I had the impression this would happen and backed the NijiCancelled videos. Can't say I expected an outright wipe of the entire archive. After Pomu I think this is pretty much over for NijiSanji to me, they were both my regular watches.
And I don't blame her for it, I'm just remarking its a show of inexperience on being part of Lemmy.
While this was happening here, I was wondering how larger instances were handling the matter, especially Beehaw. In retrospect, however, it makes sense that they just defederated on sight since they're clearly more experienced and organized. Sadly Ada mostly has to do everything here, given the recent foundation of the instance.
Hexbear is what happens when kids (I hope they're all in their early 20s or teens, because otherwise this gets much sadder) spend years reading on leftist theory but have zero real world experience. They get intense, volatile, argumentative and have no idea how those points reflect on themselves and in reality. This is why they go around prancing those absurd beliefs and fencing anyone who disagrees out, while also dogpilling and swarming communities that don't agree: They only know what its like to be leftists in theory.
The one person who made the """"""peace"""""" thread had an earlier post here in Blahaj saying that since working under capitalism is coercion then everyone who solicits sex workers is a rapist, and that's basically the level of being disconnected from reality that they operate in. Unfortunately for them, their echo chamber is going to go on and be the equivalent of a left wing /pol/. For us - and hopefully all other major instances - its a relief to be rid of such crowd.
You already caused enough damage, please just leave. You are not wanted or welcome, and the defederation needs to be permanent and mutual to keep the rest of you out.
Perfect outcome, they get to feel superior despite doing nothing - which is their only goal - and we get to clean their mess.
The comparison to SomethingAwful is extremely on point, as that's the exact way they behave. Frankly, I think that type of volatile internet space should be left behind, and that's as a former goon. They're just ultimately shallow people who argue for the sake of arguing and bring nothing but discomfort to others.
I would not even call Hexbear extremists or allies, they are just plain trolls who use leftist arguments and tone policing to establish themselves as superior. The current thread on the supposed ableism that is being argued is a clear example of that: Tone policing, forcing absolute rules on who can and who can't use their dialects, moral judgement on strangers based on absurd rules, and not to mention the flooding and baiting that has been done so far. They are the equivalent of a SomethingAwful leftism, loud, demanding and pointless.
Voting for defederation, if only to clean up the mess that they've been making.
I agree with the space issue, even considering a possible Dazzler combo she's still not that viable.
Been using Forge on a Destroy deck for the evening in the Proving Grounds, makes for some meaty Deadpool and Nimrod. I wouldn't say its optimal, but its fun.
This does make sense. The biggest Shanna vulnerability is being targetted by Killmonger before the game ends, though for me particularly I always found the tightness of space to be a large constraint, especially considering a possible Dazzler. That also makes her somewhat Surfer viable, though maybe an odd mix.
First of all, the official source and quotes from the same
>Forge > >[Old] 2/1 - On Reveal: Give the next card you play +2 Power. > >[Change] …next card you play +2 Power. ->...next card you play +3 Power. > >Many cards make great use of Forge’s effect, but he’s not quite powerful enough to be competitive at the moment. Given how many potential combos he has, we’re hopeful that a buff to Forge will have a really positive effect on meta diversity by enabling many new deck variations to be viable. Even though we’ve only increased his effect by 1 Power, cards like Deadpool, Multiple Man, and Brood can quickly multiply this increase to much greater effect.
>Shanna > >[Old] 4/4 - On Reveal: Add a random 1-Cost card to each location. > >[Change] 4/4 -> 3/2 > >When we originally designed Shanna, we made her a 4-Cost to synergize with her companions Ka-Zar and Zabu. Even after a Power buff a few months ago, she hasn’t really found success so we’re going to try a different approach and push her down to 3-Cost. A Cost reduction should afford her more deckbuilding flexibility, and make her a more viable turn 6 play to add Power to each location.
