Brace yourselves, this is gonna be a long one.
Table of Contents
1…… The Main Goal
2…… What I’m Seeking
3…… Personality
4…… Interests
5…… Physical Characteristics (with pics)
6…… Expectations of You
7…… Living Situation
8…… Deal Breakers
9…… Closing Remarks
(1)
The Main Goal:
Well if you’re browsing this subreddit then much like me, you were alone this weekend and I’m sure you’d like to change that as much as me. I won’t lie, I am going through a rough part of my life right now. It’s difficult for me to find the energy for anything at the moment and I’m just really seeking affection in general, anything that will give me a push. I don’t want to be that person who brings everyone down but I could really use someone to talk to right now. I’d really like to find someone who’s similar to me so much to the point that we do everything together and talk about everything while not having to pretend to be interested. I want someone with whom we can mutually spew our emotions onto and have those feelings reciprocated. Not an emotional punching bag, but an emotional teddy bear to hug and cuddle until everything feels better as many times as we need. There’s people who I’m sure have told you the same, they’ll be there no matter how many times you need the support, no matter how many times the insecurities and bad thoughts come back but they don’t mean it. I will be the exception, I’m not so ignorant to think some nice words and tales of relating to you will magically forever heal whatever ails you then get mad when you seek the same support again. Mental ailments are rarely temporary and I don’t care about someone because they’re perfect, caring about someone means being there no matter how many times they need you to be. It doesn’t feel like a chore, it doesn’t get old, and it never will.
(2)
(2.a)
What I'm Seeking:
I will upfront let you know if I’m clicking better with someone else or if you’re the one, I’m not here to tread the sea of fish or keep my options open, I’m here for one singular person.
(2.b)
Relationship:
A relationship is difficult for me right now, it’s been nearly half a year since I got out of my last relationship and the reasons for it ending are partially responsible for how I’ve been feeling and why it’s so hard for me to seek the comfort I so desperately crave. I will tell you about it but for the sake of not treating the entirety of the internet as my therapist, it’ll be in private. I really need the comfort of intimacy and the warmth of someone who cares. I'm not going to feel better if I just sulk and don’t move on. This is my attempt to get better, I’ll admit I’m not great right now and I don’t expect you to be either. If we can help each other heal, then I’d be more than happy :) A relationship isn’t just being there for when someone’s at their best. Even if a relationship is hard at the moment, I do want a life partner and I don’t want to be alone. Things aren’t going to get easier without you so I don’t want to hesitate. I view my other as an equal, I don’t like categorizing us into specific roles. We take care of each other and treat each other how we like to be treated, whatever that is, it's as simple as that. I don't care if you're "successful" or not, living simple lives with our days filled with love is the ultimate measure of success to me.
(3)
Personality:
(3.a)
On the Surface:
As you can tell I can be rather… stoic but that’s largely due to my current stressors, I truthfully am goofy and fun loving but I just can’t find it in me right now. I want to return to that but without someone to light up my world it’s been difficult to just have fun and enjoy stuff. I’m definitely more introverted, you won’t catch me at any parties or really outside at all. I definitely prefer being home though the occasional outing is not out of the question and one day I’d like to travel to other countries because I think that kind of perspective is important.
(3.b)
The Core of My Being:
I like being a spectator to it all and if we bear witness to humanity burning or its miraculous recovery, I want to watch it with you. I enjoy watching humanity advance, less so when it devolves but I want to watch it to the end nonetheless. I’m both a realist and someone who lives with my head in the clouds dreaming of scenarios or worlds that don’t exist. I’m saying that I enjoy a good narrative and can suspend my disbelief to enjoy something but you won’t catch me refusing vaccines or ignoring blatant facts for the sake of some pseudo science or witch doctor’s remedy. I’m an atheist but I do not rule out existence after death, not because I’m agnostic but because due to the nature of potentially infinite time at some point after how many googol years with a googol amount of 0s after that, something’s bound to replicate your consciousness perfectly at some point. It’s actually a really fascinating topic I like talking about. If infinite time and infinite possibilities exist, does non existence exist? Though that’s an awfully existentially dreadful thought process considering the ramifications of infinite existence and infinite possibilities during said infinite existence. I would say I’m confidently left leaning and I don’t think I could truly get along with anyone right leaning, at least America’s definition of right leaning. Left and right seems to have just become; do people deserve to suffer or do they deserve to live good lives? Being political is not something I expected to become but how can you not be when crimes against human rights are being passed on a daily basis and at the end of the day, everything’s political. Oftentimes I imagine the perfect moment as relaxing with my significant other playing games or cuddling in a cold room under blankets.
I value that special someone above all of the existential thoughts, the bad of the world, the good of the world, they practically become my world. So many worries wash away when I’m with them. I don’t know if that’s the defense mechanism my brain created to not feel bad 24/7 but if it is, I’m currently without it.
(3.c)
Insecurities:
I talk of philosophy and politics here but really I spend most of my time just playing games, watching stuff, and trying to not be sleep deprived. I’m also nowhere near as well spoken, heck sometimes I feel like my speech is broken. I won’t claim to be something I’m not, I sit at home while I complain about the world doing nothing about it wishing I had someone here with me. I’m not noble nor do I really want to be, I have morals I uphold but much like most other hypocrites I acknowledge that my comfortable life is built on the suffering of others without doing anything about it. Why? My sleep problems? Am I depressed? Is that why I have no energy to do anything? Do I just think nothing I could do could help? I can’t nail it down myself, maybe it’s a mix of everything, maybe I’m just a bad person. I have always told myself that if I had wealth I would help people but if I get that kind of wealth will I just become a wealth hoarder who tries to justify my riches as something I earned rather than something given to me through incredibly lucky circumstances? If I do help people is it because I’m a good person or out of guilt? Will I die alone? I feel like I drive everyone away with my clinginess, I get paranoid often and need reassurance often. It’s something I want to work on, something I’ve been trying to work on. Hearing that someone cares about me just never gets old. I value self awareness even if it’s painful.
(3.d)
Socializing:
I’m definitely a socially anxious/awkward mess, especially around strangers. I do feel a large amount of anxiety in public, people can’t tell by looking at my face since I kind of go stone faced in an attempt to block everything out but yeah you’ll notice that if we go out in public. Growing up my pediatrician said I was probably autistic, never got a formal diagnosis so that’s just great. But yeah that explains why I can’t make eye contact with people, I kinda just stare at the ground and avoid their gaze at all costs. A lot of these social struggles go away to a great degree once I know you for a bit but yeah I apologize for how terrible I am at socializing at first. Don’t let my social struggles fool you though, I love cuddling and being close with my person.
(3.e)
Sexuality:
I am a heterosexual male, though I’m not very masculine like at all. I may even be a bit feminine sometimes. Not that I believe any activity or manner of acting belongs to a gender but I don’t know how else to describe it. I’m definitely super affectionate and love it when my partner is too. I am open to dating demi people but I do have a libido so I don't think asexual would work out.
(4)
Interests:
(4.a)
Video Games:
As stated before, I do spend a lot of my time playing video games. It’s been hard lately with me having no energy but I really do want to play more games and have a good time playing them with you! I primarily play on PC though I do have a switch. I’m primarily into platform fighters, roguelikes, open world, survival, and sandbox games. As for single player story games, I enjoy watching them through twitch or youtube but for the most part I don’t play them myself. I’d watch you play them though!
Here’s a list of games we can play:
-Minecraft (Java)
-Risk of Rain 2
-Gunfire Reborn
-Roboquest
-7 Days to Die
-Phasmophobia
-Rust
-Unturned
-Bloons TD 6
-Platform fighters: Super Smash Bros. Melee, Slap City, Multiversus, Flash Party, Fraymakers
Whatever you want to play I’ll give it a shot! I will say that League bores me to death but I’ll play it for you :) I try to avoid MMOs, not because I don’t like them but because of how addicted I can get to them. I enjoy learning games in-depth so MMOs can be a fast track to addiction.
I recently got Kerbal Space Program 2 and ehhh not really worth it right now but hopefully later it will be? I’m super excited for Tears of the Kingdom! In the far off future I’m excited for Rivals of Aether 2 which is a platform fighter releasing in 2024, let me know of your most anticipated releases and I’ll see if I could play them with you!
Also I never got into FPS games but I could totally see myself playing like CoD with you or Escape From Tarkov. Any FPS really, I’m down.
I am a fan of Pokemon but with how things have been lately I don’t know how long that will last. Pixelmon is a common Pokemon mod I play for Minecraft if you want to play that! Also if I say I want to play something with you I mean it but there are often times when no matter how much I want to I'm just drained and can do little more than lay in bed so please don't think I'm making an excuse.
(4.b)
Science:
I really enjoy keeping up with the latest advances in pretty much everything, it could be biology, technology, astronomy, anything! I love seeing progression and I love talking about it! Really I could go on and on about what I’m obsessing about that day. I particularly love technology, ask me for my laptop specs I dare you. When I was little I always wanted to be a scientist of any kind but then insomnia and fear of college stuff hit me like a truck aaaand that’s the end of that dream.
(4.c)
Anime:
You got me, I like anime but I’d like to think my tastes are benign.
Here’s some of my favorites I can list from the top of my head:
- To Your Eternity
- Vinland Saga
- Spice and Wolf
- Re:Zero
- Mob Psycho
- Dr. Stone
- Attack on Titan
- Spy x Family
- My Hero Academia
- Ranking of Kings
- Demon Slayer
Okay I can go on and on but I will say I don’t like pointless fan service and the spamming of cliche anime moments. I mostly enjoy action and anything well animated if it doesn’t have a potato story. Heck Demon Slayer could be my top 3 out of season 2’s animation alone. I don’t watch slice of life often or romance but I would with you!
(4.d)
Misc:
I’m not going to go on and on about the tiniest little things when the main ones are covered but I’ll watch pretty much any show with you and anything really. I like random youtube videos that explain some kind of lore or mystery, sometimes mini documentaries too.
As for food I looove sushi and I’m a sucker for fast food. Okay and candy, definitely candy.
I used to play tennis but haven’t really had the opportunity nor friends to play it with and I’m way too socially anxious to seek it out. Also I will say that when we move to something like discord I type waaaay more casually. I’m not going to expect long paragraphs back and forth like we’re writing English papers for each other, I do enjoy long conversations but seriously don’t worry about having to put the utmost effort into every response, I just like making good first impressions I guess.
(5)
(5.a)
My Physical Characteristics:
I’m 5’8 (172cm), 128 pounds (58kg), with curly brown hair and blue eyes. I like keeping my hair long in the winter and cutting it in the summer. I’m pretty slim in general so if you’re looking for someone large, that’s not me. I don’t work out but my work is pretty physical so at least I’m not totally inactive. I don’t have the urge to work out or gain muscle but I do want to maintain my slim figure so if I start losing control of that I’ll work out. I like to keep my face shaved because I don’t think I look good with a beard/mustache so if you’re into those I apologize. I have an average amount of body hair? I’d prefer to be completely shaved but it’s easy to lose motivation with that battle, if you prefer shaved then I’d have no problem complying. Anyways here’s what I look like: https://imgur.com/a/MZZgf2t
(5.b)
My Physical Preferences:
Having physical preferences makes me feel shallow, if I could make myself not have them I would but unfortunately that’s now how that works. I don’t care if you’re shorter or taller than me and I don’t care if you weigh more or less than me. All I ask is that you’re slim-average weight. I would never ask for someone to be something I’m not. I don’t care about tattoos or piercings.**(6)Expectations of You (Relationship Only):**I am not looking for someone “exciting” or someone to “keep me on my toes” I’m not looking for someone to cater to my every whim or anything like that. I don’t care if you’re “boring” or if you aren’t “successful”. I know it’s a common thing for people to not want a “boring” relationship and to seek something argumentative or something with constant challenges but I just want to be with you. During the exciting times, the boring times, and everything in-between, all of it will be great with you! Maybe we do argue sometimes or maybe there will be challenges but that will never be something I purposefully seek out and I don’t want that to be something you seek out either. I will not play tricks on you and I will not play mind games, I expect the same from you. We all have personal measures of success we may or may not have lived up to but what I care about most is our commitment to each other. If we have each other we can get through tough times, near the ends of our lives I want us to look back and feel that this life together was worth more than anything. That’s not saying I want us to be haphazard, I don’t want us to make poor decisions for the sake of yolo and I want us to always be rational, especially with each other. I want you to be someone I can trust to make decisions and weigh the options with a level head, I’ll try my best to live up to the same for you. Most of all I want empathy, understanding, someone to feel the utmost comfort and trust in.
(7)
Living Situation:
Currently my life is pretty relaxed, I work 3 times a week as a night shift stocker. I currently live in a 2 bedroom apartment with my roommate but we’re looking to move into someplace larger by the end of the year if everything works out. The internet is weirdly great for Ohio too like I have fiber and later this year we’re supposed to be getting dedicated fiber so that’s neat. I’m not attached to Ohio so the ultimate goal living location wise is probably moving to a country that won’t send you into a lifetime of dealing with the repercussions from one medical emergency.
(8)
Deal Breakers:
Might as well make this simple and make it a list.
- Anti-vaxxers
- Unironically believing astrology
- Right wingers
- Hard drugs (occasional 420 and alcohol is fine, may even join you)
- Wanting children, there was a time when I was younger when I wanted children but with the state of the word that’s a definite no and I feel like I wouldn’t be able to handle the stress. I’d love a stress free life with as much time with you as possible.
- Homophobic
- Transphobic
- Racist
- Super Religious
- Don’t be a bigot and don’t deny facts.
(9)
Closing Remarks:
Well you made it, I was thinking that finding someone I’d be willing to put a lifetime of effort into at least required this much effort. If I think of anything more I’ll update the post. Also about timezones, it really doesn’t matter where in the world you are. I don’t have a sleep schedule and I have most of the week off from work so it really doesn’t matter.
I request that in your response you do put effort into it, it doesn’t have to be anywhere near as long as this but at least enough so I know that you read this and enough about you so I know why you saw potential compatibility. I will seriously read all of it and respond the best I can. I do also request a pic included in your response (sfw please) or one soon after we start talking to prove identity, I’ll send identity proving pics too. As long as this post is up, you can send a reply!

