#megaposting

[shreeky]

i love megaman volnutt he is the best i want to play roblox with him

[alex-supremacy4]

"man i love playing flicker with my friends"

my average flicker experience when playing with my friends:

bonus (a few rounds i played with charlie)

[alex-supremacy4]

OH MY FUCKING GOD I MJGJT SEND THIS TO THEM

bout time this gem started circulating again

[harpy-of-the-storm]

Today's Battle Chip of the Day is...

Balance.

Balance is a Giga-class Battle Chip from Battle Network 3. It is meant to act as an "equalizer" which halves the current health of everyone on screen, including the user.

It's also the subject of a famous meme:

[ID in alt text]

Balance is an interesting chip to use in that it seems useless - why cut YOUR health to cut the ENEMY'S health? Well, I personally think that's only a drawback in situations where the relevant health meters are close to each other.

If you have 900 Health and the opponent has 1000, you end up on the same side of things. It can be worth it if you want to try and make the fight quick, but it's probably better to simply use something else.

In a situation like that, if your folder also has generally higher damage output, it's a relatively useful chip - it's just overshadowed by Navi Recycle, which reuses the last summon attack you did.

Why would you hit yourself for 400 and your opponent for 500 when you can use Bubbleman V5 twice and kill them outright, y'know?

On the opposite side, if you're already in a lopsided moment where your opponent has something like 700 Health and you're already down to 300 or so, that 150 HP damage won't hurt you nearly as much as the 350 damage they're about to take. The issue of Balance being overshadowed, however, remains.

There's one other thing I find interesting about Balance as a Battle Chip, and it doesn't have anything to do directly with its usage in-game.

The name Balance is a translation of Ryouseibai, which at my best understanding has a meaning pertaining to punishing both parties of an incident regardless of circumstance.

It doesn't matter who started the fight, or who gave what insult - you're both suffering the same punishment for simply being involved.

However, Battle Network as a series has a limitation: 32 characters to describe any given Battle Chip with 8 allocated to the name and 24 to the description.

Instead of describing this concept, when the game got localized the team opted to provide a name & description that simply tell you what it does: Balanace for the name and Cut both HP in half! for the description.

I think that part of game development is often this sort of clash: the choice between the vision and the functionality.

Personally, as much as was lost in translation, I'm glad that the developers chose functionality here. I think trying to give it a name & description that packs that together would have made the game a bit harder to understand in a way it doesn't quite need.

[megalopolus]

i had to draw my babies real quick bc they're losing a poll rn and it's breaking my heart

[teaboot]

Since so many people seem to associate you with the Olaf rant -- if you could pick a single different post to be known for, which would it be?

This one. Look at my baby

[dumbingofage]

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[skate-the-onion]

One more little nonsense for now

[haasmaxxing]

Karaoke Stream Screenshot Dump #1

[creeksidekiller]

so i finally watched so random

[undying-love]

John and Paul on each other: A Compilation

John:

"He [Paul] looked like Elvis. I dug him."

"I'm like everyone else, Harry. I fell for Paul's looks."

"..an old, estranged fiancée of mine called Paul."

"Paul...you're so well-built." (X)

"Groups like this are normally not friends. They’re just four people out there thrown together to make an act. There may be two of them who sort of go off and are friends, you know...Strictly platonic of course."

"Oh, I've had him, he's no good."

"I was riding on a boat called Paul, and now I'm riding on a boat called Yoko."

"I've compared to a marriage a million times and I hope it's… understandable. For people that aren't married. Or any relationship. It was a LONG relationship. It started many, many years before the American public, or the English public for that matter, knew us. Paul and I were together since he was 15, I was 16."

"Nobody ever said anything about Paul's having a spell on me or my having one on Paul! They never thought that was abnormal in those days, two guys together, or four guys together! Why didn't they ever say, "How come those guys don't split up? I mean, what's going on backstage? What is this Paul and John business? How can they be together so long?"

"Well, Paul had met Linda before [the Apple press conference], you see. I mean, there were quite a few women he'd obviously had that I never knew about. God knows when he was doing it, but he must have been doing it."

"I don’t even think about Paul unless somebody brings him up. Or if some song comes out or something happens, they’re in the newspaper. I don’t know why everyone doesn’t just leave him alone—I haven’t really seen him in ten years. I can talk about him forever because I know all about him, but you see, there’s nothing much to say."

[Studio chatter] Paul: I will be overpowering this time. John: Oh good. I like it when you’re brutal. (X)

Paul:

"John was really my only male friend, if only because of proximity."

