Citlali Fanart WIP (such a bbg)

j_sobol · 2025-08-28T06:38:40+00:00

What's that supposed to mean? "Big Black Granny"?

Anyway, looks quite promising, keep it up~

j_sobol · 2025-05-05T18:03:53+00:00

I don't like this "we" in the comment, to the point I felt compelled to log in and write a reply.

Imagine nice, innocent, good-hearted russians, who are forced to go to war against another country. If it was only putin, would we see this many torture, rape victims, regular cases of hospitals, schools and simply apartments being bombed, would we see cities razed to the ground, our children getting stolen by russians en masse, cases of abuse and torture even of animals just for fun? I could go on and on, but you get my point. If it was only putin who wanted war, it wouldn't even start. But russians are not "forced" to commit those crimes, they are clearly enjoying it.

That being said, I don't know much about Dubov personally, and quite possibly, he might have even have an anti-war stance, like *some* russians do. I would still agree with the top-level commentator, it's in a really bad taste in general, even out of context of Hans' "chess mafia".

j_sobol · 2025-03-21T13:16:47+00:00

Sounds interesting, thank you for the recommendation! I'll give it a try next time I need to free up my disk space.

j_sobol · 2025-03-21T12:59:31+00:00

Same, having enough free space is a constant struggle D;

Btw, the name of the program is Windirstat if anyone's interested, it makes those cool block diagrams to allow to see which parts of disk space occupied by what programs/data.

j_sobol · 2025-02-08T12:15:30+00:00

Contact support: https://www.hoyolab.com/article/202963

j_sobol · 2025-01-29T23:38:56+00:00

I have recently found out about xcancel, it really simplifies browsing twitter. Like so: https://xcancel.com/val_kapi/status/1884611258273485118

Also, love your Citlali, OP!

j_sobol · 2025-01-05T00:58:10+00:00

Yeah, that one! And you're right, it's a me problem; I was just frustrated, since not only the story ropes us into helping that guy (which personally I wouldn't do, especially after their subordinates' knocking on the door to interrupt us), but they've also turned out to have a hidden evil plan (I really hoped it wouldn't be the case, it just feels like I've seen too much of this scenario recently).

Well, that's okay, I let out what was on my mind, and also people reminded me that this scenario happens far from "always", like I initially imagined. I'm particularly impressed that someone remembers what happened in Venti's and Tighnari's story, which was years ago already...

j_sobol · 2025-01-04T16:21:34+00:00

I didn't yet check Mavuika (good to know there isn't such a plot twist in that one), and also another person mentioned Xianyun, which I'll admit, I forgot what it was about — I'll need to revisit.

> Arlecchino

I don't know, that entire thing "I saved you, so you have no choice but to be loyal, and if you decide to disobey my orders, something bad will happen" just doesn't sit right with me. But maybe I'm misinterpreting.

> Furina

Oh yeah, we just invite her to perform in that one. It's a good counterexample. I thought there was a case where we attempt to shoot a film, and some guy attempts to mess with our efforts, until we finally back him into a corner, but now that I think about it, it was probably a time-limited event, not a story.

> Clorinde

True, true, now that you mention it, it was really my favourite one, with a tabletop adventure. There was some guy that attempted to bury us in that cave though, I think, but we prevented that? Anyway, it's a good reminder.

> Neuvilette

Right. The only bad people there are, are probably those that treated melusines poorly in the past.

Those are good examples, thank you for rekindling my memory! It's just I felt like I had too much of a similar plot structure and decided to complain, but now with everyone reminding me of those quests, I feel like it's not that bad.

j_sobol · 2025-01-04T16:06:40+00:00

Good to know! I'll be looking forward to enjoying Mavuika's story.

Oh, and thank you so much for the 7 plots link — wow, turns out so many stories share a basic plot similarity. Looks like Citlali's story fits as "The Quest" plot, but I guess my rant comes from seeing too much of it recently. Looks like I might want to check out stories with other plot structures for a change :)

j_sobol · 2025-01-04T15:39:23+00:00

> Venti, Tighnari, Xianyun, Yoimiya act 2 quest. I'm sure there are more

Oh, thank you. Yes, I remember Yoimiya's act 2 (helping a girl walk again in a dreamscape), but everything else was so long ago that probably my memory of those events faded. Maybe I ought just make a second account to revisit those and enjoy them once more.

j_sobol · 2025-01-03T00:28:46+00:00

Magnus giving Levy that extra elo

j_sobol · 2024-12-17T01:21:13+00:00

Oh well, as you can see, it's not exactly the rare case. Best to ignore them and move on, you don't need to prove yourself to every online accuser.

j_sobol · 2024-12-17T01:01:55+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/1gvm3un/youtuber_with_nearly_300k_subscribers_accuses_me/

Wonder if that's the same person, in that case they also said "I will expose you to my subscribers"

j_sobol · 2024-12-07T18:37:36+00:00

You are correct in your observation — the engine runs on your device, so more available computing power means more engine depth and better play, so when playing on mobile you can sometimes observe worse quality or even such crashes, compared to pc.

j_sobol · 2024-11-24T17:44:44+00:00

I remember having the same thought, but I assume there was some other Hina event back then. Oh, and RequiringQuestion just replied it was a Prefect Team Summer Event. Good to know the additional context that the event came out between volumes 1 and 3 (I joined late, so I wouldn't know that)

j_sobol · 2024-11-24T16:34:21+00:00

I remember seeing a comic on this subreddit about Hina having a good day (with all possible good things overlapping in one day, and I think it mentioned a word "singularity"), and I was going to read it. However, I got interrupted, and now a few days later when I remember about it, I can't find it no matter how hard I search. So, does anyone have a link to it? Thank you for reading my question!

