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Done and done.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/400-current-events/80474270

I'll make the next topic, I guess.

Okay, hit DLv 19, went "phew, that's great", and promptly proceeded to self-TK myself back to 17 to finish off the duels played missions. Lv19 seemed to be very Tear heavy, so I'm glad I didn't try to fight it out and just punched myself in the face a bunch.

This is definitely one of the formats of all time.

Phew, made it to DLv 17 with Blackwings. And that's probably as far as I'm going, the 200 gems aren't worth it.

SomeLikeItHoth posted...

We all knew what breed of dog it was before entering the topic.

Actually, I expected this to be a swerve topic, where the dog (or dogs) involved was a German shepherd or husky or something.

So, True Dracos with Lose 1 Turn (and Summoning Curse, though I never actually used it) got me to 5500 medals with little issue. I was feeling really smug about that, too, right up until I saw there's a "Special Summon" mission and my deck does not actually do that. So I'll probably switch to Suships or even YosenZoodiacs for the second half.

Also saw way too many Umi Control decks (3), which is going to make this thing "fun".

Huh, Tenki to 3 is good for Yosenjus, too. Not sure how I feel about Kagari to 3 (mostly because I don't wanna make a third one, wah), and Instant Fusion being shot saves me 30 UR dust.

It's just a little over-centralized right now, yeah.
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legendarylemur posted...

I'm just iterating what that twitter post said tbh. I haven't watched past S1 to know, but it had like 2k likes and shit so I was like huh...

Do you want to know what the actual deal is, or is it better to stick to the meme and not gain knowledge that won't actually be useful in day-to-day life?

*checks the banlist*

...True Dracos. Mweh heh heh.

Uh, Krawler Soma got added in the same pack as the Witchcrafter fusion and the Mayakashi Link-3.

"I sense a soul in search of answers."

"MRRRRGGGGLLLLLGGRRRGGGLLL!"

So today, in the "well no shit" news, I realized that using Zombie Vampire right now is a terrible goddamn idea. And by "realized", I mean "oh god I sent four Tearl cards to the opponent's GY and can only pick one to not fuck me, shit shit shit".

I think the vast majority of Ishizu Tear decks don't run Ash, though it's not entirely impossible - my partner ran headlong into one just last night and was surprised because "hey, those aren't supposed to fucking be here!"

I'm just gonna pull for the Amazoness stuff, and if I get Tears, then neat.

Welp, guess I'm playing Yosenjus.

I'm still at only 2 BEWD and no Cyber Stein, but I pulled back to back Card Destructions a couple weeks ago. And I think I have 6 or 7 World Chalice Aurams at this point.

Oh well now I just hate you. (Not really.)

Clearly, that is Elemental HERO Air NEOs.

Yeah, if anything, just use something like the Magistus fusion spell for Witchcrafters. It's even thematically appropriate, since Madame Smug was part of their group!

pauIie posted...

ranma 1/2

Came in here to say this, though it also feels like cheating.

How about a semi-limit to Runick Fountain and Tip, and Skill Drain/Gozen/Rivalry to 1?

https://www.masterduelmeta.com/articles/news/march-29-2023/master-duel-forbidden-list-update

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I'm contributing!

Source: https://twitter.com/bocodamondo/status/1637580199033282560

The best card for Red-Eyes is a Fusion monster, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, which is technically also Dark Magician support (since you can make it with DM and either Red-Eyes Black Dragon or a level 6 or higher dragon effect monster). It's a pretty decent card (3000 attack, can't be destroyed by card effects or targeted by card effects, can destroy a monster up to twice per turn - once for every Normal Monster used to fuse it and deal burn damage equal to the monster's original attack, and can, on a quick effect once per turn, negate a card effect and gain 1000 attack if you discard a card), and was absolutely busted in the OCG thanks to the continued existence of Maxx "C" and Predaplant Verte Anaconda, to the point where it was banned (hence why it's also banned in Master Duel).

However, apparently when it came out in the TCG, it didn't have the same overwhelming presence, and then Destiny HERO - Destroyer Phoenix Enforcer (DPE) came out and replaced it since it was less bricky to bring out (as it didn't require running two Vanilla Level 7 monsters and a Fusion spell that was basically useless in hand).

