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How did you like Genshin Impact, can you recommend it? I thought about starting it.
ONLY IF YOU PLAY THIS GAME AS AN F2P CASUAL AND IF FEAR OF MISSING OUT DOESNT AFFECT YOU.
DO NOT THINK TOO MUCH ABOUT GETTING A SPECIFIC CHARACTER VIA THE GACHA OR "BUILDING" YOUR CHARACTERS THE "CORRECT“ WAY. THERE IS NONE, AND THE CHARACTERS GET RERUNS. ONCE YOU START SINKING IN MONEY, ITS DIFFICULT TO GET OUT BECAUSE THE GAME IS DESIGNED TO MAKE YOU SPEND AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE, WILL SOUR YOUR EXPERIENCE, AND IS JUST NOT WORTH IT TO BEGIN WITH.
But aside from that, yea! The world building is genuinely amazing and gets better with each region, both in look and lore. You can play around with your team composition however you want, without being forced to pick certain characters or combos due to difficulty. And if it does happen to be to much, you can always lower the world level so enemies are easier. There’s lots of side-games like the serenitea pot (home-designer; think animal crossing new horizons but without villagers), a card game that can be played against NPC‘s and other players (and totally isn’t one big Yugioh reference), fishing, a Pokédex to fill, and probably more coming. The characters are pretty unique in both, well, character, and lots of detail in design (though they do tend to be a bit crowded personally, + there’s that whole thing going on with Candace being. Probably quite a few shades lighter in skintone than the person she‘s based on. Yeaaaa that one’s. Oof. The game‘s from China so not much to expect anyways; but still.) And the story, for the most part, is pretty engaging, with the things happening in said story having an actual, real impact on the gameplay and world, so that’s cool!
So in total, as a pro/con list:
Pros:
Amazing world building
SO. MUCH. WORLDBUILDING AND LORE. Everywhere
Generally engaging story with real impact on the world and gameplay
Unsolved mysteries, most of which are ongoing at this very moment
A lot of freedom when it comes to what characters you wanna fight with and how your team is built; basically everything goes and can be made to work well, even outside their intended purpose
No need or push to use any 5*s, 4*‘s are great on their own too; this goes for everything, but especially the characters. They’re not dumbed down to make the 5* ones look better.
Lots of stuff to do on the overworld, more with each region, like short and long m side-quests, or daily missions/weekly bosses
Option to turn down your world level if you’d rather chill (and increase it back after a while)
Card games and home builder side-games (serenitea pot my beloved)
Fishing and Pokédex
Mini-dungeons
You can feed the dogs
Overworld bosses and a challenge tower if you‘re really into combat
Play single-and multiplayer with up to 3 other people; both friends and by hopping into the worlds of strangers. Great way to get help with bosses, or you just wanna hang out with someone.
Events at every corner; with really big ones usually dropping at the start of a new major update + the big yearly lantern rite event for Chinese New Year (currently ending but the most interesting thing was the story that doesn’t make real sense without knowing the characters anyways)
Seriously there is so much lore at every corner. Lore In world details. Voice clips. Outfit details. Idle animations. Item descriptions. Weapon descriptions. The last two paragraphs in one of the many short stories you can collect in the form of books. Everywhere. (…unfortunately also events.)
The gacha system, while being predatory af, is. Kinda tame compared to other games? You get a decent amount of the currency needed from events and such, so if you only pull casually on every few banners, it’s possible to get a lot of characters you like without spending anything. There’s also this pity system where every pull increases your chance of getting a 5* and 90 will guarantee one, which is nice.
Cons:
THE GACHA SYSTEM. I know I just wrote it comparatively chill, but STILL. Maybe do a few pulls if you happen to have enough gems, but do NOT put money into this game. Gacha games are notorious for their gambling vibes for a reason. YOUR FAVES WITH COME BACK. YOU CAN PULL FOR ANOTHER FAVE. AND NEWERS WILL MOST LIKELY BE SLIGHTER STRONGER DUE TO POWER CREEP.
Again, that whole thing with Candace. All other characters can be argued upon but she‘s got specific origins to her design so it’s a bit oof.
The fandom. I‘m not even joking. It’s your classic ultra-toxic fandom you need to find a cozy corner in and then never leave from there. The shippers are especially vicious here, though a lot of the fandom outside of tumblr is weirdly obsessed with building characters as efficiently as possible, and putting this pressure on others to grind for all that stuff too.
Grinding for artifacts, the main way to "customize“/enhance a characters‘ stats, is horribly repetitive, grindy, and luck-based. So if you do care about building characters efficiently, you‘re forced to deal with that.
For some reason Mihoyo/Hoyoverse decided it would be a good idea to put a lot of their character-lore into events, a good chunk of which can be found outside of cutscenes and instead in the world during the event. So if you miss it, you have to check out the wiki, because you can’t replay the story. Following events will sometimes treat you like you did the previous missed events too, which can be a bit confusing. Especially since other times, those lines only trigger if you DID see said events.
You can’t pet the dogs
Havent played it, but if you care about combat more than the world, their other game Honkai Impact supposedly fits that niche a lot better
TLDR: Treat this game like a casual singleplayer open-world game, ignore the gacha/artifact system, and you should be good.
#another anon ask#really short answer: yea#but only if you aim to play casually#don’t let the gacha win#this is way too much isn’t it#sorry anon :‘)
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๑ -- ʟᴜᴋᴀ ᴀꜱ ᴀ ʙᴏʏꜰʀɪᴇɴᴅ - ʜᴇᴀᴅᴄᴀɴᴏɴꜱ ⋆
๑ – summary : hmm.. you've seen him in the cage, around boulder town.. but how would luka act if he was yours?
๑ – notes : aka, i love luka strongarm and i want him!! to kiss me!!! this is also a way for the gacha gods to give me him on one ten pull - i need to save my tickets for il 😭 also, first time trying to write headcanons - i'm hoping it's the right terminology for this 💀
๑ – relationship : luka x reader
๑ -- boyfriend! luka, who would stare longingly at you whenever you turn your attention to someone else while he's in the cage. he can't show off if you're not watching him, after all.
๑ -- boyfriend! luka, who’s arms snake around your waist when you’re still not paying attention, and he gives you one of his gross, sweaty hugs. even as you swat him away and scold him for being sticky, he can never resist your adorably red cheeks every time he does it.
๑ -- boyfriend! luka, who admires you as you lean in close to clean him up, your callused fingers leaving trails of fire against his bare skin even as his wounds sting and his body aches from being beaten in the cage. even though he wins, doesn't mean he's invincible.
๑ -- boyfriend! luka, who’d be unable to fall asleep when you’re laying next to him. he’s too busy admiring you - the curve of your face, your pretty nose, the rise and fall of your chest.. every part of you, he worships you like it’s the only thing he knows how to do.
๑ -- boyfriend! luka, who’d hate to see you cry. that’s no fair - why is his gorgeous partner have all those messy tears on their pretty face? no, no, not on his watch. he’d spend hours and hours - pulling silly faces, making you food, being at your beck and call - until he hears your melodic laughter once more.
