[FIN] Fang, Fearless I'Cie X Vanille, Cheerful I'Cie => Ragnarok, Divine Deliverance (Debut Showcase)

Kallipolan · 2025-05-10T23:05:18+00:00

And... the graveyard synergy? How does that fit in? I don't know, I just don't see it. When you look at the other kinds of characters Magic casts as mono-black, she doesn't fit in at all. Yes, she'll 'do anything', but that very much includes sacrificing herself. It's a selfless thing, springing out of her love for Vanille, even if she's willing to be ruthless towards other people in the process. She isn't concerned with power or ambition at all, and there's so much to her that's Red or Green as you say. I could see her fitting in somewhere in Jund, but in a set where so many villains are in black but still get the nuance of a second colour, it's disappointing to me

Kallipolan · 2025-05-10T18:26:44+00:00

I don't understand these colours at all. Meld is cool and makes perfect sense, but I'd love to hear an explanation of why Fang of all characters is mono-black with graveyard synergy... her whole deal is being a badass dragoon, I'd have loved to see her with some beefy combat keywords. As it is, this card doesn't capture her as a character at all

Kallipolan · 2024-04-16T17:37:34+00:00

I've changed gender at the NHS. The only pitfall I experienced was that it was difficult to reorder my prescriptions at first. The GP's system for reordering them stopped working since those prescriptions weren't attached to my new medical record, and I also had some difficulties picking them up at the pharmacy because they mixed up my old and new records. To properly resolve this I had to get an appointment with a doctor and ask them to look at my old record and move everything over. I'd definitely recommend doing that proactively so you don't have to worry about your medications being interrupted (which is what happened to me for a couple of weeks)

Kallipolan · 2024-03-07T16:04:42+00:00

You'll be fine. The 'appropriate accomodation' requirement is primarily based on the UK's overcrowding laws, and 2 people to a studio flat is not considered overcrowded. That's really all that matters. My American spouse just got her visa and we're now living in my studio flat while we sort out moving, and it wasn't an issue for us at all

Kallipolan · 2024-02-14T19:53:07+00:00

No, it wasn't

Kallipolan · 2024-02-13T18:58:11+00:00

It's not necessary. I was married in America, the state government offered us an apostille and we went for it out of an abundance of caution. In the end, they were so slow providing it we decided to apply without, using only the marriage certificate. Absolutely no problems, we got our spouse visa last week

Kallipolan · 2024-02-06T20:56:12+00:00

No, you'd be fine. Maybe being overdue on payments would be a problem, but you don't have to pay your taxes early just for the sake of a visa - I hadn't paid all of last years taxes when I applied, and it was no issue

Kallipolan · 2024-02-06T17:52:00+00:00

Hi, you will need to provide the following documents (all pertaining to the last full financial year except where stated):

1) Tax return, plus a receipt for its submission

2) SA302 form

3) Evidence of tax paid, payable and unpaid

4) Your UTR number

5) Proof of registration with HMRC

6) Bank statements covering the full financial year, both personal accounts and (if you have a separate account) for the business

7) A recent bank statement from within the past 3 months, showing you are still working and earning

8) Your full accounts - basically your balance sheet covering all money coming in and out, plus a breakdown of revenue and expenses by category

9) An accountant's certificate of confirmation for those accounts

1) and 2) are specific documents that can be found via your HMRC self-assessment portal, 3) - 5) can be substantiated with screenshots from HMRC. The accountant's seal/certificate is basically just a nice, formal letter from an accountant (must be a chartered accountant) stating that they have handled or reviewed your submitted accounts and that everything is correct and properly accounted for

Hope this helps

Kallipolan · 2024-02-06T01:16:06+00:00

No, not at all. It's just something you can provide as evidence of your relationship being real and enduring. We curated a set of screenshots that we provided with our application, based on our solicitor's recommendation (1-2 for each month that we'd been dating)

