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My Date Keeps Pausing This Children's Cartoon To Point Out Scenes That She Finds Problematic And Discuss Her Thoughts About Them And I'm Nearing My Limit! (I Want To Hurt Her...)

The 50 Year Old Salaryman Who Talks Like a Gyaru??

My Life Is Just As Wrong As I Expected After Traveling to Another World Where I’m Surrounded By Cute Girls At A Magical High School And Am Also The Fabled Hero of Legend, But Before I Tell You That Story I Have To Tell You This Story, In Which I Was Walking Along With My Unbelievably, Impossibly Cute Younger Sister Who Doesn’t Like Me At All, And She Said To Me It Was My Fault She Wasn’t Popular No Matter How She Looked At It As We Walked To School Together, And We Stopped To Look At A Garden, Which Had A Flower Whose Name I Don’t Remember, When Suddenly A Portal Opened Up To Another World And When I Landed In A Field And My Face Was Buried In The Largest Pair of Boobs I’d Ever Seen, And My Sister Hit Me And Called Me An Idiot While Blushing, But Then The Girl I Landed On Saw The Birthmark On My Hand And Gasped And She Grabbed My Hand And I Blushed But She Started Dragging Me Away And My Sister Got Mad And Chased After Us And I Asked Where We Were Going, And She Said She Was Taking Us To Grimheart Magic School, Where She Was The School President, And Then I Gasped Because I Was Now In A Magical World, And When We Got To The School Which Was A Giant Castle I Asked The Girl What Her Name Was And She Said It Was Akane Yuusha, Which I Thought Was A Tad Strange Since She Had Blonde Hair And Blue Eyes And The Entire Aesthetic Of The School Seemed Very Ancient European, But I Forgot About All Of That When She Told Me We Needed To See The Headmaster Because She Had Been Taught That The Mark On My Hand Was The Symbol Of The Reincarnation Of The Legendary Dragon Hero Of Legendary Literature, And I Said That Was A Cool Thing To Be Taught Because At Our School The Only Book We Learned Was Atlas Shrugged, And She Asked What That Was And I Told Her I Was The Book Our Society Based Its Philosophy On A Speech From, And She Asked Me To Recite The Speech, Which I Did, And The Speech Went “For Twelve Years You Have Been Asking…

Huh? The Girl Stealing My Panties Is Charles Baudelaire?! Trapped In A Dating Sim Where Famous Poets Are Pervy Upperclassmen

Reincarnated In Another World Where I Copy/Paste My Busty Elf Roommate Posts Here But I Passed Out Thinking About The Charles "Lewis Carrol" Dodgson As A Junior Idol Subplot Because I'm Normal!?

I also play a lot of crappy automation games because I don't have the time to dedicate to playing the good ones [but still want the looming dread of an upcoming necessity of a refactor I'm refusing to commit to]

plain chess
i have potato laptop, it is boring, but idk what to do
my laptop screams when i tried to boot games i actually like like CK3
i guess i just have old people's taste

Milya[broken] by lol_rust is a game I sincerely enjoy very much, despite it being clunky and having lots of strange, counterintuitive gameplay throughout.

One of the biggest draws for me is the titular Milya herself, who's probably the single most relatable character I've found in any game to date; but honestly, I've taken a ton of inspiration from the design and aesthetic of the game for my own works, too~

To be sure, objectively speaking, it's an opaque, obtuse, and generally inscrutable game. It took me multiple playthroughs to decipher it in full, even with how powerfully it resonated with me from the start. And naturally, it's entirely reasonable to want to criticize it for its unapproachability—but when you take the entirety of the game and its fundamental premise into consideration, it becomes clear that these design decisions were all deliberate, forcing the player to interact with the game in a specific kind of way in order to create a very particular experience~