๑ -- boyfriend! luka, who’s most definitely whipped for you, and he isn’t afraid to show it. he’d buy (and wear) those stupid matching shirts for you, like his says ‘i’m with sexy’ and yours would say ‘i’m sexy’ 😭 (THIS ONE IS DUMB I'M SORRY)
๑ -- boyfriend! luka, who forever reassures you. he’s yours as much as you’re his. jealousy shouldn’t be an issue, because even if you don’t see it, everyone else sees how he follows behind you like a sad puppy when you’re ignoring him
(“luka, honey, are you.. crying?” “NO.. it’s just sweat..” (he is definitely crying.))
GACHA GODS PLEASE LET MY BABY BOY COME HOME EARLY.. I FARMED FOR HIM AND EVERYTHING (ó﹏ò｡)
#๑ -- kerokero's works#honkai star rail#honkai star rail x reader#hsr x reader#hsr luka x reader#honkai star rail luka#hsr x you#hsr luka#headcanons#luka x reader hsr
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ツイステ Twisted Wonderland EVENT at Sunset Savanna “Tamashna Muina” GAMEPLAY
EVENT SCHEDULE
The Event Story is split into 3 releases on 7th February, 13th February and 20th February. Event ends on the 27th.
Event Free Cards (temporary versions) and Event Missions Stamp Cards will be released with same timing. You can claim the permanent version only at the very end, so not before the 20th.
Event GuestRoom Furniture will be available for crafting after having finished each Event Story part.
EVENT CARDS
HOW TO PLAY
Same as usual, accumulate Event currency during regular lessons to unlock Event Story chapters and trade at Sam’s for the Event Free Cards (once you’ve completed the Event Story in full).
The second Event currency you can receive from Event Missions can be exchanged with Event Background, Event Groooovy Items and etc.
Same as for Port Fest, you can Collect some Event Paint to craft Event-exclusive Furniture for your GuestRoom. You can start collecting paint from the first day of the Event (and the Collect Battle lets your borrow SSR Leona and other Event Characters) but the crafting unlocks after having finished the first part of the Event Story so it’s normal if you don’t see craftable items in your list at the beginning.
If we follow Port Fest model, you may need around 200 Event Paint to craft the entire series (don’t worry and collect the Paint first, as it is available only until 27th February while you have until 27th March to finish crafting, so you can Collect regular materials as second priority then).
EVENT SHOP
Vil and Lilia need Event Groooovy Items, you can get them at Sam’s. Event Cards from the mirror gacha banner do not need them.
As for previous World Events (Aleab Narya and Kelkka Rotu), you can get an Event-limited Souvenir at Sam’s for 50 paid jewels. The good news is that this time you can display it in your GuestRoom.
EVENT STAMP CARDS (3 in total)
STAMP CARD 1 (with Vil) MISSIONS [finished]: use Event Vil as your Home character | get Event Vil to level 20 | invite Event Vil in your GuestRoom 1 time | get one of Event Vil magic spell to level 5 | win 5 Water Exam Battles and 5 Fire Exam Battles | collect 100 and 200 Event Juices | login 3 days during the Stamp Card period.
STAMP CARD 2 (with Lilia) MISSIONS [finished] : use Event Lilia as your Home character | get Event Lilia to level 20 | invite Event Lilia in your GuestRoom 1 time | get one of Event Lilia magic spell to level 5 | win 10 and 20 GuestRoom Collect Battles | collect 300 and 400 Event Juices | login 3 days during the Stamp Card period.
STAMP CARD 3 (with Leona) MISSIONS : get Event Lilia to level 40 and one of Event Lilia magic spell to level 8 | get Event Vil to level 40 and one of Event Vil magic spell to level 8 | play 5 and 10 Rhythmics Twistunes | collect 500 and 600 Event Juices | login 3 days during the Stamp Card period.
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YANDERE!DREW AND YANDERE!EDWARD, WHO ARE IN LOVE WITH ISAAC AND HATE EACH OTHER FOR THIS, TRYING TO WIN ISAAC
This reminded me of old gacha videos I watched for some reason
“Ugh nooo.. I’m not writing a whole essay about.. what? History? I already forgot like half of the history I learned in middle school!” Isaac ranted to Drew. “I mean.. it doesn’t look that hard to write.” Drew replied as Isaac narrowed his eyes at him. “Okay smartie pants.” Isaac retorted as Drew put his hands up. “Hey hey hey, if you want I could do it for you.” Drew said as Isaac raised an eyebrow. “You would?” Drew nodded. “Yeah, I mean if you would like me to-” Drew said before Isaac interrupted him and grabbed his shoulders. “Yes.” Isaac replied while Drew chuckled. “Alright alright, let me see it.” Drew said as he grabbed the paper that was sitting right in front of Isaac…
“Isaac!” Edward called out as Isaac was finishing putting stuff in his locker, which caused a few looks. “Yeah?” Isaac asked as he put the last things he didn’t need in his locker and looked towards Edward as he approached him. “I got something for you.” Edward said as he reached into his pocket. “You… got something for me?” Isaac raised a brow as Edward pulled whatever it was out of his pocket and handed it to Isaac. I was a keychain of a cat. “Oh, thanks.” Isaac replied as he looked it over. He couldn’t lie, it was a cute keychain. He might put it on his backpack. Might. “No problem. Just saw it in a store and decided to get it because I thought it looked cute, then I thought you might like it.” Edward said…
Edward and Drew glared at each other the whole lunch period, then in the hallways, and even after school before Edward pulled Drew in the janitors closet to confront him. “Why did you help him with his work?” Edward said with a glare as Drew glared back. “And why did you give him the keychain I wanted to give him?” Drew replied back as Edward scoffed. “I could beat you up right now and it would be easy, so don’t try me.” Edward retorted. “And I could just tell Nevin some super mean jock beat me up for no reason! I wonder how that’ll turn out huh?” Drew replied with a smug smirk as Edward rolled his eyes. “I’m not scared of your stupid emo brother.” Edward said as Drew snickered. “Alright, we’ll see about that then. But next time you try that again I’ll make you regret it.” Drew said as he turned to leave. “Whatever, a keychain was a stupid gift anyway. I saved you by giving it to him instead.” Edward retorted. “Oh shut up, I still was able to help him with his homework.” Drew shot Edward one more glance as he left the janitor’s closet, leaving him to his own thoughts.
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TIMELINE FOR PEOPLE WHO DON’T KNOW KH BECAUSE THEYRE SMART (for @ashenberry)
In the beginning, a mobile game happened. This is universally seen as a “bad move” and everyone hated it
Anyway, Ventus jettisoned from said mobile game with some extra darkness(tm) in his heart because he didn’t settle his debt on his pay to win gacha dues
Cut to baldy mcbaldman Xehanort. He’s a weirdo obsessed with darkness, so he goes: “Eh. Guess I’ll rip the excess darkness out of this kid’s heart and make a new person or smthn”
Cut to him doing that. Vanitas born. Vanitas has no face, just kinda a blurry black blob with red eyes
Ventus goes “ow my everything existentially” and passes out into a death coma. Luckily though an actual baby Sora’s heart is passing by and goes “oh lemme fill that pothole for u. Googoo Gaga.” And Ven’s heart no longer resembles the Grand Canyon
Vanitas has face now, like Sora.
Xehanort’s like “boooo why don’t you die harder” and shoved Vanitas and Ventus together again when they were stronger cause he needed to form his super extra special car keys
Ventus goes “wtf die” and Vanitas goes “Okay. Your heart tho.” And Ven goes “wait shit.” And then his heart explodes
The remnants of Ven’s heart return to Sora, “heart pothole filler extraordinaire”, and asks if there’s no vacancy, then he’s let in.
