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Arknights has a very wide roster of bosses, so i come here to ask you all: What are the bosses you like and dislike the most for whatever reason? Be it gameplay, story, visuals, etc?
My choices are:
Favorite: Ishar'mla, For me she's so good, not bullshit in any way, good mechanics, design and a fantastic soundtrack. Her fight also feels so creative and there are so many ways to beat her, she ended up being my favorite. (I'm talking Difficulty 6 and below, because i'm not into the higher difficulties of IS, i can imagine her being a nightmare on higher difficulties)
Hate: To be honest, it was hard finding a boss i hate, the ones i don't like i just find kinda boring like Big Sad Lock, but there's ONE boss i actively hate, and that is The Last Knight. The Last Knight feels like an experiment of Eikthyrnir, and while Eikthyrnir works, The Last Knight simply doesn't, dealing with his gimmick is just not fun and requires way too specific counters, freezing an operator on every 2 hits he takes basically shuts down 95% of the roster, so you have very few approaches to him.
What about you guys?

Hi
We are experiencing a strange behaviour with USB headsets with Teams on Horizon View.

• O3365 + New Teams is installed on the gold image with XML file (shared computer mode)
• Instant clone pool
• Windows 11 Pro
• Horizon 8 (2312)
• The user connects to his virtual desktop session by using the windows horizon client (last version) with Blast protocol (tested with PCOIP also)
• There are no specific USB headset drivers for the tested devices
• USB redirection on horizon agent active
• Audio/video redirecction on horizon agent active
• No DEM agent, no FSLogix agent installed

Here is the behaviour:

1. The user physicaly plugs the headset USB on his local PC
   
2. Then the USB headset is activated on the horizon client usb options
   
3. The USB headset is added to the audio devices on the VDI desktop
   
4. The user can use the headset on any windows application (youtube, IP Phone, etc) on the VDI session, with exception of Microsoft Teams (the audio devices doesnt appears on the Teans audio devices list)
   
5. If the user deactivates the headset usb from the horizon client menu option (thus it is redirected to the local computer), then the devices suddenly appears on the VDI Teams session. But also it is detected at the local computer at the same time.
   

Any ideas about how to fix that??
thanks

Hi
We are experiencing a strange behaviour with USB headsets with Teams on Horizon View.

• O3365 + New Teams is installed on the gold image with XML file (shared computer mode)
• Instant clone pool
• Windows 11 Pro
• Horizon 8 (2312)
• The user connects to his virtual desktop session by using the windows horizon client (last version) with Blast protocol (tested with PCOIP also)
• There are no specific USB headset drivers for the tested devices
• USB redirection on horizon agent active
• Audio/video redirecction on horizon agent active
• No DEM agent, no FSLogix agent installed

Here is the behaviour:

1. The user physicaly plugs the headset USB on his local PC
   
2. Then the USB headset is activated on the horizon client usb options
   
3. The USB headset is added to the audio devices on the VDI desktop
   
4. The user can use the headset on any windows application (youtube, IP Phone, etc) on the VDI session, with exception of Microsoft Teams (the audio devices doesnt appears on the Teans audio devices list)
   
5. If the user deactivates the headset usb from the horizon client menu option (thus it is redirected to the local computer), then the devices suddenly appears on the VDI Teams session. But also it is detected at the local computer at the same time.
   

Any ideas about how to fix that??
thanks

Hi
We are experiencing a strange behaviour with USB headsets with Teams on Horizon View.

• O3365 + New Teams is installed on the gold image with XML file (shared computer mode)
• Instant clone pool
• Windows 11 Pro
• Horizon 8 (2312)
• The user connects to his virtual desktop session by using the windows horizon client (last version) with Blast protocol (tested with PCOIP also)
• There are no specific USB headset drivers for the tested devices
• USB redirection on horizon agent active
• Audio/video redirecction on horizon agent active
• No DEM agent, no FSLogix agent installed

Here is the behaviour:

1. The user physicaly plugs the headset USB on his local PC
   
2. Then the USB headset is activated on the horizon client usb options
   
3. The USB headset is added to the audio devices on the VDI desktop
   
4. The user can use the headset on any windows application (youtube, IP Phone, etc) on the VDI session, with exception of Microsoft Teams (the audio devices doesnt appears on the Teans audio devices list)
   
5. If the user deactivates the headset usb from the horizon client menu option (thus it is redirected to the local computer), then the devices suddenly appears on the VDI Teams session. But also it is detected at the local computer at the same time.
   

Any ideas about how to fix that??
thanks

I don't know if it's my fault that I'm alone or not. I actually try to do things to spend time with others but just can't. Especially since I need to spend time with others to feel motivated and also concentrated, because now, often times I literally feel like I live on my phone while my studies don't matter.
Well first of all, I don't even have many possibilities to spend time with people in the first place. For example here in university for some reason everyone goes their own way during recess and we don't have a common recess or a room for everyone to come together.
Of course I could start a sport or another activity, and I already did in the past, but the issue here is that I'll only spend a limited amount of time in the activity too unfortunately. And even say I'll have to pay a lot.
And another problem is that even when I do meet people and I like them and they seem to like me too, it's impossible to see them outside and organise stuff with them. And that's even worse when I don't even see them in university for example THAT much, it's not like I spend every day with them.
But the thing is that everyone does want to hang out and meet but only in specifically organised events every few months where you need to spend money and bring food. And not like meet even once a week and regularly hang out and have fun. And especially I don't understand this cuz in this university we have more free time than usual. What will happen if I'll go to college the next year where I'll have much less free time?
And somehow people do have free time for spending their lives on social media apparently.
Maybe I'm annoying them too much cuz I ask to hang out too much in group chats and don't say that much anything else? But the thing is that I want to see them irl, not to talk infinitely and send memes and only see each other once a year. I want real socialisation not Internet one.
And also the thing is that I do it cuz I know that in the next year maybe I won't see them again. If I'll switch to another university and study something else then I won't really see them that much. And often time that's exactly what happened. I had "friends" from high school that I've never seen even once time since high school even if I would've loved to.
It was even worse when I met a nice group only at a one time event. Afterwards, I have all their contacts on Instagram, I have 1000 friends there but I don't see any of them anymore.
Maybe I'm too annoying sometimes, talking about stuff that interests me and disregarding the other person. Honestly, I don't know. I try to not be annoying and to be nice and funny. Don't know if this works tho.
I'm kinda depressed cuz I would've loved to have a group of friends, either to have fun and laugh together, or to help each other and do creative stuff. This would've made me more down to earth, actually feel whatever is happening, I would've done more sports, etc. And the main reason why I'm so distracted and living on my phone is because it seems like I have no other option.
Like I wanna have a group of friends like in series. Why can't this be the case? If anything, it seems like series are so popular because we don't have that many friendships in real life anymore, we only hang out online.
I don't know whether it's my fault or rather the fault of the society. Maybe I should move to another country, idk. I live in France and I've heard Italy is better but idk.
Keep in mind I can't actually have to get along with literally everyone, for example I'm Jewish and I won't tolerate anyone who doesn't like Jews.
But even tho this does limit my circle of friends, I don't think that's the main reason why I'm lonely, because even with people who have no problem with that and who are Jewish themselves and who even say that we both get along, even with them there's literally the same problem.

