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Explosions
Apr 20, 2015

Iretep posted:

Anything with half a brain

Not a huge issue in this universe.

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Stairmaster
Jun 8, 2012

aqua is good and kind

Vengarr
Jun 17, 2010

Smashed before noon

Stairmaster posted:

aqua is kinda good

AVeryLargeRadish
Aug 19, 2011

I LITERALLY DON'T KNOW HOW TO NOT BE A WEIRD SEXUAL CREEP ABOUT PREPUBESCENT ANIME GIRLS, READ ALL ABOUT IT HERE!!!
"Thank you very much, Aqua-sama."

:laffo:

Nitrousoxide
May 30, 2011

do not buy a oneplus phone



はい和真。

nielsm
Jun 1, 2009




Good thread/username combo.

StandardVC10
Feb 6, 2007

This avatar now 50% more dark mode compliant
Well, Aqua and Kazuma did a good thing, even if it was by accident and kinda ended up not helping them out very much.

And I'm glad that the speculation from S1 was borne out, and Megumin really does come up with a different incantation for Explosion every time, and workshops new ones while she's not casting.

StandardVC10 fucked around with this message at 22:30 on Jan 25, 2017

Raenir Salazar
Nov 5, 2010

College Slice

StandardVC10 posted:

Well, Aqua and Kazuma did a good thing, even if it was by accident and kinda ended up not helping them out very much.

And I'm glad that the speculation from S1 was borne out, and Megumin really does come up with a different incantation for Explosion every time, and workshops new ones while she's not casting.

The cat falling over was great.

Beasteh
Feb 12, 2012

I'M QUESTIONING MY EXISTENCE AND THIS IDIOT JUST WANTS TO PEE OFF A WALL

TURN UNDEAD TURN UNDEAD TURN UNDEAD (nature's beauty) TU-

Slime
Jan 3, 2007
Rainbow vomit makes a triumphant return.

Vague speculation: Lurk is one of those luck based skills that for most adventurers are downright useless, but is overpowered in Kazuma's hands because he has a high luck stat. I wonder if casinos exist in a world where someone's luck can be quantified? Would they ban him from entering based on it?

Slime fucked around with this message at 23:47 on Jan 25, 2017

Poil
Mar 17, 2007

Aqua looks like a goddess you could take out in public and not be ashamed of. At least for a few moments. :v:


Why do I have this sneaking suspicion that Darkness is actually just being forced to wear pretty dresses and attend tea parties?

ViggyNash
Oct 9, 2012

Poil posted:

Why do I have this sneaking suspicion that Darkness is actually just being forced to wear pretty dresses and attend tea parties?

I'm 100% sure this is what's happening. She went in there wanting to be tortured. Instead, I suspect she's getting married.

Slime
Jan 3, 2007

Poil posted:

Aqua looks like a goddess you could take out in public and not be ashamed of. At least for a few moments. :v:


Why do I have this sneaking suspicion that Darkness is actually just being forced to wear pretty dresses and attend tea parties?

This is definitely what the joke is going to be.

Arianya
Nov 3, 2009

Even when Megumin isn't the focus of the episode she manages to get the best bits to herself.

Chomosuke for best support character.

Also I guess now we know what Wiz will look like after a few centuries. Lich-despisers can rejoice.

Beasteh
Feb 12, 2012

I'M QUESTIONING MY EXISTENCE AND THIS IDIOT JUST WANTS TO PEE OFF A WALL

I'm glad that Kazuma desu is still a thing

Slime
Jan 3, 2007

Conot posted:

Even when Megumin isn't the focus of the episode she manages to get the best bits to herself.

Chomosuke for best support character.

Also I guess now we know what Wiz will look like after a few centuries. Lich-despisers can rejoice.

That's a couple of centuries just sitting around in a dungeon though. As long as she looks after herself, I bet Wiz will look fine in a few centuries.

Also we're two for two on liches being cool and good people, I'm starting to think liches being evil is just anti-undead bigotry.

Yinlock
Oct 22, 2008



:same:

MonsterEnvy
Feb 4, 2012

Shocked I tell you
I should note that Megumin could be better with her explosions if she pumped up her mana. As this would let her cast it more often. But instead she pumps up explosion itself which in turns increases it's mana cost.

MonsterEnvy
Feb 4, 2012

Shocked I tell you

Dust here had a funny story arc he came around in.

Poil
Mar 17, 2007

MonsterEnvy posted:

I should note that Megumin could be better with her explosions if she pumped up her mana. As this would let her cast it more often. But instead she pumps up explosion itself which in turns increases it's mana cost.
Wouldn't she need to really dump a ton of points into mana to get a second cast? At that point it might be better to just slowly increase mana to be just enough for one cast of a progressively bigger explosion. Also it leads to more powerful explosions so it's better this way. :v:

El Burbo
Oct 10, 2012

MonsterEnvy posted:

I should note that Megumin could be better with her explosions if she pumped up her mana. As this would let her cast it more often. But instead she pumps up explosion itself which in turns increases it's mana cost.

She doesn't want to cast lots of explosions, just a single enormous explosion

drilldo squirt
Aug 18, 2006

a beautiful, soft meat sack
Clapping Larry
Rainbow vomit is cool as hell.

Verizian
Dec 18, 2004
The spiky one.

