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Bit of an easy Pure Fiction this time around. I like taking infinite turns :) Second team would've probably gone better if i'd just broken down and finally built Dr. Ratio by now, but 40k on the first team makes for easy pickings.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/6/6154178e.jpg

not even close

Moving doubles, because just because I refuse to abandon ALL-STARS doesn't mean I'll watch my other noms die for it.

- Friday Night Funkin': Mario's Madness | All Stars | https://youtu.be/zCnfHxcmXXM
+ Dig Delight Direct Drive DJ | Arcana | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DobmeC7CxWM

CHARGE!

or something

guess i'm staying on tailor now!

probably dropping Almighty Tailor, heads up.

TheManaSword posted...

Yeah, once you have two solid teams, pulling for extra characters seems a bit less useful.

that's true in Genshin, but i'm not convinced it's true here. Pure Fiction and Memory of Chaos both want different characters, and there is a decent impetus to have a DPS of every element.

azuarc posted...

+ Honkai Impact 3rd | Rubia | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIv5lFkBey0
@dowolf

fudgemonkeys.

- Pokemon Sleep | Taupe Hollow (Day) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpsHttRqSUw
+ Honkai Impact 3rd | Rubia | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIv5lFkBey0

is kaine/salvation a ballad?

...yeah i guess it is. But it also appealing to the weird-music crowd probably helps.

Rubia's such a pretty song. like I know ballads have never historically done super well in these things, but I'm a sucker for them.

I'M SORRRRRRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

- Honkai Impact 3rd | Rubia | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIv5lFkBey0
+ Granblue Fantasy Versus | Morning Light Hymnus | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llZgeo_eOKw

Right then.

- Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage | Kashika | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka3AFz5Dx30
+ Heaven Burns Red | Sailing Ship (Broken ver.) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDQc-pOQTiA

AH I TOLD MYSELF I WOULDN'T

Double, lock
+ Limbus Company | Compass | https://youtu.be/92E0X59wzeg

...screw it.

Double, lock
++ Arcaea | Lost in the Abyss | https://youtu.be/lwyZfuDG2Jw

PLOT TWIST

Double, Lock
+ DEEMO II | Unravelling | https://youtu.be/EGKwpO_v9UY

why double things to lock them when i can double them to put them at 4/2?

+ Friday Night Funkin': Mario's Madness | All Stars | https://youtu.be/zCnfHxcmXXM

doubling, because ya gotta signal boost the saturday morning surprise new song

+ Arknights | Grown-up's Paradise | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ1OD0cL6Qw

PENULTIMATE DAY MILI / ARKNIGHTS CROSSOVER HAS DROPPED THIS IS NOT A DRILL I REPEAT THIS IS NOT A DRILL

- Limbus Company | Canto VI Distortion BGM | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiuYxvTv4aE
+ Arknights | Grown-up's Paradise | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ1OD0cL6Qw

(sorry pyre this is actually emotionally painful but it's the only thing i have at 2/x or lower...)
(also lem and TRE I see you on HBR stuff but i literally can't support both and we need to figure this out somehow.)

- Granblue Fantasy | Zero | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn8yInYg0vs
- Heaven Burns Red | Ichiban no Takaramono (Crow ver.) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRQg87dPT6w

Sorry Turus. Feel free to yell at me if this gets more momentum and it looks like I might have missed it, but we're starting to get to the cutthroat stages.

+ Deathloop | Pitch Black | https://youtu.be/DYE6QUB4UBs?si=mXXmJO-Hc3VlEClD
+ Arcaea | Lost in the Abyss | https://youtu.be/lwyZfuDG2Jw

sigh

- NOSTALGIA Op.3 | Kohaku no Yume (An Amber Dream) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0KZOawKLTU
- Heaven Burns Red | Sailing Ship (Broken ver.) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDQc-pOQTiA

New song. I am very willing to throw everything at the fence to get another HBR song momentum, if anyone has something they'd be willing to support, but let's try something different:
+ Heaven Burns Red | Ichiban no Takaramono (Crow ver.) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRQg87dPT6w

And a support:
+ Honkai Impact 3rd | Rubia | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIv5lFkBey0

Hope was a mistake.

