GGaD » Cosmic Dim. (V. XVIII), You're Correct but You're Not Right

GalaxianExplosion · January 6, 2025 21:32:42

There is something sweet about Nitocris Alter's lore being that she's being shielded by the other pharaohs of the same time. I wonder if her brothers are there too (family reunion when,,,)

Btw I am not sane at all rn because I finally decided the cast for yet another AU (as a result of F/DA pushing me off the edge), and then for some reason that also pwned me with some other development. And ofc the SS AU is traumatic as always.
I need my art skills please give me my art skills back :') (as if my writing skills are here lol they also scampered off)

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · January 6, 2025 21:46:32

The other day I pwned myself with the thought of even the Gold Saints being powerless if they just can't move.
Specifically I thought "Oh man Shura really got defeated just by getting human seatbelted (Roshan Kou Ryu Ha-ed)"
They can destroy atoms but the moment they get handcuffed they're toast
Tfw you turn into a jetback because you can't get yourself out of someone else's grasp

...apparently I enjoy the sensation of having death threats on my shoulders (:

-Galaxian-

Echowo · January 6, 2025 22:02:38

GalaxianExplosion wrote:
There is something sweet about Nitocris Alter's lore being that she's being shielded by the other pharaohs of the same time. I wonder if her brothers are there too (family reunion when,,,)

Awwwww

GalaxianExplosion · January 6, 2025 23:05:09

I'm so good at drawing guys I can un-genderbend women B)

Noticed that Taira-no-Kagekiyo also has a bluish grey tunic and red armor,,, truly not escaping the aesthetic
Me when a military genius has a tragic undeserved ending: My baby now

Btw the moment you type those dashes as underscores it becomes like a username.
Taira_no_Kagekiyo moment (tfw you're learning coding)

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · January 7, 2025 13:53:48

EP for the Rat King just dropped
This game never disappoints with its music lol.

Immediately forgot whatever else I was going to say. Probably related to Arknights tho
I'm pretty invested in the politics of the world and even more invested in whatever lore is related to the most animal-based characters.
Aaand I remembered. There's a meme in HYXHN about fathers doing in their sons while treasuring their daughters, so I'm trying to think about if that's the case in Arknights. So far I think it's pretty even, but I don't think I remember that many examples? There's a good balance of "both parents are invested and present" and "both parents are dead" along with single parents and just...no parents (orphans)

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · January 7, 2025 21:38:13

Trying to figure out if me never being able to remember "Ratio Ultima" is me missing a reference or if I'm just naturally grammatically correct B) (I keep thinking it's "Ultima Ratio")

I swear it's a reference to "Ultima ratio regum" (the last argument of kings, synonymous for war) but idk...it would totally make sense but then again...

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · January 8, 2025 01:19:36

I feel like it'd be more impossible for Rai to be impatient than it would be for him to have an inhumane amount of patience, seeing as he does both coding and hacking and enjoys doing both (hacking mostly 'cause it screws with people, bro has a problem /j).

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · January 8, 2025 01:24:17

I still find it funny that the hacker of the group (in terms of the Not-Quad Squad as well as the RRW Triad) is the Lawful/Neutral Good one
Of course, that just means that Raez and Wiley just enable everything he does on that front :-P this always makes for fun imagining, since in HPA Rai does the thing where he hacks into scammers' channels and wreaks as much havoc as he can, and you can bet that those two are encouraging him the entire way
The Triad is perfect since if there's any physical danger, it's not like there's any problem. Raez can just beat people up. Wiley? What about him? He provides emotional support, I guess. Maybe his existence is a natural deterrent. Danger itself avoids him (but seriously speaking he's so good at covering for holes that Raez's ability to inflict violence as a just-in-case method isn't even needed)

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · January 8, 2025 21:39:30

LB 7 is apparently made for me to start appreciating my Avengers

Salieri hard carried the Tlaloc fight. He went through the entirety of the first breakbar and like half of the second (he got her down to 250K health). As I've mentioned prior, Kagekiyo has also been carrying me through fights.
In general, these gimmicks are really making me look at my roster. Sometimes it feels like without summoning as much as I have, I might not be able to get through it. For instance, Arcueid was pivotal against Izcalli. Voyager and Avenger Nitocris carried me through the rest of the Tlaloc fight.
Clearly the Ordeal Call agenda lol

