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Happy Holidays man, hope you're having a good one!

Hey man, how’s it going!

That’s amazing to hear man, I was a little worried about you since I haven’t heard from you in months. I did see that you were updating your MAL regularly, so that was a relief. Yeah, going to therapy is the best choice when it comes to matters like that. I can relate with you, when my uncle died due to COVID some of my family went to go to therapy, myself included. At first I was hesitant to go since I didn't like the idea of talking to strangers about something very personal, but after going I was feeling better. Now I’m more relaxed about it and while I do still miss him dearly, I know that I’ll always have the memories of him that will outlast it. So it’s good to see you’re alright, hope all goes well for you :).

A lot has happened in the football world that we need to talk about xD.
Barcelona won La Liga for the first time since 2019! They did draw a lot of games against teams where they should be winning though. But Real Madrid bottled a lot of results which led to a gap in points between them.
Barca’s defense this season has been unreal! Balde, Araujo, Christensen, and Kounde (BACK)! What a fucking defense man, It's been so impressive seeing their defense this season considering how they had Umtiti, Pique, and Lenglet at the club before xD. Now they have a top defense who can defend well haha. Conceding just 20 goals in 38 games is pretty great. Ter Stegen could have gotten the record for the fewest goals conceded in La Liga, but sadly he conceded a lot of goals towards the end of the season. Getting rid of the deadwood and bringing in Kounde and Christensen was so crucial for them. I still can’t believe they got Christensen for free, he’s been so amazing for them. Shipping out Umtiti and Lenglet was important as well and Pique retiring too xD. Those 3 should have left after the 8-2 to Bayern.
I’ll admit that I was wrong about Ter Stegen haha. My take certainly aged very badly. Sticking with Ter Stegen was the right decision in the end as he's been an instrumental part of them having so many clean sheets. He's back to his best and has been making lots of amazing saves this season. Getting a hair transplant helped him find his form in the end huh xD. No but seriously, I will admit that I was a little too quick to pass judgment on him. Everyone in Barca had an off season, and now with a competent manager and defense, he's been revived. I'm happy to see him and Oblak get their form back! Last season he was also shit by his standards and now in this season he's also back to his best.
Yeah, offensively there’s still some problems. A lot of their games they won 1-0. Which is a little odd, considering the talent of their attackers. Ferran has been a flop, just hasn’t been good enough this season. Fati did bag some goals towards the end of the season, so that shows that he wants to stay. I also don't understand why the hell Gavi is playing on the wings when he's a midfielder lmao, Xavi smoking some pot xD. He has wingers but decides to play Gavi there instead xD. Raphinha has had a good first season at Barca but as you said his biggest problem is how inconsistent he's been. Some games he'll be on fire and others he'll be frustrating to watch. There’s some talk that Barca could sell him. Barca need to sell Dembele, I'm so tired of seeing him be injured and not performing well consistently too. Every time he starts to gain form, he gets injured. It's always a cycle with him. I think Barca should sell him and bring in Kvara, but I don’t think it’s realistic. Lewa post World Cup has been horrendous, he's ghosted a lot of games in 2023 and missed loads of easy chances. Still he has bagged a lot of goals for Barca this season and was the top scorer in La Liga, so not bad for his first season in La Liga.
In Europe though Barca still aren't quite there yet xD. It's honestly impressive to see how bad they are in Europe considering how good they've been in La Liga. They did get pretty unlucky getting drawn with Bayern once and in Europa they had some big injuries when they played against Manchester United. Maybe next season they can have a decent run in Europe.
Hopefully they can re-sign Messi, I just want him to return to Barca so he can get the proper sendoff he deserves. And now that Barca finally have a good and competent team again, they could challenge for the UCL with Messi and some new signings.
Busquets and Alba are leaving the club, I’ve been watching those two forever. It’s going to be odd not having them around at Barca.

