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Welcome to the TOMPIC! In this, I will liveblog various things that I'm watching and reading and playing and doing. Dark Silvergun posts some too! There will be SPOILERS for anything I'm doing, although hopefully you can avoid reading updates for stuff you want to avoid spoilers on, and I try to tag some of the biggest reveals anyway.

The poll will officially run until TOMPIC 4 hits 500, and the winner at that time will get the next spot in my weird rotation system! Webcomic slot is open right away, computer game slot might be open by the time I switch to this topic, anime slot will be like a month and a half, and Sherlock would be a ways down the road. Feel free to keep voting even if you come late- it'll still have some influence on future decisions, and on the poll when we get to TOMPIC 6!

I have more info, but I'll save it for the bumps. Here's TOMPIC 4 though!
https://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/74469946
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oh man tiger mask
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7.09 - Honest Apple
5 Days.

Good good, let's continue this!
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And also, let's just put this here too,
The Next Five Episodes:

06/10/2017: Royal Problems [Episode 10, MLP:FiM]
06/17/2017: Not Asking for Trouble [Episode 11, MLP:FiM]
06/24/2017: Dance Magic [Special 1, Equestria Girls]
07/01/2017: Movie Magic [Special 2, Equestria Girls]
07/08/2017: Mirror Magic [Special 3, Equestria Girls]

Season 7 hits it's official mid season hiatus as of Episode 11.

Also, the MLP movie is not that far off either, set to October 6, 2017.
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7.09 - Honest Apple
4 Days
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Stuff I'll post here to start with (approximately from most time left to least) and what will happen next with that "slot":

Stardom: I have dropped WWE Network and now I'm becoming "that joshi guy" over time. Watching everything chronologically (and slowly). Still in 2011.

TBD Webcomic!

Digimon Tri: As they come out. Love it.

Wheel of Time: On audiobook now, for faster progress but more trouble retaining. Shortly into Knife of Dreams. This will be the time I conquer "that part of the series"! Don't know what's next- maybe ASoIaF or Dune.

MLP FiM: More or less current, although it takes me a few days to watch the new ep usually. Will not be replaced.

Enderverse: Or at least the Shadow ones. Almost done with Puppets. Quality's dipped a BIT but it's still very fun. I'll probably keep physically reading shorter fiction and relegate long fiction to audiobooks.

Trails in the Sky: Knocking somewhat aimlessly around Bose, and still a big fan. I intend to keep with the series after this but we'll see.

Tokyo Mirage Sessions: Currently rescuing Taranchino or whatever his name is. I like this a lot but man am I burning to finish this up and get Persona 5.

Pokemon Moon: Playing very slowly, and sliding in and out of burnout. About to do the Ghost trial, probably? Next is probably FE Echoes.

Bible readthrough: Currently in Acts. Probably won't replace.

LoliRock: Most of the way through season 1, and finding it oddly enjoyable. Next is probably Lucha Underground (unless Sherlock wins)

Sound Euphonium: Halfway through season 2. Kinda lost me with the first few eps of S2, but I'm back on board now that we're backing off the teen drama. Will replace with another anime.

Chip and Ironicus play MGS2: Pretty far in at this point. Will focus harder on New Dangan Ronpa V3 afterwards, then I vaguely intend to continue the series.

Higurashi Ep 5: Stuff has started to get creepy. Once that AND Clannad are done, I'm not sure. If a game wins the poll, that's next. If not, I might do Planetarian again for Game of the Month, or just start another one of my STEAM BATTLES.

Clannad: After is done, just have a few easter eggs to see. Likely to be done by the time this topic officially starts, although now Wifebolo and I have started the anime. See above.
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7.09 - Honest Apple
3 Days
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7.09 - Honest Apple
2 Days
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Stuff I'll only post about on occasion:

-I try to read a non-fiction book every month, and give a quick take on it here afterwards. I've been on a game theory kick but this month we have Trump's most recent book. It's a great book. The best book.
That's why I'm winning.
America needs to win.
Because the best book is this one. Donald Trump's book.

-Wifebolo and I watch this and that. I'll post here usually if we finish something, which sometimes happens and sometimes doesn't. Currently, we're pretty deep into 30 Rock and the Clannad anime, both of which are great. Also gonna try to slam through the Planetarian VN.

-Life. I juggle a few jobs, most notably at a high school. Married, no kids. (for now) Life's pretty good.
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almost there!
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7.10 - Royal Problems
6 Days

Yeah, only 7 more posts left in the previous topic now!
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Lookin' like Tiger Mask or Sherlock!
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...or AssClass! only a couple posts left to go...
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And there it is

Wifebolo tiebreak time
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7.10 - Royal Problems
4 Days.

