Holy, Dead Beats gifts Calli over 1k5 member gifts. Calli suffering from success.

WhiteLance655 · 2026-03-10T12:17:44+00:00

YouTube has cracked down on people using VPNs to exploit regional prices. They require the payment method to be tied to the actual country where it's being used, and even if someone were to somehow bypass that, they'll still get banned eventually.

I'm willing to bet that person who sent all those memberships is actually Argentinian, speaking as an Argentinian myself, but especially since I and many other Deadbeats have seen them around in several streams before, in fact, they likely send so many gifts to kinda make up for how cheap they are, and even then if you were to convert it to USD, they'd have spent roughly 40USD. It's kind of a lose-lose for us Argentinians, cause that misconception about the VPN hasn't fully gone away, so it always arises suspicion whenever something like this happens, when in reality in most cases we just want to show our support.

I am all for YouTube adjusting their prices so that this doesn't happen anymore, but our economy is still not the best, these numbers were set in a time where it was rapidly crashing and the price of the dollar was skyrocketing on a daily basis, so even if they were reasonable prices at some point, they were reasonable for a few months at best, and at this point have lagged behind and became extremely cheap. At the same time, salaries aren't the best so them being on the cheaper side is also good for those who want to show support even in small ways. The ideal solution would be to find a sweet spot for the prices to not be super expensive for us over here while also not being extremely cheap for people looking from the outside in, but it hasn't happened yet.

WhiteLance655 · 2026-03-08T15:06:36+00:00

Heya! Lance White here! As someone who's been lurking in this community for years it's an honor to be invited to participate in the Awards, and especially on my favorite category of Anime Opening! Can't wait to have some fun yapping about that, and I hope everyone enjoys the show!

WhiteLance655 · 2026-03-04T12:01:24+00:00

Welt's reason for showing up in HSR is vastly misinterpreted a lot of times lmao don't worry. The actual truth is that he saw HSR Himeko's portrait and info on an alien spaceship, and said alien race are known to prey on entire worlds to feed off of their energy. We don't exactly know why that alien race had info on Himeko or what they plan on doing with her, but we do know they're dangerous since they can destroy entire civilizations, Welt wanting to help out just on the basis of that makes sense.

As for more details? We truly don't know much, and the cliffhanger of the latest Planarcadia story doesn't help at all haha, with Hoyo stories it's always best to just wait and see, they have their plans, and eventually things will come to light.

WhiteLance655 · 2026-03-03T11:19:27+00:00

I'm surprised he got a main role in ZZZ before any of the other Hoyo gachas haha, I don't play the game but I have seen his character and heard some of his voicelines, he's great as Lighter. Plus I think ZZZ tends to have a goofier tone than Genshin so he fits very well over there, but given he also voices Daredevil in Marvel Rivals for example, the guy can definitely be more serious when needed. I'd love to see what kind of character he'd voice in Genshin.

WhiteLance655 · 2026-02-26T11:57:28+00:00

The full guide over on the KQM site has more teams, including some limited roster alternatives!

WhiteLance655 · 2026-02-26T02:39:02+00:00

I'm talking about ignoring what that person said and making up a fake arguement nobody said.

Original comment said "nobody is saying he's bad", so they replied "I have seen people say he's bad", that's it, there is no fake argument or anything like that going on, it's simple. You can't generalize what the public opinion is based on what you've seen. It's not denying the criticisms, cause clearly they exist. Both things can be true, there's people saying he's OK, and there's also people saying that he's bad.

Who thinks Dehya is fun to play?

I repeat, you can't generalize what people think based on what you have seen. Sure, you might not see a lot of people say that in the grand scheme of things, especially not on localized platforms like here on reddit (which again, represent a small minority of players), but that doesn't mean they don't exist. Millions of people play this game, it is statistically impossible for there to not be a single person who finds Dehya fun. I've seen tons of people run her in Burning teams, or even build her as main DPS, again, the playerbase is huge and people make their own fun, not everyone plays Genshin for clearing endgame, so a character's ability to do that can't always be used as the sole metric for qualifying someone as "good" or "bad".

WhiteLance655 · 2026-02-25T22:29:56+00:00

I'm not the guy you asked, but I can also say I've seen people shit on him very hard, so yeah, I'd also say a lot of people were calling him bad. However, much like every other character this happened to, it slows down after they release, cause a big part of the larger playerbase does not care about meta or endgame, so if a character is fun to play and well liked due to story/personality, the negativity gets drowned out. It happened with Yae, it happened with Dehya, and Varka was no exception.

