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flc @imflc.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

made it to floor 400 in raiders. still far from being capped so can probs go 500 if I had more time (600+ if I level dynamo or something and abuse danger boost), but unfortunately I have other things demanding my time rn would have loved to try more builds but it takes forever to level other stuff

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flc @imflc.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

yeah I'm finding that it's hard to try other tanks out because you need upgrades for so many gadgets before they're even worth pressing the button for. really wish there was like a 10% drop rate for non-equipped tank parts

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flc @imflc.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

streaming raiders a bit. trying to come up with some new builds (or, failing that, going for floor 400), come say hi twitch.tv/im_flc

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Super Spicy Postgame | Streaming splatoon raiders.

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flc @imflc.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

raiders is super fun. love how you can just queue up to join randos in like 10 seconds need to figure out a fun power tank build though. really wish parts for non-equipped tanks would drop more often, feel kinda stuck playing speed tank (which is super fun but would still prefer more variety)

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 27/02/2026

My weirdest creation is almost old enough to drink.

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flc @imflc.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

fuckall nerf to sblast, l3 with the most bizarre change I've ever seen, yet another explosion radius buff, some degenerate snowballing mechanic, yet another change to the core game that favours shooters, and health bars that look like they just enabled a dev command. "spicy" is one word for it.

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flc @imflc.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

like I know it's just a translation but why the fuck are we saying that L3 should "proactively approach its opponents"? are we actually fucking serious? have you played this fucking game? god forbid a weapon moves laterally in this game. hold forwards you miserable fucks or your gun gets nerfed

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flc @imflc.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

In other words, if you picked machine, you'd fight either other machines, or terrible guns that made it a 4v3. If you picked splash, you'd fight something competent like a splattershot, keeping win rates more even. It's also, I suspect, why we had those random buffs and nerfs to mini splatling.

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flc @imflc.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

It's conjecture, but I'm convinced that they rely mostly on X Rank data. And I'm not sure that they account for their own matchmaking algorithm. That's why shooters don't get nerfed; their matchmaking pools are too large. Meanwhile Machine died because its matchmaking pool was all shit weapons.

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flc @imflc.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I'm not sure they know what these changes do. Do they think about what it means for a weapon to need 10 more special points? Do they think about extra shots, extra time spent painting, how much longer you need to live to get special? Or is it just a knob they turn when the X Rank data tells them to?

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flc @imflc.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

meanwhile their insistence on leaving burst bomb alone has led to pretty much every kit that has one (except l3, because that's how shit that gun is) massively overperforming at one point or another. but by all means, slap sblast with 10 special and an aoe nerf. I'm sure that fixes the problem.

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flc @imflc.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

every single patch, right back to the start of the game where machine and splash were picked because they were the only competent kits on release. machine got fucking butchered because they gave it fizzy booyah and then injected all the maps with ozempic. splash didn't, because it's a shooter.

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flc @imflc.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I think the thing that offends me the most about splatoon 3's patches is that the developers keep attacking degenerate playstyles that only exist because of their own failures. "l3 is being used to spam specials" no shit. you buffed hammer in the dumbest way possible and all l3 can do is paint.

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flc @imflc.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

ok I know I said I'm done with splatoon and asked all of you to go away, but which dumb fuck developer did this? about the only thing l3 is good for is painting, and now we're giving that up in favour of... improving its ability to fail to kill people when you hit all three shots in a burst?

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flc @imflc.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

you're welcome also thank you for respecting my wishes

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flc @imflc.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

other? I haven't played games like that in years

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flc @imflc.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

you're on thin ice right now, champ

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flc @imflc.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

now that's an idea I could get behind

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flc @imflc.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

well it's not plan A, but it's not far into the alphabet

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flc @imflc.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

not since spending $900 to drop mkworld after like two weeks lol

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flc @imflc.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

nah I kinda fell off world. was already not vibing with it and then they screwed with the online and I haven't played it since

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flc @imflc.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

firstly stop following me, splatoon people, that ship sailed so long ago that it'll soon be arriving on another continent and giving the native population smallpox secondly why did I click on a splatoon tweet, I didn't need to know that people say the word "hyperdive" now

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flc @imflc.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

not likely to happen, no

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flc @imflc.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Going live with some Mario Kart World! youtube.com/live/nakiCta... twitch.tv/im_flc

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Mario Kart World: Cheeky week 1 WR attempts?

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flc @imflc.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

just like the good old days

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flc @imflc.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

let's not get ahead of ourselves LMAO

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flc @imflc.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

god damn I'm so keen for mario kart world it looks so fun. definitely getting all the old heads back together kinda wish skype wasn't dead, then we could have the old mkw vibes too. maybe chatango's still a thing?

