Genshin Impact

[ZMOT]

I appreciate that MHY allows other mechanic to let you complete these puzzles instead of relying on specific character.
Even Nilou's water aura can do water crystals thing, depending on having her C1 or not (full duration). Although in some cases, her water aura seems to be a bit tinier than stacking 3 small water droplets.

fun fact, puzzles are all designed they're able to be done with free units, no gatcha necessary (although it makes it easier of course). it's one of the reasons we got a free collei (besides dendro MC) and now lynette for the dark arkhe (hydro MC does the light one, or lyney if you pulled him). and if you don't want (or can't) use those chars, just grab the nearby blob. although sometimes that makes it feel a bit too easy and effortless, no more grabbing something and having to drag it across half the area for some secret.

it's funny, most gatchas nickel & dime you with powercreep to make you spend money on rolls (like tower of fantasy), while genshin just went full casual and rakes in the billions. granted, there's more going on than a chibi-autobattler collecting JPGs, but still...

as for the locking shit behind world quests, my suspicion is that was another move for the casuals. if you look at the arana questline as extended tutorial, it makes more sense. that diver quest works the same way basically - and granted, first time I dove down and ended up directly in front of one of those achievement mobs I got my shit kicked in not knowing what's what. I figured it out by myself, but you know how normalfags are...
the event has the same goal basically: "here's all the new shit, collect/fight it so you know what/where the new shit is" instead of having to remember or figure out yourself (or look it up) where you get certain resources. still fun figuring out all the little design bits and pieces mihoyo does every patch tho, like the thing they started in sumeru where "oh here's a challenge or seelie that conveniently takes you to the new waypoint/gate/thingy".

EDIT: one thing I noticed is drops got nerfed hard. dunno if that was to slow down everyone in the beginning or to curb people ending up with thousands of useless mats, not sure I look forward of having to grind crabs or meks for one grey drop each...

EDIT2: just came across this. jc I don't even... AND YOU CAN FUCKING PLAY IT even after removing the disc, my immersion is ruined

 

[Hammr2]

This isn't usual gameplay post I made, but I think it's enough for me to feel about average redditors. Especially their reading comprehension for this game and hypocrisy.
There are few cases now and then I find really dumb, not worth effort to post here.
Don't like me rambling about this, just skip.

Spoiler

So Genshin reddit, someone made a post about how one Fontaine bounty giver being mad about rejected by a mirror maiden.

So MrPotMask here immediately assumes quest giver is man just because mirror maiden rejected the offer. Meanwhile bounty text clearly states quest giver fascinating about maiden make up and wanting to invite maiden to their fashion salon. Which implies quest giver is highly a woman instead. Or at least, it's not about being rejected for being some kind of simp or incel like bunch of people thought in that thread.

More about MrPotMask here.
He is so dumb that he was afraid of trial thing in Fontaine. Even when Genshin has zero fail state for "picking dialogues" and spelling out hint to choose evidences to refute back. It's literally same connecting thought bubbles in Sumeru "time loop".


Oh boy, a generic reddit mommy post too, few other horny guilty as charge.


Hutao, Aponia,



HSR Kafka's butt shot in game, Himeko-Kafka, SilverWolf fan art, Kafka-Silver Wolf
<image> words below are just variants of "Me totally not horny reaction meme".





Lisa cosplay, Eula cosplay



I find it's so funny everytime these fucks acting like they have moral high ground, yet they are as bad as the ones they'd love to hate on.

 

[ANF]

I rarely feel repulsed by anything but I think mommyposting is doing it for me. How did this ageplay shit become so prevalent?

 

[ZMOT]

This isn't usual gameplay post I made, but I think it's enough for me to feel about average redditors. Especially their reading comprehension for this game and hypocrisy.
There are few cases now and then I find really dumb, not worth effort to post here.

well >reddit
to be fair, genshin has such a large playerbase you get all kind of types. and as much as it pains me to say it, the genshin subreddit isn't a complete dumpster fire, even in that first threat people were clowning on him or calling him out. it might be infested with normies, but they're already playing a "problematic asian game", so they mostly don't care anyway.

in further leak news


ayato/furina on the same banner would mean 2 crit swords, could be interesting. but if it's phase 2 it means hydro archon around new years...

I rarely feel repulsed by anything but I think mommyposting is doing it for me. How did this ageplay shit become so prevalent?

it's only natural the older you get your taste in women develops in the same manner. mommyposting is just cope code for "I want a woman that isn't some 20yo child I have to take care of" inb4 all women are children, basically you're an adult looking for another (mentally mature) adult.

also remember this

 

[ANF]

it's only natural the older you get your taste in women develops in the same manner.