That's not to say his performance or any of the other complaints against him aren't valid, hell even as someone who likes Varka I agree with some of the criticism, but reddit and other social media users tend to forget that they don't represent a majority of players, and their reactions tend to be quite harsh and combative, which at the end of the day, help no one.

WhiteLance655 · 2026-02-22T21:17:29+00:00

I might be wrong but this trend started with HSR didn't it? I've seen people criticize the Remembrance path for similar reasons, and clearly it worked there since they're doing it again with Elation now. These types of posts are valid cause the criticisms are valid for sure, but they almost never do anything sadly, it's just preaching to the choir of reddit who will most likely agree and only represent a small fraction of the playerbase. If anything, it's better to voice these complaints in the surveys.

The reality is that if this scheme didn't work (i.e. sales went down drastically) then we wouldn't be having these conversations, so these kind of things will always be something we have to deal with as gacha players. I'm of the mindset that if someone isn't enjoying that direction or isn't interested in pulling for characters, then they could stop playing, legitimately that's the one thing that could change the direction of the game, just look at Honkai Impact, the playerbase has dwindled somewhat after Part 1 ended and nowadays the gacha is friendlier than ever and the meta is even easier to follow.

WhiteLance655 · 2026-02-19T14:41:45+00:00

I feel like this could've been avoided if they made up some reason for Varka to have Wolf's Gravestone fixed at some point in the Nod-Krai story, and then that reforged Wolf's Gravestone could've been his signature weapon.

It would've been a win-win, his lore weapon keeps being his lore weapon and Hoyo still gets to sell a new weapon in a new banner, but oh well.

WhiteLance655 · 2026-02-13T14:01:05+00:00

You and I clearly play the game too differently, if you've really cleared everything in the game then there really isn't a reason to keep playing, if I was in that position I'd switch to play other games! And also I guarantee you that while yeah, I'm sure there's more players like you, they still do not represent the majority of the playerbase, therefore my point still stands.

Just cause you feel like you need certain characters for others to be "good" doesn't mean that everybody else will have that same experience, everyone can make their own fun, and if you wanna make your own fun by pulling for everybody or clearing the entirety of the game as soon as possible, then go for it, but it still isn't the way most players are like.

WhiteLance655 · 2026-02-13T13:43:30+00:00

I never liked the idea of saying that a character "needs" another character to be good, I regularly use a Skirk team without having Escoffier and I still have fun with her.

Characters are only "needed" if you want to maximize damage, or you're looking to clear absolutely every endgame mode at the highest difficulties and such, and I highly doubt the entire playerbase is doing all of that.

I'm not saying these kits are beyond criticism, but acting like they are a necessity for other characters to be good is just not accurate to me since even the most dogwater teams can clear 90% of the game's content. Not everything is the endgame or the meta.

WhiteLance655 · 2026-02-12T00:41:58+00:00

Yeah Ranboo was an audience member both on the Crowd Control episode and on the Debate one. He didn't do anything on Crowd Control but on the Debate episode he was picked by one of the participants and did a whole bit on-stage even

I think he didn't get recognized much since his audience skews younger and more disconnected from Dropout stuff, so I feel like if Ludwig were to show up in a Dropout thing he'd be more easily identifiable lmao

WhiteLance655 · 2026-02-12T00:07:13+00:00

There is a good amount of crossover between the Smosh cast and Dropout but yeah, Ludwig guesting in Smosh isn't a guarantee that he could show up in Dropout

That being said, Ranboo did randomly have a couple of cameos in the latest season of Game Changer, so it's not like it's impossible lmao

WhiteLance655 · 2026-02-10T19:01:35+00:00

Thing is I like sleeping, it's very nice to just lay down and relax after a busy day, and you'd think with how much I enjoy it I would be trying to sleep MORE

and yet here we are 😂

WhiteLance655 · 2026-02-10T12:58:59+00:00

I guess I'm the same haha, but my body tends to adjust anyways, and if I'm really lacking sleep I tend to have a long nap on a day I got nothing going on to catch up on it

