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THEY DID IT, AGAIN

WHAT

(sadly only one-sided, but like... we don't need more super strong true limiteds with Yato Alter and Ela, lmfao)

How it feels to be both an Arknights and Project Moon Fan:

TWO MILI SONGS FOR THIS MONTH,

IT CAN'T GET BETTER RIGHT?

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multiverse, how many alternate universes that you can think of, but just for one character, example: Fantasy AU, what is Izuku's position in his kingdom? is he a Knight? a Priest? an Adventurer? a Bandit? an Assassin? or maybe something special, like being the Heir to the King?

like that, and so the original AU would just be taking those versions, and imposing them onto the original person, letting them have the memories and skills, for a moment, a battle, or longer.

So one moment, he's fighting someone wielding a sword, he thinks to himself: "maybe I can match his sword with one of my own!" and transforms into the version of himself that knows swordplay.

I can explain it more if you want ;-;

future ask game: when? jk, but how many alternate versions of MHA characters can you think of, for every character, including Izuku? It's important for my AU ask, that I sent in (two months ago iirc)

I will send a new one if that one isn't in for this month's ask game.

I'm not sure I understand the question

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Kakao Games is a South Korean Publisher, so they denied the art submission, possibly due to possible references of supporting Megalia, to those unware, Megalia is a group of South Korean Misandrist Feminists, who hate the hell of men for how they were treated by them (thus, Misandrist), which sinks the reputation of a game if a game dev made references that they supported the movement, making their game look bad for their KR servers.

Due to Megalia, there were many concerns from Korean branches of game publishers about posting art and such, from artists who are possible to be supporters of the movement, so they don't take the risk.

Because the wider Global community has no idea about them, and there not being a word in English that can accurately translate to "Megalia", and thus, prompting the usage of "Feminism" instead. Which angered people, when the Official Statement from Project Moon said "Feminism" instead of "Megalia", bringing them to National News in South Korea.

So it made other publishers really scared, where Yostar KR redid Jessica Alter's art to not include the "gesture" of Megalia.

(Also, thanks for bringing this post back to me, because I needed to update it, as I've learnt about Megalia a month or two ago.)

Okay, What in the Nine Realms of Cheese.

Why the shit is everything about South Korea so fucking ass right now?

There is so much Anti-Feminism, my god, I swear, it's going to get as worse as North Korea.

Firstly, we Project Moon with Molar Ishmael,

Then we had a small debacle regarding Jessica the Liberated from Arknights,

Then we got Guardian Tales, specifically Kong Studios, and the rejection of art from a feminist artist,

and now Arknights again with YOSTAR KOREA DELETING PROMOTIONAL ART FROM OUTSIDE THE GAME DUE TO FEMINISM OF THE ARTIST, FROM 2018

WHY, GOD WHY.

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“Gnosis Gaming isn’t real” then explain this

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Daddy is hungry, baby. Why don't you walk that sexy little ass down to the store and get him some kibble? The big bag, baby girl. The big bag of dog food. Daddy is so hungry. Please, baby. Daddy is hungry for dog food and big belly scratches. Don't you love your Daddy?

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lrb Guardian Tales having gender choices for the protagonist, but choosing to treat the female choice as the "most canon"(rare for gacha games) really made me realize the psychology behind this "self-insert man" thing that some games do.

It took me a while to realize that the most likely reason why Guardian Tales puts only the female Knight in promo, the 4koma and even in some events, is because they're avoiding the gacha fans who see male Knight as their self insert. Gacha fans see female Knight as her own character, while male Knight is supposed to be them. Thus if GT focuses more on the female Knight, they're avoiding people getting pissed off when Knight isnt acting like they fantasize they would.

Whats funny is that this is pretty clear when you look at some part of the fandom; male Knight is treated by the average gacha player as this harem chad. Meanwhile the female Knight is often more varied in her personality and relationship with other characters (...Gacha fans are also more willing to admit defeat when she loses a fight, instead of malding for eternity about it)

This applies to pretty much every gacha game, even when the MC's gender is unknown, like Arknight's Doctor. If the Doc is a guy, they're literally me. if Doc is a girl, then she's mostly treated as her own character.

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i dont even know how to tag this

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Can I interest you in 25 seconds of RA2 being easy as hell, actually?

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“Wait, I can just parry all she’s got and Thief’s Cloak the opener, can’t I?”

LOL

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“Wait, I can just parry all she’s got and Thief’s Cloak the opener, can’t I?”

LOL

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Literally this:

How many snippets do you have left?

Good question

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Bazooka’d my lv 24-25 ass to the lv 40 grand finals. I dunno if it’ll work though.

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Fuck your entire life

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(In case this hasn't been done yet) Expelled x Problem Children: On a scale of 1-10, how much does Aizawa regret his decision to expel Izuku?

Yes

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Felt bored, but I gotta point this out. (Post includes CN Spoilers for Arknights.)

TL;DR: Ray is a good but niche unit, but isn't worth your pulls, as there are literally better operators that have better burst damage.

The upcoming 6* Sniper under the Hunter archetype, Ray.

