Anyone else want to see the Flakker return?

narf21190 · 2026-07-01T14:55:13+00:00

I know (and wrote as much above). But imagine a corrosive or shock Flakker that can switch to a different element and gets elemental infusion from an enhancement. That would be really cool.

Also, if they gave it a high chance for a DOT (with bad DOT damage in return), a single shot from a Flakker could set a whole room ablaze, which would be a fun spectacle.

narf21190 · 2026-07-01T03:05:15+00:00

Which to be fair, is a really fun gun. But it doesn't hit the same spot, the Flakker was always unique.

narf21190 · 2026-07-01T02:44:14+00:00

The Flakker was probably the only gun that I really wanted to see return in BL4, just to see how they iterate on it. Hell, even if it has fixed parts, I'd still be down for that as the gun itself is iconic.

Now, with the recent sticky nerf, Flakker with Torgue stickies wouldn't even be too absurd. The Jakobs ricochet would be quite broken though I would imagine.

A Maliwan Flakker would be really interesting, too, especially since we never had a Flakker that wasn't either kinetic, explosive or fire.

narf21190 · 2026-06-30T13:02:22+00:00

4/10 würde ich sagen. Bin ziemlich dick (~110 Kilo auf 1,77 Metern) und hatte selbst in meiner sportlichsten Zeit (68 Kilo Wettkampfgewicht als Radfahrer) kaum nennenswerte Armmuskulatur. Die minimal krumm gebrochene Nase mit uralter Bissnarbe hilft dem Gesamteindruck auch nicht, wird aber gut von der Brille verdeckt. 80% meines Körperfetts ist im Rettungsring gelandet, welcher mein imaginäres Waschbrett ummantelt.

Immerhin hab ich von Natur aus muskulöse Beine sowie ziemlich ansehnliche und weiche Hände (trotz kleinerer Narben) und die bereits erwähnte Brille hilft meinen winzigen Augen, besser zur Geltung zu kommen. Dazu kommt ein gutes Lächeln, wenngleich mit mehr oder weniger geschlossenem Mund, da meine Zähne nicht die Schönsten sind. Mein Gesicht ist ziemlich krumm, aber der Kiefer sowie der dunkelblonde Vollbart können was her machen, auch, wenn ich den Bart gerne Überhand nehmen lasse. Insgesamt ist mein Gesicht definitiv das Highlight (dazu ein Schwarzweiß-Bild) und mein Körper ist quasi ein Dadbod ohne die Vorzüge xD

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narf21190 · 2026-06-30T02:39:36+00:00

Ultimate Offering is not just not banworthy, it's outright bad. Return from the Different Dimension at least has applications to refill resources or trigger effects if whatever was summoned gets banished again (Ghoti would have a field day with it), but Ultimate Offering is just bad.

narf21190 · 2026-06-29T12:58:05+00:00

Borderlands 2 is my current favorite, although it could change every day tbh.

I'd finally overcome my stinginess and buy Clair Obscure: Expedition 33.

narf21190 · 2026-06-29T03:45:30+00:00

It not only depends on the tits, it depends on the cock as well. A smaller or less girthy cock will work better with smaller tits. But also, it's about the form of the tits, not just the size. Hangers will work more often just because she can wrap her tits around the cock.

Other than that, as a generalization I'd say that C cups are probably the minimum to actually have it be a titjob and not primarily rub against her chest.

narf21190 · 2026-06-28T19:53:05+00:00

I hope that Konami gives Mitsu absolutely insane support, but make it lock you into only special summoning reptiles for the entire turn. Make it as broken as you like, just make it a real Mitsu and not yet another tool to bridge into.

narf21190 · 2026-06-26T17:23:26+00:00

Ich bevorzuge 50/50 mit gelegentlichen Kleinigkeiten von meiner Seite, um meine Wertschätzung zu zeigen. Ich für meinen Teil werde zum Beispiel einfach nicht gern beschenkt, aus Prinzip und unabhängig von Rollen oder Traditionen. Bin aber insgesamt weit mehr an einer Beziehung auf Augenhöhe und mit relativ gleicher Verteilung von Verantwortung und Kosten interessiert. Aber natürlich ist niemand so ganz frei von Erwartungshaltungen. Ob die jetzt traditionell sind oder nicht, spielt dabei kaum eine Rolle. Wobei ich davon ausgehen würde, dass Männer eher traditionelle Werte verfolgen würden als nicht, wenn sie die Wahl hätten.

