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lmfao

alright I'm a Fun Ruler and the map swap ended an 11-game win-streak this feels like I good spot to stop for the day (plus i gotta get up early)

ya go fun

Ramza 5

Ramza 4

lazy still

Vivi

trading Celes auto

just gotta cast Runic and absorb all the NRs

also we're not gonna pretend Awakening didn't put Fire Emblem on the map in the first place

i'mma equip the absolute hell outta Lyn hell yeah

yes please god please make it happen

roy > marth so hopefully this game is all about the red man taking over

dude's totally cuter than M Byleth tho (obv F Byleth was the best)

so weird finishing the direct thinking FE looked great, showed a cool cast of expressive characters and getting excited about bringing back the past heroes mechanic, to then an hour later reading B8 kinda mid or down about it

delutaya getting a model? nice

my Stampings of the day

https://twitter.com/B8Grimlyn/status/1569062379685826560
https://twitter.com/B8Grimlyn/status/1569143732741742593
https://twitter.com/B8Grimlyn/status/1569143944579252224
https://twitter.com/B8Grimlyn/status/1569144144131665921

I don't think I'll every use another weapon again, I just have way too much fun being a reckless bitch with this

michaelwclark

realizing my mental image of Galuf has been replaced with Banon

lizard brains sure got a lot of variety

galuf

galuf

galuf is halm fire

Celes

Galuf

Vivi

trading Celes auto

the only real taskmaster is Greg Davies

#NotMyTaskmaster

I really love cleaving through with the Splatana Stamper

*edit* for real omg by the end of every match there's just clearly evident massive blotches of my ink and I've been getting #1 Turf Inker for so many matches in a row now lmao

after all that big post tho i do wanna highlight a good moment I had with a sidequest for Triton, in the city. Fetching a Bright Fig for his dear old friend. During the mission I was thinking to myself "man it'd be so good if we got him this fig but then when we return the old man's dead"... and then it happened lmao. Props, you did good here xb3. I was skeptical because of Gray's Ascension quest not having the balls to stick with Traitor Rozana, but yay we got the bright fig ending right

I feel like I'm in bizarro world where I'm the one of all people the most dissatisfied with a Xenoblade game, but it's really been a big miss for me in so many categories that I really don't have to think twice about putting it last.

Side-quest praise kinda baffles me - I agree that's where the real meat of the game is, but to me that's more because the main story is so very lacking rather than the side-quests truly being exceptional or anything. Yeah there's some good ones but there's still very much a number that are either annoying (story-wise) or just really boring, and there is a lot. It's weird for me because I didn't really have this issue before.

If I were to try to pin down a reason I think my issue with the sidequests is with the populations of the world being so segmented into their tiny little Colonies, and each one then needs such a heavy bloat of characters that are largely forgettable - with I think exception to Colony 0 that does a good job of really making you get to know everybody.

I know people complain about the abundance of XB1 quests but I truthfully got such a strong impact from the overall relationships of its worlds residents and even getting to decide the fates among them. Also weirdly it probably helps that they don't have cutscenes since I can just read through the story instead of slowing down for so much frankly uninteresting cutscenes to play out.

But XB1's Affinity Chart always felt like such a special accomplishment to get all mapped out and ultimately having everyone connected, whereas in XB3 it's just such a massive mess and I don't feel anything for it. Colony 6 then being the ultimate culmination of your journey in the world, gradually growing the town from rubble and inviting residents from each of the major regions to inhabit it, then offering their own quests and further relationships because of those choices you made. You just don't get any connection like that with all these tiny colonies.

I can fondly remember back to so many rather small-time questlines in XB1 because of the bonds I have attached to those involved, whether it's just showing the power of friendship to Paolo & Narine, or of course taking down the nopon drug smuggling ring. Honestly when I remember XB3 sidequests what sticks out is how much I hate Kite, and recently Koji of Lambda. Okay being fair you can't remember Kite without remembering the highlight of Zeon & Juniper but still oof the annoying ones really stick out when they have a cutscene to 'em.

