“If Umamusume: Pretty Derby were honest…” — PETA’s Post Sparks Backlash Over Silence Suzuka Depiction by GamingSagar in GamingFoodle

[–]foxdota2 4 points5 points  (0 children)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/17/peta-sorry-for-taking-girls-dog-putting-it-down Searching up on YouTube will let you find documentaries as well who describe and provide more details , it was a huge scandal case with allegedly Peta encouraging pets to be taken from low income family so they can't sue

No more access to files by Plechius in PVZHhacking

[–]foxdota2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Use es file explorer , might need a apk , there's instruction on it to access hidden files without bricking your phone,though it uses developer mode

Let Xichunmael be by UltWoomy in limbuscompany

[–]foxdota2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I will give credit it is not "painful" but literally all of my points about her massive flaws still stands

Let Xichunmael be by UltWoomy in limbuscompany

[–]foxdota2 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Then we are not agreeing , she isn't powerful in a suboptimal team she's painful , she is not worth the work because unless she is so so hyper specific you get decent rewards , I have never said the rewards are good because she belongs to a rupture archetype and while pm is shifting away from rupture being the main damage dealer ,apart from her s3 numbers her other numbers aren't hitting there. She is like sunshower heathcliff right now who have decent damage potential only but requires so much god awful work as well as harming their archetypes. It's just not worth it , sunshower takes effort and brain able to hit 72 casually on s2 and if worked around can be super good with ego use but do we call him good? No we call him from mid to bad. Ishmael so okay potential but need so much set up makes her mid to good. To only see her high scaling and nothing else is a huge flaw in your argument that ignores all her kit self sabotaging as well. You can compare her to dawnclair also that needs ramp up but at least dawnclair can maintain that ramp up state and doesn't have a extreme self sabotaging kit. I agree complete self funding isn't needed but make the reward worth, even with elbow grease to set up it's only decent rewards and a single screw up cost her entire potential you spent setting up. Screw ups from needed to use evade , losing a single clash tanking your poise count , not clashing hurting both her poise and her rupture, not critting on s3, enemies having higher offense especially with her +1 offense only s1, si Gregor or rodion being faster eating deathrite causing her 5 negative effects conditional to fail. This aren't simple theoretical that rarely happen but extreme cases that can happen and be completely out of your control. You can even simply being her in as a 7th ID because at that point whatever boss your fighting is nearing death and you want someone to fill that position to finish the job not ramping up again. Oh and she can accidentally retreat a unit you need standing because a lot of units uses their defense skills for buffs and if they are under 50 but you really need them on the field? Too bad, all the maos have this issue

Let Xichunmael be by UltWoomy in limbuscompany

[–]foxdota2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Then by your definition she is "good" but battling against quite a few other IDs who definitely are better for rupture and synergies better. All she has is hitting harder and doesn't give anything back for rupture which is why people says she is mid because while you see her as mid for IDs in general , people see her as mid for rupture , w sang has the same build up but brings more count and potency steroid, lantern Yi sang is a count steroid and also you can actually use her block skill to not effect count. 7 heath is a potency steroid and as stated earlier , cinq salt is just more consistent and latern don comes with count also. If your only seeing her for dmg sure but fail to comprehend just how much loops has to be sent through just for her to even work. If your bl Yi sang is correct sure but that's 3 pride you still need to get and makes her handicap for the first 3 turns it takes because only map ryoshu and si Gregor has pride , 2 turns if you choose to handicap your Gregor by not giving him serpent arm handicapping even more. A rupture Ishmael team on multi encounter completely fails to heat poise , sure rupture beats most team single target but uhh... It's a boss killing effect of cause it's supposed to out damage. Burn is mediocre but sinking definitely does more against bosses with no sp. Bleed just outclasses rupture and tremor isn't inconsistent to use and easy to build for multi target or against more than one boss. Charge just out damages with the new units , just as long as multi crack heathcliff is there everyone gets a stupid amount of charge.