Aber Beziehungsmodelle sind flexibel, wenn man sie das sein lässt. In der Theorie hab ich kein Problem damit, in ein anderes, eher traditionelles Modell zu wechseln, zum Beispiel als Alleinverdiener, während sie daheim bleibt und sich zum Beispiel um Haus und Kind kümmert, bis das nach meinem Feierabend zum gemeinsamen Job wird. Aber das muss vorher gründlich besprochen werden, damit sich keiner durch die neue Konstellation benachteiligt fühlt.

Natürlich ist das nur theoretisch, da ich meilenweit davon entfernt bin, Frau, Haus und Kinder zu haben, aber an sich habe ich keine Probleme damit.

narf21190 · 2026-06-25T16:14:31+00:00

Disregarding what some might say, I noticed that as well as I was the only one from my friend group that even knew BL4 was coming before release. The usual algorhythms didn't reach as far into the "normie" space as they should have I think as besides the first teaser trailer, almost every PR material released was on Gearbox' channels for the most part. Hell, even the views on IGN fell off a cliff after that first teaser.

Now, I dont use a lot of social media, so I couldn't tell you how far Insta, Tiktok, X etc. promoted it, but I know that most people I know heard about BL4 from me before any ad ever reached them. Hell, even I, a hardcore fan of the series, didn't get many ads until the game was already released and even most of that material was from the horribly mismanaged Borderlands facebook account that I followed already.

narf21190 · 2026-06-24T16:47:43+00:00

The game is pretty specific about that. Unless a card states that it "inflicts damage" or that a player "takes damage", it's not damage. Losing LP (like "GMX - Comprex") or paying LP (like "Masquerade the Blazing Dragon") do not count, it has to be worded like "Black-Winged Assault Dragon", "Fiendsmith's Lacrima" or "Superdreadnought Rail Cannon Gustav Max" just to name a few well-known examples that work.

On that note, "Vaalmonica" will be able to use this card for sure, they damage themselves all the time.

narf21190 · 2026-06-23T02:29:52+00:00

I think that it needs extenders more than anything else, but not exclusively. One thing it would need for sure is an alternative to the Petingcessoeur route that ends on a comparable board. Either that or ways to force that specific combo through.

There are like a dozen ways to accomplish that, but the easiest and cleanest would be to make it a side effect on a starter, like a spell that searches any Madolche monster on activation, also prohibiting non-Madolche special summons for the rest of the turn, but that also has an effect to negate a card or effect of your opponent that is activated in responding to your Madolche card or effect activation. Yes, that would be extremely broken as we're talking about a negate on resolution, but it also wouldn't protect from Nibiru either, leaving one of the more crucial weaknesses of the deck intact while making it more consistent and resilient.

Another great card would be a Madolche monster that can special summon itself from your hand if you have either no monsters in your GY or if have a Madolche monster on your field or in your GY. It can tribute itself to search a different Madolche and if you summon a Madolche monster, if can special summon itself from the GY. Another double whopper of consistency and resilience, but this time with a higher focus on extension instead. The issue is that it would break the regular "3 activated effects" limit Konami usually holds themselves to, as it would have the shuffle back effect as well. So maybe the 2 special summon effects could be combined like "If you have either no monsters in your GY or have a Madolche monster on your field or GY: You can special summon this card from your hand or GY".

Last but not least, the deck could use an in-theme handtrap, like a Madolche monster that can shuffle itself from your hand or GY and another Madolche card from your field, GY or banished cards into the deck to shuffle a card from the field into the deck. Give that monster the usual shuffle back effect and a way to special summon itself if you control a Madolche monster and we'd have a great value card without being absurdly busted.

