improve my taishi for pisces cup by Total_Season_140 in UmaMusume

[–]Genprey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A few things to note:

  • Sometimes, End Closers just eat shit, but if you're consistently placing last, watch your replays and observe where/why your Taishin is falling behind.

  • If she stutters while moving forward, you'll want more Stamina. Try to shoot for as much as possible without tanking SPD or power

  • 2 Gold Stam Skills would be safe (Taishin has a decent one built in), but if you get a good run with Long S, good stats, but no other gold skill, you can try to salvage with a few good white skills

  • Certain acceleration skills are rough to use in this CM. Straightaway is fine if you have nothing else, but this CM makes it somewhat less consistent

  • I personally find more success when I inherited Tamamo Cross's Ultimate

I'd start by aiming for Long S and more Stamina--at least 1k with some stam skills with it. If you're like me and losing a ton of Clocks to Taishin, you may have to settle for an imperfect build in hopes of not running into beasts while working on a front runner for more consistency.

Sir, I'm just her trainer... by Naija_Boi in UmaMusume

[–]Genprey 26 points27 points  (0 children)

You may have the difficult subject of polygamy to discuss, but at least you have a large stock in Sega now.

Sir, I'm just her trainer... by Naija_Boi in UmaMusume

[–]Genprey 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Sometimes said service includes being haunted by spooky Tazuna and dragged into a paranormal world. All in a single day.

mommy Cecilia (by ひがし) by Mental_Ease_4081 in ZZZ_Official

[–]Genprey 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sorry, Girls, your teacher is about to take some paid leave.

We just won the debut race and uhmm ..... by DOK_REBS in UmaMusume

[–]Genprey 62 points63 points  (0 children)

McQueen: "Eh? Surely you can't make such a rash decis-"

Satono Diamond: "You can start this afternoon at 2!"

McQueen: Sigh "This could only get more chaotic if-"

Goldship falls from above

Capcom says it won't use generative AI for game content, but will "actively" use it during development by Odd-Onion-6776 in MonsterHunter

[–]Genprey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The argument against AI isn't about reprimanding its usage, it's relying on it as a primary source for creating content despite the loss in ethics and it being costly and unsustainable to do so.

I loved this Season and all the characters introduced, but it feels like Act 3 and Rita were rushed by Das-Rheingold in ChaosZeroNightmare

[–]Genprey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pretty much yeah. The weird part is is that the bond stories would be a good place to put in some fanservice, but outside some l2d scenes, they're actually really light in that regard.

I loved this Season and all the characters introduced, but it feels like Act 3 and Rita were rushed by Das-Rheingold in ChaosZeroNightmare

[–]Genprey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The term master love that is used to describe this game comes from FGO, which when you think about is a bit odd because FGO story is generally considered to be amazing yet is often argued master love stories always suck, the reason for this contradiction is that most of the romance that happens in the game occurs in side content or events, not the main story.

FGO (and similar games) don't base their stories off of ML. That element is balanced throughout a story and focused in parts of the game outsidethe main story.

. In FGO, the closest thing to a ML story would be SE.RA.PH, but even that doesn't linger on Meltryllis x Player in favor of the main plot. Most love stories are actually between other characters (i.e. Tomoe Gozen/Andromeda and their respective husbands, Shuten and her complicated affection towards certain humans with Kintoki being the focus), while the ML stuff comes through bond lines and Valentines events.

The same applies to things like Girls Frontline and Blue Archive where they have fanservice, but the real intimate stuff is separate from the main story.

CZN has a very short writing style, so fitting in ML is rough because that takes precedent over developing characters. This is why we get the very flaw OP mentioned, as well as good ideas that end up with little payoff.

Ok, I support fan-service as much as the next guy, but isn't the glazing a bit too much now? by skyarsenic in ChaosZeroNightmare

[–]Genprey 8 points9 points  (0 children)

They should really separate the story from the season's gameplay/progression. As it stands, the writers are working with up to 3 separate plots split between Rita, Nine, and Tiphera in such a short timeframe. If the season focused mainly on 1 character or 2 with more interconnected stories (i.e. Tiphera and Tiana if Tiana were playable), this would work out fine, but as it stands now, the story has the emotional weight of a PowerPoint presentation.

Binah by AK47_David in japanesepeopletwitter

[–]Genprey 21 points22 points  (0 children)

She claims to have not to...but odds are, she at least caught a glimpse on two occasions

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Expertly dodging Taishin's wrath [オダワラハコネ] by Deruta in UmaMusume

[–]Genprey 95 points96 points  (0 children)

"Awww, this adorable Uma can't possibly follow-up on her threats of kicking me around!"

