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LeonhartFour
01/27/20 11:14:07 AM
#453:


SaveEstelle posted...
I'm so glad you're enjoying Dragon Ball, Leon. Hopefully you'll enjoy Z as well. Z is, of course, the bread and butter for most Western fans. And it's good! But as I'm sure you've heard many times over, the pacing can be... questionable at times. Not insofar as nothing happens -- far from it -- but the amount of time that certain things take in the midst of a happening can be... ridiculous is a good word for it, methinks.

But regardless, OG Dragon Ball really is good fun and now that you're in the swing of things and spacing it out alongside other shows with different rhythms and feels I think that's just goshdarn swell.

Also, a certain something arrived in the mail

Oh nice, I was wondering if it got there!

also you scooped my Game of the Decade topic...!

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LeonhartFour
01/27/20 1:52:05 PM
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I'm less than 4 months away from getting married now, and we're starting to plan out the details of our honeymoon trip. I gotta say, it's kinda wild looking at Google Maps for big cities in other countries!

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LeonhartFour
01/27/20 6:01:47 PM
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All right, I meant to start the Limit Cut episode yesterday, but it ended up being a rather crazy day following all the Kobe coverage, so I never got around to it. Time to start that up!

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X_Dante_X
01/27/20 6:02:30 PM
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i was just sitting here considering starting it

i still probably won't

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LeonhartFour
01/27/20 6:02:58 PM
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LeonhartFour
01/27/20 6:06:39 PM
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LeonhartFour
01/27/20 6:34:46 PM
#459:


yeah this is definitely going to require a lot of leveling up to be able to handle these fights

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LeonhartFour
01/27/20 7:27:09 PM
#460:


these train puzzles in Layton man

why can't other vehicles actually follow the rules of the road and not go careening head first into an oncoming train

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LeonhartFour
01/27/20 8:10:36 PM
#461:


Scooby-Doo: Mystery Incorporated Episode 22 complete!

That reminded me of that old Goosebumps book, "How I Got My Shrunken Head," which was probably my favorite one.

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LeonhartFour
01/27/20 8:23:23 PM
#462:


you know I wonder if I should do another one of those sorting things with Final Fantasy characters and rank all of those or maybe other franchises too

I dunno if I'd do writeups though unless I really felt like it

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LeonhartFour
01/27/20 9:20:19 PM
#463:


Dragon Ball Episode 40 complete! I guess I'm more than 25% of the way through the show now!

Wow, Goku actually came up with a clever plan! I'm impressed!

Also, he pulled an Eren Jaeger and refused to be eaten by a Titan.

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LeonhartFour
01/27/20 10:17:35 PM
#464:


Kaguya-sama: Love is War Episode 7 complete!

Fujiwara always wins. Ishigami always loses.

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LeonhartFour
01/28/20 1:37:26 AM
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augh I guess I'm going to be stuck for the next few days just doing post-game stuff to power myself up for the Limit Cut fights

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xp1337
01/28/20 2:41:45 AM
#466:


LeonhartFour posted...
Fujiwara always wins.
"Pink is the color of her magnifying glass!"

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Leonhart4
01/28/20 9:03:13 AM
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LeonhartFour
01/28/20 10:34:58 AM
#468:


Ring Fit Adventure is difficult to play if you have really slick shorts because the leg strap keeps wanting to slide down your leg.

Lesson learned.

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LeonhartFour
01/28/20 2:49:31 PM
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Me playing Layton and the Last Specter as a new character is introduced: "Hmm...This guy seems interesting. He's operating in a gray area where you're not sure where he stands or what his intentions are."

*cutscene of character laughing maniacally*

Me: "...Orrrrrrrr I guess he's just evil."

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LeonhartFour
01/28/20 6:51:49 PM
#470:


I did all the Flantastic Seven stuff in order to get the good accessory for beating it, and now I'm trying to find all the Lucky Emblems for the same reason. I guess I should probably work on getting Ultima Weapon while I'm at it!

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LeonhartFour
01/28/20 8:34:03 PM
#471:


Scooby-Doo: Mystery Incorporated Episode 23 complete!

