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Did over 100 pulls on the Albedo banner hoping for 1 Bennett but never got him to C1 him. Not going to be able to trigger another purple before it ticks over and the new banner has zero interest to me outside Ganyu :(

Celtics/Heat cancelled due to COVID / roster numbers

EDIT: I should say postponed rather than cancelled.

Didn't see the game but just saw this on my Twitter feed

https://mobile.twitter.com/surrender_idx90/status/1348364467575382021

MajinZidane posted...

Bamba has played 2x 4 minute bursts this season. Both in garbage time because he's still recovering from COVID which he got in JUNE

Wait for real? @ShatteredElysium

Yep. He played 12 minutes the other night after I posted that because we basically had to play him due to our roster numbers. He had to be pulled before game end due to conditioning and then did not play at all in the next game despite us being at the bare bones.

Bamba already had bad conditioning so I could see how it could affect him severely. I also got COVID in June and whilst I'm not affected in my day to day at all, anything that would leave me out of breath does so far easily now and I honestly think it might be permanent.

The Magic can barely field a team due to injuries with no COVID cases on the team. Last night we played the Mavs and Kleber played 24 minutes and just tested positive (judging from isolation timeline).

We legitimately won't be able to field a team if we lose people to COVID quarantine, we have like 9 healthy people now. I think the Celtics are equally messed up and we are supposed to play them twice this week

If it's the one at the top of the mountain I think that's normal. Just kept putting up the shield again immediately? If so, that's exactly what happened to me

Edit: Oh resin. So not the one I meant

Welp, tonight's game against the Rockets will likely get messy. Here is the Magic's depth chart tonight

PG - Anthony (Rookie) / Bone (2-way)
SG - Bacon / Mane (Super raw 2-way like HS raw)
SF - Ennis / Ross
PF - Clark
C - Vucevic / Birch / Bamba

OUT - Fultz, Carter-Williams, Isaac, Gordon, Aminu,
Questionable - Fournier (DNP last 2)

Bamba has played 2x 4 minute bursts this season. Both in garbage time because he's still recovering from COVID which he got in JUNE

Ennis is on a minutes restriction. Last game was his first back and he played 16 minutes

Harden and Wall are going to have a field day. I legitimately don't know what we do if anyone gets into foul trouble early

Oh and Cole Anthony is now 15/1 to win rookie of the year. Started the season at 50/1

I'm so dejected as a Magic fan. Every glimmer of hope we get is snuffed out. I invest so much time and money into this team and we just can't catch a break.

I guess we see a lot of Cole Anthony now as he will be thrust into the starting role but this feels like such a wasted season.

Confirmed torn ACL. FML

If it is a torn ACL that would be 4 times since 2019 season for the Magic. Plus Aminu getting a torn meniscus and still being out indefinitely 15 months. Plus Okeke coming back from a torn ACL only to reinjure his knee 5 games in.

That also doesn't account for Aaron Gordon found down hurt directly before the playoffs when playing the best ball of his career

Fuck me. Fultz very likely just tore his ACL.

What the fuck did we do to anger the basketball gods and desrve our horrendous injury luck the last few years

It's silly that they aren't all on the featured banner at normal rates when they are going who knows how long before reappearing. Venti hasn't been on a banner since I started playing.

Not games but when I changed phones it was infuriating for about a month because the three keys at the bottom were in a slightly different layout. Which I guess is kinda the same thing you're talking about

Negative but that might be because the few union guys we have working for our company are completely unreasonable assholes. They are lazy, overpaid and you can't have a reasonable conversation with them about actually meeting the requirements of the job. Some of the shit they half-ass is baffling, it's not even the difficult stuff, it's the admin stuff that then fucks us over with the FDA

Potentially 1 more day hype

azuarc posted...

You should have been able to quit out by hitting start, similar to a domain.

Doesn't work. It opens the standard menu without pausing the game. Square quits the game entirely, Circle closes the menu. That's assuming by hitting start you mean the options key that usually brings up the leave domain menu?

