I have 2 S suggestions, 1 in A, 4 in B, 3 in C and 1 in D which I am surprised it's that high since I tried to give the worst suggestion I could.Reyalp51 wrote:
that would be funny cuz my request are all b+ except 09 and you always tell me i have terrible taste xdPatatitta wrote:
had this idea where I saw what the average placement on the tier list was for every user that has requested things here, see who (according to me) has better taste, may do it later, I think it could be funny
wait fuck tokyo ghoul is low
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Nuuskamuikkunen wrote:
I have 2 S suggestions, 1 in A, 4 in B, 3 in C and 1 in D which I am surprised it's that high since I tried to give the worst suggestion I could.Reyalp51 wrote:
that would be funny cuz my request are all b+ except 09 and you always tell me i have terrible taste xdPatatitta wrote:
had this idea where I saw what the average placement on the tier list was for every user that has requested things here, see who (according to me) has better taste, may do it later, I think it could be funny
wait fuck tokyo ghoul is low
I mean, D rank is just things that were bad, how could you do this to me is things that hurt my soul
read the manga and i'm up to date with the anime, if you haven't seen the anime I don't think I can really analyze it without spoiling the fuck out of youMaxIsABigKaiju wrote:
Have you watched delicious in dungeon yet?
lostsilver wrote:
have you done undertale already? if not can you do it?
yeah played undertale, may do it tomorrow idk i'm tired today
oki!! get some rest bud <3Patatitta wrote:
lostsilver wrote:
have you done undertale already? if not can you do it?
yeah played undertale, may do it tomorrow idk i'm tired today
I've seen some cool vids about it but yeah I don't think it's something you can enjoy without being very familiar with both the base game and mods.Patatitta wrote:
and then, it hits me, you're NOT supposed to play the game, you're supposed to watch youtube videos about it. Since, the actual game is a horrible experience if you don't know what you're doing, so I stopped playing it
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Undertale is a game that I have already played and personally I have an interesting relationship towards it, this is a game that i'm VERY biased towards (so now, like tim rogers taught us in their reviews, I must proceed to talk about my life so you understand the biases influencing my opinion the game which is actually the correct way to talk about media since there is no such thing as an objective review.)lostsilver wrote:
have you done undertale already? if not can you do it?
when undertale came out, the internet EXPLODED, I was 10yo at the time, and while at first I kinda avoided it because I heard it was cringe and for losers, after a while I folded, and did something I would NEVER do nowadays, and that is, watch a playthrough of the game BEFORE playing it, which I enjoyed. I don't know how much of me enjoying those videos came from the game itself or the youtuber playing it
At that point I wasn't too keen on pirating stuff, I didn't have the money, and unlike how I am now, instead of playing a variety of video games, I just had 2-3 specific videogames I just liked to spend all of my time on. So yeah, I never actually played undertale
thing is, time passes, I was like 12, and I start meeting people who actually HAD played undertale, so in order to more easily fit in, I did play undertale (I didn't want to be a fan of the game without having played in, which I was up to that point), I did a pacifist walkthrough, (not true pacifist tho) and I think I enjoyed my time with it, A few years later, I started a genocide run but I never finished it, I stopped playing it around the core part
few extra years passes, I think I was 13, my brain was starting to develop more, it was halloween, I was having a sleepover with a friend of mine, and then, randomly, deltarune chapter 1 releases, up to that point I felt a little bit of remorse for not having really been able to experience as much joy from playing undertale as I had done up to that point, so I just start playing it completely blind with my friend. I ended up beating the game in 2 days.
I enjoyed it WAY MORE than when I played undertale or even watched it, since I actually got to experience it myself. At that moment I didn't know what exactly made deltarune so good, but when chapter 2 released, and SPECIALLY when I played everhood I got it
When I played everhood, I instantly noticed it was clearly inspired by toby fox, and that was, the dialogue. The way toby fox writes dialogue is actually very different to how other devs write it. Instead of imitating the dialogue from a book or a movie (which I want to clarify, is VERY different to IRL speech), it imitates the way people talk over the internet, some things not being capitalized, the inconsistent speed at which some dialogues are shown on screen, the type of comedy, in deltarune chapter 2 the queen is literally the representation of the internet
this is not the first time it has been done, but I think toby fox IS the person to actually popularize it, I have also seen it in some itch.io games that I won't talk about here.
Undertales entire selling point was that you could spare enemies, but I would honestly argue that the cast of characters is what carries toby fox as a developer
But what really makes me enjoy it, is just my life experiences. It's the joy of seeing something you liked 8 years ago evolve and branch out, whenever I see a game be inspired by undertale I just feel happy, each toby fox releases correlates to a different step of my life, to a different frame of mind, all of that has made undertale grow on me, I enjoy it way more now than I did when I actually played it.
This game is an S tier, but yeah, heavy bias.
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still playing thaumaturge still reading house of leaves
k now try out sailor moon doom 2 (the process of loading the mod is exactly the same as myhouse.wad) also sailor moon doom 2 is pretty much just regular doom 2 but doomdude (or was it doomguy? its been a while since ive modded doom) is replaced with sailor moon, and the guns are replaced with sailor moon's magical things
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can I just watch sailor moon instead (nvm even if i'm interested in it, it's VERY long and idk if I want to do that)sametdze wrote:
k now try out sailor moon doom 2 (the process of loading the mod is exactly the same as myhouse.wad) also sailor moon doom 2 is pretty much just regular doom 2 but doomdude (or was it doomguy? its been a while since ive modded doom) is replaced with sailor moon, and the guns are replaced with sailor moon's magical things
well i have watched sailor moon when i was little so why notPatatitta wrote:
can I just watch sailor moon insteadsametdze wrote:
k now try out sailor moon doom 2 (the process of loading the mod is exactly the same as myhouse.wad) also sailor moon doom 2 is pretty much just regular doom 2 but doomdude (or was it doomguy? its been a while since ive modded doom) is replaced with sailor moon, and the guns are replaced with sailor moon's magical things
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read update
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I did a edit after I posted the comment, but apparently you already had quoted the message so you haven't read the editsametdze wrote:
where is updatePatatitta wrote:
read update
dang, that's awesome! glad you like the game, and i fully understand your opinions!Patatitta wrote:
Undertale is a game that I have already played and personally I have an interesting relationship towards it, this is a game that i'm VERY biased towards (so now, like tim rogers taught us in their reviews, I must proceed to talk about my life so you understand the biases influencing my opinion the game which is actually the correct way to talk about media since there is no such thing as an objective review.)lostsilver wrote:
have you done undertale already? if not can you do it?
when undertale came out, the internet EXPLODED, I was 10yo at the time, and while at first I kinda avoided it because I heard it was cringe and for losers, after a while I folded, and did something I would NEVER do nowadays, and that is, watch a playthrough of the game BEFORE playing it, which I enjoyed. I don't know how much of me enjoying those videos came from the game itself or the youtuber playing it
At that point I wasn't too keen on pirating stuff, I didn't have the money, and unlike how I am now, instead of playing a variety of video games, I just had 2-3 specific videogames I just liked to spend all of my time on. So yeah, I never actually played undertale
thing is, time passes, I was like 12, and I start meeting people who actually HAD played undertale, so in order to more easily fit in, I did play undertale (I didn't want to be a fan of the game without having played in, which I was up to that point), I did a pacifist walkthrough, (not true pacifist tho) and I think I enjoyed my time with it, A few years later, I started a genocide run but I never finished it, I stopped playing it around the core part
few extra years passes, I think I was 13, my brain was starting to develop more, it was halloween, I was having a sleepover with a friend of mine, and then, randomly, deltarune chapter 1 releases, up to that point I felt a little bit of remorse for not having really been able to experience as much joy from playing undertale as I had done up to that point, so I just start playing it completely blind with my friend. I ended up beating the game in 2 days.
I enjoyed it WAY MORE than when I played undertale or even watched it, since I actually got to experience it myself. At that moment I didn't know what exactly made deltarune so good, but when chapter 2 released, and SPECIALLY when I played everhood I got it
When I played everhood, I instantly noticed it was clearly inspired by toby fox, and that was, the dialogue. The way toby fox writes dialogue is actually very different to how other devs write it. Instead of imitating the dialogue from a book or a movie (which I want to clarify, is VERY different to IRL speech), it imitates the way people talk over the internet, some things not being capitalized, the inconsistent speed at which some dialogues are shown on screen, the type of comedy, in deltarune chapter 2 the queen is literally the representation of the internet
this is not the first time it has been done, but I think toby fox IS the person to actually popularize it, I have also seen it in some itch.io games that I won't talk about here.
Undertales entire selling point was that you could spare enemies, but I would honestly argue that the cast of characters is what carries toby fox as a developer
But what really makes me enjoy it, is just my life experiences. It's the joy of seeing something you liked 8 years ago evolve and branch out, whenever I see a game be inspired by undertale I just feel happy, each toby fox releases correlates to a different step of my life, to a different frame of mind, all of that has made undertale grow on me, I enjoy it way more now than I did when I actually played it.
This game is an S tier, but yeah, heavy bias.
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still playing thaumaturge still reading house of leaves
Jangsoodlor 30 days ago wrote:
watch nisekoi
Where's Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu Die Neue These?
It's okay man, I've only finished episode 6 I think, and I'm not as open to spoilers for other anime as I am for JJBAPatatitta wrote:
read the manga and i'm up to date with the anime, if you haven't seen the anime I don't think I can really analyze it without spoiling the fuck out of youMaxIsABigKaiju wrote:
Have you watched delicious in dungeon yet?
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I denied itJangsoodlor wrote:
Jangsoodlor 30 days ago wrote:
watch nisekoi
sureNuuskamuikkunen wrote:
Where's Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu Die Neue These?
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House of leaves
i'm not even going to try to explain this book
Did I understand it? fuck no like i'm actually going to give an award to someone who actually understood house of leaves first try this shit is the most overwhelming, frustrating, confusingly written, pretentious, ridiculous book ever created
did I enjoy it? I think so????????????????????????????????????????????
