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Mordaedil
Oct 25, 2007

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Grimey Drawer

Allarion posted:

Tumblr only prioritizing butt gifs unfortunately.

SA must have fallen on hard times if we cannot make our own gifs.

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Mordaedil
Oct 25, 2007

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Allarion posted:

I check tumblr first before I try making my own GIFs, since I only acquired that skill last year. The better gif makers are watching other shows.

Not a criticism of your sourcing, just a sad note. I'm not one to talk though, I'm not even with it enough to know where the best uploaders are anymore.

Mordaedil
Oct 25, 2007

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Grimey Drawer
Will they actually ever leave the starting town?

Mordaedil
Oct 25, 2007

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Grimey Drawer

Kaptain posted:

If by leave you mean "Stop using the town as Homebase" then no. Never.

Thanks, adjusting expectations thereafter.

Mordaedil
Oct 25, 2007

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Grimey Drawer

Reds posted:

We live in the future where it takes like ten seconds to make a webm for yourself, use this power wisely. Whoops that wasn't meant to be two posts oh well.
I guess I missed the bus on how to do this so easily as it takes me quite a bit of effort to re-render a video from a film-making program that can even read the files to convert to mp4s or gifs.

Shinjobi posted:

I like it when there are wizards that have a little Lina Inverse in em.
I noticed this as well, albeit I recall Lina Inverse often berating others for not being versatile enough, demonstrating her said versatility with a magic fishing hook using her own hair as line and using an inverse regeneration spell to make even small wounds hugely devastating to a group of trolls, rather than tossing fireballs left and right.

Then the show proceeds to throw fireballs left and right, so you know.

Mordaedil
Oct 25, 2007

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Grimey Drawer
Thanks a bunch! Now I feel a little less old and outdated.

Mordaedil
Oct 25, 2007

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Grimey Drawer
It is such a bull claim that luck is a useless stat for an adventurer. If Fallout taught me anything, it is that maxing luck makes the game so broken it starts begging you to ease off, as you chain critical hits and rob casinos of all their money. "What's that? Two kings? Double-down. :smug: I won."

Mordaedil
Oct 25, 2007

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Grimey Drawer

Powerful contribution.

Mordaedil
Oct 25, 2007

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Namtab posted:

I've decided that megumin is both best girl and insanely cute. I also like the new godess.

That is because they are the best. No contest.

Mordaedil
Oct 25, 2007

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Grimey Drawer
? But Megumin is the best and cute.

Mordaedil
Oct 25, 2007

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Grimey Drawer
Skythewood was also responsible for putting the phrase "like a puppet who had her strings cut" into every goddamn volume whenever the context didn't even loving fit in the Overlord LN, so take their writing style with a bit of salt.

Mordaedil
Oct 25, 2007

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Grimey Drawer

Vengarr posted:

Jokes are both good and fun, my friend

I loving love jokes. It just became a chore to read, which is when the joke has been used too much.

Mordaedil
Oct 25, 2007

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Grimey Drawer

FriggenJ posted:

Poor Wiz. IIRC every time Aqua visits her shop she turns all her potions and such into holy water to exorcise her.

Luckily, she is probably too stupid to destroy her phylactery.

Mordaedil
Oct 25, 2007

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Grimey Drawer
Ah, so she's a Final Fantasy Lich, not a D&D lich.

Mordaedil
Oct 25, 2007

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Grimey Drawer

Davincie posted:

not everything has the obey modern d&d rules!!

Most writers of fiction these days grew up on D&D though, so that's why we can sometimes see connections. At least when they try to get all nitty gritty with it. Alternatively they are more honest with their source of inspiration, usually in design. The biggest give away is if something looks like Dragon Quest.

Mordaedil
Oct 25, 2007

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I don't think it was that bad to read, I've certainly read worse. Not entirely sure what quality of writing you're expecting from a team who are translating things for the pure love of the source material.

I think what we got from the anime was better and more funny than the light novel though.

Poil posted:

Is ten episodes going to become the new standard? :cripes:

No? It just happens sometimes when plans change. They expected this series to be a 1-cour and getting a second season meant they had no need for final two episodes, and moved into production for S2 instead, meaning first season was left at 10 due to time constraints.

If you think that's so bad, once upon a time we were used to 26 episode animes.

Mordaedil
Oct 25, 2007

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Grimey Drawer

Sakurazuka posted:

Yeah but then there were only 20 anime shows a year instead of 200
I'd say it'd be an improvement, but it's not like all shows were gold even back then. Heck, far too often shows dragged their feet immensely.

Zettace posted:

It was a planned 10 episode show from the start. Well, actually it was 11 but apparently that meant 10 + extra episode.
That doesn't console him though.

Mordaedil
Oct 25, 2007

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Grimey Drawer
Holy poo poo, what are those boobs made of, drumskin?

Mordaedil
Oct 25, 2007

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Zernach posted:

I love how Kazuma and Megumin are comfortable enough with each other they can just try to gently caress with each other like they did in this episode.

Jeez, phrasing.

