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  • SyphonBlueSyphonBlue The studying beaver That beaver sure loves studying!Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Panthers have like no energy this game. They look lethargic.

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  • ToxTox I kill threads Dilige, et quod vis facRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    SyphonBlue wrote: »
    Panthers have like no energy this game. They look lethargic.

    Ambush predator

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  • SyphonBlueSyphonBlue The studying beaver That beaver sure loves studying!Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Tox wrote: »
    SyphonBlue wrote: »
    Panthers have like no energy this game. They look lethargic.

    Ambush predator

    The sports equivalent of posting "I can't beat this boss!" on a forum

    Still with the stupid penalties though....

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  • JayrichoJayricho Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    I know it’s not over yet but maybe I should start bandwagoning teams I literally hate.

    No….the universe is far too clever for that one.

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  • ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User, Moderator mod
    edited April 14
    Boston flaming out in the first round was all i ever really wanted

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    Allegedly a voice of reason.
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  • SyphonBlueSyphonBlue The studying beaver That beaver sure loves studying!Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Phew thank God for Bobrovski in that game

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  • BurtletoyBurtletoy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    That was a fucking nothing period of hockey, until the puck over the glass penalty with 3 minutes left and then dallas doubled their shots on goal in those final 3 minutes

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  • BurtletoyBurtletoy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    "if he didn't dive we wouldn't have called any penalties because no one broke any rules, but because he did dive, now we have to call two offsetting penalties" is such a weird nhl thing that I don't understand

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  • The Cow KingThe Cow King a island Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Chanus wrote: »
    Boston flaming out in the first round was all i ever really wanted

    Leafs also losing to the panthers is all the vibes I need for another year the last time Boston and Toronto faced each other I requested a double DQ so this is so much sweeter if it happens

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  • JayrichoJayricho Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    This might be the most lopsided Deserve to Win O’Meter I’ve ever seen

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  • Darth_MogsDarth_Mogs Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Darth_Mogs wrote: »
    Baizhu's main points are basically having Dendro Application, good amounts of off-field healing (which still can be useful for QoL if nothing else), Interruption resistance and some extra Dendro reaction damage. (This is not in order of usefulness specifically) His main weaknesses are that he's very single-target focused -which isn't always a weakness- and he's very Energy hungry because he's a character in Genshin Impact after 3.0.

    The main thing you're going to want him for is his Burst because on-field characters that get healed by his Burst gain damage bonuses to Dendro Reactions (the Bloom suite and Aggravate/Quicken and also Burning I guess) based on his HP which is the stat every other part of his kit scales off of. So you are basically incentivized to only focus on building HP and Energy Recharge on him which is just...really really good. Obviously you'll need some Crit Rate too if you run Favonius on him but that's a given and if you run him in Double Dendro teams, you can generally get away with a max Refine Prototype Amber because that's HP scaling, healing focused and gives him energy. So that part of him is just honestly really good. It's really easy to knock his shield because it's made of paper but the main reason you apply it is so you can take a hit (and you will get damaged) without getting flung across the map. It's basically like the 'shield' you get from Thoma's Burst; it's not really preventing damage by itself but it's reapplying fairly quickly, it's saving you some stamina/letting you keep attacking and, in the case of Baizhu, it's healing you and dealing damage/applying Dendro when a unit breaks it (only for it to reapply again while his Burst is up).

    That said, in general you are going to want to run him on Double Dendro teams which basically means an Aggravate team with Nahida or DMC and Electro on-fielders (So Keqing or Cyno for your main DPS and then like Yae Miko or Fischl. Cases could be made for other Electro units, like I could see a Beidou Aggravate team being pretty good if you're also using DMC or Nahida for AoE Dendro) or you can run him in a Spread team alongside Alhaitham or probably Tighnari. It will just make his energy generation better, as well as your other Dendro unit's, you'll get some extra Elemental Mastery out of Dendro resonance and it just works. He is a very solid unit for these kinds of teams and honestly, just overall.

    The reason people will be bothered by him is that he's around as good as Yaoyao which is not completely unreasonable. Yaoyao will do better in AoE situations almost universally and because of how Dendro works, multiple applications are just incredibly valuable, so with Baizhu being primarily a single-target unit, that is a bit of a drawback. But this is a sort of situation where, like, you say "Yelan is around as good as Xingqiu" in that it sounds bad because 5-star versus 4-star but Yaoyao is a very good unit, so saying Baizhu is around as good as her - better in some scenarios, worse in others - means that he is also very good. Still, it's the perception, not to mention we've been waiting for him to be playable for the entire run of the game, plus he's a Liyue character, so 'only' being very good will not be enough for some people. And I'm not really going to argue that point, honestly, because his kit feels fairly restricted in parts (I'm personally so goddamn tired of characters having 80 cost Bursts and bad/low particle generation) purely to sell his Signature/Constellations as per usual, but the sting is somewhat lessened for me because his Constellations are kind of a joke despite having QoL increases and you can completely ignore his Signature in favor of a craftable weapon or Favonius Codex. And in general he's just...fine. In a game where characters tend to come out absolutely terrible or massively OP, a character that comes out and just works can feel underwhelming. That's not fair, of course, but it's how it goes and I would kind of expect a character that's had this long of a wind-up to be like....more notable.

