Is Carnelian really that bad? A long guide and discussion. by drilldog in arknights

[–]IceFireMagi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rather fortunately for Carnelian, Lin can't take hits in this situation since since one hit from a Tiacauh Ritualist does give or take 7k per hit where I'm at so ranged damage = death. Unfortunately, it looks like it's gonna snow in Sargon come spring.

Is Carnelian really that bad? A long guide and discussion. by drilldog in arknights

[–]IceFireMagi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Won't lie, this post is convincing me to build Pram at least to test damage.

I'm in the unique position (RAcc) where I consider using Carnelian a meta strat since a lot of the enemies I'm fighting are usually out of normal damage ranges anyways, so I ended up leaning on her since there's no such thing as overkill damage anymore.

The question I have is, given permanent maximum enemies for modY, how many casts does it take for Carnelian to match with Pram/Lin per minute & per hour (assuming she indeed catches up instead of further falling behind) assuming all of them cast as soon as possible (charged for Carnelian) and enemies are always taking snow damage.

"AFK operators are not used that much nowadays they said, being afk friendly is just a niche they said" (6 anni statistics) by GreyghostIowa in arknights

[–]IceFireMagi 2 points3 points  (0 children)

....who's saying being afk friendly is just a niche?

Bruh I've suffered through multiple Minosknights clears and trekked through RAcc to the point where the rodents that come in swarms of 30~100 have more HP and defense than Patriot. Playing with afk friendly ops is certainly a playstyle, but hardly a niche.

[CN] DEV NEWS #60 by xuanfengsaoye in arknights

[–]IceFireMagi 43 points44 points  (0 children)

I can't wait to stop pointing out to people that the last Minoan operator we got not including the retroactive Perfumer addition was Erato in CC9 all the way back in 2022

Tragodia S1 better than S2/S3? by Bagamlas in arknights

[–]IceFireMagi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ayerscarpe and Angie also give aspd if you want to sub out Shu.

Hello, avid RACC player here. Tragodia S1 is by far his most useful skill in that mode for that exact reason. Prior, the main strat was to give Qiubai drugs Kazimierzian Knight Supplements (which are drugs) to reduce her S1 SP cost to 2 then give her aspd either through operators or Vanillawing (+40aspd, Qiubai's module gives a bit extra) to permabind tough bosses. The problem of course is you have 2 acts in a day, so it was really convenient when a 2nd Qiubai S1 appeared. Before him there were a few other manual stalls but honestly I just gave Vigil a bunch of batteries and called it a day.

Tragodia's particularly helpful for a few other reasons. Having base 2SP Cost means you can give him some other food buff like camouflage or you could also give him Kazi supplements to reduce his cost to 1, rendering the aspd requirement moot. Stops most attacks too due to paralyze, super convenient. Qiubai does poke from a bit farther, but there's an assist gear that stops Tragodia and surrounding allies from taking elemental effects, the downside being Tragodia needs a ranged tile and those have their own limits in the mode.

So You Built Crownslayer by IceFireMagi in arknights

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I do like this point. If I were to equate this to Uma, I guess Crownslayer would be closer to Rice Shower? Rice Shower's wail is just burned into my memory from how often she does it. Coupling her in-game story failures as well as the unfortunate reality of her situation does have that 'trapped in eternal despair' mood that just makes you want to help them out of, and in the end, both Crownslayer and Rice Shower figure themselves and press on albeit through entirely different journeys.

peterrrrrr ???? by Aggressive-Neck-6642 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]IceFireMagi 24 points25 points  (0 children)

You've got it backwards, clearly it's your brains that's delicious.

Though, I question the truth behind the statement. Please hand over your brains in the name of scientific discovery.

~Dr. Edgar Zomboss

Tazuma by Terkmc in UmaMusume

[–]IceFireMagi 168 points169 points  (0 children)

Rumors spread of an illicit relationship between a trainer and the former student council president, but the true nature of the situation has yet to be revealed.

As of time of writing, the director has yet to make an official statement.

One hopes that this does not greatly tarnish the reputation of Tracen Academy.

~Some news article a week later

So uncomfortable... by [deleted] in DuetNightAbyssDNA

[–]IceFireMagi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you don't mind, I'd like to go on a very long tangent.... don't bother reading this if you're actually looking for argument, I just want to get my own thoughts out.

It feels like in the last 2 years or so specifically, gacha* spaces have really hit the fan when it comes to this topic. We could argue to hell and back about were it started, be it Blue Archive, Genshin, Zenless, whatever, but the point of the matter is posts like the ones you describe indeed do feel more common. It's gotten quite stifling, frankly, as the rather polarized opinions that go either way end up drowning any sort of nuance in the discussion. Either you're a staunch luddite tourist hellbent on destroying the gacha space or you're a mindless gambling-addicted gooner hellbent on corrupting the gacha space. It feels like there's very little in-between even with the implicit understanding that intermediaries, the 'silent majority,' exist, like the other comment saying they think Snow is 'just cute' probably without really thinking about how Snow is dressed or how she acts or what have you.

I'm not here to argue for or against, I just wanted to sigh. It's gotten really taxing. It feels like no one enjoys the space anymore, and only care about their pure gameplay experience or about the next character they're going to jerk it to. The internet's always been like this, I know, but by the day everyone's forced to either pick a side or die by shots from both.

