Board 8 > Danganronpa Spoiler Topic III: Chiaki Wouldn't Have Let The Last One Purge

(+) Yeah! (+)

Let's see if we can keep this one up longer.

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Oh damn, some ultimate gamers we are.

I blame Anagram for not updating in the last two weeks.

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azuarc posted...

Oh damn, some ultimate gamers we are.

I blame Anagram for not updating in the last two weeks.

I'm actually writing another chapter right now, and I clicked off it to check my email. Good timing.

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I haven't been able to do much work on my fic for a while, because I was sick with... something I'm not sure I can talk about.

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Speaking of, I just posted another chapter.

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Hm

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It seems dead without anyone doing a playthrough topic...

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Making Chiaki proud.

How's your story, Burke?

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I have pretty much the whole thing planned out, but I took a break because I was sick for a while. Now I'm back to normal and can start writing.

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Currently stuck in FTE hell.

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bwburke94 posted...

Currently stuck in FTE hell.

What do you mean? Just grinding all of the FTEs?

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No, writing FTEs.

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How many are you writing?

I got 2k down today. Feels like the first time in a couple weeks I've made any progress.

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Man, I just feel so lost sometimes on how much I should do before I pull the trigger and start posting. I should have done an AU rather than OCs.

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azuarc posted...

Man, I just feel so lost sometimes on how much I should do before I pull the trigger and start posting. I should have done an AU rather than OCs.

How much have you done relative to how long you think it'll be in the end?

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Angie is the best character in the whole series. No other student has a more fully fleshed-out personality, a bigger impact on the other characters, or more to say about the real world than Angie. People write her off as a one-note joke character, but she's actually a tragic case of a crippling mental illness infecting every part of her psyche and causing massive problems for everyone around her until she dies from it.

The Atua thing is not a joke. You're not supposed to lol every single time she mentions Atua. Her auditory hallucinations are the reason she is so absolutely confident in all her decisions. If you believed the voice of god always told you that what you want to do is exactly right, you're going to be willing to do whatever you want. She's using her own hallucinations to justify what she wants to do anyway, without even realizing it. Any consequences are merely god's will.

Also every character in the cast has to either join or reject the student council. I love that the robot finds religion but the religion scholar doesn't. I also love the religion itself. It combines a Christian-style singular personified god who appears to their followers in whatever form appeals to them, the Buddhist idea that the root of all suffering is human desire, and an MLM-style point system.

Plus, from a certain point of view, she was right. She doesn't even have any unhappy sprites. She lives happily for a couple weeks until someone comes along and turns out the light. At the end of the game, basically everyone is dead, and she is the only character who doesn't get stressed out about it. For 80% of the cast, living like Angie would have been a preferable outcome.

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Anagram posted...

How much have you done relative to how long you think it'll be in the end?

My cast is currently at 8/16, but with not much attention paid to their actual circumstances and how they got there. I'm worried that if I want to "do this right," I'll need to go back and rewrite the whole thing, which would be a shame when I'm 120k in, but I do feel like some of the characters aren't very 3-D. (Though maybe they aren't supposed to be since Danganronpa characters are literally cardboard cut-outs lol)

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azuarc posted...

My cast is currently at 8/16, but with not much attention paid to their actual circumstances and how they got there. I'm worried that if I want to "do this right," I'll need to go back and rewrite the whole thing, which would be a shame when I'm 120k in, but I do feel like some of the characters aren't very 3-D. (Though maybe they aren't supposed to be since Danganronpa characters are literally cardboard cut-outs lol)

There's always a feeling of 'I can tweak this to be a little bit better,' I definitely know what you mean there. At the same time, there's always an equal feeling of 'I'd better eventually post something, even if it's not perfect.' I'm very sympathetic to what you're feeling.

NeatoAnAccount posted...

Angie is the best character in the whole series. No other student has a more fully fleshed-out personality, a bigger impact on the other characters, or more to say about the real world than Angie. People write her off as a one-note joke character, but she's actually a tragic case of a crippling mental illness infecting every part of her psyche and causing massive problems for everyone around her until she dies from it.

The Atua thing is not a joke. You're not supposed to lol every single time she mentions Atua. Her auditory hallucinations are the reason she is so absolutely confident in all her decisions. If you believed the voice of god always told you that what you want to do is exactly right, you're going to be willing to do whatever you want. She's using her own hallucinations to justify what she wants to do anyway, without even realizing it. Any consequences are merely god's will.

Also every character in the cast has to either join or reject the student council. I love that the robot finds religion but the religion scholar doesn't. I also love the religion itself. It combines a Christian-style singular personified god who appears to their followers in whatever form appeals to them, the Buddhist idea that the root of all suffering is human desire, and an MLM-style point system.

