typh - norah

pixel of the yugioh card yummy cupsy, looking happy and excited

all packed up and ready to drive out to tacoma in the morning! hope to see some of y’all there for the bh!

sure, i guess i mean, the diner promos are the “region-related” promo (regardless of how apt they are, think how pt singapore had pool party promos). the golf one is probably not even supposed to be “region-related”

well the diner promos from the events are the philly related things, right? i think this was just a silly extra thing that could’ve launched anywhere

bh tacoma also has some riftbound events happening at it, ooo. maybe i slip into a riftbound sealed deck event if i bomb out of the bh lmao

you can glean some info from the turns/blocks/plays/pitches per game info. looks like it's a block 1, pitch 1-2, play 0-1 cards per turn deck. which suspiciously close to 3 cards per turn. could be a few things since those metrics can be fucky. maybe tuffnut or vynnset?

oopsie, i lost track of time so hard that the opened jar of pasta sauce that i thought was 4 days old was actually like 10 days old and may have gone bad. hope i don't die

anyway, who wants to hire me

it would def be pretty hard to make, and similar to wow sims, they aren't the whole picture obviously, but it would be fascinating. if only i was that good at making sims ;-;

completely unrelated to LL:

i wonder if anyone has tried to make a "dps simulator" for fab before, like a wow sim but it evaluates value per hand based on a priority list and sims like a thousand games to get an idea of the average and variance as you change cards in the list

new idea: what if we just adopted the smogon pokemon format rules

cards are placed in tiers (ubers, overused, underused, neverused, etc.) and you can only play cards from those tiers or lower for the appropriate format

obv the handling of LL format this season has not been good, and i've already said my piece about how LL will never be good enough for everyone, but they're certainly trying

i wanna see a clean reset/rework with a clear message of the Goals of the format, personally. would help contextualize it imo

but also, who knows at this point lol. maybe their review of LL is "this sucks, let's push it back down to commoner level" and we stop seeing LL anywhere except 1-2 BHs a year and a skirmish season

i think there's a reasonable chance they will unban rosetta thorn in their review of LL. this feels more like a "there isn't much time and we need to do something, thorn is a constant between all the good runeblades rn, it'll have to do" rather than a deeper "thorn fundamentally cannot exist in LL"

i remember almost a decade ago, crashing out in skype and guild chats about how there isn't a purely group pve game, and i spent so many hours thinking of and designing classes and systems for this hypothetical genre. and now it's finally been done, and it's doing so well already, i love it

fr though, the general upkeep of an mmo, between new mandatory quest lines every patch, dailies, gold for consumes and gear upgrades, and whatever non-pve content that provides player power, is so tiring nowadays, and i'm so happy a game has finally come out that lets players skip all that

i never really liked m+ in wow, but fellowship is SO fun

turns out, dungeons are really fun when you don't got a quest giver in your ear telling you to collect 30 gnoll ears, kill 20 murlocs, and save the world, before you're allowed to play the cool part of the game

i was thinking this exact same thing for the sage bh in seattle

on the page for the sage announcement, they said at worlds there will be a fresh new approach to hero rotation or something like that

i wonder if singleton LL would be more fun in general

adding this to the skills section of my resume

who wants to play some golden age (only super rares and up)

incredible

RIP daniel naroditsky. his chess content and sheer exuberance for the game is what got me interested in chess in the first place, many years ago. chess won’t be as fun without him around :(

a screenshot of the name of my fai deck “when the fajitas come out sizzlin”

faijitas time

i like how fai and my pfp look like they’re having the times of their lives with the sizzlin fajitas

but it's unfortunate that the l2p decks are scarce where you are ;-; hard to get people into the scene with the financial barriers, for sure

that's fair. the pack prob isn't driving the price too much higher tho. compared to blitz/1st strike, these have more cards and r&d time behind them to be competitive, so i bet they'd be closer to like $17-18 without the pack. the pack is just making it an even $20, with extra advertising to boot

eh, it's not pointless, it's fun. and from the way they were talking about the decks, the point of the pack isn't to improve them anyway. idk, i just know i personally love packs in precons and have tried out several tcgs i wouldn't have otherwise because of them

i might be in the minority, but when i see a tcg that puts a booster or two in its precon, i'm like WAY more likely to buy it. especially for popular games where shops are just always out of boosters so i wouldn't be able to buy a precon and some boosters if they were separate (which fab is ime)

it's curious that there isn't a "to be revealed" PEN hero among the sage precons. they said PEN is instrumental to sage as a format, so you'd expect its heroes to be there, no? maybe they're hiding a precon or two for later, or maybe PEN isn't a normal set that's introducing a few new heroes?

screenshot of a shirt that says timberland, established 1973, with a logo

i think i've seen similar shirts, where it's framed like a clothing brand logo with the establish #### (like the attached image) but it's USA with est. 1776. which isn't really a dogwhistle or anything imo. just like a generic graphic tee

also, dev and design are two different parts of the equation (at least at LSS). devs are playing the game and are iterating and balancing what the design team brought to the table. there's obv some crossover but it's like design vs programming in video games, two diff skill sets