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raditts
Feb 21, 2001

The Kwanzaa Bot is here to protect me.


WarpedNaba posted:

Boke vs Tsukkomi, huh? Nice.

What would the European version be? Blackadder vs Jeeves and Wooster?

How about the Yanks: Simpsons vs Family Guy.

Schlemiel vs Schlemazel

Mordecai vs Rigby

raditts fucked around with this message at 13:44 on Sep 5, 2015

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Andrew_1985
Sep 18, 2007
Hay hay hay!

raditts posted:

Mordecai vs Rigby

No-one likes Rigby. No-one.

LethalGeek
Nov 4, 2009

Dunno what chargers you all are playing with, I see a rare good one a lot of tolerable ones and a ton of poo poo ones. Like the 2 this morning who had 3 splat between the two of them on underpass rainmaker. I thought I was doing horrible that match until I saw the stats at the end. It was basically 4 on 2 I'm amazed we kept them from a knock out

Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012


There's a great charger on my team every time I play :shrug:

Blackbelt Bobman
Jul 17, 2004

I don't need friends! I've been
manipulatin' you since the start!
All so I can something,
something X-Blade!


I'm a great charger!

New Squiffer 4 Life

Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012


I don't know what games people are playing where the bottom of the roster isn't haunted by aerosprays, carbon rollers, splatershot jrs etc, all struggling to score more tham a couple hundred points.

AMooseDoesStuff
Dec 20, 2012
I think the worst thing about Splatoon for me is I'm in S and I can't use anything but the .Gal.
I'd love to try a roller or whatever, but I'm guaranteed to do so shite with it I'll be letting my team down.
And it's not the same game in tur war, damnit.

Deceptive Thinker
Oct 5, 2005

I'll rip out your optics!
I rarely see a bad charger in the A- range

dogsicle
Oct 23, 2012

I'm not a very good charger, when I choose to use one. Using all the different weapons is fun though.

Inflammatory
Apr 22, 2014

Jonas Albrecht posted:

I don't know what games people are playing where the bottom of the roster isn't haunted by aerosprays, carbon rollers, splatershot jrs etc, all struggling to score more tham a couple hundred points.

don't you loving ever talk poo poo about the carbon roller again, you hear me?

Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012


Inflammatory posted:

don't you loving ever talk poo poo about the carbon roller again, you hear me?

If I stop losing matches because the ones, plural, on my team can't crack 300pts, then maybe.

MorningMoon
Dec 29, 2013

He's been tapping into Aunt May's bank account!
Didn't I kill him with a HELICOPTER?

Andrew_1985 posted:

No-one likes Rigby. No-one.

Rigby is the best character in the show, tho? Mordecai however only brings his boring love-issues and ruins seasons at a time.

Inflammatory
Apr 22, 2014

Jonas Albrecht posted:

If I stop losing matches because the ones, plural, on my team can't crack 300pts, then maybe.

to be fair i've seen people like this too, but not with any roller in particular. it takes a special kind of terrible.

Cialis Railman
Apr 20, 2007

Well, after testing both of the splatling guns, I like the short charge time on the mini splatling but I don't really feel as comfortable taking it into a fight as I do with the heavy splatling. It takes a long time--it felt like almost a full charge--to take someone out with it. You have to be really accurate with it, and that's easier said than done when someone's bearing down on you. The short range is a bit of a pain, too. But it does feel handier than the heavy splatling, and it gets a lot of ink out, real fast. The sub and special are about a horse apiece between the two of them, but the inkzooka does a lot to offset the short range and relatively low damage, and as far as lethality goes is probably more useful than the inkstrike, just because it's harder to dodge (my inability to aim the loving thing notwithstanding.) I never really used the suction bombs, simply because I was shooting the gun so much I didn't have ink to spare.

Overall, I like the mini splatling. I can't say for sure whether I like it more than the heavy splatling, but the mini does get around some of the problems I had with the heavy.

