Gacha Chat

[rapid bough]

||it definitely strikes me as one of hoyo's self-imposed weaknesses -- they're just afraid to have antagonists (even ostensibly redeemed ones) as playable chars||

[runic ether]

||everyone has to be friends is such a crutch to them for selling characters||

[rapid bough]

||though in their defense, at least part of that is because the audience doesn't seem to like it either||

[idle grove]

||it's weird to me because villains actually are so easily sellable imo||

[rapid bough]

||agreed, it's definitely a weakness of the gacha model as a whole, but hoyo takes it to extremes||

[runic ether]

||imo yeah but it def plays into their audience. this + dead characters too||

||this is indeed why kiana kaslana is the goat. she spends time as the villain and mc, and we had more than a few playables die in hi3rd||

||at least hsr has been okay with killing playables||

[idle grove]

||every gacha I've played with playable villains the whole fanbase loves it, hoyo is such a bizarre exception I can't really understand it||

[slow raft]

True

[runic ether]

||arlecchino is still on the villain's team and she sold gangbusters and is one of the most popular characters from fontaine. them not realizing this was still a way to sell characters is baffling||

[slow raft]

To this day, there are people clamoring to have one of the worst antagonists from lb 6 playable im fgo

[rapid bough]

||a fan favorite nikke character is viper, who is a massive antagonistic midway through the story and genuinely does unforgivably awful shit||

||hoyo definitely has a blind spot for potential redemption stories or interesting protag/antag interactions||

[slow raft]

https://x.com/myocest/status/1964324169405124692

VodScar Yurigem #2025 (@myocest)

reposting from discord

X · Sep 6, 2025, 1:45 PM

[wispy goblet]

||hey there's always the first||

[rapid bough]

||ill say of nikke though: i still dislike several of the "introduced as villains" characters, not because i'm not in favor of redemption, but because the story hasn't yet tried or doesn't seem willing to actually develop or progress that redemption||

[runic ether]

why are we downloading 22 bytes of data every other time we log in

what are we feeding rodya

[rapid bough]

||i will never understand how people love privaty so much when she canonically traumatized the commander so bad he sunk into his "get marian back at all costs" obsession and the story has never once addressed it||

[wispy goblet]

||it's just a tsun phase or something||

[digital marlin]

||i can see why they wont bring her back from a story world building perspective seeing as ZZZ does incorporate the characters more into the world itself it would be weird to have this big antagonist walking around daylight without any big fuss being made that aside there other things im to lazy to go into deteail||

[runic ether]

honestly, ||we shouldnt be friends with every agent we come across. it worked for pulchra, but it shouldnt be a thing||

[wispy goblet]

As someone who tracked leaks and then did story the night it dropped, ||I did get this perverse pleasure watching other people walk into the reveal. Dramatic irony or other.||

[rapid bough]

||viper is another one, though the recent story chapters are going in the right direction here. i was practically cheering from my seat in the latest chapter when neon called out E.H., viper, and jackal as a bunch of untrustworthy terrorist pieces of shit who did basically the worst things ever and haven't proven themselves worthy of any redemption||

[rapid bough]

i saw several reddit posts to the effect of ||wow i really like isolde this chapter! i hope she becomes playable! wait wait hoyo WHAT ARE YOU DOING NO||

i gotta hand it to hoyo though, ||as much as they may be afraid to make bad guys playable, they're not afraid use up banger designs on unplayable characters. pompey and isolde have no right going as hard as they do for doomed NPCs||

[runic ether]

||they have come a really long way from genshin's npc face mcnpc villain||

[rapid bough]

||and to be fair, that's definitely by design, both as a bait and switch (surely a character with a design this good will be playable), and to get you invested in the character more only to rug pull you||

[slow raft]

||Idk if thats anything commendable, i cant think of a single gacha that doesnt regularly "waste" good designs on villains||

[rapid bough]

||were said villains ever teased as playable? like isolde was initially ostensibly on our side for instance||

[slow raft]

||i mean "teased as playable" is a bit difficult to define but there are certainly alot of ostensibly on your side that then are "just" villains||

[rapid bough]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[old galleon]

||viper is incredibly hot and flirts with the commander (you) so of course gooners eat that shit up||

||she also isn't crow||

[rapid bough]

||yes, what i'm saying is she's an example of a villain character who people like despite being a villain. and while yes she is very hot and flirty, i'm not entirely convinced she would be as well-loved if shift up hadn't given her a hint of redemption near the end of her c22-24 arc. crow got none of that so, despite also being hot, she's a hate figure||

[old galleon]

||i think it's a combination; crow isn't particularly flirty, esp compared to viper who's one of the flirtiest in the whole cast; viper got a small piece of redemption while crow didn't; etc||

[rapid bough]

||fwiw crow does respect SKK and acknowledge he's a chad, which is the reason she goes out of her way to try and get him killed, since he's a threat to her plans||

||not the same as flirting in a gooner game, but noteworthy||

[old galleon]

||there also might be an extent to which it's easier to distance oneself from viper's horrific acts, while crow directly engages with even other nikkes like diesel||

||also, there are definitely crow fans for whatever that's worth||

[rapid bough]

||yeah there are a million reasons viper is a fan favorite villain and crow is hated by everyone, i only mentioned viper in the context of a character who would NEVER be in a hoyo game||

[old galleon]

||given it's been almost a year since old tales i wonder if red shoes hate has died down||

[old galleon]

||hoyo games definitely have some morally questionable playables fwiw||

[rapid bough]

may it always burn hotter than the sun

[rapid bough]

||morally questionable is fine, even interesting and engaging. viper is not morally grey, as much as people want to cope that she is lol||

[slow raft]

https://x.com/M4HCHE3ZY/status/1964284946039652530

Chez (@M4HCHE3ZY)

when you know she committed something devious but you can't prove it

X · Sep 6, 2025, 11:10 AM

[rapid bough]

oh another comment i had on ZZZ 2.2 is that ||as much as i like yixuan, i think she's been used too much as a plot device to minimize damage in the latest chapters. she's basically a walking deus ex machina who shows up when times are toughest to even the odds. the stakes kind of struggle to stay the same when she can fly in at the last moment to save yuzuha, or magically cure all of failume heights of corruption, or teleport in right when a bunch of civilians are about to die and save everyone... etc||

||i think that could've been fixed had they done more with the miasmic fiend storyline, but alas that was a problem solved in like 2 seconds flat once she arrived||

[summer hornet]

waitwaitwait do you mean ||Aurora||???????

I've seen thirst tweets for Zeus

[slow raft]

quite

[summer hornet]

and every single Crypter at one point or another

but never her

....ig we got Kazuradrop too

with her LB6 form as a skin

[slow raft]

brother count the amount of alien god apostles on our team

[summer hornet]

touche

even Ashiya "he got what he deserved" Douman

or Koyanskaya, who quite literally kicked the dog

[slow raft]

grigori rasputin

and his propensity to get to the heart of the mattter, as it were

[summer hornet]

metaphorically and literally

every time

[slow raft]

the most unforgiveable act anyone has commited in fgo to this day, ||cause now she rarely ever gets fanart, only her rider form||

[summer hornet]

||She does show up (in a way) in Ordeal Call 2 next year, at least||

[slow raft]

https://vxtwitter.com/them_failure/status/1962684902047879634

BlueJay (@them_failure)

The difference between Meur and Executor is if you asked them to win a staring contest executor would study how to keep his eyes open, use droplets, and go “I will try to accomplish this mission but victory isn’t guaranteed” and Meur would just stare until his eyes shriveled

vxTwitter / fixvx · Sep 2, 2025, 1:12 AM

[pastel bear]

let's do it again

[summer hornet]

true evil

[digital marlin]

||Her coming to help makes sense especially since by lore she is one of the strongest one there its hard to justify her not being part of it considering the stakes||

||tbh it doesnt feel bad cause at the least Obol squad still was dealing with the main enemies and were in the main spot light during the final ac. The miasmic fiend i understand you there it feels like it was dealt with two quickly considering the implications of what it was ||

[old galleon]

https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/132119994

here's some og da vinci in her honor

[digital marlin]

man i miss her

[mortal iron]

https://fixupx.com/Daystar__Z/status/1964352692270096461

𝘿𝙖𝙮𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙧_𝙕☆ (@Daystar__Z)

@stegofam Seeing this made me realize that nakayama is the reincarnation of og orfevre

**💬 1 🔁 1 ❤️ 207 👁️ 13.2K **

FixupX · Sep 6, 2025, 3:39 PM

Oh wow, orfevre beat the bum genes out the bloodline

[idle grove]

✨ orfevre ✨

[slow raft]

https://x.com/tetota_tettou/status/1964305371293757625

鉄塔田 (@tetota_tettou)

衣装交換

X · Sep 6, 2025, 12:31 PM

[summer hornet]

Sanson looks so awkward to be there lol

but other than that all three of them are fine

[turbid olive]

Yeah, that name'll get people drinking this. 💀

[long tree]

