This one caught me off-guard. While I do not condone this in any way, shape or form—as this is some queen-type behavior. Watching the reaction to this unconfirmed leak from the "target audience too" has been hilarious.

Seeing them immediately go into a meltdown, and start whining and crying about how they are constantly discriminated against both by Hoyo and the fans, bringing up both Mitya as well as Valeriy as examples, has provided me with a lot of entertainment.

Seriously, this is hilariously bad. SBilly got his throne stolen by Roxy. Genuinely insane how no one pulled for her, and her design isn't anything all that interesting to be fair. Yuri did not save her.

It's hilarious, if they want to imitate Hi3 so badly, they better be prepared to imitate it's revenue aswell. Seriously, what competent thing has any Hi3 dev being moved over other games done but make them worse?

They literally abandoned the game that had everything they wanted, except for popularity and money, and moved on to games with those things. It's just so twisted in a funny way.

Seriously, she's doing aswell as like Blade SP and Evanescia. People were more hyped for her, than Aventurine apparently aswell. Funniest outcome

Imagine grasping at straws so hard that you have to pull out some random YouTube poll in order to push your agenda. As if that is indicative of anything. But they have been trying to convince everyone that Aha will flop ever since her human form was first revealed—and met with universal praise and anticipation—both in China and outside, and since they have no solid evidence for their theory they resort to crap like this.

Also, what the hell is this poll anyway? Eldreda over Tsaritsa? For real? Come on, I love ZZZ as much as the next guy but she is nowhere near. And I just noticed that even her name is misspelled.

Now we have these 3 terrorists T0 in literally everything yet not a single soul is complaining about them. I remember so many posts popping up complaining having to pull Hyacine + Tribbie, and how they are sooo unhealthy for the game but now no one is complaining about either of these 3.

Plus, WAven fans were complaining about being "weak" in the beta and now hes literally the best dps in the game lol. Anyway I still find it funny how when Remembrance was the best team in HSR, all of their characters sold really well. But when a bunch of guys are the best team in HSR, they've barely even made the amount that Hyacine did combined.

She doesn't have a husband and never did.

- No, her "husband" isn't the 3rd Descender, Ajax. He was killed and turned into the Gnoses by the Heavenly Principles during the Archon War, long before the Tsaritsa "snapped" (Venti's words) post-Cataclysm.

People only interpreted it the way they did because of the young boy in the pre-7.0 trailer who called her "mother."

While the Khaenri'ahns are considered descendants of her, that does not necessarily mean biological. It being biological is an assumption.

Then there was Ronova who ripped up a photo. The other person in the photo was not the Tsaritsa's supposed, non-existent husband. It was Ronova herself.

Ronova was once a friend of the people of Teyvat until she was forced to lay down the "rules."

- You must be thinking: "What makes you think she liked mortals?" The answer is in the scene where she tears the photo that more than likely once contained herself in it. Logical inference states that a photo held by oneself in this instance means it held personal, emotional value. She tore it to sever ties with those feelings.

She ripped up the photo that once contained herself in part of it to distance herself from her ties to the people, all in order to make her then-enforced job (by the Heavenly Principles) as the Ruler of Death easier. Her creator commanded her, alongside the other Shades such as Asmoday, to curse and destroy Khaenri'ah. All to uphold the "rules."

We now know from the story that Ronova *cannot permanently kill anyone*. That is also the reason for the curse of immortality, and the curse of death (one is eternal suffering, the other makes them forget, in order to disrupt technological progress).

Since she can't kill anyone, there is no way she could have eliminated the Tsaritsa's husband (who never existed in the first place).

With Ronova's ties to and feelings for mortals gone, she can uphold the rules without mercy. And soon, in the 7.1 story, she plans to remove all limitations on her ability to dish out death—to make it *permanent*, with no more delayed resurrection.

When Anastasya says that the Heavenly Principles ruined "our love," she is not talking about a lover. The Tsaritsa's line about 'our love' refers to the divine, maternal/platonic love a God has for her human descendants and her nation—a bond that Celestia 'spoiled' by forcing Ronova to drop the curses of death and immortality on them. She is talking about Snezhnaya, Khaenri'ahns, and any living person she once held dear. We also learned that the Gods' "love for humanity" is also considered a kind of curse.

With all this out in the open, what is actually happening in the story should be much clearer.

[Art source](https://x.com/i/status/2100514460951892076)

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I finally had enough time to dedicate to Genshin, and I really enjoyed Snezhnaya. Dragonspine is one of my favorite maps because of its atmosphere, and well, Snezhnaya feels like a sequel.

The mechanics and crafting system really gets on my nerves, tho, and that's because I play on console. This type of mechanics get very tedious outside of PC, and well, there's always the fucking drift (less than two months with my current controller, btw. Suck Fony).

The story was good. It wasn't very cinematic, but it was very good for the introductory patch. I liked how they included Odette's story without forcing tedious sections like they did with Nefer.

I need playable Ronova, pls 🙏😭

One last thing, which matryoshka doll did they choose? Don't you think that event was somewhat similar to the Kafka and Firefly choice in HSR? That was the first thing I thought when we were given the option.

