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Read "My report on my lesbian experience with loneliness" (which is a manga). Seems to be getting pretty popular and since I'm working on some yuri stuff I decided to do some research (and theres shit for anime). Was pretty good, not that lesbian though. Was more like my experience with being depressed and lonely and then 10 years into that hiring a lesbian prostitute. Was still a good (and short) read. I guess I'm sorta conditioned to expect a depressed homosexual person to be depressed because of homosexual things and strict religious households and acceptance and all that but that really wasn't the case here. Guess I'd recommend but its yuri so of course I recommend it.
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Don't give in. Kadokawa doesn't deserve money until they announce a season 3 of konosuba.
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Ok, finished imouto sae ireba ii. I love this show. It's amazing. I don't even know what else to say about it. Nayu best girl of all time? Funny, sad, ecchi, yuri, motivational, and just plain fun. I'm going to really miss this cast of characters. Probably my favorite comedy cast since kono suba.
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Wow imouto sae ireba ii is actually really good. I was suspicious about how it rated so highly despite looking like a really trashy little sister ecchi but thats all just a bait. Definitely makes sense now. In fact if it weren't for episode one being the way it is I bet the show would have rated much higher by avoiding a bunch of 1s from people that dropped it 2 minutes in. Its making me feel motivated to actually practice drawing and write something. Also white hair girl is best girl.

i dropped humanity has declined after an episode or two before. Just didn't draw me in at all. I plan to watch nagi no asukara at some point, thats probably the closest to what I was looking for thats out there actually.
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Seen spice and wolf (well technically dropped about half way through). Seen ergo proxy (liked it) and gankutsuou (liked it). Have not seen aria. Atmospheric might not even be the right way to describe what I was hoping for. More like, different from the normal social tone but still consistent. Eh, that just sounds like gibberish when I read it. Anyway I've started watching something unrelated to that request "Imouto sae Ireba Ii". Not what I was expecting (didn't realize the first 3 minutes would be so misleading).

It actually seems pretty good and seems to be a lot more about real struggles you encounter as an artist (in this case novelists but its pretty general issues) than anything ecchi related. I especially like these few dark moments spliced in where someone is remembering something painful or depressing but then the show just moves on to a happier goofy scene.

I feel like it actually portrays real life fairly well in that regard. People trying to distract themselves from some painful things and doing their best to enjoy life despite them. The juxtaposition between the ludicrous comedy antics and the somber moments have really been doing it for me so far. Only 3 eps in though.
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Just finished up the new kino's journey. Was still great. Felt a lot more grounded than the first season which isn't really a good or bad thing. Not sure what I'll watch next. Kinda hoping for something atmospheric but not depressing or too mystical. Might even watch some movies which I rarely do.
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I will watch overlord S2 when it ends. First season was fun enough back when I watched it. If only they released anime episodes daily instead of weekly. Seasons happen too slow.
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I don't think I'd actually watch on crunchyroll even if I paid for it to help the industry.
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Been playing MH myself. It's the best monster hunter for non MH fans by a mile. I am an MH fan though so theres almost nothing worth doing. Crushed my way to endgame without so much as a hiccup or failed quest and then end game is just ridiculous levels of rng just so you can maybe kill the enemies you are already breezing through slightly faster. Tempered monsters are by far the laziest end game MH has had and 12 of the 18 new monsters are early game monsters which is a bummer.

They also completely ruined online so its now completely asocial unless you already have friends with a ps4 and monster hunter. Everything looks prettier though. If you are tired of fighting teo and kush as the endgame for the millionth time then prepare to be let down.
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Woohoo! Beat furi on furier. Got solid Ds across the board lol but idc, I won. The star took me down to my last life and last hp when I beat him and man was that a good feeling. Also I love how beating it on that difficulty gives you a special thanks message from the devs that ends with "congratulations for playing the game the right way". Hell yeah, hard mode is always the right way. Apparently the art design was done by the same guy who did afro samurai which explains why they look so similar.
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dioxxys posted...

YoukaiSlayer posted...

Been playing furi

Some youtuber listed this on his top ten games of 2017 (might've been dunkey) and I was like "dang I will have to add that game to my wishlist."

