u/WendigoCrossing

Win: More background on Ron and Nathan's depression

- we got a deeper look into Kat's relationship and Nathan's mental health struggle

Miss: Introduction of Shayna

- She became a major character right off the bat and felt like it came at the cost.of better developing other characters without adding much to the family dynamic

Miss: Not enough Heather and Joel

- 2 characters I wanted to see more of

Win: Abbadons true form

- Always fun to get a reminder that he is a duke of hell and has a more powerful form

Win: Nathan and Bridgett have a sweet moment

- a thing isn't beautiful because it lasts. Be happy that it happened, even if we are sad that it's over is a bittersweet lesson

Win: Seeing Esther grow as a magic user herself

- She is becoming more confident, yet arrogant as an ankh was needed to bring her back

Overall Thoughts:

Sort of like a spooky Bojack Horseman where a fantastical setting can be used to offset dark topics like depression, suicide, and toxic marriages, Haunted Hotel can be both fun, scary, and dark in more ways than 1. It didn't quite hit as well as s1 did, but I'm eagerly awaiting next year hoping for s3

More hyped for Planet Zoo 2 personally but I'll get GTA eventually

How many times would you like to run a raid for a phase?

Personally I think that running a raid 8 - 10 times feels about right. More than that and it becomes pretty boring

Was curious how long a raiding phase should be and what people felt was an ideal number of lockouts

Edit: based on the answers so far I was surprised to learn that for many it is simply getting loot that is fun. So as long as they are getting loot they continue..for some the raid itself isn't really enjoyable even it seems, but a means to an end

This is fascinating to me. I'm not disparaging this perspective, I just didn't expect it

Had an idea for a new Keyword: Primal

The idea is that if a card is paid for using basic lands, it gains its primal ability

Like:

G1

• 3/3
• Primal: If G was paid for by a basic land, this card gains Trample

Or

U

• 1/1
• When this card attacks, scry 1
• Primal: If U was paid for by basic lands, this card gains flying

Thought it could be a fun way to promote basic lands back into the game

Don't be afraid to do a 2/3 split on 2 lane maps and pivot your draft around this

Up through Diamond the meta of a 1/4 split is so hard engrained that many enemy teams don't know how to correctly respond to this

It works particularly well when there is some sustain healing in both lanes

For example you could go Uther and Valla in top lane with Jo / Anduin / Kaelthas bottom lane or something like that

I've won a lot of 2 lane map games simply because the enemy team kept their 1 v 4 strat where we simply countered their setup

I feel that JC could fit very well into a Classic + by making Rings, Amulets, and some Trinkets

Because it came on so early, in TBC, it still feels very much Classic

Probably not the gem cutting aspect of it since gear doesn't have sockets anyway but there are ways to make it work

Curious on what people think about this

I want to encourage everyone to go into Classic + blind once it comes out

My aim is to recapture as much of that sense of adventure as much as possible from OG (as close as we can get)

No leveling guides or loot tables, no watching streamers or tier lists; just exploration and finding new things

Maybe even play a race or class you've never tried to enhance the feeling

Read the quest.text, talk to NPCs, make friends

Maybe the middle ground is not looking things up at least until raid content for the best of both worlds

I think that the next time we see EM will be our R&M breaking him out of prison

Here's the catch: from his perspective it will only have been like 15 seconds

Because of the way that time works there, they will simply pick him up right after he got locked up so he won't be too upset. He also probably figured this to be the case so he isn't making a big deal being in there in the first place

Thinking about how there are no new episodes for some time, might make Wednesdays specifically about theories for the next season and keep track of them to see which come true

Post your favorite S2 theories here, upvote the ones you like!

Here is my one: Ruth inherited immortality and health after the old Mayor's death

Kind of hoping that he goes with Morty back to his world and lives in their house again

Would be an interesting new dynamic to the house

His speech and entire interaction with Homelander was incredible

The only thing that I honestly would have changed in it was the Vought Life Alert part.

I would have had him realize he could track it after letting The Legend go and appearing defeated, then we see him realize he has hope again

Everything else about the scene was flawless