off-topic

[lime roost]

https://youtu.be/TPjAsus_bZo?si=_36MGE_DL0MKItBm

[lime roost]

Ima fan of this song tho

[clever sundial]

a lot of yuri banki doujins

theres a really good one of banki x miko

of all things

its funny

miko just

stalks banki

[knotty geode]

miko byakuren overrated

[clever sundial]

miko banki good crackship

[knotty geode]

two characters hate each other in canon:
must be raging lesbians for each other then

weirdest ship i have is kaguya junko

[clever sundial]

https://youtube.com/shorts/EmHGW9OXeGc?si=zCa6F9GyEhKnNRf0

the man

junya "zun" ota

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/bandrinks_sekibankis_dinnertime_drink_situation#2

this is the doujin

theres a sequel too

[lime roost]

I like how most of the touhou girls are human eating yokai and they decide to live among them now because reimu bonked them very hard

[clever sundial]

the th fanbase is a hivemind

we are legion

[knotty geode]

trueeee

[lime roost]

There's no in between

[knotty geode]

most characters i like wouldnt eat me ill be fine

[clever sundial]

my favourite character does not eat people

my second favourite character

c o n s u m e s

[knotty geode]

last time i checked kaguya doesnt eat at all

utsuho... probably wouldnt eat humans either

[clever sundial]

what would utsuho eat

[neon shore]

what uh

[clever sundial]

plutonium isotopes?

[knotty geode]

bird feed

[neon shore]

what are we talking about

[knotty geode]

she probably just eats normal food

[lime roost]

I was trying to be funny but i cant top that

[neon shore]

(I am bored)

[lime roost]

bird feed lol

[clever sundial]

guess who my second favourite th is

[knotty geode]

rumia

[clever sundial]

no

[knotty geode]

yuyuko

[clever sundial]

no

[lime roost]

koishi?

[clever sundial]

no

[knotty geode]

yuuma

[clever sundial]

yes

[lime roost]

https://tenor.com/view/touhou-tewi-2hu-hype-gif-23391433

oh

[clever sundial]

tewi is favourite lol

yuuma second

[lime roost]

I thought reisen was your fav

[knotty geode]

yuuma is funni but i dont really care about her

[clever sundial]

literal oil gremlin

yuuma is an oil gremlin that slav squats

what more can you ask for

[knotty geode]

theres only so many "only a spoonful" and oil jokes you can make

[clever sundial]

only a sporkful

[knotty geode]

with kaguya the antics are endless, especially if moocow is involved

https://tenor.com/view/toutetsu-yuuma-yuuma-toutetsu-flandre-scarlet-flandre-gif-26813545

[lime roost]

AHAHAHAAHAH

idk why its funnier everytime

[knotty geode]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uW1G5pYyFNo

[clever sundial]

spork with jojo menacing

[knotty geode]

wHAT

[lime roost]

did unzan cosplay as marisa again

[clever sundial]

it's 1:34

i have uni

i should sleeo

but

no

my favourite game

is a game

you have never heard of

[knotty geode]

its imperishable night

thats the only correct answer

[lime roost]

Yea

[clever sundial]

its not a 2hu game at all lol

[clever sundial]

my favourite 2hu is 17 btw lol

[knotty geode]

recency bias

[clever sundial]

my second favourite is probably 3 so

not sure about that buh

bub*

[knotty geode]

3 is very based

KOKORO NO NOT THAT MASK

[clever sundial]

3 is the best of the splitscreen games

prove me wrong

[knotty geode]

3 is the best

prove me wrong

[lime roost]

I like Imperishable night, double dealing character and Subterannean animism

anismim ?

[knotty geode]

unfathomly based

[clever sundial]

think my top 3 are 17, 3 and 14 or 15

[knotty geode]

8 and 11 are very closely tied for me

14 also has a ton of good characters

[clever sundial]

anyway my favourite game is a game you have 100% never heard of

[knotty geode]

okay

so why do you like touhou 17

[clever sundial]

idk

i just do

i dont think too deeply about these things

[lime roost]

I hate th 15 because of that fucking clown

[clever sundial]

except for tevi

[knotty geode]

dont tell her to do crime, then shes just gonna do the opposite

[clever sundial]

tevi is a masterpiece

[knotty geode]

no longer based

we stan clownpiece around here

[clever sundial]

crownpiss

[lime roost]

I dont, she ruins my 1cc

[knotty geode]

good

op fairy

[clever sundial]

(tevi is my favourite game btw, im not misspelling tewi)

[lime roost]

https://tenor.com/view/clownpiece-cry-about-it-cry-about-it-gif-14219236091007853236

[clever sundial]

mispelling*

[knotty geode]

ive heard of tewi

(tevi)

[clever sundial]

damn

[clever sundial]

theyve heard of tevi

but have they played tevi

[lime roost]

ohh a side scroller?

