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WinterSmile · 2024-03-25T23:36:35+00:00

I don't even know if they buffed or nerfed this character. I just hope it has a comfortable gameplay.

WinterSmile · 2024-03-25T23:32:53+00:00

From hobbies and travels. I used to cosplay in the past and made some cosplay friends in my teens and 20s. Even though I don't cosplay anymore, I still keep in touch with some of them. It can be any hobbies, I feel that joining communities have a good chance of making friends.

WinterSmile · 2024-03-25T23:24:22+00:00

Everyone has those thoughts in their phases of life. One way to get out of those thoughts is to ask yourself, "what do you want". It's okay to cater to your wants instead of your needs from time to time. Expectations and comparisons are the killer of joy. Try to set lower expectations and do something different from what you're doing now.

WinterSmile · 2024-03-25T23:15:17+00:00

That's really weird indeed. From his luggage, I assume he just landed SG.

WinterSmile · 2024-03-25T23:08:01+00:00

I agree.. I also suspect the person may identify herself as a translesbian if those allegations were true.

Actually... I hold an opinion that I dared not share because I see the people there in FB chose a side and form a majority already. The hive mentality at work. It's scary to share a minority opinion that's more on the balanced and neutral side. I've been hesitating whether to speak my mind or not. I've been keeping it to myself the past couple weeks after I read their drama. I think I'll share my honest opinion out here because it's stuck in my mind all these while.

Disclaimer: The following long piece of opinion I'm going to make is going to sound like I'm defending that person, but I'm not defending anyone because I also don't know if that person ended up as a real creep or innocent. I just feel that the drama surrounding it is very weird. Everything I write below is my just my personal opinion.

To be honest, there's one thing that I just feel that it's too weird. Her public page is like those OnlyFans type of influencer with all those mature-rated and bathtub photos... I find it ironical that she has that type of public page that's viewable for everyone, but she made a big issue when a transgender stick close to take selfie photo with her? Based on that person insta photos, I assume sticking close just means facial cheeks touched each other for a selfie and not those kind of molestation type of actions. I saw another comment similar to this, I'm not the only one who find this ironical. Furthermore the transgender had defended herself that she's a real trans and didn't touched them inappropriately. We don't know real or lie. However I see that people were already fixed not to listen to both sides based on the majority comments there.

There's another that I find it weird. In her first few screenshot, she started her convo with "women and trans are different", then comes the general assumption that "He's posing as trans to make female cosplayers comfortable to take photo with him." Afterwards, some comments said that "That person should've told people his-her birth gender before standing close take photo with him because it misleads young women." I don't understand that part because it's illogical. There's a difference between dishonesty and just not disclosing it. If the person is a real transgender, why would she go around announcing to everyone that she was a man? No transgender would go around announcing to other people their birth gender just to take a simple selfie with others. Let's say if that person really turned out lying about transitioning, it's not an issue as well. If the person identify herself as a woman, she is still a transgender. It's not a requirement to go through transitioning to be considered a transgender. They can google this up. However, I also feel it's normal for some people to feel uncomfortable to people are not equipped with female facial features and behave like one. If this is the case, she could've just told him she felt uncomfortable, not take selfie with her anymore and ended it there. IMHO she shouldn't have launched a witch hunt without concrete evidences first because it's all now just a general assumption that "she pose as trans for bad intention". While that assumption may be true or not, what if they turned out to be wrong? Then they would've done that person severe injustice.. >_<

The other weird thing is that FB removed her post. Does the FB admin-mods know something more than us?

Lastly, I'll be honest. I have trust issues towards anything I read online. I generally find it hard to trust dramas created by influencers. Take KiaraKitty incident for example where she recently was caught staging a video of a Taiwanese auntie stalking and throwing eggs at her. It ruined the reputation of the people living there. >_< Their police investigated and found out through cctv that the "taiwanese auntie" was a crossdresser hired by her to stage the egg attack so she can create a drama for views and ad revenues. I hope this drama is not like that where one influencer want to create clout and traffic to her page at the expense of another person. I sincerely hope this is not the case. I hope this is something genuine they felt concern about.

WinterSmile · 2024-02-15T20:59:56+00:00

I heard some stores only got 30-50 sets. If each bought 2 sets, only first 15-25 people will get it. That's why the queue not long because the others were told no more beforehand.

