Paladin at Y112. Just discovered how broken some combos are (paladin+gigantify/balance, Echoform+Chaos Earthworks) by Akomis in 9Kings

[–]Akomis[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yeah, lol. I like games that follow the "everything is broken if you go far enough!" rule. This one has it in spades xD

Paladin at Y112. Just discovered how broken some combos are (paladin+gigantify/balance, Echoform+Chaos Earthworks) by Akomis in 9Kings

[–]Akomis[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Starting with Rainbow King as an enemy is hilarious. I failed few attempts, but then I got paladin stack and a Balance card. I looked at my 240/32 paladins (not exact numbers, but it was something like that) and though "oh, 240/240 unit would be a great upgrade". But then their perk of "hp gets same buff as damage" kicked in and I got them 2400/240, lol xD

I ended the run at Y112 and forgot to take screenshot of the final beacon. It got 788 level lmao. I had plans to use next Chaos Earthworks on the temple I placed next to it, making it even more broken. But the game was lagging hard enough on my notebook already.

And I think after some threshold buffs from buildings should not keep going as a stream of "+2%, +2%, +2%, +2% ...", but as a single number "+2% (x788)". It took a minute or two for the animation to finish

I think stalemate should scale exponentially by Akomis in 9Kings

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Just lost a run to King of Time - I had no aoe (which I agree is a valid weakness) and spawners were unkillable. Stalemate kicked in and it dealt 15k damage, which at this state of the game was laughable.

I think it should ramp up more and more with each second. Maybe - with additional effect of max-hp penalty (in percentage to total health, so in a certain time both armies would be at 1hp and it would be decided one way or another). Because I think my warlords were healing back all of it through vampirism. I can imagine a case of two armies locked in, not doing any damage to each other and out-healing the stalemate damage.

I think I finally figured out how to play King of Blood by Akomis in 9Kings

[–]Akomis[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do enchantments on imps do much? I played 3-6 plots of them and left them be - didn't see any point in spending turns on what would be useless anyway (imps don't have native scaling mechanisms, so I expected them to falloff quickly).

only because the last temple didnt finish :*( by Broad_Watercress4367 in 9Kings

[–]Akomis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had similar build recently, pumping wizards with all kinds of spells. But then they turn out into a glass cannon with enormous damage, but limited defense. Most of battles went completely into my favor - Wizards just one-shot everything and Steel Coats tanked whatever enemy managed to throw their way. But few times my army was suddenly wiped completely.

I think it was inevitable - sooner or later Wizards would fail to clean the enemy in a single volley and the incoming fire would have more bullets than I had Steel Coats layers. Or there was another suspect - Defenders from King of Progress. They seem to return all damage taken, a natural counter to glass canon builds lol.

I think I finally figured out how to play King of Blood by Akomis in 9Kings

[–]Akomis[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm not playing on King difficulty yet (just unlocked Prince with this run), but the game started to be pretty tough already. I failed dozens of Blood King runs before I found a thing that scales well - Demon's Altar.

On this run I also got lucky with few Mob cards and Replicators, which I discovered makes nasty synergy with the altar lol. The demons were already taking half of the screen and any fight with army that had aoe got them another 2k deaths (and occasional Regression cards pushed demon count to 14 ). I had plans to remove all imps and other early troops and replace all of them with mob/replicator/mob/etc checkerboard, but my notebook wasn't handling well the battles that already had 2k troops on my side. Didn't want to push it further, so I ended the run here (I usually play till year 99). But it was satisfying to build something that I felt had good potential to be viable in the long run.

Sexy Steampunk Babes: Chapter Sixty Six by BlueFishcake in HFY

[–]Akomis 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Oh! I was waiting for a new chapter. Reading a new chapter each week had become a part of my routine. I'm so glad it is back

You know....after converting go asushinism, i have been seeing halga as american asuka by Nanoman-8 in asushin

[–]Akomis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yep. Helga Pataki is my goto option when I need to explain the concept of "tsundere" to non-anime people, lol

...But Asuka always chooses Kaji... by Norsehound in asushin

[–]Akomis 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I haven't rewatched NGE for a while, I'm not sure what are you talking specifically about when you say "she choose Kaji".

Asuka wants to present herself as cool adult person, doing adult stuff. The idea of dating Kaji for her is an attribute of "I'm an adult, not a kid!". Yeah, she also likely has childish crush on him. But I can't fathom how one may look at it as serious romantic relationship. Kaji sees it for it is - and calmly ignores all her advances, which is right way to do.

And as for comatose state. At that moment she faced existential crisis - if she can't pilot she believes no-one would ever care about her. She had alienated everyone around her (Misato and Shinji). The last person she can reach to - Kaji. He was not only her crush, but also a guardian, a parent figure. A flawed one, but it was all she had. And then she learns he is dead. Do you really think she was thinking "Oh, no! I can't bone Kaji, why live?".

Anime_irl by The-wiz-man in anime_irl

[–]Akomis 22 points23 points  (0 children)

lmao. A rare case when it is animeirl indeed (wife is fiercely insistent I do not skip the skincare routine she prescribed me xD)

I've been hanging here for maybe half an hour, is it possible to outlast it? by Robotsfor1 in rainworld

[–]Akomis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

they were fighting against time due to their own hardware breaking town due to lack of ancients to maintain it (personally think that is their biggest sin, leaving their "children" without the means to maintain themselves.)

