Lurker > apolloooo

Holy shit it feels unreal, and it's still as funny as ever. The megumin spinoff is decent but it felt like a car with no wheel because the 4 dysfunctional party completes it and become whole.

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More cats

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Always going inside my pants when i am pooping

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Judge eyes

Kamil posted...

^ I get that, but I doubt they'll MIghty No. 9 or Shenmue this one.

Fair, and handful of backers have played the beta and reception was positive. I am mostly optimistic but trying to keep hype level normal

Kamil posted...

I played and beat all the mainline Suikodens. I got the best ending in, well wait, I never finished Suikoden V ever. I still have it on the PS2 though a physical copy. I got the best ending in the four previous. I also played/tried that weird time travel PSP side story that got a fan translation. Anyhow.this game can't be worse than good?

Hopefully it's good. Waiting for some reviews because i have some reservations about "old ex-'game' devs teaming up again to make the good ol games of yore". Sometimes they miss more rather than hit.

But everything i have looked at for eiyuden looks great.

Number 2

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Pretty fucking hyped for now. This year is insane for jrpg.

Eiyuden, SMT V vengeance, trails trough daybreak, ys 10, some other smaller one too

Ok boss

NoxObscuras posted...

It's just one of those fad things that got popular because people have started idolizing the chiseled jawline look. It's a placebo at best. Another one that was popular for a while were those resistance balls that you chew on to strengthen your jaw muscles (don't use those, they're unsafe and can damage the joints/muscles in your jaw).

Also sound like chocking hazard

Ratchetrockon posted...

I hate it

Same

So people just put their tongue on the roof of their mouth always and they think they are gonna get Chad jawline?

Dragon's doguma

Tesla effect

Yes all aboard

I exercise more, i can do more physically demanding stuff due to my physical activity, but i guess this is the decade where my body started breaking down from decreasing metabolism and accumulated damage. I could hike a few kilometers now whereas in my 20s, i was sedentary and could barely climb stairs without going out of breath.

But at the same time, old injuries i got from teenage years sometimes flare up and causes minor pain. Especially my left ankle's ATFL ligament that i ripped a decade ago.

I got into an ice skating accident that dislocated my knee during high school, and just recently, sometimes my knee would click wrong and causes some minor pain.

Driving manual shift for years in bad traffic also kinda fucked up my left thigh sometimes it gets sore if i sit too much on the car (i have auto transmission car now, but still)

The part between my elbow and left shoulder also is starting to act up. Again, muscle and stamina wise, i am better than ever. I am the strongest atm than i have ever been but the joints feel creaky and i get weird clicking sound often if i move it the wrong way.

Thankful my parents got scared shitless when my uncle got stroke and got paralyzed. I do hope they seriously learn not to underestimate symptoms
Good luck to you tho, that is difficult. My mother in law has kidney failure and it is difficult to keep her healthy

ForsakenHermit posted...

I was fine with Super's plot, I just didn't like that character regressions that the likes of Chi-Chi & Vegeta made there.

Yeah i agree. It's the character writing that is my issues mostly, but still hsi death hits harder.

I just remembered me as child picking up the manga and begging my parents to have the entire 42 original volume and i read them over and over and over and over growing up.

There is also dragon quests, chrono trigger, they also aired old ass dr. Slump anime in my country. Those old memories rising up again. Despite everything his creations are my best friend growing up.

ForsakenHermit posted...

Fuck this one hurts, I may have rolled my eyes at some of his creative choices but as far as content creators go this death has been the most devastating since Stan Lee's.

Rest in Paradise, Akira Toriyama

Same. I dont enjoy super too much, but man everything he made shaped my childhood growing up. RIP

Smackems posted...

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Piper

Awww baby

andri_g posted...

Hey, apolloooo, how are things? :)

Did *what* you were eating make it seem even worse?

not really i was eating noodles, but i was surprised haha. the show's always edgy but i'd never expect they go the ant man meme

LeoRavus posted...

Are you paying Jeff extra to remove the ads?

I password share

You know the butt scene.

Eeeeeeeeew. I am usually pretty gutsy but that's just disgusting i gagged my dinner

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So last week i found 2 kittens. The orange one didnt survive, but the black one is recovering well in the vet

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SomeLikeItHoth posted...

Classic turn based with Octopath speeds. Would be perfect.

Yees

I want ff ix but i want it to have classic turn based gameplay. Cannot imagine ff ix as anything else but turn based

I am 31

It's not like the past 4 years were all bad. Covid was bad, but we recovered. Financial was bad but the past 2 years is getting better for, i got married, etc

Still doesnt feel real. Am i just getting old and fucked my perception of time or covid just wrecked our collective perception of time passing

Yes in malaysia it was indian food somewhere in a corner, and it truly was good

A bit pricey but not exorbitantly expensive

Idk i am an anime only and i know this from a meme.

But i know the context behind it but still weeeeeew

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teep_ posted...

She re-released/re-recorded her old albums due to issues with the rights, which got her a lot of publicity and led to tours etc

Makes sense. I just remember she was big 13 years ago, and one boy at my class back then (in high school) had such an excessive infatuation to her lol

No hate just asking question. Like i remember she was pretty big in 2010's then just kinda faded as the mainstream music industry cycle goes, but it seems like she's suddenly huge and her tours and albums suddenly grossing billions in 2023.