I don't have an issue with people looking for more mature women, just the weird incestuous way they frame it.

"I want a woman that isn't some 20yo child I have to take care of" inb4 all women are children

Gonna assume it's just a western thing, women in my surroundings always seemed more responsible than men if anything.

 

[ZMOT]

I don't have an issue with people looking for more mature women, just the weird incestuous way they frame it.

fantasy != reality, it's not much different that women having rape fantasies or boning your sister.
people can find the theoretical scenario exciting, but doesn't mean they really want to get raped or bone their mom/aunt/sister. keep in mind in that scenario it isn't really "their" relative, even when self-inserting. there's simply more to it then "haha incest", but that would drag it even more off-topic.

and since this is the internet a lot of it is simply memes and shitposting. someone posting "giv dommy mommy" isn't necessarily 100% into paternal BDSM.

Gonna assume it's just a western thing, women in my surroundings always seemed more responsible than men if anything.

it's just the another extreme of "I want an unspoiled virgin girlfriend", part of it is wish-fulfillment with a healthy dose of fantasy. also depends on your local circumstances of course. doubt people with an actual sibling are as much into incest as single children.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Been to an anime convention with my friends, besides a frightening growing trend of trannies, it was surprising how Genshin is popular with the young generation to the point of being on the level of Pokemon and Naruto when I was at the same age. I wonder if they all play it or it's more cultural osmosis by the internet.

 

[Noebel]

I think I've noticed something. If you swim up, and do it fast, your character would jump out of the water. But for me it only works with Lyney, and I don't have any other fontaine characters to test it. Any other character I've tried just resurfaces. Am I getting senile, or this is an actual mechanic?

 

[Hammr2]

Didn't think Baizhu would have his rerun this fast, may as well try to get him this time since I skipped his banner last time. I'll pull most Fontaine characters later on their rerun. Putting stocks on Geo "rework" thing.

I think I've noticed something. If you swim up, and do it fast, your character would jump out of the water.

It's only applied for Fontaine characters and your traveler, with dolphin jumping out of water animation.

Been to an anime convention with my friends, besides a frightening growing trend of trannies, it was surprising how Genshin is popular with the young generation to the point of being on the level of Pokemon and Naruto when I was at the same age. I wonder if they all play it or it's more cultural osmosis by the internet.

On the positive side, it's huge enough to have bunch of irl food chains collabs or cafe/coffee shop in Asia - South East Asia.
Game being playable on phone is another big factor and age rating for teens.
MHY at least spends those gacha money well for nuturing social side of fandom well.

On negative side, not so surprising, especially the second one by BaburiLol2

His last activity was 2 months ago, but many posts in depression, suicide watch and trans for months. I didn't bother archiving back then so lots of stuffs was deleted.
Long so spoiler, lots of images on this kid "journey".

Spoiler

1 Year ago, male, was borned into a Christian family, but now hating it.



Having a PC and into vocaloid. So surely, parents love him enough.


Identifying as female now opposing to first picture.


Getting caught for masturbation addiction. Truly this can't getting any more stereotypical for tranny pipeline.


"Strangely" having period of self-claimed as femboy.



Self-hating, depression period for months and trans.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

On the positive side, it's huge enough to have bunch of irl food chains collabs or cafe/coffee shop in Asia - South East Asia.
Game being playable on phone is another big factor and age rating for teens.
MHY at least spends those gacha money well for nuturing social side of fandom well.

I don't see the game having a young fan base as a negative. God knows western entertainment is dead and there isn't anything in anime that caters that age group. Genshin is at least fun exploring for exploring sake and has a great character design.

 

[Dollar Store Sentai]

and since this is the internet a lot of it is simply memes and shitposting. someone posting "giv dommy mommy" isn't necessarily 100% into paternal BDSM.

A decently written femme fatale whose destiny is intertwined with the MC getting weebs hard enough to drive a 6 inch spike through a board with their penis? Color me shocked.

Doesn't hurt she is certainly a power spike character even at E0.

 

[Grand Wizard Wakka]

MrPotMask here immediately assumes quest giver is man just because mirror maiden rejected the offer. Meanwhile bounty text clearly states quest giver fascinating about maiden make up and wanting to invite maiden to their fashion salon. Which implies quest giver is highly a woman instead.

The quest giver being obsessed with a woman, getting rejected, and wanting to skin her and wear it get makeup tips and invite her to their salon is totally something the trannies on Reddit identify with though.

 

[std::string]

China Choo Choo sperging

Spoiler

If they were going to make such a big deal about Tingyun's death they maybe should've deleted her out of my party or something. My nigga attended her own funeral.

