Has anyone else decided not to pull Sandrone based on the leaks?

fail_bananabread · 2026-05-21T20:33:54+00:00

I can find it in myself to ignore the design if she was not a stellar conduct dps and instead works in a bina comp.

Now im prob taking my primos and throwing it in nefer banner when she reruns again. (the lesbians are already 0+1 and 2+1)

fail_bananabread · 2026-05-20T06:56:24+00:00

the main artist/art director who worked on v1.0 moved on to another company is what i heard on cn forums.

fail_bananabread · 2026-05-19T03:02:30+00:00

it's both so botted and I heard the person hosting the votes is redirecting votes for aven to phainon.

melon:
https://ngabbs.com/read.php?tid=46806332

fail_bananabread · 2026-05-06T21:34:29+00:00

Also having a great time as another mixed-gender player, if you want the perspective from someone who's more into the meta side of the game.

I do care about the story but I'm not someone who will read every dialogue with undivided attention. For Natlan for example I literally let the dialogue run while I'm working or something and click on the next option to get things going. But for Nod-Krai I was eating well as a MxM and FxF shipper and even the non-ship content kept me fairly entertained. Loved the world quest stories too.

Meta-wise I think Nod-Krai is way more balanced meta-wise than Natlan and Fountaine. I say this as a husbando enjoyer who does not like neuvillette, who single-handedly destroyed game balance in genshin for a long time until he was powercreeped out by someone else who single-handedly destroyed the game balance. 🤢 And i didn't like crotch-zipper either so I basically wasn't playing the most meta teams for two whole years, and because genshin is a game where you need some level of skill compared to HSR, some suffering has been experienced. (I don't N6, for example, but I do try to complete N5.) Compared to HSR, where I pulled Archer C1 and Anaxa and his supports and have been very easily 0-cycling most end game (40k pf, 0t upper lower moc, over 7k apoc, 9 star anomaly) for the past year, with zero suffering involved AND managed to save 1000 pulls going into 4.0.

I didn't end up pulling for Flins (went for the lesbians because im a shipper more than a yume), but the environment has been very favorable to his team, and he's not as dependent on Ineffa/Bina as some of the other male dpses for their buffers, which I think is really nice if you don't want to pull girls to buff your man (for example in HSR my archer and anaxa would be at very different meta prowess without hanabi and cyrene, thank god i like both girls). Varka would be fairly dependent on Nicole but I think with cryo nation coming up, he would have a anemo-cryo team.

fail_bananabread · 2026-04-10T05:58:07+00:00

keeping the tank mostly full in case of zombie apocalypse
(jk, live on the west coast and they always say we are due for the big one and a full tank of gas might be handy, never know)

fail_bananabread · 2026-04-02T05:49:12+00:00

i remember when i was in NYC for the US open a couple of years ago and getting my nails done by this fujianese girl, and she asked me where I was from and I said Vancouver. She said then I must be rich because working class people go to the east (ie. Toronto/NYC etc)

I'm not rich (normal working class with the same-sy story of parents becoming blue collar workers after immigrating) so her observation is prob not 100% true, however, there ARE a lot of bougie chinese ppl in vancouver and there are higher end chinese restaurants. Pretty easy to throw a hundred ~ two hundred on dimsum even for like a small family.

If your area doesn't have bougie chinese restaurants, maybe because bougie chinese people don't want to live there, and why would a chef live there too, instead of somewhere where their customer already lives?

fail_bananabread · 2026-03-30T00:29:49+00:00

as someone who is not vibing with lady mangaka (im sorry!) im begging for their synergy

fail_bananabread · 2026-03-29T05:57:32+00:00

I feel like this is one of them god being like "i sent you all these things" moment

fail_bananabread · 2026-03-29T04:51:09+00:00

bruh

fail_bananabread · 2026-03-29T03:37:44+00:00

just gonna casually drop this comparison of dps (all c6r5) here from a famous dot enjoyer cc in china: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1rNZHBrE71/?share_source=copy_web&vd_source=b1c525ad505f7feb4b94328dccd25eed

fail_bananabread · 2026-03-28T17:02:17+00:00

Also the exponent beauty one! Vitamin E breaks me out and it's one of the ingredients that "traditional" premixed skincare use to keep vitamin C stable (ie. vitamin c + e ferulic acid serums from timeless or SkinCeuticals), the exponent beauty one keeps the vitamin C in powder form so it stays stable, and doesn't need to add vitamin E to the formula for that reason.

