Hell yeah brother, step on that air

That picture is now renting in my head. Like, a human edited it for the Economist right? Do they know? Is this all an elaborate in joke for for a specific subset of Very Online leftists by someone in the creative process? Or is it just a cosmic joke?

No

The flip side is the cool Assassin skills are already built into the original classes, but the constraints on weapons is pretty rough. Honestly thinking I’ll up priority on getting Warfarer so I can swap when I want.

This is purely an American perspective, but I failed out of an engineering university, it was a graduate-to-Boeing pipeline.

I like Dragon’s Dogma 2, but WHY the FUCK are defensive and movement options so bad for half the vocations. Magick Archer skills are fun and high reward, but there is no way to deal with getting mobbed at all. Or any sort of attack, really. The basic archer at least has a kick that can flinch enemies, or even knock them down for your pawns to capitalize on. What was the most mobile class in the first one can’t get to any chest that requires a movement option. The duospear class has a cool charge skill for movement, but one of its basic class features is being able to send out a little projectile that is supposed to flinch enemies but it’s completely unreliable. At least you can get a counter skill so you can survive combat (the only way this melee oriented class will survive, btw). They took out double jump and replaced it with an awkward wall jump for the Thief (and the thief only), when both thieves and archers should have something. Just some rough design choices in this game. Lately I’ve been getting the feeling it would be less frustrating to go back to the simple classes.

Dragon’s Dogma 2 is cool, though there some things I wish were ironed out. Performance and such. Unicorn Overlord is cool, though their choice of releasing anywhere but PC is odd.

It’s definitely a bit, the entire post is nonsense

I love Birthdan Janes work on the acclaimed podcast, Blowbnx

Oh good*, that’s how it was in the first game. I was worried because they did do paid vouchers with no ways to gain them in Monster Hunter Rise.

*Not exactly good as it feels like someone somewhere is getting exploited still but there is relief

Reading some slop right now, character names have changed spellings multiple times, names sometimes get swapped for whole sections of the chapter, and of course the classic mtl pronouns having lots of trouble being correct.

heheheh we got a couple of biaoqing emojis now

Probably puppet legs to clap along as a gag

Me Dragon’s Dogma 2 Also me

I remember listening to the litrpg fantasy series He Who Fights with Monsters and I vividly remember when the author started using “Authoritarian” as a visual aesthetic unironically. Like saying “The costume was more like a uniform, and had authoritarian elements,” or something like that and it was just so… ugh. When the author wasn’t writing about “real world” politics, it was an otherwise interesting read which is saying something about the genre.

I’ve seen the term “Communist successor” thrown around in some translated Chinese webnovels, often to refer to oneself as something like a patriot (though it is often in a comedic context, or bringing up communist ideals to derail a conversations). Maybe this is that term translated a different way?

Fun fact, it was animated by Studio SHAFT, and wasn’t their strongest show but I don’t think they’ve had a great show in a while. Some of the original stuff was fun and they peppered in some Shaftisms, but it was just kind of ok when me and a friend watched it.

Seconding this, I think the Nasuverse is interesting and the things I like about it are the things I like in cultivation fantasy. The things I mostly don’t like about the Nasuverse is stuff like “What if magical historical/literary characters but anime were in a deathmatch?” I think the Fate entries I could bring myself to finish were carried by interesting characters (FS/N VN, Fate/Zero, and uhhh Fate Hollow Ataraxia VN).

By anime standards, it’s fairly unproblematic as others have said. I reaaaaally like the Studio SHAFT aesthetic, and Madoka is a lot of people’s first foray into it. Head tilts, really interesting blocking, wild visual metaphors. It’s a shame that most of their other shows are filled with anime bullshit (except 3-Gatsu my love).

I was literally thinking about AER when I clicked on this thread