Wow yes! Saga looks really great and I like her gimmick as well. Seems like there's a lot potential for new strategies and messing around with her. I really like that AK sticks to not making limited OPs, well, op. It's another 6 star from limited banner that might be better than the actual limited operator (well we don't know the skills yet, but you get the point).

New videos nobody watches!

H7-2. I struggled quite a bit with it and now H7-3 is even worse. Also OF-8 and OF-F4 for the lolz, cos I think my runs are pretty unique.

BTW. I swear. Game only crosses tags when I finally get a combination that guarantee something. I got fast-redeployment and it got crossed out. Then I got slow with guard and of course guard got crossed out . And few days ago I got summon and it got crossed out. On the other hand I also recently got support with vanguard, which guarantees Zima and I got her. Seems like she'll be my first max Pot 5*, since I only need 1 more copy of her.

Rye posted:

E2'D Jessica for more clue 3 speed. You all do know that promotions increase clue speed, right?

Yea. I only learned about it, because I read the gamepress article on clue search. Idk if E2'ing Jessica just for clue search was worth it, since it seems only new operators have higher chance the longer they're searching to get specific clue, when it's specifically mention in their description. So using Jessica is still not worth it. Like even when I tried to cheat system with swapping all operators for clue wombo combo I never got the higher chance clue, so I just gave up and use the highest speed search without caring if operator increase chance or not. I was using May for very long time and she almost never gave me clue 2.

I wish the game told us that up front.

YES. AK is a bit better about it, but I still wish so much games would just give us all the stats and data upfront instead of forcing us to use sites for info. Not to mention when the system you use doesn't always work and often is mistaged, like your grade system for enemies stares. No, I'm not letting go of those C's with 550 armor in chapter 7. Or D+ resistance that was higher than C.

I am so glad I don't have to manual farm cough fgo cough

YES x 2. MR already spoiled me with its auto function, though it was far from perfect, but AK's auto deployment is honestly amazing and yurisend.

but I think I'll change the team for trust farming.

I'm doing it for a while with stages I farm all the time.

Also to give Jessica some much needed love.

Ok, that's valid reason.

塞雷娅 posted:

Ohhh boy, I'm already looking forward to the next next limited banner. They just released the PV for the new New Years event in CN and I pretty much want all of the new operators?

I really like the aesthetics for the art too, it's a very traditional Chinese style that looks amazing.

Yea, they're looking really good. I like new Vanguard and Limited OP looks pretty great as well.

I wish global can catch up with CN sooner cause I don't want to wait a few months for this event to come to global T_T

Is it confirmed we want to catch to CN though? Still look at the bright side. I played FGO for 3 years with 2 years gap between JP server and FGO had no intention of closing the gap, so events were the same as in JP for the most part, so having 8-ish months gap with events being shuffled a bit isn't that bad.

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Lilliwyt posted:

^ and i won't read the whole first article because it's biaised as fuck toward LGBT. Like some said already, just because straights don't face the same oppresion than LGBT peoples mean that heterophobia is not real because like i said, just hating on someone or something because it's het is enough to be called heterophobia.

And you completely missed the point. Since you didn't say anything, I assume you read second article? Because it has exactly the same premise as in black people can't be racist towards white people. It's the same principle. Straight people can experience discrimination and insults, but you can't really call it a phobia, because to be phobia it'd have to be on the same lvl as other phobias.

The point of first article is that LGBT people experience actual oppression and we're still nowhere near ending it, so straight people using the same word and acting as if they're experiencing the same treatment is derailing from actual issues LGBT has. Most people who complain about no straight pride or no only-white people spaces or heterophobia, are the people who don't think LGBT people face discrimination everyday for who they are and in fact use it to justify why they should be able to be bigoted like they always were. They're the terms reactionary uses to justify hating on LGBT people, so you can understand why some people don't take kindly to it.

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SF posted:

I've been watching A Place Further than the Universe and while I'm usually not a fan of CGDCT shows I am loving this! Shirase, Mari and Hinata are really well written characters with wonderful dynamics all around.

Well, maybe because it's not CGDCT (or so I heard).

myrrhmidon posted:

That's the downside to these rerun events. I wonder if we're gonna get another lottery event sometime cause so far ObFes is the only one. It might be another summer event or a holiday event though cause the premise behind this event was a festival where a lottery would fit as a reward mechanic.

I'd be down for more lottery events just that I'd prefer if we didn't have to farm a currency as stamina to farm the lottery currency. Just have a separate regular sanity consuming stage to farm lottery currency. It's how FGO does it.

Yes, but FGO did also have 1 event that worked exactly like this one. It was universally hated for how time consuming and annoying it was, so no wonder there wasn't another one. That's why I'm not complaining, because it's not exactly new to me.

