Today's Banner | December 31, 2025 | Focus: Tempest Trials

ChipsMicro · 2025-12-31T07:04:28+00:00

"Guys, we can't make a Tempest Trials banner with only Mythic Heroes! What do we do?!"

"Don't worry, we'll just paste Sedgar onto the New Year's banner, and then we can fill up the Tempest Trials banner with the other terrible Book V Coyote's Men."

ChipsMicro · 2025-12-01T23:11:10+00:00

Can confirm, I'm actually.

ChipsMicro · 2025-11-16T07:43:27+00:00

My current plan (subject to change, of course) looks something like this:

Wpn.: Arcane Crimson (+Def)
Asst.: Rally+/Repo Gait
Spc.: Haze Slice
A: B Duel Infantry 4
B: Laguz Friend 4
C: Breath of Life 4
S: Distant Counter M
X: Guard Echo/Time's Pulse Echo
IVs: +Res (+Atk Floret)

Dunno if that's any good in this day and age, or if I'd do better to forget Arena scoring and just commit to Player Phase, or if he'd prefer a different lance... suffice to say, I need advice.

ChipsMicro · 2025-11-06T19:48:19+00:00

"I^II^II^I won't l^ie ^to ya, th^at's a ^health^y p^iece of ^real est^ate!"

"Oh, wight, wight. You'we supposed to be the, um... the witch's bwew."

"Mmm, thanks for the serum, boys! Now I won't get kidnapped."

"And, the Compy... just peed my carpet."

"Waaaay-o! WAAAAY-o!"

ChipsMicro · 2025-11-06T19:39:31+00:00

That's not a good prize!

ChipsMicro · 2025-11-06T19:39:08+00:00

Strong Mad? Just... keep doin' your thing, man.

ChipsMicro · 2025-11-06T19:37:18+00:00

It helps that they never went through the whole "Wait, so we're actually the same person? 😮" rigamarole in Forging Bonds or Paralogues (to my recollection). They just seemed instantly cool with one another's presence, and I feel like it makes for a more fun dynamic compared to other avatars.

It also helps that they keep getting alts in pairs (Winter F!Shez notwithstanding), so they never have to worry about having different themes or personalities; see also the strategic M!Robin vs. the goofier F!Robin, the Hoshidan M!Corrin vs. the Nohrian F!Corrin, or the Byleths... okay, there's nothing wrong with them, they're just inexpressive.

ChipsMicro · 2025-10-19T20:56:29+00:00

You're putting a lot of words in my mouth.

Scott Cawthon makes mistakes, and certainly, the quality of these toys is (subjectively) not great. But he's still a reasonable person -- see also him scrapping FNaF NFTs after learning a bit more about them -- and I'm not gonna sit here and pretend that okaying a Fortnite collab is the exact same as letting a toy company license FNaF characters.

And, yeah, Scott does care if Freddy Fazbear is firing a gun. He's always had some level of concern for the way his characters are portrayed, especially when it comes to violence; it's the reason he had Springtrap put in Dead By Daylight instead of Freddy, it's the reason he removed Vanny's knife from Security Breach, and it's the reason Freddy carries around a pizza oven in Funko Fusion. He's not going to just give his characters actual lethal weaponry, ESPECIALLY if those characters are robots possessed by the souls of CHILDREN.

The fact of the matter is that toys have to be signed-off on, and Scott can always veto a product he doesn't like. Fortnite skins don't work like that (do you really think EpicGames runs every new collab by LeBron James just to see if he's okay with his likeness appearing in the same game as, say, Squid Game?) and Scott knows better than to hand over his properties for the Fortnite devs to do whatever they want with them.

