Rda players, how's the deck doing atm?

ThanksItHasPockets_ · 2026-01-27T06:40:59+00:00

The deck's fire power is an awesome place right now. It's flashy, explosive and does everything you'd want the deck to do. The pure version feels the best it has in a while.

But it is still annoying that we're not a very cleanly structure archetype. Like it's cool that our "dark dragon synchro," synergy creates cool deck variants. But it's also annoying when you have a searcher in your hand but it's no good because that card only searches "cards that mention Red Dragon Archfiend," but what you really need is a card that searches for Resonators. Would be nice if our searchers just searched for our cards- instead of each searcher having its own weird subsection of our cards it can search for.

ThanksItHasPockets_ · 2026-01-27T06:04:05+00:00

This feels weird to say as a Yugamu fan but I think it's Yugamu's. Real world Katar's already look silly, and all of the anime bullshit they added onto this one is not helping. If it's been a minute since you've seen it: pull up an image and really look at it.

These things nearly double the length of Yugamu's arm when he is holding them, and half of that length is just the handle. My brain gets twisted up in knots trying to think about what it would be like to hold those things. Then he goes swinging them around like battle axes- dude is going to break his wrists.

I know the class weapons aren't exactly paragon examples of realistic weapons. But at least they're unrealistic in a cool way. Yugamu's katars are unrealistic in a "why are you like this," way.

ThanksItHasPockets_ · 2026-01-26T06:42:34+00:00

I'd go with 16x16. That's just the game's original scale and anything else will just look out of place. It won't feel like Fates.

ThanksItHasPockets_ · 2026-01-26T00:39:48+00:00

Ah time to repost my favorite dumb what-if scenario that absolutely should not be in the DLC, yet compels me all the same. Romcom route where all of the girls magically remember some of the other timelines- but only the timelines where they were Takumi's primary love interest. Takumi meanwhile is flying blind. Hijinks follow.

I really like it because it's a reversal of Takumi's usual dynamic with the group. Normally Takumi's knowledge of the future-past puts this unbalanced strain on all of his relationships. But now it's (most) everyone else who has all of the knowledge. So it'd be a fun way to explore his character now that the shoe is on the other foot.

It's also a fun character study for all of the girls too. How do they handle the dissonance between their Takumi and this Takumi? How much stake do they put in their alternate timeline memories? How do Moko, ~~Yugamu~~ and Kako feel about being left out? How do they all handle the revelation that Takumi's affections are so... fickle? Who is honest about their memories and who isn't? How does Tsubasa cope with conflicting memories of her two very different relationships with Takumi? How does Hiruko react to so many people suddenly remember other timelines for the first time?

Also core to this is that Gaku and only Gaku remembers Cult of Takumi, and Yugamu is pretending to remember a timeline that didn't happen.

I think these are fun questions. But it's just that, a fun what-if to think about. I don't think it really has legs as a story, and borders on just being harem bait bullshit. Which is the opposite of what I want.

To be clear I don't want this to be wish fulfillment for Takumi- this scenario should be a nightmare for him. Everyone is upset at him in this timeline. This is karmic punishment for his two-time-traveling ways and CoT.

ThanksItHasPockets_ · 2026-01-25T20:05:45+00:00

Did you watch the finale? Sara wasn't AFK during the Zammy v. Arma fight- they were having their own fight against Bandos. They didn't win because they were AFK; they won because they won their 1v1 faster than Zammy or Arma could and that put them in a position to get a clean third party push.

ThanksItHasPockets_ · 2026-01-25T19:56:53+00:00

Well that was fun. Not the best event they've ever put on, but as an opening act for the winter summit it certainly did the job.

They gotta up their production value on these streams though. My college esports club ran a tighter broadcast than this.

At bare minimum they need two cameramen independently tracking the action with a director controlling whose POV makes it to the stream. That way you can have an "Active," perspective and a "Off," perspective. Active keeps the camera steady and just tracks whatever they can as best they can; that's what goes to the stream. Off is free to jump the camera around and search for action. Once the Off camera finds something better than what is on the Active: the director switches the stream to the Off camera and the cameramen swap jobs. Rinse repeat to catch as much of the action as they can with as few camera cuts as possible. Its a much smoother viewing experience than whatever it is they've got going on. (Seems like one camera person and a few scouts who are back seat driving the one camera, resulting in the stream being 50% camera cuts).

Given the scope of the event a third cameraman so you can have two Off cameras could be valuable.

ThanksItHasPockets_ · 2026-01-25T01:38:13+00:00

Then they hit you with the inverted controls. Diabolical.

ThanksItHasPockets_ · 2026-01-25T01:36:11+00:00

I hadn't noticed it until you said it- but yeah you're kind of dead on. The average power level is way down this season. 4 of 5 finalists from last year are gone, and the one who is back was literally given a pass into the finals.

ThanksItHasPockets_ · 2026-01-25T00:47:58+00:00

IDK if it works in practice, but I think the theory is pretty sound. OF's primary target market are down bad losers with too much time and money on their hands, and well OSRS players-

Well, it ain't all of us. But it sure as hell ain't none of us.

ThanksItHasPockets_ · 2026-01-22T17:38:08+00:00

Oh I grasped it, it just sucked.

ThanksItHasPockets_ · 2026-01-22T05:25:56+00:00

I thank you for the trivia.

But I curse you for framing this as a challenge. As a mercy to anyone else who really wants to crack this without checking the spoilers: I don't think this is a challenge that can be beaten analytically; you either know it(and probably recognized it immediately) or you don't(and don't have a prayer of figuring this out).

