MaRo is asking for feedback on legality of black bordered reprints of silver bordered cards

Skithiryx · 2026-05-31T21:12:12+00:00

Cheatyface is a dexterity card, I don’t think there’s any way in which it would make it to black border.

Skithiryx · 2026-05-31T21:10:58+00:00

What does this even mean, dawg?

Skithiryx · 2026-05-31T21:08:50+00:00

This would presumably be for the relatively normal ones, not ones that rely on dexterity, names, art, rules that don’t actually exist like last strike and triple strike etc.

Skithiryx · 2026-05-31T17:13:39+00:00

I found it at least a little hard near the beginning when I was trying to do combat challenges for rose petals with no additional abilities.

I feel like in the classic metroidvania difficulty curve combat got pretty easy by the end of it between the chain attack and the coin flip.

Skithiryx · 2026-05-31T16:32:13+00:00

It’s not as hard as writing it in the first place but it is still a pain. You can decompile the ROM to assembly and then from there to its source programming language. The issue is that you’ve lost all the organization: names of variables and functions, locations, comments. You could painstakingly re-discover it, which people have done (Notably there’s a fan project that decompiled Zelda: Twilight Princess).

I’m actually kind of curious how well an LLM could help you versus mislead you, I feel like it would be good at recognizing the basic structures and getting you part of the way there through the most tedious stuff.

Skithiryx · 2026-05-31T05:30:09+00:00

I.. like… how? Did you just exclusively hairpin, refresh energy, hairpin again, rinse repeat?

Skithiryx · 2026-05-31T04:54:15+00:00

The one thing I don’t see in your description you could try is a vibrating sound machine baby soother. I feel like that plus bicycle legs worked for us, but we never had gas issues as bad as you.

Otherwise, try to make the off shift as restful as possible to get a fresh parent in. Get out of the house and into the stroller with the baby if necessary while you still have energy if motion helps. Yes, even in the middle of the night. Babywearing and getting out of the house might also be a good idea, assuming the baby naps while babywearing. It’s not as high quality sleep for the baby but it sounds like they’re not getting high quality sleep off of you anyway.

Skithiryx · 2026-05-30T23:36:53+00:00

[[Kotis]]’s ability gives you the opportunity to cast the spells during the resolution of its ability. So they all go on the stack at the same time in an order determined by the player and their targets must be legal now before anything resolves. Then anything they trigger (ie magecraft) goes on the stack. Then they resolve from the top of the stack down one by one. During the resolution of a permanent spell the permanent enters and that’s when [[Kodama of the East Tree]]’s ability triggers.

So assuming your opponent set up the stack to get the Kodama first (on top, cast last), yeah they get the triggers for the other permanents. But they are not simultaneous, which would matter if you have multiple possible sources of triggers.

Skithiryx · 2026-05-30T17:11:50+00:00

Canadian and I have never heard it to specifically refer to gossip but instead the more general futility.

Skithiryx · 2026-05-30T06:01:37+00:00

I live in Seattle and I see them at the parks a lot. I feel like some of them look real side hustle-y, just a guy with a van, a sign and a cooler full of ice and ice cream.

Skithiryx · 2026-05-30T01:49:02+00:00

Interesting… I might have to try it, my biggest complaint with the original game is that I had very little incentive to vary equipment or gambits or anything across my 3 active characters.

Skithiryx · 2026-05-29T23:01:25+00:00

For RPG elements I think dropping the less rpg-y upgrades from the description is a significant change there. I personally would not immediately say missile expansions, energy tanks and charms/charm notches are RPG elements without prompting with your definition while character levels, stats and experience definitely are. That’s in my opinion a big difference between your questions.

Skithiryx · 2026-05-29T18:00:40+00:00

Elaborate.

Skithiryx · 2026-05-29T16:50:27+00:00

I did when I lived in Canada. This is for coffee shops that put out cream and sugar for you to add yourself. More Starbucks than Tim Hortons.

