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The new trailer conveniently does not display a definitive height comparison to anyone else for either of the twins (they're on uneven footing in the boat), so I've been thinking that they may actually do it here.

MacArrowny posted...

Girls Band Cry 5 - so Momoka left Diamond Dust because of the ugly outfits, huh? Good god those girls look hideous dressed like that.

Lol they weren't great. For real though, it was once again this show going against my expectations. I'd always been prepared for the reveal of what exactly caused Momoka to leave, with the obvious assumption that there was an actual direct cause of the fallout on the other member's party, or that she was replaced. I did not expect her to just come out and say that it was her fault for going against the original goal of the band and betraying their dream (though I doubt DD themselves see it this way), and that not only was there no crucial event, they desperately wanted her to stay. All of that restraint to not say what happened was because she's already come to accept her own fault before the show even started, again bringing it home to ther small but noteable galmin age.

It's a good move to give the other conflict room to stand out, with Nina actually having a sudden, unexpected level of animosity towards Diamond Dust. Irrational to everyone but her, obviously due to an extreme source of animosity towards her former classmate that hasn't fully been revealed yet, all leading to the excellent bar scene fight (very nice touch having Nina's neighbor be the waitress here).

The show just feels so real. I'm actually about worried about the true introduction of the final 2 members next week, and how it might effect the dynamics. I have faith though, it hasn't given me any reason to doubt.

Baboon

There's even a videogame called Baboon that stars a chimp.

Beta Cones have been changed before, it's still 7 weeks away so maybe they'll tune it. I have the Nihility, Hunt, and Destruction Cones at S5 (though the Destruction one feels like a waste since Xueyi has that newer Break Effect come from 2.0 now), and had skipped the Preservation cone to see what the next would be. At this rate I'm just gonna end up dumping all my Hertabucks into tickets though.....

I can feel myself collapsing into my own being with loathing just by bringing up this comparison unprompted, but maybe I just can't help myself;

For all these gooners who have been patting themselves on the back for their little Steller Blade hashtags and petitions against Sony thinking they're achieving something with their whining, the contrast between that complete and total nothingburger culturewar BS and what happens when people ACTUALLY give a shit about something, like what is happening here, is so fucking extreme.

Also of note that Clara is a fantastic partner for Jade (the +30 speed is not enough to push base speed Clara over the speed threshold that may cause her to waste Ultimate stacks), especially if Clara has her Signature which gives herself HP recovery, so....2.3, the Clara Patch I suppose!

Duran is the new BIS for all Follow-Up attack characters. If the character also has a notable damage dealing Ultimate, like Jing Yuan or Ratio, Solsotto will still be totally fine if not better depending on substats, but characters like Topaz and Clara need to switch to this immediately.

Forge is extremely good for Firefly.....but it's basically just going to be for Firefly. An argument could be made that for Break Effect characters it is like the Quantum Set situation where it can sometimes be used on a non-Fire character against Fire Weak enemies (Xueyi, considering her type ignoring ultimate, definitely gets value from this against Fire Weak enemies), but probably not super worth it. The 2 other characters besides Sam who would benefit most, Himeko and Xueyi, already reap the full benefits of Salsotto.

The Wind is a wild one. Can be a great Ratio set if you have better pieces than his current debuff set. Good on Topaz but not better than the current following attack set for her, same with Herta. Jing Yuan is in a similar situation as Ratio, could go with either this or the current FUA set. However where this reaaaaally shine is with Clara, this and the Duran Planar are both huuuuuuuuge retroactive buffs for her, which she barely even needed TBH, but with these sets she's going to go up like a full tier. It's also a fantastic 4 piece for Yanqing and makes him much more viable.

I haven't looked into the Firefly kit hard enough yet to see how Iron Cavalry goes for them, I assume this is their personal set though just because lol. I can say for sure that it's absolutely the BiS for Xueyi and for Boothill.

Time to lock in on MyGo. I have a looooot of time off this week so I am gonna be it catch-up mode, but before that it's gonna be this and finally watching Bochi the Rock.

Update to the Major Jellyfish Spoilers.

https://ibb.co/7VCmgrD

Bros is it gay to lick you lips after putting on your friend's used face mask??

New Herta Shop come seems meh. Maybe a bit of an upgrade for Himeko compared to her Signature? Better for generically built Herta, but definitely not better than Herta's 4* Signature for specifically PF built Herta.

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OK these are all nuts.

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I knew it had to be an actual reference to something.

https://twitter.com/paukshop/status/1786882987600081264

You know, there was something that was bothering me that I couldn't nail down, and that was it. It's not like the faces are bad, but when you have been getting used to seeing shows in recent years doing either hand drawn expressions over CG, or just.....whatever the fuck GBC is doing to make it happen, dark blood magic or some shit, it does stand out as a bit flat.

