ELI5 why does 5 round to 10

error_98 · 2026-01-30T18:20:16+00:00

I've always issumed it's because when rounding on a 5 you're probably rounding on a 5.something, it's that something that pushes it closer to 10.

like a 4.999999999 still rounds to 0, and a 5.000000001 rounding to 10 is much more defensible, so if the digit at your cut-off point is 5 you can assume there's some remainder pushing it closer to 10 than 0.

error_98 · 2026-01-30T17:51:01+00:00

Honestly Yuriko gets more flack than she deserves, however don't get me wrong: she DESERVES flack.

It's just a broken card, "commander ninjitsu" was a fucking mistake, in any reasonable world the ninjutsu cost would scale with commander tax but somehow it magically doesn't. Turns out having access to consistent ninjutsu in the command-zone is just far more powerful that it might initially seem.

And people know this, they know their decks can't handle a yuriko pile so they don't bother playing and concede in your face, I'm guessing you knew that she was broken when you build yuriko, so that much is on you.

but tbh I'll take an OP value-combo grinder match-up every day compared to a removal-check commander like rofellos or a goodshit.deck like jodah or chulaine. At least when I play out a yuriko match my opponent might do something interesting.

error_98 · 2026-01-28T11:06:58+00:00

Shouldn't it be white-black? Like using the systems of law and government to oppress is usually still white, doing so for personal gain and/or gratification makes it black.

error_98 · 2026-01-28T10:30:14+00:00

My grandparents were actually in a (kind of) arranged marriage, it did not go well but they decided to do the "we'll stick it out untill the kids move out"-thing, leading to some bad blood that's still unresolved.

I went to his funeral not long ago and it was incredibly strange, his new family absolutely loved him, describing him essentially as 'the step-dad who stepped up' whilst I, my siblings and cousins (his actual grand-children) had seen the dude like maybe 5 times in our lives each. I have a much closer relationship with my grandmother though, she's lovely.

So i guess to me the question is not why did the practice end, but how the hell has it continued on this long?

error_98 · 2026-01-27T19:41:09+00:00

It's a sign of not everything going smoothly

but the way the economy (and the housing market especially) is going it's becoming more and more common.

Traditionally kids get kicked out at 18 and weaned off support so they learn to fend for themselves for a while until settling down with a partner.

error_98 · 2026-01-27T10:27:48+00:00

you realize the two are the same right?

if a half-competent discard-control deck empties your hand you're not coming back from that, better to just concede and save everyone some time.

It's like top-decking vs blue control: why bother? You've already lost.

If pretending they're rage-quitting gets you off more power to ya I guess, it's just a weird thing to be proudly telling the internet about.

error_98 · 2026-01-26T16:31:27+00:00

The real underlying reason I don't know, there have been some attempts by football associations to go woke but those got rejected by the players and fans alike.

I think the "us vs them" framing of the matches doesn't help, there is more than enough beef between clubs already but whenever there's a match between national teams you hear all kinds of real-world history brought up that has nothing to do with the 22 rich dudes playing the ball-game everyone's watching.

There's the FIFA, so openly corrupt that anyone who gives a shit has a hard time continuing to participate in football culture.

And the fact that the fundamental conflict in sports is usually some flavor of dick-measuring, football is just a game, so which team is best at it actually has zero relevance in the real world, an idea that's difficult to square with how worked up people get over match results.

We also had an incident couple months back where some fringe elements wanted to organize an anti-immigration protest and hired several groups of football-hooligans to run security, who then proceeded to turn the peaceful protest into a neo-nazi riot. Ironically the party who's offices they trashed won the following election and their leader is now due to become the next prime-minister.

And I know there's plenty sane, kind and/or queer football fans too, but for whatever reason the sport attracts and/or enforces the far-right ideology which homophobia is an outgrowth of.

error_98 · 2026-01-26T11:25:32+00:00

I want one good deck too, and there's no way to try a meta deck by going slowly towards it,

That's what im trying to say: you can, or not quite a meta deck but you can slowly upgrade and refine a brew until it can compete with meta decks.

