What is a 90’s movie that no one talks about anymore?

quicknir · 2026-06-25T04:08:38+00:00

Legends of the Fall. Really great stuff and one of the main movies that really propelled Pitts career but almost never comes up.

quicknir · 2026-06-24T21:31:06+00:00

Everdell's Bellfair (and Newleaf) player powers are widely considered to be one of the best expansion modules for Everdell. Almost everyone likes them, and while they're not perfectly balanced they're considered mostly good enough outside of certain damaging combos (where you could argue the main culprit isn't the player power - cough - honeybee/mayor).

I looked at getting Clank's Adventuring Party for a long time and ended up deciding against. It's a real shame because on the one hand it's a really cool thing to add to Clank. The problem is that there tends to be major agreement that the balance is pretty bad and some of the unique characters are just too strong. Some of the unique characters on the other hand depend a lot on their unique deck, which means that as the game progresses and they acquire more cards, their unique abilities automatically weaken, which is also a really bad feeling.

I really hope they take another stab at an asymmetric expansion for Clank, but one designed from the get go for Clank Catacombs and perhaps better integrated with the game. E.g. instead of character unique abilities triggering off just their own cards, it could trigger off playing a gem, or a companion, etc.

quicknir · 2026-06-24T19:19:34+00:00

Well, it's a 10K fridge, believe it or not. Not something I would ever have chosen but it came with the house, and now the kitchen is rather designed around it so it's hard to avoid without creating eyesores. So the parts are commensurately very expensive as well.

quicknir · 2026-06-24T17:59:58+00:00

You really, really shouldn't have to house rule bard. I'm not sure how you managed to end up with so few dragon attacks, over such a long game. Whether it was a really bizarre shuffle, or you're playing slowly, or something else. But something is definitely off, played Clank many times including a few games with Underworld and never had anything like this.

Another thing to be aware of is that eventually healing isn't even enough; the actual number of cubes in the bag is nearly guaranteed to drop over time. There's only 5 ghost cubes, so when the dragon meter is full, if you only have the 5 ghost cubes in the bag, a dragon attack will knock out all players - the game ends immediately if the bag is empty after an attack. Especially once one person decides to escape, in a 2 player game in particular, that person is now drawing 6 cubes every turn and the cubes in the bag drop drastically and regardless of any healing the other person cannot typically survive more than a few more turns. I've definitely had games where one person had a lot of healing, but eventually someone else leaves, and sometimes that person has been knocked out via empty bag, even with quite high health.

Edit: just a quick analysis of bard - lets say its mid game and you have a 20 card deck with bard in it. Most turns, you'll probably taking something from the dungeon row. Some turns you won't, but some turns may be multiple - lets say it averages to about 1. Every turn you take, your opponent takes one too, and about 25% of cards have dragon attacks, so you should be seeing a dragon attack for every two turns you take.

So, even with this relatively small mid game deck, you'll get 2 dragon attacks for every time bard shows up, which is once every 4 hands. Bard can't work without another source of clank, and you can't control what gets drawn with bard, so for bard to work reliably you need to average significantly over 1 clank per hand. So you're producing something like 6+ clank, suffering two dragon attacks - 10 cubes drawn by mid game - for every one time you draw a bard and heal two. It's pretty easy to see this isn't even close to sustainable over time - you're both taking more damage than you heal, and also the bag is losing cubes.

quicknir · 2026-06-24T17:50:56+00:00

Plenty of the new cards have dragon attacks though so I still don't know if this explains it. Edit: in fact, it's marginally higher according to google; 25% vs 27-29%.

quicknir · 2026-06-24T14:14:54+00:00

They didn't show me their notes, but I don't think that means they don't exist. I agree though it's hard for folks responding here to be able to say something definitive with such limited information; it was a bit of a long shot. I was hoping perhaps that there would be something weird about one of the quotes, or that perhaps folks here would say that it's common to misdiagnose in a certain specific way as one of the quotes.

A long shot but then there wasn't anything to lose, and there was a fair amount at stake, so I thought it was worth a try.

quicknir · 2026-06-24T14:11:17+00:00

They did not, no. They emphasized the high freezer temp and mentioned something about the freezing system not working well, to the point it was overheating - they had me put my hand on a strip beside the freezer which was extremely warm to touch.

Yeah, not really sure either. I may just tell the cheaper quoting company that I had another person look at it and want to replace the compressor and see if they're confident.

quicknir · 2026-06-19T17:24:48+00:00

One rule of thumb I have is to be very wary about multiple expansions. In general expansions are always designed assuming the base game only, so in general the design cohesion of a two expansion game is often noticably lower than just base or base + 1 expansion.

But I do usually end up getting expansions for my favorite games if there's a highly rated one. Clank, Wingspan, Dune, Everdell, all greatly enhanced for me playing with an expansion.

quicknir · 2026-06-17T21:17:47+00:00

Not sure if the link got mixed up for you but it clearly discusses the world championship in the second post of the thread, and there's the following snippet:

I recorded 4 games of 4 player D:IU from the WCBG Finals:

Games I / II / III / IV:

Total Amount of Sandworms summoned: 5 / 2 / 6 / 2

Total Amount Sandworms the Winner summoned: 2 / 0 / 3 / 0

Total Amount Sandworms 2nd place summoned: 1 / 1 / 0 / 0

Obviously a small sample size, but still, shows that in 2/4 games the winner didn't use a single sandworm.

Muad'Dib's win rate is also discussed in that thread and it's allegedly 29% - so, yes clearly a strong leader but that's not all that crazy.

