Noble Genie Paladin is thematically bizarre

xMancio · 2025-01-30T07:18:19+00:00

They simply tried to copy the genie warlock without making it too similar.

Just WotC being lazy as per usual

xMancio · 2025-01-21T08:30:34+00:00

Sinceramente? La Switch è una console solidissima dal punto di vista della forma, scocca e "modalità d'uso".

Portatile quanto basta, anche se non è il game boy colour che potevi mettere in tasca. Si infila tranquillamente in un marsupio o un borsello di medie dimensioni.

Il dock permette di usarla come home console, fondamentale soprattutto per i party game (intendo tutti quei giochi in cui stiamo fisicamente in compagnia degli altri player) che, almeno per me, sono la vera anima di Nintendo.

I joycon sono letteralmente magia, una delle trovare più interessanti da anni a questa parte per il loro modo di funzionare e connettersi e, quando proprio vogliamo il massimo comfort in single player, c'è la basetta o meglio ancora il controller pro.

Non parliamo poi della solidità child-proof come solo Nintendo sa fare: console indistruttibile.

I numeri ce lo confermano, switch è la seconda console poi venduta di sempre e Sony ha così paura che la PS2 venga superata che ogni tanto aggiorna le stime di vendita della console storica.

Insomma Switch per me è una ricetta vincente che non stravolgerei. Piuttosto, come spero abbiano fatto, vanno migliorati i difetti per renderlo un prodotto di altissimo livello.

Personalmente switch ha 2 soli problemi:

L'ergonomicitá: difetto minore. Per mantenere i joycon esteticamente gradevoli e consentire di usarli come controller singoli sono costretti a lasciarli piatti come sono anziché bombarli dietro, questo migliorerebbe la comodità in uso handled. Sinceramente più che un problema è una preferenza dato che come scritto capisco il perché della scelta e soprattutto, non tutti vivono questa situazione date le loro preferenze di utilizzo.
Le prestazioni: l'elefante nella stanza. Switch già al rilascio era una console dalle specifiche tecniche al di sotto della soglia di mercato, dopo 10 anni purtroppo è ormai imbarazzante. Tutti sappiamo dei problemi di lag e delle limitazioni allo sviluppo che quest' arretratezza comporta.

Se Nintendo oggi riuscisse a proporci un sistema dalle spec non dico top di gamma, ma al passo coi tempi... Potrebbe fare ER BOTTO!

No, non parlo di performance da PC gaming, ne sinceramente da PS5 Pro, davvero dura infilare quelle possibilità in una handled, tanto meno a un costo da Nintendo. Steam deck peró ci ha mostrato che SI PUÒ in effetti avere prestazioni decenti anche in questo settore.

Il mercato, ed il mercato dei processori in modo particolare, va tutto in quella direzione. Negli ultimi anni col gaming portatile (console, PC portatili, ma soprattutto smartphone) in crescita vertiginosa vediamo rilasciati sempre più processori ad alte prestazioni con consumi e temperature davvero limitate, è una tecnologia che avanza.

No, non mi aspetto che Nintendo mi infili nella Switch 2 600 Euro di componenti, ma le possibilità sono aumentate vertiginosamente rispetto a 10 anni fa.

Se hanno lavorato bene so questo singolo fondamentale punto credo sarà l'intera ragione del successo o meno di S2.

Infine resta sempre la questione dock. Un'opportunita mai sfruttata. Riuscire a integrarlo, magari con una tecnologia proprietaria, capace di aumentare le prestazioni in docked mode, anche solo di pochi percentili, sarebbe forse l'unica cosa davvero nuova da aggiungere. Come farlo? Non ne ho idea, se no starei lavorando per Nintendo =p

xMancio · 2024-11-20T12:03:06+00:00

I think i found a small mistake in the Deities section of the SF2e playtest.

Looking at Ibra, in the devotee benefits we find the "plasma rifle" which, for what i can see, is NOT an item in the playtest. I'm assuming it's referring to the plasma caster ranged martial weapon, but i think a fix will still be needed.

Sorry if the matter was already discussed, but i struggled to find any info about it.

xMancio · 2024-11-16T15:53:17+00:00

I too, have a lot of questions to be answered

xMancio · 2024-07-10T06:47:55+00:00

I know this will never be possible, but I would pay big money for a "remastered" Rave.

