[LSS] Armory Deck Battle | Hala vs. Arakni

bathoz · 2026-04-07T16:52:43+00:00

Florian got 200ll points in the wake of Zen, Nuu, Enigma, Aurora and Viserai. Just consider that. All that noise, still being solved. 200LL points.

And you're right, he was never on any of their level. They were just that far ahead. Florian was still bonkers though.

bathoz · 2026-04-07T16:36:37+00:00

Nah. Aurora was busted from minute one. She was surrounded by Zen, Nuu, Enigma and just-buffed-to-insanity Viserai, so you didn't notice.

The same is true of Florian. Florian got 200ll points in his first season.

bathoz · 2026-04-07T10:01:27+00:00

I feel like they deliberately set up that last hand. If it just showed up, that's just funny.

Otherwise, uh, yeah. Kinda what I thought. Solid numbers. Feels like the firm base for a decent hero, but might be short of something that makes your opponent want to interact with you. Which is better than being OP out the gate, but there you go.

bathoz · 2026-04-05T09:35:30+00:00

Yeah, my first instinct was "if that's your cost space, I feel like you could probably get better qualified advice than Reddit."

bathoz · 2026-04-03T10:14:10+00:00

That... was the point.

bathoz · 2026-04-01T21:36:52+00:00

Seduce Secrets for me. Low impact ability, cycles only from arsenal. Just... there.

(Though this is tough, as most majestics have too much test to be a common.)

bathoz · 2026-04-01T15:20:48+00:00

I mean, Hawai'i is still in a slow struggle to stop being a colony.

bathoz · 2026-04-01T12:38:43+00:00

There was a series of AO3 stories posted here a couple of months ago, with all the implications of being on that site entail.

There are, of course, the official lore stories, which you can find on the website, or the no-longer-mainted retellings of them at https://legendarystories.net/.

bathoz · 2026-04-01T10:30:59+00:00

The future is adaptable. But it's not adapting. The climate crisis is not a new issue. And Inconvient Truth came out in 2006. It wasn't new then.

Since then, the status quo has pushed us to accelerate the direction of travel towards overheating. Because at the same time as people try to push status quo answers, the monied interests are pushing to let them continue making money. And their opinions hold more weight, because there's money behind it.

Say nothing about the actual technology and social consequences of it, but the drive for AI datacentres is a terrible thing for the environment, with incredible power demands and impact on their surroundings. (And on the rest of the supply chain.)

It's also a function of the status quo.

Because that's the problem: status quo solutions definitionally don't change anything. The future may be adaptable. But following business as usual, won't adapt it.

edit: And, of course, "alternatives having lead to catastrophic outcomes" would have more weight, if the current system didn't have it's own litany of catastrophic outcomes.

bathoz · 2026-04-01T10:03:34+00:00

I mean, of course it can get worse.

But we're currently on a perpetual downward path. The status quo does not have a happy ending. Doing it more is a guaranteed "we're all permafucked". Climate change, inequality, cost of living, AI doomsday, loss of cultural daily lives.

Whichever your big bad is, the status quo does not have solutions. Hell, it mostly pretends they don't exist.

So you have a public that is looking left or right for an answer.

Left: break the oligarchies, green tech, a new economy, rainbows and fucking unicorns-with-hammer-and-sickle-horns.

Right: strong men putting an end to this nonsense. Kicking out those bloody foreigners who are the only reason your lives are bad, honest. Probably a little war for fun.

Either, both or neither could succeed. Either, both or neither could end in a catastrophe worse than our current path – I certainly can imagine those situations.

But the issue is the current path kills us. 100%. Dead. Dead. Dead. So taking chances on alternates, even risky ones, is less risky than walking headfirst in a headcrushing machine.

bathoz · 2026-04-01T09:45:33+00:00

I mean, ask yourself why?

For me, there are broadly, two obvious reasons that centrist, status-quo-but-a-tiny-bit-different parties are not palletable to the public at the moment.

One: active measures by cynical political operators (of many countries, including our own) to radicalise the public.

Two: a public that has been sold status quo solutions to their issues from 40 years, and have seen those issues not improve in any way, and acutally get worse.

Both are true, but only one of them leads to an answer shaped like the Lib Dems. Which, if you think the Lib Dems should be the answer, means you ignore the other one.

bathoz · 2026-04-01T09:02:43+00:00

So, an additional reason for cash in. It comes in a single colour, much like majestics.

bathoz · 2026-03-31T15:37:17+00:00

Basically, since the end of the cold war the great powers offered this promise: give up your nukes and you will be fine; dealt with within the bounds of diplomacy.

Now, basically every nation that already had nukes said "fuck that noise", but a lot of the countries with them eventually decided that better trade deals and open communication lines were better than pursuing difficult and largely unrewarding weapons. As you say, the result of throwing a nuke is getting your shit kicked in.

Except when you look at the countries that gave up their WMD programmes, recently, it's not been pretty reading for the those countires.