Lil nas tea brand flopping hard due to naming troubles more at 11

[slow raft]

https://vxtwitter.com/HapiofMorArdain/status/1963322363984158787

Hapi (Requests Open!) (@HapiofMorArdain)

https://t.co/wmzVo566rg

QRT: UltraSoda__
nasu: "this character has the most busted abilities ever but they are in the precise scenario where it doesn't really work"

araki: "This character has the stupidest abilities ever but they are in the precise scenario where it's extremely deadly"

vxTwitter / fixvx · Sep 3, 2025, 7:25 PM

[long tree]

Bro has retcon aimbot
And fodders to people with abilities like "big beam" and "bigger beam" and "some swords"

[silver osprey]

Hey at least he killed a priest

[old galleon]

which, in the nasuverse, is a legit accomplishment

[pastel bear]

cu when he encounters a real curry-loving nun

https://tenor.com/view/tsukihime-ciel-type-moon-gif-23837649

[old galleon]

curry-senpai mentioned

[long tree]

Cu chulaine could have a gun against a babies forehead and still find away to have that shit looney tunes backfire on him

[astral drift]

https://x.com/urup_zzzEX/status/1964403626765668659/photo/1

うるっぷ (@urup_zzzEX)

ﾘﾂｶﾁｬﾝ

X · Sep 6, 2025, 7:01 PM

[old galleon]

blessed

[rapid bough]

if only i had sanby for defiler, eve team definitely pretty awkward for that fight even besides it not being fire weak

buffs for this DA rotation also felt kinda weak across the board

i've definitely gotten higher scores on fiend and priest in the past with the same teams but better buffs

the increasing trend of "you can't do any damage" phases in new DA bosses is not ideal

[wispy goblet]

First buff is only useful on Seed

It's not even all that good on most single attacker teams because most attackers already have %DMG

[rapid bough]

yeah first buff is obviously seed bait

i only used the other two buffs, ult+stun buff for defiler/priest and anomaly buff for fiend

ult buff definitely weak for eve too

since she ults like halfway through her chain attack combo

defiler is a fun boss tho, no hate to it

i just really don't like timed, scored fights with long immunity phases

feels like the two ideas conflict, if you want it timed+scored then give me as much time to damage the boss as conceivably possible

[wispy goblet]

I appreciate the opportunity to reset and reorient myself for the next step of the battle

[rapid bough]

i'm morbidly curious if eve/trigger/astra would do better on defiler since it's electric weak but i highly doubt it

but now i wanna try

[wispy goblet]

The score-chaser sweats agree with you
the "canned" sequences make for a great cinematic boss fight but an awful DPS check

This was my first DA rotation without using Miyabi

[rapid bough]

yeah i could maybe optimize this a bit more but i doubt i'd get 2k more out of it

still not bad, though also not surprising

electric weak gives trigger a daze and damage advantage over lighter

but it costs eve probably a fair chunk of damage

even with trigger w1

if the daze advantage gave me an extra stun it'd be trigger advantage, but the amount of downtime in the fight makes it basically impossible to get more than 3 stuns in

really want sanby to unleash trigger

i didn't think trigger would be so much fun for an off-field agent but honestly she's just super satisfying to have in teams, they really nailed making her aftershocks feel meaty and the fact she goes insane with aftershocks after using EX or ult

[digital marlin]

that is eaxctly my issue here

i used Miyabi team for defiler

not the best choice but i still got my 2 stars

[wispy goblet]

What Miyabi team did you use?

[digital marlin]

i really feel the lack of a Main DPS electric here

Miyabi Yanagi Yuzu

[rapid bough]

yeah i am STRUGGLING with this

[digital marlin]

well yanagi is technically main DPS but you know

[rapid bough]

i wanted to try with yanagi/trigger/astra but then i read the boss buffs and they said "25% less damage from anomaly" and i thought well, guess i'll fuck myself

[wispy goblet]

some day I will build Harumasa

[rapid bough]

since i invested so much in trigger, i'm definitely just in sanby rerun waiting room

hope her buffs are good

[wispy goblet]

But until then
My Trigger investment has paid off
I now have two stunners

[runic ether]

https://tenor.com/view/harumasa-asaba-harumasa-zzz-zenless-zone-zero-blowing-kiss-gif-17157374897859857335

should have invested in the goat

[digital marlin]

i competly forgot about him

[rapid bough]

i am so fucking bad at haru it's not even funny

[digital marlin]

i do have him

[runic ether]

the one man miyabi is afraid to fight

[rapid bough]

also isn't trigger an awkward stunner for him anyway

[wispy goblet]

His ass will not get me to learn manual chain

[runic ether]

yeah its really fucking awkward

[rapid bough]

BASED

i can't bring myself to learn manual chain

[pastel bear]

my brother cosplayed him earlier this year I cannot look at him the same way

[wispy goblet]

Is your brother hot

[runic ether]

not what you are supposed to ask

[old galleon]

bruh

[slow raft]

Cmon man

[pastel bear]

yeah he's alright

[slow raft]

Btw, in my mind trigger is only a good stunner for aftershock dps, is that right or is it worth to pull her even if i dont have a single one of those?

[runic ether]

not how you're supposed to respond

[rapid bough]

no she's a good stunner for a mostly on-field DPS

[runic ether]

she does work as a general stunner for on fielders overall

[rapid bough]

like sanby

[runic ether]

11, seed, eve

sanby of course

[rapid bough]

she doesn't really buff squad aftershocks so she can go pretty much anywhere

[wispy goblet]

After all, being off-field gives more point time for the on-field DPS

[runic ether]

she does massive work too for hyper carry yanagi

[slow raft]

I do like playing eve 🤔

[runic ether]

she does work for harumasa

[wispy goblet]

also a unique form of damage multiplier

[runic ether]

its just awkward

[wispy goblet]

also defense reduction with her signature

[runic ether]

bc haru both wants to and doesnt want to on field

[rapid bough]

trigger is good for eve but you have to get used to a different playstyle for eve

[wispy goblet]

Luckily there is a new unit that likes eating field time

[runic ether]

but being on field for haru and trigger feels awk for both

[rapid bough]

eve does work as a primary on-fielder but you have to get used to using resources more often

instead of saving for stun windows

[slow raft]

Im not playing haru anyways

[runic ether]

hmm i guess its not too different from eve

[rapid bough]

i will say though that trigger really really wants w1 to be good generically for basically every attack agent

without that there are almost invariably better stunners

[runic ether]

oh right yeah without her wengine

[wispy goblet]

but not if she's supporting a Rupture!

[runic ether]

shes scrapping the bottom of the barrel for a good engine

[rapid bough]

trigger without wengine is a niche stunner for like... sanby and no one else

[runic ether]

but her wengine is also abyssmal dogshit on everyone else

[rapid bough]

trigger with wengine is honestly a top tier support that's actually a stunner

[slow raft]

Well i was planning on pulling both

Just checking if i actually have any use for her before actually going about it

[rapid bough]

i will say that the optimal eve stunner is lighter so you may not lock in trigger for all time

but m0w1 trigger will still put in hella work in lighter's absence

[slow raft]

Yeah i do not have him

[runic ether]

unless you dont play any on field dps, trigger will have some value

[slow raft]

And also not koleda

[rapid bough]

the most awkward part of that arrangement is that a lot of fire weak enemies are also electric resistant

[runic ether]

also trigger will probably be good for manato who got some massive buffs

i doubt he stays the same way but

if he makes it to live like he is

actual tier .5 dps

likely tier 1

[rapid bough]

what's killing me is that trigger also has one of the best m1s in the game

and my heart wants it even though my pulls cannot support getting it

but m1w1 trigger goes nuts

[wispy goblet]

leak scuttlebutt is ||Ye... something, the Yunkui brother will be A rank, and his sister will be S rank; same patch as Zhao||
weird take: ||they better not make her hot I need a rest patch||

[rapid bough]

i haven't looked but if the leaks don't have any game files to base that on then i don't care literally at all what people are saying

without a beta realm up with actual files to datamine, anything anyone can say is literally just a guess

and considering 2.3 isn't even finalized yet, i have a very hard time believing that anyone has seen anything of note from 2.4

[runic ether]

all we know is zhao in 2.4

no one else

[rapid bough]

do we even know that besides it just being the most likely outcome

[runic ether]

actually

[wispy goblet]

I think they found both Zhao and "Furry" who is currently a different size class
so people think it's another character

[runic ether]

nope no 100% confirmation

just the likelyhood

[rapid bough]

yeah that's what i figured

basically we know nothing about 2.4 atm, we're just reading tea leaves about where the story is likely to go

but as 2.3 proved, characters can come outta fuckin nowhere

no one expected the lucia and yidhari inquisition

[runic ether]

also 2.2 spoilers ||damian playable soon trust||

[wispy goblet]

it's looking more and more likely tbh

[rapid bough]

||playable damian might be more cope than isolde lmao||

[runic ether]

||i can just smell the playability on him and the trail they are leaving towards it||

||hes like the given a rank for zhao||

[rapid bough]

||is there even any indication he can fight? like at all?||

[wispy goblet]

||Even before this patch, I think playable Damien was way more plausible than playable Isolde||

