Curation Team Q&A #4 (+answers from #3!!)

Heyo gamers it's Bat here with the answers to the questions y'all asked in the 3rd mod q&a (Aka the post where we revived the Q&A series after it was dead for 3 years)

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UnkownFate's question on our favorite memory on Smash Amino:

Jose:

My favorite amino memory? I've had so many good memories here that it's hard to pick a favorite BUT it has to be when i pretended i was kidnapped/held for ransom the past October. A lot of people were into the mystery and that was a whole lotta fun in general lol. A good runner up would be my april fools prank 2 years ago where i made a real shitty tier list and everyone thought i was fr lmao. Over 400 comments on it :eyes:

Nokcha:

One of the best memory i had here was when I was still a member on this Amino and that I wasn't even level 15. I was still very unknown (not like I'm well known now anyway as a Leader, thx timezones). It was back in summer 2017. I ed a french private chat where I made awesome friendd and we participated in an event called "The Amino Prom". It was basically an event where you had to be in pairs and write a blog about why your pair is the best couple and there was also a doubles tournament.

Since we wanted to participate with my french friends, we did. But in fact, we were a trio :^). I kid you not, it was one of the funniest event we did together and it will always be an awesome memory.

Here's the link to our post if you ever want to have a good laugh : http://aminoapps.programascracks.com/p/6q2bea

(Dang... 2017... seems like it has been ages)

Spike:

My favorite memory too place long ago when the dinosaurs and I roamed Amino. There was this blogging chat (the og version) created by the well known blogger at the time Hero of Winds. Everyone seemed to get along at the time and we would do pfp trends, voice chats in Matt's or Reaver's discord, and just a ton of goofy stuff. Eventually stuff happened and we all went our separate ways, but it was a fun memory while it lasted.

Ash:

My favourite memory was getting to be apart of fan fighter clash. Hard to believe I chose that over getting picked as a curator. But thanks to FFC I’ve met some fantastic people who I’d say are my bestest friends on this amino (sorry batsy who I am writing this too). It’s also involves something I love deeply which is movesets! All in all, FFC is one of my greatest memories well, ever

Nekosume:

I havent been a curator as long as some of the others here, more memories are still to come. But it would definitely be my first game night with the team!!! Everyone was having lots of fun, and I bullied Invy 70% of the time:)

EXpand:

My favorite moment on this amino might be when i met my friends for the first time, i'm really glad to have known with them even when they left, they're all really nice people to talk with and chill (yeah, that sounds cringe but deal with it). I also liked when there was contests or events which made people contribute to it in a lot of ways (looking at you, #E5of events), it's always really fun to do.

Pich:

If I want to be very unspecific, I'd say 2018. I've met many people that year, and there was the hype for Ultimate and shit. It was really fun (especially when I got curator).

But to be honest, the times I've spent with my French friends are my favorite.

Emblem:

My favorite memory being curator is partaking in the live Q&A and playing games with the staff on our discord

Salt King:

Getting to know the Final Smashers and knowing I have people that have my back until death. Nokcha, bat boi, ash, robin, spike, expand, emblem, Jose especially. Whenever I'm depressed, in the hospital, having a rough time, or just feel like dying in general. They always made sure I'm okay, always made sure I'm not doing anything stupid. In return, I always remind them in chat how much I love them. I always spam their messages with hearts and kisses. :kissing_heart: :heart: :kissing_heart: :heart: :kissing_heart: :heart:

DiegoShinx's question: Can the mods make a decision on the 5 best characters in Fe3h altogether?

As well, can each mod answer their favorite FE character and if they haven't played FE then their favorite FE character in smash?

Jose:

What's a fire emblem? Idk dude uhhh next question pls

Nokcha:

I haven't played all the routes in FE3H but i can still give you my top 5 char:

Felix

Ashe

Seteth

Dedue

Lorenz

Tbh it's been so hard to do this list... most of them are so dang good gievapgiroabfoajr I feel bad that I didn't put them in the list ;-;-;-;-;.

