couldn't be me, desperately trying to avoid the urge to send a follow-up text out of fear that I'll be seen as too clingy (I am failing, it is me)

I mean, you saw the line where I said everything dies? The build is still very good, and I would go as far as to say that all of the Exalted Melee Influence builds will outperform regular weapon Influence builds. Nova is really good, and you definitely get more utility out of being able to speed up enemies, but Antimatter Drop takes a bit of messin around to achieve a lower clearspeed than a Gara tapping 1 once.

I dunno if Gara is the one you have to go for, Khora and Excalibur and Baruuk are probably all much better for doing an Exalted Influence build, but you should have at least one in your arsenal. They're very strong for stuff like EDA and ETA.

The thing is, while the end effect of getting to turn into a running ball of death was enjoyable, the actual gameplay loop of maintaining it had problems. There was no worse feeling than getting clipped by a nullifier bubble you didn't see, or the dreaded long host migration that reset your damage. I kinda hope that DE recognizes that people want a frame that's kinda like Path of Exile's Righteous Fire and delivers on it someday, while also making it a lot less of a hassle than Gara's.

So the good news is that really none of the old build's problems matter anymore. You wanna maintain splinter storm on yourself for the damage reduction, but you're gonna find that enemies don't really attack you much, so if it drops off it's not a big deal. The old method of building up damage on it and making sure it never drops off just doesn't perform as well as the new build. Personally, I built her to go in a Shieldtanking direction with Arcane Aegis, it's just generally lower mod investment while still fixing your survivability.

The Shattered Lash build is Melee Influence, and the bad? news is that Gara is now a Melee Influence frame. You max out your range, spam the Shattered Lash slash attack (I recommend inverting tap/hold for her), everything on your screen dies, and so do some enemies you can't see. You don't really ever need to press her 4 or her 3 at all, so you get a free Helminth slot that's up to personal preference.

I'm a bisexual femboy who's been horny on main for decades now, proud to be a constant brand risk to any platforms I force to host my dumbass thoughts.

Yeah, they'd be considered like a 2-3 or so on the Kinsey scale; mostly heterosexual but with some gay attraction. You know you can measure a spectrum right? It doesn't have to be a vague ball of nonsense.

It's not about similarity, the Kinsey scale just measures your level of attraction to people of the same or opposite sex.

This starts getting more into "what parts of the opposite sex are you attracted to, and how is the other person presenting themself." Femboys present femme, so a femboy liking other femboys might be attracted to their feminine characteristics. If that's the case, they're likely to score closer to strictly heterosexual than a femboy who is attracted to the masc characteristics of a bear. On the other hand, maybe the femboy just really likes the idea of getting railed by another femboy. Then, they might even be more strictly homosexual than the femboy who's attracted to bears, but refuses to be the receptive partner to them and always tops.

Does 15 still count as a child? I think it does, and driving 300+ miles to have sex with someone I met on the internet is still probably the most dangerous thing I've ever done.

No he fucking didn't, and trying to push this narrative lets him pass responsibility on one of the greatest market manipulation schemes ever seen. This shit is going exactly according to plan.

Not really true? I'm not entirely certain the Kinsey scale is advanced enough to quantify this, but I think liking slim femme twinks is closer to straight than liking big husky bears.

There are literally people in this thread claiming misandry cannot exist. People are pretending hating and abusing men is totally okay, and then getting surprised when some of those men start to resent them for it. To say nothing of the fact that the loneliness epidemic has been scientifically measured and is effecting both men AND women.

absolutely, but apparently such a concept "doesn't exist."