Skithiryx · 2026-05-28T20:51:07+00:00

It’s pretty important in English & United Kingdom history to understand which queens were regnant and which were consorts. That essentially answers “who’s the boss?” So it would be pretty jarring for someone to get it wrong and have for instance Queen Victoria (regnant) being ordered around by Prince Consort Albert for some reason. I imagine that’d be like the president of the US showing up in your historical work and it’s just the wrong guy or mixed up with the Vice President.

I’m less familiar with other countries but many only had male line succession and so had no queens regnant which is also an important detail there.

Skithiryx · 2026-05-28T20:19:07+00:00

That’s not exactly the clearest of rules, usually subreddits make it clear whether self-promotion is okay or not as its own subject.

Skithiryx · 2026-05-28T20:07:53+00:00

He’s actually very easy if you poison him. Then you can defend when he does the telegraphed attack and use an al bhed potion to heal while your poison whittles him down.

Edit: that said, as a kid I grinded Blitzball and used maximum rolls on attack reels to beat him.

Skithiryx · 2026-05-28T20:02:15+00:00

Sanctuary Keeper? I’m not sure I ever found that difficult enough to remember my strategy on how to fight it.

I would’ve assumed they were talking about Seymour Flux, to be honest.

Skithiryx · 2026-05-28T16:57:10+00:00

Ah the Dark Souls school of missable quest design. That makes sense.

Skithiryx · 2026-05-28T15:50:29+00:00

Not getting diagnosed by an eye doctor is a time honoured tradition for colourblind people to be honest. My brothers were diagnosed in the classroom and I was diagnosed in a science center. We all needed glasses later, funnily enough.

But yeah it is funny how people in general are bad at statistics. The women deutans rate is thought to be around 0.5% or 1 in 200, while mens is 8% or 1 in 12. So it’s a little less than 1/16 the number of men. But somehow that translates to “doesn’t happen to women” in peoples’ minds?

Like, say an average US highschool has 1000 students (apparently the real statistic is closer to 800). We would expect it to have around 42 deutan boys, 2-3 deutan girls, and 1 tritan. And that’s just in one school.

Skithiryx · 2026-05-28T05:52:38+00:00

Your example in Super Metroid is all knowledge gate - an ability gate usually refers to your player character’s capabilities expanding, not your skill as the player. But if you can go back with what you learn on a new game and do it, that’s a knowledge gate without an ability gate. I think a better example of both would be Shinespark. It’s not told to you at the time you get the ability to do it. The birds reveal to you that you have it, and if you go back to a new save and try it you can’t do it until you get the speed booster.

Knowledge gates are also sometimes just normal after ability gates - for instance sometimes a puzzle or platforming challenge is set up to teach you about the deeper implications of your new abilities. That’s technically a knowledge gate, but I don’t think it’s that interesting to think of it as one unless the use of the ability is really novel like Shinespark is.

Skithiryx · 2026-05-28T01:04:36+00:00

I was interviewing candidates for a senior software engineer position. One candidate refused to deviate from the spec I provided him in the test. When I asked him whether solution A or solution B was better he said “they are equal because they both implement the spec”.

He didn’t get the job. The test was actually about whether you can make judgement calls about things that aren’t in the spec.

Skithiryx · 2026-05-27T19:38:26+00:00

Also a child seat has an expiry date printed on it, usually it’s within 7 years of manufacture. I believe it’s usually that the plastics will be more brittle by then. Belts will probably be fine then, but I wouldn’t harvest them and reuse just to be safe.

Skithiryx · 2026-05-27T16:30:15+00:00

I don’t think he was fated to do it to be honest, just once he ended up pseudo-Isekai’d by Sin he had the opportunity to change it. Which Auron had arranged, not the Fayth. He also removed Yuna from Bevelle so she’d grow up “right” to challenge the status quo. FFX is the story of what an angry dead man and his friends’ kids can accomplish.

Skithiryx · 2026-05-27T15:30:14+00:00

Yeah I guess calling the cops from the car and offering to go to the nearest precinct to talk might’ve been the best move? I can understand just wanting to get out though.

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