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i think i get it

so the NBA was really one of those fake sports like wrestling this whole time and they are all just actors who say ridiculous things for our amusement


it's incredible how something you believed your whole life can turn out to be a lie
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but how will they make a man?
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Harold is pretty interesting imo. He's very similar to Malcolm Merlyn in a lot of ways.
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hows dat emma watson tho
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Blue is the super star showdown Saiba was due to take part in before he had his meltdown and abandoned the school.

They hyped it up a lot, like it was unusual for even a genius like him to be invited. I could see it coming up later. Souma facing the challenge that his dad ran away from.
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I've seen the first two episodes of Iron Fist.

Unless this REALLY nosedives in the next 4 episodes I don't think the rotten tomato score makes sense.


I'm not super enthralled, and this isn't as good as Daredevil or Jessica Jones, but I think it's pretty decent. It's done nothing to to concern me that it's going to be a bad show.
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The example had them playing Warrior and it gave a hunter legendary, rogue legendary, and paladin card.

While they might have done that just to show off specific cards, I think it's pretty likely it can give you any classes cards.

They said it guarantees an epic and a legendary too, which would be pretty static if it was only neutral and your class cards.
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I hope it's Oberyn. I love that guy. He was excellent in the show, but I remember talking my brother's ear off so much when I read the books (long before the show was even announced) about how much I loved the Red Viper. Then I was super excited when it was finally his time to join the show.


I actually don't remember him whatseover from the books at this point. I have no idea what he was like, it's been so long. I just remember him being my favourite character in the series (until Reek Theon in ADWD). I'm actually looking forward to your book section about him just to get insight into what I liked about him so much, haha.
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i legitimately enjoy listening to linkin park

all of their albums

all of the time
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I think there's an expectation that if you have health insurance, it should pay for all of your health care costs.

But that's not really the point of health insurance. A system with health insurance means that there will be lots of instances where individuals will have to pay for their health care.


So if you aren't okay with that (because it sounds awful) you should just get socialized health care tbh.
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SeabassDebeste posted...

Wrote it. If it sounds familiar, it's because it mostly echoes what's been said throughout the series, many times by Angel (and those reminding him of his purpose, especially Cordelia).

So the reason I asked this because like you said, it basically summarizes the entire series. It also captures the point of the finale episode, which is trying to summarize the entire series!

It's interesting if you wrote that before seeing the final episode. Sounds like you agree with what they went for!

I'm interested if you knew about the episode title though.... it's Not Fade Away, so the end of what you wrote their really raised my eyebrows.


You're absolutely right about the point of the finale being about how the point is to keep fighting. It doesn't "end". A lot of people see it as cliffhanger, but it's meant to tell you that Angels fight never ends. Even if they wrapped up this conflict, you know Angel would keep fighting in the future.


Joss Whedon on the subject

Joss Whedon says of this episode, "This was not the final grace note after a symphony, the way the Buffy finale was. We are definitely still in the thick of it. But the point of the show is that you're never done; no matter who goes down, the fight goes on."[1] Whedon says that Angel is about redemption, "something you fight for every day, so I wanted him to go out fighting. People kept calling it a cliffhanger. I was like, 'Are you mad, sir? Don't you see that that is the final statement?'"

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Illyria could really have used some more time to grow - I think she was planned to be introduced when she was under the assumption she'd be in Season 6. Unfortunately that didn't work out,

Angel's "gonna pretend to be evil" ruse and the Circle of the Black Thorn are very rushed - it's the end of episode 19 that Angel does that "we gotta serve our clients" line, then episode 20 is a jolly jaunt to Italy that doesn't really make sense in the context of Angel's "slide into villainy", and then episode 21 is Angel being all evil and falling in with the bad crowd, with the team confronting him at the end. Then ep22 is the finale. That happens REAL fast.

I think if they'd known S5 would be the end, they woulda started Angel's slide sooner in the season.

That said, it still works out fine - you can accept pretty easily that the Circle exists, that they'd want Angel in their crew due to the whole "vampire with a soul will play a part in the Apocalypse but noone knows on which side" prophecy,, and that they are super important to the senior partners. Indeed, Angel being given the LA Wolfram branch was likely just a gambit in getting him to join the Black Thorn at all. It doesn't really take away from how great the finale is.
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I've seen a lot of discussion of this by guys like Kibler, and I think they are right that Ooze's don't really counter weapons. By the time you've played a card specifically designed to play a weapon, they've almost always already used the weapon to good effect at least one time. And then they just play another weapon. It means you play a card to do barely anything to counter the enemy weapons.