Honestly though even for like Heroes I would end up incredibly disappointed in how little they actually got to shine. Like I looooved getting Ashera... but then she doesn't really get anything until her ascension which has to wait until Chap 7 and you can spend like a hundred hours getting to that point with her forgotten. Sure her Ascension brings back the nice relationship of Ashera & Eunie but ugh I wish there was more.

Man I can write so much more about this but scrolling up and realizing how much I typed already is telling me to stop.... but fuck I hate how all the colonies have to culminate into some big cliched happy family bit. So many times there's just some asshole and it goes down the route of oh he has a reason to be an asshole and in the end we all get along and work together :) ugh, XB1 doesn't have to treat its NPCs like that, some arcs are people getting ostracized out of town hell yeah you better run Debaba.

Splatoon's only been around for 2 ninty systems so yeah this is the first.

As for what's new about it, I never really stick with the games that closely so aside from the expected new maps/weapons/campaign/abilities I don't really know beyond the Splatfest change to Tri-Color

but I'd imagine Spla2n would be pretty dead now, and Splatfests stopped a whiiile back.

Probably could've waited for a new system but I dunno when that'll even be and I doubt there'd really be that much more included even if it were. It's not like Splatoon 2 was really breaking new ground. The series certainly needed to be reinvigorated, but whether you actually want to jump back in is up to how much you enjoyed the games so far.

Celes

Cecil

oof

I mean I already was prepared for disappointment on Thunderbolts what with the Black Widow writer revealed

but lmao no zemo, there aren't even any real baddies wth

Vivi

trading Celes auto

speaking of names that start with Quin-

Quina in Opera Omnia JP

phew another weapon down on this long rail-grind-target-practice mission with no checkpoints okay what's the last one

.... oh bow fuck yourself completing site 5 can wait til tomorrow

weird, I had 2 discons when I first started lobbying but I don't think any after that

story mode just played a mission with the Splatana Stamper

oh god i want this beast

lmfao

i guess since it doesnt reach 350 votes it doesnt actually mark one "safe" whoop

tweaked around the predictor: won't save unranked or anti-vote choices unless your positive priorities bucket is empty, fixed bug of unranked/anti-votes being capable of being saved forever, and finals terminates if all savers stop saving (since there's not enough ranked savers to finish a finals)... I think that's it

so with that, have another batch of predictions

Historical Data Predix:Barret > Celes > ... > Rinoa
https://gmun.moe/savemy/predix-historical.html
Ranked Data Predix:Rikku > Barret > ... > Emet
https://gmun.moe/savemy/predix-ranked-only.html
Ranked Overwriting Historical Predix: Ramza > Aeris > ... > Tidus
https://gmun.moe/savemy/predix-mixed.html

oh snap actually pulled out the long-requested Ramza Champ

ya just a buncha dags

early story

Deep Cut being the baddies is awesome

Celes

I can't remember anything I've actually read from Judd, I basically just talk to him to get rid of his exclamation mark

Tidus

yupyup can do

I think Yankees is still hanging now

_

Vivi

trading Celes auto

Ghondor is absolutely bloody perfect, ya nuts

https://twitter.com/GravityBoosted/status/1568124822248464384

Roba only gave priorities for Rikku & Rinoa, so everyone else he randomizes between unless they're designated antivote

greengravy294 posted...

how the heck did your bot only pull up my alt name in the finals?

if there's an alt then yeah its attendance rate is probably in the single digits so it has lets say a 2% chance to appear in any round that isn't the finals

well I guess ranked-only needed someone to hit the 350 save cap with only 19 people

splatsville littered with Queenposting

was just checking if anyone made a splat3 topic

bootin' it up nowww oh hey it imports from Splat2 (3 weapon redemption tickets, earlier Anarchy Battles unlock, face players your skill level right away)

alright well it's passed midnight here's some Top 15 Predix

Using only save history: https://gmun.moe/savemy/predix-t15.html
Using only ranked lists posted: https://gmun.moe/savemy/predix-ranked-only.html
Rankings for those who posted, history for others: https://gmun.moe/savemy/predix-mixed.html

with Ranked Only rounds last 9-10 hours with only 19 savers lmao