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eating4fun posted...

You really get into the heads of characters and detailing ideas, which anime/manga don't have time for.

Quoting for truth. No amount of anime / manga can quite replicate the sheer amount of content that a VN delivers. ... Though that can be a good thing, sometimes. (I don't need "Breakfast With Shiro" every single day!)
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Our mission: Prevent Helly from getting his hands on a copy of PSO Episodes I & II Plus for Game Cube.

quigonzel posted...

I ship my face between Hajime's boobs.

You'd probably have to elbow Yun out of the way, I imagine.
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Give it time, TC, give it time.
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Go_Totodile posted...

I know that mcsane as bush is one of the boards most disliked users but I don't know how many people block him.

He doesn't really seem to post that often. Maybe he's not worth blocking?
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Kana posted...

He's just always blowing up at every point

True. I guess it's not really a meltdown if he's always been like that.
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Transformers. Fuck Michael Bay and Shia "The Plagiarist" Laboeuf.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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10 / 10. In the home stretch for the 2014 episodes.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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Using my Kindle to marathon New Game! and get into the second season. I think I'm becoming a bit of an animation snob, honestly. New Game! has very clean, pretty animation, and I really wish the newer shows I'm watching looked that nice. Especially the harem-y junk like Smartphone and Gyaru. (I swear Gyaru recycles the same protag-kun design from Hentai Prince and Noucome.)

Also, I don't know which I ship more: Aoba / Hifumi, Aoba / Ko, or Rin / Ko. (Maybe Hajime / Aoba's a thing, too.)
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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wolfy42 posted...

Hey, we're the monkeys?

We like to monkey around.......

But we're too busy singin' to put anybody down.

We're just tryin' to be friendly!
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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MabinogiFan posted...

That game deserved a far better port than it got.

Bamco might not be dumb (Capcom) or outright hostile (Konami), but it's really a spastic company when it comes to doing things, and that's a good example.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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DevilSummoner1 posted...

sunny probably wrote that

If so, at least he has a good time spending time with himself.

I mean, in today's world, it's important to have good self-esteem, right?
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Nade Duck posted...

penis

*looks at checklist*

Aisle 4.
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Lokarin posted...

I'm exagerrating, but it is currently the MOST EXPENSIVE GC game

*checks Game Cube shelf*

Huh. What do you know? I've actually got one of those (PSO Episodes I & II Plus). ... I'll have to think on it.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

Hmm. Guns like Uzis mean it's not Bushido Blade or one of the 3-D Samurai Shodown titles.

keyblader1985 posted...

You might have better luck here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmyjoystick/

Just be sure to include as many details as possible.

Huh. Guess I should start giving Reddit a little more credit.

....

Didn't really mean to rhyme there.
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Green 3.

*looks at card*

No Twister bingo, mate.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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Have a bump from the Foundation for the Assistance of Pirates (FAP).
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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I feel like a bump is not out of place here, as this seems to have become our newest tabletop gaming topic.
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keyblader1985 posted...

The hell...

At least you didn't have sex with somebody's family.
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keyblader1985 posted...

I'm just about to start Fairy Tail soon.

Silly question: The anime or the manga (in that big bundle you and I bought last month)?

a Sho 'Nuff cosplay from the movie The Last Dragon.

... I have that on DVD ...

But you have to respect the Shogun of Harlem.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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Keeping my Game Cube has been a wise decision.

Keeping it hooked up has also been wise.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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10 / 10. The hits keep coming.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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GanonsSpirit posted...

Speaking of social stats, which ones are best to level up in the long run?

That depends entirely on which Confidants you want to max, but Knowledge is the one that is easiest to level up and most frequently tested (... literally; you need it for your exams, since getting high marks will get you good stuff).
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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Lan has returned.

*cues up Battle Network 2 theme*
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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That reminds me that I need to check the release date for that game.

*checks*

August 29. Time to start saving up tip money for it.
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Kungfu Kenobi posted...

-You need to find a walkman with an old Mojo Nixon tape stuck inside.

For maximum effectiveness, make sure it's a tape with "Elvis Is Everywhere!" on there.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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RCtheWSBC posted...