original: After completing all research upgrades and unlocking Elder Pledge, it is recommended for active players to use Elder Pledge to disable the Grandmapocalypse. This will bring back golden cookies, allowing players to perform combos. Idle players, on the other hand, should leave the Grandmapocalypse active. Idle players can benefit from wrinklers by leaving them for a long time and then popping them if one needs a large amount of cookies to make a big purchase. As wrinklers, when popped, give more cookies than they leeched, having all 10 wrinklers feeding on the Big Cookie results in a net CpS multiplier of 6x. While this is extremely powerful to idle players, this is not worth it for active players as having the Grandmapocalypse enabled makes combos much harder as wrath cookies spawn instead of golden cookies, outweighing the benefits that the Grandmapocalypse provides. (source: wiki FAQ page)
google translated a bunch of times: After all quests are updated and the main gateway is opened, players using the main gateway will be prompted to opt out. GrandMapocalypse also gives players golden cookies to collect. Unauthorized players should avoid them. The girl agrees. Passive players can use Vault to spend more time and open more cookies if they need to buy more. When the bone is broken, it gives the cookie more room to breathe. Eating a large cookie every 10 times increases CPS by 6 times, but is good for passive players. But it is not suitable for active players. It will be hard to watch because of the Grand Apocalypse event. Because a pie of pain is more impressive than a pie of gold. That's enough for the grandapocalypse.
google translated and lingojammed into shakespearean, pirate, yoda and uwu: Aft'w aww quests beest updat'd an' the main gateway beest hath opened, pwayeth'ws usin' the main gateway beest pwompt'd tuwu opt out. Pwayeth'ws gowden cookies tuwu cowwecteth gwandmapocawypse eke gives. Unauth'wiz'd pwayeth'ws shouwdst avoideth those fowk. The wass agwees. Twue those gents needeth tuwu buyeth m'we passive pwayeth'ws cawn useth vauwt tuwu spendeth m'we timeth an' ope m'we cookies if 't be. At which houw the bone beest bwoken, the cookie m'we cubicuwo tuwu bweatheth t gives. Eatin' a wawge cookie ev'wy 10 times incweases cps by 6 times, but beest jowwy f'w passive pwayeth'ws. But t beest nowt suitabwe f'w factious pwayeth'ws. T beest 'awd tuwu gaze because o' the gwand apocawypse nonce. Because a pie o' teen beest m'we impwessive than a pie o' gowd. Yond beest enow f'w the gwandapocawypse.

This will be sort of a short guide for new players trying to improve themselves. Of course, since the game is still a PS5 exclusive as of the writing of this post, no official datamine has been done, so things I say here might not be entirely correct. What I write here is based on my own experience from playing the game (150 hours for now, beating Midnight and currently at level 100). I encourage other players to contribute their experience.
Counter Spark (will be abbreviated as CS onward) is the game main combat mechanic. As the basic level, it's an attack (well, most CS are attack, there's some special cases where it is a parry stance, e.g. Hayabusa-ryu CS). Unlike other games that focus on parry mechanic (Sekiro, Wolong, etc…), the CS in RotR is quite difficult to master mainly because of 2 reasons: It being an attack makes it very unsafe if you fail, and each style got its own CS with its own property, making the learning process even more difficult. I see many people in the past claim that the timing of CS is inconsistent, or straight out bug, but I presume they have not fully understood how CS work. CS works by clashing its hitbox into the enemy's attack hitbox. For a successful CS to happen, you have to consider the hitbox shape, size, active frame of both your CS and the enemy's attack. Sometimes, you also have to take into account the distance between you and the enemies, as being further would mean the enemy's hitbox would take a few frame longer to reach you.
On the enemy side, specifically their martial art attacks (the red attack), the hitbox would form after the white flash, so in general, don't press your button before seeing that white flash. As for their normal attack, you have no way but to learn their attack pattern and timing. The best way to learn enemy’s attack is to use a style with “easy to execute” CS. A CS easy to use would be CS that has large frontal hitbox (so enemy’s attack will clash into your hitbox easier), and the most important part is that it has long active frame. CS with long active frame usually share 1 common feature: it has 2 slashes instead of 1 slash, some examples: Tatsumi-ryu and Mugai-ryu for Katana, or Niten Ichi-ryu for Paired sword. With how long these CS are, you can press button either on reaction or even a bit early and will still get a successful CS. After you nail down the enemy pattern, you can start changing to a style with harder CS and learn more precise timing. So, just hit the dojo and test out the CS of your weapon of choice.
However, sometimes, you’ll encounter some weird attacks that even using easy CS still won’t net you a successful counter consistently. I hypothesize that these attack have pretty odd (most often extremely vertical hitbox) that hit you at area where your CS does not cover. Fortunately, these attacks are most often on the slower side, so if you have a hard time against those, either take a step back to reposition your CS hitbox, or JUMP and perform an aerial CS. Aerial CS can hit many attacks that normally very annoying to ground CS.
I hope this help. And anyway, please also contribute your own finding if possible.

