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I've gone to Ettin for flea market days a few times. They seem like good people.
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My response to this puzzle was basically YOU NERD
I didn't know what one of those names was but I was like "YOU'RE GONNA TELL ME HE WAS IN spoiler AREN'T YOU, YOU NERD" and I was RIGHT
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Just hope you got some good pocket healers (staff that support what you're doing in there)
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Zohran the Goemon
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I was gonna say, it feels like I'm not supposed to say that Moby actually made some good music? But Play had some genuine bops on it, can't argue there.
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"Do you got that valet girl Accent?"
"Hyundai? As if!"
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I once said that I want to make Spore: The Legacy Game
Where Game 1 is just Primordial Soup
Game 2 is Dominant Species
Game 3 is Stone Age
Up to like Game 20 is Galaxy Trucker
...I bet you could do something like that with just Uwe games
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Precisely
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That seems... expensive
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Good first step
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Whatever you want to say about Slay the Spire, I feel like every character has multiple ways to win.
Monster Train 1 already felt like "get infinite attack damage scaling or die." MT2 has different threats that make other strategies feel viable, but other strategies just die to 500-health enemies.
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This special collectors' episode also comes packaged with a rare companion essay: www.xplainthexmen.com/2025/06/an-o...
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But is it Catan
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Facts don't care about your seedlings
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I was tired of my grocery store snacks, so I bought a bag of chips from the vending machine, and that has made all the difference
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Waiting for someone to go to a Star Trek convention cosplaying as the hero of their favorite AI-generated story and get laughed entirely out of the con
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oof
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I feel like if I could change one thing from Monster Train 2, it would be to turn down the attack scaling of every "When X get +Y attack" monster so that the late challenges were balanced around lower health on everything and spell damage / DOTs could actually work
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SPOILER
It's also nice how they rebalanced things so that one faction isn't the only truly OP faction anymore
(That one faction has the only spell for consistently removing sap/corruption that the end bosses stack you with)
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I was in Colombia Music Club in high school. I ordered CDs from bands I'd never heard of that I just thought looked neat. I found Soul Coughing that way.
I just listened to El Oso again and the beats on that album completely hold up and I'm sorry that most people aren't weird enough to enjoy it.
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Stephanie Sterling likes to talk about the "outrage tourists" who float from hobby to hobby getting pissed at things they don't like. The key factor seems to be that they don't actually like art themselves, just the arguments. And so they maybe ascribe the same to you, as not really liking art?