Trying to figure out if I should do YOLO pulls to try to get Mlynar or if I should save to 18 Originite Prime to get Ebenholz's skin. It wouldn't be difficult, I just need to keep doing Main Story and probably some Side Story stuff. Idk when it expires, but it shouldn't be too hard if I have a bit of time. 
I think I've mentioned before that I don't care too much about skins, 'cause it's not like I can't stare at the art like I have a problem without buying them. But if it symbolizes character development... HMMM... (I can't tell if this is like alternate reality angst or actual character development symbolism, 'cause I don't understand Arknights skin lore)
Also these things are heckin' expensive. 18 Originite Prime is about 5.4 pulls. This might not feel like a lot, but it's half a multi, and if you were to go after skins for a lot of characters, it'd show pretty fast.
Rn the only skin I've felt like buying is Bassline's, coming up in like 5 months or so. He's smiling in it and I just kinda have to (also star theme and the fact it's a roleplay...like seriously I have existential obligation)

Shoutout to Astesia for making one of my strats work btw, and Kirara for being cool (I think I might like Ambushers once I get the hang of using them). Getting better at the E2+ recommended levels, probably 'cause I now have a few E2s. Usually I just bring like 2 of them though. Probably shows that I have more promoting to do in the future (I love Greythroat and Zuo Le)

I am talking so much about Arknights because I put myself under extreme moral/mental duress with writing lol hey at least we writing. Right? ahaha

-Galaxian-

I'll accept skill issue as being part of the explanation, but not all of it since skill issues apply equally to the other games I play as well. I feel like my other critiques are pretty reasonable.

Time wrote:

But really, where are you in limbus anyways?

Somewhere over the rainbowwww (I think what I mentioned about my engagement levels and the EXP requirements gives it away)

Time wrote:

If you're talking about the observation levels, those aren't required, that's just flavor text, tbh I still don't know how to unlock those myself and I just read them somewhere else lol. My guess it's based upon how many times you defeat them.

What do you mean they don't contain major hints on what to do :')
I'm pretty sure it's from multiple encounters, yeah. Which is again part of it. Arknights lists the core mechanics after you go into the fight once, even if you fail. 
I guess I just don't find clicking and reading all that engaging when it comes to learning what I need to do, plus Limbus has the glitch of often refusing to open the effects menu anyways. (insert continuation of critique on Baba Yaga's fight mechanic here)

I don't mind fighting a boss I haven't seen before. I mind for when in this case, Mirror Dungeon, your team is set in stone already and you had no idea on what you'd need to defeat this boss who, again, you haven't seen before. I guess it could theoretically be solved by just searching up enemies in advance, but F/GO has that critiqued often of it for valid reasons (skill descriptions never give enough info, you need to go to the different wikis to see actual numbers), and I think it's true that if you need to get information from outside of a game to prep for something, then that game has a design failure in how it presents its information. 

And Kim definitely has a healing factor lol. It's based on damage dealt from his hecking bone-claiming skill. I'm guessing you had enough damage to stagger and kill him quickly when you fought him, but I don't have a team who can go through that big of a chunk of 2000 HP within a limited number of turns, so. The closest one to a nuker on my team would be W Corp Don Quixote with the Rip Space skill, and then Outis and Rodya have somewhat high-rolling base EGOs that have fairly high damage if they can outroll Distorted Kim. Sometimes they cannot, 'cause I don't think I have a consistent way to outroll a 30. 
The team I put into the fight was W Don Quixote, Ring Pointillist Student Outis, Rosespanner Workshop Gregor, LCCB Rodya, Zwei Assoc. Faust, and base Meursault. Notes on rationale and stuff:
-Outis was for the high-rolling EGO as I mentioned, plus its affinity is correct. Unfortunately Ring Pointillist her has pretty hecking bad numbers on her normal skills, so that bit me a few times. I tried to use her EGO whenever I could to compensate for this.
-Ik Gregor's Solemn Lament has a Sinking variant and that isn't good, but I brought him purely for the damage, plus he has a Charge Count synergy with Don Quixote. I didn't notice any error in using him. I didn't use any of his other EGOs 'cause they have potential to inflict Sinking
-Meursault has pretty horrendous rolls and speed, but that makes him a good EGO-based debuffer. And again, the affinity is correct
-Faust is for Sanity support (not mine, her EGO doesn't help me at all), and again, correct affinity
-Rodya was because of her EGO (affinity and high rolls; she outrolled To Claim Their Bones once which was pretty impressive). Didn't do too much other than that though. 

