It's post time! For today's blog post, I will be once again talking about the insane pity system in Fate/Grand Order. I don't think I've really made enough of a point of how crazy this is, so I'm going to explain it more clearly. If you're trying to get a character, you may end up having to hit max pity. Max pity takes 330 pulls, which is 30 ten pulls, because every ten pulls gets you a guaranteed extra pull; meaning a total of 11. This would take 900 Saint Quartz, and there is no 50/50. It's only max pity. 900 Saint Quartz doesn't seem like too much, right? For newer players, it's manageable if you really work hard enough. But for players who are all caught up on everything, it would take roughly 3 to 12 months to earn this many, depending on what events are running. That's right, it could take a full year to get one character. Or it could take a quarter of a year, or half of a year. This is an insanely long time! Along with this, if you don't get the character the first time, all of your Saint Quartz are wasted. It doesn't carry over to the next time. So good luck trying to get the character next time instead. Even knowing the banner schedule doesn't help, since sometimes they'll change the schedule and add surprise banners for certain events or milestones. This is why I hate this pity system. I'm very far behind, so I could reasonably get the Saint Quartz needed to get a character if I really wanted to. But it takes so much work that it's easy to get overwhelmed and burned out in the short time that the banners are open for. A lot of fans have complained about this for years, but nothing ever changes. It's always the same. I wanted to talk about this again to really show why this is such an issue in this game. Regardless, I hope you all still enjoyed this blog post!

It's time to post! For today's blog post, I will be talking about Ditto's face in Pokemon. In Pokemon games and merchandise, it's common to see Ditto fully transformed except for its face. However, Pokemon fans hate this. Why is this? Well, it's because not all Ditto are like this. According to the lore, well trained Ditto can fully transform. They can perfectly copy anything, which is why it's called a Ditto. There was only one Ditto in the Pokemon anime that couldn't transform correctly. It could copy anything, but it couldn't change its face. This was a one off problem, which many people see as a disability. Because of this, it feels very wrong and cheap to turn one disabled Ditto into a joke. I know it makes it easy to tell what is and isn't a Ditto, but it's wrong. It isn't accurate, and it's making light of a Pokemon that faced a lot of challenges in the episode it was in. Casual fans may say "it's just a Pokemon, who cares". But the problem is the real world problem of disabilities being treated like a joke. That's why people don't like this. It makes people uncomfortable, and there are quite a few fans who don't like Ditto being used in this way. But, those are mostly just my thoughts on this topic. Nonetheless, I hope you all still enjoyed this blog post!

It's time for another new blog post! I've talked about the horrible gacha rates in Fate/Grand Order before, but since they have a lot of banners open right now, I wanted to talk about it again. These rates are the worst I have ever seen. If you don't get the character in the first few pulls, you could spend hours trying to get them. This is because the max pity for a guaranteed drop is almost 400 pulls. Four hundred! And each eleven pull costs 30 Saint Quartz. That's so much work. It costs hundreds of dollars to buy this many, and months of progress to earn this many if you're a free player. Not only this, but the pulls you do don't carry over to the next banner even if you don't get the character. So you could potentially waste hundreds of Saint Quartz and still not get the character you want. I've been having this problem with Oberon for years now, no matter how many Saint Quartz I dump on this guy. Fans have been complaining about this for years, and the creators just refuse to fix it. Occasionally they will give away a free five star character like they're doing right now, but they're standard characters. They're never special characters. This is so frustrating for so many players, and I can see why fans often take breaks for months on end to avoid getting burn out. But, those are mostly just my thoughts on this topic. Regardless, I hope you all still enjoyed this blog post!

It's post time! Since it's spooky season again, I'd like to talk about ghost-type Pokemon. With ghost-type Pokemon, it seems like The Pokemon Company is focusing on making them look unique and creative, instead of making them look like ghosts. Some of them look like ghosts, but most of them don't. Because of this, I think it would be fun to see ghost-type Pokemon that looked more like ghosts. Recent ghost-type Pokemon especially look a lot less like ghosts, and more like regular Pokemon that had the typing slapped on afterwards. Not all of the recent ones are like this, of course. I just feel like ghost Pokemon should look like ghosts. Otherwise, what are they? Regardless, those are mostly just my thoughts on this topic. Nonetheless, I hope you all still enjoyed this blog post!

It's time to post! Recently popular AI chat bot platforms like Janitor AI and Character AI have been adding lorebooks. But what are lorebooks? Lorebooks are a way to add more detail to characters, including more details about the character, the world they live in, and other characters they're associated with. It makes chatting with the character more immersive, and even makes it easier to make multi character bots. This is because the base bot will have all of the knowledge for the whole world and all major and even minor characters, depending on how well the lorebook is written. This is actually a really helpful addition, since before it was nearly impossible to make multi character bots. Mentioning other characters from the same world to a bot was useless too, because it just didn't know what you were talking about. Now, instead of only knowing about the base details and a couple of important characters, the bots can be programmed to know all of the details and all of the characters. I wanted to talk about this because some people were confused, but I also wanted to talk about it because I think it's a big step in the right direction. Regardless, I hope you all still enjoyed this blog post!

It's post time! For today's blog post, I will be talking about the problem with the Freecycle Shop in Hello Kitty Dream Village. For those of you who don't know, the Freecycle Shop is a shop run by Tuxedosam, and you can either get free items from other players, or donate your own items. You can't get back your own items, and you get a certain number of pulls each day. But, this is a good way to get limited event items from other players. The problem is, almost no one actually donates to it. You don't get anything for donating, and you can also recycle your extra items normally to get different items for it. Because of this, not many players see the point in donating to the Freecycle Shop instead. They don't really care about the fact that it could go to other players, they just want to get rid of things. It's been days since I've been able to get anything from the Freecycle Shop, regardless of when I play. It must be so frustrating for other new players, or even players that have been playing for a while. It's like having a gacha that's always empty. But, those are mostly just my thoughts on this topic. Nonetheless, I hope you all still enjoyed this blog post!

Why do Sanrio fans want more merchandise for lesser known characters? Well, that's what I'll be talking about in today's blog post! Sanrio has a lot of different characters now, which means they have a Pokemon problem. The Pokemon problem is, there are so many to choose from that every Pokemon is someone's favorite Pokemon. Pokemon solves this by making merchandise for every single Pokemon. Is it a lot? Yes. Does it work? Also yes. But Sanrio doesn't do this. They only focus on making merchandise for their most popular characters because they make money. They'll occasionally make things like Sanrio Boys and Fragaria Memories to bring more people in, but those series also focus on the more popular characters. Not many people watch the animations, which is why characters like Lloromannic go unnoticed for so long. They were made for a show and didn't get much merchandise afterwards. However, this is also why it was such a surprise for Berry and Cherry to be chosen for the Build-A-Bear Halloween line this year. The game Hello Kitty Dream Village does a better job of including lesser known characters, but it doesn't have as much of a fan base right now. But, those are mostly just my thoughts on this topic. Nonetheless, I hope you all still enjoyed this blog post!