#brackets rants

Anyone

(outside of @kitsun3imp0ster and like a few others)

here in Tumblr's Character Transformation/Character TF space (or at least has an interest in it).

THAT ISNT FURRY PORN OR GENERATIVE AI SLOP.

Aauugghhh.

I've got weird TF Moods (something that I want to TF into, in this case specific characters), I'm really picky, and I wanna talk TF with people ahkdadjhals

Oaauuggh. Aaauuuouugh. UUUEEEAAUUGH.

This is my first and only Deck-Builder game I have touched, so my ability to understand them at a glance, even with the in-game tutorials, is... poor, to say the least. I am also not using mods. And trying to look up guides has been a fruitless endeavor. The guides I find always seem to be:

A - Significantly out-of-date.

B - Don't actually describe the fight(s) or what previous cards/builds work well against them, instead discussing the pages they drop.

C - Are basically just "git gud lol".

D - Are so fast and vague that I can't understand them no matter how much I re-watch.

E - Are entirely built around end-game, where you can build much more cohesive strategies revolving around the Abno Pages on each floor.

So, my understanding is... lacking. I have ranged pages, but don't know how to effectively use them with what I have around them. And grinding books from other fights I struggle with to fight the Urban Plague fights, just to get evaporated by the fights and have to re-grind the books (and re-grind the books used to get those books, and re-grind the books used to get the books to get the other books...), and grinding for specific, supposedly "cheesy" pages with a low drop rate for multiple days without getting them, without being able to find any cohesive strategy as to which of the Floors I currently have are best for which fights, means that Urban Plague is starting to just piss me off lmao.

So, I am asking the Ruina players of Tumblr wtf I can do to not want to commit war crimes, without just going "Urban Plague is easy/git gud/use this endgame strategy lol". My non-deckbuilder-playing-ass is clueless. What Floor strategies are good for where I am? What are good early-game builds? Cohesion pls???

I'm a Warframe player, but these grinds suck lmao.

I have completed the Carnival (by the skin of my teeth) and Full-Stop Office. I've been slamming my head against Gaze Office and Dawn Office, and I struggled with (and continue to) the other two and with previous close-by encounters like the Stray Dogs and Molar Office.

Problems I have are that I either keep losing all of my rolls/clashes and are not able to deal damage/defend and just get evaporated in two or so acts, or I keep running out of cards and getting stomped because of it.

I'll be putting my current Abno pages for each Floor under the cut

If anyone is able to/tries to help me, many thanks in advance!

Title. The dashboard unfucker no longer works and the "real" Tumblr UI is still complete and utter ass.

Laggy as shit, none of the element placements make any sense, everything keeps breaking, everything is too fucking small...

They chose one of the worst possible poses for Elphelt's official character portrait art lmao. One of the big reasons I felt it was fake in the original leaks was because no text or "branding" symbols were visible on her design in the art... and now we have her cinematics and she DOES have text and symbols... on her chest (covered up by her boobs due to the specific angle they chose) and her shoulders (also covered up by the angle on both sides)!

Honestly, at this point, I'm mostly just pissed off at all of the information that's most likely permanently lost and all of the art that people who only used Reddit won't be able to recover. r/Warframe and its other associated subreddits have gone perma-private, and from what I've seen from lurking on the dormi.zone Lemmy instance there's been a bunch of backlash to migrating any of the information from the subreddit to the instance (or even on the wiki or forum) due to wanting it to "grow naturally". r/GuiltyGear seems to also have gone perma-dark with no signs of coming back... I feel worried for quupie. I hope they found another site outside of Reddit and Ko-Fi to post to, because the GG subreddit going private basically nuked their Reddit account.

And all of the alternatives people keep shoving in my face immediately turn me off. Raddle.me doesn't really have any of the specific communities I'm interested in (and it needs mods to make communities), Tildes.net is invite-only, Squabbles.io reminds me way too much of Twitter's interface which I find unusable, and I cannot wrap my mind around the clunky "you need to make individual accounts for each facet and if the instance you made your account on dies your account dies too" structure and constant infighting of the "Fediverse" (Mastodon, Lemmy, Beehaw, Kbin honestly seems the most tolerable of the lot but I just need to wait and see).

Misandry exists, some people just hate the existence of men of any and all stripes, it affects more than just men (like how misogyny affects more than just women), it isn’t some knee-jerk nightmare fear like arachnophobia or acrophobia, and goddamn I hate when this word-fear forces any discussion about the subject into talking in meaningless circles.

There’s a difference between personal usage and forcibly policing others. If you have a bad history with seeing the word “misandry” used, then you don’t have to use it! Just don’t treat people that do use it like the devil and force the usage of a word that doesn’t even vaguely mean the same thing, it makes you look like a jackass and makes coherent discussion of important matters impossible.