Lurker > Calwings

Full_Pokedex posted...

Hear: Monkey Idol of the Wind

It's basically a reusable D.D. Crow that isn't at risk of being negated with Called By The Grave. Plus, the way you worded it means that it's a soft once per turn (AKA once per turn per copy), so if you open with multiple copies you can use them both in the same turn. So many decks use the GY for recursion and combos that removing key cards from the GY like this on a quick effect is extremely strong. This card would at least be limited to 1.

Full_Pokedex posted...

See: Monkey Idol of the Earth

OP, ban it. It's basically a weaker version of Maxx C (banned in TCG but OCG/MD allow it even though a lot of people think it should be banned) that's also re-usable and immune to being negated with stuff like Called By The Grave that would otherwise negate Maxx C. Plus, again, the way you worded it makes it a soft once-per-turn, so opening with 2 in your hand means you could use both and draw 2 cards each time.

Full_Pokedex posted...

Speak: Monkey Idol of the Flame

Extremely OP, immediately banned. The fact that you don't have to discard it so you can keep using it for multiple turns (and, yet again, the way you worded it making it a soft once per turn) makes it even more insane, but this would be ban-worthy even if you had to discard it and it had a hard once per turn limitation because it does the job of so many other handtraps but far better.

Full_Pokedex posted...

Shrine of the Silver Monkey

Nobody would ever play this because you have to hard-draw it along with all 3 of the other monkey idols, and the chances of that are slim. They'll just use the monkey idol cards by themselves, which would be some of the most broken handtraps in the game in the state you put them in.

Absolutely horrendous batch of cards. 0/10. Stick to Pokemon, Duncan.

DocileOrangeCup posted...

Just ran into a rhongo sales ban deck. This is legitimately fascinating that they allow things like this to exist.

"GoSsIp ShAdOw WaS tHe PrObLeM." - Konami

About to start the final chapter on my 2nd playthrough. In the meantime, have a meme:

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Oricorio

I didn't give it much of a chance in gen 7 itself, but seeing Larry use it in gen 9 and then using one myself in my birds-only second playthrough made me really like it. Its primary move Revelation Dance changes its type to match Oricorio's primary type, whether it's the primary type of one of its four different forms or its tera type when it terastilizes, which leads to some shenanigans in battle. It also gets Quiver Dance for boosting itself and can Baton Pass those boosts to a teammate, and the nectars to change its form are way easier to get in gen 9 compared to back in gen 7. Plus it's just freaking adorable.

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DocileOrangeCup posted...

Is there a specific reason to have 2 accounts? Is one differently leveled or is it so you don't have to buy a ton of gems?

More gems per month + more total deck slots, both of which mean I can build and use a wider variety of different decks. Both of my accounts are the same level (29, but my main is closer to 30 since it started a little earlier) but they have a completely different set of decks of them.

On my main account, I have:

* Sky Striker
* Therion Sky Striker
* Spright (incomplete, undecided if I'll finish it)
* Runick Spright (incomplete, undecided if I'll finish it)
* Runick Burn
* Mathmech (not updated with Circular, undecided if I'll craft Circular to finish it or just dismantle)
* Zoodiac
* Floowandereeze
* Ultra Athletes
* Spellbook
* Crusadia
* Kozmo

On my side account I have:

* Eldlich
* Branded Eldlich
* Dragonmaid
* Dragonmaid Eldlich
* Branded Dragonmaid
* True Draco
* True Draco Eldlich
* Zombie World Eldlich
* Drytron
* Branded Drytron
* Marincess
* Labrynth
* Beetrooper
* Ritual Dogmatika
* Kozmo (only deck I have on both accounts, it's my go-to deck for event grinding)

And the best part: I have all of these decks without spending one single cent of real money. Playing on two accounts does mean that completing daily missions takes a bit longer than on just one account, plus I'm a permanent "stay in gold" player on both accounts because I don't have the time or patience to grind into the higher ranks. But I think the game is more fun this way. I'd much rather be doing this than playing only on one account but stressing out on the climb to diamond or to DLv20 in the DC.

My plan is to stop at DLv15 on both accounts like usual, but if things get frustrating, I'll do it on just my main account because that one has less gems.

