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Ripperoni takes down the undefeated Copperhead and proves that they're serious contenders for the Giant Nut this season. A great fight to cap off a great episode with only two weeks left until we see the postseason bracket.

Fusion and catching fire at a bad time. Name a more iconic couple.

I got back just in time for the judge's decision and SHREDDIT BRO WON!? What the fuck did I miss?

Gigabyte got demolished. All it took was two huge hits from End Game and Gigabyte was over and out. Their 1-3 probably won't be enough to make the tournament. I'm gonna use Shreddit Bro's fight as a restroom break since that thing is a piece of crap.

toreysback posted...

man, i still haven't fixed my tv yet, and i don't want to. i think i'll just cancel the service. even before the tv went down, the only thing i watched was battlebots

so i will follow the rest of the season via these threads

Or you could subscribe to Discovery+ and watch the episodes that way. You can even catch up on the earlier episodes that you missed.

IT'S ROBOT FIGHTIN' TIME! Emulsifier vs. Quantum leads off the night

On another random fun note before the episode starts:

https://twitter.com/lastplacecomics/status/1644765374343266306

Good to see Bronco is still doing well even after its retirement from the BattleBox.

ANort175 posted...

Ribbot's 0-3 right now isn't it? I remember them having a pretty high seed in the tournament last year or the year before, would be sad if they don't even make it in this time since it's not like the bot is performing any worse, they've just had some really tough opponents.

Yes, they're 0-3, but with a really tough schedule. Their losses are to 2-2 Jackpot, 3-1 Claw Viper, and 3-0 Witch Doctor, and only the WD loss was by KO. If they beat 2-1 Skorpios, I think Ribbot might make the tournament even at 1-3 because of their schedule and only being knocked out by WD. 0-4 definitely won't make it (unless they announce some kind of surprise last chance rumble) so this is a must-win for the frog.

We're in the home stretch now.

https://i.imgur.com/CkbOSBw.jpg

The main event this week pits the lovable, dangerous, and delicious-looking Ripperoni in a heated battle against the undefeated Copperhead. In another similar battle of rookie vs. undefeated bot, Emulsifier looks to stop Quantum from finishing 4-0 in our opening contest. 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 a little under an hour away.

Tennousu posted...

You evil, Mellfy should not be used to fuel your hatred!

Judging you...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/1/3/AAaBuVAAEXl9.jpg

Stare at me all you want, it's not going to stop me.

Tennousu posted...

would Hop Ear Squadron work? You can accel synchro into Arc Light on opponent's turn.

If I used Hop Ear alone without the Melffy stuff, I would either have to hard-draw it or return it to my hand with Swap Frog (after searching it with Gigantic Spright) to use its effect. Meanwhile, if I have Gigantic summon Melffy Catty instead, then it can search Pinny and I have it immediately ready to use to synchro into Arc Light on the opponent's turn. So in other words, Hop Ear would work, but the Melffys do the same job better.

https://i.imgur.com/rHX1CeT.png

* Shifter
* Crow
* Evenly
* Cat into Anubis
* Pinny into Arc Light

Do I have enough Tear hate in this deck?

https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/12kfbgz/yuru_camp_all_in_one_mobile_game_releasing/
https://yurucamp-game.enish.com/lang_en/

Ultimate comfy

SerperiorThanU posted...

lol wtf it really started with a movie?

I don't know what else you'd call a first episode that's 1 hour and 22 minutes long. But as weird as it sounds, I think it was the right decision given the way it set up the story going forward and where it left off.

The "first episode" (more like prologue movie) for Oshi No Ko just blew my fucking mind.

Tennousu posted...

Numeron, after failed to OTK (Dotscaper set), summons a Catapult Turtle to tribute 16k ATK Numeron Gate for insta-kill.

Lmao

Numeron players are getting smarter

I went through routes 24-25 to get the S.S. Ticket from Bill, catching a Bellsprout (to add to my team), an Abra (to use for the Mew Glitch), and a Mew (to be my HM mule) on the way. I can't remember the last time I used a Bellsprout on an in-game team. Hell, maybe I never have.

Next time I play, I'll take on Misty.

https://i.imgur.com/rgb6sUj.png

An old meme from a simpler time

littlebro07 posted...