And my favorite FE characteris obvious. I mean, look at my profile and you will see that 99.999% of the content is about my husbando ROBIN <3

Spike:

Wait no all mods are supposed to rank 3H so uh-

Favorite FE character in FE games Ive played overall:

Gotta say Dimitri. His character is exceptional and no character is quite like him. He is like the most fully developed character to me. Then the fact that he is an absolute monster on the battle field as he could probably solo run Three Houses with somewhat ease. He's just that crazy. He does what early game great knights do best and more.

Favorite FE character in Smash: Captain Obvious is Obvious (still need to play his gamed tho)

Nekosume:

Havent played 3 Houses, and have only played fates..... but my favorite character has to be camilla. Even though people hate her because she has boobs and a strong maternal instinct, I still love her twisted personality AND funny wordplay.

EXpand:

My top 5? There it is:

1:Hilda (her pre-timeskip design is perfect)

2:Claude (reverse boi is truly a great character)

3:Sylvain (dancer is the ultimate class for him, change my mind)

4:Seteth (i just happen to like him, he's nice)

5:Hubert (a top tier troll and edelgard serving person)

Pich:

In this order:

Marianne

Claude

Byleth

Hannmann (the old guy)

Bernadetta

Bat:

Ah yes.

The best question

If you were to ask me (Which you did, Diego) this is my top 5 for best FE3H characters:

5: Ignatz

4: Flayn

3: Claude

2: Lindhart

1 Caspar/Ashe

Ok ok I know there's only supposed to be one character for the first spot but I just can't pick one. Ashe and Caspar are awesome and I love them both to pick a number one >.>

However my favorite FE Smash character is Byleth. Original I know. Totally not because of the Claude alt :eyes: :eyes: .

Emblem:

I am literally just starting 3Houses as I'm typing this at 9:36 PM EST of Sunday 16th so I couldn't list you many but Lysithea seems pretty waifu not gonna lie.

My favorite characters have to go to Soleil, Owain and Inigo, overall all of the children from Awakening were fucking gdlk.

Favorite FE character in smash has to be Chrom, sadly I don't main him anymore but he is fucking sick.

Salt King:

I never played a fire emblem game a day in my life so I can't really answer this one, sorry

Versal's question on what our favorite Amino drama that we've witnessed was:

Jose:

Amino dramas are never like, a good thing, but i do appreciate people actually criticizing mods, myself specifically. Awhile ago people were upset that some ryu art wasn't featured over other posts and it caused us to up the standards of art features overall. Most drama are like, petty af, especially when mods are at the center of it, but when it involves good criticism then I'm here for it cuz it makes it seem like y'all care :)

Nokcha:

uuhh.... I hate dramas technically. Like really hate. Arguing over and over about things is so futile and useless sooooo yeah. Don't like that.

But I also created one because I've been dumb and let my emotions take control over me (I made a post to say that I was sick of having very low effort content on the latest feed).

Let's say that I suffered a lot from a lot of people backfiring at me and making low effort posts on purpose to annoy me.

I felt very ashamed and sorry for the other curators who had to deal with the drama I caused.

Sooooooo I believe you can understand that I hate drama because I know what it feels like to be the target.

Anyway, at least it has been a good lesson for me. Let's look at the bright side.

Spike:

I don't know if 'favorite' and 'drama' go together in my case but I would say the easiest to was Cirno and Jaycide drama that I got in the middle of. This was at a time where both of them didnt get their reputations they have now, however I do feel it was kind of the start to both of their reputations.

Ash:

My personal favourite drama was the entirety of Delounge. I love how the entire amino cake together just to shit on this dirtbag who’s one of the biggest jackasses I’ve ever seen. I know I’m in a controversy right now but that’s not fun and I’d much rather stay away from that.

Nekosume:

Now now..... smash amino tea may be a sensitive spot to poke at...... But Who cares! Definitely has to be wolfiversal vs Zwei, that sh** was so funny to me, it just amazes me how oblivious people can be sometimes.