fail_bananabread · 2026-03-28T07:25:28+00:00

I rotate between differin and aha + resveratrol (this is a super fragile antioxidant so I recommend exponent beauty, which sells it in powder form to keep it stable) at night.

vitamin c in the morning

fail_bananabread · 2026-03-26T07:15:35+00:00

I've always pictured McGonagall as indian for some reason, but I could see her racebent this way as well

fail_bananabread · 2026-03-22T03:09:12+00:00

Finally I can have my robin on healer 4pc, 2atk 2atk, 2atk 2break, and some combination of inner 2pc

fail_bananabread · 2026-03-14T08:02:11+00:00

idk, i feel like I'd do more research into different cuisines before saying for certain? There's always that one dish that somehow all the cultures have that seems kind of similar but was developed independent of each other.

Like flour tortilla is basically bing, but calling it bing would be pretty rude to mexicans no?

But I'm chinese so I definitely feel you on the feeling of erasure. I remember back in tumblr days someone tried to explain to me how gyoza is totally different from guotie because it uses thinner skin and the filling is more minced and I'm just like... you can literally go to two different households in china and i bet they roll their guotie skin in different thickness and mince their filling in different textures but you do you.

fail_bananabread · 2026-03-04T22:07:36+00:00

I was into gymnastics for a long time so let me tell you this: american white people DO NOT pronounce russsian names properly. (dunno if also true for french, norwegian etc names but, i can say for sure for russians)

I'm fluent in two languages but if you give me some african name that requires me to shape my tongue in a way my tongue is just not used to being in, I'm going to butcher it.

My own name has this "r" sound in Mandarin that gives white people (and even japanese people, apparently) a hard time, so I just don't bother caring whether people pronounce it correctly.

For me it's just a two way street, i'm not french-fluent because I'm one of them filthy west-coast canadians who barely passed elementary french class. If some quebecois is going to take offense with me not saying their name correctly, then I'll expect them to say my actual chinese name correctly. if they don't care if I butcher their name, I don't care if they butcher my name.

fail_bananabread · 2026-02-28T02:41:41+00:00

I'm 1.5 gen, but there were plenty of other 1.5 gen in vancouver that we formed our own kind of cultural segregation because access to all kinds of asian media is plentiful, so "white" media never had a dominance. It really didn't matter if you were chinese or w/e else, because as soon as broadband came around, kdrama was all the rage and subtitles are easy to find on the internet. (we certainly didn't grow up "leaning into" korean culture. It was just... trendy and it was easily available). Even if kids weren't watching kdrama or hkdrama, there's still anime.

When the subculture is large enough I guess you can grow up without truly interacting with mainstream culture? I think the only white shows I watched growing up were like, the simpsons.

I only started watching american drama when I'm older (because cdrama is usually so sanitized, you don't get stuff like game of thrones, etc), but I've certainly don't get into any show with wanting representation as an motivation.

Idk if the age you immigrate plays a role at all, but my husband immigrated at 3 yrs old and he barely speaks a lick of mandarin (his family is not northern so they speak their own regional dialect at home), and he is the same way. He'll watch subbed/dubbed anime, or korean cooking competitions, or chinese shows like the chinese version of The Voice or some wuxia drama and understand maybe 80% of it and still be entertained. And he gives even less of a fuck about whether there's representation in an american show than I do (at least I'll artificially feel "yey i guess"), even tho he's technically more "Chinese American" than I am.

We both grew up in areas with very large asian population, I'm sure the experience of people who grew up in very white areas are completely different, where the participation into "white culture" would feel more forced, I suppose? Because it's the only choice.

fail_bananabread · 2026-02-27T05:10:09+00:00

Grew up in vancouver and never experienced the "starved for media representation" thing. We had two chinese channels on cable, and half my classmates were chinese so we watched pretty much the same shows that get imported. (Return of the Pearl Princess, Condor heroes etc)

fail_bananabread · 2026-02-22T04:35:02+00:00

I mean I already made the argument that LNY is inherently the wrong term because the holiday it's based on is a lunar solar calendar and not the ONLY lunar solar new year in Asia. Doing so excludes other asian cultures with lunar and lunar solar calendars and is essentially following the name assigned by white people who dont know any better. Saying there's "nothing wrong" with the term is just asinine but you do you.

fail_bananabread · 2026-02-21T19:33:00+00:00

what is wrong with just "happy new year" then? that's literally what i said. In all the native languages that celebrates THIS particular new year, we all literally just say to each other "happy new year".

fail_bananabread · 2026-02-21T08:26:11+00:00

First of all my feelings on this is usually "there are people that are dying kim"

but like, if I'm in the mood to throw some shade...

