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Kamen Rider Gaim is fantastic, you should all watch it.
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Even if Sword Art Online wasn't so bad that the author decided on his own that he would completely redo it due to how shit it is, you really should never read a light novel fan translation. Light novel fan translations are pretty much the worst fan translations, and fan translations tend to be pretty shit.
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i wish to point out that the proper topic would have "fuck the hulk hogan" instead but character limits
boney have you ever been on the irc?
Once~ But he won't go there anymore
which means there's no point in him showing his face around here D=<if he comes on irc I'm banning him
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Dear everyone who just finished watching the (shit) AoT animu: you're gonna be starting at chapter 33. You're welcome.
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Here's my list for this season
Wednesday
Kyousogiga (10/02)
Thursday
Kill la Kill (10/03)
Valvrave the Liberator (10/10)
Galilei Donna (10/10)
Saturday
Hajime no Ippo: Rising (10/04)
Sunday
Kamen Rider Gaim (10/05)We'll see how well it goes this time. On the one hand, I did not watch anything last season. On the other hand, this season has Trigger, Valvrave, Ippo, and Urobuchi. (And yes, I know that Gaim isn't anime. I don't care.)
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I was kind of wondering if Carpe Fulgur would attempt TiTS.
I know SpaceDrake has been interested in the series for ages and I'm sure I saw his name in one of the XSEED Ys credits or something.
Plus the company was very sly with what projects they were planning next.
SpaceDrake actually mentioned at some point (I forget if it was in that blog post or a twitter message or an SA post or what though) that he was partially responsible for getting the Ys games released on Steam, and that it was basically necessary for them to sell well before XSEED would consider it worth the everything needed to get Second Chapter released.
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One step at a time : P
I was really starting to doubt that SC would be released, but it looks like all the right cards were played.
Well done... well done...
It apparently wasn't going to happen at all. And then Carpe Fulgur happened.
As for later games, Spacedrake has said that it depends entirely on how well Second Chapter sells. So if you want the later games you had best buy Second Chapter.
Also: FC is being released on Steam, SC is being released both on Steam and PSN.
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Right...
[spoiler=Critiques]=Prologue=
I can't move the text faster than this? And I can't skip it? Do I seriously have to suffer this little prelude every time I start a new game? What about the people who have already played this game and wish to replay it? This seems like a very inconsiderate design decision, possibly meant to show people "Oh hey! We changed it! Now we're gonna force you to acknowledge this!". Of course, I could just be projecting, and this was just a stupid design idea.
I'm a little off put by the implications of this dialogue. Do the story tellers get killed or something? And why is the prince's father capturing story tellers just to entertain his son? I mean... jesus. This guy's a fucking asshole. Certainly someone is trying to do something about him. Tyranny doesn't just run rampant, y'know. History dictates that many kings were put to death if their people absolutely hated them. But alas, I'm just freaked out by the implications. I don't know if this genuinely makes no sense or not since I've not done much research... perhaps I should.
=Tale Select=
First, let's talk about the achievements. In the past, I believe complained that these were completely trivial things that don't reward the player in any way. It seems this problem has been averted, since getting achievements unlocks "bonus content", thus giving the achievements some actual value. This is appreciated.
As dashing as ever I see, Arch. Seriously, that hair could melt any woman's heart. >_>'
I'm with "Yesman" on this one (the prince whom I named), what the hell is up with Dane's eye armor? Is he like cyclops from the X-men? That'd be fuckin' boss.
...Okay, let's start with Lyn's Tale. Let's see if my complaints have been averted.
Okay. Using the "Kill" command on multiple units after selecting a tale is kind of glitchy. You should prolly just use it on the selected unit unless you can fix the problem.
=Tale: Homecoming=
After doing research on nobles and peasants in the medieval era, I've come to sympathize with Lyn more on her situation. Being a noble sucks. You have loads of obligations, and you can't even parent your own child. Instead, they get raised by someone else. I'm inclined to believe peasants have a better life style than nobles, even if they weren't as wealthy or important.
Prasad doesn't seem to talk all that slow. In fact, he was very quick to convince Rath... I'm just nitpicking.
