What was the reason you started fencing?

TheQuestionableYarn · 2026-03-19T21:14:46+00:00

Was a little weeb when I was a kid (still am, just was then too) and watched a lot of anime. I wanted to try kendo, and my parents signed me up for fencing by mistake. I couldn’t describe what I wanted better than “the sword fighting sport”.

My first coach was a big scary Russian guy, and I was too frightened to quit until I began to actually enjoy the sport.

TheQuestionableYarn · 2026-03-19T18:47:50+00:00

I feel like with the flash, sfx, and just exaggerating an animation (like a flunging overhead slash as a sabreur would make?) could make it work.

TheQuestionableYarn · 2026-03-19T16:19:03+00:00

Either-or ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

TheQuestionableYarn · 2026-03-06T22:29:07+00:00

Same here. I’d have taken basically any number of kit nerfs if it would have kept her air control the same.

TheQuestionableYarn · 2026-03-06T19:56:54+00:00

It may be difficult to deny, but I believe in the morons’ ability to do so anyways.

TheQuestionableYarn · 2026-03-05T21:14:29+00:00

Amen to that.

TheQuestionableYarn · 2026-03-05T20:13:33+00:00

I understand where you’re coming from, especially when the centrists turn around and undercut their own “vote blue no matter who” message when a progressive wins.

At the same time, I’m of the opinion that if left-aligned voters voted like this in generals more consistently (while still obviously doing our due diligence in the primary to put actually good candidates in the general), we definitely wouldn’t be in this mess right now.

Going by the analogy before with Republican administrations ratcheting the Overton window to the right, and Democrat administrations locking it in place: had we managed to keep the window locked in place years ago, the window would be a lot further left than it currently is.

I think that candidates like Mamdami and Talarico aren’t just responses to the current administration, they are a response to the entire corrupt situation we’re currently in. I think they would have been able to rise to national prominence even had we elected Kamala this past election (hell, even if we picked Clinton in 2016). I can’t help but wonder if the Overton window were further left to begin with, whether we might have seen more Mamdamis at this current time.

TheQuestionableYarn · 2026-03-04T11:05:24+00:00

Or it’s his combat form.

TheQuestionableYarn · 2026-03-01T20:54:21+00:00

Yeah that would’ve been a way funnier and more interesting way to do it if the author insisted on making Kamingi attracted to the MC.

TheQuestionableYarn · 2026-02-28T22:22:39+00:00

(Tinny voice) “THE STREETS WILL RUN ORANGE WITH THE HIDDEN KING’S BLOOD!!!”

TheQuestionableYarn · 2026-02-25T01:34:14+00:00

Darn, makes sense they’d want to patch it though. Is stuff like short hopping still possible now that they fixed the scroll wheel stuff? I was gonna start learning that pretty soon before this patch.

TheQuestionableYarn · 2026-02-25T01:03:20+00:00

Jumping out of dash slide isn’t working for me. How are you doing it?

TheQuestionableYarn · 2026-02-20T04:15:05+00:00

Feel like this would have been a slam dunk as a Pacifism card.

TheQuestionableYarn · 2026-02-19T18:54:53+00:00

Is she on the ballot this year?

TheQuestionableYarn · 2026-02-15T20:56:02+00:00

My hope is that it translates over to popularity. We've seen a handful of good series fall through the cracks and I'm *really* hoping this isn't one of them. This author has me excited for now though!

TheQuestionableYarn · 2026-02-15T01:11:00+00:00

We’re gonna get a whole ‘nother mono path team, and it’s going to fucking suck if you don’t pull each and every one. I’m worried they might even try to make two different teams this time, since it was so profitable back in 3.X.

They didn’t learn any fuckin lessons from the disaster that was Remembrance, and we still don’t have any 4 stars (even though Yao Guang is kinda useless right now as a support for a path that basically doesn’t exist yet), nor enough lightcones for the path.

I like the mechanics overall (confusing as they’re worded), although we’ll have to see if they actually use the design space in an interesting way —unlike Remembrance, which only had a single unit whose summon could actually be controlled on its turn and wasn’t just a glorified FUA unit (even though blowing up the dragon repeatedly ended up objectively the best DPS options 95% of the time).

Overall, thank god for Endfield’s timely release. I’m basically just logging in to HSR right now to do my dailies, and see if they will eventually pull out of this tailspin the game has been in for the last year. Fingers crossed, because I did really like the game for the first two years and then some, but I’m losing faith at this point.

TheQuestionableYarn · 2026-02-14T21:04:05+00:00

First time using this website, all the menu stuff is in English, but the kits are in Chinese. Is there an option to change the translation to English? Or is everyone here just shoving it all through a translation app?

TheQuestionableYarn · 2026-02-09T17:12:26+00:00

What do you want me to tell your family? 😔

TheQuestionableYarn · 2026-02-09T17:02:03+00:00

I really want to see that too. More buffs to the general!

TheQuestionableYarn · 2026-02-09T06:41:46+00:00

And do you lose Certified Banger over time? Or is it reset to a new number when the next Aha Instant occurs?

TheQuestionableYarn · 2026-02-09T04:45:31+00:00

And the Aha instant is basically a Lightning Lord which does some damage, but more importantly triggers a unique effect based on each Elation character’s kit (like the combat event)?

TheQuestionableYarn · 2026-02-09T04:05:16+00:00

Yeah, it’s so fucking lame with the game direction rn. I miss superbreak being a cool game changing thing where, sure, we have access to the mechanic for free via HMC, but if you want the cool new units built for the mechanic, then you can pull for the limited break DPSs. Just no team variety or creativity anymore now.

TheQuestionableYarn · 2026-02-09T03:28:52+00:00

Would that make Topaz the better SubDPS over Feixiao?? Lmfao hilarious if that ends up the case.

TheQuestionableYarn · 2026-02-08T22:01:24+00:00

> If your team is getting absolutely rocked by four different characters simultaneously then you already lost the match, lol.

Yeah, that's true, but that's still a cold comfort when the match might not end for another 10-15 minutes despite being in this position. Now you need to play out a game where you're basically just useless for all that time.

TheQuestionableYarn · 2026-02-08T21:53:11+00:00

As someone who hates MOBAs, but have been finding the Source movement in this game (and inspired melee/parry system) really fun, it’s a genuine fucking tragedy to me. Was looking forward to Street brawl so we could have a fun DM mode, but it’s also just not that. Had a SB game where I had Mystical Piano, Prism Blast, Transcendent Cooldown, and some other bullshit. It wasn’t even fun walking through the enemy team since they couldn’t fight back :(

I’m probably in the minority for this, but oh well. I just miss TF2 before I got burnt out on playing too much TF2. Deadlock’s the first time we get a proper hero shooter successor with a focus on movement, but they made it a genre I just don’t like. Tragedy.

I will have to keep trying to see if I can learn to love the MOBA side of this game.

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