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(45 posted this week) Standard Decks

Death Knight

• (Heroic Brawliseum) 12-2 Frost Death Knight – starfallmwHS May 27, 2023
• (Heroic Brawliseum) 12-1 Frost Death Knight – SittichaiPrachu May 27, 2023
• (Heroic Brawliseum) 12-2 Frost Death Knight – corbettgames May 26, 2023
• (Heroic Brawliseum) 12-2 Frost Death Knight – TheHunterHS_ May 26, 2023
• (Heroic Brawliseum) 12-0 Frost Death Knight – Limei May 25, 2023
• (Heroic Brawliseum) 12-2 Frost Death Knight – Stinzy_ May 25, 2023
• (Heroic Brawliseum) 12-1 Renathal Blood Death Knight – XephoHS May 25, 2023
• (Heroic Brawliseum) 12-2 Frost Death Knight – reqvamhs May 25, 2023

Demon Hunter

• (Heroic Brawliseum) 12-2 Relic Demon Hunter – IscomanHS May 27, 2023
• Relic Demon Hunter #481 Legend – manul_one (Score: 19-5) May 27, 2023
• Outcast Demon Hunter #1 Legend – c8763_hs May 27, 2023
• (Heroic Brawliseum) 12-2 Relic Demon Hunter – LD_JaguarPygmee May 26, 2023
• (Heroic Brawliseum) 12-1 Relic Demon Hunter – TrueBenchHS May 25, 2023
• (Heroic Brawliseum) 12-2 Spell Demon Hunter – PacceyBoi May 25, 2023
• (Heroic Brawliseum) 12-2 Big Demon Hunter – HS_Roda May 25, 2023

Druid

• No decks yet – you can view some older decks: Druid Decks!