Like before, the map design is as obnoxiously huge as ever, with very little to justify it. The first turn is
Alright... so here we go. The boss dude's all like "We're gonna attack", but doesn't state the direction of the attack. Let's see if the level designer actually gave two shits about doing things in a fair manner.
I'm relieved to see that Lyn is only two turns away from Rath. By Turn 2, she can be in the exact 6 tile range of talking to Rath. It's clear the designer counted the spaces. However... did he consider what the point was to putting us so far away that the first turn is completely redundant?
Perhaps the reasoning for this is for Florina, who shows up on Turn 2. If you know this beforehand, then you can set Kent and Sain up to rescue chain her so she is close to Lyn...
... However, that would be wasting Kent and Sains turn and leaving them open for when the Kutolah clan ambush spawns you... okay, lemme talk about this.
I believe a while back, I argued with Archibald about the fairness of this ambush spawn. While he is right that the boss foreshadows this event, it's never clear where they will come from, and this is where the problem lies. They ambush spawn ALL OVER THE MAP, and in promximity of where Lyn, Kent, and Sain are likely to be.
You can tell us you're going to do ambush spawns, but the player isn't going to know what the fuck to do unless you give him/her some form of indicator as to where they might come from. Normally, Fire Emblem uses forts and stairs. A solid form of indication, and even if the player doesn't know when ambush spawns will come, they can at least predict where they are coming from. The "When" isn't as important as the "Where".
I believe Arch's justification for this was that it's realistic, since it's a coordinated attack. To that, I say... the boss was fucking gloating out loud a moment ago. I've already thrown some sense of realism out the window. Not to mention that if we apply realism, our characters should have been able to see our attackers, since they were presumably close enough to be able to reach us by the time the boss calls the attack, but because of the mystical plane that exists outside of the map's border, we cannot see them, interact with them, or do anything...
Of course, maybe they were hiding... Yeah right, in the open spaces of PLAINS? Where are they gonna hide? Underground?
Bottom line: Don't put ambush reinforcements immediately in range of where the player would normally be without an adequate indicator of their location prior to the event. Remember. Fairness is a very important part of a game. Realism isn't.
... Oh. This is a route mission this time. Huh. If we go down the realism route, I question whether our foes would have the morale to keep going after their leader is defeated.
This chapter's really boring... While the bloated map size is a surprisingly irrelevent issue, the chapter still feels utterly barren of challenge. Not much thought is required for unit placement, because the enemies are rather weak to the point of irrelevence, and we are provided with Gates and Trees to turtle one. I didn't even need to heal my units because they recieved so little damage.
In conclusion, nothing about this chapter works. Minimal effort is required to win, and I STILL somehow managed to get an achievement somehow despite my lack of input.
A big problem with this map is that it's kind of a clusterfuck of enemies who aren't a threat. The sad thing is that, the ambush spawn is literally the only thing that could possibly make this chapter difficult, and yet even my carelessly placed Florina was able to survive with 1 HP.
The chapter doesn't feel like effort was put into it's design outside of merely complimenting the rather uninteresting story... that said, I'm going to try to say some nice things for once... here goes.
- I noticed the map is taken from FE6. A nice touch, even if it falls flat on it's ass in terms of gameplay.
- Kent and Sain's new armor looks very nice.
Um... yeah. I think those are the only good things I can say about the map. It's just... really abyssmal, honestly.
=Tale: Lost Resolve=
I... really feel Eliwood could have been handled better here.
The dude lost his parents. That's a really hard pill to swallow. Apparently he's been mourning for two weeks, but right after Marcus is all like "Let's give him more time", the camera scrolls over to Eliwood and he CONVENIENTLY regains his resolve just before some bandits trash the place.
I kind of feel Marcus shoulda came up to him and said "I understand you're upset, but DUDE, you gotta help our people now! Shit's goin' down, and you ain't doing jack shit!"
I'd comment on how the castle's design doesn't make much sense, but honestly, I REALLY like how it looks. =X
Headaches...? Ninian's been having headaches? Hm. This foreshadows her untimely death, I presume. I'm calling it right here.
I like Lowen's new design, but not Rebecca's. It ill represents her personality.
*Looks at the map* ... What... the... fuck...
Despair is trickling down my neck. Is this seriously just an obnoxiously long hallway!? WHO THE FUCK THOUGHT THIS WOULD BE FUN???