- Last Command | Judgment.exe | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRBsYy2IaCI

SUPPORT:
+ Limbus Company | Compass | https://youtu.be/92E0X59wzeg

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Welp, time to step away from noms I've heard nothing positive on. Yell at me if you were just being silent for some reason I guess.

- Punishing Gray Raven | Sie liebten sich beide | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuOae6-GA-g
- Arknights | Operation Basepoint | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWbvEOWiR_M
- Arknights | Operation Wild Scales | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nULX5oKXPwE
- Eiyuden Chronicles: Hundred Heroes | Main Theme | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIAmvjLOH34

Sailing Ship, Judgement, and Kokuu no Yume are on watch, but I did get positive feedback on those once upon a time so.

SUPPORT:
+ Sakura no Uta | Dear My Friend | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H04c1f48t4I
+ Boing Boing & Roger | T11 | https://youtu.be/E3fbKsvn4Nw
+ Pokemon Sleep | Taupe Hollow (Day) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpsHttRqSUw
+ Utawarerumono: Mask of Deception | Nuedori | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TYzGVG2pAw

like an hour ago

I didn't intend to do this, but sometimes a game comes out in the middle of the freeze and you fall in love with its opening. Whoops. I'm sure I'll be moving supports around later, but for now:

NOM:
+ Eiyuden Chronicles: Hundred Heroes | Main Theme | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIAmvjLOH34

after doing this for 18 years you'd think I'd know the freaking rules. Turns out I do not.

Anyways, new noms:

- Heaven Burns Red | Epic of the Valkyries | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8aZlMJv7BQ
+ Limbus Company | Canto VI Distortion BGM | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiuYxvTv4aE
+ NOSTALGIA Op.3 | Kohaku no Yume (An Amber Dream) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0KZOawKLTU

+ Deemo 2 | Unraveling | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGKwpO_v9UY
+ Heaven Burns Red | Epic of the Valkyries | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8aZlMJv7BQ
+ Dig Delight Direct Drive DJ | Arcana | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DobmeC7CxWM
+ Arknights | Operation Basepoint | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWbvEOWiR_M
+ Punishing Gray Raven | Sie liebten sich beide | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuOae6-GA-g

Well I have failed to get through the first day's noms by the start of day 2. Rip. But I do have a few things I'd like to include anyways.

SUPPORT:
+ Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne | Late Goodbye | https://youtu.be/kdonCg8IjW4
+ Friday Night Funkin': Mario's Madness | All Stars | https://youtu.be/zCnfHxcmXXM
+ Blue Reflection: Second Light | A Hopeful Astraea | https://youtu.be/-0ArjCS80gQ
+ MementoMori | Rage | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoV38KwtAIQ
+ Granblue Fantasy | Zero | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn8yInYg0vs
+ Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage | Kashika | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka3AFz5Dx30
+ Heaven Burns Red | Before I Rise | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O3mo_tF9Hk
+ Fashion Police Squad | The Almighty Tailor | https://youtu.be/Lrgh71fWSxg

Given that that's 8, it seems unlikely they'll all stick around forever, but.

Clara's best eidolon is E6 by far, but 30% ATK up is absolutely nothing to slouch at.

Got Aventurine in 50 pulls myself. I'm at 3700 def, 135 spd right now when using TOTUM, since I'm stuck at S1 on it. I have no DEF% substats on my speed boots and my helm is somehow really bad, though, so hopefully RNG decides to be kind soon.

@loweffortmemes Your link for Before I Rise is, for whatever reason, missing a verse. (Which does play in game.) Would you be opposed to swapping to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O3mo_tF9Hk ?

+ Heaven Burns Red | Tower of Memories | https://youtu.be/QjOCe8tiyRY
+ Heaven Burns Red | Sailing Ship (Broken ver.) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDQc-pOQTiA
+ Arknights | Operation Wild Scales | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nULX5oKXPwE
+ Last Command | Judgment.exe | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRBsYy2IaCI
+ AFK Journey | Edge of the World | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_LA5jWhfls

yeah, SS is if you finish without entering the final cycle.

finally caught up

warcry is really freaking cool.

i wouldn't mind a shift to 192 if people felt strongly about wanting a smaller contest, but 128 is just not enough.