I think Blizz really needs to flex their creative muscles and come up with a more effective counter to early game weapons.
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While it is a similar ability to Reno, Reno decks as we know them are dead. You aren't going to put that card in a Reno Priest deck.

Maybe a new deck that makes that card work will be possible, but maybe not. I think that card is not going to work against Pirate Warrior specifically - you probably will not be able play it by the time Pirate Decks kill you.
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I think that's a nice feature to give them a bit of a flexibility, but it's not even close to the heart of the deck and does nothing to stop them from doing what they are best at. I don't think it'll hurt them that bad. They only need to find 1 card to add some flexibility - and we have no idea what 130 cards in are left in Ungoro. I think they'll fill that gap pretty easily. You can't say the same for Reno decks!
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ohhhhh myyyyy goooooooooood
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SeabassDebeste posted...

'I stopped Acathla. That counts as saving the world.' / 'Buffy RAN YOU THROUGH WITH A SWORD.' / 'Yeah, but I made her do it.'

i like how spike's right here. this one does count for him! even though he was evil!
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your latest write up wasn't there when i wrote that post.

it's only 2 more to go! oops!
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every controller for like the last decade besides wiimote is basically the same to me
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we're entering the end game! only three more episodes D=
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It's a gauntlet style event. People keep fighting until they lose. So Souma will win this, and then some other people will compete, and Souma will compete again later.

It might be that Souma will compete in every single match, but I'd like to see groups rotate in entirely.
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Seems like the first round of the Regiment de Cuisine will be a clean sweep for the rebels. Soma isn't going to lose in the first round to the 6th seat, and it looks like Central brought in two mooks. They might have been able to beat some members of the rebels.... but not Isshiki and that third seat.
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Yesss love for the Beach. One of my favourites, but a lot of people don't seem to like it nearly as much. I looooove the campfire scene. It's obviously all about Zuko, but it was nice to see the reflections from Azula's gang too.
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Fiery Bat x 2
Huge Toad x 2
Kindly Grandmother x 2
King's Elekk x 2
Quick Shot x 2
Animal Companion x 2
Deadly Shot x 2
Eaglehorn Bow x 2
Kill Command x 2
Unleash the Hounds x 2
Barnes
Houndmaster x 2
Infested Wolf x 2
Ram Wrangler
Stranglethorn Tiger
Tundra Rhino
Savannah Highmane x 2


This is my only hunter deck. I constructed it before Gadgetzan launched. I win with it pretty easily whenever I need quests in the rank 10 - 16 range.

There's nothing particularly special about it though. It's just a bunch of good hunter cards. There's some Deathrattles I guess (it's named Deathrattle Hunter in my collection) but there isn't actually too much synergy happening there.

I could probably improve it with Gadgetzan cards. i've added literally none. Alleycat sounds nice. But there you go!
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Have you ever played Diablo 3?

Each class has two variants, a male or female, with full voice acting. A lot of them are really good, like the Male Wizard is voiced by Crispin Freeman, and he's excellent as always. But by far my favourite is the Female Wizard.

Here is some art for her

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Guess who she's voiced by? It's Grey DeLisle, voice of Azula! And she plays the role extremely similarly. She's visually very similar, and her background is kind of the same - an arrogant prodigy who uses magic to wreack havoc. Her abilities are often not fire coloured, but behave the same - beams and blasts of energy etc.

Most playthroughs I play as her, and I like to think I'm playing a Chaotic Good, or maybe Chaotic Neutral version of Azula. Their personalities are very similar - the female wizard's comments are often about talking down to whoever you just destroyed and bragging bout how much better she is than everyone. She's *slightly* altruistic, but not nearly as much as most of the other Diablo 3 characters.

I really just love it.


For the last couple months I've began playing Heroes of the Storm, and to my glee they have brought the female version of the wizard into the game as Li-Ming. She's my favourite hero to play and my most played by far. Now I get to play as Azula EVERY DAY.