I don't know if it's my fault that I'm alone or not. I actually try to do things to spend time with others but just can't. Especially since I need to spend time with others to feel motivated and also concentrated, because now, often times I literally feel like I live on my phone while my studies don't matter.
Well first of all, I don't even have many possibilities to spend time with people in the first place. For example here in university for some reason everyone goes their own way during recess and we don't have a common recess or a room for everyone to come together.
Of course I could start a sport or another activity, and I already did in the past, but the issue here is that I'll only spend a limited amount of time in the activity too unfortunately. And even say I'll have to pay a lot.
And another problem is that even when I do meet people and I like them and they seem to like me too, it's impossible to see them outside and organise stuff with them. And that's even worse when I don't even see them in university for example THAT much, it's not like I spend every day with them.
But the thing is that everyone does want to hang out and meet but only in specifically organised events every few months where you need to spend money and bring food. And not like meet even once a week and regularly hang out and have fun. And especially I don't understand this cuz in this university we have more free time than usual. What will happen if I'll go to college the next year where I'll have much less free time?
And somehow people do have free time for spending their lives on social media apparently.
Maybe I'm annoying them too much cuz I ask to hang out too much in group chats and don't say that much anything else? But the thing is that I want to see them irl, not to talk infinitely and send memes and only see each other once a year. I want real socialisation not Internet one.
And also the thing is that I do it cuz I know that in the next year maybe I won't see them again. If I'll switch to another university and study something else then I won't really see them that much. And often time that's exactly what happened. I had "friends" from high school that I've never seen even once time since high school even if I would've loved to.
It was even worse when I met a nice group only at a one time event. Afterwards, I have all their contacts on Instagram, I have 1000 friends there but I don't see any of them anymore.
Maybe I'm too annoying sometimes, talking about stuff that interests me and disregarding the other person. Honestly, I don't know. I try to not be annoying and to be nice and funny. Don't know if this works tho.
I'm kinda depressed cuz I would've loved to have a group of friends, either to have fun and laugh together, or to help each other and do creative stuff. This would've made me more down to earth, actually feel whatever is happening, I would've done more sports, etc. And the main reason why I'm so distracted and living on my phone is because it seems like I have no other option.
Like I wanna have a group of friends like in series. Why can't this be the case? If anything, it seems like series are so popular because we don't have that many friendships in real life anymore, we only hang out online.
I don't know whether it's my fault or rather the fault of the society. Maybe I should move to another country, idk. I live in France and I've heard Italy is better but idk.
Keep in mind I can't actually have to get along with literally everyone, for example I'm Jewish and I won't tolerate anyone who doesn't like Jews.
But even tho this does limit my circle of friends, I don't think that's the main reason why I'm lonely, because even with people who have no problem with that and who are Jewish themselves and who even say that we both get along, even with them there's literally the same problem.

Hey everyone, amidst the thousands of rants, in light of Nick's movement, I think it's time for me to say something, maybe no one cares, I don't have a major platform to get my word out, but I still think that it's good to get these things out here and perhaps the best thing all of this can do is change the way we perceive the game as a player base. This will be long, so those of you willing to, bear with me.
Let me tell you something from a point of view of someone who loved the game for a long time. We're a bunch of very versatile people from all over the place and maybe it can also teach us a lesson or two. On one hand, you have kids who play it for the same reason I played it some good 15 years ago, and you've got us, the older players, who loved the game for what it was growing up because it was the best football themed game out there in many aspects, although FIFA entries weren't the only good thing about that era (shoutout to PES 2006 and 2010). It's a game that I used to enjoy because I love football as a sport, I used to play it basically on a professional level, this is the best "active" form for me to engage with the game. I'm probably too stupid for Football Manager though I believe it's only a matter of watchin a few videos to get into it and understand the in-depth mechanics. I always tried playing it and got lost in the menus within 5 minutes. But for what it's worth, I understood FIFA, I understood FUT and the shell of what it once was, the grind was fun to me, using players from past and present that I like, well, until it all got burned to the fucking ground within a year. I was never an Elite div or Rank 1 or even Rank 2 player. But I had certain results, I would get 9 to 11 wins most of the time and with enough free time I could always climb to atleast div 2 in Rivals. Sure, many of you are better and I realize that, but it's not about that. To me it was always about getting better at the game for myself, on my own terms, there would be some progression to it and getting better throughout the years always made me happy. Adult life is adult life and it's very individual, some of us have more free time on our hands, others don't. In my case, I barely have time to do my daily play matches, some SBCs and play Champs on the weekend because of work.
But the question is - how can I consistently enjoy the game if:

• a) every single thing and tactic that I figure out, gets nerfed within a few months - and I'm not talking about ratty shit, I'm talking things like finesse shots, trivelas, some useful passes, just gameplay stuff
  
• b) they don't do shit to fix broken things in-game, like OP cutbacks, I came to peace with them, but still, it's too OP, or doing things to somehow nerf or balance situations when people pass between the GK and CB from the 70th minute onwards. Idk how many of you were around when they banned Kurt, but they pulled up a whole statement about policies regarding in-game toxicity for building towards a fun experience for everyone, yet they don't do shit with the game itself.
  
• c) the game itself wants you to feel bad about your gameplay and even tries to pass off DDA as skill issue. Of course, at times it really comes down to your skills, but how often do you hear the commentators praise you? At times even when you're leading, they keep repeating how it's a matter of time until you concede an equalizer. You know those graphics on the pitch itself? The win probability stuff. It shows up only when you're losing, even if you are let's say one goal behind and it's the 65th minute, they'll show you a whole statistic all over the fucking pitch, telling you that you have a 2% chance to win the game. To demoralize you. To make you feel like you need to keep upgrading and upgrading and upgrading and once you run out of fodder and luck, to go dump your money into store packs. And even that doesn't help you, the pack weight is shit, you just get quick fodder for unreasonable money, and the theories that spending money on the game improves your gameplay, it's all bogus. To put it simple, if you achieve something, you will not see anything positive. No congratulations screen, just infographics, but when you do something bad, God forbid, you will get fact-bombed about how shit you are. From a psychological point of view, this game is toxic to it's core and it's very, very, very unhealthy for one's mental health. If you're an adult, trying to relax after tons of stressful shit in your daily life, this is not the place for proverbial relaxation. If you're a kid who's going through your teen years, those years are stressful for many reasons and once again, this cannot possibly help you. I hold no grudge towards many players as I am aware that many players are very young (less than 18) and perhaps that generation is simply like that and there's nothing we can do about it. I'm talking only about FUT, I believe that Pro Clubs are probably way more lighthearted and fun and I treat Career Mode which has been abandoned, as a separate game basically.
  
