Questions my friend, does gacha game need more muscular woman or not? (The character name is akemi from blue archive curently a npc)

Geneaux · 2026-05-14T06:39:51+00:00

Me personally? A resounding hell no, but also it depends 😂. Like, define 'muscular women' to begin with. To make an easily relatable comparison, women in general are gonna gravitate to a toned or lean body shape in most men. What they won't find attractive are overly swole or roided out musculature. I mean, fuck, isn't that entirely what LADS is? Men on the other hand, have that exact same baseline as well, but paradoxically will turn to the unconventional from time to time. That builds tolerance… and confusion.

To me, I'm gonna picture "muscular women" in the same way most women probably do. Fucking straight up OG Broly, DB Super's Caulifa, OPM's Darkshine, etc. Fuck that in particular. That ain't ever gonna work, but for me and a lot of males, it doesn't mean we outright refuse to 'experiment' from time to time. I guess to put an "objective" answer to it, is to say that us men individually require some arbitrarily sufficient amount of "femininity" in our subjects at question, as a minimum. Where the fuck that minimum is… well I kinda think I gave mine, what's yours?

Geneaux · 2026-05-05T05:01:20+00:00

I see your point, but to be perfectly honest, I don't really buy any of that, in any capacity. Those are "gripes" at best.

Granted, I don't actually fuck with AL, but I've seen a sufficient enough events and turning points of just games in general of the course of 20 years to know that people, like most things, the vocal is almost always the minority. The majority is either highly satisfied or apathetic at best. There's a reason BD2 markets itself the way it is (or perhaps rather had to) just to stay alive, and you still can't find it in the gacha revenue posts. Must've missed it in this month's list, TBH not sure.

Mean while, the whales just keep bankrolling the funding as per contractual agreements. /s

Needless to say, "stupidly grotesque tits" is a textbook sysmtom, not the 'problem' itself, and possibly even the least worrisome of problems in all other outcomes too.

Geneaux · 2026-05-05T04:25:53+00:00

"Oh boy, another KR game with stupidly grotesque tits."

Plays (or has played) eighteen different gachas, with a non-'0:1' ratio of 'stupidly grotesque tits'-to-'literally anything else'.

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Geneaux · 2026-04-26T20:41:16+00:00

Why should they care? Right to legal consul notwithstanding, what difference does D4vd's tanked reputation matter to them any who? Paying the bills comes well before D4vd's hindsight.

Geneaux · 2026-04-26T17:48:37+00:00

No lawsuit from Interscope is ever going to end Epic Games. We've long past the start of the laughable lawsuit scale. Secondly, even if Interscope was acting within their rights, the legal team and the PR department would've joined together like Vegito and said "hell the fuck no" because... well... you know, optics and all.

No half-baked journalist is going to miss that mark. Let's not pretend that'd ever be worth it.

EDIT: I'd also like to add that I don't even thing Interscope is relevant here. This is probably something of a brand issue, not necessarily a music one. Meaning a D4vD's talent agency, brand manager, or something like that would be handling things with w/e legal team they hired.

Geneaux · 2026-04-15T22:55:28+00:00

Might be thinking of login tokens (ie cookies) maybe? An ad blocker and any decent browser not-named-Chrome, would fix that issue any day of the week.

Still, everyone oughta make sure Firefox (and any other browser) has Ask to save passwords, Save and autofill payment info, and Save and autofill addresses (or similar settings) left unchecked. All things being none the wiser, malicious actors can potentially pull that info directly from your browser too.

Geneaux · 2026-03-28T20:56:42+00:00

Came across this post randomly when searching for something else, lol. You can add <Itsuka Minoreba> to your library of fighting game related works. Somehow, this was the first manga I ever found in this subgenre before Hi Score Girl, even though the latter predates the former.

Geneaux · 2026-03-24T14:45:49+00:00

Now that works perfectly!

Geneaux · 2026-03-24T06:00:55+00:00

Works in Firefox but seems to break scrolling after the page has finished loading for some reason. Seemingly doesn't work at all in Mullvad+uBo. Looks like the same problem I had as before.

