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TIAM IV: Guydiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Cockmongler
A 1970 Corvette replied to Raison d'être's topic in General Discussion
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What song are you listening to RIGHT now?
A 1970 Corvette replied to Confusedn't's topic in Entertainment Theater
I love this genre so much. -
LITERALLY UNUSUABLE UNUSUALY USNUAL UNUSABLE
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Sounds like you just don't like cute girls
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I had a dream where I was back in my dorm and I pooped myself. I wasn't too concerned at the time. I think I just dropped my boxers in the trash, showered, and then acted like nothing happened. This is only notable because that's the only dream I've had that has taken place in Nebraska. All of my dreams while in NE were in Vegas. So it's weird that my first dream about the place I left is happenign just now. Also because I shat myself. Not cool, brain. Not cool.
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TIAM IV: Guydiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Cockmongler
A 1970 Corvette replied to Raison d'être's topic in General Discussion
Me too high five -
If an Evilbrain posts in a forum but nobody is around to read it, is it still a meme?
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the cbow buff is a little baffling but i guess they want to reinforce the idea that any healing = ubercharge
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I keep forgetting about the general switch speed increase.
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Phlog buff is nice but not in the right direction axt is so dead we're going to need to dig a grave in its grave deg seems severegimped bazooka probably is still shitty to play against what's with the fascination with switch-to-from speeds demonit seems mildly dead but maybe not??? engy got fucked CRIKEY! they buffed the cbow and amp for some reason?!?!? it's probably too small to matter but still DR buff that was what everyone wanted no other spy changes ;~; loose cannon nerf thank fuck panic attack buff seems weird but welcome
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I just re-watched Gen'ei Wo Kakeru Taiyou or Day Break Illusion or whatever that other foreign title for it is. I feel the need to share my opinions on it despite it being one of those shows few people watched and fewer people remember. There's spoilers but I doubt any of you care, so here goes. What the show did right: -Middle Arc: The show's first half is monster-of-the-day shenanigans as the magical girl squad of 4 get to know each other all while killing abhorrent monsters created by the negative emotions of humanity. The next three or so episodes take off with some interesting plot points: The monsters (called daemonia) apparently have some kind of intelligence behind them that is co-ordinating them. This leads to the debut of the minor antagonists, the negative-clones. These clones draw from the same source of power as the magical girls they are cloned to fight, so their powers are exactly the same and more importantly, killing one also kills the other. This creates some great scenes as all the magical girls in the group have to come to terms with the fact that they may one day have to kill themselves to kill the enemies they've been working to fight so far. The camaraderie they cultivated over the previous episodes shows a bit here, as the group talk amongst themselves about what they'd do if faced by their negative clone, it's some great tension and leads to my favourite character Ginka having a heartfelt talk with her dad before going off to kill her clone (and herself.) The loss of Ginka, the girl who brought the group together, actually has quite the effect on the group and they all seem a little more distant after that. -Luna: Luna was literally nothing: the character for the first six episodes. There was a little bit about her being a part of a royal family and disregarded for being a child and used only because of her blood. There was also a little bit on how she relied on her sister, who mysteriously disappeared, and how she turns to rely on Akari, the main character, to a worrying degree. Throughout the six episodes there are little scenes where she is part of the group but left out (due to her SUPER BETA-NESS, she misses out on all those hot yuri flags with Akari, such as the "sharing food" flag, "helping akari up after she fell over" flag, etc), but at the same time everyone still is happy and it seems like she gets over it. Then at the end of the clone arc, she gets duped by the intelligent leader Daemonia, stabbed through the stomach, and experimented with by imprinting a Daemonia into her while she was still alive. Which leads to some horrible consequences, like her being turned into a rabid magical animal hell bent on killing all her friends. But all of it was due to her obsession with Akari and her lack of will to fight, and it was quite the "oh shit" moment when it happened. -The artstyle: When it works, it's pretty unique and I love gradient hair so it looks extra pretty. I like most of the character designs and I'd kill for a scale fig of Ginka. What the show did wrong: -The artstyle: While it looked nice when it worked it also had some problems with eyes looking weird (mainly with seira and her SUPER SLANTY SERIOUS EYES) and also the problem of drawing all characters like little girls. The men's heads looked too big along with their eyes and it was just weird. -Everything after the Clone Arc: It's hard to talk about a dark magical girl show without bringing up madoka, so here goes: after the clone arc is kinda dropped in favour of doing a SUFFERING part like Madoka had. Complete with replaying a series of events that always end with Akari killing her cousin who she was really close to, even. It wasn't anywhere near as well-timed or powerful as Homerun's Time Trek, and in my opinion exploring the clones would have been a better way to have an ending arc. Also the final boss, who was the intelligent Daemonia who throughout the story had been manipulative and conniving rather than a brute-force attacker, naturally turned into a three-story tall demon and fired laz0rs at the girls. It was a total turnaround from what the guy normally did and was just a big fight for the sake of big fights. -Dropping the clone arc: This brings