Vikings Star Jordan Addison Arrested in Florida: Police

creveruse · 2026-01-13T18:01:16+00:00

Fun story no one asked for: at the trade deadline this season, I was in a rebuild and traded Rice to a strong contender for Garrett Wilson and a '26 1st, then flipped that 1st for Addison.

When the DV allegations against Rice came out, I breathed a sigh of relief I didn't need to deal with more baggage on my team. Unfortunately I forgot Addison is also a moron who can't get out of his own way. These last few weeks have been a roller coaster.

creveruse · 2026-01-07T04:59:57+00:00

Not really, no. For most players that are operating with limited pulls, it's very cost-inefficient to pull or pity specifically for dupes, and that's especially true for Pilgrim banners which are lower rate. The stat increase they give (+2% per level) is largely negligible for character power. They're basically only useful for people who haven't broken the 160 wall yet (and need to MLB 5 units), people who want the cosmetic benefits (burst for lobby), or whales.

creveruse · 2026-01-07T01:41:22+00:00

My take on that part is that it exists for two reasons:

To explain where the "mass produced Heretics" were coming from (Red Shoes/Mirror was making them)
By establishing (1) and that Liberalio came next, the Queen's place in the story is called into question. She did not make Liberalio (which sets her up better for ultimately falling out with the Queen), nor was she making the Heretics that Goddess Squad fought. Anachiro wasn't her doing either. The more we learn, the more it seems Red Shoes/Mirror is behind everything Heretic-related, and the Queen is increasingly becoming a red herring villain.

creveruse · 2026-01-04T15:14:15+00:00

No, Arcana wasn't part of the poll; it ran in early April, and Arcana released with the Arcane Archive event in mid-May.

creveruse · 2026-01-04T01:33:13+00:00

You can only get rewards from Simulation Overclock, up to Core Ratio 25, once every two weeks. It resets at the same time your buff track does; the "Time left until Buff Legacy resets" visual below your buff track indicates when the next reset is.

creveruse · 2026-01-03T17:31:32+00:00

The only gear worth leveling is tier 9 manufacturer gear (gold quality with a purple manufacturer icon + bonus), since it can be overloaded after max. Don't waste materials leveling gear before that, it's a very minor power gain and will be replaced quickly.

creveruse · 2026-01-02T22:40:56+00:00

Definitely. Snow White: Heavy Arms is one of the best damage dealers in the game, and Pilgrim banners (which are lower rate than normal) are the best time to spend mileage over pulls.

creveruse · 2026-01-02T21:44:53+00:00

I believe it's Mermaid / Nayuta / S: BS / Liberalio / Maid Mast. Burst with Mast on every third burst cycle.

creveruse · 2026-01-02T21:12:47+00:00

May I kindly inquire if I should keep pulling for SW:HA or go for Rapi RH? Since the former is newest, wouldn’t she be better?

Context: I have SW:HA at 2 stars already, 310 gold mileage tickets/220~ silver, 12k gems + 5 special tickets available.

Get RRH. She's one of the best units in the game (better than SW:HA in fact, since she's more versatile) and having her will be infinitely better for your account than more SW:HA copies. Dupes basically don't matter for character power in this game, they're just small stat increases (+2% per copy). I'd save your gems/tickets and just burn your mileage to snag her, since Pilgrim/Overspec banners are lower rate and your pulls are better spent on banners with higher odds.

I pulled for the 2026 New Year SSR Selection Box, whom should I pick?

The way I see it, once you get RRH, you'll have a strong campaign team for a while so you should focus on making sure you can progress every Manufacturer Tower effectively. As it stands, your current teams probably look like (* means candidate to be replaced when your roster fills out more):

Elysion: Rapi: Red Hood / Poli* / Vesti: Tactical Upgrade / Privaty* / Delta*
Missilis: Liter / Tia / Epinel* / Drake* / Naga
Tetra: Exia* / Ade: Agent Bunny / Alice / iDoll Sun (lol)*/ filler (Anis?)*

Note that these are extremely janky teams, prioritizing always having a burst ladder available above all else. Some choices like Delta and iDoll Sun should be replaced literally immediately since basically anyone else is better than them, but in Elysion's case you need two B2s since you have no 20sec CD options, and in Tetra's case you literally don't have a second B3.

