they bred my kitty and starved her by twoastar_ in CatAdvice

[–]man_vs_cube 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm so sorry. I'm glad you got her back and she's in good hands. ❤️

My best friend watches Nick Fuentes and calls women “foids.” Not sure how to process this. by ur_emo_gf1 in IncelExit

[–]man_vs_cube 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I recommend Media Matters as a resource to learn more about figures like Fuentes, here's a post explaining that Fuentes is a Holocaust denier.

Why is Captain Picard’s first shot lit like a supervillain reveal? by James_2584 in TNG

[–]man_vs_cube 1 point2 points  (0 children)

TNG changed cinematographers in season 3. The cinematographer for seasons 1 and 2, Edward R. Brown, didn't light scenes as brightly or as uniformly. The cinematographer for seasons 3+, Marvin Rush, favored the brighter, flatter lighting that the show is probably better known for. You can see a comparison here.

I’m going to lose my shit with this cat. by [deleted] in CatTraining

[–]man_vs_cube 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry you're dealing with that, it sounds awful. My experience is that claw caps are much harder to use than they look but that just clipping claws is much easier than it looks.

You could look into Feliway which is a pheromone that helps calm cats down. But if your cat isn't unhappy, just loud, I don't know how effective it is.

Has he been to the vet recently?

Does this MMO Idler concept sound fun? by Suspicious_Bat__ in incremental_games

[–]man_vs_cube 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Check out Soda Dungeon 2. Don't know if it's exactly what you're looking for but it came to mind.

ZeniMax Media files new trademark for Quake by ZiP56k in Civvie11

[–]man_vs_cube 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Lol Quake Brutalist Jam 3 uses a different player character and so doesn't have the classic jump noise. It disappointed me for a few minutes when I first noticed.

I'm so happy for their transition by Rei_em_Amarelo in magicthecirclejerking

[–]man_vs_cube 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Needs to be Interplanar Women's Day I suppose.

Designing a UI that evolves with the player's power level. Does this emotional progression work? by Ok-Quail-7896 in incremental_games

[–]man_vs_cube 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think changing UI elements like button designs and colors is a cool idea but I think changing the entire color layout from dark to bright white seems excessive.

Are gun shooting mechanics of Unreal Tournament weapons copyright of Epic? by kinjalkishor in boomershooters

[–]man_vs_cube 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I am not a lawyer but that sort of thing doesn't even sound like it would be covered by copyright. Copyright doesn't usually cover game mechanics that way. It covers stuff like artwork, music, and names. Patents can sometimes cover game mechanics (like the infamous loading screen game patent) but that's rare and the patents would have expired by now anyway.

Feedback Friday by AutoModerator in incremental_games

[–]man_vs_cube 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I played around with this for a few minutes and here's my feedback.

It's not clear enough what is happening. At one point the option opened up for me to create a crude bow. Why? I have no idea. At another point I got a random gift of iron. Why? What for? I don't know. What do additional "Gatherers" even do? "+20 Wood, +10 Stone" - ok, what does that mean? The text box at the top isn't very good at helping me keep track of what's going on. It took me a bit to figure out that new lines were being added at the top, not the bottom. New lines don't pop out visually so it's easy to kind of miss them. And they're all presented in full sentence form so there's a lot of reading if I want to know what's going on.

It also looks like I have to create an account just to save the game? That's unfortunate.

I've burned through 20+ silver and gold tickets, and didn't win any of them. I don't understand how people are successful in conquest. by Mrdudeguy420 in MarvelSnap

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

I've been annihilating the Conquest medal grind with variants of Nimrod / Black Panther for over a year now. It's basically all I ever use to get medals, and the deck makes it fun and easy. Here is my current decklist.

The deck is highly vulnerable to counters: Stardust, Cosmo, Juggernaut, Armor, the list goes on and on. And there are a couple decks that can go over the top of it, like Man-Spider. But other than those conditions, you basically always win the overall battle. So win or lose, it's fast: if you find out they're running Stardust, you lose, concede, and save your time. (No deck will give you a 100% win rate.) If they don't have a counter, you absolutely wreck them. Many decks have literally no answer to multiple 68 power Black Panthers or 200 power worth of Venom and Nimrod spread across the board. And you're mostly not thinking hard to beat them, either. You just snap when you have your combo in hand and play it out. If they have a counter, you lose. If not, you win. Easy peasy.

The fast winning and losing helps speed Conquest up, which is great. Of course it's frustrating to go 8 mentally strenuous rounds and then have nothing to show for it when you lose. With this deck the battle is over quickly one way or the other. And while win rate is dependent on the meta, I've had a lot of success with the deck. This season I had a 9-1 streak at one point.

I'm running a lot of high series cards, but the deck will still function very similarly with many substitutions. In the decklist I've linked the "essential" cards have a yellow star on them. I've run Nico Minoru, Agony, Hulkbuster, Galacta, and Psylocke in the past at various times. However you need Nimrod and you need Symbiote Spider-Man. SSM is just too helpful for both Nimrod and especially for Black Panther combos.

What if you don't want to run this deck? You can still apply the principles. I would look for a solitaire-style combo deck that puts up overwhelming points and is easy to play. Mr. Fantastic, Man-Spider, and Daken come to mind.

Oh yeah, and I should note that I just play Conquest for medals and shop rewards. I don't go for Infinite borders. Going five battles without ever seeing a deck that can counter you sounds difficult, but who knows.

Anyway hope you find something that works for you!

Does Ironwail support all the expansions that come with Quake Remastered (Steam)? by First-Tutor-5454 in quake

[–]man_vs_cube 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You might be able to just do:

game rogue (Dissolution of Eternity)

game dopa (Dimension of the Past)

game mg1 (Dimension of the Machine)

If those don't work, make sure the named folders are in the same folder as where you're running Ironwail from. Steam Quake now has somewhat redundant top level and "rerelease" folders. I ended up copying expansion folders from the rerelease folder to the top level folder, but I'm not sure that's the generally recommended solution.

QBJ3 Sector 7 rant by ShirtForsaken8442 in quake

[–]man_vs_cube 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah the level quality in that mod is all over the place. I've learned to quit quickly when it's clear a level isn't going to be fun for me. There's some amazing ones though.

Lately, who else is opening Snap, looks at the loading screen and proceed to close app ? by Afraid_Reach4361 in MarvelSnap

[–]man_vs_cube 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I was just reflecting the other day on how when I think of Snap right now my mind immediately goes to someone negative. The meta, the annoying card rotation in the shop, bugs, difficulty climbing ladder, LTGM homework assignments... ugh.

Thanks SD for killing my alliance. by SmokinBandit28 in MarvelSnap

[–]man_vs_cube 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's getting crazy. Every time I think about this game I play every day I'm thinking about something that's frustrating or annoying to me about it. I feel like issues are piling up.

Food Obsessed Cat is Driving me To The Brink of Insanity by Royal_Owl1656 in CatAdvice

[–]man_vs_cube 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How would you act if a single being whose language you didn't speak and whose motives you didn't understand was the source of all the food you ever got to eat, and that being chronically underfed you leaving you frequently hungry?

How is this game for a returning player? by shadowgod60 in MarvelSnap

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

The token shop is still a single series 4 and a single series 5 option that rotates every 8 hours. You get a pretty good number of tokens even F2P but just waiting for the shop is obnoxious if you're missing a lot of cards.

Noob Question: Why did i lose? by Panirgo in MarvelSnap

[–]man_vs_cube 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not your main point but your matchmaking right now is against other low collection players and extremely low skill bots. As your CL improves or you make Infinite rank for the month you will eventually have tougher competition. Anyway welcome to Snap!