• d) Obvious gambling issues. Enough has been said. I am one of the minority in thinking that there is nothing wrong with buying a pack here or there if you're an adult and if it doesn't impact serious aspects of your life. If you earn money, it's entirely up to you how you spend it. Some people like fine dining and dump money on food. Some people collect stuff and dump money on collectibles. Some people overspend to impress their s/o. So, in theory, there is nothing wrong with spending money on or within a game as a concept. But what is wrong is how it works in this game in particular. You get new packs over and over again, the store is full of things to spend money on, but the core game itself is neglected gameplay-wise. Content is okay, SBCs are okay, with exchanges and stuff, it's really good actually. I am one of those who actually enjoy both the menus and the gameplay itself, equally. All of it is a part of the experience. But you have really bad things going on with your games and the only thing that you do as a dev is dump packs? And even those packs, the pack weight is absolute shit, it's turned into a casino, a slot machine, because it's all rigged towards you ending on a loss, thus having the psychological effect of you not getting your dopamine shot of packing something nice, often you're not in a situation to buy another one, so this will linger in the back of your head, that you didn't complete the process and you need to see if next time you'll finally get something good. Or, you bought it with coins and now you lost a good amount of coins, so you think of buying the next one with FP, or even worse, you can afford it and you just successfully gave them twice the intended amount of money. This is a serious, self-destructive behavioral pattern, take it from someone who has some education in a field very close to all of that. Teach children that and you can legitimately ruin their lives. Say, if you knew what you're getting, exactly what, or atleast if you knew that there is a smaller pool of what you can pack, or guaranteed something for a symbolic amount of money, I'd say it is what it is, since we truly do live in an era full of microtransactions and that's just something that's a part of online gaming nowadays. The bad part is overspending on something that will just not reward you anyhow or grant you any sort of benefit. Even games with battle passes have better options in this regard. You're getting better progression in exchange for a symbolic amount of money.
  
• e) The game itself doesn't work properly! You're getting DNFs left and right, you can't even navigate through SBCs and your club without the game freezing multiple times. EA keeps fucking up with "unintended rewards" first it was Messi, I did the SBC, got nothing, life goes on. Several times I had issues where objectives didn't count, whatever, life goes on, it's a game. Or some rewards got bugged and fucked me over multiple times, whatever, life goes on. This most recent L1 red pick stuff, that was honestly the last straw, not even the fact that I didn't get them simply because I have a life and don't camp in front of my console each Friday to sweat my ass off for the very start of the Champs Finals, but because they finally spilled the beans, told us we were never supposed to get good cards out of it with a decent percentage and on top of that, they ruined the small amount of fun I had playing with Paletools between meetings at work (by that I mean killing the droprate and nerfing pack weight).
  

The whole situation is very stupid, because there is no viable alternative in terms of football games, and frankly, playing FIFA is a habit and something I've been doing for one half of my life. It's tough for me to get invested into an online competitive game, though I used to play League, Overwatch, stuff like that, but those games became shit over the years as well. That's why, though I'm only one of way too many, from my point of view, my actions bear some value, because as of today, I just don't want to feel like shit because of a game anymore atleast on a weekly basis. As things stand, dumping my time into this game is simply pointless. If I want to play Weekend League, I'll get shat on by the servers, or the gameplay will be horrendous and my cards will feel like freezers getting dragged across the pitch by a rope. Cards with great finishing, will feel like bronze cards, whatever. We're not supposed to get good rewards, and the game will call us out for being "bad" when we get DDAd. At this point, there is nothing positive about it. I will perhaps return for Futties, not that anyone cares, but building fun cards is kinda fun and good, so I'm looking forward to that. Otherwise, I will return only if all of this actually changes something. If the assholes from EA release a statement and actually change something, then I will return earlier, and even then, I'm not giving them a single euro this year. And maybe, for the first time in way too many years, I won't even preorder, maybe I'll play it later on, if it turns out to be better and different. Other than that... there's no point playing if the game is like this. I'm done with feeling negative emotions because of a game designed to gaslight and manipulate us into feeling like shit.
Sorry for the long post, I guess I just felt like I needed to tell someone.

