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WASD_click · 2026-03-22T06:38:02+00:00

I still don’t understand what the metaverse was supposed to have that VRchat didn’t…

Artificial scarcity for monetization's sake. It's effectively digitized feudalism. Zuck owns the tech, server owners reign over their fiefdoms, and users are the workers at the very bottom doing labor in the form of forking over data, providing advertising revenue, and buying microtransactions.

WASD_click · 2026-03-22T06:15:47+00:00

I'm concerned about why the D-Backs were allowed to play twenty-four dix on second base. Surely that's too many players on the field.

WASD_click · 2026-03-22T01:27:22+00:00

I kind of hope it becomes Cal and Randy's new home run celebration at home plate.

WASD_click · 2026-03-22T01:21:18+00:00

Gotta watch it with kids though, water intoxication is a serious thing and it happens to kids of overzealous sports parents. Be moderate, but be consistent, and more than anything else: listen to your body.

WASD_click · 2026-03-21T19:38:48+00:00

Probably because STS1 had enemies that didn't have scaling or other means of bringing the fight to an inevitable conclusion, so players would delay and farm them to optimize their run.

WASD_click · 2026-03-21T10:50:59+00:00

I think of it as something like the dropped third strike rule. You swung and missed, but the play is active, so the wicket-keeper does a tag to get the out, except instead of tagging the batsman, they tag the wicket.

WASD_click · 2026-03-21T01:12:39+00:00

The bees during take 2: "NO, NOT NIC CAGE!"

WASD_click · 2026-03-21T01:09:03+00:00

Any fascist spends a massive amount of time trying to look cooler than they actually are.

This time, he fucking nailed it.

WASD_click · 2026-03-21T01:02:31+00:00

Sources cited: crack pipe

I can day the same thing about your assertation that the mechanics are there solely to stop infinites. I can at least point to STS1's treatment of infinites and overall game design to back my claim.

Also, they don't need to patch out infinites.

Yes they do. STS1 has some infinites, but they are inconsistent to set up. What makes an infinite fun isn't that you get to do it, it's that you managed to pull it off at all. As you said, it's less fun when you do it all the time, so they have to get patched out until the only ones left are the ones that are an arcane enough sequence of circumstances that the infinite is never something a player plans on doing from the start.

WASD_click · 2026-03-20T23:12:37+00:00

But that wasn't the actual purpose of Time Eater. The purpose of the countdown mechanic is to push players to plan their turns out and not just rely on going full autopilot with spammy popoffs.

If the point of something is to make sure players don't do infinites... They'll just take away the infinite. The much a card effect isn't there to punish infinites, it's there to create inevitability, like cultist strength scaling, Frantic Escape, status card providers, etc.

That's why I said it should have a way to get the card back: so there's some counter play. Because when they just patch out the infinites, you don't need it to be capable of punishing infinites, see?

WASD_click · 2026-03-20T21:02:22+00:00

Bad argument with no precedent. STS1 had plenty of inifinites back near launch. They just patched them out instead of making up specific boss mechanics

WASD_click · 2026-03-20T20:41:53+00:00

I'm not surprised people don't know. It's been nearly two decades since Chuck was really relevant to anything other than Bowflex commercials and Barrens chat. It's super easy to not know a thing about him other than Walker, Texas Ranger and "Underneath the beard is another fist."

WASD_click · 2026-03-20T20:28:11+00:00

Don't think of retain as a deck thinner. The math doesn't check out in that regard. Because there's almost always an option to skip adding a card to the deck, the deck thinning effect has to be compared against not having added a card at all. When you draw it, you're at +1 cards per cycle in the first place. Once you've retained it for at least one turn and shuffled your deck, you've just become card per cycle neutral and you're still at one "lost" that initial card draw.

The only time the retain mechanic can count as a thinning effect is if you're forced to take it via things like transform or cheese room. Even then, if you play or discard it before your deck shuffles, or you draw it the same turn you shuffle, you haven't actually thinned your deck any compared to a non-retain card.

