May 5th, 2025

Not much today either. I have that other game I bought the other day that I wanna play, Clair Obscur. It's supposed to be really fucking good but starting up a long JRPG just feels really intimidating right now for some reason. Doing much of anything feels intimidating and idk why. I guess my brain is focused on Arknights but there isn't that much for me to do in Arknights right now either. Though I should probably do the EX stages of the event. I guess I haven't mentioned it but the event mechanic is fine. The fireworks launcher is fun but it's kinda inconsistent how the game wants you to treat it and it's generally not clear how the game expects you to just from the map preview. Basically when the fuse for the fireworks launcher runs out it triggers "Carnevale," which gives your ops pseudo-immortality (if they run out of health they only die when Carnevale ends). Normally it just ticks down, but some stages have balloons you can pop to extend Carnevale. And apparently passive healing works too. Also Carnevale disables the stealth/damage resist all the enemies have and forces them to rush to the fireworks lancher to destroy it. There's even more to it (you can customize its range and effects) but I honestly feel like I've been yapping about this for long enough already. It's honestly a pretty simple mechanic despite how long it takes to explain.