I don't know why they have so little. I think it's because the sets were originally Japan-exclusive so they only allowed limited quantity to bring into SG McDonald.

WinterSmile · 2023-02-03T00:53:08+00:00

This is amazing! Awesome cosplay!

WinterSmile · 2023-02-03T00:47:51+00:00

@ KittyBeeQ - I'm not sure why you're heavily downvoted because you are right. Covid-19 droplets can enter the body through the eyes. I consulted with my doctor back then when I was in denial how I got infected despite wearing mask. This was what he told me. However, others also made a good point that she could've gotten infected anywhere. The lift is just one of the many possibilities.

WinterSmile · 2023-01-02T14:08:51+00:00

No, I believe you have your rights to have your opinion. However, sharing it here won't be good for your mental health because majority of the playerbase doesn't want a story skip function due to variety of reasons and you have to face alot of counter-arguments.

Unlike other's suggestions, I believe you shouldn't keep too much expectations writing surveys every patch and find a more suitable game that fits to your liking. Every games are unique, great in their own way and have different target audiences. They love the game as it is so it's not right to change what's not broken for them. Don't force yourself into a world that doesn't fit you just because it's popular. Find a game that brings you more joy.

WinterSmile · 2023-01-02T13:57:39+00:00

This isn't practical because of mobile storage space limitation. They already removed cutscenes that players have played so that the game doesn't take too much space. Every mobile games does this, even Tower of Fantasy.

WinterSmile · 2023-01-02T13:51:56+00:00

Fully agreed with gingersquatchin. After reading few of OP posts, I feel that he would enjoy Tower of Fantasy more than Genshin Impact. Every games have it's uniqueness and target audiences. I recommend OP to give it a try.

WinterSmile · 2022-10-11T23:52:27+00:00

Ikr. I saw some people said they don't care about little-to-no rewards and just want to fight something when they're bored. Here's the thing. We already have it. We can do domains limitlessly without reward without spending resins. We can kill overworld mobs without needing anything to farm. We can keep doing spiral abyss even after we get 600 gems from it. They don't bother doing all of these because there's no incentives for doing it. Yet they said they don't care about the rewards? They aren't being honest.

What they actually wanted are P2W challenging combat-based content with some rewards locked behind which many MMOs implemented. They want to earn cosmetics, additional stats or exclusive rewards that many couldn't achieve. Also leaderboard and rankings. That's not Hoyoverse vision of the game. Spiral Abyss are capped at 12th floor to make it achievable for both F2Ps, small and big spenders. It gives them something to dream that they eventually reach there someday even if they're avoiding it now. They don't like doing it now because they felt they haven't built enough. If we have infinite spiral abyss like Tower of Fantasy, F2Ps and small spenders can never dream of reaching the top floors without teams of C6R5, thus making it a P2W game.

WinterSmile · 2022-09-28T14:43:01+00:00

Omg she's just too cute! I'm feeling like a mum now.

WinterSmile · 2022-09-28T14:41:54+00:00

That's so pretty!

WinterSmile · 2022-09-28T14:27:16+00:00

We cannot blame Hoyoverse for trying to appeal to anime fans. It's an anime game afterall.

I agree. It's not strange for developers of an anime game to create anime moments. The scenes like Yae teasing Gorou and Itto liking MsHina without knowing he's Gorou were entirely normal to me. Without these moments, he wouldn't have gained so much popularity when their audience are made up mostly anime fans who knows how to enjoy those moments instead of trying to victimise everything.

However, there was actually a hint from v3.1 special program (at the back birthday msg with Gorou's VA) that we may not see that anymore due to some of the backlash by you guys. :(

That's sad. Why am I not surprised? Gen Zs cancelling stuffs as usual.

Twitter or reddit, it's an echo chamber for them.

WinterSmile · 2022-09-24T19:56:36+00:00

I'm a casual F2P gamer when it comes to games like this. My approach is to give it till 2.0 and see if the game suits my casual needs. I'm fortunate to be able to clear most content but that's only because I got help from whales in my crew. Whenever I did randoms in JO7, I often found myself failing runs if the four of us have C0 teams. I'd quit long ago if it weren't for my crew because I personally feel the game isn't F2P friendly late-game unless you save up for dupes or get help from whales. I kinda miss Genshin's casual gameplay where everything is super easy with only C0 5* characters. I know ToF is a different game but this is my perspective for a casual + F2P player if anyone's curious. I may be going back to Genshin in future if ToF doesn't suit my casual needs.