CUT TO YEARS LATER AND A BETTER STORY
Teen Sora’s chilling on his island with his pals, [Girl] and bestest pal Riku who definitely doesn’t have repressed gay feelings for Sora that will result in an angsty apocalypse
Oops the apocalypse
Anyway [Girl] is a super bright heart and escaped apocalypse by chilling in the room next door to Ventus’s but still just a bit too far from the ice machine for convenience.
Sora figures this out and goes “ooh I hope this doesn’t wake anything tramsgenderly in me” and releases [Girl]’s heart from his, at the cost of needing to release his own heart
Cut to waking up things tramsgenderly OUT of Sora’s heart
Turns out this universe makes two things when u release a heart. Ur heartless, who has ur heart, and your Nobody, who has ur body. Very straightforward I know.
Because Sora had Ven and [Girl] inside his heart, his mom lets him have two Nobodies: Roxas and Naminè.
[Girl] restores Sora quickly so those two actual nobodies start out as blank slates n figure out their identities
And absolutely nothing else happened no siree
Some nobodies tried making a clone of Sora but it turns out his tramsgender vibes were off the charts and made a girl named Xion. She’s trans. She explodes. Queen.
#chirps#kingdom hearts#sora#Ventus#Vanitas#Roxas#Xion#🦋patches#we had fun writing this as you can tell vcvfvcv
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okay well i guess i didn’t need my alarms cause i can’t seem to sleep more lmao. it’s 5 am
soooo pokemon presents in a little less than 4 hrs huh? realistically i’m expecting something either johto or unova related and since they’re apparently lighting up NYC today, which is not usual for pokemon day, i’m kind of leaning unova. i have mixed feelings about this since as much as i actually did enjoy my time with BDSP, i was dually disappointed by them and i’m still sad that sinnoh isn’t going to get the HGSS or ORAS treatment ever - if unova remakes were to be of a similar caliber of bdsp, i’d rather them just not exist at all frankly. nostalgia bias and my immense love for sinnoh aside, i think the unova games, especially bw2, are some of the best games in the entire franchise, and if they are remade, or get bw3 sequels, or whatever, i want them to be GOOD. lets not spit on the legacy of gen 5 now!! but. i remain cautiously optimistic. i’m not a super cynical pokemon fan and like i said i did enjoy bdsp despite everything. also a legends kyurem or whatever would be awesome btw i wanna see the og dragon lol. johto would also be cool but i’m having a lot less thoughts on it for some reason. i’m sure if they announce anything johto ayano will have incredibly passionate thoughts about it
now i’m not really one for predictions, the above talk is maybe the most obvious outcome since they usually do remakes mid-gen. instead i’ll just talk about some things i would WANT even if they’re a pipe dream and i don’t necessarily expect them:
a new PMD. not an explorers remake, a new PMD with a fresh story and everything. we haven’t had a proper new PMD story since 2015 and i MISS IT. i’d also enjoy explorers remakes but frankly i want a new game the most and i wanna play as sprigatito SOBS THE PALDEA STARTERS WOULD BE SO GOOD FOR PMD
gen 3 on NSO with full online capabilities and also connectivity to NSO ports of colosseum and gale of darkness. i 100% do not think this is happening but it would blow me away if it did. the amount of gen 3 that so many people were never able to experience as children, especially me… could finally be done online!!! it’d be cool if they removed all the dumb trading restrictions too but unlikely. (as an aside if they released gen 1/2 VC again with stadium compatibility that’d be epic but i somehow expect that even less)
some sort of new stadium-type game with home compatibility that provides single player trials similar to that of the old gen battle frontiers. i just REALLY really miss old singleplayer battle challenges. i want a new one to spend a bazillion years on making wacky teams and winning w them. i enjoy VGC but sometimes that singleplayer experience hits different
i really am a spinoff enjoyer. surprise me with something new! that isn’t a mobile game with gacha elements! just a whole new standalone pokemon idea. no idea what genre just excite me
MAKE A COMFY FRIENDS SPRIGATITO PLUSH OR SO HELP ME GOD (this is barely related to the presents im just thinking about it i want one soo bad 😭)
and those r all my thoughts i think. these presentations r always a treat because i wake up early and watch them with my friends. i probably won’t be liveposting it on tumblr bc i will be lost in the sauce of discord w the besties. i’ll provide my thoughts later though!
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OLD SKETCHBOOK ART DUMP
Okay most of the shit in these are terrible. Genuinely just, bad. But y’know, you win and you lose.
My Gacha phase was strong in middle school sooo.. don’t judge 11 y/o me too much. I had to start somewhere okay? That somewhere happened to be edgy wolf angel hybrid forgotten child nonsense 😭
I liked to use song lyrics in my art (still do, actually) and I drew a lot of vent art. Some of that is included.
Don’t bully me. Let’s be proud that I’ve matured.
Theres a photo limit so I’m gonna have to reblog and add for every sketchbook/sketchbook adjacent.
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Don't You Just LOVE Runtime Errors?
Well, at least I was able to make some semblance of the cookies from last time, but...
Annelie glances up from the goodies each of the brothers offered up, gathered in the center of the table to find Satan and Mammon glowering at the sticks they drew.
Diavolo: I guess I’m on your team, Anne.
Beel: Ah, me too.
Diavolo laughs as he shows her the glowing black “2” drawn on his stick, holding it up to Annelie’s “1.” Levi and Beel are both holding “3” and “4” respectively, both smiling widely.
Levi: For once, my gacha luck isn't shit.
Satan: I want to pull again.
Mammon: Seconded.
Lucifer: Don’t complain, you two. You know it was completely random.
Satan: Oh yeah? What position do you have?
Lucifer flips his stick over to reveal a red “2”, surprising Satan in the process.
Lucifer: Mammon is the team captain. Aren’t you, Mammon?
Mammon: ...yeah.
Lucifer: And there you have it. And Annelie, I’m not going to go easy on you.
Annelie: When have I ever asked you to? Besides, I’m in it for Satan’s cat plush. It’s adorable.
Lucifer: It might be cute, but Cerberus is cuter.
Diavolo: Agreed. How is he, but the way?
Lucifer: Excellent, thank you for asking.
Annelie: Dog people are so bizarre.
Lucifer: Remind me who owns you?
Annelie: Oh, shut up, you dirty switching bastard.
Lucifer: Why don’t you make me?
Satan: Would you two stop? Levi comes to me to bitch about hearing you across the hall. It’s bad enough I have to hear it second-hand.
Levi: Well, you would bitch too! Those disgusting normies go at it every night!
Diavolo laughs.
Diavolo: Well, Anne does need to be fed a few times a day.
Satan: She might need it, but that doesn’t mean Lucifer has to have so much damn fun doing it!
Annelie: You know, you just make Lucifer feel even better about himself when you whine about it. You know what a show-off he is.
Lucifer: You want to repeat that?
Annelie: Am I wrong? Please, tell me you don’t enjoy the fact that you’re the only one in this house that’s having se—
Levi: Ugh, whatever! Let’s just start the game already!
Levi slams two decks of cards onto the table.
Levi: Draw, team captains!
Annelie smirks at Mammon as she takes the first card off the top.
Annelie: No hard feelings, Mammary.
Mammon draws a card himself as Annelie’s card glows.
Mammon: I’m gonna win those cookies, Annie.
