Skipped September for some reason: probably because I was completely stressed out of my mind so remembering to post about this escaped out the back door lol.
Like I said back in August, I've still been all over the damn place when it comes to partially-completing games. Add Sea of Stars, Relic Hunters Legend, and (sadly) Baldur's Gate III to the list of stuff that has been started but not finished. I might need some ADHD medication - or my life stressors to stabilize at the very least - so I can find the motivation or whatever to play a game from start to finish.
Currently, I am back to playing Hearthstone (sigh), as well as a second playthrough of Elden Ring; this time with a keyboard + mouse on Steam. Blocking feels easier on KBM, so I'm gonna give shields a fair shake - I quickly dropped them on the PS5 and resigned myself to dodging everything. It's been an easier experience so far, although some of that could be explained away via the knowledge already gained from playing through it the first time.
Of course, whether or not I finish this Elden Ring playthrough is another question, with Marvel's Spider-Man 2 coming on the 20th! Super excited to play that, so everything else might end up on the backburner yet-again.
What're you playing currently? Anything new you look forward to playing this month?
Half of the Animal Crossing set seems to be in the awning and roofing tiles lmao
...also yeah, I totally believe the price: I loved LEGO when I was younger, but it has been hella expensive seemingly forever. I'm just gonna hold onto my pieces and give them to my kid, if they ever become a thing :D
I didn't believe you at first, 124 pieces for $40 USD but what in the world?? The set is Tenoo Jedi Temple for anyone else following along.
I was going to make the argument that the branded sets always have some kind of a premium attached, but I can't say I've seen anything that excessive. It's not like there are very unique things going on either. One could argue three minifigs in a smaller set add to price, and the printed on bricks, but I'm not buying it.
Maybe if the bricks were super big; Julian's set has more bricks than Bunnie's set but its cheaper because the bricks are mostly tiny accent pieces which makes sense. I am so glad that I don't collect Star Wars LEGO.
I'm 100% on board with the fact that Theotar was nerfed solely because Sire Denathrius, though as much as I hate playing against Denathrius I'm more or less fine with that. Since Denathrius was the free legendary from the set, giving every player access to it definitely helped F2P players with building stronger decks for cheap is definitely a plus to me. Granted this also just made the issue even worse since all sudden everybody could run him if they wanted to, but its definitely a give or take.
As for Mindrender Illucia and Tickatus, I only really think that Mindrender was an issue since it was just being used as a 2 mana time warp and nothing else. If it was being used for its original purpose, that card would've been perfectly fine. With Tickatus on the other hand, only issue I could see with it is just that its annoying to see cards being burned from your deck. Warlock has typically always had a real strong endgame in their control decks and I've always seen having 5-10 cards of my deck burnt to push me into fatigue to just be a variant of it and I'd much rather just lose on the spot than slowly lose from being drowned in 3/4 taunts, 6/6s, or whatever garbage DK Gul'dan would bring back, though that is probably just a me thing.
If Blizzard need to add disruption of any kind, I'd prefer it be on neutral cards like Dirty Rat or Theotar, the Mad Duke. Not sure why Priest and Warlock have disruption as their class identity coz then it just creates bad sentiments for those classes. Remember when everyone and their grandmother was hating on Priest and Warlock when unnerfed Mindrender Illucia and Tickatus were in Standard? If disruption was only relegated to neutral cards, their power level would be more acceptable (with Theotar, the Mad Duke being the exception).
Although, would Theotar, the Mad Duke have been such a controversial card if Sire Denathrius wasn't in the same set? If you play Theotar now in this current meta, it whiffs a lot. Had a priest steal my Yogg recently and it barely made a difference.
I'm a bit curious about the configuration of the forum threads.
It seems that any update (like banning a bot and deleting the spam post) will make them appear in the recent threads, even though the last post is from years ago.
So my question is: is it feasible to change either the logic behind recent threads (to not look at the "changedDate" field or whatever it's called, but at the createDate of the latest post of the thread), or to create a job that automatically closes threads that are older than e.g. 6 months, with the posibility for mods to leave some of these threads "permanently open"?
Sorry if this is already planned in a near-future update. Was just curious about your stance on this.
Yeah card generation and also redundancy for these pieces can definitely blow any issues with them out of proportion. Having enough disruption in the meta is necessary especially as more cards like Odyn, Prime Designate are released, but too much is definitely a bad thing as it just takes away any agency the opponent might have. I am much more on the side of erring on the side of caution for card generation over disruption since it gets to a certain point where playing around random cards is unreasonable.
And yeah secret mage has been fairly annoying a lot of the time, but I still can't help but love how secrets impact how a match can be played, even if more often than not its going to be an explosive runes or counterspell.
Disruption is good when the meta is heavy on combo decks or decks whose win condition is in one card like control warrior. The problem is when you can generate more disruption and combo pieces. Example given, control priest.
