Sakura Cartelet posted:

Not sure I need any more (...) snipers since I have (...) W, Exusiai, Meteorite, Sesa, and Firewatch for snipers.

Outside of Exusiai they're all AoE snipers. There might be maps where you need more than 1 fast sniper.

myrrhmidon posted:

Personally going to use the tokens for Indra lol. I might not use her as much but it seems very unlikely for me to get another Indra.

Yea. I feel like I should spend my Defender/Guard tokens on Vulcan/Indra, since they're hard af to max. Only limited operators are harder.

myrrhmidon posted:

Anyway, next CC is confirmed for Feb. It says "early Feb" so likely first week. Everyone get your Liskarms ready. Most players consider this CC (at least the permanent map) jokingly easy.

Seriously? I barely moved with E2'ing/Mastering my operators since last one. I really hoped I'll be fully prepared before next one. I guess I'll never play my favorite part of the game on the level it's meant to be played ever. FML. BTW, why Liskarm?

Blastaar posted:

I know there have been at least three or four other “reluctant prince” stories on Dynasty, but I have not the brainpower at the moment to recall which ones they are.

From top of my head:
https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/yuri_yuri_elegy_syndrome_ch04#1
https://dynasty-scans.com/anthologies/amai_nisemono
both ends with conclusion that forcing yourself to meet expectations of others and behaving in ways unnatural for you is unhealthy though.

I agree that people shouldn't change to please others, especially to match their crushes (feelings, especially for teenagers, are so flimsy after all). As for realistic, nobody wants their story to be 100% realistic. When people say realistic, what they actually mean is believable. Making completely realistic story is just impossible, especially when you want to write sci-fi, fantasy etc. What you want is for your story to be believable, so it won't ruin readers suspension of disbelief.

And that's my 2 cents. I don't really want to start new discussion. Peko, don't kill me.

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After thinking hard about it I decided to go with Angelina after all.

Rolled for my guarantee. Didn't luck out so I had to go full 10 rolls to get 5 star. Got Tsukinogi, but she looks very underwhelming.

Rye posted:

Still no Swire...let's keep spamming that guard tag, I guess.

I think she spooked me like 3-4 times, not even on rate up lol.

I see I'm not the only one being held by by LMD poverty lol

YES.

I mean she can do Hellagur's job just fine. My jaw dropped when I saw her doing this.

I did mention I was using her against those guys, didn't I? xD

See!? Turns out it's not that stupid of a idea xD (assuming you maxed her out, I think she's M3 in this video, but no sure)

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Swag Wagon posted:

How the hell am I just hearing about this now? It's been uploaded in pieces for the past 2 years yet there are no comments past today?

Because it's date of release by scanlators. Not date it was uploaded here on Dynasty.

Rye posted:

As an Utage simp, I can confirm she does Skadi's job just fine.

I mean she can do Hellagur's job just fine. My jaw dropped when I saw her doing this.

Sakura Cartelet posted:

her psychotic glee of blowing people up is a major turn off in my book.

Good thing that's just her playing a character then.

myrrhmidon posted:

E2 Elysium seems to be really good for Sniper focused teams.

Yea.

Her team consist of 3 snipers by default

schuyguy posted:

Was this the last chapter? Can't remember if there is one more or not before it ends.

Edit: I answered my own question, I guess there is one more!

How do you know how many chapters there are going to be? This was just published a few weeks ago.

Manga always ends as soon as main couple gets together, right? That's just the common sense of storytelling.

whatayuri posted:

I\d recommend Eyja from a gameplay point of view. Don't really know what the shop schedule is but I don't recall seeing her often.

Ever since I bought her from shop, she almost never leaves my team and carried me through some of hardest maps. I couldn't be more happier with my first purchase of a 6 star.

From ones I don't have it leaves Skadi, Angelina, Nightingale, SilverAsh, Schwarz, Magallan, Mostima and Blaze.

I was mostly thinking about Angelina since she's great with her slow and will be handy for stuff like CC with limitations on casters etc. Nightingale or SilverAsh would be great too. Nightingale as ultimate arts defense (which isn't that important until you get enemies like GrudgeBearers/WorldCursers in recent event) and SilverAsh for curing cancer. Of course I can technically get both of them from recruitment, but my luck with top tags wasn't exactly the best. I didn't actually really consider Blaze, but I guess she would also be neat and I did like her in story... Then again I still want game to challenge me.

