Lifeson: The Inconvenience Store

bfgeshka: joining AR with slow ping

Spameggspamspam Baconandspam: This shop has really high prices!
Rick Tyger: "Must be this tall to buy fireworks... What a scam..."
lord of thieves: You must be this tall to order snacks

BlakAcid: "well there's your problem right there"

The Tyop Queen: New quest unlocked: 'Scale the Unstable Kiosk.' Reward: 1 meat and a broken leg.

Chadomancer: Theft prevention takes on new heights.

Ryu Gin: I wonder why the prices are so high.

Logan1237: The architect: Trust me, it ll look better from the road.

DrMotives: That's the 3rd most inconvient gift shop I've seen

Game Review: Super Auto Pets Card Battle

Super Auto Pets is a fun little online game of strategically buying and placing pets then pitting them against another player's lineup in an auto-battler until someone runs out of pets. Between fights you can upgrade and swap pets to create a stronger batch of contenders and come out on top. Each pet has abilities that activate together creating combinations that affect your attack, sometimes in unexpected ways.

Can it be adapted onto the table? Plaid Hat Games took a shot at it with Super Auto Pets Card Battle, a tabletop version of the online game, with some adaptations to make it work. It features the same pet and item artwork as the original and the cards are stylized in the same way including graphics that are unique to the card game.

Two players try to win the most trophies over six rounds. Each round consists of a buy phase and a battle phase. In the buy phase players start wit three coins take turns buying cards from a common market for one coin or selling them to get an apple to add to a pet. In lieu of leveling up, one can discard three cards with the same hat to get a card from the next level.

After both players pass they then order their cards into a deck for battle. Players play cards from their deck until a pet appears in the battlefield, then both pets simultaneously attack each other and any damage settled. If any pets faint the next ones are drawn on the next turn, this continues until at least someone runs out of pets, whoever still has pets wins the round and gets a trophy, with the last round worth two trophies.

Pets start battle with equal health and power, indicated by the number on their card, they also have abilities that take effect at certain times, such as buffing the next pets, being able to throw rocks and deal damage before actually attacking. 

Previous knowledge of the original Super Auto Pets isn't needed to appreciate this game but those who have played the online version might find some differences that need getting used to. Even with such changes gameplay is close to the computer experience especially the ensuing chaos of battle.

It's a short game, but you'll find yourself cycling through cards in those six rounds, making every round unpredictable. The first round may seem a bit slow, then the pace picks up by round two, where tripling really comes into play and improving your lineup becomes more urgent as leveling up pets doesn't exist in the card game and tripling isn't a perfect analog for it.

What an auto-battler needs to do is find a way to handle the sense of determinism that comes with the genre, and Card Battle does this by letting players adjust their lineup just like in the original, even more so with how items don't just stick to a pet like they do in the online game. Access to the next round's cards adds unpredictability and you'll never be too sure what you're up against.

Rocks as adapted in the card game still deal damage outside of an attack, but with no way to attack any other pet it takes on a different form: you roll dice and deal damage equal to the number of rocks that appear. This takes place once a pet enters battle before attacking, adding just that extra bit of unpredictability of whether your pet will survive to fight or not.

Some causes for confusion include in tallying power and health and timing. Because both power and health are defined by the same number while damage is marked separately, mistaking a pet's current health to its current strength is a common oversight. When the number gets big enough there is no further need to calculate. Attacks happen simultaneously but for card effects the first player during the buying phase gets priority, this doesn't affect the flow of gameplay that much as most two-way play can be settled at the same time.

A quick game that's strategic but always surprising, Super Auto Pets Card Battle might have its differences with the PC version but is just as fun and chaotic.

Summerpalooza 2026 Results

Guess the final results of the semi-finals and the grand final of Eurovision 2026, with whoever gets the most points from correct guesses being the winner.

The participating countries and songs:

Semi-final 1:

Moldova: Satoshi - "Viva, Moldova!"

