Guest posts by Xelax

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Off-Topic Discussions / Re: Science!

« on: September 11, 2010, 12:52:25 am »

So I noticed there was a religion board, but no science board.  This thread is for all your science discussions.  Some topic starters:


Light!
I am very fascinated by light.  How can darkness be the absence of light?  If light can reflect and it moves at the speed of light, how can anywhere truly be "dark"?  Shouldn't light flood everywhere?  Right now, as I type this, the sun is going down where I live, so it's behind my neighbors house.  The only other source of light inside this room is my laptop.  And yet, I can clearly see my blue carpet.  Which begs the question:  Has light somehow managed to bounce around at four convoluted angles so that I might see the carpet?  And if it's able to do that, why can't the light reflect into, say... the dark room next to me.  And, if darkness is truly the absence of light, then how can shades of darkness exist?  Is light more like a swiss cheese slice, with random pockets of darkness strewn inside?  And what makes light unable to go there while it could go elsewhere?  If these random swiss cheese holes exist, why aren't the isolatable?  And even if they're just fluctuating rapidly, light travels at, well, the speed up light!  You'd think it'd fill up all the space...  Also: you can't travel faster than light?!  Why the heck not I say!  No one's ever tried it...

I don't understand the bit about 'How can darkness be the absence of light'. It just is- that's pretty much the definition. And a place can be truly dark if there's no way for light to reach it- an opaque container for example. And of course, light interacts with pretty much everything it hits, which is why you can't see a candle from 10 miles away- it's also the reason for orange sunsets and blue skys.
Light will reflect off anything except completely black surfaces, so yes it does bounce around a bit. Anywhere which gets no light is in shade. You can see the blue floor because, I imagine, there is a direct path from your screen to the floor, and possibly due to light being reflected off the walls and then onto the floor.
I don't know why the light can't reflect into the room next to you, not knowing the house plan. Probably because the door is shut. If you can see into the room then obviously the light *has* reflected into the room.  But remember, as light hits things, coloured things certain wavelengths are absorbed. Although it's not technically correct I guess it could just be used up.

Shades of darkness are just levels of light. If there's not much light then it's relatively dark.

Basically the main reason light isn't everywhere is because it hits thing. And the light in the visual spectrum can't move past a lot of the things it hits, so it stops. That's about it. As far as I know- it's been a while since A level physics

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Card Art / Re: Elements art class; any interest?

« on: September 11, 2010, 12:19:06 am »

I'd sign up for it

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Deck Compilations / Re: Dis-Chargers Revisted: Drag-ords

« on: September 10, 2010, 09:54:16 pm »

Love this deck- just started playing with it. ONly have 2 Discords, which is only half specified, but I'm using SoGs as a supplement until I can get some more. The lack means I draw Discords less often, but when I do, it's awesome. Nice one xKelevra

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Rainbow Decks / Re: The Shutdown!

« on: September 10, 2010, 06:53:13 pm »

This is what I'm using. I hadn't updated the notepad save file it seems

I'll give your deck a shot for a little while and give you some feedback.

Cheers. Hope you like it :-)

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Rainbow Decks / Re: The Shutdown!

« on: September 10, 2010, 01:53:43 pm »

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This is what I'm using. I hadn't updated the notepad save file it seems

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Buff This Card! / [Official] Grey Nymph | Death Nymph

« on: September 10, 2010, 12:30:44 pm »

Right, well as one of the twelve rarest cards that you can win in the game, you'd think that it's ability would be gosh darned absolutely fantabulous. But it's not. Grey Nymph's ability is Aflatoxin, a good spell, I agree, but not a good ability. Because who needs more than one or two Aflatoxin cards in a deck?
I know that the nymphs hold the ability of the Alchemy spell of each element, but while people would actually *want* repeated Rage Elixirs, or Adrenalines, or Black Holes, or Antimatters, or Unstable Gasses, or even Basilisk Blood, it's very rare you find yourself thinking- I've *got* 2 aflatoxins in my hand, but if only I could have, I don't know, an unlimited supply?

