Gacha Chat

[wispy goblet]

poggers

final fight

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poggers
animation

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Hmm

Im not sure how to build Lighter

Whether to go swing Jazz 2 piece or Inferno metal

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shockstar disco and then smooth jazz

actually

inferno or jazz 2pc are both good

it just depends

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Oh no 4 piece is Shockstar

Its the 2 piece Im unsure on

Inferno I think has the better discs is the thing

(Or I have the better discs for it rather)

On a sidenote, boy getting resources in ZZZ kinda sucks

[runic ether]

its been easier for me recently idk why i feel like i have a ton spare

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For me its mainly the money

And I guess the skill materials

Also I feel like in this game, crit damage discs are never worth it

Right now Lighter has a 33/146 split because of that

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crit rate is just nice here since theres a lot of actual ways to get cdmg

like ellen gives herself +100 cdmg

and

with characters giving element shred like lighter

or nicole def shred

actually landing a crit matters more than hitting a super fat crit

[timber sigil]

alcoholic child labour leggo

[rapid bough]

korean ad possibly spoiling the nikke new year's unit ||please save elysion tower... SSR rapi!||

[silver osprey]

https://www.reddit.com/r/arknights/s/F6XUnfgdz2

Surtr and Aurora (clones?) in Endfield

https://youtu.be/EfwGJH-etgk

[old galleon]

those have to be the actual characters, right?

also one of them looks like angelina

[silver osprey]

Apparently they have different names

Surtr is called Laevateinn

We've known Angelina for a while and she's supposed to be a clone

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https://x.com/MOR_angol/status/1867679796022718640

MOR(モア)@skeb募集中 (@MOR_angol) on X

周回ずっとこれ
#fgo

Twitter · Dec 13, 2024, 9:15 PM

[mental acorn]

potential woman no more
surely now she will have lore and feats

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https://x.com/SNaFu_1313/status/1866356340010238072

snafu  (@SNaFu_1313) on X

Twitter · Dec 10, 2024, 5:36 AM

[long tree]

Still love her animation where she breaks a snack to share, offers you the smaller part, and then eats it anyway

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based and snack pilled

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what's her name?

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Sad that she's the biggest that the Chinese gacha fanbase can handle though (she is legit just a healthy weight)

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spas-15 i think

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not usre on the number

[idle grove]

well she was spas-12 in gfl1

because that was her gun

in gfl2 her name is sabrina

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[idle grove]

also just started playing the story again cause I've been a bit busy

this cg man

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the one good thing about gulp shitto being one of the abnos used for dailies is that you can look at some of the pretty corruptions, which doesnt happen often in regular gameplay

[honest pawn]

would still pull her cheeks and let go as they bounce back with a wacky cartoon wobble sound

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lmao i had the same reaction and posted it here a week or so ago

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ok so i can do solo raid 3 p easily but solo raid 4 wrecks my shit

[rapid bough]

sounds about right

the spike from 3 to 4 is pretty big

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maybe its a teambuilding issue tho, since team one does half of the bosses hp and the other 4 combined barely do 20 %

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that also sounds right considering you typically only have 5 or so highly invested nikkes at the point in the game you're at

so a massive portion of your damage is gonna be done by your best team

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i mean, level wise they are even, but ik what you mean

speaking of, i should probably power up some skills at some point

[rapid bough]

yes you probably should lol

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level 4 skills is enough, surely

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i mean that's what i have most of my nikkes as

the exponential cost increase for higher levels, especially 8-10, makes it best to spread investment a bit before you max specific nikkes out

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i think i have only one nikke at skill 10

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i think i only have 4 nikkes with level 10 skills: liter, scarlet black shadow, red hood, and crown

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and you can probably guess who

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cindy?

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alice

cause theres missions for that

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oh right you need to level her skills for her diary lol

would've done cindy first personally

and now that you have her, would do S:BS most of all

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oh, is she good?

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liter too if you actually use her though ik her design gives you the ick

yes lol S:BS is a top 3 unit in the game

for dps anyway

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neat

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liters skills are at 6 fwiw

which is the same as cindy

and as soon as i get her a proper funko ill probably use her over yor

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in order of priority i think i'd do something like

liter 7/4/7 > SBS 7/4/7 > cindy 7/7/7 > SBS 10/7/10 > liter 10/4/10 > cindy 10/10/10

the only units that will have higher priority than those are crown and red hood, if you get them

also i know you have D:KW, iirc you want to get her CDR skill to level 7 to ensure smooth burst rotations

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ive yet to have a problem with cd at level 4

[rapid bough]

i might be misremembering

some nikkes need that but maybe D:KW isn't one of them

[rapid bough]

side note, if the new year's unit is indeed SSR rapi, i'd bet money we get a red hood rerun too

so you may be able to guarantee her soon

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@honest pawn are the devyat ids any good?
im about to do the rupture mirror dungeon run and have just noticed that half of my team is still 00 ids

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if i give up on ludmilla that is

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they're both great, rodya more than sinclair but I like sinclair more

but they're better as damage dealers than rupture spreaders

[slow raft]

well mirror dungeon temas dont really have count problems

so surely ill be ok

[timber sigil]

https://vxtwitter.com/YZsFerrari/status/1866605380320759923?t=G0-QICCmt4rF03ErvOHvVA&s=19

[honest pawn]

oh yeah rupture is broken in md

[timber sigil]

Am I being psy-oped into watching Kung Fu Hustle

[honest pawn]

you can get thunderbranch and that one tier 4 gift on like floor 2-3 consistently

YES YOU ARE

WATCH KUNG FU HUSTLE

BEST MOVIE OF ALL TIME

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i have no leveling mats anymore

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actually checking out the nikke event story and they really just ripped the fate summoning chant, huh?

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this mirror dungeon shit is easy

[idle grove]

https://x.com/wawamachi/status/1867953683700592720?t=NzYDa9Jf8U7dm62Fqp-6yg&s=19

Wawamachi (21- 22 DEC EOY SG) (@wawamachi) on X

Twitter · Dec 14, 2024, 3:23 PM

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Charge speed on cindy

[old galleon]

i'm like 99% sure charge speed is a totally dead skill on cindy

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thats the joke yea

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https://tenor.com/view/sharkry-wink-wink-girls-frontline-gfl-exilium-gif-6962229955652776470

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Ok I've finally gotten S11s discs to be decent

72% crit rate without the inferno metal buff (so effectively 100%) and 122% crit damage

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thats pretty solid

i am personally greed-maxxing with 50 pre inferno metal and 180 cdmg

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I probably wanna get some more crit damage later but for now its good enough

Just need to fix up Lucy and Lighter and the team should be good to go

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ye fair

lucy can just go atk/atk/atk especially if you have an energy engine

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I am aiming for Atk/Atk/Atk on her

I just need the mats lmao

Lighter I need a crit rate disc instead of a crit damage one, but hes fine otherwise

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Man screw the floor 15 boss in battle tower

Why are his telegraphs off

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a little bit of trolling

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Its just frustrating because I could beat him otherwise

But I keep getting hit by attacks that either are off in their telegraphing, or just not telegraphed

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Finally

Didnt 3* it because Lighter died, but I got the asshole

... cmon

I got a Crit rate one without crit damage

I think 55%/100% is still better than 32/148 but man

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it is

[honest pawn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tYL8W8eeaE

fuck off

[old galleon]

bruh

[honest pawn]

literally satan in a christmas outfit, okay

the most unserious gacha game ever

[digital marlin]

there has been Crazier stuff

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https://www.reddit.com/r/Zenlesszonezeroleaks_/comments/1hekio7/agent_record_astra_yao_official/

ether support

[long tree]

Fire emblem heroes surviving while dragalia lost died still infuriates me

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zhu yuan is gonna be hitting for a morbillion damage

[long tree]

One day we'll get dragalia lost redrive

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSncQJ-pRbM

i see

i need a zenless anime asap

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How possible is it to get 50 pulls in zzz assuming I haven't done anything since the pink haired woman's release and that I've barely started the story since Caesar came out

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For this patch or the next?

