Lurker > Calwings

Didn't get to play the past couple of days, but I played some today. I had multiple battles where random NPC trainers (like a trainer on route 14 with a Whiscash and a Honchkrow and one on route 15 with an Alolan Marowak) are wiping half of my team and forcing me to go back to heal. Things are getting rough. Anyways, I managed to make it through routes 14-15 to Acerola's trial and the battle against Totem Mimikyu. My gameplan against this thing was to lower Mimikyu's speed and break its disguise with my other Pokemon so my Gastly could then come in and finish it off with a super-effective, Choice Specs boosted (yes some guy gave me a Choice Specs earlier in the game), STAB Shadow Ball.

For the first attempt, I led with Magnemite, hoping to have it survive a hit and paralyze Mimikyu with Thunder Wave. Sadly, Mimikyu was holding a Lum Berry to heal a status and then Magnemite got KO'd before it could get a second Thunder Wave off. So I reset and readjusted my strategy for the second attempt. This time, I decided to have Mudbray and Popplio try to lower Mimikyu's speed stat (with Bulldoze and Icy Wind respectively) instead of doing it with paralysis. By the time Mudbray and Popplio both went down, their attacks had gotten Mimikyu to -4 speed and also KO'd the SOS-called Banette, so then I sent out Gastly to clean things up and it had enough power to get the job done. Also, I feel stupid typing this now, but I was so focused on the Ghost typing (because this was the Ghost trial) that it totally slipped my mind until after the battle was over that Mimikyu is also part Fairy, meaning Magnemite's Flash Cannon would have also been super-effective against it.

Oh well, whatever. Another Totem Pokemon down, another trial complete!

legendarylemur posted...

You posted the meme review for us. Thanks for that. I immediately looked for Samuolo

Damn, I had the wrong link in my clipboard. My bad. Even though everyone's probably already seen the list by now, may as well still correct myself and post the right link.

https://www.masterduelmeta.com/articles/news/april-21-2024/master-duel-forbidden-list-update

SydnieStarlight posted...

Wow, I get 30 free UR points and my Snake-Eye ratios go practically untouched! Thanks, Konami!

For most of the decks I was running the Diabellstar engine in, I was running 3 Wanted and 1 Diabellstar, so I'll probably swap it to 2 and 2 now. The only deck I was running 3 and 3 in was Rescue-Ace, but it'll probably be fine with 3 and 2.

https://www.masterduelmeta.com/articles/meme-reviews/april-21-2024/

Welp, they finally hit Snake-Eye... a little. Nowhere near enough to keep it from being the best deck for another month though. Aside from that and kicking Superheavy Samurai when it's already dead, this banlist is a big bunch of nothing

Ratchetrockon posted...

I don't have a ps5

Lvaneede posted...

I would play it if it was on Xbox

This.

Marlins = 6-17, still terrible but actually on a bit of an upswing
Cardinals = 9-13, mediocre and now on a downswing

Let's just say thank goodness the NHL playoffs and the UFL are around to take my mind off of this

I just want to take this opportunity to say fuck Kashtira. Or more specifically, fuck Kashtira Fenrir and Kashtira Unicorn in particular for how generically splashable they are. I just played five straight duels where my opponent opened either Fenrir or Unicorn and summoned it for free before their combo for extra protection. I was playing Zoodiacs, on the Xyz side of the event, so all of my opponents were on the Fusion or Synchro side and they were obviously not playing Kashtira decks. And yet, they were all splashing Fenrir and Unicorn in their decks because those two cards are just so absolutely busted individually. Kashtira was a mistake, and both Fenrir and Unicorn deserve to be banned.

hyperskate65 posted...

I'm not clicking a link to look at a picture tho

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/9483-imagefaqs

Use that extension and all image links will embed, not just ones from Imgur (which apparently don't even work anyways) and natively uploaded ones.

