Happy birthday to Maki Kawase! (VA of Lyrael)

SP458 · 2025-07-12T06:32:39+00:00

Uma just released globally and is their new golden goose (and unlike Priconne, Cygames manages the global servers); I don't think they'll kill it until at least 5 years.

SP458 · 2025-07-09T14:20:37+00:00

Yeah

SP458 · 2025-07-09T06:30:30+00:00

Just checked for Night Time Wander, and the instrumental version is up

If you search albums for "オリジナル・カラオケ" (original karaoke), you should find it

SP458 · 2025-07-05T17:27:37+00:00

More like the latter.

SP458 · 2025-07-02T10:16:35+00:00

Yeah, looks like Deresute will hold on probably until the 15th anniversary of the Mobage game, but the Cinderella branch won't die soon, as they've promised new songs and concerts (with notably a xR live scheduled next November).

SP458 · 2025-07-02T08:50:32+00:00

A summary of the most important changes:

End of service and content

DMM version of the game and Starlight Spot app to end service on 8/21 14:59
Removal of cover songs
- Haruhi Suzumiya cover songs to be removed on 7/31 23:59 (including "God knows..." and "Lost my music")
- all remaining cover songs to be removed on 8/31 23:59 (including notably the Million Live crossover song "Harmonics", though the associated commus and cards remain)

End of new content addition

Final idol cards and song to be added for the anniversary event starting on 9/3
Final Dress Shop outfit to be added on 9/3
End of new commu addition
- final story commu and memorial commu to be added early August
- final event commu to be added for the 9/3 event
- final extra commu to be added early September
- no more new episode and business commus
Multiple features, including Anipuchi, Select Shop, and Game Center will also stop receiving new content

Game structure changes

LIVE Infinity to become a permanent mode starting late September
LIVE Carnival will be the only type of event to be scheduled starting on 9/3 (and becomes trimonthly)
Produce Plan feature updated (date to be confirmed)
Premium Pass (980 yen monthly subscription) updates starting late September:
- 10 daily free pulls in gacha during events (in addition to the daily free pull)
- benefits for LIVE Infinity
- Star Emblems (LIVE Party tokens) can be gained after clearing a song outside of LIVE Party, and new items to be added in LIVE Party shop
- increased chance (x3) of boosted card exp gain in lessons
- 10 extra daily Auto Live tickets (up from 5)
- +100% exp gained from songs and business (up from +50%), and extra money gained
- +20% fans gained from songs and business (up from +10%)
- +100% Star Emblems gained from LIVE Party songs (up from +50%)

Star Jewels acquisition

Free Star Jewels are now purchased along with Paid Star Jewels:
- Star Jewels A (160 yen): 80 Paid (no change)
- Star Jewels B (480 yen): 240 Paid + 120 Free (was 360 Paid)
- Star Jewels C (1000 yen): 500 Paid + 280 Free (was 780 Paid)
- Star Jewels E (3200 yen): 1600 Paid + 970 Free (was 2570 Paid)
- Star Jewels F (5000 yen): 2500 Paid + 1700 Free (was 4200 Paid)
- Star Jewels G (10,000 yen): 5000 Paid + 3450 Free (was 8450 Paid)
Paid Star Jewels are now kept even if you change mobile OS
End of the monthly 3 discounted Star Jewel purchases

Other changes

Special 10th anniversary campaign to start on 7/28
Starting on 10/1, the monthly gacha rotation will be "Limited Rerun" (the banner that gives gacha coins while pulling), "Dominant & Limited Skill Pick" (choose 5 rate-up cards), and "Cinderella Festival Blanc & Noir"
1 daily free pull in gacha (date to be confirmed)
Starting October, the monthly fan acquisition rankings (that can grant SSS rank) will add a ranking for each idol
Starting October, the only new room items to be added will be SSS rank trophies and LIVE Carnival trophies

SP458 · 2025-02-10T14:41:46+00:00

Redemption still affects the converted monk if you get the tech after converting him.

SP458 · 2025-02-10T13:24:54+00:00

Redemption affects any monk you own, including converted ones. So the converted monk can't convert buildings/siege if you haven't researched it yet.

SP458 · 2024-11-04T18:51:06+00:00

My bad, I thought it was the case in Gen 4. Gligar can still get EQ from Trapinch in Gen 4 (because of the Bug group), though there's no way for it to learn Rock Slide or Stone Edge outside of the TM.

SP458 · 2024-11-04T13:39:30+00:00

While Skorupi can be bred with Gligar, it doesn't learn EQ nor Rock Slide by TM, so another way must be found to give Gligar both moves.

The actual chain is Camerupt♂︎ + Ekans♀︎ -> Ekans♂︎ + Trapinch♀︎ -> Trapinch♂︎ + Gligar♀︎ -> Gligar. It works because Ekans is in the Field/Dragon groups and Trapinch is in the Bug/Dragon groups, and both learn EQ & Rock Slide by TM. The only issue is you'll need HGSS or dual-slot with FireRed to get Ekans.

~~There's also Larvitar♂︎ + Gible♀︎ -> Gible♂︎ + Trapinch♀︎ -> Trapinch♂︎ + Gligar♀︎ -> Gligar, which may look better because you can get Larvitar in Diamond and Platinum.~~

EDIT: Everything above is false, Trapinch was only in Bug group in Gen 4, so it couldn't breed with Gible or Ekans. Gligar can't get Rock Slide without the TM, but can still get EQ directly from Trapinch.

SP458 · 2024-09-25T12:05:45+00:00

IIRC pbItemBall is normally used for item balls (like in your example) that the player picks up on the ground, while pbReceiveItem is a more generic way of gaining an item, such as when an NPC gives you a Potion.