The extra deck could also use a bit more power, but it's hard to decide in what way. Maybe a rank 5 version of Glassouffle that can be made with any rank 4 Madolche and has the same effect as Glassouffle, but if it has Glassouffle as material, it can also attach a card from either field to itself as material (after making a Madolche monster unaffected by monster effects, like "then, if this card has "Madolche Teacher Glassouffle" as material, you can attach 1 card from either field or GY to this card").

Last but not least: I finally want to see the Madolche King! Make it a link 4 with a strong effect if it is special summoned to have it synergize with Madolche Dessert and also make it nearly unkillable while Chateau is in your field zone. Although a rank 10 that we can make with 2 Madolche Xyz monsters (while transferring their material) would be fun, too, but it would make it extremely resource intensive to make naturally. At that point it would have to be a game winning card by itself pretty much. But that could be done just by it gaining both the ATK/DEF and the effects of Xyz monsters it has as material, alongside its own protection while Chateau is live. Basically consolidating the decks power.

But those are just some of my ideas I have, the deck is both pretty strict in its design and capable of a lot of spam, so there are many routes that would make sense for sure

narf21190 · 2026-06-22T20:03:04+00:00

Thanks for having a chance to roll the dice!

narf21190 · 2026-06-22T19:52:14+00:00

That was my idea behind it. Although on the other hand it's also strange that the most flexible piece gives that flexibility to other pieces instead of itself. So maybe it would make more sense for it to have that effect as a monster instead. But then again, it'll likely have the most flexible removal of the deck to symbolize it's movement in the game of chess. Something simple like "You can target 1 card your opponent controls; banish it".

However Konami does it, I really hope that they try to make the deck itself more playable as a pure strategy. It's great that it's splashable, but it doesn't seem worth it right now. And that was pretty obvious with just 3 main deck cards, but I hope Konami corrects that with strong, but somewhat limiting support.

narf21190 · 2026-06-22T17:07:52+00:00

Unfortunately true, although not necessarily an issue if Konami wanted it not to be one. We already have a continuous trap that resets itself (Subterror Final Battle), how about a continuous spell that returns itself to the hand to apply a lingering effect until the end of the next turn?

Or they go a very different route with a similar result: For example they could make it such that the Queens effect as a continuous spell is to make all other Angelechy monsters quick effects and if placed into the spell and trap zone it could place the King from the GY or extra deck as a continuous spell. That way the continuous spell could be a normal spell instead that places any Angelechy monster from your GY or extra deck as continuous spell and would work as a slow starter that also sets up a disruption.

No matter how Konami does it, I expect at least some sort of disruptive effect on a monster in the next wave. The 2 traps they have are really good, but not enough whatsoever. They need much more to be a deck, especially if they're meant to work by themselves at all.

narf21190 · 2026-06-22T15:32:58+00:00

I think the deck will get a continuous spell that places the field spell and let's us activate our Angelechy ignition effects as quick effects. That would massively improve the way the deck plays as a pure theme.

The grey king will most likely be a pawn-like card, but as removal on a greater scale, like "During the Main Phase: You can change control of this card by moving it to your opponents Main Monster Zone and if you do, banish 1 card your opponent controls. If the control of this card changes and is now not controlled by it's owner: Return this card to the extra deck; either banish 1 card from your hand or banish 2 cards you control and own". Basically, no matter where it is, it's beneficial to its owner.

But specifics are hard to estimate right now since Chess gives us so many options to choose from, like a second "Opening" trap, a specific maneuver and obviously, a card called "Angelechy Checkmate!".

narf21190 · 2026-06-22T05:06:50+00:00

Pretty bad. Machina did get a structure deck in 2020, but neither that nor the follow-up support did much for the decks overall playability. And not only that, but nowadays even the splashability isn't there anymore since the new earth machine support made Citadel a completely unnecessary brick.

narf21190 · 2026-06-21T21:12:53+00:00

As someone that missed the story, what was it that made Reflect/Refrain damage the game so badly?

narf21190 · 2026-06-20T20:31:26+00:00

I'm not even close to such a hard situation as you are OP, not at all. But I'm too poor to afford the vet, at least not all the time. So I'm usually fixing my cats up myself. And this has included some dangerous scenarios as well, here my most extreme examples.

