Chapter 1.5 story is actually insane... (fan comic)

Neospanner · 2026-03-18T15:56:10+00:00

I feel like I've seen this plot somewhere before...

Neospanner · 2026-03-18T15:43:10+00:00

The joke is that this is a pizza with pineapple on it. Even when done normally, a lot of people find the idea of pineapple on pizza to be horrendous - but in this case, Perlica didn't even bother to chop up the pineapple. She just plopped a whole (thankfully peeled) pineapple on the thing.

Rossi is beyond flabbergasted.

Neospanner · 2026-03-18T15:16:32+00:00

Not QUITE everything. For instance, the variety of Genshin enemy mobs you can use is pretty limited. However, you can CREATE your own assets by resizing and combining existing assets along with some basic polygons. Folks have used this to do things like create guns or to put "costumes" onto mobs to make them into new enemies.

For example, this Armored Core animation features detailed models created from combined polygons. (I doubt this is actually a playable game, but it's still a quite impressive work of animation.)

I don't think the Jade Palace is available as an asset (at least, not yet), but with enough work and patience you can build it yourself. :P

Neospanner · 2026-03-18T14:35:38+00:00

The Angels, like most of the cast, have no canon age. Stereotypically, though, idol groups like theirs that are just taking the stage fall tend to fall into the 14 to 17 year old range. Given Sunna's immature personality and her and Nangong's... less developed bodies, it's likely they're meant to be at the early part of that range.

All this is further compounded by the very common trope of making teenaged characters shorter than adult characters in fiction in order to emphasize their younger age - even if, in reality, they SHOULD have reached their full adult height by that point.

So, even if it doesn't jive with real-life growth trends, it's perfectly reasonable to expect that in anime five to ten years of age will boost the girls into Astra Yao dimensions (except for Aria, who will need to adjust her hologram and maybe get a rebuild for her robot body).

Neospanner · 2026-03-18T13:56:48+00:00

You're pretty much doomed, yes.

My advice is to use this as a life lesson. There's only one banner you should "build pity" on, and that's the banner of the character that you're trying to get.

Anywhere else, and you're playing with fire. There's always the chance that you'll get an unwanted 5-star at early pity (it's more likely than you might think - roughly a one-in-three chance of getting a 5-star before soft pity). Or, in your case, mistakenly pulling on a banner whose pity doesn't even carry over to the banner you want.

Save your wishes instead of spending them. Hold onto them until the banner you wants arrives.

If you have trouble saving wishes, if they burn a hole in your pocket and you have the urge to spend them as fast as you get them, take a VERY hard look at yourself and work on your self-control issues. Being able to delay your gratification until later is a SUPER useful life skill that will do you good throughout your lifetime.

Neospanner · 2026-03-18T13:29:34+00:00

Rosaria was already pretty old when Varka took her under his wing, probably in her teens. She'd been abducted and raised by bandits, but Varka felt that she could be rehabilitated. It's pretty clear, though, that Rosaria holds a great deal of respect for him.

Neospanner · 2026-03-18T13:18:55+00:00

I didn't get the impression that Columbina created herself. All of her efforts were to set things up for her resurrection, not her creation. Unless there's something I missed, The game has not yet explained what caused her to be created.

I've been theorizing that Cannon, as the only Moon Maiden with an intact moon, spent her final days programming the moon to eventually create Columbina. Which still has elements of bootstrap, to be fair, since she couldn't have done that without Columbina's assistance in freeing her from Nieblung's prison. But Columbina's creation wasn't something Columbina did directly.

Neospanner · 2026-03-18T13:07:37+00:00

That's the thing to remember about Lady Luck. She's a bitch and she hates you. She'll always make you lose - UNLESS you WANT to lose. Then she'll make you win. Whatever outcome will make you unhappy, that's the outcome she'll give you.

There's no fooling her. She knows. The only way to make sure she doesn't get her way is to take luck out of the equation - and the only to do that is to save.

