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Happy new year!

If you haven't done so already I highly recommend reading Utawarerumono. The first game was good, but the second and third are on par with Kiseki, in some ways even better.

Man, by this point I've just given up with politics. People like to preach about how we live in a advanced era, but take away all the technology (internet, medicine, machinery, etc.) and it's the same old medieval relationships between the working people, elites and the government.

Never heard of this Raging Loop before. If you play it, tell me what you think, maybe I'll give it a try some time in the future too. In a distant future, though, my backlog is very large. I liked the first three movies of Harry Potter back when I was a kid but that's all I can say about it. In recent times, all I've heard about it (and about Hogwarts Legacy) is that some crazy people were very vocal about boycotting it because HP's author sad something bad.

Yeah, those boots, man. What a godsent footwear. I'd polish them for Laura... Wait, that sounded weird, ha-ha... Agreed about Mushoku Tensei anime, I hope it'll be a full and true high-quality adaptation of its source material.
Good luck with your internship!

You know, I did some calculations when my home got hit and I realized a "funny" thing - one tank costs around $4 million, whereas my apartment market price was around $40 thousands, so one tank = a full apartment complex which could house 100 families.

Unfortunately I'm not well versed about the situation in the Middle East, but that sounds rough. Actually, I think it's a bit of hypocritical of people being hysterical because of the Ukraine situation while they've been ignoring what was happening and still happens in the Middle East and Africa all the time.

Well what can I say, globalism turned out to be a mistake... Nations should be the ones who determine what's in the best interest of their countries and not foreigners or cosmopolitans. I think it's asinine to expect people who have no ties to a country and its culture to have good intentions for it.

I took me almost a year but I finally realized one messed up thing about this war in Ukraine. Essentially, it's the war between Russia and Western powers on the territory of Ukraine, but Ukraine isn't allowed to attack Russia because it can get destroyed in retaliation and Russia isn't allowed to attack Western countries even though that's where most equipment, vehicles and information comes from. So in other words Ukraine is just like a shooting range for both sides. Admittedly, however, Russian people suffer too because of the draft and sanctions, meanwhile Americans and Europeans don't have to suffer the same consequences even though they're fueling this conflict. They are more preoccupied with such important first world matters like preferable pronounces, sending transgender athletes to women's competitions, censoring video-games, etc.

Sometimes I wonder, if Russian government wasn't such a pushover and sent an ultimatum to the West - either cut support to Ukraine and lift all the sanctions or we'll start a nuclear warfare against every state which is a part of it - how would West react? Ironically, all parts of Western society - it's government, it's people, it's elites, - all have much more to lose in case of nuclear war than already poor people of Russia.

Romance in that VN is supplementary and the story itself is a detective fiction. I don't know how to say much about it without spoiling anything since it heavily relies on some plot twists.

True, Laura has a great sense when it comes to clothing, although....................... I still like her boots from CSI the most out of every pair she wore. And I generally like Thors uniform to be honest.
Norn here looks very cute here. I wonder who I'll end up liking the most in Mushoku Tensei... It's been a tough battle between Roxy and Eris so far.

Also, sorry for replying late. I don't remember if I mentioned it before, but even if I have time, I don't want to give half assed replies just because I was in a foul mood.

Society and government in general is messed up. After I came to Russia I got fined because of some bureaucratic nonsense, but after they bombed my home no one wants to take responsibility and compensate me for that. Russian government doesn't care, Ukrainian government doesn't care, and "helpful" West doesn't care either, I guess. My point though is not to whine but rather emphasize that the government will shove a boot up people's asses for even a minor violation, but on the other hand you can't demand from it anything even if it destroys your life. As far as us plebs are concerned there's no justice and fairness. No wonder people become nihilists.

With devaluation and inflation it's even worse because not only it's a reset button for common people, it's actually a wealth transfer. When someone loses, someone gains. One of the worst things is when big business, especially international, starts buying up land and industries when your economy tanks.

G-senjou no Maou. One of the girls from there, Usami Haru, was my favorite before I discovered Laura x)

No, I don't have a home in Russia in the first place since I lived my whole life in Ukraine. I'm living in a rented place. So it's not like I have to sleep on the streets, but you know, that's what might happen at some point.
Devaluation of currency/inflation is one of the wickedest things about the economy in general, at least in my opinion. It ensures your money always loses value unless you spend or invest it, so you can't just accumulate it. I don't know much about modern day Egypt (aside from the fact that people from Ukraine liked to go on vacations there), but that sounds tough. From what I see, governments bring so much trouble for their people its saddening we as species can't go without them. Your country, my countries, people from other countries... All have a lot to complain about their governments. It's like it's politicians jobs to make our lives more miserable.

From what I understand, it used to be a credible organization until late 2021. Then a new director came to power and ruined everything.

I'll get to the anime once I'm finished with some other things, e.g. re-reading one of my favorite visual novels which is still good but somehow not as good as I first read it back in 2016.

