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[tainbocuailnge]

I've seen you touhoupost before so I wanted to ask if you have some favorite doujin circles be it graphic art or music or w/e. Mine is Unlucky Morpheus whom incidentally have an original song explicitly based on Fate route and Saber and I think that's a neat fact

i LOOOOOOVE demetori everything demetori produces fucks harder than hell. I’m especially blown away every time by how all their tracks are recognisable as being By Demetori but every album also has its own distinct sound. I like WAVE a lot too they do some crazy symphonic tracks and also did a bunch of fate albums. i’m not all that deep into the touhou music scene so it’s not like i have any niche circles to impart on you but i do think the guys who are mainstream deserve their clout bc they’re just good as hell

[skajador]

Having just dyed my hair red... What do you hate about hair dye

i use ion and i LOVE THE RICHNESS AND HOW IT STAYS BUTI HATE HOW IT BLEEDS

I DYE EVERYTHING PINK FOR WEEKS

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Callout post for Venom Snake: he's horny on main

call out post for venom snake: pretended to be naked snake

[tainbocuailnge]

Hey Lance i come at you with another gbf question: is having a Eugen Gun(mlb), Cain Sword and Alex Dagger (these two still not fully uncapped) enough to go full primal instead of keep using Ygg?

yep, earth primal has a lot of farmable stuff to make it work. magna dirt IS really strong tho so with the amount of grand weapons you have right now I’d say the main appeal of going primal over magna is not having to farm alexiel (which is the exact reason I switched over to primal läl) cause I think the performance will be about the same or slightly less

focus on uncapping your cain sword asap cause that stamina is going to make it your biggest beefstick together with eugen’s gun. if you have eustace you can use his gun to play a stamina/enmity mix, otherwise fill out your empty spots with any combination of spymurs, baal axes, vohu guns, and baihu claws depending on what you want

for reference I have approximately the same gacha stuff as you (cain pls interact) and here’s what my most used dirt grid looks like. i switch things around a lot depending on the team but this is the general idea. ygg swords are pretty good thanks to the high stats on swords so i use those as magna mod when I don’t need an offhand for chrysaor, and if i’m running ayer or doing a tough fight where I know I’ll be eating lots of damage I switch in eustace’s gun 

[tainbocuailnge]

Belial and Lucifer both using the capital L word... IT'S GAY FUCKING RIGHTS BAYBEE

IT’S GAY RIGHTS!!!! I’d be a little skeeved about it if it was only belial saying he loves lucilius something something queer villains but lucifer repeats that very same “love is a mess of contradictions” line at sandalphon like what a MOVE. all angels are gay john cygames himself said so

what fucking GETS me is that lucifer is a tragic dead boyfriend but with that last conversation and the “I’ll be waiting” they don’t even FEEL tragic they feel hopeful!! sandal’s white wing mechanic and that ougi animation are such a blatant CHEESY way of saying they’re always together in their hearts the goddamn “you will always be my solace” “you will always be my guiding light” the promise of a reunion after sandalphon’s lived a fulfilling life, I gotta say I wasn’t much for lucisan back when it was all angsty shit but now I’m THRIVING

[tainbocuailnge]

It's called "rolling" the gacha bc of the gachapon machines where you put your coins or w/e and turn the knob and that little plastic ball with a gachapon comes out rolling. Sorry for telling you in ask form but I couldn't comment on your post.

thank you, mystery solved

[tainbocuailnge]

Nono, it's ok I wasn't particularly asking for recommendations or anything like I've been in the scene since 2009 myself (wow that's a lot of time) and even released a few tracks myself and it's always nice to meet someone else who Gets It. Anyways fun fact, one of the Demetori brothers, the guitarist to be specific, is the designated guitar player for Miku Expo. How cool is that?

