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Keiya
Aug 22, 2009

Come with me if you want to not die.

aidoru posted:

New Splatfest in all (!) regions announced, sponsored by Miitomo, Nintendo's social media game thing.



"Would you rather go to fancy party or a costume party?"

Scheduled for May 13 at 8PM PT until May 15 at 3AM PT.

Oh look, a splatfest I can't participate in because I have a 3DS and a weak phone rather than a gaming phone.

(I realize I don't actually need miitomo, I'm just annoyed.)

Keiya fucked around with this message at 11:03 on May 6, 2016

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zolthorg
May 26, 2009

Keiya posted:

Oh look, a splatfest I can't participate in because I have a 3DS and a weak phone rather than a gaming phone.

:confused: my phone from 2012 runs miitomo. unless youre upset that splatoon still isnt on 3ds and is a wii u game

Keiya
Aug 22, 2009

Come with me if you want to not die.
It insists on stuffing everything onto the tiny 'internal' partition. WHich is filled mostly with log files I can't delete. So it literally can't even install.

AfroGunsou
Dec 8, 2009

:yeah:
youre not missing much

Silver Falcon
Dec 5, 2005

Two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight and barbecue your own drumsticks!

aidoru posted:

New Splatfest in all (!) regions announced, sponsored by Miitomo, Nintendo's social media game thing.



"Would you rather go to fancy party or a costume party?"

Scheduled for May 13 at 8PM PT until May 15 at 3AM PT.

Oh hey. Team Marie again! :D That fancy dress is super cute, but actual real life fancy dresses are itchy and uncomfortable. Given the choice, I would MUCH rather wear a costume. Talking about real life, mind. I love wearing poofy dresses in games.

zolthorg posted:

at 1200 i can carry a team of 3 morons
100-200 points above that and i still end up with 3 morons on my team and the enemy gets better so i have troubles carrying my entire team

I guess I don't carry them hard enough. I'm consistently the highest scorer, but my team loses as much as it wins. A lot of times I don't score very high at all, due to being splatted constantly. It's frustrating. I miss the days when I could find a group of competent people and stomp all over the children for awhile.

Rexroom posted:

Well, at least you have a reason to play Ranked matches now. :v:

Ugh. I just don't enjoy Ranked that much. Rainmaker is fun but I suck horribly at it. Splat Zones is OK and I'm better at it, but I don't enjoy it. Tower Control is balls and I hate it.

Silver Falcon fucked around with this message at 12:36 on May 6, 2016

codenameFANGIO
May 4, 2012

What are you even booing here?

I enjoy dressing well in Miitomo. But sometimes I will put on the cardboard box and thigh high cat socks.

Cialis Railman
Apr 20, 2007

codenameFANGIO posted:

I enjoy dressing well in Miitomo. But sometimes I will put on the cardboard box and thigh high cat socks.

Hell, who doesn't?

e: Oh, you mean in Miitomo.

codenameFANGIO
May 4, 2012

What are you even booing here?

Cialis Railman posted:

Hell, who doesn't?

e: Oh, you mean in Miitomo.

Yes. I ... I meant Miitomo, only :ninja:

MustelaFuro
May 6, 2007

Evolution: Reproduction of the fit enough.

Mr.Pibbleton posted:

I'm going costume, but god drat we're gonna get SLAUGHTERED. :smith: Oh hey Marie is doing 4kids kill la kill cosplay. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55iX64NmUDA

Is that what Kill La Kill is about?

Keiya
Aug 22, 2009

Come with me if you want to not die.

AfroGunsou posted:

youre not missing much

I'm missing coins to get my nintendo rewards!

No. 1 Callie Fan
Feb 17, 2011

This inkling is your FRIEND
She fights for LOVE
Well now. Whenever Port Mackerel and Hammerhead Bridge is in rotation, I usually pick a weapon with a Beakon to save all that time from walking. So I went in with the Octobrush this time, and gee golly is that thing a stick of death. Rollers, shooters, even snipers - once you get close, they're bound to get splatted unless they get to higher ground. I can understand why I sometimes had trouble against them.