[knotty geode]

its so funny to me that a fairy of all characters is like one of the strongest characters in the series

[clever sundial]

metroidvania, yes

[lime roost]

Why is she so fucking hard

[knotty geode]

my favorite game youve definitely never heard of because its a very obscure visual novel

[lime roost]

I have no trouble with hecatia or junko

[knotty geode]

[clever sundial]

umineko

[knotty geode]

nope

[clever sundial]

idfk i dont play vns

[lime roost]

katawa shoujo?

[knotty geode]

nope

[lime roost]

(thats the only vn i play)

[clever sundial]

i played cinderella phenomenon

and dont slay the princess

and ddlc

[lime roost]

i guess if you count ddlc as vn, i dont really go for vn that much

[clever sundial]

thats it

i have to do enough reading for uni

[knotty geode]

imagine how powerful clown would be if she wasnt a fairy

[clever sundial]

aint boutta read a game too

[knotty geode]

she would be unstoppable

gensokyo would be colonised

[clever sundial]

i mean

as it is clownpiece is effectively immortal

so long as nature's power doesn't die she can reincarnate endlessly

[lime roost]

i mean it is based on american flag it self

[knotty geode]

nearly every touhou is immortal

except like

marisa

[lime roost]

I kinda wanna watch KKHTA

I saw the memes and some of the spoilers

[clever sundial]

when you think about the lore the america memes for clownpiece are even funnier because the whole reason for her getup is that she wears it to piss of the lunarians

[knotty geode]

DO NOT

[knotty geode]

good i hate lunarians

[clever sundial]

lunarian supremacy

[lime roost]

No

*pulls out seija's card

[knotty geode]

kkhta is just edgy teenage angst

"what if touhou was unnessisarily gory for no reason"

and its completely ruined koishi as a character

[lime roost]

From the surface, I thought its a story if touhou was real

Like real murderous onis and yokai and shit

[knotty geode]

its koishi kills literally everyone, the animation

[lime roost]

Isnt that what's suppose to happen if her eye opens?

Wait what was the eye suppose to do again

[knotty geode]

no?

the eye lets you see peoples thoughts

[lime roost]

nvm then

[knotty geode]

satori is what happens if the eye opens

[clever sundial]

koishi ascends to a higher plane of existence, becoming a god

[knotty geode]

To escape the fear and hatred which other beings feel towards the satori species, she attempted to destroy her mind-reading ability by closing her Third Eye. However, this had the side effect of sealing away her own conscious mind, causing her to lose all thoughts and motives; she could no longer be hated, but neither could she be loved, or even remembered by people who saw her.

[clever sundial]

in the process, she achieves nirvana and becomes the new buddha

thats my headcanon

[knotty geode]

koishi didnt want to be able to read other peoples thoughts, but in return she lost the ability to think herself

[lime roost]

Speaking of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkIYRK_0EuA

[knotty geode]

shes not even the least bit hostile shes just a dumb kid

[lime roost]

ngl i didnt expect a rythm game

I thought its a sidescroller

[knotty geode]

satori is the better sister anyways

[clever sundial]

counterpoint

[clever sundial]

https://tenor.com/view/touhou-project-dance-touhou-punch-gif-14080990

[knotty geode]

legendary face

[lime roost]

man should i reinstall thlw

[knotty geode]

i should too

[lime roost]

I still dont get the battle mechanics

[clever sundial]

i havent played lw since release

[knotty geode]

i dont either

[lime roost]

I just tap buttons and hope the enemies die faster

[knotty geode]

most of the characters i like arent very good either

[clever sundial]

unrelated

[lime roost]

i bought a costume for hata no kokoro because of my obsession with opera mask

[clever sundial]

either of you fluent in latin

[lime roost]

no

[knotty geode]

no

[clever sundial]

damn

do either of you have the pope's phone number

[knotty geode]