Hit Level 20 with Blind Second Strikers after, like, four separate attempts ruined by my gross incompetence opponents being degenerates. Unsurprisingly, Ishizu piles continue to be an utter pain in the ass, and the fact that they're goddamned everywhere right now, wearing clever disguises to make you think you finally escaped their bullshit, is really not helping.

17-20 is not much better, unless you run into the weirdo who decided this was the perfect time to grind Exodia wins.

Got my ten, by the way. Whoo title.

So, I'm up to Duelist Level 18.

Playing Exodia Turbo.

I think I went insane at some point.

Up to Level 17 now. Definitely just gonna fuck around with Vampire Sprights and not stress too hard about hitting max level for a couple days.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/3/1/AAALVFAAEScj.jpg

So I made it to Lv 15 with Vampires, switched to Spright Twins... and am now considering going back to Vampires. Although maybe I'll try out Vampire Sprights, since I've heard that's a thing and I just really like playing Vampires.

DocileOrangeCup posted...

wait you have it?

I'm guessing Tennousu means the Dark Magician structure deck, not the Gaia one.

wanderingshade posted...

I get it. Some are trying to save face and act like it was hijacked. Except someone hijacked them by pretending they cared and then slowly revealed the identity politics at play, the misogyny and complaints about "woke agenda" about putting singular minorities in games or movies. Yet I see no party splinter, no Reformationists and just people going "It's sad what happened to ___, it was only about game reviews in the beginning!"

Honestly, considering how (understandably) hostile the gaming media was towards GamerGate, any splinter group focused on the ethics side of things that might have formed would have just been lumped in with the main GamerGate body anyway, since that was what the Loud Assholes were using as a shield for their actions. Even the later attempts by journalists to try and discuss ethics in the gaming media space were being jumped on. I mentioned it before, but the former Editor-in-Chief of the Escapist, Russ Pitts, was a prime example of this back in early 2019 (which does narrow down the last time I checked KIA); he put out an article called "How Do We Finally Talk About Ethics?" which invoked GamerGate, and was almost instantly criticized for it by Zoe Quinn and the rest of the press - though his reaction to it certainly didn't help matters much, either.

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/russ-pitts-steps-down-from-take-this-on-leave-from-escapist

To put it another way, GamerGate poisoned the well on discussing ethics in games journalism so badly, Kefka would be simultaneously jealous and impressed.

A_Good_Boy posted...

At least the anti-HL people can stay on target. They feel like HL sales fund JK Rowling and assist her transphobe activities so they target her revenue stream and supporters. Sure they're completely inneffectual and harass people for no reason, but at least they're pointed in the same direction.

Yeah, this is definitely hard to argue. The last time I checked in on KotakuInAction (which was, like, 2018 or 2019), the Loud Assholes were having one hell of a meltdown over the moderators trying to actually get them focused on culture war stuff and move away from general outrage, as well as actually trying to enforce and clarify the subreddit rules. Hell, I think the loudest of the Loud Assholes branched off into a second board, KotakuInAction2, for daring to try and do their jobs, and then - in a stunning display of hypocrisy and/or irony - accused the mods of the original KIA of trying to divide them and being wolves in sheep's clothing.

But that was honestly to be expected, considering that KIA became the refuge on Reddit for the people who got displaced when their various shit holes got axed - ya know, horrible forums like FatPeopleHate, Coontown, etc. Because they were trying to be anti-censorship - the thing that caused GG to explode as much as it did on Reddit - they were reluctant to turn these people away, but it gradually led to things getting worse and worse as the Loud Asshole population continued to swell and pushed what few Reasonable People there were out.

COVxy posted...

If you think this is a bad thing, lmao.

Oh, I'm not saying it is; honestly, it makes complete sense for them to do it that way. That said, UR does have a point; if people accuse the police of being corrupt, nobody is going to take them at their word when they say "nuh-uh, we did nothing wrong". Unfortunately, that isn't something that can be done about the media anymore, because the Loud Assholes - as they are so known to do - forever poisoned that well, too, thanks to the constant screeching about "fake news".

COVxy posted...

Lmao.

The sad thing is, he's not wrong; that is Wikipedia's policy. It came out during the early days of GamerGate, when there was a rather massive edit war going on over the article; they only accepted trusted/verified sources for their articles, so you couldn't just link to a tweet or blog post or anything like that. And since 99% of the coverage from the gaming press for GamerGate was negative - because no shit, the gaming press isn't run by morons, why would they ever acknowledge anything potentially good that GamerGate was doing when they're accusing them of shit - with the remaining 1% who did report on GG positively were... well, Brietbart and other Z-tier level shit sites that aren't trusted/verified sources, the article reflects it.