Now, whether most players would think said experience is worth having, and whether it's worth trudging through the maze-like design of the game and its narrative for it, is another question entirely, heh. But I absolutely adore it, and I wish more people would give it a chance and stick with it to the end~

the sound novel

>>3mtr44nfdgx2r
yea that's what ryukishi07 calls them, I feel like Lynch would probably go along with that

yea, over in japan 'visual novel' is actually just a specific trademark iirc, so its not the actual most common means to refer to these games

i love saying Novel-style Adventure Game becuase it's a mouthfull, but also adds the helpful clarity that i'm not talking about a leaf or type/moon product :3

was in the business for a new puer so i took my friend in town to the tea shop. i was the first customer of the day so i got to try a lot of different kinds. oolongs, black, cold brew greens and three kinds of puer. eventually settled on the 2006 meng hai. my first ever brick, i usually buy loose leaf. very excited to own one - might replace my morn coffee with this

sun moon lake black tea.. its a little too hot for me now but i am new 2 this kind

lazy morning by renegade tea estate. (´ー`)

I'm not immune to silly fruit/flower mix in teas whatsoever I just think they are a vibe (and I also have a sweet tooth)

I've been known to drink butterfly pea flower for the vibes of mysterious blue liquid alone. hibiscus is tasty though over here it's more of an agua fresca not so much 'tea'.

I've also been known to appreciate a simply pretty good green tea of some variety, if I am to buy One thing of tea it'd just be a nice quality green

we like earl grey with a bit of cream and honey. sometimes we'll put a bit of lavender in it too

i listened to this and i liked it quite a bit. thank you for sharing it. i really enjoyed all the different noises, there was a variety of noises i havent heard in chiptune before. it felt like the noises were playing in front of me and i got to watch them having fun

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i have actually just a really, really long time ago!

i do not normally fuck with the video game ones[it can feel really flattening to the setting to me] but maybe i should check out more .hack stuff since that one was so much more willing to Actually Commit to the video game scifi bit

and funnily enough both adaptations of lodoss war are on my actual literal 'doing homework for projects' list, but id be curious to know which one people like better!

Shorter series but I recently watched Outlaw Star and Kino's Journey (2003 TV show)

Outlaw Star is in the sci fantasy category but features magic, mysticism and unique species. In terms of tone and narrative, close to Cowboy Bebop except there's less meandering and leans into its humor heavily. A pulp series with desirable aesthetics. Bounty hunter Gene Starwind overcomes his fear of space and forms a crew to make it big.

Kino's Journey is on the lower end of sci fantasy but features robots, automation and spirits. Heavily introspective and understated, as Kino wanders through various countries only for the sake of traveling itself, their motorbike Hermes being the only other consistent character. A story about stories, text and the nebulousness of telling them.

spice and wolf

its a pretty grounded fantasy so it might not be exactly what you're looking for but it features medieval ish folklore style supernatural elements, the whole two seasons of original series is a big road movie with a very charming pair with great chemistry, its a very fun watch

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Lately I've really liked Witch Hat Atelier, and I've been recommended Frieren: Beyond Journey's End endlessly. Made in Abyss is great too if you can stomach it.

Land of the Lustrous is one of my all time favorites, though I'm not confident it counts as fantasy?

as for older stuff I can vouch for Spice and Wolf being peak, I remember Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE being fantasy-esque too. Knight's & Magic is a fantasy take on Mecha I remember being charming.

do yall fuck with ansy. it is my favorite ship period i think. soyo mad as hell but you know she wants it. and anon is so disgustingly pushy. i feel like i shouldnt be watching this

yuuup anosoyo is everything

i am anon (true) and i can confirm htat anosoyo is very good soyorin is looking at me with her wonderful pissed off expression while im typing tihs. i am anon chihaya mygo

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Incredible

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Yayyyy im 6 episodes in excited for ships to develop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nowxy8d36s8

https://youtu.be/UqzJdSHOqkA

I am thinking about the nintendo 64 tonight... I was 4 or 5 when I first got a nintendo 64 and while I played a lot of Pokemon Snap and Mario 64, I had some more weird games too. Mischief Makers was one of the first games I ever owned, but I've never beat it...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDWdYlaGaiI
similarly I played a lot of the original 2 THPS on n64, with their beautiful scuffed crusty short and censored versions of their respective soundtracks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfLK13n91Q8

