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Genshin Impact Updates Shop to Show How Much You Need to Spend to Guarantee Pulling a Character — and Now Players Want HoYoverse to Sell the Characters Directly

Filed Under: ENTERTAINMENT, IGN

Genshin Impact is one of the most popular gacha games in the world. The free-to-play action RPG from HoYoverse lets players spend a virtual currency called Primogems to have a chance (a “wish”) to obtain rare characters of varying power. It’s a microtransactions system that has proved controversial, but a money-spinner for the developers, generating billions of dollars in revenue over the years.

In most games of this type, the amount of money you have to spend to eventually pull a character is withheld from the player — and you can see why given the poor odds available. But now, HoYoverse has updated Genshin Impact to do just that, revealing front and centre just how much needs to be spent.

The Genshin Impact shop now tells U.S. players how many pulls you’re getting with each purchase (you can buy wishes directly with a direct conversion rate displayed) and how much you need to spend to guarantee pulling a character, which varies between $1.98 to $475.20. The figure is based on the base prices of the pulls (without bonuses) and if you hit the max pulls to guarantee the character (180 pulls).

GENSHIN ACTUALLY TELLS YOU HOW MUCH PULLING COSTS NOW?!
byu/MeteorFalcon inGenshin_Impact

So, while the posted figure assumes the highest possible price if you intentionally don’t buy the higher value (and more expensive) bundles, you could face spending nearly $500 pulling just one character in Genshin Impact.

Players have reacted with a mix of disbelief and positivity at the transparency.

“Whole thing is weirdly…. Transparent,” said redditor Zion-plex. “You see it clear as day, 100 bucks 50 pulls every time staring at you (whales think or maybe don’t even care they ‘know’ the math). Man, that’ll sting, even for those who can and will spend, there’s a lot of mental suppression that goes on.”

”Unmitigated positive,” said Whilyam. “The only people helped by obscuring costs are the ones who want to take advantage of people or make it easier for people with addictions to justify spending money.”

“I think it’s harder to justify the spending with abysmal conversion rate visible with your eyes,” added Mtboomerang. “I think the biggest problem with addicts is they follow the emotion then they will calculate. With the conversion rate visible now, their logic will shut their emotion down in time before they are deep in emotion abyss trying to come up with a reason.”

“Good changes that should be standardized for all Gachas and other similar games with gambling/loot box type mechanics,” said mikethebest1.

Some players are now calling on HoYoverse to just let Genshin Impact players buy characters directly, given they now know how much it could cost to obtain them through the gacha system.

“I wish they would just freaking sell the damn characters,” said yuusharo. “Horse armor works on me, I’d pay a freak ton on these games if I knew I’d get what I wanted every single time.

“Instead, the vast majority of their revenue comes from a tiny percentage of players exploiting gambling tendencies, preying on people like vultures. I hate it, I feel so gross whenever I succumb to that.”

So, why has HoYoverse added this layer of transparency to Genshin Impact now? It’s because it lost a court case against the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) back in January that resulted in a ban on selling loot boxes

If you are wondering why, back in January HoYoverse reached a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that resulted in increased transparency around parental consent and virtual currency practices within its games. The results are now kicking in.

As part of this, HoYoverse is now required by U.S. law to age verify U.S. player accounts. That’s because as part of the FTC’s settlement order, sales of Genshin Impact loot boxes to kids under 16 without their parents’ consent were banned.

The age verification process will be rolled out to all U.S. players by May 20. If you don’t provide your age information by July 18, 2025, you could see your account suspended, the developer warned. If the verification is not completed by July 20, 2026, the personal information of your HoYoverse account will be deleted permanently.

Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.

Wagarashi Codes (May 2025)

Filed Under: ENTERTAINMENT, IGN

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Watch a snail lay an egg…from its neck

Filed Under: PopSci, SCI-TECH

New Zealand is no stranger to unique flora and fauna, and that includes the land snail Powelliphanta augusta. These rare hermaphroditic snails are only found in New Zealand and much of their lives has remained a mystery. But now, we know how they lay their eggs–and it’s through their necks. 

In a video from New Zealand’s Department of Conservation (DOC), a small egg that looks a bit like a hen’s egg pops out of its neck. The footage was captured by DOC Ranger Lisa Flanagan, who has been looking after this population of snails for over 12 years. 

“It’s remarkable that in all the time we’ve spent caring for the snails, this is the first time we’ve seen one lay an egg,” Flanagan said in a statement. “We caught the action when we were weighing the snail. We turned it over to be weighed and saw the egg just starting to emerge from the snail.”

According to DOC Senior Science Advisor Kath Walker, the snail’s hard shell is helpful when retreating from predators and keeping dry, but presents some problems. Namely, how to transfer sperm from your mate into the shell and get any eggs out. 