Okay fuck Imgur I guess. Hopefully at least one of these works.

https://iili.io/JSocR1e.png
https://files.catbox.moe/six00g.png

Netflix
Amazon Prime
Hulu/Disney+ bundle
Youtube Premium
Crunchyroll
HiDive
MLB TV
NJPW World

If gaming subscriptions count, then throw in:

Xbox Game Pass Ultimate
Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion
Pokemon Home

I was flipping between https://freeimage.host/ and https://catbox.moe/ due to Imgur's crackdown on NSFW stuff, but considering the new "no hornyposting" rule on CE, I might just go back to using Imgur. I absolutely refuse to use GameFAQs' built-in uploader because it shrinks images and kills the image quality, plus it doesn't work with gifs or transparency on pngs.

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

Alucard188 posted...

I would rather them focus on remaking the ones that we haven't got. I want Thraccia 776 and New Mystery of the Emblem.

New Mystery of the Emblem already got a remake on the DS, but they kept it Japan-only because Shadow Dragon failed so badly. I do agree that the other Japan-only games like Genealogy and Thracia need remakes before any of the games that actually got a western release.

deoxxys posted...

Why exactly were pregnant women turned away? And what does that have to do with roe v Wade? They weren't trying to get abortions? The hospital's supposed to help them give birth.

If the birth isn't successful, then the lawmakers behind the draconian anti-abortion laws in these states could see that "miscarriage" and charge the mother and the doctors with murder of the unborn child. So many doctors in these states are scared to even help a pregnant woman because they might end up as "murderers" in the eyes of the law and be sent to prison even if they did nothing wrong.

Metal_Gear_Raxis posted...

Oh god no, Engage ch22 is straight up ass on higher difficulties, legitimately one of the worst maps in the franchise. Just a big brawl routing Engage late game enemies and nearly all the actually useful Emblems are on the back half of the map, and you have to rout while dealing with reinforcements.

Deej posted...

Tbh I thought Chapter 22 was the worst thing I've ever been subjected to in a Fire Emblem game

I'm going to disagree and say that I liked that chapter. The whole "just a big brawl" aspect with the simplicity of little to no emblem ring usage after being accustomed to them for so long felt like a challenge, but not an extremely annoying one IMO. Plus, it helps really sell the desperate situation your characters are in at that point in the story, hence why I praised it under the context of gameplay and story integration. Then again, I've never played the game on Maddening (Hard is more than enough for me) so maybe it really is that bad and unbalanced on the highest difficulty and I just don't know it.

SugarFlakes posted...

Engage is my third favorite FE game. Love it to death.

The story is weak imo. Its not Fates level, but it couldve been better. Its not terriblejust very simple. Barebones just about.

Gameplay though? One of the best.

I agree with this. Engage is my #3 as well and it's almost entirely for the incredible gameplay. I will say though, Engage has a few moments where the integration of gameplay and story together (in particular, chapter 11's desperate escape sequence and chapter 22 when you need to retrieve and purify all of the rings) really shines and makes the gameplay even better.

Let's go Panthers!

I did decide to stick with Crabrawler for my Fighting-type instead of swapping to Pancham, so my current team is most likely my final team unless I decide to add Poipole later on. I figured that Crabrawler's higher speed and access to Power-Up Punch would be more useful. If Pancham were actually Fighting/Dark type and didn't only get the secondary Dark type upon evolution, then I probably would have made the switch, but oh well. As for the playthrough...

First, I flew back to Heahea City to buy the TMs for Reflect and Light Screen and taught them both to Cutiefly. Magnemite can learn them too, but Cutiefly is faster. Then I did some training by defeating every trainer on Route 10 and the Malie Cape before taking the bus to Mt. Hokulani to take on Sophocles's island trial. Mudbray's bulk and the Totem Togedemaru being 4x weak to Ground moves let it bring the Totem Pokemon down to pretty low health, but Iron Head flinches got the better of Mudbray in the end. Over half my team was fainted when I finally managed to actually finish off the annoying hedgehog and eventually the SOS-called Skarmory alongside it, but I did win the battle on my first try.

