Poll of the Day > Anime, Manga, VN, JRPG, Related Things Discussion Topic XCII

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Probably because there are far far more english speaking people that watch youtube than japanese people that watch youtube.

Still, it certainly was a fast 1M. Grats to the shark. I do tend to watch either her or amelia's POV in the group things even if she sometimes makes me want to pull my hair out in minecraft (seriously, eat the damn food, make armor, make a sword). The amount of times she sits around with no armor and 20 iron ingot, 2 hp and like 15 cooked salmon and then dies 2 minutes later is absurd.

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and in other news, hololive cn is being forced to disband

chinese viewers are still irate over the whole "accidentally showing taiwan on stream" thing and the chinese branch of hololive is catching so much hate and criticism over coco/haato's suspensions being too "light" that it's basically a coco+rest of the world vs china ultimatum kind of thing

and, well... as seen by gura, the rest of the world is a lot more important than china. hololive cn was barely profitable as is according to artia lol. everything seems mostly amicable and they're trying to figure out what exactly to do (transfer the girls to another branch (which probably won't work that well since their families are still in china), let them go independent (possibly retaining the rights to their avatars, which hololive usually guards jealously), or graduate)

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The Chinese Communist Party: The world's fun police.

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Anybody else excited for Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin?

Looks like a pretty interesting mashup of 2-d sidescrolling action-platformer and farming sim.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k7m9ITru-8

The game releases on Nov 10, which is pretty close. What's more the game is $40 for the base game, and the special collection with the artbook, music cds, and extras stuff is $60 which is basically just a regular full game price.

And I found out that the low price was thanks to the fact that it was developed by only TWO people. Which is pretty insane given just how polished and feature-full the game looks.

Kinda feel bad that it's release is so close to other big games so I'm afraid that it'll get overshadowed. So I wanted to give it a shout out here since there wasn't any big news about this game floating around.

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Looks like a pretty interesting mashup of 2-d sidescrolling action-platformer and farming sim.

It's something that's been of interest, but isn't the kind of thing I'd pick up outside of a good sale.

T0ffee posted...

And I found out that the low price was thanks to the fact that it was developed by only TWO people. Which is pretty insane given just how polished and feature-full the game looks.

With just a two-person staff, the price seems relatively high >_>


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Hm, looks pretty chill and fun. In some ways kinda reminds me of atelier games. I'd like to see a little more how the farming works over time.

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Zeus posted...

With just a two-person staff, the price seems relatively high >_>

Eh, they most likely needed some help from Marvelous in the end since the game features english and japanese voice acting.

VAs aren't cheap so the price actually seems a bit low to me since I expected it to be a full-price game.

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Man the HoloEN girls wasted no time when the collab embargo lifted.

They're gonna do an Among Us collab with HoloJP 5th gen.

Kiara already collabed with Subaru and Nene

And Amelia and Gura are gonna collab with HoloID member Moona sometime soon.

It's kinda heartwarming to see so many different people from different places come together like this, despite the culture and language barriers.

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So Souichi Tsujii has a Pop! now. That's apparently a thing. Guess he's more visually interesting than either Tomei or Mimi from Mimi's Ghost Stories if they were just going with one thing Ito did.

Really, I'd rather they do a Mystery Minis collection for this stuff, though.

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Watched episode 2 of adachi to shimamura. This is peak yuri anime. I wish there were a show like this every season. I do however suspect it's going to get very melodramatic around episode 11 and I'm not looking forward to that.

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YoukaiSlayer posted...

Watched episode 2 of adachi to shimamura. This is peak yuri anime. I wish there were a show like this every season. I do however suspect it's going to get very melodramatic around episode 11 and I'm not looking forward to that.

How have hospitals been during this pandemic? I know it's gonna be different everywhere, but do they have suspected covid patients separated from people coming in for other things?

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YoukaiSlayer posted...

Watched episode 2 of adachi to shimamura. This is peak yuri anime. I wish there were a show like this every season. I do however suspect it's going to get very melodramatic around episode 11 and I'm not looking forward to that.

I haven't seen the second episode yet as I've been pretty busy with work all week. Only anime that sold me after it's first episode (I guess besides Higurashi, but we know that's going to be enjoyable). I am still waiting for a season two of Citrus, which we'll probably never see.