Shop bought out, that was miserable

Why do I have to full party wipe to leave this stupid plant fight? Like I get it in coop mode but I'm in single player mode. Just let me leave and reset if I fuck up instead of having to fill wipe and then teleporting away to restore health

Also people losing their triangle ability on death drives me crazy. Like because 1 person died and I want to reset the fight, I now have to lose everyone's triangle ability just to get out of the damn fight

Well that's not a TD but he tried selling it well

Bullshit it wasn't blatant last year.

Corrik7 posted...

Uh, no. He literally text book tackles how it was taught his entire youth and they just now started teaching differently with a shoulder to the gut and the helmet on the side, preferably on the ball. Fields spun backwards so instead of getting hit in the gut he was sideways and further to the right to now line up with the head on the side.

It's actually hella sad for the tackler because he generally didn't do anything wrong and the runner made the helmet contact his body with his movement.

Led with the crown. That is always targeting no matter how you spin it

Dr_Football posted...

btw I hate that the down indicator is gold colored, its too close to yellow and I think theres a penalty every time I flip over to watch

Literally said this to someone I'm watching this with earlier

I think that was more egregious than the game changing targeting last year

Oh thank fuck they are actually reviewing it

How is that not fucking targeting. Leading with the crown

Not sure how that big third down conversion wasnt OPI. That was a push off for sure

azuarc posted...

Yes, they specifically mention this in the event log. I suppose you might still be able to get event currency, but you can't further the achievements. Fortunately I've got those done now. I get to decide if I want to clean out the shop completely now or leave those talent books lie.

I thought only the timed one mentioned your world level? I haven't been on since this morning but I feel like that was the only one that did

Man, the Magic game tonight was one of the few I didn't have tickets to originally. So had to pay an extra $150 to go and that is the worst I have seen Fultz play since we got him. As a whole it's probably in the worst 3 games I've seen us play in the 8 years Ive been here

azuarc posted...

This vine sucks. I can kill it, but only with a very specific comp and strategy, and I'm lucky to kill it in 3 minutes, plus all the start-up and finish time.

Does it have to be done at your world level to get credit? Like can you hop down and coop in a lower world level and still get the tokens? I've never cooped outside killing bosses for the missus

swordz9 posted...

For whatever silly reason Fischl and Xiangling are the next glitter exchange characters even though Fischl is literally featured at the moment >__>

Even sillier when you consider both were given away for free too and both of the ones this month were also given away for free.

It's bold of you to assume wrestling will still be around in the same capacity when he's of age

Just got a Anemo Goblet with these stats

Phys DMG Bonus - Main
Crit Rate%
Crit DMG%
ATK (Flat)

I feel like that should be good except there's nobody who really makes use of it (Traveler maybe?)

Yeah this event sucks. Like if you only had to kill it like 5-10 times it would be fine but you need to do it 24 times to clear out the shop from what I can see.

Edit: Actually 25 since the first kill doesn't give any shop thingys

Oh and there's only 5 days to do it so essentially have to get at least 5 kills a day

That makes sense, didn't realize that existed. So Sucrose is going to be better then so she pull them all in and then switch to Tartaglia for mass carnage. Plus she can equip the Thrilling Tales thing for more Tartaglia attack.

So probably want something like Mona applies Hydro, place Oz, pull in with Sucrose and then go ham with Tartaglia? Although that setup has zero healing

What's the benefit of the Anemo character and what set? I saw suggestions of that before but I couldn't work out what the reasoning is other than to cluster. I assume there's a mechanic I'm overlooking because someone was saying about res reduction or something?