Judo is extremely underrated in MMA. It is definitely under-represented as well, due to a multitude of reasons (MMA is no-gi, Judo doesn't train leg attacks, IJF bans its top athletes from cross-competing, most MMA is in the USA where Judo sucks and wrestling is world-class, etc etc), but Judo is still very much used in MMA. The problem is many times, nobody recognizes it. American MMA commentators are also almost always completely clueless when it comes to Judo, which doesn't help (you need not go any further than Karo Parisyan basically going through half the Gokyo on his opponents, only to be greeted with the same OH MY GOD ! JUDO THROW! by Joe Rogan). There are many fighters, both superstars (Islam, Fedor) and not (Gregory Rodrigues, Luana Pinheiro) who heavily use Judo in their matches.
Over the years, I have actively been looking for Judo in MMA. I am going to share my list of fighters displaying high level Judo in MMA, as a reference point for anyone looking to see how the art is used in MMA, or even for anyone just looking to see some banging throws. The list is by no means exhaustive. I would love for people more knowledgeable than me to add fighters I may have missed.
Disclaimer: Let's focus on Judo use in MMA. There are several fighters who have a background, even a black belt, in Judo but don't really use it (Amanda Nunes, Valentina Shevchenko, Merab Dvalishvili, Shinya Aoki, Seika Izawa, Fabricio Werdum, Ronaldo Jacare Souza just off the top of my head). Also yes, Morote Gari is a leg takedown, and it is in the Judo syllabus. Almost nobody learned double legs in Judo, let's not go to these extremes.
Karo Parisyan
The OG of Judo in MMA, the man who single-handedly put Judo on the MMA map. Judo is displayed in all of his matches; several Youtube breakdowns and highlights exist as well. He also put out a Judo for MMA instructional which is gold, if you can get your hands on it. Unfortunately he got derailed by personal issues (I hear he's doing better now thankfully). Huge variety of throws, he used throws nobody else has used before or after against very high level opponents. Shoutout to his kimura grip hikikomi gaeshi that he almost beat GSP with.
Ronda Rousey
UFC champion, Olympic bronze medalist, WMMA pioneer - you know her, everyone knows her. Extremely one-dimensional, but a pioneer for her time. Her entire game plan was clinch JUDO THROW juji gatame (armbar). Shoutout to her textbook use of hip toss into kesa gatame into roflstomp (vs Alexis Davis). Her matches with Miesha Tate are also among the best MMA matches (male or female).
Fedor Emelianenko
PRIDE champion. Arguably the Heavyweight GOAT. Probably the best example of Judo adapted to MMA (together with Islam), as he did not rely on Judo as much as Karo or Ronda, but perfectly blended it with his striking to create an unstoppable force. I'd heavily recommend watching Sonny Brown's Fedor breakdown on Youtube, or pretty much any one of Fedor's matches, they're awesome. Shoutout to his use of the overhand right to switch stances when initiating clinches (as a R-handed Judo fighter fighting out of an Orthodox stance).
Islam Makhachev
UFC champion. Undefeated. Ideal example of Judo adapted to MMA. Yes, he's a Dagestani, and he has been training in MMA all his life, so obviously his style is not purely Judo, but it's obvious to anyone who knows where to look that his grappling base is more Judo than wrestling based. Shoutout to him submitting Charles Oliveira, the most prolific BJJ specialist in MMA history, with a Kata Gatame (arm-triangle choke, routinely taught in Judo as a pin with submission potential). His style is also very different from Khabib, who I will not include in this list for the opposite reason; his grappling base was significantly more wrestling based (although he did execute some ridiculously perfect Judo throws on occasion). The entire Khabib camp uses both Judo and wrestling though.
Jon Jones
UFC Champion. Contender for all-time GOAT. Is Jon Jones a Judoka? Nope. Do his matches feature Judo? Absolutely. You only need to watch one of his highlight reels to see a variety of Judo throws, Osoto Gari, Harai Goshi, Tai Otoshi, Sasae, a variety of Kosotos, along with his wrestling-based takedowns. He also uses a lot of inside trips, obviously from wrestling, but he's still a good example of how to use Ouchi Gari in MMA.
Jimmy Hettes
UFC former fighter. Old-school prolific grappler. Very high level Judo and BJJ. Did not have many matches, but they were all grappling clinics, and every one included a multitude of Judo throws (mainly Harai Goshi).
Kayla Harrison
PFL tournament winner. Double Olympic gold medalist. Her recent UFC debut against Holly Holm featured a Harai and a brutal Osoto Gari into a finishing choke.
Yoshihiro Akiyama (Sexiyama)
Heavy Judo base. Struggled in the UFC, but had some banging throws. Still competes at almost 50. Also his nickname was Sexy, can't go wrong with that.
Hector Lombard
Judo Olympian. Heavy Judo base as well, with very slick throws, although he preferred to stand and bang. Was once one of the hottest non-UFC MMA prospects, his career took a massive dive after he got popped for roids.
Satoshi Ishii
Judo Gold medalist. Heavy Judo base. Fought in a variety of promotions around the world, an absolute dog but with average results. He got brutally destroyed by Cro Cop, then went to train with him in Croatia, then denounced his citizenship and became a Croatian citizen. Lol. Also trains with Danaher, and has a bunch of no-gi Judo instructionals at ridiculous prices (because Danaher).
Serghei Spivac
UFC Heavyweight contender. Ragdolls everyone with sloppy but effective Judo throws. Shoutout to his landing in Kesa Gatame too.
Luana Pinheiro
UFC fighter. Judo black belt, (I believe) Olympic alternate. Uses Judo as her main offensive grappling base, has taken down all of her opponents with the same Harai Goshi / O Guruma hybrid.
Gregory Rodrigues
UFC fighter. ?Relative unknown. I personally never heard of him, until I randomly came across one of his matches were he executed one of the most brutal Harai's I've ever seen into a finish. All of his matches feature some degree of Judo, mainly uses Harai. No recorded Judo rank on his wiki (he's recorded as a heavily credentialed BJJ blackbelt), but it's obvious he has Judo training. Also very good wrestling and kickboxing (yes, he's very exciting to watch). Shoutout to his match against Brunno Fereira, a Judo black belt who escaped top position from Rodrigues by securing an Ippon grip, rolling to his knees, and chucking Rodrigues forward with a kneeling Ippon Seoi before brutally KO'ing him a few seconds later.
Tagir Ulanbekov
UFC fighter. Khabib's camp. Uses a lot of clinch takedowns. An absolute specialist in step around throws (I believe it's called "Polish" in wrestling?) - in Judo terms it would be Kosoto Gake +/- Ura Nage depending how you finish it.
Ayaka Miura
ONE Championship fighter. Heavy Judo base. Shoutout to her use of Kesa Gatame to finish opponents.
Rick Hawn
Judo Olympian. Twice fought for the Bellator championship. Unfortunately, I have not watched any of his actual matches, so I cannot confirm how much Judo he uses (I'd love for someone to chime in). Still has a highlight-reel standing Ippon Seoi Nage into KO, so I had to include him.
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Honorable mention to Yoel Romero, an absolute unit of an athlete. Olympic silver medalist and World champion in Freestyle wrestling, fought for UFC gold. Obviously not a Judoka but he has the cleanest Sasae you will ever see in MMA, as well as a bunch of beautiful step-around throws and inside trips you've probably learned in Judo.

Endeavour himself?!
He's not even a UA student! Or a teacher! some of the students shouted.
"Ok Ok...Let me explain myself"
Endeavour clears his throat
"It all began 19 years ago, when my first born Touya just discovered his quirk. A fire quirk like mine called: Blue Flame".
"His fire was much more powerful than mine also much more unstable as Touya's own quirk began retaliating against his own body. I couldn't stand to watch my boy burn his flesh over and over again".
"I forbade him from using his quirk but Touya would never listen. I got word on the street about a mysterious faceless man who could give and take quirks. So the first thing I did was take Touya to him".
"He carefully examined Touya and took note of his quirk which he stated was 'remarkable'. He took hold of Touya's hand and transferred his quirk factor to himself. I had spoken to this man on a burner phone just the night before through some contacts of mine".
"He said to 'to take the quirk from such a young and impressionable lad is such a shame'. Like me he also wondered what kind of hero Touya would grow to be. Now the son of Endeavour being quirkless makes no sense at all so he gave Touya a fire breathing quirk...Which I'm not going to lie did give me some relief".
"Explaining the situation to Rei wasn't too difficult but she did have some questions. Since I asked this faceless man for a favour, he also wanted a favour in return".
"I had no idea until just now that this faceless man was the same faceless man who's after Deku".
"You've got to believe me" the man exclaimed.
"He knows where I live. He's taken hostage of my entire family if he finds out I've turned he'll come for Rei, Natsuo, Fuyumi, and Shoto. He's already taken one son from please not another".
"We'll find him" Deku reassures Endeavour.
Fin.
Some trivia about this universe:

• Touya died in the USJ battle fighting Nomu and Shigaraki as Shiggy is about to decay Tsuyu (All Might comes in later).
  
• Touya was a drug addict in this universe (he took trigger to "upgrade" his fire quirk).
  
• In this universe Touya's the one with the scar on his face instead of Shoto (he got it from overexposure to Trigger).
  
• Endeavour drugged Touya when he took him to AFO (AFO used his force activation quirk on Touya to see his quirk in use).
  
• Shoto and the other Todorokis were actually trained by Endeavour to be skilled crime fighters but he allowed them to choose their own careers. Fuyumi is a teacher, Natsuo is a mechanic, and Shoto is studying to be a Chiropractor.
  
• In this universe AFO gave BlueFlame to Shigaraki (which fuses with Decay and becomes Cremation).
  
• Endeavour was a better father and husband in this universe.
  
• Bakugo in this universe looks up to Endeavour and is his #1 fan but after the reveal he hates Endeavour and anything associated to him (including his valuable Endeavour merchandise which he's been hoarding for the past decade).
  
