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[Shroob]

Before, if you don't buy me Bonestorm

What does a mechanic in the final raid of World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King circa December 2009 have to do with this.

 

[TheMightyP]

What does a mechanic in the final raid of World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King circa December 2009 have to do with this.

Shroob please, I'm trying to make Simpsons references here and you're making me feel old.

I'm the one who's suppossed to make you feel old.

 

[Shroob]

Apparently some insane person is out there wasting their life for this purpose

And there's now over a thousand "Miku from Brazil" images out there catalogued.



Why would anyone dedicate soo much time to this?

 

[Guynamednelson]

What does a mechanic in the final raid of World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King circa December 2009 have to do with this.

IDK it's some video game lame-o's play because their moms didn't love them enough to buy Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge.

 

[TheMightyP]

Apparently some insane person is out there wasting their life for this purpose

And there's now over a thousand "Miku from Brazil" images out there catalogued.



Why would anyone dedicate soo much time to this?

idk anything about this Miku in Brazil besides the time I saw a lady who cosplayed as an artist's rendition Brazillian Miku on Twitter.com.

Because it was recommended to me.

I didn't seek it out I swear.

Now tell me about this guy wasting his life?

 

[Shroob]

idk anything about this Miku in Brazil besides the time I saw a lady who cosplayed as an artist's rendition Brazillian Miku on Twitter.com.

Because it was recommended to me.

I didn't seek it out I swear.

Now tell me about this guy wasting his life?

My Twitter's been flooded with them on the "For You" tab despite never even using the site.


But NGL this one got me to laugh if you can read Spanish.

x.com

x.com

 

[Guynamednelson]

But NGL this one got me to laugh if you can read Spanish.


There was a problem fetching the tweet

Why do I need to know Spanish to read an English error?

 

[Shroob]

Why do I need to know Spanish to read an English error?

Thanks, Elon

 

[Z25]

Ohoo?is it Volo time?

Probably, the story has been building to him
Being the villain. So I’m sure he will be involved somehow.

 

[TheMightyP]

My Twitter's been flooded with them on the "For You" tab despite never even using the site.

Yeah, Twitter's kinda broken, my recommended feed have been the exact same anime bot tweets over and over again, because they pay for twitter blue and thus get all the interactions. How the Brazillian Miku cosplayer ended on my feed is beyond me but if they somehow come across this post, what's up I'm 6'8

Also did you know that you can say the n-word all you want with no warning but cracker or cisgender is a bannable offense? **** you Elon.

 

[Shroob]

Yeah, Twitter's kinda broken, my recommended feed have been the exact same anime bot tweets over and over again, because they pay for twitter blue and thus get all the interactions. How the Brazillian Miku cosplayer ended on my feed is beyond me but if they somehow come across this post, what's up I'm 6'8

Also did you know that you can say the n-word all you want with no warning but cracker or cisgender is a bannable offense? **** you Elon.

So funny story time speaking of which.


My Discord guild has a few people who actively still use Twitter, and one guy got his account perma-banned because for whatever reason they thought he was a bot.


Someone jokingly suggested to appeal the ban by saying that "The Left was trying to censor his freedom of speech" and it worked.

 

[TheMightyP]

So funny story time speaking of which.


My Discord guild has a few people who actively still use Twitter, and one guy got his account perma-banned because for whatever reason they thought he was a bot.


Someone jokingly suggested to appeal the ban by saying that "The Left was trying to censor his freedom of speech" and it worked.

That site is so cooked, I can go to a completely unrelated tweet (like sports or video games) and the first reply is a 2 hour long porn video, and the next 20 are sex or crypto bots, with at least 5 racist/homophobic ads in between.

The 6th ad is that Mascot, Chiitan or something

 

[Shroob]

Thar site is so cooked, I can go to a completely unrelated tweet (like sports or video games) and the first reply is a 2 hour long porn video, and the next 20 are sex or crypto bots, with at least 5 racist/homophobic ads in between.

The 6th ad is that Mascot, Chiitan or something

Get RICH QUICK!
This new CRYPTO IS RISING FAST
DON'T BE LEFT BEHIND AS WE BLAST OFF TO THE

 

[TheMightyP]

Get RICH QUICK!
This new CRYPTO IS RISING FAST
DON'T BE LEFT BEHIND AS WE BLAST OFF TO THE

- (insert topic here) gets me (use your imagination). I used to be (insert name here)'s ex. Free (website) on my profile.

And then there's replies like

- Hi I'm (doxxes himself for a bot, also he's a Christian husband and father of 3).

 

[Shroob]

- (insert topic here) gets me (use your imagination). I used to be (insert name here)'s ex. Free (website) on my profile.

And then there's replies like

- Hi I'm (doxxes himself for a bot, also he's a Christian husband and father of 3).

Don't forget about the you-know-what in Bio bots.

 

[TheMightyP]

Don't forget about the you-know-what in Bio bots.

"He a fan, he a fan, he a fan"

What's wilder is Instagram may be worse on that front because the bots be advertising... chess pieces, if you will.

 

[Shroob]

"He a fan, he a fan, he a fan"

What's wilder is Instagram may be worse on that front because the bots be advertising... chess pieces, if you will.

God doesn't stay in heaven because he's afraid of what he's created.

He just left our asses to get cigarettes and never came home.

 

[TheMightyP]

God doesn't stay in heaven because he's afraid of what he's created.

He just left our asses to get cigarettes and never came home.

I really hope God didn't read my high school group chats

 

[TheCJBrine]

she is the light

(I got this from the Magical Mirai 2023 recording they temporarily have on YouTube for a limited time currently, her friends sang her a birthday song (specifically "Birthday Song for Miku" by Mitchie M) and seeing her so happy makes me happy )

 

[Pink Yoshi]

If Athena P did video game lore videos, what videos would you want to see most?

Probably not any really big franchises like Mario or Kirby cuz she'd be there all day, buuuut I can see her doing a wildly fun lore video on the Bloons series and Stardew Valley (We must know which bachelor is her favorite). And I can also see a Lore Lite specifically focused on Sonic's Deadly Six, but that's my bias. Lol.

That said I'd still want her to do Disventure Camp/Reality Project/Exotic Escapade lore videos as well.

 

[Noipoi]

Day 34: Aromatisse

As we all know Kalos introduced the smallest amount of new Pokemon in any generation. But despite this limitation, or perhaps because of it, I think Kalos has the highest percentage of baller designs relative to new Pokemon introduced with very few duds. I think Aromatisse is one of those duds.

It's just weird, dude. Why's it constantly showing leg??

 

[PLATINUM7]

Why's it constantly showing leg??

Either to give these vibes or that of a dress with a split for the leg.

 

[Knight Dude]

Dairou is the most nothing MK character. So I'm not surprised they basically made him his own guy into being Havok's Origin story before being interesting. Normally I'd dislike stuff like that, but Dairou was THAT boring. Hotaru's a Fascist prick, but that works for where he's from and the role he serves. I feel like he should be one of those characters to get a run-back. They just need to flesh out his moveset more. Lean into the Firefly theming his design had for the longest.

I use the Havengers build because it’s easy to install and Hayato just got added. It also does have Monster Hunter.

And yeah I hope classic Mega Man gets added. Kamala Khan would also be fun. Maybe an Inhuman like Black Bolt or Crystal. Ant-Man would be cool. Akira Kazama since she was in SFV. G would be fun. And I’m always gonna hope for Poison.

Also where’s Blackheart? He’s not in the Havengers build? Who’s working on him? Is he finished?

Specifically it was a nightmare

Blackheart was being done by Calikingz I think. He also JUST started like a week or two ago. So he might take a while cause he does have some unique animations that would take longer compared to others. If Kamala(or maybe more likely Reed) were added, I imagine Super Skrull would be the base for them.

