Chat Thread XXVI: Jumping through the Secret Shortcut between the Colon and Uterus

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Elephant Parade: Jan 20, 2018

posting on the first page... hell y es!!!

# ¿ Aug 24, 2021 00:05

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 15:49

Elephant Parade: Jan 20, 2018

Waffleman_ posted:

Bernkastel is....complicated.

bernkastel is pretty simple, really. She's the "jaded witch" part of rika's personality spun off into its own body, with bonus magic powers because she's an Umineko character. That's about it

# ¿ Aug 25, 2021 04:01

Elephant Parade: Jan 20, 2018

Irony Be My Shield posted:

Bold to make this claim with Sotsu airing

Bold to assume I'm still watching it

# ¿ Aug 25, 2021 16:48

Elephant Parade: Jan 20, 2018

I got Pfizer too and had practically no reaction to either shot

# ¿ Aug 30, 2021 16:50

Elephant Parade: Jan 20, 2018

GorfZaplen posted:

I'll watch every episode of it that features a gameboy.

I hope they put one in the OP :twisted:

# ¿ Sep 1, 2021 21:39

Elephant Parade: Jan 20, 2018

granbelm's fight scenes have a funny progression where the first few eps suffer from confusing choreography, the whole middle of the show is gold with no real problems aside from using SD mechs, and the finale is just funnel spam w/ bonus jesus mode

# ¿ Sep 17, 2021 20:07

Elephant Parade: Jan 20, 2018

Endorph posted:

dude im working on a srw rpgmaker game with girls und panzer and star fox in it, do i look like the cops?

oh hell yes. do you have a working series list?

# ¿ Oct 5, 2021 00:39

Elephant Parade: Jan 20, 2018

Endorph posted:

do not expect this to ever get made. im writing stuff down and messing with the rpgmaker srw engine but its a little jank + i have zero spriting or animation experience so for the time being my animations are literally just jpgs found on google images being dragged and dropped around. so its gaogaigar in t.

look, if people could handle OG1's animations,

quote:

*Kirby: Planet Robobot
*Kirby Super Star Ultra (Units Only)

never realized just how many quasi-mecha this game had. flagship Halberd? playable Dyna Blade? classic!Kablua piloted by King Dedede & Bandana Dee?? also: imo, the level in Milky Way Wishes where you shoot out Galactic Nova's internal cores is an srw stage waiting to happen... alas, the intricacies of the Kirby timeline do not permit it

conclusion: solid series list, but if I played a game with granbelm in it and there wasn't a secret to save anna, I would cry. +an alternate granbelm route where you convince suishou the floating castle/root of magic is the source of her angst and team up with her to bring it down... granbelm being a battle royale means it has basically endless secret/route possibilities, really

# ¿ Oct 5, 2021 01:05

Elephant Parade: Jan 20, 2018

I'm just jonesing for a Magiaconatus fight. It's up there floating ominously in the sky from the start of the series, but it never reveals a death cannon or transforms into a mecha or anything

look at it! how is the purple sigil in front never used to fire a giant laser! Chekhov must be rolling in his grave

# ¿ Oct 5, 2021 01:17

Elephant Parade: Jan 20, 2018

Endorph posted:

yeah i figured the granbelm metaplot stuff can tie into geass, kannazuki, and kirby. maybe magiconatus and nova are the same thing? or similar things? robobot confirms multiple novas exist so magiaconatus could be something of the same 'species'

now this is the kind of crossover twist srw games live for. plus it gives an excuse for granbelm units to keep working after the granbelm finale. "uhhhh you blew up magiaconatus but all the other novas are still perpetuating magic throughout the galaxy in accordance with the wish that brought it into existence 30,000 years ago. sorry 'bout that. on the bright side, you aren't a ghost!"

# ¿ Oct 5, 2021 01:40

Elephant Parade: Jan 20, 2018

although letting the granbelm finale + consequent unit removal happen as-is would be both thematically appropriate and really funny

# ¿ Oct 5, 2021 01:42

Elephant Parade: Jan 20, 2018

I withdraw that permission on Saagonsa's behalf

# ¿ Oct 5, 2021 04:52

Elephant Parade: Jan 20, 2018

Spiritus Nox posted:

I read ahead a bit in Mieruko-chan and I see just enough of what people like about it to get annoyed, because through 3 volumes it really has shown some ability to do interesting and emotional stuff with the premise and there's a lot of really striking art, but even once the *super* uncomfortable horniness gets toned down, you still have to sit through a lot of pages where the only real joke is "Miko feels intensely unsafe (often for provably good reason!!!) and has to just sit silently and deal with it" and it's just....kind of a bummer? It's weird, I get why people like it but it often just rubs me the wrong way.

Isn't that the entire premise of the manga, though?

