#off-topic-discussion

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copper lark
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we're about to reveal my baby side

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whats that?

wide ember
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the Inheritors is the webcomic I mentioned that has tiny shares on tumblr, its main post site, but huge following else where

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oc tournaments were more popular on deviantart though?

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then it kind of mass migrated to tumblr

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then moved out of tumblr again

hasty kernel
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Yeah, mostly Deviantart

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Basically

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You had one organizer and a bunch of artists working together on an event

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Where due to some contrived reason, each artists OC was put into the same area

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With them fighting until only one remains

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Each round, the 2 opposing artists drew/animated their version of how it would go, people vote which one they like better, and whoever wins advances

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And it was pretty damn cool

wide ember
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it was very, very cool

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all tumblr had to do was have a proper ban system for actual bad contents and posts, but with this mass nsfw ban with bad algorithm... nah

hasty kernel
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Oh it was hella cool

wide ember
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my own dash was very nice

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but the rest of the website has the reputation of a hell site

hasty kernel
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The most known ones were probably ENDZONE and Law of Talos

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One of the OCs in Law of Talos being this guy

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He was a blast

wide ember
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oh bird

hasty kernel
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The raven transforms into weapons of all kinds

wide ember
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if only tumblr management made more sense

hasty kernel
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Honestly the NSFW ban was dumb but it wasnt the end of anything

wide ember
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it was the on going bad management

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the whole "hunt" thing

bold escarp
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Far as I can tell, it didn't even reduce the NSFW content that much

hasty kernel
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It did

wide ember
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people would pick a popular user and en mass accuse that person of fabricated sins and crimes

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it was a game to the people doing that, no so much for the prey

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they would accuse a jewish transman of being transphobic and racist for example

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or david gaider or someone to be homophobic

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or someone designing PoC ocs for being racist

bold escarp
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I remember the Dream Daddy folks getting grief over a secret ending that wasn't in the game and wasn't meant to be serious

wide ember
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and the "proofs" they post would appear more like proof against the accusations for people with brains

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and all this chased away plenty of good users that brought more users to tumblr

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writers, comic artists, official staff of significant projects

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and tumblr didn't even admit that those social predators existed

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instead, they decided that nsfw content was what chasing away investors

bold escarp
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Also they ignored the actual racists and homophobes

wide ember
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yep

hasty kernel
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And Neo-Nazis, unfortunately

bold escarp
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You can just lump them in with the racists and homophobes

hasty kernel
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I like to make a distinction because they are just that crucial bit more awful

wide ember
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it was insane, if a video of a small parrot whistling gets popular, users would report it and it would get deleted or banned

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but actual bad people and posts that encouraged mass doxxing of other users? will stay there unless the poster deletes them

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I wasn't even exaggerating, I followed many bird blogs, sfw ones of course, that posted almost only birds, and they constantly got in trouble with tumblr staff deleting their stuff for user reported "problematic" contents

hasty kernel
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Damn I want to make a joke on bird names

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But I think Proxy is gonna get me if I do

tardy anchor
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if you think it will, it probably will

bold escarp
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I assume the bot is a 'delete first, don't ask questions' sort of thing

copper lark
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sometimes it feel like proxy constantly has a knife to my throat and, personally i wouldnt have it any other way

hasty kernel
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Yeah hence why I didnt

tardy anchor
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🤖 🗡

wide ember
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I mean, here we have a bot that works the same way

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but mods do an excellent job here, so content actually gets filtered the right way

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and when people argued against inclusivity, the mods and admins stood the ground and showed them the door

bold escarp
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I've only been here for half an hour, so fortunately I have no idea what happened

wide ember
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there if you post the video of a pigeon making a nest and a user reports it as being explicit content, the staff would argue with you when you say it wasn't

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like that's a pigeon waving a straw in a nest of socks

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does anyone know if pillowfort is good? plenty of tumblr migrated to that

copper lark
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there was a complicated sign up process if i remember right

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so i never used it

severe plover
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Mastodon is pretty decent

wide ember
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I gotta check it out later

severe plover
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Yeah it’s not so bad but it’s a little weird at first Ngl

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It takes a little getting used to but I have friends who swear by it

bold escarp
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Is this Mastodon the band or something else?

severe plover
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Oh lmaoooo no it’s like

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It’s a social media site

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Bc they were talking abt alternatives to tumblr

bold escarp
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I forgot about that. I think I remember hearing about it once or twice.

severe plover
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Yeah it’s alright, i didn’t use it much but I thought someone else may like it better than me

wide ember
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I have sudden desire to pet a musk deer

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fanged deer just somehow look cuter than antlered deer

serene tulip
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OK

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Imagine if deer and/or moose

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had prehensile antlers

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Is that a terrifying thought to anyone else?

wide ember
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that would be genuine terrifying

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and there was a canadian comic of deer shaped mucus based beings with prehensile antlers

supple sleet
wide ember
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entertainment weekly change your twitter name

supple sleet
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xD

silver maple
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Danny Trejo is a legend

supple sleet
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For real.

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Did you see the MtG commercial he did?

wide ember
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I didn't, do you have a link?

supple sleet
wide ember
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are they showing off their budget by making the commercial that long

silver maple
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Yeah, he’s so good in it

silver zephyr
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Oh damm thats Day-Nine

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Funny streamer

copper lark
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:o

silver maple
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to be honest I’m still not sure what day9s whole thing is since he does so much different stuff

silver zephyr
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I know him from hearthstone streams at least

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But agreed, he does a little bit of everything

copper lark
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PL EAse... mer cy i dont wanna....

nova pilot
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You young’uns knowing Day[9] from hearthstone

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Back in my day, he was a StarCraft pro and caster

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Hosted the Day[9] Daily, which was his StarCraft II strategy show, for some years

silver zephyr
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Oh damm did not know that

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Thats pretty cool!

nova pilot
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He’s been streaming almost since streaming was a thing

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Discovered Transistor through his Saturday stream (which iirc was just called “Day[9]’s Day Off”)

silver zephyr
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Hes also just a rlly great guy

supple sleet
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I think I'd read that he won a MtG tournament too, but his wiki just says this (Which is really awesome):

In May 2013, Plott competed in a Magic: the Gathering Pro Tour as a wild card selection. The same year, he began producing a YouTube series regarding the game called "Spellslingers". In each episode, guests such as Felicia Day and Grant Imahara take on Plott with the hope of emerging victorious in an all-or-nothing match, while teaching the audience the tips and tricks to become better at the game. "Spellslingers" recently released the final episode of its 5th season

silver maple
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Oh yeah I forgot he won that

quaint olive
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Hi Guys, how can i reach one of the admins ?
I have an opportunity to discuss with them in regards to the game's localization

silver maple
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you can post in feedback