Speaking of DRNM and annoying boards to break...

https://www.reddit.com/r/masterduel/comments/11rxiaq/top_10_photos_taken_before_disaster/

First duel of the DC, I got matched up against a Synchron deck, didn't open with any handtraps or Dark Ruler No More, and I still ended up dismantling their board and winning anyways. My opponent ended turn 1 with Majestic Star Dragon and Red Supernova Dragon, but two Widow Anchor negates and a Raigeki later, they were gone.

teep_ posted...

What's the other time?

Fruits Basket

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If I had a nickel for every time a dark and gloomy girl voiced by Jad Saxton was cast as a really awkward and unfitting Cinderella in a school play, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

The fact that you can have the Gaia mate sitting on top of a Catapult Turtle mate base as a reference to that one famously bullshit moment from the anime is quite amusing.

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[various DIO noises]

SomeLikeItHoth posted...

Speaking of Anna, are you able to answer me a question about her? How is she in this game and Birthright? I loaded up Birthright to check if I bought the DLC and Anna is there.

It's been a long time since I played Birthright and I barely remember most of the characters besides the royals, so I can't really help you there.

As for Engage, Anna in this game is kind of in a weird position. She starts out as an axe fighter, but her weak 15% natural strength growth (before adding the class growths) actually makes pure physical attacking classes a bad choice for her. On the other hand, she has a massive 50% natural magic growth, so changing her to a magic-using class like Sage, a mixed class like Mage Knight or Griffon Knight, or just giving her magic weapons like the Levin Sword and Radiant Bow is a better use of her stats than going purely physical. I benched her in my first playthrough, but in my second playthrough I made her a Sage (then changed to High Priest later on) and gave her Byleth's Emblem Ring, and she was basically the best magic attacker in my whole squad. Also, her personal skill is great for grinding money in the post-game, to the point where people turn her into a one-girl army that can sweep entire skirmishes by herself to abuse it.

To sum it up: She's a high investment but high payoff character. You have to baby her a bit in the beginning and class-change her to reach her full potential, but that full potential is really good.

SomeLikeItHoth posted...

Any thoughts yet for your all male run? Zelkov is one character I wanted to play but never got around to. If I did an all male run I would include him as one of my mains.

I know there are 19 recruitable male characters (including male Alear) for 14 endgame team slots, so that means 5 of them will be permanently benched. 3 of the early-game male characters (Clanne, Vander, and Jean) are characters who need babying or high investment to make them good, and I don't think I can handle dealing with more than one of them at a time, so 2 of those 3 will be among the 5 benchwarmers. I'll probably use Jean since he's the only healer the male side has to work with (outside of reclassing and the Micaiah ring) for a while. Aside from that, I haven't really given much thought on what other 3 I'll end up not using or what classes I'll put everyone in.

Compsognathus posted...

I feel like a dude only run might be tricky at first, but then chapter 11 will hit and you'll get Kagetsu, Zelkov, and then Pandero and it's smooth sailing after that.

I don't think the early-game will be as tough as in the girls-only run. The guys get Louis in chapter 4, plus Alfred, Diamant, and even Boucheron are pretty bulky too, so there's plenty of survivability. The girls don't get anyone notably bulky until Jade in chapter 9, so their best "tank" in the early game is either Yunaka dodge-tanking or using one of your 3 early-game Master/Second Seals to put Lapis in a bulkier class like Great Knight.

What I mentioned about the guys having fewer healers does kind of suck, but vulneraries and the Micaiah ring can remedy that until Pandreo comes along or you can start promoting/reclassing more characters.

Doe posted...

More than PePe needing an emergency kill ban?

Ishizu Tearlaments (AKA the "Tear 0" deck) just had its best card completely banned and 7 other main cards in the deck limited to 1 all in the same banlist... and many people think the deck is still viable even with these hits. That's how absurdly powerful it was compared to other modern-day decks. It was a deck several years ahead of its time in terms of power level.

EDIT: I forgot, Spright Elf also got banned on the same banlist update. That card was banned primarily for Sprights using it themselves, but a lot of Tear builds used it so it also indirectly nerfed Tear 0 as well.

Probably the Pretty Cure franchise.

The franchise is huge in Japan but has barely any following in the west due to a lack of any way to legally watch most of them, plus it's one of those franchises that's marketed primarily to children (mostly to get them to convince their parents to buy them overpriced plastic toys) but also has a following of older fans that the creators acknowledge. That's like a double whammy of "normal people and casual anime fans wouldn't bother with this" but I still really enjoy Precure anyways. There's nothing quite like cute magical girls squaring up and punching bad guys in the face.