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Seems like King is terrible at management.

Also wouldn't Nakamura fit Tsundere tag?

heretowritecomments posted:

wait she's 15-

and what about it?

elevown posted:

I always thought if a guy became a girl I dont see why they would suddenly be into guys, as usually happens in such stoires. They would surely still be into girls- assuming they were in the first place.

Yea. I think it's simply a assumption of heteronormativity. So if you change gender, your sexuality must change as well. After all as a girl you have to like guys. It also could possibly be influenced by change of hormones (although I'm not sure how much they really would affect your sexuality), but I'm pretty certain most of the time, it's simply assumption that your sexuality is tied to your gender, so if character changes it, they'd automatically be attracted to opposite gender as well. Idea that they'd become gay instead both rarely crosses writers' mind and I guess, is less funny/entertaining to them.

That's surprisingly good. I laughed quite a bit.

Felloffalot posted:

This has a lot of the same vibes as The Real Her.

Yea. I was thinking the same.

TB posted:

I'm just gonna nitpick one thing mainly, why is it that eachtime some girl is line in some different plane of thinkin/deep thinking or whatever it is, they most of the time gotta make her naked, like do they really have to do that? Like they did that quite a bit in Adashima too.

I may have rolled my eyes a bit at the ED sequence.

Isn't it common to indicate that it's characters inner world etc? That it's projection of their pure self. I don't think it's done for fanservice or anything (usually).

At the very least, I hope this is successful enough to attract people to the (much better) source.

I'm going to end up saying "Read the novels!" a lot.

I'm like that with Magia Record.

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Throbelisk posted:

Orders are only given to people who are seen as lower in standing. Lower-ranking members of the military follow orders. So do slaves.

Well, it depends what you exactly mean by lower in standing, but there's plenty of jobs where you're required to follow orders. Especially for works that require teamwork and coordination, 1 person is usually picked as a leader and/or supervisor, but in turn is taking full responsibility for work going smoothly. It's entirely unrealistic to create world where you never have to listen to someone else in order to perform your job. I think blankly saying that following orders is always bad is a bit too big of generalization. I mean, even your example of military is a bit confusing. Do you really want solders, or police officers or firefighters or nurses just doing whatever and working how they like without listening to anyone?

Employees fulfill employers' requests that fall in line with their job description; they don't follow orders, and especially not arbitrary orders that have nothing to do with their employment.

That's the crux of it, isn't it? I fully agree that employee should be only required to do what their job description says, but what if that job description involves listening to someone else's orders? Again saying employee's don't follow orders is a huge generalization and honestly unrealistic. I'm not expert about maids, but from my understanding your job description is pretty much following orders of your employer. Like what function in house etc. you're assigned to and what you're supposed to do is solely depended on what you're ordered to do. And especially if the maid from story was assigned as personal maid to rich lady, she surely was given general guidelines of her job, but also in general is supposed to do anything lady could ask her to do. I'm not saying it's a good thing, but that's what their job entails. Of course the expectation is that rich lady or anyone in general, won't abuse their power and it's of course unacceptable they often do, but still technically she has power to boss maid around. So imo the fact only selfish thing she decided to do was forcing her to answer her confession is still leagues better than the usual. I'm not denying she was definitely threatened to lose her job if she didn't answer at all though.

I see personal or household maids as archaic, and an echo of a time we need to move away from. A time when indentured servitude was commonplace.

While I understand and agree with your sentiment, I think it's possible to have that kind of old-school job like maid without any toxic or problematic elements associated with it. It's all just matter of proper contracts and enforcement. I can see how work that guarantees you full board accommodation could be beneficial under certain situations.

