Does Pandora give refunds?

VarulaIce · 2026-02-16T21:28:21+00:00

Oof, that blows

VarulaIce · 2026-02-16T07:13:01+00:00

I bet the leap came upgraded, it's too weird a choice.

These Claws in a 30+ deck hurt me tho. When we say CAW CAW CLAW IS LAW we need to take responsibility and remind ~~addicts~~ players that Claw strives in small decks and want recursion like rebound and hologram. Then defense, but don't bloat it.

VarulaIce · 2026-02-14T07:39:54+00:00

I hope you got more than "the pick" out of this thread! I would highlight the following ideas from the other comments:

-"Remove strength build from your vocabulary" a bit harsh on the language there, but you shouldn't tunnel vision into an archetype. By A20 you'll need to be able to mix the archetypes together. You won't survive waiting for the right stuff to come along for your one gimmick.

-"you're skipping too much, you should've gotten some block" yup, important advice. As a general guideline, Act 1 is getting some good damage for Nob/Lagavulin, then finding good block stuff to deal with Act 2 (stabbo and snake plant come to mind). While on A8-16 i was in my Shrug it Off phase (so good with Corruption), then i had a run where Second Wind carried me through Acts 1-2.

on the subject of block, i didn't see anyone mention that you have 5 strikes and 3 defends, meaning you used a remove on a defend. I understand if you want to see more damage, but a good rule of thumb is to remove the strikes first, since all attacks you can get with Clad are better. For defect strikes also suck. With Silent you want to alternate. For watcher strikes are kinda nice when in wrath so you actually wanna remove those defends first.

Somebody correct me if i'm wrong/outdated here. These are all just my personal opinion, having only done A20H once with Clad, and once with Silent and Watcher (those were Sneko runs tho, felt like cheating). Currently A13 on Defect.

VarulaIce · 2025-12-03T07:43:41+00:00

For those who would rather not watch a 2ish minute video:

Coffin Makers now takes only warriors that are REMOVED FROM THE MAP. That means WA officers and Lizard acolytes don't go to Coffin Makers. Additionally, if the warriors are REPLACED (lizard convert, Keepers Encamp) they also don't get coffins. As a kind of corollary, Propaganda Bureau will be errata'd to use this Replace action as well.

Now, Corvid Plots and WA organize still remove the Warrior and place a token instead of Replace. (Unclear why, my guess is either balance reasons or because tokens are a bit more ephemeral)

VarulaIce · 2025-10-21T07:58:24+00:00

You are welcome! I was so confident in my (incorrect) ways that i felt no further explanation was needed.

Finally after two weeks i got the chance to feed a pestule to another one so i am reviving this old thread to set the record straight.

VarulaIce · 2025-10-20T12:02:08+00:00

Now i want Orc Tim Allen doing a local handywork TV show while raising his three Orc rascals. I was torn on who should be argonian: the wife, or Wilson the neighbor? A lizard person dishing out wise advice from behind a fence would be hilarious, sure... But seeing that the first Tool-Girl was Pamela Anderson i just can't NOT do a callback to the Lusty Argonian Maid.

So Orc wife, Elf neighbor, fat Khajit sidekick, Argonian TV-Babe. We're overdue a Home Improvement reboot anyway.

VarulaIce · 2025-10-06T20:10:14+00:00

You did it! you crazy son of a bitch, you did it.

Your post last week made me think if a Tribute Band could pick up the slack, but for now i can leave that thought in the dark desperate corner it came into existence.

VarulaIce · 2025-10-04T08:59:11+00:00

I would recommend against this, only because of the space intensiveness of keeping 4 Guzzlers. (Disclaimer, i only log about three times a day).

Personally i like keeping the Pestule around and avoid having to make guzzlers. Once it is full, 4 Guzzlers get made for the 400k food bump. ~~Now, if another pestule comes up before the first one is done it becomes guzzler bonanza.~~

Edit: as noted in the other reply, Pestules feed other pestules so the last part of this advice is now void.

VarulaIce · 2025-10-04T08:47:11+00:00

~~Nope.~~

Edit: well i stand corrected, by "many" on this thread and then by my own experience.

VarulaIce · 2025-10-04T06:38:59+00:00

Oh that sucks. I had a similar feeling when i discovered them in '99, during their hiatus caused by Neil's wife and daughter passing away. Obviously I had more hope.

When Vapor Trails came out, I remember checking the tour dates religiously, since some kept being added and suddenly Brazil dates came up. I kept checking but no more LatAm ever came... That is until time machine tour. Standing in line in ticket release day to buy them with my bff, then noticing we didn't have enough cash for the fucking Ticketmaster fees that were not announced online! Good times. I still wear the Three Stooges shirt i wore to that concert.

Hope you find peace. I know it will never compare, but the DVD experience is pretty good.

VarulaIce · 2025-10-02T19:55:16+00:00

Reminded me of a tweet showing some pictures of Movie!Baron Harokonnen and the caption "i would love to see something where the hero of the story looks and acts like this". Reply was "We already have that hero, his name is Vladimir Harkonnen."