Sweden: Felicia - "My System"

Croatia: Lelek - "Andromeda"

Greece: Akylas - "Ferto"

Portugal: Bandidos do Cante - "Rosa"

Georgia: Bzikebi - "On Replay"

Finland: Linda Lampenius and Pete Parkkonen - "Liekinheitin"

Montenegro: Tamara Živković - "Nova zora"

Estonia: Vanilla Ninja - "Too Epic to Be True"

Israel: Noam Bettan - "Michelle"

Belgium: Essyla - "Dancing on the Ice"

Lithuania: Lion Ceccah - "Sólo quiero más"

San Marino: Senhit - "Superstar"

Poland: Alicja - "Pray"

Serbia: Lavina - "Kraj mene"

Semi-final 2:

Bulgaria: Dara - "Bangaranga"

Azerbaijan: Jiva - "Just Go"

Romania: Alexandra Căpitănescu - "Choke Me"

Luxembourg: Eva Marija - "Mother Nature"

Czechia: Daniel Zizka - "Crossroads"

Armenia: Simón - "Paloma Rumba"

Switzerland: Veronica Fusaro - "Alice"

Cyprus: Antigoni - "Jalla"

Latvia: Atvara - "Ēnā"

Denmark: Søren Torpegaard Lund - "Før vi går hjem"

Australia: Delta Goodrem - "Eclipse"

Ukraine: Leléka - "Ridnym"

Albania: Alis - "Nân"

Malta: Aidan - "Bella"

Norway: Jonas Lovv - "Ya Ya Ya"

Automatic finalists:

Austria: Cosmó - "Tanzschein"

France: Monroe - "Regarde !"

Germany: Sarah Engels - "Fire"

Italy: Sal da Vinci - "Per sempre sì"

United Kingdom: Look Mum No Computer - "Eins, Zwei, Drei"

All the songs

Rehearsal clips

To enter, send your ranked top 10 for each semi-final (i.e. who you think will qualify and at what place) along with your top 25 for the final based on the two lists plus the five automatic qualifers.

Points will be scored as follows:

Semi-finals:

1 point for each correct qualifier

Bonus points for each correct ranking (12 for 1st, 10 for 2nd, 8 for 3rd, 7... 1)

10 points for getting all 10 finalists right in one semi-final

30 points for getting all 20 finalists right in both semi-finals

Final:

Points for each correct ranking (25 for 1st, 24...1)

Summerpalooza 2026 Rules

  

 

J Diddy: They don't know I poisoned it

riverclaw: when your parents ask you to share with your siblings

Zeko: no, to get the ratio right you have to weight it before adding the stench wad
DiscoName: weighted training noodles
Ashuralol: I want a spoon
Frogina: "Mooom! He still got more than me!"
Demit: 'see?! I told you! Your plate has 4 ounces, but mine only has 3.98"|
blockhead77: You can't be too careful around the noodle bandits
thebetter saaauuuccceee: When you're faster than your friends at dinnertime.
Antic the Fearless: When your kids are always complaining that their siblings are getting more food than them.
Thereminivan Beethoven: Counting Carbs: Stoner Edition

The not very chosen one: Average sibling food sharing experience

Painterguy: She jolli on my bee til I chickenjoy - 9 pts

Big Daddy Grimm: me laughing at the filter that made her look so silly - 5 pts, 3 vts

Sauceror Vitalysis: he says my face looks jolly - 2 pts
Zanthia: She must have had the beans. That realy stinks! - 5 pts, 3 vts
thebetter saaauuuccceee: Don't be suspicious - 1 pt

Chadomancer: Sandra didn't know it, but she was about to get her eggs deviled. - 4 pts

Frogina: When you find your ONLY fan - 14 pts

BoomBoomBam: The ever cautious Chef chooses only the most fragrant of meat for the daily special. - 5 pts, 2 vts

Tokyo Baby: When using phone is not allowed at work so you scroll with the customer instead! - 7 pts
Empty_Bottle: look at this phone, companion i am currently sobbing - 8 pts

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