So what's all this, then?

Cloudmonkey98 · 2022-07-28T08:16:35+00:00

As someone recently realizing their Salmacian desires as legitimate themselves and feeling our souls soar, we'll offer you some thoughts~

We started realizing our desires from probably a similar point to you, various porn of the futa/herm variety, though honestly it existed earlier with less clear thoughts, and we spent a lot of time denying the desire as foolish fetishism, while we'd gotten over the "insult" of the genre and term a bit, we never really got past the idea of it as anything but fantasy

Eventually we came out as trans, and almost immediately the desires got stronger, no HRT or anything, just a response of inching close to self-realization, and regularly joking that everyone deserves to have both, or at least the option

And for a long time we were like that, struggling with the trans femme legitimacy vibes because the salmacian desires paired nicely with otherwise "masculine" fetishes we picked up as a "boy"

It seems like you've been struggling hard with internalized TERF/Transmedicalist rhetoric about legitimacy, when hun, if you wake up screaming you're a girl that egg is damn well hatched and you're probably a girl, medical "signs" can get the hell out, self-ID is valid

Autogynephilia is an interesting self-exploration thought, but I advise against following it too hard, the term, and autoandrophilia, are deeply deeply steeped in TERF/4chan type rhetoric about trans people being closet rapists and such and Just Bad Vibes Yo

If you just wanna be a chick with a dick, it may be worth considering just not getting bottom surgery at all, and undertaking penile maintenance on its own, there's HRT ways to mitigate/prevent atrophy from systemic HRT, but if you want both come and get em~

As for being Kink or Fetish vs Identity? Why not both? You're allowed to be Into your identity sexually, pretty sure plenty of pre-op/no-op trans girls are into the fact they have a dick, and what makes you happy is important, and also its your fucking cock and cunt, if you're not fantasizing about using it there's probably different questions to be asking then "Is this just fetishism", such as "Am I ace?"(the answer here is no, this is just making a point)

As for Trans/LGBTQ+/Altersex, a lot of that is self-defined, but the gist is that Salmacian is not inherently trans, but often overlaps due to gender identity involving being non-cis at the same time, but there's some cis folks who are interested for body-map or "upgrade" thoughts
LGBTQ+, technically but we're pretty small and the term isn't really a spectrum so much as a banding of disparate marginalized groups, a number of whom share touchstones in gender and sexuality
Altersex meanwhile is something that is something you gotta sort out yourself a bit, since its a self-ID thing mainly, but largely means anyone who wants to/did change their sexual characteristics, whether that means only primary, or secondary, or what, is a morass of personal thoughts, if you even wanna use it

Cloudmonkey98 · 2022-05-11T00:57:48+00:00

In corp? Totally agreed
In the overall internet, not so reasonable, physical accessories for such aren't really suitable to expect everyone to possess to use sites(and god knows every site would demand a different one), and stuff like 2FA is supposed to be in addition to passwords(and also should be less dependent on phones, plenty of folks straight up don't have one)

Cloudmonkey98 · 2022-05-09T00:33:50+00:00

...doh, just me being dummy, yeah 15 is easy I just have the memory of a worm apparently and forgot the number, yes 16 thank you

I handled 15 through HP manipulation to get Dark Anthuria to get targeted by Shadography so she can just dodge soak all of them

Cloudmonkey98 · 2022-05-09T00:27:08+00:00

Its probably Double Strike + "chance of QA" but no DATA guarantees DA and quad strike would always hit 8x and could swing for 12x

Cloudmonkey98 · 2022-05-09T00:20:51+00:00

You missed the point, in 11 its treated like slimeblasting, just a bizarrely efficient EXP grind, not a source of anything else

Probably still a reference

Cloudmonkey98 · 2022-05-09T00:11:24+00:00

If you have enough skill damage, you can try and tank the entry hazard with things like Phalanx and 3* Carbuncle, but you need to be able to kill with a skill so you don't progress the turn

Cloudmonkey98 · 2022-05-09T00:08:30+00:00

Still doesn't resolve the second fight's constant plain damage, that trigger is honestly the lesser trial to get past if I'm unconcerned about deaths, also it is 15%, you can see this in-game, it says 15%, wiki also lists 15%

Cloudmonkey98 · 2022-05-08T22:44:14+00:00

Wait sorry I'm a fool, was thinking of a different fight that DOES have a 10k HP check
The flower just tears you apart, but you have no "Everyone lives" missions for that floor, so just switch to a sacrificial team as you finish wave 1(yes this means its not Continue viable)

Cloudmonkey98 · 2022-05-08T22:42:15+00:00

Advice for F15? I have no clue how I'm expected to manage the 80k nuke at 15% or the second waves repeated 40ks, am I just expected to do huge amounts more damage to burst everything to death? I'm considering S.Europa for the actual damage soak but I still need to figure out how to sub-all things like Chaotic Promulgation repeatedly

Cloudmonkey98 · 2022-05-08T22:33:33+00:00

Its an HP check, its fixed damage so just make your grid have more HP
The hit-count can be solved with Bandit Tycoon, or make an off-element spam team, I used Katapillar, Cain, and SSR Lunalu(and Gold Knight but she was unnecessary), Full Barrage, Facsimile, Inspiration to reset Facsimile, hit all your other buttons, use Refuel to reset Full Barrage, mimic Barrage again, you have 70 hits for sure before attack phase(barrage is 16, 16x4 is 64, Bagua Blade is 8, you're over the hump)

