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This... is pretty much in line with how I expect things to go with the game for me... I haven't had a chance to play it yet though. (PC port doesn't come out until July, boooooooooooooo).

Yo, that looks downright delectable. ? Getting my second shot tomorrow. Hoping it doesn't kick my ass as much as it does a lot of people I've spoken with. ? I do somewhat wonder if reopening is being a bit rushed, though... like, it's only very recently they teenagers have been cleared for vaccination, at least in America, and to my knowledge children are almost universally unvaccinated. While younger folks are much less likely to outright die from the virus, they do still seem to be prone to the cardiovascular issues that can result from infection, among other things. If we've got everything opened up, that's a lot of potential collateral damage among our nation's youth. ?

Yeahhh, as much as I enjoy the show I gotta say, Haruhi as a character is pretty damn well beyond deplorable in my eyes. ? Did you watch the movie, as well? If not, I highly recommend it.

I may end up doing just that in the near future.

Slower and atmospheric is always a good combination in my book. I'll be taking a look! o/

Fair point, that. I hadn't even heard of Guardians of the Galaxy prior to the movie coming out, tbh. Though I wasn't super fond of GoG2 admittedly. I don't really know enough about Eternals to have any expectation one way or another, but I will say that if nothing else the Shang Chi trailer impressed me a lot more than I expected. Speaking of Iron Man being b-list... I confess that when the Iron Man movie first came out, I kind of brushed it off without even seeing the trailer until my dad basically forced me to watch it, being like "no, seriously, you need to see this" Honestly I never really cared about Marvel heroes, other than Spiderman, prior to the MCU. My nerd cred, it is in tatters.

I think one of the main draw for me has been the fairly self aware way it pokes fun at the genre now and then, really. Though with that said I've been more amused by all of the main character's monologues than I expected to be, lol. I can definitely see why it might drag on a bit too much for a lot of folks though. I might have to do this myself at some point... been a loooooong time since I've seen Claymore. Endless 8 was... frustrating to me. ;_; Speaking of Haruhi, I need to rewatch Disappearance at some point. I haven't! I should probably add this to my list of things to look into.

@MT I'm sorry you had to deal with that, transphobes are honestly the fucking worst and have no real value outside of being loaded into, and shot out of trebuches for fun and profit. Even at the best of times, having to deal with that sort of harassment and bullshit is exhausting at the very least. Honestly, the sheer amount of casual transphobia, homophobia, racism, misogyny, etc that's on display on internet makes finding safe, bullshit-free communities incredibly difficult, unfortunately. That said, preemptive congrats on hitting two years on HRT! That's quite the milestone.

Hullo I’ve been lurking around the various dark corners of the internet in search of a place to do a bit of potentially insightful shitposting here and there and happened to stumble upon this place. I haven’t had the best of luck with forums in recent years, but figured I might as well attempt to drown out my chronic crippling social anxiety and just register and give things a go. About myself... introductory threads have never really been my forte, but I’m a great fan of a lot of stereotypical nerd stuff - games, anime, cinema, collectibles, tabletop gaming, technology in general, and the like - alongside other slightly more mundane hobbies like cooking, camping, and cursing the pandemic. So, yeah. Hi. :V

Honestly, even before they jacked up the rent it probably wasn't the most financially responsible place for us to get, but...... it was just too tempting. ? Honestly I miss being able to go down there myself, as well. While I didn't really like living up around there, I was looking forward to still being able to visit the shops and such somewhat regularly, until covid hit. Likewise with a lot of the places in Kent that I used to haunt regularly ;_; I never actually got around to trying out Maekawa, though I always meant to get over to it at some point or another. :T Thank you

I started watching Ascendance of a Bookworm recently and... contrary to my expections, am really enjoying it. I don't typically like isekai, at all*, but this has been downright delightful so far. (* I think just this and So I'm a Spider, So What? tbh ^^; )

