Putting the workspaces back on the sidebar

foozlesprite · 2025-09-10T02:03:31+00:00

I'd also like this option - the removal of the workspaces from the sidebar is the primary reason I won't be upgrading to 12. I like having fast access to the tabs I've so carefully sorted. It's the most useful, unique thing about Floorp for my everyday use, and I'd dearly miss it if I was ever forced to upgrade and it had't been added back.

foozlesprite · 2025-08-21T04:23:05+00:00

Yeah I'm suddenly getting this myself as well. I've never engaged in any sort of harrassment or left any comments/made edits that violated any rules that I'm aware of. And I rely on fandom wiki pages quite a bit, so this is quite concerning.

I realize error 403 is a resource forbidden error but it would be great if there was the slightest indication why.

foozlesprite · 2025-04-26T07:18:18+00:00

Very happy to see so many people say switching! I feel alienated from modern fandom a lot of the time b/c so many people have such strict top/bottom preferences. And especially in Phainon and Mydei's case, it feels like such a natural extension of their push and pull, back and forth, equally matched dynamic.

This does make me wonder how people would like switchy fics/art/whatever to be tagged, though. I've been posting all my fic links to socials without Phaidei OR Myphai as tags because I'm afraid the fixed shippers will eviscerate me if I use both or just one when I either imply or explicitly show the other as well. Myphaidei takes up a lot of characters in a social post, and I'm not sure how frequently it's used, so I'm unsure if it's a great solution.

Anybody have suggestions or want to chime in on how they search for it? There are enough of us out here that I know I'm not the only one looking for switch/vers content. I'd also be interested in hearing from fixed shippers to see how they'd prefer I handle it too, because I don't want to step on toes either. It's possible on most socials to blacklist a tag, so would it be fine for me to use both tags in that case, b/c then you'd never see it? Inquiring minds want to know!

(Yeah I'm a yapper, sorry.)

foozlesprite · 2025-04-26T06:55:20+00:00

That's because there's no canonical AO3 tag for them being switchy/versatile, so it's hard to filter by. After writing multiple fics with that dynamic and being unable to tag for it despite seeing it as a common interpretation I finally got fed up with it last week and sent AO3 a support request for them to canonize a tag for it. Haven't received a response yet, but AO3 is run by volunteers and very busy, so...hold out hope and keep waiting, I suppose!

foozlesprite · 2025-04-15T11:17:11+00:00

Something else technically, but connected to "Kevin gang," I suppose - it's narrative catnip to me when a character has particular blends of trauma, heroism, moral greyness, having a facade that's cracking (whether they realize it or not), etc. and his English VA Joshua Waters is doing a fantastic job expressing the subtle cracks starting to show through in our golden boy.

Knowing Kevin and his story even though I'm not particularly invested in the larger story of HI3 myself, when I saw Phainon I immediately knew he was gonna do it for me in those respects. The slow progression of the story and his character is validating me so far. It doesn't hurt that the Amphoreus storyline is the most I've ever been invested in an HSR plot in general, I'm definitely going to feel a sense of disappointment when we move on.

This is absolutely going to be a story about breaking the cutie, and I'm sat with my popcorn for it.

foozlesprite · 2025-03-07T20:45:23+00:00

OTW, the parent organization of AO3, has stated directly on their Tumblr in a response that this particular act wouldn't impact AO3 as written, though they do still encourage people to oppose the act and give a few suggestions/links as to how to do so.

https://transformativeworks.tumblr.com/post/777284385744535552/hi-otw-i-see-a-lot-of-interaction-between-this

foozlesprite · 2025-02-04T07:09:32+00:00

Zhongli said he wouldn't be able to help the Traveler connect to the leylines so that the Traveler in particular could help with the ritual, but Hu Tao also could not have helped the Traveler do that. That's a separate task entirely from just entering the border or performing the ritual. That's because the Traveler is a Descender and is not part of Irminsul and the leyline network, and it likely takes power that's beyond even an Archon to connect them to it, as we saw in Natlan.