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Check the pins at the top

quaint olive
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Awesome, thank you 😃

nova pilot
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He definitely didn't win a Pro Tour

silver maple
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wait what

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hhhghhh I know he was IN it tho right???

nova pilot
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He competed, but the context of "as a wild card selection" just means he got in 'cause he was already well-known

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MtG wanted to cash in on his popularity

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He'd streamed Magic Online before

silver maple
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ah, okay

nova pilot
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And Spellslingers already existed at that point (I think? but who am I to question Wiki)

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But Day[9]'s certainly not a Pro Tour calibre Magic player

silver maple
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Lol

nova pilot
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Not to knock him or anything, he's definitely pretty good

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But not on the level of the pros

supple sleet
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Gotcha. I have no clue tbh. I just remember googling him briefly when that commercial first came out, but I loved the commercial because of Trejo xD

copper lark
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i dont know what to do with myself

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ive finished ffxiv for now

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i

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its nice to see that bots are still an issue

north hamlet
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Play something else?

ionic viper
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make an alt

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play forever

copper lark
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'play something else'

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once you start ffxiv

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you cant stop

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theres no end to your torment

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821 hours

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wheew

hasty kernel
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Day[9] is mainly a janklord

honest glade
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Yeah, after I finished ShB, I was like... wtf am I supposed to do with myself now?

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It wasn't just a great expac, specifically. It was a great game. Just a great story.

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Like, ShB is probably my 2nd favorite FF game. Which is saying a lot considering I don't like or care for the vast majority of FF titles.

copper lark
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wew

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youre right

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the turnaround from arr is incredible

supple sleet
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Did you see the announcement of the condensed story mode coming?

copper lark
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yes! its exciting

supple sleet
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I'm also curious about what New Game+ is going to be.

copper lark
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new game+?

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wdym,,

honest glade
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New Game+ is something they announced back at Vegas Fan Fest, I'm pretty sure?

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Basically, it'll be a mode that lets you replay through the entire MSQ for funzies.

copper lark
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doing it once hurt enough

honest glade
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There might be special rewards and achievements tied to it, but they haven't gone into details. They'll come at a later time closer to when they actually release it.

copper lark
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oh and! did you guys hear abt the nier raid stuff

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app the gear is the same for both genders

supple sleet
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Oooh neat!

copper lark
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** get me some catboys in 2Bs dress**

honest glade
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I'm kind of so-so on the condensed story thing, because it's like... I've already gone through the game. So what benefit does that have to me? XD Cool for new players, though.

copper lark
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easier to do alts?

honest glade
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And yeah, I know some people are excited about the gear.

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All my alts are at least past HW.

supple sleet
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Yeah, I'd say for alts it's a big deal.

copper lark
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im excited for the raids in general

supple sleet
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Well, for you it's less exciting then, yeah, but like you said, newer players.

copper lark
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nier is currently number 2 on my fav game list

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so this is very exciting yoko taro bless me pls

honest glade
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I'm very interested in seeing what he's come up with. I'm sure the story of it will be good at the very least.

supple sleet
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Apparently there's a sequel to NieR in the works, as well.

wide ember
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You mean make us cry

ionic viper
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as someone currently going through the ARR MSQ

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please

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please condense it

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i am so tired of being told "sorry, but your princess corrupted crystal is in another castle questline"

wide ember
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Bad story writing

copper lark
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nier already is a sequel rooFeels

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nier automata i mean

serene tulip
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hi

wide ember
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Yeah there might be a sequel of that

copper lark
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if the next nier game means i have to dig more into drakengard ill cry

wide ember
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Automata left us a very open ending

copper lark
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after both gestalt and automata i dont think i can take much more

serene tulip
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I wish valve could count to 3

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those are the sequels I want

supple sleet
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<.<

wide ember
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You can if you are brave enough and store enough tissue papers

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Valve is too busy being video game platform

copper lark
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whispers.... dragon age 4....

serene tulip
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is coming out in like, 2025

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and I don't trust them to make it good

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so

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¯_(ツ)_/¯

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Honestly, thats probably my biggest issue right now

copper lark
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thats my problem too

serene tulip
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Is that I don't trust any developer to make good games

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(except SGG obvi)

copper lark
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im the opposite

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every time i get my hopes up for square enix. 90% of the time im let down

serene tulip
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But like, I really want Titanfall 3, but I don't trust the elements at respawn to remain as good as they were for titanfall 2

analog spear
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I mean they did well with apex

serene tulip
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yeah

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but Apex didn't have the gameplay or the story that I was looking for

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It basically just had the aesthetics

analog spear
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Same here, but its the only BR game I would even consider playing for a reason

serene tulip
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and there's still no guarantee of TF3 despite its success

analog spear
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I hope there will be

serene tulip
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I loved titan combat so much

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I played entirely too much Last titan standing

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Like, actually was in a guild or whatever they were called devoted to that game mode

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It was so much more strategic than most FPSes these days

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well, for casual settings

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Prioritized positioning over reaction time

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I'm still kinda proud of that one time I was in a team that was last seed in our in-guild tournament and we got second place >.>

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and I still maintain that we would have won if the first place team didn't snoop our coms during the semi-finals

supple sleet
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I've got an article on my editor's desk about For-Gamer games vs For-Shareholder games. I frankly don't trust anything For-Shareholder anymore, but a lot of, for lack of better term, Triple-I studios, like Klei and Supergiant and others, are putting out the quality content these days, while the AAA developers are churning out lootbox factories.

serene tulip
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What's funny is that I convinced my family to buy some activision stock back when they first bought blizzard

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and they've loved that suggestion

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and I'm like, "biggest mistake"

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"I'm implicitly condoning the mediocrization of videogames"

supple sleet
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Oof.

serene tulip
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blizzard is such a good example too

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Overwatch is the first good game they've put out since WoW and it still is kinda mediocre

supple sleet
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I mean... I'd be a lot more lenient on it, if it wasn't for the fact it's a game you have to buy, with lootboxes.

serene tulip
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it has so much good game design in it

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and lovable characters

supple sleet
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and yes, blah blah, can get through play, and cosmetics, but it's still a cash grab

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Yeah. It's not my bag, but I appreciate it for what it is. But I can get that same fix from Paladins <.<

serene tulip
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I miss playing it

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I'm so out of practice

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and none of my friends want to play it

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and making new friends in games is hard

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but I have a strong love for reinhardt

silver maple
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paladins was my go to for a bit but it’s kinda weirdly complex

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If I wanted to shoot for a build I’d play a MOBA or something y’know

supple sleet
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Honestly, if you want to make friends to play Overwatch

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Jump on Twitch

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Hang out in channels, see if you like the person. Smaller channels though

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The builds is what I liked about Paladins. shrugs but I don't play it much anymore either. For me it was more the community that killed it.