MarthGoomba posted...

Sequels happening for Yes Precure and Maho Girls Precure... for grown ups, whatever that's going to mean

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2023-03-13/yes-precure-5-maho-girls-precure-series-both-get-sequel-anime-for-grown-ups/.195939

Holy shit this sounds cool. These are two of the Precure series that I haven't watched yet, but I guess I need to soon. Toei hasn't given a Precure series a direct sequel since Yes 5 GoGo, and they've never made a Precure series aimed primarily at their older fans at all. I'm really interested to see how these turn out.

EDIT: I just realized that this means Nozomi might pull a Nanoha and still be kicking ass as a 23-year-old magical woman.

Just WWE = Hulk Hogan, Stone Cold Steve Austin, John Cena, and The Undertaker

The face of WWE's biggest growth period, the face of WWE's most popular era, the face of WWE's global expansion and dominance, and the face of Wrestlemania, WWE's biggest show every year. You could maybe put in The Rock over Stone Cold to represent the Attitude Era, but I think the other 3 are non-negotiable for now.

All of wrestling = Hulk Hogan, Kurt Angle, Chris Jericho, and Bryan Danielson

All four of these had hall of fame worthy careers in WWE, the biggest promotion in the sport, and were instrumental in furthering the world of pro wrestling outside of WWE: Hogan for WCW, Angle for TNA, Jericho for AEW, and Danielson for ROH and indie wrestling as a whole. IMO, a wrestler who was only a big star in WWE (like Austin, Cena, or Undertaker) or a wrestler who was never a big star in WWE and only outside of it (like Sting, Hiroshi Tanahashi, The Great Muta, Jushin Liger, etc.) can't be on the Mt. Rushmore for all of pro wrestling as a whole, they need to have done both. Ric Flair, AJ Styles, and Rey Mysterio are some other names I considered for this but fell just short.

I'm done with Chapter 25 now, only the final battle remains and I'm done with my second playthrough. I also thought for a while about who I wanted to give the pact ring to. I thought about giving it to Etie (she's been my strongest physical attacker), Anna (she's been my best mage), or Veyle (because she's the cutest and also yuri incest is hot as hell, don't judge me) but in the end I decided to give it to the cute country girl who carried my team for most of the way.

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Lapis became the surprising MVP of this run. As a Great Knight, she was my 3rd-strongest physical attacker (behind Etie and Panette) and my 2nd-strongest physical tank (behind Jade) while also having surprisingly decent resistance to deal with mages and decent enough speed to not get doubled by a lot of stuff. Plus, I had her using the 3H ring for the whole run, so Failnaught giving her a 3-range attacking option (which was Etie's niche early on) and that bow also being effective against dragons (so she could deal with those annoying corrupted wyrms) made her a godsend in the late-game chapters. Even after changing her to a Wyvern Knight for the last few chapters to help deal with fliers on that volcano level, she's still pretty bulky and now she's fast enough to sometimes double enemies too. Plus, she's really cute, and I enjoyed her supports with the other girls a lot, especially her and Etie.

After I finish this playthrough, I'll start on unlocking all of the supports in the game while we wait for the last DLC. I eventually want to do a third guys-only playthrough to balance out this girls-only one, but that won't be for a while.

I missed a log-in yesterday for the first time in months

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Welp, I guess I'm adding Milky Holmes to my plan-to-watch list now.

YugiNoob posted...

Actually, I decided not to play Dokkan, since I heard the power creep is insanely bad, even among gachas. Also the FF7R is coming back to WotV, so Ill need to be getting ready for Cloud and Tifa :3

Terrible power creep? In the Dragon Ball franchise?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hC3uyQdQKM

Xerun posted...

Thats a bit wrong though. Microsoft wants to release those games on Gamepass only. They definitely dont want to release those games on other consoles.

They are making short term agreements now because all the Regulators are calling out their monopolistic behaviour and if they dont the merger will be shut down. 10 years from now dont expect to see any of those games on a non-Microsoft console

10 years isn't "short term" at all, that's more than an entire console generation. Plus, with Minecraft and Call of Duty specifically (and maybe a few other big games) they would be losing a ton of money from missing out on microtransaction sales from players on other consoles, and I don't think enough of those players would switch from their consoles to Xbox and Game Pass to make that up.

Punished_Blinx posted...