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I've seen Parasyte already. A couple years ago. It was pretty good! Doesn't stick out in my mind as much as some of my favorites though.

dragon504 posted...

How have hospitals been during this pandemic? I know it's gonna be different everywhere, but do they have suspected covid patients separated from people coming in for other things?

They have screenings to get into the ER where they basically just ask you if you've had covid symptoms and take your temp. They do section off covid patients. Masks are required but it's not enforced well enough. I've seen plenty of people with their mask pulled down and I'm not just talking patients.

They limit who enters as much as possible so when I go to the ER, no one can come in with me, which is awful. There's also no visitation at all.

I haven't been much outside of covid season but they make a lot of small mistakes that might be due to the extra strain from covid. Tons of trying to take the wrong blood tests or giving me the wrong type of CT scan or messing up placing lines and honestly as a patient it's terrifying. I'd say when a nurse comes in, her information is wrong about 75% of the time. So many times they think I've already taken a medicine or try to give me the wrong med. If I was unconscious and they were just placing meds in an IV, I'd probably be dead from it.

The response time for calling a nurse is also very bad sometimes taking upwards of 30 minutes even when I'm calling for help because my arm is swelling up to double it's normal size and turning blue. Most of this occurred at emory which is supposed to be the best hospital in the state.
Judgmenl posted...

I am still waiting for a season two of Citrus, which we'll probably never see.

Hell yeah even if it's second half was a bit of a trainwreck. With adachi to shimamura episode 1 had strong hints of yuri but episode 2 is like full on gay panic for adachi. It's wonderful. The way they animate the show and use camera cuts and odd angles continues to really remind me of monogatari. It obviously lacks the supernatural and mystery themes but just the way it all flows is really similar I think.

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I swear, Pendulum summoning is such absolute bullshit. It's just ridiculous being able to freely summon several monsters with no cost every turn.

I don't even use them (or Xyz monsters), on principle. But it gets annoying getting swarmed in no time flat.

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I wonder how strict Hololive is about collabs with independent vtubers.

I know Calliope has said that she plans on collabing with more independent artists, but that's more on the indie music scene.

I ask because apparently there a new independent shark vtuber.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UV8zob4ZP70

Would be crazy to see the two sharkies get up to shenanigans.

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Well time to watch this.

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Well this show is going places.

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On ep 800 of One Piece right now. I really do love Luffy's 4th gear transformation.

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Oh... man... I was working on a detailed cutscene for my RPG Maker game. 3 minute scene. Tips.

I looked up from my screen and it had been 3 hours >_>

I mean... I did good off a little, but it seems pretty long... even with constant testing to make sure my characters could complete their move commands.

I think I put in like 6 pages of script commands

Ot was worth it for this scene



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T0ffee posted...

I ask because apparently there a new independent shark vtuber.

Just saw a clip where she said she is into yuri and super gay. This ones for me I think.

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PK_Spam posted...

Oh... man... I was working on a detailed cutscene for my RPG Maker game. 3 minute scene. Tips.

I looked up from my screen and it had been 3 hours >_>

Nice, it be like that sometimes. Especially if you test movement a lot. After you get more used to it, you probably won't bother testing movement till the end since it doesn't effect anything else so you can fix it all in a row although sometimes I do test early just to get a feel for how it actually feels to see the scene.

Be very aware of the checkbox in a moveroute that says "wait for completion" and "skip if cannot move".

If you want 2 characters to move at the same time for instance, you put the 1st moveroute without checking wait for completion (which should be the shorter one timewise if they aren't the same duration) and then the 2nd one you click wait for completion. That way the first will be initiated and then the event will immediately move (same frame) to the next thing, which will be the 2nd moveroute, then it will wait for that one to finish before moving on.

Skip if cannot move is a way to not break your game, but at the expense of potentially messing up your scene. If it's not checked and your character tries to move up, but something is in the way, the game will freeze. Sometimes this is good because you can immediately see exactly where the problem is and then go fix it. But if you have something like randomly moving NPCs in the background of the scene that may walk into the path you need to move on, skip if cannot move can allow it to not crash, but that means the moveroute won't end where you want it to. Could be worth it if there is some fringe case you don't want to program and exception for so players won't be stuck on a broken scene.

