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KamikazePotato posted...

Alucard is going to crush Red. Expecting 56%.

Peach > Red?
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davidponte posted...

Lopen posted...

Kirby will 60-40 him and it won't be through SFF.

Believe.

I believe.

https://imgur.com/nS1kAYC
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Thinking about Kirby... We'll he be able to SFF Bowser? I mean, could we even see as far as a 60-40 win? (You know, Smash hero and all...)
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[...] Afterwards, I went back to "The End" to check if the road was actually open, or if I needed to complete the northern puzzle first, but the road was opened either way. There was a sabe point, but I still wanted to go back and see what the rest of the rooms here had to give. So I reached the northern rea and went through a bridge where I encountered some unavoidable enemies. The fighting was intense, but I managed to pull it off with patience and skillz. Astigmatism is actually a pretty interesting foe since it's not like the rest of the enemies where you have to Act in a specific way in a hit-or-miss manner. Instead, every option is useful depending on the circumstances, and I find that to be quite satisfying. The variety of every monster's attacks while keeping the balance for each of them in multi-battles is pretty good. I somehow managed to get every desired outcome for each of the enemies' responses, which was also pretty satisfying. I finally reached a switch, which I turned off, but in the end it seemed that it really didn't do anything at all. My theory is that you can reach "The End" by simply going either North or West, but I 100% did it anyway, and it was worth it (I earned lots of Gold too).

Many of the writings on the wall really seemed like overly cryptic messages. Like, if you just want to say I have no chance against you, wall-writer, just cut to the chase and say it outright. I have no problem... unless you're Mettaton. Then you should probably stay away from me. Anyway, I kept exploring every posible room. At one time I actually got the exclamation point indicating an enemy encounter, but it happened at just the right frame where you have a screen transition, so I skipped it entirely. I even went back and tried to do that and see if it was a warning of some kind, but I guess it was just a glitch. Then I went ahead and found a trash can with 100G. "Take it?" "Sure!" So I emptied the trash can and pretty much stole 100G, something Lily (a.k.a. pacifist Frisk) probably wouldn't do... Although it was on the trash, so nobody would be interested in that, would they?... Um, I guess this is one of those things that can really affect the outcome of some future dialogue. Either way, I stumbled upon another trash can with a Glamburger. "Take it?" "Uh... Well, I just grabbed the Gold, so I might as well grab the burger too".

Finally, I went back to "The End" again and saved. I used the elevator, but it only transported me back to the beginning. "Noo! What a trollish move! I have to do everything all ov... Wait...", I used the elevator again and went back up. "Phew!" It was actually a convenient thing, but I really didn't have a reason to go back. Well, maybe going to the hotel and max out my HP before going back, but I'm just before the room with what I think will be Asgore's throne or something like that. I decided to stop there.

Total time: 771:45

I'm going to rest.
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Tifa Lockheart - 51.67%
Sephiroth - 53.22%
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YES! Tifa won at the last minute!

TsunamiXXVIII posted...

My goal is to get a single #1 pick

Same here. Despite my run, I haven't quite had a top pick yet.
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CHANGE:

Pikachu - 56.23%
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guffguy89 posted...

So FF is slowly gaining strength while Pokemon is slowly losing strength?

FF has had an incredible deboost the whole contest except for some characters. Pokemon has returned to 2010 levels of strength.
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Zelda - 65.89%
Auron - 57.11%
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Daaang! 75% of matches already? That sure went fast.

It will be difficult to overcome such a large gap now.
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How far into the contest are we? 40%?
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*checks results*...

-Luigi dropping to a slightly more reasonable percentage.
-Yes! Tifa barely pulling the upset! My Oracle depends on her (even though I voted for MMX since he's way too cool). Too bad there's 8 long hours left, and I don't think she can resist for such a long time.
-Sephiroth still disappointing.
-Ryu looking slightly more respectable.
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Day 20: The Core: The anteroom of uncertainty
Time spent: 30 mins.

Going up from the hotel, I made my way to the Core once more. I called Paps and Dyne one more time and proceeded.

In my last two attempts, I went left, and to the elevator, respectively. This time I went right: "Why aren't you taking the elevator? Well, I guess this path is ok... But wait, it has a huge gap". So I went left, got past a Madjick, and proceeded through the lasers. Alphys said that the lasers started with orange, but I quickly forgot about it, so when I saw blue, blue, orange, instead, I stood still without knowing if I was actually going to get hurt (like last time) or not, but when I realized I wasn't hurt, I quickly reacted to avoid the orange laser and succeeded. "Are you hurt?", Alphys said (same dialogue as my last attempt). She then told me to go right, so I naturally went up since last time I actually went right; I fought the Knight knight and Alphys said: "Why didn't you go right? You trust me, d-d-don't you?" (Nice job, Toby. I'm impressed). I went right and faced a Brand new rea.

