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@xSimon_Says @Pirat_Nation He mentioned it in one interview years ago it would be an interesting dynamic. Pretty sure in the same interview he said it wasn't happening

@Pirat_Nation Wait so were the previous statements false then? Or did he say them and now he’s decided against it?

Stardew Valley creator ConcernedApe has said he will not add cheating or affair options to the game. He says they are too serious and do not fit the fun, relaxing feel, even though he once discussed what might happen if you cheated, such as the town turning against you or causing family problems. He is also unlikely to add breakups for the couples already in the game because it would require too many changes to the stories and conversations. He is currently working on his next game, Haunted Chocolatier.

@Pirat_Nation Been waiting since day.

Haunted Chocolatier is set to be ‘way bigger than Stardew Valley’ according to a new interview. Stardew Valley creator Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone said Haunted Chocolatier will be much bigger than Stardew Valley. He is working on it five days a week while finishing the latest Stardew Valley update. It is his new solo game: a life simulation and role-playing game where you play as a chocolate maker who lives in and runs a shop inside a haunted castle. >Crafting and selling chocolates >Real-time combat against monsters and ghosts >Exploring multiple realms/maps for resources >Interacting with quirky townsfolk (romance is in, apparently) >Managing your shop and castle There is still no release date, as Barone says the game will come out when it is completely ready.

@Cardboard_Crack Lol. I did this once. Then it was a pain to find everything. Now rares/mythics/legendaries are in binders sorted by color to type and the rest is hulk by color. My bulk box is open, the cats are in fact messing with it. One stole a card yesterday.

Organized #MTG

@CrazyVibes_1 Brent Weeks Lightbringer. Gonna also pitch Matthew Woodring Stover's Acts of Caine.

This seems like the right place to ask a very vulnerable question. If I was a kid who loved books like Harry Potter, Chronicles of Narnia, Game of Thrones, Wheel of Time, etc. What books should I be reading as an adult?

@KingTargaryenn This is why you don't name your children after book characters that are that unique and recognizable.

Hace unos días le contaron a Emilia Clarke en una entrevista que en España hay registradas 284 niñas llamadas Daenerys, y la actriz soltó esto sin cortarse un pelo: "¿Esta gente no ha visto el final de la serie, verdad? No le hagáis eso a vuestros hijos... yo como personaje hago un desastre". Incluso llegó a decir que le da pena la gente que eligió el nombre antes de ver que Daenerys "quemaba toda una ciudad". Entiendo su punto humorístico, pero me decepcionó un poco que la propia Emilia reduzca un personaje tan inmenso a sus polémicos últimos capítulos en Game of Thrones. Esas familias en España no bautizaron a sus hijas por el caótico final de los guionistas, lo hicieron por la Khaleesi fuerte y rompedora de cadenas que nos inspiró durante una década. Para mí, el legado cultural de Daenerys va mucho más allá de su desenlace y sigue siendo un nombre espectacular, diga lo que diga Emilia. ¿Creéis que tiene razón o es una exagerada? Y por cierto, ¿Conocéis a alguna Daenerys en la vida real?

@DoctorWhoWorld_ Yes. It fit her. Admittedly I know nothing of her story outside of the show, but show wise it works.

Did Clara get a good ending?

@BaronDestructo Garak. I have no real attachment to Spock. On the other hand Garak is one of my favorite Trek characters.

The search for our ship's Resident Alien continues! (The Elite Eight) Choose!

@holly Yeah, we have four. I just call now that we've got them on the same schedule.

Our vet is now part of a chain which has an automated online booking system. That's great except it's recently added two-factor authentication, and now when I try to book more than 3 appointments, it locks me out because it thinks I have too many cats. It may have a point but I still need the appointments

@DragonSoul @BaronDestructo I can't be sure, but I thought there was something out there stating they no longer existed.

@BaronDestructo Great episode. Quick question why were the furlings left out of the story? I mean there was a joke of a cameo. Any particular reason after 10 seasons, number of movies and a couple other stargate shows of 7 extra years the furlings were never explored? Thanks!