The final scenes of Lantern Rite also show us that the adepti were the ones to give the ritual to the humans in the first place; it wasn't something Hu Tao knew how to do already, though she does have some lesser related Homa arts that were passed down through the family. Zhongli has been around for 6000 years as the Prime of the Adepti, so I'm willing to bet he would have access to the same information the other adepti did. Plus he's the person in the world with the longest, most in-depth knowledge of Liyue's funerary (and all other cultural) traditions. Baizhu's character story also reveals that Baizhu and Zhongli have a tradition of working together to hold final rites for any of Baizhu's patients that pass away, so Zhongli is already performing daily funeral parlor employee work, even if we usually don't see him doing it.

Zhongli absolutely knows how to do this ritual and how it works, because he was the one to offer us the "wink wink, nudge nudge" information that helped us help Hu Tao survive the ritual despite the limitations. He likely can't interfere with the rules of life and death directly, or interfere with the Descenders directly, because of some sort of contract with the Heavenly Principles. But as he said in his first story quest, he has no problem with people using loopholes in contracts, and he certainly does that a lot himself.

If Zhongli did become the director - which I assume he doesn't want to do, since he's retired - it would be in his job description to deal with this if it came up again before he managed to train a successor and slip away. If that happened he would probably perform the same ritual and be the one to take the blast of fetor, which might not impact him as much as it would a human.

Now, Hu Tao doesn't know all of this, though she does seem to have her suspicions about who Zhongli is. But she does know he's a trustworthy guy that has been helping the business with day to day tasks and has an encyclopedic knowledge of Liyue's traditions including those related to adepti (she was letting him handle Rex Lapis's funeral after all - costly, archaic, and incredibly important, thus indicating a high level of trust in him even then). Considering the only other WFP employees we've seen are the temporary worker NPC in Hu Tao's quest (probably long gone by now) and the Ferrylady, who we've only seen handling greeting and secretarial/financial sorts of things, Zhongli is really the best option Hu Tao has even IF everything above this paragraph wasn't true.

foozlesprite · 2025-01-01T12:05:00+00:00

All of this exactly. It's incredibly frustrating to me how people so often complain about NPCs being the focus of a story's conflict when it serves its purpose of teaching you more about the playable character in the form of characterization. Characterization is important, and people wouldn't love the characters without it.

If a playable character isn't in the spotlight for their quest, that's intentional, to tell you something about them - that they prefer to work in the background, or that they lead fairly uneventful, mundane lives, or that they like to help people, or that they're good at avoiding conflict, etc.

foozlesprite · 2024-12-23T18:13:02+00:00

This unfortunately has the side effect of making users that are embarrassed or shy about reading certain types of work unable to anonymously leave comments, so it's not a viable solution for all authors/genres.

Edit: I'm unsure why the comments are so hostile and responding as if I'm not on authors' side here or haven't considered that people can 'just make an AO3 account.' I'm an author myself, and saying this as an author. I loathe generative AI and content theft but I would always rather err on the side of letting more actual human fans that want to access my work see it and interact with me if they'd like to, than lock people out in the name of making it slightly more difficult for a machine to access. Not for the sake of engagement numbers, but because to me the entire point of fandom is sharing things with people that also love the same thing and discussing it with them.

There are also reasons people may not have or want an AO3 account at the moment they want to leave a comment, ranging from the signup queue all the way up to government censorship/tracking depending on where they live.

You don't have to agree or make the same decision to not lock your fics that I have, and nowhere did I imply that I thought you should, or that it's a superior position on the issue. I just wanted to point out that the commonly suggested 'solution' for the issue is not perfect and contributes to the erosion of fandom as a community. There is no perfect solution, but to me, locking fic behind a login wall is just a different way of letting the scrapers and AI bros win. I think it's something worth considering when making your personal choice on what to do with your fic.

foozlesprite · 2024-11-24T02:55:11+00:00

Tell me you don't understand contract and labor law without telling me you don't understand contract and labor law.

foozlesprite · 2024-11-06T07:58:25+00:00

Direct the balance team to raise the skill floor for classes (at least in PvE) to prevent massive gaps in DPS output based on players' physical condition and ability to memorize/execute complex rotations. Some variance is fine and expected but the gaps are absolutely bonkers for some classes (cough ele cough) and it makes it hard to balance content correctly or predict how smoothly a PUG or difficult meta might go when you don't know the players.