Making Lowen a great knight was a nice touch. It fits his growths better.
Alright... Onslow's speech makes no sense. Do these bandits have any idea how nobility even works? From what I know, Kings assign land to people they trust, and they can take it away if the Lord does not adhere to their responsibilities, such as protecting their people. Lycia has no king if I remember right, but Ostia is the dominant territory, and I'm sure something would be done about these bandits. Actually... that makes me realize something else...
Why is Eliwood still in power? He apparently let this bandit problem get so bad that they are OVERRUNNING his own castle! That's pretty fucking poor rulership if you ask me!
Suggestion: Give Natalie a Mend instead of a Heal. The heal is obsoleted by her Physic staff.
Whoa. This chapter is actually kind of difficult. Then again, I'm rushing. Maybe there's a way to turtle this, but for now, I want to rush since I'm pretty sure the treasure chests are in danger of actually being pillaged this time.
Suggestion: Remove the crit from the Berserkers, or perhaps make an alternate berserker class without the crit, and give that to the enemy unit berserkers. Same with Swordmasters. It makes some scenarios luck based.
In conclusion, I'm positively surprised. The chapter is actually quite interesting gameplay wise despite it being a long hallway. Though, I never bothered to open the chests. I can also see this as being interesting to LTC because of the ambush spawn berserkers (WHICH HAVE A REASONABLE SPAWN LOCATION, AND ARE FORESHADOWED CORRECTLY. GOOD DESIGN~).
So yeah. Good job. The story is a bit weak, but the level is actually fun to play, unlike Lyn's.
Eh? There's a part two...? I'll get to that later. I want to do Hector's Tale. I've been told horrible things about it.
Ah. Good. I have access to Part Two when I actually want to play it.
=Tale: The Leader's Trials=
Hey! I recognize this tension theme. It's from FE3, right? This is a rather weak rendition honestly. It lacks the punch and power.
Dawson seems like an interesting villain honestly, but I think his means to his ends is his problem.
Ugh... The level design looks as bad as ever, but Eliwood's tale proved me wrong. Maybe this will as well.
Alright. I really like what you did here with Erik. You made him seem like a very pragmatic leader. Perhaps he deserves being the leader of Laus more than his father does.
... So I literally camped my characters for 9 turns, and I still haven't lost a single unit. I placed Hector on the Castle Gate, with Oswin three tiles above him. Serra's in the mountain to the left, and Erik's with her. Matthew and Orun are sitting in the nearby trees.
Welp. Defeated one of the bosses and a clusterfuck of units by simply turtling, and with absolutely no downsides as far as I'm concerned. That was easy. I must ask. Was any thought put into this level design?
Welp! Time to mow my way through the rest of this chapter. After all, it's just bait 'n switch. Wow. Too very easily executed strategies and I've already won... this chapter sucks.
I didn't bother visiting the villages by the way. In fact, I haven't gone out of my way to get ANY of the prizes the hack offers. Why? Because none of it matters. I'm still going to win. You give the player way too many tools to work with, but you don't make the player consider his/her options carefully. Also, the chapter is way too long, but that's my fault for turtling... but the chapter gives me no reason NOT to turtle, so I chose it because I found it a safe, efficient way to guarentee a victory. Y'know, because GOOD tacticians choose sensible tactics!
Actually... is this the INTENDED method to play? If you try and go out to fight the boss quickly, you'll be running into open field, allowing the enemies to surround you. That would be a really risky tactic to take consider you start with only three units, and the other units you get don't come until after a while. ...Just... what was this chapter trying to accomplish!?
=END=
I think this is all I can stomach for now... so far, only one tale of this hack is fun to play. The stories aren't particularly interesting, but I'm not going to get too mad at that, because ultimately, story doesn't mean much, and... it's not Karel's tale.
About as relevant as usual, I guess.
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Well, I'm Middle-Eastern, one of the most openly hated groups in the United States today. And I live here. I may have white skin, but that doesn't really say anything about me beyond that. Because I also grew up in an almost entirely black neighborhood. I have a very weird upbringing, and have a very weird perspective on things because of it. Mostly one of ignoring people's words and protect yourself if people try to get violent. I've never had to experience the latter.