I thought the 2 implied it was a sequel and Id get more enjoyment out of it having played the original

It technically is a sequel, but it's not so much of a sequel that you need to play the first game before it, especially with how "meh" the stories in mainline Pokemon games tend to be. The amount of extra enjoyment you'd get from B2/W2 due to having played B/W first is small, and at this point I might even argue that playing B/W first might actually be a worse experience due to how similar the games are (5 of the gym leaders and all of the Elite Four are the same in both) and how objectively better in every single possible way B2/W2 is compared to B/W gameplay-wise.

IMO, it's in the top tier of mainline Pokemon games along with Platinum and HG/SS.

YoungMutual posted...

ORAS obviously

littlebro07 posted...

I heard these werent that good

Like they didnt even incorporate the Emerald features like HGSS did with Crystal

OR/AS is great. It didn't bring back all of the stuff from Emerald (the lack of any sort of Battle Frontier especially sucks) but it still added a ton of other new stuff along with borrowing a lot of good things added in other generations since. Plus, it also added a whole extra post-game story where you could catch a Pokemon that was previously only obtainable in events yourself for the very first time. OR/AS isn't in the top tier that I mentioned above, but I think it's in the next tier down. It's still really good and worth playing.

Of those three, I'd vote for HG/SS, but Platinum is also a fantastic choice. I do want to ask though: Why is B2/W2 not an option? You don't really need the story from B/W (and even if you did you can just watch it on YouTube or read about it) to enjoy B2/W2, and it added tons of new features while also fixing many of B/W's flaws. It's almost as big of a leap from B/W as Platinum was from D/P.

legendarylemur posted...

Somebody on twitter mentioned that in every other format, Tears even at T0 actually had their competitors at max power. But in MD, the other decks actually got hit harder

Floos have no statue, Sprights have no Toad, Dimensional Shifter is at 2. If you play Exosisters, you might be at a decent place but play anything else, and you're kinda fucked atm. Tears hits were like... not even hits. They appear to be at a lower power until you realize only like 3 Ishizu copies are hit and Tears have like 9 names

We might actually be looking at an even bigger tier 0 format than any other deck

I see people saying but it feels like MD has more broken cards legal. Nah, that's OCG. We have no side decking to boot

Don't forget the fact that anyone can easily build Tearlaments in this game because of how the packs and crafting system work, whereas in real life a lot of people huffed copium with other decks simply because they couldn't afford to build Tearlaments. Plus, it's easier for people who don't like Tearlaments and don't like the format to stop playing a free-to-play video game than a real-life TCG that they've already sunk hundreds of dollars into. Those two factors will probably make Tear Zero even more common compared to the real-life formats.

I can't answer your first question because I'm not the type who plays Maddening (Hard is hard enough for me) but I can answer the other two.

Srk700 posted...

2. How is the class balance? Do fliers still reign supreme, or is there more of a level playing field between flying and grounded classes.

There's a much more level playing field this time. All infantry units have a bonus type (Backup, Mystical, Covert, and more) that grants them a unique ability to make up for not being Flying, Cavalry, or Armored units. Plus, the Emblem rings also give extra bonuses when used by a unit of a certain type, which means you want to have more variety in your unit types.

Srk700 posted...

3. Other than gender exclusive classes and different S supports, is there any other reason for picking female over male or vice versa (like how female Byleth would get Sylvain as a free recruit in 3H)?

There are three side characters who have personal skills that give very minor stat buffs based on proximity of characters of a certain gender, and all of them are tied to female allies, so technically having a female avatar would make these abilities active slightly more often. But again, these are very minor stat buffs .Aside from that and Pegasus Knights being female only (but that's an unpromoted class and their promoted equivalent Griffin Knight is unisex) there's no gameplay difference at all between playing as a male or female avatar.

In terms of supports, there's no difference at all. You only get 1 S-support (from the Pact Ring, which you get late in the game), it can be used to S-support between your avatar and any character, and the conversations (including any romantic implications) from the S-support are the same regardless of your avatar's gender.

I decided to do a few 10-pulls on the Tearlaments pack just because the gems in my gift box were going to expire anyways, and the game gave me a royal Kaleido-Heart and a glossy Primeval Planet in my first 10-pull. If the game wants me to play Tears that badly, then fuck it, I guess I will.

Itachi157 posted...

The Kaiji dub seems like something else, lol.

I've had my eye on this show ever since the dub was announced, but I'm waiting until Sentai actually finishes dubbing it to check it out.

