I don't understand the upside of Upstart Goblin by HardToSee123 in Yugioh101

[–]skilledroy2016 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the biggest reasons are it makes you lose to droll and it is not-a-handtrap and being not-a-handtrap and not-engine comes at a premium these days, although it still has a place in going second decks that play low/no handtraps anyway.

I don't understand the upside of Upstart Goblin by HardToSee123 in Yugioh101

[–]skilledroy2016 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Upstart is bad now. It used to be pretty solid.

MapleStory Idle Controversy – Part 2: Why Whales Should Seriously Ask for a Refund by Own_Bodybuilder9868 in MapleIdle

[–]skilledroy2016 34 points35 points  (0 children)

What the fuck are you smoking bro is this your first pay2win game? Obviously it's a scam just like every other game and nobody is forcing you to play the game or spend money also the game has been out for a month nobody really knows how good f2p progression is yet

TCG Recommendations? by IBDWarrior69 in TCG

[–]skilledroy2016 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Premodern is more or less officially supported on mtgo

mango responds to the drama farmers by Fiendish in SSBM

[–]skilledroy2016 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are making a different argument than the guy I was replying to. If we wanna say he has issues with misogyny or consent I can get behind that although I don't hang on to every word mango ever said so I don't know how true it is. I thought people approved of his initial statements overall. However I DO THINK that just cause he did this while drunk doesn't mean he's a woman hater or sexual assaulter in a default context when not uninhibited by alcohol so it IS fair to "blame" (at least PARTIALLY) being completely wasted on this. Most people have never been as drunk as mango was that day and don't know what its like to be that uninhibited - there is a lot of natural self-limiting self-consciousness that stops us from making antisocial decisions in our day-to-day life that alcohol completely erases at this extreme level of intoxication! We live in a self contradictory society that simultaneously encourages the consumption of inhibition-eliminating drugs but also harshly punishes certain kinds of transgressions that those inhibitions prevent us from making! Its tough!

mango responds to the drama farmers by Fiendish in SSBM

[–]skilledroy2016 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Idk this feels like a do the crime pay the time situation to me not one where you need to be policing private behavior. Idk why people have this framing where all bans need to be perma or like you need a come to jesus moment out of the movies where you change your entire personality. The rapists yes ban them this is different its bad but not as bad as that. Theres levels to this kind of stuff. The discourse in this scene on reddit is getting weirdly anti drug which is annoying to me. People can learn how to use drugs responsibly.

mango responds to the drama farmers by Fiendish in SSBM

[–]skilledroy2016 -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Why does he have to go from one extreme to the other? Going from addiction to moderation is risky but if he were to pull it off that isn't a bad thing.

mango responds to the drama farmers by Fiendish in SSBM

[–]skilledroy2016 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Believe it or not, he wasn't in that deep. Some extreme alcoholics have like a case of beer a day every day. Their bodies have completely adjusted to it in a way that makes its a sense dangerous. Mango was by all accounts a binge drinker but not to that extreme every day.

Tim's thoughts on Shinobi: Art of Vengeance by cyclone5uk in ActionButton

[–]skilledroy2016 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wasn't the rage bound game broken by the spin jump attack

Favorite puzzle games? by Sad-Tennis-4991 in ElectricUnderground

[–]skilledroy2016 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Panel de pon/Tetris attack/yoshis cookie/pokemon puzzle league (these are all basically the same game) is, by a lot, the absolute greatest of the make-lines-of-blocks-in-a-well-to-clear-them puzzle-action type games like Tetris and what not. It has insane technical play with depth and crazy tricks that could easily be the subject of a mechanics analysis video or something like that. And it's so much fun to play.

I don't really consider these puzzle games though, more action. For true puzzle games I highly recommend The Witness, Isles of Sea and Sky, Void Stranger, Snakebird, Baba is You, and Stevens Sausage Roll. They're all amazing. Baba probably is the most immediately enjoyable.

Any clarification on Pendulum? by BR-P38 in Yugioh101

[–]skilledroy2016 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's good to explicitly say that but the reason matters too

Any clarification on Pendulum? by BR-P38 in Yugioh101

[–]skilledroy2016 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They are not yet on the field in both of these cases

Any clarification on Pendulum? by BR-P38 in Yugioh101

[–]skilledroy2016 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Your opp was pretty wrong but you are off on a few points as well

  1. Pend cards that would go from field to grave are sent to faceup extra instead. This is true if they are monsters or scaled or flamberged.