Speaking of Tlaloc, I'm currently not impressed by anything other than her modern sense of style. She and Izcalli should be biologically related with how similarly they act (I'm ngl Izcalli feels like a child raised by a cult)

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · January 8, 2025 23:42:09

Passionlip soloing ORT for 1 million health while Mash desperately tries to keep her NP up, Mary Anning gives some support and then vanishes into dust, and the rest do heck-all (support Oberon died the first turn but technically I only brought him along to test the waters so that was intentional and my bad, I brought along Xu Fu for the lolz so that was also my bad...)...yeah. Extra classes for the win

Somehow finished the first part of LB 7 and got to the end like "oh. whoops"
I will now beg Naira to please let me design her please please please

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · January 11, 2025 00:37:37

Naira has a face now (sort of) :D

Whenever I do research for Changgong's life I'm like, "what the heck"
That family was not normal holy heck (and it showed, pretty sure the founding Northern Qi emperor had some kinda mental disorder--schizophrenia maybe?--Changgong's uncle had some kind of personality disorder and maybe psychopathy, Gao Wei had some sort of paranoia that honestly I can't even call completely illogical, most of the family has some sort of problem with craving power and authority, and the last normal emperor developed panic attacks due to being the only normal person around)

You see, at least my favorite just got anxiety. And depression! (He feared for his life)

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · January 11, 2025 00:44:09

Btw I think it is perfectly normal how modern culture makes Lanling Wang into a cinnamon roll because honestly, dude was probably close to it. In the midst of a bloodline filled with depravity he somehow had to fake being corrupt and also happened to do the worst job at it 'cause he didn't know how to. Also he's hella pretty (like his uncle, who was also hella depraved [I had to figure out just who he, y'know, did crimes unto. I am not ok either after that])
Add onto the fact that in a modern context you would expect him to be pretty bad off since his mother isn't recorded (A.K.A. probably the result of an affair with someone whose name can't even be recorded), but nah, dude was somehow a tactical genius and completely adept with morals. Can you say many people could be the same even in the modern time? Of course he's the beloved cinnamon roll archetype lol ~~mostly for dating sims~~

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · January 11, 2025 00:48:42

Btw Changgong's dad died in a way that I can only describe as an L

He took a prisoner of war (the son of an enemy general) and had said POW be a servant to him. During a meeting the POW dude was serving food to Changgong's dad and other associates, and while the POW was leaving the room, the Prince of Lanling's dad was like "Yesterday night I dreamt that this dude killed me with a sword. Maybe I should kill him now." So the servant dude was like, "Oh yeah! I can do that!" and went out, got a knife, came back, and freaking stabbed him lmiao.

This is what you called a self-fulfilled prophecy (dying)

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · January 12, 2025 22:34:32

Went through Crimson Solitaire and failed on the very last stage, but I don't mind all that much 'cause I didn't expect to even get there lol.
I need more DPS. Rn Zuo Le carries on the melee end, but he doesn't have all that much block. I also need to start thinking about perfecting my healers, because rn Shu does a lot of the work. Also need to think about niches to cover some of my weaknesses, e.g. Iana. But that can wait a little, I suppose.

Me favoriting Shalem: Frick I have a type (no but actually why does he have pretty much no fanart)

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · January 14, 2025 01:01:59

Me when I think I can switch focus to Madoka Magica when the Run brainrot is starting again

I swear my brain works in cycles

Anyways I got destroyed by a tea cup. You can tell how that line of thought went.

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · January 14, 2025 01:06:17

I've noticed that whenever I brainrot over Run, I get ok quality sleep and can remember like 15 things at once, so come at me whenever my guy.

(YOU NEED TO GET EASIER TO DRAW. EVEN YOUR OWN ARTIST DRAWS YOU DIFFERENT WAYS.)

-Galaxian-

Basket Cat · January 14, 2025 20:50:19

GalaxianExplosion wrote:
Me when I think I can switch focus to Madoka Magica when the Run brainrot is starting again

I swear my brain works in cycles

Anyways I got destroyed by a tea cup. You can tell how that line of thought went.

-Galaxian-

ok but madoka magica is genuinely so good

GalaxianExplosion · January 15, 2025 16:28:08

Yes, but can it take precedence over a certain guy who will literally kill for his students?