I guess I also need to look into what Mona does. I thought her and Tartaglia kind of did the same thing so that was why I hadn't touched her

Also trying to work out who to level. I have no team construction right now outside of Bennett + Tartaglia and then whatever for the rest. Here's what I have right now (I'm AR42)

Tartaglia (C1) - 80
Bennett - 80
Lisa (C1) - 70
Barbara (C1) - 60
Qiqi - 60
Traveler - 50
Xingqiu (C2) - 40
Kaeya - 40
Mona - 20
Noelle (C1) - 20
Ningguang - 20
Sucrose (C1) - 20
Chongyun (C2) - 20
Fischl (C2) - 20
Beidou (C2) - 20
Xinyan - 20
Xiangling - 20

Suggestions?

azuarc posted...

On one hand, Murphy's Law dictates it'll roll into DEF two of the next three, specifically the +16, and +20, so you have false hope after +12 goes to crit rate.

On the other, it is theoretically a 75% chance to be really good on each of the next three upgrades. The fact that defense was the fourth stat isn't a loss because that's virtually guaranteed. The only thing you've lost is the roll at 8.

Crit DMG on the +12. DEF on the +16.

Probably take it to 20 because it's a feather and I only have 2 golden feathers right now so it will be useful for a little while at least

Magic are 4-0 for the first time in our history

Man, hate it when artifacts troll you. Just got a gold feather with ATK%, Crit% Crit DMG.

The 4th roll ended up being defense%. It rolled into defense again at +8. And now I don't know whether to bother rolling further.

Football again soon.

And then we can follow the tradition of the Steelers choking away playoff spots

I'm at like floor 6-3 in Abyss. My attempts to progress were thwarted by it forcing me to use 2 parties when I have only 2 people built. Bennett and Tartaglia were able to solo a route each but not for full stars, like 6 or 7 for floor 6, so will have to hold off going further until I actually decide who I want to invest in.

Just got this from Tartaglia. Bet it all rolls into flat ATK or a lame 4th stat

Gladiator's Triumphus (Helm)
Crit DMG Main
Crit Rate +3.5%
ATK +5.3%
ATK +14

Shame it isn't Crit Rate main otherwise I'd throw it straight on Tartaglia even with bad rolls

ShatteredElysium posted...

If you pull a 5* does it reset your 4* counter too? I assume so since it's 'at least a 4 star or higher' but curious as it seems when I pulled the 5* last night, my last 4* is now 8 pulls ago so I'd be close to a 4* if not.

My own personal answer is inconclusive. I got a 4* on what would have been the 10th pull which of course doesn't mean it was guaranteed.

45 pulls on the banner and this is what I've gotten. All I wanted was 1 Bennett!

Qiqi
Fischl x3
Sucrose
Eye of Perception
Sac Greatsword

If you pull a 5* does it reset your 4* counter too? I assume so since it's 'at least a 4 star or higher' but curious as it seems when I pulled the 5* last night, my last 4* is now 8 pulls ago so I'd be close to a 4* if not.

You won't get negative feedback for it. If they leave negative feedback then just contest it, you'll definitely win if you clearly outline the game wasn't included

I think you're probably a bit unlucky.

I sell open box shoes as 'New without box' on eBay which are listed as no box as none of them have the lids but I typically send the box anyway if it fits in the package. Only like twice out of 300+ sales have I had someone complain and neither responded to my reply.

mnkboy907 posted...

Where's the "no, it was a little below average" option? It was closer to a good year than a really bad one for me, so I voted bottom option.

Pretty much this. I live in Florida so COVID has been more of a mild inconvenience than anything else

The final year I was with my ex wife was comfortably the worst year of my life for a whole plethora of reasons beyond just being in a dying marriage

ShatteredElysium posted...

Lol. So $20 on Fultz to win most improved and Cole Anthony to win RotY returns $52k.

I mean it won't happen but they are both hideously overpriced at 50/1 given that the Magic are going to be funneling all their starting offense through Fultz and all their bench offense through Anthony and they completely lack other scorers.

Fultz is now 33/1 and Cole 25/1. Odds tumbling now that people are actually seeing them play

Speaking of Qiqi, I just got her from soft pity (Pull 75 on Albedo banner). What is she used for? Just an Ice version of Barbara?