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I skimmed the front page here to see if someone had made this thread already but I didn't see it. Apologies if this thread has already been made. Anyway, Groupees is running another VN bundle from Jast USA - https://groupees.com/jast2. At the moment there are only a few hundred thousand (I swapped the remaining bundles and the bundles sold numbers in my head when I wrote this) bundle sales left. Games included are: $10 - Do you like Horny Bunnies? - Snow Sakura - Snow Drop $20 - Princess Waltz - Pretty Soldier Wars A.D. 2048 -Yin-Yang! X-Change Alternative $30 - Steins;Gate The only VN I really care about here is Steins;Gate, but I figure it's worthwhile to get the others as well. Especially since Steins;Gate is $30 on it's own.

Next semester I'm gonna take Japanese classes. It'll probably push me all the way to 18 credit hours, but hopefully it'll be worth it.

Ah man, they're gone. I shoulda used a YouTube sound ripper while I still could. Oh well, hopefully these songs will make it to a more readily available release.

Black Sabbath released and EP called The End that has four new songs on the 20th. Unfortunately it's only available at the merch stand at tour locations for their final tour which is also called The End. Fortunately though, someone has posted all four of them. Listen while you can in case they get taken down.

On one hand, yes, Steam is just another platform. Itch.io is also just another website for uploading your games, but everyone knows that Itch.io is mostly crappy games made by wannabe devs in their bedrooms. Thus Itch.io's reputation is generally of being a platform for low quality games. On the other hand, Steam has built a reputation for being the platform where most professional game development companies go to market their games digitally. And it's no accident that this is the case. Steam could easily be a carbon copy of Itch.io, filled to the brim with terrible RPG maker and Sonic OC flash games. If that were the case, it would have a similar reputation to Itch.io. But it's not the case, because Valve doesn't want it be. It wants to be what it currently is, the go-to platform for AAA development companies to market their games. Thus they do their best to keep low quality games from contaminating their game pool. The only way you get through greenlight is if the community believes you are going to be an asset to their libraries and to Steam's repertoire. I'm entirely sure where I'm going with this paragraph after this point, but I guess what I'm trying to say is that, while Steam may be one in many game distribution platforms, that doesn't mean it can't be much better than another distribution platform. It's kinda like how Bing and Google are both search engines, but most people are in wholehearted agreement that Google is far and away superior to Bing.

This is pretty great up until they start using djent: https://shadowofintent7.bandcamp.com/album/primordial I've tried to like djent, but for whatever reason I just can't.

On the subject of tech death, I came across this demo recently. It's pretty promising, especially the last song. https://vitiated.bandcamp.com/album/promo-2015

For top 10: - Thousand Leaves - Sonata Arctica - Galneryus - Nightwish (yes, really) - Theocracy - Black Sabbath - Mare Cognitum (Basically the only Black Metal band I like) - Blind Guardian - Alterbeast - Idk what to put here. Blood Stain Child for now

If you don't know about them already, they're an encyclopedia of metal bands. I really love the site and contribute to it all the time. The only thing is they can be a bit snobby about what is and isn't metal, especially when it comes to Metalcore. E.g the Phinehas band you posted above is blacklisted. http://www.metal-archives.com/

I've never been a big -core fan, but that was pretty cool. Do you have a metal-archives account?

It could be all mine for just $75 http://www.amazon.com/Alice-n-Thunderland-Japan-Import/dp/B000T6H60C

Listening to Alice 'N Thunderland right now. Trying to track down the CD for a good price but I'm not having much luck. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1QMfVT-hr4

Green-haired maids.

Crank up PUNISHMENT (good thing Google is my friend) I'm putting on Thousand Leaves

Most definitely. However, I am an extremely self-conscious person with a similarly low tolerance for potential embarrassment. Thus I would never have such liabilities sitting around my room. If you're not as bad as me though, perhaps you'd be just fine.

Yeah, so long as you can get a Japanese to English QC I'd say go for it.

http://boomslank.com/ Original designs, meaning no specific manga or anime or vn characters, but they're really cool shirts all the same.

Yeah, I gotta say 3 if any. If you can have any of those on your bed and still let people in the room, then ye art braver than I.

Utawarerumono False Masks Fate/Stay Night Unlimited Bladeworks Seraph of the End Rokka no Yuusha Charlotte No particular order here although Seraph of the End is either #1 or #2.

https://daisyallen.bandcamp.com/releases

All of Stereopony's stuff is great but these two in particular are really good: Supercell has a few good rock songs too, especially this one off of Today is a Beautiful Day (it speeds up I promise): Galneryus are a Power Metal band, but this song isn't really a Metal song. If you're willing to go a bit heavier, a lot of Galneryus' stuff is really, really great.

I see the tags get more violent if you open up the spoilers though.

That one's a horror/chuuni so the difficulty level is actually pretty high... Interesting, I would not have guessed it was a horror just from the VNDB page. Is it sort of like Higurashi? That's the impression I get when reading the description while looking for horror themes.