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Hey Arist, you're doing a great job and have this entire time. This is your third LP I've been following, and you put in a lot of effort on these. You're doing well, and the typical anxieties of "I want to do this thing but for some reason I just can't/won't right now" is a very common thing, and it's what keeps me from getting too into the projects that I always have on the go. It takes a while sometimes, and that's okay. It's better for you, and your work, if you take your time and don't force yourself to do too much at one time. Hang in there, and good luck!
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This game's messages include taking care yourself and your mental health. Thank you for the funny commentary as always. Stay safe, and take care of yourself.
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Hello every1 and welcome to another exciting update of my nendoroid review blog sorry i know i haven’t posted in a while but that’s only bcuz my mom took away my allowance   Today we will be taking a look at number 989, “Joker,” but not the one u r thinking of!!!! ;P (this one only murders your BRAIN)  Sorry about the lighting i couldnt figure out how to get the flash working on this phone also ignore my brothers pills we’re using his desk for this because i do not have one and also he bought this figure and it’s going in his room Btw i dont know who smugdad is in the background but he scares me Btw i dont know why wolf link is the only amiibo he owns, trash game  Lookit all the little pieces!!!!  Hello my smugboy  A little weird that there are only two faces and the only extra hair is just to add the mask, but not like this character does a lot of emoting, w/e  Armsies and legsies!  Handsies! (Yes, there are only three here, there’s one more left hand but i took a separate pic for it cuz its more of an “accessory” imo. also yes, that bottom right hand is supposed to be shaped like a triangle, you will see)  Whatever this is-ies! (It’s a replacement shoulder piece, because his arms aren’t always long enough for the poses where he bends them without this)  Eyesies? gross  Here’s the extra left hand, holding the mask  For his neutral special, he wields a g—  Let me see what you have (i thought it weird that there’s no “open” left hand so you can’t put the knife in one hand and the gun in the other, but i haven’t played that much of this game so i don’t know if he does that in the game either)  Here is Joker’s “Stand” (i was informed this would be a funny joke to make) Now i will go through all the poses i had the patience to try, please vote for your favorite and i will display it like that in future blogs  Pose A. Joker run.  Pose A2. Joker run with mask  Pose B. The weird triangle glove was so you can make it look like his victory screen where he puts on his gloves:  Yes, that’s it exactly  Pose C. Clearly supposed to be this pose:  Could not get the left leg to look right though  Pose D: Gunboi. Looks rad.  Pose D2: Me realizing i had forgotten to swap out the eyes in the mask (you just push them inward from the front to pop them out) and putting them in at the last opportunity so i didn’t have to mess around with recreating old poses  Pose E: The knife would not stop falling out of his hand. It also looks weird and bad and like he’s Harry Potter. Trans rights.  If we remove the insert in the box, the back side has a background showing Joker’s Persona  Looks like his stand was a Stand!  Of these poses, i lean towards either version of D. There was also a potential Pose G, which presumably would have looked something like this:  but i forgot to take a picture of it and did not care enough to make it again Also also, i’m surprised there was no version of this:  Now to place it on the shelf with the rest of my brother’s nerd junk:  Perfect Thank you for reading, i will be back as soon as my brother runs out of dopamine again and needs more aesthetic stimulation via anime. I wonder what else this “good smile” company has in store for us!     Nendos were a mistake  Chapter 4: 4/10-4/11: Instant Derail This update covers (the rest of) Part 3 of the original LP. Video: Crash     Japan’s just been gutting the budget for public transportation these days, what a shame. The trains can only afford to run for five minutes!  Oh hello, small child. Everything’s gonna be just fine! This isn’t horrifically dark or anything!  The conductor ignores the danger and keeps pushing that throttle. I get it, man. Sometimes, you just gotta see the train go fast. Nothing else matters.   psychotic breakdown conducting may kill a lot of people, but it also helps a lot of people get to work on time, so, it;s impossible to say if its bad or not,   If the train’s a-rockin’, don’t come a-knockin’.    This poor… conductor? Train… guy? Whatever, I’m saying this poor schmuck’s basically staring down the barrel of a loaded mountain lion. Dude’s about to get hosed up.    