Nep-Nep
May 15, 2004

Just one more thing!

Jonas Albrecht posted:

I don't know what games people are playing where the bottom of the roster isn't haunted by aerosprays, carbon rollers, splatershot jrs etc, all struggling to score more tham a couple hundred points.

Aerosprays getting scores that low? Are they not pulling the trigger or something?

pokeyman
Nov 26, 2006

That elephant ate my entire platoon.

AMooseDoesStuff posted:

I think the worst thing about Splatoon for me is I'm in S and I can't use anything but the .Gal.
I'd love to try a roller or whatever, but I'm guaranteed to do so shite with it I'll be letting my team down.
And it's not the same game in tur war, damnit.

It's admittedly a pain in the rear end but you can always make a new NNID and train up over there.

Though if you're as lovely as you think, you won't be in in S for long, so you will only let down a few teams!

Inflammatory
Apr 22, 2014

13/f/cali posted:

Aerosprays getting scores that low? Are they not pulling the trigger or something?

:iiam:

Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012


13/f/cali posted:

Aerosprays getting scores that low? Are they not pulling the trigger or something?

They've probably been told to take the trash out just as the map begins.

Orabilis
May 6, 2014
Maybe they're getting dominated badly by a team with longer ranged weapons that won't let them slip past.

Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012


On Amiibo gear, what are my odds of rollong triples?

Tengames
Oct 29, 2008


Jonas Albrecht posted:

On Amiibo gear, what are my odds of rollong triples?

Each skill has roughly a 6% chance of being rolled, and youd need that to happen 3 times.

So... Not very high edit: might be 10%, i dont remember the specifics

CatsPajamas
Jul 4, 2013

I hated the new Stupid Newbie avatar so much that I bought a new one for this user. Congrats, Lowtax.

Jonas Albrecht posted:

On Amiibo gear, what are my odds of rollong triples?

For Amiibo gear, there's an equal chance for every sub ability. I believe there are 14 sub abilities, right? That means if you're looking for one specific ability it's 3 rolls at 1/14, which works out to 1/42.

That being said, if you're getting 18-24 Seashells per Splatfest, it's not that bad if you just want to get your freshest/favorite gear in good shape.

Inflammatory
Apr 22, 2014

Orabilis posted:

Maybe they're getting dominated badly by a team with longer ranged weapons that won't let them slip past.

if i can score just fine with an octobrush then i'm pretty sure they're just bad.

Just Andi Now
Nov 8, 2009


CatsPajamas posted:

For Amiibo gear, there's an equal chance for every sub ability. I believe there are 14 sub abilities, right? That means if you're looking for one specific ability it's 3 rolls at 1/14, which works out to 1/42.

You calculate this sort of probability by multiplying each one individually. It's 1/14 * 1/14 * 1/14, so 1/2744 or 0.03%.

Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012


Roughly how many rolls would it take to make it likely?

Just Andi Now
Nov 8, 2009


Jonas Albrecht posted:

Roughly how many rolls would it take to make it likely?

If you roll 1902 times, you'll have a 50/50 chance of not having gotten it already.

EDIT: Note, this is assuming you're using equipment that has an equal chance to roll each sub ability. This also makes assumptions about the independence of each individual ability roll as well as each the independence of each time you ask Spike to reroll everything for you.

Just Andi Now fucked around with this message at 01:58 on Sep 6, 2015

Not a Children
Oct 9, 2012

Don't need a holster if you never stop shooting.

To calculate the probability of something occuring after x number of rolls, you take the probability that you don't roll it x times in a row and then multiply that figure by the probability of the occurrence.

So in this case, we're looking for (1- (1/14)^3)^x * (1/14^3) = 0.50, solving for x.

