Managed to do risk 18 yesterday. Thanks for your Suzuran, myrrhmidon! Other 2 I had in friends had S2 set instead and I really needed S3 for my strategy to work. Setup and risks. Strat is definitely far from optimal, but idk how much higher I can go. This CC really is arts dmg check.

Also didn't max East Armory. Was close to doing it, but didn't have enough free time and for some reason I was challenging myself to not use devices (I guess since there is risk where they're banned, so I wanted to prepare myself). Did max risk of Pyrite Gorge though. My pool of supports I invested in at all is very limited, so I thought I won't pull it off, but it turned out to be enough. I'd actually use Rosa instead of W, but I just blown up all my refreshes and I had no time and patience to refresh it through leaving stage.

myrrhmidon posted:

Inevitably, I may end up doing the same when burnout sets in for me. I am still curious about where the story will go but alas, as with gacha games, story will keep going until the game dies.

You're getting bored of the game?

whatayuri posted:

Yuri Risk18

Gj! I see we used very similar strategies.

Managed only risk 14 on Locked-Down Prison. I'm happy that I managed to beat it with -50% attack, but +30% health was just too much for me. Later I thought of strategy that I might maybe pull max risk off with, but run out of time to try. My setup. I was thinking of grouping everyone near exit, so I can use Eyja to kill everyone at once and maybe use Liskarm to recharge her faster if needed.

So farm managed to do risk 15 on perma map.

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Chikaon posted:

I hope some of the other shorts get translated too!

I was going to translate them, but I guess now that someone translated one, they'll probably translate rest as well.

Rye posted:

Yo the new CC map is fun as heck! I haven't been able to get risk 15 but I'll keep trying before it rotates. Perma map looks much more fun than last time, at least.

As much as I am annoyed I'm not as prepared as I wanted now that CC is here I'm actually quite hyped. Didn't try perma yet. I wanted to, but was too tired after work. New stage do look fun and fairly easy. Only beat it without risks so far.

Had enough for 1 10-roll for Nian and got Beeswax...she's new but I'm never getting Nian now :'^)

Did 1 10-roll as well and got Swire and Hung. Also lol I made 120 rolls last time. Makes my Hellagur and Aak spooks even more annoying (I still love you Hell <3).

I see an Ifrit tile but I can ALSO use Schwarz on the other side!

I used Ifrit on the line you're most likely talking about. I have Ifrit, Sideroca and Platinium on bottom, Eyja, Ceobe and Perfume on top and Hellagur with Ch'en guarding rear. Myrtle for DP, Utage to block/kill few last Gurillas and Red for last ice bombs and crutch blocking at the very end. I actually manage to make stable auto fairly easily. For Kazimierz it took me entire 2 months figuring it out and I still am not sure if it's entirely stable (not beating map itself, but figuring a setup that will always work and doesn't rely on too much rng).

The previous one is kinda hard to auto...no idea why tbh, my deploys were good but still gives me errors :/

Same. I was using Lappland and Mudrock so I guess RNG just didn't work out sometimes.

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Nevri posted:

While idea of Satou being inside job is pretty plausible, my taken on it is that Satou likes new, inexperienced girls. She was happy when Rin acted clumsy and in fact wanted to cut date short to jump to fucking cuddling. She most likely like taking care of others and so she enjoys when new girls are not yet good at the job and aren't doing exactly well, so she needs to help them out. That's why she immediately checks every new girl. As soon as she saw Rin preparing bed beforehand and taking initiative with bath, she lost her boner and it wasn't her fetish anymore interest in Rin and no longer felt like it was what she expected. If that really is the case, I think it's really stupid, if only for the simple fact that at any professional place even if someone is new, they should be trained well enough to know what they're doing, but maybe she's regular at this place, exactly because owner just hires girls left and right and send them to work without any training whatsoever. But that's only a wild guess stares.

Rotfl. I didn't expect to be right about everything xD

myrrhmidon posted:

I really prefer to burst down Rat King before he gets far so I used Surtr + Saria.

Well, in both cases I killed him on his spawning tile.

Trafalgar posted:

Im officially lost, i dunno who is who anymore

Neither do author.