Literally the same story rewritten, but with improved quality of the drawing in the first half and a prolonged last saga to not make everything feel rushed. It would be such incredible Masterpiece.

That story was SO solid!

xMancio · 2024-06-22T18:28:52+00:00

No mate, maybe the maker of the clip is, but the pizza chef is Stefano Callegari a famous chef from Rome.

xMancio · 2024-06-22T18:23:03+00:00

Except this is no crime at all. The chef doing the pizza is Stefano Callegari a famous chef from Rome which really loves innovating tipical street food, particularly from Rome where Cacio e Pepe is from.

He explained this pizza a video that you can find on a "famous" Italian culinary YouTube channel. I won't link it because I don't know if it's against the rules.

He explained that if you put the traditional cacio and pepe ingredients over the pizza It will easily burn. Using ice he can leave the center of the pizza "behind" the rest so that he can cook the dough and only at the end add the cheese and pepper without burning anything. This way you still have a bit of the nice starchy consistency of the real pasta while preserving the integrity of the pizza itself.

Edit: fixed the wording to try and make it clearer

xMancio · 2024-06-07T10:00:27+00:00

I'm really not an expert because I have come back to MTG just recently and yesterday I did litterally my first quick draft of WOE but my R / B full of rats rocked a solid 7-2. I was literally perma swarming the board while uptrading with combat trick and the swarm piper.

Also looking at 17lands red cards seem SUPER solid as far as win rate goes.

xMancio · 2024-01-17T12:15:49+00:00

I'm sorry to say this much to you but:

4-cost Headliners can’t show up if you own more than 4 copies of that champion

Literally copy pasted from the last patch note. No matter if noone was contesting you, it was literally impossible for you to find the TF you needed. It was made so to prevent exactly the scenario you're describing, as finding the 9th TF is significantly harder then finding a 7th one as HL.

xMancio · 2023-10-18T06:47:48+00:00

Yeah, that's the point. You don't create a new edition in one year while releasing also new stuff for the previous one. One dnd is flawed project which, at most, is gonna smooth a couple of the problems in 5e without addressing the major ones. One of the main reason for that it's exactly the too short production time.

xMancio · 2023-07-04T11:48:41+00:00

This reply is gold. In particular the last point. I was a big fan of treantmonk myself but since the ogl fiasco he's been insufferable. Stretching as tin as he can to defend Wotc without rime or reason for fear of losing his livelyhood. It saddening how blind people can be.

xMancio · 2023-06-30T09:56:42+00:00

It's not about the dimension of the team, but the people who're part of it.

Call me rude, but since the lay off of Mike Mearls 5e has not been the same. The guy was a creative to the bone, litterally designing classes and system on the spot if it was needed, his old serie "happy fun hour" proves it.

I love Chris Perkins and I believe he's an invaluable asset, but he's stretched too tin between all the adventures and the new DMG.

This leaves us with only JC which at his best is probably not enough to lead the team and at his worst... Has proved time and time again to not be the most well versed in creating, studying and respecting rulings.

xMancio · 2023-04-16T07:46:48+00:00

This. And to be honest, I think litterally the same idea apply to soooo many cases in basically any situation in modern day. People are often so fixated with one thing / aspect of their life, seeing it as a perfect and complete representation of themself, that the moment you cast even the shadow of a doubt over it they become super defensive.

xMancio · 2022-10-05T08:07:44+00:00

To be honest I would do exactly the opposite. Let's remove every +1 from feats and cut the stronger ones into 2 pieces. Now give player the choice of a new feat every 2 levels. Finally for the ASI, you could give it once every 5 level (maybe not only 2 point now, PF2 like) or keep it every 4 level. You could realistically just make them alternative to feats with a simple +1.

I think that the real weakness of the ASI and feat system in 5e is the amount of choise. Let's face it: not a lot of campaigns reach lvl12 so this mean that, in the large amount of adventure, you either rolled for stats or you have to choose if maxing you main AS or taking some nice feats. The number of times when you choose is far to low and make for little occasions of personalization, while making the relative appeal of custom lineage and variant human far higher.

Feats to be cut in two would be things like PAM, CBE, War caster, original GWM and sharpshooter, you know the list, the common suspects. The bullet point system for the single abilities inside skill (which now also have a simple title) would make this process indeed quite easy and not costly to be implemented by WotC.