But it gets better! Normally you should purple coloured Arcane Missiles or what have you - but they released a new skin that's fire based!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLHfcb4iLZc

IM ACTUALLY FIREBENDING THIS IS INCREDIBLE

ALL HAIL FIRELORD AZULA
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I love when Angel's giving that speech about how even Knox is worth saving, and then Wesley just shoots him dead.

"Were you even listening???"
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azuarc posted...

VeryInsane posted...

5 mana 5/4 taunt is literally booty Bay though so IDK

I'm not saying I would run Booty Bay Bodyguard as-is, but if it was a druid choose card that allowed you to give it taunt or a second ability, are you saying it wouldn't be worth considering?

Yeah, like, it COULD be a Booty Bay.... or it could be something else more useful to the situation. That's what makes it good. Flexibility.

That's also what makes it interesting - it's not better because it's just a straight up better effect than previous cards. It offers different solutions without too much power creep.
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VeryInsane posted...

Well we only know 6 of them and the only ones I really like are Divine Shield and the untargetable one.

That said, it probably is a very strong arena card.

I don't think the effects they get are necessarily that strong by themselves, but being able to grab the one you need at the right moment seems really good. Like Divine Shield could be good if you have some big minions you need to trade into, and maybe in most cases it would be better. But maybe the board is currently being swarmed? Sweet, time to throw down this taunt. That's the thing about taunts - if you don't need them they feel like kind of a waste, but if you don't have one when you need it, goddamnit.

Questing seems kind of interesting though. You'd definitely have to build your deck around it.

Priest is by far my favourite class. Out of my 18 decks I think 8 of them are priest? So I think I might have to craft NZoth now....
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Adapt actually sounds OP to me. Like that 5/4 - maybe looks weak by itself, but you can choose to give it Divine Shield or +3 attack or whatever you need in that situation. Like maybe it's less value than Discover but it sounds like there's a lot of potential for good tempo. Can pull the right answer out of nowhere.
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From the A5E2 writeup:

SeabassDebeste posted...

Most important of the 'new' Spike characterization: the way he and Angel interact now that both of them are good guys. If this quality of character interaction holds for the rest of the season, it'll be incredibly clear why this season is hailed as the best: because these two guys are absolutely fire together

All these episodes and they are just still on fire together.


lmao @ Puppet Angel leaving Spike battered in the elevator.
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Yeah, I think I meant to say something at the end along those lines but must have forgot to do it before I posted and passed out. It's definitely fair to think Cordelia was at her most entertaining in Buffy - she was just on fire all the time.

But she was a side character back then, and had the luxury of behaving that way at every opportunity. I don't think that character could long term stay that way as a main character. I really enjoy what they did with her and how they decided to grow her.
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I don't much changed about Korra at all. She's still hot headed, she's rushes into situations without a plan, she doesn't think through the consequences of her actions, etc. She's fierce and loyal to her friends.

There are scenes *indicating* she's growing, like dealing with the pain and crippling she was dealt from Zaheer, and her nice coming to grips with herself session with Toph... but what actual impact did it have on her? I don't think Korra at the end would make any of the decisions she made throughout the series that much differently.

I'd say she's a better Avatar than the day she first stepped foot into Republic City, but she's pretty much the same person.
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What changed about Korra?
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SeabassDebeste posted...

I really like Asami, but she's dangerously close to a Mary Sue. If the story were about her, she definitely would be, so I'm glad she didn't get Airbending.

Maybe I'll give further thoughts on Sokka vs Bolin when I finish the series.

Sokka vs Bolin!
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Yeah, I think you're spot on about the self contained seasons. It's kind of neat that they had different stories to tell, but it usually didn't tie off very well.

I realize they didn't know if they'd be renewed for the first two seasons so they didn't want to leave things open ended, but eh. I'm still super bitter about Amon.

As for characters, yeah, you're right that you can't blame the show too heavily for not having someone as awesome as Toph. If creators could snap their fingers and create someone that good every time they wanted, we wouldn't have to put up with stuff like Kai. But you're also right that it's very disappointing there's nobody like Zuko with longterm character growth and change.
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It's bad news for Hearthstone as a competitive game though - Lifecoach is a true pro. If he sees no depth in the future future, then it's likely true there's no depth.