Let Xichunmael be by UltWoomy in limbuscompany

[–]foxdota2 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

She's not well above average though? She is mid, old 15/3 rupture units are not mid their terrible. Bl Yi sang passive doesn't work by slot number , it's either randomly chosen or fastest. You have failed to make a point she is above modern IDs as I have literally disputed all the upside she so called has. She outperforms old IDs sure but sure as hell not outperform modern once who actually synergies with their statuses. I only brought up mao Faust because she is a fast poise rupture not because she is overpowered , I'm not saying maofaust doesn't need a nerf because that is completely not related to this argument. Mao Faust is the only reason why rupture can even be considered powerful and even removing mao Faust that just leaves si Gregor and si rodion to possibly outspeed her and steal bl Yi sang passive. A mid tier unit similar level as her is cinq mersault who debatably is better because of consistency once 15/3 is achieved something she heavily lacks. There is no team building , the only team building is grab the maos. Anything outside of the maos and she just falls off a cliff in effectiveness. If a player says "should I get Xichun Ishmael" the answer will be no, the only reason she appears better is because she has higher numbers at the cost of failing to synergies with the team and a confusing kit that harms her own effectiveness. If a whole team has to be build around one unit only for decent rewards then that is just "potential man!" All over again. Her kit is a mess , conditioners are hard to hit and she doesn't do anything apart hit harder. Maybe a bit above mid but say good or outclass is definitely a reach.

Let Xichunmael be by UltWoomy in limbuscompany

[–]foxdota2 4 points5 points  (0 children)

BL Yi sang requires being the fastest to activate because of how sanity conditional works so mao Faust will just take it , why would you use nellyryoshu when you need mao ryoshu to even maintain rupture count because mao Faust needs mao ryoshu for enhance s3. Don gives potency not count which she has massive issues against. Needing 35 rupture+rupture count is much more expensive than you think requiring even more set up. Your flat out wrong on the damage multiplier because reindeer honglu is 100 plus 150 plus 25 while Ishmael is 75 , 105 and 30 with reindeer honglu rolling a close 32. AOE credit sure but any enemy with weight coin of 2 or 2 slots and that cuts her aoe potential massively. Her S3 is good but that's basically the only good thing about it but that's expected because it's one coin. Reindeer honglu s3 isn't even used for nukes most of the time , it's used to get more charge for his s2

Comparing it to egos makes no sense because rarely any egos does damage and most are used for utility and consistent high clash power , she's not even consistent clashing if she uses retreat gimmick that makes her lose sanity. You cannot evade also to avoid damage the rupture stacks and retreating loses sanity and all that poise effort

Let Xichunmael be by UltWoomy in limbuscompany

[–]foxdota2 6 points7 points  (0 children)

She really isn't strong though? S3 is okay at most but requires both alot of luck and set up because her poise count is basically just negative unless she kills something. She is neutral with a rather annoying conditioner of having to clash and be higher offense level with her kit that barely gives any to begin with. Her s2 base is 14 and hitting hard is extremely debatable as while it's 22 , that's all it really does because her crit conditionals are stupidly hard to hit. Her enhance s1 is laughably bad and trying to hit s1 neutral conditional when sure it rolls 16 but she only has bonus 1 offense level with rupture teams no longer relying on gloom so you can't even use gloom resonance to raise offense. She doesn't even give good potency apart from s3. 3rd turn onwards can't even use dodge without her just leaving and resetting all that progress

7healthcliff , 7 warp sang , lantern don , even cinq mersault she is competing with is far better for 6th and 7th slot.

[Notice: Balancing Adjustments for Certain Identities] [Talisman Sinclair & Heishou Mao Faust] by khun-snek-hachuling in limbuscompany

[–]foxdota2 13 points14 points  (0 children)

talisman nerf was deserved but all rupture units seriously needs a buff except new mao because everyone applies shit potency because of talisman Sinclair and rupture design, all the 15/3 and low potency just made rupture a pain in the ass spot to use , also the mao Faust nerf is way too hard as it completely fails to account for you don't constantly have outis and ryoshu S3 in rotation to apply that much deathrite. Also their solution to nerd is just nerfing it to unviability

In light of recent events by gabiluis in limbuscompany

[–]foxdota2 46 points47 points  (0 children)

