#reuploading this again

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i spilled pasta in my backpack and got so mad that i made a traumacore edit about it

[dangan-kagura]

Rant on Genshin Impact, Why I Think the Fandom is Obnoxiously Annoying!

Ok, this is something I have to get off my chest so feel free to ignore this rant, but one of my triggers acted up today when I was browsing the web and now, I have to blow some steam off by writing this thing.

So basically, every time I go to an anime store or site, I’ve been seeing more and more of Genshin Impact content and it’s driving me mad! What’s been bothering about the game is specifically its fanbase. Part of me fears that the game’s fanbase is giving it the same love that anime games like Touhou, FGO, and Kantai Collection are getting. It’s fucking insane! It basically means that soon there’s gonna be over a hundred poorly drawn/poorly written doujinshis and over a hundred dakimakura designs! I know it might sound crazy, but that’s how I feel about it.

I’m sorry, but I just think it’s fucking stupid that people can ignore other kinds of anime games and just focus on this one! In truth, I saw nothing special out of that game, I just saw it as just another JRPG and nothing else. There’s all kinds of those games out there and not all of them have the same love and treatment as this one, so why should this one be any special?

Here’s something that I will share. These are my two favorite anime game series’, Senran Kagura and Danganronpa. I took interest in those games for a number of reasons.

They’re anime games that for once are rated M as opposed to the majority of them being rated T which felt average.

They’re anime games that for once are not RPGs as opposed to the majority of them all being of this genre which again felt average. I will say that while Danganronpa has some RPG elements (USC uses turn-based battles) to me, the class trials are more like a puzzle game.

Fanservice.

There’s other anime games I like that, while not rated M, aren’t RPGs. But the downside is that no one is giving them any appreciation. About three years ago, I got into Kandagawa Jet Girls, a racing game from the creators of Senran Kagura. It’s a stand-alone title so it doesn’t really have a big fanbase, but I thought that it was a game that stood out from other anime games because of its genre. But what bothers me is that it feels like people have no reason to ignore that game and no reason to show huge love for Genshin Impact, it’s so unfair!

But it’s not just Kandagawa Jet Girls, but also Danganronpa’s spiritual successor, Zanki Zero. Again, it’s a stand-alone title, but it has the same kind of fanservice humor Danganronpa has, not to mention it’s rated M. Spike Chunsoft has other games such as AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES which has the same kind of mature rated fanservice humor. At least these games have an English dub whereas Genshin Impact sounded like it had no English dub (to my knowledge at least) but I’d be a hypocrite for saying that since there are anime games I enjoy that have no English dubs (e.g. Senran Kagura, Kandagawa Jet Girls). The fact that the game opened up with a lack of an English dub doesn’t really get me thinking that this is a good game to try out. UPDATE: So apparently, I've been told that the game does have an English dub, but from what I remember, when I first saw someone's bad attempt to play the game when it first came out, it felt like they were playing the game with the Japanese dub. No idea why, that's just how I remember it.

I mentioned that while I don’t like the RPG genre, I do like their spinoffs, namely the spinoffs for Neptunia and Fire Emblem. Despite Neptunia being a series of turn-based RPGs, I thought the setting’s concept of being a parody of the video game industry, and its fanservice moments were cool and I wanted to be part of its fandom, so I played their hack n’ slash spinoffs. I’d be a hypocrite for saying that since Genshin Impact is an action RPG, but last year I was playing Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes which I’ve come to enjoy (partly because I’m a fan of the Warrior games). Given that the theme for Fire Emblem and Genshin Impact is high fantasy, I wouldn’t see that as a reason for playing Genshin Impact. I also mentioned that because of Genshin Impact’s sudden fandom, there’s gonna be hundreds of dakimakuras. And that bothers me to an extent because my favorite anime games don’t have a lot of dakimakuras; Fire Emblem and Danganronpa specifically.

