#Battle Grid

[robcoopz]

Jedi: Fallen Order: Battle Grid

[flammabel]

Battling the Darkside of oneself? Literally.

After all this time I never knew in battle grid you could fight Inquisitor Cal. I just found this out recently from someone else. I spent very little time here so that's probably why.

[formulaoneisajoke]

he may not realistically be in the battle for the drivers championship anymore, however that doesn’t at all minimise just how proud i am of all lando has achieved this season. 3 wins (including his maiden), 7 poles, 12 podiums, leading his team to first place in the constructors championship, securing the most points of any mclaren driver in history. and that’s just on track, off it i am immensely proud of his growth too, from being someone who always saw everything as glass half full and was always so hard on himself, to the way he now talks in interviews you can see his confidence and belief in his own abilities has come on so far (as it should). it’s so nice to see how far he’s come from the little boy who started out in f1 so many years ago. maybe this year wasn’t his for the championship but mark my words, his time will come.

[aristhought]

the streets yearn for a max and charles title fight. and max and charles yearn for it most of all.

[moonshynecybin]

watching this video from early in the year where they asked the riders to name their favorite battle/overtake OF ALL TIME and everyone has extremely normal answers except for our ole chestnut marco bezzecchi who answers ARGENTINA 2015. presumably cuz marc's ASS hits the CONCRETE

[souvenir116]

okokok i don’t know if any of this will make sense but i feel like you are someone who would be able to see the vision.

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imagine, just for a second, having someone who’s life mirrored yours. it was so similar yet so different, everything being the same on the surface but if you look a bit deeper it’s flipped.

imagine you are born, first, of course, and you are destined. you were born to win. and he is born, sixteen days later (that number being the one he will race with) and he doesn’t know it yet, but he is predestined. even though you were first, you were bred for this, he was born screaming, red in the face, red to the core. rosso corsa.

imagine you stay home from school one day, lying about not feeling well. your father takes you to a track, and you watch your godfather, your mentor, the red cape already heavy on his shoulders (and yours, but not yet. for now it still rests with him). you fall in love. and somewhere, miles away, he grows up among the greats. his father is one of them, he toddles among them, shoes too big but no choice but to make them fit.

imagine you are ahead. and suddenly, he appears, fighting you tooth and nail. this prodigal boy, who looks so sweet, is frothing at the mouth, hungry for a taste of victory. today, you taste it, and he sees red (he only ever sees red, he was only ever meant to see red) and he pushes you aside. the taste of victory is ripped from your mouth, still staining your teeth, and your father screams at you. but he doesn’t taste it either.

imagine being scared. you have known this one dream, known it for years (you may not have been born for it, but your first breath was made to let you scream red). the cape on your shoulders is heavy and uncomfortable, it wasn’t yours to wear yet. you have no choice. he sits among men, a child, and sixteen days seems so much longer now. you carry the one you looked up to, forced to look down on his grave, unsure if the cape you wear was stained red with his blood.

imagine you are flying. you are fighting among men, you clawed your way forward. not all the way to the top, not yet, as that step is held by two men who used to be brothers but now can’t look each other in the eye. that doesn’t matter, because today you stand on the top of the world, looking down on everyone. the shoes that were once too large pinch in the toes, suddenly restricting you. in the back of your head you know that he stood here yesterday, too, rained in victory and clutching to a promise that it was all worth it. but, sixteen days have turned into a three year gap, because you were born for this.

imagine you are where you were predestined to be. shroud in red, wrapped in a metal coffin with your stained cape tucked surely around you. your father is dead, not knowing of the lies you told him. it’s okay papa, you say, i’m here now. i’m in the red. you’re fighting with the greats, with him. and he fights you, the same way he did back when you were angelic and he would get screamed at. this time, he tastes the victory, and you look on in anger. you have never been more hungry.

imagine feeling bigger than everyone but also the smallest in the room. you ripped the trophy away, not from him, but you have it now. your father doesn’t cry, but he doesn’t yell either, and that must be enough. the song of your people has never sounded so good and so hollow too. that night, blinded by a feeling you don’t understand and too much of everything else, you see him. you call for him, looking down from above (of course, it has always been this way). he calls back.

