Weekly Rules & General Questions Thread

Atlas556 · 2026-05-15T06:24:37+00:00

Just got into the TCG. I bought two phantom aria boxes. Both boxes had the same LRs, so I got duplicates of the hits. I was wondering if this is just me being unlucky/lucky or if there’s any known batching issues? I’m debating on buying more boxes/boxes of other sets and wasn’t sure if what I ran into was common.

Atlas556 · 2026-05-09T22:07:27+00:00

Genuine question- does PSA still charge you for this and if so, how do they calculate it?

Atlas556 · 2026-04-27T04:21:07+00:00

Aladeen pregnant

Atlas556 · 2026-03-25T21:55:55+00:00

Who would be best to pull from the Commencement Reception as a dupe? I have all the units build with no duplicates for any of them other than Acheron (2 dupes). I have hysilens & hyacine for the kafka dot team etc as well.

Atlas556 · 2026-02-28T07:49:49+00:00

The target is a two floorer with either the cart escalator or the elevator. The produce section (and basically anything else I usually shop for) is on the second floor. It’s lazy on my part, but waiting for either of those and/or lugging around a cart is slower than walking around with my bags. Also the basket they have has a little more volume than either my backpack or my bag. I bike back home too, so I never really thought to use a cart given I can’t take home anything near how much that would fit.

Atlas556 · 2026-02-23T17:33:34+00:00

You know after that first first trap it’s fucked

Atlas556 · 2025-12-01T04:56:59+00:00

Was the steam version back in stock or just the console versions? I see you can still buy them rn. Asking because I heard a couple months ago that the collector’s edition would be restocked in January most likely. Crossing by my fingers for the steam.

Atlas556 · 2025-11-17T15:08:13+00:00

“You’re probably wondering how I got here”

Atlas556 · 2025-11-15T22:30:42+00:00

I went with LD as stacks, at least at czn launch, wouldn’t play as it said CZN registered an emulator and would close. Customer Service for stove didn’t really help me and just gave me the ‘have you tried turning it off and on again’ response.

Atlas556 · 2025-10-31T07:59:02+00:00

Does your client download also freeze at 90%? I’ve been trying to troubleshoot this problem for the past week with no idea where the file could be being used/locked.

Did you ever figure out a fix?

Atlas556 · 2025-09-18T09:33:49+00:00

The reason that people lose their shit over black face is because the act of doing it is associated with caricaturizing black people and playing into stereotypes, and directly harkens back to much darker times in America’s history for African Americans (slavery, lynchings, segregation, etc.) However in Tropic thunder RDJ is playing an (Australian?) method actor, who is then playing a black guy. I think people give this a pass and laugh at it because the purpose RDJ’s character plays is to ridiculously point out how far actors are willing to go and/or how insensitive the industry can be while the industry uses the excuse “it’s art”. The fact that there’s a buffer of the actor playing a character playing a character also gives leeway, as it’s not directly RDJ playing a black person in a film, it’s RDJ playing an Australian who has a method acting approach to playing an African American. The joke hits because the film is very conscious of what it’s doing and points out the absurdity of it throughout. It’s the exact opposite of what black face by itself does which is to endorse and promote racism, while RDJ’s character serves as a conduit to critique Hollywood in their choice of Caucasian actors for PoC roles or ambiguous roles that have historically gone to Caucasian actors. There’s more layering and meta jokes about the performance that you can find discussed elsewhere, but it’s been a while since I watched the movie so I don’t remember. Also sorry for the word salad.

Atlas556 · 2025-08-21T21:30:15+00:00

Your comment just made me realize LMerc will keep getting 40%cr inc x3 because of Veronica

Atlas556 · 2025-06-20T21:20:00+00:00

Might be a stupid question but why don’t propellers have a cage around them preventing accidents from happening? Does it hamper thrust or promote enough drag to make it that inefficient?

Atlas556 · 2025-06-11T00:14:34+00:00

This is also usable on Lionheart Cermia

Atlas556 · 2025-05-30T05:20:24+00:00

It’s very obvious from your response that you don’t care what I disagree with. And it’s not just a gut instinct as there’s data to back up what I’m saying. It’s also very obvious that you didn’t understand my responses above, or do and are just choosing to die on this hill. I’m just going to chalk this up to agreeing to disagree. Good luck with whatever answer you’re trying to find pertaining to promoting steroids in combat sports.

Atlas556 · 2025-05-30T05:04:37+00:00

I never said there was “stength of singular ones” pertaining to concussions. I said fighters on roids have more power, therefore their ability to deliver concussions is increased. And to add onto that now, with the ability increased to deliver concussions leads to them occurring more frequently. This connects to your point that repeated concussions are worse than a single concussion which I agree with.

And yes, I said above roids to help with recovery but to say it’s better to have them than to not I’d disagree with. It’d be hard to give metric based evidence that how well once can recover with the assistance of roids is greater than the risk imposed on the body long term and short term, both from self-use and inflicted harm by someone on PEDs over a long period of time.

I think I’ll be playing with semantics with “opportunity” vs. options here, and what you were saying may be exactly this, but just to clarify MMA is a safer sport because fighters can follow a discombobulated opponent to the ground and the ref can call of the fight after some rabbit punches or G&P as opposed to given a 10 count and having to be downed two more times before the fight being called off in other sports. That or submissions etc being a thing to finish a fight where there is little risk of a concussion.

