April

I had zero spoilers, even with the leaks.

Finished Zelda yesterday.

in other news i've been taking the opportunity to replay botw with the linkle mod, which i was super fucking excited about when it was first being developed way back, but 6 years later i'm only just now remembering it and getting around to it
but oh my god it's everything i wanted back then and more! totally redone animation, cute redesigned outfits, completely new voice acting

the redesigns look so good!!
 

and i'm dying over how freaking gay everything becomes as a result
 
 

still thinkin bout how fuckin cool the original trailer was

'main draws' don't really matter much to me other than bnha which i follow with not much fanfare, but the fact alone that fushigi yugi, nana, and anything by arina tanemura are on there are enough for me really  
 
consistent updates and translations for frieren and bnha are worth the few bucks a month to me already i think @_@

A very small number of older attachments were failing to show. This was a minor permissions-related issue with specific files uploaded to the server. This has since been resolved, and if you ever saw the rare image or avatar that wasn't loading, they should be loading again now.
 
I've also done some behind-the-scenes server updates and the site should be running moderately faster.

I've been going hard on the original Zelda lately

Bear Super Metroid
 
If the game ends with Samus getting a rainbow beam does that just corroborate she's a lesbian power fantasy. Hmmm.

in other news i've been taking the opportunity to replay botw with the linkle mod, which i was super fucking excited about when it was first being developed way back, but 6 years later i'm only just now remembering it and getting around to it
but oh my god it's everything i wanted back then and more! totally redone animation, cute redesigned outfits, completely new voice acting

the redesigns look so good!!
 

and i'm dying over how freaking gay everything becomes as a result
 
 

still thinkin bout how fuckin cool the original trailer was

This game is dog shit.
 
The story missions are okay. It's fun to see Hyrule with different gameplay. Even if the map is bizarrely broken up into a series of winding corridors displayed on a microscopic mini-map, so that when I'm moving around I'm just staring at the map instead of the actual gameplay. And there's no moving between two areas of different elevations, even if it's just a tiny ledge (with a huge invisible barrier around it to further punish actually looking at the gameplay). The wonky camera makes it even harder to figure out which narrow entrance to which narrow corridor, especially when big enemies get inside.
 
The challenge missions constitute the worst game I've ever played under a Nintendo brand. Savage time limits and almost no healing item spawns, requiring farming story missions to restock unless you pay Nintendo $20. I'll be ten levels higher than recommended and attacking enemies nonstop and still fail to the time limit. And yes, I have learned all the weapon fusing techniques and weak point strategies. It's not my fault that I've been grinding with Zelda for hours and still haven't gotten any good weapon drops.
 
The gameplay is horrendously unbalanced. Enemies are either meaningless fodder or sponges that can take literally hundreds of hits to kill. There is no middle ground. Then multiple strong enemies appear at once, constantly attacking from offscreen as my character is sent tumbling around, juggled to death in three helpless seconds because there's no invulnerability. This gameplay does not work with z-targeting mechanics. Not even close.
 
Also the menus have the player constantly clicking analogue sticks even while face buttons go unused. Because apparently this game wasn't physically draining, uncomfortable, and painful enough to play. Mentally too, because missions are 30 minutes of constant button mashing and squinting at that damned mini-map.
 
The characters have no balance. If they're not Link or Revali, or Impa apparently, they're trash. Great Fairy literally does not even function properly with the game's mechanics and requirements.
 
This whole game is trash. Bye. 

Fellas, I just impulse bought a game because I thought the men were pretty
 
It was norn9 thanks for asking

Hoping to finally leave the hospital today!

I have descaled my tea kettle and cleaned my teapot. Everything I need to have a relaxing tea day on the patio.

Vagina.

it's been on hold while i focus on reading for better jp gains, but i found this super cute ps1 rpg a lil while back that never got translated. and it takes place in the v cool fantasy setting of uh. london.
london seirei tanteidan


that's what i look like rn sleeping on whatever the hell is actually coming out this month idk there didn't seem to be much tbh
 
anyway it's april so i'm in charge of the thread ok i don't make the rules

last night some weirdo was in our apartment complex screaming some wild shit right as i got home (like he was gonna wait until i went to work and then KILL ME???) and then spent some more time wandering around yelling and making lots of noise and even now i'm still anxious x_x
 
not even sure if he was a dude who lives here! but i sure hope not!

Currently in the ER with a burst appendix AMA

11:37 PM: begin rambling
 
Throughout my entire life, I've had an antagonistic relationship with the concept of nutrition. If people need to eat food, they should eat foods that they like, and avoid the foods that they don't like.
 
Winnie the Pooh loves honey. Tigger does not. Doug Funnie HATES liver and onions, but LOVES Honker Dogs and Fries. Okay! That makes sense! Different individuals have different tastes.
 
So then why should people be forced to eat the foods they hate?
 
During summer school between 2nd and 3rd grade, we had to learn about the laws of nutrition. As we went through the course, and it went into detail about how bad candy and ice cream are for you and how great vegetables are for you, I was in shock! I hated vegetables! I loved ice cream! This is the exact opposite of how things are supposed to work! But since I'm reading about it in school, that means that it's true! Well, this sucks.
 
