#ranked battles

[mashupism]

yeah so i played with putz12 yesterday and yall were right hes pretty doodoo buns at the game

a good chunk of my kills r assists but like… 6 deaths?? woow

two games ago i went 5-11 but we don’t talk about that

[pokemonblog]

Pokémon Scarlet and Violet Ranked Battles Season 31 (June 2025) now underway until June 30 at 23:59 UTC, continues to follow Regulation Set I, full season details revealed

Additional Ranked Battles are continuing to be held in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet. Read on below to learn more: Ranked Battles Season 31 Is Under Way! Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet Ranked Battles Season 31 (June 2025)Take on players from around the world now to climb the leaderboards and earn in-game rewards. A new season of Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet Ranked Battles has begun!…

[miketendo-64]

Pokémon TCG Pocket To Add Changes To Ranked Battles In Coming Seasons

Pokémon TCG players who have been trying to reach Master Ball Rank in Ranked Matches will he pleased to know that the app developers will be adding some welcoming changes in upcoming seasons. One such example is the removal of demotion between Ultra Ball to Great Ball and Master Ball to Ultra Ball. The consecutive win streak bonus will also be applied to Ultra Ball and Master Ball to help players…

[obsidian-haxorus]

Climbing through the SwSh ranked battles if anyone is looking for matches 👀

[hailstormchase]

My go to weapon to mess with people is the inkbrush, as I am a MENACE with that thing, getting people from halfway across the map with the killer wail 5.0.

But I also like the reef redux, and played the splat and sorella brellas in 2. Still do in 3!

I typically stick to turf.....except for splatzones and clam blitz. Occasionally rainmaker too

Yall think turfers feel this way sometimes???

Im a squelcher main at heart okay. It lets me fuck around and be chill and have fun. But if you make me angry enough. I will pull out the dapples.

anyway thats the last time Im forcing myself to end the days sploon session on a win when I spent all day working on a personal art project

[vfx-batman]

Jason’s strength is psychological warfare + long-range artillery + long-term planning, not brawling/1:1 martial arts. People forget this + then chuck him in an empty arena to hypothesise a fight against people for power-scaling purposes. But that’s like asking Aquaman to fight in the desert? In other words this DC K.O. Tournament is going to annoy me. 👍

[primus-why]

I love the idea of Ratchet being captured while badly injured. It wasn't necessarily on purpose-- he knows the Cons would love to take him prisoner in order to utilize his medical skills, he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Once they realized he was a medic they pulled him from the rubble and got him on a slab pretty quickly all things considered. The trouble is there's a reason the Cons value medical expertise-- he's bleeding out, they don't have enough supplies, and at this rate Ratchet knows he's gonna die. So with whatever strength he can muster he gets the attention of one of the grunts working on him.

Ratchet: H... hey... I need you... to pass on a message...

Con 1: To who, your Prime? Not gonna happen.

Con 2: Yeah we don't really do the 'any last words' thing.

Ratchet: No... *wheeze* to Deadlock.

Con 1 & 2: *go still*

Ratchet: Tell 'im... I'll... be waiting... for him...

Con 2: Wait a klik...

Con 1: ... You don't think--?

Con 2: -- Frag! Oh frag!! His vitals!!! Dealock is gonna kill us!!

Con 1: Scrap! Get Soundwave on the line, have him patch to the DJD!

Con 2: He's not gonna make it! I don't want them to know my face!

Con 1: It. won't. matter. If we wait, it'll look worse!

Con 2: Oh Primus, I hope they don't pick up...

Con 1: Just go!!!

Ratchet: ... I'm waitin' to... kick his aft... *passes out*

[chloesimaginationthings]

Jodio and Dragona in The Splatlands

[gastonxwindy]

Rating different versions of Gaston

This is all my personal opinion and in no particular order.

House of Mouse

7/10

He's funny, he's cute. He's only kind of off model and out of character but I love him anyway.

Beauty and the Beast (2017 Live Action)

3/10

Listen, this is probably unpopular because I agree Luke Evans is cute. However! I don't really like him as Gaston, he's not hitting the same notes I want for Gaston. Not campy enough tbh.

Beauty and the Beast (1991 Animated)

10/10

The original, the campiest, the meanest. Where would we be without him tbh.

Disney Villains Cursed Cafe

10/10

On model, adorable, stupid as hell. He plays golf??? Awesome, in character tbh. I love this guy.

Disney Dreamlight Valley (Eternity Isle DLC)

10/10

I'm very biased here, because this is where I fell in love with Gaston. His quest lines are silly but feel mostly in character to me, he is voiced by the original voice actor?? (Richard White) I can make him follow me around and play dolls with him!

Disney Twisted Wonderland

5/10

Ok this one is named Ashton Vargas. I haven't played this game, but honestly his design is changed way too much for me. I hardly recognize my man without his big ass forehead and chin.

