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You know the biggest loss of the decline of physical media and the rise of streaming? DVD special features.

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I love you DVD commentaries I love you making-of documentaries I love you behind the scenes footage I love you bloopers I love you deleted scenes I love you silly little videos of the cast dicking around 💖

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Meanwhile me sitting here owning a large organizer tub full of VHS tapes and wondering if I should just bite the bullet and finally get rid of them.

I don’t even have a VCR anymore.

Also, that tub weighs more than it has any right to for a bunch of plastic and magnetic tape.

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The event staff made me do it.

C6 Zhongli on the f2p challenge gang, shown here with his highest heal so far and some lulz from co-op where I tested this exact build with a couple randos. It worked really well, and I’m not sure I want to tweak it beyond maybe fiddling with substats. I’m also not sure what a healing hat would do by comparison, or 4pc maidens, or changing out to 2pc hp/hp passives with full hp stats on everything… hmm I should actually have the pieces for that last variant, possibly with a healing hat to throw in for testing purposes versus HP. More hp makes the shield beefier but would lower the actual heal amount. Hrrm.

Anyways whatevs, I’m actually really pleased with this build. Not sure I would trust it somewhere like co-op max-level Azhdaha and it is much harder to pull off versus something that moves around a lot or flies, like the start of that co-op game which was mid-fight at the Aeonblight Drake and it went into flight mode right after I loaded in. It’d be really rough somewhere that pillars are immediately destroyed, like at heckin’ Oceanid… unless there’s someone in the comp with a lot of energy generation. Hrrm.

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Welp… after doing some calculations with the f2p challenge gang, I realized they were 10 fates short of the 240 “worst case scenario” weapon banner amount, if I converted dust to fates. Redhorn Thresher has been on the wishlist for their C6 Noelle for quite a while, and while I want Neuvillette and Baizhu cons… this particular banner combination may never rerun and Chiori’s sword is now Albedo’s BIS. So… Venti bless us, here we go.

50 wishes in, all the luck for this account arrived: my second double-5-star result in the history of playing Genshin Impact. The EU not-really-low-spenders-anymore actually got the first one yesterday but I’d forgotten to screenshot it. (They R4’d Chiori’s sword for their C6 Albedo and R4’d Noelle a Thresher in the process because they have insane luck and I had top-up bonuses still so it was time to spoil them.) Wow. Uh, I’ll take it! And maybe Neuvie can get a con once his banner reruns or I’ll just forward the stash to Baizhu if there’s a Liyue legacy banner sooner than later because his C1 is kind of a big priority. Hmm!

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Ana’s build at the Castle in survival Fallout 4 is, umm… an art project. Yep, we’re gonna go with that. I think I had to just get it out of my head and into the world-space, and while I like the central bridge thingy that crosses over the fort’s “airspace,” I’m not so thrilled with the outer wall versions. I probably should have made them the same size as the crossway ones. Whoopsie.

Oh well, it be done and serviceable enough, not that any of the Minutemen seem to care that the new construction exists. All of their useful stuff was already set up in the old fort rooms as of ages ago. In fact, I’d forgotten until recently that they hadn’t seen a full-blown build yet. Enjoy your gift of structure, guys, and try not to blow out any windows… that took a lot of glass.

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Still in shock… the Genshin Impact low-spenders on EU not only C6’d Albedo from nothing, but I decided to get him Chiori’s sword after C2 showed up in good time. They’ve been saving for this for eons (passed 100k primos a while ago), and boy did it pay off in spades. Or geo shards. Whichever. Broken Albedo main in the EU hizzouse!

Main account on US and the hefty f2p challenge both pulled Albedo’s C1+C2… was really hoping the f2p gang would get a new 5-star if/when losing the 50/50 but no… a Jean con because let’s rub it in that I’ve had issues with her build there (phys is proving underwhelming but she’s the last in line for good artis so I shouldn’t be surprised). Both accounts got Kaeya’s final constellation, and boy was I surprised to realize the legacy banner includes him, Amber, and Lisa. But it doesn’t have the rate-ups on Gorou and Yun Jin which f2p really could have used cons for… because it looks like this legacy banner has only Mondstadt 4-star chars and weapons, including the ones that are usually exclusives on weapon banners.

Wish breakdown as follows:

  • Main: Jean C2, Albedo C1, Jean C3, Albedo C2. 200 wishes.
  • F2P challenge: Albedo C1, Jean C2, Albedo C2. 220 wishes, 29k primos left.
  • EU: Albedo C0, Albedo C1, Albedo C2, Skyward Blade, Uraku Misugiri, Albedo C3, Diluc C0, Albedo C4, Albedo C5, Diluc C1, Albedo C6. 560 wishes on Albedo, 80 wishes on Chiori’s weapon banner, 11k primos left.
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Abandoned fort shell turned beefy new Gunner stronghold? Check. Unnecessarily large rooftop nuclear reactor? Check. General store vendor and a medic by the oh-so-unsterile deathclaw cage? Check and check.

Ana’s Fallout 4 survival build at Spectacle Island is complete. I wanted to do “Red Rocket but bigger” and yep, it do be exactly that. There are currently two deathclaws booping around, which I’ve named Brenda and Glenda. Bottom floor of the fort has been half-consumed by sand and holds the garden, while the second floor has dining, kitchen, and bunks. More bunks on the third floor plus crafting and the living room. Light on decor again, ah well.

WIPs: clicky
Old cliffside cabin that is now gone: also clicky

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A study in Star Rail Simulated Universe Elation resonance damage boosting, using entirely unfair means of comparison and well… I’m just happy the f2p challenge gang is doing so well now. The first pic is Blade showing off his follow-up on my main account, but he’s actually outdone by the f2p gang in the second and third pics using Jing Yuan’s follow-up and ult respectively.

I hate that fucking deer boss so bad and it is an absolute joy to repeatedly send it back to the hell that spawned it… mostly because I need to farm the relic ornament rewards from that world level. I would say both groups clear the fight in roughly the same amount of time, though I haven’t actually timed it and results will vary with the buff cards anyways.

Main: E0 Hanya, E4S3 Blade, E0S1 Clara, E0S1 crit Luocha
F2P: E6 Hanya, E0 Dr. Ratio, E1S5 Jing Yuan, E2 crit Luocha

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Allllrightythen, Red Rocket Truck Stop is now… Gunner Base Romeo? Fort Pointy Thing? Forward Sanctuary Station, most likely. This is Ana’s game, she being my early-1800’s English lady OC turned defacto Gunner supreme commander because time-traveling aliens exist in the Fallout universe and headcanon is fun. I should write that fic out sometime… even something in short snippets would be better than nothing. I used to write a lot but life and long-haul covid kinda fucked everything.

Meh, no whining, we have umm mildly dismal screenies because it decided to rain when it was picture time. Ah well, atmosphere! Speaking of atmosphere, we’re very light on the decor this time because I’m a structure person and I wanted to do structure. And boy did we do structure, cursing the snap physics for a good bit of this, but it came together in the end.

Residents are one farmer (standing around in the courtyard because he has no idea how to path to where the carrots are in the second-floor power room), one artillery officer, one patrolling guard, and one medic. Oh right, and a doggo, seen drooling all over one of the plants in the sixth pic. Careful, puppers, there’s little enough of them decoration thingies to go around!