velvet fjord
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I'm just waiting for role queue in Overwatch
I keep going in and out of the game, but that seems like it'll fix the problems

supple sleet
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Maybe not all the problems, but yeah, I agree that will benefit the game greatly.

velvet fjord
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also brigitte nerf, thank god

silver maple
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Worried about 2/2/2 for team diversity but I think it’s healthy

severe plover
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Ohh I loved paladins

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I was only good at the tree dude and uhh the weird elf shield dude loved him

copper lark
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Im watching a fire emblem 3 houses playthrough

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blue lions are my bbys.... wow

vocal brook
vocal brook
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👟

copper lark
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new shoes

serene tulip
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BE JEALOUS OF MY THING MAKING PROWESS

upbeat scroll
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Very nice

tardy anchor
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WOW YOU MADE THOSE??

cedar ibex
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Not supergiant based but im very happy with this art so far and want to share

sharp grail
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woahhh very cool

serene tulip
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@tardy anchor I only made the one without threads

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the die to make the threads is in the mail

tardy anchor
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ooohhh!!!
how do you make it?

serene tulip
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On a little metal lathe

tardy anchor
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!!!!

serene tulip
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I want to be, like, this guy's apprentice

wide ember
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Make some cute kinetic sculptures

serene tulip
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I mean

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if you have ideas

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I can try and make em

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Right now the kinetic sculpture I want to make is a mechanical computer that calculates digits of pi or phi or something and then chimes them out on some bells

ionic viper
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lads i spent 145k gil on those boots and i do not regret it at all

north hamlet
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I agree with this sentiment, they're truly cute

ionic viper
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wait, no, i typoed. 245k. look, sometimes you gotta pay for fashion.

north hamlet
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Still worth

serene tulip
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omg

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those are really cute boots

serene tulip
analog spear
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yo those boots are so big they count as pants too

wide ember
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if your feet are clean enough, you have just enough limbs for all three heads

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(assuming that you need to stand on a leg)

north hamlet
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Or you can just bury your face in that soft floofy doggo scalp

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They like a good nuzzle

silver maple
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cerby fluff pillow...

wide ember
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unrelated but I found a pretty cute manga on pixiv

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it's basically story of a cis girl with her significant other who is an "agender boy "(expressed gender: agender, legal gender: male), it's not how gender system works in most english speaking LGBT cultures but for japan this is very good

faint panther
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Hello all!

desert swallow
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👋

faint panther
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Would creating a hybrid between an immersive sim and a spectacle fighter be theoretically possible.

sly stump
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OH WERE WE TALKING ABOUT FE3H

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@copper lark blue lions (chinhands)

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i love dimitri ... absolutely feral lad. doing his best. 10/10 please put him in therapy instead of in charge of the military.

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dimitri and dedue are a rarepair apparently and it baffles me? they're So Married and their conversations are all so tender

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i love them

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i love golden deer too but blue lions gave me a struggling good-hearted berserker and a gentle giant with unfathomable kindness under a jaded exterior so like what am i even supposed to do

copper lark
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DIMITRI GOOD BOY

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also love the golden deer but

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twitter somehow converted me

sly stump
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how far in are you 👀 i don't want to spoil you but ... god i love them

copper lark
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ahh i’m not playing it so chances are i’ve already spoiled it for myself lol

sly stump
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heheh same honestly

copper lark
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too broke to play it so i’m using twitter to get information

sly stump
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i spent a while on the wiki

copper lark
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i watched all of dimitris supports because i’m weak

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i wish i could like edelgard but

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she really. just doesn’t feel right

sly stump
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god same ... i feel like i gotta support my girl but ... 😰

copper lark
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“support my girl” me at flayn

sly stump
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I LOVE FLAYN

copper lark
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i would die for her she’s so good

sly stump
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😭

copper lark
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flayn and lysithea are my daughters

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babbys...

sly stump
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i love flayn ... i would love ingrid if she were nicer to dedue but it seems like she works through it so ...

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oh i don't know lysithea, like, at all 🤔

copper lark
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she’s become a fan favourite

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i like hilda too but i know nothing abt her lol

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she looks like pink miku so. i love her

sly stump
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oh lysithea is a deer girl! wonderful

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i've heard good things about hilda

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high femme with a battleaxe is a beautiful character summary

copper lark
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thats all i need to know

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ngl the only black eagles member i know is dorothea

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and that’s because i wanna date her

sly stump
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oh my god i love her

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YES SHE'S BI

copper lark
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YEA

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THAT ME AT BOTH DOROTHEA AND MERCEDES

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fire emblem kinda fed us well this time ngl

sly stump
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im 😔 about the m/m supports but the f/f supports? wonderful girls ... love 'em

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dimitri should have an m!byleth s-support, you cannot change my mind

copper lark
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this is correct

sly stump
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i'm just saying, dimitri canonically doesn't understand/has no particular interest in romancing girls and his paired endings with felix and dedue are by far more intense & romantic than any but one of his canonical marriages

copper lark
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so should claude if he doesn’t

sly stump
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i'm just saying

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claude does not, either 😔

copper lark
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but edelgard has a f/f s support

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hmmmm

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[nervous glances]

sly stump
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😔 yeah ...

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sigh

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what are claude's possible paired endings, anyway

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i haven't actually looked at them

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gonna do that

copper lark
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i dunno :o i’ve only seen him shipped with dimitri tho-

sly stump
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oh my god claude only has one m/m paired ending and it's with lorenz

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i ... hear that lorenz gets character development ... but i am doubt

copper lark
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rooH i take it back they did not feed us well

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this is still better than Fates tho

sly stump
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it's a pretty good ending though

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||[ ... ] when the two parties met for a summit at Fódlan's Locket, it was none other than Claude, the new king of Almyra, who arrived to negotiate. Some speculated that this meeting had been Claude's scheme all along, but Lorenz and Claude both denied it. ||

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||casually manipulate affairs between two continents to arrange a reunion with your BF||

copper lark
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LMAO

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that’s such a claude thing to do

sly stump
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claude is so powerful i love him

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dimitri/claude is cute tho i'm just ... i sold my heart to dedue/dimitri in the beginning and now i can't let go of it o3o

copper lark
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that’s fair

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ingrid seems so cool i just wish she’d be nice like. once

sly stump
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yeah ... i really wanna love a cool lady knight but like. oh jeez. ingrid plz

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She also has an open dislike of discrimination. who doesn't???

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im laughing

copper lark
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good thing she’s not in black eagles-

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COUGH

sly stump
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(this is from petra's description)

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AYOHHHHH

copper lark
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i mean

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ohh petra

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i’m kinda mad about petra

sly stump
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oh?