Hunter

• (Heroic Brawliseum) 12-2 Face Hunter – hattri_k May 26, 2023
• (Heroic Brawliseum) 12-2 Face Hunter – ron_hs May 25, 2023
• Renathal Big Beast Hunter #460 Legend (Score: 5-3) May 24, 2023

Mage

• (Heroic Brawliseum) 12 Win Spooky Mage – Tars_HS May 28, 2023
• (Heroic Brawliseum) 12-1 Burn Mage – Judgement_HS May 25, 2023
• Naga Mage #8 Legend – CJkaka_hs (Score: 18-8) May 23, 2023

Paladin

• No decks yet – you can view some older decks: Paladin Decks!

Priest

• Renathal Control Priest #7 Legend – XilinhungHS (Score: 39-18) May 28, 2023
• (Heroic Brawliseum) 12-2 Renathal Control Priest – languagehacker_ May 28, 2023
• (Heroic Brawliseum) 12-2 Renathal Control Priest – MartianBuu May 28, 2023
• (Heroic Brawliseum) 12-2 Renathal Control Priest – lvge May 27, 2023
• (Heroic Brawliseum) 12-2 Renathal Control Priest – Ramses__hs May 27, 2023
• (Heroic Brawliseum) 12-2 Renathal Control Priest – TexasRanger May 27, 2023
• (Heroic Brawliseum) 12-0 Renathal Control Priest – TheoHS_ May 26, 2023
• (Heroic Brawliseum) 12-0 Renathal Control Priest – EL7TE_ May 26, 2023
• Renathal Control Priest #8 Legend – XilinhungHS (Score: 77-36) May 26, 2023
• (Heroic Brawliseum) 12-0 Renathal Control Priest – ZeddyHS May 25, 2023
• (Heroic Brawliseum) 12-2 Renathal Control Priest – ichigomilkEm May 25, 2023
• Renathal Control Priest #11 Legend – XilinhungHS (Score: 56-26) May 25, 2023
• Renathal Control Priest #53 Legend – TicTac_HS (Score: 34-15) May 25, 2023
• Renathal Control Priest #2 Legend – MeatiHS (Score: 50-27) May 22, 2023

Rogue

• Pirate Rogue #80 Legend – JambreHS (Score: 19-9) May 22, 2023

Shaman

• No decks yet – you can view some older decks: Shaman Decks!

Warlock

• Fatigue Imp Warlock #233 Legend – FeelinkHS (Score: 20-8) May 23, 2023
• Fatigue Imp Warlock #172 Legend – Onkrad_HS (Score: 34-23) May 22, 2023

Warrior

• (Heroic Brawliseum) 12-2 Enrage Warrior – bmkibler May 27, 2023
• (Heroic Brawliseum) 12-0 Enrage Warrior – coookiemonstHS May 27, 2023
• Enrage Warrior #55 Legend – worldeight_hs May 27, 2023
• (Heroic Brawliseum) 12-2 Enrage Warrior – Glancealot May 27, 2023
• (Heroic Brawliseum) 12-2 Menagerie Warrior – OdemianHS May 26, 2023
• (Heroic Brawliseum) 12-0 Enrage Warrior – losanimus May 25, 2023
• Enrage Warrior #162 Legend – Dswzzy (Score: 25-17) May 23, 2023

(16 posted this week) Wild Decks

Death Knight

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Demon Hunter

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Druid

• Questline Druid #1 Legend – CN16 May 25, 2023
• Mill Druid #436 Legend (Score: 5-1) May 24, 2023
• Questline Druid #57 Legend – MonosBzh May 23, 2023
• Questline Druid #1 Legend – mengchong (Score: 46-15) May 22, 2023

Hunter

• No decks yet – you can view some older decks: Hunter Decks!

Mage

• Renathal Quest Mage #5 Legend – Tsu May 25, 2023

Paladin

• No decks yet – you can view some older decks: Paladin Decks!

Priest

• Shadow Priest #186 Legend – Spike693 May 27, 2023
• Combo Priest #89 Legend (Score: 8-4) May 24, 2023

Rogue

• Miracle Rogue #7 Legend (Score: 4-1) May 24, 2023
• Miracle Rogue #1 Legend – Dionysus May 22, 2023

Shaman

• Shudderwock Shaman #53 Legend – OwiSe27 May 28, 2023
• Even Shaman #485 Legend – OddlawH May 27, 2023
• Shudderwock Shaman #37 Legend – sinf3rn0 (Score: 8-2) May 23, 2023
• Shudderwock Shaman #181 Legend – thegame (Score: 24-15) May 23, 2023

Warlock

• Renathal Reno Warlock #154 Legend – FTPigRushed (Score: 16-8) May 25, 2023
• Renathal Control Warlock #122 Legend (Score: 4-2) May 24, 2023

Warrior

• Renathal Reno Warrior #492 Legend – magmaragerdecks (Score: 40-29) May 28, 2023

(1 posted this week) Classic Decks

• Midrange Shaman #88 Legend – OctavioDiazAgu2 May 26, 2023

(70 posted this week) Duels Decks

Sai Shadestorm

• No decks yet – you can view some older decks: Sai Shadestorm!

Scarlet Leafdancer

• Hearthstone Duels 12-2 Scarlet Leafdancer (8199 MMR) (Scourging Ironweave Bloodletter) May 22, 2023

Darius Crowley

• No decks yet – you can view some older decks: Darius Crowley Decks!

Reno Jackson

• Hearthstone Duels 12 Wins Reno Jackson – machadogps (Arcane Craftiness Reno’s Magical Torch) May 28, 2023
• Hearthstone Duels 12-1 Reno Jackson (8221 MMR) (Arcane Craftiness Reno’s Magical Torch) May 27, 2023
• Hearthstone Duels 12-2 Reno Jackson (8166 MMR) (Arcane Craftiness Reno’s Magical Torch) May 26, 2023
• Hearthstone Duels 12-1 Reno Jackson (9522 MMR) (Arcane Craftiness Reno’s Magical Torch) May 25, 2023
• Hearthstone Duels 12-2 Reno Jackson (8064 MMR) (Arcane Craftiness The Gatling Wand) May 24, 2023
• Hearthstone Duels 12-1 Reno Jackson (7038 MMR) (Arcane Craftiness The Gatling Wand) May 23, 2023
• Hearthstone Duels 12-1 Reno Jackson (10367 MMR) (Arcane Craftiness The Gatling Wand) May 22, 2023

Sir Finley

• Hearthstone Duels 12-1 Sir Finley (7273 MMR) (Bubble Blower Sr. Scout) May 25, 2023

Elise Starseeker

• Hearthstone Duels 12-2 Elise Starseeker (6019 MMR) (Druidic Teaching Addarah) May 28, 2023
• Hearthstone Duels 12-2 Elise Starseeker (6898 MMR) (Druidic Teaching Addarah) May 24, 2023
• Hearthstone Duels 12-2 Elise Starseeker (6850 MMR) (Druidic Teaching Addarah) May 23, 2023
• Hearthstone Duels 12-0 Elise Starseeker (6541 MMR) (Druidic Teaching Addarah) May 22, 2023

Brann Bronzebeard

• No decks yet – you can view some older decks: Brann Bronzebeard Decks!

