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Ah crap did not see this topic, had a pretty decent collection of Anime figures and the Flare 2B.

Oh well!

Thanks a lot for the advice guys.

I think as I don't know if I'll stick to this, at the very start I'll do a bit of a mix and match.
Buy a booster box from the two sets that released just to get that dopamine rush out of the way.
Then once I've had that bit of fun, go a bit more measured and go for singles.
Though as this game is so niche, I'm not even sure where to buy singles for English cards in the UK.

At this moment I just have 2 birthday cards that were exclusive to the sets I bought.

I wanted to buy some cards when I was on holiday in Japan, but seemed like every store out there was completely sold out. Hololive merch just has a habit of running out fast.

Will wait until after January window, traditionally that's when the last patches come in.

One of my latest Hololive Birthday merchandise sets came with a TCG card, looks nice I want more.

Turns out, they do sell cards in the UK, so I want to buy a booster box of each set, they're not particularly cheap, but whatever I get I'll probably be happy with.
From what I can see it's 12 packs of 8 cards and there's a bunch of starter decks available as well at pretty reasonable prices, at least I think I don't know much about the going rate for TCG prices.

Next part though, is for keeping cards in good condition.
My only experience on TCG collecting is from playing TCG Card Shop simulator, so I presume if I'm going to start collecting, I need to buy sleeves and binders?
Are there any particular brands that are known to be of good quality or to avoid?
Does one sleeve cards and then put them in the binder? I don't really know how any of that stuff works.
But once I got my cards, what's kinda the best way to go about maintaining a collection?

Good to hear GAA2 is a return to form.
GAA1 bored me to tears to the point I still haven't finished the final case.

I disliked pretty much everything about the 2nd case and what followed left me often unsatisfied.
Was not a fan of the jury system as it cluttered a lot for me by adding more characters and making interactions kind of all over the place.

Love the original trilogy where just about every character is memorable in some way.

Neat!
Hope it does well.

Utd clearly have talented guys but their squad building has meant that you don't trust just about every profile of player.

They went hard on young talents and started replacing them quickly, they tried going for guys in their prime and had some very high profile flops, went for experienced vets to bring leadership and their legs were gone.

Some good signings here and there, but does feel like their hit rate is lower than their rivals.
Keen to find out if Garnacho is everything negative Utd fans have said, or if he can be a good contributor.

Chilwell to Strasbourg?

Oh come on that is shameless.
I wouldn't even do that on FM.

Today is like transfer window Xmas day.

Though we begin the morning with ETH sacked from Leverkusen. I don't think any manager deserves it this early into a season unless something behind the scenes went spectacularly wrong and Leverkusen just sold the entire core that provided them with success.

Crazy window continues.
Delap pulled up in the match vs Fulham, out for a couple of months.

So Jackson is bringing his ass back to Chelsea and the loan is cancelled.

But now it seems the Jackson camp is refusing to go back?
Can't lie as disastrous as this all is, I am entertained by all of this.

Wow, Jackson on loan for 15m Euros/13m GBP.
Think he only cost 35m ish Euros.

When I look at the price other strikers and forwards are going for, there is no way Nico leaves for under 20m Euros bar an unmitigated disaster of Mudryk proportions.
I think he'll probably up his value with Bayern anyway, he'll probably be giving Sane/Coman/Gnabry levels of output while being younger and on way less money, that's going to attract bids.
Those 3 thanks to age and wages weren't as easy for Bayern to shift and they still kept Gnabry. Muller gone, Musiala injured, there is def room for minutes in that team.

And with Mourinho sacked, I think this is the point where he finally goes for the Portugal National Team.

Him leading the Post Ronaldo era would probably work, there's a lot of young talent coming through for Portugal and he's generally done well in knockout competitions.
I don't think he's actually done, just made some bad picks in his destinations.

Spurs whiffed on MGW, Savinho, Eze but landed Xavi Simons.
How do people keep calling him Simmons I don't know.
But that's a very highly rated player.

Although Newcastle and Spurs have faced very public rejections, the actual end result to their windows could look tidy.

Newcastle appear to end with about 5-6 upgrades.
Spurs also bringing in added quality to the starting lineup with some of the guys thrown in the deep last year now acting as depth.

