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The story
On 5ch’s Newsspeed VIP board, a thread went up featuring the AA (ASCII art) character “Pomi” live-blogging an attempt at a mobile game gacha. Based on comments in the thread, the game appears to be Fire Emblem Heroes (FEH); after struggling with a system that only allows single pulls, Pomi finally landed the target character, “Leda,” on the 40th roll by using the pity-exchange system. The thread lit up with back-and-forth over everyone’s favorites, including residents rooting for “Dietrich” and others pushing for different characters.
What people said
(っ´ω`c) Leda-chan, Dietrich-chan, and Theodora-chan
Ha, that's giving Record of Lodoss War vibes (a reference to the classic fantasy anime)
(っ´ω`c) That's awesome! Did you pay to finish the quest?
(っ´ω`c) ?
I don't play a single one of those
Total waste of money and time
(っ´ω`c) It's fun, so it's fine, it's fine
Is it Star Leap?
(っ´ω`c) feh
(っ´ω`c) A mobile game?
quit the game and restart it to reset the RNG
(っ´ω`c) This game only lets you pull one at a time, so it's rough
(っ´ω`c) Sorry, I don't quite follow, but I guess that was the efficient move?
(っ´ω`c) Thanks! That works too, no complaints here
(っ´ω`c) Oh really!? Glad to hear it!!
(っ´ω`c) ? Huh. I'm not spending 3000. Why do you ask?
None of them really do it for me, but if I had to pick, the girl on the left
(´･ω･`) The girl on the left
Background and Talking Points
“Pomi” is one of the AA (ASCII art) characters that has long been a fixture of 5ch’s Newsspeed VIP board, and this thread followed the board’s traditional format in which a user posting under a specific kaomoji live-blogs their own activities. Based on comments in the thread, the gacha in question appears to be Fire Emblem Heroes (FEH); the thread recounts frustration with a system that only allows single pulls, along with the process of finally landing the target character on the 40th roll by using the “pity” system, where pulling a set number of times guarantees you the character you want. Opinions in the thread were split by resident, with some rooting for “Dietrich” and others for “Conan,” and notably the conversation never got into the rights and wrongs of gacha spending, staying instead a lighthearted chat about character preferences and pull luck. Note that a portion where the discussion veered off into a general tangent about in-game spending has been left out of this article.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Newsspeed VIP) thread “(っ´ω`c) Gonna pull some mobile game gacha after this.”
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