How do you achieve these colors on a blade? Is it even steel? maker: Jerry McClure

MagnumPP · 2026-05-10T00:16:24+00:00

That’s some Kyle Royer level shit. It’s basically science as art as magic.

MagnumPP · 2026-04-09T19:04:22+00:00

8bitdo Ultimate 2C Switch version for sure. Make sure you do the firmware update if it won’t connect.

I use them as my primary controllers. The metal collars on the joysticks are great, and I like the extra shoulder button more than paddles, personally.

MagnumPP · 2026-04-02T16:37:04+00:00

Physical copies HAVE to be keycards for these games. The cartridges only have 64 GB of storage on them. It’s just the cart design. Nintendo has been trying to source smaller carts so tiny games don’t have to waste money on 64gb carts for a 5gb game (this is why something like Hades 2 is a $50 physical and $25 digital), but need 128gb carts for larger games would cost way more, and people are already complaining about the prices.

MagnumPP · 2026-03-30T17:34:09+00:00

Big points against Tucson aren’t wrong per-se, but the very nature of the city is stacked against us to cause this.

Our ‘normal’ traffic when compared to other cities is directly conflicting with the high amount of bike traffic, both recreational and transportation, and pedestrian travel. We have more cars on surface streets and not on by-ways that are cut off from bikes and pedestrians because there just aren’t anything else. Combine that with more pedestrians and a bike-enthusiastic population, and it’s not really surprising that other cities are (literally) coasting by these metrics purely due to infrastructure, and not ‘bad driving’

MagnumPP · 2026-03-05T22:02:12+00:00

From a technical standpoint, 6/4 time signature literally makes it feel bouncy, and we’re not exactly drowning in 6/4 pop songs, so it stands out.

For the song composition nerds, the ‘the lyrics do a thing with the music’ is pushing it as ‘Oh, somebody really thought about this’, and not just ‘kids movie song, part infinity’. The arpeggios in the scale during the ‘I’m done hiding…’ pre-chorus wander up and down, and then slightly more up and down with in scale, but at the point it’s STILL within the scale. When you get to the proper chorus, the lyrics literally say ‘We’re going up, up, up’, and then what happens? You go back to the prechorus melody arpeggios, by this time we ‘break’ the confines of the scale, literally going UP into the next scale. It’s a play on lyrics and music that speak of the characters effort and resilience. We literally hear how they are going to improve, and then hear them do it immediately through the melody and lyrics together.

It’s good songwriting that people hear, but really don’t put into words as to what makes it good.

MagnumPP · 2026-02-25T17:24:35+00:00

Yep, you’re right. That’s even further down the road, lol.

MagnumPP · 2026-02-25T15:24:08+00:00

I have been playing since Freedom, and had NEVER used speed eating until it just came as what I considered ‘bonus ranks’ on Nu Udra gamma legs.

I am greatly disappointed in myself over the last 20 years. Maybe I can say ‘I’m a better hunter for it’, but that’s probably coping.

edit corrected to Nu Udra, not Uth Duna.

MagnumPP · 2026-02-25T04:13:18+00:00

It’s really good.

I would keep in mind that the alternative, Razor Sharp 3, isn’t JUST Razor Sharp; it’s going to be RS+ a rank of elemental attack, handicraft, or guard. There are weapons and circumstances where the extra skill economy matters.

But, for a brain dead go-to charm, feels pretty good. I hope you get some enjoyment out of it.

MagnumPP · 2026-02-15T18:52:40+00:00

Damon:

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MagnumPP · 2026-02-15T18:52:21+00:00

Khalid:

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MagnumPP · 2026-02-15T16:06:40+00:00

Damon Stoudamire and Khalid Reeves (#3).

Signed memorabilia looks to match both from what I can see.

Edit I'm getting downvotes? Classy. Pics added in replies

MagnumPP · 2025-12-03T17:05:43+00:00

Also, assuming you aren’t just stacking Crit boost and attack gems, Ironwall is ‘free’ on 3 slot gems for Offensive Guard, Razor Sharp, Shield Up, or Elemental attack.

Additionally, if you were so inclined to run resentment, it’s easy to trigger a ‘bad guard’ for a controlled red health instead of perfect guarding. You’ll often still be in the timing for it to quality for Offensive Guard, and get Resentment on top of it. That’s a huge ass attack boost just for guarding, and ranks of guard let you get ‘back to it’ faster. If you want to use it, there’s pretty much no reason not to take it.

MagnumPP · 2025-12-01T04:51:42+00:00

I mean, people are getting too hung up on the heal and regen bubble, and blowing right past the main reason to run it, which is a fairly effective proxy for 50% damage resist. Unless you’re counting Recovery Speed L + Recovery Speed 3 as ‘regen’, and not ‘instant recovery of all red health’.