Annelie: Yeah? What’d you get?
She flips over her black card, pointing at the shining “10” in the corner, even as Mammon displays a smaller “7” on his red card.
Annelie: Guess it’s favored on our side, isn’t it?
Mammon: Tch.
Annelie: First task....
Annelie frowns as she looks down at the text appearing on her card, and Diavolo leans over curiously to read it.
Annelie: “Some members of your team(s) have been afflicted with an unknown malady. Because this may pose health risks during gameplay, please resolve the conditions on these members first.”
Lucifer: Ah... sorry, that’s my fault.
Annelie glances at Lucifer curiously, even as he makes a gesture at her, and blue magic glows around her ears.
Lucifer: Continue.
Annelie: But it said members. Plural. Also, the malady was “unknown”
Lucifer: Well, a lot of mine don’t register properly in magic systems because they’re too strong, but... Mammon, when was that curse I put on you last week supposed to wear off?
Mammon: It was supposed to wear off on its own?!
Lucifer: Satan... don’t tell me you unbound it again.
Satan: Tch.
I can’t tell whether Lucifer is annoyed or proud.
Beel: If we’re talking about curses, then doesn’t some of Asmo’s makeup count?
Asmo: If you’re suggesting I take off my makeup—
Satan: No, I doubt it’s his makeup. In the first place, those curses are all put on file and recognized according to Devildom Law.
Diavolo: ...
Annelie glances over at Diavolo, who has a knuckle pressed to his mouth.
Annelie: You okay, Diavolo?
He glances over at her, surprised before he jumps up from the table, startling those present in the process.
Annelie: Diavolo?
Diavolo: I... sorry.
He ruffles his hands through his hair, a deeply concerned look crossing his features.
Diavolo: I think... I’ve put all of you in terrible danger.
#it's okay dia#no one will die probably#obey me lucifer#obey me shall we date#obey me!#fanfiction#shameless self indulgence#obey me angst#LuciAnne
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So tldr
Team Fun doesn’t have a queue and can’t play regular Turf Mode. When they play Turf Mode, Tricolor will happen at random and without warning. It’s guaranteed but Team Fun has no idea Wenceslao they’ll be able to play Turf War.
Team Gear and Grub have to queue to play Tricolor but instead of having the same system that dumps the waiting group into Regular Turf, everyone waiting ends up in Mirror Matches or in random 4v4 will they wait for the game to let 4 people join Tricolor. Btw Mirror Matches don’t count in the final Splatfest score and it’s a very high 50%+ chance you might get multiple mirror matches back to back. Also Teams Gear and Grub can just opt out and play Regular Turf War and Pro respectively. And also the queue does clarify turf battles would be happening while folks wait so many are super angry
Because Team Fun is guaranteed tricolor and will have an increased rate automatically, they get to play more often; but because the algorithm has to tell the queue when there’s 4 Team Fun people who can tricolor, if someone on Team Fun has an unstable wifi connection or Teams Gear and Grub can’t join because Team Fun must play regular Turf- nobody can Tricolor.
{It’s like Team Fun have bought tickets but find out they’re special raffle tickets to be first in line on a rollercoaster while also given the pass to ride other coasters while the Team Gear and Grub also bought tickets but they didn’t qualify for the raffle vip special tickets and then have to ride a repetitive and boring baby’s first Ferris wheel they didn’t know about instead of standing in line or just walking away}
And also the Tricolor Queue doesn’t clarify you will be playing matches while you wait nor that mirror matches don’t count until it catches you off guard.
So when Splatoon 3 tells Gear and Grub there’s not enough players, that’s true. Team Fun isn’t allowed to join yet.
The problem? There’s been players who waited 6hrs+ in the Gear and Grub queue who never played 1 match of tricolor vs Team Fun are basically guaranteed to win because they are literally fighting for their lives right now, fully without a choice. Plus after the demo, the game devs decreased the rate the defending team to play from being every so often to so rare, you have a higher rate of getting a good pull on the conch shell gacha in game right now.
Oh and also Nintendo’s servers are still very bad and the queues are so huge that tricolor disconnects more than regular and pro turf war does so there’s been people playing all day and night who never got to tricolor across all servers (yes this is happening everywhere, not just the Americas server)
#mun post#and that’s what you missed on Nintendo really fucking up a situation#splatoon 3#splatfest#im team gear and after 4 and a half hours of waiting with an extra hour ish break I got to play 1 match that we got second place in#i am very sad because I was team rock and didn’t have the option to play tricolor during the demo due to a glitch#so yeah I’ve only played tricolor once because I chose the inks of colors I like#team gear#team grub#team fun
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I don’t like to post randomly on my Quotev because I feel like I get judged more. Not that I get judged less here but it’s way easier to post stuff here and let it get lost in the other posts. Anyways, I know most of my followers don’t care about my ocs but this is a post about my ocs so move along if you don’t want to see it.
So for a while now, I’ve thought “how cool would it be if my ocs were in like a pixelated gacha game or something.” Next thing I know, my mind has thought up of dozens of mechanics but no real plot for the game. All I have so far is that there are different floors or levels where you can wander, they’re based off of different settings and they have different npcs and everything. But on each level, there’s a boss you have to find and defeat before you can move on and progress. And each boss is one of my ocs. With the gacha system itself, you can pull any of my characters. Side characters are like four or three stars, while yanderes aka main characters are rare five stars. Any characters you have you can give special weapons you either buy or get from gacha, upgrade their stats, and form teams with the characters you acquired (yes all characters have that old game talk where their speech is strange sounds). Here’s some ideas I’ve had so far:
Concerning Yandere characters
Playable yandere characters actually have a special mode that can be activated during combat.
If they’re worked up enough, such as you getting hurt or insulted, their stats will go up significantly as they become visibly enraged.
HOWEVER, they have a much higher chance of harming their own teammates at this stage.
Yes, your stats go up, but you risk harming or disabling the rest of your team. It’s a double-edged sword.
Charlemagne from “The Devil”
An annoying type of boss.
His theme for battling him would probably be this.
Probably at a lower level but not too low.
You arrive to challenge him as he just sneers and goes “You? You and your pathetic little posse? Ha! Oh, you trust your team so much don’t you? Your partner would never hurt you, hm~? We’ll see about that.”
He then proceeds to snatch the strongest character off your team and use them against you. Any buffs that character provided? Now applied to Charlemagne. The character could heal? Charlemagne is getting healed. The character is an absolute unit that you used to decimate enemies? Better back out now or try to win by some miracle.
If you try to challenge him with a horrible team just to win easily, he’ll insult you and refuse you. "Excuse me? Who do you take me for? Some under leveled fool with no standards? I'm not like that brainless imbecile on the first level who let you pass because you became his friend. That man doesn't even wear a shirt! I have standards, high standards. Why fight an opponent like you who won't even stand a chance? Get out of my sight, you miserable player. Come back when you've improved and bring me a challenge worthy of my time." Then you get kicked out of the arena and you can’t return until you bring at least one powerful character on your team.
If you have a whole team of overpowered characters, you get special dialogue. “My my, quite the selection and all for me~” And depending on the character, he may say special dialogue about them as well. “Ah, finally, some candidates worthy of a glance. Let's see here... You have a rugged look that can work well, but you smell like the dump, you beastly piece of filth. Hm.. Oh, the shirtless fool from the first level. So you joined this no-name player because they remind you of your idol and became your friend? That's quite pathetic indeed."