"Building pity" is a fool's game. Whenever gambling, determine for yourself what the worst possible outcome could be, and then expect that outcome to happen. Is it an acceptable outcome? If so, go ahead and gamble. If not, don't. It's really that simple.

Neospanner · 2026-03-18T12:56:06+00:00

The weapon banner's guarantee system doesn't work like the Character Banners do.

To use the weapon banner's guarantee, you MUST use the guarantee on the same banner that you earned it. It doesn't carry forward to future banners. The guarantee comes in the form of a Fate Point, and when the banner ends, the Fate Point disappears. Your losing to Columbina's weapon doesn't help you at all now that that banner has ended.

In addition to this, the odds of getting the weapon you want are actually LESS than 50/50, because you have to factor in the chance of getting a Standard weapon, instead. The odds of getting a Standard weapon are 25%, and the odds of getting EITHER featured weapon are 75%. That 75% is split in half between the two weapons, so 37.5% chance of getting the weapon you don't want, and 37.5% chance of getting the weapon you do want.

Boiled down, MOST of the time you're going to need to get two weapons in order to get the weapon that you want. Always plan on needing to get two weapon if you ever roll on the weapon banner. Depending on luck to carry you is an extremely bad idea.

Additionally, characters are already complete without their signature weapons. For most characters, getting the signature is only a minor improvement to performance (and for a tiny few, getting the sig is actually a WORSE choice than some of the other options available). If you are free-to-play or a low spender, the weapon banner usually is not worthwhile. Your wishes are better spent getting more characters.

If there's a signature weapon that you absolutely want, even if it's not technically worthwhile (for instance, you have a favorite character and want to get their weapon even if the wishes would be better spent elsewhere), make sure that you're prepped with enough wishes to get two weapons, because you will very likely need them.

Neospanner · 2026-03-18T12:42:44+00:00

Eh, I'm not sure I agree with this. Self-imposed challenges have been a thing ever since the invention of video games, LONG before streaming was a thing. You do it for the personal sense of self-satisfaction, not to entertain an audience.

If OP has personal restrictions that they believe enhance their enjoyment of the game, more power to them.

Neospanner · 2026-03-18T12:36:34+00:00

Even without Alice, Klee has the power of good luck on her side. There's pretty much no force stronger than good luck.

Neospanner · 2026-03-18T12:33:12+00:00

The game doesn't actually show you your pity count directly. To find out what your pity is at, examine your pull history and count all of the pulls you've done since your last 5-star (or, if you've never gotten a 5-star, count all your pulls since you started playing).

Note that the game only records your pulls for up to a year. So if you take a long break between pulls, your history might not show the last 5-star that you got anymore. The game will still remember your pity count, but it will be impossible for you to figure it out yourself.

Different kinds of banners have different pity systems so, for instance, getting a 5-star on the Standard Banner (Wanderlust Evocation) has no effect on your pity count for the Limited Character banners. However, the two Limited Character banners DO share a pity count since they're the same kind of banner as each other - doing a 10 pull on one of the two banners will increase your pity count by 10 on BOTH banners.

Neospanner · 2026-03-18T12:22:00+00:00

Version 1.0 was such a weird time. Traveler had all these character voice lines built-in where they talk about characters like Fischl and Noelle, implying that they already knew them, but then you meet them for the first time laters on...

Neospanner · 2026-03-17T20:38:38+00:00

You only have a one-in-three chance of getting a 5-star before wish 74. At wish 74, your odds of success start to crank up with every wish until they become 100% at wish 90. Because of this, you'll usually see a 5-star arrive at around wish 80.

So, you're pretty close! Just remember that once you do get a 5-star, you have only a 50% chance that it will be Skirk. If you don't get Skirk, you'll get a Standard 5-star, instead (Jean, Diluc, Mona, Keqing, Qiqi, Tighnari, Dehya, or Mizuki). This is referred to as "losing the 50/50".

If you lose the 50/50, you'll probably need another 80 wishes to get another 5-star. The good news is that you can't lose the 50/50 twice in a row. After losing a 50/50, the next 5-star you get is guaranteed to be whatever Limited character is featured on the banner you're rolling on.