Ant-Man would be cool, though again, I don't know how far the custom animations have gotten to add. So it's hard to say how fleshed out he'd be ATM. He's got a model though. It's more so about what moves they'd give him. Now that I'm thinking of it, so would Vision. I imagine there's enough from the Cyclops mod, Iron Man, Mega Man X, Magneto or Doctor Strange to pull off a solid Vision mod now.

I'm hoping someone will do Nightcrawler eventually, since they did Bishop who wasn't in any of the official games yet. I want to see how different he could be from Deadpool. Using his tail and not using guns can help a lot though.

Day 34: Aromatisse

As we all know Kalos introduced the smallest amount of new Pokemon in any generation. But despite this limitation, or perhaps because of it, I think Kalos has the highest percentage of baller designs relative to new Pokemon introduced with very few duds. I think Aromatisse is one of those duds.

It's just weird, dude. Why's it constantly showing leg??

It's a dank and weird pokemon. I feel like every gen has a couple of those. But Gen 6 for me had very few bangers AND the lowest amount of new additions. Gen 7 carried the 3DS additions hard. Not that Greninja and Talonflame weren't cool. But Alola truly washed Kalos.

 

[SnakeFighter64]

Dairou is the most nothing MK character. So I'm not surprised they basically made him his own guy into being Havok's Origin story before being interesting. Normally I'd dislike stuff like that, but Dairou was THAT boring. Hotaru's a Fascist prick, but that works for where he's from and the role he serves. I feel like he should be one of those characters to get a run-back. They just need to flesh out his moveset more. Lean into the Firefly theming his design had for the longest.



Blackheart was being done by Calikingz I think. He also JUST started like a week or two ago. So he might take a while cause he does have some unique animations that would take longer compared to others. If Kamala(or maybe more likely Reed) were added, I imagine Super Skrull would be the base for them.

Ant-Man would be cool, though again, I don't know how far the custom animations have gotten to add. So it's hard to say how fleshed out he'd be ATM. He's got a model though. It's more so about what moves they'd give him. Now that I'm thinking of it, so would Vision. I imagine there's enough from the Cyclops mod, Iron Man, Mega Man X, Magneto or Doctor Strange to pull off a solid Vision mod now.

I'm hoping someone will do Nightcrawler eventually, since they did Bishop who wasn't in any of the official games yet. I want to see how different he could be from Deadpool. Using his tail and not using guns can help a lot though.



It's a dank and weird pokemon. I feel like every gen has a couple of those. But Gen 6 for me had very few bangers AND the lowest amount of new additions. Gen 7 carried the 3DS additions hard. Not that Greninja and Talonflame weren't cool. But Alola truly washed Kalos.

I wish there was a website or something to keep track of all the modded characters that are being developed. They usually don’t get added to mod sites till they’re done and it would be nice to have a way to keep track of all of them.

I did find one Twitter account that retweeted a lot of them (the account of Voltiac, the person who’s developing Rogue according to a trailer that was put out that max dood reacted to) that mentions a few other characters I forgot about/didn’t know existed (Gene, Carter Space, Doc Ock, Green Goblin, Electro, Dhalsim, and Bad Box Art Mega Man) and I found a pic of the Blackheart mod on there. That trailer also mentioned Ruby Heart being developed by Xeno, as well as attributing a mod for what looks to be grandmaster Meio to them as well. And apparently someone named Angel Glory is doing Dr. Wily (which is cool).

From what I could tell the models are limited by not being able to create custom skeletons (a hilarious example of this was Doc Ock being made from Dante because his cape has a lot of extra bones in it to work with). I don’t think this train is gonna stop any time soon. Though sometimes I wish I could pay to have certain characters done like how Max Dood is commissioning MvCIB. Alas, am poor.

