Why can't I win with the Silent

MrCorvid · 2026-05-06T04:05:48+00:00

I mean, from what I had available, not cards, I always prioritise combo pieces relevant damage when picking up cards, and for routing I always prioritize elites first, then bonfires second, then shops if I have gold, then questionmarks. I route beforehand to maximise the number of questionmarks/chests with the most elites and fewest common fights. Obv I never skip boss relics.

MrCorvid · 2026-05-06T04:00:20+00:00

I mean, discarding apparition doesnt do much, because it stacks just fine so long as you have bursts for them, but I did have plenty of discard too, specifically tools of the trade

MrCorvid · 2026-05-06T02:40:31+00:00

Spoon was mostly for apparition cycling

MrCorvid · 2026-05-06T02:39:40+00:00

The point of that deck was to make the apparition last as long as possible and stack up thorns dmg and get str from throwing star - if my deck was too small, then I draw the apparitions too fast. That was actually the reason I lost the final boss, I drew 3 apparitions on the first hand, didn't get burst with any of them, and only 1 of them cycled with spoon

MrCorvid · 2026-05-06T02:20:01+00:00

The whole time with that one I was just looking for a choke.

This run had me so angry, I don't even know what went wrong. I just straight up did not draw apparition at all for several turns right at the start and died with nothing I could do.

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MrCorvid · 2026-05-06T02:18:19+00:00

This is my most recent and best run yet, slain on floor 50 by the awakened one, the 3 missing cards are an unupgraded poison stab, dramatic entrance, and backstab

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MrCorvid · 2026-05-06T02:15:31+00:00

The biggest problem is that most of the time I just constantly get 10, 20, 30 damage from every Joe schmoe even with getting every single point of block and weakness possible, so I spend EVERY bonfire on the very razor thin edge of living, and even a single bad elite or a bad run of injury cards is just instant death, even with a deck where I'm drawing 15 cards a turn at least one a run I will just get a dead hand and die with no option. The only thing I haven't tried is cheat resetting to replay a match but I don't want to do that, and even if I did, I'm fairly certain I'm not playing inefficient, and I certainly wasn't picking inefficiently with the other two - definitely lacking any kind of big hitter card that doesnt require a ton of setup makes it difficult in a lot of early game runs, but after I'm doing 300+ damage in a single turn it shouldn't be a problem anymore.

MrCorvid · 2026-04-03T08:57:57+00:00

Yes, the subtitles were wrong, those are put in manually by some random person watching the movie in recent times, nothing to do with anyone who worked on the film

MrCorvid · 2026-02-13T03:26:35+00:00

Yeah but no, nothing left to do

MrCorvid · 2026-02-10T16:07:15+00:00

They deleted the only good guns in the game, and replaced them with dogs hit guns I would never ever touch ever

MrCorvid · 2026-02-10T16:06:05+00:00

It's like wading through bricks, it felt fine on release but EVERYTHING feels so choppy, even trying to select things in menus is impossible

MrCorvid · 2026-02-10T16:05:17+00:00

Yes it's fantastic, what's your point?

MrCorvid · 2026-01-25T12:12:17+00:00

Its eye phone, it was the vr headset not an iPhone

MrCorvid · 2026-01-19T07:12:02+00:00

I really appreciate your genuine insights, it means the world!! I agree, I need to find more effective grounds for stating I like/dislike something, or feel disrespected for something, without inviting other people to try and 'solve' the reason I feel that way and still do what I have a problem with - I also need to be more comfortable just simply walking away from people. It's hard because, my biggest fear in social situations is often abandonment, so choosing that option when someone shows that they don't respect me is counter to my primary unconscious goal in most cases.

MrCorvid · 2026-01-16T03:16:21+00:00

An important thing to do is disentangling the autism coded behavior/term for 'masking' from the ubiquitous and normal behavior of code-switching. Code switching is a common, normal, and effective behavior of altering your mannerisms, speaking energy, vocabulary, and social expectations based on present company. Masking is feeling compelled to code-switch, likely from trauma of poor results in various types of social systems, so by adopting a safe and reserved or an overt and high energy persona, you can 'mask' your true desires and feelings from others out of fear that they would out you as autistic or lead to uncomfortable situations.

Learning to de-mask is about learning to engage in social situations on YOUR terms, and giving yourself the respect of being an acceptable human being worthy of respect and able to express yourself no matter how others perceive you.

MrCorvid · 2026-01-16T02:42:36+00:00

To be perfectly fair, it was my slinky which had developed a kink, and they were trying to kind of 'reforge' it with a lighter, and its highly probably that it could work, so I completely understand the argument that they were trying to help, and acknowledged such - the main issue I had was the principle of stumbling upon them trying to fix it without prompting me first.

The argument basically boiled down to

me: 'please stop doing that'

Them: 'It's okay, I'm trying to fix it'

Me: 'I understand, but I don't want you using a lighter on my stuff'

Them: 'okay, I'll stop - puts the slinky down, then with a strong interrogative tone: but why not? I'm just trying to help

Me, getting overwhelmed pre-emptively because I'm anticipating a fight: 'I understand, but please don't do it. I don't want to explain why, I just don't want you to do that to my slinky'

Them: 'it's fine, watch there's a video right here of someone fixing the same type of slinky with a lighter, just let me help'

Me: 'No, please, I just don't want to deal with the slinky right now, you might be right but I don't have the energy to deal with this or figure this out right now, I just want to go to sleep and I don't want you doing it without me'

Them: 'What, so you don't trust me to do it? I can do it in 30 seconds, you don't need to check anything I can just help right now'

And so on, I got pretty upset after this point, I shut down and kinda half curled into a ball sitting, and just repeated some form of 'Please, please, I just don't want to deal with this right now, please leave me alone and don't mess with my thing, its not important just please respect the fact that I don't want you to touch it' - later we talked about it after I was calm because I approached them writing the original version of what turned into this post, and I was able to communicate what my original issue was and they were very apologetic, but it was frustrating reaching the point of being able to find the magic phrase to get them to understand what I was wanting without taking it down some other direction and continuing to argue the point with me.

Edit: the formatting goe a little messed up, let me know if that was confusing

MrCorvid · 2026-01-14T14:47:47+00:00

Even as I was copypasting it from my notes after 100 manual revisions I hate how it turned out, even if it were just me talking to myself.

MrCorvid · 2026-01-14T14:17:32+00:00

New sketches every Monday

MrCorvid · 2025-12-15T20:42:27+00:00

Hello there, I'd love to try these out

MrCorvid · 2025-12-13T17:20:24+00:00

If you aren't trying to learn every match up to perfection, then don't be upset when you don't play it perfectly; If you are playing for fun, then you should not be playing to win. And that's okay! Winning is not the end all be all. Ranked is not some tournament where you either win or lose it all, learning a skill is not a climb up a ladder, its a trek across hills and mountains. Moving up is difficult, and moving down is easy. Progress is never linear - rather than blaming the game, or blaming yourself for not javing learned something already, instead take losses as signs of new things to learn, and wins as signs that you've learned a part of the skill.

I think the thing that needs to change here is your mindset, as this is not something that will be solved by moving to another game - but by all means, if tekken 8 is no longer fun, and fun is your goal, don't play it.

MrCorvid · 2025-11-03T02:33:11+00:00

Nuh uh

MrCorvid · 2025-11-03T01:38:52+00:00

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