[runic ether]

||entirely the fact he was on the pv with zhao||

[rapid bough]

||well zhao showed up with him in 2.2 so i think we got that reveal in-game already lol||

[runic ether]

||well yeah i meant he had a weapon on the initial showing||

[rapid bough]

||what? when||

[runic ether]

||i gotta double check. but i remember he was holding something with zhao having her massive sword||

[rapid bough]

are we talking about the season 2 trailer or the 2.2 PV

[runic ether]

season 2 trailer

[rapid bough]

yeah i don't remember anything like that from the s2 trailer

[wispy goblet]

okay actual tangible evidence regarding a potential upcoming rerun
||they've added more data regarding a Vivian skin||

[rapid bough]

||he had a slightly different outfit, but no weapon that i recall||

[wispy goblet]

I remember seeing ||him but not him specifically with a weapon||
||Zhao has the weapon||

[rapid bough]

they've done this before so i don't trust anything about skins til i see the assets

just a few patches ago there was a big fuss about a potential miyabi skin for this reason too

(it never happened)

[summer hornet]

https://x.com/BirdHatter/status/1964311970628207043

【3/31書籍化】BirdHatter (@BirdHatter)

X · Sep 6, 2025, 12:57 PM

[wispy goblet]

to be fair
||almost every focal character in that video has become playable||
In order of apperance, ||Yixuan, Ju Fufu, Pan, Zhao, Manato, Alice, Yuzuha, Seed, Orphie||

the only exceptions are ||drink stand girl (who isn't really a focal character), Damian, and Mevorahk||

[rapid bough]

||you're jumping the gun a bit with zhao lol||

[wispy goblet]

||smh we all know she's coming||

||so unless you want to argue drink girl is the next playable character....||

[rapid bough]

of course, but it's disingenuous to list a bunch of characters who have become playable when one is literally not playable and we don't even know when she will be

[rapid bough]

||so what you're saying is... isolde playable||

[wispy goblet]

||hey you said it not me ||

[runic ether]

haters will say its fake

but

||believers know isolde will be playabe in 4.x patches||

[rapid bough]

||i could be dead and buried by then and i will literally rise from the grave to pull for playable isolde||

||i honestly can't say whether i would switch my religion from evelyn to isolde if both were playable||

[slow raft]

||Simply play both in the same team||

[summer hornet]

Guy, would you be down to do the Arknights co-op event together at some point?

[wispy goblet]

twenty tickets into Summer Anis
nothing yet

[summer hornet]

For no other reason than love of the game

[summer hornet]

🔵
🙌

[runic ether]

i got 34k points vs the new boss in da with yuzuha dying by accident

alice jane is stupid good even without jane's mindscapes

[rapid bough]

wait what lol

you're using physical team against the new boss and not miasmic fiend?

[slow raft]

Sure, sounds fun

[wispy goblet]

new boss is phys weak too I think

[rapid bough]

it is, but it also takes 25% less damage from anomaly lol

[slow raft]

Probably not now tho, as i am about to go to sleep

Need to get warmed up with the gamemode again too

[runic ether]

anomaly resistant when the bunny goes judgment cut

[rapid bough]

who tf are you using for fiend

[slow raft]

https://x.com/DARINGDECISION/status/1964481584628977874

bbw olga (@DARINGDECISION)

X · Sep 7, 2025, 12:11 AM

[runic ether]

idk i'll figure it out later

[rapid bough]

[wispy goblet]

got my first Overclock 25 yesterday
that was fun

[runic ether]

oh i'll just miyabi it

[summer hornet]

no prob, I'm mildly preoccupied myself rn lol. Just wanted to put a reservation down

sleep well o7

[slow raft]

Gn

[rapid bough]

[runic ether]

miyabi vivi easily hit 23k

and yi xuan obvs takes care of the rest

played super sloppy tho

20k exactly

not my best clear on priest but i got a bit cute with panda qingyi

[rapid bough]

this team fucks pretty hard

[wispy goblet]

machine gun go brrrr

[glossy latch]

Ok I have a CR/CD 4 cost on Augusta now

Still feels like I could do better

[versed pawn]

I'm like 100 points away from killing fiend

64880

[rapid bough]

jesus what team are you using

[versed pawn]

Yuzu Alice Jane

My Jane and Alice are m2

Killed typhoon smashers 2 weeks ago with m1

Tho my yixuan team went down 17k points

Probably no buffs but this time miasma priest whiffed like all my parries and I coundt bother after the 2nd reset

[rapid bough]

wind weak union raid boss
it's the one that puts a massive fucking charge time debuff on you

shift up why

[old galleon]

idk how much i'll be doing of this in gw but this one's for horde mode

(basically 30 straight runs of regular ex)

it's absolutely not resource-efficient since ex is strictly worse than ex+

but it could be time efficient for me depending on how the numbers play out

oh and 6th slot is s azusa, required to be a summer or yukata unit due to meg needing 3 for her echo now

speaking of, meg damage looks bad simply bc the other three leave the mob mostly dead so she just cleans up in one or two attacks usually

gonna test if damage works out w/o sariel so i can slot tien

[rapid bough]

that's obol's ass

[wispy goblet]

outside of hyperoptimization, Trigger's done

now I gotta refarm to re-disc at least Nicole and Yuzuha
level up Nicole's shiny new Vault
and then we prefarm for Evelyn

[silver osprey]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4m3vMzwkBw

[slow raft]

https://x.com/K_Kohjima/status/1962880034206818754

航島カズト@COMITIA153【か40a】 (@K_Kohjima)

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祝・2000回🎊
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X · Sep 2, 2025, 2:07 PM

[slow raft]

https://x.com/Acppla/status/1964599211468738626

Accapella (@Acppla)

Hmm, My Zilu looks a bit different

X · Sep 7, 2025, 7:58 AM

[summer hornet]

Hes_A_Pirate.Mp4

[astral drift]

wake up
noah's ark already at 40%

lilith it's time to cook

[silver osprey]

https://x.com/umamusume_eng/status/1964449796313534591

Umamusume: Pretty Derby (@umamusume_eng)

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#Umamusume

X · Sep 6, 2025, 10:05 PM

Cathorse is coming

[copper steppe]

threw some tickets to get kreim, got her

im satisfied

[old galleon]

it's that time again

[idle grove]

Gulp...

[icy flicker]

ZZZ ||this is probably unintentional but i like to imagine Pan Yinhu forced his way passed armed Defense force soldiers just to pet the dog ||

[versed pawn]

PET

THE

DOG

[pastel bear]

when does she drop?

[old galleon]

damn gbf hit me with the capcha

also i've been playing gw almost exclusively in horde, which is nice since it lets me do other shit easier

[silver osprey]

2 hours

[turbid olive]

"Yay Team!" 🙌

I was so used to them just standing in a location that them doing high fives blew my mind.

[astral drift]

https://x.com/saitoh_michiru/status/1964723161385312448?s=61

さいとうみちる⚓️新刊メロブ委託中 (@saitoh_michir...

絆10→15の出撃数

X · Sep 7, 2025, 4:11 PM

This might be the best raid to grind

Good mats, exp cards, qp

[runic ether]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Zenlesszonezeroleaks_/comments/1nb35le/23_vivian_costume_will_be_a_swimsuit_via_selee/

and not a halloween skin?

[wispy goblet]

guess her base skin is already too close to spooky vibes

[idle grove]

I need seiun sky but I have no carats 😭

[old galleon]

hm

[pastel bear]

alright I got 2 10-pulls let's go

[old galleon]

despite having 78m honors so far, we're only at around 22k position

this is gonna be a very high scoring gw

[pastel bear]

didn't get her

there's still time I suppose

[silver osprey]

Ig I'm gonna go farm her unique sparks now

[silver osprey]

Saving everything for Maya and Sky paid off for me thankfully

[turbid olive]

The Maximum Oshi Enjoyer:

[runic ether]

https://vxtwitter.com/LRain1002/status/1964364613954490595

🐟 (@LRain1002)

clock knight

vxTwitter / fixvx · Sep 6, 2025, 4:26 PM

[summer hornet]

https://x.com/Balzzzi/status/1964209553295495319

Balzi 🐟🔌🐰 (@Balzzzi)

Hoshieve, the IP Director of Arknights, has hinted at more to come in the future regarding the arknights anime.

X · Sep 6, 2025, 6:10 AM

nonzero chance we get Kazimierz or Dossoles as an anime

particularly the former

I am ascending

[slow raft]

https://x.com/sventarian/status/1963518956167467360

klidge🐐 Vtuber (@sventarian)

The best thing about Columbus in FGO is that in like 95% of his CE art he just looks like this

X · Sep 4, 2025, 8:26 AM

[wispy goblet]

damn ZZZ also has a discord daily login system

they gonna make me join another server

[maiden veldt]

eh that discord is alright i guess, no image perms though

[mortal iron]

https://www.vxinstagram.com/p/DOUZhcmCSLg/?igsh=MW9mb3NnY3BqZTRmcg==

[slow raft]

https://x.com/Once11h/status/1961989522889085401

Once (@Once11h)

Inside you there's two horses, both of them are from Kentucky

#ウマ娘 #umamusume

X · Aug 31, 2025, 3:08 AM

[mental acorn]

real and true

i want to pull for her now but then i won't have enough for cafe...