House of leaves is a piece of ergodic literature with like 6 intertwined plots written in a non standard way like basically creating ascii art with the text of the book or randomly removing letters from the paragraph or straight up skipping pages and it's just death, randomly intercutting the story with like 20 pages of quotes and definitions in german and italian about philosophy which are nearly impossible to read and even if you put the time to actually try to process what they're saying it's the most fucking boring thing ever and kinda shallow because GUESS WHAT THERE IS A FUCKING METANARRATIVE ABOUT THE ACTUAL EDITORS OF THE BOOK AND FUCK YOU TOO BOOK FUCK YOU TOO
we're lucky to live in the year that we do where metafiction and wack shit are more common and accepted but I actually think if you showed this book to someone in the middle ages (that knew how to read) they would kill themselves
however, for as painful as it can be to read this, and even if the book can be weirdly sexist at times, this shit is an unique experience, it is VERY memorable
look it's been 20 minutes since I started trying to write this post like this shit is way above my level fuck this shit fuck this book and fuck you for recommending it i hate you and I what I hate more is that this book is made to bait people like me and the fact that it fucking works and I find it interesting
this is both S rank and how could you do this to me so i'm putting it in A
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watching ginga eiyuu denetsu (remake) so far so good
same for thaumaturge
next: a monster calls
i'm not even going to try to explain this book
Did I understand it? fuck no like i'm actually going to give an award to someone who actually understood house of leaves first try this shit is the most overwhelming, frustrating, confusingly written, pretentious, ridiculous book ever created
did I enjoy it? I think so????????????????????????????????????????????
House of leaves is a piece of ergodic literature with like 6 intertwined plots written in a non standard way like basically creating ascii art with the text of the book or randomly removing letters from the paragraph or straight up skipping pages and it's just death, randomly intercutting the story with like 20 pages of quotes and definitions in german and italian about philosophy which are nearly impossible to read and even if you put the time to actually try to process what they're saying it's the most fucking boring thing ever and kinda shallow because GUESS WHAT THERE IS A FUCKING METANARRATIVE ABOUT THE ACTUAL EDITORS OF THE BOOK AND FUCK YOU TOO BOOK FUCK YOU TOO
we're lucky to live in the year that we do where metafiction and wack shit are more common and accepted but I actually think if you showed this book to someone in the middle ages (that knew how to read) they would kill themselves
however, for as painful as it can be to read this, and even if the book can be weirdly sexist at times, this shit is an unique experience, it is VERY memorable
look it's been 20 minutes since I started trying to write this post like this shit is way above my level fuck this shit fuck this book and fuck you for recommending it i hate you and I what I hate more is that this book is made to bait people like me and the fact that it fucking works and I find it interesting
this is both S rank and how could you do this to me so i'm putting it in A
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watching ginga eiyuu denetsu (remake) so far so good
same for thaumaturge
next: a monster calls
Missing pages reminded me of the Epic of Gilgamesh, it's missing some parts but it's not intentional so it actually makes it harder to understand but it's still interesting imo, also pretty short.
do blood meridian
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have you read it yourself?Dementedduck wrote:
do blood meridian
Patatitta wrote:
have you read it yourself?Dementedduck wrote:
do blood meridian
didnt get ending tho, am small brained
Edit: dont let online reviewer people scare you off btw
they are just being pretentious about it and its only like 3 or 400 pages so u can be done in like 5 hours or smthn
Pweaseeee ;-;
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LMAO
not only would house of leaves get middle age nobles to kill themselves but I'm 100% certain danielewski himself would be branded a heretic and burned at the stake for it. I definitely agree that it's a unique experience and imo its memorability not only comes from how fucking insane the text is but it sticks with you because you're trying to make sense of all of it, at least if it hits you in precisely the right way. some people (probably most people) are just gonna see the crazy shit that shows up on the pages and tap out because how the fuck do you read this shit. good stuff
if you want another novel rec that's waaaaay easier to read, check out the book thief by markus zusak
not only would house of leaves get middle age nobles to kill themselves but I'm 100% certain danielewski himself would be branded a heretic and burned at the stake for it. I definitely agree that it's a unique experience and imo its memorability not only comes from how fucking insane the text is but it sticks with you because you're trying to make sense of all of it, at least if it hits you in precisely the right way. some people (probably most people) are just gonna see the crazy shit that shows up on the pages and tap out because how the fuck do you read this shit. good stuff
if you want another novel rec that's waaaaay easier to read, check out the book thief by markus zusak
weird rec
I'm not expecting you to read this because it's related to religion but if you're interested, check out song of songs (aka song of solomon) from the bible, it's unique within the bible for being as... horny as it is. I'd recommend either the king james translation (KJV) for its stylized english, or the updated new revised standard version (NRSVUE) for modern english/critical accuracy. I've been reading the kjv bible myself for the past few months for "fun" and it's been very enlightening
Uh....Patatitta wrote:
I denied itJangsoodlor wrote:
Jangsoodlor 30 days ago wrote:
watch nisekoi
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I accepted it but later I read that it was like harem and I said that I was going to skip itJangsoodlor wrote:
Uh....Patatitta wrote:
I denied itJangsoodlor wrote:
Jangsoodlor 30 days ago wrote:
watch nisekoi
nah the reviews weren't scaring me away, is that I can see some people just asking that sort of stuff to troll, but if you've read it then I probably willDementedduck wrote:
Patatitta wrote:
have you read it yourself?Dementedduck wrote:
do blood meridian
didnt get ending tho, am small brained
Edit: dont let online reviewer people scare you off btw
they are just being pretentious about it and its only like 3 or 400 pages so u can be done in like 5 hours or smthn
Pweaseeee ;-;
yeah I can read book thief, also yeah, i'm not touching sacred booksxch00F wrote:
LMAO
not only would house of leaves get middle age nobles to kill themselves but I'm 100% certain danielewski himself would be branded a heretic and burned at the stake for it. I definitely agree that it's a unique experience and imo its memorability not only comes from how fucking insane the text is but it sticks with you because you're trying to make sense of all of it, at least if it hits you in precisely the right way. some people (probably most people) are just gonna see the crazy shit that shows up on the pages and tap out because how the fuck do you read this shit. good stuff
if you want another novel rec that's waaaaay easier to read, check out the book thief by markus zusakweird recI'm not expecting you to read this because it's related to religion but if you're interested, check out song of songs (aka song of solomon) from the bible, it's unique within the bible for being as... horny as it is. I'd recommend either the king james translation (KJV) for its stylized english, or the updated new revised standard version (NRSVUE) for modern english/critical accuracy. I've been reading the kjv bible myself for the past few months for "fun" and it's been very enlightening
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I mean if we're talking about the bible it IS sacredxch00F wrote:
holy and sacred don't need to be the same thing
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A monster calls
it was alright
short young adult book about a monster that visits a 13yo and tries to teach him stuff
apparently the original author died before he could finish it and the story was passed to someone else but the end result was pretty good so no one really cared about that fact
The book takes the trope of a monster visiting a kid on their bedroom but twists it in a way so it subverts your expectations somewhat, instead of the monster, being scary and evil they're honestly pretty chill (for the most part) and just tells the protagonist multiple stories
the point of all of these stories is that shit is complicated man, explains that there exists morally grey situations, and even quirks into how people interpret and then recall events that they themselves have lived through
these stories (the first two ones), are basically fairy tails, the point that they're trying to teach the protagonist is pretty crystal clear, which also works in our favour since it makes the book really easy to understand, and given that the actual advice and message the book tries to give is a really good one, it's a good choice
after that, the protagonist is forced to actually put those teachings into practice, which turns out to be more difficult, because guess what, shit is complicated, there is a big difference between hearing what the moral of the story is and actually internalizing it, which is what the book mainly focuses on the second half
while this book didn't completely resonate with me, it was still enjoyable and I really can't point to any mistakes or anything, as I really didn't feel anything was off or anything like that
placed in B tier
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Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu Die Neue These: honestly I've already finished the part that was requested but I liked it quite a bit and honestly I want to follow it to completion, so yeah, see me in a year and a half whenever I have actually finished this
still playing The Thaumaturge, started act 2 a few days ago, game is enjoyable but it does have some problems I will talk about
next: blood meridian
it was alright
short young adult book about a monster that visits a 13yo and tries to teach him stuff
apparently the original author died before he could finish it and the story was passed to someone else but the end result was pretty good so no one really cared about that fact
The book takes the trope of a monster visiting a kid on their bedroom but twists it in a way so it subverts your expectations somewhat, instead of the monster, being scary and evil they're honestly pretty chill (for the most part) and just tells the protagonist multiple stories
the point of all of these stories is that shit is complicated man, explains that there exists morally grey situations, and even quirks into how people interpret and then recall events that they themselves have lived through
these stories (the first two ones), are basically fairy tails, the point that they're trying to teach the protagonist is pretty crystal clear, which also works in our favour since it makes the book really easy to understand, and given that the actual advice and message the book tries to give is a really good one, it's a good choice
after that, the protagonist is forced to actually put those teachings into practice, which turns out to be more difficult, because guess what, shit is complicated, there is a big difference between hearing what the moral of the story is and actually internalizing it, which is what the book mainly focuses on the second half
while this book didn't completely resonate with me, it was still enjoyable and I really can't point to any mistakes or anything, as I really didn't feel anything was off or anything like that
placed in B tier
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Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu Die Neue These: honestly I've already finished the part that was requested but I liked it quite a bit and honestly I want to follow it to completion, so yeah, see me in a year and a half whenever I have actually finished this
still playing The Thaumaturge, started act 2 a few days ago, game is enjoyable but it does have some problems I will talk about
next: blood meridian
Super Mario Odyssey review?
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it's a mario platformer game, you just jump around it's fun, there is not much depth to it, not much I can really talk aboutCorne2Plum3 wrote:
Super Mario Odyssey review?
