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Happy New Year!
#fire emblem three houses#fe3h#fire emblem#byleth#byleth eisner#fire emblem heroes#feh#fireemblem#byleth fire emblem#claude von reigen#edelgard von hresvelg#dimitri alexandre blaiddyd#happy new year!!!!!#a new year with good gacha pulls#and art#(hopefully)#im gonna draw so many dragons just you wait
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#enstars#hiiro amagi#rinne amagi#ensemble stars#i refused to let the pun escape me#'happy new year nii-san!!! i love you!!!! :DD'#now that the full storys out- good luck to everyone reading for the first time#and have a happy new year! may your food taste good and your gacha pulls blessed
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Logged into various mobile games for the first time in forever;
Most generous; enstars surprisingly! I got 6 10 pull tickets!? I have no clue why but 😳
Least; Project Sekai (100 crystals, not useful item let alone gacha related) -u-‘ theyre getting worse and worse but Welp. Hope yall like money ig ….
Kanna be judging your mobile games 🤣sorry
<3 ty to yall who gave me this amazing image! Hope your free pulls are blessed ^^
#random rambling#Kanna rambles#I rly wanna praise Enstars and dump on Prsk#every other game(and trust me I have a lot) is varied between#nearly none of them have free 10 pulls but a bunch have free solo’d#some have nothing at all.. (cough hoyoverse games ) but that’s nothing new so meh#project sekai USED to give more- og it was gacha currency then 300 crystals thingies and a stam drink then just 300 crystals - ect - -‘#how far they have fallen.. reminds of enstars(og) but tbh maybe enstars (new) has become better??#imo gacha/mobile games SHOULD give a little back- notjing extreme (those are rare/Cygames w) but just a bit#a game should have a reasonable degree of easy-to-ftp… which most do.#tw negativity#idk.. i rly hate prsk (game system) these days tho :/ Ik ppl who quit years ago and just “??? you STILL haven’t”#we’re meant to be grateful for what we get ig but :(#on a more positive note- LOVING bandori’s collab with hololive!! the girls look AMAZING! <3 songs I haven’t heard all yet but good so far ^^
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Every guy in Yakuza seems like they have enough social awkwardness for Tien to role his eyes at…
there's no feasible chance on earth any man can be more awkward than mountain man tien I'm Going To Hide From My Friends Every Other Year And Then For A Decade After Telling Them I'd Never See Them Again For No Apparent Reason And Only Coming Back Cause the World Was Literally Ending shinhan
#snap chats#i already hear someone go 'what about kiryu' girl he didnt last five years before getting involved again#jo's prob a contender tho. tbh.#anyway i just got back from the fnaf movie#first off please remind me to stop going out to places with kayla i might as well be going by myself#does not help that she walks slow as shit like bro dont make me walk this turtle-ass pace#good things came of the trip tho :) first of all im broke 🧍♂️ since when did movies get so expensive I DIDNT EVEN GET FOOD#i did get a kirby gacha tho :) inflation's starting to hit the gacha machines now too tho what the fuck 😭#last time it was less expensive than the time before and now this is the most exp its been......#wow its not just luck on what you pull its luck on how much money youre dropping BYE#whatever i dont need groceries anyways. really i dont i swear i did all my budgeting this month already#on the bright side i picked up 25 cents collectively today :) might as well call me a millionaire already#ANYWAY someone give me an excuse to post the new kirby he's cute and his feet are a weird color#o my god i didnt even talk about the movie wait. fuck.#watching jp movies and media has been terrible for my us viewing experience cause it just makes it so abundant how.#AUDIBLE us movies are. and the camera cuts jesus fucking christ i could turn it into a drinking game#what's my verdict tho ????? tbh i thought it was cute. im still in awe of the suits tho if anything i give the movie full props for that#heh. props. get it. fr tho i love practical effects and yk what ill take it. cupcake was goofy as hell ngl but ill take it#highkey forgot coreykenshin was in the movie so it was cute being reminded he was there :) love him..#honestly it really was a movie for fans of fnaf already and i aint gonna act like i wasnt a fan of the series in its early years#def not a movie to watch on its own- not that the plot's incomprehensible otherwise but it prob just wont hit#like matpat and corey being there was neat and the credits song took me WAAAY back to when that song first dropped on youtube LOL#sorry ive turned these tags into a fnaf movie review. kayla didnt talk about it with me so i wanted to get my thoughts out somewhere LOL#im running out of tags Anyway i solemnly swear to only talk bout movies that ft mates that star in rgg henceforth <3#im lying of course. i dont know how to shut up <3 but ill shut up rn im making dinner. movie made me hungry for bacon....
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first free 10 pull of the year brought me two winter princesses :3
#thoughts#YAYYYYYY. i’m ngl i count down every year until it’s time for new years free pulls in deresute#cuz i’m not good enough at the game to be able to gacha a lot LMAO#deresute
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remembering the most memorable mc's (with canon appearences) from the otomes i played
all of them are phone games btw. and looong rambling about the games after the cut!