Haji had some good Rixia moments too and I really loved Nadia amongst the newer characters. Don't remember if I shared this one previously or not.


I'm meh. Nothing too serious at the moment but I'm not sure what to do going forward considering I lost my place to live back in march and the prices for an apartment or a house are astronomical. I also got scammed by an educational organization when I tried to get an IT education. They took around 2000 usd (which is a lot of money where I'm from) and for four months fucked with me (and other students) with empty promises and sugar words. I probably will have to sue them but I'm not sure if it will bring any results.

Nice pictures, although I feel a little bit bad for Joshua with Estelle being there the only girl and without him :D

How are you doing?

Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas

Yup, Burning Heart is the most broken skill in the game. Not only it gives BP, it can be used to wait out disorders and to get any initiative bonuses you want. As for delay, I don't have anything to prove it, but it really felt like S-craft usage was really punished this time around; sometimes bosses end up taking 5 turns before you lol. Another reason why reflect order is OP, since you taking less turns actually benefits you. Well yeah, I'd prefer if these games were a bit more challenging, but making games easy has been a worldwide trend for many years now unfortunately. Everyone wants to beat the game on the highest difficult, but doesn't want to put in any effort. I like the Dark Souls/Sekiro approach where you don't select difficulty in the first place and have to learn how to play to beat it. And it's not like these games are hard, they just aren't holding you by hand.

You can change your gender at barber? For a second I thought we were talking about the real life, not WoW lol. Man I don't know, back when I was playing Perfect World I could end up making another character of the same class just because I wanted to make a new, you know, character! Of different sex or just appearance. Maybe it's just me, but I never treated my in-game characters as representation of "me" but rather characters of their own, with their own backgrounds and personalities.
Do you play this version or the one in Cold Steel/Haji? :P

The reason Falcom shies away from depicting violence may be because of the age rating. In Kuro they increased it from 12+ to 15+ and it got a lot darker. Honestly I feel like everyone who dislikes Crow and Millium staying alive are the same people who hate Rean, basically people who aren't even fans of the series in the first place.
True about Osborne, ha-ha. Wish we could've seen more interactions between Ironbloods and him. I think they had good mix of different personalities and backgrounds.

The main reason I dislike dub in general is because it's not original voices of characters. To me, it's like playing with replaced art or worse.
Oh, that's unfortunate. He was probably young too :( But to be honest I don't watch any Trails content creators, so I'm unfamiliar with the scene.

Trails anime by Studio Bind, perchance? With the same amount of dedication they showed with Mushoku Tensei it would surely be a sight to behold.
Same, I was glad they finally introduced Abyss, but it still ended up being relatively easy because of all the OP things you can get, but Tio and Altina's orders were definitely the main culprits for me. That said, I've been replaying Sora this spring and realized that I overestimated its difficulty. Back when I played it for the first time even normal felt hard, but this time I was playing Nightmare without NG+ bonuses and it wasn't that bad. Also, I don't think it counts as spoiler, so I'll just say that unlike Haji Kuro doesn't have Abyss, at least not without NG+ (haven't tried to replay it yet) and the game feels very easy overall.

It seems like it's a new fantasy meta nowadays - everyone can be whatever the hell they want. I think classes tied to races are cool for several reason, two of them being that
1) It's immersive and amplifies lore.
2) It makes trying other races/classes more worthwhile. Like if I can be anyone I want why would I even bother making a dwarf smith or trader when I can just make another hot elven chick to stare at her back while I play instead of looking at short bearded dude. Lol.
In other words, I find it nice when the game has some rules in it.

By the way, how are the modern Blizzard designs? I think WoW used to have pretty fan-servicy females in it, which wasn't something that many fans of Warcraft III I knew liked, but I find it hard to believe Blizzard would continue that route in the current climate in the current video-game industry. Btw I also played Hearthstone if it means anything. I played Valeera and Anduin the most, but my time with that game wasn't very long as opposed to Shadowverse which ended up being one of the most brazen backstabbing experiences I had with the game developers. Long story short, I've been playing it since launch and its main selling point compared to other competitors was anime artstyle and a great number of attractive character art. Then, after they amassed enough players they censored almost every card out there. Bait and switch at its finest. I haven't played since, that was top-10 anime betrayals, man XD.

Can't remember if I said it before or not, but I consider Trails a fairy tale in a way. I don't expect from it the same brutality and cold realism, let's say, "A Song of Ice and Fire" saga had. When it comes to Trails, I'm content with happy endings, and in my opinion there's nothing detrimental to the story because Crow and Millum survived CS IV. Like you've said, it's the opposite.
Hey, that's a very sweet desctiption of Millum you wrote! But I agree, she's great.

