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looks like first two weeks of eqs are just the boring ones, so the story progression regarding EQs probably won't be known till full release

city one was good exp back in the day and probably is pretty best exp/h now if you get a group that is actually competent and chains bursts

were successor classes (Hero, Phantom, and very recently Etoile) in the game already?

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still not on pc so it's irrelevant to me

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granblue fightin game is out on steam now

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pso2 open beta announced for 3/17

still xb1 only for now

called it

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YoukaiSlayer posted...

Redownloaded FF14,

what server

me hyperion server, primal cluster

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astarotte's toy being on crunchy still kinda surprises me

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6erCsO0tbtE

priconne game arc 2 OP is better than most anime OPs

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screw anime whens baldr sky

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I just type out how it sounds in IME then pick the right one. I have no where near the required knowledge to find kanji any other way.

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It was only after playing priconne that I realized, hey, I actually know more Japanese than I thought I did. Not that I can understand everything, but with context, I can pretty much always at least know what's going on. It's been pretty cool.

...my level of understanding differs per character, though. One of them's an idiot and I understand everything she says just fine, because all her sentences are direct. Another one talks in long, winding sentences and is canonically probably one of the older characters in the entire game (so.... 30~), and I find myself looking up a lot of kanji..

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@dragon504 You probably aren't interested in playing a 100% JP game but princess connect is having a gigantic free roll period during 2x ssr rates cuz 2nd anniversary, and most of the superstrong limiteds are in the gacha pool, so if you were ever curious about it, it's a good time to start

it can be played on PC with DMM game player too

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caught up on oshibudo

is anyone else really frustrated at maina for NOT CONSIDERING THE FINANCIAL STATE OF HER ONLY REAL SUPPORTER as SAID SUPPORTER IS ON CRUTCHES

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haven't had those kinds of worries since like late high school

just roll with the flow and you'll probably find someone as degenerate as you to decay with

or just give up entirely like me, 2d ftw

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camgirls have been a thing since forever

you don't even need that many clients, just a few dedicated ones

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YoukaiSlayer posted...

Right as a virtual camgirl just took over chaturbate too which is hilarious.

the whining from regular camgirls over VR camgirls is the best

it seems like some of them aren't aware that this isn't some sort of autonomous sentient AI stealing their jobs

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https://twitter.com/ejiejidayo/status/1227624769815642114

humanity has peaked

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YoukaiSlayer posted...

I feel like they've done a pretty good job making anime. I hope this one is good.

There's already something like an hour or two of miscellaneous anime footage in the game itself that looks great, so I have some hopes for it.

https://youtu.be/GZ7bv6vXg4Y

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knvTPENr_wE

Princess Connect anime in two months, whee!

For the uninitiated: it's a mobile game made by Cygames (Granblue, Shadowverse, Rage of Bahamut), but unlike them, from the start it had an absolutely huge budget.

It's the sequel to the earlier Princess Connect game, which had a VRMMO plot where whoever did something could have any wish granted by the game admins. The villain won and wished everyone to be isekai'd into the game and have almost everyone's memories wiped. Part 1 of the story, which concluded a few months ago, is basically the main character reassembling his friendharem and fighting the villain of the first game.

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i heard about it beforehand so it was exactly what i was expecting

actually been thinking about reading a crossdressing vn recently as it's by the people who did another one I loved... but japanese is hard....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQnInBQXiTQ

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DeltaBladeX posted...

*see random anime screen shot, finds out title and just downloads*

good show

YoukaiSlayer posted...

What show is that?

himegoto

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did you tag it properly? some subreddits are anal about that

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keyblader1985 posted...

Other than that, there was this cool Detective Conan one where Conan lost his memory (which would naturally cause a lot of confusion, being a genius in an 8 year old's body),

Memory loss makes for some good AUs. Wasn't fanfic, but that's how the Toradora PSP VN went. And it was the only way some pairings would ever be possible...

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One of my best friends in high school was huge into Harry Potter and Sherlock fanfic. Never been able to get into it myself, honestly. Hell, I don't even like doujins of series I know. Just feels weird to me, most of the time.

