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

GalaxianExplosion · March 6, 2025 12:56:40

Every time I enter SSA I get greeted with "I have fists of absolute zero!" Do you now, Camus? Is that also fanon-verified?

Also I randomly remembered what Thanatos and Hypnos did to Pandora's family. This occurs sometimes. Heck you two. (for some reason I get angrier about this than I do about Poseidon drowning a bunch of people...the Pandora bias I suppose lol)
But also, idk what her family was thinking. Pandora is one of those names you don't give to a kid lol. Yadda yadda fate yadda (funniest thing about SS is that it influences me so much yet I so fervently reject the idea of preordained fate that it presents that both Galaxian and I accidentally counter some of the philosophies accepted as fact in the universe)

Btw Hypnos and Thanatos are truly the worst deputies. Bros assigned a 3-year-old or something in charge of managing the entire Underworld army and preparing for Hades' revival and then just scampered off to play instruments in Elysium. The ladies truly did all the work (Ker and Pandora)

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · March 6, 2025 12:59:36

The Pandora bias can't just be mine since she's rendered so well near the end of Inferno lol

I keep forgetting dumb things I wanna say about SS oh no (:

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · March 9, 2025 16:49:21

Takasugi is really fun to use ngl. Also yes, maybe it's just 'cause he has a fun NP and voicelines and has good support (Changgong and Jiang Ziya work well with him), but it feels like he's really good at generating critical stars and getting his NP gauge back without even trying. It's a nice quality even though I don't really do Quick looping.
Speaking of NP gauge, I love the aesthetic of his NP. It feels like really good graphic design, even though it keeps going so fast I can't try to read the Japanese. Btw this is my fault due to setting the game to be this way lol.
The event story is really good too, mostly in its pacing and entertainment value. It might be about the power of teamwork, which you would think is really overdone and cliche, but I enjoy the dialogue options and the whimsy of the characters. Takasugi also is a really good highlight. Dude is entertaining to watch. (It's even more entertaining to see people in the community call him hot when he's covered in his own blood and suffering :-P bruh momento)
The event as a whole has really been throwing so much shade at him, but I understand where he's coming from. He's basically a supposed genius who wasn't able to change the course of history. He was called the genius of Choushu and destined for greatness, but his teacher and comrades all died helpless deaths that he couldn't prevent--a similar fate that he would come to taste as well. The course of his life results in his obstinacy as a Servant, because even though he thinks there is no use in dreams after death, he regrets the fact that he "never accomplished anything", actively resenting the fact that he has never been able to prove his own worth or prevent the deaths of people working for the same cause as him. In turn, that resentment breeds his determination to do everything by himself this time. By defeating his teacher after death he can prove that he does mean something and that he did absorb the other's teachings--but is that really a dream to begin with, or the manifested insecurities of someone who barely had his name etched into the pages of history?

Anyways, super interesting dude. And I'm not saying all this applies to his historical version, obviously, though I am quite interested. I'm guessing his life comes slightly after what happened to the Ming dynasty (gotta love British imperialism), so at least in terms of his entire goal of rejecting foreign influence, I can understand where he was coming from. However, I haven't the faintest clue what his methods were, so yeah. Fate's interpretations of people can be so fun though, even if they're usually idealized to some degree.

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · March 9, 2025 17:03:43

This time I dreamt that GGaD!Time and Galaxian were fighting.
The swordfighting component was slightly embarrassing. Or in general, a lot of components were pretty embarrassing for Galaxian (I keep on nerfing him unnecessarily). But at least it wasn't that bad. I got to rehash my thoughts on Galaxian's abilities and how domains interact with each other. It was a cool dream overall.
I think the fight stemmed from a disagreement on what course of action should be taken for...maybe a larger-scale conflict? I think Time wanted to go out and take the fight to whomever the enemy was, while Galaxian wanted everyone to stay put, and so ig they decided to duke it out or something to reach a compromise. Pretty shounen-style logic, which makes sense 'cause dream logic is usually just whatever the heck my mind thinks would be fun to act out.
Also in Galaxian's defense, Time was the one who came up with the idea to throw hands by literally coming at Galaxian, and honestly I don't think Galaxian could have reacted in another way in that situation since he wanted to stop Time and all. :-P
Anyways, they were fighting with pretty bad weapons, and as a whole they pretty clearly didn't want to hurt each other, but Time was taking it really seriously. I think the entire "didn't want to hurt each other" sentiment was mostly because Galaxian was treating Time more like I would treat the forumer Time (and hopefully vice versa), since I was in Galaxi's POV and all. Unfortunately I feel as if in canon, GGaD!Time might be slightly more ruthless than what I imagined, acting under the assumption that he out of anyone else was so determined to go out and start a fight. Just...that doesn't sound that something he'd do unless he had something really big at stake, y'know. And someone getting in the way, even another god he's known for a bit, doesn't feel like something he'd take kindly to. So even if he didn't want to hurt that other god per se, I feel like he'd go a lot more all-out than what I imagined.