Just throwing that into Wolfram Alpha gives a solution of 19819.044. So you'd have to roll 19820 times to be more likely than not to roll what you want.

e:f,b, and my math is probably wrong by what looks like an order of magnitude

Just Andi Now
Nov 8, 2009


Not a Children posted:

To calculate the probability of something occuring after x number of rolls, you take the probability that you don't roll it x times in a row and then multiply that figure by the probability of the occurrence.

So in this case, we're looking for (1- (1/14)^3)^x * (1/14^3) = 0.50, solving for x.

Just throwing that into Wolfram Alpha gives a solution of 19819.044. So you'd have to roll 19820 times to be more likely than not to roll what you want.

e:f,b, and my math is probably wrong by what looks like an order of magnitude

Wolfram Alpha gives a negative value for your equation. Ditching the last (1/14^3) gets what I got as the answer, though (which I got through quick and dirty codepadding). I don't know why you're multiplying by the probability of occurence, actually.

EDIT: Excel corrobrates 1902 as well.

Just Andi Now fucked around with this message at 02:17 on Sep 6, 2015

CatsPajamas
Jul 4, 2013

I hated the new Stupid Newbie avatar so much that I bought a new one for this user. Congrats, Lowtax.
Well, that poor math was embarrassing! Judging from everyone's responses, I guess the real lesson is don't bother. It's a good thing the sub abilities don't have too much of an impact. As a side note though, if the favored abilities odds are 5/14 that would make triples about a 4% ( (5/14) ^3) chance, right?

night slime
May 14, 2014
Are there videos anywhere of gear with all the same attributes for main and sub? The ones I see on youtube only have main tripled. Curious to see what having 6 swim speed up looks like.

Not a Children
Oct 9, 2012

Don't need a holster if you never stop shooting.

andipossess posted:

Wolfram Alpha gives a negative value for your equation. Ditching the last (1/14^3) gets what I got as the answer, though (which I got through quick and dirty codepadding). I don't know why you're multiplying by the probability of occurence, actually.

EDIT: Excel corrobrates 1902 as well.

D'oh. I was calculating the odds of getting the perfect roll on exactly the 1902nd roll, I think.

Serves me right for doing math above my pay grade

Not a Children fucked around with this message at 02:24 on Sep 6, 2015

Inflammatory
Apr 22, 2014
please don't be the kind of person who rerolls skills until they get three of a kind.

edit: come to think of it please also don't be the kind of person who painstakingly calculates how many times you would have to roll to have a higher than 50% chance of it having happened already.

Inflammatory fucked around with this message at 02:53 on Sep 6, 2015

Just Andi Now
Nov 8, 2009


Inflammatory posted:

edit: come to think of it please also don't be the kind of person who painstakingly calculates how many times you would have to roll to have a higher than 50% chance of it having happened already.

I just need an excuse to act like an engineer without doing anything productive

Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012


Also math is fun.

codenameFANGIO
May 4, 2012

What are you even booing here?

I know most of you people are programmers but math is unfresh as hell.

Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012


Splatoon is made out of math, therefore math is The Freshest.

Blackheart
Mar 22, 2013

I'm terrible at math but I wish I was great at it because it's awesome.

Relyssa
Jul 29, 2012



Inflammatory posted:

please don't be the kind of person who rerolls skills until they get three of a kind.

edit: come to think of it please also don't be the kind of person who painstakingly calculates how many times you would have to roll to have a higher than 50% chance of it having happened already.

I re-rolled my shoes a couple times and got three run speeds because the brand is weighted to that skill. Said gently caress it and moved on. I tried for triple ink saver main or sub on the rest of my gear but only managed to get three total among the head/body ones. :(

Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012


I just need something like Ink Saver Main or Strength Up on my school uniform. Honestly, it seems like a bargain at just 57,060,000 monies.

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inkblot
Feb 22, 2003

by Nyc_Tattoo

Hopping Ghost posted:

This is the closest they will likely ever get to straight-up Callie vs. Marie.

This is just Callie vs. Marie, but with the serial numbers filled off.

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