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im trying to forget that i actually leveled candace to 80. she's still so bad lol.
So she's not Very Bad in the same way that Dehya is Very Bad, she's Very Bad in that HoyoVerse designed her in a really scummy way.
It's pretty much because her entire point is basically to be an Anemo Damage buffer but she does so with her Burst, which has an 80 cost and 20 second CD which is...not great at all. (At C0 her Burst only lasts 12 seconds.) Her Skill doesn't generate much energy and requires a charged shot to generate the energy in the first place, which means she spends more time on field than you'd like, and your Anemo Carry (who usually need Batteries themselves) that she's supposed to be buffing is going to have to do the heavy lifting when it comes to energy generation and you're going to have to build a lot of ER on her to make sure she can do her job with any sort of consistency. Or you can play Mono-Anemo. All of those options are a bit less than ideal.
Then on top of that, her Constellations are just....ridiculous. She's basically a character who was designed at C6 and then made backwards, stripping away things as they went. C2 makes her Burst longer, which increases her Buffing capability and making it so that you can almost get 100% uptime with the proper ER requirements (at C0 they're something like, 260-300% to get her Burst back on cooldown). C4 makes her energy a bit more manageable by giving her more energy when you hit that Charged Shot but then C4 tag-teams with C6 and basically adds that grouping from her charged shot to her Burst which also gives her energy. Yeah. At C6 her own Burst gives her energy back. On top of everything else that C6 does. It's just a very scummy move to make her as (comparatively) bad as she is at C0 and then just ridiculous at C6.
Yes.
It's a classic fantasy tale of no black people, but somehow tomatoes.
well she's similar to thoma in that respect. his cons fix his energy issues and make him "okay".
in both their cases.. the problem is that you can just.. bring a character that does actual damage instead and doesn't 'punish' you as heavily for missing cycles or whiffing charged shots (or getting hit during charged shots)
i used to think that whiffing venti's ult was "the worst" .. but man, faruzan's hitbox for that attack is so all over the place. i feel lucky if i ever hit someone twice with it.
They do share that, yeah, but Thoma is aided by the fact that he was built around Shields and he still has his skill for that. His Burst has broader application now, for Burgeon but the main issue with Thoma was that nobody really knew what his point was when he was released. To be honest, I don't believe he was built to be a Burgeon unit, I think he just kinda stumbled into that role. Faruzan's role was obvious from the onset, it's just that she really isn't very good at it at C0 and she's ridiculously good at it once she's C6 because the exact pitfalls holding her back from being good are expressly removed then.
I don't think "scripted" is quite the right word, and they were doing really intense sets that required a lot of leadtime even in season one. If anything, later seasons are a bit less rigid about when these fights happen, given how, like...Fantasy High s2 had no sets, Starstruck used a virtual tabletop, and Neverafter has gone away from their more rigid schedule of one RP episode followed by one battle episode, followed by one RP episode, etc.
Brennan's talked about this a few times, but I think makes things seem tighter on these shows compared to something like Critical Role, is that they know the episode count ahead of time, and then Brennan works with the players pretty heavily to figure out their backstory and some of their main goals, and then builds the stories more specifically around what the characters are doing and what they'd like to do, but also...having those sets pre-build doesn't mean that the players know what they are, and it doesn't mean that they have to go in a specific order.
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Ningguang's not that bad. There's just no "reason" to use her if you don't like her, if that makes sense. She only provides damage, in an element that is not in demand.
It's been awhile since I've used her, come to think of it, but I've used her as the main DPS in floor 12 of the abyss before. I actually remember using a mess of a team that tried to use her with Kujou Sara. I was even surprised at the time that that team got the job done.
Doesn't seem like the worst idea, Sara's entire thing is buffing someone just long enough for them to drop their burst for big damage. It lasts plenty long enough for Ningguang to drop her skill, duck through it, and fire her burst.
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Yeah, exactly. With Sara's C2, I'd use her E skill, switch to Ningguang and use E->Burst->E in quick succession while buffed. And then switch back to Sara and quickly fire off the charged shot from her previous E skill, and then switch to another character to pick up that buff and use their skills. It was a fun team! Almost certainly would have been better with Bennett, but, whatever.
I'm thinking it's time to dust off Eula again.
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Namely that original Eula comes across as a fucking psychopath swearing vengeance on people for every little thing and then five minutes later I meet "current" Eula and she's completely normal.
And this isn't even unique to Dimension 20. Game Changers is basically an improv game show, and I don't think anyone would claim that show show qualifies heavily scripted. Heck, in one episode, Sam has the actors improvise a musical on the fly without letting them know in advance that they'd be doing this. Again, this boils down to trust and respect. Sam wouldn't put this challenge on contestants unless he was already confident on their ability to nail it.