Rye posted:

Gaaaaahhhh GOT FREAKING AAK AGAIN I HATE THIS GAME SO MUCH! REMEMBER LIKE A YEAR AGO WHEN I WAS ALL LIKE "OOOH I'M SO BLESSED IN THIS GAME :)"?! ME NEITHER! HES NOT EVEN IN RATE UP! REEEEEEEE

pat pat

Already bought the Silence skin, it's cute but Gravel's skin is so freaking beautiful it kinda overshadowed it for me.

Yea. Gravel skin is great. It was insta buy for me.

Freeze gimmick. I don't like slow stages if it wasn't obvious.

Yea, though surprisingly I manage to avoid it for the most part.

Think I'll just use a guide this time, I did the previous one without guide using Ifrit.

I beat it without guides fairly easy, but like with Kazimierz Anni, I'm struggling to create a stable auto in last part.

1 Drop Surtr in front of him
2 activate skill
3 ??????
4 profit!
Works for every boss but I use Utage instead.

Well, I'm avoiding using Surtr so. It turned out to not be so bad. I beat it with Ceobe and Utage in normal mode and because of deploy restriction in CM, I used Ceobe and Eyja instead. Utage instead took care of Greytails. Wow it was so satisfying seeing how freaking fast she drops their health to zero. Currently in middle of mastering her S2.

I take back what I said about Opera Girl!. It has yuri potential after all. Two main leads hold hands in opening.

Zormau posted:

Ah, one of my fondest childhood memories is how, back in the day, [...]
Good times those were, and, alas, they shall not come again.

Great writing, but What the fuck am I reading?

Example of how normal friends interact.

myrrhmidon posted:

Actually, it's Ch'en tho Rosa is in the banner and I am tempted.

Fail. When I saw banner announcement, I assumed Rosa will be in shop, since I thought the 6 star on the left always is, so that's what I codded in my brain. And I even saw Ch'en in shop before posting, but I guess it didn't register in my brain, so I was still convinced Rosa was in shop.

Back to back events and banners for us.

I'm getting really bad MR flashbacks. Such pacing is the best way to get your players to burn out on the game quickly. At least the events itself usually last 2-3 weeks.

FluffyCow posted:

Exactly what Bitfarb said.

I'm at this point repeating myself a bit, but it's not that I want there to be less Yuri, I'm simply frustrated with how the author handled this chapter. The author could also have them meet up early and expand the story from there. Going past the initial starting goal into a new direction. As I've said before, I know series are often short and end when they reach the initial goal, but they also don't have to end. The author could easily have the meet up early and go from there.

It's sadly simple. Usually authors have idea for certain setup, but actually have no idea what to do after concluding it. That's why, especially romcoms etc. end after couple gets together, because entire story is about getting there and author is writing around it. Here author probably wanted to conclude series after Mai and Asumi meets for the same reason, but once they were told to continue, the only way they knew how to continue was by keeping the status quo and initial premise. I wouldn't be surprised if they were also told that initial premise is exactly why many people like it and that they have to keep it in order to keep the current interest/popularity of the series.

But that is just assumptions of someone who loves to bitch and moan about manga industry.

Lilliwyt posted:

Imagine being mad to have a longer yuri. Like, you realise the manga would end shortly after they meet and do it right ?Making them meet that early who have make the manga really short. I can't believe peoples rather have less yuri.

"Less yuri" is such deceptive way to put it. To me, and I assume to many people here, it's more about quality than quantity. I much prefer have shorter, but really good story, than longer one that's artificially stretched and contrived to the point of becoming tedious and/or annoying to read.

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So cute. So sad.

Opera Girl! looks interesting so far and might have some potential for yuri, but I doubt it. Hanigare rip-off (The Aquatope on White Sand) seems good so far and have a lot of potential, mostly for good story, but also for yuri.

Sceptile posted:

I suppose I like this manga. Their romance seems a bit too convenient and sudden and liberta feels a bit like a Mary Sue.

I mean. The entire manga feels like fanfiction/wishful thinking, so.

Gridman posted:

Except it does, but you conveniently ignored it every time it was brought up to you. You keep coming to this thread saying the same things and when people give you proofs you're wrong, you either ignore it or disappear and then are surprised that people recognize you in different threads, when you did this shit already on like 3 separate occasions.