>Crystal > >[Old] 4/4 - On Reveal: Each player draws a card. > >[Change] 4/4 -> 3/3 > >Crystal has consistently been one of our weakest cards since day 1. We’re very cautious about pushing Crystal’s Power as SNAP’s small deck sizes make each card draw matter a lot more. However, we want to give every card a chance to at least see some play, so we’re giving Crystal a push with a Cost reduction to 3. This should allow her to at least be a consideration in Surfer, and maybe even help a Ronan deck out.
And for my personal thoughts: Huh. This was a short and sweet one. Targetting some very unpopular cards, and hopefully giving them a little boost.
I believe Forge now has some reasonable competition with Hulkbuster, though still obviously not as good as Phoenix Force.
Crystal has always been an interesting card for me since her rework, but also has too little synergy to be viable so a Silver Surfer candidate might get her to get noticed more.
And as for Shanna, well. IMO The power drop is somewhat dire, to me that made up for the randomness of her ability. Playing her earlier doesn't make that much of a sense for me since they explicitly point out her synergy with Zabu. Moreover, the Zoo deck is simply too vulnerable to Destroy cards. Let's see how this all shakes up, even if on my end I don't think I'll change any composition.
First of all, the official source and quotes from the same
>Forge > >[Old] 2/1 - On Reveal: Give the next card you play +2 Power. > >[Change] …next card you play +2 Power. ->...next card you play +3 Power. > >Many cards make great use of Forge’s effect, but he’s not quite powerful enough to be competitive at the moment. Given how many potential combos he has, we’re hopeful that a buff to Forge will have a really positive effect on meta diversity by enabling many new deck variations to be viable. Even though we’ve only increased his effect by 1 Power, cards like Deadpool, Multiple Man, and Brood can quickly multiply this increase to much greater effect.
>Shanna > >[Old] 4/4 - On Reveal: Add a random 1-Cost card to each location. > >[Change] 4/4 -> 3/2 > >When we originally designed Shanna, we made her a 4-Cost to synergize with her companions Ka-Zar and Zabu. Even after a Power buff a few months ago, she hasn’t really found success so we’re going to try a different approach and push her down to 3-Cost. A Cost reduction should afford her more deckbuilding flexibility, and make her a more viable turn 6 play to add Power to each location.
>Crystal > >[Old] 4/4 - On Reveal: Each player draws a card. > >[Change] 4/4 -> 3/3 > >Crystal has consistently been one of our weakest cards since day 1. We’re very cautious about pushing Crystal’s Power as SNAP’s small deck sizes make each card draw matter a lot more. However, we want to give every card a chance to at least see some play, so we’re giving Crystal a push with a Cost reduction to 3. This should allow her to at least be a consideration in Surfer, and maybe even help a Ronan deck out.
And for my personal thoughts: Huh. This was a short and sweet one. Targetting some very unpopular cards, and hopefully giving them a little boost.
I believe Forge now has some reasonable competition with Hulkbuster, though still obviously not as good as Phoenix Force.
Crystal has always been an interesting card for me since her rework, but also has too little synergy to be viable so a Silver Surfer candidate might get her to get noticed more.
And as for Shanna, well. IMO The power drop is somewhat dire, to me that made up for the randomness of her ability. Playing her earlier doesn't make that much of a sense for me since they explicitly point out her synergy with Zabu. Moreover, the Zoo deck is simply too vulnerable to Destroy cards. Let's see how this all shakes up, even if on my end I don't think I'll change any composition.
Been going through Borderlands 3. The general planet trotting is a weird way to introduce new environments instead of just saying Pandora has more than one climate. Shooting is entertaining, and the twins are somewhat amusing villains - though the story does retread the old trap of "Oh no, the big bad villains just killed [powerful named character], we can't stop them!" too often for a game where I will only get bigger guns.
Played a little bit of Death's Door. Its a good isometric action game and the way the world was crafted stands out very well. There's something about the way everything looks, and how enemies stay dead after you defeated them, which makes the whole landscape eerie and unpleasant, even if overall the game doesn't seem to be quite depressing.
Picked up Guardians of the Galaxy again, with the intent of finishing it off for real. The game is surprisingly very good, but also quite slow. They clearly wanted to give a lot of time for characters' back and forth, which isn't bad given that the game spends a significant amount of effort making them likable and investing in their growth but it also makes the game as chatty as your average RPG but with less interactions. Looks fantastic and has surprisingly good writing.
