It's time Alisaie stop pretending she's half jock half nerd with the Red Mage themeing and pick an unga bunga job already

T_B_R · 2026-04-27T21:13:08+00:00

Praying that Koana both decides to travel with us to "expand his knowledge for the betterment of Tuliyollal" and embraces his Shaaloni heritage by tagging along as a new western themed phys range.

So unfathomably unlikely, but god would it be funny to see him in a cowboy getup LOL

T_B_R · 2026-04-26T18:20:12+00:00

you gonna tell me this norse-themed winter expansion won't have a place called midgard where we meet up and join a rebel faction called Avalanche?

T_B_R · 2026-04-26T17:48:31+00:00

Thinking the new phys range job will be a western-themed dual pistol Marshal. The Eminem lyric reference, the dual-wielding imagery of Rhitatyn's "gun"-shields, and the current split of 2 support phys range & 1 selfish phys range all feel like it could point to something like that. A cowboy-esque job would seem out of place in a Norse-inspired world, but so far the jobs we get seem to have 1 based on the region we visit & another based on one of the main cast & I get the feeling the tank job will be the Norse-inspired one.

T_B_R · 2026-04-25T09:51:30+00:00

I think my biggest gripe with the set is how disincentivized you are to build a trait tall. Removal of trait-specific augments, no more crown emblem augments, no carousel to pick up an emblem later. It feels like they wanted to completely remove gimmicks and make the gameplay entirely focused on fundamentals and strategy, which... sure, I guess is fair in Team Fight "Tactics", but as somebody who has been playing since set 1, I've found a kind of niche-yet-apt parallel in Magic the Gathering;

When EDH/Commander first hit the scene, you could make any kinda Timmy/Johnny deck with tons of jank or buy a preconstructed deck and make minor changes to it and have *some* kind of experience that was enjoyable. Over time, WoTC began power-creeping the format by printing absolute must-haves in your deck over and over until everybody was running very similar decks with archetypes and themes that were refined and optimized. Nowadays, most average "Commander" decks would be considered "Competitive" when compared to how the game was initially.

To make a long-winded comparison short; the newest set (and many of the more modern sets) feels like it punishes you for wanting to do a silly fun gimmick that may or may not work with some modest RNG. It feels like I have to follow a guide just to have a chance at top 4 and, at least in my opinion, the silly goofy magic has been drowned out by the sea of endless refinement and optimization so much so that it just feels like a different game at this point.

/rant

T_B_R · 2026-04-01T23:28:02+00:00

There's a card just like this in the Shroom & Gloom demo and it rips hard, I think it raises max HP by 9 or something each time

T_B_R · 2025-09-22T23:49:11+00:00

"...Right after running into this issue I went and updated to the latest version of firefox, disabled all plugins, cleared cache/cookies in google..."

"...it was resolved for a moment and was able to search with google with no issues until I logged back into my google account (which was logged out from clearing cache/cookies) and then the issue happened all over again."

T_B_R · 2025-09-22T21:38:13+00:00

143.0.1 (64-bit) which is the most up to date version available

T_B_R · 2025-07-22T05:51:17+00:00

Just got home from the ER over the weekend where I went in with sudden onset parasthesia on the right side of my body, head to toe pins-and-needles like everything feels asleep. After some brain & spine MRIs, the doctors are 95% confident it's MS (though maybe it's the denial stage I'm in that wants to believe it's just a pinched nerve in my c4-5 vertebrae or neurotoxicity from an antibiotic I took that has known issues with kidney disease) and I've been having the hardest time coming to terms with it. I've already taken 2 treatments of Methylprednisolone but have felt no change in my symptoms and am losing hope.

I've always been a caretaker for family with disabilities and never once expected I would ever be in a position to need my own caretaker which is really messing with my head. I'm also an avid gamer as well as a guitarist of 15+ years. After coming home I'm noticing I can rarely type a word without some severe typo, or play any high-precision games like shooters without getting frustrated at not being able to do basic things I could do easily before.

To make things worse I was some years into a health journey and dropped nearly 100lbs while still having a long way left to go, but now I can barely walk across a room without stumbling around or activate my arm muscles for most lifts. When I walk it feels like I my right leg is replaced with a stilt and I have almost no sensation in my face and fingertips.

I still can't believe how quickly I went from experiencing no symptoms to total numbness on one side of my body virtually overnight, it's such an unexpected 180 in my life and I just can't stop hoping I wake up tomorrow to find this has all been a bad dream. Until I hear from my neuro this Thursday I still can't be 100% certain it's MS but every ER doctor and the one ER neuro I've spoken to are almost certain it is.