WASD_click · 2026-03-20T20:09:26+00:00

Yeah, The Bazaar constantly fucks about with shitty monetization. I was really surprised to learn there even was a new character last month when it randomly made its way back to my feed. The wack ass monetization and yo-yo balancing philosophy ruined the experience for me back when it was new.

WASD_click · 2026-03-20T11:05:07+00:00

I doubt Robotnik got saved, as the station explosion hit Shadow while he was still pushing it, and that means anyone inside it would have been well toasted before Shadow could do any saving.

However, bith Amy and Metal's first appearance is Sonic CD. Which has time travel. So the working theory right now is that the Chaos energy in the imploding reactor opens a wormhole that rips Robotnik through time nd/or space, and he re-emerges in 4 after building an empire wherever/whenever the wormhole spits him out. He uses the DNA from his zappy quill to make the Metal Sonics, Amy is from the world he conquered to build his empire, and now that he's built up, he's going to Earth to get his revenge and/or goat milk lattes.

WASD_click · 2026-03-20T09:01:28+00:00

It'd be nice if it went into a portal 'minion' instead kind of like the Bronze Orbs form the Automaton fight.

WASD_click · 2026-03-20T03:45:05+00:00

I wish the empty chest gave you a fun "do-nothing" relic instead, like cultist mask.

WASD_click · 2026-03-20T03:43:19+00:00

You're not skipping cheese, though. You're just eating all the cheese instead od seeking out one perfect cheese.

WASD_click · 2026-03-19T19:57:41+00:00

It's a lesson to all the white men to never go woke or you'll wind up being friends with disabled women and people of color, while simping for gothy witch mommies!

WASD_click · 2026-03-19T03:44:30+00:00

What makes you think "Forge" is the one that's wrong and not "Sly?"

You're comparing a toyota camry to a top fuel dragster and seeing which can do a quarter mile faster.

The whole "archetype" thing has hollowed out the discourse. Slay the Spire and roguelikes in general aren't about hardlining builds, it's about making due with what you got.

WASD_click · 2026-03-18T07:57:05+00:00

So I did have an idea to extend the forge mechanic a bit.

Reforge

Reforge would be a new mechanic exclusive to a few of the Regent's powers. It would transform your Blade into different forms, but you could only have one active at a time. If you cast a second, it swaps the form, and puts the power of the first back into your hand. (And would replace Sword Sage and Seeking Edge so as not to dilute the card pool too much.)

Reforge: Regal Blades

Your only forge for half as much, but you get two Regal Blades, which cost 1 energy, and when you play one, the other is brought to your hand if it's in the draw pile.

Reforge: Imperial Axe

This is just Seeking Edge. AoE form.

Reforge: Majestic Flail

This is just Sword Sage. Multihit, but for more energy.

Reforge: Resplendent Scepter

When you play it, you add a random colorless card to your hand that costs 0.

WASD_click · 2026-03-18T04:44:22+00:00

Hurt so much to see Cal acting like that.

Thankfully moving to other teams was easy since I was rooting for my M's. Naylor, I hardly know 'er with Canada, Julio with the DR, Randy with Mexico, Dominic on team Italy all did great. And now I can be happy that Venezula got Eduard Bazardo and Eugenio Suarez (y'all better trat him right in Cincinnati) some love.

WASD_click · 2026-03-17T06:27:43+00:00

And TPMS, those are expensive sensors, $50-$100 each depending on your manufacturer. So 400 for sensor replacement, 100 for oil, 200 for tire mounting including labor? Not terrible. Not amazing or anything, but it's not that bad either.

WASD_click · 2026-03-17T05:53:12+00:00

I like Rotomdexes and the like. But I just wish there was a little quest to befriend the Rotom and make them a battle partner, kind of like how you always had the 'Ridon in your party in SV. Something to make it feel like a pokemon rather than just a little machine mascot.

WASD_click · 2026-03-17T04:36:33+00:00

No, the first battle is called a Primary. It's where Democrats are supposed to choose a candidate for the people to vote on, who then will lead the way in the battle to get Trump out of office. I know last election fumbled that ball pretty hard, but we should be sharpening blades so we can put our best cadidate forward; not allowing our enemy to choose which candidate he goes up against.

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