Mystic messenger has been in my radar since i was in elementary school but i played it for the first time after the spanish traslation came out (2017 i think?) Seven shaped my type in such a specific way that im not really sure why loved him so much (it was the whole "he loves you in every route" stuff). I like a lot the default mc, most of the fandom did and that was enough to won me over
Rosa is top tier protagonist tbh, Tears of Themis has really good story and characters (as far i played, not a lot but i enjoyed it) The reason i'm not that much of a fan is bc the game is expensive asf and not very free to play friendly. You're either lucky or have a big wallet with the gacha
i miss my wife man(Marius)
Ephemeral has to be one of the best free to play otomes i've played tbh (if my memories aren't tricking me, it's been years) Good artwork, good storyline, good characters and as far i remember you can unlock one chapter of the character route per day (mabye two days, idk) and the mc's background has an important role in every route (she's a zombie! she's pretty now but eventually will fall apart, aaaaand her story gets expanded in one of the routes!) ((shes also adorable)) There's also a sequel, if you wanted more of the boys! never finished it but i'd recommend it
Honorable mentions! Huellitas Mágicas is a great game! has a really good cast with well fleshed arcs for all the characters, even the scondary ones! The game shines more for the development of *all* the characters rather than just the protagonist/ml. The main theme is overcoming insecurities! Each love interest has a different way of helping our (very insecure) protagonist and helping different characters with their own struggles :DD
10/10 i recommend this game if you want something cute and can be finished in a few hours, if i remember right. It also has a sequel! with like- 12 new love interests, also never finished it bc i didnt found a guide that worked for me but ñek
A3! is my canon event as a gacha player. Discovered the english/global server, tried it and got bored, left it for a few months, tried it again and fell in love, noticed the game was going to shut down bc low sales -HAHA :(-. This is not a otome btw, this is here bc Izumi has to be one of my favorite protagonists in gacha games ever
last but not least! Obey me! Shall we date? oh dear, what have they done to you :(. The original had intense powercreep to force you to pull cards -multiple times bc that makes them stronger- and even now, the company showed a lot of favoritism to some characters, leaving others to dust bc they don't make the same money. Not to say, they released a new game with the same cast and new main story (ignoring all what happend before). And let me say: THEY LITERALLY WANTED TO KILL THE ORIGINAL GAME.
Nightbringer might be a decent game but i don't trust the devs anymore, i still remember what happend with Asmo's birthday right after the release, and honestly i don't want to sit there watching how they disrespect my favorite characters again and again and again. Loved the characters hated the devs. 5/10 you can play it if you want but i don't recommend spending money on it, it's not worth it, just search #obey me here in tumblr and enjoy the amazing fanworks that i can assure you have a lot more love than the game itself
i miss my wife man (mammon and levi)
#got sting by the nostalgia mosquito#thinking about it i kinda want to play huellitas magicas again#mystic messenger#mysme#tears of themis#rosa tears of themis#ephemeral#its that the right tag?#huellitas magicas#a3#a3! act! addict! actors!#izumi tachibana#obey me#obey me shall we date#otome game#tot
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AITA for not paying for my fiancee's trip?
(Sorry mod, sending this again as I forgot to add an important context detail)
This is going to be long, I'm so sorry!
Okay, so I (23M) am engaged to a very wonderful fiancee (27NB). She's fantastic, and I want to make it very clear that our relationship is great - we have good communication, we never argue, we're always on call without getting tired of each other, etc etc. There is just one issue we have - her financial habits.
For context, I am disabled and can't work due to both mental and physical health issues, so I'm on disability benefits. She can and does work.
We're long-distance (she's in America and I'm in the UK), and we've been dealing with it pretty well so far. At the beginning of our relationship, we agreed that before we got to the point of talking about moving in with each other etc. we would need to have her visit me here at least once to meet my family and get used to how things work here (as she wants to move here), and I would need to visit her at least once to do the same there re: meeting her parents etcetera.
The agreement was that I'd pay for her to come here, and then when it was my turn she'd pay for my visit there so it was fair.
She first visited me about a year and a half ago and came over here for two weeks. I paid for her plane tickets, our transport everywhere (we don't have cars), the AirBNB we stayed in, etc. This ran me about £2k, which was all I had at the time, and I didn't have enough left over to pay for her food on top of that, so I asked if she could cover her own food costs while she was here. This caused a bit of an issue at the time as she was very clearly frustrated at having to do it, and would make comments like "Ugh I wanted a new computer but now I have to save for this trip", "I'm having to sacrifice so much to pay for this" and it made me feel incredibly invalidated, like I was covering everything else and also sacrificing a lot to pay for everything else for us but the one thing I'd asked her to help with was too much. We had a conversation about it at the time and she apologised and said she'd work on it, so we moved on.
Plans changed a bit very early this year, as I was due to get surgery and the friend who was supposed to accompany me there dropped out last minute. I had no one else nearby to turn to and I couldn't go alone (it was the kind of surgery where I would need someone around for at least 1-2 weeks afterwards to help me move around and do daily tasks). As a last ditch effort I asked my fiancee to fly over again and help me out, and I paid for this again which I was completely fine with doing as the trip was a favour for me and it was unplanned from her end. This was another ~£2k.
So cut to summer this year. This was when I was supposed to have my visit over to America. She, at this point, was making pretty good money at a school job. However, when I asked her if we could finalise the plans and buy tickets, she told me that she had no money.
This is where I explain that she's really, REALLY bad with money. She impulse-buys clothes and things for her room etc., she plays gacha games like Genshin Impact and spends quite a lot of money on 'pulls' and the gambling mechanic, things like that. It turned out that through the whole time of having this job she'd been basically spending money as soon as she got it and she now had nothing for the trip. I was admittedly frustrated with her (especially as she initially lied to me and told me she hadn't spent money on games etc. and then later confessed that it IS where the money had gone), but we agreed we could push back the trip to winter/Christmas-time to give her more time to save, and honestly I didn't really mind because I've never spent Christmas/New Year with anyone before, so shifting the visit to over those days would be a nice experience.