Because once you've used Aflatoxin a couple of times, it's useless. Yes, I guess you could use it as a poison, but there's many many cheaper cards for that. Plague, Bloodsucker, etc.

Anyway, I know that the ability has to be the elemental Alchemy spell, so I doubt the ability will change. So I think the Grey Nymph has to be made into a card that you'd actually use as an attacking creature- maybe with a lower cost and higher attack. Because the aflatoxin is more like an expensive secondary attribute- you're not going to use it every turn, and in  fact you might only use it once.

I don't think I've explained myself very well, but hopefully you'll understand what I mean- if you've got a grey nymph and you've found a deck or two it's good in, that'd be great. I've got 2 of them, and my attempts to put them in a deck have failed.


If you've got suggestions for a buff that'd be awesome

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Rainbow Decks / Re: The Shutdown!

« on: September 10, 2010, 11:57:51 am »

Hmm- the code I put up wasn't right- that was me testing an Oty for CC. I found it made it too Gravity heavy, so I switched it in for an EE- so good idea lol Safk.

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Multilingual / Re: Jai parle petit francais :) parce que.....?

« on: September 09, 2010, 10:44:45 pm »

Je ne comprends pas la raison pour un topique qui existe seulement pour la langue. Cet-a-dire, sûrement c'est meilleur de creer une discussion avec un sujet et la langue entre parenthèses. Autrefois on a un conversation comme celle-ci, (bien que, cette discussion a quelques bonne points), avec des gens qui disent
'Je parle francais!'
- 'Oh, moi aussi!' -
'Fantastique!'
 -'Oui!' -
'Quoi maintenant?'
-'Euh, je ne sais pas.'-

Vous comprenez?

De tout facon, j'ai appris francais depuis 6 ans. J'espere que vous pouvez comprendre tout que j'ai dit

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Off-Topic Discussions / Re: Find the game references

« on: September 09, 2010, 10:28:26 pm »

Loco Poco in the garden down-right from the Pong Cafe

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Rainbow Decks / Re: The Shutdown!

« on: September 09, 2010, 07:09:53 pm »

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I decided that I needed more damage, so removed a Pest and stuck in a couple more damage dealers. Increased the number of Black Holes and QuickSands as well.
I sometimes find myself a little bit short on quanta- tempted to increase the amount of Quantum Towers- but it's bulky enough I think, without adding anything more.

What do you reckon? I know it's quite a long throw away from the deck on page 1 but it's in the same spirit

bit heavy isn't it?

More so than the original one with 3 Fractals?
The TU is great for twinning an adrenalized creature- Vampire or Puffer generally. Doubles the amount of healing/poison for a reasonably low cost.
I normally use it before the Fractals- you don't get the quanta completely drained so it's easier to build back up again. I've generally not found aether quanta lacking

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Rainbow Decks / Re: (1.24) CC? Why bother?

« on: September 09, 2010, 09:34:14 am »

How do you guys tackle Scorpio? I don't think I've won a single match against him post-Puffer Fish buff.

This deck doesn't have cc, so its almost impossible. Otyugh decks are already crushed by the creatures being made poisonous, so scorpio is actually incredibly difficult now. I guess only ROL hope stands a fair chance now?

I've added a Purify into my deck- wait until about 20 has racked up due to Deadly Poison and Chrysoara/Pufferfish and then cut it back up to +2. It does make it a bit easier- you get a temporary stall for healing, where the poison grinding you down doesn't overcome the SoGs

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Rainbow Decks / Re: The Shutdown!

« on: September 09, 2010, 09:28:00 am »

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I decided that I needed more damage, so removed a Pest and stuck in a couple more damage dealers. Increased the number of Black Holes and QuickSands as well.
I sometimes find myself a little bit short on quanta- tempted to increase the amount of Quantum Towers- but it's bulky enough I think, without adding anything more.

What do you reckon? I know it's quite a long throw away from the deck on page 1 but it's in the same spirit