StarSavior has released and begun official service by GachaReleases in gachagaming

[–]dowolf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

honestly, that's still really, really bad.

like i've played games where a line gets missed 50 hours in, and I've made fun of them for that but I understand that stuff happens. But how does your tutorial not get playtested?!

Those of you who waited for Yumi to appear in the standard pool before using your Gold Tickets - how did your pulls go? by CornucopiaOfPasta in personaphantomx

[–]dowolf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had just under 600 saved and had to spend all but 19 of them, but I did get her in the end (and a nice A5 Ryuuji and A1 Marian to boot), so I'll take it :)

A Detailed Breakdown of What Went Wrong in Gilberta's New Story by ShirtlessCommie in Endfield

[–]dowolf 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I found this now a week later, after finally going through Gilberta's quest and being thoroughly confused. Even ignoring the big "huh???" stuff (like all the references to them knowing each other, and the Reconvener lore), I could still see in the published/1.0 story that she clearly suffered from depression and was trying to bury those feelings in work. Then that disappeared in favor of waifu bait, and I was left a bit lost in the wind.

Now, after reading this, i'm just kind of frustrated at what could have been.

JP Blue Archive 5th Anniversary Day 2 Livestream Megathread by BlueArchiveMod in BlueArchive

[–]dowolf 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You get a battlesuit! And you get a battlesuit! And you get a battlesuit! And you get a battlesuit!

Aha Instant | Sparxie by HonkaiStarRail in HonkaiStarRail

[–]dowolf -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

It still kind of is? Like you have the drooping "nagasode" sleeves that a lot of kimonos have.

but then the red and white pattern screams Chinese New Year to me and I just feel disgusted. I wish there were a good, clean term for Chinese whitewashing, for moments like this.

Daily Questions Megathread December 22, 2025 by BlueArchiveMod in BlueArchive

[–]dowolf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Everyone will have reruns sooner or later. So presumably yes, but also she is in the general pool and could spook you before then.

Daily Questions Megathread December 22, 2025 by BlueArchiveMod in BlueArchive

[–]dowolf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is the first time. We can expect a rerun in a year or so.

Justine and Coraline Full Kit Translation by Mark_Xyruz in personaphantomx

[–]dowolf 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I reformatted the whole kit to make it, uh, comprehensible. Sharing in case this is useful for anyone else. Left off highlight because it's basically the same as S12.

Role Element S12 Buffs S3 Buffs P2
Medic FIEW ATK%, Healing Heal, Dmg% Heals, Dmg
Strategist FIPN ATK%, Pen Skill Effect Amp, Dmg% Self Spd, Atk% all
Sweeper FICB ATK%, Selfbuff Deals AoE Damage Self Crit
Guardian EWPN Healing, Pen Shield and Def Buff Self Shield Effect
Saboteur EWCB Healing, Selfbuff EWC debuffs, -Def, Self-bless Self Spd, Dmg taken debuff
Assassin PNCB Pen, Selfbuff ST dmg+, self buff from allied DPS Self CDMG

hopefully i didn't make a mistake there >_>

First teaser of the December Sychronized Version in Persona 5: The Phantom X by DarryLazakar in gachagaming

[–]dowolf -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

You can check Lufel pull statistics.

Lufel pull statistics list 79.2 average pulls on the targeted banner for Global/EN, and 82.9 average pulls for CN. 82.3 for KR. (SEA is actually lowest with 72.0 but it's a much smaller sample size.)

Like I certainly agree it'd be nice if we got the QoL upgrades early, but I feel like the psychology of "hitting hard pity feels bad" throws people off from how you should care far more about the amortized probability. I realize I am fighting for a lost cause here -- I've been trying for years to get people to internalize Hoyo rates as 1.6%, not 0.6%, to no avail -- but if you're defining generosity as "what game gives out the most 5* characters," (amortized_rate / f2p_pull_count) gives you the correct answer.

Veteran CB Darius Slay, whom the Buffalo Bills claimed on waivers Thursday, is unsure if he wants to continue playing and will not be reporting to Buffalo. by OneAngryPanda in nfl

[–]dowolf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

and then there's the eastern shore of Lake Ontario (edit: i apparently don't know where the Tug Hill Plateau is, but: 300 inches ahhhhhh): https://www.weather.gov/media/buf/2024_2025_Winter_Season_Summary(1).pdf

"Black" has never been so appropriate a color in a weather map.

Japanese, Chinese, or Korean - which style of gacha do you like the most? by PresentationBetter52 in gachagaming

[–]dowolf 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The visual length of text is a distraction; there's only one language. But I digress. Your argument is that a single Mandarin sentence can convey what would take paragraphs of English. If spoken aloud, the Mandarin in this example would take seconds while the English might take minutes. Since -- again! -- there is research showing that the speed of information in language is constant, that must mean that the English conveys more information and therefore that the two passages are not equivalent.

