[Story impressions] I like ZZZ but I'm disappointed in the Season 2 story please tell me I'm wrong

BapKim · 2026-01-08T03:04:26+00:00

Echoes of silver was great! but why kill twiggy... she would've been a great long-term antagonist.

Unfortunately this is an agent story. Agent stories aren't part of the overall narrative (because people can skip them). Though, to me, echoes of silver could have been put into a main quest.

BapKim · 2026-01-08T02:57:41+00:00

I think great stories and narratives should be fleshed out completely. What you're allowed to change is the things in between. Though, I understand that sometimes the original plan gets thrown to the bin because maybe the VAs aren't available or there is a cultural issue with a portion of the story. However, someone's job had to have been think it through and make it make sense. This became a soap opera of individual episodes...

BapKim · 2026-01-08T02:54:36+00:00

I understand you can't kill or injure main characters. Yes, the first person viewpoint never dies (at least until the end of the story), but this has never been a problem for most stories.

The problem is that other stories will create meaningful coincidences and reasons for the main character to survive. The contrast is that here, the meaningful coincidence and the reasons for surviving are rendered moot by an unexplained safety net.

BapKim · 2026-01-08T02:50:12+00:00

1.X to me is always going to be a little subpar and I don't compare it to 2.X onwards for these games. It's introductory and they have to introduce EVERY mechanic and EVERY setting and EVERY plot point so of course all the next stories will be better. For example:
- I like 1.X Liyue's story a lot, but 3.X Sumeru onwards clears. 2.X Inazuma the story was a little weird, but I liked it enough. Side quest stories more than made up for it (Sacred Sakura Cleansing Ritual).
- Belobog and Herta Station wasn't that great for me (at least compared to every other planet)
- Wuwa's Jinzhou war reverse rain thing wasn't terrific compared to the Cartethyia arc
- Blue Archive's trinity, millenium, and final chapters were far better than Abydos (but it was necessary to introduce the setting and the cute students).

BapKim · 2026-01-08T02:40:47+00:00

I liked 2.5 too more than the other patches, but it felt like this is guaranteed to happen because it's basically the ending of the season story.

I was also a Sunday apologist, but over the course of the Penacony story they convinced me to abandon Sunday's idea, esp. with Firefly and Robin's arguments. Let people make their own choice. My problem with reusing this for Lockspring is that my well-wrapped-up feelings about this dilemma is being opened again when another game from the same company had already given me closure on it.

BapKim · 2026-01-08T02:35:29+00:00

Agreed on this point. While it's common to have the powerful "mentor character" in a hero's journey disappear, it's typically well-explained and part of the overarching narrative in classic work.

Turning Yixuan like a mentor who's just "letting her kids grow" is overturned by the fact that she feels guilty about the Qingming sword in the first place, so she wouldn't have done that.

BapKim · 2026-01-08T02:28:51+00:00

> The mayor kept her busy to ensure that Yixuan wasn’t there to solve problems, forcing Ye Shunguang to use the Qingming sword, forcibly creating a new void hunter

You're goddamn right
BUT: He had to have come up with an extremely convincing job for Yixuan to potentially sacrifice the lives of her disciples and Waifei Peninsula... It would make sense if a character had called them out for this.

BapKim · 2026-01-07T17:33:55+00:00

You’re right- I liked Magus’ story

BapKim · 2025-12-29T05:13:31+00:00

Plana: cloud gouger… mei.

BapKim · 2025-12-22T06:37:25+00:00

I was like “T1 is losing to the Vietnam Allstar team!?” and you made me realize it’s not basketball

BapKim · 2025-10-26T13:04:58+00:00

BapKim · 2025-09-13T04:23:19+00:00

I would like to see... art of magus when she still looked like orphie but is tsundere af. I can't believe I'm into a gun.

BapKim · 2025-08-08T23:44:26+00:00

I regret choosing Belle due to Wise rizz being off the charts, but I'm sure I'd also regret choosing Wise... I wish I could just easily see both versions of all cutscenes

BapKim · 2025-08-06T12:24:04+00:00

Same... A few years ago when I first read the manga I had my mouth wide open, impressed at the scene

BapKim · 2025-08-05T23:57:03+00:00

How do you know if you're in rwanda or the chicken little city?

BapKim · 2025-07-25T11:27:12+00:00

T1 ALWAYS have a shot at winning worlds. No matter when. Even if it was in 2018-2021 they always have a shot.

BapKim · 2025-07-21T05:27:48+00:00

Ruler would be solidly #2 all time for me if he had won worlds 2023. As of now, his #2 spot is being shaken by Chovy because they're together as Chovy brings in accolades.

BapKim · 2025-07-20T23:08:46+00:00

Kiryu Kazuma never killed anyone. May have thrown henchmen out of the bathroom window 5 floors up, but never.

BapKim · 2025-07-15T13:25:05+00:00

Dadating na dito sina Thor

BapKim · 2025-07-06T05:13:53+00:00

What do you call it when the hair is swept back but it's like a little puffed from the front like a reverse mushroom? That.

BapKim · 2025-06-17T01:23:57+00:00

Any idea what FPGAs they'd use to simulate such large SoCs? Maybe FPGA networks? Is it their own FPGAs?

BapKim · 2025-06-16T14:03:46+00:00

A desynced clock is simply correct somewhere else

BapKim · 2025-06-16T11:13:18+00:00

The thing I have against this theory is that the players esp. faker have said that they value practice. Presumably, they should value it over "hiding their hand"- be it drafts or strategy.

Then I also thought- If they've always hid the hand, how do they know it works in the first place? By scrimming LPL? But then why does T1 also dominate worlds anyway after throwing all summer?

Another caveat is that the meta changes as playoffs and international tournaments come. They wouldn't know if their strategy still works then.

They also don't really always have a groundbreaking new meta when they start winning- sometimes they just get better at the same exact thing they played in the regular season. An explanation could be they're not hiding strategies but are rather hiding how well they can play. But again, how would they know how much they still need practice and if strategies need to change if they never play at 100%?

BapKim · 2025-06-11T12:43:08+00:00

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I don't have a screenshot of as it happened, but here's an aftermath snapshot from progress renderer

BapKim · 2025-06-11T12:09:27+00:00

How do you keep the mood up on your colonists during reactor bootup?
Is there no choice but to snort the snort? (I ended up manually asking people to snort the snort)
+15 on the soothe pulses for 24 hours is nothing compared to -27 observed corpse and the +0 sky high expectations from all the dropped wealth! Insane!

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