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Every day im haunted by how much the ENG dub’s early misunderstanding of Xiao’s character massacred my close personal friend the “about us: drowsiness” voiceline. People who never play in CN don’t even know how endearing the original is!!! 😭 like

Here’s the voiceline in English:

And here it is in Chinese:

Even if you don’t understand CN I feel the difference is clear just in audio alone. What each of them convey about Xiao as a character is Completely different 😔 ENG Xiao sounds like he’s just snapping at you out of no where bc you spooked him by sneaking around in the middle of the night while he was on guard while CN starts with him having dozed off before startling awake and getting flustered you caught him being sleepy…!

I’m so sad a lot of people don’t know the original glory of sleepy Xiao voiceline (tm) and similar such things. I always reccomend anyone who likes Xiao listen to him in CN at least a little bc I feel it’s the only one who conveys this specific tragic gentleness to him that gets rather diluted in the other languages’ voice directions

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Still using the same cheatcode to get hugs and kisses

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intertwined

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home is any four walls that enclose the right person 🤍

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JI XIA ARC!!! he’s sooo gorgeous, i couldn’t stop staring at him and didn’t pay much attention to the story oops. gotta review this chapter then lol.

this man successfully fried my brain like WHAT WAS HIS DEAL??? the way i sat there for a minute and went this MF WHAT THE HELL??? i’ve never been confused about a character in my life lol knowing how history perceives him in-game, he’s supposed to be cryptic if that makes sense? i guess his actions gives room for interpretation and what you think of him?

also icb this chapter is where i spammed the sprint button as if my life depended on it.

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If anyone is looking for a game with a heart-wrenching story then I am letting you know Black Beacon can and does kill its playable characters, a fact that ruined my life today when Chapter 7 dropped

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few understand that Genshin Impact is a game that will reward u handsomely for finding elements of it autistically compelling once you come to understand its madness. it just also suffers from a mental illness called being a gacha game

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what if humanity built the tower of babel to reach the heavens and just kept going until it reached space, and they realized upon seeing outer space that there was no heaven, so they stopped. and now it's invisible because nobody believes in it anymore. but the tower is still there and has become so incromprehensible because it's not the biblical tower of babel, it's actually the library of babel as described by jorge luis borges in his short story "the library of babel" — a seemingly infinite repository of knowledge that you can get lost in. also there's time travel involved, because of course there is.

that's the worldbuilding premise of black beacon

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Got into Black Beacon and this is literally them

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im in love with her

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piece for a haikaveh zine

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Quality time between the Sumeru bois:D

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something something schedule idk

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The 2-minute 2D animation in Zani's quest does such a good job of providing you with an understanding of her as a character that it makes me question what the other 1,5 hours of the quest were for. I felt like I didn't learn anything meaningful about her that I hadn't already known from the livestream until that animation played.

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I was torn on Zani for a long time but somehow the nail in the coffin of my restraint was the livestream describing her as a veteran 9-to-5er