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TopicSaveEstelle & LeonhartFour in New Houses: Birthday Edition [SELF]
Thorn
03/22/23 12:10:46 PM
#116
Well, it's different - but in a lot of ways you could say Three Houses was the different one and that Engage is closer to how Fire Emblem usually is - but it's probably worth a shot for that reason. It's more representative of the series I feel.

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TopicPolitics Containment Topic 402: This Election Sucks and is Now About Trains
Thorn
03/22/23 11:04:28 AM
#275
Peace___Frog posted...
So... nothing happened?
Like NFUN said, Tuesday was Trump pulling a day out of his ass. Most court observers (and the media) realized on Monday that anything happening Tuesday was unlikely. Grand Jury meets again today so maybe tomorrow? Think he's trying a stall tactic by calling another witness in not sure if that'll delay things further or if they covered that in the Monday session.

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TopicSaveEstelle & LeonhartFour in New Houses: Birthday Edition [SELF]
Thorn
03/22/23 11:01:34 AM
#112
FE Engage beated.

Chapter 24 I feel like we could have done a lot more if we were going to the past. Granted we were on a time limit but like, if we knew it was a time travel stone we could have warned Lumera about everything LOL. Pretty straightforward map.

Chapter 25, okay this probably my new favorite for music. Both the map theme and boss theme were great. Story pretty tense even though everything with Lumera feels really unearned because she dies so quickly so the player doesn't really get to be invested in her and it's always a bit weird how attached Alear is given he knew her for like literally 12 hours. Well, I guess with his memories back (and he claims they're all back and I'll just take him at his word I guess lol) it makes a bit more sense. I kinda wish those reinforcements didn't have the "No EXP" tag on them because then I absolutely would have tried to pull a repeat of Chapter 21 and tried to beat them. But with that tag it feels pointless and might actually be infinite - it's what I've always assumed when reinforcements with that tag start appearing.

Chapter 26, oh my god Sombron is an isekai protagonist. Still a very lame character and unlike Zephia and Griss none of this motivation is landing with me. Kinda neat map, at least in Phase 2 with the Dark Emblems. I probably could have skipped a round of them because I was able to knock two of his HP bars off the first time I took down the barrier but I intentionally held back the next time I did so he could summon the (final? I assume so) Dark Emblems so I could complete my grudge matches.

And that's it, I guess. ED was neat as were the "where are they now" art in the credits - what happens if you let characters die? Do they skip the ones that include them? Or keep them because in theory Lapis shouldn't still be working for Alcryst tbqhhh. A bit disappointed nothing seemed to open up after like a new Tempest Trial or anything, though it knocked off the level limit? Didn't check to see where it goes now. I... guess I'm done then?

I have some serious mixed feelings on Engage. The story is just... not good. It's really glaring after Three Houses but even putting that aside it's just really underwhelming. Characters are also really hit or miss and I feel like there were more misses than usual. And my least favorite thing, and it kind of casts a shadow over the rest, the Somniel just isn't good. It's objectively smaller than the Monastery but it feels like so much more of a chore because of the loading zones to various parts of it, useless dead time because it forces certain characters to man certain areas/minigames so if someone else is there it has to switch them out (or just needlessly disable the minigame in general because of the randomness in which characters are present lmao), and the minigames just kinda suck. Especially training. god how did that pass the design phase? Gameplay was great though so that's where a lot of the mixed feelings come in. The break system was neat and Emblems weren't bad either. Smash weapons felt useless though. Almost never used them.

Definitely a big step down from Three Houses IMO.

Next up should be Trails to Azure which actually means replaying Trails from Zero even though it hasn't been that long but I'm a very silly person. Thankfully NG+ should help speed things up on that front.

Edit: Oh also seeing that the Engage Story DLC trailers are dropping. First Elden Ring rises from the dead to drop a DLC announcement mere days after I beat it, now Enage does hours after. Trails to Azure DLC gonna be lit in like a month and a half.

