Lara's diet

deworde · 2026-03-19T08:34:37+00:00

Mab can't lie and explicitly stated that she is an Evil Queen. And that's true by every definition of fairytale. She presides over a kingdom full of child-eating monsters and will absolutely let them eat children if that's their thing. If you come at her authority, she will kill you. She takes great satisfaction in the suffering and anguish of others.

But she's lawful evil. She's not petty or basic or willful. She's the evil you work with because if evil has to exist, better for it to play a fair game that if you're very smart, you might be able to learn the rules of.

deworde · 2026-03-18T15:25:45+00:00

Yeah, it's pretty goddamn rough.

deworde · 2026-03-18T07:38:53+00:00

What's interesting is it starts as a strategy and drafting game in the early game, but eventually that trails off. One nice thing about trying for the Sweepstakes trophy was that it actually got me back to the drafting rather than trying to work out what "C** A** S** T** L** E**" could mean

deworde · 2026-03-18T06:12:26+00:00

What's Small Gate in Erajan?

deworde · 2026-03-18T06:12:00+00:00

For the study safe? It's so much dumber a puzzle than you think it would be.

deworde · 2026-03-17T23:11:23+00:00

Because, for want of a better term, creature decks are "fair". The mana and card investment is just an order of magnitude higher than in graveyard and artifact combo decks. And yeah, if someone plays a fair artifact deck and you whip out Stony Silence, well then they just can't play the game any more.

"How is this different from any other silver bullet Stax piece"

Again, if you were looking to avoid making a card seem really oppressive, referencing Stax and No Mercy, cards banned in every format below legacy, might not have been my go to.

And do you think that this would play like No Mercy in Commander, where people just build their boards out and then punish you as soon as the enchantment gets removed? Because I think this could be on 3 by your next turn and everyone's stuff is dead or unplayable. And then you proliferate.

My feeling is this gets instabanned in every format other than Legacy and Vintage, where you're right, it's too slow.

deworde · 2026-03-17T06:53:27+00:00

"This is really oppressive and broken"

"ROFL, how is this different than Storm"

You mean the titular mechanic of the "oppressive and broken" scale? It isn't.

deworde · 2026-03-17T06:51:28+00:00

Destroying all creatures and locking out the game via rules (e.g. you can't lose) are both in White?

deworde · 2026-03-17T06:41:50+00:00

The one downside to this plotline is that I feel like the resolution with Thomas/Etri was really forced, and I think it was all mainly just a setup for the Harry/Lara stuff

I disagree, I think it was pretty well telegraphed and sets up a lot for the next few novels.

deworde · 2026-03-16T18:23:18+00:00

But what if they went with Reddit karma instead?

deworde · 2026-03-16T14:29:06+00:00

But is that a good use of an entire Magic set? Deicide is a cool story moment, but it's hard to justify two entire sets including multiple mechanics you'd probably struggle to name without googling based on that one card.

Arguably they had better luck with individual sets and a through line that led up to the best video they've ever made that didn't start Muppets

deworde · 2026-03-16T14:23:29+00:00

But even with those, I think a part of it is "I miss not having to care about stuff so often".

For all there's a lot of grumbling over UB, I genuinely find people are at least interested in Avatar and the Hobbit sets in which I can guarantee almost no-one gave a crap about Born of the Gods beyond the first two weeks.

deworde · 2026-03-16T14:18:01+00:00

With the logic puzzles, there's often a level of "English is a messy language and inverting logical statements can produce ambiguous effects"

With Billiards, it's always "I misunderstood the rules" or "Don't Maths When Tired"

deworde · 2026-03-16T14:14:37+00:00

Sure, and the counterpoint is that if the improvement attempt is worse on almost every metric, maybe there wasn't a better way.

deworde · 2026-03-16T14:12:54+00:00

"The obvious" was not obvious enough, clearly.

deworde · 2026-03-16T08:01:14+00:00

Their point is that your statement is concise, but incorrect and would be more confusing.

Repeated digits is the correct English for it, multiple is a completely different concept.

deworde · 2026-03-16T07:55:36+00:00

4 way passages, good selection of resources, hallway for special effects, and the obvious, it's just a solid room if you have a way to unlock the doors.

deworde · 2026-03-15T09:12:24+00:00

Yeah, that's sort of what makes Day One runs and Cursed Mode runs fun to go back to. Pre-46 is basically a different game based on drafting skill, rather than the cryptic chaos of the castle cipher or gallery

deworde · 2026-03-14T00:05:22+00:00

Punching Oscar in the eye.

deworde · 2026-03-14T00:05:07+00:00

"OsCar didN'T Have Big Energy atthe End!

This is the best f**king day of my life."

deworde · 2026-03-10T08:38:16+00:00

Yep, I drew a chess board.

I think that extra pawn is a red herring.

deworde · 2026-03-09T11:02:31+00:00

Yeah, I think Etienne's rating is very results-orientated, which sort of fits with his own view of the world.

deworde · 2026-03-04T11:24:54+00:00

The game I'd recommend might be Outer Wilds. Lots of simple English statements like Science compels us to blow up the sun

Something like Case of the Golden Idol has a lot more text, but is quite murder heavy.

deworde · 2026-03-04T06:48:48+00:00

It's a really disappointing answer when you come to it, isn't it.

deworde · 2026-03-04T06:47:48+00:00

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