"this kid's lucky to have a mother that'll say 'screw the rules, I need to take care of my kid'"

TCG event was mostly fine, really didn't care for the ending. All that mystery and it's a bunch of stupid Treasure Hoarders? 1.3 all over again. I don't like the TCG, but at least the event was only themed and you didn't have to play much of it.

I normally like the events with the bosses and all their buffs, but not this one - I just really hate the Thundering Manifestation.

Domain builder was eh. Never cared for events where you can't bring your own characters, or they're extremely nerfed, and it's not combat- or story-focused, so...

Honestly, I don't like a lot of character's voices. I played on mute for so long that I've built up what they sound like in my head, and then the VAs don't sound anything like it. Xiao particularly.

Other than that... 95% of the women in this game are low-effort waifu bait. Like really, I'd pull for some of them if they bothered making them interesting. I was planning to pull for Kokomi... well, the Kokomi we thought she was before we met her.

google en passant

The energy required to get out of Earth's orbit is exactly the problem. You can run fifty missions to the asteroid belt from Earth. Or you can send one big mission to Mars, including all the advanced hardware that's needed for them to run asteroid missions. They can then produce the rough equipment, including fuel (CO/O~2~ fuel can be produced on Mars quite easily, and once a source of water can be found, so can CH~4~/O~2~, and the color comes from all the iron) and then they can send fifty missions to the asteroid belt. What you're saving is the effort it would require to get all that rough material out of Earth's gravity.

You're probably not wrong about that. But one of the great values of Mars from a capitalist perspective is that it's really easy to get to the Asteroid Belt from there and easy to send mined materials home from there. IMO, Mars will be an outpost from which to mine asteroids before anything else.

I had paragraphs in when I was writing it. I guess I need to double-space them? One moment... there we go.