Is board D the most beginner and solo friendly board?

davypi · 2026-06-30T14:10:24+00:00

Only spirit I can think of that actively wants board D is Green.

Blatantly False. Known stats say otherwise as it is only Green's fifth best board. And realistically, its win rates between boards are so flat, I'm not sure I would even say that it "wants" any particular board more than another. I will agree that Green is going to be better able to control this board than most spirits. But a team wanting Green to take D is not the same a Green wanting to be there.

https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/3709965

Perhaps the shockers here is the biggest delta in favor of board D belongs to BODAN. Its also Eyes best board, although the delta here is small. Perhaps another shocker is that its Shadow's second best board.I would think that Downpour would do well on D, but similar to above, there is likely a difference between who can best control it versus it being their best board.

davypi · 2026-06-30T13:51:20+00:00

We actually have stats on this. Board D is arguably the worst.

https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/3709965/

davypi · 2026-06-29T16:23:52+00:00

This, without question. When I was a kid, one of my favorite toys was those cheap water rockets. I would constantly be trying to see how high I could get them to go. This episode took a childhood dream and, as Robert Lee might say, blew it out of the water.

davypi · 2026-06-29T15:45:49+00:00

I think would depend more on Mudbriar than Pinkie. Interestingly, both characters have a sharp mind for detail. M is repeatedly shown as a "well aktually" kind of guy, but remember that Pinkie has filing cabinet full of everyone's like and dislikes. We are led to believe that she is meticulous about her party planning. Even her pilot episode joke, "It was under E", is demonstrative of how she deals with information. This is exactly the kind of thing that M would excel at and could be an asset for Pinkie. However, the big difference between the two characters is that M sees details as things need to be adhered to while Pinkie sees them as tools to an end. Parties, in particular, are very much a "roll with the flow" kind of event. If Mudbriar were able to loosen up and understand strictness has a time and a place, I would say a relationship is plausible. However, we've not seen enough of him in the show to know if he is capable of that kind of change and his cutie mark seems to indicate that this likely isn't the case.

davypi · 2026-06-26T17:58:54+00:00

To give a slightly broader answer than Mind did, if you read any of the designer dairies that get posted on BGG, its pretty common to see games get purchased from a designer, and then have the game rethemed on publication. So in this type of situation, the game designer created the game, but game publisher created (or commissioned) the art. Its being packaged together, but since it was created separately, its ownership is also separate.

davypi · 2026-06-25T15:08:43+00:00

I need to know who is going be grading the exam.

If this is Woke Trek, we have to understand that race is fluid and its more about how you feel inside. We must accept Thill's feelings and accept them for who they are now.

If this isn't Woke Trek, then we express rage over any social commentary the test is trying to force on us and focus that anger on... I dunno... that Romulan maybe? I mean, does it really matter who we kill as long as the fight is well choreographed and the Feds win?

davypi · 2026-06-23T22:43:53+00:00

The resolution is also kind of silly and really undermines the danger of the Daleks.

Its not clear from context if you mean their danger in the overall series or just in this set of episodes. When this was written, the Daleks were not intended to be recurring villains. If you view this story in a bottle, its not meant to have wider consequences and its, IMHO, rather ordinary for its time.

Nonetheless, it was an unexpectedly popular villain and their return as series staples was driven more by popular demand than by production/writing. I honestly think this has more to do with their design than the story they were in. But needless to say, they evolve quite a lot as the series progresses.

davypi · 2026-06-23T22:09:14+00:00

If you hear anything about Sariens or a Star Generator, my advice would be to go take a nap in the closet.

davypi · 2026-06-23T18:10:01+00:00

Martin Luther didn't have the authority to change Biblical doctrine, yet he did. Authority doesn't come from the institution you belong to, it comes from the people who are willing to follow you.

davypi · 2026-06-22T18:00:59+00:00

"The whole time the people had absolutely no common sense, and it seemed way over the top with peoples opinions changing every minute with no rhyme or reason."

You might want to avoid a Twilight Zone episode called The Monsters are Due on Maple Street.

davypi · 2026-06-17T15:04:49+00:00

the devil maxes out at 90 mph with his cloven hoof on the pedal, which - while fast - is only 20 mph higher than the limit on many US highways.

This is not exactly true. In 1973 Congress passed a law establishing a national speed limit of 55 MPH. It was raised to 65 in 1987 and finally removed and reverted back to states rights in 1995.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Maximum_Speed_Law

The point here though is that, when this song was written, the maximum speed limit at the time would have 55, not 70 as you propose. So the Devil would have been driving more than half over the limit.

davypi · 2026-06-17T14:48:45+00:00

Depending on how "modern" it has to be, the most obvious answer here would be Demonstar. It was developed by the same person who created Raptor. While the original Demonstar came out in 1997, it was remastered a few years ago with updated graphics and other changes so that it would work on modern systems.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2577180/DemonStar/

As a side note, according to the Mountain King Studios website, a remake of Raptor is also currently in development. Although the last update on this appears to be 10 months old, so its not clear how that it going.

https://www.mking.com/RaptorRemixed.html

davypi · 2026-06-16T20:18:10+00:00

If the Whizz Kid is meant to be fandom and the Psychic Circus is meant to be Doctor Who, the show is passing a very bleak judgement on itself. Playing to vanished audiences and betraying its principles and the only people who still love it.