 

[Z25]

Professor Pumpkaboo he’s back:

 

[Knight Dude]

I wish there was a website or something to keep track of all the modded characters that are being developed. They usually don’t get added to mod sites till they’re done and it would be nice to have a way to keep track of all of them.

I did find one Twitter account that retweeted a lot of them (the account of Voltiac, the person who’s developing Rogue according to a trailer that was put out that max dood reacted to) that mentions a few other characters I forgot about/didn’t know existed (Gene, Carter Space, Doc Ock, Green Goblin, Electro, Dhalsim, and Bad Box Art Mega Man) and I found a pic of the Blackheart mod on there. That trailer also mentioned Ruby Heart being developed by Xeno, as well as attributing a mod for what looks to be grandmaster Meio to them as well. And apparently someone named Angel Glory is doing Dr. Wily (which is cool).

From what I could tell the models are limited by not being able to create custom skeletons (a hilarious example of this was Doc Ock being made from Dante because his cape has a lot of extra bones in it to work with). I don’t think this train is gonna stop any time soon. Though sometimes I wish I could pay to have certain characters done like how Max Dood is commissioning MvCIB. Alas, am poor.

Yeah, it is what it is. Smash games also have a TON of mods, but not too much to consolidate them outside of mod backs like Project Plus and the like. Even Melee got custom characters like Raichu or Wolf.

Doc Ock is cool, cause he was someone that was gonna be in MVC3 but had to get cut.

 

[Professor Pumpkaboo]

The Volo stan in me is absolutly tweeking about this new Pokemon Masters stuff

Professor Pumpkaboo he’s back:

Im ****ing geekin and tweekin rn, you have no idea

 

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Professor Pumpkaboo he’s back:

Anime Power-Up Time! Literally the entire video is just Magical Girl transformations.

I'm definitely surprised at how they are implementing this. So Multi-Role Units will be a new Unit Type like Strike/Tech/Support/Sprint/Field with a focus on Type-Rebuffs and having a total of 5 Passive Skills (previously Master Fair Units had 4). Their Sync Grids will also feature extra skills you can pick up for no energy cost based on their 5/5 strength level.

Hopefully since there are 3 of them to pull for and that they will require completely new resources to power-up, they have a 2% pull rate. But it being a Gacha Game, it'll probably be the standard Master Fair rate of 1%. They're giving Lillie/Solgaleo away for free, so I assume they're not going to feel very merciful. 4 Master Fair Level units within the span of 3 weeks is a new record; that doesn't even include the re-runs either.

It also seems to imply that through out the Arceus Arc, as they're calling it now, they will introduce Arc Suit units/Multi-Roles for each Pokemon Type. So it'll be fun to speculate which other 15 Type-Specialist Trainers will get alts. Given how Neo Champions are Protag/Rival focused, I hope that Arc Suits will focus on Gym Leaders/Elite 4/Champions.

Also after 4 years, the last of the Battle Chatelaines, Morgan & Virizion (probably a Grass Type), will be added and that all 4 Sisters will get their EX colors.


EDIT: Never mind. So much for mercy. Dataminers are implying that Arc Suit units not only have a 1% pull rate like Master Fairs, the Pity Pull rate has increased from 400 points to 500 points. So an extra 9900 gems will be required to have a guranteed pull. 36,600 Gems -> 46,500 Gems

 

[Noipoi]

Power creep text

 

[Knight Dude]

I gotta wonder if Power Creep is such a big issue in Pokemon now, would they just completely re-adjust the every single mon at some point. Or at least final evolutions? I feel like the discussions I've heard from people now have gone up a lot compared even to gen 8.

Granted, I would want to see Pokemon allow for more than 4 moves, since I think that would legit make a lot of them better since versatility is often a main draw for so many. But I guess that might be controversial.

 

[Noipoi]

I gotta wonder if Power Creep is such a big issue in Pokemon now, would they just completely re-adjust the every single mon at some point. Or at least final evolutions? I feel like the discussions I've heard from people now have gone up a lot compared even to gen 8.

