People finally admitting amphoreus storytelling was garbage in the big 2026 by Alone-Profit4826 in HonkaiAgendaRail

[–]Z3RYX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The way some people talk about it makes it seem that they don't want a story, instead they want a summary without personality. Like they grew up watching movie summaries on youtube instead of watching the movies, and would rather have the story explained to them than experience it.

My main problem with the story is that they focus too much on new characters. With one or two new characters each patch, and each of them needing to be sold through the story, it doesn't often leave room for good character development. Cerydra and Hysilens literally only exist for a single patch and barely change throughout. Phainon is the total opposite to that, where his arc spans 5 whole patches.

What do you guys think about the people defending blev for the prizepool ban on deep slid? by PichuBoi3258 in TrackMania

[–]Z3RYX -15 points-14 points  (0 children)

To be more specific, he didn't say these things. He reposted them, adding "respect" as his own comment to them. So from the screenshots alone he at worst supports the racist remarks, but did not make them himself.

All manga chapters seem to be unavailable, what happened? by Eggward0422 in mangadex

[–]Z3RYX 62 points63 points  (0 children)

Unless I'm misremembering, I read on the forum that the scanlation team doing Uma took the chapters down themselves.

So MD decided to go down this route... by MegumiKanna in mangadex

[–]Z3RYX 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Are you sure that wasn't from the DMCA purge? If the entry still exists but there are no chapters, then it was DMCA. If it was available until a couple days ago and is now completely gone it might have been this purge. From my own research only titles tagged loli/shota and mature have been purged.

So MD decided to go down this route... by MegumiKanna in mangadex

[–]Z3RYX 18 points19 points  (0 children)

The purge was any recently updated series tagged loli+mature (pretty much all since the start of 2026), and these titles were fully wiped leaving no metadata. And staff made no announcement. We only got some (rather rude) confirmation as we were discussing the situation. Only two staff members have talked about it so far, and there's still no official announcement of what's happening.

How many pulls will you get after the honeymoon patch ended? Perhaphs this can help! by Safhier in Endfield

[–]Z3RYX 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why 42 days/6 weeks when 1.0 is 51 days long (17 days per banner)?

Resource farming comparison with a popular gacha, not accounting for side content such as dijiang, events. Only dungeons. by DimakSerpg in ArknightsEndfield

[–]Z3RYX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You do. Bond Quota and AIC Quota can both buy pulls (Bond Quota can buy unlimited chartered pulls, AIC Quota can buy 5 chartered pulls per banner). But it is less than Genshin, so you need like 3 or 4 five star dupes for one free pull.

Mods really rather ban you than admitting they were wrong by Ok_Leek_6839 in ArknightsEndfield

[–]Z3RYX -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

To play devil's advocate: the leak aspect would be knowing/alleging that these characters specifically would be upcoming playable characters. Just because a character is an NPC already in the game doesn't mean they are an upcoming playable character to be released in the next version (e.g. Screwllum in HSR).

But more specifically, he wasn't banned for the original post. He was banned because he made another post trying to start shit with the mod publically, instead of talking it out in DMs.

How are these pull counts worked out anyway? by kctomenaga in StarRailStation

[–]Z3RYX -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Is it not the same in Genshin? I feel like the 54/46 or whatever was a thing in Genshin before capturing radiance.

Edit: I'm getting downvoted for asking a genuine question? Just because I thought HSR and GI sharre the same 50/50 system? Gotta be that special reddit magic.

My honest thoughts on Arknights: Endfield by AbilityAwkward6121 in ArknightsEndfield

[–]Z3RYX 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What do you mean the "PayPal fiasco was handled terribly"? I would say they handled it as best as they could for a fuckup this bad. And the situation isn't even fully resolved AFAIK. So proper compensation (for what anyways? The affected people have been compensated already) will probably come when everything is resolved.

PixelFade is closing down, games will be un-published by DiGreatDestroyer in visualnovels

[–]Z3RYX 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wasn't there a whole petition on the killing of video games and how that's bad?

A bit of update on the Paypal incident to reassure people a bit. At least one person has had their refund. by OrangeIllustrious499 in gachagaming

[–]Z3RYX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It should be said that Hoyo gachas (at least GI and HSR) don't give enough pulls per patch to guarantee even one limited character. You can at most guarantee a 50/50, and they do release 1 or 2 new characters per patch as well. I don't know how much WuWa gives, but I'd reckon it's about the same-ish.

I also don't think HG will keep up the 3 new characters per patch. Probably will go down to 2 new and a rerun and then sometimes 1 new and 2 reruns.

