Abyssal Monkey
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So I literally just started playing, went to hire units. Is that giant square in the back what I think it is?
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4 hours ago, Fred the Barber said:
That's a pretty useless ability which nonetheless got drilled into my head in middle school (though I'm probably bad at it by now... hold on, checking a sample problem sheet online... nope, still good at it, hooray
). On the other hand, a few years earlier they drilled mental multiplication into my head, and I use that shit all the time still, so it wasn't a total loss.
Can you name the last time you had to factor a trinonial instead of using quadratic formula? The answer should probably be no considering the quadratic formula is faster and can give you the factors anyway.
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The answer from me is no, I wouldn't be embarrassed. The bigger question to ask me is would I spend the money? The answer to that is no. I'm not a collector, so I'd never buy one. If I was gifted one though, I would probably put a shelf up in my room to show it off.
Upon actually looking around my room, I'm going to amend that statement. I don't have anywhere to actually put a shelf.
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5 minutes ago, Baldur said:
You did all 7 routes in 70 hours without cheat engine?
I would be at like 20 hours for first route if I didn't leave the game running for days at a time. My current time is like 200+ hours lol. The game goes much quicker once your party is evenly leveled with the enemy.
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2 hours ago, Rilarion said:
I just checked magika no kenshi on BT and I'm really suprised, the last time I checked only the first volume was translated
. As for Xianxia I'm the type of guy who enjoys reading a novel he likes more than once, so doing the same thing with different settings actually appeals to me. By the way I forgot to mention that I also follow Saijaku Muhai no Bahamut as well.
This licencing and DMCA streak really kills my passion though. It's not like I'm against it. I know its actually a good thing especially in the long run, but I can't help it. I've started to learn japanese I expect this will solve my problems :D, though sadly I'm at the really early stages.
Yeah, I was the same, I use the BT app on android to make automatic backups of everything, and I bookmarked it like 8 months ago. I checked like 2 months ago and BAM, 9 novels translated and I'm shocked. I read the manga first so I kind of knew what to expect, except that manga is manga and tends to cut things, and the novel turned out pretty good.
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4 hours ago, BookwormOtaku said:
This, or when something happens in an episode that seems to be setting things up for something to happen between the obvious romantic pair and then some bullshit misunderstanding/mixup on either character's part sets things back to square one for them until further notice because "status quo".
43 minutes ago, Nosebleed said:Seems like you'd LOVE Nisekoi.
I completely agree though, it's probably one of the most overused plot device in romcoms and it really gets to you after a while.
For me though, the most annoying plot device is when protagonists who are completely useless and have no special abilities can suddenly display amazing feats and physical abilities in order to protect the heroines. Because they're nice guys. It seriously baffles me how far some useless protagonists can actually go in some shows...
Damnit Nosebleed. Why you gotta take my joke. This is seriously all that Nisekoi is. You can probably find that flow chart easier than I can.
5 hours ago, ittaku said:I've decided at last what anime plot device annoys me more than anything ever conceived. Since I'm a huge romantic comedy/drama fan, the most annoying plot device of all time is the character, be it hero, heroine or side-kick, that mumbles under their breath something that amounts to a love confession that the other person doesn't hear and when asked about it says 何でもない "Don't worry about it" or, "no, it's nothing"... and then 450 thousand episodes later still is unable to actually convey said emotion.
Anyone else want to describe their pet peeves in anime?
This one doesn't bother me at all. It's kind of understandable. It's primary use is to lampshade the fact that the character likes someone else to the audience, and from an in world viewpoint, it's literally the character mumbling to himself about his realization/reaffirmation that he likes said character. The thing that makes this even more relatable/realistic is that it is most frequently used in shonen genre where the character in question muttering it is around the age of 14. Since you read a lot of it, you should have come across the trope of a character muttering/musing to himself in bed, because like all humans, we talk to ourselves. This is literally just that at an inopportune time. The kid is going through puberty or coming of age, and he doesn't actually know how he is going to tell her that he likes her.
Hate it as you may, this is probably more realistic than you would like to admit (minus the girl actually hearing something and going "huh?"), and is just a mixture of the even more common tropes of practicing confessing and muttering to yourself. I can't defend the part where the girl responds to it, because it's generally impractical except under superhuman circumstances, but the actual muttering itself is pretty realistic.
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Confession: I just tutored one of my relatives in how to factor quadratics. It was fine up until they wanted them in the form of (ax+b)(cx+d). At that point I gave up and looked it up on the internet on the "proper" way to do it. Since the question asked specifically for the answer by factoring, I couldn't just tell her to use the quadratic formula, something 99% of people would use instead of actually factoring them due to it's ease.