>Goes to steam store page
>I see that I already own the game
>Not only that but I already have it installed.

lol

Lol. It was dunkey btw. It's been on my radar for a while but honestly the sound track got me to play it. Also I went ahead and manned up and decided to continue on furier difficulty. Just beat the burst which was easily the boss I was most afraid of. Honestly wasn't too bad but that last phase man. Got through it with one hp left. Pure misery but my reward is the most fun fight next, yay. I like that all the boss names are not spoilers. Unless one of the future bosses has completely new tricks I think I can beat it without having to get any better. It's kind of frustrating how much more fun the non bullet hell parts of the game are, if only the game was just that. Stuff like the hand and the edge are easily the high points IMO with the burst and the line being the least fun.
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Been playing furi on the hardest difficulty and it's a lot less fun. The tough section is always the last section and it's cause of obnoxious bullet hell sit here and dodge shit for 30+ seconds parts and you have to repeat the entire easy fight to reach that part over and over. For every 90 seconds of practice you get on the hard part you have to spend like 5 minutes on shit thats easy and you already mastered. It's annoying because they are clearly testing two different skillsets. Quick action game skills and meticulous precise bullet hell skills. I hate bullet hell games, I love action games. Not sure if I will push on and finish it cause I am just not having fun. I'm also annoyed there isn't a version of control scheme B that switches the bumpers and triggers. I know I could use some 3rd party program to remap it but its not worth the hassle.
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Well furi is anime-ish. Just played that game cause I found it half off. Possibly the best 3 and half hours I've had in a game in a long time. Well everything but the sniper bitch's final stage. I didn't realize you could dodge faster in different directions so I couldn't figure it out. Felt like it took longer than it did. The last jailer kinda sticks with me. That one line (her last line) of dialogue made me choose the ending I did. Quite effective. I wonder what all the hardest difficulty changes.
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When I stopped watching, it was just cause I'd had my fill of jojo. It's a fun and unique series but I need a longer break from it's over the top camp awesomeness before going back. I will revisit it eventually for sure.
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Wait did my MAL not update jojo's? I watched a bit of it and stopped once the stands started getting introduced. Ah, no, its there. I've also watched a few episodes of stardust crusaders.
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eating4fun posted...

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Man, I am experiencing some major void right now. I guess I've just seen too much good stuff lately but everything else I can find just doesn't seem interesting. Went through the top 500 anime series on MAL and came up with absolutely nothing to watch. It feels like I already know about everything and that there are no surprises left. Hopefully thats not actually true. Seasonal anime isn't enough.

Where's your MAL?

There's so much anime out there, it's impossible that there's nothing for you. I'm pretty sure you know that even if something appears to be uninteresting, it is interesting (Ping Pong, Rakugo shinjuu).

Also, MAL ratings are biased simply because that's how demographics and certain audiences are. There's plenty of stuff that just isn't talked about because they're undeservingly eclipsed by current topics/trends.

Guess I haven't posted my MAL in a while. It's not fully accurate cause I usually forget to list shows I drop during the first episode. I've dropped a lot.

https://myanimelist.net/profile/GodHimselfx100

The ratings are not flawless but they are a good indicator. I'm talking score ratings, not members so even shows with very few views can have high ratings. I couldn't get past ping pongs art style.

Anyway there are anime I will want to watch, they just doesn't seem interesting to me right now. A lot of what I have left is drama and I wanted something with action, preferably not set in modern day. My standard for quality is just too high right now. I want something to surpass made in abyss. I want something better than I've ever seen. I think I just need to wait a bit, I'll end up in the mood for something more reasonable before long I would expect.

It's kind of amplified because I haven't gotten a really great game in a long time and it's really frustrating for me. With MH world coming out on a system I don't have I'm anxious to play it but have to wait 7+ months.
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Man, I am experiencing some major void right now. I guess I've just seen too much good stuff lately but everything else I can find just doesn't seem interesting. Went through the top 500 anime series on MAL and came up with absolutely nothing to watch. It feels like I already know about everything and that there are no surprises left. Hopefully thats not actually true. Seasonal anime isn't enough.
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dragon504 posted...

Ew, you skipped parts.

Really I just dropped it and decided to then look up how it ended.
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Finished with watching initial D even though I skipped fifth stage and most of sixth stage. While it was mostly a good show I feel a few problems really bit it in the ass.

The biggest issue is that takumi's driving is perfect from day one. It looks to be as fast as can be and the whole first season basically just exist to say "wow, look how literally perfect this driver is" sort of like akagi in that anime. It's not really about if he will win, as thats a given, its how.