After that, I went back to Malie Garden for my first battle with Guzma. Again, I won on my first try, but again, the battle ended with over half of my team fainted. The fact that it took 5 of my Pokemon to defeat his 2 is a bit concerning. Finally, I made my way across routes 11-13, making sure to defeat every single trainer along the way. It's clear that I'll need levels to make up for the stat difference between my unevolved Pokemon and the evolved Pokemon that I'll be facing in the late game. I don't want to go too far out of my way to overgrind if I don't have to, but at the very least, I'll probably face every trainer I see on the main path for the rest of the playthrough. Up next is routes 14-15 and Acerola's island trial.

My current team: (asterisk = getting boosted experience for being past its evolution level)
Lv38 Popplio*
Lv37 Magnemite*
Lv37 Cutiefly*
Lv38 Gastly*
Lv37 Crabrawler
Lv38 Mudbray*

Future_Trunks posted...

why is master duel different from ban lists for tcg

There are quite a few reasons:

1) It started off more based on the OCG side than the TCG side, but has now diverged so much from both that it's basically it's own format.
2) They have the hindsight of seeing how the IRL formats went because Master Duel is months behind in card releases, so they sometimes pre-hit cards they know will be problematic. Example: they pre-banned Toadally Awesome before Sprights could abuse the shit out of it.
3) Master Duel is a best-of-1 format with no side-decking, so some cards and decks may be less or more of an issue than in the IRL best-of-3 format that has side-decking. Example: Red Reboot is insane in best-of-3 when you know you can just side it in whenever you run into a Labrynth player, but if you need to main-deck it and risk it being a dead card against most other matchups, suddenly it's not so good of an option.
4) They really want to avoid hitting UR cards (and to an extent SR cards) as much as possible and giving players precious dust as a refund, so they'll often hit low-rarity cards from the same archetype instead, which might be different that the IRL hits a deck got. Example: Tearlaments still have Kitkallos (SR) in Master Duel because they banned Merrli (N) instead.
5) Sometimes Master Duel is used to experiment with unhits that they're considering for the IRL formats. Example: Master Duel was the first format to unban all of the Dragon Rulers, and they've been totally fine, so now the IRL formats are bringing them back too.

EDIT: Looks like some of my reasons were already covered while I was typing this post.

SydnieStarlight posted...

Having checked the cards referenced, I would assume it is a war crime~

Yeah, pretty much. It's a setup similar to Branded's Gimmick Lock, where you give your opponent a monster that locks them out of special summoning. However, it only applies while Acid Golem is face-up on the field, so it's not a lingering effect for the whole turn like with Gimmick Puppet Nightmare and therefore it's a bit easier to get rid of. Acid Golem's 3000 ATK is also more of a threat if left unchecked, but considering that one of the prominent decks that uses the Acid Golem Lock is Mikanko (once Gen/Ken come out) the higher ATK also benefits the Mikanko player too.

Fantastic video lol

Tyranthraxus posted...

"I'm with dogs for Michael Vick" fucking lmao

That was the best one, but there were a lot of great ones.

legendarylemur posted...

I had some pretty sick duels overall with my Rank 3 xyz Zoodiac

I decided to go with blind 2nd "Zeus Turbo" Zoodiac, with tons of handtraps and boardbreakers. So far I've only done 2 duels with it, but I won them both.

GeminiDeus posted...

Sounds like a really tough time with Hau. What kind of a level difference did you have?

My team was all at level 31 or 32 at the point Alolan Raichu came out (some of them were at 30 coming into the battle and leveled up to 31 during it) and his Alolan Raichu was level 29. So I was actually slightly overleveled and still had that tough of a time with it. I might need to do more training on random trainers and wild Pokemon, but I don't want to grind too much.

GeminiDeus posted...

Do you think using Reflect and/or Light Screen would help?

I don't have Reflect, so I'll have to look up where you get the TM for it. I did use Light Screen, but in hindsight, it wasn't actually necessary because Mudbray would have survived a non-crit Psychic from full health even without it. I do think these two moves will be useful in some future battles though.

