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

GalaxianExplosion · February 9, 2025 18:00:18

Puzzle when I hire another spy guy: Am I a joke to you?

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · February 10, 2025 14:37:28

Some dude is pacing in 3-meter circles right in front of my personal space.
Like I am trying not to judge too much, but it is immensely distracting, and he has literally the entire hallway of this entire floor of this building to do it. But nah, he has to wander in front of my face.
Let me emphasize that this is not a gym and I am on my computer with my calculator out and typing and stuff. I am clearly doing stuff. Yet he is circling.
I feel like Kirei at the start of F/Z

Oh yeah btw I arrived first
I try not to judge too much for stuff like this, but he does get judged on here because this is ridiculous. He'll be recorded for posterity for social ineptitude and lapse of judgment on where to make your strolling rounds

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · February 10, 2025 14:38:10

Update: I have moved to a different location and I literally just saw him leave this place right after. Bro was doing it on purpose and therefore will definitely get judged

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GalaxianExplosion · February 13, 2025 17:35:16

HUANG FEIHU'S KIDS ARE SO CUTE

(the words of someone happy to get adopted by an Ancient Chinese guy)

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · February 15, 2025 00:40:58

I feel like Discord's ignore function is a really good and novel

way to destroy friendships lol

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GalaxianExplosion · February 15, 2025 21:23:14

I'm trying to see if there's a trend in Valentine's gifts from Chinese Servants (mostly the guys since the girls probably give chocolate for the most part)
I probably will actually look into it sometime, but I think the guys like giving you stuff you can use?
-Gao Changgong: His mask (he's so good at training that he apparently is just in the simulator and forgor it's Valentine's Day), also how derpy he is
-Huang Feihu: Adopting you with a family heirloom you can wear (also using literal 九牛二虎之力 to summon his sons to meet you formally and say thank you)
-Taisui Xingjun: Pulled off part of his existence for you to eat, switching to a nice sunbathing spot when you say No
-Yan Qing: A fan you can kill people with
-Qin Shi Huang: Tooth Destroyer (they tried to make chocolate.)
-Jiang Ziya: Fishing spot with barely concealed subtext

So basically a bunch of weirdos?

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · February 15, 2025 21:47:00

I want to draw and write so bad (I miss the SS AU but I shouldn't because literally yesterday for Valentine's Day it wormed into my dreamspace and destroyed me)

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GalaxianExplosion · February 15, 2025 22:04:02

Oh also F/GO started working again and miraculously I am now willing to farm
Unfortunately you-know-what is still the same as always, except with events that I am now no longer willing to do because uhhh everything else is more interesting

Not to say it's all good. Skill leveling up in F/GO is still as bad as I remembered. AND I have no grails (I have 1 but that's nothing compared to my outrageous goals of levelling half of this place to level 100 [overexaggerating])

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · February 15, 2025 22:04:34

Fujimaru's Valentine's Day is more productive than a decade for me
Truly putting 3650 days in one day

-Galaxian-

Edit: Btw this is with considering new Servants only. In canon all the Servants do stuff, all at once, every year. There's no way I'd make it through. But this is Ritsuka Fujimaru we're talking about ig, bro/gal walks through the entirety of America to deal with one (1) Singularity and their vacations aren't even canon

Time · February 15, 2025 22:16:19

GalaxianExplosion wrote:
I feel like Discord's ignore function is a really good and novel

way to destroy friendships lol

-Galaxian-

Totally random but I was just thinking there are a lot of discord games we could def try playing

GalaxianExplosion · February 15, 2025 22:25:04

I came on here to call Zhang Jue a weirdo, but which ones were you thinking 'bout? (I'm not very familiar with Discord games)

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · February 15, 2025 22:40:06

Me when I see NPC couples (GET MARRIED ALREADY DANG IT)

Context: I barely know these NPCs

Look at them

Arknights introducing the unique problem of I can't remember who my favorites are because I have too many

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · February 15, 2025 22:46:19

I've been thinking about how cool Galaxian's abilities are, like bro can reverse combustion. Wow. Like he can recreate something you burnt simply by supplying enough energy to make the reaction go the reverse way. Plus some other stuff. I just keep imagining him recreating paper that just burnt into ashes and for some reason I am blown away by visualizing it (haha pun). There is something immensely symbolic about it for me ig. That simple act of recreating something that would have blown away by the wind is something only he would do, in that specific way of his. It's meaningless, but is it really? Not for me.