FLOAT LIKE A BULLDOZER

i wish yuzo koshiro did more rpgs because his work on the etrian odyssey series is phenomenal. the way this piece slowly builds in the beginning and leads to a phrygian slow jam is great https://youtu.be/9zYI28TlErI

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mushoku tensei season 3 has been hitting for me, i was not expecting a realistic depiction of polyamory instead of a typical harem.

the character development throughout this story has been so strong. i really appreciate the strong sense of mortality and mystery as well, like this season has largely just been slice of life wish fulfillment but it is given an undertone of anxiety and impermanence that i really appreciate.

definitely going to read the light novel after this season finishes its run, i'm smitten.

chainsmoker cat has been amazing, the OP gives chainsaw man with every shot showing its film brainrot, the characters are messes in both relatable and extremely funny ways. its some freakmedia in its form, like it leans on fetishes in ways i really wasnt expecting, idk its been an excellent time

GITS rules, didnt know what to expect after dandadan s2 (was worried like....maybe saru is washed, and theyre doing 2 shows in the same season....), but wow its been fantastic??? really really liking the tone, i liked how grim the oshii film was, but im loving how much time and character everyones getting?

Lara is solid, im mostly watching for how beautiful it is, its definitely a fun time.

Daemons of the Shadow Realm cour 2 continues to be excellent, its been keeping the wellwoven intrigue id expect from the fma mangaka while still having excellent tone/pacing? I loveeeeeee that were still getting longform shonen like this, really feels like a genre we'd left behind, im so so so glad to see it cx

Planning on watching:jaadugar, false memory

gotta say The Ghost in the Shell has really fed the part of my brain that wanted more Minakami Yuki circa Ch 1 & 2 of Subahibi. i think i have a type? im embarrassed by that. oh no.

文字通り1984年

Flatland (2007) https://youtu.be/avMX-Zft7K4

very very very much adored sicko phantasy, such a precision strike into my heart as someone who was entrenched in and has spent years pulling myself out of the dark toxic sludge of 2010s tumblr moralism and the shadow it's left looming over modern discourse. kind of evil sexual feelings towards sunny. was told my previous project helped inspire the creation of this game, which is an honor

read No Matter How Strange today, really enjoyed it in a queasy weezy kind of way. loved the harmony between the abstract aggressively tempoed visuals and the stream of consciousness prose

hole* - I hate that you can't love what I don't have, what I would give anything to have. Love bound in hate, for each other and ourselves.

has anyone read The Displacement of Water by sopy.itch.io?

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it's my favorite game of the jam I've played so far! I loved how it plays with the concept of being objectively morally pure and how that framework can change a person. the time loop aspect is also really good and works a lot better in ren'py than I expected. also seeing that one cg of Sicil got me so badly that I had to stop playing for the day when I saw it.

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this movie rocks you're right i think mewtwo is such a good character cus he's not even really wrong about any of that stuff but also you gotta unlearn the violence sometimes

POKéMON thread? POKéMON thread!
heres my hall of fame team from my last completed play thru!

Also watched pkmn the first movie recently, starting a rewatch of the movies and possibly the show up to gen 4. Mew is so fucking cute and Team Rocket were so fun in this one!

Fond memories of watching that show on a Mickey Mouse CRT TV and feeling strangely nostalgic to the opening song despite being like, 5

i just got to episode 34 :)

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we recently finished nadia and ended up skipping most of those eps lol, its really night and day when the regular arc picks back up again. such a lovely series overall

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just finished it tonight and the contrast is insane. crazy to think that evangelion was originally planned as a sequel but i totally see the throughline. im really glad i finally watched it and im really glad i know i never need to watch island arc again

>>3msfi7fdw5k2x
yeah when at the very last moment they reveal that the blue water was nadia's mother the whole time i was pointing at the screen like in the image

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yeah i said that