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Oxxidation posted:As we've already seen with Hifumi, by the time your trust with a confidant reaches a certain level Maaku is pretty comfortable making an oblique offer to just rub someone the gently caress out for them. On the one hand its careless...on the other he's still a teenager.
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Most confidants tend to project their own reasons onto why the protagonist is asking. It's suspicious but most of them think that Maaku is gonna do something stupid and get his nerdy rear end kicked. Here I think I have to agree that Kawakami believes he's gonna beg for the Phan-site to do something about it, as opposed to doing it himself. Like really, this milquetoast guy is a Phantom Thief? pffffft.
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Clarste posted:For the record, he doesn't actually know about her maid job at all, he just made a wild guess that she confirmed with her reaction. He didn't know, but it seems like he had a pretty good idea that's what she was doing.
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Hobgoblin2099 posted:He didn't know, but it seems like he had a pretty good idea that's what she was doing. There's only so many ways you can make that much money.
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Going by how Maaku asks for full names, I figure at least half of the Confidants think that he's going to order a hit on them.Stroth posted:There's only so many ways you can make that much money. Maybe Kawakami is actually a Phantom Thief and farming hella yens in the boring subway. The Takases lack imagination.
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Funky Valentine posted:Maybe Kawakami is actually a Phantom Thief and farming hella yens in the boring subway. The Takases lack imagination. Speaking of which, do your other party members actually get any money from this, or does Joker just hoard it all? No one else ever buys their own weapons or anything, after all.
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I am not a fan of Kawakami's whole arc but I really love how she answers the phone with "~~~Hiii Master how may I help y oh it's you. ![]()
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Clarste posted:Speaking of which, do your other party members actually get any money from this, or does Joker just hoard it all? No one else ever buys their own weapons or anything, after all. I think earlier there was some talk about money being made from phantom thieving going towards further phantom thieving and that as leader it would be up to Makiru to purchase supplies and gear and etc.
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Lord_Magmar posted:I think earlier there was some talk about money being made from phantom thieving going towards further phantom thieving and that as leader it would be up to Makiru to purchase supplies and gear and etc. Boy I hope Makoto doesn't learn about Maaku burning 100,000 yens on a fortune teller.
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Keep in mind that half the confidantes know about Joker's record. Their thought upon being asked full names is probably "oh, this is how this normally calm guy got his record". Also if the Takase by chance notice their names on the Phandom site Kawakami is screwed and she knows it, luckily we don't need that site until it's five minutes before we go and kick their Jungian donkeys, or we could have Oracle doxx them and send an untraceable message to their phone for maximum ![]() I'll say, though, Iwai's social link is missing a Majima Everywhere System Omobono fucked around with this message at 09:51 on Feb 21, 2018 |
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Funky Valentine posted:Boy I hope Makoto doesn't learn about Maaku burning 100,000 yens on a fortune teller. Check out the Persona 5 Dengeki Comic Anthology (specifically Chapter 2: The Queen's Orders) for why Joker handles all the money. Well, there's nothing in it that suggests Makoto couldn't do it as well or instead, but she's apparently fine with the situation. Not that the reasons shouldn't be blatantly obvious already. ![]()
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Without having read it: everyone but Joker and Queen is really really bad at money?
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Omobono posted:Without having read it: everyone but Joker and Queen is really really bad at money? We know Yusuke is already.
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Lord_Magmar posted:We know Yusuke is already. Yusuke keeps an extremely tight budget, he just has different priorities than most people. Food and clothes no, paint and lobsters yes.
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Futaba spends it all on upgrading her hardware (or rather has Sojiro do it), Ann probably gorges on sweets.
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I think Futuba was doing an okay job managing her budget in the comic.
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megane posted:I am not a fan of Kawakami's whole arc but I really love how she answers the phone with "~~~Hiii Master how may I help y oh it's you. I feel like Kawakami (or Sojiro) should have a talk with the MC about calling a sex worker service so often.