Poor Melissa McCarthy has to retire her character now!

This feels terribly unfortunate, now that I think about it.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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I'm sure I'm far from the only one who has Blu and his alts blocked.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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Didn't Shenti blow the Hell up at some point?
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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Y'know, every so often, we (as a group) actually manage to be civil to each other (more or less) for a little while, and then you get a topic like this. ... That's okay, though. It's a sign of life.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

Tempting to pick Billy Madison because some of the jokes in there are real winners, but I had to go with The Wedding Singer. That one was actually enjoyable across the board for me. And it's also the movie where we went from Bad Girl Drew Barrymore to Sweet Drew Barrymore.

Blaqthourne posted...

It is one of the few movies to challenge Caddyshack for being the best golf movie ever.

Caddyshack can never be dethroned in that department, IMO. Then again, I can quote that entire movie. Which is a little sad, since I don't even play golf.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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That_70s_show posted...

I screwed up a lot of my social links tbh.

Which is the game's way of saying, "Wait'll you do this again on New Game +." We're still discovering new stuff.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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The only thing about Deep Space Waifu is that it can a little tricky to shoot the things that are trying to kill you while, um, accomplishing the stage objectives. It's easy to get distracted.

YoukaiSlayer posted...

Aren't the persona games generally known for being easier than mainline SMT games?

For the most part, yes, but only after Persona 1, which still plays very much like old school SMT. I had a toilet demon blow up in my face yesterday; that is, she used Last Resort to reduce everybody in my party to 1 HP, and the other monsters picked 'em off like it was nothing. That was a random encounter. In the overworld, not in a dungeon. On Easy level. *facepalms* That kind of bullshit is very much old school SMT.

I rate P1 as easier than Strange Journey, but harder than Soul Hackers due to how the (unnecessarily convoluted) combat system works, coupled with much more dangerous status effects and immunities that the game does not tell you. Still like the game, but I have to put it down from time to time and play something else when I get a total party wipe.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

*facepalm*

I broke down and got Deep Space Waifu from Steam. At least I tried to hide it amidst a bunch of DLC for Talisman: The Horus Heresy (also set in deep space, but with far less waifu).
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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GanonsSpirit posted...

I think I'm a weeaboo now though.

No, you're just a JRPG fan. Glad you liked the game! We're on our third run of it here.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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OlorinTheOtaku posted...

I don't know if it was because I set the difficulty lower, or if it is just an easy game.

Persona 3 can be unforgiving (e.g. instant kills on your main character are automatic Game Over). The vanilla version (PS2) does not have the Easy level, IIRC, but P3P (PSP) was designed to be more user-friendly, anyway.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

I studied Japanese culture, geography, etc. for four semesters at university (... fifteen years ago) because I had elective spots to fill, but my study of the language has been entirely on my own. (To be fair, I already have a language degree, so that gives me a leg up on linguistics, how to study, and so on.) I know enough to manage in the average Super Robot Wars game, and I keep a stack of reference books (including the obligatory kanji dictionary) on hand if I need to puzzle through more complicated stuff, but I am by no means fluent.

Alternating between Fire Emblem Echoes and Persona 1 PSP again. I have no idea how people play Echoes on the Classic setting, since there are maps that are designed to kill off the bulk of your troops on the way to the boss. And P1 is still evil on the Easy difficulty. Random encounters can still wipe your party, and the dungeons are huge. How I used to do it back on the PS1 in the day is beyond me. Normal difficulty would be murder, and I have no idea why Hard is even included.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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I must confess ... that I intend to provide a bump, though I currently have no idea what any of the confessions are.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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Sick for a day, but I did not miss it! 10 / 10.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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The shounen genre is hit-or-miss for me. Love DBZ, hate Naruto, hate how Bleach crashed and burned in slow motion, still picking at HXH, can only handle so much One Piece at a time, etc.

I am not a big fan of the Fairy Tail anime, but the manga is one of my favorites (see: our previous discussion here about that massive Humble Bundle of FT manga). I feel that the anime does not do a good job of capturing the "look" of the manga, if that makes any sense. Mashima has a very distinctive style, and the generic look that A-1 Pictures gives to (almost) everything it does is not good for that style (... IMO).

