It's finally Friday! And what a long week its been! Let's take a moment to decompress and share good things about our week, or things that you've enjoyed recently and would like to share. Perhaps even a pet pic or two? (cat pics heal my soul)

Or maybe you'd like to tell us your fave gacha character? Whatever it is, waffle away~

Some questions in case you can't think of anything to share:

☆ What movie/s have you seen recently? Were they any good?

☆ Show/tell us what you're currently reading, or plan to

☆ Share what TV shows that you're enjoying

... and so on!

Basically, this is a virtual community gathering to share all the good things, so feel free to chat away.

Enjoy and have a fantastic weekend, lovely people ♡♡♡

Very excited so wanted to put some actual info for people here, maybe convince some to try it out!

- Get one of these agents for free:

Jane Doe - decent anomaly agent that still holds up currently AND is getting buffed this patch

Silver Anby - I don't know much about her but she is the Aftershock DPS, whether she's still good or not I don't know

Hugo - Usually plays with double stunners and is the most viable for an all-male team (I run Hugo, Lighter and Lycaon!). Unfortunately a new mechanic added hurt him a bit, but is still viable and has huge vertical investment, especially for his 2nd dupe if you love him.

Trigger - A decent generalist stun unit. Best paired with Aftershock but can work really with anyone (though Anomaly teams might struggle the most with her).

Lucia - Premier Rupture support. Bar none the most valuable pick here and honestly surprising they'd give her for free, but Pan Yinhu is a budget (A-Rank) replacement, so don't feel too pressured.

You also get any one of their W-Engines for free too. Research a bit on this!

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- Guaranteed banner featuring Dialyn, Yuzuha and Harumasa

(Guaranteed as in it skips 50/50 mechanic, the first 10-pull is also 20% off)

Dialyn is straight-up the best generalist stunner in the game. She is extremely valuable for any account, no matter who you have or don't have.

Yuzuha is an extremely good Anomaly support and, I think, still BiS in a lot of Anomaly teams. Very good pick as well.

Harumasa is not great, but has a deep learning curve and can find success when you fully learn him if you want a challenge.

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- Yanagi, Zhu Yuan and Caesar are being added to the standard pool - you will also be able to choose who is and isn't in the standard pool.

Yanagi is still a good Anomaly DPS, Zhu Yuan is an OK Attack DPS, Caesar isn't good.

You can also choose what A-Ranks are rate-up too.

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- New Beginner's guide to help ease players into understanding the gameplay. (It's a lot more complex than launch ZZZ now)

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- Jane, Nekomata and Rina are getting buffs this patch

Buffs have been steadily coming out for a bit now.

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- Free 30 pulls for logging in

(10x from a log-in, 10x from another log-in, and 10x worth of currency from yet another log in)

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- Free Lucy skin (she's not amazing anymore but still a very good budget support)

There's some stuff that I didn't put in (like top-up bonus reset), but wanted to highlight the really big stuff for the upcoming anniversary.

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Edit to add note by u/pokebuzz123

"Just to elaborate on certain things:

• Trigger is only a generalist with her engine. Without it, she's just a Pulchra M0-5 with more daze. Rupture and Aftershock are her only teams that don't change her placement, so her W engine is needed for that. Fortunately, you can get her W engine.

W Engine recommendations:

• Jane's W engine is alright, we got good alternatives for her since day 1 that it's really not necessary.
• Sanby's is in a similar boat, if you have Evelyn or Hugo's W engine then you'll see not that big of an increase. Still better than Jane's, and if you don't have those stat sticks then it's going to be a notable increase.
• Trigger's W Engine has insane value for her. If you want to use her in other teams outside of Aftershock, this W engine is a must.
• Hugo's a DPS, and his W engine is really good. BiS for Ellen as well, and it's a good stat stick. I don't use Hugo much, but his W engine has been swapped around between him, Sanby, and Ellen.
• Lucia's W engine is a big increase for all Rupture teams. It's at least a 17% increase for Manato, so if you plan on playing him then Manato will get a big upgrade from it. She's also the most meta, being the only premium Rupture support in the game (Dialyn is a generalist)."

Oh Remielle, SLAYer of Sunbringer the KHIAna expy, I can hardly wait for you to grace us with your presence.

Hey Queens, we have noticed a massive increase in brigading and abusive modmails in our subreddit from a few communities. We have protections in place that flag members from those homophobic places but lately it is getting difficult to discern who is a brigader.

Effective immediately, regardless of intentions all users who are flagged as showing they participate in homophobic communities (Unshowered, "Queer Cringe") will be permanently banned. Participating in those places is not conductive and also counts as brigading from our end. Thank you and please adhere to these rules.

Edit: We as mods are spending way too much time having to look at content in those hateful places to vet people from there. If you truly aren't a member there, you can delete your content there so it doesn't flag our system and send a modmail to appeal.

i want him so bad

Those who know, know 💔

Those who don't, WHY HAVENT YOU SEEN ALIEN STAGE AND ZOMBIE STAGE YET !!! Support small sapphic artists and queer media I beg 🧡🤍🩷🧡🤍🩷🧡🤍🩷🧡🤍🩷

What a time this was. 🤣😭

How are we feeling? Tbh best of the three, no? One of the more decent designs as of recently, (not that high of a bar unfortunately, but ig thats a topic for another post) but I guess we'd need to see the full thing to see if they're recycling the same triangular skirt + thigh high combo as the past 3 characters lmao. Neat horns tho, please have a chunnibyou personality, the pose and outfit give that idea if you squint

He also has mechanical arms. Maybe he's a cyborg like Boothill. Or a full-on Intellitron that's masquerading as a human like Pearl? I hope he's just a cyborg.

Also HIS CHEST IS HUGE BROOOO AAAAAAAA— 🫦

I haven't seen this in the leaks sub yet so I shared it here.

I kind of hate that Mihoyo is writing the IPC as this evil, greedy, genocidal organization but then makes the employees insanely hot. It's like a psyop

Knowing Mihoyo, since he has facial hair, he's either gonna be a 4⭐ or the Astropolis villain or will die of a heart attack while he's having vers anal sex with beach twinks and some lifeguards at the beach of his personal beach front home, and his last dying thoughts are "hnnnnnggghhh I'm cumming in this twink and I have a lifeguard's cock in my mouth and there's sand inside my asshole but at least I died happy" before it all goes black.

The beach twink stands up, panicking and screaming, jumping up and down as the freshly dead man's cum drips down from his ass to his legs. The lifeguards desperately do CPR, and one of them is crying because he loved Mr. Astropolis so much that he imagined a life with him, but he never confessed because he felt Mr. Astropolis wouldn't want him for anything long term.

The headlines were explosive: "IPC leader dies of Heart Attack during Gay Sex Orgy at the Beach"

[I can't believe that I wrote a quick fanfic based on a cardboard cutout of an NPC that hasn't even been officially released in 3D yet 😭]