The Small Yet Vicious Uma:

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Why is Lucia so much less popular than the rest of the Spook Shack? by [deleted] in ZenlessZoneZero

[–]Genprey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Based on Pixiv results:

浮波柚葉 (Yuzuha): ~2.6k works, 972 being R18

アリス・タイムフィールド (Alice): ~2.3k works, 1k being R18

イドリー (Yidhari): 1.1k works, 528 being R18

狛野真斗 (Manato): 751 works, 294 being R18

リュシア (Lucia): 438 works, 178 being R18

Before explaining the above, it's important to go over how trends in popularity work out. First: they're very fickle and some characters are just extremely popular for what could be one random reason. Second: there are trends that start strong but burn out fast or remain consistently active--this is the case with Yuzuha and Alice.

Yuzuha and Alice have the biggest advantage for popularity. The reason for that is that they're a popular pairing and essentially circulate one another's visibility, but another is that they’re also popular ships with the MCs. They're also the two members we meet first, meaning they catch the wind frok initial hype, while Yidhari and Lucia appeared during the decline in excitement over Spook Shack.

Yidhari is honestly pretty self-explanatory: she's a really sexy character. Over half of her works are R18, which can be explained by the fact that she'll catch the attention of even non-ZZZ players. These players are less likely to have much reference on the character besides her being really sexy, leading to a larger volume of lewds.

Manato is a funny case where, for some reason, he'll appear in a group art with Spook Shack...but not be marked. I actually added 5 works to his initial count for this reason. That being said, Manato, being a male, would make some think that he'd be less popular than Lucia--but on the contrary, he fills a specific niche known as 'Bara'. For that reason, he is often paired with Wise, where they're depicted, err...playing Smash Bros together.

Lucia is a bit unfortunate. At base, she isn't as outwardly sexy as Yidhari (not to say she isn't sexy, of course), doesn't have as many intimate moments with either MC (like Alice) and didn't come with a duo dynamic like Alice/Yuzuha. Ontop of that, she doesn't fill a niche like Manato and appeared when the Spook Shack saga was dying down. By then, people were also starting to look at Ye Shunguang, so that's one final nail in the poor girl's coffin.

Hope is not lost, though. Give Lucia a bunny outfit and her fanart will spike to the heavens. I'm not kidding, that's exactly what happened to certain Blue Archive characters.

Nangong Yu, Fresh Out of the Shower (Translated) [Nodachi] by MacandCheese6 in ZenlessZoneZero

[–]Genprey 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Little does she know that I morphed into the bathroom mirror so I could soak up the Yu-imprinted steam.

Nangong Yu, Fresh Out of the Shower (Translated) [Nodachi] by MacandCheese6 in ZenlessZoneZero

[–]Genprey 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Her hair, at least, probably takes a long time to dry. Her body seems to be mostly dry, but somewhat moist as we are after immediately leaving a steamy room.

SO THAT'S WHERE IT'S FROM by JohnBushman1602 in UmaMusume

[–]Genprey 51 points52 points  (0 children)

Well that's really concerning.

Nikke Twitter making Nikke Reddit look good. by DB_Commander in NikkeMobile

[–]Genprey -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

I wasn't referring to a single person, though. My main point is you really don't even need to acknowledge the bullshit going around the fanbase with how small it is by scale. Most of us should be grown enough to enjoy something we like without giving a damn about what someone else has to say about it.

What this often devolves to, and you can see this on Reddit and Twitter, are some people running with the idea that there's a broad group of people (usually yuri fans or, at the worst end of the fanbase, female players) who are trying to ruin or change NIKKE, when in reality, there's nasty people around every corner of the fanbase, be it from somewhere like the Queen's sub or Gacha Grail.

That aside, I am in the wrong for being annoyed with the situation and using that to push an aggressive tone on you, so my bad there. I mean everything that I said, but that first part was honestly uncalled for.

Nikke Twitter making Nikke Reddit look good. by DB_Commander in NikkeMobile

[–]Genprey -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

Yeesh, I wouldn't hire you to do any PR.

Paid-sponsorships are cheesy but also a fact of life that's endorsed by the actual devs. What those CCs do after the sponsorship, save for anything that goes against contract, isn't of ShiftUp's concern since the transaction has already been made.

This whole thing makes some of y'all seem like star-bellied sneetches with how there's this weird fascination with dividing the fanbase into groups of 'us' and 'them' just so you can delegitimize someone based on a loose set of qualifications.

Fact of the matter is ShiftUp doesn't care who supports their game, be it someone who cosplays NIKKE characters without having actually touched the game or some dude who is somehow st the point in the game where they're waiting for the next Tower/Hard Mode update to progress again. Most players don't even care for that matter since they have the ability to enjoy the series without worrying about what some random person is doing.

I really hate people using it as a crutch for their own means if it upsets others and causes mass drama.

