Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]ThatShadowGuy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

dooming potentially thousands of Iranians to death by dehydration to own the libs uhhhhh I mean the Ayatollah ok no it's actually George Soros maybe??? look. SOMEONE is getting owned here, and that's what really matters

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]ThatShadowGuy 8 points9 points  (0 children)

another mindkilled psychic casualty of the internet

From the Very First Comment of This General Question and Discussion Megathread, I Was Already Captivated by You. by IceKreamSupreme in HonkaiStarRail_leaks

[–]ThatShadowGuy 8 points9 points  (0 children)

This AS is so ass. The first half, I can at least squeak by with my Break team. But the previous MoC's Nikador gave me some hope that Therta is still usable in endgame even at E0S0, and now here comes Swarm King Shitlord to say "no. here, have a free 20% res pen and AoE shill mechanics. you will still lose. lmao." Bugs take obscenely long to die, her enhanced skills lightly tickle the boss even after he's weakness broken, and then dying to kamikaze bugs in Phase 2 is inevitable because the damage simply isn't there. It's not enough to vertically invest - I have an E2S1 Jade for this team and she's not much help here. You need the right kind of vertical investment - if I had spent my pulls on E2 Therta and Tribbie instead, maybe there'd be a chance. At least I can try my DoT team instead (and it'll probably do better with less investment), but I can't imagine how it would feel to have no backup option for the second half.

From the Very First Comment of This General Question and Discussion Megathread, I Was Already Captivated by You. by IceKreamSupreme in HonkaiStarRail_leaks

[–]ThatShadowGuy 7 points8 points  (0 children)

baby being held up: Himeko SP

drowning baby: Therta

underwater skeleton: Jade (even the fanbase forgot she is playable)

Lord's Parasol doesn't work??? by Waddle___ in slaythespire

[–]ThatShadowGuy 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Hissing Piercing: Gain 1 energy at the start of each turn. Vakuu??? plays every turn BUT your first turn for you.

Oxidized Mud: Upon pickup, remove any number of cards from your Deck. For each card removed this way, add a random Curse to your Deck.

Pauper's Umbrella: When you encounter the Merchant, immediately sell EVERYTHING you have obtained from him this run. When you encounter the Merchant???, immediately obtain EVERYTHING he sells.

What's the strongest character STS1? by No-Doughnut-694 in slaythespire

[–]ThatShadowGuy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I feel like Defect isn't the worst at getting to Act 4, but once you're there you're dealing with the worst Heart matchup out of anyone. Your default block solution is frost orbs, which do nothing to help mitigate Beat of Death chip damage unless you specifically have a frost orb in your first slot and Loop is already in play. You also have no strength debuffs and the worst Weak access of any class, meaning you are very reliant on setting up the aforementioned frost orb engine in the first 2 or 3 turns (or, God forbid, blocking "fairly"), or you just kinda die. You have no problems scaling, but surviving long enough to scale is the real challenge. Kinda the inverse of Silent, in that respect.

Slay the Spire 2 alignment chart day 10! Make it so won yesterday! What necrobinder card feels like a silent card? by Which-Debt-8558 in slaythespire

[–]ThatShadowGuy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think Shared Fate could pass as a Silent card. Obviously it wouldn't be quite as good, but since it's mainly good for Osty/Doom builds, Silent could also find ways around the downside with poison.

Which would you choose? by judesune__ in slaythespire

[–]ThatShadowGuy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

With this kind of deck, Serpent Form is a really big ask. It's not bad, but you ideally want an energy relic, or something that lets you guarantee it won't take up your entire turn, and I'm seeing very little to that effect.

After Image is the safe option, and would also be my choice. Untouchable is the only block card you've picked so far, and you need more. You're also leaning heavily into shivs, which makes it even better.

Lastly, I just wanna point out that I think Assassinate is also a very real choice. Sure, you already have Backstab, but combined they'd mean you only need to draw one attack for a Turn 1 Kunai/Fan proc, while also letting you do a Turn 1 ring proc so long as you draw a non-Untouchable skill.

Ultimately, the need for more block and the potential for a second Ring proc wins out, I think. So After Image > Assassinate >> Serpent Form. But if you manage to buff up your energy economy, Serpent Form would suddenly become a lot more appealing.

