#genshin mention

[deertism]

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[iodrawsandtalks]

Criticism of Penacony and why i think HYV shouldve quit while they were ahead.

//vent towards the end, references to suicide while those references are quest spoilers Recently I've been doing world quests and grinding out the new region and been repeatedly finding myself walking straight into microagressions and slights to the point where it's been jarring enough for me to put my game down. As a black dude playing HYV games i know well enough not to act like the stupid billion dollar game company cares about appealing to minorities but its 2024 man.

First off, the obvious issue. Penacony has been repeatedly mentioned by the devs themselves to be based off of the Jazz Age from the U.S. a few decades ago.

The Jazz age was a period of time in American History between the 1920's and 1930s where the popularity of Jazz just boomed from being like an indie type of music to one of worldwide popularity. Obviously, Black people in that era are wholly responsible for Jazz itself.

So yeah, Penacony takes its origins from a key black history movement. Penacony, the region that released at the start of February. Black History Month. Star Rail is arguably one of the most popular games right now in terms of outreach because it's free, its new, and its colorful/futurisric etc.... And yet....

Just like with the rest of the HYV games that take real world inspirations, they fucked over black people and their stories.

In Honkai Impact 3rd, basically we had this one black girl who's like sandpaper brown and complains about how much her DARK SKIN ruins her look and how she bleaches her skin using various products to keep it lighter. She is ashamed of her DARK SKINNED mother who's a military woman. Her father is absent. Her mother is also a grown adult who is a B-rank soldier(main character white teenagers are S-rank for reference). Carole Peppers is her name if you want to go further down that rabbit hole.

In Genshin Impact, besides the fact that people with different skin tones are CLEARLY sectioned into certain regions(no seriously there's no real reason why i shouldnt see a black person in any of the existing regions.), and besides the unnecessary amount of whitewashing and besides the perpetuation of the idea of melanin NOT being natural, every single brown/black character in the game has awful playstyles and/or poor matching with weapons/artifacts, inaccessibilty, and they NEVER make it to the top of any meta tierlists. I'm not outright saying they're bad they're just harder and almost never get specialized weapons.

The only previously relevant example in Star Rail was Arlan, a lightning/destruction character. He chews through his own HP and unlike characters like blade/clara, does not have resistance or healing to handle that. Serval, the other lightning 4 star, out-dps's him veryyyyyyy easily. So yeah, the ashy black person character basically dies if you use him for too long and is never relevant TO ANY quests except where he needs to be the sidekick.

sometimes these games have dragons, animals that can understand and process english, or magic.... but then not black people...

Penacony has no black main characters. No black stories of relevance. Yesterday found an NPC whose name was detracted from chocolate and the player had the option to let commit suicide.

yeah ill get to that 💀. This large mass of at least 4 supernatural looking characters and yet no black person. NOT EVEN ANY OF THE CHARACTERS FROM penacony itself are black.

so yesterday I was grinding clockwork quests and had to help out some apathetic shopkeeper named Cocona. Her story was almost a bit sad but midway into going through her background i realized her name is one letter off of cocoa. now imagine being on a creative team coming up with a name for a melanated NPC and somebody decides on fucking CHOCOLATE with an extra letter. before anybody implies that one was something i shoehorned, think about how itd go if i had a bunch of POC characters and one white girl named crackerella.

Cocona and her once again sad backstory reach a hard tipping point as the player follows her to the edge of a building and can either grab her to stop her from jumping or simply let her end her life jumping off the building.

Yes we've seen how this game lets you make choices and watch the consequences of your actions, but there have been established rule-breaking predecents. Take Ruan Mei's quest where you have no choice but to eat the cake she offers you and once again lose the ability to make a choice on saying anything related to her. or any time the trailblazer gets pushed into a fight and cannot de-escalate. ....with this in mind consider why was saving the cocoa girl from killing herself NOT a forced option.

normally id be the kind of silly person looking for lore bits and stuff and making theories, (like how clockie is from the path of elation :v)but as a black dude this whole region is disgusting. THEY ARE GENTRIFIYING JAZZ AND COVERING UP ITS BLACK ORIGINS idk who said HYV cared about their audiences they fucking dont.

wouldve posted this on reddit but whoop dee do i am NOT getting doxxed today.

[rextile]

Heeeyyyy buddy how r u

absolutely rotting. its school break FINALLY no more theatre practice and instead of benefiting humanity im playing genshin 24/7. send help

[jflare205]

Goooood MORNING, you sweet and delicious bundt cakes!! Hope you're all doing- MOTHER'S BANNER IS TOMORROW!!!!