Teams like Villa look more worrying.

Hmmm, Utd vs Chelsea is at Old Trafford on 20th.
Chelsea have just gone through their own period of getting severly mocked and tbh, they still are since the way they operate is still widely seen by pundits and your common fan as something that doesn't work.

I'm concerned, as when OGS and Ten Hag went through their darkest moments, they were replaced and Carrick and Van Nistelrooy were able to rally the troops to obtain a pair of draws. I'm still shocked that Chelsea hasn't won at Old Trafford in the league since like 2013, Mata was still a Chelsea player!

I kinda feel that had United gotten Frank instead of Amorim, based on his past with Brentford, he would have worked out a way to get Garnacho, Antony and Sancho to contribute and instead of revamping the attack this summer would have seen them go after more central midfielders.

Reputable sources had Thomas Frank on the shortlist to succeed Ten Hag.

But since I like Frank and am still mad at the misery years of Fergie piled on for the team I support, it's all worked out for the best.

Wasn't the only reward from the mode the 1.2m monies?

Uma Musume is wit game

(That channel is some of the more entertaining content among Uma Musume guide content creators)

I like Edna design, but yeah Alisha's role surprised me.
Though i wasn't particularly bothered as she hadn't put up an impression the way say a Milla did.

I find Zestiria to be not particularly exceptional but also found it a rather easy going experience to play. Like there wasn't too many frustrating gameplay moments and you kinda just breeze through it all and then oh hey it's done.

I have lost 800 or 900 stamina runs with Goldship.

Turns out kinda saying fuck it on Stamina requirements and going for 600 with Maestro and loading up on speed led to much better results.
Though I do get as many gold skills as possible.

I do like the Xillia and Zestiria OPs.

Tales series has some solid OPs for the most part.

Having 2 parents with a bunch of stamina sparks has made clears relatively easy.

Though i feel like it does kneecap some of my builds.

I think it makes sense that some people here wouldn't know just how big Sanrio characters have gotten lately.

I see so much Kuromi and Cinnamon Roll merch and collabs everywhere that's touristy.

Birmingham spent like a top championship side in League 1 last year, they're loaded, but no idea if that will instantly translate.
I'm surprised we're this deep into August and Coventry haven't gone after a pair of Chelsea youngsters, Lampard made it work with Derby when he grabbed Tomori and Mount.

I got Brentford not missing the departures too much, they bought well and have operated on a next man up basis for years. They lost big names in the championship days like Watkins, Benrahma, Gray, Maupay, Konza, Mepham and had to deal with that one time when Birmingham raided 3 of their starters.
The replacements have always done well. Even if they lose Wissa on top, I have faith Keane Lewis-Potter, Schade and the new guys will step up.
Though as long as Damsgaard is healthy, I think they can do things, that guy is to me their star player now and I'm shocked no traditional big side has gone for him.

If Chelsea didn't have a top 5 player in the role at that position, I would have wanted Damsgaard.
As it stands, of course I'm happy with Palmer.

Got the 1.2m
Do I still need to run Goldship mode to complete the event missions?

And now City linked to Donnaruma and Rodrygo.
It seems those stories have popped up alongside talk of Ederson, McAtee and Savinho all leaving.

Based on summer window, this looks to be one where more fanbases than usual are going in with big hopes.
Normally you got more of the big sides on a period of transition or just retooling.
Here it just looks like everyon bar Aston Villa have gone guns blazing.

Not sure how much room there is for the usual midtable side is way up in the league table. It often rotates which side has that slot, but whoever does it this time fair play to em.
Except Forest.

CoolCly posted...

Hmm, I put up shoe request one hour ago, I see its already done. There must be a bunch of new requests to donate to!

Nope,, its just Yuzus. Wheres the rest >:|

only Luis was within 8 hours of his last request, what are Blue, Medea, and pond cookie pullin here!
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Woops

Low key, Team Canopus has one of the best rosters.
Team Spica can be a bit too bland at times or underdevelopped.
And for several characters their big motivational pick me ups after going through troubles weren't from their teammates, but someone on another team.

Nice Nature has stood out positively in Season 2 as a competitor and Season 3 as a mentor.

Looks like August is all skip, unless of course you have waifus to pull for.
But 1500, into the KSB rerun and XMas Oguri pot it goes.