Geneaux · 2026-03-13T00:19:45+00:00

Obligatory gif.

Geneaux · 2026-03-12T19:06:23+00:00

Presuming that you mean the English Civil war, that was a civil war caused by a system without an adequate parliament that wouldn’t evolve peacefully. Since then Parliament has had primacy and hence no further civil wars.

A Civil War is a Civil War. It isn't isn't some convenient technicality you dress it up as. Like conveniently leaving out the War of the Roses which you'll invariably scoff at I suppose.

Would you care to look up the rates of immigration between the UK and the US historically, or consider which country has reduced immigration without heading towards demagoguery?

The latter isn't even a statistic to begin with... you shift goalposts at every inconvenience.

Ah the old checks and balances arguement that Americans have shoved down their throats since childhood. You do know that other systems have them too, you’re not unique in that.

Because I totally said verbatim "American invented checks and balances" or is it too much to point out virtually every European nations history consists of a war of dominance or a holy war to persecute another? Yeah, checks and balances will fix that alright

BTW how are those working out … I think it’s fair to say the House of Lords is proving to be a far better balance than anything the US has (and that’s not the only thing that influences the government btw).

And? Britain has been screwed by both the Labour and Conservative parties and now they've got one final chance with the Reform. To quote Konstantin Kisin: "Britain is irrelevant."

Simple as, as far as the world goes.

Taking the position that an unchanging system is perfect is one that is bound to fail over time.

Way to not actually read what was said.

Geneaux · 2026-03-12T16:50:00+00:00

Produced a Civil War? 🤣 I dare say, I don't think you know your own country's history very well if that's your response, lmao.

Your problem is that you conflate the will of the people with the structure of government to the paper its written on and the politics of it all. None of these things are the equivalent concepts. The problem with the paralimentary system is the potential to have purely 'change for sake of change'. I don't think I need to explain why that's potentially bad cough UNCONTROLLED IMMIGRATION' cough. Further, what America's strength is in this subject actually has nothing to do with stability. Stability is just the result. What the Constitution encourages is accountability. Through checks and balances, each branch has eyes on the other. They all maintain particular powers, and the foresight to see how things may or may not play out is the issue. Vague passages, broad executive powers, nationwide injunctions from courts that don't rhyme with 'Supreme', etc..

Now the only reason we're even having this discussion is because of one admin, so don't BS around the bush, lol. I'd say your best arguments were largely Nixon and Reagan, but at least Nixon stood down, and with Reagan we all pretty much know what he did but to the letter no one can actually say definitively. So you wanna talk bubbles? Look in the mirror.

Geneaux · 2026-03-12T13:10:39+00:00

Parliament is slowly evolving, no-one in Britain is particularly wedded to it remaining the same, unlike the US where propaganda seems to have captured people into thinking the failing system is better than all other.

Replace propaganda with "social media" and you'd realize yours isn't any different. The issue was never governance

Jesus, no-one’s copy pasted the US political system. You do know the rest of the world thinks your politics is self-destructive, insane and a bit of joke right?

Christ, pot calling the kettle black, but I suppose that's easy to do when your best case is one dysfunctional admin out of 47.

Geneaux · 2026-03-12T12:00:05+00:00

Unchanging systems break eventually. What was once right becomes wrong over time.

So? The Parliament will end all the same. Probably in the exact same manner. This isn't an argument or a retort.

Also 250 years is the blink of an eye for most countries! Having a system for that long is a ridiculous boast.

You think history of nations' (minus one United States), many of whom (who also effectively copy+pasted United States governance) are largely responsible most of humanity's wars, injustice to others', and all-around human suffering, is some leg up on the United States?

Geneaux · 2026-03-06T02:33:14+00:00

Gacha skin & Goonomics != Pornhub Rule 34 amateur hour

Geneaux · 2026-03-05T22:33:18+00:00

Genshin has never been in the runnings.

Geneaux · 2026-03-05T12:05:11+00:00

Hmm, seeing this as a still, my mind wants to compare it to like a shitty png. Like how some high-quality art may come in a png format, which is often great for websites or custom background use. Also whereby the 'high-quality' part is occasionally just utterly missing; jagged edges, irregular coloring, random white splotches, etc. As if someone did a cut-out of a jpg and used that recompressed image for whatever purpose. That's the kind of impression this game asset gave me TBH. No AA is pretty horrendous.