I know most of my 2hu circles thru this yt account that i think got suspended aaaages ago but it was a group of 3 channels one rock/metal one instrumental/folk and one techno/trance focused so i’m FAR from up to date on things but i basically developed a taste in music at all by digging through touhou arranges in early high school. that’s neat that you released yr own tracks too i’ve dabbled in nearly every creative endeavour myself but music never really clicked with me so i have that extra layer of awe slash respect for musicians

and that’s cool as HELL it’s so great to think that those guys got recognised for their skill and are now seriously big names in the music industry. touhou is so cool for that alone the fact that reitaisai is so ginormous still blows my mind every time too

[tainbocuailnge]

Lance my dude, does Nekomancer play well? Is it fun or a good class for a first row 4 ex-2 try? Is there an element where Kapilavastu shines better than the others? Sorry if this is annoying/too much to ask and also thank you for reading this even if you don't answer.

nekomancer is... tricky and I haven’t gotten the hang of it myself either so take everything i say with a grain of salt

without lunatic broom if you want to use the buffs from cats meow you basically can’t let mc ougi ever or you get hit with that debuff penalty after using all your mp on ougi. when playing like this you’ll want to use self reflection (samurai subskill) to keep your charge bar low without slowing down your team members, which has the bonus of near constant attack buffs to keep your damage up even without ougi. the advantage (?) here is that you don’t need to care about your mainhand’s ougi since you probably won’t be using it anyway. lunatic broom is basically essential in every element if you want to play neko as buffer without constant micromanaging bc it gives you enough mp to keep going for, i think two more turns after ougi so you can easily use moonshadow to get your mp back up before your buffs run out

the other way to use nekomancer is by capitalising on the passive echoes, they go up to 75% at max mp so you get to dish out some real fuckin damage for both autos and ougis if you manage your mp well. if you see a nekomancer tearing it up in your raid this is probably what they’re doing. if you’re planning to go offensive neko you won’t need the lunatic broom if there’s better staves to be found in that element so in that case you’ll have to check what your options are before deciding on an element for your broom

nekomancer is strong but it takes a lot of micromanaging to use right and needs lunatic broom to become slightly less bad on that front if you want to use it as buffing class so I wouldn’t recommend it as first ex2. glorybringer and doctor are much more flexible and versatile so I suggest going for those first

[tainbocuailnge]

My dude, my friend, my Fellow Cú Chulainn admirer, I started playing Granblue when there was the roulette and then stopped and now downloaded it again and I need to know: how tf do you actually play it? I see a lot of terms I have no clue what they mean and there's like a shitton of stuff to do and I don't know where to even start, what do I do

as a disclaimer it’s been a long time since I was in the early game myself so your mileage may vary. genuinely just do whatever you want tbh, there isn’t really anything you HAVE to be doing. that being said though:

first of all delete the app and just play it in your browser. the app is just a framework for the browser version anyway and it won’t be sitting on a bunch of your storage if you go to game.granbluefantasy.jp instead. when doing this on desktop, try getting your hands on viramate too. it’s technically not allowed since it’s a third party tool but it features a LOT of convenient UI and general QOL updates that make the game much easier to navigate. it’s the xkit of granblue.

in the early game you want to just click the ‘auto select’ button in the weapons tab of your party and then throw whoever you think is cutest out of what you have in a party and progress the main story as far as you can. don’t worry too much about elements yet because they’re not very important early on. your goal is to reach chapter 25, because at that point you will have access to all the omega raids.

once you reach rank 30 (which should happen naturally just from playing through the story because early rankups happen fast) you can start doing the omega raids. these are tiamat omega, colossus omega, leviathan omega, yggdrasil omega, luminiera omega (non-omega is called aversa), and celeste omega. each of these raids drop weapons which are used for the grids you will be using the majority of the early, mid, and even part of the lategame. I explained how it works in my grid building guide which you’ll find in my granblue advice tag. it may be a bit too much to take in in one go, that’s fine because it’s complicated. ask experienced players for specific advice when you get stuck.

pick ONE element to focus on and then do a fuckton of the corresponding raid, both hosting and joining. don’t worry about contributing yet because you won’t be able to anyway, getting one hit in and then going to the next raid is normal and expected for early players and stronger players will pick up the slack. use the drops from those raids to build a grid and develop your punching muscles.