up a lot of Frodos. There's a notable amount of power within specific tarot cards (tarot cards correspond to magical girls) and since the clones had the same amount of power as their magical girl counterparts, it begs the question that they didn't summon the Emperor and the World and orbital strike the magical girls (the orbital strike being an ability the holders of the Emperor and the World had and used, mind you). Plus, only three clones out of eight magical girls present ever came up. I guess you could say that they took time or energy or human souls and tears to make, but then they could have just went and bided their time until they could buy the strongest tarots, make negative clones from them, and then kill everyone because the orbital strike is broken powerful. -Other things that got dropped: Everyone gets better after Akari trades herself for a wish (and then the people she made better with the wish turn around and save her from the clutches of the demons. Oh well. I don't know why they actually granted her the wish especially since they stated to her that she'd never return to the mortal world and would never have a way to figure out whether or not they granted their wish.), and wishes for everyone to recover. Well, that's fine and all, but the wish also apparently just made them all get over all the problems that got in the way as well, despite Luna's emotional instability being caused by a lifetime of mocking and abuse; I guess the wish was just that powerful. Also Ginka came back to life. That was explained slightly better but it was mainly just to have a happy ending and also to have an (admittedly badass) scene where she comes in and clears a path for everyone to save Akari from the grips of evil demons. There's a few other plot threads that don't really go anywhere but those are the main ones off the top of my head. My synopsis: it's okay. I wouldn't recommend it. If anything I'm just sad that they didn't explore the negative clone idea more, because it'd have been cool to see all the characters either come to terms with the idea that they need to sudoku to kill their enemies, or finding a way around killing their enemies but still dealing with them. But it has gradient hair. That counts for something.
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TIAM IV: Guydiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Cockmongler
A 1970 Corvette replied to Raison d'être's topic in General Discussion
done with finals weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee -
So I drop in some CSGO to meme with Wicket and I decide to use the ingame voice. It doesn't work. Oh well. Go to Mumble. Mumble doesn't work. Mumble worked last night. That's weird. My microphone seemed to be playing what my headset's speakers were playing. So, it was playing CSGO sounds, or when I went into Mumble, whenever I press my push to talk, it played the sound that tells me my voice engaged/disengaged (a little boop sound). I do the standard bit, check default devices, check drivers, uninstall the device and reinstall, check the official drivers/device manager, update the firmware, etc. None of that works. My mic doesn't pick up any sound when displayed in the "Recording" tab for sound devices. Absolutely no outside yelling is picked up and (since my input just plays the output when used in VOIP) when I put something loud, the bars are incredibly muted. Like, it takes something REALLY loud to even have one single bit come up (and of course only on internal sounds - my voice even when at the top of lungs wouldn't register). I've opened up Sound Recorder and then played some loud music (solely through my headset) and the sound recorder picked up the music at a very much lower volume. There was also a LOT of interference. Here's the audio file: http://puu.sh/lXpCq/6bb4978dd2.wma (and the actual music: https://warhorsesl.bandcamp.com/track/dooms-bride so you guys don't think it was just the music?) You can hear some weird whirring noise and even crackling! Crazy shit, yo. What's weirder is that I CAN pick up sounds with a microphone if I reverse the headset and microphone jacks on the USB dongle. The microphone has horrible quality, but it still records. Wicket grabbed a file of me testing it over Mumble and my voice was able to be heard. I've set my speakers to "listen" to my microphone, and I'm getting a fairly standard high-pitched static noise (low in the background, but definitely there). Fiddling with the dongle doesn't seem to change anything about the static. I've not seen anything like this in any google search and I've been looking for the past few hours. The closest I got was a fix involving registry editing and permissions for groups that don't exist and I don't want to bother with that. I plugged my headset into my tablet running Win8.1RT and it installed and did everything and had similar symptoms to my computer, IE mic not working. I didn't test as thoroughly on my tablet but I assume it had all the same problems. My headset's a logitech G430. At this point I'm pretty sure just getting a replacement is a good idea. It seems to be a problem between hardware and software and I am not good enough to figure it out.
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absolutely insane headset problem wow oh my goodness
A 1970 Corvette replied to A 1970 Corvette's topic in Techmoology
Did you have the exact same problem as me? I tried that specifically and it didn't seem to do anything. I did it for both the headset and the microphone. -
Wait, no, I just remembered that I still haven't watched GiTS. I'm going to do that. Mainly because it seems to have everything I want and also there's that one game coming out and I'm too autistic to play a game without knowing something about the universe it's in
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These questions are pretty surreal. The answer is yes Well, we could break out Merso's question list.
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Welcome friendo, how do you feel about cute girls
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TIAM IV: Guydiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Cockmongler
A 1970 Corvette replied to Raison d'être's topic in General Discussion
subSPUF operators ww@ -
TIAM IV: Guydiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Cockmongler
A 1970 Corvette replied to Raison d'être's topic in General Discussion
Okay let's talk about anime [USER WAS GROANED AT FOR THIS POST]