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Title: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on May 31, 2010, 11:06:57 AM
So I browsed through a bit of the place and I've a few things I've been meaning to do when I came across a peer group. Basically it just means I'm lonely and want some people to talk to.

1) I haven't played Planetarian. I mean, most of the time I've been really searching for a heart breaking story, but somehow I just can't bring myself to play it. Perhaps I'm scared. I mean I've heard stories about it. But it really just doesn't sell to me.

2) Oh yeah I just finished Sengoku Rance the other day. I can't believe how cute Kenshin-chan is. Giant onigiri's are great now. Did anyone else think the sex scenes were inconsistent? I mean sometimes he was good, and other times he really just didn't care how much pain the girl was in. Well I guess it's only a game. Gameplay was good fun; I need to play a second run.

3) Anyone here have a DS and have a flashcart (R4, CycloDS, Edge, etc) to go with it? Have you guys found VNDS? So I played Saya no Uta, Narcissu, Tsukihime +disc and replayed Tsukihime on it. It's actually a really viable way of portable-ing VNs and Eroges. Obviously the DS only has limited capacity and hardware, but I'm guessing as technology progresses shit gets better. And I also think there's a PSP version, but I haven't looked into it since I love my DS.

So uhm. I think this can be discussed right?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on May 31, 2010, 01:18:12 PM
Personally I find the resolution of the DS to be too poor for my enjoyment of reading text, I have a first generation R4 which is not longer supported or updated.
Planetarian was sad to a point that I've not been able to read it a second time, but it's still inprinted in my mind.

As for Sengoku Rance, I don't really go for games like that, it's just not my cup of tea.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: inferno_flamex on May 31, 2010, 02:44:37 PM
1) Uhhh.. I dont think its wise to ask someone if you wanna play that game.. I mean.. LOL.. That person would probably have to take responsibility if you think that game is 'good' or 'heart-wrenching'...

So i guess its up to you if you wanna read it. XDDD


2) Oh yeah yeah.. giant meatballs.. Uhuh.. Oh yeash that's right.. moe overload... Kawaii.. Uhuh.. Rescue scene... I agree totally with you bro.. Yep yep... but remember bub... *points to signiture... LOLOLOLOLOLOL


3) hmm.. I dont have a NDS tho.. So i cant help you out there..


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On the other hand.. Welcome! XD
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on May 31, 2010, 11:54:19 PM
Yeah. That sig was a deciding factor in joining this place. Nice to meet you all?

So what's everyone's favourite VN? I'm guessing Tsukihime was a crowd pleaser. Fate was....a bit to esoteric for me. All that stuff about wanting to be a hero, I really couldn't connect with Shirou. Oh oh. Chaos;Head was brilliant, if only they could back port the 360 version I'd be happy as. I hate having no real routes. And Sengoku Rance would get points for the great gameplay. I don't usually play things more than once.
Yeah but Tsukihime really takes the cake don't you think?

Currently installed in my comp:

@HomeMate: It's 3D. I can't get into it.
Chaos;Head: As above.
Cosplay Fetish Academy: Generic.
Cross Channel: Haven't started. The randomness of the start puts me off.
Fate/StayNight: Waiting for a replay. I got rid of my old 100% save file T__T another 3 days of solid work here.
Gadget Trial: Well worth playing, although it's more SRPG than a VN. Currently stuck in campaign. It's hard =\.
Kazoku Keikaku: Long, but worth reading if you want to read. I seem to be in a H-game phase rather than a VN phase.
My Sex Slave is a Classmate: Just got it off here. Haven't tried.
Narcissu: I ended up playing it on my DS because it keeps crashing on my comp. I almost cried. Almost.
One ~To the Radiant Season~: Only got so far, but it's cute for shitty KEY-like artwork.
Rinkan Club: I have a soft spot for Anime Lilith/Black Lilith.
Sandwiched between my Wife and her Sister: Just received.
Suck my Dick or Die: Been playing this today. Not a bad way to go about dark-side plots. So much sex though.
Taimanin Asagi 2: Bit short, but I got it for the tentacles. Not enough of tentacles gets translated. (probably people like Kureha voicing their opinions loudly >=\ |snideremark|) lol.
Tears to Tiara: Leaf sex sucks. Gameplay is a huge drain on my CPU. Storyline isn't great. I guess I play it for the cute.
Tsukihime: Awaiting a new save completion. I lost my old one too.
Utawarerumono: Same as TtoT. Funnier than TtoT though.
Yume Miru Kisuri: The only completed game I currently have installed as I usually uninstall stuff to make space for anime and what not. Great game, really great. I love his works. Apparently.

What about everyone else? Am I the only one that likes Dark Trans stuff (and is normal)?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on June 01, 2010, 12:02:51 AM
Here's part of what I currently have installed, not including the stuff I haven't installed or haven't moved on to this harddrive.

I don't really have the time to do a review right now.

(http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/852/programsn.jpg)

On the note of the Dark translation stuff, I prefer most of my stuff to be in a semi happy, light tone but that's just me.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on June 01, 2010, 12:36:59 AM
Oh, is that Princess Waltz? I customize my install paths so they're a little different I guess. I generally get rid of the production name folder unless it's LEAF or something where I have multiple games.

Geez, Princess Waltz sure had nice art. Oh and is that the Toradora game? T_T <3 Ami-chan.

For some reason, the likes of light-hearted don't appeal to me. Edelweiss sucked (maybe it was the translation though lol) and Shuffle was boring. I should watch the anime apparently. Guess I like my breaking plots.

Breaking plots are great. Western countries don't have that sort of stuff on a regular basis.

EDIT: OH GOD YOU HAVE NTR H-ANIME. I love this place. It's my favourite variation of life breaking.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on June 01, 2010, 12:48:10 AM
huh where? oh... you mean the Triangle Blue project I did and totally broke my mind? I kinda do things as a hobby, and at the time I was looking for something to sub.

Haven't read through Shuffle yet, I'm kinda avoiding it because I love Nerine so much and trying to see if MG would bring over the Nerine spin off.

Edelweiss was decent, I read through the revised edition lol.

As for mind break, I don't know, some of the time I like them, most of the time I don't , I have a very narrow of acceptance for this kinda stuff.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: inferno_flamex on June 01, 2010, 01:52:12 AM
Yeah.. Nerine is awesome... XDD /hi5 Kureha.. wooot.


...
Hey tea.. You really SHOULD complete Fate Stay Night.. Yeah.. The fate route is not that great... But i love love LOOOOVE the 2nd route.. Unlimited Blade Works... You should at least complete all the routes in the game before saying 'i like this/i dont like this'.. at least in VN terms.. Because a VN is meant to be played with ALL routes to completion..

You play only one route? You only get to know a very very little part of the whole story.. Most VNs have a story that interlocks with different characters/routes...

And i cant believe you do not like TtT! Or Edelweiss!.. omg.. I find them awesome!.. well.. not as awesome as FSN.. but.. awesome in terms of LOL and well.. story...
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.... i dont really go for H in VNs anymore.. i mean.. if i wanna go for some real H.. There's a bunch of H-vid webisites i know of that's more than my fingers can count... >_<
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Yossarian762 on June 01, 2010, 04:35:19 AM
One ~To the Radiant Season~: Only got so far, but it's cute for shitty KEY-like artwork.

It's not really "KEY-like", it is KEY before they split off into their own company. Not to be a smartass or anything, just pointing it out in case you didn't know  :P

Also, I like light hearted stuff generally (though my top three are probably Yume Miru Kusuri, Tsukihime, and Sharin no Kuni), but I wouldn't blame anybody for not liking Shuffle regardless of their tastes because it felt super bland to me. The characters are likeable but not very deep, and it doesn't tell a very good story or have very good sex imo (I think good sex makes up for a bad story and vice versa). Though maybe I've really missed something since I've only played Kaede and Sia's routes?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Lyle on June 01, 2010, 06:21:36 AM

1) I haven't played Planetarian. I mean, most of the time I've been really searching for a heart breaking story, but somehow I just can't bring myself to play it. Perhaps I'm scared. I mean I've heard stories about it. But it really just doesn't sell to me.

I haven't played it either for the same reason, too scared ;_;
I'm running out of other games to play though, so I guess it won't be long until I have to face it.


2) Oh yeah I just finished Sengoku Rance the other day. I can't believe how cute Kenshin-chan is. Giant onigiri's are great now. Did anyone else think the sex scenes were inconsistent? I mean sometimes he was good, and other times he really just didn't care how much pain the girl was in. Well I guess it's only a game. Gameplay was good fun; I need to play a second run.

I tried Sengoku Rance, but I really didn't like it. The gameplay seemed just like a simplified version of lot of strategy games I had played before, with some porn thrown in. Not that I have anything against porn, but I really prefer a good story.

Also, did anyone else really hate Rance? He was so mean ;_;


3) Anyone here have a DS and have a flashcart (R4, CycloDS, Edge, etc) to go with it? Have you guys found VNDS? So I played Saya no Uta, Narcissu, Tsukihime +disc and replayed Tsukihime on it. It's actually a really viable way of portable-ing VNs and Eroges. Obviously the DS only has limited capacity and hardware, but I'm guessing as technology progresses shit gets better. And I also think there's a PSP version, but I haven't looked into it since I love my DS.

Playing Tsukihime and Saya no Uta on my DS was acually how I got started on VNs, I really recommend VNDS to anyone! The PSP homebrew your thinking of is a port of Onscripter, but I don't recommend it. It runs very slowly, and since it was not made for the PSP's resolution everything looks very ugly.


Fate was....a bit to esoteric for me. All that stuff about wanting to be a hero, I really couldn't connect with Shirou.

I actually liked that hero stuff about Shirou. I didn't take it seriously or agree with him, of course, but I thought it was interesting. I took it as some mental trauma left over because of the stuff with his father. It wasn't as obvious as Shiki from Tsukihime's mental trauma but I still thought it was an interesting aspect of his character. I didn't get too far before my save got corrupted though, and I haven't got back round to reading it, so I might be wrong!
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on June 01, 2010, 10:21:43 AM
Yeah. NTR is awesome as a genre. Actually I really like Asa, except I wish there was some jealous stabbing going on. I think I played all routes on Shuffle! except the lolicon route.

Inferno, it's not really that I just play one route. It's more I play and it gets boring so I put it on hiatus until I can gather enough interest to play again. Currently Kazoku Keikaku has been on hold for about 6 months. I put off playing most games unless I finish others, but that hasn't happened lately.

Actually I like Heaven's Feel. I'm just an absolute fan of Sakura in that route. She was kinda boring in most others, but she was great in that. UBW was the most abstract story ever, I really couldn't feel how great it was. Besides UBW fanboys are rampaging everywhere; doesn't hurt to be different.
>Speaking of which what about the movie? Anyone seen it yet?

Oh. So it was KEY. I thought there were way too many similarities. Welp, there goes my interest in playing it. But it's like Yoss here says. Good sex makes up for crappy plot, and good plot makes up for crappy sex. It's like how I like TYPE-MOON and Anime Lilith at the same time. It's not really contradictory.

Also H-vids are different. Sure the animation quality and general production quality is getting better, but it's still not at the level of eroge. Although I have my own collection of H-anime I guess; H-games are much better. The sheer amount of plot you can throw in, developing the characters and your empathy of them before completely riddling your face with NTR bullets is jus-

I went a bit off track there. Lyle, what strat games were like Rance? The closest I've played was uh...some shitty one on DS, I forgot. I like how I can conquer the world. I also like how it has a completely different second run through. Recommend me some if you can.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on June 02, 2010, 07:59:56 AM
Double post. I found this while looking at some TYPE-MOON image board a friend linked to me.

EXIT TRANCE sure is great.

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=9910ac49c0555909b64026cfc061123605653b7cac9fef8b0ac99885da44e881
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on June 02, 2010, 08:05:30 AM
Forgive me for my ignorance but what is Exit Trance?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on June 02, 2010, 08:20:45 AM
It's a band that arranges and does covers and stuff.

It's a lot of electronic, some nice voices and mostly trance. They have some good stuff. I just downloaded BEST THE MOVIE, though any of their BEST is worth a listen if you're into that sort of stuff. There'll at least be one song you recognize I'm sure.

They have a nice Higurashi remix somewhere.

In this album if you can find it > EXIT TRANCE PRESENTS CODE SPEED アニメトランス BEST

ANIME TRANCE BEST I suppose.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: inferno_flamex on June 02, 2010, 10:27:28 AM
Let me guess..

They did a cover for Fate Stay Night's Emiya by chance?


And in the end.. Instead of the usual UBW Archer chant.. It was UBW Shirou's chant?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on June 02, 2010, 12:18:36 PM
Mmm, not sure if it was them. In fact I don't think it was.

I seem to remember they don't dabble in the Visual Novel genre, but rather vocaloids, anime, a-movies and J-music.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on June 03, 2010, 09:04:25 PM
Discussion of the day:

NitroPlus.

Who's a fan? I love them to bits. Oh right. I thought I missed seeing Saya on here.

I'll upload it when I have time or something.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on June 03, 2010, 09:23:32 PM
Nitro+? um well again their theme is something I don't really dabble on.

Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on June 03, 2010, 09:51:13 PM
Oh Gawd. Kikokugai was great. Saya was so so so sweet.

I would have to say their theme is heartbreak. Not actually all that dark.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Yossarian762 on June 04, 2010, 12:58:22 AM
Didn't play Kikokugai, but Saya was pretty great. It was really tragic though - Saya and Fuminori could have lived happily together if they didn't have their respective...conditions, that led them to totally disregard human life.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on June 04, 2010, 01:06:19 PM
But Saya was an [spoiler] interdimensional alien that preyed on human flesh. Oh geez. So cute.[/spoiler]

Oh and Kikokugai is worth playing. Such hearbreak =\. And awesome fight scenes.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on June 04, 2010, 07:00:58 PM
I lost 2 big posts twice in a row. Draiiiiiiiiined.

Let's just go with something simple:

NTR. Discuss. So I heard the VN "Desire" had NTR in it. Sounds good to me.

My recent google searches have been leading me to *chans. Is it nice there? If so I'd have to learn imageboard etiquette. Blah, the time.

TYPE-MOON. They have some great stuff, Fate, Kara no Kyoukai etc. But still their crowning achievement was Tsukihime. For me, Tsukihime trumps everything, except maybe uh....
I'll think of something.

Music. What do people listen to? And no one mention metal or rock. It's overrated and overpopular. I mean even rap or RnB in these environs would be a more "wtf?"

Artbooks and artists. Pixiv, dA, pro's. Who's your favourite? Miyama 0 is awesome. I even went so far as to ordering her artbook off Amazon, and I never buy anything. It's sitting next to me right now; I think I have to go dust it.

Light Novels. I've also go the ToraDora! light novels sitting next to me. I haven't started them in (in Japanese) yet but I'll get around to it. Anyone else read/like anything? Currently I'm waiting for Baka-Tsuki to release more Ore ga Imouto wa konani kawaii waka ga nai. Also I hear H-10 is coming out this year. Yooooooosh! Also I have Fate/Zero in my tabs. Discuss LN's.

Th7.5. Sure is fun.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on July 02, 2010, 06:03:49 PM
Ahem. 2 pages isn't a bad loss.

So who had the latest on Mohoyo and trans stuff? I remember saying something about how TL-wiki lacks personality. Oh I also remember something about Koitate translations not being on hiatus or somestuffs as Nanaya (with that awesome Saber avatar) said. Sure is nice having trap-H to look forward to.

Ahhhhh.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on July 07, 2010, 06:35:06 PM
Discussion plx.

NHK ni yokoso.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on July 07, 2010, 10:35:52 PM
NHK is funny. I loled when his neighboor rolled a female character and messed with his head, and when he deleted his O/S to fit more loli pics.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on July 07, 2010, 11:19:52 PM
Agreed. I almost wish I was dumb enough to live a life like that. <3 My own Misaki would be delicious.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on July 07, 2010, 11:27:40 PM
Haven't touched the other stuff besides the anime but I've heard Misaki has her own load of problems.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on July 08, 2010, 04:03:19 PM
Domestic violence wasn't it? It was in the anime.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on July 08, 2010, 08:59:39 PM
Someone come talk to me. Anyone?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: blakraven66 on July 08, 2010, 10:45:09 PM
About what?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: inferno_flamex on July 08, 2010, 11:14:18 PM
*comes and act like a psychiatrist...


So Mister Tea... How does that make you feel?
Lol no... Im just messing...

But seriously tho Tea, come on.. Talk about.. Like.. something that's not NTR, or of the similar genre... >_>

You'd get more hits that way... ... ... At least.. I think?

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*shrugs...
Just saying~~
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on July 08, 2010, 11:31:21 PM
There's actually a pretty big NTR community on Hongfire, even with their own forum I think. The perfect place for a decent NTR discussion!
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on July 08, 2010, 11:42:18 PM
Oh I don't really care about that. I like pretty much anything so discuss whatever's on your mind.

I have an opinion on everything so chat away.

Um. I just finished Dance. Loli vamp is great. Umh
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on July 08, 2010, 11:44:42 PM
I didn't really get the story I mean the princess and what the wolf boy saw, how did that came to be? If there was so many of her they why did the three houses choose to obey this one? They could just go to that place pick up another one and still have their bloodline.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on July 08, 2010, 11:48:41 PM
Iunno either. My guess (well I'm pretty much just waiting for baka-tsuki's trans, but yesh) is that the
author just wanted to insert a ShinjixRei analogy in the story
Geneon took over production during that part.
Shinji and Rei re-incarnated into a MAN and a tsundere ojou-sama loli

...Well shit. I guess I don't actually guess anything. lol nah, something to do with she's the original, and the others are replacements. They didn't know about her, but found out about the blood legacy later anyway, and so they were obeying her because she has some sort of weird power over them?

Well, my trains of thought go something like that. I can't believe I can organise that kinda shit into coherent posts.

*sniff* aww Kureha's sweet. Oh yeah I found Rosetta Stone with Japanese on my old HDD. I'll look to uploading it sometime.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on July 09, 2010, 12:34:34 AM
Welp, off to play SC for the night. Thanks for the good time.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: invictus on July 09, 2010, 02:53:41 PM
Cross Channel is actually pretty good once you get over the randomness and the first couple of loops... plus Nanaka Crash is super addictive... I finally managed to clear 10k yesterday...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on July 09, 2010, 11:28:16 PM
Nanaka Crash?

Hmm CC huh. Must give it a try. Soon.

So what's everyone else up to?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Sicksorrow on July 10, 2010, 12:19:21 AM
Hmmm nothing really at this time.

I really want to start Cross Channel but ehh I got like 3 more VN ahead of it to finish.

There's one Visual novel that I always wanted to try but was never translated was Brighter Than The Dawning Blue. It looked pretty good to me at least.

:)
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on July 10, 2010, 12:25:44 AM
Looks kinda like Princess Waltz or Edelweiss.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Sicksorrow on July 10, 2010, 12:35:21 AM
Ehh I guess your right. But I think it has better artwork than Edelweiss, at least :)

Other than that I'm looking forward to the Seinarukana translation coming soon!  :D

Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: invictus on July 10, 2010, 03:57:25 AM
Nanaka Crash as in the flash game, it's interesting after you finish Cross Channel since you know who the characters are, lol.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: inferno_flamex on July 10, 2010, 09:30:00 AM
Just started on Ef personally...

I've played the 'demo' quite awhile back... When it was unfinished...
But now.. Yeah.. i just restarted the whole game...

I think maybe i'll play Cross+Channel after this.

Currently downloading Shining Tears PS2... Since i cant play Shining Wind.. Guess i'll give Shining Tears a try...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on July 10, 2010, 03:14:24 PM
Shining Tears was fun when I played it 3 years ago, the character co-op was interesting enough to keep me going till the end.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on July 10, 2010, 04:41:17 PM
The anime was ok until they tried to pull the gay route near the end.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on July 11, 2010, 01:04:45 AM
Another day, another sleepless night downloading stuff I want.

Ookami was only 2 episodes so I decided not to. Ended up having to defrag my HDD again because  of the mass downloads I poured into my desktop. Again I forgot to shift everything into the next partition meaning I lagged for about 2 hours while downloading due to HDD space-lacking on the OS partition. I'm pretty lax about my anime, so I decided while I was still sleep-sober that I should do my VN/H-games download, otherwise I'd end up downloading weird shit I don't want.

This is going to be fun.

Shion
Raidy
Piece of Wonder
Swan Song
Cosplay Alien
Words Worth
Night Master
waitwhat? Blah. Something.
Hinata Bokko
Some Lilith Maid game and Princess Eris.

EDIT: I tried to report myself to the moderator, but it didn't work out. I guess I'm used to the edit button being at the bottom, lol. I tried downloading her style, until it said it would take 2+ hours for one part of the thing with each time having to enter that stupid hotfile captcha, and 13 parts. T_____________T I might end up buying the game if this continues.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on July 11, 2010, 06:16:33 AM
Well, there is no moderator on this part of the forums.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: invictus on July 11, 2010, 07:00:50 AM
... what exactly is her style? O.O I've never heard of it...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Yossarian762 on July 11, 2010, 01:02:45 PM
Hinata Bokko was pretty much unplayable due to the terrible translation. Kind of a shame, the art was rather nice...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on July 11, 2010, 03:07:11 PM
I thought it was ok enough and played through the whole game.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on July 11, 2010, 07:12:20 PM
Meh, if I could play through almost a whole route of shit trans Edelweiss...

Also, Dark Translation isn't exactly great, given it has it's own style.

***

Ichiban Ushiro no Daimaou +plus for spoilers.

So this'll be the first anime review I'm typing up. If people like I'll continue with other stuff, but meanwhile since I just finished watching I'll share a few thoughts on it.

I have to say it started off superb. A boy of great morale fibre and sense of justice as the main character was nice. I mean most of the time you don't see that sort of stuff anymore seeing as the badass-I-only-want-to-save-my-friends archtype of Main Character is far more popular. People in the modern world don't seem to like extremes, or probably more that they can't identify with the extreme type MC's because of the absence of quality in the main characters of most stories. I mean I have to say most of them annoy me (Shirou - FSN), don't leave much of an impression (well if I could remember them I wouldn't have put them in this list anyway), make me hate them (Makoto -School Days), have giant gaping wounds festering with cliches (Strawberry-faggot, Naruto etc). Barely any of them stick to their starting criteria (like Akuto here) and almost none of them are cool (Shiki - Tsukihime was a rare exception). The few that dare to be different are shunned into minority popularities, such as Shinji (who, admittedly, was created to be hated), and Takumi (Chaos;Head. The game was great. He was awesome.) are examples. I mean sure they're shit-heads most of the time. But the fact that all you faggots out there who hate them can't be much better under the same, or even better circumstances-

Wow I really went off topic. Basically, Akuto was awesome till they morphed him into just another shounen MC without so much as an explanation. In fact a lot of things in this anime were explained. I don't have the data to say whether or not they cut truckloads of it out, or they wanted the audience to extrapolate most of the details with their imaginations (which can actually be very effective when done properly) but too much was left out; and this was especially noticable with character development. When I think back on it, why does Akuto, who claimed he wanted to be High Priest at the beginning of the show, do all those kinds of things which conflicted with his goal? I mean Junko said it at the start: even littering can fuck up that career choice.

Also, was it a harem end, or did he even love any of them? No. I can't say I thought he did, except maybe Junko. Why did he save Keina when they had next to no relationship development? There was no logic or emotion behind the choice: during late-mid/early-end, the anime got really boring for me who searches for an emotional connection with the characters. Sure, it might be that the genre doesn't require that kind of stuff, but if you're going to put in shit don't put it in halfway. So a huge con in this show was that it lacked the required screen time for development. It really screwed it up for the whole show I think. There were a few other minor details that were hateful, but in all seriousness the show would have been fantastic if it wasn't for this: It had a good balance of serious/humour, fun characters and a plot/theme that could be explored with both humour and seriousness. Basically, I think it could have been another Code Geass given 48 episodes.

However it was only given a mere 13 and tried to fit everything in CG into 13 episodes. Think of how much you miss out. Getting bored typing shit up. Besides, it wasn't that great. Worth a watch, not a keeper.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: invictus on July 11, 2010, 07:25:18 PM
Hinata Bokko... felt so very generic... somehow I just couldn't get into it... nothing to do with the translations... I think the intro was just too long for me.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on July 11, 2010, 08:17:54 PM
Ichiban Ushiro no Daimaou is an ongoing multiple volume light novel series from what I heard due to budget and episode constraints they really butchered things up to make things fit, the ending is actually more like a reset than an ending because technically it hasn't ended in the novels either.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on July 11, 2010, 09:34:16 PM
Yeah. It had that kinda feeling to it.

Too bad it's not a project on Baka Tsuki. I know I'd love reading such a classy story. Seriously, there was elegance in there.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: invictus on July 11, 2010, 09:36:04 PM
indeed, given the 13 episode constraint, it could have been a lot worse... I mean of course the stories gonna get butchered... if you tried to compress Code Geass into 13 episodes and modified the ending to be super inconclusive... I think you'd get a pretty bad anime too... at very least the characters were interesting... the art and animation was interesting... the story wasn't bad up until the point all the girls fell head over heels in love with him without reason... and the childhood friend somehow turned into some kinda deux ex machina device... and the evil organization suddenly turned into one weird time traveling person who is trying to kill the gods or something like that... I could go on and on.... but basically the root of all these wrongs is lack of time for development... (and a proper conclusion)...

you can feel it even more sharply... how badly the anime was butchered if you read the manga... there's only like 10 or 12 or something chapters but you can already tell...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on July 11, 2010, 09:44:00 PM
Thank god I'm learning Japanese, that's all I have to say. Light novels here I come.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on July 13, 2010, 10:34:44 PM
I got sick of looking at the blank icons for those old mangagamer games (I have a nicely colourful shorcuts folder for all my H-games) so I made one for each.

They're usable, but I'm sure I'm gonna put a lot more effort into privately constructed "theme" icon sets.

This includes:

My sex slave is a classmate
Sandwiched between my wife and her sister
Suck my dick or die.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on July 13, 2010, 10:57:35 PM
speaking of blanks, your signiture is a x again
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on July 13, 2010, 11:14:53 PM
Misaki or Ryouko is next. Or Piko now.

Speaking of Piko, I'm watching Arakawa Under the Bridge. It's good too, and there are a few comments I feel like making.

>Is that Onizuka?
>Now I know what Hiroshima dialect sounds like.
>Now I want to speak like that.
>Piko is cute. Best VA. Ever.
>Maki for life.
>Everytime Nino is mentioned I think of El Nino. The weather phenomenon.
>It's a funny anime. A lot like Gintama.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: inferno_flamex on July 14, 2010, 02:19:20 AM
Hey.. but i kinda enjoyed watching that.. Ichiban Daimaou.. anime.. thing.. >_>

..
...

Suuuree.. Too much stuffs goes on unexplained...

I agree about the high priest > 'savior of freedom' thing...
But for a 12ep anime.. I think its one of the few that's quite well done...

PS.
CUrrently watching Seto no Hanayome... if anyone's interested..
Im finding this at least 5 times more enjoyable than Daimaou... Despite the lower 'echiness'... Guess you dont need much 'H' to make me smile XDD

Oh yeah.. Kame no Maid Guy is farkin awesome... Tea you should try that one.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on July 14, 2010, 02:41:48 AM
I never finished Seto no Hanayome, where was never proper subs, and seeing how I archive my anime I'm still waiting for a group to release a full DVD batch.

Hikakuteki Simple Na Panty is a godly doujin circle.

Maid Guy was funny, though it was kinda QUALITY.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on July 14, 2010, 04:48:19 PM
No, I'm loving Arakawa Under the Bridge. Omigawa Chiaki (http://myanimelist.net/people/1760/Chiaki_Omigawa) is fucking awesome. I'm a fan for life, her voice is the best.

Shiwase no Okina is a good H-artist too.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: blakraven66 on July 14, 2010, 07:40:53 PM
Yeah, Seto no Hanayome is one of my favorite comedies. You should check out Nyan Koi since it's got a similar style to it. Lovely Complex also gets a notable mention for Rom-Coms.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on July 14, 2010, 08:05:53 PM
Hmmm Nyan Koi turned out too "stupid-serious" for me to really like it. It didn't mix properly.

I did read a bit of Seto no Hanayome. Iunno though, it didn't appeal on the grounds of cliche love scenes/lines.

I like my new avvy/sig. Killer legs. Sig's a bit tall. I'll have to make it 100-150 pix next time.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on July 14, 2010, 08:18:22 PM
can't see your sig, I don't think your sig ever showed up as anything other than a red x
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on July 14, 2010, 09:30:24 PM
(http://i847.photobucket.com/albums/ab35/aydz3/Ryoko_avvy.png)

(http://i847.photobucket.com/albums/ab35/aydz3/Ryouko_sig.png)

Well, the really neat part is that it's see-through. So a different colour background would be nicer, but still. I like.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mizuno on July 15, 2010, 04:40:58 PM
you know I thought this thread was about Umineko's Tea Parties >_>
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on July 15, 2010, 04:45:35 PM
This thread doesn't really have a topic, so we're just having fun derailing again and again and again.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mizuno on July 15, 2010, 04:50:10 PM
hehehe
well that's good since I was kinda afraid to look at this thread cause I thought this contains Seacat's discussion which I still haven't played up to date(or whatever)
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on July 15, 2010, 04:51:23 PM
I'm not up to date on Umineko either.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on July 15, 2010, 04:52:07 PM

hehehe
well that's good since I was kinda afraid to look at this thread cause I thought this contains Seacat's discussion which I still haven't played up to date(or whatever)

There is nothing to spoil about that. It's just trolls trolling trolls, the visual novel.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on July 16, 2010, 08:21:55 AM
Ohhh, I can't wait for another season of Beatrice.

Also: :0 my avvy/sig set. Baw.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on July 16, 2010, 08:01:24 PM

Ohhh, I can't wait for another season of Beatrice.

Get ready for 3 Beatrices.


Also: :0 my avvy/sig set. Baw.

DEM LEGS!
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on July 17, 2010, 02:52:43 PM
Bah. I went and got a photobucket account for them. At least they show now.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: inferno_flamex on July 18, 2010, 01:26:39 AM
You know...

There's something sexy about 'seen' but yet 'not fully seen'... Such a case is that oh so sexy legs/hips/thighs siggie.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on July 19, 2010, 09:15:32 AM
Slow week huh.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: blakraven66 on July 19, 2010, 12:42:15 PM
So...since there's nothing better to talk about...

Let's talk about NNL vs. Minori (http://www.siliconera.com/2010/07/18/minori-in-constructive-negotiations-with-fan-translation-group) round 3
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on July 19, 2010, 12:50:34 PM
Still a bunch of faggots I see.

This enrages me: http://www.siliconera.com/2010/05/30/tlwiki-blocks-japanese-ips-from-site/ (http://www.siliconera.com/2010/05/30/tlwiki-blocks-japanese-ips-from-site/)

I like fan trans much more than I do real trans. Just look at the quality of actual English H-games and the difference is phenomenal. Besides which, Fan trans keep much of the culture and quality that many companies in the Western world would not keep, just because they're "doing a job" rather than chipping away at their soul to bring us these releases. Or well, I'm being overly dramatic, but this is ridiculous: "encourage professional publishers to localize certain projects".

Localization projects suck. Especially on a large scale; just look at efforts for localizing anime. They take our trust and what do they do with it? They spend it on Narutards and Bleach-fags. Besides which all that bullshit censoring with stuff they put on TV; eh, well it's not like any of us watched dubbed crap. Barely any worthwhile animashit is professionally localized, and have you read the manga's or Light Novels that are? The English in it is actually English. If I wanted to read English I'd go find a nice graphic novel, but no I want to read manga, and to me that pertains to a certain level of culture that present in the translation efforts at least. I don't want you to find alternative jokes to the ones in there, just because the humour is untranslatable; and how much of the unsaid or implicated conversation has to be cut out simple because they used a shitty euphemism or unmatching synonym?

That said, I hate the idea of our fan trans team getting kicked out of their job for making "real companies" feel insecure.

Like I said. Faggots;

or something.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: invictus on July 19, 2010, 03:16:07 PM
Dang, things are getting worse.  At this rate, VN translation groups will fall... or need to go underground.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on July 19, 2010, 10:06:11 PM
Nothing of value was lost... Most fan translations have been done underground or in some sort of barely known website. TLWiki has too much stuff concentrated on a single place, so it's easily known and an easy target. Besides stuff that never had any substantial progress, there wasn't a single dropped project from those removed from TLWiki.

Regarding localizations, leaving too much romanized text without providing translation notes, leaves a bad impression for someone who has little knowledge of the portrayed culture, and that would pretty much stagnate the income of new clients who aren't that knowledgeable. Reasonings like "but it's something really simple" don't work, since no one is forced to understand a foreign language that they came in contact with for a couple of times, at most. That's why you see English subtitles in American movies when someone is speaking another language to give realism to the scene or, even a sign in a book that informs the reader that there is further information about that subject on another part of the book, which helps someone uninformed to keep up with what's happening, while someone who knows about it, keeps reading.

Unfortunately, most companies take the easy way out and either leave too much romanized stuff or localize everything, even turning dialogues and scenes into stuff that doesn't make any sense, like Ar Tonelico II.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on July 19, 2010, 10:18:42 PM

Nothing of value was lost... Most fan translations have been done underground or in some sort of barely known website. TLWiki has too much stuff concentrated on a single place, so it's easily known and an easy target.

Hmmn maybe we're too concentrated in a single place too. lol...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on July 20, 2010, 07:02:15 AM
Naw, TLWiki were just filled with stupid people, or something. Too mainstream? More than possibly.

I'm pretty sure even people I knew in IRL knew about it, which just goes to show.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: inferno_flamex on July 20, 2010, 05:57:20 PM


That said, I hate the idea of our fan trans team getting kicked out of their job for making "real companies" feel insecure.

They're getting kicked out?... not likely...
As long as there are people who love something enough to want to share it without profit or gain... There's always... 'Piracy'... in the words of the big wigs...

Dont you see? When you think about it... Even cosplayers are 'piraters'...

... but the 2nd half of your statement i agree.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on July 20, 2010, 08:32:08 PM


Nothing of value was lost... Most fan translations have been done underground or in some sort of barely known website. TLWiki has too much stuff concentrated on a single place, so it's easily known and an easy target.

Hmmn maybe we're too concentrated in a single place too. lol...

If we're too concentrated, Hongfire would be like a nuclear weapons testing ground, lol. If a VN exists, it has passed through their boards.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on July 20, 2010, 10:04:47 PM
Yeah but hongfire doesn't handle the Engrish commercial games like we do.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on July 20, 2010, 11:53:22 PM
Yeah, western comercial releases aren't welcome around there.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on July 21, 2010, 04:45:36 AM
Huh, seriously. I never noticed that about HF.

But I seem to remember people saying there were RAW H-games? So what's the difference. Bunch of dicks everywhere.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on July 21, 2010, 04:58:51 AM
There's a massive ammount of raw games on Hongfire, either in torrent or direct dl form.
But I don't think eroge makes can do anything about it, as Hongfire operates quite clever; by not allowing any English games on their side, no company in the USA got a reason to bother fighting a courting battle with Hongfire, and a Japanese game studio would have to put enormous money reserves in a court process which is not a 100% win for them.
They can send as many letters as they want to hongfire, until one eroge company finally puts some serious funds into a court process in American and actually wins, Hongfire can't be touched.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on July 21, 2010, 05:32:13 AM
Ah. So that's why we're a sitting timebomb.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on July 21, 2010, 05:43:55 AM
We've already been detonated once, back when the url was gotdns... That's actually all they can do to this forum, we're not technically hosting anything illegal at all.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on July 21, 2010, 06:16:39 AM
What? We're not?

....I wonder....
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: invictus on July 21, 2010, 07:03:23 AM
Doesn't that just mean even if we get detonated we can just rebuild the bomb elsewhere?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on July 21, 2010, 08:00:53 AM
Seriously, Working! is a great anime.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on July 21, 2010, 08:44:29 AM

Doesn't that just mean even if we get detonated we can just rebuild the bomb elsewhere?

No because I'ld run out of places to have free dynamic IP to URL services.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on July 21, 2010, 09:00:33 AM
lol Kureha.

On the topic of my racism, why is it that teen boys on the net are so retarded? Is it because they're wannabe-amerikans? Or is it something else? What do you think, and what kind of insults can you think up?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Yossarian762 on July 21, 2010, 09:14:23 AM
It's a lot easier to evade responsibility for stupid shit you say on the internet than in real life, so I've found there's pretty much no point in trying to discuss anything on the internet with people you don't know unless it's like a really tightly/well moderated forum. Even if people aren't being jerks they rarely have anything substantial to say...not pointing fingers at this forum, probably because there's so few active posters, but more populated forums are more likely to suck than not.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on July 21, 2010, 10:03:59 AM
Eh, moderately populated forums are probably the best, with high turnover of newcomers and a few regulars.

Meh, this is the best place since I was evicted from my last home due to changing rules and newcomer faggots.

...

Went to check on G-Maou

Work should be done within the year. Hoorah. Also read the recent official responses to the drama. I did pretty love the one comment that spat in defiance at these C&D shits being sent out. Meh, seems like I was over-reacting. Still nice to rant about it.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: mahou on July 21, 2010, 12:02:46 PM

It's a lot easier to evade responsibility for stupid shit you say on the internet than in real life, so I've found there's pretty much no point in trying to discuss anything on the internet with people you don't know unless it's like a really tightly/well moderated forum. Even if people aren't being jerks they rarely have anything substantial to say...not pointing fingers at this forum, probably because there's so few active posters, but more populated forums are more likely to suck than not.

My sentiments exactly. That's why I only post on a whim, if i'm bored, to say thanks, need info or just want to vent. xD

It's also nice when some decent discussions actually come up too. Otherwise it's best just to lurk and interact as necessary. Real life you (mostly) don't get all the a**holes on the net acting like a**holes in real life b/c they'd get a beating.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on July 21, 2010, 01:33:53 PM


It's a lot easier to evade responsibility for stupid shit you say on the internet than in real life, so I've found there's pretty much no point in trying to discuss anything on the internet with people you don't know unless it's like a really tightly/well moderated forum. Even if people aren't being jerks they rarely have anything substantial to say...not pointing fingers at this forum, probably because there's so few active posters, but more populated forums are more likely to suck than not.

My sentiments exactly. That's why I only post on a whim, if i'm bored, to say thanks, need info or just want to vent. xD

It's also nice when some decent discussions actually come up too. Otherwise it's best just to lurk and interact as necessary. Real life you (mostly) don't get all the a**holes on the net acting like a**holes in real life b/c they'd get a beating.

It's actually quite interesting over here; I don't get beaten up, but more I get avoided, looked down on and basically termed every insulting geek/nerd/wanker combo there is in existence. It's still pretty nice being alone.

...And then my upbringing gets the better of me and I be nice all over again. Bah.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on July 21, 2010, 03:47:10 PM
I tend to RAGE as easily to real life assholes as on the internet... What can I say? I'm an easy prey for trolls. lol

Regarding G-Senjou, I'm waiting for that like a kid waiting for Santa. Please, don't fail me, G-Senjou translation team!
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: mahou on July 21, 2010, 05:07:28 PM

I tend to RAGE as easily to real life assholes as on the internet... What can I say? I'm an easy prey for trolls. lol

Regarding G-Senjou, I'm waiting for that like a kid waiting for Santa. Please, don't fail me, G-Senjou translation team!

Same. But I try not to waste me breath.

Usami Haru is currently my favourite heroine, been waiting soo long for g-senjou's translation to finish. In hindsight it only began last year, or was it this year? Anyway it feels too long xD
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mizuno on July 21, 2010, 07:47:16 PM
bah I want to read it too
I really wanna read ch. 4 now ;_;
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on July 21, 2010, 07:57:49 PM
You guys jumped the gun already? At least I have the patience to wait for their full translation.

Ahhh boy oh boy. The end of this year is shaping up to be the best yet.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: inferno_flamex on July 21, 2010, 08:18:37 PM
Tea... you're not alone..

You just... talk to much.. LOLOL...
And thats usually the time that i tend to avoid you... Hahah.. No offense tho, joke in fact. Although partly true.
I mean.. Dude.. Look at your post count.. Even after the recent 'forum nuke' and you were swiped back to a 50, you still got back to 150 double time.. XD

But yeeeaaahh...

You're a racist bobtard with a sharp tongue... but i know deep down.. You're a good guy... XDDDD

..
...
.....

Wait.. what are we talking about again?
Oh oh yeah.. Games.. end of the year.. good stuffs...

Ahh.. fark... I dont think i'll still be here by the end of the year...

Im gonna be drafted to the frikkin military.. well.. more like the firefighting school.. >_>
not really a choice tho... 'Serve the country once you're 21' kinda thing.. Sheeeet...
Thinking about it already gets me emo...
..
....
Need my VN fix NAO.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: mahou on July 21, 2010, 08:22:14 PM

You guys jumped the gun already? At least I have the patience to wait for their full translation.

Ahhh boy oh boy. The end of this year is shaping up to be the best yet.

It's not like anything is spoiled playing the first 3 chapters anyway. All the routes except Haru's are garbage anyway. Ok I'm being a little harsh, maybe below average to average or maybe that's being too generous. It's subjective anyway i'll stick with garbage ;p.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Yossarian762 on July 22, 2010, 01:33:33 AM
I can't wait for G-senjou either. I too will wait for the full translation, though...patience is a virtue. Plus the anticipation would drive me up a wall if I played some now but couldn't actually finish it. Knowing me I'd be checking for any sign of new progress daily until it was released  :P
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: blakraven66 on July 22, 2010, 01:59:37 AM
G-Senjou finally resuming? Finally! Though didn't they also get a C&D?

Devils Devel Concept project also just recently got a C&D too...

Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Belgaesh on July 22, 2010, 03:16:55 AM
I'm another that can't wait to finish G-Senjou, since I'm following the project since the beginning.

As for news, Katahane trial patch has been released today.
http://tlwiki.tsukuru.info/index.php?title=Katahane (http://tlwiki.tsukuru.info/index.php?title=Katahane)
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on July 22, 2010, 04:05:43 AM
http://www.minori.ph/ (http://www.minori.ph/)
Wow, I so didn't see this coming. Minori and NNL working together to release the games outside the USA.
Any thoughts how this gonna end ?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on July 22, 2010, 06:18:05 AM
I think it's going to be expensive, basically this is just going to be Minori selling their own game but in english isn't it?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on July 22, 2010, 06:55:59 AM
Meh, who's going to buy a game about a church, some girl in a brown seifuku and a boy?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mizuno on July 22, 2010, 07:13:57 AM

You guys jumped the gun already? At least I have the patience to wait for their full translation.

Ahhh boy oh boy. The end of this year is shaping up to be the best yet.
Well I don't have any VN to play at that time so I read G-Sen for a while
then got hooked >_>
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: mahou on July 22, 2010, 07:44:33 AM

http://www.minori.ph/ (http://www.minori.ph/)
Wow, I so didn't see this coming. Minori and NNL working together to release the games outside the USA.
Any thoughts how this gonna end ?

Funny that they still block foreign ips, but I guess that'll change in in the new 'framework'. TBH not all that interested in minori titles though, only started Ef b/c it got translated, not to say it's bad I enjoyed chapters 1&2, but haven't completed 3 yet and don't feel all that compelled to atm.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on July 22, 2010, 07:55:45 AM
I only watched the anime, found out my favorite character was dead to begin with and her crappy childhood didn't help. So I skipped the game...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: mahou on July 22, 2010, 08:13:43 AM

I only watched the anime, found out my favorite character was dead to begin with and her crappy childhood didn't help. So I skipped the game...

Lol, yeh I think that would ruin it for anyone. Haven't watched the anime either have it on disk, but I just don't feel like watching it.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Yossarian762 on July 22, 2010, 10:51:15 AM
I didn't give Ef a shot because I figured it'd probably be pointlessly depressing.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on July 22, 2010, 03:11:25 PM

I didn't give Ef a shot because I figured it'd probably be pointlessly depressing.

The manga never drew me in. I always read the summary/blurb but never got into the story of it. Suika's one was pretty good though.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on July 22, 2010, 04:27:06 PM
I watched half of the anime episodes, although they looked really pretty they never drew me in. Than I took a break and since than it's just sitting on some corner on my HD, with me having absolutly no interested in digging it out.

I doubt NNL got the ability to purchase the license of ef and distribute it, so it's probably gonna be a Minori initiative. Maybe they even consider bugging JAST with it, seeing how they already got ef fully ( well nearly ) translated, JAST would just have to take care of the distribution.

The problem I see, at least with ef would be, that everyone who's interested in the game pretty much already got it. I mean NNL mentioned something around 100k downloads a month ago.
If the game really gets released you can maybe reach a few not so well adversed VN-fans and a few guys who liked the game so much they want it in a boxed copy. All in all not really satisfying numbers I would guess.

A clever idea might be, to not relase ef at all, but that new minori title NNL is working on ( though I got no clue what swells might be =P ). That way you can use ef as advertisment and hope ppl will buy "swells" based on the quality of ef.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on July 22, 2010, 04:40:35 PM
After all this drama, I doubt they'll have as much drama as they would have if they didn't go all xenophobic. Meh, being a fan of other companies myself, I can understand people buying it I guess. Although if TYPE-MOON ever did a lot of shit I might boycott. Who knows.

But Good Smile Company products I don't think I could ever boycott. RAWR Nendo's. I think I might get a Ryouko one.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on July 22, 2010, 07:07:18 PM
On a completely new, or partial-new, topic;

I hear all the manga reading sites are being shut down. This plus those C&D dramas have me wondering what it really is we're doing to those companies/authors over in JP. Is this something we should, as in the beginning was said, lay down and accept; or perhaps we should fight to the bone for our way of life.

I understand almost no one here has anything against piracy, but I'm pretty sure we're all into buying once in a while too. I know I have all 10 of the Toradora! books (I'm pretty sure I've said), and I'm planning on buying the whole set of GTO, GTO 14 days, and Shonen Junai Gumi when I finish learning Japanese.

But what do you guys think? Are they right, or are we entitled to exotic pleasures?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: inferno_flamex on July 22, 2010, 08:04:37 PM
You forget...

Sometimes people commit 'crimes' not because they want to.. but rather, they dont really have a choice...

..

kinda like a starving man with no money, and without anyone that would help him... is pretty much forced to steal food pretty much sooner or later... You know that if possible he wouldnt want to commit the crime and much rather pay for it... its safer and easier too.. But hey... When life dont even give you the lemons...

*shrugs..

... Well okay.. maybe that example was alittle too extreme...
But its more or less works on that same principle...

Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: mahou on July 22, 2010, 09:34:30 PM
Can't justify piracy (or stealing) in any way, shape, or form, regardless of circumstance; if we're talking about morality. On the other hand it's human nature to take and get what we want; the method (legally, illegally) depends on the disposition of the individual.

So i'd say companies are in the right to stop distribution of their product illegally lets face it, translations lead to more piracy than actual sales, unless it's done officially and even then there's still some loss, but I guess that goes for anything that can be digitally distributed.

Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on July 22, 2010, 09:44:52 PM
I just prefer to spend my money on things that I can have sit infront of me. New hardware? Sure! New software? Meh... Same thing with the anime industry, manga? Sure! Figurines? Sure! Anime? Nah... I'm just a messed up individual.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: invictus on July 22, 2010, 10:19:44 PM
onemanga is being taken down for being the biggest... MT for having mature stuff... the jap seem to be cracking down in general but there's no way they can shut down all the scanlator sites... it's like trying to kill all the mice in the world using a couple elephants...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on July 22, 2010, 10:50:44 PM
Manga streaming sites are hardly scanlator sites, they are just like youtube.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: inferno_flamex on July 22, 2010, 11:15:22 PM
Seems to me like the companies are trying to get.. .. like.. in the old days... 'The Iron Curtain'.. on pretty much anything they could find to prevent/stop it from getting 'fan-edited'...


Nothing gets in... Nothing gets out... (Unless received very special permission from the head hancho himself)
..


Well.. Not that much surprising actually.. Since.. That's what the Japanese were doing back in their samurai days...

Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on July 23, 2010, 03:32:00 AM
Ah come on, manga sites like onemanga were ludicrous.

It was just way too easy to get to the stuff you wanted, I can see why publishers went mad over it. I am sure publishers know that they can't stop scanlations, but taking those huge sites down will maybe help them to get quite a few guys to buy the actual manga.

On another note, I never liked onemanga and co anyway, stupid low quality stuff they hosted T_T! Always had to lurk my manga or check the scanlations groups' homepage.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: inferno_flamex on July 23, 2010, 03:42:41 AM

but taking those huge sites down will maybe help them to get quite a few guys to buy the actual manga.


Provided they could actually understand those mangas...
I myself do not promote the use of online browsing either, despite how i sound.. I guess.. >_> Do i really sound like im supporting these things? I dono..

But for example... The latest scans of Bleach (okay maybe once again not a good example since its 'licensed'..)... These stuffs are untranslated as far as I know... And the thought of actually BUYING a manga that u dont understand...

Its like buying a child's picturebook for the price of a novel (plus the import fares and stuffs...)

There's good and bad i supposse... But taking down the whole of OneManga is like taking down the whole of youtube methinks... >XDDD
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on July 23, 2010, 04:53:44 AM
Bleach is a very bad example. In due time we will have those chapters officially translated and released. If you checked the most popular mangas on those sites you will end with the usual suspects, naruto/ bleach/ one piece/ claymoe etc etc, of which all are licensed and are being released in the USA ( and they are as up to date as it's possible volume wise ).
There are a few "niche" mangas which aint licensed, and I am sure no one would really mind having them all on a site ( apart from japanese publishers maybe ), but I am not confident those would justify having their own online reading site ( there are probably more naruto hits per week than half of the unlicensed mangas on onemanga in a week ).
Plus you also have to look at the revenue, an online viewing site eats quite some bandwith. I don't know if you can get back the cost just by having not so popular unlicensed mangas on your site.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on July 23, 2010, 09:19:56 AM
But it's those same licensed mangas that gave them all that revenue which also got them into trouble. I doubt that you would see sites like those being hunted just because they contained unlicensed stuff, even though that could eventually happen, but under a lower priority. It's a case of "They can't live with them, but they also can't live without them."
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on July 23, 2010, 11:35:08 AM
Kinda wishes for a multiquote function.


I just prefer to spend my money on things that I can have sit infront of me. New hardware? Sure! New software? Meh... Same thing with the anime industry, manga? Sure! Figurines? Sure! Anime? Nah... I'm just a messed up individual.

Yeah, that's pretty messed up, especially if I'm the same. If I'm gonna spend money on something it should be tangible.

So uh. Back to ddl/torrenting manga's huh. And I do agree with the whole LQ shits. That always pissed me the fuck off, how they raced each other to get the fastest scans rather than the best ones. Still, I want a trustworthy manga compile-site rather than hanging around 50 different IRC/scanlator forums.

Can we compile here Kureha?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on July 23, 2010, 12:08:07 PM
Compile what? I don't have a platform for hosting manga if that's what you're getting at...
The line that the server is running on also doesn't have the output to stream manga online. It's FTTB but it's only 2mbps symmetrical.

If you want a board to post links to manga, I can open one.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: invictus on July 23, 2010, 12:59:15 PM
Opening a board with links could be risky... I mean evil empire got taken down back then... so ya... it's back up now but sometimes their link just hold bad quality stuff, lol.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on July 24, 2010, 07:32:25 AM
We've got an anime-manga board so that's fine, just thought permission should be requested before attempting link postings for HQ manga's.

I'll look in my collection to see what good ones I have.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on July 24, 2010, 05:36:07 PM
You can get pretty much every manga from Lurk, so hosting direct links is kind of a pointless idea imho ( though I can't connect to lurk since 2 days, hope it's not connected to the manga site take downs >_<)
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on July 24, 2010, 09:01:45 PM
It's just a coincidence. They have this link (http://stalyn.impurity.org/ohshit.html) posted at their IRC channel.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: invictus on July 25, 2010, 01:02:30 PM
I can't connect to gotlurk though...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on July 25, 2010, 01:04:30 PM
Did you actually read their message?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: invictus on July 25, 2010, 02:24:53 PM
Ah... didn't see the last page, sorry, oh, phew, that's the relief, lol.

With everything that's been going on lately, I thought something happened... as unlikely as it seems...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on July 25, 2010, 05:52:27 PM
Assuming schtuffs was IRC, I don't really IRC all that much and really don't know where to begin learning.

Well, thanks for the recommendation anyway.

***

So I'm looking for new security software. What's good?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mizuno on July 25, 2010, 08:59:12 PM
Antivirus?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on July 25, 2010, 09:24:00 PM
Microsoft Security Essentials + Malwarebytes antimalware will cover you in most cases. Best of all, it's all free.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mizuno on July 25, 2010, 09:29:15 PM
my laptop don't have any running security progs. since the start of the year(I have on demand scanners though)
and yeah I don't have any virus when I scanned a few days ago, kinda disappointed lol
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on July 25, 2010, 10:09:34 PM
As long as you're doing halfway normal stuff and aint lurking on the shadiest sites around, you'll do fine with Microsoft Security Essentials.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mizuno on July 26, 2010, 12:07:55 AM
true
though I think I prefer Avast or Avira, since it feel more lighter/less system impact than MSE
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on July 26, 2010, 06:55:51 AM
Hmm, I don't know if I have MSE. I do have Malwarebytes.

In any case I'm planning ahead for a new computer, that's all.

And what constitutes as a shady site?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mizuno on July 26, 2010, 07:09:23 AM
porn sites, warez site...and uh
well just install WOT add-on for Firefox
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on July 26, 2010, 07:28:42 AM
Don't use FF since it got big and unwieldy. As for porn and warez....

Well, I haven't gotten a virus that Malwarebytes has picked up. I guess I haunt safe sites.

***

Next topic: http://forums.mangafox.com/showthread.php?t=116382 (http://forums.mangafox.com/showthread.php?t=116382)

Personal opinion: faggots. I'd boycott the place, but I never liked it to begin with.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on July 26, 2010, 07:38:56 AM

Next topic: http://forums.mangafox.com/showthread.php?t=116382 (http://forums.mangafox.com/showthread.php?t=116382)

Personal opinion: faggots. I'd boycott the place, but I never liked it to begin with.

I don't see the need for all the drama. Their stuff is shared on other places out of the scanlators' control and they can't do anything about it.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on July 26, 2010, 07:54:34 AM
Wait what?

Also, what site do you guys use to check out H-movies?

***

I hear DDC is under C&D threats. http://www.sanityends.com/node/59 (http://www.sanityends.com/node/59)
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on July 26, 2010, 08:24:33 AM
Malwarebytes doesn't pick up viruses, it's made to pickup malware.... different animals alltogether.

Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on July 26, 2010, 09:28:18 AM
:0

...What do I do?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on July 26, 2010, 09:41:26 AM
You install a virus scanner like MSE and keep your Malware scanner alongside it.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on July 26, 2010, 10:47:08 AM
Ok. Thanks Kureha.

Sweet, as usual.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on July 26, 2010, 10:49:51 AM
I-it's no like I'm trying to be sweet, I-I-I'm just being my usual s-self. S-sorry I s-stuttered.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on July 26, 2010, 10:53:13 AM
Speaking of tsundere, who's anyone's favourite? I think Ookami Ryoko will be, but for now I guess it's still Haruhi. Those books are something great.

Can't wait till the 10th comes out.

Although I guess Felli is great too. Not that the anime ate into me too much, but I sure hope the novels will be better. sure helps she sounds like Rena too.

Ohgodwhat, she did Yggdra too. That's a pretty nice resume.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on July 26, 2010, 11:05:01 AM
Felli? I don't really count her as a Tsundere type, she's more Kuudere?

I like Itou Shizuka better than Kugimiya Rie, so I'm biased, I like Hinagiku more than I like Ryoko, which again shows I'm biased, (pink hair). For regular anime I suppose I'll settle for Hinagiku, I don't think Tanaka Rie's characters count as Tsundere. As for something off to the side, there is always Mafuyu from Kanojo*3

Hinagiku
[spoiler](http://gallery.fanserviceftw.com/_images/22561f48c0475abc361b4315194d29d5/950%20-%20hayate_no_gotoku%20katsura_hinagiku%20pink_hair.jpg)[/spoiler]

Mafuyu
[spoiler](http://www.animecharactersdatabase.com:81/images/2279/Mafuyu_Orifushi.jpg)[/spoiler]
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on July 26, 2010, 11:06:19 AM
:0

I don't think I know any of those names. Google I guess.

Also this, which I uploaded for something to line. Tell me what thinkings if you want. They're pictures.

http://www.mediafire.com/?3zdpx1rbrs94nlu (http://www.mediafire.com/?3zdpx1rbrs94nlu)
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on July 26, 2010, 11:14:07 AM
Well, you can draw better than me, I can't draw with a pencil or pen at all.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on July 26, 2010, 11:18:21 AM
Apparently it's pretty monstrous. Too bad I guess.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on July 26, 2010, 11:27:10 AM
First one is actually pretty decent.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mizuno on July 26, 2010, 02:47:26 PM

Malwarebytes doesn't pick up viruses, it's made to pickup malware.... different animals alltogether.
not really...viruses, trojans, worms , spyware and such are considered malware
oh and companies still call their products "antivirus" even if their prod. detect not only viruses  but all other malwares and that the "virus" term is more popular/widely use/well known than "malware"
anyways MBAM is more of an antivirus companion than a standalone protection
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on July 26, 2010, 06:24:10 PM

Speaking of tsundere, who's anyone's favourite? I think Ookami Ryoko will be, but for now I guess it's still Haruhi. Those books are something great.

Can't wait till the 10th comes out.

Although I guess Felli is great too. Not that the anime ate into me too much, but I sure hope the novels will be better. sure helps she sounds like Rena too.

I kinda hate haruhi, way too bossy and moody for me >_< Especially how bitchy she starts to act in the novels, when she starts to suspect something between Kyon and Nagato ( forgot which volume it was, the one where the whole gang was confined in a mountain villa in a snow storm - was also the last novel I read =p ).

On another note, Felli is really great, only thing keeping me reading those novels >_<! I'm gonna cry when Fon Fon picks Leerin T_T
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: invictus on July 26, 2010, 06:41:10 PM


Speaking of tsundere, who's anyone's favourite? I think Ookami Ryoko will be, but for now I guess it's still Haruhi. Those books are something great.

Can't wait till the 10th comes out.

Although I guess Felli is great too. Not that the anime ate into me too much, but I sure hope the novels will be better. sure helps she sounds like Rena too.

I kinda hate haruhi, way too bossy and moody for me >_< Especially how bitchy she starts to act in the novels, when she starts to suspect something between Kyon and Nagato ( forgot which volume it was, the one where the whole gang was confined in a mountain villa in a snow storm - was also the last novel I read =p ).

On another note, Felli is really great, only thing keeping me reading those novels >_<! I'm gonna cry when Fon Fon picks Leerin T_T

I won't cry... but I completely agree to those sentiment... how could Fon Fon not pick Felli D:< it's cruel and unusual... but it's not Leerin for certain... there's also Nina =-= it seems everyone is ahead of Felli though Felli loves him most...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on July 26, 2010, 07:00:30 PM
Felli nice boat ending inc!
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on July 26, 2010, 07:31:36 PM
Sure want.

Felli for life. Fuck the other two.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: blakraven66 on July 26, 2010, 07:34:30 PM

Sure want.

Felli for life. Fuck the other two.
+9000
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on July 26, 2010, 07:43:57 PM
Well, I've been using this Avatar from the start so you know who I'm rooting for...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on July 26, 2010, 10:36:23 PM

Can't wait till the 10th comes out.

I heard that it will be released after Duke Nukem Forever.

And Felli, Fon Fon, Leerin and Nina? What have I been missing? I know that a quick Google search would do it, but, please, elucidate me!
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on July 26, 2010, 11:52:02 PM
@ManaYagami:

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=10243 (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=10243) Anime's so so. Got some likeable characters.
Novels ( http://www.baka-tsuki.org/project/index.php?title=Chrome_Shelled_Regios (http://www.baka-tsuki.org/project/index.php?title=Chrome_Shelled_Regios) ) are quite a bit better.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on July 27, 2010, 03:28:11 AM
Oh, I've seen that translation project, but I never gave it any attention.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on July 27, 2010, 03:40:14 AM
Another topic:

Pretty Cure and Nanoha.

So there seems to be a pretty big following on the web with those two shows, which I personally don't understand. I remember seeing some Pretty Cure stuff on tv and it seemed just like a more modern Sailormoon for me. And with Nanoha, I actually tried watching a few episodes of season 1, but it was about an elementary school girl trying to fight some monsters after transforming into her battlesuits ... well ... >_>

Those shows just seem to be aimed at little/ teenage girls, or am I just missing something with those animes ? Anyone care to enlighten me ?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on July 27, 2010, 04:05:44 AM

Another topic:

Pretty Cure and Nanoha.

So there seems to be a pretty big following on the web with those two shows, which I personally don't understand. I remember seeing some Pretty Cure stuff on tv and it seemed just like a more modern Sailormoon for me. And with Nanoha, I actually tried watching a few episodes of season 1, but it was about an elementary school girl trying to fight some monsters after transforming into her battlesuits ... well ... >_>

Those shows just seem to be aimed at little/ teenage girls, or am I just missing something with those animes ? Anyone care to enlighten me ?

I've never watched any of those, but I would guess that Nanoha's character designs would be it's selling point. That and, all of it's mecha references, like Nanoha beam spamming everyone http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsIFj_ebnsI#normal (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsIFj_ebnsI#normal) until they call her the White Devil (it's hard to find the White Devil scene on youtube), Vita's]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU9ekhXl1dc#normal] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU9ekhXl1dc#normal) (I tried to find another one) Goldion Hammer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwLg4tYvg0k&feature=related#normal (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwLg4tYvg0k&feature=related#normal) and Subaru's Broken Phantomhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BIpRaS8duM#normal (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BIpRaS8duM#normal).

EDIT: I didn't notice that we had YouTube streaming.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on July 27, 2010, 04:42:22 AM
Guess I'm excused than, seeing how I'm not a big mecha fan anyway.

Did I mention how I hated that Gundam 00 show ? I Always cheered for the "bad guys" ( the non main character staff ) and it always seemed like they are gonna win, than those gundam pilots push some magic button and go super mode, or get some new allies who save em pulled out of thin air. I quit somewhere to the end of s1, it just got to ludicrous for me.

We got quite some heavy Mecha fans on those boards, so don't harass me too much inferno =p
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on July 27, 2010, 05:04:56 AM
I've never watched 00. It reminds me of Wing, but I'm quite interested in Unicorn, even though I have to see what they did with the UC timeline and part of it's dead cast. Pulling a live Puru and a Char look alike or even Char himself out of nowhere, aren't the best ways to continue UC post-CCA.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: tomtheclone on July 27, 2010, 05:54:12 AM
00 was very good. In some ways better than Zeta. It did get cheesy with the "super boost" ruined it for me.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on July 27, 2010, 08:52:12 AM
I watched seed series and 00 I couldn't get into the others though. Destiny pretty much destroyed what Seed built up though.

Nanoha I watched as it aired, I just love Fate and will usually watch anything with a character voiced by Mizuki Nana, there are exceptions though.

Pretty Cure was too much of a generic DO RE MI kinda thing for me so I didn't watch it.

We've had youtube streaming for a while, it also streams other sites other than youtube, I'm not going to say what sites though, I'm amazed that people haven't abused it, which is a good thing.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on July 27, 2010, 07:28:05 PM
So like, anyone into tabletop RPG's? I recently got into it (sort of) with NWN replaying which I got into from replaying SC which was "in preparation" for SC II. Amazing the things that happen.

So my friend and I found some guy who was making a Nasuverse tabletop. And oh boy is this going to be fun. It's really detailed from what I saw. Going to fully check it out now.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on July 27, 2010, 08:21:24 PM
I've never played SC and I'm no good in most games, probably because of my Taking it easy attitude. I'm just an "average" player.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on July 28, 2010, 06:35:54 AM
But a Nasuverse RPG.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: inferno_flamex on July 28, 2010, 01:13:15 PM

But a Nasuverse RPG.

Wait.. Im sorry.. Did you just wished for something Tea? Something about a Nasuverse RPG? Hmm?

Fate/Extra PSP RPG Game (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJJv2SKPIwM#normal)


...
....

Laplacian... Dont worry I wont kill you..

And i agree tho... Gundam00 is pure shit.. the bad kind.. >;P
I gave it up after seeing Exia Trans AM in PINK... >_>

I dont care tho.. hey.. I did say im a mecha lover... I dont give a damn if the story's bad... I just love gundams because of the new gundams! Whoever said I love/watched the stories anyway? XDDDD

Hey.. If i hate the stories... I could always draw my own...
AHAHAHAHHA... I've been drawing my own since SIX years ago! /shameless laugh.

See? Although they were DAAAMMMNN ugly... XDD But hey.. These are OLD drawings... Way back before my scanner died... Have i ever shown these to you guys before?

(http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c89/inferno_flamex/SOUL%20Gundam/SoulGundamFullSpecs.jpg)
(http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c89/inferno_flamex/SOUL%20Gundam/ScannedImage-6.jpg)

(Drawn about 5 years ago)
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mizuno on July 28, 2010, 07:54:30 PM
man I wish i could draw ;_;
well stick figures FTW! ;_;
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on July 28, 2010, 08:03:02 PM

man I wish i could draw ;_;
well stick figures FTW! ;_;

You remind me of a friend's professor whose artworks were stick figures painted with black ink on journal paper. He sold each of them for 1500~2000€...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mizuno on July 28, 2010, 08:51:34 PM
.......what?!
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on July 28, 2010, 09:06:34 PM

.......what?!

From the moment that letting a dog starve to death is considered art and is exhibited on museums, that can also be considered art.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mizuno on July 28, 2010, 09:52:25 PM
well I don't have artistic sense so yeah...heh
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on July 29, 2010, 06:32:47 AM
It's a D&D style RPG. You know, good old pen and paper.

Blah.

***

So I'm looking for a forum with dice...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Yossarian762 on July 30, 2010, 01:03:34 AM


.......what?!

From the moment that letting a dog starve to death is considered art and is exhibited on museums, that can also be considered art.

I'd say the art lies more in actually getting people to pay that kind of money for them (the stick figures, not the dog thing - that's just sick).
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on August 01, 2010, 07:06:19 AM
Sure is a slow week. What's anyone up to?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on August 01, 2010, 08:09:50 AM
been looking at routers revisions, reviews the works.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on August 01, 2010, 09:48:01 AM
Aha. Anything catch you're eye?

My friend has been looking for a new phone...

Yeah not really comparable I guess.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: inferno_flamex on August 02, 2010, 01:10:56 AM
...
.....

Playing VNs and some 'new 2nd hand' PS3 games that I recently bought... >_>


Seriously... They're selling used PS3 titles like...

Lost Planet 1, The Godfather, Dragon's Age: Awakening, Guitar Hero: Val Halen...
for prices around... ... uhhm... 6USD - 12USD...

Seriously... WTF were they thinking... ... Those prices are a bloody sale. Who cares if its used anyway... Its a frikkin Blue-Ray PS3 game without scratches.. for 12USD (Dragon's Age: Awaken)... SERIOUSLY...

So yeah... That's why im not really online much either...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on August 02, 2010, 11:59:10 AM
So how does people download manga?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: inferno_flamex on August 02, 2010, 05:08:08 PM

So how does people download manga?

Go to mangasites that have 'downloads' enabled? >_>...

'Save target as'... page by page perhaps? XDDD
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mizuno on August 02, 2010, 05:23:16 PM
go to the scanlators site
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on August 02, 2010, 07:28:46 PM
Slower and slow.

I'd rather something like Mangatraders, but I guess that's a bit eurgh.

I like compendiums/indices.
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Post by: blakraven66 on August 02, 2010, 08:44:46 PM
Scanlator sites

#lurk
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on August 02, 2010, 08:59:42 PM
I've been meaning to ask, what is #lurk?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on August 02, 2010, 09:15:05 PM
judging from the # in front I'ld say an IRC channel, I don't use IRC anymore.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on August 03, 2010, 05:54:17 AM
Oh well I'll google it then.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on August 04, 2010, 06:46:56 PM
Man, I sure feel like this topic is dead. I guess I haven't really put up much to discussion.

So, who's a loli fan, why and who's your fav?

Akai Ringo is quite my favourite right now, seeing as Ookami-san to is my currently running anime.

But what of everyone else?

***

Also plug: Shiwase no Okina.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on August 04, 2010, 06:50:25 PM
Not that much of a loli fan, seeing most of them are actually annoying at times, does tenshi count as loli?

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_abkMP58OLUA/S_pX33Kxj0I/AAAAAAAAUEo/NFpd1CSAKB8/s400/%5BAngel+Beats!%5D+Megane+Tenshi+02.jpg)
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on August 05, 2010, 06:52:18 AM
My favorite one would be the first one that I liked, Tomoyo Daidouji.

There is nothing special about her, but I like her look and how her character can go from someone completely obecessed with dressing up and filming Sakura to someone more level headed than most of the cast.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on August 05, 2010, 09:22:02 AM
Hmm, but those evil loli's? They're annoying?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on August 05, 2010, 12:14:17 PM
My lack of sleep is probably affecting my memory, so do you have examples of those "evil" or "annoying" lolis? I know that there are several characters that I wouldn't mind beating on them with a shovel until they stop moving, but nothing comes to my mind at the moment.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mizuno on August 05, 2010, 03:09:02 PM
I used to like lolis
my sister likes lolis XD
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on August 05, 2010, 05:16:55 PM

My lack of sleep is probably affecting my memory, so do you have examples of those "evil" or "annoying" lolis? I know that there are several characters that I wouldn't mind beating on them with a shovel until they stop moving, but nothing comes to my mind at the moment.

Everything voiced by Kugimiya Rie - except Risette I guess, she's no loli anyway.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on August 05, 2010, 07:22:59 PM
I liked Taiga, but I kinda meant evil loli's like uhh

Yachiru or something. Age-Old-Evil on the inside, innocent loli on the outside.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: inferno_flamex on August 05, 2010, 09:48:39 PM

I used to like lolis
my sister likes lolis XD

Ohh... But the most important question my good sir...
..
...


"Is your sister a loli?"...

...
.....

Anyway... Does Rachael from BlazBlue be considered a loli? >_>
I think she's pretty evil... More like sadistic tho..
...

But she's not really my fav.. Just a thought that popped up in my head...
Im sure she's a fave for a friend of mine tho.

Fav loli for me would probably be starship Ell from Osananajimi wa Daitoryo (My GF is the Prezzie)... 2nd would probably be Rin Kokonoe from Kodomo no Jikan... ... But she's not evil tho.. Right? >_>
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on August 05, 2010, 10:09:17 PM
Well uh, evil lolis, maybe Jakuri or Etna ? Both are evil at some level, though I like both a lot, Jakuri especially =/!
Bund girl is also a loli, and she certainly got an interesting view of the world and doesn't back away from some pretty hefty stuff, guess you could consider her evil too =/?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mizuno on August 05, 2010, 10:27:58 PM


I used to like lolis
my sister likes lolis XD

Ohh... But the most important question my good sir...
..
...


"Is your sister a loli?"...
XD
well...nope
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on August 06, 2010, 03:05:40 PM
My sister likes what's her face from Higurashi. Rika.

Satoko in yandere mode is pretty good too. Man there are so many nice loli's out there. Too bad they're not sexually appealing most of the time; although some do an alright job I guess.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on August 06, 2010, 07:24:50 PM
@laplacian: Mule is awesome!

Regarding Rie's characters, I don't find them annoying. They can get repetitive, but after watching Urusei Yatsura, any kind of love-comedy duo can be more of the same. And now that someone talks about Satoko, was I the only one who cheered for Shion while she stabbed her to death?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on August 06, 2010, 10:14:06 PM
Well, I giggled and grew fuzzy, but that's just me.

One giant sicko.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on August 06, 2010, 11:50:46 PM
Out of higurashi I only liked Rika and the non ponytailed twin, too bad I just had to fall for the one who is insane and will probably run me through with a knife.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: inferno_flamex on August 07, 2010, 01:57:29 AM

...too bad I just had to fall for the one who is insane and will probably run me through with a knife.

OOohhh.. Well... We already know that you're a tad bit masochistic anyway Kureha... *wink
XDD

*prepares rope*
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on August 07, 2010, 07:41:07 AM
Yandere sure is a great archetype.

Hanyuu was good too I suppose.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on August 09, 2010, 02:00:42 PM
New topic.

I don't have one.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on August 09, 2010, 05:36:10 PM
Hair, body?

I just love long straight hair, down to the butt, legs, twin tails is good too, black, silver, blond, pink, in that order. Mid, short sized so she can sit in my lap and I can hug her with my chin on her head.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: inferno_flamex on August 09, 2010, 07:11:26 PM

Hair, body?

I just love long straight hair, down to the butt, legs, twin tails is good too, black, silver, blond, pink, in that order. Mid, short sized so she can sit in my lap and I can hug her with my chin on her head.

QFT.

Long straights... But the thing about long straight hairs, well.. They must have 'volume' and 'bounce'... at least for me. I know a girl that has a long hair (to her knees) but she tied it up to the back it looks like some sort of thin snake. >_>
One more thing about long hairs, is that I like the feel of them on my fingers as I stroke her hair... (Muv-Luv Meiya H-scene got that spot on!) As well as the smell of shampoo that comes off it once in a while.

Mid sized is fine i guess, as long as she's smaller than I am... Im tall so I guess i will be quite shocked to find a lady taller than I am... but at the end of the day, Im not really too bothered about that. Boobs? I dont really care about it either... All i want is for her to be light enough for me to lift her off her feet and carry her in my arms... Then with her arms around my neck, I lay her down on my lap and kiss her forehead...


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........
..............

And then we have great sex...
LOL WHAT?!?!?!?!?
That's what EVERYONE was thinking! Right!? RIGHT!? Dont point fingers at me just because im man enough to admit what everyone else is not... XDDDDD lololol
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: mahou on August 09, 2010, 08:12:47 PM


Hair, body?

I just love long straight hair, down to the butt, legs, twin tails is good too, black, silver, blond, pink, in that order. Mid, short sized so she can sit in my lap and I can hug her with my chin on her head.

QFT.

Long straights... But the thing about long straight hairs, well.. They must have 'volume' and 'bounce'... at least for me. I know a girl that has a long hair (to her knees) but she tied it up to the back it looks like some sort of thin snake. >_>
One more thing about long hairs, is that I like the feel of them on my fingers as I stroke her hair... (Muv-Luv Meiya H-scene got that spot on!) As well as the smell of shampoo that comes off it once in a while.

Mid sized is fine i guess, as long as she's smaller than I am... Im tall so I guess i will be quite shocked to find a lady taller than I am... but at the end of the day, Im not really too bothered about that. Boobs? I dont really care about it either... All i want is for her to be light enough for me to lift her off her feet and carry her in my arms... Then with her arms around my neck, I lay her down on my lap and kiss her forehead...


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....
........
..............

And then we have great sex...
LOL WHAT?!?!?!?!?
That's what EVERYONE was thinking! Right!? RIGHT!? Dont point fingers at me just because im man enough to admit what everyone else is not... XDDDDD lololol

<.<  
>.>

Well we're all pretty open minded here so know one will judge you, well it obviously depends, but in this case it's nothing to be concerned about lol

I'm also a Meiya fan, although I like her archtype in general. Meiya was definitely the canon ending imo for unlimited, unfortunately she was overshadowed by Sumika in extra who is also awesome xD

I also prefer long straight hair on women, though I don't mind short either any girl who looks good with short hair will look amazing with long hair.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on August 09, 2010, 08:16:26 PM
inferno, why is it that everytime that I'm going to reply to one of your posts, I press the "Modify" button? lol

Talking about preferences... long straight hair is awesome, but I only knew one girl who had it to her knees and, I was a child at the time. She was blonde and had blue eyes, but was older than me... OH, BEATRICE!

Even though she left quite an impression on me, I prefer girls with black hair and, shorter than me, for most of the reasons stated before. There was this time that I dated a girl that was a few cm shorter than me, and it wasn't as fun. The good part was hat she had curly long hair and I entertained myself makiing drills with it.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on August 09, 2010, 09:51:43 PM
:0 mang. I love Ryouko, simple as that. She's like the epitome of perfect for me. Although I'm a huge Hisui fan (her personality is adorable in the best way), and a Sakura fan (hey, there was slight NTR with Shinji, and she's a horny, evil, sadistic slut. My kinda girl).

It's getting good too. I'm waiting on ep 7.

[spoiler].Seriously, that NTR shit? That's the bomb.[/spoiler]

Iunno about tsundere though.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Yossarian762 on August 10, 2010, 12:53:37 AM
Another Hisui fan  :D
She seems kind of lame since she's not good at fighting or manipulating people, but her devotion to Shiki is refreshing in a game where everybody but her and Arihiko tries to kill him at some point and yes she is adorable.  Her scenes in Kagetsu Tohya were too cute. Also, I love redheads. Hisui basically gave me a maid fetish.  :-X

For non-maid anime girls...well, I'm probably gonna get hated on for this lol, but even if her scenario in the game kind of sucked, Mizuka's basically the embodiment of what I like, visually and personality wise. Brown hair, that ribbon, osananajimi, sweet and caring (and a little submissive ;) )
[spoiler](http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/9322/mizuka1.jpg) (http://img198.imageshack.us/i/mizuka1.jpg/)[/spoiler]

On the other side of the coin...yanderes are pretty good for raw hotness. I never got very far into it, but when I read Future Diary/Mirai Nikki, it was for Yuno <3

I don't really have a set thing for girls in real life, except I tend to like non-blondes and ponytails - twin tails don't seem to look as good on girls irl as anime girls imo. And no fatties...though a little squishiness is okay.



Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on August 11, 2010, 09:42:56 AM
Sawachika Eri from School Rumble.

Mmmmmmmmmm yeeaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh.

***

G-Senjou is gearing up for a beta release. BEST END OF YEAR EVER.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on August 11, 2010, 06:16:16 PM

G-Senjou is gearing up for a beta release. BEST END OF YEAR EVER.

THE BEST HAIR is going to have a release? *parties*
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on August 11, 2010, 09:26:58 PM
Oh mang that really is going to be the best hair.

ffffffffff yeahhhhhhhhh.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: inferno_flamex on August 14, 2010, 11:33:30 PM
Tea... Its been afew days now... Seems like we need new topic...
(Hope you dont mind tea. It seems this topic of yours is becoming like our 'random chat hangout space of useless chatter' XD)
...
......

How bout a HAWTNESS faceoff!!!

Vote between...

SWORD WIELDING CHICKS!       VS.     GUN WIELDING CHICKS!...
...



My vote goes to sword wielding chicks...
Be it Katana chicks, Broadsword or Rapier chicks... They seem to have one thing in common.. And that is the 'aura of elegance' that could naturally come from learning the 'ways of the sword'... It shows most obviously in female anime characters, by the way they talk...

What bout you guys?

So far...

Swords 1 - Guns 0.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Yossarian762 on August 15, 2010, 12:14:47 AM
But but girls shouldn't be going around swinging swords!
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: inferno_flamex on August 15, 2010, 05:22:32 AM

But but girls shouldn't be going around swinging swords!

...
...

Who the hell are you?... SHIROU?

.. XDDD lol
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on August 15, 2010, 03:51:23 PM
I think Inferno is forgetting about Magical Gurls.

As for sword/gun wielding chicks, I don't really remember seeing many anime's that include it. It's just not my kind of thing I guess. Fantasy > thriller.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: mahou on August 15, 2010, 05:46:50 PM
The fantasy genre has heaps of sword wielding women. I'm surprised you haven't seen many anime that include them.



My vote goes to sword wielding chicks...
Be it Katana chicks, Broadsword or Rapier chicks... They seem to have one thing in common.. And that is the 'aura of elegance' that could naturally come from learning the 'ways of the sword'... It shows most obviously in female anime characters, by the way they talk...

What bout you guys?

So far...

Swords 1 - Guns 0.

They don't always have the 'aura of elegance', while most fit that archtype there are some that fit the tomboy, violent brute.

Magical gurls ain't bad, but Miko/priestess > Magical gurls. Hakama <3
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on August 15, 2010, 05:49:28 PM
I like bows, I like them alot, guns are just too simplistic.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: mahou on August 15, 2010, 05:57:38 PM
Ah that's true, i've never really been fond of guns either. Bows indeed require great skill. Archery is aesthetically nice to watch as well.

So Kureha are you gar for Archer?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on August 15, 2010, 06:21:03 PM
Not really, Archer doesn't even really use a bow 99% of the time.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on August 15, 2010, 06:37:46 PM
Oh I meant just gun. Sword wielding chicks are aplenty, from Claymore, to BleaghBleach, to FSN. Oh and let's not forget Kenshin. Bows I don't remember seeing much of. Guns can be done really well though; Misato from Eva? She's pretty awesome.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on August 15, 2010, 11:01:32 PM
I care for none of those you've just mentioned. I like dual wield short Katanas. With a little bit of ninja blood and scarves.

(http://jvfiles.mjv-art.org/jvwall_images/177/17726244c94e4233c02481288f4feb68_bp.png)
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: inferno_flamex on August 16, 2010, 12:04:47 AM

I care for none of those you've just mentioned. I like dual wield short Katanas. With a little bit of ninja blood and scarves.

That sounds like your typical 'ninja girl' class... And that usually means the 'silent-type'... Not all.. But usually...



I think Inferno is forgetting about Magical Gurls.

Dude... If I were to include magical girls... We'd need to have some sort of security in place due to sheer fanboyism.

... THAT.. and the fact that they'd cheat in any poll... Rememer... Magical girls can use magic to do pretty much everything... everyyytthing... Even summmoning/transforming swords.. because.. well.. Magic. >XDDD


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......

I like bows too... But only if the girl is more of a 'support character'... Like.. you know?.. The guy with the sword protecting the girl at the back... And the girl at the back with the bow, launches a barrage of arrows to a faraway enemy...

That kinda scenario rocks.. XDD
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on August 16, 2010, 12:54:26 AM
Typical ninja girl doesn't dual wield though, nor do they have scarves, and most are cold, but hardly silent.

As for Nanoha, I've liked Fate more than Nanoha the moment she appeared on screen, something about blond twin tails, black ribbons are a plus.



The guy with the sword protecting the girl at the back... And the girl at the back with the bow,
That kinda scenario rocks.. XDD

Wait how do you protect someone with a sword, at the back? How is the girl at the back when the guy is at the back?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: blakraven66 on August 16, 2010, 01:10:49 AM
Guns definitely!

(http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/552/03047e03bd9861f22a61e8f.jpg)
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: inferno_flamex on August 16, 2010, 01:41:58 AM
@Kureha...

Ahh.. Geez.. Blame English as not my first language for this...
Anyway.. What i mean is...


Guy with sword... in front of the girl... Protecting her from close range enemies and such...
.
...
The girl with bow & arrow... is protected by the guy with sword in front of her... she's technically facing his back as he's not looking at her. However because of that 'safe area' that he had given her due to not letting enemies getting too close to her... She could in turn launch volleys and volleys of arrows on distant enemies.

Repeat cycle... Guy protects girl; yet girl also protects guy.

.. bah... Romance + Warfare formations... dont really mix too well anyway..

..
//EDIT: AHHH!.. Something like Ar Tonelico 1...

Lyner protects Aurica as she sings her song... He gives his all for her... And when she's ready, releasing the great magic called LOVE! XDDDDD.. something like that. But with swords and bow/arrows instead.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: mahou on August 16, 2010, 01:36:06 PM

Guns definitely!

(http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/552/03047e03bd9861f22a61e8f.jpg)

Forgot about phantom inferno, haven't seen the anime though. Ein and Drei are pretty awesome though. Only two gun wielding females come to mind straight away from me and that is Revy (black lagoon) & Seras (hellsing) oh and Roberta (black lagoon) how could I almost forget a gunwielding maid ;p

Edit: oh yeah just remembered Rosette (Chrono Crusade), been years since I last watched that.


Guy with sword... in front of the girl... Protecting her from close range enemies and such...
.
...
The girl with bow & arrow... is protected by the guy with sword in front of her... she's technically facing his back as he's not looking at her. However because of that 'safe area' that he had given her due to not letting enemies getting too close to her... She could in turn launch volleys and volleys of arrows on distant enemies.

Repeat cycle... Guy protects girl; yet girl also protects guy.

.. bah... Romance + Warfare formations... dont really mix too well anyway..

..
//EDIT: AHHH!.. Something like Ar Tonelico 1...

Lyner protects Aurica as she sings her song... He gives his all for her... And when she's ready, releasing the great magic called LOVE! XDDDDD.. something like that. But with swords and bow/arrows instead.

A recent example of what you're talking about would be Edge and Reimi (star ocean the last hope).
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on August 16, 2010, 05:31:50 PM

AHHH!.. Something like Ar Tonelico 1...

Lyner protects Aurica as she sings her song... He gives his all for her... And when she's ready, releasing the great magic called LOVE! XDDDDD.. something like that.

Are you talking about Shurelia? Because I think you are talking about protecting Shurelia!

Regarding girls with guns or swords, yesterday, I played some WET, where the protagonist uses both weapons and she kicks so much ass. From cutting arms to blowing heads and, she even has time to go into a killing rage when blood gets into her eyes. It's not even near to being one of my favorite characters, but it's a good example of how you can mix both types and get it right.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: inferno_flamex on August 16, 2010, 05:55:16 PM

Are you talking about Shurelia? Because I think you are talking about protecting Shurelia!

... Ugh dammit... Dont make me choose between the two...
..

AND YES. Edge and Riemi are more recent versions of that archetype. Completely forgot about them coz, at the rate things are going with my Star Ocean game, I think some sort of sad, bittersweet ending is gonna come up so I had the game on hold.. XDDDD




Regarding girls with guns or swords, yesterday, I played some WET.

Ohh.. I tried the demo of that game.. Although she looks more gun than sword. But hey, that's just my personal opinion.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on August 16, 2010, 07:53:14 PM
Does Squall count as a girl? lol sissy boy is a good favourite too.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: mahou on August 16, 2010, 09:20:05 PM
Hm Squall ain't that bad, he was only sissy as a kid (cry, cry), then he grew up to be emo, hit puberty saved and protected Rinoa and they ended up together in the end. Cloud was Emo and couldn't even save Aerith, which of course lead to more emoness.

Lightning uses a gunblade.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on August 16, 2010, 11:31:37 PM
Girls are sexy with a bow and arrow.

Elf girls anyway.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on August 18, 2010, 07:26:09 AM

Hm Squall ain't that bad, he was only sissy as a kid (cry, cry), then he grew up to be emo, hit puberty saved and protected Rinoa and they ended up together in the end. Cloud was Emo and couldn't even save Aerith, which of course lead to more emoness.

Are you forgetting about the 7 other guys who were looking to the other side while she was killed? I'm not criticizing them or anything, since she needed to learn when to shut up, but it's unfair to claim that Cloud was the only one who didn't mind watching her being slayed.


Lightning uses a gunblade.

Lightning is HAWT and if Squall saw how awesome her gunblade is, he would become another Tidus, crying into oblivion.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: mahou on August 18, 2010, 09:45:19 AM


Are you forgetting about the 7 other guys who were looking to the other side while she was killed? I'm not criticizing them or anything, since she needed to learn when to shut up, but it's unfair to claim that Cloud was the only one who didn't mind watching her being slayed.


Well to be fair, characters are bound to whatever the writer chooses to portray.

I was only making a comparison between protagonists, including Advent Children in my comparison. Neither Squall or Cloud could be called 'sissies', but I found Squall to be the character that matured the most during his journey vs Cloud which happens to be the more popular protagonist among FF fans. Cloud still doubted himself after the events of FFVII and was still reluctant to use his power. Squall may have been apathetic to begin with, but understood his responsibilities far sooner, used his power and brought everything to a close far sooner than Cloud did in his story. Anyway my point is Cloud is more conflicted personality wise than Squall, the end (And having a part of Zack in him shouldn't cause him to be emo).
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on August 18, 2010, 09:54:05 AM
FFVII was a total NTR story. I mean come on! Think about it from Cloud's point of view. How did he ever know that Aerith didn't like him just because he had Zack in him? What a low blow.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: inferno_flamex on August 18, 2010, 11:03:07 AM

FFVII was a total NTR story. I mean come on! Think about it from Cloud's point of view. How did he ever know that Aerith didn't like him just because he had Zack in him? What a low blow.


Ahhh.. But then again..

There are some who said that Squall DIED in FFVIII.
Its just that most of us played through the game without fully understanding it... Some serious mindfuck if i could say so...

Details here...
http://squallsdead.com/ (http://squallsdead.com/)
for anyone interested...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on August 18, 2010, 11:57:33 AM
I have a new topic of discussion.

Japanese Festivals.

I met a person on the internet one day. Was it an argument about drums? A discussion about drumming? Who can remember. Lost in the fogs of memory I guess. 2 years I loved him. Him, her? I don't even know the gender. Not a name, not a country, not a picture. Was he merely a figment of my imagination? I can't know. But I fear I will be forever waiting like Hikoboshi, always raining on out tanabata. Our time of promised meeting.

Abstract, but I don't feel like explaining.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: mahou on August 18, 2010, 02:33:56 PM

I have a new topic of discussion.

Japanese Festivals.

I met a person on the internet one day. Was it an argument about drums? A discussion about drumming? Who can remember. Lost in the fogs of memory I guess. 2 years I loved him. Him, her? I don't even know the gender. Not a name, not a country, not a picture. Was he merely a figment of my imagination? I can't know. But I fear I will be forever waiting like Hikoboshi, always raining on out tanabata. Our time of promised meeting.

Abstract, but I don't feel like explaining.

Hm don't know what to say since it's out of context. Pretty random is all I can come up with.




Ahhh.. But then again..

There are some who said that Squall DIED in FFVIII.
Its just that most of us played through the game without fully understanding it... Some serious mindfuck if i could say so...

Details here...
http://squallsdead.com/ (http://squallsdead.com/)
for anyone interested...

He obviously didn't die, these aren't even theories considering it's clearly confirmed in the game he isn't dead and if you were to ask the writer of the story they'd confirm it. I'm surprised ppl even come up with this stuff for games that aren't open ended, sure fanfiction, but calling this a 'theory' is just wrong.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on August 18, 2010, 02:41:32 PM
I haven't played FFVIII, I also don't know anything about japanese festivals, sigh.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: inferno_flamex on August 18, 2010, 03:19:07 PM
... Hmm...

I've been to my local mall when they celebrated 'Blossomming of the Sakura trees in Japan'... and had something.. kinda like a Japanese-culture-fair.. kinda thing... From sweets to ice cream to sake... .. and oh god does the mall smell like sushi 3 days after the week long affair...

...
Kinda fun... Especially seeing a real life Japanese woman in kimono selling import sake from Japan...
Food tasting... And stuffs... Seriously.. All i pretty much did during that fair was pamper my tastebuds... XDDDD
......

Good enough?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on August 18, 2010, 06:57:10 PM

There are some who said that Squall DIED in FFVIII.
Its just that most of us played through the game without fully understanding it... Some serious mindfuck if i could say so...

Details here...
http://squallsdead.com/ (http://squallsdead.com/)
for anyone interested...

I won't even bother reading that, since people who actually play the game and don't turn it off before the ending credits see that there is an epilogue to the story where he is pretty much alive. There isn't anything to interpret from that scene.


Well to be fair, characters are bound to whatever the writer chooses to portray.

I was only making a comparison between protagonists, including Advent Children in my comparison. Neither Squall or Cloud could be called 'sissies', but I found Squall to be the character that matured the most during his journey vs Cloud which happens to be the more popular protagonist among FF fans. Cloud still doubted himself after the events of FFVII and was still reluctant to use his power. Squall may have been apathetic to begin with, but understood his responsibilities far sooner, used his power and brought everything to a close far sooner than Cloud did in his story. Anyway my point is Cloud is more conflicted personality wise than Squall, the end (And having a part of Zack in him shouldn't cause him to be emo).

I was just joking about the fact that all the other ones that let Aeris die are always ignored. And Cloud needed a Bright to slap him twice and turn him into a man right on the beginning of the story while Squall is more of an anti-social than an emo.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on August 18, 2010, 07:49:49 PM
Hmm.

Haruhi. Who else is anticipating the release of vol 10? And anyone think there will be fan trans?

***

I'm looking for a few new people to talk to on MSN. I mean one person for an email address is pretty stupid.
Be warned, I'm rude, uncaring, selfish, manipulative, racist, a bastard, a whore, and I'll probably irritated or be irritated by you at one time or another.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: mahou on August 18, 2010, 09:51:18 PM

Hmm.

Haruhi. Who else is anticipating the release of vol 10? And anyone think there will be fan trans?

Is it (series) worth reading? I never got through the 2nd season of the anime too much repetition... i'm sure it would've gone somewhere, but it was done in such a way that I lost interest really fast, I suppose if I was reading the events it'd be fine since the time consumed is far less then watching 20mins per episode of repeats with subtle differences.


I'm looking for a few new people to talk to on MSN. I mean one person for an email address is pretty stupid.
Be warned, I'm rude, uncaring, selfish, manipulative, racist, a bastard, a whore, and I'll probably irritated or be irritated by you at one time or another.

You sure know how to sell yourself tea ::)
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on August 18, 2010, 11:07:05 PM
Meh. If I wanted to I could have. But I don't have the energy to keep up this many appearances. I think I'm overstretching myself.

Also, the books are quite nice, if you like reading. The writing style is different in a most fantastic way, considering it's all first person. I like Kyon muchly so that probably contributes. Also the anime covers maybe 3 volumes out of the 9 currently out? and the 10th is coming out late this year.

More events, more Haruhi, more Nagato, more Mikuru. Oh and Kyon's old friend! Won't spoil any more than that. Hurr.

Afterthought: I should probably disclaim; I'm not all those things at once, and I guess most of the time I'll end up not talking if you're not interesting, or our timezone differences will fuck up, or even I'll take a liking to you.

....

Actually that latter might be the most disturbing for the participant.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: inferno_flamex on August 19, 2010, 01:54:21 AM

... or even I'll take a liking to you.

That's intriguing... I do not know you have a heart. XDD
I thought you're aren't capable of liking anyone else other than yourself...

Much less americans...


Scratch that... Maybe miracles really do can happen. XDDD
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on August 19, 2010, 01:37:15 PM
Oh, it happens. Funny you use the term miracles.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on August 19, 2010, 04:58:33 PM
@Green_Tea I have a place for you next to the other 20 contacts that I ignore... and you should simplify your description to "mean, dirty bastard" or something like that. Most people lose the will to ask anything else about you after hearing that kind of thing.

Regarding Haruhi's 10th volume, doesn't that already belong at the side of Duke Nukem Forever?

EDIT: Is it bad when you only notice that you have mail after someone states it in big fat letters?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on August 19, 2010, 06:40:49 PM
Oh sure, why the fuck not Mana.

And regarding haruhi's 10th volume: http://www.baka-tsuki.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=3239&hilit=Suzumiya+Haruhi+Haruhi+volume+10 (http://www.baka-tsuki.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=3239&hilit=Suzumiya+Haruhi+Haruhi+volume+10)

For those of you non-members:

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-02-24/haruhi-new-light-novel-to-be-previewed-in-the-sneaker (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-02-24/haruhi-new-light-novel-to-be-previewed-in-the-sneaker)

http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2010/02/25/new-haruhi-novel-finally-here/ (http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2010/02/25/new-haruhi-novel-finally-here/)



-Wait what? Where did i pull this release date from? Blah, I seem to remember it from somewhere. Haruhi.net says it's going to be later this year > from author.

Anyway.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on August 20, 2010, 03:57:55 PM
Oh, they are taking the Blizzard approach, making the fans starve for more while teasing them. Let's hope that they will deliver something worthy of all this waiting.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on August 22, 2010, 02:51:23 PM
Eh, agreed. I want more Kyon.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on August 26, 2010, 02:35:07 PM
New topic;

Seikimatsu Occult Gakuin. She's a really nice tsundere character no?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: mahou on August 26, 2010, 03:49:19 PM
Probably one of the best anime this season.