Arsenal absolutely bottled the league. 248 days at the top of the league, but they still didn’t win the Prem. I couldn't believe how well they were doing in the first half of the season. I never would have expected them to be first for so long. After the World Cup though, they started picking up lots of draws and losses. That cost them a lot and then when they faced City they were outmatched.
City have three peated the Premier League! They have been so dominant this season, their squad is insane all around. But we have to mention the main man Haaland... 52 goals in total this season, 12 in the UCL and 36 in the Premier League. Golden Boot Winner, Premier League Player of the Season, and Premier League Young Player of the Season! He broke Salah's record for most goals in a 38 game season, as well as beating Andy Cole’s, and Shearer’s 42 game record. All of this in his first season in the PL! As well as smashing numerous other records xD. He's been unreal this season, I never thought he would do this well! I expected him to be top scorer and bag a lot of goals, but I'm still shocked at how good he's been xD.
I can't believe Newcastle are in the Champions League, I can’t wait to see who they're going to face xd. Eddie Howe has done a fantastic job with them.
Liverpool have been so flip flop this season. They destroyed Manchester United 7-0, but then they go on and lose a bunch of games against teams on paper they should be beating. I don't know what's wrong with them in this season. They were in the finals of the UCL last season and competing for a quadruple. But now they're going to play Europa League football next season xD.
Chelsea have had a disastrous season. Spending 600 Million in total, bringing in 12 new players and only finishing in 12th lmao. They have been so shit this season, they can barely score. Their defense has been shocking as well. It was a mistake for them to sack Tuchel imo. They brought in Graham Potter way too soon and he just completely flopped with them. Now they brought in Lampard and he's been ass as well xD. Pochettino is going to take over next season, I thought Nagelsmann would take the role. We’ll see how he’ll do with them.

Napoli have been one of the most entertaining teams to watch this season. They played amazing football this season, and they won their first league title in 33 years! It’s great seeing them at the top, the wait has been too long for them. I was watching the celebrations, it was great to see. Same, I never thought they would dominate Serie A. But a lot of the credit goes to 2 people, Osimhen and Kvaratskhelia. What a fucking duo those two are, they have teared up Serie A this season. Osimhen was the top scorer in Serie A and Kvara was the top assister! Kvaratskhelia was bought for only 10 million by Napoli too, what a fucking bargain! He's going to continue to be a star in the future, I can't wait to see how he develops. He's been one of my favorite players to watch this season.

I can't fucking believe it man, Dortmund actually bottled the Bundesliga!! All throughout this season, Bayern weren't at their best and kept slipping up and losing points! But it didn't matter since Dortmund kept on choking whenever they could go ahead of them! And then finally a golden opportunity falls on their laps. All they had to do was just win 2 games and they’re champions. I thought that it would finally be their time. They won their first game, but in the second game they were abysmal! They conceded two goals in 25 mins and ended up drawing the match against a team that had nothing to play for!! To make matters worse they could have still won the league since Bayern were drawing against Koln, until Musiala scored late to win the league for Bayern. Just unbelievable, this is one of the biggest bottle jobs I've ever seen xD. Dortmund have no one to blame but themselves, they even had home advantage as well. I feel so bad for their fans who have waited for so long to finally win the league again. I would have been so livid if I was them. Also feel for Reus, he still hasn't won the Bundesliga.

Once again PissG have bottled and lost in the round of 16 once again. And once again, the whole blame falls solely on Messi! Mbappe must love having to play with Messi, because no matter how much of a bad performance he has Messi will end up with all the blame! YES omfg, seeing Veratti just dribble around in the box for no fucking reason pissed me off, why the hell did he do that! He lost the ball and then Bayern scored from his dumb mistake! Vitinha had a fucking open net and all he had to do was put some power in his shot and it would have been 1-1 on aggregate, but he just decides to pass it and De Ligt clears it! But Messi gets the blame for all of this!
There were so many mistakes that PSG made over the two legs. In the first leg, Donnaruma should have easily saved Coman's shot that led to a goal. I have no idea how he didn't save it. All he had to do was just catch it and the first leg would have been 0-0. It was straight at him but he just fumbled it! Donnaruma has been so shit for PSG, he's made so many mistakes in big games (like against Bayern and Real Madrid last year). How has he gone from being the best player/goalkeeper in Euro 2020 to being so shit!
Mbappe was a ghost in the second leg. He was saying in interviews that he's confident PSG will beat Bayern, only for him to put in a stinker. Messi had to cover for the lack of creativity in the midfield, so he had to play deep so that the ball could move forward! I can't believe PSG started a UCL ko match in 2023 with Vitinha and Fabian Ruiz as their midfield LMAOOOOO. They were never going to win with those two, they are Europa League quality not Champions League quality!
How the hell is Mbappe so protected by PSG fans after he was seriously considering leaving them xd. Messi gets booed by the fans even though he's been their best player this season.
Messi has officially left PSG, thank god man. It’s been a long 2 tears, but I’m very glad I don’t ever have to watch a PSG game xD. I’m happy he left, PSG were never a serious club to begin with. They continued to boo Messi even though he was the least of the club's problems. PSG fans need to make peace with the fact that Messi only used their dogshit club to stay in shape for the World Cup so he could beat their country in the final. I can get being upset at the fact that your club still hasn't won the big one, but just blaming one player doesn't make sense! Is it Messi’s fault that PSG’s best CM is an aging, injury prone Verratti? No. Is it Messi’s fault PSG start Vitinha, Fabián Ruiz, Carlos Soler on a regular basis? No. It’s very easy to point fingers at Messi given his GOAT status.
I just hope Messi returns back to Barcelona, but it doesn’t seem likely. There’s been so many rumors saying different things about how it’s Messi's decision to return or Tebas (the La Liga President) has to approve of it. Xavi has publicly said that he would want Messi to return as well. The Saudi rumors are very strong, I really do not want Messi to go there. Inter Miami have also been inquiring about him as well. I just feel that it’s still too early for Messi to leave Europe. I hope we haven’t seen the last of him in Europe. There are some rumors that several Premier League clubs have been inquiring about Messi. Messi wants to decide soon, so we’ll see where he’ll end up.