Anyways, I'm not too keen to describe the entire dream, so that's that. I didn't expect to dream about this since I haven't thought about GGaD!Time in a bit. Maybe my mind subconsciously was wondering how Galaxian and Time's relationship would look in the present anyways. I've always assumed that Time is generally pretty apathetic toward new deities, since he's been around for so long and sees so many come and go (this is not Time-the-forumer verified btw), but Galaxian's been around for a bit now. He's a mix of stable and volatile, so maybe Time does keep tabs on him nowadays. Idk. Their relationship is kinda funny in how nonexistent it usually is, but they're polite toward each other, I think?? And I feel like they trust each other to a degree? Yeah idk.

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · March 9, 2025 17:13:50

I did nerf Galaxian a lot, but since Time's time stops just don't work on Galaxian, I think I feel bad enough to just call it even. I've always been under the impression that Time likes his time stops.
Funny how in most media a time stop would pretty much just be meta-breaking or something like that. Even in-roleplay, it's restricted a lot. In this particular case it's kinda just there.

I think the dream logic was that since Time has the domain over time, Galaxian's abilities in that area are drastically reduced when they're in a direct confrontation with each other, but not to the extent where they're completely gone. Similarly, any aptitude in magic that Galaxian might have had is pretty much reduced to zero in the face of a god of magic, though admittedly this part isn't as influential (except for magical defenses and stuff, I have some established stuff in mind for how Galaxian interacts with any energy relating to magic/mana/etc., so that does matter to an extent).
There was some logic on control over time vs. space for some of their techniques, but that's all I remember of that so...lol. Maybe relating to teleportation/portals? Not too sure Time would use portals, though it made for some cool effects. I think this logic is really interesting as a line of thought though, and maybe a good addition to the entire "only gods can kill other gods" rule (that was broken a lot iirc lol).
Does that mean that if Time and Chronos fought against each other, their domains would mutually cancel out, leaving them with no domains? Well yes but actually no, I just came up with this "rule" 'cause I thought it was good for this dream, and also because I keep nerfing Galaxian unnecessarily. Also as you may imagine, I also have more headcanons in that area.

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · March 10, 2025 00:36:37

Dungeon Meshi collab is about to release in Arknights' global server!
Dungeon Meshi is one of those series where I kinda want to read it, but mostly I just don't. It's kinda like SPY X FAMILY back when I wasn't inundated with the funny little clips from the series. Not that I've kept up with that series, either. But I'm sure the characters are loveable. Arknights doesn't miss with its collabs (except Limbus being a one-sided collab, which I think obliterated the hype from the AK side of things lol).
We get a free ten-roll, so maybe I'll get one of the characters. I swear to the gods if the event story is too good again and makes me drain all my savings. I've heard sooo many bad things about Marcille that I'm sure she doesn't deserve (lol)

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · March 12, 2025 22:05:18

I love the people who refuse to read so much that they will put the entire prompt that would have taken 1 minute at max to read and absorb into ChatGPT, spawning an essay-length response that they then not only have to extract the important parts out of but also make a point of copy-and-pasting the entire essay-length response into a sentence-long text box just so they can delete 98% of the generated response to come to a final answer. While making me wait for the entire 25 minutes.
And then when exam time comes they complain about their score and try to scapegoat me for it (???), like what do I have to do with your increasingly poor life decisions

Honestly...if you don't wanna read, just go into the exam room without doing any homework and then fill out random bubbles. Make some cool Scantron art or something idk. Why refuse to read so much that you instead read so much. I do not understand

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · March 13, 2025 14:46:52

Being the Aries Saint is so hard man (I was so close to getting canon's Gold Saints to meet the AU's ): but on the bright side, I dreamt about the canon's Gold Saints and the AU's Aries :D)
I keep dreaming about Galaxian lol. At least I get why he's never too worried about physical fights.

