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You're gonna replace your brand new 3060 after not even 6 months? lol You do have a problem.

So at this point I'm starting to understand that when I tell myself "I'm gonna wait", what I really mean is "I will not, in fact, wait. I will buy it on a complete whim in the near future." I wanted to wait for the RTX 40 series but as the 30 cards have been slowly coming back in stock and dropping in price, the temptation to just get one while I can has been steadily increasing. This one was basically the exact amount of money I have saved up and then Amazon randomly dropped its price by like 100$ while it was sitting in my cart. So I took it as a sign that I should just pull the trigger. Then there's the white theme I've been going for on this build. There's no guarantee that ASUS will do another run of white editions for the 40 series, so this might actually be my last and only chance to get a white GPU. The only one I had been seeing in stock up to this point was the 3090 and lmao. I'm not paying 2.5K$ for a GPU.That this one came back in stock at all was a pleasant surprise. I'm also kinda nervous about the rumored power draw of the 40 series. I just bought this PSU so I really don't wanna have to replace it already and 850W was the best one I could find that fit my white theme anyway. So that could've been another component that breaks the white theme. I'm only doing 1440p up to 144hz anyway, so getting a stronger card would be for future proofing rather than because I need the extra GPU power. So yeah, this one should be fine for the foreseeable future.

Kept telling myself I'd wait but I decided I wanna get in on Pocket Fighters and Puzzle Fighter before the online becomes a barren wasteland.

Preliminary overview of the Zero PC port by Durante. Wonder if this means the release might be soon...

After 2 years it's finally on PC! Between the Steam release, the reveal of Part 2 and the announcement of Crisis Core Reunion, I couldn't resist. Thank GOD for GMG, though, because Square Enix are fucking insane with that 93$ CAD price. With the base discount + the gold XP bonus it brought it down to a more palatable 60 bucks. Still kinda ridiculous for a 2 year old game but this is Square-Enix on PC we're talking about so I knew full well to expect something equal parts insane, stupid and incompetent.

WIth international shipping, this ended up costing me exactly 80$ CAD lmao. I basically never pay that much for AAA games but Zachtronics is an instabuy any day. Shenzhen I/O and Exapunks just wouldn't have been the same without the physical books to leaf through. And while this one doesn't seem like the physical items will be key to the experience like those, this is the final Zachtronics game and I know I'd regret skipping it. I still wish I had secured a copy of that Zach-Like book they kickstarted while I still had the chance...

You're* And I will fucking riot if they cut it!

My friend's been bugging me to buy it ever since they announced it was getting cross-play, so I've been waiting for it to drop back down to its historical low price. Which is still almost 50 bucks since the game is only a year old but now that I'm nearing 200 hours of playtime on Street Fighter V, I think it's fair to say that fighting games have finally clicked for me. So while I don't see myself buying many of them day one (unless they're called Street Fighter 6, that is), I don't really balk at paying close to full price anymore if I know there's going to be a decent player base online.

The continuation will be overseen by Kouji Mori, Miura's lifelong friend who he apparently told the entire story and ending years ago. On the surface, this seems like the best possible outcome short of Miura rising from the grave to finish it himself. I'm optimistic.

OH THANK GOD! It won't be the same but it's better than no continuation as far as I'm concerned!

What prompted this? l thought you said PC gaming wasn't for you anymore. Was it the tweaking? Did you miss it?

I still feel like RE4 doesn't need a remake, especially after RE2 and RE3 made it clear Capcom isn't really interested in going all-out and make these the definitive editions of the games. But hey, if it's good, I'll play it.

Wait so it's not even airing on TV in Japan? Any idea how the Japanese fans feel about this? O_o

That's Golden Wind done. That sure was a JoJo part! Ended up having mixed feelings on this one. Diamond is Unbreakable is still the GOAT. My non-spoilery impressions are that it starts out really good then keeps getting better but at some point it sorts of plateau and just kinda stays at the same level, which doesn't make for great pacing. That turning point in the middle was the high point and I started losing interest a little afterwards. Things picked up again once the pieces started moving towards the final showdown and there were definitely some nice surprises there but I never became as invested as I was in the first half. As for my spoilery thoughts... Overall I'm left feeling like this was a weird rehash of Stardust Crusaders and Diamond is Unbreakable that never really managed to reach the heights of either of them. Oh and having the last two episodes basically be filler sure was a choice. I mean, I think I get what he was doing but it still kinda felt superfluous to me. Oh and I'd be remiss not to mention that I just love it when companies force themselves onto a property that was doing just fine without them and then proceed to do a worse job with it across the board than whoever was handling it before. It was great when NISA stole Falcom's games from Xseed and it was great here how Netflix just couldn't be bothered to do the bare minimum of anime localization. No karaoke subs for the OPs and EDs and no translation for the ad-break Stand cards. And speaking of Netflix doing a great job, there's still only 12 episodes of Stone Ocean out?!? Is it available by uh... alternative means? Surely it must be airing normally in Japan?