Once again it was Real Madrid and City in the semifinal haha xd. Yeah this could have been the finals, but it is what it is xd. I agree as well, the winner of this tie will win the trophy.
Manchester City beat Real Madrid in dominating fashion! I’ve never seen Madrid get dominated that much in the UCL, not since Ajax in 2019! They couldn’t do anything at all, City had the ball in their half for so long! Madrid couldn't even get near them and Courtois kept on making amazing saves to stop Haaland xD.
In the first leg, Vinicius scored a great goal and Madrid were the better team for the first half. Second half City got into the game more and De Bryune scored an amazing goal to make it 1-1. It was an amazing result for them to take to the Etihad Stadium. Second leg was a completely different story. Bernado Silva is a beast, can’t believe he could leave City. 2 goals against Madrid. Then Akanji and Alvarez scored to make it 4-0. City was too much for them this year haha, they learned from last year and were much better.
As I said, my money is with City to win it all. It really seems like this is their year. They could win the treble as well. Their squad is absolutely amazing all around, they have Pep who has been a tactical genius this season. And ofc the robot known as Haaland, who has been bagging goals for fun this whole season. The duo of Haaland and De Bruyne has been so deadly. De Bruyne has the most assists this season in top 5 leagues and Haaland the most goals xD. People sure have been silent on Haaland now xd. Before they were saying that he wouldn't put up the same numbers as he did with Dortmund and Salzburg, that he only got lots of goals because he was playing in a farmers league xd. I guess they're somewhat right, as his numbers in the PL have been BETTER xD. Looks like the Premier League is the real farmers league haha.
AC and Inter Milan making the UCL semi finals was unexpected. But it was nice to see them both doing well this season in the UCL. It’s been 20 years since 2 Italian teams made it to the semifinals. Both teams did get lucky with the draw and got weaker teams to make it to the semis though. I really thought that Napoli would make the final considering how good they were playing this season. Milan played well against them though. They faced each other 3 times in April, and Milan didn't lose against them. Leao had an amazing solo assist in the second leg, which was unreal.
Inter is in the final! I’m sure everyone had them making the final xD. While I do think they got lucky with the teams they faced, they earned their way to the final. They were the better team, AC Milan didn’t have any response for them at all! Inter dominated them over the 2 legs. Those 2 goals in 15 mins in the first leg hurt them badly and they couldn’t get going after Inter’s hot start. Lautaro scored in the 2nd leg to seal it, he could actually win the World Cup and UCL in the same season lmao.
Manchester City vs Inter Milan in the Champions League Final! It’s going to be an interesting game, City are the favorites for sure. Inter will be a good matchup for them though, I can see them beating City if they aren’t careful enough. My money is still on City though. I just can’t see them losing the final with the form they’ve been on. And the fact that they lost the 2021 Final, they’re going in for some redemption. They’ve waited a long time to win the UCL and this could be their time. I also wouldn’t mind seeing Inter win it though haha.