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flc @imflc.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

I wouldn't mind that at all tbh

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flc @imflc.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

who else is keen for 12v12s in mario kart 9

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flc @imflc.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

haven't clicked on this site in a while. there are so many cat pictures on my feed from random people, this is great

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flc @imflc.bsky.social · 14/04/2024

I just want to be happy for jackpot but japan keeps serving up these dreadful ideas because they're too god damn humble to (kindly) tell melon where to stick his rapid pro. like how can I walk away from that set and think "wow we're finally good" when every map is lost at weapon selection

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flc @imflc.bsky.social · 14/04/2024

you can't play a high watermark objective with a weapon that loses you the game when you miss. you will always get clutched on. it's even worse when you have no retake because you have no ranged paint and no bombs. it's the devs' fault, but when your job is to win, the game being shit is no excuse.

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flc @imflc.bsky.social · 14/04/2024

like if I play one map with these weapons, I'm immediately thinking "nah there's no way we play this", regardless of what odinx or melon or riukun or whoever are telling me. my brain would be going wild over all the ways we lose from this pick. it's clear that jp teams do not think like this.

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flc @imflc.bsky.social · 14/04/2024

mist on rm can be very annoying, sure. but you have to be able to look past the gimmick and remember that you *can't play the game* if you don't have bombs. if you run sensor, you can't run mist. you need a hard wall to block fast pushes, not a god damn rapid that literally can't kill quickly enough

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flc @imflc.bsky.social · 14/04/2024

but holy hell this was a disaster. japan is never cynical enough to say "alright this game's ass and we need to accept that if we want to win. we need to pick bombs, abuse the hell out of stamper, run edit/pencil" etc etc and instead we get these ridiculous gimmicks like sensor + 2 mists on rm

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flc @imflc.bsky.social · 14/04/2024

but. man. I've been saying for years that japan is super vulnerable and isn't a strong region (the west is just excruciatingly bad at the game) and every single element of my reasoning was on full display here. and of course I don't want that to undermine jackpot's win here by any means

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flc @imflc.bsky.social · 14/04/2024

in a shocking twist, I think this is a bit too spicy for twitter japan has overcooked their comps in four out of four worlds appearances. at first I thought this was an issue with the, shall we say, boyz' club (ggboyz + calamari) scrimming each other and ending up with bad ideas

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flc @imflc.bsky.social · 08/04/2024

there's no longer any headroom to play splatoon in splatoon 3, so if you didn't learn how to play splatoon in the last two games, you're waiting until splatoon 4. and that's assuming they learned anything from this game. and there's nowhere that's feeling this more right now than oce.

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flc @imflc.bsky.social · 08/04/2024

the mental overload that comes from playing splatoon 3 comes from the maps being tiny, bombs being overpowered as hell, specials having aoes that are way too big and do too much damage, cooler being cooler, and short-ranged weapons being stupidly overpowered and overtuned.

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flc @imflc.bsky.social · 08/04/2024

you might think that coaching is the way forward, and to a degree it is, but the way you have to think is so foreign to most players, and so counter-intuitive to the way splatoon 3 is designed, and the game leaves so little room to think about what you're doing.

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flc @imflc.bsky.social · 08/04/2024

the changes to x rank mean that, while you might fight good players from time to time, there's never that consistent level of quality that you got from 2500+ lobbies in s2. and even if you get jp opens, best case you fight a bunch of jp aim lords. nobody's playing the game. (can't imagine why!)

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flc @imflc.bsky.social · 08/04/2024

in the oce region we have a unique problem where there have only ever been two teams (untitled/poncho cat/washed cat, and lime soda/justice/solstice) who ever really learned the game. the other option was playing jp x rank or jp league. in fact that's literally how we got good at the game as a team.

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flc @imflc.bsky.social · 08/04/2024

if you did not learn how to play the positional game in splatoon 1 or 2, or if you didn't bring your positional game from a different shooter, you will never be good at splatoon 3. there is no transition point between playing like a sociopath in the plus server and learning splatoon.

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flc @imflc.bsky.social · 08/04/2024

rather than working the map to then take and win a good fight--or even forcing a full-team retreat--for most players, the game is now just about getting your magic juice and off you go, taking coinflip (or worse) fights until eventually one team screws up their cooler.

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flc @imflc.bsky.social · 08/04/2024

you can have a technique-heavy game that also teaches you positioning at both an individual and team level (in fact most good shooter games are like this). splatoon 3 has done away with this with cooler, tiny maps, and not resolving long-standing imbalances between long and short ranged weapons.

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flc @imflc.bsky.social · 08/04/2024

I think most people know that the game's very technique-heavy at the moment (and since cooler gives you god movement even if you have arthritis, technique-heavy just means aim). the flip side to this is that the positional part of splatoon is incredibly difficult to learn in the game.

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flc @imflc.bsky.social · 08/04/2024

this is more of an oceanic problem, but playing in oce tournaments, I'm worried that the lack of exposure to high level gameplay means it's basically impossible to get good at splatoon 3 and I don't just mean matchmaking; even when you get jp games, it's clear there's been a brain drain there too

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