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  • BurtletoyBurtletoy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    What the fuck!?

    Preseason hockey started already?

    I told you jerks you needed to post more now that I'm not using twitter. You all failed me!

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  • OrphaneOrphane rivers of red that run to seaRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    sure is a good thing Fartooth ignores dodge when her skill is active and the maps featuring Andouain's dumb ass feature lanes she can snipe him from across the map in so you don't have to worry about getting her hit by his bouncing attacks

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  • FeldornFeldorn Mediocre Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    managed to run through the monthly squad in IS2, still haven't finished a run in normal mode.

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  • DibbyDibby I'll do my best! Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Warlock82 wrote: »
    You can also sort by Trust in the dorms now, it was an update a few weeks ago.
    Dibby wrote: »
    You also will get a notification if an Operator hits max trust now, IIRC

    Oh yeah, I saw that notification too (honestly I think that's how I finally noticed this.. I was surprised to see a little orange diamond on that tab). I don't know how I missed this when they first added it (I guess I haven't looked at this page since then?) but man, this one took way too long. It has always annoyed me that the one page you want to know Trust on is like the hardest one to figure it out with. This is such a nice QoL upgrade.

    Now if only they'd actually do something with the base itself... I must have a bazillion of those building materials at this point with literally nothing to spend them on :P Add some more rooms! Even if they're just "for fun" rooms of some sort (give me more stuff to decorate :3)

    Raise Nine-Colored Deer to at least E1, then have her play around with the building blocks in the Workshop. When she is going to turn over to 40 "points" (pay attention to the unique icon she gets in that room), have her make a 4 cost Elite Material, she'll generate something else guaranteed as a bonus. Repeat as her stamina allows.

    Optimally, you want to upcycle your building mats.

    Sticks to Bricks, Bricks to Packs, and then Packs into Furniture Part

    This works out far better than just e.g. Sticks -> Furniture Parts because making Packs AND turning Packs to Parts are both 4 morale. You basically get to double dip on Packs.

    Also, if you can, HIGHLY recco getting NCD to E2

    You use her to craft T5 (orange) mats, every tenth T5 mat is a guaranteed T4 (purple) mat. The math has been done by Certified Nerds and it is worth it, despite the seemingly poor investment (you might think crafting 9 T5 mats with no byproducts for only the 10th to give one is bad, but it's GUARANTEED so it works out to honestly be better)

    Given how costly and annoying it can be to farm up mats to make T4/T5 mats, this is rather huge

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  • FeldornFeldorn Mediocre Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    What start do you all use for IS? I don’t have any additional ones unlocked, I should probably pick a core op like Ling or Thorns. I have started to grab the 20 ingots package as well but I’m not sure if there is one that works out to be better.

    I have finished Phantom in the last 2 monthly squads but haven’t completed a normal run yet. I’d say I at least get to Phantom almost 50% off runs that don’t fail on the first 2 floors.

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  • LorekLorek Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Feldorn wrote: »
    What start do you all use for IS? I don’t have any additional ones unlocked, I should probably pick a core op like Ling or Thorns. I have started to grab the 20 ingots package as well but I’m not sure if there is one that works out to be better.

    I have finished Phantom in the last 2 monthly squads but haven’t completed a normal run yet. I’d say I at least get to Phantom almost 50% off runs that don’t fail on the first 2 floors.

    I was able to get all 3 endings use the same start; Guard/Support/Medic start and taking Thorns/Orchid/Hibiscus; then try to promote Thorns as soon as possible. I used the starting package that gives you the Armor on every stage because I am bad and usually leak at least once every stage so this keeps my health from evaporating.

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  • Warlock82Warlock82 Never pet a burning dog Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Managed to finish the event missions. Currency for this one felt a little rough - not that it was hard to get a lot but that it seemed like stuff in the store was more expensive? I dunno. I've been farming event missions since the start (for a change) and even after completing everything I was only really able to buy out the first group of stuff. I spammed more missions to get enough to buy an ok chunk of the second group but still, felt like a lot of extra farming just to afford that (and there was still additional money and stuff I would have liked to buy in that group but I just couldn't tolerate anymore grinding :P). I had no trouble getting, say, the medal for spending a lot in the shop though so it's not like they were not giving me currency. *shrug*

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  • FeldornFeldorn Mediocre Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I used 6 stamina packs during this event and still didn't quite purchase everything in the shop, and that was with farming from the start of the event. I did get everything but the furniture parts though.

