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Good morning everyone, how was the weekend for you?
I was busy, with Mum being in the hospital, but, we finally have a diagnosis so, hooray!
She has a lung infection, so now they can finally treat it. She also has been set up as infectious after they analysed a stool sample, but it seems to be more of a precaution then anything else.
Good to hear they’re getting on top of things. 🙂
Was working much of the weekend…
Oh well, good money at least.
No, no extra money. TiL at best. Job involves odd hours by definition.
Cold as hell, yet here I am walking around Geelong, playing Pokémon Go whilst waiting for my cooking class to start.
What sort of cooking class? Catch anything good?
It’s through a not-for-profit mental health provider, and all I caught was a Rattata.
2 weeks in and I’ve watched exactly nothing in the latest anime season.
What I did watch, though, is Thunderbolt Fantasy, and it’s pretty rad. Imagine if you will, a world where western society completely disappeared around 1965. Taiwanese archaeologists digging through the rubble discover the Thunderbirds and are like, “this is pretty cool but not nearly Anime enough – someone get Japan on the phone”. Thunderbolt Fantasy is what they’d make.
It’s basically a super elaborate Taiwan/Japan co-produced puppet theater with a sort of Fantasy Ancient China setting and ridiculously detailed puppets. And violence, which is so stupid that it flips around to being cool. Puppets getting beheaded and stuff. It’s amazing. Everyone needs to watch it.
The only show I’ve watched so far is Food Wars season 2 which, while good, seems to be a bit rushed. Absolutely nothing else has taken my interest so far and the only other show that I might watch is Berserk but that’s simply to see what the fuss is about.
There’s a lot of interesting stuff. I just haven’t really felt like it. Only ongoing thing I’m current on is Macross Delta.
I have access to a pokestop without even leaving my office desk 😛
Pokeball farming! \o/
Not just Pokeballs, but potions and berries too! Also, once your bag is full you can keep spinning the stop and you’ll still get your 50XP, just no items.
I’m down to 10 pokeballs this morning so any I can grab will help out.
Also playing this game makes me weep that I can’t have a real pet Eevee 🙁
I maxed my bag out on the trip to work. 30 minute tram ride through inner city. Works well
Ding ding, thanks for the tip
New interesting factoid, when you level up your items granted can exceed your bag limit. I just spun a stop to advance to level 12 (which gives you around 35 items) and now my bag has 368/350 items.
Morning everyone!
I started and finished INSIDE (yes its officially capitalised) on the weekend. Also spent some time with Transformers: Devastation, which is more fun that it has a right to be. Makes me want Bayonetta 2 on PC even more…
Was Bayo 1 even on PC?
Quiet round these parts. Thank fucking christ. No pokemon GO here is a bummer, though. I just know somebody’s downloaded it despite it not actually releasing in canada and are having free rein compared to the un-poke-populated-populace.
Also, I’m freaked out by my new apartment’s microwave. It’s far too large. I could microwave an entire turkey in there if I wanted to. Why the hell do I have a microwave that large? It makes me think.
Seeing as how you do have a microwave that large it only makes sense that you should find out if it is possible to microwave a turkey.
I’d like to corner the market on “Can You Microwave It?” videos but I’ve seen one where they microwave a microwave inside a microwave, so I’m not too particularly inclined to try it out for myself after seeing that apex of microwaviness.
Relevant.
Does it make you think of Kick Ass? It made me think of Kick Ass.
https://youtu.be/Z1M7h1i-KXo?t=42
http://mashable.com/2016/07/06/overwatch-hero-tease-sombra/#VwhuDalScqqO
Looks like Sombra is likely to be Pharrah’s mom :O Plot twist!
@scree in case you haven’t already dug this up!
Yup, I know about it. Glad to have another support.
Well I just worked out how to hatch eggs in pokemon. I didn’t think I had any incubators because in inventory was greyed out and clickign on it said I couldn’t use it here.
Thought that was a paywall and had to pay coins to start hatching eggs.
Oh well, another thing to do now. Still have no idea how gyms work though
Assuming you’ve hit Level 5 and joined Team Red…
When standing near a gym, you can go 1 of 2 ways.
If the gym is owned by Team Red, you can choose ONE of your Pokemon to spar. That Pokemon will enter a battle against all the others defending the gym, and based on how many you beat you’ll gain XP for the gym. If you can level up the gym you’ll open up a new defender spot and can assign one of your Pokemon to defend the gym. (This assumes that there are no free spots when you get there. If there are free spots you can assign one of your Pokemon to defend the gym and then spar, in which case you’ll battle yourself. FUN!)
If the gym is owned by Team Blue or Yellow, you can choose SIX of your Pokemon to battle the gym. Depending on how many you beat the gym will lose prestige (XP) – you can lather, rinse, repeat until the gym loses all XP, at which point it will level down. Keep going until it reaches level 0 and then you can claim it for Team Red.
ALL HAIL TEAM RED.
Ah Team Red, the brutes, thinking strength alone will save them.
Spoken like a true NOT ON TEAM RED.
I didn’t go Team Red cuz that was too obvious on what they stood for because technically strength alone is what makes you the best in Pokemon’s system usually 😛
I’m a ginger so I’m on Team Red for life.
I picked Yellow cuz 1: Yellow is a favourite colour of mine next to silver and 2: Zapdos is always badass looking
Ok, thanks
And since you are clearly the pokemaster one more question. If I use an incense do I need to walk? Tiglet is after me to throw the balls so if I drop an incense will i get them coming into my lounge room or do I still need to walk around to find the,?
I used incense at my place and they were coming to me more often, I caught over a dozen along with duplicates on top of that from in my apartment.
Cool. Mummy is out tonight, so it might be a night of pokemon hunting around the apartment
well I’m sure it’s a “Better to always go out and walk instead of staying in” system, even with Incense, but yeah I had a lot come on the radar over several hours with Incense on.
Personal experience is mixed. I’ve had an incense on and gotten nothing until I started walking, but then I’ve also activated one and gotten Pokemon instantly appearing. Sooooo yes-ish?
Same goes for Lures. Had one active on the Pokestop across from my desk and gotten nothing in the whole 30 minutes (phone stationary on my desk) but then on Friday night @thecracks activated one on the stop where we were sitting and it was a Pokefrenzy.
My lure brings all the ‘mons to the yard…
Hi all! Hope everyone had a weekend! I’d planned so much… Thought I’d play through Inside, maybe try out Gat out of Hell at last, make progress on my Crucible questline in Destiny… Maybe even try to beat Furi’s second boss.
On Saturday morning I picked up Factorio, figuring I’d try it out for half an hour with my morning coffee. I… seem to have misplaced my weekend, as it’s now Monday and I got nothing done. Steam indicates that my weekend has been absorbed into Factorio, as it says it has 32 hours playtime.
Apparently, Buildcraft + Anno + SC2’s defense missions = cocaine.Did you sleep? Did you eat?