Welp, I just got a hard reality check in the form of Hau's Alolan Raichu. There's a rival battle in Malie City, and his Alolan Raichu absolutely decimated my team the first time I battled him. When I finally took it down, all I had left was my Cutiefly on low health, but he still had a Tauros in the back which finished me off. This rival battle doesn't actually require you to win, and the story progresses even if you lose, but I still decided to try to get a win.

I figured with better play and better luck, I could beat him. For that to happen, I needed to get enough good luck (AKA not getting flinched with Bite) to KO his lead Torracat with only Popplio, meaning Mudbray would be at full health for Alolan Raichu. After that, Cutiefly easily KO's his Leafeon and Noibat before he sends out the Alolan Raichu. Then, I would send out Magnemite against Alolan Raichu, set up Light Screen, and chip away with Flash Cannon until Alolan Raichu KO's it. Finally, Mudbray would survive a Psychic and KO Alolan Raichu with High Horsepower. On my fourth attempt at the battle, I finally got the luck needed to reach Alolan Raichu with Mudbray at full health, got the whole setup done... and then Mudbray missed with High Horsepower. Thankfully, it actually took so little damage from Psychic due to Light Screen that it could survive a second one and have another chance to hit with High Horsepower... and then Alolan Raichu got a critical hit with its next Psychic and knocked out Mudbray.

After that awful luck, I was pissed off and probably should have just given up and moved on, but I tried a couple more times. On attempt #7, I eventually got the luck and setup I needed to make it back to Alolan Raichu, and this time I played it safe and had Mudbray use the weaker but 100% accurate Bulldoze instead of the stronger but 95% accurate High Horsepower, and thank god it still got the KO. After that, Mudbray stayed in and took down Hau's Tauros with 3 Low Sweeps thanks to Stamina defense boosts letting it tank Tauros's attacks, and I finally won this annoying rival battle.

But this was a real wake-up call about the challenges of facing fully evolved Pokemon with a team of unevolved Pokemon. I was planning on doing more today than just this battle, but it was annoying enough that I don't feel like playing anymore. Next up is route 10, Mt. Hokulani, and Sophocles's island trial.

The Cardinals got the win for Whitey as I hoped, and the Marlins also won earlier too. So yay.

inTaCtfuL posted...

I know this post has nothing to do with the topic at hand but after seeing your rules I wonder what's the best Pokemon under your rules. I wanna say Scyther but maybe there's better ones out there

It would most likely be a Pokemon that was originally created as a standalone Pokemon (with a base stat total befitting one) but then got an evolution in a future generation without also getting a baby form that would technically make itself count as an evolved Pokemon. Scyther, Misdreavus, Gligar, and Sneasel are the standouts that immediately come to mind. Scyther has the best base stat total, but the others have better typings, wider movepools, and other unique options to make up for the 70 or so stat points that Scyther has on them, so it's hard to say which is the best.

That being said, I purposely avoided using such Pokemon in this playthrough because I really wanted to challenge myself. I only wanted to use Pokemon that were truly unevolved Pokemon and were originally designed as such from the very beginning. I ran into a wild Murkrow early on and could have used it because it evolves into Honchkrow, but I chose not to.

EDIT: A late honorable mention to Type:Null, who would undoubtedly be the best unevolved Pokemon for a playthrough like this... if there was any Pokemon game where it could be obtained before the postgame, which there currently is not.

GeminiDeus posted...

I know you'll be bringing back Zorua for Ultra Necrozma, but is your team from post #17 going to be your final team? Or do you have any planned replacements?

The only other changes I've considered are replacing Crabrawler with Pancham and possibly adding Poipole much later on. I have plenty of time to think about Poipole (it won't come until after I beat Ultra Necrozma) but Pancham is coming up on the very next route, so I need to decide between the two Fighting-types soon. I'll think about it tonight before I play tomorrow, but if anyone else has any input on the Crabrawler vs. Pancham decision, feel free to chime in.

Tennousu posted...

But the sad thing is I'll still be trying Red-Eyes FTK, but I just know they will ban Allure of Darkness.

