Ubisoft can F right off...

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Quoting: WMan22It's like blaming the pawn for a king and queen's poor decisions. It's not really the pawn's fault that they're limited to moving and defeating other chess pieces in the most inefficient ways possible, and the game doesn't end out of empathy and respect for the loss of a pawn, only when the king is gone. That's just the way the game is designed by forces above the pawn's control.

As a chess player, I'd like to point out a few things about this... The pawns can actually be fairly powerful when banded together in a pawn chain. This can ultimately lead to a promotion of a pawn to royalty (many times leading to the downfall of the existing royalty). They can even occasionally take down a piece on their own with some minor support (i.e. during a pawn fork of a piece). The position of the pawns on the playing field also normally determines the entire shape of the conflict - and those best positioned will frequently lead to victory for their side (especially in higher levels of competition).
(also, the game is over when the king is trapped, not gone... Maybe this is a metaphor for not needing bloodshed during societal upheaval?)

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Quoting: PhiladelphusI actually just beat the Heart with the Ironclad for the first time a few weeks ago; the same time, not coincidentally, that I did a 999-damage Body Slam. (That was only my third time doing so, after managing it twice with my favorite character the Silent.)

Finally did it! The Silent. Got pretty lucky, was a bit careful, ended up with four of those "A Shiv Every Turn" cards, two "Shivs get more badass" cards, an artifact that gave cost 0 attacks 4 more damage. So in a long fight I'd have 4 shivs per turn for 18 points each before I even looked at the cards I actually drew. But wait, there's more! Had an artifact that gave me +1 Dexterity every time I cast 3 attacks in a turn. Well, with all those shivs, my shielding was getting badass pretty fast! Plus I had some good poison stuff, including the one where every time an attack did damage it adds a point of poison, which, with all those shivs . . . and shortly before the finale, I got the card that gives you a point of block every time you play a card, which basically defended me from the Heartbeat of Doom, which with all those shivs was very much the cherry on top. And a fair amount of decent normal cards and artifacts. It wasn't even close, it dealt me maybe 20 points of damage before I waxed it.
Woo!
OK, this is maybe a bit off topic, but dash it all, I had to tell someone, and most people I know would look at me blankly.

Congrats! If you want to get a bit more serious, I recommend r/slaythespire :D

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Quoting: scainethe sheer randomness of it. There's very little you can do to influence what relics you get, or what cards you're offered.

This is kind of the point of the game - to find a way to build with what you're given, and to then win with that. There aren't exact build formulas due to the randomness (although there are definitely 3 or 4 themes for each character with how they usually win). There are a few streamers/YouTubers that really illustrate that if you're interested (Jorbs/Frost Prime are good.. Also Baalorlord has some good stuff for beginners).

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QuoteBut while it is a truly excellent game, I have a similar problem with Monster Train as I do with Slay the Spire - after a certain point, the only replayability is in Ascensions, which simply rank up, introducing harder bosses and more punishing runs.

As someone who has almost 2,500 hours into StS, I'd disagree with this. One can't say they've truly 'won the game' until beating the Heart at Ascension 20 with all characters. For another thing, once one has 'won' the game, there are more achievements to get - many of which require an entirely different approach to gameplay to achieve. Once all that is wound up, there is a ton of mods available that keep things fresh (including many new characters/cards, etc...)

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I've been running GamerOS->ChimeraOS for a few years now on my 'gaming pc' that functions as a gaming console... It's been great -> no muss, no fuss... it just runs...

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Is it only for steam deck? or is it an option in general? It seems like when I'm using big picture mode from my couch, it would be very nice also..

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Quoting: NerdNoiseRadioOne question: didn't I hear that Plasma 5.26 added support for animated wallpapers? That's a feature that I will definitely plan to start using once I know I have access to it! :-)

I don't have your answer, but it is crazy to me that this is not a feature in 2023 when I remember having animated backgrounds in the 90's with xscreensaver -root option... I hate when we lose features.

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Reminds me of some early Playstation games. Looks good, but not my current cup of tea. I'll put it on my list to wait for a sale and stash it for hopeful future grandkids maybe.. :D

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Quoting: scaine

Quoting: dibzThey should have just copied Debian's different release names from the start, "stable, testing, and unstable."

Doesn't get more straight forward then that.

Yeah, but no way a commercial firm is putting "unstable" in the title of pretty much anything!

I think maybe "stable, testing, development" or something...

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