Considering giving Original Sin 2 a retry given all the current Larian hype.
"Show Nudity" is still very vague. For any other videogame, it'd mean at best some nipples. The instance of full frontal in any media is extremely rare, hence the reactions are still justified. It would be a surprise, yes.
I see we have reached the point where people are going to start saying "Okay, its time for everyone stop having fun" and writing about how the game isn't that big of deal.
Point being: let’s not listen to the shrieking streamers and strange subsection of Japanese game defenders, and just calm down about some naked adult bodies standing around in a character creator, shall we? It’s time games got comfortable with the human form.
Let's be frank: The real point is that the writer wants to feel superior to both of these demographics. Not that I support either, but this is just someone acting smug and superior and wanting a cookie for it. But I gotta say that the more blatant aspect is this ridiculous take that keeps popping up in modern criticism:
But there’s also plain old casual nudity—something that US cinema has historically shied away from (particularly with the male form), but that European cinema has been way more comfortable with for years. The whole gap between how the US and European ratings boards react to nudity is pretty well documented, and well summarised in this piece written at Quartz. Baldur’s Gate 3 is, of course, a European-made game, and we—yep, even us fusty old Brits—are historically a lot more relaxed about that kind of stuff.
Which is just absurd. I'm not North American, but let me tell you, if I see any plain dicks or pussy in a movie or TV series or game, it will be A Thing for me. I won't just sit there and act like a robot thinking "That's just a organic human body, much like mine, there's nothing unusual about that". There's no homogenous understanding in Europe, or South America or in any other non-US country where full blown nudity is just a casual happening that anyone would not bat an eye at, adult or not.
Furthermore:
Streamers are “shocked” by the nudity? Well, that’s because they’re either a) sheltered people whose lives are largely based in their bedrooms and/or b) aware of the fact that looking aghast, being shocked, and squealing at the sight of a willy or tuft of pubes counts as entertainment. It’s a tale as old as PewDiePie: overreact on camera to things that happen in a game, and you’ll keep viewers, especially younger ones, engaged.
Whether it’s a performance or genuine shock, or a bit of both, video game streamers exist in a pretty particular bubble whose reactions aren’t exactly a gauge of society at large.
I won't deny that streamers overact for views and content, but honestly? Fuck this guy. If I were playing by myself and saw a random cock dangling on my screen, I would have a reaction and feel flustered. If I were playing in front of hundreds, maybe thousands of strangers online? You can bet your ass that I would have a mini-anxiety attack. If the average streamer is a "sheltered people whose lives are largely based in their bedrooms " (again, fuck this writer) then that's even more reason to not make light of a moment of panic. Having a hobby where you get to interact with people beyond your screen instead of face-to-face can be a mirror, but it also opens you to a lot of repercussions and a human, if overblown reaction like this being talked down is genuinely infuriating.
Frankly, this is just a plain asshole of a person, and the fact that every other writing of theirs on BG3 is "Its not that good, everyone" just solidifies my stance.
Hi there! I saw someone mentioning this game on Cohost and was reminded of this old-ass post of yours
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1768650/Path_of_the_Abyss/
I'm not sure if there's an english version yet (Its still in Early Access) but I think that's your type of game?
For Spider-Man, I guess the easy answer would be Miles Morales, huh? :P
But I know what you meant, its a game with ridiculously fun mobility though its hard to find a good equivalent. There's few things that feel as good as webslinging. So on that front (Open world + Mobility) I'm going to suggest the Just Cause series. 2 is generally the one people are the most fond of, though I vastly preferred 3. 4 is a mix of both but it didn't gel well with me. You are not quite Spider-man, but a grappling hook and wingsuit go a long way of providing a similar experience.
For Genshin, the one game with open-world and exploration I've swapped around with it before is Assassin's Creed Odyssey. Large world, fair number of sidequests (I've actually never finished the game from how big it is) and a lot of climbing - with no stamina bars. The loot quality feeds the same endorphins as a good gacha roll, and its free.
