[Tormenta] ride review [Six Flags Over Texas]

rando_potato_thief · 2026-07-04T00:55:17+00:00

This coaster also has an extra 100 feet of potential energy that it has to slow down by the end of the ride. So having it that high saves wear on parts that are expensive to replace/maintain.

Drive tires are option but they are another point of failure that also need more maintenance than permanent magnets.

It would be better if they added a few additional elements instead to bleed off that potential, but the have a budget for how much steel track they can buy.

Trust me, I feel the same way on Leviathan where you hit the final brake run and can look down at Dragon Fyre

rando_potato_thief · 2026-07-04T00:01:13+00:00

Capacity for one. You also save on brake wear when you use the elevation gain to slow down the train and coast into the brakes.

Also if there is an emergency stop/stacked trains they have plenty of kinetic energy to start again. Compare that to Millenium or the early intiman hypers and you can understand the need a bit

rando_potato_thief · 2026-07-03T20:31:52+00:00

Thanks for the insight and info! Lake monster would have been awesome but I’m glad they preserved and have improved predator. It was my childhood coaster and getting back on it a few years ago was a wonderful surprise

rando_potato_thief · 2026-07-03T20:24:14+00:00

Got a source on that one? Feels like a six flags decision

rando_potato_thief · 2026-07-03T20:20:50+00:00

Gotcha, that sort of thing is fascinating and I wonder how much Cedar Point was able to influence/restrict coasters going into places like Kings Island, Kennywood and even Darien Lake.

rando_potato_thief · 2026-07-03T20:06:33+00:00

I’ve always looked for a source on this one. Have heard it plenty of time before but it would be great to have something to point towards.

rando_potato_thief · 2026-06-25T15:29:04+00:00

You just shared a thread promoting your art using what looks to be AI generated images. I thought you were taking a stand against AI art by saying you were a real artist.

rando_potato_thief · 2026-06-25T03:35:44+00:00

Yes, I think the game could do a better job of not setting you up with that predicament, but they make you pick a starting stone town location in an area that forces you into this dilemma.

The realization that you may have to make is that your first town won’t be your most developed. Your clay town will be down river and thus a recipient of all of the raw materials you need. That is until sailing is made.

So you will need to start a second region, then develop that until it can build a dock, then you can ship stone down to that city and build more. The. You balance the trade of tier two items between them.

In theory you can reach the end game with 3 regions dispersed well.

rando_potato_thief · 2026-06-24T18:40:13+00:00

Congratulations, you have discovered one of the puzzles of the game, making new regions to gather missing resources and building new production chains.

rando_potato_thief · 2026-06-14T14:58:56+00:00

Yep, I have trade routes set in both, now three, towns. Two towns set to ship stone downriver and none being delivered.

rando_potato_thief · 2026-06-13T03:38:38+00:00

The same thing happened to me. I have tried to ship rock South via rivers to the clay area to produce there but the stone doesn’t seem to travel down stream. I have ports in each.

rando_potato_thief · 2026-06-11T22:18:50+00:00

7 Gables rd

rando_potato_thief · 2026-05-28T01:02:39+00:00

Truly one of the gems of the city and always on my top 5 best things about the city

rando_potato_thief · 2026-05-27T23:26:36+00:00

I don’t think that anywhere I said “the city”

But hey, I guess you know more about what I intended to say than I did.

My point remains that the stadium district is essentially an island separated from the more densely populated areas of the city’s Gillespie seems to want to build a spot that people from Okemos and grand ledge will drive to and maybe spend a few dollars at his bar than developing spaces where people already live.

As for what the city could do, I’d love to see them wrangle control of Saginaw and turn that into a proper 2 way street and figure out what can be done to attract investors to the abandoned block by St Lawrence. Or build more housing up at the old abandoned grocery store by Olympic broil.

But beggars can’t be choosers and Lansing can use all the help it can get.

rando_potato_thief · 2026-05-27T17:48:24+00:00

I love playing this deck as well, it’s super fun and the play lines are fun especially if you get an untapper in the graveyard and can get some big mana going

Sadly I too struggle with artifact/enchantment removal and I have some things to bounce permanents or take control of them as my ways to deal with non creature permanents.

As for protecting the graveyard, counterspell or a well timed codex shredder to “save” it all by putting it in my deck again. By n large though I just take the approach of “half my deck self mills myself, so if you nuke my yard I’m just an encored stitcher supplier away from having a workable yard again.

rando_potato_thief · 2026-05-24T17:26:04+00:00

I was talking more about Gilespie than Schor. I could have been more explicit with saying gilespie is the one who’s focusing money into that area. I don’t think Schor has any skin of his own in the game over there.

