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Arknights! 01 Feb 09:51
joined Jul 26, 2016

Either that or it's just cause it's Chinese New Years season and traditional ink paintings are in.

Big doubt, the Honk and Vindi examples were implemented months ago on the global servers and duly still earlier on their home CN/KR ones. My bet would be devs shameless bandwagoning on some recent fad over there, be it in vidyas or wider popular culture. (Sorta like how you can fairly reliably date many a game or movie by then-fashionable hairstyles.)

Not that the distinctive aesthetic of those old ink paintings wasn't timelessly classical ofc.

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School Zone discussion 01 Feb 09:44
joined Jul 26, 2016

I mean literally the only thing present evidence allows us to state about the person at the other end of the call is it's someone Kishiya enjoys conversing with.

...can we not immediately start channeling the genius of morbidly jealous spouses over it?

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Arknights! 01 Feb 09:27
joined Jul 26, 2016

In Dusk's instance, she doesn't just use her sword for arts, but she also uses it for art. Every attack looks like a brush stroke full of ink.

That actually seems to be something of a current fad in CN/KR games; both Honkai and Vindictus recently added characters with that sort of visual effect to their attacks (albeit both empty-hand fighters), and that's just the ones I know of.

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joined Jul 26, 2016

In any case, Teru's got issues.

Certainly casts a whole new light on her previous appearances and actions. Particularly her interactions with Kayo; no wonder those two... resonate.

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Arknights! 01 Feb 08:46
joined Jul 26, 2016

I just love how she uses a sword but is a caster lol

[Lava coughs meaningfully and fiddles with her dagger]

I mean it's pretty well established that the exact physical shapes of the soi-disant "staff" devices used to help manipulate Arts are quite irrelevant - Liskarm's is built into her shield for ex, Gitano uses a freaking crystal ball, Istina and Haze use books and not a few seem to do entirely without. The prevalence of actual "wizard's staves" (with or without a knob on the end) and "wands" in that role seems to be little more than a cultural convention; it could be speculated that might be a relic of older times when such would have served as badges of rank, office and profession as several are described to be ancient family heirlooms or otherwise of considerable antiquity.

Ofc if even half of what Nian hints of her actual nature is true then it's probably safe to assume such tools are purely symbolic props for her eldritch ilk anyway...

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joined Jul 26, 2016

I hate that Shizuka never answer Mio interrogation, merely deflecting it under the umbrella that it won't happen

Same
At this point though Mio has seen multiple times how fixated Shizuka is on Kaoru, so if she really plans to continue the relationship she has no one to blame but herself if things go bad.

I mean how stable can a relationship possibly be if just a passing comment by Kaoru has the ability to undo all their progress, heck just the possibility of it is causing so much stress.

I mean it's not like she could give a satisfactory answer without falling right back into her old bad habit of lying through her teeth, there. (You know, that part of herself she's seriously trying to leave behind.) She knows only too well she hasn't yet quite gotten over that unhealthy relationship she had with pre-Mask Kaoru.

However what she tells Mio there is the truth and nothing but the truth as far as she knows it; these days Kaoru is adamant about dropping that weird cat-and-mouse thing they had going like the bad habit it was and keeps solemnly telling her to move on and be happy with Mio instead.

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joined Jul 26, 2016

Knowing both of them, they'll probs just make out outside of school

Shush, no spoiling the kids' kinky abduction roleplay

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School Zone discussion 31 Jan 19:16
joined Jul 26, 2016

Fuji, we believe in you, sweaty!

Avatar checks out.

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School Zone discussion 31 Jan 15:48
joined Jul 26, 2016

Fuji is such an adorable little disaster zone

joined Jul 26, 2016

I'm just sitting here with a coffee, reading yuri manga and wondering why the more I get through, the more there is left in the pile. I suspect someone sneaks them in whenever I go to the bathroom.

Abort. Abort. Mission has been compromised.

Snake? SNAAAAAKE?!

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Arknights! 29 Jan 11:42
joined Jul 26, 2016

Therapist: "Neko Tomoe Gozen can't de gozaru you, she isn't real"

Neko Tomoe Gozen:

joined Jul 26, 2016

What if this is actually super comfy slice of life but the author doesn't realize how serious and dramatic the faces look sometimes?

joined Jul 26, 2016

I got another weapon from free single roll... I'm about to get isekai'd, aren't I?

[intense Truck-kun noises around the corner]

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VAMPEERZ discussion 22 Jan 00:53
joined Jul 26, 2016

Lol Aria can't say "the words" just yet. Ichika, keep on taking the lead.

tsuuuun~

joined Jul 26, 2016

Same with leveling a character which may cause them to not die at specific times or do too much damage where the timing of skills gets thrown off.

Ya that happened to me in the first Frostnova stage. Originally I used Red's on-deploy stun to hold her in Sniper killzone long enough to drop her, but poor wolfy always bought it in the process (haha iced tile goes ching). Then the shooters got leveled 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... made no diff tho, the regular chaff died easily anyway, but illustrates the principle.

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Arknights! 22 Jan 00:46
joined Jul 26, 2016

"Gear comes and goes, PHASION is eternal."
- Phantasy Star Online 2 community wisdom

joined Jul 26, 2016

Depending on your characters auto deploy has a chance to fail in Arknights.

More specifically, abilities with RNG component can trip up the autopilot. Normally they're only an issue if you squaked by on a very narrow margin of error, but crowd-control ones can throw enemy arrival timings majorly off schedule and worst-case result in stuff leaking through. (Sometimes the saved strat also just plain starts screwing up ability activation timings for no obvious reason, which may ultimately require manually redoing the stage to create a new one.)

The overwhelming majority of time you'll have no issues auto-repeating stuff tho.

joined Jul 26, 2016

In AK once you properly clear a map you can thereafter just let the autopilot rerun it, so farming stuff requires altogether less time and effort.

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Citrus + discussion 21 Jan 22:38
joined Jul 26, 2016

You see because there can’t be an ending to citrus with no sex

Saburouta: "Hold my sake"

joined Jul 26, 2016

gross, wish I didn't read

I think she washed out her ass before fingering it, actually

I was talking about the molestation and blackmail, actually

This is borderline rapey

I mean the whole title already consists of unabashed hentai clichés. Not sure what you were expecting, there...

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Citrus + discussion 20 Jan 17:49
joined Jul 26, 2016

"If the DJ is good the vinyl doesn't get scratched" huh?

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Arknights! 20 Jan 16:35
joined Jul 26, 2016

I make one throwaway pull on the new banner and it's a Triad goonrespectable finball merchant, lucky!

joined Jul 26, 2016

Slightly fitting since Keqing looks rich and she's a Qixing.

Chances are being rish as fuck is a baseline requirement for the job, if I know anything about how merchant republics worked.

joined Jul 26, 2016

Still a better love story than Twilight.

Then again, so is Nazi Surfers Must Die so that's not saying much as such...