Sekhmet
Nov 16, 2001


Rexroom posted:

Well now. Whenever Port Mackerel and Hammerhead Bridge is in rotation, I usually pick a weapon with a Beakon to save all that time from walking. So I went in with the Octobrush this time, and gee golly is that thing a stick of death. Rollers, shooters, even snipers - once you get close, they're bound to get splatted unless they get to higher ground. I can understand why I sometimes had trouble against them.

Brushes are high-risk, high-reward fun imo

Mr.Pibbleton
Feb 3, 2006

Aleuts rock, chummer.

MustelaFuro posted:

Is that what Kill La Kill is about?

Someone once told me it's about exposing how disgusting the constant sexualization of children is in anime, by constantly sexualizing children in an anime.

Deltron 3030
Jul 23, 2006

I submit that you took that baseball, stashed it in your unusually large vagina, and walked right on out of here!
Does anyone else kinda hate the penalty scoring system in Splat Zones? Why not just do a straight countdown from 100, maybe 150 or something if that's too fast?

It just seems so different from Rainmaker / Tower Control scoring... a penalty for being in the lead.

Kabanaw
Jan 27, 2012

The real Pokemon begins here

Deltron 3030 posted:

Does anyone else kinda hate the penalty scoring system in Splat Zones? Why not just do a straight countdown from 100, maybe 150 or something if that's too fast?

It just seems so different from Rainmaker / Tower Control scoring... a penalty for being in the lead.

I agree, and when my team gets the tower it should just teleport to the farthest point on the track we reached.

Space Fish
Oct 14, 2008

The original Big Tuna.


Has anybody else had a crappy time with players who consistently sit on the home base doing nothing, no matter which team they land on in a group, yet are aware enough to confirm "play again?"

There's a player named DANGER I've seen at separate times and on separate teams who never seems to leave the home base yet will have flaming hair (special charged all the way) or a single death on their record.

Is this a troll getting lols on youtube? A hacker testing what effects can be generated from a still position? A baby mashing buttons? Whatever, I've already wasted this much time venting about it, back to the splat zone.

MustelaFuro
May 6, 2007

Evolution: Reproduction of the fit enough.

Space Fish posted:

Has anybody else had a crappy time with players who consistently sit on the home base doing nothing, no matter which team they land on in a group, yet are aware enough to confirm "play again?"

There's a player named DANGER I've seen at separate times and on separate teams who never seems to leave the home base yet will have flaming hair (special charged all the way) or a single death on their record.

Is this a troll getting lols on youtube? A hacker testing what effects can be generated from a still position? A baby mashing buttons? Whatever, I've already wasted this much time venting about it, back to the splat zone.

I see this happen a lot.

A weird thing I witnessed the other day was two identical players on the same team with the same gear and weapon. I can't explain what that was about. Could someone have done a hack that allows coop play online and cloned themselves?

Jarogue
Nov 3, 2012


MustelaFuro posted:

Is that what Kill La Kill is about?

Its about a girl who really want's to be Shadow the Hedgehog.

Shifty gimbal
Dec 28, 2008

Hey you... I got something to tell ya
Biscuit Hider
You could charge your special without moving by having the Tenacity special ability and just having teammates die a bunch.

Maybe the occasional kill is him sometimes launching his free special and getting a lucky hit? I know that's what it would look like if i was distracted but otherwise getting free specials. On the other hand, I'd probably just let it idle in the lobby instead.

Shifty gimbal fucked around with this message at 17:46 on May 8, 2016

No. 1 Callie Fan
Feb 17, 2011

This inkling is your FRIEND
She fights for LOVE

Deltron 3030 posted:

Does anyone else kinda hate the penalty scoring system in Splat Zones? Why not just do a straight countdown from 100, maybe 150 or something if that's too fast?

