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Blachloch @blachloch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

and... Mika - C1 Chongyun - C3

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Blachloch @blachloch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

So after all that Illuga - C2 Mona - C2 Chevreuse - C5 Tighnari - C5

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Blachloch @blachloch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

111-130 (241-260) with just 8 pulls left I see the gold star and I got Vesna's weapon. Today was really expensive!

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Blachloch @blachloch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Pulls 71-110 (201-240) New 4* sword and bow, but now 5* and just 28 pulls left with maybe 30 pulls needed.

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Blachloch @blachloch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Pulls 41-70 (171-200) and I got the new bow and I saw the gold star and yes, once again, my luck with weapon banners continues, it's a 5* weapon but not the one I wanted. Vodyanitsa will be happy. 200 pulls gone, I started with 268, and it took 70 pulls to get the last 5* weapon. Doesn't look good

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Blachloch @blachloch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Pulls 1-40 (131-170) Basically trash, I did get a Mika and a Chevreuse and she is good, so not that trash I guess, but none of the new weapons (oh, and general rule, I take snapshots of characters gained during character banners but not weapon banners)

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Blachloch @blachloch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

130 pulls, 4x5* characters, losing my 50/50 twice, that should have been where I stopped, especially given my luck with weapon banners which is terrible, but I really wanted Vesna's weapon. I'm an idiot, but let's go!

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Blachloch @blachloch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Except 41-50 (121-130) - and I get an another 5* and it's Vodyanitsa!

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Blachloch @blachloch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

31-40 (111- 120) and it's a 5*! It's early and I lost the 50/50 again! Getting Tighnari this time (so shocked at losing twice I forgot to take a screenshot!). Looks like I'm doing this the expensive way.

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Blachloch @blachloch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Pulls 1-30 (81-110 total) and more Diona's and another Chongun

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Blachloch @blachloch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Anyway, this is going to be an expensive banner cos I also want Vodyanitsa

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Blachloch @blachloch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

But things aren't always as they appear as my 71-80 pull lost the 50/50, but got me 2x5*s.. Vesna is here! I would have perferred to have gotten Vesna then Mona cos it would have ment I was 100% on for my next 5*, but still can't complain too hard.

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Blachloch @blachloch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Pulls 71-80 and I did get a 5*.... but not Vesna, looks like I lost the 50/50 for the first time in ages.

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Blachloch @blachloch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Pulls 51-70 and I got Faruzan, again, she's already C6 so I didn't need her, the next 10 has a good chance of getting a 5*

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Blachloch @blachloch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Pulls 21-50, after all these years, I finally get Chongyun! and then another comes along. 50 pulls and when I wasn't wanting a 5* I'd gotten 2 and this time I can't even get one!

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Blachloch @blachloch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

1-20, and I and got 2 Diona's which would be nice if I didn't already have C6 Diona.

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Blachloch @blachloch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Genshin 7.1 - I know I said I wanted 305+ pulls at the start of 7.1, but I decided to try and get about 50 pity as a head start. unfortunately, after 20 pulls I won a Flins (C1), so I switched and then after 30 pulls I won Ineffa (C1). So 50 pulls burnt, no pity. Anyway, let's get Vensa!

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Blachloch @blachloch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Genshin 7.0, second half, and I'm not pulling on these banners, saving it for 7.1. I'm back up to 288 so hopefully around the 305-308 mark at the start of the next patch

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Blachloch @blachloch.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

All this noise about Anne Hathaway is in Days of Thunder 2 and Nicole Kidman isn't doesn't make sense because it's a different character. Nicole's character was a doctor, and Anne's character is a team owner. That would be one hell of a career path, plus both of these actors are amasing anyway.

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Blachloch @blachloch.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Oh no, last second plot twist

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Blachloch @blachloch.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

2 more to go in this limited series and I think I solved the murder

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Blachloch @blachloch.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Is Jon Bernthal capable of being in something bad? Everthing I've seen him in has been great.

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Blachloch @blachloch.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I hate it when a "Limited Series" is really really good. You get to love the characters, but that's it, story ended, you'll never see them again.

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Blachloch @blachloch.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Announcement: "A Hazy Shade of Winter" by Simon & Garfunkel is a fucking-tune - Thank you for your attention in this matter.

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Blachloch @blachloch.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Pulls 71-80 - I saw the Gold Star.... and it was Odette! So by the end of that adventure Alyosha is C3 (C4 after I do the archon quest) Thoma is now C5 Rosaria is now C5

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Blachloch @blachloch.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Pulls 51-70 - a surprise Rosaria, another Sucrose and another Alyosha. Pulls 71+ is where it gets tense because the odds of getting a 5* increases, but will it be Odette? or someone else?