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i'm just skimming her wiki page now

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she has a top tier paired ending with dorothea

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why mad?

copper lark
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her whole character kinda seems like a racist stereotype imo

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i love her but i wish they didn’t make her. like that

sly stump
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hhhhhhhh i gotcha

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:/

faint panther
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When's the next Ask Supergiant coming up?

copper lark
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soon id imagine rooIsee

somber ferry
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iirc a week from today?

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the details were in the recent supergiant blast

sharp grail
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yep! its on the 16th

silver maple
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Logan, Darren, and Amir are in if I recall

copper lark
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i just bought fire emblem

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bc my little brother leant me money -

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lent*

silver maple
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yooooo it’s so good

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I know no one who doesn’t love it

copper lark
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im@so excited

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blue lions lets go rooH

silver maple
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I went golden deer cuz claude is the best but I can see the appeal in dimitri

copper lark
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see i was gonna go golden deer

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bc i’ll be honest i like the people in that house a little bit more

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but then twitter grabbed me by the neck and said you will fall in love with dimitri

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so here i am

serene tulip
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Don't 👏🏾 Let 👏🏾 Society 👏🏾 Tell 👏🏾 You 👏🏾 Who 👏🏾 To 👏🏾 Love 🏳️‍🌈 gilmanpride

ionic viper
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golden deer best house

silver maple
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golden deer squad but they’re all pretty

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except Lorenz

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Hate that man

serene tulip
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Ravenclaw

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I mean

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Er

copper lark
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i’m a hufflepuff and i’m pokemon go team instinct

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but

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blue lions are truly calling to me

serene tulip
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Which Pokémon go is the blue team?

copper lark
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uhh

serene tulip
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Mystic?

copper lark
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yeah

serene tulip
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They're the one I went with

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I wish Pokémon go involved training up Pokémon rather than finding new ones

ionic viper
#

yellow is the meme colour

serene tulip
#

I actually talked to some folks from the company who made it about the psychology of the colors.

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Yellow is really popular in china(?) because it's a luckier color there.

hasty kernel
#

Blue is somehow always the colour of jerks

#

Looking at you, MTG

serene tulip
#

I do not deny that claim >.>

copper lark
#

why does f!byleth have the

#

belly window in her armour

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ma’am you’re ASKING TO BE STABBED

hasty kernel
#

... says someone whose FFXIV character has a window right where the heart is

copper lark
#

okay but

#

.. i have no excuse actually

hasty kernel
#

It's basically the same reason, people find it attractive

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Note: does she have abs

copper lark
#

not from what i can see which is WEAK

hasty kernel
#

Shame

copper lark
#

oh? me pairing up byleth and dimitri 5 seconds into the game? i would ne-

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dimitri just got a crit on his first attack

#

that’s my boy

serene tulip
#

whereas my character Doesn't Even Have Boob Plate Anymore

#

And I'm excited about that

#

legit armor ftw

copper lark
#

she’s very pretty

#

roe women are the best

hasty kernel
#

Dimitri doesn't look very russian

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Or Slavic even

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I'm mildly disappointed

copper lark
#

he sure looks pretty tho rooLove

ionic viper
hasty kernel
#

I guess? Not a big fan of blonde hair

copper lark
#

she’s so cute 😔

serene tulip
#

and her amazing boots

ionic viper
#

listen they better be amazing i paid so much for them

copper lark
#

extra special boots

hasty kernel
#

How do they pronounce Dimitri's name in-game, out of curiosity

copper lark
#

ovven havw u seen edelgard

ionic viper
#

they're all classes level 1 so you bet i'm going to use them on every outfit

copper lark
#

i don’t know any other way to pronounce dimitri

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dim-itri

#

??

#

i still wanna know how to pronounce byleth

serene tulip
#

Oh, whoops

#

I missed my queue pop

#

Because I was alt tabbed

hasty kernel
#

Well the correct way is basically dmitriii

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First I is silent, emphasis on the last one

unreal bridge
#

Happy International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples 🙌

copper lark
#

i see

ionic viper
#

[clutches chest] why is the animation for logging in from an inn room SO CUTE

hasty kernel
#

Also Igor is pronounced totally different in russian

copper lark
#

i haven’t used edelgard once this whole fight and i’m not even sorry

hasty kernel
#

The English pronunciation sounds cold and hart

#

The Russian one is actually nice

copper lark
#

another reason i can’t pick the golden deer

#

i refuse to use bow units

#

and

#

claude is a bow unit

#

cherami leigh and cassandra lee morris are EVERYWHERE

hasty kernel
#

Anyway, let me check Edelgard real quick

#

...

#

So youre telling me the guy with a russian name looks german

#

And the gal with a german name looks russian

#

Did the art department go through a mixup or something?

#

Anyway I like her

#

Her design is cool

silver maple
#

what’s wrong with bow

#

They’re the best

hasty kernel
#

She looks like a prettier Franziska with the unfortunate disadvantage of long hair

copper lark
#

PRETTIER-

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you take that back sir.

#

no one is prettier than the great Franziska Von Karma you absolute fool

hasty kernel
#

Look I like Franziska

#

But she cant pull off the poofy shoulder look

#

Noone can

copper lark
#

she definitely can

hasty kernel
#

I disagree

#

But yeah, Edelgard is cute

#

Not sure about high heels in battle

#

But then again, Raiden can pull it off, so

copper lark
#

also i just suck at using bow units

#

they always die

hasty kernel
#

Have you tried not letting them die?

serene tulip
#

that sounds complicated

copper lark
#

have you PLAYED fire emblem

hasty kernel
#

As a matter of fact

#

I have not

copper lark
#

enemy units come from the STRANGEST corners to attack the weak units that i’ve deliberately put on the back lines

#

everyone hates me and i’ve been playing for 20 minutes

serene tulip
#

Man

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Brayflox's longstop has been super nice to me, loot wise

#

now all I'm missing are cavalry arms and cavalry helm

copper lark
#

please i know i’ve just started the game but please let me kiss dimitri

ionic viper
#

brayflox's longstop is CURSED

#

i've been in there twice and had issues both times

#

the first time, i was tanking and the healer DC'd at least once on every boss so i'd die horribly with no idea why until i realised

#

the second time

silver maple
#

new fire emblem tells you where enemies are likely to attack which is nice for that

serene tulip
#

I mean

#

I died this last run

#

and didn't know wtf I was doing my first run

#

also in all fairness there's like, 1 level 30 paladin spell and its not that good.

copper lark
#

brayflox is cursed

#

full stop

serene tulip
#

s/full /~~full~~ long

copper lark
#

i had a mentor with me on my first run which was comforting

#

she was lovely

serene tulip
#

despite dying my last longstop run I still got 2 commends

#

so yay?

copper lark
#

also reminder that if you see someone with a mentor status being horrible to sprouts you can legally report them

serene tulip
#

why isn't there a repair everything button and instead I have to scroll through 6 categories?

