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What's your opinion on Gdgd Fairies? Shows like Gdgd Fairies and Kemono Friends thrive on their characters despite the god awful 3DCG animation.

Monkey Trouble's face is appropriate for the series. Since I'm such a weeaboo, I'm going to drop/repping some stuff that caught my interests. While I haven't read anything from them, I've followed Made in Abyss creator (Tsukushi) for a long while since their style is so unique and insanely detailed. It's interesting to see it translated into a more animated friendly form. It should be a neat adventure (I'm getting a Sora no Woto vibe) with great visuals so check it out. The Ancient Magnus Bride is getting a TV anime after its successful OVA, which I heard good things about. Third. The Black Lagoon manga is back. Hopefully in the near future we'll get a new anime series. Roanapur, the free and dangerous city by the sea, calls. Lastly, Kemono Friends ended but it has a second season planned due to its unexpected popularity (it absolutely took Japan by storm by the fourth episode). It was a fun and wholesome ride. You guys should check it out. I highly suggest sticking to the 3-episode rule since I cannot blame you if you drop it within the first two minutes of episode one. The only reason it recovered was the characters. Do it for the Friends.

They're not that adorable when you go into a random elevator and the door open up to a bunch of zombies robots twice your level. Never before has dodging work so well and so beautifully. Seriously, it's one of the best ones I've ever come across. You phase out and come back in via one of your image doubles. Or you can come back in the air for a ground pound. Or knock them into the air and you teleport again to do an air combo (might be mis-remembering this one which may be a combo which launches them into the air which you can then either jump or dodge into it). Those robots were mercilessly destroyed.

Wow. I knew it was bad but this bad?

I'll wait for the PS5 remaster. I waited a decade (and got the PS3 in hopes for it) so another half decade is nothing.

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I could buy caster sugar but then it's another sugar I'll have in the pantry. I much rather just sent it through a grinder. More or less the same result and I think having the occasional normal sugar crystal is nice. Space it out and it adds quite the nice sweetness pops (think pop rocks kind of pop) to the drink. Simple syrup is, well, simple to make. I make my own caramel sauce/candy and simple syrup is pretty much first step or two of that process (if using water) but stopped before things really get to be a pain in the ass. Caramel is the type of thing you almost need an apprenticeship to learn to make consistently well. Might try this route but hold back on the normal amount and add some regular sugar for the aforementioned sweetness pops. Simple syrup might have a place in some food I make as well so that's a bonus. And I'm fine with the burn. I typically drink my hard liquor straight or on the rocks. It's the plainness of club soda that needs to be tamed. Flavor of plain soda water or even slightly flavored soda water just isn't a thing for me.

That's so like Nintendo that it hurts. It's why I still care.

It was a fun thing to learn about with my Uber driver (he tuned in just for this news) this afternoon (I only heard about them trying to have a vote this morning...). We both had a really good laugh. It may be our national government but shit is just hilarious at this point because: After a certain point, you just have to enjoy Hell. Especially so when the opposition is suffering in Hell with you.

Yeah, anime bullshit everywhere (and geology; I have a book from the 1800's!). It's not even including my figurines and rocks. Holy shit do I have rocks (they'll be there eventually somehow). Besides for Dune, LotR and ASoIF, my Western media is pretty barren. Star Wars section has Saga and webcomics (KC Green) with it. I hope to remedy it (and expand) with some Samurai Jack and some Spaghetti Western stuff. Star Wars WILL expand. I want all the artbooks and maybe Lego sets. Star Wars going to turn into its own shelf. I'm also thinking of Indiana Jones, Terminator and Predator. I might hide a MLP: Friendship is Magic figurine or two in there (Applejack and Big Mac). Maybe Adventure Time will have a spot. With that all said, music is getting it's own spot besides my personal pictures and life events memorabilia since music is life. I still collect CDs so it should be somewhat easy to fill. If I ever have this out in say a living room, I'll have a bluetooth speaker there as well. Amazing series. I need to complete it but lets say that I want to kick myself in the balls for not completing it years ago. They're easily x5 retail if not way more... ================ BUT WAIT THERE IS MORE AND I NEED YOUR OPINION I have a real trouble about displaying games. I have desk space but most of my games are primarily digital ever since I went Steam, GOG et al. The easiest is probably a digital picture frame that cycle through box and game art but that this seems quite a PITA to maintain if I want a whole library of stuff. Might be manageable for my personal favorites though. I might need to get into coding and Raspberry Pi to link to my Steam account and whatever database(s) to pull art. There's a new Pi with built-in WiFi so it seems possible... Of course I guess my gaming PC is all there needs to be to signal my love of gaming... How would you guys solve this if you wanted to?