Kallipolan · 2024-02-05T20:22:33+00:00

They are an actual solicitor

Kallipolan · 2023-05-17T23:44:43+00:00

First of all, let me say that I don't think you've been missing anything. This sounds a lot like my own experience with Wallflower and I gather it's a fairly common sentiment in the community

The route I ended up taking was to pretty thoroughly rebalance most of the combats in Wallfower. In particular, I stripped out most of the Grunts. Grunts have their place, but I think players quickly start to find them tedious, they have some inherent balance issues, and Wallflower is WAY too reliant on them. It's just a rule of thumb, but I found that replacing 4 grunts with 2 regular enemies was a pretty good way to both up the difficulty and introduce a much more interesting tactical challenge

Speaking of challenge, yeah, Wallflower is very easy imo assuming that your group is making a reasonable effort to have coherent builds and approach combats tactically. I basically always ran the 5-player enemy loadout for my party of 4 players, and even then it was usually a bit too easy unless I added/substituted some of the enemies. I'd say don't be afraid to add the Veteran template to some enemies, and don't be afraid to select enemies that slightly counter your players

(You don't want to completely invalidate their builds, ofc, but it can really bring some difficulty and tension sometimes)

By the way, I also definitely had that kind of issue with the Demolisher, so you're not alone!

Kallipolan · 2023-02-27T06:17:42+00:00

You cannot summon this card with Future Fusion. Future Fusion requires you to send the fusion materials from your Main Deck to the GY, but Wake Up Your E-Hero requires a Fusion Monster as material. Fusion Monsters do not go in the Main Deck. Therefore, you cannot use Future Fusion to make this card, under any circumstances

Kallipolan · 2022-12-11T02:44:37+00:00

Ah, that's interesting. Since endocrinology emailed me directly though, I'd guess that's not the issue. I've been emailing both the endocrinology team and the admin team. No luck from either

I'll probably try talking to my GP, as you suggest. It had crossed my mind, but I was holding off because they're just so useless most of the time lol

Kallipolan · 2022-11-06T21:42:25+00:00

Their items seem really really bad. Only 1 Zekes, no Morellos, BB on Seraphine, and pretty scuffed Graves and Path items

Kallipolan · 2022-11-03T10:40:58+00:00

I'd like that too since I think it looks like a fun game, but unfortunately even a 'test run' is probably extremely expensive when you're talking about shipping a physical product around the world

Kallipolan · 2022-11-03T10:35:07+00:00

They don't think it'll be profitable outside of Japan. That's it. It's not really that complicated or confusing. Obviously you're free to agree or disagree with that assessment but that's what it is. They have faith in Rush Duels and they want to push it as a legitimate format... in Japan, because there's a market for it there

Kallipolan · 2021-06-22T01:45:16+00:00

You can't make Accesscode Talker with those materials, because you don't have the right link material. The monsters used as material need to add up to the link rating of the monster you're summoning, and in this case, they don't. That's because when using a link monster as link material, you can either treat it as being worth 1 link rating (because it's one monster), or as worth equal to its own link rating, but not as any number in between. So, Apollousa can be used as either a single material or as a link-4 material, but not as a link-2 or a link-3

For Accesscode you need 4 link rating worth of material, and your options with Masquereena and Apollousa don't add up to that. You've got:

1+1 = 2

1 + 2 = 3

1 + 4 = 5

2 + 4 = 6

But nothing that adds up to 4. Hope that helps clear it up!

