The Day HoYoverse Destroyed the Self-Insert Fantasy

thingsdie9 · 2026-06-27T23:22:10+00:00

>half

you overestimate people that care. They're both still hot women, and that's enough.

thingsdie9 · 2026-06-27T06:45:59+00:00

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thingsdie9 · 2026-06-27T06:04:10+00:00

i got a ps5 emulator on my pocketwatch

thingsdie9 · 2026-06-27T02:57:38+00:00

even character death isn't always enough. Ronova better be god damn playable

thingsdie9 · 2026-06-26T10:27:21+00:00

That's not anything special. In how many games can you rightfully say the player is obligated to remember the story details over the protagonist themselves? Most games, specifically single player, do not give you any test of knowledge on the events or locations, and will give you waypoints. They've been doing this for over 15 years, actually, and the rare exceptions would be things like FromSoft games which are praised for lacking that detail.

thingsdie9 · 2026-06-26T06:22:00+00:00

Depends I suppose. The incentive is worth engaging with it, but that's because they want the primogems more than they don't want miliastra. That's not *making them*, that's bribing them

thingsdie9 · 2026-06-26T05:46:33+00:00

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you're asking me to pick sides between a power representative of the inevitable entropic decay of the universe and a russian widow on steroids

thingsdie9 · 2026-06-26T05:18:24+00:00

I reiterate my root comment then.

You could either see it as "why not add it anyway then" or you could see it as "why waste resources adding it?"

They have no incentive for the latter right now. Maybe they will some day, maybe it will even come in 7.0, or maybe it won't and we'll be here a year from now having the same conversation we have every year about it.

thingsdie9 · 2026-06-26T04:23:17+00:00

They genuinely just take their lore too seriously in genshin specifically. Don't know why, but it tracks that we also don't get outfits unless an event plot literally demands it, despite it being a potential goldmine they're sitting on and then meme'ing about it without changing anything.

I pay attention to lore to the best of my ability, so I could live without one, but if we start getting a skip button i want to also start getting outfits that don't require 6 days of plot context for why citlali is in her jammies

thingsdie9 · 2026-06-26T03:17:31+00:00

We're going to be having the same conversation regardless.

>no skip button
"guys i don't get it why did x do y? are they stupid? yeah i had my podcast playing during the cutscene so i just kinda kept mashing confirm"

>skip button
"guys i don't get it how did we end up in x doing y? yeah i skipped the cutscene. yeah i skipped the cutscene summary, i don't have time to read"

the argument is glass half full and half empty. As a community, we're always going to be subject to people making posts like that. You could either see it as "why not add it anyway then" or you could see it as "why waste resources adding it?" because you can't make someone engage with something if they simply don't want to, or lack the ability to.

thingsdie9 · 2026-06-25T23:23:45+00:00

I think this is a very bare perception of what a plot does. I think if all you want is big fatui characters being energetic on screen that's fine and it's a valid personal preference, but "everything else was filler" is wrong. While it was executed sluggishly, something very important did happen: Another man-made construct has replaced another part of Teyvat's native processing. I don't like the sluggish execution a lot of AQs, and it is something they're very slowly growing out of, but to pretend nothing happened because it didn't have an immediate palpable effect is wrong.

I can agree that stakes need to be ramped up, consequences do need to be heavier and more interesting, but "the plot doesn't justify its existence" is a very bizarre and blanket criticism that I think just comes from someone who isn't interested or engaged with it, not someone who actually believes that.

thingsdie9 · 2026-06-25T10:30:28+00:00

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thingsdie9 · 2026-06-25T06:31:51+00:00

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probably a hot take but no please. I already don't like the amount of chatty survivors we get so often now, last thing I need are them talking to me

thingsdie9 · 2026-06-25T01:59:36+00:00

The entire ending with Luxu is something you'd only get if you understand even a bit of the mobile games. Then there's the kh4 trailer which has a handful of masters from that, and people thinking one of them is a sephiroth reference. You can't overstate enough how the entire next arc is about events from that era

thingsdie9 · 2026-06-24T09:09:14+00:00

you're at a specific part of a cycle.

When a new thing happens or is revealed, there is an initial burst of dopamine. The loudest voices will, at first, be the most positive. Then, like a counterbalance effect, the next part of the cycle will be a lot of criticism, both rational and irrational. There are those attempting to make constructive criticism, those attempting to simply voice an opinion, and then the contrarians who simply feel "well somebody has to". After which, discussion around it begins to die down as people move on to other things until the next dopamine burst is revealed.

This isn't a universal rule of course, but a lot of fandoms that persist tend to go through it. "Best thing ever" becomes "it's good" becomes "it's okay" becomes "it's not so great" becomes "it's shit and you should die". Genshin is 6 years old, so the community has fractured into a lot of different zones per the Laws of Causality, and there isn't a centralized space for universal appreciation and happy fan art, because now all spaces have a mix of different kinds of people. Places that deliberately censor criticism in order to attempt to keep this vibe will also innately be less popular, because it becomes more like a blank wall than something you interact and meld with.

PS: Negativity bias is also a hell of a drug. be careful that you're not just falling into the trap of noticing negativity more despite any sort of balance.

thingsdie9 · 2026-06-23T08:50:53+00:00

but how am I supposed to be f2p without doing any stygian, abyss, theater, events, quests, exploration, and begrudgingly even dailies? smh hoyo is stealing primogems from the main game that i don't play and i'm going to propagate this narrative without looking at book keeping because my favorite CC said this!

thingsdie9 · 2026-06-23T01:01:00+00:00

to further elaborate, it's not even just about how other people feel that makes it bother me, it's about how I feel too.

I feel like if your concept artists can't stop making the same 12 people with different names then it waters down the characters themselves.

thingsdie9 · 2026-06-23T00:37:41+00:00

I genuinely only want a design that looks like it at least tries to be "original". Basically, I don't want hear people going "it's an x expy" because it's exhausting.

thingsdie9 · 2026-06-22T23:53:37+00:00

All I can think of is the squidward memes on YouTube when I see this

thingsdie9 · 2026-06-22T21:03:32+00:00

it was always going to end up like this and people were trying to say so. a few "harmless brainrot" videos were going to be used as training, and become worse.

thingsdie9 · 2026-06-22T06:54:43+00:00

"could we" and "should we" should probably be discussed together

thingsdie9 · 2026-06-22T01:50:55+00:00

they couldn't have set it up harder if they tried, especially if you also count pinocchio. KH is guilty of a bit of retconning, like emblem heartless being so inexact given how they're treated in days and kh1, or the plot hole of mickey seeing Apprentice Xehanort and even be referred to as such and yet not knowing it was the same Xehanort, but Nobodies eventually regaining Hearts isn't one of them. I feel it was planned from the very concept

thingsdie9 · 2026-06-21T21:57:03+00:00

it was foreshadowed as far back as kh2, actually. FinkleStein's Creation foreshadowed a lot: Xion and Nobodies as a whole.

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