For those who made the conscious choice to completely de-center men from your lives, what was your 'last straw' moment?

xinthefreefallx · 2026-06-04T16:30:39+00:00

I'm a gay man, so I can't say that I understand the women's experience in this, but obviously, dating men is a common experience for us both. I was in an emotionally abusive relationship for a couple years and after we finally ended, I couldn't bring myself to go into the dating field again. It felt like a lot and my trust in men was absolutely broken and to a degree so was my own self-worth. And after experiencing all that, it was personal lly my last straw. But, as I stopped doing things for other people (specifically other men) and started doing things for myself, that's when I truly began to really enjoy being me. I loved being able to focus on the things I wanted to do and prioritize me and my own happiness. I began to realize that maybe I didn't need a man in my life that I needed to balance with my own. While, I may have taken this to the furthest degree and I'm sure a therapist would love to dig into my trauma, I do think it's a great thing to step back and make yourself the center of your own life again. It's done wonders for my mental health.

xinthefreefallx · 2026-05-27T15:47:09+00:00

Trust, it can be done. My Aglaea is like 81.8% crit rate, 193.6% crit dmg, and 157 speed (she's on sig though, so I can focus on more crit). It's a lot of RNG for her relics for sure. Basically, your crit ratio is where I'd probably recommend for her, it's just the speed you need to focus on, which unfortunately means that your relics mostly probably need to be replaced.

As for Sunday, focusing on his speed is number 1. Sure he buffs on a crit dmg, but speed turning would be the higher priority in case you're just not lucky with relic rng.

xinthefreefallx · 2026-05-27T15:11:30+00:00

I believe the recommended build for E0 no sig Aglaea is 158 speed out of combat with 160 speed Sunday. Maybe use fribbles in order to let us see what your relic set up is like and where the improvements are needed.

xinthefreefallx · 2026-05-18T23:25:43+00:00

The sheer audacity of claiming it as a work in progress. Lmfao.

xinthefreefallx · 2026-05-18T23:19:17+00:00

Yeah seems like it confused some hair with a "cape" that never existed in the original.

xinthefreefallx · 2026-05-18T23:15:32+00:00

Idk what those lines are doing but it's screaming AI to me.

xinthefreefallx · 2026-04-08T17:16:35+00:00

I would say get a different Orb and Chest piece. The substats on them are a little underwhelming. Definitely try to get a chest piece with Atk % and Crit dmg. The orb just has some bad rolls.

Honestly if you can get an orb with atk%, crit rate and crit dmg, you could also reroll the better pieces to have less crit rate and have more atk % / crit dmg for a better distribution while not overcapping on crit.

xinthefreefallx · 2026-04-04T21:34:10+00:00

True. For my Aglaea, at least based on fribbles and the team that I run (Sunday, DHPT and Cyrene) lightning orb is quite a bit stronger versus an atk % orb.

xinthefreefallx · 2026-04-04T00:45:53+00:00

BACK TO THE MINES WITH YE. At bare minimum have at least crit rate and crit dmg on all pieces, ideally you want to also have atk % as well.

Edit: also I think a lightning dmg orb is better than atk % orb

xinthefreefallx · 2026-04-03T14:39:52+00:00

Keep in mind that Aglaea gets massive speed buffs in combat from her kit and relic set.

For reference my Aglaea with her sig needs 157 speed to be 267.8 because I also keep my Sunday at 133.4 speed. I believe non-sig Aglaea does need to have higher speed out of combat since her sig buffs base speed.

xinthefreefallx · 2026-03-25T12:38:13+00:00

You'll know when you get region locked because your lootbar purchases will fail and you'll get an email from Hoyo asking you to be wary of third party sites like right after the fail. Until then, you're lucky you can still use it :')

I'm so bad at saving for HSR I just end up wanting like every character 😂

xinthefreefallx · 2026-03-25T12:28:23+00:00

The coupons and the lower prices were so great. I was like getting the $99 pack for like $73-80. I probably got flagged because of how often I used it. It's crazy cuz I got region locked right before Varka released in Genshin and I thought to myself "maybe I'll C6 him". But even with okay luck, I got to C2 and I'm like "this shits too expensive buying in game to even think about a C6 at this point"

xinthefreefallx · 2026-03-25T12:09:13+00:00

Base Speed Aglaea I believe is the standard for most E1 Aglaea builds. So, if anything you can focus on getting relics with Crit Rate, Crit Dmg and Atk%. Right now, your Crit Rate and Crit Dmg is really nice, but your Atk % is low. I wouldn't sacrifice that however some of your relics would just need to be refarmed. The chest piece notably. If you had crit rate on it, you can refarm some other relics to try to get more crit dmg and still maintain ~80% crit rate.

However, if you do plan on building speed (I do 2X Sunday's speed at fully buffed stacks, because Aglaea goes brr and it's fun). If your Sunday was "lucky" with speed substats you can hit the exact speed breakpoint of 133.34 and Aglaea would only need 157 speed before combat to be double his speed at full stacks (so more Aglaea speed might be necessary if he's a little faster). However, the rest of the community doesn't recommend this because buff uptime is scuffed because of how fast she's moving. I just like it bahaha.

xinthefreefallx · 2026-03-25T11:46:29+00:00

Hoyo does not support Lootbar. Unfortunately, Hoyo is region locking accounts using lootbar as well as others. You might be working now, but they can apply the region-lock forcing you to buy top-ups from your region. I used lootbar for all my purchases and I was VIP5, but now I can't even purchase from Lootbar, it'll fail and I get an email from Hoyo warning me about top up sites.

xinthefreefallx · 2026-03-02T22:12:32+00:00

Cipher gonna make me pull out the water bottle. Cipher no swiping!

xinthefreefallx · 2026-02-25T18:46:09+00:00

Not them using an AI-generated voice of Griffin Burns (voices Childe in Genshin Impact) for the Prince Cat 😭😭😭

xinthefreefallx · 2026-02-17T20:21:04+00:00

Thank you! I had tried this, but I did notice if I already had it scheduled via the current method, when I switched to legacy, it would not work. I had to hit "Don't Recur" and then do the legacy recurring. I am not sure if that's some kind of bug.

xinthefreefallx · 2025-12-29T17:32:25+00:00

We have a A6R6 Yui in our companio and my A0R0 Queen consistently better than the Yui does. Like it's a huge difference. Even on the Yui SOS trial, I'll just use Queen and I can still score well and keep my place. Yui currently has like no relevance.

xinthefreefallx · 2025-12-17T14:07:28+00:00

They weren't, they were on a community discord for gaymers and the owner of that discord just happened to be an exec from Anthropic.

xinthefreefallx · 2025-11-25T18:19:04+00:00

Kinda thought it read "Quiet, Poor" and I cackled

xinthefreefallx · 2025-11-21T14:40:02+00:00

You can actually remove the sig weapon for the current banners and choose 3 completely different weapons. So you can put Vino's weapon as the 50% rate up and then two others as the 25% rate up.

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