RabidWeasel posted:

Kawakami's story is like 3 or 4 different extremely annoying awful cultural tropes all bundled up into a big ball of stupid. "Someone got killed in an accident I had nothing to do with, after I delivered some bad news to them, which I was only complicit in, and not an active agent in causing. So it's totally my fault and I have to pay blood money to the family forever."

Arist posted:

Takase-kun was exhausted from the tutoring sessions and working at all his part-time jobs… His guardians blamed me for the accident, saying it was all my fault that he was so tired… They said that they were going to sue me and take the issue to the media and Board of Education. I wouldn’t have been accused of a crime, but if word had gotten out, the school would’ve been done for. ...I wanted to continue teaching, no matter what. So I ended up paying them the “apology” money so they wouldn’t sue me or say anything.

nothing to seehere posted:

Was I the only one who didn't bother with Rank 10? The actions needed to get there cost as much time as you save, so AI just stuck, to rank 5 and ranked other people up.

RareAcumen posted:

It took us 63 parts to get here but now we can finally, finally see


that Ann's sitting posture is goddamn atrocious. Lean back in your loving chair! You're gonna have a spine like Miura's in two years if you don't knock that poo poo off while you still can!

Also, poor Kawakami. I can see why she can't stop doing this bizarre job now.

ApplesandOranges posted:

There's one confidant we've yet to meet who I think is more powerful, but Kawakami is definitely up there, especially on a first run. Hifumi's are also good, but in the 'you might not miss them if you've never had them' way.

ApplesandOranges posted:

They're really good, but if you know how to maximize X then they're just a bonus.

AradoBalanga posted:

Also, clearly Sae is angry at us not because her sister is involved, but because her sister got a sweet-rear end motorcycle as her Persona and Sae is naturally very jealous that she doesn't get a cool ride. Seriously, I'm bummed out we never got to see an on-screen reaction to Maaku explaining to Sae how Makoto's Awakening went down. Like, just the sheer ridiculousness of describing Johanna's design should have made Sae go "Wait, WHAT?" right away.

Lord Koth posted:

Well, either Maaku's wearing contacts occasionally, or just wears glasses to look intellectual and doesn't actually need them. Pick the option you like.

Rangpur posted:

Reasons for an anime to wear glasses:

• it's a fetish
  
• because they're blind
  
• because they're blind and it's a fetish
  
• it's a ploy to make people let down their guard
  
• so they can go ominously opaque at a key moment
  
• so they can slowly take the glasses off, drop them on the ground & step on them/crush them in one hand at a key moment
  

Reasons for an anime to not wear glasses:

• corrective lenses for treating near- or far-sightedness
  

RareAcumen posted:

Ding ding ding, ding ding ding ding! Got it in one!

And that programmer's name... Was Hideo Kojima.

ApplesandOranges posted:

One thing I do like about P3 is that the characters actually have lives; sometimes characters just can't go to Tartarus for whatever reason. Contrast that to P4/P5, where most of the group have no lives and are ready to jump into the TV/Metaverse whenever. Kinda weird when they go 'yeah I can't SL today for some reason but I'm down to jump into Mementos for a few hours'.

Arist posted:

That’s how it’s mostly known. There are a variety of theories on it. For instance, it’s even said to be a device for reviving the dead.

I understand the symbolism you’re going for, but I’m still gonna call bullshit. I was a huge ancient Egypt freak as a kid and never heard that once, and it doesn’t really jive with their view of the afterlife anyhow. Plus, that “reviving the dead” thing hasn’t come up in a cursory Google, which I’ve come to trust far more than my own memory.

GeneX posted:

Ari, why do you even have this game?

Oh and I guess shadow Futaba’s weird refusal to actually let us help her despite actively asking for it is a thing too. It’s probably supposed to be a commentary on how people with certain conditions can reject even definite help while stuck in a bad place, but the game isn’t quite deep enough for it so it just juts out

Arist posted:

Oh, that’s a stationary weapon back from the middle ages called a ballista.
You even know about stuff like this, Queen? I guess that’s pretty fitting for you.
And what’s that supposed to mean…?

Roobanguy posted:

ff15 came out last year.

Arist posted:

Futaba’s Persona is the loving Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire from the stories of HP Lovecraft, as represented by... a UFO.

Funky Valentine posted:

Yeah it's pretty much Atlus needing a way to keep the plot from advancing if you completed her palace immediately.

LightningKimba posted:

But the important question is - What element would Hifumi even have, if she were in the party?

LightningKimba posted:

Y’know upon retrospect, if we didn’t have Futaba, Hifumi is practically our navigator bundled up nicely.

Hobgoblin2099 posted:

I still have no idea why Hitler shows up in Persona,

Hobgoblin2099 posted:

nor why they thought using his title but giving him sunglasses was any form of censorship.

Arist posted:

I’m sure some people believed those guns were real. You’ll tell me how you procured them, won’t you? ...Spill it!

Deltasquid posted:

"Hey, I modify airsoft guns to make them look as realistic as possible for shady nondescript clients. You wanna help me destroy evidence?"

"Sure."

It's kind of insane how willingly Maaku skirts the edges of his probation sentence, especially in Japan where mere grounds of suspicion are enough to have the police hassle you until you confess.

VolticSurge posted:

If that was a Theodore Rex reference, I love you.

DanielCross posted:

At this point, I feel like Sojiro's trying to not-so-subtly hint for Maaku to buy a goddamn fan for the shop.

GhostStalker posted:

I know, I was just saying that Japan doesn't have the same cultural hang up as far as I could tell.

Deceitful Penguin posted:

One of my favourite things about readin this LP is seeing how it reveals cultural differences like this

Suffice to say, her having a younger lover is way, way better, especially as a woman, than her scoring drugs.

NullBlack posted:

some otherworldly being is going to destroy all life on Earth unless he abuses those cats?

I mean, that would be insane in the real world; but this is Persona. Could you really discount the possibility?

Grouchio posted:

Japanese drug policy hasn't really changed since the McArthur days, hasn't it? I wonder why there's no talk of reform as potential pressure from other countries builds...?

Gihyou posted:

This is your answer to everything, cat!

Stephen9001 posted:

but seriously complaining about the FPS lock is... elitist sounding? That the right description?

Robindaybird posted:

and too much is actually bad, Sims 3 used to have issues where they had no lock on FPS, so depending on your computer's config, it end up going up to 200 fps at times, which is absolute murder on your graphics card.

GunnerJ posted:

I read it as "set up a fund to help refugees but was actually just buying coke and hookers with it."

GunnerJ posted:

It's an awkward phrase though because it also can be read as "an illicit account where he collected embezzled funds in order to help refugees" which is uh.

Arist posted:

Arist posted:

What is up with all the non-sequiturs, man? Is your brain a loving View-Master, just randomly switching from subject to subject as if by the whims of a small, impatient, easily bored child?

MightyPretenders posted:

The closest we've seen to him hanging out with friends is when he's annoying Sae or annoying Maaku.

Hobgoblin2099 posted:

So why does Futaba keep bullying the cat? Is it because he has a bullyable face?

Grouchio posted:

Is Japan's summer climate more remiscent of New England's or Florida's?

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.

Hobgoblin2099 posted:

He didn't know, but it seems like he had a pretty good idea that's what she was doing.

Hobgoblin2099 posted:

I feel like Kawakami (or Sojiro) should have a talk with the MC about calling a sex worker service so often.