Aw yeah Pericles is back. I think I've pretty much figured out what Fred's dad's secret is at this point. I imagine they'll reveal it one way or another soon.

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LeonhartFour
01/28/20 9:00:23 PM
#472:


Dragon Ball Episode 41 complete!

Heck yeah Android 8. Also, I appreciated the village chief's attempt to bluff his way out of the situation, even if it didn't actually work!

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LeonhartFour
01/28/20 10:12:23 PM
#473:


Kaguya-sama: Love is War Episode 8 complete!

Little sister appears! And this was a nice episode overall where everyone (mostly) wins.

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LeonhartFour
01/28/20 11:35:08 PM
#474:


All Lucky Emblems get

Time to spam Battlegates until I get to level 99 now I guess

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LeonhartFour
01/29/20 1:19:44 AM
#475:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHVbI9wjM4U

Man, watching Persona 5 trailers just reminds me of how darn good this game looks. Most stylish game ever.

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Leonhart4
01/29/20 2:07:29 AM
#476:


Professor Layton and the Last Specter Chapter 7 complete! The tension is ramping up, but I'm not sure if we're headed for the climax quite yet or not! At the very least, I'm invested in how it plays out and in what crazy solution this series comes up with this time!

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xp1337
01/29/20 6:58:39 AM
#477:


Oh so I made it into Silver Snow Part 2 like two days ago.

Part II starting world state spoilers: I find it kinda hilarious that Edelgard is in a significantly stronger starting position to begin Part 2 in Silver Snow than in Crimson Flower. In Crimson Flower each of the 3 nations basically has the same borders they always did with the stalemate established among the existing borders. Dmitri still rules the Kingdom and Rhea and the Church of Seiros moved into the capital with him. In Silver Snow there was a coup in the Kingdom with the capital falling and Dmitri presumably run out to the resistance in the small slice of the Kingdom still holding out. Rhea is MIA with the Church scattered looking for her. Hell, while the Alliance situation is mostly the same between them IIRC the narration makes it look closer to the brink of fracture in Silver Snow than it did in Crimson Flower. Wow, Byleth and the Black Eagles totally held Edelgard back didn't they? (For real though I have ideas on why this is the case but it requires some theories involving later CF reveals and I only marked spoilers for the start of Part 2 here) And of course from a campaign standpoint it would be anti-climactic if CF started and Byleth woke up to find Edelgard had conquered the whole continent minus like 2 sieged capital cities in CF lol.

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BK_Sheikah00
01/29/20 7:47:01 AM
#478:


The best battlegate to level up is the one in Arandelle inside the Ice Labyrinth

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Mac Arrowny
01/29/20 8:30:12 AM
#479:


xp1337: Edelgard explicitly says in CF that she's been holding back, waiting for Byleth's return.
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xp1337
01/29/20 9:10:26 AM
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Mac Arrowny posted...
xp1337: Edelgard explicitly says in CF that she's been holding back, waiting for Byleth's return.
*Crimson Flower spoilers*

Right, but aside from that being kinda silly since I mean it had been five years at that point that kinda ties into my greater theory about what was going on with Edelgard in CF. I'm assuming that having the Black Eagles around gave Edelgard a stronger force/stronger grounding such that she didn't have to rely on Thales's crew nearly as much and could basically force a stalemate along the old borders with only what she considered "her" forces and not Those Who Slither In The Dark. Without the Black Eagles - and indeed with them straight-up defecting against her - she had to lean on their strength a lot more which in the short term gave her better gains since CF shows that Cornelia was a TWSITD agent and she's the one who took over the Kingdom in the coup in SS as opposed to just chilling in Arianrhod as a sleeper agent while Dmitri ruled in CF. Since Edelgard loathes TWSITD the ability to sidelide them more was a luxury she only really had in CF which led to a worse "start" point in CF Part II mapwise but left TWSITD in a weaker position since they never took over an entire country and was able to more openly knife them in the back like when she herself kills Cornelia on the way to Dmitri. In SS though she has to let them go kinda ham in order to win even though it would make her longer term goal of killing them off more difficult.