“Kindof” and “maybe” respectively…
I walked around Sydney city yesterday for about 5 hours, catching Pokemon with friends. Good times were had! We found all three fossil Pokemon at Circular Quay, which I am very pleased about.
Five years ago I wrote to Microsoft and proposed the creation of the x-rifle which would allow outdoor gaming in a virtual world where you could play Doom in the park, streets, and preferably gaming arenas on a global scale. I was told good luck with that…and given the brush off. Now nintendo have Pokemon GO. And their shares went vertical.
Screw you Microsoft.
Pokemon GO and creating Doom as an AR game are huge leaps of tech apart. Pokemon GO as far as I can see it is a glorified GPS game + throwing a ball on your camera (which is still less than perfect).
A Doom/FPS AR would require significantly more work and dedicated spaces for play. Additionally the tech would need to ensure accuracy and response times were on the spot and it would still feel flat as a game with none of the guns having any kind of recoil.
Im not arguing the validity behind the idea but rather it’s practicality. We’re at least 10 years away technologically speaking for AR to be a mainstream form of gaming out in the open. And given that it’d be played out in the open we’re probably 25 years away from a social perspective before the world will adjust to that.
I wouldn’t want people running around public spaces with fake firearms.
Agreed. Unless said fake firearms looked like Sony’s PSVR “Aim” controller… tho seeing people waving that around in public would raise other concerns. 😛
https://www.zerolatencyvr.com/ this sounds way more like what you’re talking about.
I remember about a decade ago hearing about one of the Universities in I think WA doing a similar AR thing with a modified version of Quake on campus. I remember it because I was in my final year at the time and I wanted to do AR stuff for my thesis, but sadly the main Computer Graphics guys at the faculty were too busy and the cost of the tech at the time was prohibitive.
I’d be stunned if Microsoft weren’t working on something like it to use with Hololens anyway.
Scored points in my sportsball yesterday, always a good way to start the week!
Also, with RDR back in the news with its backwards-compatibility, I’d still love to see a PC release…
\o/
If only
Watched a few videos of Tokyo Mirage Sessions trying to figure out whether I should take the plunge… Anybody played it yet? Any reviews?
Also, Tokyo Mirage Sessions TMS or Shin Megami Tensai SMT!
Why not SMT: TMS !
This is actually a game I would buy the WiiU for… curious to see how it turns out. In related news I want P5 now 🙁
Mum is coming home!
Huzzah! \o/
Wasted so much weekend time. Again 😛
Had the house to myself, so once again took advantage of that to move a whole load of stuff out of my room in an effort to tidy it up. Only, I kept getting distracted with other things and stuck not knowing what exactly to do next. Particularly when I moved all the games off my shelves, and piled them all up on the dining table to see just how way-too-fucking-many I had. It was a terrifying sight. Took eight archive boxes to put them all away (and that’s just the games, no controllers or peripherals or consoles or anything), which averaged out to ten kilos each. They’re now sitting in my sister’s room so that I have some shuffle space, since she won’t be home again for a good while.
Ended up finding another listing for someone looking for a pianist, managed to bang out a reply far faster than usual. And got a response already, set to meet up for coffee in a couple of weeks. This is all going way too fast 😛
I keep refreshing the tracking on my GPU and it’s been hopping through a million places over the weekend, but hit Botany yesterday afternoon and hasn’t budged since. MOVE, DAMN YOU!
Pokemon Go is further proof of just how prescient Dennou Coil was.
Man, I’m going to sound like a broken record. But how the hell are there still brain dead people playing competitive Overwatch? I’m still amazed that there are people out there that haven’t figure out how to deal with Torbjorns turret (pick a tank, you’re done), or how to respond to Lucio, or Reinhardts shield.
What’s worse is that nobody ever listens. I make call outs so that you’re aware of where the enemy team is, not so that you can ignore it and die. Calling out Reaper teleporting behind Widowmaker should result in a still breathing Widowmaker. Even if she runs away, she’s still helping the team by not being dead.
I regularly tell everybody to group up and push together as a team, but so many people just rush in, one at a time and die. Or I tell them what the enemy team composition is and what a good counter would be. Completely ignored, or worse, completely shat on.
Last night we weren’t making any progress on the payload, looking at the enemy team I tell my tanks to switch to Winston. 2 minutes later we’ve made no progress, so I switch from support to Winston myself. This results in one player completely shitting on me and threatening to leave the game, ‘forcing’ my teammates to hate me for it, if I didn’t shut my mouth. I told him to fuck off. He did and we ended up winning the game. Telling him this he still tried to shit on me.
Also last night I got my best Objective Time for my career as Lucio with 10 minutes on the point (in one life it was 6 minutes straight). All I did was circle the center pillars and the enemy team could not hit me. I kept telling my team to switch to Winston but I was ignored.
I’ve tried telling them who is a good counter and even explaining WHY they’re a good counter. But I’m just ignored for people piss farting around. If they’re new to the game or don’t know how to play, that’s fine. But they should at least stick to Quick Play. The point of Competitive Play is to do your best as a team to win, not trying to improve your Widowmakers K/D ratio on Offense.
It also doesn’t help that even if I lose a match with 50 eliminations and 3 deaths I drop a complete rank.
I feel like your rant can/could apply to every online competitive game out there where you’re randomly matched with people? Isn’t this just part/parcel of what comes with team based online games?
If it makes you feel any better the enemy team that you’re losing to probably has its own set of Widowmaker K/D farmers 😛 So the two evils theoretically balance out.
The difference between Overwatch compared to something like Call of Duty is that nobody can get carried. It’s a team focused game, everybody needs to be doing their part. In Call of Duty I can easily rack up a 30 kill streak using only a shotgun and win the game for my team. In Overwatch a 30 kill streak will at best give me a reward card at the end of the match.
I did specify team-based online games. Overwatch has more in common with MOBA’s in terms of mechanics than FPS’s. It’s just part and parcel of the package in any online game that requires co-operation. You’ll always have people who want to lone wolf it or don’t know any better.
So as a total scrub, how many characters do you realistically need to know how to play?
I only started playing on Sunday, and so far the only characters I’ve really gotten the hang of are Roadhog and Tracer.
It’s probably worth picking 4-5 to start with and getting their play styles nailed down. As long as your initial selection doesn’t include Genji/Widowmaker/Bastion people won’t hate you =P
Choose a ‘main’ for each class, one offense, one defense, one tank and one support. That will give you enough room for good team composition. As you play you’ll start to see good counters and such between all characters. You can learn how certain heroes play just by observation so that when you feel like you need to switch you already have an idea how they play.
http://nichegamer.com/2016/07/11/prepare-dead-alive-xtreme-3-gets-vr-support-october-13/
Welp.
My preorder is ready but not sure about my body.
The real question here: Senran Kagura when?
I get the impression that Marvelous / Takaaki are taking a break from SK at the moment. Estival Versus was the last one and it’s been out for nearly 18 months now with nothing new announced. Would seem odd for them to go back to it. Takaaki’s been busy with Valkryie Drive and Uppers.
