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Tennousu posted...

https://twitter.com/dahliaplz/status/1785484428556300644

Something like this person's?

Yeah lol that was the original post I saw. But I heard murmurs of this in OCG too

MS S5 E15

Yeah I'm gonna watch it now and the thumbnail spoiled the Fabled thing. I'm so fucking hyped for Fabled you don't even fucking know. What's wild is that he also has speedroids, who actually work a bit with Fabled. Not great, still, but it's there.

Ban list:

Eh... nobody limited Pathfinder? Shaddoll Tear is strong so it got rightfully hit. Man like Doug's card pool is shittier than I thought. I'd say like there wasn't even anything that was outright dangerous, so hitting pend there might've been the right choice after all. Sadly Marincess doesn't seem playable anymore.

Wait... how is Farfa 14-15? Does that make sense? Shouldn't it add up to be even?

Packs:

Yooo Gage opened Crystal Beasts. You need 3 Pegasus and 1~3 Carbuncle at minimum but it's not a super high rarity pack I think? It's actually a rank 4 spam deck which is kinda funny to think about. Wait Sylvans... it's honestly not that bad. Yeah chat is calling it. Sylvans are ok. T.G. pack didn't get unlocked, sad.

NO ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING FARFA OPENED NUMERONS AGAIN. I HATE THIS GUY, HE'S JUST GAGE BUT WORSE SUDDENLY. Gacha gods please screw this streamer. Oh look gem knights. To be fair here, I don't think he pulled any other playable packs

FABLED. Yo wait Anti-Spell is crazy vs. Numerons. WAIT ROYAL HARPIE'S FEATHER STORM. But Doug doesn't have UR craft here for Harpie synchro. Ok come on when is the fabled happening. Huh? I guess I have to see

Oh I see they can do the whole 1 at a time to unlock a pack thing now. LOL Gage just go into Sylvans you dingus, it's actually ok. Lmao yessss he's gonna shit when he realizes how good they are. Ok Alsei, wincon found. Iris is also cracked in sealed, too. Oh god he does need Loci actually. But Sylvans are decent for swarming in sealed. Princessprite is nuts. I just hope he tries it. I used to really like them in DLinks. Cycroid instead of Loci is really really funny

Praying Farfa pulls garbage. WTF lol royal Chimerafflesia. Man fuck you gacha gods. Yessss thank you gacha gods. Yesssssss thank you gacha gods.

LET'S GO OBEDIENCE SCHOOLING WAS FABLED. This is the best episode ever. Please Ragins and Unicore. Please come to daddy. YES UNICORE. Oh my god I'm gonna cum. This is the bestest episode in the world. Cerburrel too. The Fabled know who their owners are. Wait Expurrely? Goddamn this Fabled pool is already so much stronger than his last attempt.

Deck:

Gage YOOOO Sylvans sweeep. This is gonna be so much better than he thinks, and he has summonable lvl 8s too. Farfa must die. Doug Zeef the goat the god with a sick Fabled list. 1 Ragin could be a bit scary since Fabled can play that pseudo handless style thanks to him. This list looks good, but Numeron Gexwork is...

Duels:

Gage v Farfa: Ok Farfa has Pathfinder. Why didn't they limit this? WAIT GAGE HAS MIRROR FORCE HE'S SO FUCKING GOOD. How come he's not setting the Sylvans? Don't they do stuff when flipped? Nvm that's Komoshroomo. No freaking way, he actually hit the Mirror Force... Ok that lost the game

Doug v Gage: Holy shit SOMEBODY STOP DOUG HE'S POPPING OFF. Imo he should've made Transverser turn 1 lol. Clockwork Night is crazy tho. Wow setting to tribute does work.

Farfa v Doug: No... he has Network... Please I hope those sets do stuff. I forget what he drew. Ok Network is out, but unfortunately he's got extension. Ok Ragin drawing traps is so fucking cool. This is a control deck now. Oh my god this board is sexy. It's so unoutable. BALDRAKE

FABLED SWEEEEEP

FABLED SWEEEEEEEEP

This is the best episode. Doug is just a protag

Calwings posted...

It finally happened. After almost 50k gems sunk into the pack, I finally got an actual Sky Striker royal rare!