@long tree Mostly since Im about to go to sleep

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50 pulls?

depends on how much content you have to go through still

but next patch we are due like some 240 pulls

give or take

[long tree]

Jesus christ

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i saw the estimate is pretty huge since its a soft re-launch

[long tree]

It's just cause I'm 50 away from miyabi

Soft re-launch?

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oh next patch everyone should be able to get her if they want her

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some more quality of life and they are doing the decibels no longer shared so everyone can ult thing

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Oh yeah next patch has at least 140 pulls as a fully f2p player

And the banner is the entire patch so

Trivial really

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We move

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yeah thats gonna be a hoyo thing going forward

new characters will run the entire patch

[long tree]

Iirc my only limiteds are Ellen and rrat

[runic ether]

reruns come in 21 days in

[long tree]

But I'm assuming both are still good

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everyone is more than viable still

[long tree]

Noice

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plenty of corrin and anton mains who are clearing shiyu defense under a minute

i believe the "worst" dps is nekomiya atm

but she lacks a super dedicated support

[long tree]

Me on my phone running the game at a brisk 20 FPS with the worst reflexes known to man

[runic ether]

thats a skill issue

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Ok but Anton only works if you have Grace tbh

[long tree]

If I can beat blight town on the Xbox 360 I'll manage ig

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Or ... I already forgot the naginata ladies name

Yanagi?

[runic ether]

anton speedruns are on yanagi

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Thought so

[runic ether]

yanagi rina anton

[long tree]

Yanagi the pink haired one right?

[runic ether]

yes

she's very good

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Though at that point surely youre just playing Yanagi and switching to Anton during stuns?

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nah

you need to cycle rina anton and yanagi

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I got hit with another Lycaon dupe on her banner iirc

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Tbh thats one team I should maybe use

[long tree]

Worse problems to have ig

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Its either that or Anby, but Anbys discs are not fixed lmao

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it'll get even more convenient soon with the decibels no longer being shared (and a bit more effort on field time)

since anton can now ult a lot more but so can yanagi

you can ignore rina ult

[long tree]

My hoyo luck has been atrocious lately I'm getting paid back for the 15 50/50 win streak

[runic ether]

and if you do have c6 anby, she's technically best

anton/anby

but it does require a c6

or 2

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I do have C6 Anby

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yanagi is better on her own then

anby with good discs should be hitting about as much dmg thanks to her stunning creating more opportunities for anton

especially in 1.4 with the decibel changes

the one thing im working on rn is making sure my nicole can dps

her ult multipliers arent the best but since she generates so much energy, she'll actually contribute a lot to the team dps if she can also get ults off consistently

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I mean Id still play Yanagi in a mono-electric team

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nicole/anby/soukaku is actually a stupid fucking team

lol

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I just don't have another team to play Yanagi in

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yanagi/seth/soukaku works

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Yeah but Im using Seth for Jane Doe

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soukaku buffs are super nice

ohhh right

oh harumasa

he'll be free

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I mean thats just Anton again

Also apparently Harumasa got nerfed to hell

[runic ether]

ehhh not really

in a sense yes

since c0 harumasa was gapping everyone in dps thanks to a glitch

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... I could just play Yanagi Miyabi ig

[runic ether]

and i mean everyone

currently c0 harumasa is ahead of c0 anton by a fair bit

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Eh Ill burn that bridge when I get to it

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only a tiny bit ahead of anton c6

[long tree]

Lighter schmooving in so that harumasa isn't the first male limited and given away for free

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Also damn I really dont get where the massive damage differences between my runs and what people on yt get on Shiyu defense come from

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it will seem that void hunter = archon in this game btw

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Youd figure with stats being close itd be more like 20% not 200%

Void hunter?

[runic ether]

gearing and skill levels

[runic ether]

ye

miyabi is a void hunter as her title but

she's not the only one

[long tree]

Iirc miyabi is the only one known to be alive rn

[runic ether]

the one trailer they randomly dropped a few months ago detailed the lot of them

[long tree]

Obviously they all probably are fine/need an arc but

[runic ether]

we know miyabi's mom is dead (we even got a video of the event where it happened lol)

[long tree]

It be 4ft woman versus the world rn

[runic ether]

but the other voidhunters are def alive

or at least

somewhere

maybe we get their kids as playable

[long tree]

I need sunbringer badly

[runic ether]

the theory that nicole is vike's daughter somewhat makes sense to me

since it seems that the cunning hares are all quite special in their own ways

[runic ether]

same

she created the bangboo

its possible tho that her child/successor is actually just phaethon or more specifically carole arna the woman that was taking care of belle and wise

since carole was the one who created eous

a super advanced bangboo

[long tree]

bangboo have rabbit ears
Cunning hares

https://tenor.com/view/buzzfeed-unsolved-solved-gif-13932940

[runic ether]

no wrong void hunter

that one is vike

the pink-haired elysia-look alike

[long tree]

[glossy latch]

Anyway, I guess Ill figure out how to proceed with ZZZ eventually

I also still really need to start Metaphor so I should spend less time on Gachas

[runic ether]

i just want dan

she's the raiden expy

[long tree]

Zzz is still on my do I dump or continue list

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Kinda considering dropping Genshin for a bit since none of the upcoming characters appeal to me

[runic ether]

real

[long tree]

Says a lot when the archon is upcoming

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i may pull citlali just cus i like march

lanyan will be free thanks to lantern rite so

whatever there

and we dont have 4.4 news yet

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Eh, I dont really care for the Archons much

Other than Furina

[runic ether]

mauvika is just super redundant too

ovven has arle what does he need another on-field pyro dps for?

[long tree]

I know her banner will likely do well because of her being an archon but could mauvika actually have ass sales?

