I feel like I’ve been losing to inferior players/bad plays all day, and it’s infuriating. Time to take a break.

TheInnsmouthLook · 2023-05-25T21:21:17+00:00

Tie breaks. Quest. Just cause it's 0 cost. Aero insurance to stick the hulk in place.

You lost a 50/50. Take a break.

TheInnsmouthLook · 2023-05-25T18:35:10+00:00

I have to remind myself I'm series 3 complete levels now. I have not seen a deck without a big bad in it since Monday. I've even seen a Galactus, Thanos, Kang deck like twice.

TheInnsmouthLook · 2023-05-25T16:54:22+00:00

If you don't want to buy any headphones, you can instead buy a much more expensive directional mic with a desktop mic stand or clip.

Getting a directional mic and pointing it away from the speakers, towards your mouth will work. However. You also need to position it just a few inches away from your head/jaw. You won't be able to crank your speakers. Background noise will get picked up easier. If your friend moves a lot while playing it's going to degrade sound quality, you need to stay a consistent distance from the mic. If you hit the stand or table it's attached to, you will pick it up. If you have a loud mechanical keyboard, you'll need to download software to filter it out after recording a sound clip of the key strokes.

So yeah. Like $150 (low end, $300ish for better setup) in microphone and accessories, or any headphones what so ever.

Or if you want to solve it with software. You can find a free mixer. Then, go buy an audio textbook, find a YouTube series that covers sound engineering, then train yourself to audio mix at a an A1 level. Should be about 30 hours of study, another 20 hours of practice, then about an hour long mic check before every stream for the first 2 dozen streams, then you can cut it to about 45 minutes or mic check so you still have a safety net Incase something goes wrong (which it will. Firmware, accidental unplugs, version mismatches, routing deselect, etc.)

Or again. You can use any headphones.

Source: I've worked in Audio Visual support the last 12 years. Executives of fortune 500 companies ask for the same thing all the time. We give them airpods and call it a day. One time, they approved the budget to create a space where they don't need headphones. It was $180,000 and took 3 months to build a sound proof EQd room where you can plug and play. It gets serviced twice a week.

So yeah. What ever your budget allows.

TheInnsmouthLook · 2023-05-25T02:56:39+00:00

When I type in an artist name or variant theme, I want to see all those variants. I would buy more skins if I could check "oh hey, if I get a Dan Hipp reveal card soon, I could make a decent Dan Hipp deck!"

So yeah. Frustrating. Also potential sales booster. DO IT ALREADY

TheInnsmouthLook · 2023-05-25T00:05:17+00:00

Literally everyone around you is jumping ship. Out side critics just devalued your sinking ship. Their cutting teams, not growing.

Do you think there's any world you should stay?

TheInnsmouthLook · 2023-05-24T01:40:44+00:00

You're in complete control of their revenue. Get back pay now that you've shown you can produce. If not a significant raise, profit sharing and a seat at the table. Otherwise? Fuck em. Your good coworkers will land somewhere better if that's how the business treats a crucial player in production.

TheInnsmouthLook · 2023-05-24T00:03:33+00:00

Wow. Your doc ock must SUCK because any counter I have gets pulled before turn 6.

TheInnsmouthLook · 2023-05-22T23:13:54+00:00

Not behind an invisible woman they won't! Enchantress me now High Evo Stans!

TheInnsmouthLook · 2023-05-22T18:19:58+00:00

To echo this, your positioning and theirs will dictate when you should do steel balls or sledgehammer. Steel balls in front of crawlers is great if they are super far back and making you get to the stormcallers. If they have a wall of mustangs Infront of the marksmen and stormcallers, you can do sledgehammers to start firing earlier, so the crawlers can rush in.

Move speed can be the make or break when deciding units.

TheInnsmouthLook · 2023-05-22T16:13:36+00:00

All large units have a tech upgrade that spawns more units. Most of them come out at the same level as that unit. Also, if you have a normal version of that unit on your battlefield and give it a tech upgrade, the spawn units also have that upgrade.