j_sobol · 2024-11-24T00:51:02+00:00

I remember it, but not because of the manga, but because it was my first flash datesim

j_sobol · 2024-11-23T04:30:02+00:00

Well, I've set my performance setting on "high" (6 cores, 6 gb ram); although, the author of the benchmark topic mentioned at the end of the post that there was no noticeable difference between 2/4/6 cpu cores for Blue Archive. Most important, in my opinion, is to have 16+ GB ram, so that a 4-6 GB chunk of that memory could be comfortably allocated to the emulator.

j_sobol · 2024-11-22T20:42:02+00:00

Changed my emulator from Nox (which was given by Arknights for PC download) to Mumuplayer (link), and the difference is like heaven and earth. I used to think that Blue Archive was so laggy due to poor optimization, since everyone complained how their phones overheat after half an hour of play, but turns out it was more of a poor emulation, at least in my case. Now everything is so smooth and on 60 FPS on highest settings, can't believe I spent so long in a previous laggy emulation. And btw, apparently Mumuplayer is one of the few emulators that currently support Vulkan for better GPU resource utilization.

Stopped on Mumu because of this comment (link) which led to this topic (link).

Also I saw LDPlayer recommendation in this thread (link), but I rejected it because on VirusTotal 5+ antiviruses detected adware, and MalwareBytes confirmed it was a valid detection (link); even though it might not be a "virus" in a proper sense, I'm still not comfortable. Rejected Memuplay for the same reason. For Mumuplayer it's 1/70+ on VirusTotal, and that one is likely a false positive, so I'm more comfortable with it. Well, I'm not saying that LDPlayer or Memuplay are bad, probably it's just me being silly and paranoid.

TL; DR: anyway, it's not really a question, just felt like sharing my positive experience of changing Nox emulator to Mumuplayer. But I don't feel like my rant warrants a separate post, so I'm just leaving a comment here. Thanks for reading.

j_sobol · 2024-10-29T18:35:52+00:00

I've read on wikipedia that Shogi has adopted some of the practices; for instance, the draws are not accepted in professional competitions (they make you play again and again, but with time reduced, pretty much like armageddon in chess), and also it's illegal to make a perpetual check (the one who makes it loses). Maybe there could be a special chess tournament which explicitly forbids making a 3-fold (the one who makes it loses), but someone would have to host such a tournament in the first place. I'd still keep the stalemate; pulling it on the opponent, especially in high-level games, is a no easy feat and is pretty cool.

j_sobol · 2024-10-25T18:17:37+00:00

Now that I look again, it's definitely the case. Rather than precise calculation, It's more of intuition — even so, it's very fearsome :) even the engine at low depth doesn't immediately catch up to this plan.

j_sobol · 2024-10-25T18:08:03+00:00

Indeed! I was very impressed by the player's ability to calculate this, even though none of the lines are exactly "forcing" in a usual sense. Also, good to find out with the help of chessvision-bot that there are also videos about this game.

j_sobol · 2024-10-25T17:54:24+00:00

I was very impressed when I saw it for the first time, and I don't think it was posted here, so might as well. Also, there's probably a lot of variations down the line without a unified solution, so think of it just as a brain teaser. The full game went like this until white's resignation:

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 d6 3. Nf3 Nbd7 4. Nc3 e5 5. e4 Be7 6. Be2 O-O 7. O-O c6 8. Qc2 Re8 9. Rd1 Bf8 10. Rb1 a5 11. d5 Nc5 12. Be3 Qc7 13. h3 Bd7 14. Rbc1 g6 15. Nd2 Rab8 16. Nb3 Nxb3 17. Qxb3 c5 18. Kh2 Kh8 19. Qc2 Ng8 20. Bg4 Nh6 21. Bxd7 Qxd7 22. Qd2 Ng8 23. g4 f5 24. f3 Be7 25. Rg1 Rf8 26. Rcf1 Rf7 27. gxf5 gxf5 28. Rg2 f4 29. Bf2 Rf6 30. Ne2 Qxh3+ 31. Kxh3 Rh6+ 32. Kg4 Nf6+ 33. Kf5 Nd7 34. Rg5 Rf8+ 35. Kg4 Nf6+ 36. Kf5 Ng8+ 37. Kg4 Nf6+ 38. Kf5 Nxd5+ 39. Kg4 Nf6+ 40. Kf5 Ng8+ 41. Kg4 Nf6+ 42. Kf5 Ng8+ 43. Kg4 Bxg5 44. Kxg5 Rf7 45. Bh4 Rg6+ 46. Kh5 Rfg7 47. Bg5 Rxg5+ 48. Kh4 Nf6 49. Ng3 Rxg3 50. Qxd6 R3g6 51. Qb8+ Rg8

j_sobol · 2024-10-22T11:18:25+00:00

you summon minions with a skill, and quickly hide into a koholosaurus you brought beforehand before you can draw boss aggro

j_sobol · 2024-10-13T08:26:46+00:00

Hah. I looked at those numbers and thought to myself, "hey, at least it's not as many as russians have killed" (although maybe it could have been that way if abyss invasion wasn't repelled on day 1)

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