El Burbo posted:

She doesn't want to cast lots of explosions, just a single enormous explosion

I wonder if the skill system allows for multicast meta-magic procs? Cast explosion, get a 5% chance to proc a second one at 33% size and strength beside it, which has another chance to proc a smaller one, and so on. With an infinitesimally small chance of covering the entire world in an infinite number of explosions. Chances are if that's allowed under the system, she's already bought the skill. 50/50 on it igniting the entire atmosphere or just giving everyone on the planet a bad sunburn.

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007
uh, why would she do that when instead she could pump more skill points into making a bigger explosion? the cast speed increase is probably the closest megumin will ever get to an efficient choice.

Arianya
Nov 3, 2009

By the way, I know people dislike talking about it, but the animation quality seemed much better this episode. Those pretty explosions :unsmith:

NotALizardman
Jun 5, 2011

Stairmaster posted:

aqua is good

krnhotwings
May 7, 2009
Grimey Drawer
I'm glad that the animation budget is properly apportioned toward Kazuma's finger thing.

AnacondaHL
Feb 15, 2009

I'm the lead trumpet player, playing loud and high is all I know how to do.

Slime posted:

Rainbow vomit makes a triumphant return.

Vague speculation: Lurk is one of those luck based skills that for most adventurers are downright useless, but is overpowered in Kazuma's hands because he has a high luck stat. I wonder if casinos exist in a world where someone's luck can be quantified? Would they ban him from entering based on it?

Tangent: Yes, in this world. Every major casino does this (notably in Las Vegas), but it's reactive. If you get lucky and keep winning, they give you comps like a free hotel room and stuff to get you off the floor, because it saves them more money than the risk of your luck streak continuing. Every casino has their own detection and monitoring algorithm for this because... it's their job. The quantification can be generalized as the number of standard deviations you are above the mean.

And I've heard stories of people getting preemptively banned from playing blackjack, but that's less because of luck and more because of card counting.

Actual thread contribution: I love the OP so much, have a roundhand

Yinlock
Oct 22, 2008

krnhotwings posted:

I'm glad that the animation budget is properly apportioned toward Kazuma's finger thing.

also the GOD BLOW



the animation budget being spent entirely on the most pointless things is the most konosuba thing possible

Yinlock
Oct 22, 2008

Poil posted:

Wouldn't she need to really dump a ton of points into mana to get a second cast? At that point it might be better to just slowly increase mana to be just enough for one cast of a progressively bigger explosion. Also it leads to more powerful explosions so it's better this way. :v:

i think mana only increases with level, so as her mana increases she just keeps pumping up explosion to just below the point she'd die from it

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007
the full array of passives available is unclear, and that is unlikely to ever change because they are completely unimportant to the story

MonsterEnvy
Feb 4, 2012

Shocked I tell you
Well we know that Aqua can't level up in Int and Luck cause her stats have actually capped.

Roland Jones
Aug 18, 2011

by Nyc_Tattoo
Yeah, as I saw it described elsewhere she's basically a max-level character except she can still level to get skill points (to spend on useless crap). So, she's very powerful... Except for her dump stats and somewhat focused skillset (offensively she has the anti-undead stuff and water attacks, and it turns out lots of things are resistant/immune to water and also aren't undead) making it so most of the time she's not capable of ending things on her own she's basically useless, particularly when combined with her personality.

Paracelsus
Apr 6, 2009

bless this post ~kya

ViggyNash posted:

I'm 100% sure this is what's happening. She went in there wanting to be tortured. Instead, I suspect she's getting married.

Or even more horrifying, he wants her to be his dom.

Yinlock
Oct 22, 2008

Roland Jones posted:

Yeah, as I saw it described elsewhere she's basically a max-level character except she can still level to get skill points (to spend on useless crap). So, she's very powerful... Except for her dump stats and somewhat focused skillset (offensively she has the anti-undead stuff and water attacks, and it turns out lots of things are resistant/immune to water and also aren't undead) making it so most of the time she's not capable of ending things on her own she's basically useless, particularly when combined with her personality.

there's probably holy attack skills or whatever or maybe even just a weapon skill but she needs to min/max for maximum party-trick efficency

Iretep
Nov 10, 2009
Oh nice, i was worried theyd skip this one since it didnt show up in season 1. Its a nice story since itll be the only time Aqua seems to do something serious. Only side story still missing is the party swap one which probably wont be shown since the characters that got introduced from it have already been introduced.

Astro Ambulance
Dec 25, 2008

We might get it as a flashback episode? I hope it comes up at some point because I like that chapter.

AfroSquirrel
Sep 3, 2011

Iretep posted:

Oh nice, i was worried theyd skip this one since it didnt show up in season 1. Its a nice story since itll be the only time Aqua seems to do something serious. Only side story still missing is the party swap one which probably wont be shown since the characters that got introduced from it have already been introduced.

I think that one will probably show up in audio form.

Yinlock
Oct 22, 2008

Iretep posted:

Oh nice, i was worried theyd skip this one since it didnt show up in season 1. Its a nice story since itll be the only time Aqua seems to do something serious. Only side story still missing is the party swap one which probably wont be shown since the characters that got introduced from it have already been introduced.

that one's super-good but can really fit in anywhere

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GhostofJohnMuir
Aug 14, 2014

anime is not good

Josuke Higashikata posted:

Poor Aqua. Even when she's MVP, she still manages to cause issues.

she can puke like a champ though

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