[ Related: Researchers release more than 5,000 snails in the Pacific. ]

“Powelliphanta have solved this by having an opening (a genital pore) on the right side of their body just below their head so that the snail only needs to peek out of its shell to do the business,” said Walker. “It extends its penis out of this pore and into its mate’s pore, and its mate does the same, simultaneously exchanging sperm, which they can store until they each fertilise the sperm they’ve received to create eggs.

a large snail with a yellow shell and black body crawls on moss
Powelliphanta superba prouseorum is the largest Powelliphanta species. CREDIT: Kath Walker/DOC.

Powelliphanta lay about five to 10 eggs each year, each about a half an inch long. Like most snails, Powelliphanta are hermaphrodites and have both male and female genitalia. Even with both sets of genitalia, they usually mate with another snail to cross fertilize their eggs. They are also carnivores that typically must live at a relatively low density for survival, so the team believes that having the ability to self-fertilize from time-to-time must help with the species’ survival.

While very little was known about the snails when they were initially taken into captivity, the team is continually discovering new things about these molluscs. 

“Powelliphanta augusta are slow growing and long lived, not being sexually mature until they are about 8 years old and then laying only around 5 big eggs annually, which can take more than a year to hatch,” explains Flanagans. “Some of our captive snails are between 25 and 30 years old – in this they’re polar opposites to the pest garden snail we introduced to New Zealand which is like a weed, with thousands of offspring each year and a short life.”

several snail shells in a variety of colors
The diversity of New Zealand’s Powelliphanta snails. CREDIT: Kath Walker/DOC.

Since 2006, the DOC has been managing a captive population of the threatened snails in chilled containers in Hokitika on New Zealand’s South Island. They were initially spotted when mining company Solid Energy began to mine in their habitat on the Mount Augustus ridgeline. Since then, the captive management of Powelliphanta augusta snails has helped save these animals from extinction and enabled us to learn more about the lives of these incredible creatures.

DOC has also established some new populations of the snail into the wild and have also reintroduced them into some new and rehabilitated monitored habitats. The DOC says that it will manage a captive population until there is confidence that the species can survive in the wild.  

The post Watch a snail lay an egg…from its neck appeared first on Popular Science.

WATCH: Lawmaker expresses hope to stand on Judgment Day before a ‘TRANS JESUS’!

Filed Under: THE NEWS, WND

Actor Jim Caviezel portraying Jesus in "The Passion of the Christ."

Actor Jim Caviezel portraying Jesus in "The Passion of the Christ."
Actor Jim Caviezel portraying Jesus in “The Passion of the Christ.”

Colorado Democrats already have moved aggressively into dictating what people believe.

Twice they’ve tried to demand that Christian business operators believe and promote the party’s LGBT ideology in order to do business in the state.

First it was with a baker who declined state orders to violate his faith and promote same-sex duos getting married. Then it was a software designer who declined to violate her faith by promoting same-sex duos getting married.

The state’s Democrats had tried to make both of those individuals change their beliefs in order to operate their businesses.

Both times the U.S. Supreme Court slapped them down, although the Democrats have yet to relinquish their agenda.

And yet another case is pending before that same court involving the state’s demand for counselors that they promote LGBT ideologies, but are banned for simply telling clients that they can have discussions about unwanted feelings and work through them.

But even with that, the all-leftist regime in the state, a homosexual Democrat governor, Democrat majorities in the state House and Senate and an all-Democrat state Supreme Court that wildly tried to bar President Donald Trump from the 2024 presidential ballot, is not done.

Now they’re telling God what they want Him to be.

That would be “trans.”

It was Democrat state Sen. Chris Kolker, who has sponsored an extremist bill that critics charge would set up the state as a nuclear bomb against parental rights and families, who might have unveiled their real agenda.

He was belittling the faith of critics of his bill, which was amended radically overnight Monday.

He ranted to the Senate, “This email says, basically, ‘I’m accountable to almighty God, because I’m standing up for equality, that my decisions, one day, I will stand before him and be accountable.’ Well, this is what I believe: Have you ever seen that movie ‘Talladega Nights’? You see that section where they’re talking around the dinner table, and they’re talking about what their favorite version of Jesus is? Baby Jesus, I love baby Jesus. I love Lynyrd Skynyrd Jesus when angels are behind him and the choir is singing and he’s playing ‘Free Bird.’

Chris Kolker

“Well, on my day of judgment, I might be standing in front of trans Jesus, I don’t know.”

His bill, HB 25-1312, originally was set up to punish parents who don’t adopt and promote transgender ideologies fully.

The Democrats want to order courts to consider “deadnaming” and “misgendering” as forms of “coercive control” in custody disputes.

Courts then would be instructed to use those factors to destroy parental rights and assign custody based on their political ideology.

Deadnaming is simply using a child’s legal name, after they’ve been counseled to claim to be transgender and have picked another name. Misgendering is simply referring to a child as “he” or “she” based on the sex they are.

