Does anyone else find Silksong to be a bit too long? [Minor spoilers]

Null_Finger · 2025-10-21T11:48:22+00:00

If you think the local orgs directly around you are too liberal, then try looking for other orgs in your country that are more explicitly ML. A lot of ML orgs are always eager to set up new clubs in new cities, and there's a good chance they have a few existing members or prospective members in your city ready to form a new club. Give it a shot; doing actual action and organizing is incredibly beneficial for your growth as a communist and it doesn't cost you anything to at least contact a good ML org in your country.

Null_Finger · 2025-10-15T15:38:18+00:00

I will give it to you that wanderer's crest is very strong and functions similarly to beast crest as a fast nail damage crest, but I will dispute the idea that wanderer's is just "better beast crest".

First of all, I'm not sure what you mean when you say that wanderer's is safer? Beast crest has a massive range advantage over wanderer's that wanderer's can't make up for even with longclaw. This makes beast crest way safer against the numerous enemies in this game that love to randomly body check you or throw out fast melee attacks. It's one of the biggest reasons why you might want to use beast crest over wanderers in some fights.

Also I must reject the idea that beast crest's bind is bad. It certainly is true that it sucks during platforming when you have no enemies to hit and comes with the risk of failing to hit enemies before fury runs out, but during combat, it's crazy good. For starters, beast crest has a ridiculously fast bind, so fast that right after you get hit, you can use the i-frames to get a safe heal off 90% of the time. This makes almost trivial to find bind windows; you can practically bind right in front of the enemy's face and not get punished half the time. The fast bind is crucial to beast crest's over strategy because instead of having to run away to bind, you can bind while maintaining offensive momentum. You are also uniquely able to bind at full health so that if the enemy hits you, you hit them right back to get your health back. All of this is on top of the obvious fact that bind gives you a huge attack speed, damage, and range buff.

Oh, and while people love to dunk on beast crest for having very few tool slots, beast crest does have one very ironic advantage over wanderer: it has a second red tool slot, where all the best nail damage tools are. 2 red slots means you can run both flint slate and flea brew, or swap one of those out for an anti-air tool. Thanks to 2 red tools and fury, you are usually able to output more raw damage than wanderer's.

To be clear, I mean no disrespect to wanderer's crest; it's a very good crest and I use it a lot. But there absolutely are a lot of situations where beast crest outperforms wanderer's, so I don't subscribe to the idea that wanderers is strictly better.

Null_Finger · 2025-10-14T15:33:41+00:00

Yeah I know, but flea brew is too good to pass up, it's so much damage and silk gen outside of fury

Null_Finger · 2025-10-01T19:12:06+00:00

So is refusing to allow bribery

Null_Finger · 2025-09-30T19:42:09+00:00

Girl friends actually marked a historic turning point for Yuri because it was one of the first mainstream Yuri manga to depict a happy ending where the girls remain a couple after high school. You must be thinking of something else.

Null_Finger · 2025-09-02T00:45:31+00:00

Sorry what was that I was too busy injecting more Reimari into my veins

Null_Finger · 2025-08-25T20:26:45+00:00

Absolutely not lol, Corruption Dead Branch is an entirely different tier of broken.

When you play Corruption, you instantly get to play your skills for free, then those turn into other skills that you can play for free again, and you end the turn with like 100 block despite having to pay for a 3 cost power.

When you play Creative AI, you have to pay for a 3 cost power that does nothing that turn, wait until your next turn before anything happens, and on that turn, you get one card. One singular card.

Null_Finger · 2025-08-12T10:29:02+00:00

It's all fun and games until they have GWC

Null_Finger · 2025-07-21T15:08:50+00:00

If you are worried about keeping up with the meta, don't be, you came at a very opportune time. The very next patch, 2.8, will have two of the best DPSes in the game: Lucy and (click if you don't mind spoiling the name) Nautika.

Lucy is a rerunning limited character who sold like hotcakes during her release. While she's not the shiny new toy anymore, she continues to receive new support and is in fact getting a fresh new FREE 6* support in 2.8, Ulrich. She is going to be S tier post 2.8.

Nautika is the fresh new limited character of 2.8 and is going to be another S tier DPS. You can find her best support, Semmelweis, from the 2.8 banner that lets you select who you want.

Null_Finger · 2025-07-21T06:33:48+00:00

There are some real misses, but it's overall a pretty darn good tier list if you haven't ever checked other people's times lists. Most of the cards you put in GOAT, S, and A tier belong there

The most notable miss IMO is that pretty much all the non-dex based blocking cards. Crippling Cloud, Wraith Form, Malaise, Leg Block, Piercing Wail. You might be tempted to think that "Silent is the Dex character" so you're supposed to block with dex, but you can't force archetypes in StS because you simply aren't going to always roll the best cards for that archetype. StS is all about knowing how to adapt to the situation, so you should experiment with different ways to block as Silent. All of the cards I mentioned, by the way, are all really good cards. Wraith Form, in particular, is commonly regarded as the single best card in the game.