[glossy latch]

Nahida I guess is really powerful but Ive already skipped her twice

[runic ether]

also her f2p options are dogshit

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Also yeah, I've already got Arle so

Lmao

[long tree]

Arle also has sauce

She's just cooler

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At this point I'm pullin for Clorinde mostly to make my Qiqi not entirely worthless

[runic ether]

mauvika has cool animations tbf

but arle animations does gap her

[runic ether]

clorinde is pretty fun at least

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WuWa is the other game Im mixed on

[runic ether]

im waiting for my goat

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... mostly because of the story

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the captain

[long tree]

Natlan has been super 😴for me

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I like the gameplay a lot, the characters gameplay-wise are fun but

[long tree]

Wuwa I gave up on because the world just didn't appeal to me

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Something about you being the mostest specialest boy is just kinda ehhhh

Oh I love the worldbuilding

I just dont vibe with the character and story writing

[long tree]

Oh no I mean the world literally

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Maybe the new zone is better there

Ah

[long tree]

Like everything is grey

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ZZZ is still, hm

[runic ether]

camellya specifically annoyed me

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I like ZZZ conceptually, the animation is great, but it feels unfocused somehow

[runic ether]

i was kind of into her design

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Oh Camellya is just goonerbait

[runic ether]

but mostly everything else kind of turned me off

basically not touching wuwa anymore

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Like ZZZ I like the characters

But it feels like theyre just constantly setting up new things

Without ever actually resolving anything

[long tree]

I'm super light on gachas rn, I think the only one I actually pay attention to rn is like... Fgo?

[runic ether]

it still is yea it feels like its intentional atp. devs are trying to make sure the tv mode is actually good before releasing it again and the episodic nature of the story is not for everyone

[glossy latch]

We went from the hacker which we havent heard of since, to that one shady corp, to the master of Lycaons troupe, to Caesars gang and stuff to whatever this patch is about

[runic ether]

it is a lot of villain of the week story which is somewhat like comics but i dont think it works for a gacha with a story release date the way it is

[glossy latch]

Its just pulling in a million different directions without committing to any

I mean tbh

If it was villain of the week it could work

I actually kinda liked Janes story

[runic ether]

if this was a full release game where u got a chance to go fully in one direction you liked with the characters, it'd work a lot better

[glossy latch]

The problem is that villain of the week needs to be entirely self-contained and finished from the start

But every new plot thread is left open

[runic ether]

yeah and they mostly do but

yeah

they dont give full closure to the event

[long tree]

Hsr lost my interest at some point and it just hasn't gotten it back, hopefully new world changes that, zzz is just hard to get myself to play mainly cause of how long things take to do there, genshin is in imo the biggest dry spell I've experienced with it, gfl2 I'm waiting on updates, wizardry gacha I'm probably gonna drop, battle cats I have the best units so I just log in progress a bit and leave etc

[runic ether]

because its going towards the next arc

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Unironically the way ZZZ is handling the story they should look into Kamen Rider and Sentai writing

[runic ether]

etc etc

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It actually seems like thats the kinda vibe they wanna go for

Specifically something like W

[runic ether]

they dont even have to cut off the overall plot thread they love to do

just

give more closure to the stories

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HSR I think I stopped paying attention after Penacony

I just dont care for the Xiangzhou

[runic ether]

every chapter should have an antagonist like the head of the lions

ig chapter 4 was like that which tbf

[long tree]

Feixiao was cool but other than that I really don't want to see that ship again

[runic ether]

was also a reason ppl liked it a lot

[glossy latch]

Ill see about Amphoreus

It's not bad but I can't say it's got as good of a hook as Penacony

[runic ether]

chapter 5 seems to be bringing everyone together so maybe the story will go somewhere deeper and/or conclude for the most part here

[runic ether]

sunday's story was actually really good

[glossy latch]

I believe that, I havent gotten to it yet

[long tree]

Sunday has just been ruined for me and my initial dislike of his character did not help

[glossy latch]

Maybe after I have finally started Metaphor

Because otherwise Ill keep putting it off forever

[runic ether]

lool

fair

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Also man I wonder what Penaconys original story was like

I dont dislike what we got (minus the last chapter being kind of fluff) but

[runic ether]

should have been longer

[glossy latch]

You can definitely tell some things were changed

[runic ether]

at the very least, we should have seen more aventurine and argenti

more boothill and acheron too

[glossy latch]

Like Misha in particular

[runic ether]

oh for sure

[long tree]

Boothill showing up at the end to have drinks with Danny boy and then fuck off

[glossy latch]

His pupils being keyholes never really got addressed, and the leaked version with the eyes "opened" never was used

[runic ether]

im curious why we didnt get to see aventurine's escape

[glossy latch]

I still liked Penacony, especially the first 3 chapters (the fourth one was a touch ehhhh) but

[runic ether]

(we needed to see more time to hang out with firefly)

[glossy latch]

It feels like there was room to be better

Firefly was definitely the weakest part of Penacony yeah

[long tree]

I still need to make this meme but for aventurine at some point

[glossy latch]

Granted its because its a gacha so the waifu is important for sales but still

[runic ether]

while true

they know to do that without detracting from the overall story

[glossy latch]

To some degree, sure, but its always there

[runic ether]

we hang out with dehya a lot in sumeru but the whole of the story is still really good

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Gacha just isnt a great medium to tell a story because of the nature of gachas

[long tree]

SAM was probably the main reason I was interested in penacony cause even when I was bored I could be like "cool robot nice"

[glossy latch]

Well to be fair in Dehyas case they werent trying to sell her

[runic ether]

[runic ether]

if you like cool robot you better hope vita is the hi3rd crossover character

[long tree]

Last thing Dehya when mihoyo finds out she has a niche now

https://tenor.com/view/markiplier-jumpscare-gif-24931421

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Though tbh Gacha also have horrible time crunch in their production from what I understand

Which doesnt help the storytelling

[long tree]

I will be awaiting with my full attention

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yeah though i hear mihoyo is actually pretty good about that part at least

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And boy does having enough time to actually properly do everything the way you want to make a huge difference

Like Kamen Rider switched production on the current season to start way earlier

[runic ether]

https://tenor.com/view/vita-vita-hi3rd-honkai-impact-vita-hi3rd-gif-12178403120496215727

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And it's such a big improvement so far

[long tree]

Yeeeeeeeeeeess

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Anyway, I should sleep

Also while were on robots

I kinda wish we got Svarog as a standalone unit

[runic ether]

real and true

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Clara is fine and all

But man Svarog is just so much cooler

[runic ether]

his cloak-like suit is actually cool as fuck

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Dude rocks that coat

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im waiting on more robot-looking robots in zzz

i fucking love billy

but i need more

apparently, one of the obol squad members is a hulking combat robot

since they are apparently like a mirror-cunning hares

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Honestly if it werent for the fact that I have a bad habit of not being focused on the whole time thing, I'd maybe do a deep dive on Gacha storytelling and try to figure out how to turn that into a video essay

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my only inconvenience is that he'll probably be a stunner given his descriptor

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Because I think Gacha storytelling has some interesting quirks by its very nature

... and considering the impact of leaks not unlike comics actually

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i think the avenue opens up a lot of good storytelling potential as do most mediums

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Though I dont think we have had a full on Armageddon 2001 situation yet

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i actually think zzz is closest to getting it right. if it was more episodic like jane's story

it'd work so much better

also

i really like that zzz heavily involves

everyone really

we get introduced to the cunning hares

they show up basically everywhere

chapter 3 ends we go back to belobog

chapter 4 starts and we get more billy

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(For context, the twist for Armageddon 2001 somehow leaked early despite that being the time before the internet, so they quickly rewrote the final issue to change the twist to one that made no fucking sense at all, ignored all the previous hinting, and was just overall stupid and miserable)

[runic ether]

as long as they can keep weaving old characters with the new and give us more episode-type stories