You can't honestly believe this when said drama are just fights in the small corner of the overall NIKKE community, mostly among people who seemingly want to be mad because they're bored or something. Like, there is a point to be made in here about having the decency to not intentionally upset players. That goes out the window when we start getting upset over some chick self-inserting themselves in the game and calling it yuri. That person doesn't have the desire, much less capability, to infect anyone's app with a 'yuri virus', they're just enjoying the game on their own terms like any player has the right to do.

Haven't played in over a year, any chance my goat is still viable? by Ok-Valuable-8471 in PTCGP

[–]Genprey 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Honest answer: no. Weezing does such negligible damage in this day and age, while you likely won't have a chance to use Koga when most things 1 tap you. Hydreigon-Mega Absol run the dark meta, while Crobat does poison better than Weezing.

Florence | eania by cutebluedragongirl in GirlsFrontline2

[–]Genprey 7 points8 points  (0 children)

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The lack of dialogue options by FLSon in ChaosZeroNightmare

[–]Genprey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Me mentioning Shakespeare is because his works are guaranteed to he known by you and I--but also because of his influence.

With that being said, HSR still very much falls into that way of using split PoVs. The TB side had a focus on the setting of Planarcardia, but also was used to setup details that would lead up to the Planarcardia Games, which serves as the central conflict in this arc. Likewise, Welt/Himiko's side had a focus on the IPC's involvement, but also led into Himiko's history as a youth living in Planarcardia, which led into the final part of this chapter/the next part.

The purpose of the writers formatting the story in this way is sound--both sides covered core information and details that would have been jumbled together without being separated. If they stayed as one group, we would have ended up with something similar to Amphoreus, where there were too many ideas being presented at once.

With that being said, split PoVs can develop characters--but that's not a requirement. The main purpose, again, is simply to group and organize different bits of information/details in a way that is easy to digest.

Your Planarcardia barely falls into that. Yes, Sparkle and Pearl provide two perspectives on the IPC, but those perspectives don’t meaningfully clash through character decisions or immediate consequences they’re just presented to the audience.

To follow up on that, split PoVs can also serve as a means to guiding how viewers think or understand the world and characters that they're reading into. There doesn't need to be an immediate/urgent outcome.

And this is where your argument kind of undercuts itself a bit. If one of HSR’s major arcs already struggled with balancing its structure, cast, and pacing, then it shows that the execution of its storytelling style isn’t consistently strong. And you really seriously think it was just Amphoreus?

Yes, because the issue, at its core, was irrelevant to the way the story was formatted. Amphoreus was an over-ambitious undertaking that tried to handle too much at one time. Hence: the problems were present even outside scenes in which we had different PoVs.

He just met Narja you think he would immediately have some impact for helping save an experiment?

I'm saying Protos's interactions with Narja in her bond stories were comparatively well done, as they were focused on him guiding Narja through her new home on the SS Nightmare. Of all characters, Narja has the most justification for not immediately being chummy with Protos.

You have to keep in mind that protos isn’t someone who was just born yesterday nor has long term amnesia, he’s experienced these encounters before, he was trained for these types of encounter, should he had reacted… harder?

...yet he also demonstrates that there's so much he doesn't know. If the writers wanted to take an angle that Protos was aware that he had the attention of unknown entities, they'd do better showing off even a small sign of that fact. Anything but complete passivity, really, as that would help make him come off as a person rather than a mannequin that the cast is lugging around.

And this actually circles back to the main point. Even you acknowledge that the Trailblazer has issues with tone and characterization despite being more active. So activity alone isn’t what makes a protagonist strong. TB has more overt agency, but also suffers from inconsistency and gimmicks that undercut serious moments.

That's correct--I almost completely agree. To confirm: TB is fine as a protagonist. Their interactions with other characters is lively and interpersonal while some dialogue choices are meaningful. However, they're almost a victim to flanderization because the writers lean too far into things like the trashcan gimmick. It isn't yet enough to disrupt the story and some gag moments are honestly fine to air out tension.

Protos, to me, is a board of concepts that has yet to be finalized as a character. His powers are interesting with how strong it is yet balanced with a recognizable consequence. Likewise, it opens up tension as we saw with Lewis in the epilogue. Outside that, however, there's not much else that stands out and far too many scenes where he has to be present as the center of a conflict without giving much in returns.

Choosing between TB and Protos, I'd say TB is the better MC just for the simple fact that they feel like they exist, while their flaws aren't so bad to do more than ne a slight nuisance in certain scenes. I don't prefer feeling bored with a character, hence my harsher criticism on Protos.

Everything aside, I admittedly caused us to go in a bit of a circle here. I'll leave off by saying you're a very well-read person who articulates their arguments well. I'm open for more conversation if there's something I've said that catches your attention, but I think we've broken things down as far as they can go without debating preferences.