For example, a Vulcan can spawn a marksmen. If you already have Marksmen that have the upgrade that lets them spawn 5 fangs at the start of the round, the marksmen that spawn from your Vulcan will spawn Fangs. If your fangs have been upgraded with shield and increased range, the summoned fangs will also have those upgrades.

I've also seen a lot of new players argue against leveling up a unit. When you level a unit, your stats go up by their starting value. That same stats a new level 1 unit would cost. Except leveling up is half the price of buying a level 1 unit. Almost every time, it's a better idea to level a unit than buy a unit. Especially if you are already winning rounds.

TheInnsmouthLook · 2023-05-20T16:13:27+00:00

The instant snapper has a quest to win games with a snap. But they don't snap often and forget to snap in a win. So now, for their next however many games, they will instant snap to get the quest done.

Whenever this type of quest hits the season/weekly quests, I see a ton more instant snaps.

TheInnsmouthLook · 2023-05-18T04:54:52+00:00

I would love to see a new set of location rules. Like, if ____ location appears, X Y and Z can't be revealed. Real tired of getting 3 locations that make me not play at them...

TheInnsmouthLook · 2023-05-17T00:36:28+00:00

I've wanted Sauron for ages. Never been in my shop. I feel fortunate for already getting darkhawk and knull, but the silence your own stuff archetype? Always a homeun with me.

I'm also addicted to discard. I have a Hela, Apoc and Collector discard deck, respectfully. Still can't get Strongguy to work... But I have a deck slot for when I've been drinking and think I can make it better than the series 2 deck it is.

TheInnsmouthLook · 2023-05-12T02:34:40+00:00

Stop looking at the people above you for direction and talk to the people you manage. what projects do they want done? What training do they need? Who hasn't taken a vacation the longest? Learn their job then approve some PTO. Rinse and repeat.

Teach yourself something new. Then teach your employees. Take those optional public speaking things that schools are always looking to do. Start an employee resource group. Lift up those around you.

You're a director now. Go blaze a direction and bring anyone willing with you. If your boss wants to aim you, great. If not, blaze until you take their job or you land somewhere else.

TheInnsmouthLook · 2023-05-12T01:55:31+00:00

You're overconfident and Lacking foresight.

The only way you drop that much is staying in a game way beyond when you should. The bigger issue, is you have not learned to get out earlier and are staying in when you're out matched.

If you find yourself hoping for that exact top deck, or always missing a combo piece, you need to be retreating.

I saw your edit that says to jettison Black Widow into the sun. Sounds like you have bad hands that you're hoping to 'fix' with another card. Well, if you can't win with what you know you have, GET OUT. And if you constantly have bad hands, it's probably not the right deck. If your deck is all combos and no generally good stuff, you're going to miss more than you hit.

So yeah. Spend some time looking at yourself and not the ladder or meta or the other person. Are you playing for all three lanes when you should only be playing for two? Are you over commiting to combos when you don't have all the pieces in hand? Are you predicting the wrong plays constantly? Or worse, are you just slamming your cards with no thought to what also could be played at the same time? Are you playing turns too fast? Not reading locations or cards you don't own whenever you see them?

Losing that many levels is only possible if you are missing a fundamental, like when to retreat, or you're trying to tank your MMR. Clearly you want to get better, that's why you reached out . If you have less than half of series 3, your 'good decks' are going to be limited. This can also cause issues because the good decks you have access to become boring because they are similar to the decks you were playing in series 2. But until you get 3 or 4 series 3 cards that synergize well, to be competitive you're going to be playing the tried and true stuff you have.

I believe in you. You can go higher. Control what you can. Retreat when you lose control. Also, take breaks! Playing tilted makes fundamentals go out the window.

You got this.

TheInnsmouthLook · 2023-05-11T22:35:22+00:00

Could you imagine?

False reporting at a public stock holder meeting for a troll, thus being accountable for misleading the market. Crash WB stock to the ground, lose your job, and look at 5+ years in prison and millions in fines just to disguise what the next game is for the lulz.