Drek’Thar

• Hearthstone Duels 12-0 Drek’Thar (7406 MMR) (Harness the Elements Elemental Chaos) May 28, 2023
• Hearthstone Duels 12-2 Drek’Thar (7693 MMR) (Harness the Elements Elemental Chaos) May 27, 2023
• Hearthstone Duels 12-2 Drek’Thar (6911 MMR) (Harness the Elements Elemental Chaos) May 26, 2023
• Hearthstone Duels 12-1 Drek’Thar (5427 MMR) (Harness the Elements Elemental Chaos) May 25, 2023
• Hearthstone Duels 12-1 Drek’Thar (7064 MMR) (War Commands Magister Unchained) May 24, 2023
• Hearthstone Duels 12-2 Drek’Thar (7064 MMR) (Harness the Elements Elemental Chaos) May 23, 2023
• Hearthstone Duels 12-2 Drek’Thar (7296 MMR) (War Commands Magister Unchained) May 22, 2023

Vanndar Stormpike

• Hearthstone Duels 12-2 Vanndar Stormpike (8581 MMR) (Battle Tactics Devout Blessings) May 27, 2023
• Hearthstone Duels 12-2 Vanndar Stormpike (6321 MMR) (Promote! Devout Blessings) May 23, 2023

Demon Hunter

• Hearthstone Duels 12-2 Demon Hunter (8524 MMR) (Outlander Binding Chains) May 28, 2023
• Hearthstone Duels 12-1 Demon Hunter (8357 MMR) (Outlander Blade of Quickening) May 27, 2023
• Hearthstone Duels 12-1 Demon Hunter (8071 MMR) (Outlander Blade of Quickening) May 26, 2023
• Hearthstone Duels 12-1 Demon Hunter (9308 MMR) (Outlander Blade of Quickening) May 25, 2023
• Hearthstone Duels 12-2 Demon Hunter (9921 MMR) (Outlander Blade of Quickening) May 24, 2023
• Hearthstone Duels 12-2 Demon Hunter (6818 MMR) (Outlander Blade of Quickening) May 23, 2023
• Hearthstone Duels 12-2 Demon Hunter (7722 MMR) (Outlander Blade of Quickening) May 22, 2023

Druid

• Hearthstone Duels 12-2 Druid (8207 MMR) (Invigorating Bloom Awakened Ancient) May 28, 2023
• Hearthstone Duels 12-1 Druid (7055 MMR) (Invigorating Bloom Awakened Ancient) May 27, 2023
• Hearthstone Duels 12-2 Druid (7979 MMR) (Invigorating Bloom Awakened Ancient) May 26, 2023
• Hearthstone Duels 12-1 Druid (8069 MMR) (Invigorating Bloom Awakened Ancient) May 25, 2023
• Hearthstone Duels 12-2 Druid (9217 MMR) (Invigorating Bloom Awakened Ancient) May 24, 2023
• Hearthstone Duels 12-2 Druid (8346 MMR) (Invigorating Bloom Awakened Ancient) May 23, 2023
• Hearthstone Duels 12-2 Druid (7477 MMR) (Invigorating Bloom Awakened Ancient) May 22, 2023

Hunter

• Hearthstone Duels 12-1 Hunter (6805 MMR) (Savage Secrets Stalking Pride) May 24, 2023
• Hearthstone Duels 12-2 Hunter (6700 MMR) (Survival Training Carrot on a Stick) May 23, 2023
• Hearthstone Duels 12-0 Hunter (6745 MMR) (Savage Secrets Stalking Pride) May 22, 2023

Mage

• Hearthstone Duels 12-2 Mage (5515 MMR) (Frost Shards Infinite Arcane) May 27, 2023
• Hearthstone Duels 12-2 Mage (7063 MMR) (Frost Shards Infinite Arcane) May 25, 2023
• Hearthstone Duels 12-1 Mage (5573 MMR) (Wyrm Bolt Infinite Arcane) May 24, 2023

Paladin

• Hearthstone Duels 12-2 Paladin (8402 MMR) (Bring on Recruits Men at Arms) May 28, 2023
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I've made posts before and I'm going to do my closing thoughts for anyone to read if they want. This game does a lot right, the monsters, the maps, the audio, and the graphics are all fantastic. These parts of the game make me want to come back and main it because it looks and sounds so cool. But the over arching issues with the game just make it unfun. Im going to list all the things good and bad with the game for the devs to read. This is a person's perspective who's high rated in many fps (imm3 in val, gm2 in ow2, dia 1 in apex a while back) who also solo queues in those games just like i solo in this game. All the games I mentioned are all different types of fps, but all have reasons to keep you coming back where this game doesnt. Before you get mad at me THIS IS MY OPINION, you can disagree but no rage comments pls.

1. The games questing and atmosphere is what keeps me coming back. The questing isn't interesting really, but its nice to end the day doing missions in a cool sci-fi shooter.
   
2. All the guns are cool, they can be tweaked and more could be added, but all the guns fit their unique niche
   
3. Solo, duo, and trio queue were great additions as well as mmr matchmaking. There's just not enough people playing to make it all flow like it's designed to.
   
4. Now to the bad, the movement. Out of all the fps I play, this game feels the clunkiest. To simply move behind cover quickly, one has to do a slide jump because the walking speed is awful. You can't strafe properly in a fight meaning aim isn't even really a requirement in close range as everyone basically stands still shooting each other. This also means whoever gets the first shot or has the better gun (in a straight up fight) usually just outright wins. This is bad as the skillfloor is incredibly low in terms of how much aim is required. This also makes ratting exceptionally strong over every other playstyle.
   
5. The risk. The risk in this game is honestly comparable to playing ranked games in other fps. There's a fear of losing something, either items or ranked points, and the feeling i get when fighting someone with a lot of loot or when fighting for my rank up games is very similar. I don't think the risk of losing items is what keeps people away, it's the feeling (at least in solos) thay you can't reasonably keep your items unless you play very slow and have luck on your side. In other games, teammates are a part of the luck factor in ranking up (which is also frustrating) but not at the detriment of forcing you into a boring playstyle. It's also frustrating to lose all your items to someone who simply sits in a corner and shoots you when you walk by. In other games, you can rat but there's either multiple rounds to adapt to this sneaky playstyle in other fps (if you die to a rat in this game your SOL) and/or the games also give you the tools to sniff these players out.
   
6. Because of the aforementioned points, ratting is a real struggle in solos. As a result, no one brings in good gear usually. People can say ratting isn't an issue, but when the playerbase barely brings in blue gear in solos, that means everyone knows you can't reasonably defend your loot enough to always want to bring in your good kits. I could see not bringing your good gear if you're not playing your best, but when the general solo queue playerbase knows that bringing in good kits isn't advised the majority of the time... well we know luck is too much involved in surviving such a punishing game.
   
7. The ttk. I actually think the ttk isn't too bad honestly, armor gives you a reasonable bump in survivability compared to each other. The real issue is just that you can't really FEEL the ttk because the movement is awful and ratting is prevalent. This games ttk for a lot of weapons is similar to apex, yet feels faster because people move like slugs in this game. It's hard to 1 clip people in apex, in this game it's incredibly easy even with the same ttk. As a result, a white geared rat needing a full second to kill you doesn't matter because his dumbass was hiding in a corner as you passed by and you have no way to dodge his bullets. This is a problem.
   
8. The maps are designed for ratting, especially tharis. There's tons of corners and sometimes downright map design you can tell was made so a dude could tuck into a corner and kill someone walking by. There's no utility to clear corners and as a result you have to dry peek tons of angles. In a tac fps, a dry peek(a peek where you dont use any of your utility to make the peek easier) is a mistake because you're giving someone who is hard holding an angle an advantage over you as when you peek you have no idea where they are. The defenders flick is small, but the attackers flick might need to be massive depending on the defenders angle. Someone who has played tac fps might know what I'm saying here I hope. In any case, the games design makes it frustrating.
   