There was one Tales of Symphonia one I liked for a while just because I was... well... playing nothing other than ToS for a few years of my life.

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https://vnstat.net/user/2568

wahoo for pointless visual novel statistics!

i like how most of my recommendations are either things without translations (sakura no uta, muramasa), with only partial translations that i've already read (aiyoku no eustia), with horrible translations (white album 2: closing chapter), or things i'm putting off because i saw the anime a decade ago (higurashi, ef)

it's a good reminder i need to get off my ass and finish dies irae, subahibi, and steins;gate i guess

also it's hilarious how rating kana 1/10 has made the algorithm think i hate tropes i fucking LOVE (mostly terminal illness)

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could always mess around on jp servers, the translation patch is nearly perfect

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am basically done with da capo 3 now (I'm reading the last relatively long side story, which is mostly just a huge love letter to da capo 2)

8.5/10 it was good tho dc2 still better

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sounds like emiya gohan and non non biyori

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what class r u playin

out of the base classes, over the years I mained katana braver, jet boots bouncer, wand techer, sword hunter, and summoner

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@Bulbasaur https://pso2.com/news/announcements/cbtsurvey (if it brings you to landing page, go to the link again)

$5 of funny money for doing a survey

that's about the price of a mag or some inventory slots

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over halfway done with da capo 3 vn now, did anyone watch the anime? seems kind of dumb that the anime covers such a ridiculously small part of the overall story

maybe the first 4~ hours is what the anime covers, and the vast majority of the rest of the game is spent in 1953

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it's a fun ass game

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They secured exclusivity for CBT and it's starting to seem like OBT, and there is no actual launch date for PC yet. There were also interviews somewhere talking about how Microsoft is the driving force behind the localization.

PSO2 was originally a PC game. It is still not on XB1 in JP, nor are there any plans for it to be, so early releasing it (because progress in CBT/OBT carry over to launch) on XB1 is just weird. Up until about half a week ago (when a community manager managed to get permission to actually release details on twitter) there was total radio silence on all but a few details.

The fact that it's probably going to be on steam is really good news (if it was being served on Windows Games store I would have given up all hope, because it's common there), but I'm still a little wary.

Note that I have zero belief PSO2 is physically incompatible with W7, because I have been playing the JP version on it for six years now. I'm just worried about Microsoft being Microsoft trying their hardest to push their newest OS.

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I mean... $20 is enough to play comfortably. PSO2 is very, very generous. Most of the game's money is made off people trying to be fashionable, not off of selling contrived conveniences. If you play three characters, it's comfortable enough spending no money. I just personally don't like playing three characters.

Hell over the years it got even more friendly as it became far easier to get shop passes while f2p, and also removed the main selling point of the premium subscription with the advent of multi-block matching.

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well, Summer Pockets just released out of absolutely fucking nowhere

https://store.steampowered.com/app/897220/Summer_Pockets/

Key VN, rated really highly like all other Key things

YoukaiSlayer posted...

They should make it illegal to sell inventory space in games. Truly despicable.

i kind of give PSO2 a pass because it's f2p and buying the "essentials" for comfortable play still comes out to far, far less than the cost of an actual game, especially for how otherwise complete of a package the game is... but it is really annoying

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Eventually I gave in and bought three extras when they were on sale (usually as a combo pack with inventory space, which, by the way, is also basically mandatory.....). It was annoying trying to play 3 characters when I only cared about one.

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The game is super easy in general, at least. All you really need is general knowledge of the fight and a vague idea of your rotations and you'll outdamage most random MPAs. Hopefully you find a class that suits you; the game is still fun as hell as a casual after all these years.

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Chrono_Trigger posted...

it's gonna be on steam

I know, but Microsoft is heavily behind it. It wouldn't surprise me if they made it it physically incapable of working with Windows 7, despite the fact that the JP client works fine on it.

YoukaiSlayer posted...

I seem to be able to handle about an hour of monster hunter twice a day on good days and PSO2 requires a lot more button presses so I'm not sure I'll actually be able to play it. I really want to play it though.

