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Voted Jigglypuff because [insert Hungrybox pop-off clip here] but I like pretty much all of these.

Karovorak posted...

The genre would not be the issue, but every single Isekai seems to get more and more lazy.

FFS, they don't even pretend to care about story or world or characterbuilding, it's just "look at this strange gameificated world, where everything is full of numbers and skills and levels, and MC gets this broken cheat ability!"

Take the script of ep1 from 10 of these animes next to each other, maybe redract the character names, and you will have a hard assigning them correctly because they are all the same.

Yep, pretty much. Isekai with an actually unique premise that are also well-written and well-executed are becoming increasingly rare these days, often getting flooded out by the dime-a-dozen generic ones. I mentioned A Salad Bowl Of Eccentrics earlier, and that show has been an absolute blast so far. "Princess from a magical world gets isekai'd into our world, gets addicted to reading the Detective Conan manga, and uses her magic to help a detective down on his luck solve cases as his assistant" sounded really creative, and so far the show's quality has lived up to that interesting premise.

Oh yeah, Kaja. Before I forget: You misspelled Trogdor's full name in the list. It's Trogdor the Burninator, there's no G in the second part of his name.

I'm at the point where I actively avoid isekai unless it's a sequel to one I previously watched and enjoyed (like Konosuba S3 this season) or it has a specific hook in is synopsis that personally interests me (like A Salad Bowl Of Eccentrics this season, though that's a reverse isekai and not a traditional one). No matter how good an isekai is, if it's just a generic isekai with no interesting hook, I won't watch it. It could be an absolute masterpiece like Jobless Reincarnation, but if it looks and sounds too generic, I won't watch it.

Bond
Spike

mobilebloechel posted...

I guess I'm technically an alt that became a main

This, though my original main is still around (and is now my alt) and can also access CE.

Falcon
Lloyd

King
Jordan

Kajagogo posted...

Quick announcement: looking through some things I just discovered that Obi-Wan Kenobi won Star Wars Characters...so I'm adding him in. He probably would have been saved in the first round anyways if he was in from the start, and it's still early enough where it shouldn't matter.

Since it's so early on, no objections here. He most likely would have survived the first round easily.

I'd laugh if he immediately went out in this second round though.

pinky0926 posted...

I think America would have a much healthier political landscape if people voted for party and policy over individuals, and I think being a single-issue voter is unwise and short-sighted

This, generally. HOWEVER...

Rai_Jin posted...

they are correct at this moment.

...this is what applies right now. Trump and the current GOP that has become warped around him are just THAT much of a threat to this country as a whole. This is no longer a matter of "policy vs. policy" or "party vs. party", this is a matter of "preserving democracy vs. letting this country become a fascist dictatorship".

I drink a lot of soda, but I drink plenty of water to balance it out too.

ssb_yunglink2 posted...

holy shit somebody whos actually watched one outs

I started watching it the other day and its so good for something ive never heard anyone talk about

One Outs is fucking amazing and I totally recommend it to anyone who hasn't seen it, but I can understand why it's not talked about much. It's a baseball anime and a gambling anime, neither of which are all that popular in the west compared to Japan. It's a show from 2008, not old enough for 90's and early 00's nostalgia but also not new enough to have aired on modern streaming services. And on top of that, it currently has no legal way to stream it, so you have to find an old out-of-print physical release or use "less than legal means" to watch it.

I would love for HiDive to pull One Outs out of licensing hell and give it an English dub like they recently did with another gambling-focused anime, Kaiji.

No hornyposting of any kind is allowed anymore. Loli, adult, real, fictional, whatever. This is a no horny zone now.

Panthers move on! Let the rats rain down!

I only have 9 series that I would give a 10/10. Considering that I've actually seen more anime than you have (according to how many entries we have completed on MAL) I guess that means I'm just a bit pickier with my 10/10's. Anyways, here's mine:

* Cowboy Bebop
* Kaleido Star
* Katanagatari
* Kill La Kill
* Lost Song
* One Outs
* Outlaw Star
* Revue Starlight
* Symphogear

We do have Revue Starlight and Symphogear in common, plus some of your others (Bofuri, Girls Und Panzer, Lycoris Recoil, Madoka Magica) are among my 9/10's.

I never watched the original, but I've been enjoying this reboot version so far, and I can definitely see why Holo was such a popular waifu back in the day.

My battle against Lusamine can be quickly summed up with one image:

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/219/590/4f9.jpg

So yeah, after looking through my team's options and the movesets of Lusamine's Pokemon, I realized that Cutiefly could set up with Quiver Dance (an insane move the boosts SpAtk, SpDef, and Speed all in one go) on her Clefable that only knows special attacks and Charm, all while healing itself with Roost. Then, once it gets set up to +6, it could start attacking with its STAB Bug Buzz and Dazzling Gleam. Thanks to extra bulk from the Eviolite, Cutiefly was able to execute the plan perfectly and sweep Lusamine's entire team without any of my other Pokemon needing to do anything. I can't believe this actually worked so well.

