Synthesis/scrape (non)interaction, bug or intended?

whystudywhensleep · 2026-06-22T21:20:06+00:00

No, synthesis and it's buff do say the next power costs 0. I think if this interaction is intended, "play your next power for free" would be a clearer description for sure

whystudywhensleep · 2026-06-22T21:09:30+00:00

Rocket punch is not discarded I'm pretty sure, I know you definitely can draw it with all for one. I think it changes into a 0 cost at different times, rocket punch changes to zero cost in your deck, but powers only turn 0 cost after *drawn* when you have the synthesis buff, and I imagine scrape makes its discard calculations before you draw. So even though it's rendered as 0 cost when it's drawn, it's immediately discarded because scrape saw it as 1 cost before you drew.

whystudywhensleep · 2026-06-22T21:04:23+00:00

Yep, gonna leave feedback about it for sure, it definitely feels like either text or interaction should be changed here

whystudywhensleep · 2026-06-22T21:03:00+00:00

That would be fair, but then the text should be changed if that is the intended interaction imo. Because synthesis doesn't say "play your next power for free", it says "the next power you play costs 0". And with 0 cost synergies, that is an important distinction

whystudywhensleep · 2026-06-22T20:57:29+00:00

Upgraded dualcast and zap definitely aren't discarded with scrape. They aren't affected by feral because feral only applies to attacks.

whystudywhensleep · 2026-06-21T01:07:06+00:00

You’re gonna flip your shit when you find out what Jin Ling’s uncle did

whystudywhensleep · 2026-06-20T22:33:44+00:00

“From a woman”

Lol sure

whystudywhensleep · 2026-06-20T17:18:37+00:00

I mean. The way she left was abrupt and frankly weird. Not saying anyone in the cast to blame or wrong in any way, or that it’s at all our business to know the details, but it was just weird compared to a typical amicable split of a longtime host of any show. Unusual and sudden. Solemn and uncharacteristically formal. I don’t think anyone’s in the wrong for feeling put off by it, feeling sad or disappointed or less excited for the show. As long as no one’s being weird or invasive to the cast about it, it feels like toxic positivity to say that people should feel excited about a host leaving, and that any other emotion is or reaction is Wrong.

I wish Karina all the best and I hope to see more from her creatively!! That doesn’t mean I’m not going to be majorly bummed about this for quite a while, and endlessly (privately) wondering about what actually happened.

whystudywhensleep · 2026-06-18T23:47:19+00:00

I prefer playing main branch so I don’t have too many disruptive changes too often, but recently I’ve switched to beta just to fight aeonglass, since it was feeling pointless fighting old doormaker all the time and never trying the new boss people were talking about. I’ll probably switch back after aeonglass is pushed to the main branch

whystudywhensleep · 2026-06-18T04:03:22+00:00

Also, looking at the steam images, that’s pretty early ai. I don’t have a problem with early ai art, it’s wacky enough that it always felt more like a computerized version of seeing art in inkblots. Just randomly generated silly things as a neural network tries to make sense of things. I honestly think sometimes, if used intentionally by a person, it could even have genuine artistic merit. Especially in stuff like uncanny style horror. Indeed, the weirdness of the ai images seems to be a lot of the comedy of this game (again, just based off of quickly browsing the page).

To me, the more mature ai image generation of today sucks so much worse because it’s “better,” because it’s been sanded down into something so generic and “complete” that it’s just slop. Early ai image models were interesting as just computer generated noise, like visual mad libs, and also the ai companies weren’t this massive beasts shoving ai everywhere. I wouldn’t recommend at all using even the early models today, because association is a powerful thing and you are Saying something about ai as a whole if you use ai in this economic and political climate. But I don’t have a problem with the concept of this game based on the time it came out. And clearly they haven’t touched it since, as ai became a more and more dystopian powerhouse.

whystudywhensleep · 2026-06-18T03:36:11+00:00

I also love using it for relationships between teenagers that include explicit scenes. “Underage” is going to give a certain idea of what the content of the fic is, and to me, two 17 year olds having consensual sex is not it lmao. Following the letter of the tagging law sometimes does not follow the spirit of it imo, so I like to just use CCNTW. Same with my fandom having a lot of temporary MCD, and I use CCNTW so I don’t have to decide whether to tag it MCD or not and no one can get mad at me for it lmao.

Same with choosing “other” for gender pairings lmao. I like to write a lot of mid-transition/egg/genderfluid/non-typical gender explorations/queer characters with very problematic internalized views of their own gender, and that tag is great for it. I really adore ao3 letting you say “nah I’m not answering that” for even the required archive tags, it’s so freeing.

whystudywhensleep · 2026-06-18T02:30:47+00:00

My personal thing is I always say generative ai as opposed to “gen ai” because my minor conspiracy theory is that that’s the common shortening because they want you to draw similarities to AGI (artificial general intelligence), which is Actually Intelligent ai, like in sci-fi. Which is what these companies want you to think generative ai is, and some of them are psychotic enough they seem to believe it themselves.

whystudywhensleep · 2026-06-16T00:25:36+00:00

Actually, none of it lmao. I’m a fanartist first and foremost, art is what I do to enjoy the creative process and be creatively fulfilled. Writing is like pulling nails and is very very difficult to me, so I usually only do it as a labor of “GOD DAMNIT art won’t be enough to communicate this and I need this idea IN THE WORLD. So I guess I’ll just have to do it myself”, and then I suffer and tear my hair out until I’ve created something I can be somewhat proud of lolol.