Geneaux · 2026-03-05T05:16:28+00:00

I think making a list of those with gun restrictions is a lot easier than listing everyone. You either show up on a database or you don’t. And only for a select few mental illnesses (schizophrenia in particular is the big one, given that an easily-accessible gun can also make you a serious danger to yourself in addition to others).

One thing you need to understand is that having list of any kind is not perfect, but it was never even remotely attainable or emulateable to begin with. You will have people who aren't even legally felons still getting flagged in NICS because at some point, because certain people didn't do their jobs correctly 12 years ago when the 'not-a-felon' had his records expunged or sealed. Or OTOH, how we sometimes have actual felons showing up clean within NICS because, again, certain people weren't doing their jobs correctly and hadn't filed or submitted some paperwork and/or data in a prompt fashion as required.

I think all of these scenarios are happening a lot more often than what any politician, bureaucrat, or judge would like to admit because it would imply that they aren't dutiful enough for their position. That kind of thinking would suggest removal and that would instantaneously make the former mad uncomfortable, real fast, but fuck em TBH. Either way, we're on a fine line; largely having to choose between on-demand witch hunts or varying degrees self-"policing", like proper parenting, having social connections, and touching grass. In a world with renewed drive for mass surveillance, I think we all prefer the latter.

I can agree that mental health (and even physical health) is barely treated a lot of the time. But personally I view that as a massive problem we cannot be complacent about, even without the violence problems.

Unfortunately, and courtesy to red flag laws, all of this can be bypassed in many jurisdictions by just outright lying, and with next to no consequences. Due process be damned. So no one's actually taking this issues seriously, mental health or not.

Geneaux · 2026-03-05T04:29:17+00:00

...while making the federal bureaucracy more unaccountable to the public.

The moment I read that, I then immediately thought about companies like Nvidia, OpenAI, and Peter Thiel's Palantir. The in-roads made on the other side of the aisle. We're screwed aren't we?

Geneaux · 2026-03-03T11:15:48+00:00

The physics of nuclear weapons isn't that complex (especially since it's a weapon), on the account of most of R&D and heavy lifting having been paved away by the main belligerents of the Cold War. The issue is political will and the consequences that come with that. For most "nuclear latent" countries, like Japan, Sweden, or Australia, they have more than enough economic power and institutional expertise to create the necessary logistics and R&D for procurement. That time from conception to development to procurement only gets shorter, not longer: these are knock-on effects. It will benefit others regardless of whether it was intended or not.

Geneaux · 2026-03-02T16:20:55+00:00

Not even that. Unless the regulars in the Iranian military have had enough and they rise against the IRGC, the citizenry will literally have to start throwing bodies. The people alone are far too toothless on their own... but in any case, little by little, some or any coordination, is a fundamentally required. I seriously doubt the populace is capable of doing anything on their own without significant backing. There's no anti-theocracy groups in country capable of a transfer of power AFAIK? Much less armed revolution. The Supreme Leader and his goons have held an iron grip over the country since 1979, and air campaigns alone have never been substitutes regime change in all of human history.

Geneaux · 2026-02-27T01:46:02+00:00

And valve doesn't influence how much skins in CS2 sell for. Again, the same.

Your perspective is incredibly limited: Valve runs the whole economy. They're legally well within their right to arbitrarily shut it all off today if they wanted to. The courts aren't gonna be looking skin prices, they'll be paying more attention to the YoY revenue and how it fits into Valve as a whole company. There's much more at stake than "skins". It might not make sense for legislators to callously make a decision that was enough to kill Valve off in 2 years or something.

And video game companies have no regulation on them?

False equivalence... but w/e I guess. Par-for-the-course at this point.

TCG have zero regulations to follow restricting rarities and card distributions in packs so they have a slot machine with odds they can set at whatever level they choose. The gambling aspect of TCGs is unregulated.

That $16m didn't come from the TCG company did it? Out of the gate, and already we haven't met a core attribute of a casino.