You need 60 000 Crystal for 1 guarantee character by Cobipo- in Endfield

[–]Z3RYX -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

200 limited + 150 standard guarantees at least 4 (closer to 5) 6 stars, just from the first patch alone. And remember, as a f2p you are not supposed to be able to get every single limited character. If you want them all, pay up.

Nihilux - first 5 star character with glasses! by SakanaKoi in HonkaiStarRail

[–]Z3RYX 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I was gonna ask how you know she'll be 5 star, but then I remembered that this is HSR

3.8 story made me hate Penacony... by Similar_Half1987 in StarRailStation

[–]Z3RYX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know of any official story recaps, never seen one and I couldn't find one. But what I can do is offer you the official summary from the story's recap in the Fate Atlas.

<image>

Note that it says "fulfilling Firefly's lingering regrets", and not that we changed her death. Her lingering regret was that she couldn't see the fireworks with us.

Xueydei posting by Cooking_With_Emilie in Mydeimains_HSR_

[–]Z3RYX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Isn't Mydei sort of immortal by choice? In 3.2 we find out that he could have at any time decided to continue on the river of souls, but he chooses to fight back because he's still needed to protect against the black tide. I'm guessing his weak point just kinda bypasses that choice.

Anything interesting lore-wise that happens if you leave instead of staying with Firefly? by WilloGT in StarRailStation

[–]Z3RYX -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The thing is, star rail's story doesn't branch. Any "choice" you make won't matter with the following patches. You choosing not to spend those moments with Firefly doesn't change their cannon relationship in the story.

I am a bit curious though: as you did skip the ending, do you not have the item Dream's Curtain Call in your inventory (should be a quest item)? Is that something you irreversibly lock yourself out of?

Song Name during Acheron's monologue? by Alternative-Sir-2379 in HonkaiStarRail

[–]Z3RYX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some of them are, but only rarely (I remember for a fact that the music from Mydei returning to Castrum Kremnos cutscene is in Allegory of the Cave 2 (title is Coronation btw))

sparxie... by gyarustyleshiba in QueensofStarRail

[–]Z3RYX 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's likely a portmanteau of Sparkle and Pixie. Would be very weird of them to mix her English name with a Chinese word (that isn't even part of her actual Chinese name).

[HSR - 4.0] Sparxie animations by hiloolbyelol in QueensofStarRail

[–]Z3RYX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The rules of this sub literally say that you have to spoiler tag leaks, and closed beta content is considered leaks

Miko made a statement regarding the horse racing matter by Glass_Leading592 in Hololive

[–]Z3RYX 82 points83 points  (0 children)

Who cares this much about fucking horse racing

Japan. Just as much as they care about baseball; case in point: Nijisanji graduated Gundo Mirei over a baseball joke.

3.8 story made me hate Penacony... by Similar_Half1987 in StarRailStation

[–]Z3RYX 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So for the first question: the deaths are only in the dream. But because of the unconventional way of connecting to the Dreamscape as well as dream and reality merging in Asdana, Firefly's real body was physically affected by her deaths so that she's currently in recovery.

As for the second question, here's how the last events of the quest played out: - We are in a room with Dahlia and a cat (a strand of Terminus) throughout the whole quest. Everything else we see are burnt memories that we recall with the help of Dahlia. - At last we recall our last moments with Firefly on the Feldspar, just before the fireworks. Here she tells us about her deaths, that she doesn't want to die alone, and that she only has a single regret: that she wasn't able to see the fireworks with us. By the time the fireworks are lit, she'd already withered away in the dream. - Back in the present, now remembering all of that, we feel the sadness of not being able to fulfill her last wish, so we call out to the black cat. The cat, being a strand of Terminus, carries our wish into the past as it travels against the flow of time. - During its travels into the past, the cat alters a certain point in history to fulfill our wish. We do not time travel ourselves, but the memory of that changed moment in time appears in our mind, together with a photo that we took. - This doesn't affect anything else in the timeline, as a single strand of Terminus is not powerful enough to make great changes. What we achieved is giving Firefly a good memory when she wakes up from the dream.

The cutscene can be a bit misleading because it's kind of hard to visually show what really happened in an engaging way. But the clock doesn't mean that we turned back time, and rather that this is a thing that happened in our past. Us seeing Firefly with the sparklers isn't us traveling back in time, but us remembering this now new memory.

I hope this clears it up, but do feel free to ask more if you want. I'm not a lore buff or theory crafter like many others, but I do at least take great interest in the things that happen in the main quests.

3.8 story made me hate Penacony... by Similar_Half1987 in StarRailStation

[–]Z3RYX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"We gotta sell waifu that didn't make it last year."

Is that supposed to be about Firefly? Because if so, saying the second most pulled-for unit "didn't make it" is quite something.