塞雷娅 posted:

Also speaking of the event, I'm honestly really glad the rerun events are so much more compact cause farming this event the first time around was such a pain cause it took so long to farm tickets and then using those tickets to farm ANOTHER stage to get the actual currency you need for the raffle. Especially with the infinite raffle, you needed to spend so much time just to farm it was exhausting.

I get what you mean, but idk, stages don't take that long to clear and I'm auto'ing them anyway so shrug. And not like I have new year's pots to spend or anything... I mean, it'd be my first proper lottery event in AK, so I kinda wanted to do it.

Ok. Beat all OF-EX stages with challenges and half way done with event farming.

Serenata posted:

How is it like with Arknights and Azur Lane by the way? is it easier to roll? the odds are nicer?

塞雷娅 already summarize everything, so I'll sum it up like that:
In FGO I had to spend money.
In MR I could spend money.
In AK I want to spend money.

random posted:

and Frosty died before Little Red Ninja Hood, leaving her standing there doing nothing at all for the rest of the stage and messing up the deploy order...

When I just started I could never understand why Kyo and Eckogen always made sure to retreat operators instead of letting them die, even when stalling for as long as possible and that's exactly why.

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I on the other hand prefer that skins have no gameplay value, cos this way you're not forced to buy all of them to stay competitive. There's also the whole P2W argument (I know, I know, it's gacha and there's no real winning, but imo it still applies). What can I say? I just like skins. I honestly keep forgetting you can even roll using OP. I remember at first I thought they were just normal pots and even use 1 I think, but once I realized you can convert them to Originium and buy skins only with them, I started saving them and avoiding using them to refresh ap since then (I've done it like 1, maybe 2 times max more after that), but over time I just ended up using them exclusively for skins. I don't think I ever rolled using them.

myrrhmidon posted:

18 is for skins with in game visual special effects. For example, the rainbow effect on SilverAsh's schwing schwing and the water visuals on Skadi's skills. 15 is for regular skins.

That makes sense. Thanks.

Nice. I was just in mood for some good, consensual rape.

塞雷娅 posted:

Rye posted:

I got lied to before though, people told me rerun skins would be cheaper lol

Aren't skins for Gummy, Provence and Platinum cheaper though?

Those are the usual prices though so nope.

I see. I thought all skins are 18 by default and 15 is lower price.

Rye posted:

I got lied to before though, people told me rerun skins would be cheaper lol

Aren't skins for Gummy, Provence and Platinum cheaper though?

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Rolled single ticket and got Franka, so that's it for me. Sushiman was the only operator I had any passing interested in from that banner, so I'm quite fine with it.

Beat all OF 1-8 stages. OF-F 1-3 so far. Story was quite nice. Wish Eyja was more in it though. Schwarz was pretty cool and she and Ceylon make for a good couple. Also Amiya in swimsuit was so cute! Any idea if we'll be able to buy Ifrit's and Sora's (?) skins again?

Sushiman in action. I didn't really struggle to beat Eyja's pet, but it still makes me feel like I put way more effort into it.

Predaking posted:

Farming this event is quite..complex, at least basing from the gamepress article. Play x stage this many times...

Nah. It looks complicated, but it's actually pretty straightforward. You simply have 3 currency to farm. They give you how many stages you need to beat how many times so you won't overfarm event, since after some point you're just wasting ap, since stages itself don't drop mats. If you beat OF the amount they told you, you'll get exact amount of Obsidians to finish ladder (farming lower stages is I assume to farm the exact amount, since if you just farmed the highest one, you'd farm more than necessary) and Tickets to use to farm OF-F stages, where you farm Tokens to use to roll capsules. As there's limited amount of stuff you can get from capsule machine, you don't want to farm more Tokens than necessary, but since OF-F stages drops aren't fix, you might need to farm few more or less Tickets, hence why number of runs for those is only a rough estimate.

Before you just kept farming the highest stage as many times as you could, since capsules were limitless, but since in re-run they don't refresh indefinitely, there's no point (I'm still salty they aren't limitless, all those pots I had hindsight to save are useless).

Patriot's bully continues.

animefangirl posted:

Hi I'm Jasmine. I live in the USA. I just joined this forum. I'm so glad I found this site. I am really new to reading yuri manga. I'm not sure about my sexuality...I hope to make new friends here! I don't have any LGBT friends and its lonely.

Welcome abroad! I approve of your Kurumi avatar ;3 I see you're a person of culture as well!

deuxyeon posted:

There's still an epilogue

You mean there's epilogue to epilogue? Yea, they totally didn't add it last minute!

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Hylarn posted:

More info: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/.168442

Yeah, it sure looks like it should be yuri, but PA Works has a long history of making anime with primarily female casts that don't go there. But yuri is big these days, so, not impossible

What's that Nettaigyo wa Yuki ni Kogareru with serial number filed off?

Awesome. I tried to be smart for a change and save those new year's pots since they last longer to spend them for farming next event, but we're getting HotSF, which from what I understand has no stages to farm mats and next event is CC, so I actually won't have event to farm mats in, so I pretty much wasted them and could just use them now and at least get bonus drops...