After that battle and all of the story stuff after it, I finally reached the Seafolk Village on Poni Island, the fourth and final island of the Alola region. This playthrough has been a lot of fun, but I'm heading into the home stretch now.

Falcon
Bond

Ezio
Lloyd

King
Jordan

Batta The Beast in Fire Emblem: Blazing Blade

Ive made my way through most of the Aether Paradise story section. The mooks and Faba were fairly easy, but then I got to the part where Team Skull shows up, and it took me a couple of attempts and some experimentation to beat Guzma this time. I led with Magnemite against his Golisopod and attacked with Discharge, which did enough damage to trigger Golisopods Emergency Exit ability and force out Pinsir. I switched to Mudbray (holding the Eviolite for this battle) and Mudbray was able to tank enough hits to eventually KO Pinsir with Rock Tomb. Then he sent out Vikavolt, I switched to Gastly, and I just had Gastly use Destiny Bond to cheese Vikavolt. Finally, I switched back to Magnemite, who KOd Masquerain and then finished off the weakened Golisopod to get me the win.

After another quick and easy battle against the weird Ultra Recon Squad people, Im currently saved in front of the next major battle against Lusamine, who I am terrified of. She has a team of five fully evolved Pokemon at level 47 (so they're only slightly lower leveled than my team of unevolved Pokemon) including some very bulky ones in Clefable, Milotic, and Bewear.

My current team: (asterisk = getting boosted experience for being past its evolution level)
Lv49 Popplio*
Lv50 Magnemite*
Lv49 Cutiefly*
Lv48 Gastly*
Lv48 Crabrawler
Lv51 Mudbray*

On a random side note, completely unrelated to the playthrough: I totally forgot how much the story of the gen 7 Pokemon games reminds me of Kill La Kill. Both stories involve a psychotic, beauty-obsessed mother trying to harness aliens to gain power, while her two children (one of whom is a total edgelord) rebel against her and try to stop her plot in their own ways.

CrimsonGear80 posted...

Shift up is now a Sony second-party dev, so don't hold your breath.

Damn, I didn't know that. Oh well.

I would talk about the gameplay more if I could actually play it, but it's a PS5 exclusive. If it ever gets an Xbox release, then I'll play it and talk about the gameplay.

snake_5036 posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/d/d1a8a569.jpg

deoxxys posted...

Oh the pelvic bones? The same thing men have.... It is a bit weird to remove pelvic bones. It looks a bit flat.

Yep, Nintendo was weird with censorship like... a decade ago. But the games they were censoring back then were T for Teen and they were trying to keep them from jumping up to M for Mature, not games that were already rated and intended to be M-rated to begin with like the games Sony has been censoring lately. Nintendo has been far nicer to third-party M-rated games on the Switch, while Sony has gone in the opposite direction in recent years.

StealThisSheen posted...

The "C-E-O!" part especially feels like a rather cringe attempt to force a chant and feels very misplaced.

This is the only thing I don't like about it. Aside from that, I think it's pretty good.

Here's a recent example:

https://nichegamer.com/blue-protocol-censored-on-playstation-in-japan/

Japanese users quickly noticed the censored version available through PlayStation and posted screenshots comparing the two. Another Japanese gamer expressed their joy that the Xbox version was at least uncensored, saying: With XBOX, there are no restrictions on pants! (Translation: Google)

Some of the largest changes between the western and Japanese versions of the game include the removal of a physics shake button in character creation, as well as select outfits being edited to cover more skin.

So to sum it up: a Japanese game had to edit outfits to cover more skin and remove a jiggle physics slider, and these changes only applied to the Playstation version. I don't know about you, but that sounds like censorship forced by Sony, and what they were forced to censor seems pretty tame compared to literally being allowed to fuck a bear in Baldur's Gate 3.

DarthAragorn posted...

Sony didn't publish Baldur's Gate 3, what the fuck do you want them to do about that.

CrimsonGear80 posted...

and what would Sony have to do with the content of a game they didn't develop or have a hand in publishing?

They've forced censorship on a lot of other games in the past that they didn't publish, including games that released uncensored on other consoles while the Playstation version was the only version that was censored. All of which were from Japanese developers, of course. Hell, some games have been forced to cancel their western Playstation versions entirely as a result of being asked to change things for censorship so late in development.

cjsdowg posted...

it's about more than that. It's about the principle of the thing.

deoxxys posted...

True if it's good it's good but it's more so the principal of the matter.

Give them an inch and they'll take a mile.

Agreed. The outfit changes I've seen don't bother me at all, they seem minor at best and the outfits are still sexy. If they were the originals and the "pre-censored" versions never existed, then no one would be complaining right now. But you're right, it's about the principle. Censorship is bad, and lying about not having censorship and then implementing it after a lot of people have already bought the game is a scumbag move.