All that works fine for the first season but the show goes on for 5 more seasons and there really is just no room to grow. They go ahead and tell us all these things he is learning and improving on but visually it's not any better than at the start. Around the mid point of the series the battles shift focus and go from being about technique to being about strategy. At this point every opponent can be assumed to be perfect and only in executing a good strategy can you win so it's really more about ryosuke's planning than takumi's driving and it just isn't handled all that well IMO.

Eventually it gets bored with actual strategies and just goes on to focus more on the philosophy of different driving ideas and whatnot and this just isn't a good fit for the show.

All of this is compounded by the second major problem. The action directing. In the first season the show made the cars feel really fucking fast mostly through a combination of extremely quick cuts and unmoving camera shots. For whatever reason this just gets worse and worse throughout the series and eventually goes on to full on panning shots with relatively slow cuts and lots of long shots on the drivers faces.

The first season is all about how great racing is while the rest turn into a more and more generic battle shonen that happens to be about cars. Speed is relative so if the camera follows the cars, they look much slower and that was the real problem.

It's frustrating because the first season has a fatal flaw. Or really a bunch of fatal flaws. Pretty much everything but the races in season 1 suck ass. The characters suck ass, the animation is god awful, the music is forgettable, the directing is just plain bad, and the pacing is all over the place. The series gradually fixes these issues but for whatever reason loses what actually was good about the first season.

Eventually I just couldn't manage to keep watching and just skipped to the end. The final race was pretty meh but resolution to various character arcs were fine and it was nice to finally know wtf the title of the anime is about.

A bit frustrating for me overall but still not really an awful show and theres plenty worth watching in it.
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Finished up stage 3 (the movie) which was pretty good. Pretty much brought everything thus far up to a close and set the stage for what rest of the anime will be. The writing seems to have dramatically improved since stage 1.
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Just finished the second season of initial D and I'm surprised how different it was. At first the fact that a lot more was cg was jarring but to be blunt the non cg animation of the first season was complete garbage so after adjusting it was probably a net positive. The races were a little less exciting but still quality however the major change was that the writing and directing of the side characters was much better and actually interesting. This shows season episode layout is all weird with every season being different lengths and "season 3" being a movie. So far the tighter paced 13 episode format for season 2 seemed to be a very good thing for the show.
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dragon504 posted...

Initial D is good fun.

So far it sure is. I find myself losing focus rapidly when they focus on things that aren't racing though. Somehow the personal drama and romance aspect is just really not drawing me in.
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Watching initial D. Not really sure why I haven't watched it before honestly since I like street racing well enough and it has a good reputation. Couldn't pay attention to the first episode cause nothing was happening and main guy had no personality beyond "bored and tired" but once the racing got started and he started developing it flipped right around and now I'm about to start episode 20 and don't see myself stopping anytime soon.
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T0ffee posted...

And MHW is coming out in 12 days!

For PS4/Xbox. Sadly PC version is coming out sometime this fall which could be as late as December. I'm so bummed about having to wait that long.
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I only know I'm interested in citrus (yay yuri) and overlord 2 from this season. Theres a few things that look like they could be good but I'll just have to see how it goes. Nothing that really stands out as something that seems like it'll be amazing aside from possibly violet evergarden but I'm not on the hype train for it yet.
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keyblader1985 posted...

I'm just realizing I don't really know anything about most anime production companies..

The canipa effect (youtuber) has an ongoing studio spotlight series that is really informative. A lot of it is more interesting than you think it would be.
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Netflix doesn't have an overall great line up. I think they have one punch man and the devil is a part timer but I don't think they really have much else. I didn't see what they got from the current season though. Even with access to netflix I'd never watch anime it has on that platform over kissanime as netflix doesn't have the best subtitle placement or player IMO. It's arguably even worse than anime strike was in terms of offerings and performance.
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I'm aware of that but thats basically the standard for minimum viable product at this point. The way licensing is allowed to be exclusive is going to seriously damage the industry as a whole and it's just not the way to handle digital products on PC. Imagine if instead the anime cost nothing to license but instead got a portion of the revenue it generated as it's only form of payment. Good (or at least popular) anime would make more money, shit anime would fail, and all anime would have a vested interest in being watchable as well as consumers being able to watch everything on whatever client they think is best causing steaming services to actually have to compete for best functionality instead of best list of exclusives. if anime can't make it to that point, it doesn't deserve to survive. The current anime industry is causing serious horrible problems for the people working in it and is unsustainable.
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I'm still of the opinion that legal streaming sites do not deserve our money until they get their shit together and can at least offer every new release on one platform, with good well placed subtitles, in a good video player, with high speed/no buffering time, released as soon as legally possible. You know, everything that illegal sites do for free. Until that happens I feel like it'd be better for the industry for the current streaming services to adapt or go under.
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Wow blend S is pretty hilarious. Green hair guy is a true man of culture. Not enough anime characters understand the greatness of yuri. I'm still only a few eps in though. Not sure who best girl is yet but we have at least 2 more to be introduced if the OP is anything to go by. I'm leaning towards tsundere because that is the best trait there and she likes video games a lot.
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eating4fun posted...

