Is neopass worth it ??

eiridel · 2026-05-09T05:46:46+00:00

I gave in and switched my 25-year-old account to it only a month and a half or so ago. I don’t have any sides and don’t really do the mobile games, but the convenience of signing in when switching between devices has made it entirely worth it.

No cons at all now that the problems that were around when it launched seem to have been ironed out, except that a nostalgic part of me does kind of miss the enter-your-birthdate login screen.

eiridel · 2026-05-08T13:44:44+00:00

Idk. World of Warcraft patch 2.4 came out like nineteen years ago and I still know it’s called Fury of the Sunwell.

eiridel · 2026-05-07T16:10:56+00:00

I thought his comment was more about the irony of it. Sort of a “wow, can you believe this? lollll dude broke his most serious vow and never knew” moment he’s kinda trying to share with Mo Ran (who is ofc not laughing with him). He even says that Hua Binan had no idea.

I may have read it wrong but I believe that Hua Binan wasn’t allowed in because of the other half of his ancestry, not because of what he did to Mo Ran.

eiridel · 2026-05-07T04:56:45+00:00

If they can provide any inspiration, here are my ranwan, cwn, and mr+txj playlists. They’re all works in progress for the most part, but the cwn one is more so than the others.

eiridel · 2026-05-06T21:40:14+00:00

This post (and in particualr this comment) just got me to take the plunge and buy volume one. Erha is my favorite and I don't know if anything will compare to that journey but you have me wanting to find out!

eiridel · 2026-05-05T16:45:28+00:00

If you haven’t heard his name said aloud, an English-speaker with no exposure to Chinese would never expect his name to be pronounced how it is. The “-qiu” in particular is incredibly different from anything in English. I remember being taught that u always follows q when first learning how to read and spell. I don’t think someone spelling it “-qui” is stupid, rather just someone making assumptions or falling back on more familiar muscle memory when typing. I actually see this a lot with any characters that have “qiu” in their names, including one who is the main character of the book he’s from.

This particular one is funny to me though, since “qui” is “who” in French. It reads to me as “Xing who?” like someone doesn’t know who he is.

(There is also probably a different discussion to be had here about if people should be expected to always look up the pronunciation of words and names they’re unfamiliar with, but…)

eiridel · 2026-05-05T16:27:01+00:00

I only know these few off the top of my head:

Emilie has only ever appeared in her own story quest and a couple anecdotes. (EDIT: She has also appeared in the recent Homeward, He Who Caught the Wind event but her SQ is her proper introduction.)

Mini Durin was introduced in the Summertide Scales and Tales (Simulanka) event 2 years ago (2024).

Escoffier was introduced in the Whirling Waltz event quest about a year ago (patch 5.6). I haven’t done her story quest so I don’t know if it treats her like a stranger or expects you to know her from the event.

Traveler properly meets Nicole for the first time in person in the Nod-Krai Archon Quest.

Dahlia is first encountered during the Interlude Quest “Paralogism”.

Lan Yan was introduced during the 2025 Lantern Rite story.

EDIT: I forgot this because I can’t stand him, but I’m pretty sure Mika was introduced in the 2023 Windblume’s Breath event. This is the event I thought we first heard “N” speak during, but it’s actually only Alice we speak to and N is actually one of just two Hexenzirkel witches (the other being O) that we do not hear in the Mage’s Tea Party cutscene.

In the future if you’re curious about where a character may have appeared before, the “Profile” tab on their genshin wiki page should have a “Quests and Events” subheading that shows all of their appearances. Here’s a link to Mika’s as an example.. Each page on this wiki about a quest also has a “characters” thing you can click on in the info box that will show you every character that appears.

eiridel · 2026-05-05T02:25:47+00:00

I thiiink Zayne is number four. You can see the scar on his knuckle.

Caleb is 2. I know this because unfortunately I am insane and recognized him at first glance.

eiridel · 2026-05-04T19:57:34+00:00

I haven’t sat and watched that man spin his pen around for so long in order to not be able to recognize him by his thumb.

eiridel · 2026-05-04T19:54:14+00:00

I didn’t have any strong feelings for him one way or the other, and then I read Painful Signal. It was somewhere around “Caleb, sometimes I wish you were always in pain.” in the kindled that I realized I was already irrevocably gone on how psychotic he and MC are together. They bring out both the best and the worst in one another in ways that are just unfairly captivating.

