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geebsMonday night TV commentary:
A new ep of Heroes, let's start with the people who's stories we can sum up quick first. We finally see Niki and Micah again. Turns out DL is indeed dead. Niki has "something she needs to do", so they leave Vegas and she drops Micah off in Nawlins with Lt. Uhura (what's with the star trek stunt casting?). Then she goes to see "that guy" Sammy Jenkis, the man with the golden touch. They claim they can cure her, but first she has to do something for them first. (please say re-enact that whipped cream bikini scene for Varsity Blues)
Anyways, Sylar is alive. Turns out it was as simple as Candace absconding with his dying form. Since Missy Peregrym is on Reaper now, they had someone else playing Candace. Oh, and she goes by Michelle now. Well, went by Michelle. Even though Sylar seems to be sans powers, he can still kill people with his bare hands and makeshift cutting implements. So he kills her and takes her power. We see that she's really a fattie, but those who read the online novel already knew that. In any case, Sylar doesn't seem to get her power, and we see he was being held in the ass end of nowhere.
Boring Wondertwins story- Alejandro gets caught trying to steal a car, so Maya goes to the police station and kills everyone (okay, there's only three people there) to break him out. Well, Alejandro resurrects everyone and they get away with some American being held there. They drive off in a Nissan Rogue with a "Go Conquistadors" sticker. Wait, is that the team name of Claire's new school? Acutally, is this her stolen car?
Peter in Ireland. Mcbrother wants Peter to distract some guards while they rob and armored car. Peter's mind reading kicks in, and he senses one of Mcbrother's cronies is going to betray him and take the money for his own. Peter says so, but Mcbrother believes his man loyal and takes his word over Peter's. Anyways, during the robbery, Peter teeks an armored car to protect them during their getaway (something only Caitlin sees) Then, of course, the one guy betrays her brother and shoots Peter dead. Only he regenerates and tries to force choke the cronie to death until Caitlin stops him. But now he's one of them, and even gets the clan tattoo, which he heals of course, but not before it turns into the s-symbol. Peter feels bad because he almost killed the guy and Caitlin's all, "You would've stopped even if I didn't tell you" and "you're a good man". And he's all "what if the box says I'm not" so she's all, "if you like who you are now, then who cares about the past" and they kiss.
Ando finds a hidden compartment in the Kensei sword, containing scrolls Hiro wrote to him detailing his ancient Japanese adventures. He gets Kensei to beat the 90 angry ronin to retrieve the fire scroll, solidifying his hero status and putting him on the path to creating his legend. Of course, he (Hiro) is in lurve with the swordsmith's daughter, so it pains him having to play Cyrano for Kensei. In any case, thinking his job done, he says he has to return, despite Kensei being all, "You're my conscience!" So he's about to, but then he see Kensei and the girl and changes his mind, deciding to stay.
Claire confronts West on what he saw, trying to play it off. But he's relentless, even talking about lizard girls in class, making Claire run off and cry. She's all "fine!" and admits she's a freak, and he's all, "Don't cry lizard girl" and they fly off. In the middle of the school. In broad daylight. The online novel explained it away weeks ago, when West narrates that "People are too self-involved to look up," so no one seems to notice him flying. Of course, to people who don't read that, they're all "WTF, he just flew in plain sight!" In any case, he carries her to the beach, and even though he's been a total jerk-ass to her, she kisses him. Well, obviously, she has daddy issues, and West can fly like her real dad, so its prolly an Oedipus thing. Then she notices the marks on him, and he tells her he was once grabbed by someone and lost a day of his life. He'll always remember the guy though, the guy with the horn rimmed glasses! Claire is shocked!
Owel, Mo's back in NYC, and he and Matt do their best impression of a gay couple (could they seem any more like gay life partners in that kitchen scene?). The company has set Mo up with a new lab, in Mystery Sock's old studio apartment. He manages to find the last of the 8 paintings. Which appears to be HRG with a bullet through his eye, with some blond (Claire?) making out in the background. He sends it via camera phone to HRG, who's visibly shocked. Of course,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
isabel79 brings up the theory that its really Sammy Jenkis, as he also wears glasses. And if these are paintings of the old guard (which King Midas appears to be part of) getting killed, that would totally fit. Ooh, and maybe the blonde is actually Niki, given they were shown talking together on the phone at the same time that Mo was telling Noah about the painting.
Not much to say on Chuck since its not really plot heavy. I do enjoy that they always have Sarah in the pigtails and that outfit now. spgv('Nice!') And heh, that catfight between her and La Ciudad? Those shorts La Ciudad had on were ridiculous! But seriously, what kind of disguise is that? Its supposed to make her slip by unnoticed, and if any straight guy saw a hot-ass looking delivery girl walking by, they're not gonna ignore her!