Plus, there's still the blatant double standard when it comes to Japanese games compared to western games. Players can literally have sex with a bear in Baldur's Gate 3, Sony was like "sure that's cool", and game journalists were praising the game for how horny it was. But as soon as a Japanese-made game so much as shows a little too much cleavage, suddenly Sony says "nope change it", and game journalists are ripping the game for being too sexualized and calling the fans degenerates and coomers. How is that fair? If Sony really wants to be puritans over this stuff, then at least be consistent with it.

Nok_Su_Kow posted...

They added some lace to cover up some cleavage, but wait over here they have cleavage popping out the wazoo. Is that censorship or just a creative decision?

"Creative decisions" usually aren't made so late in development that they need to be implemented in a day 1 patch.

Panthers didn't get the sweep tonight, but I'm not worried.

Changing the "Hard R" graffiti didn't bother me at all. I think that one was perfectly reasonable to avoid any racist connotations, and that doesn't even feel like censorship at all. I do disagree with the outfit changes though. The false advertising from the studio about the game being uncensored and Sony's hypocrisy for forcing this censorship when western games like Baldur's Gate 3 are allowed to include far worse just add more to be annoyed about in this situation.

EDIT: Also, sending reviewers a digital copy with version 1.01 and the already censored outfits while physical copies come with version 1.00 and the pre-censored versions so there's confusion and misinformation about what the "original" is seems really shady, and that just doesn't sit right with me.

Like I mentioned last time, I had a gauntlet of major battles to fight through in this play session. The Team Skull grunts didnt give me any trouble, so first up is Guzma. I had Cutiefly lead off, set up Reflect, and do some chip damage to his lead Golisopod with Bug Buzz before it went down. After that, I sent out Magnemite, holding the Eviolite for more bulk, and KOd Golisopod with a critical hit super-effective Discharge. I dont know if the crit mattered or not, but we take those. He sent out Pinsir next, I switched to Crabrawler. I haven't used any Z-moves in this playthrough, so I decided to teach Crabrawler Rock Slide, gave it the Rockium Z, and had it use the Z-move Continental Crush on Pinsir aaaaaaand it only did half. Well, that was disappointing. Crabrawler was able to survive a second hit (thanks to Cutieflys Reflect) and land a second Rock Slide, taking Pinsir down to low health before being KOd. I sent out Gastly to clean up the Pinsir that was left on very low health, then switched back to Magnemite to take down his Masquerain and get the victory. I was a lot more prepared for this fight than the first time around.

After that, I flew back to the Aether Paradise to continue the story and fight the next major battle of this gauntlet, Gladion. I led with Magnemite to zap his Golbat out of the air with two Discharges, then switched to Crabrawler, who was holding the Eviolite for this battle. It took out Gladions Zoroark with 2 uses of Power-Up Punch, then a +2 Brick Break OHKO'd his Type:Null to give me an easy win with no Pokemon fainted. After this was the grand trial battle against Nanu, and Im not going to give the full breakdown of the Nanu battle because it fucking sucked. I won on the first try, but I played extremely poorly and ended the battle with 4 of my Pokemon fainted. If I had made better decisions (move choices, switch timings, keeping the Eviolite on Crabrawler instead of trying to get cute and giving it to Cutiefly) then I could have won this battle much easier with far fewer Pokemon fainted, but oh well, a win is a win.

Next up is more story bullshit at the Aether Paradise.

Tennousu posted...

inb4 it's limited to 1 at release.

Unlikely, but still.

That actually sounds like something Konami would do. If they think they might need to ban her in the future, then pre-hitting the card to 1 before release means they would only have to refund 1 UR card worth of materials when they ban her instead of 3. Plus, not many decks in the OCG/TCG are running 2 of her even when they can, and even fewer would run 2 in Master Duel if they know they can just bring the first one back with Spright Elf.

Calwings posted...

If Tony really wants to sell this angle and the piledriver the Bucks gave him, he should borrow Roderick Strong's neck brace and wear it to the NFL draft this weekend. Show the Khans in the Jaguars draft room and Tony is there, neck brace and all, occasionally wincing in pain to sell the damage from the attack.

https://twitter.com/tde_gif/status/1783691205399716178

The madlad actually did it

I'm interested in what my Dolphins and Chiefs do (mostly the Dolphins) and I'm interested in the Jaguars war room to see if Tony Khan will do anything to further the storyline from last night's AEW Dynamite like show up wearing a neck brace.

I don't know what I'm more terrified of: the fact that SP Little Knight just got leaked for the May selection pack, or the fact that Master Duel might have SP Little Knight and Spright Elf legal in the same format, something that the OCG and TCG never experienced. On the bright side, at least it'll only cost 30 UR dust to craft like all the other UR's and it won't be a $120 card that prices people out of the format like it is in the TCG.

https://www.nfl.com/news/jaguars-tony-khan-takes-punch-piledriver-on-aew-dynamite-show

Tony Khan's status for the Jacksonville Jaguars' 2024 NFL Draft obligations could be questionable.

Khan, the Jags' chief football strategy officer and the founder, owner and booker of All Elite Wrestling, took a punch to the gut and a "Meltzerdriver" piledriver Wednesday night live on AEW Dynamite from Daily's Place in Jacksonville, Florida.

Shad Khan, Tony's father and the owner of the Jaguars, took to the ring to check on his son in the aftermath of the drama.

It's all part of an angle (professional wrestling storyline), of course, but it was shocking nonetheless as Tony Khan has never been physically involved in AEW to that extent and his father's appearance added more realism to the stunning end of the show.

They got a headline on the NFL website about it. This is both incredible exposure for AEW and also high quality carny bullshit.

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/015/354/59d.png

If Tony really wants to sell this angle and the piledriver the Bucks gave him, he should borrow Roderick Strong's neck brace and wear it to the NFL draft this weekend. Show the Khans in the Jaguars draft room and Tony is there, neck brace and all, occasionally wincing in pain to sell the damage from the attack.

Tropicalwood posted...

Yes and no, all but two threads are saved except Horror and Rapper, though luckily for the Rapper save that, I can confirm Outkast is the winner.

Good, that confirms the only one that I couldn't find. While combing through the comments of the other threads, I found a comment where WafflehouseJK said Cthulhu had won Horror Characters, and he's the one who ran that contest, so I trust it. With those figured out, this should be the full list of other winners from past contests. A couple of these contests were run by Kelystic (who I forgot did a couple of the early ones) and not the users I already mentioned, and I included them too.

Cthulhu (Eldrich horror, Horror Characters)
Daffy Duck (Looney Tunes, Cartoons vs. Anime)
Dante (Devil May Cry, Video Game Characters 2)
Dio Brando (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Anime Characters 1)
Ezio Auditore (Assassin's Creed, Video Game Characters 1)
Gambit (X-Men, Marvel Characters)
Jaime Lannister (House Lannister, Game of Thrones Characters)
James Bond (007, Save That Assassin)
Kuwabara (Yu Yu Hakusho, Anime Characters 2)
Outkast (Rappers)
Queen (Bands/Musicians)
Scarecrow (Batman, DC Characters)
Storm (X-Men, Marvel vs. DC)
The Undertaker (WWE, Pro Wrestlers)
Tifa Lockhart (Final Fantasy, Video Game Characters 3)

Kajagogo posted...

I'm open to it, if it's not too many. I kind of don't want to go over 50 entries, but I'm game to do it.

Adding together the 21 in your opening post and the 15 in this post, that would be 36 in total.

Would you consider including the winners of all of the past Save That contests, including the ones run by Popcorn_Fairy (RIP) and WafflehouseJK, and not just the ones you ran? If you're willing to do that, I could look back on the archive website and find as many of those past winners as I can.

2, this account and my original main account that's now my alt

I made some progress today, but didn't do any major story battles. First, I looked up where the Eviolite was and flew back to get it, which will be very useful in the future. Then I fought my way through routes 16-17 and the Ula'ula Meadow to reach Po Town, AKA Team Skull's home base. Next up is fighting through more Team Skull grunts and then another battle with Guzma, followed by battles against Gladion and then the next Island Kahuna.

My current team: (asterisk = getting boosted experience for being past its evolution level)
Lv43 Popplio*
Lv43 Magnemite*
Lv42 Cutiefly*
Lv43 Gastly*
Lv42 Crabrawler
Lv43 Mudbray*

Pizza Hut and Papa Johns are cheaper and more convenient than my local place while still being pretty tasty, plus I get a free pizza every once in a while from their rewards programs. The local place does taste better and I get it sometimes as a rare treat, but it's not so much better that it's worth the higher price and longer delivery times on a consistent basis.

GhostFaceLeaks posted...

The main point that is also killing the game is the large cast of characters. I have seen people admit they were too overwhelmed by the cast of playable and recruitable characters and think it is killing the game.

This is partly why Suikoden died out.

Is there any place online where it shows all of the characters so people can look at them and pick out which ones interest them the most? And how many characters do you generally take with you into a battle in this game? I'm just wondering. When I think of "RPG with dozens of possible characters to use but you generally only use a small party of them" my first thoughts are Pokemon and Fire Emblem. Is it as extreme as Pokemon where you have to narrow down that big roster to a really small number like 6, or is it more forgiving like Fire Emblem where you can use like 12-15 or so?

Apparently this game is dropping into Xbox Game Pass on day 1, so I'll definitely try it out at some point in the near future.