random posted:

I mean tbf the Arknights world-setting in general - or at least the parts we get to see onscreen - is pretty much a Triple-Shot Depresso with a large topping of Bleak.

That is... surprisingly aptly way to put it...

I like Rosmontis so far. If they'd ever add her, I'd actually roll for her. Also I just cleared 7-2 and now I can get behind Ch'en. She finally felt human to me.

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Happy new year from the future! 2021 might not be best, but it's definitely much better than 2020.

Autumn posted:

https://i.ibb.co/6gfVLkR/vlcsnap-2020-12-25-15h20m50s231.png
Unexpected yuri ship.

Sadly they're just friends.

Serenata posted:

Sadly, that show is the strongest definition of bait, or bait and switch

What series it is?

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myrrhmidon posted:

Yeah Darknights really adds more to her character. I had thought she was just a spy.

Your impression is still better than mine. I thought that ignoring money, she joined Reunion mostly for lolz and opportunity to blow shit up and didn't really care if her allies died (which is ironic cos that was kinda how she was originally before meeting Ines and Hoederer, so I guess gj game?). BTW. I was totally sure they're going to both die.

Also I forgot to mention, but I'm not sure how much I like the fact that Talulah isn't really herself anymore and instead is controlled by someone else destroying and using Reunion. Like I actually got behind the idea that Reunion is actually kinda the good guys and they were successful in raising and uniting Infected, but then Talulah got possessed and everything fucked up. Idk, gives kinda depressing message in already depressing world. That oppressed group will be always oppressed and used no matter what.

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So I actually moved my lazy ass and read the story (it may or may not have anything to do with the fact I couldn't sleep) and I have to say I didn't expect to end up liking W so much. Like turns out the brief moment we encounter her in main story isn't representative of her character at all. So I decided to roll rest of my Orundum (2 x 10 + 2 rolls) for her and if I won't get her, at least with tickets + daily rolls I should reach 75 to get Elysium in case he won't decide to show up as well. First 10 roll was great with Elysium coming home, so I rolled second and, em, this happened. Ngl I really wanted to finally get one of those really lucky rolls. When I saw Wendy, I was happy but also she isn't limited so I kinda lowkey hoped for double 6 star and then game nicely surprised me. For once rate up didn't fail me x3 Podenco was nice bonus as well, since it was my first copy of her.

Also made first step in making good on my promise of rewarding operators, who helped me clear event.

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Norainhere posted:

Because doing proper Ifrit setup is much easier and is way more reliable. Still thanks, I appreciate that you don't think it was stupid.

Just watched some other people's strategies for MO-1 and yeah, I can kinda see what you mean lol. But still, coming up with your own strategies and winning with them on these hard levels is half the fun, so I don't think it's worth feeling bad about at all.

Yea. I mean I didn't check any guides on purpose and I'm incredibly happy I cleared all stages on my own (even if sometimes I was getting really frustrated when it seemed like I was almost there, but kept failing). I play AK to challenge myself and have fun with game and my operators. It's just after I was done I went to check how the hell people did those stages and I was like "OMG, I'm so stupid, why I didn't think about doing that!?". Like with Ifrit setup I was literally trying to do it, I just concluded it was impossible half way through and gave up, when all I had to do to make it work was adding healing defender there... So beating it on your own feels satisfying, but then seeing how you could do it much easier and you just didn't think about it makes you feel stupid.

Firewatch throughout the seasons

That's so cute!

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Norainhere posted:

We get him from first day of sign up. It just starts on January 2. We'll also get copy during episode 7. Whatever 1 or more, not sure.

Isn't Jihadbot a login reward, like Beagle's free skin? P sure that only starts counting tomorrow...

Oh, so we are getting a free copy of him. That's good to know; I must not have read the announcement carefully enough.

Yea, np. Happens to the best of us xP

So, I recorded my terrible strategy.

Good job! I don't know why you're calling this a terrible strategy

Because doing proper Ifrit setup is much easier and is way more reliable. Still thanks, I appreciate that you don't think it was stupid.

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So, I recorded my terrible strategy.

Norainhere posted:

After spending all of my orundum and tickets I've been saving up, I managed to get 2 W's, full potential Elysium, and even Suzuran popped up.

Gj!

By the way, somehow I thought we'd be getting a free Thermal-EX for our anniversary in addition to a free Savage, but unfortunately I was wrong. Good luck to everyone trying to get him from recruitment; his tags are relatively rare.

We get him from first day of sign up. It just starts on January 2. We'll also get copy during episode 7. Whatever 1 or more, not sure.

24th started very good for me, since I finally got top operator tag after like 2-3 months of nothing. Early present from Santa. Tag combinations weren't that great, had healing, ranged and melee, so I decided to go for Shinning or Nightingale. Got Shining. Next day rolled on banner and got Silence with 5 tickets from guarantee which was nice, since I do use her often.

Norainhere posted:

I managed to beat all of the extra operations! Now all that's left is the pseudo-Annihilation stage in a few days. This is actually the first event I've been able to beat without using any guides at all, so I'm pretty happy with myself. DM-EX-6 gave me a lot of trouble but I barely managed to beat it without wasting any sanity.