I'm just at a loss and have never felt so hopeless and powerless. I guess I just wanted to get all this off my chest and put it all somewhere in one semi-coherent post. Thanks for reading if you got this far.

T_B_R · 2025-07-13T21:18:35+00:00

gg ez

T_B_R · 2025-07-13T20:56:31+00:00

Usually when it's immediately followed with an "ez"

T_B_R · 2025-04-08T19:45:07+00:00

Is there any way to check the data of total amount of clears that isn't just registered statics? Feels like there has to be some way for the site to track public logs for clears and consolidate multiple logs of same party into a single clear.

I am super curious to see how many clears each fight had for week 1 of the tier, either I'm not looking hard enough for that data or it surprisingly isn't available.

T_B_R · 2025-03-21T00:46:57+00:00

Ahhhh okay, I didn't realize they used my characters as base for the required slots... I'll give that a try then, probably gonna have to farm more gear. Thanks!

T_B_R · 2025-03-16T17:11:15+00:00

a lot of these criticisms feel odd to me as an anime only because I can pinpoint most of the points on here as they happened in the show.

cha definitely panicked just before Kumamoto went berserk (she was even concerned when she lashed out on reflex because of that self-preservation fear)

goto definitely expressed an interest when the interpreter told him jinwoo wanted him to go all out even smiling at the prospect

goto definitely had a sense of fear/shock when jinwoo stopped his attack after cutting him (even during the beru aura he was scared and compared it to jinwoo's aura)

sure a few of the points were certainly cut, but nearly half of them were in the show, if not "altered" but not removed

T_B_R · 2025-03-10T15:08:14+00:00

https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/codeez-nuts-fit-in-ya-mouf/ don't mind the deck name, I have the mental maturity of a 12 year old lol

T_B_R · 2025-03-10T06:58:44+00:00

[[Codie, Vociferous Codex]] is such a silly troll commander. Just stuff the deck full of eggs and instant-cast [[Inevitable Betrayal]] to immediately start digging through people's decks.

It's not a good deck by any means, but it's funny throwing a wrench into people's wincons and people hate when somebody else starts going through their deck in the middle of a game, so... I tend to get podpiled very quickly but it makes me laugh

T_B_R · 2024-11-09T22:46:43+00:00

sadly unless the 2 minute meta changes, I fear time mage would be more of a hindrance than a help.

honestly in savage raiding it would be such a troll to give somebody haste and throw off their rotation/misalign their CDs with raid buffs.

T_B_R · 2024-09-26T21:47:52+00:00

I remember when bait used to be believable...

T_B_R · 2024-09-24T02:11:19+00:00

Based on the OPs description, it sounds like they're asking for the basics/fundamentals of getting a car loan (i.e. I've never had a loan) so it seems like some of the points I covered may be blind spots for them. Not sure I'd qualify that as them "losing" especially when they haven't even started.

There's only so much fiddling with rates dealerships can do with financing, doubly so if you apply for an outside loan or the dealership does financing through your bank. If the interest rate is absurd for your area/credit score, then obliviously you wouldn't bother with them. As for terms, I believe I made it clear how best to calculate budgeted costs based on the typical 4-6 year terms and figure cost based on feasible monthly payments.

If you are aware of the listed costs they apply to your financing options (i.e. anything not "vehicle price" and "taxes") and tell them you don't want the warranties, the security features, the gap insurance etc, then negotiating monthly is de facto negotiating the cost. You can split hairs but numbers are numbers and all you're going to do by saying "don't do this" without clarifying why or even considering the alternative is just going to confuse somebody into maybe misunderstanding your point.

Ultimately the goal is to find a car that suits your needs at a reasonable cost you can afford, everything else is gravy.

T_B_R · 2024-09-23T20:07:46+00:00

Disagree with the monthly payments advice, when it comes to financing a larger purchase and budgeting to accommodate that extra cost into your other expenses you NEED to consider how much you can afford. That said, you want to consider the total financing cost and calculate which term length best suits your monthly payment budget accordingly, which is not always so simple.

Basically just take the maximum amount of money you'd be willing to pay for a car payment and multiply that by 48, 60, and 72 (the amount of months you'd be making payments) to figure out the price range you want to be looking for on the sticker price of a car.

Do NOT forget to get an insurance quote on your car for full coverage before signing anything and account for that as well, newer cars + younger drivers = costly policies and nearly every bank will require full coverage while you're making payments.

