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in oot, ruto basically gets ntr'd though

even if she was 2nd best girl

same proof as i usually drink, but i'm somehow much drunker than i'd usually be based on how much i've had so far

excellent.

hera posted...

hephaestus

what the fuck on at least 3 levels

whats your favorite greek goddess

Does Bad Apple's PV count here? It's pretty distinctive and I've never seen something try the same style as successfully

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtutLA63Cp8

huh, this Caliber vodka doesn't actually taste as bad as i'd have thought. not very much burn for the price. kind of has a grimy aftertaste, though

i microwave cheese on bread and eat it

sometimes i fold it over

gonna knightoffire55 tonight a little bit

who should i adopt to be my temporary son
CynicalZealot posted...

Basically, don't buy low tier vodka, because it's bad.

i bought the cheapest shit i could find for tonight because i want to know how bad this shit can be

$11 for a half gallon after taxes

Mario vs Pikachu is is a very debatable subject, but Mario vs Sonic hasn't been remotely close for decades now

I remember The Sims Bustin Out being pretty good but you only really controlled one character in that game

I got Xcom 2 for switch cheap and while I appreciate the attempt I can't not play it on PC

Then don't update the game for the 1-2 months it takes for mods to get updated. You had the choice to make the game better in one of two ways (patch it and play without mods, or keep playing with mods for a better experience than vanilla), and you instead chose to not play the game anymore?

stardew has tons of mods for tiny mechanical QoL changes (like showing NPC faces on the map, or showing their favorite known gift in your inventory), new features that significantly change aspects of the game (like automation), built-in wiki shit if you're gonna wiki dive anyways, and even some that add dozens upon dozens of new characters or monsters or locations

game's incredibly modder friendly, insanely popular, and pretty cheap, so the mod scene kicks ass

i used some big ass modpack, but i had to disable a few things like that new town to the far left because my fps was dropping to single digits. eventually i just went back and cherrypicked what i liked from the modpack and ended up with about 100

was some good shit still though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3OZoErzJg0 surprised noone's mentioned the childhood earworm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV_IP4mNJCI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaN2wQ3yMnc (and the battle theme is like a super fast waltz. at least i think it still counts? it's still 3/4)

don't people mostly dislike rent-a-girlfriend because of that one terrible character and not really its premise

i don't think i've seen such universal seething hatred for a character in years

Library of Ruina

does anyone actually buy the more expensive vodkas? they taste less offensive, but ill take a bite for 50% less price

i feel like if you wanted to spend money you wouldnt even buy vodka

banshiryuu posted...

in honor of the movie

Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

haven't kept on my TMNT lore and was horrified for a second that someone might have mentioned the live action one

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/brave/images/6/69/Yuuta.PNG/revision/latest?cb=20180114045825

the c stands for children

Dohna Dohna (it has lewd content but holy SHIT that art style)

oh shit my 2nd favorite isekai is getting an anime

https://www.amazon.com/Reborn-Vending-Machine-Wander-Dungeon/dp/031647911X

one of the few isekai where the main character doesn't shore up their obvious initial weaknesses borne from their interesting start. mc just becomes a better vending machine every time he powers up. it's even implied that he could become more human-like if he wanted to invest in it, but the guy's a diehard vending machine freak and would rather gain the ability to wash clothes than speak or walk

habit

got active in around 2007, stopped posting as much when i went to college, then came back around like 2014 or so

There is a tutorial, but it's not great. You're pretty much gonna have to look up external guides. Either a video one or the wiki's text one (which the game tutorial links to, lol); https://hoi4.paradoxwikis.com/Beginner%27s_guide

fav book of all time

Yellow posted...

3D adult games are mostly uncanny and creepy looking as it is.

play the anime ones then, anything trying for realism is gonna look fucked up

Black_Crusher posted...

Hey man, I bought HoI4 last year and cant figure it out for the life of me. Is it supposed to be impossibly difficult for beginner players or is this just not my bag?

it's definitely incredibly difficult to learn, yeah. are you having problems with army positioning and movement, or are you entering wars with a weaker military force than you should have?

Kaiju #8 anime is happening

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MaTda-Ws3Y

had read a bit of the manga, it's good

despite not really ever using the numpad ever

or uh, remembering exactly what it does, other than fuck up some game inputs sometimes

Lokarin posted...