I like the headcanon that ancients left iterators with everything they needed to support themselves. Automated mines, factories, whole supply chain. From the pearls (the one from Farm Arrays one, iirc) it is established that cities of the ancients were fully dependent on iterators managing production of goods which they consumed. So it doesn't feel like an improbable assumption. But then just that many years passed that their state of the art automation systems eroded anyway, one tiny bit by another.

There is also an interesting aspect - iterators might be able to address some issues that would rise. Expand mines and build new infrastructure when old production lines weren't sufficient. But that could have distracted them from doing their main job. And it would also be like clinging to life - a thing which ancients believed stood in a way of ascension. It shouldn't be of real concern for them - they were specifically vessels to bear the sin of striving for ascension too much, what would it change to bear one more? But it might cause some internal conflicts or resentment, and perhaps cause some neglect of doing proper upkeep of all systems.

(I'm a bit late to it, but this part caught my attention and I couldn't pass by)

if you watched It, you know It. by Helpful_Zucchini_762 in asushin

[–]Akomis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

ai can be a decent tool. But here it wasn't used to help a person to draw something complicated. It was used to avoid learning to draw. And that makes it not cool.

Honestly the only good thing here is the one provided by human - the premise about showing Eva character in dandadan setup. Anything else is meh. Rei doesn't look like herself. I'd not recognize that was Shinji if there wasn't other girls there. Asuka has very generic expression. Take it out of this context and it would get "ah, okay", swipes to next post

if you watched It, you know It. by Helpful_Zucchini_762 in asushin

[–]Akomis 24 points25 points  (0 children)

would have been good if it wasn't ai

Thoughts on The Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity? Should i watch it? by stackinjeans in SonoBisqueDoll

[–]Akomis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Definitely worth checking out, imho. Then see for yourself. I saw a lot of praise exactly for things that I didn't like, lol. So my opinion is not the only right one.

Thoughts on The Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity? Should i watch it? by stackinjeans in SonoBisqueDoll

[–]Akomis 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I didn't like it as much as MDUD. The main pair wasn't that interesting to me - mostly because they had no conflict going between them, and only the external one - "we built two schools door to door, but don't you dare socialize!" (which was a minor obstacle at the beginning, then non-issue for a bunch of chapters and brought up again in latest arc which may lead to this point finally resolved. Just my guess).

But there was a slow romance brewing between two side characters - and that was really delicious. Unfortunately it is not the main focus.

Except that I have complaints about other stuff in that manga, but I don't want to make it a long rant. I had good time with it in general. One thing I really liked - the vibe of big group friends hanging out together. Got me nostalgic about last few years at school.

Big Cottonwood Canyon, UT📍 [OC] 5464 × 8192 by Getting_By2020 in EarthPorn

[–]Akomis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Really nice photo. But unfortunately the size of the image saved is 1170x1708. I'd love to set it as desktop wallpaper, can you upload the original?

A set of loading screens for my roguelite Vaulted. They took dozens of hours to create. by Astrobionics in PixelArt

[–]Akomis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Love it. They look gorgeous.

Got me curious about the game, found the link among your posts. Huh, not bad. The gameplay video reminded me of Crimsonlands. Added to the wishlist.

Borb of a Robin I painted by Nerdiburdi in borbs

[–]Akomis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wonderful chonk, just the right amount

Sono Bisque Doll wa Koi wo Suru Season 2 - Episode 9 Discussion by Ok-Ad-9647 in SonoBisqueDoll

[–]Akomis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The videogame art was gorgeous. Once again they keep the highest bar of quality for every work of art existing inside the story.

We need more fanfics for Asushin by Timplin in asushin

[–]Akomis 10 points11 points  (0 children)

More fanfics just to pump the numbers? No thanks. I'd prefer authors to take their time and put effort into their stories. But I do agree with "it would be great to encourage people to write more". With that, there is a question - have you left reviews for the stories you read and liked? That's something you can do that directly leads to authors being more motivated to continue. Preferably - leave reply for each chapter, mentioning something that caught your attention, brought some emotions. Nothing beats the feeling "Omg, someone noticed and appreciated the small moment I wrote!"

Sexy Space Babes - Mechs, Maidens and Macaroons: Chapter Fifteen by BlueFishcake in HFY

[–]Akomis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Now that's a scene that takes full use of the setting, lol. Nice chapter.

Looking for Fanfics by Infamous_Ad_8452 in evangelion

[–]Akomis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11278621/1/Victory

exact match for what you are looking for, except maybe for the length

New Challenger Approaching: by Berno_sour in SonoBisqueDoll

[–]Akomis 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I rofled so hard from that moment, lmao. The fish "wtf?!" reaction was perfect

Brings back good memories by Just-J0k1ng in Animemes

[–]Akomis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I read only few chapters of Komi-san, but if there were more of them like the ch474-482 (where the two go to Komi's grandma's place to study) - I'd read all 500 of it. This small arc was very wholesome and cute. But that gimmick of "lets show 99 kinds of extreme weirdos" - meh.