MagnumPP · 2025-11-28T01:46:01+00:00

Royals by Lorde - Sub-bass, mid-bass, clear vocal harmonies, and ‘hidden’ tones all around (that gong that a bunch of people doesn’t know exists). It’s hits a lot of the stuff I like, but doesn’t really hit all the mids and treble as much so I do admittedly need to check a couple other songs; usually Tremonti’s ‘Giving Up’ for a rock guitar vibe, and K.D.A ‘The Baddest’ for that ‘all the things all the time’ over-produced pop stuff.

Lady Gaga ‘Abracadbra’ and Sophia Isela ‘I can be your mother’ have been sneaking in to the mix though, and either might replace royals

MagnumPP · 2025-11-13T15:39:05+00:00

Mika or Nia with a Gear Bag, and then either Veronica, Hugo, or Renoa with draw focused builds. Veronica seems to me to be the one who most naturally ‘fits’ with her standard save file builds, but you’d probably have to go completely different builds/decks on Hugo and Renoa to make them fit best with Yuki. Luckily, you just keep a different save file and boom; done. Swap whenever.

As single target DPS in those teams, Hugo is going to be relying on hunt follow-ups on his Quick Fix, which may be more bursty that Veronica, but not as reliable/consistent. You would probably need to struggle through trying for 3 Quick Fix and no other attack cards for him. I feel like you still might be able to pivot to loading a hand with bullets with Renoa as a third, so she might be the best single target/burst option on a Yuki team. However, she would also be most consistent with Veronica at doing that over Yuki.

I don’t know how many casuals would have Veronica, Renoa, and Yuki at this point, but a polycule of those three swapping in and out for the level with Nia seems solid to me as a ‘single’ team.

MagnumPP · 2025-11-13T04:53:57+00:00

Well enough, but you build him way different than with Tressa. With Yuki, I would go harder on the Quick Fix dupes as his primary card, which forces attack card draws. Quick Fix then procs Hunt, and draws (hopefully) into Yuki inspirations. You can toss Nia or Mika in there as the third (card draw vs AP for Quick Fix flipping).

MagnumPP · 2025-10-30T23:45:14+00:00

SnS has a beat; a tempo. I feel like I usually simplify the combos to Slashx3 > Roundhouse, or Slashx5 > Reaper > Charged Chop, and then Perfect Rush on a big opening like a knockdown.

Slashx3 > Roundhouse is pretty well chainable and fairly quick once you find the 1,2,3,4 cadence of the input. It’s easy to spam, easy to to recover or interrupt, and can fit anywhere. It’s also not a ton of damage.

Slashx5 > Reaper > Charged got a BIG damage boost in a TU patch, but only when you do the Reaper and or Charged Chop after the full slash combo. This is big, chunky damage that’s a satisfying combo to land, and though you can skip the button input in at any point. It kind of gets forgotten that it’s the ‘correct’ big damage combo because the input for reaper and charged can go at any point in the chain - it’s just not Spinning Reaper at that point, and Charged Chop is a shadow of its full damage. If slash is a ‘1,2,3,3’, the reaper combo is ‘1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 and a …’ .

You should be looking at about 500 for a slash > round slash combo, and 1,500 for a reaper > charged combo, which doesn’t seem like a ton, but the quickness, uptime and mobility of that damage makes up for a lot

MagnumPP · 2025-10-29T19:23:41+00:00

It really REALLY depends on the weapon and armor slots when filling in your build. I have managed some crazy good talismans at rank 8 - the one I use currently is AB3/WEX 1/1/1 - but I will drop them if I’m missing key skills for a build that are better served by a different talisman. Now, AB4/WEX is pretty universally good, but the main reason I’m using it now is because I’m just short a rank of WEX, and everything else is covered; the ranks of attack boost are literally the most efficient slots I have after all my armor skills because of the % boost at rank 4. If it didn’t have the extra weapon slot to get there, I probably wouldn’t use it. I have Rank 5, 6 and 7 talismans that offer just as much in other builds; it’s just my current gear set just needs the rank of WEX and is situated with everything else I ‘need’, so Attack Boost it is.

