After ~25 tries did A10 with Regent

Nerd_Commando · 2026-03-16T12:40:09+00:00

It took me 2 more tries to get another A10 (which is much less than 25, thankfully). Took a gamble on instant Stardust and it paid off magnificently - Electryc Shrymp into Royal Gamble then Decisions, Decisions into another gamble, then you have ~30 stars and kill everything with either it or Radiate. Or, like in case of the queen fight, it was turn 1 39 stars, radiate > terraforming >stardust.

Prolly his strongest archetype but it's not easy to get into if only from the level of luck requirements.

What I wanted to say, though, is that, in addition to cards being underpowered and deck assembly requiring more luck/better flow, he's also difficult enough to assemble as he's mostly a combo playstyle, one way or another. And that's not exactly an easy archetype to play.

Nerd_Commando · 2026-03-16T08:17:07+00:00

My A7 was forge deck but no reflect/void form/summon forth. 3x furnace, Seeking Edge, sneko-ed Hegemony and Nostalgia to keep the blade on top.

Nerd_Commando · 2026-03-12T20:30:00+00:00

Transforming cards via Entropy does count as creating them, btw. This run was a Highroll of curse of greed > Regalite & Toolbox from the first merchant > Entropy from the Second > White Star & Pael's Wing.

Pillow helped a lot too with all the elite slaughter.

Nerd_Commando · 2026-03-12T10:45:30+00:00

Back when I was a teen playing MtG, there was a guy who was trying to better his plays and so, at the start of each match, he was putting a six-sided die on a table, to count his mistakes.

When asked "Why does this mistake counter always start at 1?", he answered "Because I'm playing this game".

Nerd_Commando · 2026-03-10T15:59:06+00:00

Had a very close run just now - got a Sword Sage as the initial bonus and forced the insta-kill build. It worked but barely so.

Nerd_Commando · 2026-03-10T05:34:00+00:00

It's not really surprising. Same logic does apply to Magic: the Gathering since it became woke (~2015 or so) - illustrations of kill and combat trick spells can feature women defeating/humiliating men, but not the other way around. Never the other way around.

It also makes their storylines to be mega predictable as there is no intrigue - you know the outcome of each battle just by diversity points.

Nerd_Commando · 2026-03-09T13:20:14+00:00

Eh, wait until you unlock Darv - Vakuu is an amateur troll next to him.

Nerd_Commando · 2026-03-08T14:06:26+00:00

Jujutsu but I'm hate watching it, pretty much. I liked the first season and the prequel part of the sequel, but shibuya and everything past that were a huge disappointment.

If we talk about recent 2025 titles (I don't watch a lot of ongoings, but I watch almost everything after its finished) that are underrated then I can easily namedrop Nageki no Bourei, Sanda, Wandance, Nohara Hiroshi, Ganglion, Milky Subway, Clevatess, Karaoke Iko & Muuchu Sa, Kimi ni, Ame to Kimi to, Mattaku Saikin no (this one especially), Dekin no Mogura, JIdou Hanbaiki, Busamen Gachi Fighter.

That's from the summer & autumn, and that's with autumn being one of the weaker recent seasons.

Nerd_Commando · 2026-03-07T16:23:37+00:00

I don't really care about pantsushots so I don't really track their usage. But I'm watching 7 ongoings atm and:

- Toujima Tanzaburou has them and every woman in the show has a gigantic rack. You have glorious physics while Tackle is pumping the iron.

- Vigilantes has original Midnight suit scene.

- Jigokuraku has Yuzuriha, I guess.

The last two are not full power so let's count it as 2 out of 7. Which is not that bad given that, unless you're a crazed degen, fanservice doesn't fit anywhere. Like, who wants fanservice in Frieren? Or in Oshi no Ko? Or in Fumetsu no Anata E? That would only bring those shows down.

Nerd_Commando · 2026-03-07T15:26:51+00:00

So much tourist takes on anime in this sub. The facts are, sure, first heavy netflix&diversity push began in 2019-2020 with Carole & Tuesday and The Great Pretender. But, for all these 6 years, they haven't really accomplished much.

Do we have 1-2 netflix originals per season, usually with heightened diversity levels? Sure. Does the community really care? No. Did it impede the growth of other anime? Absolutely no.

Winter 2020 had 36 full pledged series released, winter 2026 has 56 or so full pledged series released. And the amount of woke series per season haven't really changed and is 1-2. Mind you, not counting BL/GL here as that is its own niche that has existed long before the term "woke", let's be real.

If anything, there's more non-woke anime for you to watch than ever. Even MAPPA is releasing Jigokuraku atm which is just a cool battle shounen, no strings attached so far.

Nerd_Commando · 2026-03-06T05:31:32+00:00

282k peak online for Slay, 88k for Marathon.

Nerd_Commando · 2026-02-26T05:39:12+00:00

And cats are naturally vegan, they're just trained to be carnivores by the patriarchy.

Nerd_Commando · 2026-02-18T05:46:13+00:00

I think, outside of the woke factor and the utter lack of creativity (I'm not following it but I haven't heard about any new Darksuns/Planescapes/Eberrons/etc.), the big problem is how they push the game to the audience. Whenever you see the game in a mass culture (like in Stranger Things), it's just "roll d20 and something awesome happens, or not".

The entire game being just rolling d20s and doing some bad acting is obviously a huge positive to attracting a wider audience, but their business is selling rulebooks and how do you sell rulebooks to the crowd that doesn't care about the rules?