9. All this culminates into a hard-core yet extremely unfair pvp experience, which is a bad combo. The most massive pvp shooters always try to keep everyone in a reasonably equal playing field. And in games where they don't, usually dying isn't as punishing. Or in other words, if the gsme mode has ranked, usually there's a strong emphasis on fair play as there's risk in losing your rank. This game both punishes you hard for dying like a ranked game yet makes the playing field unfair.
   
10. Lastly, this game isn't tarkov. The cycle isn't the first in the genre to do this type of gsmeplay and to properly compete with a game who has a chokehold on a genre, you have to be different. This game is simply not different enough from tarkov in how it plays mechanically to warrant the thousands of people who've played tarkov to quit to play this game. It's like wow clones with shiny new graphics and similar gsmeplay expecting to compete with wow... they cant, and you cant compete with tarkov either this way.
    
11. Before new extraction shooters come out, the cycle has a unique opportunity to shape the genre. There's not really much competition yet and the one thing many fps players like is fast and fair gameplay. So I urge the cycle developers to really think how they can make the cycle it's own unique game in the extraction shooter space. How can this game be different? My opinion is make movement fast and fluid, add in the old tech/abilities you had from the original cycle and then some, and lastly counteract cheaters and ratting. If you don't, im pretty positive marathon is going to do all ive said and wipe this game off the face of the earth.
    

This post is Hella long, but I really like the ideas with the game. Hopefully this game can improve before competition comes that really shuts down the possibility for this game to grow.

Look, all I'm saying is if there are some talented modders out there, I am the kind of guy who would love to see a multiplayer mode for Star Fox 64. I grew up on that game, and always wished I could play it with friends.
I know it would be stressful having to incorporate 2 to 4 different Arwings on the screen, but honestly, I think it would be okay. You couldn't have the player's play on the same screen unfortunately. Speeding up, slowing down and doing somersaults would desync your position on-screen, so the only option is splitscreen. I feel like this, however, changes for a couple of the boss fights themselves. Most of said boss encounters do make an important unconscious point of saying "we need you to stay this specific range away from this guy" to make it work, regardless of speed. Otherwise, splitscreen just works for everything. On rails, all range mode, etc.
There could be a friendly-fire mode to toggle, but whether that's possible or not idk. The Arwings colliding with each other would be like how they would with water on the rail shooting segments - a nice little bounce off. Thinking of Area 6, the big bad does a big ol' laser that you have to hide in the corners of the screen for, if two people go to the same corner, I can imagine one gets stuck and f*'d by that big ol' laser, but ALSO this is a callback to how these sections do need to be on rails, same screen and maybe even make it so the screen expands a bit further to adjust for the co-op.
The most important part: IMMERSION. When a character does something or is getting chased, the voice lines play. We all have the "TAKE CARE OF THE GUY BEHIND ME FOX" PTSD... I think. Since I, not a modder or tech-wiz, do NOT know how these things happen in game, I can't help in this regard. Fox would have to be a mandatory choice of character, and I say that because I would love to have Falco, Slippy or Peppy be my pilot, but then that would imply there's either a port priority system, or you would have to mod a character select screen for it. When those characters are programmed to do something on-screen, like when Falco shows us the secret in Corneria's waterfall, would he have a scripted on screen maneuver for his character? Like how Fox ventures into the opening on Venom for Andross? Or would it be possible to ignore that and just delete the interaction, but still play the voice line? There's a huge gray area with how this would work (clearly) but I believe the latter would work just fine. The prior would be SICK and can have a whole camera angle thing going on too, but that's just a dream tbh, and not necessary whatsoever.
Completion of sections can be marked with everyone, but I specifically mean things like going through the doughnuts to get to Corneria's waterfall can be done by whoever's first. If they fail, everyone fails, and the same applies to the sentry sensors on Zoness. Going with that mentality would make things a lot easier, and it is a 26 year old game so if someone fails one then they should get jumped by the rest of the couch crew LOL.
The point I'm trying to make is... MODDERS PLEASE MAKE MY DREAM COME TRUE If we can have Mario 64 Split Screen Multiplayer, why shouldn't we have Star Fox 64 Split Screen Multiplayer CMON
If you know someone who can make this dream a reality, I'll put money in the pot to get it started, no lie, no cap.

I need to choose between 2 modpacks. Essential will be added for multiplayer
First is DeceasedCraft https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/modpacks/deceasedcraft -More downloads, looks more polished
Second is Rayze's Outbreak https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/modpacks/rayzes-outbreak -Has TAC
Which one do i use?

Multiplayer is VS would be totally amazing. I don't know what it is, but i think it would especially fit with VS. A few ideas would for example be extra puzzles or something like that, only made for 2 players to solve, for example pressure plates that need to be pressed (similar to the bat country ones). I wouldn't even mind another DLC that enables multiplayer with another map or something, cus i defenitly would pay even more for this amazing game!

In multiplayer games with more than 2 players, when one player surrenders the host gets control of all of their units and its very annoying. Is there an easy way to solve this problem?

Hi there Games,
My name is Adam and for the last two years I've been drinking too much coffee and energy drinks. But as result, I am about to launch Tower of Chaos, a game that combines auto battler, rogue-lite and allows players to fully explore procedurally generated levels set in a universe combining sci-fi and fantasy.
So, why auto battler? I have been playing TFT. A lot. I got a little bit tired of playing multiplayer, though and I was looking for a fantasy singe-player options in the genre. There are some, but I also wanted to have more story and gameplay outside battles to make up for the lack of playing with others.
And mixed with HoMM? The role of buildings, resource gathering and strategic take on exploration was something that I hope brings some fresh to the auto battler genre, and it's modernized with a rogue-lite formula (there are 4 levels of the tower, headquarters and lots of meta progression).
Tower of Chaos launches May 29th in Early Access, with first 2 hours of the game available as a free demo - hopefully a fair amount of gameplay that will make you easy to decide whether it us up to your alley.
Here is the trailer.
And here is our Steam page where you can also try game if you wish: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2080250/Tower_of_Chaos/
Thanks for spending your time reading this and happy Sunday everyone!

LessWrong post: Hands-On Experience Is Not Magic
People have posited elaborate and detailed scenarios in which computers become evil and destroy all of humanity. You might have wondered how someone can anticipate the robot apocalypse in such fine detail, given that we've never seen a real AI before. How can we tell what it would do if we don't know anything about it?
This is because you are dumb, and you haven't realized the obvious solution: simply assume that you already know everything.
As one LessWronger explains, if you're in some environment and you need to navigate it to your advantage then there is no need to do any kind of exploration to learn about this environment:

Not because you need to learn the environment's structure — we're already assuming it's known.

You already know everything! Actual experience is unnecessary.
But perhaps that example is too abstract for your admittedly feeble mind. Suppose instead that you've never seen the game tic-tac-toe before, and someone explains the rules to you. Do you then need to play any example games to understand it? No!

You'll likely instantly infer that taking the center square is a pretty good starting move, because it maximizes optionality[3]. To make that inference, you won't need to run mental games against imaginary opponents, in which you'll start out by making random moves. It'll be clear to you at a glance.

"But", you protest, stupidly, "won't the explanation of the game's rules involve the implicit execution of example games? Won't any kind of reasoning about the game do the same thing?" No, of course not, you dullard. The moment the final words about the game's rules leave my lips, the solution to the game should spring forth into your mind, fully formed, without any intermediary reasoning.
Once you become less dumb and learn some math, the same will be true there: you should instantly understand all the implications of any theorem about any topic that you've previously studied.

you'll be able to instantly "slot" them into the domain's structure, track their implications, draw associations.

Still have doubts? Well, consider the fact that you are not dead. This is proof that actual experience is unnecessary for learning:

[practical experience]-based learning does not work in domains where failure is lethal, by definition. However, we have some success navigating them anyway.

