1/7 Oguri Cap

1/7 Belno Light

They should do a version of the Oguri figure in her grubby tracksuit from before she went to Tokyo Tracen. :)

--G.
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Pull twice on the Quest banner for the limited Grass and El: No luck.

Pull once on the Fuji banner: Get a magician and a masked Uma.

I have Calli luck!

>Pull twice on the Quest banner for the limited Grass and El: No luck.

I did one 10-pull on this one and got... wedding dress Maya?

Go home, Umamusume, you're drunk.

--G.
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>>Pull twice on the Quest banner for the limited Grass and El: No luck.
>
>I did one 10-pull on this one and got... wedding dress Maya?
>
>Go home, Umamusume, you're drunk.

And this is after the skipped every banner since drop other than Narita Brian (who I also pulled on the first draw). It's like I bank luck, blow it on a single pull, and then have to spend months banking up more luck to try again.

>also, that one makes me feel even more like a felon
>than that time I found out Soukaku is not a small-statured woman but
>in fact a child.

As opposed to the loli-baba Piper or the "really 700 years old" Qingyi?

Oh hell, I can't talk, I play Arknights and not only are several "meta" operators exceptionally-gifted children or child soldiers, but also include serial killers, eldritch abominations, several demi-gods, and a lich.

>As opposed to the loli-baba Piper or the "really 700 years old"
>Qingyi?

Don't forget Soldier 11 and Anby, who, conversely, look and act full-grown, but are really like... five? I forget if their agent stories actually said how long ago the flashback parts were, but it wasn't terribly long.

>Oh hell, I can't talk, I play Arknights and not only are
>several "meta" operators exceptionally-gifted children or child
>soldiers, but also include serial killers, eldritch abominations,
>several demi-gods, and a lich.

I am occasionally tempted to borrow a character design from that game, but I have yet to figure out how to justify changing UF's version of Surtr that drastically. :)

--G.
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>>Oh hell, I can't talk, I play Arknights and not only are
>>several "meta" operators exceptionally-gifted children or child
>>soldiers, but also include serial killers, eldritch abominations,
>>several demi-gods, and a lich.
>
>I am occasionally tempted to borrow a character design from that game,
>but I have yet to figure out how to justify changing UF's version of
>Surtr that drastically. :)
>
>--G.
>"Look, it's a long story, OK?"

You can wait until Endfield comes out finally(tm) and see if her alternate Laevateinn version in the far future works out better? :laughs:

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>>I am occasionally tempted to borrow a character design from that game,
>>but I have yet to figure out how to justify changing UF's version of
>>Surtr that drastically. :)
>>
>>--G.
>>"Look, it's a long story, OK?"
>
>You can wait until Endfield comes out finally(tm) and see if her
>alternate Laevateinn version in the far future works out better?
>:laughs:

Well, it'd still be converting a male flame giant embodiment of malevolence into a humanoid female who seems (from my limited exposure to the actual game) like she's nice enough. I feel like that would take at least a little explanation. :)

Alternately (and to swing back to Uma matters), I suppose I could take a page from the event that ended this week and just replace him with Golshi. I wonder how long it would take Asgard to notice?

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You could always go the Galacta route and say she’s his daughter, also named Surtr. You already have the many Zathras’, there’s precedent. :3

>You could always go the Galacta route and say she’s his daughter,
>also named Surtr.

Now I'm picturing the wave of consternation in Asgard when a visiting-card in that name arrives, as everyone boggles at the idea that he would show up there... and then the second wave of consternation when she shows up instead. :)

--G.
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>Well, it'd still be converting a male flame giant embodiment of
>malevolence into a humanoid female who seems (from my limited exposure
>to the actual game) like she's nice enough. I feel like that would
>take at least a little explanation. :)

Pick one:

- Loki's Magic
- Agnes' shady new drug
- Yukari is fooling around again
- Psi Corps conspiracy

>Alternately (and to swing back to Uma matters), I suppose I could take
>a page from the event that ended this week and just replace him with
>Golshi. I wonder how long it would take Asgard to notice?

Ohtori walks into the throne room, taking a knee before the throne and bows his head while asking for Surtr's guidance, the throne turns around to reveal...Goldshi in a cape and sporting a shit-eating grin. A flash goes off and Ohtori recovers just enough of his wits to realize it was Deadpool taking a pic of his shocked face.

DEADPOOL
"This one's going on THE WALL^TM!!!"

>>I feel like that would
>>take at least a little explanation. :)
>
>Pick one:
>
>- Loki's Magic
>- Agnes' shady new drug
>- Yukari is fooling around again
>- Psi Corps conspiracy

I think I am required by tradition and possibly federal statute to respond, "Templates like that are forbidden."

>Ohtori walks into the throne room, taking a knee before the throne and
>bows his head while asking for Surtr's guidance, the throne turns
>around to reveal...Goldshi in a cape and sporting a shit-eating grin.

