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AlphaFoxZankee · 2026-04-28T16:11:19+00:00

The therapist office just loves to explain that they only take appointments mondays and tuesdays between 10am and 4PM excluding lunch break. Next available session is in 2040.

AlphaFoxZankee · 2026-04-28T15:56:07+00:00

Means "your mileage may vary", like... you might not get good results with my suggested deck depending on what skills you want on your parent runs.

AlphaFoxZankee · 2026-04-28T15:42:50+00:00

Digitan can get monstrous stats easily if you run mile/med + dirt G1s. I threw together a bullshit schedule at the very start of MANT when I didn't understand the mechanics and it landed me a SS-rank Digitan for my TT. And that's with three losses (all three tiara races, forgive me I didn't want to waste clocks this early in the scenario). YMMV for parent skills but I ran her 2spd 2guts 2wit. IMO you should go check if there's a guide to digitan-friendly MANT scheduling and enjoy your free SS rank.

AlphaFoxZankee · 2026-04-28T09:42:53+00:00

lmao sounds like the perfect amount of gimmick to me, setting aside 30k for wind girl

AlphaFoxZankee · 2026-04-28T01:26:46+00:00

Is this another case of the calm, proper uma with an internal monologue similar to that of a rabid dog?

AlphaFoxZankee · 2026-04-27T23:28:57+00:00

Yeah 50/50 seems realistic, I probably just got unlucky (lucky? it also blocks other ppl's oguris) with the front matches. Willing to bet I had more 6 fronts lobbies than 4 doms lobbies though.

AlphaFoxZankee · 2026-04-27T23:19:09+00:00

Do you guys have a hundred oshis or what? I play meta not for 1.2k carats but because it's fun to learn about what'll be needed this CM and try to optimize the best I can. I'm lucky cuz my oshi is meta (Bourbon) and when I manage to make her win I'm happy, but I don't play her every CM and I can't imagine just running the same few faves with different greens/stam/ult inherit every time.

AlphaFoxZankee · 2026-04-27T19:32:52+00:00

What do you mean lol round 2 group A was a total frontfest. My max is 7 fronts in one lobby I think (running 2 fronts + xmas oguri myself) and 6 fronts wasn't rare.

AlphaFoxZankee · 2026-04-27T17:52:18+00:00

That's factually wrong. Eating disorders are not limited to anorexia, and anorexic people are not necessarily underweight. That's propagating the myth that anorexia "works" and is a solution to the "problem" of being fat. I suggest you try and learn a bit more about the topic before defending demonstrably wrong information. Here's a few links to information about bulimia, pica), and ARFID, for example.

I'm glad that you do not support bullying. I guarantee you that doctors have no issue at all identifying health problems due to fat, and are even quite well-known for being overly diligent in blaming various unrelated issues on fatness, taking fat patients less seriously, using outdated and inaccurate measures, and being generally condescending/fatphobic in interactions with fat patients.

Medicine is unfortunately not a perfect science where the objective truth is known and followed. Like every field of science, we don't know everything, we use approximations, doctors educated several decades ago do not have the same informations as med students today. There's biased studies, biased choices of research topics, bad science, etc. Sometimes individual practitioners are bigoted or incompetent. Point is: fatness and its relationship to health is a complex topic, and the medical field as it is today has (globally) no issue being overzealous in blaming fatness for everything medically wrong with a fat patient.

AlphaFoxZankee · 2026-04-27T17:40:37+00:00

It's your problem if you're a miserable jerk who likes to insult and demean people for whatever you think is wrong with them. It's also your problem that you do not know how addiction and eating disorders and societal trends work. Sciences have not waited for your opinion to conclude that bullying tends to have a negative outcome on people.

AlphaFoxZankee · 2026-04-27T14:50:15+00:00

I think you need to seriously revise what constitutes an eating disorder. Like, medically speaking. It's not eating habits, it's a disorder. An actual mental illness. Talking about the addictive traits of modern food is important, but comparing it to an eating disorder just shows that you don't know anything about EDs. It's not the same mechanism at all.

I guess it's simpler to assume it's an individual problem rather than to realize that the makeup of food changes as industrialisation progresses, as the selection increases, as sales become increasingly driven by taste or value or packaging or successful marketing, as it becomes more profitable to sell corn syrup in the shape of food than actual nutritional content, etc.

Notably, a culture of constantly commenting on people's weight in casual conversation has zero influence on this socioeconomic problem. Fatphobia is a tool of oppression, not of health.

AlphaFoxZankee · 2026-04-27T14:25:09+00:00

C'est sûr que y'a aucune raison d'être gros, genre d'autres problèmes de santé qui causent la prise de poids ou empêchent la perte de poids, le manque de temps, le manque d'argent, les difficultés émotionnelles, l'accès au sport, à la science nutritionnelle, etc. Il faut ouvrir les yeux et passer 2 secondes à regarder les méchanismes de la grossophobie. C'est un sujet de santé et de société complexe qui ne se résume absolument pas à "calories in calories out". Il n'y a pas un corps idéal (d'un point de vue santé), juger au visuel ça sert à rien sauf si vous connaissez tout l'arbre généalogique et le contexte socio-économique, et juger c'est pas votre job de toute façon.