That being said, even if we'd agree it's not acceptable irl and we should get rid of it, I don't think trying to remove it from fiction has any point. Ignoring the typical, it's just fiction, it doesn't hurt anyone etc. I just dislike imposing that kind of limitations on artists. And even if I'd grant the argument of "it's unrealistic to depict it in modern times" (which, let's be honest, most fiction is unrealistic af and authors rarely care to even try and portray things as they actually are irl), there's still plenty of other places we'll see it often and it'll make perfect sense. Historical stories, fantasy stories based on medieval times, modern times with completely made up cultures. In the end there's just no point getting outraged about stories presenting those kind of problematic elements. It's much more productive to getting outraged and attacking actual real people doing it, though I'll admit first is much easier than second, so I totally understand why most people prefer to doing that instead.

Honestly, I know I'll never be rich, I'll never have a cute maid and I'll definitely never have a innocent love affair as a child with her, so I don't particularly mind reading stories like that once in a while. It's nice being able to be put in position of someone filthy rich and experience how it's like through fictional stories. All in all, I just don't really care about bad stuff in fiction that much, since in general it doesn't really affect me or real life. I'm much more concerned about fixing actual real world. In the end while fiction can influence how people think irl about things they're not really knowledge about, if you educate and change actual people to be more aware and sensitive to those things, the fiction they'll create will be better as well. Two birds with one stone.

塞雷娅 posted:

The problem with what the author was trying to do here was that they wanted to subvert an already subverted trope.

I wanted to add 1 more thing about that. I'm pretty sure there's still plenty of stories that have typical person in power abusing their power over other person to make them do what they want, but I also feel like the subversion of it with supposedly subordinate being actually dominating in relationship is very common subversion. But if it was like you said and everyone was subverting it, because that's the only acceptable way to show that kind of power dynamic, is it really a subversion anymore? Wouldn't you say then, taking that power dynamic and actually make person with power, being dominating again, actually subversive?

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塞雷娅 posted:

If you reverse that, then it just becomes workplace harassment and coercion so that's why a lot of people dislike what the one-shot portrayed. There's an unfortunate reality we live in where people with money can get away with a lot of things and a lot of people don't like being reminded of that.

If you simply look at it like that, then yes I agree with complains. I understand why people have issue when person in power uses their power to gain something or force people to do what they want. In a vacuum getting outraged at that is 100% reasonable. That being said...

It's a incredibly generalized, shallow and narrow-minded look at this story. First of all. We have a joke based at subversion of expectations. A girl that appears to be a rich lady talks about them not being equal. Your first assumption is that she's looking down on some maid for even thinking she'd reciprocate her feelings and that she'd lower herself to date her. But then it was subverted by revealing that it's actually maid saying that to the rich lady of the house who's absolutely love struck by her and doesn't care about any of that. Then maid give justifications why she doesn't want to date rich girl and yes, it's all about social hierarchy, structure and outdated norms, but again it's not something we normally see. Usually maid wants to get all the benefit of being rich girl's favorite or in fact, be potentially elevated in status by dating her. Or she simply loves her and is happy rich girl loves her too. But here maid instead is playing into how they're not supposed to be together and she doesn't want to ruin what she already have and is happy with where she is. Rich girl completely ignores her though, cos she doesn't care about consequences, it's all about love, so she presses for the answer and maid tries to avoid answering, but rich girl turns the tables on her again using the love for work she just proclaimed, which involves following the orders of rich girl, since she's maid serving her house after all. The joke is that the lovesick girl that seemed innocent and harmless, suddenly made a 180 and actually used her power to get what she wants from maid. And as people already explained, what she wanted was a answer from maid. Only thing she forced maid to do was answer her confession. And as is clearly shown, maid actually is so charmed by sudden display of dominance from normally passive lady that she gives in and answer her honestly. So yes, rich girl used her power, but it was still a subversion of her normally docile personality. Not her overusing her power to make maid date her. And by the end we see everything worked out well and they're dating happily with maid keeping her work.

I can totally see how the same exact story could be told with all the drama and conflict of real world, but this story clearly has no intention of going there and instead keep it fluffy and wholesome. If we're going to cancel a story just because it has a implication of some real world issues, then we pretty much can't write about anything or our stories selection would become incredibly limited. I understand it plays on some real life issues and triggers bad memories, but saying this story glorifies them or depicts a abuse of power in relationship is imo going a bit too far.

