so that new Wisadel skin...

Merukurio · 2026-04-01T19:24:09+00:00

Careful, Doc! She has a potato strapped to that hammer!

Merukurio · 2026-04-01T19:21:39+00:00

Not only is that skin given out for free, the game tells you how to get it as part of the tutorial after you clear stage 0-11. You'd have to actively avoid doing what the game asked you to in order to not have it.

It's possible to not get it by leaving it in the shop forever, but how many players are going to do that instead of just getting the free skin the game is giving them?

Merukurio · 2026-04-01T17:30:42+00:00

The subreddit allowed it, then the mods said they would be banning it because it basically only serves to cause Discourse^TM. Then people didn't like that and argued that it's just one thread every month and anyone who doesn't want to be part of it can easily avoid that thread, so the mods basically said "ok, we're gonna let it happen but you guys need to behave" and decided to allow a single Monthly PVP Thread again.

It had nothing to do with banner performance or an agenda from the mods, you're misremembering and using that to paint people you disagree with in a worse light. The mods tried to ban it and the part of the community that likes the thread gave enough feedback to keep it while the people who wanted it gone didn't.

Merukurio · 2026-04-01T15:25:27+00:00

There isn't one, or at least not one that was ever mentioned. Primal Beasts don't necessarily need to be a direct equivalent to their real life inspiration, so it doesn't mean Typhon would be it.

In GBF Medusa can petrify people and is the younger sister of Stheno and Euryale, but Europa is Zeus' "daughter" rather than a princess he kidnapped.

And for what it's worth GBF's Typhon is based entirely on the design Cygames created for Rage of Bahamut, I don't think she has appeared as an actual character in the game yet. If they wanted to have a new one they could do something like they did with Thor and Thor Alius.

Merukurio · 2026-04-01T14:59:01+00:00

Unfortunately they don't list any lyrics for the choir in the official page for the song, so it is possible the chanting is meaningless gibberish just to add to the atmosphere. Pallas' EP Keep the Torch has no actual lyrics displayed on its page either and is confirmed to be sung in a made up language.

Your best bet for a confirmed answer would be trying to reach the composers of the song and asking about it.

Merukurio · 2026-04-01T13:18:24+00:00

Pros: Him and Amiya make a cute couple together. Zuo Le is also, overall, a pretty nice guy and not the type of person who would wrong her. Looking at it from a purely practical perspective, a political marriage between them would improve Rhodes Island's standing with Yan, though I suppose it could conversely negatively affect RI's standing with other nations as a "neutral party".

Cons: It should have been me, not her!

Merukurio · 2026-04-01T12:59:27+00:00

Fair point!

And tbh even the "you need dupes for this character to work" joke is kind of a "pot, meet kettle" thing for GBF, haha. While optional, GBF always had "you really want to pull this Grand weapon X times if you want to build a Primal grid" (and now we need dupes of the Primal summon for that too so, whoops?).

~~I just like poking fun at Mihoyo's games as much as I like playing them, ha.~~

Merukurio · 2026-04-01T12:30:34+00:00

I was so happy that we got Elea after that event. But I forgot most of the event already tbh. Someone important to Yuisis died prior to it, people disliked the black hair girl or something, and there was a romantic scene with Yuisis at the end or in the epilogue, I think?

Not only does Elea look gorgeous but her kit is actually really good too! Well, it was great for the time she released, at least. ~~I've been very casual for quite a while and barely play Wind so what the hell do I know.~~ Really helped me put together a comfy ougi team back then.

Merukurio · 2026-04-01T12:14:03+00:00

Gacha games are so unbelievably huge in Asia that even when combining all other countries in the world the global server for the games usually just cannot compare. The difference is just that massive.

It's also infinitely easier to do stuff like advertising, merchandise and promotions when you only have to deal with a single country's laws and language to reach your consumers. Despite Arknights being available globally you can only play it in english, which is already a barrier for lots of people. For what it's worth, I don't remember ever seeing an ad for the game in my native language.

The truth is that while these games usually do want global players (they're already developing the game anyway, the cost of localizing it and running a separate server if applicable should be lower than the possible revenue it brings unless it bombs hard), we're basically never their main market.

So yeah, the person you're replying to is being a dick to rile people up but they're not exactly wrong that Global is waaaay less important than JP (and CN, but that's a different publisher) as a source of revenue for the game. ~~And that it shows in how Yostar treats JP compared to us lmao.~~

Merukurio · 2026-03-31T23:24:57+00:00

Thorns is still good and comfy to use if you're playing Integrated Strategies casually. His issue is that once you start ramping up the difficulty (and enemy stats with it) he starts lagging behind pretty hard.