It's so surreal to me, it honestly feels like a dream xD. LIONEL MESSI IS A WORLD CUP WINNER! It was one of the best days of my life. I woke up early waiting for the game to start, I was so nervous and thinking about the potential scenarios. I still can’t believe that Messi scored in a World Cup Final, I’ve been dreaming of this moment for so long and it became a reality xd. France weren’t creating anything during 80 mins of the match, but then Mbappe turned into a beast, scoring 2 goals a minute apart. I couldn't believe what I was seeing there, when France made that comeback I thought Argentina were going to lose.
Then came extra time and Messi scored again, that was the hardest I ever yelled for a goal xD. It would have been so poetic if Messi had scored the game winner. But then France got a penalty off Montiel's handball and Mbappe converted it for his hat trick (I’ve gotta give respect to Mbappe, scoring a hatrick in a World Cup Final is insane. He’s easily going to become the top scorer in the WC ever).
Kolo Muani gets 1 on 1 with Martinez and he fucking saves it! The best save ever at a WC!
Then came the penalties, I was shitting bricks the whole time. My heart was at like 150 bpm and I was standing up and pacing around. When Martinez saved Coman's penalty and Tchouameni missed his, I was jumping up and down like a mad man xD. Then Montiel wins it for Argentina. I was just speechless after that, I had the biggest smile on my face seeing everyone celebrate xd. My favorite athlete and someone who I watched for a lot of my life finally won the biggest prize in football. The one trophy he so desperately wanted for his country, one that he failed to win before. He’s finally won it. Seeing him kissing the trophy and lifting it brought tears to my eyes. Afterwards I was just dazed, I was on social media the whole day looking at all the reactions and tweets xd. Loads of celebrities and footballers were congratulating him and Argentina xD. It was also fun to go on Youtube to watch videos of Argentinians reacting to the win.
Messi and Argentina deserved the World Cup. There are a lot of idiots (Ronaldo fans) who said that it was rigged for Argentina and how they got so many penalties. As well as calling the WC just a 7 game tournament now xD. If Messi had lost the final, he would have gotten slandered so hard by everyone! But now that he's won it, all they can do is cry and try to do some damage control. Messi had one of the best performances at a World Cup ever, 7 goals and 3 assists at 35 years old is unreal. Scored in the group stage, RO16, quarter final, semifinal, and final! As well as winning man of the match a record 5 times! Top assister as well. He's won it all now and thanks to the WC, casuals now know that Messi is the greatest of all time xD. Over a billion people watched Messi lift the WC! He's proved once and for all that he is the greatest of all time! And also, how was the WC rigged for Argentina when France got two penalty’s 🤔?? People say anything to discredit Messi.
Ronaldo was so ass in the WC, I can't believe his fans are still chatting shit after the performances he put up! He scored just one goal (a penalty against Ghana that shouldn't have been a penalty in the first place) and ghosted the rest of the games! He tried to claim Bruno's goal against Uruguay (it clearly wasn’t even close to his head xd) and dropped a stinker against South Korea (he did get an amazing assist though, off the back for South Korea to equalize). And in the round of 16, he got benched and his replacement scored a hat trick against Switzerland xD. Then against Morocco, he came on off the bench and had the best chance in the game to equalize and completely bottled it xD. At the end of the match, he walked off and the camera caught him in 4k crying in the tunnel XD. I wouldn't be making fun of him if his dickriders weren't the most insufferable people ever who always just slander Messi for no reason. Imagine playing in 8 WC KO games and getting zero G/A! For someone who people call the GOAT, that is absolutely terrible! Ronnie fans like bringing up his UCL ko stats, but they’re quiet when people bring up his WC ko stats xD.
United dropped his ass after the comments he made in the Piers interview and he went off to the Saudi league since no other team was interested in him xD. The debate is over, Messi won the WC while Ronaldo went off to the camel league! And man bottled the Saudi League as well, his team was first before he joined and now he’s going trophyless xD.
Btw I’ve been wanting to ask you this for a while, how did you feel when Argentina faced the Netherlands xD. Since you’re from there (at least I recall you mentioning you’re from there) you must have felt some conflicting emotions haha xD. The game was crazy as well, so many antics and fouls. The last minute goal Weghorst scored and the penalty shootout was so crazy. And you guys knocked USA out as well xD.