"What is thy bidding, my master?"

"Get me a danish, and be quick about it!"

"... hah?"

>A flash goes off and Ohtori recovers just enough of his wits to
>realize it was Deadpool taking a pic of his shocked face.
>
>DEADPOOL
>"This one's going on THE WALL^>size="1"]TM!!!"

"That Time I Took Over Hell Accidentally"

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>I think I am required by tradition and possibly federal statute to
>respond, "Templates like that are forbidden."

It's an older meme, but it checks out.

>"What is thy bidding, my master?"
>
>"Get me a danish, and be quick about it!"
>
>"... hah?"

If it actually were the Arknights Surtr, she'd be demanding a bowl of ice cream.

>"That Time I Took Over Hell Accidentally"

The newest manga in the Bacon Comics line-up, from the creators of "I Landed In A New World And They Made Me A Starship Captain."

>
>"What is thy bidding, my master?"
>
>"Get me a danish, and be quick about it!"
>
>"... hah?"
>

"IPO secure database, or cherry-cream cheese?"

Peter Eng
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Now that Mihono Bourbon has joined the crew, I think I have enough natural sprinters who insist on running long races in my stable to start a support group.

--G.
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Fine Motion's lore is getting retconned

Background: One of the funniest pieces of lore that people observed was that there was a heavy implication that Fine Motion was Irish Royalty. Which said some very funny things about the state of Uma world alternate history. Looks like they finally understood/recognized that and are correcting it.

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>Fine Motion's lore is getting retconned
>
>Background: One of the funniest pieces of lore that people observed
>was that there was a heavy implication that Fine Motion was Irish
>Royalty. Which said some very funny things about the state of Uma
>world alternate history. Looks like they finally understood/recognized
>that and are correcting it.

Though the correction is that she's now the "descendant" of a defunct royal line. So the only thing that really changes is we address her as "ojou-sama" rather than "hime-sama."

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Wait, Mine Motion? .....isn’t that a Gradius boss? ....no, R-Type! It’s the boss of the hyperspace stage in R-Type Final, that looks like an egg and opens up like that one medieval torture device that....is shaped like an egg and opens up.

.....or a flower! Yes, a flower.

I did not get Fuji Kiseki. I am sad.

--G.
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>I did not get Fuji Kiseki. I am sad.

I only got her after skipping on everybody between her and Narita Brian. And proving my theory about blowing all my luck on pulling her, I just burned two months worth of carrot accumulation and still 80 pulls short of hitting the pity limit on Gold City. I'm not sure if I want her badly enough to go begging to Wallet-kun.

If they ever release a dub of the anime, I nominate Rin Penrose as TM Opera O's voice actress.

>If they ever release a dub of the anime, I nominate Rin Penrose as
>TM Opera O's voice actress.

Yeah, that'll work.

--G.
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BAKUSHIIIIIIN

That is all.

--G.
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Cancer Cup shockingly wasn't that bad. Plus, in the finals, I was able to show that idols really are the strongest. (Thank you favorable matchmaking RNG, everyone else I knew got skunked by whales or just blocked out)

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>Cancer Cup shockingly wasn't that bad. Plus, in the finals, I was able
>to show that idols really are the strongest.
>(Thank you favorable matchmaking RNG, everyone
>else I knew got skunked by whales or just blocked out)

Nice! I'm not sure if I got into the B-rank finals by sheer luck, or by the game rigging the dice.

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It's the latter half of October, so... time for swimsuit event, I guess?

--G.
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>It's the latter half of October, so... time for swimsuit event, I
>guess?

The banner originally came out in Japan on July 28, 2021. :)

>>It's the latter half of October, so... time for swimsuit event, I
>>guess?
>
>The banner originally came out in Japan on July 28, 2021. :)

Looking forward to the Santa suits next March, then...

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>>>It's the latter half of October, so... time for swimsuit event, I
>>>guess?
>>
>>The banner originally came out in Japan on July 28, 2021. :)
>
>Looking forward to the Santa suits next March, then...

Because of the schedule acceleration pulling it in, Christmas Oguri and Christmas Biwa are actually expected around January 10, 2026.

So they drop the swimsuit event and related banner, then a week later add our precious dojikko daughter Meisho Doto.

Dirty pool, Cygames!

>So they drop the swimsuit event and related banner, then a week later
>add our precious dojikko daughter Meisho Doto.
>
>Dirty pool, Cygames!

On the plus side, Special Week's swimsuit is super cute. And Maruzensky's is... other adjectives.

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>On the plus side, Special Week's swimsuit is super cute.

And it looks really funny when superimposed on her "I AM RUNNING HARD" animation.

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>On the plus side, Special Week's swimsuit is super cute.

I forgot to mention, I got Special Week's swimsuit version by accident. I meant to do a 10-pull on Meisho Doto's banner, misclicked, and robotically went through the completion without realizing I was on the wrong one until about 10 milliseconds after I'd committed to it. So, naturally, that pull had two rainbows--beach Spe-chan and a second wedding dress Maya.