Konami isn't even trying to hide their greed. All of the cards that will eventually get limited/banned (Kitkallos ban, Havnis/Merrli to 1 for sure) are SR or lower, and yet they still give the archetype a whopping 6 UR cards in the pack. It's such an obvious effort to maximize the amount of resources people have to waste building the deck and minimize the amount of resources they'll be refunded when banlist hits kill the deck. The only bright side is that Konami might limit/ban the cards even faster because they're not UR. I'm considering not even bothering to build the deck and spending the thousands of gems in my gift box that are about to expire in 5 days on something else.

As for the leaked 4 attributes event... they finally made an event where I can't play Kozmos and now I'm sad. I still have options though. On my main account I have Zoodiacs (though I don't know how good it'll be without Zeus), Floowandereeze (if the event banlist will even let it in despite no Shifter), and Ultra Athletes, and on my side account I have Marincess, True Dracos (again, if the event banlist lets them in at all), and Beetroopers.

UnholyMudcrab posted...

The St. Louis Bad Baseball Players are, regrettably, still bad at playing baseball

It feels like Ollie's already lost the team at this point, especially after the Tyler O'Neill situation. We have a couple of hitters playing well (Arenado, Goldschidt, Gorman, and our hotshot rookie Jordan Walker) but the rest of the lineup is mediocre and our pitching is crap outside of Montgomery.

It's still early in the season though. Things can still turn around. I hope.

Already dropped Alice Gear Aegis (huge disappointment) but thankfully I immediately found another Monday show to replace it.

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https://i.imgur.com/GbNsyWM.png

Insomniacs After School is very, very comfy and I want to watch more.

NeonTentacles posted...

not getting a pokedex if you evolved your starter beforehand

Yep, that's a thing that can stop your progress in the Japanese versions. It was fixed in the international R/B but returned in international Yellow for some reason. These games are a mess lol

Exosisters are likely going to be the #1 anti-GY deck. Sprights don't use the GY much besides Elf, so they can probably be adapted to run Shifter and stand a better chance against Tearlaments too.

legendarylemur posted...

Sadly Bird Floo. Most hand barf decks can do stuff too.

Floowandereeze can use and play under Shifter, can use and search D.D. Crow, and it's cheap to build, so it'll be a popular pick to deal with Tears even with the banlist hits. I'll probably replace the second copy of Map with a copy of Necrovalley for even more GY hate.

SomeLikeItHoth posted...

Is the Mew glitch in that version?

Yes it is. The JP games actually have more glitches that were later fixed in the English releases too.

https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/List_of_glitches_(Generation_I)#Pok.C3.A9mon_Red.2C_Green.2C_and_Blue_.28Japanese.29

DepreceV2 posted...

I heard the sprites in the original Japanese games looked like shit compared to the improvements they made when they released Red and Blue in the west

Some of them are pretty bad. Ironically, Mew looks the worst.

https://i.imgur.com/q5n4SSN.png

Look at this thing's fucking head. It looks like it has a tumor. Put it out of its misery.

It's my first time ever playing the original JP Green version, and the first time I've played any Pokemon game in Japanese since when I imported Heart Gold early. I'm not doing any special challenge run like a solo or nuzlocke or anything, just a normal playthrough. So far I've beaten Brock and made it through Mt. Moon, and I just got to Cerulean. My team right now is Wartortle, Clefable, Spearow, and Pikachu.

I might keep this topic going with updates if anyone's interested, so feel free to comment or ask questions. Or if no one cares, I'll let it die and keep playing. Whatever.

I wouldn't even spend 5 minutes in Duncan's presence for that money, much less hang out with him long enough to coach him in playing a Pokemon game.

Kim_Seong-a posted...

I'm not a furry but

Wouldn't this case be more like... feather-y?

On a lighter note before the end arrives...

https://www.reddit.com/r/masterduel/comments/12gmzpo/i_remember_someone_once_said_my_favourite_type_is/

https://i.imgur.com/XSbqg2o.png

It's not quite "underground theater fight club run by a talking giraffe" levels of plot twist, but "theater girl stops time with THE WORLD during her audition" is a pretty darn good hook in itself. World Dai Star is definitely one to watch out for this season as a possible surprise gem.

Marlins = 3-6
Cardinals = 3-5

pain

I activate Called By The Grave, targeting your Jesus in the graveyard.

https://i.imgur.com/98pxF6C.png

He'll be banished, so with its target gone, your Monster Reborn will resolve without effect.

legendarylemur posted...

That's shocking if the Xenologues actually scale with your current progress

They don't. The Xenologues are a walled-off garden that sets both the enemies and your characters to a specific level for each chapter, and it also sets all of your characters back into their base classes and gives you a set inventory to work with. You also don't gain any experience (or skill points if I recall correctly) in the Xenologue, and permadeath is turned off in the Xenologue even if your main story playthrough is set to classic.