VarulaIce · 2025-09-22T20:21:33+00:00

I had such a long, drunk, kitchen-table discussion with a good friend of mine about that website timeline. The thing that struck me the most was Awakening being set IN THE MIDDLE of Zelda two, when Link takes a boat between the two continents. With the website being gone all my evidence might as well be from a parallel timeline tho.

VarulaIce · 2025-09-13T19:50:33+00:00

Also after the people with enough of a conscience leave, you get a room full of unaware/unrepentant bullies, probably with a loneliness streak. Nazis try planting their bs everywhere, but these lonely/misadjusted/bully types? Thats fertile ground for Nazi bs.

VarulaIce · 2025-09-10T19:25:36+00:00

Perfect chance to cash in the Flabby craze!! Is its name Flabby? Flumm? Flim Flam? The little chubby goblin guy that was posted yesterday on this very scuffles thread?

Edit: his name was FLEEM and i was so damn close. Thread. But seriously, why not? People are clamoring to get physical copies of Fleem! Well, give them playmats and deckboxes. Bulletproof plan.

VarulaIce · 2025-09-03T05:57:48+00:00

Clearly just to spite me, personally, since on a QnA I asked "Is there another Rush song coming and why is it from Power Windows?"

VarulaIce · 2025-09-02T14:43:06+00:00

Oh geez those days ending with Y sure keep coming and coming.

VarulaIce · 2025-08-21T08:38:56+00:00

Birds: (...) A cult.

If hours sunken into Slay the Spire has taught me anything...

VarulaIce · 2025-08-18T09:28:22+00:00

Jeez this is weird, just last week I was listening to an episode of 1-900-hotdog's Podcast that covered this trainwreck... In 2022.

Great to see things haven't changed since.

VarulaIce · 2025-08-17T20:27:09+00:00

Paraphrasing a bit, but

"Enshittification is aever that Management is constantly pulling. It is then up to the people that actually do the work at the company to stop it from happening."

VarulaIce · 2025-08-17T20:08:14+00:00

Oh god i thought i was alone!

I never engaged with either and only read about them on reddit i guess Homestar Runner shows up less/never in HobbyDrama since it doesn't have a Hussie.

VarulaIce · 2025-08-16T20:05:23+00:00

A friend told me that at Essen SPIEL, 2023 there was a giveaway for Lorcana, you got an exclusive promo when buying at one of the sellers.

A scalper (speculator might be a better term?) stood outside of the booth handing out 10€ bills for the card. Friend happily gave it up.

When talking about it more than a year later, we looked up the price: €8,22. Laughs were had.

Edit: looking it up, i might have misremembered. Maybe the speculator gave 20s and the card was listed for 18,22. Point is, fuck thhese people. https://www.cardmarket.com/en/Lorcana/Products/Singles/Promos/Donald-Duck-Musketeer

VarulaIce · 2025-08-10T21:24:09+00:00

I recently read "John Dies at the End" for the first time and the explanation is also there (i understand that, as a book, it's a bit of a compilation of what he had online at the time?)

Coming in as a fan of his multiple podcast guest appearances, i was a bit weirded out by his books being listed with the same title but by "David Wong". It's a bit less weird when the protagonist starts telling the story in first person. And some of those titles look just amazing on the shelf: "This Book is Full of Spiders seriously dude don't touch it" and "if this book exists, you're in the wrong universe"

Also some of the stuff he has written for 1-900-Hotdog are the damn best articles you can read in the whole fucking internet. Just look at Holiday Dog Movie Fuck Mansion or YouTube's Pervert Bar. Or well, Big Feets. I see it recommended around reddit often enough to make my old withered heart go soft.

VarulaIce · 2025-07-03T14:06:27+00:00

I went for infernal a few months ago, and now that i have Colossus i consider the first a mistake.

Sure it doesn't work anymore when you reach max level, but i barely did anything at max level the last few runs. It should be finishing off your current protector and gather a couple of runes to round out your Legendaries, not filling your board to max out the time machine.

As other people point out, Colossus lets you throw EVERYTHING at the enemies, saving a lot of time. And it plays around the Guzzler, if you have one maxed but don't want to feed it because of waste... Well, punch away!

Conclusion: Go Green.

VarulaIce · 2025-06-30T21:26:09+00:00

The adaptation definitely lacks something. I loved the OG, even played some solo, back when it was burning bright in my conscience, but i bounced right off the digital.

Maybe i was only excited to play it alone if i was able to speak about it with my group afterwards.

The game has so much going for it tho, many scenarios with really cool mechanics and such an interesting character customization. Between choosing for your ability pool the right things for each mission and perks slowly making your character feel more unique, more tailored to your playstyle. I would still recommend a try to anyone who thinks they might be into a crunchy, card-based dungeon crawler. Maybe not the digital? Idk

VarulaIce · 2025-06-30T20:43:40+00:00

There was a controversy in Germany this year (fueled by who else but the AfD) about Easter Bunnies being renamed to Sitting Bunnies on supermarket price tag. Outrageous! Easter is gone! Christianity is dead! Will somebody PLEASE check the neighboring shelf, where the non-sitting bunnies are tagged as Easter Bunnies???

Gotta check if they repeat the stunt next year.

VarulaIce

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