Stargate: SG-1 concept art - "The Fifth Race"

@feederofcats Nah that's flirting.

wonton attempts to intimidate the bottle cap

@QiaochuYuan An amazing series, though as far as I know it never really got an ending (perhaps not meant to have given themes). She lost me though when she 'updated' the books to be more modern.

the main example i have in mind of a fantasy series that does this is diane duane’s young wizards series. magic here is something that finds you. in order to become a wizard you have to swear a magically binding oath to use the gift to protect life. the central magical activity is speaking a magical language called the speech, which literally everything responds to, revealing that the entire universe is alive and conscious. magic is about using the speech to persuade the universe to change. there are more things i could say, there are some truly beautiful ideas in these books, but they would be spoilers - if you haven’t come across this series before or it’s been a long time i can heartily recommend at least the first three books

@Lillybelli Yes. Though then you run into the issue that you won't have room or funds to take in more after a point. Saying goodbye is so hard.

Some people say pets are “just animals”… but anyone who’s ever loved a cat knows it doesn’t feel that simple. They quietly become part of your daily life in a way you don’t even notice until you can’t imagine the house without them. If you had the choice, would you want your cat by your side for a lifetime that feels as long as yours? ❤️ Tell me what you think in the comments. 👇

@Lillybelli Yes. She's our chaos gremlin and we love her to bits.

Be honest 😍

@BDEgameowners Pre released sealed is fine to me. You can take those packs and teach someone to build an okay thing. Actual draft? I hate it. I literally sat between a couple once where she was there just to pick up cards for him. I go in blind. I did not have a good experience.

My other hot take is that any form of drafting is cruel to new players because you can't build a deck without knowing how to play first.

@Amiel85145796 @StarCityGames You have no idea how mad I am years later that I only picked up Dragons when those precons were released. I still have never bought Edgar to build that deck. I was new, had no idea how much I would end up playing.

@StarCityGames Edgar Markov

Do you still play the deck? 🤔 #MTGCommander

@StarCityGames Uh. I had the fortune of buying the Ur-Dragon as my first commander as the original precon. Heck yes I still play him. Only occasionally as when the deck goes off it is very aggressive and we don't play super fast games.

@JulieCFrost It's always funny to me. As a woman the vast majority of my books are male authors. I absolutely have female authors I enjoy, but the reading is two drastically different experiences.

I'll tell you why and it has nothing to do with misogyny. Broadly, men enjoy action and adventure with maybe a touch of romance as long as that romance doesn't take over the story. These are stories that, broadly, men write. With many exceptions. Broadly, women enjoy romance with maybe a touch of action and adventure as long as the action and adventure don't take over the story. These are stories that, broadly, women write. With many exceptions. Neither is misogynist or misandrist. It just boils down to preference. And that's okay. Or it should be. And publishers, like it or not, are catering HARD to that female demographic. To the point where I as a woman write what I want to read (action and adventure with very little romance; sue me for being atypical), and get told to my face by an agent that publishers don't want me because I appeal to a male audience. That's it, that's the answer. And if that sounds misogynistic to Mr. Koga, that's a him problem, not a me problem.

@JustinW32552549 @SaffronOlive The friendly rule in our house is if you have the Karn that pulls any artifact from outside the game you are in fact allowed to have a stack of all your artifacts. We haven't actually done this yet though.

@SaffronOlive I don't know I feel like we could print all of the conjure cards but instead make them like card you own from outside the game, so in some formats it's the sideboard and some formats or friendly games You just go grab it

Would love to see something like this show up in paper with some wording tweaks because the idea of the card is super cool. Would probably need to change the X=3 mode into some sort of Green Sun's Zenith effect, but otherwise seems doable.