500 have cometh Tom, here we go into your Topic #5 officially!
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Our official winner via wifebreak is G-SENJOU NO MAOU! That'll show up after the last bits of Clannad and Higurashi wrap. Feel free to keep voting- it does still have SOME influence on what I pursue. In the meantime, since none of the provided webcomic options got much interest, we're gonna go with another thing off my possibilities list!

CUCUMBER QUEST: oh this gon' be cute and fun. Definitely the same kinda humor and pacing as the old hiimdaisy stuff, which is a plus!
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7.10 - Royal Problems
3 Days.

Played some Demon's Souls the other day. I'm just jumping around from game to game lately.
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Go Tom go
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I started my Stardew Valley LP but I wanna redo it with better audio.

WoT KoD: I feel like we spent the first few books building up Aes Sedai as awesome and mysterious, and the rest of the series so far making them into jokes. I can't pretend I wasn't a LITTLE entertained by Mat spanking Joline, though.

#FE: I don't even remember what door I WANT in the actual dungeon at this point, but at least the arena is still fun to grind.
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LP MGS 15-2 (part 1): More mindgames! More importantly, we have a katana now.

WoT KoD: Right when I thought "man Setalle seems to have more to her" is right when she found out she was a former Aes Sedai! :O
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7.10 - Royal Problems
1 Day.

I forgot to comment here yesterday? Oh no!

Demon's Souls: Created a Blessed Greatsword+5. Nothing like a weapon that deals massive damage to your enemies!
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Okay HERE is my first Stardew LP video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfLUneC2YvE&feature=youtu.be

WoT KoD: I don't think I really like all this "Dead walking" stuff. Not really my bag, and doesn't really feel like it fits in this world. Not sure WHY it feels out of place, since I was cool with the bubbles of evil and whatnot. More importantly, IT IS TIME FOR A BADASS RESCUE MISSION AND AAELWINN/EELWINN FUNTIMES. I KNEW she wouldn't die that easily! And Thom/Moiraine backstory? And Nol doing more stuff? Sign me dang up.

Acts 9-12: No new revelations today.

Clannad: The baseball game was everything I could've hoped! Everybody got to be cool in their own way. (except Sunohara, but what else is new?) All that's left now is the Sunohara route, and I guess there's some cameo thing I may or may not try as well?

Higurashi: Man we're just gonna taze everybody!
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7.10 - Royal Problems
https://www.equestriadaily.com/2017/06/usa-season-7-episode-10-royal-problem.html
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MLP 7-9- Honest Apple: The disco ball incident reminds me of when I was little and my mom took me along for her shopping. My most notorious comment was "You look like a walking tomato." Rarity shredding was great, albeit a bit forced. I feel like the concept of tempering honesty with tact is an important one for this time! Also, this should help with the complaints of AJ being a Mary Sue! Solid ep, although probably not anything to write Celestia about. I really wanted Inky Rose to be Maude in disguise.

Pokemon: We're on a time limit now that I am aware of Culdcept Revolt, so we chugged along today! Totem Mimikyuu went down, but not without taking a couple of my guys with it. I really wanted to catch a Mimikyuu, but I don't see any in the area.

LoliRock 1-25/26- Home: Intense stuff! :D I like the new folks! NGL though, I was focused more on posting UCA stuff >_>
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7.11 - Not Asking for Trouble
6 Days.

That was a pretty fun episode, I enjoyed it. When Rarity and Applejack are together, the dynamic just seems to work so well. Applejack really threw Rarity for a loop though! Got to love that shredding with Rarity, that really gave Pinkie Pie a serious "what just happened?" moment though!
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Not feeling so great but I have a day off so that's good :\

Stardom 11.6.26
Nanae Takahashi v. Saki Kashima: **
Bito/Aikawa v. Taiyo/Yoshiko: ***
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7.11 - Not Asking for Trouble
4 Days.

Sorry to hear that Tom, I hope you feel better soon.
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I do! :D

Euph 2-8- Rhapsody in Flu: I'm not that into the sister drama but babby!Kumiko is dang cute.

Trails: After some back and forth, we're into Ravennue Mine, where I am sure I will be thoroughly lost at some point. Kinda wish this game had some sorta fast travel, honestly. Maybe at some point the airships will work? But I am looking more from "get from dungeon back to town" kinda fast travel.

Cucumber Quest: Almond continues to be the best as we roll into Chapter 1, but Peridot amuses me as well. And I hope Cabbage comes back at some point! Nautilus seems kinda cute too. This is just a wholesome good time all around!
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WoT KoD: did we really need mr. beetle barf

NDRV3: Ouma freetime didn't sell me on him.

#FE: I am addicted to grinding the arena and may or may not ever get around to progressing in the dungeon >_>

Higurashi: The Rika fight was...unpleasant. Geeze.
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7.11 - Not Asking for Trouble
3 Days.