ionic viper
#

¯_(ツ)_/¯

copper lark
#

are you repairing your own stuff

serene tulip
#

no

#

because effort

copper lark
#

there is a repair all button

serene tulip
#

for my own stuff?

copper lark
#

for what you have equipped

#

and you can go through the categories

serene tulip
#

yeah, but sometimes I switch gear n stuff

#

I don't want to go through the categories

#

is my point

copper lark
#

then i think there’s an all ? category

#

i’m not sure because i only repair the stuff i have equipped

hasty kernel
#

I forgot, does FFXIV do the standard durability system where items lose durability whenever you fight?

copper lark
#

yeah

serene tulip
#

"Go to this place literally across the map and come back" "I spent 1k gil on teleports" "Ok, here's 300 gil"

copper lark
#

me in stormblood

#

well actually

#

you get around 1000 gil in stormblood so nvm

hasty kernel
#

Why do games do that system actually

#

I never really got it

serene tulip
#

yeah, that was an exaggeration

#

but its still kinda annoying

hasty kernel
#

No I meant the repair system

serene tulip
#

it all started in diablo

#

actually probably before then

#

but that's when I first remember it

hasty kernel
#

I imagine so, its just weird

#

Because its not fun, but its also not really realistic

serene tulip
#

The original game design perspective was to incentivize you coming back to town

#

because otherwise players wouldn't

hasty kernel
#

Doesnt vendoring trash already kinda do that?

serene tulip
#

what need for money would you have if you didn't need to repair stuff

hasty kernel
#

"Money can be exchanged for goods and services"

serene tulip
#

I mean, you find loot in the dungeon

#

so you can get upgraded gear in the dungeon

hasty kernel
#

Ok that also always was weird to me

#

The best example is SWTOR

#

There is all this hubbub about how lightsabers are exceedingly rare, and you forge the lightsabers you use yourself, and they represent a spiritual connection to the force or something

#

10 minutes later you loot a better lightsaber off of a spider

desert swallow
#

Wait lightsabers were supposed to be rare?? Do they say that for both jedi and sith players? I don’t remember lol

supple sleet
#

Mmhmm.

hasty kernel
#

At least thats the lore as I understand it

#

Also ugh, I got new headsets and the sound quality is way worse

#

But my old model kept breaking and I just wasnt up for that

supple sleet
#

Oh, forging the lightsaber is part of the force users' storylines, iirc. Been ages since I played though.

#

But yeah, next thing you know you're visiting Bob's Used Lightsaber Emporium on Bumtuckooine.

copper lark
#

ffxiv full edition is currently free until the 16th rooSlain

#

wait nevermind

#

for people who already had an inactive account

#

IM SORRY

opaque quail
#

It's okay Syd!! 😄

#

All the FFXIV talk here..... has really done some work on convincing me to play it eventually.

desert swallow
#

It’s making me want to start another free trial character hjcnghbfhj

supple sleet
#

But full edition doesn't include ShB, right?

#

@opaque quail There's a level-locked free trial, so it's not like you've anything to lose by trying it.

desert swallow
#

It lets you go all the way to level 30 too I think

supple sleet
#

yeah, in all the base classes

opaque quail
#

Good to know!!

copper lark
#

free til level 35 at the moment!

ionic viper
#

which i milked for all it was worth

#

basically, there's the free trial, then there's the base game, and then you buy shadowbringers and it includes all the previous expansions

hasty kernel
#

Man I am not looking forward to flying tomorrow

#

Why does the most convenient method of transport have to be the most terrifying

upbeat scroll
#

Big sardine cans

#

Planes used to be good I hear

#

But not in my lifetime

hasty kernel
#

Oh its not about comfort

#

Its about the terrifying aspect of being high in the air

#

At least I have a new Grendel album to listen to

upbeat scroll
#

Would it be less scary if there were no windows

hasty kernel
#

No

upbeat scroll
#

Fair

#

Dunno, for me it's definitely the comfort

#

In a plane for 12 hours, too boring and uncomfortable to be scared for me

#

I enjoy turbulence because it breaks the monotony

silver maple
#

the worst thing about planes isn’t being high in the air it’s being trapped in a metal box with like 100 other people all assigned to specific seats and one bathroom

hasty kernel
#

Yeah I cannot share that experience

#

Meh, I can handle that as well

#

I specifically hate the fact that youre so high

silver maple
#

I mean that’s fair

supple sleet
#

If it's any consolation, you would die just as hard travelling those speeds at 100ft up

hasty kernel
#

Man Idk about the new Grendel stuff

silver maple
#

heights are difficult to deal with but I always remember the fact that statistically it’s safer than a car so

hasty kernel
#

Its good but its such a different style

#

It doesnt feel aggressive enough

#

I mean, I just wish I could travel everywhere on train

#

Trains are nice

silver maple
#

trains ARE nice

hasty kernel
#

Like, no joke

desert swallow
#

I want to ride a train some day

hasty kernel
#

If it werent murder on the environment and expensive as all hell

copper lark
#

Come to london you will quickly change your mind 😔

hasty kernel
#

Id live on a train

supple sleet
#

They really are. I've travelled from Chicago (or farther) to Portland 3 different times. It's a lovely trip.

hasty kernel
#

Like I was on one of those super-fancy trains once

#

Yknow, the cross-european ones that are pricey?

desert swallow
#

Oh man there are fancy ones too?

hasty kernel
#

It was heaven

supple sleet
#

I'd love to see the USA put more resources into some of the train technology in asia.

hasty kernel
#

Mmh, Ive heard stories of US lack of public transport

#

Here in germany, you can get almost anywhere with public transport

desert swallow
#

It’s mostly just the bus that’s available where I am

hasty kernel
#

Granted its slow

#

And not always reliable

#

But it works

#

Speaking of which, I have a funny train-related story my latin teacher told me

#

She was stuck in berlin since there was endless delay on all trains, and as an apology the company DB (Deutsche Bahn, they manage trains here) gave out free books

#

Including "on the shortness of life" by Seneca

supple sleet
#

lol

hasty kernel
#

I miss my latin teacher tbh

#

She was great

#

Good teachers really are a blessing

copper lark
#

fire emblem has oppressed me

#

f!byleth cant date ingrid

hasty kernel
#

Ok so I looked up Byleth

#

The window I get, but

#

Why is it shaped like an arrow pointing at her chest

copper lark
#

you gotta look

hasty kernel
#

Also Ingrid looks cute

copper lark
#

shes kinda cool

#

mean but

#

shes cute.. and im a simple enby

hasty kernel
#

Like being mean is a minus in your book

copper lark
#

you know me well

upbeat scroll
#

Why fiction character gotta be rude

hasty kernel
#

It seems I do

#

Well, I think thats enough aggressive music to last through the plane flight

copper lark
#

hah edelgard thinks her axe can destroy l o v e

#

[H*lds dimitris h*nd]

hasty kernel
#

Nothing suppresses anxiety like music you can headbang to

upbeat scroll
#

Hopefully you have enough room to headbang...

hasty kernel
#

Well I said can

copper lark
#

nvm edelgard killed me

hasty kernel
#

I will just headbang internally

#

See, her axe can destroy love

copper lark
#

i think dimitri might die too

#

...