Honestly, I don't watch other leagues like I used to and with Ajax not in CL lately, got no clue who Hato is playstyle wise. I just see 100+ games by the age of 19, captain of a rather big time team and coming in as a backup LB/CB so will avoid being overplayed and burnt out.

Not exactly sure what to expect from Chelsea this year. Last year they made a lot of moves no one rated, aggregate pundit predictions had them down in 7th with a few notables having them out of Europe outright.

This summer, they've signed even more players than I don't think many would rate. Don't think Essugo, Gittens, Estevao, Delap, Pedro and Hato evoke any excitement.

Not when the competition got Ekitike, Frimpong, Kerkez, Wirtz or Gyokeres, Zubimendi and potentially Eze.

No idea where to predict as a result, think Liverpool, Arsenal, City are the expected top 3 in whatever order. Chelsea could be good, could be bad, some nice players on current squad, but think seen as 2-3 steps behind the more experienced sides.

I don't like the FA all that much.

But on the sporting side things seem to be in a good spot for both men and women with solid results on the men's side and excellent on the women's.

This transfer window feels like more of an arms race than usual.

Probably cos Liverpool are swinging for the fences and Arsenal are upping the stakes alongside the usual suspects.

I consider myself lucky to have stuck by Hololive for all these years.
They have their flaws, but very few of their controversies are that bad and they've course corrected or made up for a number of prior mistakes.

Pikamee, might as well apply to Hololive.

What's your deck like and which stats you aiming for?

Switched to KSB+Sweep Tosho+as many Wit cards as possible.
Results have shocked me tbh.

Been breaking a lot of my records going the Wit path.

Might switch focus to Air Groove and Vodka for a bit.
But I have a crisis of monies right now.

The KSB banner gave out so many rank up on supports that one need cash to get these raised.
Then need another 100k per Uma for potential raising.

MLB mihono bourbon is really good.

And yeah Tazuna was very good for my Rice Shower runs.

But lately most fun I'm having is with Agnes Tachyon run, don't use Tazuna and she gets a ton a of mood downs, but spamming debuff skills when your speed is over 1k is great.

This game's version of QP he'll
But man do the upgraded decks go hard.

So who here is saving up for the next KSB rate up banner?
I have no idea when it'll be but apparently before End of year?
If they do rerun then, I sure hope it comes with a 0.75% rate and not the nerfed 0.5% we just got.

Though at some point to enjoy the game, one does need more actual Umas in the stable.

And with that, think I barely just about made it.

Which support cards have you guys been using?

I started off using Fine Motion a lot
But lately due to Maestro spam it has shifted a lot towards Super Creek.

I like how addicted Ina is to the game as she discusses tips I hadn't considered
Like if you're trying to follow someone with a good deck, look at high rank clubs amd chances are you got people with good cards who haven't been fully followed yet.

After seeing clips of her in the movie, I wanna go ahead and raise her right.

Doesn't Agnes ramp up only if you raise her potential?

I use Brave on mobile like now.

But how's the desktop experience?
Will probably add it, though i do use Firefox i have noscript running so at times I will use another browser when I can't figure out what I need to whitelist.

How's everyone looking for Kitasan black?

At this point I'm seriously wondering, if I get above 20k Carats come event time and don't pull, is it worth paying to hit pity. By all accounts she stays relevant for years and I think I might actually be willing to commit the hours to this game.
Even if it's just one copy, there's stil lthe upgrade crystal thing coming up for half year anniv.

Blimey just applied frontrunner to Bakushin and went really heavy on speed.

Topped out at 1198, but did the whole run without adding a single skill.

When I bomb too many runs I go back to Bakushin as a confidence booster.

And for club, how about after reaching 25 members you switch to Accept rather than invite only?

Lets you rotate out the inactive members while still having a little bit of room to add any new b8ers.

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This setup worked, obviously not very optimised but was good enough.

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Also adding deck

Club joined, ready to hand out shoes to everyone.

Hope there's more ways to get copious amount of monies.
Just realised that while I'm just above board now and able to buy up everything in daily sales, once Kitasan Black arrives that's at least 10 SRs that'll be a drain and some of these SRs at upper levels are really good!