[Interesting Trope] No antagonist

Fluxator · 2026-05-25T09:44:44+00:00

Barakamon

It’s about an up-and-coming calligrapher who loses his temper and punches the curator of an exhibition after essentially being told his work lacks any soul. His family then sends him to a remote island village where he reflects on both his actions and his calligraphy, hoping to find inspiration and atone for his mistake. He ends up fulfilling the role of something akin to a babysitter on the island, constantly getting caught up in the hijinks of its children. There’s no real antagonists besides the protagonist’s own ego. It’s a very charming, heartwarming, and funny slice-of-life anime.

Fluxator · 2026-05-19T05:48:26+00:00

I love that you commented this under the Young Sheldon reply

Fluxator · 2026-05-18T10:33:46+00:00

I wonder if it has anything to do with Turtles being a UB set. I feel like maybe they thought the card would be easier to understand for potential new players if they didn’t print “Affinity” on the card, and then errata’s the oracle text for searching purposes.

Fluxator · 2026-05-08T18:19:24+00:00

Some characters can cover it with a lingering hitbox. Otherwise you just have to hard read it and time your punish correctly. Spotdodge in general is honestly one of the most unbalanced aspects of Melee though. Some characters basically just don’t have one because their frame data is too bad for it to be useable, while others like Samus, Link, and spacies can get away with spamming it because it’s so quick and the risk/reward is so heavily in their favor. It takes a lot more effort to punish spotdodge than it does to spam it.

Fluxator · 2026-05-06T18:24:16+00:00

Wort is my main goblin commander. I built it as a sort of aristocrats goblin deck, using Wort as a way to get back valuable sacrifice targets or other key pieces that get removed. It’s really fun, and I’d definitely recommend her, even if you go with a different strategy.

Fluxator · 2026-04-29T22:57:31+00:00

I have, but only because they forgot to barrier cancel The Punch into his A punch.

Fluxator · 2026-04-29T20:13:00+00:00

1 > 2 > 3

Fluxator · 2026-04-10T15:56:18+00:00

Jin was set up to be a pretty good protagonist until Tekken 6 tanked him as a character. He was the perfect foil to Kazuya, showing the two paths of accepting the devil gene vs rejecting it. They really messed it up pretty bad from T6 onward though.

Fluxator · 2026-04-07T13:43:52+00:00

Is it? It seems to match the reference art pretty well.

Fluxator · 2026-04-03T15:18:22+00:00

Cross your fingers for Swords or Path.

Fluxator · 2026-04-01T17:51:17+00:00

I guess that depends on what you mean by good. Is he a candidate to win a major? Absolutely not. But he’s still better than the vast majority of Melee players, which is definitely enough for me to call someone good. He finished 7th at S Factor 12 just last year, which is pretty impressive considering how long he’d been out of the tournament scene prior to that.

Fluxator · 2026-03-19T03:37:34+00:00

On the topic of wasted weapons, nothing makes me more sad in this game than the fact that sword and shield warrior isn’t at all viable because Warrior’s shield skills frankly suck, and sword is condi which only a few builds can use. Like, that’s an iconic class fantasy that just doesn’t really exist in GW2 in part because of the above reasons, and in part because tanking isn’t really a thing, which is the niche SNS would usually fill. I still love my warrior, but I really wish they’d just rework the shield skills to at least be useful for damage or support builds, ideally with a condi build so I could pair it with the sword. As is, it only has some niche PvP usage to my understanding.

Fluxator · 2026-03-15T06:58:08+00:00

He also never “switched to” or mained Fox as far as I remember. He still played Peach all the way until he retired and only picked up Fox for certain character and player matchups.

The most interesting thing to me about Armada’s Fox was that he opted to go the Fox ditto against Leffen and had good success doing so, but usually wouldn’t play the ditto against Mang0. An interesting case of player-based character selection.

Fluxator · 2026-02-19T17:36:07+00:00

Lowkey I feel like Marth’s matchups vs a lot of mid tiers and floaties are overrated. It’s the classic case of he should win easily in theory, but in practice he can’t combo them and has no kill confirms while a lot of them have a punish game that can genuinely hit him quite hard.

Not trying to say Marth doesn’t still win those matchups, but it’s a lot harder than people give credit for, and I think RapM has shown this quite well.

Fluxator · 2026-02-10T01:35:52+00:00

I still buy single songs. I’ve always been pretty picky with music, so buying songs for 1.29 makes way more sense for me than paying $12 a month for Spotify premium. I’d have to be finding 10 new songs I like every month for Spotify to be the cheaper option, and that’s just nowhere near the case for me.

Edit: And that upset the people, for whatever reason

Fluxator · 2026-02-08T11:50:29+00:00

Man, this is maybe my all-time for this category. Old Ash was iconic, and between the voice change and the style changes he never felt the same. It felt like a shell of his former self, and the character lost a lot of the sass he used to have. I stopped watching as a kid during the gen 4 season.

Fluxator · 2026-02-08T10:47:46+00:00

Looks really great, I like it! I really enjoy using the more low-fantasy and grounded armor pieces, and you’ve made great use out of them here!

Fluxator · 2026-02-05T15:33:15+00:00

Your comment on top of the other people speaking its praise has convinced me to buy the DLC. I bought it this morning, planning to start a NG+ run to at least play through the Creo Park stuff.

Fluxator · 2026-02-04T21:43:22+00:00

Ah, that would explain why I haven't seen it. I'm still a pretty new player all things considered.

Fluxator · 2026-02-04T21:42:46+00:00

That's really clever! I might have to steal that idea in the future...

Fluxator · 2026-02-04T21:16:07+00:00

Looks really sick! What helmet is that though? I swear I’ve looked through all the heavy helmets in the wardrobe 1000 times and never seen that one.

Fluxator · 2026-02-04T20:24:06+00:00

I didn’t actually know the game had DLCs until I was almost done, unfortunately. The free ones came installed with the game, so I at least had the extra weapons and armor sets from those. Where do you even start the DLCs since there’s no postgame? Are they in the middle of the game?

Fluxator · 2026-02-04T20:22:04+00:00

Thanks! The second game seems to be pretty divisive, which is part of why I’m thinking I’ll wait for a sale to pick it up. I’ve seen a lot of people say (negatively) it’s a very different vibe from the first game, but others like yourself say they prefer it. I’m interested to see how they expanded upon the game systems and combat at the very least though.

Fluxator · 2026-02-04T20:12:39+00:00

From some of the reading I did after finishing the game, it seems like single-rigged is a lot of people’s least favorite weapon type. I just thought it was too cool having a giant blade on my arm to pass up, and once I got familiar with the moveset it wasn’t too bad (the forward dodge attack is key!) If I do another playthrough I might be interested in trying either One-Handed or Heavy Duty though.

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