L

[clever sundial]

he'd know latin for sure

[knotty geode]

spending money on gatcha games

[clever sundial]

https://youtu.be/_Kg68TdO_U0?si=CMxFnuhxp51FuKpV tryna find out if this is even in a real language or not

[knotty geode]

wtf miko but male

[lime roost]

I cant help it, its my whole MO

[clever sundial]

huh dad kinda does look like miko but male

[knotty geode]

i forgot LW even had paid outfits

mega cringe, not reinstalling now

[lime roost]

https://tenor.com/view/mc-donalds-smile-thumbs-up-gif-15614677

[knotty geode]

that one saki skin is really good but im not spending money to get it

[clever sundial]

do either of you happen to be knowledgeable about instruments

[knotty geode]

idk if i can even post the art

it doesnt show anything but her thighs but still

this is all you get

[lime roost]

this one?

[knotty geode]

im not risking posting the whole thing with the legs like that

[lime roost]

My reaction:

[knotty geode]

im biased though, saki is like one of the only recent characters i like

shes aya but not obnoxious

[lime roost]

I should play touhou 17 and up

I havent been saving properly

[knotty geode]

you should beat clownpiece!!!

[lime roost]

I uninstalled and burned my old PC that contains TH 15 so no

Ive beatend clownpiece in a cost of a continue

but never again

[lime roost]

I havent 1cc th15 on normal even

[knotty geode]

gosh i love her

[clever sundial]

saki wink

[lime roost]

...

Im thinking

did i forgot putting one of my characters in the dojo

[clever sundial]

did you

[lime roost]

I havent played since 2021

[lime roost]

Fuck

https://tenor.com/view/cat-despair-meme-atone-gif-18083281511005463831

[clever sundial]

i think

youre trying to find an excuse to justify reinstalling the game

[lime roost]

no it just got me thinking

If i want to reinstall i have to get rid of the games i am currently playing

its a heavy no for now

[clever sundial]

i havent played a mobile game since lw release

[lime roost]

I have only 1

and thats FGO

At least i understand the mechanics of fgo

i dont understand shit on th lost word

i tried to learn the type matchups but it gets confusing real fast

[knotty geode]

dont judge me

youve seen that scene in cowboy bebop

[lime roost]

no i wasnt judging you

i just had a thought of if I left a character in the dojo after i uninstalled

[knotty geode]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IQrR21-WeA

[lime roost]

that character mustve be max level now

its been 2 years

[knotty geode]

dont you have to refill the food

[lime roost]

3 if you count that its almost june

[lime roost]

it still levels up just not fast

Has anyone ever upgraded this shit? I sure dont

[clever sundial]

its almost june

bro its january

[knotty geode]

who did you leave in there

[clever sundial]

i maxed it for everyone i used

[knotty geode]

why wouldnt you

its extra stats

[lime roost]

idk i hope i didnt leave anyone

[knotty geode]

i hope you did

[lime roost]

[knotty geode]

i want to see level 100 sunny milk

[lime roost]

The mats seems to be too precious

[knotty geode]

https://tenor.com/view/touhou-touhou-lostword-sunny-milk-jumpscare-gacha-gif-23856310

[lime roost]

the only upgrade i did was limit break

I forgot what characters i have

[knotty geode]

i meant to ask earlier i kinda just assumed

[lime roost]

I have hata no kokoro thats for sure

[knotty geode]

but arent the skins like different forms of the character?

like fate?

or is it like azur lane where its all premium currency

[lime roost]

There are skins, and there are gacha of different forms of the character iirc

[clever sundial]

imma reinstall lw just to see what my account was like lol

[lime roost]

Theres skins for reimu, then theres a separate character of AU reimu for example

The skins are paid, the separate characters are gacha

[knotty geode]

grossssss

[lime roost]

I have hata no kokoro, i have uhh... marisa

yea i forgot most of em

[knotty geode]

remember that time in pcb where marisa got a haircut?

[lime roost]

I have cirno because lol freeze

[clever sundial]

apparently i reached lebel 143

level*

[knotty geode]

143?

bro

go outside...