[runic ether]

hsr did

by accident

im 90% sure that a big reason penacony's story was changed was bc firefly/sam was leaked

way before penacony

but everyone knew day 1 something was up but they also knew her twist

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Eh, Idk, the changes that were made mostly dont revolve around her part of the story

But rather Misha/Sunday

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i think a big reason for those is because we got a lot more firefly than otherwise

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(Also in good comic book tradition they then tried to retcon it, and then tried to make the original twist become that villain again, twice, and it just didnt work)

Maybe, but Im not 100% convinced

I think Firefly was a factor

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penacony trying to wrap up in 3 patches was another

dont get me wrong i did like the feixiao story in the xianzhou but it did feel slightly forced that we had to go back there

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But I feel like there was also just people who thought Sunday was a more compelling villain

[runic ether]

yeah

mostly

i think if we had seen more of gopher wood

and sunday and misha

the story would have been fine

even if misha was somewhat a clear re-write

[glossy latch]

Misha was the biggest rewrite, yeah

||His only role in the end was to be a clue||

[runic ether]

misha feels to me that he was written from the end backwards

they knew where they wanted him to end up

but didnt know how to get us there

[glossy latch]

Sort of sort of not

[runic ether]

and some other parts of the writing cut too much into him and forced the rewrites

[glossy latch]

I looked up some parts

||Misha was intended to be the watchmaker, so that part didnt change, but the Watchmakers nature was meant to be radically different||

||Misha specifically ending up as the villain in the first draft||

[runic ether]

hmm

[glossy latch]

Also funny realisation

HSR can do retcons because it already has a perfect in-universe explanations for retcons

"A history fictionologist did it"

[runic ether]

||i can easily see that they could have twisted things easily to make misha the main antagonist/a secondary antagonist||

[runic ether]

okay also

we know the fictionologists are actively fucking with other factions constantly too

so they def could

[glossy latch]

Yep

Anyway, now Ill go for real

Miyabi still builds crit instead of anomaly proficiency btw right?

[runic ether]

crit/ice/anomaly is a nice point

depends on if you get her wengine

[glossy latch]

Dont tend to pull for weapons, but apparently she has the Acheron thing going on

Where every alternative is much worse

[runic ether]

its fine

this game is also like genshin where that difference is not super significant

f2p options are still great

like the difference is there but

its not too bad

you can also equip a crit engine or atk% engine from another path

[glossy latch]

Oh yeah I guess I have like

A duplicate Nekomata engine

[runic ether]

sure that works

[summer hornet]

Xianzhou Continuance was better than I expected; Penacony Continuance 1 (Rappa) was painful at the start but the stuff with Robin and Boothill evened out the scales for me

Penacony Continuance 2 (Sunday + Fugue) was really good, in comparison

[patent swift]

My least favourite quest in the game is the ruan mei one

The continuance

It was boring I don't like the space station and I hate that damn bug

[summer hornet]

Because of Ruan Mei being morally defunct or because of the

Ah, it was the bug lol

[patent swift]

Oh I don't like ruan mei but that's out of principal

[summer hornet]

[patent swift]

I can't like firefly and ruan mei, that would be treason

[summer hornet]

Oh lmao

[summer hornet]

I'm just still upset that she drugged us without consent, never apologized, and then wiped our memories of her drugging us

[patent swift]

I forgot about that

Yeah wtf was up with that

Its not even a genius thing herta (if a bit of a bitch) doesn't actively do things to us

And screwlum is the best character in the game a nice guy

[runic ether]

god forbid women do anything

[summer hornet]

I can understand why she did it in a way, and objectively it's good that she contrasts the other Geniuses alive at this point

But I'm not gonna like her lol

[long tree]

God forbid women have hobbies

[summer hornet]

Same with Jingliu

[runic ether]

ruan mei works as a character bc i dislike her a lot but i love her lore as a result

she is the exact cold and amoral biologist that genuinely gives no fuck about others

[long tree]

make sentient life
Make them love you
Abandon them
She fr gave a planet mommy issues

[runic ether]

she has done some god-like things and goes "well okay whats next"

[patent swift]

Oh no she's a great character

I just hate her

[long tree]

"Welp that didn't make me an aeon, time to make some entirely new fucked up cursed being"

[summer hornet]

She's still got the Aeonhood plan in the back pocket, doesn't she?

[runic ether]

"it only lived for 52 seconds what a shame"

[patent swift]

Lore shifts my opinions on characters so much

[runic ether]

never not been the plan

[long tree]

It's legit all she wants

[patent swift]

Bailu in any other timeline would be bottom 2 characters for me but they write her insanely well

[runic ether]

2.7 spoilers ||the way she casually tells tingyun "if you are the only one who doesnt wanna live then sure die i guess" kinda sent me||

[patent swift]

Helps that her actor + direction doesn't make me want to cosplay blade

[summer hornet]

Bailu is good, but she's also worse Nahida (from Genshin) by a lot lol

[long tree]

How far do y'all think you could punt bailu across a football stadium

[summer hornet]

We'd have to catch her first

[patent swift]

Not far that girl has fucking scales

[runic ether]

40 yards

[long tree]

THE DIFFERENCE IN ANSWERS

And not one of you said "nah I wouldn't" amazing

[runic ether]

for sure but mostly a victim of undercooked xianzhou

[summer hornet]

Also true

So much story locked behind side quests

[runic ether]

nothing against bailu shes good but im punting a child if i could

[long tree]

Based as hell

[patent swift]

Tbf she'd probably enjoy it

[long tree]

Now if you were to try to do the same thing to Clara, how far do you think svarog could punt you

[patent swift]

Pom-pom would be jealous

[summer hornet]

I would reach terminal velocity and explode like a pinata

[patent swift]

Also clara's older therefore I have nothing against her

[runic ether]

i'd beat svarog 1v1

[patent swift]

That and I think I'd lose to her in a fight that girl can handle the robots svarog or not

[long tree]

https://tenor.com/view/puss-in-boots-giant-fight-bell-hey-gif-27269067

[runic ether]

lore-accurate misty vs svarog is in my favor

[long tree]

As for me I'd just kinda stare at svarog like this

https://tenor.com/view/hamster-silly-hamster-poor-hamster-sad-hamster-hamster-meme-gif-512226090754065565

[summer hornet]

I honestly thought that was gonna be Goku lol

[long tree]

Fuck no I can barely handle getting out of bed in the morning I'm not squaring up savrog

[runic ether]

you just need to get up at 6 am every morning to take an hour run

then, consistent exercises after a 10 minute wind-down

those 2 hours a day go a long way

[long tree]

Too long didn't read, it's 3 pm and I've written the day off

https://tenor.com/view/cat-gif-17755263804686291502

[summer hornet]

I apologize Misty, I was unfamiliar with your game

[patent swift]

Optimal way to beat svarog is to show him human compassion and empathy

And then stab him

28 times

[runic ether]

stab him with what

[patent swift]

Clara

[long tree]

SOMEBODY FETCH ME A BETTER DAGGER SO I CAN PROPERLY STAB THIS ROBOT

[patent swift]

She's short I'm sure you can pick her up like a knife

[runic ether]

but not that short

she's about a miyabi-high

[patent swift]

Who's miyabi

[runic ether]

zenless character

notably: short

still taller than xiao

[patent swift]

Wait isn't that the vergil fursona

[runic ether]

fox vergil

yes

[long tree]

If you don’t count her ears she’s 4ft 9 lmao

[runic ether]

tbf those are some big ass ears

[summer hornet]

Pretty sure using Clara as a weapon triggers the Svarog counter

Ergo, the moment you assume combat position Svarog teleports across the field to hit you in the have

[patent swift]

See if he hits me then he'll have to hit clara too

[old galleon]

https://x.com/NIKKE_en/status/1868113781391265836

GODDESS OF VICTORY: NIKKE (@NIKKE_en) on X

【GODDESS OF VICTORY: NIKKE Special Christmas Livestream】

Commanders, you're all invited to NIKKE's year-end party! 🥳🎄

See you at NIKKE’s official YouTube channel on December 23rd at 20:00 (UTC+9)!