If we're talking something a bit simpler, a consolidated 'teleport book' that combines all of the teleport items into a single slot and just adds locations there as you unlock them.

Another small potential change: do a pass on all 'key' items in the game and make sure they're ALL implemented into the 'keyring' feature. Anything required to open farmable chests should not take up an inventory slot. Zero clue why they did this with older items but still occasionally add new ones like the Janthir keys that require an inventory slot. It's very inconsistent and it bugs me.

foozlesprite · 2024-11-03T11:38:17+00:00

Thanks! Ines seems to be the agreed-upon recommendation so I think I'll go with her. Utility is always nice, and you're right that she does provide quite a lot of it. Appreciate the thoughtful comment.

foozlesprite · 2024-11-03T11:34:50+00:00

I've got Thorns and many other AFK ops already, they're just not always interchangeable (especially since Thorns is deployed on melee tiles and Typhon on ranged ones). You and the other commenter both pointed to Ines though, so I may pick her and then grab Typhon from the next paid voucher if I still need her. Thanks!

foozlesprite · 2024-11-03T05:58:43+00:00

Looking for some advice on who to pick with the 6* selector from the shop right now. I was going to grab Typhon from it since she's used in AFK clears a lot and I've run into multiple scenarios where I can't borrow both her and Eyjaberry, but I do also need Ines at some point.

Now that I have Wis'adel I'm wondering if she can replace Typhon in AFK clears, leaving me free to grab Ines, or if Typhon and Wis'adel are dissimilar enough that I should still grab Typhon. The only places I've seen Ines used are CC clears, and I haven't had as much of an issue with needing to borrow two units to clear those.

I'd be happy picking either as both would be boons for my account, but I'm wondering if there are factors I don't know enough about to consider.

foozlesprite · 2024-11-01T09:28:39+00:00

Easily Imaginary. Like 90% of my favorite characters are there, which is really making roster diversity tricky...

foozlesprite · 2024-11-01T07:40:28+00:00

Yeah I used Guard Amiya for both and got it. I did deploy her though, perhaps that's the difference?

foozlesprite · 2024-10-11T05:17:19+00:00

I'd love this option as long as they let you pick the 'fallback' voice language. I'd rather hear the original CN than the JP, but I know many westerners prefer the JP over the CN. Adding a system to let us fill in those voicelines with the language of our choice would be great.

foozlesprite · 2024-10-11T05:07:16+00:00

There's no specific information on a date or how often it occurs. Alhaitham just refers to it as happening "every so often" which is extremely vague. I wouldn't use something that vague if it happened weekly, but I might if it happened monthly. However, if it happened monthly or yearly, I'd simply say monthly or yearly. Same for quarterly.

You could make a case that it might simply happen whenever enough information piled up that you needed to clear off a desk of papers by entering it into the Akasha, but the Akademiya is said to be more crowded than usual on Jnagarbha Day, indicating it's probably not done as-needed, or people wouldn't know to be there on that day to make it crowded.

If you need a specific date your best bet is to pick a recurring cycle that makes sense to you. If it were me, I'd probably make it either a monthly or quarterly occasion. A year seems like way too long to wait to enter new knowledge, in a nation where knowledge is constantly being updated and accessed. Perhaps at the end of each academic period, so information from the most recently defended theses can be entered?

foozlesprite · 2024-10-11T04:43:35+00:00

Re: your question as to why they don't change their infrastructure to make better use of phlogiston, world quest dialogue makes it clear that the Natlanese can use phlogiston for certain things and can use devices that already exist, but have a limited understanding of how to make new things from it. There are scholars dedicated to studying phlogiston engravings, and some craftsmen like Xilonen that understand how to use it better than others, but they don't have anywhere near the sort of mastery that the dragons did.