# ¿ Oct 12, 2021 03:35

Elephant Parade: Jan 20, 2018

Spiritus Nox posted:

It's the default setting, yes, which is a problem since as I said it's kind of just a repetitive downer that makes it harder to get to/through the genuinely interesting story beats.

See, I had the opposite experience with the manga�I enjoyed the base premise of "Mieruko ignores ghosts even as they do terrifying things," which I found hilarious, but wasn't interested in the overarching story. Her unsafety didn't make me feel bad because it's a totally unrealistic kind of unsafety: the threat (supernatural beings) doesn't exist in real life and isn't obviously allegorical to something that exists in real life.

Elephant Parade fucked around with this message at 05:14 on Oct 12, 2021

# ¿ Oct 12, 2021 05:10

Elephant Parade: Jan 20, 2018

Spiritus Nox posted:

I mean the early chapter with the one that's just straightforwardly groping her friend and nearly does same to her is, uh

unpleasant, IMO

I agree; the sexual angle, where present, is uncomfortable and doesn't add anything. But from what I remember�admittedly, I'm working off months-old memories of the manga�it generally isn't present at all. For every sexual harassment monster, there are three weird ghosts, an axe murderer, a spooky demon, and a Dark Souls boss. For me, the bad apples weren't enough to spoil the bunch.

Elephant Parade fucked around with this message at 07:35 on Oct 12, 2021

# ¿ Oct 12, 2021 07:32

Elephant Parade: Jan 20, 2018

Arc Hammer posted:

Does Nagatoro ever move past the teasing and abusing of Naoto? I get that she's extremely anxious and can't express her feelings honestly which is why she bullies him but I dont know if I want to watch or read a series where that kind of relationship stays so toxic for the sake of laughs.

you very nearly got me with this

# ¿ Oct 12, 2021 20:35

Elephant Parade: Jan 20, 2018

Arc Hammer posted:

Got you with what? I really don't know, does she get less mean to Naoto or not. It's making me uncomfortable that the show is playing a lot of her bad attitude stuff for comedy.

EDIT:

Okay, so googling the author was a mistake. Yeah, this is a porn thing, isn't it. Or is this what happens when a porn artist goes legit.

Holy poo poo, you were serious. I thought you were making fun of Nox

# ¿ Oct 12, 2021 21:04

Elephant Parade: Jan 20, 2018

Arc Hammer posted:

Yeah I was serious. Got a youtube video recommendation from the algorithm of Nagatoro and she was doing weird faces whenever she got blocked by her friends, gave the first episode a watch and felt it was kind of mean spirited.

the plight of the secondary 😔

always read the description before you start a manga. it makes it pretty clear that nagatoro bullying senpai is what the manga is about, lol

mangadex synopsis posted:

Our nameless�and spineless�hero (only known as "Senpai") is a second year high school student and loner who spends his afternoons at the Arts Club room. He attracts the attention of one of his schoolmates, a sadistic freshman girl named Nagatoro. However, in between the bullying and teasing, something else begins to blossom. A lovey dovey(�?) story between a shy nerd and an S-Dere (Sadistic Tsundere) begins.

# ¿ Oct 12, 2021 21:13

Elephant Parade: Jan 20, 2018

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

An evergreen post.

how do you know it's evergreen when it was made an hour ago

# ¿ Oct 15, 2021 21:47

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DoubleDonut posted:

i'm gonna marry the succubus girl in RF5

Who won't

# ¿ Oct 31, 2021 17:46

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Endorph posted:

i mean that isnt really a fair summary of sotsu even with its many many issues. its focused on rika and satokos relationship so theyre the only characters who get any real focus or catharsis. thats like, fair. [...]

I think the issue is that it isn't actually focused on that until about a dozen episodes in. For the first few arcs, Satoko and Rika figure about as much as they did in those arcs of the VN: Demon-Deceiving Chapter is about Keiichi and Rena, Cotton-Deceiving Chapter is about Keiichi and the twins, and Curse-Deceiving Chapter is about Keiichi and Satoko. Rika gets little intermissions, but not enough for her to feel like the focus; Satoko gets even less. So it is a problem that Keiichi and co. don't get any development, especially since between Rena's madness being reality instead of a hallucination and Mion getting Hinamizawa Syndrome despite being specifically called out as too strong-willed and trusting to fall victim to it, it feels like it's tearing the original work's cast and conclusions down, even if those moments are clues to a larger mystery. I agree it isn't fair to characterize Sotsugyou entirely by those episodes; once it commits to Rika and Satoko as leads, that problem goes away. But it takes a very long time to get there.

Endorph posted:

the whole fake reboot/remake angle to the first half of it is just extremely stupid and viewer-antagonistic for no real payoff

so yeah, this

# ¿ Nov 11, 2021 01:57

Elephant Parade: Jan 20, 2018

Coxswain Balls posted:

I stopped following the new Higurashi because it was retreading so much old ground it was tedious to watch week-to-week. I figured it'd be better to watch all at once, does it not get any better?