imagine clawing forward with all of your strength and feeling better each day. imagine looking down on him (looking up to him, too) and being gripped by a knowingness. this is not yours, not yet, but in the moment you can enjoy it. when he looks up again you his eyes sparkle (they never sparkle for anyone else). three years ago you were never hungrier, the red taking over and spilling from your core all the way to the tips of your fingers and the soles of your feet. today, showered in victory, the red only adorns your clothing (and the cape, which grows heavier and lighter each day). he is blue, he is always blue. his blue carries hints of red though (it’s a mirror, he is your mirror. you are his mirror).

imagine knowing that everything is connected. the number sixteen, a shared hunger, red. maybe it is a red string, wound before you were born to win and before you were born predestined. maybe you were born for each other.

Excellent said anon, I totally see your vision. 16 days apart turning into a 3 years gap, out of reach, Max getting his first race win in Spain exactly at the same weekend Charles took his first with Ferrari in GP3, Max recommending Charles to the team for his seat before leaving GP3 and moving into F1 when Charles has to go through all junior categories, but nonetheless, Max saying "I always thought that, if I'd make it to F1, Charles would also make it."

"It’s never been a surprise to me that charles is sitting here - ... It’s not a surprise that we are sitting here together.”

Because Max knew, he always knew Charles' potential and that's why he always rates Charles high, that's why he is along very few people Max rates, but also, Max waited him to get to F1. For 3 years until it happened. To race with him. To race against him. He believed in Charles.

Max is the very same person who always talks about retirement, but even back then in 2019, he dared to compare him and Charles to Lewis and Seb's rivalry, and said "I think we have at least 15-20 years of racing ahead of us."

Same goes for Charles. He'll always put his battles with Max as his best races, back then, Silverstone 2019 even they were both not fighting for a win, or a close date, in Vegas.

And even if I don't want to mention his name, you know someone said: These two will fight forever. They will fight even in F1.′

Max and Charles are intertwined in a way that sometimes I can't even comprehend, the contrast between the red and the blue, the connections with the numbers, their loyalty and endless devotion for their teams, the hunger, they raced together in their whole childhood and now they are racing in F1, the pinnacle of motorsports, where they both dreamed to be, worked for it all their life and I think it's so precious.

One thing about them though, no matter how much they respect or value each other, they'll fight tooth and nail on the track, the hunger will never fade away, that's what I admire the most about them.

[simeonscott]

Defender of the Exploited.

[samuraiblack]

a collection of the prints on the merch we've had at our national fgc tournaments over the years

[f0point5]

[punnysher]

ITS MORPHIN TIME! HENSHIN! Street Fighter X Power Rangers, In sprite form!

Please Reblot and follow for more sprites!

As you can see, The first set was not in the same aspect ratio as the others, sorry about that. I made these sprites to celebrate Ryu and Chun Li making it to both PR:Legacy wars and Battle for the Grid. SF and PR are two of my favorite childhood things so it warmed my heart to see this happen.

I'm not used to spriting armor, so I tried my best with that and the helmets, but I think it turned out alright

The best thing that happened to me was that the CEO of nWaygames, the people that made Legacy Wars and Battle for the grid, Retweeted these sprites on Twitter. Made my year.

[demon64]

So... kinda continuing off yet also diverging from a previous post where I talk about Happy Chaos shooting Demi-Fiend, I had this idea of what could a mainline SMT fighting game could look like. Or what maybe some SMT characters as guests in Guilty Gear could look like? I'm gonna try making it a bit more of a general fighting game idea despite my fairly limited knowledge of fighting games. I play them but fighting games are very rarely my go-to type of video game. I know Persona has fighting games, so I may take what I can find about them and see if I can translate some things from those to something with mainline characters like Nanashi and Dagda. Let's get started!

NAHOBINO: I feel like he would be a bit more of an all-rounder, sort of the Ryu of an SMT fighting game. Or maybe the Sol Badguy or Ky Kiske of the game? Nahobino would have good long, mid, and short range. I guess for a Super more, it could be something like him using a Murakumo.