Master Robin:

what is your FAVOURITE amino drama you've witnessed so far and why? bonus points if i've heard of it before and you were directly involved" -Versalapostrophe

I've been here for more than 4 years and I literally struggle to choose what to tell you about Amino Drama because there are SOOO many choices.

I could talk about teams in 2016 SBA, for every day a new team would have been given birth, and many team leaders would have just kinda hated each other because idfk?

I could go on for days about the horrible relationship between Team Mega and Team Quantum, if I could actually something else beyond the leaders falling out, while the weren't giving any fucks.

Or maybe, I could talk about Deepfried's days, also known as Mara.

Literally Amino was split in three.

One part chilled out with Mara, another one continously claimed him to be SBA's downfall, and the last part didn't give any fucks.

I mean Mara was just very satirical. If you weren't stupid he wouldn't have messed up with you. But since we're talking about SBA...

Or I could talk about a certain Pariston and his team, Zodiac.

One of the most toxic teams on SBA, I tell you.They would literally troll everyone, trash talk, maybe even insult, and I was a victim too at one point.

Truly a disappointing person, considering I was the one who enlightened his path.

They have moved on Discord now, hopefully they won't come here again after they've been banned.

But I'm prepared this time, they won't even see the ban hammer coming if they ever return.

Other than that, I think all the rest wasn't nearly as "hype" as these drama episodes. They're all from the 2016-2017 SBA era, so I'm not surprised if none of this rings a bell to anybody.

EXpand:

My favorite amino drama? I don't know if "favorite" is the best word to describe it. The only ones i perfectly of was the one that occured when Nokcha made her post about stopping to make bad posts, people being mad at Ash's movesets getting featured (hope for both of you i'm not rubbing salt into the wound, if so i'm truly sorry Dx) and the sex bot invasion we had months ago (idk if that counts). They were quite complicated to handle at times, but i guess not everyone shares the same opinion on something, and that's why there happens.

Pich:

Now that I look back to it, the whole Zwei and Aaron drama was funny.

Especially liked the Amino they've created to try to overtake us, but only them would take it seriously.

Definitely prefer it over the other dramas.

Bat:

I don't really any dramas because I only take in GOOD VIBES.

Emblem:

My favorite one was the raids to Matt chat, specially because I was in the discord the Raiders used and I knew about everything before it happened, then I got to sit on their voice calls as we busted fat laughs as they posted pictures of matt getting assfucked.

Salt King:

MVP and Red Eye. WOOOO boy this was way back in the 3ds era, where everything was toxic. I just love seeing Mvp shut people down when one consistantly challenge his words and actions. Even ones that benefits his complaints. Mvp brings nothing but facts to the table and he literally wins any arguement with just a few sentences.

Jokerbestboi's question for Jose:

What is the worst thing a has done during your time as both a leader and curator?

Jose:

I actually don't lol, there's been sooooo much shit that people pull. I've seen it all. Blatant homophobia, transphobia, manipulation, pedophilia, etc. Yikes as fuck.

Nokcha:

The worst thing someone has done is doing sexual RP with someone who didn't want that, annnnnnnnnd he went pretty far too.

Also there are some cases of people saying that they will attempt suicide just to get the pity of everyone else. Which is pretty disgusting imo.

Uhm. Yeah. We have pretty crusty anecdotes as Leaders and Curators.

Spike:

Worst thing a has done was main Tink. Idk what compels you to main such a bad character tbhtbh

Nekosume:

I havent been a curator for long, so I haven't really gotten any bad encounters, besides the usual sassy responses to me taking down posts. But technically raids are started, so definitely the gross ass raids.

Emblem:

There hasn't been any WORST tbh, I've removed porn, hidden profiles, etc.

If I had to tell you something that annoyed the FUCK out of me though there was this furry who literally had a bio saying "my bg is incineroars fucking" so I hid his profile and asked him to change it and he went "lol you took to song" so I replied I had better things to do than watch over for his horny dumbass so he decided he was not gonna change his profile and he remains hidden to this day.