I've recently played a bit of FarCry 6 since its on PS+ Extra and...honestly, I don't get who these games are made for these days. There's a veneer of absurdity and seriousness but it doesn't fully commit to either, while having the typical overstuffed Ubisoft open-world. Ends up not going into either the military shooter direction or the goofy, zany shooter direction or in any other direction. It just kinda is, like a fatty, filling but ultimately bland fast food.
So yea, a reinvention would be good, but I at this point I believe Ubisoft games are their own genre, for better or for worse.
A HUGE change comes to the Meta this time, with a complete rework of how Spider-Man, one of the most used "lockdown" type cards, functions. First of all, the general updates:
>New Feature – Multi-Upgrade: If you have enough resources, Multi-Upgrade allows you to select the Quality you’d like to target and tap the upgrade button once to directly skip to that Quality level! Save your thumbs and save some time!
>New Feature – Upgrade with Gold: If you are short on Credits and/or Boosters but still want to upgrade a card, you can now upgrade your cards with Gold (up to a limit each day).
>Improved Avatar Selection Flow: Tapping on the Avatar on the Main Menu will now bring up the Avatar Select screen, allowing you to change the current deck’s avatar quickly.
>When you view an upgradeable card in your Collection, and choose not to upgrade it, it will be “marked as read” and will no longer increase the red-dot notification count. > >Note: This went live in our last patch, but we forgot to put it in the patch notes.
And now for the mechanical card updates:
>Cable > >[Old] 2/2 - On Reveal: Put the bottom card of your opponent's deck into your hand. > >[New] 2/2 - On Reveal: Draw the top card of your opponent's deck. > >Developer Note: The change to America Chavez starting on the bottom of the deck was predictably damaging to Cable, as drawing your opponent's Chavez was usually good for them, not you. We didn't value that too highly because Cable's play rate was already low, but that was a mistake on our part. Conquest has shown that players really enjoy playing with cards that can give them an information advantage against their opponents. This is a simple enough change, just going to the other end of the deck, but we've also gone ahead and updated the template to reflect the action Cable is actually taking, which is drawing a card.
>Magik > >[Old] 3/2 - You can't play this on turn 6. On Reveal: Change this location to 'Limbo'. > > [New] 3/2 - On Reveal: Replace this location with 'Limbo'. Doesn't work after turn 5. > >Developer Note: Our OTA on 7/20 mentioned this was coming, and here it is! This isn't a large change to Magik, mostly just making her a legal card to play on turn 6. However, it's worth noting that the VFX behavior has changed a little bit. She used to light up with fire on the last turn you could play her, but now that corona will indicate whether or not you'll be able to create Limbo based on the turn count.
>Mr. Negative > > [Old] 4/-1 - On Reveal: Swap the Power and Cost of all cards in your deck. > > [New] Gameplay Change: Caps Costs at a maximum of 6. (no text change) > >Developer Note: This is a minor change to improve players' quality of life by adding consistency to in-game interactions. The Peak location has this cap, which it needs because otherwise many cards would become literally impossible to play when the location appears. Mister Negative doesn't expressly need it, because his decks are built to minimize Power in-deck. However, it's intuitive for that location and this card to function the same, so we're lining them up. Plus, it makes Jane Foster shells a little less risky.
>Rogue >[Old] 3/2 - On Reveal: Steal an Ongoing ability from a random enemy card at this location. > > [New] Gameplay Change: Now triggers On Reveals if the copied Ongoing card had one. (no text change) > >Developer Note: As mentioned when we changed Mystique in the previous patch, Rogue is receiving an update to bring players' expectation around copying card text via On Reveal in line with the outcome. Moving forward, we expect cards that copy text when they Reveal to consistently trigger the On Reveals of cards they copy.