[lime roost]

Proof or it didnt happen

[clever sundial]

this was when the game released lol

[knotty geode]

thats even worse

[lime roost]

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-well-that-makes-it-even-worse-that-makes-it-worse-that-made-it-worse-it-justs-gets-bad-gif-21662724

[clever sundial]

you'll get your proof soon

[knotty geode]

stupid idiot ghosts

[lime roost]

thats slander

[knotty geode]

its the truth

[clever sundial]

Iirc I found a strat to afk farm the entire game

[lime roost]

[clever sundial]

And that's how I leveled so rapidly

[knotty geode]

raiko is the only cool instrument ghost

[clever sundial]

think i set up a macro

not sure

[knotty geode]

still go outside

[lime roost]

https://tenor.com/view/raiko-horikawa-shinmyoumaru-sukuna-touhou14-touhou-double-dealing-character-gif-25974005

[clever sundial]

i do now

[knotty geode]

bro was grinding 24 hours a day for a year

[clever sundial]

i go to uni lol

[lime roost]

wait has it been like azurlane from the beginning?

[clever sundial]

think so

speaking of i also played al when that first released in en

[lime roost]

wth

[clever sundial]

played for 3 years straight

[lime roost]

I played azurlane then my facebook alt got deleted, so does my main account

never play azurlane again

[knotty geode]

ive got like 3 azur lane accounts

[clever sundial]

why do mobile games always take an eternity to download

[knotty geode]

none of them are really good

my highest level account was like 80ish i think

[clever sundial]

think i was level 130ish in al

[knotty geode]

and id always miss events that add meta characters

[lime roost]

[knotty geode]

i mean meta as in good not as in the "meta" ships

[lime roost]

how the hell do you level up so fast?!

[knotty geode]

bro is cracked

[clever sundial]

never bothered with meta, game was easy as shit anyway

[clever sundial]

that was over the course of 3 years

[knotty geode]

no it wasnt???

i had a full meta team and struggled with w12

[clever sundial]

i could just auto battle everything

[lime roost]

i forgot the levels in al

[knotty geode]

auto battle doesnt mean easy

[lime roost]

I guess i never got that far

I remember my favorite was a british ship

lemme look it up

[clever sundial]

i remember when al used to be capped to 30 fps

[lime roost]

i cant find it

[knotty geode]

my favorite british ship is a dead one

hms sucks

[lime roost]

Its a british battleship with 3x 2 barrelled guns

I remember making a replica of it from cardboard

[knotty geode]

its probably perseus or something

[lime roost]

got scrapped cuz flood

[knotty geode]

stupid meta ship

[lime roost]

it was an early game ship tho

[knotty geode]

hood?

[lime roost]

The meta back then was tirpitz

[lime roost]

no

[knotty geode]

hoods like the only decent early game hms

repulse?

if its repulse shes really bad

[lime roost]

AH YES THATS IT

[knotty geode]

long island atleast has a retrofit

plus shes super cute so shes immune to critisism

[lime roost]

Man that was my favorite ship

i dont really care about the meta

Same with fgo, i just use the servants i like

[knotty geode]

based

world 11 on didnt really let me use who i liked

i was so determined to keep the akaga team going

[lime roost]

I lost my account because my facebook account got deleted in accusal of being bot

[knotty geode]

i just linked to email

[lime roost]

to be fair, i did specifically make that facebook account for games

a total of 3 accounts lost because of that

[knotty geode]

im gonna try to redownload AL for now

[lime roost]

and i never played azurlane since

[knotty geode]

might delete once LLSIF2 comes out

[lime roost]

Because i cant stand the thought of losing my progress

[knotty geode]

i like starting over sometimes

thats why i had three accounts

[lime roost]

call me a simp, the only reason i played azurlane was because of how much i invested in repulse

[knotty geode]

main account was for pure collection, other two are for hoarding gems

[lime roost]

but that was 2018

[knotty geode]

have you seen QE meta?

she got a major buff in the looks department

[lime roost]

QE?

[knotty geode]

queen elizibeth

hms flagship loli

[lime roost]

i havent been updated to azurlane

[knotty geode]

shes been in the game since launch tho

the non meta version i mean

[lime roost]

I didnt know the slang

[knotty geode]

regular version

meh

[lime roost]

and I didnt know any updates of her

[knotty geode]

what a glow up though

[lime roost]

i mean ffs the last time i played is when tirpitz got released

[knotty geode]

i stopped when they added bismark 2

[lime roost]

tf bismark 2?