Yea. DM-EX-6 was a nightmare. I barely managed to do it on normal version and then turns out I can't repeat it on challenge, because my strategy didn't work with Sentinels leaving faster, so I had to reinvent it. Myrtle turned out to be MVP. I thought I didn't have enough time to deploy her, but again I heavily underestimated just how fast and much DP she creates. M3 her S1 was totally worth it. Her and Hellagur carried me through this event. I'm totally E2 him after this.

But yea, technically first event I beat without ever checking guides was Grani, but that's because I only played rerun and with my E2 operators, it was a walk in the park. I wasn't even playing it half seriously, so I'm considering this event first true challenge I beat entirely myself, which I'm incredibly happy with. Then of course I checked Eckogen's and Kyostin's guides and felt stupid I didn't figure out you can just let Blaze solo everything... Well I never used her so I couldn't even know she could do it. Also strat with using Spot to block Sentinels so they'd never leave was so clever xD

Psuedo-Anni turned to be a nightmare and because I was taking it easy and only left last week to do extra stages and it, I was a bit pressed for time. I finished clearing Extra stages 2 days ago, so I only had 2 days to beat Anni. I wasted like 300 ap and 1 Originium to beat it, but it was totally worth it and I finished clearing entire shop except for furnitures and furnitures part, which I don't care about, anyway. Projekt Red was incredible there (as well as Hellagur). Honestly I'll probably E2 all operators I used in that stage...

Norainhere posted:

Also I forgot to mention this yesterday, but finally there'll be more operators in Recruitment! This is happening a bit later than it did for the Chinese server, but at least it's finally happening. This is actually a bit of a mixed bag, since this means that several tag combinations no longer give out guaranteed 4-stars (ie you'll probably get Spot instead of Gummy, Popukar instead of Estelle, and Catapult instead of Shirayuki). On the other hand, there will be a few new tag combinations that guarantee the 4-star Greyy and the 5-star Nightmare, such as Caster+Slow and Healing+DPS. And of course if you manage to get a Top Operator tag there'll be Skadi and Ch'en finally available.

Yea. Since I already maxed the ones they added, it doesn't really matter to me, then again I already maxed those 3 stars as well... I wish other 4 stars started to drop from my rolls... Still those 5-6 stars are nice additions.

塞雷娅 posted:

Hypergryph continues to look more like a music company LOL. Also the MV and the special we got keeps making me think we're going to get an anime...

Yea. They totally should.

myrrhmidon posted:

Thank you for coming home. Of course Elite 2 immediately. Glad she did come home after 118 rolls cause I wouldn't want the mats I saved up to be for naught.

Gj! Yea, that'd suck x3 I know from experience stare

塞雷娅 posted:

....huh. So I only did 33 pulls and got both Weedy and W and also pot 2 Elysium. I genuinely don't know how to feel cause I thought it would take way more... It took me over 100 pulls to get Nian so the fact I still have a 10 pull ticket left over AND 40k orundum left makes me feel a little complicated.

Wow, gj!

The unfortunate part of being lucky is that I have to farm so many chips for all of the 6 stars I just got. I still haven't even promoted Phantom to elite 1 so it's gonna be a while of farming for me. The dumb part here is that I have 3 million LMD and all of the mats saved up but the only thing I'm missing are chips.

Yea, I was like that with Ifrit as well. I had everything to E2 her, but no chips x3

As for my rolls. Finally got Cutter and of course since I really liked Elysium and wanted him, I got Ayerscarpe instead. Throw another 10 roll since I could afford to. Got another Cutter and GrayThrot so it was worth it. I really liked her in the story, so I wanted to drop her. Well, what the hell, I decided to throw another one. Didn't even get 5 star, so it's signal to drop it. Maybe I'll get lucky with daily single rolls.

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This manga is such trash.
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On serious note. I know it's such ancient reply but whatever.

Blastaar posted:

I don't mind reading stories for that too, but this specific premise I read so many times, I'm currently sick off it and prefer to look for different kinds of stories.

Wait, the "I can love you only because you can't love me" premise? Because that's the only thing that does seem unusual to me.

Or something else?

No, I meant the set up of "Character with tragic pasts gets healed with power of MC's love." I know it was mistranslation, but I honestly got really hyped up when at first they implied that Yuu is asexual and Nanami will be trying to make her fall in love with her. It felt like it had so much potential and possibilities. It just felt like very unique set up for slow burn romance. But then it turned out to be "I'm damaged so I'll love you, but you're not allowed to love me back." and Nanami had all this dark past that Yuu had to help her overcome. That's like romance stories 101. I read dozens of that. That's what I mean that the story was generic. And of course childhood friend that was initially introduced and seemed to be really just friends with Nanami, later turned out to be in love with her, but decided to keep it a secret. Gee, where did I see that one before??? Seriously I'd pay for story where childhood friend turns out to not have secret feelings for MC/Love Interest. So again, it is well written and all that and I agree that you can retold the same story many times and still make it feel fresh, but this specific set up "MC falls for someone with dark past that they need help overcoming before they can be together" is so incredibly common trope, I'm just sick of it.