So more lasers, huh? They're always fun (I like that they require you to have simple-yet-good reflexes). I was even tempted to try to dodge them when I faced them directly in my "soul" form. Anyway, Alphys couldn't turn them off, so I went ahead and did the work myself, although I felt nice being guided/helped once more. (She is so lovable.)

I saved after being surrounded by the smell of ozone... Actually, I have no clue as to what does ozone smell like. Alphys couldn't guide me anymore, so I was practically on my own now. I had to choose between three paths: North, West and East. The East one was the way to "The End", while the other two were apparent prolongations. "Uh... Uhhh..." I went West, but I went back and wanted to check out "The End" (I somehow assumed that it was going to "end" right there, thus taking the fun out of exploring the other paths; but no, it was just a blocked road. I spent some time exploring the places, going West first. On the way, I saw the giant ice blocks that cooled off the Core. "Solve this puzzle and The End will open". Well, I did just that. I don't really know how I did it (like many of the puzzles of this kind I did back in Hotland). It didn't take that much time, so it was cool. [...]

(Part 2 tomorrow...)
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LeonhartFour posted...

Division 8

Draven 9.97%

It took a while, but we finally managed to put him under double digits.
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The only thing I'm really wondering is: Why is KOS-MOS this strong?

Is she the strongest character we have from a trilogy that virtually no one has played?
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PoIl6177 posted...

is amaterasu supposed to be this strong?

I assume Sephiroth's horrible board vote is what's causing this.

I didn't expect her to be stronger than Captain Falcon, though.
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Even though Round 4 matches are fairly predictable, after this round's disaster, they're no longer trustful anymore...

Ganondorf - 53.67%
Pikachu - 52.34%

Alucard - 52.95%
Kirby - 56.65%
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Ganondorf
Pikachu
Alucard
Kirby
Zelda
Auron
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Why are these matches so trollish?! It's almost impossible to predict them accordingly.
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CHANGE:

Luigi - 64.65%

Sephiroth - 67.11%
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I'm slowly fading away...

=(
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Change my BANK to Tifa Lockheart.
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Write-up tomorrow.
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Okay, that's it.

We should officially have a term called "FFPF" (Final Fantasy Protagonist Factor).

It is characterized by the main characters of their respective games have some kind of underperformance or for "choking" badly against stiff competition.
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CHANGE:

Bayonetta - 56.35%
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CHANGE:

Fox McCloud - 53.88%
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One more bump.
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CHANGE:

Pokemon Trainer Red - 56.31%
Alucard - 51.23%
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davidponte posted...

I feel like a solid percentage of voters (including myself) see X as an interpretation of Mega Man and vote as if they were voting for Mega Man.

When I see X, I don't think, "hmm, let me judge this character based on these games where he was MMX", I think, "Oh it's Mega Man".

What's so baffling to me is how Mega Man is overall vastly preferred to X when X is the coolest-looking one.
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Pretty interesting stories, SND!
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Bump. Thank you for your advice, guys. I should be doing my write-up really soon.
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Luigi - 63.67%
Tifa Lockheart - 50.93%

Sephiroth - 65.77%
Ryu - 69.70%
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Wow... I managed to stay on the same spot despite having Simon Belmont wrong and an awful safety pick for Sub-Zero!

ShatteredElysium posted...

Not only that, its giving some people zeroes even though they have a prediction registered on the site

It's also showing inconsistent results like mixing up different values while also saying they are the same (like in Ammy vs. Lara where there's a 58+ among some 60s and applies the same score to them).
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CHANGE:

Ganondorf - 53.68%
Vivi - 56.56%

Zero - 63.45%
Pikachu - 56.36%
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Ganondorf
Vivi
Zero
Pikachu
Pokemon Trainer Red
BANK
Bowser
Kirby
Zelda
Fox McCloud
Bayonetta
Auron
Luigi
BANK
Sephiroth
Ryu
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It's probably just my English education since I always used (and was always taught) "they" as a third person plural noun.

Anyway, I'm trying to speed things up so you don't have to wait several days for me to post something. If you have any feedback on my speed or writing, as well as advice on what I could do to improve on those things to optimize them, you're welcome to do so. I'm still playing later today.
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CHANGE:

Amaterasu - 59.78%
Ryu - 63.75%
KOS-MOS - 54.34%
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