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Only a single episode, but the conceit there is that all that RPG stuff is due to being stuck in an MMO, right?

Since I'm pacing myself with Yamato 2199, I started watching Hestia in the mean time. There's a novelty in seeing the mechanical side of RPGs played (relatively) straight as real world phenomena . Also, fan service.

Happy birthday widdle Rabbit. ( ☯ ◞౪◟ ☯ ) I hope it's full of moe. Also, happy birthday to Mr. PedoBear. I mainly just wanted to say that if anything.

Solution: Make all staff badges in that fabulous color scheme.

So.... a regular Sunday for you, huh? Teeku

So I just watched episode 9 of Yamato 2199, "A Clockwork Prisoner" and I want to write down my thoughts on it real quick. This is probably my favorite episode so far in terms direction. While the themes of "can robots have feelings," and "what does it mean to be human" have obviously been done to death in these kind of stories and there's not really much to take away from them anymore, this episode does an awesome job at establishing and maintaining a mournful and frantic tone that really makes the episode for me. Speaking visually, there are a few absolutely gorgeous and eerie shots at the end with Analyzer standing on the bridge of the Yamato against the backdrop of a star. There's also some pretty cool cuts to a radio dial while everything is being wrapped up and book-ended. The thing that really made the episode was how Alter was characterized though. He was inarticulate and like a child. In a lot of these kind of stories, like Blade Runner for example, the robots are designed to be human, they're very communicative, and you get the feeling they're trying to convince the other characters that they're more than just circuitry and programming. Here, it's the opposite. There is not a question of subterfuge. We don't get much, other than the sense that Alter is trying to make sense of things. He never tries to justify his existence to the viewer and during his escape, he's just frantically moving forward leaving the other characters to fill in his motive. Combine this with the composition of the episode - the music, all the little cool shots, the whole "friend" thing in Alter's task logs, and the "Heart of Observer" parable that's related throughout the story - it was an episode that really left an impression on me. /end fanboy

^^^ Very much appreciated, Kuro. Looks better than I imagined. Seriously, you rock.

Aaeru's and his arguments are fuwahistory. If you reminiscence about what "old" Fuwa was like, it's one of the things that comes to (my) mind.

The best moment was when the Ubisoft presentation ended. I thought I was going to die from the cringe.

^^ I thought Princess Evangile was pretty good for a light read, though it's the very definition of mediocre in my opinion. (As always) Best girl didn't even get a route.

Still working my way through Asuho's route.

He's still in high school iirc, but you probably couldn't tell because of his transcendental, dope-ass (old man) taste in anime. Anyways, have a great one dude.

^^ You're were doing me a huge favor by just attempting anyway, so don't worry about it and thanks for trying.

A pretty awesome oral-centered manga: http://exhentai.org/g/825484/6db4dcad03/ Love the "blowjob face" in it. EDIT: Loving, married couple intentional baby making fetish go!

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Happy birthday to Cryo. Have a fucking awesome birthday.

I haven't played this VN, but I went through the thread and made sure to spoiler tag anything that looked like a spoiler since this thread was specifically about the game's art style. Please remember to be careful about spoilers.

To be fair, that is old game. Though Illusion games do significantly vary in art style, so some of the newer titles are (arguably) uglier than that.

I haven't played her route yet, but I liked Isuzu during the common route. Obviously not a whole lot there in characterization, but I found her comedy routine and her hopelessly getting dragged into things pretty amusing.

I got past the first h-scene in Asuho's route. She's pretty cute. Don't know why I didn't consider her one of my favorites from the common route, as I usually love deredere/childhood friend type characters.

God bless, Eclipsed. You drunk m8? Teeku

I know you're just being snarky and all, but... No one is asking why SP crowdfunds, it's pretty freakin' obvious, but rather is it right (from whatever perspective or spin you want to use) that they're doing so.