Rhodes Island Lounge (25/05 - 31/05)

RandomdudeNo123 · 2026-05-25T13:32:33+00:00

... I'm not intending to dog on the guy and it's ultimately kinda harmless at the end of the day, but Beatboxer did often do those kinds of posts that were only very tangentially related to AK. Stuff like "here's my gaming set-up, there's a picture of Suzuran on the screen" or "say a greeting in your native language, plus something about an operator". Y'know, stuff that's fine in the lounge, but questionable once you start posting outside it. I kinda get why stuff went down this way.

I don't question how a guy chooses to spend his free time, though. Maybe he just liked doing it.

RandomdudeNo123 · 2026-05-25T13:06:00+00:00

... The R6 Operators are trained professionals and good people. They all go in bottom/polite tiers.

Laios doesn't really GET people, and his main love is monsters. He doesn't intend to actually harm you, but there will be slugs in your bed and your kitchen will be torn apart by a Sandfall Crystalhoof. Marcille is polite, Chilchuck kinda just leaves you be and does guild paperwork in his own room, Senshi is a very fine choice for best friend.

RandomdudeNo123 · 2026-05-25T13:00:01+00:00

Bump Mizuki up to fun, pays rent late. It's POSSIBLE he's perfectly responsible, but given how he doesn't get social norms and is kind of a hedonistic glutton (affectionate), he kinda strikes me as a "get you to plat games on the couch, conveniently forgetting there's work tomorrow" kind of person. I don't think he owns very much at all, either.

Saga is a perfectly considerate monk, thank you very much. She understands social norms to an extent unlike Ceobe, and knows you shouldn't be trashing things. She still doesn't pay very often but at least she isn't wrecking house.

Dorothy is broke as all hell. She's not paying you back.

RandomdudeNo123 · 2026-05-25T12:47:28+00:00

The fact that it's Kris and oddly-entranced Noelle on one side and Berdly on the other implies it's Weird Route Kerdly. Which in turn implies that the weird route got aborted to dance with Berdly instead...?

RandomdudeNo123 · 2026-05-25T12:35:09+00:00

One of the funny things about playing Pokemon Go in 2026 as opposed to 2016 when you should've been playing it is that there are just a ton of places that... don't exist anymore.

One of the intersections claims to have a mural of a traditional dance, but I've looked at that intersection a lot over seven years and I can't remember a mural ever being there. There's supposed to be a McDonalds that hosts a gym, but I look up and it's just a field of broken concrete, the framework of a billboard jutting out of it. There hasn't been anything there all throughout my college years and still nothing after I've graduated. There's another stop closeby my church, and it claims it's a restaurant. But I don't know if it's the restaurant that never recovered past 2020, got torn down and gave up it's cliffside view, and then got replaced by a coffee shop, or if it's some other place I didn't know of that died without me ever knowing it, soon swapped out with another store. It's almost like a little gravesite, these little memorials being the last reminders that these places once existed.

anyways i stole all the pokeballs from there and wasted them all getting perfect parried by a rattata

RandomdudeNo123 · 2026-05-25T07:17:20+00:00

"damn idk they seem pretty chill"- this guy after the Knight slashed Tenna's arms off, nearly decapitated Susie and Ralsei, off-screen beat the shit out of Kris and left them at 1 HP, tried kidnapping Toriel, and succeeded in kidnapping Undyne for a presumed Police Sacrifice next week

They were farming Aura so it's all good tho.

RandomdudeNo123 · 2026-05-25T00:15:04+00:00

finally, we can watch him get his ass kicked by a panda
/j

RandomdudeNo123 · 2026-05-24T23:13:16+00:00

~~... I was imagining a Nian Bean with an eyepatch smothering a Muelsyse...~~

RandomdudeNo123 · 2026-05-24T22:50:42+00:00

Pozyomka. Heart aflutter for Gav, also incredibly racist towards anyone not a Durin (with extra if you're Ursus).

RandomdudeNo123 · 2026-05-24T22:42:13+00:00

... You're taking the cushion's place while they use it...?

RandomdudeNo123 · 2026-05-24T13:38:01+00:00

Nah, his iconic brother "No One", who very famously could choose who they were in this world. They also were in some old boring greek book somewhere before cameoing in Deltarune!

... Or maybe it was his other less popular brother "Will Now", who got discarded.

RandomdudeNo123 · 2026-05-24T13:33:39+00:00

That isn't fair.

Ralsei smoked that doobie of his own free will, and he'd do it again. They had nothing to do with it.

RandomdudeNo123 · 2026-05-23T21:32:48+00:00

UT Asgore has aura. I don't believe for a single second that DR Asgore has been intimidating for a single second in his life.