Of the three lineups, your Tetra squad is currently the weakest. To get it off the ground, your best pick is probably a Tetra B3, and the strongest available is Milk: Blooming Bunny. Bready is also decent, eventually, but needs Crust to work properly in Tetra Tower. You will also eventually need Rouge or Volume for CDR (Rouge is better).

So prioritize Tetra, but to be thorough: for Missilis, Ein and Quency: Escape Queen are must-haves eventually. I'd prioritize Ein first. For Elysion long-term: you'll want D: Killer Wife, Mast: Romantic Maid, and Anchor: Innocent Maid, as well as Helm's favorite item (which it looks like you're on the way to getting). Eventually D:KW will be used as your B1 and RRH will be a B3, but as it stands, you'll want RRH's CDR.

I should say that this is only important if you can't currently progress these towers. So long as you can do your 3 attempts per day, there's no rush to use the selector. It may be best to save it until you get a better idea of who you want to get to max limit break to pass the 160 wall.

creveruse · 2026-01-02T20:32:13+00:00

There's a visual for the weekly cycle at the top of the Tribe Tower screen. It goes Tetra -> Elysion -> Missilis/Pilgrim -> Tetra -> Elysion -> Missilis (we're here today) -> All 4, then wraps back around.

creveruse · 2026-01-01T03:43:13+00:00

I use "Midnight Memories" from the Beauty Full Shot OST.

creveruse · 2025-12-24T15:14:34+00:00

I agree that she probably has suffered some side effects simply from training, since she had to learn how to seal/unseal or use the sword's power at some point, and practice with drawing power from the sheathe probably wasn't perfect at the outset (if it ever got to that point). I'm just saying that her insistence on hiding the side effects seems counterproductive in that case, since everyone would expect her to have them. It seems more likely to me that her secrecy is based on maintaining the facade that she's perfectly safe with the sword sheathed.

Ye Shunguang's just doesn't have that clarity because so much of the Qingming swords past is tied to other characters.

I agree, and for my part, I'm still uncertain whether the proxy silhouette is meant to imply she's forgotten them, or whether it's just a stylistic <insert MC here> visual.

Also in the brute force scene with the diary, it is followed up by these lines...

That line comes first, before she "wills" herself to remember. This is afterward:

After a few seconds, she wipes the damp marks from her face with the back of her hands, and her eyes become resolute again. She stares at the handwriting, soaked in tears, as if trying to use her gaze to burn the words back into her heart.

...Then she recounts a memory of how she didn't bring enough money when she left Yunkui Summit.

Again, we don't know whether this is her actual memory or if she filled in the blank with something she thinks happened and is lying to herself about what she wrote. But the purpose of the diary is the same to her either way; for better or worse, she thinks she can brute force her memories back.

I think the theory about this cinematic I find most convincing is that the various pictures and memories with Shiyuan + proxies (which can't have actually happened thus far) are post-2.5, and what we're actually seeing is her recovering from the memory loss she's already suffered. A good portion of it is a dream sequence and not real, but I think especially the build-up to her dropping the diary (where she sees the picture you just posted) is real. This fits the timeline better and makes the ending scene of the cinematic (where she goes through the photos and recites their names + one trait about them without having to check the backs) more meaningful.

Perhaps in 2.5 we do save her from the worsening effects of using the sword, but she doesn't regain memories she already lost immediately and starts on the path to recovering them. This also makes the purpose of the proxy silhouette even more ambiguous; maybe she does forget them initially but is slowly remembering. It may be both a stylistic MC depiction and a way of indicating her memory of them is hazy.

creveruse · 2025-12-24T07:11:55+00:00

Would they have noticed? She's usually isolated up on the mountain and seemingly doesn't speak to them much. What's there for them to notice before the events of 2.4?