Also don’t think Senran Kagura would work well in VR. The PSVR thing I’m most intrigued about actually is the Hatsune Miku stuff.
He’ll surely find some way of making it work. After all, these breasts in 3D will be even 3Dier!
You know that that was basically the reason why the series started on 3DS right? He wanted to… explore… what you can do with 3D.
Exactly, there’s so much more exploring to be done in VR 😛
I dunno if we want him let loose on it. Look at what happened when they let the Tekken guy experiment with VR.
Interrupting your regularly scheduled Pokemon Go ramblings for…
NegativeZero’s Anime Impressions – Summer 2016 – Part the First
Watching the new season so you don’t have to
Super late to the party here since we’re already 2 weeks in but didn’t feel in the mood for watching anything until yesterday evening. Heaps of stuff still to cover too.
Love Live! Sunshine!!
So we finally have our follow-up to the idol juggernaut that was Love Live. I missed the series when it first came through. Saw the popularity but didn’t get on the bandwagon until catching a re-run of one of the first season episodes while in Japan last year. Wish I’d gotten in earlier. Sunshine is a quasi-sequel and spinoff from the first series. The conceit of the show is basically that there’s a yearly tournament (Love Live) that girls from school idol clubs compete in. As with the first series, the main character in Sunshine is inspired to create a club from scratch to compete, having been inspired by watching the cast of the first series do the same. Trouble is, she lives out in the sticks. The cast doesn’t seem quite as endearing so far as the original, but it was going to be a hard sell to begin with. They’ve massively improved the 3DCG they use for some shots in dance sequences etc to the point that it’s basically seamless (eat your heart out, Berserk) and I suspect this has ridiculous budget. Two things that stood out for me was the brief introduction of Chuuni ‘Yohane’ seemed really off. I think her seiyuu might be really bad, but there was a huge disconnect between the way her lines are delivered and the animation for her that worries me a bit. I think also there’s a token foreigner with the goddamn gaijin accent which drives me completely up the wall and may actually end up being a dealbreaker. We’ll see, I guess. Definitely watching more.Berserk
I really like Berserk so was pretty excited that they were doing more of it, this time animating the post-eclipse sequence. But then I saw it. So incredibly disappointed. The 3DCG is straight up bad, and to make matters worse, they seem to have only been given about half the budget they need to do it remotely well. Tons of long panning shots over static 3D models. Heaps of completely static or unmoving shots. Mouth movements that look like a PS2-era game. During the action sequences, half the shots were cut away from so that they didn’t have to actually do any motion. It’s just horrid, but what would you expect when you give something like Berserk to a studio that previously made 5-minute episode shows in Flash? Oh, and the broadcast is censored too – Guts’ dream / flashback to the Eclipse has some nude shots of Casca (who has been Michael Jacksoned and is now white) which were almost completely blacked out. Berserk deserves to be respected much more than this. Even the soundtrack was jarring and pedestrian. Shiro Sagisu is a very capable composer – take a listen to Evangelion! – but this is pretty low-end work for him, let alone compared to Susumu Hirasawa in the 90s TV series. But fuck, it’s Berserk. I’ll probably watch it all anyway despite the shitty pacing, awful animation and whitewashed Casca.91 Days
I’m not sure what this is going to be, and I’m not sure I’m really interested enough to stick it out and see. Main character is the sole survivor of a family (which he might not be related to?) that’s brutally murdered in a mob hit in the US during the 1920s. Fast-forward 9 years and he returns for some reason, hooks up with his childhood friend who is now a bootlegger and seems to be trying to infiltrate the ranks of the family that killed his own. So presumably this is a crime / revenge story. It’s animated well, has solid tone, but it just felt a bit flat to me. There wasn’t much to grab onto. It might get better but it reminded me strongly of Joker Game from last season. Basically just a bit too straight-laced and boring. Especially when for me the setting immediately conjures reminders of amazing stuff like Baccano. May give it another episode or two but probably not.Fate/Kalied Liner Prisma Illya 3rei
I hate that I like this series so much since it means I’m probably on an FBI watch list. I feel like it’s basically stolen the place in my heart that used to be occupied by the Nanoha franchise before that went completely to shit in the third season. Anyway, direct follow-up to 2wei. The franchise itself is an irreverent spinoff of the Fate universe where Illyasviel is a magical girl. Episode opens straight after the previous series. After covering up that she and Miyu are magical girls with her friends by being forced to admit they’re actually lovers (lol), some plot happens and people from a parallel world appear to take Miyu back, kicking everyone’s asses, and Illya finds herself sucked into the same parallel world, where she meets ‘Tanaka’ who seems to be thicker than a brick shithouse and will probably turn out to be Berserker or something. Next episode preview suggests she’ll be working with Shota-Gilgamesh as well and what even is this show at this point? Side note: RIP Miyu Matsuki. I think this is the first show with a role she was pretty recognizable in (Sapphire) since she died last year. Her replacement sounds similar but also sounds like she’s forcing her voice to sound that way and lacks the volume as a result. Will be interesting to see how they go with Tales of Zestiria as well, since Lailah is a major character there. Presumably they have to recycle all her lines from the game or have recast her. Anyway, this show is going to be a regular for me since it’s the only Type-Moon stuff we’ll be getting until the Heaven’s Feel movies hit or T-M themselves pull their finger out and release the Tsukihime remake they’ve been talking up for what feels like a decade.New Game
Liking the look of this one so far. Basically it’s a cute-girls-doing-things show. Aoba Suzukaze has just graduated from high school and starts work in her dream job – working as a new hire at Eagle Jump, a small-scale game developer. Apparently the author spent several years working at a developer themselves so the setup feels like it’s probably accurate (though hiring someone out of school instead of university seems odd, maybe that’s a Japan thing?). There’s some universal jokes here too, like Aoba getting locked out of the office when she goes to the toilet without taking her pass with her. Weird bunch of coworkers gives it a vibe similar to Working, except presumably with less crappy relationship drama. Definitely a regular watch for me.Ange Vierge
Pretty awful. Not sure what this actually is yet. Seems to be your generic battle high school setup, but the girls are all ranked with card rarities (C, UC, R etc) so is it a phone game adaption or something? Maybe a crap card game from the Weiss Schwarz people? Character designs are okay but basically peak Moe tropes. Also I’m fairly sure this must be a tits show, based off the amount of Mr Steam and Mr Light Beam present and the fact that fully half the episode involved the way-too-big-cast sitting around in literally three different separate baths and giving that really hamfisted explanatory exposition and defining all their shitty made-up terminology that’s a staple of bad anime. Seems to basically be shit, and given how heavily censored it is, it can’t even make up for being trash by being lewd, so what’s the point? Unlikely to watch more.Tales of Zestiria the X
Watch this on Daisuki rather than Funimation if you can – Funi’s subs are almost bootleg bad, where Daisuki’s are solid. Downside is I think they’re a week behind, but upside is they got a preview ‘episode 0’ which is what I watched. Feels like it’ll be a really good adaption. Extremely good animation (ufotable after all) plus I feel like without the shitty combat system limiting them, they could actually execute the plot a lot better than the game did. That preview just underlines how wasted Alisha was in the game though. The thing that has me most curious though is the opening, which has several shots of Velvet, the protagonist from the upcoming Tales of Berseria. She definitely wasn’t in Zestiria, but Berseria’s supposed to be a prequel set hundreds of years earlier so maybe the anime will actually set out some backstory or something involving her? As mentioned above, curious to see how they handle Lailah given that Miyu Matsuki can’t go in and record new lines. Definitely watchable. Probably the best way to experience Zestiria even, since the game’s mediocre.Plan for tonight is to catch up on a few more. Probably Mob Psycho 100, Amaama to Inazuma, Amanchu, maybe Rewrite or Planetarian, maybe Orange, and possibly one or two of the terrible moe action shows that there seem to be a ton of this season.