I don't really care that much about Hearthstone as a competitive game, since I just always play bad decks and have fun losing with bad decks. but it's a pretty lazy design philosophy to say "more of a casual game to just mess around with". You can create a game that's fun and accessible for casuals but has depth for the pros too.

I also don't think Lifecoach is necessarily talking about RNG when he mentions the coinflip winrate. I think the problem is that Hearthstone basically plays itself. In most cases and most decks, there aren't a lot of skillful or interesting plays you make - you just do the most on curve and value plays possible every time. And if the game is that streamlined, it doesn't matter if you are more skilled than your opponent - you are both doing pretty much the same plays anyway. Which means win rates won't stray too far from 50% based on skill. I very much agree with Lifecoach on this.

I remember watching FD stream Hearthstone a couple years ago and something really bugged me about what was happening. He was calling out the card the opponent would play before they would do it. While this certainly indicated insight on FD's part, it meant that the motions of the game was basically preordained. The players are just going through the motions while the game resolves itself. That put me off of Hearthstone for a very long time. I really only played adventures until recently, when I finally invested more into the game so I could make more varied decks.

I do have fun playing this game, but I exist in the Rank 10 - Rank 17 range in both Standard and Wild. I play decks I think are fun and have interesting things happen like Egg Druid, Charge Djinni, Shadow Priest, or Thief Priest. But I really do not care about winning. I just enjoy playing the game. If I actually cared about winning, I would actually not care too much for this game because of what I've described about the game somewhat being on rails, and what Lifecoach says about how skill really doesn't play into it.
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Over the course of the next season or two, you see Cordelia more and more involved in the business. Not just helping from the sidelines, but actually joining the fights. She trains alongside Angel, and they become comrades. She's certainly not fighting on the level of Buffy, Angel, or Spike, or even on the level of Gunn and Wesley, but she wades into battle constantly. And unlike in earlier seasons, it's not just because she's caught up in the trouble. She's there because she wants to be. Even when Angel goes all emo and abandons the team, she's still there keeping things together. Then when Angel returns to the fold, he makes particular effort to make things up with Cordelia, who he really let down.

Back together as a team, they work together more and more. As Fred says when she lays out the role of each member of the team - Cordelia is the heart. She keeps the team focused and together, and eventually Angel starts to notice this. Right under his nose, Cordelia has matured and grown into a practically different person.

But it's not until she's really gone does the effect she's had seem apparent. She's not really there for Season 4 - and as a result, the group dynamic practically falls apart. The relationships are all strained, Connor is basically a nightmare, and people are just straight up not nearly as happy anymore. It's actually very apparent on rewatches how poorly Jasmine fills the role of Cordelia in the group. Angel barely makes it through the season. Then S5 opens up and the team is swallowed by the beast known as Wolfram and Hart. This is a much more cheerful season in a brighter and structured setting, but there's constantly doubts about if they are doing the right thing. Because quite frankly, they aren't sure that they are.

Then Cordelia returns. It's just a short reminder of who she was, but it drives it all home. It's immediately apparent just how much Angel has been missing with her being gone. He needs her support, he needs her opinion. He needs her to tell him what to do. Because over the first three seasons of Angel, he grew to depend upon her and see her as a comrade and colleague that he needs. Someone who believes in what they are doing just as much as he does. That's why he fell for her, and that's why this episode has such a big impact on him. Right when feels like giving up on what they are doing, Cordelia shows up to remind him just who he is and what he's fighting for. Because after three seasons, she understands it better than anyone else.

I think if Buffy were to hear that Angel and Cordelia got together, she'd be shocked and dismayed that Angel would go for someone like her. But that would be a pretty uninformed opinion, because Buffy just doesn't know Cordelia anymore.

That episode was just a perfect capstone to both Cordelia's growth as a character, and to the relationship between Angel and Cordelia. She's truly grown to be a champion in her own right, (which I guess lorewise justifies why she's going off on her own otherwordly path). It's bittersweet that she and Angel don't to be together. And it's a great success of the episode to make you feel that way about a romance that seemed somewhat shaky and forced to begin with.


I certainly miss not having Cordelia around every episode, but this was just a perfect episode for her. It really highlighted the change and growth she's had since S1 of Buffy.