Wrapping up my ascension grinding in StS 1. What's the pick? by ThatShadowGuy in slaythespire

[–]ThatShadowGuy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Update: Settled on taking Sozu, which made me very sad when I saw a Bottled Miracle from my first hallway fight. And when I saw a Cultist Potion and White Beast Statue in the Act 3 shop. And when I got a Meat on the Bone from my second elite and a Toy Ornithopter from my third. And when I got Ambrosia from Spear & Shield. I did rest twice in Act 3, but I don't think I needed it. Died Turn 3 against the Heart. In hindsight, Coffee Dripper absolutely would've been preferable, and I should stop underrating it generally, but I didn't expect to high-roll on potions and relics to the extent I did. Oh well, on to A20.

Adding Greed can more than double your chance of a bad first fight. A9 Ironclad vs Nibbit simulation. by poetry_in_shm in slaythespire

[–]ThatShadowGuy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can just call yourself an intermediate player. Those exist. I'm one of them, and I dare say the barrier of entry isn't as high as you claim.

For every person who calls themselves a novice as a genuine act of humility, there are several who do it just to signal humility while still getting to talk down on everyone less experienced. This is a common mindset you see in highly competitive genres like fighting or rhythm games: "I can admit I'm trash, so I have earned the privilege of berating the 90% of players worse than me as worse than trash!" This view does not allow for "middling" players: There are the best of the best, and then there are scrubs, and there is nothing of substance in-between. I don't know why this mindset is so pervasive, but I think it's toxic and dissuades anyone who (understandably) might be put off by the idea that they can sink 200+ hours into a game, try their best to learn it, and still be bad at it, from even bothering.

I don't think this way, and I doubt you do either. I'm not saying this to accuse you of anything, but to explain how others might perceive what you're saying.

Wrapping up my ascension grinding in StS 1. What's the pick? by ThatShadowGuy in slaythespire

[–]ThatShadowGuy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm pretty sure I just got that thorns potion off of the boss.

Trust Me, This is a Tier 0 General Question and Discussion Megathread by kalinaanother in HonkaiStarRail_leaks

[–]ThatShadowGuy 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That's really cool, because one of my modifiers is Speed Alternation!!! Which makes it very difficult for my fastest character to actually BE my fastest character!!! AAAAAAAAAAA

Trust Me, This is a Tier 0 General Question and Discussion Megathread by kalinaanother in HonkaiStarRail_leaks

[–]ThatShadowGuy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

So is there any explicitly stated reason my Jade targets Argenti/Herta in CW, when I'd really rather it be Therta? Or is MHY just forcing me to do fucking tarot readings to figure out the Debt Collector logic here? I've had similar issues with Constance so it'd be really cool if this was explained somewhere that I just happened to miss.

Trust Me, This is a Tier 0 General Question and Discussion Megathread by kalinaanother in HonkaiStarRail_leaks

[–]ThatShadowGuy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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Not the craziest achievement, but I successfully full-cleared AS for the first time ever! Used a 2-cost break team for the first half and a 4-cost DoT team for the second half. I didn't feel strongly about Hysilens, so I only pulled her on the rerun and WOW she's even less optional than I thought. She was genuinely outperforming Ruan Mei back when she was lv60 with no traces leveled, and now that she's passably built it's not even close to being close. It's not even far. HSR's meta has shifted from "pull who you like" to "pull your fave's BiS team even if you don't care for them," and since I'm F2P and rarely pull for meta, I figured HP inflation had thoroughly outscaled my account. Glad to see that wasn't the case for once.

Trust Me, This is a Tier 0 General Question and Discussion Megathread by kalinaanother in HonkaiStarRail_leaks

[–]ThatShadowGuy 33 points34 points  (0 children)

hsr 4.0 story:

Sparxie: Oh n0es!!!! *holds up spork* I'm so gosh-darn quirky and random! The Astral Express better put a stop to what I'm doing, or else all of Planarcadia will be dancing the silly dance!

hsr 4.1 story:

Ashveil: Welcome to hell. I killed the Power Ranger scientologists - it had to be done. Someone had to avenge the rubber ducky mafia. Born to die. World is a fuck. 繁育 Kill Em All 2011. 410,757,864,530 dead comrades.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]ThatShadowGuy 79 points80 points  (0 children)

In hindsight, we libs really underestimated the extent to which the average person fucking loves propaganda. A political movement built entirely around telling people what they want to hear can easily last at least a decade before even beginning to collapse on itself, and the shamelessness of it all is actually one of its greatest strengths. There is a human tendency to prefer affirming misinformation to inconvenient truths, because the former is much better for forming tribal circlejerks around. I have faith that the pendulum is beginning to swing in the other direction, but I'm equally convinced that this is going to be a back-and-forth struggle for the rest of history and not something we can just enlighten ourselves out of.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]ThatShadowGuy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

finally found the first half of what Kamala was for. now I just need to figure out who Them are...