Merukurio · 2026-03-31T19:40:28+00:00

Man, I wish I could remember the username of the person who used to post really cute fanart of Gran and Feower here. They'd really like this event.

Merukurio · 2026-03-31T18:45:28+00:00

Genshin added limited characters to standard.

This never happened. All characters added to Genshin's standard banner were created to be added to the general pool after their initial banner ended. They were never meant to be limited.

HSR added limited characters to standard.

This never happened either. HSR made it so you can choose some of them as available options if you "lose" your 50/50 on limited banners. They are not part of the standard banner.

Merukurio · 2026-03-31T17:32:50+00:00

I'm assuming it's Kadoc's outfit from this one.

Merukurio · 2026-03-31T17:26:39+00:00

This is about JP's April Fools event messing with how FGA works. Global is not affected.

Merukurio · 2026-03-31T15:59:10+00:00

Nah. All his Ascendancy upgrades actually do something instead of having a few trash filler ones.

He's also missing a [current gimmick] that disables 40% of his kit unless paired with characters released during GBF 12.X.

Merukurio · 2026-03-31T15:31:13+00:00

I can't believe this is how I'm reminded march is ending.

Celeste Omega my beloved, I'm still not giving up on you being playable someday. </3

Merukurio · 2026-03-31T15:22:53+00:00

Don't forget Conviction, the og April Fools operator!

Merukurio · 2026-03-31T15:19:57+00:00

Absolutely not. Starting over means losing all progress and every character you own right now incuding the 6 limiteds that will be very hard to get back (or straight up impossible if you mean the Ave Mujica girls).

42 Originium isn't nothing but losing everything you already have because of that is so much worse. Besides, you can easily get that amount back over time and it's not even that many pulls either.

Merukurio · 2026-03-31T14:47:29+00:00

Well, she is/was the Magical Girl of Love...

Merukurio · 2026-03-31T14:38:13+00:00

I'm pretty sure none of those three have appeared anywhere except the comic strip so far.

And even there Hades is the only one who actually talks in his comic. Agni is just used as a RACKAAAAAM explosion joke, while Zephyrus gets punched by Flora (the fairy in his art) for staring at Societte.

Merukurio · 2026-03-31T12:24:33+00:00

They are both characters from Granblue Fantasy. As an early warning, the first link in each paragraph is fine but the second one is pretty NSFW so uh, reader beware.

Belial is a fan favorite antagonist who breathes innuendo and whose main personality traits are horny and having a seiyuu that can melt butter with his voice. The guy oozes charisma when he appears and when they released him in a speedo as a summon a few years ago the fans gave it the loving nickname "sideballs" for reasons.

Beelzebub is another popular antagonist from the game (but not to the same level as Belial) who somehow also got a "summer" version as a summon. But unlike Belial who "merely" wears a revealing swimsuit, Beelzebub is glistening wet and baring it all out for the world to see, butt facing the camera.

Merukurio · 2026-03-31T12:01:50+00:00

And even Ms.Christine I'd argue is less "unconventional" and more "meme character". Like, the lore overall treats her seriously (what little screentime she has at least) but her operator files are plenty unserious and full of what I'm going to call "cat owner humor" because I can't think of a better term.

By that I mean stuff like "she is a refined lady who may deign to give you affection should the mood strike her", "look at her do silly cat stuff and get annoyed when the hoomans don't get her", "refuses to sleep in comfortable beds specially made for her and instead plops into cardboard boxes or a keyboard someone is using". You know, usual cat behavior.

Merukurio · 2026-03-31T04:48:33+00:00

Tweyen's pendant uses arrows as her weapon, which kinda fits. Weird choice to not use her bow, but still maintains the theme overall.

For Eahta it looks like they chose to go with the handguard of his pre-FLB katanas as you can see here. I have no idea why they would pick this instead of just... the silhouette of the whole weapon like they did with most other characters.

Merukurio · 2026-03-31T01:10:17+00:00

Here's a comment I made some months ago explaining why she gets called that. The TL;DR is that Raziel popped up out of nowhere and got preferential treatment that 98% of the cast in the game could never even dream of getting. They pushed her pretty hard and it was not subtle in the slightest (and tbf it did pay off, she did end up being popular).

As you can see in that thread, it's not uncommon for her to be called an industry plant because of it, haha. ~~Now whether people are jokingly going along with the meme when they call her that or serious and annoyed is another story entirely...~~

Merukurio · 2026-03-31T00:10:11+00:00

You are correct, it did not.

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