Good to hear that Tom!
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MLP 7-10- A Royal Problem: Celestia and Luna are making me sad D: Mainly Luna, as she is best side pone. Daybreaker was pretty cool! I can only imagine the amounts of fanstuff this episode inspired, man. I also enjoy Mom!Twilight. Solid ep!

Let's Play Stardew Valley Ep. 2!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b54WE-We2jM

LP MGS2 15-2: I...don't really have a concept of what anybody's trying to accomplish anymore, but that Ray fight looked like a lot of fun! Also Snake said that witches don't exist, so now I want an Umineko crossover.

Clannad: Is DONE. Sunohara route was a particularly weird way to finish this game up, but whatcha gonna do? Clannad was phenomenal, and I heartily recommend it. Gotta keep pushing through with Wifebolo. ...I still don't get the Illusionary World, even after 100ish percenting and looking it up.

Route ranking:
After Main > Baseball > Nagisa > F. Ibuki > Kotomi > After True > After Akio > Tomoyo > Mei > Koumura > Misae > Yukine > Sunohara > Kappei > Ryou > Kyou

Character ranking:
Akio > F. Ibuki > Sanae > Tomoyo > Kotomi > Yukine > Nagisa > Tomoya > Mei > Ryou > Ushio > Botan > Yoshino > K. Ibuki > Koumura > Misae > Kappei > Naoyuki > Kyou > Sunohara

Waifu ranking:
Sanae > Yukine > Tomoyo > Nagisa > Ryou > Misae > K. Ibuki

Akio ranking:
Akio

Higurashi: One thing I forgot to mention was that I know I've heard of the name Hannyu before, which probably means there was more to Rika's death in some capacity? I can't remember if that's something I heard of in-game or out of game though. >_> Anyway, it's Satoko time. The novelty of the yandere PoV has now worn off and now we just have a bunch of gruesome and uncomfortable executions. I would like to be done with this ep soon.
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Acts 13-17: those sure are some acts

WoT KoD: DID YOU KNOW? Elayne's pregnant and that can mess with a gal's head

LoliRock 2-1- Magical Musical Tour: Kinda nice for ol' team rocket to get a power boost, albeit a temporary one. New song woo!
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7.11 - Not Asking for Trouble
1 Day.

So, we got the first Map episode of the season, and it's not the Mane 6 for once, hm, interesting. As for Starlight using her magic for a Cutie Mark swap, an extreme measure, but it worked out in the end. Twilight as a talking music box and the crazy side of Twilight is being shown once again, she just can't let Starlight to do her thing, now can she?
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I kinda like how we've been seeing more flaws in Twilight and AJ recently. Sometimes those two can feel a bit too perfect.
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Pokemon: My battery died somehow and it backed me up to before the Ghost trial. That might be it, I dunno. I was getting back into things but I really don't enjoy replaying stuff, and Culdcept will be out soonish anyway, and I dunno.

Trails: I found Kyle rather suddenly, and he went down without really putting up any kind of fight. More importantly, Olivier is back! And we get some quality backstory on General Morgan, whom I am no longer assuming to be a secret villain. I'm guessing this has been the "wine incident," which means I need to...go back to the tower place, I think? Somebody said to do something at some point.
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Tom Bombadil posted...

I'm guessing this has been the "wine incident," which means I need to...go back to the tower place, I think? Somebody said to do something at some point.

...

I don't remember what I said. I think I suggested to clear tough areas like the Tower when you had him in your party?

oh, yeah, LogFAQ had my back. There was a monster chest that I put off until the end of the chapter that completely fucked me when I only had Estelle and Joshua again. Specifically there's a chest in the Krone Pass.

LogFAQ.s is banned but LogFAQ isn't
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I think I fought that one already! It was...unpleasant.
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Euph 2-9: Asuka backstory! I am pleased with this development. Probably should've been able to guess some of that!

WoT KoD: Aviendha can read ter'angreal, so that's pretty cool. I guess she's shipping back off to train now, so maybe that means she can get PoV's once she's away from Elayne? (DID YOU KNOW SHE'S PREGNANT)

Stardom 11.7.10
Saki Kashima v. Arisa Hoshiki: **1/2
Mayu Iwatani v. Haruka: **1/2
Taiyo/Yoshiko/Yamagata v. Takahashi/Susa/Bito: ***

Higurashi: ...I don't really see how there's gonna be much left to do after this wraps up!

#FE: I decided to bite the bullet and look up an FAQ...except I couldn't find a text FAQ that got into chapter 4, anywhere. I steeled myself for one last shot at the LCD puzzle....and got it, about five minutes before I hit my limit and dropped the game for Persona 5! Excellus was kinda tough, but we got through it okay. We just might make it!

