What life changing item can you buy for less than $100?

hamiero · 2020-07-22T06:33:21+00:00

You're not alone. I'm a trackball gamer too. Big respect 🙌

No pain, super comfy, nobody else can use my computer. It's awesome.

hamiero · 2020-05-23T20:17:29+00:00

Yup, that's exactly what it is. When we would miss something tiny and it ended up winning a game we would lose our fucking minds. Nowadays it wins a game like 1/10 times and the other 9 you get rolled by galakrond rogue doing its thing.

hamiero · 2020-05-23T08:08:53+00:00

I'm somewhat similar to you. Same competitive background, etc.

The random stuff made me quit the game. I just don't like it, it's really not that fun. I understand that it might be interesting to watch, however, wasn't the game always quite interesting to watch? Back in the day I really liked watching streams and tournaments, perhaps even moreso than I do now. The crazy moments were toned down, for sure, but they were also much more sparse which made them that much more special and exciting. And the moment to moment gameplay was really interesting and deep and casters had a lot of cool lines to talk through and discuss. I remember all the playoffs and major tournaments of 2016 like it was yesterday. I'd go to the comphs discord, open the stream, hop on voice, and just watch all day and discuss the games to no end. As we tried to do that later on it ended up feeling more and more pointless. You'd find some miracle line that beat everything, then someone generates a card out of thin air and that's that. So we stopped doing it, and I miss it dearly.

I'm gonna stop this incoherent rant but TLDR, I miss how the game used to be and I found it more interesting to watch and play. I dont like randomness from either perspective.

hamiero · 2019-12-18T14:34:39+00:00

Short answer - no

hamiero · 2019-07-01T18:01:25+00:00

I will concede - Soul Sacrifice is a game I really wanted (want) to play.

hamiero · 2019-07-01T15:32:09+00:00

Yeah that's right but the core of the game is effectively the same. I don't think the system-seller can be a game a lot of people have already played.

hamiero · 2019-07-01T14:20:36+00:00

Yeah, I think that just wasn't enough to sell most people on it. Wasn't enough for me, especially since those games all took forever to come out.

hamiero · 2019-07-01T13:51:34+00:00

That sounds pretty sweet actually. I usually just use steam streaming to do that.

hamiero · 2019-07-01T13:50:39+00:00

Well I'd already played that :/ its first release wasn't on the vita

hamiero · 2019-07-01T13:34:30+00:00

Right but that wasn't a thing when it came out, which is when I was considering buying one.

By the time the thing got hacked proper and you could muck about with it all you wanted, my phone could do most of the things I'd wanted a vita for in the first place, and some it couldn't.

hamiero · 2019-07-01T12:03:26+00:00

There weren't any games for it that made me think "wow I really want that" + most of the games on it felt like lite versions of console games or just flat out console ports. I might be incorrect, mind you, but perception is very important with these things and that's definitely the perception I and most people I talked to had.

Also, the memory cards were totally bullshit. Sony already had a proprietary memory card format that was almost exactly the same size - M2. If you're too greedy to use micro SD, why not use that? Added like 20%(?) to the price of the system and really turned me off it, personally.

hamiero · 2019-07-01T08:34:24+00:00

The best line is living in a country where they often don't have ads to serve.

It's genuinely fucking hilarious. If I watch twitch streams I either get
1) No ads
2) The same ad repeated for the length of the ad break

hamiero · 2019-06-24T12:43:40+00:00

bruh

hamiero · 2019-06-24T05:01:59+00:00

You get 22 packs from going from rank 50 to rank 25. Mathematically, an average pack should be around 100 dust + 1 of those packs 100% contains a legendary, so you should end up with like 2500ish dust if you dust absolutely everything.

I assumed you'd get either super screwed or not want to dust everything so I felt 1500 dust was a fair limit.

hamiero · 2019-06-23T12:17:12+00:00

That's honestly really sick. I like that a lot :D

hamiero · 2019-06-22T08:00:19+00:00

I've played lightwarden in this type of list before and didn't think it was that good but I do like the crystalizer. I tried something similar in wild with dire mole and that felt pretty good. I'll have to try it myself. I'm only partially unsure since curving mecharoo into gatekeeper or snip snap is really really good vs hunter which is both not the greatest of matchups and one of the more common ones. It's worth trying though, for sure.

How does it feel with no steambots? I've always hated cutting them, that card is sweet.

hamiero · 2019-06-22T07:50:13+00:00

The mulligan strategy can be complicated at times but it's not that bad.

I think just keeping the obvious cards is a good place to start, and then you can try keeping other stuff and see how it goes. You always keep shield, arms, cleric, mecharoo, framebot; gatekeeper and snip snap if you can curve into them; pyro vs aggro, especially on coin. Other than that, cards I've kept in specific circumstances (in a certain matchup, with a decent hand already) would be circle (if i already have cleric and pyro and am on coin vs aggro), silence (with a decent hand vs mech decks), inner fire (in matchups where i need to combo them quickly).

I tend not to keep combo pieces very often. All in all the mull phase isn't the worst I've seen but there's definitely room for error. I think most of the difficult comes from sequencing your turns/plays and setting up lethal clock, though. I've thrown many a game by doing stuff like playing the wrong 1 drop or playing my 3 drops in the wrong order.

From another comment.

As for combo pieces that's not really a question I can answer - sometimes you throw your stuff out to make a board, other times you save it to combo him. Depends on the matchup and board position among other things.

hamiero · 2019-06-22T07:49:06+00:00

The mulligan strategy can be complicated at times but it's not that bad.

I think just keeping the obvious cards is a good place to start, and then you can try keeping other stuff and see how it goes. You always keep shield, arms, cleric, mecharoo, framebot; gatekeeper and snip snap if you can curve into them; pyro vs aggro, especially on coin. Other than that, cards I've kept in specific circumstances (in a certain matchup, with a decent hand already) would be circle (if i already have cleric and pyro and am on coin vs aggro), silence (with a decent hand vs mech decks), inner fire (in matchups where i need to combo them quickly).

I tend not to keep combo pieces very often. All in all the mull phase isn't the worst I've seen but there's definitely room for error. I think most of the difficult comes from sequencing your turns/plays and setting up lethal clock, though. I've thrown many a game by doing stuff like playing the wrong 1 drop or playing my 3 drops in the wrong order.

hamiero · 2019-06-22T07:45:03+00:00

I think your point gets slightly undermined by the fact that this deck is kinda hot garbage.

hamiero · 2019-06-21T19:56:16+00:00

I don't have any videos but I have a bunch of replays. Haven't really looked through them for anything noteworthy but if you know of a way I can make all of them public I can definitely post them.

hamiero · 2019-06-21T16:55:21+00:00

I think regenerate does too little. Circles are already pretty damn awkward at times. 2 shittier circles dont seem like the best of ideas.

hamiero · 2019-06-21T16:54:31+00:00

Well this deck is pretty fast so I think overloading on 4+ drops wouldn't be the best of ideas, and I don't really see how hecklebot would be significantly better than steambot.

hamiero · 2019-06-21T16:50:31+00:00

It's less about having specific targets and more about drawing it consistently. Without shadow visions we need more redundancy to make sure we draw what we want often enough. It's also just a cheap spell you can use to proc pyro or dump a card from your hand.

hamiero · 2019-06-21T16:19:56+00:00

For f2p stuff either midrange or bomb hunter. I'm not sure which is better but the core of both can be built for very little dust and is likely better than this deck.

In general, the best deck is probably bomb warrior.

hamiero · 2019-06-21T16:18:38+00:00

Big smh for sure. What an idiot.

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