[knotty geode]

this mf ate 300 cubes

and i still never got her

[lime roost]

what in the mother of

yea its hard to just start a new account at this point

i'll just get overwhelmed

the other two accounts i also lost, but i started a new game for both of them

[knotty geode]

older ships get added to gatcha eventually

its not worth pulling unless theres an event though

[lime roost]

but man i dont think i can live with the fact that i lost repulse

[knotty geode]

you can get another

the game literally gives her to you

[clever sundial]

@knotty geode @lime roost yready

[lime roost]

https://tenor.com/view/mc-donalds-smile-thumbs-up-gif-15614677

[knotty geode]

no

[clever sundial]

This is my lw account

[lime roost]

time to clown on you

[knotty geode]

OUTSIDE

NOW

[clever sundial]

It's 2:39

[knotty geode]

WHY

[clever sundial]

I like the three fairies thank you very much

[knotty geode]

bro really leveled sunny to 100 😭

[lime roost]

shit i dont think i have ever maxed out any of my characters

Even hata no kokoro i think she was on level 60

thats the highest

[knotty geode]

my highest level was like 20

[lime roost]

Raise a unit to level 10 my ass

[clever sundial]

13681:28:00

[lime roost]

I told you the dojo still gives you exp

[clever sundial]

570 days ago lol

[knotty geode]

daiyousei how how tf did you eat so much

[lime roost]

cirno influenced her

[clever sundial]

God I have so many resources

[lime roost]

MF you got multiple skins and character variants and shit

[knotty geode]

it looks like he likes youmu

[clever sundial]

Nah Youmu was just cracked as shit

Like the most broken unit when she released

[knotty geode]

i dont remember what server i had my accounts on

i know i have an amagi account

[clever sundial]

Also tbf a lot of the skins I have are event skins

I would always completely wipe the event shops

[knotty geode]

with real money.???

why

[clever sundial]

No?

Event shops are free

Just grind for them

[lime roost]

event shops dont require real money

[knotty geode]

i thought you said outfits cost money?

[lime roost]

i just got greedy on that hata no kokoro skin

[lime roost]

some do some dont some you can just save up your free gems to buy one iirc

[knotty geode]

oh

[clever sundial]

This is my team

[knotty geode]

i wonder if i could get enough f2p gems for that saki

[lime roost]

42690 nice

420 and 69 (almost)

fucking hell my boy stacking on resources

[clever sundial]

You get way more resources than you can ever use

If you grinded events like I did

[lime roost]

damn

[knotty geode]

it might have deleted my accounts

[lime roost]

lol

[knotty geode]

yep nothing on amagi

[lime roost]

Welcome to the "I lost everything" gang

[knotty geode]

nope

i refuse

we are so back

[clever sundial]

Should I do some pulls?

I have enough for 80

[knotty geode]

i havent played in 200 days on my alt

[lime roost]

[knotty geode]

the amagi account is probably even longer

wait for an event before pulling

[lime roost]

whats the rate up currently?

[knotty geode]

wait wtf i have level 100s on my lexington account?

[clever sundial]

L80 Reimu

[knotty geode]

man i was cookin hard

[lime roost]

no probably

[knotty geode]

got a maxed out bismark 2 with a ur gun

graf zeppelin

[lime roost]

[knotty geode]

unicorn retrofit

because i didnt have enough kms ships apparently

portland retrofit (same reason)

[lime roost]

I think i'll just buy deadcells

[knotty geode]

otto von alvensleben

and regensburg

[clever sundial]

I had 9 guaranteed pull tokens

This is what I got

[knotty geode]

yoooo

yuugi

[lime roost]

https://tenor.com/view/touhou-project-dance-touhou-punch-gif-14080990

[knotty geode]

you are not immune to alcoholic cougars

[lime roost]

yknow how a lot of gacha games tend to give returning players lots of resources during any of their aniv/new years?

