Any and all things I know from AP history just come from Zephos's comic. I just took it all as a factual historical document when I joined.
Posts made by Pochipochi
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RE: The Arlong Park Official General Discussion Thread
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RE: The Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition Thread
Giggles we have to play soon. I want to Oil up that Hakan.
Baby, I'll oil you up any time of the week. Hakan doesn't have to get involved.
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RE: Wendy's Fast Food!
I adore Chick-fi-la, it's the one US fast food place I know I'll really miss.
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RE: Wendy's Fast Food!
What do you guys think the inside of the Disney Vault looks like
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RE: Disney animation thread
Hey guys, why don't you stop and care more about the real greatest Disney news in forever:
Fantasia will be released in a 4-Disc Special Edition Blu-Ray/DVD combo pack and in a 2-Disc Special Edition DVD on November 30, 2010
Edit: This is the most obnoxious GIF I've ever seen and I feel compelled to just keep it here.
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RE: Why your Religion is False?
Simple. Just look around you. Everything has a unique design to it. The way the universe works, galaxies, atoms, life, etc. Nothing just happens randomly
Just wondering, have you ever taken a basic biological anthropology course?
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RE: It's MAHVEL Vs CAPGOD 3 BAYBEE!!!
If Phoenix Wright never showed up in any kind of Capcom fighting game, I'd be pretty pleased.
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RE: Why your Religion is False?
Roz showed me that Christian Side Hug video ages ago. I still think back to it every now and then.
My favorite part is the back track is some kind of awful toy piano "Imperial March".
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RE: The Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition Thread
Hey, wait a minute Deej, you can't be here too.
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RE: Monster Hunter(and all its great games)
I bought MH3 with a group of friends when it originally came out in the US. We all had a complete blast, one of my favorite times this year. Sadly, it all started getting ruined for me when the whole "four people only" thing came to bite me in the ass when I got a tad busy. Because there were about six people in total who had it, the four people who played the most ended up playing solely together.
Eventually I got pushed out because I was behind and by the time I got to Gigginox, everyone else was already way past. I got really mad and forced my way into a session one day, demanding that I be allowed to play multiplayer with them. We all lost badly because I hadn't invested as much time as them. Realizing that I was basically fucked, because I had nobody to play multiplayer with, as the four other guys had shoved everyone else out, I got bitter and just stopped playing. I tried playing online with random people once and it sucked, too.
I'm still annoyed over it and I don't have any desire to try another Monster Hunter game.
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RE: Your Top 5 Awesome Anime/Manga Characters Trapped in Shitty Series
like i really care how you spell it?
that doesn't mean shit to me, stay on topic
It should "mean shit" to you, since one should always be ready to correct their mistakes. One should not be offended at the notion they've misspelled the name of a figure.
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RE: The Arlong Park Official General Discussion Thread
I know nothing of this topic's history, but as an individual who frequently discusses things of the general variety, I must see to it that I participate in a discussion and this discussion must happen.
@I:
FAvorite season, or favorite holiday?
I'm all about the winter. Regardless of the holidays that come with the season, I simply adore cold weather. The way of dressing, the way it looks, the moods and the feelings that sort of erupt this time of year. I flip-flop on autumn and winter, but winter is more representative of snowfall. I quite love snow. Ironically I never see it. Maybe that's why I like it so much.
Spring is nice in a romantic sense, but I never live anywhere that isn't painstakingly awful degrees of hot around the time spring should be happening. It usually feels like winter is happening, then suddenly summer just bashes its way into the scene with little regard for the fact that I don't like it one bit.
I will never live anywhere that just has four straight up seasons.
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RE: Talk about your / other people's Avatars!
Yeah, I quite adore it. It's funny how even with all the science fiction, mechs, and demonic possession, Gankutsuou is still one of the finer adaptations of a classic Western novel that a Japanese studio may ever accomplish. Not nearly as good as the novel, of course.
Dog of Flanders never counts because it's not even western anymore, I'm pretty sure East Asia has repossessed it.
