Ananta

Her fights are fun too

I really enjoyed Silksong

because that's literally what's going on in Extra CCC

a confrontation between miquella and messmer in the shadow keep throne room

Teen Kirschtaria in El-Melloi Adventures volume 12

Red Didi sketch

I routinely use plenty of 6-stars (including strong 6-stars! even if I normally restrain myself from taking Wis'adel and so on) and while I easily clear any event for the most part I still sometimes have trouble with the hardest EX-Stages and the S-Stages. I still spent a long time trying to beat the final boss in Ep 16. CC kicks my ass and I always have to look up guides even if I'm only trying to get the medal set and sure as hell don't get anywhere close to max risk. Clearing IS is a genuine challenge to me even at D13, having to know what units are good for it certainly isn't something I'm going to need to know only if I'm aiming for D18. Sure all of this is certainly a skill issue on my part and a better player could use the same or even worse teams to achieve a lot more but that's the point, it's not autowin, a casual player isn't going to be able to just grab any random 6-star they happen to come across and insta-win everything unless they're lucky and happen to pick Wis'adel and Wang and similarly overpowered units (and even then it's very likely they're going to get their ass kicked by the first gimmicky stage that shuffles the rules a bit). It only seems that way because most of the people making these posts are good at Arknights and obviously if you're already winning at it with niche teams and relatively mediocre units it's going to feel like 6-stars in general are overkill and you wouldn't understand why other people would care so much about knowing which one is better and more powerful than the others. But that's not an universal experience at all, and if a casual player wanted to know what are some very good 6-stars to help them win a super hard stage, knowing the difference between a Thorns or a Dorothy's level of power & ease of use and someone like Exusiai the New Covenant is going to matter to them.

Further, I would say Arknights does have a meta, for a certain sort of player. In the sense of needing to be concerned with which operators other players pick, this is a relevant consideration if you're the sort of player that relies on stage-clearing guides. If every youtuber is using Wis'adel and Wang and Hoshi Alter as the backbone of low-op clears, then you may find it's very helpful to have those operators specifically. And the videos saying "Wang is META!" can flag this up to you directly, particularly when they come from the same crowd.

Artoria is really really mad

saw this post and immediately needed to make a shitpost about feranmuts

are you sure about that? are you sure a sequence of seemingly unrelated shots would remain erratic and unknown by the viewer, who, being human, has a tendency to search for narrative and emotion even within random coincidence? isn’t there a soviet film theorist you forgot to ask…?

girllikeahole-chan….

Everyone. This is NOT a drill. I have hacked into the backend of [tumblr]. I'll save us all.

Iraneus might not have been entirely neutral when he described the Gnostics in his book "Fuck All Heretics"