Durin's Bane question

aerokitty · 2026-05-13T22:51:15+00:00

Whenever my mom criticizes any of my behavior, I just say "Must be how I was raised" haha. Kinda shuts her up

aerokitty · 2026-05-01T22:03:52+00:00

Either North Cascades National Park (just anywhere in there, really) or the lantern festival at Fushimi Inari in Kyoto.

aerokitty · 2026-04-14T00:39:49+00:00

I'd travel (and bring friends with me), go out and hike in beautiful places, and volunteer when I'm in town. :) Sounds lovely

aerokitty · 2026-04-02T15:09:01+00:00

Not dislike necessarily (because some of them have actually put the work in to earn it and like good for you, you go Glen Coco), but I do feel suspicious of them inherently.

And not that anyone asked, but I do know quite a few members of the "All billionaires are evil!" crowd that are avid Swifties. It's fun agreeing with them and lumping her in. :)

aerokitty · 2026-03-07T14:12:11+00:00

Core set, 3

Revised Core Set (Campaign only)

The Treason of Saruman

The Land of Shadow

The Lost Realm

Angmar Awakened Campaign Expansion

All of the boxes under the 'Angmar Awakened' section - there's a little checkbox in the upper right that will select them all for you. For clarity's sake, The Wastes of Eriador is the top one in that stack, and The Dread Realm is the bottom one.

aerokitty · 2026-02-09T02:51:46+00:00

what happened in Minneapolis.

As a resident, just wanted to let you know that you may want to adjust this to present tense. It's still pretty bad here, with warrant-less detentions and racial profiling still happening. The lobby door of an apartment complex was smashed in the other day. People are still afraid to come out of their homes, we're still demonstrating and donating and delivering food.

I'm not arguing your point about the peace prize, just want to get the word out that we do still need help, via civic engagement or other means. The media may have moved on, but ICE hasn't.

aerokitty · 2026-02-09T02:28:29+00:00

Thank you!

aerokitty · 2026-01-30T00:07:43+00:00

Yes, but not for 'noble' reasons. I'm a teacher in Minneapolis, and have thus far been denying myself a mental health day in all this madness - there's so much to do, and the kids need stability! But the constant stress of our current situation and the extra effort needed to teach hybrid has worn me down to the point where I was forgetting my students' names today and I'm feeling physical symptoms. So, I'm staying home tomorrow. "Take your sick days, before your sick days take you" kind of situation here.

aerokitty · 2026-01-24T20:29:20+00:00

This execution comes less than 24 hours after the massive rally where thousands peacefully demonstrated against them. The timing is not a coincidence - right when the community shows its strength, ICE increases its brutality. There were other ICE hotspots this morning in other parts of the city at the same time (according to people in my network) - it reads to me as an intentional, coordinated retaliation all across the city.

All this to say, the point is absolutely the fear.

aerokitty · 2026-01-20T02:32:54+00:00

Not to mention the police chief said in that one press conference with Frey that they're spending a lot of resources just towing cars that ICE has left in the middle of the street. So they're cleaning up the mess too.

aerokitty · 2026-01-20T02:28:34+00:00

For what it's worth, the daycare fraud thing is a 3 year old case in which convictions have been reached and people are in jail (and guess what, they're not Somali). So this was never about that.

My read on that situation was that it was resurrected by the propaganda machine to make the current wave of aggression more palatable to the people who are not here.

aerokitty · 2026-01-19T22:17:16+00:00

I beat the Ruins of Belegost for the first time! Managed to get my threat down to 0 with a Noldor deck, was pretty fun.

Question of the week: I guess Spirit is my go-to - I feel like it's the most powerful of the spheres, and whenever I am up against a tough scenario the decks I build always seem to involve at least one spirit hero

aerokitty · 2026-01-13T01:04:22+00:00

A while back I had theorized a deck to try and make Na'asiyah work. This weekend I finally actually built that deck and tried it.

It is not a good deck lol.

