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Not on the Deathrite Banhammer Brigade? (Im personally torn on that one)
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I really do wonder if Stoneforge is going to happen... right after I traded my spare...
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If his country had his first loyalty, he wouldn't be in this position.
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Man, this topic just makes me come around again to how much I love this game. Thanks for doing this, Wickle. I'm getting misty just listening to His Theme again.

As far as what will be #11... I think it'll be Snowdin. It's a solid song but I can only put town songs so high.
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Sorry for the edit, but I think it's an important point that I forgot in my original post.
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Yeah, Akechi's whole motive is probably the weakest part of the game from an overall writing standpoint. The dude's a train wreck of a character. A fascinating train wreck, though!

I do wish they would have kept him chill-but-evil instead of EVIL BREAKDOWN MUUAHAHAHAHA. A lot of JRPGs have a tough time doing that.

EDIT: That being said, even though it's kinda weak logically, Akechi's motive is a very barbed piece of social commentary about Japanese culture and the way it treats orphans and single moms like absolute shit while looking the other way at many men's bad behavior.
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Damn I'm on a roll.

Too bad I don't have this one.
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Would you smooch a ghost?
[ ] HECK YEAH
[ ] HECK YEAH
[ ] HECK YEAH
[ ] HECK YEAH
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Zelos
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Bowser

RPG Bowser so good
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Ironically I think Lopen was leading that charge because Snake would "somehow find a way to beat Selvaria" becuase Selvaria was the kind of boss that would happen in MGS.
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GANON1025 posted...

Some characters get great stealth respect, like the stealth master Celes

This still pisses me off that "herp derp Vanish" got more stealth respect than my entire stealth squad
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Kingdom Hearts quality control at work
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I thought Dresden was a magical PI. How would he take on Kefka head-to-head?
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Solaire of Astora (Dark Souls)
Heroic Male Undead
2/wk Support

Praise the Sun! (Peacetime, Recharge 3): Every 4 weeks, Solaire can invite ALL teams to Praise the Sun with him. Each team leader, including you, who agrees to Praise the Sun will have all of their mercs receive a 20% parameter bonus during the fight this week. However, Solaire can bring you more energy from the praises of all other leaders, giving your team 10% additional parameters for every other team who chose to praise.

If only I could be so grossly incandescent! (Start of Battle, Recharge 3): Once every 4 weeks, Solaire will let a target merc to live his dream and become grossly incandescent. The merc will give off intense light throughout the entire fight, and looking directly at that merc might be perilous for others.

Take this, to cross the gaps between worlds, and engage in jolly cooperation! (Peacetime, Recharge 5): Once every 6 weeks, Solaire can arrange for another team in ANY pool to summon his attached merc for aid, as long as they will cooperate and allow his team to summon a merc of his leader's choosing. If it's agreed, the mercs will swap teams for the week. Their non-limited use abilities (but NOT their supports') can be used as if they were off cooldown, and they will not incur cooldowns from usage. However, they cannot be assigned EXP this week, and each leader will pay the upkeep of the summoned merc, not the original one. Mercs will return to their teams at the start of the next Peacetime.

If the offer is refused, this ability will not go on cooldown, but an offer may only be made once per week.

Not sure which of these to make base or make into upgrades.
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Yeah Corvo should never have been 4/wk, that was due to poor admin prediction of Corvo's ability power (which is why Ike is a 4 instead of a 2 where he should be in battle worth).
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#37: Invitation to Nothingness
Character: Xemnas
Source: Kingdom Hearts 2
Nominator: GavsEvans123 (2/5 remaining)


(Starts at 1:23)

Aesthetics: 5
Dominance: 6
Damn: 6

Final score: 17/30

Remember what I said way back when about really shitty characters having decent scores? Here you go.

Kingdom Hearts is, simply put, cancer in game form. The gameplay is passable if simplistic, but the cameos are tortured, and the writing is a special kind of atrocious. Character concepts are bad and executions are worse. This is what happens when your executive board forces a group of writers to make a massive series out of a mediocre first game that didn't need a sequel. Yet so many people, including some of the people reading this, just keep eating this shit up.

Part of the reason? Squeenix clearly took most of their writing budget and threw it into the SFX and music instead, Michael Bay style. And you know what? It looks pretty good.

There. I said it. It looks pretty good. It's not great, but it's definitely solid. The beginning does a great job of giving the player that "oh SHIT" feeling, and it makes the laser-parry-spam afterward that much cooler. Or, at least it would if technical limitations allowed the lasers to actually be reflected/deflected instead of just ceasing to exist, and if the two good guys' animations could have been faster to match the increasing laser rate of fire.

