#also i dont have that card and never will lol

[gifti3]

gabriel and mc, enemies to lovers would have been so good tho

[heartorbit]

i wanna make a prsk major arcana...

[raynecloud06]

Vague idea I have for a Project SEKAI AU; Mizuki Akiyama and Tsukasa Tenma as infamous phantom thieves, who are often used as the subjects of renowned painter Ena Shinonome's work.

[13eyond13]

actually stunned by how gay The Beatles has been all this time and I just never knew

[widevibratobitch]

hooohoooohoooooo i think i need to go back to therapy im starting to have Thoughts that im too stupid for again

[mildmayfoxe]

hahaha hey you guys guess what. you'll never believe it. got the guy who's in charge of my fraud case on the phone and he was like "who'd you give one-time security codes to yesterday" and i was like "the guy who called me from the fraud department after they noticed a weird login in florida??" and he was like "that was the fuckin hacker. you got got. IDIOT!!!!!!!!!!" i handed my entire savings over to a fucking guy on the phone on a silver platter. like some kind of fuckin rube. bro

[bpdbunnyy4ngel]

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[gachaparadise]

WE GOT ENGAGED?!?!

[akihikosanada]

maxed all affinities, requests and social links, defeated margaret (don't ask how many times that took.), and got the true ending of persona 4 including that sexy timeskip where you meet all the besties again 💆‍♀️ loooove that for me

[crest-of-gautier]

got the badges for gone fission evp 400 + evp 600 yesterday! .52 gal, l-3 nozzlenose, dread wringer, and squiffer make for quite the synergistic team!

my peak was EVP 810 (appx 300-310% HL). my high score of 151 eggs was obtained somewhere in evp 300...? i'm pretty satisfied with how it went, even if i didn't get HLM or 9s.

some thoughts/reflections on good freelancing teams/traits to develop when trying to rank up in evp under the cut:

i think grinding this rotation was pretty fun- all of the weapons have excellent mobility and i think they cover for each other really well! the l-3 was not my favorite weapon going into it but i think i really enjoyed the accuracy and mobility of it, so it's a bit more favorable for me now :)

i ended up reaching a skill wall in EVP 760-780 where i could not get past wave 2 or 3 (usually for quota related reasons, the quota is BRUTAL! we'd miss it by like 4-5 ish... ofc this partially relates to how well bosses are handled).

the grind for evp was a mix of freelance and grouping up (freelance for 230 -> 440s, grouping up for 440 - 750~, and then testing myself in freelance for that last bit).

i enjoyed the bits of freelance i did, and from my playtime i think these were some of the key traits/practices that indicate "good salmon run skills" to me:

players that know their weapons role(s) and target the appropriate salmonid (but also being willing to break that when priority targets haven't been taken care of)

knowing when a teammate needs help (with a boss or being revived) or when the teammate has a situation under control (e.g. someone's already on the fishstick, you can do something else)

proactive use of specials when problem targets appear, preferably with no overlap (e.g. tri-strike and inkjet activated on the same flyfishes is not the best)

using specials like booyah bomb, triple splashdown, and reefslider to clear basket area in the last 30 seconds to help eggs get in (especially important past evp 600)

teams that paint the walls first thing (especially whoever had the dread wringer). all interior walls for fission can be painted within the first 10 seconds imo

forwarding eggs closer to the basket after splatting static bosses (throwing one egg, and then swimming up with one)

players with good judgment; knowing when to lure (mostly for initial boss spawns), and knowing when to leave the big shot cannon

being able to figure out which directions snatchers come from and what eggs they can help you collect

i think these practices all stem from having good awareness and being able to collect information about the shift. it helps with making snappy quick-fire decisions, and it just gets more important the higher up in EVP you go. camera positioning/control is essential for this (you can't figure out where bosses/teammates are if your back is turned to them).

for me, every 7-10 seconds, i like to rotate my camera around to the opposite side of where i'm currently looking to make sure there isn't any bosses i'm missing. i'm hardly in one place longer than 5-10 seconds and i try to always be on the move. the spawn direction where salmonids come from are always changing, so it's essential to rotate around the map proactively rather than reactively. i think this also helps a lot with shotcalling in groups too (since you can be someone else's pair of eyes).

other than boss spawns/teammate locations (for revives), i think it's also important to notice when certain bosses haven't been taken care of for prolonged periods of time too, so that a special can be popped. to me it's usually a sign that someone whose ill equipped to deal with that boss has been forced to deal with them because the people with the "right" weapon are focused on something else... (no fault to them, of course, everyone has different priorities and you can't always communicate clearly in freelance)

in situations where squiffers were chased by a pack of scrappers, perhaps a booyah bomb or splashdown can be popped to help if you don't have the time to stun and splat them manually. maybe the fish sticks were left unattended by the shooters, so a triple inkstrike or a crab/inkjet shot can help clear them out.

awareness also extends to meeting quota, which imo involves paying attention to the timer + where eggs are located. i find that it's nice to check in with the timer/quota at 50s and 30s respectively so that you can start forwarding eggs closer to basket. and when everyone's going crazy about quota not being met i try to make sure i'm not overstepping anyone else's egg pile so that no one goes "wait no thats the egg that i wanted to pick up fuck i have to go back and get a different one."