So, one subway train derailing at high speed, causing at minimum numerous deaths and almost certainly major physical and psychological injuries for every person on board. We have to assume these aren’t peak hours because we didn’t have much trouble getting to school and the train was not terribly full, so let’s say… 40-60% congestion, spitballing low, and keeping in mind that today is Sunday? Keep in mind that during peak hours congestion can rise to as high as 200%. So… how many people is that? I tried to find some data here for the average train capacity, but I couldn’t get anything comprehensive. I was able to find the capacity for a few specific subway train models, including the Tokyo Metro 10000 series, so unless someone informs me that this is a terrible way to measure things I’ll be going with that one as a baseline. The 10000 series was introduced in 2006, so it would have been in service in 2016. Assuming this is a 10-car set, the total capacity would be 1,518 people, with 522 of those people being able to sit. So, again, 40-60% of that is… approximately 600-900 people. If even 5% of those people died, that’s like, 30-50 deaths, plus, again, massive physical and psychological trauma for the survivors? And this is obviously not the bad part, but let’s just add in the economic toll for fun! As a young white guy in a position of relative financial privilege, I don’t actually know how much things cost, but it’s plainly obvious that the cleanup alone of this event would be incredibly expensive, factoring in fixing the platform, fixing the track, and physically removing the destroyed train. But that’s by no means all of it! Hospital and funeral costs for the injured and dead; the costs of shutting down this line today; the additional costs of shutting down this line (or at least platform) for every day in the future you are unable to use it due to cleanup; the further economic ramifications of people not being able to use this platform to get above-ground, hurting businesses; lack of trust in public transport leading to further problems; etc., etc., yadda yadda we get it. It doesn’t take Adam Smith to recognize the aftereffects of this event would easily cost, at minimum, tens of billions of yen and massively disrupt Tokyo-at-large for multiple months at the very least. (Note: some cursory actual research into costs of similar incidents involving subway derailments suggests my estimate may be a tad high. In that case, uh… my brain is bad, ADHD, research too hard, oops)  Oh Akechi, you rapscallion! I spent like an hour writing all that  Oh, hey! They actually subtitled the newscast this time!   Police are still looking for a plausible motive. It’s less of an operating accident and more of a crime of the company and the government. Seems the railway company and the Ministry of Transport both turned a blind eye to the truth. There’s no way they can hide. This will go all the way to the top.   Just what could be causing such a drastic change so suddenly in these people? This scene continues to be incredibly confusing even if you know what’s going on. To summarize: the conductor had a psychotic breakdown, and the SIU Director’s role here is to show that it will be blamed on the government, the Minister of Transport in particular. But it just does not read that way. Why? Well, it’s for a few reasons, the first of which is pretty obvious: We just saw the conductor clearly out of his mind (literally), so our reaction to the SIU Director saying it was something else is just confusion. We don’t actually know that this guy is evil, there’s not a lot of reason to even suspect that, because we have no idea who he is or what his motivation for lying might even be at this point. Then, focus shifts back to the newscast bringing up the psychotic breakdowns… but why? I know we need to establish further that these incidents are widespread, but the game here is literally showing us the connection in these cases while simultaneously saying that people aren’t realizing the subway incident was anything other than an accident. And on that note, the train’s dangerous acceleration is also glossed over here, which is entirely tied to the conductor’s mental shutdown, and the news just… offhandedly mentions he had no motive for doing what he was doing? Figuring out why he did it seems kind of important, and minimizing that detail is strange because the audience knows it is the entire reason the accident happened. And then Kirk Thornton here literally says “Everything’s linked,” in an attempt to make Sae doubt herself, but it really seems in the moment more like he’s validating her theory. And to make matters worse, they just don’t properly emphasize the public narrative for the rest of the game. People openly discuss how the subway thing was caused by a psychotic breakdown, while the part of the game actually talking about the backlash toward the current government is relegated in its near-entirety to incidental lines you get for checking the TV every day. It’s bizarre. I think a lot of it is just incredibly awkward phrasing here. Rereading the “even he could not explain his high speed” line, it almost seems like the newscaster is trying to say that the conductor was trying to slow down but inexplicably couldn’t? Which would make more sense as a cover story, I guess, fitting in with the ATC line from the Director? The Director’s lines, by the way, are also just incredibly stiff. “It’s less of an operating accident and more of a crime of the company and the government.” Jeeeeezus. Basically, the SIU Director doesn’t come off as manipulative here. He just comes off as an idiot. Which, fair.  …Ah well. Are you free? You and I haven’t gone for a drink in a while.  I must be going.   HERE HE IS, MY AWFUL COP BOY, 1312 BICTH   The perspective here is nonsense. Is Sae dramatically shorter than Akechi? I don’t think she is, at least not to the magnitude that seems to be suggested here. Also, her size relative to the camera just seems off somehow. It’s honestly pretty unsettling.  Conveyor belt only. God, Sae. You have to feed the Akechi if you want him to do murders! What did they even teach you in law school?! Evening Music: Beneath the Mask (Instrumental Version)   This line clearly features Scratchy Sojiro, so I went back and checked—the line was not rerecorded, it just was not previously voiced. If I call out any of these instances ever again it will be exceedingly rarely because I’m just not going to loving watch videos of every scene in the original game to find out which lines were voiced or not. I only caught this one because it was obvious.  I wasn’t able to open the café today… Whatever. Just head upstairs. There’s something I need to give to you. Is it my birthday? No, really, is it? How old am I?  Eighty people is 8 people per car. We saw at least one car that already had more than that, which I know is not how averages work but come on. It’s also 13% of 600, my completely unscientific low estimate, and five percent of capacity. That is plainly loving absurd for the most populous metropolitan area in the world, even if it is Sunday. Maybe all the passengers were busy watching football, I don’t know. We will never find out if anyone actually died in this incident (including the conductor, but he’s pretty obviously dead considering Akechi’s methods).   You may be under probation, but there’s no special limitations on what you do in particular. Besides following the law, that is. However, I’m obligated to report on you, which is why I’m having you record your daily activities. Aren’t you supposed to like, actually check up on me? This doesn’t seem right. You seem lazy, old man.   …I’m about to leave right now.  …Uh-huh. I’ll see you soon.Part of me likes to think he’s talking to Futaba right now, but if he is this is terribly inaccurate to real anxiety. Nothing is more terrifying than calling someone on the telephone!   Oh, but don’t mess up my store. If something goes missing, I’ll hand you right over to the cops. What would I possibly want to take from this dump?/You seem nice./>Where the hell is the shower? What do I even *eat*? My Guts needs to be at least D’ARBYYYY!!!… You got school tomorrow… You better head off to bed, all right?You can’t tell me what to do! You’re not the cat!    You remember how to save, kids?  Fiiiiiiiiiine.   Maaku decides to head downstairs to answer the phone, instead of ignoring it like a sensible person. I myself haven’t answered the phone for an unfamiliar number in years unless I was positive it was the pizza guy calling to tell me he was lost. Now, you may say, “Arist, Leblanc’s phone doesn’t even have a display, there’s no caller ID!”, well, MY POINT EXACTLY. Don’t answer that poo poo! It’s probably just some scammer who needs me to wire them bitcoin in exchange for the location of the plot where my grandfather is buried alive—just a massive headache for all involved.   (Newscaster) The train schedule is disrupted, and there’s no estimate as to when train service will resume. It seems that transit problems caused by the accident will continue into tomorrow morning. It’s news coverage about the derailment. It looks like a major accident.Continue into tomorrow morning!? The platform was destroyed! I believe most of these lines when you examine the TV are exactly the same per day as they were in the original, but at the very least I didn’t actually show this one in the original LP.   “Male Voice,” huh? Sounds suspicious. Not my first rodeo, pal. Put my pop-pop on the line, I’ll figure out his location from the background audio in the car trunk.   