However, soon after this she was fired from her job for too many call-outs/absences. For the next few months, she didn't get another job - she said she was doing all she could and was applying for, but I often got the impression that she wasn't and was sort of throwing out an application every few weeks and then writing it off as 'done', which I could be completely misinterpreting so take that with a grain of salt. I kept pushing her to get a job so we could get the trip sorted out and I know she got kind of frustrated with me a few times for it.
I ended up giving up the closer we got to the time and offered to just cover it again if she could pay me back when she did get a job, and she agreed.
Unfortunately, after this I was rendered homeless due to my abusive home situation. I was fortunate enough to be offered government housing and I now have an apartment in town, but it's completely unfurnished (literally all that's in it is a single bed and a cooker, there's no flooring or anything yet). I now have to put all the money I have saved (about £3k) towards getting flooring (which is a little over £1k by itself), furnishings, getting the walls painted, sorting out gas and electricity, etc. I'm also now paying the bills for this apartment. As a result, there's no possible way I could afford to cover the trip anymore myself.
It looked like things were getting sorted because my fiancee got another job recently. It's pretty well-paying, she seems to enjoy it so she's not calling out, and she kept prompting me to talk details of the trip with her so it felt like it was all getting figured out and she was ready to finalise it.
Then today I asked her how much money she had ready for it and she said... $15. I'm genuinely lost on how she still hasn't saved any money, she claims she used it all on "bills" but she doesn't pay rent or cover any housing costs as she still lives with her parents, so I don't understand at all where it's all going. We have less than a month before the trip is supposed to happen, nothing is sorted, we still have no clue where we'd be staying, no plane tickets have been purchased, and now it's looking a lot like it's going to have to be pushed back AGAIN to next year.
I thought about trying to pay for it again, because I DO really want that Christmas and New Year with her. Delaying it again would also mess up our future plans, as the plan was to get this trip to America and meeting her family done this year, then spending the first half of next year on the Visa process and then the latter half getting her actually moved over. It also means I would have to delay my college education, as I was going to start my course early next year, which I wouldn't be able to do if the trip is next year instead as it would require me to take weeks off.
If I tried, I probably could cover it - I need to spend the ~£1k on flooring as that's already arranged, but I could technically use the remaining £2k to fund the trip. However, this would mean my house would remain unfurnished and barely habitable for months longer. It's not so bad if I know she'd be able to pay me back quickly, but the reality is that I don't know how long it would take for me to see the money back.
Part of me also feels like she's kind of expecting me to give in and pay for it last minute in order to not delay it, because I offered before and I was willing to pay for the last two trips. But it's just so depressing and frustrating, because it feels like I keep giving things up and putting things into these trips and getting her over here, and trying to get it back from her is just like running into a wall.
We've talked about it before, but she insists there's nothing more she can do, she's trying as hard as she can, and that she's upset about it too. I just don't know what to do about it anymore.
So I guess my question is, AITA for complaining about the trip, missing Christmas/New Year and pushing her on money and nagging her about what she does with hers instead of just taking the L and covering the trip again until she can pay me back?
What are these acronyms?
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Saw a post about gacha addiction earlier and I didn't want to Get Into It with the OP because I fundamentally don't disagree with them but it left me raging internally at the counterproductive approach.
Listen. Gacha addiction is real. It's fucked, the companies that pioneered the softcore gambling-lootbox-gacha model straight up bragged about how effective it was. If you have never spent money on gacha, ideally you really shouldn't start, because the only way to determine whether or not you'll get addicted to any specific thing is to fuck around and find out even if you know for a fact that in general you do or do not have an addictive personality. The most dangerous gamble to take is the first. If you DO decide to spend money anyway, you should have a comprehensive strategy in place to keep it from slowly consuming your entire budget. Also, even if you don't spend real money it can still become a problem, because it can also end up consuming all of your time - any game can do this, any hobby in general can become toxic in fact, but gacha games in particular have the FOMO factor of "I have to keep grinding so I can save enough for my blorbo's next banner". If you play gacha games - even on a free-to-play basis - you should be aware that you are taking a risk and you should be willing to admit to yourself if it's become a problem. If you find your gacha budget creeping upward despite your income not doing the same, or you find yourself regularly trying to grind out pull currency even when it's overall not fun anymore, you should take a hiatus from the game/s, and call a therapist or gambling addiction hotline if that proves to be difficult.
And if you have concerns about other people developing gacha addiction...shaming people or downplaying what they like about the games or characters helps literally no one; if anything it only sends them further into denial for your smug sense of superiority.
Thing is? Gacha games are games. Most successful ones, despite the obvious comparisons, are a lot more than just slot machines to fill out a gallery of blorbos to rotate on your screen instead of in your head. They tend to have genuinely compelling lore and characters and enjoyable gameplay - the gacha is not the game itself; it is a recruitment and power-up system in an actual game. This only becomes more true as the market becomes more competitive - like, FGO shows its age with its slow start; you can really tell it launched at a point where all one needed for success was to tie to an existing big fandom and give you a little new content with your faves, but even then the appeal was the lore and the characters far more than it ever was the summoning system, and it's kept up as time goes on, intensifying both the story and the strategy as it's come into a life of its own. Genshin Impact, at 2 years old, is as "real" of an action RPG as a Kingdom Hearts game, with intense strategy elements involved in team building. Arknights is a tower defense that I'd love to play were it not for my medical phobia because what I know of the setting and lore is some POWERFUL social commentary that is right up my alley.
