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▲ 3 r/mtgcube

Your favorite black "life loss as a downside" cards?

I'm making a mono black cube, and I had the idea of having cards like [[Dark Confidant]], [[Phyrexian Rager]] and other cards that draws cards, kills permanents, disrupts the opponent's hand etc. so that aggro becomes more viable without having to push it too much. This is to also make lifelink creatures and cards like [[Tendrils of Agony]] higher picks.

Which would you say are the best cards that also has life loss, damage taking etc. as a downside? That are also appropriate for this cube, I will add, because [[Yawgmoth's Bargain]] for example is extremely hard for black decks to deal with and just not fun.

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u/pimmen89 — 4 days ago
▲ 493 r/BilFrittStockholm+1 crossposts

MP ökar sitt resultat med mer än 85% i Stockholms kommun

Det verkar som att stockholmarna ändå är rätt så nöjda med hur MP skött sig som trafikborgarråd, där människor fått mer utrymme och bilarna mindre på gatorna.

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u/pimmen89 — 1 month ago
▲ 6 r/gamedesign

Randomness in election mechanics

Hi!
I'm making a game that's multiplayer, political simulator. You try to propose legislation to sway different voting blocs. The game takes place over a handfull of election cycles, and I want the effects of the legislation you proposed or voted for to influence how much power you'll have in the next election.

Most of the gameplay loop will be spent negotiating with other players of which legislation to propose and vote for, to basically form political blocs together. I'm a fan of Diplomacy, especially the variants played by post, where the hidden information is what alliances you've formed and what orders you're going to execute, and otherwise is very elegant with basically no randomness.

So here's my problem; designing the election mechanic in a way that you can influence it and still making it fun. I'm torn by how much determinism I want in it. I was thinking of simulating the election by pulling out a number of cards (possibly with different values) from a deck, and figure out the distribution of power to propose and pass legislation in the next cycle. The seats would be dependent on different geographic and social groups. So, the more you appease certain voting blocs, the more of your cards would be put into the deck.

The pro with this approach that is the most obvious is that it adds variance and mitigate a player running away with the game as soon as they get an advantage. If the election is deterministically decided and favors the person who passed the best legislation, they'll potentially just use their power to keep dominating certain blocs and always win more unless I introduce a random way to mitigate that.

The con is that it might make a player miffed when they've plotted and voted and then see that the election didn't go their way anyway.

What do you guys think? This is a very rough idea that I'm just now implementing, so I'm curious what you have to say.

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u/pimmen89 — 2 months ago
▲ 69 r/AskTrumpSupporters

How do you think it turned out four years after the overturning of Roe v. Wade?

It's now been a little more than four years since the overturning of Roe v. Wade, something that Trump took great pride in. Do you think it brought upon good changes for the US?

Abortion rate per capita is mostly unchanged, or up by an insignificant margin, with out of state travel for abortions much more common. Maternal mortality and infant mortality have increased significantly in states with an abortion ban and so has the teen birth rate.

Are there any positive changes that you expected four years after the overturning of Roe v. Wade? Have they started showing?

u/pimmen89 — 3 months ago
▲ 0 r/AskALiberal

Do you think the United States can recover its spent soft power? How do you think it should go about it?

The opinion on the US has fallen dramatically over the past decade, including the years Trump was not in power. The worst drop happened during the past year and a half, but during the Biden years it stagnated and still saw small declines. America has a less than 50% approval rate internationally, and the more wealthy and educated countries have the worst opinion of the US.

The US film and TV industry has dropped from 55% of the world’s share down to 38%. The US music industry is even worse, down to less than 30% now. The cultural, positive portrayals of New York is competing more with cultural portrayals of Shanghai, Seoul, Rio de Janeiro, and other cultural hotspots across the world.

Tourism is even worse. The US once had almost 10% of international tourists, but now less than 5%.

Immigration to the US has fallen, in spite of GOP messaging. Immigration to the US is at about 3 million per year compared to the EU’s 4 million, and now for the first time in history more Americans move to the EU than the other way around.

With the US being seen more negatively in politics and competing culturally with other countries' influence, an influence the US could previously capitalize on the counteract its unpopular foreign policy, do you think the US will be able to go above a 50% favorability after Trump has left office?

What do you think a US government willing to lift US soft power should do about this?

u/pimmen89 — 3 months ago
▲ 14 r/AskTrumpSupporters

Are you concerned about the fact that the federal government spends more on interest payments than on defense and border security?

Since the beginning of this year, US monthly payments on debt interest payments is now more than the monthly spending of the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, and more combined.

Do you think this is a problem? If yes, is there any spending Trump and the GOP in Congress should slash, whether it be healthcare, welfare, renovations of federal property, or maybe something else? Do you expect Trump and the GOP to be able to deliver on their promises when the interest payments are so high and climbing?

What did you expect Trump to do about the debt in this term? Do he live up to those expectations in terms of prioritizing what to spend money on, not start new expensive projects, cutting expensive projects, or something else?

u/pimmen89 — 3 months ago
▲ 30 r/AskTrumpSupporters

Are you concerned about monopolies and oligopolies?

About 90% of US media is controlled by just six companies. BlackRock, The Vanguard Group, and State Street hold the majority shares in about 90% of all Fortune 500 companies. Google and Meta gets little over half of all digital advertising revenue.

According to the few investigations done, Uber now has worse service and pricing than the taxi industry had ten years ago, and historically companies have used their monopolies to abuse both the consumer and the workers.

Is this something that concerns you or do you not care about how competitive the US markets are? If it does concern you, what do you think the GOP should do about it, and do you expect them to do it?

u/pimmen89 — 4 months ago
▲ 43 r/Minilego+1 crossposts

I’m making Pokémon in mini-fig scale. I’m starting with, well, the starters

u/pimmen89 — 5 months ago