He’s not being so rude and insulting for no reason. He does it to anger your team, and once they’re enraged and at their strongest, he swipes the best one. It works out for him as well, because he doesn’t have a team that will get hurt during the stolen character’s enraged period. Good luck defeating him now.
If you manage to acquire Charlemagne in the gacha system, he’s a decent character. However, during some levels, he can be absolutely broken. If there’s a level with one overpowered boss and lots of other enemies and other weaker bosses, bring Charlemagne. If you have him on your team and an extra space, he’ll snatch the strongest enemy for you to use. See? He’s not all bad~
Warde from “The Creator”
Definitely a higher level boss but not the highest level.
Still, that doesn’t mean he’s easy to defeat.
He monologues after you challenge him. You actually have the option to interrupt him and the game encourages you to attack him during his speech. When you do, before your attack can even land on him, your screen goes pitch black with only the dialogue box visible. “You shouldn’t have done that.”
Not only did your attack miss, but Warde activated his dark magic and turned the screen black. Meaning you cannot see him at all during the battle. You can’t even see the options on your screen and you can’t even tell what you’re doing.
BUT there are a few ways to tell where he is. He’ll continue to speak, and his dialogue box may appear anywhere on screen. That’s how you can tell where he is. Also, every time he attacks, you can see the slash of his sword, giving you enough time to either avoid it or attack.
Your actions do matter, even far before you meet him or any other boss. If you encountered someone by the name of “Grant” and treated him a certain way, your battle with Warde may either be easier or harder.
If you were kind to Grant and mention it mid match --> Warde: "Ah... I see. Still, you are in the way. However, your kindness will not go unnoticed." [ The lights switch back on. You can see for the remainder of the battle. ]
If you were hostile towards Grant --> Warde: "You... You're the fiend that caused my brethren to return battered and bruised. How dare you abuse him?" [ His attacks become faster and he talks less, meaning his dialogue box isn't around as much so you don't know where he is. ]
Grant from “The Creator”
Most players would actually assume Grant was just a helpful npc. They would have no idea that the man they interacted with would later reappear as one of the hardest bosses, if not the hardest, in the entire game.
I mean, do you really want to hurt this random kind npc you found at an early level? You can try talking to him, and if you ask/demand to fight then he'll simply refuse. If you keep asking, there comes a point where you can actually hit him. Even if you hit him, he refuses to ever hit you back. You can keep hitting him, and you can actually see him getting hurt the longer you go on.
"Oh, good morning, stranger! You must be that odd traveller I keep hearing about. It's a delight to meet you! Here, as a gift from me to you, have this pie I just baked. I hope we can be friends!" [ You received a pie baked with love. Heals +100. ]
"If you see my family: a smart but serious guy named Warde, a handsome but troublesome young man named Kurse, a funny royalty named Sanguis, or my wonderful darling creator, you should say hi to them! Some of them are not very approachable, so I'd be grateful if you could befriend them!"
"Hm? Is there something else I can do for you? I'm not very bright but... I'll try my best...!" -> Fight me. "Huh...? But... why? No... I don't want to hurt you."
If you mention meeting Grant and you never hit him, your battle will be much easier against the others he mentioned. On the other hand, if you hit Grant, your battles against the others he talked about will be a lot harder. There’s three ways meeting Grant again at one of the highest levels can go.
If you were nothing but kind and actually talked to him and gifted him things --> Grant: "Ah...! It's you! I'm so happy to see you again! But... oh no-- you're my enemy...? Um... I'm not supposed to do this. I'm going to get in trouble for this but... you can go ahead. Hurry, before my family comes to stop you!" [ You don't battle and you can pass what's arguably one of the hardest levels without actually lifting a finger. Unless you stick around too long to chat, then you'll have to fight all of them at once which is damn near impossible. However, Grant secretly heals you a ton during the match and does like one damage to you. ]
If you were moderately nice to Grant or hit him only once --> Grant: "Oh... Um... I really would like to welcome you and share this lunch I made with you but... I think I have to fight you...? I'm really sorry about this. Please, turn back now. I don't want to hurt you." [ You have to fight Grant but he's actually not very hard to defeat. You can tell he's holding back, because he doesn't do much damage. ]
If you beat up Grant --> Grant: "Welcome! I-- Oh... It's you... Um.... So my creator told me I have to fight you if I see you again. And I'm always supposed to follow my creator. They didn't like you for hurting me before... and the rest of my family got really mad too... I'm sorry about this..." [ A very difficult battle. Has an insane amount of health, and if you don't defeat him within a certain amount of rounds, the others appear soon. But here, Grant will not heal you and he does heavy damage plus he heals the others on his team. ]
Okay, that’s all I have for now, but I know I’ll probably come up with more later on.
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Hanami (2022) - Oh flower, Oh flower, Please don't scatter
It's 5 am. Why am I awake. Also I put in like one or two snarky comments in the translation and a funny little tldr of the chapters translated, if it bothers anyone please let me know and I'll just keep it plain and simple next time! Also, why am I awake.
Prequel chapters 1 and 2, under the cut!
TLDR: Haseyama has friends (surprisingly) and we find out what they’re fucking around with; Yakou confirms that gacha is real and that increased drop rate is a lie, also what was Rindou thinking?
Prequel - Chapter 1
(MC, Kei, Akira and Rindou in the office)
(Un’ei comes in)
Un’ei
Akira-san! Rindou-san! I have good news!
Ah, you’re here as well. That is a relief.
MC
Hello, Un’ei-san. You were talking about some good news…?
Un’ei
Ah, yes! The Chairman has chosen the performance of this year’s Hanami, with help from an outside party.
Not only that, but this time it will be a showdown performance. Please do your best to lead your respective teams.
Rindou
Uhm…What exactly do you mean, Unei-kun? Is this going to be a showdown between Team P and Team W?
Un’ei
No, the members will be left up to you. With that in mind, perhaps you would need to start drafting line ups?
Doing so will be much easier for the both of you, yes? I look forward to the teams that you will have.
Akira
“I’m looking forward to it~” My ass. I don’t even understand what you’re saying right now.
Kei
…Un’ei. Organise the information first, then tell us everything that transpired.
Un’ei
U-uhm yeah! Well, let’s see…
There are two playwrights which the Chairman is associated with that recently came here.
It seems that those two have a request for Starless.
“I want to see which script will grab the attention of more customers,” they said.
Rindou
That’s…well, hmm…
Akira
Woah. This isn’t something that should be carelessly spoken with sake on the table.
Kei
Then, will they write a script that follows the format of Starless' shows?
Un’ei
Yes. Though I believe it will take a while for the scripts to arrive.
This was all decided by the chairman a while ago. Notice how only the singers have been chosen so far?
MC
Yes. It will be Akira and Rindou, right?
Un’ei
They will select their own members for the mixed teams, as they are the designated tops.
With that in mind, we’ve called upon a very reliant helper in order to create the mixed teams! Please give me a moment, I’ll call upon them now!
(Un’ei runs off)
Rindou
A helper…?
Kei
(sighs)
Un’ei
Well then, please welcome our draft adviser: Yakou-san! It’s a pleasure to be able to work with you.
Yakou
…Likewise. I’ve heard from Un’ei-kun that we needed to make draft teams, but…
Akira
Yeah, yeah. Something like that.
