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BIG MAJOR SPOILERS FOR THE FINAL EMPIRE OK I WARNED YOU THX!!

I'm listening to the audiobook of Mistborn Final Empire and it was so good up until the last chapter and now I'm confused!! The big twist happens when>! Vin burns the 11th metal and she sees that the Lord Ruler is actually Pac-Man??? Like the yellow guy?????????? !<

That's so dumb and I wish I hadn't even read this book. How do you guys like this crap? I feel like I was lied to. Can someone either help me understand how that makes any sense or else tell me Audible's return policy bc I am so pissed

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Shallan Davar. The characterization is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of Freudian psychology most of the jokes will go over a typical reader's head. There's also Shallan's confused outlook, which is deftly woven into her characterisation- her personal philosophy draws heavily from psychoanalytic literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realise that they're not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Shallan truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, th

Let me start by saying that the new Exploration mode (start with 9 cards, play 2 lands per turn, no max hand size) has me really excited to brew a good deck to play it. It's got the Johnny part of my brain wanting to solve the "puzzle" the format presents and build around its unique rules. I'm already sold on these "tavern brawl" style modes.

So I want to let Wizards know that I think the way the buy-in and the rewards are set up actively detracts from the fun and casual nature of the mode.

I put in 600 gold, and because I didn't win two games before I lost two games, I'm out 500 gold with nothing but an uncommon ICR to show for it. I'm lucky enough to have over 20,000 gold saved up, so

I haven't seen anyone else mention this, but I LOVE how much more compact the "resource deposits" of rare metals are. It used to be that if you came across a deposit of a rare metal, it could take almost a half hour of pointing your mining laser at it to get everything. Now it seems like you get slightly less from each deposit, but the tradeoff is that it takes signiticantly less time to mine them. Mining metal deposits was one of the least fun and most necessary aspects of gameplay--I'm so, so glad they made it better.

I may have missed a stream that showed it off earlier, but I was caught off guard by the UI improvements in today's update, and I love how much crisper and more professional so much of the game's look is now. In particular, the after-battle rank-up screen is more intuitive and more visually impressive.

I also see a great opportunity to sell cosmetic items in the improved matchup screen with the half-screen avatars. I'd much rather drop a few bucks on a full-body portrait than a little head in a circle.

Visuals are a major part of any game's success, and Arena looks way more visually polished with this patch. Great job!

Whenever I play 1-on-1 For Glory, I like to open matches with a taunt, as a sort of pre-game handshake. A lot of opponents return this gesture, often to the point of backing up if they were about to attack me and then taunting. But a lot of opponents dash attack straight into my "Okey" for an easy 13%. I usually don't mind this on the first game with any given opponent, but if it happens multiple times in a row, it really irritates me. It seems really unsportsmanlike and even a little grimy.

Am I overreacting by being annoyed by this, or is it reasonable to expect opponents to honor a pre-fight taunt? Do you attack into taunts, and if so, why do you do it? Am I just totally in the wrong a

I beat a Game & Watch player pretty handily as Ness, and when he came back for the next match, he was also playing as Ness. I wasn't sure if this was salt or just a character switch, but I bodied him hard for the first stock, so I figured Ness wasn't his main, and expected that next game he'd play as someone else or just be gone.

Instead, he stuck around for 6 more Ness-on-Ness games, and every single game he picked up more of my tricks from the previous game and started using them against me. We established a pre-fight "handshake" of simultaneous Okey and went on to have some really close, intense matches, until he finally beat me with my own main and my own playstyle, and left aft