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Christi Junior
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Your Occasionally Friendly Neighborhood White Nationalist. Actually hiding my Power Level. Nintendo and anime fan. Deus vult Atheist. Lover of memes and quality lewds. Gross, abusive troll, and horrifically cruel. Blocked by 60 people in a single day, more than a thousand total blocks. Not a girl, and neither are MtF trannies. Not American. Blocked on Gab by failed beekeeper Andrew Torba. Fuck your pronouns, fuck Sony and fuck Jewkraine. Pyra is Best Girl.
Replying to Avatar Rasterman

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Maybe it was his polite Jap way of saying he doesn’t want to turn Kirby in to a fat black lesbian.

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqe8vknlqfajjexgag4v3sjjy8yeuluyrwd35s47fdyejwqs99z4wscdpaqn nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqz06u9efgk7fa9z06gr602pp2xpn2w5dcyc2zdq9xsjaenxe69a3qdp029t Sakurai made the obvious point /ourguys/ keep making: Japanese media became popular in the West precisely because it was DIFFERENT from the Western slop, so what the hell is there to gain from copying its failing, inferior competition?

Trump needs to start ignoring these Traitor judges, and any Republican objecting to him doing so needs to be purged. National survival is more important than rule of law, and there's nothing lawful about activist communist judges anyway.

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-World Champions

Cool, how many different countries are competing in the NFL?

I don't think Roger Goodell expected Trump to win, lol.

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#BestVidyaGirlContest 2024 Post-Tournament Analysis (Round 2 Matches)

ROUND 2, MATCH 1:

1st Seed Samus Aran (Metroid) VS 16th Seed Tifa Lockhart (Final Fantasy VII)

Samus: 88 votes

Tifa: 64 votes

Holy shit, what a match to kick off round 2! Samus VS Tifa might just be THE single most iconic vidya Waifu matchup imaginable. Samus is obviously the top gaming heroine out there, and Tifa is definitely a contender when it comes to the #2 spot (though maybe not on Fedi). Both of them are also badass action girls who successfully avoid veering into Girlboss territory, and thus remain extremely appealing to male gamers. The fact that these girls for a long time were on opposite sides of the console wars (until Final Fantasy VII was finally made available on a Nintendo system in 2019) just helped make their rivalry all the more spicy.

That said, it always was something of a one-sided rivalry, due to Samus just being in a league of her own among female vidya characters. In the GameFAQs Character Battles (after which this very contest is modeled), Samus and Tifa have squared off 4 times. One match was a narrow Samus win. The other 3 matches were *comfortable* Samus wins. And keep in mind, FF7 was at one point THE game that defined GameFAQs, so Tifa arguably enjoyed home field advantage for these matches. On Fedi, things have looked a lot worse for her – based on their respective vidya girl contest season 1 performances, Samus was projected to *break 70%* on the JRPG martial artist!

However, that’s what made round 1 of this current tournament so fascinating – Tifa didn’t just outperform Samus here, she so thoroughly outclassed the Metroid heroine that you’d think this match was gonna be a total blowout in her favor! Sure, you might argue that a single match doesn’t mean much in the face of so many years of history that shows Samus being the more popular girl, but on this occasion the power gap was so huge that for Samus to win in round 2, we likely needed not just her to seriously step up her game, we also needed Tifa to have at least partially run out of steam. As such, for once this classic matchup had real potential for either a spectacular upset, or an unusually competitive battle.

For all that buildup, what we ended up with was sadly a massive disappointment; as always seems to happen when people are foolish enough to doubt her, Samus went out and immediately silenced said doubters. The bounty hunter babe immediately took a solid lead, and during the early stages of the match she was Doubling Tifa remarkably consistently – we’re talking 8-4, 12-6, 18-9, hell, eventually even 30-15! And really, by that point the match was already over; Samus is NOT a girl you pull off epic comebacks against, she’s just too popular, people like and respect her too much, her appeal is too universal. To beat Samus, you basically have to manage to keep up with her for 24 hours straight – and the longest any girl in these contests has ever lasted is 2 hours. So yeah…

Tifa did show signs of life, and eventually did a good job lowering Samus’s percentage lead, but her vote lead was never seriously threatened. Tifa was getting decent enough match thread support, much more than in last season’s disastrous outing against Shanoa, but nothing like the lovefest she experienced in her round 1 match. In the end, this was neither Super Tifa or Shitty Tifa, but Regular Tifa, and Regular Tifa clearly stands no chance against Samus.