This got pretty rambly and I lost track of what I was even talking about many paragraphs ago but maybe this all made sense.
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I wanna talk about the Cordelia episode.

So, this episode really hinges on the Angel and Cordelia relationship. I think a lot of people were really iffy on that idea when they started pushing it in S3, and especially after the ickiness of Cordelia x Connor in season 4, but this episode really drives it home and shows why it works.


I think it's pretty clear Angel and Buffy S1-3 Cordelia would not have gotten into a relationship. She's petty and vain and self centered. She does help out with the team a lot, but she ultimately doesn't care that much about good and evil or helping the helpless. She's not a *bad* person, but she's stuck in her high school bubble, and isn't really thinking that much about the greater good. She would help if she saw something going wrong. Development for Cordelia mostly revolves around hings like falling from grace as Queen Bee of the Mean Girls, or by comparing herself to Buffy. Or dating Xander I guess.

It's interesting to note that Cordelia and Wesley were interested in each other back then - but they were both very immature characters compared to where they went after toughening up from a few seasons on Angel.

I'd guess that if you asked Cordelia to talk about Angel's personality or what makes him tick, she actually wouldn't really have that accurate of an answer - she just didn't really know him that well. Meanwhile, Angel had a sense of her being pretty vapid as displayed by his "it's great to see she's grown as a person" comment when seeing her in the Angel pilot.

So to begin with, no, these characters did not make any sense whatsoever as a couple.

Then Cordelia appeared on Angel and began a lot of growth as a character. She begins by being the administrative clerk to Angel Investigations, functioning basically as his assistant. She's mostly the same she was on Buffy - focused on the practicality of making money. Angel was pretty content to be a lone wolf and didn't consult very much with her, but it was the start of her attempting to support him. Over time she grows more invested in what they are doing largely because of Doyle. His death emotionally had an impact her by itself, but passing the visions left a more longlasting change on her life.

Seeing people in trouble had the direct benefit of providing missions for Angel to go help people with, but the more interesting effect was on Cordelia's psyche. She started seeing people in trouble, and couldn't help but want to save them. It's a different perspective than when she was Slayer adjacent, or for the most part was just letting Angel run off and deal with things himself. This made it all real for her. Seeing people being hunted, attacked, and murdered couldn't help but fill her with empathy and compassion. That bad guy in the S1 finale thought he was taking her out by hitting her with that mass visions whammy, but what he really did was reaffirm just how committed she was to the cause. When she wakes up from that coma, she talks about all the people she saw in danger, or being murdered, and waht she says is "We have to help them."

And as Angel says, "We will."


I think that's the point that leads to those two falling for each other.
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I'm guessing between Mako and Tenzin is the line where he actually likes the character
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I really like the Gundam. There might be some awkward parts to it, but I really enjoyed the Attack on Titan style guerrilla combat the Airbenders use fighting it. I like it even better than Attack on Titan!

I think Varrick is incredible this season, even better in S2. Love everything about him.

Zhu Li has to be one of the most competent characters I've ever seen. Whether it's assisting in research, planning Varrick's schedule, battling Kuvira's soldiers in a mech in a bid to escape, serving Varrick tea, pretending to backstab her boss and crush and pledge loyalty to a fascist warlord in a bid to keep everyone in the party from being locked up, being the bottom half of a platypus bear costume, discreetly but continuously sabotaging development on a superweapon, literally carrying Varrick on her back for miles during an escape, pilotting a mosquito like flying mecha against a giant mecha, or just always knowing what the thing was, Zhu Li was always giving 100% at every single thing the situation called upon her to do. She may not have spectacular abilities but it always felt like she was going exactly as far she possibly could with whatever means she had at her disposal. She wasn't quite a Mary Sue, because she often did not succeed at what she was attempting to do, but the effort was always there.

Meanwhile Varrick, who was quite a genius at many things - science, business, politics, showmanship - he also had tons of flaws, like getting in the way during the aforementioned mech fight to escape Kuvira's soldiers.. Zhu Li's only flaw was that she wasn't the one in charge I guess.

Korrasami is great -- really subtle and downplayed, which is unfortunate as that's surely due to creative limitations, but being so under the radar kind of adds to how sweet it is.

