Oguri Cap: The Rock 'n Roll Years

--G.
took six hamburgers, Scotch on ice, nicotine for breakfast just to put me right
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I love that "Cheval Grand" is literally just French for "big horse". :)

--G.
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And as these things usually go, she's also a closet* mangaka.

*As opposed to a closeted mangaka, though given her aversion to male trainers...

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CdrMike, Overwatch Reject

Does that make Symboli Rudolf Commissioner Gordon?

--G.
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And then for CMs, this one in particular is coming down to having a synergistic team comp that works together to support each other or has a particular strategy in mind. For example, a Runaway Suzuka with 2 more Front Runners who don't take the typical skills that expect them to be in the lead but instead take the Pace skills that aim at spots 2-4, so they all hit their accelerations in late race and zoom past the Suzuka(s).

Yeah, see, I just play the damn game, I'm not out here trying to develop a missile guidance system.

-G.
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The Daiwa Scarlet missile knows where it is at all times because it knows where it isn't...

(Umamusume-themed version of the Turbo Encabulator sketch doesn't quite come together in head)

--G.
"Such an instrument is the Vodka Encabulator."
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Based on the YouTube commentary, it isn't just the tactics. They take apart the track and explain why Angling and Scheming is important for this race, or how Straight Descent will come in handy, et cetera.

I feel like a FNG private listening to a general explain how the battle hinges on taking this hill to dominate their access to Point Bravo, and I'm barely past "what happens if my gun jams?"

Peter Eng
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Insert humorous comment here.

See also: the comments on the Turbo Encabulator video comparing the sensation of watching it to waking up halfway through an engineering lecture. :)

--G.
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Angling and Scheming works on every track. :)

Victoria por Plancha, Red Shift, Shooting for Victory, Straightaway Spurt, and Straight Descent are the common accels that are track dependent.

I repeat my statement above. I was just making up an example, it wasn't meant to represent actual strategizing.

Although, it's possible that I picked Angling and Scheming because it keeps getting mentioned in every video about The Next Champions' Meet, What To Do, And Why.

Peter Eng
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Same. For my hubris, I'm being reminded that I do not put nearly enough blood, sweat, tears, and other assorted bodily fluids into doing more than improving on where I was the day prior.

Graded League is a monument to man's arrogance.

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CdrMike, Overwatch Reject

Forget it, I'll just try to build some 3x2 stat sparks and wonder what I did that resulted in A-rank Umas suddenly appearing.

Peter Eng
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Umabless RNG, matchmaking was kind and gave me a room that got hardcountered by what I brought.

Tonight I decided, "OK, I'll do one more try on the Christmas banner and then get on with my life. I've lived this long without Oguri Cap, I can live a little longer."

At which point, naturally, I got two of her in the same 10-pull.

That RNG sure is R, huh.

--G.
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Yeah, that was me earlier this evening. Anniversary event on Arknights means not one but two limited time operators to pull for. Last anniversary, I burned through all my reserves and had to mug Wallet-kun to get both. This year? Got both in a single 10-pull.

I think I just burned up all my luck for the rest of the year.

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CdrMike, Overwatch Reject

And we just went to the hot springs on her very first career. Didn't win the Unity Cup, but za'kest.

--G.
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Pretty much. The girl simps hard and her unique skill actually gives her a speed boost for being surrounded by other umas. Only real difference between Digi and Ollie is she's strictly a "look, don't touch" yuri fan and Ollie is very much a sex maniac.

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CdrMike, Overwatch Reject

Sex-maniac status aside, I don't think Ollie is as... weird about it as Digital. There's something deeply unnerving about Digital's simping style that I just don't get from Ollie.

--G.
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You know how Ollie will just randomly start talking about another Holomem to the point that you can practically hear the drool coming out the speakers? Yeah, that's Digi when she's acting normally, but that's also about as far as she'd go. She's not "uma-sexual" in the strict sense, she's just obsessed about all things uma. There's one in-career encounter where she says she commissioned a doujin from Dober of King, but it was strictly about her daily life and nothing else.

The punchline? It's implied by Digi herself that her trainer is also an otaku and that's why they get along so well. Which has been carried to its logical extreme...that she is Trainer's kami-oshi and that's why he agreed to work with her.

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CdrMike, Overwatch Reject

There's also Crimson Night, Moonlight White, a related idea which is also very good.

And for the visually-inclined in the audience there is Uma Musume Pretty Derby - The Story of a Trainer Who Has Ended Up Becoming an Uma Musume in a What-If Scenario

And yes, it's a very web novel title.

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CdrMike, Overwatch Reject

Oddly enough, I got her while trying to pull for Christmas Ogurin.

Sadly, I had to pass on the Irish Princess as Tama dropped yesterday and she quickly gobbled up by the few carrots I'd stockpiled. So she gets to join the list of "ones that got away."

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CdrMike, Overwatch Reject

Pulled on same banner, got Archer Rudolf.

I feel like that Grim Reaper meme with the claw machine, screaming "Is Taiki Shuttle even IN here?!"

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CdrMike, Overwatch Reject

Yeah, I kind of feel like that about Flash. And TM Opera O.

--G.
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I asked that question because my brain works that way sometimes, even when I know that my latest answer to a question nobody asked will leave listeners like "None of those words are in the Brundecral."