Plus, from a certain point of view, she was right. She doesn't even have any unhappy sprites. She lives happily for a couple weeks until someone comes along and turns out the light. At the end of the game, basically everyone is dead, and she is the only character who doesn't get stressed out about it. For 80% of the cast, living like Angie would have been a preferable outcome.

This take is hotter than the surface of the sun.

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NeatoAnAccount posted...

Angie is the best character in the whole series. No other student has a more fully fleshed-out personality, a bigger impact on the other characters, or more to say about the real world than Angie. People write her off as a one-note joke character, but she's actually a tragic case of a crippling mental illness infecting every part of her psyche and causing massive problems for everyone around her until she dies from it.

The Atua thing is not a joke. You're not supposed to lol every single time she mentions Atua. Her auditory hallucinations are the reason she is so absolutely confident in all her decisions. If you believed the voice of god always told you that what you want to do is exactly right, you're going to be willing to do whatever you want. She's using her own hallucinations to justify what she wants to do anyway, without even realizing it. Any consequences are merely god's will.

Also every character in the cast has to either join or reject the student council. I love that the robot finds religion but the religion scholar doesn't. I also love the religion itself. It combines a Christian-style singular personified god who appears to their followers in whatever form appeals to them, the Buddhist idea that the root of all suffering is human desire, and an MLM-style point system.

Plus, from a certain point of view, she was right. She doesn't even have any unhappy sprites. She lives happily for a couple weeks until someone comes along and turns out the light. At the end of the game, basically everyone is dead, and she is the only character who doesn't get stressed out about it. For 80% of the cast, living like Angie would have been a preferable outcome.

Is this pasta?

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Anagram posted...

This take is hotter than the surface of the sun.

I mean who is actually a better-written character than her? Nagito and Kaede are cool people and all but are they actually better-written characters?

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You have a very provincial view of what constitutes better-written.

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feel free to refute even one single solitary point or make an argument for another character being better-written

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I do think Angie had more potential than she actually used. I feel like she might have been more interesting as the secondary villain than Kokichi. I realize that in a game about ambiguity and lies, he's the more logical opponent, but her running a weirdo cult preying on people feeling terrified is such a good idea that wasn't explored properly.

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Shockingly, there's now actual news to discuss. I can't believe they're releasing the V3 board game as a standalone.

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And the V3 mobile port still isn't out.

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The V3 board game isn't a standalone, but part of the collection, right?

I actually like that a lot. The board game is nice and having it be updated is a good extra for the collection.

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SSBM_Guy posted...

The V3 board game isn't a standalone, but part of the collection, right?

The trailer made it sound like it'll be standalone digitally, but part of a physical only bundle

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Its both standalone and part of the pack.

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Board game?

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azuarc posted...

Board game?

The V3 bonus mode is now its own full game.

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Guess I'm gonna have to go see what this is.

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Half the fandom expects it to be a killing game in disguise.

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The evidence for that is just Danganronpa S = 5, and its the fifth game, and the screen glitches out when Nagito shows up. I would like if that happened, but I dont think its seriously likely.

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Which, I suppose, would be another case of the Roman numeral not matching, because V was already used to mean 50.

(S, for those of you unaware, is half of I.)

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The series has a thing about confusing letters and numbers even back to the first game with 11037. Again, though, I think this may be stretching it.

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V was used to mean 5. It just mixed Roman numerals and Arabic numerals, using the Roman numeral for 5 and the Arabic numeral for 3. Though I guess it still counts because nobody writes numbers like that.

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Anagram posted...

and its the fifth game

Fifth? When was there a fourth? Or are you counting UDG?

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0 chance it's a full-fledged DR game. It's gonna be exactly as advertised.

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azuarc posted...

Fifth? When was there a fourth? Or are you counting UDG?

UDG clearly counted enough to get representation, so I'd say it's okay to count it. Or you can count DR3, which makes V3 the fourth. Either way, it still sort of works.

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I definitely wasn't thinking about the anime, but if it represents a killing game, then okay, I guess.

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Hype for the board game.


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Bump.

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Danganronpa Decadence releases December 3.

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I'm very curious how much Danganronpa S costs on its own.

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Finally got caught up on Anagram's fanfic. There were no updates for a little while, so I finally just stopped checking it. Remembered a day or two ago and there were three new chapters. =x

I keep reading over my own work but not making any progress with it.

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On my end, I'm waiting for Decadence just in case. (That also gives me time to write my planned Zero Escape fic first.)

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azuarc posted...

Finally got caught up on Anagram's fanfic. There were no updates for a little while, so I finally just stopped checking it. Remembered a day or two ago and there were three new chapters. =x

I keep reading over my own work but not making any progress with it.

I'm actually a little surprised I've kept going as long as I have. How many words do you have so far?

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I don't recall, but I want to say something like 120k.

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That's a huge amount to write in advance, I'm impressed.

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On my laptop where I do the writing. Looks like I lowballed it considerably.



TBF that's about 150k of original material and the rest is a rewrite.

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