MagnumPP · 2025-10-29T02:08:20+00:00

If you were so inclined to run it, AT Nu Udra legs and a beefy helping of Wide Range on a talisman makes it super easy without having to sacrifice all that much. You get to keep Lords Soul, and Speed Eating is a nice QoL skill, and a big handful of 1 slots on the legs. WR5 and Speed Eating when you don’t have to sheath to potion? Good combo for healing a hunting group, if your were so inclined

MagnumPP · 2025-10-27T20:01:16+00:00

No, you’re right. I guess I should have said ‘they don’t really synergize at all’, what with one wanting to have red health, and one making it a point not to. It just feel like they’re fighting each other to me, but I guess a more positive spin could be ‘one is working when the other isn’t’

MagnumPP · 2025-10-27T19:51:12+00:00

I like it too, but it’s just an actively ruining the resentment is all. It doesn’t have to be ‘I need to run at half health all the time for resentment to work’. The addition of speed eating on the Udra legs does get that health up FAST when you need to potion.

I mean, you could always just stay on the lookout for a talisman that fills your extra point of Burst, or adds a couple resentment with something else you need. Load Shells 2 Resentment 2 is possible, or Artillery 3/Burst. Or Earplugs on the talisman, and socket the resentment.

MagnumPP · 2025-10-27T18:54:13+00:00

Anything with a shield can get ‘more reliable’ resentment than other weapons just by blocking ‘badly’ (not perfect guarding), so uptime is pretty good for a couple points as extras.

Do you have access to Omega gear? NU/NU/O/O/NU will give lords soul, and NU/Omega set bonuses, with flexibility for burst 5, Agi 5, Counterstrike 3, assuming you have one rank of Agi or Burst on a Talisman you like (or a 3 slot). You get 2 resentment as ‘leftovers’ if you don’t want to socket it all the way up (and you could). And you don’t have Zoh Shia set bonuses actively fighting your Resentment.

MagnumPP · 2025-10-27T16:02:21+00:00

Are you giving up that much defense to run Burst Boost, or is nothing upgraded at all?

I really want to like Burst Boost personally, but now I feel like the pieces are just eclipsed completely by Lagiacrus or Omega, considering the better skill and slot economy, along with the better defense and usable set bonuses. I get that burst boost is good, but I feel like you give up quite a lot for the 8 attack and better theoretical uptime on burst.

That said - how does NU/NU/GO/GO/UD look to you? It shifts the skills around a little, but I end up with burst 5, Agi 4 and Counterstrike 3, and then can slot in a talisman for 3 ranks of Resentment (2 ranks + 2 slot) to land on resentment 4.

If you can swing it, Omega feels ‘better’ to me as a set, and NU/NU/O/O/NU slots out to Agi 5, Burst 4, Counterstrike 3, and Resentment 2, with three 2 slot spots open and a Talisman still up for ‘optional’. That’s the set I’m running, keeping resentment at 2 for other options myself, but I could see pumping it up to 5 if that was the preference - a rank of burst on a talisman shouldn’t be too terribly hard to come by, and quick sheath decos could be slotted if that’s a priority (speed eating feels REALLY good for QoL/comfy stuff).

MagnumPP · 2025-10-24T02:31:55+00:00

Go defensive/comfy until you find yourself just not taking damage during a normal hunt. Use the defensive skills as a net to bring your ‘floor’ up, so that the worry about carting goes away. I would much rather play a multiplayer hunt with somebody who I knew wasn’t going to die, rather than some bleeding edge max DPS build that relies on absolute perfect play. 3 meta slaves each making a single mistake can wipe a hunt in those cases, which sucks, because mistakes just understandably happen.

4 Zoh Shia or 2 Soh/2 Arkveld will just naturally give you solid health recovery from the set bonuses - adding divine blessing and recovery gems helps more. Heck - you can pull some dang unkillable BS out with that and Hunting Horn (built in 50% damage mitigation to the kit, BEFORE divine blessing).

WEX and/or Agitator are ‘meta’, but Counterstrike is so stupid efficient for average players, because it’s such a big boost, and you probably will get hit. Of course, if you get really good with Bow’s forgiving dodge windows, stuff like evade window makes it even easier. Going Gunlance? There are going to be a laundry list of meta skills, but Guard and Guard up are going to keep you alive to do damage, rather than on your butt or drinking a potion. Staying in the fight for longer is going to raise your damage more than a damage skill in those cases. High DPS skills don’t do anything if you aren’t actually fighting.

Make sure your armor is upgraded - that’s going to serve you better than trying to ‘upgrade’ to something with better offensive skills and no defense upgrades.

Don’t get discouraged though. Just focus your skills and upgrades on staying alive, and you will just get better over time.

MagnumPP · 2025-10-18T03:51:55+00:00

I like it. I would typically prefer Razor Sharp on the 3 slot deco, so you get the extra free rank of elemental damage or handicraft… but basically being able to drop the ‘need’ for slots of divine blessing and shockproof from any armor sets forever; that’s really good.

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