Maya is awesome, that is all.

Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on August 26, 2010, 04:04:58 PM
Lots of expressions, but I guess Maya is my favorite in that show, which is odd, I usually don't go for the main girl in a show.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on August 26, 2010, 05:09:42 PM
Oh then Kureha, who's your fav in ZnT?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on August 26, 2010, 05:13:28 PM
Oh let's try running 2 discussions at once. This one in purple:

Musaks. I really like Shiina Ringo, and just jazz kinda stuff in general. What about the rest of you? Oh some of the touhou artists are ok too. Miku is a bit too peppy for me; I like dramatic music I guess. Shiina Ringo and Tokyo Jihen, for those who haven't tried them. They're good.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on August 26, 2010, 05:19:12 PM

Oh then Kureha, who's your fav in ZnT?

Probably Tabitha/Charlotte Helene Orléans de Gallia

Louise is nice with pink hair and all but her personally is borderline awfull.

Musaks? what's that? I don't listen to touhou music.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on August 26, 2010, 05:25:49 PM
Agreed, about the Louise thing. I can't stand her personality for some obscure reason, and I don't understand what Saito sees in here with all those other lovely girls after him. I'm a big Siesta fan.

Musaks = musics. Any kind of music. Nothing? Not even a genre?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Sazabi on August 26, 2010, 06:10:27 PM


Oh then Kureha, who's your fav in ZnT?

Probably Tabitha/Charlotte Helene Orléans de Gallia

Louise is nice with pink hair and all but her personally is borderline awfull.

Musaks? what's that? I don't listen to touhou music.


yep louise is awful,  favourite is tiffania  ;D
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on August 31, 2010, 12:01:42 AM
So what's with the Duke Nukem References?

Also, Kureha, did you ever like Kaname? Not liking main heroines and all.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on August 31, 2010, 12:19:10 AM
Full Metal Panic?

Ren Mikihara voiced by Rie Tanaka

(http://img832.imageshack.us/img832/2892/largeanimepaperscansful.jpg)
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on August 31, 2010, 07:47:28 AM
Was that the manga?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on August 31, 2010, 10:13:27 AM
Yeah her manga/novel designs are much better than her anime ones.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on August 31, 2010, 11:05:36 AM
Collecting the novels now is gonna be a bitch.

ARGH. I need to find some compilations place. I need organization. God fucking damn.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on August 31, 2010, 03:50:10 PM

So what's with the Duke Nukem References?

When people talk about not meeting any kind of deadlines, there is always someone that associates it with Duke Nukem Forever's release date.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on August 31, 2010, 04:49:14 PM
yep cant think of a more more famous vapour-ware title
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on September 01, 2010, 03:25:39 PM
Sorry guys, I've got the Nana to Kaoru scans off Zyi, but my photoshop is acting up and keeps crashing every time I keep copy/pasting from one picture to another.

On the plus side the works is really really easy. So let's hope I can do something about this problem.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on September 01, 2010, 06:28:21 PM
are you planning on typesetting the text to the HQ scans?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on September 02, 2010, 07:29:06 AM
If that's what typesetting is, yes.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on September 02, 2010, 09:46:23 AM
Recently I've been hanging around a lot of sites, sometimes H, sometimes not. And I was noticing some of those tags for NTR just isn't quite right.

From my point of view, NTR would be the genre of where the main character's love interest gets raped till her mind is broken from the guilty pleasure. Well at least raped till she enjoys it. Whereas I'm seeing a lot of the "affairs" genre being labeled as NTR. I mean I just-

Oh wait. No I get it now. I'm just getting the NTR feeling from this set of H-manga's. Hrmmm
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Yossarian762 on September 02, 2010, 10:00:06 AM
I thought NTR was a dude (or group) "stealing" a guy's love interest as opposed to consensual cheating as well (though I figure mind breaking is unrelated).
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on September 02, 2010, 10:40:26 AM
Man, my browser crashed again. So I was saying something about NTR requiring some sort of anti-catharsis in that you have to have a type of immersion with the relationship (you the reader), and then "your" girl gets stolen. The main character doesn't have to be a guy, but you have to at least identify with the relations between the guy and girl.

Also I was saying how Inception was the new big thing here in my country, and while I wanted to post this on IRL sharing (i.e twitter etc), they're a bunch of retards. Who'll probably praise me. Which does nothing for advancement.

"You're digging a hole,
You know what you're looking for,
But the deeper you dig, the darker it is.
But you can't stop digging.

Why?"

[spoiler]"Because you're looking for something to save you."[/spoiler]

The real riddle is, where are you digging?

EDIT: Man. Sure is nice having my own thread.

>Oh by the way, anyone here in/been to Japan? I'm visiting, and I want ideas as to where's good and shit. I mean Akiba sure, but I also want food and CD's and stuff.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on September 09, 2010, 06:25:43 PM
This is nice. I just reinstalled CS4 and am now 3 pages into Nana to Kaoru. This may be tedious, so I can at best predict a chapter a week. At least until I have enough experience to streamline the process, don't get bogged down redrawing stuff, and fit it comfortably into my timetable. We'll get there.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on September 09, 2010, 06:42:23 PM
good luck , hope to see some of your handiwork soon
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on September 14, 2010, 09:39:49 AM
Hmmmm 20 pages and I run out of things to talk about. Sure is a dull me.

uhh. So how's everyone and shit? I'm sick at the moment. Oh and some assignments too. I hate playing Real Life.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on September 14, 2010, 09:59:34 AM
I hate playing Real Life too, I can't reroll my character and job classes suck. It's a long boring grind with minimal rewards. What's with the random character attributes anyway.

Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Yossarian762 on September 14, 2010, 12:43:12 PM
I've been addicted to Recettear...dear god...that game is great.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on September 14, 2010, 04:41:59 PM
Sure would be nice if portable music players weren't necessary and BGM's just played. All at lossless, at will. Oh and save points would have been nice too.
I've always hated those games with a time limit. I can never do everything I want at my own pace. That's also why Real Life shits me.

...Recettear sounds pretty nice. At least the world doesn't rest on your inadequate shoulders.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on September 14, 2010, 06:22:57 PM


I've always hated those games with a time limit. I can never do everything I want at my own pace.


tell me 'bout it, presents unnecessary "challenge"
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on September 14, 2010, 08:14:13 PM
I played 30h in Reccettear now, talk about being addicted >_<

Though endgame is a bit boring I must admit, with 5m on hand and nearly all goods stocked I dun even feel like opening my shop anymore, so its just dungeon grind.

Oh and if anyone gets a complete fusion list + the location of the indegrents .... GIMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMME!
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Yossarian762 on September 14, 2010, 10:40:44 PM
Oh my, I'm on the 40-somethingth day in Endless Mode and never cracked a million lol. I feel like I suck now D:
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on September 15, 2010, 04:48:47 AM
....I'm playing Disgaea DS.

BLAH I BLAME INTERNETLESS.

I hate my countries internet.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Yossarian762 on September 15, 2010, 06:41:05 AM
Try as I might, it's been a long time since I could make myself sit down and play a lengthy game on a handheld.  :(
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on September 15, 2010, 06:50:56 AM
I thought about picking up Valkyria Chronicles 2 since that has come out in english but then, I've not played the first one.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on September 15, 2010, 07:02:20 AM

I thought about picking up Valkyria Chronicles 2 since that has come out in english but then, I've not played the first one.

I haven't picked up the second yet, but I heard that it's a new independent story, old characters from VC1 just got some cameos in there.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on September 15, 2010, 07:25:46 AM

Try as I might, it's been a long time since I could make myself sit down and play a lengthy game on a handheld.  :(

The last one that did it to me was Infinite Space. When a game shows you the supposed ending credits and, it starts a second part named "Yuri The Man", you know that it's starting to become epic!
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Yossarian762 on September 15, 2010, 09:47:10 AM
I tried Devil Survivor since I'm a nascent SMT fanboy but I ended up stalling around Day 3. Not due to challenge but just lack of interest. That was the last DS game I played.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on September 15, 2010, 07:16:00 PM


Try as I might, it's been a long time since I could make myself sit down and play a lengthy game on a handheld.  :(

The last one that did it to me was Infinite Space. When a game shows you the supposed ending credits and, it starts a second part named "Yuri The Man", you know that it's starting to become epic!

Seriously? I couldn't gather enough interest in the battle system. I guess I was never a huge fan of Monster Rancher. Besides, how the fuck are you supposed to level and beat the first boss? You can't. You have to have skill. I hate skill.

grindgrindgrind.

<3 Disgaea.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on September 15, 2010, 10:56:58 PM
Infinite Space huh, I enjoyed it and even got pretty far, but than I got spoilerd that [spoiler]Nia[/spoiler] dies, and I insta quit it >_<

Devil Survivor on the other hand was pretty nice. After you get the holy skills you can pretty much brute force your way through the game without much problems. The amount of different endings was also pretty neat.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on September 16, 2010, 02:16:11 AM
Oh, it's just after that scene that it starts getting better.

Talking about Devil Survivor, I've to pick it up again.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on September 16, 2010, 02:30:00 AM
Anyone tried the IE9 beta? It's so fast it's amazing!
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on September 16, 2010, 04:25:25 AM
I haven't used it since 5/6. Does it have anything else favorable besides being fast?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on September 16, 2010, 09:12:25 AM

Anyone tried the IE9 beta? It's so fast it's amazing!

You're kidding me? Microsoft released something amazing?

...might try it. I do like my browser though.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Yossarian762 on September 16, 2010, 09:19:30 AM
Hey laplacian, since apparently you've already played Recettear to death, whats a brotha gotta do to unlock the dungeon after the Amber garden? I beat it, its boss rush, unlocked Tielle and Nagi...what more do I need to trigger the next dungeon opening? D:
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on September 16, 2010, 12:29:58 PM
Oh, and while Yoss mentions Recettear again, does anyone have links, or will I have to go a-searching?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on September 16, 2010, 12:51:46 PM
I believe it's a steam game, which means installing DRM ridden malware to play games.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Yossarian762 on September 16, 2010, 02:48:48 PM
Steam's just one download service it's on - the game has no copy protection inherent in it, just Steam itself (and only if purchased on Steam). Also unless you're just averse to buying games in general or digital purchasing specifically, having a bug up your ass about Steam seems a few years behind the times. ???
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on September 16, 2010, 05:15:03 PM

Oh, and while Yoss mentions Recettear again, does anyone have links, or will I have to go a-searching?

I got it from BlackCats, but here are some Mediafire links that I found on /rs/:

Part 1 (http://www.mediafire.com/?bcgx89bd7khx4ba)
Part 2 (http://www.mediafire.com/?v8oixavv3xjirvm)
Part 3 (http://www.mediafire.com/?fi7v3txo7a7oir1)

You'll also probably need to patch it to get past a certain part of the game. (http://www.carpefulgur.com/recettear/downloads.htm)
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on September 16, 2010, 06:44:32 PM

Hey laplacian, since apparently you've already played Recettear to death, whats a brotha gotta do to unlock the dungeon after the Amber garden? I beat it, its boss rush, unlocked Tielle and Nagi...what more do I need to trigger the next dungeon opening? D:

Check the requirements to recruit Griffe, http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?s=2f2f130cdebadd0ac0f83862ef3cde9d&t=1431543 (http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?s=2f2f130cdebadd0ac0f83862ef3cde9d&t=1431543) .

And sigh Nagi, I only met her twice so far, and been dungeon grinding like mad, </3 random encouters.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Yossarian762 on September 16, 2010, 10:16:34 PM
I broke down and checked a guide before you replied, but thank you anyway. Man the heretical decorations are ugly.

Also I hope the parts fawning over Arma are part of what he copied over because referring to her as "My Darling Arma" is a little creepy D:
I never saw the appeal of robot girls anyway...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on September 16, 2010, 10:20:47 PM
has anyone done any trading with the rip-off girl?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on September 17, 2010, 01:38:30 AM

I broke down and checked a guide before you replied, but thank you anyway. Man the heretical decorations are ugly.

Also I hope the parts fawning over Arma are part of what he copied over because referring to her as "My Darling Arma" is a little creepy D:
I never saw the appeal of robot girls anyway...

Haha, if you think he's creepy for that, you are probably on the wrong forums, bet half of the users here got some imaginery waifus =P!

I actually got pretty much to the end of the Tower of Obsidian, and damn I'm taking a beating lately. Really need to upgrade my weapons/ armors, but fusion item hunting is such a damn hassle (I'm using Tielle btw).


has anyone done any trading with the rip-off girl?

I bought some things actually, but it doesn't really do anything, she's just happy she ripped you off and that's it. From the forums it seems she's just there to annoy you.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Yossarian762 on September 17, 2010, 02:16:16 AM
Yeah, I know the hypocrisy of saying thinking of a fictional girl that way is creepy on a (mostly) eroge-based forum XD
Though sometimes seeing that sort of behavior outside an environment where it's acceptable (like here...and I admit, I'm guilty of it too [Hisui love 4eva <3]) makes you realize "hey that's kind of weird." The fact that Recettear is pretty family friendly probably helps it come off as kind of not-right too.

Also Tielle is the best. I love the ability where you shoot the arrows up into the air and they come down looking something like this: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/Peacekeeper-missile-testing.jpg (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/Peacekeeper-missile-testing.jpg) (not [img]'d due to huge resolution). She kind of takes the point out of using Caillou though since she's way more durable and mobile but can still spam damaging ranged attacks that can clear large groups of enemies...plus Caillou is a jerk.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on September 17, 2010, 04:49:13 AM
Calliou is a jerk indeed, but he's your typical mage character. Crappy to use at the start, but the higher he gets, the stronger he becomes compared to the other characters.
Bring some sweets along while he's on lvl 40 and he gonna bomb the whole place down.

Tielle is really great and friendly to use I admit, but I see myself dealing too less damage lately. Even fully charged some monsters are still standing, plus having to go into melee range for some enemies ( knights ~~ ) can be pretty risky. Now I'm also getting into an area where I meet quite a lot ranged mobs and I find myself clinging to any HP consumables I can find.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on September 17, 2010, 08:45:28 AM



has anyone done any trading with the rip-off girl?

I bought some things actually, but it doesn't really do anything, she's just happy she ripped you off and that's it. From the forums it seems she's just there to annoy you.


and break your combos as well it seems, damn annoying bitch
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on September 17, 2010, 09:03:18 AM
You can stick an img tag in a spoiler tag you know.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Yossarian762 on September 17, 2010, 09:12:27 AM
Just bring healing rings, multiple ones even, if you can afford it. Some fusion items actually require broken rings.

e: also i didn't think of putting the img in the spoiler derp D:
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on September 17, 2010, 09:40:04 AM

Yeah, I know the hypocrisy of saying thinking of a fictional girl that way is creepy on a (mostly) eroge-based forum XD
Though sometimes seeing that sort of behavior outside an environment where it's acceptable (like here...and I admit, I'm guilty of it too [Hisui love 4eva <3]) makes you realize "hey that's kind of weird." The fact that Recettear is pretty family friendly probably helps it come off as kind of not-right too.

Also Tielle is the best. I love the ability where you shoot the arrows up into the air and they come down looking something like this: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/Peacekeeper-missile-testing.jpg (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/Peacekeeper-missile-testing.jpg) (not [img]'d due to huge resolution). She kind of takes the point out of using Caillou though since she's way more durable and mobile but can still spam damaging ranged attacks that can clear large groups of enemies...plus Caillou is a jerk.

T_T Hisui <3
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on September 17, 2010, 02:33:17 PM
Just finished Ookami-san. ;-;

'tis not enough.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on September 17, 2010, 02:45:57 PM
Hold off on the spoilers lol I haven't gotten around to it, I've been/still busy for these couple of days.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on September 17, 2010, 02:53:15 PM
Aye cap'n!

Just went through the blog of the guy who did the patch for Daibanchou. He sure doesn't seem to like a lot of the anime he reviews.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on September 17, 2010, 02:59:09 PM
he must have a lot of free time, anime watching + reviewing and game translating as well...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on September 17, 2010, 03:09:23 PM
I technically have alot of time too, I just find even more things to want to do that I simply can't fit into my schedule. lol

So, what do you guys think of the Princess Lover OVA?
http://kureha.no-ip.org/k1/index.php?topic=480 (http://kureha.no-ip.org/k1/index.php?topic=480)
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on September 17, 2010, 05:10:28 PM
Now that it has a cover and a preview, it looks interesting, to say the least. *downloads it as fast as possible*
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on September 17, 2010, 07:59:16 PM
cover is hot
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Yossarian762 on September 18, 2010, 01:00:07 AM
Looks good, though I'll wait for subs
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on September 18, 2010, 01:58:37 PM
wonder if its gonna have any relation to the anime
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on September 18, 2010, 05:04:34 PM
Just started watching Princess Lover because I want to get the OVA. So I have m/h quality (720p) uncensored eps, but I don't like the subs. Where does anyone go for direct dl anime?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on September 18, 2010, 06:42:08 PM

Just started watching Princess Lover because I want to get the OVA. So I have m/h quality (720p) uncensored eps, but I don't like the subs. Where does anyone go for direct dl anime?

Lolipower.org! >O<
Just checked, they even got princess lover on it.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on September 18, 2010, 08:00:36 PM
got a dodgy connection, so i torrent
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: blakraven66 on September 20, 2010, 11:55:27 PM
Umineko PS3 version (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq4L5dARluk&feature=player_embedded#)
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on September 21, 2010, 01:03:35 AM
Eh ? This looks really great o_O I haven't played any Umineko games so far, but from all the screens I saw the art looked very similar to the touhou art ...
So how come this psp game looks so great T_T?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on September 21, 2010, 02:00:35 AM
It's simple. Ryukishi07 didn't draw it.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on September 21, 2010, 06:50:45 AM
Smeeeeeeeeeexxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.

But don't have a console. Too bad.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on September 21, 2010, 07:14:16 AM
very nice ;D
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on September 21, 2010, 08:46:10 AM
I've been pondering on whether or not to consider getting a PS3 now that it can be jailbroken, but it just costs so much with so little returns.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on September 21, 2010, 09:27:33 AM
didnt they just release a firmware update or something recently in response the news it got jailbroken?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on September 21, 2010, 09:39:13 AM
yeah but most of the PS3s are still @ 3.41 and the PS3Break Dongle is firmware upgradable, the makers are working on getting it to work with 3.42 right now
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on September 21, 2010, 10:32:34 AM
and when they succeed , there's going to be a new firmware update, then work to break it again....

endless cycle  :D
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on September 21, 2010, 01:05:08 PM
Just like the PSP lol.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on September 21, 2010, 01:53:45 PM
Didn't the PSP jailbreaker give up? According my last source from ages ago. That's why I started playing more DS instead of multplayer Monster Hunter or shits.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on September 21, 2010, 04:48:46 PM
guess he got bored with jailbreaking and found something else to do... ;D
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on September 21, 2010, 05:49:55 PM
And Sony managed to mess up a lot of games' compatibilities with the new firmware, so it isn't recommended to update even for people without Jailbreak. In other cases, the update even messed up several PS3s to the point that they are constantly turning on and off or updating again and rebooting.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on September 21, 2010, 06:01:19 PM
yeh sony just love messing with people
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on September 23, 2010, 07:15:39 PM
http://novelnews.net/2010/09/22/mangagamer-hard-copies-available-for-order/ (http://novelnews.net/2010/09/22/mangagamer-hard-copies-available-for-order/)

Mangagamer finally aiming for proper releases. Just gotta hope those sell well enough, so we get some other decent releases.

I hope the shipping charge of 10 dollars is already included in the price of the non-US version. Else I gotta cry at the different  prices for US and non-US versions T_T

It's a lot cheaper on Hendane though, strange strange >_<
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on September 23, 2010, 08:54:04 PM
Let's see if that will help their sales. It was a bad move on their part to sell only data on a niche market where the customer base consists mostly of collectors.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on September 23, 2010, 08:54:51 PM
Yesh. We're all collectors. And MG are idiots, I'm sure. Ever since I played Edelweiss I've been sure of that.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on September 23, 2010, 09:05:51 PM
Their first titles' translations damaged their image to the point that even today people doubt about their translations' quality, which is obviously better since Da Capo was released. Their editing is another matter.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on September 23, 2010, 10:01:18 PM
Lol. What editing; amirite?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on September 23, 2010, 10:10:01 PM
I guess that they learned that word through their own forums.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on September 24, 2010, 04:49:27 AM
/shudders.

So moving on from a dreadful (MG's editing) topic, anyone here have enough money to play MtG?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on September 26, 2010, 05:16:11 PM
Oki doki, MtG aside, I've just started watching Shana and the quality certainly lacks compared to the anime of current seasons. Or just lacks.

Stupid localizations. I want Shana books. =\
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on September 26, 2010, 05:26:38 PM
Shana could have been better without that indecisive faggot as a main character, but it would also be shorter. Sometimes I felt like I was watching one of those cheesy Brazilian soap operas that air on Portuguese TV.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on September 26, 2010, 07:09:19 PM
That sounds bad. But why is Shana so popular if the anime is really this bad?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on September 26, 2010, 07:17:50 PM
Shana is a few years old, I thought it was decent for its time.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on September 26, 2010, 10:34:52 PM
When the main character does something useful, like shutting up, it's entertaining, and Shana is the typical tsundere loli voiced by Kugimiya Rie, which is a seller by itself.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on September 26, 2010, 10:54:01 PM
I like Itou Shizuka better than Kugimiya Rie
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on September 26, 2010, 11:22:03 PM
In terms of tsundere characters, I've only heard her as Hinagiku (one of my favorite characters in Hayate along Isumi) and Akiha. It was thanks to her part that I got interested on the Tsukihime VN.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on September 26, 2010, 11:26:05 PM
Ookami Ryouko is also voiced by Itou Shizuka.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on September 26, 2010, 11:38:08 PM
I guess that I'll have to watch Ookami-san, that and Hayate's second season.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on September 26, 2010, 11:56:34 PM
2009
Kurokami: The Animation (Riona Kogure)
Saki (Hisa Takei)
Tayutama: Kiss on my Deity (Mifuyu Kisaragi)
Basquash! (Sela D. Miranda)
Hatsukoi Limited (Kei Enomoto)
Hayate no Gotoku! Season 2 (Hinagiku Katsura)
Maria-sama ga Miteru 4th season (Rei Hasakura, Seito)
Shakugan no Shana S (Wilhelmina Carmel)

2010
Dance in the Vampire Bund (Nanami Shinonome)
Nodame Cantabile: Finale (Tatiana "Tanya" Vishneva)
HeartCatch PreCure! (Momoka Kurumi, Member of Student council)
Ichiban Ushiro no Daimaou (Etou Fujiko)
Ōkami-san to Shichinin no Nakama-tachi (Ryōko Ōkami)
Working!! (Kozue Takanashi)
Amagami SS (Haruka Morishima)
Sekirei ~Pure Engagement~ (Benitsubasa (No.105))
Marvel Anime: Iron Man (Nanami Ōta)
Strike Witches 2 (Hanna-Justina Marseille)
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on September 27, 2010, 12:11:41 AM
I already knew about Wilhelmina and Rei being voiced by her, as for the other shows, some of them are on on "to watch list" and I have to see what will come of that Iron Man anime. Thanks for the list!
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on September 27, 2010, 10:16:24 AM
Oh wowwww, I've watched some of those. And certainly, Ryouko is a lasting love of mine.

Man, does anyone know if the Hatsukoi anime is any good? I kinda loved the manga, but....I can imagine it being cliche you know?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on September 28, 2010, 02:30:00 PM
I have a pen pal.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on September 28, 2010, 03:02:18 PM
I admitedly never had a penpal due to my personality. I wouldn't know what to write lol.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on September 28, 2010, 04:28:40 PM
We are on the same boat.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on September 28, 2010, 04:55:28 PM
We fuck around. Just basically like what we did on MSN, but don't do now since he left. Really long replies too; today we talked about Etrian III, DQIX, animu, light novels, school, sickness, death, cancer, money, broken shit, broked shit, and upcoming animashits.

Pretty nice really. Hey, hey Kureha, wanna be a penpal too? =D
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on September 28, 2010, 07:25:53 PM
Like I said I wouldn't know what to write, or how long I can keep it up.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on September 28, 2010, 08:01:18 PM
email plx
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: invictus on September 28, 2010, 08:18:10 PM
it's frightening that you're able to do that in a day. I wouldn't have time or patience to write that much... nor would have have a persistence to keep up with a penpal.

Ookami... at first it disappointed me... but it came through as better than expected after I found out what's it's about but... it feels horribly generic... like the kind of crap you think up, when someone asks you to come up with an anime plot... except... make about 30 of those and cram them into episodes... sometimes 2 or 3 at a time.

Regardless, I like Ryouko though.... I wonder if liking AKai makes me a lolicon... poison tastes ever so sweet.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on September 28, 2010, 08:58:03 PM
see that email icon under my avatar? um yeah or you can use the forum email, I check that more often to makesure members are getting their notifications
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on September 29, 2010, 12:39:43 AM

it's frightening that you're able to do that in a day. I wouldn't have time or patience to write that much... nor would have have a persistence to keep up with a penpal.

Ookami... at first it disappointed me... but it came through as better than expected after I found out what's it's about but... it feels horribly generic... like the kind of crap you think up, when someone asks you to come up with an anime plot... except... make about 30 of those and cram them into episodes... sometimes 2 or 3 at a time.

Regardless, I like Ryouko though.... I wonder if liking AKai makes me a lolicon... poison tastes ever so sweet.

Actually what I think makes it great is Ryoushi. Personal opinion though.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on September 29, 2010, 12:58:22 AM
Hmm, that's weird. Cannot find member Kureha **** < when I tried to send a PM.

Also, your email is hidden from public.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on September 29, 2010, 02:08:36 AM

Hmm, that's weird. Cannot find member Kureha **** < when I tried to send a PM.

Also, your email is hidden from public.

Send to "kureha".
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on September 29, 2010, 08:48:26 AM
Ahhhhh. Many thanks.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on September 29, 2010, 07:13:15 PM
ermm too lazy for new topic making hijacking Tea's thread again lol

Project Love+ for Nintendo 3DS - Konami 3DS Project (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC2QznyN-Bw#ws)

I think it's time to fish my NDSL out of the closet and sell it off and start putting together funds for this new holy grail.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on September 29, 2010, 07:57:36 PM
Face drops = :0

Brain stops.......................

FFFFFFffffffffffffff- completely fell for the sales pitch.

THEY'RE BEING UNDERHANDED!!

The gyro and motion sensors seem niiiiiiiice though.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on September 29, 2010, 08:40:29 PM
It's a this times that I hate myself for not being able to get a job.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on September 30, 2010, 06:27:26 AM
thats some impressive stuff
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Jaooooo~ on September 30, 2010, 08:05:20 AM
Oh my.

That's... quite something.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on September 30, 2010, 08:25:36 AM
I really wish that they would finish translating the first one so I know what's going on lol.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: invictus on September 30, 2010, 08:56:24 AM
I'm impressed... but is it really anywhere near that good?  I mean there's always exaggeration... but wow, I'd fall for that if I weren't such a cynic.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on September 30, 2010, 09:30:05 AM
if that was the real thing and not just an exaggeration...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on September 30, 2010, 04:32:43 PM

I really wish that they would finish translating the first one so I know what's going on lol.

Are they even still at it ? I see like 3% progress in a month, which is funny seeing how they got 24 translators listed ~~
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on September 30, 2010, 04:37:49 PM
I have no idea lol
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on September 30, 2010, 04:48:51 PM


I really wish that they would finish translating the first one so I know what's going on lol.

Are they even still at it ? I see like 3% progress in a month, which is funny seeing how they got 24 translators listed ~~

It's still better than the 0.1% of Hollow Ataraxia in the last month.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: mahou on September 30, 2010, 06:22:44 PM
So we're getting closer to 2D girls entering the 3D world, otaku everywhere rejoice, feminists & church groups take up arms lol

Ahh Japan if you didn't exist life would be incredibly boring.

Still pretty skeptical about the 3DS, haven't even got a normal ds yet ah well plenty of stuff on PS3/360 for now.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on September 30, 2010, 06:31:04 PM
Hm pricing is set at 300 dollars for the new 3ds, gonna take quite a bit to convince me to buy it ...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Jaooooo~ on October 01, 2010, 06:38:15 AM
Tea!

Since you like Tsukihime so much, what order do you suggest playing through the routes in to get the best experience out of it?

I'm just about to start after I polish off Saya no Uta.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on October 01, 2010, 09:04:42 AM
Arc -> Ciel -> Akiha -> Hisui -> Kohaku

You can't get into the Far Side of the Moon (Akiha, Hisui and Kohaku) without clearing the Near Side of the Moon (Arcueid and Ciel).
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Yossarian762 on October 01, 2010, 11:12:31 AM
^yeah that's pretty much the intended order to play them in
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 01, 2010, 03:18:44 PM



I really wish that they would finish translating the first one so I know what's going on lol.

Are they even still at it ? I see like 3% progress in a month, which is funny seeing how they got 24 translators listed ~~

It's still better than the 0.1% of Hollow Ataraxia in the last month.

HA is gonna take decades. T___T
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: mahou on October 01, 2010, 04:38:17 PM
Well minori has partnered with NNL & MG sooo it isn't too far fetched to say type-moon may be licensed in the future. Until then seems we're getting quite a few nice VNs soon.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Yossarian762 on October 02, 2010, 06:01:07 AM
The Koihime voices thing has me wondering though if all these companies getting on board for English releases are gonna sell enough to persuade them it's worth actually continuing this, or if they'll just be like "well fuck we sold like 500 copies of this game and got our games pirated to shit in spite of all the buzz generated by us actually deigning to work with English-speaking companies/fan translators, TIME TO PULL OUT OF HERE".
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on October 02, 2010, 06:40:38 AM
the unfortunate thing is, that scenario is likely to happen
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 02, 2010, 07:10:17 AM

Tea!

Since you like Tsukihime so much, what order do you suggest playing through the routes in to get the best experience out of it?

I'm just about to start after I polish off Saya no Uta.

Actually I played Ciel last, but the order posted up is Mirror-moon's recommended. Just make sure you save often so you don't have to go all the way back to the start for a different-same heroine ending. In terms of Far side, Kohaku should be played last, but Hisui and Akiha could be switched I guess. Order doesn't seriously matter. srsly.

T________T Talking of routes: Sacchin.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Yossarian762 on October 02, 2010, 07:53:19 AM
I myself did it something like Arc -> Hisui -> Ciel -> Akiha -> Kohaku

I'd say it's probably best to do it in the mirror moon recommended order or something, or at the very least do Akiha's route before Hisui and Kohaku's since I think I "got" Hisui's route better after I got to know Akiha's character better.

Also Ciel owns, how could you leave her for last? D:
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on October 02, 2010, 09:26:01 AM

T________T Talking of routes: Sacchin.

Who?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on October 02, 2010, 10:00:10 AM
Isn't it sad Sacchin? (http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Yumizuka_Satsuki)
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on October 02, 2010, 10:07:33 AM
Sacchin doesn't exist!
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 02, 2010, 03:08:14 PM

Sacchin doesn't exist!

How dare you! YOU don't exist!

[spoiler]Well no, we love you Kureha.[/spoiler]

She's my favourite after Hisui. Something like Hisui, Sacchin, Ciel etc etc.

lol Gawwwwwwwwd I want more Hisui. T____T
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on October 02, 2010, 03:54:47 PM

Isn't it sad Sacchin? (http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Yumizuka_Satsuki)

[spoiler]It was a joke.[/spoiler]
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: mahou on October 02, 2010, 04:33:19 PM
Sacchin will be sad if the Tsukihime remake with her route never comes out.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 03, 2010, 11:21:54 AM


Isn't it sad Sacchin? (http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Yumizuka_Satsuki)

[spoiler]It was a joke.[/spoiler]

Way to spoiler.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on October 03, 2010, 07:43:44 PM

Sacchin will be sad if the Tsukihime remake with her route never comes out.

yes she will
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 05, 2010, 05:56:49 PM
This place sure seems pretty dead.

Where is anyone =\
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on October 05, 2010, 05:58:19 PM
Waiting in the shadows to pounce on wary travelers and tear them to shreds.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 05, 2010, 06:07:03 PM
Etrian III is sexy. Although the FOE's are looking to be very simple. At least the first stratum I am beating everything.

Maybe the characters are just powered up.

Also, I wanna watch more Index. <3 MISAKA.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on October 05, 2010, 06:21:23 PM
No idea what those are, I only recognise Misaka.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 05, 2010, 06:33:46 PM

No idea what those are, I only recognise Misaka.

Hey, what's crunchyroll?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on October 05, 2010, 06:34:30 PM
I would think it's something like Gaia, someplace I don't want to visit.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on October 05, 2010, 07:19:00 PM

Etrian III is sexy. Although the FOE's are looking to be very simple. At least the first stratum I am beating everything.

Maybe the characters are just powered up.

What team are you using Tea ?

I'm running around with:

     Princess     Phalanx
Monk       Farmer     Zodiac


Just got to the fourth floor with lvl 12 on everyone now. Can't say it's going too smooth though, feels like I'm lacking dps.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on October 05, 2010, 08:22:03 PM

Waiting in the shadows to pounce on wary travelers and tear them to shreds.

I see that I'm not the only one.


Etrian III is sexy.

I haven't even played the first one. Is it worth it?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on October 05, 2010, 08:49:55 PM


Etrian III is sexy.
I haven't even played the first one. Is it worth it?

If you are into old school dungeon crawlers, defo worth a look. Though it is pretty hardcore, so if you aren't really a patient person, I guess it would be nothing for you.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 05, 2010, 10:03:27 PM


Etrian III is sexy. Although the FOE's are looking to be very simple. At least the first stratum I am beating everything.

Maybe the characters are just powered up.

What team are you using Tea ?

I'm running around with:

     Princess     Phalanx
Monk       Farmer     Zodiac


Just got to the fourth floor with lvl 12 on everyone now. Can't say it's going too smooth though, feels like I'm lacking dps.

Running double Phalanx, then Bow, Prince, Bow.

I've yet to need a monk, the arbalists are great dps, and the phalanx are super tank: one on provoke path, the other on shield path.

Prince went healing/attack, but I think if I just forged elemental weapons he could've gone defence, and that might have been better. Bow, one went for the double skill hit, and the other went elemental damage all route. This team, plus some skill scrolls (second wind for the prince) and a few medica's (for the prince again) can kill everything. I haven't tried the stag yet though (4th floor), but the other FOE's were cleared a floor after I met them. So I guess after I clear up 5th I can go back.

I have a second party of farmers, for farming actually. Good money that, and they're almost perfectly suited for it. Mining, gathering and chopping. Oh and one for exp growth, since they don't see much fighting. That one I might turn into a combat farmer. I'm only level 17 at the moment. Sailing is a really good way to get money by the way. Not really fishing, but the quests and stuff. More items too.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Yossarian762 on October 06, 2010, 06:23:16 AM
All I know of Etrian Odyssey is that it's painfully hard and you have to make your own maps of dungeons.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 06, 2010, 06:02:49 PM

All I know of Etrian Odyssey is that it's painfully hard and you have to make your own maps of dungeons.

Not really hard. At least III isn't. I was too busy to play I and II properly. Hell, exams soon too T_T
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 08, 2010, 12:43:13 PM
Holy shit Gantz is fucked up. And I don't mean all the violence/gore/faggotshit.

But I don't understand what's going through Kurono's mind. Seriously. wtf.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 08, 2010, 06:04:03 PM
Oh god what. I don't want to catch up to Gantz already. SHIT MANG, I WANT MORE GANTZ.

OH GOD FUCKING EVEN - SHIIIIIIT

KEIIIIIIIIII.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on October 08, 2010, 06:50:02 PM
Gantz spoiler:

[spoiler]At what chapter do they ressurect Kurono ? ( if at all ). Not really a big fan of Kato.[/spoiler]
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 08, 2010, 08:03:27 PM
I'll get around to it and let you know when.

You know, at first I liked Kato better, but when Tae showed up Kei was just so fucking badass.

[spoiler]IMMORTAL DAMMIT[/spoiler]
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on October 08, 2010, 11:11:36 PM
I'd love to see Kurono team up with Izumi. Those two would totaly rape those aliens >_<

On another topic, anyone reading the Hitman reborn manga ? I read it ages ago to like chapter 50 and I totaly hated it, but it seems to have a really big following on the inet.
Does it get better later on ? As in no more whiny characters and utter retarded stories >_>
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 09, 2010, 04:14:34 AM
Uhhh well. I don't really think it got better as such. Just more shounen.

I stopped reading after elephants started coming out. Yes, really.

Gantz chapter 280
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 09, 2010, 10:44:25 PM
Anyone got ddl links of 1080p UTW's UBW subs?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on October 09, 2010, 10:51:00 PM

Anyone got ddl links of 1080p UTW's UBW subs?

I could need them too it seems. 15h runtime and the torrent is at 0,7% of 13,3giga >_>
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: NoSense on October 09, 2010, 11:01:20 PM
18 kb/s then... well not that great.
Unfortunatetly I can't help you guys...
Could help seed the 720p, but that's all... heck, my monitor doesn't even support 1080p
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 09, 2010, 11:10:36 PM
Shiiiiiiiiiit. I didn't think about this.

Welp, MU/RS links would be much loved if people come on here. But what's with the torrent? Why aren't there people seeding?

I thought there were truckloads of T-M faggots out there.

***

I have filesonic and fileserve. Not my own links.

[s]http://www.filesonic.com/file/23570947/fansub-fate.stay.night.unlimited.blade.works.1080p.bluray.part1.rar
http://www.filesonic.com/file/23571083/fansub-fate.stay.night.unlimited.blade.works.1080p.bluray.part2.rar
http://www.filesonic.com/file/23571095/fansub-fate.stay.night.unlimited.blade.works.1080p.bluray.part3.rar
http://www.filesonic.com/file/23571133/fansub-fate.stay.night.unlimited.blade.works.1080p.bluray.part4.rar
http://www.filesonic.com/file/23563155/fansub-fate.stay.night.unlimited.blade.works.1080p.bluray.part5.rar[/s]


[s]http://www.fileserve.com/file/KM2UHbD/fansub-fate.stay.night.unlimited.blade.works.1080p.bluray.part1.rar
http://www.fileserve.com/file/awKJGdT/fansub-fate.stay.night.unlimited.blade.works.1080p.bluray.part2.rar
http://www.fileserve.com/file/QmGDYxw/fansub-fate.stay.night.unlimited.blade.works.1080p.bluray.part3.rar
http://www.fileserve.com/file/hURDgmv/fansub-fate.stay.night.unlimited.blade.works.1080p.bluray.part4.rar
http://www.fileserve.com/file/RSfxy5C/fansub-fate.stay.night.unlimited.blade.works.1080p.bluray.part5.rar[/s]


Use at your own risk. Well I'm using them. Searching all night and nothing. Although I might try one last time for raws + sub file.

Oh shit. These might not be subbed. :0

Those were shit. I guess coalgirls it is. -> Oh shit. Taking forever. Jesus, I may just wait.


http://www.fileserve.com/list/WwaEz2u
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on October 10, 2010, 05:01:12 AM
I'm dling it now of UTW's irc bot. Command would be: /msg [UTW]Belle xdcc send #8
<3 max speed.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Yossarian762 on October 10, 2010, 07:46:05 AM
Link to the torrent? I can be patient downloading it but don't have irc installed or feel like downloading it in like five different parts  :-X
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 10, 2010, 07:56:03 AM

I'm dling it now of UTW's irc bot. Command would be: /msg [UTW]Belle xdcc send #8
<3 max speed.

I tried that. I think my ports are closed. Besides, I dunno how to IRC properly and I couldn't set my client on receive or something.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: NoSense on October 10, 2010, 08:20:20 AM

Link to the torrent? I can be patient downloading it but don't have irc installed or feel like downloading it in like five different parts  :-X
Unlimited Translation Works (http://utw.me/)
Whatever version you wish for.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Yossarian762 on October 10, 2010, 10:16:52 AM
Thank you!
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 10, 2010, 05:39:03 PM
That really wasn't as good as I thought it'd be. In fact are they ever gonna do something where you're not expected to know the story first? Seriously.

Spoilers
[spoiler]In no particular order and with maximum prejudice:

Saber just disappearing at the end, no explanation.
They NEVER had the full chant required to summon the reality marble.
Scenes skipped EVERYWHERE. Especially in the first half.
The blood effects were shit. In fact there was some really stupid animation in it too.
SUDDENLY, DOLPHIN! (Well, better than a dragon surely).
Character development PLEASE. This is also why Tsukihime is better. Fuck.
Not all characters got their moment. I loved Berserker's death scene. ILYAAAAAAAAA!
Heaven's Feel > UBW
Stop the freaking jumping around!
[/spoiler]

That wasn't even half of the list. All raged out though.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on October 11, 2010, 12:54:22 AM

SUDDENLY, DOLPHIN! (Well, better than a dragon surely).

And both of those scenes were originally from Réalta Nua, the all ages PS2 adaptation, so blame Nasu.


Character development PLEASE.

Good luck trying to stick some character development on a 105 minutes movie base on a VN as long as Fate. They already had to butcher some awesome moments from the fight scenes for everything to fit.


This is also why Tsukihime is better. Fuck.

Tsukihime is better due to it's superior animation, right?


Heaven's Feel > UBW

An Heaven's Feel movie would be better to animate. You just have to cut all the cooking scenes and it suddenly fits on an under 2 hours movie.

I never had such unrealistic expectations about the movie, exactly because it was "a movie" and no one would ever be able to do it right on such a short time, but it was also done by Studio DEEN, known by their QUALITY adaptations.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 11, 2010, 04:43:29 AM


SUDDENLY, DOLPHIN! (Well, better than a dragon surely).

And both of those scenes were originally from Réalta Nua, the all ages PS2 adaptation, so blame Nasu.


Character development PLEASE.

Good luck trying to stick some character development on a 105 minutes movie base on a VN as long as Fate. They already had to butcher some awesome moments from the fight scenes for everything to fit.


This is also why Tsukihime is better. Fuck.

Tsukihime is better due to it's superior animation, right?


Heaven's Feel > UBW

An Heaven's Feel movie would be better to animate. You just have to cut all the cooking scenes and it suddenly fits on an under 2 hours movie.

I never had such unrealistic expectations about the movie, exactly because it was "a movie" and no one would ever be able to do it right on such a short time, but it was also done by Studio DEEN, known by their QUALITY adaptations.

Ahhh, I sure like UFOTABLE. KnK was delicious.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on October 11, 2010, 04:45:21 AM
Until it got to the last movie, but I didn't read the original novels, so it's probably Nasu's fault.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Jaooooo~ on October 11, 2010, 06:37:29 AM
I... liked the UBW movie.

I mean, the first half was shit, but they did the heart of it right and the rest (Including the end fight) is really only decoration.

I do agree that they could have gone over Shirou's broken hero thing in more detail though.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 11, 2010, 08:21:19 AM

I... liked the UBW movie.

I mean, the first half was shit, but they did the heart of it right and the rest (Including the end fight) is really only decoration.

I do agree that they could have gone over Shirou's broken hero thing in more detail though.

Another thing to add onto my list: What the hell was all that fucking jumping? Don't jump in a fight. You do not jump in a fight. JUMP IN FIGHT. WHAT.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Jaooooo~ on October 11, 2010, 08:33:17 AM


I... liked the UBW movie.

I mean, the first half was shit, but they did the heart of it right and the rest (Including the end fight) is really only decoration.

I do agree that they could have gone over Shirou's broken hero thing in more detail though.

Another thing to add onto my list: What the hell was all that fucking jumping? Don't jump in a fight. You do not jump in a fight. JUMP IN FIGHT. WHAT.

I fight with swords as a hobby, I learnt to let these things slide by if they look cool enough.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 11, 2010, 10:26:51 AM
And seriously, Assassin/Seiba fight sucked ass. That should have been the best swordfight, but noooooo.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Yossarian762 on October 11, 2010, 12:11:35 PM
Less the jumping and more the fact that servants can apparently just outright FLY in the middle of fights and hang in midair, that really got me. I got to Archer unleashing UBW for the first time before I stopped watching atm though, still kind of disappointing overall. I was like "okay, I don't mind if the story bits get glossed over as long as the fights are awesome" but they were missing something still. I really wished they'd have shown the fight between Kuzuki and Saber.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 11, 2010, 01:37:38 PM

Less the jumping and more the fact that servants can apparently just outright FLY in the middle of fights and hang in midair, that really got me. I got to Archer unleashing UBW for the first time before I stopped watching atm though, still kind of disappointing overall. I was like "okay, I don't mind if the story bits get glossed over as long as the fights are awesome" but they were missing something still. I really wished they'd have shown the fight between Kuzuki and Saber.

Lol but did you see the way Kuzuki moved? It looked retarded. And they didn't even focus on the main "villain" in the route. There was in fact no focus on anything. Kinda stupid really
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: mahou on October 11, 2010, 06:28:00 PM
UBW movie:

Archer: 'Shirou, I am your future!'

Shirou: 'No that's not true that's impossible!

*pew pew pew*

THE END
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 11, 2010, 06:46:27 PM

UBW movie:

Archer: 'Shirou, I am your future!'

Shirou: 'No that's not true that's impossible!

*pew pew pew*

THE END

And Mr. Moe.Avvy has it correct.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: NoSense on October 11, 2010, 06:48:48 PM
I think, that's a fitting summary
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Jaooooo~ on October 11, 2010, 09:17:49 PM

And they didn't even focus on the main "villain" in the route.

Like being the main villain actually meant anything in the first two routes.

Until Heaven's Feel, Kotomine and Gilgy were just plot devices to further Shirou's relationship with Saber or his own character development.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Yossarian762 on October 11, 2010, 10:56:31 PM


Less the jumping and more the fact that servants can apparently just outright FLY in the middle of fights and hang in midair, that really got me. I got to Archer unleashing UBW for the first time before I stopped watching atm though, still kind of disappointing overall. I was like "okay, I don't mind if the story bits get glossed over as long as the fights are awesome" but they were missing something still. I really wished they'd have shown the fight between Kuzuki and Saber.

Lol but did you see the way Kuzuki moved? It looked retarded. And they didn't even focus on the main "villain" in the route. There was in fact no focus on anything. Kinda stupid really

Yeah it looked weird but at least for that it kind of made sense since the whole point of his fighting style was that it was weird as hell and nobody knew what to make of it.

also speaking of pew pew it really bothers me that Tohsaka's gandr shots in both the anime and this make pew pew sounds since it's explicitly said to sound like a motherfucking GUN.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on October 11, 2010, 11:04:54 PM
This last two pages could be resumed with "DEEN!".
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 12, 2010, 05:04:26 AM
Actually one movie I watched recently had really good gunshot sounds. Not anime unfortunately, but I don't know if I've shared this:

Tomorrow When the War Began.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on October 12, 2010, 05:33:40 AM
Poor encodings usually make short work of good sound effects. I confirmed it when I bought my AV Receiver and it's speakers. All MP3 and AACs reencodings sound really bad when compared to the original AC3 tracks. There are a lot of effects that are lost in the process and it's awesome to watch again some movies/anime that I liked just to discover what I was missing. But there are also many cases of pew pew and pum pum that aren't saved not even by their original soundtracks.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 12, 2010, 09:33:27 AM
I want more bang bang.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on October 12, 2010, 09:34:20 AM
What kind of bang bang are we talking about?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 12, 2010, 12:11:08 PM

What kind of bang bang are we talking about?

You and me, bang bang.
lol, actually it was Tohasaka's gandre shot, but also on the note of "bang bang", for anyone that loved Shion ~Cruel Magical Angel~, there's a H-manga by the name of Kimi no Hitomi ni Koi shiteru. Would like NTR, but mang it's hawt.

Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on October 12, 2010, 08:31:05 PM
TANA is the name of the artist
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on October 13, 2010, 07:41:06 AM
I don't see the need to create a new topic for it, so I'll just steal Tea's:

I'll be absent for, at least 24 hours, because I'll have a small surgery to remove an abscess on my back. You can open the champagne and party all you want, but don't get too used to my absence, it will be a short one.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on October 13, 2010, 08:36:32 AM
That's like a huge zit... right?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on October 13, 2010, 08:51:06 AM
[spoiler]


I'll be absent for, at least 24 hours,
*takes out a bottle of champagne...*[/spoiler]



[spoiler]


but don't get too used to my absence, it will be a short one.
*quietly puts it away again...* [/spoiler]
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 13, 2010, 10:22:50 AM
Guys, feel free to post whatever you want. I love to post random shit after all, and I don't really think of it as "my thread". Just named after me =P.

Speaking of which, Gantz was so fucking sexy. The best. Angel Densetsu was really fun for the third time again. I think I might read Claymore.

Man. Gantz.

Currently listening to: Ever After ~Music from "TSUKIHIME" Reproduction~
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Yossarian762 on October 13, 2010, 10:33:59 AM

That's like a huge zit... right?

Man...imagine just, popping that. Like, whoa  :o
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: mahou on October 13, 2010, 12:45:44 PM
Angel Densetsu was awesome. Too bad claymore takes so damn long to come out. Just caught up with Beelzebub can't wait for the anime next year.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on October 13, 2010, 12:50:16 PM


That's like a huge zit... right?

Man...imagine just, popping that. Like, whoa  :o


a shower of pus huh...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 13, 2010, 01:08:58 PM

Angel Densetsu was awesome. Too bad claymore takes so damn long to come out. Just caught up with Beelzebub can't wait for the anime next year.

Gantz. GAAAAAAAAAAAANTZZZZZZZ. FUCK YEAH. I WANT MORE GANTZ.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on October 14, 2010, 07:39:44 PM
The party is over!




That's like a huge zit... right?

Man...imagine just, popping that. Like, whoa  :o


a shower of pus huh...

Unfortunately, that happened when I sat down sometimes and it wasn't pretty. Having your underwear full of blood and all that, only for it grow again. Fortunately, it's gone, and now I have a 5cm width hole on my lower back that will take 2 months to close.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on October 14, 2010, 09:18:40 PM
sounds like an episode of 'House'
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 14, 2010, 09:22:11 PM

The party is over!




That's like a huge zit... right?

Man...imagine just, popping that. Like, whoa  :o
a shower of pus huh...

Unfortunately, that happened when I sat down sometimes and it wasn't pretty. Having your underwear full of blood and all that, only for it grow again. Fortunately, it's gone, and now I have a 5cm width hole on my lower back that will take 2 months to close.
At least the surgery went alright.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on October 14, 2010, 09:47:12 PM

sounds like an episode of 'House'

Fufufu~ I'll give you two more of my current list of diseases and you can start writing the episode: Graves' disease (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graves%27_disease) and Graves' ophtalmopathy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graves%27_ophthalmopathy) (which occurs to 20~30% of the people with Graves).
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Yossarian762 on October 15, 2010, 01:56:11 AM
I'll bet you have a case of lupus there too, surely.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on October 15, 2010, 11:38:14 AM
indeed, can't have an episode of House without the mention of lupus
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 15, 2010, 01:57:31 PM

indeed, can't have an episode of House without the mention of lupus

LUPUS!
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on October 15, 2010, 04:12:05 PM
even after all the times they mentioned lupus, still don't really have a clue what the hell it is exactly...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on October 15, 2010, 05:41:56 PM
(http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/2876/itwaslupus.jpg)
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on October 15, 2010, 06:43:38 PM
oh so there was an actual episode where lupus turned out to be the cause?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on October 15, 2010, 06:53:22 PM
Yeah, on the 4th season.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on October 15, 2010, 06:57:50 PM
lol, just throw out random diseases, eventually you'll get the right one :D
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on October 15, 2010, 07:39:58 PM
Off topic but I Can ep one topic has just surpassed Shuffle and become this forum's most viewed thread.

OH NOES!
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on October 15, 2010, 08:02:35 PM
everyone's getting lured by the pink hair 
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 15, 2010, 09:24:29 PM
Man. School Rumble is littered with gem-like chapters. I love it. Best comedy manga ever.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on October 15, 2010, 09:47:53 PM
full of weird/ stupid characters
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: NoSense on October 15, 2010, 09:49:07 PM
mhm... I didn't try the manga, but the anime... well, I stopped watching in the middle of the first episode...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 15, 2010, 10:44:44 PM
It's the highest caliber romance/comedy. And I loved all the characters. Yakumon~ Eri~
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: invictus on October 16, 2010, 06:55:17 AM
It was funny but at first I had trouble distinguishing the characters and it wasn't as memorable afterward.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on October 16, 2010, 07:18:37 AM
I read it, heck I even have 15 volumes of the manga sitting on my bookshelf but I don't remember anything except Harima being an idiot and slamming into Eri's limo.

"I've made the calculations to pass by behind the car so I don't have to stop!"
*Slams into the back of the limo*

Oh and then there is the doujins by Inanaki Shiki . Those are delicious.

Haven't bought manga in a year or so. I'm kinda over the withdraw period now and wondering why I spent money on some of the manga series I bought. I mean I still like most of them but there is a couple dozen volumes of a few series I'm just like why did I spend money on this...

Oh and the names of thoser doujins are...

Another Ending

Cafe tea ceremony club

itoko sensei to raburabu na natsuyasumi (絃子先生とラブラブなつやすみ。)

Secret lesson

Secret Sketch

All released under the Lover's Circle

Admitably they are the only Inanaki Shiki doujin's worth looking for.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on October 16, 2010, 07:28:06 AM
think i can only remember that the romances in it were getting nowhere
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 16, 2010, 02:45:56 PM
:0

I can't believe I'm the only person here that thinks it was great. Especially the ending.

Welp, too bad I guess.

***

I play piano. http://kmd.twbbs.org/ (http://kmd.twbbs.org/)

Tsukihime was released last month. Hooray.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: mahou on October 17, 2010, 08:55:12 AM
School Rumble's ending was kinda hm, but since it ended with the Eri x Harima coupling I suppose it was good enough. And considering how random a manga it is it's acceptable I suppose.

Been a while since I last touched the piano. Tsukihime been a while since I last heard the song. I've been wanting good sheets for Somnus Nemoris, but still nothing good enough around yet IMO. If I had the talent i'd write my own, unfortunately for me piano is just a self taught hobby I started a couple years ago on a whim.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 17, 2010, 10:25:07 AM
What's Somnus Nemoris from?

Also, the Kienai Omoi from that place leaves something to be desired. I think he's kind of making it easy on purpose. Blah.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on October 17, 2010, 12:23:18 PM
Who want's to be knighted the "Knight of bad endings" as their extra title under member rank?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: invictus on October 17, 2010, 12:28:23 PM
I tend to avoid bad ends like the plague unless there's a cute yandere involved... O.O
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on October 17, 2010, 01:00:57 PM
Well, Tea seems to like bad endings...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 17, 2010, 01:18:46 PM

Well, Tea seems to like bad endings...

I don't mind, I guess. Bad endings are nice.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: mahou on October 17, 2010, 02:38:03 PM

What's Somnus Nemoris from?

Also, the Kienai Omoi from that place leaves something to be desired. I think he's kind of making it easy on purpose. Blah.

If you haven't already googled: Somnus Nemoris - Final Fantasy Versus XIII Theme(no guns) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFepQZCmBFU#)

It's from Final Fantasy vs. XIII, which isn't out which explains the lack of better sheets.

Speaking of bad endings Chaos;Head's bad ending was worth playing just to see the delusion of having a harem hah.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 17, 2010, 03:16:14 PM
C;H just bumped up a few on my list to play. I still haven't gotten Route B for that. Blah.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Jaooooo~ on October 18, 2010, 02:23:12 AM
Off topic, but I just got back from seeing the EU premiere of Disappearence of Haruhi Suzumiya and it was ROE:2.0/Summer Wars/Girl Who Leapt Through Time standard.

So very very fucking good.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: NoSense on October 18, 2010, 03:07:30 AM
ROE? *not firm in abbreviations*
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Jaooooo~ on October 18, 2010, 04:38:48 AM
Rebuild.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 18, 2010, 06:15:50 AM
of Evangelion.

Ah, sweet. I want to watch it, but I'm not sure about the quality of the subs floating around. Maybe later.

Still the books should be better.

Kureha, sweety: thanks for the title.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on October 18, 2010, 05:06:59 PM
still waiting for a quality rip of haruhi movie, the cam-rip was barely watchable
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 18, 2010, 06:28:03 PM

still waiting for a quality rip of haruhi movie, the cam-rip was barely watchable

Yes, that's what I was talking about. Was it Mazui that did the cam-rip? Looked shitty, didn't bother.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on October 18, 2010, 06:33:33 PM
Waiting for both Haruhi and NANOHA
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on October 18, 2010, 06:33:44 PM
yep mazui subbed it, good job considering but shitty source is shiity
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Jaooooo~ on October 18, 2010, 08:25:43 PM

Waiting for both Haruhi and NANOHA

NANOHA

I hope they do a movie of A's, that's tied with Kanon for my very favourite anime.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on October 19, 2010, 10:32:20 AM
so much nanoha doujins around, but i've yet to watch any of the source material
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Jaooooo~ on October 19, 2010, 05:39:00 PM
It's Sailor Gundam with lesbians.

It's great.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on October 19, 2010, 05:59:53 PM
You can't forget about Fate as The Sword that Cleaves Evil and that both Vita and Subaru are parts of the GaoGaiGar, the Goldion Hammer and the Broken Magnum.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Jaooooo~ on October 19, 2010, 06:43:25 PM

the Broken Magnum.
PANZERGEIST
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 20, 2010, 02:11:53 PM
What's anyone's favourite touhou song? Piano arrangements especially.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on October 20, 2010, 03:04:13 PM
No idea, don't play touhou.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: NoSense on October 20, 2010, 04:04:28 PM

No idea, don't play touhou.

Me neither.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 20, 2010, 05:23:22 PM
Don't even listen to the stuff? It's actually pretty great.

Well if you like music I guess...

Try music. It'll add a whole nother dimension to your life. Like...from 2D to....2.5D? No...More like from 2D to 2D EXTREME. or something.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on October 20, 2010, 05:27:44 PM
I assure you I listen to more than enough music, over 30 gigs of it.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Jaooooo~ on October 20, 2010, 06:12:05 PM
East New Sound ~ Love Colored Master Spark ~ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHTEmFpwQhQ#)

This one.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: NoSense on October 20, 2010, 06:15:41 PM
Don't even listen to the stuff? It's actually pretty great.

Well if you like music I guess...

Try music. It'll add a whole nother dimension to your life. Like...from 2D to....2.5D? No...More like from 2D to 2D EXTREME. or something.

Music what's that? Never heard of it before. Can you eat it?
Up to now I only know a bunch of sounds combined, which come out of my speakers... wait, that's what people call music, isn't it?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on October 20, 2010, 06:55:27 PM

...wait, that's what people call music, isn't it?

well depending on the sound/person it could also be called "noise" ;D
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: NoSense on October 20, 2010, 11:27:23 PM
well depending on the sound/person it could also be called "noise" ;D
And what would that be?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zD_xoG3jR0k&feature=channel
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 21, 2010, 06:54:27 AM
T_______T Don't make fun of meeeeeeee~

I know a lot of people who don't listen to music. Funnily enough they're all people who play VNs.

Then, what does anyone listen to? Trance, anime, jpop, metal, rock?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: NoSense on October 21, 2010, 07:09:26 AM
T_______T Don't make fun of meeeeeeee~

I know a lot of people who don't listen to music. Funnily enough they're all people who play VNs.

Then, what does anyone listen to? Trance, anime, jpop, metal, rock?

I would never make fun of you... at least not, when I'm not in the mood... which is rather rare...
I know a lot of people, who listen to music but have never heard of VNs or something similiar, so maybe that makes it even... well, that kind is probably far mor common than the kind you know...
Back to topic - which does not exist - I listen to... whatever.
If it's nothing too extrem like Death Metal oder something like that or not boring like the xth HipHop or Pop-Song which all sound kind of identical I listen to nearly everything.
So all the ones you mention above and a whole lot more...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on October 21, 2010, 07:43:01 AM
Uh... all my music has to do with anime. A few VN songs here and here. My 30gigs of music would almost double if I were to include my collection of vocaloid songs into my playlist.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Jaooooo~ on October 21, 2010, 08:49:05 AM
I listen to metal, folk and j-pop.

Also KEY and Gundam OSTs.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 21, 2010, 08:51:36 AM

Uh... all my music has to do with anime. A few VN songs here and here. My 30gigs of music would almost double if I were to include my collection of vocaloid songs into my playlist.

I like Code Geass Soundtrack. Mosaic Kakeru <3
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Yossarian762 on October 21, 2010, 09:00:35 AM
Metal, rock, some post-punk from the original crop, and a smattering of punk and vidja game music. And sometimes random stuff like the Pogues and O Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 21, 2010, 10:34:56 AM
I feel overtly normal.

or well mainstream. Then again...

I like Jazz too.

***

Kureha: What's that picture thread over on "O" for? I like it.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 24, 2010, 11:13:40 AM
So what's killing the conversation?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: NoSense on October 24, 2010, 03:59:36 PM
Don't know...
Maybe nobody likes you anymore?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 24, 2010, 09:32:52 PM

Don't know...
Maybe nobody likes you anymore?

I never really set myself up to be liked in the first place. I just liked talking.

Still, I guess everyone's preparing for end of year stuff maybe.

Or maybe not. I'm prepping for exams, so I'm outta topics, unless someone feels like talking about mechanisms of organic chemicals.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on October 25, 2010, 05:29:15 AM
Same here kinda, uni work totaly overwhelming me slowly.

25h weeks + homeworks are just nasty ~~
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: NoSense on October 25, 2010, 06:08:55 AM
bah, chemistry... can only understand the basic principles of chemistry... organic chemistry is totally out of my league... *remembering the citric acid cycle with horror*

And time management on my side... utter boredom...
Ok, I should choose a bachelor thesis and write about that then, but my self-motivation completely sucks... I think, a sack of potatoes has more motivation than I do. ... if I only hat the motivation to work on my motivation ... :-\
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 25, 2010, 07:41:47 AM
Yeah. I failed organic chemistry twice already. If I fail again, that's me kicked out of uni.

I'm not good with sugars, amino acids, proteins, calculating the isoelectric point, remembering mechanism and remembering reactions.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on October 25, 2010, 07:45:46 AM
I don't think I even had any chemistry classes, ever. I finished college a while ago too.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 25, 2010, 07:53:06 AM

I don't think I even had any chemistry classes, ever. I finished college a while ago too.

What did you do?

I knew I should have chosen a different course. Computers would have been nice.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on October 25, 2010, 08:20:21 AM
I have a 4 yr BBA with full honors and an English Minor. It's useless though as I ended up being a NEET anyway lol.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Jaooooo~ on October 25, 2010, 10:02:15 AM
I finished Arca's route on Tsukihime tonight.

I can't waaaiiiit to have Ciel's over with so I can get on to Akiha and Hisui's.

Also, frankly, I found the foreshadowing pretty sloppy.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 25, 2010, 10:03:03 AM

I have a 4 yr BBA with full honors and an English Minor. It's useless though as I ended up being a NEET anyway lol.

BBA?

Ohhh English. I wish I did English. Probably easier given I gave up on science 1st semester in.

Jao~ What forshadowing?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Jaooooo~ on October 25, 2010, 10:22:50 AM
SHIKI Shiki SHIKI Akiha SHIKI SHIKI Shiki Akiha etc etc

Although I did think that reveal came in the Far Side routes. I thought the Nanaya reveal came before the SHIKI reveal lol.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on October 25, 2010, 10:27:44 AM
Bachelor in Business Administration = BBA
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 25, 2010, 03:08:17 PM

Bachelor in Business Administration = BBA

lol what arrrre you going to do with that? Don't you need like work experience to be able to get a job that even uses that? And then the cycle kicks in.

-

Jao~ isn't that just mirrormoon's translation. I mean it has to be hard to keep everything as the author intended when you're not doing it in the original language.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on October 25, 2010, 04:12:47 PM
Yeah... I got a degree that can't be used in the beginning. But I don't have the experience to jump up the ladder to where my degree is useful.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Jaooooo~ on October 25, 2010, 05:57:28 PM

Jao~ isn't that just mirrormoon's translation. I mean it has to be hard to keep everything as the author intended when you're not doing it in the original language.
I asked on /jp/ and they said that in the original Shiki and SHIKI are spelt with different Kanji. That's less silly (And kudos to MirrorMoon for finding any way to translate that accurately) but it's still just as obvious if not more.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 25, 2010, 06:06:57 PM


Jao~ isn't that just mirrormoon's translation. I mean it has to be hard to keep everything as the author intended when you're not doing it in the original language.
I asked on /jp/ and they said that in the original Shiki and SHIKI are spelt with different Kanji. That's less silly (And kudos to MirrorMoon for finding any way to translate that accurately) but it's still just as obvious if not more.

I claim cultural differences.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on October 25, 2010, 08:58:55 PM
Because you wouldn't notice the difference when reading the kanji, right?

Kureha, that reminds me of the problems that a friend of mine had to get a job. He got a Bachelor on Computer Networks Administration, but every employer asked for 3 years or more of experience.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on October 26, 2010, 09:03:17 AM
vicious cycle, can't get a job without experience, can't get experience without a job
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 26, 2010, 09:34:17 AM

vicious cycle, can't get a job without experience, can't get experience without a job

Usually the answer is to start early, do a variety of part-time jobs and get good references from them. I've had 3 part time jobs so far, going for a fourth. Hopefully that'll look good on my resume. Then again you don't want too many or people might think you get bored easily.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on October 26, 2010, 09:47:55 AM
or you cant keep a job properly
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 26, 2010, 11:42:06 AM

or you cant keep a job properly

Yes, exactly.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on October 26, 2010, 12:27:50 PM
pretty much a lose-lose situation
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 26, 2010, 05:43:14 PM
This is depressing. As if we're not almost all NEET/jobless/hikki.

That's the way this hobby works.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on October 26, 2010, 06:23:59 PM
now just gotta wait till the paranoia kicks in then....
[spoiler]welcome to nhk[/spoiler]
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: NoSense on October 26, 2010, 06:52:40 PM
Paranoia and Conspiracy Theories FTW!
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 26, 2010, 07:19:40 PM
Desshoune.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on October 26, 2010, 08:10:39 PM
In his case, he didn't have the options "to start early" or "to get part-time jobs". He would have to do a internship, a.k.a. working for free, if he wanted to get the needed job experience. Psychology and other areas suffer from the same problem.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Jaooooo~ on October 26, 2010, 08:25:46 PM
Luckily I should get on a research placement this summer between my final two years.

That will look very very good on my CV.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on October 26, 2010, 08:37:52 PM
working for free sucks
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: NoSense on October 27, 2010, 06:05:59 AM
Just finished reading some other forum...
And I must say, despite Mana making it a hobby to torture people, this forum here is rather friendly...
Out there is a war... a war fought by intolerance with flaming as its weapon...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Jaooooo~ on October 27, 2010, 06:18:33 AM
I find the worst forums tend to be the ones who have stricter rules to want to maintain a 'child friendly' image. Like Lego, Transformers etc. forums.

Because the mods of those forums are often hypocrites. I saw a thread on a bionicle forum where a guy was banned and the reason the moderator gave was 'THIS USER HAS BEEN BANNED FOR INSULTING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.'
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on October 27, 2010, 06:57:22 AM
Well, main stream forums usually suck because the "normal fags" flood it, most of them are rather, retarded. We don't have any epeen contests and circlejerking here.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on October 27, 2010, 08:16:28 AM

despite Mana making it a hobby to torture people

You should know that I bark more than I bite, and even I have moments when I question myself if I wasn't too harsh or if I said too much, but, at the same time, it's at those same moments that I'll adamantly refuse to admit it. lol
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on October 27, 2010, 08:44:19 AM
right right, its all about keeping the image intact huh ;D
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on October 27, 2010, 08:59:47 AM
I'm too stubborn to admit that I'm wrong. There was a funny case where I gave up only after a hour long discussion with a friend. It gets worse when people insist with me to say something that they want me to say, which usually leads me to say the opposite, even if I don't mean it.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on October 27, 2010, 09:03:54 AM
wait, saying the opposite of what you mean, hmmm is that a glimpse of tsundereness i see... :D
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 27, 2010, 09:43:35 AM

working for free sucks

It's not too bad in the long run.

Mana-yan is absolutely tsundere. lol

And yesh. Well, AerisLives used to be nice. Meh
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Shmookle on October 27, 2010, 10:53:56 AM


working for free sucks

It's not too bad in the long run.

Mana-yan is absolutely tsundere. lol

And yesh. Well, AerisLives used to be nice. Meh

Depends on the internship and what your pursuing. Working for free or the bare minimum won't always help if your after a job that is completely unrelated to the internship. Some employers may even question your choice if your after something too different from what your experienced in.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on October 27, 2010, 12:33:10 PM
thats true
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on October 27, 2010, 05:29:45 PM
It's obvious that the job experience on a certain area will only help you getting a job on that same area. If it's not what you want, what the hell have you been doing?


wait, saying the opposite of what you mean, hmmm is that a glimpse of tsundereness i see... :D

I only learned what was a tsundere many years after I already had such traits. lol
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 28, 2010, 01:02:59 PM
So I'm thinking of getting a desktop for all my photoshopping needs. Ideally I would also like to run games as well, but that takes secondary priority I guess, and also I wouldn't really be playing the latest hardcore crap or anything anyway.

Now, I would need to run photoshop smoothly, that would be the main thing, but I also would like ot run manga studio, possibly at the same time. There's also web browser, chat, music (all of which should be fine anyway).

CPU: AMD AM3 Athlon II X4 640
Mobo: Asus M4A78LT-M LE
RAM: Kingston 4GB DDR3-1333
HDD1: Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB
HDD2: Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB
GPU: (On-board ATI Radeon HD 3000)
Case&PSU: Thermaltake V3 Black Edition w/ 450W TT Litepower PSU
ODD: Sony DVD burner

CPU: AMD AM3 Phenom II X6 1055T
Mobo: Asus M4A87TD-USB3
RAM: G.Skill-Ripjaws 4GB DDR3-1600
HDD1: Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB
HDD2: Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB
GPU: 1GB Nvidia GeForce GT240
Case: Antec 300
PSU: Antec Neo Eco 520C (BYO power cord)
ODD: Sony DVD burner
CPU HSF: Coolermaster Universal Hyper 212+

CPU: Intel Core i7 950
Mobo: Gigabyte X58A-UD3R
RAM: G.Skill-NQ 6GB DDR3-1600
SSD: G.Skill Phoenix Pro 120GB SSD
HDD1: Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB
HDD2: Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB
GPU: 1GB Nvidia GeForce GT240
Case: Antec P183 (relocate top-exhaust fan to middle-intake position)
PSU: Antec Truepower New 550W
ODD: Sony DVD burner
CPU HSF: Noctua NH-D14

Price ranges from lowest to highest here. I'm probably looking for the cheapest, so the top one. But if substituting any of the parts would also work I'd like suggestions. I'm clueless to hardware. But the place also said stuff like "A majorly overclocked X6 1055T" would be good for just about anything. I'm not so sure about overclocking but whatever works, and will work for at least say 2 years steadily would be fine. I haven't posted prices up, since they're different everywhere, but I can do that work later. Anyway, teach me guys. =D

Oh yeah, what do the acronyms stand for?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on October 28, 2010, 03:41:38 PM
wonder whos the resident techie here?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on October 28, 2010, 04:02:47 PM
The i7s are overestimated. In practical tests (not 3DMarks and other tests like that), their performance doesn't make much of a difference in comparison with the Athlon II X6, which doesn't justify the price difference between them. If you go into overclocking, CPUs are easier to OC than a few years ago and the Athlon II X6 can easily get and surpass an i7 that way. Of course, the i7 can also be overclocked, but once again, it doesn't justify the price difference.

Even though you don't give priority to gaming, it would be better to have a graphics card. No matter how bad it is. The onboard graphics will eat away your needed RAM (for PS, Manga Studio and the rest) and make it slower.

Talking about RAM, you'll probably make more use of 6GB of DDR3@1333, than 4GB of DDR3@1600. The differences in performance between them aren't significant, but if you want to use a x64 OS, and want it to last, it's better to go for 6GB. If you can get DDR3@1600 at the same price as DDR3@1333, even better.

The SDD would help you in access times and loadings, but what am I reading? Samsung HDDs? Did they become reliable out of nowhere or you're just going after their price?

And what acronyms are you talking about?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 28, 2010, 08:50:07 PM

The i7s are overestimated. In practical tests (not 3DMarks and other tests like that), their performance doesn't make much of a difference in comparison with the Athlon II X6, which doesn't justify the price difference between them. If you go into overclocking, CPUs are easier to OC than a few years ago and the Athlon II X6 can easily get and surpass an i7 that way. Of course, the i7 can also be overclocked, but once again, it doesn't justify the price difference.

Even though you don't give priority to gaming, it would be better to have a graphics card. No matter how bad it is. The onboard graphics will eat away your needed RAM (for PS, Manga Studio and the rest) and make it slower.

Talking about RAM, you'll probably make more use of 6GB of DDR3@1333, than 4GB of DDR3@1600. The differences in performance between them aren't significant, but if you want to use a x64 OS, and want it to last, it's better to go for 6GB. If you can get DDR3@1600 at the same price as DDR3@1333, even better.

The SDD would help you in access times and loadings, but what am I reading? Samsung HDDs? Did they become reliable out of nowhere or you're just going after their price?

And what acronyms are you talking about?

Oh yeah, why am I even looking at an onboard graphics card. Hmm, I'm not too sure what's involved in overclocking so I don't want to experiment if I can help it. RAM sounds like solid advice, but I can't understand it Mana-yan.

Oh and lol, I complained about the samsung HDD's, but they're to bring down the price. per TB they're really cheap, but I'd probably end up going WD unless
someone thinks Seagates are good and can convince me. The scratching kills me since my laptop one got changed from WD to SG.

What's SDD? Mobo? PSU? I won't be using the disc drive all that much, since .iso's are so prevalent these days, so would the cheapest one be fine too? Hmmm, I don't know anything about motherboards either. And yeah I heard the i7 is way overpriced, but what about an i5 or something? Would the phenom or X6 be better? OS I'd be running would probably be Sebun 64x.

Currently I'm running XP if I haven't told already, a laptop wiiiiith...uhh

Intel Core 2 Duo T7250 @ 2GHz
Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT
Oh hey I am running WD. Well shit.
WDC WD2500BJKT-75F4T0 (what does all that mean? I think it's about 320G iirc
3GB of RAM

about 3 years old. I might get a laptop as a present as well, so I'll probably use that for more private shit like H-games and anime. I have a BenQ HD monitor I'm currently using so I won't need that. I'm also considering a sound card, and also I'd like for it to be a fairly portable chassis. Hmmm I can't think of anything else that might be relevant, but I'll end up looking up a lot of the stuff if you guys don't know, don't worry or anything.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on October 28, 2010, 09:21:00 PM
sdd , you mean SSD? Solid State Drive

mobo - MOtherBOard

psu - Power Supply Unit

Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on October 28, 2010, 09:32:11 PM
SSD = Solid State Drive
Mobo = Motherboard
PSU = Power Supply Unit
HSF = Heat Sink and Fan
ODD = Optical Disk Drive

If you've doubts about any other ones, just ask.

Regarding not making much use of DDR3@1600 instead of DDR3@1333, it's that there isn't much of a difference between them in terms of performance. Even for gaming, it's only a matter of 3~5fps, in the best cases, but you will need more RAM to make full use of a x64 OS, which is recommended for any new CPU, and the recommended are 6GB. 4GB is the bare minimum, and you want it to last (I know that it works with 2/3GB, but that's too low). x86 OS like XP will limit the performance of your CPU. If you can also find RAM with lower timings at cheaper prices, they can make a big difference.

As for HDDs, I would never recommend Samsung to anyone (but I read good things about their SSDs). Seagate are good, but the best are WD and Hitachi.

CPU: i5 or Phenom II? I would take the Phenom II any day. In practical tests with multithreaded applications (what you're going to use, especially, when you're using all of that stuff at the same time), the larger number of cores on the Phenom II place it above any other offer by Intel that aren't the best (and at 3~4 times it's price) i7s.

From Anandtech:
"Today's conclusion is no different than what we've been saying about AMD's CPU lineup for several months now. If you're running applications that are well threaded and you're looking to improve performance in them, AMD generally offers you better performance for the same money as Intel. It all boils down to AMD selling you more cores than Intel at the same price point.

Applications like video encoding and offline 3D rendering show the real strengths of the Phenom II X6. And thanks to Turbo Core, you don't give up any performance in less threaded applications compared to a Phenom II X4. The 1090T can easily trump the Core i7 860 and the 1055T can do even better against the Core i5 750.

You start running into problems when you look at lightly threaded applications or mixed workloads that aren't always stressing all six cores. In these situations Intel's quad-core Lynnfield processors (Core i5 700 series and Core i7 800 series) are better buys. They give you better performance in these light or mixed workload scenarios, not to mention lower overall power consumption."

Photoshop isn't a single threaded software, and like you stated, you're going to run several programs at the same time, so even when one of them doesn't make full use of the six cores, the rest will do. Single threaded software is turning even more into a thing of the past, so you'll always be better with 6 cores.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on October 28, 2010, 09:39:22 PM
I'ld say all 3 would be overpowered for just doing the things you listed, but if I were to choose from the 3 I would definantly go with the i7 the SSE4 extended instruction support and the triple channel 1600 ram will be good for more than a few years. The x6 is just an overglorified Phenom x4 with higher clocks and 2 more of the same cores, it'll be on average slower than an 4 core icore series clocked 400mhz lower than it. As for the GPU you MUST get an Nvidia. Adobe and Celsys have been putting research and support into CUDA. The SSD is a solid state disk, it's useful in that it has no seek time and accelerates system starts and program loading, other than that it doens't have that much of a use to you as you should put the scratch disk on a SSD, it will drastically lower it's lifespan.

As for the o/s, run windows 7 x64 there is no point in running 32bit o/s on any modern hardware even if you don't have 4gb ram.

WDC WD 2500 is a 250gb series drive. 3gb ram is an old ram number for a laptop. as for the 2ghz T7250, it's still a pretty decent cpu even now.

For the sound card, you won't be gaining from it unless you're listening to lossless on more than average speakers. The onboard ALC888/889 series sound chips on the Gigabyte boards have come a long way.

For the case, I'ld suggest you steer away from the heavy steel and plastic Antec and go for nice brushed aluminium Lian Li, it's going to run cooler and the case will be much lighter. Quality does come at a higher price though.

I should point out that the current AMDs do not natively support DDR3 higher than 1333 which means you will have to overclock to make use of 1600 ram while the i7 will run them fine.

For the graphix card I'ld suggest skipping the GT240 and shoot for at least a GT430/450.

SSD = Solid State Disk/Drive which means it uses memory chips for storage instead of round spinning platters, this means they have godly fast seek times.

Mobo = Motherboard

PSU = Power Supply Unit.

As for the DVD-RW, get the cheapest, they are all 22x/24x these days and honestly, unless you're burning discs everyday you won't notice a difference.

Even a 2 year old Core 2 Quad still gives a Phenom II a run for it's money.

Turbo Core is a joke compared to Intel's implenmation, cores are never shut off and voltage increases to ALL cores and 400~500mhz is barely any gain when the Phenom II archtecture wastes som many of it's cycles.

For Harddrives, I'ld recommend a WD Black Sata III for mass performance, If you must go Samsung, At least get a F3 and not the old F1s. If you're just running idle storage drives, a WD Green would be able to handle that fine.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on October 28, 2010, 10:08:15 PM
The only fault in those AMDs would be that they love to milk PSUs even when idle, in comparison to what Intel has to offer, but to go back to a Core 2 Quad? The only one that has a better performance than the Phenom II is the Extreme, and even then it's on applications that require more clock than multitasking.

Regarding the RAM, that Asus M4A87TD/USB3, already supports DDR3@1600 without OC, it only needs OC for 2000MHz RAM.

There isn't any need for sound cards, because if you have some proper speakers, then they will have S/PDIF and/or HDMI connections and boards like the Asus M4A87TD/USB3 are already prepared for those. The board's HDMI only outputs 2.0 LPCM (Lossless PCM), but you can always buy an Ati 5xxx that already has 5.1 LPCM support through HDMI.

Also, AMD's support for USB 3.0 could be better implemented. From what I've read, most of their motherboards will need some firmware updates to make it properly work.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on October 28, 2010, 10:14:22 PM
I never said C2Qs beat phenom IIs, but they run close enough for me to keep me from "upgrading" to anything in it's lineup. Or anything in Inte's current lineup either for that matter. Still waiting for 28~22nm hex/octa cores. The motherboard supporting the ram is not the same as the native ram controller built on to the CPU itself. I would only recommend AMD if one already has a AM2 or compatible motherboard, since Tea is starting out fresh, shooting for the i7 950 he listed himself would be logical, with the larger faster ram and SSD, though the choice of GPU is a bit, appalling.

Ramping up the voltage on ALL CORES would mean you'ld hit the TDP on AMD cpus much faster than the comparable intel. Intel shuts down the cores that you aren't using less cores running = cooler cpu. With AMD's TURBO you'ld be wasting power and generating more heat by ramping up the voltage on unused cores, it's either all or nothing on the AMD.

This chart is a bit older but it fully shows what I meant by giving it a run for it's money.
(http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/amdphenomii_010709132536/17972.png)

You're forgetting headphones mana, it's hard to connect S/PDIF or HDMI to headphones. I should also point out that going for ATI would forfeit your CUDA acceleration in Adobe CS and Nvidia's edge in multimedia.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on October 28, 2010, 10:26:50 PM
Forgot about CUDA (which was a good crutch for my CPU when the GPU worked), and the headphones, even though I can connect mine to the A/V receiver. Regarding 3dsmax, I usually use comparisons of in-game performance to see if those numbers are actually worth anything and then we get stuff like this:

(http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/amdphenomiix6_042610231918/22636.png)

Where I have to pay several hundreds of euros more for differences from 1.6 to 7.4 more fps, on average. With that difference, I could invest on a better graphics card or on a SSD.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on October 28, 2010, 10:36:37 PM
According to the chart the 920 @ 2.66 has the same fps as the x6 1090T which is priced at 260.99USD on newegg.
The 950 @ 3.06 would be much faster at 294.99USD.

Regarding Tea's original 3 choices, I'ld say that the 34bux difference in the cpus is justifiable for the better SSE4 extended, intel turbo boost and other features.

Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on October 28, 2010, 11:02:44 PM
Now that you talk about it, I just checked my usual Portuguese store, and the prices really dropped since I helped a friend with his PC during the summer. The 920 is actually cheaper than the 1090T, 240€ against 258€. The 950 is 267€. And the motherboards are getting below the 175€ range... In that case, the i7 is the best choice.

EDIT: Regarding the Gigabyte X58A-UD3R, OCC loved it (http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/gigabyte_ga_x58a_ud3r/22.htm) and didn't find any faults with it. Given the number of PCI-e slots, you can easily upgrade it with a X-Fi Titanium or a X-Fi Bravura.

EDIT2: That Antec Truepower New 550W is also a good choice from what I just read.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 29, 2010, 01:25:09 AM
Oh FUCKING HELL I SHOULD KNOW BETTER BY NOW.

Reply died.

First off what's SSE4 and CUDA?

If, say, my budget was $1000 USD, what would I go for?

What kind of cooling? Air cooling should be fine right?

What's the GPU used for? I'm happy if I can HDMI out right now. My laptop doesn't support that.

Sound card will be nice if I have extra money then. I'll put it at the back of the list.

What kind of motherboards are there? I'd need to slot in a wireless network card too.

RAM speed? What kind of RAM is etc etc

I don't think SSD's are cheap enough for my budget.

I think, as Kureha has said, I might be going overboard. I ask my cousin too, (but she's a software junkie, and an iFag so..."just get macbook pro") and she said I probably wouldn't be needing an i7.

ughhhhhhh tired. sleep. study for exams later. Thanks guys.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on October 29, 2010, 02:19:08 AM
If you want it to last 2 years, I would hardly call it "going overboard".

GPU = Graphics Processing Unit, a.k.a., the graphics card (part of it).

CUDA = Compute Unified Device Architecture. It's exclusive to NVIDIA graphics cards, and some software, like Photoshop CS (as Kureha pointed out), make use of it to support the CPU with the unused processing power of the GPU. Basically, if your graphics card isn't doing anything, it will help the CPU. Only some software makes use of it, but it helps with what you want to do. The GTX4xx series also outputs audio through HDMI.

With a budget of $1000, you can forget about the SSD, and I can hardly help you with the prices. You'll also have to sacrifice the second HDD, and the sound card.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on October 29, 2010, 06:39:37 AM
1K is perfectly fine and you'll be able to get most of what we mentioned earlier besides the SSD and sound card.

Here's a random i7 build I slapped together in less than 5 mins.

(http://b.imagehost.org/0787/1k.png) (http://b.imagehost.org/view/0787/1k)
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 29, 2010, 09:53:43 AM
Sounds nice. Thanks Kureha.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 30, 2010, 11:54:28 PM
Oh no the picture's gone :0

***

Well, what do you guys do about those pesky HF or DF or FileSonic downloads that guys are using these days? I seriously despise it when they don't at least have MU or RS or MF. It just takes so long otherwise.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on October 31, 2010, 12:21:36 AM
I look for a better sauce. If there isn't one, I wait like everyone else.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on October 31, 2010, 12:27:00 AM
I usually use torrents. I hate all DDLs.

reuploaded the picture to another host site.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 31, 2010, 12:39:18 AM
Thanks Kureha. Apparently Desudesu had this problem with the caviar green. Funny coincidence:

never buy WD Caviar Green and use it as your desktop's boot HDD. I'm using one and boy, am I regretting my decision right now. I get this annoying random hangup when I save images on firefox, and it's even worse when I use dta to download a batch of files (it can't handle multiple simultaneous file writes well or something, idk). Can't wait to have the desktop reformatted and boot HDD replaced tomorrow :<

Anyway. It's just ryuutama's blog only gives DF or FS to leechers. Not that I have any right to complain I guess, but I don't like how easy downloads are for donors only. meh
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on October 31, 2010, 12:42:21 AM
Hmmn, I've deployed a few Caviar Greens as boot drives with no problems. Namely the 800/808gb version and the 1TB version. You just need to tweak the power settings so they don't throttle down as agressively. For the newegg cart I chose a Caviar Black SATAIII so you will have no problems at all.

Ryuutama hasn't been very active recently so I haven't really noticed.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 31, 2010, 12:46:08 AM
Mmm yeah, I should be fine then. Can't wait till I finally gather the parts.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on October 31, 2010, 06:42:37 AM
hate all the DDL sites that use "capcha" so annoying, cant read the text half the time
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Jaooooo~ on October 31, 2010, 10:20:14 AM
Hate megaupload because it hates me and won't let me download shit half the time.

The cycle of hate continues.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 31, 2010, 11:46:57 AM
So anyone know what the problem would be if a computer turns off and on in a cycle all the time?

Apparently the GPU turns off and on rapidly or something.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on October 31, 2010, 02:30:04 PM
The only bad things I can think of would start with the PSU, and then your harddrives, and then the fans.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 31, 2010, 03:09:14 PM
I also suggested the PSU but he said that wasn't it.

Oh new update. Apparently a stick of RAM was burnt out. Dunno how that affects anything.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on October 31, 2010, 04:17:47 PM
Oh, you meant the computer is turning on and off? I thought you were asking what would be damaged.

Reseat the CPU, remember to reapply thermal paste. Clear the BIOS via the jumper. While you're at it reseat ram/gpu and clean off the dust. If the heatsink on the chipset is loose, reapply thermal paste for that too.

It's going to be likely that the Motherboard needs to be RMAed
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 31, 2010, 05:04:09 PM
Oh well, that he removed a burnt out stick of RAM and apparently it started working again. I'll suggest those things to him anyway. But what's RMAed?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on October 31, 2010, 07:52:36 PM
A Return Merchandise Authorization (RMA) is a transaction whereby the recipient of a product arranges to return goods to the supplier to have the product repaired or replaced or in order to receive a refund or credit for another product from the same retailer or corporation within the product's warranty period.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on November 01, 2010, 09:32:25 AM
Oh. I should know that. Blah I feel so stupid lately.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on November 02, 2010, 03:39:57 PM
So what's an above average speaker system that's 'required' for a sound card? It doesn't need to be 5.1 or anything does it? I'll be happy to be able to listen to nice .flac music.

***

Wish people'd post more. Tell me how your day went or something guys. I'm always checking, but no one every posts in here without a topic starter.

Vote: Should the thread name be changed?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: NoSense on November 02, 2010, 04:03:42 PM
Feeling hot an sluggish... maybe slight fever, dunno...
Coughing my lungs, or at least parts of it, out, accompanied by a headache while coughing...
So far to "how my day went", although I'm awake for merely half an hour or so up to now.

As to speakers... I don't know, have the same speakers for about 10 years or so and still not wanting to change, so can't help you there.

And what do you want this thread to be called then?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on November 02, 2010, 04:07:41 PM
teas' random trolling thread? :D
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on November 02, 2010, 04:34:44 PM
Speakers? More than you'ld want to pay for, you will not notice the difference with computer speakers of any price, you'ld need to setup bookshelf speakers or some thing like that with a receiver and all that other stuff.

Personally, I just run a regular 5.1 setup from the onboard. I'm no audiophile.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: kyomarou on November 02, 2010, 05:10:25 PM
tech speak intimidates me -_-

hi tea, enjoy this vid i guess?

"You're A Vampire" by One-Eyed Doll OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekcsi21Coss#ws)
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: NoSense on November 02, 2010, 09:09:54 PM
man, how I hate YouTube... F*cking censors about 50% or more of the music videos here (at least of the ones someone sends me to listen to)
They seem to have fun with "This video is not available in your country". <.<

Well, back from university to handle some stupid burocratic stuff, now back to bed, trying to rid myself of this stupid cold...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on November 03, 2010, 12:57:18 AM
Exam in about 10 hours. Yay.

I don't youtube. Eats up too much of my 12g monthly quota which could be utilized for manga. Or games. =D

As for the trolling thread: no one really trolls here though =(. Makes me (:
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on November 03, 2010, 04:15:29 AM

I don't youtube. Eats up too much of my 12g monthly quota which could be utilized for manga. Or games. =D

There are still non flatrate i-net contracts around ? wow o_O
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on November 03, 2010, 05:21:48 AM
Believe it or not, alot of the western world is still limited by the amount they can download/upload in a month.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: NoSense on November 03, 2010, 06:30:50 AM
Ignorance of the "elite" maybe?
Well, no offense, 'cause I myself also have a flatrate...
Hard to imagine what it would be without it though :-/
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on November 03, 2010, 07:52:05 AM


I don't youtube. Eats up too much of my 12g monthly quota which could be utilized for manga. Or games. =D

There are still non flatrate i-net contracts around ? wow o_O

Yup. What can I say, I live on a rock.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on November 03, 2010, 02:47:14 PM



I don't youtube. Eats up too much of my 12g monthly quota which could be utilized for manga. Or games. =D

There are still non flatrate i-net contracts around ? wow o_O

Yup. What can I say, I live on a rock.

using old school tech
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Jaooooo~ on November 03, 2010, 05:00:19 PM
My rock is probably smaller than yours.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on November 03, 2010, 05:14:13 PM

My rock is probably smaller than yours.

*Smacks Jao with his rock*

Say that again bitch. =P
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on November 03, 2010, 05:51:43 PM
I live in a pretty small place too.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: NoSense on November 03, 2010, 05:54:18 PM
I just recently ran out of pity, but here *hands out a handful of pebbles*
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Shmookle on November 03, 2010, 10:01:28 PM

I just recently ran out of pity, but here *hands out a handful of pebbles*

Brings new meaning to the phase "getting stoned"...

ok... really bad joke there...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on November 04, 2010, 04:47:20 AM


I just recently ran out of pity, but here *hands out a handful of pebbles*

Brings new meaning to the phase "getting stoned"...

ok... really bad joke there...

This thread is full of them. It's named after me after all.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: NoSense on November 04, 2010, 05:42:55 AM
This thread is full of them. It's named after me after all.

So you're not only the knight of bad endings but also the king of bad jokes?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on November 04, 2010, 07:30:43 AM
I think they just follow me around?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on November 04, 2010, 11:12:33 AM
a whole entourage of... crap? :D
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on November 05, 2010, 02:21:29 AM
How where my last days (as if anyone cares)? Watching my PC with it's guts all over the place while I wait for the motherboard to come back from RMA (which will take a month or two, given the time that they took the last time that I needed to do it). Stealing my 11 year old brother's PC for lurking the internets and posting. Going to the doctor to replace the bandages. Taking blood samples, doing ultrasound scans, ECGs and all that. And messing around with my PS2 and DS's backlogs. That while I watch the Portuguese economy collapse and the unemployment rates rising on the news.



I don't youtube. Eats up too much of my 12g monthly quota which could be utilized for manga. Or games. =D

There are still non flatrate i-net contracts around ? wow o_O

In Portugal, even the flatrate internet services have hidden limits that are decided by the ISPs themselves, and you can receive a fine (also decided by them) and get your bandwidth limited to something like dial-up, even if you have a contract for 100Mb/10Mb. Those same limits aren't set in stone. It can be from 50GB to more than 500GB.


So what's an above average speaker system that's 'required' for a sound card? It doesn't need to be 5.1 or anything does it? I'll be happy to be able to listen to nice .flac music.

Are you willing to spend hundreds to thousands of dollars? Then just get some nice PC speakers.

A friend of mine has some Logitech X-530 connected to his onboard sound card and they can make the house shake while maintaining a good sound quality. My  sound system cost me 350€, and it's on the lowest tier of audio receivers and speaker sets, but at the same time, I have a great quality sound for it's price, that beats any computer sound system that I've heard before, and I'm happy with it. Of course that there is always a loss in sound fidelity, but that's what separates mere mortals from audiophiles. And then, there are guys like another friend of mine who has a pair of speakers that cost more than 10000€ and a stereo audio receiver that cost him more than 2000€. I can't remember the brands, but it was all made by hand in Italy. Everything in solid wood, polished and all that.

tl;dr: It can always be better than what you have, it just depends on what you are willing to pay for it.


I also suggested the PSU but he said that wasn't it.

Oh new update. Apparently a stick of RAM was burnt out. Dunno how that affects anything.

I had that happening to me, in 2004. After sending everything from motherboard and RAM to RMA, replacing the PSU and, even, connecting just the basics again, I found out that it was the computer case. I RAGE'd so hard that I kicked it for a few minutes... Only after removing everything that was inside it.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on November 05, 2010, 10:24:30 AM
people are willing to spend so much for pc speakers, i only got a cheap set of headphones to use
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on November 05, 2010, 10:54:31 AM
Don't get started on headphones, once you start going up, there's no way to come down again. The quality just shits you.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on November 05, 2010, 11:01:52 AM
well the only upgrade i did was from earphones to headphones :D
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on November 05, 2010, 11:34:59 AM
I have canalphones, headphones, and a cheap 5.1 setup. I wear headphones outdoors, can't stand how it starts getting heatedup when I use it for long hours. I use the canalphones when I go to places where I can't wear headphones.

I prefer using speakers when I'm at home because it's less strain on my ears/head, and when I feel like it, I can jam the volume up and feel the subwoofer pushing air when I'm in the mood.

I love Audio Technica stuff.

(http://pf.images22.51img1.com/6000/kenyu800921/ffe948bb5f0993c3a4dd31f8b66eb05c.jpg)
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on November 05, 2010, 02:02:14 PM
yep using earphones/headphones for too long is a pain, i would love to use speakers but the only set i have are the cheapos that came with the computer, and they sound worse than my headphones
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on November 05, 2010, 02:39:37 PM
I have a set of Shure canal's and a set of WeSC bongo's (?) Something like that. Oh and Logitech Z-*** whatever speakers. Only line-in and USB which sucks.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on November 05, 2010, 04:25:56 PM
In terms of headphones, I only have some old Medusa 5.1, but they are more than enough to destroy my eardrums (the reason why I don't use more than 20% of their output) and they have a pretty good frequency range. I had the chance to test headphones that cost the double and the only difference was the sound volume itself, which was even higher.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on November 05, 2010, 04:49:24 PM

Don't get started on headphones, once you start going up, there's no way to come down again. The quality just shits you.

