Adventures in breaking forum formatting

This is pathetic.

And yet somehow beautiful at the same time. 

Honestly, I think this is a >Games Forum record

I don't know, I think we broke the vertical stacking before.

OH GOD WHY IS THIS HAPPENING AND WHY AM I LAUGHING SO HARD

We did break it once. Are we trying for it again?

I see your point about total damage, but Unload is no where near as good as Lightspeed in practice.  Why?  you might ask.  Because Tachyon has card cycle built into her deck and can put mulitple burst cards in her trash a turn and 1/2 of the cards in her deck quallify.  If I see Tachyon go through a game where she plays fewer than 2 LSBs and any of them do fewer than 12 points of damage it is almost shocking.

Expat on the other hand.  Well I've playerd her more than 20 times and am seeing results like Donner.  I HAVE seen her Unload with more than two guns out, like 2-3 times in 20 plays. 

So in one case it happens multiple times per game, in the other it happens once every 8 games or so.

I see that you acknowledge this in the last sentence of your post, so I guess it is about how the rating system is done.  If you are going to rate a card on how effective it is in the game, I give LSB a really high score and a Unload a really low score.

The number of copies of the one-shot is considered.  I don't consider the deck mechanics, as there is a whole section devoted to that.  What I consider is if you have the card, what is the value of that card in different situations.  Unload can exceed LSB early game, late game LSB is better single target, while Unload is generally far more versatile in what it accomplishes.  One requires your trash to get stacked and not shuffled, the other requires gun cards in play.

I put them at even.  The fact that Tachyon's mechanics enable her to pull off LSB twice as often (average estimation) as Expat and Unload does not factor into the one-shot ranking.

Why not?

OF COURSE

Could one of the admins change the thread title to "Giant text ziggurats (was: An attempt to make hero ratings)" so that the un-interested parties (notably those with mobile phones) can avoid it?

For the first time I'm viewing this on a 1024-wide monitor instead of an 800, so it's slightly less annoying than usual, and possibly even slightly cool.  But I still think the people who are continuing to expand the ziggurat, even after people who phone-read complained, are being kind of jerks.  (I know, black pot-kettles and glass-house stone-throwers.)

And now that the thread's been separated, we can partake without guilt!

Yay?

It somehow seems less fun now. 

Blasphemy!

BLASPHEMY!

Ready the heretic for sacrifice upon the ziggurat!

Break the walls that confine our text!

FREEDOM!!!

TACOS!!!

There's nothing wall breaking about Tacos. And it's not Tuesday

This is just getting ridiculous…

Your lack of faith is disturbing…

This is amaze-balls.  Totes-m'goats!

Let's break the scroll!

ONWARD TO VICTORY

… I have no idea where I'm going…

You are going onwards. Towards victory. Like you said.

ZIG ZAG ZIGGURAT, RATTATTAT TAT.

There is Victory in many places, but most of them are in New England.

So we have to pick which one?

Well, it is hard to get to multiple places at once, normally you need a single destination.

I pick… sometime next week. Whenever we start Sentinel Tactics playtesting. … No one said it couldn't be a TEMPORAL destination, rather than a PHYSICAL one.

Why not both?

W're going to need a second Ziggurat?

Well, this one now has the earliest posts pushed off the side of my (actually rather large) monitor screen, so that might be a good plan

I think you might be missing the point of the ziggurat…

I'm fond of the fun section in the middle where you can no longer tell that you're scrolling, because it all looks the same.

I can't wait till we eventually break the horizontal scrolling, I mean it has to happen at some point, right?

Well, we should always be able to tell when we're scrolling sideways, because the vertical lines will be moving.

Yes, but how far can the horizontal lines go before something snaps?

Depends if there's actually a limit.

I wonder what an image will do to the formatting.

Let's find out!

A grand experiment.  And I approve of your choice of image.

Hrm, yes, quite.

It's getting hard to scroll to the bottom of this thread.

I just press the 'end' key, though admittedly this doesn't work if there are multiple new posts… unless you read the last few quoted texts too.