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Speaking of Sky Strikers... after seeing multiple videos of Joshua "Oh my god yes I love Raye I would die for Sky Striker Ace Raye" Schmidt playing a Snake-Eye variant using Sky Striker spells to help him break boards, I'm very tempted to try building a similar deck in Master Duel.

Lol just saw your post on reddit too. Kag ary is a great royal, but you have to make sure to use the right one. If it's for the OTK, you have to use it to grab Linkage. If it's just to grab Engage then tbh you should use your lowest rarity

https://www.reddit.com/r/masterduel/comments/1chq3ce/playing_bo1_is_fucking_cancer_this_isnt_real/

This made some rounds recently in the Twitter and now Reddit sphere. You can in fact change your heavily going first and easily side deck countered deck into a Tenpai deck (a deck similar to Numeron)

UnholyMudcrab posted...

This dude is over here making intelligent tactical decisions and funneling enemies into environmental hazards, but has somehow still convinced himself that that's actually just Cheese Tactics instead.

It is cheesing. Cheesing itself isn't inherently bad, but for me, the biggest problem with a lot of BG3 fights is that they're pretty trivial if you know even the basic thing about it beforehand (like the fact that it's even gonna happen), but they're something unfairly punishing when you don't know it's gonna happen.

You can always just reload, or you can just like pile on bodies and just squeak out a win. At the end of the day, midway through act 2, you can get some builds that just never has trouble with anything in the entire game. But if you don't know those builds and experiment, act2/3 late creative builds are all generally pretty shit. Like there's very little reason to use them over stuff that simply just does way more damage, cuz damage bypasses a lot of jank

My R-Ace supremacy deck has been complete with some potential changes that could be made. I beat a poor Cyberdark player on the gold ladder but otherwise I haven't really played much of it. It's a really strong deck with few weaknesses but it's probably not as strong as playing just Snake Eyes. Hard to say really.

Prestoff posted...

Yeah the best way to say it the average Viltrumite would beat the average Saiyan, but the exceptional Saiyans are pretty fucking busted compared to the strongest Viltrumite. With that said, I haven't gotten far into the comics for Invicible yet so my opinion might change.

Then you can't make that decision yet. The strongest Viltrumites are introduced like halfway through the story and are central to the story.
Guide posted...

Ain't no one run has run out of ki to such an extent that they become so vulnerable, unless it's their big, final, all-or-nothing attack. If it goes to attrition, they'd lose, but it's unlikely the scaling matches so evenly that this happens.

What feat, the lightspeed thing? They've been breaking that for a long, long time. Kid Goku was dodging lightning and lasers, and since then, there's been a conga line of people so fast that other people cannot react or even perceive their speed, and then the same thing happening to those fast people, and so on.

Vegeta, in his introduction, is a planet buster, and his strongest attack wouldn't even register on any of the top tier fighters in DBS. Hell, base Frieza was a planet buster too, over 25x stronger than Vegeta, and nothing he could do at his original final form would register. Cell was several times stronger than Frieza, and so forth. Buu might be able to do some minor damage, but everyone below that could easily nuke any planet, and their strongest attack would still be no-sold by the DBS endgame. DB ki attacks don't inherently scale size and strength in proportion, either, mostly because AT couldn't figure out how to make it make sense, and so he just kind of ignored it in order for them not to blow up the planet constantly.

tl;dr planet busting attacks aren't even the minimum for registering as a threat. The real threat is in hitting the actual planet, because they still need to breathe.

Ok, literally no fight in DB last even remotely close to some of the fights in Invincible lmao. I've read both and DB rarely ever continuously fight for even more than a day, and you're completely bullshitting me if you want to claim that the Saiyans portrayed in the story never ran out of ki. They run out of ki all the time and senzu beans literally save the day time and time again.

Also Goku himself has to rely on instant transmission, which btw long range ones cannot be used freely. He has to have been there first to visualize, and it takes concentration and isn't ever used combatively. Not being able to perceive their speed is already countered by Omni man able to react to the Flash knock off. Considering that is the only time anybody is ever not perceivable by Omni Man, a slightly above average Viltrumite, in the entire series, it's safe to say that when DB portrays them moving faster than human perception, it doesn't mean shit for Viltrumites.

