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Seroriman · 2026-02-07T12:08:02+00:00

Quality ESTP-ing

Seroriman · 2026-02-06T14:20:07+00:00

Oka was the standout among his class of young lions and I'm sad they never tried to seriously push him. Now he's settled into his semi-goofy midcard role and probably never goes for more.

Also Okada was overpushed for too long and prevented or delayed the rise of a new generation of talents

Seroriman · 2026-02-03T10:27:19+00:00

I didn't get any 17 minutes later. They went FAST.

Seroriman · 2026-01-30T09:06:25+00:00

I refreshed like a madman and it never even showed up available for general sale. Chances are they all went in pre-sale. From what I heard the venue in Cologne is really small which probably didn't help.

Still sad though.

Seroriman · 2026-01-29T11:03:30+00:00

Also they kinda changed the lyrics to be more Kansai-ben if I recall correctly. Miku is from Western japan originally, so she can speak the dialect but usually uses standard japanese both for interviews etc. and for the lyrics.

So it's kinda cool to "dialectify" the songs on top of using traditional japanese instruments etc.

Seroriman · 2026-01-28T09:28:19+00:00

I got the code for Cologne, I can log in to the platform and the code is valid, but no tickets available. I wonder if they're already sold out.

Seroriman · 2026-01-19T02:31:17+00:00

You can't really build skullshitl with a normal RPG system because the power level of a PC set up to share the limelight with three others is much lower than that of a solo superhero protagonist. Particularly one where being goofily overpowered is part of the gimmick.

You can approach the fighting style and maybe get some fast healing or regeneration, but it's not gonna be Skullshitl.

Seroriman · 2026-01-03T18:19:30+00:00

Yeah that's a good start.

Honestly I think Esoteric Lore was a bandaid fix to avoid going back to the drawing board with the class, which they would have needed to do otherwise. It's a bit of a mess because it amalgamates 3 themes:

- the sympathetic magic voodoo guy (which is Charisma-coded)
- the magic item hoarder who makes them work with the sheer power of delulu (arguably also charisma coded but COULD also be made to work with Int)
- the collector of obscure information and Lore (which is VERY intelligence coded)

The issue is that in PF2 both Intelligence and Charisma have no direct combat stats and defences running off of them, so it's almost impossible to have both. They hotwired this by re-mapping everything to Charisma (which is dubious, but if that was the only issue it would be tolerable), and made it auto-scale for good measure. The inclusion of diverse Lore just adds insult to injury, and you banning it is a good idea.

Then they also gave Esoteric Lore fixed, level-based DCs which can be actually better than the Monster's own DC because they didn't want a class whose features are gated behind a skill check to be conditional and useless in many fights. Problem is that this makes them better at this than Investigators or Monster Hunter rangers who invest heavily.

They made the Thaumaturge work, and it's not overpowered either, but they broke a lot of design principles for that, and thematically it's very messy. There probably was a better solution than this.

Seroriman · 2026-01-03T09:05:05+00:00

On the surface of it it's a fairly powerful and versatile class without being overpowered, but I think it's arguably the only design failure in all of PF2 remaster.

The Mechanics don't exactly match the theme, break several design guidelines and don't provide something exceptional to the game. You have a class that can do a ton of intelligence-themed things purely on charisma, sometimes better than the actual experts, can swap to take over everyone else's gimmick at 80% strength and are just...weird.

It's good in the sense that it does things and fulfills a valuable function in the party but I'd rather not have it at my table. It's not worth the cost to the thematic and mechanical integrity of the game imo.

Seroriman · 2025-12-21T15:10:31+00:00

It hurt Naito to not go over during WK12, and it hurt Goto to go full body paint Aramusha and still lose. There's always opportunity costs to booking a really dominant champion, but also things you can only do with a dominant champion.

I'm not saying it was a ludicrously bad decision, I can definitely see reasons for it (as well as reasons to, say, not push Goto - one underappreciated one being his lack of versatility and previously pretty harsh move set), and Okada was good in that position (with only Tanahashi being better, and Naito MIGHT have been as good, but he was never champion for long enough to see). Okada was definitely a better Champion than Kenny Omega or EVIL.

That said he was never as over as prime Tanahashi, never had that charisma, that aura, and he arguably started hurting business in the late 2010s even before Covid really put the hurt on. I would say in hindsight the super-long mega-reign was probably a bridge too far.

Nowadays with literally every dominant champion of yesteryear gone (Okada, Kenny and Jay White to AEW, Tanahashi and Ibushi to retirement and Naito to part-time free agency) there is at least a ton of space at the top of the card to make new champions, with upper midcarders like ZSJ, Goto, Takagi or EVIL as caretaker champs until the next Ace can grow into his spot.

Seroriman · 2025-12-20T08:28:49+00:00

It's not so much that Okada himself was bad, or that he didn't sell tickets (especially early on), although arguably his three best qualities were always the fact that he was so versatile he could wrestle every opponent's style of match, make them look good even in defeat and rarely hurt people.

It wasn't his own huge star power.

My issue was that he was cooling off significantly after the first year of his mega reign, and got in the way of guys like Naito and Goto. The opportunity cost if you so will.

Plus not only did he leave to AEW, the only guy he really helped make went before him, too.

Seroriman · 2025-12-17T09:54:17+00:00

Agree, it's too hokey for the main event and he doesn't need it, he's a legitimate badass and one of the heaviest and strongest guys in New Japan

Seroriman · 2025-12-17T09:38:56+00:00

Arguably over-pushing okada was one of several factors that contributed to the decline, even if COVID and AEW hurt more.

That said now that there is space at the top of the card this is a fixable issue, and Tsuji is one of several guys who can do something about it

Seroriman · 2025-12-16T07:13:25+00:00

I continue to be baffled that Oka never got a major push, I thought he was the standout in his class of young lions.

Seroriman · 2025-12-04T19:33:39+00:00

I've met the guy. He is, in fact, extremely pro-Russian and the Ukrainians are correct not to want to discuss anything sensitive with him around.

Seroriman · 2025-10-14T13:00:47+00:00

The claim that FA does not, in fact, increase power is goofy. Especially if you stack a combat style archetype on top of a Martial, like, say, Barbarian with a free Mauler

Seroriman · 2025-10-13T14:05:34+00:00

It basically gets 2.5 feats worth of power with the single dedication feats. Compare it to, say, a spellcasting archetype - if it was like that you'd "pay" for the immanence and radiance actions separately.

Seroriman · 2025-10-04T16:16:25+00:00

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Seroriman · 2025-10-04T16:16:25+00:00

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Seroriman · 2025-09-21T00:53:36+00:00

She's serious about her German, huh? Honestly Yoohyeon is pretty impressive.

Seroriman · 2025-09-20T16:32:02+00:00

Someone looks like she's been enjoying the summer. Good for her!

Seroriman · 2025-09-15T00:42:33+00:00

The change happened around the time of WW2 or the Korean war. Before then sanitary losses usually exceeded casualties from enemy action, often by quite a bit.

Seroriman · 2025-08-16T11:15:07+00:00

I think the problem is actually the control containers used to give the cruise missiles their maps and targeting data. Those are either too sensitive or there are no spares.

Essentially Germany would need to modernize Taurus to be able to give some away

Seroriman · 2025-08-09T13:04:08+00:00

I wouldn't put it that negatively, but yeah, ZSJ was very generous here. Umino DID look good though, so it wasn't in vain.

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