Yeah, I bet she is. Where did this chick even come from?

From japan. As you would know if you took 5 seconds to google her.

okay wait if this is real did she seriously solo three fucking dungeons in… how many hours? seriously?

I hate the way the East Asians pull stupid publicity stunts like this. Like, c'mon, it's peoples lives on the line here, not a goddamn concert! Extremely fucked up, and you know they're raking it in with the merchandise, like Quasar the poaching extraordinaire with their fancy teleporter even need more money. Goddamned capitalist whales, playing with people's lives like it's a game.

It looks like shes about to get soloed tbh, isn't this guy basically Buster Keaton no matter what kind of dungeon he comes out of?  And he looks like that?????????

oh my god you people are so fucking stupid, this is obviously a CONVENIENCE partnership because their powers are basically polar opposites, he's probably just mad that she cheated

dude are you blind. look at his fucking face. take a niiiiiiiiice long look at it, even

that is NOT a sex face he is gay. COPE HARDER.

he's probably just mad that she cheated

How do you cheat on a solo dungeon clear, exactly?

that is NOT a sex face he is gay. COPE HARDER.

Anyone else feeling invisible today (and every day besides bisexual awareness day?)

i'm not a fucking esper, i just know it was OBVIOUSLY rigged

@fruitssymmetry oh my god i know what bisexuality is but all of his partners for YEARS were men, then all of the sudden he partners with this chick who just happens to have the opposite powers as him from another country and they start having these publicity stunts?

@fruitssymmetry oh my god i know what bisexuality is but all of his partners for YEARS were men, then all of the sudden he partners with this chick who just happens to have the opposite powers as him from another country and they start having these publicity stunts?

look all I'm saying is that this man looks at his partner the way I look at a breakfast burrito

@leetaegunxkangjaeha4ever

Alas for my bisexuality, for I have been in a relationship with a man for four years and can never look at a woman again...

i'm not a fucking esper

don't worry we can tell d:

@fruitssymmetry jesus h christ are you reaching this hard to misinterpret me on purpose? there's a fucking difference between a regular person getting into a regular relationship (because no, i'm not one of those "pick a side" idiots however much you want to paint me as one) and a celebrity whose every move is on public display. you know that the guilds in korea basically script what their members say to the media right?

@leetaegunxkangjaeha4ever

Which means they control his potential partners, too, so it's not as though this means anything about his sexuality. Besides, sometimes you just like men more often than women, ask me how I know.

@fruitssymmetry jesus h christ are you reaching this hard to misinterpret me on purpose? there's a fucking difference between a regular person getting into a regular relationship (because no, i'm not one of those "pick a side" idiots however much you want to paint me as one) and a celebrity whose every move is on public display. you know that the guilds in korea basically script what their members say to the media right?

paying someone to look like that on camera is basically sex work.

inb4 "professional guides are sex workers" puritans lmao

all of you are MISSING THE POITN here which is that this is ACTUALLY SERIOUSLY DANGEROUS. normalizing this kind of shit could get someone KILLED

normalizing this kind of shit could get someone KILLED

typical internet, completely ignoring the fact that delayed rescues CAN ALSO KILL PEOPLE

How about botched ones because it got rushed by a stupid PUBLICITY STUNT? Did they get a sensor into each of those dungeons to MAKE SURE it was empty before they smashed that core, or would it have been bad for their metrics to pause?

It seems perfectly safe as long as they were being responsible with backup and had comms access? Which, like, they're both seasoned professionals at Quasar...

How about botched ones because it got rushed by a stupid PUBLICITY STUNT? Did they get a sensor into each of those dungeons to MAKE SURE it was empty before they smashed that core, or would it have been bad for their metrics to pause?

Sounds like something a professional dungeon crew could set up when they're starting a race like this!  Besides, Quasar has that broken-ass teleporter, if they needed help it seems pretty easy to get help there.  If the PROFESSIONAL MONSTER HUNTERS think something is good enough to risk their own asses for it, it's probably fine.

Am I the only one wondering how someone with no mobility power solos a dungeon? Does "solo" mean "with a great big SWAT team to escort the victims out"? Or does it mean they stacked the deck and picked ones that her rescues could just walk out of because that's not a particularly even race.

Sounds like something a professional dungeon crew could set up when they're starting a race like this!  Besides, Quasar has that broken-ass teleporter, if they needed help it seems pretty easy to get help there.  If the PROFESSIONAL MONSTER HUNTERS think something is good enough to risk their own asses for it, it's probably fine.

Stop defending these fucking celebrities that care so little about us that they make a game of saving lives!

Am I the only one wondering how someone with no mobility power solos a dungeon? Does "solo" mean "with a great big SWAT team to escort the victims out"? Or does it mean they stacked the deck and picked ones that her rescues could just walk out of because that's not a particularly even race.

Actually, given that she has Fire Powers, it would make sense to give her dungeons where she is can just nuke the place without worrying about the victims. Ironically, that would mean her agency is a better planner than this publicity stunt implies.

Am I the only one wondering how someone with no mobility power solos a dungeon? Does "solo" mean "with a great big SWAT team to escort the victims out"? Or does it mean they stacked the deck and picked ones that her rescues could just walk out of because that's not a particularly even race.

