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Ahem, hello? Testing. 1.. 1, 2.. 1. OK. Good.

[ear-bleeding feedback loop of white noise]

Uh, s-sorry about that.

[shuffles notes]

Hi. I think I'm in the right place for this, though if not then I'll invite you all to politely correct me and tell me where to go.

Some of you may know me as someone who does most of their shitposting in the Politics subforum. (Hi!).
Sometimes I encounter comments of how that area - or even the community at large - is some 'right-wing echo chamber'. I tend to disagree with this take and am often compelled to respond saying so and referencing older Political Compass threads as part of my response.

However, in the wake of the George Floyd mega-thread, the Politics subforum appears to be awash with topic after topic that is racially charged. Whilst I am not saying such commentary isn't relevant, I have noticed the trend leaning more towards quantity over quality. I generally let a forum do its own thing, with unpopular topics sinking by their own nature (trust me, I know about creating unpopular topics that sink). I considered mentioning this a day or so ago and decided against it. Then witnessed the recent locking of a duplicated thread and reconsidered.

As stakes are increasing I can understand commentary does likewise - however I'm not seeing a whole lot of balance on either side. I'm guilty of contributing to that so I'm going to do what I can to question myself before I press 'Submit' on something.

When the whole Clown World scene kicked off I saw many topics being created and peppering the forum, diluting the content. A catch-all thread seemed to be an effective middle-ground and appears to have worked quite well.

Perhaps I'm seeing things that are not there. Perhaps I'm being oversensitive. Perhaps I'm just chronically woke and don't know it.

Erm.. t-that's it. Thanks.

[picks up dropped note and awkwardly places mic back in stand]
 
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Schrödinger's cat said:
Ahem, hello? Testing. 1.. 1, 2.. 1. OK. Good.

[ear-bleeding feedback loop of white noise]

Uh, s-sorry about that.

[shuffles notes]

Hi. I think I'm in the right place for this, though if not then I'll invite you all to politely correct me and tell me where to go.

Some of you may know me as someone who does most of their shitposting in the Politics subforum. (Hi!).
Sometimes I encounter comments of how that area - or even the community at large - is some 'right-wing echo chamber'. I tend to disagree with this take and am often compelled to respond saying so and referencing older Political Compass threads as part of my response.

However, in the wake of the George Floyd mega-thread, the Politics subforum appears to be awash with topic after topic that is racially charged. Whilst I am not saying such commentary isn't relevant, I have noticed the trend leaning more towards quantity over quality. I generally let a forum do its own thing, with unpopular topics sinking by their own nature (trust me, I know about creating unpopular topics that sink). I considered mentioning this a day or so ago and decided against it. Then witnessed the recent locking of a duplicated thread and reconsidered.

As stakes are increasing I can understand commentary does likewise - however I'm not seeing a whole lot of balance on either side. I'm guilty of contributing to that so I'm going to do what I can to question myself before I press 'Submit' on something.

When the whole Clown World scene kicked off I saw many topics being created and peppering the forum, diluting the content. A catch-all thread seemed to be an effective middle-ground and appears to have worked quite well.

Perhaps I'm seeing things that are not there. Perhaps I'm being oversensitive. Perhaps I'm just chronically woke and don't know it.

Erm.. t-that's it. Thanks.

[picks up dropped note and awkwardly places mic back in stand]
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SLoWMoTIoN said:
That makes no sense. I mentioned published as in available in your region, you are mentioning scanlators within Japan itself I take it. People oversees aren't even part of the market until you can legally buy the manga. Most of the people that I know that buy manga do so after reading the entire series before it gets published. (if ever) Or like a manga (thanks to the translation online) so much they buy it raw/figures in hopes it one day gets published.
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I guess you know the Market better than I do.

But if it takes buying a Figure/CD to make up the sales of Manga (or to make it okay to Publish it in the west), then I don't think that is sustainable. Because the Japanese Market is shrinking overall with anything but the most hardcore NEETS buying up 100s of copies just to inflate demand. Just my two cents.
 
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I guess you know the Market better than I do.

But if it takes buying a Figure/CD to make up the sales of Manga, then I don't think that is sustainable. Just my two cents.
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Buying a figure/bluray (those are 40 bucks a pop or so) will help a mangaka more than paying for crunchynuts. Or buying said manga when shit gets published.
 
SLoWMoTIoN said:
Buying a figure/bluray (those are 40 bucks a pop or so) will help a mangaka more than paying for crunchynuts. Or buying said manga when shit gets published.
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Figures tend to range from £30/230+ range depending on what type of material they use. (I used to collect a few myself. My most expensive is the Archer from Dragon's Crown)

It's pretty terrible that the main medium for these Franchises/Series have to be supported via other means to keep them from being cancelled. Manga doesn't cost all that much to support be to be honest. Whereas a Figure/CD etc should be a bonus for supporting it.