#

in hindsight i thought i was being epic

#

cries like a baby

#

my tactics suck app

#

dimitri didnt die

#

fgdhfjdbgfd

opaque quail
#

Unovven, I saw someone recently with the galaxy brain theory that Byleth got all the "bad female design" aspects to spare all of the students. Which..... I am grateful for.

copper lark
#

im grateful too

silver maple
#

Yeah.... they’re kids

copper lark
#

theyre too precious to have to go through that

opaque quail
#

Yeah, but even post timeskip they're not bad. P h e w.

#

Their professor will protect them from ANYTHING that they can.

wide ember
#

isn't there a DLC to dress your female Byleth like a normal person?

ionic viper
#

i have seen that meme edit

silver maple
#

Thank u ms byleth

opaque quail
#

Uhhh sort of, it's an academy uniform.

#

I tried it but it felt too weird.

ionic viper
copper lark
#

also uhhh can i make students join my house

opaque quail
#

To have their professor in uniform.

ionic viper
#

yes you can

hasty kernel
#

Honestly if it werent for the fact that I dont like Fire Emblems gameplay at all

wide ember
#

because female Byleth has weird head proportions

copper lark
hasty kernel
#

Id actually check out FE3

opaque quail
#

That's the one!!

hasty kernel
#

FE3H I mean

wide ember
#

I saw the meme, thank you ms. byleth

#

so my students can stay pure

hasty kernel
#

Because damn battle academia is my softspot when it comes to settings

ionic viper
#

sorry i nuked it for the T word lmao

silver maple
#

I just realized it has a thing in it

#

Fair haha

opaque quail
#

Yeah f!Byleth really is carrying all the design weight in this game. Can we get Fs in the chat for Byleth. blobpensive 🇫

ionic viper
#

anyway the students are picky and won't join unless you have, like, stats

#

except for sylvain

#

did you know that if you're playing f!byleth, sylvain will join you the moment you ask

copper lark
#

sylvain.. is in my house....

hasty kernel
#

F is incidentally also what she gets for her combat-appropriate clothing grade

silver maple
#

Yeah, at first I was like wow I already got one but

opaque quail
#

Some changed REALLY suddenly to accepting on the week before the timeskip happened. But apparently a lot of media coverage on the game has been wrong about how to guarantee recruitment?

copper lark
#

guess i gotta get gains so i can convince hilda lysithea and dorothea to join my house

ionic viper
#

anyway syd you can have dimitri if i can have claude

copper lark
#

gfdgifhdjfd

#

agreed

silver maple
#

I’ve heard b rank support is easiest

copper lark
#

i am about to steal all of claudes female friends tho, im sorry

hasty kernel
#

So, I got a question

opaque quail
#

There are plenty of pretty people to go around, phew.

hasty kernel
#

Did FE fall victim to the persona trap of "dating simulator that has pesky bits of gameplay inbetween"?

wide ember
#

I like the green haired nap guy

opaque quail
#

I actually love.... every team character in this game. They've all had a lot of depth in their interactions.

copper lark
#

i wouldnt say so,,?

ionic viper
#

i mean that depends on your opinion

opaque quail
#

Uno, that's a HUGE debate in the fandom actually.

hasty kernel
#

I see

wide ember
#

this is technically a shin megami tensei FE, not persona FE

silver maple
#

Dislike lorenz personally

opaque quail
#

Awakening introduced the mechanic, Fates doubled down, and 3H actually pulled back on it a lot.

hasty kernel
#

Though for the record, I still love Persona

ionic viper
#

personally, i feel like they really wised up when they decided not to put kids in this one lmao

copper lark
#

i like almost everyone

#

[points at flayn..]

ionic viper
#

i mean. child units from pairings. you know what i mean.

copper lark
#

oh ok

#

gfdhdgfjkg

silver maple
#

Yeah

ionic viper
#

awakening it made plot sense and i loved the kiddos, fates was

hasty kernel
#

I dont actually

ionic viper
#

h

opaque quail
#

I think they've been trying to find the right balance of how to make you care about all of the characters, rather than having like a core 8 you always use and ignore the others.

ionic viper
#

in awakening and fates, if you have units S support you can recruit their children

hasty kernel
#

Note: Almost all of my exposure comes from PM Seymour talking about it

#

Ah

silver maple
#

Relationships do a lot of heavy lifting there

ionic viper
#

in awakening it made sense because the kids were all time travelling back from a failed future to help you save the world

opaque quail
#

Fates had... pocket... dimensions.......

ionic viper
#

in fates, the explanation was "uhhhh we dropped them off into other realms and came back for them when they grew up"

#

babyrealms........

hasty kernel
#

That actually kind of reminds me of that LOGH plotpoint with children adopted by military officers

opaque quail
#

But NO unit kids in 3H, just regular timeskip and the tragedy of fighting your former friends. 💃

silver maple
#

Fates was wild and had THREE versions

copper lark
#

im shocked that im so attatched to a main character in 3 houses,,,

#

my first fire emblem husband was stahl 😔

silver maple
#

And they wonder why it didn’t sell as well

opaque quail
#

Wasn't the total recruit number for Revelations like.... 36 people or something?

#

Too Many.

#

me, playing on casual because I always worry about losing people: I Have Made A Mistake.

copper lark
#

ME

silver maple
#

Mood

hasty kernel
#

God I cant get used to this headset

copper lark
#

i reset 3h earlier because i thought i upset jeralt too much

hasty kernel
#

Sennheiser knockoff, you ruined me with your superior sound quality

ionic viper
#

hey did you know that in 3 houses if/when you kill one of your aforementioned former friends, the music cuts out like when one of your own units dies in classic mode

#

🙃

opaque quail
#

Even with recruiting in 3H, the number has been manageable. Most of my united are comparable, though some have had TERRIBLE stat growth. Anyone else have an Annette that just like Can't raise more than two stats every level?