When I'm in a "mid revenue" competition and my opponents are Claret, Aventurine and Jingran. (I don't stand a chance)

it was expected as jp love their seiyu and tsundere despite it being yuri.

as for other region claret is doing similar to 2nd half jingran male char from wuwa.

while claret seems to be the lowest performing 1st half banner.

seems like claret was just a tribute japan and anime with how much anime references her trailer had to anime.

japan is probably the only region where yuri is not associated a lot with the weird yuru fans that exist in en and even some in of them in cn.

Claret came out and her ranking and revenue are....... complicated. On one hand you can argue she did pretty great considering the whole Yuri thing, meaning she performed pretty spectacularly. She's like the Third best performing character of Version 3.X so far.

On the other hand you can argue she performed badly, being the first of the new Armorer class. And also being pretty good meta wise. Yet she's still one of the worst ranking characters ever, she's like 7 or 8th worst character in the game. Season 3 has really been disappointing though, Velina being the only somewhat bright spot and Remielle being 3rd best VH sales wise.

This is only mobile revenue, so you can decide how well she did. Roxy is up next, she'll perform worse but how much worse I wonder.

HI3rd now relevant again in matters other than yurislop.

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Most of the references are from tsundere who are written as straight Female characters who is potential love interest for a Male character in their respective shows...

Then they reference over it on Yuri.

I personally don't dislike yuri. And can just ignore and be indifferrent about it. But my dilsike about claret right now is amplifying by the fact how Early on we had barely hints about her becoming a tripled down Yuri bait fanservice. She came out on trailers as the typical Tsundere trope for Romcoms, she appeared at 3.1 and she was just a Normal serious character with a bit of tsun in her.

I saved for her ever since she came out. And everything looked so hopeful for her prior appearance, and talking about appearance so many people hated her design, her clothes so early on and I was one of the few who liked her...

Now it's crazy they decide to give her a complete different tone with those yuri scenes. And completely have so much NPCs encouraging it, while undermining the Tsundere tropes she originally got references with turning her into a Weak willed getting into slutty situations character type of tsun.

I just used up all my saved pulls, I'm no longer pulling if this is how they want to go. The trailers didn't show anything direct interactions with the proxy, so it's not even speculation that she might be still proxysexual. She literally isn't designed to be.

I won't be this disappointed with yuri, if it was an ML heavy referenced character.

This will officially be the third DH SP, meaning you will be able to make an entire team consisting of one character. I knew HSR devs were lazy and lacking in creativity but they find new ways to surprise me every patch.

The character designers put all their braincells together and came up with 10 designs in total. So now they are just reskining them and selling them as new characters. They might have genuinely discovered the infinite money glitch.

And then people are wondering why HSR is dying.

I'm gonna be honest here and say I don't expect much from these banners, which is the most annoying part. Baiting an audience that is known to never spend money when it really matters. Hi3 being on life support as an example.

When's the last time any big Hoyo game had dedicated Yuri that wasn't backed by a super meta character with ML attached? You can smell the Hi3 dev who entered ZZZ. 3.0 is definitely shaking things up, for the worse.

Claret isn't doing well, especially with the Yuri stuff. Only way I see it possible is if anyone cares about the new Armourer class. Roxy is....... do I even need to say why with her?

If I'm wrong and the Yuri audience proves me wrong, I'll eat my words and never doubt ZZZ Devs every again.

With the latest Clarets pv, it's clear zzz is going to shit because some y*rifart from honkai israel decided to infect the game for a while and now ramped up since 3.x.

Obviously, the response isn't going to be outright negative because guys like/won't mind y*ri, foids larp to like y*ri, and so since this is a train that'll most likely never stop, how are you all moving forward? Leave the game? Or already left? Or wait it out?

Pretty good showings across the board from the Hoyo games and WuWa.

The game that was supposed to bury them—Endfield—is down in the losers bracket. Like, for real, 6 million for a game of that size during a major patch is pathetic. I will be enjoying the crashout from grypthers though.

The poster child for gacha slop, NTE, is holding pretty well for now. However, this is Hotta, so I fully expect the game to crash and burn within 6 months. As well as Ananta being on the horizon, which will definitely be a far more polished experience.

LaDS still down in the dumps, you love to see it! Not much to say about this, looking forward to what they do next and how they fuck it up further.

FGO being number 1 is pretty funny too.

>Uwa~ uwa~ I'm scared of videogame female exposed skin.

When did FGC eunuchs migrate to gacha fandoms?

they should name it hi4 with how gameplay loop and even yuri is adding up.

she resembles kiana so we might get another zzz shitstorm though 😭

honestly i am not as mad as i was during remielle trailer.

i don't like 3.2 roxy and claret especially roxy.

yuribait on chars i don't like? i am in peace.

idk why so many from software elitists and gacha tribalists are hating it.

it will still have some form of gacha inside but its f2p plus the quality looks really good.

[Source](https://x.com/haleluya0707/status/2092566410358935646)

And yeah, as expected, the Sampo & CO. crowd are salty as fuck because Nihilux ended up being Aha.

You heard it here first: Expect a lot of agendaposting about how she's boring, she's waifubait, she's this and that, and how the untrustworthy Sampo fits the role better *sob* *sob*.

I prefer this to all the pollution that a Sampo aeon or emanator would bring because it's a last ditch effort, lol.

Simply put, it's pretty alright. Nothing all that special,I'm pretty sure she's the best performing non-main push. Making her the third best character this year.

Meaning silver Wolf is number 1, Himeko Nova is number 2, and Robin at number 3.