I could list more examples, but it's not really the point. The point is that gacha games are real games, with real lore, and real characters. These games don't have playerbases composed exclusively of victims of predatory monetization unless you REALLY stretch the definition; in order for a game to be a good gacha game, first it does need to be a good game. It's easy to say "oh, they don't really care about the story or characters or gameplay, it's just an elaborate ad for the slot machine, it's just a cash grab" - but...even accepting that as true (which is debatable), so what? What's the difference between that and the latest big studio movie? The latest Netflix original series? The latest "conventional" "one-and-done" AAA game? Do you think the CEOs greenlit those out of nothing but the love of art and storytelling?
People are going to get attached to these stories and characters, and mocking them over it isn't ~taking a brave stand against predatory marketing strategies~, it's not ~waking people up to the fact that they've been duped~, it's just being a fucking asshole.
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Diabolik Headcanons before 2023 ends (LATE Christmas Edition)
Sorry that’s it’s short shshshs
Ayato still believes in Santa after he touched the Elf on the Shelf
There has been a whole scene on Christmas where Kou says to Yuma that only serial killers eat a candy cane STARTING at the curved end (Yuma does that)
Ruki enjoys hosting Christmas at his place when it’s just him and his brothers
Twelve deers followed Subaru home after he did (poorly) shopping for the holidays
Can’t explain how many times Laito had “All I Want For Christmas is You” playing in the manor, but it was enough for Shu to have a mental breakdown
Yui does all the baked goods for Christmas, being taught by her father ofc
Normally Kou has a winter concert every other year, but he likes doing it on his birthday since it’s more crazier
Azusa had another fit in the mall when he wasn’t able to take a knife home for h itself as an early Christmas gift (if yk then yk)
Ayato pulled the Buddy the Elf move in the mall and attacked a fake Santa
Kino fails to comprehend why Christmas has to be spent with those close to him, all he needs is his five stars from every gacha game he plays
The exception every New Years Eve for Azusa to drink ONE glass of alcohol is officially a tradition
Kanato hates Christmas movies, music too
Again, Shin and Carla dressed up as Santa and damn reindeer
Ayato and Kanato got in a fist fight after Ayato held Reiji gun pointed to put cookies and milk out on the damn table (Kanato took them after spotting them within 4 seconds)
Every day through December, Kou and Kino get a hot chocolate from the vending machine (bc you apparently can get hot chocolate in a can in Japan I think)
#diabolik lovers#nixxio text#diahell#ayato sakamaki#kanato sakamaki#laito sakamaki#shu sakamaki#reiji sakamaki#subaru sakamaki#ruki mukami#kou mukami#yuma mukami#azusa mukami#carla tsukinami#shin tsukinami#nixxio headcanons
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ITS THE NEW YEAR. Y’ALL KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS!!!!
WE BACK AT THE GACHA AGAIN VICTIMS!!!
Villain Dies by G-idle is playing right now, and I couldn’t think of a better theme for this time🙄 if bro doesn’t come home easy, Mr Cay-Cay-gonna-Slay-Slay is going to get slain by yours truly.
SO HERE WE GO ONE PULL!!!!!!
HE FUCKING LOVES ME!!!!! THANK YOU I LOVE YOU HELL YEAH MOTHER FUCKER!!!! LOOK AT HIS SILLY LITTLE ROBES!!!! BRO HAS THE HEARTSABYUL DRIP AND I CARE HIM VERY MUCH!!!
HE LOOKS SO HAPPY I AM SCREAMING!!! I LOVE HOW THE HEARTSABYUL UNIFORM PINS ARE STILL INCORPORATED INTO THIS DESIGN ITS SO CUTE I AM GOING TO CHEW THIS GUY UP LIKE A GOD DAMN VITAMIN GUMMY UGRH
I actually like screamed silently when I saw the red light inside the coffin. Like WAN SUI!!!! THIS GINGER ACTUALLY CAME IN ONE PULL HE LOVES ME FR FR FR (Ceru being delusional as fuck)
I AM TAKING. PHOTOS. OF YOU. HOLD STILL YOU MF!!!!!
Ok so after the excitement of one pull Cater, I went to everyone’s favourite queen, Vil the silly. I was praying for better luck here. Another one pull sr!!!!
No.
Fucker did not want to come home in a single pull.
I HAD TO SPEND 14 PULLS FOR JUST ONE VIL. ONE VIL.
WELCOME HOME YOU EXPENSIVE BEAUTIFUL ANNOYANCE🙄🙄🙄 YOU’RE LUCKY YOU’RE A PRETTY WELL WRITTEN CHARACTER. IF NOT I WOULDN’T HAVE SPENT A TEN PULL FOR YOU🙄🙄🙄
Jokes we all know I would have
NO WINDOW SHOPPING???? THAT’S MY HOBBY THO??? CRUEL!!!!!! HOW CRUEL!!! YOU FORBID CERU FROM BROWSING YOUR GOODS???? JAIL! JAIL FOR VIL FOR A THOUSAND YEARS!!!!!
So you would think I was finished pulling? NOPE! Because I already spent one ten pull on Vil/Sebek Banner,I decided to spend one on Cater/Ruggie’s banner for funsies…. And Cater dupes. I hate him victims you have to believe me-
AND THEN
AND THEN THEN THEN THEN I SAW THE LIGHT. THE GOLDEN FUCKING LIGHT. I WAS FULLY EXPECTING ANOTHER DORM UNIFORM CARD.
THEN
I AUDIBLY SCREECHED
RUGGIE RUGGIE RUGGIE OF THE BUCHIS I LOVE YOU COME HERE MWA MWA MWA WELCOME HOME
I ACTUALLY LOVE THE CARD OF HIS SO MUCH!!!! THE LITTLE SCARF AND THE FISH WALLET ON HIS NECK??? THE LITTLE TUFF OF HAIR TIED UP???? I AM GNAWING ON HIM LILW A BRICK I LOVE HIM I LOVE LOVE HIM SO MUCH MWA MWA MWA
26 pulls SSR????? I LOVE YOU RUGGIE THANK YOU FOR COMING HOME
YES GET THAT CASH BABY BOY!!!!! WHOOOOO!!!!