No, it doesnt. After all these years there hasn't been one single romantic kiss between the two main characters. Literally zero. They had "candy sharing" very early and a cheek kiss. Are those low bars your standard for a romantic kiss?

Proving my point.

Also, idk why I bother when you already ignored me pointing it out, but fuck me, I'll do it again. In what world good friends share candies by kissing? I guess I only had shitty friends.

I mean, in what scenario "platonically kissing to share candy" would ever happen? Maybe if it was like your parent doing it, but we're not fucking birds...

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myrrhmidon posted:

And congrats on Rosa. I'll just get her when she shows up in the shop. Hopefully.

It's funny you say that and then next banner she's 6 star in shop xD

I got Astesia and Warfarin spook from banner. Not bad, but I really wanted April. Also got Cliffheart from solo specialist tag.

Also forgot to mention, but Rosmontis S1 actually turned out to be very useful in last EX stage in Mansfield Break. I used her and Lappland to take care of bottom line (Ifrit was able to take care of top one entirely by herself).

Finished all stages outside of last one from Beyond Here. I'm getting strong Rewinding Breeze vibe with all the reused mechanics. I guess that's how those kind of events work. Seems like this time I'll need to properly figure out how to deal with Rat King's mechanics.

Sakura Cartelet posted:

The sanity requirements for this event are crazy since the costume for Silence costs 500 sanity just for it. :(

You get currency from any stages, not just event ones, so you should easily clear entire shop by just playing game normally, assuming you'll spend entire AP.

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Finally maxed out Lancet, now only THRM-EX left. From 10 roll got 1 (at least, literally last roll) copy of Beanstalk and Cliffheart. Sucks since I really wanted Iris, but och well.

Zormau posted:

Wouldn't it be healthier to view it as their attempt to integrate the concepts with their lived experience — which is unique to each individual?

By healthier, you mean not jumping to conclusions? Giving a benefit of the doubt?

I don't think they made a claim to a universal split of roles, just extrapolated from their own experience.

Phrase "who's guy in relationship" is pretty unambiguous and used throughout to mean exactly that, who fulfills the role of a man and woman in relationship and when used in that specific context, what people mean by "guy" is pretty clear cut as well, so I'm highly skeptical they mean it as something very specific and individual to them. It very clearly sounded like in order to relate and/or understand lesbian relationships, they need to force stereotypical gender roles on them for those relations to make sense to them, hence why they like top/bottom dynamic (which is another can of worms in and of itself). I dislike labels and roles in the first place, but forgive me that I'm especially sick and tired of everyone trying to push them on homosexual relationships to try turn them into something they're not.

Also I'd say "guy(s)" and "dude(s)" have long since transcended gender-locks in common parlance.

While it's true, especially for dude, 1. I'm not native speaker, so to me those words still hold quite a lot of their original gender implication (and I still use word "guy" to mean specifically "man" a lot, I usually only see it as gender neutral when used as plural, but even then not always) and 2. Just because those words became accepted as gender neutral, it doesn't mean I like or want to use them like that, because I dislike that they were male to begin with and used as default, even towards females, to the point of becoming gender neutral (and from my understanding it wasn't really intentional, but more people didn't bother to include women, so women had to include themselves). Basically it's another example of long standing sexism in most languages, that men and male words are default and in order to make word female, you either need to change male form, which acts as the base or you just fuck it and use male word to females as well, because why bother.

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Daviddv0601 posted:

I like it because it helps me imagine the scenario as who's the guy in the relationship.

But they're both women, so neither is guy in relationship. I know you mean who has what role, but I find that insulting at best, even in het. There's no like universal split of roles in relationship. It's unique to each individual one.

myrrhmidon posted:

We may not get dead weeks cause I'm not quite sure when Nian reruns. Supposed to rerun along with CC#4 ("mid-July") which was the case in CN, but Archetto's banner won't end until the 20th. Maybe there will be overlap or maybe Nian will start immediately after Archetto. If there is overlap, then that makes it likely for Dusk banner + event to start at the end of July when CC#4 ends aka no breaks in this banner train. It is the usual for events to start at the end of the month. But nothing confirmed other than the dates for Archetto banner and that CC#4 is "mid-July".