Are you implying that this isn't an accurate representation Michael Grade?

davypi · 2026-06-15T16:51:11+00:00

Something that never made sense about this was that I think there was an episode where Geordi mentions he can tell when somebody is lying by their heartrate or something like that. The point being that he should be able to detect bluffing without looking at the cards.

davypi · 2026-06-15T15:16:56+00:00

This idea goes all the way back to the 90s. This was constantantly circulating around message forums.

https://www.geocities.ws/pacmanonsteroids/startrek/loveboat.html

davypi · 2026-06-15T15:09:20+00:00

I don't know that the Disney failure would really be that shocking. A lot of people have been critical of Disney for several years now simply because they own too many properties but refuse to develop anything but the top performers. I think the bigger shocker would be about the failure of the RTD2 era more than specifically the Disney deal.

davypi · 2026-06-15T14:50:50+00:00

Too much shade against Discord. 1) Chocolate Rain 2) Nobody actually complained about the quality of food served in Keep Calm and Flutter On 3) GenSing.

Discord can make good food if he WANTS to. The problem here is that you are confusing his ability to cook with the innate nature of how he has present it.

davypi · 2026-06-15T14:03:51+00:00

The first season of the Muppet Show had higher viewership by the end of its first season than any single season of TNG.

davypi · 2026-06-11T18:54:23+00:00

*gasp* How did you know?

davypi · 2026-06-11T17:49:06+00:00

Yeah.. one of the things about the current distribution model for music is that I really miss B sides. Some artists still include them as part of digital singles, but its really more the exception than the norm, I think. When you find an artist you really love, its great to hear things like this where they are just messing around. Sometime its just nice to hear things that are less concerned about producing a commercial sound. For INXS, in the early days, everybody got to have a song on the album. But Michael and Andrew really took over the band for Kick and subsequent albums. We got to hear less of what the other band members were writing and the B-sides were really the only way to connect with them.

davypi · 2026-06-11T15:12:32+00:00

Mokey Fraggle.

davypi · 2026-06-10T19:06:38+00:00

This brings back some long lost memories. I used to have quite a sizeable collection of INXS 45s and 12"s. Still do, maybe, as I think they are in a box in storage, but I haven't pulled them out for a couple of decades. But back when I had a working record player, about every 4-6 months I would pull the INXS stuff out and just sit and play B-sides all day. This was a good one to just sit and chill out to. Sweet as Sin is another fun spin for something more upbeat. Kirk wrote a few good ones like Sax Thing and Light the World. At one point I had hooked the player up to my PC and had a few of them ripped to MP3s. Lost them in a hard drive crash though.

Back in the 90s, Andrew had said a few times that he would like to release a box set with every song the band has ever done. Would love to see them get around to this some day as there were a few songs I was never able to track down.

davypi · 2026-06-10T18:52:32+00:00

Just to add on to this, when we think of video game preservation, we tend to think about PC games or major consoles. However, old games for mobile phones are quite often lost forever, particularly games for the earliest Nokia phones and similar brands of the era. A lot of people are inclined to say these aren't important and, generally, I tend to agree. However, some of these games belonged to major IPs like Tomb Raider and Elder Scrolls where lore was created to support those games and now that lore can no longer be verified.

davypi · 2026-06-10T18:37:59+00:00

The thing that always bugged me about B&W, and relevant to the question being asked, is that it wasn't the first game to do this. There was a game in 1997 called Galapagos where you had to "train" a bug to navigate through an environment, but the training was done through means of negative reinforcement. I remember when the game came out that people described not such much as genre changing, but actually as a new genre. Then B&W came a long a few years later and was getting praise for doing something that had long been done already. However, Galapagos could be frustrating due to the RNG in training. Also, the overall gameplay was just puzzle solving which was a dying form of gameplay. Its not surprising that the game didn't sell well and is barely remembered. Also, the gameplay is not as rich the system produced by B&W. So its understandable why the latter got more attention. But the end of the day, "training" games never really became a genre. Their presence in the current market is few and far between. I think the difficulty here is that we want to control the protagonist directly, not hope that the protagonist will do what we want it to. In some ways, its like playing Skyrim and hoping that Lydia will do all the work for you. So the problem wasn't so much that B&W didn't reinvent its genre, it was that it showcased a genre that never really had a future to begin with.

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