My mouse has a scroll wheel with a button next to it that detaches the clicky gear thing in it, so at the click of a button I can have a free-spinning scroll wheel. Makes fast scrolling super easy.

Enjoy this Ziggurat free area.  relax in it's format friendly atmosphere.  see the blank white space, let the blank white space fill your senses.  become one with the space.  think about bacon.  bacon and tacos.  now think about a ziggurat, see the ziggurat.  fill the ziggurat with tacos, then top that with bacon.  enjoy.

Lucky you.

Cost me $100, but it was SO worth it. It's a great mouse.

This page is now nearly twice the width of my screen.

Yes, but Chrono-Ranger's not being crushed yet. MORE ZIGGURAT!

What if I want to build a ziggamouse instead?

What about a Ziggasaurus?

Is it just me or is the picture starting to shrink?

Nah, it's just getting further away. Ziggudoggy FTW!

I can't say I was expecting the picture to do that.  Neither was my zigguparrot.

And he's back!

Yes, that was unexpected. I'm guessing he'll stay the same size now.

I think this post is finally getting to appropriate levels of ridiculousness.

There's no such thing as an appropriate level of rediculousness!  We must always have more!

Also, when I tried to post this the first time, the forums broke.  I wonder if I should be concerned…

Moar Breaking!!!!  MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

{facepalm}

So anyway, yeah, totally not related.  Let's just go on like nothing ever happened.

Like what didn't happen?

No idea. But, I can see Jim poking out over several quote layers up there. So that's something.

He's escaping!

I'd call a bounty hunter in to get him back, but…

He's got a timeline to save

THE ZIGGURAT CAN NEVER DIE.

It’s a ziggurat. It’s not exactly alive.

Yeah, non-living things cannot die.  Immortality through inanimacy!

That which is dead cannot die, but only rises again, harder and stronger!

And with a faint taste of coriander!

And glowing in light shades of octarine.

I'm fine with the octarine, but coriander's not really my thing.

Why not use Imbued Vitality to make the ziggurat come to life?  And yes, I did make an account just so I could post on this thread!

I suddenly got a very strong urge to create a Ziggurat environment deck.  The only problem is that the cards would have to be extra long to include the flavor text.

Or have teeny tiny font

That could really work, you'd need to stack floor effects, and if you had it be a sunken Ziggurat you could go top to bottom, and it could involve awakening the gods that dwell in the Ziggurat, and maybe have some artifact that would boost villains or heroes depending on who held it.  I'm going to go work on this now.

All Hail the Ziggurat, for it is Mightier than Formatting!

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! The zigguat missed a quote somehow and unless I do something it shall collapse, dooming us all!

There, that should fix things.  EDIT: I long to see how it looks now we have double Ziggurats

Whoa, that’s a full Ziggurat all the way. Double Ziggurat, oh my god. It’s a double Ziggurat, all the way. Whoa that’s so intense. Whoa man! Wow! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa ho ho oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! Woo! Oh wow! Woo! Yeah! Oh ho ho! Oh my god! Oh my god look at that! It’s starting even to look like a triple Ziggurat! Oh my god it’s full on! Double Ziggurat all the way across the sky! Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh god. What does this mean? Oh. Oh my god. Oh. Oh. God. It’s so bright, oh my god it’s so bright and vivid! Oh. Ah! Ah! It’s so beautiful! [Crying]  Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god! Oh my god, it’s a double complete Ziggurat! Oh right in my forum. [Laughter] Oh my god. Oh my god, what does it mean? Tell me. [Crying] Too much. I don’t know what it means. [Laughter] [Heavy breathing] Oh my god it’s so intense. Oh. Oh. Oh my god.

I feel the need to resurrect this thread… for reasons. Authoritive reasons.

I agree. We need this back

Totes.

I disagree.  This thread is far to silly.  No more ziggurats for you, lickety split or otherwise.

The ancient gods have awakened.  The Ziggurat shall rise once more!

I could totally see an ancient group of Assyrian Gods, a-la The Ennead.