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TopicPolitics Containment Topic 402: This Election Sucks and is Now About Trains
Thorn
03/21/23 12:37:27 AM
#269
Jakyl25 posted...
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna75679

It seems improper for someone as high level as the Speaker to ask Americans not to protest something
I think he knows that despite all the rehabilitation efforts that Tucker and others, including Congresspeople, are trying to run that 1/6 is deeply toxic to independents and he's afraid something similar might happen if Trump's call to violence is heeded.

but this is very much a "can't put the toothpaste back in the tube" thing in terms of what they chose to unleash on the country by embracing this shit

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TopicSaveEstelle & LeonhartFour in New Houses: Birthday Edition [SELF]
Thorn
03/21/23 12:32:10 AM
#104
as expected of fire emblem lmao

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TopicSaveEstelle & LeonhartFour in New Houses: Birthday Edition [SELF]
Thorn
03/21/23 12:13:50 AM
#102
Fire Emblem Engage: Chapter 23 beated.

Also the Paralogues after 21/22. But those were really underwhelming IMO. Marth's at least had some surprisingly strong enemies but Alear's was just boring and simple. Got the Pact Ring and gave it to Lapis. Super close call between her and Veyle and I'm already second guessing myself and think I would regardless of choice. I watched both S-Rank scenes and while Veyle's feels the more canon and Veyle deserves all the happy things FE S-Ranks are generally reserved for romance and yeah while Veyle's wasn't... this *is* FE and I can totally see the paired ending saying something like "And after the battle, Alear and Veyle found a letter Sombron wrote stating that Alear was adopted and he was waiting for the right time to tell the two of them." Fates-style lol. At least the S-Rank art is *waaaaaay* better than Three Houses was, at least the two I saw. never forget that edelgard one.

Engage+ is nuts lol. I'm not even sure what the accepted strategy is here but I'm just not running Alear with an Emblem Ring any more (Veyle taking Byleth in his place) and just an S-Rank Bond Ring. If we're running 14 deployments now with 12 Rings + Alear it works out. I guess I could do the same for Lapis to free up that ring but since Seadall is just dancing people I have him as the other Bond Ring holder.

Anyway, my army is too strong so Chapter 23 wasn't a challenge but I suppose now is a good time to say the Four Hounds have been a super weak antagonist group. They basically show up out of nowhere and are pretty static and almost comic book villains. Which is why it's actually kind of frustrating that Zephia and Griss get like *all* the characterization in their literal dying cutscene. Where the hell was that all game? For the first time I was actually interested in them!

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TopicPolitics Containment Topic 402: This Election Sucks and is Now About Trains
Thorn
03/20/23 9:05:54 AM
#260
Yeah, this was a story I knew too but I suppose it's significant in that someone directly involved is now admitting it. (IIRC some peripheral people like Reagan staffers and some people on Iran's end had before but no one this close on the US side)

Previously everyone denied and when Congress investigated it over 30 years ago they came back with "no evidence i guess." Though the evidence that was present even then was sufficient for me to believe it long before this admission.

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TopicPolitics Containment Topic 402: This Election Sucks and is Now About Trains
Thorn
03/19/23 4:15:37 PM
#254
I'm split on that. You're right but at the same time I don't know if his vanity and ego would permit him to go through with it if he has the option to not.

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TopicTrails in the Sky Playthrough Topic
Thorn
03/19/23 3:20:27 PM
#107
Tita's Smoke Cannon craft is straight up busted against mobs. Comes with a huge AoE Blind? Can add Petrify or whatever other status quartz you want to it? lol. But yeah, you can just make her a support caster for bosses. She's not as good at it as others because of her EP pool but that's usually not really an issue.

Zeiss music the best.

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TopicPolitics Containment Topic 402: This Election Sucks and is Now About Trains
Thorn
03/19/23 3:16:03 PM
#252
ChaosTonyV4 posted...
The can of worms it would open to perp walk a President over Stormie Daniels of all things.

Itd make more sense for them to order him to court and then issue a bench warrant if he doesnt show, that way theres an actual justification they can point to.
To be clear, when I say "more likely to happen than not" I mean the indictment. I'd say an actual perp walk is much less likely - they'll probably work something out where he surrenders voluntarily and avoids the ~~~optics~~~ of that. I just would absolutely love to see it though.

ChaosTonyV4 posted...
I dont see how these two things are related at all.

Another January 6th is almost best case scenario, with the worst case being DeSantis pulling a New York leave my Florida man alone!! and the reactionary response to that. Theres also the possibility of a GOP primary implosion over each candidates reaction to this, but who knows what happens then.
That the idea that law enforcement is going to just abandon the rule of law and an indictment because they're scared of his cultists is kinda ridiculous. If an indictment is returned it'll be executed. If DeSantis wants to flagrantly violate the constitution by preventing an extradition to another state uh "good luck."

