#dds2

[feelmyskinonyourskin]

Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock - Daredevil Season 2

[melamoon]

Notice how those who defend him are all women…

writers, was this intentional?

[rustyemporium]

Everyone say happy birthday to her now

[parasitoidism]

Trying to make myself draw things again rn

[millythompson-whiteroomtorture]

i should be studying for finals right now but smt comes first🤞 i keep on switching art styles i'll still use my old one but... bug eyed freaks..

yukari being here is lowkey “the dude no one invited” but it’s ok i love her

[glitchjackdreemurr]

I love this game.

[digitalriyasaga]

Two Guys Revising at The Back* by Hayase Reku.

*I don't feel confident in this at all. The original is basically "Two Tarous at the back of the line revising." Tarou is a really stereotypical name; it's like the Japanese version of John Smith or something. You need a hypothetical guy, he's Tarou. According to what I found online, it seems it can also be used as slang for a protagonist, but that sounded awkward, so I just went with this title.

I'm not feeling great about this one all told, so I just did what I could. I'm no professional, after all.

As others, this comes from parasitoidism's scans.

[pecado-inocente29]

Gale that points at gay people

[demifiendcruithne]

today on digital devil saga 2 is criminally under-researched (aka crui is a nerd about a 20 year old game)

so i finally got the impulse/opportunity to test out something i've been suspecting for a while but have never seen any documentation on: dds2 has some form of STAB* mechanic with elemental spells for playable characters, based on their associated element (the one they resist + the one their unique gun combos use)

*for non-pokemon folk: STAB == same-type attack bonus. so for example, a chimecho (psychic type pokemon) using extrasensory (psychic type move) will deal more damage than a non-psychic-type pokemon with the same special attack against the same target

i have more tests i intend to make when i have spoons (i'm just grinding mantras for the superboss and noticed it while fighting wild narasimha because that hecker disables my berserker ring), but so far i've tested with my three active characters fulfilling the following:

are fighting the exact same narasimha who has no elemental weakness/resistance/etc (savestates were used and run multiple times; the rng is not fixed until a move is actually used, so i could get multiple data points quickly by making a new savestate every time i loaded it to advance the rng)

have 99 magic

are level 99

have no elemental boost or amp skills equipped

have no rings equipped that may affect damage, outside of boosting magic stat to 99 for consistency

use two different dynes; one of their associated element, and one not. the former consistently did more, and with repeated runs i cannot write it off as damage range.

under cut: many images; by virtue of being in endgame, these will have some spoilers for endgame in plain sight. if you're reading this and haven't gotten to the final dungeon, i highly recommend you go do that and come back later. once you've reached the final dungeon, you're safe to check it out.

(but seriously - i can't stop you, but i highly recommend actually. playing this game first. it's great)

if you're reading this, you've either gotten to the final dungeon or don't care about spoilers; in case of the latter, i'll do a quick explanation of our last party member momentarily. i have been a little misleading because they are. very much a BIG spoiler. but first - gale resists force, and does more damage with zandyne than bufudyne; likewise argilla with earth/teradyne/ziodyne.

(bufudyne was a random pick for gale because i had only five for omoikane reasons, but in hindsight it was a good one...)

now - for those unaware, this last party member's name is seraph. they're a fusion of two other party members both of said party members were associated with/resisted ice, and i'm near-certain that they also got the boost to bufu spells (i can check this at some point, i have a backup save right before endgame) the same way gale and argilla do.

but what's seraph's elemental affinities? no weaknesses, no resistances. so what does this mean here?

extra screenshots because the first agidyne was a high roll - literally the highest i've seen on a non-stab unboosted dyne against a narasimha. yet it's still clearly estranged from gale's zandyne and argilla's teradyne.

the other part? seraph's bufudyne does the same as gale's, and the same as argilla's ziodyne and their own agidyne, the same as expected without stab.

i'm not sure what else to say about this thus far besides putting a list of further tests to do eventually / get proper data for:

100s of attempts so it can be statistically analysed better. easy to code the data collection into seraph (my helper program, named after this seraph because. yeah), possibly more difficult to analyse but my partner got me into this game he can deal with the consequences (being asked to do data stuff) :v

including cielo and heat as well, probably after i beat satan and grind them up as a victory lap (in the mantras sense not the internment facility sense)

earlier save reloads for data for serph, sera, and roland - i doubt they'd be any different, but regardless

other elemental spells - both the basic and -la levels, the ma-s, the maxed out mantra ones, and the dances. is the boost approximately consistent?

does it affect combos? i believe it doesn't, same as amp skills and the like (and because i feel like i would have noticed by now), but will get data for both participants initiating

does it affect items? i feel like that's unlikely, but worth trying

is there a 'reverse-stab' for someone's weakness? i don't think so, but i'll get the data for free and if there's a trend i just got to test the ailment damagers for cielo

likewise, is the elemental boost innate like the gun combo elements? almost certainly. but it would be funny if equipping x resist made your x do more damage. and also not really that helpful?

does seraph get a boost on almighty? my first instinct would be yes, purely because of seraph's gun combo doing almighty damage; it's near-useless if you got reincarnate but still worth checking. and if so, does ragnarok behave differently from megido+/last word?

on that note, does seraph resist almighty? i... wouldn't be surprised - status only says no weakness, not no resistance, but almighty resistance tends to be invisible anyway (looking at you, devil survivor 2 that shows everything else) (you're fine just using as an example)

that would be a lot harder to test but if i get a party of seraph / someone with dragon ring / someone else with all maxed stats and just find something with megido+

anything else i might have forgotten

if you hack pyriphlegethon onto heat does it do more damage. i don't think i can test this one but i would. honestly be curious

but yeah. this is pretty cool, maybe i'll check for it in dds1 as well. if anyone else checks any of this out and makes a writeup or anything please ping me i have autistic hyperfocused on jrpg mechanics for over two decades :v

[twdmusicboxmystery]

Bethyl Asks 105 - Lots of Beth Parallels in DDS2 + Emily's Love at First Sight Post

[feelmyskinonyourskin]

All the Frank gifs I made but didn't use for my 25 Days of Daredevil Countdown. He had the most extra. Jee, wonder why...

[cake-apostate]

I think it's important to me that Roland was the only member of the Embryon who took the Demon Virus willingly.

They didn't have a cannibalism taboo, or at least not a cultural one. He did.

They didn't have a life before the virus. He did.

He must have had an idea of a life he could have returned to once all this was over, but even if he got his life and job back, he'd still need to eat people for the rest of his days.

He knew all this. And he took the virus anyways.

[thevanzuu]

the idea came to me when i saw that one poll with asterion and serph here and i remembered that i had the meme with this text saved in my gallery

[parasitoidism]

Digital Devil Saga 2 Manga Scans

Hello! I scanned my copy of Digital Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner 2 Comic Anthology, which you can see here:

Enjoy! This is the last of my dds2 manga but I have plenty more dds1 manga to go.

[edourado]

HI I JUST REMEMBERED-

breathe

I was just remembering the firs time we ever saw Jon’s Frank Castle on screen.

That’s it

[ancestral-steppe]

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