Re: Berserk
Are the panning shots of a static image stylistically similar to what was in the ’97 anime? Does it at all seem like an homage to that cost-saving technique, or does it lack that self awareness?Probably be a year or two before I get around to watching it. After watching the first season of the animated Starship Troopers series, I feel I can get through most poor quality animation without blinking. As long as the story holds up.
It feels more like the sort of shit they do in low-budget 2D animation to hide the fact they don’t have the budget to do it properly. I think stylistically they’re taking some of the framing of the shots from the manga directly but if they had the money and competence to do it right there’s no reason to feel constrained like that. It just feels cheap. Like, flash animation cheap.
The biggest issue though is the stiff as shit character animation. Faces don’t move right and just look off. Guts himself walks like he’s had his entire spine fused and has a metal rod in his anus. It lacks a sense of weight and momentum to it constantly, floaty and jerky transitions between keyframes.
3DCG just isn’t good enough yet. The best you can do is use it for specifically framed shots to make it easier to do complex movements. Love Live Sunshine’s ED has them dancing using a combination of shots using 3DCG and 2D and it’s nearly seamless if you’re not looking out for it. And ufotable have shown in stuff like Fate/Zero and Unlimited Blade Works that you can put 3DCG and 3D effects into anime and have it look fucking amazing.
But really, Berserk deserves better. The movies were okay in terms of their mix of styles, but think about how amazing Berserk would be if it was given to a competent studio like ufotable and they were told to do another Unlimited Budget Works with it, holy shit. It’s one of the grand-daddies of dark fantasy manga, complete classic, highly recognizable. It stuns me that it was even greenlit like this.
Ahahahaha Fate/Kalied. All magical girl fun and games and then suddenly we’ve got action that puts a good chunk of Stay Night to shame.
Yep, it’s basically Nanoha if Nanoha didn’t decide to suddenly age the leads by 15 years or so, attempt to replace them with a bunch of bland shitheads and then set them up as basically a lesbian couple and focus the story on their far too twee adopted daughter.
Also the fact that it’s a Fate spinoff appeals to me greatly. Especially because they got to subvert some of the characters (the Rin/Luvia dynamic is fucking amazing for example) and because they’re able to incorporate characters like Caren and Bazett.
And the action when they switch into it is awesome too.
Planetarian looks pretty interesting, probably on my watch list.
Have you played/read the visual novel? I did it ages ago. Very short but a typical Key tearjerker. It’s no Clannad but it’s very good. I think the anime is only 5 episodes too.
Nah. Clannad is also one of those things o should really check out one of these days.
Just don’t watch it back to back with Planetarian or any combination of Air, Now and Then Here and There, Anohana, 5cm Per Second, Grave of the Fireflies or Your Lie in April – also pretty sure if you watch all those together you need to be put on suicide watch.
Clannad was great! Only anime that has ever gotten me a bit teary.
Standing outside a Catholic church last night in the pitch black at 8:30PM engaged in an epic battle with a grumpy Poliwhirl: This is Pokemon Go!
As I like to tell anyone who will listen: I’ve been playing Valkyria Chronicles on PS4. I’ve been loving the challenge but hating the voice acting until last night when I changed the language to Japanese! Much better, especially that reporter!
Quick question, I got a Nintendo eshop card for my bday. Can I use the across Wii U and 3DS? I want both Tokyo Mirage Sessions and Fire Emblem a Revelations. I’m on a real Japanese game kick at the moment.
Yeah, the Valkyria English dubs are awful, where the Japanese was extremely good with some really big names in it. But given the option I always prefer to play Japanese games in Japanese if I can. It’s very rare for the English dub to be on par.
Pretty sure that Nintendo unified their account system a while back so that Wii U and 3DS eShop credit is used across both accounts, but might want someone that actually engages with their fucked-up backwards-ass eShop to confirm that rather than take my word for it.
Thanks. I read the back of the card and it seemed to be implying that I couldn’t but I also thought that issue was fixed.
I’m not sure. I know that at one point you couldn’t, but the cards they sell now (at least here – I’m in the USA though) seem to work for both.
EDIT: Though knowing how Nintendo manage to cock it up, I bet it’s something like the balances are per-system but you can use one card to fill up either balance or something.
I checked and I think they are linked now. Will try it out tonight on the Wii U and see how I go.
It used to be that the Wii Shop (uses “points”) and the eShop (uses actual dollars) were separate, but the Wii U went eShop and the funds exist across both. Years and years (and years) ago I bought some stuff on 3DS and had like $12 left over, which also showed up on the Wii U’s eShop and just the other week I finally spent that to get FAST Racing Neo.
I made a comment critical of the proliferation of “commerce content” yesterday on the Magic Comp page, surprise surprise it had been deleted by this morning. I’m seeing more and more of this kind of “content” on kotaku and it’s depressing.
Kotaku has at least 4 full time staff to pay for and that needs to be done somehow
If people are using ad blockers and the like they will continue to do more of this sort of thing. To be honest I didn’t actually notice the article you were referring to
Yeah fair enough I guess, but if people can’t tell the difference I think that’s a big problem. Seems vaguely dishonest/intentionally misleading, especially given that Kotaku has published a bunch of articles recently criticising the current CSGO skins gambling scene for not making their endorsements obvious to their viewers.
As an example, all of the discount developer bundle articles that have been coming up on Kotaku in recent months are actually ads paid for by the company selling the bundles, as well as the current articles advertising the Magic the Gathering competition (in that case it is actually a competition so it’s not as bad, but I would be very surprised if that wasn’t suggested by and the prizes paid for by the developer, not Kotaku or AllureMedia – also to be eligible you have to win a game, so the competition is obviously just a ploy to try and increase the player base).
As a rule of thumb for Kotaku, if comments are disabled, it’s probably a paid advertisement masquerading as content.
Edit: as of today they’re specifically advertising for a “commercial editor” to promote their “commerce content”, so expect to see a dramatic increase in advetorials, sponsored content, paid endorsements etc etc across all AllureMedia sites in the future.