What's in the box in Prison Break? No, its not Peter's identity. Its Dr. Sara's decapitated head. What?! I was suspicious she was off the show when they would never show her face and show weird pictures of her and you only hear her on the phone. Linc doesn't tell Mikey though, so he can focus on breaking them out. Mike says they need help from the gravedigger, so Linc goes to work on that.
Heh, Sucre's back at Linc's hotel room, making a fake id for himself so he can get work as a picker or something. Linc needs his help as a translator since he can't speak Spanish. Then Sofia shows up demanding to help. Linc's all, I'll take the hot hispanic chick for the translator instead, and Sucre's like, mebbe I'll stick around.
Anyways, they try to bribe the gravedigger, who wants 15 grand. Linc doesn't have 15 grand, so he asks Susan B for it. She shows up, and the guy demands more money, so she smokes him. She tells poor dumb Linc that he was just going to backstab them once he got all the money he could. All is not lost though, as they get Sucre to take over the position. Turns out they need him to spray the fence with whatever they spray the corpses with in order to start disintegrating it. But heh, I forgot to mention, there's an emotional moment in the hotel room where Linc yells at Sofia that they chopped Sara's head off (wouldn't she be all, who the hell is Sara? I don't think anyone told her they had anyone besides LJ hostage?) This might've pushed Sucre towards helping (that and the hot-ass latina). But I was thinking it would be hilarious if Linc forgot to tell Sucre that Mike doesn't know about Sara, so Sucre would be all, "Sorry about Sara!" one of these days, and Michael will be all, "what?!"
Anyways, he uses Sucre Jr's cross to cut power to the prison, which he uses to get Lechero to get him outside to fix. It was all a ploy so he could fix the electric fence. Bellick tries to get in good with Lechero, saying he saw Michael burying something out there, and tells him tales of Fox River and how he thought Mikey was doing him a favor and was really just trying to bust out. So what he thought was Michael hiding something was really him just fixing the wires. Bellick gets hot coffee poured on his back for his stupidity. Lechero still doesn't trust Michael though, and watches Michael like a hawk when he goes to power the place back on. Thus, Michael can't pull out the cross to make power come back on. Luckily, Lechero gets his one thug to start roughing up Michael when the power doesn't return, allowing Michael to surreptitiously remove the cross and return power, claiming "transformer delay".
Meanwhile, Mahone's on a wild goose chase for a felt tip pen for Michael while seeing Haywire's ghost. Ghost of Haywire's all, Michael's gonna betray you, kill him. Luckily for Mahone, T-bag just murdered the jail's resident drug dealer to take over his racket and offers Mahone some drugs to make him more cogent (which he doesn't take, yet). In any case, Mahone sees Mike left the pen he found for him in his old cell. Thinking Mike is giving him the runaround by making him look for pens, he threatens to shiv Michael (showing Mikey just how easy he could murder him in his cell before Michael even knew what was coming) if he backstabs him again.
Warriors Orochi commentary: Slowly been getting 4ths and maxing out characters. Though as I've said before I've been slowed down trying to get a "perfect" weapon for each character. ice-bolt-flash-slay-range-agility-brave-might is a good choice. But it really does vary from character to character. Even at ice 10, some characters never freeze anyone, which does have me wondering if there's some sort of affinity thing. Like Cao Cao seems to have an affinity to death (a throwback to his ridiculously uber-powerful dw3:XL incarnation, where his 4th had death element perhaps?) Also, as I've said, range doesn't work on everyone, since it only extends your weapon's range on the triangle portions of you attack, and just the actual weapon. So there are a number of people who don't benefit from it. Ling Tong for example- his T and SST+, the triangle attacks are kicks, so those are unaffected. His SSST, he does that flip and stomp that creates a shockwave (the diameter of which is not increased by range), his SSSST he does an uppercut type attack that also creates a tornado (again, tornado not increased by range) and his SSSSST he pauses and does a kind a jump step while swinging his chuks, creating a big explosion in front of him (also not increased by range). Thus you can drop range for him.
Additionally, agility can mess up some DW characters SSSST moves. If its the kind where the hit box that send the enemies up in the air is all around them, its fine. But some, who only uppercuts people in front of them, for some reason too much agility will make the hit BEHIND them. Ma Chao and Zhou Tai are like this. Eh, I only use Zhou Tai's triangle attack and r1 attacks anyways. And dropping agility is not worth making his T attack slower (because its his best move at high speeds) Without agility, it takes 2 seconds to come out (yes, i counted). Whereas with agility, it comes out instantaneously. Ma Chao, even though he's kinda slow, his moveset isn't that great, so I don't like losing that uppercut feature in case I need to juggle someone.