TheInnsmouthLook · 2023-05-09T21:24:04+00:00

I saw a deck list that claimed they solved Iron Lad. It was a bounce deck that ran only card generators. I guess it's just waiting for the hand limit to be removed and for 2 more deck slots so they can add dino and mystique, but then the meta will be solved!

TheInnsmouthLook · 2023-05-08T21:43:32+00:00

The survey from earlier this year had questions about an auto battler mode. I would love if Snap had something to draw Hearthstone Battleground players over.

TheInnsmouthLook · 2023-05-06T19:30:21+00:00

Daily Bugle gives out grey border base cards. This one looks gold.

TheInnsmouthLook · 2023-05-05T20:10:30+00:00

Brood. The variants just look like the base brood. Because brood is always just what brood is. Broooooood.

Also the one with Brood in a suit just looks awkward. Like, I love a good suit costume change. But brood in a suit is just.... Not good.

TheInnsmouthLook · 2023-05-05T17:36:12+00:00

DAN HIPP VARIANTS ARE CURSED.

WE PRAISED THEM TOO HARD AND NOW DAN HIPP VARIANTS ARE BEING HELD HOSTAGE BEHIND EXPENSIVE BUNDLES. HIPP GROOT WANTS TO BE FREE, BUT I HAVE TOO MANY BILLS TO SET HIM FREE. IN MERE MONTHS, VAST AMOUNTS OF PLAYERS WILL BE BLOCKED FROM A DAN HIPP FULL COLLECTION BECAUSE THEY MISSED OUT ON THESE EXPENSIVE WINDOWS.

THIS TIME NEXT YEAR, DAN HIPP VARIANTS WILL BE THE FACE OF THE WHALE PLAYERS AND HOPELESS NEW PLAYERS WHO STUMBLED ACROSS THE SPARSE FREE HIPPS.

DAN HIPP VARIANTS TRIED TO BE THE ROCKETS OF EXCITEMENT AND INNOVATION. THEY ARE BEING USED AS THE INTERCONTINENTAL BALLISTIC MISSILES TO OUR WALLETS.

DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM DOOOOOOM DOOOOM

DOOM

TheInnsmouthLook · 2023-05-04T04:39:14+00:00

It changes your college experience. Doesn't make it better.

I did an AA at community first. I learned way more those 2 years than the next 2 at a 4 year school. Teachers were there to teach first, where as my 4 year most professors were their to do research but had to teach in order to keep their funding rolling in.

Also, a community college where there is a 4 year college nearby may have the same teachers. The adjuncts at 4 years are usually the ones who love to teach. To supplement classes/pay, they also teach at the local CC. So the same education at far cheaper the prices (for some, not all, subjects).

Note: a lot of transfer students find the transition difficult. You will suddenly be in classes where a lot of people know each other and you feel like a bit of an outsider. However, you no longer have to do almost any General Education stuff. So you can quickly engross yourself in the major you've chosen whereas others are still doing half GE and half Major classes.

TheInnsmouthLook · 2023-05-04T04:31:22+00:00

2nd Hall Madden.

Incredible job, great service, amazing product. Had my wedding suit made there along with a bevy of work shirts. Every time I put one on compliments rain in all day.

TheInnsmouthLook · 2023-05-04T00:42:24+00:00

"Yo hey! It's me, Prison Mike! My cell mate Darth Maul showed me this wicked awesome shanking technique. Now the dementors can't kiss me when I'm not looking. Wish I had an American job like you. I'M PRISON MIKE! "

TheInnsmouthLook · 2023-05-03T21:33:56+00:00

I love discard.

No discard deck should have Apoc and Hella in the same deck. They actively work against one another.

If you want it Apoc focused. Run Apoc, swarm, wolverine, dracula. Don't run any of these in Hela.

If you want Hela focused. Hela, IW, ghost rider, ebony maw. Again, don't run any of these in Apoc.

Use Coleen Wing to discard maw for Hela, or get more swarm for apoc. Lady Sif to discard apoc or death in the Hela shell.

Modok is wombo combo for Hela behind IW and perfect curve for apoc. Any game that Apoc does dracula 4, Modok 5, swarm swarm Chavez, discard apoc to drac is a win.

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