I know this because I've played the hell out of it. The amount of controlled card generation in this deck is insane. So you can easily end up with 6+ dirty rats, astalors, get every option from ETC, etc. (pun intended). If devs just eased up on this it would be fine honestly. In the meta where combo, otk or big hitter cards don't exist, disruption simply sucks.
Controlled card generation that is also present in other classes like death knight that currently has low amount of cards becomes a big problem when the meta is value heavy and therefore forces disruption cards.
P.S. screw secret mage that archetype was a mistake
Cool deck, I have taken out phychomelon and flower child as neither card works once you have cast celestial alignment also seem to be overdrawing with these 2 cards and have too many cards in handle to cast Elise or Freya, currently testing different replacements for the 2 cards taken out
I'm loving a trend of having packs come with the skin for gold. It made me buy a skin for gold for the first time. And it's also the first time we're able to get class packs for gold iirc
I have a feeling this move to Steam is also due to the Netease/China debacle that happened in January this year. Blizzard definitely lost a big region and lots of revenue from the breakup. It's funny seeing the majority of the Overwatch Steam reviews are in Mandarin.
Also wouldn't be surprised if D4 is review bombed as well even after all the good changes coming in Season 2.
There are rumors that once MS acquire ABK, they will boot up the Starcraft or Warcraft franchise again coz MS aren't shy of RTS games seeing as they recently did AoE IV
What Are You Playing? October 2023
Going through all the RollerCoaster Tycoon 1 parks, and I'm getting super close to beating all of them.
What Are You Playing? October 2023
Skipped September for some reason: probably because I was completely stressed out of my mind so remembering to post about this escaped out the back door lol.
Like I said back in August, I've still been all over the damn place when it comes to partially-completing games. Add Sea of Stars, Relic Hunters Legend, and (sadly) Baldur's Gate III to the list of stuff that has been started but not finished. I might need some ADHD medication - or my life stressors to stabilize at the very least - so I can find the motivation or whatever to play a game from start to finish.
Currently, I am back to playing Hearthstone (sigh), as well as a second playthrough of Elden Ring; this time with a keyboard + mouse on Steam. Blocking feels easier on KBM, so I'm gonna give shields a fair shake - I quickly dropped them on the PS5 and resigned myself to dodging everything. It's been an easier experience so far, although some of that could be explained away via the knowledge already gained from playing through it the first time.
Of course, whether or not I finish this Elden Ring playthrough is another question, with Marvel's Spider-Man 2 coming on the 20th! Super excited to play that, so everything else might end up on the backburner yet-again.
What're you playing currently? Anything new you look forward to playing this month?
LEGO's First Animal Crossing Sets Revealed - Nook's Cranny, Bunnie's Outdoor Activities, & More
Half of the Animal Crossing set seems to be in the awning and roofing tiles lmao
...also yeah, I totally believe the price: I loved LEGO when I was younger, but it has been hella expensive seemingly forever. I'm just gonna hold onto my pieces and give them to my kid, if they ever become a thing :D
Stormgate Becomes First RTS To Implement Rollback Netcode
I find that to be really interesting, actually :) Stormgate seems like it's shaping up to be pretty cool.
LEGO's First Animal Crossing Sets Revealed - Nook's Cranny, Bunnie's Outdoor Activities, & More
I didn't believe you at first, 124 pieces for $40 USD but what in the world?? The set is Tenoo Jedi Temple for anyone else following along.
I was going to make the argument that the branded sets always have some kind of a premium attached, but I can't say I've seen anything that excessive. It's not like there are very unique things going on either. One could argue three minifigs in a smaller set add to price, and the printed on bricks, but I'm not buying it.
Maybe if the bricks were super big; Julian's set has more bricks than Bunnie's set but its cheaper because the bricks are mostly tiny accent pieces which makes sense. I am so glad that I don't collect Star Wars LEGO.
LEGO's First Animal Crossing Sets Revealed - Nook's Cranny, Bunnie's Outdoor Activities, & More
I'm sorry, but what? This has to be a typo. Well, maybe not. After all it's the same company that thought that this 124 pieces set is worth 40$
Unpacking the State of Disruption in Hearthstone: A Player's Perspective
I'm 100% on board with the fact that Theotar was nerfed solely because Sire Denathrius, though as much as I hate playing against Denathrius I'm more or less fine with that. Since Denathrius was the free legendary from the set, giving every player access to it definitely helped F2P players with building stronger decks for cheap is definitely a plus to me. Granted this also just made the issue even worse since all sudden everybody could run him if they wanted to, but its definitely a give or take.
As for Mindrender Illucia and Tickatus, I only really think that Mindrender was an issue since it was just being used as a 2 mana time warp and nothing else. If it was being used for its original purpose, that card would've been perfectly fine. With Tickatus on the other hand, only issue I could see with it is just that its annoying to see cards being burned from your deck. Warlock has typically always had a real strong endgame in their control decks and I've always seen having 5-10 cards of my deck burnt to push me into fatigue to just be a variant of it and I'd much rather just lose on the spot than slowly lose from being drowned in 3/4 taunts, 6/6s, or whatever garbage DK Gul'dan would bring back, though that is probably just a me thing.
