RAPPA IS BAD? Japan, AI, Social Influence & MORE!!! [Gacha Mates Podcast Ep14]

[@ryuukusensei]

Let me know if you ever plan to come to Japan, I'll be sure to help you out!😄

[@D157urb3d0]

It's so cool hearing about you helping out newcomers to Japan, it can definitely be overwhelming at first.

[@VolkinYT]

Legend

[@MCMaou]

I've never had more respect for you guys than the opening convo at 5 minutes. I heartily applaud the direction you both take to the rearing of your children. Congratulations on being excellent fathers!

[@nellysan3]

Gacha Smack has come a long ways in the last year or so. I'm building back respect for his content, maturity, and willingness to be an adult in the room. Keep it up dude.

[@kharyrobertson3579]

Volkin: As long as I have content to make, my audience loves me, so I'm good. What a chad

[@RageGS]

Always love these podcasts so much You don't get authentic conversations like these very often in the gacha space

[@dante19890]

Most vids are just content creators hyping up every new character sponsored by hoyo 😂

[@victortg95]

you guys are spot on about Rappa, it depends on what your account needs. My account is set with the premium follow-up, break and DoT teams, but I struggle with Pure Fiction so I could use Erudition units.

[@benjaminroe311ify]

I pulled her because I'm a Naruto simp haha. And when I met her in the quest I immeeeeediatly wanted her... I was going to save my jade for Acheron edilons but oh well.

[@KuroTheDesigner]

coming from someone who hasnt done any gymnastics but greatly admires gymnasts, i feel like being obsessive over it might be a thing because of the risk it carries to half ass it. i could imagine that the best safety measure in gymnastics is to be strong enough to control your own body to as close to perfection as possible

[@purplatypus7405]

Great podcast. I like seeing behind the curtains. As someone trying to make it as a CC I appreciate the bits of wisdom you guys share about making content.

[@RaxorX]

5:54 thinking back to my own childhood where i was buying packs in real life for pokemon cards.

[@-Exen-]

you two are an absolute joy to listen to while crushing the work day, wonderful episode from the podcast ❤️

[@Freewill415]

Volkin x Smack Live Stream in Japan would be SO FUCKING SICK YALL NEED TO DO IT!

[@luisdiscua3296]

9:49 I love the “I wish I would have” moment here because it really does lean into the, we never know what can happen next in life. I don’t think you ever could’ve guessed to become a KZbinr, or travel the world with gaming as a background. But that’s how cool life is, everything has a purpose even if right now or in a few years it’s irrelevant, eventually it does become something that can be used.

[@LeoA05]

Tbf, ive used Jade to procc the Longevous Disciple effect (+16% crit rate for 2 turns) so i can allocate direct damage stats on other equips especially chest. The +30 speed has been clutch easily proccing Firmament Frontline Glamoth for non-break characters or again relieving the speed stat on boots. Jade is also skill point positive. She also made my dailies and simulated universe runs fast af so thats a positive to QoL.

[@nathdoutia]

Longevous FTW! I didn't think about Debt collector's HP drain to proc the CR buff, that's crazy if you're a certain someone with a good amount of double crit relics (cough cough).

[@RauDeLiS21]

I love watching y'alls podcasts like these. the ONLY suggestion I recommend is because both of you like talking so much, instead of focusing on touching on everything in an hour, just talk for hours and make these podcast into multiple parts like this could be 14.1 and next is 14.2 and so on. Other than that love these videos

[@Coffin_House]

very insightful overall. hearing the parenting and japan trip were really enjoyable.

[@markmyshark]

Correct me if I’m wrong here but I don’t think Asmongold runs ads, takes donation or subs on Twitch. You get the automated twitch ads of course. So he is probably pissing twitch off by not monetizing his channel like other streamers. My opinion here is he got 2 weeks one for the amount of backlash received and the bias slant of the twitch platform. And 2nd he doesn’t actually bring in the amount of revenue for twitch that he could.

[@VanceWeebin]

I’ve been loving the Pocket content. Volkin doesn’t give me “im a gacha content creator i need to play every gacha yada yada” vibe. A refreshing feeling in the Gachsphere

[@tommyska8082]

Letss gooo another Gacha Mates vid!!!