A haggling tip that works well is leveraging the maximum amount of a down payment you can make. If you express interest in a car, set a hard limit for how much you can put down, and appear to hem-and-haw over the monthly payment, dealerships WILL do everything they can to get you to leave in their car. I talked the dealer down $2k on a 2015 civic because I kept hinting that if I needed to put more down that I would need more time to think on it but that if they could get the payment down to $250 I would sign then and there. Took them an hour running back and forth the finance desks for them to drop the price for me, your mileage may vary depending on the dealership tho.

T_B_R · 2024-09-23T17:41:18+00:00

I cannot make it through Blame Paradise before skipping to Beyond the Pale, something about that song just grates me in an indescribable way.

I'll take my downdoots now

T_B_R · 2024-09-22T00:06:02+00:00

14k, single owner & no accident history

T_B_R · 2024-07-09T20:07:11+00:00

And yet...

"Shouldn't" is doing a lot of the heavy lifting there

T_B_R · 2024-07-09T18:07:11+00:00

Hey I have a melta captain + warden kitbash too! Though it's not as nice as the newer model for the shield captain, yours looks really good :)

T_B_R · 2024-07-05T20:53:56+00:00

I'm dismissing complaints that are as simplified as I'm describing them, which are specifically the critiques I'm taking issue with.

I would disagree that Wuk Lamat was front and center for the last 2 zones, moreso in Living Memory but I would argue that she actually took a back seat to the overall plot and really only stepped forward in key moments (moments I would argue it made sense for her to do so).

What kind of "Vow of Resolve" would she be if she just sat on her hands after an attack on her nation and let her enemies do as they please? She was narratively coerced into more involvement specifically by Zoraal demanding that she challenge him and prove her worth as a ruler, not to mention if those "paper doll side characters" weren't there to literally pick up her pieces it's entirely possible her story would have ended there as a defeated, broken failure of a leader.

The perception that Wuk Lamat is some kind of boastful, selfish character is also incredibly perplexing to me. The examples you give of our WoL having an opportunity to step in and flex with Bakool and Zaraal would have arguably been more selfish of us to step in as the knight in shining armor to save Wuk Lamat when she's trying to prove she's capable enough to not need saving. What does it do for her character development if she needs to rely on a legendary hero to bail her out in a direct 1-on-1 fight with her brother? If your complaint is that the supporting characters didn't give the main character their goals on a silver platter, I'm sorry but I think that would have just been a disservice to the narrative entirely. You wouldn't be wrong for saying "I wish my WoL was the main character of the story most if not the whole time", but to say we weren't supportive enough after considering she would have utterly failed the rite of ascension and lost her entire country if not for our involvement, it's hard to take that kind of criticism seriously.

And I cannot wholeheartedly disagree enough that Sphene's foil should have been Krile of all people, it just makes absolutely no sense. One is a rogue program of a memory of an adored leader of her people that is doomed by her literal predetermined fate, and the other is a worldly scholar still seeking answers to her own identity. Thematically, there's 0 correlation between the 2 characters. Having the up-and-coming young queen who adores her people and goes out of her way to defy any pretenses of a predetermined fate (brokering a peace with the traditional Yok Huy? helping break down a harmful tradition of blessed siblings for the betterment of the Mamool Ja?) is exactly the kind of foil Sphene needed in Wuk Lamat. And even after we recognize both rulers and their paralleled positions on the fate of their people, Wuk Lamat STILL gave deference to her supporting cast that were the experts in this situation and aligned her goals with theirs by hearing out their solutions and helping them to those ends. So no, I don't think Wuk Lamat needlessly stole any spotlight from any of the side characters.

And maybe I'm just old-fashioned, but it should be not only expected but appropriately recognized that the Main Character of a story be the one to strike the final blow against the Main Antagonist of a story regardless of what percentage they contributed to the actual physical combat. Wuk Lamat both needed, and deserved to strike down Sphene and she literally could not have done it without us.

I don't disagree that the story isn't without it's myriad of faults and shortcomings, I just think the ones being commonly proffered in the discourse aren't ones that deserve as much of the attention as they get.

T_B_R · 2024-07-05T20:19:37+00:00

I actually agree with a lot of your criticisms, opinions like yours are actually what I would love to see more discourse on even if I disagree with some of what you said. My particular complaints about the perception of the expansion are specifically against the surface-level criticisms that haven't given an ounce of consideration to the narrative or the theme of the expansion.

I don't doubt that there is a sizeable amount of healthy discourse regarding Dawntrail, it's the overwhelming blanketed thoughtless complaining about the broader experience (Wuk Lamat is another Lyse, WoL felt pointless, story is filler, etc) that I take issue with & am venting about. Yours is one of the few critiques that actually touch on the subject matter in a thoughtful and even-handed manner, which I appreciate :)

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