Xavier: Renegade Angel
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have you watched it yourself or have you just seen the funny moments on yt?dung eater wrote:
Xavier: Renegade Angel
you dont have to if you dont want to, but could you do pizza tower?
been playing it but havent finished it yet bc im too busy with art n stuff
been playing it but havent finished it yet bc im too busy with art n stuff
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ehhh, honestly I tried it out but didn't really hook me, + I don't think I have much to say about the gamelostsilver wrote:
you dont have to if you dont want to, but could you do pizza tower?
been playing it but havent finished it yet bc im too busy with art n stuff
aight aightPatatitta wrote:
ehhh, honestly I tried it out but didn't really hook me, + I don't think I have much to say about the gamelostsilver wrote:
you dont have to if you dont want to, but could you do pizza tower?
been playing it but havent finished it yet bc im too busy with art n stuff
maybe half-life if you havent done it? the first game btw
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you can just check what I have done and haven't done you know, also yeah i'm down for half lifelostsilver wrote:
aight aightPatatitta wrote:
ehhh, honestly I tried it out but didn't really hook me, + I don't think I have much to say about the gamelostsilver wrote:
you dont have to if you dont want to, but could you do pizza tower?
been playing it but havent finished it yet bc im too busy with art n stuff
maybe half-life if you havent done it? the first game btw
okiiPatatitta wrote:
you can just check what I have done and haven't done you know, also yeah i'm down for half lifelostsilver wrote:
aight aightPatatitta wrote:
ehhh, honestly I tried it out but didn't really hook me, + I don't think I have much to say about the gamelostsilver wrote:
you dont have to if you dont want to, but could you do pizza tower?
been playing it but havent finished it yet bc im too busy with art n stuff
maybe half-life if you havent done it? the first game btw
have fun!! <3
I've watched it. One of my favorite series.Patatitta wrote:
have you watched it yourself or have you just seen the funny moments on yt?dung eater wrote:
Xavier: Renegade Angel
it's not sacred if you don't believe it is. any book is sacred if you believe it.Patatitta wrote:
I mean if we're talking about the bible it IS sacredxch00F wrote:
holy and sacred don't need to be the same thing
watch girls und panzer
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then will watch itdung eater wrote:
Patatitta wrote:
have you watched it yourself or have you just seen the funny moments on yt?dung eater wrote:
Xavier: Renegade Angel
if you want me to play the remake, I don't think I can run it, I wasn't able to do mario RPG because it didn't run properly, + I have a bunch of games in queue already and that game is like 30 hours long so idkz0z wrote:
do paper mario ttyd
honestly I have very little expectations going into it but sureJangsoodlor wrote:
watch girls und panzer
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The Thaumaturge
I'm pretty mixed about this game, I think it does get worse as the game progresses
The Thaumaturge is a narrative Isometric RPG about poland in the 1905, this game also markets itself as disco elysium, an RPG where you make morally dubious choices and your actions have consequences, however, the game really drops the ball in this aspect
My actual problems with the story comes from the gameplay mechanics of the game, as the title suggests, you're a thaumaturge, if you touch an object, you can feel the energy of it and you can deduce shit about the people who interacted with that object in the past, when talking to people, you may unlock new dialogue optioons if you've senses something related to the topic of conversation before, these answers are marked with a star
Thing is, often than not, in conversation, there is a correct option, and that is, the option you deduced by touching objects, in some points of the game, this is the only option that actually advances the story, so there really isn't much freedom to choose what action to take
The npc really wont react strongly to whatever you say either, whenever you talk to someone, sometimes you have the typical "x character will remember this", and I just think this takes away from the experience of the game
showing what a character will and will not remember is a bad idea in this type of game IMO, since by saying that, you're also saying all of the actions you've made that didn't have that popup appear are basically worthless. There is nothing actually wrong with doing these, complex games with branching stories are stupid hard to create, so that's why you got to sell the illusion of choice, if you didn't tell me half of the things didn't matter, I would probably have believed a lot of the things I did had consequences in the long term
The story itself is also painfully lineal, no action that you take will really divert the story in any form, even the dialogue options that I was talking before, that "x will remember that", that only REMOVES the option to say something different in certain scenes
again, if you wanted to keep the story lineal, the way to have presented those options would be instead of removing options because of taking certain choices, going "your actions have unlocked this special dialogue!"
The game also for some reason has a combat system, honestly I think they just added this because every game has combat, because the system really doesn't evolve as the game goes on, it's just a chore. However, the combat skills you unlock will also affect what you can do outside combat, which sounds good, there are 4 main upgrade paths, but after investing certain ammount of skill points into each, you need to find a salutor to keep upgrading it (a salutor is like a cool ghost that helps you), the unlocks of this are tied to the main story
so, whever you start act 2, you expect this to stay the same, in act 2 the game opens up a lot of sidequests, but given the lineal structure of the game so far, you would assume that they would just give you extra lore or more piecs of clothing for the protagonist, but instead, they fucking have the salutors you need, and unless you do those side quests, that I remind you, are OPTIONAL by nature, you will always have a bad end, REGARDLESS of your choices up to that point, which is just bad
also, those skills will again, unlock new choices of dialogue, but they also show you that there are many other locked options
The game just feels WAYYYYYYY too railroady for a game that's supposed to be morally grey were you make difficult choices, a feeling that I never really got playing this game (there are also a thing called "flaws" that has this same problem but i'm not getting into it you just get the idea)
In the end, in act 3, there is a scene where you basically fucking die, spawn in the void, and then someone fucking walks up to you and starts judging all of your actions, this is the only thing that will really determine your ending, and it's a fucking SICK scene but it just that well, the choices I made never really felt difficult or anything, the story up to that point was just kinda mid, so that scene fell flat, but if that was in any other game, that scene would honestly been so peak
even for as much shit as i've given this game, the game still works as a average RPG, you don't have freedom to choose, but that just leaves you with a normal RPG which is honestly enjoyable, nothing too fancy, but it mostly works
placed in C tier
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next: half-life
still watching ginga eiyuu densetsu
have yet to start reading blood meridian
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also, I just looked up in youtube this game to see if anyone I knew had talked about this game, and I found a video titled THE GAME THAT REVOLUTIONIZED THE GAMES ABOUT THAUMATURGES and i'm like bro what others game about thaumaturges are there I had to google that word before starting to play this game like what the fuck
I'm pretty mixed about this game, I think it does get worse as the game progresses
The Thaumaturge is a narrative Isometric RPG about poland in the 1905, this game also markets itself as disco elysium, an RPG where you make morally dubious choices and your actions have consequences, however, the game really drops the ball in this aspect
My actual problems with the story comes from the gameplay mechanics of the game, as the title suggests, you're a thaumaturge, if you touch an object, you can feel the energy of it and you can deduce shit about the people who interacted with that object in the past, when talking to people, you may unlock new dialogue optioons if you've senses something related to the topic of conversation before, these answers are marked with a star
Thing is, often than not, in conversation, there is a correct option, and that is, the option you deduced by touching objects, in some points of the game, this is the only option that actually advances the story, so there really isn't much freedom to choose what action to take
The npc really wont react strongly to whatever you say either, whenever you talk to someone, sometimes you have the typical "x character will remember this", and I just think this takes away from the experience of the game
showing what a character will and will not remember is a bad idea in this type of game IMO, since by saying that, you're also saying all of the actions you've made that didn't have that popup appear are basically worthless. There is nothing actually wrong with doing these, complex games with branching stories are stupid hard to create, so that's why you got to sell the illusion of choice, if you didn't tell me half of the things didn't matter, I would probably have believed a lot of the things I did had consequences in the long term
The story itself is also painfully lineal, no action that you take will really divert the story in any form, even the dialogue options that I was talking before, that "x will remember that", that only REMOVES the option to say something different in certain scenes
again, if you wanted to keep the story lineal, the way to have presented those options would be instead of removing options because of taking certain choices, going "your actions have unlocked this special dialogue!"
The game also for some reason has a combat system, honestly I think they just added this because every game has combat, because the system really doesn't evolve as the game goes on, it's just a chore. However, the combat skills you unlock will also affect what you can do outside combat, which sounds good, there are 4 main upgrade paths, but after investing certain ammount of skill points into each, you need to find a salutor to keep upgrading it (a salutor is like a cool ghost that helps you), the unlocks of this are tied to the main story
so, whever you start act 2, you expect this to stay the same, in act 2 the game opens up a lot of sidequests, but given the lineal structure of the game so far, you would assume that they would just give you extra lore or more piecs of clothing for the protagonist, but instead, they fucking have the salutors you need, and unless you do those side quests, that I remind you, are OPTIONAL by nature, you will always have a bad end, REGARDLESS of your choices up to that point, which is just bad
also, those skills will again, unlock new choices of dialogue, but they also show you that there are many other locked options
The game just feels WAYYYYYYY too railroady for a game that's supposed to be morally grey were you make difficult choices, a feeling that I never really got playing this game (there are also a thing called "flaws" that has this same problem but i'm not getting into it you just get the idea)
In the end, in act 3, there is a scene where you basically fucking die, spawn in the void, and then someone fucking walks up to you and starts judging all of your actions, this is the only thing that will really determine your ending, and it's a fucking SICK scene but it just that well, the choices I made never really felt difficult or anything, the story up to that point was just kinda mid, so that scene fell flat, but if that was in any other game, that scene would honestly been so peak
even for as much shit as i've given this game, the game still works as a average RPG, you don't have freedom to choose, but that just leaves you with a normal RPG which is honestly enjoyable, nothing too fancy, but it mostly works
placed in C tier
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next: half-life
still watching ginga eiyuu densetsu
have yet to start reading blood meridian
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also, I just looked up in youtube this game to see if anyone I knew had talked about this game, and I found a video titled THE GAME THAT REVOLUTIONIZED THE GAMES ABOUT THAUMATURGES and i'm like bro what others game about thaumaturges are there I had to google that word before starting to play this game like what the fuck
The choices thing kinda sucks, also some salutors being hidden if you don't go in weird places kinda sucks, but the story is cool imo. Also the atmosphere is different from anything else I've played and I liked it.