There's pros and cons to both, I happen to believe that the pros of a humanistic group outweighs the pros of split groups.
Oh, shit, sorry about that. Though, wrt to the last sentence: I don't think that feminists would or should agree, considering how they've been treated by "humanist" groups thus far.
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First of all: feminism includes fixing the problems with men's rights by definition because it is impossible for a society in which men are made out to be objectively dominant to not have women as objectively submissive, which is what women are fighting against.
Also, it's your privilege as a white man to see things that way. You don't have to worry about the same absurdist oppression and fight explicitly for your own rights. Certainly, there are huge issues there, but it isn't nearly as overt and disgusting as it is with women, or indeed blacks, or any other oppressed groups. The one thing about that position that is right, though, is that there is a tendency for members of oppressed groups to discriminate against other oppressed groups. It is true that, while it's fine for someone to focus primarily on their own rights, they have to understand that there are other groups that are also being oppressed and that they are on the oppressive side, even if those groups contain members that are oppressive towards them in other ways, and oftentimes these groups don't recognize that fact. Some gay men are sort of infamously mysoginistic, some feminists are racist (ex: why #solidarityisforwhitewomen was even a thing), some black people are sexist, etc.
The biggest problem with what you're suggesting, though, is that, even in groups that claim to be humanistic all around (SKEPTICS), there's a huge amount of mysogyny and hatred of feminists abound. If you try to create an all-encompassing group, it's only inevitable that something will end up getting left out for one reason and another, and inevitably when it's pointed out that was left out the response is always "NO WE'RE GOOD HUMANIST PEOPLE WE CAN'T POSSIBLY BE SEXIST YOU'RE JUST TRYING TO CREATE A MATRIARCHY!" or whatever.
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Indeed, which is something that severely grosses me out with some people who label themselves feminists. The radical sorts who dont want equality, but want men to be viewed as lesser or people who must be oppressed because of privilege. In my eyes, thats rather vile.
Radical Feminists are feminists insofar as the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea is a democracy, republic, or owned by the people. You do not mention radical feminists in a discussion about real feminists any more than you would bring up north korea in a discussion about democracies or republics. Also, Sarkeesian is not a radical, before you even try to say anything.
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I just found this:
http://www.feministfrequency.com/2012/06/harassment-misogyny-and-silencing-on-youtube/
Pretty hilarious. She can't tell joke from harassment.
Gender: Male
lol
Also, to Nobody: even if you make a blanket statement about population numbers like that, it's still heavily disproportionate even taking stuff like that into account and the few minorities who do end up as notable characters have a tendency to be shoddily written stereotypes.
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if you have to explain it in parentheses it probably isn't even a good pun
Puns aren't a even valid form of comedy to begin with. "Good" and "Pun" are contradictory concepts. Ergo, this post is meaningless.
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So it's far too early for this and is likely nowhere near complete, but I'm gonna bring it up anyways because I don't care about this season at all. Anyways yeah, point is, Fall anime chart. Hopefully Sword Art Online will be good this time. Not that I'm gonna watch it or anything. I just can't fucking wait for Valvrave season 2 and Kill la Kill. Those are also pretty much the only two things on there I care about (aside from the Madoka Magica movie). Maybe Galilei Donna will have some interesting spacey stuff or something? iuno
why can't it be fall yet I want you so much valvrave and kill la kill
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Good news, guys! A good Fate/Stay Night anime adaptation was announced! I don't know if I want to be a full redo or something and for them to animate all three routes so we can get a good Fate and amazing UBW, or if I just want them to go straight to HF because the idea of seeing the end of that route animated by a decent studio is giving me a boner. Either way, can't fucking wait.
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Yo is Gundam 00 good? I think I'm gonna start it tonight if I don't find anything else to watch from this season.
Gundam 00 season 1 is great, I would definitely recommend it. Season 2 is also very good, but for... slightly different reasons. The movie is pretty ugh, but I don't really regret watching it because there are a few cool moments here and there.
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Evangelion is my all time favorite anime. Hope you enjoy it man!
Danganronpa seems like it potentially be really good. Hope it stays faithful to the game (I haven't played the game but have heard good things about it). Usually when you stay faithful to what you're adapting, it ends up being pretty good.
