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Star Rail's year in review, first anniversary edition. Both accounts for you viewing and statistical pleasure. So much Luocha lmao... what can I say, Coffin-Ayato best healer. Fight me. Sit down, Gallagher, you know I love you but you just can't do what blondie does.

Story choices below the spoiler cut:

#tirsdenoriginals #tirsdenstarrail #star rail #year in review #annual trailblaze report #sampo #blade #welt #luocha

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Holy crap, I can finally auto-battle this stupid boss on the main account (and the f2p challenge gang can borrow Aventurine too while their own is building, wheee!). Gambler-kun broke this buzzy noise wide open, using the build I posted earlier; his meta defense build would be fine too. Ultimate crit pictured is his best so far (as I compose this and watch him in support mode on f2p he just did 51k lmao), he mostly got about 28k and the big hit was while bug-butt was debuffed pretty hard. Aventurine's follow-up damage shown is about average for this build; it really is inconsistent in general and I've seen it do less than that on a full screen of enemies, and more than that on one or two enemies.

Consumable item buffs are physical damage bonus (Enhancement Paste: Physical) and effect resistance (Jade Marrow Diffusion). Depending on their individual builds, each character's effect resistance is either close to or past 100% with Aventurine's shield plus that consumable. I used Aventurine's technique before the battle as well. Hanya buffs Clara so Aventurine's damage is all his own.

Oh, and I forgot to item-buff the f2p gang before one run and they still did okay. Omnomnom, Gold-mon go bom.

#tirsdenoriginals #tirsdenstarrail #star rail #swarm king #aventurine #hey Zhongli I found all your mora #some blonde turned it into an aerial weapon #wait AVENTURINE ARE YOU CHILDE

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The Fallout 4 graphics update is so impressive that I'm trippin' balls!

Actually, that might be Hancock's fault, butanyways. This is the Hub 360 apartment and uh, I think some textures are missing. As for other CC, the modern furniture pack wants an update but immediately crashes out to main menu as soon as it tries... that's a problem a lot of people have, according to a quick google.

"It just works."

#tirsdenoriginals #tirsdenfallout #fallout #fallout 4 #fallout 4 bug #game bug #bugthesda #floors are overrated #walls for that matter #and ceilings

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What are you eating there, bud? Wait, no... I don't want to know.

We'll ignore that Riddick has mutt chops, crispy squirrel bits, and iguana-on-a-stick in his inventory waiting to magically heal bullet wounds. Deeelicious!

It's amazing we finally got a patch with bug fixes that have been needed for so long they've become memes. VATS seems to be dropping for no reason a lot more now, though... I wonder if they actually fixed the VATS crash, I didn't see mention of it in the patch notes but also haven't tanked my system with it since Fallout 4 got updated.

#tirsdenoriginals #tirsdenfallout #fallout #fallout 4 #hancock #mmmm questionable calorie sources amirite

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Welp, he's done. For now. Substats can still use work, but that's the eternal grind. After much testing (over 2 heckin' hours), I've found that Aventurine's meta defense/support build is basically his crit build, but based off the numbers, DPS Salsotto ornaments up his damage a bit without tanking his shields hard. His defense literally boosts his crit rate due to one of his major trace unlocks, and I've included the in-battle stat chart at the end of this post to show how completely different his stats are with his shield in effect.

In this gear, he shields for about 1,580 and his best ultimate crit today was 28.9k, without using Bronya or Hanya's buffs. Follow-up damage is inconsistent across build tests but that's the RNG of not-100%-crit-rate and possibly also his concept of being a gambler in the first place. This is the main account version, the f2p challenge's Aventurine is already proving harder to build a crit ratio with (using an R5 purple light cone) but he's also got some bleh relics and I'm hoping to improve that sooner than later with the current 3x relic event.

#tirsdenoriginals #tirsdenstarrail #star rail #aventurine #go big or go home

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The closer you look, the more numbers appear.

This be one of my f2p challenge gang's favorite team comps attempting to fix Albedo's crit ratio. It's getting better... now if only he could get a crit rate hat that rolls actual crit damage in subs. At all. Noelle's hat is decent but we don't steal her gear. The dutiful maid keeps her scary, dutiful goodies.

Meanwhile, today I did EU's archon story quest from the start of Fontaine prison to the end / narwhal unlock, plus Arlecchino's story quest with them and the Asia no-wishing challenge. Her story quest got done with the main account on Wednesday and the f2p challenge yesterday, which is a grand total of four times in three days. Y'all get to be on bare minimum maintenance for the next few days, a'ight? A'ight.

#tirsdenoriginals #tirsdengenshin #genshin impact #f2p #f2p challenge #baizhu #dps baizhu #albedo #noelle #number cloud #mildly sick of genshin for some reason

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Making the kiddos fight their own battle on the No Wishing challenge.

Father one-shot Freminet right before the end of the story mode fight. She one-shot him twice during the max-level weekly boss variant, once about half way through phase two and once right before the end. I think I'll have them farm the level 80 variant, since it's quite a struggle on max and I have no idea if/when they'll even need the drops. That's been the case with Apep for quite a while now, even though they can technically out-DPS phase two on a good day... it just ain't worth the braincells.

#tirsdenoriginals #tirsdengenshin #genshin impact #the knave #arlecchino #freminet #forgive me father for I have given you a mechanical penguin to the face

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Those who live in glass houses... have pretty houses?