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the setting was really good, it's a shame beacuse if they made the actual story choices be story choices it would have been so peakKarmine wrote:
The choices thing kinda sucks, also some salutors being hidden if you don't go in weird places kinda sucks, but the story is cool imo. Also the atmosphere is different from anything else I've played and I liked it.
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soooooooooo since legend of the galactic heroes is long as fuck and since this required 0 neurons I decided to watch this on the side over these past few days, don't worry, i'm still watching a lot of galactic heroes
xavier renegade angel
I think it was fine
old adult swim comedy tv show that now it looks like it was made on garry's mod that gained popularity in recent times
This is an episodic TV show (with a single exception), and there really aren't any recurring characters, there really doesn't exist a plot to the overall tv show, the protagonist claims that they're seaking the meaning of life and solve the mistery of the death of their parents but like it doesn't matter at all, it's just a plot device
The episodes themselves don't really have any plot either, shit just happens and you got to accept it, all of the jokes are extremely over the top, very absurd, and in some circustances shocking or disgusting, a lot of the charm of the show is "how the fuck did this air in television" (the answer to that is that television is not as sanitized as we like to believe like they used to broadcast porn in the older days for god's sake)
Thing is, outside of the shock humour, there really isn't anything else to this show, either you get really into the type of comedy or not
This show has two seasons and tbh I like season one the most, I think it being kinda shitty adds to the experience, in season 2 the overall production quality increased, and it overall became a lot faster paced, which is not something I enjoyed as much
This was fine, however it just didn't quite hit for me, so B rank
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still watching the legend of the galactic heroes
started half-life
i've currently read 1/4 of blood meridian
xavier renegade angel
I think it was fine
old adult swim comedy tv show that now it looks like it was made on garry's mod that gained popularity in recent times
This is an episodic TV show (with a single exception), and there really aren't any recurring characters, there really doesn't exist a plot to the overall tv show, the protagonist claims that they're seaking the meaning of life and solve the mistery of the death of their parents but like it doesn't matter at all, it's just a plot device
The episodes themselves don't really have any plot either, shit just happens and you got to accept it, all of the jokes are extremely over the top, very absurd, and in some circustances shocking or disgusting, a lot of the charm of the show is "how the fuck did this air in television" (the answer to that is that television is not as sanitized as we like to believe like they used to broadcast porn in the older days for god's sake)
Thing is, outside of the shock humour, there really isn't anything else to this show, either you get really into the type of comedy or not
This show has two seasons and tbh I like season one the most, I think it being kinda shitty adds to the experience, in season 2 the overall production quality increased, and it overall became a lot faster paced, which is not something I enjoyed as much
This was fine, however it just didn't quite hit for me, so B rank
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still watching the legend of the galactic heroes
started half-life
i've currently read 1/4 of blood meridian
watch aikatsu (2012) pls pls
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rejected, it's VERY long and idk if it's exactly my vibe, I'm only watching legend of the galactic heroes because I got baited into watching it (I only intended to see the start of the remakes) and it turned out to be really fucking goodreffty_gag wrote:
watch aikatsu (2012) pls pls
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rejected, it's VERY long and idk if it's exactly my vibe, I'm only watching legend of the galactic heroes because I got baited into watching it (I only intended to see the start of the remakes) and it turned out to be really fucking goodreffty_gag wrote:
watch aikatsu (2012) pls pls
since the movie is coming out this june,
fujimoto's "look back" one-shot?
fujimoto's "look back" one-shot?
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will put on the queue, but given it being a short oneshot I may do it earlierLapizote wrote:
since the movie is coming out this june,
fujimoto's "look back" one-shot?
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Blood Meridian
honestly i'm kinda dissapointed by this book
acclaimed by some as one of the most disturbing, fucked up, terrible books ever written, while also holding a masterpiece status, blood meridian is a western about the violence of 1850 in the current border with mexico
all of that definitively happens, a lot of people get killed in the most horrible ways ever, thing is, I feel i'm kinda desensitized of it already?, this book was written in 1985, nowadays, violent media is more accesible than ever, this is most common with videogames where you killing half the human race has become a joke. Of course there is a difference between those two examples, in videogames killing is framed as fun, while blood meridian gives very graphical explanations of the murders, which is percieved as a bad act, it also uses these descriptions to make comments on the nature of racism and killing.
however, even when they kill someone like that, I just honestly don't really give a shit, the act of killing is not really enough, in order for that to really have an impact on me, I must have a emotional connection to the characters, something that doesn't really happen over the book, since the book is more centered in the actual scenario and historical period than in the plot with the characters
Still, the book is really well written, I haven't read that many books if i'm being honest, so I don't really have a point of comparasion, but the narration on this book felt quite a bit more poetic than in other books i've read, which is nice
the thing I don't really get about this book is why the mexican characters are written like they are, like this is nit-pikcing, but while it does make sense that they talk spanish between each other and that those lines of dialogue are written in spanish, I don't get why the narration mixes spanish words while talking about the mexican individuals, stuff along the lines of "he grabbed his escopeta" instead of "he grabbed his shotgun", blood meridian isn't the first book to commit this sin by far (honestly it happens with most spanish-speaking characters in american created media), but it's still something I don't really get
idk, this book didn't just really hit for me, c tier
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i'm opn chapter 55 of the original series of ginga eiyuu densetsu
still playing half-life
next: the book thief
honestly i'm kinda dissapointed by this book
acclaimed by some as one of the most disturbing, fucked up, terrible books ever written, while also holding a masterpiece status, blood meridian is a western about the violence of 1850 in the current border with mexico
all of that definitively happens, a lot of people get killed in the most horrible ways ever, thing is, I feel i'm kinda desensitized of it already?, this book was written in 1985, nowadays, violent media is more accesible than ever, this is most common with videogames where you killing half the human race has become a joke. Of course there is a difference between those two examples, in videogames killing is framed as fun, while blood meridian gives very graphical explanations of the murders, which is percieved as a bad act, it also uses these descriptions to make comments on the nature of racism and killing.
however, even when they kill someone like that, I just honestly don't really give a shit, the act of killing is not really enough, in order for that to really have an impact on me, I must have a emotional connection to the characters, something that doesn't really happen over the book, since the book is more centered in the actual scenario and historical period than in the plot with the characters
Still, the book is really well written, I haven't read that many books if i'm being honest, so I don't really have a point of comparasion, but the narration on this book felt quite a bit more poetic than in other books i've read, which is nice
the thing I don't really get about this book is why the mexican characters are written like they are, like this is nit-pikcing, but while it does make sense that they talk spanish between each other and that those lines of dialogue are written in spanish, I don't get why the narration mixes spanish words while talking about the mexican individuals, stuff along the lines of "he grabbed his escopeta" instead of "he grabbed his shotgun", blood meridian isn't the first book to commit this sin by far (honestly it happens with most spanish-speaking characters in american created media), but it's still something I don't really get
idk, this book didn't just really hit for me, c tier
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i'm opn chapter 55 of the original series of ginga eiyuu densetsu
still playing half-life
next: the book thief
thing is, it looks like this sometimes seemingly unironically happens in first-gen/second-gen mexican-american families... i see it firsthand as part of one where english is primarily used while having absorbed spanish with effective fluency, and it causes me to wonder about a lotPatatitta wrote:
the thing I don't really get about this book is why the mexican characters are written like they are, like this is nit-pikcing, but while it does make sense that they talk spanish between each other and that those lines of dialogue are written in spanish, I don't get why the narration mixes spanish words while talking about the mexican individuals, stuff along the lines of "he grabbed his escopeta" instead of "he grabbed his shotgun", blood meridian isn't the first book to commit this sin by far (honestly it happens with most spanish-speaking characters in american created media), but it's still something I don't really get
...in any case, it isn't very intuitive for the narrative flow a book in my mind-- but it arguably could be trivial as long as everything is understood and you aren't pausing for minutes at a time for a translation dictionary just to read from what's happening
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no, I don't mean the spaninglish, that it makes sense, if the mexican character is speaking, it makes sense for them to mix up words, what I mean is the actual NARRATION, which shouldn't fall on the same mistakesAchromalia wrote:
thing is, it looks like this sometimes seemingly unironically happens in first-gen/second-gen mexican-american families... i see it firsthand as part of one where english is primarily used while having absorbed spanish with effective fluency, and it causes me to wonder about a lotPatatitta wrote:
the thing I don't really get about this book is why the mexican characters are written like they are, like this is nit-pikcing, but while it does make sense that they talk spanish between each other and that those lines of dialogue are written in spanish, I don't get why the narration mixes spanish words while talking about the mexican individuals, stuff along the lines of "he grabbed his escopeta" instead of "he grabbed his shotgun", blood meridian isn't the first book to commit this sin by far (honestly it happens with most spanish-speaking characters in american created media), but it's still something I don't really get
...in any case, it isn't very intuitive for the narrative flow a book in my mind-- but it arguably could be trivial as long as everything is understood and you aren't pausing for minutes at a time for a translation dictionary just to read from what's happening
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patatitta, when you read books do you read them in spanish or in english? not a reference to that one meme, i genuinely want to know
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if the original language is english, I read them in english, if it's spanish, I read it in spanish, if it's a third language I don't know how to speak, whichever I get my hands on firstsametdze wrote:
patatitta, when you read books do you read them in spanish or in english? not a reference to that one meme, i genuinely want to know
contrary to your opinion i actually love it when books do thatPatatitta wrote:
the thing I don't really get about this book is why the mexican characters are written like they are, like this is nit-pikcing, but while it does make sense that they talk spanish between each other and that those lines of dialogue are written in spanish, I don't get why the narration mixes spanish words while talking about the mexican individuals, stuff along the lines of "he grabbed his escopeta" instead of "he grabbed his shotgun", blood meridian isn't the first book to commit this sin by far (honestly it happens with most spanish-speaking characters in american created media), but it's still something I don't really get
Tagalog literature (originally written in English) also does the same thing, and imo it's a really effective way of getting me more immersed and connected to the (Filipino) setting (which is distinct from using Tagalog words interlaced in dialogue, which just tells me that the characters are Filipino)
"𝚆𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚜𝚎 𝚌𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚕𝚊𝚜 𝚜𝚊𝚢𝚒𝚗𝚐?!" 𝚖𝚞𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚍 𝚂𝚎𝚛𝚛𝚊𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚐𝚊 𝚝𝚘 é𝚕 𝚖𝚒𝚜𝚖𝚘, 𝚊𝚜 𝚑𝚎 𝚔𝚎𝚙𝚝 𝚕𝚎𝚢𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚜𝚝 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚌𝚊𝚖𝚋𝚒𝚘 𝚘𝚏 𝚘𝚙𝚒𝚗𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝙿𝚊𝚝𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚝𝚝𝚊'𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍. 𝙷𝚎 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚌𝚕𝚞𝚍𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚑𝚎 𝚑𝚊𝚍 𝚗𝚊𝚍𝚊 𝚝𝚘 𝚍𝚎𝚌𝚒𝚛 𝚜𝚘 𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚝𝚕𝚢 𝚌𝚕𝚘𝚜𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚝𝚎𝚖𝚊 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚍𝚎𝚌𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚐𝚘 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚖𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚌 𝚊 𝚘𝚝𝚛𝚊 𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚎, 𝚊𝚜 𝚒𝚝 𝚒𝚜 𝚌𝚘𝚖ú𝚗𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚎 𝚜𝚊𝚒𝚍 𝚒𝚗 𝙴𝚜𝚙𝚊ñ𝚒𝚝𝚊.