    So, after watching some people play with Baizhu and playing the Test Run version myself, there are a few updates here but the overall evaluation didn't really change.

    -The Shield he gives was perhaps a bit overestimated. The fact that it constantly re-ups itself through the duration of his Burst is still good, but the delay between re-ups can be a wide enough window that makes it hard to recommend him as resistance interruption. It absolutely crumbles with a heavy attack, which means you are vulnerable in that window between when it crumbles and the next time it regenerates. In cases with a lot of enemies or perhaps just a couple really aggressive ones (Vishaps, Consecrated Beasts, Ruin enemies, etc.) this means you still have a very high chance of getting tossed around. That is pretty unfortunate, but it also seems to revolve around the shield's activation/re-upping time only, so that also means there will be instances where you get hit right when it's about to re-up, which means you get hit, it crumbles and then reforms, giving you another free hit. It's still not great and for being as constrained as he is elsewhere, though, they absolutely could have made that a bit better. The comparison to Thoma's shield was a bit short-sighted, since you have some control over his shield, where Baizhu's just cracks and re-ups according to a timer and nothing else.

    -His healing is...stranger than expected. The amount is what we thought, but they seemed to balance the fact that his skill heals your whole party by putting a long delay on it. You use his skill, the snake sprite goes out and hits one enemy, then it goes and hits another enemy and a third before finally coming back and only /then/ do you get healed. So from the point where you use his skill and when you get the effect of it is longer than expected. This isn't exactly a deal-breaker so much as it's just a really weird design choice that you might have to work around. Where it gets a bit bad is where you pair it with the above issue. Actually using his skill has a little wind-up (probably along the lines of, like, Kuki or Kokomi's skill) before it's cast, which means you can get canceled out of it by getting hit without actually getting the effect out (which has happened to me with Kuki and Kokomi a lot lately) which is beyond frustrating. In comparison, there are characters like Xingqiu who use their skill immediately, but then can be interrupted or whatever directly after, but like....you got the damage/benefit and the particles already, so that doesn't feel as bad when you're playing it, usually. (I know it frustrates me when XQ freezes himself before I can use his Burst to self-funnel, but that's still not as bad as trying to put Kokomi's jellyfish down and getting uppercut into next week)

    -Teams are still pretty much as expected. His application, in practice, is a little slower than it should be, so he isn't Cyno's dream support like he should be but he still works there. Spread and Aggravate still work pretty fine. Hyperbloom and Nilou Bloom work because they are just a bit overpowered as is. Dendro is still Dendro, he's still a Dendro catalyst, so that instantly means he is valuable, even if his Dendro application is slow/short-ranged.

    So yeah, overall, Baizhu is still fine. If you're comparing him to Yaoyao, he's still better or worse depending on the scenario, but the fact remains, if you're using him /in place of/ Yaoyao, then that means your Yaoyao is free for another team, which is a win. And as stated, he's still Dendro, he's still a catalyst user, he's still incredibly easy to build so that's all good. There are plenty of reasons to pull for him if you want to, but you also should not feel as if you have to.

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  • BurtletoyBurtletoy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I think it's less game management and more "we're big tough hockey men and we never dive unlike those wusses in soccer so we can't call a diving penalty by itself because then we wouldn't be big tough hockey men"

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  • enlightenedbumenlightenedbum Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    It's because they're afraid of making a judgment call. In college it's because they're absolute stone cold morons. This year the guy at center ice called diving on when a guy is boarded below the goal line.

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  • chromdomchromdom Who? Where?Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Is the draft lottery tomorrow?

    No, it's the 8th, that's Monday.

    Ah, ok. Thanks!

    No problem, anytime. Any search engine can help you with that, you know.

    I'll make a note of it for next time.


    This post has been brought to you by a passing curiosity and the exhaustion of a long week.

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  • ToxTox I kill threads Dilige, et quod vis facRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Canes said fuck both them goalies

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  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    edited April 14
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  • KamarKamar Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    So I think I'm kinda over the secrets around Khaenri'ah getting it so incredibly hard?

    I hope they can pull a rabbit out of their hats and deliver something satisfying but I kind of expect it to fall short or be outright unpleasant at this point.

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  • ph blakeph blake Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Hitting the content wall in Honkai Star Rail has me fiending, so I actually redownloaded Genshin to see what's new since the last time I played.