I already addressed the planet buster shit that keeps getting brought up over and over. You guys are so obsessed with that shit, but again, the idea is that they destable the planet via either hitting the core or else. PUNCHING a planet and one shotting it is like literally several times magnitudes more impressive. Making a planet blow up by punching means they're literally punching so hard that the force disintegrates the planet. A saiyan can't fucking tank that wtf, they can't even tank the ki attack capable of reacting to a planet's core. These supposed planet buster ki attacks hit the planet at an angle all the time and do nothing to the planet.

You guys keep exaggerating the planet shit cuz that's all you got to say Saiyans are even within the same tier list of Viltrumites

Guide posted...

Kid Goku tanked a surprise sniper round to the face. It hurt, but it didn't even slow him down. Goku in DBS took a scratch from a bullet, but he was deliberately lowering his power at the time, so as to not totally obliterate the normies harassing him.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/c/cf9482a6.jpg
This is probably why. I think this is damning. Viltrumites don't need Ki. They can literally fight as long as their brains don't get crushed or whatever. We've seen Viltrumites fight for like months and still retain the same toughness. Saiyans have a hard limit, and they lose the moment they run out of ki

StealThisSheen posted...

This is where I'm at. If purely going by "Average army of Saiyans vs. Average army of Viltrumites," Viltrumites probably win.

But if we include the actual high end tiers, the high end Saiyans are so incredibly busted that they run away with it.

Tbf, I think Broly is the only one who has any chance, and we've never seen how Prime Broly compares to Jiren. But again, in this topic, there was a feat done by Nolan, who isn't even the strongest, that no Saiyan in the entire world of DB has ever overcome. How do you perceive this? Saiyans don't really have that much interstellar feats. Their main feats are all contained within planets.

For another thing, Thragg was clearly defeated, and the Saiyans 3v1'd Jiren and won via a tournament rule, not by submission. The feats aren't as amazing as you might think. DB has produced other races who may have as much potential as a Saiyan if not eclipses it, and those races have interstellar feats.

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But that's been a flawed comparison since the beginning. First off, not all planets are made equal. Viltrumites can literally do insane travel, and they're destroying planets without relying on energy blasts. They're punching through a planet so hard that it explodes. Non-prime Nolan himself subdued an entire planet's surface without that much issue nor even a significant bit of his lifespan. This alone suggests it so that if by any chance they can tank or dodge a strong ki blast, they'll literally just run through Saiyans, who are vulnerable to bullets.

Like they can punch through planets, so how the fuck is a Saiyan tanking a single punch? It's just over the moment Viltrumites catch up to them. CQC is out of the question, and a straight blast isn't really the hardest thing to dodge.

For another thing, an energy blast to a planet has the advantage of interacting with a planet's core. Basically we can't even know for sure if Vegeta did all the work. All he had to do with reach the planet's core, so there are a multitude of ways where their skill set is specifically designed to be good at exploding planets. Comparatively, Viltrumites need to exert much more force to destroy a planet, but on a 1v1, they may be significantly superior

They've done the same thing for Nikke, so it's not that surprising. Either way, the censorship shouldn't bother you (just go to one of those SFM subreddit if you want lewd 3d stuff idk). The thing that should bother you is the reason why. They have to cater to a lot of immoral govt and audiences. They'll always play sides that give them the most sales in the end, just like how they acquiesced to China and the ME regions, as well as Korea's majority gamer audience, most of which are incels

DrizztLink posted...

Shamelessly stolen from a feat topic:

I think people overlook this but man this eclipses so much of what any Saiyans have been portrayed to do imo. Though again, it's not a discussion of the averages. I think comparing the strongest btwn them is too hard (Invincible already having run through and even having a flash forward arc). Saiyans couldn't individually outmatch somebody like Jiren, and Jiren reminds me a lot of Thragg (lol just saw the wiki reference the similarity btwn these two). Thragg being the strongest Viltrumite before the 1v1 with Mark.

Mark could individually outmatch Thragg eventually, and future Mark is like several times stronger. Goku would straight up need a series or two runtime in its entirety before we can even flirt with the idea that the highest form Goku can match up against Prime Mark.

StealThisSheen posted...