[gif of the wolf being incinerated]

Nah, she totally has mobility powers, she can rocket blast herself places. Look¹ and you can see her go zooooooooom.

¹ Video of a dungeon break on a shaky cellphone cam. A large black wolf is stalking down an alleyway, and a red haired esper blasts herself between it and the main street with her hand, and then sends a mote of fire at the wolf as soon as it's in her view. The mote then incinerates the wolf.

She looks like an avenging goddess come to life but I wouldn't want to be anywhere near her if she was in a hurry.  Those dungeons HAD to be collateral-damage free.  No way anyone normal would survive that.

well that looks totally safe for passengers for the same reason that civilian jetpacks are in common use no further questions 🙄

esperpedia says she's immune to her own fire. espers, man

Is she immune to blasting herself into a concrete wall?

well obviously all she has to do is put up a fire shield, right, then it'll cancel it all out. like this:

[troll physics meme of the described, uh, "survival tactic"]

I love being really really near huge amounts of fire that someone else is immune to

Nah, she totally has mobility powers, she can rocket blast herself places. Look¹ and you can see her go zooooooooom.

O_O

She's pretty good about not causing too much destruction! Look at the wolf gif, she doesn't singe the area around it at all!

She's pretty good about not causing too much destruction! Look at the wolf gif, she doesn't singe the area around it at all!

Well apparently all the victims made it out so I guess she knew what she was doing. And it's admittedly pretty cool (pun unintended) footage.

also there literally weren't any people in the dungeons, they'd already been swept for victims, clearing them faster meant no one else could get kidnapped

...now I have different questions! if they had already cleared the dungeon, why not kill it right then? why did they need their big important esper to come kill it? presumably there's some kind of reason, right? if the reason is "we needed it for the publicity stunt", I will, uh, have objections, but that seems so transparent that it's unlikely. Probably.

It's an east asian dungeon clearing strat - sometimes dungeon cores can't be yoinked from their spot without destroying them, and going after them at all sets a dungeon off. Some groups consider it too risky to mess with before all of their ducks are in a row.

With new dungeons you can trick them with explosives and pretending you don't see it - one of the reasons the DRT uses goggles - but older ones are smart enough to get mad if anyone even gets close to their core. Clear the dungeon of victims, but act like you're letting it leave to kidnap another day, and then send in a group or squad guaranteed to be able to take whatever bullshit defenses are between them and the core. Blow it up, do one last pass to make sure it didn't kidnap anyone else in the time between, everybody leaves. Doesn't work with anything tricky, but works fine for the stuff that can't be handled by a normal squad.

Sending in both of them for each one was honestly overkill, I'm not surprised they got antsy and split up.

...huh. yeah that just makes sense. probably not a good idea for people to do races in general, someone will get sloppy, but as a one-off... they deserve to have a little fun with it. 

...tragic that races in general are bad idea tho, I'd love to have, like. rankings of who is the proven world champion, lol.

and how would you empirically prove that someone is The Best Dungeon Speedrunner, you never get exactly the same dungeon twice

... it would be fun tho

Speedrunners run do sometimes run games with lots of RNG and one of the things they do about it sometimes is compare average times, not best ones. You could do a weighed average by dungeon class, maybe?

yeah! and while you never get the same dungeon twice, a lot of the low-level ones are... very similar in the functional details and mostly different in aesthetics, right.

C-Dungeons (the dumb ones that can be solved by the DRT) are really not worth either esper's time or backlash to accomplish. They'd need higher ranked dungeons to be worth their time at all, which are more dangerous. And life's not a video game to speedrun, you die once, and that's it. I'm going to hope this was a pointed message to their schedulers that if they get their time wasted, they're going to find better ways to use it.

So I think this is going to be a one off, and if it's not, it should be. Combat espers die all the time, and the really valuable ones need to stay alive for the real scary motherfuckers.

So I think this is going to be a one off, and if it's not, it should be. Combat espers die all the time, and the really valuable ones need to stay alive for the real scary motherfuckers.

I'm going to hope this was a pointed message to their schedulers that if they get their time wasted, they're going to find better ways to use it.

C’mon, a veteran esper HAS be able to use his words when talking to his schedulers.  This guy’s done more dungeons than I’ve had hot meals, there is no way he’s not going to just use his words.

C’mon, a veteran esper HAS be able to use his words when talking to his schedulers.  This guy’s done more dungeons than I’ve had hot meals, there is no way he’s not going to just use his words.

idk man, some allegedly competent adults just fake it really well in public

not saying anything for sure about any specific esper, i don't know shit, just. in general. some people are disasters behind closed doors. don't count out the possibility.

I have literally never seen him lose his shit, ever.  Not once.

…until earlier today I guess.

So I think this is going to be a one off, and if it's not, it should be.

yeah absolutely, none of my wistful sighs about dungeon speedrunning tournaments are serious

Or. Or. And hear me out. It was. A publicity. Stunt.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It was cool and impressive, they deserve the publicity from it.

Or. Or. And hear me out. It was. A publicity. Stunt.

The main thing I know about Korea was someone describing their society (paraphrasing) "treat formality like a competitive sport that they intend to win", but regardless. Dungeons are the sort of thing you have to be serious and not deceive international security institutions. This is likely an engineered situation, but I don't think they outright lied about the Espers clearing the dungeons. Still, this is in poor taste.