Sojiro Anyway… I closed up shop, but I forgot to flip the sign to “Closed” when I left. It’s too much trouble for me to come back just for that. Think you can do it for me? It’s a personal policy of mine not to save a guy’s number in my phone.YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH Either way, I’m glad you actually picked up. Anyway, I’ll leave the shop sign to you.We deserve an allowance for all this menial labor. Time to form the Leblanc Union, consisting of Maaku Hamiru as the representative, as well as… hmm… I see… there may be a small issue here. Sojiro, hire more people so we can collaborate against you!    That aside, I need to get up early tomorrow. I should flip the sign and head to bed… That aside, I need to get up early tomorrow. I should flip the sign and head to bed…Still locked into Leblanc.  Sign flipped.   Why even tease me with this, game? You know there’s exactly poo poo to do.    I need to take the train to school…  It looks like I need to go out to Shibuya, then transfer there. …… More news about that subway accident… It sounds like a lot of people were hurt. Yet somehow far fewer than it seems like should have been… I bet this’ll affect the timetables for tomorrow too…Kind of callous, Maaku.   It keeps showing up…  I think someone took “refusal of the call” a little too literally here.   Get under the covers at least, dude.  Early Morning Music: Beneath the Mask (Instrumental Version)  God, what’s the point of being a criminal if we still have to go to stupid school? This wasn’t worth it at a—wait, we stopped a rape, never mind Hopefully I can get there without getting lost… I don’t want to be late on my first day. I should head out now…Spoiler alert: we are going to be incredibly late on our first day.  Still gotta appreciate Maaku grabbing his bag as he descends the stairs.  (Newscaster) This has caused transfer stations to become extremely crowded with passengers, and… Looks like all the trains are running late. If you space out, you’re gonna be late to school.  Let’s go grab something to eat from the fridge.  Hurry up and close that. I don’t want anything in there getting spoiled.What!? What am I supposed to—ooooh, is that curry?  Here, I’ll feed you. Just make sure you finish it before the customers start coming in.   Don’t complain. Just eat.  I can taste complex flavors within the bold spiciness…   I am now a machine that runs purely on curry. Feed me only curry for MAXIMUM PERFORMANCE. …Hurry over to school. You’ll end up late if you get lost on the way. *curry-fueled nod*  “Already”? If anything, we’re running late. Now, you better hurry on out. You’re gonna be late if you get lost, country boy. Foreshadowing!     Let’s waste more coptime! Hello Mr. Pig!    Oh, don’t worry, it’s not anything major. It’s just a patrol. Patrols are a good idea after an accident like that. A lot of residents have been worried.Oh, I can interpret this! He’s saying, “If we keep visible after a major threat to public safety, we’ll get more funding!”   Go toward the main road, at the opposite end of here. If you don’t hurry, you’ll miss your train.Oh, it won’t be the train that’s responsible for my lack of punctuality, don’t you worry…     Ah, you must be that boy who’s living with Boss now. I was wondering who you were. You’re a high school student, aren’t you? You can’t loiter if you want to make it to school. You should hurry on. I hear the trains are running late because of the accident yesterday. It was terrible, just terrible. Just what is going on with the world?  Go back out this alley, and turn left at the intersection. From there, you’ll see the big main road. Well, you could also keep going straight through here. It can get a bit narrow though. You should hurry on. I hear the trains are running late because of the accident yesterday. It was terrible, just terrible. Just what is going on with the world?    (Radio Host) This could mess up the schedule again. If you’re going out today, try to leave earlier than usual. That accident would never have happened if they weren’t slacking off.    Let’s head to school, I guess.   It turns out the rumors about the Tokyo subway are true… They’re showing the news up on the LCD screen… It seems like there are still some lingering effects of yesterday’s accident…  In Shibuya Station, we find (relative) chaos. Crowds are gathering around the station attendants demanding answers for why they’re going to be five minutes late.   (Exhausted Station Attendant) Our apologies. However, it was a major accident, and— This isn’t the first time this happened. Why weren’t you better prepared for this one? Sheesh…Yeah, you tell that low-level employee providing an essential service what for!  Ohhhhhhh poo poo, it’s our favorite gay nightmare, Ohya! What’s she up to?   Some people are saying it’s the result of an oppressive work environment. Do you have any comments on that? (Unreliable Station Attendant) I-I’m terribly sorry, I don’t know anything! We’ll, uh, make an official statement at a later time…Ohya’s chasing those hot scoops!  