@YoukaiSlayer,

It looks like you found something a niche from MMO's that you really enjoyed, and sadly, it's just a niche. MMO's draw in quite a lot of players who aren't looking for something with such a skill cap. There are other multiplayer games that better cater to that than ones that are an RPG.

There really aren't though. Occasionally I find acceptable difficulty but it's always single player. Recently the PC release of Nioh had a lot of good moments but that game is very asocial.

Really I want a PvE social game with enough depth that I'm not bored to tears with the gameplay. It doesn't even need to be action, just something engaging that doesn't get boring.

I have been almost completely unsatisfied by gameplay for quite a while now and its so frustrating. Most of the good games I have found have really just been good interactive narrative experiences if not straight up VNs and I just ache for a good game to fill the void but it won't come.

Anime has luckily been stepping it up as of late but ultimately anime just doesn't take up enough time. Even a long anime is done in less than a week and it of course entirely lacks a social aspect outside discussion (and my taste and opinions have proven to be quite uncommon so its hard to really find discussion anyway).

I've just been feeling let down by my biggest escape for a long time now and its a point where I could really use one. Eh, its probably just new year blues. Sorry to be so negative.
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I don't want to have to make 3 characters though. I want to be able to do everything with 1 character. If it wasn't such a pain to configure I'd probably hop on from time to time for a few hours but as it is I just don't really feel like going through the hassle. I'm also not a fan of the 12 person party size for everything that matters, too impersonal. 4-5 is best IMO.

I really don't know what I'm gonna do. I think I'll just wait it out and hope the MMO craving goes away and try to focus on practicing art and maybe starting a new game project but I just feel so incredibly unmotivated right now. My brain has been so tired the last few days which I guess makes sense because I was being pretty productive before that and I tend to get massive backlash any time I'm productive.
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agesboy posted...

I forget, did I ever get you to try PSO2? It's probably not something that can consume your life like FFXIV or WoW, but it's a damn fun time in 20 minute increments a few times a day when you feel like playing and an EQ is happening.

I mentioned it in the list of MMOs I played even though I don't like to consider instance based dungeon runners as MMOs (or else all the monster hunter games are also MMOs). I think I played to around level 50. The thing is you can easily fight like all the games bosses in a day and then theres just kinda nothing left but doing it again with higher stats. The combat is fun when fighting bosses but I just run out of things to do really quickly. It's netcode is godlike since I can play it with no lag despite the server being in japan since it's mostly asynchronous.

I also got a little fed up with how progression wise pretty much the only thing that mattered were the emergency quests and I hated that you can't easily redo your mag or get another one without paying real money. Unlike a lot of similar systems you can't easily use a trade broker to buy cash items for in game currency. Course I haven't played it in around a year, plenty could have changed.
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FellWolf posted...

What didn't you like about GW2 combat. I'm a fan.

It's been some time since I've played it so hopefully I'm not off but its one of those hybrid psuedo action combat systems where you still have disconnected attacks with lack of hitstun, unavoidable damage, and an aggro system.

For an action combat system to be good there really cannot be an aggro system or tanks, and there cannot be any unavoidable damage or stat checks. A good action combat system is one where given an infinite amount of time a naked level 1 character could theoretically solo the entire game. Of course, the game should generally be hard enough that that would take an inhuman level of skill and patience but it should still be possible.

The only MMO I've played that understood this was Raiderz where I could go in naked and underleveled and beat something solo that a fully geared party of max level players were failing at over and over just because of the difference in player skill. That kind of skill depth is what makes a system fun for 1000s of hours. Granted, raiderz broke my earlier rules in a few places (like with maneloth and viva) but for vast majority of the time worked how I described.