And I agree: The Berserk manga is a masterpiece, and everybody who is a fan of anime / manga at all owes it to themselves to at least attempt to read it and see what the medium is capable of doing at its limits.

No thoughts to share on anime music. I still tap my foot to stuff I heard back in the '90s, but nothing recent moves me like that. I think the early '00s marked a high point, judging from my OST collection (see: .hack//SIGN and Rahxephon, among others).
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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I give it 10 "bumops" out of 10.
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reverendmeta posted...

so we do awesome fire the sex many times

This phrase is somehow inspiring.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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Genshiken is god-tier, and Madarame is the young version of me (except he has a harem).

helly posted...

stupid name, but a decent dungeon crawler so far.

I like that game, Helly, so, theoretically, you are supposed to hate it and think it is dumb.

quigonzel posted...

So far the only standout of the new anime season, of what I've seen, is Kakegurui.

You also have more New Game! this season, Quig. Do not forget to pay homage to the Hifumi.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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*headscratch*

Why are people making a big deal about this? Fans of Big Finish Doctor Who (like myself) have already had a female Doctor, so why not in the show, too? (Really, though, I'm happier that they've finally ditched Moffat.)
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

And people in Rabanastre were afraid of a little tomato-thing when there are T-Rexes and the like wandering around out there. ... There is dumb, and there is Square Enix Dumb.

keyblader1985 posted...

Wait, what?

That was my reaction, too. It's not a direct sequel. It's supposed to be in the far future. And reactions to it have been pretty universally bad, but I'll likely end up watching it anyway.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

Had a good day off. Used it to get a proper start on the anime season. Have not made it to all of the shows I intend to watch (i.e. Season 2 of New Game!, plus Irresponsible Galaxy Tylor, the sequel I never saw coming), but this is progress.

AHO-GIRL. I like to refer to this as "If the Average American Teenage Girl Lived in Japan". Unkind, perhaps, but it feels apt. ... In any case, Yoshiko is a dumbass, but that's in the title of the show.

Netsuzou Trap. Don't know how I feel about this one. A fan of the manga told me that the anime skips a lot of the internal monologues that add weight to what's going on, but, as it is, it feels a fair bit like a short-form Scum's Wish, only not as pretty. I think I like my yuri more like Sakura Trick (i.e. sweet and consensual), but I'll keep watching.

In Another World With My Smartphone. God's a bro, apparently. Pretty mild, as isekai shows go. Not expecting a lot here. Just more cute girls in fantasy land.

My First Girlfriend Is A Gal. This one just makes me miss Galko-chan. It's fairly heavily censored, anyway, and the main character's a knob (with friends who openly admit to being lolicon).

GAMERS! Well, I'm a gamer myself, so this one's probably a given, but I was actually pleasantly surprised by how funny it was (especially the snide subtitling), and by how much attention it paid to little details of the life. Probably my favorite of what I've watched so far.

Also playing Zodiac Age, and there's a lot about FFXII I apparently don't remember (e.g. if it looks like a T-Rex, it can probably one-shot you at the start of the game, so don't tease it). And yeah, the battle system's still annoying, but the Job System-y new License Board is a really nice change.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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Mario_VS_DK posted...

I wonder if I should have just bought an adventure path and done that instead.

Stick to your guns! It should work just fine. :-) Improvise, go with it, be mindful that unexpected things absolutely will happen.
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Veedrock- posted...

Vegeta has tanked in quality though.

To be fair, Vegeta had some of his funniest moments leading up to this.

10 / 10.
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10 / 10. We are getting closer and closer to 2017.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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RCtheWSBC posted...

Fair point, and still not technically an impeachable offense. Unethical, sure, but it's not as if this hasn't described our military industrial complex for the last 200-odd years unfortunately.

Fixed that for you. War is nasty business, as a general rule, no matter what treaties and conventions are in place.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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Great music, yes, but it still pretty much killed the franchise. Everything after that had to be a prequel.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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