It's funny as I buy all my Anime physically over Crunchy/Netflix/Funi, and they do ask for ridiculous amounts to try the latest stuff. (or in the UK's case, charge a lot for Retro 90's anime)
 
Starlight Lotice said:
Figures tend to range from £30/230+ range depending on what type of material they use. (I used to collect a few myself. My most expensive is the Archer from Dragon's Crown)
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I meant the bluray not the figures. A single VOLUME (1-2 eps) nets you 40 bucks when something is airing.

Starlight Lotice said:
It's pretty terrible that the main medium for these Franchises/Series have to be supported via other means to keep them from being cancelled. Manga doesn't cost all that much to support be to be honest. Whereas a Figure/CD etc should be a bonus for supporting it.
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The licensing fees/what they cost in the west compared to japan doesn't help it.

Starlight Lotice said:
It's funny as I buy all my Anime physically over Crunchy/Netflix/Funi, and they do ask for ridiculous amounts to try the latest stuff. (or in the UK's case, charge a lot for Retro 90's anime)
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I thought their older stuff was free?
 
SLoWMoTIoN said:
I meant the bluray not the figures. A single VOLUME (1-2 eps) nets you 40 bucks when something is airing.


The licensing fees/what they cost in the west compared to japan doesn't help it.


I thought their older stuff was free?
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$40 for a Blu Ray single episodes? I don't know anyone who is desperate to do that which is why I think they should be only $10 for two episodes. (even that is pushing it, but better than nothing).

No, which is why I don't get Copyright Laws in the West. What is funny though, is that one UK distributor is also an Indie Record Company (which also charged a lot for Niche Bands).

I mean Retro Stuff on DVDs/Blu Rays. Streaming I am okay if they can show older Episodes past 10 years or so (unless they remake it).

I think Revolutionary Girl Utena AND Magic Knight Rayearth (two animes I want to watch) cost £115 for the whole season! It's ridiculous and it is purely because we never got those back in the day (only a single episode of the latter)
 
Starlight Lotice said:
$40 for a Blu Ray single episodes? I don't know anyone who is desperate to do that which is why I think they should be only $10 for two episodes. (even that is pushing it, but better than nothing).
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Blurays come in a neat packaging with some extra content (character song ect). This is how Japan makes their money. Collectors.


Starlight Lotice said:
I think Revolutionary Girl Utena AND Magic Knight Rayearth (two animes I want to watch) cost £115 for the whole season! It's ridiculous and it is purely because we never got those back in the day (only a single episode of the latter)
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Hm? I've seen it even lower in the past. Are those UK prices? It is up on youtube for some reason lol
 
SLoWMoTIoN said:
Blurays come in a neat packaging with some extra content (character song ect). This is how Japan makes their money. Collectors.



Hm? I've seen it even lower in the past. Are those UK prices? It is up on youtube for some reason lol
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The Japanese Market tends to like the extras and pay a premium for it. I mean it's a good incentive to buy it if you really love the anime and want those extras, but it is a limited market over here. (I nabbed a steal for Durarara!! Season 1's Collectors Edition for £20).

You guys have had the Anime for years, so it's likely going to be much lower on Amazon over there than over here. The only problem with buying imported Blu Rays is the risk that they region locked it outside the US. I did it once for Fairy Tail and got lucky, but you have to really look into it to know what you are buying. (What is hilarious is that the Warning signs on the Dvd/Blu Rays are always about the FBI fining you, even on our regions).

I would actually use Youtube to watch them, but they have to either shrink the image, speed it up or add a filter so it isn't classed as Piracy/Copyright. My only hope is that Netflix pick them up. It has some good selections to be honest, but nothing too fancy.
 
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You guys have had the Anime for years, so it's likely going to be much lower on Amazon over there than over here. The only problem with buying imported Blu Rays is the risk that they region locked it outside the US. I did it once for Fairy Tail and got lucky, but you have to really look into it to know what you are buying. (What is hilarious is that the Warning signs on the Dvd/Blu Rays are always about the FBI fining you, even on our regions).
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Oh yeah man the licensing shit is something that needs to die. We don't have that in our videogames ffs.
 
SLoWMoTIoN said:
Oh yeah man the licensing shit is something that needs to die. We don't have that in our videogames ffs.
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Been playing Fist of the North Star on PS4 and I do like it a lot. Although I don't believe the Anime had all the episodes Dubbed in English?

I wonder if they could go back and re-dub the rest with the current VA?
 
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Been playing Fist of the North Star on PS4 and I do like it a lot. Although I don't believe the Anime had all the episodes Dubbed in English?

