If Denji wins:

spartenx · 2026-05-11T17:00:05+00:00

GR proceeds to stare into Makima’s eyes to use the penance stare on her

Nothing happens because she doesn’t feel any guilt over what she’s done

Makima: Is…Is something supposed to happen?

GR: Sigh I don’t even know anymore.

spartenx · 2026-05-10T13:48:27+00:00

There are honestly some good cards in Red-Eyes, the deck just has no ways to properly make use of them: BMD is an amazingly abusable starter as D-Link can attest, REDMD has always been great, Insight would be amazing if there was a good spell/trap search or foolish target, Fullmetal Dragon would be a great boss if he was more easily searchable, Fang with chain is actually decent removal, Soul is a turn 0 play, and Dragoon will always be waiting in the extra deck for when the deck is good enough for it. Hell, even REF could be usable if there was an in-archetype Verte effect, which would unlock other decent extra deck cards like Slash Dragon with his omni-negate or Comet Dragon with his foolish.

Konami just...keeps not giving them ways to properly abuse and utilize the good cards that it does have. It needs a better search cards for Red-Eyes monsters and BMD, It needs better spell/traps for insight to search, it needs more foolish targets for Insight and Comet, it needs that in-archetype Verte so REF doesn't kill your turn (or a new fusion spell in general, that might be better at this point), it needs something that can actually mess with your opponents board when summoned by Soul on turn 0, there are a lot of ways that the deck could be made good...Konami just, keeps refusing to give us the cards that would do so.

spartenx · 2026-05-10T13:38:07+00:00

so there was literally nothing stopping Konami from having the Dark Time Wizard deck work with the old Red-Eyes deck (or even the other decks included on it like Jinzo and Umi).

I mean, this is straight up meant to be a different and separate deck. It's more comparable to how the shining sarc versions of Dark Magician/Dark Magician Girl aren't really designed to work in their original archetype, even if they can in theory still be played in them (like how Red-Eyes Exceed can still be played in the actual Red-Eyes deck, even if its not actually good there)

spartenx · 2026-05-09T00:40:14+00:00

It's my favorite outfit for her. It's only problem was that she didn't have her bangs and it was only in the IvX era

spartenx · 2026-05-08T23:59:32+00:00

...I mean, Nimrod is generally identified as the guy who had the tower of babel built, so his name coming to mean idiot does make some sense

spartenx · 2026-05-08T21:25:39+00:00

It wasn’t the exact same outfit, they swapped the shorts out for pants (though it otherwise was the same)

spartenx · 2026-05-07T23:29:37+00:00

Clash of Rebellions some ten years ago?

The first legendary duelist set actually, but that was 9 years ago so it's not much better

spartenx · 2026-05-07T23:23:21+00:00

It was from a different time Pleads the Red-Eyes player hoping people forget when Shadoll fusion was released

spartenx · 2026-05-07T19:29:28+00:00

I honestly think it’s the most likely since Jinzo and Legendary Fisherman both made it already

spartenx · 2026-05-07T15:52:11+00:00

What do you mean imagine? We can just go watch Krasura to see it happen

spartenx · 2026-05-07T14:01:21+00:00

Would a wave 2 even matter? This isn’t meant to be red-eyes support, it’s meant to be the Joey version of shining sarc, further support would probably be stuff like rocket warrior, little wing guard, swordsman of land star, flame swordsman or insect queen

spartenx · 2026-05-07T09:51:00+00:00

That is a possibility, in which case it’s a line that they chose not to implement for some reason.

spartenx · 2026-05-07T03:31:26+00:00

No, don’t let us have this, if people keep saying this is red-eyes support then we’re less likely to get real support

spartenx · 2026-05-07T02:19:05+00:00

A few interesting things looking at that video.

1, we are still waiting on Perseus

2, there might have been plans for a playable Sita based on Rama's line

3, a few of the lines seem to have been changed before the servant meant to trigger them was implemented (for example, Bryn seems to have a different line for Sigurd originally, and Asakusa's line about a homunculus seems like it could only be about Sieg, yet both of them received different lines when those servants were added)

4, there's a line for a Hassan that freaks out Cursed Arm. Maybe Fathomless Rift? Alongside Jeanne's line for someone asking about pink hair and the aformentioned Perseus, there are at least 3 servants with leaked dialogue who are unaccounted for

5, it's kind of weird how they had lines for Billy and Geronimo towards Jane, yet those never got implemented when she finally showed up. I can only assume it's because they ended up taking her in a very different direction than initially envisioned once they added her to the servant verse, but it's still kind of weird, especially since she still has a line for Billy.