I used to think bolt was something nice to have, but if range, agility, and ice didn't have any problems you could drop it for something else that may be more effective for that character's moveset, like air or multi (more on that later). But I've come to learn that shocking stun bolt does can keep enemies off your back just enough to give you slightly more breathing room on harder levels when you're getting mobbed. So, I'd actually give up ice over bolt now, as its nice to freeze enemies, but if the particular character's percentage is low, or he can't really capitalize on ice because the hit that freezes them is part of an attack string that takes your character far enough away that he can't attack the frozen guy, its not worth it.
Air is effective on characters who can hit an enemy up and juggle with the triangle hits of attack strings (remember, those bonuses only come out on the triangle hits). Usually, this means they can do a SST+ after their ST or SSSST (for DW characters). But its also good for SW characters who have an STTT that kicks the enemy up in the air and his them several times before knocking them back down (i.e. Nobunaga and Musashi). So for these kinds of characters, it may be good to switch out something not as effective for air.
Multi I just discovered as being the shiznit for certain characters- it makes the cheap-ass triangle attacks of Diao Chan, Gan Ning, Zhou Tai, and Wei Yan even cheaper and deadlier. Its not good for characters with shockwaves, but it is really good for characters who have multiple hit triangle attack strings that have element attached. You can tell its working when your character has kinda glowy kinda translucent after-images when attacking. Anyways, the best thing about it is that the main effect is like the enemy getting hit multiple times by your elemental charge attacks. So it jacks up your chance of freezing someone tremendously, and makes slay monstrous. It does knock people back a bit though, so it can mess up certain combos. But for many cases, its a pretty effective thing to have.
All in all, there's a lot to consider there when putting the right attributes on your weapon.
A new ep of Heroes, let's start with the people who's stories we can sum up quick first. We finally see Niki and Micah again. Turns out DL is indeed dead. Niki has "something she needs to do", so they leave Vegas and she drops Micah off in Nawlins with Lt. Uhura (what's with the star trek stunt casting?). Then she goes to see "that guy" Sammy Jenkis, the man with the golden touch. They claim they can cure her, but first she has to do something for them first. (please say re-enact that whipped cream bikini scene for Varsity Blues)
Anyways, Sylar is alive. Turns out it was as simple as Candace absconding with his dying form. Since Missy Peregrym is on Reaper now, they had someone else playing Candace. Oh, and she goes by Michelle now. Well, went by Michelle. Even though Sylar seems to be sans powers, he can still kill people with his bare hands and makeshift cutting implements. So he kills her and takes her power. We see that she's really a fattie, but those who read the online novel already knew that. In any case, Sylar doesn't seem to get her power, and we see he was being held in the ass end of nowhere.
Boring Wondertwins story- Alejandro gets caught trying to steal a car, so Maya goes to the police station and kills everyone (okay, there's only three people there) to break him out. Well, Alejandro resurrects everyone and they get away with some American being held there. They drive off in a Nissan Rogue with a "Go Conquistadors" sticker. Wait, is that the team name of Claire's new school? Acutally, is this her stolen car?
Peter in Ireland. Mcbrother wants Peter to distract some guards while they rob and armored car. Peter's mind reading kicks in, and he senses one of Mcbrother's cronies is going to betray him and take the money for his own. Peter says so, but Mcbrother believes his man loyal and takes his word over Peter's. Anyways, during the robbery, Peter teeks an armored car to protect them during their getaway (something only Caitlin sees) Then, of course, the one guy betrays her brother and shoots Peter dead. Only he regenerates and tries to force choke the cronie to death until Caitlin stops him. But now he's one of them, and even gets the clan tattoo, which he heals of course, but not before it turns into the s-symbol. Peter feels bad because he almost killed the guy and Caitlin's all, "You would've stopped even if I didn't tell you" and "you're a good man". And he's all "what if the box says I'm not" so she's all, "if you like who you are now, then who cares about the past" and they kiss.
Ando finds a hidden compartment in the Kensei sword, containing scrolls Hiro wrote to him detailing his ancient Japanese adventures. He gets Kensei to beat the 90 angry ronin to retrieve the fire scroll, solidifying his hero status and putting him on the path to creating his legend. Of course, he (Hiro) is in lurve with the swordsmith's daughter, so it pains him having to play Cyrano for Kensei. In any case, thinking his job done, he says he has to return, despite Kensei being all, "You're my conscience!" So he's about to, but then he see Kensei and the girl and changes his mind, deciding to stay.
