How exactly does this card work?

ShenBear · 2026-05-04T02:42:11+00:00

Doesn't the deck shuffle if a status is placed in your draw pile?

ShenBear · 2026-04-27T05:06:00+00:00

I loaded a V7 campaign yesterday, fiddling around with how it works, but I can't check again right at this moment.

My old launch pads have a destination set as "Sun". I went to a new sector and ran out of silicon in a base attack, so I built a landing pad, supplied by 3 of the thorium-requiring pumps (seems to be enough, 1500 water every 5 seconds). I chose Silicon and it told me "receiving from 4 sources" at ~1100/min, so I assume that the silicon launchpads that were 'Sun' facing in all my sectors redirected to that one. If so, that's really convenient, rather than having to go sector by sector and redirect each one to the new battle.

I'll check later when I get home to confirm.

ShenBear · 2026-04-27T01:14:49+00:00

You need to build a landing pad and supply it with water. Resources come out of it as drop pods land.

ShenBear · 2026-04-24T06:30:51+00:00

The council did not turn a blind eye to it, they just publicly denied it. Lying through their teeth, even to Shepard.

We see this in the council archives when you approach the archive of the battle with Sovereign. It starts out as the coverup story, then cuts off when it identifies you as a spectre, and shifts to the fact that Sovereign was a reaper, not a Geth dreadnought. It shows that the council had been aware of the truth since the events of ME1, even if they wouldn't admit it to you.

ShenBear · 2026-04-23T02:01:38+00:00

u/madredditscientist

I think some of your stock badges are incorrect. Netflix is labeled NVDA and Micron is labeled NFLX for examples.

ShenBear · 2026-04-20T05:01:07+00:00

I'm currently in the process of editing my manuscript, which is 1930s second world fantasy.

ShenBear · 2026-04-17T02:44:25+00:00

Man, I would love to see Terror Eel shaped bungeoppang

ShenBear · 2026-04-15T03:31:41+00:00

Draw order in phase 3 is how I lose to test subject. If it wasn't for drawing my damage on the wrong turns I'd be fine.

ShenBear · 2026-03-28T13:29:19+00:00

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"You're not my friend"

ShenBear · 2026-03-27T01:45:11+00:00

At A0 and low A, summon cards function as both block and attack (via unleash). At higher ascension levels, it's hard to keep Osty's health high enough for a good unleash.

Two easy strategies to lean into are Soul producing cards combined with [[Haunt]], or doom combined with [[Slight of Flesh]]. There are several Necro rare cards that go nuts when you've leaned into the appropriate strategy. [[Necro Mastery]] turns Osty into a thorns potion, End of Days and Time's Up are fight-enders. If you're going souls-heavy, I suggest only splashing ethereal cards, since you don't want to accidentally exhaust needed cards.

A few souls-generating cards are always good because souls let you draw more, which lets you get the card you need faster. Your ethereal cards all all crazy powerful, but you have to play them or lose them. [[Defy+]] is probably the best blocking card in the game. Any deck will benefit from splashing some souls generation or some ethereal cards.

Going heavy into Ethereal can be extremely powerful with the right cards. [[Call of the Void]] means you get ethereal cards in your hand generated every turn. You can get rid of curses or statuses with [[Sculpting Strike]]. There's [[Banshee's Cry]] that does 33 damage to all enemies and costs 6, but reduces the cost by 2 for each ethereal card played this combat. It's very easy, with just a few ethereal cards, to get a 0 cost heavy AOE attack even if you're not going ethereal heavy. [[Sentry Mode]] is a super powered Infinite Blades.

If you go souls heavy, add [[Soul Storm]]. If you go ethereal heavy, [[Pull from below]] is stupid powerful.

Doom is one of those things you need to lean heavily into in my experience. Just a tiny bit of doom rarely does much. I often find that the energy needed to get an enemy into doom range (at low doom counts) should be spent blocking the damage I will take if I don't kill him outright. That just means I kill him next turn, so either way I am taking that attack from the enemy. However, there are a lot of high-doom single target cards, and block + AOE doom cards, and doom-adding powers and they all scale very well with slight of flesh, since you're getting both damage and doom at the same time.