It just seems so different from Rainmaker / Tower Control scoring... a penalty for being in the lead.

If you can't keep a zone under control long enough for a KO, you don't deserve to win. :colbert:

MustelaFuro posted:

A weird thing I witnessed the other day was two identical players on the same team with the same gear and weapon. I can't explain what that was about. Could someone have done a hack that allows coop play online and cloned themselves?

I'm willing to put it to just kids being kids. One match I had someone hitting "Come on" constantly and staying in their base. That's usually a mating call for squid partying. Thankfully it's usually in Turf Wars, in higher ranks it's strictly business.

MustelaFuro
May 6, 2007

Evolution: Reproduction of the fit enough.

Rexroom posted:

If you can't keep a zone under control long enough for a KO, you don't deserve to win. :colbert:


I'm willing to put it to just kids being kids. One match I had someone hitting "Come on" constantly and staying in their base. That's usually a mating call for squid partying. Thankfully it's usually in Turf Wars, in higher ranks it's strictly business.

When I say identical, I mean they had the same username too.

Silver Falcon
Dec 5, 2005

Two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight and barbecue your own drumsticks!

Space Fish posted:

Has anybody else had a crappy time with players who consistently sit on the home base doing nothing, no matter which team they land on in a group, yet are aware enough to confirm "play again?"

There's a player named DANGER I've seen at separate times and on separate teams who never seems to leave the home base yet will have flaming hair (special charged all the way) or a single death on their record.

Is this a troll getting lols on youtube? A hacker testing what effects can be generated from a still position? A baby mashing buttons? Whatever, I've already wasted this much time venting about it, back to the splat zone.

I've seen it happen a few times, yeah. I don't know what's up with it.


Gimbal lock posted:

You could charge your special without moving by having the Tenacity special ability and just having teammates die a bunch.

Which will happen a lot because the team with these chucklefucks on it is essentially operating one squid down. In fact, an empty slot would be more useful- at least then you'd get faster Special charge if you were using Tenacity.

zolthorg
May 26, 2009

I guess matchmaking for turf war is working, I get bad team mates who stop painting in the last 30s or ignore the one squid who broke through the front and give away free wins but i never meet people botting for money with inkstrike from the spawnpoint.

Anyway, they're botting for money with inkstrike and tenacity.

MustelaFuro
May 6, 2007

Evolution: Reproduction of the fit enough.
That seems stupidly inefficient.

No. 1 Callie Fan
Feb 17, 2011

This inkling is your FRIEND
She fights for LOVE
Some shots of the upcoming amiibo.

https://twitter.com/AmiiboNews/status/729313645897895937

Tengames
Oct 29, 2008


The Callie and Marie ones look great, don't think I need to buy a 2nd version of the other 3 though.

MustelaFuro posted:

Is that what Kill La Kill is about?
kill la kill is anime fanservice taken to the logical conclusion: clothes are the enemy and the goal is to make people naked.

Cialis Railman
Apr 20, 2007

MustelaFuro posted:

When I say identical, I mean they had the same username too.

I'm pretty sure two players can have the same screen name, so long as their NNIDs are unique.

e: Actually, I KNOW this to be true, I've seen it happen. There is or was a tumblr that collects Splatoon usernames, and I've seen screenshots of lobbies that are all the same name as a joke.

Cialis Railman fucked around with this message at 21:52 on May 8, 2016

zolthorg
May 26, 2009

I usually mimic my friend by stealing his name and outfit for variety once or twice a month.

Also in retrospect if that inkstriking bot was in ranked mode sitting around then they are probably also tanking their rank pre-splatfest so they can roll through the low ranks instead of getting stuck with a 40-50% winrate at s rank / 1600 splatfest power

Tengames posted:

The Callie and Marie ones look great, don't think I need to buy a 2nd version of the other 3 though.

kill la kill is anime fanservice taken to the logical conclusion: clothes are the enemy and the goal is to make people naked.

