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It will become easier to rally for Geno votes just after a SSBU reveal.
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If you want to sabotage Red, give him a picture from the upcoming Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu game.
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Just 8 hours and 10 minutes until it airs!
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The match picture has no effect on rallies because rallied voters are told who to vote for before they see the match picture.
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You never know until it happens. The lack of a sprite round is also unfortunate for characters like Kefka.
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Double voting power from registered voters will only move results by less than 1 percentage point in most cases. The registered voters would really need to disagree with the unregistered voters to even move a match by 2 percentage points. Furthermore, rallied matches don't count for this because in those cases the registered voters just get drowned out and don't matter.
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Ganondorf gets stronger as long as the Zelda series in general gets stronger. If nothing else, the fight with Calamity Ganon is pretty cool.
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It's an error. The Japanese airing is on October 6th (Japan Time).
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The problem with that is his opponent are known to be weak so even if Noctis is weak he can still win.
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I went and looked up the event I was thinking of.
Overlord Season 1 Episode 11 spoilers
Momon is in a meeting with a bunch of adventurers about what to do about investigating Shalltear. Some of them insist on coming with Momon to go see Shalltear. Momon says they will die if they come along. In the next scene, just before meeting Shalltear, most of them are dead and Momon gives the order to kill the last one. He uses their corpses for undead experiments.
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Does Noctis beat Kuja?
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BYIG Round 35 Results:
1 - CaptainOfCrush - 1582.07
2 - SwiftyDC - 1577.47
3 - charmander6000 - 1575.75
4 - tennisboy213 - 1570.15
5 - AxemRedRanger - 1567.95
6 - Luster Soldier - 1567.81
7 - Ringworm - 1555.81
8 - th3l3fty - 1553.5
9 - creativename - 1551.77
10 - Haste_2 - 1550.32

SwiftyDC posted...

Team Rocket Elite posted...

Assuming no one who actually knows how to use the website steps up, I'll probably run it again.

TRE, you are the man. If you do it I will gift you whatever game you want on Steam.

I appreciate the offer but I'll have to decline. My backlog is large enough as is.
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I don't think anyone is claiming GameFAQs is neutral. Where else on the internet can you find a legitimate rivalry between Mario and Crono?
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It's Mario that wins that one, right? Mario is already strong among hardcore voters. Once you start adding in voters that know fewer and fewer video game characters, Mario starts beasting more and more.
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Assuming no one who actually knows how to use the website steps up, I'll probably run it again.
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Overlord Season 1 spoilers
It has been a while since I've seen season 1 so I don't really recall that many specific examples. One thing I do remember is he, as Momon, was grouped with some other adventurers to go investigate something. I think it was Shalltear. He wanted to keep it a secret so he just killed them. This is as Momon where he is supposed to be roleplaying as a good guy, too.
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Nintendo does better with registered users than unregistered users. 2x registered voting power isn't going to move a match more than maybe 2% in an extreme case so it's not really worth worrying about except in a very close match.
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You could give Log Horizon a try. It seems to have a dub as well.
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Mac Arrowny posted...

Overlord doesn't really have a morally gray protagonist either. He's just plain evil.

This. The protagonist isn't gray, he's black as pitch.
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ZeldaTPLink posted...

spooky96 posted...

Oh my, just realized that Squall once again has been fed to Snake >_>

I mean if you think that way Squall is gotta be fed to someone. At least he might make it ibti the losers bracket.

Squall has already fought Snake 4 times in the past. There are other Noble Nine members he can fight.
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The shift won't be that drastic. Let's says registered voters supported Character A at 60% while unregistered voters were evenly split at 50-50. The old result would have been A winning with 53.33% while the new result is A winning with 55%. Essentially every 10 percentage point gap between registered and unregistered votes is a roughly 1.66 percentage point change in result.

This only applies if there isn't a major rally. In the case of a major rally, the rallied entry wins. The registered voter bonus isn't big enough to stop a major rally.
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If there's no rally, Link wins. If there is a major rally, Link loses. Double elimination doesn't change this.
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I ended up letting my rally topic purge and largely gave up after that. I probably could have tried a bit harder.
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SwiftyDC posted...

I'm going with the notion that Final Fantasy has fallen off a cliff around here and everywhere else.