So that happened...

--G.
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Just had a nightmare of a career run with Winning Ticket. Somehow she hit every mood-down and/or affliction event available. She got Night Owl twice. At one point she had Night Owl and Slacker stacked, I sent her to the Infirmary, she got rid of Slacker and immediately, in the same turn, picked up Migraine.

What with failures to cure, she spent at least seven turns in the Infirmary (I lost count), and lost several other turns to mood repairs. In the middle of all that, she had to run one of her goal races with Migraine and mood=Awful. Her Classic year was an unmitigated disaster, the kind of thing that there are probably still UmaTube retrospectives about.

We got to the hot springs anyway.

?????

--G.
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>Her Classic year was an
>unmitigated disaster, the kind of thing that there are probably still
>UmaTube retrospectives about.
>

This is the sort of thing that will lead fans to argue over whether it was her trainer that made the difference, or it was just Winning Ticket's drive to fight through everything that went wrong.

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>>Her Classic year was an
>>unmitigated disaster, the kind of thing that there are probably still
>>UmaTube retrospectives about.
>>
>
>This is the sort of thing that will lead fans to argue over whether it
>was her trainer that made the difference, or it was just Winning
>Ticket's drive to fight through everything that went wrong.

Well, she won the Kikuka Sho with a migraine and having missed most of the summer's worth of training, and I can't claim to have had anything much to do with that...

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>Just had a nightmare of a career run with Winning Ticket.
>Somehow she hit every mood-down and/or affliction event available.
>She got Night Owl twice. At one point she had Night Owl and
>Slacker stacked, I sent her to the Infirmary, she got rid of Slacker
>and immediately, in the same turn, picked up Migraine.
>
>What with failures to cure, she spent at least seven turns in
>the Infirmary (I lost count), and lost several other turns to mood
>repairs. In the middle of all that, she had to run one of her goal
>races with Migraine and mood=Awful. Her Classic year was an
>unmitigated disaster, the kind of thing that there are probably still
>UmaTube retrospectives about.
>
>We got to the hot springs anyway.
>
>?????

Meanwhile, I've managed exactly one career with the crybaby uma that didn't dead end at the Arima in her Senior Year, two of those careers actually having her win the Arima in her Classic Year.

>RNGsus giveth, and RNGsus taketh away

*sigh*

Hallowed be the Dice.

>Meanwhile, I've managed exactly one career with the crybaby uma
>that didn't dead end at the Arima in her Senior Year, two of those
>careers actually having her win the Arima in her Classic Year.

Ah, Arima Kinen, my greatest enemy. Even umas who have no business attempting a Long race want to--in some cases have to--win the Arima friggin' Kinen. My heart sinks when I see it on the goal list.

>Hallowed be the Dice.

--G.
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I love how the first four installments of Meisho Doto's story mode are almost entirely made up of TM Opera O being incredibly patient with her without ever breaking character and appearing to do so. She's like the older sibling trying to big up the younger one without patronizing her (at least any more than Opera O patronizes everyone). It's pretty cool of her.

--G.
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1/7 Tamamo Cross and jacket

Fujimasa March Nendo

>Fujimasa March Nendo

Aw, no "psychotic break" faceplate.

--G.
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>Aw, no "psychotic break" faceplate.

Now I want to find that meme from r/Umamusume showing side-by-side pics of characters in Cinderella Gray before and during races.

I've been playing this game for months and I've only now realized that "Tracen" is just short for "Training Center". It's a syllabic acronym, like COMSUBPAC* or CONELRAD**.

--G.
* Commander Submarines, Pacific
**Control of Electromagnetic Radiation, a 1950s predecessor of the Emergency Alert System run by the U.S. Federal Civil Defense Administration
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Ghost stories with Golshi

Also contains some promo information about the Half-Anniversary event and the upcoming Unity Cup.

--G.
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I can handle losing the Legend Races.

But I just lost to Tosen Jordan and Desert Baby. Gold Ship came in third.

Way to rub it in, TraCen.

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>I can handle losing the Legend Races.
>
>But I just lost to Tosen Jordan and Desert Baby. Gold Ship
>came in third.

At least it wasn't One Inch of Love.

--G.
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>At least it wasn't One Inch of Love.

My college nickname.

/jk

Hey babe, wake-up, Cygames dropping the Guts meta update on us early (Nov 11).

... but I seem to be really good at pulling three-stars who aren't on rate-up, especially if they're dupes (or alternate versions of characters I already have, which I accept isn't QUITE the same thing).

For instance, I've been trying for Eishin Flash with the half-anniversary gifts... and so, naturally, along comes superhero-outfit Condor. Who laid low during her actual promo event so that swimsuit Spe could make the scene. And, so, on.

--G.
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