Is the quality of headphones really that bad for you ?
I myself am using the Sennheiser HD650 and I'm absolutly satisfied with their sound quality and how comfortable they are to wear ( I can wear em 5h non stop without anything hurting ).
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on November 05, 2010, 05:00:35 PM
That's a must in terms of headphones. It doesn't matter how good they sound, if you can't stand wearing them for more than a hour.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on November 05, 2010, 05:08:35 PM
Yeah. I have my music on all the time. And I can't always have them on speaker due to family and stuffs. I have headphones/earphones on all day, pretty much literally. LQ gets pretty grating.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on November 05, 2010, 05:22:01 PM
don't like earphones, always falling out
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on November 05, 2010, 06:24:13 PM

don't like earphones, always falling out

That's why there are canalphones, the ones I posted have a special shape too that helps.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on November 05, 2010, 06:28:43 PM
Also those ones with a silicon foam earbud which shapes to your canal.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on November 05, 2010, 09:40:48 PM
well they sound convenient, but not the biggest fan of sticking things into my ears here
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on November 05, 2010, 10:18:20 PM
Meh. So I joined this local anime club.

.......I found they had girls that played eroge....
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: NoSense on November 05, 2010, 11:53:31 PM
In my case I would be be even more surprised if there existed something like a local anime club here...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on November 05, 2010, 11:55:50 PM
Even though I say I live on a rock, it's still a major city I live in.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on November 06, 2010, 06:58:17 AM
my rock might as well be a backwater outpost ::)
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Jaooooo~ on November 06, 2010, 08:27:17 AM

Meh. So I joined this local anime club.

.......I found they had girls that played eroge....

My local anime club had an ugly guy cosplaying as Rin Kagimire asking me questions in a shrill voice at this year's fresher fair. Put me right off and I joined the Japanese society instead.

Also, I went on a two day field trip to give a presentation that counted substantially towards my psychology degree, was the only guy (In a busful of 'bros' no less) to sleep in a girl's dorm (Against the rules, of course. I had to hide when the teacher came to check), had sex for the first time in eighteen months and acquired a friend with benefits.

Third year is so much better than second year already.

Also I'm on Akiha's story in Tsukihime. Poor Sacchin =(
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on November 06, 2010, 02:53:45 PM
Right? Sacchin </3

Oh oops I forgot a very important word there. Anime club forum. I'm not an official part of the club, hope they don't work out it's me. I'm actually a part of the Japan Club. lol anyway. Let's not mix IRL and otaku stuff. My opinion.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on November 06, 2010, 05:21:44 PM
Please don't talk about actually having sex here. It brings me back to the harsh reality I live in.
Actually, I can't do anything about it anyway. Continue on lol.

Speaking of clubs, there was an Anime club at the college that I graduated from, I went to one of their showings at a festival once, I was scarred for life. Yaoi drawings, nazi cosplays, L cosplays and stuff like that. A bunch of girls pracing around in these super thick heels, and still shorter than me. My class in college had 48 people, 11 were males, making my class the class with the MOST males in a facility of over 8000 people.

I was actually in an anime club in high school, on paper at least, I got bored because all they would do is watch weeks old episodes in very bad quality rmvbs that they "upscaled" and burnt to DVD.

I also went airsofting for a while on weekends.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on November 06, 2010, 05:29:03 PM

Please don't talk about actually having sex here. It brings me back to the harsh reality I live in.
Actually, I can't do anything about it anyway. Continue on lol.

Speaking of clubs, there was an Anime club at the college that I graduated from, I went to one of their showings at a festival once, I was scarred for life. Yaoi drawings, nazi cosplays, L cosplays and stuff like that. A bunch of girls pracing around in these super thick heels, and still shorter than me. My class in college had 48 people, 11 were males, making my class the class with the MOST males in a facility of over 8000 people.

I was actually in an anime club in high school, on paper at least, I got bored because all they would do is watch weeks old episodes in very bad quality rmvbs that they "upscaled" and burnt to DVD.

I also went airsofting for a while on weekends.

Let's all have a moment's silence for Kureha's childhood.

....so no one's actually as surprised as me that girl's are playing eroge?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on November 06, 2010, 05:40:24 PM
Not really, there are all kinds of people out there.
I personally don't have a childhood, I've moved around every couple of years. Shortest I've stayed in a place/school was 2 months, and that was like twice in my life.

I've settled down to my current residence for 10 years, however I rarely leave the place so I still get lost and get surprised when a new store pops up or an old one goes down.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on November 06, 2010, 07:39:33 PM

Not really, there are all kinds of people out there.
I personally don't have a childhood, I've moved around every couple of years. Shortest I've stayed in a place/school was 2 months, and that was like twice in my life.

I've settled down to my current residence for 10 years, however I rarely leave the place so I still get lost and get surprised when a new store pops up or an old one goes down.

Ohhhhhhh Kurehaaaaaaaaa. SOOOOOO CUUUUUUUUUUTE I WANNA TAKE YOU HOOOOOOOOME. Come live with me =D
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: NoSense on November 06, 2010, 07:41:46 PM
Does your rock even has enough space to take her in?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on November 06, 2010, 08:16:10 PM


Not really, there are all kinds of people out there.
I personally don't have a childhood, I've moved around every couple of years. Shortest I've stayed in a place/school was 2 months, and that was like twice in my life.

I've settled down to my current residence for 10 years, however I rarely leave the place so I still get lost and get surprised when a new store pops up or an old one goes down.

Ohhhhhhh Kurehaaaaaaaaa. SOOOOOO CUUUUUUUUUUTE I WANNA TAKE YOU HOOOOOOOOME. Come live with me =D

He reminds me of Shurelia:

(http://img571.imageshack.us/img571/7152/17094758eca3f852793d465.jpg)

Getting lost on her own tower.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on November 06, 2010, 08:29:53 PM
Cuute tooooooo. hauuuuuu wannnnnnnnnnnnnnt

Kureha, when I have a house in Japan will you BE MY PETTTTTTT? =D

Tramps Like Us is my current reading at the moment..........yeah.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on November 06, 2010, 09:12:38 PM
the art is kinda fugly, whats with those lips
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on November 07, 2010, 05:24:48 AM
So, the Chinese government is going to make an agreement with the Portuguese government where they will buy part of the over 400.000.000.000€ Portuguese external debt. Taking into account that, in a good year, Portugal doesn't make more than 10.000.000€ and, on most years, it's in debt, I wonder how long it will take them to annex the Portuguese territory or to sell it in several parts to other countries?
The Portuguese President is already welcoming our new Chinese overlords.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: NoSense on November 07, 2010, 06:27:46 AM
so... started learning chinese yet?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on November 07, 2010, 10:48:55 AM

the art is kinda fugly, whats with those lips

Because it's shoujo. What'd you expect, nice VN art? They cost like 300 dollars each piece. or something iirc.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on November 07, 2010, 05:55:09 PM
i can stand some shoujo art styles, others not as much
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on November 07, 2010, 06:26:48 PM

i can stand some shoujo art styles, others not as much

I hate it. But hey, it's manga. I love manga.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Jaooooo~ on November 08, 2010, 12:13:31 AM
So, my government has decided to force the unemployed to do manual labour otherwise they will cut off their jobseeking benefits.

Goddddd first the hidden fictional child porn bill, then the backhanded law against pirating and now the government is expunging the public sector, sending thousands of white collar workers out of employment and forcing them to do litter cleaning and gardening.

When did the UK become a more oppresive place to live than the USA?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on November 08, 2010, 12:37:40 AM
And the EU who loved to bitch when France kicked out all the Romanians committing crimes, doesn't even speak up when decisions like those are taken.

Regarding the Chinese government buying external debts, there are talks that they will also do it with Spain, Italy and Greece. The EU looks like a sinking ship.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on November 08, 2010, 07:36:27 AM
lol, I'm Chinese.

This is hilarious.

Fucking China. Not that I live there.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on November 10, 2010, 07:03:52 AM
so i just learned that you could get cruise control

[spoiler]on a keyboard, WTF ???[/spoiler]
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on November 10, 2010, 07:13:35 AM
CAPS LOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL!
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: NoSense on November 10, 2010, 07:42:14 AM
[spoiler](http://www.kewl.ch/img/1287070356.jpg)[/spoiler]
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on November 10, 2010, 06:32:58 PM
Last two exams, tomorrow and monday.

Maybe I should get some sleep.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Jaooooo~ on November 10, 2010, 06:33:32 PM
Sleep before the monday one at least.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on November 11, 2010, 03:08:41 AM
No, I'm gonna not sleep before the Monday one. There's wayyyy too much to learn for Pharmacology.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Jaooooo~ on November 11, 2010, 06:34:15 AM
Needle goes in, pain comes out.

Sounds simple enough.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: mahou on November 11, 2010, 09:15:49 AM
Pain's still there you just can't feel it.

@tea If you're sleepy how can you even retain anything you try to memorize? Ah well to each their own, but being in top condition is better IMO. I personally function terribly without enough sleep, but everyone's different.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on November 11, 2010, 11:52:45 AM
Sleep is for the WEAK  :D
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on November 11, 2010, 12:07:11 PM
I agree! The problem though is staying awake, I try to live on 4~6 hrs of sleep but I find myself unable to stay awake. My days are split into 4 portions now, so instead of the normal 24hr/day I'm having a 12hr/day cycle. I find myself unable to stay awake at around noon, so I'll usually sleep from 11/12ish to 3/4ish in the afternoon, wake up do random things and then go to sleep at around midnight~2 in the morning and then waking up at 6am.

I've tried to fix this by going to sleep at 10pm but I find myself waking up in the middle of the night and unable to sleep, only to drop like a log when the sun starts creeping into my room.

I've lived like this for so long my body takes it for granted. This is going to really bad if I ever get a job.

That said, it's noon, and I'm starting to get dead tired again. *Off to nap*
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: mahou on November 11, 2010, 12:15:35 PM
Lol you're like a cat Kureha.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on November 11, 2010, 12:29:19 PM
I love cats, I've thought about getting one lots of times but I'm afraid it'll get electricuted or swallow the little screws and stuff I have laying around. I have glass cups and figs along my shelfs and I'm afraid that a cat would knock them over.

I need to stop F5ing this forum. lol

Going to nap for real now.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on November 11, 2010, 02:23:49 PM
apparently cats always land on their feet, so curious i tried it out, knew a person who owned some cats, threw them up into the air a few times all landed on their feet each time, even this fat-ass cat  :D
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on November 11, 2010, 02:32:06 PM

I love cats, I've thought about getting one lots of times but I'm afraid it'll get electricuted or swallow the little screws and stuff I have laying around. I have glass cups and figs along my shelfs and I'm afraid that a cat would knock them over.

I need to stop F5ing this forum. lol

Going to nap for real now.

<3 Definitely gonna kidnap Kureha. lol.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on November 11, 2010, 04:53:09 PM
Talking about cats, I have one who loves to rub his head on my legs, and even though I like playing with pets, I'm allergic to them, which leads me to scaring them away from me...

And I know what's like to have poor sleeping habits. I've been trying to fix the for a few months, but I can't resist. It's just one more turn, one more page, one more F5...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on November 11, 2010, 04:57:23 PM
I check regularly without F5-ing.

D= I cycle through my Opera homepage.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: NoSense on November 11, 2010, 06:34:26 PM
RSS-Feed FTW. *autochecking every half to full hour*

And I need my sleep... without about 8 hours of sleep a day I can't function normally (not that I function that normal even with that amount of sleep). But too little or too much sleep always lead to headaches...

As for pets I prefer dogs... don't have anything against cats, but I think they try to avoid me... probably because of the dog at home...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: mahou on November 11, 2010, 07:29:01 PM

I love cats, I've thought about getting one lots of times but I'm afraid it'll get electricuted or swallow the little screws and stuff I have laying around. I have glass cups and figs along my shelfs and I'm afraid that a cat would knock them over.

I need to stop F5ing this forum. lol

Going to nap for real now.

Here ya go Kureha a Neko & Mimikko both electrocution proof. Hope my amateurish drawing skill is to your liking xD

She could use some ink, and maybe some clothes... but i'm lazy so meh enjoy the fan service ;p

(http://b.imagehost.org/t/0125/Mimikko.jpg) (http://b.imagehost.org/view/0125/Mimikko)
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on November 11, 2010, 10:52:53 PM

RSS-Feed FTW. *autochecking every half to full hour*

F5'ing is mandatory on 4chan. That or the Greasemonkey script that does it for me.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on November 12, 2010, 01:17:15 AM
I can see how it is on an imageboard, but here?

Traffic is slow on a good day.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on November 12, 2010, 03:16:49 AM
That doesn't stop people from refreshing.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on November 12, 2010, 03:28:17 AM
It's a habit I just kinda slipped into, F5 EVERYTHING!
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on November 12, 2010, 04:02:47 AM
Hnnn really.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: mahou on November 12, 2010, 05:37:22 AM
Does enough even happen here to need to F5?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on November 12, 2010, 05:45:19 AM
Not really, most people are lurkers. That doesn't stop me from trying though.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: mahou on November 12, 2010, 06:12:15 AM
Well a habits a habit. Baaaw I want the next part of Muv luv alternative.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on November 12, 2010, 06:57:15 AM
Yes, that's what I was trying to say.

Guys, post more here. You'll make people happy =D.

As long as it's not stupid shit.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: NoSense on November 12, 2010, 07:16:19 AM
As long as it's not stupid shit.

Sounds like I should stop posting althogether  :-\
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on November 12, 2010, 08:28:24 AM
Decide, then stick to your decision. No one is gonna make it for you.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on November 12, 2010, 09:40:52 AM
Now that Tea is about ot hit 800+ posts soon I'll go make up some more titles, yay!
I'm now a VN Peasent
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on November 12, 2010, 10:16:25 AM
is that a demotion? from hero to peasant? :D
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: mahou on November 12, 2010, 12:02:37 PM
Don't think i've ever gotten past a 'jr' 'noob' member on any board before. Lurking's just too efficient.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on November 12, 2010, 12:17:47 PM
I think of it as a recarnation.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on November 12, 2010, 12:40:06 PM

Don't think i've ever gotten past a 'jr' 'noob' member on any board before. Lurking's just too efficient.

some boards i register then just lurk for ages before i even post anything, hardly ever do those intro threads
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on November 12, 2010, 05:35:29 PM
I've been on boards like Hongfire, for years, and I still have to reach the 50 posts mark.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on November 12, 2010, 06:08:09 PM
lol , ive yet to past 10 posts there :D
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on November 12, 2010, 06:09:21 PM
I have more thank yous than posts on hongfire lol
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on November 12, 2010, 06:34:39 PM
Kureha, it's Peasant with an A.

I don't think I even have a post on Hongfire. I really hate those sites where you have to post to see the link. So stupid.

Hongfire and Nihonomaru are both pretty easy to lurk. Community wise, I posted about 5k or more in one place. That was about half my friend's 10K or more.

It's hard to keep count because we had multiple accounts.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on November 12, 2010, 06:53:47 PM
it does get annoying having to register just to see the forum, then actually posting just to see links
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on November 12, 2010, 07:24:10 PM
Point is, all our timezones are so wrong.

Wish we could streamline our traffic so that F5 would be more useful.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on November 12, 2010, 08:20:40 PM
Well, the only limit I've imposed is that attachments are members only so my connection/server doesn't get hammered. Posting is members only because we tried opening guest posting and that didn't go so well apparently the faggot that was script posting spam is still at it. I occasionally still see logs about someone trying to post without logging in.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on November 12, 2010, 08:23:18 PM
indeed occasionally you see a sudden spike in spam
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on November 12, 2010, 08:23:51 PM
Why even bother. Seriously wtf
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on November 12, 2010, 08:33:44 PM
too much time on his hands :D
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on November 12, 2010, 09:12:57 PM

I have more thank yous than posts on hongfire lol

That's what one of the only things that I do over there.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on November 13, 2010, 05:17:58 AM
HF can get really slow at times
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on November 13, 2010, 02:24:54 PM
Really? But it's got a huge member base?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: mahou on November 13, 2010, 03:16:06 PM

it does get annoying having to register just to see the forum, then actually posting just to see links

I avoid those places like the plague, even ones where i'm just looking for info and the damn board asks you to register, so then I google until I find a source that doesn't require me to join. Though if it is a board that i'll get more than one use out of i'll join.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on November 13, 2010, 04:08:35 PM
its always a toss up  whether to register or not
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: invictus on November 15, 2010, 09:04:43 PM
Ah great... Mana has 666 posts >=O is that going to be locked in place? lol.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on November 16, 2010, 12:15:58 PM
coincidence? i think not
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on November 16, 2010, 09:01:37 PM
He's 667 now. Heh.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on November 17, 2010, 06:02:09 AM
didnt take long
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: NoSense on November 17, 2010, 06:43:05 AM
Even without it being officially tacked on his account, Mana will still stay in devil mode.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on November 17, 2010, 07:55:33 AM
true, well its not like there is any other modes...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: NoSense on November 20, 2010, 06:06:53 AM
*gets his shovel ready*
This Threads seems to get buried in time again...




... yes ... I'm just bored ...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on November 20, 2010, 10:23:44 AM
so i heard the japs made some interesting mods for oblivion like these (http://desudesu0.com/archives/6839)
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on November 20, 2010, 11:41:05 AM
They seem to be based on some of the mods posted on TES Nexus. Talking about modding Oblivion, i hate uFCOM installations!
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on November 20, 2010, 12:26:27 PM
I have no idea what you guys are talking about, I don't play oblivion, and don't understand why they would want to mode a pair of boobs into something they can't really do anything with or to.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on November 20, 2010, 01:17:35 PM
well , thing is the default character creation options are pretty fugly, the mods just turn it into eye candy instead. of course thats assuming you can get the mods to work properly
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: mahou on November 20, 2010, 03:13:48 PM
Didn't even think ppl would still play oblivion, my copy fell into oblivion ages ago. hah ha... i'm so lame. Back to boring ass studying  ::)
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on November 21, 2010, 07:03:13 AM
playing? not really, i been wasting more time getting mods to work than any actual gameplay :D
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on November 22, 2010, 03:05:34 AM
I hated Oblivion, only uFCOM made it playable, and that's when it works.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on November 22, 2010, 03:50:21 AM
I loved oblivion, having the freedom to just explore such a huge place was fun enough for me. And than the addon with the whole mad island was interesting as hell.

Now if they'd make oblivion 5 with the experience they've gained from fallout 3 + new vegas ...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on November 22, 2010, 05:31:51 AM

I hated Oblivion, only uFCOM made it playable, and that's when it works.

whats uFCOM?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on November 22, 2010, 09:05:37 AM
It's this. (http://forums.bethsoft.com/?showtopic=1071403)
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on November 22, 2010, 12:45:02 PM
that sure was something
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on November 22, 2010, 09:29:26 PM
I am enraged and thus confused.

or was it the other way around?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: inferno_flamex on November 26, 2010, 08:33:09 PM
...

Hi all... Im new! *cough*

..
...
.....

Anyway... I've been 'released' a week early... I still have much more military training to do (hoping to be transferred to either Medic or Instructor after my time as a Recruit is done. Which is one more week)... But for now... ... ... ...

WTF?!

What happenned to all the pronz since I was gone!?...

lololol...
Seriously...

Last I visit, there seem to be so much promise of VNs and H-mangas galore awaiting my triumphant and glorious return... ... like.. Demonbane and maybe Downhill Night 3?...

>_>

... ... ... ... And I need a show of hands... Who actually thought that I wouldn't return here?

PS. Did any regulars died out since my last log?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on November 26, 2010, 09:28:59 PM

...

Hi all... Im new! *cough*

..
...
.....

Anyway... I've been 'released' a week early... I still have much more military training to do (hoping to be transferred to either Medic or Instructor after my time as a Recruit is done. Which is one more week)... But for now... ... ... ...

WTF?!

What happenned to all the pronz since I was gone!?...

lololol...
Seriously...

Last I visit, there seem to be so much promise of VNs and H-mangas galore awaiting my triumphant and glorious return... ... like.. Demonbane and maybe Downhill Night 3?...

>_>

... ... ... ... And I need a show of hands... Who actually thought that I wouldn't return here?

PS. Did any regulars died out since my last log?

notorious "who are you"?!
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: NoSense on November 26, 2010, 09:36:24 PM
[...]
[...] "who are you"?!
've never seen him before :P
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on November 26, 2010, 09:42:24 PM
welcome back i guess :D
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: inferno_flamex on November 26, 2010, 10:03:34 PM

notorious "who are you"?!

Someone who never posted here before... apperently...

..
...
Hmm maybe there's some time paradox somewhere. >_<
Snake?

...
And yeah...
I've never seen you either NoSense. But nice to meetcha anywho..

Where's tea btw? Shouldnt he be posting about being bored or something about now? XDDDDD

EDIT: Ooohh~ Sazabi.. Heyy... Last time I saw you you were still 2 stars huh? Now look at you... Woot..
...
(Behaves like an uncle that has not seen his nephew since 10 years ago...)
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: NoSense on November 26, 2010, 10:12:12 PM
Nice to meet you, too.
By your leave, I'm just another notorious clown, clowning around.
And already getting clobbered by Mana ocassionally.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on November 26, 2010, 11:05:39 PM
I'm still here, nice to see you moving again Inferno. Tea's still around.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on November 27, 2010, 01:44:58 AM
Having fun being stepped on by female captains who don't want to dirty their boots with mud? [spoiler]This actually happened to a friend.[/spoiler]
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: mahou on November 27, 2010, 03:59:43 AM

Having fun being stepped on by female captains who don't want to dirty their boots with mud? [spoiler]This actually happened to a friend.[/spoiler]

Serious? The army sounds like a real fun place...

So how's the indoctrination training going inferno? Fun?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on November 27, 2010, 09:46:37 AM


... ... ... ... And I need a show of hands... Who actually thought that I wouldn't return here?


actually was not expecting you to be back until next year at the earliest :D



EDIT: Ooohh~ Sazabi.. Heyy... Last time I saw you you were still 2 stars huh? Now look at you... Woot..
...
(Behaves like an uncle that has not seen his nephew since 10 years ago...)

lol, its been a while ;D
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on November 27, 2010, 03:30:41 PM
What they all said.

Besides, now that exams are over I can do whatever the hell I want.

So much to do~ teehee
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: inferno_flamex on November 27, 2010, 07:46:24 PM

Having fun being stepped on by female captains who don't want to dirty their boots with mud? [spoiler]This actually happened to a friend.[/spoiler]


Ugggh... THANK GOD NO!.

.. The only 'Captain' I have is a fat bobtard who talks too much, and thinks he's the equivalent of the mother frikkin saintly pope... >_<

...

Oh... Training was .. uh... fun... ... We get.. uhh.. great food too..
.. ... Oh hell who am I kidding!? >_>

I found a new meaning for 'Shitty Food' - Food that TASTES like shit, and then it also MAKES you take a shit...

Trainings were... well think about it this way... Having lost 45lbs (approx 20Kgs) in 12weeks... Id say that... The fact that I survived drowning in my own sweat... Im proud of myself...

Oh and worse still... ... Anyone caught to masturbate/ejaculate within training grounds will be severely charged... HAH! (Happened to a sad platoon-mate of mine... Poor bloke, I still wonder who he was dreaming of...)
Did I say that we cant smoke nor have any good beer inside as well?

Sooo, imagine the only 'happy-time' you have is while on Night Guard duty, and the only 'privacy' you have are the trees and bushes in the dark... Not to mention the sound of cicadas as a cover for any noises you make, while you fantasize about a blue long haired sword wielding princess...

MMMmmmmmmmmmmm~~~

>_>

God I miss my life.. oTL
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on November 27, 2010, 09:48:35 PM
From what I know from the Portuguese Armed Forces' kitchens (which shouldn't be too different from most armies around the world), it's only natural that it tastes like that. Floors covered in so much grease that you need knives to rip it off or slide several dozen kilos of frozen meat on it without much effort.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on November 27, 2010, 10:17:04 PM
not exactly favourable conditions for cooking decent tasting meals huh :-\
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on November 29, 2010, 09:20:00 AM
I couldn't survive the masturbatory ban.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mizuno on November 29, 2010, 01:42:58 PM
^ XD
empty your mind...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on November 29, 2010, 04:38:49 PM
/meditate
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mizuno on November 29, 2010, 05:12:24 PM
I once tried giving up on H and not "touch" myself, last about a year before looking up for H again >_>;
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on November 29, 2010, 08:32:26 PM
you cant fight the inner pervert
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on November 30, 2010, 06:43:29 AM
I got a job interview scheduled for tomorrow. Is it my time to stop being a NEET?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: NoSense on November 30, 2010, 06:56:45 AM
Either that or you'll get a Level Up
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on November 30, 2010, 07:00:42 AM
I hope not. I really need the money.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on November 30, 2010, 03:54:57 PM
haaah~ I need a job too. =\
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on November 30, 2010, 08:28:43 PM
indeed, how else will you fund this hobby
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mizuno on November 30, 2010, 09:11:51 PM
meh I just want loads of money to just appear infront of me when I wake up >_>
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on November 30, 2010, 09:23:34 PM
being a NEET would be so much simpler if that was the case  :D
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mizuno on November 30, 2010, 09:33:36 PM
if only T_T
might as well start betting on lottery
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: NoSense on December 01, 2010, 12:59:00 AM
Lottery would rather be like "You got a nice sum in front of you and then it suddenly disappears and never comes again"

Unless you get hit by lightning twice and survive, than you'll have a high enough chance to win in the lottery.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on December 01, 2010, 01:52:52 AM
Or Euromillions... Portugal is one of the countries that won the first prize more times.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on December 01, 2010, 07:12:35 AM
then again, might get addicted to gambling and rather than make money, lose it even faster :D
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Yossarian762 on December 01, 2010, 08:18:28 AM
Gambling = idiot tax. Lotteries included. I see people at work scratch off lottery tickets and talk about that stuff (I work at a supermarket so they get sold there) and just kind of sigh and shake my head since it'd be pointless to say anything.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on December 01, 2010, 08:47:53 AM
idiot tax, very apt i think
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: inferno_flamex on December 03, 2010, 09:11:02 PM
You could also count on that long lost distant millionaire grandfather that you never met before to let you inherit his stuff as being his last surviving kin.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on December 03, 2010, 10:26:41 PM
Just hope that you have never promised to come back for his granddaughter-daughter several years ago and forgot about that.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on December 05, 2010, 04:44:22 PM
http://novelnews.net/2010/12/04/impending-opening-ceremony-for-shira-oka/ (http://novelnews.net/2010/12/04/impending-opening-ceremony-for-shira-oka/)

Anyone ever heard of that game ?
If so, some opinions on it would be pretty nice.

I might be interested to get it, though stuff like "It features some voice acting by well-known dub actors" is a bit worrying and the screenshots didn't really look very professional imho.
On the other hand 17€ to support some publisher who got the balls to try something like this, hmm hmm ~
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mizuno on December 05, 2010, 06:11:31 PM
that's interesting
but I don't want to hear english speaking people in it >_>
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on December 05, 2010, 06:57:13 PM
There seems to be a demo on the main site http://www.shira-oka.com/ (http://www.shira-oka.com/) .

Lets see how fun the voices are =D
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on December 05, 2010, 08:03:49 PM
only heard about this novel

that's interesting
but I don't want to hear english speaking people in it >_>

indeed, that would be like watching anime DUBBED

*shivers*
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: NoSense on December 05, 2010, 08:08:20 PM
indeed, that would be like watching anime DUBBED

*shivers*

Depends on the dub... some dubs aren't bad at all
Ok, I don't know any english dubs so can't tell if there are good or bad ones there...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on December 05, 2010, 08:43:34 PM
There aren't that many dubs that I can say to have enjoyed. I can remember about the Metal Gear series, Silent Hill, Professor Layton, Phoenix Wright [even if it's only a couple of sentences] and nothing more, from what I've played.

Now, if we count with original English/American voice acting, the list can get pretty long.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on December 05, 2010, 09:54:18 PM
Pia's alright in RF3.

kinda....

Haven't played her in undub though.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Yossarian762 on December 06, 2010, 11:15:44 AM

There aren't that many dubs that I can say to have enjoyed. I can remember about the Metal Gear series, Silent Hill, Professor Layton, Phoenix Wright [even if it's only a couple of sentences] and nothing more, from what I've played.

Now, if we count with original English/American voice acting, the list can get pretty long.

Persona 3/4?

Also I'm kind of unsure about Shira Oka because being an OELVN makes me wary, and an indie stuidio + voice acting is a risky proposition as well, even if I have no inherent bias against dubs generally. Plus it sounds overly ambitious. I think I'll have to try before I buy.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on December 06, 2010, 11:56:20 AM
Just a heads up, I'll be gone starting Dec 19th for 37days to a year.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mizuno on December 06, 2010, 01:25:38 PM
eh why?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on December 06, 2010, 05:14:09 PM
err something I prefer not to talk about.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on December 06, 2010, 05:51:55 PM
Any plans on what happens to the forum during that time ?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on December 06, 2010, 06:14:31 PM
Well, the server's been running headless, and it'll continue to do so. We have a few global mods, so it'll be ok. The only problem is that crashes will have to wait for if I can physically get there to give it the reboot. Attacks will just have to resolve themselves.

I just don't know if you guys are ready to be with only Mana and Angelus for such a long time.

Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on December 06, 2010, 06:22:41 PM
The inmates running the asylum... Sounds good!
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on December 08, 2010, 06:50:52 AM
[spoiler]K's gonna go procure funds for the forum Takano Akira style (School Rumble)[/spoiler]

Have fun doing whatever you're doing actually. lol

Don't forget us. If it hurts too much COME TO MY ROCK. I WILL TAKE YOU HOME AND TREAT YOU LIKE A PET. This is not a threat.


....So Mana......what sort of payment do you accept bribes in?

Man I need to catch up season's anime. SORAAAAAA
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on December 08, 2010, 06:58:44 AM

Have fun doing whatever you're doing actually. lol

Don't say that to poor Kureha!

....So Mana......what sort of payment do you accept bribes in?

So, I heard that you were going to help me practice with the b&hammer...

Man I need to catch up season's anime.
You just reminded me that I have to reinstall CCCP to continue watching Legend of Galactic Heroes. Sieg Mein Kaiser!
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on December 08, 2010, 07:43:38 AM
I'm going to miss over 600 eps of anime at the current rate of consumption I have, thats 13 full days of nonstop anime.
Oh the HORROR!
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on December 08, 2010, 04:35:55 PM

I'm going to miss over 600 eps of anime at the current rate of consumption I have, thats 13 full days of nonstop anime.
Oh the HORROR!

Woah and I was kind of proud of my 70ish days of anime watched >_>
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: inferno_flamex on December 08, 2010, 07:01:37 PM
Woah... Kureha...
Luck whatever you do.

It kinda sucks tho... I mean.. I just ended my Recruit life in the army and could only recently go back home everyday...
..
...

And then, you have to leeeaaavveee??...

So good luck there!... Oh and remember...
If by some chance you're stuck in a camp without anime.

There's always your imagination...


Seriously tho... Its farking scary how your mind tends to work when you have your backs on a wall.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on December 08, 2010, 09:09:46 PM
If I go visit places in the world...

Let me know if I'm in your country!

I'll crash your house and eat your food.

And marry your waifu.





And if you're Kureha I'll kidnap you.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on December 08, 2010, 09:26:13 PM

And if you're Kureha I'll kidnap you.

You know that there is already a line for it, don't you?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: inferno_flamex on December 08, 2010, 11:46:21 PM


And if you're Kureha I'll kidnap you.

You know that there is already a line for it, don't you?

... Have you ever known Tea to be so civil as to... go to the back of a line?... >_>
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on December 08, 2010, 11:58:04 PM
It's hard to get in front of others when he has both knees broken.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: NoSense on December 09, 2010, 12:06:47 AM
It's possible that he'll crawl to the front of the line...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on December 09, 2010, 12:10:54 AM
We can always take care of his arms.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: NoSense on December 09, 2010, 12:17:19 AM
After that I would recommend jaw and/or nose, so he doesn't use these to shove himself across the ground
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on December 09, 2010, 01:48:40 AM
oh I should probably take this opportunity to let you guys know I'm being removed from my household. Dunno when I'm getting net back, but last day should be december 31st.

lol yes, kicked out by new years.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on December 09, 2010, 02:20:43 AM
K1 is full of twisted Christmas' gifts, this year.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on December 09, 2010, 03:44:12 AM
Huzzah.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on December 16, 2010, 06:47:22 AM
so this just got released, play mayclub DX untranslated version with mayclub English version (http://vilevn.org/)

apparently only additional content seems to be an extra route in DX, remains untranslated since it didn't exist in original English release. so any played dx version ? who is the extra character?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on December 16, 2010, 06:52:36 AM
No idea lol I've never played mayclub
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: mahou on December 16, 2010, 07:08:37 AM
Same here. That said is it worth playing? Reading the description... probably not.

So you're disappearing soon Kureha. Hope you enjoy whatever you plan on doing or if it's something you're not looking forward to that you can endure it xD
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on December 16, 2010, 08:16:59 AM
Looking at the date, it's almost time. I hope that everything works out for him.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on December 16, 2010, 11:12:51 AM
19th huh.

=(

Well as long as he comes back.

***

Won't be here on the 19th, sorry Kureha. BUT

we should totally have a going away party or something. In our hearts. lol
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on December 19, 2010, 08:02:47 PM
See you around people, I just rebooted the server today, hopefully it stays up during my absence.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on December 21, 2010, 03:52:48 PM
so Kureha's gone...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: NoSense on December 21, 2010, 06:14:53 PM
Panic or Party?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on December 21, 2010, 06:23:44 PM
Mourning period. Let's change everything to black.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mizuno on December 21, 2010, 06:26:45 PM
oohh....
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on December 21, 2010, 07:23:48 PM
so quiet... must be the calm before a storm...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on December 21, 2010, 08:56:08 PM
The storm will be when the server finally crashes or the power goes out.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on December 21, 2010, 09:30:47 PM
and to think it could happen right on x'mas day...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on December 22, 2010, 11:43:30 AM
I'll miss you guys when it happens, but I'm sure that

a) Kureha will be back.

b) uhhh. I have Mana on MSN so I'll be fine XD
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on December 22, 2010, 01:40:10 PM
gotta get your daily does of abuse huh?  ;D
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on December 23, 2010, 10:48:58 PM
Respect and Obey Authority (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH13DY9HT1c&fmt=34#ws)

Discuss.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on December 24, 2010, 12:26:20 AM
Besides your lack of taste, is there anything to discuss?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: inferno_flamex on December 24, 2010, 04:57:21 AM

Besides your lack of taste, is there anything to discuss?

Ellen Degeneres... (However you spell her name)...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on December 24, 2010, 05:18:36 AM
My mother watches her show.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on December 24, 2010, 11:25:36 AM
not a fan of the show, but whenever i happen to see, justin timberlake is always on as guess  :o
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mizuno on December 25, 2010, 09:26:51 AM
hmmm...Kureha is online
O_O
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on December 25, 2010, 09:37:03 AM
Quick heads up, I'm going to be around for the next 24hrs before being gone again for at least 13+ days. Glad to see new uploads and that the server is still running lol.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on December 25, 2010, 11:03:02 AM
Every time that K1 fails to refresh, I ask myself if its this time that it's really gone.

And I'm glad to see you back, even if it's for a short while.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on December 25, 2010, 11:43:08 AM
our friendly admin is back right on x'mas...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on December 26, 2010, 02:47:13 PM
Heading out now, see you sometime next year lol.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on December 26, 2010, 05:33:37 PM
Bye bye see you later.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mizuno on December 28, 2010, 07:54:04 PM
so uh Say Wut?! (http://www.jastusa.com/in-2011-your-girlfriend-is-the-president)
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on December 28, 2010, 08:27:07 PM
Expect JAST to mess up, even with the translation, editing and quality check completely done.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mizuno on December 28, 2010, 08:35:10 PM
;_;
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on December 28, 2010, 08:37:42 PM
Oh, and enjoy your censored UFO.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mizuno on January 06, 2011, 03:49:38 PM
yay it's up!
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on January 06, 2011, 03:52:29 PM
hey, sites back  :o
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: NoSense on January 06, 2011, 05:37:49 PM
Wow, it's back again  :o
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on January 06, 2011, 06:07:07 PM
Server was running the whole time, just the routing decided to die on the 29th, sorry for the scare.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Yossarian762 on January 07, 2011, 05:59:37 AM
Phew, I was worried. Without this place where would I get spoonfed all my visual novels!? D:

Edited: removed a word.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on January 07, 2011, 06:57:31 AM
Same here, I got so lazy when it comes to vns lately.

Why bother checking all those different sites when you can get everything here T_T!
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: NoSense on January 07, 2011, 07:06:38 AM
And it even expanded to console games...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on January 07, 2011, 08:59:12 AM
what next, smartphones?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on January 07, 2011, 03:23:11 PM
Someone wanna upload smartphone OS's and apps?

I'm running a normal iphone. Everyone has that over here.

Anyway currently: watching oreimo and playing G-senjou.

OH GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD CUTE CUTE CUTE CUTE CUTE. ;-; 2d > 3d
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on January 07, 2011, 05:33:11 PM
Poor and unemployed here! No iPhone applications and games for you... unless someone volunteers.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on January 07, 2011, 06:28:08 PM
No well I'd have to crack it first. Which I haven't bothered. Still I hear that the windows new OS for smartphones is super great.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on January 08, 2011, 09:38:10 AM
seems microsoft been doing pretty well lately, win7 gets praises and now the new mobile OS is getting praises as well
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on January 08, 2011, 05:49:02 PM
On another note, does anyone know what happened to Sumaga ?

I was really looking forward to it before the translator team partnered up with jlist. After that partnership it was just kinda massive silence.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mizuno on January 08, 2011, 09:56:10 PM
maybe the TL is taking his time because Sumaga is still not on JAST "release schedule" or whatever <_<
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on January 08, 2011, 10:29:36 PM
demonbane is not even out yet, highly unlikely were going to get news on any thing else
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on January 08, 2011, 10:31:34 PM

seems microsoft been doing pretty well lately, win7 gets praises and now the new mobile OS is getting praises as well

Kureha even recommend the IE9 beta for trial.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on January 09, 2011, 12:58:10 AM

On another note, does anyone know what happened to Sumaga ?

I was really looking forward to it before the translator team partnered up with jlist. After that partnership it was just kinda massive silence.

gckc keeps updating the translation status, but it slowed down since the deal with JAST due to Demonbane's constant delays and the lack of trust that people have on Peter Payne's word.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: mahou on January 09, 2011, 08:01:47 AM
Gawd the delays on Demonbane are such a pain in the ass, but I suppose the new engine that fixes all the problems with english like word wrapping and such will be worth it. Though if JAST's partnership fails with Nitro+ I wonder if we'd get a whole bunch of Nitro+ translation patches released all at once, instead of having to wait for all the processes involved in releasing games officially.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on January 09, 2011, 08:05:29 AM


seems microsoft been doing pretty well lately, win7 gets praises and now the new mobile OS is getting praises as well

Kureha even recommend the IE9 beta for trial.

nah gonna stick with Firefox
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on January 09, 2011, 05:04:44 PM
;-;

Haru. Kyousuke.

...BAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: mahou on January 09, 2011, 06:59:39 PM

;-;

Haru. Kyousuke.

...BAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

Indeed it was a nice ending.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on January 09, 2011, 07:52:07 PM
I want more.

Overall it was just a cute cute cute cute cute game. So cute. I loved how Kanon was voiced by Pikachu. Lol.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: mahou on January 10, 2011, 03:02:03 AM
I know right. You could just forget about the whole maou thing and it could've just been a straight moeroge... well at least it would've worked in favor of all the secondary heroines. Haru could go either way since she's just awesome <3
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: NoSense on January 10, 2011, 03:41:40 AM
I totally prefered the serious part of the game.

Ok, Scatterbrain-Haru had her moments, but I liked the serious part more.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on January 10, 2011, 04:31:06 AM
chiiiiiiisuu
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Yossarian762 on January 10, 2011, 07:55:15 AM
Kanon has like the worst voice acting ever. It sounds so freaking stiff.

Also I'm not terribly far into it...for some reason it doesn't really grab me very well...but Haru seems like the love child of L from Death Note and Ririko from Sharin no Kuni.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: mahou on January 10, 2011, 01:24:04 PM

I totally prefered the serious part of the game.

Ok, Scatterbrain-Haru had her moments, but I liked the serious part more.

Don't get me wrong I liked the 'serious' parts too. The only problem are the holes in the story that make it convenient instead of believable.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on January 10, 2011, 02:45:33 PM
Absolutely. The only thing that annoyed me was all the emotional pleading and begging which got them out of bad bad situations.

Seriously, as if it'd work. Or wait, was that oreimo?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on January 10, 2011, 05:24:19 PM
lol oreimo, brother needs to grow some balls and slap the bitch
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on January 10, 2011, 06:06:06 PM

lol oreimo, brother needs to grow some balls and slap the bitch

He should just go back to ignore her, she aint worth the hassle.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: mahou on January 10, 2011, 07:01:25 PM
99% Tsun 1% Dere. Onii-chan sure is a masochist.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on January 10, 2011, 07:10:40 PM
Nicely animated anime though. Them sure are pretty these days.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on January 10, 2011, 10:00:59 PM
manami was probably the best character in the show

'kyou-kyou-chan.... do you want me to call you oniichan?..."

best line in the show
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on January 10, 2011, 10:30:32 PM
Well hmm, with manami the problem is, that you might enjoy a great life and all, but you may or may not end up with no sex at all.

Might be worth it though, seeing how other girls nowadays are.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: mahou on January 11, 2011, 05:12:36 AM

Well hmm, with manami the problem is, that you might enjoy a great life and all, but you may or may not end up with no sex at all.

Might be worth it though, seeing how other girls nowadays are.

Just the fact that the relationship would work with little or no sex proves that it would actually last.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on January 11, 2011, 11:14:12 AM
lol, no libido even before they are married
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on January 14, 2011, 05:29:47 AM
http://amaterasu.is.moelicious.be/blog/?p=818 (http://amaterasu.is.moelicious.be/blog/?p=818) so it's age now after minori. This might be getting interesting tbh.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on January 14, 2011, 06:44:35 AM
(http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/7520/1293623142457g.png)

Are you ready for it?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Belgaesh on January 14, 2011, 08:46:20 AM

(http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/7520/1293623142457g.png)

Are you ready for it?

At least we can hope for an Chronicles release in the future.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on January 14, 2011, 09:23:43 AM
For Chronicles to be released, Muvluv would have to make a profit and the same would have to happen to Alternative.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Belgaesh on January 14, 2011, 09:32:19 AM
I said "hope", at least we can hope.

But the worst it's that this time I bought the game, the only other game I have is Majikoi. Now I'm disheartened...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on January 14, 2011, 09:43:14 AM
I prefer to be a pessimist, then I have a reason to be happy when something actually goes right.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Belgaesh on January 14, 2011, 09:45:50 AM

I prefer to be a pessimist, then I have a reason to be happy when something actually goes right.

I'm actually that way too. But the way things are I've got to cling into something as small as hope can be.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on January 14, 2011, 09:57:08 AM
so was reading the comments after the announcement, so much hate and rage  :D
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on January 14, 2011, 09:59:37 AM
You should check /jp/ and /m/.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Belgaesh on January 14, 2011, 10:13:14 AM
/jp/ are sure raging.

/jp/ thread: http://boards.4chan.org/jp/res/6800683 (http://boards.4chan.org/jp/res/6800683)

/m; thread: http://boards.4chan.org/m/res/6026336 (http://boards.4chan.org/m/res/6026336)
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Yossarian762 on January 14, 2011, 10:43:09 AM
The rage makes me lol, though I guess that's easy when I didn't care about this series anyway.

Doing it for free is pretty lame even if I can understand him wanting to pre-empt any C&Ds.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on January 14, 2011, 11:16:26 AM
all the rage remind  me of the first toheart 2 project that disappeared
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on January 14, 2011, 07:51:30 PM
hmmn glad to see the server is still up.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on January 14, 2011, 08:14:41 PM
time check.

Bah 23 minutes late.
Title: News and Discussion.
Post by: Green_Tea on January 17, 2011, 06:12:46 PM
Kingdom Hearts is up.
Title: Re: News and Discussion.
Post by: laplacian on January 17, 2011, 06:27:31 PM
okay.
Title: Re: News and Discussion.
Post by: Mana on January 17, 2011, 08:29:44 PM
I already had it a week ago. I just didn't bother uploading it.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on January 23, 2011, 04:56:09 PM
Oh you merged them. Well I guess I can go on here.

Currently: Blazblue Continuum Shift on pc (arcade emu)
             finishing 358/2 days so I can play recoded
             Technika in the arcades
             and starting a blog. But that will be IRL blog I guess...

Oh right Swan Song, Gibo, and Words Worth.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: mahou on January 26, 2011, 01:09:58 AM

(http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/7520/1293623142457g.png)

Are you ready for it?

Well they are still negotiating. Maybe they'll fail? Either way it's only bad for me b/c I fucking hate delays and that's what happens with official releases. Other than that it's all good.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: invictus on January 27, 2011, 06:51:34 PM
somehow I doubt they'll release alternative with extra and unlimited... thus we'll probably have to wait a few years.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on January 27, 2011, 08:42:29 PM
And people keep forgetting that for Alternative to be released, they will have to profit with the first title.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: invictus on January 28, 2011, 07:34:31 PM

And people keep forgetting that for Alternative to be released, they will have to profit with the first title.

urgh... considering muvluv is mostly a moe based title without much else... and it's rather boring/repetitive in its routes... unless we get real fans going at it... they'd do much better if they released together =/
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on January 28, 2011, 09:15:16 PM
That's exactly why I mentioned that.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on January 29, 2011, 02:22:52 AM
http://novelnews.net/2011/01/27/da-capo-concreto/ (http://novelnews.net/2011/01/27/da-capo-concreto/)

Wow, mangagamer finally publishing physical copies of their games!

Too bad it's da capo ... couldn't care less T_T
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Yossarian762 on January 29, 2011, 05:23:46 AM
Can't say I really give a hoot about physical copies since these days I find storing and keeping track of physical copies computer games an inconvenience
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on January 29, 2011, 05:30:33 AM
The problem is that we have a lot of people defending their "right" to piracy because MG doesn't sell physical copies. Let's see if they keep being hypocrites or they'll finally admit that they would never pay for it.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on January 29, 2011, 09:02:18 AM
indeed, lets see how many of the crowd that wanted discs actually order. My guess none  ::)
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Yossarian762 on January 29, 2011, 09:14:14 AM

The problem is that we have a lot of people defending their "right" to piracy because MG doesn't sell physical copies. Let's see if they keep being hypocrites or they'll finally admit that they would never pay for it.

Yeah, I know. It's actually pretty funny reading the MG forums because it's blatantly obvious some most probably all of the people bitching about the lack of physical copies pirate their games, but they have to tap dance around saying it outright because you can't admit you pirate a company's games on their own forums.

I gotta admit though...I kind of want the art book now that I think of it. I'm guessing it'll probably find its way on to e-hentai or something though. I might sound like an MG fanboy/shill here sometimes but I'm not buying DC twice. :P
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: mahou on January 29, 2011, 11:52:16 AM
Well ppl that already bought digital copies won't buy the physical copy unless they want it for collection purposes, so I'm somewhat wondering who's going to buy it when we all know those hypocrites crying for physical copies won't buy them.

I still prefer digital copies:

1. Cheaper
2. No postage or waiting to receive (couple mins download)
3. No need for physical space.
4. Doesn't collect dust.
5. Don't have to worry about customs being dicks.

Though I would buy limited edition copies of games that include art books of art I actually like.


Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Yossarian762 on January 29, 2011, 02:31:10 PM
Worst case scenario: no more physical copies that I wasn't going to buy anyway.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on January 29, 2011, 03:44:20 PM
yeh no a big loss if they discontinue hard copies
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on January 29, 2011, 04:09:57 PM
Ey! I want hard copies! Just not this crap ... gimme some epic game, like Shin Koihime Muso as boxset, and it's an insta buy.
I just don't get how they picked a game which is out since a year (or so), plus the game aint anything great. It's just a solid ( and now fucking outdated ) h-game.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on January 29, 2011, 04:15:42 PM
it is weird why they would chose something old over an upcoming release to start the hard copies with
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: invictus on January 29, 2011, 04:20:55 PM
Well... maybe... There are some people who would buy a hard copy for collection purposes despite having bought a digital copy... I doubt collectors would buy a digital copy if they could get a hard copy of the new games... and since they're collectors they'd likely buy the hard copy anyways... customs really is annoying... but at least a couple H-games don't warrant a broker
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: mahou on January 29, 2011, 04:22:46 PM
Read the interview they give an answer to why. Shuffle! would have been the obvious choice to start with though. In any case using da capo as the base to whether it'll be viable to do hard-copies is a mistake. I would love to be proven wrong though, get buying ;p lol
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: invictus on January 29, 2011, 05:21:02 PM

Read the interview they give an answer to why. Shuffle! would have been the obvious choice to start with though. In any case using da capo as the base to whether it'll be viable to do hard-copies is a mistake. I would love to be proven wrong though, get buying ;p lol

The interview was merely rationalization.  As you said, Shuffle would have made more sense, the shuffle franchise is more popular... but well... it does make sense since they can't sell D.C. 2 as hard copy without selling D.C. first... except I don't like D.C. that much... I really wish more of the shuffle stuff would be translated...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on January 29, 2011, 09:24:37 PM
damnit when will they get around to Shuffle Essence...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on January 29, 2011, 10:51:50 PM
When Shuffle! gets enough sales to satisfy Navel.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on January 29, 2011, 11:36:08 PM
i don't imagine that will be any time soon then
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Yossarian762 on January 30, 2011, 05:44:18 AM
Circus seems to really want to "break" Da Capo to English audiences or something it seems. They should have chosen Da Capo 2 for the first boxed release...probably everybody who'd want the first one has bought it, plus it's just not that great.

Also if Shuffle! is MG's best seller and Navel still wouldn't ok it, well Navel are just dicks. Also other than wanting something that isn't DC I don't get why everybody wants to see more of their stuff, Shuffle! felt at least as wooden and cliche as DC1 and also their characters have the most blatantly, off-puttingly obvious face-recycling ever.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on January 30, 2011, 06:26:48 AM
You've never seen that Da Capo GIF that has been around for a few years, but I agree that Nishimata always uses the same faces.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: mahou on January 30, 2011, 01:35:17 PM
Yep i've never been fussed on Shuffle! or navel's stuff in general, but that's apparently what sells. Overdrive stuff is better, also who holds the rights to the Green Green series now? I would think that would sell well, even has the anime they can use to market it.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Yossarian762 on January 30, 2011, 03:23:19 PM
I only played Edelweiss long enough to determine the translation sucked, but Kira Kira was pretty great - I remember when I was still getting into music and was in my own "early punk" phase where I thought the Sex Pistols were the best thing ever lol

I'll actually buy Edelweiss when the new translation is finished though, no use getting it before then...I hope they'll put it on sale then too  :P
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: invictus on January 30, 2011, 05:24:46 PM
I loved Shuffle... the anime... the game was just... well... I like the anime.  At very least I like Shuffle over D.C. 1, and objectively I think it's a bit better, D.C. 2 is another story though.  But then again... it's not like I've seen much of Shuffle other than the main game... but it does look enticing... that sister girl... person... ya.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on January 30, 2011, 08:25:26 PM
I've been putting off other VNs before I finish Da Capo (I started it many months ago), so that it isn't another incomplete title on my backlog, but there were only 2 routes that didn't bore me to death 90% of the time (Nasu, I forgive you!) and even those could've been better. In comparison, it was a lot easier to go through Shuffle, even though it's no master piece.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Yossarian762 on January 30, 2011, 11:39:17 PM

(Nasu, I forgive you!)

Fate/Stay Night: a VN about food and magibabble, amirite
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: invictus on January 31, 2011, 09:47:52 AM

I've been putting off other VNs before I finish Da Capo (I started it many months ago), so that it isn't another incomplete title on my backlog, but there were only 2 routes that didn't bore me to death 90% of the time (Nasu, I forgive you!) and even those could've been better. In comparison, it was a lot easier to go through Shuffle, even though it's no master piece.

Don't give up hope... D.C. 2 gets better.... =-="
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: mahou on January 31, 2011, 10:22:23 AM
Actually it gets worse, b/c you should have figured out all if not most of the 'mysteries' after a couple of routes, then the rest just seem to drag on. The moe is what got me through, barely. It starts strong, but has a weak finish. Still love Nanaka though <3

Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Yossarian762 on January 31, 2011, 10:31:59 AM
I thought the moe was pretty much the entire point of the series in general. If you play Da Capo for an intriguing story you're doing it wrong. DC2 isn't really original in any way, I think it's just better put together than the original - the funny bits are actually pretty funny, art's better, the progression of the story doesn't feel as disjointed, I don't need a guide to know where to eat lunch, etc

Also fuck you Otome is the best D:
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on January 31, 2011, 10:44:14 AM
I wasn't expecting to read the Iliad, but was it that hard to make it not so painful to go through the story?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on January 31, 2011, 10:46:54 AM
well at least DC2 has the absence of yandere bitch nemu and retard siscon junichi is no longer the MC, that helps
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: mahou on January 31, 2011, 10:51:10 AM

I thought the moe was pretty much the entire point of the series in general. If you play Da Capo for an intriguing story you're doing it wrong. DC2 isn't really original in any way, I think it's just better put together than the original - the funny bits are actually pretty funny, art's better, the progression of the story doesn't feel as disjointed, I don't need a guide to know where to eat lunch, etc

Also fuck you Otome is the best D:

I know. But they could at least make the slice of life more entertaining, the problem is it isn't pure focus on the moe so it feels like the writer is trying to do something with the story for each girl, but it just doesn't hit the mark imo. So while I actually really enjoyed the common route and middle route the end part that involves the girls story is disappointing.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: invictus on January 31, 2011, 06:07:49 PM
That's due to the number of heroines... I never did finish Otome's route... actually I was supposed to do that yesterday... but I never get in the mood after Yume... individually the routes are great, especially if you like moe, but all together... as you said...

However, much better than D.C. 1... I was annoyed to death by Nemu half the time.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on January 31, 2011, 08:54:50 PM
Sorry to interrupt the discussion but I have 2 questions:

1) did they ever release a Kikokugai trans that wasn't based on the Saya engine?

2) I can't seem to get my Hanachirasu working. I install it via applocale, copy the patch in, create a shortcut put it in my special place and run it in applocale. I remember reading it may/may not work with applocale. Anyone know?

3)I'm also looking for Mirai Nikki Scans if anyone has them.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on January 31, 2011, 09:02:46 PM
1) No.

2) I've never touched it.

3) I don't know.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on January 31, 2011, 09:33:02 PM

1) No.

2) I've never touched it.

3) I don't know.

T_T
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on February 03, 2011, 08:22:17 PM
So I started a shared blog. Any thoughts on which eroge I should review first?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on February 03, 2011, 08:29:48 PM
whatever your currently playing?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on February 03, 2011, 09:42:27 PM
I guess I just finished G-Senjou. And a blog post would be a good recap.

Thanks Saz-chan
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on February 15, 2011, 10:22:59 PM
Hey guys, just a heads up, something is wrong with either the Server OS or I might have screwed up SMF either way it's overloading the nic every couple of days or even a matter of hrs. I'll probably take it down for an O/S wipe when I get home friday night, as for SMF I'm still waiting for them to release SMF 2 before making any large changes.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on February 16, 2011, 09:05:17 AM
thanks for the heads up
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on February 16, 2011, 07:14:40 PM
Change of plans, can't go back this week. Carp next week it is.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Yossarian762 on February 23, 2011, 04:50:29 AM
Since this seems to be the random convo topic, anybody playing the Dawn of War 2: Retribution beta?

I've been playing it for a while and went and made this on a lark:

[spoiler](http://i53.tinypic.com/wkigb8.jpg)[/spoiler]

Gonna be crushing heretics and xenos scum in the name of the Emperor and moe~
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on February 23, 2011, 11:10:57 AM
I'm waiting for it's eventual release, that and the 10 patches that will follow it.

And since we have an Inquisitor on the IG campaign, it would be awesome if there were some Inquisitorial units in-game, but they would also be broken as hell against their designated targets. Other than that, it will feel good to bring the Emperor's judgment on Kyras.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Yossarian762 on February 23, 2011, 12:18:32 PM
I preordered mostly for the Chaos campaign. Not that I'm enthused about Eliphas somehow not being dead for good but Chaos is pretty much the coolest faction. I miss having my traitor marines randomly break down cackling like in DoW1 though...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on February 23, 2011, 04:14:30 PM
I haven't played 2 D=

But DoW DC was the besttttttt. I still play it with my friends.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on February 23, 2011, 07:54:52 PM
I'm not a great fan of Chaos, especially Nurgle. At least, Khorne is all RIP AND TEAR.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Yossarian762 on February 23, 2011, 11:21:25 PM
Mostly it's for the marines. Regular Space Marines are kind of bland - I only really play them in multiplayer because they're versatile and forgiving and I suck. Chaos space marines get the extra flavor to actually make them cool.

Also Nurgle is the lamest god yes.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on February 24, 2011, 08:36:51 PM
Is it just me or has imageshack blocked my domain? I went and registered, but I'm not sure it'll pass their review.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on February 24, 2011, 09:02:33 PM
well i have had to re-up my avvy a few times cause imageshack just deletes it or something
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on February 24, 2011, 10:32:50 PM
I haven't noticed any problem.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on February 25, 2011, 06:56:34 AM
I can't see any imageshack pictures at my current place, they are all frogs in an ice cube saying domain unregistered.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on February 25, 2011, 07:32:10 AM
hmmm... weird
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on February 25, 2011, 09:55:01 AM
The imageshack pictures that are posted here appear just fine to me, so could it be ISP related?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on February 26, 2011, 11:42:45 AM
Hmmn It seems fixed now... lol
By the way Kureha One is 2 years old now.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on February 26, 2011, 02:07:50 PM
congratz, so... Kureha One should now be Kureha Two?  :D
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on February 26, 2011, 02:32:31 PM
It's was just called Kureha One on a whim. Since it was the first time I started running the server on my own hardware.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on February 26, 2011, 02:36:29 PM
hmm, interesting...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on February 26, 2011, 07:47:13 PM
HAPPY BIRTHDAYYYYYYY!!!

I haven't been on lately due to: anime club commitments. Fun actually seeing as we do stuff like arcade and play dota and have gaming sessions. uhh also have a job now. Good hours though. I miss you all D=
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on February 26, 2011, 08:26:31 PM
Congratulations!
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on February 26, 2011, 10:27:22 PM

Congratulations!

Thanks. And good luck to you in your job hunting endeavours.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on February 26, 2011, 11:00:10 PM
It was both for you and Kureha, you egocentric! And not even the local supermarkets and fast food restaurants want me.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on February 27, 2011, 05:19:47 PM

It was both for you and Kureha, you egocentric! And not even the local supermarkets and fast food restaurants want me.

You must be really ugly. :L
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on February 27, 2011, 06:14:01 PM


It was both for you and Kureha, you egocentric! And not even the local supermarkets and fast food restaurants want me.

You must be really ugly. :L

Nothing make-up can't fix.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on February 27, 2011, 06:27:19 PM
I don't need any make-up. I'm above average, so I'm pretty confident that the reason isn't my look... But, I guess that my eyes don't help at all, given how bloodshot and swollen they are due to Grave's ophthalmology, it looks more like I'll rape the interviewers and steal their money than that I'm applying for a job.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on February 27, 2011, 06:37:15 PM
Rape them. Do it.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on February 27, 2011, 06:38:54 PM
Then blackmail them for the job?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on February 27, 2011, 06:44:45 PM
That's probably want they want.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Belgaesh on February 27, 2011, 11:26:58 PM

I don't need any make-up. I'm above average, so I'm pretty confident that the reason isn't my look... But, I guess that my eyes don't help at all, given how bloodshot and swollen they are due to Grave's ophthalmology, it looks more like I'll rape the interviewers and steal their money than that I'm applying for a job.

So Mana, you have Grave's disease?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on February 28, 2011, 12:10:51 AM
Yes, I was diagnosed in March 2007.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Yossarian762 on February 28, 2011, 03:34:26 AM
At the grocery store I work at they hired a literal murderer - granted, he didn't murder anybody until a decent while after he was gone, but when he murdered a dude and got in the paper a week or so ago, the people who worked with him weren't at all surprised he'd do such a thing. Also I'm pretty sure one of the stock "boys" is like 40 years old and lives with his mom because he has long greasy hair but is clearly balding.

My point is either my grocery store is fucked up or it takes more than a perma-rapeface to scare those sorts of places away from hiring you.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: mahou on February 28, 2011, 04:12:15 AM
Yeh no kidding, so many crazies and morons seem to be able to get hired.

You could always let interviewers know you have Grave's disease and play the sympathy card. After all when trying to get a job all you need to do is make sure those hiring you get a good impression and believe you're likable (not implying you aren't xD). It's all about selling yourself (not your body ;p) oh unless that's the job you're after.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on February 28, 2011, 08:57:29 AM
It's viewed as a disability due to the need to regularly go to the hospital and it's an automatic rejection card.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: mahou on February 28, 2011, 02:19:00 PM
That's unfortunate. You'll have to forgive me for my ignorant comment before.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on February 28, 2011, 05:02:56 PM
It's not your fault that the worker's rights aren't respected in any way.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: invictus on March 14, 2011, 10:46:03 AM
http://mangagamer.wordpress.com/2011/03/13/guilty-the-sin/ (http://mangagamer.wordpress.com/2011/03/13/guilty-the-sin/)

.... what? lol... didn't they learn their lesson about depravity and extreme content?  Even if most people just don't care, I can just imagine the activists raging already =-=" urgh, I hope this doesn't end up badly...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on March 14, 2011, 11:05:05 AM
What lesson? They never felt any backlash due to the RapeLay fiasco. The only thing that happened was a self-censoring campaign which was really dumb given the content and titles of some of their other titles. Koihime Musou had more reasons to put them into trouble.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: invictus on March 14, 2011, 11:46:50 AM
Koihime has a ton of loli but it's covered with the all characters are over the age of 18 or whatever spiel... it's all consensual anyways.  I thought they were under some pressure, they wouldn't self-censor for no reason now would they?  But seriously, this title has loli sister main heroines... combine loli with incest... I think that's worse off than koihime...

Even if koihime has 2/3 of the main heroines as loli... or 2 loli /6 heroines of the longer routes... or 6 / 19 heroines with sex scenes... wow... that's basically a third... it's more than I thought... but still content wise, it's avoidable and not some mandatory thing.  Fine, I guess koihime might be worse.  Meh.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on March 14, 2011, 02:16:28 PM
I got some grave news for you folks. Mana gets to hold the fort until I can get back to the server sometime in April. Yes, a whole 3 weeks of fun and games with just you guys and Mana!

I can still be online but I won't have physical access to the server for a while. Hundreds of km away from the server.

Technically the server won't be down. Just the IP hopping every 72hrs and no way of getting the IP if the same thing happens again. Maybe we need a twitter account or something lol.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on March 14, 2011, 08:45:29 PM

I got some grave news for you folks. Mana gets to hold the fort until I can get back to the server sometime in April. Yes, a whole 3 weeks of fun and games with just you guys and Mana!

You make it sound like it's a bad thing.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mizuno on March 14, 2011, 09:23:49 PM
lol
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on March 15, 2011, 10:11:34 AM
I don't know who's linking us again on Koihime's thread, but keep doing it and Kureha will have to change to a new address when he gets back.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on March 15, 2011, 09:18:35 PM
So... should we get a twitter account? Would we be able to set it up so both me and all the global mods can post on it?

Oh dear how'ld I get here I not good with twitter!?!

I've honestly never used anything like twitter or plurk or what ever people use these days.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on March 15, 2011, 11:42:22 PM
Me neither, so we would have to mess around with it for a while.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Angelus on March 16, 2011, 01:11:22 AM

So... should we get a twitter account? Would we be able to set it up so both me and all the global mods can post on it?

Oh dear how'ld I get here I not good with twitter!?!

I've honestly never used anything like twitter or plurk or what ever people use these days.

Twitter acccount its a good idea

for example : http://twitter.com/# (http://twitter.com/#)!/Kureha_Forums ?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on March 16, 2011, 01:45:48 AM
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    sloanereinja

    http://kureha.maidlab.jp/ (http://kureha.maidlab.jp/)

There is someone deeply mad with us, which is funny taking into account where they are posting it.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Angelus on March 16, 2011, 01:53:56 AM

ManaYagami 03/15/11(Tue)18:08 No.7100576 Hide ▲ ▼ [ ! ]

    sloanereinja

    http://kureha.maidlab.jp/ (http://kureha.maidlab.jp/)

There is someone deeply mad with us, which is funny taking into account where they are posting it.

a  ManGamer fan?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on March 16, 2011, 01:59:12 AM
That or the typical troll who has nothing else to do.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mizuno on April 03, 2011, 08:57:01 AM
yay it's finally back
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: invictus on April 20, 2011, 02:35:06 PM
It has been ages... hello.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on April 20, 2011, 05:08:31 PM
lol welcome back, I think Tea's still lost out there, somewhere over the rainbow.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on April 20, 2011, 06:05:50 PM
He hasn't bothered me yet, so he could be busy.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on April 25, 2011, 10:31:46 PM
For the record I have been.....

not doing anything. Just thought it would be nice to catch on things rather than stockpiling them. Especially without extra hard drives.

Anyone here played Daibanchou to the end?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on April 26, 2011, 07:39:11 AM
i have yet to even download it...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on April 26, 2011, 02:37:07 PM
Addictive. For some reason Daibanchou > Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together.

Although I did take the afternoon off to watch all of Madoka. <3
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on April 26, 2011, 06:16:39 PM

Addictive. For some reason Daibanchou > Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together.

Although I did take the afternoon off to watch all of Madoka. <3

I actually marathoned Madoka yesterday. Gotta admit all the hype was justified, one of the better animes I've watched.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on April 26, 2011, 07:56:58 PM
What's Madoka and what did I miss? After laughing throughout SEED Destiny, I'm watching Zeorymer right now.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on April 26, 2011, 07:59:49 PM
Madoka is delicious ( or not so, wasn't that much a fan of the artstyle) loli magical girls fighting for their life.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on April 26, 2011, 08:07:51 PM
I've just marked it on my endless "To Watch" list. And with people comparing it to Evangelion on Anidb, how can I take them seriously?

P.S.: Before an Evafag storms in with "You're right! There is nothing as good as Eva!", I don't take those comparisons as compliments.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on April 26, 2011, 08:22:08 PM
Well it should defo take a high spot in your "to watch" list. It's probably the top anime of last season unless blond goth lolis are your absolute fetish. Heck I can't remember any good anime of last year neither, so imho it's the best anime since quite a long while.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on April 26, 2011, 08:43:34 PM
Blond goth lolis? Where? Where?

And I usually watch anime on a whim instead of following the latest seasons. That's why I watched SEED instead of anything that was obviously better like the end of Legend of the Galactic Heroes.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on April 26, 2011, 08:54:44 PM
I've recently finished Fractale, and stuck on ep 11 of Freezing because the place I jump wifi off of decided to filter BT packets. Which means no more BT, I think I might have to get 3G. phhhht I'm spending way too much cash recently.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on April 26, 2011, 09:31:29 PM

Blond goth lolis? Where? Where?

(http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/8957/46490f5a40bcaf2763960f0.jpg)

Gosick on the left, Madoka on the right. Make your choice!
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on April 26, 2011, 10:07:09 PM
I've just finished Zeorymer. It felt incomplete and rushed, even though it was nicely animated and had cool mechas.

I'll just leave Madoka downloading while I go to another job interview. Gosick looks interesting, but I haven't touched an incomplete show in almost ten years.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on April 26, 2011, 10:29:01 PM
I'll take my blond goth loli. show is fairly watchable, get rid of the useless sidekick and it might even be better
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on April 26, 2011, 10:49:24 PM

I'll take my blond goth loli. show is fairly watchable, get rid of the useless sidekick and it might even be better

Awww, dun be so harsh on poor Kudo. At least he aint as useless as most other protagonists.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on April 27, 2011, 03:28:47 AM
An useless protagonist breathing the same air as that blond goth loli? Heresy!
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on April 27, 2011, 04:17:24 AM
But she is SO GODDAMN CUTE >_<

makes me want to watch the show just for her.

Instead I'm downloading Zombie.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on April 27, 2011, 04:30:28 AM
I'll start watching Madoka after dinner. Let's see what will come out of this.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: invictus on April 27, 2011, 10:12:20 AM
Go Sick has bad writing though.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on April 27, 2011, 10:29:33 AM
who cares whats happening, theres Victorica , nuff said
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on April 27, 2011, 11:58:46 AM
It was a lot better than I expected. Some stuff like Homura's past and some of the Soul Gems' "problems" were quite obvious by the second episode, but it also showed how they weren't pulling stuff out of their asses while saying that they were planning for them since the beginning, and everything managed to fit in the whole story.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on April 27, 2011, 05:33:17 PM
It was definitely nice. But then I don't really expect less from Nitroplus. By the way, the artwork was reminiscent of something. Anyone remember? I think maybe a doujin or something maybe...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on April 27, 2011, 05:58:20 PM
I hope that you know that there only was a writer from Nitroplus on the project and that without Shaft, it would never be the same thing.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on April 28, 2011, 05:19:28 PM
Can't fault that logic. I agree the animation was definitely amazing.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on April 29, 2011, 01:49:32 AM
That being said, the BD version improves the TV-broadcast by a huge margin.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: invictus on April 29, 2011, 10:31:06 AM
I loved the despair.  All mahou shoujo should run on it.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on April 29, 2011, 04:46:47 PM
Then everyone of them would turn into the flavor of the season mahou shoujo series. No, thanks!

I still remember when people rediscovered through Evangelion that darker and edgier mecha shows could sell.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: invictus on April 29, 2011, 05:44:32 PM
Actually Madoka wasn't as grimdark as I thought it would be.  Pretty bright compared to Evangelion.  I don't mean they have to be like Madoka but taking a bit of the death death trauma trauma from MLA into various mahou shoujo would be nice.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on April 29, 2011, 10:34:19 PM
And Evangelion compared to the eighties (Ideon, Zeta, etc.) was a walk in the park, but it never stopped people from considering it as a dark setting.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on April 29, 2011, 10:49:52 PM
Anime is now generated to sell to a different target audience. In general, Gen-Y these days can't relate to the hardship that the baby boomers and etc went through (wars and stuff). Less relation, less sell.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on April 30, 2011, 07:24:11 AM
ran into something that was seemed to be stretching the "that loli is not really a loli" (http://exhentai.org/g/360634/7a1024224f/?r=65962) cliche a bit much
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on April 30, 2011, 07:54:00 AM
If I had a grandmother like that, things would be different around here.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on May 01, 2011, 01:38:14 AM
I hate the sadpanda pic I seem to get alot. Like the one in Sazabi's post for example.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on May 01, 2011, 01:49:18 AM
They must really hate your ISP.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Sicksorrow on May 01, 2011, 01:55:09 AM
Damn I mean what happened? Do people keep reporting you or?

I mean it's one termination after another... I ain't complaining but damn that sux.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on May 01, 2011, 01:57:22 AM
I guess people hate me...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on May 01, 2011, 01:59:01 AM
Someone keeps reporting K1 on the viral marketing threads that MG makes on /jp/.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Sicksorrow on May 01, 2011, 02:02:59 AM
I knew it was some ass.... :-\

Maybe make it a private tracker/forum for torrents instead?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Ivan on May 01, 2011, 02:29:41 AM

I knew it was some ass.... :-\
Last adress got posted by someone named "VXT" - it seems like ManaYagami knows something about him, since he replied "It's just someone who wants attention and who gets frustrated about the fact that we don't lose time arguing with him."

Maybe make it a private tracker/forum for torrents instead?
It shouldn't be a problem anymore - with proper, paid domain name registar won't suspend it at first copyright notice.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Sicksorrow on May 01, 2011, 02:44:34 AM


I knew it was some ass.... :-\
Last adress got posted by someone named "VXT" - it seems like ManaYagami knows something about him, since he replied "It's just someone who wants attention and who gets frustrated about the fact that we don't lose time arguing with him."

Maybe make it a private tracker/forum for torrents instead?
It shouldn't be a problem anymore - with proper, paid domain name registar won't suspend it at first copyright notice.

Ahh I see well that's good....
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on May 01, 2011, 02:49:22 AM
I've always been against the idea of a private forum. I hate the crappy sites that force you to join to view things, forcing users to jump through multiple hoops against their will is bad. I would have enabled anonymous posting too but last time I tried it we got huge amounts of spam.

Most of the visitors come and go, occasionally we get a few people that stay and contribute. It's a nice small community in my opinion. We don't have useless epeen stroking stats, nor do we force people to post useless comments like 200+posts of thanks for the post. Thanking someone is ok but I just feel that we don't need whole threads of the same repeating comments like other forums. It's just a waste of space.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on May 01, 2011, 02:55:39 AM
It's not like I know who it is, but it's always the same person and opposite of what's expected, we don't go into dramas about it. That doesn't stop him from going on with it, but it's better than making us look like asses.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Ivan on May 01, 2011, 03:16:49 AM
I would have enabled anonymous posting too but last time I tried it we got huge amounts of spam.
Install akismet plugin for smf - it does great job on my site - i'm getting insane ammounts of spam ( Akismet has protected your site from 26,414 spam comments already. ) on my site and i saw only few comments improperly marked by it.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on May 01, 2011, 03:19:11 AM
Trying to keep a low amount of packages installed so that the upgrade to 2.0 is less of a headache.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on May 01, 2011, 05:16:09 PM
All well and good. So Kureha, what are the options we're looking at to stop all this stuff?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on May 02, 2011, 07:42:40 AM
Hopefully we won't have domain problems until the next April as that's how long I bought the domain name for.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on May 02, 2011, 12:22:36 PM
I'm changing to Win7. Goodbye dear XP. T_T
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on May 02, 2011, 12:32:55 PM
I've been using W7 for since the 6k beta builds.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: godgrinder on May 02, 2011, 02:19:01 PM

By the way, the artwork was reminiscent of something.

hidamari sketch
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on May 02, 2011, 09:25:11 PM
Never did Hidamari Sketch. Something else. But certainly now that you mention it, it might have been a 4koma...

*installed win7. What's WAT remover's for? I didn't activate it, but I did update windows. Dunno if I'm doing something wrong, how do I even know?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on May 04, 2011, 01:30:34 PM
Don't use WAT remover, that doesn't work anymore after SP1.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on May 04, 2011, 07:40:08 PM
What do I do? I mean it's working fine, but I'm kinda worried...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on May 04, 2011, 07:46:56 PM
I'ld suggest Daz Loader...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on May 05, 2011, 06:44:28 AM
I've been wondering, why do people fill in fake emails and then expect the forgot password function to work? I've been getting bounced emails recently. Also a few people subscribed to the sticky but also used fake email addresses.

For example trek001 has used the forgot password function but he has filled his email as noone@nospam.com

He is never going to get his password back this way. I would have deleted the account on sight but it has made posts.

I think I need to start to have people verify their emails before their accounts go live.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Khilandros on May 05, 2011, 07:17:47 AM
Yeah, Probably a good idea to do the verify email setup.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on May 05, 2011, 02:18:45 PM
I finished Hanachirasu. <3 goddamnnnnnnnnnnnn

But uh yeah. yeah...;-; Akane.

Also how do I play this mini game?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on May 05, 2011, 09:18:44 PM
Someone down at /jp/ is mad, real mad, mad enough to be an imposter of mana.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on May 05, 2011, 09:27:07 PM
That's why I bothered to get a trip. I was expecting something like that to happen. And he is so mad that he even uploads virus and announces them as being the crack.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on May 05, 2011, 09:31:43 PM
Aint that just one of Manas split personalities ?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on May 05, 2011, 09:33:49 PM
actually that tinyurl just pointed to the mangagamer site
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on May 05, 2011, 09:39:47 PM
Oh, and here was I expecting that the MG devs were trying harder.


Aint that just one of Manas split personalities ?

I'm pretty sure of myself when I'm being bipolar toward someone and that's not me.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mizuno on May 06, 2011, 01:11:02 AM
oh shi- I got a 5 day ban from 4chan(requesting warez)
wtf all I did was spam "torrent where?" on that thread, dammit MG dev XD

time to change IP =D
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on May 06, 2011, 01:16:32 AM
Now that you talk about it, so was I. Haha, MG is completely mad.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mizuno on May 06, 2011, 01:34:45 AM
lol really?! wow yeah they mad
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Khilandros on May 06, 2011, 01:41:37 AM
Yeah, I saw that. I suppose it is to be expected from there :/
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Ivan on May 06, 2011, 01:49:56 AM
Don't think it has anything to do with MG. Some mod just cleaned that topic, since out of 150 posts about 100 were "download where?" "torrent where?" and "crack where?"
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on May 06, 2011, 02:22:47 AM
They could have reported the posts as "illegal content", which seems to be the case.

EDIT: My ISP screwed me. Even though I have a dynamic IP, it changes only when they want it to and not when I disconect the router for a while. I'l just have to use good old Tor.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on May 06, 2011, 07:12:22 AM
whats 'tor" ?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mizuno on May 06, 2011, 10:05:26 AM
ok! now using my neighbor's wifi XD
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on May 06, 2011, 10:08:51 AM
I don't have a neighbor with wifi lol, I either use the IP I was assigned to at work, which is locked to a MAC address, or I use a borrowed 3G modem which is also static IP. It sucks to be so far away from home and away from my dynamic FTTB.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Ivan on May 06, 2011, 01:13:14 PM

whats 'tor" ?
http://www.torproject.org/ (http://www.torproject.org/)
Basically - us navy project for total anonymity online. nowadays used by pedophiles, carders, Chinese dissidents, trolls and people avoiding ip bans.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on May 06, 2011, 01:22:06 PM
looks useful, althought dont think i will need it just yet, seems a bit restrictive for general browsing
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on May 06, 2011, 05:52:52 PM

looks useful, althought dont think i will need it just yet, seems a bit restrictive for general browsing

That's why I got sick of it, and started following the threads on easymodo.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on May 07, 2011, 01:04:40 PM
been watching Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko (http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=7903), heroine Erio (http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=character&charid=26009) is cute, while Meme (http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=character&charid=26010) reminds me of Yasuko (http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=character&charid=6937). Her behaviour is just asking for a hentai conversion  :D  Mako-kun (http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=character&charid=26006) reminds me of Mikado (http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=character&charid=12150)

all the side characters are pretty amusing 
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on May 08, 2011, 08:48:54 AM
d'aww. I saw a bit of that. Can't wait till season end.

Went out drinking Korean style. Got so smashed :D

It was fun. Not the throwing up part.

1 run through of BBA down. 6 more to go?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on May 08, 2011, 07:31:22 PM
Um... can someone tell me what happened to tokyotosho.info?
Did it move? I'm lost without it.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on May 08, 2011, 08:20:22 PM
yeah site offline, have not been able to access for awhile.

IRC = status [offline]



looks like its back now
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on May 09, 2011, 05:53:47 PM
We were debating the other day about how Tsukihime and Fate were longer than The Lord of the Rings and, I've just found this gem (http://agtp.romhack.net/pantheon/index.php?topic=386.msg10161#msg10161) about Super Robot Wars Alpha's translation project:
Antialias did some calculations; Alpha apparently has as many words in it as 1.56 copies of War and Peace.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on May 09, 2011, 06:20:49 PM
lol Eastern Epics were always more epic than anything western. Monkey Magic? All those martial arts ones that get shown on TV? so freaking awesome. We should have a Monkey Magic VN. :0
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: invictus on May 09, 2011, 06:38:56 PM

lol Eastern Epics were always more epic than anything western. Monkey Magic? All those martial arts ones that get shown on TV? so freaking awesome. We should have a Monkey Magic VN. :0

Monkey Magic?  As in this thing?  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_Magic_%28TV_series%29 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_Magic_%28TV_series%29) ?? O.O
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on May 09, 2011, 07:01:21 PM
thats just one incarnation of the story. "Journey to the West" is the original tale
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on May 09, 2011, 08:48:33 PM
Yeah that's the title. There are also a few others I like but I can't translate to English >_<
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on May 09, 2011, 09:30:20 PM
theres also the "Condor Heroes" saga
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on May 09, 2011, 11:10:59 PM
Monkey Magic... What am I reading?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: invictus on May 09, 2011, 11:24:31 PM
I saw a bit of the show by accident on youtube or something.  It was pretty bad.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: prettz on May 10, 2011, 05:17:23 PM

We were debating the other day about how Tsukihime and Fate were longer than The Lord of the Rings
would it be better to compare Fate length to all the Harry Potter books combined then The Lord of the Rings?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on May 10, 2011, 05:30:58 PM
If I wanted to go that way, I would've just picked up the entire Dune saga or anything even longer than that, so no.

The Lord of the Rings was written as a single book and was only divided into three parts due to the publishers not wanting to release something so massive. Fate and Tsukihime were also written and released as a whole, so it's dumb to compare them to an entire saga when they are obviously single volumes.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on May 10, 2011, 06:43:32 PM
Although there are routes....
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on May 10, 2011, 07:09:08 PM
Welcome to 1976, enjoy your stay! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choose_Your_Own_Adventure)
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: ZeroBoY on May 11, 2011, 10:57:42 AM
Umm... Sorry for bothering you guys...
Can someone tell me on how to subscribe to the thread about this website name?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on May 11, 2011, 11:50:53 AM
in that sticky, click the notify, make sure you have a valid email
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: ZeroBoY on May 11, 2011, 12:09:18 PM
Thanks a lot ^^
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on May 11, 2011, 07:31:59 PM
I've got a question. I was playing Daibanchou and I've just finished my second play-through, but my character clears didn't save?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on May 12, 2011, 11:53:13 AM
I got bored so today I started mining BitCoins. Personally I don't think I'll get anywhere as I'm only pushing 1.6Mhash/s with no GPU support. Crappy work computer.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on May 12, 2011, 03:37:19 PM
^ English please
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on May 12, 2011, 03:42:38 PM
Just went through that introductional video for Bitcoins. Are they really that great as they claim ? =P
The idea seems interesting enough, just wondering how far it can take you.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on May 12, 2011, 03:57:25 PM
BitCoin is an distributed encrypted online currency. You can earn BTC by running a client like GUIminer. Think of it as like Folding@home but you get payed for it.

No idea. The exchange rate is @1BTC to $5USD and you can exchange them for prepaid virtual Visas. I'm just trying it out to see if it actually works. If it does I'll use it to pay for extra years on the domain. If it works out in the long run I suppose we can have people donate spare time to mine BTC(BitCoin).

I've run it for a good part of the day and I've made 0.00069663 BTC so far... lol.
They say it works best when you have a newer ATI card.

Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on May 12, 2011, 04:55:52 PM
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade#Games

Well from what I've read on their site, you can also earn Bitcoins, by doing stuff like playing enjoyable browser games and selling the ingame currency for Bitcoins!

-BitGames, Play games and get paid in BTC! Free of charge!
-Mine Things, Browser-based MMO. Free to try; in-game capital sold for BTC.

Now doesn't that sound fun ?!

Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on May 12, 2011, 05:59:48 PM
Some folks in /g/ claim to make $30 per day with their ATI cards.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on May 12, 2011, 06:11:04 PM
Wow, thats pretty good money. I guess you can let that programm run while you're out ? Seems like a really decent boost to your income.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on May 12, 2011, 06:22:30 PM
sounds more profitable to do than folding@home. too bad my graphics card is about to die  :-\
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on May 12, 2011, 06:49:49 PM
Heh the problem is that I'm only generating 7.5Mhash/s compared to the 300~400Mhash/s others are making. I only have a 9500Gt here. Anyone else want to help calculate Mhashs? I can make additional subminer accounts. All you need to run is GuiMiner on your spare time.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on May 12, 2011, 06:50:31 PM
nvm!
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on May 12, 2011, 06:57:28 PM
This seems interesting, and laplacian, I don't think that's how it works. (http://www.newslobster.com/random/how-to-get-started-using-your-gpu-to-mine-for-bitcoins-on-windows)

EDIT: For the interested who haven't found it yet. (http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=3878.0)
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on May 12, 2011, 07:11:54 PM
I currently have 0.00125935 BTC so it'll take me like I don't know how long to make 1 BTC which is like 5USD lol. At the current rate I probably won't make 2 BTC in the whole year with my current hardware. I can't really move my setups to ATI based because of my need for CUDA. I believe there is a 3% transaction fee and other things.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on May 12, 2011, 07:27:18 PM
Bah, I can't be really bothered with that. Sitting at 66Mhash/s with a gtx560ti, while people get 250+ with equivalent ati cards.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on May 12, 2011, 07:40:02 PM
This really makes me put a halt on my plans to acquire a cheap 550ti I really need the CUDA, but nvidia cards aren't good with mining.

66Mhash/s is 6 times the amount I'm generating using two computers lol.

(http://img546.imageshack.us/img546/4955/btcy.jpg) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/546/btcy.jpg/)

Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on May 12, 2011, 08:02:05 PM
Hm the GUIMiner software tells me I got 66Mhash/s on average, but the website tells me it's roughly around 100Mhash/s. Anyway, I've made 0.02427092 BTC in an hour, doesn't seem like a good rate.
Ah well, I can't let it run anyway, on holidays so I need my pc, and it's defo too loud to let it run overnight.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on May 12, 2011, 08:07:03 PM
Oh wow, you've made more in an hour than I did in a whole day.
I guess it's just not plausible for me with my current hardware configurations to have it generating enough to pay for itself and generate excess income for upgrades.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on May 12, 2011, 08:19:27 PM
Well yeh, but I still need 41.2015696 hours to get 1BCT ... I prolly use up more than 5 dollars on my electricity bill by than, seeing how my fan goes pretty much max speed non stop.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on May 12, 2011, 08:42:36 PM
The part about needing recent hardware to make it profitable kind of ruins it.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on May 12, 2011, 09:21:37 PM
Hmmmm sounds interesting. What's it actually mining though?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Ivan on May 13, 2011, 02:29:02 AM

Hmmmm sounds interesting. What's it actually mining though?
Probably cracking hashes or something like that.
I'm trying this out now - going steady at 50Mhash/s.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on May 13, 2011, 06:08:31 AM
I have 0.03BTC now which is like 15cents. Well at least I'm running it on free electricity.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on May 13, 2011, 10:26:44 PM
For the people that could have missed it, JAST has announced another release while everyone is waiting for Demonbane. (http://www.jastusa.com/yukkuri-panic-escalation-is-coming)
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: invictus on May 13, 2011, 11:34:00 PM
It's a Yuri arcade game?  O.O ... that's... kind of niche...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on May 14, 2011, 02:45:04 AM
If they wanted to see if they had a market for yuri titles, they should have licensed a standard VN. I bet that there are people who would be willing to buy it if it wasn't for the gameplay.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on May 14, 2011, 06:56:11 AM
so apparently jast thinks the latest craze is making announcements after announcements  ::)
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Jaooooo~ on May 15, 2011, 08:11:14 PM
Shit.

It took me way way way too long to find this forum again.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on May 15, 2011, 08:16:11 PM
Sup bro~
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on May 15, 2011, 10:07:17 PM
You should subscribe to Kureha's sticky (http://www.vn-meido.com/k1/index.php?topic=878.0). Things will probably be smoother from now on, since Kureha is paying for the current domain, but we never know what can happen.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Jaooooo~ on May 15, 2011, 10:18:00 PM
Already have done, and thanks.

I was reading the demonbane thread on /jp/ and somebody was 'They have the game up in nine parts on K1' and I was like '....wut'
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on May 16, 2011, 11:47:05 AM
I'm so glad I have Mana on MSN at my beck and call *coughjustgowithitcough*
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on May 16, 2011, 04:35:38 PM
Don't give them hope that I'll eventually be nice to them.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on May 16, 2011, 05:00:42 PM
lol touche
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on May 16, 2011, 05:28:53 PM
Technically I'm contactable via the same address you get the forum notices from. I don't really spread the word because I might get spammed.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on May 16, 2011, 05:41:36 PM
I have just started down the path to taking Kureha home with me. OH MY LOVE!

/crazy guitar solo

....Doctor West is getting to me...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on May 16, 2011, 07:23:56 PM
Well, I can leave a mail on my profile for people to spam, but don't expect me to open it every day.

EDIT: It's done! And it won't get worst than it already is, I'm even spammed with "job offers" that "will get me 3000€/month". If only they knew how much I hate them for it.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on May 17, 2011, 07:24:02 PM
Um... I made my very first BTC! Except I have no idea on how to turn it into actual cash lol, most of the inbetween services aren't available in my country.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on May 18, 2011, 08:38:06 AM
I usually don't do this, but I'm so pissed off right now that I have to let it go. My older brother has barged into my grandmother's house (where I live) and started yelling with my mother because of the lawsuit against his daughter on the juvenile court. I said to him to keep it down if he wanted to be taken seriously and he just threatened to hit me while pushing me with his chest. I pushed him back and said again to keep it down. After all that, he proceeded to keep arguing with our mother in a normal tone and ,after a hour or so, he went home without even saying goodbye. When he faced me he must have thought that I would hide in my room just because I'm a NEET. Tough luck!

And I'm still pissed off with the way he walked in yelling and punching the dinner table like he was on his own home.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on May 18, 2011, 09:03:15 AM
I personally wouldn't have allowed him to stay that hour. Trespassing and threatening with violence is enough reason to chase him out with whatever you deemed necessary.

What are you letting go?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on May 18, 2011, 09:06:51 AM
I don't have a say in that matter, but that's what I wanted to do with him.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on May 18, 2011, 07:46:58 PM
I guess I know what you mean. It's not polite to be violent and rude especially in someone else's house. At least you weren't hypocritical.

Re-playing FF8 on PSP. feels great nostalgia.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on May 18, 2011, 08:55:32 PM
annoying thing about FF8 was monsters levelled up with the main character, and you could not take him off your team to level up either
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on May 18, 2011, 09:12:02 PM

annoying thing about FF8 was the entire game

I've fixed that for you.


At least you weren't hypocritical.

That's why my family avoids confronting me. They prefer being all fake smiles and to badmouth me on my back.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on May 19, 2011, 02:22:30 PM
The whole society is all fake smiles, sparkles and bubbles.

Well I have two bitcoins right now, just gotta figure out how to convert that to cash, or some kind of donation service that won't get chomped down.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on May 19, 2011, 02:35:28 PM
shallow world is shallow
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on May 19, 2011, 03:02:20 PM
And that's why clash with it.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on May 25, 2011, 12:29:08 PM
*gasp* *pant* *gasp* haaaaaaah haaaaaaaah. Man NTR is good shit. Like drugs.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on May 25, 2011, 02:02:51 PM
... I could do without it though, it just makes me dislike real life even more, because these things do happen in real life.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on May 25, 2011, 03:28:13 PM
>dislike real life even more.

The whole reasoning to NTR maybe? I don't know why I like it. But sure makes me cynical too.

Also, boys and girls, rape is bad.

Just downloaded Microsoft XNA framework 4.0 and .NET framework 4.0 to play Terraria. What else can that stuff do?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on May 25, 2011, 07:21:56 PM

*gasp* *pant* *gasp* haaaaaaah haaaaaaaah. Man NTR is good shit. Like drugs.

I wonder how long it will be until it's a requirement to cut off your balls before enjoying any kind of NTR. It'll be fun to watch you trying to resist it.


Just downloaded Microsoft XNA framework 4.0 and .NET framework 4.0 to play Terraria. What else can that stuff do?

That's a good question. I also had to install it before being able to play Terraria. And talking about Terraria, you have v1.0.2, right?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on May 25, 2011, 08:26:19 PM
Yup. Also, cut off my balls what?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on May 25, 2011, 09:07:18 PM
You know that you wouldn't be able to resist it.

As for Terraria, I started with 1.0.1 right in the middle of a desert. Every time that I placed a sand block, I would pick another one. It got to the point that I could create entire mountains made of sand. Fortunately, that was fixed.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on May 25, 2011, 09:46:00 PM
are you guys talking about this? (http://www.terraria.org/) , it looks kinda ugly
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on May 25, 2011, 09:51:41 PM
Fortunately, I'm not a graphics whore and I can enjoy it.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on May 25, 2011, 10:29:21 PM
I personally think Love Death 555 online mode with AGTH is fun.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on May 25, 2011, 10:44:00 PM
Online mode and AGTH? And here was I thinking that the standard use of AGTH was a form of masochism.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on May 26, 2011, 10:03:18 AM

Fortunately, I'm not a graphics whore and I can enjoy it.

kinda reminds me of snes graphics, i can accept the graphics, but they actually expect money for it?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on May 26, 2011, 10:58:50 AM
There are renowned game companies recycling the same graphics year after year and asking for the full price of a brand new game, so why not?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on May 27, 2011, 11:01:11 PM
Besides, it's cracked already.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on May 28, 2011, 11:47:22 PM
Question: How do I find korean porn?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: invictus on May 29, 2011, 06:55:48 AM
AGTH is too much trouble unless you already know some jap =-="" it's helpful if you're patient though...

In any case, Terraria seems popular these days but I don't get why...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on May 29, 2011, 09:23:39 PM
People will hate me for this, but it's Minecraft without motion sickness inducing graphics.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on May 30, 2011, 07:40:36 PM
+ bosses and super cool items.

Hosting a server on Hamachi, not sure how many I can/want to support. I suppose I could let a few more on, but we're a fairly tight knit group on there, so you'll have to abide by the rules....anyway, No one for Korean porn?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on May 31, 2011, 07:26:13 AM
Porn is illegal in Korea. South Korea even blocks porn sites.
If I remember correctly it's illegal to manufacture and even bring porn into the country.
Personally I'm not interested in the land of plastic.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on May 31, 2011, 07:34:52 PM
I had no idea. Thanks Kureha.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: syous on June 01, 2011, 08:06:22 AM
The problem with Terraria is...griefing.
Griefers everywhere! Can't even construct a base on a random server without it being griefed by people roaming with 10000 dynamites.

Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on June 01, 2011, 10:11:15 PM
Play with friends like I am.

In fact they want me to stop hosting because my net is touchy T_T

Apparently they want a dedicated webserver with command line access. Anyone know free ones?

^no idea what I'm talking about but just what I got from the gist of it.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: mahou on June 09, 2011, 08:24:18 AM
So Duke Nukem Forever is out finally out (well the leaked complex & duplex releases). Anyone else already playing, going to buy or both?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on June 12, 2011, 05:07:40 PM
Mmmm I don't think it'll run on my laptop. Can't even run Prototype without heating up after all. Although really I want Deus Ex. Need a new comp I suppose...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on June 12, 2011, 06:41:51 PM
the best my computer can run is starcraft.... the old one  :D
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on June 12, 2011, 06:42:30 PM
I had to put it down after a couple of hours due to motion sickness, but it's really fun.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on June 12, 2011, 08:04:47 PM
Oh wow haha.

I'm currently on an E3300 @ 3.33ghz on the stock heatsink. This computer is only supposed to last me til the end of the year hence the suicide run.

I've got some good news and bad news, the good news is that Kureha One is getting a upgrade from 10M/2M FTTB to 50M/3M FTTB, this increases the ISP fees from 34.7176 USD to 41.6681 USD. The contract has been signed for 2 years.

The bad news is that 41.6681 USD is almost 1/4th of my monthly salary lol. Oh and the router upgrade we had last year? I RMAed it around November last year, I think it's becoming flaky again, or it could be the modem for the fiber that is going bad. Hopefully the ISP will change it out for a new one when they come to setup the 50M/3M. Some where along the line is crashing around 2~3 times a week.

Paypal is being an ass and although they did deduct the verification fee from my debit card, I can't find the verification code anywhere.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: mahou on June 14, 2011, 07:41:03 AM

Mmmm I don't think it'll run on my laptop. Can't even run Prototype without heating up after all. Although really I want Deus Ex. Need a new comp I suppose...

Not into console gaming?

I can't run to much on pc since I only have my laptop, but i'll probably get a my friend to build me a new pc when he's done with his.


the best my computer can run is starcraft.... the old one  :D

Really? You're missing out on SC2.


I had to put it down after a couple of hours due to motion sickness, but it's really fun.

It's a little disappointing after 13 years, but fun for what it is.


Oh wow haha.

I'm currently on an E3300 @ 3.33ghz on the stock heatsink. This computer is only supposed to last me til the end of the year hence the suicide run.

I've got some good news and bad news, the good news is that Kureha One is getting a upgrade from 10M/2M FTTB to 50M/3M FTTB, this increases the ISP fees from 34.7176 USD to 41.6681 USD. The contract has been signed for 2 years.

The bad news is that 41.6681 USD is almost 1/4th of my monthly salary lol. Oh and the router upgrade we had last year? I RMAed it around November last year, I think it's becoming flaky again, or it could be the modem for the fiber that is going bad. Hopefully the ISP will change it out for a new one when they come to setup the 50M/3M. Some where along the line is crashing around 2~3 times a week.

Paypal is being an ass and although they did deduct the verification fee from my debit card, I can't find the verification code anywhere.

Kureha taking donations yet?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on June 14, 2011, 08:12:25 AM
Still waiting for the verification code to appear in my statement to get verified.
Do I need a Premier account or Business account to accept donations?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: mahou on June 14, 2011, 08:26:09 AM
No idea. I have no experience when it comes to setting up accounts to receive donations. 
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on June 14, 2011, 06:34:01 PM
I've only used Paypal to make payments, so I can't say.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: gimlianon on June 15, 2011, 12:16:15 AM
I dunno if this is the right place for this, but seeing as this discussion is relatively active, I figured I ask here. Does anyone know what happened to Sanity Ends translations? The guy's website is down and he's not at his irc anymore. Again, if this isn't the right place to ask this, my bad.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on June 15, 2011, 02:20:30 AM
Actually good question, does anyone know? My favourite translator T_T
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: gimlianon on June 15, 2011, 02:31:36 AM
Indeed. His stuff was/is quality work. That and he's like 45% through translating Kangoku Senkan 2... Hopefully he'll be back one day.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on June 15, 2011, 02:56:45 AM
Lol that guy is nearly as bad as jast. Don't expect any release of him anytime soon.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: gimlianon on June 15, 2011, 03:11:51 AM
Well, to be fair, it is just the one guy. In any case, it's not that no progress has been made, it's that he's disappeared from the internet entirely.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on June 15, 2011, 03:27:33 AM
I'm not bitching about his speed, but about his 20+ delays on lilia for the most bullshit reasons you can make up =P
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on June 15, 2011, 03:32:00 AM
A single guy is entitled to delay I think.

A company that expects pay is not entitled.

Something like that yes?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on June 15, 2011, 05:09:15 AM
Nothing bad about delays. But giving out false release dates all the time, while knowing perfectly well he can't keep them is just trolling.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on June 15, 2011, 07:49:34 AM
And releasing a partial parch that's just a rewrite doesn't help him one bit.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on June 15, 2011, 11:51:12 AM
oh? which release was that?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on June 15, 2011, 04:59:22 PM
Forget about it, I mistook it with someone else.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on June 18, 2011, 09:58:58 PM
I just took a look at the calender and saw that I've missed quite alot of people's birthdays. Sigh...
There are quite a few this month too.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on June 18, 2011, 11:17:00 PM

I just took a look at the calender and saw that I've missed quite alot of people's birthdays. Sigh...
There are quite a few this month too.

Hmmm?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on June 19, 2011, 12:47:25 AM
So many birthdays on April... I'll just add mine.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on June 19, 2011, 12:52:46 AM
You're April too eh?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on June 19, 2011, 12:57:44 AM
Yeah, April 18th.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on June 19, 2011, 02:47:31 PM
oh the Calendar is American or something. Summer solstice my ass
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on June 20, 2011, 09:54:27 AM
No one cares about the Southern Hemisphere.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on June 20, 2011, 10:04:38 AM
In the south, there are penguins and kangaroos.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on June 20, 2011, 04:37:01 PM
Those poor animals! I completely forgot about them.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on June 21, 2011, 09:21:21 AM
Ok, so after jumping through hoops to get my paypal account verified, I've come to the conclusion that I'm not able to accept donations even with a premier account. I guess that brings me back to square one lol. Should I look into something like google adsense? Is that a viable solution? Or is that just going to be an annoyance and be blocked by everyone's Ad blocker anyways?

We also seem to have an influx of spammers from russia and china recently even with the email verifications. I'm resorting to banning email providers and IPs when they end in random garbage.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on June 21, 2011, 11:03:10 AM
it does appear the recent spamming has increased  compared to usual
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on June 21, 2011, 08:42:38 PM
I guess I clicking on an ad once in a while would be something everyone could do, but it really would ruin the cleanliness of the forum which is something I quite enjoy.

You got another site we can go click ads on? Oh and liked the updates banner we had on the old forum, that might be an idea?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on June 21, 2011, 09:09:15 PM
You mean the news banner? It's still up there, on the right corner.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on June 23, 2011, 08:52:54 AM
oh I shrunk it. Right.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Ivan on June 24, 2011, 01:30:45 AM

Ok, so after jumping through hoops to get my paypal account verified, I've come to the conclusion that I'm not able to accept donations even with a premier account. I guess that brings me back to square one lol. Should I look into something like google adsense? Is that a viable solution? Or is that just going to be an annoyance and be blocked by everyone's Ad blocker anyways?

We also seem to have an influx of spammers from russia and china recently even with the email verifications. I'm resorting to banning email providers and IPs when they end in random garbage.

You won't get paid by google, since your site violates google TOS ( adult content, piracy) - after you reach 100$ in your account you will be manually reviewed by one of google employees and your account closed without being paid. You might want to try adbrite/blacklabelads but they have terrible rates ( i got paid 100$ from them once, but it took 3,5 milion impressions to get it, so i took ads off as soon as i reached minimum payout ammount ). Other ad networks that would both accept your forum and offer somehow decent rates have too obtrusive ads to even consider them if you care about your community. Donations should be the way to go for you - even if you can't accept donations directly, by putting button onsite, you can just write your paypal adress so that people can manually send money. You might also check chipin.com, but i never used them, so i have no idea if it works.

As for spammer problems - they are using Xrumer ( http://www.botmasterru.com/ (http://www.botmasterru.com/) ) - really advanced bot, that can register on forums, confirm accounts with built-in pop3 client and post messages/send PW automatically. Don't know about SMF but in vbulletin it can be blocked quite easily by adding additional question during registration ( for example "two times three = ?" ) - people running those bots care only about quanity - they don't review each forum on their list to find out answers for questions - they can get 200 more forums in same time. by adding security question like that you should cut spam down by like 95%
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on June 25, 2011, 10:01:25 PM
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

カーニバル・ファンタズム オープニングPV (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVZz1NnqOh8#ws)
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on June 25, 2011, 10:45:41 PM
Wait what is this? Cross over OVA?

Just enabled captcha for people with a post count of less than 10. Hopefully it'll help slow down the spam that we've been getting recently.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on June 26, 2011, 08:43:51 PM
I believe so.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on June 26, 2011, 10:40:42 PM
http://www.japanator.com/rejoice-lunatics-this-is-type-moon-s-carnival-phantasm-19754.phtml (http://www.japanator.com/rejoice-lunatics-this-is-type-moon-s-carnival-phantasm-19754.phtml)
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mizuno on June 27, 2011, 07:36:17 PM
going to install Daiteikoku
so uh can someone translate the 3 options for me? thanks

(http://img810.imageshack.us/img810/7018/daiteikokuinstallation.jpg)
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: firehawk1234 on June 29, 2011, 06:07:53 AM

Indeed. His stuff was/is quality work. That and he's like 45% through translating Kangoku Senkan 2... Hopefully he'll be back one day.
I'm just wondering, has a partial patch of KS2 ever been released?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: mahou on June 29, 2011, 02:11:41 PM

going to install Daiteikoku
so uh can someone translate the 3 options for me? thanks

(http://img810.imageshack.us/img810/7018/daiteikokuinstallation.jpg)

Save folder location

1. My Documents Folder
2. Application Data Folder
3. Install Folder (I guess where you install the game.)

Even if you couldn't understand this you probably have already installed the game no problems.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on June 29, 2011, 05:13:30 PM
How does anyone feel about a subscription button? I don't mind as long as there isn't a minimum amount, I can donate a dollar per time?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on June 29, 2011, 11:11:07 PM
Fees, fees everywhere.

Is it just me or is 4chan down? (frontpage)

Added a few themes, and a few little functions to the forum.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mizuno on June 30, 2011, 03:45:27 PM


going to install Daiteikoku
so uh can someone translate the 3 options for me? thanks

(http://img810.imageshack.us/img810/7018/daiteikokuinstallation.jpg)

Save folder location

1. My Documents Folder
2. Application Data Folder
3. Install Folder (I guess where you install the game.)

Even if you couldn't understand this you probably have already installed the game no problems.
oooohhhh thanks a lot!
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: mahou on June 30, 2011, 07:43:27 PM
No problem.


Fees, fees everywhere.

Is it just me or is 4chan down? (frontpage)

Added a few themes, and a few little functions to the forum.

I seem to be able to see the front page, so could just be you unless it happens to be working for you as of this post.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mizuno on June 30, 2011, 08:15:23 PM
there are times recently were 4chan's frontpage is down for me too
well as long as you can access the boards then it's okay
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on June 30, 2011, 09:04:26 PM
I barely use the front page, so I didn't notice anything.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on July 05, 2011, 10:57:30 AM
Sharin is nice. SHARIN IS SO NICE T_T

donmai, watashi~

^ where is that from by the way? I heard Ririko say it but it sounds so familiar...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on July 08, 2011, 09:36:31 AM
So, who's got Google+? Anyone want an invite? We could start a VN-Meido circle or something.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on July 08, 2011, 10:33:07 AM
Lets

EDIT: got the invite, they've exceeded capacity, try again later. Thanks
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on July 11, 2011, 06:03:07 PM
Manyuu Hiken-chou,  (http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=8338)something to distract us with until the next season of queens Blade?  ;D
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on July 13, 2011, 07:39:50 PM
Google+ let me join. So what do I do next?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on July 19, 2011, 09:36:28 PM
Um invite more people? lol
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on July 21, 2011, 06:55:11 AM
Monmusu Quest! ~Makereba Youjo ni Okasareru~ (http://vndb.org/v5657)seems full patch is out, anyone tried it out yet?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on July 21, 2011, 06:13:22 PM

Monmusu Quest! ~Makereba Youjo ni Okasareru~ (http://vndb.org/v5657)seems full patch is out, anyone tried it out yet?


It's a pretty fun game, you should try it.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on July 21, 2011, 06:48:09 PM
yeh it does look interesting, however zombie screenshot is kinda a put off

yah, im a trainee now  :P
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on July 21, 2011, 07:40:53 PM
A lot of monsters are hit or miss =P It's just one scene for each monster though, so should be something in there for everyone.
Plus the game in itself is pretty fun, it got nice character interactions and the battles are interesting.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on July 21, 2011, 09:56:37 PM
I've just created an empty Facebook account to shut up my younger brother and a friend, but why is the "People You May Know" list full of people that I haven't talked to in more than 7 years through other aliases, e-mails and even only on IRC, and that not even my friends know them? Seriously, that's messed up.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on July 21, 2011, 10:01:55 PM
Facebook intrudes upon everything that you might have in skype, or email/contact list, basically everything that has a partnership with facebook will get loaded and suggested, and even people you've never met but are friends with your friends will get suggested.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on July 21, 2011, 10:12:27 PM
The part about intruding i already knew, but the problem is that none of those people are in any of my contact lists anywhere or are friends of my friends.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on July 21, 2011, 10:14:40 PM
They are watching you. If you use a name long enough it'll appear in google searches and other things. Or someone's been clicking on suggest this person to manayagami
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on July 21, 2011, 10:31:26 PM
I only used Mana-sama at the time, so they are probably going by the first name. It's on their blacklist or something like that. lol
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on July 22, 2011, 01:51:14 PM
Why is everyone going on facebook now? We have Google Plus and that Anon one right?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on July 22, 2011, 02:23:33 PM
I don't really go on facebook, I just get nagged to go on there and reply to their pokes.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on July 22, 2011, 04:46:44 PM

Why is everyone going on facebook now? We have Google Plus and that Anon one right?

Because facebook has way more users than google plus and anon together ?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on July 22, 2011, 06:23:45 PM

I don't really go on facebook, I just get nagged to go on there and reply to their pokes.

This! I've avoided it until now, but I've a 12 year old brother using it daily.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on July 24, 2011, 02:13:38 PM
I mean I guess I have it, and use it everyday, but can't we all migrate?

well, I don't know what it's like to get nagged to go on.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: inferno_flamex on July 25, 2011, 12:52:08 AM
... ... ...

...
Hell yessss Im back!. Finally found the site again...
I miss you guys!... I love you guys... ... ... ... ...

Kureha, Tea, Mana, Lappy, Sazabi... Now lets have a group orgy! <3


... ok. Back to topic... ... ... Uhhh...
Facebook. Right... .. Create an online alias like i did... one account is my personal one, the other is fo my anon buddies online...

PS. Glad to be back here again... ... AGAIN. lol

Im just saying that if you have more than maybe perhaps 400 friends, you need to delete somebody non-important to save you from spammage
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on July 25, 2011, 05:24:49 AM
lol welcome back!
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on July 25, 2011, 06:40:40 AM
Welcome back flamex, I'ld pass on the orgy part though.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on July 25, 2011, 07:31:41 AM
welcome back
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on July 25, 2011, 06:46:03 PM

Hell yessss Im back!. Finally found the site again...

Welcome back!


Facebook. Right... .. Create an online alias like i did... one account is my personal one, the other is fo my anon buddies online...

I don't even bother with the personal one.


I mean I guess I have it, and use it everyday, but can't we all migrate?

To what? The same thing under a different name?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on July 25, 2011, 09:30:05 PM
I don't like supporting facebook. Well I only have one for IRL...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: inferno_flamex on July 25, 2011, 09:58:03 PM
I understand the hate of Facebook, the privacy thing and all... But I must admit, its quite useful in catching up with people you dont really have any, uhm... first-hand contact with anymore...

You can be like...

'Hey! Its not like Im doing this for your sake or anything, I dont really care'...

and the next post to another dude would be...

'Woaaaaaaah! You're getting married man? Congrats, invite me to the wedding...'.. kinda thing...

And then... 'Finding true love means, finding someone who loves you more than you love yourself; & vice-versa'... As a status update...

Which is pretty fast response, and almost real-time ish...

... ... not that I care if you guys use facebook  or anything... ... Although I would like to add you guys... <_<
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on July 25, 2011, 11:35:33 PM

I don't like supporting facebook. Well I only have one for IRL...

I hate it and I had it blocked on my mails for several years, but I won't defend an alternative that tries to carefully word in a different way the same features that they share.


I understand the hate of Facebook, the privacy thing and all...

Like Google, right?

... ... not that I care if you guys use facebook  or anything... ... Although I would like to add you guys... <_<

You can do it, just don't expect to see much about me over there.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on July 27, 2011, 04:36:40 PM
I refuse, it being my IRL account and all.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: inferno_flamex on July 27, 2011, 11:32:56 PM
... ... I've assumed you guys watched this then...

The Beast File: Google ('HUNGRY BEAST', ABC TV) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7yfV6RzE30#ws)
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on July 31, 2011, 05:02:46 AM
I hadn't watched it yet, but that's exactly what I was talking about.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on August 01, 2011, 03:26:49 PM
Laptop is finally broken. Requesting information on a good one. I'm thinking, can run 1080p, not too big on new release games, cheap, something that will last a while, HDMI out if possible. What kind of specs am I looking at?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on August 01, 2011, 03:33:04 PM
New laptop? Um Acer Aspire One 722 1.0ghz AMD C-50 HDMI cheap 1080P capable(screen 720P) up to 7hrs batt life.

http://laptop-computer-planet.com/blog/2011/07/02/acer-aspire-one-722-tested-1080p-video-okay-and-near-7-hours-battery-life/ (http://laptop-computer-planet.com/blog/2011/07/02/acer-aspire-one-722-tested-1080p-video-okay-and-near-7-hours-battery-life/)
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on August 01, 2011, 04:51:06 PM
I love you.

Have I mentioned that before?

I love you

Still, not what I was looking for. After my initial panic due to laptop dying I've had a harder look, I'm thinking 15", I would want to play D3 on it, the usual 1080p capability, HDMI output, 4 USB ports or more, battery life is a bonus, but not absolutely necessary, I don't know what processor I would be using or graphics card. I'm thinking 500GB hdd, 7200RPM. So I guess I'm asking for Processor and Graphics. Anything else anyone can think of?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on August 01, 2011, 05:48:07 PM
Most laptops come with 3USB ports.

http://us.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/model/LX.RHQ02.021 (http://us.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/model/LX.RHQ02.021)
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on August 01, 2011, 06:35:00 PM
My budget is again $1000AUD. Althought this time I definitely can't get a laptop. Welp....I do like the look of both Acers, but I'm in Australia and I'm not sure if they ship in. D= DILEMMA. I WANT MY LAPTOP NOW T_T

...why did she just die like that..
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on August 01, 2011, 06:47:46 PM
Well... If you can cough up 200 more AUD you could afford it.
http://www.acer.com.au/ac/en/AU/content/compare/LX.RGL02.032-LX.RHQ02.017-LX.RHJ02.010 (http://www.acer.com.au/ac/en/AU/content/compare/LX.RGL02.032-LX.RHQ02.017-LX.RHJ02.010)
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on August 01, 2011, 07:11:05 PM
I can't really tell the difference between the one in the middle and the one on the right hand side.

I can make the price difference, but it will mean waiting longer that's all. =\ Is it really worth the extra money? I actually didn't mind the one you had.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on August 01, 2011, 09:48:40 PM
The middle one and the one on the right have different dedicated GPUs. I think that's the difference, I don't know why they are priced the same though. Whether or not it's worth the money depends on how much performance you actually want.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on August 02, 2011, 11:49:26 AM
Enough to play D3
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on August 02, 2011, 11:51:11 AM
Actually I want the AS5830TG 6402
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on August 02, 2011, 11:58:01 AM
Haah, also seems in Australia you can get the G75 for about 1k. Gonna look for more
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on August 02, 2011, 12:16:40 PM
Got the one in the middle for $990, +40 express postage + 20 insurance. I guess it's alright
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on August 02, 2011, 04:00:20 PM
Green_Tea
Knight of (bad) Monologues!
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: inferno_flamex on August 02, 2011, 10:26:20 PM
& here i was just about to recommend the ASUS brand... ... ...

To be honest, nothing good to look at since its bulky and almost always black... But hey specs wise, it provides the most bang for your buck... I'd take ASUS over Acer any day... ... Acer has a bad rep here.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on August 03, 2011, 07:41:44 AM
I wouldn't touch Asus with a 1 mile pole. The place I work at right now has over 300 Asus desktops ranging from P4s to i7 940s most of them are failing within their warranty period. All the A5/T5 series laptops have been replaced more than once and the place is now replacing them with HPs.

I gave my dad an original AAO that got into an accident involving it flying a few meters down the street in my msger bag. Still works to this day never had to send it in for repairs.

As for the multiple EEEpcs I've had, I've had to send the 900 in 2 times to get it's motherboard replaced during the warranty period, the 702 died under an yr and a half and the 1008HA fried it's non user replaceable battery after an yr and 2 months.

I build/fix computers as an side job and I've had to replace motherboards ranging from melted southbridges to RMAing a board 3 times because of a faulty IO ports.

The "only" Asus product that I own that still works is the board that powers this forum. I only got it because Gigabyte didn't make a board with the same specs. The motherboard for K1 is still under an yr old.

I sold off my old TravelMate 3002 to one of my friends a couple of years ago, it's about 5~6 years old now and still running. He liked it so much when he first got it that he went out and bought another one, so he actually has 2, one for his wife, one for his son.

Asus parts like graphics cards are lousy pieces of overpriced shit, gigabyte makes the same cards they do with better solid caps ferrite chokes and dual layer copper PCBs. Asus Royal service centers are a joke compared to other brand service centers. 2 weeks for a motherboard RMA a month and a half for a EEEPC RMA. I had to bring it in and pick it up myself.

All acer products sold locally have a 58mins quick fix policy, they either fix it under 58mins, or they give you a temporary one until yours is fixed. That's how much resources they dedicate to their customer support.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: inferno_flamex on August 03, 2011, 08:31:33 PM
Ahhh.. but that's the strange thing here...

For some otherworldly reason, ASUS had developed a sort of 'trusted' image here locally... & I've never met someone who owns an ASUS & it breaks within warranty...

Our Acer here, on the other hand... ... ... pretty much behaves very much like the ASUS you describe in your post Kureha. From the laptop themselves, down to their customer service & repairs... ... ... Total crap. >__>

Strange...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: kyomarou on August 04, 2011, 11:16:45 AM
Man, how long has the site been back? I'm so behind....
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on August 04, 2011, 11:36:26 AM
I guess I should have modified posts. Blehhhhhhhhhh. Laptop should be coming in today so I'll can check my stuff. Far I feel out of it.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on August 04, 2011, 11:54:35 AM

Man, how long has the site been back? I'm so behind....

I think I bought the domain name in April. So, a few months.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on August 04, 2011, 03:04:19 PM
I have her.

This is Touka. Say hi.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on August 04, 2011, 04:23:34 PM
I can think of more than one Touka off the top of my head but the main one has bird wings for ears.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on August 04, 2011, 06:45:18 PM
KnK Touka. She's blue after all
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on August 05, 2011, 10:31:32 AM

I wouldn't touch Asus with a 1 mile pole. The place I work at right now has over 300 Asus desktops ranging from P4s to i7 940s most of them are failing within their warranty period. All the A5/T5 series laptops have been replaced more than once and the place is now replacing them with HPs.

I gave my dad an original AAO that got into an accident involving it flying a few meters down the street in my msger bag. Still works to this day never had to send it in for repairs.

As for the multiple EEEpcs I've had, I've had to send the 900 in 2 times to get it's motherboard replaced during the warranty period, the 702 died under an yr and a half and the 1008HA fried it's non user replaceable battery after an yr and 2 months.

I build/fix computers as an side job and I've had to replace motherboards ranging from melted southbridges to RMAing a board 3 times because of a faulty IO ports.

The "only" Asus product that I own that still works is the board that powers this forum. I only got it because Gigabyte didn't make a board with the same specs. The motherboard for K1 is still under an yr old.

I sold off my old TravelMate 3002 to one of my friends a couple of years ago, it's about 5~6 years old now and still running. He liked it so much when he first got it that he went out and bought another one, so he actually has 2, one for his wife, one for his son.

Asus parts like graphics cards are lousy pieces of overpriced shit, gigabyte makes the same cards they do with better solid caps ferrite chokes and dual layer copper PCBs. Asus Royal service centers are a joke compared to other brand service centers. 2 weeks for a motherboard RMA a month and a half for a EEEPC RMA. I had to bring it in and pick it up myself.

All acer products sold locally have a 58mins quick fix policy, they either fix it under 58mins, or they give you a temporary one until yours is fixed. That's how much resources they dedicate to their customer support.

I've personally seen several Acer laptops being RMA'd after only a year of use, but my personal experience with Asus products isn't any better. For example, my older brother (the one that I'm not into so bad terms with him) bought everything to build a new desktop and both the graphics card and motherboard were from Asus' midrange, but they wouldn't work with each other. When he went to the store, they tested the graphics card right in front of him, everything was fine with it and they eventually replaced it for a similar MSI that still works flawlessly, after 3 years. And let's not forget about XFX's customer support, where they refuse to replace a high end motherboard that has a little more than a year just because they don't have another one to replace it, besides the fact that it's 2000MHz DDR3 support was so bad that it didn't recognize memories that were on it's compatibility list and that work just fine on a 60€ Gigabyte motherboard, the cheapest one they had on the store.


I have her.

This is Touka. Say hi.

I've never named any of my computers, I usually treat them as "piece of garbage" and several thing worse than that. Now that I think about it, that's probably why they tend to blow up so often.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on August 05, 2011, 10:48:07 AM
My netbook is named Mafuyu, server is named is name Kureha (hence why the forum was named Kureha One), work computer is named Chizuru, next thing I build will probably be named Kurisu. Router/network is named Setsuna. Chisame's computer is named Chisame.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on August 05, 2011, 11:47:31 AM
so Kureha is slowly increasing the numbers of your harem huh?  ;)
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on August 05, 2011, 12:55:41 PM
Not really Chizuru isn't mine, it's the office computer. The router/network was named on a whim and changing it will involve alot of things I'm too lazy to do. Netbook is called Mafuyu because I just happened to see (http://www.vn-meido.com/k1chan/o/src/131104842487.jpg) at the time.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on August 05, 2011, 01:21:26 PM
that was a pretty funny series, amazing they managed to pull off having a series set in the student council room for like 3/4 of the time
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: inferno_flamex on August 07, 2011, 10:31:27 PM
Heh... ... I usually call my laptop... "Wife no.1..."
PSP is "Wife no.2"
PS3 is "Wife no.3"... ... ... ...

Never really gave them names... although I must admit, sometimes I unconciously call them 'baby' somewhere in the back of my mind... >_>

Which reminds me, I too had recently bought a brand new laptop... ... Been customizing it to be able to suit my needs with the programmes and stuffs... ... including torrents and VNs...

... Sadly, I forgot, how I got all those Japanese VNs games require a Japanese locale to work right off the bat. Without applocale and stuffs... Maybe its a region setting.. >_<
Any ideas guys?


... ...
PS: Say 'Hi' to... Uhhh... *thinks of a name*... ... ... Uhhh... ... Agggh.. forget it... "SOUL System OS Mk.2"...
*imagining its some sort of Gundam OS*


Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: bakuman on August 08, 2011, 09:04:24 AM

Heh... ... I usually call my laptop... "Wife no.1..."
PSP is "Wife no.2"
PS3 is "Wife no.3"... ... ... ...

Never really gave them names... although I must admit, sometimes I unconciously call them 'baby' somewhere in the back of my mind... >_>

Which reminds me, I too had recently bought a brand new laptop... ... Been customizing it to be able to suit my needs with the programmes and stuffs... ... including torrents and VNs...

... Sadly, I forgot, how I got all those Japanese VNs games require a Japanese locale to work right off the bat. Without applocale and stuffs... Maybe its a region setting.. >_<
Any ideas guys?



Go to control panel in region and language, you  go to administrator tab and then you see idiom for non Unicode program, you click in change system locale and select japan,after that reboot the pc.

PS:i hope that it helps because my computer is with windows in portuguese so i`m not sure if they are the correct names. :)
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on August 08, 2011, 09:23:26 AM
That's something I don't do as it messes up for all the other east asian language support.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on August 08, 2011, 02:01:56 PM
I played LIMBO, and downloaded Alice - Madness Returns.

I have no privacy to really play H-games unfortunately =\
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: inferno_flamex on August 08, 2011, 07:10:49 PM

That's something I don't do as it messes up for all the other east asian language support.

Its quite troublesome I admit to see moonspeak Japanese on an English installer.. ... but I dont really mind it that much since English has always been my 'default'...

Oh yeah... Thanks to that guy who told me about that Unicode thing.. Yep.. Had to do alittle searching but its exactly what I wanted...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on August 08, 2011, 07:56:24 PM
Ok so a while back I said I was mining bitcoins. I had an ewallet @ mybitcoin.com, and recently their security was breached, and long story short, I lost around 100bux USD of bitcoins. That's around half of the total amount of Bitcoins that I've mined during this time. Fear not! As I've already converted 100USD worth of bitcoins to prepaid visa and then into my domain account. So while I lost almost half of what I mined, the other half has already been safely put away and the domain's future for the next year is safe, just waiting for them to run a discount on renewals and I'll renew the domain for as long as that amount will buy.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: inferno_flamex on August 09, 2011, 12:37:03 AM

Ok so a while back I said I was mining bitcoins. I had an ewallet @ mybitcoin.com, and recently their security was breached, and long story short, I lost around 100bux USD of bitcoins. That's around half of the total amount of Bitcoins that I've mined during this time. Fear not! As I've already converted 100USD worth of bitcoins to prepaid visa and then into my domain account. So while I lost almost half of what I mined, the other half has already been safely put away and the domain's future for the next year is safe, just waiting for them to run a discount on renewals and I'll renew the domain for as long as that amount will buy.


... That's good news... ... ... but yet strangely not so good news... ...

Well, always look on the bright side of life? >_>
Sorry for the losses tho. Money is still money... ... Sure, its a good thing to have you manage to salvage the rest of the money... but money is still money... ... ... ... hmm.

...
anyway... need help... Any of you guys know some good Registry Cleaners... ... Priority on FREE... I've got some 'free' cleaners that only does free scanning, and upon fininishing scanning they told me to buy the product, the 'free' being the scanning... Total crap ... Any kind soul to share with me your register key? >_> ... Doubt theres any tho.. lol

... Since I've changed my unicode to Japanese, my VNs have been fine... .. The problem lies in the games that I tried (and failed) to install before that. Cant seem to uninstall the normal way. I believe something went wrong mid-installation, and now I cant even uninstall it, nor find it in my drive manually...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on August 09, 2011, 02:21:01 AM
First, return your locale to your original settings, then use ccleaner.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on August 09, 2011, 07:17:57 PM
anyone know this girl?

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2z3urg0&s=7 (http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2z3urg0&s=7)
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on August 09, 2011, 08:02:51 PM
intersteller assassin (http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=character&charid=2357)
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on August 09, 2011, 08:36:27 PM
Yami-chan! My favorite from To-Love-ru
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on August 09, 2011, 11:00:35 PM
Oh right. I never did finish that manga... Thanks guys.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on August 09, 2011, 11:45:24 PM
can't blame you, rito ranks pretty high on the worthless male leads scale
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on August 10, 2011, 01:41:22 AM
Is that worth it?


can't blame you, rito ranks pretty high on the worthless male leads scale

It's a shame that I've never seen another protagonist along the lines of Ataru. It's not like there was any story to follow on Urusei Yatsura, but it was fun.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: inferno_flamex on August 11, 2011, 01:10:41 AM
Fictional worthless male leads in a harem, makes the males in the real world think that there's still 'hope' for them... ... well not all guys from the real world. but you get the point.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Yossarian762 on August 11, 2011, 06:45:00 AM
I play VNs more than I watch anime because if I'm going to enjoy trashy wish-fulfillment harem stuff, I'd like to get some actual sex in. Nothing worse than a tease that never delivers...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on August 11, 2011, 08:44:01 AM
I tend to not have the time or privacy to sit down for 30hrs and read a VN.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on August 11, 2011, 08:52:21 AM

Fictional worthless male leads in a harem, makes the males in the real world think that there's still 'hope' for them... ... well not all guys from the real world. but you get the point.

this argument has always puzzled me, is it meant to imply being more of a loser increases your chances of getting a harem?  :o
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on August 11, 2011, 11:30:07 AM
I hope that no one really thinks that way.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Yossarian762 on August 11, 2011, 12:15:43 PM


Fictional worthless male leads in a harem, makes the males in the real world think that there's still 'hope' for them... ... well not all guys from the real world. but you get the point.

this argument has always puzzled me, is it meant to imply being more of a loser increases your chances of getting a harem?  :o

I don't think he worded it very well but the idea is that a dorky loser more closely resembles the target audience, which makes them better identify with dorky-loser protagonist so they can vicariously live out wishes of having lots of cute girls hanging around them despite doing nothing to deserve it.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on August 11, 2011, 12:21:05 PM
lol, reminds of daria , 'sick , sad, world'  :D
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on August 11, 2011, 04:31:24 PM
You mean I should stop pretending to be a loser and actually go talk to girls if I want to get a girlfriend? Preposterous!
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: inferno_flamex on August 11, 2011, 10:04:06 PM
... .. The reverse is also true.

The more of a 'loser' you are; the higher your chances of having a romantic harem in your own fiction.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on August 12, 2011, 04:29:35 AM
Because the people who write successful romantic harems continue being losers if they ever were one.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on August 12, 2011, 08:03:03 AM
so instead of making it for losers to think they have a chance, its more the producers are projecting themselves as the leads in those games ;D
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on August 12, 2011, 09:50:42 AM
I have to start warning that I'm using sarcasm.

Why would anyone who is experiencing success on his career be a loser? Their main characters can be self inserts that can accomplish their unfulfilled dreams, but if they can make more money from it than what they need to support themselves, I don't see why they should be labeled as that.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on August 12, 2011, 12:29:00 PM

I have to start warning that I'm using sarcasm.

Why would anyone who is experiencing success on his career be a loser? Their main characters can be self inserts that can accomplish their unfulfilled dreams, but if they can make more money from it than what they need to support themselves, I don't see why they should be labeled as that.

for both producers and target audience, how convenient  :)
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on August 21, 2011, 10:09:41 AM
Is it just me or is K1 getting a drop in visitors and activity?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on August 21, 2011, 11:41:03 AM
43 people online today isn't anything out of the norm. We were getting more than 60 visitors per day a short time ago, but it could have been related to certain releases. And the lack of activity is the same as always besides when we are harassing someone.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on August 21, 2011, 12:06:22 PM
175,757 visitors in July 127,435 so far this month. 319,252 back in Feburary, so we're getting less than half the visitors we used to.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on August 21, 2011, 12:09:27 PM
There are people like Nanaya who only found K1 again a short time ago. Most of the visitors are probably still looking for the old address.
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Post by: sazabi on August 21, 2011, 03:01:41 PM
thats probably the biggest issue, the constant change of address
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Post by: Kureha on August 21, 2011, 06:26:26 PM
Let's wait for the day that K1 returns to it's former glory lol.
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Post by: Green_Tea on August 22, 2011, 02:29:48 PM
I guess there haven't been as many new releases as there were back in feb as well? We had a few good runs then right?
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Post by: mahou on August 22, 2011, 03:19:21 PM
Hm pretty sure it took me about a month to find the site again after the change. Though I just assumed it died xD
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Post by: Mana on August 22, 2011, 09:32:28 PM

I guess there haven't been as many new releases as there were back in feb as well? We had a few good runs then right?

The same run that led to all the previous addresses' death, Koihime Musou's release.
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Post by: Green_Tea on August 22, 2011, 10:19:46 PM
yah that's the one.
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Post by: Yossarian762 on August 24, 2011, 04:39:58 AM

Hm pretty sure it took me about a month to find the site again after the change. Though I just assumed it died xD

Yeah I thought the same thing for a couple months before randomly stumbling over it again. To think, I almost started using other, inferior, sites for my VN needs...
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Post by: Green_Tea on August 24, 2011, 01:59:19 PM
I haven't really got anything up for discussion at the moment anymore. Life's a drag, dragging me into the bottomless pit of mundanity.


I've been out of the weeaboo loop for a while, what's news?
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Post by: Kureha on August 25, 2011, 12:17:17 AM
Site wise, the router crashes every week. Anime wise, I don't know I'm a season behind.
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Post by: Green_Tea on August 25, 2011, 10:22:43 AM
I was thinking manga/vn.
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Post by: sazabi on August 25, 2011, 10:26:20 AM
now that carnival phantasm has been released, i checked out the source material, take moon, its good, of course you need to been at least vaguely familiar with nasuverse to really appreciate most of the stuff
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Post by: inferno_flamex on August 25, 2011, 07:05:05 PM
Anime?... ... ... ... ...


... ...


...
What's that? >___>


...
...... Yes, life's mundanity robs us of our passion and imagination with each passing day... Thank god there's still K1 with its sparkly and nice things to help me... When I find the time in life's constant attempt at my well being.
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Post by: Yossarian762 on August 25, 2011, 11:31:27 PM

now that carnival phantasm has been released, i checked out the source material, take moon, its good, of course you need to been at least vaguely familiar with nasuverse to really appreciate most of the stuff

I'm pretty sure anybody who'd be into the Nasuverse enough to check it out is a sperglord anyway so it's all good.

I'm gonna have to check out this Carnival Phantasm stuff...
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Post by: Green_Tea on August 26, 2011, 11:28:51 PM
What's a sperglord?
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Post by: Yossarian762 on August 27, 2011, 01:02:40 AM
Somebody with no life or social skills who instead spends their time being a shut in who obsesses over the minutiae of trivial stuff, like Star Wars or the Nasuverse. Refers to Asperger's Syndrome (from wiki):
"Asperger syndrome or Asperger's syndrome or Asperger disorder  is an autism spectrum disorder that is characterized by significant difficulties in social interaction, along with restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests."

obviously I was using it jokingly since I'd be calling myself a sperglord in my last post
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Post by: Green_Tea on August 27, 2011, 01:39:57 AM
<3 Nasuverse
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Post by: sazabi on August 27, 2011, 06:45:23 AM
new word for urban dictionary huh?
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Post by: inferno_flamex on August 27, 2011, 08:50:37 PM
... hmmm.. I need to take note of this... So how do we pronounce this, 'spurglord?'
..


... I think I might have mispelt it right there... ... need moar training.
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Post by: Yossarian762 on August 28, 2011, 05:29:19 AM
since it's a word I've only seen on the internet, your guess is as good as mine  :P

but that's how I'd say it too
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Post by: Mana on August 29, 2011, 08:41:08 AM
I'm more used to the assburgers, but that also works.


I haven't really got anything up for discussion at the moment anymore. Life's a drag, dragging me into the bottomless pit of mundanity.

I can't even say that, my life is still as boring as it was 2 years ago. I just don't feel like lurking and posting.
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Post by: Green_Tea on August 29, 2011, 05:30:39 PM
I guess I have work at least.
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Post by: Kureha on August 29, 2011, 06:29:50 PM
Still waiting to get out of my currrent job situation and go back home.
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Post by: Green_Tea on September 05, 2011, 02:34:43 AM
Anyone know where I can obtain HQ scanlations of HxH?
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Post by: Mana on September 05, 2011, 07:37:14 AM
Is that going anywhere? I stopped reading by the end of Greed Island when I read that there weren't that many chapters after it.
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Post by: Green_Tea on September 05, 2011, 03:29:38 PM
I dunno, havent' started yet. I took a look at the online reading quality and decided I should download it if I don't want to permanently damage my eyes. more so lol
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Post by: Mana on September 05, 2011, 05:42:23 PM
I can look for what I have and upload it, if you want me to.
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Post by: Green_Tea on September 06, 2011, 09:26:00 AM
Um, if you don't think it would take too long, sure. Otherwise I'm happy just to wait for an already uploaded batch.
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Post by: Mana on September 06, 2011, 09:57:47 AM
Let me take care of Sharnoth and I'll upload it later today.

EDIT: Forget about Sharnoth, someone already took care of it, so give me a couple of hours.

EDIT 2: Here is the Mediafire folder that I'l be using: http://www.mediafire.com/?ywy4ov1aii7ry (http://www.mediafire.com/?ywy4ov1aii7ry)

EDIT 3: Done!
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Post by: Green_Tea on September 10, 2011, 12:52:29 PM
I love you <3 Reading online is like pulling a tooth out except you have to stop and wait every 5 seconds. D=
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Post by: Green_Tea on September 10, 2011, 12:59:33 PM
By the way, anyone playing Bastion? Goddamn it gets hard with those idols.
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Post by: Kureha on September 10, 2011, 04:35:21 PM
It loads decently enough on my 50mbps fiber, but still a pain in the ass.
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Post by: Green_Tea on September 12, 2011, 05:52:02 PM
=\ Fun fun fun game. Fwopfwopfwopfwopfwop
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Post by: Kureha on September 15, 2011, 12:14:33 AM
So, I think there is progress with the Steins; Gate translation project from what I've read on http://boards.4chan.org/a/res/54673420 (http://boards.4chan.org/a/res/54673420)
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Post by: Zetsu on September 15, 2011, 10:59:09 PM
Hmm. Speed of TL is impressive, but that may affect quality of final release.
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Post by: saihamaru on September 16, 2011, 03:22:20 PM
well, as long as it's not affecting the story, and more importantly, understandable... then it's okay
i don't really care about grammatical error or typo
after watching how the anime's end, i really want to play it...
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Post by: Green_Tea on September 17, 2011, 06:38:56 PM
I downloaded Sengoku. It's pretty fun. Anyone want to try their multiplayer with me?
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Post by: mahou on September 19, 2011, 04:02:43 PM
Anyone planning on getting Dark Souls?
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Post by: laplacian on September 19, 2011, 04:27:03 PM
Already preordered it.
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Post by: mahou on September 19, 2011, 07:22:29 PM
Nice, PS3 or Xbox?

PS3 for me. I've already planned to take payed leave a day after release, four day weekend yey!
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Post by: laplacian on September 19, 2011, 07:49:06 PM
I'll be getting the ps3 version, though I prolly wont play it when it comes out. I tend to get too absorbed in good games so I'll prolly wait till xmas time or something.
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Post by: Yossarian762 on September 20, 2011, 01:33:28 AM
I preordered Dark Souls for the PS3 literally as soon as I found out such a thing was possible (so a couple months ago). Was on a pretty huge Demon's Souls kick at the time, it's probably the most fun I've had with a console game in a long time.

Maybe I should take a day or two off from work for it too, haha. I can't take any paid days, but my schedule is pretty flexible and my boss is pretty good about granting requests for particular days off...I preordered it from Amazon, though. I'm not sure if they usually do delivery on release day or what, since I've never preordered from them.
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Post by: mahou on September 20, 2011, 04:19:13 AM

I'll be getting the ps3 version, though I prolly wont play it when it comes out. I tend to get too absorbed in good games so I'll prolly wait till xmas time or something.

Busy with study or something I take it? It's good to have finished studying xD


I preordered Dark Souls for the PS3 literally as soon as I found out such a thing was possible (so a couple months ago). Was on a pretty huge Demon's Souls kick at the time, it's probably the most fun I've had with a console game in a long time.

Maybe I should take a day or two off from work for it too, haha. I can't take any paid days, but my schedule is pretty flexible and my boss is pretty good about granting requests for particular days off...I preordered it from Amazon, though. I'm not sure if they usually do delivery on release day or what, since I've never preordered from them.

I'm pretty sure Amazon will ship before release day, but as to when it'll get to you will depend of shipping chosen and where you live. I've only bought one thing from Amazon ever with cheapest shipping and it came when they said it would so pretty happy with it.
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Post by: laplacian on September 20, 2011, 05:37:50 AM
Yeh it's my last year, glad it's all over soon. Though you barely learn anything useful at university, so I'll prolly be busy enough getting the proper skills for my workplace lateron.
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Post by: Ivan on September 20, 2011, 12:06:22 PM

Yeh it's my last year, glad it's all over soon. Though you barely learn anything useful at university, so I'll prolly be busy enough getting the proper skills for my workplace lateron.
Ye, i hear you. I have one semester left as well, and i learned absolutely nothing during that 3 years.
I already made my project for my engineer's degree thesis, just need to make technical documentation for it, and i'm done. For a moment i was even considering dropping out, since it's such a waste of time, i could spend developing another websites, as I'm already earning close triple of my country's average salary, and i can't think of one reason what that degree would be usefull for me( i can't imagine working 9-5 for someone), but when my parents learned about it they went ballistic. When my mother announced that she won't die in peace if i don't get that stupid degree(i'm certain that's some left-over mentality during post-communist transformation, when everyone thought that getting higher education is a key to leading succesfull life), i gave up.
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Post by: Kureha on September 20, 2011, 02:59:26 PM
School life was shitty for me, but the work I'm doing right now is equally shitty. I'm not even sure what kind of job I should get next January with my degree.
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Post by: mahou on September 20, 2011, 04:22:46 PM
Indeed degrees are overrated. In the end getting a job is all about knowing the right people.  Once you have a foot in the door for your first real job, getting another one is easy. Experience >>>> Degree.
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Post by: Mana on September 20, 2011, 04:26:54 PM
The problem is when you don't know the right people and your eyes make you like a junkie, bloated and red.
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Post by: Green_Tea on September 20, 2011, 06:17:37 PM
This little sheep is gonna get a degree anyway. Hopefully it'll be of some use to writing stories.
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Post by: Kureha on September 21, 2011, 07:34:03 AM
I don't have any experience or know the right people. I hate how society runs this way.
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Post by: Yossarian762 on September 21, 2011, 10:31:56 AM

Indeed degrees are overrated. In the end getting a job is all about knowing the right people.  Once you have a foot in the door for your first real job, getting another one is easy. Experience >>>> Degree.

College is a good place to make connections, though. My sister's an aspiring cartoonist, and she openly admits her school taught her very little she didn't already know, but the internship she got through it is about to hire her for real, and the guy running the place thinks she really has talent and is negotiating to get her a really awesome illustration job too.
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Post by: Mana on September 21, 2011, 04:20:35 PM
College? What's that?
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Post by: mahou on September 21, 2011, 04:43:52 PM

I don't have any experience or know the right people. I hate how society runs this way.


It sucks right? Either you get lucky or you work your ass off. Or you go into illegal activities or find a loophole to exploit.

Of course you don't even have to live earning heaps of money. As long as you earn enough to live in a way which is comfortable for yourself what more do you need?



College is a good place to make connections, though. My sister's an aspiring cartoonist, and she openly admits her school taught her very little she didn't already know, but the internship she got through it is about to hire her for real, and the guy running the place thinks she really has talent and is negotiating to get her a really awesome illustration job too.

True. The point is that it isn't the be or end all, which is what they seem to make you think while you're at school.
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Post by: Kureha on September 21, 2011, 10:10:13 PM
Living on 200usd a month for salary sucks. I can't afford upgrades and keep things running this way.
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Post by: mahou on September 22, 2011, 04:27:56 AM
Ouch, I can't even imagine trying to live on just 200USD a month. Figured out how to take donations yet?
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Post by: Kureha on September 22, 2011, 01:28:51 PM
Sadly no...
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Post by: Green_Tea on September 22, 2011, 03:49:08 PM
depends where you are. I know my friend can buy a new computer for 200 usd and that's pretty good for a month's wage.
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Post by: sazabi on September 22, 2011, 04:24:18 PM
indeed, its all relative, i'd say some third world place would find 200 USD/ month plenty to live on
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Post by: Green_Tea on September 22, 2011, 04:57:35 PM
...Kureha lives in Africa?
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Post by: Green_Tea on September 22, 2011, 05:04:08 PM
Looking to play Alien vs Predator: Extinction. Does anyone have any recommendations?
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Post by: Kureha on September 22, 2011, 06:31:02 PM
Do you really think I'ld be able to have K1 running in Africa?

Do you even think 50mbps/5mbps fiber is available in 3rd world countries? I might not be living in a first world country but I'm quite far from 3rd world.
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Post by: sazabi on September 22, 2011, 07:35:28 PM
nope i was not trying to guess where you lived, just making a general statement
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Post by: mahou on September 23, 2011, 03:02:19 PM

Looking to play Alien vs Predator: Extinction. Does anyone have any recommendations?

Starcraft 2 if you want strategy.
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Post by: Mana on September 23, 2011, 03:20:31 PM
Space Marine if you want to kick ass and take names; Civilization V to see Gandhi threatening you of going to war if you don't provide him with nuclear weapons; Bulletstorm for a FPS with some Bionic Commando elements like using your bionic arm on enemies and whatever that isn't stuck to the ground which leads to large doses of ass kicking; Duke Nukem Forever if you don't care about reviews that give "groundbreaking FPS like Halos of War 3" 10/10 and just want to shoot aliens while showing them the finger; Crysis 2 just for the nanosuit itself; PCSX2 to play Valkyrie Profile 2 like it was meant to be. What else?
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Post by: Green_Tea on September 24, 2011, 06:44:40 AM

Do you really think I'ld be able to have K1 running in Africa?

Do you even think 50mbps/5mbps fiber is available in 3rd world countries? I might not be living in a first world country but I'm quite far from 3rd world.

