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  1. krimhorn

    New Microsoft gaming chief has “no tolerance for bad AI”

    It really doesn’t. It just means it’s going to be in places you won’t see it. They’re ABSOLUTELY going to be pushing the use of agentic ai suites and Copilot code gen. That’s where the industry is right now and Microsoft is chasing it harder than most
  2. krimhorn

    Magic the Gathering: Arena

    I absolutely love Waste Not in Exploroneer. It's not a good deck but damn if it's a satisfying deck. Today I beat down a Gates player and then Demo Fielded their first Maze's End and drew them out with Geir Reach Sanitarium when they tried to get by with two cards left in their deck before...
  3. krimhorn

    Magic the Gathering: Arena

    I love, love, love Pauper Synth. There's, perhaps, no other deck that so perfectly encapsulates "Magic: The Gathering is a game of Game Actions" deck than it. Maybe Caw Blade but we'll likely never get that on Arena since they decided to make the Gates on Arena mono-colored Seek lands rather...
  4. krimhorn

    Magic the Gathering: Arena

    Killing Vampires was the wrong move. It might be strong but it was keeping Devotion in check (which was down but not out with Karn's banning). IMO, if Fable is the consistency holder for Pioneer then maybe that's what needs to go. Generally speaking I'm not a fan of talks of banning Fable just...
  5. krimhorn

    Magic the Gathering: Arena

    Ok, if they let you play anything other than mice in MWM it's actually a pretty fun format. Of course it's just mice, mice and more mice in there.
  6. krimhorn

    Dragon Age Dreadwolf: The Veilguard?

    That just makes me concerned that there's not going to be very many things being returned from the previous games. It was kind of impressive how many little things that DAI picked up from the previous games and how many little branch points it had in how things could go.
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    Magic the Gathering: Arena

    Well, fuck. I guess drunk and a bit high from nicotine me is still better at this game than literally everyone else I played in the MWM queue tonight. That said, I will acknowledge that Mice Rabbits in Jump-In is busted. Still, I didn't 5-0 yesterday and I just surprised myself when I hit 5 wins...
  8. krimhorn

    Magic the Gathering: Arena

    Forgot to say: Wabbits and Mice in MWM. Does rock.
  9. krimhorn

    Magic the Gathering: Arena

    Mastery Pass has never required more than 5 wins/day for much more than 2/3 of the pass's length to just hit max. Do 5/day most of the set and going over by 10-20 levels is pretty normal. It's always felt super short during the short set release intervals but I've never failed to complete it...
  10. krimhorn

    Magic the Gathering: Arena

    Don't know if you caught it in the days since you posted that video but they decided after the outcry to not errata the existing "Postcombat main phase" cards to read "second main phase". They'll just be the outliers that they are now forever. Just finished up the frog's cache and I'm decidedly...
  11. krimhorn

    Gaming thoughts, bite-size chewables - new orange flavor!

    Worse: I usually want them to leave that OP if it's single-player. That's more fun than their following the market to try and make a bad Soulslike. Again.
  12. krimhorn

    Gaming thoughts, bite-size chewables - new orange flavor!

    I stopped reading most gaming websites 10+ years ago because they had all completed the 10-year march to being the same drab and boring press-release regurgitator. And reviews got so short as to be worse than just watching 2 minutes of a gameplay clip to see if it's a genre that I tend to like...
  13. krimhorn

    Gaming thoughts, bite-size chewables - new orange flavor!

    The server room was literally a coin flip whether you could get through it with a ton of enemies shooting at you throughout the entire run. There were a couple of speedrunner tricks to get through it but 99% of people would never think to pull them off let alone be capable of it. Most of the...
  14. krimhorn

    Magic the Gathering: Arena

    Yeah. Honestly, I get that bot draft lets you force whatever you want because the bots are dumb but the only reason it's not a miserable experience actually playing is because those of us who prefer to pod draft get fucked right in with the bot drafters. Segregate that lot away and I'd guess...
  15. krimhorn

    Magic the Gathering: Arena

    I'm down to card backs and styles. Gonna wait until I have the 450-ish tickets to buy all the backs at once (I prefer those to all be together in the selector instead of having random other cards in between). Not sure how I'll deal with picking up the various styles since I don't expect to have...
  16. krimhorn

    Magic the Gathering: Arena

    I played out my Izzet Energy deck. I'll suffer with some absolute dead hits and just auto-concede to the stupid "I wanna win at all costs" players for the off chance to get to storm off with Aether Revolt on 1.
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    Magic the Gathering: Arena

    Yeah, that's why Beanstalk got banned in Modern. There's just too many ways to cheat on 5 CMC cards there (specifically the pitch elementals) for it to have been good to keep around. I'd heard he was coming back and, honestly, meh. He's a fine creator but I get just enough (and varied) content...
  18. krimhorn

    Magic the Gathering: Arena

    It feels like the flip walkers are probably a really easy ban for Historic to keep the fun stuff from MH3 in the format but shifting the meta-warping stuff specifically into Timeless and keeping Historic feeling distinct from Modern. The best thing about Historic was the cards that are no longer...
  19. krimhorn

    Magic the Gathering: Arena

    What, what was this? I saw the Arena limited events for the MH3 box but no Masters. Was it cubeish or did they actually put a Masters set onto Arena for a draft experience? With both MWM behind me I got 0 ICR rewards. Yay for 80 gems.
  20. krimhorn

    Magic the Gathering: Arena

    I had a lot of fun with this Izzet Energy deck. Only WCs other than U and C were 4 Aether Revolt. Which, granted, is garbage outside of this exact deck but, also, means I won't open those 4 when I open packs. So...