And btw you don't have to refresh on mechanics. A core part of my problem was lacking the momentum to cripple Distorted Kim after Staggering him. In theory I know perfectly well how to beat him lol (suggestions are still welcome though if you feel like making them and have the time and stuff)

-Galaxian-
 

Oh nooooo I need to rewatch Hades Sanctuary to make sure I'm remembering Saga's usage of Galaxian Explosion in that arc right, what do I doooo

Btw the dude is so funny. He's legit confused by Kanon's usage of the exact same illusion technique he used against the Bronzes in the Sanctuary arc (so like. infinite looping his Temple, having a proxy there in his armour rather than being there himself)
To his credit, he then figures out his brother's specific location immediately after that, which is impressive, but he really is like "HUH" for a bit which is hilarious 

Also I'm saying that Shaka is stronger than him comparatively, but just to be clear. This dude can send one shot through all the Temples from Gemini to Pisces to the Pope's Temple, and no one seemed to even try to stop him. Clearly he has something going on for him

-Galaxian-

Btw I don't remember Phantasos very well and all this is just in [crap]posting territory
However I will say that maybe a god doesn't have a substantial reason to change their form unless it 1) serves them a purpose or 2) is something they actually want. And iirc Phantasos did not react well to their female form being stripped away, so it's probably not just something like "they're messing with their enemies" (gods are generally too hubris-filled in SS to make tactical decisions like those anyways)

I'm really here just putting together pieces of evidence to suggest my theory of this specific non-canon god being trans is objectively correct

-Galaxian-

I admit that I would admire it if they're in it just for the bit. They have their thighs out and the "female" chest armour variation and everything lmiao

-Galaxian-

The minor dream gods are funny because on one hand I cannot remember much about any of them, and on the other they clearly have that sibling dynamic of one of them doing something and the others rolling their eyes and being like "kill me now" I do not have siblings
I guess it's fitting since Thanatos and Hypnos also have the fanon-verified vibe of one of them Thanatos doing something and the other (Hypnos) rolling his eyes and being like "kill me now"

-Galaxian-

Phantasos watching all this unfold: What the [heck]

-Galaxian-

well the reason why I was asking exactly where you were was to know if MDH was unlocked yet, but I might as well be direct with it

is this MDH or just normal MD?

yeah I searched it up and I remembered perfectly lmiao

Tfw your plastic surgery (understatement) is reversed by some dude with a sword dream Phantasos and Gilgamesh should have a talk

-Galaxian-

Time wrote:

well the reason why I was asking exactly where you were was to know if MDH was unlocked yet, but I might as well be direct with it

is this MDH or just normal MD?

it's normal, I wouldn't go into MDH with my current levels lol

-Galaxian-

Finally getting to watch The Clone Wars
You guys have no idea how excited I am. Though I'll probably have to split it into bits and pieces for a very long time. I also need to keep going through the Arknights anime, and eventually pick up everything I did not finish watching...but the latter is lower priority

I can say even without watching a single episode in full that if I were able to watch it when it first came out, it would be one of my childhood favorites. But I'm still very much a kid, and it's never too late, so I guess it will be, huh?