#the mage’s hat 🎩#twisted wonderland#pulls#ceru screams twice in the morning#ANYWAYS A GREAT WAY TO BRING IN THE NEW YEARRRR#WHOOOOOO#i think this is a tradition at this point lmao#play by play action of my pulling he’ll#hell
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Blog/Game Update! 12.27
Hey all (ｏ´・ε・｀ｏ)
Hope your holiday was great spent with your loved ones, yourself, furbabies, etc. <3 With the new year coming up I just want to give some highlights of what's to come with this blog!
-tumblr staff STILL has not answered me about my previous blog jazeswhbvault...and what's weird about it is that they flagged my Bimet event post which had 0 nudity in it....and I put in an appeal and it was fixed within a couple hours. And yet...crickets on my visibility for the fucking blog itself lol So it's safe to say this one will be my permanent one. I'm still keeping the old one up as none of the posts have been delted. I also downloaded all of the content in a backup zip file in case it does get deleted so I can repost them here.
-after I finish posting the last react posts for the past event, I will dedicate the rest of the week/year to responding to all of the requests/asks I've received including the ones on the old blog. I'll have them post on a time-based schedule so you won't see a huge influx all at once
-now for the game itself the admin of the WHB updates twitter sent in a long email for PB to answer and it sounds like there's some promise to look forward to in regards of Solomon seals, and other concerns players have had. for now, they have addressed that they are looking into giving us 500 seals per month without paying for them and looking for other ways for us to earn them. Now, for the lesser keys being used for a limited banner pull they mentioned the game's design makes it difficult for this to be possible and could take some time due to manpower/other factors. to me, that's understandable so I'm cool with the free seals per month because honestly I'd probably just save up on those anyway. There's more to be addressed, so I'll be tuning into that once the admin posts it. Source -> Boom, click here
-i also would like to thank all players who are being generous in sharing content they've unlocked in the cards, chats, just anything. for someone who is a f2p,budget gacha person who just loves writing content and headcanons this is very helpful and keeps me in the know so I won't have outdated info for my requests/fics to go off of.
-so i checked my google form on audio reacts and it looks like a good chunk of the responses just want me to go for it! ^^ thank you all who participated, i'll make sure that the react is a good one
That's it for now lovelies <3 please continue to be awesome, I will get to your requests, and thank you for all interactions
-your lovely admin (´｡• ᵕ •｡`) ♡
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AK CN just announced this. Holy shit this is huge
(Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/arknights/comments/11zeg46/cn_headhunting_rule_adjustment/)
There's actually even way more info than that, but let's talk about what it all means as simply as we can.
There is now a new pity rule in standard headhunting - For all new banners with a solo 6 star operator that isn't limited, there is now a pity like with limited banners. After 150 rolls if you still dont get the desired operator, the next one will be guaranteed to be the 6 star. This is in ADDITION to the pity mechanic of every roll after 50 rolls of not getting a 6 star giving you +2% to your odds. This means in the absolute worst case scenario, where you roll a spook at the 150th roll and then have the worst luck possible, it will take you a maximum of 250 rolls to guarantee the rateup operator. Again, this is absolute worst case scenario where you are literally losing vs several 90+% odds in a row.
All the Year 1 6 and 5 star operators can't spook you anymore - Say goodbye to a random Silverash reminding you that Mlynar will never love you the way he can, every single Year 1 6 star and 5 star is out of the standard headhunting. This is in fact, a good thing: less operators on a banner means its harder to spook you, and almost all the Year 1 operators are available completely for free via the Recruitment system. If you really want the Year 1s (lets say, you're targeting Shamare for the Tequila trading post), there is a new rotating banner that only holds the Year 1 operators. Just beware that pulling in this Core banner does not give you green and yellow certificates for duplicates. You still should spam Recruitment to get duplicates, because Core banner pulls get you blue certificates that go into buying more Core banner tickets. This means all resources that you get from the Core Banner, all go back to the Core Banner.
Thorns and Mountain are now able to be Starter 6 stars - No explanation needed, these fuckers will carry all new players so hard this might genuinely affect how they learn strategy. Lmao.
The Gold Certificate Shop now has a wider selection - Operators on rateup on the Core banners also appear in the Gold certificate shop for a direct purchase, just the same as the standard banner. If you've got the certs, you have double the choices now in the shop!
Overall, I would say these are good changes, though they may make the gacha /look/ more intimidating to new players who won't immediately understand the difference.
It's easier now to get the operators you want, you will have more choices in the shop, there is a new safety net in the standard headhunting banners, and blue headhunting tickets also happen to be discounted at 30% off
Very nice
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Everything you need to know about the Mega Update Dream & Kirameki Festival and the "Let's Start New Party!" event before the update!:
Basic info about the event:
This is a Challenge Live event
All the current vocalists in the game before the Mega Update will be featured in the event (so no mygo, obviously).
This event is Powerful Type, so use any powerful type vocalists you have for the maximum boost!
