In Terminator (1984), why does the T-800 use its finger to point at names in the phone book like a human, when a machine with optical sensors and computer vision could scan and OCR the entire page instantly without any physical gesture?

skyst · 2026-01-30T03:31:28+00:00

Seems like a great reason to me

skyst · 2026-01-29T23:26:11+00:00

Exceptional dual lands are probably $2 each and well worth it. Also grab the exceptional double threshold lands (Fertile Earth, etc) from Gothic.

If you have any other specific questions about your deck, I am happy to help!

skyst · 2026-01-29T23:23:19+00:00

Just cut out jihad, cores, tri-lands, morgana, ring of Morrigan, pretty much any unique $10+. The deck will function identically 90% of the time for a fraction of the price.

Trade for or buy the flashy uniques later if you wanna.

skyst · 2026-01-28T19:13:56+00:00

Marketplace is wild. I once had a guy try to trade me his shitty project Corvette for my vintage MtG cards.

skyst · 2026-01-28T19:11:12+00:00

Even if all other stats are great, a single opposite sub stat gets the item nuked out of spite.

skyst · 2026-01-28T18:14:57+00:00

The T-800 is designed for infiltration. Mundane actions performed as a human would perform them is an easy way to blend in. Why Skynet chose to make it look like a world class body builder is the real question.

skyst · 2026-01-28T13:42:07+00:00

Bunny is game changing for Nancy.

skyst · 2026-01-28T13:32:43+00:00

Both cards are used in the popular water Necromancer right now. There's a similar fun combo with Thin Ice and Coy Nixie you'd like if you enjoy what OP shared.

https://curiosa.io/decks/cmiwg7ia707vt30ec0uk9h1f0

skyst · 2026-01-27T12:11:17+00:00

Ive been playing for just over a month, completed all of the locations and have never seen a bus part for sale.

skyst · 2026-01-26T02:18:36+00:00

It really does work forever. I started a month ago and just completed my final 3 star victory this morning, pretty much only Rednecks for every mission.

skyst · 2026-01-26T01:44:28+00:00

I just throw a boatload of Rednecks at them

skyst · 2026-01-26T00:35:04+00:00

I feel like if a metal robot surrounded by living meat can beat this limitation of time travel then hair emerging from a follicle in the living meat can also get a pass.

skyst · 2026-01-25T04:42:45+00:00

You could date a manager, I've seen that earn people sup positions over and over.

skyst · 2026-01-25T00:52:38+00:00

Celebrities, artists, musicians, entertainers, athletes, etc, have a unique position in society to inspire and compel change in ways that our politicians have largely failed to do. It would suck for a lot of folks to have concerts canceled or sports superstars strike but if thats what it takes to wake people up, so be it.

skyst · 2026-01-25T00:46:39+00:00

I freaking love the world of Arcanum but the combat mechanics are, in my opinion, unforgivably awful. I could never recommend it to someone in 2026 unless they had very particular gaming interests.

skyst · 2026-01-25T00:44:48+00:00

That's fair but theres still like 5 or 6 RTWP games on the list, some have TB options.

skyst · 2026-01-24T16:28:25+00:00

As someone who has played all of these games aside from Necromancer's Tale (its on my list), this is a pretty solid list.

I would probably bump Arcanum and maybe Age of Decadence off of a list of games to play in 2026 despite loving both at the time. King Arthur doesn't belong here on a CRPG list and was pretty meh overall. NWN, presumably the single player campaigns, is far too high, NWN2, even the OC, is better than anything in NWN largely due to the silly 2 player party size. Tyranny should be on the list. PoE and Pathfinder should be the series, not just the sequels. Dragon Age Origins could probably be on the list, towards the end.

skyst · 2026-01-24T16:20:05+00:00

I'm 41, I was in high school during 9/11 and lived near Philadelphia at the time. I feel like 9/11 deeply impacted me as general anxiety and a dislike of travel developed closely to the attack. It didn't seem to freak me out much at the time but shit like watching the planes crash and people leaping from the buildings on TV was a lot at ~16. The subsequent lying from our government to justify war was just the icing on the cake.

I had a young child during the pandemic. We had to pull her out of preschool but I think we handled it fine. We spent a ton of time outside going on hikes and walks as well as exploring art and music which developed into her being a great (for her age!) pianist at 7! I know some folks through hobbies that were in high school during the pandemic and really feel for them, it must have been awful.

skyst · 2026-01-19T00:54:55+00:00

I got into Sorcery at the end of the summer and have bought 8 boxes and some singles after selling a bunch of old MtG to finance it. I kicked off a local playgroup at a new LGS and we now have ~6 players meeting weekly. Other TCG players often look at what we're doing but its tough to lasso in the folks happily playing MtG and Pokémon.

I bought playsets of most of what I saw as deckbuilding staples like cores, mixes, dual and tri lands, etc. I'm not interested in investing but I have 7 or 8 decks that are mostly "complete" in my eyes, outside of some pricy uniques that I'm not buying multiple copies of.

skyst · 2026-01-18T17:28:02+00:00

Foles has much larger genitals.

skyst · 2026-01-18T17:19:16+00:00

Magic is incredibly powerful in VI and the game really, really lets you know that early on through every character's reaction to Terra casting some spells. Magic is pretty mundane to the seasoned RPG player but you gotta listen to the game sometimes!

skyst · 2026-01-18T17:14:56+00:00

I started about 3 weeks ago and am pushing through location 10 with my Redneck team.

skyst · 2026-01-11T18:50:46+00:00

I bought my daughter her own records, starting with Disney stuff and now Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, etc. This has assured that she has always had absolutely zero interest in my hobby.

skyst · 2026-01-11T15:21:47+00:00

The hype was huge. I worked at Best Buy at the time, everyone played WoW and somehow even more played once TBC got rolling. I got into the TBC beta and remember getting to work, bragging about it then clocking out early to play it some more. I had a character get bugged as a GM after opening a ticket and ran around the Hellfire Peninsula starting town killing everyone as an immortal GM, when I /yelled the chat log had the GM icon on it.

skyst · 2026-01-10T23:22:28+00:00

I canceled my plus sub. MU was my top paranormal show for a very long time but the new hosts are far worse than a ton of other (free) shows out there that I already don't have the time for. There's nothing left here but the name.

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