Hullo, old person! And yes, I seem to be a recurring problem at this point. :0 I have been blesseded I could do with a bit of good luck atm. ^^; Aw heck, it's fine. I only lived in the city itself for about a year and a half, truthfully - apparently we came in right prior to one of the major rent bumps, since our landlords tried to increase our apartment's rent by around $800/month after our first year which was a bit of a deal killer. Our place was right on top of the Seattle Uwajimaya, which was pretty damn convenient... the apartment itself wasn't particularly awe inspiring, but the location made up for it. Other than that we mostly were in downtown Kent (couple blocks from an AMAZING cajun grocery store), and briefly in Tacoma. It wasn't all bad, but honestly I'm a Portland gal through and through. I need my casual weirdness, and unicyclists with flaming bagpipes that just happen to be cosplaying Scottish Darth Vader. I -love- Lost Lake. It's incredibly beautiful and super chill... if anything, a bit too chill due to being pretty much right at the base of Mt Hood... it gets cold as fuck at night, even in the middle of summer, to the point that it's on my RV only list due to how much my teeth end up chattering whenever I try to tent it. Other than that, while it's not the most out-there or incredible place on the planet, there's a decent size state park right outside of Newport, OR that I have a lot of incredibly fond memories of. My parents used to take me camping there as a pretty much yearly thing, with a stop at the local aquarium as part of the trips which was always delightful. I've actually recently convinced my wife to give camping a try and will be taking her there next month for her inaugural camping trip, which I'm looking forward to... and it'll be my first opportunity to do some camping in about six years now, which makes it all the better. But yeah, I love me some of that outside stuff. Hiking, boating, and fishing are all things I enjoy as well, though the latter only when I can leave the cleaning to someone else. :T

I aim to please.

Every time I see the Indie General thread, I have a brief moment in which I'm like "oh shit, an indie gaming thread that's so relevant to my interests that it physically hurts*" followed by another moment in which I just sort of blink owlishly for a second or two while remembering that it's for indie wrestling. I'm typically left feeling equal parts sheepish and amused. (* maybe a slight exaggeration, but yanno) Also I am completely and utterly exhausted due to back to back nights of downright awful sleep. x_x

At this point, if Marvel manages to make a Fantastic Four movie that is actually outright good, I'll believe them capable of damn near anything. Their recent shows were all better than I expected, so I've got some hope.

I love her eyes, omg. I'm currently petless, but am hoping to join the cat crew in a year, maybe. I've been petless for way too long in my life at this point. ;_; Just need to kitten-proof the apartment a bit beforehand and let certain life-stuff settle a bit.

Oof. I don't think Overload is on Switch, though there are PS4 and XBOX One ports. Sublevel Zero, however, apparently did make its way over, though. :0 I can't blame you, tbh. Unless a game has a demo or beta of some sort available (or is a Nintendo game tbh), I don't tend to buy at full price too often - and when I do I not infrequently end up regretting it. A lot. Yes, I preordered Cyberpunk. ;_; (though to be fair I had a better experience than most with regards to bugs and stability) But yeah, it's worth looking into regardless of the specific timing. Thankfully I don't expect the world to end any time soon. Hopefully. Two Love Live games, at that! You've got School Idol Festival, which is a pretty straight forward rhythm game, and Allstars which is... more of a rhythm... RPG? At least that's how they describe it. It's newer and looks a lot better, but requires a lot of stat micromanagement in order to get anywhere or do anything. Also only has two lanes which is maybe a little too cut down? >_>; Personally, I think I prefer Sunshine over the original anime... and I think I've come to appreciate Aquors in general a bit more than µ's overall. And yeah, there comes a point at which I'm just not able to physically keep up with the endless barrage of notes being flung at me. ;_; Ugh, no kidding. As much as my forum experiences haven't been the best as of late, overall forums have always been the social medium that I'm most comfortable with, which makes the whole thing slightly awkward... especially given their persistent decline in popularity. Reddit tends to be too impersonal and harshly topical for my taste and I've never really been ethat great at keeping up with chats, which leaves me in a bit on an awkward place, lol. And that makes a lot of sense tbh. I've ran a couple branch-off forums myself in the past, and there does definitely come a point at times when the tone and tenor of a community bears little resemblance to what it once had. I actually stepped down as an admin at one place that had a few thousand posts per day for that very reason a few years ago for a similar - things had slowly shifted in such a way, both among the community and within the staff that the original spark that had drawn me to the place to begin with had long faded. West coast reporting in. Northern Oregon, specifically, though I've bounced around a bit and recently returned here from a five year stint in the Seattle region which I was... not... particularly fond of. And that sounds like a decent enough geographic spread. On the bright side, your reign over California may well be undisputed if nobody else is over there? Failing that, we could perhaps name you an honorary PNWer.

Y'all's critters are legit too pure for this world.