And btw I'm one of the prequel likers lol. I like the straightforward story of the original trilogy well enough, but I love me a good predestined tragedy prequel. Also, maybe because of SS, I love the premise of people (Jedi) who are clearly well-intentioned but focus on ideals so much that certain people in the organization come out with Problems (TM) and bring their ruin. If SS weren't shounen, the Sanctuary would be hecking doomed, just like the Jedi Order was destined to fall.
Anyways, I love a lot about Star Wars. Love the technology, potential for world-building, many of its characters, its many diverse art styles/writing styles, etc. etc. I owe a big portion of my love for reading to Star Wars in addition to many many other series (mostly 'cause I never was able to actually watch any movies in full, and had to read the text adaptations over and over again. No complaints, since I loved them). 
 
Sequels? What sequels (I haven't watched them and don't plan to lol)

Spoiler »Love how the first episode is just about how awesome Yoda is. Yes, the Jedi Order fell under him. Yes, he was part of the problem. But my guy was doing his best btw Yoda and Shion both having Green and being old is part of a long ongoing joke between me and myself
Another part of why I'm watching this is 'cause I've always itched for more depictions of Anakin's and Obi-Wan's relationship. I looove me some student-teacher relationships (and Anakin/Obi-Wan in particular are very interesting to me because the Chinese usually tend to depict student-teacher relationships as being more parental, while they are clearly more like siblings due to Obi-Wan being relatively young and Anakin being "overage" when they became master and apprentice). Oh yeah, and I love Obi-Wan lol. I wanna see more of the sass

The SS AU brainrot has been specific in that it's focused on Trauma, so that's been so fun for me. Rn I am of a normal mood and that is because I am once again destroying my sleep schedule. In the day I am burdened by the moral responsibility of what I hecking did

I love the characters in it btw (a good number of them are those I haven't really shared with most/all of you, but technically most of them are from GGaD, just not submitted lol)
From the current cast you guys would know 9 out of the 13 Gold Saints, which is kinda intentional since I kinda decided those first. But 3 of those 9 don't belong to me, so you can kinda see a thing there.  They're about to be, at least in this AU specifically, since their creator (*cough*) doesn't write them and so I make huge presumptions on their character that I get immensely protective over. Echo can probably testify with what I do to forum!Silence lol
The Silver Saint dev is gonna be a pain, not because they are Silver Saints but because of certain other reasons :') and don't get me started on the Bronze Saints. They lack the plot armour/strength of the Canon 5 and I am so scared for them (technically they also lack the plot armour of all the rest of the Bronzes who survived, since they have the virtue of Being the Friends of the Protags and can probably collectively survive a hit from a god)

-Galaxian-

I might as well make some commentary on Lone Trail as well. Not anywhere near to a review, mind you. Just some notes

Spoiler »Please note that as an event, it's similar to how I entered Zwillingsturme im Herbst. I haven't gone into any of its prequels. But I do think it's more interesting to go into some events in a non-accurate chronological order, because then you look at the writing differently. You look for all the info to piece together the context. You see how friendly it is to newer players.

For that reason, I don't have enough info to go off of for Kristen. But I'll note a few impressions.
One, she's a stellar (pun intended) antagonist. I think she really embodied all the themes relating to science and progress in this event. Her motivations stem from a very human incident, of losing her parents, yet you could say that the way she reacted--culminating into all that happens in the present--is inhumane and scary. Normal people grieve and move on. Kristen made her entire life from that moment, as she watched her parents die from far away. Just like how scientists toil away their lives searching for an answer to a single question, when "normal" people wonder and then move on. In that way, she's the pinnacle of what a scientist seems to be, or even is.  
Two, I think her design is also very notable. When I saw her, I thought, "This woman looks so ordinary." She looked like a human to me, and if not for her name mentioned a few times marking her as the antagonist, I probably would've skipped over her because she doesn't really seem all that special. She's a Perro (dog-based race, a reference to Laika from Russia), but her ears blend in with her hair. She has a very ordinary face to me, not particularly cute or pretty, and with a sort of standoffish vibe to her. Her costume very strongly evokes the same vibes as Voyager (3rd Ascension) from F/GO, which was a nice similarity, but still, it didn't really strike out to me as being out of the ordinary. It was nice. Just "any other lady" who turns out to have all these ambitions, not completely known even to the best of her friends.

