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Well, I rooted for this to happen. Mad Queen Dany is the best thing that happened this season, mainly because I don't think she is mad as in crazy, but mad as in upset or distraught. Ever since the Short Night, Jorah's death, she has become an actual person, feeling solitude and envy instead of being an immortal goddess that just gets armies for free. That's a character right there! Her lashing out wasn't from nothing, I'd say:

Tyrion has done nothing but fail her expensively ever since she got to Westeros, she has witnessed the deaths of two of her """"children"""" and two of her advisers before her own eyes, she has been betrayed and her lover's family hates her guts. Then you meet an insufferable opponent like Cersei and Euron... I find it understandable that she wants to destroy everything they ever held. She's not right to do so, but I get it.

The people complaining about Mad Queen Dany probably think seeing people you care about get murdered is easy. Reminder: she's had an easy journey ever since Season 2 started. Her only losses in Essos were Ser Barristan and Khal Drogo, both of which she avenged quite nastily. Season 7 was when she experienced hardship again, and now we see her deal with it.

In short:
All hail Queen Daenerys Stormborn!
Queen of the Ashes,
Breaker of Cities,
Burner of Eunuchs, Children and Mothers,
Crusher of the hard-nerfed Iron Fleet and Golden Company,
Mighty makes righty heir to the Iron Throne!

The evolution of bullshit excuses on this topic is astonishing:

1. We started with "testing Secret Paladin/Jade Druid/Odd Paladin/Pirate Warrior in casual before ranked" (Yes those decks take ages to learn)
2. Then we got the "my top-tier deck is fun" bots. Funnily enough, many were vehemently against a goldless casual, but that must be a coinky-dink (and no, I don't think goldless casual is a good idea either, just pointing out the obvious hypocrisy)
3. Then we got the "got a quest so I must play the S-tier deck in casual to complete it" (thank goodness, heaven forbid most quests were intentionally vague to let you play any deck anywhere)
4. Later (and now still) we get "your deck can't be a homebrew because it runs some good cards" (seems legit)
5. Now we're getting blatant attempts to convince us the word "Casual" means something it doesn't actually mean (I can't even)

I can't wait until, in 6 months, we'll get a new ridiculous, nonsensical excuse like: "All decks have already been invented by someone in the world, therefore all decks are netdecking one way or another"

This doesn't mean all arguments are bad though. The 2 that work are:

1. You can play what you want in casual, and
2. No one is entitled to a victory, especially in Hearthstone

Everything else is BS from people who are probably all too aware of their own lies.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Crusader Kings 2 (with all the DLC it's infinite replayability).

I've also gone back to Breath of the Wild and my opinion of it has never been higher.

I complete my dailies in War of Omens too and occasionally check Tropico 6 for dictatorial hijinks.

It adds 1 imp only. Eternal Servitude does not let you discover the same minion more than once.

I have an anti-Big Priest Mage deck that sucks against everything else. With it, I prowl either rank 10 or rank 5 to hunt the unworthy!

Problem is, the deck is so utterly ridiculous it sometimes wins even against a deck made solely around countering them, and then chilling becomes impossible :<

Still, kudos for creating a non-complaint thread. I wish Hearthpwn practiced what it preaches and gave this thread the attention it deserves instead of bumping nerf threads with complaints about their existence. God bless OP.

Quote from endlesstides >>

Raiding Party into Waggle Pick into double Dread Corsair is a problem?

Hadn't noticed..... /s

 Seriously dude, there's a Thread rattling along here with some 300 replies. I get where your coming from but I don't need to see another Nerf Rogue Thread thanks. 

 Why give these threads attention? Every single post complaining about it bumps it and keeps it relevant. For all the complaints, Hearthpwn flocks to the nerf threads like moths to a flame.

Pic related: Two threads, one with "good vibes" and the other a "stale, repetitive" one. And yet, one has 10 times the views of the other.

Looks fun. I'm surprised that I don't know where some characters are from.

Most people seem to be targeting the same cards. In order to increase my chances of winning this bingo, I'll suggest:

Darkest Hour - Now summons random demons instead of recruiting minions from your deck.

Eternal Servitude - Discover any minion that died this game and summon it / Add the minion to your hand instead of summoning it

Zilliax - No longer has magnetic

Delivery Drone - Only discovers neutral mechs

Sometimes the salt thread is a godsend. By itself, the thread is one of the most amazing features of Hearthpwn. So... no, I don't think it was a bad idea.

Of course, it is always very convenient to dismiss all criticism as salt, and I do believe the salt link to be the laziest reply possible in Hearthpwn, tied with the small indie company meme.

But think about it this way: posting the salt thread is no different from saying "OP is salty" and calling it a day. The argument does not get stronger just because there is a link attached to it. Usually you should either ignore it (because the person, quite literally, could not think of anything else to argue against you) or reply with about as much effort.

And this is coming from a person who despises the Salt Thread link as a shield from criticism.

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I was going to edit this into my previous comment, but I'll put it in a new one, since the first comment was mostly positive and this is... not =P

Having had more time to reflect on Missandei's death scene... what the fuck was that?

Like okay, obviously she was going to die once we saw her captured, I've already seen people arguing about the show shunting off all its POC characters and misogyny and whatever, as a white dude I won't get involved.

Wait, really? I swear Social Justice gets dumber by the second. We have a "sanitized" medieval setting with female rulers all around, a genderless prophecy about saving the world (which ends up being done by a girl) and no stigma against Arya or Brienne having sex before their marriage and they'll complain about misogyny?

As for the minority characters dying, they probably have a bit more of a reason to complain. Not much, since dying in GOT is basically supposed to happen to anyone, but at least I can understand where they're coming from. But misogyny? It takes some serious mental gymnastics. 

 

Better than the last one. Less anti-climatic, at least.

I liked:

 I did not like:

Nerfs open up design space and diversify the meta. Honestly, I am glad the HS community is starting to understand that they are a good thing and seeing them in a different light. A couple of years ago people went feral at the mention of nerfs because of how rarely they happened, which was obviously a terrible attitude.

Now buffs, on the other hand, they really are difficult to pull off. Let's do mock statistics:

• 50% of Hearthstone's cards are unplayable (fillers, stat-piles, arena behemoths, Basic set, Year of the Raven, etc...)
• 20% are bad (janky stuff, most epic cards, stuff that goes into homebrew decks)
• 20% are good (class cards, most Classic legendaries, much of the Classic set, etc...)
• 10% are OP (many auto-includes, Year of the Mammoth, etc...)

For a nerf, you just need to either hit or kill off something among the 10% (sometimes Blizzard misses for the sake of dust refunds, but that has been happening less these days) and you're golden. For a buff, you will need to go blindly into the bottom 70% and pick at random. Your chances of messing up are substantially larger.

Blizzard could, however, implement temporary buffs. Say, giving us a month during which Pint-Sized Summoner is a 2/3 instead of a 2/2 probably won't kill anyone. Giving Dust Devil an extra health point, though, might create problems. But in a month, those would be reverted anyway, which is a lot sooner than most balance problems are solved in HS. Of course, I should come clean and reveal that this is just another plot for getting an unnerfed Yogg-Saron, Hope's End back, even if just for a while. Forgive me.

I actually liked a few things about this episode.

 And there were three major things I disliked, especially in the second half of the episode.

 Still, I am... shockingly not that upset at this episode. I still think this season has been better than 5, 6 or 7 so far. It's probably because I didn't wince at the dialogue too much yet (let's not forget Dorne or season 7 meta-shipping), but it felt... alright!