The event songs will be the following:
Tokimeki Experience! (it will get a SPECIAL chart WITHOUT the special-exclusive notes (side flick, curved notes)) SP: 26
FIRE BIRD (will also get a SPECIAL chart without special notes) SP: 29
RiNG A BELL (a newly written song for Poppin'Party, and the main title screen theme for the update!) EASY: 7; NORMAL: 14; HARD: 20; EXPERT: 25
Card Showcase:
5 Stars for the event! (Top-Bottom: Kasumi, Aya, Kokoro, Mashiro)
Dream Festival 5 Stars (Top-Bottom, Lisa (Cool Type), Moca (Pure type), CHU2 (Happy Type))
Gacha 4 Star (Ran) + Event 3 stars! (Yukina (Happy Type), LAYER (Pure type))
Important things to note about the cards before pulling/playing:
Unlike all other "Anniversary" Gachas, the event cards/5 stars are PERMANENT and NOT limited at all (the Dream Festival cards are still limited to Dream Festivals but you can get them during EVERY dream festival)
likewise, there are NO new 2 stars in the gacha or event, despite everyone getting new visuals
Despite this being a Kirameki Festival Gacha, no new Kirameki Festival cards will appear. Also an important note (if you don't mind spoilers) that the very next event is ALSO a kirameki fes (as long as en doesn't mess with the gacha times again) and THAT gacha WILL contain new Kiramekifes cards, these cards will be explained at a later date (near the end of this event most likely))
Event cards (and ALL event cards after this point) no longer contain stories, meaning that only cards appearing in the gacha will have card stories from this point forward (likely something soft-implied due to events only having 3 cards in total for a good amount of the 6th year of the game, this includes event 4 stars which there will be four of btw!)
Future use in events (4 star+5 star specifically):
Kasumi's card is useful in the event "Poppin' Western Journey", an event that started in September 2023 in JP. since she is NOT featured in the gacha, you are free to use Kasumi's card while tiering!
Kokoro's card is useful in the event "Hello, Charlotte!", an event that started around June 2023 in JP, Kokoro is featured in this event's gacha but only as a 4 star, but please note that this is the FINAL event on JP to not have a boost for cards featured in the event's gacha, said update could POSSIBLY make it so Kokoro's 4 star in said event is more useful than her 5 star in terms of tiering (however unlikely, but en does fuck up the update schedule a lot, and considering this may be mandatory (for future events), it may also mean they add event boosts earlier to save update time, so i may be weary if you are planning to get Kokoro to tier this event).
Mashiro's card is useful in the event "Gleaming Aria on This Holy Night", an event that released this month (December 2023) on JP, however, Mashiro is featured as the event's 5 star, and since this is both an event after the update that boosts an event's gacha cards, AND is a limited card, planning to tier the event by pulling this Mashiro card instead of pulling for the event in general may not be a good idea.
Lisa's card is useful in the "The Colour of a Never-Wilting Rose" event, an event that started around May 2023 on JP. since she is not in the gacha, she is also useful for tiering the event, and has the best skill for the event considering she is apart of the Dream Festival.
Moca's card is useful in the "Our Afterglow, Despite Even the Darkest Shadows" event, an event that started around July 2023 on JP, the situation with Moca is the exact same as Lisa as she is not featured in the event's gacha as a card.
CHU2, Aya, and Ran's cards have not seen use yet on JP.
Should you pull, or should you save?
Obviously, you should pull if you want to have the cards always, and my, or anyone's opinion does not mean that you pulling for any gacha is a good or bad thing, there is not an objective answer to the question of if you should pull or not for the majority of gachas
My opinion: I would hold off on pulling excessively unless you specifically want the Dream Festival cards. While all the cards are extremely high quality, i must stress that all the event cards in the gacha are permanent, meaning that there are many opportunities to get the cards, including in free pulls, which will very likely happen in celebration of the Mega Update considering 6th anniv on JP had 200 in total, ALONG with an obtainable 5 star gacha ticket (which since the campaign hasnt been announced or implemented in EN, may/may not happen), and currently the perms are the only 4 5 stars you can get in said free pulls (and ticket pulls) since all the other cards are fes-exclusive. However, considering the quality of these cards, and the fact that this is the first gacha where 4 and 5 stars have a combined rate of 10%, as both are doubled, AND this being the ONLY gacha where you can get BOTH dream and kirameki festival cards at the same time, it does NOT hurt to spend a 10 pull or two and i understand somebody pulling for those reasons.
Overall: Like I have said, all the cards in the gacha are VERY high-quality, and are honestly still among the best each character featured has to offer in terms of card quality. 6th anniversary for garupa kicked off with an AMAZING start, imo.
HUGE thanks for reading if you made it this far! i plan on trying to do this more if people like it!
#bandori#bang dream#garupa#mega update#btw i'm just trying out a new type of post if you all like it like i said i will continue to do this through the EN schedule#i kind of procrastinated on making this but thankfully apple of all things had issues and delayed the update for a few more days so why not#another note about this update: we are very likely saying goodbye to bushimo on en and it being replaced with “bushiroad games”. o7#same with lounge convos as a whole
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I enjoy both genshin and honkai star rail but I feel like people vastly overestimate why hsr is more 'generous'. giving out a free 5 star is great but they would not have done that if the playerbase hadn't declined since it first launched. they're not just doing it out of the goodness of their hearts. it's a business decision. and it worked on me, to an extent - i booted up hsr for the first time in months because I wanted dr ratio.
the reason genshin has always had pretty crappy rewards is because they can get away with it. the game blew up without them needing to be generous, so they aren't. I'd like them to give a free 5 star, and I think it's dumb as fuck that they don't have a standard banner character selector like hsr does (I'm coming up on 4 years with no jean), but the hsr devs don't do these things to be nice
while it does drive me mad that hsr has added so many good endgame combat modes while genshin never has, i think it's important to compare the relative effort that goes into both games. genshin requires way more investment. the combat system is far, far more complex and the development of the character animations is a lot more involved. the world design is also way more complex - hsr is nothing in comparison.