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · January 15, 2025 16:29:41

I think I dreamt about Camus and Milo having an awkward moment, which is pretty funny
(They were just standing there)

Bruh moment since this is just what I'm mustering up to say after being forced to login just to reject bots

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · January 15, 2025 16:33:39

Reasons why Run is supreme: Finally got a good night's sleep after getting tortured by my characters (technically by moral culpability. again)

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · January 15, 2025 18:19:56

Btw y'know how I always complain that I can't draw Xuqiao? Turns out the problem is that I made him when I had my original art style, so he just looked weird in the anime style. I copied and pasted drawings from...idk 10 years ago? Or longer? And his face has literally just been the same for a decade lol.
The problem is me is what I'm getting at

It's funny now 'cause looking back it's pretty much me asking Xuqiao why he can't just have a permanent face. Meanwhile bro has always looked the same
@Rai - imagine having a permanent face

The good news is that I am regressing to the original art style, and so now he looks fine. He looks like a handsome Chinese dude. Unfortunately this means that I will probably have to preserve different styles for different characters,,, imagine one day it's just cartoons on one end and real-looking people on the other end lol, that'd be so funny (the day I can draw people like Kiaane, Sunny, and Hitan well in any style will be the day I reach my peak. Unfortunately I don't think I will)

-Galaxian-

Echowo · January 15, 2025 18:28:21

Real

GalaxianExplosion · January 15, 2025 18:32:36

Also my next two E2 targets are Mountain and Executor. Why? Because it's fun to deploy them of course. And I just need to make their chips.

Technically I probably should focus on ranged operators rn since Patriot is about to run me over with a ranged DPS check. You see...I am not very wise

I also feel like I really do need to start leveling up Medics more than E1.55. And no, I don't have anyone who's particularly overpowered. That's kinda the issue.

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · January 15, 2025 18:35:46

Farming guard chips is fun because I tried bringing all of the R6 operators I have for no reason.
I messed up Iana's positioning real bad lol.

I also can promote a Specialist to E2 (because I have so many Specialist chips from farming for Guard ones), so lemme go see who I can work on.

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · January 15, 2025 18:42:26

I want to promote Iana, but I can't farm her materials without going through Chapter 13 or getting it through an event, so Projekt Red will probably be promoted sometime in the near future.
She's done a lot for me though, so it's not like I'm complaining. She does a lot of the assassinating along with Skadi.

Me when Rhodes Island is supposed to be a pharmaceutical company

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · January 15, 2025 18:42:47

Btw the hecker I am probably about to promote (Executor Alter) installed HIGH VOLTAGE FENCING on my door

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · January 15, 2025 18:45:05

Also I read his Onboard dialogue as him being fully willing to take off his current uniform on the spot to put on his former one if the Doctor said he needed to :skull: and for some reason I feel like it ain't even OOC

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · January 15, 2025 18:49:22

I be speedrunning my character arc every time I login ("You have changed greatly, Doctor." Okay.)

Btw the dude really is a menace and honestly the fact that I have no idea how Rhodes Island initiated contact with him beforehand is probably a security threat. Oh well (*still working to promote him without bothering to read anything about Laterano*)

The funny thing is that Executor is one of the more friendly operators I like. Everyone else is somehow passive aggressive in one way or another (Bassline, Ebenholz, Blitz...I think Blitz is stressed or something)

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · January 15, 2025 19:02:10

Somehow got blindsided with Part 2 of LB 7.
Yeah, ok, sure, I'll accept it.

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · Yesterday 00:54:25

Btw, as expected, Degel is now in SSA as well. (The hint was that he was drawn in the holiday menu background lol)
Also no I do not look to collect the LC and ND Gold Saints. I respect them though, with a lil asterick.
Honestly most of LC's Gold Saints are pretty respectable. Maybe with the exception of Aspros who got hit with the god-given curse and went off the high end. Also Sisyphus who is implied to simp for Sasha (who he met when she was just a little girl, and he was old enough to adopt her). And I don't remember if Kardia was in it for reasons that deontologists would approve of (he lowkey felt like he was just happy to stab people for fun)
No shade on Kardia btw. And also Sisyphus ig, I mean he was named after Sisyphus, idk what one expects the man to do.
It's still better than being named after Tantalus, ig? At least Sisyphus was mostly a troll who trolled the gods multiple times.

-Galaxian-