I imagine this once per year and keep getting wowed by it (I think it has to do with the Lunar New Year, and probably some emotions that apparently only come up in February or something)

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · February 15, 2025 23:21:16

Bruh I swear the AU is a catalyst

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GalaxianExplosion · February 15, 2025 23:24:21

SSA the superior game fr, only because I get to hear my (nick)name screamed at me while I am auto-farming
Aiacos better come one of these days. I have his (LC) girlfriend

Violate btw (not sure if they meant to name her Violet)

She's always been weirdly cool for a character whose purpose is to give one of the Judges of Hell a love interest (also to show how messed up Alone can be)
Anyways, obligatory "bro thinks she's Milo" joke

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · February 15, 2025 23:58:05

My favorite character trait of mine is how I'm always like "how is my memory so bad" when I probably used up like 89% of it memorizing frame-by-frame depictions of Run and the Gold Saints and then the remaining 10.99999% is just character headcanons and plot outlines

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GalaxianExplosion · February 16, 2025 18:33:17

I keep thinking about whomever is the poop deck Saint (Puppis), like honestly, full props to whomever could bear all the jokes that would come their way the moment the other Saints search up their constellation on Wikipedia

Similarly apparently Altar is formally "Ara" and that's just calling for an ara-ara joke. Really not helped by the fact that Mitsuharu would 100% be the one to do it (thinking about Rai saying ara ara is extremely cursed, and he agrees, but technically Rai is not Mitsuharu, so.)

Honestly the Gold Saints are a lil ruthless in this AU when it comes to teasing,,, though I think most of it is Vilhelm setting an extremely bad example,,,

Also love dreaming about limitless ice cream (it's connected to the AU I swear, that's why I'm mentioning this as part of the same post)

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · February 16, 2025 18:35:45

Btw when I mentioned catalysts yesterday it was 'cause I summoned Shijima and Saga in two multis
Saga either likes me or is about to explode my face (again). I swear I love you, dude, you're just so funny.

Anyways it's funny because Virgo and Gemini are so OP in the canon universe

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GalaxianExplosion · February 16, 2025 18:37:26

Evil Saga is pretty much the "when I get you" meme for me
I also got reminded yesterday how in the Hades Inferno OP, I always see that one sliding frame of the Gold Saints as a "tfw the end-of-school-day bell rings" meme, which doesn't help much either

This one btw

(I do them so bad)

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · February 16, 2025 18:39:47

Oh btw I saw some stats for the Gold Saints in a game the other day and I got instantly pwned because of the way I interpreted them
When I finally draw the AU's Gold Saints I'll rank their stats too, except not compared to canon's 'cause honestly I think canon probably powercreeps my AU for the most part. I'm fine with it, just saying ahead of time in case I forget and get stressed on if my AU's Gold Saints could wrestle canon's Silver ranks

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · February 16, 2025 18:44:06

Sometimes I wonder how real people would react if their friends/loved ones were possessed, like of course we make fun of anime people for instantly slapping them or beating them up but honestly, can we be sure we wouldn't torch them with a flamethrower?

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · February 16, 2025 18:44:52

Btw thinking about this ahead of time doesn't count. Like what would you do if suddenly your buddy gets possessed by some villain wanting to kill the universe and write it anew.

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · February 16, 2025 21:34:08

SS AU combat rankings are gonna be so funny because as with all things statistics, just rating these things implies I need to have a standard...which in turn implies I need to choose someone as the standard of comparison for everything
Choosing Aureole as my median standard for intelligence ~~dude is gonna kill me or get Lucille to kill me somehow~~

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · February 16, 2025 21:36:45

Btw this is just me making fun of Aureole because fickle as I am, I do all ratings the way I do all things. By my gut instinct
The fact that someone has intelligence 8.66 out of 10 doesn't mean crap, it just means I think they'd have an 8.66 intelligence on a scale of 10 for some reason. On average. Comparing everything they do in that one AU. Sometimes considering stuff they do in other universes as well. Like for instance, Theo is getting negative points added to the average of anything related to his mental capacity because he would put a whole cucumber on his eyes thinking that's the way you're supposed to do it, and that deducts his points multiversally.

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GalaxianExplosion · February 16, 2025 21:59:01

Omg I figured out Alien Stage (joking, also spoilers for Madoka Magica)

Mizi has pink hair, and Madoka has pink hair
Their girlfriends also have black hair and purple eyes
Plus their friends all go through suffering and die...because of alien creatures who can't understand human empathy

So the ending of Alien Stage is...Mizi becomes the goddess of the universe, just like Sua said she was, and she rewrites the universe so that the aliens never took over. Hence the modern AU that appears in canon!!

