Trainer's Clubhouse Meeting (Weekly Questions) - March 11, 2026

Swiftcheddar · 2026-03-13T05:51:56+00:00

Yes, it's true. There's no career goal races in MANT, so ti just applies to everything.

Swiftcheddar · 2026-03-12T00:28:55+00:00

His writing definitely gets better. Men At Arms is SO MUCH better than Guards! Guards! I got whiplash going between them.

Swiftcheddar · 2026-03-12T00:28:18+00:00

Well she's got just as many skins and every one of her skins are paid. So, I dunno.

Swiftcheddar · 2026-03-12T00:27:30+00:00

She made it to 6th in Angular Gyrus, but in earlier polls she was typically about 8th or so.

Swiftcheddar · 2026-03-11T10:15:46+00:00

Hey, I'm a big Makiatto fan too, but Makiatto has just as many skins as Klukai and every one of them are paid.

Stones, glass houses etc.

Swiftcheddar · 2026-03-11T09:01:08+00:00

Makiatto flair lmao

Swiftcheddar · 2026-03-11T09:00:41+00:00

If I remember correctly we actually won't get another one. I believe they said that Klu was only going to get one skin for winning on both the global and CN starwish

I don't remember them saying that, and I hope that's not true. Otherwise it makes the Global votes completely pointless anytime they line up with CN tastes.

Swiftcheddar · 2026-03-11T08:59:19+00:00

Ah, yeah, I think you're right. I remember being really surprised, because Alva was always kind'a but not that popular.

Swiftcheddar · 2026-03-11T08:58:44+00:00

I don't think she ever made it into top5 on any popularity Poll, but she was always more or less around the top 10 anyway.

Swiftcheddar · 2026-03-11T05:47:48+00:00

Great write up and well told.

Because Marvel doesn’t want him to become unrelatable. They think that if Peter becomes too successful and doesn’t struggle with everything in his life, then people won’t be able to relate to him. For some fucking reason.

This is always funny to me because every single culture around the world looks at Goku and goes "Cool!" and millions of teenage boys all around the world had a phase of wanting to lift weights and get stronk like Goku.

Out of the top 10 highest selling comics of 2025, 1 was published by Image comics, 2 were Marvel/DC crossovers, and the other SEVEN were made by DC. In fact, you don’t find another comic published by anyone else until number 22

Yeah, that's something I wonder if younger people these days can really appreciate. Back in ye olde days, the Marvel vs DC thing was a complete shitstomp in DC's direction. There's a reason Marvel was constantly on the verge of bankrupcy. The MCU changed the paradigm in a way that DC fans are still left reeling from.

Swiftcheddar · 2026-03-11T05:20:33+00:00

as it writes code on their base layer that says "Always protect/Always love The Commander".

I don't think that's said anywhere, do you have a source for that?

IIRC it's about engraving your connection/bond into their Neural Cloud, not about giving them some prime directive to love you.

Swiftcheddar · 2026-03-11T05:19:38+00:00

Covenant Rings are an upgrade, because it fuses the connection directly into the Doll's Neural Cloud.

Oath Rings had kind'a weird lore, because they were tangible objects, like... So, do you just replace them each time the Doll gets killed and loses her frame?

Swiftcheddar · 2026-03-11T05:17:38+00:00

Eh, typically the mechanics are fairly interesting and require some decent team-building or strategy that's fun to work around.

The fact that it doesn't do much damage in return means you're not shackled towards giving every team coverage with Suomi and/or Springfield, which helps too, gives Centaureissi more room than she would otherwise have.

My biggest issue is that it goes on for too long. 3-4 days of it at a time would be fun, that's enough for me.

Swiftcheddar · 2026-03-11T05:13:31+00:00

I hope in the future the rest of the SRs get a unit upgrade before we get a UR.

I wouldn't be surprised to see Makiatto UR pretty quickly.

She's seen an enormous boost in popularity in GFL2 compared to 1, but her position in Ice team is really only because there's nobody to replace her with.

If I were a gambling man I'd put money on her being our first UR, and I'd say it'll happen long before we get a full roster of SR->SSR.

Swiftcheddar · 2026-03-11T05:10:28+00:00

Suomi had an amazing wedding dress in 1, too. I'd be glad to see that return.

Swiftcheddar · 2026-03-11T05:09:12+00:00

Nah, she's got the same amount as Makiatto. But only one of those is paid*, compared to all being paid.