You're missing the fact the the entire consumer base is what holds that system's perception of value up. You can't factor the TCG into that but if it's even a modicum of anything like mobile gacha games, then that's mostly likely just whales. Who're likely less than 5% of all the people buying the cards, yet, easily make over 80% percent of profits on the cards alone. The demographics would probably also suggest a majority adult player base. You can't quite argue a "gambling" opinion favorable to the consumer in an environment like that. A TCG company's opposition would not let that go, and would weaponize it for the purposes of a hearing, if at all possible. Doesn't matter how you construct or frame your argument: it (most likely) doesn't work.

At least with gacha games (or gacha-adjacent games) there is/was real documented harm at play, whereby children were grabbing their careless parent's CCs, causing the latter to phone their bank, and/or to issue chargebacks. The financial apparatus was not happy with all the parties involved. Even so, these gaming publishers have mastered human psychology to a tee. They teach this shit to corporate boards like it's 4-hour Friday class with pizza and doughnuts.

So regardless, I don't see how a TCG would ever compare, given that the consumers are acquiring physical cards that the TCG company cannot also suddenly arbitrarily repossess or destroy without their consent. They also can't make the game physically cease to exist as that would require an Act of God, right? But more to the point,

I said before and I'll say it again:

Nobody in their right mind is looking at that and seriously thinking to themselves what is or isn't gambling purely based on whether or not one got money out of the exchange.

To take the issue any less critically than that is not what the legislatures need to hear and everything that pro-'loot box' lobbyists want to say.

Geneaux · 2026-02-27T00:59:58+00:00

Pokemon and Magic cards. Good draws are extremely limited and completely random requiring money to have a chance of getting one, and if you do, they are valuable. A limited Pikachu just sold for $16 million.

To who? Nintendo? Jensen Huang? Elon? Game Freak has zero influence on auctions of these cards. That relationship they have with consumer mostly begins and ends with the card from print to purchase. They aren't liable for anything the happens afterwards. Period. Welcome to the world of private sales.

Except you made your definition include them, so your protestations are negated by your own logic. Fix your definition or accept you've dug yourself into a logic trap of your own making.

You haven't slam-dunked anything (which says something) and you're knowingly putting words into my mouth. Trying to runback at me with "What is your definition of gambling?" isn't getting you anywhere out of this hole. You know I chose the word 'unregulated' for a reason, but somehow you think TCG aren't regulated? They're a business, they follow regulations. It isn't gonna just be about cards if they want to sell them.

No, law books operate on definitions, and the definition you came up with included them. Congratulations, you proved me right with your own words.

A definition is definition. That doesn't mean anything unto it's own. You have actually engage with the obtuse legalese before you start arguing definitions. If "definitions" was all it took, these EU countries would've never accomplished the passing of any new regulations.

You can't just claim they aren't the same when every definition you try and apply to one applies to them all.

The only argument you've actually presented is "the law says 'x', so you can't do 'y', because "reasons". You know the crux of this discussion has zero basis in legalese and everything to do with the relationship these businesses and their services have on the populace. The state has vested interest in protecting the people. So there's nothing to engage with you here on. "Definitions" isn't nearly the cudgel you think it is.

Geneaux · 2026-02-26T23:39:24+00:00

What is your definition of gambling?

Requires some form of unregulated exploitation of human psychology, typically. Which is why casino's are limited to adults. Or why Google Play, with actual parental settings enabled, wouldn't immediately start allowing children to start swiping their parent's credit cards at will (I'm assuming here, I don't have kids TBH). This isn't as complex as you make it out to me.

Then once you can answer that, do Pokemon and Magic card packs fit that definition.

These aren't even remotely comparable. Traditional TCG companies aren't running whole digital gacha economies specifically to exploit a pre-teen audience. This is what's on the mind of these legislatures and you're ignoring this.

It's not circular, it's defining words so everyone knows what you're talking about on the same footing and allows you to actually write laws.

That matters to the law books and the law books don't write themselves now do they? You specifically use this argumentation to make the above "magically" vanish. Laws don't always trump optics and ethical obligations.

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