I would have to go back again, but I did feel like the faces looked good during that argument at the end of the episode though.

MacArrowny posted...

is Engage's gameplay better than Unicorn Overlord's?

I would say so, yes. I LOVE UC and that it's doing something unique (having strong similarities to a N64 game isn't exactly chasing a trend lol), but FE is still my jam, and Engage is arguably the franchise frontrunner from a mechanical standpoint. Though I do year for the structure of Tellius, I am getting tired of maps with random battles and the ability to grind out fights.

MacArrowny posted...

Kageki Shoujo is really good stuff! Would recommend finishing that one, though it doesn't end in a super satisfying place.

As long as I can continue from a manga that's typically fine by me! It was intresting enough at a glance that I didn't remove it from the list. There was a large number of anime on this list that I never even started, so again I must assume a video game happened as usual lol.

MyGo first impressions. Looks good! Prior to GBC In would have said this is about the best CG I would expect outside of Studio Orange, and obviously GBC is a different beast altogether, something completely new going on there. Colors seem a little washed and the designed aren't particularly noteworthy so far, but I m sure the pastel is an intentional aesthetic. Some still shits you can't even tell the characters are CG, combine that with some good scene direction and the look is landing for me.

Unsurprisingly we don't get an extensive view of most of the cast yet, favorite girl so far is the autistic one (I mean this clearly seems like the actual intention, she's a bit more that "quirky") but she was around most of the episode so no surprise there. Not-Dia is the one I have the highest expectation for at this time though.

Gonna keep at it!

Almost had a heart attack 2 minutes into MyGo when Signalis music started playing, before remembering that The Promise was a sample of a Chopin song lol.

Cleaning up my Crunchyroll watchlist and realizing just how easy seasonal anime can just vanish from history. What the hell was Sakibuki Bisco? I watched 6 episodes of The Heiki Story? I have absolutey no idea what Kageki Shojo is.

It takes a lot to stick around.

Absolutely wild stuff going on in Tonari no Youkai.

The completely casual everyday world holding stuff was nice, and I've been appreciating the show don't tell philosophy, and would have been totally fine with just an SoL in this setting. However, it's going down a strong main plotline that's specifically taking full advantage of just how casual/exposition free the narrative has been so far, and I'm very excited to see where it goes.

As much as I'm riding the hype train of today's Jellyfish revelations, I do still stand by what I said yesterday. I've watched that insert song from GBC episode 5 a half dozen times since this morning, it's absolutely unreal how good this looks.

https://youtu.be/hqxzJhn4RZs?si=TiK31-6L1QPxf_Fo

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https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/1786911313559425082

TL;DR, they didn't do anything to the game that's causing this at all, it's just that you have to have a PSN account to play now (which has been stated both on the store page and in game since day 1, but it just now being implemented), and the entire community fucking imploded.

At first I thought these were PC players being annoying and petty about taking 2 minutes to make a PSN account, but it seems there's a significant amount of countries where you actually can't MAKE a PSN account unless you do so through a VPN (for which your PSN account will be banned if it's discovered), essentially rendering the game unplayable.

They're trying to work some extreme damage control right now because apparently this was Sony's decision and the devs didn't get to a say in it, but man.....what a mess.

Anyways I'm mostly just surprised we didn't have a Helldivers General topic considering how popular this game is...maybe was, now.

No see Anasui is a special case because when he first showed up he WAS a girl, and then Araki changed him into a man instead in his next appearance.

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I love Stone Ocean but it was a fucking MESS

Ohhh the screen dimming during the post processing effects in Kaiju No 8 is baaaaaaaad.

Really frustrating that Japan won't stop doing this even though it doesn't actually do anything.

Fucking Porygon.

I don't know if I'd call Metaphor a hybrid, it seems to basically a Persona game that has Ryuji's social link from Royal built into the core mechanic. I don't think the world combat is really.....combat. Maybe that changes deeper into the game, though.

I did say Capital M Major for a reason! I wouldn't play like that.

I mean it was so just a really good episode, to boot.

To be clear, I don't think any answer is wrong. It's more that, rather than a binary answer of "I think these types of games are jRPGs, and these types aren't", there's a full staircase sperating the most actiony entries at the top (FF16/Nier) and most rigid entries at the bottom (FF1/DQ) that could be considered jRPGs, and people are going to have to decide how high up those steps they're willing to climb.

And then games like Fire Emblem are the bottom step alongside DQ, but they're sitting on that little part that goes past the railing and sticks out of the side a bit, and you need to decide if that's technically part of the step or not.

I'm going to make a stance here though that Valkyria Chronicles just....isn't in the conversation. In no way is that a jRPG.

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Damn you Tonbo!

Gonna catch up on the last 3 patches of Endwalker starting tonight in prep for Dawntrail.