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Hobgoblin2099 posted:I feel like Kawakami (or Sojiro) should have a talk with the MC about calling a sex worker service so often. Kawakami is not going to turn down a client who asks so little of her and Sojiro respects a fellow player.
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Hobgoblin2099 posted:I feel like Kawakami (or Sojiro) should have a talk with the MC about calling a sex worker service so often. Sojiro A: Probably doesn't give a poo poo what he's up to after the shop closes as long as he's not making a mess and the cops aren't showing up. And B: would probably be encouraging Maaku in seducing older women.
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Hobgoblin2099 posted:He didn't know, but it seems like he had a pretty good idea that's what she was doing. Stroth posted:There's only so many ways you can make that much money. He even said as much. He said he guessed she was doing something like that as she could not have kept on paying them that much on a teacher's salary alone.
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Stroth posted:Sojiro A: Probably doesn't give a poo poo what he's up to after the shop closes as long as he's not making a mess and the cops aren't showing up. And B: would probably be encouraging Maaku in seducing older women. Whoa, whoa. Sojiro is a cool and good dad, and I would not have you besmirch his name by saying he's a horrible enabler like the P3 MC. ![]()
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Stroth posted:Sojiro A: Probably doesn't give a poo poo what he's up to after the shop closes as long as he's not making a mess and the cops aren't showing up. And B: would probably be encouraging Maaku in seducing older women. And are you also implying that poor Maaku is the one responsible? He's a teenager! The one doing something wrong is Kawakami, accepting requests from an underage client just so she can get enough money. What is it with all those older women going after his shaggy-headed glasses-wearing mute self?
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Totally agree that the Takases are garbage people, and I look forward to you beating their Shadows in and making them regret everything they've done. Kawakami's Confidant goes into some pretty skeevy places, but it's one of my favorites for a reason, even before taking the abilities into account. Speaking of which, I had a friend who just cosplayed as Maid Kawakami at Katsucon this past weekend. Pulled it off pretty well, if the photos she posted on FB are anything to go off of. GhostStalker fucked around with this message at 08:55 on Feb 22, 2018 |
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Hobgoblin2099 posted:I feel like Kawakami (or Sojiro) should have a talk with the MC about calling a sex worker service so often. It's a maid service, not a ~sex worker~ one, jc Sojiro, if he was watching her go up, would rather shake his head over him wasting his money on dumb otaku poo poo
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So far Kawakami has: 1. Half-assed cleaned his room; 2. "Cooked" instant ramen; 3. Fallen asleep on his bed; 4. Spent a lot of time bitching to him. At like confidant level three it became obvious that this was a sinecure to give support to Kawakami. I think there was an implicit understanding that other less wholesome activities may have been available had it not been the underaged protagonist ("oh, you're a minor, Master, I'll save that for when you're older" from before the confidant was officially started), but the actual interactions with you have with her rapidly veered away from impropriety.
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Kawakami's side job is mostly an actual maid service with extra cosplay and personal humiliation on top. It's implied that there prostitution can get involved (and that she was ready to start that as well after the Takases shook her down in the hospital) but prior to then she wasn't willing to sink quite that low.
Oxxidation fucked around with this message at 16:52 on Feb 22, 2018 |
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that's the impression I got too - that what she does is mainly hands off fetishy stuff (like maid cafes or hooters, you can gawk and leer but you can't touch) - which is still skeevy, but she didn't engage in outright prostitution... sadly the reason she probably avoided getting pressured into it up until now because the company deemed her too old for for their clientele, not out of any sort of ethics.
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She is clearly talking about doing his taxes.
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Maid service stuff in Japan is closer to being a stripper, albeit one that actually puts more clothes on clothes on, that being a prostitute. But regardless, it's still someone acting out a fetish for money even though there's (usually) no sex involved.
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Whatever Kawakami is doing, there's no sex involved. The "maid" service is on another number from her company, one she is considering switching to because the Takases are horrible.
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Spuzzz posted:She is clearly talking about doing his taxes. Maids doing taxes sounds ridiculous enough to be real.