With speech boxes be aware there are text codes that will do stuff like bold things or insert the amount of currency you have or say a specific actors name which can be useful if you let the player name a character. There's also the dim and transparent backgrounds and multiple positionings for the text box which you can use as thought bubbles or narration pretty conveniently. I always use dim, bottom for inner thoughts and transparent, center for action narration (something like "suddenly the earth shook").

I advise creating a main quest variable that you use for scene control and then also make a side quest variable for side quests. This can make sure the player is where they are supposed to be and help you keep track of where you are at when looking back through scenes. Pages in an event will always choose the rightmost page that passes the checks so you can use that order your scenes.

That needs an example. Imagine you have a weapon shop you can interact with. You can set up a page with dialogue and a shop for when you first start the game. Then on the page to the right set the condition to main quest var >= 1. That 2nd page will be the page that triggers as soon as the main quest advances to 1. Then lets say later you want to change the shop again at a certain point to offer better weapons. Make a new page and make sure it's the right most page and set it's condition to main quest var >= 7. When the main quest reaches the spot where you set it to 7, all 3 pages conditions will be valid, so it will choose the right most page, in this case the one where it's >= 7. If you swap the 2nd and 3rd page, the >= 7 page will now be left of the >= 1 page. That means it will never activate because even when main quest == 7, 7 > 1 and that >= 1 page is to the right of it.

Hopefully that's easy enough to understand when you actually do it. Also self switches are super convenient for NPCs with dialogue that you don't want to repeat or for chests or any 1 time thing. Just have it do what you want on page 1 and at the end of page 1, set self switch A to ON and then page 2 is completely blank with the condition self switch A == On.

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I couldve used that concise summary LAST WEEK YOUKAI!!!

I think this scene took so long because Azula is a maniac who needs to move and eat. So I was constantly making sure I was able to keep track of her movements as the conversation went on.

I was wracking my brain trying to get an autorun event to play just the other day. Ive come far

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PK_Spam posted...

I couldve used that concise summary LAST WEEK YOUKAI!!!

I think this scene took so long because Azula is a maniac who needs to move and eat. So I was constantly making sure I was able to keep track of her movements as the conversation went on.

I was wracking my brain trying to get an autorun event to play just the other day. Ive come far

If you ask for tips about a topic with rpg maker, I'll give em, but I'm not just gonna type everything I know about all of it. That'd be like 50 pages. Granted a lot of my knowledge is more focused on the coding side of things but still.

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Im mostly okay now. My only problem, I think, is something in the far future.

Im planning on having a character get an Ascended State that gives them some super good skills for 2 turns, sort of like Trance from FF9.

Ive found a way to do it on my Switch (no plug-ins) but I cant seem to find a way to make sure that my character can only access their State once a battle. Id rather have it be something you use in clutch moments, not another skill you spam when your TP is maxed out.

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The games created with RPG Maker can be sold, right? How would that work on the Switch?

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PK_Spam posted...

Im mostly okay now. My only problem, I think, is something in the far future.

Im planning on having a character get an Ascended State that gives them some super good skills for 2 turns, sort of like Trance from FF9.

Ive found a way to do it on my Switch (no plug-ins) but I cant seem to find a way to make sure that my character can only access their State once a battle. Id rather have it be something you use in clutch moments, not another skill you spam when your TP is maxed out.

Create two states and one skill.
Skill = trance. Add state trance, add state exhausted.
State 1 = trance. That's got your buffs and lasts 2 turns.
State 2 = exhausted. In traits "Seal Skill trance"

Both states should be set to remove at end of battle. Leave the messages for exhausted blank and have no icon. That way the player won't ever see this state.

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Zeus posted...

The games created with RPG Maker can be sold, right? How would that work on the Switch?

IIRC you can't sell with the switch version. There is a place where you can share it I think but not for money.

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Wow! You really know your shit!

This system is amazing, but its always nice to have extra support.

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For Danmachi, I decided to take the plunge and get into the light novels. Ordered the first volume each of the original series, the Sword Oratoria spin-off (the real draw for me, since I like the Loki Familia), and Episode Lyu (... should be Ryu, IMO, but every version of Danmachi has different spellings for the names). I already know that I am going to be picky about the translation, but I am still willing to give it a go.

The big gripe for me is that browsing anything with extremely long titles and multiple versions on Amazon makes it difficult to find the exact item. Almost bought the manga version of at least one of those books by mistake.

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Tried to play Genshin Impact. Stopped after an hour. Couldn't get into it.