#NIKKE
#NIKKEChristmasLivestream

Twitter · Dec 15, 2024, 2:00 AM

this is 7 am for me lol

[rapid bough]

yeah i'll be on a plane then so rip

hopefully they've cooked up something good for us

also anis outfits for these streams do not miss

and god bless her VA for always being available to do them, she apparently loves playing anis and that is blessed

anis would have like a dozen skins if they made every one of her stream outfits into a skin lol

(and they'd all be good)

[old galleon]

anis has grown on me, yeah

just give us a good non-limited ssr version of her and i'll be happy

(same for neon and rapi, tho rapi ssr is imminent anyway)

[rapid bough]

praying the SSR rapi "leaks" are true

if they are, the content of recent story chapters is definitely cooking up something for neon and anis too

[old galleon]

ye, that'd be nice

[timber sigil]

@old galleon @rapid bough @long tree @torn harbor

[torn harbor]

Ooo

[old galleon]

ye i think i already got that one a bit earlier, but freebies are always nice

[rapid bough]

so many free apolopulls

feelsgoodman

between my 13k or so collapse pieces and now like 15 pull vouchers, i'm getting more and more tempted to pull for a suomi dupe

but i must resist, at least until we know the next banner(s)

[rapid bough]

god i love full burst weekends in nikke

just got so much gear and like 7 rocks from a single day of anomaly intercept

[timber sigil]

why is Ullrid so pretty

[versed pawn]

sharkry is sparkly

[torn harbor]

How far did you get into the wizardry gacha?

The first loop?

[timber sigil]

https://vxtwitter.com/GFL2EXILIUM_EN/status/1868250346646294659

[silver osprey]

https://youtu.be/UbMmSdOJ1Ho

[slow raft]

https://x.com/hourlygregor/status/1868295236671111580

Hourly Gregor 🪳 (@hourlygregor) on X

Must be a helluva boss, huh...

Twitter · Dec 15, 2024, 2:01 PM

https://tenor.com/view/marvel-fan4stic-fantastic-four-the-thing-say-that-again-gif-9345984830195785978

[summer hornet]

So Dan Heng and Firefly are both retired super soldiers, traumatized by their past and choosing to leave their old worlds behind in favor of seeking a new life. They both really like the Trailblazer, they both use Destruction in-game, and despite rejecting their old lives they both still use the power and abilities gained during that time- just with a twist

[runic ether]

dan heng's crazy ex boyfriend makes him more compelling

also dan heng is less super soldier and more the emperor of his entire species (on the luofu)

and the xianzhou alliance as a whole

[slow raft]

Wow, im able to do this with just one team, surely the other 4 teams can do the rest

https://x.com/fabledtactician/status/1790853052238348452

cycha @ world's greenest bassist🌱🎸 (@fabledtactician) on X

me sexifying chen: youre gonna be So bishounen and your tail is gonna be So long

Twitter · May 15, 2024, 9:13 PM

[idle grove]

https://x.com/MapleNeckTele/status/1868066583748456772?t=rnsiwkXTIxO7ekYHSM2A8g&s=19

Valse (@MapleNeckTele) on X

Glass Island event

Twitter · Dec 14, 2024, 10:52 PM

https://x.com/Radar65108267/status/1868292873659293884?t=1xXZwccTicH1H3lK6qxVOg&s=19

ラダー (@Radar65108267) on X

#GirlsFrontline2

Twitter · Dec 15, 2024, 1:51 PM

[astral drift]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/514333656312053763/919766674893312041/pngegg.gif

[copper steppe]

https://tenor.com/view/fate-padoru-christmas-santa-gif-10464987

[old galleon]

good heavens, would you look at the time

it's padoru o'clock

[wispy goblet]

shit dawg

that volume skin is calling my name

to the tune of $20....

[wispy goblet]

we love molds chat

[slow raft]

https://x.com/viviheyak4ever/status/1868203912349823331

stingay… (@viviheyak4ever) on X

look at her blushing oh my god irene is like a chew toy for aegir women

Twitter · Dec 15, 2024, 7:58 AM

[long tree]

Yeeeeeeeeeees

[old galleon]

offer thy neck

[long tree]

I need to pull Merlin so he has someone to reap

[timber sigil]

Lotta cute

[long tree]

What's the new Christmas unit for FGO NA

[old galleon]

christmas
fgo na

[rapid bough]

azur lane's teasing some of the upcoming skins for new year's and... hoo boy

[old galleon]

must have forgot this was an off year

tam lin cup is this year's unlimited lotto event, there's no new christmas event

the next new christmas event will be next year, when we get santa nemo

[old galleon]

there's an ass shot of someone people are thinking could be napoli

it wouldn't surprise me

the last couple years or so, they've made a trend of dropping skins for the new research ships around christmas

[long tree]

Damn I got like 20 pulls and nothing to spend them on

Until like

April

[digital marlin]

just join th save gang

[long tree]

Ugh I probably should cause tiamat and Draco and tortellini and summer terrorist and barghest

[rapid bough]

all the teasers so far are fairly nonspecific but whoever they are, we may be reaching new levels of peak depending on which are l2d

one of the teasers looks like a new girl that's gonna give kashino a run for her money

[honest pawn]

NO

NEW YEAR'S THIS YEAR IS RASPUTIN

REJOICE

[long tree]

Eh

[long tree]

Eh

[rapid bough]

it's a good skin brent

it also fixes base volume's comical jiggle physics to be somewhat more normal

which is nice

also, despite the fact that you're obviously dropping $20 for the skin, it's worth remembering you get the rest of the season pass goodies too

comes out to 25 pulls iirc and a complete SSR mold

[long tree]

Just do the real way of doing it and watch a gif of all the animations while your phone autos the stage

[rapid bough]

makes it slightly more palatable to spend

though the flipside is that it's what lets them justify the $20 price tag when realistically the reason non-whales are buying the battle pass is for the skin

i'd prefer a $5-10 skin with no pulls but whatever

they do the same shit with the gacha skins and that's even worse because those are $60

[long tree]

Better than league skin pricing ig

(new mid jinx skin costs roughly $250)

[rapid bough]

i haven't played league in a while but yeah i've heard they've jumped the shark on skin monetization

[patent swift]

It WHAT

[long tree]

Lootboxes

With pity

It's like 0.2% to get the skin though

[patent swift]

[long tree]

So you're likely going to pity

[patent swift]

Man I'm glad I play normal video games

I say before going back to grinding star rail for jades

[long tree]

Reminder that elementalist lux not only has more styles, colours and better animations and costs $20

[patent swift]

Do people buy this stuff???