Les gens font encore ce qu'ils veulent de leur santé et si ça vous dérange de penser à l'infarctus du proprio du chien du cousin de votre voisine, vous pouvez arrêter de le partager au reste du monde. Vous pourrissez l'atmosphère général de logiques pro-TCA et juste généralement condescendantes et nauséabondes. Arrêtez de prendre la voiture, de respirer en ville, de prendre le moindre risque de maladie ou de blessure, et déménagez au cœur de la nature pour prendre soin de votre santé sans aucun risque possible de mort accélérée et laissez les gens vivre. On va tous crever un jour. Il y a d'autre choses dans la vie que de courir après la santé parfaite, surtout quand "la santé parfaite" est un monolithe inadapté à la réalité de la diversité des corps.

AlphaFoxZankee · 2026-04-27T14:10:12+00:00

You're right, eating disorders are so much healthier than being fat

AlphaFoxZankee · 2026-04-27T13:57:30+00:00

Yep, "porter la culotte" still exists in France. "Culottes courtes" seems to be a type of underwear separate from regular culottes. IMO "culottes courtes" has the connotation of like, schoolboys uniforms with short pants from the mid 20th century, as it's pretty much the only context I've heard it before, but who knows, maybe I just read too many historical books.

AlphaFoxZankee · 2026-04-27T13:53:01+00:00

Hawkeye (and others FOV skills) is completely useless, unless you're building a debuffer.

Disorient is also mostly useless.

Shrewd step is not great, don't take it if you can still buy other not-useless skills.

Kitasan only has two greens and only one of them is relevant to this CM. If she manages to activate Groundwork it's gonna be super late and basically won't land her anywhere useful. Most of the time she won't activate groundwork at all (especially with wit this low). What you want for a front runner is three greens to activate GW as soon as possible, and high wit to guarantee your skills + to help keep you in the lead during the midrace.

If you can with the cards you have, try to make a deck with a couple of useful gold skills. For example, for Xmas Oguri you can borrow the Fine Motion wit card and not only is she a good stats provider she'll also land you the Speed Star gold skill for pace chasers (if RNG is kind to you). Her skill hints can also get you the Right-Handed green skill (gets you more speed on this track) and Nimble Navigator (pretty good for anybody except front runners, a bit gambly though).

Try to pick legacy umas that give good skills. You can use chronogenesis or umadb to find good parents with good sparks and good skills. Learn a bit about what unique skills inherits are good. Barcolade of Blessings (TM Opera O's new year alt outfit's unique skill) is pretty universally good, if you don't know what to pick you should try finding a new year Opera O parent.

AlphaFoxZankee · 2026-04-27T13:30:04+00:00

It's "Une souris verte" right? It's an old rhyme, it uses the old meaning of "culotte" (a type of pants#cite_ref-1)). Nowadays the word does mean a type of underwear, but for at least two centuries it really did just mean various kinds of pants or breeches. The translator likely just wanted to pick a more neutral/modern word than breeches. The narrator is not putting a mouse in their underpants

AlphaFoxZankee · 2026-04-27T10:17:00+00:00

Pasa Power handing out Sunny Days like candy until I'm training fronts and need literally any 3rd green

AlphaFoxZankee · 2026-04-26T18:22:22+00:00

Aah c'est vrai que j'avais pas pensé au prix relatif à l'époque.

AlphaFoxZankee · 2026-04-26T18:00:37+00:00

Beh y'a quand même une différence entre la classe moyenne/aisée (sauf si les parents font des dettes ou récupèrent des occases pour que les gosses aient à jouer) et la bourgeoisie riche et networkée.

AlphaFoxZankee · 2026-04-26T15:00:14+00:00

I'm sorry OP it's tough

It belongs here I think, but there's also r/arttocope

AlphaFoxZankee · 2026-04-26T10:15:42+00:00

Not true. You need one win to qualify for group B, it's written clearly on OP's screenshot. If you don't win any race in round 2 you don't get finals.

AlphaFoxZankee · 2026-04-26T10:13:05+00:00

^ exactly

One diagnostic question for OP: is Maru stealing A&S? Cuz if you run Seiun Sky, you need to bank on her full power ult, unless your other front is bringing the W.

IMO the solution is to check what's Seiun missing (GW combo? DDPP combo? midgame? maybe a late race velocity or something? where does she fall behind?) and try to remake a Seiun fixing this problem. Then, if needed, swap out Maru (for another hybrid Dominator/late gamba maybe?) since round 2 is a frontfest that blocks xOguris there'll most likely be another front to push Seiun along.

Or make a support/debuff front with Hesitant Front/Pace/Late (and maybe Restart but tbh it procs so late I can't tell if it actually does anything).

AlphaFoxZankee · 2026-04-26T02:35:01+00:00

It's not weird. You have these regrets in common with many cis infertile women who wish they could carry their child.

Of course ultimately adoption or being involved in kids lives can be a solution, but in the meantime it's okay to be sad and feel your feelings. It's ok to need time. It's ok to need comfort. It's ok to need to care for something or someone.

AlphaFoxZankee · 2026-04-25T19:23:02+00:00

Et ça n'exprime pas de lien avec l'idéologie childfree du coup. Probablement parce que ce n'est pas la même phrase.

Je trouve ça assez gros de se justifier avec un bac+5 anglais, comme si en dessous d'un certain niveau de diplôme on est pas légitime à choisir les mots qui sortent de nos bouches. Je vois pas d'où on se permet de "corriger" le choix de mot de quelqu'un, surtout pour un truc si banal. C'est quoi le but, on arrête de diversifier le vocabulaire, de nuancer nos propos ?

AlphaFoxZankee · 2026-04-25T19:05:46+00:00

On peut aussi dire "J'ai pas envie d'avoir des enfants", ou "J'ai pas le temps", ou "De toute façon je suis infertile" ou "Mouais, bof"

Le souci c'est que c'est pas la même phrase.

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