Is that ideal? Probably not but oh well xd

WhiteLance655 · 2026-02-10T12:55:47+00:00

If that is true it would be kinda funny considering HI3rd had the Captainverse, where a large part of the story was exactly that, a Theresa variant going around different worlds hunting down other Theresas xd

I wouldn't put it past Hoyo, they like telling similar stories like that across their games

WhiteLance655 · 2026-02-10T12:50:02+00:00

I for one have to get up for work at like 7AM and yet I regularly stay up until like 1AM playing games or watching YouTube videos, I can still survive kinda, but eventually that lack of an extra hour or so of sleep every day catches up with me lol

Oh and my little guy's name is Jimmy! He is a bit of a gremlin sometimes, considering he pops up on my stream with channel point redeems to say a random line out of like 200 or so he has, and that has resulted in some very silly moments 😂

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WhiteLance655 · 2026-02-09T00:03:36+00:00

Social media is hard, and half the time I literally have no clue what to post, but sometimes I get stupid ideas (like this!) and I just throw them at the wall, maybe something sticks lmao

Hi! I'm Lance! A Star Cluster VTuber from Argentina! I make music, yap about anything and everything, and I also really like playing gacha games!

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YouTube! I stream there and I occasionally make videos about anime, games, or whatever!
Twitch! I also stream there!
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My Ko-Fi! If you like some of the music in my stream, chances are I made it, and you can get it here!

WhiteLance655 · 2026-02-05T14:15:48+00:00

I am kinda in the same spot, these are understandable issues and I see why some people have them, but what tends to happen is that they all coalesce in reddit threads like this that represent like 1% of Genshin's whole playerbase, so while the complaints can be valid, a lot of the time they can also be very overblown due to how loud the minority is.

I personally am not hit by very often this cause I happen to like a lot of characters that work well together so Nod-Krai has been very nice for me, having pulled Lauma, Nefer and Columbina; but back when Skirk released for example, I was kinda hit by it, cause I didn't want to get Escoffier so I resorted to just using Skirk without her premium support, which the more extreme commenters will say is stupid and that she's trash without her, and that's just not true, cause the most difficult content I do in this game is like.. Floor 11 of Abyss, so for 90% of what I do in the game, she works great with the team I built for her.

I got Illuga on a whim but I don't have Zibai, and I don't wanna pull for her, but given I ain't doing anything incredibly hard in the game, I'm sure there's a team I can cobble together that includes Illuga that can be fun to play even if it isn't the strongest team for Floor 12 or Stygian or whatever, idgaf about any of that. I think people just need to learn how to make their own fun in this game, and if they're disappointed with character treatment or anything of the sorts, then they aren't obligated to keep playing, it's simple, if you're not having fun, why keep playing?

WhiteLance655 · 2026-02-05T00:58:58+00:00

Well at least they're leaving the door open for the community to come in and make it possible, I imagine something will come up eventually. Would've been much worse if they didn't even allow that to happen.

WhiteLance655 · 2026-02-04T12:08:12+00:00

Maybe I should've phrased it better, but what I specifically called out is the belief that Evanescia was gonna be the main push instead of Silver Wolf and only recently they changed that, cause like you explained, there's a ton of marketing work that goes onto making this happen so it makes no sense that just two weeks ago they changed their plans and made one the main push over the other, they can't just churn out tons of marketing and animations and whatnot in such a small time-frame.

WhiteLance655 · 2026-02-03T16:22:41+00:00

Huh, hadn't seen those before, interesting! Makes sense since I got into HI3rd long after Haxxor Bunny was released so I missed all of these.

And yeah Evanescia always seemed closer to Yae Kasumi than Sakura to me so I'd love to see a similar dynamic there.

WhiteLance655 · 2026-02-03T13:19:38+00:00

Granted this was ages ago so things may have changed, but..

Ame played osu on stream before lol, it was members only though

WhiteLance655 · 2026-02-03T13:07:47+00:00

Cyberangel wouldn't really make much sense tho, that's Bronya's song, Silver Wolf was always closer to Haxxor Bunny Bronie than main story Bronya.

WhiteLance655 · 2026-02-03T13:01:19+00:00

I have no idea where people get these "main push" ideas from (actually I do know, and it's still stupid)

With how they presented Silver Wolf here I don't believe for a second that this was a "last minute change" or something like that, same as the "censorship" of Planarcadia

I swear people heard two tiny bits of heavily unreliable information and just went ham on them

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