You can look at non MMOs for good examples like dark souls or monster hunter where in souls you can go through the games naked at SL 1 and still win and people have done as much or MH where you can at least beat everything solo naked, sometimes the clock stat checks you but its pretty minor. What a surprise that both series regularly have players invest 100s to 1000s of hours into them. It's almost as if a deep and well designed action combat system with rpg elements is something that entertain people for a very very long time.

To put it another way, if its an action game, and I master the combat system, then I'm done with game, so if you are an MMO you need an action combat system I cannot master without putting in 1000s of hours. I've still yet to master MH combat and while I'm close on souls I'm still not there yet either.

MMOs are for some reason afraid to cash in on this and feel anchored to the tab targetted WoW stereotype. They think players will get bored without long skill rotations and its fine to anchor players and enemies in place when they attack instead of having dynamic fluid motions. They think its fine for enemies to not have gap close attacks and instead to always manually walk up to a player before initiating an attack (this is sickening when I see it, happens even in tera all the time), that its fine to have static worlds with hordes of gormless enemies standing around to die only to respawn in view of players. It's all so incredibly lazy and frustrating.

I know I really veered off from talking about GW2 specifically but I'm pretty sure I covered enough things about it. Raiderz and PSO2 prove that the "we can't have good combat cause latency" is 100% BS and hasn't actually been an issue for nearly a decade so it would be really nice for one to just ditch hotbars, make a good combat system (of which many outside of MMOs already exist to copy), and make an immersive world.

At this point though I'll really settle for "has actual action combat, and is open world". Even that does not exist. BDO and Tera are closest but BDO has its own host of problems and tera isn't really action combat and if it is then the hitboxes should be complained about endlessly cause they are awful because avoiding attacks is not how you mitigate damage in that game.
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YoukaiSlayer posted...

I'll probably watch some FF14 videos and see if I can stomach it.

I cannot. I'm running out of seasonal anime to comfort me although this season really has been the best in recent memory at least in terms of amount of good shows. Made in Abyss is still the best show I've seen in a while but this season is stacked with good stuff.
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I've played Raiderz (easily my favorite), DCUO (hated, quit quickly), GW2 (exploration was nice but combat was terrible, quit quickly), Tera (probably the best MMO but still soooo many problems, played for several months), archeage (played with some friends, world was big but combat and questing were awful, played for like a month), BDO (was so hyped for so long and then massively disappointed in the result).

I feel like I'm forgetting some. Theres plenty of games I refuse to call MMOs that are normally listed as them though like grand chase (played this for a few months, pretty fun but very grindy at late levels), elsword (worse version of grand chase when I played it), PSO2 (great game but not enough content, also mags are easy to permanently fuck up and you only get 1 per account which is dumb), Vindictus (dead game right now, had pretty decent mechanics but for some reason didn't appeal that much to me).

I'm honestly considering either going back to tera or trying FF14. I really really want to play an MMO right now. With tera I know what I'm getting and played enough to realize it might as well be tab target and with FF14 it literally is tab target which I don't like but perhaps if its good enough in all the others I'll be able to forgive that and enjoy it anyway? Probably not. UGH. I'll probably watch some FF14 videos and see if I can stomach it.
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Did my routine self torture of looking up MMOs again. Dauntless releases open beta soon which I shouldn't know because come on, thats not a damn MMO but oh well, I was looking forward to trying that out. Otherwise it seems like they aren't releasing anything but mobile games and instanced not really MMOs. Looks like tera is still the closest to a decent action MMO on the market and I don't think I can drag myself back to it. Feels like all the action MMOs are too afraid to go far enough into the action direction which I suppose makes sense because if skill can carry you through then you don't need to grind for gear as much and have less incentive to waste money buying gacha boxes. Sigh. Eventually someone will capitalize on the genre and make a legitimate enjoyable second world with mechanics designed to be interesting for 1000s of hours.
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Finished it up. It was much better than I thought it'd be going in. There doesn't really seem to be anywhere to go from here though. Apparently most of the source material was adapted and the next bit focuses on kanbe. Makes me wanna play an MMO, if only there was one that wasn't terrible.
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Started watching Net-juu no Susume and damn. This is my jam. Also I really like the OP, they don't usually catch my attention but I like the song and the animation of it. It is a little hard to actually watch though but I feel for this main character. The part where someone guessed she was a university student ;-;. I've been there. She is cute as hell too. Maybe it's just cause I'm getting older but the late 20s early 30s anime girls have been looking real good as of late. Let the working girls doing working things revolution continue.
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Just finished shokugeki no souma S3. I don't really like the turn it took to be honest. The cooking is still top notch and it's still entertaining but the way its gone just seems so far beyond absurd that it almost makes the it feel pointless. Like at this point anything could happen with no justification. I'm really hoping this whole thing gets wrapped up and it goes back to how it was before rather than this just being how the show continues from here forward.
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I've noticed that the best shonen's lately make you feel like either side could win even when you know who the winner has to be. Only 1 ep in but it's a good opener for S3. I also am somewhat amazed anyone manages to graduate from this school with how many ridiculous expulsion rules there are.
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Think I'm probably gonna start shokugeki no souma S3 soon. Been practicing drawing again lately. Circles are still the enemy but I've gotten noticeably better at them and other basic shapes so yay progress.