OrangePekoe posted:

Hi Nevri!

Hi Peko!

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Reached 300 recruitments today so got my Indra.

I figured why I was getting confused with potentials. It's because when you go into operator's potential, game shows you the number counting base as well.

The uniform buttons are on the wrong side. She clearly draw it looking at her right arm, hence why everything is reversed.

Kirin posted:

^ There's definitely a thumb there, though? You can see a minor incline heading up from the base of the wrist. It's just that her thumb is obscured behind her palm, and you can only see the rounding of the joint. Considering that the artist has dainty, delicate hands, it's not too strange for the bones to not be pronounced enough to prominently jut.

Shitty Impeccable paint skill go!


It'd be true if she had her thumb hidden behind her palm, but panel bellow shows that it isn't and thumb should be perfectly visible from the front. In fact unless we're supposed to assume she moved hand during sleep (I think she's supposed to be deep in sleep in 1 position, but I could be wrong) even the hand position doesn't match up. On panel on top her arm is leaning towards her left, while on panel bellow her arm is leaning towards her right. Also on top panel her pinky finger is the highest and pointing is the lowest, while on bottom her point is the highest, while pinky is the lowest.

to dunk on someone who literally portrays anatomy for a living.

Implying professional artists that draw for a living who fuck up anatomy constantly don't exist.

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Norainhere posted:

Okay, so originally I was planning until I got the 5-star pity, hoping I'd at least get Shamare. But somehow, on my very first single roll I ended up getting Phantom.

Congrats!

Lizbo posted:

It's a bit confusing but she doesn't have two right hands.

No, she really does. If that's a left hand, where's the thumb?

You're right. Author fucked up and forgot to draw thumb.

塞雷娅 posted:

So I just did 20 pulls and got 2 Phantoms and 1 Cutter. Legit only did that second 10 pull to try and get Cutter and I guess I accomplished my goal.

Gj!

Sadly my 10 roll was incredibly meh. As always rate up hates me. Got 3-4 4 stars and neither was Cutter or new potential/someone I didn't have yet. my guarantee 5 star wasn't Shamare or even Ptilopsis, but another copy of Nightmare. She's cute and all, but her gameplay really looks hard to use effectively, but at this point she'll be my first 5 star I maxed potential for, so I guess she'd deserve to be E2 at this point. Ngl, I kinda hoped for Phantom spook cos he looks cool and have interesting gameplay. Only silver lining was that I dropped final copy of Catapult, so with that I maxed out potential for all 3 stars.

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I'd read entire 4koma of their relationship. The "No need for the witty retort." and "...you didn't lay eggs in me last time, did you?" jokes completely killed me x3

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BV posted:

LOL, I literally thought that this discussion was called "Delete this discussion", not Delete This discussion.

Same xD

TyrantRex posted:

I don't get this "you have to get married because mom says it".I guess it is other culture or just fiction to make a manga.

It's more "society expects it" and it's expected norm. People expect you to marry before you're 30 and have kids. Part of it is general stability, but there's also expectation that it's what makes you a productive member of society and it's your responsibility to the country. It's especially common in Asian countries, but definitely not exclusive to them.

glad1983 posted:

Chewed down by corporate machine and its pressures, yet not being able to do anything about it, because he have to provide for his stay-at-home wife.

And now she also comes to him saying she wants to go back to work, undermining one of the pillars of his existence.

You're contradicting yourself.

he looks to actually care about her, even if he throws a crass comment here and there.

I can't really say someone who thinks you should be happy he even wants to fuck you, really cares that much about you.

He doesn't seem too keen on having children, but goes along with it, because his wife "wants it" on top of their parents also pushing for it. In that situation, he is probably a bit torn by her not getting pregnant. Rather miserable existence

Och, so he has miserable life because he's socially pressured into doing things he doesn't really want to, but does it so people won't complain? A concept completely alien to Yukako, I'm sure. Not like entire society doesn't acknowledge her sexual identity or anything.

Norainhere posted:

I believe the convention is to not use the first one; ie if you only got one Zima she's potential-0, if you get one copy of her its potential-1, etc.

KK. I always used it like that, but whenever I was about to write it, I started having doubts if someone won't think I'm including base copy into it as well.

Also I'm curious, is anyone planning on rolling the Darknights banner? I'll probably only go for the 5-star pity; I'm saving up for W's banner.

The new operators on it seems really interesting, especially Definitely-Not-Annie, so i'll throw 10 roll from the get go.

Speaking of W, why everyone want her so much? She appeared like once in story and from what I remember she said she was with Reunion just so she can blow shit up and doesn't care about anything else. Did I miss something? What is her appeal?

Franka x Liskarm 4koma

Fuck, that's cute xD And smooth x3

Yuriisthebestest posted:

It fucking end just like that?

It's just end of chapter indicator.

Yukako wouldn't be in this situation if being a lesbian was consider acceptable and she wouldn't feel so pressured to be "normal". Without other people showing her support and acceptance of who she is, things are very unlikely to change anytime soon. Also even if it was loveless marriage, husband is still a dick and pretty garbage human, so I feel no sympathy for him.