[old galleon]

i've gotten two revenant weapon drops out of my horde autos today

would be nice if celestials could drop from it but we can't have nice things

[slow raft]

https://x.com/SK3LET4LW1NGS/status/1964791055951556699

niko (@SK3LET4LW1NGS)

bro fuck off

X · Sep 7, 2025, 8:41 PM

[astral drift]

this raid is lasting longer than i thought

it feels like lasagna is adding to the hp

[summer hornet]

Lmfaoooooooo

[runic ether]

peak

[copper steppe]

i mean the mats are important

[astral drift]

Raid finally over

MVPs were Lilith and Tlaloc

Worth the apples

[silver osprey]

I love her

Truly a cat, just does whatever tf she wants

[mortal iron]

https://fixupx.com/oguricapuma1/status/1964728006976622870

Oguri Cap (@oguricapuma1)

**💬 29 🔁 195 ❤️ 2.0K 👁️ 31.5K **

▶ Play video

FixupX · Sep 7, 2025, 4:30 PM

It is funny how the beta umamusume had oguri shipped with rudolf

[pastel bear]

where's this from?

[mortal iron]

https://youtu.be/HYrVKLBhitE?si=XNdwXCqyV_nNdsPW

[pastel bear]

BETA UMA MUSUMES

[mortal iron]

The girl in the second left with the bun hair is twin turbo

[silver osprey]

Girl next to her looks like Yukino

[slow raft]

https://x.com/williams_fem/status/1965001966993784988

Solutions #bloodfiendtwt (@williams_fem)

demians group name got revealed by a fucking patch note, masterful gambit kim

X · Sep 8, 2025, 10:39 AM

[silver osprey]

Not called Sheep Cult

Disappointed

So true bestie

[slow raft]

Neat

[runic ether]

oh hey that guard doesnt clash for once

okay but shes aura farming instead

[runic ether]

i see ppl confused as to why shes tremor too

fools, its tremor bc shes yellow

[slow raft]

Shes tremor because she makes my..
(My lawyers have advised me to refrain from continuing this joke)

[runic ether]

ur so right

also, ruina spoilers ||iori's page story really reminds me a bit of ryoushu. i wonder if they are at all paralleled in some capacity.||

[silver osprey]

Tbh, I think KK Ryoshu is still better than her in bleed

But hey she makes the fraud more playable

[slow raft]

i dont think she impacts the playability of manager don all that much tbh

https://x.com/notnoe_/status/1961938232377249899

nono ooooo oo o (@notnoe_)

mihono bourbon

X · Aug 30, 2025, 11:45 PM

[silver osprey]

And at least KK Ryo has debuffs

And doesn't eat all your bleed count

[old galleon]

Threshold for this ended up being not as bad as I was expecting

[summer hornet]

On your own, gundamn

[old galleon]

top 36k needed like 83m, and i had 150m or so

horde mode made it easier to just leave going in the background (and also saved some burden on my mouse)

[slow raft]

https://x.com/JAGWithASnail/status/1964287920019247472

👻🐌Jag🐌👻 (@JAGWithASnail)

"There's creepy ass men with prosthetic tentacles ripping apart babies in the Backstreets, we need someone to fuck them up!"
The humble Grade 5 Fixer:

X · Sep 6, 2025, 11:21 AM

[runic ether]

general receptions in ruina:

[lusty egret]

Oh hey, captured rare Sayla animation this time OwO

HAMAN-SAMA BANZAI

To think this is my very first Limited Unit from roll

[rapid bough]

https://x.com/GenshinImpact/status/1965097804394889516

Genshin Impact (@GenshinImpact)

✨The Genshin Impact × @AmongUsGame collaboration starts on September 10!

No matter where you are, Paimon will always be your most reliable travel companion!

🔍See collab details >>> https://t.co/1OpfWuenZw

#GenshinImpact #GenshinXAmongUs

X · Sep 8, 2025, 5:00 PM

hahaha what the fuck

[runic ether]

genshin is in its flop era fr fr

this + the story leaks from the 6.x data mine will definitely cause some feathers to get ruffled

[glossy latch]

Oh? Whats the story leaks?

[runic ether]

abyssmal dogshit incoming in 6.0

(it likely wont be that bad but)

tldr ||columbina has zero purpose, she left the fatui, and it reeks of massive rewrites and for the worse overall||

||contradicting information we have gotten before of the region + columbina as well||

||worst of all? the writing and dialogue reads god awful too. ppl thought it was cn translators but no its the in-game files. it reads like a bad fanfic||

[glossy latch]

Damn

Although, wasnt a rewrite expected since Nod-Krai wasnt the original plan?

[runic ether]

somewhat

but we didnt expect entire character rewrites that contradict in-game established lore and voice lines from playable characters

[glossy latch]

Anyone else besides ||columbina||?

[runic ether]

||varka very likely||

[glossy latch]

Huh

[runic ether]

||he was already messy to begin with since he was supposed to be in natlan but as we know, hes not anywhere there.||

[glossy latch]

Oh yeah he was

[slow raft]

https://x.com/fgo_gwa/status/1965038995781681615

オ (@fgo_gwa)

X · Sep 8, 2025, 1:06 PM

[mental acorn]

sunk 90 pulls for seiun sky
got spe, teio, oguri, falco, curren

[pastel bear]

nice one

which ones were dupes?

[mental acorn]

none

but i wanted sky

at least now i'm almost able to get tachyon's 3rd star unlock

[pastel bear]

getting oguri cap is pretty good she's the best character in the game rn

[silver osprey]

And then once more with christmas Oguri

[slow raft]

https://x.com/hallo_lobotomy/status/1963877732426621329

Hallo🚌skeb募集中 (@hallo_lobotomy)

幻覚です

X · Sep 5, 2025, 8:11 AM

https://x.com/1RAb4HCgDrrfOXJ/status/1963981697931694268

HenNa (@1RAb4HCgDrrfOXJ)

#LimbusCompany
경멸 경외 료슈

X · Sep 5, 2025, 3:05 PM

[old galleon]

earth m3 weapon grind is done

took some time while gw was on hiatus to finish it up

may eventually need to go back and grab some more anima but i'm all good on the weapons now

which means the last one to do is fire

....i really don't want to farm colo m3

but i should probably get it done eventually

[summer hornet]

It’s happening so consistently that I almost feel like it’s a lore thing

Preventing me from getting anything else out of this forsaken machine

[runic ether]

sorry im spamming mirror dungeon now

come back later

[summer hornet]

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-choking-mr-krabs-mr-krabs-choking-angry-spongebob-gif-14868219359529924291

So it was YOU

[runic ether]

that upcoming ryoshu id isnt gonna shard itself next week

[slow raft]

im actually not gonna shard because im gonna roll so much on the arknights banner

[runic ether]

her drip has won me over

if only she had a wrath or pride guard

[slow raft]

https://x.com/them_failure/status/1964374223129886921

BlueJay (@them_failure)

The Priest Smiles

X · Sep 6, 2025, 5:04 PM

[summer hornet]

Ended up clearing the dungeon just fine without all the items; no idea why it was bugging but I’m not gonna worry about it anymore

Any advice on where to go next? I may just go back and do the second dungeon in 3.5 otherwise

[runic ether]

finish up 3.5 stuff seems like a good idea

[maiden veldt]

oh boy another one.

[digital marlin]

||https://twitter.com/honkaistarrail/status/1965263908979040385/||

[rapid bough]

@timber sigil our platoon needs more whales

every gunsmoke guide i look up is for squads with v6 qiuhua, v6 springfield, v6 klukai, etc

we have some v6 klukais but she's getting more and more awkward to use outside of corrosion team

not having a v6 qiuhua in our platoon for burn team is especially tragic

[timber sigil]

I'm looking to get mine to v6 on her rerun

got mine at V4 atm

[rapid bough]

you should put her up for borrow atm, i think all we have is a v1 qiuhua

prolly better than the v6 mosin who i don't think gets used before leva

electric team is still hella neutered since we don't have jiangyu or leva atm

i really liked nikketa's story and design, i should have considered going for her v6 tbh since she's the hydro team hypercarry

hakumen in our platoon has a v4 nikketa for borrow but she's level 42 😭

i did just use v0 andoris in a hydro+corrosion team with tololo/springfield/peritya/klukai and it was pretty decent

but i only did that since the gunsmoke buffs today suck ass, but one of them was decent if you had an electric debuffer so enter andoris

[timber sigil]

yea he only started playing relatively recently so he's still getting up in levels

irl friend of mine

[rapid bough]

he's based for getting nikketa invested

[timber sigil]

I'll swap to my Qiuhua from Mosin for now

[rapid bough]

much obliged, even v6 klukai really sucks as a borrow for burn team since she doesn't trigger any support attacks