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  • DibbyDibby I'll do my best! Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Feldorn wrote: »
    What start do you all use for IS? I don’t have any additional ones unlocked, I should probably pick a core op like Ling or Thorns. I have started to grab the 20 ingots package as well but I’m not sure if there is one that works out to be better.

    I have finished Phantom in the last 2 monthly squads but haven’t completed a normal run yet. I’d say I at least get to Phantom almost 50% off runs that don’t fail on the first 2 floors.

    A lot of people will say to grab a 6* and two 3*s, but. Honestly I've had much more success grabbing two 5*s and a 3* (or two 5*s and one 4* if I get the starting bonus +2 Hope).

    Namely for Guard, La Pluma. You can't go wrong with a La Pluma start. She carries so goddamn hard and has such incredible synergies with so many of the relics. But yeah, I tend to do something like that and then save up Hope to grab a good 6* when I need one/get the right recruit voucher. Thorns without E2 is.... Not Thorns, lol. So if you don't have the auto-promote Squad it can kinda be rough starts with him? Thorns is an absolute beast but I typically grab him later on.

    Sniper I pretty much always grab Blue Poison. I mean, Kroos is really good, like top tier good, but only for early game. She falls off super hard late game. BP stays relevant the whole way through. With Spinach-esque relics she can reliably solo the puppets on right side on the final boss.

    That said though if you are gunning for a 6* to start, grab one that's functional at E1, like Eyja. Her S2 fuckin' carries hard. Mountain can work pretty well too.



    edit: Honestly Ling can fucking hard carry all the way through so if you WANT just pick her lmao. Recommend picking up a Boss Killer to deal with Lucian though.

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  • FeldornFeldorn Mediocre Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Bought Eunectes from the shop since I didn't have her yet.

    For beating Lucian my core members have almost always been Eyja and May. Eyja S3 for Lucian and May to weaken the dancers on the right side. I'm still bad at it but I think I'm starting to figure out what I need to have in order to get through that stage.

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  • ph blakeph blake Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I still haven't touched IS despite being interested in it, maybe I should get on that.

    My arknights gaming these days tends to be "log on everyday just to collect base stuff, maybe spend enough stamina on sunday so my pots don't go to waste"

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  • FeldornFeldorn Mediocre Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    ph blake wrote: »
    I still haven't touched IS despite being interested in it, maybe I should get on that.

    My arknights gaming these days tends to be "log on everyday just to collect base stuff, maybe spend enough stamina on sunday so my pots don't go to waste"

    There are good rewards in IS. I would suggest at least trying to do the Monthly Squad to get those rewards.

    I don't play it a ton because I find the RNG nature quite annoying.

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  • chromdomchromdom Who? Where?Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Hay @Burtletoy -- the season starts on the 7th. Giving you that head's up.
    Of course, they're games in Europe and most teams don't start until the 12th. But still, you are forewarned! Let the rest of the season be on your head!

    Also, Montreal signed Logan Mailloux to an ELC.

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  • BurtletoyBurtletoy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    The awesome is for the first part of the post, only

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  • ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User, Moderator mod
    edited April 14
    i too enjoy hay

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  • chromdomchromdom Who? Where?Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Burtletoy wrote: »
    The awesome is for the first part of the post, only

    Yeah, I gotcha :bro:
    Chanus wrote: »
    i too enjoy hay

    Well now I can't go back and fix it! Stupid fingers!

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  • chromdomchromdom Who? Where?Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Hockey season has officially started. Sharks goalie James Reimer gave up the goal of the season (not on the first shot of the season like I thought). 👍
    Go Sharks.
    *sigh*

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  • BurtletoyBurtletoy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I'm so confused because the penguins are playing a preseason game in a few hours

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  • chromdomchromdom Who? Where?Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Sharks' home unis look awful. Not as bad as I thought at first impression, but teal pants are a mistake with teal jerseys, teal gloves, and teal socks.

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  • BurtletoyBurtletoy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Penguins season starts on Thursday. Probably gonna take the day off work. Fuck work. Hockey time!

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  • chromdomchromdom Who? Where?Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Twitter link to a woman accusing Ian Cole of sexually grooming her as a minor:
    twitter.com/emily_smith3333/status/1578464079324205057

    I've heard Tampa and the NHL are investigating, but I would bet this gets swept away as boys will be boys, which of course proves the accusers point of the NHL fostering a culture of misogyny.

