Munin's Internet Discoveries/Creations

A few months after publication, it was pointed out that Shahrazad was potentially part of a hugely annoying and effective deck that included all plains (or better, Mox Pearls) and Shahrazads (in those days there were no deck-size or card-frequency limits). Maybe you play with eighty of them. Anyway, shortly into each game, Shahrazad is played, and you begin a subgame. Let's call the initial game G0, the first subgame G1, and so forth. This continues until your opponent is decked in, say, G7, from his inability to draw an opening hand. (Remember, your initial deck is at least twice the size of his.) Then in G6, his or her life is halved. Play another Shahrazad and begin a new game, call it G77. Again the opponent's life is halved from decking, and so forth. Then in G77777, which is lost once again due to decking, your opponent is finally reduced to 0 life. So you go back to G5, and soon begin G66. Anyway, after about 5^7 games, you will be victorious.

www.twitch.tv/twitchplaysdark

This is a link to the continuing phenomenon of Twitch Plays X, where people attempt to get games to work with the chaos of Twitch chat. In this case, the game is Dark Souls.

And I wonder who ever thought this was a good idea.

If they make it out of the tutorial area, I will be legitimately surprised. The level of coordination needed for that game is much higher than a turn-based game such as Pokemon, which is why it won't work. Twitch Plays Pokemon managed to get people to coordinate at least somewhat in a system that does not demand immediate responses. Thereby, Twitch Plays Pokemon was able to achieve a measure of coordination that allowed them to make it to the end of multiple games. This on the other hand requires immediate responses, and a more twitch(heh)-based style of gameplay that does not permit for Twitch chat to fumble around with the controls for half an hour before making any progress.

well, I've alluded to this once already and I can't guarantee I won't do it again before our thread reaches its conclusion so here you go

[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQpGwnN3dfc[/media]

tfw I know this entire speech by heart

This was so much better than the movie, it makes me cry

I CRY at what could have been