As with all things Kingdom Hearts, there's a far better (if somewhat tangential) version of this concept (the fight between Ichigo and Byakuya in Bleach Season 2, right before that series went in the shitter), but credit where it's due. Begrudgingly.

...Fuck.
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#38: Let Me Go, Let You Go
Character: Oji Tanaka
Series: The Legend of Black Heaven
Nominator: Simoun (3/4 remaining)



Aesthetics: 5
Dominance: 7
Damn: 5

Overall: 17/30

A lot of the entries in this contest were what I expected. This really wasn't one of them, so naturally it's from an anime.

To provide much-needed context of wtf is going on here, this is how Simoun explained it:

Basically the show is about a ship's weapon system that can only be powered by hardcore rock, of which Tanaka (and his band) was doing wonderfully at. They get them to perform in order to win a galactic war against some evil aliens.

After a few episodes, the aliens decided to play them at their own game by using the band's asshole keyboardist Watanabe and retrofitting him with 8 arms to be a band on his own so that he can match Black Heaven's sound. He does so successfully.

Dejected, Tanaka is reinvigorated on the 11th hour by his ex-gf who manages to bring him all his old fans (Tanaka was a washed up artist by the start of the series) and after an emotional moment, plays a unique song from his heart. This one is even more powerful and since Watanabe could not possibly copy or fathom it, is utterly destroyed in one hit.

Honestly it's a cool concept, and I recognize that a lot of you might think this was hype as fuck. I can't think of too many things that put me off, personally, I just don't feel it. Well, I guess it just feels anticlimactic. It could have been a little longer, there could have been a little more soul in it, there could have been a deflection of Watanabe's shot, or... I dunno. I just think it could have been more.
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#39: Ultra Instinct Kamehameha
Character: Goku
Series: Dragonball Super
Nominator: Emeraldegg (DESTROYED!/1)

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Aesthetics: 6
Dominance: 6
Damn: 5

Final score: 17/30

Watching this again, I probably should have ranked this higher. The build-up is strong, the hype is real, and all of that. Even though it's DBZ, the pacing is pretty good too since there's actually a reason we need three minutes to build up the blast. Everything just works solidly.

I guess the issue I have is that everything surrounding the move looks great, but in the end, it's another goddamn Kamehameha blast. The thing that made it still get this high up is the end where Goku treats the kamehameha energy like a skateboard and grinds over the "rails" of Kefla's own blasts. That was pretty sweet and something we (or at least I) hadn't seen before.
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Someone sell me hard on why Corvo doesn't get obltierated here.
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Guts (Berserk)
Doomguy (Doom)
Asura (Asura's Wrath)
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Is this from our personal players' perspectives, or is it from our characters' perspectives?
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Thought you guys would like this.
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C. Lets have Marias group and Seths group meet and discuss what they know of Avel before activating the contract.
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Yeah, GB Sappy Bois is probably the best deck in the format, so if someone can go nuts with it and you cant mise with Ruinous Blast then there isnt much you can do about it.
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Haru
Ophelia

Can't think of many more.
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Im just glad the Mystery Card is going to the location with, er-hem, a gambler
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Definitely B. If its nefarious, best to keep it contained in the person who is already acclimated to it.

I am concerned that this is going to eventually cause Punch to metamorph into another version of the moth, but thats a problem for later. Doesnt matter if they all die here.
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Are you threatening to jack my candle?! YOU NO TAKE CANDLE, JACK! Is kobold way, you wouldnt unders
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Paranoia
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Dont sell yourself short.

Youll open 6 foil Precognition Fields too!
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Otacon
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Me

I haven't
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GLaDOS
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Frog
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Switch from Sindragosa to Jetstream Sam
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This Silver Showcase draft looked pretty cool. Four of the most storied players in history, huge personalities like Kibler, a pro chess player, and... Amaz.

Seriously. Amaz. Of all people... this guy is the 8th?! I get that youre begging for Twitch viewers, WotC, but Jesus...
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No, nobody lives in Nevada. Nobody at all.
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Johnbobb posted...

Nanis23 posted...

Brilliant but Lazy - Sans (Undertale)

What the fuck is this
How can Shikamaru lose this
He is the fucking definition of the trope
You search this trope in a dictionary and his face is the first thing you see
Just wtf

I hope he got a good amount of votes, at least

Shikamaru and Dr. House lost to Sans by one vote each

To be fair all 3 of them are highly worthy.
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C. Get your gun first!
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Thanks for that, TMS
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#bump#
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Seems like people are wanting one. Well use GMUNs patented anti-purge technology this time.
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Vader
Sindragosa (WoW)
Ran Yakumo (Touhou)
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