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · March 13, 2025 15:58:44

Ordeal Call I is coming.
I uh. Am not in too much of a hurry to go in.
The Chinese fandom is right, someone at TYPEMOON really likes putting Changgong through suffering for no reason. Well, under the guise of moral exploration, I guess.
I can't say I don't understand, but I also can't say I'm amused, either. Well, I'll have to see how it plays out eventually, I'm just gonna roll for Changgong beforehand to see how fast I should be working on it. The more copies come over the more the process is expedited (him coming increases my confidence of going in, but then again this chain of logic makes no sense whatsoever)

Sometimes I think about how weird of a decision it is to save for NP5 of a support Servant when I technically have other Servants I'm also interested in, but then I realize I don't care.
Y'all know I would come up with some bullcrap reason to put Nagesh into the canon Fate verse for the simple fact of getting him to go in there to beat some people up (Nagesh is honestly ridiculously overpowered, and it's always funny)

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · March 13, 2025 16:00:20

Fate really said "You don't care for Sakura? Here, we'll yeet your favorite into the muck to make you care" I swear to the gods
Btw I think Sakura is interesting and I love the three songs for the movie trilogy, but unfortunately in terms of philosophical exploration and lore stuff I prefer Saber, and in terms of relationship dynamics with Shirou I prefer Rin, so...that's kinda awkward. But she deserves everything good in life and I would try to get Nagesh in to beat up the entire F/sn Matou family for her

TL;DR I just think it's hard to help someone who's gone through so much trauma without specialized training and a lot of luck. (I think I would Die)

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · March 13, 2025 16:05:13

The recent GUDA-GUDA event is so funny because Takasugi's entire thing with his teacher keeps reminding me of Galaxian and Kenshin thematically, only for Yoshida to throw shade at his own student unnecessarily every single chance he gets (technicality...ly)

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GalaxianExplosion · March 13, 2025 16:20:33

What are you looking at? What am I looking at?

(My genuine reaction was "LOL what the heck is this??" I love this event)

-Galaxian-

SpecterTheGreat · March 14, 2025 11:22:20

GalaxianExplosion wrote:
I love the people who refuse to read so much that they will put the entire prompt that would have taken 1 minute at max to read and absorb into ChatGPT, spawning an essay-length response that they then not only have to extract the important parts out of but also make a point of copy-and-pasting the entire essay-length response into a sentence-long text box just so they can delete 98% of the generated response to come to a final answer. While making me wait for the entire 25 minutes.
And then when exam time comes they complain about their score and try to scapegoat me for it (???), like what do I have to do with your increasingly poor life decisions

What
They're absolutely cooked

SpecterTheGreat · March 14, 2025 11:23:28

Also I'm ngl I completely forgot about the existence of Ordeal Call, like somehow for me the story ended with LB7

GalaxianExplosion · March 14, 2025 17:41:13

They're charred to a deep black color is what they are

And honestly mood, I'm not sure if I really get the purpose of this sub-arc other than buy time for the probable next arc, but it hasn't reached NA yet so we'll have to see I suppose

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · March 14, 2025 17:51:56

Rai brainrot is a lot rarer than Wiley brainrot, but when it gets me, it gets me good
I'm so tempted to play Arcaea again just because I remember some really cool songs on there. Rai's primary theme song, "Cybernecia Catharsis" is from there. Yes, I just stole a song I thought was really cool. But actually, Wiley's theme song "Blaster" is from there too, and that's also a great song.
In seriousness, both of these songs fit them so well. You couldn't ask me the meaning of it beyond "cool" though. Lmiao
Meanwhile, Raez's is "Kill the Lights" by Set It Off, not related to Arcaea at all. Maybe one day I'll find a song that fits him there too, that way the crew can share the same primary theme song source. But I do feel like it'd make more sense for Rai and Wiley to have their theme songs coming from the same place compared to the entire RRW Triad or the Not-Quad Squad? There's something about their dynamic that I can't quite explain.
I'll put it like this. Raez often matches his energy to Wiley's, because that's just how Raez is, but in terms of wavelength, Rai and Wiley are more similar than Wiley and Raez are, or Raez and Rai are, and that's somehow just the way it is. Even though it doesn't make total sense even to me.
I guess the thing is that Raez and Wiley show up together a lot more in my mind, so I tend to talk about them like they're bound together by some kind of weird universal force. But actually, Rai and Raez as well as Rai and Wiley have this connection that I can't quite explain in every universe. Ofc I really appreciate Dion's relationship with Rai as well, and I like imagining how his relationship with Wiley and Raez might be to the extent where I keep putting them in AUs to try to formulate actual what-ifs, but obviously I kinda created Wiley and Raez with Rai in mind, so that reflects the state of affairs quite well. Rai was created before I knew of Dion, so their relationship is more spontaneous, similar for Raez and Wiley with Dion. Within the triad, things tend to be more complicated.