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RE: Talk about your / other people's Avatars!
A proper lady never swears.
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RE: Manga you WOULD'NT recommend
Why don't you guys just read Believers instead. It'll show you what Naoki Yamamoto is really capable of.
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RE: Untitled
Yeah. It's a bit strange to look back on it all a few days later and wonder why you took it so seriously.
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RE: S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
Sakonosolo's constant bombardment of all things STALKER related has convinced me that I need to beat it. And soon.
I'll pick it up tonight. I'm actually really in the mood for it.
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RE: Talk about your / other people's Avatars!
I chose my avatar because I wanted my posts to look more pleasant, because I usually write like an asshole. I figured if I had a smiling avatar I might look like a more pleasant person. But then again, a coy smile just makes me look like a douchebag instead.
I like the character a lot, though, so whatever nigga.
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RE: You inherit £1,000,000…what to do next?
@Gigglepuffy:
I'd save it, invest some of it, and spend the rest of my life living off of it. If handled smartly, I have no reason to ever actually work again. Meaning I can spend the rest of my life pursuing my hobbies. A bit of a boring answer really, as when I think about things I want that I can't afford, there's a very general list.
Better plan: I buy C cup breasts.
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RE: Untitled
I once had a very developed, romantic dream that could be most easily classified as a "road story". I traveled with a group of friends for the sake of a woman I loved and the dream felt as if it ran the course of many days. I grew closer to my comrades and my love for this girl was absolute and pure. Unquestionably, I could give my life for her and there was a series of conflicts that felt that dramatic. I am afraid by the time I woke up, I could not remember the conflicts themselves, but what I do remember was everything about her and how much I loved her.
To wake up from it was startling to say the least. At first I cried, but eventually it gave way to a very depressed state of mind. You have to understand really how that felt, it was so real. But to wake up and realize that this girl I felt that I'd spent my life with never existed was… Quite awful. I honestly believe something in my body was unbalanced at that state, because it choked me up to unrealistic proportions. Nobody should feel as if a dream was that real and react to it so strongly.
It was actually the sole time in my life I really believed like I understood and felt the synergy of true love. Do you ever remember having dreams as a kid where you'd have, like, cookies, or a video game you really wanted? Only to wake up and realize it was all fake? That disappointment was basically how I felt, tenfold.
That's my strange dream. Even stranger that I'm a bit of a hypersexual individual and my relationships tend to be very short, physical, and empty and I don't feel comfortable getting more than that.
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RE: Manga you WOULD'NT recommend
Please don't get upset about a silly joke~
Frankly the story is a complete WTF to someone who has no previous knowledge about the mangaka's work. So no need to hold it against us if we do voice our thoughts about it and joke around for a bit. Taking something like this seriously isn't really necessary since tomorrow it'll be pretty much forgotten. ;)My apologies, but I am in no way upset. I was simply giving you guys an idea as to why it's not nearly very bad, some food for thought.
Although if you actually find it to be a surprising or bizarre story, you must be new to the erotic.
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RE: Manga you WOULD'NT recommend
We are not talking about the author. We are talking about the story. A bad story is a bad story, regardless of the author's accomplishments.
Yes, I understand. I don't really find it anything abominable, however. It's markedly better if you're more familiar with the author, in which case it's sort of a neat look at where he once was (with undeveloped ideas that only vaguely shine through). Without background knowledge on the author, it may seem worse obviously, or maybe pointless, but it's still nothing really bad. At its worst, it'd just be 28 pages of a guy fingering a girl and then being promptly discarded. And even then most of it is just erotic imagery.
It's just honestly a bit much for people to start making lists of how their lives will never be the same because they read a one-shot that didn't really go anywhere, as a joke.
I'd also like to point out that I'm pretty sure it is related to another series of his, in which case it's not nearly as pointless or undeveloped as it seems. But that would be basing it on the idea that the character is in something else.
