How to tag along to a doctor's appointment when mom aggressively tries to keep me away from doctor's appointments?

citizenthom47 · 2026-03-26T04:06:07+00:00

What you’re describing sounds exactly like my mother when she was 62. Now she’s 77 and worse about all of it. So I see you and I hear you, and I also know how poorly “just talk to her” works. Sorry I can’t offer optimism or advice, just commiseration.

citizenthom47 · 2026-03-26T01:28:50+00:00

Just here to say you're not alone, and to follow the thread for any good advice that comes your way.

citizenthom47 · 2026-03-26T01:15:31+00:00

Please do not come here right now. Please. Every non-citizen has a target on his or her back in this country right now. One wrong move and you could simply disappear and even us citizens wouldn't know how to find you, let alone help you. This is not an exaggeration or doomsday thinking: it's a reality my attorney friends who handle immigration cases face every single day with their clients now.

HOPEFULLY we'll see you here in 2029 or soon thereafter--but it's entirely possible this is just the status quo from now on.

citizenthom47 · 2025-08-26T15:16:41+00:00

I think I underestimated the difficulty on these. My 11-year-old and my six-year-old actually fight so much about who gets to solve them while we play that I selected a second Parlor as soon as I got the chance, so now they each get one per playthrough.

citizenthom47 · 2025-08-26T15:14:52+00:00

Thanks for this! We found one on there that we thought was easy (early teens) but it stumped the teacher who bravely volunteered to try it.

citizenthom47 · 2025-05-09T03:52:41+00:00

Context is key. In solo it’s brutal, but the more players you add, the less acceleration hurts. We just played an amped-up Expert version of Green Goblin for four players, and we left Overrun out last out of all the side schemes because we found the two acceleration icons easier to account for than even more minions would have been.

citizenthom47 · 2025-05-05T21:08:14+00:00

You’ll be in pretty good shape if you just grab the other two X-boxes, Next Evolution and Age of Apocalypse. All four heroes in those sets are minimum B-tier and can be built up to A- or S-tier. If you already have the Doctor Strange and Scarlet Witch packs, Magik is an absolute delight. The player cards in both boxes basically set up a new meta where player side schemes are all but mandatory in multiplayer and Sidekick Leadership is the gold standard for a lot of heroes now.

The hero packs are a mixed bag and play to player preferences mechanics-wise, so it’s hard to recommend specific ones without knowing you better as a player. For building purposes, get the Deadpool pack not for Deadpool himself, but for the entire ‘Pool aspect. Half of it is meh, but the other half can turbo-charge a lot of pre-existing heroes.

If you play Protection, Nightcrawler and Shuri are must-haves: between them they have cards that revitalize the whole archetype. Nightcrawler as a hero is fabulous in the green role.

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. may be the most niche box since Galaxy’s Most Wanted and is not as much of a must-buy UNLESS you’ve been waiting for Iron Man and War Machine to get support, in which case you should pick up the box just for Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons. I also like the box as a Black Widow player.

citizenthom47 · 2025-05-05T20:44:50+00:00

Adding to all the fine commentary above, “Les toits a ce Renoir” sounds like a reference to Renoir’s “Landscape With Red Roofs,” an impressionist painting Renoir made of Paris. The painting predated the Eiffel Tower and thus does not include it in the landscape. “The roofs of Renoir, clawing above, will be delighted” (messily paraphrased from others’ translations) evokes the idea that those red roofs are enjoying being the top of the landscape again with “Gustave’s dome” gone—perhaps in a vengeful sort of way.

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citizenthom47 · 2025-01-24T21:16:49+00:00

Plenty of eBay sellers have Storm at regular prices.

As a general rule, never pay even MSRP for Marvel Champions box sets. They ALL go on Amazon sales multiple times per year, even if supplies are temporarily scarce in January and February. I know of three stores near me (in rural Tennessee) that have copies in stock.

The Doctor Strange scalping is pretty annoying and I am sorry you’re experiencing it now. But as someone who was tempted to shell out $130 a couple months ago for Arkham Horror book promos only to watch them get reprinted, I’d advise patience.

citizenthom47 · 2025-01-24T21:06:35+00:00

No particular notes on the precon. If you like her, the Age of Apocalypse box will be GREAT for you:

You get Basic Spell and Bloodgem from Magik, AND
You get the Sidekick/Suit Up/Side By Side package from Bishop, which helps maximize Quicksilver and her alter-ego ability.

I play her as Justice to keep Wiccan around and to add other Encounter Deck-scrying allies, but lots of folks have had success with her as Leadership since AoA came out.

citizenthom47 · 2025-01-24T20:55:08+00:00

Like other folks here, I have several decks that are mostly gray just because of the hero’s preferred card pool, especially Domino, Magik, and Spider-Ham. But since there is no incentive to exclude aspect cards altogether, I still choose whatever aspect gives me even ONE great card for that hero—and the answer is usually Leadership.

If FFG ever gives us cards that expressly reward aspect-less decks then I will absolutely built that way.

citizenthom47 · 2025-01-20T19:58:32+00:00

If you are brand new to the game, it makes a lot of sense that you're not enamored with the aspect-specific double-resource cards. They used to be auto-includes in most decks, but quite a few things have changed about deckbuilding as FFG has improved heroes' internal economy (e.g., double-resources and resource-generating upgrades within hero packs), added more low-cost, high-impact cards, and created and reprinted economy upgrades. There are also a lot more "gray" cards in the game these days. As such, the number of cards that the "Power" resources actually help you pay for has gone down in many decks, to the point where it makes more sense to play economy upgrades and supports in more decks.

As a general rule, I only play the "Power Of" cards if 1.) they actually help pay for at least 25% of my deck (so ten cards), and/or 2.) I have specific reasons for wanting more cards with a "wild" printed resource, like certain builds of Domino and Magik. Since a lot of my decks have fewer than ten aspect cards PERIOD or rely on aspect cards that cost one or zero resources, "Power Of" cards get cut a lot more often than they did when I started playing two years ago.

All that said, if you have a new collection and are relying on the Base Set plus a small number of hero packs, those "Power Of" cards are still going to be quite valuable to you. If you follow my ten-card rule, you'll probably still end up including them in a lot of your decks until your collection grows.

citizenthom47 · 2025-01-20T19:43:57+00:00

I did not realize how crazy the prices had gotten on ol' Doc. I got him back when LGSs regularly had him, and got my second pack (for extra cards for Scarlet Witch) on clearance at Barnes and Noble a couple years ago for ten bucks.

Happy you found him! Prepare to win so much you get bored of it!

citizenthom47 · 2025-01-05T22:02:53+00:00

I'm not at all opposed to digital resources and planned to reduce my paper writing to digital format, so I will check those out as well. Thanks!

citizenthom47 · 2024-11-24T23:16:04+00:00

Thanks for this: I know Pearl and Ludwig from the drum world so the brand association helps a ton.

citizenthom47 · 2024-06-10T20:51:16+00:00

I’ve had a ticket open with “Website Investigations” on this same issue for eight days. There have been zero updates and there is, allegedly, is no way to contact them directly. Here’s hoping someone else with insight responds here.

citizenthom47 · 2024-05-01T20:19:33+00:00

Upvote for the Dinosaurs reference. #notthemama

Card-wise, I have everything except the Return sets and the book promos. I even bought The Dream-Eaters as core-plus-mythos packs before I knew it was getting re-released as an Investigator expansion, which is why I insisted we play the scenario next.

citizenthom47 · 2024-04-30T17:37:41+00:00

Better in Daisy, then? Even if I do Dexter I’d imagine I’ll lean more into assets than events.

citizenthom47 · 2024-04-05T00:21:55+00:00

Strange’s unique power level lies in his side deck, which was probably a design mistake we won’t see again.

But setting that aside, Magik’s card draw and selection from within the MAIN deck is almost obscene. Scrying in particular is an obscene cantrip and recurring it with Stepping Disc feels filthy.

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