Anyway, shower your friends and family with love and affection!! Let those you care about really know how much you love them. Cherish every moment!! 🧡🧡

[just-antithings]

I have to confess I don't think I can deal with certain genshin fans anymore... I don't follow any, I try to avoid but I still see it because it always ends up on my timeline. I have been trying to be patient, it's just some rpg, but I can't deal with 9/10 "fans" calling the creators slurs.

They treat China like a mythical place made only for the game, like the traditions aren't real and you can headcannon what is and isn't. Then gets mad when Chinese people want them to stop spreading lies about their culture.

Sworn Brothers is a thing, Chopsticks at weddings are gifts from the parents not the couple, the people telling them this isn't "fake Chinese" or a "disgusting shipper". Their just people who's cultures being misrepresented by the "fans".

Every other fandom I see TRYS to understand the culture being shown, except genshin. I have seen people do days of research to figure how a Japanese wedding is meant to be like, with genshin some 14yr old did one Google search and said "that's as deep as I need to look" and ends up fighting those who tell them it wrong. What do you mean Google lied?/s

That's not bringing up how they have attacked and try to harass random Chinese people who don't even play genshin. They mention their culture in anyway, they are clearly talking genshin because China isn't real 🙄.

I feel bad but I roll my eyes whenever I come across a genshin account with "Stop Asian Hate" on it. Too many times have I seen that in bios and then the first post is then saying something extremely racist, but it's okay to call the creators slurs because that's what they are, Chinese. (Yes I have seen that excuse, "they're Chinese and *slur* is used to describe Chinese people")

Yea

[needlenxggin]

If vash had a genshin impact verse he'd either have an anemo or a dendro vision.

[berryhotel]

ok not to be like this on main but wheres genshin on switch.

[sleepzsharkz]

Favorite Team comps?

Alhaitham + Nahida + Kuki + Xingqiu Diluc + Kaeya + Yelan + Furina

[neuvifuri]

childe getting accused of the serial disappearances, which started over twenty years ago, like

[clouvu]

Save me french yuri... Save me

[deci-doodles]

Guys look Cyno’s second SQ got leaked

[deertism]

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» Tighnari - charic

a gender connected to Tighnari from Genshin Impact

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[rubikor]

old lady appreciation!

[justheblueberry]

the artist

[jflare205]

Good moooorning, you deliciously sweet, vanilla and chocolate sheet cakes!!! Hope you're all doing fantastic today!!!

EXCITED FOR CLAIRE'S STORY TODAY!! Ready for more Resident Evil 2!! See ya soon!!

Also, say hi to mother! 😊🥰

[thetempleofhades]

wrath

they had never seen you angry before, not even the archons. none of the scripts written and left behind by your earlier followers talked about your anger, they spoke of your kindness. how you easily created things for other, how you created paths leading to good tidings for those that you helped. they spoke of your smile, as sweet as sugar and as radiant as the sun itself. they spoke of you kind, soothing tone as you reassured others.

anger, bitterness, rage, distrust, utter loathing. those were all things in your eyes that they never had known from you. but as your golden blood spilled upon the sacred earth, you seethed. You were so actually tired. You had been hunted by these.... these people for months, accused of being the fake creator.

and now? as soon as they spilled your blood, they changed their tune to apologies and tears. you were sick of this. what a fucking joke.

Your eyes, filled with stars, glared down at the kneeling forms of Zhongli, Venti, and Ei as you trembled out of rage alone. How could these three be so shameless. Commanding their people to hunt you down and kill you only to beg at the sight of your blood. It was pathetic.

You were angry. More than that. You wanted to leave.

"Your Grace- please forgive us, had we a single clue-" the excuses came just like the piercing wind that responded to your sour mood.

"if you had even a single brain cell left in your rotting head then you'd have realized it sooner." you scoffed, paying no mind to their flinch. "Hah..." You heaved out a drawn out sigh. "I shouldn't be surprised though, you three have always been such...." you thought about which words would hurt them the most. "disappointments."

they looked hurt and it soothed your rage but only a bit. "You three are no acolytes of mine." You hissed at them, your star-filled eyes glaring down at them in contempt.

You turned to walk away, only stopping at Venti's sobbed plea. You looked down at him as he clung to your leg. he had always been your favorite, always. but now?

wrath sunk into the air as teyvat reacted to your silent will and pushed him away from you.

"I'm sick of looking at the three of you."

you disappeared like you were never there, leaving the three to frantically make plans to find you, to earn the cure to your wrath.