CG&CC-gaming

Aiden Chow

01:58

AYO beat my minesweeper medium record by one second, inching closer and closer to sub 30 :D

also just found another 8 somehow, like wow

@UnrelatedString what the game about? just made an acct

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it's like hearthstone on a chess board

Aiden Chow

bro i have no idea what im doing lol

wheres da tutorial

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not sure there is one

it's actually a clone of an older game that shut down a few years ago so the current target audience is like 95% existing players :P

Aiden Chow

oh lol

i think im already losing against the cpu

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the basic scheme is
click one of your units to select it then click a space in range to move it there or click an enemy to attack it; you can move then attack but can't attack then move
you can replace one card from your hand each turn and draw two new cards at the end of each turn, and you can play cards by spending mana equal to their cost
the amount of mana you start a turn with increases by 1 each turn up to a maximum of 9 and you can also gain extra mana temporarily by moving or placing a unit on those orb tiles in the middle

Aiden Chow

02:10

oh wait i just won somehow lolololol

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pog

Aiden Chow

pretty confusing tho lol

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what's your username

Aiden Chow

achow

bruh

ur username is "sex"?

user

You should change your name to kevin

Aiden Chow

02:11

@user who

user

And make your middle name aiden

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i have two accounts; currently logged in on sex

user

then you can be kachow

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i'll send a request on string next time i'm logged in there

Aiden Chow

@user bruh ok

user

02:12

Imagine how cool it’d be when you get an email for your job

[email protected]

Aiden Chow

i spectating u lol @UnrelatedString

gotta see the pro strats

user

My username is user if anyone wants to team up or something (idk if this game has teams)

Aiden Chow

idk either

user

Can’t play rn on mobile tho :(, imma spectate sex too

@UnrelatedString your username is sex?

Aiden Chow

dang nice win

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02:16

yes

Aiden Chow

even idk whats going on lol

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i want to spectate you two against each other lmao

Aiden Chow

bro im so bad

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i can coach you

Aiden Chow

idk what does what

how we versus each other anyways

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02:17

select in friends list -> challenge

was thinking i'd spectate you in a bot match though

Aiden Chow

oh ok

so i just vs a bot?

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ye

Aiden Chow

cool im in a match

lol tf is that

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try replacing something to start with

drag a card to the replace thing to the left of your hand

Aiden Chow

whats replace

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02:19

you put that card back in your deck and draw a different one

try replacing the sunstone bracers

Aiden Chow

k idk which to replace but sure

oh ok

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they're cheap but also might get worn down fast by dervishes

Aiden Chow

dervishes what

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(artifacts have thee points of durability and lose one every time your general takes damage; they're destroyed when they hit 0)

Aiden Chow

oh shit im running out of time

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02:21

end the turn

npothing else to do

Aiden Chow

bruh im like actually gonna get destroyed by this, like the cpu has so much stuff

Steffan

what are yall doing

minesweeper?

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the obelysk that zirix put down summons a wind dervish every turn; i forget the statline and i think the spectate is bugged but you should be able to see it

Steffan

I think once I got minesweeper in 28 seconds lol

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hmm

Aiden Chow

02:22

@Steffan medium??

Steffan

easy

Aiden Chow

oh

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yeah attack the defender with argeon so you can
actually hmm

start by replacing sunstone bracers

Aiden Chow

brooo idk what im doing

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ooh true strike

that's always a nice one for finishing provoke minions off

yeah the time limit's a bit punishing for beginners

Aiden Chow

02:23

dude im just looking at the board and thinking im totally fucked

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that's not too bad of a board state

the obelysks are kind of out of the way so the wind dervishes only control as much space as they can reach

...rogue warden is possibly an issue

Aiden Chow

wats rogue warden

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ooh if you get storm aratha over there next turn that would definitely solve a lot of problems

Aiden Chow

over where lol

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the ranged 5/7 goober on the far left

...oh i did not notice it got 5/7ed

well storm aratha + true strike i guess

Aiden Chow

02:26

so i just kill the guy over there?