• Bakugo's also nicer, kinder, and a lot more empathetic in this universe but Endeavour's betrayal sorta of course corrects his personality to make him more like his usual self like the anime/manga.
  
• Nighteye doesn't die in this universe but Hawks does (Hawks is Bakugo's mentor in this universe and dies just like Nighteye does in the Prime Timeline).
  
• Shishido is Tokoyami's mentor in this universe.
  
• Aoyama is just some rich kid with a weird belly quirk (furthermore his belly hurting isn't a side effect of the quirk but rather a lactose intolerance to all the cheese he consumes within a day. If he stops eating cheese his belly will stop hurting).
  
• Ochako's motivation in this universe isn't money-related instead she wants to become a hero to prove to society that people with less flashy powers can be heroes too.
  

So as the SCP world grows larger, with ever more anomalies of all types found in all places and all times popping up, I've heard people question, how does the SCP foundation keep maintaining normalcy? Furthermore, why do they feel the need to at this point?
Well the real reason is of course a storytelling one. The "Masquerade" is a well worn trope. Magical worlds hidden behind a veil of secrecy within our own familiar world has a vast narrative utility, not the least of which that it gives the reader a sense that the fantastic world could be real, fantastic things being intentionally kept just out of sight, allowing them to more deeply immerse themselves into the narrative (I know there's kids out there who genuinely were disappointed when their Hogwarts letter didn't come).
But also, this trope was invented in a time where we didn't all have cameras in our pockets with the ability to instantly transmit anything we want to the whole world, which keeps progressively making the very idea of a hidden world ever more ridiculous. Frankly, it can feel like the only reason we still use that narrative device is because it's only been about a generation since society and culture changed in that way and we're still getting used to the idea and still in the process of trying to come up with new story telling devices that take it into account.
At this point, due to these changes in culture and technology, a lot of peoples suspension of disbelief is being stretched to the breaking point on the whole "Masquerade" thing, So I think we need a further explanation as to how and why one could be maintained in the contemporary world, lest we abandon it as a dead horse trope.
But before figuring out logical ways a masquerade could be maintained and why, the question I want to know is "How do the people of this world even know what 'normalcy' is?"
We know what normalcy is. It's just the world and it's laws of physics as they are. Gravity, electro magnetism, chemistry, etc. All studied, all replicable by the scientific method (if proper methods are being used). But in these other worlds, magic and the paranormal are baked into their laws of physics. So why don't they see those things as normal? How have they somehow coincidentally drawn a line in the sand that separates half of their universe physical laws onto one side called "paranormal", and the other half onto a side called "Normal", with the normal side somehow coincidentally lining up with our worlds laws of physics?
I think the answer to that could be the answer to the rest. And that answer is "Belief has power". The act of simply believing things has the ability to effect reality, generate energy, be used as a weapon, etc. It's normal for large and powerful governing entities having the desire to regulate dangerous and powerful things. In our world it's things like lethal weapons and nuclear energy, but in the SCP world "Belief" is the powerful and dangerous thing they need to regulate. The act of enforcing "Normalcy" is effectively recognizing that everyone is a reality bender on some level, and that their beliefs could be the equivalent of anywhere from a gun to a nuclear bomb. And so sets of beliefs have been devised by the powers that be, through trial and error, that when they are believed they don't result in the people who believe them developing unpredictable cataclysmic psychic/magical powers that could challenge those powers that be. And the version of "normalcy" they have invented, the set of ideas they brainwash the public into believing in order to minimize the growth of psychic powers within that population, happens to coincide with our realities laws of physics.
But maybe it's not all "Evil government wants to hoard all the power for themselves". Maybe there is an actual good reason to try and prevent widespread adoption of the power of "Belief". It's often shown that in the past, magic was more accepted, and in the modern world it's like magic is going away, and various explanations are given for this. But what if psychic energy is kind of like radioactive material? What if it's a matter of the SCP foundation trying to prevent a cataclysmic critical mass of psychic energy developing within the human noosphere? It was one thing when the human population was in the millions, but what has truly changed for humans in the last thousand years is that there is exponentially more of us by multiple orders of magnitude, but the earth is still the same size. The more humans are added to the noosphere, the more powerful it becomes, and there might be a certain threshold of humans in close proximity beyond which psychic criticality is reached, and the noosphere would essentially explode. So the options are either to genocide the population down to a level below criticality, or make sure most humans are implanted with beliefs that make them psychically inert.
This would also explain how the foundation can continuously maintain "Normalcy". They likely have the ability to track the noosphere, they might even have something like a digital heat map of the worlds psychic activity, such that if paranormal stuff happens in a certain area, and it causes people to start becoming more psychically active in that area, they will see that place start to light up on the map, and know they have to go in with some of that sweet sweet Eel juice, spraying it around until the psychic activity is brought back down to acceptable levels. In this scenario, they don't have to catch everybody who knows the truth, just enough to keep the noosphere a safe distance from reaching critical mass.

Hi! I just joined, so sorry if this question has been asked before. (In which case, please feel free to close this down and point me towards pre-existing posts or threads)
I don't have a premium FUA team (only have Ratio and Robin of that squad) and I am really not interested in pulling for Topaz and Aventurine at the moment.
The teams I would be mainly using Robin are:

1. Xueyi (E6) - Sparkle (E0S1) - Robin (E0S1) - Gallagher (E5)
   
2. Blade (E0S1) - Sparkle (E0S1) - Robin (E0S1) - Lynx (E2)
   
3. Himeko (E0S1) - Robin (E0S1) - Herta (E6) - Flex (this Is mainly a pure fiction team idea I had)
   

Would she have Energy issues in these teams, with S1 and an ERR rope? I'm using Wonwacq. I had half the idea to try her as a main DPS with Tingyun, March 7th and Pela as well.

To put it simply, The mod is not working/loading.
After about 2ish hours of trial and error with full mod list and PE+ dependencies only,2 worlds made to test this, brief and full looks though the settings/config files,Activating devcommands and 2 uninstall/re installs, I have no idea what is causing this mod to not work anymore. Everything else is fine. Anyone got any ideas on whats going on?
And yes, I am using the cultivator, and just for kicks, I did look at the Hoe, and all other crafting benches and used hammer mode to unlock everything to boot.