I just laughed.

Anyway, what about Western Union Transfers etc?

***

As for gaming, I play LoL and Rusty Hearts. Level 25 and 14 respectively. But buying SC2 isn't really an option.
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Post by: Mana on September 24, 2011, 07:35:28 AM
Online gaming isn't my forte, so I can't recommend you anything.

And 50Mbs are available in Africa, for corporations.
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Post by: sazabi on September 24, 2011, 07:37:58 AM
so i read some stats, LoL has an average of 500k players at an one time, compared to HoN at only 50k big difference in popularity, probably explains the suckyness  of LoL servers
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Post by: Ivan on September 24, 2011, 08:32:38 AM

so i read some stats, LoL has an average of 500k players at an one time, compared to HoN at only 50k big difference in popularity, probably explains the suckyness  of LoL servers
Both games went live at about the same time, but while HoN has better graphics, LoL is completely free ( you had to pay about 15$ to play HoN after beta ended - in one day they lost like 98% of their userbase.). Eventually HoN changed it's buisness model to the same as LoL one, but they can't get all those lost players back.
LoL had their new game mode "dominion" open today - i played a few matches and i really like it - games are much more dynamic.
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Post by: sazabi on September 24, 2011, 09:17:55 AM
free champion + skin [alistar / unchained alistar] for LoL, promo started today
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Post by: Green_Tea on September 24, 2011, 06:01:38 PM
Wut. Dominion started today? Also, LoL sucks. I play it because I have friends there. I'm pretty sure we're only playing it instead of Dota because we're pirates and we couldn't find a WC3 private server to fit us without any lag (EU, EU, EU, ASIA, AUS) so yeah.

btw, LoL sucks. Did I mention that?

Don't really like online gaming, but I like strat/rpg's, just I don't think anything my taste has come out since NWN 1 in terms of D&D RPG's I like. Although Thief and Sword is p. fun, if I don't get sidetracked by the sex and rape, and rape, and rape, and rape...

I think I broke myself....
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Post by: Yossarian762 on September 26, 2011, 05:23:51 AM
Is Rusty Hearts any good? I downloaded it...but one of my friends who I saw playing it said it was pretty average, and he was playing with a group too. Not sure if I wanna bother.
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Post by: Green_Tea on September 26, 2011, 11:03:04 AM
Average. It's only beta, but I have to say the gameplay is fairly interesting, especially if you're into MMO's and want a change. However if you're into Mugen and stuff, it's pretty boring since lag + delayed input = getting floored and breaking a combo which is annoying. It's 2G's or so worth a try. Leveling is easy, grinding is fairly easy, not really that boring, but slightly repetitive. Yeah...

btw, I've joined Google+ for good. I don't know how to look people up but I'm still under the moniker Green Tea if you want to find me. I've had 2 people add me which is p. random....
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Post by: Mana on September 26, 2011, 05:14:08 PM
I've only been there once and I deleted my account a few days later, just to avoid having another abandoned account like on Facebook.
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Post by: Green_Tea on September 26, 2011, 10:29:10 PM
Wish I could delete my fb account.
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Post by: Mana on September 27, 2011, 12:14:47 AM
You can deactivate it, but it still stays there for an uncertain space of time.
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Post by: Green_Tea on September 27, 2011, 11:07:22 AM
Yah I know. I wonder how long before they delete it?
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Post by: laplacian on September 27, 2011, 05:00:05 PM
Think you gotta fill out some form for them, to actually delete it.
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Post by: Green_Tea on September 29, 2011, 05:24:48 PM
I forgot to finish Sharin no Kuni. Sad.
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Post by: sazabi on October 22, 2011, 06:52:43 AM
So on MG's blog , an entry was posted called "Conquerinf the Queen : A Getting Ready Guide", basically a description of the game , at the end was this:

"Think you're man enough to handle this? Are you deeply into sub-space? (Do you know what that even is?) If so, we look forward to seeing you again when the game streets. Otherwise, we hear there are new episodes of My Little Pony airing or something."

LOL, seems MG has a sense of humour after all
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Post by: Yossarian762 on October 22, 2011, 09:21:25 AM
If you don't love raping bitches you're just a pussy or a girl. Maybe both.

I'm surprised there hasn't been a comment yet complaining about that, haha.

Not sure if I want it or not...not too hot on medieval fantasy, but I like gangbangs and hope it has lots of them.
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Post by: sazabi on October 22, 2011, 01:29:13 PM
considering the type of game it is, i would expect there to be quite a few gangbangs
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Post by: Green_Tea on October 23, 2011, 09:02:10 PM
LOL'd. Completely made my day. It seems political correctness hasn't consumed everyone. Kudos MG.
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Post by: Kureha on October 24, 2011, 04:23:52 PM
So many games await me. So little time, I still have to catch up and finish last season's anime.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mizuno on October 27, 2011, 11:35:37 PM

So many games await me. So little time, I still have to catch up and finish last season's anime.
same here, I also need to play my online FPS because of my commitment for the clan >_>
24 hours a day is not enough <_<;
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Post by: Yossarian762 on October 28, 2011, 01:38:47 AM
don't forget, fate/extra november first


fuuuuuuck
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 28, 2011, 01:42:32 AM
I recently spent 2 days watching anime. I only have 4 hours of work a day, + 1 game of LoL and some time socialising I can get through roughly 26 eps a day only. Sucks.
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Post by: Kureha on October 28, 2011, 08:03:47 AM
fffff I work like a 9~10hr shift a day.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 28, 2011, 09:32:33 AM
Different countries I suppose. I earn $400AUD a week =D
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on October 28, 2011, 10:11:43 AM
I make less than half of that in a month.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 28, 2011, 12:27:05 PM
AUD? I suppose D= But my rent is already $690 in a month. I live in the CBD after all...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: mahou on October 29, 2011, 01:23:44 PM

Different countries I suppose. I earn $400AUD a week =D

A fellow Aussie?


I recently spent 2 days watching anime. I only have 4 hours of work a day, + 1 game of LoL and some time socialising I can get through roughly 26 eps a day only. Sucks.

I miss having that much free time. Currently working two jobs (7 days a week) one full time, the other just weekend casual rates. No idea why i'm working so much, well I guess the goal is to own my own place by next year.  Reminds me of the whole working your butt off for your future and forgetting to live in the present. Oh well at least I can take days off due to having a awesome flex system at my full time job (public service FTW).
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 29, 2011, 03:04:20 PM
You're up in QLD though? I hear it's pretty bad up there...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: mahou on October 29, 2011, 03:17:09 PM
Nah, i'm a Victorian.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 29, 2011, 09:58:06 PM
Melbournian.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 31, 2011, 11:01:39 AM
So...Conquering the Queen is out...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on October 31, 2011, 11:11:50 AM
anyone conquered her?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on October 31, 2011, 11:27:10 AM
I'm thinking about it since the Aussie dollar is so strong at the moment. But still....

Anyone going to buy it btw?
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Post by: Green_Tea on October 31, 2011, 01:39:59 PM
Here, precious admin =)

What do you think?
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Post by: Yossarian762 on October 31, 2011, 01:52:45 PM
Bought it, beat it, it was pretty good. It does indeed have lots of gangbangs. :D

Also a surprising lack of virgins and totally unclothed sex. The former's only surprising because like 90% of h-game heroines are ~*pure virgins*~ and I just dislike clothed sex. The translation was surprisingly good insofar as I'd expect a nukige to have a low-effort one, but it wasn't. It seemed slightly tongue-in-cheek and anachronistic but not in a way that breaks the mood.

Also also is that first one Hisui and Kohaku? Red hair, blue and amber eyes...but I dunno it looks like a different art style.
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Post by: sazabi on October 31, 2011, 02:04:25 PM
bad endings would be expected, are there any that could be considered good endings?
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Post by: Kureha on October 31, 2011, 02:59:45 PM
That's nice, but the pixelation is pretty apparent when you view it @ 100%
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Post by: Green_Tea on October 31, 2011, 06:07:06 PM
Yeah I gotta get that fixed. I've had a few surprises today so I'm gonna work on them later. But the overall design and size is fine?

And yeah, Hisui and Kohaku. Who else better to be our maids? Kureha can be Hisui and Mana can be Kohaku =d

Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on October 31, 2011, 07:38:00 PM
Still considering if I should add some more fluffy hearts!
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on October 31, 2011, 08:08:13 PM
I need to find a way to randomly rotate banners. Done
Personally I like Kohaku's character design better. Oh well.

After careful consideration I'm suggesting future banners be made in the 980*120 format, these will go on the top of this forum.
Remember that there should be two varients of each set.

Banner (goes at the top of the forum) is 980*120
Logo (goes on the portal page that no one bothers to use or when others like to us) is 300*100

Future creations should use the thread made specifically for it in the Forum News board.

I wish I had skills, http://bakabt.me/banners.php (http://bakabt.me/banners.php) their collection of banners astounds me.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Yossarian762 on November 01, 2011, 03:24:48 AM

bad endings would be expected, are there any that could be considered good endings?

There's only four endings. It's hard to say any of them are "good" since Vincent (main character) rapes or has the shit raped out of like a half dozen women no matter what, a few to the point of straight mind break, but ignoring that I'd say at least one, and up to three, could be considered "good endings" depending on how loosely you define it.

edit: if by "bad endings" you mean like an ending where you lose/the story ends prematurely there are none, but there's definitely an unambiguously "evil" ending
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: mahou on November 02, 2011, 03:25:19 AM
So Fate/Extra's out, waiting for my copy to arrive. So in the mean time i'm downloading it. Anyone else getting got it yet? Thoughts?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Yossarian762 on November 02, 2011, 06:39:52 AM
I just got home with it, I managed to snag the last Limited Edition they had left at Gamestop. I'll post my impressions after playing. As cliche as thinking Archer is awesome is, well, he is, so I'm going to be playing as a male MC with Archer as my Servant.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on November 02, 2011, 10:09:31 AM
D= D= D= D= D= D=

I might just play it japanese. It doesn't sound too hard, and I want to see Arcuied.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on November 02, 2011, 10:37:23 AM

D= D= D= D= D= D=

I might just play it japanese. It doesn't sound too hard, and I want to see Arcuied.

How can someone so bland possess so many fans?


I just got home with it, I managed to snag the last Limited Edition they had left at Gamestop. I'll post my impressions after playing. As cliche as thinking Archer is awesome is, well, he is, so I'm going to be playing as a male MC with Archer as my Servant.

Tropes are not bad.


Still considering if I should add some more fluffy hearts!

There aren't enough fluffy hearts.


Yeah I gotta get that fixed. I've had a few surprises today so I'm gonna work on them later. But the overall design and size is fine?

And yeah, Hisui and Kohaku. Who else better to be our maids? Kureha can be Hisui and Mana can be Kohaku =d

I'm not a scheming maid, but I like her and as so I'll let it pass.



I haven't been around to mistreat you because I got my hands on a friend of a friend's PS3 which was lost in transit on my home. Unfortunately, it can't be downgraded to 3.55 through any of the available methods, so I'll have to entertain myself with Final Fantasy XIII until I have to give it back. The constant grinding is a shame, but the characters are more likable than VIII and X's casts put together. Not even Auron could save them.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Yossarian762 on November 02, 2011, 10:42:43 AM
First impressions: it couldn't rip off of Persona/Shin Megami Tensei (albeit with a heavy dose of Fate/Stay Night obviously) harder if it was actually an official SMT/Persona title - it's divided into dungeon crawling and school sections like Persona 3 and 4, and has a pretty heavy cyberpunk thing going on like mainline SMT games. This is actually good because those are about the only JRPGs I can stand. I'm pretty sure the female Servants, and an Archer/female MC, have romance subplots or something though I'm not far enough in to confirm this firsthand.

The battle system is a little frustrating, just because it's hard to predict six consecutive enemy actions without at least two of their moves already shown to you (since it's a pretty straightforward rock/paper/scissors system except for special abilities, of which I currently have none starting out). This might be more fun as I progress and unlock more abilities though. Aside from the Servant fighting with attack/break/guard + special abilities, you can also support your Servant with spells.

I wouldn't recommend playing it in Japanese, since it's pretty text heavy. I'm pretty sure Nasu actually wrote it too since the style is so reminiscent of his (the opening credits said he was the "scenario designer" I think, and I'm not sure exactly how much input that means he has but like I said, due to the writing style I'm guessing that means a-fucking-lot). Also some of the usual terms from mirror-moon's translations are different, though not all of them ("heroic spirits" are now "legendary souls" for example).
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: mahou on November 02, 2011, 02:26:44 PM
Just got home so i'll finally get to fire it up in a bit. Why not go with the FMC & Archer? I think the dialogues would be better, won't know til I try though. Will play with Saber 1st then Caster and it I'm not into Skyrim I'll give Archer a go with FMC.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on November 02, 2011, 02:54:42 PM
I only liked the Arcueid before she lost her hair.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on November 02, 2011, 03:53:21 PM

cyberpunk

I stopped reading there.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on November 02, 2011, 05:41:20 PM
But Mana, that's the draw isn't it? I mean sure, I'm a Hisui/Sacchin fan, but Arc was a bland character among those other psycho-delinquents. Arc was so simple. All dere.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on November 02, 2011, 05:43:46 PM
From the stuff I read on their forums every servant got a romance setting to a varying degree. Apparently Saber + Caster are also Bi.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Yossarian762 on November 03, 2011, 01:34:59 AM


cyberpunk

I stopped reading there.

I'm not sure what the right word is, exactly, but it's the closest I could think of since all the Masters are actually the virtual avatars of people in the "real" world and the school that forms the primary setting, not to mention the arenas, are obviously a virtual world as well. I believe they said it was some sort of reality marble being sustained by the Holy Grail - it's a mix of technology and magic.

re: Arc I think she's boring as a character and love interest, but otherwise I think she's pretty badass, thinking of her more like a force of nature than just a mere vampire.

Also I picked a male MC because I thought it would be interesting to not have a romance for once. Plus honestly, Archer? Romance? That'd just be awkward. I'll probably replay it with male MC/Saber and female MC/Archer if I like the game enough though.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on November 03, 2011, 02:33:49 AM
@ Fate Extra
Damn rider was cool >_< too bad she wasn't pickable.

And I'm playing with caster, she's pretty fun tbh =p Though she feels really weak, hope she picks up in endgame and becomes godmode like all mage characters.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on November 03, 2011, 04:46:56 PM
Yossarian, the thing was Shin Megami Tensei "being cyberpunk". The third one has nothing that remotely resembles the genre and the first one's closest thing to that would be the software that makes the characters able to interact with demons, which is a trademark of the series since Megami Tensei for the Famicom.


But Mana, that's the draw isn't it? I mean sure, I'm a Hisui/Sacchin fan, but Arc was a bland character among those other psycho-delinquents. Arc was so simple. All dere.

I can't get it, but to each his own.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on November 03, 2011, 04:52:43 PM
Ahhhhhh LUMINOUS ARC. Why are you so good? It's not like you have amazing gameplay or anything.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Yossarian762 on November 04, 2011, 12:08:03 AM

Yossarian, the thing was Shin Megami Tensei "being cyberpunk". The third one has nothing that remotely resembles the genre and the first one's closest thing to that would be the software that makes the characters able to interact with demons, which is a trademark of the series since Megami Tensei for the Famicom.


Sometimes explaining yourself gets yourself across more clearly than being a douche. There's other similarities with SMT though - for example you go to a chapel to upgrade your Servant. There's a bright blue moon shining over said chapel that really brings to mind the Cathedral of Shadows with a full Kagutsuchi in Nocturne. The protagonist also seems to be largely a "blank", though this isn't obviously only an SMT thing it does help reinforce the similarities.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on November 04, 2011, 12:51:15 AM
I never said that there weren't similarities between Fate/Extra and a Shin Megami Taisen, but that you where claiming that the series usually is cyberpunk, but if you take that as being "a douche", better for you. I couldn't care less about what you think.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on November 14, 2011, 10:38:09 AM
Anyone know where to get GBA roms ddl? It's been a while, but I've just gotten the GBA emulator for my PSP so I was hoping to get some Summon Night or Megaman Battle Network in.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on November 14, 2011, 03:41:52 PM
You can take a look at NitroROMs (http://nitroroms.com/), but they have a daily download limit.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on November 14, 2011, 06:16:44 PM
Sounds good, thanks Mana. Reliable as usual.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on January 02, 2012, 05:50:05 PM
Does anyone know what happened to Haruhi vol 10 and 11?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: sazabi on January 02, 2012, 07:06:10 PM
??
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on January 02, 2012, 09:21:35 PM
Haruhi? Isn't that the Japanese Twilight?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on January 03, 2012, 11:59:46 AM
I like the dry narration. Besides, Twilight was mocked because of the popularity for teenage girls despite the awful English it was written with. As far as I know, Haruhi is only mocked because Otaku's want a weird tsundere Goddess to worship.

;-;
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on January 03, 2012, 03:51:22 PM
It's nice to see that you are just as gullible as ever.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on January 03, 2012, 05:02:24 PM
D=
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: invictus on January 04, 2012, 10:55:08 PM
Strangest thing.. I totally forgot my username.  Since I never bother to remember my username... had a toolbar infestation that forced me to reinstall firefox, and suddenly I couldn't get back in!  Then I realized username was case sensitive.  And here I am again.

God exists and she's a weird girl isn't anywhere near sparkly vampires on the scale of... (only applicable in Japan and those influenced by Japanese Otaku culture)... messed up.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on February 10, 2012, 04:14:37 PM
I think the chat box renders this thread obsolete.


I make myself sad sometimes. :(
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on February 11, 2012, 06:38:30 AM
No one cares about you.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on February 11, 2012, 06:49:12 PM
;-;
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on February 21, 2012, 10:57:16 AM
Anyone play LoL on NA server?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Sazabi_MKII on February 26, 2012, 09:20:50 PM
Since the old account just kept on acting up, decided to just make a new account
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on February 27, 2012, 05:37:33 PM
I'm excited about the April 2012 anime season. So many delicious delicious delicioussess
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: mahou on February 27, 2012, 10:06:13 PM
Kamidori english patch released by Aroduc.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on February 27, 2012, 10:28:23 PM
I've not caught up to the winter season let alone spring.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Sazabi_MKII on February 28, 2012, 07:43:39 PM

Kamidori english patch released by Aroduc.

i was surprised when i saw it on eroge-download, cause there was no mention who released the patch
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on March 01, 2012, 09:25:56 AM
That's what happens when you bitches don't keep track of VNTS-kun's threads.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Sazabi_MKII on March 01, 2012, 09:46:06 AM
so has anyone given the patch a try?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on March 01, 2012, 12:42:16 PM
Try? What is that?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Geckoey Lurker on March 01, 2012, 02:23:38 PM
I gave the Patch a go and everything is working perfectly fine so far. (I'm past ch5)
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Sazabi_MKII on March 01, 2012, 07:49:46 PM
apparently there's a lot of grinding involved in it?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Geckoey Lurker on March 01, 2012, 10:16:05 PM
If you avoid a certain cheating spot (Deadbet) to not feel shameful.. A sh*tload of grinding yes. :S
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Blanchimont on March 03, 2012, 08:22:46 PM


Kamidori english patch released by Aroduc.

i was surprised when i saw it on eroge-download, cause there was no mention who released the patch
Was wondering why I didn't remember seeing it on A or K, then saw it was only linked from the main page...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on April 18, 2012, 03:08:44 AM
Ahem. Anyone here use the Jap p2p filesharing programs?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on April 18, 2012, 12:01:43 PM
I used one of them in 2008 when I couldn't find some cosplay sets at the usual places. Don't ask me how I did it.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on May 15, 2012, 02:18:27 PM
I will be on D3 servers soon :3

Yay
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Geckoey Lurker on May 15, 2012, 02:48:36 PM
Servers be live in 13 minutes.. currently 02:48 AM here.

I'll be playing with family (bro, sis and sis's bf) but their game are in french and mine english, confusion ensues. o.0
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on May 17, 2012, 12:51:38 AM
D3 is Diablo 3 right? Lol I can't afford it.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on May 21, 2012, 06:46:19 PM
Do you want to play it?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Sazabi_MKII on May 22, 2012, 01:37:56 PM
you got copies to give away?  :P
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: mahou on May 22, 2012, 06:14:29 PM
Severs are down for 8hrs 'maintenance', wonder what they're doing. Pretty funny reading the D3 forums so many ppl QQ; 'games to hard, buff my class and defuff the rest.' LOL

Anyone here made it to Inferno yet? Would have done it today if the servers didn't go down.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on May 24, 2012, 10:28:23 AM
Oh that's so strange. You've been reading the same things I've been reading. This is lol
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: mahou on May 24, 2012, 07:27:57 PM
Lots of loot grinding to be done in inferno before you can move on. But I guess that's what it's about.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on May 24, 2012, 10:13:33 PM
Why did they nerf my Energy Shield ?!?!
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: mahou on May 25, 2012, 06:27:44 AM
So we could no longer solo inferno obviously.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on May 27, 2012, 08:48:19 PM
<3 wiz
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on May 28, 2012, 03:52:37 PM
I'm farming Inferno with my DH friend, and I gotta say I'm pretty envious of their stealth skill ... I want invulnerability for my sorc too =(!
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on May 29, 2012, 12:28:26 AM
Damned bourgeois!
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on September 16, 2012, 11:24:49 PM
So now I've got GW2. Downloading now :3

by the way, SAO is soooo nice. Who else has read the novels?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on September 17, 2012, 10:18:57 PM
GW2 is  kind of a dissapointment for me. They hyped it up so much and now it just feels like an average game. Especially the big PvP part, I mean if you have a game which highlights the PvP why only add one gamemode (base capturing). That way even if you got ~5 different maps, it feels all the same.

I really enjoyed the first SAO novel, especially having a japanese main character who aint a whimp and got a nice non braindamaged lover was pretty nice. The second novel was kinda meh, harem style max. And I'm currently stuck on the third, story aint the same without Asuna, and I seriously don't need another Sistercest story (I know he aint up for it, but she defo is and it just feels boring as fuck).

Btw: I really hope http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/obsidian/project-eternity (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/obsidian/project-eternity) is gonna turn out as good as they make it sound.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Geckoey Lurker on September 18, 2012, 12:45:45 AM
The only reason I started (and still am) playing GW2 is mainly because so many friends are playing it, I dislike PVP in general here so I barely did anything on that side here. Storylines are pretty boring too, IMO, lotsa fun times otherwise, I don't expect much from recent games lately, which is kinda sad.

I loved SAO, from start to latest, but I must admit the first volume was the best as far as I am concerned. I wonder, how well is the Anime coping in comparison? I haven't started it yet so I'm curious.

Project Eternity... Yeah, I can't bring myself to have any considerable opinion on a game until I've played it myself after all. x_x A "Kickstarter" Trailer and a few paragraphs doesn't cut it for me.
I find there is too little information out to have a guess at HOW the game could be either, or might just be me having too little of an imagination, at least doesn't seem like anything new so far.

Oh, and Black Mesa was a nice way to pass time when not doing something else too, though short.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on September 18, 2012, 03:22:56 AM
I'm not even asking for anything innoative with Eternity. Some polished graphics in the infinity engine, as nice new world and a deep story line/ good characters.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on September 19, 2012, 08:53:28 PM
Third volume was actually my favourite. Well the part that it gets MIND BLOWININGLY epic is the end of vol 3 anyway. I had a hard time getting through the arc after ALO actually. Also, I may be biased but you can't categorise the author's works like that. It was never meant to be about Kirito and girls, it's the author exploring online/real life interactions through the setting. well I'm not really explaining it well.AND AND, the latest arc is just getting better and better. SAO is so nice. The anime is very true to the novels too, and if you've read vol 1 and 2, while getting stuck on 3, it might put things in a different perspective, since it's in chronological order.

The other thing I've just caught up with is Highschool DxD. Ahhhhhhhh it's also really good in a very similar way. It's a setting that's done a lot, in a genre that's overdone, but with his characters the author is just amazing. Well in SAO the only character that really stands out as original is Kirito, but the rest of the character's aren't bad I guess. Except when they're put alongside Kirito it's just not fair. Ahhh the end of Volume 3 is so goddamn amazing. I really want to watch that in animation.

re: GW2....well I don't play MMO's so I guess it's ok. Remember the D3 fiasco?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on September 20, 2012, 12:52:25 AM
I'm just trying to remember how far I've gotten. [Spoiler] I got to the part where Kiritos' sister and him noticed they played together in that new MMO, might be already Part 4 ? I kinda quit when she launched her "betrayed love" rage.[/spoiler]
I agree with you, it is interesting to see how the ppl coped in an mmo where they can't wake up again act, but that totaly got lost once Kirito woke up and started the new MMO.

BTW wasn't there another game/ anime with the same theme ? .//Hack I think ?

GW2: Yeh, it's ok. But nowadays if you say a game is OK, it's already bad =P 
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on September 20, 2012, 01:01:56 AM
@laplacian lol spoilers outside of your spoilers. Well honestly as long as the emotions of the characters aren't conjured up out of thin air, and are believable I'm all for it. I mean his sister is only what? 15? and to lose an admired older brother to a yet unheard of international act of terrorism. And that he came back. Well, it's a work of fiction. Still, read to the end. It's so good.
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Post by: Green_Tea on September 20, 2012, 01:18:44 AM
competitor? sister site? http://fuwanovel.org/
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: mahou on September 20, 2012, 06:46:14 PM
Ooooo lots of pretty pictures. Doesn't have information on everything being translated though. But it looks like it's focus is on story centric / pure love games; games that wouldn't scare ppl away from this type of media (VNs/eroge).
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on September 20, 2012, 10:54:50 PM
Yeah it's a nice website to introduce things to a fresher
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on October 03, 2012, 06:55:54 PM

competitor? sister site? http://fuwanovel.org/

As long as people aren't plain retarded about exposing the medium (hue hue their are this young girl and ya get da nailem hurr durr, or I GET TO LIVE THE DREAM OF BEING A TRUE NIPPONESE), it's always nice to see other people supporting it and spreading their love for it.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on January 07, 2013, 03:23:09 AM
Back. And now to make a full post.

Dear colleagues,

I have a desktop. It makes me happy. I named her Taiga. I built it myself, very proud, first rig. Had to get monitor and full works.

What's anyone else been up to?

A week ago I latched onto Vanellope. She is adorable and I want more of her. The short before the main film was also very nice.

I was following Molester Man. Honestly, I get kind of disappointed when things end. Still it was nice synchronization by the scanlators.

Gamewise I've just been on LoL-NA lately playing premades. Now that the new screen/tower is up I'll move onto more intensive gaming. Any suggestions?

IRL is eating up my novel time. I'm still trying to finish Muv-Luv. I should probably rush that and just get onto alternative.

Anime-wise, I've been holding off until this rig came up. Last thing I watched would be SAO/Accel World. Got Another, haganai, Mawaru Penguindrum, Nichijou, Junrio, Papa, Tari tari. Will be looking into Ixion Saga DX and a few others. Probably KuroBaske.

Idiot that I am I'm re-reading Hajime no Ippo. Have tabs up for ATATATATATATATA and weeklies/monthlies.

Well. I'm hungry.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on January 07, 2013, 04:03:01 AM
A new desktop, that's nice.

I've never named my computers, but my hard drive with all my loot is named "Mule" and the one where I had my previous Windows installations was "Shurelia" until recently. After renaming it to "Junk", it never bothered me anymore so it probably liked the name.

As for anime, I've been completely out of the loop. SAO doesn't attract me and I don't even know the other names that you mentioned. So much that I've only recently watched the first season of Index, Railgun and I'm currently watching the second season. Anon said that the novels were better, so I also started reading those and I'm currently on the third one.

And in the matter of games, I tried FarCry 3 by suggestion of a friend, but my head was hurting like hell only after a couple of hours. They lasted for the entire day, which could be related to me not taking any medication in the past weeks. I will see if I can take care of that tomorrow
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Pezzy on January 07, 2013, 08:44:22 AM
Someone is working on translating Koit to Senkyo to Chocolate (http://basicvntls.wordpress.com/) (here is some additional related (http://www.hongfire.com/forum/showthread.php/411410-Koi-to-Senkyo-to-Chocolate-Requesting-technical-advice-Solved?) content. 

I've been getting caught up on anime again, since I haven't really watched any in over a year.  Recently, I watched Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun, Tasogare Otome x Amnesia, Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate.  I'm in the process of watching Shinsekai Yori, and have several others in my backlog.  It seems recently was the era of "akward schoolgirls".
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on January 07, 2013, 05:41:41 PM
If people didn't buy most of that crap, it wouldn't be everywhere.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on January 07, 2013, 06:35:00 PM
I name my computers, but don't name my drives.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on January 08, 2013, 12:58:10 AM
I name everything. Now this being said,  I splurged on an IPS screen, since they were selling apple/dell rejects for half the price, and I have to say 2560x1440 is sweet sweet sweet. Only thing is, most of my anime collection is 720p and now that looks crap. Oh first world dilemmas.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on January 08, 2013, 03:10:17 AM
That's a 27~30" screen right? I could barely get 23" to fit on my table.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on January 08, 2013, 04:04:53 AM
yup 27". Well native 1080p doesn't look too bad, so I guess I chose a really good time to grab one. Not too early anyway.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on January 09, 2013, 01:14:43 AM

And in the matter of games, I tried FarCry 3 by suggestion of a friend, but my head was hurting like hell only after a couple of hours. They lasted for the entire day, which could be related to me not taking any medication in the past weeks. I will see if I can take care of that tomorrow

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/how-to/4219424

You're the same as me =(?!
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on January 09, 2013, 03:07:54 AM
I get motion sickness playing Skyrim
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on January 09, 2013, 12:01:32 PM
I get it too if I play first person, but third person is all right for me. Just recently got me all dlcs and started a new char, fuck that game is big ~~
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on January 09, 2013, 04:22:36 PM
yups. I still haven't bought it though. Single player doesn't have the requisite motivation.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on January 09, 2013, 04:57:35 PM
I couldn't really get the point of Skyrim, I mean the game world is huge and all, but there are only NPCs and feels empty.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on January 09, 2013, 06:32:45 PM
Yup. I'm just playing it again for the pretty. I'm downloading Witcher 2 in the meantime hoping for more pretty.

On the topic of anime, Fate Zero 1080 looks great, as did the Berserk 1080 and the FFACC 1080. Downloading more 1080.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on January 09, 2013, 08:17:22 PM
I don't have the harddrive space for 1080P
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Alumine on January 09, 2013, 10:43:05 PM
1080p......heh i remember those days i force to play 5 cm per second it on a low end pc...

btw what playback guide do you follow?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on January 09, 2013, 10:47:08 PM
Just use the new CCCP and if you have an Nvidia card enable CUVID in Lav video decoder, and DXVA copyback if you have AMD.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on January 11, 2013, 12:20:35 AM
Went to Bishoujo Project for theirs. Outdated but everything appears pretty fine. Other than that I could get a spectrophotometer and calibrate my IPS screen but...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on January 11, 2013, 01:59:11 AM
A good calibrator is very expensive.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Alumine on January 11, 2013, 11:38:25 AM
I never used one of those...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on January 11, 2013, 05:31:30 PM
I haven't either, lol just trusting the RGB setting on my screens.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on January 13, 2013, 10:31:48 PM


And in the matter of games, I tried FarCry 3 by suggestion of a friend, but my head was hurting like hell only after a couple of hours. They lasted for the entire day, which could be related to me not taking any medication in the past weeks. I will see if I can take care of that tomorrow

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/how-to/4219424

You're the same as me =(?!

I tend to get headaches akin to hangovers if I don't take my medication, so I mixed both of those problems and was knocked out for the entire day.

The first time that I suffered from this was when I played Doom. And it's funny that Skyrim, Left 4 Dead, Cawadoody and Prototype don't affect me, but I can't play Infamous or Half Life 2 for more than 10 minutes without getting sick.


Yup. I'm just playing it again for the pretty. I'm downloading Witcher 2 in the meantime hoping for more pretty.

On the topic of anime, Fate Zero 1080 looks great, as did the Berserk 1080 and the FFACC 1080. Downloading more 1080.

It's more of a problem of the reencoding than that of the source. 720p looks fine even on a 55" screen two meters away from the screen as long as the picture hasn't been raped to hell. Of course that there is a difference between 1080 and 720p, but I'm not even going that way. Now, if it's anything in 3D, I need a couple more meters to be able to watch it just fine.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on January 14, 2013, 10:11:23 PM
Ohhh I see it now. Just started watching Anohana. Isn't that bad.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on January 15, 2013, 12:50:32 PM



And in the matter of games, I tried FarCry 3 by suggestion of a friend, but my head was hurting like hell only after a couple of hours. They lasted for the entire day, which could be related to me not taking any medication in the past weeks. I will see if I can take care of that tomorrow

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/how-to/4219424

You're the same as me =(?!

I tend to get headaches akin to hangovers if I don't take my medication, so I mixed both of those problems and was knocked out for the entire day.

The first time that I suffered from this was when I played Doom. And it's funny that Skyrim, Left 4 Dead, Cawadoody and Prototype don't affect me, but I can't play Infamous or Half Life 2 for more than 10 minutes without getting sick.

I actually only get this in first person games, mostly shooters, the last one was Borderlands 2. On the other hand I can play Infamous 1&2 perfectly fine without any problems.
I noticed that I can normally evade any problems if the game allows me to change the FOV settings higher than normal.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on January 15, 2013, 03:18:36 PM
Hmmm. Was BL2 any good? I've heard good things, so I might start saving monies for it. Replay value?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on January 15, 2013, 10:13:00 PM




And in the matter of games, I tried FarCry 3 by suggestion of a friend, but my head was hurting like hell only after a couple of hours. They lasted for the entire day, which could be related to me not taking any medication in the past weeks. I will see if I can take care of that tomorrow

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/how-to/4219424

You're the same as me =(?!

I tend to get headaches akin to hangovers if I don't take my medication, so I mixed both of those problems and was knocked out for the entire day.

The first time that I suffered from this was when I played Doom. And it's funny that Skyrim, Left 4 Dead, Cawadoody and Prototype don't affect me, but I can't play Infamous or Half Life 2 for more than 10 minutes without getting sick.

I actually only get this in first person games, mostly shooters, the last one was Borderlands 2. On the other hand I can play Infamous 1&2 perfectly fine without any problems.
I noticed that I can normally evade any problems if the game allows me to change the FOV settings higher than normal.

I played a couple of hours of Borderlands 2 and didn't have any problems, but I was just testing it for my brother. The first one only affected me after three to four straight hours.

And I've read about FOV affecting motion sickness before but I've never noticed a difference. What kind of values usually work for you?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on January 15, 2013, 11:57:47 PM
I've heard that FOV is recommended @ 100 for mmorpgs like TERA.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: laplacian on January 16, 2013, 01:02:52 AM
FOV wise I had to set it to 110 to be able to play Borderlands 2. After like ~2h playing ( I don't do longer gaming sessions) I can feel some slight  discomfort normally, so the game still affects me.


Another remedy I can recommend to try out, wich worked for me, is ginger. I desperatly wanted to play Deus Ex 3, seeing how I was a big fan of the second one, yet no configuration allowed me to bypass my heavy motion sickness with the game. Eating tons of dried ginger with sugar coating before and during gaming actually allowed me to finish the whole game, though I gotta admit I personally hate the taste of it and it's expensive as shit too, seeing how I gotta buy it in drugstores in Germany.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on January 16, 2013, 02:34:45 AM
Ohhh I looooove sugared gingers.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on March 28, 2013, 04:58:10 AM
Hmmm. Since we've last talked, I've started TERA actually. But anyway, main reason for coming here, is to ask, did anyone have a copy of that Tsukihime title font floating around? I had it at some point but it's lost to me right now.

Also, this site is getting old. In a good way of course. It's great that it's always here for me.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Geckoey Lurker on March 28, 2013, 08:28:06 AM
I started TERA with guildies whenever it is it went F2P.
First thing I saw once in-game was the general chat discussing Elin Honey in a very serious manner, it was really great.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on March 29, 2013, 09:22:42 AM
Elin Honey? Although yeah the community in TERA isn't half bad. I'm on an NA server though so we have some....unwanted elements...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Geckoey Lurker on March 29, 2013, 12:01:37 PM
I guess you're better off not knowing, although I'm surprised no one mentioned it while you were playing just yet. Different server, maybe.
When I first started the people I met were really, and I mean really, obsessed with Elins but once you get past that barrier the community is pretty good.

I'm on NA as well, is there any issue? or are you just playing from Europe?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on March 29, 2013, 06:24:53 PM
I'm on Lake of Tears. Just BR's in my instance matchmakings getting my crystals broke and shit. Biggest waste of time on SA, couldn't even kill the basilisk family.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Geckoey Lurker on March 29, 2013, 06:51:21 PM
I'm on Celestial Hills, I'm not much of a PVPer personally, I main as a healer anyway, and I tend to roleplay with guildies from time to time.
I haven't actually gotten past lv30 on any of my characters just yet, I know about the Sigil Adstringo dungeon, but what is 'BR'?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on March 29, 2013, 07:24:42 PM
Brazilian. And I was incorrectly referring to AS. Ascension of Saravash? All those acronyms make me confused
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Geckoey Lurker on March 29, 2013, 08:09:52 PM
Oh, that sentence makes much more sense now. I'm generally terrible in any sort of PVP in any games that aren't fighters, and last time I PVP'd in Tera I think I didn't manage to kill anyone at all, then again.. priest.
Yeah, that's correct, welp, that's well over my current levels for now. This is making me want to play Tera some more, guess I'll go do that.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on March 30, 2013, 01:42:27 AM
I don't care for PVP, currently playing RO2 on the SEA server.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on April 01, 2013, 12:47:31 AM
Nostalgia value? I had some friends who played. They all said it wasn't like the first RO so they quit en mass. Priests get pretty good later on. Still I'm only this leveled because of my friends pushing me. I usually would have given before level 20.


[EDIT] Why are they re-transing Cross Channel?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Geckoey Lurker on April 01, 2013, 03:15:11 AM
I probably wouldn't even be playing any MMOs if it wasn't for friends, I usually can't really handle soloing in any kind of multiplayer game, not for very long at least.
I have yet to hear any good words about RO2.

The original translation of Cross Channel wasn't really good and inaccurate, IIRC. Ixrec himself admitted it and was considering re-translating it, guess someone else beat him to the punch.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Alumine on April 01, 2013, 09:59:44 PM

I don't care for PVP, currently playing RO2 on the SEA server.

does RO2 lift it's ip filtering? i've tried to play it but connecting was hard and i'm lazy to use proxies since i don't have a good internet connection
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on April 03, 2013, 01:10:21 PM
SEA doesn't have IP filtering.
http://ro2.playpark.net/

or you could wait for APR 18th NA server
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Alumine on April 03, 2013, 02:42:35 PM
that's surprising since they post it on facebook about that before they open the server....maybe i'll wait for the NA server...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on April 13, 2013, 10:10:01 PM
Green_Tea, you are on Lake of Tears? That's a shame. I'm on Mount Tyrannas with my brother and a friend, but I've been offline for the past month due to real life problems.

Oh, and don't be scared by all the Elin Honey talk. Part of it are people joking and the other a bunch of retards taking it seriously.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on April 16, 2013, 03:28:10 AM
Ah yeah I've been doing a lot of school work so I've been stuck at 54. I might take some time on the holidays to reach 60, farm some gear, and pawn the account off for some real money. All my friends quit already.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Geckoey Lurker on April 16, 2013, 04:02:58 AM
That's a pretty smart idea. I feel like I should do the same for some of my old accounts in other MMOs. Hmm.
I'm curious, what's the pay-rate for that kinda thing, if any?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on April 16, 2013, 04:47:04 PM
I'ld say it really depends on the game. I never sell my accounts though.

Any decent nukige I should be curious about? I've not played any in like over 2 years.
I also really need to find some form of income online to help cover the costs of running this place.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on April 16, 2013, 06:02:55 PM

Ah yeah I've been doing a lot of school work so I've been stuck at 54. I might take some time on the holidays to reach 60, farm some gear, and pawn the account off for some real money.

That reminds me of L2 private servers where people bought maxed out characters with fully enchanted weapons for some 500€, who still had their asses kicked by underleveled characters and lost everything when the FBI raided the place.

I know that the grinding isn't enjoyable, but people shouldn't be that lazy.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on April 17, 2013, 09:25:05 PM
Yeah. My friend had full Conjunct gear I think and spent some real money on it. Made ~2.5x the amount he spent on the game, but we sank many hours into it. I think it was around $160 USD. He probably spent over 120 hours on it so the pay rate/hour isn't as good as a real job, but it's not like we play for the money I guess.

In regards to nukige, I am kind of playing through Slave Witch April, but it's not really all that nice. Otherwise the last vanilla one I remember was We Love Master! I'm spending a lot more time on ex-hentai instead. I can't really think of any non-time consuming ways to provide an income online. Aside from ads
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on April 19, 2013, 10:55:06 PM
Hm what about an account on one of those ddl sites that earn you money? Have all the games uploaded on there as well as other ddl link or whatever. Personally, out of 10 parts to a rar, I wouldn't mind downloading a few parts for the maintenance of the site. But then either you spend time doing it yourself or you have someone manage it for you. And even then I don't really know how those things work in terms of conversion to real money.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Geckoey Lurker on April 20, 2013, 02:58:38 AM
I don't know of any sites that does this, although I think I downloaded off a few without knowing at the time, they were generally pretty damn slow and I hate surveys.

Might as well mention Adfly, Adfly's average money to 1000 clicks ratio average to around 0.30~4$, which isn't all that bad, but we have various uploaders, what we upload isn't really legal, and I'm not really sure how much people leech off us.

Rewrite alone got 2.2K downloads on its first part, last one has 1068. But I link to the folder and not to each part separately.
Then there is a few other VNs I uploaded that barely have over an hundred. I'm not even sure if anyone is linking to my uploads without my knowledge.

Anyway, I wouldn't mind implementing Adfly or anything similar to it to my uploads if it helps, but that would be offered instead of being forced.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: CFreak on April 20, 2013, 06:44:46 AM

Then there is a few other VNs I uploaded that barely have over an hundred. I'm not even sure if anyone is linking to my uploads without my knowledge.

They probably do. I found a link to the mediafire folder with Majikoi S that I uploaded on youtube, after someone posted it in the comments section of a Majikoi S clip and the guy uploading the clip added it do the description afterwards.

How much does the hosting and bandwidth for running a site like this cost anyway? I'm totally clueless about these thing.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Geckoey Lurker on April 20, 2013, 07:13:18 AM
I don't really mind if they do, in most cases they probably don't even know who uploaded it anyway.

The server is ran from home, unless that has changed, so I would think it'd cost less than having a dedicated server maintained by professionals?
Well, honestly, I'm just as clueless as you are when it comes to any of this.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on April 20, 2013, 04:42:28 PM
Saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame. Guess we wait for Kure-chan to comment back. I was thinking of something like depositfiles or something. I'm pretty sure LWB had something set up along those lines. One link to deposit files and one link to easier sites without the wait. But well, not everyone DDL's. And it's linked to your account so anyone who links it is just generating more downloads and monies.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on April 20, 2013, 06:29:00 PM

Saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame. Guess we wait for Kure-chan to comment back.

Ku-chan sounds cuter. As for the server costs, I'm in the dark about it and, as Gecko mentioned, Adfly might be of some help as long as everyone contributes their links through it.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on April 21, 2013, 01:12:31 PM
Honestly I'm totally clueless in regards to ads, as I find most ads intrusive, and they don't like the content we have on this forum anyways.
As for cost to run this place. I'm burning 45USD a month alone on bandwidth, not counting hardware aging.

The domain name and whois protection is around 15USD an year.

I just made a adf.ly account but I have no idea what to do with it.
Adf.ly only supports withdraws from to accounts like paypal, which then has fees for withdraws...

Ku-chan? Am I supposed to be kuudere?


If you have no need for a short URL and you just want to make money from your blog or website, here is the quickest and simplest possible way to earn with adf.ly:

http://adf.ly/3914570/www.google.com

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Replace "www.google.com" with whatever URL you wish the user to go to if they skip the advertisement.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Geckoey Lurker on April 21, 2013, 03:06:44 PM
45USD a Month?
Hmm, if the job I'm supposed to get goes right, I wouldn't mind helping cover part of this at least for a little while. I'm still not sure for when that is, though, hopefully sometime next month.

Also, despite the withdraw, at least it's something. Though I'm not sure how I would go about adding it to my uploads.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on April 21, 2013, 03:17:20 PM
You would do something like this...

[URL=http://adf.ly/3914570/www.google.com ]Google[/URL]

and it will show up like this

Google (http://adf.ly/3914570/www.google.com)

Replace the "www.google.com" with your own address, and "Google" to whatever you want the link to say
at least I think that's how it works.

Or in other words replace the "http://" part of any link with "http://adf.ly/3914570/"
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Mana on April 21, 2013, 09:40:40 PM
I wasn't thinking on any archetypes when I wrote that.

And I'm sorry for not being able to help you for the next months, but I'll try to get rid of my debt as soon as possible since I also need some money.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on April 21, 2013, 11:51:27 PM
Hmm. I personally don't like adf.ly but I will definitely put up with it if it helps with Ku-chan's wallet. After all it's just a few seconds/clicks.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on April 22, 2013, 12:45:23 AM
Well, I'm open to more ideas lol.

What about linkbucks?

adf.ly so far has only accumulated 3 cents...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on April 26, 2013, 02:51:36 AM
what's linkbucks? lol but you've only added adf.ly to your links to those doujin games right? If it's a more mainstream one. Then again, haven't really been any releases like Demonbane or anything recently...
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Geckoey Lurker on April 26, 2013, 06:51:37 AM
Yeah, there haven't really been any well-known release in a while, and it seems people flow more into the VN when it's a complete patch and not a partial one either, plus there's the hype.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on April 30, 2013, 12:42:45 AM
Indeed, plus there's always fuwanovel now for the casuals. They don't have a forum format either.

Ah these days the internet sure is saddening.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on May 06, 2013, 03:04:06 PM
Just a heads up that adf.ly has brought in a revenue of 80cents... not even enough for the transaction fees, lol
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on May 08, 2013, 02:35:21 PM
lol, welp. On brighter news, Fate/Kaleid liner prisma Ilya is getting an anime. Hyperdimension Neptunia, Danganronpa, Rozen Maiden, and Silver spoon are coming out too.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on May 08, 2013, 06:58:45 PM
That's the mahou shoujo Ilya one right? I guess I'll pick that up, Fate/Zero wasn't interesting enough for me to spend the time.

Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on May 15, 2013, 12:35:00 AM
lol BUT KU-CHAN. IT WAS WRITTEN BY UROGEN. THE SADNESS.

Oh but I seem to remember that Saber shouldn't have been wearing her armor against her second fight with Lancer because he had that spear that pierces prana. Armor ain't light yo.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on May 15, 2013, 05:47:59 PM
Saber was decent but below Rin in my books, but Saber in a suit was meh, and loli Rin didn't make up for it.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on May 17, 2013, 10:43:15 PM
HOW CAN LOLI-RIN NOT MAKE UP FOR IT?

[spoiler] AND WHEN KOTOMINE GIVES HER DAT DAGGER HE KILLED TOKIOMI WITH. GG THIS FAG [/spoiler]
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: invictus on November 13, 2013, 10:32:59 PM
Is this place dead?
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Geckoey Lurker on November 14, 2013, 06:24:43 AM
It isn't dead, just somewhat inactive. The chatbox more-or-less replaced this thread, I think.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on November 14, 2013, 07:36:17 AM
What he said. There's not much point in a social thread when everyone's somewhere else.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on November 14, 2013, 12:08:37 PM
The chat box doesn't hold msgs for very long when there is actual activity though.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Green_Tea on March 14, 2016, 05:42:23 PM
It's been years. What new hobbies have people picked up?

Also I lost my hard drive with all my years of hard work. Gems like YU-NO and Amorous Professor Chiery were lost. I'll have to start from scratch, hopefully things are still hanging around on the web.
Title: Re: Tea's Discussions
Post by: Kureha on March 14, 2016, 09:51:24 PM
Not much, just barely scrapping by...
Haven't seen you in a long while.