[wispy goblet]

banged my head against the wall for Ether 8 Task Force with Trigger/Rina/Corin for at least an hour I think
then I gave up and just let Astra and Alice carry me for the Corin missions

[rapid bough]

my corin ether 8 team was yuzu/corin/fufu, i just abandoned yuzu's team buff since i wasn't doing an anomaly comp anyway

i rolled with astra/corin/trigger today but not ether 8 since i had already done it, so no corin team buff but w/e, on ether 0 everything gets nuked anyway

[wispy goblet]

glad I never have to do that again

[wispy goblet]

this is not the tetra nikke I was looking for

60 in

tbh that's kinda impressive

alright a hundred pulls in and I've got nothing to show for it

[runic ether]

lesbian jesus revealed early

[wispy goblet]

I'll get a few more pulls from Bay's pass
but otherwise I'm running on empty
might have to just cash in my tickets and accept letting some of anni go

[silver osprey]

https://x.com/envyh0es/status/1965175106671702473

petra 🏳️‍⚧️ (@envyh0es)

mayano top gun's race starts on 9/11 😭✌️

X · Sep 8, 2025, 10:07 PM

https://tenor.com/view/mayano-top-gun-plane-crash-open-season-uma-uma-musume-gif-5331908701229637660

[pastel bear]

https://x.com/FRIDAY_twit/status/1965331857509417204?t=tsg8b6Rhgf0zw2cyNfCVVg&s=19

FRIDAY (@FRIDAY_twit)

【独自】さようなら、ハルウララ…〝113連敗した負け組の星〟が天国へと旅立っていた
https://t.co/YfWnOynm6c
#フライデー

X · Sep 9, 2025, 8:30 AM

haru urara has passed away

:(

[late canopy]

Goodbye Shining Star of Losers

[pastel bear]

rest in peace

[icy flicker]

Rest in peace

[idle grove]

Haru Urara

rest in peace

[long tree]

HARU NO

[silver osprey]

rest in peace

[neon ore]

https://tenor.com/view/soldier-sad-solider-honour-revenge-military-salute-gif-12226274930923233983

[lusty egret]

https://tenor.com/view/bernard-cribbins-salute-doctor-who-wilfred-mott-gif-1889273445719788223

[torn harbor]

Shironeko is still alive?

[mental acorn]

[rapid bough]

[rapid bough]

how many tickets you got

[slow raft]

https://vxtwitter.com/Nemonitorr/status/1964997670399005028

Moxy 🐦‍⬛ erlkingfan9000 (@Nemonitorr)

https://t.co/PvPXK7Je4V

QRT: NEETsongs
For a 36 year old man im…. oddly kawaii 😅

vxTwitter / fixvx · Sep 8, 2025, 10:22 AM

[astral drift]

i don't have reines or constantine for grand rider battle

[orchid elbow]

I'll figure out how to get good Turf and Long sparks so Haru Urara can win the Arima Kinen...

somehow.

[wispy goblet]

I'm at 549 memory serve me right
I don't have enough pulls (right now) to make it to 600

[rapid bough]

i mean remember anni gives out a shitton lol

you'll be fine

[wispy goblet]

I hope so

I want to try Orphie with an on-field stunner
Qingyi is probably the best partner for that team structure
But I don't have her

I do have Lycaon and Koleda... unbuilt

My only semi-built on-field stunner is AAnby

[slow raft]

https://x.com/have_ggf/status/1963772948197621772

여친사겨도될까요 (@have_ggf)

콜라보 「레퀴엠」
※아래 만화 있음
#LimbusCompany #Limbus_Company #Arknights

X · Sep 5, 2025, 1:15 AM

[glossy latch]

The more I think about it, the more it bothers me that Augusta has like no muscle

The whole thing with her is that her forte is weak, she is just insanely strong herself, and yet her arms are twigs

[slow raft]

Sadly gachas are seemingly allergic to giving female characters actual muscle definition

[glossy latch]

Yeah

It just stands out in particular with her given her sword is just a log of iron basically

With how she swings it around youd think shed be built like Marisa

[slow raft]

Of the top of my head i can only recall fgo doing it

[glossy latch]

I assume its because of chinese beauty standards specifically in case of WuWa

Its a shame though, because I'm realising that I probably like WuWas character design the most overall right now, even with that flaw

[rapid bough]

nikke did it with grave and maxwell to a lesser extent but that's kinda it

it bothers me to this day that rumani isn't beefy despite her entire shtick being that she's a PT and obsessed with her muscular definition

[slow raft]

Yeah i just remembered grave

[glossy latch]

Like the Rinascita characters all manage to have very interesting and diverse outfits while all feeling like they fit the region

[rapid bough]

can't believe you'd forget best mom

[glossy latch]

There's a good variety of themes and approaches without feeling incoherent

[slow raft]

I love grave, i just dont only think about her muscles

[rapid bough]

get your priorities straight smh

[slow raft]

Ill do better

[rapid bough]

related note, yixuan's and especially caesar's stick arms in ZZZ still bother me

[glossy latch]

I'm less bothered by Yixuan since she's pretty heavy into the mystic powers stuff

But yeah Caesar should be shredded

Also random thought: The tendency of Gacha to have primarily female characters (in some cases to near exclusivity) kinda has the side effect of making the worldbuilding ironically more feminist as nearly all people in positions of power are women 🤔

Its of course slightly undermined when the MC is just the most specialest boy but even thats only true for male MCs

[slow raft]

Arknights usually is o good about diversity in character designs but i cant for the life of me recall a woman with observable muscles

Those youd expect to be shredded are either all covered up or, in some rare cases, stick thin(justice for hoshiguma)

[slow raft]

Idk if ita inherently feminist, that depends on how the female characters are treated, but some of my female friends have noted that it feels nice to have so many powerful women for once

[glossy latch]

I wouldnt describe it as feminist as a whole, but it certainly has a bit more leaning towards it by indeed having women being in power be a common and normal thing within the world

There's obviously still the whole sexualisation and objecitification angle which undermines that, though even there there's degrees to it

Nikke is worse about that than HSR for instance

[slow raft]

Oh i didnt know you played nikke

[glossy latch]

I dont

But i have seen the designs

(This is more on the visual side after all)

... also I am realising its kinda more fun to talk about Gachas than play them sometimes

[slow raft]

Oh yoire just talking aboit the designs, not how the characters are treated.
Yeah true

[slow raft]

Depends on the gachas you play tbh

[runic ether]

basically all of obol squad in zzz is also badly done in that sense

[slow raft]

Arknights is giga fun i want to play it at all times

[glossy latch]

Also depends on if youve completed the content and are grinding lmao

Tbh I havent played the Obol Squad story yet

So I cant comment on it

[runic ether]

its good overall

seed's story really makes me miss the fact that we wont get seed sr

[slow raft]

Arknights has multiple permanent modes that are super replayable

[runic ether]

but the designs for them all is just a miss

[glossy latch]

But yeah like in WuWa I realised that when I thought about the fact that the head of one of the main two families of Ragunna, the heir apparent to the other family, the leader of Septimont and the leaders of Jinzhou and the black shores are all women

(Though Shorekeepers case is a bit more complicated)

The only guy in any position of power is Jiyan, and he's just a general under Jinshi

Is Orphies design bad? I recall liking it, at least at first glance

[runic ether]

its cute and it works cus magus is kind of a badass

but the problem is that she just does not look like a soldier

well kinda

if you dont look at her legs

seed is also going for the mech pilot jump suit but its way too gooner and she is not inside seed sr enough to make it feel proper

[glossy latch]

Fair

It was less bad about that before for sure

[runic ether]

kinda yeah. i think its pretty notable that early one while they were pretty sexual designs, they still felt fitting enough. i think even trigger still felt decently designed for a sniper even if the exposed stomach makes no sense really

but orphie, should have been more covered on her legs at least. same with seed.

[glossy latch]

Trigger was to me the first warning sign

[runic ether]

also lucia and yidhari both looking like they took shifu's clothes

[glossy latch]

Though Vivian afterwards was more the tasteful angle

[versed pawn]

but id get less to look at if the legs would been covered

[runic ether]

vivi's design was surprisingly well done

[versed pawn]

the absolute territoriy stays

[runic ether]

yeah but leaves more to the imagination

[versed pawn]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1084457084805984277/1411748671841894553/qasecdxaucmf1.gif

[glossy latch]

Miyabi probably sticks out to me as being very much so not goonerbait given her eternal top tier status

The most she has is high heels, but nearly all female characters have those

Probably my most beloathed universal design aspect

Like with Carlotta in WuWa they at least do something interesting with it lore-wise

But then Augusta also has heels and its like ... why?

