#eeeeh i'll try for the nikke one tomorrow. i keep trying to make it too serious and. nothing about this situation warrants that actually.

[hazelplaysgames]

all right Blue Archive gacha pulls. like i have said repeatedly, there was a banner lined up in time with my birthday, this being the Cleaning & Clearing bunny outfits. the girls infiltrated a casino in a yacht, and maid outfits aren't up to dresscode there. mortifying, i'm aware.

and i'm particularly fond of those girls! though, yeah, i'm mostly doing this because of Neru, who i thought was awesome in the story. and, like, the JP server is six months ahead, i knew this was coming since February, and bunny Neru and bunny Karin are both limited to their own banners- point is, i plan around the pity pull in limited banners, timing just worked out great. i can talk a lot, i'm slapping a Keep Reading on this so you can just scroll past.

you clicked the shiny blue button! since Neru and Karin were both limited, i figured the obvious plan was to pull on one of theirs, as long as i could get one, i could just P-pull the other. bunny Asuna and bunny Akane aren't limited, so i could consider them lower priority.

so naturally, first two ten pulls saw me get bunny Neru. funny enough, the story this is tied to has Asuna hittin' it big in 20 pulls too.

then i had this fun idea, since the timing was a little bit off, to not do every pull on the same day. in the past, i just blitzed through all the pulls at once, but i figured to just go through it several pulls a day, maybe on different banners. i do not think it worked out.

and there's bunny Asuna in the bottom right, 104 pulls in with no 3 stars between her and Neru. right next to her usual maid outfit too.

the lowest yield pull is 9 one stars, and one two star, the tenth pull has a raised minimum. so, none of them are the literal memed weakest pull. after that though, no one new came to me. i'm keeping it phrased like that.

repeat pulls of Hoshino, Megu, and Aris on the three star front, and aside from that. ah, 16th pull is the memed 9B1Y. ninby. decent enough amount of 2 stars total, it's an all right 200 pulls right there.

that said, i was feeling a bit upset about not getting bunny Akane, i got 3 out of 4, it's like not having a full set, y'know? so i double checked the upcoming banners, and i felt like i could splurge some more gems in a hail mary. i gave it thirty pulls.

it didn't pay out. lesson learned, always plan around the pity pull, and never take unnecessary gambles.

fun number stats, not counting the pity, that is 5/230 3 stars, 68/230 2 stars, and the rest... think 157? 157 1 stars. not the best banner i've ever had, but also not the worst. i'll take it!

oh, back to somethin', i only feel like i need to accrue, like, 100 pulls within the next six months, if the JP banners to global banners is accurate. there's only about four limited banners coming up i care about, and one of them is for the anniversary event that's finally hitting, so that's a free 100 pulls on one of them. i got a lot of freemium stacked up.

i feel like playing all the gacha games i have has just kinda shown me that, for as predatory as these ones are, who i am would make Xenoblade Chronicles 2 WAY worse. like, i plan around failure here, with the pities being all that i truly expect, but XC2 is telling me that, to get a 100% file, i have to practically find, what, four or five shinies in gen 2? no way to raise the odds in the rarest case scenario? and you're tellin' me there IS a finish line?

in a retrospect idea, i actually think this whole thing's a zonk. it'd be better if i could record it, but the sum of all factors makes that infeasible right now. also, like, it might well be the case that gacha pulling only really is a fun show for those who also play a gacha game? that's a consideration i hadn't hit until now.

i've done enough rambling, i got buns. i was thinking about capping this off with a little panorama of their live 2Ds... eh, well, hell, it's for my birthday. i don't think i can get away with the full one for Karin, though.