I loath spiced rum but white rum is pretty good. Not vodka in terms of burn and emptiness in anything so it's fine on it's own or on the rocks. It's also a great solution to my very healthy mint plant. Buy some limes or lemons, club soda and away I go to mojitos. For the sugar, I think I might blitz it through a grinder to get it fine so it dissolves easily. Regular sugar just don't dissolve as quickly as I like. One thing though, a 3/4 cup of drinkable liquid per serving is not very much... doubling or tripling or quadrupling it doesn't seem to be a good idea. I look at my bottle of white rum and I start calculating how much I would make if I was a bartender/bar owner. Or better yet, how much I save as a consumer. Oh yeah. For reference I got a bottle of Cruzan and Flor de Caña. Cruzan is $8 and Flor de Caña is $16. 750 ml of each. The Cruzan has an amber tinge and is a bit rougher. The Flor de Caña is clear and quite a bit better. At my level, the Cruzan is a mixer (but fine on it's own. I think of it as the Evan Williams [a bourbon] of white rum) while the Flor de Caña is a sipper but I can easily see why Flor de Caña is great in cocktails though.

FMW brings up a very valid point. Open world games are by design disjointed adventure and with that comes with a cost taken from tight level design and, potentially, narrative. If a game is going open world from a previously more closed one, it can suffer greatly due to decline in level design and/or narrative. Having the best game play in the series might not be able to save it. See MGSV for a great example. Anyhow, at least I'm not as attached to Zelda as I am with Metal Gear. Besides, BotW really do seem to be the realization of Zelda 1 (tainted by more modern/common takes on open world game designs).

Since I moved back with my folks, I've been slowly rebuilding my gaming area/my room. Not sure why since I may be moving back out within this year but I digress. WIP but displaying stuff like this is a new thing for me. Not entirely functional but having book covers facing out or laying down is kind of neat. The artwork explosion compared to traditional shelving of books is great. The bottom shelf gets the short end of the stick even though they're mostly regular books since I need it to be heavy. Good thing they're kind of my bedrock of my hobbies and interests. Could use some LED strips for lighting. So yeah... I just wanted to say something since this is so novel to me. I guess I'll post the completed bookshelf (and maybe a traditional one as well) and my desk when I get them completed.

Lynyrd Skynyrd? Adding Johnny Cash to the mix...

It's Berserk season again. Partial leaks/scans of 348 are going out ahead of the 24th release. Most important part: April 28th for the next episode/chapter. If this holds until June, we might get closure on Casca... and maybe suffering.

That was such a nice surprise to watch into. It broke that sequence into 11/10 tier. Anyhow... It's the occasional Queen/Freddie Mercury binge time. This is after David Bowie...

Only nuts and bolts... Samurai Jack S5E2 started off light with Aku being Aku but damn that portion from the giant bug robot till the end. Amazing. There's also a very lovely tribute. Episode spoiler.

I'm a few episodes behind.Thanks Dean. In all seriousness, that fight only was going to go one way. Obi-Wan is going to be on Tatooine to watch over Luke so he will be be going anywhere and it would be odd for Maul to just abandon that fight. I wonder how's Ezra going to shape up now that Maul's gone.

Sold. After Shantae Risky's Revenge and Pirate's Curse, I want more metroidvanias while I'm waiting on updates for Half Genie Hero. It's also something to ground Nier Automata that's out in a few...

I once fucked up my spaceship to the point that it couldn't leave the star system without one or two minerals that can only be found in bulk on icy or acidic worlds. Or just be found there. There are some very rare plants that gave out like 10 at a time or I could buy it if I see it at again, 10s at a time. I needed hundreds of units. I happened to fuck up in a star system without an icy or acidic planet. That was a long slog to get out from. So mineral/item absence and scarcity is a thing. Though with the previous update with warping from bases and space station, it is all moot.