Yea I've seen that you've been catching up on a lot of shows recently.
Yeah Tomo-chan was pretty great and funny too! Not to mention we got a confession, it does suck that there probably won't be any new seasons. I liked it as well, Mahiru was nice and once again we got progress in the first season xd.
I haven't seen that one, but I have heard that it's similar to Spy x Family xD.
DANMACHI IS PEAK FICTION! So I wanna start off by saying that I have read the LN's (I'm waiting for vol 18 to be translated). I've been wanting to read them after watching S3. I actually didn't watch S4 Part 1 when it was airing since I was planning on reading the LN's when it was done and after hearing how good it was, I was so excited to finally start reading it in September of last year. Bell became one of my favorite MC's when I was reading. The anime did my boy so dirty! In the LN’s he’s such a badass and very smart as well. It sucks that the anime butchered him, they cut out a lot of his inner thoughts. I love the rest of the Hestia Familia as well, they all have badass moments and care so much for each other. It was nice seeing how close they all are.
But yeah, S4 was the first time they actually properly adapted an arc. And luckily they chose the best arc in the series xD. It helps that the author was working with the staff as well to make sure that everything was going well. They nailed everything and even added some scenes that made it better. They did a great job showing how much of a struggle it was for Bell and Ryu to survive in the Deep Floors. Not to mention showing how the other members of Hestia Familia were struggling without Bell. As well as seeing best girl Ryu's past (they nailed the moment where she fights the Juggernaut at the end, seeing all her old members of Astraea Familia made me tear up). I know what you mean, when I was reading this arc, I was shipping them both so damn hard. After going through hell together, they have a tight bond. But Ais was always going to be the end goal for Bell. She was the reason why he started to take adventuring more seriously. Not to mention he sees her as a goal, to try to catch up to one day and stand alongside her. But it does sting since Ryu and Bell have amazing chemistry with each other. I will say, in the LN Ais gets a little more shine since we can read her inner thoughts. And there's a side series with Ais as the MC (I've yet to read it) that is apparently really good and gives more insight to Ais and her backstory. So maybe I will change my mind after I read that. Hestia I do like, but not as a love interest for Bell (especially since she's a Goddess, it wouldn't work out long term).
S2 has been fire, seeing Thorfinn's development and regret of his past has been really powerful. But yeah I do miss Askeladd, the man was the star of S1 xd.
Well I do for sure recommend Oshi no Ko xd. I won't say what it's about as it's better to go in blind, but I'm sure you must have seen or heard about it. I've been reading the manga since 2021 it's super good (it's written by the Kaguya mangaka too!). Hell's Paradise has been pretty decent so far, I like the concept of it. And also The Dangers in My Heart, I've also been reading this manga and it's very good! The MC might put you off at the start, but he gets better as the story goes on. And it has lots of great moments with the MC and the female lead.

Have you been playing any games recently?

It sucks that you still suffer from it but it’s good that it has become less.
I understand that it is the profs’ job to provide critique and feedback but considering your circumstances, it’s harsh to apply the same rule set straight in your face, considering you yourself were presumably well aware of your work’s shortcomings. If I was a prof and I would see a B-grade (say 7-7.5/10 in numbers) coming from a student who has had it rough for a long time, I would be impressed that they made it this far despite all the shit they’ve stumbled trough. You did a good job man XD
“Everyone wants new employees but no one wants to properly teach them the ropes because that means more work for them.” Honestly, this. I don’t even need to add anything to it XD

Anime:
Well, I didn’t watch any of the other Winter shows you mentioned. I watched “The Ice Guy and his Cool Female Colleague” which was kinda boring and I dropped “Isekai Nonbiri Nouka”, “Spy Kyoushitsu”, “Ningen Fushin etc.” and “Life as Inukai’s dog”. Still attempting to finish Ars no Kyojuu. Overall just a really boring season imo…in stark contrast to Spring which has been so fun so far, not a single miss in the 8 shows I’m watching! “Café Terrace” is great raunchy fun, “Raeliana” is a pretty good shoujo-villainess isekai, “Jigokuraku” is a battle-shounen I actually like watching and my sleeper hit of this season is “Rokudo’s Bad Girls”, which is just so funny in ways I can’t explain but it’s a joy to watch.
Your Tonikawa argument is very fair and to be frank… I cannot really explain why Tonikawa does work for me. It’s just a lot cuter and more vibing I feel, I am way more invested in their thoughts and conversations. Now I will admit that the basic premise is… silly, I suppose in that regard that Otonari Tenshi has more realistic grounds. Tonikawa is also a show without expectations it’s just cute vibes for 24 minutes; I don’t expect any significant character work to be done or anything of the like.
My Dress-up Darling includes a very large personal enjoyment factor, because I am almost the opposite of you in that regard; I could emphasize with a lot of the points they were making about cosplay/dolls, not because I liked those fields per sé, but in a general sense of them being creative hobbies. As an amateur drawer, I could acquire a ‘deeper understanding’ so to speak whenever they talked about issues relating to their newest cosplay project, because while obviously not being a 1-to-1 ratio, they did share similar steps and issues to overcome, because it was a creative endeavour.
Since I believe I did a poor job explaining, an example might provide more context:
Their version of the problem : Those frills are too large, how do we make them smaller?
My version of the problem : This blue pencil isn’t quite the blue I need, which grays or blues could I add to get the right colour?
This created a significant ‘relatability’-factor for me.


