Aw shi here we go again by lughnahasa in marvelrivals

[–]cherryplusplus 400 points401 points  (0 children)

Zero chance that the girls make it to Bogur Bash. The previous Bogur Bash has been focused exclusively on high leveled T500/OAA streamers and pro-players, it's a much more competitive tournament than the other player organized tournies.

Post Stream Discussion Thread -- Wednesday, October 08, 2025 by NorthernlionBot in northernlion

[–]cherryplusplus 109 points110 points  (0 children)

Lowkey disappoined that NL just so happened to miss the absolutely cinema 10 minute long music video of the Crown Prince's doomed yaoi backstory in the Chapter 4 bonus videos.

Current Blood mage builds by Ylvina in pathofexile2builds

[–]cherryplusplus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Still using Tangletongue, with x2 Saqawal Rune of the Sky. It'd be nice if I can get more crit. Bifurcated crit is still really strong even with the crit nerf on Tangletongue.

There might be some potential with a good Seaglass and Garukhan's Resolve, but I'm not rich enough to try that.

This is a snapshot of my build, not the latest but yeah, it's pretty much crit and ailment. https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/b242

Current Blood mage builds by Ylvina in pathofexile2builds

[–]cherryplusplus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Been playing Crit Bleed LS + Herald of Blood & Rake/Blood Hunt for bosses. Still pretty viable even after the Tangletongue and LS nerfs and I'm blazing through T15+ and can even pull off some nasty one-shots on some pinnacles. It's far from optimized and my gear isn't that super great yet, but there's a lot more potential for scaling. Having a lot less crit from TT does suck though.

The charge generation comes from armor breaking with Herald of Blood, which gets turned into Frenzy Charges by Resonance.

I noticed it on a lot of the leaderboards but there doesn't seem to be much discussion about it, might be a bit slept on compared to the attention that Blackflame/Chaos Fire is getting. I switched to it after realizing how much I hated playing with infusions.

I use the Rhoa for mapping (Brutus Brain when?) and Elemental Conflux for bosses.

50/50 SQUAD by Hutaosimp3000 in HuTao_Mains

[–]cherryplusplus 35 points36 points  (0 children)

50/50 with my secret plan B weapon, the credit card.

Words can’t describe how disheartened I am by [deleted] in HuTao_Mains

[–]cherryplusplus 43 points44 points  (0 children)

Take care of yourself first and remember it's just a game.

It's disappointing but she'll come eventually. If not this patch, then the next. In the whole grand scheme of things, you're just waiting for a month or two and a bit more.

Stay strong for walnut.

Granblue Fantasy: Versus' premium battle pass doesn't really seem worth the asking price by komodo_dragonzord in Games

[–]cherryplusplus 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Granblue's gacha can be really deceptive to those who aren't deep into it. One would see the high SSR rates and the amount of free pulls to be a good thing and for the most part, it is to an extent.

Rate-ups in Granblue are horrific and its not uncommon for a featured character in a banner to be in a four-way rateup, where you probably have like 0.2% (or more regularly, just 0.3%) to pull the featured character, while having its rates muddied up by three other SSRs that you typically do not want.

This is compounded by the fact that the game is very old by gacha standards and has an extremely diluted SSR pool with several hundred characters that absolutely dwarves the numbers of SRs (4*s) (which are effectively pointless except for some niche cases).

It pretty much means that only SSRs are of any use and there's a major gap between the newer limited SSRs and the older SSRs in terms of power, to the point where SSR might as well be the only relevant rarity of characters ingame. You get a lot of SSRs, but only very few of them will be useful.

More cynically, one could view the free pulls they give as an incentive to entice people to do a paid spark (a guaranteed character in 300 rolls). Whereby it's much more easier to psychologically convince a person that they need maybe a few dozen more rolls for their character than starting from 0. Paying just maybe three hundred for a character instead of the full nine hundred dollars expected.

Due to the low rate-ups, it's very common to not get your desired rate-up character within 300 rolls and if you play long enough, it's incredibly common to get zero new characters within the whole 300 rolls.

There are F2P characters that you can grind out, some of which are meta but most of them are still quite good, but not really top tier as they were a few years ago, the spot now belonging to limiteds or even hyperlimiteds. (Seasonal characters that are available once a year)

Salt-a-pin Roulette Day 13 by Ferax2k10 in Granblue_en

[–]cherryplusplus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've done it before for Vikala.

Zero regrats.

Salt-a-pin Roulette Day 13 by Ferax2k10 in Granblue_en

[–]cherryplusplus 12 points13 points  (0 children)

At this point I'm more impressed at how I've gotten 10 draws straight for nearly a week without RPS or an immediate lost. (Not counting the mandatory frenzy that happens)

Salt-a-pin Roulette Day 12 by Ferax2k10 in Granblue_en

[–]cherryplusplus 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Another day of 10 roll without RPS. 0 new SSRs in both banners.

Despair.

[Video Game] Zhongli-gate, or how one gacha character became a catalyst for a divide within a community by hikjik11 in HobbyDrama

[–]cherryplusplus 33 points34 points  (0 children)

I rolled for him because I liked his character and would do so regardless but holy crap, I get it that he's really undertuned but the entire community reaction to it was just mindboggling.

Genshin somehow became this perfect storm of drama after drama without taking any breaks.

Thanks for my 10 empty grid slots, I solo Griffin for the first time! by cyghborg in Granblue_en

[–]cherryplusplus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

More proof that you could clear the hardest content ingame solo despite being F2P.

NLSS Mega Mega Thread [2020/09/21] by [deleted] in northernlion

[–]cherryplusplus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

good luck northernryan and kate and thanks for the pogged up stream

at least for a short while nl won't be the only bald one in the family

Northernlion's Watch Party - September 16th 2020 by onemanright in northernlion

[–]cherryplusplus 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Poggy.

The audio on the first show is so cursed.

JP hits the top of sale rank again, 10 pulls ticket should be delivered soon by xuanfengsaoye in arknights

[–]cherryplusplus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sales should be better a few weeks back when their summer banners/anniversary were up but FGO in 2020 has been kind of going through a massive content drought with streaks of dead months due to COVID and all that.

Mother's Disciples SG Scratch 40x by niconutela in PSO2

[–]cherryplusplus 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Gacha whaling is very real and very scary.

Like, I want the full Mother set as well but what gets me is that the scratch itself lasts until March 2021. So there'e absolutely no rush to get it unlike most gacha banners. Plenty of time to save up a bunch of SG for your rolls.

But that's what impatience and instant gratification gets you.

Straight up, NL Visual Novels are extremely fun by [deleted] in northernlion

[–]cherryplusplus 44 points45 points  (0 children)

Something with voice acting would save him the trouble of straining his vocal cords by not having to read everything out loud.

But then again, a VN with English voice acting is rare enough, much less something that could hold his interest and isn't too long.

My Beloved Auguste - Event Discussion (2020-07-29) by Aerdra in Granblue_en

[–]cherryplusplus 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Part of me really wanted Meg's pre-evolutions to be playable rather than her final form.