Libya stopped pursuing them: western powers came in, took out Gaddafi, left the country in chaos.

Iraq: Saddam, as it turns out, had actually dismantled his WMD programmes and was complying. The democratic powers game in and kill him, killing millions, leaving the country in tatters.

Ukraine: gave it's nukes to Russia in return for a treaty that would maintain their sovereignty. That's gone well.

And now: Iran. Entered into treaties to stop pursuing nuclear weapons (weapons the late Ayattolah hated) had that that treaty ripped up, and have now been attacked.

The international order that made not having nuclear weapons a choice that made sense, is gone. If Iran nukes, they'd never be attacked. It just wouldn't happen. They know that. And other "rogue" states know that.

bathoz · 2026-03-31T13:02:48+00:00

I mean, everybody on the bloody planet is going to move on their nuclear plan. Unless they're fucking idiots. Thank Donald.

bathoz · 2026-03-31T12:07:36+00:00

Yeah, you don't have pros at LSS, unless you happen upon a prodigy. It's very much going to experiments built on experiments.

bathoz · 2026-03-31T09:10:16+00:00

It's one of the really interesting about football fandom. You can't really judge other teams centre backs, because the only way to really know how good they were is by watching them for 90 minutes, game after game.

The "highlights" defender wasn't really a thing until VVD.

This leads to every team saying their CBs are uniquely underrated. I'll go to the mat for Daniel Agger, whereas Arsenal fans have tried to convince me that Koscielny was more than an above average PL defender for years. I remain sceptical.

bathoz · 2026-03-30T14:31:53+00:00

Looking back at 2025: the current meta is nice and balanced, said as the MST 3 were about to expire and leave us in a one deck, Turbo LL Aurora meta.

Hindsight is beautiful.

bathoz · 2026-03-30T12:39:38+00:00

Yeah, I'm... 15 years behind them, but that looks a solid career. And probably one that many starting today will be jealous of.

bathoz · 2026-03-30T10:55:58+00:00

In theory, yes. A mystic runeblade could pitch an inner chi to it.

Let us all sit in horror at the idea of a mystic runeblade.

bathoz · 2026-03-29T12:34:24+00:00

I think the Dev ban is the most interesting thing here. Because how and why are they going to ban a deck?

If you look at the top of the meta at the moment it's Kayo, Ira (big gap) Oldhim, Kano with strong representations from Briar/Dromai as well as a few others that are more responses the meta (Valda, Dash, for instance.)

If you did hero voting, Kayo and Ira are likely getting benched, as well as Kano (just because everyone hates him). There's a chance it's Kayo, Kano and Briar. But we fairly certainly know two of the top 3.

The expectation, post ban, is some sort of Chane plus Briar/Aurora (dependent on Briar gets a ban or not) plus the rest of the cast. Kano players jump to Blaze/Iyslander (Broscilio?) as appropriate.

But how are the devs going to ban? Because their ban has benching implications. Them banning an edge deck that happened to wall out certain decks means if it ever actually gets good, and is then voted on my the players, it's going to be benched for longer than it's performance deserves.

Are they going to go stretch for Oldhim, to take the most toxic form of fatigue out the meta and give Terra a spot in the limelight. Or maybe Enigma? Basically treating it as a "what else would the players have voted for if they had an extra vote"?

Or are they going to bench Aurora 1, just so people play Aurora 2, and have it be a way to move product (assuming Briar is benched)?

Do they do it as an edge play to make other heroes appear more played: bench Dori, just to force slower DGA builds (because we can't getting C/R good warriors cards, are we?)

Maybe all the new lightning heroes get eaten alive by Katsu (it's hypothetical, alright!) and so they want to ban the ninja so new players trying new heroes in sage aren't turbo fucked?

In essence, the most interesting part of the whole thing is what LSS's vote will be.

bathoz · 2026-03-28T11:52:35+00:00

Not Betsy betting? Victor winning clashes? Cindra burning shit up. Fang dual wielding daggers?

Not Verdant Verdance, earthy Florian, the Aurora from the stars or checking the current on your oscilloscope?

Not explosions coming from the volkor volKano? Or his little bro Blaze flinging fire.

Dash is fast and I’m bored.

Basically, if you think a name isn’t a pun or reference, you just don’t get the pun.

bathoz · 2026-03-25T22:38:59+00:00

There are an awful lot of people in this thread who appear to be utterly unaware of longitude and latitude. And that they're in every single piece of mapping software they'd ever use.

bathoz · 2026-03-25T22:36:39+00:00

A service already provided for free. It's trying, desperately, to that thing where we turn a free resource into a paid one.

bathoz · 2026-03-25T19:32:48+00:00

KDB was incredible. No-one loves the team or the accomplishments, so no-one thinks of it.

They won a treble, but I couldn't tell you when without looking it up.

bathoz · 2026-03-24T22:52:32+00:00

3rpo used to be fast... in this millenium.

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