For sure, it’s always the unexpected plays that leave me 8 cube in the hole. And Aero is just such a solid card all around, especially if you have priority it can completely derail a Wong or anything really that relies on interactions.

I usually play Control archetypes in TCGs and for Snap, there’s a marked division between good Control cards that I would say are “active”, as opposed to the Control cards which are “reactive.”

Shang Chi is also boned if the player has priority and the opponent doesn’t: if they’re ahead and drop Shan Chi, and the opponent’s Devil Dino or Magneto flips afterwards, Shang is a 4 strength, 4 energy card, which is pretty bad.

I love playing against move decks because as soon as you see the setup coming, you just lean into the right and middle lanes. Heimdall becomes a liability if the other deck can just outvalue the appropriate positions. 

Because you literally made my point that: “Search results will vary, took mine three full pages on googling”

Did you bring up linguistic prescriptivism in the hope that no one would give you a hard time for eschewing hyphens, confusing “pendants” with “pedants,” and using “equally as”?

so unknown as best I can tell they’ve never been mentioned in any movie about Greek mythology either (over 100 films)

That’s what it always means, across industries.

I agree. Why ARE you doing that? It was just established the name is a coincidence. Are you going to incoherently double down by saying the author obviously meant “Kratos, the son of Pallas and Styx?”

I think in modern times when 99% of people say Kratos we know they mean Sony’s IP, and can be farely certain they have no knowledge of a lesser known character from Greek mythology.

Oxford says “terms” can be “words.”

Interesting idea but ‘milkshake duck’ is still specifically defined as a phrase when I look it up, which makes sense because it exactly fits the definition of a phrase and not the definition of a word.

Well that’s my point, if you say that any term or phrase that has 2 words is actually a word, then you’re saying any 3 or 4 or 100 word phrase that has a singular meaning is also a word. Since I’m the one saying that the vast majority of words are single words and not multiples, I’m gonna have to ask you what criteria…

Which also means that words which aren’t separated by spaces are unusual

Right, words are usually separated by spaces, which means necessarily “not always."

They’re still not meant to be the same character though.

If you’re going to correct someone so confidently, a five second Google would spare you a lot of embarrassment.

If the were 2 separate words, they’d be spelled ‘fire truck’ and ‘black bird’.

Two units of meaning can make a single word despite the space between the morphemes, and generally as time goes on words composed of two units that co-occur in conjunction like that will lose the space between them, as for example firetruck or blackbird.

All the words are made up and many of the things we say now would’ve been, for some long dead pendants, equally as deplorable.