[clever sundial]

This is a skin I bought

[knotty geode]

why

[lime roost]

Ima just wait till next ear to open my accounts back

[clever sundial]

Because I like it

[knotty geode]

its not even that good

its just sakuya but blue and with a hat

[lime roost]

Sometimes you dont question what people do for their waifus

[clever sundial]

Sakuya isn't even a character I like that much

I just like the skin

[knotty geode]

sakuya is just worse yumeko

[lime roost]

My God it gets worse

[knotty geode]

who needs throwing knives when you can use whole swords

[lime roost]

LOL

[clever sundial]

Anyway now to uninstall LW

[lime roost]

https://tenor.com/view/mc-donalds-smile-thumbs-up-gif-15614677

just claim the returning players rewards and leave again

[clever sundial]

I did

Also swapped out my dojo lol

[lime roost]

[clever sundial]

Next year I'll have another 5 capped characters to go along with my 60 or so already

Anyway I'm off bye

[knotty geode]

you should download azur lane

[wicked crag]

A grown-up iPad child

[lime roost]

why

[knotty geode]

it good

good rates and decent gameplay

a rarity in gatcha games

it does have an auto mode though if you wanna just do that

[knotty geode]

wtf i missed a senran kagura event???

oh nvm its kinda mid choices

murasaki is the only one i really care about out of those and shes just budget hex maniac

[lime roost]

lol

[knotty geode]

wheres my girl katsuragi

https://tenor.com/view/senran-kagura-katsuragi-my-beloved-gif-27432644

everyones favorite perverted lesbian

[wicked crag]

How do you guys think the live action ATLA series will be?

[tropic idol]

interesting

See if the cg holds up

[river pewter]

Is it a show or a movie

[wicked crag]

A show I believe

[twin oyster]

I know i am a bit late but i was asleep at that time so gray bread

[fallen lion]

boop

[severe fiber]

boop

https://tenor.com/view/doggo-boop-gif-22290017

[river pewter]

I love cats

[summer matrix]

I love cats and dogs

[prime badge]

so it begins

[twin oyster]

Same but cats more

[fallen lion]

im about to make my pal world world and i need a fucked up name for it 😂

[static bolt]

nonPokemonCopy

[fallen lion]

well the auto generated name is palpagos islands and i kinda wanna keep the island part in the world name

[severe fiber]

slave island

[static bolt]

nonPokemon island xD

[crimson chasm]

Anti-Peta Island

[fallen lion]

PETA island?

[unborn tundra]

Right violations island

[crimson chasm]

Geneba Convention Island

[fallen lion]

did u know that PETA actually did a review and the only thing they objected was eating the pals 😂

[old inlet]

The 1800's

[fallen lion]

PETA be like
animal and human slavory : meh
eating a animal:

[severe fiber]

they didnt even say anything about enslaving them?

[fallen lion]

nope

[severe fiber]

💀

[crimson chasm]

Lmao

[fallen lion]

well i plan on naming my guild geneva suggestion 😂

or maybe geneva's checklist

[crimson chasm]

This sounds better lol

[fallen lion]

i might do PETA's island unless yall can think of smth better

[crimson chasm]

Duuuude

[fallen lion]

what

[crimson chasm]

Geneva's Checklist ruling PETA's Island sounds rad lol

[fallen lion]

rulong?

ohhh

bet imma do it if u got the game u can join me if u want

[crimson chasm]

I'm considering purchasing it, so most likely I'll be joining

[fallen lion]

hell yeah

im new af to pc gaming so im not gonna be the best lol might use my old xbox360 controller

[crimson chasm]

I'm very casual when it comes to PC gaming lol

[fallen lion]

yay team noob

[severe fiber]

i am a semi hardcore pc gamer

[fallen lion]

u got the game?

[severe fiber]

nope

i dont like games like palworld that much

[crimson chasm]

Wdym? Its basically Pokemon, but more violent... And with guns... And you train your slaves to use those guns!

[severe fiber]

i dont like survival games i mean

[gleaming willow]

SHHHHH!!!!!!!! You're not supposed to call them slaves

[severe fiber]

only survival games i played was terraria and minecraft

[crimson chasm]

Oh shit!

[crimson chasm]

Well, Terraria is awsome, not gonna lie

[severe fiber]

terraria is one of the games of all time

[crimson chasm]

Hell yeah

[fallen lion]

okay so i tweaked with the world settings a little and i think ive got something that should be good since im new to pc

u wanna see the settings

idk if this is balanced or anything i got most of the changes from a tiktok on what they recommend and one or two settings i wanted to do myself

[twin oyster]

I am so conflicted

[manic birch]

Hey. Is anyone else highly suspicious of the medical community?