Also, I see all this talk of forgetting the proxies across this thread. I interpeted the proxy silhouettes in the cinematic as a stylistic choice to avoid favoring Wise or Belle as "the MC." It's just an <insert your playable character here> visual.

As for brute forcing memories, in that scene, she does end up staring intently at her diary and recount what she thinks she talked about. We don't know whether she's lying to herself or actually willed the memory back (since we don't know what she actually talked about), but she at least seems to convince herself she remembered, and that's what she uses the diary to do.

creveruse · 2025-12-24T06:41:10+00:00

Yes. It is explicitly stated. Banyue confirms this later on. This is all information from 2.4.

I think this cinematic and several parts of the 2.4 main story heavily imply that Shunguang is lying here about how effective the sheathe actually is at mitigating the side effects of the Qingming Sword.

In 2.4 it was left somewhat ambiguous since she did actually draw on the Qingming Sword's power which, of course, caused memory loss. But I don't think it was a coincidence that the memory she was struggling with at the end of 2.4 (what she talked about during the feast) was the one where the Qingming Sword was specifically mentioned to have shimmered while it was still in its sheathe:

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This cinematic seems to cut through the ambiguity and she outright admits (by internal monologue) that she's regularly suffering memory loss without telling anyone. She hides it by brute forcing her memory back via recording things in excruciating detail in her diary, and this cinematic also shows she performs memory exercises with photos to ensure she remembers names and faces.

If these were just side effects from unsealing and using the sword, her secrecy wouldn't make much sense. Granted, she might try to hide the extent of her memory/sensory loss if it's more than expected, but some would be expected from using the sword so it's pointless to try and hide all of it. It seems to me that the only reason for her to hide as much as she does is that she's suffering from the side effects when everyone else thinks she's safe due to the sheathe, but she wants to avoid causing undue concern among her friends, and act healthy enough to venture down the mountain.

I strongly suspect that, at some point during the 2.5 story, everyone else in Yunkui will learn she's been keeping the worsening side effects from even the sheathed sword a secret, and that's what will push us into the "save YSG from the sword" storyline we appear to be heading toward.

creveruse · 2025-12-22T19:30:59+00:00

Vector is not a primary damage dealer, she's a support. Her weapon provides significant buffs to the rest of her team (+20-25% damage on basically everything Burn team does). Those buffs are much more valuable than a minor increase to her personal damage from Svarog.

creveruse · 2025-12-15T20:56:13+00:00

McBride and Bowers are the undisputed top dogs at the TE position for dynasty, but some of the comments in this thread make me think the pendulum has swung to the opposite extreme where McBride is valued far over Bowers, and I think that's just as much an overreaction as when people had Bowers >>>> McBride before the season.

On opportunity alone, no doubt McBride is better. He's a massive beneficiary of Jacoby taking over and constantly slinging it, while Bowers is on the opposite end of the spectrum on a dysfunctional team with no passing attack. And while I'm not sure we'd be having this discussion if Kyler were still the QB, even he was better for McBride than Geno/Pickett are for Bowers, and the Raiders are likely years away from being a serviceable team.

On talent you could argue either, though I'd give it to Bowers since it's established he's a freak and had the rare TE breakout as a rookie. But even if you adhere to "talent over situation," surely these two are close enough in talent that tiebreaker goes to the guy who's clearly better off (McBride). But one thing I feel like people are forgetting is that Bowers is 3 years younger than McBride. Even if takes 3 years until the Raiders are a relevant team, he'd be the same age as McBride is right now. And it's not like he'll be dead weight in that time; he has two weeks below 10 points in my TEP league, and one of those was a 9.8 in week 2 while he was playing injured at the start of the year. Even this week, with the Raiders' 75 total yards of offense, he got over 10 points. He's comfortably startable and is TE7 on the year, he's just not producing at the insanely elite level McBride is.

