Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

@LexYeen =^______^=

@Austin_Dern It is my destiny to find the person responsible and kill them. I just have to find the Sacred Book of Basic Fucking Wisdom I must bludgeon them over the head with.

@001zlnv Yes, and so much worse. It's part of "Ironically" Racist Star Trek Twitter. And it's DISGUSTING, basically a bunch of shitty alt-right kids using Trek races/species as an excuse for very, very thinly disguised racist. We are talking "Tuvok stole my bike" and "Protocols of the Elders of Ferengi" jokes here. We are talking "Harry Kim can't get his Ls and Rs straight." It's not even CLEVER racist humor, it's warmed over Don Rickles/crapmeme shit. -___-

If we have a motto, it's whatever Latin/High Martian is for "Don't Let Bad People Get Comfortable."

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@Austin_Dern *pines for Brookline, MA and the days of decent bagels* ;___;

New Orleans does NOT know what bagels are. They think that they are bread doughnuts made of the same starchfoam as supermarket white bread. I don't think they've been within 400 miles of a barley malt solution. >____<

@001zlnv @xinjinmeng Oh, damn, maybe GW does recognize how goddamn silly the whole thing is. XD

(I have gotten several glimpses of WH40K lore that reassures me this is true and everybody knows how over the top it all is. Still, it just... gives my inner hippie the jibbies. :) )

@001zlnv @xinjinmeng I don't know what that means! 🎵​</homestar_runner>

@xinjinmeng Although given how badly far LESS fascist societies tend to fail in reality... I now have this bizarre urge to run a Dr. Strangelove tabletop retelling in that world. With that "might makes right" attitude, there is NO FUCKING WAY that a society that bad at empathy and communalism can NOT walk itself straight into absurd self-destruction General Ripper style.

I JUST HATE THEM ALL SO MUCH</madeline_kahn>

@xinjinmeng Also as a completely and utterly separate matter from your kind reply...

Christ, I just hate everything about Warhammer 40K. :D It works as a joke, but JFC if I wanted it that grimdark I can just throw an ant farm into a barrel of flaming oil. :p

@zx3

just feelin obsolete tbh

@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