(I am so sane, but also in my defence ALNST can't do much to me since the SS AU came along)

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · February 17, 2025 21:54:38

Beating up Poseidon after who-knows-how-long in side story content, specifically by using Kanon wearing a fedora (he's just Kanon, but wearing a fedora...he has a cute lil animation where he has to grip his hat because of the constant anime wind lol) (also when he uses Galaxian Explosion, cartoon stars appear. It's really cute)
This game is proof that his death was bullcrap. He can farm just fine while wearing a fedora. He actually has a stats increase compared to wearing armour. Kurumada when I get you /hj
I tried bringing along Athena (both iterations of her that I have actually) but somehow even though she is actually useful in this game, it still didn't work :') Pandora the greatest for her non-Status-HIIT-based crowd control (she can control even the gods)
It really is funny, 'cause iirc I got Pandora before I got other crowd controllers, except they require skill leveling or Status HIIT buffing. She doesn't. Her skill is just at level 2. Truly one of my favorite SS women (she's so traumatized though, she and Ikki can go to therapy together or something) (btw I friendship them, I don't really ship them, if anyone was wondering)
Love how I still don't have any team healer who is better than Marin. Honestly I like Marin a lot so I'm not gonna complain, plus she outperforms my expectations a ton to begin with. Gotta love the SS women actually helping rather than getting run over by the plot. Well, ig Marin is actually a better example, but still.

Anyways, the team was Surplice Shion for free defense, mostly for shielding Pandora (it didn't totally work since Isaak blew him out the water for some reason, but it kinda did for one round, which bought me time), Kanon because he's hella OP and gets worse the more people accidentally die on the team, Hecate for healing and a free Guts that didn't end up being needed and RNG-based debuffing that maybe mattered, God Cloth Shaka for accidental Silence and also learning how to use him (he ended up dying tho. my bad), and Marin for team healing
I like how Arknights makes this feel like a small team. It really is not. It's literally three Gold Saints, the technical Commander of the Underworld forces, a goddess, and a Silver Saint (Marin really do be outperforming lol)
Also, I tried using God Cloth Milo, normal Milo, and Shura for the DPS component because initially I couldn't figure out how to work Kanon and Pandora together, and also Kanon is OP so I don't want to pull him out for everything...but they have lower speed than Pandora so they end up breaking the crowd control lol. (That's what you don't want when using Pandora btw, you need to keep the enemy as a bane, which means not damaging them too much or getting Pandora's HP down too much, or else the effect dissipates and you immediately get ocean-water-nuked)

Also when can I use Aiolia and Marin together (:
Aiolos and Aiolia are funny in this game because I put them together and then Aiolos just. Steals his bro's physical attack. And also everyone else's. Bro got sick of dying for the plot and took matters into his own hands ~~still has too high energy cost to be used compared to the dude who chops everyone and everything lol~~

I accidentally brought the same team for the Poseidon boss fight to the subsequent fight, where you get to flashback to young Julian rescuing Thetis, and I really just Galaxian Explosion-ed some randos by accident, whoopsie. (no regrets)

The moment Ker appears in this game the meta breaks /j

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GalaxianExplosion · Yesterday 20:55:13

Imagining an interview with canon and AU's Gold Saints where the criteria for being a good Gold Saint are: "Awesome hairstyle, penchant for narratively unnecessary drama, hubris, and suspicion factor for being gay" and both sides are like "wth" ~~except Raez who is like "yeah I guess I am pretty much gay...free point! neat" and Vilhelm who's like "gay? not pan? or bi? in this age? what"~~
~~there are more exceptions, these two are just funny and tend to occupy my mindspace a lot~~
I like imagining hugging the people of the same zodiac at the same time and seeing how they'd react ~~I get up until the 3rd Temple and then Saga/Kanon Galaxian Explosion en mi cara.~~

(I got pwned by a Chinese joke on Shura getting morally convinced by a 14-year-old shirtless dude 13 years after being responsible for a 14-year-old shirtless dude. Also the fact that the Chinese really will make anything Camus does gay. He's just the gay ice man for some reason [the reason is Milo, in fandom interpretations])

My favorite part of SS is where I can analyze all the potential characterization and plot holes and spiritual meaning of Cosmo and themes that I want, but the most offensively powerful Gold Saint is literally just someone who chucks his Cosmo at you from any distance or angle, and apparently the range is so high (because it's equivalent to literal galactic phenomena, maybe? so its range is literally galactic?) that it works anywhere. He can be literally point-blank or running at you or whatever. There isn't really a spiritual explanation to that. It's just him being a nuke.

Love how I started analyzing technique range in the middle of saying there isn't really anything to be analyzed. I mean, it's not like I contradicted myself. It's funnier this way.

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · Yesterday 20:58:55

Favorite joke of the AU is how I imagine SS's definition of a Gold Saint who sucks translates to Vilhelm being able to Galaxian Explosion a continent only. Specifically South America
Tfw high standards lol (Vilhelm is just funny because he still feels like a twig to me for some reason, yet has to keep up just enough not to get kicked out of Sanctuary, resulting in stuff like this)

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