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Grenaja
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21, he/him, MDNI 🚫 Professional bad gamer Maintaining the Vivi Cold Steel agenda Writer for nintenpedia.com Review threads: #grenajareview Playing: #grenajainthesky1st PFP by @leonskyline.bsky.social For DMs: discord: grenaja
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Alright let's try another #promosky

Hi, I'm Grenaja, I like yapping about games, and I really love Vivi from Trails of Cold Steel. Some of my interests:

- Xenoblade
- Trails/Kiseki
- Quintessential Quintuplets
- Honkai: Star Rail
- Umamusume
- Warframe
- Dandadan
- Other JRPGs/anime
SO TRUE, the only reason I haven't been reading them as much as I want to is because of ✨procrastination✨

And if there's a blind spot in fanfic, people can also write one themselves, which I'll also try when I stop ✨procrastinating✨
I did play it at one point, but open-world gachas kinda burnt me out in general 😭
oh sounds good 👀 though I'm planning to just get some clothes (2 t-shirts, the hoodie, and a beanie)
Oh hell yeaaah 🔥
(I'm planning to get some stuff from there too, glad to hear their stuff is great)
good god I hope I made my point here clear enough, damn that was a rambling session.
In short, I'm not quitting HSR right away because Hoyo is hiring AI people, but I am going to distance myself somewhat from the game to prepare myself to drop it entirely when they fully embrace GenAI slop.

Also don't attack people, please.
Also I want to nuke GenAI of the planet.
the gacha elements, so many developers making great stuff.

And if Hoyoverse thinks that their artists are replaceable, they are gonna find that they themselves are ALSO replaceable.
Hoyo-Mix making amazing songs.

Without those artists, Hoyoverse games are just slot machines with fancy visuals.

The gacha game market is oversaturated nowadays; there are so many games to play that are pushing the boundaries. Like, NTE and Ananta are trying to reduce or outright drop...
because of the incredible team of artists that make these games what they are. The character designers, the writers and actors bringing those designs to life, the writers who create these imaginative worlds and compelling stories, the designers crafting jaw-dropping visuals, the composers at ...
It's why attacking people for getting Nintendo/ Microsoft/ Ubisoft/ EA, or in this case, playing Hoyoverse games, isn't gonna amount to much. Sometimes, you gotta let people enjoy things.

But there's a limit.

I still play Hoyoverse games, particularly HSR, ...
So yeah, the only people to blame for this scenario are the bigwigs. Attacking people for enjoying the things they love despite the problems is just a dick move. As I've been talking about, the fans are just a speck of data for a company....
but it sure is better than the alternatives. I guess that's the bleak thing about all this AI shit. What the fuck can we, as consumers, do when a company that makes some amazing art does some heinous shit? We want to enjoy/support the things we love, but as usual, corporate greed ruins it all. ...
if that blip disappeared. Yelling online into the void also wouldn't do much, it would just be worthless.

But it would be slightly less worthless to leave feedback through their official surveys.

Yeah it wouldn't do much either, especially to sway the business decisions from the big-wigs...
I wanna elaborate on this a bit. 🧵

I'm not dropping HSR right away. Partly because dropping a game I invested so much time into is tough, partly because they *could* reconsider (cope), but also because, what would it amount to? I'm just a blip in their data sheets, and nothing would change ...
With how much I do still love HSR, it's gonna be tough to drop, so I'll try to distance myself from it over time...

But if I do escape both... I WOULD BE FREE FROM GACHA FOR THE FIRST TIME IN LIKE 4 YEARS
a silhouette of a man holding up a chain in front of a sunset .
ALT: a silhouette of a man holding up a chain in front of a sunset .
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that's the one good point about them using AI, it's gonna make dropping them easier 🤣
Yeah, it's gonna hurt to quit, but if they go through with it...
Hoyoverse seems to be opening jobs for using (gen)AI in their game development

bsky.app/profile/litt...
Anyway here's Mihoyo promoting AI assisted game production including:

"Efficiency in Image and Material Generation
With very few materials, they can generate character model sheets + 3D models, allowing for the testing of multiple designs and their artistic outcomes."

Something to keep an eye on.
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ok nikke apparently has a new Phantom Thief event (I fucking LOVED last year's) and it's anniversary coming up, so I might check up on that for a bit, BUT APART FROM THAT MY FREEDOM FROM GACHA IS IN SIGHT WHOOO
With how much I do still love HSR, it's gonna be tough to drop, so I'll try to distance myself from it over time...

But if I do escape both... I WOULD BE FREE FROM GACHA FOR THE FIRST TIME IN LIKE 4 YEARS
a silhouette of a man holding up a chain in front of a sunset .
ALT: a silhouette of a man holding up a chain in front of a sunset .
media.tenor.com
With how much I do still love HSR, it's gonna be tough to drop, so I'll try to distance myself from it over time...

But if I do escape both... I WOULD BE FREE FROM GACHA FOR THE FIRST TIME IN LIKE 4 YEARS
a silhouette of a man holding up a chain in front of a sunset .
ALT: a silhouette of a man holding up a chain in front of a sunset .
media.tenor.com
I'm starting to get a tad burnt out on Umamusume, so I might drop it sometime after the half anniversary and the Unity Cup, or when I'm back home and need to deal with VPNs to play it.

I am also planning to distance myself from HSR, with Hoyo trying to get into AI-slap
I've been varying it a bit; sometimes I recreate myself (mainly an idealized one), sometimes an OC, sometimes recreating another character from an existing series, like I did in XCXDE.
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Send this to someone who's been a victim of Deutsche Bahn.
Just watched the finale of Jet Lag The Game All Stars... and... spoilers but...