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@arewenotmen3 yes, not only are the characters under the influence of abstract reality, but the writers ask the audience to also partake in that it’s a very unique approach to storytelling, but in hindsight to be expected, the universe doesn’t have a god breaking the fourth wall for nothing

@seraph07yaps Something that could be brought atone as pertinent, too, is the discreet theme of the distinction of fiction and reality the story and the universal of the game in general likes to toy around. "Yes, even if this is not real, the effects of this fiction are to be appreciated."?

this line is single-handedly the most important thing spoken in the hoyoverse constance’s answer, to the question whether there is any free will in regards to pre-determined destiny, being that “her joy is real, her sorrow is real”, highlights the true essence of life-

@Ganyyuuu true, but bc of banacedemic’s true aoe nature it would benefit an acheron team more than rem who has two dpses whose dmg profile consists of bounce attacks, which causes them to inherently benefit less

@seraph07yaps i mean u play acheron with ashveil and blade so nikador should be easy too while remembrance struggles against nikador since nobody of them really uses skill points

they give apoc nikador the memosprite buff and banacademic the follow up atk buff? wouldnt it make more sense if they swap these bc evernight and cyrene have such an easy lineup against banacademic and ashveil eats nikador as breakfast

some dynamic pose studies with kafhime

sometimes I just wander around looking for stray chests and every time I’m either is sumeru or natlan something in my soul quite literally ascends I’m very serious when I say that the environmental storytelling (through music) in these two regions is the best gaming has to offer

@lyteupthelyfe it almost desensitises death in doing so (especially with the implied universal resets) which is very interesting in context to the whole story where the main cast is trying to prevent the destruction of said universe, yet the focus quite literally is on the journey to that goal

@seraph07yaps @owlsparliament i find the game's mediation on nihility, finality, and predetermination so interesting because it can be applied to so many things, but i think it also speaks to contemporary anxieties around death and such

@owlsparliament instead of being poetic like the other two, black swan just immediately went for the pseudo-scientific answer the present is only what you make of it, an expression of creating memories is what prevents beings from turning into ‘nothingness’

@owlsparliament yes it doesss, it’s lovely I also think black swan has a similar line too, but would have to find it

@S4MUDRARTHA so many of my favourite lines come from this quest and especially from constance, what a phenomenal character

@seraph07yaps One of my favorite lines in the game

Is equilibrium there to symbolize that they keep nihility and enigmata/remembrance in balance does that mean that the rivers cocytus and phelegeton are also going to belong to emanators representing opposing paths? truly curious what the endgame here is, with such a long setup

I have wondered for a while what the exact connection is with the 3 out of 5 existing rivers of the underworld in hsr river of acheron stemming off of nihility river of lethe stemming off of enigmata/remembrance and river of styx stemming off of equilibrium (castorice/polyxia)-

@Sippin_Cocoa oh I’m unfamiliar with this character, where are they from?

@seraph07yaps I know who Constance would get along with

@Opezdaz @LilPhai_ whereas in break, having lingsha steal a break can be detrimental for the dps but this is all in mind with me wanting lingsha to just have a stronger niche, bc most of the time that translates to better kits

@Opezdaz @LilPhai_ they could of course, but it’s more so that a break archetype and a fun archetype want generally different utilities, buffs can be easily divided but the manner in which her kit works would in the end synergies more with one archetype than the other e.g. fua wants a lot of atks-

lowkey a lingsha novaflare should just make her niche, a dedicated fua-healer her synergy with blade is off the roof (as this e0s0 acheron team 2-cycling can prove) so just imagine if she contributed to the team with actual buffs besides having a great attack-frequency

@Rjeidjrkejfrbe hey put some respect of fuyuan’s name they are bunny /j but yes those aside, they could also make her not consume skill points if she hits the enemies with the ‘befog’ state, ala ashveil style, spamming skill advances fuyuan more which means even more actions

@seraph07yaps They should give her more ER, more turns for her little rat, some decent debuffs like 30 vuln + 12 res pen and give her better healing numbers and she's perfect.

@Evanyaopilled Yessss you see my vision, lingsha wasn’t for nothing used in therta teams at 3.0

@seraph07yaps She would also be better for therta if they switched her over from break

@praecipitanter not to mention that the old man also sold his daughter’s BABY for profit too a very deserved death

genshin loving this random Fontaine quest where we learn this old man weve been chatting with sold his daughter into bad marriages for profit so we just stand by when she and her friends cart him off to torture and kill him

@LilPhai_ I mean her low healing numbers won’t even matter if she truly gets more frequent fu yuans of course she’ll probably have the same problem as huohuo, no dmg mitigation against oneshots, but those enemies are few and far between

@seraph07yaps True. I would rather just make them give her more atk frequency to synergies more with Fua teams As long as they can make that happen I won't even ask them to fix her sustain problem (since Mblade already solves that)