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Banned for being a heretic in denial. Join the heresy! We got cookies.

And here I thought that the M would be an upside down W for Weeb, to indicate an evil weeb. Like, you routinely commit war crimes when playing anime chess, so that makes you an M. ...am I seeing you fraternising with an somebody who has shown anti-royalist (and therefore anti-imperial) tendencies? He-re-sy! He-re-sy! He-re-sy!

Look, I already renamed myself into some unrecognisably different name for a lark at some point. I don't just want to regurgitate old jokes that weren't even that funny to begin with. Anyway... WHAT HAPPENED TO DORCAS?!?! Kaga did it first! I'm choosing Nohr for the tiddies, hurhurhur. Lucina? More like FLATcina, amiright? KILL EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM!!!!!!

You leave me out of this

Does not pray to the Emperor, which makes him a heretic. Well done!

German actress and chansonière Hildegard Knef played in several 20th Century Fox movies between 1951 and 57, the first being Decision Before Dawn. She was also supposed to be nominated as Best Supporting Actress for the Oscars, but 20th Century Fox's chairman Joseph Schenck was told that a German nominee so soon after the war would, well, not work. According to Knef, Schenck completely lost his temper over that and, as a little revenge, brought her the Grauman's Chinese Theatre to get her hand- and shoeprints into the concrete - an honour that Knef, by her own admission, didn't really deserve after playing in one Hollywood movie, and not even in a leading role. As you can see, her name was a bit "Americanised", much to her chagrin. It's not like "know" and "knight" are incredibly obscure words, which would make the removal of the initial "K" rather pointless even if it was silent in the "correct" pronounciation (which, of course, it isn't). Right before coming to the US of A, Hildegard Knef played the leading role in maybe the most scandalous movie in Germany at that time. In Die Sünderin ("The (female) sinner"), she played the prostitute Marina (gasp!), who at the end of the movie assists her boyfriend's (they lived in sin! Double-gasp!!) suicide (triple-gasp!!!) - he's a painter who's suffering from imminent blindness - and then commits suicide herself (quadruple-gasp!!!!). Oh, and Knef has a short nude scene, too (quintuple-gasp!!!!! - but the few seconds of boob footage did not contribute to the following outrage). In the FSK (Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle / "voluntary self-control") committee, who did and does the German equivilent of PG-13 etc., the representatives of both protestant and catholic church resigned because they were unwilling to work with a committee that would allow a movie depicting, nay, glorifying such sinful acts (hehe, "act") to be shown to the public. Cologne's archbishop Joseph Frings encouraged people to actively disrupt showings of the movie, and people actually threw stink bombs into the cinema halls, or released white mice into them. Funnily enough, this turned out to be a Streisand effect when Barbra was only nine years old. I haven't watched Die Sünderin, but contemporary and later reviews agree that... it just wasn't a particularly good movie. If not for the outraged reactions by the two big churches, it probably would have remained in obscurity, instead of becoming a fairly important object in German history. And I'm actually serious about that last part. Three years later, in 1954, the conservative minister of family matters, Franz-Josef Wuermeling, called for a Volkszensur ("people's censorship" - Volks- generally has somewhat nationalistic vibes), but later that year, the German supreme court ruled that freedom of speech and art is not overruled by some people's religious sensibilities.

Banned for damning people. Can I interest you in some nice, peaceful heresy instead?

Banned because I can't even. How odd.

Just posting this to point out that it's absolutely hideous and disgusting that Twitter used "3:25 nachm." instead of 15:25 here. Ew.

Said "America" an aweful lot in his last post. Like a weird person. Ninja'd me. Like a weird ninja.

My takeaway here is that you brush your teeth using seeds. Have you gotten the most sparkle with sesame, sunflower, or pumpkin?

Learned a lot about the United States from playing six Ace Attorney games, which play in the very American United States of America (in America).