I do wish genshin would add proper endgame content, but there's enough going on in genshin that it's not essential. hsr does not have much going for it outside of combat. It's fun in short bursts, but it's never managed to get a grip on me like genshin did when i first played it
my interest in genshin has waned a lot, but that's mostly because I've got so many fucking characters now and my account is really highly invested. there's not the same incentive or need to improve, and I was always going to reach that point eventually. but I do think it's quite telling that genshin was so many people's first gacha game, because it shows that what drew most people to it was not the rewards. it was the features of the game itself. by contrast, I tend to stay interested in hsr only for as long as I'm pulling for characters and getting new stuff, so my enjoyment of the game is a lot shallower
they're fundamentally quite different games and there's a lot they could learn from each other. but I think a lot of people ignore that hsr isn't just....a nicer game with nicer devs or whatever. they're both predatory gachas, they're just relying on different tactics to get their players spending money
#it's the powercreep in hsr that puts me off in the long term#the fact that genshin finds creative ways to keep old characters relevant#or give them synergies with new units#makes a character feel like a good investment#whereas a lot of the time in hsr I'm like hmmm how long until my current dps is powercrept by the Next Great Thing#I fucking wish genshin would add a mode like pure fiction though#genshin impact#honkai star rail
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covid has really made me realize that most people don't have very good risk assessment or sense of scope, especially when it comes to statistics. part of it is definitely a knee-jerk aggressive response to the word even being said, but a lot of the arguments i hear seem predicated on some kind of belief that Low Percentage equals safe, because that's how people talk about things generally.
putting aside for one moment that the percentages are most likely a lot higher than they think, and that the risk of long-term complications after catching the virus is cumulative--i think people have sort of lost sight of how unprecedented covid actually is, because it's so easy to go back to normal life. covid is the first pandemic in the age of super fast and easy plane travel. covid is the first pandemic in the age of humanity's numbers being over 8 billion.
no one is claiming that your risk of catching covid after going out unmasked just once is high (with the exception of peak season during the holidays). in periods where transmission is low, that risk could in fact be negligible. but you aren't rolling that dice once. you're rolling it several times a day, every day. have you ever played a gacha game where the odds of pulling a SSR were 0.5%? did you ever pull one, or did you know anyone who did? how surprised would you be if you were able to pull one after pulling for 10 hours a day nonstop every day? would you really be particularly surprised?
despite all this, you may not catch covid more than once a year, or maybe even every two years. if you're looking at a time-frame of 5 years, that's pretty good, isn't it? the odds of developing severe, permanent complications from one or two covid infections isn't That high. except... why would we look at time-frames of 5 years? we're in the fifth year of the pandemic and this virus has evolved fast, so the research is obviously laser-focused on year to year changes and working with the timeline that it's got. but i don't know about you guys, i anticipate living about 60 more years. do you think, knowing what we know about cumulative damage, that catching covid 60 times will be completely fine for our bodies? hell, what do you think catching influenza 60 times would do? post-viral syndromes have existed long before covid.
vaccines will never be able to catch up to the rate of the virus' mutations if they keep being tailored to specific variants, and it complicates things for developing effective treatments too. this is because this is a virus that circulates every day among essentially 8 billion people. statistically, it's inevitable that a random mutation somewhere will be successful and then begin to circulate. the fact is that 0.5% (a completely arbitrary number) of the global population is a massive number of people. it's 40 million people, more than the population of many countries. but it can be that amount again and again, because there's nothing preventing continuous reinfection.
no other statistics deals with this kind of situation. you can't use that ordinary benchmark or logic to think about covid. because this is in fact an unprecedented situation. and when new situations arise, people have to adapt and change their behaviour. but that's something that humans really hate doing, unfortunately
#covid#it's not new to covid! but again. the scale is so much greater#the impact on the world is unfortunately inevitable--but it could be much less worse if we wanted it to be#unfortunately the third world will once again be bearing the brunt of this#as they're denied vaccines and medications#and as they continue to suffer poverty due to global imperialism#and you know? the best thing we could do is reduce transmission globally overall. because everything is connected now#less transmission in the US means less transmission in europe means less transmission in the world#but we apparently. just hate the idea of health so much
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So, I wasn't sure how to write this in a coherent way. I'm not sure if I even am now, but I need to try (if only to vent). I’m just a person with feelings and an opinion and this is just for me to get this out there and out of my head.
I hate Solomon's Seals. I hate the idea of them. I hate them being paid content. I hate that they represent shady business practices and exploitation of fanbases. I hate it.
Before I explain, I am not faulting PB for trying to make a profit. Companies need to make money to stay in business and PB is a company. What I care about is the practices the company uses to try and make money. I care about how a company treats its players, both whales and f2p.
I am, by my own admission, a whale (maybe closer to a dolphin? Idk where we draw the line). I picked up the habit in my Eldarya days when I started throwing $10 at the game every few months. It was how I splurged on myself back when I was a broke college student. Before that though, I was a f2p player in everything I did. Even now, there are games where I am strictly f2p. So, please understand that I am seeing two sides to the issue as I write up this rant…
Solomon's Seal are exploitative and I hate them.
Paid currency, in general, is exploitative. Games can have paid content. That isn't what bothers me. Cosmetic changes being paid currency? Sure thing. Special stickers or emotes? Sounds fine by me. Making the gacha,, the entire backbone of the gacha game, paid player exclusive? That I have an issue with.