Claire confronts West on what he saw, trying to play it off. But he's relentless, even talking about lizard girls in class, making Claire run off and cry. She's all "fine!" and admits she's a freak, and he's all, "Don't cry lizard girl" and they fly off. In the middle of the school. In broad daylight. The online novel explained it away weeks ago, when West narrates that "People are too self-involved to look up," so no one seems to notice him flying. Of course, to people who don't read that, they're all "WTF, he just flew in plain sight!" In any case, he carries her to the beach, and even though he's been a total jerk-ass to her, she kisses him. Well, obviously, she has daddy issues, and West can fly like her real dad, so its prolly an Oedipus thing. Then she notices the marks on him, and he tells her he was once grabbed by someone and lost a day of his life. He'll always remember the guy though, the guy with the horn rimmed glasses! Claire is shocked!
Owel, Mo's back in NYC, and he and Matt do their best impression of a gay couple (could they seem any more like gay life partners in that kitchen scene?). The company has set Mo up with a new lab, in Mystery Sock's old studio apartment. He manages to find the last of the 8 paintings. Which appears to be HRG with a bullet through his eye, with some blond (Claire?) making out in the background. He sends it via camera phone to HRG, who's visibly shocked. Of course,
isabel79 brings up the theory that its really Sammy Jenkis, as he also wears glasses. And if these are paintings of the old guard (which King Midas appears to be part of) getting killed, that would totally fit. Ooh, and maybe the blonde is actually Niki, given they were shown talking together on the phone at the same time that Mo was telling Noah about the painting.Not much to say on Chuck since its not really plot heavy. I do enjoy that they always have Sarah in the pigtails and that outfit now. spgv('Nice!') And heh, that catfight between her and La Ciudad? Those shorts La Ciudad had on were ridiculous! But seriously, what kind of disguise is that? Its supposed to make her slip by unnoticed, and if any straight guy saw a hot-ass looking delivery girl walking by, they're not gonna ignore her!
What's in the box in Prison Break? No, its not Peter's identity. Its Dr. Sara's decapitated head. What?! I was suspicious she was off the show when they would never show her face and show weird pictures of her and you only hear her on the phone. Linc doesn't tell Mikey though, so he can focus on breaking them out. Mike says they need help from the gravedigger, so Linc goes to work on that.
Heh, Sucre's back at Linc's hotel room, making a fake id for himself so he can get work as a picker or something. Linc needs his help as a translator since he can't speak Spanish. Then Sofia shows up demanding to help. Linc's all, I'll take the hot hispanic chick for the translator instead, and Sucre's like, mebbe I'll stick around.
Anyways, they try to bribe the gravedigger, who wants 15 grand. Linc doesn't have 15 grand, so he asks Susan B for it. She shows up, and the guy demands more money, so she smokes him. She tells poor dumb Linc that he was just going to backstab them once he got all the money he could. All is not lost though, as they get Sucre to take over the position. Turns out they need him to spray the fence with whatever they spray the corpses with in order to start disintegrating it. But heh, I forgot to mention, there's an emotional moment in the hotel room where Linc yells at Sofia that they chopped Sara's head off (wouldn't she be all, who the hell is Sara? I don't think anyone told her they had anyone besides LJ hostage?) This might've pushed Sucre towards helping (that and the hot-ass latina). But I was thinking it would be hilarious if Linc forgot to tell Sucre that Mike doesn't know about Sara, so Sucre would be all, "Sorry about Sara!" one of these days, and Michael will be all, "what?!"
Anyways, he uses Sucre Jr's cross to cut power to the prison, which he uses to get Lechero to get him outside to fix. It was all a ploy so he could fix the electric fence. Bellick tries to get in good with Lechero, saying he saw Michael burying something out there, and tells him tales of Fox River and how he thought Mikey was doing him a favor and was really just trying to bust out. So what he thought was Michael hiding something was really him just fixing the wires. Bellick gets hot coffee poured on his back for his stupidity. Lechero still doesn't trust Michael though, and watches Michael like a hawk when he goes to power the place back on. Thus, Michael can't pull out the cross to make power come back on. Luckily, Lechero gets his one thug to start roughing up Michael when the power doesn't return, allowing Michael to surreptitiously remove the cross and return power, claiming "transformer delay".