>"Evolved" The Thing > >[Old] 4/6 - On Reveal: Afflict a random enemy card here with -1 Power. Repeat this twice more. > >[New] 4/6 - On Reveal: Afflict 3 random enemy cards here with -1 Power. > >Developer Note: High Evolutionary has mostly landed in a healthy spot since we made the tweaks to Hulk and Wasp during the last patch, but this is one more small twist of the dial. Cyclops has been really strong still, but we like keeping him strong in High Evolutionary shells based on ensuring a character with his popularity has a solid and satisfying home. The Thing has actually outperformed Scott a bit lately, and this change also makes the afflict curve from Wasp into Cyclops into Thing more elegant, distributing -1 Power to one more card at each stop. It's a slight buff to Abomination, but a slight nerf to The Thing's strength as a single card attacking a location.
And finally, our spotlight of the day:
>Spider-Man > >[Old] 5/4 - On Reveal: Your opponent can’t play cards at this location next turn. > > [New] 3/5 - On Reveal: Move to another location and pull an enemy card from here to there. > >Developer Note: All right, this is a big one. Let's start on the mechanical angle: the previous Spider-Man incarnation was a polarizing card. It prevented your opponent from playing cards at a location, a frustrating experience. It was most popular following Wave into Galactus or in "lockdown" decks, which are both decks that use combinations of cards to reduce the total play space of the game for your opponent. We want some of that–the game needs a variety of strategies. But we don't want those decks or even one of those cards to be the best in the game. Our best cards should be cool and awesome. > >But you know who's cool and awesome? Spider-Man! > >There's an irreconcilable dissonance in having one of the most popular characters in the Marvel canon attached to an effect we don't want to be popular. Discovering Spider-Man in our game should be a great experience. Since launch, we've also added more Spider-Verse to the game and seen players enjoy the theme of movement for those cards. So we're making a change and bringing Peter in line with the rest with a new ability. Will we return the old ability to the game on a new card? Maybe, but for now let's go with no–it's not been adding much fun. > >We don't take this kind of rework to a card lightly, so we're happy to hear your feedback through all the usual channels. We don't intend to start suddenly remaking tons of cards, but understanding your feelings may help us better understand the appropriate thresholds for this action in the future.
This is going to be interesting. While complete reworks have happened in the past (Wolverine and Crystal come to mind), they tend to be done to buff up or make a card more relevant in the meta. For once they have looked at a type of gameplay that while legal is still - let's be frank - a pain in the ass, and made less of that. I can see how this will make a lot of players unsatisfied but its also an addition to the previous Spiderverse type of card which further boosts Move decks and it is (at least from my part) a very welcome removal from the ever growing Lockdown deck.
Thoughts?
A HUGE change comes to the Meta this time, with a complete rework of how Spider-Man, one of the most used "lockdown" type cards, functions. First of all, the general updates:
>New Feature – Multi-Upgrade: If you have enough resources, Multi-Upgrade allows you to select the Quality you’d like to target and tap the upgrade button once to directly skip to that Quality level! Save your thumbs and save some time!
>New Feature – Upgrade with Gold: If you are short on Credits and/or Boosters but still want to upgrade a card, you can now upgrade your cards with Gold (up to a limit each day).
>Improved Avatar Selection Flow: Tapping on the Avatar on the Main Menu will now bring up the Avatar Select screen, allowing you to change the current deck’s avatar quickly.
>When you view an upgradeable card in your Collection, and choose not to upgrade it, it will be “marked as read” and will no longer increase the red-dot notification count. > >Note: This went live in our last patch, but we forgot to put it in the patch notes.
And now for the mechanical card updates:
>Cable > >[Old] 2/2 - On Reveal: Put the bottom card of your opponent's deck into your hand. > >[New] 2/2 - On Reveal: Draw the top card of your opponent's deck. > >Developer Note: The change to America Chavez starting on the bottom of the deck was predictably damaging to Cable, as drawing your opponent's Chavez was usually good for them, not you. We didn't value that too highly because Cable's play rate was already low, but that was a mistake on our part. Conquest has shown that players really enjoy playing with cards that can give them an information advantage against their opponents. This is a simple enough change, just going to the other end of the deck, but we've also gone ahead and updated the template to reflect the action Cable is actually taking, which is drawing a card.