What bothers me is that WHB has introduced three different summoning items. Greater keys (GK), lesser keys (LK), and Solomon's Seals (SS). GK and LK are used for the general pool, with LK being used to narrow down summons to A+ rank or higher summons. Minhyeok's banner used GK, which was an interesting choice. They are easier to get by far. An actually alright move from PB, making it manageable to summon his unit (unit? card? what are we calling these guys even?) for all players.
However… then we saw the new banner and that it required SS. We were not told what SS were or how to possibly earn them. We found out after the update that SS are a paid currency. Specifically, they are a paid currency to draw on event banners for L-rank units. My heart sunk when I saw this. It sunk for a two main reasons:
It's unfair to the f2p player base, who doesn't even have a chance to earn a handful of SS for free to get even a few draws.
It makes me feel exploited as a whale when I see the prices on those SS.
My Eldarya days taught me something: whales motivate the company, for good and ill. Many companies want to try and get their whales to spend money on limited banners. If you played Obey Me (OM), you will recognize this as the reason Lucifer and Mammon always seemed to have the most limited cards. It was because they were the two most popular characters and the whales spent money on them. It was guaranteed that Solmare would keep making content for their cash cows. It's also why characters who ranked lower on that popularity poll started not getting as many cards.
(Side note: if you ever take these surveys and see the question "how much money do you spend on games a month", the company is explicitly assigning you a dollar amount to weigh your opinions)
Events (and their banners) are the lifeblood of gacha games. They make a ton of money during this time, so they tend to have a good deal of focus put on them. Personally, I prefer events to be more sparse so they are special and the team is not pulled between event stories, main story content, and the upkeep of the game.
OM had many shady practices as it went on. Constant events (often with only a day or two between the end of one and the start of another), being unable to complete an event reward sheet (3 pages) completely if you were f2p, Celestial Blessings (loot boxes within loot boxes), starting up Nightbringer (that's a whole other rant), not informing the fanbase for a year that OM would be all but discontinued, putting the announcement on a Reddit thread when it did finally come out so it had to be passed around via word of mouth rather than from Solmare itself, and more.
Solmare has always been an exploitative company and many of its choices are based in getting players to spend money as often as possible rather than ensure the actual game content is good (sorry, I am still traumatized by S4 and the year long wait). Many of their practices are based in fomo and gambling practice (reminder: gacha is gambling) meant to produce a Skinner effect and trick your brain to keep going, even against your own best interests.
You get an SSR guarantee when you draw because your brain sees the sparkling rainbows and thinks "I was so close to getting a UR! Maybe if I do one more pull". It prompts you to try again for that dopamine rush.
I bring up Solmare specifically to point out that, despite its shady practices, still didn’t have a paid exclusive currency. You could buy DP in that game, but DP was also able to be earned free. Same with DV. And the two currencies could be used to pull on any banner. Twst also allows you to use keys on any banner. Same with Nu:C and contracts. The Ikemen series too. One currency type for every banner, and that currency can be earned for free given enough time and effort. Honkai Star Rail and Genshin have two types of currency used on different banners, but both types can be earned completely free given enough time.
I personally think all currencies should be available to all players, paid and f2p, in some capacity. There should be a way to earn SS, even if only for a single ten draw. Doing anything less is unfair to the f2p player base and sends the message about caring about whales more. Games make their shit loads of money, even without having paid exclusive currency.
I personally think they should use the more rare, already existing currency (LK) for L-rank banners. Every player can earn those and they can be bought in the shop for the paid players. F2p players have a chance to earn them for free and hoard them for the next banner drop, making them feel like they at least got a chance to pull rather than feeling left out.
HOWEVER, I am also going to acknowledge here the PB (unless they change their minds) has stated that the L-rank event units will be added to the general pool at the end of their two week banner run. Honestly? This is an amazing choice. It completely opens the potential to get the L-rank units up to the entire playerbase. The only drawback is that the rates to pull them will drop. This is the first time I’ve personally seen a game do this and I will not pretend it isn’t a very generous move. My issue isn’t with PB. It’s with the Seals as a concept.
As for why SS make me feel exploited as a paid player… it has to do with their cost. If you do the math, it costs about $500 to hit pity… Gacha have never been cheap (ask me how much I have spent in the past trying to get Kuya or Rei) but $500 is insane for a single pity… in which you can’t even choose what you get. Take into account that there are four items you potentially have to draw (the unit artifacts are necessary for the unholy board which is where extra stats and story are hidden) and that adds up very quickly. Now, you are likely to draw something before you hit pity, but that is not guaranteed and it certainly isn’t guaranteed you’ll get all four items. RNGesus is fickle, as many a veteran can attest. Seeing these prices puts a nasty taste in my mouth because it feels like going straight for the wallet. Remember, these are pixels. They cost time and effort to make and write for and the servers cost money to be maintained… but $500 for a single pity? That is a rather extreme cost for the unlucky.
Like I said, I don’t have an issue with PB needing to make money. We all do. They have employees to pay and servers to maintain. My issue is the way they do it. I find Solomon’s Seals to be gross. I find them to be a bad practice in their current state which is why I cannot, in good conscious, whale for this. How I spend my money encourages their practices. I do not support this one, so I will not put my money toward it.
Having said that, I openly acknowledge that PB is not defined by this one grievance. I like that they seem to be listening to the player base. They heard Solomon’s Tears were difficult to get and made it easier to obtain them. They are constantly trying to fix the game and stabilize the servers. They have given out a shit ton of keys and compensation for delays, maintenance, and more. I can find this one aspect egregious without bashing the entire company or their efforts >.> I can still enjoy the game and the characters. Critique is not criticism.
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