Have you ever wanted to play Crusader Kings but, like, have actual gameplay in it?

i'd argue hearts of iron 4 is a pretty good take on grand strategy games with a strong emphasis on combat. there's still no, like, micromanaging a single battle like in JRPGs or Might and Magic games, but everything on the civilian side is boiled down to simplicity, and the army combat is quite a bit more in-depth. plus the game gravitates towards large alliance warfare because joining one of the 3 major factions is the only realistic way for smaller countries to survive, so there's not quite as much curbstomping as in CK

the combat is way more detailed and revolves around army placement, army planning, defending/assaulting infrastructure, long-term secret plans like naval invasions, quick army maneuvers via blitzkrieg or tactical parachutes, etc.

you can start around the time of Ethiopia's annexation by Italy, or you can just jump ahead to Hitler pushing for Czechoslovakia if you just want to get into the meat of the conflict asap. i way prefer HoI4 over CK2/3 these days tbh

plus the alternate historical paths are fun as hell. USA can go any of the ideologies, Mexico's conflict is about the authority of churches against the government, Spain of course has their civil war early on (historically the Nationalists won and remained neutral during WW2, but there's a lot of room for foreign powers to meddle), France has a lot of options (foremost is the communist option, whether they align with Russia or not; they can also decide to shore up the gaps in defenses that historically led to their fall to Germany), there's the entire Mao Zedong situation happening in China, Russia can reject Stalin and stick to Lenin, there's a bunch of ways the Japan/Korea/Manchuoko/Nationalist China conflict can work out... game's just sick as hell

edit: shit i'm drunk. i ramble when i'm drunk

lmao i got my first moderation in years for saying "but it's not gay month" to someone saying they were gonna be real gay that weekend a few days after pride month ended

i thought my implicit criticism of society suddenly caring about lgbt issues one month out of the year and then going back to ignoring them after the month ends would be obvious, but nope

was only a nkl though

https://twitter.com/kyleauxren/status/1107023809935298560?lang=en

YoukaiSlayer posted...

It is though because my point on dromarch wasn't that people will get dromarch as a reference but won't get byakko, it's that they kept the idea of mythological beast and found a name that fit the rest of the names they chose.

big spoilers for xc2: they're actively subverting their own plot by doing this though. all of the blades' names are in Japanese for a reason- to hint early and heavily on one of the biggest plot twists/points of the game; that titans are blades' final forms. two of the four heavenly beasts are titans and two are main characters' blades and you're supposed to realize there's a connection there, but that link is weakened if not completely severed by naming them disconnected mythological names. that's also an early indicator that Jin/Shin, Metsu/Malos, and the rest of Torna is ALL blades. and it even ties back into Nia!

i seriously feel like this detracts from the game more than westernizing the name palette

piercings freak me out on a personal level, but idk why dyed hair has to be natural for it to look good

you shampoo and conditioner that shit to give it a glow it otherwise wouldn't have, why is coloring it bad

YoukaiSlayer posted...

It's really beside the point though.

It isn't, though. If you're gonna have to google it either way to get the reference, leave it as it, because changing it isn't helping. There needs to be a reason for localization changes, not "everything should be changed by default", which is apparently their stance for every name in the game except for Rex, Nia (which surprises me, since that's a Japanese name), and Vandham (who is a XCX reference).

(edit: oh yeah, they didn't translate a single common blade name either, but i'm chalking that one up to laziness)

YoukaiSlayer posted...

Not sure why they changed this one but why does it bother you. Same with mor ardain. Unless you specifically choose to play once in english and once in japanese, you'd never even know they are different and being a unique name, it's not like any context or meaning is being lost.

subtitle dissonance with the audio, which was the original topic being discussed here in post #233. I guess if you're not on that wavelength then everything here is pointless, but that's why we feel these random ass name changes are obnoxious

YoukaiSlayer posted...

Then you lose context the original had, like homura being a name meaning flame and hana being named flower.

if the names sounded like actual names and not random gibberish versions of existing words it's probably annoy me less, but hana and homura are actual names that people have. i didn't even know that poppi was referencing poppy until after i beat the game, because she's not wearing a poppy to begin with. she's wearing a lily. why the hell didn't they call her lily, that works as an english name way better than poppi

There's this one JP game that has an absurdly cool shtick. tl;dr you're at a mech school and everyone's ranks and relationships with each other could change battlefield conditions; every NPC is on roughly equal terms with you

https://twitter.com/iiotenki/status/1310574695498919937

YoukaiSlayer posted...

