Idk if this is true or just bullshit someone decided to push. All I know is if this ends up being legit, I'm gonna bust a gallon. No pause. Resume. Nian41 is godlike. Him with Kanno's direction could be generational. Now I need this shit to be true. I need it like I'm a crackhead.🤣
Lets see where everyone stands.
Inb4 certain people say Sommers is YC+++++++.🤣🤣🤣
Ngl when I saw Ahmed manage to sack Joe Burrow, I was genuinely shocked. The motherfucker was up against the Bengals' starting Oline and still managed to pull that off. I know the Bengals' have always kinda had issues with the Oline, but it can't be that bad to the point a rookie DE can rip through it like tissue paper can it?😭
If it's a long ass movie like Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle Part 1, I can see Beyond the System ending on chapter 133 or the beginning of 134 when Jin Woo shows up in Tokyo and joins the battle. Both I think are very solid end points that leave a huge and successful cliffhanger that builds insane hype for S3.
I remember he made his director debut in S1. I think he directed the episode before Jin Woo fought Kang. The visuals all looked great along with the details and the lighting was really damn good. I hope he gets the opportunity to direct more episodes going forward. Especially if he starts working even more of his magic in them like how he does in the endings he makes.
He is apparently set to the direct the movie coming out next year. Y'all think if the movie is super successful and has next level quality and direction, he could become the main director for the series going into S3 while Shunsuke Nakashige takes a bigger overseeing role?
Obviously not including the live action parts. I'm talking bout mainly how Jin Woo and Cha Hae-in look on top of the CGI the trailer used. I'm hoping that one animator who does a lot of great work on both endings of Solo Leveling and the endings for SAO: Alicization and War of the Underworld plays a huge role for the movie. His visuals and CGI use is always so fucking clean.
Given the massive success of the anime(especially S2), A-1 most likely knows that the movie is gonna make a gigantic amount of money. I wouldn't be surprised if they tried getting all their best animators working on it and then some(calling in some great freelancers). Well, any of their best that are available and have the time to help work on it anyway.
If the concept video is anything to go by, this shit will move mountains. Taking away the real life footage, the CGI and both Jin Woo and Cha Hae-in look absolutely incredible so I hope that's the look the movie goes for on top of A-1 assembling all their best.
Why is everyone using them again? I've run into multiple duelists these past couple days running a fuckload of Bystials. It's throwing me off.
We seen Jenkins rise to the occasion and ball out in the Playoffs when it mattered and even knock down 3s when he had an open shot. Combine that with his ball handling skills and ability to create his own offense and he could be officially part of the starting 5 next season. He'd have to improve of course, but this could be a potentially good move. Jenkins gets better to the point he could do what Duncan does and you'd still have Duncan to come off the bench and knock down 3s like crazy.
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Of course this all hinges on Jenkins taking the next step by the time the next season starts. And if he does, it would take a loooot of pressure off Cade as well which would be a huge win.
I know we all wish they didn't completely fall apart in that last game against the Cavaliers, but despite that, just keep in mind the Pistons are gonna get much better going forward. The team has even more Playoff experience and the team as a whole has improved exponentially. Even with Jalen Duren's Playoff struggles, I think that whole experience is gonna be what lights a fire under him going forward so he can reach his true potential.
Another thing to keep in mind is the team is still young and they all haven't even reached their prime yet outside of Tobias Harris who was still cooking. Deniss Jenkins looks like an All-Star(potentially even a Superstar)in the making. Ausar Thompson's only gonna get better. Same goes for everyone else. The ceiling for the Pistons is insanely high. The sky's the limit.
The Pistons team and organization as a whole probably knows what they need to do now to take that next step to reach and even win a championship. Get a true 2nd option and have everyone else improve. If Ausar and Jalen for example develop consistent jumpers and even 3s, the East as a whole is actually screwed.
One final thing. While losing the way they did hurts, take solace in the fact that teams like the Cavaliers and Knicks are genuinely fucked if they lose whether they make the Finals or not. If the Cavs get sent home, the team is probably getting blown up. The Knicks will probably be fine team wise, but if they lose, they most likely blew their one chance to win a Championship this decade on top of their team being on the older side at least compared to the Pistons. The Pistons will only get better while the other higher seeded teams start to slowly decline.
Long story short, I was fucking around with this Shining Sarc deck in ranked. Just a lil casual deck to play when I don't feel like sweating fr. Though I guess you could say it's more of a Yugi deck given all the other shit I have in it like Buster Blader. While the deck was good, if I got hit by Droll or Ash, I was fucked. Though playing through Ash was more manageable. It also had the weakness of being terrible going 2nd.
So it got me thinking. Since it was basically a Yugi deck, I got the idea of adding Exodia to it(went from 40 to 60 cards). Not only did it make the deck even more consistent, I could play through more handtraps and I could go 2nd and still win at a higher rate. After adding Exodia to the deck, I easily hit Diamond and have a real shot of hitting Champ rank before the season ends. Which is ironic cause the deck I originally hit Diamond 1 with a long time ago was my pure Exodia deck.
Bullshit officiating and other things aside, there has been one constant in the Playoffs so far when it comes to the Pistons' failure. Jalen Duren. It's beating a dead horse at this point, but it really can't be stressed enough. If Duren was as dominant as he was in the regular season in the Playoffs, then the Pistons sweep the Magic and Cavs easily. It just doesn't make sense. Why is it that literally everyone else on the team stepped up yet our supposed 2nd best player somehow regressed? You got Tobias Harris out there playing like he's Prime Kobe yet Jalen Duren is out there being a liability.
I'm telling you if the Pistons get eliminated from the Playoffs, the main reason for it will be Jalen Duren not stepping up when it matters.
Now granted the series for both teams isn't over yet and anything could happen, but it's really starting to feel like both teams are on a collision course with each other. Doesn't help that both teams have gotten hot and are now on a winstreak. I get the feeling both teams feel like this too deep down knowing that a trip to the Finals means having to facing each other.