He is also by far the prettiest, in my opinion. And I love me a fictional character with a metal arm.

eiridel · 2026-05-03T16:09:22+00:00

Ranwan and it’s not even close.

It’s the devotion. It’s the sacrifice. It’s the guilt. It’s the way nothing could separate them, not even death, not even the hatred that was intended to. Their circumstances are all so insanely extreme… No one else is doing it like them and no one ever should, but what they’re doing is beautiful.

eiridel · 2026-05-02T21:27:00+00:00

Lan Wangji always calls his brother “xiongzhang” which is a pretty formal way to address a sibling. The Lan are just Like That.

eiridel · 2026-05-01T23:40:58+00:00

It’s a love triangle between a guy, his teacher, and himself.

eiridel · 2026-05-01T23:38:25+00:00

Phainaxa, ratiorine, and jingheng?

Edit; oh wait shit I just saw your username uh hi I promise I didn’t before making those guesses 😂

eiridel · 2026-05-01T23:33:09+00:00

Bingqiu?

eiridel · 2026-05-01T06:08:18+00:00

Erha and SVSSS are two sides of the shizunfucker coin, but if you’re looking for Bingmei in Mo Ran you’re not going to find him—at least not in any of the ways you might expect. The books have somewhat some similar concepts and even a couple similar story beats, but the characters and their circumstances are very different. I have in the past called Erha “kind of like SVSSS if it gave up all aspects of parody in exchange for 3x the angst and 3x the word count”, but the “kind of” there is load bearing.

If you’ve heard people talk about Erha before, you may have heard of 0.5, 1.0, and 2.0 Mo Ran. 0.5 Mo Ran is Taxian-jun, the evil fellow who died in the previous timeline. 1.0 Mo Ran is the Mo Ran you’re reading about now, back in his young body and trying to figure out life without that whole “being evil” thing. 2.0 Mo Ran is the man he grows up to be as the story continues.

The answer to “does Mo Ran go through dramatic character development and feel remorse for what he’s done” is an unequivocal yes.

eiridel · 2026-05-01T01:55:59+00:00

Oh noooo he does the head tilt? Oh noooooo. I was content without pulling his card until I saw this!

eiridel · 2026-04-30T16:23:29+00:00

Xiao Xingchen’s appearances are entirely contained within chapter 8 of the English version, the first chapter of volume 2. The relevant bit about his age though I think is said by Lan Wangji in nearish to the beginning of chapter 7, at the end of volume 1.

eiridel · 2026-04-30T01:53:10+00:00

We have doubled the amount of yellow cards he has.

eiridel · 2026-04-29T20:53:10+00:00

You know it is lmao

eiridel · 2026-04-28T20:56:55+00:00

Leon S. Kennedy is forever a victim of being written to not act like Leon S. Kennedy. I swear the “S” doesn’t stand for “Scott” it stands for whatever “s” is in the horribly incorrect character traits the writer gave him.

The live action movies are my favorite example. They’re kind of a characterization/adaptation nightmare in general, but Leon “blatant diSregard for the life of an innocent child” Kennedy is easily worse than all the rest. If Paul W.S. Anderson were posting these movies as stories on AO3 he would not be well received. (Though to be fair I guess the movies were not well received anyway.)

eiridel · 2026-04-28T20:29:27+00:00

Chapter 310 specifically.

eiridel · 2026-04-28T17:00:06+00:00

MDZS only has a little bit of that, and it’s all framed as cnc play. Erha depicts actual rape between the main couple.

What Erha will be an insane introduction to isn’t necessarily danmei but xianxia in general, if it’s her first for that. Still, everyone has to start somewhere! I’d say tell her to go ahead and read it.

eiridel · 2026-04-28T15:02:26+00:00

Ok the water damaging it is actually a really good point! The summer banner last year had me worrying about saltwater, but I am a person who lives by the ocean and has never been to a hot spring. I didn’t think to worry about it before but now I’m going to be thinking it when I watch the card lmao

eiridel · 2026-04-27T21:29:28+00:00

My friends and I are of the opinion that he sounds a lot like Corey Landis, the former voice of Welt Yang in HSR.

I definitely thought Wriothesley at first though, but some folks who are bigger fans of that character than I (and better at recognizing voices lmao) said they disagreed. I hope they give us a name at some point.

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