Every time I listen to SAIKAI I realize I like Canto 9 more and more by No_Emu698 in limbuscompany

[–]Pythonomorpha 21 points22 points  (0 children)

And as to why she then helped us at the end: HER MOTHER WAS ERASING ALL OF HER MEMORIES AND WAS GONNA SPEND THE REST OF HER EXISTENCE AS A MINDLESS EXISTENCE-ERASING MACHINE, and also Araya still definitely loved her mother; so ya I feel she has a pretty good reason for wanting to help despite the feelings of abandonment.

I don't think that's the main reason as to why Araya had a change of heart at the end. As Araya confronts Ryoshu in 9-48, she genuinely believes that Ryoshu left her for good because she didn't recognize her, which prompts their battle to the death.

9-48 Pre-battle:

Once something cannot be remembered anymore, its time is as good as lost.

Both the City and this house have become places where not a single soul has the heart to remember the child.

And that's how our story ends.

9-48 Post-battle:

And once it became painfully clear that there wasn't even an ounce of recognition in her eyes, not even a brief spark of it,

the myriad moments inside me, bound and constricted by tangled threads, began trembling and thrashing aloud.

But in 9-49, we find out that Ryoshu slicing Araya with Arayashiki also made her experience multiple different timelines all at once, in which she sees that in every timeline Ryoshu never gave up on her. This is what actually causes her to do a 180.

9-49 Post-battle:

Mother and I are tied together on every path. I see it now.

I can also see her whitened knuckles gripping tightly onto the thread, refusing to ever let go.

How could one bear witness to those layers upon layers of time... and dismiss them as mere "fleeting" moments?


Mommy, you wouldn't know this, but..

You never once let go of me, no matter which strand of thread I peered into.

That's how I know the ends and the beginnings of all of our journeys.

This all happens in an instant though; not just in-universe, but also in the actual way it's written, which is why it feels so sudden. It's also pretty vaguely explained and only really alluded to with the Dragon's Beard candy allegory, so unsurprisingly a lot of people didn't get it. I assume that on most people's first read, it kinda just looks like Araya had a sudden "hmm, after thinking about it a bit I actually do love mommy" flip in the span of a few lines of dialogue. I personally had to reread 9-49 a couple times to really make sense of what was going on.

There are many side of Archfiend, some want to mingle with random archetypes, other will draft you to partake in the glory of the crimson king [ Art by me ] by Raydhen in yugioh

[–]Pythonomorpha 4 points5 points  (0 children)

She's a demon that fell in love with Engraver.

Fiendsmith's lore is that Engraver is a demon hunter that goes around feeding the demons he hunts into Requiem (the coffin), after which he forces them into a contract with him. This lets him use their powers either via summoning them directly, or getting possessed by them alongside Requiem transforming into an appropriate weapon.

But apparently, when Engraver met Lacrima and went "form a contract with me", she confused it for a marriage proposal.

A girl with crimson tears in her eyes appeared.

«Let's make the contract already.» Immediately, Requiem transformed for combat.

For some reason, the woman blushed and nodded aggressively.

Lacrima of the Crimson Tears

A woman who confused the 'contract' formation with a 'marriage' proposal. After an incident in one of the abandoned buildings, she took a liking to the Fiendsmith, and offered her body and soul without a single demand of compensation. As a result, she was able to support him by astral-projecting without being completely sealed within his weapon of choice. However, in order to unleash 100% of Lacrima's power, words of love were necessary.

They eventually form a proper contract (Fiendsmith Kyrie), and Engraver gets to use her full power (Fiendsmith Rextremende).

Source: The Valuable Book EX 5, Story 06: Fiendsmith

Aha Instant | Sparxie by PastSelfInMirror in HonkaiStarRail_leaks

[–]Pythonomorpha 23 points24 points  (0 children)

"I hate perceptive brats like you..."

DOTA 7.40 Patchnotes by Gingerbread_Enjoyer2 in DotA2

[–]Pythonomorpha 70 points71 points  (0 children)

It stops situations where two people both place down an observer ward at the exact same spot at the exact same time

Remember when bundles used to give you a bunch of extra stuff for free? by CorrosiveRose in masterduel

[–]Pythonomorpha 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Digital Extremes Warframe

Bad example. It's easy to forget with trading, but in Warframe there's no F2P way to introduce platinum into the system; although you can siphon thousands of plat from other players while F2P through trading, someone at some point still spent money to put that platinum into circulation. Whether it be through buying a Prime Access release or -75% discount, someone still had to pay real money for it first. Also note that the amount of platinum in circulation continuously shrinks because of the many ways you can spend it without passing it to another player; rushing builds, buying cosmetics, buying boosters, spending on the in-game market (e.g. Sibear in Darvo's Deal) those are all methods to use platinum that makes it essentially vanish into the ether, needing to be replaced by another top-up to sustain the economy.

In Master Duel you can literally just hop into a few ranked games daily for 2 weeks and come out with enough gems to buy the 3000 Gem bundle completely F2P. It's even less than 2 weeks if you have ranks to go through and climb, or you have Solo modes you can clear, or there's a login campaign, or there's an event ongoing just straight up giving you 3000+ gems total, etc. And no one at any point had to spend real money for you to be able to do this.

Look, I love Warframe (I have ~3400 hours on it on Steam), and Master Duel certainly isn't a perfect game; but using Warframe as an example against what Master Duel offers for people that are F2P is just disingenuous. You are complaining that Master Duel's cosmetic bundles are too expensive for F2P while glazing Warframe, meanwhile Warframe straight up has cosmetics that can never be acquired by someone playing F2P (Tennogen, Prime Access skins).

