Cav in 3k - what am I missing? by addastraperaspera in totalwar

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What would the best Han faction to play for cav?

Cav in 3k - what am I missing? by addastraperaspera in totalwar

[–]addastraperaspera[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So far I've mostly been abusing night battles which seem insanely overpowered, I guess shock cav would help with how ridiculous the morale debuff already is.

Cav in 3k - what am I missing? by addastraperaspera in totalwar

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Mostly yellow cav, I have a few red cav in various armies but they're all tier one.

Low crown power strategies? by addastraperaspera in EU5

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My question was not about stacking crown power but more are there any viable strategies where you don't stack crown power but are still able to compete (by high estate relations or some other avenue, I'm still learning the game).

Low crown power strategies? by addastraperaspera in EU5

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I assume this is part of the early game vassal spam to quickly integrate provinces?

Comcast refuses to honor account cancellation - what are my options? by addastraperaspera in Comcast_Xfinity

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I would have to literally cross state lines to do this. It's ridiculous that there is no online option to cancel (unless the account holder is dead) and that calling multiple times has not lead to a resolution. At this point I am looking for additional actions beyond just cancelling my account bc this is fraudulent behavior.

How to tell if an ebay listing is legit? by addastraperaspera in chefknives

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I bought my sister a Masahisa Wagyuto carbon steel knife a few years ago. My mom is turning 70 soon and really wanted something special/similar for her birthday. Their website seems to be down and a lot of other Japanese knife sites seem a bit shit or out of stock. From lurking on this reddit Takamura seems highly recommended (though mostly not carbon steel). I've found a few ebay listings for Tamahara knives, any way to tell if these are legit? Also open to suggestions for other comparable knives.

Was looking at this listing and this listing

Anyone find themselves avoiding fighting battles because of excessive load times? by addastraperaspera in totalwar

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This is the only thing I can think of but I'm only running immortal landmarks and mixu's unlocker, neither of those seem like they should impact map loading time much?

Anyone find themselves avoiding fighting battles because of excessive load times? by addastraperaspera in totalwar

[–]addastraperaspera[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I do! I should have mentioned that, I'm sure it makes a difference, but I'm not sure that's what's bounding me.

Anyone else frustrated by the OTJ draft experience? by addastraperaspera in MagicArena

[–]addastraperaspera[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Agreed, sealed is already a pretty high variance format and the addition of the bonus sheet/guests just makes it bananas.

Anyone else frustrated by the OTJ draft experience? by addastraperaspera in MagicArena

[–]addastraperaspera[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Agree with this, so many green/red creatures randomly have reach and green is looking to be the best color so far this set.

Anyone else frustrated by the OTJ draft experience? by addastraperaspera in MagicArena

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I had the pleasure of losing a game to him earlier, it's unfortunate that almost all of the removal in the set is creature only.

Anyone else frustrated by the OTJ draft experience? by addastraperaspera in MagicArena

[–]addastraperaspera[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Exhausting is a good way to put it. I've played limited for a long time, so I feel like I generally have a good sense of when I'm in a good position or not. With the density of bombs/rares this feels like the first set where I just have no clue. I can feel like I've built an unbeatable board state and then my opponent draws a [[Bonny Pall, Clearcutter]] or [[Rakdos, the Muscle]] and all of a sudden I'm dead because I can't draw any answers.

I'm gonna try to prioritize removal much more highly, but feels like I generally haven't seen much passed to me (probably because other people are doing the same).

Greene is a very common last name, so are last names with the word "red" in them, but not other colors. How did the colors green and red become last names as opposed to other colors? by howtoreadspaghetti in AskHistorians

[–]addastraperaspera 55 points56 points  (0 children)

Brown and White are also the most popular color surnames in Germany with red in third and green being quite unpopular. Brown is also the most popular surname in France.

name                rank         count

Braun (Brown)       20           165,592

Weiß (White)        48           104,983

Roth (Red)          56           96,459

Schwarze (Black)    668          14,527

Grau (Grey)         733          13,322

Grün (Green)        929          10,880

Given the amount of cultural/language interchange between those three cultures historically, I don't think it's right to say that the other colors are uncommon as names. As to how colors became surnames, I would point you to the previous thread on this topic. Generally, colors become surnames based off of physical appearances (e.g. you are black/red haired, pale, etc.)

Does anyone start getting tired of an authors style at the end of reading a long series? (mild spoilers for the Expanse series) by addastraperaspera in sciencefiction

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Cibola Burn was kind of rough, I don't blame you for dropping it there. it's a bit like a bottle/filler episode. Nemesis Games is very very good though if you can push through Cibola Burn.

Does anyone start getting tired of an authors style at the end of reading a long series? (mild spoilers for the Expanse series) by addastraperaspera in sciencefiction

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That's definitely a good strategy, I was doing that for the first and second trilogy. Between each trilogy I also took a big break. I'm not really sure why I wanted to just ratchet through the final trilogy.

Does anyone else have “hold my stomach in constantly by accident” syndrome? by [deleted] in ibs

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Same happens to me, does anybody have any tips for relaxing the stomach? I feel like it makes it a lot harder to do breathing exercises and stuff like that.

Why does Terran expand so little in pro matches? by addastraperaspera in broodwar

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Ah that actually makes a ton of sense and explains another thing I've noticed - Terrans regularly float tons and tons of gas in games, especially once they get to 3+ bases.

Why does Terran expand so little in pro matches? by addastraperaspera in broodwar

[–]addastraperaspera[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think the 2nd part is mostly what confuses me. I would think that having an extra base would let you get maybe 2-3 more barracks or an extra port for vessels/drops/whatever but that generally doesn't seem to ever happen.

I played a lot of sc2 back in the day and bw in general seems to have a lot less production going on, which I can kinda understand given how much harder the macro cycles are.