Idk maybe i am just out of touch but pop musicians rarely have a comeback let alone this big.

Lol @ people coping kizaru is cauterizing vegapunk's wounds

Nice congrats and thank you to the winner

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Doe posted...

I understand why people dont like the Royal ending as much as OG but I also appreciate it as very intentional and purposeful. The exchange for rejecting Marukis ideal world is that the gang have to deal with real life getting in the way. I was really impressed by the games acknowledgment of the weight of that choice.

Yeah, that is what i really like about royal. They gave weight to the whole rejecting maruki thing and everything in the 3rd semester was excellent (maybe except combat because i were already too OP even playing on hard difficulty, the 3rd persona evolution for party members are OP too)

teep_ posted...

This reminds me that I should make my yearly "Maruki did nothing wrong" topic

Also TC, I'm glad you liked Royal. I never played Vanilla, but the third semester was an amazing end to an extremely good game

Maruki's dungeon is one of the best dungeon i played in jrpg tbh and i played tons of them. The mix of puzzle/exposition is perfect, compared to vanilla's final dungeon which is just combat.

Also maruki is wrong. Healing people is good but what he did is not healing, it's just giving them an illusion.

This is my first persona 5 playtrough, so i am kinda curious for people who play vanilla first what do they think about royal's content and such.

For me i think royal's content is excellent. I loved akechi from the start and based on their confidant scenes i really feel their rivalry building up as opposite side of a coin.

Kasumi/sumire was good addition and i like her but she is just okay

Maruki is an excellent character with great confidant scenario and i really like the whole 3rd semester content and story telling. His dungeon is super long, but doesnt feel boring because it has interesting mechanics and add substantial depth to maruki's characters and motivation. I find the final fight to be a bit cheesy, but overall the whole extra storyline is very good.

My guess is the biggest difference is what vanilla player think about akechi's character compared to royal's.

Nyx.

Like she manifested with a mix of kirijo messing with the sea of souls and humanity's collective desire to die bringing the persona of death itself in physical form.

Persona 3 was made in 2007, which is very different from 2024. It feels like doomerism is more rampant and if the collective unconscious was real something like nyx would be even more powerful than the one we see in persona 3

Rika_Furude posted...

I did buy this one myself, the translation seemed very bad when I originally tried it though. Has it improved since then?

They changed it but it is still like early 2000s jrpg. Playable and comprehensible but dont expect anything more.

Accolon posted...

I bought that, but I couldn't quite figure it out. I probably need to scour some wikis

It has a steep learning curve, but the first few chapters are easy enough you can get away by equipping basic masteries and play it simple. Only the violent cases require extra effort. However the story's difficulty ramps up later

Troubleshooter: abandoned children is the best and deepest one you can get rn

I think the art is very good for weekly manga and the writing is improving, and the first arc ended in a pretty good note. Char and sojo carries that arc <_<

dave_is_slick posted...

How did you get that far and miss the point that bad?

I dont say i am not enjoying the game. Easily the best gameplay for the modern SMT games ( i played persona 3,4, SMT 4 and apocalypse, devil survivor 1 and 2 and strange journey)

And the story is still pretty good with good overall themes and world building. This topic is me basically overthinking "stealing hearts" aspect of the whole game.

SAlYAN posted...

At the end of the day, that's not what the game is about. Not only would the pacing answer storytelling suffer immensely if the writers were to shove in manifestos on systemically solving issues like rape/abuse, organized crime, big business/political corruption, hikikomori-ism, criminal justice reform, parental abandonment, and the dozen other issues the game tackles, those individual issues aren't ultimately the point.

Throughout the game, it's shown time and time and again that these bad actors in palaces are symptoms, not the disease itself. Every time the thieves steal a heart, they fix a terrible person, but the world doesn't actually get better. Kamoshida, Madarame, a TON of people knew the whole time what was going on, but looked the other way. The police were powerless to move against Kaneshiro. Everybody helplessly ran around in circles over Medjed. Futaba was gaslit into severe depression, and damn near the whole world gave up on her for it. Everything about the protagonist's brushes with the police are indicative of a culture that doesn't care who you are or what you did, just whether you stay in line, or get smacked down if you don't.

The thru line is that these big bad actors are just symptoms of an apathetic world. People see and know that all of these shitty th8ngs are happening around them, and they just 0lug their eyes and ears and act like if they just go about their daily lives, none of it matters. Its why the Okumura arc, while bloated near the beginning, is so important. Its the evidence that just taking out bad guys and being popular super heroes doesnt actually fix anything; regular people still dont care, and just enjoy the "fireworks." The phantom thieves, fully realized, aren't about solving all the world's problems, its about making you want to try.

Very good analysis of the themes thank you. Yeah in the end, i agree. I am thinking too much about the change of heart too and how too much a convenient power fantasy for the problems they are trying to tackle.

Otherwise My only real "complaint" about the story in general is how the party member persona evolution ties to the confidant rank. It feels less satisfying because it isnt integrated with the main story. Compare it to persona 3 spoiler junpei's character development with chidori's and ultimately his persona evolution