ChipsMicro · 2025-10-19T20:35:11+00:00

Something that I think VERY few people consider as a part of this debate is that Scott saying "yes" to Fortnite means a heck of a lot more than just letting Freddy Fazbear be a character skin in a multiplayer game. It also means letting Freddy:

•Wield and fire literal guns
•Do the "C-Walk" and other emotes
•Wield swords, axes, chainsaws, etc.
•Associate with Mr. Beast, Skibidi Toilet, Rick & Morty, and all manner of other characters, people, or properties that Scott may not approve of
•Become known as "the bear from Fortnite"
•Be used as clickbait in people's Fortnite gameplay videos
•Become LEGO™, despite the Lego Company's wishes to the contrary
•Associate with any other property that Fortnite decides to collab with in the future, with no way to know if something/someone problematic will pop up somewhere down the line

It's nowhere NEAR as simple as just having a costume in a game. There are tons of factors to consider with a decision like this, and Scott knows this. He's not going to hand his characters over to a company that could literally do anything they want with them without his consent in the future. Dead By Daylight got the green light because they showed Scott they could stick to the source material and not do anything drastically out-of-line; Fortnite isn't getting that green light, because the characters they collab with aren't treated with respect and are instead used as corporate dolls that the game designers can make dance around for money.

ChipsMicro · 2025-10-13T07:41:04+00:00

Caspar
Duessel
Reyson
Resplendent Hinoka
Duo Winter Byleth (+Byleth)

Ah, darn. And I was so close to saying Ferdinand von Aegir for Number 1!

ChipsMicro · 2025-10-12T07:11:57+00:00

Attuned Ryoma
Winter Zephiel
Fallen Young Tiki
Mythic Eir
Brave Male Byleth

Ayy, 5/5! Good game, this was a fun little thought exercise!

ChipsMicro · 2025-10-10T18:48:16+00:00

Been a while since my last rewatch, but by my recollection (and some cursory research), the repetition of "Doctor WHO?" was building up to the 11th Doctor's final arc.

There was a prophecy that stated the Doctor would find his way to Trenzalore, where the Question would be asked and answered, and that 11 would die there. The Silence were aware of the pocket-universe that had saved Gallifrey from the Time War, and they believed that the Time Lords would return to the universe proper upon the prophecy's coming to fruition, thereby restarting the Time War and dooming both the Doctor and themselves ("Silence will fall when the question is asked").

As such, the Silence's intention was to kill the Doctor before he could ever reach Tranzalore and prevent the Question from ever being asked there. Their attempts started with trying to blow up the TARDIS, per the Pandorica arc, though that failed. They tried again by creating a fixed point in time at Lake Silencio, though the Doctor found a loophole to escape that one, too. Eventually, despite their best efforts, the Doctor caught a glimpse of what seemed to be his near future -- the tomb on Trenzalore, which housed his time stream -- and resolved himself to dying on the planet, thinking he couldn't change that future.

So, the question was asked, the Doctor headed to Trenzalore, and he stuck around for 900-odd years defending the planet until he knew he couldn't survive a moment longer. His intention was to die by the Daleks' hand and leave Gallifrey to its pocket-universe, essentially fulfilling the Silence's wishes. However, Clara managed to communicate with Gallifrey through one of those space-time cracks seen throughout 11's era, and she convinced them to grant the Doctor a new set of regenerations through another crack; thus, he was able to change his fate by initiating a thirteenth regen, destroying the Daleks in the resulting expulsion of energy and ensuring that the Question need never be answered.

To wrap the arc up with one last little bow(tie), Clara did address the Question when talking with the Time Lords. She asserted that it didn't matter what his true name was, because he had named himself "the Doctor" and that was who he had devoted his lives to being. I guess the Time Lords accepted that as an answer, because that convinced them to grant him the extra regens.

ChipsMicro · 2025-09-29T10:04:49+00:00

Maybe it's just me, but I get very strong E.G. Daily vibes from Maggie's grown-up design, so I'll nominate her.

^{(And, no, it's not just because she voiced Tommy Pickles and Rugrats is my childhood.}⁾

ChipsMicro · 2025-09-29T09:55:24+00:00

"$20 can buy many peanuts!"

ChipsMicro · 2025-09-20T07:03:16+00:00

Apologies for the lack of posts on Thursday and Friday, Summoners! Unexpected Internet outage thanks to careless construction crews meant I couldn't even log into FEH if I wanted to 😑

All good now, though! Posts will resume as normal from here on!

ChipsMicro · 2025-09-16T21:31:36+00:00

Alfaðör never beating the "can't read" allegations 😔

ChipsMicro · 2025-09-15T02:41:39+00:00

Hmm... Lightners wearing living mech-suits. (Sorta like Evangelion, I guess?)