As for the GOP primary I think it's pretty clear that a Trump indictment/arrest will actually help him there because the GOP will have a rally-around-the-flag effect over it. Fox News is already trying to message to their viewers that they think it's a leftist plot to cause just that because they're scared of DeSantis and Fox is still trying to push DeSantis.

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TopicMarch Madness topic
Thorn
03/19/23 8:16:04 AM
#107
Marquette and UConn for me to keep my Final Four alive (also have Alabama and Houston.)

Bad start to the day at like 1-3 (just SDSU) but ran the table on night games to go 5-3.

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TopicPolitics Containment Topic 402: This Election Sucks and is Now About Trains
Thorn
03/19/23 7:02:38 AM
#244
Everything about the indictment happening seems fairly solid. I think it's more likely to happen than not at this point. That said, having done some more reading of the reporting regarding Trump's unhinged screed yesterday it sounds like he doesn't have any inside info on the timing so the idea that it's Tuesday is him pulling a day from his ass.

The thinking for Tuesday is that there's yet another meeting between the various law enforcement agencies that would be involved in executing the indictment and arrest, including Trump's Secret Service detail, scheduled for Monday so I guess he's just assuming the arrest would happen the day after.

But it sounds like that's just speculation so it shouldn't be viewed as "it happens Tuesday or it's not happening at all." And tbqh pretty sure more people spontaneously celebrated when Biden won in 2020 than were involved in 1/6. Trump is clearly trying to incite another 1/6-style reaction with his call to his supporters there but I wouldn't expect much to come of it.

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TopicMarch Madness topic
Thorn
03/18/23 10:57:42 PM
#103
Bad injury for UCLA.

smh control room.

Commentator: "Don't replay that. Don't show it - if that's what I think it is, don't show it."
*Immediately shows a full replay of it in slo-mo*

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TopicPolitics Containment Topic 402: This Election Sucks and is Now About Trains
Thorn
03/18/23 9:43:28 PM
#242
Yeah, the rumor is that the Manhattan DA intends to indict Trump imminently. Whether Trump saying Tuesday is him just regurgitating the news reports (and thus not a given it's true) or he knows something (the reports stated law enforcement was reaching out to the Secret Service to discuss how the logistics of doing this will go so maybe he has inside info on the time) idk.

As far as we know this particular indictment is related to the Stormy Daniels payments. I'm thinking at most we get a perp walk of Trump (which would be delicious) but I could also see law enforcement and the Secret Service working out a deal where he voluntarily walks with them into the courthouse or whatever instead of the full handcuffs deal. Either way, I expect he'll post bail immediately and walk out. We're not lucky enough to live in a world where he gets thrown in jail.

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TopicTrails in the Sky Playthrough Topic
Thorn
03/18/23 9:38:40 PM
#90
ZeldaTPLink posted...
Josh and Estelle now have to go to school. Estelle isn't happy. now I'm wondering, why were they not going to school before? arent they 16? DId they drop out or something?
In the Trails world, school is run by the church (so you'll see it called Sunday School) and it's a bit tough to nail down the age range I think but it seems to run something like 6-16 or so. I don't think Estelle and Joshua are dropouts at least so I assume you can graduate at 16.

Well, I guess I should say universal schooling is run by the church - obviously you have thinks like the Jenis Royal Academy but I think that's more "secondary education is run by other people and treated similarly to universities/colleges here"

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TopicMarch Madness topic
Thorn
03/18/23 9:31:38 PM
#98
Houston gave me a serious scare in that first half but they dominated the second half. bracket not totally dead yet

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TopicSaveEstelle & LeonhartFour in New Houses: Birthday Edition [SELF]
Thorn
03/18/23 8:55:50 PM
#95
LordoftheMorons posted...
Oh lame, UVA lost
otoh uva is no longer alone in the hall of shame of 1 seeds losing to a 16

that might be a win overall

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TopicMarch Madness topic
Thorn
03/18/23 8:44:07 PM
#97
Leonhart4 posted...
26/32 for the first round if Indiana holds on, not bad
22/32. =(

Had Duke in the Elite 8 though so that hurts a bit. Had Kansas getting bounced by UConn in the Sweet 16 however (and gonig to the Final Four) so that's looking okay-ish so far.