I hadn't planned on doing Vault 88 with Riddick yet, but got the inkling of at least breaking into the joint while trying to not die of a massive migraine yesterday morning. Somehow the distraction factor worked, and the end result is this lil' transparent township for a few lucky residents. Carrot lady mostly stands around repeating how DeLiCiOuS the damned soda is, and how I let her go on breaks all the time (news to me). At least I can use glass ceilings here since it's all technically indoors, and the settlers won't bitch about unsheltered beds.

I didn't even open up the other sections yet, gonna do that later with Danse I think. Still trying to slog through the rest of non-endgame Railroad content and I might just give up and go side with the Minutemen, but for now... "Yeah yeah, sure, give me another MILA and make me hike across the Commonwealth to kill critters in a location that Randolph Safehouse should have literally nothing to do with."

#tirsdenoriginals #tirsdenfallout #fallout #fallout 4 #fallout 4 settlement #fallout 4 settlements #vault 88 #stones don't affect Fallout glass anyways

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I put Father in Homa and a full HP Noblesse set. She likes the spear and disapproves of the rest. Sorry luv, but you need levels and the friendship farm team needs a Noblesse user. XD

I'm only getting her on the main account for now. Wish session results as follows, both 5-stars rocketed in early which is nice: Keqing C4 Arlecchino C0 Lynette C1-C3 Freminet C1-C4 Xiangling C6billion

#tirsdenoriginals #tirsdengenshin #genshin impact #arlecchino #father is home

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PAAAAAAAAAAAAM <3

I got actual work done this weekend but more importantly I drew PAM WHO DEATH FORGOT

#fallout #fallout 4 #pam #pam pam pam

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Graygarden finally got a proper build in Riddick's game, although the old version wasn't bad... adding some GNR peeps and the robots insisting on claiming beds meant it was easier to just add beds and make a pretty apartment building-esque thing in the process. So the old stairway to the overpass became structure for the new section, and everybody's happy with their beds. Probably.

Longfellow has been based here ever since I picked him up. Even though I've earned his perk since then, he's staying in the party until I find someone less faction-fiddly than Danse to haul around the Commonwealth. Needa do Bobbi's quest, then I can lock in Hancock and I'm thinking he might be my default minion to fight with once everyone's been perk farmed. Him or Gage... hmm.

#tirsdenoriginals #tirsdenfallout #fallout #fallout 4 #fallout 4 settlement #fallout 4 settlements #graygarden #land of the bot-bots

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When the stats are too good to not use.

Riddick: "Their names are Snuggums and Woogums, and if you look at them funny, I will fucking kill you."

#tirsdenoriginals #tirsdenfallout #fallout #fallout 4 #riddick #nuka world #pack legendary armor #vats cost reduction is vats cost reduction

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Me: A'ight Riddick, your Survival difficulty redo is VATS blitz melee.

The legendary loot:

He has an exploding combat rifle in his stash too. Still hoping for a good disciples blade to drop, but I'm not sure that's even in the loot table since he hasn't been to Nuka World yet... though Pack armor has been dropping, so...? Fingers crossed.

#tirsdenoriginals #tirsdenfallout #fallout #fallout 4 #seriously though what the fuckin' fuck lol

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Oop, there's AR59 popping for the No Wishing challenge in Scara this morning. So that puts them at four months out from AR60, roughly. Will they get a new character to play with by then? Let's hope so. Kuki would be awesome because I reeeally need someone for superconduct who is not Lisa... and yes, electro Traveler sort of works but it's still not great. Beidou would be decent although I'm probably stuck waiting for Lantern Rite to snag her. As for other elements, let's see... Chevreuse... Kirara... c'mon Hoyo, let it be someone useful. :3

#tirsdenoriginals #tirsdengenshin #genshin impact #no wishing challenge #ar59 #they want to trade the level reward fates for tea and a nap

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Build/pull progress tier list for the Genshin Impact f2p challenge. Gonna copy/paste what I put on hoyolabs cuz I needa stop procrastinating and work on my mail-in ballot for the 2024 primary. Thus:

Not sure who I should build next, maybe Freminet though this account is verrry phys-heavy so there's a lot of fighting over Pale Flame lol. Built chars have level 90 weapons and their own gear, plus three characters have alternate sets: Zhongli is my main and runs phys by default though he does have a healer-lulz build, Baizhu usually runs DPS and has a beefy support alternate, and Shinobu runs either full EM hyperbloom or full support Tenacity heals.

Oh and while checking Traveler's builds I discovered he has some work done in electro, guessing I was building him for superconduct before I finally got Shinobu… honestly can't remember. His one dendro crown is in normal attacks because I used to run him phys too.

Next banner to pull will be Baizhu for C1. A lot of the chars in the "probably won't pull" tier of this list I have on my main account, or plan to pull there. I like the variety difference and focus shift for this account. And I'm out of description characters so… meow! :D

#tirsdenoriginals #tirsdengenshin #genshin impact #genshin impact f2p challenge #f2p #f2p challenge #1000 characters is not enough #yes that is hoyolabs limit and comments get it way worse

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I hear this is called "roleplaying."

Remove all stats from the game.

No-one can roll anything to do anything. Get fucked.

#story stick for the win #rpg #roleplaying game #for a slightly less unstatted game you could try monostat #just one stat #for everything

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When Spiral Abyss plays itself.

#tirsdenoriginals #tirsdengenshin #genshin impact #spiral abyss #barbara #nahida #traveler #dendro traveler #aether #kuki shinobu #EU alt server dendro cheese #we'll ignore that they couldn't get through 12-3 because hoyo keeps moving the goalposts