The last book I finished was the 24th volume of Mushoku Tensei. The series itself is alright. I don't like the fact that the protagonist starts transitioning into an office worker in a fantasy world after a while but other than that I liked it a lot.
I'm reading Wind-up Bird Chronicles by Haruki Murakami ahead of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test this December. The book isn't too hard, but so far it's kind of boring. I kind of hate the low energy of the protagonist.
I'm also reading Sun and Steel by Yukio Mishima. It's a lot harder, but his philosophy is very interesting and uplifts the spirit. Perfect for bodybuilding, indeed.
I've been reading exclusively in Japanese recently, and it's incredibly rewarding to know that I don't have to deal with botched translations or retarded localizations.
TBH it's better to just learn the language if you interact that much with media in Japanese.
It's really easy nowadays, a couple hours of study a day for two years and you should be reading and listening to everything without requiring a translation.
The trannies in charge of Cunny Archive's translation should be removed from the project (and Earth) altogether. I feel sorry for those who are forced to play the global version since the JP version is clearly superior, even if the game is originally Korean.
DMM games is a storefront for Japanese gachas and eroge.
As of this morning, the website and the game player are no longer accessible if your IP is not a Japanese one. I ran into this myself and checked other forums for confirmation.
Although it can be circumvented with a VPN or if the game has a mobile app, this just shows the push of the Japanese storefronts towards isolating themselves from westerners and all the issues they bring.
A great thinker once said: "He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby becomes a monster."
He just turned a bit schizo and eventually said "fuck your optics", and I can't blame him.
The fact is that localizers are part of the woke coalition and share the same set of beliefs as the cancerous elites. Criticizing localization makes you an enemy in their eyes, so you might as well strike hard in other areas of your expertise, i.e. video games going woke.
If you read this far, read this too: fuck your concern trolling.
They basically did a speedrun of modernity. After the Korean war, they industrialized, moved most of the population to the capital and began to immediately adopt whatever the western elites were into like feminism, satanism, living in a pod, antinatalism, etc.
At this point, it's the country with the lowest Total Fertility Rate, the "developed" country with the highest suicide rate, the country with the craziest feminists.
South Korea is like an experiment jammed into a hyperbolic time chamber.
I've been replaying XCOM for the past few weeks after getting all the achievements in Ready or Not. Still a great game with bullshit moments.
I'm glad you're enjoying newer games, tbh.
Lmao nijiniggers get fucked yet again. The funniest thing about this was the futile attempt at fighting back by the Nijisanji Defense Force staffed with JP simps, who have no clue how to deal with terminally online westerners. JP Twitter users are like 3 tech levels below westerners when it comes to pointless internet discussions.
There's more than 30 years worth of Japanese videogames to play, and the older titles have their own charm. If you're looking for untainted new stuff, many eroge makers are still releasing games that have avoided lolcowlizers and ESG. I don't know if that will last for long as the industry has been in decline for over a decade, but it has enough soul for its heart to keep beating.
I've been learning Japanese on my own for 5 years while working full-time and I just passed the Japanese Language Proficiency Test N2 with a great score. So speaking from experience, it's both worth it and doable.
I began to play some games in Japanese when I was like 1 year in, and I started to really enjoy them after struggling for a year or so. Now I'm at a level where I can pick up any Japanese game, manga or anime and enjoy it without much trouble.
If you decide to start learning, you are in luck, as the greatest apps, sources, books, etc. are all in English, and since you know Spanish the pronunciation side of things is going to be a lot easier.
In case you're interested, watch this video. Let me know if you want to know about the specific things I did, as everyone goes through a different journey with unique tools that may just work for you.
Thank you for the new word. I will use Chinkansen from now on. Not that China will last another 15 years, though.
The bottom set seems to be from a completely different video. The text has no relation to what the characters are saying.
The ones at the top are pretty accurate, though.
The PS5 has no exclusives, though. All the games are remakes, HD ports, etc. They all get ported to PC after a while, anyways. There is absolutely no reason to buy one.
It's not a spinoff, behind the 戦国ランス title it says Rance VII. The only ones you could consider to be Rance spinoffs would be Brutal King Rance, another fantastic game, and Slash Thrust Burn, which does not even feature him.
LEAST likeable or moral protagonist
I can agree with the least moral part, but I don't think he's unlikeable. Especially in Sengoku. He's a lot more brutal in other games.
As for the recommendation itself, I endorse it. It's in my top 10 games ever and one of the best strategy games I have ever played.
It's literally Fallout 4 + space + even more ZOG influence.
Could be chinks. I just had some business with a chink who lives in a recently bought mansion in that county.
Cunny lovers - 1
Government censors - 0
Be gay do le crime. They really perfected the art of cringe. I fucking hate safe edgy shit.
Never heard of transmaxxing? Low status, damaged, retarded males figured out that they can get attention and validation if they troon out. It's the modern version of a Faustian bargain.
Rance, hands down. Uses his party members as meat shields, sends people on suicide missions or as hostages, pushes allies off cliffs, sneak attacks bosses, lies in order to sleep with women, rapes women while they're tied up instead of rescuing them, personally tortures people in order to gain information, abuses his authority whenever he gets to a position of power, uses voice changers and blindfolds to cuck other men, kills people that get in his way or looked at him funny, publicly rapes women in order to humiliate their allies, among other heinous acts.
On the good side, he literally saves the world, he's always there to protect his women, he kills rapists, child abusers, gays, and uglies, he's ripped with Olympic-tier athletic abilities, he pulls the women around him out of depression, he likes to preserve the innocence of young girls, and he's also surprisingly delicate when dealing with abused women.
These lists are not exhaustive, with more than 30 years of history he's had a long career. I once read a rumor that said that popularity polls in adult game mags had to be changed to exclude male characters because he would win 1st place every time otherwise.
I'm afraid I don't know enough about that. You could send all the essential NPCs to a single settlement, never open new ones, and kill all the randos.
General: F4SE, Unofficial Fallout 4 Patch, AWKCR, Achievement Enabler
Gameplay: Scrap Everything, Real throwing weapons
Visual: Darker nights, True Storms, Vivid Fallout
UI: Looks Menu, MCM, Valdacils Item Sorting, Full Dialogue Interface
The core gameplay loop is not that bad, just don't go in expecting old school Fallout.
I remember playing it on the Xbox 360 and then on the PS3. It's not as smooth on the Xbox because of the pressure-sensitive controls, just as you say, but you can play it alright, I cleared MGS2 several times on both consoles. Some say the Xbox 360 version is better because of the graphics, but the PS controls feel better.
Make no mistake, it's going to take a couple years of studying every day to reach a comfortable level. Nevertheless, I recommend it.
If you already know Spanish the pronunciation side of things should be a lot easier. Those two languages share many sounds.