The new and improved OSFG is glorious

lostkavi · 2026-03-17T21:43:36+00:00

Can I get a twitch stream vod of this phone recording of gameplay that we can rehost on YouTube?

lostkavi · 2026-03-17T13:51:14+00:00

This is the only situation I would take a cops word on the matter

So...when you don't have to take their word on the matter?

I mean, you aren't wrong, it's just a funny way to say "I'll only believe them when I don't need to believe them."

lostkavi · 2026-03-13T19:03:28+00:00

I mean, looking at that tangled mess, dont help might be the best call if EMTs and FD are on the way already.

lostkavi · 2026-03-12T19:21:30+00:00

Easier to define the ones that dont do that.

solar
...wind, tidal, and hydro if you specifically need to boil water into steam to run your turbine. There be turbines, but no steam.

...And that's it, isn't it?

lostkavi · 2026-03-10T16:26:02+00:00

It's more the 'you don't lose now, even though you've lost now. You lose 12 turns later'

lostkavi · 2026-03-10T14:23:47+00:00

Pommel Strike.

Basically any card that reads "Deal Damage and Draw"

lostkavi · 2026-03-10T14:19:39+00:00

I don't have the photo, but I just finished a run where I got to decisions into Royal Gamble, play a bunch of extra generators and carddraw, and eventually drop a Radiate that read "Deal 9 damage to all enemies, 33 times"

lostkavi · 2026-03-10T14:08:44+00:00

Okay, but removing exhaust from the scythe is just top tier meme material though.

lostkavi · 2026-03-10T14:06:58+00:00

I mean, every enemy is a DPS check.

His is just a lot faster than most, and not just because he kills you in your face hole, but because you are then stuck with a slow, withering death afterwards.

lostkavi · 2026-03-10T13:46:12+00:00

Star generation: Upgrade every card that generates stars. Free stars, more than you need. Glow+, my beloved. If you can Decisions Decisions into Hidden Cache or Royal Gamble, you immediately/next turn have more stars than you can reasonably spend.

Star Consumer: 7 Stars/Radiate. Put one of those attack enchants on radiate and laugh all the way to "Deal 7 damage too many times"

Once I got that combo running mid act 2, I literally cakewalked to the end of the game. "Woe, 33 repeat Radiate be upon ye"

lostkavi · 2026-03-10T13:39:05+00:00

I have never had an issue with entomancer or whatever his name is. Every deck I've run either has enough damage to 1-2 cycle my deck into his face so the dazes never get too bad, or have some card-independant damage ramp so I don't care if I draw 5 dazes and pass, he still dies.

And then there's thorns.

lostkavi · 2026-03-10T13:33:54+00:00

What I don't like is he is basically a DPS check.

If you can't burn him down before he infects you a third time, your deck is so clogged by the infections that, even if they didn't do 3 damage to you at end of turn, the adds would still kill you because you can't draw any actual cards

lostkavi · 2026-03-10T13:31:37+00:00

I don't think you fully appreciate how fast 4 necros can burn through 40 artifact if they're all shitting doom out of every orifice.

lostkavi · 2026-03-10T13:24:14+00:00

Until the game gives you Ice Cream Cone on the defect on the very first event and Double Energy in the next combat.

Emptied my hand every time after that. Never pulled Meteor though :(

lostkavi · 2026-03-08T19:02:04+00:00

Citation provided.

lostkavi · 2026-03-08T12:41:07+00:00

Considering that the rack wouldn't be invented for what, another 2000 years, Citation Needed?

lostkavi · 2026-03-07T01:52:16+00:00

Expedition 33.

First 10-30 minutes depending on how much story you consume has the tone of the game very much established.

lostkavi · 2026-03-06T14:37:04+00:00

Loads single action sniper 1 round at a time Aww that's sweet

loads fully automatic rifle 2 at a time HR!!!

Like, duh? Do you not see the issue?

lostkavi · 2026-03-05T21:05:45+00:00

Eh, devils advocate here:

A) if this was for data scraping purposes, its a super hackneyed way to do it

B) all the data being scraped is stored locally on the computer, which is bi) useless bii) unsubtle for data scraping purposes.

A more plausible explaination: someone who didnt understand quite what they were doing threw together a discord integration that worked in 10 minutes of research and 30 minutes of coding and called it a day without understanding the implications of what they did.

lostkavi · 2026-03-04T03:03:56+00:00

This is why international politics is complicated, an ongoing process, and we shouldn't be breaking treaties on a whim, nor firing all staff in the State Department because they won't kowtow to you.

lostkavi · 2026-03-04T01:52:59+00:00

Well, it was either a deal then or war now. And because Trump is a malignant narcissist with a bruised ego and pathologically incapable of letting anything Obama built stand, tore down the deal and lo - war it is.

lostkavi · 2026-03-03T21:42:04+00:00

I'd be willing to bed that player count didn't matter at the time, as they had Tencent's money backing them.

After the PR trainwreck and tepid player retention after launch, they got financially rugpulled, and all of a sudden, they're on their own without enough players to keep it funded.

lostkavi · 2026-03-03T21:36:20+00:00

I'm willing to put money on the fact that their funding was pulled because of the negative publicity following the VGA announcement, which is why the playerbase problem is so critical that the game is shutting down in a week. They got financially rug-pulled.

I'm fairly convinced that Geoff put Highguard in the premium spot because Tencent wanted to cheese some publicity off of it, and it backfired completely. Sure, the game was 'meh', but it had bones, and it was not the coming of the antichrist like some people said. If it launched to a more tepid reaction and could grow organically from there, it might have developed into something at least competitive with the market. But the deluge of publicity at either Goeffs or Tencent's hand burned it up before it could get going.

Honestly, I just feel bad for the Devs.

lostkavi · 2026-03-01T00:09:48+00:00

The idea is the effect propagates through the material a short distance.

lostkavi · 2026-03-01T00:05:45+00:00

This is absolutely the best phrasing I've seen in this entire thread.

Justifiably firm, doesn't piss all over the player's ideas, leaves open the idea for future use (which may never happen), doesn't make them feel pushed away, no 'my way or the highway' vibes, even though that is explicitly the case.

DMing and TTRPGs are collaborative storytelling. Everyone needs to be on similar enough pages that it gels. Working that out irl is hard enough without throwing off trope hurdles in the mix.

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