Questionable Questing

I like how it it de romantizes the mob

Yeah it just gets sad in the end more than anything. I think it was a lot more effective in that then Breaking Bad or The Wire in showing how being a criminal really isn't that fun.

People really like Breaking Bad's main character without getting he fucked up his life

Yeah there's way too many middle aged dudes who self insert into him, and write whole paragraphs in the comment section under some Youtube short psychoanalyzing different arguments and scenes and then bitching about their own wives or something.

But I'll be right back, I'm going to go get some cake.

I'm back. Had some store brand in the fridge, and had a small slice real quick. It's caramel flavor and shockingly good. Not too sweet.

You watching any anime or reading any manga?

Been kind of slow recently, what with a lot of long running series finally ending. But there's this Youtuber which is a father and daughter due, with the dad in particular being this pretty sweet old guy who's really religious, and he's doing a read through of Berserk. lol. Which is pretty funny and also pretty cool.

Seeing this wholesome grandpa respond to Berserk of all things, but he's a pretty smart guy and I think he has some kind of background in Ministry because he's able to relate a lot of the Manga to very specific passages and historical events. Pretty informative actually and a nice reminder of why I like Berserk so much.

Here's the eclipse episode if your curious.

Bro is not prepared and want to hear me complain about poor gameplay design in Hearthstone?

I got timestamped into the video and I love how this guy talks.

Oh, sorry about that. I thought for sure I had reset it. But poor gameplay design rants is half of gaming YouTube and a guilty hobby of mine. Let's hear it.

In Magic the Gathering and Legends of Runeterra you can choose blockers. That is you put a creature down and it will deal damage to a attacking creature. Some creatuers have low power but high health to make them very good blockers. In Magic you have Death Touch which means if it does any damage, it will destroy the creature that attacked it no matter how much health it has.

In Legends of Runettera there is Challanger which lets you have a attacking creature pick any of the oppenent's and force them to fight it. There's a principle here. Creatures can shield your heatlh. You have things such as in Magic with Meance where two creatures must block a attacker or that attacker can damage life directly. But in most cases a defending player can make choices on how to guard themselves.

In Heartstone, which I installed a hour ago and uninstallled. unless a creature has taunt forcing it to be attacked. You can't use creatures to block. And you can't deecide if the enemy hits you directly or attacks any of your creatuers once your turn is over.

Not into card games that much but isn't half the fun and strategy in them, whether it's Yugioh or the games you listed, strategically placing certain creatures to block direct attacks to you core health? Because if you don't have that mechanic then the game just becomes stacking as much damage as fast as possible to the opponents health which really limits play styles.

There were parts I really liked in Hearthstone. AOE spells. Legendary creatures having cool enter the battlefield effects. Lots of creatures with when played does a spell. But you have ability to do anything once your turn ends. I hear their are trap cards to play but still. Your minnons are fucking useless once your turn is done

Do you get a bunch of health to at least make up for that a little bit, because it sounds like if you don't the games over in a couple turns.

And yep. You hit the nail on the head. It makes a floaty gameplay where as with defending you can decide what happens during the enemy turn. And Hearthstone likes Instants. This is a turn from Magic where you can cast a spell during someone else's turn. Yugioh has this with Trap cards.