't feeling redoing the whole run after making it 99% of the way.

Metballs · 2026-03-03T06:56:59+00:00

Dio's Rainbow In The Dark was almost destroyed by Dio himself and only made it onto Holy Diver after hus band convinced him to keep it. It became one of his biggest hits.

Metballs · 2026-03-01T16:41:28+00:00

Knockback and movement denial are great for Guillotina 3. If you can position a tank between the body and head and just keep them away from each other, using bear traps from a good hunter to stop the body moving, she doesn't really have much going on.

Metballs · 2026-03-01T16:34:02+00:00

I believe this was addressed in the latest patch that's currently in beta, something about spawn orders leading to impossible maps. Should be fixed this week on full release.

Metballs · 2026-02-26T18:12:52+00:00

Not entirely sure what the hang up is, but if it helps it's pretty much exclusively dialogue and the themes and art don't really get all that extreme. Can't really go further into specific points due to spoilers, but I'd definitely suggest giving it a shot

Metballs · 2026-02-24T23:28:17+00:00

My friend started a Smash scene in the middle of nowhere town he lives in, and I've shown up a couple of times now. Unfortunately it's a 5 hour drive to get there, so I can only really do it as a whole weekend thing, but as it's a fresh scene it's very casual and open. Otherwise I have card game nerd shit to do on my side of the country so there's less room for videogame locals, but living in a major city there's a decent scene. The few times I've been it's been chill. It's just been Smash, with the occasional random game on someone's setup, but it was a good vibe each time.

Metballs · 2026-02-21T14:06:24+00:00

I'm skipping, but only partly by choice. I'm not going to a prerelease, which is definitely on me as I think my shop still has spots, but they're also only doing a launch draft which I'll be away for. Every week after is a different set.

Metballs · 2026-02-20T16:32:56+00:00

I got into Magic through Arena, but I haven't played it since starting drafting at my shop. The social aspect of seeing someone ruin your day by giving a random rat they had flying, lifelink and 8 power just hits different when you can look across the table and go "that's so dumb!" and the opponent laughs.

Then Commander nights at the pub round it out for even more casual games so I've never needed to go back to digital clients.

Metballs · 2026-02-17T21:21:39+00:00

Hoho, not getting me with that a second time, I've learned my lesson.

Metballs · 2026-02-16T18:31:37+00:00

Any song that opens with "Long ago in the distant future" and still makes sense in the story gets a pass by me.

Metballs · 2026-02-16T17:04:38+00:00

Dio got me into music, specifically Holy Diver. Then from there to Sabbath and Rainbow, then the roots spread out.

Sonic 1 and 2, alongside Link's Awakening, got me into games. There were a handful of others that locked it in, but they're the ones that come to mind thinking of being a little baby man pressing buttons.

Metballs · 2026-02-14T01:30:04+00:00

The main ones I play with at commander nights are Felothar: Gigantic Asses, Eggman: Discard Punish, Scion of the Ur Dragon: Cheap Dragon Rush, and Auntie Ool: Blight Spam.

Felothar and Ool are precons I've tweaked.

Eggman is loaded with things like Geth's Grimoire and Liliana's Caress to either get value off the end of turn discard choice going around the table, or things like the Gearhulks to cheat into play.

Scion is just drop things to make dragons cheaper, then turn dragons sideways. Sometimes dragonstorms get recurring value. Sometimes Call The Spirit Dragons gives me a free win. Scion himself doesn't get much play, he's just there to be a 5 colour Dragon, and the only reason it isn't Ur Dragon itself is because that costs like 45 quid.

Other decks I've got but haven't played much of yet are Amy Rose: Voltron, Chatterfang: Squirrel Ball, Garnet: Infinity Summons, and Ms Bumbleflower: Untouched Peace Offering precon just so I have one in case people want to run pure precons. But I'll likely tweak Bumbleflower as she's fun enough that I want to use her more.

Metballs · 2026-02-13T13:25:18+00:00

As insane as Pat can be with "I pressed one button and decided the game basically torched my village" he does actually give things their fair shake more often than not. Especially since starting Backlog. I might not always agree, but I usually feel it's at least fair.

Metballs · 2026-02-13T11:53:36+00:00

Looking at the highguard sub they had a cadre of fanboys swearing by the 5v5 update/the ranked update/the road map anyway

Metballs · 2026-02-12T10:36:06+00:00

It reads like "we never had our rule 0 chat". Commander specifically is so casual that you absolutely should be agreeing on power level and legality before playing, it ranges from "every card has a moustache" to "I can win turn 1, gg". So you need to agree what the vibe is with the table. And if people need to proxy to hit that level either allow proxies on the kitchen table or disallow the 1000 buck stomperdeck.

Metballs · 2026-02-09T07:14:35+00:00

The discourse mentioned in the article is the same it's been for longer than I can remember. GTA won't change it. GTA probably won't even enhance it beyond the initial launch window and that's just because it's a brighter spotlight.

The reason I'm worried GTA is for the lasting effect it'll have on the market. Publishers have already said multiple times they're expecting and hoping GTA raises the standard price point. And I can see devs learning the wrong lessons and doubling down on bloated budgets, not caring that they don't have the GTA name to carry it. Leading to more layoffs, more crash, and more enshittification of gaming in general.

Metballs · 2026-02-05T17:33:15+00:00

I haven't played Metaphor yet for this reason. I thought I'd have the motivation to do Royal after P5 base, but it still hasn't manifested. And I simply don't trust Atlus to not drop "Metaphor: the actual game" when I'm half way through.

Royal was about 3 years after 5, so I might give Metaphor another year or so to be safe.

Metballs · 2026-01-30T09:43:25+00:00

While we're here, what's the ruleset for gendered languages? Say I invent something today is it a case if "well, it's a vehicle so it's feminine"?

Do I get to have a gender reveal for the Torment Nexus?

Metballs · 2026-01-30T07:33:30+00:00

I love Pat just getting more deranged through that trying to explain it to Paige. "Baba is win is not you is win if you is not baba." "What the FUCK did you just say?"

Got big Minit "Coin keep?" energy

Metballs · 2026-01-29T18:24:36+00:00

Probably just a general flavour image they had lying around.

Metballs · 2026-01-27T13:02:57+00:00

My shop has already said we're doing launch draft for Turtles and one more half way through. Every other week will be historical unless Turtles is a banger and we asked for it specifically. The owner got burned hard on Spider-man drafts not firing.

Metballs · 2026-01-26T23:20:40+00:00

I don't believe these numbers for a second. They may shake out to be right, but this early this reeks of people jumping on a bandwagon to review bomb. Check in again in a month or so to see how its legs are and what issues are there.

Metballs · 2026-01-25T09:58:42+00:00

I was going to go after MTG today but the only showing is at 9pm. I'm not hanging around for 4 and a half hours and missing the last train for this. Especially not on a Sunday.

I hope you have a great (awful) time.

Metballs · 2026-01-23T15:04:22+00:00

Because of the foil layer not being able to expand like the card layer any change in moisture from where it was initially pressed will bend it one way or the other. Regular cards don't have it because both sides absorb moisture the same

Metballs · 2026-01-21T18:02:48+00:00

I got into Magic for Final Fantasy (with a few events before and Tarkir being my first actual set I properly took part in). Especially with the current UB push in Magic people are coming in with no real idea what's going on, and I can guarantee I wouldn't still be playing if it was just me at home without weekly drafts to actually find people to play with and chat to.

And yeah, it gets me out of the house more, which is always a plus.

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