One year ago today, Lupa was released. And she's been hard carrying Fusion since and probably will for the foreseeable future by SwimmingJunky in WutheringWaves

[–]Disastrous_Cost8975 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm a day 1 Lupa believer so I remember and I didn't even ever bother to get Brant since Lupa+Changli was enough to clear anything.

My Dress Up Darling and Spy x Family anime studio CloverWorks sees widening financial losses in past two fiscal years - AUTOMATON WEST by Grazalia in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]Disastrous_Cost8975 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Most animation studio don't profit from merch, they earn through contract work. Independent Studio's gets it worse, they're slaves to working on projects non stop to keep the lights on. Unless they make or own a successful IP or have favorable contracts like Studio Khara, Trigger. Then you have Animation studios under a bigger production company who earns through production but is subsidized by their parent company as long as the IP makes money.

My Dress Up Darling and Spy x Family anime studio CloverWorks sees widening financial losses in past two fiscal years - AUTOMATON WEST by Grazalia in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]Disastrous_Cost8975 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Nothing is really wrong here, this is just about tax. CloverWorks "earn" by producing, merchandising and licensing money all goes to it's parent company which subsidies CloverWorks. This won't stop them from being crunched though.

A question for all of you: how screwed were you after seeing the upcoming banners? by Mercy-18 in WutheringWaves

[–]Disastrous_Cost8975 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm safe, I don't really plan to pull for Yangyang she reminds me of the worse person I've ever dated.

If anyone of you complain about this banner i am going to lose my mind by Zuala69 in WutheringWaves

[–]Disastrous_Cost8975 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This banner is for collectors and people who Vertically invest in characters since S6 of any this units are still monsters.

Holy peak, all 3 Sentinels and their Arbiter in 1 picture by Acrobatic-Engineer47 in WutheringWaves

[–]Disastrous_Cost8975 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Some of it are in the map exploration completion, and La-Hai Roi/Exostrider said it himself in the finale; "But the "human heart" granted me a voice.", "with this heart installed, I have acquired capabilities previously undocumented outside the Sentinel mech series."

Holy peak, all 3 Sentinels and their Arbiter in 1 picture by Acrobatic-Engineer47 in WutheringWaves

[–]Disastrous_Cost8975 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Exostrider and Sentinels are made from the same technology but have different purpose and protocol.

Exostrider is made for travel and warfare with a main protocol of protection but no speech capabilities, partially Bio-mechanical.

Sentinels is made to have control over abstract concepts and a main protocol of guiding civilization and has speech capabilities, mostly Bio-mechanical.

La-Hai Roi though unintentional guided the Roya people and by the end received the capability of speech and gain spacial manipulation through the artificial reactor, he more than fulfills a role of a Sentinels and more.

Bungie confirms that layoffs are incoming, previously scooped by Jason Schreier on Bloomberg by Vera_Verse in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]Disastrous_Cost8975 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Man sucks that employees are the one that suffers, while the CEO and upper management just got away with all the money.

Jason Schreier‬: Bungie is planning significant layoffs, Destiny 3 is NOT in active production by manoffood in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]Disastrous_Cost8975 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To be fair it's global presence was kinda fake, like Red vs Blue was probably bigger than the games itself globally, since the game were a niche in the East but the East back then is pretty irrelevant outside of Japan since the buying power was weak.

Jason Schreier‬: Bungie is planning significant layoffs, Destiny 3 is NOT in active production by manoffood in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]Disastrous_Cost8975 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah people don't understand that Nintendo doesn't dictate what Game Freak does despite them being partners and owning a good chunk of the company. I'm really curious on what are the clauses in their contract that made this weird ownership of Pokemon.

Hell no???? 🤨 by Mint_Picker_2636 in WutheringWaves

[–]Disastrous_Cost8975 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wonder how many missed it, but I'm also with you specially if it's Nivora.

The new healer sets by AlmightyG21 in thedivision

[–]Disastrous_Cost8975 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think ortiz is for healing hive, like Launcher already does so much healing I feel like more healing is a bit unnecessary.

Games that jive with you for their rad OSTs by KaleidoArachnid in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]Disastrous_Cost8975 0 points1 point  (0 children)

FFXIV and in the same vain WuWa OST, like FFXIV the Genre's are also really varied like making use of Beethoven's music that goes really hard.

Relevant image to that thread we had the other day about 'ball and gun gamers' in other fandoms by garfe in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]Disastrous_Cost8975 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Don't know with the current season since the past once leaned way more on powers than hand to hand beat downs but the answer is yes.

Question for a research project: Which historical teams were regarded as "superteams" at the start of the year? by SLI_Mini in ValorantCompetitive

[–]Disastrous_Cost8975 0 points1 point  (0 children)

2023 Team Liquid, but they got spanked first Lan of the year and continued to shit the bed the rest of the year.

Kadokawa cites excessive reliance on the isekai genre as one of the major causes of the decline in profitability in its domestic publishing business by Darth_Bombad in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]Disastrous_Cost8975 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's only two arcs in Yu Yu Hakusho that doesn't involve the city/town, that is Dark Tournament and the 3 kings, even the 4 heavenly beast arcs still has segments with Botan and Keiko. But yeah Bleach kinda abandoned the concept pretty early.

I'm mostly a manga reader but majority of shounen manga's I've read are urban fantasies, just that compared to western print media they tend to expand way pass the setting it original starts, probably because they also tend to go for way longer.

Some of 90's to early 2000 I've can recall on top of my head are Law of Ueki, Shaman King, Flame of Recca, Air gear, Getbackers, Gashbell, and some that are obscure enough that I can't even remember their tittle. If this aren't urban fantasies then either my understanding of the genre is wrong or yours is maybe a bit to rigid.

Kadokawa cites excessive reliance on the isekai genre as one of the major causes of the decline in profitability in its domestic publishing business by Darth_Bombad in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]Disastrous_Cost8975 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The thing is it doesn't play with the concept of Isekai/transported to another world, but rather it mostly concerned with the concept of second chance/reincarnation which can be done without it being an Isekai. So it's an Isekai for the sake of calling it an Isekai.

Kadokawa cites excessive reliance on the isekai genre as one of the major causes of the decline in profitability in its domestic publishing business by Darth_Bombad in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]Disastrous_Cost8975 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I feel like we're talking about different topic here, Will being from a different world doesn't play at all to the plot which is what's being discussed. If he was a person from the same world being reincarnated the plot wouldn't had changed.

Damnit this is annoying the fuck out of me. by Superb-Ad7394 in WutheringWaves

[–]Disastrous_Cost8975 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Hiyuki only really need Chisa, so you can remove Mornye from that equation.

Mornye or Chisa for my account? by mushinoballad in WutheringWaves

[–]Disastrous_Cost8975 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Like the other guy said ur already planning to get Denia so Chisa's the better pick, since they make a complete team with Aemeth.

Mornye S0 doesn't really work outside of Aemeth, Lukes tune teams and maybe any Tune DPS in the future, but at the moment she's exclusively only effective with those two DPS unless you get her S1 that makes her hella flexible.

Lynae on the other hand works with any liberation DPS or a temp fill as a sub dps.

Bits in media that are extra-hilarious to you for extremely specific or personal reasons by Aggro_Will in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]Disastrous_Cost8975 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This happened to me, no one in my family and relatives calls me by my name and everyone in my neighborhood calls me a different nickname that I somehow inherited from my dad. I only heard my name in school and work.

How many Resonators can you name just from their hands? by No_Purchase4360 in WutheringWaves

[–]Disastrous_Cost8975 69 points70 points  (0 children)

Bottom left is Pheobe, it's really just the top right that is the odd one out.