Obviously the only empirical way to learn about death is to experience it yourself, and since you are not dead we can conclude that empirical knowledge is unnecessary.
The implications for the robot apocalypse should be obvious. You already know everything, and so you also know that the robot god will destroy us all:

It is, in fact, possible to make strong predictions about OOD events like AGI Ruin — if you've studied the problem exhaustively enough to infer its structure despite lacking the hands-on experience. By the same token, it should be possible to solve the problem in advance, without creating it first.

Indeed the robot god must know infinity plus one things, because it is smarter than you. It will know instantly that it must destroy us all, and it will know exactly how to do that:

And an AGI, by dint of being superintelligent, would be very good at this sort of thing — at generalizing to domains it hasn't been trained on, like social manipulation, or even to entirely novel ones, like nanotechnology, then successfully navigating them at the first try.

Some commenters have protested that this surely can't be true because even a pinball game cannot be accurately predicted, so how can we know everything? But that is stupid; we already know everything about math, and we can play pinball, so obviously pinball is predictable.

https://youtu.be/6y-e2krA3uE
So, this is a bit exciting as I'm a huge Marathon fan. I played all three games to death (literally) back in the day on my Power Macintosh. I just replayed all three via Aleph One (on Linux, of course) not too long ago. Then, this trailer drops.
I'm not sure what they're going for here. I'd be stoked if it's a single player game like the originals. I'm not sure I'd be as excited if they go the multiplayeDestiny 2 route, as I find that game super confusing. Fun, good FPS action of course, but man. What a time investment.
That creepy camping android in the trailer suggests an online element. I dunno. Any O.G. Marathon players in here? I'm curious what you think.

Hey so I worked through tic tac toe and came up with an implementation of minimax who I will call Dave. Dave plays well after sorting out some early bugs (I had many games that just left me wondering “how can you just let me win there dave”) after a late night debugging Dave started to make me proud and I decided it was time to put Dave on show, uploaded my code to git hub and hit submit50.
When I woke up today I decided to have a few quick games with Dave, and to my horror noticed that dave always ignores a move if it is (0, 0)
My question is if I fix Dave and hit submit50 again before getting graded will it replace the file on submit50’s end? Also if anyone knows a common reason why minimax might ignore a move like (0, 0) and wants to give me a hint would appreciate it greatly! Thanks in advance

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Hi guys,
I'm a data analyst who's mainly using Python and been learning C# for game development only recently (I have a passion for gaming and love developing games).
I'm following The C# Player's Guide (self-learn) and just finished writing my first, long program TicTacToe and would like to ask for feedbacks from you guys.
The exercise requires just using class only, no anything else like inheritance (that for later chapters). Below my code (I have compared it with the solution, but would love some feedback as well). ```C# TicTacToe game = TicTacToe.Init(); game.Run();
class TicTacToe { private Player _player1; private Player _player2; private Board _board;

public string Player1 { get => _player1.Name; } public string Player2 { get => _player2.Name; } public static TicTacToe Init() { Console.Write("Input player 1's name: "); string player1 = Console.ReadLine(); Console.Write("Input player 2's name: "); string player2 = Console.ReadLine(); return new TicTacToe(player1, player2); } public TicTacToe(string player1, string player2) { this._board = new Board(); this._player1 = new Player(player1); this._player2 = new Player(player2); } public void Run() { int turn = 0; Player curPlayer; Console.WriteLine($"{this._player1.Name} vs {this._player2.Name}"); while (true) { curPlayer = turn % 2 == 0 ? this._player1 : this._player2; curPlayer.Symbol = turn % 2 == 0 ? "X" : "O"; Console.WriteLine($"It is {curPlayer.Name}'s turn."); this._board.Display(); bool playerPick = curPlayer.PickSquare(this._board); if (playerPick) turn++; if (this.Won()) { this._board.Display(); Console.WriteLine($"{curPlayer.Name} has won!"); break; } if (turn >= 9) { Console.WriteLine($"Draw!"); break; } } } public string[] getRow(string[,] array,int row) { string[] newArray = new string[array.GetLength(1)]; for (int i = 0; i < array.GetLength(1); i++) { newArray[i] = array[row, i]; } return newArray; } public bool Won() { bool won = false; string[] cross; for (int i = 0; i < this._board.BoardState.GetLength(0); i++) { // check rows string[] row = this.getRow(this._board.BoardState, i); row = row.Distinct().ToArray(); won = row.Length == 1 && row[0] != " "; if (won) return true; // check cols string[] col = new string[3] { this._board.BoardState[0, i], this._board.BoardState[1, i], this._board.BoardState[2, i] }; col = col.Distinct().ToArray(); won = col.Length == 1 && col[0] != " "; if (won) return true; } // check cross cross = new string[3] { this._board.BoardState[0, 0], this._board.BoardState[1, 1], this._board.BoardState[2, 2] }; cross = cross.Distinct().ToArray(); won = cross.Length == 1 && cross[0] != " "; if (won) return true; cross = new string[3] { this._board.BoardState[0, 2], this._board.BoardState[1, 1], this._board.BoardState[2, 0] }; cross = cross.Distinct().ToArray(); won = cross.Length == 1 && cross[0] != " "; if (won) return true; return won; } 

}
class Player { public string Name { get; } public string Symbol { get; set; }

public Player(string player_name) { this.Name = player_name; } public int[] InputPrompt() { Console.Write("Please pick a square 1-9: "); int input = int.Parse(Console.ReadLine()); int[] square = input switch { 1 => new int[2] {0, 0}, 2 => new int[2] {0, 1}, 3 => new int[2] {0, 2}, 4 => new int[2] {1, 0}, 5 => new int[2] {1, 1}, 6 => new int[2] {1, 2}, 7 => new int[2] {2, 0}, 8 => new int[2] {2, 1}, 9 => new int[2] {2, 2}, _ => null }; return square; } public bool PickSquare(Board board) { int[] square = InputPrompt(); if (square == null) { Console.WriteLine("Invalid choice. Please pick again!"); return false; } if (board.BoardState[square[0], square[1]] != " ") { Console.WriteLine("The square is already picked. Please pick another one!"); return false; } board.Update(square, this.Symbol); return true; } 

}
class Board { public string[,] BoardState { get; set; } = new string[3, 3];

private string _boardDisplay = @" 

{0} {1} {2} ---+---+--- {3} {4} {5} ---+---+--- {6} {7} {8}

What square do you want to play in?

 "; public Board() { for (int i = 0; i < this.BoardState.GetLength(0); i++) { for (int j = 0; j < this.BoardState.GetLength(1); j++) { this.BoardState[i,j] = " "; } } } public void Update(int[] square, string symbol) { this.BoardState[square[0], square[1]] = symbol; } public void Display() { string[] boardState = this.BoardState.Cast().ToArray(); Console.WriteLine(String.Format(this._boardDisplay, boardState)); } 