DEMI-FIEND: I feel like him being more of a Power or Rushdown character could be interesting. Both because most generally want to go with a physical build when it comes to Demi-Fiend and both feel somewhat in-character. He could probably play like a Leo Whitefang if you go Rushdown. Either Leo Whitefang or maybe Dai Shi in Battle For The Grid. For a Super, maybe something like Freikugal?

NANASHI: There is a neat idea I have seen for this, where it's like Nanashi's special attacks can be built around calling on his friends like Asahi and/or Gaston. Or if you want to go another route, calling on the power given by Dagda. For a Super, I guess going for the big attack where all his friends attack at once when fhe Gauge is full could work.

LUCIFER: I kinda feel like it can't just be the protagonists as fighters, that some of the bosses also gotta be fighters, and Lucifer is one of the most well-known bosses in SMT, to my knowledge. He could be a bigger, slower character who relies on hard-hitting specials for damage, with his Super being Root of Evil, maybe giving a random effect each time it's used.

DAGDA: Semi-related to the Nanashi ideas, what if Dagda is a fighter akin to Slayer from Guilty Gear, who is good about whiff-punishing with hard hitting basic attacks and specials, while maybe having a unique button or special where he calls in Nanashi to maybe deal or take damage. His Super could be Lost Hit, where he does a huge combo of punches before sending the opponent back with a final one.

NUWA & YAKUMO: I feel like this could maybe be a fun case of a Puppet Fighter type of character, where the attack comes more from what is summoned than the character. Maybe using the Persona 4 Arena control scheme, have it that two buttons belong go Nuwa's attacks while another two belong to Yakumo's attacks. Either that or some kind of swap fighter, where using a special you can swap between Nuwa as a Zoner and Yakumo as a Power character. I'll be honest, gotta think a bit more on their Super.

ABDIEL: I feel like it could be fun to see her as almost like a Ky Kiske type, a bit more specifically what I know of Ky in Strive. She's fairly balanced in terms of moveset, with a fair number of long, mid, and short-range attacks, with maybe a way to summon Dazai for help, and has a Super that changes her form and buffs her. Where Ky has Dragon Install, maybe Abdiel goes from her Herald form to her Fallen form.

TSUKUYOMI: It would be his fused form with Yuzuru, where he's wielding his scythe. I guess a sort of Testament-like moveset could work, but I could also look a bit more into other scythe-wielding fighting game characters and see if they can give me an idea. For a Super, it could be Paraselene Blur, where he does 4 Light-element attacks in quick succession.

YUZURU: I guess he could be similar to what I know of Ken & Koromaru, just with Hayataro in the Kuromaru role. He could be fairly strong and agile with maybe not the best durability, as he is still human. I think one Super could be one of Hayataro's skills, like say Carnage Fang, where if I remember correctly, he jumps and bites the opponent before spinning like a drill? Is that correct?

SPACE MARINE: The protagonist of Strange Journey. Okay, so, to some this may be a bit of strange idea, but what if his moveset is akin to that of the Mastodon Sentry from Battle For The Grid? Where he's got good melee attacks but also has a rifle that can fire shots when hitting a certain button, maybe with if holding backward as well he can use it to dive back for good distance if needed.

And that is all I got for now. I did say I'm not the most knowledgeable person when it comes to fighting game movesets, so I did have to take some inspiration from games I have played, such as Guilty Gear Strive and Battle For The Grid. Maybe I could use some of my Mortal Kombat know-how as well, but it's been a long while since I played MK.

[boygirlctommy]

"as long as we're still together, then l'manberg lives on" vs "we're not l'manberg anymore, but we're still together"...

[mewtwowarrior]

@amuseablesun

There's three different lovely shades of purple! :D

[realreadysetrose]

Ah yes, one of my favorite ridiculous scenes

[fandoms-run-my-life]

Since Santa is canonically a Power Ranger what other holiday figures would you like to see to round out a Holiday Ranger Team?

This is my line up:

Red Ranger - Santa

Blue - Tooth Fairy

Yellow - Easter Bunny

Pink - Cupid

Green - Leprechaun

6th - Halloween

Also what would their zords be?

Big thank you to @vbartilucci for reminding me that the Tooth Fairy exists and would make a dope Blue Ranger

[each-dustbin1]

The last of the very important and real lore