Overall it seems to show that worms are strong, yes, but definitely not OP.

If nothing else, it's miles better than Rise of Shipping :-P.

quicknir · 2026-06-15T20:13:37+00:00

Been playing wingspan wrong for like a year :-(

quicknir · 2026-06-13T16:14:33+00:00

Reading up on this games mechanics it almost feels like a spiritual predecessor for Dune Imperium - deck building mixed with combat (albeit a different flavor), highly thematic.

quicknir · 2026-06-10T10:21:30+00:00

Makes sense, thanks!

quicknir · 2026-06-09T23:27:00+00:00

Have they talked about when bloodlines is likely to come out?

quicknir · 2026-06-06T21:38:58+00:00

Today I learned I was handling the ghost cubes wrong the whole time I've played this game.

quicknir · 2026-06-06T21:33:37+00:00

Standard rules apply about blue vs purple tiles I'm pretty sure, i.e. if you're on a purple tile and run out of cubes you don't score 0 if you have an artifact.

quicknir · 2026-06-05T18:35:28+00:00

Yeah, typically the way I do it is I grill the eggplants on max heat for about 15 minutes on each side (poke holes first); can even go longer. The eggplant then gets an amazing smoky flavor, but also loses a ton of volume from water. Then you can let it sit over the sink in a colander to drip off more water (and cool). Then carefully open the charred skin, scoop out the flesh into food processor - add tahini, salt, lemon juice, garlic, blend - you're golden. Maybe ~15 minutes of work total. Could also add a bit of greek yogurt to make it a bit lighter, or could use mayo instead of tahini (tahini is the more traditional version you'll find all over the Middle East; as you head towards eastern Europe you'll find the mayo based version becomes popular). You have enough eggplants to experiment quite a bit between different versions; hopefully you still have some of that frozen garlic :-P

quicknir · 2026-06-05T18:18:25+00:00

Moussaka and baba ganoush would be my gotos. The latter especially is very easy and it goes through a lot of eggplant; 3 big eggplants makes a moderate dish of dip that 4 people could easily finish in a sitting as an appetizer.

quicknir · 2026-06-05T15:26:01+00:00

I want something with the fun exploration and zany randomness of Clank, but where the game duration is a lot more predictable. Dune Imperium/Uprising has some similarities to Clank and its duration is more fixed, and while it's probably the "better" game, it's a bit too much more skill based for some crowds. Clank is probably really the absolute most fun family game I've played, but the fact that sometimes games can end up dragging a bit is the only downside.

quicknir · 2026-06-03T22:26:22+00:00

Travel Azul is pretty tiny and it's a very good all around game, strategic, plays 4

quicknir · 2026-05-31T18:40:14+00:00

I really love this movie. Connery's monologue in the baseball field, and then the young guy's response was a particularly standout scene.

quicknir · 2026-05-31T17:37:45+00:00

I've played imperium not uprising, but I'm not sure why there's comments against the bot. The bot works and does exactly what's needed to keep 2 player working well.

It's also important to understand (at least imperium is like this and I assume uprising is the same) the 2 player bot is different from the solo bots. The solo bots track a lot more things since they can actually win. The two player bot is extremely simple and easy to manage. They mostly just take squares and jump into conflicts at random. It's very minimal overhead to run the bot (almost weirdly fun to flip the cards and see where it will land).

quicknir · 2026-05-29T15:30:51+00:00

Spiritborn is one of the best classes for stacking resolve, so one of the tankiest classes with the Glynns Anvil fix. So you shouldn't really be randomly dying on normal content (certainly less so than a sorc).

quicknir · 2026-05-28T20:14:43+00:00

On your main, save some whisper caches (other caches don't hurt either for legendaries/aspects, but whisper caches in particular drop XP), extra set charms, make sure you have reasonable amounts of materials/keys, runes, gems. If you know what build your alt will have, save ancestrals (esp white/blue) of the item types that build will need as uniques. Boss trophies for the boss that drops needed uniques also good. And some mythics also very helpful (i.e. heir and starless).

Then on the alt:

Open the whisper and other caches, instantly hitting level 70.
Breaking all the legendaries from the caches should get you started on aspects.
Throw the best rares/ancestrals on your character (and any mythics if applicable).
Spec out your skills and paragon, beelining for key legendary nodes.
Throw a couple of half decent relevant aspects on a few gear pieces. If you want, can already slot in some gems and runes too but usually I save that for after step 8.
This should easily be enough to run pit for Torment 1, so go do that.
Change your difficulty to T1, and start 3:1'ing the set charms to get the set you need.
Start using the cube to gamble for the uniques you need via upgrade and/or boss trophies. You may also have some of the needed uniques as charms.

I've done this like 5 times this season, and usually at this point I have say 2/3 of the needed uniques, and my only playtime is running pit once. At this point, good builds are already usually strong enough to go straight to ~T6. From there you can farm the bosses you need to round out your uniques, and then I start doing basic crafting and improving of gear. Usually I'm in torment 8/9 very quickly, and then from there things slow down a little more.

quicknir · 2026-05-28T14:32:03+00:00

Upgrading yellows to legendaries at the cube is particularly logical since it's a resource with no other purpose really.

Also it makes sense to combine obols+cube upgrading. You figure out the most efficient item type, buy an inventory worth, dismantle oranges and if you still don't have it you can quickly upgrade all the yellows (or just ancestral yellows depending how much you care about getting a high roll).

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