A big part of this is that unscripted shows are cheaper and easier to make and yield better ratings. That's probably why they abandoned sketch comedy altogether, although the pandemic probably didn't help.
The pre-scripted part of Dimension is the villains plan, but how the characters react to that is up to them. Hans Gruber is at Nakatomi plaza because he had many months of intense planning, but John McClain is there by random chance. If Brennan wants a fight in an arcade, he doesn't have to script the players into showing up. Rather, he simply makes the arcade a part of the villains plan, and the characters will want to show up on their own in order to put a stop to it. The only way for this fight NOT to happen is if the players all decided to be assholes and decided they don't care about what happens.
Case in point: Let's take this scene.
This was not scripted. The only reason Ally died is because they were goofing around. Zac died because everyone was brand new to 5e and didn't understand his character had abilities that would have kept him alive.
Brennan has said that if only one of those characters died, he would have let them stay dead. This sounds absolutely insane when you see how vital Ally's character was to the overall story. And yet... even if she died, the villains plan would have stayed the same. And therefore, the set pieces would have stayed the same, and the players would have needed to adapt to the loss of their cleric, and Brennan would have adjusted accordingly. The fight in the arcade still would have happened.
TIL that Siobhan Thompson was planning to create a TV show on Freeform about called "Pippa Smith: Grown-Up Detective," which was supposed to be about a a female version of Encyclopedia Brown dealing with adulthood.
If you never heard of the show, it's because one of the main selling points is because it was banking heavily on the name recognition of Joss Whedon. And then something happened to that bank.
I believe a choice quote was "You've ruined it"....
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I recently put Raiden in my Dehya team and her Burst actually chases down the mobs getting yeeted by Overload really well, not what i would call good but hilarious to do.
Yeeting mobs is fun. I enjoyed having Yanfei/Fischl together for the sheer chaos.
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TONIGHT?!
this is why i love yaoyao+raiden. if yao is bursting while something goes airborn, all the heat-seeking radishes chain-explode it to the stratosphere.
oh lord
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Thursday:
Fargo Regional:
5 PM (3) Minnesota State vs. (2) St Cloud State
830 (4) Canisius vs. (1) Minnesota (#1 overall)
Manchester (NH) Regional
2 PM (3) Western Michigan vs. (2) Boston University
530 PM (4) Cornell vs. (1) Denver (#4 overall)
Friday:
Allentown (PA) Regional
5 PM (3) Michigan Tech vs. (2) Penn State
830 PM (4) Colgate vs. (1) Michigan (#3 overall)
Bridgeport (CT) Regional
2 PM (3) Ohio State vs. (2) Harvard
530 PM (4) Merrimack vs. (1) Quinnipiac (#2 overall)
Minnesota is the best team, though Michigan just beat them in the Big Ten title game on the road. Insanely good defense, with the probable Hobey Baker runner up (Logan Cooley) on their top line. Slightly shaky goaltending if you can break through their blue line. Quinnipiac has insane defensive stats against a weaker schedule. Last year they were similar and Michigan cracked them. Michigan has a ton of offensive talent like usual, including the soon to be #2 pick and Hobey Baker favorite (Adam Fantili), but absolutely refuses to play any kind of responsible hockey once they have a lead and has a tendency to take a major every weekend. Denver's the defending champion and remains very good. Manchester regional is absolute death, Michigan has the easiest region but would be a road game if they and PSU advance.
Single elimination hockey is inherently random, so anything can happen. Minnesota most likely to win, but probably only like 1 in 5.
Made the first 45 saves, allowed one goal with 5min left, walked away with the win
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On episode 3 of Neverafter. This is some cursed rolling.
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3 of the 4 were offside. Jack Campbell let in 7 goals (2 were called back on offside, 1 on goalie interference). So even if you take the goalie interference one out, that's still Campbell allowing 6 goals to the worst team in the west, and getting lucky that 2 of them were offside.
I hope he remembers how to stop a puck next year.
toucans look fake
Oh, you're going to shoot me?
Well, toucan play at that game
The article says that, at least to start, very little will change, the on ice jerseys will even be made in the same factory as the current ones.
And the replicas aren't supposed to be the same as the authentics, I actually really like that they're different/more breathable materials. The authentics are meant to be worn over equipment, and are just a different build. I have a bunch of old jerseys (pre salary cap era stuff) that I never wear anymore. Since they're basically the same material/build as game jerseys, they don't fit super well, don't breathe well, and really aren't meant for wearing outside past about march, lest you want to sweat forever. my fiance bought me an authentic oilers reverse retro jersey for Christmas, and while it is one of my favorite oilers jerseys, I must say I think I like the fit/feel of the replicas just a bit better since they're designed as "regular" clothing.