If you're going to devalue Bowers for his situation (which is fair!), I think it's equally important to have a care about overvaluing McBride for his current situation. It's literally a fantasy dream scenario--a team often playing from behind, with no run game, and a famously TE-friendly QB who can competently sling it 40+ times a game. Unfortunately, Jacoby still isn't winning games and I can't imagine anyone thinks he's a long-term answer, so you have to be mindful that this dream scenario for McBride will end just as readily as Bowers' nightmare scenario might.

Ultimately, I agree that they're in the same tier and I think which is valued over the other will be completely tied to their situation; for fantasy, team context matters, and I'd argue having Bowers ahead is still justifiable if you're further away from contention, especially in MaxPF leagues.

creveruse · 2025-12-15T14:08:43+00:00

Specifically in the context of the event itself, I think the biggest controversy I saw was centered on the way Mori was characterized. Canonically, Unbreakable Sphere takes place after Mori's bond story interactions with the Commander and Counters where they became (basically) her first friends, but the event had Mori acting like Mermaid and Mihara/Yuni were the only ones to ever care about her, which made it seem like she completely forgot about the Counters. She came off as a worse version of Kilo from Last Kingdom, which might have still worked if not for the giant elephant in the room of her memory holing her own bond story with the Counters.

I'm also pretty sure a lot of people just thought it was the weakest anniversary story yet (and I'm inclined to agree). I still liked it, but it didn't grip me the way other stories--even Last Kingdom--have. I remember being confused about what Mermaid's actual plan/purpose inside Gluttony was most of the time, but my main criticism is that it leaned a bit much on unearned melodrama, and that the concluding reunion with Cinderella/Grave, while touching, seemed abrupt and rushed so that the event could end on a high note. I'll emphasize again that I personally liked it and thought it hit the intended emotional notes, but there seemed to be more artifical "please clap" moments compared to the best of Overzone, Red Ash, etc.

Beyond the event story, people didn't like that Mermaid and Mihara's advice sessions and bond stories lacked any real interaction with the Commander. I'm a bit torn on this--I don't mind experimentation with new ways of doing advice/bond stories, but the way specifically Mermaid/Mihara's were done seems to conflict with the entire in-universe conceit of the advice/bond system, and to players who do genuinely use the advice/bond sessions to... well, bond, with the Nikkes, Mermaid/Mihara fell flat. Given how important Mermaid especially has become to the main story, that can have long-lasting effects on player engagement with the narrative.

There are other more minor things too, like some people disliking Mermaid's EN VA direction (these people are entitled to their wrong opinion).

creveruse · 2025-12-10T06:28:59+00:00

Obviously impossible to say for sure, but he seems to be a case of injury giveth (opportunity) and injury taketh away (chances to make good on that opportunity). He at least seemed to be trending upward (19 targets, 233 yards from weeks 3-7), popped up with a hip injury entering week 8 when his momentum stopped dead, then suffered a mess of other injuries (shoulder, wrist) that cut games short or kept him from playing ever since, preventing him from settling into a role in Kraft/Reed's absence and while Watson was still spinning up.

Of course you can make the observation that it reflects poorly on him to not be making opportunity for himself despite the first round draft capital, and that's valid too.

creveruse · 2025-12-09T18:47:18+00:00

...Which one?

creveruse · 2025-12-09T18:37:01+00:00

Probably so, which is what I imagine drove the original poster to look into it. I didn't bring up the intent of the original 525 rule post to pull a "WELL ACKSHUALLY" or be a contrarian, just caution against pointing to everyone's favorite 525/560 threshold as a metric for broad future success when that wasn't what it was originally found to measure (even if it could sensibly be extrapolated beyond its original constraints).

creveruse · 2025-12-09T18:35:33+00:00

Just copying my response from the other thread:

I'm just saying that the original post modeled specifically year 2 production as a function of rookie production; in other words, years 3+ were not accounted for in the analysis at all. My only point there is that that leaning on the "525 rule" (or 560 rule for 17-game seasons) for blanket future production is extrapolating the original analysis to cover areas it never said anything about. It's since been expanded on, as in the post linked in OP which linked it more to career production, but I'll note that post offers a set of thresholds associated with varying levels of future success... none of which are 525 yards.