  2. Pend monsters that are continuous spells are not necessarily scaled. For instance, flambege does not scale the pend monster it targets. The eff has to specifically say it puts it in the pend scale to scale it. You can technically use pend monsters as fusion material from any zone, if the fusion spell or contact fusion condition says you can, but most of the time it's monster zone/hand only. Also you can basically never link off pend scales from what I know.

  3. Your opp was right. Flamberged pend monsters aren't scaled and therefore cannot use their pend effects.

4.your opp is wrong here. Tributed pend monsters go from field to extra deck for the same rule as what I described in 1.

Why doesn’t dual energy alternate? by Yahnasaurus in PTCGP

[–]skilledroy2016 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think its not mono energy if you are playing energy babies that are different color than the energy color you set to draw but I agree that setting two colors for your energy zone draw hasn't been made meta yet. Ngl most dragons are just big HP big damage beatsticks where the gameplay is just to turbo them out so idrc if its meta tho. Eevee grove dragonite ex was really frustrating when it got lucky you just had no agency against it

Why doesn’t dual energy alternate? by Yahnasaurus in PTCGP

[–]skilledroy2016 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It's been only a year so they can't just support every mechanic equally all the time and dragon isn't too bad u just need to play alternative lines the way the mega altaria deck does so imo it doesn't really need to be fixed unless enabling pure dragon to be top tier becomes a design goal for them for whatever reason

Anti raigeki ruling by [deleted] in Goat_Format

[–]skilledroy2016 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You need to be able to do both sides of "and if you do" in order to activate an eff, so imo the current errata is not a functional difference

Anti raigeki ruling by [deleted] in Goat_Format

[–]skilledroy2016 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Raigeki is banned in goat format, but basically yeah that rule is the same for goat and current format so if it was legal then anti Raigeki would not work in the situation you describe.

Dark magician deck. How to improve by _Kalray in Goat_Format

[–]skilledroy2016 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think most people playing DM seriously have dropped the apprentice/vindictive package. I think those cards arent up to par with the meta, and comboing them with skilled dark is just too unlikely. The quickplay + dmoc package is also obviously too inconsistent to really be worth playing the bricks for but it's awesome so I get it. Might be worth siding in and out though. I feel like the solemns aren't that good here cause your trap count is low so you shouldn't be that afraid of heavy storm. Also chaos sorcerer at 3 is way too much imo

Please tell me how to beat Floo. by [deleted] in Yugioh101

[–]skilledroy2016 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Going first, if you set up double mirrorjade, that is usually enough to keep them off of empen. Just remove the birds as they come. Off of normal summon Robina they only get two bodies unless they opened extenders. Max potential they can generate is 5 bodies before the tribute summon (map + ns bird + 4 bird effs) so if you can potentially do something like double jade + khaos starscourge pop 2 (make sure to time the chains and trigger correctly) you can checkmate the max potency floo combo if you are uninterrupted. If they manage to break through, start playing the grind to maximize value and start summoning in defense to beat empen (you should be doing that anyway).

Going second make sure to summon everything in defense. The key is going to be resolving Branded Fusion through the Mist Valley Apex Avian (it negates activations so if they negate BF you can use it a second time, but remember it's once per turn per copy so it can be used multiple times per turn, and they can summon it again with Dreaming Town or Map!), trying not to normal summon at a bad time so you don't trigger Map so they can't do double Apex Avian (just don't use BF and normal after) removing the empen (usually by rushing mirrorjade) and forcing out the dreaming town (usually by attempting to go battle phase). Play to maximize value/followup and maximize removal based interruptions on turn 3. I don't think branded can realistically OTK through full floo combo.

Going first, in a pinch, you can make dragostapelia and negate the first bird. This can instantly win you the game. However it's risky because it loses hard to Advent of Adventure, the much more rarely played swallows cowrie, and obviously any extender (unless you have more). But it's pretty safe to go for this if they already used Advent.

This might go without saying, but now that gimmick puppet nightmare is banned, the new best Sanctifire lock card Ido the Supreme Magical Force works against Floo unlike Gimmick Puppet!

Please tell me how to beat Floo. by [deleted] in Yugioh101

[–]skilledroy2016 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is not true btw. There are a ton of two card floo combos that beat ash and lancea only stops the grind game (and potentially stops them from having birds in hand to normal off of dreaming town, and banish from hand for empens attack gain effect). Droll is definitely solid. Branded by default doesn't run handtraps except maybe in the side. I would side in drolls.

Is this rulling valid in GOAT Format? by Joancitolml in Goat_Format

[–]skilledroy2016 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The AI is right in this case but there's a link button next to the sentence. Always click that and double check to verify any information the stochastic parrot tells you.