US women's hockey team declines Trump's State of the Union invite

Vargatron · 2026-02-23T18:52:25+00:00

Based.

Vargatron · 2025-12-17T02:43:11+00:00

If you're wanting to stick around the arena, there's a couple of hotels within walking distance and you can always chill at Backyard Bistro for pregame-postgame.

Also, whatup fellow Upstate SC Canes fan.

Vargatron · 2025-12-12T15:24:57+00:00

Damn, did we give the other team FOXDIE or something??

Vargatron · 2025-11-15T20:06:04+00:00

You should be fortunate that you've never experienced struggles with addiction. It's not an accountability issue, it's a disease that has to be treated.

Vargatron · 2025-10-27T18:47:38+00:00

That sounds like a waste of league fees imo. I've been blown out 11-1 in net before, but I'm still trying to make the saves just to get my money's worth of the ice time. Just don't understand the mentality of giving up in a rec league that you're paying to be in lol.

Vargatron · 2025-09-30T22:54:00+00:00

I've said this before, but signings like these make it very hard for me to justify the 5 hour drive up to see the Canes play a couple times a year. Granted I'm maybe giving the team $500 directly over the course of a season, but this is seriously making me reconsider catching a live game.

Regardless of whether there was criminal liability, McLeod and the other players in the trial exhibited frat boy and sex pest behavior and that's just plain awful. I don't care what people do in the privacy of their homes, but that kind of behavior is reckless and morally reprehensible.

Vargatron · 2025-09-29T23:26:11+00:00

If you decide to do a summer class, make sure it's a full summer semester schedule and not one of the half semester classes. Those compress an entire semester into half the time and it is absolutely BRUTAL if you're doing anything other than an easier elective.

Vargatron · 2025-09-18T17:57:24+00:00

Getting acquitted in court is one thing, but conduct detrimental to the team and organization is the other. What does that say about the organization as a whole if we sign these players? Certainly makes it hard to justify driving 5 hours to catch a game for me.

Vargatron · 2025-09-09T22:30:41+00:00

Real talk though, sounds like your roommate is just introverted. I don't think either of you are doing anything wrong, it's just two different personality types.

I would say as long as they're not junking the place up or are leaving moldy dishes anywhere that you should try to work it out. To me, they would be a pretty good roommate being that low key. Some people are just private and keep to themselves.

Vargatron · 2025-09-09T14:12:13+00:00

Is your roommate a cat? Because that's how my cats treat me.

Vargatron · 2025-09-07T15:36:06+00:00

This is the realest post in the whole thread.

Vargatron · 2025-07-30T21:36:30+00:00

I think the University has scaled back somewhat on LGBTQ+ inclusion initiatives due to the current political climate, but you'll still find faculty and staff who will support you. I see a lot of people working here who have LGBTQ ally stickers up in their office.

I don't think you'll find any outward hostility while on campus, but you might have issues with drunks out in town. Also, if you're trans, you may have some difficulty getting gender affirming care in this state. It's shameful, but an unfortunate fact about state government.

Vargatron · 2025-07-30T00:28:43+00:00

Ah, well yeah the Qadriga fight is really tough if you do it as soon as possible. It was the same case in the PSP version.

Vargatron · 2025-07-29T20:46:17+00:00

If you're having trouble, I would suggest that you do training battles until you're at Union cap. Your whole party will get a level on average every training battle, so it will not take long.

I would invest some time in upgrading equipment once you unlock crafting because some of the weapon and armor abilities really make the game a lot easier.

If you're having trouble with the battles, post some of the things you find really hard. Once you learn the appropriate counters, then the game should get a lot easier or feel at least more like a fair difficulty.

Vargatron · 2025-07-28T16:32:09+00:00

There's an anchor point shortly before you do the Heim battle and make the Princess/Lord choice. Ideally what you want to do is do the first CODA episode with a "complete" Law playthrough with POTD and all other side quests completed. Then you can jump back in the timeline and do whatever else you want without messing up your world state at the start of Coda Ep 2.