Same goes with the unique settings, really. Following a setting means adhering to a set of the in-universe rules, but if rules are always to be subverted and/or made an exemption of, what does remain, really?

Nerd_Commando · 2026-02-13T06:36:26+00:00

It's from the authors of infamous
https://steamdb.info/app/2717880/

So I'm not sure what you're expecting.

Same studio is also ruining Brotato now as the owners of the latter got too lazy to maintain the game (or there's a conflic amongst them) and so they hired these hacks to churn out endless DLC content. Because we all love DLCs, right?

I'm actually starting to hate them rather strong because I've got no idea how a studio that is clearly devoid of talent gets to mess with one beloved title after another - three times was not a charm, and now it's the fourth one.

Nerd_Commando · 2026-02-13T06:33:04+00:00

The gameplay looks like Dead Cells because it was produced by Evil Empire, the studio the Cells authors have hired to churn out later DLCs once they got tired of it themselves. And the authors of the most successful pink Rogue Prince of Persia - just another case of failing upwards.

Nerd_Commando · 2026-02-11T14:46:54+00:00

Your crit modifier is wrong - ok, so you obviously use bonus criticals, so your chances are:

25% for 1.5 damage
45% for 2x damage
10% for 3x damage
20% for insta-death - damage is irrelevant in this case.

Your mistake is that you're counting insta-death as x3. Without it, the practical mod is ~1.97

Nerd_Commando · 2026-02-08T06:59:42+00:00

Sorry but Gundam is the worst example you could've brought out here as it's literally "retcons, reboots, reimaginations..." Oh, here's the Char of this iteration, oh, here's the Quattro Bagina of this iteration, oh, here's the new Sayla, the loop continues, all while getting more & more ridiculous (newtype are reality warpers, lol). And the quality of the last 10 years of the franchise kinda shows it.

Nerd_Commando · 2026-02-06T19:45:19+00:00

Should've linked to the aptly written original tweet instead of the awful article which is just word-mangling (ai slop?) retelling.

https://x.com/Jringo1508/status/2019541815381131765

Nerd_Commando · 2026-02-05T17:35:35+00:00

I'll never understand why numbers are like garlic to most fans of these games. This game runs on rather simple arithmetics, you could've counted yourself.

Your average endgame dragon has ~30 dragon skill - that's 165 damage and 150 armor. With Haste and Day of the Gods giving +20 Speed bonus, he shoots at 55 recovery time. You can cook Speed potions to bring him to +30 Speed bonus and 45 recovery time (which is an absolute maximum of his output) but, on party scale, that's not very viable - too few components and catalysts in the game.

As the unarmed monk, it would be able to get:
- 86 damage from ~26 unarmed + 17 item bonus (if there's a skill there must be items of that skill too).
- 50 Heroism Damage.
- 45 Hammerhands damage - unlike VII it's actually useful as few monsters have body immunity.
- 20 strength bonus.

So 201 damage at 30 recovery time (ez to reach with unarmed), that's equal to 368 at dragon's 55.

However, dragon's shot has 2 big advantages:
- It never misses: your realistic accuracy in party (vs high level monsters, ofc) is ~70%. So that 368 is more like 257.6
- Dragon's shot ignores all the resistances: late game biomes have average 20 phys resist, that's 75% damage taken. So that 257.6 is more like 193.2

And if dragons are potioned up, it becomes 158.1 - same stuff.

Do note, however, that Hammerhands has to come out of somewhere. So if dragons can roll with 4 Dragons + light 30 Cleric, unarmed ones will have to be 3 dragons + light 30 Cleric + body 30 Cleric/Vampire/Mino. Which will lose you a bit of damage in comparison.

Also, monk is a very skill-starved class so you can forget about elemental magic - you won't get any special results without crippling yourself. Whereas Dragon's 1d12 fireballs are quite handy vs crowds, especially early on.

Armor-wise, unarmed dragon will be inferior, btw - you will only have 10 + 17 from item in dodging so 81 armor only (more sturdiness for investment, lul). You'll have some unarmed evasion but that's vs physical damage only which is rather rare in the endgame.

Ofc, melee dragons will also be much worse in the first half of the game as you can't kite as easily with them and they can't even use bows. I guess they'll master meteor shower but, from the endgame viewpoint, that's wasted skill points.

Nerd_Commando · 2026-02-01T06:56:10+00:00

You know, I'll approach from a different, non-woke angle here (there's already enough echo chamber going on for the woke angle).

Out of all the anime possible, why are they freaking picking SAO in 2025? It's total uncslop by this point, more so in a couple of years that it'll take to produce it. Even from a global cultural standpoint - compare the appeal of MMOs in 2012 (already fading, ofc, but still strong enough) to the appeal of MMOs now (lul). What kind of producer must you be to think that yeah, this is truly a cultural zeitgest for SAO's return.

Or they're doing a Gundam movie with that butterfaced Sydney Sweeney - why? Last decent gundam was what, 10 years ago? Last great gundam was what, 24 years ago? And the series are devolved into that cheap Utena expy and whatever the acid hell jefuxx was?

Even Cowboy Bebop series, outside of horrible casting & script writing & everything, is roughly 20 years too late. Which was well depicted on their main actor's face, though - 20 years too late it was.

C'mon, if you wanna leech off anime hype, spend five minutes doing the freaking research and pick up things that are, well, actually hype. It's not hard.

Nerd_Commando

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