>Magik > >[Old] 3/2 - You can't play this on turn 6. On Reveal: Change this location to 'Limbo'. > > [New] 3/2 - On Reveal: Replace this location with 'Limbo'. Doesn't work after turn 5. > >Developer Note: Our OTA on 7/20 mentioned this was coming, and here it is! This isn't a large change to Magik, mostly just making her a legal card to play on turn 6. However, it's worth noting that the VFX behavior has changed a little bit. She used to light up with fire on the last turn you could play her, but now that corona will indicate whether or not you'll be able to create Limbo based on the turn count.
>Mr. Negative > > [Old] 4/-1 - On Reveal: Swap the Power and Cost of all cards in your deck. > > [New] Gameplay Change: Caps Costs at a maximum of 6. (no text change) > >Developer Note: This is a minor change to improve players' quality of life by adding consistency to in-game interactions. The Peak location has this cap, which it needs because otherwise many cards would become literally impossible to play when the location appears. Mister Negative doesn't expressly need it, because his decks are built to minimize Power in-deck. However, it's intuitive for that location and this card to function the same, so we're lining them up. Plus, it makes Jane Foster shells a little less risky.
>Rogue >[Old] 3/2 - On Reveal: Steal an Ongoing ability from a random enemy card at this location. > > [New] Gameplay Change: Now triggers On Reveals if the copied Ongoing card had one. (no text change) > >Developer Note: As mentioned when we changed Mystique in the previous patch, Rogue is receiving an update to bring players' expectation around copying card text via On Reveal in line with the outcome. Moving forward, we expect cards that copy text when they Reveal to consistently trigger the On Reveals of cards they copy.
>"Evolved" The Thing > >[Old] 4/6 - On Reveal: Afflict a random enemy card here with -1 Power. Repeat this twice more. > >[New] 4/6 - On Reveal: Afflict 3 random enemy cards here with -1 Power. > >Developer Note: High Evolutionary has mostly landed in a healthy spot since we made the tweaks to Hulk and Wasp during the last patch, but this is one more small twist of the dial. Cyclops has been really strong still, but we like keeping him strong in High Evolutionary shells based on ensuring a character with his popularity has a solid and satisfying home. The Thing has actually outperformed Scott a bit lately, and this change also makes the afflict curve from Wasp into Cyclops into Thing more elegant, distributing -1 Power to one more card at each stop. It's a slight buff to Abomination, but a slight nerf to The Thing's strength as a single card attacking a location.
And finally, our spotlight of the day:
>Spider-Man > >[Old] 5/4 - On Reveal: Your opponent can’t play cards at this location next turn. > > [New] 3/5 - On Reveal: Move to another location and pull an enemy card from here to there. > >Developer Note: All right, this is a big one. Let's start on the mechanical angle: the previous Spider-Man incarnation was a polarizing card. It prevented your opponent from playing cards at a location, a frustrating experience. It was most popular following Wave into Galactus or in "lockdown" decks, which are both decks that use combinations of cards to reduce the total play space of the game for your opponent. We want some of that–the game needs a variety of strategies. But we don't want those decks or even one of those cards to be the best in the game. Our best cards should be cool and awesome. > >But you know who's cool and awesome? Spider-Man! > >There's an irreconcilable dissonance in having one of the most popular characters in the Marvel canon attached to an effect we don't want to be popular. Discovering Spider-Man in our game should be a great experience. Since launch, we've also added more Spider-Verse to the game and seen players enjoy the theme of movement for those cards. So we're making a change and bringing Peter in line with the rest with a new ability. Will we return the old ability to the game on a new card? Maybe, but for now let's go with no–it's not been adding much fun. > >We don't take this kind of rework to a card lightly, so we're happy to hear your feedback through all the usual channels. We don't intend to start suddenly remaking tons of cards, but understanding your feelings may help us better understand the appropriate thresholds for this action in the future.