[@ragingsilver]

I'm the opposite in HSR, I was full of support characters for the first year of the game, and now I'm picking up DPS's this year. Am I getting Rappa? Yes! I'm skipping Sunday and Ting.

[@benjaminroe311ify]

I picked up Rappa because I liked her in the story... that's it. Already have a killer break team with Firefly... but whatever. Maybe I'll build a 2nd break team if that Ting can sub in for Harmony Trailblazer. Ha.

[@Roe777]

It's like Asmon loves to say, he F'd around and he found out, it is what it is

[@medievalmanrob]

The dad chat honestly 10/10 content my dudes

[@benjaminroe311ify]

I'm probably one of your older viewers and father of 4 kids. All kids are naturally different. Some are naturally more active more interested in sports and exercise than others for sure. My eldest son I tried to get watching sports and playing with me A LOT when he was 3, 4, all the way until he was 12 and he was never that interested. Even took him to NBA games and he was always more interested in the lighting and sound schematics in the arena than the game or activities haha. My other kids are all more interested in sports than he is but to varied degrees. It's interesting.

[@dankhorizon]

24:30 very true. I'm facing it on a personal level, where my second language is English and I just can't decide on what other language to learn even though I wanna learn more languages.

[@DobyWan]

Two friends talking about dope stuff. As a 34 year old dad / nerd. Y’all are my people lol

[@chriscrocker3976]

Theres no way Wilds flops. MH releases have always been absolute bangers and all the CCs who got to demo ot so far have been absolutely raving about all the improvements. Cant wait, ill be taking a 4 days weekend when that drops and grind the hell out of it

[@lighttrizane9844]

My man Volk hitting Rappa with the hard R at 55:25 xD good pod y'all.

[@DeadJack1999]

Non europeans geeking about public transit love to see it 🎉

[@loricbrandt]

The boys are finally back! I've never clicked on a video so fast.

[@PhantomOverlordX2]

Rappa is a unit that'll be amazing in the 2.6 patch, but may struggle later one, cause of how her kit is. Like I'm getting her, know full well in regards to that. But it's how it goes with certain units, their niche will go out for the next one. What may help Rappa though, is future units coming out.

[@peterbabicki8252]

Solid take on Rappa. It depends what your account needs. I do see many people complaining about their PF runs while also not pulling for or building any Erudition units. If you didn't manage to get Himeko from standard, and you haven't pulled for any Erudition units, I can see how you'd have a tough time with some of these PF runs. They also just announced an update to PF, where there will no longer be any situations where there are less than 5 enemies, essentially buffing all Erudition units for that mode. At first this didn't make much sense to me, as Erudition units are already busted in PF and don't need a buff like this, but I assume their aim is to also increase PF difficulty across the board and increase the pull value of Erudition units.

[@therion451]

44:45 well tell that to asmongold's viewers, how many people in his chat who said "BASED" when he made that statement. Someone who said the same thing but in private is incomparable with a big streamer who said it in front of a lot of viewers. Theres a reason why theyre sometimes called "influencers". Their words has more weight to it

[@Joemama-pt2ye]

5 to 10 years from now we will have real anime girls irl can’t wait

[@TacticalDimples]

Pro tip: If you don’t have a translator, google maps (not Apple) is your best friend for navigating the train system.

[@Zoeila]

if you arent thinking about what your saying it means the filter is off and you are speaking your truth

[@IOMCFrisco]

Too bloody hot and humid for people in Houston to walk outside

[@lotus4730]

14:45 correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure one of the reasons why they removed trashcans in Japan is because it's a very easy place for terrorists to hide bombs.

[@Wheres_my_Dragonator]

56:44 Well not everyone is a whale. Especially when 2 new meta supports are coming the patch right after. So you can't really expect people to be hyped for a skip banner.

[@k.s.4292]

Tbf at some point a dps or PF character will help your account more than your 10th meta support that has no one really to support or your 10th character that can absolutly stomp MoC/AS.

[@Chris3s]

Looks like good parenting, kids under 3 should not get any screen time, and under 6 limit it to 60min a day max, the less the better

[@buddy305luv9]

To comment on the robot segment. Smack!. Watch the Prime Video movie T.I.M. You will understand Volk's points. LOL

[@kyowyunkim7966]

I feel like if you can read the train map and know little bit of Kanji. You can get around just fine. At least with my experience

[@Secret123890]

Rappa is good. That's why lots of us don't pull her. (Why? Jade is limited, not everyone is a whale.)