Granted, I would want to see Pokemon allow for more than 4 moves, since I think that would legit make a lot of them better since versatility is often a main draw for so many. But I guess that might be controversial.

Nah, too much work.

Just nerf the OP ones, make even more overpowered Pokemon next gen, nerf the new OP ones, and so on.

 

[TMNTSSB4]

Sassy little bat

 

[Z25]

Anime Power-Up Time! Literally the entire video is just Magical Girl transformations.

I'm definitely surprised at how they are implementing this. So Multi-Role Units will be a new Unit Type like Strike/Tech/Support/Sprint/Field with a focus on Type-Rebuffs and having a total of 5 Passive Skills (previously Master Fair Units had 4). Their Sync Grids will also feature extra skills you can pick up for no energy cost based on their 5/5 strength level.

Hopefully since there are 3 of them to pull for and that they will require completely new resources to power-up, they have a 2% pull rate. But it being a Gacha Game, it'll probably be the standard Master Fair rate of 1%. They're giving Lillie/Solgaleo away for free, so I assume they're not going to feel very merciful. 4 Master Fair Level units within the span of 3 weeks is a new record; that doesn't even include the re-runs either.

It also seems to imply that through out the Arceus Arc, as they're calling it now, they will introduce Arc Suit units/Multi-Roles for each Pokemon Type. So it'll be fun to speculate which other 15 Type-Specialist Trainers will get alts. Given how Neo Champions are Protag/Rival focused, I hope that Arc Suits will focus on Gym Leaders/Elite 4/Champions.

Also after 4 years, the last of the Battle Chatelaines, Morgan & Virizion (probably a Grass Type), will be added and that all 4 Sisters will get their EX colors.


EDIT: Never mind. So much for mercy. Dataminers are implying that Arc Suit units not only have a 1% pull rate like Master Fairs, the Pity Pull rate has increased from 400 points to 500 points. So an extra 9900 gems will be required to have a guranteed pull. 36,600 Gems -> 46,500 Gems

Yeah this honestly is pretty terrible.

-Reskin literal year one units, make them super OP.

-You can’t boost the original pairs to this new power, making them literally worthless.

-some of the worst scout rates in the game and need more points to scout.

-They didn’t even bother to make the pokemon shiny. If you’regoing to do generic pallet swaps, might as well put some effort in.

-less gems per month, making it super unlikely you can easily scout 1/5 or even 3/5.

-No new characters or units for this anniversary.

Honestly one of the worst business decisions I’ve seen for a game that already prints them money. They turned the entire fanbase against them now.

Really hope they make some changes based on feedback and realized how badly they screwed over the players and game.

At least the anniversary scout tickets gave me a free Dahlia who I didn’t have and is my favorite frontier brain. Also an extra Grusha. So at least that’s something.

 

[Shroob]

View attachment 393706

Power creep text

It hurts because it's true


Pokemon back in ye olden days used to feel kinda unique in their stat distribution.

Now everything's minmaxxed to hell, and anything that's not isn't viable.

 

[TMNTSSB4]

best Fury

 

[Jondolio]

I started to notice that a lot of Persona 5's dungeon and boss themes are biblical names specifically in Hebrew. Out of the many people who played the game I'm one of the few who know what these names translate to without looking it up and that makes me feel smart

You put him back right this instant

nah

 

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Nah, too much work.

Just nerf the OP ones, make even more overpowered Pokemon next gen, nerf the new OP ones, and so on.

I'm actually kind of surprised they haven't done more with Stat adjustments.

Yeah this honestly is pretty terrible.

-Reskin literal year one units, make them super OP.

-You can’t boost the original pairs to this new power, making them literally worthless.

-some of the worst scout rates in the game and need more points to scout.

-They didn’t even bother to make the pokemon shiny. If you’regoing to do generic pallet swaps, might as well put some effort in.

-less gems per month, making it super unlikely you can easily scout 1/5 or even 3/5.