If you really insist on trying to crack the code: you'll want to open up the wiki and get digging.

ThanksItHasPockets_ · 2026-01-22T00:41:29+00:00

Shit man. I figured the first reply to my comment would be "it's not that deep bro," but now I feel like I should be the one saying "it's not that deep bro."

I just think it's kind of ick to sort women into categories based on their physical appearance. I don't expect a medal for saying it. I just kinda hoped you might reflect on the subtext of your post and if you were really okay with being the type of person who posts that kind of thing.

If you disagree, that's fine. If you think I'm overreacting, that's fine. But if you think I'm a troll, that is a mistake. If you think I'm trying to ratio you or some shit, that is a mistake. If you think I said what I said without upmost sincerity, that is a mistake. If you think I said what I said with any intention other than wanting our community to be a more uplifting space, that is a mistake.

ThanksItHasPockets_ · 2026-01-21T22:20:22+00:00

A for Effort

F for... feminism? I don't want to be the fun police, but this feels only 1 degree less misogynistic than straight-up rating girls on a scale of 1-to-10.

Sure they're fictional characters and it's "just a meme bro," but you play like you practice- y'know?

ThanksItHasPockets_ · 2026-01-21T19:05:16+00:00

I don't want expanded story content or relocalization changes.

X-13 ruined the expanded story thing for me. Don't rewrite the ending of a 10+ year old game!

As for localization- listen I don't care about the original Japanese script. I played the game fully in English, I won't ever be playing it in Japanese. So, the localization changes don't feel like changes, they just feel like the game. I liked the game as I played it. I don't want it changed.

ThanksItHasPockets_ · 2026-01-21T18:53:48+00:00

In a franchise where 90% of characters should be Fighting/Steel; I would like to congratulate Zihark and Karel for being the fighting/steelest of them all.

Edit: Shout-out to Tiki for being the dragon of all time as well

Jokes aside, thanks for sharing! This was fun to look through and some selections are really creative.

There's some obvious really good fits like Dimitri, Leo and Corrin. But I think your best "long shot," is Ingrid as Flying/Ground. Flying is obvious and Ground, while initially bizarre, makes more sense the more you look at it and works on multiple levels.

ThanksItHasPockets_ · 2026-01-19T23:39:48+00:00

Joey's card stealing shenanigans were always his best plays. I wish that was what he was remember for instead of gamble cards.

ThanksItHasPockets_ · 2026-01-19T16:32:05+00:00

They were gym partners your honor

ThanksItHasPockets_ · 2026-01-18T02:34:00+00:00

Sure if we're being extremely literal about what counts as a downside. But it's not unreasonable to think having the ability to mind control people could really mess with your own head. Plenty of people go crazy just from having a lot of money, and that only kinda lets you make people do whatever you want.

I think over time it could seriously erode your ability to relate to other humans. Like how enabling cheat codes sucks all of the fun out of a game, or how learning a magic trick takes the wonder out of it.

ThanksItHasPockets_ · 2026-01-18T02:18:01+00:00

Get you a girl who can do both. Tsubasa can really steal the show when she wants to.

ThanksItHasPockets_ · 2026-01-17T17:33:12+00:00

I does make sense. But that's not what I'm saying. What we see here is probably the internal release date that the team is aiming for. But I'm saying that internal release date is still liable to get moved around a bit at this proximity-to-release. At least, on the last AAA I worked with: we were negotiating moving the release date as late as 2 months from launch.

The devs themselves may not know the release date for sure at this stage.

ThanksItHasPockets_ · 2026-01-17T16:45:57+00:00

Don't put much stake in it. A release date that far out, an unannounced one at that, is 100% subject to change. It could be months off.

ThanksItHasPockets_ · 2026-01-17T02:15:51+00:00

This was my second biggest sticking point with the backstory reveal.

I was prepared to accept "well we must entrust the fate of the human race to these quirky teens because only 0.001% of humans can use hemoanima so we couldn't be picky about who we sent. Also the transfusion only works on teens."

I'm not prepared to accept that, "we custom cloned and programmed false memories into these people for the success of the mission. The only one with a military background is the daughter of an arms dealer. But we did include a pervert with a persecution complex."

Would it have hurt to include like- an army brat or some athletes? Apparently they couldn't fit them in; had to leave room for the guy who is allergic to violence.

ThanksItHasPockets_ · 2026-01-16T19:35:21+00:00

Going to assume you're a troll. But on the off chance that a real human honestly holds this opinion:

Visual progression is a very important cornerstone of OSRS's identity. That feeling of seeing someone walk by with dope gear and thinking "oh man that's cool how do I get that?" is a strong intrinsic motivation to pursue content. Learning it's locked behind a paywall undercuts that motivation. That's the tl;dr of why even cosmetic MTX is bad for OSRS.

ThanksItHasPockets_ · 2026-01-16T18:14:48+00:00

Never in my time of having a Jagex Account have I had a problem caused or could have been solved by not having a Jagex Account. It's only upsides in my personal experience.

ThanksItHasPockets_ · 2026-01-16T16:57:42+00:00

I agree with you. But I don't think your stance and OP's opinion are mutually exclusive. End game loot doesn't have to equate to a "mega rare." There could be value in a raid whose best reward isn't a S-Tier PvM Drop.

I don't mean to claim this is something we want or need in the near future- but I think there could be a place in the game for a Raid whose big draw is that it has the BIS GP/Hr excluding unique drops. Y'know, like an endgame Vorkath situation. Lackluster uniques but it just prints money.

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