#el biotipo plays arknights

[elbiotipo]

From my (headcanon) understanding of Rhodes Island in Arknights, it's actually a triumvirate where Kal'tsit can override the Doctor, the Doctor can override Amiya, and Amiya can override Kal'tsit, but it depends on specific situations and dynamics

So I imagine that if you want to get anything done there's a loop of "go ask Mom" "ask Dad first" "let's see what the Kid thinks" until they decide to do something or you get tired

#cosas mias #el biotipo plays arknights #arknights

[elbiotipo]

Nomadic Cities are the thing that make the less sense about Arknights to me. Where do they get their food from? Leaving aside the physical and technical issues because something something Originium, a city moving over terrain as depicted would be incredibly devastating, leaving a trail of barren land down below (I think that Beanstalk has some dialogue to that effect even) To get enough food to supply an urban civilization, especially an industrial civilization like Terra, you need enormous extensions of cultivated land, close to urban zones if possible, which is impossible if cities move and devastate the land around them. I mean, look at those tracks and tell me that the land below wouldn't be pushed to a muddy mess:

The lack of ocean routes in Terra also limits how much food you could, speculatively, import from other more 'sedentary' countries (land transport is always more inefficient than sea transport), and I haven't seen too much railways or highways to support inland trade routes, so where does their food come from?

The thing is, they move because of catastrophes, understandable, and perhaps the catastrophes aren't common enough to move all the time. But if catastrophes aren't so common, why spend all this effort in making them nomadic? And if they are so common to justify this, it means that sedentary populations, which are basic for agriculture, are impossible, and so neither cities or farming is sustainable and you have no civilization at all, let alone an advanced industrial civilization. It all comes to where the food comes from. If I had to explain it, I would say that they plant it somewhere in the city infrastructure, indoors agriculture powered by originium reactors or something, but it's still something I would like to see, and at least from the few images it literally looks like a plate with wheels and a city above, no layers for indoors agriculture; if anything, you would use the top layer to cultivate stuff such as fruit and delicate crops, and live in the lower layers.

I actually thought at first they were flying cities, when I saw all the references to Rhodes Island deck and the fact it's called an island. And believe it or not, to me it would make so much sense. Imagining, say, Lungmen as a collection of floating cities, Laputa style, while the terrain down below is rural and densely cultivated like say China or India, but at the mercy of catastrophes which city dewellers can avoid, creating class conflicts. Transporting things would be easy assuming originium allows cities to float, air transport would also be trivial, it would be a question of floating above a region and sending transports to collect crops, perhaps directly from farmers themselves. It would be a wholly different game setting though, because you will have introduced the omnipresence of air transport and have to deal with that (and Arknights has a conspicous lack of air warfare or support; there are some brief mentions of pilots but we never see them in action, one would think the operator squads would have something like a Mi-24 or a Huey helicopter assigned to them)

#cosas mias #el biotipo plays arknights #arknights #worldbuilding #*puts a gun to your head* WHERE DOES THE FOOD COME FROM #edit: OH AND WATER. WHERE DO YOU GET YOUR WATER FROM.

[elbiotipo]

Most hilarious thing about Arknights is that the operators are canonically(?) fashion models. Actual fashion models with literal in-universe fashion brands and photoshoots and designer made outfits and everything. Even Kal'tsit in her alternate dystopian future can't help but slaaaaayyyyy with that shorts/top combo, and of course, that jacket. Give them what they want to see, Calcí.

I bet the NPC armies are just jealous with their generic armor when the army of rejected vtuber designs dressed by Balenciaga arrives to slay them (literally)

"Deploying Rhodes Island squad N°1" *Loudspeakers begin playing I DON'T DANCE I WORK, WORK, I DON'T PLAY I SLAY, SLAY, I DON'T WALK I STRUT, STRUT,

#cosas mias #arknights #el biotipo plays arknights #surprisingly enough the designs as wacky as they are rather consistent to the world (with some exceptions) #but they are Like That

[elbiotipo]

I like to think the Arknights training tapes aren't actually graphic combat videos but 80s employee training/exercise VHS tapes with terrible acting and special effects. The Doctor stars on them wearing legwarmers and leading exercise routines.

#cosas mias #arknights #el biotipo plays arknights #the background actors are the characters you find the funniest this concept is so hilarious to me I don't care

[elbiotipo]

showed Arknights to my cousin, who I use to judge what young people think about things, and she asked me "why do all these rejected vtuber designs fight in your army"

#cosas mias #el biotipo plays arknights #she is right though #también dijo que estaba lleno de cornudos y cornudas que. es cierto. de manera literal aunque no estoy seguro si metafórica.