I don't know either one and a google search gave me the answer for dromarch on the very first for dromarch meaning.

the first result for "dromarch meaning" is people asking what dromarch means in xenoblade specifically, because noone knew what the fuck it meant. dromarch is barely ever used outside of the context of xenoblade and history books, whereas byakko is in Final Fantasy, SMT/Persona, Yu Yu Hakusho, Bleach, etc. the chances of your average xenoblade fan also being a fan one of one those is a lot higher than them being welsh mythology majors in college

YoukaiSlayer posted...

how byakko sounds comparitively out of place in what is mostly a european/latin fantasy sounding game.

because they translated all the japanese names to a bunch of separate mythologies and cultures. I'm not saying only leave Byakko alone, I'm saying leave all the names alone barring a specific reason to change them. like also, Meleph isn't even a japanese name, it's an entirely fictional one- why change it to Morag? why does Mor Ardain NEED to be celtic at the expense of renaming things that weren't even originally japanese but instead made up fictional names?

YoukaiSlayer posted...

Dromarch is a welsh white mythological beast/dog so it's really not a horrible choice.

how many people have enough knowledge of welsh mythology to even know that though

you're gonna have to google dive to find out what either Dromarch or Byakko mean, and you're gonna have to google extra hard for Dromarch because most of the results are of the Xenoblade character (78k results for "dromarch", 6k results for "dromarch -xenoblade"). meanwhile "Byakko" is sitting at 2.8 million results and immediately gives you context in the first result

I really think WAY more westerners would recognize Byakko than Dromarch. did you really know what Dromarch was without googling it the first time?

dragon504 posted...

I'm scratching my head as to why they changed some of the names.

My actual #1 gripe with the game. Why the actual hell did they change Shin to Jin??? Both are Japanese!!! Y'all just changed it to change it!!!

It felt like they just wanted to de-japaneseify the game at the expense of good names. Patroka and Ahkos (which I found out after beating the game are references to Patroclus and Achilles) are literally nothing names for the average English speaker, but every Japanese player is gonna recognize Benkei and Yoshitsune (their names in JP are literally just mythic heroes). Changing for the sake of change to something that somehow manages to be less familiar for your target audience isn't good localization. It just feels arbitrary.

Edit: oh yeah, Byakko to Dromarch. What the fuck is Dromarch supposed to invoke in me??? I know what Byakko is!!!

dragon504 posted...

Lastly, the battles seem to take a bit too long tbh. Maybe I'll get stronger/better as the game goes on, but I'm not going to hold my breath.

Rando battle length does usually feel a bit too long for most of the game, but bosses become way easier to burst down in chapter 3. The battle system feels nuanced in pointless ways until then, but then everything clicks when elemental orbs get added in.

i like it despite knowing nothing about it because people can't fucking read and/or don't know what a visual novel is

watching black summoner ep4 and I feel like as a fan of both the LN and manga, the anime's pacing feels like it's gonna suck until what was the end of LN volume 3 where Kelvin ascends to S rank and embraces being a battle junkie, and we're still in volume 1... I REALLY hope season 1 doesn't end right when it starts getting really good

k rool

because im kool

absolutely buck wild that we got mash, but I guess at this point she's as popular as the other type-moon staples (arc, saber, etc) so she gets a pass

Radix posted...

the other one is more fate/shit augh just make a new fate/fite game already :/

one single FGO character isn't that bad considering its popularity

dont have a ps4 but i do own a collector's edition of the one with gemini and i also bought the sakura wars dlc in super robot wars 30

Wtf i thought you were more crotchety when it came to substances

ftw my dude

(its still mostly illegal here and i aint touchin it....for now)

Metalsonic66 posted...

One helluva way to go!

hopefully you'd pass out on the way up so you wouldn't feel abject horror as you descended to your death

MBA > MIA > MLA (Muv-luv Alternative)

fuck all kinds of slingshots, im out, i don't care if it's 100% safe

As someone who played Pokemon Puzzle League a lot when I was younger- I just didn't actually know how to play the damn game well. I tried to keep everything as low as possible and never set up for big offensive cascades.

My reaction time is definitely not as good anymore, but playing correctly is more important than reactions in most games.