In any case, afterwards she asked for help installing this math program that apparently my uncle found lying around. Specifically Math Advantage 2000 Highschool Edition. If the number 2000 in the title wasn't alarming enough, it gets better. The laptop was running windows 8. Question for all the nerds: What happens when you run a program designed for windows 95/98 on a modern operating system. Answer: you get a 16 bit operating system error saying the OS doesn't support it. What was even better was that the installer used installshield, the incredibly old one. This one to be exact:
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I dare you to name the last time you saw this tealliness. So while the the disk was spinning up in the drive and windows was reading it, I looked at the book that it came with, and noticed copyright 1999. I said "This probably won't work" while thinking "Oh no, holy shit." Needless to say, the moment the 16 bit error occurred, I laughed myself out of the room at the old fashioned error that displayed.
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9 hours ago, Rilarion said:
DxD, Zero no Maria aaand nothing else currently, lots of the series I've been following on baka-tsuki has been DMCA'd, including my favourite Campione! The worst part is many of them got DMCA'd without getting licenced by yenpress or other similar companies. I moved on to Chinese Xianxia webnovels
That actually doesn't happen very often. So far, the only two that got DMCA'd like that were Campione and Papa Kiki, both by the same publisher Shueisha. If you are referring to the Kadokawa takedown, people have been throwing rumors around that Kadokawa is going to revive those series with Bookwalker International, which means we will see a translation if that happens. Other than that, all the series' that were abandoned have been licensed.
I stay away from Xianxia because it is even more monotropic than shonen is. It's like the Hallmark of storytelling: if you have read one, you've basically read them all. They all tell the same exact story but with a different coat of paint, so they become incessantly more predictable as they progress.
Since you liked Campione!, I would point you to Leviathan of the Covenant which is also written by the same author, but I don't understand light novel publishing well, so I can't tell you it's chances of surviving either. But Magika no Kenshi plays on similar principles as Campione!, but I suspect within 18 months it will probably get an anime and YP license too.
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3 hours ago, Tiagofvarela said:
I've got a question about this game.
When I started playing it, it took me weeks to finish a route. Whilst I admittedly loved the route and don't dislike the gameplay either... How the hell am I supposed to ever finish it?
If I play non-stop like I did at the start, I'll take weeks again to slog through a route. I can deal with it once again, maybe twice, at most. But there's 7 routes.Presuming that it really takes a long, long amount of time to make it through the game every single time, how will I ever finish it?
Unless I'm incredibly mistaken, you really only play through the game seriously about 3 times due to the NG+ difficulty ramp. After you beat the first route, everything gets +30, so enemies are the rescaled to your level, but I can't imagine that after the third time, when your party is at endgame levels, that you would have any trouble beating the game another 3 times. After the third completion, it should be something akin to a stomping throughout the entire routes.
I am on my second route, so this is speculation, but I really can't imagine #4 being any sort of time sink at all. Even #2 for me is moving pretty fast now that I have a handle on all the systems, problems to expect, and how to deal with them.
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11 hours ago, Jibril said:
I don't know why but Heavy Object got suddenly better after the first half. Latest episode is pretty intense and plot twisting.
Oh and did Rory just bitchslap that dragon in GATE with her axe?
Yes, yes she did.
I wouldn't say Heavy Object got better, after all, the split between seasons was in the middle of a volume, if I would have to attribute as to why it seemingly got "better", it would be that we are out of the introductory phase of Kazuma's writing style and into the first mini-conflict arc. This usually accompanies and end to primary character development and the beginnings of an actual story. If we were to take the analogy to Index, another story written by him, this point ironically ends up at volume 5, where there are three short stories. I don't think its entirely coincidence that it takes him about 6 "arcs" to warm up to a plot to write about. You can probably expect from here on out to see the story move in a more serious(?) direction, while still retaining the child-like nature of the actual sequences.
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So I started very slowly (far slower than my regular pace) reading Zashiki Warashi of Intellectual Village after noticing it finally got more than two volumes translated, and I've got to say, it's really... amusing?
Generally I would shy away from this type of series because it's usually not to my tastes. I hold mystery to be more of an umami than a sweet. Mystery for me goes well when it is paired with something I'm interested in, and in this case it is yokai. As a self proclaimed mythology/folklore hobbyist, I've read quite a few of the primary documents behind the major faiths, however I've never actually gotten a compendium for Japanese demons, and that's why this series is somewhat fun so far. After just two chapters, I finally got the feel for it last night. I summed it up fairly well in a message I sent to my friend last night as I was deliriously heading into sleep.
QuoteIt seems to be a collection of short stories about the deconstruction and abstraction of yokai. It's nice because not only does it briefly summarize the original tale, but then parodies it in such a way for the parody to be an explanation for the origin of the yokai while still leaving the supernatural element intact.