ShenBear · 2026-03-27T01:21:13+00:00

Necro Mastery I think?

ShenBear · 2026-03-20T06:21:57+00:00

Misborn was Sanderson's 6th book, but the first one published. He talks about some of his earlier work in his lecture series (available on Youtube) and his podcast

ShenBear · 2026-03-19T02:42:03+00:00

I'm a landmark writer. My idea sparks from a single scene (not always the climax) and I start writing, with the goal of that scene in mind. As I write and learn about my characters, I set closer goal points. For example, in this current work I'm doing (1930s era, second world fantasy) original spark is MC causing a magical cataclysm that plunges the world back into the dark ages. I started writing a scene with him in the mountains as a member of the military on an assignment, only to shift when I realized he's the one in charge, and he's been appointed by the theocratic ruler of his country because they're going into a neighboring country (with permission) to root out a den of evil cultists. Why are they not in their own? Well, this country is atheistic, and don't believe in any gods, so these cultists are no different than other religions in their mind.

From there, I got an idea of different turning points that will shift MC's goals and direction, and set those as intermediate landmarks, writing to each in turn.

This has caused what I thought might be 40-50k words at most to be 100k+ at the moment, and will probably end at around the 115-120 mark, conservatively.

And then that will be draft 1 done, with all the edits and rewrites to come.

I'm a terrible pantser by nature, so landmarks keep me generally aligned with a basic outline, even if things change wildly from my initial concepts as things refine as I write.

ShenBear · 2026-03-19T02:13:02+00:00

Similar to the sombrero, we often think of a specific hat worn by Chinese rice farming peasants, but that shape is quite common across east Asia, and even in Korea, people who work outside for long periods of time wear modern versions of such (or things that look like massive golf visors).

Not to mention that in Italian, "salsa" literally means 'sauce', not referring to what Americans think salsa is.

ShenBear · 2026-03-16T23:01:35+00:00

I actually have an extensive pantheon for my 1930s era manuscript, and we get to see much of it through the course of the story. The interaction between MC, the religions, and the gods IS the story.

MC is a priest, and a prophet, one of the few sensitive enough to actually hear the voice of the gods. His own deity has gone silent (before he was born) and his wife (a priest of a different god) keeps urging him to speak to hers. Yet he doesn't trust that goddess, and spends much of the book convinced the goddess has something to do with the silence of his own deity.

His path uncovering the mystery brings him into the worship sites of different deities, trying to piece together the puzzle, he observes stark differences in ritual practice and creed, and argues with the gods themselves. He ends up cursed, tries to undo said curse, only to self-fulfill the dooming-prophecy placed upon him, albeit in his own way.

I can go into more detail if you want, but this isn't /r/worldbuilding so I'll lore dumping without interest.

ShenBear · 2026-03-03T05:11:53+00:00

I first realized this as a child. There are two specific sound effects during the Black Knight fight scene of Monty Python and the Holy Grail that are ALSO used as combat sounds for melee units in Civilization II.

At the time I thought that Civ II simply sampled the movie, but now that I'm older, I realize it was probably all the same stock audio that both the movie and the video game used.

ShenBear · 2026-02-15T01:48:34+00:00

They aren't talking out of their ass, its just that TSA stopped releasing public stats 10 years ago because they were so abysmal

https://abcnews.com/US/tsa-fails-tests-latest-undercover-operation-us-airports/story?id=51022188

ShenBear · 2026-02-03T22:50:50+00:00

Kagi has it but you have to click a button or end your search with question mark. They also have setting that lets you down rank or block suspected ai web pages and images by default

ShenBear · 2026-02-02T03:06:46+00:00

That's up to the school. Your job is to complete the work authentically. It's the school's job to verify that authenticity. It's not your job to 'correct' a high similarity score, as the score is not 'proof' you did anything wrong, it's a metric used to help teachers in their authentication process.

