Lurker > azuarc

lol at the names of the songs in that match

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colliding posted...

"cross-dresser" is itself an offensive term now

What's the proper term?

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The way I read it, the connotation was "gee it's really strange that this happened..."

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https://youtu.be/6bc7g1X1GW4?t=225

ER, electro, crit for main
Total ER around 240

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I mean, if we're going to say who "won" the Olympics, it shouldn't be simply who has the best swim team. If the Olympics is 40% swimming medals and 60% other sports, that's a little unfair. I do find it a little funny that some swimmer can swim two lengths of a pool in under a minute, wait half a day for the next swim-two-lengths race and have another crack at it, while some people play in a tournament that spans literally the entire length of the Olympics just for a single chance at a medal...which could be hijacked by a single mistake by a teammate.

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Mr Lasastryke posted...

interesting how a former tied match was decided with a 4 vote difference now.

Hardly the first time. Not everyone votes daily.

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Anagram posted...

except her terrible homophobia, but I guess we can work through that. I want to just address that really quickly before we go on. Claire encounters a Psycho-esque crazy guy who dresses up as his own sister, murders people, and runs an evil corporation that makes monsters, and the best insult shes got is to scream You crossdressing freak at him. So, Claire is losing a few points just based on that, Im sorry.

I've never played RE games, so you'll have to tell me if it's this single line or if there's more to it. If it's a one-off line, it sounds like the guy is both a cross-dresser and a freak, so I don't see the problem or how this constitutes homophobia. If you're stapling the two words together, as though to say the implication is that all crossdressers are freaks, ehh, maybe, but I don't hear this and think homophobia in the slightest. There's something more than this, right? You wouldn't have brought it up if it was just this one-off line, would you?

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banshiryuu posted...

>>R2: 38-21 Mad Rat Dead - Neuchatel
>>>R3: 37-16 Pokkn Tournament - Tellur Town (Autumn)
>>>>R4: 30-27 Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner - Beyond the Bounds

But at what cost?

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I only count people who win laurel wreathes.

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Id (Purpose)
POINT OF NO RETURN

I think this is the first time I've voted for Id in a retirement match. Maybe this really is the year.

Janus5k posted...

Unknown Pollution

Unless this is valid. I'll support the write-in campaign. =p

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Beyond the bounds
The beat octopus
Genesis

Ick phone voting...


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I'm surprised Steam has put it on sale so early. 25% off today according to an e-mail I just got because I wishlisted it.

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If I hadn't watched your stream, I would have assumed the third island because I haven't even been there yet.

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Good luck, dude. I sometimes wonder how I'd have done at the university level.

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I mean, I can give you a random number from 1 to 10, but I don't know the first thing about the game.

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Kinda wish I had kept going with the ratings throughout round 3, but it was too much work too quick.

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Fogbeasts
Pressure Cooker

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plasmabeam posted...

First game on the list that I haven't heard of.

Also, nominate Borderlands 3. The bottom needs some competition.

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Genesis Beyond the Beginning
linkage-alter
Class::CIEL_N_PROTECTA;

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At least you can trade in for Noblesse pieces now?

My take on artifact RNG is that it does need to exist for the longevity of the game, but at the same time it's way too extreme. And the fix is incredibly simple: Remove flat DEF. Not only does it tend to be the worst offender for ruining artifacts, but it's also the one that never has a practical benefit. I can find a time where I might want flat HP, and flat ATK feels bad but at least isn't a complete zero in usefulness. Flat DEF is genuinely just a "lol you lose" boat anchor of a slot. Removing it would eliminate so much frustration and angst, while maintaining enough RNG for the devs to not feel like they're handing over great pieces routinely and watching players "beat the game" and leave.