Did Monogatari always have so much fanservice? I didn't watch Nisemonogatari so maybe that's why it feels like such a change from Bakemonogatari.
Anyone have any recommendations for this season?
inb4 for Free!All I know about Nisemonogatari is that it's apparently "the most stylishly animated piece of pornography mankind has ever produced". Also, Monogatari Second Season isn't really the second season, but you knew that since you mentioned Nise. Also, I haven't watched anything yet this season, despite that list of things I'm planning on dropping I just can't even be fucked.
Uuuuuugh, Valvrave come back to me. Please. I think I'm gonna change the list to Neptunia, Symphogear G, Attack on Titan because fuck.
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is it bad if after watching episode 3 of Date A Live I sort of want a shounen anime about claw machines. There's one for everything else so why not right?
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Here's my post-season thoughts and pre-season plans:
Valvrave was absolutely amazing in every way except for one and I loved it except for that. 9/10
Gargantia was great, though a lot of parts of how it turned out make way more sense when you learn that Urobuchi only personally wrote the first and last episodes and executive meddling forced in an extra fanservice episode and pushed out a development episode that should have been there. 8/10
I fucking hate the Attack on Titan adaptation at this point. So much of it is horribly done and it's coasting on the strengths of the manga at this point. I guess some of the animation is pretty good occasionally, but not nearly enough. Any non-hentai/Gonzo/DEEN studio would have done a better job I think. On the other hand, Trost is also the worst arc in the series so maybe I'll start liking it better from here? fuck/10
Satan at McDonald's I dropped even though it was funny because it didn't have robots or spidermans. Might watch once I drop everything I have planned for Summer because like fucking seriously now.
Majestic Prince is apparently pretty okay but I dropped it because I was bored with it. Might watch once etc.
I watched two episodes of Date A Live in secret because I'm shameful and it was okay I guess. Might watch more????????????
Current plan for Summer is to start even more shows than I did in Spring and drop every single one of them: TWGOK 3, It's not my fault I'm not popular, Dangan Ronpa, Symphogear G, Silver Spoon, Neptunia, Attack on Titan, Fate/Kaleid Liner: Prism-Ilya
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But this was a glorified FFtF thread to begin with.
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I hope Zimmerman walks off.
I'm so sick of minorities throwing the book at the White Man.
Where the heck are Caucasians Rights when we need them?
I can't believe the media portrayed this shooting of an unarmed teenager as if it might have been unjust. C'mon guys George Zimmerman is obviously getting skewed by the LIEBRUL media because he's white and Trayvon is black, I mean haven't you seen the post Blademaster read on /pol/?
So I just got an email from my Grandma that said "FWD:FWD:FWD:FWD:FWD:White people are now the most oppressed group in America".
I just find it annoying how minorities (and homosexuals) keep spouting nonsense of how persecuted they are. I hope the GOP gets it's act together and creates a bill that segregates these individuals in selected cities. At least I'm safe knowing these filthy sub-humans won't be able to vote for much longer in the great state of Texas thanks to Voter ID coming in soon.
Because white people are the racial majority at this time, it is rather natural that they would be the most oppressed. However, maybe a rebalancing of government oppression is what we need, not a rebalancing of government aid.
Actually what SeverIan said doesn't sound too shabby at all.
Oppress everyone!
Only then we can have true equality!
So you wankers need to resort to this shit already? Treyvon Martin deserved to die. He was interested in guns, what kind of TRUE AMERICAN would be into such violent weaponry? And he even smoked weed! Hell, he was even wearing a fucking hoodie! I posit thus from such information: he was a gangster! George Zimmerman deserves a reward for his contributions to society. Hell, he even put bitches in their place when they deserved it, and we know he was a true man because he couldn't control himself around his cousin! A true American hero imhotep.
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Seconding the reccomendation for Dennou Coil. Aside from that, Madoka Magica and Gurren Lagann are extremely popular and always fantastic recommendations. If you end up liking Gurren Lagann you should also watch Getter Robo Armageddon.
Also, I see Eureka Seven in your list. Here's a little warning: do not watch Eureka Seven AO under any circumstances.
Edit: Actually, I'm just gonna link the ADTRWiki page on this
DEMOCRACY
in Far from the Forest...
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Looking at this poll, you can tell who's been a creeper in the picture thread