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茅庐承三顾促膝纵横论
A man visits his cottage thrice
The two speak to each other about the woes of their country, facing each other and talking as equals.
半生遇知己 蛰人感兴深
The man hidden in wait feels deeply fortunate to finally meet his fated confidant.
明朝携剑随君去
On the break of dawn, he carries his sword to follow his new lord,
羽扇纶巾赴征尘
Taking his feather fan and donning his headdress as he runs toward the distant ashes. 

GalaxianExplosion wrote:

茅庐承三顾促膝纵横论
A man visits his cottage thrice
The two speak to each other about the woes of their country, facing each other and talking as equals.

A bunched-up line that summarises the Three Visits. 
-茅庐承三顾: The three visits hosted by the thatched cottage
-促膝: An action, where in the ancient times you would sit kneeling on your knees close to someone to talk about matters close to the heart
-纵: To free
-横论: Advanced, complicated discussions

Simple enough, a free discussion by Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang where they talk freely about the issues plaguing the country and Liu Bei's struggling campaign.

GalaxianExplosion wrote:

半生遇知己 蛰人感兴深
The man hidden in wait feels deeply fortunate to finally meet his fated confidant.

-半生: "Half" and "life". In Chinese this isn't particularly long of a time, if that makes sense. It's considered convenient/quick if you are able to meet your goals at this time. It's not like the modern English equivalent of reaching retirement age or anything like that.
-遇: To meet
-知己: I said "confidant" for this one, but actually this is probably closer to "platonic soulmate", someone who you're on the same wavelength as. You and they think in similar ways, and agree philosophically on the meanings of life and stuff like that. It's a big deal. It's like "you're like family to me" in English when spoken from one friend to another, but even deeper. It's not even just "best friend". It's someone who thinks and knows like you, to the extent where if you meet both of your destinies are basically altered as a result. ...yeah, it's "platonic soulmate", lol oops. (why does making it two words make it sound weird even though the original is just two characters)
-蛰: Hidden, hibernating, analogizing Zhuge Liang to a hibernating dragon/animal. It's usually not used to describe people.
-感兴(深): Something like "moved" or touched deeply. Hard to describe, but 感 means "feeling/emotion", and 兴 usually alludes to happiness or excitement. It's a very strong emotion to be sure, that runs deeply and doesn't just last in one transient moment

I don't think I can emphasize just how obvious this reads at first glance in Chinese lol. 

The man who has waited all this time is touched, for he has met a soulmate at last. 

GalaxianExplosion wrote:

明朝携剑随君去
On the break of dawn, he carries his sword to follow his new lord,
羽扇纶巾赴征尘
Taking his feather fan and donning his headdress as he runs toward the distant ashes.

Saber Zhuge Liang confirmed??

-明朝: The following day at sunrise, except the sunrise is emblematic of a new beginning. It's a very grandiose image, coupled with the imagery of Zhuge Liang himself.
-携剑: Bro is carrying a sword.
-随君去: Following his (newfound) lord [towards the direction indicated before]
-羽扇纶巾: I dunno how to explain this except just to say that these are his iconic design traits. A feather fan and a headdress. 
-赴: Goshdarnit this song just makes me learn epic imagery. This word means to "rush toward", but it has a really epic connotation behind it. Like you're a hero going to save the world, but with less of the arrogance and more of the "the audience knows this is a huge personal sacrifice and a hugely difficult task" sort of vibe? 
-征尘: The ashes swept up by war, the dust kicked up by soldiers/horses on a long, long journey. Again, war is not so much glorious as it is difficult and a means to a better end. 

The young tactician rides a horse away from his home, carrying his sword to head toward the war that has so far been so far away from his life.

GalaxianExplosion wrote:

龙兮龙兮风云会
The dragon that meets the wind and clouds
长啸一声舒怀襟
Lets out a relieved sigh. Yet, 
归去归去来兮我夙愿
"No matter what I see while moving about, my inevitable wish
余年还作垅亩民
is that in my remaining years, I will still be but a humble farmer,
清风明月入怀抱
who takes the clear wind and moonlight into my bosom
猿鹤听我再抚琴
as the cranes again hear my zither song."