Disney Mirrorverse

7/10

A handsome fantasy fighter Gaston, not my favorite but very high on my list. I didn't know about this game until it was already gone. 💔

Disney Lorcana (Baritone Bully)

9/10

I'm loving bard Gaston, his outfit is so cute and the artwork is fantastic.

I only picked two Lorcana cards for this post, so I picked the two most distinctly different from his base design.

Disney Lorcana (Intellectual Powerhouse)

8/10

This one is ranked lower because it's out of character lol. As an au idea it is interesting though, and he is super cute in the art, so it's still ranked decently high.

Disney Heroes: Battlemode

10/10

Let's be honest this is regular Gaston but shiny. I had never heard of this game until I tried to look up the title for Mirrorverse lol.

[skyplayssplatoon3]

X Rank Record - Largest Point Drop

I know not a lot of people here are really into X Rank, but this is something that's literally record-breaking in two different ways!

Twitter User [jayynosushi] not only obtained the highest X Power ever recorded in Splatoon 3 (previous record was 5000)

But in a stunning twist and one bad play by a teammate...

They also hold the new record for the biggest point loss ever suffered in X Rank, which was about 500, but now is 1042.8

For 2 wins and 3 losses in an X Series, the absolute closest you can get to just barely losing

GOES TO SHOW THIS SYSTEM IS QUITE CRUEL...So don't beat yourselves up too much! It can always be worse LMAO;;

[pokemonblog]

Pokémon Scarlet and Violet Ranked Battles Season 30 (May 2025) now underway until May 31 at 4:59 p.m. PDT, this is the first season to follow Regulation Set I, full season details revealed

Additional Ranked Battles are continuing to be held in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet. Read on below to learn more: Ranked Battles Season 30 Is Under Way! Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet Ranked Battles Season 30 (May 2025)Take on players from around the world now to climb the leaderboards and earn in-game rewards. A new season of Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet Ranked Battles has begun! This…

[clansunsharp]

another fathom, look at me go! [gives ur dragons eds]

[polarpanda73]

finally unlocked this one a bit ago and it was the most stressful fight of my life (we did Not win) (i dont want to do it again i cast ye away white demon)

[telesodalite]

Never getting over Fulcrum being a project manager...

Idk why, but something about that is so funny to me. Not just because the title of "project manager" is inherently kinda funny for a Decepticon, but also because-

1. It's vague sounding and hard to explain irl because it technically exists in multiple fields, like healthcare or manufacturing, which surely translates into canon in some way.

2. In canon, it's simultaneously a really mundane, innocuous sounding job, yet it's also a super morally awful position to reside over depending on the context. (*cough* forced colonization and cyberforming *cough*)

And 3. It solidifies the fact that behind all the surface level militaristic work we get with both the Decepticons and Autobots, there's also Cons and Bots with "normal" jobs in both factions.

Like, sure yeah we get scientists and doctors, engineers and programmers, but usually in big important or warfront positions. (For plot reasons, understandably.) But it's also really funny and interesting to think of those that worked background positions, or minor jobs.

Like an Autobot working in their equivalent of an HR department, or a Decepticon who runs one of their outpost's or starship's kitchens.

Just all the pre-war jobs that didn't just disappear with the war, but instead evolved to exist within the factions.

It's particularly funny with the Decepticons though, because it could be a super mundane job or situation, but because it's them, it has to have an air of ~e v i l~ to it, either legitimately and/or merely for the vibes, like Tarn's "performance reviews".

[m0e-ru]

can we put leon strohl da haliaetus in a food processor

[sillygoofyqueer]

Deity Jester Wei Wuxian AU because I really like it I don't CARE if you guys have no taste (/silly). What a shit ending to that last one was though, I was obviously some form of deluded with that ending. Jesus CHRIST. When Wei Ying returns to Master, he is furious. He wants to kill him, to rip him apart slowly and remind him that although he may hold the key to controlling him, Wei Ying can still fight back. He already has, once. It was a minimal, small struggle, one that had seemed to tear him apart inside, but it was enough. A sign that he does not need to resign himself to being forced to complete Master's every whim and want. It's what fuels him to pulling the poor wood that hides a room off its metal bindings as he enters Master's space, feeling that familiar tug in his chest that usually signals a transformation, but he still can't free himself of this cage of flesh and blood so he can only growl in frustration. Master is lounging in that pathetic chair of his, obviously having been waiting for him to enter, lips pressed against that damn instrument and already playing the tune that leaves him feeling separate from his own body.

At first, he can ignore it, clinging to his body - it's so heavy to move it, so heavy in a way it hasn't been since the deaths of his mama and papa - and dragging himself forwards towards the man himself. But, there's something about this melody that feels different. It seems to echo, reverberating around the room and thudding into his mind every time it bounces off a surface; it hurts, every thud another rip in his control, until he can no longer keep himself in control. He doesn't even hear the orders that Master gives him, but can only watch and vaguely feel himself moving somewhere, doing something, but then it all goes dark. He can't think, can't move, can't open his eyes. He just. Exists. It feels almost similar to how he existed after being chased out of his home when his parents had died, hidden beneath a tree and clinging to his mama's cloak as it rotted in his hands. He wonders if this is what death is like.