#

I DID know that thank you Sparrow.

copper lark
silver maple
#

The time rewind really helps ease into classic

opaque quail
#

(RIP Lorenz and Ferdinand.)

silver maple
#

Because you can still hit a panic button

hasty kernel
#

Oh right, FE has permadeath

#

I dont like permadeath

opaque quail
#

Some fun facts about death in 3H: when you kill former students, other students from their house that you recruited will talk about it and be Real Sad.

wide ember
#

so the shin megami tensei's "kill your friend on the left" is still in effect in 3H huh...

opaque quail
#

When you go into a battle that a student WOULD have been in if you hadn't recruited them, they'll point that out afterward. Ashe was like "you would have fought me there if I weren't in your house."

ionic viper
#

oh god that's brutal

opaque quail
#

Live In Your Choices

copper lark
#

Caitlin Do You Want Me To Cry

opaque quail
#

Crying Is Cathartic

ionic viper
#

i should point out i don't even own a switch so all my knowledge is secondhand

silver maple
#

Nintendo wants me in therapy

wide ember
#

so can I just recruit all other students so they don't die

opaque quail
#

Correct!

wide ember
#

or is there a limit

opaque quail
#

You can't recruit the heads of the other houses.

copper lark
#

or their uh

opaque quail
#

And I'm preeettty sure you can't recruit Edel or Dimitri's seconds.

#

Dedue and.....

#

The ominous one.....

copper lark
#

emo

#

hes SO SCARY

ionic viper
#

hubert

silver maple
#

Theoretically besides them you could have SO MANY

copper lark
#

i dont like how he stared at me in the opening

opaque quail
#

Hubert!

hasty kernel
#

Oh yeah, what happened to the big Trails of fan here

copper lark
#

HIS NAME IS HUBERT THAT MAKES HIM EVEN MORE SCARY

silver maple
#

cuz you get certain npcs too

hasty kernel
#

Dr Badtouch was it I think?

opaque quail
#

Yeah but you can recruit Hilda, who I believe is "closest" to being Claude's second.

copper lark
#

oop

#

hilda is pink miku and im not kidding when i say thats the only reason i want her

opaque quail
#

I find IS's obsession with "pretty girls who pretend to be useless" really interesting.

silver maple
#

Miku... but with axe

ionic viper
#

it makes sense actually because the golden deer are from the leicester alliance who are kinda...... backstabby

opaque quail
#

They're always axe wielders too.

copper lark
#

wh

#

jeralt doesnt know how old he is????

hasty kernel
#

Tbh

wide ember
#

I do that too but in my case I'm maybe a pretty guy who pretends to be useless and dumb? and I used to get called out for that a lot

hasty kernel
#

Thats the crouching moron hidden badass trope

#

And I think that trope is great

ionic viper
#

syd, i could answer that but it would be a spoiler

copper lark
#

o

#

oh

silver maple
#

I never like the traits which are like “stand next to x gender”

opaque quail
#

Jeralt never says how old he is, all the player-knowledge is determined by Byleth-knowledge.

ionic viper
#

that too

copper lark
hasty kernel
#

Almost as good as the almighty janitor trope

wide ember
#

so I like characters who act useless but actually have insane growth and stats

#

like Lucius/Ruthea from FE7

opaque quail
#

Ya'll get Cyril? He's the commoner-bonus character of 3H.

wide ember
#

sickly androgynous monk guy who volunteers slaughtering your enemies, and succeeds

copper lark
#

i have only just started playing ;;

opaque quail
#

Also if anyone here hasn't: Recruit Felix. He destroys All.

copper lark
#

ive seen him tho

silver maple
#

Cyril is PURE

opaque quail
#

Okay then SYD for the love of god get Felix.

copper lark
#

hes in my house already!!!

opaque quail
#

Blue Lions 5ever.

copper lark
#

blue lions for the win babey

silver maple
#

also: lysithea gets a magic sword attack with her hidden talent which SLAYS

ionic viper
#

i just looked him up and i wanna ruffle his hair

opaque quail
#

Ohhhh Syd get ready for PAIN (40 hours from now)

wide ember
#

so Cyril and Felix huh I'll note them down

copper lark
#

im preparing

#

i love!!! ashe!!!

#

hes just a baby you can not change this

wide ember
#

I can't decide which house yet, they all look amazing

opaque quail
#

Well Cyril is not as crazy good as Felix, Felix like..... his Crest activates constantly, and I feel like I get almost as many crits as I do normal hits from him.

ionic viper
#

blue lions and golden deer are the only Valid houses, black eagles please leave

wide ember
#

probably Golden Deer for me though because Claude looks my type

silver maple
#

I really enjoy Marianne cuz relatable

copper lark
#

"dorothea really values the following stats:

  • Cha"
hasty kernel
#

Wait Ashe is the name of a guy?

ionic viper
#

have y'all seen/heard the seteth memes

copper lark
#

good talk

opaque quail
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I'm intrigued by Black Eagles, and I think I see EXACTLY how they're gonna make each house the "good guy" in their routes. But having to fight Dimitri;;;;;;

wide ember
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Ashe is unisex name but Ashe is male

ionic viper
hasty kernel
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Is that so

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I usually saw Ash as the male and Ashe as the female version

ionic viper
opaque quail
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(Dorothea makes a great Dancer when you have access to that class blurryeyes )

wide ember
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we love all those gender blender names in FE though

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like Ruthea for a male character

copper lark
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hNNNBg dancer characters are my weakness

silver maple
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Yeah... during each introduction they’re like “but there’s a bit of DARKNESS to their face...”

copper lark
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see: olivia fire emblem awakening

ionic viper
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the voice actors in 3h are a gift to the world

silver maple
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Mercedes is a killer dancer too

hasty kernel
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Oh is that the VA reading memes?

opaque quail
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Mercedes as a Gremory is absolutely Destroying.

silver maple
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oooh

copper lark
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seteth is almost as scary as hubert

ionic viper
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yes

opaque quail
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She has CRAZY good resistance and defense (for a spellcaster) so she's Not Delicate.

silver maple
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I’ll have to remember that

hasty kernel
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I love when VAs do that

opaque quail
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No glass, just cannon.

hasty kernel
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At best we get the dummy thicc meme out of it

copper lark
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i wanna date mercedes but my big dumb brain is telling me i HAVE to kiss dimitri RIGHT NOW

wide ember
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I was not okay with Olivia's outfit but I loved Ninian

silver maple
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Why not both???

ionic viper
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claude's va is my favourite because the madman actually dangled upside down in his video announcing who he would be voicing

copper lark
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LMAO

wide ember
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...in character I guess?? for claude va

opaque quail
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Seteth is amazing because have you EVER seen a more "that guy is voiced by Matt Mercer" character design?? NO. But it's NOT.

ionic viper
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bc everyone made fun of claude being upside down on the game cover

copper lark
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bernadetta really values the following stats

  • bow
silver maple
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LOL ur right caitlin

opaque quail
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Seteth is literally just green Matthew Mercer but he was already in the last two games prominently enough to have characters talk to each other in Warriors. He was too powerful.

ionic viper
silver maple
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He looks like anime Matt

copper lark
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also! is the fact that some people cant hit an A support with others to do with the timeskip or like

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can some people just not be friends

opaque quail
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That is a VERY good video. I love the VAs, full marks.

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Oh MAN YEAH SO.

