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I, too, greatly enjoy this.
Ngl, this post made me think about how many, many years ago I had lore for a Warriors site, and instead of clans, it was a single dynasty with an emperor/empress, advisors, soldiers, so on. I had written "chapters" for the lore.

Sometimes, I go back, read it all, and think, "Where is this energy now?" 😂😂
That's called a novel, not a site.
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Do you guys ever get the urge to spend dozens of hours worldbuilding for a site you might never release to the public or just me
I, too, greatly enjoy this.
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I just wanted to build pity 😭😭😭😭
This is why we only pull on banners with characters we actually want. D: Never build pity!
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Me when working: "We use 'old, half-naked man' here because the emphasis is that we take issue with the fact the half-naked man is old, and the narrator would otherwise have been fine with it."

Me when walking the dogs: "Why is half-naked always about the top or bottom half? Why can't it be the left or right side, front or back?"
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My golden posting time is the moment I read the other's post and feel excited to continue the story.

But usually, my best posts come out after I walk the dogs, as I spend the entire walk ruminating on the post I'll write.
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Watching the Parade of Providence flagship event on YouTube now that I have done Sumeru's interlude and everything and reading about Wanderer writing "a few essays" on why Aqaba was wrong about Tatarasuna cemented this in my mind:


Dude woke up and chose violence. Who goes so far as to write A FEW essays on why someone is wrong?!
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If you join struggling little small sites, you can turn them into mid-sized sites.
(also there is only so much i can do as one individual person + when every time i end up becoming the "last man standing" on the site just chips away at my enthusiasm to keep trying to help end those struggles ;;;;;;; )
Don't let past failures inhibit future successes. 
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Your guess is as good as mine when they've been asking for replays for the longest time so they can replay them in different languages. I think because the comic covered a lot of characters (Amber's family, Diluc's father, even mentions about Jean and her sister, even Kaeya being a jerk to Collei which is forever one of my top ten Kaeya moments) they expected people to actually read everything for Mond. They realized afterwards that people didn't. Or if they did they pointed out issues. (Kaeya having a vision before he had a vision) - but since then they've been trying to do better after Inazuma specifically.

I actually feel you on the Kazu-mary sue, because even if he's not, he's got the vibes focus on him that he is and it was one of the most annoying things about Inazuma for me besides just the terribad writing which they acknowledged in later livestreams. God somehow Kazu was my most hated when I was expecting Ayaka. No one was happy with it. Legend has it that they pissed off so many people about it they actually tried for Sumeru. I know my personal feelings on the game are very different on Fontaine as most - but like I *like* Venti. Heck, I even thought Ganyu was tolerable, but characters like Dori and Kazu drove me up the wall. At least Kazu was useful for abyss.

Though, if history repeats itself, HSR is their testing grounds for most of their upcoming features - so if HSR has it, it's got a maybe 60 percent chance you'll be able to replay somethings. I don't know how much tbh. From what they addressed the reason they don't have it cause they didn't have focused view which they do now so hoyo. Tbh, I just want an Albedo rerun. Where is my tiny man. You come back for cats but you don't come back for your bloody birthday.
I hate to be the bearer or terrible news but I am like..mostly certain Albedo will never see a rerun unless it's on that Mond combined banner from now on. I'm pretty sure that was the intention of it, to just get rid of some solo running banners and combine them, so there were less banners altogether. 
Maybe he'll make an appearance alongside Shenhe.
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I actually came into Genshin thinking of Venti as an annoying little twerp, but he grew on me. I'd pull for him if I could, but I have 20k primos and nothing to pull on; I don't really dig Xilonen or Chiori, though I might throw a few at Nahida (having just finished the Sumeru quest line).

I feel like Genshin characterisation would benefit from using fewer characters but giving them more screentime. Natlan, for example, all the characters get a lot of screentime and personality. Mondstadt, Jean has very little screentime and what we get from her is incredibly meagre. You can tell the MiHoYo team has grown; speaking as a newbie who has only just gotten ready to embark to Fontaine, the writing quality in Sumeru was much stronger than Inazuma/Liyue.

Mondstadt's basic quest line was actually pretty good, in my humble opinion, and if there's any qualm I have with Sumeru, it's that a large part of the story is confined to Sumeru City, leaving a large part of the map just entirely optional to explore. It does make the world feel larger, but at the same time, my time in Sumeru felt incredibly short compared to all the running around I did in the previous nations and in Natlan.

I agree on that point. They put in too many, and way too fast.