[long tree]

People go into debt for this stuff

[rapid bough]

riot wouldn't be releasing them if people didn't buy

[patent swift]

[timber sigil]

https://vxtwitter.com/dollfro_sop2/status/1868348486540042641

[runic ether]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Zenlesszonezeroleaks_/comments/1hfaryi/agent_record_evelyn_drip_marketing/

https://tenor.com/view/spearhyunho-gif-17788471376429142147

[rapid bough]

sheer boob window HUUOOUUUGH

fire attacker too

rip S11

[runic ether]

she has to let the dogs out to breath cus they are god damn massive

also they have been pretty good at making attackers in the same element/role have a different enough playstyle

im trusting she's different enough to 11

[rapid bough]

not worried about playstyle

evelyn will prolly just be better

[runic ether]

more consistent for most players for sure

[rapid bough]

and i will be pulling because... gestures at her design

[runic ether]

tho we see harumasa isnt gapping anton

the only instance of sheer powercreep is just miyabi and its moreso she's currently the peak of dps

not any specific element

astra yao 100% becomes a universal support

thankfully we are getting a ton of pulls next patch cus

sheesh

[rapid bough]

miyabi into yao into evelyn 😭

rip my polys

[runic ether]

zzz try not to put up banger characters every patch challenge

[long tree]

Hoyoverse departments trying to take attention away from hsr 3.0 and genshins archon release

[rapid bough]

i'm glad i resisted pulling for lighter, even though i like him there's just no way i make it through this gauntlet if i spend on him

[runic ether]

same

[long tree]

Their gameplan:

...women pretty

[runic ether]

im getting miyabi for sure

astra yao bc i follow the trend of always pulling supports in hoyo games

unless she's super ass somehow

and then evelyn cus

yea

[rapid bough]

their designs do not miss

[runic ether]

men pretty too

check the hoyo launcher rn

genshin 2x men

[rapid bough]

turns out everyone's hot

[runic ether]

hsr

2x men

zzz

man

lighter is the biggest boy in these patches though

lol

[summer hornet]

bigger than Lightning Lord?

[runic ether]

lighter's tits are way bigger than jing yuan's

[summer hornet]

I didn't say Jing Yuan, I said Lightning Lord

[runic ether]

no yeah still

[summer hornet]

Lmao

Mental image of cleavage towering over LL

https://tenor.com/view/gurren-lagann-tengen-toppa-gurren-lagann-ttgl-super-tengen-toppa-gurren-lagann-super-gurren-lagann-gif-27016595

[long tree]

It's where his brain is

[timber sigil]

Reminder that behind this brainless smile lies an unfathomable amount of war crimes

[old galleon]

azur lane stream starts in about 4 hours and 20 minutes, and god willing i'll be asleep by then

so someone else will have to post the important shit

[slow raft]

I should probably atleast get one of these 🤔

[silver osprey]

Gladiia

[mental acorn]

fish woman

[rapid bough]

this was a JP livestream so i'm primarily relying on translations i'm finding in the reddit comments, but summary of important stuff (so skipping merch, skin reruns, etc)

ironblood event, so all new ships are KMS

two URs: fritz rumey (CV), z52 (DD). fritz is gacha, z52 is a mission reward like laffey2 was
SSRs: duisburg (CL), admiral hipper meta (CA). hipper is event shop ship
SRs: z9 (DD), z11 (DD). z9 is event milestone reward

new skins... jesus christ there are so many, i'll just mention the l2d and dynamic ones. almost all are bunny girl themed, so i'll just list names and specify non-bunny girls to avoid repeating myself

• fritz rumey (l2d)
• napoli (l2d)
• shinano (l2d)
• nakhimov (l2d)
• bismarck - christmas (l2d)
• z52 (dynamic)
• halford (dynamic)
• daisen (dynamic)
• agir - casual clothes (dynamic)
• formidable (dynamic)

parallel superimposition (yk2) event rerun soon

noshiro being added to 3d dorm

i gotta say, looking at these skins

this event is going to OBLITERATE my wallet

these skins look so peak and they're all for good ships that actually get used. i'm cooked

i'd post some of them but such are their levels of peak that this chat is not worthy (read: AL just keeps getting hornier)

maybe i avoid the shinano skin since i already have her swimsuit skin but we'll have to see... new l2d skins are almost always better than old ones, they just keep improving

that said, the swimsuit shinano skin is already very good so they'd have to go nuts with the incoming bunny skin to top it

but the bismarck skin especially is amazing which makes me so sad that i don't have zwei (yes ik skins work for both, but i'd actually use zwei)

[rapid bough]

i can post fritz's art though. ironblood full arts continue to be epic

[runic ether]

https://vxtwitter.com/zhuyuan_mom/status/1868638809203822792

[rapid bough]

IT SHOULD'VE BEEN ME

[long tree]

My god, these bitches gay, good for them

[rapid bough]

i saw 4 teasers, and they ended up being for fritz, formidable, bismarck (this is the ass shot one you're talking about), and agir. napoli did end up getting a skin tho, she just wasn't one of the teasers

[slow raft]

https://x.com/LCB_37/status/1868071771750236288

無 ✤ 𝚖𝚞🌷 (@LCB_37) on X

ellenmael because why not #LimbusCompany

Twitter · Dec 14, 2024, 11:13 PM

[glossy latch]

Is the Arpeggio fault Bangboo any good?

[runic ether]

its pretty decent

a lot of 4 star bangboo live/die based on their utility

p sure that bangboo has a decent effect

[glossy latch]

Hmm

I just dont feel like finishing Arpeggio fault lmao

[runic ether]

its a bit tedious

if it was way more game changing of a bangboo sure

otherwise only if u need the polychromes

[rapid bough]

i suffered through it all for the polys, and it's a lot of polys, but god damn "a bit" is understating just how tedious it is

i find it funny that they cut down on TV content by 90% and don't include it at all in the main story anymore, and then they go and release by far the worst TV-based mode yet

[runic ether]

just nicole nekomata lighter and its gg

[rapid bough]

sure and that's what i did, but you only get enough collab points to triple up like that halfway through or a bit more iirc

nicole/neko is fine too i guess

but regardless, it's not that it's challenging, just takes a while and is repetitive as hell

"for this section of content i will ask you to do 7 maps that all look and play the same! have fun!"

[runic ether]

yea

and im glad they are taking the tv mode back to the shop to work on it more

[old galleon]

so this is the third out of three 2 ur events with a destroyer as the welfare

i'm no genius but i think i see a pattern

aircraft carrier
b shelling
looks like i'll finally get to replace bearn in 12 hard

[runic ether]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Zenlesszonezeroleaks_/comments/1hfi9q1/15_beta_astra_off_field_ult_by_dim/

https://tenor.com/view/robin-robin-hsr-hsr-honkai-star-rail-soundoriented-gif-11898432521776141262

[old galleon]

tetra mold scammed me bc of course it did

[idle grove]

https://x.com/YZsFerrari/status/1868713900419825687

Ferrari 🎄 (@YZsFerrari) on X

Girls Frontline 2: Exilium - Sojourners of the Glass Island (2024)

Twitter · Dec 16, 2024, 5:44 PM

[old galleon]

their flaw is treating abstaining as equivalent to a no

when everything needs an absolute majority, it's even harder to get anything done

[slow raft]

Caster cu on a banner is very tempting but i need to stay strong

[old galleon]

https://i.imgur.com/Qvkplht.png

...

https://i.imgur.com/NFDh1te.png

...

what is with the nikkes today

[slow raft]

Dont ask me

[old galleon]

"several" might be understating it a bit

anyway i finally got another pilgrim piece for cindy and it ended up giving me a max ammo line

so i'll take it

[long tree]

Horni in the water

[mortal iron]

this abyss cycle and theatre are so miserable

[wispy goblet]

cashed some gems in

[glossy latch]

Ok I can Beat Shiyu 7, but only with a B-rank right now

Might have to improve some stuff again

[old galleon]

blessed chuuni pull

[slow raft]

We love molds, dont we, folks?