"[While playing live] John was to the left or to the right of me, so I never got to sort of see him perform so much. Except in the film [Get Back]. And there he is in massive closeup. I can study everything about him.”

“I’ll just sit around and hug him forever, because that’s the depth of my feeling for him."

"And I would often sketch John when we worked together, often without him knowing it. It was so easy doing John because he had glasses, those sideboards...and that long, aquiline nose."

"When I painted him recently, I found myself saying, ‘How did his lips go?"

"I can still see John now: checked shirt, slightly curly hair…I remember thinking, ‘He looks good - I wouldn’t mind being in a group with him."

"James reminds me very much of John in many ways: he's got beautiful hands. John had beautiful hands."

"If I'm going to see a face in a painting, it's highly likely to be his."

"I still remember his beery old breath when I first met him that day. But I soon came to love that beery old breath. And I loved John."

"I’m often thinking of him. I dream of him."

"Delicious boy, delicious broth of a boy."

"John and I used to hitch-hike places together. It was something that we did together quite a lot; cementing our friendship, getting to know our feelings, our dreams, our ambitions together. It was a very wonderful period. I look back on it with great fondness. I particularly remember John and I would be squeezed in our little single bed."

"There's a song I do called Here Today which is specifically written for John. That sometimes catches me out. I realize I'm telling this man that I love him and it's like I'm publicly declaring this in front of all these people I don't know. I sometimes wonder what I'm doing."

"We are individuals— all different. John married Yoko, I married Linda. We didn’t marry the same girl.”

"Please Please Me was a John idea. John liked the double meaning of “please”. Yeah, “please” is, you know, pretty please. “Please have intercourse with me. So, pretty please, have intercourse with me, I beg you to have intercourse with me.” He liked that, and I liked that he liked that."

"[John] was a wild and woolly genius who it was my pleasure to work with, walk with, talk with and occasionally sleep with. "

Q: If John Lennon could come back for a day, how would you spend it with him? Paul: In bed.

"Then also [me and John] were like married, so you got the bitterness. It’s not a woman scorned this time, it’s two men scorned — probably even worse. And I had to make way for Yoko. My relationship with John could not have remained as it was and Yoko feel secure.”

"I think really what it was, really all that happened was that John fell in love. With Yoko. And so, with such a powerful alliance like that, it was difficult for him to still be seeing me. It was as if I was another girlfriend, almost. Our relationship was a strong relationship. And if he was to start a new relationship, he had to put this other one away."

[wavesalwayscrash]

oughh I know Frost is meant be portrayed as a coward in this specific scene, and I wouldn’t doubt that he is one, but his reaction felt like it was a mix between cowardice and a genuine panic attack. Especially when he froze up the very second he saw Condor.

this guy has ptsd me thinks,, I honestly wouldn’t be surprised considering the horrible war the King put everyone through

People who go into wars get ptsd no matter what, it's why most people see it as the "veteran mental illness." but also, Frost is a coward who loves to get on other people's asses about how to handle being a soldier/leader (Lain) but when push came to shove he wasn't able to keep it together either, and would rather leave his soldiers to die than fight along side them. If someone else pulled what he did, he would be heavily criticizing them to hell and back and calling them a coward.

The stuff with Condor knowing how king cats fight was not intentional but that is a very fun read and I like that analysis a lot! Dude really just likes to throw his bodyweight around.

He is just a silly background character who I made up on the fly to fill a specific character mold, so I didn't expect anything like this to happen lmao.

[harpy-of-the-storm]

The Battle Chip of the Day is...

IceBall. This chip is a relatively infamous one, as progressing through the story of Battle Network 3 requires obtaining IceBall in the M code.

IceBall hurls a cold metal cannonball forward and creates a slippery Ice tile under it, dealing Aqua damage to anyone who gets hit - but it's very slow, so it's hard to use and there's generally better options.

Like all CannonBall type Chips, it has the Break property and pierces defenses like the Guard series of Battle Chips and deals a lot of damage.

CannonBall itself cracks the panel under your target - if there isn't anyone there, it simply breaks the panel.

There's a matching LavaBall which hurls a heated hunk of metal forward and creates - you guessed it - a Lava tile, which can then deal 50 damage to non-Fire-element targets if they step on it...unless they have FloatShoes, which disables negative panel effects.

Seeing as these chips only affect one panel at a time when you have a bevy of options for targeting entire rows or even the whole stage, they're not very useful, and if you're using one it's probably either out of respect for a theme or just because you enjoy the Chip itself.

