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Looking at the achievements, only like a 1/3 of people who bought SC on GOG beaten it. Compound it whatever FC has and yeah, I can see that. One thing to note, us XSEED/Falcom whores double or more dip quite frequently, like I just did with FC on GOG ($10). We're so desperate for the rest of the games. Even places like /v/ (8chan, halfchan, etc), dens of pirates, you specifically see anons highly encouraging people to buy the games which is unusual. Hell, personally, I've considered gifting the games during Secret Santa but jeez, they're quite intense gifts to just toss on people. It should be mentioned that there are fan translations in progress for I think Ao and Zero. You can imagine how difficult they are to complete. Anyhow, I'm considering going through the end bosses again for special scenes. That or I just read it up online... --- Edit: I think it's about time for a Falcom thread.

It would be awesome if they spaced Cold Steel I and II out by at most six months. So say a June/July/Aug release for I, then have II out in in December. For the next month or two, I want to have a slow time with 3rd so I can not feel rushed (I skipped quite the few things in SC). As for between CS I and II, as far as Falcom games goes there is Ys VIII between the two. Even if it was XSEED who did Ys VIII, it be silly to have two Falcom games to compete for time. Ys games are actually kind of sizable due to their difficulty at times. This lag time also gives XSEED (it has to be them) time for Ao and Zero (They'll come. I feel it in my bones). I want the Crossbell games! Crossbell was named drooped so hard in SC. Besides, CS III finishes the Crossbell games as well from what I hear. Then of course as a consumer, I want to play other games as well, like say Nier Automata. That's a time sink as well. Let not also forget my love, EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5. I sank 250 hours into 4.1. What a busy year. Last year was intense but this year is another beast.

Trails in the Sky: Second Chapter Let's say there is a reason why this series is legendary and leave it at that. As for my specific experience, I beat the game with a ragtag team even when I had a party in mind. Oh Aidios, I want to play 3rd like right now and I'm exhausted. If the average length holds at ~75-80 hours for the games, I got to keep on top of the series before I get flooded by the Cold Steel trilogy. Having all that much of the series in a backlog would seem very very daunting. Oh yeah.

So far we'll get three months of Berserk. With each chapter, the odds for a new hiatus grows. Same goes for the climax of this very important story arc.

That's when we will purge all the machines in a great jihad. Thou shall not create a machine in the likeness of a human mind.

Honestly, if I get in a wreck, I want to be able to pin it on the computer rather than myself. As for doctors. An AI doctor won't fucking tell me that I'm young so I should toughen up and/or I do not know when there is something wrong with my own damn body. It takes out any personal bias or preconceive notions the doctors may have.

I had the pleasure of being out in western Nevada/eastern California near the darkest skies during a new moon. If you grew up as a city person like I was, it will blow your god damn mind. You only need to read accounts of blackouts in NYC and the like to get a sense of it. It is really noticeable going from one zone to another so even having seen the Milky Way before in dark skies, it can still blow your mind. Of course, even in where I was at you can see the faint glow from the nearby town of Bishop. In other places you can even get hints of Los Angeles and Las Vegas since they are so intense. I believe this year's solar eclipse I'll be camping out in a dark area in Idaho (and else where) so I'll see the night sky in almost its full glory. It something everybody should experience at least once. Just grab a drink or whatever and just look. Take it all in... you Europeans are so fucked. The Japanese as well. Edit: Anybody knows what's up with central Russia? Oil fields, mines and/or industrial region?

Speed run it now you goddamn maniac.

Sums up my feelings. Seriously, Jared is a question mark.

It wasn't spandex.