I guess in a sense that could qualify as holding back, but again I don't think Edelgard really considers them "her" forces. Her telling Byleth she was just holding back feels more like an excuse to the player on why she's made no real progress in 5 years lol.

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Leonhart4
01/29/20 9:30:38 AM
#481:


BK_Sheikah00 posted...
The best battlegate to level up is the one in Arandelle inside the Ice Labyrinth

I'll try that one. I started with the one on Olympus, and I was gaining one or two levels each time, so it wasn't too bad.

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LeonhartFour
01/29/20 10:45:46 AM
#482:


oh hey I got Oathkeeper now

I'll have to pass on Oblivion though

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LeonhartFour
01/29/20 2:35:43 PM
#483:


Working my way through all the KH3 worlds collecting treasure chests. I've only got the Pirates of the Caribbean and Big Hero 6 worlds to go, but those are the ones I had collected the fewest of to start with, so it'll still be a little while. I've got Sora nearly up to level 80 now.

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xp1337
01/29/20 5:58:27 PM
#484:


incoming gacha rant

So, I just looked up some mechanics info and did some quick calculator math and I wasn't too thrilled with the result!

damn gachas

Okay, so like I was saying, I just started like a week ago. I soon discovered there's a Kara no Kyoukai event planned for around Valentine's Day. This got my attention because I really loved KnK and this event would let me, gacha permitting, some KnK characters and that would make me very happy. Now a quick rundown of some of this stuff:

To have a chance at getting any of them I'd have to roll 3 "Saint Quartz" for 1 chance. So naturally my objective is to obtain as many of these as I can as quickly as I can. You can buy them with real money of course, but I'm not about that life. Getting them for free is... a bit more limited. Thankfully, progressing through the story gets you a fair amount of them. You also get some for logging in enough days in a row (roughly the equivalent of 6 per week). But that's moooostly it.

And I've progressed far enough in the story where it's getting prohibitively more difficult to keep pushing through on this timetable (short version: leveling is pretty slow and ultimately, in a sense, tied to real time.) Worst comes to worst, there's a thing that lets you "borrow" another player's unit to join your team and this is exactly as OP as it sounds. Because I'm neurotic I've tended to avoid this when I can instead use a Story Guest NPC in their place. I suppose if I get desperate enough I can break this rule but yeah.

Anyway, back to the math section of this discussion. The KnK characters. I have two main targets: Fujino and Shiki (Saber). If I am interpreting this correctly the odds of getting them per pull is 1.5% and 0.8% respectively. Which is... less than ideal. I am, atm, sitting on 175 Saint Quartz (+33 more effectively in what are called Summon Tickets.) We're about 3 weeks out from this event so let's tack on another 21 for saying I log-in once a day because that's fairly trivial to do. That would put my total at 237.

That puts my odds of obtaining Fujino at ~70% and Shiki at ~47% if I blew every last Saint Quartz I had on this - which btw I am 100% willing to do I mean hell, I only started a week ago what the hell - I would very grudgingly accept just Fujino as a success but damn if I haven't played enough Fire Emblem to be sweating like hell at a 30% fail rate.

Now, in all likelihood my total Saint Quartz count will be a bit higher than that projected 237 because there's still some stuff I can do even outside the story (and as time goes by maybe I can power up my team enough to keep going) and hell there was a day where the game just dropped 30 on me for a reason I didn't fully understand so if it gives me another such gift we're in business but man the probability graph on this is not great! If we assume I somehow get up to 300 Quartz that only ups my odds to 78%/55%.

what is this hell i have entered

tl;dr: everyone should get hype for my LIVE attempt to overcome the gacha rng around like 2/15.

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Mac Arrowny
01/29/20 6:21:57 PM
#485:


Yup gacha sucks. Easy enough to use 800SQ on a Servant and still fail to get them!

Also it's .7% per roll for Shiki, not .8! On the bright side, everyone gets a free version of Shiki during the KnK event, and she's actually more powerful than the gacha version!

New players will often burn through the story pretty quick using powerful Support Servants, but it's cool if you don't want to do that. How far into the story are you now? Chapter 6 (Camelot) is where it really starts getting difficult.