I'm probably fucking up hoyo's metrics since all I do is reinstall it when they drop new main quests and then uninstall it.

 

[Dollar Store Sentai]

I swear to god MHY is just fucking with me at this point



Could have at least given me Bronya

 

[Hammr2]

I'm probably fucking up hoyo's metrics since all I do is reinstall it when they drop new main quests and then uninstall it.

If you only care about main quests for reinstalling then unistalling, I think it's better to wait for few of patches. Since it's gonna be slowly drip feeding with how I feel about their delivery and managing per patch (disappointing). It's like they could have just put all the preparation - good bye to previous patch, but people complained about no new story in 1.1 patch, so....
And this isn't truly a single player game, I doubt they would do remove thing...

Although, I recommend to at least going for 7-days log in with free 10 premium pulls/wishes. If you don't even care, that's fine too.

Current big event for this patch, it'll be permanent later on, is also quite nice. Lots of relics exp giveaway besides money and trace upgrading mats, you can do it in one go (roughly 1 hour) - no daily time gated.
A reference to Yakuza games in the new event

I swear to god MHY is just fucking with me at this point

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Could have at least given me Bronya

At least, there seems to be a pattern and you probably own all fire element characters if rolling for the capitalist pig girl banner next patch.

 

[ZMOT]

It's only applied for Fontaine characters and your traveler, with dolphin jumping out of water animation.

characters with an arkhe specifically, so hydro MC only (it's explained in a loading screen tooltip iirc).

there are/were rumors flying around navia might be become a standard character, by the same guy claiming wryyyywhatshisname would be one which was apparently deboonked.
however standard banner has no geo unit yet and the dehya stunt probably made mihoyo a fair amount of FOMO money since pulling chars off standard is fucking shit so people grabbed it with a guarantee while they could. and technically they could claim "this way the character is always available" or someshit, given she an important story character (for now at least).

 

[Keine]

I like exploring Fontaine but they definitely want you to use Arkhe stuff against the new enemies. World puzzles usually have the blobs around but that's not the case for domains and bosses.

I can usually clear out most regular domains with my Ganyu team or my Spread/Aggravate team, but the Fontaine ones, specifically the new artifacts have enemies that are super spongey or you need to do Arkhe reactions to do any meaningful damage. Thankfully, I did manage to pull Lyney on both of my accounts so I'll work on building him and see if things get any easier. Hydro Traveler's damage is dog water and I have way better hydro units I would rather slot in for freeze/hyperbloom/vape/whatever.

Also glad that Furina is apparently sharing banners with Cyno so I can safely pull for her and only her. I might go for his spear if I get her early though.

 

[Noebel]

they definitely want you to use Arkhe stuff against the new enemies

That's one of the main problems of the stock Lynette. Stronger robots need two hits from her skill to overload. And that's 10 seconds. She needs that constelation with an additional E charge bad, if you want to use her for that. Hopefully, Furina would actually be aligned to both elements.

 

[Shart Attack]

By the end of Sumeru, I was sick to death of tiny, floating chuunibyou creatures babbling at me about complete nonsense I don't give a rat's ass about. The Aranara were insufferable, Sorush was insufferable, and the genie was funny at first but got old in a hurry. Imagine my horror when I rounded a corner looking for treasure and got dragged into a world quest about a little oceanid who talks like Fischl and wants me to fight a dragon or some shit. Mihoyo really needs a new thing.

 

[Hammr2]

characters with an arkhe specifically, so hydro MC only (it's explained in a loading screen tooltip iirc).

I guess I need better RNG with with loading screen tooltip, because my wishes aren't doing great either. Only hard pity these days and more losing 50/50. At least having a guarantee now.

That seems interesting, MHY may or may not be adding non-Fontaine characters but with arkhe element in their kit. May or may not be apply to leak character Chiori, if she ever gets released.

Leakers in some stuffs are like click bait content creators, most of them like to chase some clouds. Just knowing which banner coming is nice, for pre-farming and saving plan.

use Arkhe stuff against the new enemies

Fontaine domains so far.
It's kinda mixed bag in my case. Like my special effects vomiting team (hyperbloom and burgeon, Barbara-Dehya-Nahida-Kuki), brain dead big damage and comfy play don't really get wrecked. While if I use like Freminet in hyperbloom(Offield hydro-Nahida-Kuki), not exactly going faster either, can go a bit slower and noticeably worse if I mess up rotation.

Arkhe is there to disable big damage attack and/or super shield. The stun window from arkhe maybe too low? But that "may be fixed" with more Fontaine characters release in future, so you can have more in a team to deal with the effect. Though, that depends on what MHY do to persuade people off Dendro meta.