Edit: Nevermind, it was a short story in a collection of them. It was a great collection. Besides, on second thought I'm not going to try to downplay 197X's quality, as I still think it's solid, even if it wasn't Naoki Yamamoto. I'm standing against your hive-mind.
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RE: Manga you WOULD'NT recommend
The users of Arlong Park discover an erotic one-shot by Naoki Yamamoto that isn't particularly noteworthy and grab their pitchforks.
The guy is still an exceptional author.
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RE: You inherit £1,000,000…what to do next?
I'd save it, invest some of it, and spend the rest of my life living off of it. If handled smartly, I have no reason to ever actually work again. Meaning I can spend the rest of my life pursuing my hobbies. A bit of a boring answer really, as when I think about things I want that I can't afford, there's a very general list.
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RE: Post how your day was… (NEW)
I dropped out from tutoring Japanese this semester, because of this strange series of events spurned by an email where I was told they wouldn't pay me anymore if I did it, someone else said they would offer compensation in some other school-related form, someone else said I was already un-needed and the position was pulled, then a phone call told me nothing changed, and I basically said fuck this since nobody had any idea what was going on. This went on for like weeks.
Since it never got started to begin with I guess it doesn't really matter. I asked the Japanese 101 teacher and she said they already had someone who would tutor anyways. But she… sent me an email asking me at the beginning of the semester asking me to, since I did it last year.
Fucking weird, especially since some students had called me about this earlier two weeks ago, so I assumed the teacher had given my information out.
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RE: BlazBlue: Continuum Shift
I sent you a friend invite in case you didn't notice.
We should all have a small party sometime and beat the shit out of each other
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RE: BlazBlue: Continuum Shift
I don't doubt that. :(
Litchi's are the scariest people to fight against for poor Tager.
It's kind of funny how those aforementioned people who aren't used to him actually don't realize that… It's kind of easy to put pressure on Tager. In fact, I'd say most matchups would be in their technical favor. But yeah Litchi... She is just the worst. I've been trying to work on my Litchi Defense Tactics, but dat fuckin rod.
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RE: BlazBlue: Continuum Shift
He's the only character I can play, really. I'm kind of garbage with anyone else. Very garbage with everyone else actually.
But he's annoying to fight against I guess, for people who aren't used to Tager, his magnetism, or destructive command grabs. I'm not even that good, more often than not I think my online victories are just because I get away with things the opponent isn't prepared for. It's fair, really, but whenever I encounter higher level players my ass gets pretty kicked. So it makes for a kind of goofy way of practicing, since I tend to get into bad habits.
I can beat Tonfa though, so that should count for something. Tonfa let's play again sometime, it's been a while since our last match. I've lost those competitive shivers I'd get.
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RE: Favorite Fights in a manga/anime
The ending-ending was okay. The one episode about the zombies and mushrooms was inexcusably out of place as the last episode before the three-part finale, and was the sole honestly weak episode anyways.
The rest of the series? I fucking adore it.
But the topic is about the fight scenes and those are all just fucking awesome. The series opener especially is up there as godly to me. I must admit … wheelchair explosives was kind of the downpoint though, definitely. You are right on the mark there. Talk about an anti-climax.
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RE: BlazBlue: Continuum Shift
Hey an update from AKSYS
About a new patch!
PS3 owners just got a new 1.03 patch! :D
And….
It...
...just fixes a freezing bug for people who play as Ragna, Hazama, or Valkenhayn after online training mode.
...Nevermind.
When do we get the patch that makes people not send me angry messages when I beat them as Tager
I'm very anal about unread things and the PSN messaging system is a tad clunky and laggy, so it makes ditching these things a bit harder than it should be.
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RE: Your Top 10 anime series?
My favorite anything of all time is Legend of the Galactic Heroes.
I won't even bother trying to rank the rest, because besides finding LoGH to be nothing more than a godly, unstoppable behemoth of everything that will ever be good about animation, my various moods tend to determine whether I like something like Votoms more than Ashita no Joe. I've tried ranking a Top 10 once and it was just too messy to try to put together.