The bill first attracted attention when a Democrat in the body described parents who don’t align with the ideology as like the KKK.

A report at the Daily Signal noted that Rep. Brandi Bradley, a Republican, confirmed that the House sponsor no longer knows what the bill does.

But Bradley warned it still remains a massive “attack on parental rights.”

The new version apparently, the report said, allows minors to change their names on a birth certificate, cutting out parents.

Kristen Christensen, state director for Heritage Action, told the Signal, “Colorado’s HB 1312 remains an open assault on parent’s rights and free speech.

“This legislation still includes school dress code language, adds to the anti-discrimination act, and muddies up legal documents with ‘sex’ changes. Heritage Action will continue the fight against this awful legislation.”

Bradley warned, too, that the Democrats’ bill could allow changing sex designation on identification documents multiple times: “How do we know that we’re not giving a job to a sex offender? This is horrific for the health care industry, for the mortgage industry, for the gun industry, for public safety. … How many sex offenders are going to be working with children as teachers? How many health care workers will be going into senior living?”

Social media reacted to Kolker with:

“I seriously doubt his final destination is in an upward trajectory.”

“Judgment Day is not going to go well for this guy.”

“I suggest you go read the Bible, God is a jealous God and he doesn’t like it when you mock him or claim to worship a God besides him. I think you and Trans Jesus will not go over well with the big guy, just saying.”

Amid the jokes about Kolker being greeted by Satan, there was one simple testimony: “Your knee will bow just like the rest of us. The difference is I have the blood of Christ to cover my sins sir.”

Colbert and Maddow Claim GOP Wants To Get Rid of Elections

Filed Under: INVESTIGATIONS, Newsbusters

The irony was impossible to miss on Tuesday’s edition of CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, as MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow joined the eponymous host to declare on one hand that the worst predictions about President Donald Trump have come true, but also that he and Republicans seek to get rid of elections.

Colbert was actually the first to suggest Republicans want to eliminate elections, although his evidence was quite underwhelming:

So, one of the things that’s interesting to me is that there’s such gross and obvious incompetence and disregard for our institutions, touching third rails like Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid, this is not the behavior of people — because Republicans haven’t stood up en masse resist what Donald Trump has done. A few people here or there. This is not the behavior of people who seem like they believe they have to answer to voters in 18 months. That worries me. Not that they are not worried, but that they don’t think that they should be worried because maybe they don’t have to worry about an election at all.

 

 

Republicans are not doing entitlement reform, but even if they were, disagreeing with Stephen Colbert on that subject would not mean that Republicans think there shouldn’t be elections.

Maddow, however, thought Colbert was on to something, “Yeah, and yes, that is the thing to worry about, and I mean, I feel like for as heartened as I am about the American people literally protesting every single day against what Trump and the Republicans are doing and so much more resistance than anyone told us to expect, I think it’s also true that the people who warned us about how bad this was going to be, the people who were really hysterical, like, really, the doomsayers, they were all right about how bad this is, and what we are experiencing is not just somebody who’s fighting against the Democratic Party, he’s fighting against the democratic process.”

She continued:

He doesn’t think there should be elections and they are consolidating power, they’re disempowering Congress, ignoring Congress, defunding agencies or closing agencies. That’s Congress’s job, that’s not the president’s job. When they are defying court orders, that’s them saying the courts don’t have authority over the president, that’s consolidating all the power in one man, that’s authoritarianism, and that’s what you do when you don’t ever want to have an election because you want to stay in power for life, and that is what they are trying. 

Putting aside the fact that disempowering Congress has been progressives’ thing for over a century and the administration acknowledges Congress is the one that needs to formally shutter the Department of Education, for all the talk both about and from Trump on 2028 and the 22nd Amendment, Trump recently dismissed the idea of running again in 2028. In his Meet the Press interview and said that “ideally” he would hand things off to another Republican. That doesn’t sound like a man trying to get rid of elections or someone who has proved his most hysterical critics right.

Here is a transcript for the May 6-taped show:

CBS The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

5/7/2025

12:17 AM ET

STEPHEN COLBERT: So, one of the things that’s interesting to me is that there’s such gross and obvious incompetence and disregard for our institutions, touching third rails like Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid, this is not the behavior of people — because Republicans haven’t stood up en masse resist what Donald Trump has done. A few people here or there. This is not the behavior of people who seem like they believe they have to answer to voters in 18 months. 

RACHEL MADDOW: Yeah.

COLBERT: That worries me. 

MADDOW: Yeah.

COLBERT: Not that they are not worried, but that they don’t think that they should be worried because maybe they don’t have to worry about an election at all.