Sub. I don't want to sound pompous about it, but I never play or watch anything with dub. I think me being Russian-speaking helped a lot at avoiding the trap many native English-speaking people fall into, namely the convenience of having dub readily available. To me both JP and EN are foreign languages, so even back when I was 13 (the time when I started watching anime seriously) I thought that I'd rather listen to original voice acting rather than translated version. At this point in life I just can't stomach English localizations altogether lol. I remember feeling very disappointed when CSI was released without JP audio, but thankfully I found original audio on the internet and inserted it in my game. Otherwise I'd either turn the voices off or wouldn't play at all.

Ooooh, that's understandable! It's the same to me whenever I start a new Kiseki game, can't care less about any other game when this happens!
I'm familiar with Stellaris, should be a fun game too, although personally I played it with Azur Lane species mod so my experience with it was a bit different to most other players ha-ha.
I see, I see. Seems like a typical money-hungery design to make people invested in that type of content, while sacrificing lore's integrity. They could probably do better making other characters as raid bosses instead of exploiting popularity of already existing ones. But I suppose it's still not as bad as infusing the game with real life political agendas. Although I heard there was some recent drama in WoW or its remake?.. Anyway, I used to play Warcraft 3, finished all its campaigns and played some multiplayer, but I didn't play WoW for long at all, so the only thing I remember is that I selected blood elf race for my first character. Iirc I didn't even leave starting location lol. As far as mmorpgs go the ones I spent the most time on are Perfect World and Age of Wushu, but from what I know they were nowhere near as popular as WoW was.

Aurelia would be too OP!

Fun screens. Crow has his priorities set right. Same as cameraman on that Lloyd-Rixia screen... What do you think of Jusis and Millium, by the way?

If you haven't burned out from CKII, I think you might be interested in Victoria III game. It's a bit raw and unpolished in some places, but a very good game nonetheless. The only issue, however, is that it's even harder to grasp than CKII. I started to understand what's what only after playing like 10 hours. Also, a very good portrayal of how economy works, albeit oversimplified compared to the real thing.
Oh, speaking of Warcraft, can you tell me your opinion on what happened to it after it went from RTS to MMORPG? Personally, I was never invested in Warcraft (though I liked Arthas and Sylvanas) apart from playing the third game and its expansion, but two friends of mine have different positions on it. One says Warcraft was at its peak during the second game and another says that MMORPG ruined its story/lore. As for randoms in CKII, I like using ruler designer and have my own dynasty. I think it kinda cool to observe what kind of fate awaits it.
Damn I want a DS-styled Kiseki game so much :O Though obviously even though Rean would be a better choice objectively my top preferences for a protagonists would be Shizuna or Laura.

Good thing I've played Valkyria Chronicles II & III on a psp emulator then, I guess... Another advantage PCs have over other platforms is that if it's powerful enough it can run anything you want, even arcade.

Nah man, I think what you're referring to is a vassal rebellion. Basically when your vassals start a faction/get triggered by something and try to force you to do something (cede the throne, grant them independence, etc.). Right? In my case, I meant revolts you get in one of your counties by peasants or infidels/heretics. Unlike vassals, who use their own levies, rebels have event spawned troops and a leader. Also, I decided to search for another version of the game and after downloading it my issues with rebels ended, though I'm not very interested in continuing after getting disappointing runs ruined by bugged rebels recently. What Elder Ring mod are you playing with?
The thing with OreImo is that incest is generally seen as something widespread in animanga industry, but in reality it's not... At least not from my experience. Usually male protagonist will either end up with another girl in the end or he's not blood-related to his lover-sister in the first place. So in that regard OreImo is cool in my book. Though personally I think I like Ayase and Saori more than Kirino.

One of the most telling things with echo-chambers is when there pops someone who is the living proof of contradictions to their dogma. Like for example, a black person voting republican in America, a woman being pro-life, a citizen of Ukraine being against the current Ukrainian regime, LGBT person being against promoting LGBG to kids, vaccinated against covid vaccine mandate, an immigrant being against immigration, etc. All the time they parry it by claiming this person is lying and if there are too many of such people, they'll just say these people are "misinformed".
Console exclusives suck. I remember when CSIII was console-only and I thought that I don't mind giving Falcom $300+, but there's no way I'm paying this much to Sony just to play one game I want to play. To me it was basically like Sony holding the game hostage.

Yeah, it's pretty much in every gacha out there, your choices don't mean anything. Not sure why they even add them in the first place.
So you've seen new Renne's design? What do you think of it?

Well, this ideological warfare not only ridiculous in itself, but I think it actually makes people less appreciative of normal diversity in media. What I mean by diversity as opposed to "diversity" is that generally no one will complain if there are, let's say, black characters in the game. Yakuza series have them, for example, and it kinda makes sense since it's a modern day Tokyo where a lot of tourists go and seeing a black person isn't impossible. But these lunatics want to push modern day American agenda onto everything. Medieval Japan, Europe-inspired fantasy? Doesn't matter, make its demographics based on modern day New York or London. So next time I see a character who fills into "diverse" category, I'll have to wonder was he genuine or pushed by malicious ideologues.