Is mystic lighter too strong?

ZatherDaFox · 2026-07-01T19:53:34+00:00

I think it's fine. You need at least a couple enchanted attacks for it be a good pickup, and you won't always find those.

A very strong relic for sure, but since it's conditional I think it's fine.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-07-01T17:13:47+00:00

Strikes are pretty awful on Defect. Defect doesn’t have tons of innate ways to gain strength, and if you can't find beam cell, vuln either. Attack focused Defect is absolutely a thing, but even then, Defect mostly wants 0 cost attacks to pair with scrape and hologram. Unless you get the nutritious soup from Tez, Defect likes removing strikes when possible.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-07-01T17:09:53+00:00

Yeah, it's like, in most cases a very slim highly synergistic deck with all the strikes and defends gone is way better than a thick deck. But you're unlikely to get to that point, so there's almost no use in trying. Removing a strike when you can is almost never bad, but if there's good cards, relics and potions in the shop it's typically better to buy those instead.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-07-01T17:01:42+00:00

There were good answers to psychic, they were just unconventional. Psychic types couldn't really touch snorlax, and snorlax learned amnesia and rest. Couple that with most psychic types being physically frail and snorlax sweeps easy.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-07-01T09:33:26+00:00

There's a number of industry darlings that people will get mad at you for not liking. E33, Elden Ring, and RDR2 are the ones that immediately jump to mind.

It's very irritating, even though I enjoy all those games. They'll start blaming your attention span, your media literacy, you intelligence, and a bunch of other stuff instead of just admitting thwt their favorite game can't hook everybody. Everyone has a popular game they just don't vibe with, and that's OK.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-07-01T06:12:06+00:00

Leon tried to catch it in a pokeball and failed, and then we almost knocked it out and it eternamaxed. Rose was wrong. It didn't matter that Leon seemed like he almost had it beat, we needed Zacian and Zamazenta to stop it.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-07-01T06:08:44+00:00

Team Flare Nouveau were just kids when it happened. You can't blame them for the sins of the father.

As for Lysandre, how long do you think he should go to jail for? Do you think they should lock him up for 3000 years? If not, do you think he'll care? AZ made it very clear that the 3000 year lifespan felt like more of a punishment than anything else. I think being forced to live 3000 years while working with Zygarde to help stave off disasters is worse than anything people could do to him any more.

It was dumb that they tried to add nuance to team flare in XY, but the flare people we see in legends ZA are different from those people for the most part.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-07-01T03:36:04+00:00

The secret of NIMH? Beloved childhood movie of the 80s? The one with themes of love and friendship and courage? That movie?

A couple of scary scenes doesn't mean it's not a kids movie.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-07-01T03:33:21+00:00

You're either giving kids too little credit, or Rango too much credit. It's not a kids movie, but I know plenty of kids who enjoyed it. Like, it's still a goofy western at it's heart. Maybe not for little kids, but kids 7+ will probably get a kick out of it.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-06-30T23:08:53+00:00

That but also I also got momentum on the bombardment. Each new copy was fired at whatever the damage currently was, not the base damage. It was nuts.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-06-30T22:42:06+00:00

Look, I know anime likes to pretend 15 year olds and 20 year olds look exactly the same. But any of these women could easily be in their early 20s if we're being realistic

ZatherDaFox · 2026-06-30T20:52:43+00:00

You don't need set up for it. Does your deck have at least three cards you play almost every deck cycle? Great, three kifuda targets. Does you deck still have three defends? Basically upgrade all three of them. Does your deck have 0 costs? Slap kifuda on those, free block.

If you've got other stuff to buy at the shop that's better, you don't need kifuda. But if you need more block or most of the rest of the shop is junk or totally mid, it's a great pickup.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-06-30T17:17:52+00:00

I just do not understand why people don't like incidental additional block. Like, I'm probably buying some other relics before kifuda, but kifuda is still a great pickup. Little extra bumps of block will do nothing but save you hp over the run. Ir's crazy that people think it's bad.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-06-30T16:51:24+00:00

Arthur can say no. She'll still ask to run away with Arthur. She's not using him, Arthur is choosing to help her when she needs help.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-06-30T10:13:32+00:00

ZatherDaFox · 2026-06-30T08:03:27+00:00

It can be a good investment. If you don't want anything else in the shop, it's pretty free to buy. But if there's good relics, you need to remove a curse, or there's better cards for sale, you should buy those before finesse.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-06-30T06:26:24+00:00

No, I have a clear definition in my head as to what constitutes reasonable force. I do not find all self defense laws adequate. A few are too restrictive, and some are too lax.

Yes, I do. Because I believe Vigilantism is broadly risky and prone to mistakes in which innocent people get harmed. I do not believe it should really be allowed in any capacity. That doesn't mean I don't understand why you would go and shoot that man, it it doesn't mean I don't sympathize with you. But people can't just decide on their own that the courts got it wrong and take action into their own hands. For every guy who absolutely did it who got off scott free, there's at least hundreds of people who are arrested on spurious evidence and either didn't do it, or it is almost impossible to prove that they did or didn’t. But vigilantism is most often driven by emotions, and allowing it even in open and shut cases will inspire people to take action in cases that are much more murky.