I'm indifferent on locks, and probably will continue to be until and unless people start making slates. There's some borderline stuff right now where you'll see e.g. people sounding out dozens of songs for the primary purpose of figuring out what people will support before the contest starts. The lock system definitely encourages and empowers that sort of strategy, and I kinda don't like it because like -- we all recognize the power of your early noms having more visibility, and this + locks sort of allows you to both cut the line and then not allow people to switch to things they discover later in the queue. But is it really a big deal? "eh." I'm probably just being Old Woman Yelling at Clouds atm.

As for more powerful supports, I'd previously proposed turning doubles into triples and setting the number of noms needed to lock to 8. That both reduces the number of songs that can get locked, while also allowing three people to get a song they love in the contest if they all triple it. I still really like that plan, but it's been a couple years since I first proposed it and it doesn't look like it's getting adopted >_>

i know i should be happy, but it womps to come this far and then lose two in quick succession >_>

I'm curious to know what you or others think of Judgement.exe vs. Piranha.exe (the track I gave in Secret Santa, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApL8EnBJItM). For... reasons.

Not the biggest fan of Expurgation. Just a mix of it feeling very "rhythm-y" and not liking Tricky's voice, I think.

Blank Fairy is fantastic in context and does its job perfectly and I don't think I want to listen to it outside of that context.

Voided I just have to be in the mood for, I think.

(though FWIW I don't put that much stock in being fully voiced. I tend to click to the next line before the voice acting finishes anyways. With that said, when my first gacha were Hoyoverse stuff and then HBR, discovering that those were very much the exceptions and not the rules in terms of voice acting in gacha was admittedly a surprise.)

KanzarisKelshen posted...

I don't feel like CGs are rare. I'm going over my screenshot folder and LB6 had something like thirty to forty at a quick glance. It's a fairly decent chunk. As for games with equivalent text amounts...I frankly cannot think of any. FGO story updates just dwarf anyone else's stuff. Lostbelt 6 was 600k words, for reference (to its detriment IMO cause it was too padded, but hey). Who else is pumping out even half that many story-relevant lines into their content updates?

Heaven Burns Red releases story at about the same rate (it took me about the same amount of time to get through HBR's C4A2 as it did LB6) and it's fully voiced, including for all events (which probably have more story content than an FGO event?). But it also has a Steam version so I don't have to care about file bloat.

As for CGs, LB6 was a very welcome change in that regard, but I don't know if there had been 30-40 in all of the Lost Belts to that point.

i still don't know how I feel about Pork.

rip tower of memories ;_; so close to a 9. you did good my friendo. It's such a left turn from much of HBR's music, but the Garden of Memories that the Tower's a part of is also a very mysterious thing that remains very unexplained to this day (WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THE CAT) so it fits it to a T. I love the ratchet in the rhythm. I love the multiple layers that are doing their own things and pulling you in different directions. It just has this haunting beauty that makes me want to explore and learn more and smash my face against the bosses in hell-mode one more time.

Since this song isn't connected with plot or a specific character, I decided to use the team photo for 31B as the background. They're probably my favorite of the in-game teams. Aoi (the girl in the front) is probably my second favorite character (out of 48, and she's much better in gameplay than my favorite >_>), and the white tiger's name is Byakko and she is also a playable character and is so freaking adorable.

catching up:
black holes made me laugh. Surprise 8-bit remixes are fun.

Underworld Cherry Blossoms reminds me of "evil"/pre-purification Ookami songs. I like it a lot. The creepy laughter sells it.

FINE I'LL READ SAKURA NO UTA GOD. Also whoever decided to unleash a machine translation for a SCA-Ji work should be forced to read nothing but repeated machine translation nonsense for the rest of their life ffs. I can do a translation of the lyrics if people want but also sakura no uta is well known enough that there's probably decent lyrics already out there somewhere.