Neither company is morally right or fair. Both want their way of doing things to be more established.

There's a big difference between "we want to add games to our Game Pass service but still have them available on other consoles for as many people to play as possible" and "we want to pay studios to release their games exclusively for our system or as a timed exclusive for multiple years". Of those, I would definitely say that Microsoft is the lesser of the two evils.

For something quick like dropping something off at the post office or buying something from a gas station, I might not. But other than quick stuff like that, I always wear my mask.

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mood

https://twitter.com/TheBakaretsu/status/1624847634237120514
https://twitter.com/TheBakaretsu/status/1634630128343871496

Nipples visibly poking through clothing is indeed moddable.

Minecraft is available on more systems now than it was the day Microsoft bought Mojang, and they've made it very clear with the contracts they've inked with Nintendo and Nvidia that they want to do the same with Call Of Duty once they finalize this deal for Activision Blizzard. They want to bring the game to more people, not less. Meanwhile, Sony are the ones paying third-party devs for multiple years of timed exclusivity on games like Forspoken (look how that one turned out lol) while throwing a bitch fit about this acquisition. Sony are being laughably hypocritical.

The fact that there are no new episodes for the next two weeks (they know BattleBots won't get as many viewers going up against March Madness so there's no point in even trying) means that this Riptide controversy has extra time to stew in the community too. I have a feeling that things are going to get uglier online before they get any better. I've already seen some Riptide defenders online calling Brian Nave and Team Shrederator "snowflakes" and telling people to "cry about it".

Update on my girls-only second playthrough of Engage: I've beaten all of the prologues (including the newest DLC ones and the one for the pact ring) and I just beat Chapter 23. I'm still deciding on who to give the pact ring to. Also, since posting my character lineup back in post #7, I changed Lapis from a Great Knight to a Wyvern Knight (still using Swords and Axes) to deal with the annoying fliers in Chapter 23.

I'm feeling better, so I finally got around to watching the episode myself. Right off the bat I want to join the party and say fuck Team Riptide for that 100% unnecessary and unsportsmanlike beatdown. If what I heard about the referee having to pull the controls out of Ethan's hands just to stop the beatdown because he wouldn't listen to the ref's words are true, they should have been suspended for it. Hell, I say ban them for next season to send a message that such behavior is completely unacceptable in this sport.

Aside from that drama, seeing Shatter fall to 0-3 sucks because I like them, but a rookie like Horizon finally working well and getting their first win made up for it. Ominous vs. Shreddit Bro being so awful that they put up a picture-in-picture ad during it was hilarious, but I guess the dedication to show every fight this season instead of off-screening bad ones like they would in past seasons is sort of admirable. Whiplash vs. Monsoon was a better and closer main event fight than I expected it to be, which was nice to see as well.

I can't watch the games live due to the time difference, but I've seen the highlights. Watching Lars Nootbaar of all people become an unlikely Japanese hero really puts a smile on my face. Noot noot!

Bump for robot fighting time. I still feel like crap, so I'm recording the episode to watch another day.

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Here's the card for tonight. Sadly, I have a massive headache right now, so I might not be around to discuss the episode as it airs unless the Ibuprofen kicks in hard enough. As a reminder, please put any discussion of match results under spoiler tags until 24 hours after the episode airs out of consideration for people who can't watch the episode live, especially if you decide to watch the episode early on Discovery+ before it airs on TV. Showtime is an hour and a half away, so here's hoping I feel better by then. If not, enjoy the episode without me.

Tennousu posted...

Gaia deluxe mate

You can even match the Gaia mate with the newly added Catapult Turtle mate base to re-enact the most bullshit moment in the entire DM anime.

As a level 2, Sprights (which were a tier 0 deck for a time in the OCG/TCG and are almost tier 0 again in Master Duel) would abuse the shit out of this thing because they could consistently summon it in every single duel, and they certainly don't need any more tools that make them stronger. This card would be banworthy as it is right now, but make it any level besides 2 and it's completely fine.

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daftpunk_mk5 posted...

I picked up three houses after not playing in a couple years. On chapter 12 now. Is it worth a second through or should I just move on to engage when I finish?

I could only stomach a single playthrough of Three Houses before the social stuff between chapters drove me crazy and I abandoned my second playthrough before even reaching the halfway mark. The game felt like an absolute chore to play and I couldn't take it anymore. If you enjoy that part of the game and are fine with doing that stuff, then sure, go for it. But I personally never want to touch Three Houses again as long as I live.