Salt King:

This question is for Jose so imma let him answer that since he's the one that's been through it all.

RedVolcano's question on what it's like daily being a mod. Also on if you think if Ultimate is balanced:

Jose:

I feel like Ult is at a near perfect balance. Just needs a few more touches to some problem characters ngl and then we GOOD.

Also, Daily Life As A Leader involves sometimes nothing and then sometimes bs all the time lol. Rarely an in-between. By bs i mean like your normal drama that's just petty or something like that. It's not exciting as you think lol

Nokcha:

To be honest, a Leader's day is pretty basic.

The curators are the ones who should look at the latest feed more, because its their only job. The Leaders therefore concentrate more on other aspects of Amino, like taking care of flags, stricker packs, giving crew flairs, and help the DMing us (asking to take care of another member harassing them for example...)

I personnally don't take a lot of my daily time to do moderation since we can divide the work pretty well between José, Spike, and myself.

As for Smash Ultimate, I'm pretty surprised of how balanced is the game even with almost 80 characters. However I believe that some characters need some buffs (look at the answer to SNG's question)

Spike:

A normal day is sitting back and watching Jose do all the work. Next question.

Also I think Smash Ultimate still needs balance especially with number 32 on the roster, 32 really needs buffs.

Ash:

The daily life of a curator.

I wake up, eat toast, depending on the day I either go to school and check the latest feed and chats to see if stuff for good boys and girls is there or just play video games and check amino while doing that, eat, eat, eat and finally sleep. I do check amino quite a lot tho

Nekosume:

My day usually starts with checking latest feed, disabling, checking chats, then checking the shared folder, disabling again, blah blah blah. I dont play smash that competitively anymore, but im sure the game needs more balance, and there are still characters to come out!

EXpand

In my opinion, a normal day is almost just like yours or any normal member here would be: you discuss with friends, check the current event entries out of curiosity, look at the lastest feed/shared folder for anything unfitting... yeah it's really not that different aside from this.

As for Ultimate itself, i think it's pretty okay as it is, though i wouldn't mind a Luigi recovery buff or a K.Rool buff in general.

Bat:

Well you see first I wake up then die inside and then wake up again to start my day. Not much different from any . The only different thing is that I have to deal with random crap on the latest feed and the shared folder that breaks the guidelines despite the constant examples of what you should post and what you probably shouldn't post. Not to mention the constant uneeded backlash I get for disabling someone's post because "This rule is stupid." I also do event stuff too, that's pretty fun.

In regards to Ultimate, I think it's pretty balanced. I just think some fighters got nerfs and buffs that they didn't need at all.

Emblem:

Being staff member is honestly more normal than it seems, you don't feel a lot of change until you do rare stuff like organize an event or lead something, it does feel great to have something different to do after being in amino for so long though! Specially knowing I'm helping y'all.

Smash ultimate is in a really good state, but honestly a lot of characters need very slight changes to be super good and some really really good characters need slight nerfs or redesign a few things to be balanced, this game has truly a lot of potential, let's hope the dev team makes it work.

Salt King:

In my opinion, it's nothing special really. You're just as human as everyone else here. Difference is you just gotta take care of this amino. It's like working at a fast food restaurant, make sure the customer is satisfied and get a good review, and if a person tries to give you shit or make things complicated just because it's what they want or to start drama in general, they get nothing but insults and a bad experience, which is their fault. :/

No, I REALLY don't think it's balanced. Sakurai just keeps adding stupid shit in the game like phantom footstools, weird hitboxes, etc. So yes, it still needs work.

SNG's question for me uwu:

Bat Boi, what 2 Characters in Smash Ultimate do you think NEEDS to get Nerfed and Buffed on the next Patch? Pick one for each.

