Listen i know i shouldnt have expected better from a fandom that defends White Tez to the point there's a weekly round of shitposting said whitewashed Tezcatlipoca drinking mexican beer,
But you cannot seriously tell me that Riyo unironically did "Now presenting: An All-White Reenactment of the Underground Railroad" and it was so non-controversial to yall that I'm only just learning about it 2 years later
Reading what the anni Servant is is like going down a flight of stairs, but you're missing every step and eating shit all the way down.
"Oh it's Ereshkigal. In a summer alt. From the Servantverse. In a Beast alt. Weak to Avenger so they can keep her one-note rivalry with Ishtar. Waow."
So, review time, this is what I mean when i keep talking about how most of the audience doesnt matter to people who make gacha, and casting a wide net etc.
This is always the endpoint of gachas no matter how good or bad they start out. We've seen this with Genshin and how when it finally started to fall off, instead of implementing things most fans wanted they created an entirely new game with those requested features but kept Genshin as is and instead used it to springboard a new gacha.
the sea creature comparisons with gacha players aren't arbitrary, it's about WHY non whales matter in the first place. It's about how fishing works and net sizes.
When mass fishing as, the mesh size is very important, as in the distances between each section of the net. The reason for this is that when mass fishing for a specific market, you dont want your haul to consist of unintended fish who live in the same area that then have to spend that much more time being sorted through and tossed back. Basically it's a way of selectively filtering out the small fry.
You can probably already see where I'm going with this. Gacha does the same thing. it casts a massively wide net that will surround all sorts of players but as that net gets pulled in, all but the biggest catches will slip out of the net because they never mattered in the first place, it was just about maximizing the small concentrated number of big fish. The whales. Fuck everything else, it can be filtered out, it's not efficient to even try to catch them.
And so, these "massive" gacha who "are different, this one's good" end up in the exact same place every time.
SITTING HERE GRIPPING TH TABLE CLENCHING MY TEETH TRYING TO BREATHE AND FAILING THIS WAS SO SICK OF THEM TO KILL ME LIKE they did it TWICE in OC chapter 2 where the flame of his cigarette is lit and YOU KNOW YOU KNOW YOU KNOW IT WAS GUDA WHO LIT THAT FLAME (idk if guda did that actually in the part where it was a voiced line in the end by nobu but my extreme delusion tells me its fujimaru ritsuka bc why not light his cigarette one last time?). but especially where guda who came for the avengers just as the king of the cavern came for them during temple of time. then gakutsuou told them theyve grown and that was the same case as now as they face cagliostro like theyve been through so much together ohh im in tears im just sobbing please help me please please save me and it was also none other than a call back to the final singularity where he helped his accomplice, came for his accomplice and supported them and he did it again in shimousa and the lostbelts with aphrodite and in lostbelt 2 and even events like the summer camp and you can also see in some interludes and rank ups that he's helping with guda's trash heap by burning these residues that cling to them, that weigh them down even as they overcame them years ago i feel sick he lives in guda's shadow and in their mind protecting them almost everywhere they go and in this story that is about to end, i will light your cigarette one last time.
i ask that you lend me your flame just as you have borrowed mine. this is a goodbye. just as we met in that apartment, just as we met in that prison, this place is where we say goodbye. but this is for now. simply for now. it's been a long... long journey for us, ritsuka. but for now, this will be the last time i- no, we will push your back so you could reach that destination. all the stars under the heavens are watching. know that there is light wherever you go. so wait... and hope, my accomplice.
I know we joke about Gudako being a beast of humanity but serious talk.
Could the Gudas possibly qualify as a beast unintentionally?
In fate a Beast must have “love for humanity” which makes them act not out of malice, but rather threaten humanity through an underlying desire to protect it in a manner
What has Guda been doing this entire time? Fighting for humanity, while ending seven worlds full of it for their own version of humanity.
They have actively threatened and destroyed entire worlds for humanity.