AL:
” Like… yeah, that’s true for most characters in the game. Heck you could probably clear everything with R characters if you max them out and give them perfect gear” Me who has taken multiple L’s trying to clear World 14 with max level Unicorn, Perseus, Shimakaze, Anchorage, Shinano, Musashi, Hakuryuu, Kazagumo, Drake, Azuma and Kronshtadt equipped with +10 gold and UR gear: “Are you sure about that?”
Jokes aside, one needs ships to clear content initially. However, after a while you end up with a fleet that clears you all the content you need to; just look at how Unicorn and Perseus trivialize all mob-content, especially in OpSi. Speaking from experience, in all of 2023 thus far I have only leveled 2 ships to clear content: Azuma for a Sakura tank alas our darling Ibuki is quite frail and Scylla to assist in World 13 boss fights. That’s it. Anyone else I’ve just been leveling up for fun, and now I’m focusing on Sardegna and Parliament vanguard ships so I can make proper fleets for those factions. Contrary to what a lot of other players would do, I had/have neglected leveling up Ägir, Plymouth, Yorktown II, Implacable, Brest and FdG because I quite simply didn’t need them. Brest and FdG are lvl.120 now but that’s only because I *just* wanted to. And I suspect New Jersey and Bismarck Zwei will be the same once I get my hands on them.
The last 2 reruns have been rough on me; I missed Libeccio and I had to go balls deep for Belorussiya with only 30 cubes left by the end of it. She’s worth it though.
I have made a significant accomplishment: with FdG’s FateSim complete, I am now officially done with research! At least until PR6 drops in July. I also got Bunker Hill recently, thankfully she didn’t take that long to show up.
Mainz getting a skin was awesome. Before we had Alabama getting her first and now we got Anchorage’s coming! Mainz getting a skin also means that other ships drawn by her artist might receive new skins in the future, so I’m gonna huff some copium for a Dunkerque oath skin.
Don’t you fucking dare compare my precious cinnamon-roll Royal Oak to that…that Nelson!!!! XD
Hot take: imo teachers aren’t so hot as a lot of people claim :O Janus’ skin was my favourite of the event.
I will keep saying it: green is such a hardcore shafted colour in the anime industry.
Speaking of getting shafted… Bismarck Zwei. Excuse me what? Okay then… Ironblood having ran out of ships visualized. You know what pains me in all of this? Still no fucking French event. It’s been 3 fucking years. I can understand Yorktown II, since the Eagle Union was the only faction that hadn’t received content yet in 2022, but seriously, either Implacable or Bismarck Zwei SHOULD have been French. Normally I would be vehemently against having the same faction receive back-to-back event slots…but the French deserve it after 3 years of drought. It’s ridiculous, beyond words even.
This is honestly my biggest issue with the game; they way the allocate event slots is tragic. Sakura Empire (albeit controversial), Northern Parliament and Sardegna Empire have been on a consistent schedule, but Royal Navy, Ironblood and especially the French have been so jumbled.
Champagne oath is definitely a W for both French fans AND flat-chest fans *like me*. I just hope they’ll make her new lines lovey-dovey since she severely lacks that in her original skin. Hermione oath should also be really adorable. Harbin is whatever, surprised she got one so quickly. I still have 2 (soon to be 3 with EN anni.) rings to spend, but I’ll wait and see what other oaths we’ll get for the remaining anniversaries.
As for new skins….they are fire. New Jersey is obviously in to steal the show but Anchorage, Royal Fortune, Ticonderoga, Manchester and Regensburg are good as well.

I have…never heard of this game before XD There’s some nice character designs though, these are some that I quite liked: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. There’s some very nice boob size variation, something that I can always appreciate and Azur Lane has troubles with XD
Well it’s not particularly difficult for the lore to be better than AL’s; it’s pretty damn mid. Honestly, AL’s lore is at its best as a harem/slice of life romcom; the memories and those skin event dialogues they sometimes add are the best ‘plot’ this game has to offer.
The way you describe those game functions almost makes it seem too good to be true. I can imagine for you that especially the instant stage clearing mechanic is a godsend. I have checked out a few videos of the game and I gotta say that aesthetically it didn’t grab me much, but if you wanna send over more cultural images, then be my guest, because like I said there are some very nice character designs over there.