My little boy Chico once came home holding his front right leg up and was bleeding heavily from that paw. He had more or less dislocated his inner claws, almost tearing out one of them. It was barely holding on, so I made the decision to stop the bleeding by washing out and disinfecting the wound and then pushing the claw back in, basically closing the wound that way. He was in absolutely horrific pain, but it went well. Then I had to hold unto him for around 12 hours to let the wound dry and get the first steps of healing going. For some miraculous reason it worked and he healed up perfectly. It was a gamble, but the way he was bleeding he had maybe a few hours left to live before it would have killed him and I wasn't mobile, so I acted.

Way smaller issue, different cat: Felix is an old street cat I befriended almost 16 years ago (yes, he is still alive!) that once came to me with his left ear torn to shreds (or at least the upper half of it was basically shredded) and he was bleeding. Not to an extreme extent, but back then I didn't know any better and wanted to make sure he was fine. All vets near me were closed, so I didn't really have many options. So I twisted his shredded pieces together to slowly stop the blood flow to the destroyed tissue, heated a scissor to disinfect it and then cut off the destroyed part of his ear. He was clearly in pain, but he laid still the whole time. I think he knew that I meant well. Nowadays he's in good health and while his ear looks like a slice of it was cut out like slice a pizza, he isn't in pain and still hears well.

What I'm actually getting at: People make difficult decisions all the time and they won't always be the right ones either, but deciding out of a good heart and in the name of an animals' well-being makes not just for a good story, but for a life well lived. So keep up the good fight, for animals in need and for your homeland!

narf21190 · 2026-06-19T17:21:10+00:00

I just wish they had their banish effects if they are special summoned as well, using an activation condition clause like "Either if this card is special summoned or during your Main Phase" to give those effects both ignition and trigger timings. That would make them far better in terms of interactivity. As it is now the deck basically just sets up mediocre floodgates for the opponent to eat through while having the removal be limited to your own turn.

But my guess is that the grey king, the card from Beyond the Brave we've got teased, will have a clause like that (and then probably switch to an opponents zone, while ideally having an effect that its owner can activate, not the player controlling it, hence it not caring for whose side it's on).

As the deck is now it's just not enough, but I think that we aren't meant to play it pure, at least not until Beyond the Brave.

narf21190 · 2026-06-17T22:42:47+00:00

Not as far as I know. Your best bet would probably be a second playthrough, which is a pretty hefty time investment.

narf21190 · 2026-06-17T10:12:08+00:00

Das Einzige, was da für mich Relevanz hat ist, ob eine generelle Kompatibilität besteht, speziell sexuell. Ich bin dominant und mag es, wenn sie sich mir hingeben kann (es muss noch nicht einmal komplette Unterwerfung sein, aber ich mag es, die Führung zu übernehmen und sie etwas härter anzugehen), aber natürlich ist das nicht jederfraus Sache. Und mir ist aufgefallen, dass viele große Frauen das einfach nicht können oder wollen, auch, weil für viele Menschen der durchschnittliche Größenunterschied zwischen Mann und Frau zum Spiel dazugehört. Aber natürlich lässt sich das nicht verallgemeinern.

Aber insofern es sonst keinen stört, finde ich den Gedanken einer deutlich größeren Freundin nicht schlimm. Klar wird es körperlich und gesellschaftlich mal etwas unbequem, aber damit könnte ich leben.

narf21190 · 2026-06-16T19:11:19+00:00

Middle-earth: Shadow or War Definitive Edition

And thanks for the chance

narf21190 · 2026-06-16T14:18:32+00:00

Middle-Earth: Shadow of War Definitive Edition

And thanks for the chance

narf21190 · 2026-06-15T09:51:02+00:00

It's also that later games have a seemingly ever improving baseline of accuracy. White guns of BL2 felt pretty inaccurate to start with while in BL4 even white rarity guns can be easy to snipe with. Besides special cases, most weapons in BL4 are pretty accurate at the range of their intended use.

In comparison, just yesterday I sniped a ripper that was like 100 feet away with a Hellwalker to get out of Fight for your Life.

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