Well, she went against the explicit wishes of basically everybody above or equal to her in the hierachy when saving those prisoners in the swamp. I find that Micky regresses from somebody with independent thoughts to somebody "just following orders" to, eventually, Yune's sock puppet, making way for Ike to take over as Mr Super Awesome Shonen Protagonist again. And that last part is something that irks me about FE in general, the general inability to allow a female character to have and remain in a leading role. I will say that I can see good reason for her to not act on her own morality: Izuka accused her of actively trying to outperform Pelleas in order to take the throne for herself, and if I recall correctly, the soldiers hailing her after the swamp map signaled to her that yeah, OK, maybe I could come across that way. From that angle, I would understand that she defers to Pelleas's authority even against her own judgement. However, I don't think that this line of thinking is brought up at all in pt.3. And besides, I don't think she even speaks up behind closed doors because of the whole "he means well" sense that she's getting. (Plus, it really annoys me that what brings the plot forward end up being Sothe acting especially precious-waifu-must-protect over Micaiah. Have I mentioned lately that I don't like RD!Sothe?)

To make things worse (for me, anyway) - Micky doesn't question Pelleas at all. Pelleas reveals the Blood Pact when Sothe is feeling particularly protective and threatens to remove Micaiah from the army. Micaiah just "senses" that Pelleas "means well" or something like that and then goes a-murderin' Laguz. Yes, it turns out that there wasn't a good choice for them to make, but Micaiah did not know that. I always liked RD pt.1 a lot despite what you're describing because it feels like pale imitation of PoR. Because it is exactly that in-universe: PoR is the story of the rightful queen and her loyal, charismatic general - pt.1 is Izuka setting up the same story with Pelleas as the rightful king and Micaiah as his loyal, charismatic general. Except that everything then goes to shit, because Pelleas is a significantly weaker personality than Elincia (something that pt.2 then drives home), because Micaiah utterly outshines him in every aspect, and because Pelleas's Nr. 2 is that treacherous, evil bastard who sets everything on fire because his ego isn't sufficiently stroked. --- N-thing that Micaiah isn't a Mary Sue at all and I hope that I never called her one in the past

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Is shiny, I think, although I'm too lazy to look up Salamence's colour schemes.

That describes my attitude quite nicely, actually. Sothe's insistence that Micaiah that fragile-little-flower-must-protect always really annoyed me. Although I find myself agreeing with @Shrimpolaris as well - I never really liked Micky as a whole even outside of her interactions with Sothe. Not to the detriment of RD's story (well, I do think that her blind loyalty in pt.3 goes against her characters, especially because she blindly agrees to kill sentient creatures that she sympathises with), but I can't really sympathise with her.

Yeah, it would definitely make her even weaker. But I personally just don't mind having a Wendy-tier unit in a game. For an actually "viable" Knight, a Rausten soldier joining in the midgame in the 12-15 level range would be a much better idea, of course.

I have to admit that I never finished that challenge run :whistle: I started it for SacSto right after doing the S-Potion one (which I thought was kinda nice, if only to balance when to use and when to bench Seth) and it fizzled out around the midgame. The idea with "bench at Lv.20" wasn't to disallow using promoted characters, but to give the option to use a promoted char over a capped unpromoted one - i.e. making the entire thing a bit easier. But I don't really know how exactly the level curve for BinBla and BlaBla would look like. Looking at the numbers from my ranked HHM run, I'd expect promoted characters on the field in the lategame. For reference, the last bookkeeping I did for the SacSto run looked like this: As you can see, I'm still some ways away from hitting Lv.20 with anybody. From what I remember, Ross and Amelia (yes, really) were doing quite well for themselves because the trainees actually have somewhat higher stats than "normal" characters at the same level ...actually, I still have the save file. I might finish the run at some point. SacSto is a fzb challenge if you don't out-stat the enemies as heavily as Seth does in a regular playthrough.

Oh, I didn't mean the Sacae flavour specifically, I just like archers on horseback in general. The uniquely high reach that Shin/Sue/Rath with a Longbow have is neat. But I guess a Ranger prepromote would work just fine - bonus points for King Hayden being of that class already, so you don't even have to think of a new character.

Double-banned, to balance things out

We Forgot The S-Potions: As soon as you don't deploy everybody to a fight anymore, characters aren't allowed to deploy on two successive maps. I'm Really Worried About My XP Rank: You're only ever allowed to deploy the lowest-leveled characters possible. For BinBla and BlaBla with their bigger casts, you could allow yourself to retire unpromoted characters when they hit level 20.