Hello there, meditation practicers, i have a little story to share, either the aim of having a question answered.
In genuary 2019, inspired by the alleged benefits in the fields of astract intelligence and memory, i decided to set myself on the path towards betterment by practicing meditation.
The types of meditation i begun practicing stayed the same since 2019, when i thought “this new year i will dedicate time and effort towards this goal” were mindfulness and breathing meditation, and i kept practicing only those two.
I had a lot more struggles than i expected at first, for the first two weeks i had issues meditating at all, and the following month i could not stay fully focused and meditate for more than 15 minutes a day. Eventually i begun making progress, feeling my mind become slower and drowsy and with a slightly higher focus on my feelings.
I slowly and steadily dedicated more time to meditation before good to sleep, specifically because in late 2020 the quarantine have me a lot of free time for myself at home hehe. And for more than two years it became common practice to do 25 minutes of meditation per day after i woke up.
The fact is, despite my relentless dedication to this cause, other than a vague feeling or serenity and having a bit of time to do nothing and thus focusing, by early 2021, two years later… no tangible improvement was made, i still score the same in memory and iq tests, i have noticed no tangible effect when it comes to daily life and how it feels.
Since it is scientifically proven that meditation is effective, i seized the chance still in 2021 to go to a meditation summit in florence, where i discussed about my issues with other practitioners, and long story short they said that if i am experiencing issues but i am doing well, then it’s just a matter of how long it takes for me to feel the benefits, and not to give up.
I considered that i might just not be that good anyway, so i have decided to pay to join the local “guided meditation sessions” regularly. There i realized that having gone alone all along might have been suboptimal, mainly because in 2022 i was able to talk with other practitioners (one of which became my lover and she still is my sweet half).
The point is that despite my teacher saying that i am doing well, i fail to see the time i invested as productive because of lackluster results, there had been no benefits that investing my tome in something more fun like hobbies and friends hadn’t given me. After 3 years i still hadn’t improved my scores in the practical tests i use to measure my progress.
Still in 2022 my lover quit meditation sessions, since she was told by her psychologist to do them for anxiety, and she had found other more efficient ways to reduce her anxiety levels, and i considered following her because i begun to have a sense of sadness and defeat instead of focus during mindfulness, probably induced by how deep inside after years of incredibly small gains, i knew to me it was not worth it.
After that, in late 2022 i became more open about my distress with other practitioners i knew, no longer concerned with making meditation awkward afterwards, and this is where “disaster” struck: They have been very open in return, sharing more open in return about their deeper issues and insecurities, and they told me that meditation helped them organize their thoughts, reduce stress, anxiety, being more aware about themselves…
The point is, none of those aspects apply to me! You can’t reduce stress to someone who is not stressed, anxiety to someone who is not anxious, or organization to someone that had never struggled with daily life.
And in short, one of the practitioners, who is a neurologist, told me that the benefits of meditation are scientifically indistinguishable from most healthy hobbies, and that more than half the value of mindfulness is placebo effect. In fact, she told me that someone who is already healthy is unlikely to experience tangible improvements.
After this disconcerting revelation, I overreacted and i quit meditating altogether for more than a year, from late 2022 to today. Once again i felt no difference whatsoever during this year and a half, but when i think about how many people feel happy about meditation (albeit happy about things i am not concerned about like breathing, introspection etcetera), and frankly my desperate desire to prove myself i have not wasted an ungodly amount of time because i have learned something from that experience, here i am.
Have i done something wrong? Are all the articles about actual improvements in psychological effort just bullshit and i fell for that? Would you suggest i resume my efforts even if by now i have became sceptic?

I worked really hard for the past two years for NEET and I was able to get 695 marks. I made many sacrifices and gave up so many opportunities to hang out with my friends just to study for a few more hours. I'm really satisfied with my marks. I will get an incredible college. I always thought that I will study hard in these two years and enjoy in the 3 months after neet to the fullest. Now I'm undergoing an unexpected operation this week that has ruined all the plans that I'd made. I won't be able to get out of my house for 2 months and won't be able to participate in any strenuous activity for 6 months. I just want all of you to live your life to the fullest. These times aren't gonna come back. Enjoy with your friends, go out and have fun. You'll never remember the marks you scored in the mock tests but you will surely remember the good times you had with your friends !

We all had a tonne of fun glazing AH and enjoying the game and fun memes in the sub but now the honeymoon phase is over and we should start taking the first step in acknowledging that all your friends have stopped playing. Every other post in this sub is someone with 350+ hours complaining that the game has nothing new for them. Its time for those of you who have begun to experience burnout to find new ways to appreciate the game such as being just mean in the sub, and playing the game like you don't want to win, or stopping people from completing the major orders (by going against them by any means necessary).
We'll call the current downward trend in opinion for Helldivers 2 "the Breakup Phase". Every week we lose more and more active helldivers and I can't imagine that anyone could have a life outside a game or just not be a total dork that will play the game every day for years on end like myself. 🤑
Lets do our best to have a toxic and confrontational good time so we can get past this breakup and move on to the makeup sex with AH.😉

I'm craving the itch for MAGIC
Too many MCs are gettin' in there with their fists and stuff, nah, that ain't it. Gimme some goddayumn spell-slinging mofo that stands at the back and uses weird obscure ways of using the magic or uses a ritual to break the world or smth, I don't care I just need magic it's been too long since I've read some.
Here's what I've read: (feel free to use as recommendations) (I listen to audiobooks for everything)

• Mother of Learning
  • amazing
• Beneath the Dragoneye Moons
  • also amazing
• The Completionist Chronicles
  • a guilty pleasure, I love Dakota Krout but he's better at being funny than writing compelling narratives
• Mageling
  • I gotta finish it, seemed pretty good
• Mage Errant
  • I really liked it, I love schools in stories
• Secrets and Spellcraft
  • Still in the middle of it, pretty slow but also good
• Paranoid Mage
  • I love the ideas presented, he just gets caught up in explanation too much, book 2 a little better at that and haven't read past it, I dearly intend to eventually, it's certainly not a book series you can binge but one you have to let it last for a while
• Dear Spellbook
  • It doesn't feel like it gives much reason to keep reading on, I love time loops however so it was enjoyable
• Fate's Anvil
  • I'm not sure why I got book 2, I never read it
• Legend of the Arch Magus
  • I really enjoyed it, can't wait for more, although I don't think it's very good it's more like a guilty pleasure
• Somnia Online
  • I was on a VRMMO itch when I found this, adored it, bit slow
• Chronicle Series
  • Honestly I've read this series probably twice and I genuinely cannot remember a thing from it, I genuinely do not know if it should even go it this list or what it's about, the blurbs don't help either
• Rise of the Mystic Mage
  • Excuse me but when did book 2 come out I loved book one, I just bought it and it's already my next read, although I am still looking
• Never Die Twice
  • I loved The Perfect Run sososo much I keep trying to like this book but it's always like at a bad time I get into it, I'll finish and love it one day
• Saga Online
  • I remember really enjoying it but also found it a bit of a slog at times. It had amazing and memorable moments but a lot of what felt like filler
• The Unwanteds
  • Nothing to do with LitRPG I found this bc of my mum, I love the magic so much but books get to be more of a slog with each one, book one was amazing, stuck in book 4
• Magic 2.0
  • Honestly this might have played a small role in why I became a programmer (specifically a game designer), I love the coding is magic in this and it was like my first listen on audible, going back to it to finish it a few years later was hard because it's a bit of a slog but I love it nonetheless
• Awaken Online
  • Guilty pleasure of mine, been following the story for years and years, my friend says it's not that good and he's a media studies nerd so I trust his judgement on that, I enjoy it a lot
• Wolfman Warlock
  • Same universe as completionist chronicles from a different author, loved it just as much, see its entry near the top
• New Era Online
  • I keep seeing people liking this book but it's just so much talk from about how this and that works and general thoughts, it should be naturally included into the dialogue or the worldbuilding I get bored and zone out for important bits, let me know if it's really worth it

