Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

@troodon razkitty! <3

@spottyfox I think a lot of these would also be #GoodThomasPynchonNames.

@typhlosion @wavewhyse Hi there! Thanks for sharing this mod!

@typhlosion follow up, i've been having a great time with it, 5th or 6th playthrough now and i'm less worried about the scaling issues, they seem to smooth out a lot after the first act. just loving some of these mechanics, favorite card so far is Module "X"...

@Cerulean Oh fuckin' hell, darlin. *hug*

Meh. Everything's okay, Artie is here indoors with us, day job's gone back into an easy phase, things could be a lot worse.

But I'm in rough shape. It's been quiet here and Peg's been distracted by Dragonstyle maintenance so I've been kinda emotionally bottled up.

Had a little much news exposure and am a little fucked up over the state of the world. Feeling pretty dim prospects about us winning our next few cultural battles.

Still worried about Artie. Ruminating like crazy on all kinds of worst-case scenarios where we lose Artie or our neighbor turns out to be an asshole and calls the cops on us next time we have to retrieve her or something.

Meanwhile, I'm seeing on twitter that furries have gotten themselves wrapped up in 2-3 different culture war battles with conservatives. I'm down for it, but we did not need to have one more goddamn thing we love threatened. (Apparently we're finally the Concerned Parent moral panic du jour?)

I don't know. I'm tired and lonely and feeling horribly removed from everything I am right now. I just feel like a big drudge. I feel like we keep losing battles to protect beautiful things, and I keep losing faith in some of those beautiful things too. I could really use some hope or a good distraction or something.

@typhlosion oh and this is the song i was listening to during the playtest, i feel that this is very important :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tsB8GZYBl0

@typhlosion nvm, work got boring :D

* i liked that they're upgrade-themed and i especially like the elegance of wrapping that up in the Beta(+) mechanic-- always felt like cards like Searing Blow weren't really practical in the main build, loving getting to see a multi-upgrade path finally be worthwhile

* spider dance plus caught can get really scary -- i'm a little concerned about how fast it killed the guardian, since i was NOT playing my best game and the only rares/relics i had going for me were 2x injection

* shock-leap might need to be toned down a little, perhaps to a 3? i feel like i got ludicrous block numbers out of just that and commons, and the widow already gets such an amazing number of things that can scale...

* i never took scrapped, felt a little too situational, am curious if they've ever gotten any serious mileage out of it in playtest and how-- i'm JUST getting started, though, and i do already see Widow has some cards that give weak/vulnerable to EVERYONE

* ok yeah, i also just saw metal burrs so yeah, i'm assuming there's more to this theme i haven't seen yet

* yeah, one-turned stabbybook with spider dance and a surprisingly low number of caught stacks, i'm really starting to get concerned that this just scales way too fast

* all in all, this was really fun and i love the theme and core mechanics -- i do really think there are a lot of different fast-scaling mechanics piling together here, and they probably need to be clipped back a bit-- again, this was a deck of almost all commons-- but this was very promising and i think after some balancing work it could easily go toe-to-toe with the really top stuff like the downfall boss-character mod, LOVE having upgrades as a core mechanic

@typhlosion No time for a full game atm but it does seem to work now! ^__^

@typhlosion no problem, i love spire and am excited to give this another shot!

@typhlosion Here's a screenshot of the weird effects I was getting. It wouldn't let me target the enemy with cards, either. Hope that helps! I can give it another shot later and try to get the debug log.

@typhlosion This is *extremely* likely. I have a lot of other mods, though the only ones I _think_ were running were BaseMod and STSLib. Looks like everything's up to date! I'm gonna give it another shot.

@monsterblue I AM THE GREAT AND POWERFUL EMPRESS* OF MARS! PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE HAIRY OVERFED ITALIAN SLOB BEHIND THE CURTAIN!

But yeah, in my most correct and proper form, I would be renowned for how many of my ends I am pointy on! I think at last count I was up to "pointy on 10 out of 8 ends." Shred shred shred.

*gracious manticore bow*

@typhlosion Nothing important in terms of other open apps or lost data! In terms of what I'd been doing in the Widow mod, it was 1st turn, hadn't played a single card successfully-- the cards were barely visible behind some kind of glow/particle effect and weren't racking up correctly after being deselected.

@anthracite I... I love you when you're angry, Morticia. Viens envelopper ta malice autour de moi, ma chérie.</gomez> *swoon*

@typhlosion Looks cool, unfortunately crashed badly for me. Severe UI-obfuscating particle effects and a crash bad enough I couldn't close Mod The Spire and had to reboot. When I have more time later in the week I might be able to get more details!

@hystericempress (SOURCE: https://www.youmightfindyourself.com/post/43502003204/talking-heads-stop-making-sense-liner-notes)

@hystericempress <3

@Soreth *pupils DILATE*

@Aradia FUCK YEAH