Meanwhile, Mahone's on a wild goose chase for a felt tip pen for Michael while seeing Haywire's ghost. Ghost of Haywire's all, Michael's gonna betray you, kill him. Luckily for Mahone, T-bag just murdered the jail's resident drug dealer to take over his racket and offers Mahone some drugs to make him more cogent (which he doesn't take, yet). In any case, Mahone sees Mike left the pen he found for him in his old cell. Thinking Mike is giving him the runaround by making him look for pens, he threatens to shiv Michael (showing Mikey just how easy he could murder him in his cell before Michael even knew what was coming) if he backstabs him again.
Warriors Orochi commentary: Slowly been getting 4ths and maxing out characters. Though as I've said before I've been slowed down trying to get a "perfect" weapon for each character. ice-bolt-flash-slay-range-agility-brave-might is a good choice. But it really does vary from character to character. Even at ice 10, some characters never freeze anyone, which does have me wondering if there's some sort of affinity thing. Like Cao Cao seems to have an affinity to death (a throwback to his ridiculously uber-powerful dw3:XL incarnation, where his 4th had death element perhaps?) Also, as I've said, range doesn't work on everyone, since it only extends your weapon's range on the triangle portions of you attack, and just the actual weapon. So there are a number of people who don't benefit from it. Ling Tong for example- his T and SST+, the triangle attacks are kicks, so those are unaffected. His SSST, he does that flip and stomp that creates a shockwave (the diameter of which is not increased by range), his SSSST he does an uppercut type attack that also creates a tornado (again, tornado not increased by range) and his SSSSST he pauses and does a kind a jump step while swinging his chuks, creating a big explosion in front of him (also not increased by range). Thus you can drop range for him.
Additionally, agility can mess up some DW characters SSSST moves. If its the kind where the hit box that send the enemies up in the air is all around them, its fine. But some, who only uppercuts people in front of them, for some reason too much agility will make the hit BEHIND them. Ma Chao and Zhou Tai are like this. Eh, I only use Zhou Tai's triangle attack and r1 attacks anyways. And dropping agility is not worth making his T attack slower (because its his best move at high speeds) Without agility, it takes 2 seconds to come out (yes, i counted). Whereas with agility, it comes out instantaneously. Ma Chao, even though he's kinda slow, his moveset isn't that great, so I don't like losing that uppercut feature in case I need to juggle someone.
I used to think bolt was something nice to have, but if range, agility, and ice didn't have any problems you could drop it for something else that may be more effective for that character's moveset, like air or multi (more on that later). But I've come to learn that shocking stun bolt does can keep enemies off your back just enough to give you slightly more breathing room on harder levels when you're getting mobbed. So, I'd actually give up ice over bolt now, as its nice to freeze enemies, but if the particular character's percentage is low, or he can't really capitalize on ice because the hit that freezes them is part of an attack string that takes your character far enough away that he can't attack the frozen guy, its not worth it.
Air is effective on characters who can hit an enemy up and juggle with the triangle hits of attack strings (remember, those bonuses only come out on the triangle hits). Usually, this means they can do a SST+ after their ST or SSSST (for DW characters). But its also good for SW characters who have an STTT that kicks the enemy up in the air and his them several times before knocking them back down (i.e. Nobunaga and Musashi). So for these kinds of characters, it may be good to switch out something not as effective for air.
Multi I just discovered as being the shiznit for certain characters- it makes the cheap-ass triangle attacks of Diao Chan, Gan Ning, Zhou Tai, and Wei Yan even cheaper and deadlier. Its not good for characters with shockwaves, but it is really good for characters who have multiple hit triangle attack strings that have element attached. You can tell its working when your character has kinda glowy kinda translucent after-images when attacking. Anyways, the best thing about it is that the main effect is like the enemy getting hit multiple times by your elemental charge attacks. So it jacks up your chance of freezing someone tremendously, and makes slay monstrous. It does knock people back a bit though, so it can mess up certain combos. But for many cases, its a pretty effective thing to have.
All in all, there's a lot to consider there when putting the right attributes on your weapon.
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Date: 2007-10-10 01:37 am (UTC)Brave-Slay-Might-Flash as always-musts?
And: Agility, Air, Bolt, Fire, Ice, Multi, Range
...are the switchable ones, depending on the character?
And if any of the above will work on a given character, then Agility-Bolt-Ice-Range ?
Drain, Absorb are the two you'll never need (given that characters heal musou + health while they are inactive)
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Date: 2007-10-10 02:14 am (UTC)Rage just sucks, because if you're that low, you're prolly soon to be dead anyways, so its not like the increase in att is useful. Absorb is supposedly useful for people who would have occasion to use an r1 special that requires musou, but it doesn't seem to "absorb" fast enough.