That doesn't apply to Tifa. Her supporters like her for the same reason they always have.
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Bump
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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/1618-division-32-64-round-1-pokemon-gold-silver-crystal-vs

We saw the effect even back in 2004. When non-registered voters were allowed to vote, Pokemon did even worse.
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I wonder if that will get people to stop flip flopping with their bracket. Every time you make a change you need to have enough confidence in it that you are wiling to fill out a large part of your bracket again.
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Double voting is meaningless. In 2013 our vote totals were almost 3 times what we get now. We are still less resistant to rallies than we were back then.

L-Block isn't really much of a joke character anymore. It doesn't even necessarily get hurt by increasing the power of registered voters. With that said, I'm not going to bet anything on a Kefka match.
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Draven might have other sources these days but he wasn't that strong without the LoL Reddit rally. With that said, with our lower vote totals, he doesn't really need too much help.
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It comes out on the day of Pikachu vs Zero.
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You assume he will use a non-suit picture if he gets a suit picture.
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RIP CATS

I nominated him.
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Xuxon posted...

@[.]SBAllen

i noticed changing any match will deselect all of my picks down the line. can you change it so this doesn't happen? it's super annoying, especially with the double elimination format forcing a dozen or more picks to be redone every single time.

"Due to the size and complexity of the bracket (especially the double elimination portion), changing the winner of an earlier battle will undo your picks from all later battles. It's easiest to fill out one division at a time, left to right, top to bottom"

It's intentional.
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So which game was it that Vincent wore a suit in again?
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Janus5k posted...

I have Waluigi in round 4

is that bad

Only if you don't have him winning the contest as well.
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L-Block is just another character these days, isn't it?
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_SecretSquirrel posted...

Man, I'm contemplating the weird set of circumstances ever, but I refuse to pick Link to win this whole thing. So, here goes Link > Mario in the Legends bracket, but Mario > Link the final.

If you don't want to pick Link as the overall winner, you should pick a rally character like Geralt. Those types of characters have a realistic chance to beat Link. Or at least something like Snake. Mario is just not who you want to back against Link.
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Panthera posted...

I don't pay attention to fancy x stats or z stats or whatever and thus will do terribly in this contest as usual, but my bracket is basically built on the idea that no one on GameFAQs has ever played a game released in the current century and thus looks with confusion upon all "newer" characters. Nostalgia is all that matters...and Amaterasu does better than logic suggests for no reason because I seem to remember that happening in the past and the likely explanation just being that when in doubt, people will pick the cute doggy

I mean's not really fair. 2001 absolutely counts as being part of the current century. Just barely. >_>
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It's a nice way to see more matches. Although, unlike with sports, rematches are very unlikely to swing back the other way. With that said, we'll probably be in rallytown by the time it starts so it will likely just be a mess which is unfortunate.
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Pokemon aren't very good at the nomination phase because the massively LFF each other. This is why it took dedicate rallies to get some of them into the contest despite their strength.
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The people who come to the site because of the game won't be people who hate it so it still benefits Pikachu in a close match.
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Zero vs Pikachu is on November 16th. Pokemon: Let's Go, Pikachu releases on the same day. RIP Zero.
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Squall looks to be on route for another rematch with Solid Snake.
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Steins;Gate 0 is a continuation of the alternate ending to episode 23 of the original series. You should watch that first if you haven't already.
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I did every quest again, completed the reverse Affinity Charts and got every Blade to S+. I can't think of anything else to do so New Game + beaten. Final game time was 64 hours. Now I'm sad that there's no more Xenoblade 2 content left to complete.
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That Tea Party is one of my favourite parts of the entire series. dreamenddischarger is such a good song.
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WhiteLens posted...

I did get a 5* on my first multipull, but it was the Valiant Crown wyrmprint, welp.

swordz9 posted...

Just downloaded it. Will check it out soon

Gonna tell you this right now, this game could very well have worse rates than F/GO.

How does summoning work and what are the 5* rates?
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In New Game + they start you with every character and Blade and they never leave your team even if they do in the story. This also means that sometimes you can talk to a character while playing as the same character. >_>
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In CYL2, if you combine the votes of different versions of the same characters, Anna is the 3rd most popular character who is in the game but doesn't have an alt. She is behind Alm and Leif. Arguable behind Morgan as well depending on how you count them. If you keep votes split up, Anna is 21st. Anna LFF is the real deal.
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