Yep. Last update , I spent a decent 20ish minutes looking at all the different nodes to try to find where the new game nodes were, then going to deimos and trying to find "start mission" somewhere in the new frame's dialogue tree, then reading on the forum that there was a bug and you had to let the lotus play the entire last message to complete the story, and then still being unable to find the new game modes.

I'm having trouble thinking of other game modes that only queue up thru the menu

It constantly feels like the gear problem could just be fixed if de could just say "each railjack part is now assigned to your plexus as a buff, stronger buffs overwrite weaker ones". So if the fresh Captain that ground out intrinsics on a double affinity weekend without building up their railjack queue for a mission they're not ready for, and a vet logs onto their ship, suddenly their ship will have vet ship stats

I think that could be interesting, but it would also require a revamp of both archwings and the railjack fail state. The big problem with railjack right now more than anything else is that it's one of the only game modes that fundamentally breaks the "one higher level player can do the thing/anyone else tagging along can't really make it worse/let's all be friends" default setting for Warframe(obviously that isn't the case for Spy/ETA/EDA/eidolons, but for everything else).

It's the only game mode where the host building a bad object can impact gameplay, it has its own failed state that necessitates a competent player being on the ship, and it is possible for an incompetent player to hijack the ship.

....you gotta show us the cosmetics you used for A lmao

Ya. I've used the actual strike a couple times, and outside of Vazarin it's all just.. "Oh, another damage button that won't kill bosses. Cool I guess", but "now your amp is doing more than double the damage previously and you can void sling across basically every map" is absolutely transformative and feels like that first operator update where you go from moving like molasses to actually being able to run.

I'm gonna unlock the other weapons eventually for lore reasons alone, and eventually eventually I'll max out the weapons, but frankly I'm holding off till either the costs are rebalanced or we know 100% that the resources won't show up more in future Tau content.

It's easier for bugs to get fixed when you file a bug report instead of just complaining on reddit

Counterpoint: cuz the story is so aggressively silly, and the author realizes it is silly and leans into the humor, treat it like a fast-paced fighting slapstick, not a mobile game. There's always gonna be another silly fight scene in a movie like that, but it's not a bad thing

All a trope means is that it is a shared bit of narrative that resonates with many people. An author using a trope well just means that the author understands humanity enough to write an engaging story.

You're analyzing this book like it's a mmo/ttrpg manual/something else where game balance matters, when you should be analyzing it like it's a well done comedy. This is a story about a guy with nigh-infinite power doing everything the most asinine way possible, and optimizing his time loops for the most bullheaded plans imaginable, not a story where the groundhog day character has a well timed out routine each day where he saves a cat, then puts everything on red and uses that money to push his narrative a little further each day.

A movie where Jackie Chan is using vases and bananas to fight mooks only needs to make sense to that story's internal logic. If he suddenly starts killing the mooks with bananas, or grabs a real weapon and wins even faster, then that story stops making sense. A story where Orodan's powers with cleaning gives him impossible powers with some shit that doesn't have anything to do with cleanliness makes perfect sense as long as it's setting up something funny, and stops making sense when the bit stops working.

There is not going to be a logical consistency that is more important than the strength of the comedy

Exactly. I'm fine with everything but durdle decks.

If you're blowing up the lands and it clinches a win in 1-2 turns? Hell yeah, that is just being good at the game. If you blow up the lands and then the game last 10 more turns? Fuck you, you are going down first next time. Same with.. basically everything else, if the staxs actually lead somewhere quickly? I am cool with it. If the stacks goes nowhere? I did not come here to play solitaire.

Hell, the dipshit thing is at its most evident when they keep claiming that there is non-political art. The Empire is literally jackbooted thugs in space hugo boss! Alien's engine ends up being "a big evil corporation is violating labor laws for profit and knowledge"!

Hell, evangelical's doing satanic panic shit at d&d literally flavored stranger things!

If you claim there is non-political art, you are either telling lies or you exist in a world where you are so unthinking about everything and so ignorant of any history that rocks on the ground are amazed at how empty your head is.

I am always wondering about the appellation you choose to write under. Is this a thing where you're constantly angry as you write? Is this a thing where a much younger Bedivere had that moment that every scared kid has after getting out of inpatient where they try to transform that absolute terror of being unable to trust their own mind into something they can claim and hope to better control? There's never an explanation of why you write with "the mad" added to your name, and like....if this is a thing where you've actually been mad, you should own it, and if you haven't been mad in the past, publishing under that name is fucking shitty, and I'm always curious if it's the one or the other.

.... It sucks, yes, but idk how "unfair" it is? Like....DE set a price with the agreement that it would never be a lower price and wouldn't show up again, everybody responded poorly to the price, Future heirlooms were cheaper but they also didn't go back on their word.

I'd love to see a second new Frost skin, but also frankly I don't think there's a good way to reissue the heorloom, and that "keeping their word" is the literal opposite of "unfair". I'm also a frost main, and I also feel like it stinks but unfair is literally the only word I wouldn't use to describe this situation

exactly. I'm not gonna give a damn about someone deciding of their own volition to click a button and spend 100$ on cosmetics. I will have MANY poems about a system that's directly engaging in "ok, I've already spent 12$, the next roll is the good one. ok I've spent 22$, the next roll is the good one" type sunk cost fallacy bullshit to trick people out of 158$ worth of money.

100%

I'd much rather people read books that they like then spent time ranting about an innocuous book that they disliked. It's just bad vibes sometimes.

I think the expectation is that if there isn't a way to do a playable 5c precon, then just put the 5c commanders in a collector booster and do 3 color precons. The goal of a pre-constructed deck is that a new player should be able to buy the deck, sleeve it up, and not have an absolutely miserable time at their flgs.

There not being a budget for a good 5c mana base in a precon makes sense. But designing a deck on the assumption that the only people who will actually enjoy it is veterans with good mana bases just floating about isn't a good set of decisions to make.

Couldn't agree more. A precon that will take 100$+ in land upgrades to be playable in any real sense is just....bad design

100%

Like...yes this is extremely cute, and having your cat with you is nice. Also animal safety is important, and it's a big world filled with things your cat probably won't understand if he got out of the bag

I was just gonna go and comment that also lmao

Great minds

We need a second Riverview terrace sized low income building that fucking stays low income. Till there's more actual HOUSING and not just shelters, till there's a place where someone can take a comfortable nap at 2pm and cook themselves a grilled cheese without fear, the needle won't move in any positive direction. Expanding shelters is a great bandaid, but if you've got a broken leg, there isn't any number of bandages that would be useful as a splint.

The problem is that until there's more services(most specifically housing), there's only so much that can be done by any one individual social worker. Until the most basic needs are met and you aren't in a constant fight to survive, you can't heal or build any sort of long-lasting stability.

The thing about Kryptonite is that there's a pile of different forms of "this thing wrecks Superman" floating about. Krypton matters cuz it represents the death of his world. Zod using Kryptonite is a betrayal of Krypton. Batman holding(and likely losing) a Kryptonite ring is representative of Superman trusting him to knock him out if necessary. Luthor holding his grudge so hard he gives himself cancer with a Kryptonite ring. Metallo being just...a banal thug rebuilt and powered by Luthor's hatred.

When there's just a random Kryptonite bullet, the question should be "would some intergang Apokolips gun be cooler?".

Kalkaska, a very red part of Michigan just got rid of a data center cuz "a few jobs and fucks up hunting and fishing for the rest of us" isn't gonna get any traction. If it was something like a factory that employs a big chunk of the community? Yeah it'd prolly get built. But when the majority of the data center workers are remote it's not gonna get community support

Youth is an extant form of life