She redeems this recently introduced archetype by having skills that actually help burst enemies down,

as a Hunter, she has this trait: Attacks consume Ammo to increase ATK to 120%; While not attacking, Ammo will be slowly reloaded (max capacity 4/6/8)

Do note the amount of ammo is increased for every Elite Promotions you give her, so E0 = 4, E1 = 6, and E2 = 8.

Her first talent; grants her a deployable that is effectively a range extension, because it only works in her range.

Which is...

Fucking Garbage.

Ranged Lord with +1 Range, but has to deal with an Ammo limitation of 8 shots, which makes fighting swarms of tanky enemies a fucking nightmare,

there is also the fact she has to compete with Hypergryphs lovely obsession of making ranged tiles absolutely a gigantic fucking nightmare.

take this map as an example;

you might be thinking, "Oh yeah sure, lets deploy her on the top-middle most tiles, and she'll be fine, right?"

WRONG.

you have to deal with these beings of nightmare fuel, who will absolutely decimate any ranged operator if they aren't a phalanx caster.

"from where???" you might ask,

THEY SPAWN FROM ALL THE RED BOXES, ALL OF THEM, AT THE SAME TIME.

Granted, they have limited range and will die over time, but they start fucking moving after a while, making all ranged tiles a death trap and a waste of dp if you don't pay attention to their ranges.

"what about the deployable?" you might ask, it's alright tbh, though it makes all enemies in it's range have taunt on Ray, which is great when you want to kill elites and bosses, as it boosts her damage by 15%, 20% if you maxed out Ray's module, but what about your frontline who now has to deal with unchecked elites, what will you do now huh?

there is also the fact it has a duration of 25 seconds, however, the redeployment time is 30 whole ass seconds, which makes it very limiting to use.

granted, her module reduces that time by 5 (stage 2)/10 (stage 3) seconds, but she's a 6 star, so she's very, very costly, as she needs tier 5 materials, and 300k money in total, and don't even get me started on the module data blocks, the data supplement sticks, and the data supplement instruments, along with the nightmarish mode you have to MANUALLY grind out, no sweep tickets like annihilation.

if you were wondering about her second talent (because 6 stars are guaranteed a second talent), it just a plain attack boost for hitting the same target multiple times, boring, but practical.

now, to her skills.

skill 1 is good, but it's not worth my time typing out my analysis, skills 2 and 3 are the only ones worth it.

Skill 2:

It has two effects, (I only use M3 stats because it's the fully upgraded version) "Passive effect: When the Sandbeast retreats, recovers ammo that hits the area" and "Automatically activated: Attack Range expands, ATK +120%, Sandbeast Redeployment Time -40%" It also lasts forever (it's actually 30 minutes, but no one would get to exhaust this skill for a long, long while.)

it's pure upside right? well, yeah, but you need to consider that it charges sp from ATTACKING ENEMIES, which is a fucking nightmare, but luckily, there are three people who can help out.

Ch'en (not the alter of her) can grant allies with offensively and defensively charged skills 1 sp every 4 seconds at Elite 2, which goes down by 1 second by getting her SWO-X module to stage 2, making it 3 seconds, which makes 16 sp on Ray's s2, become an auto sp skill, by making it effectively 48 seconds to activate, which isn't long by any standard, considering one of the most meta operators in the game, Mlynar (i'm not giving him his unique letter, i don't even remember what it was) who has an s3 that takes 42 seconds to activate.

Archetto, who has the exact same talent as Ch'en, but only for Snipers, charging their skills 1 sp at a time, every 2.5 seconds, which is cut down into 2.2 seconds by getting her MAR-X module to Stage 3, where, i'll remind you, is expensive, making 16 sp wait into 35.2 seconds.

This is where I'll mention that both talents stack, moving to the last operator...

Stainless, with his s3, grants the player the ability to deploy attackable turrets that can fuel offensive recovery skills, do note that Ray needs to reload if she runs out of ammo, which makes it take a while longer.

all in all, a decent skill, but the up next is the skill you're going bring her in for;

Skill 3

first thing I want to mention;

finally, a decent fucking range.

she also immediately stops attacking until having full ammo, reload interval significantly shortens (it's now 0.4 seconds(just guessing here, because it's not stated in the wiki.gg page, so i'll just assume it's the attack interval time)), attacks now deal 330% of ATK as Physical damage (which stacks with the trait effect I assume) and Binds the target for 2 seconds

there is a bonus effect: "If this unit defeats an enemy during the skill duration, obtains 10 SP when the skill ends" which cuts down on the skill downtime, because, sadly, this skill only lasts 16 whole seconds.

which means you'll be stuck with her garbage off-skill range, and with her deployable on cooldown because it boosts her damage.

she's not that helpful, and relies on auto sp generation.

but All in All, she's good, but really, really niche.

Do I say she's worth your pulls?

NO. ABSOLUTELY NOT.

S K I P H E R B A N N E R, IT MAY NOT RERUN, BUT PLEASE, HELP YOURSELF, AND S K I P.

CNY IS UPCOMING, SAVE YOUR PULLS FOR THE LIMITEDS

R6S COLLAB PART TWO IS ALSO UPCOMING, YOU ARE GOING TO NEED THOSE PULLS, COLLAB OPERATORS ARE TRUE LIMITEDS.

And I'm done, cya. *mic drop*

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ROUND 1, BRACKET L

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