It's really annoying and unfortunate that GamerGate ended up being such a total shitshow that it permanently poisoned the well when it comes to trying to hold gaming journalism to any sort of higher standard. Fuck, I remember back in 2018 when the former Editor in Chief at The Escapist (Russ Pitts) put out an article that shit heavily on GamerGate and the people involved with it, but suggested that there might actually be a discussion to be had when it came to gaming journalism. And he got buried in so much shit from both other journalists and Zoe Quinn for giving GamerGate even a hint of credibility that he deleted the article after a day and stepped down shortly afterwards.

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Actually, if my memory isn't being a drunken mess, the people who actually cared about the whole "ethics in games journalism" thing - which was a bit of a minority even back then, though I do remember them trying to distance themselves from the Loud Assholes with limited success; as it turns out, Loud Assholes tend to drown out reasonable people wherever they go - loved Totalbiscuit because he agreed with them on how fucked things were with gaming media (see: the fiasco with WB bribing reviewers for positive reviews of Shadows of Mordor, which TB called out since he was one of the ones they tried to bribe). Sterling was actually on the side of the journalists, which I think surprised them since - to the crowd who was focused on not being sexist dipshits - it seemed like something that they would have been against.

wanderingshade posted...

Yeah but what are gator types discussing right now? Black April O'Neil, Black Tinkerbell, Black Little Mermaid, "Woke" media, Star Wars, Marvel movies, leftists Actresses.

Yeah, as it turns out, when all the sensible/sane people leave (which happened around 2016 for some reason), you get left with nothing but Loud Assholes being Loud Assholes. The last time I checked in on KotakuInAction, the mods had tried to enforce and clarify the rules of the board, and the Loud Assholes got so up in arms over moderators doing their jobs that they revolted, started their own version of KotakuInAction (KiA2, which was even more extreme and unfiltered than the original), and - in a fit of true irony - called the mods a bunch of bad faith actors who were trying to split GamerGate and enforce their own opinions of what it was on everyone else.

Or, in other words...
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Depends. Do you like lots of grinding and hate children?

Oh, do you also play Labrynth? Because that sounds like my luck playing Labrynth.

So, they emergency banned Flying "C" from the XYZ event, and also released an updated banlist to start on the 28th. Amano-Iwato is down to 1, while three of the Runick spells (Destruction, Freezing Curses, and Slumber) are down to 2. Meanwhile, Thunder Dragonroar is off the list, as is Harp Horror, and Fusion Destiny is back to 2.

Worst. Event. This month.

(Link Reg is still the worst ever.)

I think I've hit nothing but Fish, Exosisters, or Labrynths so far tonight. Went from playing Suships (which was absolutely miserable, I don't think I managed to keep anything on the board the entire time) to declaring "fuck it, I'll be a degenerate asshole" and made Crooked Cook Exodia. Might throw some Flying "C"s in there for extra dickery.

At some point, I'm gonna have to build a proper ZW deck, especially now that Deer Note is in the game.

Kim_Seong-a posted...

I feel like Dark Magician is actually a pretty strong deck in this event. Still absolutely sucks if your opponent outs Eternal Soul, but the deck having unaffected beat sticks and a recyclable quick effect banish makes it pretty formidable in a format with fewer hand traps.

Yeah, I've seen a few DM decks running around, and they seem to be handling their own. I'm still surprised (and a little horrified) that my Dark Magistus deck worked as well as it has, though that might be because of Big Zoroa (Zoroa, the Magistus Conflagrant Calamity)being able to do its thing with locking out the extra deck.

Okay, I hastily threw together a Dark Magician/Magistus deck and it's not the worst, so...

I've been trying one of the brick generators, I mean loaner decks. Specifically, the Slifer/Poker Knight deck.

I may owe all BEWD players an apology.

I got a Timestar Magician from my Shiny UR pack. Also didn't fare that well on the actual pulls from the Sprights pack, but my 30 Master Packs were decent enough, so... it evened out, I guess?

Links technically have Evil * Twin's Trouble Sunny for removal, but that would require running the main deck Evil Twin card as a potential brick, since it'll be dead in hand unless you actually play Evil * Twins.