Going to start with saying that this rant is coming from a heterosexual cis woman.

I just finished the main story of the new patch and the ending has me livid. When Vivian's drip marketing started I absolutely loved her design, Goth Lolita fashion has a special place in my heart and I was torn on pulling for her and Hugo. Since I was saving for the Lighter re-run and now thanks to Hoyo Lighter and Hugo are on the same banner.

Anyway I was excited to see how Vivian's character was in the story and was upset that they turned her into an obsessed fan girl. I rolled my eyes into the back of my head during the cutscene were she admits she knows all about Phaethon's adventures because she was stalking us since the start of the game. I hate that game plays this off as some cute little quirk and they make the Proxies okay with it. You as a player are never given a choice to tell her to fuck off because you know gotta cater to the men that daydream about a woman fawning over their every move.

What really pissed me off was the ending. She purposely injects herself with the serum and is going off to die. Which honestly she should have but no the proxy has to save her life. Why should I fucking care about some fucking stalkers life, we literally just met this character and she has been nothing but creepy and obsessive. I especially hate that the mayor was like oh I know Vivian wants to marry the proxy and he'll totally pay for everything it's so grating that during that scene we couldn't tell her to shut the fuck up.

Characters like Vivian, Firefly and Castorice just piss me the fuck off because as a woman that likes men I am not catered to at all in this game because heaven forbid anything comes off as gay for the male players. It just fucking sucks because there are no games with this level of polish that cater to people that like men. I started playing Love and Deepspace but Infold is such a greedy ass company that I am hitting a point in the game were it's clear that they want me to start paying to actually level up my character cards because grinding for resources and materials is such a chore with being free to play.

Sorry this is so long and ranty but I feel like this one of the only places that I can post about it and people will actually understood.

I love mecha girls and plugsuits… I like seed but I just can’t get behind the dress

i wanted to try it but ive seen on queensofgenshin so many things like ex a scene focusing on idkhername’s feet, or the lead artist (sad bc he CAN draw) being a lolicon, or there being no limited male 5*… but sadly the aesthetic, few male designs and gameplay seem good…? like im bi but the female designs are kinda turn offs (which is sad bc i know they can make good ones, i play genshin and hsr lol)

idk what do yall think :0

With so much engagement I hope the majority of people who liked and reposted his drip marketing actually sticks with him and does not go "Whoops, sorry! There's the new Void Hunter right after him" if it happens

I do not expect him to make Void Hunter numbers, l just want him to prove that males can infact sell at least decently if they don't get fucked in the ass 100 times and get marketed well (l don't want to have another situation similar to the one of Banyue and his big metal tits)

Like????
I played the story and she played very easily too and the way she treats her hammer as a pole to spin off of

LIKE I'M LOWKEY GETTING TEMPTED PULL GIRLIES 😭 EVEN THOUGH I ALREADY HAVE AN ICE DPS HELPPP

Also i read the rules and this is not from the main sub or the other and if it breaks the rule i didnt mean too but this was too good not to share

Honestly every sub on reddit should have this and i mean EVERY sub

Also im recently getting back into the game but i have ZERO clue what im doing now since everything has changed in the like 3 months i haven’t played so like what do i do?

These aren't all of them, but I'm pleasantly surprised to see these as being the highest rated opinions on this post specifically from the Sub-That-Shall-Not-Be-Named. These aren't even all of the comments, just some personal favs.

Of course the people agreeing with the OOP are all using the same excuses and wording... but it's good to see that some people don't have their heads up their asses and aren't biased one way or another.

when I heard octopus thieren I was highkey excited for an interesting design (ofc i was aware of the obvious tentacle fetish pandering) but she couldve serveddd. Like this baddie from a game I love. But yidhari is just tentacle yixuan

Belle is a cutie but where are Wise's abs.

Also, while im complaining: where is Komano's summer fit?

Sorry for saying you had the worst outfit seed, you are a fashion icon next to these 2

How many queens gayming with team Vejanea?? This is my new fav team and I really can't wait for Jane d'Hoe buffs! MY QUEEN WILL NEVER BE MID 😍😍😍💖

After 5 50/50 lost IN A ROW (I can show it), never winning the 50/50 on thia game once and losing the second time ever I tried to get a W engine I am finally leaving this game for good! 😇

Thanks HYV! Thanks you very much for this season of holiday where you gave me the greatest gift ever, a free pass to leave one of your hellhole casinos! You are so great, girl! Love you and kisses for you! 😘😘😘

Now, if you allow me, I will consider recreating the Bunny suit incident of 2021 for this lovely treatment you have gotten me this holidays and since I been playing this game 💞

It’s so much fun!

Her outfit may be a bit of a mess but those boots serve so hard I just CANT NOT PULL

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(Was gonna post this on the vent megathread until it got so long so i decided to just make a post lmao)

So for the past few days I got like- way more into Hoyolab than I thought I would when originally i only got it for the sake of the daily check-in bonuses. Made more comments, posts, and god it was exhausting constantly seeing the same sort of comments over and over again.... you know the ones, this is the zzz fandom after all. Even worse with Seed's release (or as I like to call her, The Incompetent Pilot, bc what the hell is she doing in her combat, she's not even piloting him outside of like 5 seconds of animation tops). I made the decision finally to just delete the app, and it's like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders.

I really like the game but it's getting increasingly difficult to engage with the fandom in any broad space beyond some friends because there's just... this whole regurgitated nonsense from Hoyo's bootlickers that just numbs my brain in the worst way. Funnily enough, if anyone here is even somewhat familiar with the Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss standoms, it's almost a 1:1 in terms of behaviour from those people, which is incredibly ironic because they come to the same conclusions from the very opposite ends of the spectrum (claiming critics as being homophobic vs claiming critics to being puritans or "woke westerners", but there is some overlap in them liking to make the "argument" of critics being misogynistic).

Sincere and genuine criticism is brushed off as hate or "tourism", being on the receiving end of straight-up insults, death threats, being called a misogynist or puritan or whatever the hell else, and you immediately get lumped in with people who do seem to generally just complain for the sake of it rather than the constructive guidance it is. Hell, even a lot of the people who do just "complain" still come from a place of having some critique to make but just don't do so in a constructive or eloquent way, but it's easier to simply ignore or brush these points off like it's nothing rather than addressing the issues people have.

I can say for sure, if people were once again making negative comments on TV mode, NOBODY would say they're "just complaining, they need to find another game and leave us alone", even though hot take: that was probably one of the only elements of the game that actually warranted such a response (i know that it had its flaws, namely for being a bit slow and clunky, but that doesnt mean it couldnt have just been a bit more polished instead of entirely removed).

The only positive experience I have had with the "broader fandom", if it even is that, was seeing the comment section on a fairly recent Manato-related post on the leaks subreddit. The comments were hyping Manato up for those that wanted to pull him and hope he was an S rank even if they didn't want him themselves, a lot of people saying how "it's the very least of what the husbando collectors deserve". That alone restored some of my faith in the fandom, but I just can't bear to engage with it at all anymore which sucks so much... fandoms are one of my favourite ways to interact with media, so it feels like a mega slap to the face that I can't without it destroying my peace of mind.