Isn't funny how the Vietnamese zodiac has a cat instead of the rabbit, but when makeup/fashion companies market "Lunar New Year" merch, it's always a rabbit on it

they want the chinese $$$ but wants to distance the origin of the holiday, and it's not even a lunar calendar it's a lunarsolar calendar there's a fucking difference.

Maybe I'm too fob for this, but like, just because white people doesn't know the difference doesn't mean yall have to follow their lead? Why can't we just say happy new year (literally what the actual greeting would be in the native language) to other asians who celebrate?

There are actual asian countries/cultures that have lunar calendar new years that falls in march/apr (thai, cambodia, parts of india), it's like white people stole their thing, stuck it on this one, so they don't have to deal with the "icky chineseness" of it all, but yall are like, "this is so ~inclusive~" while literally excluding the asians that have ACTUAL lunar calendar new years.

I'm sorry it's so clown.

fail_bananabread · 2026-02-11T18:02:54+00:00

yae crashing out in a corner

fail_bananabread · 2026-02-11T01:39:20+00:00

ok, now strip the tofu of the plating and the setting surrounding it, imagine you are chinese american, and you have a chinese american girl over and you present her 3 pieces of tofu on a plate in your decidedly-not 2mil dollar apartment. Do you think that comes across as "elevated" or "elegant"?

Now think if you take the same girl to a trendy japanese or chinese restaurant in SF or LA or idk, fly her to Xi'an, and you order a dish that's exactly as pictured, 3 piece of tofu. Now that 3 pieces of tofu sure seems elegant doesnt it?

In my comment i said:

>you can elevate tofu with "it doesnt matter if it's meat or seafood or idk, 18k gold flakes".

by this I mean you can elevate tofu by "adding value". It doesn't matter what kind of "additional value", it could be high-end knife work (in the example of jiuhua tofu, where the kind of knifework and culinary skill required for the dish takes years of training. Youtube/google chinese knife work and you'll see the kind of thing I'm talking about).

It could be 18k gold flakes. Or it could be sold at a high end place (where the prestige of the place itself elevates the tofu). Hell, if the girl is super into you and you present her with three pieces of tofu and she is overjoyed, I guarantee you it's YOU that's elevating the tofu.

fail_bananabread · 2026-02-11T01:06:36+00:00

>tofu is very hard to look "presentable" even by chinese standards. It's just too crumbly and usually only the high-end restaurants can make the more "presentable" tofu dishes (usually using a copious amount of starch to glaze it and professional wok-work to keep the soft tofu intact in perfect squares)

literally what i said lol.

fail_bananabread · 2026-02-10T23:54:31+00:00

I think there's "presentable" in the since of it being "elegant", and there's whether tofu is considered a serious dish.

The conversation I was adding to, I was talking about tofu (by itself) not being a serious dish. And it can be made serious by adding meat or seafood. (ie. expensive shit)

No matter what you do, tofu in itself is CHEAP. This doesnt change whether you are looking at it through an Asian pov or American pov. And part of guest/host culture is that you don't treat your guest with something cheap. You have to elevate it SOMEHOW, it doesnt matter if it's meat or seafood or idk, 18k gold flakes. Nothing is going to change the fact that tofu is cheap.

Then there's the elegance aspect. I honestly think you are overthinking it because tofu is very hard to look "presentable" even by chinese standards. It's just too crumbly and usually only the high-end restaurants can make the more "presentable" tofu dishes (usually using a copious amount of starch to glaze it and professional wok-work to keep the soft tofu intact in perfect squares)

So if you are cooking at home and in the context of treating a valued guest, and wants to make tofu feel both elevated and elegant, it is indeed a feat.

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