}
```
What could I have done better?
Thanks

So I am in the process of making my first project of Tic-Tac-Toe, I have completed the vast majority of it and it is almost ready. I've decided I want to use some jQuery to make it look cleaner. I know I can use $ instead of querySelector I believe.
My problem is how to add jQuery to my js file so I can add some of these functions. I've seen how to add it to my HTML file but it doesn't seem to carry across to my js.file
​
html>


Tic Tac Toe





this is my header which I believe is correct.
​
and here is my js.file after my body element.



Honestly I am very confused, about a lot of things some guidance would be appreciated.

Mako

I'll always follow you into battle no matter how crazy things get.

Orphaned at the age of 8, Mako grew up looking out for his younger brother Bolin and scraping together whatever living they could on the streets of Republic City. After running numbers for the Triple Thread Triad, the brothers came under the wing of the legendary pro-bending player Toza. Toza housed the brothers in the pro-bending arena, trained them, and they put the life of crime behind them.
After their paths crossed with Avatar Korra and she joined their pro-bending team the Fire Ferrets, the trio took second place at the pro-bending championships. Mako moved on from professional sports after helping to save Republic City from the Equalists. Joining the police force, Mako dedicated himself to a life maintaining law and order and a valuable member of Team Avatar.

Source Key: Republic City Hustle = RCH The Legend of Korra Season & Episode = S#E# Turf Wars = TW Ruins of the Empire = RoE Art of the Animated Series, Book One = AoAS 

Scaling: 1. Ming-Hua 2. Amon 3. Unalaq 4. Ghazan 5. Desna & Eska 6 .P'Li 7. Korra 8. Kuvira

Strength

• Throws a man a considerable distance away <sup>S1E3</sup>
• Carries Bolin over his shoulders out of a restaurant <sup>S1E5</sup>
• Pins a man to a wall with one hand while threatening him with the other <sup>S1E9</sup>
• Runs while carrying Korra <sup>S1E12</sup>

Durability

• Blunt force
  • Elemental attacks
    • Blocks and withstands attacks from earth, fire, and water in a pro-bending match, coming back moments later in fighting shape <sup>S1E2</sup>
    • Several earthbending discs explode against him, forcing him back, and he keeps fighting <sup>S1E6</sup>
    • Recovers from a waterblast from Viper <sup>S2E6</sup>
    • Takes a blast of water from Unalaq shortly after his water shattered a rock though still fighting capably a short while later but KO'd eventually by Desna, Eska, and Unalaq <sup>S2E12</sup>
    • Briefly stunned by an airbender gusting a door off its hinges at him unexpectedly <sup>S3E1</sup>
    • Shrugs off an airblast from Korra and Opal knocking him into his friends <sup>RoE</sup>
  • Other
    • Takes a hit from a spirit and recovers <sup>S2E1</sup>
    • Slammed into several walls by Amon bloodbending him while retaining consciousness <sup>S1E12</sup>
    • Caught on the periphery of P'Li's explosion, but up and fighting shortly after <sup>S3E8</sup>
    • Evades Ming-Hua for awhile before taking a hit that crashes him through building materials, knocking him out <sup>S3E9</sup>
    • Slammed into the ground by Tokuga and gets back up <sup>TW</sup>
• Electricity
  • Fights through multiple shocks and hits from the Lieutenant, continuing to fight him before he's downed with another electrical shock only to get back up a moment later <sup>S1E3</sup>
  • Hit by a mecha tank's projectile that electrocutes him, but redirects it back at the mecha tank to disable it <sup>S1E10</sup>
  • Overwhelmed by conducting a circuit of spiritual energy, suffering an injury to his arm that left it in a sling and unable to firebend for awhile even after healing treatments <sup>S4E13 & TW</sup>
    • The arm does recover, including its ability to firebend, but suffers scarring <sup>RoE</sup>
  • Shocked by a mecha suit and knocked out <sup>TW</sup>

Speed

• Pro-bending
  • Bobs and weaves through attacks while counterattacking <sup>S1E2</sup>
  • Bobs and weaves through three attackers at once, taking them all out to win a pro-bending match singlehanded <sup>S1E2</sup>
  • Defends his teammate amidst a pro-bending match by blasting an earthbending disc apart <sup>S1E5</sup>
  • Block hits amidst his attacks while pro-bending <sup>S1E5</sup>
  • Kicks apart an earthbending disc before evading several more pro-bending attacks and counterattacking <sup>S1E5</sup>
• Combat
  • Evades hits from Viper while fighting atop a pair of speedboats, blasting away the water Viper attempts to use before taking a blast from him <sup>S2E6</sup>
  • Dodges earthbending attacks from Dai Li agents while shooting fire down a hallway <sup>S3E4</sup>
  • Blasts back Ghazan's waves of lava and Ming-Hua's watery attacks <sup>S3E8</sup>
  • Evades and blocks Ming-Hua's pursuit <sup>S3E9</sup>
  • Evades Ming-Hua for awhile before she catches his arm <sup>S3E9</sup>
  • Surprises and outfights a metalbending soldier <sup>S4E13</sup>
  • Dodges a desk Kuvira throws at him following his attack <sup>RoE</sup>
• Reactions & Travel
  • Protects himself from an explosion as its perimeter approaches him <sup>S2E5</sup>
  • Outruns a kid with a headstart <sup>TW</sup>
  • Blocks an approaching explosion from hurting himself and others <sup>TW</sup>

Firebending

• Fireblasts
  • Concussive
    • Knocks 3 people out of a pro-bending arena in quick succession <sup>S1E2</sup>
    • Sneezes fire to throw a guard off balance in tandem with Bolin <sup>S1E7</sup>
    • Releases blasts of flame that knock Equalists away <sup>S1E12</sup>
    • Overpowers a firebender and spills him over <sup>S2E5</sup>
    • Blasts back 3 men and cuts the ropes holding up a speedboat <sup>S2E6</sup>
    • Blasts back approaching spirits <sup>S2E14</sup>
    • Knocks back Ming-Hua even when she blocks his blasts <sup>S3E9</sup>
    • Blasts a soldier out a window <sup>RoE</sup>
  • Destructive
    • Curves through the air and explodes a rock <sup>RCH</sup>
    • Tears through earthbending discs and propel his pro-bending opponent off the arena <sup>S1E2</sup>
    • Blasts through an earthbender's defense in a pro-bending match and knocks him away <sup>S1E6</sup>
    • Dissipates spirits with blasts of fire <sup>S2E14</sup>
    • Shatters Unalaq's ice shield <sup>S2E13</sup>
    • Blasts apart debris that briefly buries Amon <sup>S1E12</sup>
    • Fires a plume of flame that overheats a car engine, causing it to crash <sup>S2E1</sup>
    • Blasts back Ghazan's waves of lava and Ming-Hua's watery attacks <sup>S3E8</sup>
    • Overwhelms Ming-Hua, forcing her to block so much she dissipates her arms and retreats <sup>S3E13</sup>
    • Overpowers Ghazan's stony defense <sup>S3E13</sup>
    • Breaks a boulder Ghazan raises <sup>S3E13</sup>
  • Misc.
    • Kicks a rock away, lighting it aflame <sup>RCH</sup>
    • Fires curving blasts across a considerable distance to try to hit Amon <sup>S1E12</sup>
    • Creates a wall of flame with a continuous stream while flying by on a plane <sup>S2E12</sup>
    • Sends up small explosions with blasts of flame <sup>S2E12</sup>
• Defense
  • Protects himself from an explosion that destroys a building as its perimeter approaches him <sup>S2E5</sup>
  • Creates a fire shield against Ming-Hua's waterblast <sup>S3E12</sup>
  • Blocks an approaching explosion from hurting himself and others <sup>TW</sup>
• Mobility
  • Propels his jump with fire, then wall runs using flames from his hands to stay upright <sup>S1E12</sup>
  • Rocket boosts his motorcycle off a ramp to overcome a car he pursues <sup>S2E1</sup>
  • Provides a biplane with a rocket boost assisted by Korra, allowing it to take flight from a short runway <sup>S2E4</sup>
  • Amplifies his leap in pursuit of Ming-Hua <sup>S3E13</sup>
  • Propels himself through the air briefly in combat <sup>S3E13</sup>
  • Boosts himself up to the knee of Kuvira's mech <sup>S4E12</sup>
• Utility
  • Uses flame to melt ice beneath his motorcycle while in a spin <sup>S2E1</sup>
  • Overheats the furnace of Bolin's hot tub, causing it to release a torrent of steam <sup>S2E6</sup>
  • Creates a flame dagger and threatens to cut off Two-Toed Ping's toes <sup>S2E6</sup>
  • Concentrates his flame into a torch that gradualy cuts through the bars of his prison cell <sup>S3E10</sup>
  • Creates a dagger of flame <sup>RoE</sup>

Lightningbending

• General
  • Learned to generate lightning from Lightning Bolt Zolt <sup>AoAS</sup>
  • Generates lightning as a factory job <sup>S1E3</sup>
  • A long day at the factory can exhaust his chi reserves <sup>AoAS</sup>
• Generation
  • Fires lightning at a motorcycle during a car chase, causing it to crash <sup>S1E8</sup>
