That’s reasonably close to what I was thinking, yes.

TCGs are not deckbuilders, at least not as they’re commonly understood today. See the other comment thread for the discussion.

More traditional boardgames like dominion aren’t rougelites

I was referring to video game deckbuilders. I couldn’t think of any, but I’ve had a few pointed out to me.

My point was, fuck Netflix for their shitty business practices anyway. Ads are bad, AI ads aren’t any better or worse.

What the other guy said. I repeat, I’m not actually calling you a shill. I even agree with your point about JF, I’m just pointing out your logic is faulty.

That’s based on the assumption that’s your only account, though. Not that I’m calling you a shill, just pointing out the obvious flaw in your logic. Any actual shill would have sockpuppets to spread out their comments and hide their history.

Ads are ads, who cares if it’s AI generated?

For a peek into the history of the term - https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/693430/magic-the-gathering-and-dominion-which-is-a-deck-b

Apparently the shift was more than well under way by 2011.

Inscryption just defies categorisation, it’s a unique everything. But yeah, I wasn’t aware of the other non-roguelite deckbuilders. Wonder how they get balanced? What’s stopping the player from building a monstrously strong deck?

I’m not sure when or about the original meaning, but in the modern context deckbuilder usually refers to games that let you build or modify your deck during gameplay itself. Dominion invented, or at least massively popularised, the genre in 2008. By the current definition of the genre, there is significant inherent overlap with roguelites. In the boardgame world, games like Frosthaven would be an example of a deckbuilder that’s not a roguelite, though the deckbuilder element there is pretty thin. Slay the Spire was probably the first, or at least first successful, computer game deckbuilder that I’m aware of.

CCGs like MtG are very different from the current meaning of deckbuilders. I’m not sure which castle / turret defense games you’re referring to.

Are there any other types of deckbuilder? I can’t think of any

Makes sense I guess? It’s not like they can do anything about that cost.

If memory serves, she actually collaborated with the CDC to create a disease model that could realistically exist.

So every time I came up with a new iteration of Kellis-Amberlee, I would call back and say, “If I did this, this, this, this, this and this, could I raise the dead?” And every single time they would say, “No.” And I’d say, “OK,” hang up, and go back to working. After about the 17th time, I called and said, “If I did this, this, this, this, this, this and this, could I raise the dead?” And got, “Don’t . . . don’t do that.” At that point, I knew I had a viable virus.

Have you read Mira Grant’s Newsflesh series? It’s the ultimate realistic zombie story.

Your premise is that nuclear warfare is no longer possible, so by default, yes.

The US and / or Russia would obtain it ASAP, by hook or crook. Followed rapidly by World War 3

Review bombing requires

1. A scandal, and there’s no indication Half Moon was involved in any such.
2. Coordination, which is easy enough to find on Google or elsewhere. Again, no indication of such.
3. Most of the time, at least some reviews in the bomb will state why they are downvoting the game. No indication of such.

Sometimes bad reviews are just bad reviews.

It’s somewhere in pi. Wait a moment while I look it up.

That’s the whole problem with AI and artists complaining about theft. You can’t draw a meaningful distinction between what people do and what the ai is doing.