I wonder if they could go back and re-dub the rest with the current VA?
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No idea about the dubs, I don't bother with them.
 
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This game rocks, it's similar to Mystery Mode in Tetris Effect in that it throws random shit at you that fucks you up like a translucent and hard to see stack, inverting your stack, sliding blocks to one side, etc. Feels really good.
 
Schrödinger's cat said:
Ahem, hello? Testing. 1.. 1, 2.. 1. OK. Good.

[ear-bleeding feedback loop of white noise]

Uh, s-sorry about that.

[shuffles notes]

Hi. I think I'm in the right place for this, though if not then I'll invite you all to politely correct me and tell me where to go.

Some of you may know me as someone who does most of their shitposting in the Politics subforum. (Hi!).
Sometimes I encounter comments of how that area - or even the community at large - is some 'right-wing echo chamber'. I tend to disagree with this take and am often compelled to respond saying so and referencing older Political Compass threads as part of my response.

However, in the wake of the George Floyd mega-thread, the Politics subforum appears to be awash with topic after topic that is racially charged. Whilst I am not saying such commentary isn't relevant, I have noticed the trend leaning more towards quantity over quality. I generally let a forum do its own thing, with unpopular topics sinking by their own nature (trust me, I know about creating unpopular topics that sink). I considered mentioning this a day or so ago and decided against it. Then witnessed the recent locking of a duplicated thread and reconsidered.

As stakes are increasing I can understand commentary does likewise - however I'm not seeing a whole lot of balance on either side. I'm guilty of contributing to that so I'm going to do what I can to question myself before I press 'Submit' on something.

When the whole Clown World scene kicked off I saw many topics being created and peppering the forum, diluting the content. A catch-all thread seemed to be an effective middle-ground and appears to have worked quite well.

Perhaps I'm seeing things that are not there. Perhaps I'm being oversensitive. Perhaps I'm just chronically woke and don't know it.

Erm.. t-that's it. Thanks.

[picks up dropped note and awkwardly places mic back in stand]
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Tesseract said:
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Tetris Effect probably at the top of my list currently. The music and visuals are sublime, not something you usually see in a Tetris game. Totally single player focused which I like, and the mechanics feel super tight. I love the assortment of game modes, and the weekend events encourage you to play them all (they highlight 4 of the modes randomly each weekend and the entire community gets points for completing rounds of those modes, which go into a pool and if the point threshold is reached, player avatars are awarded to participants) The various modes can really help you train certain skills like spin maneuvers in the All Clear mode, or downstacking in the Purify mode. Also I love that it has the hardest mode that's ever been in a guideline Tetris game, Master mode. Nice far off goal I can try to accomplish, I think only 3 people have managed to beat it by clearing all 300 lines.

TGM will always be a favourite just because of how hardcore it is. I love that people can become Tetris Grandmasters. I haven't tried to do this in earnest yet, but I think I will be giving it a serious go in the near future. Still just having too much fun with TE to give it up and set my MAME stuff up properly, I like the DS version of TGM 3 but I feel like to become a Grandmaster I'll want to use as close to original hardware as I can get. Gonna take some work learning how to play well with a stick, I have so much dpad/shoulder button muscle memory for Tetris.

And Tetris DX is eating all of my free time at work, I can't put it down. It's such a great improvement of the original. Faster DAS (Delayed Auto Shift, basically just when the piece moves when you hold a direction) and piece rotation make it feel so much better than OG, and having Marathon, Ultra, and Sprint modes means I can pick a suitable mode for how much time I'm going to have.

Those are my 3 big ones right now. NES Tetris waiting in the wings, and Gamboy Tetris Plus shipment on the way. I also found a sick homebrew the other day, some dude modified the OG Gameboy Tetris and made it Tetris Guideline compliant, so you have a hold function, SRS rotation, ghost piece, hard drops, super fucking stoked to try this, just waiting for my GB Everdrive cart to get here from Ukraine, taking forever.

 
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Schrödinger's cat said:
Ahem, hello? Testing. 1.. 1, 2.. 1. OK. Good.

[ear-bleeding feedback loop of white noise]

Uh, s-sorry about that.

[shuffles notes]

Hi. I think I'm in the right place for this, though if not then I'll invite you all to politely correct me and tell me where to go.

Some of you may know me as someone who does most of their shitposting in the Politics subforum. (Hi!).
Sometimes I encounter comments of how that area - or even the community at large - is some 'right-wing echo chamber'. I tend to disagree with this take and am often compelled to respond saying so and referencing older Political Compass threads as part of my response.