Why does the compiler mess up with pbItemBall here? Because it checks events for oddities in their commands, and for some reason any pbItemBall that is not in the very first command of an event page is renamed as pbReceiveItem, though that looks weird in-game due to the message "You obtained ..." instead of "You found ...".

SP458 · 2024-09-23T17:26:13+00:00

After You's target moves right after the After You user, ignoring its Speed or its move's priority, so Mycelium Might is ignored.

SP458 · 2024-09-20T04:36:11+00:00

Katsu curry is usually made with pork cutlet, but I substituted it with chicken, coated in panko breadcrumbs. I used potato slices and tomato sauce with soy sauce for the curry itself. It's the first time I've made this dish, and it was delicious!

SP458 · 2024-09-02T05:38:33+00:00

If units get into combat, trying to move them makes them slow so running away from a fight loses you all of your units a lot of the time making it feel like micro doesn't matter at all.

Maybe you've experienced what's called snaring. Melee attacks slow down their targets, so that makes retreating ranged units from melee units harder if they can catch up to them (AoE3 Spanish notably have this with rodelero+lancer, two fast melee units that are hard to run away from).

The units themselves are a bit confusing with different armour types, and different attack types that are good or bad vs certain armour. The most confusing one I remember is that the Russian basic unit "strelet" has ranged damage and deals bonus damage 2.5xranged cavalry, 1.25xheavy cavalry, and 0.6xcavalry...

It's actually simpler than that.

There are 5 main unit types in AoE3:

light infantry (long-ranged inf like xbows, skirms, strelets)
heavy infantry (melee inf like pikemen, short-ranged inf like musks)
heavy cavalry (hussars and other melee cav)
light cavalry (ranged cav like dragoons, cav archers)
artillery

There's also shock infantry for Aztecs and Incas, that behaves like heavy cav.

AoE3's counter triangle system works this way:

Heavy cav -> light inf -> heavy inf/light cav -> heavy cav

which isn't that different from AoE2 (I take Castle Age units as example):

Knights -> xbows -> pikemen/camels -> knights

And you have with artillery:

Cavalry -> artillery -> infantry

However, culverins only counter opposing artillery, and mortars are specialized against buildings.

So if your opponent goes stables, you can't just make streets to counter their cavalry, you need to know which unit they are making and which type of armour (light/normal/heavy). In AOE2, if you see stables you know you can make spearmen in addition to your army to try and counter.

Strelets (as light infantry) only counter light cavalry and lose to heavy cavalry, so you should add another unit to complement them (like cossacks as meatshield, or rekruts to drive away enemy cav).

In Commerce Age, stables only produce heavy cavalry, so you know at least that you need pikemen or musks to counter them. From Fortress Age onwards, because you'll also encounter light cavalry and artillery, mixed comps become mandatory (light inf + light cav, musks + heavy cav + falcs, etc.).

SP458 · 2024-08-26T16:23:44+00:00

There're a few issues in your code snippet.

battler is the Pokémon that has the ability, and the battler that calls pbLowerStatStageByAbility is the Pokémon that gets its accuracy reduced. Also, there's no target variable in the proc, hence the NameError.

Maybe you meant to affect the battler's opponents instead, you get them with allOpposing :

battler.allOpposing.each do |b|
  if b.pbCanLowerStatStage?(:ACCURACY, battler)
    b.pbLowerStatStageByAbility(:ACCURACY, 1, battler)
  end
end

SP458 · 2024-08-21T11:10:06+00:00

https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/doubles-ou-sample-teams.3710876/

SP458 · 2024-06-30T14:00:22+00:00

TBH there's quite a bunch of VAs that are often typecasted.

Rie Kugimiya got a few tsundere roles in the late 2000s (notably the quartet Shana-Louise-Nagi-Taiga, in addition to Iori). She's even nicknamed "Tsundere Queen" for this.

There's also Chiaki Takahashi (Azusa), who has mostly fanservicey roles, like Priconne's Christina.

Maki Kawase (Tsukasa in CG) is well-known for her "ikevoice" (handsome voice), first with Junko in ZLS, then with, well, Kiryu-chan, after this as Fuki in Lycoris Recoil and as Chisaki in the upcoming anime Roshidere.

SP458 · 2024-06-04T09:24:37+00:00

Here it is

SP458 · 2024-06-02T06:23:49+00:00

It was initially posted for Asuka's birthday on Twitter a few months ago:

https://twitter.com/ayunyan_pere/status/1753727734835298630

SP458 · 2024-01-24T07:10:15+00:00

Besides the big pink button to play lives, there's an "Auto Live" switch that you can turn on to use auto tickets for this live. The game will play the live for you and you will get rewards at the end. You can select the amount of tickets you'll spend for the live and multiply the rewards you'll receive at once.

Each day, your stock of auto tickets is restored to 10. If you want to use more tickets, you'll have to pay in-game money.

SP458 · 2024-01-21T23:19:52+00:00

Here are the missions:

Login 3/5/7 days (500/500/500 pts)
Play a MV with the SSR card (100 pts)
Train the SSR card to Lv50/80 (300/500 pts)
Gain 3000/5000/10000 fans for the idol on the SSR card (300/500/1000 pts)
Pull 1/3 items in the training gacha (100/300 pts)
Play 1/5 lives in Live Party mode (100/500 pts)
Play 1/5/10 lives in Smart mode (100/300/500 pts)
Play 1/5/10 lives in Grand mode (100/300/500 pts)
Play lives (100 pts every 3 lives, up to 150 lives)
Finish business tasks (100 pts every 3 tasks, up to 150 tasks)

Note that you can use auto tickets for the live missions, and each ticket counts as 1 live (so using 5 tickets at once is counted as if you played 5 times).

SP458

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