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So I've been seeing stuff on my tumblr dash with Rose from Doctor Who and Effy from Skins in some new show they were in. It seems like Rose is a teacher, and Effy is rocking the schoolgirl outfit. And I thought they were manips, but whatever this show is, they engage in some sort of lesbianism? Searching around, this all was from some ep of some British show called "True Love"? Is it weird that nowadays, when hearing about two lesbians, I'm more interested in hearing about a romantic story between them, as opposed to HLA?

WO blather- So I saw a reworked ranking system on the boards today. Even though I like who I like, I don't know why I care about the tiers. In this or any game, so what if one character is better than the other, that doesn't mean I won't play them? Like in fighting games, most of the time, even though they try to balance everyone out, there's usually one or two characters who are clearly that much better than the others. But if everyone played them, that's kinda boring. I remember back in the days when there were still arcades, with everyone and their mother playing Ken/Ryu, or Akira Yuki or King (the Tekken one, not the SNK one). Its like you dominated with the best character in the game. cbv('Good for you!') Plus, isn't it more of an accomplishment if you can win over such a character with a lesser ranked character?

But I digress, I noticed Orochi, Orochi-X, and Susano'o are ranked around the top. Well sure, they're the bosses of the game! I actually haven't played them yet. I'm sure they're cool and all, but it just seems kinda cheap to play as the character who is supposed to be able to kick everyone's asses. Of course, they do eventually lose in the story (and some stages, you're taking 8 orochis at once, so they can't be that tough!), so they're not that dominant! I dunno, it just doesn't seem very fair. Amusingly enough, I don't actually feel that way about Lu Bu. I mean, he is supposed to be the greatest warrior in DW, but Ida know if its because he dies so early in the story, so he doesn't seem like a "boss". Of course, I never felt like any of the other character were boss-like either. Or mebbe its just DW/SW didn't really feel like it had any "bosses", despite guys like Lu Bu and Honda having their own theme music all, you should be scared of these guys. It just had people that were around.

TV commentary:

Pretty Little Liars- Nice to see the Liars (well, Hannah) interact with Lucas again. I mean, its no secret I was pushing for her and him to get together, but it seemed like they just swept the fact he was even a character under the rug for most of last season. So its nice to see it wasn't forgotten. And not just them two, but the stuff with them and Caleb and Mona.

And interesting, the Liars finally confront Jenna about the whole no longer blind thing, but then she begs them to keep her secret because she's being harassed to and they owe her (for being the ones who blinded her in the first place!) Which, I'm surprised they're so trusting given Mona played the whole, "Oh, A is after me too!" card, and we saw how that turned out.

Heh, it is amusing how Emily saw her test score and know it couldn't be right, and figured it was A mucking with things to get her in big trouble later. Because, well, that's exactly like something A would do. Even more funny is she uncharacteristically confronts Ella about it rather than acting all shifty. And Ella is so surprised at this that she realizes her mistake and tries to come clean. Of course, Ezra hears about all this and takes the rap for it to clear their names.

Well, it only worked because the accusation against Ella was that she was showing favoritism to her daughter's friend, nothing about filling out Emily's test for her. Ella and Emily were going to come clean about the specifics, but it didn't seem like the principal knew. What he did know was the accusation was vague and would just be a headache, so having Ezra cook up a lie about how this alleged favoritism was him seeing Ella while she was grading and inappropriately discussing Emily's test worked. Because I guess the principal could care less about stopping cheating and more taking an out where he could say "Hey, I addressed this!"

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So, it looks like Red and Belle are series regulars now on OUAT? That's cool, particularly the Belle part, because that means more Rumbelle!

So, this tumblr post about VA and the Warblers getting new soloists every year had me thinking. I mean, obviously from a casting standpoint, its because they're not the protagonists of the story, so of course they'd be led by a changing cast of guest stars. But yeah, both VA and the Warblers center the performances around a really strong lead singer and everyone else just dances around them providing backing vocals. Which is a legit tactic. But as I said in the Nationals ep, a lot of people were complaining that VA totally beat ND, and I disagree. Yes, Unique sang damn good, and the choreography was amazing. But that doesn't excite me. I've always said I loved the mixed vocals of ND. Not to discount dancing or anything, because that's a lot of hard work to move like they do, but in a music performance, I'm more impressed by different vocalists working a song together in a pleasing way. I mean, for one thing, the competition is mainly about the singing, and multiple good singers are always better than one. Again, not to discount dancing, but to have a whole group of people who could perform lead if they wanted to seems like a better collection of talent than one really great singer and a bunch of great dancers who can at least harmonize in the background.

WO blather- One tactic I've found works with Muneshige against single officers- stun them with a c6, then finish them off with the c9. And in the case of huge crowds with multiple officers, just spam c8 until you can thin the crowd and then isolate the enemy officer and do the c6 to c9 thing. I think the SW characters that get up to c9 are my favorite to play, just because of the wide variety of moves- him, Ginchiyo, Mitsuhide, Kojiro, Shimazu (among others) they just have so many things they can do!

I'm kinda annoyed that getting the gold abilities is random, because there are particular abilities I want for particular characters. And it sucks to get 8 weapons and not have any of them have the thing you want. Like I still don't have brilliance for Kojiro, and it seems like that ability works best on those SW characters with the really long attack strings. Also, verity for Masamune, since I'm spamming his musou anyways. Now the thing I'm curious about is, does he need both that AND destruction +10 to make his musous that much more strong?