Got pwned by my syntax choice (: the original is just too goshdarn good without me doing it some justice.
-龙兮: You may recall the phoenix lines from earlier, and you would be correct. Same second word. This time it's beckoning the dragon though. And it only beckons once. The dragon is already here.
-风云会: "meets the wind and clouds" (I literally cannot break this down further, except mention in passing that the dragon belongs to the sky, soaring in the wind and through the clouds)
-长啸: Lets out a long sigh. It's probably closer to a whistle, but I wanted to preserve the meaning of it. Think about how a dragon sounds like, ig.
-舒怀襟: The relieved part, directly translating to something like "that opens the chest". It's connected to the last part, indicating that the sigh that the dragon drew out has made it feel better and more relieved. Idk how to explain it except to imagine. When you're all anxious, your chest can feel tight and bunched up, but when you're relieved of that stress and anxiety, that bunched up feeling disappears, right? The same is happening for this dragon.

GalaxianExplosion wrote:

归去归去来兮我夙愿

Doing a somewhat big change here because I found out that this is a direct reference to a work called "归去来兮辞" by Tao Yuanming. It's translatable on its own, but basically I had thought that "归去来兮" refers to moving about. However, it rather refers to your sentiments about what you wish to do and where you wish to return to as "home" after you finish all that you wish to do, and ties the philosophies of Tao Yuanming to the simple wishes of Zhuge Kongming. (This might be up to further correction. I need to look at that work as well.) 

-归去来兮: A beckoning, rather than a chenyu. 来 and 兮 are both helper characters, which I didn't know before. I hecking love learning. Translated directly, it's something like, "Come, come." 
-夙愿: "Wish," but stronger. It's the sort of desire you hold in your heart for your entire life, a place you will always return to without changing, an ideal you cannot compromise. 

Updated translation for this line: 
"Oh home, my home, my inevitable wish"

余年还作垅亩民

-余年: "remaining years" covers it pretty well. Whatever years are left after he has finished doing what he must. 
-还: again
-作: to be, to live in the role of
-垅亩民: "citizen who sows the fields." A humble farmer. 

清风明月入怀抱

-清风明月: "the clear wind and pure moonlight"
-入: into
-怀抱: open arms, embrace

猿鹤听我再抚琴

I THOUGHT THAT 猿鹤 just means 'monkeys and cranes' but it turns out it's also a synonym for "隐士" AGAIN (I cried. again)

Oh btw 抚 means to "lightly press down". Idk how much it conveys but since I played zither, you get just such a gentle feeling from this. In his wish, he's playing soft, gentle songs to the monkeys and cranes around in his home, but also it communicates his wish that he and his friends can live to old age and again meet with each other, talking and laughing and listening to him play his instrument. JIFOSDJFOSFJIODS I just cannot. (I cried in front of my mom lol embarrassing)

GalaxianExplosion wrote:

（天道常变易 运数杳难寻）
(Chorus: The will of heaven often changes, and the path of fate is hard to trace)
啊
Ah--
（成败在人谋 一诺竭忠悃）
(Victory and defeat are turned within the hands of strategists, and a single vow binds one's loyalty)
（丈夫在世当有为）
(A man who lives in this world must create his own accomplishments,)
（为民播下太平春）
(to sow the seeds of peaceful spring for the people)

-天道: "The path of heaven." I'm actually not very familiar with common Chinese spiritual definitions, so I just have my own interpretation to go off of. But my interpretation is that the "path of heaven" refers to its rules and ways of operating. The way it points is the way history goes. In other words, it favours the victors before they become the victors, and the rules behind why the victors can reach their victory are also dictated by that path of heaven.
-常: Often
-变易: To change, but within its meaning it also includes a degree of "makeup" and "shifting". As in, you can think of the aforementioned "way" of heaven as being more liquid or gaseous than it is solid. It's constantly changing in form and shape and cannot be measured by mortals.

-运数: Fate/destiny, but I'm pretty sure I'm missing some kind of spiritual practice (like reading one's destiny or something) that I'm not familiar with here.
-杳: Dark and secluded, in a hard-to-find place
-难寻: Hard to search for

成败在人谋 一诺竭忠悃

-成败: Victory and defeat (got pwned with the parallel from the OP)
-人谋: The thoughts/strategies of people, A.K.A. strategists/tacticians (who are mortal)
-一诺: A single vow
-竭: To deplete (all)
-忠悃: Loyalty (the modern equivalent is zhongchen, I suspect the connotative meanings are different)

（丈夫在世当有为）
（为民播下太平春）

-丈夫: "Husband," but used in the third person it's used by men to refer to themselves. As expected, since the society was patriarchal, this just reflects their wish to have enough authority and initiative to do important things and make critical decisions. This is often accompanied by principles that men of the time were expected to abide by, like being able to provide for the family, to be brave in front of an enemy, and in this case to make accomplishments under his name.
-在世: "while living in this world," something like that.
-当: I am cautiously interpreting this as abbreviating the phrase "dangran", so this just means "obviously." Obviously this might be wrong.
-有为: To make a name for oneself, to make actual accomplishments during one's lifetime