[rapid bough]

lucia's hood at least is a cool and unique aspect of her design, shame the booty shorts make the rest generic

yidhari is just phoned in tho

[runic ether]

the heels to me feels like they want to make taller women but are afraid of making them too tall

[glossy latch]

Cowards

[runic ether]

she should have had a full on robe like a wizard with the design they went with

[old galleon]

granblue has fiorito

trying to remember if another eden has any

[glossy latch]

Tbh tho, at this point it feels like gachas are always gonna have these gachaisms in their designs

[old galleon]

https://media.skycompass.io/assets/customizes/characters/1138x1138/3040305000_02.png

[glossy latch]

Well

[old galleon]

here's fiorito btw

[glossy latch]

Mainstream gachas

[rapid bough]

nikke is obviously gonna be worse than almost any mainstream gacha on the sexualization front because that's just the type of game it is

[glossy latch]

Ye

[rapid bough]

but in-universe it is basically entirely a story of female empowerment lol

and not just in the sense of "the leaders happen to be female because sex sells"

[versed pawn]

tommorow genshin

[rapid bough]

in fact nikkes in-universe are treated like garbage and very few occupy meaningful leadership positions

[versed pawn]

i dont even know if i even get to pull that patch

[rapid bough]

and one of the main conceits of the story is the question of whether they should be seen and treated as human

[runic ether]

flins is good but lauma is good too but if you didnt get ineffa flins is a pain and if you wont get nefer, lauma is too

[glossy latch]

I feel like the designs undermine that story idea somewhat

[runic ether]

im p over genshin tho. im giving it these next few patches to save itself otherwise into the trash it goes

[glossy latch]

Damn, Genshin lost Misty

[rapid bough]

i don't entirely disagree, though the lampshading of the story is nikkes take on their own "ideal appearance" as part of the creation process

[silver osprey]

Would say that tbf the game is some 5 years old

But uh

Arknights lol

[rapid bough]

and surprise, they all want to be supermodels

[slow raft]

I think the closest limbus is to muscular women is g corp outis?

[runic ether]

genshin had some of its best stories 3-4 years in and they've really dropped the ball recently

[runic ether]

isnt molar outis kinda built?

[slow raft]

Eh?

I dont see it

[runic ether]

outis just kinda built different

hmm i thought she was bulkier at a glance

[slow raft]

What was this in response to?

[runic ether]

genshin

[glossy latch]

Wrong ocmment sorry

Ah bollocks

[slow raft]

[silver osprey]

Yeah genshin apparently starting to fall off

[slow raft]

Icic

[runic ether]

natlan was pretty abyssmal dogshit. it had promise at the start before dropping off hard

[glossy latch]

Idk that still feels at odds to me. Both in terms of why people want to appeal to certain beauty standards and how beauty relates to status

[runic ether]

character designs got worse throughout natlan too and then nod krai is also seeming to continue the trend of bad story, mid designs tho some are pretty solid

[glossy latch]

My feeling is that Genshin mustve gone through a big rewrite just before Natlan

Something about Natlan just felt off

[slow raft]

Re: women in positions of power i think arknights is pretty much 50/50 split between male and female people in power, limbus we dont really know for many of the real big players but gender is irrelevant in the city anyways and for fgo its weird to quantify "in power"

[silver osprey]

Iirc the only things I saw about natlan were people complaining that the first "chubby" character was barely any different from the others and the place has no person of color

[slow raft]

Natlan had poc npcs, but not the playable characters i think

[glossy latch]

Yeah

[slow raft]

Which is arguably worse

[glossy latch]

Which almost feels worse than just not having ... yeah

[silver osprey]

[slow raft]

Like "we know what we should be doing and are totally capable of it but we wont"

[glossy latch]

Mmh

But yeah for me the lore just felt off

I cant quite pinpoint why though

[slow raft]

https://x.com/balljiggler6400/status/1965032822332395799

🎡 john abno yaoi (apparently) (@balljiggler6400)

bulletfly is back on the menu

X · Sep 8, 2025, 12:41 PM

[runic ether]

i believe that the issue was that the writing team that set up all the pieces left before or during inazuma. everything they had was up until fontaine.

they had some rewrites afterwards when they realized this game was not gonna be a 5-10 year long game but rather 10+

[runic ether]

gun yaoi godbless

[slow raft]

This is what theyre doing on the floor of technology after a reception

[glossy latch]

Tbh that alone shouldnt be an issue

[runic ether]

yesod yaoi...

[glossy latch]

Unless they didnt have even vague cliff notes for the rest of the story

[slow raft]

Yesod × netzach real, trust the vision

[pastel bear]

imagine dating someone named nutsack

couldn't be me (it would certainly be me)

[runic ether]

i see it

orderly and composed
slovenly and drunk

[glossy latch]

Like Kiseki/Trails famously doesnt have set plans for their arcs beyond the key points

[runic ether]

they did but the rewrites dont help much there

[glossy latch]

Hell, the second daybreak game wasnt even originally meant to exist, they literally made it just to have a game before Ys X releases

And its a top 3 game

[runic ether]

cus again, genshin planned to end effectively in... 2027

[glossy latch]

Also I think I have an idea as to what bothers me with Natlan

[runic ether]

if the story followed through as it was supposed to

[glossy latch]

Its the fact that the Abyss was the main enemy

[pastel bear]

Genshin was supposed to end in 2 years?

[glossy latch]

Originally yeah

[runic ether]

given the story beats and progression yeah

[glossy latch]

8 chapters

No wait was it 9 chapters?

7 regions, Khaen'riah, finale (unknown setting)

And the game launched with 1.5 chapters

[glossy latch]

Yeah that makes sense

But yeah the Abyss as an enemy just didnt really work for Natlan I feel

It's too early and feels kinda out of place

I think they just also kinda didnt know how to do the Fatui

Theyre the faction that probably suffered the most in quality decline

[runic ether]

ah yeah about

so 2028-29

[runic ether]

easily

[runic ether]

and entirely agree

abyss order? maybe. the actual abyss? nah

we see elements of the rewrite in the 5.6 story where the abyss order is the one attacking natlan and dain gets a confrontation and shit. it was pretty solid! ruined by the fact that this came out of nowhere

[glossy latch]

Mmh

Also I wonder what makes the Society in Trails work where the Fatui in Genshin are starting to have writing issues

Also Misty if you like long, interconnected plots, enjoy JRPGs and don't mind anime-isms I can only recommend Trails/Kiseki

[slow raft]

https://x.com/siffrining/status/1964989750949097585

Doctor (@siffrining)

this is his revenge for all of the ridicule ☹️

X · Sep 8, 2025, 9:50 AM

[runic ether]

maybe

[runic ether]

talkin a lot of shit for someone in my fell bullet range

and brother, we're in md6h while im speed running

[slow raft]

Hard to not be in fell bullet range tbh
"This bullet can truly hit anything", after all

[runic ether]

true

[summer hornet]

I did really enjoy what they did with Bennett this summer, at least

In Genshin

It was really sweet

[runic ether]

indeed

[idle grove]

https://x.com/fuyu700801/status/1965395160772346020?t=i6fyOG51Eqb_XEPpul6Riw&s=19

あさぎ ふつか (@fuyu700801)

#FGO
玉藻の前

X · Sep 9, 2025, 12:41 PM

[old galleon]

think i have my nm95 setup done

it's onmyoji mc with falsehood opus mh, meg, sariel, y ilsa, and 2 other summer characters in the back

should take 2 turns

sadly i don't think i have a good way to cut it down to 1 turn; my dark burst isn't quite on the level of my wind, fire, or light in that regard

with wind i could just glory mc with s galleon and g narm, fire has some shitter named grand percival, and light has ferry and nehan

maybe if i had transcended seox or something

gonna see if there are any one turn omega setups i can actually replicate, but i doubt it

esp since i don't have any copies of forbidden agastia

[pastel bear]

exact amount gang

didn't get her

oh well, time to save for jungle pocket

[astral drift]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/520300155614789661/1415088193677693030/2025091.JPG?ex=68c1ef14&is=68c09d94&hm=a2858bbb104661dfe653b00aefb08bf8e81b87133698605294ea5025e2c6ec03&

we won!