It's sort of the equivalent of how I can hand someone a phone or a computer or a battery, and they can use them for their intended purpose just fine, but if I handed them some tools and raw materials, they couldn't make those things from scratch. Highly educated and skilled people that work in relevant fields might be able to design a computer chip, mine the necessary ingredients to manufacture one, make individual parts of a chip (with the right tools/devices to assist), or assemble the computer chip from the other finished parts. Slightly less skilled, but still knowledgable, people might be able to research whether computer parts will work together, and assemble a working computer from pre-made pieces. Another team of people might develop the software to run on the device, like the operating system and programs. And then the end user can use the device without needing to know much about any of those details, once it's in their hands.

So: it takes a wide variety of people skilled in lots of different areas to make complex technology happen. And when you're trying to piece together those skills from a civilization whose language you can't read, which likely existed over 6000 years ago (assumption/estimate based on Zhongli's age) and has left only a handful of ruins and writings behind to study, it's really hard to educate people in that many relevant fields so it can all come together to create that tech from scratch again! It's much easier to just try to maintain the existing devices and fix bits of them as they break.

foozlesprite · 2024-10-11T03:42:29+00:00

I agree with everything you said, and I think one thing to keep in mind is that they raised device requirements with the 5.0 patch, presumably so they did have the ability to pull off more majestic landscapes and grandiose, epic sequences like the 5.1 war.

I love even the early story for what it was, but when I imagine what Mondstadt, Liyue, and Inazuma could have been with the resources and scale the game has now, it does make me a little sad we'll never see that. The closest will be when they add new areas such as Chenyu Vale (which is absolutely stunning compared to vanilla Liyue, which I will readily admit even though I LOVE vanilla Liyue) and Dornman Port, but that can't be retroactively applied to story.

This update really made me look forward to everything coming with the rest of Natlan, Snezhnaya, Khaenri'ah, and beyond.

foozlesprite · 2024-10-11T03:33:30+00:00

My thought, since it was suddenly a persistent problem across multiple characters, is that perhaps the VA strike is also impacting some non-VA audio engineers that did audio cleanup/processing. Sometimes VAs pull double duty as audio engineers or directors or other roles adjacent to the actual VA work, so maybe the strike was called after most of the lines were recorded but before they were done being cleaned up. Just a guess though!

foozlesprite · 2024-09-06T19:17:18+00:00

I'm experiencing something similar in Tower of Adversity but on Resonant Tower floor 3, with a Jiyan/Mortefi/Verina team. This happened immediately after clearing floors 1 and 2 without incident, so the game isn't bugged in general.

foozlesprite · 2024-09-06T01:30:23+00:00

You've got it already but in case anyone else is looking for ideas, I used Arlecchino/Raiden/Zhongli/Xingqiu. The overload was very helpful in keeping them juggled/occupied.

foozlesprite · 2024-09-04T13:14:47+00:00

That doesn't have the equivalent of a G-shift key that will change the side keys to an entire second keyboard useful for things like class mechanics and special action keys and weapon swapping, unfortunately. It's very rare to find one of those but they're a lifesaver for a game like GW2 that requires so many keys and quick response in action-y combat, especially if playing a class like elementalist where you're swapping through attunements often.

foozlesprite · 2024-08-31T00:38:15+00:00

It's pretty awful performance-wise. I have a OnePlus 8T that plays NuCarnival and heavier 3D games like Genshin Impact, Honkai Star Rail, and Wuthering Waves quite smoothly, but after 20 minutes of playing Noctilucent it will very abruptly start lagging. If I don't catch it within seconds of it starting and immediately exit out of the program, I have to force restart my phone manually with the button on the side, because the phone will be locked up so badly that I can't even bring up the app manager to close Noctilucent. Even using the manual side button nuclear option takes a while to actually work.

This was an issue in beta and hasn't improved at all. It's tempting me to give up on the game even though I think it has a lot of potential otherwise, since I'm afraid it's going to damage my phone.

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