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ye

you're actually winning pretty hard

Aiden Chow

really? it doesnt feel that way at all lol

opponent has much more stuff than me

on the board

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look at zirix's health, and your lysian brawler

war surge then smack him twice and you win

i think

(lysian brawler has celerity so it can attack and move twice instead of once per turn)

Aiden Chow

ummm what

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divine bond after the war surge for glorious overkill

Aiden Chow

02:29

idk what that means

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oh oh saberspine tiger

it has rush and can act immediately

Aiden Chow

fuck

turn ended

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Aiden Chow

im like so dead

thats actually not good

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i think you are still winning but probably need a plan to deal with the wind shrike

actually no i think if you drop the saberspine down and to the left then use war surge and divine bond on it you can just kill zirix this turn

Aiden Chow

02:31

idk man

i ran out of time

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oh rip

Aiden Chow

ok well im dead right

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...probably

not sure why they haven't attacked with the wind shrike

Steffan

lmao I tried medium and I have -1 flags left

and the whole board is filled

and it's been 600 secs

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guess the ai is just hard coded to not get provokes fdamaged

Aiden Chow

02:34

bro idk what im doing anymore lolol

@Steffan WHAT, 600 seconds on medium, youve gotta be shitting me

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if you survive three turns you could try to play putrid dreadflayer somewhere safe, then fly it over to zirix's corner and play the stormmetal golem there

try replacing the bracers again

unfortunate

Steffan

@AidenChow finished in 745 seconds lol

Aiden Chow

dude they should really have some option to have unlimited time per move

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i wonder if the starting decks are actually reproductions of the originals because they seem to share the same odd fixation on expensive stat-stick neutral minions lmao

ikr

Aiden Chow

@Steffan O_O

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02:36

though i don't think rogue warden was in the original starting decks

Aiden Chow

i average like 45 seconds in medium

Steffan

lol

I'm really bad

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oh maybe sandbox mode has unlimited timers

sandbox mode just lets you play as both sides at once to see what can happen lmao

Aiden Chow

...how am i not dead

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the ai is
not great

or to put it another way, forgiving

there we go

Aiden Chow

02:38

o shit i might actually be dead

rip

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@Steffan alpha.duelyst2.com

good game

Aiden Chow

very confusing tho

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yeah it's a bit of a steep learning curve

not like dwarf fortress levels of steep learning curve but there's a lot of complexity

if you want to develop a sense of space control you could try the abyssian premade deck; bloodmoon priestess is one hell of a drug

although rogue warden being in every fucking deck apparently might make it hard to keep set up, i'd assume the abyssian premade has ritual banishing, daemonic lure, or dark terminus

Aiden Chow

yes i totally know what all of those are

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bloodmoon priestess is a 4 mana 3/3 with deathwatch summon a wraithling on a random nearby space
i.e. any time any unit dies with her on the board, she selects an adjacent space and summons a 1/1 wraithling there
so in practice you put her up against a border and once a few units have died there's just a self-regenerating wall of 1/1s

the wraithlings are also good attacking bodies but you can embed your general and other important units in there to keep them safe and you can use it to back the enemy into a corner

(of course you will attack with them even when you are using them for space control because bloodmoon priestess just summons them back when they die and they're 1/1 so they will almost always die when attacking)

emanresu A

02:52

I kinda want to join you two but I'm playing shapez :P

Aiden Chow

whats shapez

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:P

Aiden Chow

also just won another match against a bot:D

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just make an account with a username that might get taken soon while you can

niiiiice

Aiden Chow

how is it when ppl r spectating i lose most of the time, happens in all games i play lol

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02:53

lol

emanresu A

@AidenChow shapez.io although that's just a demo version, I managed to get the full version runnning on my localhost with some hax

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xd

emanresu A

I might be able to set up a (probably illegal) mirror of the full game if y'all want

Aiden Chow

@UnrelatedString ok ill try this out

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just make sure not to choose the songhai bot opponent because i'm pretty sure that deck has 3x phoenix fire :P

brb to shower

Aiden Chow

03:05

dang im just destroying this cpu

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03:28

nice

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04:18

@emanresuA just finished the demo and i'd be down :P

was just about to start harvesting those distant stars you need for later upgrades

emanresu A

gtg for now, but I can tell you how to setup your own

Clone the repo, follow the build instructions, then go to src/js/core/steam_sso.js and set WEB_STEAM_SSO_AUTHENTICATED to true.