Edit: Kotaku is run by AllureMedia, which is in turn owned by FairFax Media (annual revenue of about $1.8 billion) so they certainly don’t need the money from these items to stay afloat
Without a doubt the publisher provided the prize. I don’t think there has ever been a competition run here that didn’t have a prize that the publisher provided or paid for.
I guess we have a lot more of that content to look forward to, which I don’t look forward to but understand. Allure might have revenue of 1.8 billion but sure they have a lot of costs to. At the end of the day they are only running Kotaku for us so they make money. There would be very little benefit other divisions of Allure would get by funding kotaku from their own revenues.
Fairfax may not need the revenue, but Allure definitely does. If they make a constant loss on their sites then there’s no reason for Fairfax/Allure to keep the lights on. Got to justify their existence.
Especially given that Gawker is in the process of falling apart at the seams and probably will end up purchased by Ziff-Davis, which means that Kotaku US may end up being shuttered since ZD already has IGN and they’ve shut down other gaming blogs before. So if that happens, Kotaku AU loses its brand name and bulk of the syndicated content, meaning it’s even more critical for Allure to have a solid business case for continuing a gaming blog.
yeah good point, I wasn’t aware of that. If we have to put up with a few more ads it’s not the end of the world i guess. Certainly a better result than them going under.
You mean all the articles with headlines that begin “Deals:…” and end with this disclaimer:
and this link: http://www.kotaku.com.au/commerce-content/
Those articles? ’cause they seem pretty standard for an advertisement and not particularly dishonest or misleading.
Yes clearly I have read the commerce content page, and no offence, but it’s a more complicated issue than just saying, ‘oh well they said it at the end of the article that makes it ok’. Focusing on that is kind of missing the point. There’s nothing to indicate whether it’s paid content prior to end of the actual article itself. “Deals” says nothing about whether the content is paid for or not – that only comes at the end of the entire article, by which point you’ve already been exposed to the ad, which is what the advertiser is paying for in the first place. If they said “Paid advertisement” instead of “deals” or the header was a different colour or whatever, people would know not to click on them if they didn’t want to read an ad, and we wouldn’t be having this conversation.
You read it however you want to, but they’re adverts dressed up to look almost identical to regular non-paid content – except when you get to the very end of the article – and I think that’s misleading. Perhaps saying vaguely dishonest is a bit strong, but they’re engaged in the same type of obfuscating behaviour that the CSGO lotto folks were involved in – albeit on a much, much less objectionable scale – and they ripped shreds out of them for doing so, so I don’t think it’s that far off the mark. It’s an obvious blurring of the line between content and advertising, and I’m not a fan. But hey, that’s just me. if you want to read adverts in your spare time rather than actual content, you go right ahead.
That was a much longer response than it needed to be.
I can tell they’re adverts because A) The headline begins “Deals:” which is a clear indicator of an advertisement on Kotaku; B) The content is written as an advertisement. I usually don’t get to B because I don’t click the article. That’s the short of it. Clearly it would be better if Kotaku changed the tag from “IRL” to “Advertisement” like they used to do with the Dick Smith ads.
You’re still overreaching, this is nowhere near the CSGO Lotto debacle. Stick with the first point, that Kotaku should make their signage clearer, and drop the extra stuff that weakens your argument.
Well, the new Arma 3 campaign was rather short. Seven entire missions long. They were seven fairly good missions with a couple of interesting styles and a fair bit of freedom in how you accomplish tasks but still, seven… It wasn’t quite as long as the first chapter of the original A3 campaign was.
Good thing I bought it for more than single player or I’d likely feel a tiny bit miffed.
There was a pretty cute girl when I got to climbing last night. Then it turned out she was the same one I’d noticed the other week, climbing with one of the regulars I usually saw around the place downstairs. I wondered how one might approach that situation, bridge that gap or whatever. More just idle musings than anything, while resting up for the next climb.
Then before I know it, the pair of them have appeared upstairs and sat themselves down next to me. Huh. Then I figured Aerialist would come along and start chatting with them or something, since she just knows everyone. But instead the regular started chatting with my other friend up there. Huh. And then introduced herself to me, along with her friend. Then the regular went and sat next to my friend to chat with him, while I was next to the cute one and chatting with her.
Basically what I’m getting at here is I can now just make things happen with my mind.
I think I might be getting sick from all of this popcorn.
Everything in moderation!
*comment in moderation*
“I wish my 1080 would just get here already”
IT’S HERE!
Ok I cheated with that one, I’ve been wondering that for the last hour or so since I got up.Welcome to the glorious 1080 master race.
I had a go at the whole overclocking thing, because why not. Thought I had it down in the Unigine one at +74 and +556, but Fire Strike didn’t like that. Had to drop it down to +48 and +556, then it made it through without exploding.
Also it turns out the 38mm measurement on the width was slightly inaccurate. And now I have an intersection issue with the shroud. But it seems to be ok with sitting slightly askew, so I’ll wait til I feel more comfortable about carving a groove into the plastic.
That looks to be quite a bit thicker than mine. I have the EVGA SC, with their ACX cooler.
@redartifice Are you following the Guardians of the Galaxy comics?
Nah, not really. I’ve been reading older stuff on Marvel Unlimited and that’s sic months behind anyway
Dammit =P I was hoping you would be able to explain to me why Hala the Accuser is to overpowered. Prior to her the accuser’s weren’t exactly cosmic level power-sets.
No idea, never been a big fan of Marvel’s space stuff.
My favourite stuff is the more street level stuff, Luke Cage, Daredevil, Jessica Jones, X-factor
I don’t think there’s a reason she appears that way, Just regular comic inconsistencies.
Seriously? I figured there was some kind of back story where she was imbued with immense cosmic power or some such nonsense. So you’re telling me an average kree accuser has the power-set to demolish the guardians of the galaxy and take down a post black vortex gamora?
Yeah ok, looks like this series has been reduced to cliff-hangers and shock value.
Oh crap that is definitely not 38mm wide. I hope it fits.
Ok, it fits. Mostly. Except the front edge of the shroud knocks against the bracket that holds the case together. So I can either skew the card inward by a couple of millimetres, or I can pop the back of the case out by a couple of millimetres.
Or I could carve away some of the shroud since it’s not really necessary. But warranties and such.
Grabs popc-
Hang on
Hey guys, Tayfrond @masha2932 is SO CLOSE with his PS4 fund
https://t.co/EKFGtpT590
Don’t feel pressured, just if you feel like throwing a couple bucks to help a buddy generation jump.
How close?
Thank you so so much man.
So yeah… I uninstalled Pokemon GO. The GPS was inaccurate like crazy; it drained my power way faster than any of my other apps including hearthstone and the e-mail privacy thing was the nail in the coffin for me.
I’ve decided not to bother with it for a month or two as well, since the servers are so overloaded it’s barely functional.
I completed the main story of Elder Scrolls Online.
That is all.
This is weird. My internet blazes through speedtest, but every single other thing is running at actual dialup speeds. Why.