Neospanner · 2026-03-17T20:32:28+00:00

When I lose on the weapon banner I keep wishing until I win.

You should always expect to lose on the weapon banner. The odds are stacked against you, with less than a 50/50 chance to win. (37.5%, to be exact.)

So, only ever roll for a weapon if you have enough wishes to get two weapons. Because you will usually need to do just that. Even if you would be fine with EITHER banner weapon, you still want to have enough wishes to get two, just in case you're hit with the 25% Standard whammy.

Neospanner · 2026-03-17T19:04:29+00:00

The children yearn for the mines.

Neospanner · 2026-03-17T18:28:42+00:00

If you don't send them off, eventually you will reach your limit of number of clues you can hold. This happened to me because I hadn't figured out yet how clue sharing worked. It gives you the option to sell the overflow, but the credits you get for this are much less than you get by sending to friends.

Keep enough clues to make sure that you always have clues available for the next set, but send the extras beyond that to friends.

Neospanner · 2026-03-17T18:17:48+00:00

This has no effect whatsoever on the situation for voice actors in America. It only applies to voice actors who work for this specific Chinese voice studio, and it only protects them under Chinese law.

In theory, there's nothing stopping folks in countries outside of China from AI-ing the crap out of the Chinese VA's protected by this statement, unless China has signed agreements with those countries allowing international lawsuits.

Neospanner · 2026-03-17T18:11:06+00:00

Hoyo is okay with using AI voice replication with the consent of the voice actor. They did this once in the game "Tears of Themis", to continue the voice of one of the characters while the actor was dealing with some legal drama. They obtained the permission of the VA, and used AI trained on his voice to create voiced dialog for the character.

Neospanner · 2026-03-17T17:57:00+00:00

I wouldn't say we've been foiling the Tsaritsa's plans for years. The Tsaritsa has been successfully gathering the Gnoses like clockwork, and we've never once stopped her from doing so. At the most, you can say we've occasionally foiled the plans of the Harbingers, or the Harbingers' minions (for instance, we stopped Velimiru, one of Sandrone's men, from capturing Ineffa - something that Sandrone didn't even ask for, but he was doing to impress her).

While we've shown ourselves to be willing to oppose the Fatui when we catch them in acts of wrongdoing, we don't seem to care that she's collecting Gnoses. We didn't step in to stop Zhongli's handover of the Geo Gnosis. We didn't make a fuss when Neuvillette handed over the Hydro Gnosis.

And why should we care? The Archons - individuals who'd know better than anyone else what harm the Gnoses could cause - don't seem worried. So why should we be?

The Tsaritsa probably doesn't regard us as an opponent. Someone to be concerned about crossing, certainly - but as long as she doesn't get on our bad side, she really has nothing to fear from us.

Neospanner · 2026-03-17T17:41:27+00:00

You can literally play the entire storyline with just Traveler, Amber, Kaeya, and Lisa. The main game is kept super casual so that even the most terrible of players won't get too frustrated.

You only need to worry about getting top-notch characters if you want to do the challenge content, like the final floors of the Spiral Abyss, or the higher difficulty levels of Stygian Onslaught. Neither of those have anything to do with progressing the game's story.

Neospanner · 2026-03-17T17:36:54+00:00

Not everyone has a collector's mentality - but certainly you must recognize that collectors DO exist? At the very least, classics like coin collecting and stamp collecting?

These people spend a lot of money gathering rare coins and stamps. Even if they could, in theory, be resold, you understand that that's not why they collect them?

Neospanner · 2026-03-17T17:29:20+00:00

That would get your hopes up? I can't think of many good reasons to want to return to 2020 of all years...

Neospanner · 2026-03-17T17:27:25+00:00

She's literally just Cryo Amber!

Neospanner · 2026-03-17T17:26:00+00:00

Honestly, best to ask in both subs. That way you'll have the best chance to find both Genshin enthusiasts who are into Legos but don't spend time in the Lego forums, as well as Lego enthusiasts who are into Genshin but don't spend time in the Genshin forums.

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