Please go toward Exit 8 to reach the JL and Ginza Lines. I can help the next customer…    One thing I appreciate now that was totally lost on me every time I played the original: you’re supposed to get lost here. They don’t just expect you to, they actively want you to and have actually closed off routes to get to the Ginza Line to facilitate this. The devs have done what little they can in this physical space to cause you to become confused. The Teikyu Building’s entrance is still really easy to miss, and crucially does not have a sign above its entrance informing you it contains the Ginza Line. There’s a sign inside the entrance telling you that, but the entrance to the building is kind of off to the side and not really emphasized by the space. Why would the train you’re looking for be in this completely separate building, idiot? I finally realized this after taking into account the various little warnings about not being late and getting lost, and it’s honestly a really nice, tiny moment of putting the player in the exact headspace of the character. They’ve made it slightly simpler now because there’s just a station attendant near the stairs who will explicitly tell you, “the Ginza Line is in that building next door, dipshit,” which does weaken this effect a bit, but I still love it.   The cause of yesterday’s subway derailment has affect all transportation lines. The string of accidents has put commuters on high alert…  I was about to cut this shot, but I realized it’s the only shot I have with Rise in it and it automatically became mandatory.    Could this puzzling accident be a coincidence? To ensure the safety of the people, countermeasures must be taken immediately…Never change, you beautiful dopes.      Enough listening to the vox populi, let’s board this train already.    Huh? It’s raining outside?  It just started all of a sudden… This is why I hate the early spring. That reminds me… Did he take an umbrella?Aww, he cares about us! A little! Hm? Who’re you talking about? Don’t mind me. So, what’ll it be?Aaaaaaand the moment’s over as quickly as it began. One house blend, please. There’s been a lot of nasty accidents lately. You know, I mean the subway accident that the news is talking about… My coworker got caught up in it and is in the hospital now… But that aside, it’s kinda creepy. The people who caused these accidents supposedly went crazy all of a sudden. I heard that some of them suffered from nervous breakdowns during interrogation. Huh…You’re a really bad conversationalist, Soj! Can I call you that? I’m gonna call you that. Music: Beneath the Mask -Rain (Instrumental Version)   It took some time, but I finally made it…  This time, it happened on a subway. If it weren’t on a Sunday, I might have been on it.I just love these fixed camera angles! Really great to be totally unable to get a good generic portrait here!  (Anxious Student) That’s really scary… How much longer do you think this sort of thing will happen? Let’s try to get to school before we Video: Encounter    Maaku, why are you trying to wait out the rain? Do you even know how to get to school? You’re just gonna make yourself late.    Maaku looks at his phone and discovers that the mysterious app is trying to thwart his attempt to Google Maps his route to education.   As Maaku stares at his phone like an idiot, someone stops next to him.  Music: Encounter      God, Maaku just has no game whatsoever, huh?  But maybe Ann is actually into the awkwardness?     Um, sure. Thank you.  Nah. I mean, knowing what we know this situation is absolutely hosed, and even not knowing what we know it’s at best pretty creepy and awkward, but it kind of bothers me that Maaku clearly has no idea where he’s going and still turns down a ride in the pouring rain when he’s about to be late. Take your studies more seriously, whippersnapper!    Ahahaha, I’m sorry, I just can’t get over how after that shot of Ann clearly in distress Maaku just stares blankly forward with a bored look on his face, it’s so incredibly tone-deaf. I once again choose to impose my view of Maaku as just a complete loving dipshit onto this story so that he reads that way rather than as actively callous.      Sure wish I could read any of this! (Fairly certain it’s just noting the active keywords, though)  Aww yiss, motha fuckin VULGAR BOY Music: Suspicion   You plannin’ on rattin’ me out to Kamoshida? gently caress no, I ain’t no snitch!    What? No. Why are you phrasing it like that? Are you a robot? I’ve heard about those weird Kirijo anime robots, are you one of them? Where’s your Jersey accent?   No, I mean… …… You’re from Shujin, right? What? No other high school’s got a uniform like this.With good reason. These plaid pants are doing Maaku and Ryuji here no favors.  A second-year, huh… We’re the same grade then. Never seen you before though. Oh, you a transfer student? *nod*Got it in one! And people say Ryuji is dumb. Then no wonder you don’t know him. This rain ain’t too bad. We better hurry up, or we’ll be late.   