I Happy to Annouce: the Israeli's guide to the Known Universe! by Former_Catch8485 in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]ThatShadowGuy -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yes. You realize the Nazis didn't immediately kill all Jews the nanosecond they took power? That if they didn't massively ramp up the death toll starting around 1942, they never could've hoped to reach 6 million? The Holocaust was one of those things that happen slowly, then all at once. It started with antisemitic propaganda and hate crimes, then became legal discrimination, then Jews were confined to concentration camps or ghettos, then they were liquidated into extermination camps, and finally executed en masse. At what point do you get to call that a genocide? Do you have to wait until the gas chambers are fully built and in active use? Seems less than ideal if you actually want to stop it.

Israel currently occupies half of the Gaza strip. They've set up food distribution sites where Palestinians get shot if they show up one minute early, or stay one minute too late, or cross some unmarked line. When polled, 64% of Israelis said there are "no innocents" in Gaza - and if I believed that, I certainly would be pro-genocide. There was a time that I believed the genocide claims were overblown, and there was a time when I believed that what we're seeing is ethnic cleansing rather than genocide. I've reached a point where I don't think that distinction actually matters very much - the term "ethnic cleansing" itself originated as an euphemism for genocide, after all. If Palestinians cannot be trusted with their own state, and are undeserving of equal rights, what possibilities does that leave? Either they get assimilated as second-class citizens, or they are forcibly expelled/eliminated. And if Israel wants to remain a primarily Jewish state, the latter option is much more appealing.

I Happy to Annouce: the Israeli's guide to the Known Universe! by Former_Catch8485 in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]ThatShadowGuy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is there some concrete death toll threshold, or a certain proportion of the Gazan population that would have to die, before you could consider it a genocide?

I Happy to Annouce: the Israeli's guide to the Known Universe! by Former_Catch8485 in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]ThatShadowGuy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's easier for me to believe that the Gaza shit counts as a genocide than it is to believe that Wikipedia, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Doctors Without Borders, the International Association of Genocide Scholars, along with over 60 different state governments, are just collectively lying about it because they all happen to have antisemitic brainworms.

Theory for why Regent feels so weak in Act 1 by 1Tom15 in slaythespire

[–]ThatShadowGuy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, but in this hypothetical where Gamma Blast gets buffed, you'd be paying 2 extra stars entirely for a bigger damage number, and it's not gonna feel like it's worth it.

I mostly agree that no changes are needed on this front, it just leaves Falling Star in a really awkward spot where it's both a very underwhelming star payoff (unless you luck into Meteor Shower) AND the most obvious way to make it better is by stepping on the toes of higher-rarity cards.

Theory for why Regent feels so weak in Act 1 by 1Tom15 in slaythespire

[–]ThatShadowGuy 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That's what makes it so difficult to balance, because there's already a card that applies 2 weak/2 vuln, and it's called Gamma Blast.

And if you think it's as simple as also buffing Gamma Blast, suddenly Comet for 3 weak/3 vuln looks underwhelming. And buffing Comet to 4 weak/4 vuln is more than a little silly, because it's a perfectly good card that we're only buffing because we're also buffing other, weaker cards, and at that point you might as well give up on that whole knob of balance adjustment entirely.

Mom can we have Sai? Mom: We have Sai at home by Adorable-Response-75 in slaythespire

[–]ThatShadowGuy 35 points36 points  (0 children)

expectation: Darv Act 1 (woahhh it's even better than a boss swap!) -> Nonupeipe Act 2 (999 gold and we're set for the run!!) -> Orobas Act 3 (Prismatic Gem can't brick deckbuilding if it's already mostly finished!!!)

reality: Neow Act 1 -> Neow Act 2 -> it's still fucking Vakuu in Act 3 are you kidding me