This is going to be interesting. While complete reworks have happened in the past (Wolverine and Crystal come to mind), they tend to be done to buff up or make a card more relevant in the meta. For once they have looked at a type of gameplay that while legal is still - let's be frank - a pain in the ass, and made less of that. I can see how this will make a lot of players unsatisfied but its also an addition to the previous Spiderverse type of card which further boosts Move decks and it is (at least from my part) a very welcome removal from the ever growing Lockdown deck.
Thoughts?
I actually had to sit back for a moment and think how they had done that already, before remembering that both previous Modern Warfares were also remade/repacked
It has been a while since I've been disconnected from big releases and large demographics, a new Call of Duty every year used to be the topic of infighting and discussion among casual and diehard fans, or critics of overexposing a franchise, but is this trend of simply re-releasing some of their popular titles genuinely effective? I know the online F2P game is very popular, but that's a free game. Are these MW remakes doing big numbers?
Frankly, it depends on how micro or macro you're willing to think, and how much that personally bothers you. At the end of the day we live in multiple systems of oppression and exploitation that make it very hard - and sometimes outright impossible - to properly consume something without being unethical. From The Good Place:
“Life now is so complicated, it’s impossible for anyone to be good enough for the Good Place. These days, just buying a tomato at a grocery store means that you are unwittingly supporting toxic pesticides, exploiting labor, contributing to global warming. Humans think that they’re making one choice, but they’re actually making dozens of choices they don’t even know they’re making!”
From my personal point of view, there's a few choices. The first is, you can just not consume. There's more than enough indie games, as well as plenty of old-AAA games that won't directly benefit their companies anymore. You can also pirate, if that's not an online game.
From a more cynical point of view, your individual purchase (and, frankly, even a organized boycott) won't make a difference to these companies. Modern capitalism doesn't rely on genuine profit, just on the idea that an IP or corporation is profitable, and that's enough to attract investors and investments, and inflate its share price as well as its value in the eyes of capitalists. This is a gross oversimplification, and generally only applies to the largest names, but still sadly relevant.
So at the end of the day, you have to think to yourself: Does it bother you to consume something? I won't buy or play anything related to Harry Potter media because JKR disgusts me, but I see no issue with indirectly supporting WotC. Likewise, while the decision to not support Blizzard products is very easy (they don't really make that many), I can't say their scandals forced me to stop playing any more than their lack of dedicated support to their products.
There's rarely an absolute moral good when it comes to consuming products, even indie ones; Publishers like Chucklefish and Dangen had their own share of abuse and neglect, and sometimes individual creators are just, well, assholes.
Next week its going to be a new season for Marvel Snap and they've announced which new additions will take place in the game. First of all, it seems the focus will be heavily into Destroy and Discard decks. The new cards not only have intense synergy with each other but also with fan favorites like Killmonger, Colleen Wing, Carnage, and others. While neither of those two types were exactly forgotten, this is the biggest overall addition to both of their particular metas in a long while.
They have also announced new locations and surprise: Neither of them are about stopping you from playing cards!
Once more, the focus is all on destruction, both with the return of cards (an interesting parallel to Hela) and a last minute death.
On a more aesthetic side, new Card Backs have also been revealed:
This is also your occasional reminder that wow, the X-men writing teams would get weirdly japanophile once a while.
Anyway! Thoughts? While I still feel that a well placed MODOK is king in a Discard deck, these are still some interesting flavoring, and the general Destroy cards have been in need of fresh new faces for a while.
Next week its going to be a new season for Marvel Snap and they've announced which new additions will take place in the game. First of all, it seems the focus will be heavily into Destroy and Discard decks. The new cards not only have intense synergy with each other but also with fan favorites like Killmonger, Colleen Wing, Carnage, and others. While neither of those two types were exactly forgotten, this is the biggest overall addition to both of their particular metas in a long while.
They have also announced new locations and surprise: Neither of them are about stopping you from playing cards!
Once more, the focus is all on destruction, both with the return of cards (an interesting parallel to Hela) and a last minute death.
On a more aesthetic side, new Card Backs have also been revealed:
This is also your occasional reminder that wow, the X-men writing teams would get weirdly japanophile once a while.