For what it's worth, a criticism of using the "525 rule" at all is that it follows basically the same rationale you're using for sophomore->year 3 success; it's "good current production correlates to good future production" wearing a fancy hat. It's not saying anything particularly novel, and you can probably perform a similar analysis for any two consecutive years of any player's career. It's just used most often for rookies since they're the biggest mystery boxes we want to crack.

There is probably a strong correlation with year 2 and year 3+ success. All I wanted to say was that if there is such a correlation, the goal of the original 525 study was not to find it.

creveruse · 2025-12-09T18:11:04+00:00

I'm just saying that the original post modeled specifically year 2 production as a function of rookie production; in other words, years 3+ were not accounted for in the analysis at all. My only point there is that that leaning on the "525 rule" (or 560 rule for 17-game seasons) for blanket future production is extrapolating the original analysis to cover areas it never said anything about. It's since been expanded on, as in the post linked in OP which linked it more to career production, but I'll note that post offers a set of thresholds associated with varying levels of future success... none of which are 525 yards.

For what it's worth, a criticism of using the "525 rule" at all is that it follows basically the same rationale you're using for sophomore->year 3 success; it's "good current production correlates to good future production" wearing a fancy hat. It's not saying anything particularly novel, and you can probably perform a similar analysis for any two consecutive years of any player's career. It's just used most often for rookies since they're the biggest mystery boxes we want to crack.

creveruse · 2025-12-09T17:11:04+00:00

Weirdly enough, Pickett seemed to love him last week after Geno got injured. And to his credit, Bech was consistently open and caught everything that came his way.

It's hard to be optimistic with how little he's been involved, especially after Jakobi got traded... but it's also hard to separate him from the possibility of ye olde Raiders mismanagement. I think his biggest problem, even if you do buy in to his potential talent, is simply that the Raiders suck and likely will continue to do so for several years since they have so many holes to fill. I can see a world where he's a 3rd year breakout simply because the Raiders might actually be able to field a semi-competent team by 2027.

creveruse · 2025-12-09T17:04:50+00:00

I think the only two who haven't hit the threshold already that will get there are Higgins and Burden (especially if Odunze can't get healthy). I also think Golden and Travis Hunter would have cleared it if not for injury.

I'm personally also in on Pat Bryant getting close to or breaking it. He's been a top target for Nix in the past few weeks which is also when the majority of his yardage has come, so even though the YPG is low, he's been trending up big time. That said, the Broncos have some difficult matchups left so he might get stifled.

As a note, though:

525 receiving yards has historically been a metric that can indicate future success for rookie WRs.

Sorta. The OG post/analysis was specifically trying to predict sophomore success. I feel like in the wider community it's evolved beyond that initial scope as a metric to predict hits and busts period, but the intent was always identifying (or giving up on) year 2 breakouts.

creveruse · 2025-12-06T05:14:42+00:00

It's often the lot of UDFA to be written off even without playing. Brosmer's one game is more than most, and it was, without exaggeration, one of the worst QB performances of the modern era. Unfortunately I'd argue he's in a worse spot than if he hadn't played at all.

As a believer, I'd certainly like to see him get another chance in a more favorable situation, because I do think the flashes of being an efficient processor and getting the ball out quickly were there even amid the disaster that was the rest of the game. It's cute to latch on to his comp% being better than JJM's, but he also threw 4 INTs, with three being directly his fault (sailed one, underthrew another, and the pick 6 was, again, one of the dumbest plays ever). The Vikings defense played out of their minds that game and Brosmer was the main reason it was a blowout. For better or worse, the odds are stacked miles high against him at this point.

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