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Hobgoblin2099 posted:Maids doing taxes sounds ridiculous enough to be real. Now I'm just imagining this as an entire profession on its own. Ridiculously dressed people showing up to help people when they're being overwhelmed by life. Like Elite Beat Agents with a less strict dress code so someone's showing up in a Gundam cosplay, you've got a Kamen Rider there, and a Jojo.
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Part 98: 9/4-9/6: I’m A Baller (Because I Think The Earth Is Round)![]() Music: Beneath the Mask (Instrumental Version) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Music: Beneath the Mask (Instrumental Version) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Oh, yeah, totally. This sounds completely reasonable and not like a loving small-time waste of everyone’s breath. Jeez, seems like next we’re gonna move down to targeting manspreaders and loiterers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Hmm, Hifumi sent us a new message. ![]() ![]() Oh, that’s right. Hifumi goes to the same school as Yusuke, doesn’t she? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Music: Tokyo Daylight ![]() ![]() ![]() This time, we’ll try Iwai. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Music: What’s Going On? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Music: Home Electronics Store I just figured out what this song reminds me of and it’s the loving BRODYQUEST music. ![]() ![]() ![]() There is a ruckus behind the pair. Music: Tension ![]() ![]() ![]() This seems like a trick, considering the last three terabyte drive I bought cost roughly 22 times that. ![]() They’re all defective, you rubes! ![]() The crowd swarms! ![]() Aaaand we’ve been separated. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Music: My Homie ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We’ve been here for maybe ten minutes. ![]() Music: Beneath the Mask ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ann is confusing to me, because in conversations like this it’s implied she puts a lot of work into her appearance, and then in her Confidant we find out she doesn’t give a gently caress about modeling, eats whatever the hell she wants, and generally just wings it. ![]() ![]() Yusuke reminds me of all the notebooks I’ve bought over the years to collect my thoughts or write off-the-cuff that I’ve never once actually used. ![]() ![]() We spend most of our conversations dunking on each other, cat. It’s not that nice. ![]() What!? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, we’ve actually maxed our Knowledge, so you may be wondering why I’m bothering to consume the dreaded vegetable drink. Well, if we don’t buy this week’s aojiru, the drinks won’t cycle, meaning that next week’s aojiru will still be Knowledge. Still annoying that I’m spending 5,000 yen on nothing, but there’s naught I can do about it. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ...Right. Yeah, I remember. shitshitshit ![]() ![]() ![]() Oh, right. Duh. ![]() Music: Alleycat ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Music: Sunset Bridge ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Fuckin’ Tora, goddamn. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Music: Beneath the Mask (Instrumental Version) ![]() ![]() ![]() This isn’t part of our licensing agreement! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Music: Tokyo Daylight ![]() ![]() Why? This is awesome! ![]() ![]() Let’s head into the library to get a new book with Futaba’s addition to the team. ![]() Now, to the arcade to investigate reports of this cheater. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Hey, I know the Phan-Site is basically all doxxing, but it’s pretty messed up we’re relying on doxxed information to resolve the terrible, horrible issue of… a loving video game cheater, right? This is so far below our pay grade at this point it’s absurd. The powerful and just Phantom Thieves… intervening on behalf of a gigantic entertainment corporation so they don’t actually have to moderate their service! Also, this is an arcade game, right? How is he downloading cheats? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Poor Sojiro, then. Music: What’s Going On? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Music: Alright (Elp Version) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This “gamer talk” thing Futaba does is conspicuously absent in story scenes and seems to have been invented wholly for her Confidant. It’s pretty weird. ![]() ![]() ![]() Futaba strikes me as someone who’d be really into Soylent. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It was really more weird than sad, to be honest. Does thinking about the traumatic concepts of “lunch” or “books” really cause that much pain? How do you live like that? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() No, not at all. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Position Hack is a great skill when it procs, which probably won’t happen all that often due to a weird quirk with the skill. Whenever you start a battle, there’s a chance it can go straight into a Hold Up… including if you get ambushed. In fact, based on what I remember, it may even activate more often on enemy ambushes. Now, I mentioned there was a “quirk” with Position Hack. Well, it may seem like it doesn’t proc frequently, which is not due to the actual percentage chance but the simple fact that, for some odd reason, unlike pretty much every other similar skill in the game, it doesn’t work when you ambush the enemy. I don’t know why; maybe the devs thought it would just be too broken if that was the case. It’s just kind of a bummer because the vast majority of encounters in this game will be initiated via ambush. It also has great synergy with Chihaya’s Money Reading because it lets you start the battle with an All-out Attack, potentially activating the money boost instantly. Unfortunately, it has no such synergy with Hifumi’s Narikin because they’re mutually exclusive: Narikin requires an ambush to activate while Position Hack requires that you don’t. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Makoto nods, says a few more words to Maaku, and leaves. ![]() ![]() 80% of my meals at this point are curry. Please help me, I’m literally dying of malnutrition. ![]() Music: Beneath the Mask ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() School trip canceled, it’s the Persona 3 cultural festival all over again! ![]() ![]() ![]() Ohya this time. ![]() And no rank up is in the cards for us tonight (heh). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Let’s get a-fixin’. ![]() ![]() Music: Everyday Days ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Maaku gains Proficiency +2. Music: Dark Net (Also known in English as Tanaka’s Shady Commodities) ![]() ![]() HOLY poo poo ![]() Oh, how the mighty have fallen. From weekly appearances on Japanese QVC hocking bullshit like fish and real, actual swords to some super-sketchy dark net site only accessible via a Tor browser that only accepts sixth-tier cryptocurrencies even your libertarian cousin’s never heard of. Vertcoin? Get that mass appeal poo poo out of here! Music: Everyday Days ![]() As cool as Tanaka is, I can’t help but be a bit… disappointed, I guess? I mean, when I bought this piece of poo poo for the purpose of fixing it I kind of assumed it’d be full of weird porn. Buying a broken laptop from a second-hand shop is like the modern version of finding a dirty magazine in the middle of the woods, right? ![]() ![]() Music: Beneath the Mask (Instrumental Version) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Jesus Christ! Music: So Boring ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I could totally just pick The World. There’s nothing stopping me. I don’t need the Knowledge. ...gently caress, fine. (for the record, the percentage of people who picked that answer is zero. Philistines) ![]() Maaku gains Knowledge +1. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That line consistently fucks me up. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Music: Tokyo Daylight ![]() How so? ![]() ![]() ![]() And Ohya again. ![]() This time, we get results. ![]() Then we follow with a Money Reading. Yes, we can get multiple readings in the same say, we just can’t do the same one twice. ![]() ![]() Music: Beneath the Mask (Instrumental Version) ![]() ![]() And next time, we’re finally going to go to Mementos to deal with our huge pile of requests! Arist fucked around with this message at 21:45 on Aug 25, 2019 |
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Arist posted:Oh, yeah, totally. This sounds completely reasonable and not like a loving small-time waste of everyone’s breath. Jeez, seems like next we’re gonna move down to targeting manspreaders and loiterers. counterpoint: Kill All Gamers
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When I repaired the laptop, I think I may have audibly cheered when that face and music popped up. Makes up a bit for the actual TV shopping program being so nondescript. And that bit about Los Angeles is one of the better convos in the game.
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I bet you you could live off of well-prepared curry, provided it’s got enough veggies in it. There are certainly worse things for you. And the time difference between Japan and Hawaii is *weird*. I took a trip there while I was living in Japan (met my family coming from the East Coast) and it was my birthday for, subjectively, about 48 hours.
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For some inexplicable reason, I read the line at the start of the update as 'I'm extra pound of today's curry' and my mind jest kept getting thrown for a loop at what looked like a silly engrish thing. Then I realize it's a perfectly normal sentence. I may need more sleep than I get.
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Futaba is kind of a huge goon, isn't she?
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Really Pants posted:counterpoint: Kill All Gamers Wow, that seems harsh. What is it about gamers you think deserves that? I can have moments of... eccentricity and sometimes be quite curious about things. Please forgive me if I do something foolish or rude.
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