The Best Ship Of The Day Is

Я закончил и, пожалуй, это лучший ракурс. Я сильно налажал. В основном я всё заляпал синим. т-т А волосы вообще халтура.

 this post put zuko with kiyoshi makeup in my head and then I needed to draw it……..

You just took all those thoughts out of my head and wrote them down perfectly.

Cannot see him as cinnamon roll at all and really dislike him, but it’s just the way his character was written. Deliberately. He is supposed to be like that.

Aaron’s performance was perfect and I’m sure he knows who he plays much better than viewers do, he probably was informed about plans for his character changes for future season(s). If they actually would go for it. Or they can just “fix him” and call it character development. Wouldn’t work, if he was nice and flawless from the start.

And damn!! The idea of him becoming a villain while Coop gets redemption ark is really tempting. I just hope Dane will be around more, they feel like important character that didn’t get their chance for actual development in this season, unlike Norm (best boy, btw) and Thaddeus.

Does Max give anyone else major twist villain vibes???

Okay I haven't talked about Max much yet, but I think it's really funny to see people talking about him like he's just this sweet innocent cinnamon roll when my read on his character was the COMPLETE opposite.

I mean yes, he seems very sweet. He's very soft spoken. Naive in a way like Lucy, but not as much. Kinda vulnerable. Got a killer smile. And some of the moments with him and Lucy are pretty adorable. But damn if he doesn't have a DARK side!

Like I've heard people say that Max is stupid or that Aaron Moten's acting is bad, but hell no. Aaron Moten sold me on his acting during the interrogation scene. Max was scared shitless and I FELT that. I think Max was meant to be played as a character who lacks understanding about certain things and seems disconnected from people due to both being brought up in basically a cult and having an inherent lack of empathy.

You think about the fact that he admitted he wanted Dane to get hurt, someone who's supposed to be his best friend. How he coldly sat there and watched Titus die. And before that stood there and watched him get mauled by a bear, almost like he was fascinated by it and wanted to see what was gonna happen. The fact that he tried to kill Thaddeus the moment he became a threat, even though the two of them had appeared to have bonded and developed a genuine friendship. And let's not forget he was willing to let all of Vault 4 get plunged into darkness just so he could keep playing with his power armor.

Max wants to be a knight, he wants to be a hero. And I think he tells himself he wants it for the right reasons, but I think what he REALLY wants is power and recognition. Which is really what every (okay maybe not every, but a lot) good villain wants, right? Because at the end of the day Max wants what Max wants. He's selfish, even though he doesn't think he is.

And sure, he's nice to Lucy. And he went balls to the wall to save her when he thought Vault 4 was gonna execute her. But she's a pretty girl who helped him and offered him a safe home. When she gave him the proposition that if she helped him bring back the head, he would have the Brotherhood lend her some knights to save her dad, he KNEW he couldn't make that promise. But he made the deal anyway. So he doesn't REALLY care about her or what she wants.

And that blank stare he gets when he gets mad? ACTUALLY terrifying. The guy's got serious psychopath vibes. Literal anti-social personality disorder, if you ask me. In fact the first thing I thought about when Max let Titus die is this kids going to end up going to the dark side lol.

And I think that would work really well thematically if they plan on giving The Ghoul a redemption arc beside it. There are so many parallels between Lucy and The Ghoul, and they have such a strong connection to the beginning when the bombs dropped. I get that Max is there to represent the Brotherhood and he's from Shady Sands, the town Hank destroyed, but it felt weird that he didn't seem to be AS important in the grand scheme of things compared to Cooper and Lucy.

But if Max turned out to be a badass twist villain to thematically contrast Cooper's redemption arc, while Lucy remains steadfast to her commitment to goodness and the golden rule I feel like that would really round it out. It would make sense if you consider a lot of people have pointed out that Lucy, Cooper and Max all seem to represent different play styles and different moral alignments. And I think it'd be pretty crazy if the writers of the show set out to make it seem like Ghoul is a bad guy and Max is a good guy, but then it ended up being the opposite.

I mean, there are definitely hints all over the show that The Ghoul isn't as bad as he may seem. And Max has already done some pretty messed up stuff, so I'd say the possibility is totally there, and I'd be here for it!

Who's with me???

Ну… Пусть эта фотка моей собаки будет моим первым постом здесь. Ибо я совершенно не представляю что тут ещё можно делать. с:

Talent materials for all chars of Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail

Okay, this one is probably the biggest project I've been using for years now. It lost it's usefulness in last year as Hoyo started implementing many things from here into HoYoLab and game itself (not like if they look my work as basis, but as functions presented here aren't unique anymore), but I still prefer to use my own thing. Game's version feels more convoluted and it's just easier to see full picture.

Включает русскую версию

There's instructions on the bottom Weekly boss materials ones, but it works about the same as Hoyo accompany rewards sheet. You'll have to make your own copy to use it. File -> Make copy. Also, there's links to my updating sheets, so you could easily access them from your copy.

There's two pages, named after languages they're in. GO INTO "ENGLISH" ONE.

Links are supposed to lead directly to English page, after you get your copy, just delete Russian page if you don't need it.

Everything updates as soon as materials get officially announced.

These little sticker note looking things on the right show how many silver and gold items you can craft out of extra mats you have (gold ones take into consideration silver ones you can craft!)

Sadly, you'll have to manually change amount of mats needed for character if you level their talent, as well as amount of mats you have. I thought about automating it, but haven't come to solution yet.

It is automated now, you just set character's talent levels and it counts everything. I kept old version too if someone prefers it that way.

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I'm that into building characters, in fact, I have all genshin characters at 9-9-9 talents, except Mizuki (because I don't have her) and those who uses newest weekly boss (but I have all needed talent books for them and those who I don't have). I used my spreadsheets to keep track of materials needed.

Maybe I could make similar spreadsheet for enemy and local specialty mats? Let me know, if you'd want it.

I actually made these too, check them out, if interested.

I also plan to make something similar for ZZZ, but not sure how yet. It probably won't have Russian version, cause my mom doesn't play it, so maybe it could be one file with three pages for different things? Weekly bosses, regular bosses and skill materials. I know someone already made very nice site and there's useful feature in game, but again, my goal is to generally build everyone, not focus on one character.

I made ZZZ one too, just gotta find time to post it.

I'm sorry for Russian version being on the first page, my mom also uses these and she might get lost if English one would be first.

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Genshin Impact

Weekly boss materials tracker

Google Docs

GI Weekly boss materials tracker

Talents

Google Docs

GI Talents

Honkai: Star Rail

Weekly boss materials tracker

Google Docs

HSR Weekly boss materials tracker

Traces

Google Docs

HSR Traces

Научите меня пользоваться тамблером. Хочется, интересно, есть идеи, но я просто не понимаю смысла. И как тут что делать. Я люблю, когда мне что-либо объясняют и если вы захотите помочь мне, я буду только счастлив. 

Commissioned by the talented artist nymre 

She does amazing art and was the one who created this modern Zuko and Katara for me. 

PLEASE DO NOT REPOST THIS ART