I know you get more powerful ones later and need to invest in ones you won’t use forever…so “which is best” feels silly.
But which are worst? With my picture above, I assume I’ve already made mistakes, but which heros suck and should be relegated to never being upgraded again? I don’t want to waste books or shards if one of them is just useless.
Thanks!
First picture is my idea of a UW 40 card deck. Note the oddity that Wiccan or Cosmic Cube can put the GOOD side of the hulk into play, but I’ll never get the mana to flip him.
Second picture are my relevent sideboard cards. Notably, I could splash for Kang (which feels worthwhile) and/or Thor (which feels good but less game breaking in a Deck not designed around it).
I also show the UW cards I cut…unsure if the falcon card is good enough but feels too expensive.
I am on book 9 (Cassie narrates them being termites) So if these are answered in later books, PLEASE just say “they adress it later just wait”. I don’t want spoilers. Please. I am loving that I can discuss it with my kids as we discover the answers together and I can make guesses without knowing if I’m right or not.
BUT (spoilers ahead in case anyone else wants to avoid spoilers)
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1)why when they met the Elemist and had to escape the Taxxon mouth…why did none of the controllers notice they were humans? The had to morph human then bear, but it seemed like a lot of controllers saw them morph so would know they are humans.
2)why did they not take Visser 3’s body with them when they left, after the snake bite and Visser 3 ran? I get why they couldn’t bring themselves to kill the andalite (a mistake I am sure, but one that reminds me of Gandalf and Sméagol in tlotr so maybe it was the correct moral choice). But why not take him with them as they ran? Try to save the andalite if they could? I get not murdering an innocent man, but why leave a tool in the hands of the enemy?
why did Visser 3 not capture the prince in book 1? Putting a yeerk in his head long term would make a second Abomination and be a HUGE win for the yeerks. If he didn’t want to share the morphing spotlight, then at least doing it for a day would get all the prince’s military secrets.
how do you all pronounce yeerk and Hork-Bajir? I’m reading this aloud to my kids and I am doing ok, but I wondered if there was an official or widely accepted pronunciation. Yerk? Yeee-urk? Yuh-ear-k? Ba-hear? Bah-jeer?
Thanks! I loved these as a kid and committed to buying and reading every book as they were written. But at some point around book 15 I stopped, don’t remember why, and am LOVING reading them to my kids now. I remember so little of each book that I am getting to experience it fresh alongside my kids, theory craft with them, make guesses that I don’t remember the answers to, etc.
I think the UG is the easy pick in normal draft. But my experience in the cascade bot draft is that BG or RU are where you really want to be, and that GB pest was the MVP of non-rares in my last GB draft games.
Thoughts?
I lost once to a well times board wipe.
I almost lost to a mill UR deck (don’t think they planned to be mill, but a turn 2 of that creature that kills when you casts spells was BRUTAL…I ended the game with two lands in my library and they had a full grip. I got lucky.
I also almost lost to a mirror match. They had 45 life and I was at 1. But stabaluzed and overan.
Deck felt great. Can’t even say any cards didn’t carry their weight.
All stars are root manipulation, comforting counsel, and diary of dreams (drew SO many cards…got me through some terrible end game mana floods which sucked as I had such a low curve). And every one drop. I regret I had so few one drops and so many two drops, but it worked.
What is yalls experiences??
I would grab it just to try it out…but there are other great white cards there so…..dunno?
I’m not excited about this quick draft pack 1. But you get what you get. What’s the pick?
You know my eyes are getting old… so I had to dig out an old friend to pair with my newest Lego gift…
Yes I found the “reading light/magnifier” from my OG game boy. And yes I tried to put it on my Lego game boy. And yes it fit!!!
It’s actually really cool that the little grippy nub fits in and snaps on just right.
Downside, I DENTED THE LEGO PIECES! You can see in the extra pictures that the grippy nubs of the magnifier actually gripped so tight that it dented the Lego pieces….i didn’t know that was possible. Makes me sad but a small price to pay to display it with the OG magnifier from my childhood.
Also I noted that the power button is in a slightly different spot. Close enough I never realized, but the magnifier has an opening to reach the real game boys power switch, and here it exposes only blank plastic.
And way I wanted to share this as it made me so happy (and I guess I learned soemthing new about denting lego pieces….clearing an illegal connection since it is straining the pieces).
Oh! Also it’s probably been said here but I tried to insert an old game boy cartridge in and it didn’t fit. I frowned, as it was so close to fitting it had to be intentional….and the I realized if I had put it in, the inside of the game would have gotten ruined. Thank you Lego for protecting my old cartages from my impulsive thoughts!!