Well, there’s not much pressure on me no. My sister is a very similar boat and my mom is very understanding of us so we’ve kinda formed an alliance lol. My dad has always wanted us to achieve academical success (the only success he thinks exists) but he does nothing for that, he just sighs and gives disappointing glances.
5 at a time sounds good. And allow me to break that rule immediately by sending you 7, because they are in the same theme. And as a heads up, any of my drawings could be lewd. I will add a tag if it’s explicitly NSFW but just so you know you can still get some ass or cleavage XD
Context: I have discovered that I am very much into classical/Roman/Greek goddesses now:
-Meh (Thüringen, Amagi)
-Decent (Pola, Ibuki, Marco Polo)
-Good (Z2 Georg Thiele)
-Great (Centaur). One of my best drawings in 2022.

No worries about late replies mate, good to see you back :)



Anime:
If you do decide to watch the Fall 2022 season at some point, I have one recommendation: Koukyuu no Karasu. Personally I thought Chainsaw Man sucked, Bocchi the Rock was fine and I still am up on the fence whether Eminence in Shadow is brilliant trash or stinky fun trash.
I didn’t enjoy the Winter season that much, but I think that was due to a case of classical me: I watched all the wrong stuff XD Wouldn’t be the first season that’s happened to.
Yeaaahhhh….Otonari Tenshi didn’t work out for me. If I had to describe my feelings towards this show in one word it would be “void”, or “empty”. It felt like I wasn’t watching anything, as philosophical as that may sound. The primary reason for this was Amane; I thought he was such an empty slate that Mahiru’s interest in him and their romance felt off; he has no hobbies, no passions, no interests, no quirks, no weird little habits, he can’t take care of his own household and I thought the only thing he had going for him was that he looked handsome when he dressed up a little. Aside from that he just had the usual kindness thing going on that most male romcom MC’s float on. Practically all issues I have with this show tie back to this phenomenon. I’m usually a sucker for romcoms but this unfortunately did not work out.
I must admit though, that earlier this year I watched My Dress-Up Darling for the first time and I loved that show. It has subsequently raised the bar for other romcoms, because the MC’s have passions and interests, respect each other’s, bond over them and add concrete context to their dialogue. Especially them having an hobby/interest in something was such an eye-opener for me as to what I would like to see in a romcom.

AL:
As much as I instinctively wanted to vehemently defend the game for your paragraph….I can’t bring myself to do so since I can empathize where you’re coming from on all your points. It’s a game where you constantly have to revisit it to get new content and if you miss one due to circumstances….well, you’re fucked, get in line, wait two more years. I can imagine that to be demotivating. Personally speaking, I have the time and opportunity to grind the game in the background if I want to, however I do believe that should there ever come a time in which I can’t do that anymore, I won’t have much issue dropping several aspects of the game. I imagine the first thing to go is OpSi; that gamemode is very grindy and fundamentally not necessary to do. In fact, I’m quite hyped for New Jersey’s rerun; not for New Jersey per seTiconderoga and Boise are leagues better anyways, but because this is the very last rerun I need to pay attention to. From Shimakaze onwards I only missed out on HMS Enterprise during Joffre’s event. It’s gonna be so effing nice to not have to spend resources on reruns anymore.
I quite liked the structure for this Russian event; 1 full run of the hard mode gave over 2000 currency, so farming this was really quick and easy.
As for the waifu designs, there is one point I DO want to vehemently defend: Argus looks like a Rodney clone?!?! Excuse me what was that you said XD And Scylla is a Dido-class cruiser so that’s to be expected I guess. The average design for waifus is at such a high level nowadays that it’s hard to jump out, I give you that. My favourite design of this year so far is Royal Oak and in 2022 only two jumped out to me: Musashi and especially Roma, her design is just perfection in ways I find hard to delineate.
It is indeed difficult to come up with new designs after 600 waifus, however I do think they have neglected several aspects including skin tone variation and certain hair colours (green, orange and cyan/turquoise).
Ultimately though, if you are checking out new waifus and skins we can still talk about those a little XD

Yeah, you did tell me you started another gacha and I believe that in my last message to you I asked which one it was XD I don’t have much knowledge on gacha games but working with the only concrete hint I have (which was that you said you shared lewd art with fellow players so the game must have a significant following), I can’t imagine that it’s Genshin, KanColle, Granblue Fantasy, Honkai, FGO or Uma Musume, for various reasons. Perhaps Last Origin? That’s very lewd though I don’t know if that’s a gacha gama. I guess Girls Frontline, Blue Archive or Arknights could count, they have plenty of lewd arts.
Please enlighten me XD

What have I been up to? In 2 words: monotonous dullness. I’m still jobless (it’s not like I don’t want to work but I loathe everything I need to do before that; I hate a CV, I hate letters of motivation that are basically one big lie and I don’t want to return to college for some sort of degree). So yeah, I spend most of my time drawing (which, btw let me know if you care to see them. If so I’ll send you some highlights unless you’re REALLY invested and want to see all ~60 and helping my mom do groceries and cooking at least once a week to feel useful lmao. For what it’s worth though, this summer I’m gonna try a woodworking project, creating wooden board game pieces, an idea that I’ve had for years now.

umm... thank you for accepting my freind request :D

Happy Birthday man, hope you're doing alright.