MADDOW: Yeah, and yes, that is the thing to worry, about and I mean, I feel like for as heartened as I am about the American people literally protesting every single day against what Trump and the Republicans are doing and so much more resistance than anyone told us to expect, I think it’s also true that the people who warned us about how bad this was going to be, the people who were really hysterical, like, really, the doomsayers, they were all right about how bad this is, and what we are experiencing is not just somebody who’s fighting against the Democratic Party, he’s fighting against the democratic process. 

He doesn’t think there should be elections and they are consolidating power, they’re disempowering Congress, ignoring Congress, defunding agencies or closing agencies. That’s Congress’s job, that’s not the president’s job. When they are defying court orders, that’s them saying the courts don’t have authority over the president, that’s consolidating all the power in one man, that’s authoritarianism, and that’s what you do when you don’t ever want to have an election because you want to stay in power for life, and that is what they are trying. 

All the worst predictions about what he’d be like are true, but the best hopes for how much the American people would stand up against it have not even matched a fraction of how much people are standing and how much people are saying no. There’s never, in the history of this country, been an American president who’s been this unpopular at 100 days in. The American public understand, no, are just saying no. No, no, no.

US Intel Agencies Ordered To Target Greenland As Takeover Plotting Intensifies

Filed Under: THE NEWS, Zerohedge

US Intel Agencies Ordered To Target Greenland As Takeover Plotting Intensifies

In the latest indicator of President Trump’s determination to close America’s biggest-ever land acquisition by whatever means necessary, US intelligence agencies have been directed to step up their efforts to gather information about Greenland, Denmark and their internal political dynamics, according to two people “familiar with the effort” who leaked the news to The Wall Street Journal.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard lashed out at the leaks: “The Wall Street Journal should be ashamed of aiding deep state actors who seek to undermine the President by politicizing and leaking classified information. They are breaking the law and undermining our nation’s security and democracy.” Opting against similar fire-breathing, National Security Council spokesman James Hewitt was restrained: “The president has been very clear that the U.S. is concerned about the security of Greenland and the Arctic,” he told the Journal.

80% of Greenland is covered by a vast ice sheet up to 2 miles thick — with many mineral treasures beneath (via CarbonBrief)

According to the Journal’s sources, the directive came last week by way of a “collection emphasis message,” sent by several senior intelligence officials to subordinate agency leaders. As its name implies, this type of message shapes the priorities with which assets are assigned to various intelligence missions. The agencies are now tasked with:

  • Gathering information about Greenland’s independence movement
  • Assessing Greenlanders’ sentiments about US extraction of its wealth of resources
  • Identifying backers of a US takeover of the island — in both Greenland and Denmark 

It’s not clear which of the intel community’s many tools — which include spy satellites, drones, communications surveillance and covert operatives — will be used to harvest information about political movements and individuals in Greenland and Denmark. 

Attempting to cast the directive as unusual, a former intelligence official told the Journal that “intelligence collection resources are inherently limited” and are typically directed against “perceived threats, not allied countries.” However true that is, Trump’s rhetoric about his desire for Greenland has certainly broken the mold. Most recently, in his weekend interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker, Trump wouldn’t eliminate the possibility of an American military conquest of the territory:

“I don’t rule it out. I don’t say I’m going to do it, but I don’t rule out anything. No, not there. We need Greenland very badly. Greenland is a very small amount of people, which we’ll take care of, and we’ll cherish them, and all of that. But we need that for international security.”

The island holds an enormous wealth of natural resources, most notably one of the largest rare earth deposits outside of China. It also sits alongside emerging shipping lanes, and established transatlantic air and sea routes. Greenland is already home to the US military’s northernmost air base: Pituffik Air Base. Situated 750 miles above the Arctic Circle, the base has ballistic missile early-warning assets, and is also used by Space Command and the North American Aerospace Defense Command. 

In March, Vice President JD Vance and then-national security advisor Mike Waltz visited the US base. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen objected, saying it put “completely unacceptable pressure on Greenland, Greenlandic politicians and the Greenlandic population.” Speaking at the base, Vance issued his own strong statement: 

“Our message to Denmark is very simple: You have not done a good job by the people of Greenland…Denmark has not kept pace and devoted the resources necessary to keep this base, to keep our troops, and in my view, to keep the people of Greenland safe from a lot of very aggressive incursions from Russia, from China, and other nations.”

If Trump pulls it off, it would surpass the Louisiana Purchase as the largest-ever expansion of American territory. A largely self-governing part of the Kingdom of Denmark, Greenland is truly massive. At 836,000 square miles, it’s triple the size of Texas. Its population is extreme in another way — at just 56,000, it’s roughly equal to that of Carson City, Nevada, and a little over a quarter of the population of Worcester, Mass. Eighty percent of Greenland is covered by an ice sheet that’s up to two miles thick — which makes extraction of the rare earth and other subterranean wealth a technically challenging proposition.  

Tyler Durden
Wed, 05/07/2025 – 09:45

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