Kei
Yakou, the requirements this time are quite simple.
Akira and Rindou are to choose their respective members for the two mixed teams.
Yakou
Ah…Understood. So then, the teams need to be on a fair playing field? (pro tip: It wasn’t)
Un’ei
Yes! If you could do it just this once, please!
MC
How are you going to go about choosing the members?
Yakou
Do you have any idea how draft teams in baseball are created? They're merely nominating one member of their choosing for each team.
We should be able to follow the same principle. Starting with 4 people for the 1st nominations, we will have a total of 4 nominees.
If the same cast member is nominated, a draw will be held. Conversely, you will get the nominated cast member if the other team doesn't nominate for them as well.
I normally don't use the draw system after the 2nd round, but since we're making two teams, I think doing a draw for all of them will be alright.
You’ll need a solid strategy, so the drafting process will be held at a later date.
Rindou
Understood. Will we need to prepare anything before the appointed day comes?
Yakou
You'll need to write down the name of the cast members you'd like to win, each on a separate piece of paper. Also, any spare candidates.
We'll open them both at the same time on the day of.
Akira
M'ka~y. Understood. Though, I'd honestly rather do rock-paper-scissors right here and now… (so true bestie)
Un'ei
Oh yes. The president will give out a golden seal to the winner of this showdown.
Please keep this a secret from the other cast members, as it'll cause problems if they're scrambling around trying to participate.
Akira
Seriously!? That's definitely some sort of prize, isn't it? I seriously have to win this!
Rindou
Well, we'd first need to prepare for the draft teams. It seems like a big hassle.
Un'ei
Well then, I'll leave the preparations for the performances to you all!
-END OF STORY-
Prequel - Chapter 2
In the office
Akira
You know…I’m okay with MC being here but, some of you have no reason to be here at all.
Sotetsu
No way you’ll make me miss this kind of unpredictable event.
Ran
There’sa chance I’ll be chosen, so ‘s ‘boutta be my business! I’m excited~!
Kongou
I was asked by Kei to be here. Since I can’t come in for work, I was tasked to stay beside her.
MC
I’m sorry for all the trouble, Kongou-san. And, thank you for your hard work.
Un’ei
Sorry to keep everyone waiting! Now then, for the drafting-
(Nekome walks in)
Nekome
I heard something interesting was happening~ Did you guys start yet?
Rindou, concerned (me too)
…You came as well, Nekome.
Nekome
Ah my bad, my bad. Did I just interrupt you guys? Now, now, please don’t mind me and continue on with what you were doing.
Un’ei
Uhm, sure!
Now without further ado, the drafting process for the members of the Hanami performances will now begin!
Yakou
We don’t have much time, so let’s get right to it. Please open [the papers] and tell us who your first nominees are.
Rindou
My first nominee is Kei. Surely, he will be the most important factor to this.
Akira
Geh. My first pick was Kei too. I should’ve known this woulda happen…
Yakou
Same nomination then, huh. Well then, we’ll draw lots from the box. The one who gets the paper with the red circle on it will be the winner.
Akira
Huh, this is the red circle, right? Yeaaa, I got Kei-sama~!
Rindou
It’s a shame, but I will appoint another nominee. I will nominate for Kokuyo.
Yakou
Ok. It’s been decided that Team Akira’s first nominee is Kei, while Team Rindou’s first nominee is Kokuyo.
Nekome
Ahaha, a draw so early on. As expected, the strong and popular ones will be chosen.
Un’ei
Now then, please name your 2nd nominees!
Akira
Ufufu, my second choice is…Mokuren! My lineup is seriously amazing~
Rindou
I nominate Qu. Since we had different nominees, we’ll get them, correct?
Kongou
E~h? Qu, huh? That’s an interesting selection.
Sotetsu
Not really, if you consider that Qu was formerly in P. He probably avoided going for Mokuren in case a draw will happen.
MC
Ah, so there’s such a strategy like that.
Ran
Woah~! ‘S like they’re one upping each other~! I saw Akira’s 3rd nominee was Mizuki!
Kongou
I don’t think that’ll be possible…? I don’t think he’s suited for any of these mixed teams.
Nekome
Wouldn’t Ginsei be a better choice? After all, he’s such a hard worker.
Sotetsu
I think Rindou knows that already.
Akira
Say what you want, but everyone’s off the mark. Since, my third choice after all is Yakou.
Yakou
Huh… Me?
Akira
Well, you’ve been quite amazing lately. I thought I’d have a draw with Rindou [for you].
Rindou
No, we won’t have to. After all, my third choice is Taiga.
Nekome
Oya, I didn’t think my little brother would be mentioned at all. That’s unexpected.
Sotetsu
Hm. I can’t tell at all who he has in mind for his 4th member.
Ran
Mus'.be.nice. I wanna perform on the stage too! I don’t care which team I’ll land in, please just choose me!!
Un’ei
May I request that the spectators keep their voices down? Now then, please tell us your fourth and final nominee!
Akira
My final choice will be Menou. This’ll be perfect!
Rindou
My choice is…..Ran.
Ran
Seriously!? Yeah!! Told ya’ll I’ll get’in!!
Kongou
This is…is this alright? It feels like a reverse nomination.
Yakou
Well, I didn’t really specify in the rules, plus it looks like he was really one of the nominees, so I’ll give this an ok.
Sotetsu
That guy, I can’t tell if he’s just too nice or overconfident.
Un’ei
Well then, we finally have the two teams participating in the Hanami showdown.
The songs and the scripts will be given out now. Everyone, I wish you the best of luck!
-END OF STORY-
#blackstar theater starless#bsts#; galaxxi's translations.#bro. bro. dude. bro.#do you ever just forget how to english??#do you ever just forget how to like make one string of words from one language to another language.#like#correctly.#I should not be translating at 5 am#i should not be awake at 5 am.#and yet here we are honk honk clown car on max gas
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⭐️I found this in my notes and decided to post⭐️
Haku Men And Modern Rooms:
Heisuke- I wanted to let Heisuke be nasty for a change but idk if the other two of the trio would let him live down having anime tiddies all over his room like that lmao. I think he’d probably be into anime and maybe even have some hentai stashed somewhere in his room in modern times, however, I just don’t know for sure if it’s be his whole entire room. His room is somewhat messy and he never makes his bed. He might take a little bit more care to do so if, let’s say, a girl was to come over but I doubt that’s often. Once he starts dating them, the thought to clean kind of dissolves. He might have some secret porn somewhere. My reasoning I guess is bc he’s a young guy and miiight have some pesky teenage hormones left in him. On a side note, I think he’s enjoy Shonen manga a lot and as much as I do not like Dragon Ball, I think he’s enjoy it a lot. That and One Piece.
Chizuru- This feels like a cop out bit I think Chizuru would have a Sanrio bathroom. She has to be surrounded by men a lot and I think she’d appreciate something cute and light hearted for a change (not that Heisuke isn’t RIGHT THERE). I also think the men feel similarly about this so they bring her back cute things all the time to kind of “girl up” her space and because it’s from her loved ones, she’d proudly display them everywhere and finds great comfort in them.
Hijikata- Alternatively, and this may be because I have a lil secret crush on him right now, I think Hijikata might have like one Sanrio thing or two that Chizuru had gifted him but I don’t think he’d DARE decorate his whole room. I also think he’s like a dad that hates the new family cat yet he spoils the hell out of it when he thinks no one sees. So he just has a lil gacha figure of Chococat sitting on his desk bc Chizuru saw it and gave it to him like “for u <3”.