-Galaxian-

The ED's lyrics and OP's visuals really combine to be something

-Galaxian-

Another day of absolutely WINNING since my favorite is a three star and easily obtainable from the FP banner (RIP to the rest of anyone)

GalaxianExplosion wrote:

Echo demonstrating that you should in fact simp for the Trojan punching bag because in exchange for him being pummeled in main story and events he gets a lower rarity designation so you can level 120 and append him without too much issue good luck on the EXP and QP tho lol, I'm pretty sure those are the legit universal issues that the game admin threw at you to make sure everyone experiences farming hell

-Galaxian-

 
Oh yeah 😔 I always forget I'm in QP hell

No.

-Galaxian-

Yan Qing is level 90 now, I better not hecking hate his character from the original (but if I did it would be so funny)
I doubt I will tho. 

Mostly looking to see if he has something regarding the length of his hair 'cause he keeps going on about it in both his normal and costume level up lines??

-Galaxian-

I finished the Challenge Quest of the event first try yesterday
Unfortunately, the first try again involved stall teaming, 'cause Douman (hecking Douman) cursed Erice off the field. So instead I took my sweet time and sprayed him with Asclepius' soap. Also whacked him with Castoria's staff. And ofc made him stare at Changgong.
It's pure irony that Changgong ended up having to fight Yan Qing ngl. 

The running line on Columbus' ship stats also just pwned me jfsidofjsd

-Galaxian-
 

Rhadamanthys??
(He saw the Kanon shards about to become an actual Kanon)

Funny unibrow.
My 9 Harpy Valentines: About time you arrived, my lord. I have been waiting for far too long
meanwhile Kardia:

-Galaxian-

PRTS staring at me like "This idiot" while I try to pass an E2.10 level with underlevelled snipers

I hate drones.

-Galaxian-

There we go. 3 stars
I don't even know who got through last time. A tactician for sure

-Galaxian-

I think my clear for S5-9 was one of the most satisfying level clears I've had in the entire game so far, holy crap. 
First try too btw I love luring people into narrow alleyways

How many narrow alleyway jokes can I make before you guys torch my homethread? Idk, but there are so many pages here I don't think you could burn much of it down to begin with. So I'm gonna keep making them

-Galaxian-

5-10 is doable with even my current roster, I just need to optimise better in regards to deployment and positioning

they say, when usually they do better on first tries than three star attempt runs

For once my vanguard placement was pretty good.
Level spoilers ahead, be warned.

Faust: (*sniping me with explosive bolts*)
Me, who started playing this game to see the relationship/story between him and Mephisto: Man what a cutie

Keypoints:
-Faust sniping priority? I tried taking Gravel but it didn't work half the time at first, does he prioritise further away operators?
-Also I need to level Gravel up further (as well as Kroos Alter)
-AOE vs single target healing?
-Defender placement (take advantage of side slots)
-I'm not sure how the enemy crossbolts get set up, but maybe the left corner is safer? I might end up needing to redeploy DPS operators in a safe spot, not too sure what ranged tanks I have other than Carnelian (and even then I remember her showings in the last event weren't that great defensively)
-Mephisto goes to the bottom lane. He's a loser, ignore him [mostly] [joking]

Yea, not too many points actually. I can do this! [next time they will fail 5 times in a row]

Love how in exchange for decreasing the angst on the Taurus and Pisces Saints, Asa gets traumatized to Elysium and back

Someone give him cupcakes but also he needs to be easier to design, like what the heck

-Galaxian-

For the current Arknights event, I can't get past the thought of the mechanics just being different mobs and the ultimate boss peeing blood in the garden
So you can imagine what I think when I watch that one enemy mob suck the water in and throw it at my operators' face.
I'm not disgusted easily, but I just feel so bad.

-Galaxian-

Also I bought Milo's skin but not another copy of God Cloth him
The next shop person will be God Cloth Seiya (who's OP I'm pretty sure) and then the featured skin will be Sea Dragon Kanon's. Skin as in, he took off his helmet. He looks pretty serious lol, he looks cool when he's serious (but I love that smug energy of his so I hope that never changes)

I dreamt about Saga and Shaka fighting. Basically my mind flexed its ability to animate again, what the actual heck (that was the coolest Galaxian Explosion I've seen whaaattt I'm so mad rn)

-Galaxian-