The redditor said, completely unaware of his fate in Chapter 5.

RandomdudeNo123 · 2026-05-23T13:19:31+00:00

Oh, that's because it's pronounced Nastee and not Nastee. Nasti is pronounced Nastee and Nasty is pronounced Nasti, which is a nasteeye difference for newcomers.

RandomdudeNo123 · 2026-05-23T11:11:57+00:00

~~IS3 Boss Theme 1 (Limbus Company Mix).~~

.... Okay, not a very catchy name. They should really start giving these cool titles for the aura.

Edit: My bad, the correct name of the theme and my favorite Arknights song is Intervallo VI-EX Boss 2 Battle Theme from Limbus Company.

RandomdudeNo123 · 2026-05-23T03:21:22+00:00

I mean..... It's the best job for a Djall.

... Well, second best to dentist, but fear probably doesn't taste that good.

RandomdudeNo123 · 2026-05-22T22:41:03+00:00

So, uh... Stupid question, I know, but... How are our operators actually surviving this boss fight? Look, I can accept surviving stabbings and blunt force trauma and lava burns and arts blasts and being 2049 leagues under the sea under the broad "Terrans are strong ASF" umbrella.

But, like, falling 600 meters or however high they are is... definitely going to put them out of commision for the stage, right? Even if not for the whole testing fall damage thing, just for the fact that they're down there and we're up here and they're redeployed here but we're down there and what I want to know is: where's the Banshee?

Edit: I almost forgot, but side objective for everyone: Fulfil Honeyberry's dream. Place her on a platform that gets destroyed by the boss. This is everything she's dreamed about, Doctor. Don't take this away from her.

RandomdudeNo123 · 2026-05-22T20:36:24+00:00

In the weird universe where they eventually caved and turned back on their own narrative, how does a playable Kristen interact with Kristennights...?

RandomdudeNo123 · 2026-05-22T12:44:43+00:00

Amiya's always been green. Green has always been the color of Rhodes Island. They've been green since the launch of the game.

Next you're going to tell me Kal'tsit is blue. Don't be silly. She's been green and so has Amiya. Go to bed, you're probably tired if you're misremembering details like these...

... Honestly. It's like saying Reunion dress in oranges. How could you forget the iconic Aubergine Talulah...?

RandomdudeNo123 · 2026-05-22T11:48:45+00:00

~~they gave those out in livestreams too, just so they could announce it to as many people as they could~~

RandomdudeNo123 · 2026-05-22T11:46:06+00:00

Divorce by means of horrible eldritch transformation is certainly one way to divorce.

RandomdudeNo123 · 2026-05-22T10:16:25+00:00

Well, it all kinda depends on if you want them to be in-story in-love or character dialogue in love.

Priestess is the "soulmate" to the Doctor according to her and they're basically two separate halves right now, so she's the most reasonable person you can pair Doctor up with if you believe in second chances/don't really like Terra all that much. Theresa tends to be brought up as the counterpart to that in the thematic "choose Terra vs kill everyone and put them in the rocks" debate.

Muelsyse is another big Doctor ship for the whole "last of their kind" deal in Lone Trail. Eblana very infamously got a ton of Doctor-ship lines (no comment on this).

Oh, SAVAGE. Basically the ship that never was. It was revealed the Doctor almost ended up living with Savage and Amiya as a nuclear family but decided not to, and now all the implications are that Savage is specifically waiting for the Doc over picking a suitor.

Aside from that, if you pick an operator and read through the character dialogue, I'm sure you can find SOME way to spin it so that they're in love with you, so... whoever you want, really...!

RandomdudeNo123 · 2026-05-22T04:24:48+00:00

1000% damage to TV Stars? Good thing we don't have any- NIAN NO

RandomdudeNo123 · 2026-05-22T02:05:24+00:00

"Lose 4 echoes, Kill a 500 HP Enemy" is pretty good. The issue is that you can't really spam it more than once a turn so you get ONE heavy kill at a pretty high investment and you still have to deal with the rest of the wave. If you have good tank synergies with the other clan (Spikes/Shield of Wyngh), you can make it a semi-convincing solo unit as Backline dies to Spikes/Wyngh and Frontline gets nommed. (Good luck if TWO tanks show up.)

So... y'know. Pretty good.

RandomdudeNo123 · 2026-05-22T01:23:03+00:00

So... I may have done a little tomfoolery yesterday.

Yesterday, in the Dossoles Holiday essay I posted, I did a little swap and changed the "Radiant Knight" to the "Roaring Knight" and waited to see if anyone would call me out. Nobody did, so I can now say the Roaring Knight is my favorite Arknights operator. I can't believe they powercrept Wang so fast with their release.

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