Joe Cecil

Repetition

It's tricky to repeat yourself effectively in writing (fiction). You don't want to do it unintentionally, too frequently or for unimportant things. But you can use it to good effect. An excerpt from Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett: There was another thing. Hardly anyone used tinder

Margins

(Disclaimer: I hadn't seen a definition of profit margins before today, so I have probably no idea what I'm talking about.) It increasingly seems to me like (profit) margins are worth considering when thinking about career questions and where to work. If your employer has no

Win condition? 1

I'd like to understand the term "win condition" better. I've seen this used in fighting game contexts and more recently in the context of Slay the Spire. As in: "What's your deck's win condition?" Or: "Fred is

Let's do the discard shuffle

A tip I found recently advises you to aim to draw a full hand from your draw pile. Specifically, "11 cards isn't a good number to have." The article partially explains this, but I think it's worth working through in more detail to see

Why X cards?

Slay the Spire has cards (which for this post I am calling "X cards") that cost all of your remaining energy. The effects are generally proportional to the energy spent. For example, Silent can get the card Skewer which costs X energy and "deals 7 damage X

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