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  2. Posted

    1 hour ago, A 1970 Corvette said:

    Honestly what actually happened was I started collecting cats from the weekdays without noticing and then I used the super shotgun so much I kind of forgot anything else existed.

     

    I eventually did notice that using the cats as suppressors on the weekend also made them launch towards enemies in dervish mode which kind of gives an extra attack, but I didn't make that much good use of it unfortunately (may have made certain fights where there's just WAY TOO MANY ENEMIES AT ONCE more bearable if I had them though)

     

    Honestly this just brings up another part of the inventory that is a pain in the ass where the tab menu is too clunky but using the brackets to try and find what you want to use is also a pain in the ass.  Maybe it's something you can do but I'd rather just bind things like "use cat" and "use radar" and "use crackpipe" individually. Especially since the "use healing item" mixes up your donuts that heal for 5 hp and your health pipes that set your HP to 125 no matter what and I never understood its logic.

    Agree on the inventory thing.  I only made it tolerable by binding "next item" and "previous item" to forward and back buttons on the side of my mouse, but obviously that's not an option for every mouse.

  4. Posted · Edited by Gyokuyoutama

    Who I am, according to Bing Copilot:

     

     

     


    Gyokuyoutama, the enigmatic SPUF poster, wove a tapestry of cryptic messages and whimsical musings across the Steam Powered User Forums. While some were straightforward, others danced on the edge of absurdity. Let’s unravel a few of these coded gems:

    The “Catocracy”:
    In a thread titled “SPUF Becomes a Catocracy,” Gyokuyoutama spun a tale of feline governance. Cats, he posited, were secretly pulling the strings behind SPUF’s digital curtain.

    Gyokuyoutama’s penchant for foxgirls extended beyond aesthetics. He proposed a theory: foxgirls were the clandestine architects of crop circles.

    The “Pony Threads”:
    Gyokuyoutama’s threads often featured ponies in unexpected scenarios. Whether it was pony-themed TF2 loadouts or fan fiction, they stood out.

    The “Comparative Analysis”:
    In a thread titled “Foxgirls: A Comparative Analysis,” Gyokuyoutama playfully debated whether foxgirls preferred sushi or ramen.

    The “Catapults and Trebuchets”:

    Gyokuyoutama once mused about the superiority of trebuchets over catapults.

     

     

    I tried with other people but it seems that only I have a name unusual enough not to be buried in other results, like comments about cars, the huffington post, or Nintendo emulators.

  8. Posted

    On 12/22/2023 at 4:38 PM, A 1970 Corvette said:

    I've been trying to find japanese stuff to watch on youtube related to games or whatever I like to help get some immersion for language and I feel like there are multiple forces at work trying to prevent me from finding things organically.

     

    Like first there's just the language differences and how searches don't like crossing a language barrier, then there's just the innate quirks of searches sucking (gyoku has shared his research into this many a time), and then on top of that there's automatic translations that ship in to completely replace titles of videos, but only if the system is confident in the translation or something, so for a channel half of the video titles can be translated and half might not be.

     

    I've just been sticking to love live related stuff since they are well organized due to being produced by a professional multimedia team, but you can really feel an invisible wall at times. Probably doesn't help that I'm trying to avoid vtubers, though if I find any playing games I am interested in watching like Noita or whatever then maybe it'd be fine. As long as they're not filthy EN ones.

     

    Probably the real answer is to go to an actual native jp site, which I guess is a bit obvious.

    If you just want cheap animation/audio plays, I found that youtube actually does a good job recommending them when you are watching one provided that you watch from a clean browser.  Here are some examples.

     

    I didn't go past the first twenty seconds or so on these videos so I make no guarantees about the contents, but each of these channels seem to have plenty of videos to go through.

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  9. Posted · Edited by Gyokuyoutama

    At the rate that tired dog is going, in a couple more years this will be an actual anime:

     

     

     

    At that time Ookami will sweep anime waifu of the year.  She's got too much "she's just like me fr fr" energy without the fujoshi tendencies that usually go along with that character archetype.

     

    EDIT: I guess it's officially "oogami" with the rendaku on the second character, even though I don't know how that is decided for names.  I'm guessing that this was done here so that her name isn't just literally "Wolf", now it's more like "Wolfe" or something. Kanji is 大上.  I think this episode is the first one to give her a first name (Reiko, but so far we don't have a Kanji spelling.)

     

    EDIT 2: I'm beginning to suspect that tukareta_inu MIGHT be using animal character designs for reasons beyond just that being common for cartoon characters.