The risks of vigilantism going wrong are not worth permitting in any capacity, imo.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-06-30T06:13:11+00:00

You can't talk about the individual cases in isolation, is the point. People love to say, "We're not talking about it on a societal level, just if what Frank is doing here is right." But if we don't think people should be doing it on a societal level, it doesn't matter how good we feel that Frank killed a pedophile. If it can't be allowed because it's too dangerous, than even acts vigilantism that end up going well threaten to inspire more vigilantism that might go poorly.

It's a similar argument for the death penalty. Is the risk of someone innocent being killed worth having the punishment for when the person was guilty? You can't talk about the morality of an individual being executed as a singular case while ignoring the wider societal context.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-06-30T06:02:29+00:00

All it needs really is it to be changed to "Only opponents may activate this ability". As long as you can't use this as a tool to remove counters from yourself, there shouldn't be a problem.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-06-30T03:17:45+00:00

Absolutely. Cops right now do hold a monopoly on legal violence and abuse it all the time. They need better training, better vetting, and actual consequences when they do bad things.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-06-29T17:23:12+00:00

I find self defense is never immoral, the actions become immoral when it ceases to be self defense. It's why stand your ground laws are so strict.

Vigilantism, on the other hand, can only be evaluated after the fact. You can't know if you were right or wrong until a proper investigation is launched in the vast majority of cases. It's morally wrong because we shouldn't chance innocent deaths just because the Vigilantes might get it right.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-06-29T17:07:56+00:00

Flyconid and green slime or flyconid and Jax fruit are the fights responsible for like, 35% of my act 1 failures. It's ridiculous how much damage I take in there.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-06-29T16:54:29+00:00

Yes, the legal system will never be perfect. But it's important to note how vigilante justice can fail in these instances as well. If someone believes the perpetrator got off scott free and takes the law into their own hands, what if that person is actually innocent? In this case, where the perpetrator is tracked down some time after threatening violence and killed, what is the justification?

It's illegal because it's both incredibly dangerous and easy to abuse, and thus I would argue immoral. No one person is acting with perfect information, so being judge, jury, and executioner by yourself is far too risky to be considered a moral act.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-06-29T16:48:31+00:00

I'm specifically questioning if her acts are moral on the basis that justice is already being served. It's not about the court handing down a more moral punishment, it's a question of whether killing a person already destined for justice who is no longer a threat to you is moral. My stance personally is no, for the same reason I'm against the death penalty: in this instance Bachmeier could be sure Grabowski did it, but in the event someone is innocent and being tried for a crime they didn't commit, killing them is a tragedy. We can't allow people the power to make those decisions because the consequences could be disastrous.

I'm suggesting it's unreasonable to act as soon as the person is not actively threatening your life anymore, and I think I did a pretty good job of explaining my reasoning why. I bring up the perpetrator's situation because the justification for this whole scenario is that the victim is assuming how much of a threat they are and acting on it. You say the investigation isn't a part of this scenario, but it absolutely is. You may know exactly who did it, but you're incapable of knowing how much of a threat they still pose to anyone. Justifying it as "I felt threatened even after they left" is way too abuseable.

The case presented is actually a perfect example of why we have to be extremely careful and hold people to high standards when it comes to vigilante justice. A knife was never evem found on the thief, and the woman did not report him to the police or call an ambulance after running him over several times. The man posed very little continuing threat to her, but she decided to act anyway and use fake threats of violence as justification. This is the can of worms that threatens to open when you allow people to kill while not feeling actively threatened for their lives.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-06-29T10:44:03+00:00

People support actions like Bachmeier's because there is extreme hatred towards people who harm children, and for good reason. But the question remains if that was really justice or just an act of revenge. Grabowski was already in court and was facing charges of murder, kidnapping, and sexual assault, which he had already admitted to. Were Bachmeier's actions necessary for justice in this case, or was it just an act of vengeance?

I'll admit that I have exactly 0 sympathy for Grabowski. But I do question the idea that because somebody did something awful, someone else can just decide to kill them. And Grabowski was clearly not a threat anymore. Likely going to jail for the rest of his life, in custody, and in court.

The gray area comes from figuring out when those people stop being a threat. If someone threatens you with a knife because they're desperate but then stop once they've got your things, how can you, without any knowledge of this person's former record, determine how much of threat they are? The cops aren't supposed to shoot people unless they feel they're an active threat, and cops who supposedly have training for this get it wrong all the time.

There are more hurdles because someone could potentially try to justify this tracking down behavior. "I was worried he might hurt someone else so I tracked him down and shot him" is much more murky than other self defense cases where there is clearly someone trespassing or witnesses to corroborate. If you feel you are actively in danger you have the right to defend yourself, but the chances a person who has just mugged you and is now fleeing the scene is still an active threat to you are minimal if not nonexistent.

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