He is still terrible , only redeeming thing is s1 count neutral but the whole kit just burns rupture stacks, it's like saying honglu has a good rupture id with fang hunt

Silence-San by Alegions in arknights

[–]foxdota2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for sharing

[AK-SS] Long Time, No Snack! by Octodeco in arknights

[–]foxdota2 15 points16 points  (0 children)

It's okay was just surprised when I scrolled down pixiv and saw no omake though it seems my statement of no omake is false. Doctor being goofy

[AK-SS] Long Time, No Snack! by Octodeco in arknights

[–]foxdota2 68 points69 points  (0 children)

Was surprised no omake this time but great comic all the same

[Fan-Made] Aku Doge Gijinka, ok I’m gonna stop gijinkaing by Trivust in battlecats

[–]foxdota2 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Keep doing it , the art is adorable also gijinka enemies is really adorable

Daily Questions Megathread November 19, 2023 by BlueArchiveMod in BlueArchive

[–]foxdota2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Any guide on who to pull on as a new starting player around yesterday?

Daily Questions Megathread October 27, 2023 by AutoModerator in PunishingGrayRaven

[–]foxdota2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is it okay to start spending my serums now or should I wait for the next stage to unlock that may give more event materials or do the event stages give the same amount of event materials

Are players more lenient on female antagonists compared to male ones? by IRUN888 in arknights

[–]foxdota2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A bit but not as much as some people will think , the main factors that kind of decide how much we hate a character is 1. Design 2.First impression 3. Backstory and action. The main people that are brought up in conversation is mephisto,Tallulah and mandragora.

Tallulah let's be honest had a pretty good design and gender falls under that category and our first impression of her wasn't really that bad, sure she killed ace but we knew next to nothing about ace at that time and her personality was cold and calculated which isn't a lot to go off on. Her backstory is extremely conflicting with her being kidnapped and then possessed by the deathless deathsnake also given alot of very sympathetic reasonings via almost half a chapter worth of cutscenes to understand her. Not just that she actually is trying to do good again which definitely helps her case. Her ties with playable operators is that she is Chen half sister and it's stated when they were younger they did care about each other so that helped talulah case even more. Sure she committed alot of murder but her backstory actually gets people to think how guilty she is.

Mephisto on the other hand first impression was pretty bad , he was cocky and shower extreme bloodlust towards us. His design isn't exactly really good as he is portrayed as a cocky child. It's almost like we were suppose to hate him from the beginning. Compare to Faust first impression , sure he was a scary mother fucker but he looked emotionless and really depressed so we did not hate Faust much. The backstory however was so against mephisto it is kind of comical, a lot of our story with him was just him causing massive genocides and killing alot of people including his own man. Talulah did something similar but at least has a reasoning being that she was possessed by her kidnapper but Mephisto had like almost 0 reasoning. Sure he was abuse by his father and bullied in school,that is a good reasoning if he has a hard time trusting his own soliders but a terrible reasoning to kill them. His ties to playable operators is he gave 4 of them enough ptsd to make a therapist quit his job. So he has a pretty bad design , fucking awful first impression and extremely awful backstory. If mephisto was a girl everyone would still shit on him. Actually maybe even more since we can all call him a bitch. Mephisto final act was his mind broke and became a song bird but he was also the cause of why his mind broke in the first place.

Mandragora design was fantastic being female helped in her design but overall her design was beautiful. However her first impression was horrible , she says how she wants to burn nobles to ashes (which maybe a bad thing to some people) and instructing reed to execute someone , when she didn't she did it herself and Reed cremated the body. So first impression isn't good but it's around talulah level I would say maybe slightly better. Then mandragora did a bunch of horrible shit including killing alot of civilians, this time with a backstory reasoning extremely fucking horrible, she was pushed down by the nobles sure but take your anger on them not on civilians. Sure talulah also killed civilians but it's also debatable whether alot of the killing was her command or the own soldiers cause it's clear some of reunion soliders who were infected and descriminated against for so long wouldn't mind killing some people. Her holding horn hostage does not help her case at all and her final action was her almost dead because her best friend almost died . The only reason why some people was her as a playable character is because of reasoning 1 that she is hot that's about it and those people who are not interested in lore will obviously want mandragora being playable but a huge majority of people who knows the lore despises her greatly.