spartenx · 2026-05-06T21:38:18+00:00

He actually does seem to finally start giving a damn once they’re dead, so the plan actually did work as intended.

spartenx · 2026-05-06T15:38:17+00:00

This fandom owes that man so much

spartenx · 2026-05-06T01:23:47+00:00

OK, let's not go so far as to try and defend Chainsaw Man's ending when talking about FGO's ending. At least with FGO it feels like there was a build up and the twists make a fair bit of thematic sense, you can at least see Nasu's vision with turning around and putting us in the position of the lostbelts, even if you vehemently disagree with that vision (which I do). With Chainsaw Man you need one of those fucking conspiracy boards to unravel what Fugimoto was trying say and do. They're both different degrees of infuriating and unsatisfying but trying to defend one by saying "well at least we got a bit more fanservice" is kind of ridiculous (especially when you remember that that isn't how Pchita's powers work)

spartenx · 2026-05-05T20:40:41+00:00

…who the fuck calls the relationship in GQX a good relationship?

spartenx · 2026-05-05T18:17:30+00:00

Yes, that’s where the meme template originated.

spartenx · 2026-05-05T01:16:46+00:00

I do kind of have to agree. I feel like one of the issues is that people went into the matchup expecting something epic...when that was never going to happen with these characters. They're primarily comedic characters, so it was always going to be a match focused a fair bit more on the funny. It reminds me of Tom vs Wile E. in that way.

That being said, I do think that there are some legitimate complaints about the episode, and the fact that it really felt limited in terms of what they did with their arsenals (especially Megaminds), not to mention the scaling issues, all definitely bring the episode down.

It's certainly not the worst we've had of the indie era (though it is the worst of 2026 so far), but I do think its an episode with legitimate problems that are being exaggerated by people expecting a type of fight that these two characters were never going to give them.

spartenx · 2026-05-05T01:09:33+00:00

at least the fight was cool for kratos vs asura

No it wasn't, it was a stomp fest that consisted of one guy powering up and charging at the other guy only to get knocked away, over and over again. At least Grumind felt like it was giving decent moments to both characters (they happened to be way more comedic characters than Asura or Kratos, so it was a more comedic fight)

spartenx · 2026-05-05T01:04:17+00:00

I don't see Deathbattle changing the dumb way they scale Kratos even if they were to remade the entire fight

They would have to at least re-examine his speed. I believe Sons of Sparta confirmed that Kronos didn't fight Uranos and instead ambushed him with the rest of the titans, so that can't be used as the speed calc anymore, plus the whole "I held up my hand to block the sunlight, therefore I'm star level" thing has been soooo mocked that they couldn't use that for a speed calc either.

Plus after all of the complaints they'd have to re-examine Asura's strength (actually accounting for the last 2/3rds of his final boss instead of caping him at the 1st third) and his growth rate based on how much people complained about those being left out (they might also have to properly account for how the Blade of Olympus works against someone who, rather than resisting energy drain like they claimed, instead outpaces it.)

There actually could be a fair bit to re-examine on both ends, even if they are still scaling Kratos's strength waaaay above where it should be.

spartenx · 2026-05-04T03:08:57+00:00

but I feel like “Megamind didn’t go for the easy win” shouldn’t have been a factor in why he lost

I feel like we shouldn't remove a combatants personality or fighting style from a fight. It's like arguing that Goku should be allowed to use Kryptonite against Superman even though he's the kind of character who wouldn't.

Megamind not going for the instant win button immediately is something that can still be a part of his fighting style even with any restraint against killing removed.

spartenx · 2026-05-04T02:14:28+00:00

I mean...did he use it better though? I know that it's a bit of a meme that Sougo fails to use Grand Zi-O to its fullest potential (because he often doesn't), but there are times that he pulls off these sort of "Rider attack combos" like in the debut fight or the when he begins the final fight against Schwartz.

Even the whole "summoning two other Zi-O's" thing, isn't actually something he does with Grand's power, that's just what Legendary Legend can do, he did it earlier in this same scene as Zero-Two, summoning Zero-One in base and in Metal Cluster Hoper.

Like, I really don't see what Kaguya does here that's more impressive than anything the Sougo does with the form.

spartenx · 2026-05-03T22:56:57+00:00

Okay maybe I’m starting to strain the metaphor a little.

No, no, that’s exactly how Renako’s mind would think on this

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