New day, new post! One of the biggest complaints about Fate/Grand Order is that there aren't enough men. However, this complaint stems from the fact that the creators will do anything in their power to turn characters who should be men into women. The characters in Fate/Grand Order are based on real myths, legends, gods, and people. So to have them so disrespectfully turned into something they aren't is an insult to the different cultures they borrow from. It's so easy to find real women to use instead, but they don't. Along with this, they have never once taken a woman and made her into a man. Never. Because of this, players have come to the conclusion that the creators hate men. This is a bold claim, but I can't help but agree. They really do act like they hate men. Some may argue that there are good male characters, but compare this small amount of good male characters to the others. Compare it to the ones that were turned into women, or who are villains, or who are made fun of and degraded. Compare it to all of the male characters that are treated like jokes. You'll see a concerning pattern. They haven't gotten better, either. The Fate series has been around for a very long time and they've always done this. I think it's very disrespectful to men, and to the real people they're doing this to. It doesn't matter if these people are dead or not, they still have legacies, and families, and picking men from a long time ago will never change this fact. But, those are mostly just my thoughts on this topic. Nonetheless, I hope you all still enjoyed this blog post.

It's post time! As games push away female players and try to appeal more to male players, I find myself enjoying games less and less. It's hard to like something that isn't made for you. However, today I had the same problem with the game Touhou LostWord. The only difference is, this game is supposed to be for women. The main character is referred to as a girl and is frequently called she. But if you play the game, it feels like it was made for men. There are only girl characters and no boys, but there's still an overwhelming amount of fan service in the gacha banners and even the character designs. Using female pronouns for the main character chases men away, but making all of the characters exclusively girls with too much fan service chases most women away. Don't get me wrong, I understand who this game was made for. I just don't understand why. Realistically the target audience for this game is so small that I genuinely don't see why it's like this. There's also been players complaining about the lack of male characters, which makes this even more confusing. Women can and will play games with only girl characters, they do it all the time. But making those characters look inappropriate will just chase most of the fans away. Especially since it's obvious they don't want men to play it. This is the first time I've played a game like this and it confuses me to no end. It also makes me very uncomfortable and I don't really want to play it. I was interested in Touhou because I've heard good things about it, but this game is quickly killing my interest. Regardless, those are mostly just my thoughts on this topic. Nonetheless, I hope you all still enjoyed this blog post!

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!