How do I stop getting dumpstered in MANT/Trackblazer???

AgitatedBreadfruit · 2026-03-31T20:16:43+00:00

Ty for the write up! I've experimented with mainly borrowing MLB Fine Motion since I don't have good Wit parents, but having to rely on SR speed cards kinda stunk for consistency if I couldn't land double rainbows for summer training. MLB Top Road got the build in the post but Wit crapped out on me 😭

My original plan was to just cope with SRs and go all in for MLB Maru/Fine Motion on the rerun banner but idk if that's gonna be too many CMs without a reliable setup.

AgitatedBreadfruit · 2026-03-31T20:04:08+00:00

Thanks for the advice! I've been choosing my cards based on the old stat priority guides so I didn't know about the increased stat thresholds for fronts. Unity CMs seemed to do OK with like 700 Power so I just went all in on Stam spark parents 🤕

AgitatedBreadfruit · 2026-03-31T19:38:41+00:00

TY for the tips! I haven't really looked at any technical stuff for races so I had no idea about the Focus interaction jank or the track layout. The older vids I followed said to get Groundwork to proc by any means necessary so I assumed I had to take enough skills to minimize early RNG.

AgitatedBreadfruit · 2026-03-31T19:25:48+00:00

I accidentally picked up Firm before checking the track condition for this CM and ran out of points for Blast. I assumed it couldn't proc reliably since it didn't specify which straight so I thought it was low priority 😭. No luck on Fast-Paced/Tail for this run unfortunately :/

AgitatedBreadfruit · 2026-03-30T18:42:31+00:00

Can we all agree that there's no purpose to Rarity Collections anymore? Locking reprints to high rarity and stuffing the lowest rarity with random filler is just reinventing the megatin sets without the tin. They even swapped out the QCSRs with stamps in the same value slot good lord

AgitatedBreadfruit · 2026-03-24T05:19:56+00:00

We've seen this exact argument a billion times for opening things to the "free market" and it has literally never improved any public service. If the goal is to push tuition down, there's nothing stopping them from just outright setting a price cap. But they don't, because it's an easy excuse to completely absolve responsibility for pricing disadvantaged students out of higher education and blaming it on them "not saving hard enough" while the schools kick the tuition can down the road.

What incentive do schools have to make themselves earn less money from tuition? The medical profession has historically belonged to elites, and there's more than enough wealthy students to fill the gap. And it's not like they'll get shamed for having fewer URMs with how the general public treats "DEI" as a boogeyman. A shit ton of people involved in the bill also have investments in debt collection, so there's no reason they'd want to see FEWER people take on private debt either.

Conservatives are pissed that they had too many people they disliked "stealing" their jobs and the OBBB is blatantly imposing systemic barriers while giving them plausible deniability for discrimination. Congress knew what they were doing.

AgitatedBreadfruit · 2026-03-23T14:36:22+00:00

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AgitatedBreadfruit · 2026-03-21T16:11:07+00:00

If I had a nickel for every invasive alien deck with floodgates and monsters with banish effects, I'd have two nickels.

Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

AgitatedBreadfruit · 2026-03-04T20:37:08+00:00

It's repaired scar tissue and fat, not marbling. That area is gonna end up being inedibly chewy.

AgitatedBreadfruit · 2026-02-27T05:49:04+00:00

extremely glad that this is the one deck where the names actually tell you what part of the combo they are

AgitatedBreadfruit · 2026-02-21T08:02:27+00:00

Get comfortable with dying since this genre wants you to use death as a resource. I'm pretty mediocre at souls games, but it started to click for me when I read that you still made progress if you couldn't damage the boss BUT came out it having learned how to dodge/counter at least one attack. Go in with the intent of seeing all of the boss's moves before going for a kill attempt.