𝙿𝚊𝚗𝚣𝚊. 𝙿𝚊𝚗𝚣𝚊. 𝙿𝚊𝚗𝚣𝚊. 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚞𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚊. 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚞𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚊. 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚞𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚊. 𝙴𝚜 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚘, 𝚏𝚞𝚌𝚔...
𝙿𝚊𝚗𝚣𝚊. 𝙿𝚊𝚗𝚣𝚊. 𝙿𝚊𝚗𝚣𝚊. 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚞𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚊. 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚞𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚊. 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚞𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚊. 𝙴𝚜 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚘, 𝚏𝚞𝚌𝚔...
I wanna die.Serraionga wrote:
"𝚆𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚜𝚎 𝚌𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚕𝚊𝚜 𝚜𝚊𝚢𝚒𝚗𝚐?!" 𝚖𝚞𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚍 𝚂𝚎𝚛𝚛𝚊𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚐𝚊 𝚝𝚘 é𝚕 𝚖𝚒𝚜𝚖𝚘, 𝚊𝚜 𝚑𝚎 𝚔𝚎𝚙𝚝 𝚕𝚎𝚢𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚜𝚝 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚌𝚊𝚖𝚋𝚒𝚘 𝚘𝚏 𝚘𝚙𝚒𝚗𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝙿𝚊𝚝𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚝𝚝𝚊'𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍. 𝙷𝚎 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚌𝚕𝚞𝚍𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚑𝚎 𝚑𝚊𝚍 𝚗𝚊𝚍𝚊 𝚝𝚘 𝚍𝚎𝚌𝚒𝚛 𝚜𝚘 𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚝𝚕𝚢 𝚌𝚕𝚘𝚜𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚝𝚎𝚖𝚊 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚍𝚎𝚌𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚐𝚘 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚖𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚌 𝚊 𝚘𝚝𝚛𝚊 𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚎, 𝚊𝚜 𝚒𝚝 𝚒𝚜 𝚌𝚘𝚖ú𝚗𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚎 𝚜𝚊𝚒𝚍 𝚒𝚗 𝙴𝚜𝚙𝚊ñ𝚒𝚝𝚊.
𝙿𝚊𝚗𝚣𝚊. 𝙿𝚊𝚗𝚣𝚊. 𝙿𝚊𝚗𝚣𝚊. 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚞𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚊. 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚞𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚊. 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚞𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚊. 𝙴𝚜 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚘, 𝚏𝚞𝚌𝚔...
yeah! that's what i meant to distinguish, maybe ineffectively;; i agree with you, to the effect that it's commonly pretty awkward if you don't have a frame of rationale for that. it can be very definitively distracting and it's not particularly helpful for a reader when that's not something that was anticipated or accepted :/Patatitta wrote:
no, I don't mean the spaninglish, that it makes sense, if the mexican character is speaking, it makes sense for them to mix up words, what I mean is the actual NARRATION, which shouldn't fall on the same mistakesAchromalia wrote:
thing is, it looks like this sometimes seemingly unironically happens in first-gen/second-gen mexican-american families... i see it firsthand as part of one where english is primarily used while having absorbed spanish with effective fluency, and it causes me to wonder about a lotPatatitta wrote:
the thing I don't really get about this book is why the mexican characters are written like they are, like this is nit-pikcing, but while it does make sense that they talk spanish between each other and that those lines of dialogue are written in spanish, I don't get why the narration mixes spanish words while talking about the mexican individuals, stuff along the lines of "he grabbed his escopeta" instead of "he grabbed his shotgun", blood meridian isn't the first book to commit this sin by far (honestly it happens with most spanish-speaking characters in american created media), but it's still something I don't really get
...in any case, it isn't very intuitive for the narrative flow a book in my mind-- but it arguably could be trivial as long as everything is understood and you aren't pausing for minutes at a time for a translation dictionary just to read from what's happening
i do sympathize a lot with this sentiment though, and find myself more inclined to justify it this way :OLapizote wrote:
contrary to your opinion i actually love it when books do thatPatatitta wrote:
the thing I don't really get about this book is why the mexican characters are written like they are, like this is nit-pikcing, but while it does make sense that they talk spanish between each other and that those lines of dialogue are written in spanish, I don't get why the narration mixes spanish words while talking about the mexican individuals, stuff along the lines of "he grabbed his escopeta" instead of "he grabbed his shotgun", blood meridian isn't the first book to commit this sin by far (honestly it happens with most spanish-speaking characters in american created media), but it's still something I don't really get
Tagalog literature (originally written in English) also does the same thing, and imo it's a really effective way of getting me more immersed and connected to the (Filipino) setting (which is distinct from using Tagalog words interlaced in dialogue, which just tells me that the characters are Filipino)
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valhallaSerraionga wrote:
"𝚆𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚜𝚎 𝚌𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚕𝚊𝚜 𝚜𝚊𝚢𝚒𝚗𝚐?!" 𝚖𝚞𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚍 𝚂𝚎𝚛𝚛𝚊𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚐𝚊 𝚝𝚘 é𝚕 𝚖𝚒𝚜𝚖𝚘, 𝚊𝚜 𝚑𝚎 𝚔𝚎𝚙𝚝 𝚕𝚎𝚢𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚜𝚝 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚌𝚊𝚖𝚋𝚒𝚘 𝚘𝚏 𝚘𝚙𝚒𝚗𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝙿𝚊𝚝𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚝𝚝𝚊'𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍. 𝙷𝚎 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚌𝚕𝚞𝚍𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚑𝚎 𝚑𝚊𝚍 𝚗𝚊𝚍𝚊 𝚝𝚘 𝚍𝚎𝚌𝚒𝚛 𝚜𝚘 𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚝𝚕𝚢 𝚌𝚕𝚘𝚜𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚝𝚎𝚖𝚊 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚍𝚎𝚌𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚐𝚘 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚖𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚌 𝚊 𝚘𝚝𝚛𝚊 𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚎, 𝚊𝚜 𝚒𝚝 𝚒𝚜 𝚌𝚘𝚖ú𝚗𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚎 𝚜𝚊𝚒𝚍 𝚒𝚗 𝙴𝚜𝚙𝚊ñ𝚒𝚝𝚊.
𝙿𝚊𝚗𝚣𝚊. 𝙿𝚊𝚗𝚣𝚊. 𝙿𝚊𝚗𝚣𝚊. 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚞𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚊. 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚞𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚊. 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚞𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚊. 𝙴𝚜 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚘, 𝚏𝚞𝚌𝚔...
Girls und Panzer
watched both the anime and the follow up movie, it was mid.
Girls und Panzer is a slice of life that tries to bait war thunder players by having cool and manly and important shit like drive tanks instead of dumb activities for little girls such as camping or sailing small boats as turistic guides
slice of life (and more specificly CGDCT/Iyashikei) is a genre that thrives out of feelings, it's not what they do or what they see, but what you feel while watching it, the actual content doesn't matter as long as it accomplishes it's goal, which is often making you feel relaxed and happy, not only that, but a lot of these shows are also surprisingly educational
This also applies to other genres, I think the best example are sport animes, you don't need to play volleyball to enjoy haikyuu or ping pong to enjoy ping pong the animation, and in many ways you will learn about these sports by watching the anime
Girls und Panzer is the opposite of this, you need to enjoy tanks and the community online surrounding tanks to be able to really enjoy it. The anime assumes you already know quite a bit about tanks, and the focus is on the tanks, not the characters, which barely develops over the course of the anime
at the start of the anime, the protagonist hates tanks, almost has a moral conviction about tanks, she moves to a new school to avoid tanks, she's afraid that she wont be able to make friends but luckily she meets a few girls that become her friend really quickly, however, driving tanks get introduced to their school and her new friends wants to participate on it.