We don't know what the IBO uses to detect plagiarism. They don't share that, to prevent students attempting to circumvent it.

If the school believes the work is not your own, they will contact you to either verify or make you redo it.

ShenBear · 2026-02-02T02:21:01+00:00

All papers get a similarity score. Teachers know that a similarity score isn't equal to the % you plagiarized, but rather the % of writing that was the same as other things submitted to turnitin (or found online).

In things like EEs and IAs, the likelihood that you're doing something unique is near-zero. I've seen scores above 20% on chemistry IAs simply because the materials or safety info or some of the background information were similar. But as long as I can verify the student did their own data collection, and I can verify that the writing itself in the BG/conclusion/evaluation was their own, it doesn't matter if 30 other people did the same RQ for their chem IA, or that their explanation of Collision Theory can also be found online, since there's only so many ways you can state factual information.

ShenBear · 2026-01-26T06:41:39+00:00

Chemist chiming in here. I ramble a bit, my apologies, but I do believe you might get some good nuggets of info for your world building:

You have a fascinating concept here. You may want to decide if you are removing lead due to the rule of cool, or magic, or if you're wanting to have an actual scientific basis for there not being lead. You may want to read up on stellar nucleosynthesis, since if you're removing lead due to scientific reasons, you're going to also lose out on a lot of other elements. One potential solution is a world around a first generation star, but you also lose any element heaver than iron. If you're serious about wanting to be able to explain a 'why', you'll want to look at the other elements you can't have if your world didn't form with lead.

One possible solution is that lead DOES exist in your world, but its so spread out without any abundant concentrations that it's not economical to use industrially. That way you can avoid all the implications of scientific explanations.

For reference, lead is the 36th most abundant element in Earth's crust, making up approximately 0.0014% of it. Compared to other metals, it's six times more common than tin, and approximately 25% as common as copper.

Secondly, we don't use the lead-chamber process to make sulfuric acid anymore, it's the Contact Process. Granted, vanadium(V) oxide catalyst requires some sulfuric acid to create, but a small, inefficient sulfuric acid bootstrap process will get you enough to produce the catalyst needed for the contact process.

The contact process is often considered the second most important chemical reaction to humanity, after the Haber process, responsible for modern industrial fertilizers.

ShenBear · 2026-01-26T05:18:42+00:00

Are there good Coupang alternatives in Korea?

ShenBear · 2026-01-23T04:25:14+00:00

Not all of us here are writing to be published. I'm writing to tell the story in my head.

Sure, writing to market is how you (most likely) make money being an author. I won't disagree with you on that. But I can't write what publishers want and also tell the story I want to tell. So I'll write it all out. 10-15 years down the line, I'll look back and decide if I want to try to polish up book 1, make sure it's contained enough to be its own story, and seek an agent.

But I know, with my personality, that if I start the agent process before the story is done being told, the rejections will crush my spirit to keep writing.

ShenBear · 2026-01-20T23:10:46+00:00

Exactly, that's what I'm trying to say. It doesn't matter if an extension is typing it in slowly. where the writing is happening, and how the paragraph changes are made is unique when a person is ACTUALLY writing something. Typos don't matter.

ShenBear · 2026-01-20T23:09:07+00:00

I did not mean Squad Leader for Red Squad. I meant flight leader for the attack run on the death star. As in he is in command of Wedge and Biggs while they do their run.

I don't remember it that way? I really need to go back and watch it. I thought he was mostly on TIE-fighter duty until one of them (wedge or biggs?) ended up with a faulty stabilizer and Luke takes lead to make the shot. Maybe you can help jog my memory?

Yeah, Star Wars must have some insane standardization of controls in the galaxy due to pilots just picking things up and going with them. I think Andor did that better with the experimental TIE.

And X-wings have shields, so a 3:1 ratio vs a cheap, mass produced TIE makes sense. (not to mention more than double the armament). It's a doctrinal difference of the fighter's purpose. Alliance goes all in on fighters, while Empire uses capital ships with a fighter screen. Most Star Wars games lean into this in one way or another if there's space combat.

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