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GendoIkari posted:

I don't really like the idea of loli as a tag since it seems like it would get overused for things that just have lolis present; eg. 3gatsu no lion, yuru yuru, etc; instead of indicating that they're involved in the romance as the one with the crush or something similar; this, the structural formula of first love.

I mean dynasty also tags works that have loli falling in love/dating other loli, so I think Loli as a tag has its uses too. And well dynasty already tags any work that have loli, regardless if they're involved in romance or not as Lolicon confusing people reading those works even more. I had to explain to people multiple times that on dynasty lolicon can just mean "A loli is present", when they asked confused about the tag.

Lizbo posted:

2021 goals: disaggregate the Loli from Lolicon

Let's be honest here. Where there's the one, there's usually the other, even if only on the other side of the screen...

2021 barely started and I already read one of the biggest bs of my life.

Rye posted:

Ok can y'all check my Onlyfans so I can afford the guaranteed Blaze pack? Thanks. This is a joke

You got me x3 I was thinking like "Wait!? Rye has Onlyfans!?"

Ok. WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK. I roll my free roll today and I dropped ANOTHER 6 STAR XD It was Phantom this time, but again, can't really complain. cos 1. IT'S ANOTHER FUCKING 6 STAR and 2. I really wanted Phantom x3

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I forgot to mention that it's nice we got Savage again, but I was going to ask if we're supposed to waste tokens to improve her potential, but I see you can only increase her pot once and you can't even use tokens for it, so... how do I do it if I got her first time? I'm supposed to wait for next anniversary for her free token xD?

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random posted:

AFAIK Kalt was an Operator already in the beta tests - and so utterly broken they apparently still haven't figured out how to rework her enough to be balanced in the actual release.

I think that's what I read then.

No wonder her and Red mop the floor with Crownslayer and her squad by themselves in-story :v

Yea. I remember that from story. Kalt was always being foreshadowed to be incredibly strong.

塞雷娅 posted:

Rosmontis is a great sniper but she only hits ground units and doesn't fit on as many maps as Mudrock does.

It didn't stop me from trying to use Executor/Ifrit on every map.

Honestly feels like all of the 6 stars that accompany a limited 6 star always feels slightly more useful i.e. with Weedy being an absolute unit of a pusher specialist and Mudrock being Hellagur but buffer, tankier, and can block more enemies.

Was Aak better than Nian?

myrrhmidon posted:

Found this channel with videos of the Arknights story scenes. You can also read the stories ingame via the Archives tho it seems Darknights hasn't been added yet. I guess it will be added after the Darknights shop is gone too.

Thanks, though back when I intended to read old events, I found those myself. It's just I never got around to doing it. At least for events I'd play, normally I'd just read them as I was beating it and for Darknights I even actually read story before first stage, but then didn't really feel like reading and I needed to beat stages fast to not waste ap and things somehow ended up like that. As I said, I did read Darknights before it ended, so it was first event outside of Grani I actually read.

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塞雷娅 posted:

Well good news then! She's the next limited operator and Murdock is the one who's gonna be on the same banner like with Weedy.

Och! I remembered everyone talking about Mudrock, I must have completely forgot/miss Rosmontis. Welp, I guess it's time for me to start seriously saving up. From what I looked at her, she looks pretty interesting. She's similar hybrid Sniper like Executor and I like those unique operators.

random posted:

I like Rosmontis so far. If they'd ever add her,

Was there ever any doubt, really?

Well, I remember reading that they wanted to add Kal'tsit, but didn't because she'd be too op or something like that, so I was thinking they might use the same excuse with Rosmontis. I knew they'll add her eventually though, just didn't think it already happened.

So. I made my free roll today and dropped another Weedy xD Of course W would be better, but can't really complain x3

Also I forgot to mention, I really need to read up on AK lore/setting, because I was kinda getting lost with entire Sarkaz culture and politics. Also also I need to make a confession, I never ended up reading any of old events or even ones I already played... I bet if I actually read Wolumonde, I'd be hyped for Mudrock as well. She looks interesting gameplay wise though. I really like self-sustaining operators.

myrrhmidon posted:

And on CN they revealed new 6 star sniper Archetto, a griffin

Archetto...
looks at her
Sounds about right

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