#and don't get me started on Miracle

[fioras-resolve]

Hey. Hey hey hey. I need to rant about one specific Fire Emblem skill that's been bothering me for years.

So you know Vengeance, right? It was introduced in Awakening, and it's been around in some form in every FE game since. For those who don't know or don't remember, Vengeance deals damage proportional to HP lost, so the lower your current health, the more damage you deal.

To be clear, I think this is a really cool idea. It's a risk-reward skill, and it means you can intentionally lower your health to potentially deal massive damage. This is the main reason Bernadetta can be so potent in Three Houses. I think, if this skill is done right, it's a really cool piece of game design, and a really sick strategy.

The issue comes with how this effect is activated. To be clear, I think that Vengeance should be extremely consistent. You're already taking the risk of staying at low health. It should be paid off accordingly. If this were a random effect, same as Astra, it wouldn't be worth using.

Some FE games agree with me on this. Echoes and Three Houses both make it a combat art, meaning you choose to activate it at the cost of either HP or weapon durability. The game that introduced the skill, Awakening, makes the skill randomly activate with each attack, with a (Skill * 2)% chance each time. However, because you can get your Skill stat above 50 with a combination of grinding and in-battle stat boosts, you can make the skill activate 100% of the time. This fits right in with Awakening's core gameplay of building up ultra-powerful killing machines.

Some games, however, don't see eye-to-eye with me, and feel the need to nerf this skill in some way or another. Fates, for example, gives Vengeance a (Skill * 1.5)% activation rate, and also makes maximum stats a lot lower generally. It's weak enough that it makes me wonder why the skill is still there. Like, I get that it still pairs well with Nosferatu, because with a draining attack you're gonna be recovering that health anyway. But it feels like just one of many design changes that Fates makes because it wants to be "balanced" at the expense of letting you do cool shit. Like, remember what it did to Javelins? Fucked up.

Also Engage has no excuse, it's an even lower activation rate, on a character with a weakness to a very common weapon, in a game where you can only use Nosferatu under very specific circumstances. And like, Engage isn't afraid to let the player feel powerful. That's what the Engage system is for. Very weird skill all around.

[lady-corrine]

Thinking again about how Suzanne esentially subverted the "beloved famous man that is actually a horrible person in real life" with Finnick, who is the complete opposite of that.

Finnick has this whole image costructed around him by the people that abused him for years: the Capitol's darling, their golden boy, the sex symbol of Panem, the man that has countless lovers but leaves them constantly and doesn't look back etc. And you would expect, initially, to meet a man that retains at least a part of that persona in his day to day life. But Finnick doesn't, not even one bit.

You see instead a man that is deeply in love and completely devoted to the one woman he quite literally adores, a man that protects Mags, his old mentor and his mother figure, as much as he can, a man that wouldn't leave Johanna behind, a man that gathers whatever strenght he has left to speak publicly about the abuse inflicted upon him at the government's hands; the opposite of what the Capitol's media and reputation made him out to be.

[cosmicdreamgrl]

hyung line x mots on:e concept photobook shooting sketch for @epiphanytear ❤️

[ryllen]

by some extreme luck (which is, having a very competent co-worker) horrorboros & cohozuna managed to be taken down in a triumvirate session

[uhbasicallyjustmilex]

every time i rewatch the miracle aligner music video i am just flabbergasted. FLABBERGASTED. like. they really chose to make it like THAT. and by 'like THAT' i am specifically referring to:

1) “an attempt to extract the truth... approximately" *cue rosepetals and intense eye contact*

2) THIS being the opening shot of the two of them

3) miles legitimately spending the first minute of the entire video blatantly checking alex out

4) literal rainbow lighting around them

5) endless hand holding and twirling

6) that moment where miles's hand reaches ever so reflexively for alex's neck

7) the fucking closing scene?????????

[moe-broey]

IMMEDIATELY REPOSTING THIS BC THIS IS A DREAM COME TRUE FOR ME. ALFONSE CÉLINE FRIENDSHIP REAL. TO ME‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

[2well2water]

i'm going to be alone forever oh my god. band of horses voice: NO ONE'S GONNA LOVE YOU.

[hannie-dul-set]

slams a fist on the desk.

[keeps-ache]

wink blink look !!

[evilkitten3]

first this game makes me face konan for jiraiya's sake, then that old fuck sends me to fight a guy with the rinnegan. at least nagato calls him out on that... what the hell, dude

[echthr0s]

weird mood of the day: having one (1) cup of coffee and experiencing what you suddenly realise is what it must be like to have a regulated nervous system

[moinsbienquekaworu]

Translated almost 4k words today 🎉🎉

[airs-headspace]

I want to ask my friends very deep and substantial questions because all of my friendships feel so superficial (on my end specifically) right now and I want them to be deeper.

[sortanonymous]

I know expecting Congress to get anything right these days is like expecting to see a triple rainbow in the Arctic, but if we could just get sticky, scratchy, awful cardboard sleeves for physical media discs illegalized, that would just be lovely!

[dylawas-reblogs]

me: yeah so we haven't had a meeting about it yet, but I asked my coworkers about past interns and why they left; chances are they won't hire me full time at my internship immediately. However, the chances of having it extended are pretty good, and I like what I'm doing, and they're going to be talking about budget in July. Sure my finances are a little tight but--

my sperm donor (only slightly exaggerated): look for a new job immediately and tell them if they won't hire you full time you're leaving. and no, I don't care if you don't find something in your industry and you have to settle for a job that will make you hate being alive even more than you already do. Also I'm going to ignore how long it took you to find this internship to begin with

me:

[holyviolence]

knitting and watching video game streams, gonna have some of my favorite soup that my mom made for me when i visited her today, didn't have to see my dad either! could not be having a better time. like i could go on. it's nice.