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This show is great and I am invested in the characters. I was wary to watch it at first because I was worried it would be another story about a high schooler getting sucked into an MMO world but the MMO is just a game and setting, and the protagonist is in her 30s and is a fantastic character. Can't wait for more.
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Darth Walrus posted:I do like the OP for this show. Really sets the mood. Staring up at nothing while spinning in a chair is extremely relatable. Also life and MMO habits getting called out. Also I assume Koiwai and Sakurai are fujo catnip. Edit: I'm kind of going to miss her long hair. chumbler fucked around with this message at 08:20 on Nov 5, 2017 |
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Moriko reminds me a lot of myself. I've never been a NEET but I've gone through spells where I played games obsessively and it was bad for me, wasted my money, I lost track of time, had a hard time leaving the house, didn't like being around people in public, etc.. poo poo is too real, man. I feel like she's cuter when she's unkempt but I guess we're entering the recovery phase of the addiction. edit: Are there even any other shows about people playing MMOs that aren't ads (like PSO2) or isekai (like Sword Art Online)? I can relate to this poo poo way too well and I kind of want more BattleMaster fucked around with this message at 11:53 on Nov 5, 2017 |
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Nov 5, 2017 11:50
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Yeah, her hairdresser and Lily/Sakurai were right about her hair. It's weird but this is my favorite show of the season followed by Land of the Lustrous and Ancient Magus' Bride in second and third places, I wasn't expecting that.
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Nov 5, 2017 11:59
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I liked that they had an entire conversation while sitting inside of some bushes because that is such an MMO thing to do.
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chumbler posted:Staring up at nothing while spinning in a chair is extremely relatable. Also life and MMO habits getting called out. I feel most called out when Moriko goes to the same convenience store to get food and booze like every day. 
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Nov 5, 2017 15:35
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Pollyanna posted:I feel most called out when Moriko goes to the same convenience store to get food and booze like every day. I stopped going to my corner convenience store because I felt like the owner was starting to silently judge my dietary choices.
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Nov 5, 2017 15:38
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Fangz posted:I guess I don't really see Koiwai, from what we've seen, as in any way sensitive, or really giving enough of a drat about anyone other than himself. I think people overestimate the degree to which he and Sakurai are friends. He and Sakurai have certainly known each other for less than the time Moriko has been a NEET, and outside of work probably haven't spent nearly as much time together given how Sakurai plays MMOs. He's gay for Sakurai and an affectionate teaser
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cathead posted:I liked that they had an entire conversation while sitting inside of some bushes because that is such an MMO thing to do. And how if you don't get your positioning just right, your sit emote makes your feet clip through the front
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BattleMaster posted:Moriko reminds me a lot of myself. I've never been a NEET but I've gone through spells where I played games obsessively and it was bad for me, wasted my money, I lost track of time, had a hard time leaving the house, didn't like being around people in public, etc.. poo poo is too real, man. there's an arc in welcome to the nhk about taking mmos way too seriously
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I may have missed something, but I really hope there isn't going to be a love triangle, because I hate love triangles
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Revalis Enai posted:I may have missed something, but I really hope there isn't going to be a love triangle, because I hate love triangles I wasn't getting any pointy love triangle vibes, maybe some potential triangles with rounded corners, but nothing major.
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Yeah I don't sense any love triangle happening UNLESS Koiwai starts playing the MMO to get at Moriko (but I think him playing wingman is genuine despite his trolling.)
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Nov 5, 2017 18:00
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Revalis Enai posted:I may have missed something, but I really hope there isn't going to be a love triangle, because I hate love triangles Manga spoilers: There isn't. Koiwai is a bro and Kanbe doesn't even try.
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Tamba posted:Manga spoilers: There isn't. Koiwai is a bro and Kanbe doesn't even try. Thanks for this.
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Nov 5, 2017 18:32
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Tamba posted:Manga spoilers: There isn't. Koiwai is a bro and Kanbe doesn't even try. It's barely even spoilers when the characters have pretty much outright said this...