Actually its an anime about female puberty and conflict resolution and the logical inversion of the 2 male character rivalry which is 99.99% homoerotic.

Shifty gimbal
Dec 28, 2008

Hey you... I got something to tell ya
Biscuit Hider
The dynamo roller: still ridiculously powerful

MustelaFuro
May 6, 2007

Evolution: Reproduction of the fit enough.
Squading in the discord BTW

Ratoslov
Feb 15, 2012

Now prepare yourselves! You're the guests of honor at the Greatest Kung Fu Cannibal BBQ Ever!

MustelaFuro posted:

Is that what Kill La Kill is about?

Kill La Kill is a anime about two lesbian sisters who team up to scissor their mother.

codenameFANGIO
May 4, 2012

What are you even booing here?

Ratoslov posted:

Kill La Kill is a anime about two lesbian sisters who team up to scissor their mother.

Well. Happy Mother's Day.

Cialis Railman
Apr 20, 2007

MustelaFuro posted:

Squading in the discord BTW

Did I miss it?

E: Think I did. :( That's what I get for playing MoO! :v:

Cialis Railman fucked around with this message at 01:11 on May 9, 2016

Deltron 3030
Jul 23, 2006

I submit that you took that baseball, stashed it in your unusually large vagina, and walked right on out of here!

Kabanaw posted:

I agree, and when my team gets the tower it should just teleport to the farthest point on the track we reached.

Eh I get your point, but it's not proportional.

Say it's the start of the game and your team gets down to 20. Now if the other team controls the zone(s) for a literal instant before it flips back out of control, your lead suddenly got cut in half.

Seems like the equivalent of the tower or rainmaker teleporting backwards the instant the trailing team gains control.

Deltron 3030 fucked around with this message at 23:19 on May 9, 2016

Rack
Aug 5, 2003

I've misunderstood what a lion is.


Grimey Drawer

Rexroom posted:

If you can't keep a zone under control long enough for a KO, you don't deserve to win. :colbert:

Even though you're Team Callie, :yeah:

I always took it as giving the other team a chance to come back. If they're good enough to break your streak, you get dinged. It's not enough to control the zones, you have keep the other team down.

kidfresca
Dec 31, 2007

You're kidding, right?

John Lennon, Singer of The Beatles. He wrote the song "Imagine" and was shot and killed some time in the eighties.

Fuck has the WHOLE WORLD GONE CRAZY!

Deltron 3030 posted:

Eh I get your point, but it's not proportional.

Say it's the start of the game and your team gets down to 20. Now if the other team controls the zone(s) for a literal instant before it flips back out of control, your lead suddenly got cut in half.

Seems like the equivalent of the tower or rainmaker teleporting backwards the instant the trailing team gains control.

That's already what happens when the other team gains control. A team having 'control' of the objective is different from a team contesting the objective.

The enemy team....
Contests the objective: Your timer stops ticking down, the tower stops moving, your rainmaker carrier dies
Controls the objective: You get a penalty timer, the tower moves back to mid, the enemy team pops the rainmaker and either resets it or advances it

The only time this system really fails is when a team controls the zone with brief concessions for a majority of the match only to see the other team manage to control it for one large chunk of time later in the game, but you can't really call that any different than the rainmaker making a mad dash for the lead or a team chaining together super jumps for only one real tower push.

zolthorg
May 26, 2009

When is inkling getting added to Overwatch.
And gyro controls to dual shock 4, whaever happened to the """Six axis"""
At least I can move the Ult to the proper button, R3. Which is ironic to say after my first 4 month of premiere console shooting experience blaming deaths in Splatoon off of a bad button being used to activate bubbler.

MustelaFuro
May 6, 2007

Evolution: Reproduction of the fit enough.
I want to ink the walls. I want to see that.

PaletteSwappedNinja
Jun 3, 2008

One Nation, Under God.

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Takoluka
Jun 26, 2009

Don't look at me!



The correct answer could not be more obvious.

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