MtG Arena had its own little April Fool’s Event yesterday, a “New Historic” format that was just the old schoolyard format: 40 cards minimum, any number of any given card in your deck, all with free access to the entire cardpool (of Arena, not MtG as a whole).
I tried to make some self-mill-you-win-the-game thing work for a while but reworked it into just burn instead.
I tried to play this, but myself and a whole bunch of other people couldn’t log into the client and faced a black screen all night 
for the easiest time with ff6 try using gau, there are a couple of skills (stray cat, templar) you can get as soon as he joins the party that will clean up for most of the game
then later on he gets guaranteed charm that works on everything inc. the final boss
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It certainly did more for me than a Ubisoft game. It’s broken in ways that let the work show through
You can tell how much they got out of Geralt, a character archetype that can enter any situation knowing nothing but still holding a personality, and they arrived at this awkward halfway point between pre-defined-personality and blankfaced stat sheet. I get the feeling the writing team had a very different conception of how defined the player character was next to the gameplay team.
I’m surprised at how Rockstar it ended up being in the narrative; it’s something that looks good at 10,000 feet and all the enormous world art supports it really well but they just can’t maintain quality in the missions, so you get this disconnect between playing it and thinking about it, and the density of the presentation gives it the true-felt impact of a dream
I am reading through The House in Fata Morgana.
It’s really slow. I’d say Steins:Gate slow.
I have mixed feelings on it. Certain chapters are original and a pleasure to read, despite their gloomy mood. Others are excessively… sugary? and the related tracks hard to stand
But my endurance is paying off because I am leaning towards the end and it’s got quite horror again and with very interesting revelations… so in the end, I’d say until now it’s worth it, despite the boring sections.
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it was fun to see the combo decks and silver bullets, and how the crab mill deck was most easily countered by everyone just playing 200-250 card decks lol
Creeping Chill? I ran that for a while, hilarious against Thieves Guild Enforcers & Ruin Crabs
got bored, added Fae of Wishes to work on my sideboard tech for decks that survived past turn 4. lovely feeling fetching out a Feed the Swarm against the Oops-spamming Nine Lives/Solemnity chud & Ratchet Bomb for the Runed Halo deck
still dies in seconds to the Charmed Strays, getting Lich’s Mastery out by turn 4 is… hard, and turn 5 is too late
gau is a perfect example of what my problem here is. there’s not really a way to tell what is good and useful without looking it up, or trying out everything and hoping he randomly shows off something useful. you don’t see any skill lists or any kind of stats for the monsters he copies. i’m sure the game is trivialized by knowledge, but this stuff is obscured in annoying ways. also, getting skills for gau is so annoying since you have to farm random encounters until something new shows up. i don’t like it.
Gau looks baked in his portrait, I like to think he smokes with the creatures he leaps at
Gau’s post-apocalyptic chic will be all the rage in the near future imo
I never had a problem with FFVI and I don’t have much patience for JRPGs in general and don’t really get too deep into their systems but maybe that makes it easier for me to enjoy? I just shrug my shoulders and gradually intuit what attacks and skills will get me through after some trial and error. I mean, I love that game and it would be cool to know all the ins and outs, I’m just too lazy.
if i ever get back into shape i’m trying some variation of that outfit
I just noticed he has body hair, very cool. I think those are some poses I’d like to do after I take a nap.
Aside from the cool monsters and locations, I love when Final Fantasy asks me close ended questions
nah, I only thought of Creeping Chill when I played against it - I was on this Foot Soldier shit from the very start but my first instinct was to win via Thassa’s Oracle after I’ve drawn all the guys in my deck. That didn’t work since I still had lands in there and neither did adding Treasure Hunt, so I looked for other ways to use a 20-card hand and settled on Fateful Showdown. Mostly glad I got that to work reliably lol
using Fae of Wishes for sideboard access is smart, I like it! I added Leylines and blue for Spell Pierce as protection against the Creeping Chill and Tibalt’s Trickery decks, but that made my stupid combo worse so I went back to WR eventually. Extremely funny to see a 250 card deck metagame though
FF6 can get pretty hard, especially if like me you tend to use the Figabros as a crutch
Physical attacks are ineffective and most character exclusive skills are either not great or hard to use / learn.
Pivoting to magic is really the easiest way to play if you don’t grind. Spells are expensive but tents are cheap, save points are plentiful and Osmose is very effective
lol yes. so many decks were vulnerable to Necromentia/etc which exiles cards from the library, but if you run 100 Creeping Chills there’s hardly enough time to click them all before the timer runs out
I learned that “iDOS”, the somewhat barebones dosbox port available on the iOS store, was updated/re-approved with Files app loading support sometime late last year. And so, I have been playing the 2.0 VGA CD remake of Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiego? on my ipad.
I transferred the files via a SMB share and I use an aluminum Brydge faux-laptop keyboard it is almost like using a real computing device.
I had recently played a little via Boxer on my emac, which while cozy and neat, falters a bit under the heavy load of processing basically an interactive gif and mt32 emulation at the same time.
I’ve installed the Outriders demo three times now and I have no clue how many more times I’ll uninstall and install it before it either clicks with me or I give up for good.
happy easter @HEAVYVIPER
I tried this the other day having finished Gears Judgment recently thinking People Can Fly can at least carry the baton by delivering a familiar formula with optional challenge spices
After skipping what may have been 20 minutes of Sci Fi terraform plot dump it quickly managed to be Mass Effect: Destiny Edition and I just balked. I might attempt to suffer it again but none of it struck me as appealing nor does it seem especially generous that this was released on Game Pass as a Day One
