u/Jeff_98

I travelled to the UK for about 2 weeks recently (1+ week in Glasgow, 2 days in London) and I had one day in each place to go crate digging at record shops to find BMTH CDs. In Glasgow I went to Monorail Music, in London I visited Reckless Records, Sister Ray and Rough Trade, but I couldn't find any CDs. There were vinyls sure, but sadly I don't have a turntable at home and carrying vinyls on in my luggage is somewhat inconvenient. I also didn't manage to find any Bad Omens stuff at all FWIW.

Just wanted to ask how common are BMTH CDs in such record resale stores, or am I just not checking out enough stores or looking at the wrong place?

I normally run Bamboocut-Wind and while I do well in 1v1 standalone and group strat, I basically become deadweight in the 3v3 segment especially when I get ganked. So I thought about switching to Bamboocut-Dust specifically for 3v3 and group strat since it's the easiest to switch over (I just need to tune an umbrella) and inner ways would be balanced anyway. Just wondering how does it perform against multiple players.

For context, I am ethnically Chinese from Malaysia and have been exposed to Chinese language and culture from people around me. But I was never interested in Chinese culture or history or media, I have always consumed Western media and played Western games. When I was young, people around me talked about Journey to the West, Chinese dramas, The Three Kingdoms but I was never really interested in those. I have a decent grasp of the Chinese language (not a colloquially termed "banana"), but it is one of my weaker languages.

However, playing WWM has changed that perspective. The story made me read up about the Tang dynasty and the Five Dynasties period to understand the context, the River Master story had me reading up about how ancient armies used the Yellow River for warfare and the flooding incidents in history, and the Moongazing Maiden's boss theme had me reading up the poem that it originated from and what it meant, to understand what the Moongazing Maiden symbolized. Basically the whole game feels very deeply steeped in ancient Chinese culture and has sparked my interest. The whole Guanyin story felt like watching a C-drama and yesterday I just finished watching Pursuit of Jade (the first ancient C-drama I have watched in like 15 years?) and it just felt very in-universe with what WWM has.

Basically what I want to say is playing WWM has rekindled the Chinese in me and my appreciation for its culture.