Bat:

There are MANY characters that I think need MAJOR nerfs. However if I were to pick one it would be Samus, and I'm pretty sure a majority of everyone can agree. NO Samus I am NOT okay with you rolling twenty times to one side of the stage to spam missiles and charge shot. But let's be honest, we all love when they drop those stupid bombs when landing, then rolling back to the ledge to do the cycle all over again. Nintendo revealed that Samus was a girl but are we sure they're all bots? Like SERIOUSLY, there is a pattern I see in every single Samus.

Roll to edge > 30 missles and charge and spam charge shot > run, jump, and drop down b bombs until safe > roll to ledge

I'm fucking pissed writing this rn.

But to cool me down before I throw my phone out the window, I'll talk about a character that I think should be buffed. Byleth.

Now I know yall think I'm biased because I have a major 3 houses fetish. And you're right, I love 3 houses.

But Byleth is waaaaaaayyyyy too slow. Sure they are distance demons and do unimaginable shield damage, but I think they should be a bit faster.

Nokcha

I'd like to see Bayonetta a bit buffed. Give her a bit more powerful Nair, or make the angle of her Upair less horizontal because she can't even kill at 130% with it when she is near the ceiling like wtf.

As for nerfs, please nerf Bowser. PLEAAAAASE. Nerf Fair and Side B with less knockback and nerf neutral B so that it deals less more damage (30% only with neutral B like wtfffff aaaaaa I hate this character jesus)

Nekosume:

Im not a very good ultimate player, so I dont have any gripes with any characters..... oh wait no, I hate toon link, um nerf him twice, then over buff him next patch.

Pich:

I'm not bat boi but shut the fuck up i'll answer it anyway.

I want Marth buffed. I want his tipper hitbox buffed. I want his sourspot knockback buffed.

Just please, buff him

and then just nerf and buff Yoshi so you make his Side B useful while making his Up Air not as abusive as it is and I'd be happy.

idc about nerfs on other characters.

Emblem:

I'd say a pretty needy nerf are Pikachu's animations, not his moves, his animations make him pancake by throwing out basically whatever making his disadvantage almost non existent given you can't whiff punish him.

For buff I'd probably pick Incineroar and give him a little more speed, I think it's a fair and safe buff to make a safe high tier that people wouldn't be too upset about, game's mostly okay.

And lastly,

Dictator's question:

Why did you take a year to make this third edition?

Jose:

Idk wym. This is the first qna we're doing. Your eyes and memory are lying to you. This is a simulation please wake up.

Nokcha:

Uhhhhhhhh

....

*clears throat* :eyes: :droplet: ...

Cuz we lazy :)....?

No seriously I'm very sorry that we didn't do it earlier :(. We were busy with irl stuff mostly (like school) and it's hard to keep up the pace of one Q&A every one or two weeks.

Since we skipped a few weeks without posting the answers, we just forgot about this idea for a while. Bat proposed to revive the series and we thought it was a good thing to do it again and we were all happy to get back to it so let's hope we won't take another whole year to answer lol.

Spike:

Why'd it take you a year to come up with that question?

Ash:

I wasn’t a curator back then but it’s mainly due to time constraints and other projects.

Nekosume:

Hi! We were being held hostage in a basement for 1 year and bat boi finally escaped and decided to get back into it ASAP!!!

EXpand:

Well questions takes time to be answered as you can see, we totally didn't not forgot about it *cough* *cough*"

Bat:

Well you see uh we were busy planning how to make communism 2 and forgot :flushed:

Emblem:

Fuck you Dictator, this is me curator EmblemD saying specifically

Fuck you

Salt King:

Idk ask bat boi lol

We thank you for asking us so many questions but sadly we couldn't get to them.

But worry not! This brand new Q&A is here for giving you another chance to know more about the moderation team and its ways to do and make things such as moderating (well isn't that obvious lol), our different tastes on multiple topics or even some weird or silly questions we can try to answer to if we can/want to (we'll pick only a few ones, fooling around can be fun but that's not really the point of the Q&A)!

If yours wasn't answered yet in the previous Q&A, you can always try again by commenting it under this one. Don't give up! It may be answered in the Q&A #5 that will come soon!

Bat boi, out!