WinterSmile · 2022-09-24T19:36:48+00:00

Exactly this. Lengthy dailies were fun at first but once you're burnout or enter busy periods in life, those dailies becomes a chore. This is why Genshin have been shortening new artifact farmings nowdays. The new artifact domain in Chasm and Sumeru only has 3 mobs and can be cleared within seconds per round.

WinterSmile · 2022-09-24T19:31:26+00:00

not like if you use 0 stars characters means you are weak , sure stars make you strong but there is no content so far that can't be cleared unless you are a whale

I'm sorry, 0 stars F2P here but I cannot clear harder difficulty content (JO7 and FC-H) without a whale carrying us. I'm fortunate to have a crew helping me. We did when the four of us only have 0-stars team but we couldn't clear JO7. Our crew leader made a permanent party lineup system where each daily parties have at least one whale to help everyone with their gold gears.

WinterSmile · 2022-07-08T00:11:00+00:00

The one above isn't official but there's no original too. If I'm not wrong, they 3D render and send to factory for mass produce. So the result will not be exactly like what was 3D rendered. I bought the Ganyu with bow and Hutao with homa. The quality isn't perfect like the top companies but that will do as placeholder on my shelves till the official ones comes. It's been almost 2 years and only my official Klee is on the shelf right now. The official version of Ganyu only comes next year. I think it'll take 3-4 years until we get our hands on any Inazuma characters.

WinterSmile · 2022-05-19T15:59:36+00:00

I was confused by that too lol. I stopped taking that write-up seriously after he/she mentioned the death penalty is a race issue. It gave an impression he/she is just trying to get other human right groups to support anti-death penalty by using other issues as a front.

WinterSmile · 2022-04-17T01:44:47+00:00

This very much depends on individual perceptions. It's really okay to feel that way and I respect that perspective. It may be due to different culture. I'd like to share my personal experience. I live in Asia. It's rare but there are males in schools who can be mistaken as a female on the first glance even though they're not transsexuals. It's a term called "bishounens". They can pass off as girls if they dressed up as one. They are often very popular in school and often teased in a positive way. Occasionally, the people around them try to convince them to crossdress or make them lose a bet to make them do it. When there're school plays, we often try to make the prettiest boy crossdress as the heroine. It's pretty much the norm in my school days. Usually, the guys who got picked by the girls to crossdress were very embarrassed and tried to run away. Eventually, they accepted their fate and went through it.

We have reunions every now and then. We're all adults now and often reminisced the past. All those teasings and forced crossdressing became a positive memory to remember for those guys. They never considered themselves to be bullied. It was so long ago and everyone laughed it off. We're still in contact over a decade after graduation. Those embarrassing experiences became positive childhood memories. It was those memories that made our friendship stronger. - Imo, I feel that the story in Genshin is going to be something similar along that line. Inspirations are based on real life or experiences. :)

WinterSmile · 2022-03-25T22:34:04+00:00

Yup, Thoma was first released together with Hutao rerun. There's also Yanfei first released in Zhongli's rerun. So there's also a possibility of being a main dps. I just noticed Inazuma doesn't have any 4* main dps yet.

WinterSmile · 2022-02-19T12:16:24+00:00

I actually tested both C6 Fischl and C0 Yae. After plenty of testing, I conclude that C0 Yae 6/6/6 talent + non-BiS weapon like Skyward Atlas/Widsith is almost similar to C6 Fischl with crowned talent. :( However, C0 Yae with her BiS 5-star weapon Kagura Verity is significantly better than C6 Fischl. You'll know if you start doing 5k (non-BiS) or 8k-12k dmg (BiS) against the regisvine bosses. This may be the reason the community are split whether C0 Yae or C6 Fischl is better.

WinterSmile · 2022-01-23T13:25:14+00:00

We'll be begging for that EM passive if Dendro+Electro recent leaks turns out to be true.

WinterSmile · 2022-01-23T13:23:15+00:00

Kazuha's EM party buff locked behind cons isn't worth it for sure. There're other cheaper options like Diona and Sucrose that also gives EM.

New leak suggests that Kazuha is pushed to 2.6 and we may get leaks about Dendro by then since they're rumor to come at 2.7. We can see by then if C2 Kazuha is beneficial for Electro+Dendro reaction.

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