I liked the scene about Mako doing his lightning bending to destroy the power source, but Bolin coming back and saving him felt really cheap and made the scene pointless.

I really did not care for Wu whatsoever. I especially thought his big win with the song and the badgermoles sucked.

Toph was incredible - other TLA characters were kinda meh but Toph delivers both on reminding us on what made her great to begin with and by being such a perfect evolution of the character as an aged adult.

Overall, the last two seasons have just been such a step up over the first two. A large part of that is due to Zaheer and Kuvira, but I'd say they stepped up their game in general. I don't think they reached S2&3 TLA quality, but that's okay. They definitely made the show well worth the watch.

I think everyone's looking forward to an end of series recap, and comparison to TLA.
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he's obviously devastated
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our rats are low
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Yes, it accomplishes an effect, just like every card. Polymorph takes that beloved 4/10 twilight drake and turns into a 1/1. How unfortunate for me. Flamestrike clears my board of beloved murlocs off the map completely. I really wanted to have murlocs in play, but that damn flamestrike!

It can be very punishing against certain board states, and very little effect against others. In Hearthstone, if you put a board out, you almost *always* expect the opponent to do something to remove it. There are different ways of doing it, and Devolve is different from most, but it has positives and negatives to it. There's even a stronger version of Devolve in the Kazakus potions, so it's not like its effect is one of a kind.

I would say that maybe Devolve is *too* punishing against the decks that it punishes for how much it costs, but I wouldn't put it into broken territory.
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Devolve just ruins my hand buff murlocadin so badly. Like, Murlocs are already countered by devolve, I have a scary 5 minion board thats all buffing eachother, boom devolve it's all wisps and tinyfins suddenly. Add on to that I invest the resources of hand buffs on those minions to make them even scarier and jesus christ devolve, it hurts so bad!


I actually think it might be stronger early game where it turns 2 -3 drops that are decently strong into 1/1s. Using it to remove a special effect on high cost late game minions is pretty good, but it still leaves you with high cost minions to deal with.
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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG

soooo

how greedy is this decklist


Mind Vision × 2
Northshire Cleric × 1
Pint-Size Potion × 2
Potion of Madness × 2
Power Word: Shield × 2
Convert × 2
Resurrect × 1
Shadow Word: Pain × 1
Shrinkmeister × 2
Shadow Word: Death × 1
Thoughtsteal × 2
Mindgames × 1
Shadow Madness × 1
Excavated Evil × 1
Faceless Manipulator × 1
Onyx Bishop × 1
Cabal Shadow Priest × 1
Emperor Thaurissan × 1
Entomb × 2
Nefarian × 1
Mind Control x1
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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG

yeah, I think the notion that "well the best decks only have 53% win rates" isn't very convincing, when they are just losing to other decks with the same pirate package. Pirate Warrior is obviously all pirates, Shaman are running pirates, and rogues are running pirates.

What's the winrate of these decks against decks that don't also run pirates? I'm willing to bet its higher than 53%.
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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG

Oh by the way, in regards to bumping. any time I look in my active messages posted page and see this or the Avatar topic are more than 1 day behind without a post, like if I looked today on the 28th and saw the most recent post was the 26th at 11:50pm, I automatically make a post.

This has saved the topics a lot, but it's not foolproof. The purge is typically around a day and a half, so this means I catch a lot of topics this way, but if I don't check until a day and three quarters.... I might have missed it. Like if the last time this topic had a post was the 26th at 7am, it might have purged by now.


I lose topics I want to save *all the time*. I'm incapable of making myself check and post every single day. So I'm not gonna be 100% reliable to keep these topics alive. But I'll be doing my usual check, so if other people are checking it for the next two weeks too, we should hopefully make it!
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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG

If you're looking for something to binge, I just finished The Good Place, a 12 episode comedy starring Kristen Bell and Ted Danson that just wrapped its first season.

It's about the afterlife, where people who've lived exceptionally good and positive lives go to a wonderful paradise to live out eternity - except Kristen Bell, who was a terrible person, gets sent there by mistake.

If you are a fan of either of those two I highly recommend!




I came for Kristen Bell, but I stayed for Ted Danson. I've never really clicked with him in other stuff like Becker or CSI, like he was fine, but holy fuck is he on point in this show.
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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG