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Beveren_Rabbit posted...

what was the counter to Sliver decks?

Control.
Any sort of board wipe kills them. Counter their protection. Stop the especially deadly enablers.

Slivers is fundamentally a creature deck, and they kill you by attacking you. If you can stop that, you can stop them.

The specific question you're asking is common across a lot of different creature types, they're called Lords, from the Lord of Atlantis card.

But the implied question is Slivers.

I'm about to run Delta Green: Impossible Landscapes for some people in person, so I've got a bucket of handouts ready to print out, and they've already done a session zero. It should be good.

I'm also running through Eclipse Phase 2e online. They fixed a lot my mechanical problems with the system, so I'm happy to show more people the setting.

bachewychomp posted...

I know people here think I'm crazy for always saying this, but YouTube is just s*** entirely. Nearly every video genre is longer than it needs to be, and much less interesting/informative/necessary than the creator would have you believe.

What is the point of recommendations anyway? The way I see it, it's either because you just want to watch some videos to kill time, in which case you should re-evaluate if you are properly valuing your time, or you are expecting some revelatory video to show up, which is something I've personally given up on years ago. Not that I never watch recommendations, but I don't expect anything out of them. I'd say overall you're better off only using YouTube when you have a specific thing to look up, and maybe watching your subscriptions if you still like them enough.

Oh the recommended stuff has always been rough, the only thing I use that stuff for is new music. Which, it's fairly good for music, but anything relating to actual entertainment is done through my subscription feed. I've never gotten anything good from there, other than channels I intentionally ignore.

Lokarin posted...

do you guys just have, like, no attention span? I just watched a like 3 hour video on invisible walls in mario 64

No, I also watched that one, it was well written and well well researched.
There are just a bunch of essays that are a pure recap with only the barest of hint of a new thought.

It's the same old "I wish audiences were more intelligent" that promotes careful investigation rather than just reading other peoples books.

Yeah, a good chunk of them are just wikipeda-tier interpretations.

Unless you're talking about the claims, everything that everyone is talking about, is irrelevant.
The abstract is not the patent.
The figures is not the patent.
The description is not the patent.
The flow charts is not the patent.

The full legal language is the claims.

Broken Arrow incidents.

chelsea___wtf posted...

I'm already posting on gamefaqs

This is the most horrifying part.

bachewychomp posted...

I'm not gonna tell you where you should draw your own personal line, but working for LHM in any way is definitely still feeding the military-industrial complex

Yeah I'm not worried, Turtwig can't just tell HR they want to hire me, and they give a thumbs up and hand me money.
I would need to apply and then hope to be placed on there, which is possible, but probably not likely.

Delta Green:Impossible Landscapes.
I'm running it and I'm just making notes so I can reference stuff during the game.

AwesomeTurtwig posted...

Is radar considered a weapon?

Nope, totally fine with that. I don't want to design missiles that optimize post-nuke EMP resetting to make sure to hit their target, or laser systems designed to blind people.
I'm currently working with cell phone communication systems, and broadly OSI layer 0-4, and their associated patents, and a background in automotive testing and fixing problems.

AwesomeTurtwig posted...

I have like 5 jobs I'm hiring for at Lockheed.

I'm ethically opposed to working on weapons, otherwise, I can send my resume if you're serious.

SinisterSlay posted...

I didn't even know that could happen

I'm now related to national security and, thus, not allowed to have a union.
Surprise, even though everything I work on is public information.

Well fuck.
My union was just declared null and void.

Things will get bad.

Yeah the factory I was at over a year ago brought all of the office workers on the factory floor, and then said "we're not firing anyone in the office".
I got a new place a few months after that.

We grabbed it for a bit for Severance, and then dropped it.

The general rule is that friendships are made doing stuff.
But nobody's putting sign-upsheets to do stuff, you gotta find people.

josh posted...

There was expedition 0, then they didn't have any for a while until expedition 84 then they countdown to 33 so you got like 41 games to play first

How dare you miss mentioning the best expedition, 60.

Shut it all down.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Both Marvel and DC are essentially vanity projects for Disney and WB at this point, used as idea farms for movies, cartoons, and merch (and bad idea farms at that). They're loss leaders, not viable products in and of themselves like they used to be. Indie comics are still somewhat capable of telling worthwhile stories, but aren't necessarily capable of staying viable without solid distribution.

Hey it'll be fine, they still pay their artists a per-page rate from the 90s.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

As for digital comics, the problem remains that there doesn't really seem to be a market for it, in spite of both Marvel and DC offering digital marketplaces. Part of that might be because it completely eliminates one aspect of comics that has driven sales for years (the collector's market), but also because in the modern era there are always better alternatives for anyone seeking out entertainment media (especially free media).

I honestly wouldn't be shocked if things cycle over to larger and fancier books, that's what a lot of webcomics do. Lower print run with higher margins. I can't exactly buy a Kill Six Billion Demons comicbook, but I can get the 100+ page books as a collection of stuff.

Oh, seems like I was too.
Nice.

GreenKnight127 posted...

Dude, I am NOT reading all that. You literally wrote an essay.

That's, what, 6 paragraphs, one or two for each point.
Did you finish highschool? Get a decent english score? Do you read books?