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TopicPolitics Containment Topic 402: This Election Sucks and is Now About Trains
Thorn
03/17/23 10:29:54 PM
#234
I do think it's easier for most European countries to protest because it's a smaller area so people are clustered together more. People are just spreadout a whole bunch here so it's way harder for anything approaching, say, a general strike to happen here.

But yeah it'd be nice if we would.

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TopicSuper Bowl LVII Discussion Topic
Thorn
03/17/23 10:21:10 PM
#494
depends on the metric

like what if it's "just having fun out there"

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TopicMarch Madness topic
Thorn
03/17/23 10:02:59 PM
#66
Taking Drake > Miami looked pretty good most of this game and then it ends on a 16-1 run and welp.

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TopicSaveEstelle & LeonhartFour in New Houses: Birthday Edition [SELF]
Thorn
03/17/23 10:00:19 PM
#84
FE Engage: NCAA Tournament eating most of my free time but I squeezed in enough to beat Chapter 22. I guess the real Fire Emblem was the friends we made along the way.

"I am the thirteenth Emblem. The Fire Emblem." lmfao IS plz. Okay, so I said I expected the secret ring revival ability to be fired at some point but I didn't expect it to happen in the same chapter where Veyle revived Alear lol. So in theory I'm okay with each of the revival methods - they both make sense logically and were built up, Veyle with the Corrupted and the Emblems both foreshadowing this power and just the general principle of Elyos being able to get its own Emblem. But using them both back-to-back like this is pretty comical in a bad way. If they had to have a "Alear dies and is brought back" should have stuck with one or the other, not both.

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TopicMarch Madness topic
Thorn
03/17/23 9:11:13 PM
#45
Had Purdue losing to Duke in the Sweet 16 because I didn't have the guts to take Memphis but I had zero faith in Purdue doing anything significant. Still just my second Sweet 16 loss along with Arizona.

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TopicMarch Madness topic
Thorn
03/17/23 9:07:15 PM
#42
LOL Purdue

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TopicMarch Madness topic
Thorn
03/17/23 8:54:50 PM
#39
UMBC was magical. Their... point guard, I think it was, went into god mode.

LOL of the tournament incoming though.

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TopicPolitics Containment Topic 402: This Election Sucks and is Now About Trains
Thorn
03/17/23 12:24:22 PM
#200
hate to interrupt this but the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Putin in connection to Russia forcibly relocating Ukrainian children to Russia.

Obviously this will never amount to anything because like obviously Russia isn't going to turn him in but better than nothing I suppose.

https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/1636747504418193408

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TopicMarch Madness topic
Thorn
03/16/23 11:48:38 PM
#28
LeonhartFour posted...
*turns on Tennessee game with the Vols up 18*

*Louisiana promptly goes on a 13-0 run*

welp
survive and advance

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TopicPersona 5 Mobile Game announced
Thorn
03/16/23 11:30:55 PM
#7
SirChris posted...
Take my money if it funds Persona 6
it may not even take japan's money lmao

https://twitter.com/ScrambledFaz/status/1636568035879272448

"Deployment in Japan is undecided" lol

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TopicPersona 5 Mobile Game announced
Thorn
03/16/23 11:24:25 PM
#3
UshiromiyaEva posted...
Don't see any confirmation yet if this is a real game or a gacha, but the answer is probably obvious.
Sounds like gacha if this person is right.

https://twitter.com/ScrambledFaz/status/1636533605869531136

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TopicMarch Madness topic
Thorn
03/16/23 11:22:30 PM
#27
Yeah, I just noticed that (I have Houston's game on even as they've gotten some breathing room) and noticed the score closed real quick.

also dang i originally had PSU but switched to A&M late

edit: and now north kentucky on a 5-0 run to cut it back to 5 lol

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TopicPolitics Containment Topic 402: This Election Sucks and is Now About Trains
Thorn
03/16/23 10:52:55 PM
#185
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/16/us/florida-textbooks-african-american-history.html

The New York Times reports...
In an attempt to cater to Florida, at least one publisher made significant changes to its materials, walking back or omitting references to race, even in its telling of the Rosa Parks story.

NYT shows how the textbook originally stated: "The law said African Americans had to give up their seats on the bus if a white person wanted to sit down"

then changed to a more indirect draft version

"She was told to move to a different seat because of the color of her skin"

to finally

"She was told to move to a different seat"

with no explanation of why she was told to move

If I'm reading the NYT article correctly, the textbook publisher backpedalled back to the "color of her skin" version and pulled the completely whitewashed version from review by the state when they reached out for comment on this story but this is exactly the kind of effect DeSantis and the GOP are trying to get from publishers, threatening them into "self-censoring" to comply with these laws.

