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The Pinned

Formerly known by the urls get-your-waves-wuthered and genshin-brained.

This is a gacha sideblog for sharing my grind struggles, posting memes & jokes, discussing story and possibly publishing fanfiction.

Ex-Genshin player still following the story via YouTube. Wuthering Waves player since launch.

Genshin faves: Neuvillette, Alhaitham, Kaveh, Ororon, Raiden Ei, Furina, Zhongli, Scaramouche, Xiao.

WuWa faves: Jiyan, Brant, Zani, Phrolova, Galbrena, Qiuyuan.

Despite preferences, might post about pretty much anyone.

I ship Haikaveh, dabble in Zhongven & Neuvifuri and may reblog content for other ships on occasion, but I try to tag every ship so you can avoid it if you wish.

Tags I use (mostly self-reminder):

stormyrainyday

i love genshin. i actively discourage my friends from getting into it. the world is beautiful and expansive and extremely fun to explore. seeing the whole map is overwhelming. the story is engaging and the lore is rich and deep and scattered throughout the world and built up through quests. the lore is also incomprehensible to the casual audience. some of my favorite characters and the most compelling backstories ive seen exist in this game. theyre locked behind thousands of lines of text or limited events or, most egregiously, pages of notes hidden around a region with no in-game guide to finding them all. the combat system is fun to learn and work with and around and you can build so many creative teams and play whoever you want. the meta has nosedived into gimmicky mechanics and outright shills for new characters. new characters are fun and exciting and learning their kits and building them is an enjoyable part of the game. the gacha mechanic is predatory and aspects of it are unforgiving-- god forbid you ever pull for a four star. there's a built in card game and home design simulator and rhythm game and ucg. these things cannot be removed if you have no interest in them. the writing covers themes of war and guilt and power struggles and justice and fate and family and passing the torch to the next generation; who deserves the right to knowledge; what does it mean to be a human or a god. the plot is unfocused and bloated with filler and so far removed from the original objective of finding your family after losing them. this game has something good for everyone. this game will drive everyone crazy in its own way. the game is free to play. the mental barrier to entry is so high. i love playing but i hate feeling like i'm being held hostage. it's so good and bad. i play it every day and i think no one should get into it.

sviteer

Lightkeeper

#flins

gacha-brained

It's interesting that exposure to the Abyss has changed Chasca's and Childe's lives in what are basically completely opposite ways. Childe is going around looking for a fight and a challenge, meanwhile Chasca's literal job is solving conflicts.

The reaction to their contamination was also completely different. Childe got sent away by his parents because he was too much to handle, meanwhile Chasca, surrounded by a loving and supportive adoptive family, was able to learn to control her condition.

It's a fascinating contrast. Can Hoyo send Childe on another vacation to Natlan or something, I'd love to see the two of them interact.

gacha-brained

Chasca: So you were exposed to the Abyss as a child too? Sorry to hear that. I know how tough it is to have to constantly reign in the destructive urges

Childe: Fight me

^ my current vision

#this post is still peak. a shame hoyo won't do anything with this

spincrystal28

wanderer being completely down with sacrificing himself in the new nod-krai quest is making me laugh I love that his character arc is apathy about the concept of his own death (suicidal style) to apathy about the concept of his own death (buddhist style). What a guy

#help #I am so not caught up in Genshin lore but this is awesome #wanderer