Cucumber Quest: Peridot is pretty great.
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7.11 - Not Asking for Trouble
https://www.equestriadaily.com/2017/06/usa-mlp-season-7-episode-11-not-asking.html
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As I mentioned before, these is no FiM episode next Saturday, and instead is the first Equestria Girls Special: Dance Magic, which kind of follows with the fourth movie, so for convenience, I guess the best way to number it is 4.1? Yeah, let's go with that.

EG4.1 - Dance Magic
7 Days.
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Elayne's pregnant!? How is that affecting her thoughts? What are her new physical needs? How are the opinions of servants, friends and potential political rivals affected by this fact?

I guess some questions will never be answered...
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and how does she feel about all those opinions???
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WoT KoD: Elayne's still pregnant but at least she's doing something to advance the plot now.

MLP 7-11- Not Asking for Trouble: Man I forgot how great the yaks were. Gummy too. This entire ep was worth it for Pinkie with horns!

DR V3: ....How about I just wait for it to show up on steam?

LoliRock 2-2- If You Can't Beat Em: Great ep! It was a nice changeup of the formula, and I am a sucker for teaming up with the comic relief villains. Took me right back to the Pokemon anime days when Team Rocket would sometimes help out. Plus, Mephisto and Praxina trying to help people and fit in was extra great.

LP Stardew Valley: Episode 3 appears! I think that's enough to give it its own topic once it finishes uploading.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6hTDaupihk
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EG4.1 - Dance Magic
6 Days.

Nothing like some "Pink Horse" as the Yaks kept calling Pinkie Pie!
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EG4.1 - Dance Magic
5 Days.
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Shadow of the Giant: Did you know Petra was pregnant? She can still do stuff and be Petra, though. And now we have a new Anton baby! I am pretty excited.

LP MGS2 16-1 (first half): So we have like six different agendas and I think Ocelot just backstabbed all of them in rapid succession? And then Liquid took him over? I don't even know anymore, man. Chip and Ironicus did a good job naming this episode "What." It's getting interesting now though, and I had been getting pretty bored!

WoT KoD: Elayne's still pregnant, but at least there's a good reason for her getting lost in her own palace now, and we're getting down to business with the succession sorta. As for the palace shifting around...it's a cool idea, but like the other weird stuff that's been happening, just kinda seems out of place. I realize the point IS for it to be weird, and I'm curious where it's all going, (I assume it involves "the lord of chaos") but....it just kinda feels like Jordan decided "let's tack on some creepy stuff!" one morning. I dunno.

#FE: YEAH WE CAN ADVANCE THE PLOT AGAIN so I spent the whole time doing Unity and side missions. Knocked Maiko's out quickly, and now I'm doing a thing with Tsubasa and Ellie for Barry. I bet I'll get a new...combo thingamajig!

Higurashi: Beated. .....Hm, they successfully had me buying the Sonozaki theory! Good job Ryukishi, I'm clueless now! (except for some vague hints of spoilers I've picked up from various places) At any rate, it's G-Senjou time, in accordance with the poll.
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EG4.1 - Dance Magic
4 Days.
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Tom Bombadil posted...

WoT KoD: Elayne's still pregnant, but at least there's a good reason for her getting lost in her own palace now, and we're getting down to business with the succession sorta. As for the palace shifting around...it's a cool idea, but like the other weird stuff that's been happening, just kinda seems out of place. I realize the point IS for it to be weird, and I'm curious where it's all going, (I assume it involves "the lord of chaos") but....it just kinda feels like Jordan decided "let's tack on some creepy stuff!" one morning. I dunno.

I think his idea was to make the world seem like it was starting to fall apart. Concrete foundations of the world that no longer seem to hold true. The Dark One pressing on the Pattern and stressing existence.
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I figured it was something like that!
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Stardom 11.7.10 Battle Royal: ***1/2

G-Senjou: We now resume G-Senjou, still in progress from when it made a good run at last Steam Battle and got some random playtime in after that. I believe I am on Haru's route, if that's a thing, and don't remember getting all that far past the kidnapping incident. I think we're doing Kanon skating things now. For some subconscious reason I have been kinda reluctant to resume, but THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN so here we are. I think I'm just kinda VN'd out after Clannad and Higurashi and a chunk of DRV3. Anyway! Kanon needs to crash at our place, so I let her, against my and my character's better judgment. I am hoping we are not headed to incestville, but I fear we might be. We also got to see her skate, which was neat.

WoT KoD: Cadsuane gives a brief cameo, we get reminded of the dude who saved Rand that one time, and...'s about it.

Trails: I apparently failed an escort request at some point :( I thought I was being thorough about stuff like that! Alan seems cool enough, and has a decent theme. I assume he'll be important at some point! I guess we're headed south to the lake now. Fingers crossed for some fire mira at some point!
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