Saiyans are definitely stronger than Viltrumites. It took three Viltrumites to destroy an already unstable planet, something a single high class Saiyan can achieve. However, Viltrumites can freely survive in space much longer than Saiyans.

So it'll depend on the specifics.

But that's not average vs average. They all work off of the whole what doesn't kill you makes you stronger logic, and the average Viltrumite puts themselves in deathly situation much more than the Saiyans do.

Yeah the things I hear of this game ain't positive much. I think the massive character recruit spree format needed some serious rehauling instead of relying on tradition and tired ideas. Most turn-based games either rely on a seriously tested formula or require genuine geniuses that the Etrian Odyssey crew has or something.

Unicorn Overlord also recently had the massive roster thing, and it worked spectacularly there because you can use so many of them at the same time

Trump literally had his incompetent son-in-law (con-in-law more like) fucking up simple diplomacy in the middle east, so yeah... a LOT more people could die under another Trump admin. I genuinely don't think US or even parts of the world that involve US in any way could survive another one of the Trump admin, even though it was really funny b4 it actually happened.

Seaman_Prime posted...

Hell yeah! I finally made it to Master V for the first time. My last match was against a Mikanko deck and I have a history of sucking shit against them lol but I was able to play smart this time and come in clutch.

I'm pretty sure I can count on one hand the times I actually beat those dumb fruit girls. My faves target a lot and don't have much counters to the things they do.

Technically GFaqs has historically been worth much more than 2 mil, but I doubt it has a growing revenue. They get a lot more from ads, if some revenue tracking sites are to be believed.

But there's probably a reason SBAllen stuck around with it for so long, and he's probably quit out of not wanting to manage it anymore, not because the site was a money sink.

Anyways, the best owner has to be SBAllen. They rolled back on a lot of nonsense during his reign

SP at 1 is relevant cuz it's usually used as a stepping stone to Isolde, and you'd want to have one that's not a stepping stone

It's for the Fusion part of the current event, so I can't Xyz sadly. But that is what I would do were I in the Xyz category.

The biggest problem really is that Therions can't fucking equip from hand. I really dunno why they're made that way and then have like a single spell that allows pitching of Therion cards.

Also had a SwoSo fucko counter my ass with D Fissure. Turns out it fucking turns off Regulus

Getting 50%ish WR with Therion Invoked. It's honestly not a good deck at all. Extremely prone to bricking and hand traps. When it pops off tho, it's pretty hard

Duck

Ok I got 1500 on both Xyz and Synchros. I do want to inflate the Xyz number a bit more lol cuz they're actually really powerful.

But I got an absolute banger game vs Branded. You know how crazy it got was that I skipped Ashing the Branded Fusion because I had Nibiru in hand. He even bit the bait of expending more resource to summon Albaz to fuse with my Nibiru, because I had called by to counter his Branded in Red the next turn, banishing his Albaz to fizzle his shit.

The end result is that I normal summoned Ash, which eventually let me climb to PEP, who secured the game with Chungus. It was a pretty masterful hold

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3s6uBDDH28

Time for Master Saga S5 E14

This is live commentary. Farfa almost got a fucking playable Mikanko ritual lmao. Kudos for not cheating. Gage has some good options here, and ngl Time Thiefs aren't the worst, but is Marincess Icejade a thing? I mean... why not, right? Doug got sick staples, Floodgate traphole, Gorz, and some decent choices elsewhere.

Farfa went... Numerons. I hope he loses. Farfa's been stepping up his "destroy Gage's butthole" diatribes. MBT influence is a bit bige.

Gage went Icejades, hell yeah. I like it. He's got a great water pool haha pool get it. I swear somebody has Icejade Gymir Aegirine. If it's Gage, he can just pivot to full Icejade. They're not bad and can set up unoutable shit randomly. HE GOT BARONNE?!?!?! Oh it's banned el oh el. I forgot Doug abused her like crazy. Ok Gage's pulls are kinda doodoo, big rip. I'm pretty sure you need Aegirine and her ship thing. His Ghoti pool got good all the sudden, but Guoglim is garbage, sadge.