Happy Birthday! It's been quite some time, how have you been?

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Happy New Year man, I hope you're doing alright and best wishes!

Holy shit wow..... I.... I don't even know what to say man. My heart go's out to you and your roommates family man. I really hope that you're going to be doing better, don't be afraid to get help if you meed it man. You do not have to apologize for it at all man, just take your time to rest and heal. The reply can wait for as long as you feel like typing it once again. I really hope that you'll feel better after this man, take care.

Dock space and time, honestly. I’ve never had a crippling shortage of anything else.
Maybe I just need to draw a good lewd art of her. Re-create the spark.
Wow, I missed out on the panties memory game, sounds glorious if you ask me. I did see the moment where the Richelieu and Jean Bart cosplayers started playing around with that fucking massive New Jersey mousepad, holy shit, truly America’s stern. They do have the returning habit of special touching at least one piece of merch during these livestreams, it’s a box they need to tick off on their to-do-list for these streams.


Oh, if they’re working on a QoL auto-retire system, could they also add auto-clear for SOS missions and a change to the commissions so you can either include or exclude ships from being recommended to go on commission. I’ve had it happen numerous times that I sent ships on 6-8h commissions even though I wanted to play with them.
What game is it, if you don’t mind me asking? I’d like to know whether I have already been...acquainted and familiarized with the cultural aspects….
As long as he can cover his financial responsibilities, who gives a fuck am I right.

It’s been over 2 years since I watched Ghost Stories, need to rewatch that some time for the laughs

I could, but I don’t think I will. I think neither her base skin or wedding skin will be candidates, I think most of Nagato’s other skins are a lot more interesting to draw.
Speaking of Hai Tien, have you seen that new loading screen of HAI TIEN SWIMSUIT LET’S GO. And it uses the colour green?!?! My day is made.
Also, I have some questions surrounding that loading screen of Lutzöw and Charybdis and their textboxes. Lutzöw obviously just wants to bang, but what about Charybdis? I guess the mimikaki is for me, but what about the milk bottle and the baby toy…whom are those for…is that a hint for a Little Charybdis? As a professional Charybdis enjoyer I am both confused and enthralled.

It’s called “There are so many ships I want level up but I can only do 6 + 6 at a time”.
It’s because, while I’ve always proclaimed Belfast to be my number one, the truth is that lately….I’ve been doubting that position. I don’t think I actually have a clear number 1 anymore…
The benefit of re-watching it is that I could just skip to the announcements…which is precisely what I did. Oh yeah, I heard about that and I went back for that moment. Let’s just say that it was an interesting angle to approach the subject matters from.


Fair game, but I will say here in advance: Charybdis skin absolutely fucking slaps.
Oh, I have finished PR ships in just 7 or 8 days. But that only happened when I could use ships like Richelieu who could snag both the flagship- as well as the MVP bonus in literally every mob fleet battle.
Oohhhhhhhhhhhhh, I feel your pain…this is why I always strive to have 10-20 empty dock spaces, to create a buffer for all the ship drops and bulins. The devs may not have been consistent on the events, but since their QoL updates have been fucking bangers, I hope and pray to god that they will one day implement an auto-retire function.
Eh, it’s been over a period of 4 years + the game is F2P so anybody could download it, open it, realize it’s a softcore hentai at times and then delete the app because they were too saintly for this degenerate smudge in their history.
That commander probably funded for a quarter of the JP playerbase, let’s be real. I hope he has a lot of cash left though, raising all those little ships is gonna be rough.

A cultural revolution indeed. We will become the darkness that is needed to join together the world in light. And oh god it’s been 1.5 years since I watched Code Geass, time flies

Oh yeah, Jean Bart and Nagato have a good amount of fanart, but they haven’t gotten any from me yet. Jean Bart I had been ‘saving up’ for a rainy small-tiddy day and in Nagato’s case I simply have no idea what to do with her lmao. As a top tier entry she definitely needs something, but what? OH, well lucky you then, I still have a backlog of drawings I haven’t shown you yet and amongst the heap is…..Hai Tien! (it’s not lewd, source: trust me)