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TopicPost your hot takes regarding Danganronpa
Thorn
03/16/23 10:21:52 PM
#59
Leonhart4 posted...
As someone who recently completed DRV3, the implication I took from it is that DR1 and 2 are just TV shows, too, and happened the same way DRV3 did. I didn't really get any suggestion that Tsumugi and Monokuma just lied about the whole thing.
I generally agree with this but I'd read some theories - and maybe they're just coping/fan rewrites of the ending a la Indoctrination Theory - I dunno but they sound plausible enough that I can understand questioning it.

it doesn't help that a lot of it relies on cospox lmao

Like Tsumugi can cosplay as the old DR1/2 cast just fine but couldn't cosplay as the the V3 one in Case 1? I mean maybe she just faked cospox by cheating by being the mastermind but if it's al lthe same shouldn't *all* the characters be in the same bag and she can't cosplay the old casts?

Also some weirdness with the prologue before they get their "Ultimate" upgrades don't seem to match with Tsumugi's story but again you can cover this up as some kind of multi-level fake for no obvious reason other than to mess with the player using Flashback Light memory rewriting.

I'm cool with the ending but it definitely feels like they sacrificed coherency and consistency in the plot to make their point.

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TopicSaveEstelle & LeonhartFour in New Houses: Birthday Edition [SELF]
Thorn
03/16/23 10:12:34 PM
#80
I initially had a joke in there about Sombron operating on the same "you kill someone you magically get the drops even at range" the player does to somehow obtain the rings before axing it because even under that assumption he'd only get Alear's ring (and maybe Marth's but he interrupted before Veyle handed it over so I dunno whose inventory it counts as) so the other 10 should be with my army even if no longer capable of manifesting Emblems.

And yeah, Veyle is great. Up there with Lapis for "must protect."

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TopicPost your hot takes regarding Danganronpa
Thorn
03/16/23 10:08:55 PM
#54
IIRC wasn't V3 a bit ambiguous on whether Tsugumi was telling them the complete truth about their lives? Or I dunno, maybe they just kinda lost some coherence at the end there and it's just some plot holes and such.

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TopicPost your hot takes regarding Danganronpa
Thorn
03/16/23 10:04:45 PM
#52
Paratroopa1 posted...
Nagito is the best character in the series, bar none
If this is a hot take then I'm absolutely all-in on it as well but I didn't think it was. Same with a few other takes in the topic I agree with but felt were pretty common (like thinking the double murders were missed opportunities to have a killer escape punishment by Monokuma rules lawyering and the cast having to deal with knowing one of them literally committed murder before)

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TopicMarch Madness topic
Thorn
03/16/23 10:01:32 PM
#25
only 10 minutes but not looking great for my tournament winner houston lol

I know they have an injury but I was - without looking at any injury reports - hoping they could escape the first weekend and hopefully be at full strength after? Which is an immensely dumb thing to do with no research but I also don't take brackets super seriously.

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TopicTrails in the Sky Playthrough Topic
Thorn
03/16/23 8:49:19 PM
#85
gotta get up earlier than that to beat me to trails info nfun

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TopicTrails in the Sky Playthrough Topic
Thorn
03/16/23 8:47:58 PM
#83
ZeldaTPLink posted...
I'm getting analysis paralysis because now that I have 3 chars with 6 slots each and starting to see mid level quartz, I can use almost every spell in the game. But that doesn't mean I can use them all at the same time
Ultimately, the spell you want to work towards is White Gehenna. That's pretty much the best attack spell in the game.

ZeldaTPLink posted...
Also I found out quartz that add status to basic attacks all belong to the same "category" which means I'm not allowed to give one character Seal, Blind and Petrify at the same time. Curse devs for designing against the exploit I was intending to do.
You actually can do this in later games if they're placed on different lines (giving an advantage to a character having multiple lines instead of just one) but I forget when the series makes that change.

ZeldaTPLink posted...
Kloe's german craft that reduces enemy status is calling her Not a Hawk to strike them. Not complaining
this is a busted craft.

ZeldaTPLink posted...
There is also Chaos Brand, which confuses an enemy. That sounds OP.
In FC I think it's a guaranteed hit too unless the enemy is immune. And a perhaps surprising amount of enemies are not.