This is a REALLY GOOD dynamic, you could honestly do a full on drama anime with that premise, however instead of really pushing it forward, it basically gets dropped by chapter 3, where the main character has a change of mind and now thinks tanks are really cool, her character or relation to other characters doesn't change or evolve significantly over the course of the anime
this is specially bad with the movie, where it's straight up 2 hours of a single tank fight, and unless you care about tank fights, it just doesn't spark any emotion on you
they also really sacrifice a lot of the universe and the world in order to make the premise work, in no universe there are high school girls driving tanks, much less having straight up tank fights where they could easily die in the MIDDLE OF THE STREET WITH CIVILIANS PASSING BY, AND THE CIVILIANS LIKE IT. Driving tanks is also percieved as a feminine thing and even whern a character critics tanks, it's not because they are war machines, it's because she wanted her daughter to be more gentle
in a lot of slice of life anime part of the fan is observing the world, but if you just make the world completely nonsensical, it's not the most fun to really watch, because if they can just pull that shit out of their ass without any real story justification, they can pull anything off their ass (like what they did in the movie, where they kinda just made up a situation to keep the story going)
(note, if you were to make the world nonsensical but actually take advantage of that fact by making it a plot point like some other more psychological slice of lifes, that's fine, it's just kinda ruining your world-building and then letting that weight you down)
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i'm on chapter 65 of the legend of the galactic heroes, so far pretty peak, the original ova is kinda different to the remake, it somehow is shittier but honestly that gives it a lot of charm
still playing half life
started book thief like 2 hours ago, so far so good, liking it more than blood meridian
Portal Reloaded
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i'm fucking ass at puzzle games, tried it when it came out, and my brain just exploded and died and I never finished it and idk if I would be able to finish it if I were to try it now, my mindset is really not good when it comes to puzzle games, I never finished void stranger and that is unironically a banger videogameMcEndu wrote:
Portal Reloaded
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lmfaoSerraionga wrote:
"𝚆𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚜𝚎 𝚌𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚕𝚊𝚜 𝚜𝚊𝚢𝚒𝚗𝚐?!" 𝚖𝚞𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚍 𝚂𝚎𝚛𝚛𝚊𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚐𝚊 𝚝𝚘 é𝚕 𝚖𝚒𝚜𝚖𝚘, 𝚊𝚜 𝚑𝚎 𝚔𝚎𝚙𝚝 𝚕𝚎𝚢𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚜𝚝 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚌𝚊𝚖𝚋𝚒𝚘 𝚘𝚏 𝚘𝚙𝚒𝚗𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝙿𝚊𝚝𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚝𝚝𝚊'𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍. 𝙷𝚎 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚌𝚕𝚞𝚍𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚑𝚎 𝚑𝚊𝚍 𝚗𝚊𝚍𝚊 𝚝𝚘 𝚍𝚎𝚌𝚒𝚛 𝚜𝚘 𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚝𝚕𝚢 𝚌𝚕𝚘𝚜𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚝𝚎𝚖𝚊 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚍𝚎𝚌𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚐𝚘 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚖𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚌 𝚊 𝚘𝚝𝚛𝚊 𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚎, 𝚊𝚜 𝚒𝚝 𝚒𝚜 𝚌𝚘𝚖ú𝚗𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚎 𝚜𝚊𝚒𝚍 𝚒𝚗 𝙴𝚜𝚙𝚊ñ𝚒𝚝𝚊.
𝙿𝚊𝚗𝚣𝚊. 𝙿𝚊𝚗𝚣𝚊. 𝙿𝚊𝚗𝚣𝚊. 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚞𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚊. 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚞𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚊. 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚞𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚊. 𝙴𝚜 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚘, 𝚏𝚞𝚌𝚔...
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xch00F wrote:
lmfaoSerraionga wrote:
"𝚆𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚜𝚎 𝚌𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚕𝚊𝚜 𝚜𝚊𝚢𝚒𝚗𝚐?!" 𝚖𝚞𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚍 𝚂𝚎𝚛𝚛𝚊𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚐𝚊 𝚝𝚘 é𝚕 𝚖𝚒𝚜𝚖𝚘, 𝚊𝚜 𝚑𝚎 𝚔𝚎𝚙𝚝 𝚕𝚎𝚢𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚜𝚝 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚌𝚊𝚖𝚋𝚒𝚘 𝚘𝚏 𝚘𝚙𝚒𝚗𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝙿𝚊𝚝𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚝𝚝𝚊'𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍. 𝙷𝚎 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚌𝚕𝚞𝚍𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚑𝚎 𝚑𝚊𝚍 𝚗𝚊𝚍𝚊 𝚝𝚘 𝚍𝚎𝚌𝚒𝚛 𝚜𝚘 𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚝𝚕𝚢 𝚌𝚕𝚘𝚜𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚝𝚎𝚖𝚊 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚍𝚎𝚌𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚐𝚘 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚖𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚌 𝚊 𝚘𝚝𝚛𝚊 𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚎, 𝚊𝚜 𝚒𝚝 𝚒𝚜 𝚌𝚘𝚖ú𝚗𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚎 𝚜𝚊𝚒𝚍 𝚒𝚗 𝙴𝚜𝚙𝚊ñ𝚒𝚝𝚊.
𝙿𝚊𝚗𝚣𝚊. 𝙿𝚊𝚗𝚣𝚊. 𝙿𝚊𝚗𝚣𝚊. 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚞𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚊. 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚞𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚊. 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚞𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚊. 𝙴𝚜 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚘, 𝚏𝚞𝚌𝚔...
this, this is wonderfulPatatitta wrote:
xch00F wrote:
lmfaoSerraionga wrote:
"𝚆𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚜𝚎 𝚌𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚕𝚊𝚜 𝚜𝚊𝚢𝚒𝚗𝚐?!" 𝚖𝚞𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚍 𝚂𝚎𝚛𝚛𝚊𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚐𝚊 𝚝𝚘 é𝚕 𝚖𝚒𝚜𝚖𝚘, 𝚊𝚜 𝚑𝚎 𝚔𝚎𝚙𝚝 𝚕𝚎𝚢𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚜𝚝 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚌𝚊𝚖𝚋𝚒𝚘 𝚘𝚏 𝚘𝚙𝚒𝚗𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝙿𝚊𝚝𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚝𝚝𝚊'𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍. 𝙷𝚎 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚌𝚕𝚞𝚍𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚑𝚎 𝚑𝚊𝚍 𝚗𝚊𝚍𝚊 𝚝𝚘 𝚍𝚎𝚌𝚒𝚛 𝚜𝚘 𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚝𝚕𝚢 𝚌𝚕𝚘𝚜𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚝𝚎𝚖𝚊 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚍𝚎𝚌𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚐𝚘 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚖𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚌 𝚊 𝚘𝚝𝚛𝚊 𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚎, 𝚊𝚜 𝚒𝚝 𝚒𝚜 𝚌𝚘𝚖ú𝚗𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚎 𝚜𝚊𝚒𝚍 𝚒𝚗 𝙴𝚜𝚙𝚊ñ𝚒𝚝𝚊.
𝙿𝚊𝚗𝚣𝚊. 𝙿𝚊𝚗𝚣𝚊. 𝙿𝚊𝚗𝚣𝚊. 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚞𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚊. 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚞𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚊. 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚞𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚊. 𝙴𝚜 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚘, 𝚏𝚞𝚌𝚔...
But this would not be possible in war thunder lol:Patatitta wrote:
valhallaSerraionga wrote:
"𝚆𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚜𝚎 𝚌𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚕𝚊𝚜 𝚜𝚊𝚢𝚒𝚗𝚐?!" 𝚖𝚞𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚍 𝚂𝚎𝚛𝚛𝚊𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚐𝚊 𝚝𝚘 é𝚕 𝚖𝚒𝚜𝚖𝚘, 𝚊𝚜 𝚑𝚎 𝚔𝚎𝚙𝚝 𝚕𝚎𝚢𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚜𝚝 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚌𝚊𝚖𝚋𝚒𝚘 𝚘𝚏 𝚘𝚙𝚒𝚗𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝙿𝚊𝚝𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚝𝚝𝚊'𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍. 𝙷𝚎 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚌𝚕𝚞𝚍𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚑𝚎 𝚑𝚊𝚍 𝚗𝚊𝚍𝚊 𝚝𝚘 𝚍𝚎𝚌𝚒𝚛 𝚜𝚘 𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚝𝚕𝚢 𝚌𝚕𝚘𝚜𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚝𝚎𝚖𝚊 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚍𝚎𝚌𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚐𝚘 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚖𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚌 𝚊 𝚘𝚝𝚛𝚊 𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚎, 𝚊𝚜 𝚒𝚝 𝚒𝚜 𝚌𝚘𝚖ú𝚗𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚎 𝚜𝚊𝚒𝚍 𝚒𝚗 𝙴𝚜𝚙𝚊ñ𝚒𝚝𝚊.
𝙿𝚊𝚗𝚣𝚊. 𝙿𝚊𝚗𝚣𝚊. 𝙿𝚊𝚗𝚣𝚊. 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚞𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚊. 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚞𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚊. 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚞𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚊. 𝙴𝚜 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚘, 𝚏𝚞𝚌𝚔...
Girls und Panzer
watched both the anime and the follow up movie, it was mid.
Girls und Panzer is a slice of life that tries to bait war thunder players by having cool and manly and important shit like drive tanks instead of dumb activities for little girls such as camping or sailing small boats as turistic guides
requesting high school fleet pls
play Castlevania : Symphony of the night
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idk if it's another highly militalistic slice of life kinda like this one I don't think I will enjoy it, I will watch it if you REALLY want me to watch it thoJangsoodlor wrote:
But this would not be possible in war thunder lol:Patatitta wrote:
valhallaSerraionga wrote:
"𝚆𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚜𝚎 𝚌𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚕𝚊𝚜 𝚜𝚊𝚢𝚒𝚗𝚐?!" 𝚖𝚞𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚍 𝚂𝚎𝚛𝚛𝚊𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚐𝚊 𝚝𝚘 é𝚕 𝚖𝚒𝚜𝚖𝚘, 𝚊𝚜 𝚑𝚎 𝚔𝚎𝚙𝚝 𝚕𝚎𝚢𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚜𝚝 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚌𝚊𝚖𝚋𝚒𝚘 𝚘𝚏 𝚘𝚙𝚒𝚗𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝙿𝚊𝚝𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚝𝚝𝚊'𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍. 𝙷𝚎 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚌𝚕𝚞𝚍𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚑𝚎 𝚑𝚊𝚍 𝚗𝚊𝚍𝚊 𝚝𝚘 𝚍𝚎𝚌𝚒𝚛 𝚜𝚘 𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚝𝚕𝚢 𝚌𝚕𝚘𝚜𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚝𝚎𝚖𝚊 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚍𝚎𝚌𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚐𝚘 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚖𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚌 𝚊 𝚘𝚝𝚛𝚊 𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚎, 𝚊𝚜 𝚒𝚝 𝚒𝚜 𝚌𝚘𝚖ú𝚗𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚎 𝚜𝚊𝚒𝚍 𝚒𝚗 𝙴𝚜𝚙𝚊ñ𝚒𝚝𝚊.
