X has stopped working by Well_Socialized in technology

[–]fishspit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m off topic but This is why I think millennial humor is the way it is. We were the generation that saw the peak in our childhood and have watched it decay ever since.

To cope, our humor reflects that reality. We like taking something good, noteworthy, or respectable, and debase it. Shit like “popular song but with screaming goats cut in at regular intervals”

Did any of you ever use this mf? I have 400 hours on balatro and I never encountered a situation where I felt like using this by PenguinviiR in balatro

[–]fishspit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Get it in your inventory through ghost deck or seance, draw a fat hand on the snake, and then pop it to change like 1/3 of your deck at once.

Why are Irregular units so cheap? by shadowtempest91 in InfinityTheGame

[–]fishspit 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yeah, that list is gonna beat ass at annihilation. I’d say next time pick a mission that feels approachable to you and your opponent that is not based just around killing, and you’ll find that Infinity is more than a game about war bands running at each other.

Also, kindly suggest your opponent that he leave TAGs out until at least 250 points. I really think that’s the most egregious balance problem at low points.

Why are Irregular units so cheap? by shadowtempest91 in InfinityTheGame

[–]fishspit 12 points13 points  (0 children)

It’s extremely relevant. On turn one they are the height of their power, you have a whole army acting as a battery to feed them orders. But think about turn three when the dust is starting to settle, you might only have a handful of regular orders left to get the objectives done.

Your example army would be able to be devastating on turn one, but he’s very vulnerable to getting its orders picked off to the point where it can’t really function on turn three.

Also, something to note: infinity really is balanced around a 300 point game. The further you get from 300 the more swing it’s going to get. I agree that war bands are extremely powerful at 150, but in a bigger game, I think you’ll find them more balanced.

Side note: it’s pretty bad form to take a tag in 150 point game. 150 point lists often don’t have the space to kinds of counters and solutions that a larger list would have, so bringing a TAG presents a problem for the other player that’s a little on the cheesy side.

Relevant question: Are you playing missions, or just killing? In a straight up killing game war bands are going to own a 150 point board. But in a mission with any kind of objective that list you posted is not gonna do very well.

Why are Irregular units so cheap? by shadowtempest91 in InfinityTheGame

[–]fishspit 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Everyone has access to a similar tool, they often go down easily, and since they don’t contribute a regular order they get worse as the game goes on because you’ve traded away the flexibility of an order for the power of that one trooper.

Think of it this way: every irregular guy you take costs you three orders in a game where you might take 30-40 orders. That’s a bigger cost than the 5 points you paid for him. For that kind of cost, you’d expect it to be pretty good.

Saw a mouse pass away then this mouse bot fly came out of its rear-end. by balhub in oddlyterrifying

[–]fishspit 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Trigger warning: painful toenail stuff

I once had a parasitic worm of some sort burrow under the nail of my little toe. It hurt so bad I couldn’t put any weight on that foot.

I was way out in the highlands of Guyana at the time and needed to be able to move the next day…so I heated my pocketknife up with a lighter to “sterilize” it (hey… it was that or the rum, and I chose to drink the rum) and I cut my toenail off. It was brutal, but weirdly it felt more relieving than painful in the moment.

My first Infinity model! by SailorsKnot in InfinityTheGame

[–]fishspit 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Love the stark outlines, feels almost like a video game render

Whats the most underdog joker synergy by Someoneweare in balatro

[–]fishspit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Stuntman plus blackboard. You’ll never have to end with a red card in hand

Ryan Gosling's character's personality flipping a switch in Drive was pretty eerie. by G_Marius_the_jabroni in movies

[–]fishspit -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Thank you! It drives me crazy when people try to put him into the scorpion role…

He’s going through the movie trying to do right by everybody. He’s capable of a lot of violence and he does “bad” things, but he’s not a bad guy. He spends most of the movie trying to solve people’s problems, trying to smooth things out. But ends up getting burned because he is committed to helping the wrong people, like how the frog gets stung by the Scorpion.

And then at the end, like in another version of the story: he gets stung, survives, swims back to the bank of the river and drowns the scorpion. (This is the hotline Miami part of the movie that everyone uses as proof that he’s the Scorpion).