i think this is why sometimes playing in groups is easier. if you have more sets of eyes that you can communicate with, it alleviates the need to have awareness of "everything" (provided that you can comms effectively). someone can be attuned to different things (e.g. my friend always tells us where snatchers come from and if they're good, i'm personally attuned to where people need to be revived, etc.). you also know what specials you have access to, unlike in freelance where you're not sure what others have until they use them.

the other part of completing shifts successfully (to me) is being mechanically sound with your movement, mostly in regards to how you use the terrain (walls) to get around the map and escape situations. the more you play a map the more you'll figure out how you can move around on it.

some examples, using the location callouts from salmonrun.ink: there were a few times i'd go on the harbor but i could escape any salmonids in the bridge area by climbing the walls there and squidrolling out as needed. sometimes on high tide i would swim from the perch to the left plat.

sub-strafing is also good to know too, especially when you want to rapidly collect the basket eggs at the end. i still need to integrate it into other parts of my gameplay, but it's helpful!

uh. this was way longer than intended because i have WAY too many thoughts about salmon run. TL;DR: The key to succeeding your shifts is having good awareness which comes from good information collecting practices, and having the mechanical skill to act on that awareness without hesitation.

there's definitely a lot that goes on in sensory overload the game™, so it will take time to build these muscles and reaction times. i think while at every rank of salmon run you may face a wall of "i'm overwhelmed by the bosses," the exact fix needed to get past it usually varies, so it's important to figure out what information you were missing or what actions you could've taken (more efficient movement or special usage, usually).

or if you're struggling with quota, try to practice forwarding eggs or take a look where snatchers come from (even if people splat them, it's still a good practice 2 develop for later evp. source: i don't fucking do it and it's biting me in the ass)

and most importantly, recognize when you're in the midst of a loss streak/skill wall, so that you can take a break and focus on other things that energize you! even if there's a certain goal you want to meet, grinding for higher levels of EVP and getting better at the game can be a very exhausting process. you can always come back to the grind later, whether if it's after a 30 minute break, or just a different rotation!

[muirneach]

my phone is acting really weird... surely nothing to do with the fact that it hasnt been backed up in a gazillion years

[she-toadmask]

I went to go to my new job and they hadn't gotten my background check and I was too anxious/my brain wasn't on so I didn't think about the fact that they hadn't contacted me directly since the last forms I filled out

A black woman knocked on the window of the car I was driving when I parked and she said she hadn't eaten in a couple days and wanted 7 bucks or so to go get some food. I figured I was about to start making money and had brought my wallet in case I needed something from it so I gave her 10 bucks and she thanked me and left

Like I said the job hadn't gotten my background check results so I spent like 5 bucks on a couple charms and left and went home. I told my mom what happened and she said I shouldn't give people money like that, they usually don't need it

And it made me really uncomfortable. Maybe it's me being asocial but why would someone walk around in a parking lot asking for money when they could just Not? Surely it's not an efficient way to make money, even with jobs being shit

I mention her being a black woman because. I mean maybe she saw I was a young white girl and figured I wasn't going to be dangerous and maybe this is fucked-up for me to think and I'm in a semi-decent area not a ton of crime not a ton of race-driven violence afaik but if a black woman is walking around a parking lot asking random people for money when someone could take issue with her and hurt her

She probably really does need it

Idk I usually don't give money to homeless people I don't usually have cash on me (or if i do it's the emergency 20 in my phone case) but she came up to me and asked

[applecherry108]

I am CHEWING on the new tears of the kingdom trailer! But at the same time—

Hahahahha yeah that’s a redead. I am crying sobbing in terror already. 🥲

[sucktacular]

Hey Google where the FUCK is my holo og Raichu card????

[bloomfish]

I've been going through old documents and found something I must have written for school (it even has a wordart title lol) as a kid and like, maybe it's just nostalgia or something haha but there's something kind of.... quite appealing to me about the way it's written:

Like lmao I kind of like it. I feel like that quote from Picasso where he said he spent his entire life trying to paint like a child or whatever. Obviously I know I was just writing about random stuff without much profound thought, as children do, but that's what I like about it haha. My analysis as an adult lol:

the unintentional, very very creepy feeling to the man in the bushes.... I'm scared for my child-self even though I know nothing happened to us.

And then "we tried to make ourselves forget about that by pretending we were drunk. Bianca was the bartender and the rest of us were drunk." Haha I love that. Ofc to me as a child that must have just seemed like a fun game, reading it as an adult it makes me think about how children imitate the adults around them, even in habits that are unhealthy like using alcohol to forget your problems.

The whole hyperfocus on the cats (very typical of me as a child) masking the whatever the fuck was going on with the man in the bushes. "I wonder why the cats are acting so strange?" kind of has unintentional double meaning haha-- why do people act so strange? namely, the man in the bushes.

Similarly Bianca fearing the cat was going to 'eat' her, an unrealistic, childlike fear, instead of the real-world fear of the man in the bushes.

the accidental foreshadowing to the man in the bushes with the intruding male cat that Midnight has to chase away. even the 'tail between his legs' indicates the shame that the man in the bushes should have felt.

Yes I know I'm overanalysing this lol but I absolutely love seeing/remembering how my mind worked as a child. love the fact that I said there were four people in the house (us kids) and then, oh yeah, remembered there were also adults lol. It's just such a charmingly earnest voice, probably because it was written earnestly by a child, but it's funny how much you have to think and work to achieve that sort of voice as an adult writer.

[chisungie]

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