Yea, it sounds likely if they don't want to suddenly give us dead weeks after that sudden rush. Whatever it's because they finally decided to catch up or some other reason, who knows. Some players/youtubers would be happy about it, cos they complain they hate waiting/get bored of stuff before we get to it.

Congrats! I actually thought you were a day 1 player.

Nah. I was playing FGO and MR already, so any more gacha games would be too much. Not to mention I had no idea AK even existed, since I only started those 2 because of a friend, as I wasn't really that interested in gacha games in general myself, to keep track what's out there, what's getting global release etc. I started playing like week or 2 before half-anniversary Nian banner. Of course now that I got hooked on AK, I wish I played from day 1, because you're losing so much not playing gachas from start + for other 2 I played from the start (well for MR I missed like first week or so), so I wasn't really used to joining games once the train started.

New Annihilation map today. Took me a couple of retries. Still hate the Freezing gimmick.

Didn't try it yet. Want to farm as much Aketon as possible, so I'm waiting for playing it once Beyond Here starts.

ozzy posted:

people overthink way too much reading this. if it bothers you to the point where its ruined because you let it get to you instead of maybe focusing on the plotline instead of tiny insignificant flaws to a story this short, go read something simpler? i’m just quite sick of seeing people nitpick on a tiny detail and scratching the series altogether because of something that isn’t even relevant to the main plot.

I'm sorry, but what are you talking about exactly?

Watched first episode of Kanojo mo Kanojo out of curiosity and I have to say, I was positively surprised. It was so hilarious, I was crying from laughter. It's a really nice take on polyamorous relationship and so far doesn't feel forced and characters are likeable, or at least, have enough personality. But the most important thing, first gf actually openly admits being attracted to second gf, so there's also potential for some yuri. Going by opening, there'll apparently be 2 girls more, which I'm not that happy with, since I like the main trio. I guess I should at least wait and see if they'll be as likeable as 3 current characters, before judging it.

Forgot to mention that I also finally reached 500 recruitments. Didn't use voucher yet. Going to wait with it for now. Also E2 my Indra and put her on support, since I figured she'll do better job at encouraging people to use her than Executor since 1. she's very rare so more people won't have her 2. I got her at pot 4 so that has to count for something. Only M2 her S1 for now, need to farm mats for M3, but we'll do it once event is over.

Also, today is my 1 year anniversary of playing AK! Got medal and all.

myrrhmidon posted:

I would love to see Kal's reaction that despite that goodbye message, Theresa comes back anyway lol.

Not to mention W's reaction.

It could also be a thing similar to Avatar the Last Airbender's Spirit World where all the Lord of Fiends can communicate to the current one in some way.

It felt more final than this, but I guess we need to wait for more info.

Just to be clear, Mephisto really is a bird, a Liberi.

Och, didn't know/remember that. I meant the actual bird, animal turning human or w/e thanks to originum though. Then again considering Emperor and High Priest exists...

supposedly he wanted to be reborn like how the Doctor lost his memories. He was expecting something similar not getting-turned-into-Lugia. He wanted to forget everything he had done basically running away from his problems.

Och, ok. That actually do make sense.

applauds Loving your dedication to cute cat daughter.

Thanks!

Btw, rejoice Eyja fans! Eyja summer skin.

Yea! Loving it! Once they teased she'll appear in summer event, I knew they'll finally give her skin, since unlike other gacha games AK doesn't bait their players, so I wasn't too surprised that we actually got it.

Rye posted:

I don't like this speed. What is Yostar doing? Trying to catch ups after all? We are not getting any compensation for the Annihilation weeks we might lose because of this speed. Eh, maybe we'll just get dead weeks after this?

Yea, same. I really don't like it. And giving us dead weeks would defeat the purpose of rushing events, so I don't think they're going to do that.

Actually! Its quite possible! You can spam recruitment + insta recruit or 1 hour recruitment for a dice roll. I've gotten around 40 since I bought the cat last week by doing this inconsistently.

Yea, but the issue is having enough recruitment permits.

Gotta love Nev's massive posts haha

I mean. That's what happens when you don't post for like a month and had a lot of things to say stare

You feel it too, don't you? :'^)

YES