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RE: Manga you WOULD'NT recommend
@JERK:
Above all, one thing that bugs the fuck out of me about a lot of shoujo (Hot Gimmick fer instance) is how completely they ass down prostrate themselves to idealistic images and concepts and depict these
cute normal girlLONELY LOSER WALLFLOWERS who have to and should fuck themselves up to get laid and boyfriends like all the other girls.And Lovely Complex dares to have a girl whose too tall and the boy whose too short and have them be not only the leads, but the perfect couple.
It's funny you say "perfect couple", because in all honesty, it's not far from the truth. In the grand scheme of things, LoveCom revolves around a girl and a boy have similar interests, get along well, could spend the entire day just talking to each other about the things they love, but still retain enough of their own individual characteristics that they're not clones, or anything. They're just people who are a great fit. It's no wonder one of Otani's conflicts would be losing a friend if they tried dating. Plus, they actually date. The series doesn't end with them starting to date, they actually go out relatively early, like a bit before the halfway point. It's great to see a romance explore actual romance.
If I tried thinking of another quality romance series that felt like that, I'd actually have a bit of a problem. They exist, sure, but a very, very large majority of romances contain idealized females and an idealized male and shove them together, despite feeling as if they were developed completely separate from one another. Even some high quality, great romances don't always feel that natural.
I don't mean to imply LoveCom is some flawless entity that all romances should strive for, or that it's very deep in the end (it's simply a traditional romance done in all the right ways) but everything about it just really works. It contains a lot of features that I think more romances should try to have and it's why I hold it up so high, at times, even if it's in no way flawless.
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RE: Manga you WOULD'NT recommend
@JERK:
@Gigglepuffy:
Rurouni Kenshin contained one of the most human, flawed, and sadly touching characters I've seen in a shonen manga.
I am speaking of course about Watsuki himself
Rack em'
@JERK:
Actually the more I think about it, Lovely Complex owned.
I should actually read the thing.
It's one of the most ass-kicking traditional romances in the genre.
Becuase the two main characters have actual chemistry and feel like real people who really could date. They even spend the entire series palling around anyways. I loved that. They always felt like great friends and the major issues stemmed from how self-conscious they were and a fear of ruining the friendship. It was never groan-worthy, always understandable, and usually pretty cute.
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RE: Manga you WOULD'NT recommend
Rurouni Kenshin contained one of the most human, flawed, and sadly touching characters I've seen in a shonen manga.
I am speaking of course about Watsuki himself in his letters/notes to the reader, which, luckily, the tankobons of Kenshin include!
Good god did that man need somebody to give him a hug. He had absolutely no confidence in his own series, never seemed to be able to develop it the way he wanted to, and forever seemed to be forced to appeal to his editor. But I'll be damned if he didn't seem to be a guy who just loved what he did regardless. Luckily, he will always have Buso Renkin to his name, which I think is honestly so much better than anything else he has ever done. And due to its reception, he may never even try something like that again, which is a true tragedy.
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RE: Bakuman
Maybe shonen should just be called 'action-adventure', and shojo should be called 'Romance' and stop gender labeling all this shit
Japan's gender demographic labels mostly stick due to the magazines and anthologies they run in, each one having a market that they strive to appeal to, leading to a one or two-genre majority. It's a bit silly, organizationally of course, but it's so grounded that it's pretty much stuck.
Of note is that the modern forms of the demographics have sort of evolved often feeling closed off from the rest, again why those few genres stick so well to the demographic. An example of that "closed off" feeling that comes to mind would be Death Note. It was a thriller in a magazine that didn't really have many of those, but when compared to the demographic of seinen, it's not particularly different at all. Still, how it developed wasn't particularly by way of genre, but demographic. It wasn't really just a thriller, but rather a shonen thriller and its writing shows (talking about Death Note is kind of weird since I don't like it, but it's a good example).
It's also why the art of shonen vs shojo, if generalized, can seem very different from one another, yet in their demographics, similar. They both developed separate from the other.
