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rocky41_7 posting in

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This weekend I finished my first playthrough of Disco Elysium, a primarily text-based game which involves investigating a murder in a fictional world.

It's difficult to know what to say about Disco Elysium. The game has, as you may or may not have heard, a phenomenal amount of text in it, and you will only encounter a portion of it on any given playthrough. Having been through it only once, I've seen only a fraction of the game's full text. And it has a lot to say.

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fennectik posting in

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So it seems Usagi will once grace us with her magical girl adventures.

"To celebrate the birthday of Sailor Moon’s main protagonist, Usagi Tsukino, new colored manga art has been released by the series creator, hinting at the publication of the next two volumes in the Japanese 'all-color' digital manga release."-CBR

Link to the full article

https://www.cbr.com/sailor-moon-naoko-takeuchi-usagi-birthday-art/

Current Mood: ecstatic
Current Music: Pet Shop Boys- DJ Culture

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fennectik posting in

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So I opened another pack from that Pokemon TCG app and it gave me this

What a nice addition. Already have a MewTwo card so this is getting better as I go along.

In fact, using Mew seems easier than MewTwo giving how little orbs it takes to use the card in comparison. It also gives the option to mimic an attack from your opponent's card they currently have in battle. Quite a nice little card overall.

I like Mew just as well.

Current Mood: ecstatic
Current Music: Cindy Lauper- She Bop

fennectik posting in

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Besides the mind numbing pain I have throughout my body due to job related injuries, car crashes, and nerve damage on top of it, I've been feeling anxious about things I'm not sure I should worry much about and the insecurity that comes with it.

Of course having OCD only adds to the entire venture.

My right arm has gone through a lot as well, having a stroke which rendered useless and making it dead weight for over a month, and then an accident where my right hand got almost crushed, leaving nerve damage all over said arm and hand. Its hard to do what people do in everyday life due to the fact most people use said right arm/hand for everything in their lives.

Its hard to even write at times and my arm just feels so tired and tingly that I cannot help to think what'll become of it in the future.

Stomach problems also another factor on my so called life.

I still try to live everyday life as I can.

Current Mood: discontent
Current Music: Pat Benatar- Heart Breaker

fennectik posting in

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Today I finished watching Patlabor and it was a very satisfying series to say the least, even though the final episode felt more like a normal instance than having closure after all the aventures and misadventures the team went through. I do believe the episode before the last would had been better left as THE last episode since it closed so nicely in comparison, but I digress.

But for now...

Mission accomplished.

Current Mood: accomplished

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fennectik posting in

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Seems no matter how hard I try to nove on, every other instance my brain continues to make me remember the times horrid individuals would bully me online and how far they would go to in crossing the line and how it affected me in the long run.

What bothers me the most is how these assholes would make an expectable of it, enjoying it while they would get away with doing such underhanded things to me, and how they would think little of it, telling me to "get over it" among other petty things adding insult to such demise.

I feel nothing but contempt for these bullies for ruining my life and leaving me as an emotional wreck who tries in copping with my own.

Current Mood: discontent

alierak posting in

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We're having to rebuild the search server again (previously, previously). It will take a few days to reindex all the content.

Meanwhile search services should be running, but probably returning no results or incomplete results for most queries.

fennectik posting in

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Came accross this cropped screenshot someone mentioned was from Patlabor on which two very familiar looking girls are passing by. Not sure of this was a dedicated cameo or just coincidence, but am trying to see what episode and sweies from Patlabor its from.

Its still pretty neat.

EDIT: Thanks to a reply below, I got told its most likely from episode 2 of the Patlabor OVA.

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Current Music: Afrojack- Take Over Control

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fennectik posting in

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Before I watched it, I had this feeling the 4th entry on this movie series was not going to be all that spectacular. Pretty much how I felt before watching the third one.

Unlike the third movie however, part 4 felt the part of my expectations and then some. Being completely unremarkable in every aspect of the meaning and as predictable as you may expect from the beginning of the film. The new villain Chameleon had an inkling of interest but it was completely wasted on making her a cookie cutter of every other villain in an animated movie, and the new protagonist Zhen the fox is spectacularly uninteresting.

It didn't help that her voice actor, Awkafina, sounded mostly hushed during the entire thing, even when she makes the character scream and grunt during some scenes. I suspect even she found that character as bland as I had. The rest of the cast within the movie make a cameo appearance at the end of the movie without any lines spoken, my opinion being Dreamworks just didn't want to bother to ask its stellar cast to resume their roles, even though they could had hired someone less expensive to fill in that being the case.

All in all the movie itself is quite boring. I had the endurance to go through it in order to watch this unnecessary continuation of the entire thing. If you can even refer to this movie as that.

petrea_mitchell posting in

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(Crossposted from my journal.)

Apocalypse Hotel was great. Just great. Go watch it. It's definitely on my Hugo ballot next year.

Kowloon Generic Romance ended very well, even if the finale didn't quite have time to spell out every last detail of what was going on. Presumably the manga, which is ending soon, will be able to explain better. Recommended with some disclaimers: there are some very male-gaze camera angles at first but they stop after episode 2, and there is someone who initially appears to be a depressingly stereotypical queer villain but ultimately becomes three-dimensional and far more sympathetic.

Zatsu Tabi continued to be exactly what it appeared to be, a low-key story about travel and introduction to some of Japan's lesser-known tourist attractions.