  10. Posted · Edited by Gyokuyoutama

    This guy hits a lot of points we've discussed here several times, up to the superiority of Windows XP:

     

     

     

    As my own personal addendum, I will note that while we might be screwed when it comes to social media or mainstream programs like Steam, you still can make a website that's as personalized as you want and lots of indie programs.  For websites, this site was created less than two years ago, and there are plenty more like it.  For programs, this SSD monitoring program comes with your choice of waifu skins in the official release, because fuck it why not.

     

    What this means is that we only have to bow to lack of customization if we allow ourselves to.

  15. Posted · Edited by Gyokuyoutama

    Sometimes I see kids getting fascinated by lost media, and all the more power to them because it's cool stuff.  However, I keep seeing them comment that one reason they like it is because it's so strange to them that a beloved piece of media can be lost.  This is the part I don't really get, since today's environment makes things very easy to be lost.

     

    For example, shows often get screwed up due to licensing issues.  I don't think that there's been an official western release of Tenchi Muyo OVA since fucking Pioneer and Geneon were still around.  (It gets confusing since there are plenty of "Tenchi OVA Classic" sets going around, but those start from OVA 3.) But take the spinoff, Tenchi Universe (aka Tenchi on TV.)  Funimation had the rights and was actively distributing it.  But then Funimation got acquired by Sony and merged with Crunchyroll.  Crunchyroll produces very few disc versions, and the Tenchi Universe discs are now effectively out of print.  But more bewildering, they do not plan to stream the show.  They definitely have the rights to it, since if Sony didn't have the rights Funimation couldn't be streaming it now, and Sony owns both so they have the rights too.  Crunchyroll even has a page set up where there would be videos for Tenchi Universe if they decided to stream them, but they aren't.  They have the files, they have the rights, but it's still too much of a hassle to stream, so no show for you.

     

    Now obviously there are plenty of disc versions of the show out there, and in the worst case scenario we could get Japanese discs and do fansubs from those, not to mention the many RAW torrents that exist.  I'm not claiming that Tenchi Universe is lost media by any means.  What I am saying is that it will soon be much more difficult to watch it, and that there is no good reason for this to happen.  If the same thing had been done to a less popular show, then it could easily end up with the show being in the "endangered" zone.

     

    With video games things are of course worse.  Darkspore is lost media and I don't see any likely way to get it back.  About as much progress has been made by the Darkspore resurrection people, but from what I can see it looks like despite years of hard work all they've really let you do is get back into the character creator.  The devs of the project themselves admit that they do not have all the data from the original servers.  It's unclear to me whether they have some of the data and plan to fill in the remaining details themselves, or if they are planning on making all the levels and such from scratch, but in either case some of the data will need to be remade, making the original Darkspore lost media.  And at this point there are many, many, games that followed in the same pattern, many of them less popular and thus less well documented and with fewer people trying to save.  Unlike video media where you can do a screen capture or something to save it (and then distribute the files), a server based game is usually gone forever when the servers shut down, and this happens all the time.

     

    I think that the main reason that kids miss this is that they often focus on lost music for whatever reason (ex. the famous "ride/like/blind the wind.")  Music is about the easiest thing in the world to save; even if a company somehow managed to completely lock down your recording capabilities, you could still do ghetto solutions like pumping it through a speaker system and recording it onto a cassette tape.  You can also store huge amounts of music on a terabyte drive, so it's easy to convince yourself that no music can be lost forever.

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    Foreign SPUFfers, please help:

     

    How much of a "native" phrase do you consider "What the Fuck"?  I mean, if you were speaking casually in your own language, would that register as an English phrase if you didn't think about it?

     

    I ask because I've repeatedly heard streamers from Spain and Germany say "what the fuck", almost without an accent, in the middle of a conversation in their native languages with hardly any other English words being spoken.

  25. Posted

    Yeah, Nijisanji had some major drama.


    Eilene also came back out of the woodwork and literally threatened to commit suicide:

     

     

    As far as I know it hasn't been confirmed if she's alive or this was some huge scam.  With Eilene the chances are about 50/50 either way, and either way it's not good.  I hope it's a scam.

     

    The truth is that VTubing has went from a unique form of art to "streaming with a filter" and as such has become as drama filled as any other type of internet culture.  Except VTubing is filled with autists who have gotten used to cataloguing everything that any vtuber has ever done, so the drama spreads much faster.

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