[old galleon]

manufacturer molds are a giant scam

also congrats

also also game refuses to give me either tia or noir to pair

[timber sigil]

https://vxtwitter.com/EliteSnakeeyes/status/1868523417147982082?t=iJgrMbQ7lNI9GHZTBtmwOA&s=19

[mortal iron]

Barf

[rapid bough]

blessed

however, as a testament to how little i know about reading nikke skills, early analysis is in and apparently x.guillotine sucks in terms of gameplay

[rapid bough]

this ZZZ patch came at a bad time given i'm across the world operating on shoddy hotel wifi

might be cooked til i get home, gonna chance a pre-install

[rapid bough]

pre-install actually worked wow

hotel wifi coming in clutch

[runic ether]

[rapid bough]

https://www.vxreddit.com/r/Zenlesszonezeroleaks_/comments/1hfhy4q/15_beta_evelyn_ult_with_her_jacket_by_dim/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

i need her yesterday

https://www.vxreddit.com/r/Zenlesszonezeroleaks_/comments/1hff48d/15_beta_evelyn_combat_animations/

rest of her anis are awesome too

[runic ether]

real

she unthreads her jacket to get the string i think which is cool as fuck

[rapid bough]

yeah they come up with some wild shit for weapon design lol

nagi's naginata/sword thing, now evelyn's thread-coat

[rapid bough]

one complaint i have is that she seems to do the "look away, finger snap" finisher very often

it's cool and stylish but may feel repetitive if she just does that for every finisher

wonder if it's a placeholder animation

[runic ether]

maybe

[versed pawn]

It's sword with a telescope staff build in

[old galleon]

https://i.imgur.com/aQe79iU.jpeg

i fuckin cooked

the backbone of the strat was taken from elsewhere but the idea to use sesta as the dps and empel as the debuffer was mine

it kinda went off the rails a little in the middle but was easy enough to get back on track

the gimmick of the fight has to do with changing attack types to deal with its barrier; if it has barrier stacks up, its nuke does 500 more damage for each stack (and it starts with 30 that can only be removed by the matching attack type)

(the other gimmick is that each of its 4 hp bars has like 7b or so hp so that's fun)

anyway, making sure to break its barriers is necessary unless youw ant to do hp stacking strats, which i could have but didn't want to bother with

the other thing is, when it has a physical based barrier, it absorbs magic; when it has a magic barrier, it absorbs all physical attacks

thankfully, it doesn't absorb or otherwise nullify elements

so i get to be lazy and use sesta as for dps since she can set wind weakness

so she once again continues the "sesta is braindead" tradition her ns counterpart started last year

fun times

i have 2 more tower fights before i can say i'm done (i'm not doing the refight grind, that's stupid)

but those can wait

https://i.imgur.com/gtjtpvn.jpeg

anyway, this is the full comp

uhh aldo was supposed to switch in during the magic phase since i had him equipped with a badge that gave him a magic skill

i forgot to do that bc i, like sesta, am braindead

so that probably added an unnecessary turn or two, but w/e

nona as vc was necessary bc among everything else i just mentioned, it also has knockback in each rotation, and being able to stop that is good civ

but yeah i'm glad i'm done with that nonsense

side note, so far, i think empel and klaudia are significantly better than ryza, for their base kits

ryza's base kit really disappoints me tbh

it's not bad, but it's in direct competition with gariyu ns, and the comparison isn't favorable

but core items make them all busted so they're all busted

speaking of, core items used on empel were hero's will (bc no fucking shit) and explosive uni ii for a pierce skill

hero's will is straight-up one of the best debuff skills in the game and empel even gets proficiency debuff boost on his personal weapon

so why wouldn't i use it lmao

[runic ether]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-QNfpTlJ3Q

miyabi has aura

[timber sigil]

https://vxtwitter.com/YZsFerrari/status/1868873365211222119

[runic ether]

this is the oldest woman anime fans can handle before they get scared

[timber sigil]

@old galleon @rapid bough @torn harbor

@idle grove

[torn harbor]

Woo!

[timber sigil]

https://vxtwitter.com/i/status/1868975927306100768

YEAAAAAAAAAAAH

[idle grove]

[rapid bough]

so next banner is makiatto?

[torn harbor]

Yes

[rapid bough]

nice

[rapid bough]

guess i'll resist the urge for suomi dupe/weapon and save for makiatto

since it looks like she's also quite good

and also "woman in suit" design just hits

[rapid bough]

apparently there's a rumor circulating that they'll keep doing double banners, so it might not just be makiatto

we'll see, but i hope they don't make a habit of having 2 limited banners simultaneously

that's murder on pulls, especially if both are good

release having ullrid + suomi was bearable because

1. it's release, so lots of free initial pulls
2. ullrid is (unfortunately) bad, so skippable if not playing solely for waifu

god help our gem/pull voucher savings if we keep getting two limited banners simultaneously and both are good later down the line though

[slow raft]

[glossy latch]

Ah fuck, Evelyn is kinda cool actually

[slow raft]

Me choosing an ap jungler

[glossy latch]

Granted I think its lame she loses her jacket in combat

[slow raft]

More women should b wearing jackets and pants i gachas, i agree

[silver osprey]

Ok Karen

[glossy latch]

I mean yes

[slow raft]

Maybe also more men should wear skirts and go topless?

Much to think about

[slow raft]

https://x.com/Dryegen046/status/1869008266954784787

D'Ryegen || COMMS OPEN (@Dryegen046) on X

Wah

#明日方舟 #アークナイツ #Arknights

Twitter · Dec 17, 2024, 1:14 PM

[runic ether]

true but i do kinda like how it seems to be she's actively using it to attack

[timber sigil]

[silver osprey]

https://tenor.com/view/arknights-arknights-theresa-absolute-cinema-absolute-sinema-arknights-absolute-cinema-gif-5725006416369647831

[slow raft]

throwback

[runic ether]

it has to be cement

that name is just not one

[slow raft]

||loud incorrect buzzer||

[silver osprey]

How could you forget about the Aussie mole

[slow raft]

Not really "forgetting" if youve never touched the game

[runic ether]

thats right

i've just never played arknights

[silver osprey]

Noted

[copper steppe]

das conk creet baybee

[mental acorn]

https://tenor.com/view/arknights-sarkaz-dance-gif-5811405645279448487

[rapid bough]

caved and bought the gfl2 battle pass since i think i'm sufficiently confident i'll be sticking with the game

picked up groza's weapon (guerno) from the box you get

[rapid bough]

i said this but i have 21 vouchers and 15k collapse pieces

i think i'm gonna pull for suomi dupe at least until i hit 50/50, and if i lose i'll stop and save the guarantee for makiatto

70 pulls later, but thankfully did not lose 50/50

also finally got her purple weapon along the way so we take those

nearly 8k collapse pieces left, and obviously plenty more to come before makiatto

normally i hate, HATE pulling for dupes but suomi is already very good and used everywhere, and her f1 seems huge to the point of making her gamebreaking

feel like that's worth the investment

also, that sharkry dupe is big, her f1 lets her actually benefit from her own overburn application, so you can use her solo without other burn teamers

what's the accepted gfl2 notation for dupe/fortification levels? i'm calling it fx (f1, f2, etc) because the mechanic is called "fortification", but i think i've seen people use v1, v2, etc.?