Chapter 4 and I got to say, Trails SC really builds on FC by this point. You can imagine and read about it but until you experience it, you just don't know. It's a total joy to go through even if my memories of FC is fuzzy. I'm kind of rushing it so I'm not really trying to get everything. I imagine that I missed a thing or two by not going off the beaten path to find non-board quests. Gameplay wise, I really wish Hard was a tad bit more tame. Normal is just a bit too easy but Hard is just a slog. Hard comes down to chance on how my encounter will go even if debuffs and buffs correctly. Hell, during this Normal run I got defeated by all the enemy going for a NPC at the start of a battle. That's no good. This good battle system needs a rebalance. Maybe in 3rd? Also some parts is just kind of weirdly designed. Like why do I need to look at the colorless fish when the front desk is already talking about the person I am trying to find? Couldn't my characters ask if this person been around and what's the deal with "colorless fish". I swear I ran into this place a few times before I found the prompt at the colorless fish... Hopefully I'll be done with this by the time I get my draft back so I work on that then go visit my niece. Maybe I'll start 3rd in New York on my rather crappy laptop... I wonder if it even runs. --- Chapter 7. The wayward son returns! YES YES YES

She never ask for this.

I believe this was back in September/October. That's pretty good, especially so when you consider the last time she had real hands was when she was 15 months old. Not sure what kind of prosthetic she has been using since then till this one. I'll be floored when the day when she can do thumb to index, middle, ring, pinky fingers, backward, forward, random, thumb movement only and other fingers movements only.

You sure you're not dreaming and breathing Friends? And Professor and Assistant are magnificent little shits. Fennic is smug as hell. The foxes are just cute. Red is a NEET while Silver is the responsible one. SUGOOOOOOI （￣３￣） That's the bits of the first episode on the left. That chase bit is probably the worst the animation ever got. That or the whole lot of us got used to it... now we're memeing it to hell and back. I'm in withdrawal.

The joy of hardware limitations. The NES was a bit too limiting for games to really shine while the SNES was a sweet spot. It slowly devolve to where we are at today where you have a shit ton of power that you can pretty much do anything (not really but you guys get my meaning?), especially in the realm of 2D/2.5D games, where devs have to limit themselves or else they'll get in trouble. Anyhow, I wonder how fast Amazon's supply of the SNES Classic will sell out.

When Marnie Was There A Studio Ghibli film so you cannot go wrong with the art, animation and music direction. It's always fun to spot the very minor but critical animation details. I really got to commend the atmosphere of the silo scene since it gave off the kind of scares when you are in a scary place and you're alone. The narrative while quite predictable also explored some topics a bit dear to my heart. Everything though is more low key than the Ghibli's greats. Kind of like The Secret World of Arrietty which is by the same director, Hiromasa Yonebayashi. He's definitely a good choice to continue on with Studio Ghibli's sprite since, face it, Ghibli is probably going to end with Miyazaki and Takahata. I look forward to Studio Ponoc's Mary and the Witch's Flower. Maybe I'll go watch Your Name next. Shinkai's narratives never jived well with me but maybe that will be different.

I guess that's one way to make your Switch FRESH without hoping or hunting for a special edition Switch. And it gets around the issues of not being to apply like a dbrand skin on.

My head canon is that while the clones are pretty much the same but the "pretty much" leaves just enough room for enough differences to explain Rex's longevity. Combine that with any changes that removing the Order 66 implant and not knowing how clones will function at such advance age gives me enough reason to believe Rex is possible. Also because he's god damn Rex. And you mentioned Obi Wan. You can blame Tatooine's sand and twin suns but he looked more than the 57 years old he is at the time of his death.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-04-19-sources-nintendo-to-launch-snes-mini-this-year SNES Mini maybe this year. Be prepared to kill some fools for one because Nintendo are fucking special cunts when it comes to supply.

It'll be fine. Chin up. Or not. Feel free to break down and cry.

I'm unsure if I want to dive into the books for the new trilogy now or later. On one hand it would expand the context of the movies but on the other, the movies should stand by themselves which I think it is hard for me to judge if I have read the books. A retcon at least a decade in the making. A pretty clever one if true.

I've only ever done one or two egg hunts in my life. All school sponsored and it rained the day prior or the sprinklers were on in the early morning. By the time we hunted, everything was still damp. There might be a third one at a public school in Brooklyn in their prison-acting-like-school's concrete courtyards. Seems odd so it might not be a real memory. Even though I've heard of it, egg rolling just seems silly. I think us kids would just start kicking eggs into the woods (or concrete wall or cars). Maybe not at church or at the White House but at a school one? Likely.