And then I guess I'll overview some thoughts on Rhine Lab's directors?
It was nice seeing who Muelsyse actually is. I get her character to an extent, but I'm not completely sure if there was more info on her in previous events. I guess I do like characters who are nice but have their own overarching objectives (such as saving their species). They're interesting, but in Muelsyse's case, I'm not completely sure how she's helped handle Rhine Lab's many morality problems, for instance, so she's not completely off the hook for me.
It was also nice finally being able to "meet" Saria. Albeit, she's already quit Rhine Lab for a while now, and I dunno when it was. I think I'm meeting her near the end of her character arc. I like how she's protective over Ifrit. Actually, I will fight anyone who threatens the lil found family that Ifrit has with Saria and Silence. But again, I'm not too sure how culpable she is for Rhine Lab's moral deterioration. It was only touched on in this event, and I'm guessing there is much more elaboration on what happened in previous ones. Refraining from judging her whole character for now.
Silence--I love her. I don't know everything about her either, though from what I can tell, she was a minor researcher? Not a director or anything. And ik her morality probably irks some people; it's probably a bit blatant for those who prefer greyer moralities. But I like her for trying her best. Glad she's the welfare. Cute owl. 

Not sure what to comment on for Ferdinand, so I will refrain. Same goes with the Banshee director (Nasti, who has a funny name I keep reading as "Nasty") and anyone else I haven't mentioned. For sure I am not completely sure how Rhine Lab operates yet, though it seems to be pretty sketchy, hence I'm particularly hard on the playable director characters.
As for Loken and Parvis...man idc if I don't have more information, screw them (: no elaboration required. If you wanna fight me on this you can, but I will judge. So glad I was able to canonically punch Loken

I really liked the climax. With how critical I am on Rhine Lab (despite not knowing much about it...you can't blame me though, it's hella shady), I felt the hypocrisy of anticipating what would happen when the actual launch happened. It parallels how humans will celebrate achievements that were maybe built off of less-than-ethical methods. Not that they won't condemn those methods when presented to them, but those achievements will be recognized in some form, and then built off of. That was the vibe that this event's climax brought to me. That I'm just as hypocritical in that sort of way, for feeling awe at this achievement. It was fictional, but also paralleling reality. 

My biggest criticism would probably be the logic of what Kristen was doing to preserve the lives of the remaining directors. I mean, even assuming her technology didn't explode and become debris just splattering all over the citizens below, and with all her talk on wanting the remaining directors to lead the future she wouldn't be a part of, Saria nearly just...splattered all over the ground because there was no escape pod. Not to mention, Muelsyse was, y'know, in an escape pod that didn't even work and had no way to be tested. Like idk man. Yes, most of the directors were on the ground, and Saria/Muelsyse seem very persistent. But those were her co-founders lol. 

I can't comment on the Doctor's character arc. I think the bulk of it will come from Main Story, so I won't say anything about that for now.
Btw do not loop Babel OST (I am still doing it, more or less), it makes you ill in a mental sort of way. Would recommend

My mom used to not understand why I hate some of my writing and hate hearing my recorded voice, and then she recorded her own and now she understands lol (she sends them to me but she says she never wants to hear the recordings again xD tbh it probably depends on the device. If the recording quality is higher, I remember she's fine with re-listening)
She also keeps sending me emojis and memes but taking them in a literal sense xD so she's using them correctly but not completely correctly? The other day I got pwned by her using a variation the "This is fine" meme lol (with the burning house in the background). She's so funny and I love her

On another note, I need to figure out how to sing "Standchen" from Arknights (I am going back into wayyy too many things I'm forgetting most of them)
My recorded voice isn't the worst compared to what I expected. Definitely still pretty bad though.
"Standchen" is very enjoyable. It brings out all the edgy 

-Galaxian-

Btw Arknights football is so fun
My records so far are (in terms of goal differences) 8 for the beginner version, and 10 for the advanced version. Idk how we got to 10 in that one round but apparently I peaked there lol

Funniest part of the event has been seeing partners nuke the ball into our goal.

-Galaxian-