Spoilers for end of 2.1 MSQ

The Japanese version has Acheron/Yomi recite a tanka here, a form of poetry you can think of as a haiku with two extra 7-syllable lines at the end. I thought it was really cool, and didn't feel like the English quite hit the same literary note, as it were. So I'd like to share my own translation (doing 3-5-3-5-5 syllables because I think that "feels" more like a tanka "feels" in JP):

Rain of tears
Falling and swelling
The Sanzu
Barred from Yomi, to
Tokoyo return

Alternatively, using Greek equivalents to the Shinto aspects (since they did the same renaming Yomi to Acheron):

Rain of tears
Falling and swelling
River Styx
Barred from Hades, back
to Realm Eternal

Wrapped in Black so good. I love that Naganuma swears up and down that it's strictly an ode to coffee, and that he wasn't aware of the context of the Malcolm X speech he sampled from.

I was digging rave of nightmare, and then it did... things. I don't like thinking my PC is crashing >_> I actually think I would've liked Protocol quite a bit more if I didn't hear it right after the Mary track.

Always fun to re-encounter a VGMC classic. My tastes have drifted away from Kanno over the years, but I still have good memories of it. It feels like a great song to just jam with in a quartet of friends.

INTEND YOUR PUNS YOU COWARD. <3 I wish C64 Outrun had started with new stuff rather than just as a crunchy version of the arcade, though.

"Kusaru" is such an interesting choice of words. The subtitles translate it as "tired" (the "I'll sing without getting tired" line) but it's really more like "decay," either in a mental (e.g. depression) or physical (e.g. rotting, crumbling, weathering) way. Honestly "rotting" is the word that first comes to mind in English. I might have done "No matter how much they hate/flame me (depending on the verse), I won't fall apart. I'll still be here, singing." But maybe actually saying "I won't rot away" would be best.

> Outrage Craft Essence

Oh, that's where that comes from. Saw it in a couple videos for challenge quests and just assumed it was forever unavailable, which would've sucked given how useful it is in a game with very little active character swapping.

goodbye, what little RP I had.

Noreaster is so sweet. It feels like two lovers cuddling together on a porch late at night, the one nervous and spilling his heart out and the other consoling him and insisting everything's going to be okay.

Barbara is an honorary bee song.

I really don't like some of the sounds in Natal. Especially since I am at work and currently wearing earbuds. Owwwww

MacArrowny posted...

What did you like about Nayuta pre-6-5?

Edit: oh god I wish I'd realized what this post was about 5 seconds earlier

the secret is just to have zero memory of what any of the characters' names are in AA6.

kinetica is chill. Good chill.

why is my desert in japan??? These are just not desert sounds to me. They're almost Western-esque too, especially with the trumpets. Like something out of Wild Arms. And then we have some chanting. It's all cool and I don't mind it, but outside of the first 5 seconds this is not a "normal" desert theme and as an Arab-esque music aficionado I am kinda oddly disappointed.

Machbeats is incredibly not for me lol.

Kaisou is !!! The layers coming in and just not caring about each other and yet still somehow forming a cohesive whole is so cool. I just wish there were more than three layers, or that it were longer before looping, or something. It feels like there was so much potential here and it owns its 45 second loop but what if there were more.

I wish Theresa clicked for me. I don't know why it doesn't; it almost feels like it should but shrug.

I have no idea if the writing is worse in English, but I absolutely loved Nayuta's story. I was also coming off of CS4+Reverie+Kuro1 when I played it, though, and that's the nadir of Falcom's JP writing to be sure.

I should probably replay AA5 and AA6. My memory of those two games is much weaker than anything else in the series.

TOKAKU=ALMiRAJ is so many things at once. I really like things that are that way, even if I'm not a big fan of some of the things it is.

Similarly, whatever the heck Fake-Bangla is, I might like it? It appeals to me a bit less right now, but I can see it growing on me.

Spell Breaker is what orchestral stuff should sound like. Though it just makes me all the more mournful that PLvPW dropped the ball in so many ways. Love the trumpet + timpani hits.

Yeah, I'd looked into Aster a bit. I really, really wish it weren't gacha but c'est la vie.