[old galleon]

i'm pretty sure v is short for vertebrae which i think was taken from the japanese (chinese? whichever came first) for it

it's like the whole m1/m2 thing in gbf where it's called magna instead of omega in japanese and people got used to that

[old galleon]

ah yes, who doesn't love a good process of elimination poll

||it's sulphur||

[summer hornet]

https://twitter.com/e7lilyy/status/1868630906677960907/

丽丽 🍬 (@e7lilyy) on X

problem solving #honkaistarrail #hoyocreators #hsrfanart

Twitter · Dec 16, 2024, 12:15 PM

[old galleon]

rolled the gssr in fgo, gave me some dragon slaying glasses man

was hoping most for either s bb or my fifth eresh so i can np5 her, but the silver lining is that i can use sigurd for the dragon fight in flare marie instead of siegfried now

[summer hornet]

Wait it's GSSR season again?

[old galleon]

it's the part 2 start dash one everyone else already rolled

there's no new gssr yet

[summer hornet]

Ohhhh lol

Congrats on Brynhild's husband!

[old galleon]

oh right i have her too

so i reunited one couple, at least

[idle grove]

https://x.com/Ceia___/status/1869011133358907893?t=zV7jto9eSEFSLBnByjhtBg&s=19

Ceia (@Ceia___) on X

So it seems wawa is coming

Here's some pull recommendations from me:
F2P - 1 copy only, dupe 1 if waifu
Dolphin - 1 copy, 1 dupe, and 1 copy of her signature weapon
Whale - do whatever you like lol

Why?
Dupe 1 basically gives her skill 1 double shots, probably doubling her DPS

Twitter · Dec 17, 2024, 1:25 PM

[slow raft]

https://vxtwitter.com/ClinickCase/status/1869004124576268626

My cindy gear is slowly coming together

Now if only i had a clue on what stats i want

But thats a problem for later

Just like teamcomps and whongets which cubes

[long tree]

the monster can next to astolfo
Bruh

[slow raft]

AND ITS JUST THAT EASY

[old galleon]

lmao

[long tree]

Nikke throwing in the extra anniversary unit, as a treat

[slow raft]

reward for the 150 pulls i did on this banner

[slow raft]

idk if its been hinted at or not, but i have no idea who this mf is at this point

[runic ether]

thats a touhou ass silouhette

[honest pawn]

girl that is fujiwara no mokou

https://tenor.com/view/touhou-mokou-gif-8611388

[runic ether]

i was thinking the same thing

[old galleon]

decided to finally do a challenge quest for the first time in a while, did it with not tristan, and it was pretty free

mine isn't even properly invested, no fous or skill levels lol

[slow raft]

Oh fuck, the event ends today doesnt it

[old galleon]

yessir

the cq is extremely easy if that's all you have to do

[slow raft]

No, i still have to do like half the event lol

[old galleon]

then you got 4 hours

good luck

[long tree]

Me who forgot there was an FGO event

https://tenor.com/view/cat-flower-space-light-speedshocked-trance-gif-4988034

free unit
Fuck
It's Karna
Fuck

[slow raft]

i already have one from last year but id still like his servant coins

[rapid bough]

hasn't been explained yet, but ||most speculation i've seen (and my own opinion) is that it's marian prior to becoming a nikke||

[slow raft]

Alright, got all the coins

Shame about that tickets and the sq in the present gacah but life is life ig

[rapid bough]

lost 50/50

all savings gone

gonna be scrounging for scraps the rest of this patch

[runic ether]

scraps

240 pulls

oh wait ur going for astra

https://tenor.com/view/yes-sir-gif-26219318

[rapid bough]

and evelyn

god help me

[timber sigil]

For you GFL chads in chat I got some trivia about one of the upcoming characters in 2

G36/Centauressi in 1 was depicted as always looking angry as shown here

The reason in story for that is she actually isn't angry she's squinting because she has terrible eyesight

Which also carries over from complaints regarding the G36 in Afghanistan, where German operators noted the same issues from the actual gun

so kinda neat they worked that 1 quirk into her design

[runic ether]

its that easy

[rapid bough]

how many pulls

[runic ether]

59

wait no

53

cus im 3 into the next banner

err next s rank

[rapid bough]

must be nice

i lost 50/50 on yanagi and miyabi b2b

my savings can't take this abuse

and not cheap 50/50s, i had to pull nearly to hard pity in both cases

[runic ether]

you must understand im going to be paying my gacha luck back some time in the future because i've been absurdly lucky my entire time playing gachas lol

that or im picking up the karma from a motorcycle accident a couple years back

at a certain point this game gives you way more than enough shit

time to grind her core

and her wengine wasnt too bad

now i'll have all patch to consider going for c1 and/or c2

[runic ether]

5 and 6 are somewhat bad but i already got her on solid stats for day 1 new set

[mortal iron]

https://fixupx.com/t_features/status/1869231163824628016

[patent swift]

FINALLY

The thing that got me to try star rail is releasing

[mortal iron]

https://x.com/GenshinImpact/status/1869231364014494026

Genshin Impact (@GenshinImpact) on X

Dear Traveler, it's announcement time! #GenshinImpact #GenshinSpecialProgram

The special program for Genshin Impact's new version will premiere on the official Twitch and YouTube channels on 12/20/2024 at 07:00 AM (UTC-5)!
This special program will feature juicy details about

Twitter · Dec 18, 2024, 4:01 AM

[mortal iron]

I swear to god is she's pbandai like paimon I'm gonna die

[patent swift]

She isn't

[rapid bough]

NEON LIVESTREAM THIS IS NOT A DRILL

first time she's been on one since release iirc

[old galleon]

the only thing standing between us and christmas joy is our firepower

[long tree]

Tried out miyabi in the sim universe game mode

https://tenor.com/view/jaw-drop-genie-gif-13593992

She is just best unit in the game wtf

[old galleon]

is that even a real way to spell "macchiato"

oh also lb7 confirmed to drop on christmas day pacific time

iirc it was released in parts like lb6 was so idk how they're planning to do that

[runic ether]

https://www.reddit.com/r/ZZZ_Official/comments/1hgsmvw/billy_is_nerfed_in_14/

probably a bug but it explains why it took me an extra 30 seconds to clear shiyu defense

[long tree]

Poor billy

[runic ether]

crying that my billy only does slightly more damage than my miyabi instead of substantially more damage