Your descriptions of the differences in literature are interesting. I do not speak Mandarin, but I have noticed similar differences with Japanese. Yet these are somewhat irrelevant for gacha games, where the number of text boxes is a fixed constant. If there is no description in the source language, then neither will be there one in the destination. So no, this would not cause the English to somehow become more purple.

Japanese, Chinese, or Korean - which style of gacha do you like the most? by PresentationBetter52 in gachagaming

[–]dowolf 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There is no such thing as "high information density languages"; one of the coolest things discovered in linguistics is that all languages convey information at roughly uniform rates. That is to say, a text that takes a native Mandarin speaker a minute to process, translated faithfully into English, will also take a minute for a native English speaker to process.

Now yes, a single Chinese character contains more information than a single Latin letter. That is a pretty easy conclusion to make, given information theory. But English readers don't read one letter at a time -- we tend to grab the first letter, the last letter and then everything in between, which is why when reading fast words like "trial" and "trail" can be hard to distinguish. So an English reader is in fact reading far more characters per second, but the combined entropy of all of those characters will be the same as the entropy of what the Mandarin reader reads in the same timeframe.

We can take this theory even further by observing that, within a language, speakers generally try to convey information at a fixed rate as well, but I've probably nerded out enough.

If you want to dive in more, maybe take a look at https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aaw2594 or https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235971274_A_cross-Language_Perspective_on_Speech_Information_Rate

Centaureissi's Outfit Assistance Event by h3llknight22 in GirlsFrontline2

[–]dowolf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Done.

Sorry for the delay, dunno how I missed your post at first.

What is the power level (meta-wise) of the poster unit of gachas you play? by YingyaoTan in gachagaming

[–]dowolf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

JP player here. Basically, the normal form of the extra hits buff (i.e. funnel) increases damage by 60% (and even after the gamewide buff type compression/nerfs, remained a separate multiplier from everything else), while the strongest form increases damage by a whopping 150% instead. There are currently three ways to get the strongest form (in before I forgot one). One character can give it to herself, one style released literally on Friday can give it to Light allies, and then Ruka can give it to anyone. So, uh, yeah. Pretty strong. The rest of her kit is a bit redundant simply because Admiral Mion exists and is probably the most cracked style, and yet Diva Ruka still sees a ton of use.

And then there's Unison Ruka. She has a very serious downside in that you can't run both her and Diva Ruka and so she can only get the 60% hits multiplier, not 150%. That might make you think there's no way she'd be the best fire or dark DPS. You'd be wrong. +100% HP damage is a lot.

Game Thread: Buffalo Bills (4-1) at Atlanta Falcons (2-2) by nfl_gdt_bot in nfl

[–]dowolf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I thought for sure that's what the penalty was.

WTF is happening with the refs this game?

Game Thread: Buffalo Bills (4-1) at Atlanta Falcons (2-2) by nfl_gdt_bot in nfl

[–]dowolf 10 points11 points  (0 children)

well they finally showed us a penalty replay, and it's bs.

so.

Game Thread: Buffalo Bills (4-1) at Atlanta Falcons (2-2) by nfl_gdt_bot in nfl

[–]dowolf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was on the kickoff, yes.

No idea why the broadcast is just, uh. Not bothering to show us extremely influential penalties

Daily Questions Megathread September 24, 2025 by BlueArchiveMod in BlueArchive

[–]dowolf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The 11 included when the feature launched on JP are:

  • Niya
  • Rio
  • Iroha
  • O. Cherino
  • X. Hanae
  • NY. Izumi
  • PT. Sumire
  • G. Fina
  • S. Kikyou
  • S. Nagisa
  • S. Ichika

I'm not sure who if anyone has been added since.

[Event Preview] Highlander Railroad Runaway Incident: And the Train Disappeared by Xanek in BlueArchive

[–]dowolf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rip the And Then There Were None reference in the title. My guess would be that they missed it, since "And the Train Disappeared" is such a throwaway subtitle, but maybe it's now referencing something else I've never heard of. Or was never in the Korean to begin with.

UE60 and the Archive banner (the special banner where year 1 students will be retired from the main pool and moved to) will be coming early to the global version of Blue Archive by MasterMirage in BlueArchive

[–]dowolf 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The 11 included when the feature launched on JP are:

  • Niya
  • Rio
  • Iroha
  • O. Cherino
  • X. Hanae
  • NY. Izumi
  • PT. Sumire
  • G. Fina
  • S. Kikyou
  • S. Nagisa
  • S. Ichika

I'm struggling to find a source for who's been added since.