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AnoHito posted:It's barely even spoilers when the characters have pretty much outright said this...
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I've seen a lot of anime with dumb out of left field twists despite all previously revealed information
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Nov 5, 2017 18:52
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Pollyanna posted:I feel most called out when Moriko goes to the same convenience store to get food and booze like every day. 
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Nov 5, 2017 20:06
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Nov 5, 2017 21:59
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This and FFXIV Dad of Light are the only two series I've seen that have nailed actually playing an MMO and my god are they encouraging me to get back into MMOs.
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:This and FFXIV Dad of Light are the only two series I've seen that have nailed actually playing an MMO and my god are they encouraging me to get back into MMOs. But... there are no good MMOs.
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gmq posted:But... there are no good MMOs. the mmo does not matter, it's all in the
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gmq posted:But... there are no good MMOs. Eve Online is good 
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Nov 6, 2017 20:31
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gmq posted:But... there are no good MMOs. ff14 is indeed good
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KoB posted:ff14 is indeed good Provided you can muscle through the 2.0 voice-acting. I mean, oy.
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Darth Walrus posted:Provided you can muscle through the 2.0 voice-acting. I mean, oy. Just set the voice language to Japanese and make the game even more anime.
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KoB posted:ff14 is indeed good Really? Tempting. Last MMO I played was Ragnarok Online like ~10 years ago and I think the grinding broke me.
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Did you play on the official servers? playing at 1x/1x/1x must have been brutal.
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hiddenriverninja posted:Did you play on the official servers? playing at 1x/1x/1x must have been brutal. It was extremely brutal. I remember when assassins came out, and man did I love that class. Joining a private server made the game much more fun, but by then the 2nd classes had already come out.
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Nov 7, 2017 00:05
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Man it needs to be Friday already so I can find out how their date goes and when Lilac will meet Kanbe in the most convenient store.
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I can confirm that FF14 is good
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Also, if anyone is getting into FF14 for the first time, don't buy the expansions. They are almost exclusively high end content you can't access until you've finished the plot of the base game.
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Mokinokaro posted:Also, if anyone is getting into FF14 for the first time, don't buy the expansions. They are almost exclusively high end content you can't access until you've finished the plot of the base game. *Unless you really wanna be a dragon person. It's fun, there's a demo, check it out.
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Also, if you get one expansion, I would suggest getting the other as well, because all the prestige classes unlock at Level 50, so you can go into any one of them after finishing all the base-game content. One thing, though, is that XIV is a bit of a slow starter - it’s not until you start doing dungeons (and, later, trials) that the game really starts to come into its own. I think it was downing my first primal that really, properly hooked me.
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It's weird how both the localized title and the more literal "Recommendation of the Wonderful Virtual Life" float around in the background of the OP.
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There’s probably a double meaning in susume maybe, even if the dictionary definition is recommendation , since they use katakana for it.
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Darth Walrus posted:Also, if you get one expansion, I would suggest getting the other as well, because all the prestige classes unlock at Level 50, so you can go into any one of them after finishing all the base-game content. if you buy the new expansion now, it includes the first one for free. also they changed the free trial to level 35 so you get to see some of the real content (and a big plot cliffhanger) instead of having it cut out 2/3 of the way through what's basically a very long tutorial for Japanese console players with no MMO experience. I quit after the old level 20 trial, went back and powered through the rest of the boring part after spending a week off work watching all of Log Horizon S1, and stayed subscribed for the 3 years since then because the rest of it is really good.
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Allarion posted:There’s probably a double meaning in susume maybe, even if the dictionary definition is recommendation , since they use katakana for it. There's 勧める and 進む/進める 勧め is the only one that's in the dictionary as a proper word, but if you turn the other one into a noun, it would become "susume" as well.
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Yeah, that's what I found too, so my assumption is susume in katakana has some other meaning, slang, meme, or pun-related maybe that'll turn the meaning into Recovery that's not listed in the dictionary, since both Recovery and Recommendation show up in the OP. Or it's a stretch of the definition of advancement into Recovery 
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