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"Top 10 anime that will absolutely destroy a person" along side A Silent Voice and I want to eat your Pancreas.

Metalsonic66 posted...

I may give it a shot down the road because it's still one of my favorites

Keep in mind I've only ever watched a couple episodes of the anime so I only roughly remember the characters and their personalities (also always remember that my taste in things, especially television are heavily vibes based).

That being said, I've watched the first 3 episodes (and will watch the other two tomorrow) and am enjoying it for what it is. The main cast (more specifically Yuusuke + Kuwabara) are carrying the show for me. Also I don't think the show is following the anime at all, which you might not like.

I watched the first episode and enjoyed it.

Metalsonic66 posted...

Hey guise what's happeni---

I haven't read any of those posts and this is more or less my reaction as well.

I am exaggerating a bit.
This episode had some uhh shall we say "moments" that truly looked like it was being an introspection of the state of current technology.

16bit Sensation is an anime.
It is the Serial Experiments Lain of the 2020s.

YoukaiSlayer posted...

Finished witch spring r. It was ok. Stronger start than finish IMO. Kinda feels like it's missing what should be a middle section.

I'll plait some more when I have time during my two day vacation. That's a shame because it started off really good.

EchoBaz posted...

Oh yes, because god forbid women celebrities in japan have a life and do things that make them happy. Nope, can't have that! They exist to make the company look good, and sell merchandise, and for nothing else.

Idol is an Israeli company and I'm pretty sure Riro is not Japanese (I do not follow Idol very closely).
What she did was very, very dumb and she will continue doing that very dumb shit as before Idol she already had a large following.

Nebi Nebu has been a roller coaster of insanity since she debuted. Has not been a vtuber in forever that I have watched almost every one of their streams.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1958220/WitchSpring_R/

This game was unexpected and is exceeding my expectations.

There are so many VTubers out there that there's one for everyone at this point.

Yup that was episode 14.

adjl posted...

That was also my opinion until one episode (roughly halfway through in the second season, I believe, but it's been many years) that's pretty much all Mugi, after which Mugi was best girl.

It is indeed a pretty well-balanced cast, though, with the show's enjoyability hinging more on the chemistry between them than relying entirely on one or two strong personalities to carry it.

Are you talking about the episode where Mugi wants Ritsu to slap her Ritsu tries to get Mugi to do a bunch of ridiculous stuff to get Mio to try and slap her but fails miserably every time even when she tries to steal the strawberry off of Mio's slice of cake leading to the ending where Ritsu is so embarrassed by Mugi's compliment she ends up slapping her off camera?

Yes, that was a great episode.

adjl posted...

Mugi is still best girl.

I am unfun so my opinion is that there is no best girl. Each girl has had their moments that make the show what it is.

I've spent the past couple of days watching K-On. Wrote a writeup of how my opinion has changed for it from when I first watched it in 2009 (when I dropped it) and now. Currently at the beginning of the sequel.

I can see why people don't like Konoha, I just don't take characters "seriously" like that. I'm along for the ride, and find it completely reasonable for Konoha to be mixed about wanting to change the timeline (while accidentally changing the timeline). Not all characters are perfect. She finally does make a decision in the latest episode.

I'm specifically not spoiling the latest episode because by the looks of it you haven't seen it yet (which is reasonable as it came out like 2 hours ago).

16bit Sensation continues to be anime of the season and it's not even close. Konoha is just such an absurd character and her desire to make a "modern" eroge in 1999 is so much fun. The fact that this is all anime original (the manga is radically different) is all the more better.

Absolutely abysmal.

Highlight of my weekend was predicting Nebi would sing All Star in chat right before she sang it.

I wouldn't give up my good paying career for only a million dollars.

Metalsonic66 posted...

Is that a karma building trick or something? I thought Panda was just a little off TBH

Some people do it for AMP farming. I used to have a board where I tested an auto posting bot but after consulting Devin about it his response was "don't do that" so I dropped it.

I agree with PO, those topics were yours.

Uhh TC, They wanted to genocide the Chinese and Koreans. There is nothing "least bad" about that.

History of my "main" game when it comes to FOMO live service grinds (min. 1000 hours played)

- 2004-2013, 2022-2023: Runescape (~7000 hours)
- 2009-2014, 2019: Dota/Dota2 (~1500 hours)
- 2011-2013: League of Legends (idk, I'm guessing it was over 1000 hours here)
- 2012-2016, 2020-2021: Star Trek Online (5000+ hours)
- 2013, 2016-2022: Path of Exile (4000+ hours)
- 2013, 2017-2018: Warframe (1000+ hours)
- 2013-2019: CSGO (1500+ hours)

I have not picked up a "new game" since 2013. It's been almost a decade (Started playing CSGO December 2013).
What will be the next game to be added to this list?

Data harvesting isn't enough anymore.

Person doesn't live rent free in my mind and I don't understand his appeal.

Why did you ever put any thought into it in the first place?

I do not like Mario 64.

keyblader1985 posted...

Mario 64 is the only 3D Mario game I've played

Keep in mind I like every 2D Mario game I've played which aren't many because I haven't played one since... New Super Mario Bros.

I am working my dream job.

I wake up at 5.
9 is 4 hours after I am "awake".

I believe it's either Xenosaga Episode 3 or WA5 depending on the market.
I don't really own a lot of games. Haven't really bought any since 2010.
Game value doesn't really mean anything to me.

I have a CIB Soul Silver with Pokewalker, but I don't count that.

shadowsword87 posted...

That's just being cheap my man.

Here's a better way of explaining it.
I would feel guilty spending it.

BoomerKuwanger posted...

Bruh how are you broke after living at home on a software architect salary? I know it's none of our business, but that would explain a lot about why you are the way you are

You're more or less thinking in the right direction. There's reason enough why I choose not to spend money, and if I really wanted to push foor something, I'd have no issues getting it. However for petty things like entertainment, I just don't see the value in spending money right now and that's the path I've been down for the past few years now. This is something of my own choosing.

I just simplify it as "I have no money", because that's the easiest way of explaining it to myself and people who ask.

"I don't have money I feel comfortable spending" is probably the best way to explain it.

BoomerKuwanger posted...

So you want games that you won't be able to beat too quickly, but you also feel that a lot of games are a waste of time? I'm having a hard time parsing what exactly you're looking for. It kinda sounds like you are into games that don't really have a distinct end point, and you want them to be fun, which is perfectly reasonable, but I wouldn't think it's so hard to find one

I have lots of free time, no money and want something interesting to talk with others about. Traditional media struggles to meet my requirements.

BoomerKuwanger posted...

Okay my response was probably a bit uncalled for but that's just how pretty much every Judg topic ends up

I play Rocket League but that's about it, if it qualifies as a live service game. I'd be surprised if you like it though. And of course they do battle passes which isn't a practice I endorse, but the game is fun

It's just a thread. People are taking my once-in-a-year gaming related post way too seriously.
Everyone here knows my "gaming habits" by now and how I am extremely picky. I just don't find fun in a lot of games, and investing money into gaming is just a waste of time most of the time. I'll find something eventually. I remember back in 2019 where I didn't even play games for most of that year.

I get burned out of single player games very easily as I expect to play them at least 20 hours a week.
I have Prison Architect, I didn't really find any value in it and played Rimworld for around 100 hours when it first came out.

BoomerKuwanger posted...

No you aren't. People are going to recommend some and then you'll get overly angry about how stupid they sound to you and then close the thread because people didn't validate your self pitying

If you want my real answer, I'd say stop trying to force an interest and do some soul searching for what you actually enjoy

Chewy is that you?

Runescape just isn't cutting it for me right now and the past year and a half grind has burned me out. Generally I have a philosophy where I can tolerate a game as long as either I can tolerate its developers or its community. If I have issues with both of them, I can't play that game any longer.

My way of discovering games is to... look at /vg/. It is an "accurate" measure of the most active 200 or so games at any given time, and after reviewing what games are active (by filtering out the ones I'm not interested in) I resulted in... 0 games I want to play.

This is a semi-rare occurrence, but it's only gotten worse over the past few years with how many mobile games there are and how utterly uninterested I am in them.

So thread I guess.

You know what, I change my mind.
https://barackobama.medium.com/my-statement-on-israel-and-gaza-a6c397f09a30
Don't let sensationalist garbage control your world view. I trust Obama's take on this a hell of a lot more than the media.

Yea not touching this thread.

adjl posted...

What baffles me is their justification for not having one. Maybe they've changed their philosophy since I heard them say this a few years ago, but they insisted that Diablo 3's shortcomings were because trade was too easy and that over-centralized the game around trading.

No this is just how Chris thinks. Chris believes the game should have friction and many things the players like are usually antagonistic to his design vision. Playing trade and paying attention to streamers really shows a lot of interesting facets to the game's itemization, namely around TFT's existence and harvest gambling and a funny recent example of the latter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYlFTSIHtk0
In sanctum I gambled over 100 divines worth of ancient orbs to try and roll a mageblood when I finished my build.

adjl posted...

And you didn't gamble for a full set with Harvest? Where's your hopeless RNG addiction?

lol, this is how entrenced harvest gambling is in PoE.

adjl posted...

I've been liking it considerably more than the last time I played, actually, which was like early 2018ish (mid-Abyss League). There are significantly more options available for endgame content now than just "do the same few maps indefinitely," with the Atlas passive tree being a really cool way of manipulating the extra content that does show up in maps according to what I enjoy most or am trying to farm. It's added a lot of variety and lots of different avenues for progression, which has been fun.

Yea you missed a LOT of good leauges in that time. Your perspective makes a lot more sense. There was a really rough patch the last couple of years between expedition and Sanctum where GGG just was not giving a crap and was openly hostile towards players with some of the worst game design decisions imaginable. For me Ruthless + ExileCon was a "last nail in the coffin for me" along with nerfs to some of my favorite builds like Ward Loop (I was one of the first people to ever experiment with the build) and mechanics (I was making around 10 div/hr doing Flawless Chayulas solo in Sanctum). GGG then going out and making two leagues that I thought were awful in comparison and then focusing on Ruthless (and lying to the community) really rubbed me the wrong way.

adjl posted...

I've been playing SSF this league

I played exclusively SSF between Incursion and Expedition and I missed out on so much. Game got so much better (for me) once I returned to trade and could make the builds I wanted to make. There was a period where I was basically being pidgeonholed into playing builds I didn't like because they were easy to gear, and this was a point in the game where I went and got 36/40 in a league like Heist SSF.

adjl posted...

RF Inquisitor (I've had a couple of ridiculously lucky drops, actually, including Ashes on my first Eater kill)

You might appreciate this then:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/9/97a8b7fd.jpg
Keep in mind that was the league before Ashes came out. (And yes I got a Demigod for that race).

adjl posted...

branch out and try other builds but not being able to because I just haven't found critical uniques for them

Speak of the devil, I did NOT read this before posting my previous comment about SSF vs trade. Now imagine being a trade person (I am not even a party trade person, I am just good at crafting and finding out of the box currency makers) and then being pushed Ruthless for 6 months and no metagame changes.

agesboy posted...

Modern PoE is still fun for like exactly one league (until level 92-94). I can't imagine doing two leagues in a row tho

Yea I have not played since Sanctum, and haven't really looked at the game except for ExileCon. It just seems REALLY depressing. The fact that bow builds are apparently meta (and have been for the past couple of leagues?) just warps my head as bow builds used to be sweatlord RMT farmer setups and always preferred my slower tanky gameplay.

adjl posted...

It's mostly been Path of Exile for the last couple months

I can't wrap my head around playing modern PoE with how little effort GGG Has put in over the past year and how they are killing it for a worse version of the game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8hDuDBGfXk
Wake up honey, new Honeyworks kino just dropped.

adjl posted...

I keep my thermostats turned all the way down (which puts them at like 5-10C) until it actually gets cold enough to need the furnace. If a comfortable room temperature experience can be attained with a blanket instead of actually heating the room up, why waste oil?

Could not imagine living somewhere without Natural Gas.

There are people who don't have central heating?

EvilResident posted...

so wrong

PotD's taste in games has always been bizarre.

adjl posted...

I think that's pretty much a comprehensive list, though, and even then, Skies of Arcadia and Paper Mario are the only "traditional" JRPG's on there, and SoA was a remake. FE is strategy, BK, PSO3, and Lost Kingdoms were card battlers (weirdly ahead of the current popularity of deckbuilding RPGs, now that I think about it >.>), Lost Kingdoms and Tales are action JRPG's, and Crystal Chronicles just made pretty much everyone ask "why is this called Final Fantasy?". For people that wanted "more games like Final Fantasy," there wasn't a whole lot, whereas the PS2 had a metric ton of them (including FF itself).

The irony is that the PS2 had Symphonia (you had to import it) and the better collection of Tales games. The Gamecube just had Symphonia, which did get people into the series but I know that there were plenty of people in the community at the time that imported Destiny 2, Rebirth and Destiny Remake because they got into Tales through Abyss and Symphonia and to a lesser extent the fan translations of Phantasia and Narakiri Dungeon 3 (how I got into Tales).

It's also pretty crazy that Tales has been pretty dead relative since Xilia and I don't remember Arise being all that well received (I didn't even buy Arise after how much I disliked Berseria)

Can't say I've been a fan of any Nintendo console since the SNES.

I have a 5 game rule. If your console doesn't have 5 third party games I'd play (that are not available anywhere else) It's not a good console.