I did! It's actually in my top 10 list. I played it around a decade ago, though I never did 100% it. That's a time after college where I got into VNs and am only returning to it now....big gap in time.
Excluding active plays, e.g. Baldr Sky will be here:
- Saya no Uta
- G-senjou no Maou | Kara no Shoujo | Steins;Gate
- Fate Stay/Night | Sengoku Rance | Sharin no Kuni | Tsukihime
- Clannad | Little Busters
No idea if the list rankings are consistent and actually make sense, since I didn't 100% some of them and have scattered memories, but it's not intended to be formal and good enough for personal use.
VNs are a really underrated medium. Looking back, I wish I had been less obsessed with work over the years and spent more personal time on leisure. Dropping sports completely about half a decade ago really helped open things up, slowly.
Thanks, in that case I'll do Sumika + Meiya's routes in Extra -- maybe skimming -- and read the summaries for the rest. I forgot to mention Unlimited (for external readers: the base game is Extra + Unlimited), but if I also don't like that then I'll do the same there.
Alternate is good, but also fucked up and disturbing. I'm about 60/40 on whether it was worth reading or would rather I hadn't read it at all.
Hah! My favorite stories are generally either bittersweet in nature or outright tragedies, so I'm guessing it'll fit in well for me.
On this theme, here's a large infographic from The Epoch Times earlier in the year on the CCP Flu timeline - https://cdn.epoch.cloud/assets/static_assets/EPOCH_TIMES_VIRUS_TIMELINE.jpg
Really nice recap on the scamdemic.
I decided to welcome 2022 by exploring eroges. And by that, I mean full length visual novels that aren't strictly nukige.
Partly through a version of Baldr Sky that has Drives 1+2 combined (nyaa~), and taking some rest after finishing the 1st route. I can strongly recommend it. Note: unlike most VNs there's actual decent mecha gameplay in this title. From what I've seen, you also don't really need the adult patch because the ero scenes aren't the best, though I applied it for the original full uncensored experience.
Have a few other games lined up including Umineko, which is not an eroge, but there's not enough recreational time so who knows when I get to them.
Mainly trying to slog my way through Muv-Luv on the side so I can play Muv-Luv Alternate, but the base game is really not good. I remember trying it about a decade ago before abandoning it for similar reasons, but Alternate is supposed to be great, so it must be done.
As for other mediums, nothing of interest (e.g. reading some technical books).
I don't think I'd label the managerial incompetence of Riot in this case a victim. They were led by a bunch of buffoons failing upwards and started cleaning house after the Tencent takeover (because the latter is more cut-throat about actual business), though some of the idiots remain with titles.
This is not merely about a difference in opinion.
Calling anti-vax sentiment 'unsubstantiated opinions' is disingenuous to begin with.
We have receipts dating back the last year on this forum why this vaccine is problematic, and it's not some imaginary delusion.
how about finally FIXING THIS CLUSTERFUCK OF A RULESET?!
The rules are ridiculous. I see Dom is doing 0-day nukes for spammers, which is the right thing, so why do we have all this crap?
Most of them fall under buckets of illegal (already covered by ToS), spam, or anti-botting measures.
Of the remaining, Rule 16 is used to delete too much content. But although I get that this isn't a free speech forum, a lot of it falls under anti-brigading measures already being utilized so we could have some leniency here.
Eh, you could have just made this the one instead. I was thinking about creating a generic Christmas gaming session / what are you doing topic, but had other things to do and can't be bothered. One of you should try it, don't complain; people will participate once a proper thread exists.
I remember these types of series on TheDonald, how'd that work out for you all between your sips of Black Rifle Coffee?
We have eyes. Let us know when 1 of them does something of actual substance and results than this fuck all propagandizing.
Even liberal media isn't shying away from Econ 101 right now - https://www.zerohedge.com/political/terrible-cnn-turns-biden-calls-polling-economy-terrible-while-making-jimmy-carter
The Fed money printing over the past few years has come to roost, and Biden's ratings are historically bad enough thanks to that and all of his policies (killing pipelines, vax mandates, caving into deferring student debts again after initially declining, Afghan disaster, etc.) that the noose is tightening on this presidency.
IMO we can expect this whore to be the lead in the Oval office soon with a Biden retirement. She should be on bended knees thanking for being born a "PoC" cunt and being able to sleep her way to the top. It'd be apt, because no other similarly talentless disaster would otherwise have this opportunity.
I was pretty certain on February 10th - and sometime earlier than that - this vaccine was unsafe - https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/12hRGu75Iu/an-honest-question--have-you-had/
However, I've kept an open mind to scientific persuasion, and have found even MORE reasons to never take it - by medical facts alone, never mind all of the other fuckery!
Every fear about authoritarian abuse, fear mongering, human rights violations, and safety has come true. Well, I'll credit all of this for one thing -- the anti-vaxxer movement may have some legs; at least, I'll be sure not to dismiss them out of hand in the future without deep personal research.
Scanlon also noted it wasn't the first time she has been at a crime scene this year, as she was present in the House during the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol.
LOL!!! I'll never get over mainstream media pushing the narrative of that picnic park walk being a violent riot after all the B.LM.ing and everything that has happened in the last few years. It's way too funny how they keep crowbarring this shit out of nowhere.
Hopefully with the Novavax vaccine coming to the states, he can get that and have something closer to proper resistance when he gets infected.
Why not endorse ivermectin or the like? We're well past the point of feigned ignorance on this topic - like it originally started w.r.t HCQ (not sure where that topic eventually landed but it seems positive AFAIK).
Even if your friend is morbidly obese, not so sure that the increased toxicity from spike proteins is super great for him either...but agreed that he's an outlier from the usual frame of discussion here.
if they're people on the right who realized that Trump wasn't GEOTUS.
Probably mainly trolls or propagandist bots, but I do think some of them fall into this category.
It's puzzling to me because we saw him engage Operation Warp Speed and campaign on it, was complicit in injecting trillions of dollars into the US economy, among countless things that would get a handful of immediate downvotes if even briefly mentioned.
For the ones that are authentic, I guess they're waking up to reality now...though I don't know why they were so stubborn in the 1st place.
The answer to big government? More big government.
Don't worry, the meat packing monopoly will make good use of this.