my first written podcast flopping impact
l ately i’ve been thinking about starting a podcast. i genuinely think i’m enjoyable to listen to. yet i think i’d do it with a different name. it feels safer. it’s almost 2am, my desk is a mess and i should be sleeping because i have to wake up early (which is to say: today). but instead i was thinking until i killed the battery of my laptop while playing genshin. ihaven’t played in a while. i lied. i literaly log in every day. 파이팅 even in hard conditions... what i was actually thinking about wasn’t even the lore at first it was the characters. specifically columbina. and how disappointed i am that she’s not what i expected. i’ve seen a lot of comments about this in fact. people wanted her to feel genuinely unsettling. scary in a quiet way. she’s a fatui harbinger. they were supposed to feel wrong, mysterious, morally disturbing not a rando that the traveller literally fixes. early genshin did that well. back when tartaglia was introduced, the concept of the fatui felt uns...