For getting XP, you should be doing the 40AP XP node pretty much exclusively. The lower levels are much less efficient. I wouldn't feel bad about using friend servants for this.

Do you want to Friend me in-game? My ID is 893,487,556. Let me know if you do so and what your name is so I can accept you.
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xp1337
01/29/20 6:31:14 PM
#486:


Mac Arrowny posted...
Also it's .7% per roll for Shiki, not .8!
lmao. was 1.5% right on Fujino at least? At sub-50% I was always considering Saber Shiki a bonus.

Mac Arrowny posted...
How far into the story are you now? Chapter 6 (Camelot) is where it really starts getting difficult.
Chapter 3 (Okeanos). Probably like halfway/a little less based on previous chapters. Just fought a dragon that took some thinking/rearranging/luck to deal with using only the Story NPC... who was the sole survivor at like 3% HP. >_>

He was a jerk where all his attacks were AoE though and that's been quite rare so far. I'm pretty sure I could keep pushing through a bit even right now but I can tell my current team is reaching its limit until I power them up some more.

Mac Arrowny posted...


For getting XP, you should be doing the 40AP XP node pretty much exclusively. The lower levels are much less efficient. I wouldn't feel bad about using friend servants for this.
Roger!

Mac Arrowny posted...


Do you want to Friend me in-game? My ID is 893,487,556. Let me know if you do so and what your name is so I can accept you.
Sure, thanks! Name is Zero because I had Drakengard on the mind at the time. >_>

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LeonhartFour
01/29/20 6:37:10 PM
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LeonhartFour
01/29/20 7:18:05 PM
#488:


Professor Layton and the Last Specter Chapter 8 complete! Now I can tell we're definitely nearing the end.

This was the first chapter I actually missed puzzles, but by the end of the game, I usually get tired of going to literally every single area whenever we hit a new point in the story, so it's bound to happen. I'm just glad I held out as long as I did!

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Mac Arrowny
01/29/20 7:42:56 PM
#489:


Friend request accepted! And 1.5% for Fujino was correct, yeah.

Wow, your team really is low level! I had one level 90 Servant before Okeanos came out, so it was a lot easier for me, haha. If you want to use friends but not totally rely on them, you can use Servants like Waver who buff your own Servants rather than being particularly strong on their own (though his high attack stat would still make him stronger than your guys, heh).
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xp1337
01/29/20 8:04:30 PM
#490:


Haha, yeah, they're pretty weak. >_>

The consequence of only playing a week and often not being very sure of what you're doing I guess lol

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LeonhartFour
01/29/20 10:13:55 PM
#491:


Scooby-Doo: Mystery Incorporated Episode 24 complete!

The backstory for the villain this time was pretty cool.

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LeonhartFour
01/29/20 10:39:56 PM
#492:


Dragon Ball Episode 42 complete!

I guess that's the end of the Red Ribbon Army arc! Hopefully that means no more Murasaki because that dude has officially entered "too much screentime" territory!

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LeonhartFour
01/29/20 11:06:53 PM
#493:


Kaguya-sama: Love is War Episode 9 complete!

Wow, a rare total defeat for Fujiwara! But poor Shirogane. I feel for ya, man.

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xp1337
01/29/20 11:10:20 PM
#494:


fujiwara literally cheating at childrens' card games lmao

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LeonhartFour
01/30/20 12:10:26 AM
#495:


yeah I can tell I'm getting close to the end of Layton because almost everyone in town has a puzzle for me

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Leonhart4
01/30/20 1:46:39 AM
#496:


Okay, I think I'm ready for the endgame, but that'll have to wait for tomorrow.

Also, I guess I should go ahead and ask: Which Layton game comes next? That way, I can go ahead and keep an eye out for when it's cheap.

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LordoftheMorons
01/30/20 1:58:35 AM
#497:


Miracle Mask (which is the second best Layton game imo)

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LeonhartFour
01/30/20 8:23:32 AM
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Leonhart4
01/30/20 10:40:15 AM
#499:


They transition to the 3DS after this, right? Do they add anything to the games or is it basically the same?

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Leonhart4
01/30/20 10:40:28 AM
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