Yesss! @scree ect
Blizzard are gonna change competitive so you can only have one of each hero on a team!
No more bs doom stacks!
I am so happy about that. 3 bastions in comp is shit
Patch hasn’t dropped yet. Boo.
Nah, it’s on PTR at the moment, along with War Mum.
But I need Zen buff
The Zenyatta buff looks pretty solid. So does the D.Va. buff.
As someone who plays Zenyatta quite a bit, I’m sick of being able to be murdered, whether I’m doing well or not because I have barely any health
Yeeeesssssssss
Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to honour and remember the beautiful and mysterious Holy Arm of the Shruumi. At the peak of their greatness, a gigantic threat appeared on their doorstep, hell bent on consuming the galaxy, the combined firepower of the entire fleet of the Holy Arm were not enough to hold off the onslaught of the second wave and were wiped out in a surprise attack, leaving the entire holy empire for the taking.
They weren’t prepared and were thoroughly harvested by the horror.
Oh well, guess it’s time for the Xylax to have their second go! Winged birds of fury and honour, let’s do this!
Last song played game time!!
Bitches ain’t Shit by Filthy Frank
Also a lot of Silversun Pickups and Sadistik.
I was on a bit of an Initial D Eurobeat kick last night so probably something off that
Gin and Juice – Snoop Dogg
Going Home – The Avalanches
I love the Ben Folds cover of Bitches Ain’t Shit. The lyrics are vile which does make the cognitive dissonance with the piano ballad style quite glaring. In fact, I generally prefer genre-shifting covers. 🙂
God dammit World of Warships.
Apparently putting the period-accurate Hinomaru circle on Hiryuu’s deck or having the IJN ships fly the rising sun flag (both of which are symbols their navy still uses today!) is verboten because it might offend people in Asia, but you can add a fucking Russian cruiser literally named “Red Crimea” to the game and it’s fine.
Did my tax yesterday, earned way more in the first 7 months of my job than I realised, which is nice. But I did expect a bit more tax than what I am getting since I earned *just* above the tax free threshold. But eh, it’ll get me just enough for a new PC to make into a NAS. SO that’s pretty good.
Hello new hot wire, goodbye productive work day. =P
I finally played the copy of Overwatch I bought at launch!
It certainly is a game. I liked the bit where things died. Specifically when I ran D.Va right up to the payload, blew up her mech and took out five enemies. And myself because I am a nubsticle.
New patch means you won’t get to blow yourself up anymore; just your enemies =P
That’s actually kinda hard to do these days since people usually know how to avoid it. There’s a chevo and everything.
So… good job!
That’s still not great since she’s insanely squishy outside the mech, so she’s just going to get murdered in a second or two anyway. Her ultimate feels like something you use as a tactical last resort.
At least the upcoming changes will make her other ability something you actually use I guess.
I know she’s squishy when she’s out of her mech, but she’s a lot harder to hit. Her pistol does decent damage.
She’s definitely not harder to hit when I’m playing her. 🙁
Practice.
Why would I want to git gud when I can just complain about being shit at it on the internet? 😛
D.VA out of the mech is actually more annoying than in the mech; she has tracer’s hit box and her pistol is more accurate and does faster fire than mcree’s. When she’s out of the mech you’ve got swap into a hit and run mentality and you’ll annoy the crap out of your enemy.
I am almost never out of the mech because I want to be, it’s either because I blew it up, or it got blown up because I’m in the middle of a firefight tanking (which is supposed to be her job) and there’s no time to get out of the way before she gets squished.
Not asking for tips, by the way. Was just making an observation (that I’m shit at multiplayer FPS). I don’t intend to play often, since it’s basically only fun as a social thing and I was honestly not that drawn in by it since it’s just casual TF2
I did that thing again where you chance upon the best and most useful website ever, but then can’t find it again the next day no matter how many combinations and permutations of what you were searching for the day before you plug back into google again.
It was a site that showed movie times across all cinemas and you could navigate via an embedded google map, and all I remember about it was that it had a green colour scheme. It barely even matters but now it’s just infuriating that I can’t find it again even though I know it’s right there.
Uh… view your browser history from yesterday?
Not available 🙁
Upgrade from netscape navigator then
Or stop looking at horrible porn and then flushing your history other (that’s what incognito / private browsing mode is for)
Actually I mostly use private just to pop out a new window and start scattershot searching for things I’m not likely to come back to and don’t want clogging up my history 😛 Or losing the spot I’ve got in the middle of my million tabs which I should really clean up and close but never get around to sorting.
Err it wasn’t http://google.com/movies and select the maps option on the right was it?
Nah, it was a proper site. Greenish colour scheme, with some brown to it. Everything organised into a central column, with a cluster of suburb names below the timetable and/or map.
Oh fair enough then.
@distantdrop @jocon have you guys checked out how legendaries will work come legion? Some of them are drastically OP.
The Artifact weapons? Had a brief glance at the druid and hunter ones.
OP is a relative term. I’ll reserve judgement till I see them in action.
I wonder if any weapons at all will drop in Legion though? Particularly in Dungeons/Raids. Since your artifact is the only thing you would ever use.
I gather Raids will have loot tokens again too. Might be fewer loot shitfights. Or maybe not.
Nah legendaries on top of the artifact weapons. Each class will access to a total of 13 legendaries.
http://legion.wowhead.com/guide=4149/a-guide-to-legion-legendaries
check it.
Ahh. So basically class specific rare boss drops, can use one to start with then 2 late in the endgame. Initial Raids tuned to assume most peeps not having one, then later raids assuming people will.
Should make rotations a bit more interesting, fitting it around whatever legendary buff you find.
They don’t appear to be rare boss drops but rather just random drops from any mob (i.e. think legendaries in Diablo). The chance of it dropping goes up the longer you go without seeing one.
And yeah no more copy pasta rotations; some of those effects are considerable enough to rework what you would normally do.
That post says only bosses and world/pvp caches have been confirmed.
Shall have to see. I’m not gonna bother thinking too much about it till pre-patch. Then I’ll knuckle down and get prepared.
Woo, pay came through for my last week of work! Also looks like they chucked in the extra there from that missing day from the previous slip.
Now it feels even less like I spent money 😛
@distantdrop so looks like we’ll have 2 raids to hit our heads against at launch, similar to cata and mop for a total of 17 bosses. That’s almost as much as HM + BRF combined. Pretty intense start to the xpac.
Sure they’ll both hit the same time? don’t forget BRF wasn’t considered a patch when it was released.
True… They’ll probably stagger the Nighthold release and have EM at launch. Looking at Nythendra so far it seems like a pretty basic dragon fight. Also looks like tanks will have a similar mechanic to Iron Reaver in HFC where they get a debuff and have to drop it out of the raid.
Curious to see how the second phase of the fight will work with the insects; could turn the whole fight into a space management theme like Brack in HM.
Morning all.
Last song played game!
Episode 22, The Whispering Forest – Welcome to Night Vale.
What are you listening to?