It's goofy, but if used properly, the demographic thing isn't really too bad. Of course, the real natural way of doing things is always to organize by genre first and foremost.
Edit: This post isn't written in the best way and I could've organized it better, so sorry.
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RE: Dragon Age 2
I haven't seen any news on Dragon Age 2 period, so it's a bit strange that it seems like Mass Effect 2 in how it's being developed. I don't mind it, I suppose, since ME 2 was the first Bioware game (ever) that I actually fully enjoyed and felt was a great game. But it also seems a tad strange, since I figured they were going to be doing two very different things with Mass Effect and Dragon Age. Seemed like a good plan, to satiate two markets.
What made ME2 very involving and entertaining, for me, was its balance between control and scripted. I always felt a grand sense of ownership over Shepard, my Shephard, and quite enjoyed how you didn't have too much customization in terms of the plot, where it headed, etc. It was the opposite of a role-playing game in the classic sense of "leave it to your imagination" and I loved that, since Bioware's strongest trait is always its writing and world creation (and I'll be damned if I don't find Mass Effect's universe to be lovely as fuck). I also actually enjoyed its more streamlined, and effectively straight up shooter, battle system.
But to take all of that and stick it on Dragon Age is kind of … weird? I don't like Baldur's Gate, but a lot of people do and the natural step for the franchise seemed to be "make it more like Baldur's Gate". I was kind of thinking that's what its fans even wanted. So this is all kind of surprising. Admittedly, it does look more appealing to me.
Gigglepuffy's adventures in finding things out that everybody else knew eight months ago.
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RE: Legend of Zelda discussion
It's okay. The videos are by far the best part and it's obvious that it was set up by a hacker, not a writer, by way of how amateur several sections are. The first few bits especially have some portions that don't really serve much purpose, which for (without … spoiling it) the kind of story it is, comes off as bad more than scary in a chaotic sense.
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RE: Manga you WOULD'NT recommend
There are only 3 or 4 shoujos I can read without wanting to strangle somebody, so…
As a bit of an enthusiast in the feminine side of Japanese comics, I can assure people that there are good manga in the shoujo and josei departments. I suppose, though, for western readers, a lot of it is buried in a sense. The kind of people who jump straight to the idea of wanting a romance, for instance, are probably the people who think Vampire Knight sounds like a rollicking good investment of their time.
Then when people want something more "adult", they end up in the direction of something like Nana, half of which ends up as almost an offensive fantasy of sorts on the author's behalf (who'd want to live in Nana's world anyways? They're all gonna die of lung cancer at age 22 and they'll leave Hachi to spend the rest of her life digging graves for them).
Luckily, the idea that a majority of female comics (someone comes in and calls me "heteronormative scumbag") are all Hot Gimmick is actually a bit of a generalization and a misled lie. Some people tend to have a kneejerk reaction in the face of shoujo, but things like High School Debut and Lovely Complex, which may immediately look like generic, or bad series, can actually be very good and charming.
Nodame Cantabile and Honey & Clover, while exceptional in their own rights, aren't the sole good comics in their fields (I bring up these two as they're the most common ones approached by people who don't normally read josei/shoujo).
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RE: Halloween
As it's my last Halloween in the US, I've tossed around the idea that I go out for candy, or attend some family fun Halloween event for … the sake of doing something. I haven't done anything in years. There's this channel in the United States that airs a show titled "100 Scariest Movie Moments". It's sort of like those AFI 100 lists. Scenes shown, interviewees gush about how scary they found them, some background on film or movie shown.
Every year, for many years now, I have stayed home and watched it in boredom and when it's over I channel-surf through bad slasher films. Sometimes I don't even do anything related and just play a game all night afterwards. I sort of would like to do something different. Something celebratory. But not a party. I don't even know anyone who would be having a party. I think there's some haunted house place around, maybe go there. Or ... do a hay ride? Anything really. I just need to get out. Plus, if I can't decide on anything, I just go trick-er-treating.