There are random citizens standing closer to us right now than Akechi was when we accidentally pull him into the Metaverse in September. Also, none of them disappear when we ostensibly enter the Metaverse. Those aren’t actually important details, really, but I’d also just like to take a moment to appreciate how hard the script has to bend over backwards to justify us managing to accidentally enter Kamoshida’s keywords, especially because we don’t even do it in full. We never use his given name! This scene is a tad contrived, is what I’m saying.  Dammit… I wanna go home…   Maaku decides to follow Ryuji, figuring he probably knows the way to school, right? Music: Interrogation Room      I assume you know of the uproar that the public calls the “psychotic breakdown incidents.” I don’t really pay attention to current events. That’s not true I actually watch the news every day sorry for lying to you It was all over the news, and one of the victims included a teacher at your high school. I’ve no doubt you heard about it. “I’m just going to talk around their identity because we’re saving that reveal for a bit more impact in about an hour!” On that day… were you still an “ordinary” student? Really appreciate how Sae’s stilted dialogue is confusing even diegetically. …Let me change the question. I prefer the original to Renee Montoya myself.(In the process of writing this joke I learned that the original Question’s identity was Charles Victor Szasz, who by the way is a totally different character from the Batman villain Victor Zsasz. Goddammit, DC.) (Also Steve Ditko was a weird objectivist and created the Question to also be a weird objectivist like his later character Mr. A, who was, you guessed it, a weird objectivist) You transferred to Shujin Academy, correct? *nod*STOP loving SQUEALING, MAAKU An ordinary prep school that could be found in any city… That’s what it should have been.   Tell me everything—truthfully. Video: Castle Music: To Another World          Wha—!?   Note: Ryuji did not, in fact, know the way to school.  We didn’t… come the wrong way though… Yeah, this should be right. What’s goin’ on here? I guess we’ll just have to go and ask.What? No!    And so the idiot boys enter the mysterious castle. Jesus gently caress. Arist fucked around with this message at 23:28 on Apr 13, 2023 |
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I made it three updates without giving in to my bullshit, goddammit lmao I’d also like to be able to say I bought the nendo for this gag, but the sad, sad truth is that I bought it, started opening it, and then realized the gag potential and resealed the box to get the pictures Arist fucked around with this message at 01:39 on Jun 24, 2020 |
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Jun 24, 2020 01:15
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hello smugdad
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Jun 24, 2020 01:38
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I didn't realize you can just go try to raid the fridge on the first day of school because what kind of dick ignores the delicious curry on the counter. Also, the Sakura nendo validates all of them, actually.
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A Bystander posted:Also, the Sakura nendo validates all of them, actually. 
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Jun 24, 2020 02:06
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Arist posted:
this screencap appears to be a dupe? also while the plaid pants aren't exactly great, the uniforms are a lot more stylish than smt if's garbage stripes 
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Booky posted:this screencap appears to be a dupe? That... should be fixed? I think?
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Jun 24, 2020 02:16
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Arist dont lie, we al lknow that by update 5 you will somehow be watching full video of every cutscene in the game in both english & japanese it is your curse, your fate
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Jun 24, 2020 02:23
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Ari, thank u for your nendo review
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Honestly, this game could use a random cutscene or two of Jeffery Coombs purposely singing pop songs horrendously off-key.
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Jun 24, 2020 02:36
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Arist posted:
It just says 'taking voice input' above the waveform (all the stuff below is from the maps app he was using before)
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Jun 24, 2020 02:54
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Is this a new portrait? It looks nice. Also:quote:
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Pretty much all of the principal characters get a second angle for headshots now. Its kind of neat!
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Aw, Ari! It's great to see you again! How have you been? You take care of your brother, okay?
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Technically, neither Akechi nor Sae are cops. One is a freelance detective and the other is a government prosecutor. Presumably this is why they can actually be punished for mistakes and misdeeds. As for the whole bit about department of transport, I imagine he’s suggesting that they’ve allowed the safety systems for the trains to degrade or stay outdated, and if they’d properly maintained the tracks the accident would not have happened. This is utter bullshit because we know the accident had nothing to do with faulty tracks. As for whether the driver is alive, Akechi has two methods, not one. It’s possible that the Driver’s Shadow was simply driven berserk in which case the driver probably just has his internal soul/shadow going crazy and pushing him to go fast as he can on that accelerator.
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Double May Care posted:Why is the sign outside the cafe? Anyone could just spin it around! Why? BRB gonna steal Leblanc's sign and wear it around my neck like Gary King
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Jun 24, 2020 03:20
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I'm pretty sure you gotta fight someone to steal a sign, like it's a dojo or something.
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ChaosArgate posted:Pretty much all of the principal characters get a second angle for headshots now. Its kind of neat! Neat is a word for it. Personally, half of them that look straight on towards the screen weird me the gently caress out. Something something uncanny valley.
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Jun 24, 2020 03:45
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It took me until now to realize that Cafe Leblanc is named after the author of Arsene Lupin, Maurice Leblanc.
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Jun 24, 2020 05:40
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And so enters the only character I remember liking. Vulgar boy.
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Congrats on maintaining your discipline to complete another episode! I have no idea who smugdad is. I couldn't get a close look there.
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Jun 24, 2020 07:41
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Finally we've met Pleasant Boy and Vulgar Boy. Also I can tell already that Sae, Ace Interrogator, is going to get even more ridiculous this time around.
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RareAcumen posted:Congrats on maintaining your discipline to complete another episode! It's Emet-Selch/Solus zos Galvus, main antagonist of the latest FFXIV expansion
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If SA dies from this Lowtax situation I will hopefully be able to find somewhere else to post updates. This is kind of my main creative outlet and I'd hate to lose it. Stay tuned. I don't really use the same persona (heh) on Twitter as SA and I don't really associate this account with that one, but in case poo poo blows up before I'm able to communicate where, exactly, I go to post new updates you should follow my Twitter (and then immediately unfollow me once you know where because I am a deeply insufferable human being)
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Arist posted:If SA dies from this Lowtax situation I will hopefully be able to find somewhere else to post updates. This is kind of my main creative outlet and I'd hate to lose it. Stay tuned. For what it's worth, the last time there was an exodus from SA for lowtax reasons, a bunch of former LPers did make this: https://www.lp.zone/ Maybe if there's a larger exodus it will wind up being a bigger thing e: Oh checking the sandcastle I guess there's stuff in motion to try & make a different new forum. rannum fucked around with this message at 17:10 on Jun 24, 2020 |
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Jun 24, 2020 17:05
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Hey, quick question that I probably shouldn't even bother asking: for the repeat "videos" of stuff like Persona Awakenings, you guys don't care if I just link my old videos of the vanilla versions, right? I've been linking the old anime scenes because those are almost certainly completely identical, and these other scenes are probably only marginally sharper in quality than the old ones, but it's no skin off my nose to redo them if you guys care.
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Jul 7, 2020 18:22
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If they're all the same then there's no reason to re-record them.
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Jul 7, 2020 18:53
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Yeah, unless there's a significant change, don't bother.
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A vote for don’t need fresh videos
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Jul 8, 2020 01:29
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I mean use your best judgement on it, it's not like they were recorded a game generation and recording software advancement ago. If you think you can do them better go for it, otherwise don't worry about it.
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Jul 8, 2020 05:22
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No reason to clip new videos if they aren't changed. Don't waste your time and hard drive space.
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Next update is going to be linked via the testposter because I went absolutely loving overboard with making gifs, oops! If you think it's fine to post inline tell me so, I just don't want to be responsible for hitting your data caps if not. Also it's short, sorry.