[elbiotipo]

A family can be an amnesiac war criminal, his bunnygirl CEO war criminal daughter and his cat-milf war criminal ex-wife who has a Creature (the dog)

#el biotipo plays arknights #a fun wholesome game for all the family #cosas mias

[elbiotipo]

The actual gameplay of Arknights is meh (still good enough to keep me interested) but one of the most satisfying moments is when Shaw pushes someone down a hole and you don't have to bother about that enemy anymore.

"You'reviolatingthefireregulation" *pushes you into oblivion*

#she's so funny I sometimes go to her files just to listen her talk #cosas mias #el biotipo plays arknights

[elbiotipo]

Having lots of fun playing Arknights and reimagining the Doctor as a fútbol coach (Scaloni) who got isekaied to cyberpunk anime furry world and is trying his best to put his skills to use

#cosas mias #el biotipo plays arknights

[elbiotipo]

That last Arknights event (Lone Trail please no spoilers I still haven't finished it) was mostly a mess of like 50 characters with interlocking plots when I expected it to be about SPACE

But I what I found really funny was that part when there's these two military guys from Columbia (Furry United States) and they say something like "We have rules here. We have democracy. We do things right. This is Columbia. Not Bolívar (Furry Latin America)" because that's exactly what would I expect a soldier from Furry United States who has invaded Furry Latin America to say

#arknights #el biotipo plays arknights #I've been told there are BIG spoilers so I will probably watch it somewhere now that the event is over #I love Arknights but it's the only game where sometimes I say IT'S TOO MUCH LORE PLEASE STOP IT WITH THE LORE IT'S TOO MUCH #and trust me I LOVE LORE but keeping up with Arknights is insane #cosas mias #oh and the vice president of Furry USA is Joe Biden (bird version). Joe Birden. #the president is apparently a literal bird

[elbiotipo]

I don't know where the shitty coffee my stupid Doctor drinks comes from (if he drinks it at all) but I'm sure that, given sugar is considered a scarce industrial good, it must have a real interesting story

It most likely comes from Bolívar though

#cosas mias #el biotipo plays arknights #arknights

[elbiotipo]

I can't play Arknights anymore because I asked Amiya why does she has two pair of ears and she cried and Kal'tsit fired me.

#cosas mias #el biotipo plays arknights #not as much but I still play sometimes

[elbiotipo]

God I love the Arknights character designers so much. I hope whoever thought of "what if the Joker was an Italian mafiosa lesbian yandere wolf girl" is having the best day right now.

#I know I can't marry Lappland but at least I could drink mates with her and talk shit about people without getting stabbed (probably) #cosas mias #el biotipo plays arknights #it's hit and miss sometimes I have to admit but it's mostly hits #if anything I wish they had gotten MORE furry with it there's so much they could have done with all the creatures

[elbiotipo]

One of the funniest things I found in Arknights so far (keep in mind I'm still exploring the game little by little I haven't even done the side-stories) is when you unlock one of Orchid's audios and she says "I can't believe I was put in charge of these problem children... wait a minute, Midnight is a GROWN MAN!"

#cosas mias #HE IS A GROWN MAN INDEED #this is the first game I don't even want to touch the wiki I'm having so much fun finding things bit by bit by the characters #el biotipo plays arknights

[elbiotipo]

I'm having way too much fun with Arknights. I was dissapointed that I couldn't promote Rangers the Dinosaur Grandpa anymore because I like him and the rest of his team, but then I realized, come on, the guy is old, he probably deserves a retirement, so I put him to work in the workshop of the base and he's there dissassembling furniture and making stuff, I like to think that's his retirement, he's there all cozy doing some crafts and building stuff like an old dad.

He occassionaly does go out to shoot people with a bow though, just to breathe some air you know.

#I also put Jessica (the Poor Little Meow Meow) to work in a factory which is hilarious too #'Jessi stop killing people it's time for your shift at the factory' #cosas mias #arknights #el biotipo plays arknights

[elbiotipo]

Arknights is fun and wholesome. A family can be an amnesiac war criminal, a cat-milf ex-wife war criminal, and their dumbass capitalist rabbit daughter war criminal.

oh, and there's the adopted wolf girl too

#cosas mias #who is also a war criminal #el biotipo plays arknights #en el tono de Homero Simpson 'y como olvidar a la chica lobo'

[elbiotipo]

El Doctor: ah, Kal'tsit, mi fiel esposa. Y Amiya, mi pequeña princesa. Y como olvidar a nuestra perrita la Colorada...

Red, mordiendo una pared: Doctor. Eso ofende.

#cosas mias #el biotipo plays arknights #arknights #yes this is just that Simpsons scene