[@markrolandlipata8516]

Need more of this

[@davidmclean5691]

Oh man love how Volkin limits how his kid is playing games like that. I let my kid play Genshin 1 time a week on weekend, because she just likes running around in the world. She has no clue how you get new characters or anything like that. Very smart choice.

[@Mannyveros]

Smack is mr. 85. 85 shops in akihabara, 85 arcades there, 85 screens at monster hunter wilds 😅

[@Venitas751]

I think most people that pull for rappa are going to just pull cause they think she's cool, and that's great! :D I wouldn't say she's going to be meta, but she's not gonna be bad by any means. Edit: Basically Yoimiya syndrome

[@SandroCaya]

Thanks for the forecast! A bit off-topic, but I wanted to ask: I have a SafePal wallet with USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). How should I go about transferring them to Binance?

[@SerraAbyssAlisaris]

YAAAY

[@dante19890]

Rappa isn't bad but no place for her when we getting Sunday and Tingyun fugue right after And right after that we will get a stronger erudition DPS with 5 star Herta. So skippa

[@nickn5419]

This is such a dumb argument. Unless you are a new player. 1.x players accounts are done. Don't really need to pull anyone.

[@dante19890]

​@@nickn5419 No, its an extremely valid argument, your response is dumb and uninformed on the other hand and I explain why. This is a powercreep gacha game. Old units are getting phased out for newer more powerful units. In 3.X the endgame is gonna get a lot harder and we will have even stronger dpses and teams, making it even harder for older units without vertical investment. There is no such thing as an account being done.

[@pratikas2589]

Did you think it's genshin ​impact being discussed in this comment section ?@@nickn5419

[@nickn5419]

@@dante19890 no you. Cause i can say Sunday isn't bad but there's no place for him cause fugue is on the same banner. LOGIC? Then fugue isn't bad but has no place cause 3.0 is here. Then 3.0 banners isn't bad cause 3.1 is coming. See your dumb argument? rappa will wreck any imaginary fight in the game for a long time just say you want to Skippa for Sunday it ain't hard

[@dante19890]

@nickn5419 that's incorrect. Sunday and Fugue are more meta characters than Rappa. Its not an opinion but a fact. some pulling decision are better than others if ur goal is having stronger account. Pulling a pure fiction unit that's gonna be powercrept by an even a stronger eruditon unit 2 patches after is not a wise choice.

[@Whatzitooya226]

There’s no shot wilds flops😂 monster hunter puts work in

[@RerunBladeIPayForE6S5]

BLADEE RERUN PLEASE I BEG BLADEE RERUN PLEASE I BEG

[@gameologian7365]

If volkin is competitive don’t get him into fighting games or do lol. He might just stay there forever if he gets into them

[@VolkinYT]

im trying to stick to strategy competition now. otherwise it will be back to my teenage WoW years with no life 😂

[@MustacheDaveInterviews]

god dam these guys are jacked.

[@xeali1]

not allowing your kid to be an ipad kid is great and something everyone should be doing that

[@Xukagi]

If volkin doesn’t cover Etheria restart ima be hella sad. It’s just HSR but with pvp

[@VolkinYT]

im on it. just waiting for an official release date

[@ZakuZuko]

Isn't CN only for now?

[@Xukagi]

@@ZakuZuko no it’s releasing global. It’s already showing on steam

[@Xukagi]

@@VolkinYT HYPE

[@alchadylan4592]

The trashcan thing is because of a terrorist attack

[@lightseeder358]

The funny thing about Asmon is that he doesn't make much money from twitch. His money comes from YT, companies and stocks I'd imagine. He streams on twitch on a channel not partnered/monetize. He doesn't have subs, don't play any ADs and doesn't get donations.

[@idonotmakevidsyet]

So gotchasmack is gonna abandon these games when MHwild comes out?

[@piscye1806]

Most are

[@shutup1037]

Good

[@BlAdeZ197]

Asmon went too far, but it changed nothing about my opinion on him, if anything, I like him more now because of the way he handled the aftermath

[@daffaalfarisy7761]

indonesia mentioned!

[@tenstonehearts]

EYY my favorite podcast!

