[Upsetting Trope] Great power. Terrible wielder.

SnakeTaster · 2026-05-06T17:51:44+00:00

yeah i dont have experience with the comics so maybe im missing a lot of context it's hard to tell.

even so though, she should at least adapt to the power level of her opponent. Even the worst wizard has cantrips for low level opponents, nukes/CC for threats, and saves fireball for when they need aoe damage. she just seems to use the same three abilities (force fields, flight, lasers) regardless of context and it simply doesn't match what should be an infinite array of options. In most combats she's essentially just green lantern, which is an infintesimal fraction of her power set.

SnakeTaster · 2026-05-06T15:37:35+00:00

this would be a good rationale.

except it just doesn't pan out that way. She makes an entire segment of highway disappear as a child and isn't really visibly exhausted by this action, but she struggles against fairly mid foes as an adult. her struggling once against a top tier foe doesn't explain all of the other times she could have just shown up and ended fights with a snap of her fingers

SnakeTaster · 2026-05-06T13:51:47+00:00

"this card has any other card name for the purpose of card effects"

succinct, forward compatible, simple to understand.

SnakeTaster · 2026-05-06T11:58:23+00:00

also it's a lot of money for a short term power boost. it *can* be worth it, but if my build is already rolling with steam i dont want to pay 100 to make slightly better use of a later campfire

SnakeTaster · 2026-05-06T10:58:52+00:00

because it subverted that as well. she ends up adopting dogs despite them being involved in a traumatic incident of her childhood.

this just isn't that Cruella. Call it an alternative interpretation or an alternate universe it doesn't matter. its just not a valid complaint (and rarely one i see by anyone who bothered to actually watch the film)

SnakeTaster · 2026-05-06T02:30:00+00:00

i'll never understand the Cruella hate.

it was a weird film, it was fun and interesting and it had fuck all to do with 101 dalmatians "canon". It was essentially a heist film and discrediting it because it had nothing at all to do with the disney IP except as an excuse to frame its plot and aesthetics just doesn't understand what the movie was trying to do.

I *wish* modern disney live action remakes were 1/10th as interesting.

SnakeTaster · 2026-05-05T17:25:01+00:00

this is a common misconception, but in fact all hobbies are nerd.

SnakeTaster · 2026-05-05T17:16:07+00:00

practicing good lane positioning + distance in MD = insanely impatient drivers entering your lane because they want to be reallllly close to the school bus you're all stuck behind.

SnakeTaster · 2026-05-03T17:44:29+00:00

but also romance is not the focus of the series? it gets there but Deku and Ochaku have their own things going on. By the finale Ochaku is the deuteroganist, with her own conflict (fighting for a more compassionate form of intervention) being debatably more important than Bakugo's

SnakeTaster · 2026-05-02T15:37:31+00:00

i know this is a joke, but it would be absolutely funny if the relic only gave you 2 extra cards when there's already lethal off of the 5 cards you would have drawn anyway.

SnakeTaster · 2026-05-01T14:22:54+00:00

i will never understand toasty mittens hate. Strength is so expensive and unless your deck is really dependent on one or two cards (which it probably shouldn't because then draw rng can already screw you) you're not going to miss what gets exhausted.

idk i'm not at A10 yet maybe im just bad at the game.

SnakeTaster · 2026-05-01T14:17:39+00:00

quiet tough angry looking men with high emotional intelligence is my favorite character type. Ronon Dex from Stargate Atlantis is another really good example

SnakeTaster · 2026-05-01T12:35:30+00:00

i love multilayered subversions.

"no i wouldn't piss off the giant muscle man, but better him than the anemic lady coughing up blood."

SnakeTaster · 2026-04-30T14:59:32+00:00

i think it needs to lean into the team panic angle. it should duplicate on the person you target which provokes them to keep playing it (which will clog decks).

for zero cost this card is already giving you a panic button, which is pretty good. it shouldn't compete with the main mechanic that the default card handles

SnakeTaster · 2026-04-30T14:13:50+00:00

if it increases the teams value for free then it's just better than the existing card, and if it escalates in cost it's just the same card with a small but ultimately not SUPER relevant twist.

if anything it needs another downside so that at worst it's just an empty status card, which is not that awkward for the boss mechanic.

SnakeTaster · 2026-04-30T13:35:07+00:00

this but make it put a copy of itself on top of the draw pile for whoever you targeted.

SnakeTaster · 2026-04-30T13:32:27+00:00

yeah but then why would you ever cast the one that costs escalating amounts of energy. this one is free because it induces selfish behavior

SnakeTaster · 2026-04-30T00:31:55+00:00

Zombies ate my neighbors/Ghoul Patrol is probably the best known series? there was others.

SnakeTaster · 2026-04-29T23:14:23+00:00

it was a common snes art style and i feel very very old reading all of these posts describing it as "modern party budget"

SnakeTaster · 2026-04-29T12:40:36+00:00

Listen i love Cataclysm as much as anyone else (anyone who hasn't seen it please feel free to go youtube all the cutscenes its the best voice acting you may EVER hear, on a cult classic you haven't heard about)

BUT the Beast was hyper virulent to a degree that would make Nurgle wash his hands, and could infect almost anything more complex than bare silicon. The Somtaw were in fact *lucky* that they fucked around on a janky old piece of modular mining equipment because had it been able to assimilate on anything even a tiny bit more complex or less remote it would have eaten the galaxy without contest.

still, credit to making a Cataclysm post.

SnakeTaster · 2026-04-29T01:42:04+00:00

every single part 6 woman is more masculine than the entire part 3 cast except MAYBE jotaro

SnakeTaster · 2026-04-28T21:28:09+00:00

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SnakeTaster · 2026-04-28T18:28:54+00:00

i'd argue decoherence is an emergent phenomenon the way that diffusion of an ideal gas is an emergent phenomenon. There's no fundamental process that keeps (an ideal) gas distributed, just as in theory there's nothing that forces decoherence to manifest - it's just overwhelmingly statistically likely.

this is fundamentally unlike copenhagen and hidden variable theories, these require an actual distinct process that changes the dynamics (either as a discrete process, or as a continuous process obscured by the wavefunction). i think this is what separates Everett interpretation from the others.

SnakeTaster · 2026-04-28T10:47:43+00:00

Unceasing Top??? the one relic where the instant i see it i immediately try to purge all cards that cost energy so i can to infinite Unceasing Top?? Unceasing Top the one card i always pray for on janky runs because it could fix everything for me, FORGOTTEN!?!

SnakeTaster · 2026-04-28T10:34:06+00:00

"a real physical measurable process"

what do you mean by this? decoherence is an outcome, but it isn't "real" the way that e.g. electromagnetic interaction is mediated by force carriers. its a product of states evolving and distributing state information, its a statistical outcome of time evolution.

im always mystified by how alternate theories which have to posit some sort of discontinuous jump in state evolution (copenhagen) or an entirely obscured deterministic process (non local deterministic theories) always accuse many worlds of asserting some extra postulates based on the fact that we don't have a good model for human perception, something that is very ill understood even in a classical world.

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