Still, the damage isn't insignificant by any means. CannonBall deals 160, with IceBall dealing 120 and LavaBall dealing 140. Especially if you get effective damage on the elemental pair, 240 and 280 damage is a good hit!

The issue is that there's just better options which are easier to confirm given how long they take to land, as any Chip you have to throw for the attack is notoriously hard to land.

If you want a more useful Guard-piercing attack, you could use Condor, which has less wind up and pierces the entire row; or you could use a Shake-series Chip, which locks down a column as long as it's alive for 90, 110, or 140 per hit based on which rank of the Chip you're using.

If you're in need of a strong Fire-element attack, and you are truly partial to hurling things, I would suggest the Black Bomb series, which tosses an bomb waiting to be lit; once hit with another Fire attack, it explodes, dealing 120, 170, or 220 damage based on rank.

And if you're wanting to deal Aqua damage, you've got Wave for 80 damage which hits each row at least once but is blocked by broken panels; you've got the IceWave series which launches a giant snowflake for 80, 100, or 140 ranked damage; the Metagel series which steals non-broken panels and if someone's standing there, deals 90, 130, or 170 damage AND can form the Program Advance Gel Rain which launches six of these attacks for 150 damage each.

There are simply so many attacks that cover all the bases the Cannonball series is trying to fit in to that they end up not worth using.

...Which is why Capcom forced us to be aware of them I guess.

I mentioned earlier that you need an IceBall M to proceed in the game it's from. Well, this is because a kid sick with the same illness that killed Megaman back when he was Hub Hikari is giving up on caring about living and you can only make him decide to try new treatment if you prove there's kindness in the world. So you get him a Battle Chip he's always wanted.

By the way, Mamoru turns out to the system administrator for known the criminal & mafia hideout, the Undernet. He inherited the position from his departed dad along with "his" Net Navi, Serenade, a canonically genderless digital god.

Continuing on here.

Every Battle Chip comes in a predetermined list of Codes. IceBall comes in F, I, M, Q, S and * though I don't know if the * is obtainable, as sometimes it's just a data filler in the earlier games.

Here's the snag. Every code has different obtain conditions from the same enemy, and some don't come from the enemy at all but are instead found in Mystery Data, or in Shops, or through trade sequences with NPCs.

IceBall M does come from its respective enemy, the ColdHead. But you can't just find ColdHead. No, no, that would be easy!

You have to open your Navi Customizer and install the Fish program on Megaman, which attracts Aqua-element viruses whenever possible.

Then you have to head to a sort of counter-intuitive location, Hades Isle, and jack in to Hades Net from the terminal first used during the tournament in the story.

With this done, you have to run around getting random encounters until ColdHead shows up and then defeat it with a Busting Rank of at least 6.

To clarify this last point, here is how Busting Rank works in Battle Network 3.

In all games, a score of 10 points means an S-rank win. Winning in under 5 seconds will gain you 7 points, 5:00:01 to 12 seconds even is 6, from 12:00:01 to 36 seconds even is 5, and anything less is 4.

If you don't get Flinched, then you get +1. Otherwise you get 0 points if you Flinch once, and -1 for every Flinch from there, at a maximum loss of -3 points.

Double Delete - where you kill two enemies at once - is worth +2. Triple Delete is worth +4.

If you take 2 steps or less you get +1.

In Battle Network 3 only, you have the Custom Style "plus ranks".

Busting LV. S+: Scoring a Busting LV. S in a Virus battle with a Delete Time of less than 5 seconds without using the Buster normal shot, the ChargeShot PowerAttack, or selecting Navi chips, will get you an exclusive reward.

Busting LV. S++: Same conditions as above, but if you do this without re-opening the Custom Screen, a different exclusive reward can be obtained.

This means, to score the IceBall M Battle Chip...

Wait to defeat it for at least 12 seconds. [Base Score of 5]

Not get hit. [+1]

Make sure you move at least 3 times. [no Move bonus]

...and obtain a rank of 6. If you take the Move Bonus, a score of 7 will still likely yield the chip, but if you fuck them over and get an S you might get a different Code. If your score is low you can also get a different Code.

Also if you don't have Collect equipped to guarantee a Battle Chip reward from combat you might just get Zenny - the game's currency - instead of the Chip you fought so hard for and have to farm another encounter.

Welcome to collectible hell. Good luck out there.

Go save a life.

[megalopolus]

total cannibal island. is this anything

[brujademente]