keyblader1985 posted...

I had nothing else to do over the weekend (no phone, no internet, and trapped at home due to weather), so I finished Doki Doki Literature Club.

None of your choices make any difference. Sayori always kills herself at the end of act 1, yuri always kills herself at the end of act 2. There is a secret happy ending that you can get if you save scum during act 1 (before sayori kills herself) in order to see all the cgs (poems for natsuki, sayori, and yuri days 1 and 2, help both girls with festival prep, and say yes to sayori so you get the hug cg. Then when you get to the very end sayori has different words and you get altered credits and a different end poem.
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Wow I slept a long time. Ok, now that I am (mostly) sane again I can probably make a final post about this and move on to other stuff.

The atmosphere of vall halla really makes the game. It does a lot to suck you in from fake news articles to fake message board posts to fake blogs to the wonderful ambient soundtrack to the consistent visual tone and writing style. The atmosphere is comfy and mature and somewhat secluded feeling, more or less like the bar itself.

The characters are at a glance pretty ridiculous but through the conversations they all end up very fleshed out and realistic. It gives a sense that crazy shit to us is the norm in this future from android sex workers to cyborg assassins to sexy super hackers to what is essentially miku 2.0 (an android idol) to whatever the hell your coworkers actually are and plenty of other colorful characters.

They chat about what to them is current issues the same way we might chat about ours but the interesting thing is their issues are mix of basically the current issues we have with politics, scumbag corporations, and constant rioting mixed with futuristic issues like an AIs concept of death and self, replication, loss of privacy, and streaming-chan. The blend of familiar and future issues all being handled and talked about in the same fashion lends a lot of weight to the issues, the world, and the characters and makes the whole thing come together.

The ending is also one of the most emotionally satisfying endings I've had in a long time, I don't want to spoil anything so I'll just leave it at that.

Now for some things that could be considered problems. There are a LOT of loose ends that never get tied up. Like, most ends don't. If the answer doesn't walk itself into the bar you probably won't get an answer. Some things are explained in character specific endings and some info is given out by the 3 secret bar patrons you can get to come by serving a secret drink at the right time (you pretty much have to look this up, the actual hint for what the drink is, is in another game entirely).

Can't really avoid spoilers for this next part so I'll just tag em. The ending, while emotionally satisfying, is also in no way conclusive to anything except Jill's guilt over her dead ex. Her life and all the people in it haven't really reached any goal and the game could just as easily have kept going forever so the ending point is kind of arbitrary. Considering the developers can't literally make the game go on forever its a decent point to stop but I could see people wishing for a little more finality to it all.

Choosing the right drink to make is nice but a few times the hints are kinda bullshit, particularly with virgilio. Aside from choosing the right drink, the act of mixing them is kinda pointless half the time. It wouldn't be so bad if you could just click the ingredients but you have to drag each one which is annoying for bigger drinks. I did figure out near the end that for the ingredients touching mixer you can just click the edge of the ingredient square and not have to drag them but that won't work with the 2 in the corners.

All in all, those complaints are very minor and this is an overall great experience. The story touches a lot of areas from comedy to tragedy to feel good sappy stuff to pretty much everything else. Would recommend to pretty much everyone. It's estimated to be about 10 hours but my file says it took me 17 so 14-15 is probably more reasonable. Kinda makes me wanna actually be a bartender and definitely makes me wanna rewatch the bartender anime.