Got a Steam release out of nowhere today. Been wanting a Miku game on Steam for years now, so it was an instabuy. The one I played on Vita in anticipation of Persona 4 Dancing is still to this day the most fun rhythm game I've ever played (and P4D was so fucking boring lmao). Hopefully this one is just as good!

The price finally dropped low enough for me to bite, which as it turns out was around 15 bucks. I'm still playing Street Fighter V obsessively though so I don't know when I'll get to it but there's something about fighting games that makes me wanna buy them all whenever I really get into one of them.... At this point I think Guilty Gear Strive is the only big one I'm missing. And it's also the one my friend keeps bugging me to buy so we can play it together once the crossplay update drops. It's still so expensive though...

A little over halfway through Golden Wind and holy fuck does this part goes overboard with

God Eater? It's basically poor man's Monster Hunter. It had significantly more appeal before Monster Hunter went multiplat. Bought the remasters a few years ago and now it seems unlikely I'll ever touch them. As for why I'm here, Street Fighter V update: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Best part is I'm pretty sure the initial rank up match (I've since deranked back to bronze and climbed back up to Silver) was against a bot but like... not just any bot but this fucking... thing:

Honestly, I can see that being the case for JoJo in general. The soundtrack alone adds so much to the experience. I've only been watching Golden Wind for a few days and I've already started obsessively listening to music from the previous parts because of it. I'm still tempted to start collecting the manga, though. And the VIZ releases are hardcovers, too. When it comes to novels I usually go for the big trade paperbacks but for some reason I prefer manga in hardcover. Especially when it's a nice, fancy edition like those Berserk leather-bounds. They cost me an arm but they look so fucking good.

Oh my god, why did I wait so long to watch Golden Wind?! The first few episodes hadn't really hooked me back when it first started but I'm on episode 13 now and it's already so freaking good! Even Diamond is Unbreakable took like twice as many episodes to really hit its stride. This series just keeps getting better with each part lol.

Fired up Street Fighter V on a whim two weeks ago and I've basically played nothing else since. It just sucked me right back in. I even became a little bit less of a scrub! Either I got super lucky with the matchmaking last night or I'm usually super unlucky because I've been stuck in a loop of getting promoted to Super Bronze and then immediately getting matched with Ultra Bronze players that are borderline Silver and just getting immediately knocked back down to Bronze. I'm afraid to play ranked matches now because I'm certain to get knocked back down to Super Bronze but I really don't wanna go all the way back to Bronze. I hate it there lol. I've been trying to get better and what I've been learning sometimes works as far as holding my own against higher ranked players but Bronze is full of these insane assholes that play like shit but that have gotten so good at their particular brand of shit that they're honestly really hard to deal with if your fundamentals are still shaky. They'll usually go through the same motions but if you don't know how to counter it you're fucked because they've gotten pretty good at pulling off whatever unsafe shit they do, so they're usually really fast. Higher ranked players, on the other hand, will respect you and have a healthy fear of you. So they'll be more careful and won't just rush in with blatantly unsafe shit, which ironically makes them easier to deal with when you sort of know what the hell you're doing.

Finally got around to watching The Batman last night. This might actually be my favorite one yet. It's grounded like the Nolan films (somehow even more so) but it also has that subtle gothic vibe that permeated the Burton movies, although to a lesser extent. I loved how it's really not a superhero movie at all. This is a serial killer thriller and the climax of the movie wasn't this big, bombastic doomsday device scenario but rather something genuinely terrifying because of how plausible it is. Even Batman/Bruce isn't really glorified and even comes off as an unstable psycho himself at times. I love the Nolan films but yeah, the more I think about it the more I'm leaning towards loving this one even more. Can't wait for the sequel, especially based on all the setup in this one.

Damn it, every time this happens. I'll post stuff I bought recently only to immediately turn around and buy more. There doesn't seem to be a proper Golden Week sale on Steam this year but several Japanese publishers have their own individual sales with some deals that were too good to pass up. It's about time I finally played DR3 and I've been hearing good times and been curious about AI: The Somnium Files for a while now, so 8 bucks is a no-brainer to try it out before the sequel comes out. And then there's a not-so-good deal that's still the historical low that is unlikely to be beaten for years because Koei Tecmo sucks and who the fuck knows when the game will be delisted without warning because of license expiration. I really enjoyed the first one when it came out so I've had my eye on it for a while. I probably need to catch up on the anime before playing it, though.

Well, good to know it's only going to improve from here. My main problem with it is the fucked up combat, which I think is made worse by playing on hard (can't change so I'd have to restart and I'm not doing that...) The enemies block way too much, sometimes they'll even start blocking in the middle of your combo string. It forces you to play in a way that's just not how I enjoy playing these games. I don't want to carefully dodge around enemies to punch them in the back of the head; I wanna grab the nearest bicycle and just wail on these motherfuckers with it! Also acceptable: