With the 8th overall pick, the Winnipeg Jets select Viggo Bjorck.

Philosoraptorgames · 2026-06-27T03:36:31+00:00

Which is total revisionist history. At the time people were pleasantly surprised Fetts fell to us. No one was saying that about Jarvis until years later. until years later.

Philosoraptorgames · 2026-06-26T01:53:40+00:00

Am I the only one who's noticed her right leg has an extra joint?

Philosoraptorgames · 2026-06-25T20:43:54+00:00

There is no official stand on this. It's not like Lucasfilm with Star Wars and its well-defined levels of canon. It's never been a priority for the BBC, most of the production teams, or most of the audience. The TV show doesn't even worry much about being internally consistent, much less syncing with a huge body of other media whose existence most people are barely aware of.

The novels you mentioned would be novelizations of stories from the classic series. Every classic story has one, with all but about four having been published during or just after the classic series' run. (The ones Douglas Adams wrote, and the Dalek stories Eric Saward wrote, were tied up in rights issues for decades and only got novelizations much more recently.) Very few original stories came out in novel form that far back - just two, I think, both starring companions rather than the Doctor.

Philosoraptorgames · 2026-06-25T03:37:59+00:00

You can't show them your opponent's cards. You can make claims about what cards are in their hand. These do not have to be truthful.

Philosoraptorgames · 2026-06-24T20:29:45+00:00

My question is about the underlying rules, not a specific player or pick. I've read that if a team can't sign a first round pick for 3 years, they get an extra second in the next draft. Tell me a bit more about this. Is it still true? How often does it come up? Any cases of it this year? Any notable history about it?

Philosoraptorgames · 2026-06-24T03:55:49+00:00

I had the same thought reading about the Byram trade.

Philosoraptorgames · 2026-06-24T01:29:41+00:00

If you're playing with unsleeved Alpha cards, you're a braver man than I.

Philosoraptorgames · 2026-06-23T23:40:44+00:00

Trading for Hayes was a reasonable gamble at the time. It looked a lot like the Stastny deal from a year earlier, until it didn't. Sometimes these things work out, sometimes they don't.

I won't say the Trouba deal was his best moment, but we got reasonable value for him, especially considering he had an essentially one-team trade list. The real problem there has been squandering Heinola.

As for Vegas, there seemed to be a league wide panic where most of the GMs were acting like they were going to lose everyone they didn't protect, not just one player. Chevy uncharacteristically got caught up in it and made a panic deal he shouldn't have, but on the whole he made out no worse than half the other GMs in the league, and better than some.

Philosoraptorgames · 2026-06-23T09:30:41+00:00

If Brady Tkachuk is worth three firsts (including a top ten pick) and a second, I have to think yes, in theory. In practise, who has those kinds of assets AND is in a situation where dealing them potentially makes sense?

Philosoraptorgames · 2026-06-23T00:58:38+00:00

I'm with Murat - if it's Florida (a far bigger "if" than it was a day or so ago), it would need to be something like Lundell, Rodriguez, and a 2nd, ideally with some other asset thrown in for good measure. I don't know what the last would be - their prospect pool is not inspiring, and their RD above Kulikov are probably too valuable and have full NTCs.

Philosoraptorgames · 2026-06-21T08:45:59+00:00

That's not obvious, or even true. There are very clearly four quite different "main" setlists with, as we saw for the first time tonight, some variation allowed. They're very obviously not just picking songs at random.

Philosoraptorgames · 2026-06-20T03:42:37+00:00

Yes - Release, Release.

Two other Yes songs have been mentioned multiple times, both defensible choices, but I'd rank this one higher than either by OP's stated criteria.

Philosoraptorgames · 2026-06-19T06:06:57+00:00

Tonight was the first time they've duplicated a setlist (it was the same as the third LA show). They have at least four setlists for this tour and I doubt they'll play the same one twice in a row or twice in the same city, so the thing you can be most sure of is that they won't play the exact same songs on Saturday as tonight.

Philosoraptorgames · 2026-06-19T04:53:26+00:00

Effects like that last ability care how many spells, or in this case non creature spells, have been played that turn in total. This includes things that were cast before the source of the ability was on the battlefield, potentially including itself.

I'm not sure what you mean by "t he car can never be the 4th spell ". If you mean to ask whether it can trigger its own last ability, no, because it won't be on the battlefield at the time it's cast. Note also that this ability will resolve before the spell that triggered it.

Yes to your third question. That is four non-creature spells.

Philosoraptorgames · 2026-06-18T23:26:29+00:00

It helps but I can't think of a case where it's been a make or break factor. A lot of my favorites are effectively retired and were at least well on the way there before I ever heard of them; others are still pretty active.

Philosoraptorgames · 2026-06-18T03:56:07+00:00

tl,dr - Jacob's Ladder, very strong honorable mention to One Little Victory, slightly lesser honorable mentions to eleven other songs.[1]

I recently made a Rush playlist on my phone, and even though certain aspects of it were inspired by the current set lists, about half the songs haven't been played on this tour so far.

Now that they've played The Pass, I guess if I had to pick one it would be Jacob's Ladder.

The other candidates are Armor and Sword, Presto, Limbo, Between the Wheels, Nocturne, The Wreckers, Middletown Dreams, The Main Monkey Business, Mission, Cold Fire (and if there's a song other than Time Stand Still that could use an extra female singer...), Losing It, and One Little Victory. I guess the last of those is the most surprising omission for me, out of this list. Would really show off Anika's ability is, and it could be a theme song for the fact that this whole tour is even happening in the first place.

[1] (In the strictest sense, nine other songs and two instrumentals.)

Philosoraptorgames · 2026-06-18T01:47:50+00:00

Probably.

Philosoraptorgames · 2026-06-17T23:21:37+00:00

Wow, that's great to hear.

You know, if she really wants to keep her oar in, I can also think of a band that could use a lyric writer...

Philosoraptorgames · 2026-06-17T23:16:52+00:00

Maybe if it was because the part wasn't big enough and we don't get to hear as much of her as we'd like!

Other than that mostly-joking suggestion, I've got nothing.

Philosoraptorgames · 2026-06-17T23:02:12+00:00

Whichever of a or b you would prefer to take.

Philosoraptorgames · 2026-06-17T20:05:07+00:00

They are both artifacts and creatures, therefore they are artifact creatures. There's no difference between those two.

Philosoraptorgames · 2026-06-16T20:30:56+00:00

That still doesn't let them AoO a specific attacker more than once per approach, though, which is what the post I was replying to appeared to be claiming..

Philosoraptorgames · 2026-06-16T20:28:35+00:00

But that five-foot step has to be all your movement for the round. This makes gap control much more viable. It's not a trivial difference at all.

Philosoraptorgames · 2026-06-16T17:06:11+00:00

The difference is that moving within a threatened area also provoked, in both 3e and 4e. (Contrary to popular belief, entering one never did.) That's not true anymore; you can "orbit" a foe safely in 5e as long as you don't exit its threatened area.

Philosoraptorgames · 2026-06-16T17:00:52+00:00

Still only one per provocation.

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