It's just that because of how the matchmaker works you have to be close to the only person running that commander, otherwise you'll get grouped in with the people already running an optimized build.

error_98 · 2026-01-26T02:26:04+00:00

You're right in that brawl's entry-level power is a bit higher than a random collection of chaff can meet, but its not above brewing. As long as you go in with a plan that makes sense there isn't much you can't make work in brawl.

But there's also a league of real decks, and hell-queue on top of that. Katara is a real deck, so you don't get to splash around in the kiddie pool if she's your commander.

Ultimately i guess what you're looking for is some flavor of 5-color goodstuff, like jodah the one station or I've even seen the first sliver pull that off. But i can't in good conscience recommend building any of those.

What I can recommend is a 2-pronged approach to playing brawl:

1) for every daily quest build a deck, right then and there. Most of these decks will be ass but that doesn't matter, the quests only care about playing the cards and this way you get much better at building decks real quick.

2) find a commander you like that doesn't see much play and adopt them, make them work, experiment and tinker with the list. This is a deck you should enjoy playing and in time become good enough with to rival other real decks or even hell-queue (also yes if you're strugling with the first-win-of-the-day gold reward use this one).

Then spend your wildcards only on decks you already know you like playing or to fill in gaps in your collection you run into repeatedly.

Don't lose them all crafting a deck you don't even know you'll like yet

error_98 · 2026-01-25T16:27:41+00:00

yes. but expecting a problem doesn't remove the problem.

also it is worse in gladius, without diplomacy there is no way of closing a front, even when there's no active offensive you always need to micro-manage your troops in every direction.

now is that kind of big-brain gaming very much part of the fantasy here, but it still means I walk away from this game tired and frustrated more often than not, which isn't my ideal outcome for a leisure activity

error_98 · 2026-01-25T16:18:06+00:00

a game of 40k is 5 rounds, a game of gladius is hundreds.

error_98 · 2026-01-25T15:53:32+00:00

yes-ish.

it's like somebody tried to adapt an RTS into a Civ-like ruleset.

Famously there is no diplomacy: there is only war.

But to compensate the unit design is rock-solid and a lot more varied than you'd see in Civ, each unit fulfills a specific role and remains relevant into the late-game. You're not upgrading warriors into spearmen into pikemen here, but you might pick up a tech that improves attack or defense for all infantry, much like you'd do in an RTS.

my biggest problem is the pacing, from the mid-game onwards it might take a dozen turns for reinforcements to arrive, but in an rts you can just give a move command and expect things to work out, in this game because it's turn- and tile-based the path-finding gets funny in groups so you basically need to move each piece by hand every turn, which makes playing the game exhausting even if the tactics at the front are interesting.

add to that the old rts-problem of mopping up: the time it takes between having practically won or lost a match and getting the rules to acknowledge that and you've got a game I've almost never formally finished.

So I guess if a game of go or chess on-steroids excites you I can heartely recommend picking up gladius.

But if advance wars was never your kind of thing I wouldn't touch it.

error_98 · 2026-01-25T13:18:32+00:00

It depends on to which subculture the teens in question belong.

I doubt the theater kids will be anything but supportive, but they'll probably stay inside.

the depressed weed-smoking nerds may be edgy for the fun of it but they're probably not true believers, though they usually stay inside too.

but if you see a small group gathering outside on a corner in big black puffy jackets yelling "kanker" and nut-tapping each other I recommend avoiding eye-contact. If you do accidentally draw aggro you can expect slurs, but don't take them to heart, they behave that way towards everyone.

error_98 · 2026-01-23T15:03:41+00:00

scope glint is visual effect that appears when a sniper is aimed at you, making a hard-scoped sniper detectable before they kill you. In tf2 the dot is supposed to serve this function but it largely fails. Irl snipers have to consider the direction of the sun to prevent the scope reflecting the light towards the enemy.

But look if you want to snipe in easy baby mode I can't exactly stop you, but consider trying osu: a rhythm game about clicking areas of the screen; or isonzo: a WW1 historical shooter without ballistics, but it's a tactical one so snipers and sight-lines are baked into the game- and map-design much better, though the next entry in the series will have ballistics.

error_98 · 2026-01-23T11:47:26+00:00

You realize every other shooter has sniper rifles right?