Even so, in the grand scheme of things Tifa did perform admirably, assuming that the Etna match was a fluke and that Samus was now back to her old self. Breaking 40% on Samus would normally mark Tifa as a legitimately Elite competitor, and considering how last season’s projections had her failing to break 30%, she’d obviously improved by leaps and bounds. Also, do you know how the last couple of Samus VS Tifa matches on GameFAQs went? That’s right, both matches ended 58% - 42% in favor of Samus, so Tifa has gone from horrendously underperforming on Fedi to being right in line with reasonable (maybe even optimistic) projections.

But obviously, the big story here is Samus being back on track. While I at this point of the tourney still didn’t believe that she was already back to 100% power (nowadays I’m much more inclined to believe she was), this match obviously represented a massive improvement over the Etna embarrassment. Remilia in the quarterfinals now seemed like a cakewalk (unless the vampire girl also managed to recover lost strength), so the real question was whether Pyra or 2B (most likely Pyra) would pose a problem in the semifinals.

Oh, and while this particular bout proved to be a major letdown, we’d already by the second match of round 2 see things get a lot more interesting.

ROUND 2, MATCH 2:

8th Seed Remilia Scarlet (Touhou) VS 9th Seed Lappland (Arknights)

Remilia: 65 votes

Lappland: 72 votes

With Samus back to looking like her old, unbeatable self, the rest of Remilia’s journey for this tournament seemed painfully predictable: defeat yet another Gacha girl in round 2, and then lose the rematch with Samus in the quarterfinals. Clean and simple. After all, this is Remilia we’re talking about here: not only is she an Elite Touhou girl, last season she came closer than any girl ever has to actually give Samus a run for her money. The idea of Remilia losing to a Gacha girl who needed to fully mobilize the Fluffy Tail Mafia in order to beat a Fire Emblem side character seemed laughable.

And sure enough, when the match began Remilia seemed to be in full control, taking a commanding 6-1 lead in the opening minutes, which would later on become 10-5 and then 15-10. However, Lappland suddenly woke up and decided to show that she could be just as bloodthirsty as the vampire – before Remilia knew what hit her the seemingly-solid 5-vote lead had been reduced to a single vote, 16-15, and then the vampire and the wolf were tied at 17-17. For the next few minutes Remilia had to struggle desperately just to prevent Lappland from pulling away, which she barely managed until the score was 20-20, only for Lappland to then shoot up to a 25-20 lead!

Remilia was on the ropes, and she seemed unable to recover, as Lappland gradually keep increasing her lead more and more, eventually going up 32-26, 34-27, 37-28 and finally 44-32! The Fluffy Tail Mafia was again out in force, and our DRC admin’s Plappland posting (aka Lappland hentai) was working its magic. Remilia fans tried to fight back, and eventually managed to gain some traction - Lappland’s 12-vote lead remained stable by the 90-vote mark at 51-39, but then a surge of Remilia votes had cute the wolf girl’s lead in half by the time we’d reached the 100 vote milestone, at 53-47. Lappland however fired back, putting a halt to Remi’s momentum and going up 59-48. Remilia fans were mobilizing and trying to get a comeback going, but Lappland just would not allow it – every time Remilia seemed to have something going, Lappland would come back and safeguard her lead. Remilia *was* making some progress, but it was agonizingly slow, and ultimately too little, too late, as Lappland would eventually go on to win by 7 votes.

This was a HUGE upset, and marked a number of Firsts for this tournament: It was the first time ever a Newcomer had defeated a Veteran, it was the first time a Gacha girl had made it to the quarterfinals, and Remilia was also the first Top 8 seed to fall in this season of the tournament (though by the end of round 2, she’d have plenty of company!). Quite frankly, I still can’t really explain what happened to Remilia, who looked utterly unrecognizable to her old 2023 self. Even accounting for Touhou and Meme girls being in decline, Marisa and Cirno still performed far better than the vampire Loli, so that doesn’t explain this chokejob fully.

I mean, the Castlevania Dominus Collection had come out the week before – maybe that acted as something of a debuff for Remilia the Vampire? Jokes aside tho, Remilia had also looked pretty pathetic against Hina, so I really don’t know what went wrong for her this season.

As for Lappland though, this was an outrageously impressive performance, all the more so when you consider the Gacha girl tournament record: the 7 other Gacha competitors have a grand total of 1 win and 7 losses between them. That’s right – Lappland on her own has twice as many tournament wins as all the other Gacha girls combined! And keep mind, Lappland did this during a tournament season that not only saw Gacha girls weakening (2 tourney reps VS 6 last season), but also saw *Fluffy Tails* be a mere shadow of what they used to be (2 tourney reps VS 5 last season, not to mention how badly Tamamo turned out to have fallen off). Basically, Lappland defied all relevant trends to pull off her little miracle run – and against Samus in the quarterfinals, she’d even establish herself as being a shockingly legit competitor, not merely the beneficiary of a lucky bracket.

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