Done as a request for BalloonieLuna. If you're interested, my commissions are open.
You did fantastic work with the grass, great job!
Kovukono
joined 1 year ago
Given that if both doors are locked it equals 0 on the battlefield, you would think that, but no. When it's not on the battlefield, its mana value is equal to the total cost of both doors, and it has both names. I assume this is so that you can't pull Expertise tricks with it. If you want all the known stuff about it, take a look here.
I looked up the rules, and holy shit is it confusing when you get into detail.
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You cast an Enchantment with a Room subtype and pay for either side. You ignore the other side.
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If the Room has one side unlocked, you may unlock the other by paying the cost of the other side. This doesn't use the stack, and can't be responded to. Triggers that occur because of this can be responded to.
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If the Room has neither side unlocked (maybe it got put into the battlefield with Open the Vaults or it got blinked), you can only open a side at sorcery speed, regardless of what was said in the bullet point above.
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The mana value of a Room is equal to the unlocked doors. This room can have a mana value of 0, 2, 6, or 8, depending on what's unlocked.
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If you copy a Room, you copy what is and isn't unlocked.
Functionally, it's not bad, but the corner cases these cards have is crazy.
I get that you're trying to say that the NDP was able to do something, but there's no evidence they were consulted on it. Given that it lasted less than a day before the strike was stopped, it was probably something the government didn't discuss long.
The action was taken by a cabinet member to order the Canadian Industrial Relations Board to step in. The CIRB isn't controlled by any party. Singh came out with a statement that condemns the move, and says it signals that any federally-regulated field doesn't have to negotiate with workers in good faith. I don't know where you heard that any party has the ability to stop this other than the party who the current Minister of Labour belongs to, but no action was taken that needed to pass the House.
I love McGinnis. I'm actually pretty good with McGinnis. But it seems that every other hero I've tried fails to click. Not really sure where to go with it, but the other two slots are always heroes that I hope will maybe work today.
There's a couple of odd vids that Adult Swim has put out from Alan Resnick, like May I Enter Please? and Unedited Footage of a Bear. There's one vid that's just as weird as them called This House Has People In It, but the notable thing is this 12-minute video has a whole ARG behind it, enough to fill a video explaining the lore for over an hour and a half.
Dead by Daylight does the opt-in beta thing. Progress doesn't transfer from one to the other, but unlocks are handled by just unlocking everything. The bonus of this, as opposed to in-house only, is that players can see what's coming and give at least some chance for feedback before release. The downside is that there's only one iteration, beta, then release, and sometimes things that worked in the beta are broken in release. I'm not saying that this should replace an in-house sandbox, but as an addition it helps devs get thousands of eyes on it and lets the community voice issues before they become semi-permanent.
I've played maybe 15 rounds since the update, but only found one mission-related bug. We completed both sub-objectives for an ICBM, and it told us that we could extract without launching the missile. And given we had 2 reinforcements left, we sure weren't looking a gift horse in the mouth.
This stupid idea popped into my head and I decided to put it down. If you're interested, my commissions are open.
Finished up the first piece for 2024, even though I definitely wanted to get this done last year. But done is done.
I started drawing in January of this year, and finally finished up my first piece in early February. Since then I've been trying to improve on it, and I decided to look back to see if there were any real metrics that could show I made decent progress.
The most obvious first step was to take a look at the upvotes I'd gotten:
Also, NSFW stats:
And, overall, it's a mixed bag. Lemmy definitely has a longer running time for keeping posts alive (it helps that there's fewer posts here), and Reddit has the issue that if your post isn't noticed inside 2 hours, it won't be picked up at all. There's no real sign of definite progress on Reddit, though Lemmy does seem to see at least some uptick in this metric, though that could be attributed to c/furry growing.
So, there's the next obvious metric, upvote percentage:
Reddit drops these metrics after 40 days, so I have no idea what it's like for the majority of my posts. Generally though, the response is more positive on Lemmy than Reddit, but it might be a bit too early to tell if the percentages are actually meaningful, or if the community doesn't downvote good content just because it's not their type, and upvotes are a more meaningful metric.
And, finally, FurAffinity:
There's not a lot of items there, either. If I post something good, I might get a fav. If I post something really good, I might get 2. Like Reddit, if it's not noticed inside a short window, it appears to get buried. The one exception appears to be this piece, which has gotten fav'd repeatedly over time. Watches, on the other hand, appear to be entirely random--or it could be my work's just not good enough to get people wanting me on their feed.
So, just some lessons from my time over the last year:
- Memes are faster and lower-effort to draw, but get a lot bigger response (yes, I know, groundbreaking statement of the year).
- Time and effort spent don't equate to response. I know, it's another obvious statement, but until you've spent weeks on something for nothing, it doesn't quite sink in.
- Either a) I've not become a better artist, or b) these metrics aren't the full picture, and I also suck at promoting myself. I'm hoping it's the latter.
Regardless, it's been a big journey, and I hope it's only the start. I came to Lemmy from Reddit after the API changes, and overall, c/furry's been an open, welcoming, and most importantly positive place. I love it here, and I'm really looking forward to seeing it continue to grow.
Some vent art.
Original post: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/54671594/
Commission done for @Sheeple@lemmy.world.
Commission done for Griffonki on Reddit.
This one is long, so here's just a link to it