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Monster Musume no Oisha-san is a silly but fun watch
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mood

Undead Unluck has a VERY strong chapter this week. Made up for the most recent developments

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I keep forgetting to check that out. I read either the first chapter or the oneshot and liked it.

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Its pretty above average most of the time, but has occasional pockets where I sit and think how did this mangaka and editor think this was a good decision?

But for every one of those there are 4 or 5 really good instances of cool worldbuilding. A lot of the battles remind me of HxH, in that part of the fight is often figuring out what ability your opponent has, and a bit of Black Clover (everyone has different powers and they have to use them together to get through their opponents, who are often way stronger than them, or at least dont have a heavy handicap or win condition to fulfill)

It has a lot of good in it. I hope the eventual anime has effort put into it, because I think it has the potential to be pretty popular outside of Japan.

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you could just read unlucky boy undead girl oneshot and have a better time with it

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Playing some more Tales of Crestoria.

I think I like this games AU.

We finally got Velvets backstory and why she wants to kill Milla.

Milla has no friends here and is as blank as she was in the start of Xillia. And it doesnt look like shes going to meet Jude anytime soon, considering theyre both on two entirely different continents.

There was a really weird subplot with Gaius and Farah (Eternia), Im curious to see the explanation for it.

Im really liking what this game has to offer, worldbuilding-wise.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvuebruWg-0

Well that was an unexpected twist in my day.

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@agesboy

How many evokers and uncapped eternals do you have? Just curious. I'm at 4 evokers and 3 uncapped eternals.

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none and six (sorn, sarasa, uno, siete, six, esser)

i really really really really REALLY hate arcarum, and most of my uncapped eternals are from around or before early m2 when i stopped playing as much

half-playing has led to a bunch of excess materials for eternals but you can't escape actually doing arcarum for evokers and i would rather just go play something else than even skip

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agesboy posted...

none and six (sorn, sarasa, uno, siete, six, esser)

i really really really really REALLY hate arcarum, and most of my uncapped eternals are from around or before early m2 when i stopped playing as much

half-playing has led to a bunch of excess materials for eternals but you can't escape actually doing arcarum for evokers and i would rather just go play something else than even skip

I mostly use one team for arcarum, so it's not too bad. Glorybringer mc with Disparia mainhand, Zooey, Threo, and Lunalu. Have a skill cap up ultima to let the plain damage skills hit harder. Only things I fight with other teams are the puppets, bosses, and of course when there's sr/r or r restrictions. Arcarum got a whole lot less annoying whenever they got rid of the skill seal stage effect and expanded the drops. There's only one very rare enemy that will skill seal, but it's very rare as I said before. Arcarum can be annoying though, I'll give you that. Currently at 87 arcarum tickets lol, but going to use some so I can level my newly acquired water Juliet.

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I'm installing PSO2 right now. I don't know why I didn't think of this sooner.

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I think PSO2 is going to end up being a controller game. After the very first mission, I it seems to lack using Q and W for 45 degree movement that I am accustomed to after 3500 hours of STO.

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this game straight up just called me a nonce

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What game is that? Phantasia is the only Tales game I've played so it's got my attention.

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keyblader1985 posted...

What game is that? Phantasia is the only Tales game I've played so it's got my attention.

I think it's https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bandainamcoent.crestoria_ww&hl=en_US&gl=US

Also his name is Cless, nor Cress =<

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his official name is cress.

his awful translation name is cless. yes, even if the awful translation was in the japanese versions credits.

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so, yes, it's the tales gacha game i'm playing.

and i do not like it.

every mission takes 2 stamina, and you only get 10.

this is ridiculous, but somehow i now have 15 stamina as my max, and 21 overall. i don't understand how this happened, considering when i last played my max was 10 and i had 2 left, and i had only stopped for about an hour. this makes no sense to me, and nothing was there to explain how i got more, or how my max increased.

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Lol have you never played a gacha game before? The early parts always have you level and gain stamina like mad. You also regain it over time, at a rate of 1 per 3 minutes. This is good when youre raiding, which is 90% of game time if you want to max level your units, so youll basically be able to raid nonstop as your stamina replenishes itself. You really only ever run out when you do serious grinding to get the SRR materials they hand out.

this is what you can expect, in terms of stamina, once youve gotten going a bit



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