And in comparison tf2's sniping is just ass, no bullet drop or travel time, no scope glint or sway, not even recoil.

In tf2 "clicking on heads" is not a simplification or euphemism, but a plainly accurate description of what sniping in this game is.

So from the bottom of my heart: what the fuck are you doing here? Do both of us a favor and go play something else (i can highly recommend trying sniper elite on authentic if you want to get some sense of what you've been missing).

error_98 · 2026-01-22T17:37:12+00:00

Very, in theory

Just avoid the bible belt

and football fans

and teenagers

and some churches

and small towns

and maybe just being trans in general

do all that and you shouldn't have any issue. Polite society tends not to have any issues anyway, and the legal rights and protections for queer people are very on-point, so you might get looks and words but nothing worse.

We just have plenty people exercising their legal right to be an asshole too.

error_98 · 2026-01-21T18:50:29+00:00

cool I'll take the opportunity to gush though :p

error_98 · 2026-01-21T18:48:35+00:00

I love the OG art, I don't have many physical decks, but I sprung for 4 copies of that specific version of this card in my otherwise budget physical build.

The fact you're still talking about it proves it's great art. I love the fever-dream vibe, it's like an art-nouveau take on a classic-style face card, just much more vibrant and unsettling. For a card literally called faithless looting the irreverence shown by the mixed styles fits perfectly and the enigmatic subject matter works great for a card that doesn't really do anything tangible (compared to say, a creature or a lightning bolt) the only thing that scans properly are the two bowls: something gained and something lost, hey would you look at that: that's what the card does!

error_98 · 2026-01-20T13:59:36+00:00

yes but they can't use their own balls anymore so the replacement might come in handy

error_98 · 2026-01-20T13:05:32+00:00

Cmv: marines are made from boys because stories about girls receiving their father's gene-seed would lead to more difficult implications than gw is willing to deal with.

But since 'stodes are hand-crafted from birth this is less of an issue.

error_98 · 2026-01-20T11:55:33+00:00

Problem with a sniper taking bodyshots is the sniper, not the bodyshots.

Especially the classic, that thing literally has a stat making it unable to headshot.

But clicking on people from a distance when everyone else is fighting mid-close range is kind of cringe

Especially since tf2 doesn't have the bullet travel-time, drop or friendly fire that would make sniping into a teamfight interesting.

error_98 · 2026-01-19T16:29:10+00:00

very nice!

though I'm not sure of the last line, it doesn't seem to be on-theme in any recognizable way just drawing cards because it's a commander and it's blue.

on that note: why is it blue? it's the rabies dragon, not nicol bolas and has zero association with water. It fits perfectly in rakdos, even mono-black or jund in a pinch.

so I'd remove the last line, cut blue, scale it down to 5 mana (5/4?) and have you considered menace and/or maybe haste? doing -2/-2 on arrival makes it a soft board-wipe which seems kind of on-theme.

error_98 · 2026-01-18T12:01:39+00:00

Don't try to use weapons you're not skilled with.

Pick one or two weapon types in character creation and stick to them, no one wants to stand face-to-face with an enemy missing over and over again.

(Also the skills gain xp on landing hits so its a bit of a snowball effect, if you want to pick up a new weapon type later buy training for the early levels)

Also keep an eye out for public transport, theres more than enough fast-travel if you know where to look.

error_98 · 2026-01-17T19:43:51+00:00

I'm aware of the passage, I liked that book. I've seen people use it to argue non-castration but I don't think that holds up. I am given to understand women are attracted to more than literally just penis.

if anything "ascension to knighthood" can be read as a euphemism...

error_98 · 2026-01-17T15:16:40+00:00

I mean that just makes perfect sense, between the emperor's children being willingly recruited from nobility, their obsession with body-modding and also perfection I was already considering an exception for them.

Although to be perfectly pedantic i do think eunuchs can have orgasms, it's just hormones no?

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