Anyway! Thoughts? While I still feel that a well placed MODOK is king in a Discard deck, these are still some interesting flavoring, and the general Destroy cards have been in need of fresh new faces for a while.
The official source has their detailed explanations
> Hawkeye > >[Old] 1/1 - On Reveal: If you play a card here next turn, +2 Power > >[Change] …next turn, +2 Power. ->...next turn, +3 Power.
>Hulkbuster > >[Old] 3/4 - On Reveal: Merge this card with a random friendly card at this location. > >[Change] 3/4 -> 3/5
>Vision > >[Old] 5/7 - You can move this each turn. > >[Change] 5/7 -> 5/8
>Captain Marvel > >[Old] 5/6 - At the end of the game, move to a location that wins you the game. (If possible) > >[Change] 5/6 -> 4/5
>Absorbing Man > >[Old] 4/3 - On Reveal: If the last card you played has an On Reveal, copy its text. (if it's in play) > >[Change] 4/3 -> 4/5
Personal thoughts:
That's a lot of cards that don't get a lot of use, huh? I'm curious about the Vision and Captain Marvel changes. In theory, they're reflections of the current Lockdown meta which got even stronger with Legion. In practice, however, there's still the constant danger of Professor X, which neither of them can help with, and Jeff is still the one counter to that (aside from a lucky play)
Frankly, I think Vision would benefit much more from a Cost drop than a Power buff. A round 5 card that can move is just too much of a late gamble.
Hulkbuster definitely got shafted after Phoenix Force came out, but I'm curious about its re-emergence as a Deadpool or Multiple Man combo. Personally I've felt that one was always a bit too tight, but its a solid play whenever it happened.
Now Absorbing Man and Hawkeye are both interesting changes. Can't say I ever see those, aside from a desperate ditch in a Hazmat deck from AM, while Hawkeye is basically a fodder card for starters until people get literally any other 1-cost. The possibility of being a Bounce addition is there, now let's see if it happens in practice.
This is also a personal curiosity as none of those cards were ever in my rotations, aside from trying Captain Marvel a few times. At least the possibility of the whole thing shaking up the location breakers is interesting.
Thoughts?
The official source has their detailed explanations
> Hawkeye > >[Old] 1/1 - On Reveal: If you play a card here next turn, +2 Power > >[Change] …next turn, +2 Power. ->...next turn, +3 Power.
>Hulkbuster > >[Old] 3/4 - On Reveal: Merge this card with a random friendly card at this location. > >[Change] 3/4 -> 3/5
>Vision > >[Old] 5/7 - You can move this each turn. > >[Change] 5/7 -> 5/8
>Captain Marvel > >[Old] 5/6 - At the end of the game, move to a location that wins you the game. (If possible) > >[Change] 5/6 -> 4/5
>Absorbing Man > >[Old] 4/3 - On Reveal: If the last card you played has an On Reveal, copy its text. (if it's in play) > >[Change] 4/3 -> 4/5
Personal thoughts:
That's a lot of cards that don't get a lot of use, huh? I'm curious about the Vision and Captain Marvel changes. In theory, they're reflections of the current Lockdown meta which got even stronger with Legion. In practice, however, there's still the constant danger of Professor X, which neither of them can help with, and Jeff is still the one counter to that (aside from a lucky play)
Frankly, I think Vision would benefit much more from a Cost drop than a Power buff. A round 5 card that can move is just too much of a late gamble.
Hulkbuster definitely got shafted after Phoenix Force came out, but I'm curious about its re-emergence as a Deadpool or Multiple Man combo. Personally I've felt that one was always a bit too tight, but its a solid play whenever it happened.
Now Absorbing Man and Hawkeye are both interesting changes. Can't say I ever see those, aside from a desperate ditch in a Hazmat deck from AM, while Hawkeye is basically a fodder card for starters until people get literally any other 1-cost. The possibility of being a Bounce addition is there, now let's see if it happens in practice.
This is also a personal curiosity as none of those cards were ever in my rotations, aside from trying Captain Marvel a few times. At least the possibility of the whole thing shaking up the location breakers is interesting.
Thoughts?
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