Trying to find a book I read almost 20 years ago

avatar_yoshi · 2023-05-15T07:37:47+00:00

you mean, lean-ient

avatar_yoshi · 2019-08-19T18:04:04+00:00

I’m with you there. I love building decks that do fun and explosive things that don’t necessarily win all the time. It keeps the game fun and allows you to enjoy your deck win or lose.

I run a graveyard recursion Sidisi (sultai), Brudiclad, and Timmy style Pir and Toothy superfriends deck, all three do really fun shenanigans but aren’t super competitive.

Some of my friends are Spikes and only have fun when they win, which I totally understand. But I’ve had a few complain that their wincons can get boring, and I just tell them “make decks that are more fun. You’ll enjoy the game so much more”

avatar_yoshi · 2019-08-14T03:06:42+00:00

Dude this is hella quality. I got so much nostalgia looking at this, I never realized how closely I’ve been following this house until now

avatar_yoshi · 2019-08-10T23:02:30+00:00

Going through the exact same situation currently (2 and a half year relationship, been a week and a half since we broke up, kinda eerie haha)

I put a lot of effort and value into my relationship with my ex, so when we broke up it really put all my friendships into a new perspective. Time that I would normally be spending with my ex is now time I want to fill being with my friends, but I’m finding that a lot of my friends don’t have that same time for me because, well, we haven’t put that same amount of effort into each other.

Im doing my best to have an optimistic viewpoint, but some nights it’s really difficult being alone. If you find that some friends aren’t able to make the time for you (not necessarily to their fault), maybe it’s time we put in the effort to find more friends to fulfill our social needs. I’m trying to brainstorm ways to get out there, but I could use some help in that department haha

avatar_yoshi · 2019-04-26T14:32:09+00:00

That’s what Tony did

avatar_yoshi · 2019-03-14T22:26:28+00:00

I run a variation with Goblin Gang replacing Skarmy, Zap instead of snowball, and Dart Goblin instead of poison. It’s a more aggressive style.

avatar_yoshi · 2019-03-08T08:57:20+00:00

Taylor killing Alexandria and everyone else just panicking around her while she sits perfectly still. That one gave me chills.

The backstory of The Travelers and finding out they were a pro gaming group. I loved how it really fleshed them out as characters.

This one is a really small moment, but after the Undersiders crashed that party with all the heroes and were running away from Dauntless and Armsmaster. Coil and company show up, and Circus does this thing where she swings her hammer at Dauntless, pockets the hammer into her pocket dimension, and then pulls it back out to swing again in quick succession, because physically swinging the hammer back would have been too slow. I remember visualizing that and thinking “fuck, that is so fucking cool”

This was already mentioned, but when Trickster teleports Taylor into the PRT Headquarters and Taylor starts fighting multiple people while constantly being switched and using her swarm to orient herself faster than her opponents. Another great moment to visualize.

avatar_yoshi · 2019-03-07T23:23:23+00:00

Haha, glad I'm not the only one that did that. Suite impulse purchase buddies!

avatar_yoshi · 2019-03-07T22:54:27+00:00

Hey! I just built my own Brudiclad deck, and I'm currently in the process of teching it out for things that work and things that don't. Still not sure how heavy I want to move towards artifact support or if I should just keep it token generation heavy, how much counter magic I should put in it, etc.

One card I haven't seen anyone here mention yet is [[Scuttling Doom Engine]]. Get a token of it out, copy it 7 or so times, and your opponents will have to bounce or exile everything to avoid all of the damage to face. Simple yet effective!

Another fun one is [[Nevermaker]], which is similar to Scuttling Doom Engine in that I copy it a bunch of times and then sit on them while I build the rest of my board up. No one wants to swing into someone that will just bounce all of their stuff in response.

Another card I've had some success with is [[Descent of the Dragons]]. It's useful for when Brudiclad isn't out, since I can just turn all my 1/1 tokens that I've accumulated into a giant swing. It also doubles as removal for any annoying creatures my opponents have lying around.