When I was browsing to find some Danganronpa dakimakuras, I thought it was unfortunate that there weren’t a lot that had all the girls, and most of them have Nagito. I was even disappointed to come across zero dakis of the NDRV3 girls, not even Miu. I will say that on one site I went to, I did manage to come across one design that had Maki, but that’s not enough. You would think that a game like Danganronpa with its moments of fanservice would be the kind of game dakimakura artists would want to take interest in, but nooooo, they had to pick Genshin Impact.

In the end, I don’t hate Genshin Impact, I just think the fandom is obnoxious and annoying, and I would appreciate it if every anime site I go to doesn’t shove it in my face! I just feel like it’s unfair that these sites would treat the game like it was Touhou or FGO, which both have hundreds of doujinshis and hundreds of daki designs. In FGO’s case, I’m worried that people are gonna use the FGO label to refer to the Fate series itself instead of saying it’s its own game. I wouldn’t want to go to a site that sells Fate dakis and have the seller use the FGO label even if the character didn’t debut in that game, but that’s another story.

I’m sorry, but I’ve got plenty of anime waifus. Heck, if I did take interest in Genshin Impact, I’d be neglecting my first waifu. I see no reason why I should have another waifu from a game that’s of a genre I’m not into despite its popularity. And while we’re on that subject, I get that its popularity has to do with its open-world gameplay, but I don’t really understand the hype everyone has with those games. Back in high school, I had a classmate who seemed obsessed with The Elder Scrolls 4, and when either me or my other classmate would talk about our favorite games, he would rant at us like a bully for not playing Oblivion. To me, it felt like there was a lot of peer pressure surrounding open-world RPGs (e.g. The Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Genshin Impact) and I just don’t want to have an obsession with those kinds of games. When I did try out Oblivion, while it was fun at first, it got a little boring or confusing and I had to put the game down. At the time, I was still new to understanding how open-world games were played, but even if I wanted to go back and give it another shot, it probably won’t make any difference in my life, and I have other reasons for not playing it. I will say however that I am a fan of Far Cry which, while it is an open-world FPS, is not an RPG and I’ve come to think of it as an alternative to playing Fallout or The Elder Scrolls.

Even if I were to compare Genshin Impact to other kinds of open-world action games like for example Dynasty Warriors 9, I wouldn’t see what the big deal is. I’ve already played DW9 and I’ve come to enjoy (most of) it. And somehow, if I didn’t know about its existence, maybe I could’ve had a neutral opinion about Genshin Impact. But because of how obnoxious its fanbase has become, my opinion is not neutral.

Again, I’m sorry, but I had to get this rant off my chest. I don’t want to browse an anime site and see Genshin Impact be shoved in my face and all of a sudden my triggers start acting up and my day is ruined, I am not up for that. It bothers me because it feels like its sudden fandom is making all other anime games look like shit. Even if there was a new anime game series that for once is not like this one, I doubt it exists.

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lil doodle dump but it's just my winter AU

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Movie date!

and bonus part asdjfhasded

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I recently saved an old creative world from my laptop and put it on my newer pc ^_^ was able to get some shader screenshots from it which is very cool

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greetings kid icarus enjoyers 😼😼‼️

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the high def ministicker images

[askendy]

Redstone Frenzy.

[basketobread]

this is actually old art but i think this drawing of karlach deserves to have a post of her own... she is my special soldier and i love her 5ever

[nuclearconsole]

"It's a deal, Sinclair!"

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Just spent way too long working on a meme, but I couldn't get the idea of these two as this image out of my head.

Below is the original image + the colored in sketch cus I like how it looked.

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Aradia

[eueball]

(exasperated Vine.mp4 voice) Adam,

[zenfrog]

the debate may be over, but the thought experiment lingers in my heart… walrus fairy save me… please knock on my door…

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I miss him...

(Mayday)

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This art is a reupload of an art I drew last year! BUT this version has been Gl*zed and N*ghtshaded! Reblog to spread the anti-A*I poison

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