Doug went Dragonmaid. I don't really agree with it cuz Unchained has always been good in Master Saga. Wait UR Tindangler? That's something to think about. Tiamaton is never not good in sealed. WTF ok he got Sheou and his craft is a double N/R. This slaps.

I hope Farfa loses. Glad we're not seeing the basically invincible Shaddoll Tear, but this is straight up objectively worse. Ok, Gage is working with Fish synchro, which is really powerful in sealed. It's not bad, and seems the Marincess package is still in it. Coelacanth is pretty wild. Gage's decks are just getting better, finally. Uhh... Doug went pend lol eh... It's actually a pretty decent deck, but maybe it's not week 14 decent. I'm actually a fan of Igknights, but can they do anything against Numerons?

The answer is no... This is the worst episode ever. God this is the first time Gage has read any of these cards either. The fucking dinomists do like nothing, wtf. They're like a battle archetype and they just do nothing at battle phase. Who designed these trash?

Gage's continuous stuff has like insane advantage game wtf. ...Ok Doug threw. I can't believe he didn't activate that effect to secure the win. Luckily I don't think Gage knows how to understand that a blue glowing text is the one that activates. He also never drew a tuner. That feels bad but I haven't seen his ratios

Can Gage make it a 1-1-1? HE'S GONNA SHIF. Holy shit he drew Imperm. It's so joe ever for Furfa. Ok Marincess to go into Abyss Keeper is fucking based. I like Gage's deck unless it bricks. Ok he's got a fucking mirror force at quick play damn this deck is so sick. Ok Gage, being coy about having imperm lmao. Holy crap he's also got hop ear squadron. I have to think IWishTCG built this deck. I just don't see it any other way. Ngl, his ratio isn't... that great? He might not have another fish tuner

Farfa with a decent quandary. I dunno if it'll work the way Farfa thinks but I actually think it'll go in his favor. Nvm, it ruled in Gage's favor, but it fucking banished face down? This is so crazy. Wow, it just comes back face down. So weird. Wow Farfa has Megaclops to plan B if the Numeron OTK doesn't work. That's too strong. Just ban Network. Man Farfa actually has too many things that need bans. Only if the targeted ban thing was still in effect. I swear that's not even that bad of a rule. Gage should've diversified. That's the whole point of the series

Yeah if you were running 2/3 Diabell and Wanted, nothing should change. Though I'd say that SE Ash was always max copies all the time

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

But yes I saw the list, and honestly, it's pretty good. Ash and Wanted semi hurts the consistency and in some aspects, the recursion. They saw how hard the Ash limit actually hits Snake Eyes in the OCG probably.

Also SHS is still pretty good imo. I dunno if we ever need to feel bad for them ngl

I mean I was on the Korean forums at the time, and the most upvoted comments were extremely sexist comments about how females don't deserve human rights, but I don't go around like bookmarking that shit.

https://twitter.com/NotHaru47/status/1694510633964949871

I didn't have to look all that hard. They aren't even the only company to fire feminists to appease incels. This shit happened on like 3 different other Korean companies that I can think of.

Also you can just google the fact that Shift Up is partially owned by Tencent and has a deal with the Saudis to localize their games to there, in exchange for heavily censoring anything that might heavily coincide with their beliefs.

Not too sure what the disagreement is here. Trying to be on a higher moral ground so you can buy a coomer bait game in peace? Nah dude

I think Chimera is a bit too strong for this event. They kinda banned most of their counters, like all the good Synchro/Xyz decks got hit, and they go first and it's sorta just over. They're too resistant to every hand trap if they just draw well, and they just auto-play

Yo that's crazy. I was testing my R-ACEist deck and I had Baronne on the board, CPU had Malefic World on the board. Turn 3, CPU activates Malefic World and essentially gives up his normal draw to get a Malefic draw. My Baronne negates, but Malefic World already negated his regular draw, and because it was negated and destroyed, it can no longer allow the CPU to find a Malefic. So it simply skipped its draw

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They have different card pool and philosophy. The first MD banlist was basically OCG's banlist but 1-3 cards different. MD diverged from both OCG and TCG since then

It was meta in TCG for some time. Now that I look at it, we don't have the key pieces yet, which are Gen the Diamond Tiger and Ken the Warrior Dragon. They summon the other to the other side of the board, which then you can do a Mikanko combo to summon up to 3 cards on the field, one of them having to be a lvl 3. Then you make an Acid Golem and Transverser the other to the other side.