Shinpachi- I think Shinpachi has like one figurine he won and it’s like Tengen from Demon Slayer because he kins him or something idk and it took a lot of time and money to win so he displays it in a bunch of places like some kind of shrine bc he’s proud he won it from a crane games. Btw it’s either Lord Tengen or like VEGETA or something. If he knew about his own figures (I don’t think he has a big fancy one yet ), he’d DEF just display the figure of himself.
I might have inadvertently Otaku-fied these grown samurai by accident shhh
#hakuouki bc#hakuouki#hakuoki#heisuke toudou#otome#toudou heisuke#hakuouki meme#Hakuouki hc#hijikata toshizo#yukimura chizuru
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awesome it is time for cookie wars loredump...2!
or: going through the excuse plot in the “A Cookie’s Diary” sidequest and picking out the bits worth mentioning
ok lets go
the story of this sidequest is framed through one of the game’s NPCs, a raccoon creature named “Chester”, reading the diary of a survivor escaping the jelly walkers (and then sending you on cringe fetch quests or whatever). so keep that in mind.
anyways, the author of the diary was near the jelly walker meteorite when it fell. They managed to hide in underground tunnels with their friends.
The author writes that Pets give cookies the will to survive the jelly walkers.
One of their companions is described as “an eccentric scientist”, who is probably wasabi cookie, given that “weird scientist” is pretty much her defining character trait. Anyway, the author then writes wasabi told them about “combining several cookies for upgrades.” they end up helping wasabi with their experiments, the first of which was an experiment to strengthen cookies.
The experiments are basically a tutorial for teaching you, the player the level up system which is “give your cookies experience potions and if you get dupes of cookies from the gacha you can also use them for enhancement”...
Their experiment failed, but wasabi prepared an improved experiment after that, because “Cookies never give up”. Her exact words, judging from the author’s reaction:
Anyways the cookie-enhancing experiments failed except for the last one.
Then one day, the author met an “extremely mean pet” who hid itself, waited for them to come near, and hit them very hard. And then, wasabi took it to make it stronger. The author then writes “I wonder what happened to the Pet...” Basically, this begins the author & wasabi’s pet enhancement experiments as well as the thinly-veiled tutorial for leveling up pets. They continue their research on cookies too.
At this part in the diary, the author makes note of how pleased wasabi is during the experiments writing that she “began giggling just like Giggle Bomb” at one point. Which implies the pet they were working on was Giggle Bomb. Maybe? Well, make of that what you will.
Also, this happens too:
“The experiment failed. Or was it successful? I don’t know. The participants have disappeared, but another Cookie appeared instead! The scientist was pleased and giggled all the time.”
The author also notes how wasabi took pets from her own team for her pet experiments. Chester then tells you: “Before the experiment, check if the Pets belong to someone. I bet no Cookie will be happy to find their Pet turned into something else!” LMAO
The diary briefly goes into Donuts after this, which is basically like the topping system in crk, but in sets of 4 instead of 5. It also integrates the PVP system into the story by saying the cookies realized it’s safer to gain fighting experience by sparring with each other instead of the jelly walkers. Not much else to say about these ones.
Here’s some bonus lore tidbits before the final part because we’re in the home stretch babey! There’s a tradition for summoning Cookies: horns were used to summon strong cookies for help, and if they needed help, they would use horns to call for even stronger cookies. It also discusses “Pet Incubation.” After the impact, it became harder for cookies to find pets in their natural habitats, so they decided to grow pets artificially.
Anyways, the final part of the diary starts here. Very strong cookies tried to make a plan to save the world. Not much information about it is given, but the author writes it was something about destroying all jelly walkers at the impact site. Wasabi predicted the plan would fail, and claimed she was trying to “cure the symptom, not the source of the disease.”
No one listened, and everyone started strengthening themselves for the battle, including Moonlight and Fire Spirit cookie. The author thought they had a good chance of winning.
On the day of the fight, Wasabi suddenly decided to return to the lab for research. The author writes: “I kind of grew on this Cookie...”
As for the battle itself, it started out well enough, but then a “giant jelly walker” appeared and the plan fell apart. They had to retreat.
The last entry takes place after the battle. The author was starving. Then, they found a jelly on the ground and ate it. Their last words were: “Eating it wasn’t a good idea. I don’t feel well now...”
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Ya know after looking at Gil’s Bond CE, i’ve come to realize the entire Bond CE system perfectly represents how all of FGO’s talk of “it’s about winning with a team of your favorites” is bullshit that’s completely betrayed by its money-grubbing gacha mechanics. Stay with me here I promise this will loop back around to that point.
Bond CEs are completely useless on about 90% of all servants, and it’s because of design decisions that are made explicitly to prioritize gacha rolls. Firstly they’re only ever useful on support units or Heracles. Heracles is his own unique case of being one of two base game servants with a truly unique Bond CE, granting a whopping 3 Guts, which itself is only useful because of a design oversight on how Guts works (where if there is only one servant left, triggering Guts automatically ends the enemy turn. This is because the AI registers that moment of death as “no enemies left” causing the turn to pre-emptively end), and Georgios who has a unqiue effect of on death applying damage cut and invincible to all other allies. This is typically only used for suiciding two level 1s so you can solo, but it still works well enough played straight.
Aside form those two though all Bond CEs are one of two things: A gimmick, or a flat buff to the team. The former are always useless because of the low scaling they always have, which is but one of two crippling issues I’ll get into later, and the latter are only ever going to be useful for support units. Even then it’s practically random if the effect is going to be useful. Osakabehime has 15% NP gain instead of Quick Up despite being the first intended dedicated Quick Support, and for some god forsaken reason the 1star Berserker Asterios has Quick Up on his Bond CE. Casgil has NP Strength instead of Arts or NP gain up. Mozart has NP Strength instead of Arts or Critical. Ones like those arent always terrible but my point is that it’s rare for you to get something like Castamamo, who is a dedicated arts support who DOESNT need things like starting battery or passive star gen or the other typical support effects AND has a Bond CE that directly stacks with her main form of support.
That all on its own isn’t the real issue though. The real issue is the stats. Every Bond CE is, at max level of 80, 100atk/100hp. Every single one. The same as those crappy free CEs with like, +.0000000001% Mystic Code EXP. This AUTOMATICALLY MAKES EVERY SINGLE DPS’S BOND CE USELESS NO MATTER WHAT. It doesn’t matter if AUO’s gives 30% NP Damage up and small random crit buffs, because why would i EVER use that when I can give him an effective 20% NP damage up, 50% battery, and an extra 1000+ attack with Aerial Drive? It doesn’t matter if Super Orion gets 8 stars per turn and 15% crit up for the team when I’m going to be bringing crit support for him regardless and can give him a 948atk up Victor of the Moon with 10% Buster and 20% Crit up on the only DPS I’ll need for the fight. To say nothing of how I dont need to farm for countless hours to raise their bond for those CEs.
“But what if I missed the Aerial Drive event, and don’t have Victor of the Moon?” Exactly my point. You spend countless hours grinding with these servants just for a 3 star let alone how fucking long it’d take for an SSR’s bond ce, and what do you get? A stocking stuffer that’s obsolete compared to just about any matching effect 5 star CE that requires you to roll the gacha. Even if they all had Heracles level effects, they’re crippled by that lack of stats.
