Board 8 > SaveEstelle/LeonhartFour in Different Houses: Character Battle X Edition [SELF]

(+) Yeah! (+)

I mean, bills have been a total garbage fire 25% of the time so far this season, so youve got a 75% chance to be right!
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yeah that Vikings game is a big anomaly

there's one of those games that makes absolutely no sense every year
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that's more like it Luck
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aw yeah garbage time TD

that's what I'm talkin' about
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always bet on BILLS.

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hahahahahahaha why am i a bills fan.
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I'm pretty sure the only person who knows I'm even here has been away from his desk for over four hours

If an emergent issue came up I'm not even sure it would get to me
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I lucked out at work today because an entire tray of my mail got sent to the wrong post office, so that reduced my letter load by a solid 15-20%

mail route still took forever to run though because it's way too long augh

glad I only fill in on this one once every couple months
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Somehow I had no idea you worked in postal delivery
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almost 2.5 years now!

I went from sending stuff out to the post office at Amazon to the guy who delivers all that stuff

what a journey
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LeonhartFour posted...

almost 2.5 years now!

I went from sending stuff out to the post office at Amazon to the guy who delivers all that stuff

what a journey

looks like i've found the culprit when a few years back amazon kept sending me trails games a week+ late
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hey now I handled all video games with care
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Bad news: looks like they want me an extra night (through Monday morning)

I had no idea I was getting into 7-12's an hour from my apartment when I agreed to this argh

I wonder how many days I should take off next week
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I now have officially recieved dose at work

I avoided it as long as I could but here I am
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Dantezoid posted...

I'm pretty sure the only person who knows I'm even here has been away from his desk for over four hours

Now he's completely off tonight

Uhhh
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sounds like you have the run of the joint then
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Some people would be super excited at the prospect of 12 hours OT on Saturday night doing not a whole lot

I gotta say I ain't one of those people
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yeah that sounds like a really long and boring night to me
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whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat there's no Persona 5 the Animation episode today?

lame
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You didn't see? It's over until the finale at the end of December, for some reason.
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nope that was news to me

what a weird decision
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whew I finally finished analyzing the bracket

time to go back in and change everything

actually I'm probably going to keep it all because it feels like I get it wrong every time I change (probably some confirmation bias since the times it backfired stick out more than the times it worked)

I don't actually care if I win the contest anyway. I got prize money once, and that was good enough for me.
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man no love for these classic bromances

nice to see a lot of love for the FFXV bros though
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Ok OR issues could come up that impact critical path God damn it
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AoT S3E7 beated

move over levi historia best character now

A+ Episode. Second half was amazing. Obviously the star was the person I tagged in spoilers in case Leon wants to go in blind about who the MVP was but damn that was awesome. music game on point too.
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Finished CS Chapter 1.

This game probably has the strongest start of any of the three sub-series. I was kinda worried when I thought I might be flooded with a 9-character party right out of the gate, but the game has been kind enough to give me a rotating group instead. It's also letting those characters breathe and grow, and didn't let itself get bogged down in technical minutiae, a welcome change after Zero basically botched that.

The revamped combat system feels good too. Arcus links are fun. I don't think I like the new orbment system, since simply assigning spells doesn't feel as interesting and makes differences in terms of elemental-locked slots less meaningful, but given that there's currently no reason for multiple lines to even exist, I suspect it's going to get more complicated soon.

The gameflow feels strangely tight, given the somewhat rigidness of both the free time days and the field study, as opposed to the more open feeling from Sky and Crossbell (not to mention Persona). I don't think that's a bad thing, though, esepecially since dialogue still updates as frequently as it should.

Designs are cool too, though tbqh seeing highly trained warriors in miniskirts and with ribbons on their backs is never going to stop feeling bizarre. Also girls learn cooking while boys learn how to use computers god dammit Japan.
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dowolf posted...

but given that there's currently no reason for multiple lines to even exist

You can now equip multiple status effect quartz as long as they're occupying different lines. Which means it's basically flipped to more lines being better now. Albeit the gain more EP advantages exist for longer (and thus fewer) lines.
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...Oh!

Huh. That's a really neat change.
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dowolf posted...

This game probably has the strongest start of any of the three sub-series.

That is uh...definitely different than my impression. Idk personally I was really hesitant with how Cold Steel started out. Though I guess I'm referring more to the Prologue than Chapter 1. (Which also wasn't like, top-tier Trails content, but it was pretty solid)

I agree that the new orbment system is not as cool as it was in Sky (and presumably Crossbell? didn't play those). The actual combat itself feels noticeably more fun to me in the Cold Steel games though.
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I really didn't like the first few hours of Sky, so I can definitely see that.
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...sky's a close match, in my mind. It's definitely way better than Zero, though.

Quartz-wise, Zero is like Sky, and Ao is also like Sky except you get master quartz, but they just give lots of "quartz points" (or whatever they're called), rather than abilities directly.

The prologue for CS is so short that comparing that to Sky's prologue seems a bit unfair >_>
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Hooray for more people getting into Cold Steel!
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I'm sorry again Dante
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you guys
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don't ever ask me to pick a game involving a team I root for
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i expect you to be objective
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I mean the Bills are awful

I just don't want to jinx my team again
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ok looking at the standings most people picked tennessee big so this is salvageable

i'll feel a lot better if Cleveland loses though
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ESPN fantasy scoring randomly gave Carolina's D/ST a second defensive TD after the game ended for some reason

I'm gonna need them to fix that
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...I was definitely rooting for Cleveland to get that second tie.
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...Has one team ever gotten multiple ties in a single year?
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looked it up myself.

"Apparently the correct answer was the 1932 Bears, who had an absurd six ties in one season."
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Since the AFL/NFL merger, there have never been more than two ties in any season, period.
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they started off 0-1-3.

during which they scored 0 points, and their opponents scored 2.

what the actual fuck.
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man football was so different back then

the Vols went an entire season in the '30s where they literally gave up zero points all season
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Attack on Titan Season 3 Episode 7 complete

suddenly Rod Reiss became Barthandelus trying to get Historia to fulfill her Focus to destroy Cocoon and bring back the deity who abandoned them long ago

also man I was not expecting this music

but yeah Historia was great, Kenny too, these Ackermans are all top tier
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Remember how I was complaining the past 5 nights about being bored

I take it all back
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LeonhartFour posted...

also man I was not expecting this music

are we ever really prepared for sawano

it was like playing xenoblade x
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oh good they fixed the scoring error

now I just need to Kamara and Peterson to beast it out tonight

Ingram coming back from suspension has me a little worried about that, but I think they'll probably try to ease him into the offense and give Kamara the bulk of the workload.
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I would have preferred the scoring error to stay tbqh

Now I need Ingram to beast his first game back to win this week
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dang, two points shy of what I needed from Ingram

ESPN please give me back those D/ST points
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