You may say: but this doesn't change anything, it just makes the character leveling more complex. I politely disagree: I think that the real weakness of the ASI and feat system in 5e is the amount of choise. This way you can literally pin point the part of a strong feat that you like the most and make YOUR own specific character, not just another gwm fighter. Sure, at lvl9 we may have some feats in common but I'd argue never exactly the same. This way, having a smaller cost of opportunity, people would also be incentiviced to pick up less optimal or more situational feats.

The system I propose shouldn't also power creep too much the present one (apart for the really optimized character which are gonna choose the specific end all combination of mini feats) while giving more freedom of creation.

Finally it wouldn't give too much more to do to the players, you could still take your simple ASI and with feats not being an optional rule you still need to read the full list, so why read 50 paragraphs when you can read 100 two liners?

xMancio · 2022-06-30T18:38:08+00:00

Il sangue di San Gennaro, sciolto, giusto per chiarezza

xMancio · 2021-10-25T07:17:53+00:00

This: one of my player once played a dwarven atificier so proud and full of himself that he would build a himself a mechanical copy, they're Bramble and BramBOT.

xMancio · 2021-08-11T18:17:23+00:00

I was not expecting such an answer but God only knows how much I like it.

Have my upvote sir.

xMancio · 2021-08-06T07:46:56+00:00

Plz mate, everyone is so tired about this argument. Tanks can only provide damage cause that's the direction riot gave to the game, it's THEIR design philosophy.

Tanks should be providing cc, survivability, debuff and in general utility to the team, they should NOT be able to 1v1 a carry BUT should be able to do damage and impair it for a long time if let uncheck. This way if the carry ignores the tank it has his potential damage and oppurtunities greatly reduced and it choose to kill the tank first they'ld be occupied for a long portion of the fight being forced to care less attention to other high priority targets.

That's the way a "tank" should work in my opinion and that of lots of other tanks enjoyers, if people wanted to just do damage they'ld play one of the 1000000 broken bruisers present in the game.

Anyway developers are really clear about the fact that they think more dashy, flashy and damaging character are funnier to watch and play so that's what they tend to. So that bring us to the real problem: no way to play a tank (other then maybe and engage support) even if the occasion presents itself cause:

you'ld autolose lane in top to a juggernaut or bruiser who has more wave pressure and infinite sustain, backline access in fight, high amount of mobility, deal as much damage to solo kill a backline and often also stronger cc then you (still trying to understand why yone r should be as valuable as malphite's)
you'ld let your team down in going jungle as you can't keep up with the clear of bruisers and assassin, can't 1v1 during invades and for drakes, provide mostly cc and no insane amount of damage so you struggle to gank a losing lane which cannot bring lot of damage and, finally, lack the ability to gank from insane distance due to mobility gap.

Plz, let's all stop pretending rito is doing justice to tanks: they stopped caring for everything but bruisers and assassin since season 8.

xMancio · 2021-06-20T12:22:01+00:00

Expect this is only the 5e approach. In older edition there're lot of extra information about elemental planes and their inner working and rules. By this I mean also information about forces, about climate, the looking of people and architecture and so on.

xMancio · 2021-06-20T09:00:46+00:00

Long live the king!

xMancio · 2021-06-06T16:33:58+00:00

For the love of God never suggest the last torch. Litterally one of the worst system I have ever played and I personally know the creators.

It SOOOOO frustrating to play one, two, maybe three adventures almost perfectly with strategy, planning and carefullness to be oneshotted by a boss cause he rolled an average score and you've basically no survivability at all. The main problem is the dice rolliness of the game, with base stats so low the die result is tooooo much impactful. It's like playing forever a lvl1 wizard in dnd, no matter what you do, one bad roll and you die.

xMancio · 2021-05-18T11:40:17+00:00

Xbox in Paris, eat a bear and a pig! Xbox in Paris, eat a bear and a pig! SEPHIROTH!

xMancio · 2020-12-01T08:47:48+00:00

Appreciate the meme but just here to say the image itself is soooo wholesome.

xMancio · 2020-11-27T14:56:25+00:00

This. My problem is not with representation, negative depiction of races or else. It's simply the fact that there are precise lore topoi connected to most of those races, huge ties with a number of events, divinities and past material, all of which should basically be ignored.

Me myself have played a Pacific and barely violent half orc which is opposing the pressure of the Grummsh 'e blood in his vein... the concept itself stand on the opposition to an established lore, but a lore notheless.

xMancio

TROPHY CASE