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Maple became a Touhou

Lord_Shadow posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/3/6/AAQ1TYAAEQZY.jpg What the fuck is this

A more balanced version of the banned classic card Ultimate Offering. Honestly, in this day and age, this card seems perfectly reasonable. Since it's a continuous trap, you have to hard draw it and survive to turn 3 to use that first effect, which really limits it. Outside of Floowandereeze decks and maybe Sphere Mode, I can't think of any notable examples of a single normal summon during the opponent's battle phase (after they've already set up their turn 2 board) actually making a significant difference. Floow will definitely use this card, but they're balanced without Barrier Statue, and aside from Floow I can't think of any decks that would really take advantage of this to great effect.

Chrom's skill where the foe can't counterattack if the unit attacks from terrain that provides an Avoid bonus sounds really cool if you pair it with Yunaka+Corrin to generate fog. It also provides a Levin Sword (that's even lighter than the normal one) right from bond level 1, so you can potentially get a mixed unit like Celine a great weapon super early in the game. But overall, Chrom just seems solid. Nothing too gamebreaking, but solid.

As for Veronica, she seems even weaker in combat, but I would still get her ASAP. She has an inheritable skill that gives the unit 20 SP per kill (even if they don't have any ring equipped, if they do have one then the SP gain stacks on top of what they'd normally get) which is fantastic. Between that skill and the new Ancient Well that can sometimes give you SP books as rewards, grinding SP is much easier now. The only problem is that you need bond level 13 with her to be able to use/inherit that skill.

https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/60860/~/how-to-update-fire-emblem-engage#v130

You can now use Inherit Skills in the Arena.

THANK GOD. No more running between the ring chamber and the arena dealing with skills.

From Chapter 7 forward, youll be able to exchange items at the ancient well on the Somniel.

https://www.reddit.com/r/fireemblem/comments/11lhyte/ancient_well_added_to_the_somniel_in_ver_130/

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This game is a fucking meme.

Spidey5 posted...

Also if they could stop showing the fairy in Heartcatch Precure pooping out a heart seed each episode, that would be great.

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There were only 5 HMs in total in X/Y, so no HM07 exists in that game. In OR/AS, HM07 was Dive.

So the answer is either "Other: None" or "Dive".

Today, nearly 2 months after Linkage was added to the game, I finally pulled off the 2-card Sky Striker OTK combo for the first time. Yay.

3H has the better story and writing, but that's it. I care far more about gameplay, and Engage's gameplay completely blows 3H (as well as Fates and Awakening) out of the water IMO. It's the most fun I've had playing a FE game since the Tellius games.

GranolaPanic posted...

Democrats want to give you and your classmates an equal amount of candy.

Republicans will give all the candy to the most popular kid in class and its up to them if they want to share any of it.

This is the best summary if I wanted to teach a kid that early, but...

Gladius_ posted...

I'd rather spare my kids of the mess that is politics until they are older. Let them be in ignorance bliss a bit longer.

Heineken14 posted...

So I'm watching an episode of One Piece right now on Toonami and.... It's a Dragon Ball Z cross over too? Wtf is that? Lol

It was some kind of crossover special from like a decade ago. Toei and Shonen Jump really wanted Toriko to take off and become the next big shonen series, so they invested heavily in it, including a two-part crossover special with Toriko, DBZ, and One Piece. The first half of it was part of the Toriko anime itself (Toriko's dub was cancelled after 50 episodes and never made it that far) and the second was this One Piece episode (which Funimation's dub originally skipped because barely anybody in the west knew what Toriko even was). Why they randomly decided to dub it now and show it on Toonami is anybody's guess.

DocileOrangeCup posted...

So are those cards coming in their own set thing, or are they adding the actual set they were a part of? I just want the new amazoness support man

We have no fucking idea what Konami are doing. In real life, the Ishizu cards came a few months after Tearlaments in both the OCG and TCG, but in MD, they're coming first. It'll be interesting to see what these Ishizu cards actually do for other decks besides making Tearlaments into one of the most broken and overpowered decks in the history of the game.

Kim_Seong-a posted...

Imagine if the other 3 were all SR and we had a Floow situation where everyone and their dog was playing Ishizu because of how cheap they were. >___>

I had the feeling that Konami might make them lower rarity so they don't have to refund too much UR material when they limit them further later on.