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Chapter 5: 4/11: Blazing Indigo This update covers Part 4 of the original LP. Music: Suspicion     Maaku. Buddy. It should be… it said “Shujin” on the gate… What’s goin’ on here?   Maaku, we gotta talk about your habit of blindly following total strangers into back alleys of unfamiliar cities without noting major landmarks.     Who’re you? You a student? C’mon, don’t just stand there. Say somethin’. Vulgar Boy over here should have his name changed to Rude Boy, geez. Music: Desire  Maaku, just as much of a dipshit as ever.   *guard walks closer* *other guard gets closer as well*    Stop standin’ around and run! Don’t yell at me, I agreed with you!   *shove*   Oww… Y-You’re gonna break my bones, dammit!Oh, I think the owner of this place knows a thing or two about breaking Ryuji’s bones! *laugh track* The hell you think you’re—Aagh! *guards close in* Early Morning → Morning Oh no, it is now Morning as opposed to Early Morning! But for real, we’re late for school. gently caress.      Music: Disquiet    Well, excuse me for asking, I was unconscious when that happened.      There was a surprised exclamation point above both Maaku and Ryuji’s heads each here but it appeared in a weird place because Ryuji turns in place and Maaku stands up as it starts so it woulda looked bad and I felt so legitimately bad about not including that utterly pointless detail that I felt obligated to include this disclaimer.    You’re shittin’ me, right?Music: Tension   Yadda yadda, let’s examine exactly three things so we can move on to the next scene.  Dammit, this don’t make any freakin’ sense… It prolly wouldn’t work like it does in the movies though… Dammit! This poo poo ain’t funny!  Music: Desire  Your charge is “unlawful entry.” Thus, you will be sentenced to death.    Did you mention that before? I’m bad with names, it’s a whole thing. I’m in this weird grey zone at this point where I still know the names are being pronounced wrong but saying the correct pronunciations to myself also sounds wrong? And I have to actively will myself to say them correctly? I hate it!  Are you trying to disobey me again? It looks like you haven’t learned your lesson at all, huh? This ain’t funny, you rear end in a top hat! Is that how you speak to a king? It seems you don’t understand the position you’re in at all. Not only did you sneak into my castle, you committed the crime of insulting me—the king.    ...Goddammit!  Hragh!   Nnngh… Owww… *feebly attempts to attack knight*  He ain’t a friend… Ryuji! You hurt Maaku’s feelings! Apologize right now! Vanilla Update 4 posted:Look, you hurt Maaku’s feelings. You should apologize, Sakamoto. Oh god oh gently caress, I already used that joke, this was a mistake, I’ve made a huge mistake  Hmph, pathetic scum isn’t worth my time… I’ll focus on this one’s execution…  Take this! *punches* Lowly scum! *punches* Useless pest!Video: Awakening  ...Hmph. Where’d your energy from earlier go? A peasant like you isn’t worth beating.Music: Blood of Villain     What? Don’t tell me you don’t know who I am.            Maaku, upon hearing strange, deep, oddly familiar voices in his head, assumes he’s probably just tripping balls right now, the only rational explanation for these circumstances. Ryuji’s probably just fighting a raccoon or something, he’ll be fine as soon as he gets a rabies shot. Or, this is Japan, so a… tanuki? Right?   You’re in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down, and you see a tortoise, crawling toward you. You reach down, you flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can’t, not without your help. But you’re not helping. Why is that?            Vow to me. VOW TO ME!!!!Gotta get in those hot fresh 2005 memes.   I am thou, thou art I… Thou who art willing to perform all sacrilegious acts for thine own justice! Call upon my name, and release thy rage! Show the strength of thy will to ascertain all on thine own, though thou be chained to Hell itself!     Woooooooooooooooooords!             Music: Awakening                Look at my guy’s big loving hands!    I see you trying to scoot away, pervert.   Dope.  And so, we have re-acquired Arsène. Nice to see ya again, pal.  And we might as well take the opportunity to reintroduce you all to the nasty crimeboy you all know and love. Arist fucked around with this message at 18:02 on Jan 6, 2022 |
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Jul 8, 2020 18:13
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I cant speak for everyone, but I kind of like testposter links more depending on the game/lp anyway, less scrolling/loading if a lot of updates wind up on the same page
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The problem is that I don't think smilies get properly imported to the archive from the testposter, so I don't like to make a habit of it.
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Jul 8, 2020 18:23
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god those hands are huge
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Jul 8, 2020 18:31
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rannum posted:
How have I never noticed 
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He is just like our good and strong President
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