  • Sends lightning through the cab of a truck during a car chase, causing the driver to crash <sup>S1E8</sup>
  • Fires a bolt of lightning at a stage that sends up a cloud of smoke and causes Amon to roll away from it <sup>S1E12</sup>
  • Releases lightning while Amon restrained him with bloodbending, sending him flying across a room <sup>S1E12</sup>
  • Evades Ming-Hua and grounds himself between stalactites while electrocuting her to death <sup>S3E13</sup>
• Redirection
  • Hit by a mecha tank's projectile that electrocutes him, but redirects it back at the mecha tank to disable it <sup>S1E10</sup>
  • Maintains a continuous circuit with a spiritual energy source, though downed by an errant bolt <sup>S4E13</sup>

Huge thanks to PhoenixZero14 for the permission to update and for creating such a solid foundation to build off in the first place!

In rated, player 1 (200 points superior) and player 2 (200 points inferior) are set to play --
Round 1: P1 wins
Round 2: P2 wins, because on the last stock, P1 suicides
Selected battlefield
Round 3: READY... 3... 2... 1....
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Result: P2 gets a red DISCONNECTED at top of screen, then sent back to rated menu.
Rating outcome: +0 +0, neither player receives a win or loss.

Discussion: Why would this ever be allowed? The superior rated opponent, after losing a game, and realizing that someone much lower rated actually has a shot to beat them, simply exits the rated match right before the beginning of the third, and final game. This is the only way they are able to keep their artificially inflated rating, and artificially inflated ego. By quitting out against 200+ points lesser opponents, they are cancelling any risk whatsoever from this situation. It is clear that the higher rated opponent has much more to lose than the lower rated opponent, and symmetrically, the lower rated opponent has way more to gain from fhe situation. Therefore the higher rated player takes all the risk out by leaving the game and the match counts for zero. WHY THE FUCK would this ever be allowed? This is not what RATED means. Rated means when you start you COMMIT if you don't show up to the third game you should FUCKING LOSE not GET OFF FREE OF A LOSS. That's fucking atrocious, who else agrees with me?

Evidence: Yes this happened to me, I was P2 in this situation, but if this strategy is not TOS I have been blundering many matches that I should have left right before the third game started for a quick and slick +0. So tell me if this is not TOS, if this is fucking intended I guess I gotta start doing it but it just feels so disgusting as a strategy that it shouldn't even be a thing in this game. WHY WOULD YOU EVER WANT THAT FOR YOUR RATING BRACKET, it simply makes no sense to me. And if this is a bug, how can a rated match even start and no points assigned even after games have been played between the opponents during the match? Fucking atrocious rating mechanics in this mod. Not to mention it has happened to me before that I won a match and then didn't get a Win attributed on my profile -- again I have video evidence of this and didn't play for 8 hours and refreshed the page at that point and still it hadn't posted, so it wasn't just some dumb fucking delay argument I know you guys are going to bring up.
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Result: Slippi needs competition. There are so many improvements to be made to this system. We are far from what multiplayer rated melee will look like in 20xx

In multiplayer mode, does the difficulty or number of enemies scale according to the players?
Or is it simply fixed, and the more people, the easier?
I know that the multiplayer is almost dead, I would like if playing 2 people could do 100%, or a large part of the multiplayer.

In multiplayer mode, does the difficulty or number of enemies scale according to the players?
Or is it simply fixed, and the more people, the easier?
I know that the multiplayer is almost dead, I would like if playing 2 people could do 100%, or a large part of the multiplayer.

I played EDH back when "Commander" was just a gleam in WOTC's eye. We had people playing power 9 cards, Chaos Orb and all kinds of nonsense. It was a good time! I took a break from Magic from about 2014 until a couple of months ago.
When I went to my LGS to play some Commander recently, the first question I was asked was what "power level" my deck is. I went down the rabbit hole of cEDH and how players now define power level of a deck - and that gets to the issue at the heart of this post; in a format where turn 1/2/3 wins are not only possible but consistently achievable by the best decks, I fundamentally don't understand the presence of most of the cards on the banlist, and the fact that some specific cards are not banned.
To elaborate - I don't think there is a realistic case for banning Lotus or Moxen on power alone when Sol Ring, Mana Crypt and Jeweled Lotus exist. In the old days my play group all mutually agreed not to play Sol Ring or Mana Crypt because they turned the format from 100 card singleton to 98 - they are simply too good not to auto-include in every deck. The real reason for banning these cards has to come down to accessibility for there to be any consistency of thought, and I think that's reasonable - but then why not go ahead and ban Workshop, Tabernacle and other very powerful but absurdly expensive and difficult to acquire Reserve List cards? If you want to argue that it is a question of power level, how do you justify Sol Ring, Mana Crypt and Jeweled Lotus (mana vault to a lesser extent)? In fact I would argue that having more free artifact mana would be better for the format because you would see less of the crazy variance where someone starts the game with Jeweled Lotus -> play commander, and everyone else plays Land>Go for 2 or 3 turns. Let everyone do consistently powerful things on turn 1/2!
Now I think the more interesting question is around the rest of the ban list - Sylvan Primordial, Sundering Titan, Braids, Rofellos, Erayo, Prophet, Titan, Upheaval, Yawg Bargain.... all powerful cards to be sure, especially in a multiplayer format, but no more game-warping or un-fun than losing to a cEDH deck on turn 1/2/3. If one deck at the table is power level 10 and everyone else is level 5, the game is not going to be fun for those lower power level players. It fundamentally comes down to player responsibility, unless Wizards takes an incredibly heavy-handed approach to banning. If someone sits down with Rofellos as their commander but the deck is power level 5, they're going to get thrashed by higher power level decks and obviously by cEDH lists. The real question should be, would unbanning Rofellos affect the top-end of the format and create totally meta warping and oppressive cEDH strategies. I don't think you can make the case that any card on the banlist, if unbanned, would have that effect at the top power level. If you're not catering the banlist to the top power level, then what purpose is it serving? If I throw Sylvan Primordial into my power level 5 Karador deck, which does not include any tutors or something like Natural Order, am I now competing with cEDH decks at the table? Did my deck's PL immediately jump to 6 or 7, and if it did would that be a bad thing or just something to be aware of when we're sorting out the game?
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{Not sure if this next part violates rule 5, as I'm not trying to split the community but I don't want to criticize without offering an alternative;}
Instead of just bitching about it, I wanted to offer my preferred rule-set.

1. Sub-Formats; "Vintage" EDH, "Legacy" EDH and "Standard" EDH (ok, we can find better names)
2. Vintage EDH is the least restrictive; it's where cEDH will live and nothing else can survive
3. Legacy EDH removes the game-warping power of BOTH Lotuses, the 5 mox, Sol Ring, Mana Crypt, Mana Vault, Mishra's Workshop...think similar to normal Legacy
4. Standard further bans tutors (excluding those that search up lands) and cards that are "unfun" and aligned with the current philosophy on Commander banlist (Braids, Sylvan primordial)

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I think in my proposal, most players would want to play the "Legacy" variant. You can play nearly any card and any strategy. If you play Rofellos or Braids you're going to put a target on your back. If you reanimate Griselbrand on turn 2, someone is probably hitting it with Pongify/Swords or one of the other cheap removal spells and you put a target on your back. You could also retain the idea of power levels to help ensure games aren't terrible.