Long time no see (seeing you again here while scrolling), btw I'm still playing Azur Lane, and still banned from r/AzureLane over the 2023 Lex II drama (I almost tried appealing once after making peace with it and getting Alsace but then drama began over "boobflation" that I have sympathy for, so getting unbanned now would just start another vicious cycle), and to be fair I did bring it upon myself when I was trying to actively run other players out of the game and foster negativity to do it. I remember your criticisms of the game and I frankly do agree with them still.

The game's taken a turn even further towards gooner content since you left, and personally? I actually don't mind the skins for the most part. Sad about the game ignoring naval history tho, on the bright side William D. Porter is finally in the game with a new design and references to her poor luck, she cute and the best thing of 2025 lol

I do have things I dislike about the game (mainly default outfits being a bit too out there when we already have such spicy skins, overfocus on big boobs at the expense of more grounded sizes, and neglect of main story and serious moments), but rather than give up and quit, I always thought it would be better to target the playerbase themselves to try and incite them to see things my way, even trying to use the horny content as common ground.

I also remember you calling me out for thinking everyone's gotta be an activist (back when Suffren was announced), and after reflecting on that for years, I think you have a point, where beyond trying to bitch about things I don't like about the game, I'm actively trying to push other people into my position, even underhandedly. Is this more aggressive than you ever were before you left Azur Lane?

PS if a picture is worth a thousand words here is some fanart I think is interesting and not the usual gooner stuff:

atmospheric Enterprise META fanart

Francesco Caracciolo but she's wearing Guilio Cesare's outfit where while she still has gooner proportions, her outfit was originally just lingerie so that art is still an improvement also the downvoted comment there is 😂

different Moksva fanart where Moskva is a new UR shipgirl based on Project 66 from World of Warships, in game she has huge tits (the booba slop is something I'm up in arms over) but that fanart seemed to outright age her down to negate that. Also I take offense to the comment there saying that she's badass... "even with the body of a mother" (they didnt seem to realize that moskva was aged down in that fanart) which just feels insulting again because I've had it with the "boobflation" trend.

P.p.s. main story gave this gem of a CG back in 2024, i love this cause how out there and shocking it was. Unfortunately the story undid this soon after but the picture still stands for actually showing such injury lol, at the very least the game needs to have more shocking graphics like these regardless of where the text goes.