But then, sweet, little, adorable 8-year-old Tyranogre came up with an idea: If I were to change the textbook so that it said that ice cream was good for you and vegetables were bad for you, it would become true, since that's what it says while you're reading about it in school! After one busy recess with a crayon and some white-out, during the rest of summer school, whenever the teacher would read from the book where it says that your body needs vitamins and minerals to function properly, I would correct her by saying "Ah-ah-ah! If you look HERE,  it quite CLEARLY says that your body needs whipped cream and chocolate syrup instead!"
 
Needless to say, I had a very miserable summer that year. (On a side note, I'm only just now realizing how fucked up 8-year-old-me's line of thinking was, given certain things that may or may not be happening in the real world)
 
Anyway, fast forward to my senior year of High School. @Stephen 776 and I went to a special school for students on the Spectrum, and one of the requirements from Seniors was that we had to complete the "six tasks". One of those tasks was to prepare 10 meals for your entire family. My immediate first thought was "Okay! I'll just buy ten boxes of different kinds of cereal, ten gallons of milk, and that's it! Easy!" "But cereal isn't a *meal*, Ty!" says the teacher. "Yes it is! It's what I had for breakfast this morning! Ugh, fine. Okay how about this: I'll buy a huge box of Hot Pockets, and everyone will have one!" "Hot Pockets aren't a meal, either." "Yes they are! They're what I had for lunch the other day!"
 
Another one of those "tasks" was to create a plan for how you'd survive living on your own. What would you eat? Now, keep in mind that I know now that 17-year-old-me was an annoying little shithead in real life, and that my "plan" would never work (incidentally, it was also the year that Oldsider shut down). But one thing that I still have burned into one of my "core memories" (to use Inside-Out terminology) is hearing my dad angrily scream "IT SAID YOU WOULD EAT HOT POCKETS EVERY DAY!"
 
Fast-forward a couple years later. I was living in a college internship program in Berkeley that also had a lot of it's own rules. Now, let me just say, as an aside, that there were a multitude of other factors going on in my life at the time, but after some certain independent research I did after leaving that program, I can now consider it the absolute lowest point in my entire life, and that I fully believe that if I hadn't left when I did, I would not be alive today. Let's just leave it at that, for now. I can tell more stories about it if anyone's curious.
 
ANYWAY! Back to this college internship program in Berkeley! One of the fun events we had every week was Grill'N'Chill: a weekly potluck where everybody was required to contribute something. And by "everybody", I mean about a dozen early twenty-somethings on the Autism spectrum with vastly-different dietary needs and culinary abilities. And that was all we got to eat on those nights. Every week.
 
Noticing a pattern here? If not, let me point it out: being forced to prepare food for other people.
 
While I have nothing but respect for people who enjoy cooking as a hobby, I personally do not enjoy it. At all. I just don't see the point in putting that much effort into something that will be gone in about ten minutes. That's also the reason why all of Tiki's birthday cakes throughout the years have been store bought. (Oh, and don't worry. A "Tiki's Birthday 2023" thread *IS* coming. It just got postponed for... reasons.)
 
Anyway, what's the point of this post again...? Oh, right: a rant about my relationship with the concept of nutrition, cooking, and, well, food, I guess.
 
Food is something that we need to live. If you are hungry, go eat something. 
 
Ever since I've been living on my own, my diet has mainly consisted of frozen dinners and cereal, with the occasional can of Chef Boy R Dee. But by far the number one thing I consume the most of is milk! It's my favorite thing to drink! I literally go through four gallons of it a week! And you know what the best part is? I don't have to "cook"! Hell, I've lived in my current home for going-on three years now, and I have not touched my stove or oven once! Sure, I occasionally get sick because I ate something that disagreed with me, or get a kidney stone because I drank too much milk, but usually I just need to make a few temporary adjustments, and things go back to normal!
 
Anyway, here I am, lying in bed, tittering away at my phone, and I'm feeling a bit thirsty, so I decide to get myself a glass of milk!
 
Mmm, that really hit the spot!
 
OW! Hold on, I just felt a slight jolt in my lower-right abdomen! What gives?!
 
...Oh.
 
Huh...
 
1:49 AM: hit submit reply

@DLurkster This was the video I was referring to a few weeks ago about what happens when you uncap the frame rate in the PC version.
 
 

it's just "tears," as in rhyming with "tier," as per the japanese title (which is in english, but the japanese writing doesn't leave room for this homonym ambiguity)

Oh damn, called out...

I won't lie, I'd probably be more interested in Hogwartz Legacy if JKR wasn't such a terfing piece of shit. It's honestly soured my relationship with that franchise which is absolutely formative to my childhood; I just can't care about it anymore.
 
I'm reading through Witch Hat Atelier though which gives very similar HP vibes so that's been fun. Will start volume 3 in the future once I cat track down volume 4+5.

so, dokapon kingdom is indirectly responsible for my partner and i meeting, and we've been trying to thrift a wii for months (partly bc online prices are bullshit for NA games nowadays and partly just cause we like thrifting). but we only found one very questionable one that we passed on bc i wasn't in the mood to spend a lot of time trying to fix and clean it (kinda regret it though)
anyway, i found out like last week that it's coming to switch and we're super stoked, so here's the first excuse i've had to make a thread in like two years