Sword of the Demon Hunter is continuing into summer, but I have to say this: The choice to fridge someone in the first episode wound up feeling more and more out of place as the story went on. The subsequent story isn't grimdark at all; eventually it's about a guy hanging out in a soba shop with his friends and taking on jobs with an emphasis on how his work heals the community. Even the demons are mostly sympathetic at this point. So I'm not sure why the author chose to do that, other than he couldn't think of another way to get the protagonist out of his comortable village life and out into the world.

For next season, the shows I'm looking at fall into three categories:

Shows I am truly interested in checking out: Bullet/Bullet, Necronomico and the Cosmic Horror Show, The Earthbound Mole, Onmyo Kaiten Re: Birth Verse
Show I would be checking out if it weren't on Netflix: The Summer Hikaru Died
Shows I should be excited about on paper but am not really: Cute High Earth Defense Club Haikara!, Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun season 2 part 2, Ruri Rocks

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fennectik posting in

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Found this article about why there might not he a remake of said game.

"Sonic Adventure fans might not be happy to hear this, but there aren’t any plans to come out with a remake or remaster anytime soon.

Takahashi Iizuka, head of Team Sonic, was recently asked about revisiting the game in an interview. The takeaway here is that Iizuka believes it’d take a huge effort to bring the experience up to today’s “standards and expectations” – as much as a new title would apparently. Because of that, he feels working on a new game instead makes more sense.'

Iizuka has also shown interest in making Sonic Adventure 3. However, it’s unclear if that’s still something he’d want to pursue."- Nintendo Everything

I'm fine with that. If they choose to create an actual sequel to those games then there's plenty to speculate about than remastering existing titles.

Current Mood: thoughtful

casemod posting in

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caseficexchange is looking for pinch hitters to fulfil requests that include anime and manga fandoms.

PH 13 (comic, fic) - 終ノ空 remake | Tsui no Sora Remake, A Girl Corrupted by the Internet is the Summoned Hero?!, Tsukihime (Visual Novel & Anime)

The pinch hits are currently due Friday 18 July at 11:59pm Eastern time.

The exchange requires a completed work of a minimum of 3,000 words for fanfiction or a minimum of 10 panels for a comic. (We also allow a recording of a completed fic of 3,000 words minimum with "casefic" as one of its tags, but these requests are not asking for podfic.) Works must include a fandom, character/ship and be of a medium that the recipient has requested. You must have an AO3 account to participate.

If you would like to claim, please comment on the pinch hit post. Thank you!

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fennectik posting in

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What a lucky guy

Finished Episode 2 of the Dirty Pair series and will continue it as much as I get the time to do do so.

Speaking of Anime watching, am also resuming All Purpose Cultural Catgirl Nuku Nuku (say that ten times fast,) which I haven't got to finish it ever since I owned a VHS tape with a couple episodes long ago. That's something I need to rectify.

Also trying to finish Patlabor the Mobile Police to move on to other series like Dr. Stone and the last season of My Hero Academia. There are other series I'm eyeing but for now, I'm trying to finish what I had watched before in order to move forward.

Current Mood: nostalgic

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fennectik posting in

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Up till now I've only watched the OAVs and the reboot Dirty Pair Flash which didn't attract me as much as the old timy whimy series. I never even knew a series existed until I stumbled into them on youtube. I gotta say there's a lot of what you can learn from here which potentially connects to said OAVs, and the 80s scifi feel of its phenomenal.

Dirty Pair is a gallant guilty pleasure of mine.

Current Mood: nostalgic

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fennectik posting in

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And the results are:

"Your toxic trait:
The Drama Llama
I'm a Drama Llama. I think I am deeper and more unique than most people, but am actually just high-maintenance. Self-awareness is the first step!"

Well, I try not to be.

Current Mood: contemplative

fennectik posting in

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So I'm trying some of those AI art generators here and there, and while some think this may well be an alternative to actually pick up your pencil and create your own thing...it isn't.

Sure, some results look nice, especially with likes of Pokemon and other well known IPs. But mostly something tragic spews out the results, which comes to the equivalent of sheer nightmare fuel with characters sprouting extra limbs, fingers, eyes, etc...or becoming a melty mess to the point you have no idea WTF you're looking at.

So if anyone believes they could use such "generated" content for the sake of becoming a better artist, I'll tell you that it could potentially make your skills a whole lot worse.

I'm not that skilled at drawing, but I at least know where eyes on a face are placed.

Just saying.

Still, its amusing to see what mess it shoots out whenever I try and poke it.

Current Mood: weird

fennectik posting in

movie_buffs

I can only state I was never so entertained by any other movie Marvel or otherwise as I was with this film. It felt like it was straight out of a comic book limited series (of which I own a few with said titular characters I might add,) and it simply brightened my day watching it.

I really wish I could say the same about the likes of Thunderbolts*, but sadly that can't ever be the case. Maybe this might just be the swang song of Marvel movies getting a positive attention from me in a long while, but I am getting ahead of myself quite frankly.

However if there's one superhero movie you want to watch for the time being, make this one. You'll thank me for it.

Current Mood: satisfied

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Recent Playing: Disco Elysium

Sailor Moon creator bringing back manga in color

Got this little card today

Health Status

Finished Patlabor the Mobile Police

No matter how I try

Rebuilding journal search again

Dirty Pair cameo in Patlabor (?)

Watched Kung Fu Panda 4

Spring anime, and into summer

No Sonic Adventure remake, but...

PINCH HITS AVAILABLE AT CASEFIC EXCHANGE (DUE FRIDAY 18 JULY).

From space girls to catgirls

Watching Dirty Pair

Took a personality test

Messing with AI stuff

Deadpool and Wolverine