As a brief example, for the second chapter of volume one, the one I just read, made it kind of easier to understand how the flow of the first two chapters went.
SpoilerSo in this chapterthe yokai of focus was the Funayurei and the setup of the mystery is where barrels filled with bodies of dead people came from. As the detective of the story lands on an island to investigate, a typhoon rolls in and strands them there. In this scenario, the Funayurei has the ability to make people on a boat disappear, a clear extrapolation of men lost at sea never being found. So the people on the island make use of this and turn the island itself into the boat, and use guns as the substitution for the ladle that the Funayurei of myth use to sink the ship and cause disappearance. As the short story ends and the detective figures this out, he throws away an empty handgun as the bottomless ladle sacrifice to save himself. The villagers attempting to shoot to kill him find that they can't harm him due to the appeasement, and he escapes with immunity off the island after the typhoon ends back to the regional police station to gather other officers to arrest the village.
I really look forward to reading more of this, and I hope that the format stays roughly the same as the series continues.I don't often find mystery that I enjoy, so when I do it's a great pleasure.
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6 hours ago, Flutterz said:
Finally got around to starting Boku dake ga inai machi, only 2 episodes in but I'm really enjoying it so far.
Watched an episode of Phantom World back when it just started, didn't really pique my interest too much. Has it gotten better since?
Also anything else that's really good airing atm?
6 hours ago, Nosebleed said:Still lots of boobs and fanservice in ep 2
Episode 3 had less boobs and more actual plot
Episode 4 was more character focused and didn't really have fanserviceHard to say where it'll go but I'm betting on an episodic slice of life style anime with fanservice here and there.
The first couple episodes were bad but the most recent ones are okay, so maybe there's something to be found here, but I don't see the show having any interesting overarching plot.I honestly don't know why you guys expect anything more than what the OP is actually showcasing. Tit for tat, the amount of "stuff" in the OP is reflected in the actual series episodes so far. Like, same ratio of fan service, action, and slice of life is displayed. I get the feeling you just skip them, when often times they are fairly indicative of the type of show you get.
SpoilerAs for other shows, Grimgar: Ashes and Illusions is pretty decent if fantasy is something you enjoy. I mean, the pacing is all over the fucking place if you've read the novels, and they've cut a bit of etails in favor of some filler, but overall, as a stand alone show, it's one of the above average series this season.
Schwarzesmarken had a promising first episode, and then I shelved it until I read Muvluv, something I obviously have yet to do.
SpoilerI shouldn't have to tell you to stay away from KonoSuba/Gifting, as DEEN quality keeps rearing it's ugly head. I stopped after two episodes. I would skip Bahamut if you were even going to attempt to watch it. I'm watching it purely to fulfill my mindless shonen addiction, and even then it's pretty turrible.
As usual, I save manga series until the end of the season when they are finished, so I can then binge read afterward, so don't ask my opinions on ERASED, Divine Gate, Dimension W, or Ajin, all of which have seemingly reasonable potential.
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My mom doesn't care, she'll walk around naked half the time.
SpoilerShe's turning 60ish
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I mean it can be literally anything biological related, including any field: medicine or naturalist. I'm positive there are moe girls riding whales or yanderes holding syringes.
I'm at campus right now, so using an image aggregate isn't the greatest idea, but I had more hope that we could come up with some excellent things.
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2 hours ago, Nosebleed said:
Do you want it to be biology themed (whatever that means) or it can just be anything as long as it's full of moe?
Preferably something I can pass off with the excuse that it is related to biology with something more than "its a human". I'm half in question about whether or not I can find a suitable excuse to fill the pages with kemonomimi.
One of the possible images that came to my mind was Makina scaring Amane with the cicada. As an example.
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9 minutes ago, Ariurotl said:
Welp, there goes the chance of using a CG from that glorious insect eroge.
I had already long past immediately had the thought of using dicks and pussy because of "reproduction is biology" reason. Its sad that I probably wouldn't get away with it, otherwise the plethora of hentai images would be my stock.
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So as part of my English composition class for college, I'm required to make a WordPress blog as an eportfolio. One of the blog is:
QuoteInsert an image in the header that reflects your academic discipline.
My major is biology. I need an image as animu as possible. As this is for academics, please no nsfw or questionable content.
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3 hours ago, Nosebleed said:
Well this was a much better episode of Phantom World that focused on character growth.
However this is starting to feel like there won't be any overarching plot, which I guess could work depending on how they approach it.
I am sadded by the fact Reina isn't actually yuri for Mai.
If this is true, I might have actually nailed the exact premise in my first post about Pantom World in where I stated this show would be a harem about him completing the girls problems in turn. I haven't actually seen this week's episode yet, so I'll probably say something when I have.