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RE: S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
I spent a bit of time playing the original not too long ago. I was making very nice progress, however I eventually saved during something important, left it for a while, came back… And was completely unsure of where I was. I could go on with the game, ignoring that, but I'm pretty sure it's a mission that I find myself in the middle in and I would like to complete it, if it is.
I'll tackle it sometime, but I haven't been in a STALKER mood in a while anyways.
But STALKER is very much so one of the best first person role-playing shoooter atmospheric horror survival games to come out this decade.
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RE: Legend of Zelda discussion
I believe what makes that video particularly strange is that they are discussing the events unfolding as if it was a sports outing. "The angle is important there", "I don't always get that one", "I messed that part up, I usually get it right." As if they regularly make it a night to explore and exploit the glitches of their cherished childhood memory of a video game.
There can be a fascination in breaking down things you're familiar with, to see them corrupted and perhaps even a sense of discovery, achievment in breaking down barriers the game never intended you to do. But I honestly can't find the appeal in making it into some sort of past-time. I'm sure somebody finds it fun. Personally, I never could. If anything, it's actually kind of eerie to me.
Especially for something one is fond of. You're breaking down everything about that world, everything you really fell in love with. You unravel it, turn it into data, strip it of those illusions of an actual world inside of that cart and dick around in this ghost town of a game. You'd think eventually you'd be so accustomed to it that this "fake world" that the game would no longer really mean anything, which makes me wonder how anyone can keep an interest. But I suppose some kinds of people just… can play Super Mario 64 a million times over and never find it old?
Alongside exploiting glitches, getting through to lost areas, or rather lost and unfinished design plans left in the game, is a bit unsettling too. That whole idea that you're seeing into and exploring these places that you're not really "supposed" to. So the fact that there's this whole community of people that do nothing but dive into it is kind of bizarre to me, if not completely understandable. But how they can focus so much time on one game. You'd think it'd feel a bit lonely, after a while.
If you've ever played LSD and actually played it, just exploring and immersing yourself in it naturally, it's kind of like that. That sort of incomplete and undesirable eeriness.
P.S. the water in Zelda 3D games, as well as a lot of early polygonal games, also reminds me of this sensation, in how they have a low draw distance and a lot of darkness.
P.P.S. were we talking about speedruns or something gay
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RE: Manga you WOULD'NT recommend
pretty much any manga adaption of a gundam series
Gundam Crossbone is good, especially for a manga that is supposed to be a sequel to F91 (an awful film).
The novels are where it's really kind of odd.
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RE: What are you Playing?
Alongside Etrian Odyssey III (adore the game), so I don't burn out on it, I've been playing Spirit Tracks, which I got for free when I bought DQIX.
It's… pretty okay. I really want to like it, since Wind Waker is by far my favorite Zelda and these "spinoffs" of it that they are doing are a great idea. But the train isn't nearly as enjoyable as I wanted it to be and the second dungeon, which I just beat, was a bit crushingly disappointing in that it was basically one floor. The boss was great, at least, due to being a bit of a lengthy fight (in Zelda standards).
I'm back to EO3 for now and I'm not sure when I'll pick up Spirit Tracks again. But I'll keep on giving it a shot until I beat it.
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RE: Magazines galore… ( subscribe now)
I used to get anthologies like Young King OURs, but eventually I stopped really keeping up and several months worth of them would gather dust.
I also subscribed to Modern Drummer for about two years, before reading interviews started feeling samey and they spent about four issues in a row focusing on too many things I didn't really care about. I think it's just hard to read a magazine with a very narrow focus and have it hold your interest for very long.
The only magazine I actually get right now, to be honest, is Game Informer. It's a habitual thing that I've maintained since I first started living in the US, but I do enjoy reading it still. Their incredible cut back on the "Reviews" section was a nice welcome and I think aside from the kneejerk reaction I get from the words 'game journalism', it's not bad. Plus this one time a guy wrote in saying they were mean for calling people who cried over the Zelda trailer losers and they called him a loser too. And that's just swell.