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enderlord99 asked 2 months ago
Any thoughts on https://www.reddit.com/r/custommagic/comments/128o6pp
Didn't see this at the time.
enderlord99 asked 3 months ago
IDEA: Planeswalker with a "Skip your draw step" static ability & {+1} that just does something minor like gaining 1 life... but their minus is (possibly a less-wordy version of) "{-X} Look at the top X+3 cards of your library. Put one or more of them on top of your library in any order, one or more of them on the bottom of your library in any order, one or more of them into your graveyard, and the rest into your hand. You lose life equal to the number of cards put into your hand this way."
Since it's paying loyalty, not sure that the life payment is necessary. Compare to Jace, Unraveller of Secrets, which is a 5 mana permanent that just lets you to +1 to scry and draw.
It seems like what you're considering here is a card that lets you dig, keep a bunch and throw away a bunch.
Have you looked at Moonlight Bargain?
enderlord99 asked 3 months ago
Does the moth seer from Hollow Knight seem Jewish-coded? Please ask an actual Jewish person and relay their answer, in addition to providing your own.
I'd ask them directly, but the only person I kinda sorta knew and who was definitely Jewish, was someone I only knew through Twitter.
I asked the only people I really knew who might have some insight, on tumblr, and they provided an answer, and hopefully there'll be more info in the response: https://www.tumblr.com/talenlee/710740751494103040/i-got-asked-if-i-knew-any-jewish-media-critics-who?source=share
Really just not in my area of expertise though.
Shy Bean asked 6 months ago
What is boring or bad about how most people talk about games? I like lots of forms of game discussion so I find the idea that most is bad to be confusing, and I don't particularly just want to guess what you're trying to get at from the examples you gave.
The majority of game discussion is considering games entirely as commercial products for distribution and sale, and want to have a review score at the end. If this doesn't strike you as the majority, then you're probably discounting a large quantity of material without realising it.
enderlord99 asked 4 months ago
Why'd you switch here and away from CC?
on curiouscat, I got a lot of spam and mostly, the daily questions were tedious and annoyed me.
Shy Bean asked 6 months ago
If most people who talk about games are doing it in boring/bad ways, who are the exceptions? Obviously yourself (and I'd be curious what your favorite videos/posts are about it), but is there anyone else that stands out?
Some stuff I like in the 'talking about games' category, just off the top of my head:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ0katDtrE4
Sophie From Mars here did a piece about Pathologic that tries to dig past the conversation about the game's interface (how it resists your ability to engage with it), to a reading of the text informed by an academic form. This is multiple layers of interpretation but it's all cited and connected, where Sophie doesn't position her presentation as objectively true nor disconnected from greater context, she explains ideas in the text, what the text uses them to do, then how they apply to the game, and it doesn't take fifteen goddamn hours.
Polygon has a lot of structural presence that gives them access to industry insiders, which is largely going to be because Polygon are Serious and Good, which means that they get to do investigations of things like specific animations and the like. It's kind of a prestige newspaper, yes, there's stuff they're not GOING to do, but the fact they stay out of some spaces is a tool that lets them cover other things. I also quite like this kind of thing where the presentation is that very specific individual experience, considered as a narrative that can be usefully shared (which is a type of autoethnography).
i am error does a lot of good pieces about focused examinations of games that are not necessarily regarded as 'important' and tends to look at games with that narrative of 'here's why a person could care about this,' and I'm not just saying that because she's more or less on the same page as me with Minesweeper and Solitaire.
This is literally just a bunch of stuff that sprung to my mind as from recency. And you may think 'oh this is just the same general stuff lots of people in that space already share,' and yeah. But remember, that these are minority voices in minority space - and then consider how vast the spaces are of players who look to and converse in review scores.
Jane-Michelle O. S. Auman asked 7 months ago
Given the chance - would you spend one (1) day as a Labrador retriever? ?
It does seem to be an experience that's largely anxiety free, but how messed up and weird is my mental space that I thought 'Oh I dunno, I think I wouldn't be very good at it.'
Shy Bean asked 7 months ago
Do you like video games?
Hi there, test thing I pressed to see how it works. I have never eaten a video game and I don't know why you'd bring it up like that.