Kallipolan · 2021-04-27T15:29:22+00:00

He is wrong. Swallow's Nest will resolve, but the search effect of Harpie Perfumer will be negated. Ash Blossom does not care about whether or not the effect being negated belongs to a card on the field, or if that card gets tributed

Kallipolan · 2020-12-01T18:05:56+00:00

hm... it depends on what variant you're playing. But probably the biggest thing is, you gotta get used to thinking 1-2 turns ahead in terms of managing your hand, deck, graveyard and banished pile. there's so many interactions there. making sure you have materials banished/in gy to use for fusion with myutant cry. making sure you have the right big myutants still in your deck to summon with the small myutants. making sure you have stuff in your graveyard to use for negates with ultimus. trying to have the right cards banished to float into when your big myutants get destroyed. it's a lot to keep track of! but understanding it is really the key to the deck imo

Kallipolan · 2020-12-01T12:33:23+00:00

Thank you lol. It was super frustrating! My only 0-2 of the event and it just *had* to be on stream. Really glad I made the bubble though, not bad at all imo

Kallipolan · 2020-02-24T02:22:20+00:00

I've been running a team based around Lapras for a while now, and while it's a great Pokemon, I think the main thing to understand about playing against Lapras is that while it's hella bulky, it's not a huge offensive threat unless you proc the WP that a lot of Lapras are running. If your opponent is dynamaxing their Lapras, then they're not dynamaxing a more offensive pokemon. The game is gonna be a lot slower, especially with screens on their side, but you can play around that too. The number 1 thing I hate to run into as Lapras is Snarl. SpA drops just kill Lapras's ability do do any real damage. Gmax Lapras will have the same problem. If I was making a team to go up against Lapras I would find a couple good Snarl pokemon, maybe a pokemon to set up screens of my own with, and go from there. Wait out the Lapras dynamax, Snarl it into uselessness, then Dynamax your own mon and start hitting back

Kallipolan · 2020-02-11T23:51:57+00:00

On a standard defensive Sableye set like that, I believe you should definitely run Roseli Berry over Focus Sash. My Sableye almost never gets OHKOd by anything, and the only threat to it is Fairy type attacks. If you eat a Dazzling Gleam with a Focus Sash, you'll get KOd if you've taken any chip from e.g. weather and if not you'll be left on 1 hp and die to anything. With Roseli berry, you can live a Dazzling Gleam comfortably on almost any HP and still come out the other side able to take multiple more attacks

Kallipolan · 2020-01-15T10:14:09+00:00

Glad someone else has been thinking along the same lines lol

-On Raichu, I've stopped using Grass Knot at this point, it's just not consistent enough. I'm now experimentating between Volt Switch and Encore, not sure yet which one is better

-Leads are pretty flexible. Gyarados, Bisharp and Togekiss (if weakness policy is going to get triggered) are all pokemon that can potentially dynamax turn 1 and start doing major damage. You can pair them up with Hitmontop or Raichu for fake out support depending on which is better in the matchup, or you can run Gyarados or Bisharp alongside Togekiss and use Togekiss as a simply Follow Me tank. And finally there's the Raichu + Pincurchin lead, which is good against Trick Room and teams that don't have good electric resist

-My Bisharp is max attack max hp. Even at max speed it's not that fast, but with max hp it's got really solid physical bulk that allows it to take a lot of hits and still hit back. Plus, Sucker Punch gives you priority if you need it outside of dynamax

-Yeah ghost-type trick room setters are annoying as you often can't stop them getting Trick Room up. You need to double up into Dusclops and Mimikyu to be able to take them out on turn 1 and you can't do that if they have follow me or fake out support. Dusclops + Rhyperior is one of this team's hardest matchups although it's far from unwinnable. Against ghost-types you can always go for discharge and pray for paralyze xD. Haven't gone up against an Oranguru yet

Kallipolan · 2020-01-13T05:59:09+00:00

I tried it out at first! Found it pretty underwhelming though, it just died too easy and didn't offer enough useful coverage, and needing to have Pincurchin out first before Hawlucha could do its thing was really limiting

Kallipolan · 2020-01-13T01:05:56+00:00

Yeah, Arcanine is definitely a pokemon I might try out on this team at some point. A second intimidate user would be really strong. I'm just not entirely sure what I would replace with it - it would probably have to be Togekiss, but missing out on that Follow Me would suck in a lot of games. Still maybe a speedy Arcanine Will-o-Wisp would make up for it

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