Eventually, yes. Twelve episodes in, Gou gets to its original content, which starts off a bit weak (lots of gore and misery porn) but gets stronger over time. Sotsu repeats Gou's sin by retreading (re-retreading?) Gou's arcs for all but the last two episodes of its run, but those final episodes are OK-to-good. Having seen it all, I wouldn't recommend forcing yourself through Sotsugyou if you weren't enjoying it�the good parts of the show could fit in a two-hour movie, and for a 39-episode anime that's the kiss of death

# ¿ Nov 11, 2021 06:15

Elephant Parade: Jan 20, 2018

Please stop posting about US politics in the anime chat thread

# ¿ Nov 17, 2021 21:09

Elephant Parade: Jan 20, 2018

I am not a mod; I can't stop people from bringing up random political minutiae. But I do have one power�to declare it cringe. And if you force my hand, I will exercise it

# ¿ Nov 17, 2021 21:13

Elephant Parade: Jan 20, 2018

I, for one, expected much better of Anime Trendz, a site I have definitely heard of before today

# ¿ Nov 23, 2021 21:46

Elephant Parade: Jan 20, 2018

Furnaceface posted:

Are there any good story heavy anime fighting games I could grab during this Steam sale? The only one I have is BlazBlue Cross Tag and I found it OK.

If you like the BlazBlue cast in it, you could check out the mainline games. They have full story modes.

# ¿ Nov 26, 2021 06:33

Elephant Parade: Jan 20, 2018

Furnaceface posted:

I honestly dont remember much about it other than it had a super steep difficulty curve I never got past. What about Guilty Gear or Melty Blood?

yeah I died a billion times to hakuman when I first played Calamity Trigger, lol, though the game had stopped being a struggle within... maybe five hours, and that's as someone who hardly played fighting games before (and has hardly played them since).

haven't played either of those

# ¿ Nov 26, 2021 16:35

Elephant Parade: Jan 20, 2018

Namtab posted:

Save energy and switch it off. The planets dying

Says the guy draining everyone's batteries with his tower of GIFs

# ¿ Dec 1, 2021 17:07

Elephant Parade: Jan 20, 2018

Aurora posted:

shut

upppppp

# ¿ Dec 3, 2021 03:09

Elephant Parade: Jan 20, 2018

No surprise they haven't been probed, since posting barely anime-related political content in the anime chat thread isn't against the rules.

but it should be :twisted:

# ¿ Dec 3, 2021 06:24

Elephant Parade: Jan 20, 2018

(retroactive enforcement optional but recommended)

# ¿ Dec 3, 2021 06:25

Elephant Parade: Jan 20, 2018

Spiritus Nox posted:

Dynazenon was perfectly nice and inoffensive and wonderfully produced, but even trying to make sure I wasn't just going in expecting Gridman Again it wound up failing to hook me so utterly that I wound up dropping it before the ending. Yomogi is a Perfectly Nice Lad but I thought he was too plain to carry much emotional weight as the protagonist of a show driven heavily by character drama.

he's better than yuta lol

# ¿ Dec 9, 2021 01:32

Elephant Parade: Jan 20, 2018

Spiritus Nox posted:

Yeah and Gridman's big twist was (spoilers I guess?) that the show was never ever actually about Yuta anyway

eh, he still gets about as much screentime as yomugi does, if not more, so him being boring weighs on the show regardless of whether it's intentional or not

# ¿ Dec 9, 2021 02:46

Elephant Parade: Jan 20, 2018

And they didn't even let her keep the dragon. Unbelievable!

# ¿ Dec 9, 2021 03:09

Elephant Parade: Jan 20, 2018

Saagonsa posted:

Vtubers ftw

This tier of vtuber posting, however, ftl

# ¿ Dec 9, 2021 22:14

Elephant Parade: Jan 20, 2018

snail, can we get an update on the vtuber thread situation

# ¿ Dec 16, 2021 01:35

Elephant Parade: Jan 20, 2018

my nen has the properties of jesus and dracula

# ¿ Dec 24, 2021 04:32

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 15:49

Elephant Parade: Jan 20, 2018

Over the last few months, people have been having the exact same conversations here they would be having in the vtuber thread: we've seen clip-sharing, news-sharing, and extended discussion, all on a weekly (sometimes daily) basis. I'm not sure what a dedicated thread would change aside from increasing the volume of discussion and moving it somewhere where it won't annoy people who aren't interested. Admittedly, the former would increase the moderation load, so I don't blame Julias for making the thread's existence contingent on someone being willing to IK it. But the current situation is annoying for everyone.

# ¿ Jan 1, 2022 18:11

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