Allure is legal. I checked for my Kozmo deck in case one of my accounts had no other good options.

https://iili.io/J8zOmFt.gif

https://www.mlb.com/news/whitey-herzog-dies

RIP to one of the all-time great managers. Hopefully the Cards can win one for Whitey tonight.

absolutebuffoon posted...

I don't remember what that means in context at all so I still am gonna wtf ya my dude

The context that makes it make sense: *spoilers below*

The girls are making homemade sausages, and Aki notices that her sausage maker thingy looks like a gun. She points it at one of the girls and says "bang", and the girl plays along and pretends to get shot. Then she "shoots" the other two girls, and they play along and pretend to get shot too. Then she turns around to the dog and "shoots" it, it plays dead in a really dramatic way, and she's really impressed that the dog's owner taught it how to do that.

https://iili.io/JvC1MUQ.png
https://iili.io/JvCEC7V.png
https://iili.io/J8JTtkJ.png
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https://iili.io/J8JunQ2.png

Then the girls and dog get up, pretending to be zombies coming for revenge, and dogpile Aki with a big zombie hug before the scene ends.

https://iili.io/J8Ju5pj.png

I already am. I liked Aki's mass shooting in the most recent episode, it was very cute and wholesome.

(yes, as weird as it sounds, this actually makes sense in context)

Olivia turned out to be easy. Crabrawler swept her with two Power-Up punches on Anorith and a +2 Brick Break on both Lileep and Lycanroc. Crabrawler was low enough on HP from Anorith that Lycanroc could have probably KO'd if it had used its Z-move (even if it would be not very effective) but it went for Bite instead for some reason. Oh well, a win's a win. After that, I took care of some story stuff at the Aether Paradise (including taking down an Ultra Beast and meeting a 40-year-old MILF) and now I'm officially on the third island to continue my adventure.

Also, something I forgot to mention before: At the beginning of the game, I did hack in a bunch of Everstones to put on my Pokemon so that I wouldn't constantly be asked to evolve them upon every level-up. They'll be holding these for most of the game, but for important battles (like island/grand trials) I might give them other held items. This is the only modification I've made in this save file, everything else is completely normal.

Waluigi1 posted...

Do they show beside people's names on desktop?

Unless it was implemented very recently and I didn't know about it, no. You need an external script to do that.

https://openuserjs.org/scripts/melon/GameFAQs_Show_Icon

Judgmenl posted...

At the end of its life over 2000 people had avatars and even more were using certain other features of the extension such as rotating signatures and quick account switching.

Rotating signatures was so fun. A shame that GameFAQs killed it when they updated the way the site handles signatures.

Tag

CTrunks posted...

summon Kuriboh

and play Multiply!

Nice try, 57th Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe

Jagr_68 posted...

I don't believe a single word of this because no one is that blatantly fucking dumb enough to tank millions of dollars for Vince McMahon.

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if Donald Trump named Vince McMahon his vice presidential pick and then they used campaign funds and grift money to help fund this new endeavor. Plus, since Trump's hoping that being president again will mean total immunity from the law, he could say Vince has the same immunity to get out of his recent allegations.

Brilliant posted...

poor calwings

I'll be fine. I was already considering stopping the sexy anime women topic after the current one hit 500 anyways. This rule change and the topic being closed just moved up the schedule.

WWEPropaganda posted...

Thanks, we really needed this pick-me-up today.

Calwings posted...

I guess this means my sexy anime women topic is done for. I'm gonna keep posting pics until either the current one hits 500 or they start deleting posts from it, but the current one will be the last one either way.

So much for the "keep posting pics until either the current one hits 500 or they start deleting posts from it" part. They locked it already. Oh well.

https://i.imgur.com/gv2LOzV.jpeg

DKBananaSlamma posted...

Also no more "hornyposting"

Welp, I guess this means my sexy anime women topic is done for. I'm gonna keep posting pics until either the current one hits 500 or they start deleting posts from it, but the current one will be the last one either way.