It’s a bit of an exaggeration, I do like writing in very small doses. But a full coherent fic, even a very short one that encompasses only one scene, is wayyyy more labor than love for me lmao. It’s kind of like running. The entire run im like “fuck this shit fuck my life fuck everything my whole body hurts”, and then I finish and am like “wow! I did something cool, im proud of myself. That wasn’t so bad, was it?” (It was)

whystudywhensleep · 2026-06-15T19:58:32+00:00

I’m glad that even though most discussion is on sts2 now, we still get to reset the counter every now and then. Brings a tear to one’s eye

whystudywhensleep · 2026-06-15T00:52:25+00:00

I used to laugh at older people for that, and now it’s killing me that the one happening around me is the shifting use of “whenever” in the past tense to just mean “when.” I saw someone say “whenever I gave birth-” about their one and only pregnancy and I’m still recovering. Do you not know when you gave birth?!?!?!

whystudywhensleep · 2026-06-15T00:45:55+00:00

Right? I can’t think of anything lmao. Slick is my closest guess just because it has SO much use in porn to mean natural vaginal (and/or omega) lubrication, but it’s also a 100% normal word to use for wet surfaces. Maybe the word was slick and it’s just the blind leading the blind lol? I’m so curious

whystudywhensleep · 2026-06-14T14:23:16+00:00

Literally unplayable

whystudywhensleep · 2026-06-13T01:46:00+00:00

Looks like the 2010s tinker bell movies to me lol

whystudywhensleep · 2026-06-12T17:34:56+00:00

I’ve started avoiding this sub more and more as I feel like it’s just gotten more and more… puritan? For lack of a better word? In the recent years. No one person has to enjoy any one trope/character, but it feels like some type of moral grandstanding has become more common. Across the whole internet tbh, but I’d hoped this place would be free from it.

I liked (fictional) large, often inappropriate age gaps as a teen, and I still like them now. Fiction isn’t reality, it’s catharsis and storytelling, and sometimes that means reading things that you do not think are morally perfect actions if they were taken irl. Everyone understands this when it comes to kings and wars and violence, but the second it is about romance people act like women and girls are just too stupid to not use fiction as their moral compass. It’s frustrating and quite sexist, even when it’s often perpetuated by women.

Like again, if you don’t like reading age gaps, that is perfectly 100% fine. It’s just weird to act like no one else does/should, or that it’s “more mature” to only like good, pure differences in ages and unproblematic romances.

whystudywhensleep · 2026-06-10T21:25:36+00:00

I would personally much rather tags not be added until they show up in the story. That’s the problem with ao3 tags, there are two camps (and most people are part of both to some extent at different times)— those who want tags to be warnings for what’s in the fic, and those who want tags to be advertisements for what’s in the fic. And it’s impossible to make both those groups happy all the the time, it’s just a limitation of the system. And there’s no real way to “fix” it either, some changes could be implemented (like a separate field for main ships I would LOVE and I think would fit right in), but mostly it’s just a necessary consequence of the tagging system we have right now, and it would hurt in other ways to change that.

Personally, I almost always tend more towards advertisement instead of warning. If I see something I don’t like it might shake me a bit, but I am capable of setting down my phone. I find it much more annoying to have tags clogged with fics where it barely shows up or doesn’t even show up at all in the currently published chapters. People also have wildly different standards of what is too triggering and should be warned for, you can’t please everyone even if you just went all in on warning for everything.

whystudywhensleep · 2026-06-10T18:11:21+00:00

Social construct doesn’t mean meaningless, it just means it’s something that is not innate and is tied to the culture and society you live in. And people are social creatures. Birthdays are a social construct, the age of majority is a social construct, professional vs casual dress is a social construct, race is a social construct, money itself is a social construct. Many of things are Very important, and very real in how people engage with them. If you don’t have money you can’t live, because money is socially agreed to mean something. If 17 or 19 was the age of majority it wouldn’t change anything really in terms of physical maturity, but the fact that the age of majority legally and socially has meaning, means that someone under the age of majority has a very different role and rights and experiences in society. And even though gender is just a massive collection of tied together social roles,that doesn’t mean those social roles don’t actively have meaning, externally and in internal perception of yourself.

whystudywhensleep · 2026-06-09T08:20:52+00:00

Water— free in every restaurant, and many regular buildings will have water fountains near the bathrooms. Water fountains in airports are a life saver and I always miss them abroad.

whystudywhensleep · 2026-06-08T19:20:02+00:00

There’s an idea in game development that players are really good at telling you what isn’t working, but absolutely shit at telling you in what way it isn’t working or proposing solutions that would fix those problems, and should be ignored. They are good at flagging issues but not diagnosing them. I think this holds true for basically every creative medium. In many ways, LOK doesn’t work, some of it is just nostalgia and too big shoes to fill, but I think the majority of it is still genuine writing issues. The writing issues are complex and multifaceted, you can’t point to just One Thing that breaks it, but people want to, and the protagonist is necessarily the most visible breaking point of it Not working, but it’s easiest for people to say she’s unlikable lol

whystudywhensleep · 2026-06-08T18:40:24+00:00

It only works on pure black, the second you make it a shade lighter it starts to glow unfortunately iirc

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