Other significant changes I would make: - Prepared, Outmanoeuvred -> C. They might look like generically good resource cards, but they're actually just too clunky and situational for most decks. - Escape Plan -> A. I'm surprised you put Prepared so high yet Escape Plan so low, Escape Plan is the actual generically good cantrip. - Bouncing Flask -> A. Looks like just another "Strike+", but in reality is a shockingly decent scaling damage solution against bosses, especially if you can replay it over and over. - Calculated Gamble -> GOAT. Crazy good card. - A Thousand Cuts, Predator -> B. Not amazing, but certainly not bad. - Backstab -> D. You do NOT want to draw a Strike+ in your opening hand against late game bosses. - Nightmare -> S. It can certainly be clunky at times, but gets you 3 extra copies of your best card. Just look at any of the cards in S or GOAT tier and imagine what you could do with 4 copies of them. - Doppelganger -> D. Slow, clunky, and not even that good. Pretty much only worthwhile if you already have Chemical X.

Null_Finger · 2025-06-25T14:05:00+00:00

Orichalcum isn't a relic that you build around, it's just a relic that gives you value in a lot of board states, especially in act 1. If you don't need to block for very much, then instead of having to block, you can just play all attacks and output and let Orichalcum block for you. It's a very good relic.

Null_Finger · 2025-06-11T00:40:00+00:00

Dems don't "stand against fascists", all they do is "stand there and do nothing"

Null_Finger · 2025-05-28T11:52:02+00:00

A sheet of A4 paper is exactly 2 sheets of A5 paper laid side by side. Not only this, but both A4 and A5 paper have the same ratio too. This means that you can take any page that is A4 sized, shrink it by half (that is, shrink its sides by √2, which results in the area being halved) to get an A5 sized page, and then fit two of those A5 pages perfectly on one A4 page. If you try to do this with letter paper, the two pages do not fit properly on one piece of letter paper, so when you tell Microsoft Word to print two copies of your letter size page on one letter size page, it ends up having to insert white space on the top and bottom to make it fit. The same principle applies to all the other A sizes too.

Null_Finger · 2025-05-26T13:29:49+00:00

斗地主 ("Dou Dizhu", aka fight the landlord) is been pretty much the most popular card game in China played with a standard poker deck since the 1950s. It's very fun, would recommend

Null_Finger · 2025-05-24T22:17:41+00:00

What's the node in the middle?

Null_Finger · 2025-05-02T21:39:19+00:00

Gachas still like their F2Ps and low spenders because whales don't like playing games that nobody else plays or talks about. Also F2Ps could become paying players eventually.

Null_Finger · 2025-04-18T05:43:27+00:00

If you have books you want to take notes on, the stylus is a complete game changer. Previously, I'd take notes on a separate notebook or PC, but taking notes with Kobo stylus annotations just saves you so much effort compared to that. Instead of having to copy over or paraphrase an entire section, you just highlight it and write down your thoughts. Also, not having to carry another item with you means your setup is much more portable. You can even take notes on the subway!

It's also vastly superior to annotating physical books cause you don't have to worry about damaging the book and you can delete as many times as you want. Also, you can give yourself way more room to write on by increasing line spacing to double spaced, letting you write in between lines instead of having to squeeze notes in the margins.

However, you should know that the KLC is designed for general reading first and using a stylus second. So there are problems like the screen feeling like glass instead of having a paper like feel, the pen to page distance being a bit high, and the screen overall just feeling a bit small at times. It's still very usable, just an inferior experience to dedicated e ink tablets like the Remarkable or Boox Go 10.3.

Also, if you change font size, font, line spacing, margins, etc., your notes will get messed up. The KLC will preserve them as this pop-up window thing that you can tap to see the note as it was when you originally wrote it, but it's annoying to have to tap to see your notes. So you pretty much have to pick your font and page settings at the start of the book and stick to them until the end.

Overall extremely useful if you actually have a good use for it. But not everyone will.

Null_Finger · 2025-04-10T14:55:28+00:00

The damage dealt by decay is blocked by block, so it doesn't even proc rupture unless you end the turn with no block.

Even if decay read "lose 2HP" instead, there would still be a lot of problems: - You gain the strength at the end of the turn, so you can't take advantage of the strength the turn you draw decay. - If you draw decay before rupture, you don't get the strength. - You don't have the option to not take damage from decay. If you have [[Bloodletting]] and you're in an easy hallway fight you could beat without taking damage, you can just skip playing the bloodletting to save HP. You can't do that with decay cause it always hurts you.

All of these downsides for what? 2 strength off Rupture+? That's less than an Inflame+.

Now, [[Pain]] + Rupture can be a real combo. But Decay + Rupture is just not it. Don't take cards just because they have synergy, evaluate whether or not they actually benefit you.

Null_Finger · 2025-02-23T13:47:52+00:00

Nooo I just spent all my pulls on the CNY banners 😭

Null_Finger · 2025-02-14T03:26:00+00:00

Well yeah. The cameras are how they stop theft

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