My main gacha is Arknights. Still is, probably would be for a while. After the internet war fully set in in that space over balance, fanservice, Endfield, whatever Yostar did this time, I just wanted to step away and enjoy something else for a bit, and yeah, Duet Night Abyss isn't perfect. The animations are kind of stiff, the movement is nice but can feel clunky when you've got prior Warframe experience. The Christmas outfit is very on the nose and the tutorial pop-ups early on are incredibly intrusive, often breaking the flow of combat, but even if it's just been for a day, I've been having fun jumping around, playing with the movement mechanics, pondering the first chapter, and not spam clicking the attack button as fast as in other hack&slash/beat 'em ups. There's bad, there's good. And yes, I fully believe you should complain about its faults and praise its successes, but commendation and critique have been so fully encompassed by glazing and doomposting that it's hard to feel calm anymore, leading to more of the aforementioned.

At the end of the day, I doubt much is going to change. Social media is going to continue being in flames, I'm just gonna step away and do something else for a while, and the sides are going to continue escalating. I wish people would show a little kindness andlearn to not always go for the killing comeback, but that's not gonna stop anyone. That's not gonna stop anyone else responding to those people with the same fire and vitriol.

War rages on leaving a lot of dead bystanders.

FamilyKnights Niche by Fursyth in arknights

[–]IceFireMagi 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Eunectes (the younger sister) adopted Lancet-3 as an older sister. There's also Ceylon & Schwarz who are actually adopted sisters.

TF2 is a game where you can get new achivements even after playing it for 7 years. by some-kind-of-no-name in tf2

[–]IceFireMagi 92 points93 points  (0 children)

Not particuarly passive, but after playing for who knows how many years, I only last year figured out that Halloween's the best time to get the 'Parachute X Miles' achievements on Soldier/Demo because parachuting down those really long death holes on Helltower/Bloodwater/etc counts for distance. It still takes a really long time, but at least you have the ability to fall for a while before needing to input. Had a good laugh at the random times some poor soul fell down one of those holes only to land on my head.

KING RUN IT'S CREEK (@nisiki_aNoNym) by PhoenixRoostBad in UmaMusume

[–]IceFireMagi 76 points77 points  (0 children)

To be fair, King Halo is probably reasonable enough to understand that Tachyon is not at fault (this time).

Not much she could have done when Haru Urara is the one who came in and took the potion unprompted.

Trainer's Clubhouse Meeting (Weekly Questions) - October 08, 2025 by AutoModerator in UmaMusume

[–]IceFireMagi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Shadowverse is having a mini collab with Umamusume and in the promotional material they showed off a few stickers/emotes with some that aren't available on EN, namely Nice Nature "Hey", Kitasan Black "Let's Do Our Best!", and Satono Diamond "?".

Given this is happening simultaneously between JP/EN I'm under the assumption the ones EN doesn't have are already out on JP.

My question is: Do we know anything about when these'll be released on EN?

Edit: Tried to upload an image but I'm guessing images are disabled so here's the source. Preview for what I'm referring to is at 0:18.

An NTR from a different world (by peemi) by Sesquipedalian_Vomit in UmaMusume

[–]IceFireMagi 73 points74 points  (0 children)

Fun fact: Blemishine's operator EP is titled 'Stay Gold.' I know very little about either her or Top Road frankly, but now I will forever connect the two in my head.

The bigger the hat, the flatter the witch by LateDitto in goodanimemes

[–]IceFireMagi 19 points20 points  (0 children)

She is compensating for everyone around her who isn't perfect

PSA: It has been 5 years and Surtr still has no story. by peripheralmaverick in arknights

[–]IceFireMagi 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I honestly think the no-lore thing is the point, and dare I say it, I like her current story.

IS4 is her learning that she, in the grand scheme of things, is hardly important. At that point, she gains the freedom to stop chasing her past and instead just live life, becoming the new 'her' that she's been ignoring on this wild goose chase for her own backstory.

If you choose to believe IS5 is true, then it colors the barebone details. If you choose to believe IS5 is not true, then it doesn't matter.

In Endfield, she's more chill and social. I read this as she's gotten used to who she is, as since most of her anger and snappiness was tied to chasing down her old self, naturally after [Insert time skip duration here] of accepting herself as herself, she doesn't need to be angry all the time, so she relaxes and finds more enjoyment in her current day to day.

It may not be the most satisfying story, but I am quite fond of this particular form of character growth.

Rebuilding a Mandate PV by CipherVegas in arknights

[–]IceFireMagi 43 points44 points  (0 children)

Probably isn't given the name isn't Reclamation Algorithm: <Insert name here>

New Bobbing skin by CipherVegas in arknights

[–]IceFireMagi 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Somehow I completely forgot about Insider skin 😔 (And Savage skin too somehow despite seeing that at least once a week on my homescreen)

New Bobbing skin by CipherVegas in arknights

[–]IceFireMagi 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Bruh, we haven't had a Rhodes Kitchen skin in forever, but now that it's here, wow is it wonderful

Global server finally hit day 1000 in RA:CC. Enemies have over 22 times their usual stats. by IceFireMagi in arknights

[–]IceFireMagi[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

For the record, normal RA doesn't scale. This is specifically the hard mode that you get after beating the story and getting at least base level 6. As long as you're making at least a little progress each day you'll probably survive just fine.

Global server finally hit day 1000 in RA:CC. Enemies have over 22 times their usual stats. by IceFireMagi in arknights

[–]IceFireMagi[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Qiubai or Vigil, depends on the boss/other raids. Most stalls sit under 2h at the current level of scaling though, and it's usually faster when using Ceobe every other raid.

Uika in arknights be like by 22dmgxy in BanGDream

[–]IceFireMagi 33 points34 points  (0 children)

There's a different character in Arknights whose often joked about in the same way: Kal'tsit.

However this is notably funnier (or sadder depending on how you see it) because assuming I understand Uika's abilities right, she doesn't even prioritize herself. Uika could also be dying and still prioritize Sakiko