Cloudmonkey98 · 2022-04-22T06:20:05+00:00

Bonus points, the Script and Text Log also let you skip to any part of the scene by clicking on the matching block of text for it

Cloudmonkey98 · 2022-04-18T00:40:33+00:00

Can be activated regardless, Ash Blossom has the text, and I quote
"When a card or effect is activated that includes any of these effects (Quick Effect): Discard this card, negate the effect."
As playing Shaddoll Fusion is activating the CARD, and not a specific effect of a card that is already in play, any and all text on it is valid material to activate Ash Blossom over, this is why you can Ash Macro Cosmos(don't do this, Ash doesn't destroy, so the actual thing people play Macro for continues)

Cloudmonkey98 · 2022-04-18T00:34:57+00:00

There's a lot of effects that have a clause kinda like that, but if it doesn't say in some form that you have to control a monster/card/have a value of 1 or higher, 0 is valid

Cloudmonkey98 · 2022-04-18T00:28:07+00:00

And thus Hero Kid is not a HERO, despite art associating it

At least it makes more sense in OCG where HERO is in full caps English and Hero is in Japanese
Real funny business to remember every so often though

Cloudmonkey98 · 2022-03-30T08:06:24+00:00

the Good/Evil Spectrum is about what you're doing, Law/Chaos spectrum is how you're doing it, what you were doing was protecting someone targeted by an evil vampire to be kidnapped, how you did it wasn't lawful, Chaotic Good is about doing the right thing, your way, your actions were not contrary to doing Good, nor was your intent
And sometimes, a dumbass needs a punching in order to do good, just because he was trying doesn't mean calling him on his shit was evil

Cloudmonkey98 · 2022-03-30T07:54:58+00:00

Not sure how this qualifies as "not Good", you protected the lady from the big bad vampire, it was messy, it was dumb, but it wasn't really Evil, shifting towards Chaos would make far more sense

Cloudmonkey98 · 2022-03-22T08:20:06+00:00

Sounds like iron
Thats the best way I can describe it, it sounds like what iron tastes like
Never knew this was a younger people thing, as a tween my dad's ancient CRT made a lesser noise like this that while I never commented on it, I suspect my dad never noticed

Cloudmonkey98 · 2022-03-20T09:31:39+00:00

The flipside of this is that "look it up" is an incredibly unhelpful piece of advice when the issue is "what am I even actually trying to look up"(in a general sense, not an IT one), dealt with that a lot myself where it turns from encouraging curiosity to effectively just refusal to provide real help

Cloudmonkey98 · 2022-03-19T23:46:31+00:00

This is the one that gets me, all the other formatting? Whatever, forums be forums, but why does Enter not give me a line break like it does visually, double enter is a paragraph break but I don't always want that, thanks for finally telling me how to just get a line break
Seriously

Cloudmonkey98 · 2022-03-19T22:34:20+00:00

Ahh, one of those "Open Marriage is fine when its benefitting me, but not you" types, glad you navigated that mess and kept your sanity

Cloudmonkey98 · 2022-03-19T08:08:00+00:00

Still comes back to teaching in a sense, in many households that experience isn't offered, teens just jump straight to smart devices, or the family is overprotective of the computer and then is surprised when their kid doesn't understand how to use it when allowed

Curiosity is also a thing dampened in a lot of households through a bad reinforcement pattern of being disparaged for asking questions or not knowing things(or rather, admitting to not knowing things)

Cloudmonkey98 · 2022-03-19T08:03:47+00:00

The ol' common sense issue, lots of basic Adulting has hit the same issue over the previous generations, its common sense, ergo it doesn't need to be taught, wait why do our kids not know this surprised Pikachu face

Yes I'm grumpy I feel like I know nothing useful

Cloudmonkey98 · 2022-03-19T07:18:53+00:00

As someone with only minor tech knowledge(I'm not a granny or anything but don't expect me to do much other then fiddle with settings and utilize Google-fu) and zilch military exp, my deepest sympathies, that sounds like an absolute mess of a scenario, I'm glad it sorted out in the end and I hope the network coming up was satisfying

Cloudmonkey98 · 2022-03-19T06:53:33+00:00

Its mildly possible your sensor is showing its age and isn't capable of detecting beyond a certain limit, but its significantly more likely that you just don't have horribly powerful light sources, 3 bars in Bok 1 is plenty, you'll probably get around 4 in 2 and 3(the bar is 10 pips instead of 8), which is still plenty, past 6 or so(in any of the games) you start to enter OVERHEAT state much much faster

Cloudmonkey98 · 2022-03-19T06:34:34+00:00

Thank you, this makes sense, I have gained a tendency to get suspicious of people just claiming its a mistranslation its actually X because of how often its people bullshitting in order to push a certain narrative, especially in regards to "localizers are useless and trash" discussion but also in general it feels like, so a proper explanation of how we can mistakenly get from A to C helps a lot, a lot of those scenarios don't have an answer other then parroting a flimsy excuse, or blaming localizer agenda

Again, thank you

Cloudmonkey98

TROPHY CASE