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Knee-jerk reactions:
Elwynn Boar - stupid meme
Peasant - potentially good if you draw it and go first, but otherwise sucks
Stockades Guard - 1 mana give taunt seems like a very useful card, and it's 1/3 so playing on 1 seems good, too.
Auctioneer Jaxon - I have no idea what Trade is.
Encumbered Pack Mule - I can see a world where this is useful. Especially with Secret Passage.
Stockades Prisoner - oh, now everyone can play Fellmaw.
Enthusiastic Banker - do the stored cards leave your deck? It doesn't say "copy" anywhere.
Entrapped Sorceress - are there new quests? It's still a spider tank.
Northshire Farmer - I have a hunch there's a broken use here, especially if you can make them all 5/4 right after in hunter. Probably too slow, though.
Package Runner - the new Ancient Watcher
Two-Faced Investor - without seeing the rest of the set, this has got to be the worst card, right?
Cheesemonger - as if the ogremancer isn't bad enough...
various Tradeable cards - still don't know what this mechanic does
Spice Bread Baker - more healing for warlock
Battleground Battlemaster - really scary minion that probably sees no play...but damn if you can stick a good minion and this thing hits the table. Or use it with rush/charge?
Lion's Guard - 6/8 taunt when you're on life support might be too little too late, but it's pretty welcome.
Stormwind Guard - what Defender of Argus wishes it could be.
City Architect - geez, whole bunch of pricy neutral taunts in this. Architect seems more like a card designed to frustrate, though.
Cornelius Roame - well, that's a lot of card draw. Automatically draws 2, so I can't imagine this ever being bad...up until you overdraw/fatigue.
Lady Prestor - interesting back-up plan for an aggrodeck.
Mo'arg Forgefiend - It's the priest taunt, but for 8. And a demon.
Varian - there was once another card that drew keywards off them being in your deck and it was good. I suspect this one is not. Comes down much later, feels clunky. Too high a chance those keywords are drawn if you just have token representatives in the deck.
Goldshire Gnoll - 1 mana 5/4 rush seems good.

Final Showdown - seems easy for DH to finish. And oh look, related cards. Sure, just reward DH for doing what it does already which is spamming its whole deck in 5 turns.
Metamorfin - need to see what fel cards there are. A 1 mana 3/4 is good, but a Goldshire Footman is not.
Sigil of Alacrity - more deck cycling; does DH really need more?
Chaos Leech - oh goody, more Leech Life for 5 in DH. Can we ban the lifesteal legendary yet?
Lion's Frenzy - so...18 attack?
Irebound Brute - geez, they're really playing into this theme, aren't they?
Jace Darkweaver - again, I'd need to look at the fel line-up

Lost in the Park - I assume that doesn't have to be in one turn, right? Entire questline is basically "gain 23 armor," which is silly in multiple ways.
Sow the Soil - token druid support
Vibrant Squirrel - ditto
Composting - not sure this sees play. It's not Soul of the Forest, but it certainly has potential.
Wickerclaw - wait, is that permanent? This thing could be wretched if it sticks, and 4 health makes it hard to remove.
Oracle of Elune - they really want you to play token druid
Kodo Mount - I preferred the old 2/6 taunt variant. Strong card, but maybe not in druid?
Park Panther - so that's how you get all this attack, ig.
Best in Shell - oh hey, there's my stegadons.
Sheldras Moontree - seems potentially busted, but I feel like you'd want it in a deck with only ~6-8 really powerful spells. Obviously spells that don't require targeting, at that. After Survival of the Fittest, what do you also run and what archetype does that fit?

Devouring Swarm - both hilarious and probably incredibly powerful for board control
Defend the Dwarven District - hero power spell hunter, huh...this will either be stupidly broken or incredibly awful, and I doubt there's any in-between. I'm betting on the latter.
Leatherworking Kit - a support weapon in hunter? Not hard to get beasts dying, but still seems bad.
Aimed Shot - hero power support
Ramming Mount - 2/2 and *immune*? Ick. Also, what's the ram it summons, Blizzard?
Stormwind Piper - slow, but hard to remove, so could still be good. Definitely a card that can run away with the game if unchecked.
Rodent Nest - really weak up front, but 4 mana 7/7 baybee!
Imported Tarantula - the board clear potential is good, but weird card for hunter, other than being 3 beasts
The Rat King - Not the first time we've seen a resurrect trigger card. Most of them ended up being obnoxious. This one just looks slow to me.
Rats of Extraordinary Size - wait, what? lol, what? Are the 5/5's 1 mana? Because if so, that card is ridiculous and also about the only good card I see in hunter.

Hot Streak - seems like a poor use of a card slot unless it fits an OTK or you *really* need a Flamestrike on 5.
First Flame - should've just been doublecast.
Sorcerer's Gambit - interesting, but I'm betting at least one of the three spell schools will be hard to achieve
Celestial Ink Set - seems awful unless you can engineer what you get discounted. Pay 2 to make a random 2 mana spell free doesn't seem good.
Ignite - Jade Idol in mage.
Prestor's Pyromancer - crocolisk with a punch. The other card like this didn't see much use.
Fire Sale - board clear with tradeable
Sanctum Chandler - slow, especially in a low-minion count class like mage
Clumsy Courier - hey look, a 4/5 bonus to casting Flamestrike. Where have I seen this before?
Grand Magus Antonidas - scary, but only if you can pull it off in one turn. Between Hot Strike and the ink set, yeah, maybe. But regular Antonidas seems more effective.