[old galleon]

my student ceo can't possibly be this cute

[old galleon]

how diligent

[summer hornet]

[rapid bough]

holy shit i suck at this nikke event minigame lol

[wispy goblet]

I'm no good at the pits

Especially when they ask for a double grapple

I don't think I've succeeded at a double grapple yet

[rapid bough]

yeah the pits absolutely destroy me

[old galleon]

one might say that minigame is the pits

[astral drift]

https://x.com/fate_prototypeB/status/1965398874572636355/photo/1

ナイジェッル (@fate_prototypeB)

この等身差、もはや歴史を感じる

X · Sep 9, 2025, 12:56 PM

mogged

[summer hornet]

https://x.com/625light/status/1965416358541447330?s=61&t=7tWIxbOdxNC_-wEw2U-VHg

Light (@625light)

🔥💢
#HonkaiStarRail

X · Sep 9, 2025, 2:05 PM

[wispy goblet]

this woman took 110 pulls to come home

and then mocked me by coming home in a double

[summer hornet]

Listen, a double is a double

Don't look the gift horse in the mouth, especially when it carries a water gun

[rapid bough]

https://tenor.com/bZ8TF.gif

at least she's by far the best seasonal unit in this mass rerun with the rest of them being situational at best (helm) and mostly just plain bad (everyone else)

so now you can go into anni saving hibernation mostly without regret unless a waifu calls to you

[wispy goblet]

sometimes this game is kind to me

[lusty egret]

Okay yeah, Haman-sama is such a beast in this event

Like
This much damage is absurd

[runic ether]

real slight nsfw
||https://vxtwitter.com/argentittys/status/1965066419378524318?t=pNxqAxmnWHfKTFLMK4yLbA&s=19||

evil hero (@argentittys)

i got an influx of meurdon yuri requests so i wanted to test my femsault design... a slicked back bob is the only correct answer

vxTwitter / fixvx · Sep 8, 2025, 2:55 PM

[silver osprey]

Why tf are we getting info on the game from such random places lmao

[mental acorn]

silksong all over again

[slow raft]

YOU

I am broke now, but atleast i got her

[dull bridge]

is hsr like any good now

i need something to play in college

thats not like suepr stressful and intensive

and im like i can afk farm hsr once in a while

n stuff

cause like every other game I wanna paly I have to sit down at my computer and commit like 1hr +

but hsr i can just have on phone

and login once in a while

ikd

[idle grove]

isn't that the ritual archetype

[slow raft]

no, thats a supporter subclass

virtuosa is part of it

[mental acorn]

banana is a shaper caster, she summons minions when enemies die in her range

[slow raft]

saw this earlier, very based and true

[slow raft]

just now realized that picking the hope ego gift makes kod rodya weaker

[runic ether]

okay genshin gets to live a little longer. story wasnt too bad at all. worst part was columbina due to the writing sounding like fucking ass. but sandrone and rerir were surprisingly great

but i also remember natlan starting solid

oh but how could i leave when im given artifact luck like this

[glossy latch]

Tbh did we even know much about Columbina beforehand?

[runic ether]

we didnt know a ton

the issue isnt actually the dialogue/personality the writing itself is just ass

i get what they are going for

the dialogue and options just kinda suck

sandrone sounds a lot more normal

which kinda feels to me that there was rewrites even after they decided on nod krai

the quality of life in the game for this update however is pretty incredible. artifact system is basically guaranteed

cus it now tells u the 4th stat if it isnt unlocked

and with the refreshing of it, and resin system revamp, its just a lot more comfortable

[glossy latch]

Huh

Im not ready to go back yet, but Ill keep it in mind

[runic ether]

ik u like wuwa but the writing for columbina felt wuwa-tier like early wuwa

the story they want to tell isnt bad, the dialogue just sucks lol

[glossy latch]

Oh no early WuWa sucks ass

This is not even controversial amongst WuWa fans lmao

Similar reason funny enough, it was apparently rewritten after the beta and became much worse

[runic ether]

yeah i remember that

the beta story was pretty nice

but then the game came out and it was totally different

[glossy latch]

For most people 1.3 is the first patch that had a decent story

And 2.0 the first that had a good story

2.5 is probably the highlight now?

But yeah tbh Ill wait and see with Genshin

I've got no desire to do Natlan rn and I've got a bunch of games coming out soon-ish I wanna play

[runic ether]

i want them to add a skip feature for natlan

not like much happens anyways

[glossy latch]

Hell early next year the west is finally going to catch up with Japan in the Trails series

We're just one game behind right now, and the next one hasnt even been announced in japan yet

[runic ether]

oh thats fun

[glossy latch]

Yeah its been a long time in the works

But they've finally managed to catch up localisation-wise

So thats pretty hype

Does mean it's years until we know what the next arc is gonna be tho 😔

[mental acorn]

[pastel bear]

FUCK YEAH

[digital marlin]

What was 1.3 ?

[glossy latch]

Shorekeeper and Black Shore

[digital marlin]

Ah

Yeah it was more better there but I feel like they still had weird pacing that made the story feel annoying to follow

Feel like the huanlong.mountain was better with jinshi was better story even if more bland

[glossy latch]

Ye hence decent rather than good lmao

[turbid olive]

Kohryu finally made. 🙏

[rapid bough]

nikke event part 2 ||the contrast between this event's chad commander to summer event commander's shy/awkward "i can't even hang out normally with nikkes, especially not in bikinis" is crazy||

also ||velvet is down AWFUL and she's got a design and voice direction consistent with the extreme horni ||

||ain't no way they consign velvet to NPC jail for another year with a design like this||

[runic ether]

man i just sniped it in a 10 pull

[rapid bough]

https://tenor.com/bZIh6.gif

[runic ether]

i was guaranteed anyways thanks to having enough shards from doing mirror dungeons to craft her next week but i said fuck it

u know?

[pastel bear]

grah

yeah okay I'm convinced ryoshu loves me

perhaps it's because of my overwhelming sinclair energy

[summer hornet]

I cannot find the update on the Apple Store and it’s killing me

[pastel bear]

Limbus?

you need to look deeper within reginald

[summer hornet]

[runic ether]

i believe in your abiility to find the update

[pastel bear]

AFTER ALMOST A YEAR OF DROUGHT

IT HAS BEEN BROKEN

[summer hornet]

https://x.com/limbuscompany_b/status/1965991881508339714?s=61&t=7tWIxbOdxNC_-wEw2U-VHg

Limbus Company (@LimbusCompany_B)

[9월 11일 iOS 업데이트 버튼 미노출 이슈 관련 안내]
[9月11日 iOSアップデートボタンが表示されない不具合に関するご案内]
[Notice: Update Button Inaccessibility Issue (iOS)]

https://t.co/HDqjsohjjL

#LCB #림버스 #LimbusCompany #リンバス

X · Sep 11, 2025, 4:12 AM

I FREAKING KNEW IT

[runic ether]

the sweepers came for the iphone update button

[orchid elbow]

I pulled Special Week.

[old galleon]

after about 3000 years nm150 apparently finally resists olivia twilight terror

in related news olivia havers are calling for an flb now lmao

tho tbf when your one valid use case is "trivialize certain fights in gw once a year" maybe you needed one anyway

[runic ether]

oh i finally saw the updated mark. now its no longer a supernatural reference (rip off? accidental?)

seems each member has their own sign

[summer hornet]

https://twitter.com/rriuette/status/1965074122805031349

reiu🌧 (@rriuette)

⛈️⛈️⛈️

X · Sep 8, 2025, 3:25 PM

[mental acorn]

my body is a machine that turns 1200 speed into 1* guts spark
send tweet

[silver osprey]

Meanwhile my Fukuki refuses to learn debuff skill hints

[slow raft]

https://vxtwitter.com/HarlequinWheels/status/1966174968158535911

wheels (@HarlequinWheels)

https://t.co/NO4LvnYo9y

vxTwitter / fixvx · Sep 11, 2025, 4:20 PM

[astral drift]

I'm here for the coins

[long tree]

I used mine on summer raikou

[slow raft]

Apparenrly people have been getting qhite screen when getting the tickets servant to bond 3 so fair warning

[astral drift]

https://fate-go.us/news/?category=ISSUES&article=%2Fiframe%2F2025%2F0911_issue%2F

i think it's fixed

no sq

https://tenor.com/view/this-this-is-glorp-this-is-glorpshit-gif-5930131520514232711

[summer hornet]

I have no regrets.
This is the only path.
So as I pray,--

(I am in a severe servant coin shortage, and I didn't even get an Emiya copy from the Merlin banner)

[pastel bear]

you know what's funny

nothing

[summer hornet]

Got me between and right now, mate

[pastel bear]

they should give emiya another buff

and an animation update

[summer hornet]

Ahhh

Twould be based, tis true

[runic ether]

damn. wasnt expecting her to do this to the goat

still unsure if bleed or tremor or something else is her best general tema

*team

[silver osprey]

Probably tremor

Doesn't her tremor conversion eat a lot of bleed

[runic ether]

i believe so

though with enough bleed app it should be offset...

nevermind we're all frauds i guess

kk hong lu is actually the greatest unit of all time

[slow raft]

this is true

season one til now #hunglusweep

[rapid bough]

bay costume acquired

in a few days, exia's as well

and before the end of the event, almost certainly rouge's

nikke has laid claim to my wallet with this update

[pastel bear]

I cannot believe khaios was the bay harbour butcher

[rapid bough]

nice try but i am actually the subway slammer

https://tenor.com/vS0ORECGs7N.gif

[old galleon]

i thought you were the hash slinging slasher

[copper steppe]

wtf i love fgo

also i had the funniest spook ever

penth came then immediatly after morgan

[pastel bear]

morgan starting a harem today I see

[slow raft]

https://x.com/donquipanties99/status/1965980849792598079

❤️💛 (@donquipanties99)

I cannot take these guys seriously

X · Sep 11, 2025, 3:28 AM

[runic ether]

gubo and jia huan cant farm aura like that

[wispy goblet]

man they are tempting me
I wanna get Seed W-Engine and Evelyn W-Engine....