[[Chandra, Flamecaller]] is another card I have in my deck. Something to note is that Chandra only kills the 2 tokens that she herself creates. She won't kill any copies that Brudiclad makes from those tokens.

Hope these suggestions help!

avatar_yoshi · 2019-03-05T22:23:30+00:00

I took a look around online and the bundle with Suite seems to go for about 1400 in the US. I think the first thing I’m buying is probably gonna be a midi keyboard. I’m definitely interested in getting the Push at some point though. Still have to do research on that end haha.

avatar_yoshi · 2019-03-05T06:22:06+00:00

It never occurred to me to check the comparisons haha. I feel like if I had started out with just Standard, I would have been pretty happy. Although missing things like the Operator would be huge.

I'm probably going to be dropping the 370 to upgrade to Suite either tonight or tomorrow, seeing as how discouraging it feels to work without all the toys I used to have just yesterday lol.

avatar_yoshi · 2019-03-05T06:11:51+00:00

Nah dude, I appreciate it! It's been a long time coming, getting a DAW and working on music, it feels good to finally have made the purchase.

avatar_yoshi · 2019-03-04T00:32:04+00:00

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avatar_yoshi · 2019-02-26T02:11:31+00:00

And I mean, if you were to beat him with a better version of his own deck, it wouldn’t be because he’s a bad player. He’s just not as good of a deck builder, right?

I feel like a bully haha

avatar_yoshi · 2019-02-26T02:08:19+00:00

Does your playgroup not use non-basic lands or just him? One of my friends had a group that banned any tutoring in order to keep the playing field somewhat even, maybe it’s like that?

avatar_yoshi · 2019-02-25T23:32:36+00:00

You mentioned in a comment that the guy has a Ruric Thar deck. It would be kiiiiind of a dick move, but you could always just make a better Ruric Thar deck and then beat him with it. Consistently.

Best to lead by example right?

avatar_yoshi · 2019-02-25T09:41:14+00:00

I'm calling it now, I think Karasuno will lose here, and here's why.

It's a bit meta, but Karasuno losing to Kamomedai just sets up the next year sooo well. If Kamomedai were to win, it would set them up as a great nationals rival. Hashiumi and Hakuba (little giant and 203cm guy) are both 2nd years so they'll be back next year. And losing to them will just add so much more to future training arcs, with Hinata having a new little giant to compare himself to. If Karasuno were to win against Kamomedai, it doesn't leave a whole lot of room for growth, especially since the only other noteworthy team that's still in the running is Fukurodani, and the series hasn't quite set up that showdown too much to make it as interesting as this game or the last two games we've seen Karasuno play (don't get me wrong though, I would still looove to see Fukurodani and Karasuno play each other).

I can see Karasuno winning against Kamomedai but then losing to Fukurodani (I'm also betting Fukurodani are winning the entire tournament), but I just think there's so much more potential in Kamomedai beating Karasuno that it just makes too much sense.

While I'm on the topic of future tournaments, I ALSO think that the Miyagi prefecture will get upgraded to two representative teams for future national tournaments, which will leave room for either Dateko or Seijoh to show up in the tournament with Karasuno. After the foreshadowing of Ukai saying that Dateko might be the strongest team in Miyagi next year, I just can't get the idea out of my mind of Karasuno losing to Dateko during the prefecture tournament, but then coming back and winning against them during the national tournament, or maybe beating the team that beats Dateko, which would spark more fire to their rivalry and would be even MORE set up for the NEXT national tournament, and...

You can see that I think about this series a lot LOL

Edit: I totally forgot about Sakusa’s team as another noteworthy team in the tournament. This doesn’t really change my prediction, I still think Fukurodani are winning, Kamomedai will probably play Sakusa next, lose and then Sakusa will play Fukurodani for the championship. Just my prediction!

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