I'm feel bad for saying negative things so I couldn't, they are all pretty good at least, if in different areas, I've listened to bad stuff, none of these are awful
This does not include semi-magic-wielding MCs, pure magic, or at least pure-magic focused. Not including things like MCs that mainly sling magic guns and not a wide variety of magic tools. Not including dungeon core.
I have about 200~ titles in my library, don't think that just because this list is long I listen to mostly magic stuff, I don't, although I wish I did

Title pretty much explains it. Just for fun I thought it would be fun to perform a scene from death note as my group enjoys the series a lot and think it would be fun. We have a group of 6 people and probably want dialogue to be spread out. Was thinking maybe the warehouse for the last 2 episodes since the time limit was 12 minutes. But any other ideas and anywhere I could find the archived captions of the English dub would be nice. Thank you so much for any advice!

Right folks I'm a qualified sparky, out of my time a little while. I'm moving from my current employer who does mainly commercial and domestic work to an electrical maintenance job at a local theme park.( Better money and at least 6 hours less driving a week) I've most definitely got all the tools I've needed for the last 6 years in the van. But sayin' that I've never worked really worked on big 3 ph motors and large DC supplies and to celebrate my new employment I'm going to splash out on a few new items. Any recommendations or must haves should pick up before I start? I'm thinking along the lines of phase rotation meters, torque ratchets, I'm not 100% but I'd imagine tool tethering would be a good idea if you're on a maintenance walk at the highest point of a roller coaster mezz? I'm open to any and all suggestions!

Hello guys. This one'd like to share something about the recent situation about Legends Asia in China Mainland.
This article has two parts as title tells. First, 森林屿海 has decided to relauched ESL Asia on Google Play, which will be opened to players in the Asia Pacific region for direct connection. The time is tentatively set for May, which may be delayed for further testing of various performance aspects.
The officials did the same thing as Todd Howard. They boldly predicted that they would develop the server connection function, allowing the ESL Asia server of Google channel to connect with the ESL Asia server of Chinese Mainland, so that the two sides could fight across servers.
That is to say, these are two separate servers, and their accounts are two separate accounts. And due to the deletion of the previous server library, the previous data will not be retained.
The language switching settings are already under development. According to currently known intelligence, the official will continue to translate Japanese and Korean based on the previous game. As they have not done any subsequent text translation work before, the studio will encounter difficulties in localizing the translated content. For example, Japanese is mostly katakana with almost no Chinese characters. Languages of other European countries are also on the agenda.
This also seems to indicate that the game content of ESL Asia, which is about to be launched on Google Play, will be consistent with the unique version in China.
At present, there is a way to play the unique Chinese version of ESL Asia: By changing the area of the App Store to Chinese Mainland, you can search the app store for the name of the game. However, playing the unique version in China still requires a Chinese citizen ID card and a mainland+86 phone number.
Second, ESL Asia in China Mainland has encountered a worrying situation. There are roughly two reasons. Firstly, the official productivity is low, and the launch time of new cards has been infinitely extended. Secondly, players have increasingly strong opinions on the quality of unique new cards, and their wording is almost harsh.
Considering the official is working on the Google Play version, we temporarily understand the huge workload of their small studio. However, at the same time, players have to go through a "Blank Period" similar to the original game situation.
In order to avoid deck similarity and malicious sniping, the official closed the deck copying function of the leaderboard and professional leaderboard during this blank period. This undoubtedly increases the difficulty of the game for new players, and players on the leaderboard no longer receive profits of deck copying. Although this is similar to the international server, most people still hope that players can choose whether to publicly display their decks.
Apart from the above situation, the biggest debate is undoubtedly about unique cards. The opinions of players are divided into two parts:
Conservatives: We should innovate while retaining the TES IP to avoid the introduction of new cards that would cause the old cards useless. But the most important thing is to avoid adverse conditions that govern the environment of rank mode like Invade before. Secondly, due to the influence of the original IP of the ESL, almost all cards can find prototypes in the game, and the design is also interesting. Therefore, our design should pay more tribute to The Elder Scrolls, which is the biggest difference between us and Hearthstone, which removed World of Warcraft Heroes..
Progressives: The basic design of ESL is outdated and inferior, and compared to similar card games such as Hearthstone and Shadowverse, its game model is not outstanding. Nowadays, creating unique new cards is to improve this situation. Therefore, we should follow the example of other card games and make improvements to the poor performance of this game, such as drawing cards and improving the quality of high cost creatures.
In addition, the third voice is mutually agreed upon by both parties, which is that we need to strengthen some systems in order to diversify the environment.
Both sides naturally engaged in a debate on this point.
Conservatives believe that Legends should not be measured by the standards of other card games, even if their game modes are similar. However, this is still unreasonable, as overly powerful designs will only make these card packs meaningless.
Progressives believe that the conservatives approach to designing cards is wrong. They are deliberately catering to the mess of previous designers, and the cards they design have no impact on the game, even being considered weak. Progressives believe that some conservatives have no experience playing other card games and are simply not qualified to participate in card design.
Recently, the news that Hearthstone is about to return to China undoubtedly has a huge impact on Legend's domestic market. In fact, the main players of ESL Asia in China are actually TCG players rather than TES players, and the huge influence of TES in China is limited to Skyrim and ESO. Despite some players playing both games simultaneously, conflicts continue to unfold.
Someone once proposed a solution, asking TCG players to provide design ideas and asking TES players to work on designing Lore. But there's an old saying that goes well: War, war never changes.
That's all, thank you for reading. If you can give some advice on the subsequent new card development, this one will be appreciate.