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  • JayrichoJayricho Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Not the first scandal Cole has recently been involved with. Apparently he was caught having an affair with a Hurricanes reporter and his now former fiancée found out about it at their rehearsal dinner.

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  • chromdomchromdom Who? Where?Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I think it was her now former fiancée, but yeah.

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  • BullheadBullhead Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    chromdom wrote: »
    Twitter link to a woman accusing Ian Cole of sexually grooming her as a minor:
    twitter.com/emily_smith3333/status/1578464079324205057

    I've heard Tampa and the NHL are investigating, but I would bet this gets swept away as boys will be boys, which of course proves the accusers point of the NHL fostering a culture of misogyny.

    FWIW the Lightning have suspended him pending investigation, so at least if anything is found out/confirmed he might get shitcanned. Not holding my breath though.

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  • JayrichoJayricho Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Hmmm. Wonder if I can find $12k in change in the couch cushions.

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  • chromdomchromdom Who? Where?Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Pre-season is completely over now. Even though pre-season was over a few days ago for two teams, it's now over for everybody. It's opening night in North America. This staggered opening sucks ass, but yeah, NHL season is go.

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  • JayrichoJayricho Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Opening early in Europe with Nashville and San Jose was incredibly dumb. I’m all for playing some games overseas but opening the season the way they did was incredibly strange.

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  • chromdomchromdom Who? Where?Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Only thing I can think of is that it was the NHL dipping its toe in the water, seeing if doing regular season games, even season openers, is something that can pull in the kinds of numbers they want. I have no idea what kind of numbers they want (gates, broadcasting, sponsorships, etc.), but if they put in more popular teams and ramp up their publicity, do they think they can turn it into Winter Classic type events?
    As a smaller scale experiment, I think it might have been successful? If this is just what they're going to do, then it was an abysmal failure.

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  • wunderbarwunderbar What Have I Done? Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    The NHL has been playing regular season games in Europe since 2007, and exhibition games dating back literally to the 80's. they did season opening games from 2007 to 2011. the European games had to be shelved in 2012 due to that paticular lockout, and for whatever reason didn't return for a few years. The NHL went back in 2017, and kept returning until the pandemic. since 2017 a couple teams have gone and opened the season there, then later on, usually in November, a couple more teams go and play a couple more games.

    But the NHL going to Europe is not a new thing for the league, and the league wants to have a presence there.

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  • chromdomchromdom Who? Where?Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I knew it seemed familiar!

    Anyway, LAK are sticking with those gawdawful chrome helmets, at least tonight. They look silly.

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  • JayrichoJayricho Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    It’s still heartwarming as hell seeing the happiness on JJ’s face.

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  • BurtletoyBurtletoy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Seattle Kraken has their season opener tonight and it's on TV during primetime. And it's, like, wow. I can't believe the NHL messed this up so badly. Should've scheduled the game for 12:37pm on a Tuesday, like the MLB playoffs.

    And that's why they're a third rate professional league.

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  • BurtletoyBurtletoy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I forgot that the Kraken didn't fire hakstol yet.

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  • JayrichoJayricho Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    The ads on the boards changing digitally all at once is gonna take some getting used to.

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  • BurtletoyBurtletoy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    My first thought was "wow anahiem can't even find more than one sponsor for their boards ads" and got worried about the team before they all changed when the enterprise car drove across them

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  • JayrichoJayricho Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    I don’t know if they were having problems with it or something but TNT has seemingly turned it off. So far it’s been the standard ads in Denver for the whole second period.

    Also, hilarious that these notes made it in the air.

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  • Captain DreamCaptain Dream World's Greatest Escape Artist Doctor Vundabar's Murder MachineRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    The digital ads were glitching out pretty bad in the first period of Canucks-Oilers tonight.

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  • chromdomchromdom Who? Where?Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Uhh... I forgot Seattle opened up tonight. When I turned on the game, they were up 4-2.
    My bad, everyone.

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  • dlinfinitidlinfiniti Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    The digital ads were glitching out pretty bad in the first period of Canucks-Oilers tonight.


    What if it only happens when the away team has the puck

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  • Fighting MongooseFighting Mongoose I don't think you realize just how rich he is. In fact, I should put on a monocle.Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Mark Hoppus sang All the Small Things before the banner tonight so that was neat

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