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  • enlightenedbumenlightenedbum Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Mugsley wrote: »
    If you want to see a bunch of high end talent that will probably be in the NHL pretty soon (as soon as two weeks from now) Michigan and Minnesota have made the Big Ten title game next Saturday night. Luke Hughes will be in the NHL (New Jersey) like the day after Michigan's season ends. Adam Fantili is going #2 after Bedard in the draft. Gophers are loaded, especially on the blue line.

    A few players already drafted will be in that game. Example: Matthew Nies

    Like 20 players I think.

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  • DirtyDirty Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    What was the consensus on Grim/Gal Guardians in here? The dev is mostly good, but wildly inconsistent.

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  • HobnailHobnail Registered User regular
    edited April 14
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  • Endless_SerpentsEndless_Serpents Registered User regular
    edited April 14
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  • webguy20webguy20 I spend too much time on the Internet Registered User regular
    edited April 18
    DJ Eebs wrote: »
    Monwyn wrote: »
    SniperGuy wrote: »
    Bogart wrote: »
    Oh fucking hell the social bit at the end of episode two is maybe the funniest thing they’ve ever done. I’m straight up weeping with laughter.

    Zach's character is incredible in Starstruck

    I am Skip Norman Takamura!

    When it was announced that Mercer is doing the next series after Neverafter my first thought was "I wonder how Matt would have reacted to Zac and Lou going just so far out into left field in Starstruck that they might as well have been in Kansas"

    His approach isn't all that dissimilar to how Brennan handled the Hilda Hilda incident: you make a wild choice? You're in it, now, find your own way out. Honestly, the way Zac and Lou commit to bits is way more predictable than the way Ally or Emily might, because Zac and Lou are the kind that will be presented with a situation and just...go for broke, if it makes sense, and Emily, for example, will be like, "hey, before we advance to the next plot thread, I want to go over here and do the most insane thing possible." To be clear: it generally rules when she does this.

    Yea I love most of the cast of D20/NADDPOD/DropOut but Emily is a favorite in the D&D games because she's an agent of chaos with a heart. She has a very good idea of how far she can push something in any given situation and when she pushes its usually in a very party/narratively positive way. Caldwell in NADDPOD is also an Agent of Chaos, but it usually just ends with him getting seriously hurt.

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  • LBD_NytetraynLBD_Nytetrayn TorontoRegistered User regular
    edited April 19
    Not sure if there was a consensus, but it's good. Only problem is, despite the marketing, it seems to very much be a Gal*Gun game, just of a different breed.

    I wrote a bit about it here, and I've enjoyed what I've played, but I haven't seen everything, and it sounds like if you're trying to 100% it, then it might get more, uh, "Gal*Gun-y" than I realized.

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    https://youtu.be/-_HeLFGCw7M
    At Aperture Science...

    https://youtu.be/d-tSOGS-jTQ
    We do what we can...

    https://youtu.be/yIhp7HuzHbU
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  • SniperGuySniperGuy SniperGuyGaming Registered User regular
    edited April 18
    The general dimension20 fandom seems to be absolutely clamoring to have Emily be in the game with Mercer and I think that would be a blast. She is an agent of chaos. The bit in neverafter recently where she was like "Can I give that guy disadvantage by yelling at him?" and Brennan's response of "Oh sure, what ability are you using to do that? Oh well he has an ability I also just made up that negates that." was hilarious.

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  • Warlock82Warlock82 Never pet a burning dog Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Feldorn wrote: »
    grabbed Rosa from the shop, not pulling on the banner though.

    I saw that banner and it confused me for a minute because it said the operator was "Poca" and I'm like, I don't remember having one named that. I thought this was Rosa but maybe it's someone who looks a lot like her?? Then I realized it was that weird Russian spelling they use for the bears (which is really weird in this case.. At least Zima looks like the same name but with a weird Z). But the way the banner lists it, it doesn't say Rosa at all (it only does if you click into her details page) so it really confused me :P

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  • ZomroZomro Registered User regular
    edited April 18
    Brennan has described Emily as one of the best D&D players in the world and that she was also sent from Hell to kill him.

    Which is a pretty accurate summation of Emily. It's hard to find someone as engaged with the game as she is, she is always bought in even when her character isn't "on screen" and she also does these silly and chaotic things that are hilariously entertaining. However, she's also an absolute monster on the mechanics side, and has systematically dismantled Brennan's encounters in the past with her smart play and character builds. A couple of examples (in spoilers in case someone hasn't seen a particular season)

    Crown of Candy
    Saccharina is very strong, mainly because she's a full caster in a setting where magic is rare. Having the ability to Counterspell the Plum Fairy, or drop AoE spells on enemy units during the large scale battles turned the tides of those fights.

    Starstruck
    Operation: Slippery Puppet is the quintessential "Emily bamboozles Brennan" moment.

