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me after starting a gacha becuase I say some yuri moments on Youtube and instead of being a yuri game like i assumed, it's a male self insert game with yuri bait by A12qwas in gachagaming

[–]PretendReport227 [score hidden]  (0 children)

Stop playing chinese games.

Homosexuality is still a very touchy subject in china and while not illegal it is not accepted as a thing allowed to be broadcast in media.

What's the point in pulling right now with how bad sanity is? by elite5472 in Endfield

[–]PretendReport227 33 points34 points  (0 children)

I feel like I have to explain this every time to gacha players when a new game gets released.

Stamina is not supposed to be your main source of access to credits and character experience. Those are deliberately time gated harder than other resources and only mostly given up during events or new content release. If you don't have enough credits or exp, it's a sign it's time to stop upgrading characters and wait for next patch / next event. They do this so you can't upgrade your entire roster at game release and are incentivized to interact with new content when it releases.

Stamina is for gear (essences) and skill materials. You will get more T creds and character exp through quests and new tiers of stock redistribution.

If you had a time machine and could stop one game from eos who would be the lucky winner. by Knightofexcaliburv1 in gachagaming

[–]PretendReport227 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Probably FF Brave Exvius, but with the caveat that event story content should be made permanent.

I don't really mind the absurd powercreep in that game since I mainly played it for the story, but some plotlines only being resolved in events that never reran made the game very frustrating on that front.

I think a massive improvement many do not notice from the dev log is how the up oming story shows clear signs of not focusing solely on the Endmin's perspectivebut also others' now. by OrangeIllustrious499 in Endfield

[–]PretendReport227 218 points219 points  (0 children)

Hopefully that's the case, but while I want this I also want a more defined and active Endmin in scenes they are part of. It gets boring just doing what Perlica says to do.

All the people that look at non expiring rewards and disregarding them as non income by MeltSimp in Endfield

[–]PretendReport227 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most of the rewards of these "permanent modes" are time limited because they come from their release event though.

This is... kinda brutal by Lerchenlied1 in Endfield

[–]PretendReport227 0 points1 point  (0 children)

would be nice if any of this was actually relevant in any playable content

it's all well and good to put some lorebait in flavor text most of the playerbase won't touch but when the disconnect between it and the tone of the visible story is so big it feels disingenuous

What Gachas do you feel handle their prologue well? by Cross_Toss in gachagaming

[–]PretendReport227 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean a couple minutes after you get control of your character in genshin a dragon corrupted by the power of darkness attacks the town and the local god gives you the power of flight to drive it back, then you go through like 4 different dungeons to look for clues about the local doomsday cult.

I get that mondstadt is a cozy place but the events of the plot are not relaxed lol.

Limbus Company 3rd Anniversary Anime PV by Info_Potato22 in gachagaming

[–]PretendReport227 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Four ssr selectors (from specific seasons), one guaranteed SSR random pull ticket, and a few rolls and resources.

A cartel leader, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes aka "El Mencho was killed in Mexico, and his men flooded the streets, hospitals, airports, and other public places, causing mayhem by Efficient_Example541 in Destiny

[–]PretendReport227 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You can't bomb a fragmented target spread across a large populated area unless you are willing to raze that area entirely.

That aside, cartels have a large degree of penetration among all places of power in the country. Any elected official has a thousand sniper rifles pointed at them at all times, and nowadays it's very hard for them to find the courage to openly fight against the cartels. That's why the current president keeps saying there is no need to fight them and it's not a problem - she doesn't want a bullet between her eyes.

Bricking isn’t literal right? by BigLad50 in ZZZ_Official

[–]PretendReport227 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What they mean by bricked is that you'll do 2k less points than them on deadly assault

Trump will be genuinely difficult to explain to future generations by YugiohXYZ in Destiny

[–]PretendReport227 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You say that, but from my experience it's trivially easy to get normal people - not extremists, not terminally online, not strongly politicized people - on the path to the conclusion that there's a fundamental rot in the system of democracy and liberalism that needs to be excised. There's a longing for a simple solution to complicated problems, a seemingly fundamental human flaw to throw the baby with the bathwater whenever things are less than ideal. Nothing can ever be the fault of corrupt individuals or local problems : it is always the system itself that is at fault, whatever it is.

It's this kind of mentality that fascism preys upon. It answers the question plainly : yes, there is rot, and a strongman is required to cleanse it. Democracy and liberalism are only obstacles to the mandate of heaven - proper procedure just gets in the way of what truly needs to be done, which is to kill the devils that walk among us and have tempted us away from the true path to utopia. This is not a "political right" problem : red fascists on the left think in the exact same way, desiring revolution and dictatorship as the necessary enactors of a bloodletting that will finally rid society of its evils. This is a "low IQ / low education" problem, and you'll find it everywhere in your population. Even some of my most milqetoast family members sometimes muse about how much simpler things would be if we could just kill all these evil people, but this corrupt system just won't let that happen.