(This is a repost of an attempted post from earlier. Reddit wasn’t attaching photos. If photos don’t attach here reply to let me know please. Hoping this post isn’t shadowbanned as a repost or as me trying to post 6 times today due to the glitches)
I made the headline obviously blunt and self important as no one has any reason to care what I think, but I’d love to discuss some thoughts.
So when I first watched it I LOVED it. I found it fun and funny. I was fascinated by the vision of the force and “balance” that Luke (and Snoke) teaches. I LOVE LOVE LOVE the idea that Rei wasn’t the chosen one of the force, not a vergence. Not a scion. Just a person with a strong connection to the force and a good strong heart. I LOVE LOVE LOVE that Kylo actually made an attempt to turn Rei to the dark that was tailored to the target and had a chance to succeed. (See how Palpatine tailored his slow conversion of Analin successfully, but Anakin’s attempt to turn Luke was based on completely misunderstanding Luke as a person and hoping “he idolized the idea of a father” would be enough)
Then, later, a smart friend who hated the movie broke down scene by scene on why it was nonsense or off tone, or a jumbled story. I forget most of the specific issues but I found it convincing (killing off phasma without enough payoff, the entire trip to the gambling planet making things worse instead of better, Rose messing up Fin’s smart sacrifice, there are parts I rmemebr). I found I agreed with him on everything and felt dumb. It was like Dark Knight Rises, where I loved it leaving theater and hated it thinking more later.
But then I realized. The parts I loved I still loved. And the parts I now hated I had legit grievances for. And I realized a 99% reliable patern.
I love every scene that includes Luke and/or Rei. And I hate every scene that doesn’t.
Thoughts? Am I alone in this?
(Ignore episode 9 for this analysis please. I have complex feelings about that which I don’t want to bring into it)
I like the Rylai as soon after the “boots” item as I can, as the slow seems to be what is most useful from me…
…but I am unclear on what the slows “stack” and when they don’t. Will a single Beat Drop root them, if I have Rylai in hand? I feel like it should but I don’t know. If not, then I should probably cut it from the build entirely.
I also am torn of the new Ice Overlord rune vs the Aery rune. I feel like I need the damage and shield boost from Aery but I’m not sure.
Also not sure on starting item. I am newer so die more than I would like…hence the defensive first item. But the offensive support item is probably better if I am good??
Thanks!!! (Attached pictures of my experience and win rate etc)
So I am pretty ok at draft. I only play on phone, so I don’t have stats or recordings. But I’ve gotten to mythic once or twice.
Anyway, this set is killing me. I havnt figured it out yet. I had one draft with a winning record out of like 8 drafts.
Anyway, I’m doing a quick draft and nothing feels very open, but Gub is where I seem to be. I could pivot to hard five color or to a two color pair I guess, but feels like three color, green base, splash off color mana sources?
Anyway, I figured pausing here where I don’t see an obvious pick is a good way to get advice on what I maybe am already doing wrong and what to try in pack 3.
First pick is my current pool, second pick is P3.
Advice welcome thatnks!!!
Hello! My big magnolia that I love looks rough to me and I wanted to find out early if there is some thing wrong with it.
I read that the yellow leaves are normal this time of year. But it looks sad and droopy.
It had some big vines, but I snipped them at the base last year and they are shriveled.
Any advice? Healthy? Dying? Need water? (I don’t think of trees this size needing to be watered outside of deserts, but I dunno)
Hey there! I’m sure this gets asked a lot but I play Wild Rift (unsure how different it is but I only can play on a phone. We go to the league with the tools we have…) and I’ve been really enjoying and doing well with Seraphine.
I am/was an amumu jungle main, but I tried her in support and found it fun and intuitive….and I have a 65% win rate (including just now a 9 game win streak).
I don’t feel enough to ask specific useful questions, but is there any good advice or research out there you would point me towards?
I have a ~60 foot tall tree (Norway Maple, I think) that is MOSTLY dead (cue Miracle Max, Princess Bride jokes).
Every branch is bare of leaves, including the entire canopy, except for one branch about halfway up, that seems perfectly healthy.
There are also a few leaves coming from the trunk about 8-10 feet off the ground (the London would usually trim on sight, but here I am not touching them).
No idea why it’s half dead…it was like that when I arrived. Only thing environmentally obvious is an infestation of English ivy, but only a normal amount, so not likely to kill it (and I snipped the ivy at the base so it’s withering now).
I am in Appalachia, USA.
Any advice on what to do? Should I cut off dead branches high up? Should I get the trunk removed above the live branch? Something else to do to treat it or check for? Is it a lost cause and just a falling risk?