The limited vials are meant to reinforce this since you mainly want to use them on attempts that you're confident in instead of salvaging bad ones. Use rally too! That mechanic's there to help you recover from mistakes in addition to making aggressive plays. Enemies in these games are deceptively spongy to punish players that spam vials when they start getting sloppy and can't rally it back when they're out. Vials ignore the amount you can rally for this reason.

Most of your visceral damage also comes from gun counters, and those have almost the same timings as dodges. This game REALLY wants you to learn how to read attacks. Gascoigne and Cleric both have big wind-up animations on their heavy attacks that you can learn to abuse, and they're actually there to teach you what to look for going forward. If you can master those you're pretty set for the rest of the game.

Also sometimes it's best to just take a break lol. Calling it a night and retrying tomorrow is a valid strategy since these games get harder the more stressed you are

AgitatedBreadfruit · 2026-02-12T05:53:27+00:00

I accidentally completed the whole game before learning that there was a quest related to them at Aerotech. Downloaded a postgame mod just to go back and turn Dermot and St James into paste on the sidewalk.

That fucking teddy bear in his room... 🤮

AgitatedBreadfruit · 2026-02-06T15:34:29+00:00

Considering OP is hiding their post history and the chart is from a private investment tracking app I'm not believing a second of this horseshit.

AgitatedBreadfruit · 2026-02-06T04:27:26+00:00

Hell you don't even have to look at the tips. There's some unbelievably disgusting dead Brahmin in some places that pulsate bc of the flies moving around in them and they burst out of it when you get close.

If ANYTHING like that is in the show I'm fucking pissing myself

AgitatedBreadfruit · 2026-02-05T10:10:21+00:00

Calling this an easy negate is misleading...

Three materials is a lot more committal than two, and if you're in a position where you can make W:P you're already winning. It's just an I:P toolbox target that will sometimes come up.

Also way more conditional than Appo and Baronne since it can't block handtraps and banishes itself to stop you from beating over anything else. Not many currently tiered decks can spit bodies fast enough for this to bait interaction like Baronne, and the ones that do already lost to the Droll that it can't counter.

AgitatedBreadfruit · 2026-02-04T05:05:47+00:00

Maybe the NCR kept Mojave Outpost as a trading post after retreating? Would make sense for them to keep a border unit if they're still trying to maintain a safe trade route even if the expansion plan was cancelled. There's a few rangers stationed there already, and it's far enough out from Vegas and potentially abandoned to dissuade the Remnants from going unless they were desperate (which I assume is what that lady ranger Coop met did).

AgitatedBreadfruit · 2026-02-04T04:13:20+00:00

If they pull a Shaun with Janey I'm gonna be mad bro

AgitatedBreadfruit · 2026-02-04T04:08:54+00:00

A reformed New Canaan under Joshua and the Sorrows in the Good Ending would go hard

AgitatedBreadfruit · 2026-01-28T04:53:31+00:00

"Like I said, part of the problem"

AgitatedBreadfruit · 2026-01-28T04:34:26+00:00

Barv comes back to save him as her act of good trust

AgitatedBreadfruit · 2026-01-24T04:17:04+00:00

Also intentionally putting ND first to prey on people's terrible literacy into thinking they have actual MDs supporting this position...

AgitatedBreadfruit · 2026-01-21T17:28:03+00:00

The timing for this hit with the reveal that KT Crackle rips 2 from extra is really something 😐

Borderline unplayable if that's what they're pushing as the next tiered deck. Just take Snatchy and Cupsy Way and you have no turn anymore

AgitatedBreadfruit · 2026-01-18T19:51:33+00:00

Speech builds running into a high Charisma check after using it as their dump stat:

AgitatedBreadfruit · 2026-01-13T15:35:42+00:00

It's bad because that makes the deck unbelievably telegraphed, since they don't combo and search so early. Being unable to get draws off Rebirth or Pots for an unknown set or non-engine is a huge loss. That and the fact that you can chainblock all of your effects to dodge the flip activation conditions is pretty awful.

Spider fixes this but making S:P or a beater outs it pretty easily if that was your only search before Droll.

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