the only anime girl is Hatsune Miku and all the others are just variations of her
this post was submitted on 17 Jul 2025
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What I don't get is, you don't own them anyway. They are lost once the server is shut down, which happens quite often for less popular games. You often don't even play with them, the gameplay is so obnoxious and snowball-y, you just click the auto button and leave the game to itself.
For all intents and purposes, watching videos, or collecting images, has equal value and it's free.
If you wan't more interaction, go watch some VTuber.
I play gacha games because they're free. I never spend rl money on it. I grind for the in game currency, get stuff that way, and once that gets tedious throw out the game and find a new game. There's a lot of them.
They’re different to me!
Reminds me of these threads about people "claiming" who their anime waifu is and posting a picture and whatnot. It was always such a surefire way to get them riled up to reply to their post "she seems cute I claim her". People got genuinely angry that someone other would be claiming the same character lmao
some people just have acquired the slop taste buds and exclusively pursue slop. if it wasn't slop, they wouldn't want it.
AI slop is just easily created slop
Slop is the problem, and I blame enshitification. All media must be hyper palatable chicken tendies, because even though they're boring and unhealthy, almost everyone will eat them day in and day out if they don't know better
Like afternoon television or images created by AI
I thought gacha referred to the lootbox mechanic, how core are anime girls to gacha gaming? Actually curious.
It does mean the lootbox mechanic. The term comes from gachapon, Japanese vending machines where you get a small plastic capsule that contains a random figure/toy of some kind. In gaming, the virtual capsule can of course contain anything, such as new characters, recently often anime girls.
Is it just a pure coincidence that gacha sounds like “gotcha!” which is what the publisher says when you spend $20 on loot boxes and get nothing of value?
Yes, but a nice coincidence nonetheless.
The "nothing of value" here is the part on dispute, since OP argues that anime girls (from gacha specifically but likely otherwise too) are worthless, which probably makes many husbandos very mad.
It is coincidence. "Gacha" is the Japanese onomatopoeia for the sound the vending machine makes when you turn the knob to activate the inner mechanism ("clack"), "pon" is when the capsule comes out ("plop").
A lot of gacha games are anime-styled. People spend a lot of money on those rare anime girls.
I meeaan, the same applies to real people...
The same also applies to paper money.
Money can be exchanged for goods and services, though.
The same applies to appliances.
The same applies to apples.
Yes the sports card games are equally worthless if that's what you mean
imagine playing Super Smash Bros, but not knowing who Pikachu, Fox, or any other character is. then dial that up 100x because these gacha games are drawing from a universe of media that much larger than Nintendo's.