finally, i don’t have to stream from my PC to play the funny card game

Through monstadt, it really does feel like a clone. Though as the game opens up, yeah it does carve out its own identity.

At the beginning before you get any good teammates, your party members are basically just the different BOTW weapons, and their skills are the different shieka slate tools. Kaeya’s your Cryo, Amber’s your Bombs, Noelle’s your hammers, and you need them to get to korok seed stand-ins. Domains are obvious parallels to shieka shrines, but they mostly get abandoned after the prologue chapter as anything other than gear grind spots. Even the grind of ascending characters and their weapons feels like doing great fairy fountain gear grinds.

edit: oh, and you climb and glide around to traverse the massive environment; it’s a surface level feature comparison, but worth mentioning.

The comparison does begin to fall apart when you find out that the meat and potatoes of genshin is the (mostly self contained) main storylines, and once you start unlocking character storylines, it becomes even further distinct. You’re not building up to reunite with your sibling by just picking a direction and exploring (or even just making a mad dash to the cryo nation), you’re sequentially building up and knockign down local threats, only occasionally getting glimpses of the main thread. And of course, the mobile game mechanics that permeate the whole thing after AR 30 or so really pull it further away.

genshin, wholly in spite of its fucked up gacha party system. If it was a normal 60 dollar game with less scope and without the gambling, I’d like it better than BotW.

All of the fake martial arts (from no-touch knockouts and kayfabe wrestling) have given me a bad impression of martial arts in general. If you’re not mystifying your arts or trying to pass them off as something they’re not to impressionable and vulnerable people, hey you’re good. But I’m still internally lumping them all together as scams in my head.

Damn, you reply quick. yep, I realized the instant i asked and felt stupid, eheh.

huh, what dropped in 2020 that caused that big spike?

the remnants of nebraska

nothing will fundamentally change

mmm no, i dont think so. Crushed red pepper and jalapenos tho? Hell yea

imagine how different fantasy would be if bilbo was the top variety of burglar.

Omikron the Nomad Soul.

It’s david cage’s worst game and I have no idea how he tricked David Bowie into collaborating on it. Also, listen to the music.

edit: whoops, got silvagunner’d. Here’s the real track.

cheemsborger

1: Yes! It took me good time to get my booger goblin and pedro pascal to look good, so I use them regularly.

1a: Drifter. I don’t really care for playing as a kid.

2: I’ve got a gilded 747 and a bunch of mastery fodder. I really need to get an angel popper built one of these days…

3: Unairu. I like having armor strip available on every frame and weapon setup. Maxed it out, still haven’t gotten all the represents.

4: I’ve unbound Vazarin and Madurai, working on Zenurik then Naramon.

5: just farting around got me a long way, duviri and zariman really helped. I’ve actually unlocked Saryn Prime just recently and have been running a few solo SP survival missions to grind for orokin cells, tellerium, and plastids when I can stomach it.

6: 747 w/ armor strip and unairu wisp go BRRRR. Comparable to a warframe, but less flexible.

7: Armor and Shield Strip is less useful to me now than it used to be, but I’ve got the heavy blade crit arcane and like to thwack things with it. I also have the energy mote arcane for fueling warframe energy in bursts of 10-50.

8: Gimme a bigger amp. I want a big 2h weapon. I actually don’t care for the duviri weapons, but I wouldn’t say no to having them around. And non-sirroco appearance for the drifter’s amp, pls.

I grew up really poor, so high definition audio isn’t something i’ve really ever had access to growing up, and I’ve never felt like I was missing out once I had the money to spend on new stuff.

Yeah, I throw dynamite around.

I just wish it wasn’t so expensive. I can pick up a big case of cola for cheaper than a modest sized case of fizzy water.

I just katamari all of my music into one big obnoxiously large playlist. If I want to hear music of a specific type, that’s what albums are for.

cheemsmburmger

theuppermostinlife - It’s just one person scooping up all of the music they like and curating a bunch of compilations. I’ve found lots of music I listen to regularly thanks to their efforts.

it’s time to get into wigs