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TopicSaveEstelle & LeonhartFour in New Houses: Birthday Edition [SELF]
Thorn
03/16/23 7:28:16 PM
#78
FE Engage: Kinda wanted to get through this series of battles before posting an update but oh well. Chapter 21 (and just 21) beated. Sitting on 22's prep screen.

20 had an interesting fight concept, it probably would have been annoying if Griss warping every turn lasted forever but it could have gone on a few more turns I think (unless it was progress based and that's what stopped it)

21 was far more straightforward but became a far more fun fight once I decided to defeat all the reinforcements. Definitely made it significantly more intense fight. Corrin!Yunaka held one chokepoint and Byleth!Alear and Roy!Lapis the other, each backed up by a good chunk of the army. Alear's group had most of them because that side tended to be the scarier side since the 3-range mages could only reliably be countered by Alycrst with a longbow and that wouldn't always happen so there'd always be a huge amount of mages. Definitely a few scary moments (and a rewind or two) where enough hits would pile up to put me in the "one more hit will kill, need to dodge like 3 more potential attacks" zone or Yunaka would go cold on crits and an enemy or two could leak out to get to the squishy mages backing her up.

Eventually though the reinforcements stopped and the rout was completed. That said this greatly extended the time the battle took so I stopped on 22's prep screen as mentioned. Story-wise the ballsy move would be to have had Alear die for real and Veyle take over MC duties. She has an extremely similar class so you could even like just transfer their stats over to her if you wanted. But you knew that modern FE would never do this. I expected the bailout revive to be the rings though because there was a moment a few chapters ago where they very clearly implied they have a super secret revive function. But somehow Sombron got them all? Well, Veyle's trick works but consider me highly sus since that ring function is obviously going to be used *somewhere*.

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TopicPost your hot takes regarding Danganronpa
Thorn
03/16/23 7:13:51 PM
#42
Huh, I don't really feel like any of my Danganronpa takes are all that hot. I guess I like Mahiru more than most people idk.

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TopicHelp settle a (very stupid) debate between me and my straight friends
Thorn
03/16/23 6:53:53 PM
#28
tazzyboyishere posted...
No wtf


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TopicMarch Madness topic
Thorn
03/16/23 6:45:58 PM
#22
Just got back to check the early results. lmao Arizona. Had them in the Elite 8 rip. Thought about having them upset in the Sweet 16 whoops .4-3 with Arkansas too so unless a miracle happens 5-3.

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TopicPolitics Containment Topic 402: This Election Sucks and is Now About Trains
Thorn
03/15/23 10:38:00 PM
#163
LordoftheMorons posted...
I dunno if you guys have been following this but theres a good chance that a Trump-appointed judge in Texas will soon issue a nationwide injunction banning Mifepristone, an abortion-inducing drug that was approved by the FDA like two decades ago
I wasn't following it closely but I was aware this was going on in the background and was bracing for the worst.

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TopicSuper Bowl LVII Discussion Topic
Thorn
03/15/23 10:13:05 PM
#475
theawesomestevr posted...
I get that Jets fans are addicted to losing, and the fear that might change because someone they personally hate for dumb reasons has decided he wants to play for them next season is going to override the rational parts of their brains, but if I was a Jets fan, I'd be excited that we will actually be relevant for the first time since Rex Ryan.
hey.

i take offense to "for dumb reasons"

I think there's plenty of reason to think that Rodgers's attitude has the potential to be toxic to a team full of young talent given how he treated young players literally last year. Now maybe you can argue that that was just him being petty af and taking out his dislike for the Packers front office on the players but that isn't much better! IDK, maybe he has a complete change in attitude now that he's (basically) on the Jets but I really doubt it - nothing we've seen from him the past 3 years indicates that's likely.

Hell, Jets front office has been so bad at drafting historically that I honestly don't value draft picks (for them) as highly as most because I internally just think "oh their first round pick? well they'd just draft a bust anyway. or else drive away an actually good player within three years" so in theory I kinda get the front office's fixation on trying to just cobble a team together in free agency by grabbing vets/big names... but again, for the first time since - like you said, Rex Ryan - it felt like they might have gotten a good coach and GM combo and maybe this changed but I think the philosophy from ownership remains unchanged and they might ruin that.

tl;dr: Obviously Rodgers objectively should make the team considerably better. Kinda hard not to because the QB situation was so bad. But this feels very short-sighted and potentially risking what looked like, for once, a kinda promising long-term situation.

