#playing hsr

[kyogre-blue]

Yanqing was my first and I love him to pieces but the lack of Welt Yang is starting to grate at me. One away from having full express crew... good luck and godspeed with your Hot Men pursuit, some of them are insufferable.

As someone who hateeees Liyue I expected to hate Xianzhou, but to my surprise I actually love the setup. It helps that their history is very relevant and actually comes up in the main quest, like - ages ago, they did a Masterful Fuckup, and their whole society now revolves around dealing with the fallout. It was nice, after Liyue's vageposting history and beliefs in market economy, where their gods are hilariously irrelevant to their daily life, to be able to say "ah, *this* is what these people believe and fight for". Helps that the aeons are npcs and as such Allowed to be fucked up, so both sides in the abundance vs the hunt fight have their points. And I find the subversion on wuxia tropes neat.

I share the "I wish I could skip this" sentiment though, the main quest was absolutely horrible.

I also find who Dan Feng was as a person and Dan Heng's feelings abt him as his reincarnation super interesting but like. So far the vidyadhara have by far the weakest story out of the xianzhou races (jiaoqiu HARD CARRIED the foxians there) and I know better than to expect anything. Finest Duel Under The Pristine Blue was a pleasant surprise, but Luminary Wardance was tedious as all hell and rife with missed opportunities (as much as I loved Yanqing throwing hands lol)

Out of all the minor quests you've triggered, have you done any of them? I think you'll like Arlan and Asta's companion quest :)

I haven't done any companion quests because I expect them to be longer, and tbh I am not planning to pay any attention. I do not care about the... vast majority of the characters, and I particularly feel like it's going to be a whole lot of minutia about their daily lives and/or irrelevant backstory. Which I don't really care to engage with.

On a basic level, I think that once you relegate things to "companion quest," that means this content is not important or interesting enough to be main story. It's a little bonus for people who care about these characters because they like them from the main story or like their designs. Since I don't care about the space station at all, I don't plan to read anything from these quests. Just like Genshin, I will set it to auto and do something else.

This sounds very mean, but Mihoyo destroyed any basic goodwill from me long, long ago.

In regard to Liyue and Luofu, I personally have a lot of... let's say reservation about anything that focuses on immortal or long lived characters. Once you make a character stick around for hundreds of years AND you love your lore, it's not a good combination. It gets convoluted fast, and you have to spend a lot of time very carefully maneuvering around why this character didn't deal with all the problems of modern day back in the past already. The easy answer is they couldn't, but if you want these characters to also be so totally cool for sure, it doesn't work out well. (Like wardance. Jing Yuan totally knew about Belobog's issues in the past but like, he was just too busy to do anything, but have a picture of him totally getting along with Igor.)

Additionally, I do not believe Mihoyo writers are capable of writing any kind of actual complexity in morals or viewpoints between characters.

And for every character that has a grain of interesting concept, they are surrounded by at least a dozen terribly executed ideas, so like... that's just not worth it.

[slushy-sash]

what in the 4d chess are they playing 😭

[fineapple20]

Portraits

Retouched this set from last year, because it was haunting me laying there 80% finished

[kokoasci]

90% of gamblers quit right before they win big

[waytoointoships]

…seele and bronya 🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨

[resvarie]

boothilly

[thirstywaffles]

Good morning 🌅

[nobllite]

Save a horse, ride a what?? 💥

[niclepto]

The lie of chosing between freedom and safety

[strayyuuu]

that was in fact not kaveh at all.

[seven-tastic]

that one silly pijama thingy but its aventiopaz

[kyogre-blue]

OK so

I started HSR because for some reason I really like Sunday's design and he's coming soon.

I've just now finished Belobog, and I was going to give me overall thoughts on it, because there were a lot of positives and the ways it fell short of being really good are also interesting.

But first, I went up to the train to claim by level up rewards. I went up several levels while finish Belobog story. And do you know what happened?

Immediately forced into a long ass quest just for talking to Pompom. Not ONCE did I have the option to claim rewards. And holy shit! I don't know who is the bigger bitch here, Pompom who refuses to do its job or Argenti who is insanely over-animated, so you cannot fastforward any of this asshole's text boxes. You WILL sit there through his entire nodding, eye closing, head moving pointless little movements. Holy shit, these models aren't even that good? Why??

Anyway, any nice things I was going to say about the start of HSR are cancelled. Absolutely unacceptable game design.

[ihavesomejays]

on first loves yunqing lol they are silly that's it that's the prompt anyways i think this is like the first thing i've posted here that has an actual background which is kind of insane. i think you can tell i don't draw backgrounds very often. anyways yunqing is so ponytail puller annoying each other even though they've realized they like each other core and it's satisfying my peepaw heart

bg only/closeups under keep reading

[b1adie]

. . . There seems to be a slight misunderstanding, my friend. At this table, you are the challenger. Because, unlike the house, the gambler knows exactly what they want.

AVENTURINE ◇ THE GOLDEN TOUCH

[sunnbnn]

There is no bias in the IPC...

[beyondplusultra]

your guilt will not purify you