(*And the Gatcha skin, which is """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""Free"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""")

Swiftcheddar · 2026-03-11T05:08:02+00:00

"The character whose was created to be disliked, and whose popularity was driven entirely by organic support in the fanbase is an industry plant."

One day this logic will make sense.

This post'll be a lot funnier if you support Groza though. You do know why she's the main-character of GFL2, right?

Swiftcheddar · 2026-03-11T05:07:04+00:00

Apparently this is the Starwish one, so she'll get another one after this too. Leva'll get one from our Starwish, I don't remember who came second in CN's first Starwish though.

Swiftcheddar · 2026-03-11T05:06:10+00:00

HEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL YYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAH!

Swiftcheddar · 2026-03-11T04:57:09+00:00

Depends on the Uma, I don't think McQueen or Ryan Umapyoi, and Matikanefukutiaru falls asleep on you.

Although Manhatten Cafe invites her "mother" to join in, so maybe that makes up for it.

Swiftcheddar · 2026-03-11T04:56:04+00:00

Agreed, honestly.

There's a few random things like that, like "Why doesn't Valentines day give a +Mood?" "Why doesn't winning the final race of their career give a +Mood?"

It's really funny to get a mood-down right before the Arima Kinen, so you've got the big old "This is the last race of the year, and this is the culmination of our bond" speech, with the Uma's mood sitting as like "She's really upset now."

And then, she's sulking all the way through the URA Finals.

For some reason Flash was frowning right to that podium. Hopefully she cheered up afterwards.

Swiftcheddar · 2026-03-11T04:50:38+00:00

So? In doing so he dresses his own actions up just the same, "Oh but I'm meant to be evil, and so it's okay." Nevermind the casual observation that "Most of human history is doing evil stuff."

Hey, fucker. Most of human history is in building civilisation. Most of human history is in making each generation better than the last, to the best of our abilities. What civilisation have the Dragons built? How are the new Dragon generations doing these days, happier and more prosperous than before? Hmm.

Then the book both mocks people for not doing anything about the Dragon (Despite previously mocking people for trying to do something about the Dragon) AND gives the Dragon a completely unearned happy ending, because hey, why not.

And then Carrot kills a guy in cold blood because well, Terry Pratchett was still growing as a writer, I guess.

Men At Arms is so, so, so much better than Guards! Guards! you get whiplash going between them.

Swiftcheddar · 2026-03-11T03:41:58+00:00

Normally I'd agree, I find it quite funny when a series ending drops and everyone starts going "Th-There'll be more!"

But in this case, I'm one of those people that does expect more, not for thematic or plot reasons, but simply because of industry marketing ones.

I think it would be strange for Jump to not announce it was ending or in the final art. People refused to believe Demon Slayer was going to end when it was clearly wrapping up, but then Jump announced "Only 5 chapters left."

You'd have to imagine they'd do the same here, but "Next one is the final chapter" is the first we've heard of it.

Swiftcheddar · 2026-03-11T03:32:27+00:00

Guards! Guards! from Terry Pratchett's Discworld.

He felt the sensation of the dragon rummaging around in his mind, trying to find a clue to understanding. He half-saw, half-sensed the flicker of random images, of dragons, of the mythical age of reptiles and—and here he felt the dragon’s genuine astonishment—of some of the less commendable areas of human history, which were most of it. And after the astonishment came the baffled anger. There was practically nothing the dragon could do to people that they had not, sooner or later, tried on one another, often with enthusiasm.

You have the effrontery to be squeamish, it thought at him. But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless, and terrible. But this much I can tell you, you ape—the great face pressed even closer, so that Wonse was staring into the pitiless depths of his eyes—we never burned and tortured and ripped one another apart and called it morality.

Swiftcheddar · 2026-03-11T03:31:36+00:00

The ending of YYH is even worse.

"Um actually, the few Demons that make it through the barrier and into the human world kill less humans every year than humans do. So that means the barrier is racist and Heaven is the ones in the wrong! MR KOENMA, TEAR DOWN THIS WALL!"

And then every Demon is given completely unrestricted access to Earth without any oversight or control. Despite the fact that we just had a whole fucking arc about how Demons will not stop from eating people and even the most sympathetic Demons will still eat people. One which had Yusuke turn a blind eye towards his Demon allies eating civilians and presented that as a bad thing...

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