Yeah, most classes are pretty fast paced... You can play sword hero and hold one PA for decent dps, but it's not optimal. Summoner might be pretty chill because you can't JA, so no timing is really needed and you can just hold down PA buttons.

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Any of you gonna be playing PSO2? I've played since like 2014 on JP servers, and I'll probably give it a shot if it isn't arbitrarily Windows 10-only when it comes out on PC in english.

(no way I'm abandoning all my jp shit for good, though)

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YoukaiSlayer posted...

Like, they show sex and some fluids and stuff.

I laughed my ass off at the first third of ep 4, man. They're are just trying to see what they can get away with and it's glorious.

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In their defense, the anime has gone way raunchier than the manga did.

In their offense, I don't know why they stepped so close to the line to begin with. The show's premise is banging prostitutes. They shouldn't tiptoe the line if they're gonna be this skittish about it.

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Memoria Freese events are usually pretty great, from what I've seen. Still have the game installed and might give it a shot.

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Some games ran better than PS2 (tales of the abyss), some didn't run at all (srw impact). Last time I tried was 2008 though.

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It's REALLY easy to rip your own PS2 games. Any DVD-RW (should be like $10~) should work. Hell, it was the only way I could get some of my more scratched up games (I own 3 copies of Xenosaga 1, all scratched up and unplayable in different segments...) to actually play. Plus it bypassed region lock so it was the only way I could play some imported games.

It's also really easy to get your PC to recognize a PS3/PS4 controller (you have to install something, but then it's treated like a 360 controller from then on out by games).

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Actual mother protagonists in vns is absurdly rare. Only one I can actually think of (that isn't just milf nukige) is Toheart2's sidestory/fandisc/sequel thing.

Damekoi faked you out thinking the main girl was gonna be a milf, but turns out, she completely disappears from the story and the protagonist basically becomes a single dad.

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Yeah, his sudden attitude whiplash was obnoxious. I should probably go finish that show sometime even though I know it'll probably just be ok.

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Early FF12 is really slow, yeah. They try to frontload way too much plot.

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https://youtu.be/--RYKf3FfPs

rance music is so GOOD

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can have multiple: knight (swords and greatswords are great), monk (huge hp)
absolutely have at least one: white mage (two isn't a bad idea), time mage
have two or three characters with one of these for antiair: uhlan, monk, machinist, archer
meh but one's ok: foebreaker, archer, uhlan

Characters have very slightly different license boards for the same jobs and some have access to more stuff with certain summons/quickenings. Like I remember my bushi/monk vaan somehow gained access to curaja on one of those trees via summons. Summons can seriously open up some windows, but you can only assign each summon to one character.

Also, job combinations can give access to more stuff. Like some boards will have, for example, heavy armor 5-10 in a bunch of nodes not connected to the rest of the license board. If you get any of heavy armor 5 through 10 on one board, it automatically fills out that section on the other board- allowing you to get all of heavy armor 5 through 10 as they're connected.

That said you don't have to preplan that much imo. Just keep this stuff in mind and go for opportunities as they appear. Spreading out job choices is a very good idea because chances are you'll run across rare drops of different weapon types. It'd suck to get a really good ninja sword and not be able to use it, right? I basically rotated my characters based on who got lucky weapon drops.

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Finished Goblin Slayer. Last episode's "I thought he was a goblin!" was the best line in the show. Dunno what next, maybe Grimgar, or something cute.

YoukaiSlayer posted...

I couldn't agree more man. The only time he did was the first arc and that one was just never understood by the viewer so it barely counts.

Indeed. Kabaya was just a mystery in all of his early stuff except for his one strong desire, and it feels like retroactively he was written to be sympathetic.

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watched like 60 episodes of SAO over the past few days (2 -> ordinal scale -> all alicization)

alicization's good but i wish reki would stop with the super objectively morally wrong villains. at least the current villain isnt a rapist, but he is a soul devourer, which i'm not sure is any better? i was just hoping he'd just be a competent analytical commander instead of "i murdered at the age of 5 because i'm a psychopath"

i'm now watching goblin slayer and it's great

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