The only things you can take from the main story into the Xenologue are which Emblem/Bond rings you have available and any inherited skills your characters have, and the only things you can take from the Xenologue back into the main story are the rewards you get at the end for completing the whole Xenologue.

These rewards include the characters you recruit during it, which all join your main story party at either level 1 promoted or level 20 in a special class that doesn't promote. They join at those levels no matter where you are in the main story, hence what I said above about how you can possibly complete the Xenologue too early (so they would be overleveled) or too late (so they would be useless to help).

https://i.imgur.com/WjsyBJf.png

They finally updated the OP visuals for Soaring Sky Precure to show the gang driving in Ageha's van, and now I just want to see them head-bobbing to "What Is Love?" by Haddaway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rzgrP7VA_Q

I finished the Fell Xenologue. The unit balancing was all out of whack, chapter 5 was more challenging than I expected, and the writing was questionable at times, but overall I enjoyed it. Nel and the Wings were great, but Nil was a piece of shit. Mauvier was the MVP of the Xenologue for me, both for how well my Mauvier performed in the battles and for how cool the alternate world's Mauvier acted in the story right up to the end.

It's a shame that the characters you bring from the Xenologue to the main story always join as the equivalent of newly promoted units and don't scale to your progress. If you clear the Xenologue really late in the game or in postgame, the characters join too underleveled to be of any use, but if you clear the Xenologue too early like before the chapter 10-11 gauntlet, then they'll be overleveled and will stomp the game if you use them right away. It seems like the "optimal" time to do the Xenologue if you actually want to use the characters in the main story right away is like chapter 14-16, but then the Xenologue will be at its toughest to complete because you won't have many emblems at your disposal to take into it. Plus, if you complete the Xenologue early but also do it before the DLC chapters for the Emblem bracelets, then those DLC chapters are suddenly scaled to a higher level a lot earlier than they should be, meaning you have to wait to do them until much later.

TL;DR to sum up my rambling: This Xenologue was implemented really badly, both for the balancing within the Xenologue and how it interacts with the main story and the other DLC chapters. It's a fucking mess, but despite the bad implementation, I still found it fun to play.

Flauros posted...

You could have watched it for free on crunchyroll.

This.

https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GR9PXZ3J6/arpeggio-of-blue-steel

I played a few Call of Duty games on the Wii and Wii U and found the motion controls to be pretty fun, but I think KB+M would probably have more precise control for small adjustments.

https://twitter.com/IkaroKruz/status/1644052789390200847
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The first episode of Magical Destroyers was as crazy as I expected, so between that and Birdie Wing, Fridays are going to be wild this season. Thankfully, I also have the adorable and comfy Too Cute Crisis to use as a cooldown show after those two.

The most fun and crazy anime of 2022 is back for its second half, and on a new day of the week too.

https://i.imgur.com/wo5ni9b.png

BIRDIE FRIDAY!

True Dracos and Kozmos are two decks that I would recommend for newbies in Master Duel. They're both pretty cheap to build in MD, they don't use the extra deck at all so they're simpler to learn and play, they're both decent enough decks to make it to Gold 1 and maybe a bit of the way into Platinum (you'll eventually need to build better decks for Diamond), and Kozmos in particular are also really good for grinding festival events because they're pretty much always playable no matter what the limitations of the festival are.

You could also buy two or three copies of a structure deck (the Zombie and Salamangreat ones are the best IMO) and then eventually craft staples to add. Either way, these are cheap options to use at the start until you build up the resources to make better decks and craft more staples.

The only Three Kingdoms related thing I've watched is that one anime where Zhuge Liang gets reincarnated into modern-day Japan and becomes a barkeeper and a manager for an aspiring singer. Which is surprisingly really good despite the batshit insane premise.

Big Dill and Lucky got some solid wins, and then Hydra won the ground game and dominated Sawblaze in the main event. After this week, there are only 3 episodes left in the regular season before we see the postseason bracket and move into the tournament.

Tennousu posted...

Normal summon, special summon, activate spells, activate traps, destroy cards.

5 of 9 available missions can be cleared for just SelFTK-ing your way every day.

Plus, you can manipulate the dailies by waiting until you have all 9 in your list and only redeeming 3 of those easy ones each day. That way only those refresh so you can do them over and over again. You don't have to do the other dailies with normal decks until the last day of the month when dailies reset.