A kind of unrelated thought but I don't know if I'm just much easier to impress lately or if I've gotten lucky enough to stumble onto a bunch of great things in a small time period but I'm really enjoying anime and VNs a whole lot more lately than I have been for the last few years.
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I. DID. IT. I beat the whole game. Now I can sleep. Finally. It's only been 23 hours.

Seriously though, I really really liked this VN (VA-11 Hall-A). I managed to get the good ending by 40 freaking dollars, I cut it so close, don't buy useless junk. Theres still a few more secrets left to uncover in NG+ if I want to play through it again sometime (although realistically I'll probably just look em up). They really bring you into the whole atmosphere and world and immerse you in the life of Jill, a bartender in glitch city. The ending was also wonderful and really fitting in my opinion. I'm gonna miss this cast of characters. I even managed to refrain from maxing out the alcohol in the kids drink at the end so it was like I too grew as a person.

I have to credit this game for most accurate fake in game message board I've seen. It could easily be potd making all those posts. The VN also had some great references hidden away in the news stories and blog posts you can read every in game morning, they even had a damn seifeld reference as a main character. I might make another post about this when I wake up since I'm kinda dazed right now. Was totally worth staying up this late though.
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After my second failed attempt to go to sleep I'm opening the game once more. I'm gonna blame half of this on post fever stuff but the VN really is entertaining. It's a very interesting perspective to experience a story from and the humor is to my taste. It also goes into plenty of interesting cyberpunk topics like AIs and brain uploading and nanomachines and stuff. It's a really nice mix (heh).
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I can't actually stop playing vall halla. Send help. I don't even really know how much I'm enjoying it but any time I try to stop I just keep going back and opening it up again. It's got a strangely soothing atmosphere. The abundance of yuri relationships is a probably a contributing factor as is all the alcohol. I've lost full control of myself as well and max out the alcohol every time I have the option, even when the kid came in. Must get all the cute anime girls drunk dammit.
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It has been a good year for anime. Pretty amazing with how the market and working conditions are that so many great anime still get made. I guess it shows just how passionate and talented some of the people making anime are.

I've been playing VA-11 Hall-A, a pretty enjoyable cyberpunk bartending VN. I've only finished chapter 1 and I'm already bummed this isn't an 18+ VN considering we have plenty of lesbians/bi girls (including the player character) and they all have pretty good chemistry with each other. Still, its a unique game where your only real interaction is mixing drinks but it can be fairly hard to figure out what drink you need to make and you can choose how much alcohol to put in some of the drinks that can change outcomes.

Pretty relaxing and nice to drink to although annoying I just got the flu so I really shouldn't drink much. Had a bad enough fever yesterday I couldn't even manage to watch anime and yet now I feel practically fine which is really tempting me to drink along with this game but thats probably not wise.
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dragon504 posted...

Been watching Houseki no Kuni. This is a weird ass show.

It certainly is. Even after finishing it I don't really even know how I feel about it or how much I enjoyed it or not. Assuming a season 2 does come (which looks likely) all is forgiven about the ending, mostly. Also part of me hopes that sensei actually turns out to be taric from league of legends. Also I definitely would consider that a cliffhanger with where it ended. If it had ended one scene sooner or later it would have been different.
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Finished Houseki no Kuni. It's a very unique show from artstyle to characters to story to everything. Kinda pissed at where they left off since nothing is answered and its right on a cliff hanger but assuming it does get a season 2 then it's no big deal. Easily worth the watch IMO. So far this season of anime has been very good to me.

AllstarSniper32 posted...

Ouch, that sucks about the Sakura games. I actually really liked the art work of them, but found the stories to be less than stellar. But that story about the dude running it is terrible. He should go work for EA, he'd fit right in with their top brass.

Upon doing some research theres rumors that wanaca (the artist) is being held in cultlike conditions and all her social media posts are actually nick fahr. Could be some real criminal shit going on.
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I_Abibde posted...

The sad thing is that I still want to get Sakura Gamer, considering all the good stuff I have read about it, but ... I do not want to give money to that dev. What do?

I'd pirate it if you can find it. Then again, as nice as it is, it's not really anything special, you'll be fine without it.

I_Abibde posted...

Never underestimate the power of Word of Mouth.

Just finished watching trinimmortal's playthrough of this which was great. I of course already played it and got the true ending around when it released. Truly a masterpiece.
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