𝙿𝚊𝚗𝚣𝚊. 𝙿𝚊𝚗𝚣𝚊. 𝙿𝚊𝚗𝚣𝚊. 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚞𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚊. 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚞𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚊. 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚞𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚊. 𝙴𝚜 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚘, 𝚏𝚞𝚌𝚔...
Girls und Panzer
watched both the anime and the follow up movie, it was mid.
Girls und Panzer is a slice of life that tries to bait war thunder players by having cool and manly and important shit like drive tanks instead of dumb activities for little girls such as camping or sailing small boats as turistic guides
requesting high school fleet pls
probably a really good fucking game but given i'm mainly searching for narrative games deniedreffty_gag wrote:
play Castlevania : Symphony of the night
Watch Annihilation, it's based on a book but I haven't read it and the movie is good.
Watch Danny Smoke in Furry Land
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sureKarmine wrote:
Watch Annihilation, it's based on a book but I haven't read it and the movie is good.
... sureNuuskamuikkunen wrote:
Watch Danny Smoke in Furry Land
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the book thief
pretty good
a book about a girl who lives in nazi germany and likes literature but she's poor and shit so like she has to steal books like the name suggest great plot twist I know
The idea behind this book, or at least how I percieved it was a criticism to the society of nazi germany. Hitler had a 90% support rate, and a large part of that was due to really clever propaganda, one of the most notorious actions the nazi government took was the act of burning books
however, the protagonist of the book actually like read books, and forbidden ones in fact, so they thought hitler was a pretty bad guy, it also shows the viewpoint of other characters who didn't read books
so yeah, this is a book about the power of literature, so while reading it you're like "yoooo i'm reading a book i'm better than 90% of people living in nazi germany"
also this book is narrated by death itself and I thought that was raw as fuck
I really don't have much to say about this book, it was nice, B rank
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edit: I read look back like 2 days ago?, completely forgot to post it here LMAO
look back
it's a oneshot manga by chainsaw man's author Tatsuki Fujimoto, but IMO it's better than chainsaw man
it's about a girl who draws manga, but then like stuff happens like this is only a volume long it really isn't long at all I cant talk about it without spoiling the shit out of it
This is a VERY drastic change of direction for fujimoto, this is closer as a manga to a silent voice than it is to chainsaw man, in a way it feels like it has more soul to it, fujimoto is a very young mangaka, and they have already made it, so it seems like they're just having fun now,
the structure of the manga feels very inspired by tragic romance movies such as the previously mentioned silent voice or other movies like I want to eat your pancreas, the emotional flow is very well done, and even if it's only one volume, it does kinda hit
The art is surprisingly good, being able to draw well isn't enough to know how to draw well, you NEED to create a situation where you can allow your art to flourish, I recently read through umineko, and while the art was pretty good all around, the setting was very stil, and there were really no ways to really fit a panel that was impactful
like, this panel
hits harder than this panel
my only real complain about the manga is that it's way too short, and that it doesn't really have the time to go in-depth enough about all of the themes they're covering, there are other manga covering the same topics that do it in a better, more profound way, however, with the movie coming out that expands on the manga, and given the manga structure basically being created with a movie in mind, I can't say i'm not hyped for it
placed on C tier
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next: nothing
i'm on chapter 82 of legend of the galactic heroes
halfway through half-life
pretty good
a book about a girl who lives in nazi germany and likes literature but she's poor and shit so like she has to steal books like the name suggest great plot twist I know
The idea behind this book, or at least how I percieved it was a criticism to the society of nazi germany. Hitler had a 90% support rate, and a large part of that was due to really clever propaganda, one of the most notorious actions the nazi government took was the act of burning books
however, the protagonist of the book actually like read books, and forbidden ones in fact, so they thought hitler was a pretty bad guy, it also shows the viewpoint of other characters who didn't read books
so yeah, this is a book about the power of literature, so while reading it you're like "yoooo i'm reading a book i'm better than 90% of people living in nazi germany"
also this book is narrated by death itself and I thought that was raw as fuck
I really don't have much to say about this book, it was nice, B rank
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edit: I read look back like 2 days ago?, completely forgot to post it here LMAO
look back
it's a oneshot manga by chainsaw man's author Tatsuki Fujimoto, but IMO it's better than chainsaw man
it's about a girl who draws manga, but then like stuff happens like this is only a volume long it really isn't long at all I cant talk about it without spoiling the shit out of it
This is a VERY drastic change of direction for fujimoto, this is closer as a manga to a silent voice than it is to chainsaw man, in a way it feels like it has more soul to it, fujimoto is a very young mangaka, and they have already made it, so it seems like they're just having fun now,
the structure of the manga feels very inspired by tragic romance movies such as the previously mentioned silent voice or other movies like I want to eat your pancreas, the emotional flow is very well done, and even if it's only one volume, it does kinda hit
The art is surprisingly good, being able to draw well isn't enough to know how to draw well, you NEED to create a situation where you can allow your art to flourish, I recently read through umineko, and while the art was pretty good all around, the setting was very stil, and there were really no ways to really fit a panel that was impactful
like, this panel
hits harder than this panel
my only real complain about the manga is that it's way too short, and that it doesn't really have the time to go in-depth enough about all of the themes they're covering, there are other manga covering the same topics that do it in a better, more profound way, however, with the movie coming out that expands on the manga, and given the manga structure basically being created with a movie in mind, I can't say i'm not hyped for it
placed on C tier
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next: nothing
i'm on chapter 82 of legend of the galactic heroes
halfway through half-life
Sorry if you've already answered this but how are you doing all this? Especially books, they take me some time to finish. Do you have some secret schedule because you've burnt through more media in 3 months than I have my entire life.
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currently, it's a combination of two factors, my mindset (which honestly I think it's the most important part), and the fact that i'm on a gap year and I have a lot of free time, but again, I don't put that much time in a row to anything, so it's mostly mindsetYmir wrote:
Sorry if you've already answered this but how are you doing all this? Especially books, they take me some time to finish. Do you have some secret schedule because you've burnt through more media in 3 months than I have my entire life.
I'm a person that values media literacy and overall being exposed to many different works of fiction, I do see to just finding something that you really like and sticking to it and not trying to explore new things a mistake, by reading art you're absorbing new ideas and even having new experiences
My entire free time is structured in a way where I don't really burn much time seeing things that I don't see as valuable, I barely watch youtube, I avoid spending too much time in social media, etc. Not only that, but I have a minimum threshold of how much time I feel like I need to put to a certain thing each day, so for now, i'm doing around 45 minutes each day reading books, and while doing it, and very focused on it
if I'm just doing something more boring in the computer, and I want to put something on the other monitor to make it a bit more pleasing, instead of putting YT I put a movie on
also, the more you read, the better you're at reading, you understand more of the text and you also read faster
I could never read just 45 mins a day dam ;-;
Whenever i read smthn i normally either stop when i finish the book (normally in like 3-7 hours depending on length) or i stop likeee halfway through
How do u restrain urself like that jeez ;-;
Whenever i read smthn i normally either stop when i finish the book (normally in like 3-7 hours depending on length) or i stop likeee halfway through
How do u restrain urself like that jeez ;-;
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I don't restrain myself, I burn myself out if I do stuff like that, if anything, I do multiple 45 minute sessions in a day, but for me, putting like 7 hours in a row into something is impossible, my maximum is like 2-3 hours, but i'm most comfortable with 45 minutesDementedduck wrote:
I could never read just 45 mins a day dam ;-;
Whenever i read smthn i normally either stop when i finish the book (normally in like 3-7 hours depending on length) or i stop likeee halfway through
How do u restrain urself like that jeez ;-;
Ahh that makes sense
Speaking of books do one of the bartimaeus trilogy from jonathan stroud (ideally the first one)
Coss i like how they switch perspective and have little thoughts at the bottom and all that
Speaking of books do one of the bartimaeus trilogy from jonathan stroud (ideally the first one)
Coss i like how they switch perspective and have little thoughts at the bottom and all that
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will do, but I will not start right away, there is some other stuff I want to read first so that may be in the back-burner for a whileDementedduck wrote:
Ahh that makes sense
Speaking of books do one of the bartimaeus trilogy from jonathan stroud (ideally the first one)
Coss i like how they switch perspective and have little thoughts at the bottom and all that
I'll probably try that 45 minutes technique. Thanks.
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update: beaten half-life 1 but since I liked it I will play half-life 2, and whenever I finish that I may consider playing half-life 3.
Maybe play Exit 8?
I swear Three is not in the vocabulary of anything Valve...Patatitta wrote:
update: beaten half-life 1 but since I liked it I will play half-life 2, and whenever I finish that I may consider playing half-life 3.
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i'm a cowardMcEndu wrote:
Maybe play Exit 8?
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The Amulet of Samarkand: Dropped
I'm sorry, the book isn't bad by any means, but it's a really big commitement and it doesn't really reach the enjoyement level where it's really worth it for me
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next: none
i'm on chapter 102 of leyend of the galactic heroes, so I should finish between tomorrow and the next day
I'm still early on half-life 2
I'm sorry, the book isn't bad by any means, but it's a really big commitement and it doesn't really reach the enjoyement level where it's really worth it for me
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next: none
i'm on chapter 102 of leyend of the galactic heroes, so I should finish between tomorrow and the next day
I'm still early on half-life 2
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holy moly I had completely forgotten about that bartimaeus trilogy lmao, I know I read at least one of those books when I was a teen. seem to recall something about magical running boots. that was the kind of young adult fantasy that you'd find for sale at a scholastic book fair, maybe on the same shelf next to captain underpants
yea i think its for likeee 13 or 14 year oldsxch00F wrote:
holy moly I had completely forgotten about that bartimaeus trilogy lmao, I know I read at least one of those books when I was a teen. seem to recall something about magical running boots. that was the kind of young adult fantasy that you'd find for sale at a scholastic book fair, maybe on the same shelf next to captain underpants
is cool story though imo
i might request ace attorney (any game btw) but i'm kinda scared that you might reject it
noicePatatitta wrote:
update: beaten half-life 1 but since I liked it I will play half-life 2, and whenever I finish that I may consider playing half-life 3.
https://howlongtobeat.com/game/23310MaxIsABigKaiju wrote:
i might request ace attorney (any game btw) but i'm kinda scared that you might reject it
https://howlongtobeat.com/game/130050
they're pretty long, even individually. i don't think he's reviewing any of them unless he's played them already
Did You Put The Can In The Trash Or Throw It At The Guy's FacePatatitta wrote:
I'm still early on half-life 2
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about phoenix wright, yeah, they're really fucking long and i'm not too interested atmSerraionga wrote:
https://howlongtobeat.com/game/23310MaxIsABigKaiju wrote:
i might request ace attorney (any game btw) but i'm kinda scared that you might reject it
https://howlongtobeat.com/game/130050
they're pretty long, even individually. i don't think he's reviewing any of them unless he's played them alreadyDid You Put The Can In The Trash Or Throw It At The Guy's FacePatatitta wrote:
I'm still early on half-life 2Information (λ).What cat?