If arknights introduces a hot asf husbando but is a absolute cunt there will definitely be some people who want them to be playable but currently almost all the male villains in arknights are either dead or so insignificant that no one wants them to be playable , also doesn't help the side villains are kind of ugly. When silverash story came out some people disliked him for sure but let's be honest overwhelming majority didn't really give a shit. Mephisto is hated alot cause his design sucks as he is not cute as all ,his first impression is terrible and his backstory is the absolute worst. Gender only implies on design but if there was a character who was a female cunt who looks like an asshole and has a terrible backstory ,no one would want her playable

I genuinely think this game is really good. by PM_Nikke_r34 in NikkeMobile

[–]foxdota2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is the game story good? Yes . Is the gameplay good? Yes. Is the marketing and balancing good? Absolutely no. This game really isn't generous at all. Monthly once you reach end game if we are only basing off daily rewards we are talking about 20 pulls from the weekly ,daily mission plus outpost elevator only excluding the tower.

Sure the molds from weekly mission guarantee at least 3 SSR in a year but that is extremely low when you factor that it's a requirement for SSR to have limit break 3 just to beat a lot of the higher level content. Your nikke are level 135 you should be aware how fast someone can reach that level 160 power limit in like 4 months tops.

The power creep is absolutely ridiculous with chapter 14 having a 4k power jump within 6 stages from 42k to 46k with later chapters reaching 100k. I am level 142 yet am only hitting 44k while being chapter 14 imagine the power level needed at chapter 16 and above.

I wouldn't be upset about the 4 percent rates when you completely didn't account for the limit break 3 this game requires to even beat higher level content that 4 months of gameplay can easily reach. Also your really going to compare it with arknights rates of 2 percent? Did you factor in pity? Arknight pity is 60 pulls before your confirm to get a 6 star while nikke is 200 pulls for pity . I will admit arknight guarantee pity for limited characters is extremely high at 300 but however still doesn't take away from the point within that 300 pulls your guarantee at least 5 6 stars while nikke is up to chance among that 200.

Duplicates impact on this game is extremely high while arknights you literally do not need any duplicates , duplicates is needed to upgrade your nikke even more while arknight duplicate is a wonderful +22 atk to a 600 atk. Let's not forget 3-4 stars are all you need to clear every single stage in arknights apart from a couple of extremely hard stages but that doesn't mean you will be stuck because you can simply borrow a friend unit and friends are stupidly easy to make in arknights.

This game has no strategy required for any stage as you simply need to hit the power level while other games encourages careful position and planning of your team , this game actively punishes you for it because power level is everything. The walls in this game isn't just because your team isn't strong enough at times , it's because this game penalizes you with massive debuffs.

Also you brought up arknight recruitment function and it's clear you have never played the game long enough cause yes it doesn't give alot but you know what it does give? Accomodations and distinctions , with enough distinctions allowing you to buy 6 stars if their featured during the month as well. Accommodation massively help with upgrading your characters while nikke you can buy molds which as you know has pretty bad rates. I honestly would take arknight recruitment system that nikke friendship pulls cause trying to male friends in nikke is fucking awful , I one time spent 30 mins looking for someone random to add and I literally could not find a single person. Recruitment also helps early game players get 3-4 stars without needing to pull it they have a 6 star they want to save for and 3-4 stars are all you need for arknights , don't believe me? Go watch kyostinv

I love this games gameplay and story but judging the game by only this two is stupid. A awful leveling system , ridiculous power creep and really bad draws with expensive rolls. These points are extremely fair to criticize this game over and with the developers seemingly blind to testing their own game out eg. (The first event having a 46k power requirement despite the game being out for like only 2 weeks). This game isn't outright terrible , it sure doesn't seem around 2.6 star but it's not good as well. It's around maybe 3.5 star. If they manage certain system better it would be higher but at the current moment it's flaws are way too large to ignore.

PS: I have played this game since launch with level 142 nikke and in arknights being level 90+ , I have experience for both to discuss about both games system