[toxic cloud]

Good morning fujino fans

[old galleon]

nm150 fa runs between 4 and 6 turns (i typically interrupt to bubs at an appropriate turn and also use dlf 2 once)

[late canopy]

Go golshi

[summer hornet]

https://x.com/ArknightsEN/status/1966396529725550702?t=TSxkteZRhOdf0BWmRAI3gA&s=19

Arknights_EN (@ArknightsEN)

Dear Doctor,

New episode: Dissociative Recombination will soon be live on September 16, 10:00 (UTC-7), and some of the contents are available for a limited time. Please refer to the following notification for the event details.

#Arknights #Yostar

X · Sep 12, 2025, 7:00 AM

[silver osprey]

Mizuki EN voice at last btw

Yippie

[silver osprey]

https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1966390020010541056/vid/avc1/1920x1080/fB_d6kp0Qvpg942z.mp4

It do be the seaborn after all

[mental acorn]

misty city theme returns

[summer hornet]

HSR Codes:
WTK9Z6EMQPEP
AA39GPEL9NHB
QSJQZ7WL9PZX

https://x.com/honkaistarrail/status/1966474377496498330?t=tOVj2KPoNBsOfqKYufc8ng&s=19

Honkai: Star Rail (@honkaistarrail)

"Pact of Permansor Terrae": Claim a Limited 5-Star Character for Free

"After experiencing Amphoreus, the word 'companion' means even more to me."
"This is yet another trace left by the Permanence. All past experiences will transform into strength to protect the Trailblaze. From

X · Sep 12, 2025, 12:10 PM

First Half banners are Evernight and THerta, second half is Gold Dragon Young and Anaxa

[digital marlin]

Wait

THERTA AGAIN

[summer hornet]

YEP

[runic ether]

thats how we know terravox and evernight are gonna be ass ass

[summer hornet]

They brought Dance Dance Dance out for first half too

They want their Evernight money and they want it now

[rigid pilot]

Herta Eidolons or Anaxa?

[chrome pilot]

https://x.com/SIaybix/status/1966399333495902263

Slaybix (@SIaybix)

I'M CRYING REAL TEARS LMFAOOOOOO

"Graphic design is my passion" UI 😭

X · Sep 12, 2025, 7:11 AM

The biggest issue here is the no backgrounds. Why did they do the changing illustrations gimmick but left the background as grey until you get 30 copies of each.

111 to max out as well, from what I heard.

[maiden veldt]

oh finally level 60

[summer hornet]

https://www.reddit.com/r/AlHaithamMains/s/WXiups7SNd

[runic ether]

albedoscreations leaking

[silver osprey]

My ass is never doing MDE with charge again

[slow raft]

https://vxtwitter.com/StarRailVerse1/status/1966443578227388831

Star Rail Universe (@StarRailVerse1)

The Herta Nendoroid PV

#HonkaiStarRail #崩壊スターレイル https://t.co/yv5I3LdsH4

▶ Play video

vxTwitter / fixvx · Sep 12, 2025, 10:07 AM

[summer hornet]

Square Root of Herta

Because Herta is already sqrt(THerta)

[slow raft]

https://x.com/JustSiter/status/1964274115520368971

Siter (@JustSiter)

old limbus enemies when it comes to having crazy stuff on their skills

X · Sep 6, 2025, 10:26 AM

[silver osprey]

Molar Ish and Spicesang would get hit on purpose

[old galleon]

pretty sure today is the final day of gw crew battles

we're 0-3 bc being an american for an event that is scheduled around japanese players is a crippling disadvantage

where i get to spend a bunch of each round asleep while they're racking up several hundreds of millions of honors advantage

even so, on a personal level this has been one of the more lucrative gw i've actually put effort in

light gw last year remains the most so but rn i have a bit over 500m honors and should easily be able to 45 box

[runic ether]

i would be getting hit on purpose to trigger this for my sinners 🥀

mr overachiever sorry u cannot keep up with the goat. but also damn im really impressed with spiral ryoshu

despite crushbound past, ryo only really got gapped by the last activation of it

[silver osprey]

Floor 5?

I did see woman beat the extreme floors' secret bosses with just awe ryoshu, and... yeah, she can go crazy

[runic ether]

yeah i save my infinite run until my last run of the werk

*week

[old galleon]

finally got second stage of gw sword skin

as you can see, the third stage needs 4b honors

that ain't happening anytime soon lol

[rapid bough]

i don't think i'm gonna be attempting to optimize this one

i hated doppelhugo every time he showed up in shiyu and now he has a fucking miasma shield to boot and of course he's ether resistant because fuck you that's why

deranged devs

i could probably get faster on the left if i just went miyabi+yanagi but trigger is hella fun so w/e

[wispy goblet]

Trigger/Nicole/Zhu Yuan gets the screen messy very quickly
very fun

[old galleon]

yeah we're ending up 0-4, opposing crew got to about 300m in the last few hours and i ain't playing that much to catch up

whereas the other 3 backloaded their honors gains to when i was sleeping, this one decided to do it upfront

[wispy goblet]

oh
I can still make leveling progress in Withered
I guess I gotta grind that now

I'm way overleveled for it now

[rapid bough]

certified banger skin, mica cooked

the changes to her particle fx and sounds in battle are great too

[runic ether]

i spent 3 minutes on the first guy cus i kept dropping crits and then sub minute on hugo with alice/jane but idk if truly counts im m2p1 alice and p1 yuzuha lol

[rapid bough]

yeah i don't doubt invested alice/jane comp (even without jane m2) mogs physical weak hugo

having to use uninvested jane with vivian on ether resist fucking sucks

[runic ether]

did you use miyabi on the other side?

[rapid bough]

i posted my teams and times here

[runic ether]

she should be able to brute force it

i feel like miyabi could have cooked hugo as fast/faster than uninvested jane

[rapid bough]

prolly

i really need to get ice comp up and running

or, well, "mostly ice" as skipper calls it

[runic ether]

lol

i guess it is technically "mostly ice"

[rapid bough]

yeah no miyabi fucking sucks massive dick in this fight

hugo quite literally parries half her damage

this feels so much worse than jane

[runic ether]

damn

[rapid bough]

for the amount of damage hugo invalidates with his parries, that shit triggers way too fucking often

i'll trigger one parry, defensive assist to vivian and follow-up, then switch back to miyabi and press her EX special, and by the time the second half of miyabi's EX damage hits, hugo parries again and says fuck you to the damage

it's honestly insane

it doesn't help that literally none of this shiyu rotation's buffs are useful for miyabi at all

jane gets +30% physical and +30% anomaly damage at least

[runic ether]

yeah guess im just used to miyabi brute forcing it

im sure she could with the right team/rotation but yeah

[rapid bough]

i mean to be clear

i can still S rank with miyabi

so yes she can brute force

it just feels like shit

[wispy goblet]

gamers are discoursing so hard they got me tryna write an essay

[rapid bough]

[wispy goblet]

unfortunately I enjoy thinking about this sort of thing
however I probably will not finish it because I lack discipline

I just gotta get through 2.3
I will probably be saving through most of the rest of Season 2

[rapid bough]

what even is it meant to be about

and what prompted it

[wispy goblet]

people are discoursing about HP inflation, anti-Anomaly boss design, and highly targeted DA buffs
largely anti-Miyabi design but the design lowers damage for anomaly in general

[rapid bough]

lol i did better with eve team on hugo

also improved my time on left side with yuzu

not sure it's due entirely to more damage on boss

there's maybe a small improvement but more importantly yuzu is way better than astra at grouping up the little enemies at the start so i kill them way faster

i also definitely fucked up the latter half of both fights so these times could be better though prolly only marginally

if i locked in i bet i could get sub-2min with hugo but any stun window-dependent character is still awkward as hell since his stun window is like half the length of every other enemy in the game, annoying asshole

if only i had eve wengine

[silver osprey]

https://x.com/them_failure/status/1966535964534198360?s=61&t=dbEUxj0tZA0yQQ-BV569EA

BlueJay (@them_failure)

What Limbus players need to know for Rebelion de las Masas: A short explanation of the Iberian Inquisition, Ægir, the Abyssal Hunters, and the Seaborn

Spoilers for the Arknights main story and multiple events ahead, if you want to play Arknights yourself do not read this thread

X · Sep 12, 2025, 4:14 PM

[astral drift]

https://youtu.be/sbJ0DyAtPjg

[summer hornet]

Wait we got more details about the collab?

[slow raft]

We only got a teaser

https://vxtwitter.com/LimbusCompany_B/status/1966426565086187952

Limbus Company (@LimbusCompany_B)

[Limbus Company x Arknights - teaser]

Chapter 8.5 EX

선의의 순례 / 善意の巡礼 / Pilgrimage of Compassion

2025.9.25 (KST)

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1973530/view/551249840422518803

#LCB #림버스 #LimbusCompany #リンバス https://t.co/37TtRCMz75

▶ Play video

vxTwitter / fixvx · Sep 12, 2025, 9:00 AM

[summer hornet]

“It is as though the sea itself encroaches upon the land”

Oh we’re 200% getting Seaborn

You know, I still haven’t finished SN-7