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i wanna change my icon to car crash leontuzzo so so so badly. forced icon update fucked up the feng shui on this one anyway

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poor vigil in the clue mines for me rn while in the story he is. in a coma. sorry man

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arknights update is so scary. just gained 45 max sanity out of nowhere, base ui is completely reworked, and there’s an absolutely horrible screenshot popup every. single. time. you take a screenshot that you have to manually dismiss. not a fan.

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i still have fond memories of fucking nintendoland, which came free with the wii u and which was enjoyable enough that we played it regularly even well after other games released for the console, because the minigames were fun and the little plaza was fun to be in. and now the switch 2 has a paid tech demo that looks like a mobile game i’d play in 2015

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oh my god and some of the physical game cartridges don’t even actually have the full game on them. god. five hundred dollars and eighty per game i hope it flops worse than the wii u

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the entire direct was like. paid tech demo. paid graphics upgrades for games already on the switch. eighty dollar mario kart. ports. emulated games that you can emulate for far cheaper than the price of a switch 2. i don’t think d*ltarune or s*lksong are switch exclusives. they paid whatever king’s ransom was neccesary for bloodb*rne 2 exclusive i guess. paid tech demo. paid. tech demo. astrobot was free and was also, like, a game and not a set of billboards. incredible letdown.

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wow that direct was honestly worst than last weeks. i can’t believe their last minute big ticket trailer was dk. so nothing

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i’ve got dt-8 down to about 2:40 a run, and ten of those seconds are waiting for the last wave of enemies to leave because they spawn right after ceobe leaves. i still haven’t done dt-ex-8 and i don’t think i will, since i’d rather farm fibers while they’re here and the few runs i did attempt gave me a headache. don’t feel like trying it again

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i don’t think i’d use 3-star lava because look. this is already not good. but that still leaves nine. one will be borrowed by necessity so that means four slots to spend on literally any unit that isn’t dogshit. who would i need to make splashknights work.

i feel like at least one flagbearer is non negotiable? probably a medic because splash casters love to die and fast-redeploy strats only work if the operator can be good without a windup period. at least one blocker. in order to figure this out really i’d have to train up like seven level one unused splash casters and actually use them, so

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like with the upcoming change to how support units work - allowing the borrower to actually pick skills and modules - it’s entirely possible for me to find and borrow a good dusk. so that i can play with about ten splash casters at once. for fun?

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so with the marcille acquisition i officially have every single splash caster except dusk, and it is entirely likely that i never will get dusk. anyway i’ve been struck with horrible visions of splashknights and now i can’t stop considering it

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got marcille in like 62-ish rolls. dipped into my actual orundum and used up all thirty of my headhunting certs but what else was i gonna spend that on

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about to burn half my resources on a mediocre splash caster i’m never going to look at again but in fairness i haven’t spent in months and will continue to not spend for many more months after this so might as well complete the collab set before it disappears forever

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yeah after like a dozen or so runs i feel like all dt-8 actually cares about is just killing at a minimum one of each enemy type tri maw asks for? this is most obvious on the last wave with the metal crabs because the entire pot can be no bar, no visible ingredients, 0/42 sp, but as long as lappland has killed one of her crabs by the time the boss reaches the pot it eats with no complaints and leaves. genuinely very interesting design? It makes things much faster because I just have to check that one thing is killed before pressing the kaltsit button which is much much easier than the alternative where the mechanics actually mean anything at all

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ceobe boss really annoyed me at first because i absolutely thought that “serve her a meal” meant like. fill the pot and activate the actual mechanic. it even specifically says “if meal is not ready” in her description, which i feel implies actually cooking? but after tearing my hair out for a full day it turns out there just has to be something, anything at all, in the pot when she reaches it. just a pile of uncooked bug corpses for her to feast upon.

once i realized that you can just fucking ignore the pot so long as you stall her for like maybe ten seconds on the first phase my life got a lot easier. it doesn’t even seem to matter if i fill the pot after the first phase because nine times out of ten the pot is completely fucking empty when she reaches it the third time and finally leaves which is. interesting.

anyway a borrowed kaltsit can solo her with brainless ease so even though i can’t actually auto deploy the pattern is rote enough that i’ve actually just been playing through the whole thing a couple times to farm fibers. it’s pretty easy to execute and the music is good, so not a bad boss experience all told.

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my favorite thing about is5 is with the right squad it is very easy to get three complete randoms from the as your heart desires class tickets. one five star temp recruit one five star support one six star support. adds a lot of run variety for me

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i also want an english va for ayerscarpe and maybe an extra outfit for fun but honestly he shows up in twilight of wolumonde and has. dialogue. and plot contribution. so by this standard he is wildly and impossibly wealthy and doesn’t need the help. would be nice though

it’s getting dire in leonhardt land. he doesn’t have any story presence and i’ve already read every side story he appears in. the last update was the (excellent) english va addition in ride to lake silbernehenze. no new module on the horizon. or outfit. or story appearance. i’m getting desperate