They're two separate tracks to me.
You can play a game, enjoy it for the artistic expression, the music, the story, the mechanics, and appreciate it for the systems.
You can also play a game that's about pushing the limit of the mechanics, the engine, the individual, and the people around there.

Swimming laps for fun and exercise doesn't mean training for the olympics.

Yeah I don't get labudu either.

I'm around.

The world won't end.
I've got a feeling things will get way worse before it gets better though.

But if Fantastic Four doesn't make all of the money, we'll be free of superhero blockbusters.

Fantasy in videogames is basically permanently crippled.

Because videogames as an artform really started up in the 80s and 90s, it has only known a post-tolken and post-DnD fantasy world, so they're limited by Elf, Dwarf, Halfling/Hobbits, and then whatever demon-like race, and then the setting's individual twist.
After Game of Thrones became popular, and Dark Fantasy became more of a thing, it didn't translate well to videogames.The current trend is more of superhero fantasy, with mythic characters and ultra-powerful abilities.

Compared to scifi, where because there wasn't a monolith in terms of cultural touchstones for "It's like Tolken, But" style of setting, means that each setting can be much more unique.

There's no reason why Fantasy can't be fantastical, the framework allows for mythic-style, but, I don't think audiences like that. The Elder Scrolls is the last big fantasy setting, and that's been getting less and less fantastical each version.

Because Clea made the painting with Verso, they made it together. A bit of her soul is also in the painting.

green_dragon posted...

It's analogous to wanting a family member to stay off drugs lol. The paintings were a drug to Aline and Alicia to help numb the pain of the real world, and the painting was slowly killing them both.

Yeah, right around the final area of act 3, I realized that too. The idea that you can never go home again hit everything hard.

There was one, Battle Aces.
It got canceled though :(

Kinda, but it wasn't shown enough.

What I got out of Renoir's arguments weren't about being kind to the last bit of verso and moving on, but that he didn't want to lose more. So Alicia and Aline bounced off of that, saying to throw away what's left. The end result is the same though, throwing away the artifacts of childhood to start new. It's just the angle was different.

green_dragon posted...

The story was also really good. I found my self somewhat rushing through the game just to get to the next part of the story. I liked all of the three different acts, however, I thought Act 3 was the weakest, but it was still good. I ended up choosing to preserve the painting (Maelles ending), but I watched the other ending on Youtube. Maelles ending is the bad ending in my opinion- its implied that Maelle never leaves the painting, and Im sure eventually she will end up like Aline - addicted to being in the painting with god like powers, and having to eventually be rescued by a family member.

Destroying the canvas truly brings closure to the family, but in doing so, all the of the people in the painted world were killed. Do you consider the people in the painted world to be alive? I dont know, they were all autonomous and had their own thoughts in feelings, so I would say yes. This concept has been explored to death in different mediums, but its still an interesting thought nonetheless.

One of my favorite elements is:
Everyone's fighting over the last bit of Verso, and both of them wanted to stop. Everyone was acting selfishly in different ways.

Because you can eat *right* off the grill when things are still steaming, rather than have some lukewarm food that's just hot because the plate was in the oven.
And it's an all you can eat buffet where people bring food to you.

Pork's cheap, I love cooking some pork shoulder.

green_dragon posted...

Just beat act 2! Gonna try to wrap up the main story in like 2 days!

When you get to the ending I'd love to know your thoughts.

remediation posted...

The expeditions actually count backwards starting at 100..except the first expedition wasn't called 100. It was called Expedition 00. Then backwards from 100 after that. I can't really explain any further without spoiling anything. I will say though that I would love to play dlc or prequel for Expedition 60.

Yeah but then there are no alternative costumes.

dj1200 posted...

congrats! What is your job and whats your new position?

Same job as before, it's just a 15% increase in production/expectation, but, an extra $2/hr.

I really loved it. The characters are all great, the story is great, the ending is amazing, and the monster design might be on the top 10 greatest monster designs for videogames.
The mechanics are also solid, where you can absolutely break the game once you're far enough in, but also if you really look at stuff.

I got a promotion that's going to kick in effect in a few weeks, so I'm doing good all things considered.

Clench281 posted...

I have been summoned

now hear my decree: this is too many eggs

I accept this degree.
Too Many Egg.

kingdrake2 posted...

they don't have it in the states, costco had the ice cream but it's not something i want to buy.

I've got some in my local supermarket. There's a label in front of it that says no refunds.

man101 posted...

Whether or not something is theft when done by a human is fairly well established in IP law. So it's not a hypothetical. It's actual, established law.

Code? Case law? What circuit of case law?

The difference to me is the end result

For personal stuff, absolutely go ham, as long as it's done, I don't care.

If it's being sold, probably not anything in the end product, there's too much of a chance of things blowing up in their face.

We must ask Clench, he's the only man I trust on eggs.

Weird way to say Kirby Air Ride, but, you do you.

After a while, I could mess around with Deus Ex, even if the controls are ass, I could get used to it.

adjl posted...

Whatever the nuances of your personal situation might be, the fact of the matter is that you are describing depressive symptoms, symptoms that you've documented as steadily worsening for years. One doesn't need a comprehensive understanding of who you are as a person to see that, nor does it suggest any sort of misjudgement to recommend seeking therapy or other interventions to help treat those symptoms.

To add on:
Clearly, digging a further hole hasn't worked for the past few years.

Buddy that's depression.