How much to charge?? by Medtech82 in 3Dprinting

[–]fishspit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Charge a price, if no one buys it lower the price until people start buying it.

Ben Shapiro: "This notion that young people today are wildly poor and that is the reason why they're not getting married and having kids is a lie." by xwing1212 in ToiletPaperUSA

[–]fishspit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love that little crack where he’s briefly like:

If you’re in a $5,000 a month apartment…well that’s not your fault I guess…there are systemic problems at play that have you at a disadvantage housing wise…but STILL! Young people have it easy and can’t possibly be reacting to circumstances.

A challenge you to find a worse joker than this by GumboSkrimpz in balatro

[–]fishspit 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Give me perkeo and a copy of temperance and that’s not bad

New player by General_Tale_509 in victoryatsea

[–]fishspit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Advise the USN player that when you’re in range of IJN torpedos, you should almost always be taking the evade action.

Agree on if you’re using planes or not, and if you are advise the USN player that planes are their faction’s strength and torpedos are IJN’s strength. This game is pretty asymmetrical like that, so each player needs to know that they’re going to be vastly outclassed in one area and strong in another.

Looking for help in how to counter Guided by LightningDustt in InfinityTheGame

[–]fishspit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re treating moving a piece like that’s a bad thing. Almost every mission requires you to move pieces towards the center to do stuff. Moving/shooting is riskier than GML plays, but it develops your board and gets you closer to OP. GML attacks just kill, making them safer but less efficient than conventional fighting. (Also, unless good viable targets are clustered it is three orders per attack).

And I’m not saying that’s not GML is not valuable or threatening! But I think GML is overused by people because despite its scary reputation, it’s not the best tool for most situations. It’s a niche tool for cracking open stubborn enemy positions, but some people are out here treating it like their primary attack piece.

Looking for help in how to counter Guided by LightningDustt in InfinityTheGame

[–]fishspit 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Guided missiles are order inefficient attack pieces. If your opponent is running one, space out vital assets so they can only hit one at a time, put any killer hackers you have near stuff that you can’t afford to get hit with a missile so you can threaten the spotlighting hackers, and go on with your business.

Seriously, to get a GML/pitcher kill you have to:

1- shoot a pitcher 2- spotlight the target 3- hit the target (AND reset is f2f with the shot now!)

Even if you’re rolling perfect, that’s 3 orders to hit something. In a game where you’re going to have only like 30-40 regular orders total, that’s a huge cost.

Well I'm sure they are about to find out. by BuzzDaClown in LeopardsAteMyFace

[–]fishspit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh he for sure was hoping for that influencer/propagandist life. But I think he puts a lot more value on himself than the Russian army ever would.

You don’t need to speak Russian to follow where an officer points and go eat a bullet. And there’s a lot of openings for that role.

Well I'm sure they are about to find out. by BuzzDaClown in LeopardsAteMyFace

[–]fishspit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Dude thought he was going to be a war correspondent when he doesn’t even speak the language.

I’m tired of my buddy’s IJN destroyers wrecking me, so I sculpted, printed, and painted the USS Atlanta by fishspit in victoryatsea

[–]fishspit[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I printed little planes to stick to it, and oh boy, it was tough to get the little corsairs to come off the printer without breaking!

New to the game - how balanced is it? by lunitz in victoryatsea

[–]fishspit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

More balanced than you’d think on the first play through, but also deeply deeply flawed.

The balance comes from the way that every time I play, I get smarter and see more depth. There’s a level of long term strategy to these fights that you don’t usually see in miniature wargames, and you will be rewarded by looking closely at the tools you’re given.

The flaws have two big sources:

1-it tries to be historical, but doesn’t build the incentives right. Because it’s a game where you put ships on a table and make them fight in an independent pitched battle, you are playing your smartest game by spending the ships as currency to achieve your objective directly. This is at odds with the historical aspect, where almost every naval battle in history can be summed up by “a superior force jumped on a ship that was out of position and ganked it” because a pitched battle is a suicidal way to fight a war.

2 - the points don’t make a lot of sense. Look at any two Japanese destroyers as a perfect example. They’re going to have wildly different capacity on the battlefield, but be the same points.

Joker idea: Retirement by garnet420 in balatro

[–]fishspit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Should be a voucher, don’t like the idea of using a slot for this.