And the next after that! :0 I know, right? x) It definitely isn't for the faint of heart at the moment due to all of its issues, but there does seem to be some method to their madness - particularly when they keep Roberts away from their PR channels, which they've gotten better at in recent times. The man is a visionary, sure, but is way too quick to blurt random shit out when on camera. Still, the game is pretty much a dream come true for me - I've been munching away at space sims all the way back since Tie Fighter an have always considered being able to . I poke my head in after major updates and keep up with the weekly development updates, which is entertaining in and of itself given how far out there some of the stuff they're working on is. Pleasure to meetcha. ^^ Oh jeez. To be fair, keeping bots out of a forum is a lot like keeping mosquitos from slowly eating you alive and leaving you little more than a broken desiccated husk when camping. It's tough, and the best ways to do so tend to be inconvenient in their own right ;_; Thank you, and so far so good! I appreciate the lack of... uh... 'ironic' swastikas everywhere. :V (not even joking - this is something that I ran into more than once while searching around for smaller, non-shite forums. ^^; ) I have a strange, gnawing suspicion you may end up waiting quite some time for such a request. :B [Edit - I'm a derp and mised a post. This is what happens when I forum before coffee.] Ooo, a fellow Descent veteren :0 Have you heard of Project Overload? It's a Descent-like made by a number of the original developers, and it is pretty solid! Sublevel Zero is another good one, though it takes more of a roguelike approach to the genre. I think they both do a good job of capturing the vibe of the originals. (Sadly I believe Descent: Underground is dead in the water, though I confess the developers never really sold me on it >_>) Lacrimosa of Dana was absolutely delightful tbh. I was absolutely taken with it and played it more or less like a full time job. Highly recommended if you end up with a few spare moments! I love rhythm games! I'm just irreparably awful at them, myself . The only mobile game I have on my phone is also the only one I'm able to play worth a damn, which is Love Live - something about using a touch screen makes them more approachable to me, such that while I can barely complete anything on any difficulty in other games, I can occasionally manage to complete top level difficulty songs in it without any missed notes. :B Crypt of the Necrodancer, along with Cadence of Hyrule, though, are downright magical. (And yeah, I'm completely and utterly incapable of replaying JRPGs, though I confess that I don't really like many of them to begin with, which probably doesn't help)

I'd like to fast forward straight to June, pls.

Yeah, I gotta give Celeste credit for doing a good job of enabling bite size gaming sessions. I ended up completing it in a few long (maybe too long? :V) sessions but the fact that you can save at any stage and you aren't harshly punished for dying made it a far less unnecessarily frustrating experience than it could've been.

Ah hell. Now that is a tough one. Lately a lot of the things I play are roguelikes and indies in general, but if I'm looking at things overall... Top five: • Sunless Sea and its sequel, Sunless Skies Beautifully done slow-paced narrative exploration games set in a fantastical world in which London was stolen by bats in the late 1800s, and pulled underground into a vast cavern. The writing and stories in both games are addictive. I've actually been holding off on completing Skies since I wanted to wait for the final content patch before getting too far into it. Only two weeks to go. OwO • Civilization Mostly 5 & 6, the latter of which my wife and I play a lot of together off and on. I typically tend to play with a focus on either science or culture. • Ys Excessively fun adventure series that is never ported to PC quickly enough. :V • Soul Calibur Seung Mina and Siegfried for life. • Star Citizen Say what one will, I've had more excessively memorable multiplayer experiences in this buggy mess of an alpha than in most games I've played. Honorable mentions: Tribes, Chivalry, Descent, Melty Blood, Tony Hawk, SSX, Necrodancer, Legend of Zelda, Project Zomboid. ^^

A large portion of the games I play don't necessarily have a clear-cut win condition, but for those that do... 1: Celeste Just last week, after having decided I'd put it off far too long. This game is blindingly charming - the pixel art is gorgeous, the platforming challenges never feel too punishing, the music is beautiful, and the story and characters both are nothing short of delightful. 2: UnderMine Think 2D Legend of Zelda, dungeons only, in roguelike form and you've got UnderMine. While not quite setting the world on fire with overwhelming amounts of awesomeness, it was an excellent pandemic time-waster that kept me going for a pretty bloody long while all things considered. 3: Touhou Tenkuushou For those unaware, the Touhou series is a long running series of (mostly) vertical arcade shooters with a downright immense fandom. This was... okay. I'm not sure if the series lost its spark at some point, or if I'm just burned out on the it or the genre, but I wasn't left feeling particularly enthralled. Ah well. ¯\_(?)_/¯ What can I say? Its been an unproductive year so far. :T I've also been working on Horizon: Zero Dawn, but have been taking a break for a bit, and am currently sitting on my Cyberpunk playthrough until such time that CD Projekt Red finishes tidying it up.

It can be definitely be interesting, seeing all of the technical and stylistic changes that have taken place from decade to decade when it comes to anime. Also that's good to know, regarding the history of this place by the way. To be completely honest slow doesn't sound bad - in my experience forums can easily become incredibly impersonal if activity levels jump up to crazy enough levels, which can kind of take the fun out of the whole thing imo. And thank you. ^^ Thank you! Than---

Thank you I definitely think it's worth a look at if you have any time available for some pandemic binge watching - while it's not as flashy as a lot of newer shows and may look a little dated by comparison due to originally coming out in 2002, it does tell one hell of a story.