/mcd/ - Megidochan Den

>>30069
My favorite Korean celebrity.

The more I try to think about card games, the more I feel like the problems of combo decks and card economy are unsolvable. It seems impossible to think up a system that's fundamentally interactive that doesn't devolve into a war of attrition (when it should, at the very least, be a gamble.) Your card game will eventually devolve into rote-learned 90% Solitaire with a handful of instances of interaction which are pretty much gambles or pure control where all your cool cards essentially boil down to a singular gamble that they can't negate your negate of their negate or whatever and that your action won't somehow lead to them making an unbreakable board. When I describe them like this, they sound very similar. Because they kind of are. The end result is a game with very few meaningful choices. What's worse is that these types of decks often coexist in trading card games and they produce matches which neither side enjoys. And although they can coexist, there is basically no middleground. No middleground that is meta, stays meta, and is how the game is played by pros or even the majority of players for the majority of the game's lifespan. No, the middleground is not a deck that can pivot between combo and control; both essentially can and do even when played purely. The true middleground of interactivity (that isn't just hinging on a +1 negation making the game unwinnable) seems like it's impossible to enforce as "the game" unlike just leaning completely into combo or control. Part of that is powercreep, the other part is "Well, how?" which is usually just combos and controls being weak and incomplete (which circles right back to powercreep.) I'm trying but I don't know if my solutions are enough.

I know I'm speaking very generally. I don't really know Magic The Gathering or really, Yu-Gi-Oh! This is just how I feel. You can call me an idiot for feeling so strongly about a topic I objectively don't know much about like you can always do but I suspect no one cares about the topic enough to do so.

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>>30068
Looking through all the games that aren't on my wishlist and so many of them have "Mixed" reviews…

>>30075
Mark of a trve blue video game expert who marches to the beat of his own drum

Okay, thread, seriously, just end already.

I forgot what I was going to say but it was definitely still going to be about Evangelion.

Test of what

>>29550
Rose. Rose Lalonde.

>>28779
SEELE is literally a conspiracy of jews that falsified a major historical event (and even made movies to promote that falsified history, as Shinji watches)

Eva is absolutely right wing, which is why hoodweebs hate it and are trying to cancel it as "diddy blud"

also

>>27750
What did he mean by this?

>>27722
You have to give She/Anys a bit of a respect for being cool with getting they'd or misgendered.

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Caught lackin

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JUBES

>>25693
TAKE A PICTURE, YOU FAT SLUT.

>>25694
Aren't you excited? And old? Aren't you excited and old?

>>25698
Whedon's formative hits landed a bit too early. Smurf Television anyway

>>24659
Who is da masketta man and his big black plan
You're right, but it's like a JRPG plot drawn out over YEARS

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>>24652
STFU, Tayama isn't even random, it's worldbuilding

>>24662
>reduces my statement to something I didn't say
>isn't that a little reductive?

I like being surprised by stories that take bizarre turns even if they don't make sense or disregard previous setup. Like in Zero Escape or Twin Peaks or… Woodstock. But it's hard to find this done well because the skills and resources required to make the story work on a basic level are more commonly used for a safer professional project.

Infernal newn

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Ate a ton of cereal in my Japanese bowl with my matching Japanese soup spoon. AMA

>>23634
Did you wear your bib, dood?

>>23635
Don't have one, but I'd sure like to try

I was incautious

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