Mordaedil
Oct 25, 2007

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Grimey Drawer

el dorito posted:

By the way, googling "anime lich" is not safe for work but it brings up a lot of fan art for western characters (like Warcraft's Lich King and Adventure Time's Lich) and quarter-dressed "2000 year old but looks 20" monster girlfriends. Female liches are unlikely to be depicted as anything but the latter, I think.



My words right out of my mouth.

Mordaedil fucked around with this message at 09:35 on Jan 20, 2017

Mordaedil
Oct 25, 2007

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Grimey Drawer
Is she bleeding from her right eye?

Mordaedil
Oct 25, 2007

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Grimey Drawer

Hate-Senpai posted:

Basically a long and convoluted way of saying it was a cute picture so I turned it into my avatar and gave it an inside joke text that only people in the idol thread would be familiar with.

I think this is the third thread we both post in that you've had to explain this joke and I want to apologize for being one of the ones asking.

I appreciate being in on the joke though, that is quite funny.

Mordaedil
Oct 25, 2007

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I missed my chance at getting Aqua, but that was because I was hoping for a Megumin. Now I pre-ordered Megumin and I plan to get Darkness, what are my chances at getting a re-release of Aqua?

Mordaedil
Oct 25, 2007

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The figurine world space is such an oddity. We'll never get a Kazuma figure, even though he's a character with personality rather than just an audience stand-in, Overlord got Ainz made and No Game No Life had essentially only Shiro figurines, ignoring her co-dependency on her brother. At least nendoroids got that right.

Mordaedil
Oct 25, 2007

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Vengarr posted:

*record-scratch* "Yeah, that's me. You're probably wondering how I got into this mess..."

Megamind was a good anime.

Mordaedil
Oct 25, 2007

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While Nichijou is one of my favorite comedies, I do recall it having a lot of humor moments that just fall flat, particularly in the Helvetica Standard shorts, where every punch line needed an asterisk explaining the joke.

And then there is this one, which outside of reactions, is not really that funny as a joke.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcQFBdLNvZU

Mordaedil
Oct 25, 2007

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Maybe I don't have the crippling social anxiety required to identify with someone who can't even ask what the difference is, between the orders.

Mordaedil
Oct 25, 2007

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Right, I've seen it other places too, it just didn't hit the notes for me, I guess.

Mordaedil
Oct 25, 2007

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Shinjobi posted:

That Nichijou clip is basically a Seinfeld/Curb Your Enthusiasm clip but with anime girls being socially awkward.

:shrug:

Yeah, pretty much. The payoff was worth the buildup, but the panicking at the counter was just a taaad exaggerated.

That's it. That's my critique of the one scene in Nichijou I didn't find perfect.

Mordaedil
Oct 25, 2007

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Mirage posted:

Anyone want to give an over/under on the "poison" in the hot springs being detergent?

It's just Aqua taking a bath.

Mordaedil
Oct 25, 2007

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Didn't Next perfectly finish off the light novels? I bought like 8 volumes but aside from the elder gods interacting with the author, I don't recall much being missed in conversion.

Mordaedil
Oct 25, 2007

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MonsterEnvy posted:

No there was quite a few things left for the light novels. Like a battle with another one of the Demon Lords and another encounter with a piece of Shabranigdo.

Slayers is also odd in that the Light Novel ended with 3 of the Demon Lords still alive, and 5 pieces of Ruby Eye Shabranigdo in play.

I am incredibly upset that there's more Slayers for me to uncover.

On the other hand, more Slayers for me to uncover.

Mordaedil
Oct 25, 2007

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Gabriel DropOut is crying in a corner for trying to compete in comedy with this brilliance.

It's a shame, GD is a legit funny show, but it's not even going to be the funniest of the week it airs, until now.

Mordaedil
Oct 25, 2007

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Grimey Drawer

Vengarr posted:

Overlord's is still pretty terrible though.

Is it? I thought it was nice to be without the dumb memes.

Mordaedil
Oct 25, 2007

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Josuke Higashikata posted:

What should I do if I have a big desire to hug Darkness.

Get a hug pillow. I mean, it's that or a full size anime figure, but those are hard on the hugging front.

Actually, that sounds perfect, get one of those.

Mordaedil
Oct 25, 2007

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Josuke Higashikata posted:

I said Darkness not a crude facsimile of her likeness!!!

I'm sorry, I just work with wish-fulfillment, not actual miracles.

Mordaedil
Oct 25, 2007

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Slayers is so loving good, I often end up roleplaying my own take on Lina Inverse (or someone else in that show) at my D&D tabletop games.

Mordaedil
Oct 25, 2007

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Megumin is literally crying at this reveal, that is so adorable:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuE2NI41oqw

Mordaedil
Oct 25, 2007

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Alpha Kenny Juan posted:

Got an email yesterday that the Megumin nendo is delayed until September.

On one hand :negative: but on the other hand I've seen how detail oriented they are about their products so if Good Smile says they need more time, they need more time.

As someone who buys an unhealthy amount of figures (you guys got me into this after Madoka dammit) this happens a lot, nothing to worry about. It happens nearly every time, in fact.

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Mordaedil
Oct 25, 2007

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If only I didn't order bulk to save shipping costs. :negative:

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