Can you buy the high level IL gear with normal times yet, or do I gotta wait for DT to launch?

Uhhhhh wow OK.

Major Jellyfish spoilers.

This show actually is Yuri. Like, there's stuff throughout the episode that I assumed was the same bait as usual, but then they just actually just go for it at the end huh??

HiDive heard people talking shit about them saying "Reposts" last week and said fuck it lol.

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Stuff like Automata is why I think the jRPG moniker has become worthless. It's easy to see why you wouldn't consider it one, but at the same time this means you also can't consider Remake and Rebirth to be jRPGs, and that sounds way stranger. Undertale is more of a jRPG that any of these, but it isn't made in Japan.

At this point, the genre just comes down to personal vibes.

I don't think Akira looks any more feminine than, say, Kurama from YYH, he's just younger.

And I mean we have our Fate Astolfos, Re:Zero Felix, and Steins;Gate Rukas out there too.

Now, if you wanna talked about Stone Ocean Anasui here.....

Reg posted...

Also recommend the manga over the anime though.

1000000%

...I don't know how Roba would react to one of Hori's character traits that are revealed mid series, though, lol.

Strife2 posted...

Rewatching Kemono Jihen. Pretty easy show to binge watch. I'm a sucker for supernatural/yokai/monster anime, and this has fun characters and morals at play. Both serious enough yet comedic. Love Kabane's "loose" grasp of social norms and moral concepts.

I don't know why I stopped watching this. Some big video game must have come out to steal my time.

I haven't watching Condition, but what you probably want to check out is Horimiya.

I have problems with the anime because Clowerworks skipped a bunch of content (no, Horimiya Pieces does not make up for this), but in a vacuum it's a solid show.

....Though I think I'm remembering you may have already watched this? So hard to keep track!

No, I'm using NakayubiSubs, they're good.

That subtitle is 100% correct, once you watch you will understand lol.

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I can safely say after going back and forth earlier that I have no problem putting this is at the #1 spot. I mean maybe I'll flip flop again after tomorrow's Jellyfish episode, but I am just toooo fucking into what GBC is laying down.

I can also say, as a filthy criminal who stills calls themselves a Love Live fan after skipping past nearly every single song in every episode (besides the GoaT Snow Hallation) in both the OG and Sunshine, that I ENTHUSIASTICALLY look forward to every insert in this show.

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These are accurate.

She spins once for every enemy falls below 50%, including those that fall below 50% during the spins.

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I didn't like it as much as the pilot myself, but it was still good!

Hmmmmm I thought this would be easy to put together from memory, but maybe not. Like, I would question if 3 Houses would count, if it does then that opens a lot of doors (one of those being me finally biting the bullet on whether Engage being a much better video game mechanically than Three Houses trumps the world and character of 3H being so much better).

I didn't mean the website, my understanding was that a vast majority of their income was from mass commercial sales to office building and other businesses, direct from vendor.

The idea that nobody actually "shops" at Staples and just goes in an out probably does hold water.

I understand why Staples itself exists as a commercial supplier. I do not understand how these box locations still exists.

Over the last 3 years I have been to various Staples around 2 dozen times for return dropoff purposes. Usually during optimal business hours, usually to a location next to a busy Publix.

Over those years, I have seen exactly 1
human being who wasn't an employee. This is not an exaggeration for effect, I always keep an eye out every time because of how eerie it is. It's like I'm in a corner of a dead mall.

Can the nationwide printer ink price conspiracy really be THAT powerful? That many lost pet flyers? Enough to keep all these haunted buildings running? If it's really all just the commercial side, why even keep them open as a retail space? I'm glad these people have a job, it's just baffling.

Ancient tomes, lost to the ages.

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Tales of Berseria

MoooooonooooooooooGATARIIIIIIIIII

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"We made it so a bunch of people have to uninstall and reinstall Windows to a different drive" isn't the clean issue they are making it out to be.

Looks like it's much less widespread than it seemed at least, assuming you believe the numbers

....An interesting possibility.

pjbasis posted...

We're gonna finish this arc dammit (eventually)

https://twitter.com/Un4v5s8bgsVk9Xp/status/1785895428573319488?t=TDDbfWu806TGq_YrLYU-vg&s=19

Taking it one page at a time.

Really hope he can manage it. He started these posts with "Moon healing magic!", so I have to assume that means his health has improved.

New anticheat Vanguard is spyware that can take over and even control features and settings on your computer. Some people getting message telling them to delete System32. Highly recommended to uninstall at this time even if it's not in active use.

Edit: the source I linked to seems to have a media tab that's would get this topic deleted, whoops lol. Regardless, issue is the same.

Riot has also banned all Vanguard discussion on their subreddit, and all posts discussing the issue at being deleted.

BotW actually takes away points from the open world congelation.