I just wish that some characters also didn't have their lore/Big Moments locked behind events that go away. (As a suffering Albedo fan.) It makes me annoyed as hell. 
As a new player, I feel that. I've taken to just looking up the flagship events I've missed on YouTube, but it kinda sucks really hard they haven't just put them into the game permanently like they did for HSR. Knowing there's a Lantern Rite where Venti visits Liyue, as well as knowing I'll never get to experience it by playing myself is really a big bummer.

I think at least with Natlan, they held back on the "too many, too fast", considering Kachina and Ororon both play big roles in the story despite being 4-stars.
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Not to double-post on purpose but: it’s not like my taste in characters is outwardly fantastic since aside from Venti I tend to like some very polarizing characters. Scara and Furina for one which, both have very vehement haters. I’d mention Xiao is my main but I’m honestly getting tired of his characterization by a lot of people just being edgy lmao
I actually came into Genshin thinking of Venti as an annoying little twerp, but he grew on me. I'd pull for him if I could, but I have 20k primos and nothing to pull on; I don't really dig Xilonen or Chiori, though I might throw a few at Nahida (having just finished the Sumeru quest line).

I feel like Genshin characterisation would benefit from using fewer characters but giving them more screentime. Natlan, for example, all the characters get a lot of screentime and personality. Mondstadt, Jean has very little screentime and what we get from her is incredibly meagre. You can tell the MiHoYo team has grown; speaking as a newbie who has only just gotten ready to embark to Fontaine, the writing quality in Sumeru was much stronger than Inazuma/Liyue.

Mondstadt's basic quest line was actually pretty good, in my humble opinion, and if there's any qualm I have with Sumeru, it's that a large part of the story is confined to Sumeru City, leaving a large part of the map just entirely optional to explore. It does make the world feel larger, but at the same time, my time in Sumeru felt incredibly short compared to all the running around I did in the previous nations and in Natlan.

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dude at this point idec what they're about, i'd just like to see a bustling "middle class" of mid-sized sites (~5-20 active writers, ~50-150 active characters) instead of the over-saturation of two extremes of supermassive mega sites or struggling little small sites
If you join struggling little small sites, you can turn them into mid-sized sites.


I am also quite serious about Breath of the Wild, so while I know myself well enough that I'm not well-suited to the role of taking charge of it all (on account of my emotional volatility), I would be right glad to lend my help to anyone who does want to set one up.
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This is why I don't like Kaedehara in Genshin.
I respect he isn't your preference but imo they're not even same ballpark.

He'd be...a Mary Sue on like...a human level where he's exceptionally good at things and virtuous. 

At least he doesn't have even the gods being like "ah yes thank u for teaching me everything" lol. Rover feels like she's not even one step away from being *walks into a room and everyone falls in love with me*.

At least even the most Mary Sue Genshin characters still struggle with things. I love WuWa designs but there are 0 stakes because a magical solution will float out of my hand.

If people had introduced Kaedehara to me as the Anemo Archon, I would've believed them. My problem with his design is that everyone adores him, even the Traveller has to heap praises on Kaedehara. (It strikes me that my chosen username seems like a Genshin reference now, lol.)

He can randomly track thieves over considerable distance by "listening to the wind" (hi Barbatos), and though he left Inazuma, he randomly returns in the nick of time to rescue Gorou's troop from an attack, and then he randomly shows up in the nick of time to deflect Raiden Shogun's legendary Musou no Hitotachi which was a feat previously thought impossible.

Then he swishes his cape and "my work here is done."

I haven't played WuWa so I can't say to what degree they share similarities, but I wanted to commiserate that I don't like Kaedehara Kazuha because everyone likes him and he's so well-rounded that, whenever he appears, he is the solution to the problem you're having, which seemed the gist of your Rover dislike.

I'm not going to argue over which is worse, though, I just wanted to share a feeling.
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Am I the only one who thinks Rover has...massive Mary Sue vibes? Just from my opinion she seems involved with literally everything, everyone likes her, exc. It's kinda disappointing me tbh, because I feel there are no stakes when we're supposedly so all-powerful nothing matters lol
This is why I don't like Kaedehara in Genshin.
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Was it really necessary to put my robe and wizard hat joke in the grand RP thread?
I totally thought it was part of it, my bad. I'll move it back.
Oh, no, no, all in good fun. I was simply referencing the legendary bloodninja chatlog! 'twas but a jape.
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Was it really necessary to put my robe and wizard hat joke in the grand RP thread?
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