-No new characters or units for this anniversary.

Honestly one of the worst business decisions I’ve seen for a game that already prints them money. They turned the entire fanbase against them now.

Really hope they make some changes based on feedback and realized how badly they screwed over the players and game.

At least the anniversary scout tickets gave me a free Dahlia who I didn’t have and is my favorite frontier brain. Also an extra Grusha. So at least that’s something.

I don't really take issue with re-using Year 1 units as they have completely different kits/outfits and we already have around 4~5 Charizards/Pikachus running around now. We also only know the first part of the Anniversary which is set to run throughout September, and technically Morgan & Virizion is a new character.

But yeah, it definitely screws over a lot of players with the new Gem requirements and increased Pity Pull rates. Hopefully we'll see an increased Gem count each month on top of bonus pulls for the Anniversary. More-over, we really need to start seeing old Year 1 & 2 Poke Fairs being added as standard scouts or have Poke Fair units added as potential pulls within these new Arc Suit banners.

Seeing 500 points tending on Twitter in both English and Japanese will hopefully cause Dena to take note and make some changes.

 

[Z25]

I'm actually kind of surprised they haven't done more with Stat adjustments.



I don't really take issue with re-using Year 1 units as they have completely different kits/outfits and we already have around 4~5 Charizards/Pikachus running around now. We also only know the first part of the Anniversary which is set to run throughout September, and technically Morgan & Virizion is a new character.

But yeah, it definitely screws over a lot of players with the new Gem requirements and increased Pity Pull rates. Hopefully we'll see an increased Gem count each month on top of bonus pulls for the Anniversary. More-over, we really need to start seeing old Year 1 & 2 Poke Fairs being added as standard scouts or have Poke Fair units added as potential pulls within these new Arc Suit banners.

Seeing 500 points tending on Twitter in both English and Japanese will hopefully cause Dena to take note and make some changes.

Sure it’s new kits but it’s just a reskin at the end of the day and that’s extremely disappointing and scummy. No reason they couldn’t have done any other pokemon for these. Also they really tried to milk gems/paid gems out of the originals, so the fact you can’t upgrade them is pretty dumb imo.

Like I enjoyed the trailer and love the outfits, but that kind of ruins it for me. Yet I’ll still be tempted to pull for dragonite again. And probably garchomp too, because Cynthia takes forever to set up in her og form and doesn’t hit the damage needed anymore, with limited ground options.

Even if there’s new stuff for the second part, it’s really lame that this is the highlight of the event as a whole.
Also it was leaked in last months datamine I believe that we are getting year one pokefairs in the daily scout. Which I believe included all of these character original alts.

 

[Pink Yoshi]

Day 34: Aromatisse

As we all know Kalos introduced the smallest amount of new Pokemon in any generation. But despite this limitation, or perhaps because of it, I think Kalos has the highest percentage of baller designs relative to new Pokemon introduced with very few duds. I think Aromatisse is one of those duds.

It's just weird, dude. Why's it constantly showing leg??

Well I did say today was my hot take...

I. LOVE. THIS. THING.

Maybe it's partially for my love of its pre-evo, maybe it's cuz I love nice-smelling things, maybe it's because it's SO FLUFFY and would be amazing to hug, but to me I've just always loved this fluffy fren. It combines LOTS of different traits - bird, perfume, flamenco dancer, AND plague doctor - in a really unique and fun way to me. To me it's one of the Pokemon that feels most like the Pikachu to my Ash, just one of the Pokemon I can really see myself connecting with. Sure it has so much smell to it that my nose nerves would be dulled, but it's worth it to hug something this fluffy and nice!

Also just like Spritzee it's got an adorable voice in the anime.

 

[dezeray112]

When east and west meet once again as Engine Sentai Go-Onger's Yasuhisa Furohara and Power Rangers RPM's Eka Darville doing their morphs side by side during the Power Morphicon event.

Source here.