@anishmoonka Ours like to watch a usually empty. So much so the bird feeder was hung for their entertainment. Yard watching is a very serious business for this lad

Your cat sitting frozen on the windowsill, looking like it's doing nothing, can hear sounds that dogs can't even pick up. Cats hear pitches roughly twice as high as dogs and four times higher than humans. Each outer ear has 32 muscles that move independently. Most of yours don't even work. From three feet away, a cat can pinpoint where a sound is coming from within three inches. Its whiskers feel air bouncing off walls and objects, so it can move through a pitch-black room without bumping into anything. Each whisker is wired into more than 100 nerve cells, anchored three times deeper into the skin than regular fur. Cats have about 200 million scent receptors in their noses, roughly 40 times more than humans. They can identify which animal walked through their territory days later, from the smell alone. They also have a second smell organ on the roof of their mouth that reads chemical messages other animals leave behind, kind of like a mailbox we can't see. Humans don't have a working version of this organ. Adult cats sleep 12 to 16 hours a day, but most of that is light sleep where they snap awake the second something shifts in the room. Deep sleep only comes in brief stretches. Scientists have clocked these cycles at roughly 100 minutes, alternating short wake bursts with longer naps around the clock. All of it points to one thing: ambush predator. Cats are obligate carnivores, meaning they can only run on animal protein, and their muscles are built for explosive sprints rather than endurance. Hunting burns a lot of fuel. Lying still is how the body saves the gas tank for the next sprint while the radar stays on. So the cat staring at nothing on the windowsill is doing exactly what its biology asks for. The body idles while the senses keep sweeping the room.

@BDEgameowners Lol. I am grateful I learned from Pokemon. I at least understood lands when I started. Learning how to interact on someone's turn and the stack itself though. . .

New Player: Okay, explain lands to me. Experienced Player: Oh, they’re cards, buddy. Real, actual cards. You shuffle them into your deck and everything. Super normal. Nothing weird about it at all. New Player: So I cast them like a spell? Experienced Player: Cast them? Ha! No, no, no. That would be too simple. You just play them. Once per turn. In your main phase. When the stack is empty. For free. Like a special snowflake action that the rest of the game isn’t allowed to do. Totally not confusing at all. New Player: And then I tap it, and then seqrch my library to find another one? Experienced Player: Oh my god, yes, please go search your library every time you tap a land. That’s exactly what the rules want. No, you absolute walnut. The land stays right there. You turn it sideways, it gives you mana instantly, and it does not go fetch you a replacement like some kind of overachieving golden retriever. Mana ability. Not a spell. Not an instant. Just tap and mana. End of story. New Player: Wait, so it’s not something my opponent can respond to or counter or anything? Experienced Player: Respond to it? Counter it? Buddy, mana abilities don’t use the stack. They happen faster than your opponent can say “hold on.” You could literally tap your lands in the middle of someone trying to cast a counterspell and they just have to sit there and cry about it. It’s the most unfair, elegant middle finger the rules ever gave us. New Player: But I can only do the land drop once a turn, right? Experienced Player: Correct. One. Singular. You get one free land drop per turn unless a card says “actually, screw that rule today.” Meanwhile your creatures cost mana, your spells cost mana, but lands? Nah, just one. Because heaven forbid you flood out and have fun. New Player: So if I draw too few lands…? Experienced Player: You lose. Straight up. Mana screw city. You sit there with three lands total, staring at a hand full of expensive spells you’ll never cast while your opponent plays Magic and you play “watch paint dry.” Brilliant. New Player: And if I draw too many? Experienced Player: You also lose. Mana flood, baby. Hand full of nothing but lands, tapping for mana you have zero spells to spend it on. Just watch your beautiful board of zero threats while your opponent beats your face in. Perfectly balanced game design, as all things should be. New Player: Also why do some say “basic” and some don’t? Is that supposed to mean something? Experienced Player: Oh yeah, that’s just the game’s way of saying “these ones you can run as many as you want, but these fancy ones? Four or one max depending on the format, because we hate fun.” That's pretty self explanatory. New Player: Are any of these rules written down? Experienced Player: No, you have to figure it out. Welcome to Magic. You’ll learn to love the pain. Or you’ll quit. Either way, the lands win.