Btw I'm tired, if you can't tell why I'm typing so much for no reason

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · March 14, 2025 17:52:08

My favorite song I'm pretty sure is still "Grimheart" by Puru. For some reason. For some reason it's #1 even though like 50 other songs are at #2 (I couldn't list them if I tried)

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · March 14, 2025 17:54:01

I'm sure I could probably pull out a lot of bullcrap just by analyzing the way the songs start
I think I'm kinda just hopeless at this point.

I still find it funny that I still turn off songs the moment I hear a curse word, generally speaking at least. Still not a fan

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · March 14, 2025 17:58:44

Apparently Federico's profile wasn't joking when it said he can do anything
Today I watched him blow so many holes in trees that it all just turned into timber. And when the locals tried to stop him he just disintegrated them too without getting distracted at all.
Gotta love deforestation (I am depleting all the locals' resources solely for my own benefit. Finally, Rhodes Island has met its productivity quota!)

But seriously, with just him and Degenbrecher and some help from machinery (and fast-redeploy Specialists and Defenders to get the wood in time), I can now get enough wood to start off in Reclamation Algorithm
I still like Integrated Strategies more lol. It all comes down to preference, I suppose. I love IS as well as the module farming mode in terms of gameplay, even if I've only beaten the Crimson Solitaire mode once and have never beaten the rest yet.

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · March 14, 2025 18:04:16

Shoutout also to Arknights' current event, it's so goofy
I really need to catch up with Main Story as well as the available events. Especially available events. That way I know more about the lore

AK Rai is a funny thought because I have noooo idea what faction he'd be a part of or what the heck he'd be doing other than the generic Rai motivations, but as soon as I think about him Wiley immediately just calls him a furry. Like bro, if your friend goes in there you're going in too. You should reconsider your rhetoric
~~he just called himself a furry too. ok.~~

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · March 14, 2025 18:07:56

Executor's name literally means "the person who sends others to their funerals" in Chinese btw. Not "the person who performs tasks." There is no ambiguity.

A janitor!

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · March 14, 2025 18:38:50

GalaxianExplosion wrote:
Oh yeah--I love Mostima. Why? Idk.

The liking is definitely not related to a certain Mastema or my preference for people who are secretly really caring/loyal/compassionate but have a screwed-up past. probably.

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · March 15, 2025 16:54:43

Reading Takasugi's profile kinda makes me feel like I don't know how to read. Idk.
He's funny. For all his philosophical talk about living a life of your own, I'm pretty sure he's just gonna do the stupidest things and then justify them that way. He's really dumb. Also his first ascension animation is hilarious (the embodiment of "does a gay little run that ticks you off", though he's probably bi+...probably...)
Anyways, I'm tempted to throw a grail at him since I think he'd do something entertaining with it in canon, but if I did I'd start throwing them at Ryouma, Summer Okita Alter, etc. (weird coincidence that they're all Japanese), and for now I'm waiting to see how many copies of Changgong I might be able to get...whenever his banner drops idk. To grail him, I mean. I'm about to go into EXP and QP hell (I already can't level up skills for most new Servants and don't have class EXP for new Servants, so idk what I'm doing)

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · March 15, 2025 16:55:36

Mash is so cute

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GalaxianExplosion · March 15, 2025 16:58:06

Me when I go into a farming node and see a giant 600K health Berserker mech Nobu in the first wave: What the HECK is this

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · March 15, 2025 16:58:25

This is why I like Arknights' practice mode

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · March 15, 2025 17:00:55

Oh yeah shoutout to Ashwatthama for coming here again. He's NP3 now
Let's see how to work out this farming thing lol.

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · March 15, 2025 17:06:02

Okay so it's a 600K Berserker, 205K Saber (that purges your buffs if you don't kill it before its turn), and then 3 enemies in the third wave (with a 420K health Saber)
This is for me, btw. Specter and Echo haven't logged in in forever

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · March 15, 2025 18:17:12

Apparently the OST from one SS AMV was "The Battle for Everyone's Souls" from Persona
I heard it and immediately recognized it.
It's really good music, and ig now I see the reference, but all I can remember is that the sad part began with Milo choking Camus lol
(Also the version that video maker used was slower?)

The thing with the Chinese is that we often forget to credit, so it's kinda. You either recognize the reference or have to wait 8 years to know where the song is from

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · March 15, 2025 18:19:12

I slightly went crazy when I heard the song, because that AMV is the one I think of when I think of Gold Saint intros. At the start, all the Gold Saints get scenes of their own ig? It's done in a very epic fashion, so it's hard to describe. Pretty much clips of just them being cool by themselves synced to the music.
It's a very good AMV, but you couldn't ask me to find it now since I have no recollection of the title of the video or anything, it's just somewhat etched into my mind.

-Galaxian-