I mean, I guess you're not entirely wrong that my personal feelings about Rodgers means that even if they have success here my feelings will be muted about it but whatever - it's basically done now.

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TopicPolitics Containment Topic 402: This Election Sucks and is Now About Trains
Thorn
03/14/23 9:17:36 PM
#154
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1635738910562156554

Minnesota solved hunger I guess. No one hungry.

Regardless of this insane statement the bill did in fact pass the state senate. Vote was 38-26. 4 GOP joined all 34 Dems to pass it.

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TopicPost your hot takes regarding Final Fantasy
Thorn
03/14/23 9:07:42 PM
#111
if it meant compression of time played more often i think that's an indisputable fact tbqh

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TopicSuper Bowl LVII Discussion Topic
Thorn
03/14/23 8:47:17 PM
#441
The most annoying thing about that wishlist is the Jets actually have a lot of promising young talent at skill positions for the first time in forever but Rodgers would have them ignore that and just grab his buddies. Hall was basically on track to be ROTY before the injury. Garrett Wilson was OROTY.

If I suspend my immense distaste for acquiring Rodgers for a moment, it just doesn't make any sense. I mean, maybe acquire a player or two from it like they did with Lazard to get a #2 WR or whatever but they should laugh off the rest of that list and if it's really a dealbreaker with Rodgers then the deal should be broken because it's just downright illogical for the Jets to pursue it.

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TopicSaveEstelle & LeonhartFour in New Houses: Birthday Edition [SELF]
Thorn
03/14/23 8:41:38 PM
#72
TeamRocketElite posted...
Regarding Sigurd's paralogue

Did you kill all of the enemies?
who do you think i am

Yeah, I did. Got a nasty surprise from the two mages in the bottom left corner. When I check the enemy units before the battle I'm typically looking for enemies with drops so I missed the 60 or whatever magic attack and walked right into a ohko when I put a unit in their range thinking I'd draw them over like any other enemies lol. Corrin!Yunaka to the rescue again!

As for the massive reinforcements at the end I boxed in Sigurd with my tankiest guys while the rest of the army cleaned that up before I finished the battle.

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TopicSuper Bowl LVII Discussion Topic
Thorn
03/14/23 3:24:25 PM
#428
Emeraldegg posted...
It's more that they are hyped for any QB who isn't crap. Lots of people think the jets really are a qb away so...rodgers isn't what he used to be but he can still play some.
I mean they kinda are if you swapped out Wilson for an elite QB on a rookie deal like if you just put Burrow in there.

But the problem was that in getting Rodgers you were going to have to trade away pieces to get him from the Packers and probably cut other pieces for salary purposes so now the team is already lesser than the hypothetical "Rodgers on last years' Jets" team.

Now with this wishlist of his? God if the Jets were to actually fulfill it is the old team even left and it's not just Green Bay East Lite? Like we're literally at the point where I think Rodgers would have been better off staying in Green Bay because I'm not even sure team quality ends up that different in the end but the NFC is such an easier path.

It's why I hoped they'd go anywhere but Rodgers this offseason. Lamar? The ideal. Still the same salary issues but you're getting someone long term. Carr? Honestly all considered probably gets you as far as Rodgers could (which is like divisional round, maybe a loss in the AFC Championship) because what he lacks in talent in comparison he's cheaper and blows up less of the team because no trade. Jimmy G similar boat.

But ownership wants to "make a splash" and be the center of attention and has no idea how to put together a winning football team so it'll just blow up the entire team chasing a fantasy and clicks/views.

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TopicSaveEstelle & LeonhartFour in New Houses: Birthday Edition [SELF]
Thorn
03/14/23 3:15:49 PM
#69
Fire Emblem Engage: Chapter 19 beated. Most interesting map since last time was definitely Leif's paralogue. Those ballistas lol. Could have been a problem but Sigurd!Ivy is a mobile artillery who can fly from outside ballista range to nuke them then canter away beyond the reach of any retribution and eliminate all of the ones on the right side of the map.

That little ballista corner closer to the start area could have been trickier since they had two up that covered each other but Byleth!Alear, Yunaka, and Seadall can basically former a strike team that can cover a silly amount of distance in one turn to get there wreck it.

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