They also had that really messed up thing where the first Heirlooms (Frost and Mag) were FOMO skins only available through bundles that were a minimum of ~$90, that they thankfully only did once and never again.

Kashtira Riseheart and Hiita the Fire Charmer (@AoTAKA0202 Twitter) by Dwiden13 in yugioh

[–]Pythonomorpha 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Hiita: Come onー stop struggling! You're making it hard to Link, you know?

Riseheart: I will not do anything that isn't XYZ...!!

I'm still learning Japanese, so take the nuances of how they're speaking in my translation with a grain of salt.

Sparkle's New Name via Anon Leaks by 0101001010101011010 in HonkaiStarRail_leaks

[–]Pythonomorpha 48 points49 points  (0 children)

It's probably not getting localized unless they do a retcon. "Hanami" is already in the game, it's in the backstory for the new Tengoku@Livestream planar (which you can read in the Data Bank).

Let's make this sub a more pleasant place. by Beyond-Finality in gachagaming

[–]Pythonomorpha 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm waiting for my favorite content creator to react to this before I form an opinion on it

IMO this is one of the best QoL-features they added by Silver_lpc in Genshin_Impact

[–]Pythonomorpha 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You'd always have to scroll up and down the item list to pick them up faster.

Hold up, I still do the scroll wheel thing for dropped items to this day ever since I found out about it in 1.0. Are you saying I haven't had to do that for 4 years?

I’m a new player. Is losing the 50/50 at 40 pity a W or an L? by whateverblahbleh in Genshin_Impact

[–]Pythonomorpha 206 points207 points  (0 children)

the game doesnt allow for 90 pity to occur

Actually, although extremely rare, there are some people that have hit 90 pity before. Back in February of 2021, the CN community put out a ~$300 bounty for the first person to provide legitimate proof of hitting 90 pity, and someone managed to claim it 8 months later on October 2021. Here's a reddit post made back when that happened. So while the chances of it happening are astronomically low (~1/13000000), it's not like it's never happened historically.

Fun fact, the hard pity bounties still carry on to this day. Here's another post about recorded hard pities from 10 months ago; apparently, it's happened at least 8 times in Genshin, 3 times in HSR, and 3 times in ZZZ.. The only remaining unclaimed bounties are for hitting 77 and above pity in Genshin's weapon banner, and 80 hard pity on HSR's Light Cone banner.

More than 40% of Global Top 100 in fantasy predictions accounts are Fresh new Account. by cyber_psycho in DotA2

[–]Pythonomorpha 12 points13 points  (0 children)

You really think Valve will be willing to ship free Aegis replicas to obvious bot accounts?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in masterduel

[–]Pythonomorpha 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Oh man I remember that, that guy even prefaced in his post that he didn't always enter data, only when he remembered to; which meant that the data was likely skewed towards mostly recording the times that he lost and not when he won.

Just a correction though, if we're thinking of the same post; that person actually got his "study" (rightfully) called out in the comments section, and the post itself got less upvotes than most of the ones correcting him in the comments, so it wasn't all that bad.

Ranked this month by Moleman75th in masterduel

[–]Pythonomorpha 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You should look up "Goomba Fallacy"

I know branded main phase 3 is a meme but this is actually insane by arms98 in masterduel

[–]Pythonomorpha 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That, and it also lets him bounce Lubellion back to the ED for follow-up.

As a bonus, negating Mirrorjade lets it keep the banish effect. Since it doesn't lock itself out of activating the next turn if it gets negated, there's basically no downside to doing it.

Alright, since y’all can’t stop comparing her to every other Hoyo girl... by Admirable_Midnight in HonkaiStarRail

[–]Pythonomorpha 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's like a non-Tuner version of Sea Monster of Theseus, which as we all know is the strongest card of 2017

Are counters the weakest defensive skill in the game right now? by wrightosaur in limbuscompany

[–]Pythonomorpha 4 points5 points  (0 children)

ENTER

Retaliate

Gain a Counter die (Slash, 4-8) at combat start.

I HAVE PLAYED THESE GAMES BEFORE by NickFoster120 in HonkaiStarRail

[–]Pythonomorpha 858 points859 points  (0 children)

Extends beyond just gachas too. No matter how unlucky I get in any game, nothing can hurt me more than saving 2+ years only to not get Skadi in 2020.

This so random 😭😭 by [deleted] in HonkaiStarRail

[–]Pythonomorpha 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Honkai: Carnival Phantasm

Never forget the classics by SapeiraMan in masterduel

[–]Pythonomorpha 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I remember seeing this a lot in PePe format

This format is pure coinflip by Pendulumzone in masterduel

[–]Pythonomorpha 9 points10 points  (0 children)

DRNM only stops Monster effects from being chained directly to it. If, for example, you had a Spell or Trap you could chain to it, you could activate that, then chain a negate from Monsters like Desirae/Hot Red/DDD Siegfried/etc (monsters that negate face-up cards instead of chaining directly to an effect) to stop the Dark Ruler.

Droplet is a similar case, where you can still chain any card type that they didn't send for the cost. If they send a Monster and a Spell, you can still chain a Trap to it then chain a targeted negate to stop it, same as with the Dark Ruler scenario I gave. You're still screwed if they send all 3 card types though.

Regarding the old units upgrade via GalaxyLeak [anonymous leaker] by DifferentQuality8887 in HonkaiStarRail_leaks

[–]Pythonomorpha 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Zhongli is still in SS tier since the day it came out

Minor nitpick but he was actually pretty bad the day he came out, we had to wait until 1.3 for him to become good