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I found recently and TRAGICALLY.

ionic viper
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they went back to the older style of supports in this game i think, with not everyone going to an A

opaque quail
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That Marianne and Ashe can't start growing supports post-timeskip.

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And I feel like.... they'd really like each other.

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So please..... succeed where I failed.......

silver maple
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Y’all while we’re talking- tea parties are THE BEST

ionic viper
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oh no now i have to listen to edge of dawn again

copper lark
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This Is A Tragedy where is marianne-

opaque quail
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She's the tired looking quiet girl who I want to hug constantly. Blue hair, bags under her eyes. blobmeltsoblove

silver maple
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Horse girl

ionic viper
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by the way i'm not saying i ripped the full version of edge of dawn off of youtube before it could get taken down again for the third time in a week, but, i'm also not not saying that

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so now i can have it on loop

copper lark
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OH i really love the wyvern designs in this game

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im not very good with flying units but

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i want wyverns

ionic viper
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edge of dawn is sung from edelgard's perspective

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you can't convince me otherwise

wide ember
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wyverns are adorable

copper lark
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im glad dimitri is teaching me how to live as a human

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clearly jeralt did not

silver maple
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wyverns are very good.... Switch does wonders

copper lark
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also who let all these cats into the school

wide ember
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when can we have enough oxygen in real life to support real life wyverns

ionic viper
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wyverns are big bois and i love them

copper lark
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im not complaining, i wanna know so i can thank them

wide ember
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we can't pet the cats in 3H school though

copper lark
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a crime

wide ember
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that's like serving us dishes that we can't eat

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like you are lactose intolerant and you don't have your enzyme pill and someone offers you a giant bowl of extra gratin mac n cheese

copper lark
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i think manuela deserves the same award as byleth

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why is she like that

silver maple
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you mean the handsome men thing

copper lark
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yeah

silver maple
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Tbh, I’m not too upset with that because it’s played like a “oh no she never gets the man” joke but I could see where it’d be weird haha

opaque quail
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Manuela is at least like.... a retired opera diva. I love her, she's ridiculous. She's VERY much the dramatic theater type.

copper lark
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im scared im not gonna get any stats up high enough to recruit anyone T_T

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ohh i love her too i just. oh ma'am...

opaque quail
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You will!! It's okay!! Honestly it's great to recruit people, but don't worry too much about it if you can.

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It took me a few in-game months to really get a full grasp of all the mechanics and options.

ionic viper
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[lies down] guys i'm so sad about my mouse finally breaking, i wanna play more ffxiv but it's gonna eb so tough actually having to press the shift and alt keys with my tiny, tiny hands,,

copper lark
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F for ur mouse

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im awful and i click my skills to do them,,,

ionic viper
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i have babie hands

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i can't comfortably reach past, say, 5 when i have my hand on wasd

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well...... 6, really. but that's pushing it

copper lark
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i have hypermobility,, so i can i just dont like to

ionic viper
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how to tell how often i use a skill: how close is it to the left side

copper lark
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ghfdgfjkdgf

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ur bars are so neat

ionic viper
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i can justify why shift+1-6 are where they are

copper lark
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i do not understand people with neat huds

ionic viper
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i try to keep 'related' skills paired up

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so for example, bloodletter and rain of death are on the same number because they run off the same cooldown

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the two dots are on the same number as well

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i need to rework my hud a little, actually, i don't like having to flick my attention between the top and bottom of the screen in combat

copper lark
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can someone please get raphael a bigger shirt

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please

ionic viper
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he's a healthy boy

hasty kernel
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Please tell me he does the Armstrong thing

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Where his shirt is off every time he goes off-screen for a second

copper lark
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i. i dont know

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hes not in my house

copper lark
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dimitris on the front lines and his weapon just broke

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haha oh god

wide ember
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Oh right weapon durability is back

copper lark
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why is felixso strong omg

opaque quail
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I think he actually has the most in-game character reasoning for it. 😄

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But yeah Felix OP. I've been watching as he steadily climbs the "most recruited" list.

copper lark
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his combat arts is weaker??

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sir who fed you i wanna meet them

opaque quail
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Yeap! Though I find combat arts are more situational rather than overall "better" than regular attacks.

copper lark
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ohh fair

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im lowkey scared of felix he just used his crest twice in a row what does that even mean

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oh now hes dead

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oops

ionic viper
copper lark
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i find pairing units slightly harder?

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now that i cant pair up,,

opaque quail
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Oh there's a bit of change to that process too!! I'm not sure on the rules of activation, but you can gain Support in battle even when they're not directly next to each other. Also if you do a crit in battle/kill the enemy, there's a chance that a nearby ally will make a comment on the map view screen afterward like "nicely done!"

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But I've had the support ❤ pop up when characters aren't directly adjacent, so it's been a bit less punishing to have characters acting independently.

copper lark
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ohh thats better at least?

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i def use pairing and switching units alot

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i will have to adapt

opaque quail
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Yeah, "adjutants" are a version of that in this game, but you don't have access to that at the very beginning of the game. Basically before the battle starts, you can assign units to be each other's partner and they'll do one of three things to help that character: attack, heal, or defend. I'm not sure I'm a fan of it yet, tbh! But I feel like I'm missing a lot of the possible depth of some of these mechanics. First playthrough and all. ablobsigh

copper lark
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oh i mean

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thats cool too

hasty kernel
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Since we were talking about FE anyway

severe plover
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EEEEEEEE

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Why Must It Be Like This

supple sleet
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@ionic viper Seems like you'd be a prime candidate for ESDF setup, if you can get used to it. And/or a nice gaming mouse.

ionic viper
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i've tried esdf before but honestly my hands just gravitate back to wasd

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plus, esdf puts my hands even further out of reach of the shift key

hasty kernel
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I can definitely recommend gaming mouse

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Ive got an old Logitech G500 I think it was

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This thing is a lifesaver

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Even when one of the buttons as well as the scrollwheel press broke its just too invaluable to swap

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Comfortable as all hell as well

supple sleet
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500 or 600?

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Gah

hasty kernel
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G600, it seems

hasty kernel
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But yeah, I can 100% recommend that mouse

supple sleet
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Yeah, that's what I have. I got it specifically when I was playing FFXIV

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Because f'n RDM

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Ironically, my problem is my hand is too big for it xD

hasty kernel
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I dont believe perfection can be achieved, but this mouse is pretty damn close to it

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I got it when I started playing GW2 seriously for a bit

supple sleet
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Agreed. It's a top notch mouse.

hasty kernel
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Engineer had too many buttons to press with just my left hand

supple sleet
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Mmhmm.

hasty kernel
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Doenst help that the f keys on my keyboard are kinda far

ionic viper
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i'm probably just going to pick up another deathadder tbh

supple sleet
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And they can be quite reasonably priced, too.