It also technically works with Terrortop, but the other lvl 3s aren't quite as efficient as Terrortop or Mikankos with a card on the other side.

Gen and Ken were amongst the leaks so we may get them eventually

Meanwhile, I lost to another Chimera... The funniest thing about this fucking deck is that I won 2 in a row by simply going first and Ashing their first search. Seems if they don't get Chimera Fusion into the hand or aren't able to resolve Patchwork, they're kinda fucked

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxVPk8pL4eo

Ok so seems Goblin Biker PUNK will basically be an even better Acid Golem locker lol

Tennousu posted...

If Arc-V is of any indication, that might be true.

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Thinking of mixing PUNK with Mikanko because Fu-Ri is psychic and Lv 3....but I'm not sure how.

The deck is pretty bloated already, but mixing two Japanese arts is something I can't resist.

You can definitely do this, but probably not for this event. It'd also be a rank 3 turbo, and you would most likely be doing an Acid Golem transverser lock, but there are probably better sub-engines for it.

Prismsblade posted...

Xyz has the strongest deck in Purrely actually. Unfortunately its one of the harder decks to learn, the Pure version while relatively cheap isnt strong enough to easily stream roll for average players and the the better variants are very expansive and require a engine most arent willing to buy even if its possibly one of the best decks.

never mind if they even like the playstyle.

Yeah I ran Daruma Cannon just in case, and it's won me games in general. I haven't faced a Purrely yet though

I had some pretty sick duels overall with my Rank 3 xyz Zoodiac, going like 13-2 or something. Lost once to Chimera going 2nd cuz they had too much shit going on. Not sure what was the other one I lost to

Fusion seems the most popular and probably the most powerful, but ppl are sleeping on Xyz cuz it's hard to spam monsters without certain tools. As usual Terrortop is my goat, but man Zoodiacs are so weak. Their appeal of not activating is lessening by the moment.

The only non prio shift I can think of is the beginning of the main phase, which is considered an open game state.

https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Game_state

If it's open, the priority is on the turn player. The moment they declare anything that closes the game state, you can respond, and if you respond, you pass the prio to the other player

So technically you can respond like twice. When they declare the Main Phase end, you can respond, and when they declare battle phase and pass their activation, you can respond again at the beginning of the battle phase.

That's true. One win and they shoot up in price for a while. I also don't even have 3 Felis or whatever the cat girl name. I'll have to see. My eyes are more on the Terminal World pack with the Ritual Beasts

My Chaos Dragon IRL deck is essentially just a Lightsworn deck. I shouldn't spend money on cards but I guess I'll have to see how much they end up being

In terms of a card every deck can use, if you're not going first with a bunch of interruptions, hoping Daruma Cannon survives til the next turn really is one of the very few ways to counter Purrely during this event.

Prismsblade posted...

Ill be using Purrely for the upcoming event. Which will be the first they werent heavily nerfed actually. lol. Seems like Konami are finally promoting the deck on top of them receiving a mate.

Whoa there buddy, pointing out Konami's anti-Purrely agenda is getting too political /s

Meanwhile they might actually be a bit too strong, if anything. I realized I have 0 answer to them. Maaybe I'll try shoving in Daruma Cannons

It's pretty decent imo. Hard to say about the quality because it's been so long, and I'm probably gonna notice when they outsourced some parts of the animation more. Most of the Frau scenes were really good, cuz they did well to show how musky and cold that room actually is.

I watched the Robotics;Notes anime, and I quite liked it. I've seen people shit on it or say it was ultra forgettable, and long term, perhaps that is true

However, I distinctly remember at the time, people thought Frau was peak and the nerdy serious guy was cool. They liked the AI girl in the AR world, and they had fan arts aplenty during the anime's airing.