    And apparently the answer is "a metric fuck ton," cause I cannot walk more than 10 feet in any town without stumbling into some new quest cutscene to unlock a random area/game mode/whatever that I had no idea existed. Currently prioritizing Archon quests, which have me exploring the aptly named Chasm to the west of Liyue. Hoping I get to Sumeru soonish, want to unlock Dendro MC and mess around with those reactions, and I don't feel like pulling for the green snake man (I have like 70 pulls and I'm 90% sure that I lost my last 50/50 before stopping last time, so I'd rather save for a future banner).

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  • MirkelMirkel FinlandRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    -Loki- wrote: »
    ph blake wrote: »
    (I have like 70 pulls and I'm 90% sure that I lost my last 50/50 before stopping last time, so I'd rather save for a future banner).

    On the wish screen, you can check your history to see when you last pulled an amber on the character banners (and how far back so you can judge your current pity).

    It only goes back 6 months I think. If he last played before Chasm, the history is empty.

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Likewise, Star Rail got me thinking about Genshin again and I may have enough time to come back and save up to try and draw Kazuha I think.

    One of the only characters I really "need" at this point for the teams I even remotely care about.

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  • GlaziusGlazius Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    ph blake wrote: »
    Hitting the content wall in Honkai Star Rail has me fiending, so I actually redownloaded Genshin to see what's new since the last time I played.

    And apparently the answer is "a metric fuck ton," cause I cannot walk more than 10 feet in any town without stumbling into some new quest cutscene to unlock a random area/game mode/whatever that I had no idea existed. Currently prioritizing Archon quests, which have me exploring the aptly named Chasm to the west of Liyue. Hoping I get to Sumeru soonish, want to unlock Dendro MC and mess around with those reactions, and I don't feel like pulling for the green snake man (I have like 70 pulls and I'm 90% sure that I lost my last 50/50 before stopping last time, so I'd rather save for a future banner).

    If you just want Dendro MC you can look for a cavern by a waypoint near the west end of the Chasm and walk on out. You're not going to get Sakoku Decree'd But It's Plants or anything and you can tag a Statue of the Seven just fine.

    You will notice some own-brand Koroks when you do. That's the optional world quest part of tree.0 Sumeru, and it's a lulu.

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  • ph blakeph blake Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Mirkel wrote: »
    -Loki- wrote: »
    ph blake wrote: »
    (I have like 70 pulls and I'm 90% sure that I lost my last 50/50 before stopping last time, so I'd rather save for a future banner).

    On the wish screen, you can check your history to see when you last pulled an amber on the character banners (and how far back so you can judge your current pity).

    It only goes back 6 months I think. If he last played before Chasm, the history is empty.

    Yeah, the last time I played was like

    Raiden Release? Maybe a bit afterwards?

    Kazuha is who I'd really like—he's cool as shit but I've managed to be on break/not actively playing the game whenever his banner shows up— but if Yae or maybe Shenhe showed up first I might go for them instead.

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  • XantusXantus Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    i feel like they purposefully made sumeru and the desert drag on, so that people would get bored and be ready to open wallets for HSR ;)
    i'm still on stellar reunion break ;p

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  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Nah, it's about the same length of time as Inazuma. Though I didn't love the desert. I still haven't finished the second part of the desert with the giant tornado, just ran out of steam there. But the new section with the oasis was really fun, it's the first of the zone background cards I've earned since I think Enkanomiya. Being able to fly around and get a different perspective on what I'm looking at was really great, along with the puzzles there.

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  • ph blakeph blake Registered User regular
    edited April 14
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    Got distracted upgrading a bunch of random shit and, whoops, pulled a Mona

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  • PolaritiePolaritie Sleepy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Honestly impressive to run out of mora after a certain point. Normally I get so bottlenecked on materials I cant spend what I get

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  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    When I farm in advance for a character I'm waiting for I usually run out of mora because I forget about it. Definitely had to spend some resin on mora farming to get Dehya to 10/10/10 the day she came out.

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  • OdinOdin Registered User regular
    edited April 14
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  • enlightenedbumenlightenedbum Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Devils fans getting the full Luke Hughes experience here.

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  • enlightenedbumenlightenedbum Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    The pace at the end of this Leafs/Panthers game is nuts.

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    The idea that your vote is a moral statement about you or who you vote for is some backwards ass libertarian nonsense. Your vote is about society. Vote to protect the vulnerable.
  • SyphonBlueSyphonBlue The studying beaver That beaver sure loves studying!Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    HOLY SHIT WHAT A GOAL

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  • ToxTox I kill threads Dilige, et quod vis facRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Tox wrote: »
    Devils said fuck both them goalies

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  • BurtletoyBurtletoy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Miro heiskanen takes a puck off the jaw 5 seconds before the Kraken score, and goes down the ramp in pain.

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  • BurtletoyBurtletoy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Okay Kraken, go off, I guess

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  • enlightenedbumenlightenedbum Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Oettinger has suuuuuucked.

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  • BurtletoyBurtletoy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    In game 1 Kraken scored 4 goals in 4ish minutes and in game 3 they've scored 4 in 6ish minutes

    Other than those 10 minutes, ottinger has been pretty good

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