#and avoiding drawing aggro is NOT AN EASY FEAT

[aegagrusscholarship]

I made a MADNESS: Project Nexus transcript

i'm sick and tired of having to search through four separate let's plays every time i want to find a specific line or conversation.

enjoy.

STORY MODE PROGRESS: > All missions complete > Overworld complete > S-3LF Eater complete

ARENA MODE PROGRESS: > Imprint 1 complete (minus post-game) > Imprint 2 complete > Imprint 3 pending > Stage dialogue mostly complete

MISC. PROGRESS: > Pause screen quips complete > Loading screen tips complete

[sdyuteiaok]

All right, our Arizona sessions are in the books until November, but we had a nice final session today, as well as a sweet Florida run today, too. The Florida was great because I was actually able to talk down a Fox-fueled lady, addressing her concerns point by point where she actually started questioning her news media--if Kamala was doing all this stuff, why hasn't the news been covering it? Oh...maybe the news she watches has been avoiding covering it and she should watch some other sources...! You could see her hitting the realizing in realtime. Including her knee-jerk reaction that if Kamala wanted the news to cover her stuff, she should force them to, but then I explained the government can't do that and shouldn't be able to because that would be censorship and is forbidden by the First Amendment, and you could see her 1A programming kick in and she was totally on board that the government shouldn't be doing that, and that it's up to us to find better news sources. It was incredible. She just about called out Fox and their ilk in her own terms at her own pace, all I had to do was walk her through how whatever news she's been getting hasn't been serving her well and she could see how this was plain. She even asked for Kamala's website so she could look up her feats further. It was incredible. This is what it's all about, that's why we have these conversations and slog through not-home after not-home, to reach the people that it can truly make a difference to. Maybe she ultimately doesn't vote blue, but I sincerely hope we made her question the narrative she's been getting. She was genuinely impressed with Kamala after our conversation, it was really cool--she no longer saw her as some empty caricature, but as a human being trying to do the right thing and achieving a whole lot in the meantime, doing the quiet work of the people. Anyway, on the Magic front, I decided to pop off a Duskmourn draft and had a pretty ok aggro BW deck, complete with 4 Cheerleaders, but man, getting them activated was really not easy. Only one game or so was it easy to get it cooking, but then, even after taking to the air, they just get outclassed too easily and surely. Other times, you have to jump through hoops to get them rolling, and at that point, you're using removal or something on something you might outclass later, just to get them rolling, at which point, it's not quite worth it in the long run. There was a reanimator element, including two of the 5/5 BW pants guys that ETB and do a bunch of stuff. But these also were basically impossible to cast, and almost always defeated, often in combat. My last game was looking to be excellent, but I draw 5 Swamps in a row, no Plains aside from the one my hockey mask milled, until turn seven or so, at which point my hand was full of white cards and I was finally pooping out one white card per turn, which was fatal that late in the game. My p1p1 BW legend only ever landed once and activated just to surveil a second plains to the top. Such a sad end to a promising deck--plenty of aggro early, and some serious heat mid/late either via reanimation or casting. But everything choked on never getting a plains in time. And then my opponent was even taking forever to play stuff himself, but that's cuz he was full up on removal, so everything I cast died, and because I was only playing one thing per turn, I couldn't start stabilizing. I had three cheerleaders just rotting, forget about my 5/5 ETB guys and my WB legend and reanimation spell.