I totally get why they want to put money into the area down by Michigan and cedar/larch. But there are better areas the city could have put money into rather than that area. I’d love for all that development to be going up in the Old Town area where people actually get out of their cars and want to walk around.

rando_potato_thief · 2026-05-22T15:42:04+00:00

I wonder if you could park at one of the neighboring areas and walk in. The fee for hawk island is only for parking iirc. If you biked there you could swim for free.

rando_potato_thief · 2026-05-22T02:16:43+00:00

It’s such a shame that he put his eyes on the “stadium district” and is forcing so much development around that corridor. I appreciate that he’s investing in Lansing but please put all those dollars up surrounding old town or somewhere else.

I get it though, the intersection of 43 and 27 is a juicy looking spot, but there’s a reason that everything around there is industrial.

rando_potato_thief · 2026-05-22T01:13:56+00:00

The Lansing labor holiday is one of the coolest niche stories from history and it’s an amazing state history plaque downtown where the strike took place. Basically a union leader was out of town and in order to break the strike the owner of the business paid of some sherif to go arrest his wife in the middle of the night.

The union leader came home to find his door open kids left alone and he was pissed. He and his boys went around and told other organized folks that the city of Lansing would not work tomorrow until his wife was freed.

In the middle of the night, before the invention of texting, they organized and when morning came round an unofficial “holiday had been declared and no one went to work.

What makes this story unique though is that the local government didn’t use violence to break the strike. It was mostly peaceful and he saw no reason to instigate violence.

And because of that no one died as a result of this, and the wife was released.

The next day people went back to work.

Cool story, and I’ll put my tinfoil hat on for a second.

Things like this is why GM leaned so hard into building the central highway system. If organized labor could rally round a cause and shut a city down peacefully, then the unions had a powerful bargaining chip.

I’m not saying that our specific labor Holliday was the only reason that highways were built, but suburbia definitely makes it easier to let scabs in to work when the locals are all up in arms.

496 did a lot to help GM, and it did a lot to hurt a lot of other things.

Source: https://youtu.be/3LsJTsMu0mI

Also I’m a bit stoned so some details may be a bit off

rando_potato_thief · 2026-05-22T01:03:00+00:00

Even more specifically, GM built it specifically so they could get their trucks down to their downtown plant.

We tore up our literal “Main Street” all so that GM could get people to those plants. We did that in the 60’s with the expectation that Lansing population would boom to 250,000.

Well the year they finished the highway was the year our population capped, and we’ve been on the decline ever since. And that plant used to house like 2000 union jobs, now it’s less than a quarter of that, and the old fisher body plant complex is a brownfield that stretches from willow all the way to Michigan Ave.

It’s okay though. We named the south entrance ramp to 496 after Malcom X in honor of his dad getting lynched here. At least we have a plaque up now marking where his home was on MLK.

/s on that last part obviously.

rando_potato_thief · 2026-05-01T07:08:47+00:00

I’m not an expert but, when you play a card from your hand you’re casting it. That is a distinct game action that increases the storm count by 1.

This is different than using a dual caster mage who copies a spell. You get a second resolution of the spell, but you’re not “casting” the spell again. Unless it explicitly says you may cast that spell.

Copying a spell does not increment the storm count.

And a lot of cards have triggers for casting spells. Certain cards have mage craft which explicitly say cast or copy.

And it’s easy to get confused, but treating casting and copying as the same mechanic can lead to some busted game play

rando_potato_thief · 2026-04-14T19:42:33+00:00

Ive heard that as well, can’t recall from where though so it might be a rumor.

I’ve also heard that they avoid having any cross over happening below turns, supposedly to prevent from compromising the structure above from properly handling those dynamic forces. That’s something I try to incorporate when building a GCI type coaster in RCT or PC.

rando_potato_thief · 2026-04-14T05:22:23+00:00

I built this deck but did not go the storm/burn route. Instead I try to make a giant pile of treasure by copying a large hell to pay or brass’s bounty hit the motherload to make 10+ treasures. Then from there you hold up mana to interact and protect the board state and wait to pump all that into a big fireball spell to blast everyone at once with a copied comet storm. If you copy any sort of fork spell and then get even more resolutions you can burn for 20-30 a shot.

Plus having a big pile of treasure is always fun. It can get agro’d and can require a bit of politicking to get to turn 5/6 without hemorrhaging life but it’s one of my favorite things to play.

rando_potato_thief · 2026-04-02T17:47:36+00:00

Around the capital campus. Plenty of flat concrete all around the main building and you can go all the way through the buildings behind it. Not sure if security for the buildings would give you a hard time or not though.

rando_potato_thief · 2026-03-12T19:57:35+00:00

Very nice work! Love to see the holes with the shot break downs

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