Stopping there for now. This is long.

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...I don't know what "well yeah" is. Was this related to the workplace allegations filed?

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Kinda curious how we did the nominations for VGMC16 without knowing if Id or UP would retire. In this timeline, did we just push Imminence through in round 4?

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My reaction: Muh? There's a new set?

Like, I was dimly aware, but the patch yesterday caught me by surprise because I had no idea we were getting close.

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I really need to do floor 12.

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Yeah, it's new with 2.0 as near as I can tell.

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Wow, you guys still trucking ahead with 3 per day even in the retirement round.

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If you're referring to me, my belief is that after a certain number of ties, you have to evaluate your convictions. If I don't feel strongly about a match, I'm not going to vote in a double (or beyond) tiebreaker. IMO those should be decided by people who are passionate about the match.

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I've played a ton of battlegrounds. I almost replied before Ng, but having never touched actual Auto Chess, I'm not sure how similar it is to other autobattlers.

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The worst song, and from the remake, of all things.

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If I had voted a fourth time, it would have tied a fourth time.

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banshiryuu posted...

what the FUCK is today how is there still a section of bracket that is this stacked

Seriously. Who made this bracket, anyway?

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Into Free -Dangan-
Cosmic Hero
Eleganza

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I went 9-9-8 earlier today after mostly forgetting about Abyss. Didn't get around to trying floor 12. Missed 3-starring 11-3 by 20 seconds.

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I picked before reading the intent. I assumed this was "not as great as people like to talk about," at which point Reagan is easily the answer. Still might be correct in the context of the poll, but I can see arguments for a number of other choices.

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not-Danger
Bahram Attack
abstain

My opinions on Danger haven't changed. It would take a really awful track for me to vote for it. And after three tiebreakers, I no longer feel as if my opinion is strong enough to warrant the continued pushback on the Unknown Purpose rematch.

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10

I don't give out tens lightly, but a number of these stories have stuck with me. For gameplay, I would dock the game a bit, but for story alone, this story has incredible immersion and enough shock moments to be fantastic as long as you're willing to play the game at its pace. Which, tbh, isn't that long -- after finishing, I had a friend over and let them play through it in front of me. Once I got over the whole walking simulator thing, the game was just a series of discovery moments.

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Clicked too fast. Should have picked the last option.

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7.7

caps

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Paradise (Stay Forever)
resurrectedreplayer
Sky of Twilight

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I've barely touched the event. I have some most of my surface-level exploration of the first island, though.

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Not all. There's one in particular. But it might require a few others along the way. It would make sense that you'd have to finish all the archon quests, though.

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Calling
Unknown Pollution
The Battle Was Just "To Continue That Future"

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I mean, you aren't going to hear me complain when I come from a city where only one of the four major sports has a "normal" name, while the other three refer to an airline passenger, a number-lover, and a misspelled female horse.

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No, I was talking about the hookshot anchors. Okay, so then here's the question -- how the F was I supposed to know I had to make this bizarre two-button combination? I asked how to interact with them in another discord and people just said "push T," which I don't see any indication of either, so I switched to keyboard and T worked.

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Guardians works for me. Cleveland Spiders would have also been interesting and has deeper history to Cleveland baseball, but some people are freaked out by spiders.

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Kaede, imo, has all of Sonia's good qualities, while having an actual personality and not being some pleasant NPC-esque "ultimate princess." She actually tries to do things, literally taking charge of the group and attempting to bring them out of the killing game. Certainly my favorite of the DR protagonists, even if she has to share her game with Shuichi.

I also think Kaede is better looking, for as much as the two are practically identical.

https://overlord-of-ice.tumblr.com/post/632498850798747648/cottagecore-sonia-nevermind-kaede-akamatsu

I should note that this doesn't necessarily make her the better waifu, but it does make her the better character.

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I've been pretty on record about my opinions on Massive X, so I'll simply state that I'm thrilled we have PoNR instead.

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Zigzagoon posted...

Breath of Forest
*Abstain* (Both are like a 2/10 for me sooooo....)
Mikazuchi

This.

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:wave:

Swifty, you play on PS4, right? How do you interact with the thunder spheres? The only way I could find to finish anything with those was to switch back to keyboard + mouse. There's literally no button that does anything with them.

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