And I can tell you exactly what the thought process behind those stats was.
“They get them for free, so obviously just like the other free CEs, they have to have the absolute minimum stats.”
Even though they require multiple hundred hours of dedication and are supposed to embody your bond with a servant, hence the name, they consider them “freebies” simply because you aren’t gambling over them.
They claim the game is about beating it with the servants you love, but the equivalent of their wedding rings are worthless in gameplay because as far as the developers are concerned, if you didn’t gamble for it then it shouldn't have value.
#fgo#Fate Grand Order#fuck fgo#nasu is a sellout#fgo meta#dont play gachas kids#yes i know im stating the patently obvious i do it so i dont go mad
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A short summation of my new years experience.
On the GSSR, THIS BUGS BUNNY MOTHERFUCKER SPOOKED ME AGAIN
Second fucking new years GSSR in a row he’s ruined me.
On the OTHER hand…
Muramasa, without running out of quartz. To me, that’s a win. And I’ve tested, I don’t need that second copy that badly.
And finally:
Gave my wife the grails she deserves.
It’s a new year…let’s hope I can cut my gacha spending considerably.
#fgo#fate grand order#fgo rolls#fgo gssr#artoria lancer alter#artoria pendragon#Lalter#muramasa#senji muramasa#fgo muramasa#Astolfo#saber astolfo#Saberstolfo
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Dust Watched: Aggressive Retsuko Season 05
Genres: Comedy, Social Commentary // 10 episodes // S01 (x) | S02 (x) | S03 (x) | S04 (x)
Seeing as this is the alleged (I don’t trust anything Netflix says) last season of Aggretsuko, I thought a normal essay format would be better to express my frustrations with the run of this show.
If you asked me what I thought of Aggretsuko in the beginning I would’ve said without reservation that it’s one of the best anime out there. Unfortunately, with each season, it was beginning to be more and more difficult to recommend this show and this final season was the worst kind of icing on the cake.
Season 5 has some incredibly great moments sandwiched inbetween incredibly dull and non-sensical moments that ruin the flow and make the ultimately great message of this season get lost among everything going on.
I guess it speaks to how much I cared for Haida and Retsuko’s relationship that I didn’t even bat an eye to the fact that they’re dating from the very beggining of this season despite the last season ending on an (another) will-they-won’t-they moment. I never thought the two of them had much chemistry but the show was pushing them so hard that it was pretty much a given that they would end up together.
Haida having suffered a basically complete character assassination in Season 4, turning him from a wet tissue paper to an *annoying* wet tissue paper, almost made me give up on S05 from the second it began as we start out with Haida having taken over as the protagonist. This only lasts a few episodes but these few episodes surprisingly turned out to be the best this season had to offer. Alas, this plot thread still isn’t carried by Haida, but a new character.
Haida, who is now unemployed, spends his days playing a gacha MMO (the horror) where he hangs out with another player called Shikabane. We’re shown one scene of him being sucked into spending a shitton of money on some gacha pulls, which plays a lot less importance than it could have, and on top of that he is getting kicked out of his apartment as his family who’ve been letting him live there for free found a tenant.
This puts us into one of the best short arcs from the whole anime. Haida decides to live in an internet café where he actually ends up meeting Shikabane in person. She is a 21 year old girl, who actually does “live” in a net café. She has no house, nor has any interest in subjecting herself to the fake facade people need to put on in a “normal” 9-5, instead living off of occasional freelance work and sleeping in a net café. But.. is that really what she thinks? Put a pin in that.
From here-on I’ll speedrun the rest of the season with SPOILERS upcoming.
Haida gets himself a gruelling physical job that pays like shit, suffers a bit, Retsuko and gang find out about it, he moves in with her, there’s like 1 episode focusing on how their relationship isn’t sunshine and rainbows, while we get some scenes of how Haida struggles with getting hired (put a pin in that n.2).
The second actual arc is bonkers and starts way too late into the season for it to have a satisfactory conclusion. Haida and Retsuko meet Haida’s family, we find out his dad is a politician and his other son, Jiro, will be running in the election for their Ward instead of him. Meanwhile, Retsuko’s former idol group are hamfisted into the story for no other reason than to force the other half of the plot to happen. A politician from the “Rage Party” saw Retsuko’s death voice videos and thought that she could represent today’s society’s Rage and win a seat for the declining party. Thus a few episodes are spent on FORCING Retsuko to take part in the running against Jiro, we get some minimal social commentary on what this Rage is (put a pin in that n.3).
Then, I kid you not, we get literally 5 seconds of some papers flashing that Retsuko and Haida are getting married (????), the vote (Retsuko lost), Shikabane apparently being convinced to “get her life together” from a single karaoke session, Haida getting a job (we don’t even know where or what!).... and. That’s it. The final scene is a looping back to the beginning of the whole anime. Retsuko being smooshed in the train while on her way to her normal office job.
Yeah, so, this season was messy enough as is but as a final season, it was even worse. The pacing was catastrophic, it was too slow where it should’nt have been and too fast where things happened we actually would’ve cared about (the marriage??? hello???).
But really, my main disappointment comes from those few moments where the show shines like it used to.
Aggretsuko might be a comedy but it’s just as much a social commentary. Now, the names of generations and how they are seperated differs from country to country but for the ease of things I’ll just use the western categorization.
Retsuko’s original premise is what life is like for “millenials” starting out at their first traditional jobs. How the previous generation still rules how things should be done, the power structure, the fake facade, the overtime. While not exactly translating to the west, it’s an incredibly relatable setting for the generation who was in the same shoes as Retsuko and the show itself explores all of it quite well in the first 2 seasons.
The following seasons became more bonkers, focusing less and less on the office or realistic scenarios and more on the comedy from outside sources. It was easy to kind of forget just how grounded the show used to be.
That’s where Shikabane comes in. Shikabane represents the new generation who just hit adulthood, or as we know them, Gen Z. I’m a late millenial myself, but I definitely saw a lot of how I think but especially how my younger sisters think about the world as it is now.
There is no planning for retirement, planning on buying a house or a car, settling down to have the perfect family while working a traditional job.A lot of young adults have lost hope and the drive to make a future for themselves because they cannot see how it would be possible in today’s climate. Surviving one day to the next, with no particular goal in sight, because it seems impossible. Working a 9-5, putting on a fake smile, abandoning your own personality and *hating* every second of it just to make enough to live paycheck to payckeck is something a lot of them refuse to do. But at the same time, the world is still run by the same people it was 50 years ago. Times have changed so much but they themselves refuse to change. Society is afraid of change. So what else is there to do but... give up?
That is the story you can see told through Shikabane. And in the final episode there’s a metaphorical “torch pass” between her and Retsuko. “My life isn’t what people need to see now. It’s yours.”
And despite how many problems I had with this season, despite how I wish it ended seasons ago, I’m glad Shikabane exists today because she reminded me of what I loved about this show in the beginning.
I wish I could bid farewell to this show in a better way but hey, it is what it is. And for every Shikabane out there; keep fighting.
My Rating: 4/10
#aggretsuko#aggressive retsuko#dusty reviews#if y'all liked it im glad ok!!! but i have a mouth and i must RAGE#edit: i ended up finishing this at 5am so the last part got really sappy#i made myself sad
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