[@fish5612]

is rappa bad? :yes is superbreak meta brokenly good? :yes wait, rappa perform in superbreak :yes? doesnt that make rappa an insanely good character since her kit is very similar to firefly and more AoE and she's very skillpoint positive, faster ult time and even get more turn than firefly can even out speed firefly with her amazing signature lightcone? :yes? so........is rappa still bad? :yes

[@Maadhara]

U will see the difference when she is against enemies that aren't imaginary weak. Her toughness break against enemies that aren't imaginary weak is pretty low

[@kenzor4953]

that dude that did a lot for u is prolly lonely in japan and lack of native english speakers

[@adamcobb7892]

Youre child is EXACTLY the amount of effort you put in them. When i see a bad child, its the parents fault 100% being a parent means you need make your child a productive citizen that the population dont hate haha

[@yamirellik5720]

I understand what u mean but I do think your wrong every household Is different

[@adamcobb7892]

@@yamirellik5720 setting shouldn't be a reason not to parent your child. If that's not what ya meant lmk but if that's the argument I'd say it's not a good one. If your setting or mentality isn't good, don't have sex since sex results in children. Not being mean and I am curious if you want to elaborate.

[@yamirellik5720]

@adamcobb7892 OK but If the parents are where good then they split up. what if the child is in a care home. what if siblings or step siblings are bullying and thearting said child to be quiet. what if someones in a single parent house hold watching their mum struggling to pay the bill so they do something dumb for quick cash to make ends meet. there's many reasons a kid can be bad it also depends what u mean by kid cuz I mean kids to teen if u don't mean teens then yh sure

[@lulu-jpg]

⁠@@yamirellik5720yeah i agree. it's not always the case.

[@yamirellik5720]

@lulu-jpg thx hope it made sense just had to go bk and correct some stuff I have Dyslexia

[@sweeleongng333]

Asmongold banned meanwhile nothing happen to Hasan at all. Twitch double standard.

[@Accountthatexists]

I mean tbh both deserved to be banned......they say crazy stuff on daily basis

[@sweeleongng333]

@@Accountthatexists the problem is Twitch said Hasan done nothing wrong.

[@noga5008]

The difference is Hasan talked about USA which is the country that doing the bad stuff in most cases while admin talked about people who the bad stuff being done to So it makes sense

[@sweeleongng333]

@@noga5008 and Frogan only banned for 30 days not even permanent ban. Asmon talk about extremists.

[@amdclx4635]

Lmao like Hasan has said anything as racist as Asmoncuck has.

[@S-Ace]

Watch Pantheon

[@Whatzitooya226]

SMACK I KNOW YOU DIDNT CALL THEM CLASSES THEYRE WEAPONS

[@xaero07vsxaero69]

All the Rappa doom posting is just copium from people having to justify juggling between her banners and Tingyun and Sunday tbh

[@MrSuckeragi]

if Rappa needs her S1 or E1 just to be decent then she is Skippa to me.

[@roblelsim3041]

If i have e6 Gallagher and Aventurine as main healers, do u think I should get lingsha or get Rappa?

[@omensoffate]

You don’t need lingsha

[@Jellostyle]

If you have Firefly and other break units you might want to save. Lingsha is cool though, but e6 gallapher can probably do alright. If I were you just get the lightcone for Gallapher.

[@adamcobb7892]

I'd say no unless you're the type who wants to 0 cycle. If that's not a big deal then no worries bc Gallagher will still do his job. Especially if you have him with e2 or have him e6.

[@thatalbeeguy]

absolutely don't like smack's main channel slop content with tierlists and reactions, but this podcast is so nice. Just goes to show how even if someone makes bad content, doesn't mean they are actually a bad or boring person

[@ilovewagner]

Where are the normal 20+ min vid or pvp vid??? I aint hearing 1 hour of yapping 😭😭😭😭😭

[@chocobro3198]

Did not watch yet (will once I have time) but just wanted to say that the name Rappa is so fricken cringe. Like. How unoriginal and lazy can you be, Hoyoverse. LOL

[@earthboundandhopeless]

I think the name itself is just fine, but it also being a play on words for her gimmick being a rapper is the cringe part. Incorporating a rap/hiphop aesthetic is rarely executed properly, damn near impossible to not be cringe with awful flows and cadences.

[@BugCatLove]

"asmondgold" ☠you guys don't even know how to type his name properly