Welcome to Night Vale! I read the book and while I appreciate it’s general aesthetic it was heavily self-referential and didn’t transition easy from it’s podcast origins to text form. I imagine it’s brilliant in short bursts.
Listening to: Scott Pilgrim Score- Nigel Godrich
Afterglow – LMO.
Southern Son by Oakenfold. In a hard house and trance kind of place at the mo.
Sounds good to me 🙂
Well, I bought a Hori Pokken Pad yesterday.
It’s good and all, and it can function like a logitech precision gamepad on pc… Yet I get the feeling that it’s a waste. :/
Quite probably 😛
But hey, Hori’s rad.
HAPPY BASTILLE DAY TO ALL OUR FRENCH FRIENDS.
*eats croissant* *wears beret* *nukes pacific atoll*
Anyone following Le Tour? Last night’s attack by Sagan in the green jersey and Froome in yellow with one team-mate each for support, *on the flat*, *off the front of the peleton*, *SUCCESSFULLY BEATING THE SPRINTERS* was one of the most remarkable things I’ve seen in nearly thirty years of watching pro cycling, and that’s including Froome’s “I’m shagging my bike” 90kph + solo attack just a few days ago. Astonishing.
Sadly ’cause of the risk of storms they’re not going all the way up Mont Ventoux (the “giant of Provence”) today, the climb will end at the tree-line 6km from the summit. 🙁 Was hoping for an epic tussle between Froome and Quintana, but this is less likely with the shorter stage.
Ey-ey-oh, ey-oh, ey-ey-oh, ey-oh, ey-ey-oh, ey-oh, ey-ey-oh, ey-oh.
My god, did you watch that debacle last night
Yes. Debacle is a good word.
At the Giro and the Vuelta, there’s a line of cops or national guard with their arms linked in areas where the crowd is likely to be that dense. And it seems that the popularity of cycling in recent years has meant there are a lot of new fans who don’t get that you need to leave enough space for the damn race. 🙁
Race jury made the right decision to award Porte and Froome the same time as Mollena but WTF. Froome was on track to extend his lead to well over a minute, and Porte could’ve risen to 5th or 6th. Grrr.
Time trial tonight. Woop
Watching an ITT bore me so I won’t be up watching tonight. I have a 2 year old so need to choose my stages.
Jury was right but in a situation like that nobody can be happy. At least it doesn’t seem like anybody was hurt, although the ITT could be telling on how they pull up overnight.
Porte looked in prim position to overtake Teejay and get definte support as leader. Such an unlucky race for him so far.
And OBE lost Gerro last night too
I’m pleased because I’ve got a 1500 light year trek to finish the Crab Nebula Expedition in Elite: Dangerous and a time trial on the second monitor is perfect company…
Yeah, it sucks. Still, if Porte got through unscathed and has a good TT… 🙂
Poor Gerro. AGAIN. 🙁 🙁 🙁
Bloody collarbones, why u no stronger
All Stellaris people!
A new race genotype was announced recently, the Plantoids could be making an appearance soon.
Treebeard is coming to space!
Fallout Shelter had an update this morning, you can now go on quests with your vault dwellers among other things, it’s pretty cool. It’s also coming to PC this week, dunno why. It’s a mobile game through & through imo.
LAPTOP USERS. 😉
Maybe a Surface 😛
Summat like that! 😀
I loaded it up this morning for the first time since a couple of weeks after its release, expecting to find eighty-something skeletons in foetal positions, the odd cobweb here and there… everything was perfectly fine. They even found a poodle from somewhere. Clearly I am no longer required.
It’s a metaphor for something, my friend.
*nihilism overload*
Basically as soon as I loaded it up, they immediately got attacked by bandits, shortly followed by a group of deathclaws, then a minute later, another group of bandits. I sat back and just watched – a couple of minor injuries at worst. I mean… I’m not saying I was a great overseer, but I must’ve done something right. And now that they’re self-sufficientm, they’ve forgotten me. This must be what parenting feels like. 😛
Haha! Something like that. 😀
Just scored a blu-ray drive for the PC today for $10. That’ll be a nice addition to the new NAS/media server i’ll have in a few weeks since I want to rip my blu-ray movies.
…… They’ve removed my Water shield and made Earth shield a PvP talent. NOOOOOOO. MY EARTH SHIELD :'( @distantdrop no more rocks revolving around you.
https://twitter.com/NintendoEurope/status/753559830749675520
I don’t even need one.
But I think I need one.
I feel the same way
Ah, I get to sleep in Saturday. 😀
Niiiiiiice
Did @Saturday consent to this?
Something I’ve never understood: in the area at the bottom of every article before the comments there’s 6 picture links to other stuff, 3 that are bullshit from Taboola and 3 that are from Allure/Fairfax sites.
Why are the stupid bullshit random taboola ads “More From Our Network” and the ones that are actually from the Allure/Fairfax site network “Elsewhere on The Web”? Aren’t the headings reversed?
Odd… my “More from our network” has two Kotaku articles and a gaming-related SMH article; “Elsewhere Online” has random Domain and South Australia Tourism links.
Maybe it’s because you guys are in upside-down land?
Pokemon Go is down this morning. Think I’m suffering from withdrawals…
I regret everything to do with this drawing atm. I hope all this effort pays off.
So m2d2 has gone through the Rhodes Pokemon GO article and downvoted every single one of my comments, forcing everything into moderation. What the fuck is wrong with some people?
Wow the temptation to downvote this was strong, but then I remembered I’m not a complete arsehole. 🙂
Bahaha. You should have, pointed it out and given me shit for it. Then we could all have a laugh XD
So, took my vault dwellers on their first quest this morning… OMG actual gameplay!! … is what I nearly said, until I realised there seems to be no way to actually control the combat outside of a brief minigame to determine a crit multiplier. But there seems to be a little story to the quest chains, at least, so slightly intrigued.
@distantdrop You up for some mythic dungeon farming this weekend? Tomorrow arvo? Was thinking as well if I get enough people on the guild might pug HFC normal this weekend. Smash through the first 2-3 bosses.
Hows the recruiting going anyways?
5 spots filled; 3 more lined up for chats tonight/tomorrow. As always short on healers but I think they’ll come by once progression stacks up. Helps that I’ve been actively scouring the forums for 8 hours a day everyday and running mythics with recruits once we get them in.
I know I’m usually mr reliable when it comes to matters of the guild but to be honest I have zero interest in running a raid that’s weeks away from becoming trivial and with guild members who may or may not be around 2-3 months from now when raids unlock.
But I’m fine with Mythics, still trying to get the rest of the inherited trinket set.
Well think of it like this, if I can get recruits through the door and we have nothing going on to retain them there won’t be a raid group come legion raids? Additionally I need a stronger method of vetting their skill set than mythic dungeons.
Edit: I might also look at running RBG’s or weekly mythic dungeons once pre-patch hits and the raid becomes useless to keep peeps engaged.