However, in the wake of the George Floyd mega-thread, the Politics subforum appears to be awash with topic after topic that is racially charged. Whilst I am not saying such commentary isn't relevant, I have noticed the trend leaning more towards quantity over quality. I generally let a forum do its own thing, with unpopular topics sinking by their own nature (trust me, I know about creating unpopular topics that sink). I considered mentioning this a day or so ago and decided against it. Then witnessed the recent locking of a duplicated thread and reconsidered.

As stakes are increasing I can understand commentary does likewise - however I'm not seeing a whole lot of balance on either side. I'm guilty of contributing to that so I'm going to do what I can to question myself before I press 'Submit' on something.

When the whole Clown World scene kicked off I saw many topics being created and peppering the forum, diluting the content. A catch-all thread seemed to be an effective middle-ground and appears to have worked quite well.

Perhaps I'm seeing things that are not there. Perhaps I'm being oversensitive. Perhaps I'm just chronically woke and don't know it.

Erm.. t-that's it. Thanks.

[picks up dropped note and awkwardly places mic back in stand]
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I feel like it'll drop off. It's just a racially charged time in wider society, and frankly, if some are going to constantly nitpick white people, with barely any visible pushback from minorities, well, others are going to stop being politely quiet on some noticeable criticisms of minorities.

I don't think there's a need for any kind of action right now rather than people getting it out of their systems. A centralized thread would probably just look bad.
 
Nymphae said:
Tetris Effect probably at the top of my list currently. The music and visuals are sublime, not something you usually see in a Tetris game. Totally single player focused which I like, and the mechanics feel super tight. I love the assortment of game modes, and the weekend events encourage you to play them all (they highlight 4 of the modes randomly each weekend and the entire community gets points for completing rounds of those modes, which go into a pool and if the point threshold is reached, player avatars are awarded to participants) The various modes can really help you train certain skills like spin maneuvers in the All Clear mode, or downstacking in the Purify mode. Also I love that it has the hardest mode that's ever been in a guideline Tetris game, Master mode. Nice far off goal I can try to accomplish, I think only 3 people have managed to beat it by clearing all 300 lines.

TGM will always be a favourite just because of how hardcore it is. I love that people can become Tetris Grandmasters. I haven't tried to do this in earnest yet, but I think I will be giving it a serious go in the near future. Still just having too much fun with TE to give it up and set my MAME stuff up properly, I like the DS version of TGM 3 but I feel like to become a Grandmaster I'll want to use as close to original hardware as I can get. Gonna take some work learning how to play well with a stick, I have so much dpad/shoulder button muscle memory for Tetris.

And Tetris DX is eating all of my free time at work, I can't put it down. It's such a great improvement of the original. Faster DAS (Delayed Auto Shift, basically just when the piece moves when you hold a direction) and piece rotation make it feel so much better than OG, and having Marathon, Ultra, and Sprint modes means I can pick a suitable mode for how much time I'm going to have.

Those are my 3 big ones right now. NES Tetris waiting in the wings, and Gamboy Tetris Plus shipment on the way. I also found a sick homebrew the other day, some dude modified the OG Gameboy Tetris and made it Tetris Guideline compliant, so you have a hold function, SRS rotation, ghost piece, hard drops, super fucking stoked to try this, just waiting for my GB Everdrive cart to get here from Ukraine, taking forever.

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i played a bunch in college, (nes) tetris competitions at my apartment

also played the hell out of (64) tetrisphere, i've never been great or anything, enough to skirt by the ranks of all the psychos

p. cool that dx stands out, i like the sound of those extra modes
 
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Tesseract said:
i played a bunch in college, (nes) tetris competitions at my apartment

also played the hell out of (64) tetrisphere, i've never been great or anything, enough to skirt by the ranks of all the psychos

p. cool that dx stands out, i like the sound of those extra modes
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Nice! I've never actually tried NES Tetris, but I've been watching tournaments online and it looks like good fun. I played a lot of Tetrisphere at one point as well, that game has an awesome soundtrack



Pretty fun twist on the formula too, I'd like to see that get a remaster or something.

Yeah DX is so great, the resume game feature is really nice too for when you are in a really long Marathon sesh and need to turn off the GB. At first I was missing the original music, but it does wear on you slightly after decades. There are 3 different tracks in DX, I like 2 of them. My only complaint is that when you clear modes with certain scores you get little ending videos that you can't skip and that's just annoying. Oh and it also has a versus CPU mode, you're just playing a game and sending/receiving garbage to/from an unseen opponent.
 
Ha this video talks about Nothing the way I did in the thread about God. I was saying the real god would not be represented by light or the universe as we know it. I was saying the representation of God. The example he gave for us to understand him is nothing. We can imagine a "before" the universe. But we can't imagine before "nothing". What came before nothing? the question doesn't even make sense. Nothing doesn't need to have an origin just like god.

 
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