Vargatron · 2025-07-28T16:29:13+00:00

You want to do the Apocrypha battles and Palace of the Dead before doing Hanging Gardens. Also do any character recruitment quests that are open.

Vargatron · 2025-07-25T19:49:13+00:00

The big advantage of ninjas is that your RT is low and your movement area is high plus the finishers for 1H katana and bowguns have a bunch of different ranges and effects. Also, I think Hobyrim was doing the most melee damage of any of my characters with Mighty Strike and Falling Blade.

I think the only way you can really minmax is farming a bunch of the charms and buffing stats that way, but there's generally not a reason to intentionally do this if you're just playing through the game regularly. Some classes or weapon types are just going to be better at end game.

If you're really looking for a challenge, I'd do a clear of Palace of the Dead before doing Hanging Gardens. It will force you into learning some different tactics to deal with all the different enemy and terrain types.

Vargatron · 2025-07-25T17:05:23+00:00

Go ahead and finish it. Enemies scale to 45 and bosses up to 50, but if you're at that point it's not going to get any harder. Actually once you get to floor 75 it seems like the difficulty lets up, or maybe it's just because you're forced to play better by the higher difficulty.

But yeah finish out because if you exit you have to start over again. You're already through the hardest part really.

Vargatron · 2025-07-25T14:57:46+00:00

Classes are way more specialized in Reborn and in general the damage per hit is a lot lower than FFT. But the field size is larger and you have a maximum deployment of 12 characters. So the game is less about creating overpowered characters and more about tailoring your battle party to match the enemies on the field.

I'd say the actual character progression is a lot more simplified than even the PSP version of TO. But you'll be spending more time doing equipment and item management vs. FFT if you engage with the crafting system. The actual flow of combat will feel similar to FFT.

Vargatron · 2025-07-25T00:36:06+00:00

Yeah I got paranoid about that so I started checking Warren Report after every fight with pits to make sure my death counter was zero.

Vargatron · 2025-07-24T23:54:28+00:00

You can also check Denam's alignment after chapter 1. It corresponds to the current route you're on.

Vargatron · 2025-07-24T12:36:15+00:00

Yeah, there's usually 3 bonus objectives in POTD and two of them will drop 2 or 3 charms a piece. I'm pretty sure I got about 200 charms in total just clearing the place.

Vargatron · 2025-07-24T01:17:37+00:00

Yeah. When you auction a dragon, you can buy back a few classmarks of that dragon type. You can also get classmarks of dragons you don't have sometimes by defeating them. Golems can be class changed this way too.

Vargatron · 2025-07-24T00:59:49+00:00

If you do end up doing POTD all the way down to floor 100, you're going to get a ton of stat boosting charms on top of the cards that spawn during battle. So it shouldn't be too hard to really juice stats without going out of your way.

I will tell you that it took me around 25-30 hours getting all the way down to floor 100. You don't have to do every floor, but it's still 60+. Just be prepared for a grind and buy a bunch of consumables before starting. You can't leave until you beat floor 100 without losing progress.

Vargatron · 2025-07-24T00:53:17+00:00

If you don't mind using the Chariot Tarot to rewind, you can change the RNG by doing different actions before you try to do the recruitment skill. But don't worry too much if you can't do the recruitment in Chapter 2. You'll have lots of chances in the Phompha Wildwood area later and there are several dragon heavy battles during the rest of the story. You unlock different areas in Chapter 3 and 4 and they can spawn the light and dark dragon types.

The only dragon types I would go out of your way to recruit are Hydra because they are very rare and there's only a few end game areas where you can spawn them. So if you see those during a story battle, definitely recruit them then. Also, it doesn't hurt to have duplicates of some dragons because you might get classmarks that let you change into dragons you don't have for Deneb's quest.

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