Also the anime ended really well. Because so much of it is them bonding together and living a carefree life trying to make their stupid club work, when shit hits the fan, and all these serious people get foiled by the virtue of them being carefree makes all the slice of life feel like there was a point to all of it. Definitely the type of show where if you stop in the middle, you'll think it's complete shit, but the payoff makes it all the worth your while

It's fine, you can just join the discord in case you get sniped in the head without warning

The rules apply there too, but the people at the MD board are like really aggressive and weird. I swear a guy there got mad cuz I used "unofficial terms"

CE is actually closed to any new members now, and seems they're banning anything lewd or political. I do think deck building philosophy in ygo is politics so we may get banned soon

YellowSUV posted...

Is that referring to physical games? Didn't know there was enough physical games for PC to warrant them taking up a lot of space.

PC had some physical and some SEs, some digital codes, and a whole lot of displays from the pics I've seen.

It's also Japan. You think they're ever gonna forsake outdated media? There are probably way more cd collectors than in any other countries

PS5 probably did it the most injustice out of everything. My friend who's in Japan basically implied that PS5, and even PS4 had very little presence in the biggest electronics stores he could find. They'd have like 5 displays, the Switch and PC had like 20+ each.

They'll still have their US/Europe audience because these ppl are like crazed fans, and a lot of dev teams from Sony moved overseas. But that also means they'll start to lose big jp centric devs. They'll lose all the indies in PS5 and a lot of 3rd party devs like Capcom, Squeenix, Bamco, etc.

FF7 being this insane reputation game selling like an indie RPG on the Switch is probably gonna be a huge red flag to a lot of future projects

GhostFaceLeaks posted...

Isn't the game on its literal last legs and no one, not even Konami or the fanbase want stuff to change drastically just so they can keep playing their ultra expensive pet deck and push out newer players? This feels like a byproduct of this and it'll only get worse from here.

No, it's quite literally the most profitable TCG atm worldwide. Pokemon is 2nd because it's Pokemon, and MTG is 3rd with its finances being sorta under wraps and not positive due to a myriad of bad decisions from Hasbro.

The last time they changed the game drastically, they permanently lost their strong 1st place footing in Japan
Starks posted...

Did events start doing hygiene disqualifications?

Actually yeah there is a rule that says judges are allowed to disqualify people who haven't had proper hygiene. I've never heard of it reinforced though, but this news will probably start making ppl take it more seriously

Baron_Ox posted...

^ what do you mean?

Elden Ring... Multiplayer...

I thought that image was self explanatory. Seems they just kinda vote at random

vycebrand2 posted...

I don't see where you are getting this $300 for XCX. Most I see are $40-60 bucks. Still kinda high for a game as old as it is. Nothing nowhere near $300

Oh I saw on ebay at one point and it was mega expensive. I guess I clicked on a wrong settings

I see that Amazon is also doing official refurbishing so there are copies in circulation.

Yeah honestly XCX servers were completely dead prior to this point, esp cuz the game is mega expensive now, like in the $300s for used.

If anything, the servers shutting down allowed for probably my favorite gaming experience in this year thus far. The hacked unreleased multiplayer lobbies, ppl chilling and partying despite the lack of ability to communicate. It's been giving me a bit of an anime con vibe, and a similar empty feeling coming out of it.

It's dead.

It only died a couple of minutes ago on Xenoblade X. It was so lively, and now the game feels dead

I liked playing during the time of Gen 4. It truly felt next gen for the first time. However, I distinctly remember that I didn't enjoy the entire experience.

Most of the main sections kinda felt like a big nothingburger, HP took forever to drain, effects took a long time to play out, slight delays happened every other action. There were also just sections of the map that did fucking nothing. The mountains were mostly bland caves and linear top paths, the middle section cities nobody fucking remembers what goes on over there.

Even as a kid with a surprising amount of patience, I felt a grating feeling in the back of my head, like man, I don't think I ever felt this with Sapphire. I know ppl talk about the long water sections, but at least those water sections had immense amounts of secrets and hidden paths. However, somehow nobody talks about how boring the entire 2/3 end of the game is in Diamond/Pearl. I played Plat so I know how much they speed it up. In fact, the Distortion World is probably the best thing Gamefreak has ever done to improve a game, cuz it had great dialogue, more Cynthia scenes, and probably the most memorable area design in any Pokemon games, despite the fact that most of what you do there is walk. Plat would still be worth playing, but if you look at the footages now, you can still see how fucking slow Plat is. Now imagine the game being 1.5x slower with worse content, and that's DP