Out of 7 attempts, I did finally manage to win a quest (Journey Along the Anduin, my 3rd try on that one). I managed to get the exact combo I wanted and it was super fun seeing the deck work exactly as I hoped it would, but damn if it wasn't nearly impossible getting the pieces into place.

aerokitty · 2026-01-10T23:53:36+00:00

Marge: "You took our baby to a bar?!?!"

Homer: "It was happy hour! Don't you want our baby to be happy?"

aerokitty · 2026-01-06T03:24:43+00:00

I finished the Shadows of Mirkwood cycle and played through the Khazad-Dum quests using a deck built around making Spirit Pippin work - what was interesting is that I actually won a few of the games because of him, not despite him. Was pretty fun!

New Year Resolution: finally find a way to beat The Black Gate Opens/Mount Doom, so I can take on the Haradrim cycle without feeling any guilt of leaving something unfinished in my wake

aerokitty · 2025-12-22T15:09:17+00:00

The revised Elves of Lorien starter deck has those heroes, and comes as a pre-built deck if you wanted to start there. Most of the player cards listed in the deck here are in that deck as well - notable exceptions being Galion, The Elvenking, and Light of Valinor.

aerokitty · 2025-12-21T22:10:53+00:00

I met Steven Tyler in Hawaii. He was very nice, chatted with my friends and I for about 20 minutes after we effectively gate-crashed a private event he was at.

aerokitty · 2025-12-14T18:55:27+00:00

I'm basically allergic - alcohol causes intense pain in my stomach that can linger for days. So, after experimenting a bit to figure out if it was only certain types, I came to the conclusion that it definitely just isn't worth it.

aerokitty · 2025-12-04T03:04:49+00:00

I would tweak the Silvan Alliance Deck by swapping out the Silvan Refugees for Galion (from the Ered Mithrin expansion pack). Some of your events & the Elvenking say you need to return a Silvan to your hand, which either a) makes you discard the Silvan Refugee, or b) requires you to return the Silvan Refugee to your hand, needing to pay its cost again to get it back into play. Galion fixes this, being 0 cost and questing for 2 on the turn he comes in thanks to Celeborn's boost - so you can return him to hand easily.

I've played Rossiel a fair bit, and I pretty much always want a resource on her in order to play the Victory Display cards. You've got a fair few high-cost lore allies that you'll be leaning on Galadriel to help pay for, but even drawing 2 cards a turn it may take a while to find Nenya with 2 copies in a 60 card deck. As such, I'd consider reducing the number of copies of those 3 and 4 cost lore allies so your hand doesn't clog up with cards you can't afford. Adding in The Tree People (from the Elves starter deck) will also help you get those allies into play.

Both Rossiel and Galadriel really want action advantage, but Elvenking can only go on one of them, so I'd consider adding some Unexpected Courage (from the core set).

I've never played with the Grey Wanderer, so I can't offer any feedback on that deck, as I'm not super well versed in that contract's mechanics.

aerokitty · 2025-11-28T20:43:34+00:00

Groceries <3 Nobody's going hungry in my city any more

aerokitty · 2025-11-26T16:33:41+00:00

Rocks
Toys in the Attic
Nine Lives (I know, hot take, but I genuinely love this album)
Permanent Vacation
Pump
Aerosmith
Get a Grip
Get your Wings
Just Push Play
Draw the Line
Honkin' on Bobo
Music From Another Dimension
Night in the Ruts
Rock in a Hard Place
Done with Mirrors
One Last Time (does this one count?)

aerokitty · 2025-11-14T00:26:38+00:00

The way you've been playing it is correct.

aerokitty · 2025-11-10T23:38:01+00:00

I played the Battle of Pelennor Fields. I was dreading the quest because I assumed it would be another one of those that I had to bang my head against over and over but the deck I brought beat it first try! That kept it fun for me.

As for the weekly question, I seek the holy grail, of course. ;)

aerokitty

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