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pog

thanks

emanresu A

When doing this, I got an error that it couldn't resolve rando.js - you may have to manually add it

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wacky

Aiden Chow

what does clone repo mean?

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04:30

saw this in the contributors sidebar box

scrolled to see if there were any other based avatars, and found

lmao

hyper-neutrino

skull emoji

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skull emoji

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04:59

oh yeah hyper play duelyst

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05:11

poor guy thought that swamp entangler could save him

and to be fair, it could have saved him, if i didn't have a second divine bond in hand

(or a true strike, or tempest, or war surge, ...)

swamp entangler + not moving was legitimately the best play there but something must have gone horribly wrong to get to that point

like a hard, hard bricked hand

though dispelling my silverguard knight was also a monumental misplay
like i already had azure horn shaman out at that point, my game plan should not have been a mystery lmao

lyxal

05:27

@UnrelatedString for a moment I thought that was Jesse Pinkman and was about to say "Jesse, we need to morb for Gustavo Fring"

emanresu A

05:37

@UnrelatedString How's it going? Did it work?

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05:53

haven';t actually tried yet

@lyxal lmao

emanresu A

Will try to get it up on its own website, but dealing with the bundles may be challenging.

emanresu A

06:31

Perfect

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nice

emanresu A

10:26

And it's gone

Because I only needed it for one level and cleanup is essential

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lol

by the way have you tried duelyst yet

also i'm going to sleep now

o/

emanresu A

@UnrelatedString Not yet, too busy optimizing my factories

emanresu A

11:49

My framerate and upgrades are at the perfect level to make it look like nothing's moving

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19:00

lmao nice

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20:19

i am on an 8 game win streak in ranked

just fought someone i've fought before but this time they're using my divine bond combo idea
almost lost
didn't

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20:31

oh yeah wait this is actually the first person i ever fought in duelyst 2 ladder

lmao

DLosc

@AidenChow Okay, seriously, what? =P I'm lucky if I get below 80 seconds on medium.

emanresu A

They're ridiculously good

user

21:50

This despite somehow getting 8s all the time

Aiden Chow

23:23

@DLosc idk lol, I’ve spent hours on minesweeper, I just pull up minesweeper when I’m bored of other games

@UnrelatedString bro u on 8 win streak while I’m on 8 losing streak, I think I’ll stop doing ranked for now, I keep getting destroyed

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f'

have you tried making a custom deck yet

Aiden Chow

@UnrelatedString umm not big brain enough to make one, I always just choose one of the premade ones

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you should try it

Aiden Chow

Idk what stuff goes well with what stuff

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or maybe check the discord and just steal someone else's decklist lol

Aiden Chow

23:26

It’ll probably be worse than the premade decks

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which premade have you liked the most so far

Aiden Chow

Hmmm

They have a discord server?

@UnrelatedString can’t play any of them well enough to judge them, I get destroyed no matter which one I choose

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discord.com/invite/duelyst

Aiden Chow

The first two ranked games I’ve ever played I won both, then I just lost like the next 10

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better than nothing

user

23:46

This game is too hard for me :(

So many cards and so many options

imma stick to idle games and diep.io

emanresu A

Come play shapez with me

user

I have no idea how to pirate it

emanresu A

I checked and it's actually legal

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hype

user

How?

It's $15 on Steam

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23:47

oh yeah the repo's actually gplv3

emanresu A

Morally correct? maybe not. But removing software blocks is legal.

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nice

user

Nice nice

Do you have a fork I can clone lol

emanresu A

It should be one line of code to hax

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i'd imagine it's intentionally another sort of aseprite type situation
you are given the option to pay for the convenience of not building it yourself

emanresu A

23:48

19 hours ago, by emanresu A

Clone the repo, follow the build instructions, then go to src/js/core/steam_sso.js and set WEB_STEAM_SSO_AUTHENTICATED to true.

user

Thanks

emanresu A

It'll take a few minutes to build, I recommend you change that line before running the final yarn gulp

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what the hell is a yarn gulp

user

yarn is a package manager like npm (but supposedly better)

gulp is yet another JS thing used for building stuff. You can pipe stuff and stuff

emanresu A

@user One last thing: You may get an error saying that rando.js cannot be found. You'll have to manually include it in the core file or something if that happens.

user

23:52

Ah thanks

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