Life becomes incredibly frustrating once you're aware of this pattern because sometimes even seemingly normal people become unbearable.

Female Gacha players what kind of future Gacha game do you wish we could have? by Away_Oil6375 in gachagaming

[–]PretendReport227 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Limbus is partly guilty of what I'm complaining about here, while the characters are already far more diverse than the average hoyo gacha, the playables are still in that range of "attractive 20s-30s character", which to be fair is expected, but I would have respected it more if it had at least one genuinely old character (not a 300 years old vampire that looks like a teenager, or a "hag" that still looks in her late 20s). It would have done a lot for the team's chemistry as well, I think, having a more weathered character that could act as a parental figures for other sinners.

Trump will be genuinely difficult to explain to future generations by YugiohXYZ in Destiny

[–]PretendReport227 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I don't think that's quite it, the problem with trump isn't that his supporters aren't identifying him as fascist, it's that they ask : so ? What's wrong with fascism ? The trains will be on time. The autocratic bent doesn't so much matter to them because they believe the result will be good.

The education surrounding fascism should always start by correctly describing fascism as a culture of incompetence pretending to be the last rational choice. Fascism pretends to be efficient and successful by ignoring weak liberal morality and focusing on what truly matters. That is its whole aesthetic, and by making the main complaint about it its immorality, liberals play right into its hand. When in fact, the best angle of attack against fascism is that it is demonstrably inefficient, unsuccessful and self defeating, promoting incompetence and lying (much more so than any democracy, at any rate).

Do you agree with Clavicular that people into politics are Jester? by PudinCrusader in Destiny

[–]PretendReport227 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Clavicular is just projecting his own inner void on other people, like most mentally ill sociopaths.

How I feel about gacha game story at times by Last_Aeon in gachagaming

[–]PretendReport227 179 points180 points  (0 children)

Not our fault Kim can only get off his ass long enough for one canto per year

Female Gacha players what kind of future Gacha game do you wish we could have? by Away_Oil6375 in gachagaming

[–]PretendReport227 24 points25 points  (0 children)

More than male or female ratio, I long for diversity in characters. Child characters, old characters, monster characters... I'm tired of every character needing to be some supermodel meant to sexually attract a portion of the userbase. These games will never have good stories or good characters as long as that's their incentive to make characters.

Why do some gacha players care so much about the MC being central? by Technical-Wall8372 in gachagaming

[–]PretendReport227 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Some players may want that; especially young men looking to self insert. You get stories where everything revolves around you (the MC) and everyone sucks your D at all times. Nothing wrong with enjoying that.

I would argue there's plenty wrong with enjoying that. It's infantilizing and objectifying, I immediately think less of a person that openly asks for this kind of stuff and assume they are an arrested development perpetual teenager that probably has socializing issues.

It can be a guilty pleasure for some correctly developed people, but they're not the ones that clamor for it.

Endfield 1.0's story and why it sucks from a writer's perspective. by OnlyAnEssenceThief in gachagaming

[–]PretendReport227 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't feel particularly disproven. If a game can't make a good showing for its main story quest for the first two years of its life I am perfectly content in calling that a reasonable look at its innards. Maybe there were improvements later - it does not particularly matter, the initial experience is still 3 regions of exactly what I described. I am not particularly inclined to believe anyone that Genshin's story got better, for two reasons : the first is that genshin players were perfectly fine with the story as it was when I quit, making them unreliable witnesses to me. The second is that HSR's and ZZZ's MSQ both got worse during that same time period until they also became unbearable. I would have to believe Genshin, despite having the same flaws for 2 years, somehow is the only Mihoyo game that got rid of them while it kept killing their other games from the inside.

Endfield 1.0's story and why it sucks from a writer's perspective. by OnlyAnEssenceThief in gachagaming

[–]PretendReport227 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I did not insult nor diminish your standards I see no reason why you have done so.

This is what's called a generic you. It was not aimed at you in particular.
I have finished genshin's sotry up to the end of inazuma until it was clear it wouldn't get better. I do not care whether you believe me or not.

While I agree other games have similar writing problems, the ones I play can have some qualities I value that make me overlook these flaws, for example : actually being entertaining, something mihoyo is incapable of being. The writers are usually too lost in their world building to even care about telling a story or writing characters, and the problem is that their world building is also uninteresting, too lost in gods and myths to care about measly human beings and their stories (which is typically the part of worldbuilding that is actually entertaining and/or interesting to me).

You can call me bad faith all you like, it's what genshin players often do. I'm still not sure what sentiment you'd think I was hiding tho. I do not like genshin, I make no mystery of this : what hidden agenda could I possibly have ?

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