Gyokuyoutama

The original always loses money. The copy might break even. It's the copy of the copy that makes the big money.

Shadowverse just released some new cards. One is a 1/2 for one (standard aggro turn one play). Except that if you're going second you can drop it turn 4 as a 4/4, it will tutor two cards that cost 2 or less from your deck directly into play, and it gives all 1 cost creatures +1/+0 at the end of your turn, permanently (regardless of whether it is in play or not). Then it places another copy of itself in your deck. You're pretty much guaranteed 8 power for 4, on top of that nice continuous effect for a weenie deck.

If I recall correctly, there was only one standard dog sprite in Fallout 1 and 2 (with some weird special event dogs on top of that). They are just being lore accurate.

Is this the right half of loss?

I mean game Bernkastel, clearly. Also on that topic, did the Umineko anime really end with the end of episode 4? I mean I get that it would be too much to animate the whole story all at once but man would that be an unsatisfying conclusion.

I'm slowly starting to get the suspicion that Bernkastel might actually be a jerk.

I constantly forget that Shadowverse thinks that "weenie" is a bad word that shouldn't be used in deck names.

You list colors so that the number of colors in between them is the smallest, reading WUBRG left to right, cycling back to white once you get to green. Look at literally any green and blue card or any red and white card. Coatl is 1GU, not 1UG. Lightning Helix is RW, not WR. Green blue decks are generally referred to by the abbreviation UG because of UG madness, though that deck in and of itself made a mistake in its name.

Green/blue players aren't even smart enough to realize that that combination of mana goes in the order GU not UG.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Just heard an 8 bit remix of "Enter Enter Mission" in which the second verse was mixed together with Panzerlied, British Grenadiers, Funiculi Funicula, etc. Is there an actual version of the song that does that?

No one's going to believe that a spy actually died. It's just a dead ringer feint.

The subtext that was like a millimeter below the surface of every plague video is now just text text.

I understand that Kadokawa was dead set on killing Kemono Friends and then parading around its corpse. But they could have at done animation at a level better than "sub-western MMD video."

On the bright side, you managed to foil the Origami Killer.

I mean, there's posts in this thread going up to 2016 and no one seems critical of the project through that point. I didn't want to be too harsh in case we still had some true believers. (Tehre are somehow still parts of the internet where the common consensus is that Star Citizen is going to come out and be awesome if we all just wait a little longer).

The trouble with the Patriots is that they always try to walk it in.

This is the fourth time in two days that I've been reminded that today is the Super Bowl. Somehow I was surprised every time.

So have we all come to agreement that Star Citizen is a money making scam at this point? I mean, I don't think it started out that way, but that doesn't change where we are now. EDIT: To expand, here's how I see things going internally: -Begins with a legitimate attempt to make the most ambitious space sim ever. The initial vision is going to be hard to implement, but possible with a good team. -Partially due to Chris Roberts not having management experience, partially due to the crowdfunding being far more successful than they dreamed it would be, the scope of the game increases beyond its initial already ambitious scope. This causes the focus to drift from spending a lot of time considering how to make a core game engine which can handle all the various levels of play proposed, to starting development on each new idea. -This causes development to be hugely delayed, especially since the scope became so large that certain portions of the game are outsourced to other teams who develop things in ways which might not be compatible with the other parts (since there is no overall plan for them to adhere to). -Eventually it becomes clear that the initial funding is no longer going to be enough to finish the game, if it can be finished at all. To get more funding more and more perks are offered, including ship macro purchases. -These purchases turn out to be extremely lucrative, but do not work out at all as a solution to the funding problem, since they inevitably force the team to work on yet another new aspect of the game, when the even the basics haven't been worked out. -At some point Cloud Imperium says fuck it, it's far more lucrative to keeping the funding coming to us than it will be to release the game. Feature creep becomes a feature, not a bug, because it gives a good way to excite funders while simultaneously justifying the game being delayed to such a horrendous degree. The priority for development is to be flashy as possible, with only minimal attention made to having anything work (to maintain the illusion that the game might some day be released). It's possible that Chris Roberts isn't actually in on it and he goes along with it because he legitimately wants the game to be the most amazing thing ever, but most of the people at the company have to know what the actual modus operandi is now.

The more I delve into it, the more I realize that the Touhou community has twice the impenetrable memes as the rest of the internet combined.

I still want "famous philosophers as high school girls."

Even here it's kind of weird to look at the thermometer and say "oh, it's only 5 degrees below zero, that's pretty warm all things considered."