    In short, Emily is awesome, but be prepared for her to wreck your shit.

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  • OrphaneOrphane rivers of red that run to seaRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Warlock82 wrote: »
    Feldorn wrote: »
    grabbed Rosa from the shop, not pulling on the banner though.

    I saw that banner and it confused me for a minute because it said the operator was "Poca" and I'm like, I don't remember having one named that. I thought this was Rosa but maybe it's someone who looks a lot like her?? Then I realized it was that weird Russian spelling they use for the bears (which is really weird in this case.. At least Zima looks like the same name but with a weird Z). But the way the banner lists it, it doesn't say Rosa at all (it only does if you click into her details page) so it really confused me :P

    It's Cyrillic, so a completely different writing alphabet than English

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  • webguy20webguy20 I spend too much time on the Internet Registered User regular
    edited April 18
    What sucks is how much shit she gets online. There is definitely a vocal minority that harass the shit out of her. They bring it up on NADDPOD occasionally but she holds back ideas, character concepts and changes strategies occasionally because she doesn't want to deal with the bullshit.

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  • JayrichoJayricho Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Lehkonen out now with a broken finger. Please, make it stop.

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  • AshtonDragonAshtonDragon AKA The Nix Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Magic Pink wrote: »
    Where do I go to get better timepiece artifacts? I have 5 and 4 star of everything else but only 3 star clocks

    What's your adventure rank? My general advice is to not go out of your way for artifacts until AR45, as that's when 5 star artifacts are guaranteed to drop from artifact domains, which is where you'd go to get better artifacts. Until AR45, just level the best stuff that you happen to get from chests or from doing bosses or whatever, 3* stuff is fine early on. If you're above AR45, artifact domains are definitely a good idea.

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  • XantusXantus Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Magic Pink wrote: »
    Where do I go to get better timepiece artifacts? I have 5 and 4 star of everything else but only 3 star clocks

    the kind of artifacts you get are just RNG. the artifact roller is also quite streaky, i often go many domains in a row only getting flowers or feathers ;p

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  • ZomroZomro Registered User regular
    edited April 18
    webguy20 wrote: »
    What sucks is how much shit she gets online. There is definitely a vocal minority that harass the shit out of her. They bring it up on NADDPOD occasionally but she holds back ideas, character concepts and changes strategies occasionally because she doesn't want to deal with the bullshit.

    That is both completely unsurprising yet also still incredibly infuriating to learn.

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  • TalkaTalka Registered User regular
    edited April 18
    Weird. I can’t imagine Emily hate.

    That said, her Crown of Candy
    Saccharina
    character is one of my least favorite characters of any player from any season. Largely by design, the character felt unearned emotionally and mechanically, in ways where Emily’s strengths actively worked against her.

    Outside of that one counter-example, Emily’s characters are normally the highlight of any given season, either D20 or NADDPOD, and I genuinely cannot fathom anyone not loving her as a player. I’m honestly shocked that’s a sentiment that exists, and I just don’t get it.

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  • ThePantsAssociationThePantsAssociation A million could-be years on a thousand may-be worldsRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Hu Tao with her homies Xingqui and Zhongli make her an unstoppable killing machine. Throw in a healer like Jean to fill up HP when needed and baby, you've got a stew going.

    'Course everyone I mentioned besides Xingqui is 5-star it might take a while to acquire that kind of team.

    [edit] Oops, I was responding to something a page ago. The team rocks, regardless.

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  • metaghostmetaghost An intriguing odor A delicate touchRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    I’ve had Hu Tao since her first banner and never used her because farming the Pyro artifacts sucked and I still have dogshit for Spears.

    But last weekend I chewed through Artifacts at the Alchemy table to make her a decent set and leveled up a White Tassel.

    She is hilariously powerful.

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  • The WolfmanThe Wolfman Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Magic Pink wrote: »
    I really want a Zhongli even tho I have no idea how to use Geo.

    There's nothing to know about Zhongli other than this:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLb33K8UO30

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  • PolaritiePolaritie Sleepy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Magic Pink wrote: »
    I really want a Zhongli even tho I have no idea how to use Geo.

    Zhongli is a shield bot. You swap to him and use his hold E to put a giant shield up (with bonus resist shred to nearby enemies). His build is generally just maxing out his shield.

    If its up you might his his burst for the stun it causes.

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  • MirkelMirkel FinlandRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Polaritie wrote: »
    Magic Pink wrote: »
    I really want a Zhongli even tho I have no idea how to use Geo.

    Zhongli is a shield bot. You swap to him and use his hold E to put a giant shield up (with bonus resist shred to nearby enemies). His build is generally just maxing out his shield.

    If its up you might his his burst for the stun it causes.

    I like ZL's burst because it's low cost and not really needed for anything so I can just use it whenever I feel like dropping a giant meatball on my enemies. If I waste Yelan's burst or Xiangling's I feel bad since they are actually good but wasting Zhongli's burst is no big deal. That one hilichurl archer looking at you funny? Drop a meteor on him.