"We will see you... tomorrow night!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1vDF0hSfoA

Does destroying Warzone leave the mainline Call of Duty games alive? If yes, then fuck Warzone. Its existence ruined the mainline CoD games because every non-Warzone mode started incorporating Warzone elements and getting less support overall.

If destroying Warzone takes the rest of CoD down with it, then I don't want to do that and I'll instead destroy Fortnite. Either way, Overwatch dies too.

DKBananaSlamma posted...

topic list gifs

DKBananaSlamma posted...

Post more if you have some CE

http://i.imgur.com/0wvewrr.gif

DKBananaSlamma posted...

I remember that pic, but I completely forget what Carmander was about. Was it just a misspelling that people ran with or something more?

I believe so. From what I remember, the topic title was talking about Charmander but typo'd it as Carmander, someone posted that image, then the topic turned into people photoshopping more freakish Pokemon/car hybrids from there.

Carmander

https://i.imgur.com/3Ln7OaK.jpeg

DKBananaSlamma posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/4/4a2832ca.jpg

RetuenOfDevsman posted...

Sonic Cake Face

I was gonna say these as well. I saw the original topics and all of the funny photoshops people did. I even still have the original Imgur URL for the original Sonic Cake Face image.

https://i.imgur.com/ATtFB.jpeg

Sadly, the original URL for the Shepard face is gone. RIP F9agy

zinformant posted...

That is lowkey an epic way for it to have gone down.

Yep, Curse from a Ghost-type is high risk but pretty useful. It might be necessary to deal with some more dangerous threats later on in the game.

zinformant posted...

Have a Cutiefly.

Thank you. Cutiefly and its evolution Ribombee are some underappreciated Pokemon.

https://store.crunchyroll.com/products/mob-psycho-100-ii-blu-ray-dvd-704400023248.html

And season 3 comes out on blu-ray next month:

https://store.crunchyroll.com/products/mob-psycho-100-iii-season-3-blu-ray-704400109171.html

I didn't even know this topic was here until just now. I'm glad the Battlehawks won.

I didn't get the chance to play the past couple of days, but I played a little last night and a lot today. I went through route 8 (I totally forgot Colress from B2/W2 randomly shows up in this game too but yeah this is when he shows up) to get to the Lush Jungle and Mallow's island trial, and for the first time in this playthrough, I had some serious trouble with a battle. Totem Lurantis actually beat my ass a couple of times.

On the first attempt, I led with Cutiefly thinking that super effective Bug damage would be enough, but thanks to the SOS-called Comfey using Sunny Day, Lurantis was outhealing my damage with Synthesis while Comfey boosted its defense and chipped away at Cutiefly. Once Cutiefly went down, Lurantis swept the rest of my team. On the second attempt, I tried leading with Magnemite to paralyze Lurantis, but it took Magnemite to 1 HP with Low Sweep and Magnemite missed with Thunder Wave's now nerfed 90% accuracy, so I reset right away. On the third attempt, I decided to lead with Gastly and immediately used Curse on Lurantis. This time, the Lurantis SOS-called Kecleon first instead of Comfey. I had Gastly use Hypnosis on Kecleon to prevent it from setting up Sunny Day, then Lurantis KO'd Gastly. I sent out Cutiefly, and without the Sun up and with Curse damage adding up, this time Lurantis couldn't out-heal Cutiefly's Bug Buzz damage. Cutiefly KO'd Lurantis while Kecleon stayed asleep, then I brought in Crabrawler to KO Kecleon and finish the battle without the Comfey ever being called in.

After this, I made my way through Diglett's Tunnel and Route 9 to Konikoni City, and now I'm currently saved right in front of the grand trial battle against Olivia and her Rock-types. Her Lycanroc and its high stats scare me, but I think I have a good enough team to take it down.

My current team: (asterisk = getting boosted experience for being past its evolution level)
Lv30 Popplio*
Lv30 Magnemite*
Lv30 Cutiefly*
Lv30 Gastly*
Lv29 Crabrawler
Lv29 Mudbray