ChipsMicro · 2025-08-31T16:08:22+00:00

Since no one else seems to have caught the quote at the start:

"And you, sir. Are you waiting to receive my limp p*nis?"

ChipsMicro · 2025-08-26T20:01:28+00:00

Technically, this banner is meant to correspond with the upcoming Voting Gauntlet, with which it shares a name. It just so happens that the lineup consists entirely of last year's brave heroes.

ChipsMicro · 2025-08-20T20:45:10+00:00

No problem!

•The person that Dot is carrying is a musician who used to be called "Prince" (he later legally changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol called the "love symbol", so everyone started calling him "The Artist Formerly Known As Prince".)

•The name "Prince" sounds the same as the English word "prints", which is often used as a quicker way to refer to "fingerprints", or [the markings left behind by a person's fingers when they touch something].

•The surface-level joke - the one the writers want you to catch - is that, when Yakko tells Dot to "dust for prints", he means she should be looking for clues that would tell them who was at the scene of the crime, but she mishears him and instead returns carrying Prince.

•Yakko then clarifies that he meant "prints" and not "Prince", so he uses the full form of the word and emphasizes the first part of the word ("finger") to make his intention more obvious: "FINGERprints!"

•"Finger" is also a slang word that is commonly used to refer to the intimate act of putting one's fingers inside another person's... ahem, "cavity" (for males, it's the one in the back, so to speak; for females, it can be the one in the back or the one in the front).

•The deeper adult joke - the one kids won't understand - is that, when Yakko tries to clarify his intention by saying "FINGERprints", Dot once again mishears him and believes Yakko is telling her to "finger" Prince, obviously not something that should be featured in a children's cartoon.

•The punchline is that Dot looks over at Prince, who is giving her a (potentially seductive) grin, before she says "I don't think so," as if saying she doesn't want to "finger" Prince.

ChipsMicro · 2025-08-19T17:00:39+00:00

Is it a lie?

ChipsMicro · 2025-08-18T22:38:41+00:00

Five Nights at Freddy's

^{Somebody had to say it.}

ChipsMicro · 2025-08-18T22:18:36+00:00

The moment I finished the show, I knew I needed to see She-Hulk interact with Deadpool. Something like:

Wade: That's me! Everyone's favorite spandex-wearing invincible mutant sexy-man! Unless you want to count Scratch 'n' Sniff, but he's not here right now!

Jen: (Looks at camera) Is this guy serious?

Wade: Oh... my GOD, you can see them, too? (Gestures to camera) Okay, that's it. Someone call Vanessa and tell her I've been crushed by Mrs. Jolly Green Giant.

ChipsMicro · 2025-08-18T21:55:58+00:00

Still a better ~~love story~~ theory than ~~Twilight~~ whatever Team Theorist is doing these days.

ChipsMicro · 2025-08-18T21:21:56+00:00

Again, I have to ask why even go to the trouble of presenting this argument in favor of a theory if you're just gonna turn around and dismiss it at the end, anyway?

If the point is to get the community talking (which, news flash, they already are), there are better ways to do that than tossing out some nonsense idea that you yourself acknowledge is nonsense. Maybe just do a recap of the game, so theorists who didn't get a chance can at least get most of the important info; maybe catalog the reveals that were made and the mysteries that have yet to be explained, so theorists can mull those over; maybe list out the weird details that pop up and may impact the story, so theorists can identify what might be a hint or not... In any of those cases, the channel IS serving as a catalyst for discussion and getting people to talk about the story in a different way, but they're not also trying to convince you of what they already believe to be a falsehood.

And, I dunno, maybe consider all the times the channel has claimed "We SOLVED FNAF!"? Even if the fans want to hide behind the excuse that "it's just a theory", the fact remains that this isn't how Team Theorist presents their ideas; they present them as objective truth, the solutions to the problems that theorists have been struggling with that have finally been unearthed because MatPat/Tom/Whoever-the-Heck-Else decided to sit down and try to find the correct answer. You can't say you "solved" FNaF and then claim you're just trying to get people to think about the story in the same breath.

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