On an extra note, I am really not liking what i’m reading in the monk BM changes, removal of jab and chi, purifying only removing 50% of stagger, rather lackluster talent tree.. from what i’m reading it seems were more of a lottery tank which I don’t like, wouldn’t be surprised if I go MW instead. see how prepatch fans out I guess.
I could really use you in the tanking spot; even if you want to swap to a different class and try them on for size. Recruiting good tanks has always been a crazy challenge because there’s so few takers and even a smaller percentage of them are actually good at what they do.
If you really want to get out of the role if you can keep the shoes filled while I search for a replacement that’d be good as well.
Ugh…
Only had six hours of sleep…
Missing my bed already… -_-
I had plenty, still missing my bed 😛
I always miss my bed in winter while I’m out, so warm and comfortable :'(
Sid has two beds. His bedroom bed and his lounge room bed, also known as the couch
Six hours! Luxury!
I’ve only had 3.
@distantdrop They’ve killed my healing rotation in the most recent articles I can find on resto shamans…. It seems the new meta for shaman healing is the old meta for shaman healing. Aka spam chain heals and stack crit. Riptide and healing wave are to be expensive supplementary heals. 🙁
@jocon Who do I need to kill to make you main a healer and join us?
Haha, fraid not. I wanna be a part of some solid progression this xpac, hit the ground running.
My guild’s raid times are Thursday and Sunday evenings. If you wanna raid outside those times I could level my monk and try heals for a while for you on the side. I might be enthused enough to do 4 nights a week for a time but ultimately would be just until you can find a replacement.
All my time initially will be spent getting my Druid rolling though. So I wouldn’t plan on the monk being ready to go on unlock day.
No! He needs to play Overwatch with us =P
Nah the trick is to prestige than quit. 😛
But, Zenyatta buff
I’ll jump back in with War Mum patch.
We’ll find out soon enough
What’s Overwatch? 😛 I can’t spell WoW Legion with it.
Nah too late for me to change the times :\ It’d weed out the recruits that have joined and I don’t want to move the goal posts once set like last time. Only aiming for normal/heroic clears for the first 2 raids; if numbers get up then transition to mythic.
Well, good luck.
Could be worse, could be true old school meta where you’d be stuck in a raid group with 3 rogues and a fury warrior dropping them wind fury totems and never having the shield from chess dropping.
Sat up last night to get MH Generations, kinda wish I’d read the date first.
Time for round two.
It was worth the wait.
I’ve been slacking off so much and hardly watched anything new, but it’s time for another…
NegativeZero’s Anime Impressions – Summer 2016 – Part 2
Watching the new season super late so you have to do it yourself in the end…
Amanchu
I was really, really excited for this when I saw it was coming. Kozue Amano wrote the manga for one of my personal top ten anime, Aria. Was expecting more of the same. Amano is basically the queen of the ‘Healing’ style (Iyashikei). Relaxed, upbeat, uplifting stuff with a chill soundtrack and a bunch of beautiful scenery porn. Unfortunately, Amanchu’s first ep didn’t do much for me. The setup is that the main character, Futaba, is a super shy girl that moves to a coastal town in the middle of nowhere, leaving all her friends behind, and meets Hikari, who is just plain weird. Hikari works at her grandmother’s dive shop, and presumably diving will be a big part of it all. My expectation is that this show will basically involve Hikari teaching Futaba how to live etc. It’s a lot more ‘high tension’ than Aria was, unfortunately, so I was left a bit disappointed. Will watch more though since it’s not bad and it might come together later (Aria didn’t really click for me until they introduced Alice). Side note: it’s really nice to hear Maaya Sakamoto still doing anime opening stuff. 20 years now since she did the opening for Escaflowne. The whole soundtrack to this show is fantastic, actually.Regalia – The Three Sacred Stars
No idea what this is actually about but it seems a bit on the shit side. From what I can tell the main character is a little girl who is also a giant mecha and at some point she fucked over the world or something? And now she lives with another girl who seems normal at first but is actually the empress of the country or something. Mook McAngryman attacks Loli McMechagirl and is like I HAVE FOUND YOU NOW WE MUST MECHA KUNG-FU FIGHT and then he gets his ass kicked because of the power of SISTERLY LOVE or something. Show was not good. Will be unlikely to watch more.Qualidea Code
Post-apocalyptic alien invasion thing where the only people that can fight off the evil invading monsters are teenagers with superpowers. It’s another one of those dime-a-dozen cookie-cutter harem action things, and doesn’t seem like one of the reasonable ones (eg Irregular, Asterisk War). Main character is a shitbag that basically acts like a complete dipshit the whole episode, calling everyone Amateurs while fucking up and being a general dick, but the gimmick here seems to be that the whole cast is barely competent. I dunno. It was crap and I’m not watching any more of it unless I get very, very drunk.Current regular watch list looks like:
– Macross Delta (continuing)
– Kuromukuro (continuing, assuming gg continues subbing – they’re several weeks behind)
– Thunderbolt Fantasy (Oh my god you guys Thunderbolt Fantasy is great)
– New Game (It’s like Working and Is The Order a Rabbit had a baby that was into video games)
– Love Live Sunshine (So far Riko seems to be the best girl)
– Amanchu (Assuming the cast gets bigger)
– Prisma Illya (I’m in too deep to quit now 🙁 )
– Shokugeki no Soma S2 (I haven’t watched yet but I know I’ll be watching regularly once I’ve caught up)
– Tales of Zestiria (May drop later on, I know what’s going to happen)
On my queue to watch:
– Masou Gakuen HxH (Sounded absolutely awful but I’ll try anything)
– Amaama to Inazuma (Have heard really good things)
– Servamp (Know nothing about this but I’m going to go out on a limb and say Vampires may be involved)
– Danganronpa 3 (this is so confusing, I think there’s two Danganronpas running at once? Alternating weeks?)
– Orange (have heard positive things – story involves a girl getting letters from her future self)
– Fukigen na Mononokean (no idea what this is)
– Taboo Tattoo (some action manga adaption)
– Scarred Rider Xechs (No idea what this is, but seems actiony?)
– Days (I think this is a soccer anime?)
– Battery (I think this is a baseball anime?)
– Rewrite (Have heard very negative things, probably because it ended up at a shit studio)
– Planetarian (assuming I can contain the feels)
– Momokuri (not sure what this is)
– Handa-kun (I know nothing)
– Time Travel Shoujo (Presumably a show about a shoujo that time travels)
– Mob Psycho 100 (Same author as One Punch Man, looks to have similarly nutty animation)
– Alderamin on the Sky (Presumably a shitty light novel adaption)
– Arslan S2 (when I get around to watching Arslan S1)
Guys, Pokken Tournament at E3 is hype as fuck!
Go watch it!
https://www.twitch.tv/srkevo1
Well that’s just great. My Netflix App on iOS won’t let me cast to my Chromecast anymore :/ The option to cast has just vanished. Plex still works fine, yet Netflix. Nope. I hope this is just an issue with iOS 10 & it’s beta.