    But yeah, he is a shield bot. Ruined what little ability to dodge I used to have for sure. Also I have no idea if a particular enemy ability does 20k damage or 2k damage since they all do 0 damage to me.

    ETA: I think he was a giant game design failure though. His shield is basically immortality and while Genshin difficult fights are mostly about dps, having ZL in the team completely removes any challenge related to enemy attacks dealing damage. Since MHY isn't going to touch his kit again they've resorted to stuff like enemies doing bleeding damage through shields. Obviously his giant shields don't quite ruin the game but they sure do narrow the space MHY has for future challenging content.

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  • ThePantsAssociationThePantsAssociation A million could-be years on a thousand may-be worldsRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    That's why you use Zhongli with Hu Tao, who hurts herself so enemies don't have to.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    This seems relevant to the topic

    https://youtu.be/SgbX6c5G_Bc

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  • MirkelMirkel FinlandRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    If that video had Sayu as a fourth, it'd be my whole "run around really fast and then murder everything" team I use for quests that involve a lot of walking.

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  • XantusXantus Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    with a decent refine Kitain Cross spear.. Zhong's burst is basically up every cooldown. it's nice to have a pause button where enemies just chill out for a bit. especially these new sumeru eremites that like to just elephant-hitbox-superarmor push you around.

    people often say ZL is OP .. but i think his little annoying drawbacks balance him out (he really doesn't do impressive damage and his pillars are the bane of both melee (auto-climb disable when HOYO??) and ranged (it blocks arrows)

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  • MirkelMirkel FinlandRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    He isn't necessarily OP as such given he deals mediocre damage and geo is crap for reactions. He just removes one aspect from combat, which is slightly different.

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  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    ZL was the first character my wife hit 100k with. The meatball isn't amazing, but it's not nothing either.

    I think people forget a lot of Zhongli's kit when they say he's just removing one aspect from combat. The shield is huge for sure, but the bonus of the shield is the 20% res shred which is also huge. All of that in just the E, which can be maintained most of the time and just never goes down, is a huge deal.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I still want a Kazuha because he's just that damn good in almost every team

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  • SpoitSpoit *twitch twitch* Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Iunno, I find the big zong energy to be more reliable with keeping the shield up than trying to go for ice resonance with diona

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  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Diona is also a great healer and battery. And if you have her C6 she also gives a big EM boost to the team. I use her with Ayaka a lot to help with her energy issues.

    But yeah, Zhongli is easier to maintain for sure.

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  • XantusXantus Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Shadowfire wrote: »
    ZL was the first character my wife hit 100k with. The meatball isn't amazing, but it's not nothing either.

    I think people forget a lot of Zhongli's kit when they say he's just removing one aspect from combat. The shield is huge for sure, but the bonus of the shield is the 20% res shred which is also huge. All of that in just the E, which can be maintained most of the time and just never goes down, is a huge deal.

    well sure, but at the end of the day you're just doing Orange Damage
    it's just weird in a "reactions combat" game to go ham on the damage type that doesn't react with anything.
    seems like they only shoehorned geo damage in just to make a few contrived boss mechanics.

    like any VV shredder is gonna bring more oomph. ZL just allows one to turn brain off completely ;D
    but he's kinda been powercrept over the years. there's a lot more ways these days to make tanky team comps.
    honestly I just use his hold-E for mining in the overworld.

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  • PolaritiePolaritie Sleepy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Haha. I didn't notice before, but Jean's birthday is 3/14. Her unique food is pizza.

    Meaning the game celebrates Pi Day.

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  • edited April 18
    Talka wrote: »
    Weird. I can’t imagine Emily hate.

    That said, her Crown of Candy
    Saccharina
    character is one of my least favorite characters of any player from any season. Largely by design, the character felt unearned emotionally and mechanically, in ways where Emily’s strengths actively worked against her.

    Outside of that one counter-example, Emily’s characters are normally the highlight of any given season, either D20 or NADDPOD, and I genuinely cannot fathom anyone not loving her as a player. I’m honestly shocked that’s a sentiment that exists, and I just don’t get it.
    Saccharina was a huge swing, and going "if my character who is a beloved sister and daughter dies, I'm coming in as a different sister with a very complicated and possibly hostile relationship to both of those characters" is such a bold move that I really respect her for it. I think that it takes her a few episodes to get going with her as well, which makes sense, but I really liked how that mini-storyline resolved. At the very least, I think Siobhan really nailed the landing on it

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  • DrLoserForHireXDrLoserForHireX Philosopher King The AcademyRegistered User regular
    edited April 18
    I feel like Siobhan doesn't get as much love as she deserves. She's never the most on top of the mechanics and her characters tend towards being understated or quieter but she is always a gem. I am a huge fan of her in Neverafter.

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