Destination: Cat Equipping Sound Effect
Coordinates: X: 718345.3413 / Y: 784431.2962
Environment: Empty Void, a fragment of another world
Temperature: λ sp6a͏g̀̕h̴̸͟s̡͝g͏҉̕͢͜&̧/̀͏͘͞65 units
Distinct features: This cat is definitely a spy.
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also, I regret to inform you I put the can in the can in the thrash
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Legend of the galactic heroes (Remake + Original OVA)
It's really fucking good
This anime is a sci-fi drama about space politics, there are two main guys, a cool good guy who is just a regular dude in the army that climbs the ranks because he is really good and an evil dictator that runs the enemy empire and shit, however, everything is very morally gray, this isn't as one sided as star wars which has a similar premise
In fact, in order to drive that home, the protagonist for the first 2 chapters (at least for the remake) is not the "good guy" protagonist, but the other guy, at the start, you're supposed to root for the "evil" guy, and then, whenever the other protagonist gets introduced and the shift of the anime changes, you're meant to reconsider who are you rooting for and why, you're forced to think critically about the guy you were just rooting for
Half of the anime are these two protagonist sitting in room and talking, discussing the problems of their respective empires, governments, and what are the plans for defeating their opponent, the actual action scenes aren't too much fluff explosion death look he's so badass, but it's mainly focused on explaining military strategy to the person watching it, kinda like some parts of kingdom
and this just continues on and on since the anime is really fucking long and goes REALLY in depth about some stuff, you can't just overthrow a corrupt government and that's it, you need to ensure that the new government resists the corruption, as the anime explains that politicians doesn't just go "i'm going to be evil" but there are circumstances and a process where a politician get's inducted into corruption
eblf don't read
There is a part where the good guy protagonist makes an independent political movement to try to stop the evil guy, however, he fucking dies, this both shifts the focus from the actual characters to the actual world and circumstance, and forces the members of that movement to make a difficult choice, how do they decide the next leader, which shows very easily how a seemingly democratic system could fall into monarchy or dictatorship real easily
Now, the remake doesn't run forever, and contrary to what seems the consensus online, I enjoy the remake more than the original series, and that is because everything that isn't the actual writing on the original OVA sucks, the art is really bad, like the actual fight scenes are laughable, there isn't much of an ost or sound design and the actual openings are pretty bad
The story is also incredibly dense from start to end, you don't really have breaks, so it can be really hard to watch near the end because you've watched other 100 episodes of what is basically a political debate
still, this anime is very important for a variety of reasons. Nowadays, there is the idea that mediums such as film or video games should only have the goal of being fun, "If it's not fun, why bother". When the director of the last of us 2 said "hey, this game is not meant to be fun", there was backlash, because what is the point of a videogame if it's not fun
That's why stuff like politics or philosophy or whatever are often shamed upon, these are elements that the biggest blockbusters shy away from because they want to appeal to as many people as possible in order to make up for their stupidly high budget
This is an old anime that embraces the least fun elements, and polish them into something amazing, still not the most fun, but after watching it you feel it was worth it. And this is considered one of the greatest anime ever created. Which is great for the medium as a whole
so yeah, good anime, S rank
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next: Annihilation (movie) (Requested by karmine)
still playing half life
It's really fucking good
This anime is a sci-fi drama about space politics, there are two main guys, a cool good guy who is just a regular dude in the army that climbs the ranks because he is really good and an evil dictator that runs the enemy empire and shit, however, everything is very morally gray, this isn't as one sided as star wars which has a similar premise
In fact, in order to drive that home, the protagonist for the first 2 chapters (at least for the remake) is not the "good guy" protagonist, but the other guy, at the start, you're supposed to root for the "evil" guy, and then, whenever the other protagonist gets introduced and the shift of the anime changes, you're meant to reconsider who are you rooting for and why, you're forced to think critically about the guy you were just rooting for
Half of the anime are these two protagonist sitting in room and talking, discussing the problems of their respective empires, governments, and what are the plans for defeating their opponent, the actual action scenes aren't too much fluff explosion death look he's so badass, but it's mainly focused on explaining military strategy to the person watching it, kinda like some parts of kingdom
and this just continues on and on since the anime is really fucking long and goes REALLY in depth about some stuff, you can't just overthrow a corrupt government and that's it, you need to ensure that the new government resists the corruption, as the anime explains that politicians doesn't just go "i'm going to be evil" but there are circumstances and a process where a politician get's inducted into corruption
eblf don't read
There is a part where the good guy protagonist makes an independent political movement to try to stop the evil guy, however, he fucking dies, this both shifts the focus from the actual characters to the actual world and circumstance, and forces the members of that movement to make a difficult choice, how do they decide the next leader, which shows very easily how a seemingly democratic system could fall into monarchy or dictatorship real easily
Now, the remake doesn't run forever, and contrary to what seems the consensus online, I enjoy the remake more than the original series, and that is because everything that isn't the actual writing on the original OVA sucks, the art is really bad, like the actual fight scenes are laughable, there isn't much of an ost or sound design and the actual openings are pretty bad
The story is also incredibly dense from start to end, you don't really have breaks, so it can be really hard to watch near the end because you've watched other 100 episodes of what is basically a political debate
still, this anime is very important for a variety of reasons. Nowadays, there is the idea that mediums such as film or video games should only have the goal of being fun, "If it's not fun, why bother". When the director of the last of us 2 said "hey, this game is not meant to be fun", there was backlash, because what is the point of a videogame if it's not fun
That's why stuff like politics or philosophy or whatever are often shamed upon, these are elements that the biggest blockbusters shy away from because they want to appeal to as many people as possible in order to make up for their stupidly high budget
This is an old anime that embraces the least fun elements, and polish them into something amazing, still not the most fun, but after watching it you feel it was worth it. And this is considered one of the greatest anime ever created. Which is great for the medium as a whole
so yeah, good anime, S rank
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next: Annihilation (movie) (Requested by karmine)
still playing half life
are you willing to do baba is you
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tried to beat it twice, brain too small sorryburgernfat wrote:
are you willing to do baba is you
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Annihilation
This movie was alright
It's actually a horror film but I didn't realize until I was watching the film, thankfully it wasn't too bad
the movie is about a biologist that goes into a place called the shimmer in what's basically a suicide expedition because no one that had gone into the shimmer had made it out alive
the shimmer is this nearly fantastical incredibly colorful forest, a place that doesn't really feel dangerous, it almsot elt like something from a fairy tail, this kinda subverts yoru expectatives because well, you expeect the scary place to be... scary, however you know you're watching a horror film so you still brace yourself for the worst
I really like that design choice, since it really helps push the message of the film, what causes all the deaths and the horrors isn't really anything evil, simplifying a lot, what the shimmer does is amplify and imitate the inherent self-destructiveness nature of humankind. The entire movie is around that idea of self-destruction
The only persons that would go in what is basically a suicide mission are persons that are already self-destructive, and given that they never make it out, the people outside never learn of this fact, which causes them to really never break the cycle
So yeah, pretty smart movie, still, I didn't really quite vibe with it idk why so C tier
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halfway through half-life 2
next: Danny Smoke in Furry Land (fanime) (requested by Nuuskamuikkunen)
This movie was alright
It's actually a horror film but I didn't realize until I was watching the film, thankfully it wasn't too bad
the movie is about a biologist that goes into a place called the shimmer in what's basically a suicide expedition because no one that had gone into the shimmer had made it out alive
the shimmer is this nearly fantastical incredibly colorful forest, a place that doesn't really feel dangerous, it almsot elt like something from a fairy tail, this kinda subverts yoru expectatives because well, you expeect the scary place to be... scary, however you know you're watching a horror film so you still brace yourself for the worst
I really like that design choice, since it really helps push the message of the film, what causes all the deaths and the horrors isn't really anything evil, simplifying a lot, what the shimmer does is amplify and imitate the inherent self-destructiveness nature of humankind. The entire movie is around that idea of self-destruction
The only persons that would go in what is basically a suicide mission are persons that are already self-destructive, and given that they never make it out, the people outside never learn of this fact, which causes them to really never break the cycle
So yeah, pretty smart movie, still, I didn't really quite vibe with it idk why so C tier
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halfway through half-life 2
next: Danny Smoke in Furry Land (fanime) (requested by Nuuskamuikkunen)
I actually didn't know it was horror either when I watched it but yeah aside from like 1 or 2 scary-ish scenes it's fine.
It's by the same director as Ex Machina (which is better imo) and it really shows, it's not horror at all so you can watch it too if you didn't already
you might enjoy it more, or maybe you won't vibe with it .
It's by the same director as Ex Machina (which is better imo) and it really shows, it's not horror at all so you can watch it too if you didn't already
you might enjoy it more, or maybe you won't vibe with it .
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yeah I can do ex machinaKarmine wrote:
I actually didn't know it was horror either when I watched it but yeah aside from like 1 or 2 scary-ish scenes it's fine.
It's by the same director as Ex Machina (which is better imo) and it really shows, it's not horror at all so you can watch it too if you didn't already