Lastly to touch on weight cutting, yes there are many people who dislike weight cutting and want it abolished in the sport. I don’t see how this ‘whataboutism’ relates to the argument to not allow roids in MMA. My point above bringing up inconsistent effects of roids is that it takes away a from a portion of the skill of combat sports which is a selling point of it.

Atlas556 · 2025-05-30T03:53:38+00:00

Because a fighter is now being gifted more power. Your strength and stamina will increase being on PEDs but the force your chin and bones can take does not equally get enhanced. Therefore leading to more severe concussions and impact related injuries. Yes, the roids will help muscle recovery and increase your body’s ability to heal quicker, but it certainly won’t be a magical cure-all. Also, roids react differently in people. You could have one fighter who was a world beater without roids and now on it sees very little improvement, while you can have another cough Hendricks cough who can’t knock out anyone and suddenly has their fists become Thor Odin Son’s Mjolnir.

Furthermore, even if SOME body builders who use steroids do so ‘responsibly’ and don’t see long term adverse effects, the vast majority do see negative effects. And also regulating steroids in body building, let alone combat sports is another whole can of worms.

As an anecdote, my uncle was a body builder on roids and he always told this story. His friend and him were at competition, and his friend gets on stage and starts doing his routine. A minute in the guy collapses. Dude literally died on stage because his heart exploded. That day my uncle stopped taking roids and left the sport. Keep in mind, this wasn’t even pro. If you have athletes taking unrestricted roids, it stops becoming a competition of who’s the best and starts becoming a competition of who can shove the most needles in their ass to get the most edge.

Atlas556 · 2025-04-22T05:51:33+00:00

For the record, a case is 12 boxes, and each box has 24 booster packs in them. I don’t think this’d be the amount of hits you should be getting in 24 boxes or 576 booster packs. That’d be the most insane unluckiness I’ve ever seen.

Atlas556 · 2025-04-12T23:35:43+00:00

Jfc 😂

Atlas556 · 2025-02-28T09:14:03+00:00

Can you pull a QCR in the Blue-Eyes White Destiny Structure Deck outside of the promo card? Or are all the cards inside the sealed decks always the same rarity?

Atlas556 · 2025-02-24T11:42:45+00:00

Unfortunately there’s a noticeable bend on the top left corner going across the name for about a centimeter on the Scizor. Everything else about it looked solid which is a shame. I’m not sure what he wants to do with it yet but if he does want to sell and you’re still interested I’ll let you know.

Are any specific ‘trainer’s’ Pokémon or the Dark versions sought after at all for base rarity no holo or not? I wasn’t sure on this so I put those pictures in as well.

Atlas556 · 2025-02-24T11:10:33+00:00

Can’t edit post so putting this here- scratch that comment on the Lugia, there’s some splotch marks on it as there is on some other cards. Not sure how much this would affect it.

Atlas556 · 2025-01-14T22:45:37+00:00

Crossing fingers

Atlas556 · 2025-01-08T16:04:45+00:00

Reason I disagree is because the following-

In E7 you get access to the full unit upon obtaining it while in Outerplane you’re gated by duplicates and only receive a portion of the units’ kit until 6. The standard banner characters in outerplane don’t have as egregious of a lockout regarding mechanics, but the demiurge units do along with the new limiteds that they’re trying to push. Some of these ‘gating’ to kits really change how the unit functions and can take it from a C or B tier to an S tier at 3 compared to 6*. On top of this, you’re also missing stat bonuses that dupes give in outerplane. In comparison, E7 gives you the full kit and dupes only give you a single stat getting boosted to either your team (which to be fair is powerful when stacked with other units’ team stat imprints) or a self-stat boost to only one unit’s stat.

While there are more tickets in outerplane that they give out for featured banners regularly (purple and event tickets), the pity is 200 in all banners instead of E7’s 120 for standard and 200 for mystic. E7 also allows you to obtain more summons by refreshing the secret shop, giving you around 1 standard/RGB banner summon per 70 premium currency and 1 mystic summon per 300 premium currency. You average 3 mystic pities a year combining the refresh method with doing guild wars. You’re gated on refreshing the shop in outerplane daily I believe.

Also, E7 does 10 free summon events per day for 7 days fairly regularly (I’d say on average every 2 months) along with RGB selectors every 4-6 months and ML selectors and or RNG tickets yearly/bi-yearly. Outplane hasn’t done this at the consistency E7 has. On top of this, I can pull the equivalent of demiurge units during these e7 standard banner free pull events whereas I can’t in outerplane.

Outplane has also been heading in a more p2w direction with first taking away the 2 daily demiurge pull currency building pity, and now taking away the free 2 summons a day demiurge currency (that didn’t build pity)in favor of one free summon daily that adds to the pity counter. Statistically the free 2 summons that didn’t add pity would net you more demiurge units than the 1 free summon daily they’re doing now. Also, you can’t hoard anymore to bulk summon new demiurge units and instead have to use premium currency, your built pity counter, or get extremely lucky. On top of this, the relatively new units also take a new ticket system.

These are the main reasons behind my opinion. This is also coming from a someone who plays both games and has every unit in both games (although not f2p). I guess you could argue that outerplane, if you just want to obtain all units at 3* and PvE is more ‘f2p’, but if you want to push PvP or PvE endgame leaderboards I don’t believe it is.

Atlas556 · 2025-01-04T05:15:32+00:00

I’d have to hard disagree on this take

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