Unpacking the State of Disruption in Hearthstone: A Player's Perspective
I'm in shambles D:. Going to pretend this never happened.
Old threads
The current way it works is definitely not ideal. Threads that are 4 years old shouldn't even be able to be bumped without staff intervention tbh.
There is some magic in the works to fix this problem. Call it one of my top 10 annoyances on our platform!
Unpacking the State of Disruption in Hearthstone: A Player's Perspective
If Blizzard need to add disruption of any kind, I'd prefer it be on neutral cards like Dirty Rat or Theotar, the Mad Duke. Not sure why Priest and Warlock have disruption as their class identity coz then it just creates bad sentiments for those classes. Remember when everyone and their grandmother was hating on Priest and Warlock when unnerfed Mindrender Illucia and Tickatus were in Standard? If disruption was only relegated to neutral cards, their power level would be more acceptable (with Theotar, the Mad Duke being the exception).
Although, would Theotar, the Mad Duke have been such a controversial card if Sire Denathrius wasn't in the same set? If you play Theotar now in this current meta, it whiffs a lot. Had a priest steal my Yogg recently and it barely made a difference.
Unpacking the State of Disruption in Hearthstone: A Player's Perspective
https://grammarist.com/phrase/without-further-ado-vs-without-further-adieu/ ;)
Old threads
Hi,
I'm a bit curious about the configuration of the forum threads.
It seems that any update (like banning a bot and deleting the spam post) will make them appear in the recent threads, even though the last post is from years ago.
So my question is: is it feasible to change either the logic behind recent threads (to not look at the "changedDate" field or whatever it's called, but at the createDate of the latest post of the thread), or to create a job that automatically closes threads that are older than e.g. 6 months, with the posibility for mods to leave some of these threads "permanently open"?
Sorry if this is already planned in a near-future update. Was just curious about your stance on this.
Unpacking the State of Disruption in Hearthstone: A Player's Perspective
Great, thorough article. Thanks Echo!
Unpacking the State of Disruption in Hearthstone: A Player's Perspective
Yeah card generation and also redundancy for these pieces can definitely blow any issues with them out of proportion. Having enough disruption in the meta is necessary especially as more cards like Odyn, Prime Designate are released, but too much is definitely a bad thing as it just takes away any agency the opponent might have. I am much more on the side of erring on the side of caution for card generation over disruption since it gets to a certain point where playing around random cards is unreasonable.
And yeah secret mage has been fairly annoying a lot of the time, but I still can't help but love how secrets impact how a match can be played, even if more often than not its going to be an explosive runes or counterspell.
Unpacking the State of Disruption in Hearthstone: A Player's Perspective
Disruption is good when the meta is heavy on combo decks or decks whose win condition is in one card like control warrior. The problem is when you can generate more disruption and combo pieces. Example given, control priest.
I know this because I've played the hell out of it. The amount of controlled card generation in this deck is insane. So you can easily end up with 6+ dirty rats, astalors, get every option from ETC, etc. (pun intended). If devs just eased up on this it would be fine honestly. In the meta where combo, otk or big hitter cards don't exist, disruption simply sucks.
Controlled card generation that is also present in other classes like death knight that currently has low amount of cards becomes a big problem when the meta is value heavy and therefore forces disruption cards.
P.S. screw secret mage that archetype was a mistake
Infinite Malygos Druid
Cool deck, I have taken out phychomelon and flower child as neither card works once you have cast celestial alignment also seem to be overdrawing with these 2 cards and have too many cards in handle to cast Elise or Freya, currently testing different replacements for the 2 cards taken out
Hearthstone Shop Update - Ranked Bundles, New Hunter Hero Skin
I think they'll give you one for every rank, I've just been slow to rank up this season.
If anyone knows about the other bundles, I can add them to the post.
Hearthstone Shop Update - Ranked Bundles, New Hunter Hero Skin
I'm loving a trend of having packs come with the skin for gold. It made me buy a skin for gold for the first time. And it's also the first time we're able to get class packs for gold iirc
StoneGlow
I'm very pleased to meet you. I hope you can post more about your interests or introduce drift boss yourself
Hearthstone Shop Update - Ranked Bundles, New Hunter Hero Skin
Kind of bummed they are only offering ranked bundles for Bronze & Silver
Diablo IV is Blizzard's Second Game Coming to Steam - Arrives October 17 Alongside Season 2
I have a feeling this move to Steam is also due to the Netease/China debacle that happened in January this year. Blizzard definitely lost a big region and lots of revenue from the breakup. It's funny seeing the majority of the Overwatch Steam reviews are in Mandarin.
Also wouldn't be surprised if D4 is review bombed as well even after all the good changes coming in Season 2.
Warcraft Franchise to Lead BlizzCon Opening Ceremony
There are rumors that once MS acquire ABK, they will boot up the Starcraft or Warcraft franchise again coz MS aren't shy of RTS games seeing as they recently did AoE IV
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