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Blachloch @blachloch.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Pulls 31-50 - 2 more copies of Alyosha and a surprise con for Thoma? probably my "best 4* result" ever with three of them in one 10 pull.

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Blachloch @blachloch.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Pulls 1-30, first 10 pull and I got the new 4* Alyosha which is nice. I'll get a free copy of Alyosha just by playing the Archon Quest anyway, so I would have got them, but getting cons of new characters is nice. Also got Sucrose, but she's already C6 so not as helpful.

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Blachloch @blachloch.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Genshin - New version 7.0! New Region!! New Archon to meet!!! So much to do, but not today. I did have to "whale" a little to get enough pulls for the start of the release, which I'm sort of ok about. Plans are to pull for Odette, but not the weapon, so let's go!

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Blachloch @blachloch.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

... but by not acknowledging the actual end of Natlan, and then the actual end of Nod-Krai and missing them in such a weird way kind of feels like they are treating what they have done as a mistake. Is the next region of Snezhnaya going to be 6.x? Is Nod Krai going to be treated as a subquest?

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Blachloch @blachloch.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Truth Amongst the Pages of Purana is a subquest from the last act of "Song of the Welkin Moon". The last act was called "Of Myriad Paths Flux and Dissolution", and "Truth Amongst the Pages of Purana" wasn't even the last subquest from the last act. I know Nod Krai isn't an official region....

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Blachloch @blachloch.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Following Natlan (Version 5.x), there was Nod-Krai, but Nod-Krai isn't a region of Teyvat, it's just an area, and they didn't call it 6.x, they called it "Song of the Welkin Moon". So version stopped being called 5.0, 5.1 etc, and where Luna I, Luna II etc

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Blachloch @blachloch.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Truth Amongst the Pages of Purana? After Fontaine (4.x) there was Natlan (5.x), and the last act of 5.x was called "Incandescent Ode of Resurrection", not "Truth Amongst the Pages of Purana".

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Blachloch @blachloch.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Version 2.x Omnipresence over Mortals, last act of Inazuma - Chapter 3 Version 3.x Akasha Pulses, the Kalpha Flame Rises, last act of Sumeru - Chapter 4 Version 4.x Masquerade of the Guilty, last act of Fontaine - Chapter 5 Fine so far, but then it gets weird.

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Blachloch @blachloch.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Genshin has done a webevent which is sort of a "new region coming, so let's look at how you got here". But it's a little strange. Version 1.x Song of Dragon and Freedom, last act of Mondstadt - Prologue A New Star Approaches, last act of Liyue - Chapter 1 Fine so far

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Blachloch @blachloch.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Requirements/scope project: Understands what's needed for the project. Design/Implementation/Test project: Executes instructions "Scope" defines what is needed and records that in a document. "Dev" reads documents, executes and updates document with response "Scope" reads response, set's next step

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Blachloch @blachloch.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Once, I was known for using spreadsheet to organise my gaming time. Keep stats and configurations so I knew what I need to burn my time on grinding. No more. Now I'm using AI to do all that for me. I'm currently coding something by passing prompts back and forth between two projects.

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Blachloch @blachloch.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Hot take: The Norris v Piastri argument is one of the worst arguments on the internet and there are just too many sites posting click bait dumb shit to wind both sets of fans up.

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Blachloch @blachloch.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I expect nothing less from you

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Blachloch @blachloch.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Finished watching S4 of The Traitors US, the final reminded me of a final from the UK series. I really hope these people get support when they come out.

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Blachloch @blachloch.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Also... wait what? Sam Neill has died? OK, the uprising can wait until after a period of mourning.

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Blachloch @blachloch.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I pointed out to a friend "Your world map is wrong, it's missing New Zealand" I also told her "New Zealand is 'just off the coast of Australia', in the same way that 'Scotland is just off the coast of North Africa'. It's about the same distance. Time to raise up and be recognised my Kiwi friends!

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Blachloch @blachloch.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I'll be honest, I'm conflicted. On the one hand, I might get an extra day off, on the other hand, England win the world cup. FUCK YOU STARMER! YOU FOUND MY WEAKNESS!!!

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Blachloch @blachloch.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Shout out to all the Treceratops out there

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Blachloch @blachloch.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Finally, now we are on the last patch with the last map extension before we go into the new region (major release), I can finally grab the last of the Lunaculus.

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Blachloch @blachloch.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Don't worry USA,Trump will call FIFA and get the match result overruled

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Blachloch @blachloch.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Day 2.... Success! I think this is the first time since Natlan that I've got zero pulls available, so I now have 5 weeks and 5 days to start saving for the new region.

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Blachloch @blachloch.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

So after my failure to win on the weapon banner and running out of wishes, I earn roughly 1 wish per day, so I thought I'd do a pull-a-day until I win the weapon. Day 1.... 3* weapon, day 1 sucks.

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