while unite & fight is still going on, try hosting every difficulty raid at least once so you can get the reward crystals. see if you can defeat any, call for backup if you can’t. the tokens you get during this event can be exchanged in drawboxes containing so-called revenant weapons, pick the dagger and try to get at least four copies so you can fully uncap it. these weapons can be changed into any element under shop > weapon series > revenant weapons, and the dagger has an incredibly useful charge attack and can be used with enhancer/arcana dueler/dark fencer

try playing some of the side stories too, they give out a ton of free stuff as well as crystals to roll more characters with. as a rule you should save your crystals until there is a premium gala or flash gala going on, these happen once per month each and feature a pool of limited characters and doubled SSR rates. granblue’s pity system is that if you roll 300 times on the same banner you get to just pick any rateup item but you can start caring about that when you already have a decent roster

[tainbocuailnge]

Thank you for your previous answer about how to get started on gbf, but once again I come to you with questions. Is it worth it to uncap gacha ssr weapons? In my case I have Charlotte's, Eugen's, the levin sisters' and 2 Cerberus' that can go to 4* and I'm currently trying to build a light grid. Shoul I focus completely on the omegas I got from quests and the ones I'm trying to get from the store instead? Thank you for your help, you're great.

most gacha weapons aren’t really worth uncapping. there’s a few non-limited weapons that can be worth the trouble but nearly all of them are mainhands at best. I think you’re best off spending a few crystals on a stash and storing your gacha weapons there until you’ve got enough of a grip on weapon skills to figure out for yourself whether they’re best kept around or reduced. 

however if it’s called a grand weapon like so

then you absolutely want to keep them. grand weapons are objectively some of the best weapons in the game once fully uncapped. in fact, they’re so good that in nearly all cases you don’t even want to use duplicates to uncap them but rather damascus bars, because that way you get to have multiple uncapped copies. when using damascus bars, the advice is to save up the 3 bars you need before using them in case a weapon you want to use them on more comes along

that being said, grand weapons are the core of primal grids and what you want to build is an omega grid. many grand weapons are worth it even if you run omega because of their mainhand properties and just raw fuckin stats, but where you’re at now you shouldn’t worry about it too much. just keep those weapons around for now and focus on getting those luminiera guns for your light grid. while I’ve got you here I’m also going to tell you to not worry about luminiera swords either. those are for when you’ve finished your luminiera gun grid and decide you want to take it further, if you focus on getting swords immediately you’re just going to be miserable because their droprate is atrocious and your grid will be perfectly functional without them too

[skajador]

I joked about Liquid Ocelot looking like Stan Lee for years only to find only a few minutes ago that Stan Lee actually cosplayed Ocelot in 2004. I'm at a loss for words.

YEA he fuckin, came on stage during the game awards bakc then i think? as liquid ocelot? fuckin wild 

[skajador]

op literally stans the creator of the war economy but go off i guess

Kazuhira Miller Did Nothing Wrong 

[skajador]

Kiryu was in jail from 95 to 2005 so among the multiple cultural events he missed, were the first three generations of pokemon. And that's just sad because he never got the chance to see fat Pikachu.

fat pikachu is still out there... Kiryu can still see him

[skajador]

Why did Tachibana have to say that Kiryu's his only friend RIGHT IN FRONT OF ODA. TACHIBANA YOU BIG DUMBDUMB ODA LOVES YOU

i made this post before but LMAO it rly is just like

“Kiryu you have all these True Friends... I wouldn’t know about that”

oda pulling up in the van:

[skajador]

How would Majima and Ocelot get along? One one hand I think they would get along just fine because they're both chaotic entities of goblinness but on the other hand Ocelot is Ocelot so who knows. Also I have not played any Yakuza games and only know about them boys from reading about them so I might be wrong.

honestly thats how i feel about them like

on a base level i think they both harbor deep respect for each other’s commitment to their respective aesthetics. they’re both Guy With Iconic Shoes Whose Intro Shots Start On Said Shoes. 

who tf knows maybe ocelot comes up with some oceplot that necessitates help from the yakuza... 

[skajador]

It took me until watching the credits to find out who was Makoto's VA and I'm kinda shocked since she's usually known for playing energetic or hardcore girls and here she was playing this otherwise meek blind girl and I was completely sold on her performance. Acting is amazing.

thats rly fuckin cool and im happy for her! she’s talented! 

but now you just got me thinkin like... Yakuza 0 but Makoto is a FUCKING BADASS. Like. we saw what her brother can do despite God’s Nerfs.... It’s In Her Blood.. Why not Makoto.