#no im not addicted to gacha

[rraaiiblog]

Ultra Impact!

If u understand can my hidden intentions for Katsuki's line... enjoy the pain

Also, these are based on true stories of my gacha experiences. And Yay! I got Dark Deku at the last minute 🛐🙏✨️

[starswallowingsea]

i think this might be one of the most insane gacha pulls i've ever done btw.

[doyoulikethis-videogame-song]

If a rhythm game does a collab event with another rhythm game in which songs from one game appear in the other, are songs from the game where the songs are originally from still permitted?

It really depends on the source material, I think. If a PJSEKAI original song was featured in BanG Dream, neither of them would be acceptable. If a Dynamix song was featured in BanG dream, Dynamix would be listed as the source material of the song. If a Dynamix song was featured in Arcaea, it would have to be a special Arcaea-version mix to have Arcaea be listed as the source material.

I think you can generally ask, 'is this rhythm game a rhythm game, or an idol/card collecting/gacha rhythm game?' to determine whether or not I'll accept it, which is limited to the former.

[athenacykes08]

I'm playing Reverse: 1999 and just want to make sure everyone knows that the best character is Door a piece of glass!!

I would die for them and I'm not joking, how did this game make me fall in love with a literal piece of glass!!!!!!!!!

[darth-shado]

Current (and forever ig) mood

[vinntea]

Have we... heard anything about the Exedra game? It's been saying 2024 for god knows how long now. It's November and we've heard nothing about it since the initial announcement. It's still gonna come out tho right guys??? Right??? ;u;

[lemonade-sky]

enstars sucks ass. by the way. this game is horrible and awful and i hate it and it hates me (<- completely fumbled keito lecture hiiro)

[gregemann]

its summer. time to update this blog

[snow-and-saltea]

i know that in media you're constrained with things like budget, time slots and stuff, but sometimes i'm just like. my god. the insane shortcuts people take to write "smart / intelligent" characters, especially in plot-heavy stories, always pisses me off. they write them like they're sherlock holmes (bbc version, derogatory) but they fail to realise that even sherlock holmes (arthur conan doyle) was written with a lot of thought, suffered his own subconscious prejudices and had to learn from mistakes.

i guess what i'm trying to get at is—"smart" people don't magically get good at things overnight, the only difference between them and others is how much they're willing to go through to hone their mental acuity. which means when they try something new, they're going to make obvious mistakes, not understand how things work beyond the surface level, and make mistakes in judgements (like when you don't understand something well enough, your analogies and metaphors aren't 100% accurate or concise).

but it feels like there's a assumption hanging over our heads that, as readers, we don't WANT to see the smart one go through the entire nitty gritty of the learning process. we just want to see them do cool things, piece the puzzle together with a flourish, and clap our hands at the end. and in some parts, yes! that is what i want to see! but i am also interested in how they pieced it together. the joy of mysteries is, to me, that everyone is exposed to the same pieces of information, and we're given the chance to try to piece it ourselves. but then the smart character comes along and interprets those pieces of information in a not-obvious way to us, and it's cool!! years of living with a mind that is primed to turn things over in their head, to make sense of things, reveals to us how differently we experience the same reality, and it's wonderful. i'm able to learn from someone who sees life differently than me, and interpret information differently than me!

but right now i'm often left out feeling flat and confused in the mystery-type plots i've seen. the smart person will have been exposed to information we didn't even get the chance to see and interpret, and then they piece things together and everyone in the story claps their hands at the artificial pedestal that's been propped up under that character's feet. explanations of in-setting magic that can be retconned in and out at any point in time, so there's no logical consistency for us to nitpick or understand, so there's no basis to stand on that the story should be taken seriously. plot twists that make no sense as a gotcha. so many things!!

like. this particular example just my beef with g*nshin, so ignore it if you don't agree or smth. but the use of red herrings in the stories piss me off. the red herrings are either too obvious or nonexistent. they always use some random guy acting suspiciously and have the other characters react to it, as if we can't understand it on our own? but like. these red herrings, in the real world, aren't even red herrings. sometimes people just "act suspiciously" just by virtue of being human, not because they're complicit in some bigger overarching plot. sometimes people just stutter because of their anxious disposition, not to hide a guilty conscience. sometimes people are just defensive and irritable because they're a defensive and irritable person, it doesn't mean they're the ""bad guy"" who you need to crack down on and interrogate even further, especially if there's literally nothing that indicates this character is guilty other than their outward appearances.

but like. the smart characters/protagonist almost never get proven wrong. the stutterer was guilty all along and they're just a bad liar. the defensive guy is selfish and obnoxious, they're defensive because they're hiding something, not because it's a natural reaction on having one's sense of privacy and personal space violated.

the game sure loves trying to do nuance with "not everyone is 100% good or bad, we're all Flawed" but they can't put their money where their mouth is. everyone who is not guilty acts in completely transparent and "good" ways. everyone who is guilty acts in completely opaque and "suspicious" / "bad" ways. end of story. how the hell am i supposed to think anyone in this game is smart when they don't even have to use their brain to sift through, critique, weigh and interpret information? what use is there to do so? just use your eyes and ears. the stutterer is nervous for hiding a secret. the anxious is guilty. the angry is scornful.

there's also another rant here about how g*nshin fucking sucks at writing unique and flawed characters, because they like to make everyone the Specialest Guy In The World, but that's for another day.

[popponn]

mysme is doing wonders for my mental health i miss you so much my defender of justice 707 my love my star my planet the light of my life the bfest bf to ever bf the earth

[mxddyhero]

guys I know I joke about becoming a chikage oshi but bro... I don't think it's a joke anymore...

[hakusins]

JIYAN I MAY NOT HAVE YOUR SIG WEAPON YET MY LOVE BUT RANDOM STANDARD PULLS HAS BLESSED ME ONCE AGAIN

[oathofkaslana]

its so fucked up but i am the model gacha game player just bc im f2p w impulse control (ignore the wish pact i had to do w santol to keep my arlefurinde funds o7) and never have the urge to spend money and i have like. average luck + am easily satisfied since i dont get emotionally invested in a bunch of things. i am literally what gacha devs would point to to be like "see gacha isnt bad" (it is. gacha is very bad actually.)

[nomaishuttle]

oh noo the new crob cookie is so cute . if i get back into cr again you guys need to pull the rrigger

[maderilien]

SO MANY BANGER LINES IN MY FIC BUT WHY DO I HAVE TO DIE TEN TIMES TO GET TO THIS POINT* ??

[alchemiclee]

I did beta testing for sparkle and really liked using her so I wanted her. I just got so many characters back to back like kafka, e6 dhil, black swan...I wanted them all and glad I got them

well miss sparkle definitely wanted to be stubborn as hell and decided she was actually going to give me up, let me down, run around, and try to desert me.....she made me cry, tried to say goodbye, told a lie and definitely hurt me. and my wallet.

I had to spend money on that fool. she made ME the fool. her ass is so annoying not just in the game but in my pulls too!!!! as expected tbh. I can hear her laughing at me.