Wei Ying's master, known to most as Wen Haoran, moves in to take the throne after he is sure that all other competition is gone. The monster took care of all of them, but the way it had refused to attack the children had him worried. However, they were dealt with, it was dealt with, and now he can easily take over command of the country. The commoners cannot do anything, and it is easy to pit the old court loyal to the previous crown against one another with carefully placed pieces of 'incriminating evidence' that ties all of them to him in some way or another. Rumours and whispers, letters and bribes, all linked back to him in some way or another, falsified to suit his purposes. The infighting weeds out the weak ones who come begging for his support a few weeks in, the strong ones who end up swarmed as more 'evidence' piles up against them, and the smart ones. The ones who merely pretend to bend to his will. They are dealt with swiftly, leaving his control of the throne secure.

History unfolds from that moment, time passing as Wen Haoran's rule marks the start of Wen control of the country, rules doling out to become more and more oppressive as time goes on. Nobody can explain how he gained the throne, can only speculate while he tucks away the ancient, mould-ridden text that holds a short, vague passage on the monster with the melody that summons it. While he doesn't want anyone else to learn about his methods for his takeover, he wishes to ensure that future generations of the Wen also have the knowledge in case they need to summon the monster. It's stupid enough, it won't even recognise them considering it didn't even know his name, so it can be utilised again as long as the melody is played by them. So, he creates an inner library, hidden within his chambers (the chambers of the ruler), that holds all of the secrets his family should need to know to keep control of this country, one that is finally taking shape to be a truly great place. It is a secret that is passed down from ruler to ruler at first, but one that fades with time, until eighty years have passed and Wen Haoran is long dead, with Wen Ruohan on the throne.

Wen Ruohan is unlike his ancestor in that he is outwardly cruel. He is power hungry, a maniac that cares not for appearances - the Wen have been on the throne for this long, their power is practically absolute, and everyone has grown complacent with the treatment doled out to everyone within the country. Whatever the Wen ask, you do, or you face certain death. Rumours flit around that they are using dark magic but honestly, none of the rulers are even aware of the secret room within their chambers and, even if they were, would not think to find any sort of magic present in their ancestor's work. Wen Ruohan is just evil alone, he does not need any cursed magic or object to taint his mind. A clear indicator of his cruelty is when he asks the prestigious families to send a son into the palace so they can learn their roles; they can do nothing but send them over despite their fear and mistrust of this tyrannical ruler with his equally fucked up sons.

It's not long before these boys from prominent families have different tasks doled out to them that seem to mock the individual family's greatest pride - Nie Mingjue is placed as a Duizhu (captain of a company), meaning he is working with woefully less soldiers than he usually would, an insult to his expertise of battle. Jiang Cheng is now a fisherman for the Wen, supplying them with the best fish - an insult to the family revered for their trade and control of the waterways. Jin Zixuan? A retainer for Wen Chao, who delights in ordering around a member of the family that poses the most threat with their almost natural talents of politicking and charming all those that cross them (well, until you talk to Jin Guangshan, of course). And Lan Wangji, the one to willingly go to the palace so that his brother could still be the heir of the Lan family, a scholar dedicated to documenting the illustrious history of the Wens and whatever strikes their fancy, spitting on the Lans' own well-documented, impressive history and their unparalleled scholarly arts.

Lan Wangji despises his place in the palace, forced to sit in the library every day and read through pages and pages of the Wens' lies, writing down everything that could be deemed even remotely important to the Wens so that he doesn't have to go back and read through them if he misses something. This task is not straightforward even with his length, because every time one of the royals ask him to research something else, he must stop his documentations of the Wen to learn everything about the subject asked until he has enough information written down to appease those that have asked for it. It's long and tedious enough already, and every time he has to pause, it adds more time to what he has to do. It gets worse when he realises that there is vagueness around the beginning of the rule of the Wen - something that Wen Ruohan will not tolerate if he is presented with it, forcing Lan Wangji to ask for more resources on that part of history.

Coincidentally, a servant stumbles across the secret library while cleaning the room, having done the impossible and accidentally knocked a statue resting against the untouched books in the study. They look inside, assuming this is just another part to the library of the study, and dust off all of the books - they notice two books in particular - small, handbound. 'The beginning of the Wens' and an unnamed, mould-covered book. They don't think much of it, just remembering that that blasted Lan was asking for more resources on the former subject and so grabbing that without much thought to go give it to the Lan, then grabbing the mould-covered book just because it will surely be a pain in the ass for the Lan to decipher. They leave the hidden library, being sure to reset everything after they're gone, and go to give the books to the Lan. They honestly assume that the other inner servants know about it, so they don't mention anything as they deliver the book to Lan Wangji, who practically glares down at it as he opens it for more bullshit to be delivered.