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UQ Holder:
GGGOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLL...???
Damnit I don't know what to do about this chapter! Trollmaster Akamatsu strikes at the heart of a ship in this week's chapter.
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11 hours ago, Valmore said:
They only just rolled out the updated from 5.1.1 to 6.0 for my phone, and it appears 6.0.1 isn't too far behind, so there isn't an exploit yet. Hopefully soon.
That's the thing, I don't ever recall having to use an exploit to root a phone. I could swear that rooting is done by android exclusively and not the manufacturer. The process of rooting is all elementary linux functions and if there was a need for manufacturer code, the drivers are required by google to be available when they push the update, so there should never be a need for an exploit, just a script build script.
I mean, I did do it with a Nexus 4, so that might be why I had it easier, but I don't ever remember with my really old Alcatel needing an exploit to do it with. There's a really old adage about linux: If you have physical access to the machine, you own it. On arch, it was incredibly simple to remove out my friend from the wheel group and add me instead, all without knowing his password. I can't imagine android being any different.
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51 minutes ago, Mugi said:
Since 2 just got translated, I figured that i might as well pick the first one back up and play through it again. However, I don't remember the ranks, and can't find the translated image for them. So, can someone tell me all the different ranks? Does each one have three sub-ranks in it as well? Also, if you could also tell me the amount of points that is required for each one, that would be fantastic. And should I take my time doing things? Like, if I rank up too fast, could I miss events? Thanks to anyone who can help
It should have been explained in an inforgraphic in like the first 20 minutes or so. Last time I remember completing the game around 4000 renown.
You can miss side events like fucking Shia, but you can never skip core story events. My first playthrough, I somehow managed to miss one of the later daily life cutscenes with Shia because I didn't return and rest. Not a huge deal, but you wanted to know
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So I've figured out Lerche's strategy for adapting Bahamut. They are animating all the high points of every scene and eschewing everything else. It explains all the inconsistencies I've noticed so far. Today's episode felt like a bunch of strung together scenes, and this is exactly why. There was no context behind them and joining them together because they deliberately omitted it. Everything from how the date felt like they were teleporting around to that end scene of Lisha making a fool of herself. It all stems from the fact that there is absolutely zero, none, null, downtime in this series so far. Everything has been critical plot points, so it feels as if we are getting moved from one peak of a mountain to another without actually descending; it disorients you, and it loses all impact. It has the same exact issue as horror games right now in the idea of that the only thing that matters is the payoff and ignoring the buildup.
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4 minutes ago, Valmore said:
I can't root my phone that's been upgraded to Android 6.0 ... this makes me sad.
Why o.O
I actually don't understand. If you were able to root it before, you should for sure be able to root it now. The process shouldn't have changed at all.
Edit: Confession?: Listening to my mother rag on my 24 year old brother about getting a job is really painful, and hilarious at the same time. It seriously sounds like kind of translated conversations about NEETs from anime. The only thing missing is her actually throwing shit out or destroying things. I give it 2 months before she does. The inevitable is coming where she somehow disables his computer.
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8 minutes ago, EcchiOujisama said:
When you open up BB2 it says an install of the BB is detected and gives you the extra characters from that, so I believe you need to have it installed. I would think you'd also need a save from a complete game, but if installing it isn't enough I'm sure we can hook you up with a save file so you don't have to go through the whole game again.
They require 5 and 6 command respectively, so you can't even use both of them at the beginning.
FYI, from everything I've read the grinding was an intentional design choice from SHChara. The first one wasn't built to be difficult, this one was built to take up your time. The AI being redesigned to make less efficient choices in dealing with enemies doesn't help either.
Oh, do you not get to migrate selected characters like you did in NG+ then, it's just predetermined ones? That's saddening.
Most annoying anime plot device of all time
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UQ Holder is still ongoing, so I would throw that one out. If you wanted a protagonist who was proactive in his confession with the harem, there's quite a few out there. I would totally throw Negima under the bus for the two reasons of the pactio's were born more out of necessity than romance except near the end, where it became obvious that the series was headed towards a rushed end. Even then, we STILL didn't get a proper ending. I would say DxD is actually the only legitimate example in this case because it's already blatantly clear he has a harem and it is going to stay that way.
All of the tropes I've seen in this thread are complaints about quantity or misuse rather than the actual annoyance of the trope. It's all "I see this way too damn much".
For me, an actual annoyance of a trope is the split protagonist being introduced partway through the story. Since most manga are written by expansion rather than full storyboard, the introduction of a second protagonist to add a second side of the story. It breaks the story and places it on effective hiatus without actually stopping serialization.