Serenata posted:

Well... The translation is up in MD already and it's CUUUUTEEEEE but warning, it has the usual problems of working in an office too

Well it was already yesterday, but then it got removed, because drama...

Norainhere posted:

Yeah, that's a cute series. It's up the chapter 6 in raws right now, with the first chapter translated here (not sure why it's not on Mangadex)

Because translator doesn't mind it being on aggregator sites, but thrown a fit when someone uploaded it to MD, because he doesn't want it to be there and later made this post "explaining" himself, that makes no sense whatsoever. He apparently posts his translation on reddit, waits for people to download it and then deletes them and wants people to just "share between themselves".

Serenata posted:

OMG Yashahime is what I feared the most... IS just the filler parts of Boruto but without a manga or anything to have hopes that EVENTUALLY something will happen, but that's not the worst part, look at this lol https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/yashahime-princess-half-demon/episode-14/.168249

Yea, pretty much. I got bored of it after episode 8. Not like Inuyasha was some masterpiece, but at least it was engaging enough and it didn't feel completely flat and without a dept, unlike Yashahime that made me feel like I'm watching some very low effort kids stuff. Barely anything happens every episode, characters are very 1 note and have no real chemistry, animation isn't anything special and fights have barely any thought put in them. The show is pretty much bare-bones. Calling it filler parts is pretty apt as well. I agree with everything in article, especially the way it feels like there's that super mega important, but vague overarching plot, but series it so slow paced, it'll probably take 50 episode for it to go anywhere and 200 to finish. Like I got excited we'll get to see old cast every now and then and then they're nowhere to be found (outside of Miroku and his episode was super underwhelming as well). The same when it seemed like they're finally addressing Setsuna's stolen dreams, but then they just kinda forgot about that plot point. Honestly Boruto did the mixture of old cast with new cast/their children way better and entertaining than this. And yea, the beat with Moroha never earning anything, outside of just getting old really fast and not even being funny in the first place, reminded me more of some comedy shows like Flintstones etc. rather than a proper story.

I only saw 3 or 4 episodes btw then a "pirate" shows up and he gave me a bad feeling so I stopped watching.

He actually shows up in episode 7.

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I was checking Rosmontis again and now her giving attack buff to random caster makes so much more sense. The talent is even called Stabilizing Esthesia.

myrrhmidon posted:

You really do bring Executor to everything.

What can I say? He was the first 5 star I got (second high rarity operator, after Hoshiguma from beginner's banner) and I really liked his gimmick, so he never left my team since then. He was also second operator I E2'd (the first was Jessica). He carried me through like 90% of content and just as with Ifrit, once you start using him, you just keep looking for Executor tiles. He is pretty cool as character as well. I mean, he's a freaking sniper with a shotgun xD Also totally his theme song. There's no denying that dropping him so early influenced my play-style a lot (though I always liked to use unique strategies and challenging myself) and if I got him later, I might not really use him like many operators I got since then.

I should really try harder to use him

TBF, just like Ifrit, he's incredibly hard af to use and you need to pretty much make your entire strategy and team around him, so it's actually often easier to not use him. His DP cost is insanely high, so he's hard to deploy fast, but also you want to make him backbone of your team and main DPS, so you want to deploy him fast... There were maps that were just too fast paced and I couldn't managed to use him and just let Apple Pie and Jessica handle it instead (I usually just use all 3 of them). Once you can overcome his DP cost and unique range though, he has many advantages. Dealing true AoE damage allows him to do job of 2-3 snipers at once and easily cover 2 lines, which one some maps was a yurisend. He also has quite high armor penetration even on E1, but especially on E2 he's able to deal damage normally to medium armored enemies and even still hurt high ones on lower end thanks to his very high attack stat and S1 for good measure. Because of that I didn't have to use casters on many maps that would normally require them to deal with those armored enemies. Like in episode 7, after certain point I stopped using Jessica and Exusiai, because they were simply killing enemies too slow and only scratching those high armor guerillas (C with 550 armor, someone fucked up ranks for those units badly, that's why they should have just give us actual numbers instead of trying to be cool), but Executor was able to deal with them just fine.

For CM, you'll just need to adjust your mines cause certain tiles are banned.

Yea, I saw in videos, but what I'm most afraid is increase in health/damage and if my operators can handle it then.

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Finally finished episode 7. Wow Patriot's story was tragic. Also Rosmontis is so shippable with Amiya. They even p'ei fu each other! Not to mention mutual forehead touching. Have to say was a bit disappointed with the way W was reunited with Rhodes Island. I expected something completely different than what we got.

Here is my clear. Ifrit and Eyja teaming up to bring down Patriot. Sora also showed up there for some reason. Thinking her song will end the war or something. As if that ever worked out before. Didn't try CM yet.