Watching a bunch of PVs between small down times

[cashew]

I'm editing papers again, so I've been watching in short bursts. This is really just a more note to self thing because I like to categorize my preferences. Anyway.

Obsession:

Would be obsessed with if not for previous category:

I like their vibes and would like to learn more:

These guys are ridiculous and I love them for it, do not touch them, miHoyo, they are perfectly precious as they are, if you hurt them I will cut you:

I like them as long as they stay part of the secondary cast:

Make these guys go away 🤮:

I don't know these characters but the game is trying too hard to make me like them and now I resent them taking up developer resources:

Conclusion: I definitely have a type.

Comments

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I've always felt that Jing Yuan's methodology is more reactive than proactive.

Jing Yuan might take a general strategy of wait and let the enemy reveal their hand first, but in terms of life goals, Jing Yuan is pretty active about forging his own path. Instead of accepting a cushy life in 地衡司 per his parents' desires, he went off to join the Cloud Knights, where none of his family's connections could benefit him. He made a name for himself by actively pursuing methods that would result in the least amount of direct confrontations, a strategy that the game lore has stated to garner him a lot of haters, but it's effective and also gained him attention from the higher ups. He lured Dan Heng back to Luofu to set up a situation where he forced Dan Heng to help instead of relying on Dan Heng volunteering his help out of the goodness of his heart.

So I think over all, JY has been trying to forge his own destiny, even when his friends have either died or abandoned him. Obviously he isn't the type to throw all responsibilities out the window in pursuit of his own wants, but he's not going to just give up his goals simply because of the political limitations. He's been struggling to keep the people he care about safe or free as much as his position allows, constantly pushing at the boundaries of what's acceptable, hence why he's made so many political enemies, if 飞霄's words are to be believed.

There's a strong edge under JY's easy going exterior that seems to be ignored by a lot of fandom.

Sunday is leaked to become playable in a future patch

OMG why?! He's so annoying!!!

[tanithryudo]

A lot of people liked Sunday's character. I dunno why. He isn't even all that attractive for a male design, at least to me. But I guess he fits some people's xp.

Maybe it's the bad boy thing that makes people like the Stellaron Hunters and wish for playable Borisin?

[cashew]

OK, I gotta ask because I keep seeing this, WTF does XP mean? I know it's not experience points given the way it's used but I can't figure out which words those two letters are meant to represent.

Maybe it's the bad boy thing that makes people like the Stellaron Hunters and wish for playable Borisin?

Some people just like psychos. I don't even know. Like the amount of fans who like psychotic villains (not even hot psychotic villains, just straight up evil shits) is scary. Then again, given that IRL there are fans of serial killers and fangirls sent high profile killers erotic fan mail, I'm just not gonna try to understand the mentality anymore.

[tanithryudo]

I have no idea, actually. I just see it used other places online, and from context, I'm guessing it's something related to kinks?

Sunday isn't an outright psycho though... He doesn't even really have that much of a sob story (especially compared to others). He's just...angsty, which I guess is a type that people like? And he's preachy...and, I guess some people like his philosophy? *shrug* iono