[twin oyster]

Medical?

[manic birch]

Yeah.

[steep glacier]

Not particularly.

A doc never done me any wrong.

[twin oyster]

Why should i?

[manic birch]

In America our medical community is infamous for forced sterilization of Native Americans and Black people

In Germany they did the same to the Jews.

I don’t know why some people trust the medical community as a whole completely.

[steep glacier]

Gonna go ahead and remind you of the no-politics rule right now. Conspiracy theories are a powder keg that do not belong on a public server.

[twin oyster]

Ngl it feels like a conspiracy theory

So i am going to avoid it

[steep glacier]

It is. A thoroughly debunked one, at that.

[twin oyster]

Anyway

The thing is

In one way i want to buy palword to play with my gf on the other I really don't like the devs

[steep glacier]

Both valid sentiments.

Personally, I’m avoiding Palworld both because it’s a soulless mishmash of whatever three genres of game are popular right now with straight plagiarism in its visuals, and also because bandwagon communities like it has are disgusting most of the time

[twin oyster]

I mean she got it for free so i can understand why she plays it but i didn't have the luck and would need to give them almost 30€ for that

[steep glacier]

I did promise a friend that if the devs were to remake every asset with actually original designs that they came up with I’d ply it with them. Fat chance of that, though.

[fallen lion]

well ive been waiting for it for ages since it came out and im really excited to see how well it does but i get ur reasons

[steep glacier]

I was excited too. Creature battler games desperately need innovation. Stagnant since Spectrobes fell off, back when the Wii was a thing. But Palworld ain’t it. It’s just Ark gameplay with half-assed Factorio mechanics and shameless rip-offs of characters from like seven franchises. Palworld is not the “innovation” the genre needs.

Which is frankly a shame. If it weren’t for the probably-legally-considered-asset-theft in the critters, I’d probably forgive the rest.

[twin oyster]

The price is a bit high and the sale being just a few bucks makes me want to believe that they knew how controversial it will be and just wanted to make money asap

[steep glacier]

The plagiarism is mostly an issue to me because it makes the awful intentions behind the game painfully obvious. Just a cash grab, no interest in polishing or further developing it.

[crimson chasm]

Oooh looks nice, my potato could handle this

[twin oyster]

Idc if people like it and want to play you do you i myself am conflicted and don't want to make people believe that you can get a quick buck with this

[steep glacier]

Random thought: If you were to load an M32 grenade launcher with rubber rounds, would it be lethal?

Like, that’d be probably like hitting someone with a can of soda launched from a gun right?

[fallen lion]

at least a hospital visit

def smth broken

[steep glacier]

Definitely would cause a very concerning bruise/welt at minimum. ‘Spose it probably depends on distance largely

Projectile that big bleeds a lot of energy in flight

Point blank? Definitely lethal lol

[fallen lion]

like if that hit u in the gut obvi ur puking ur guts and prob a brused rib

[twin oyster]

Sounds horrible

[steep glacier]

I wonder if rubber snake shot would be functionally different

Like, regular snakeshot isn’t very dangerous, and a rubber version would have such small pellets anyway that they’d probably pierce similarly

[vernal epoch]

Let's play the Telephone Game together! https://garticphone.com/en/?c=022086bddc

[thorn gull]

anyone know, by chance, what the name of the doctor who fuses himself with a rhydon?

[fallen lion]

HUH!?

ohhhh nvm i read that as dr who as in the show

its a basic ass name but i cant remeber what is it

[clever sundial]

guys name is bill btw

dunno if hes considered a doctor though

dont think he is?

dude has a full name in jp

hes an inventor it seems

so an entrepreneur ig

[severe fiber]

didnt he introduce himself? i guess not..

[thorn gull]

I have not done a new playthrough in like, a few months

[thorn gull]

oh, thank you!!

[severe fiber]

👍

btw have you watched or played the kanto games? remake or not

[thorn gull]

I've seen a few gen 1 playthroughs, only kinda gen one game I've played all the way through was IF, so I get the story overall

[clever sundial]

tbf not like the story is particularly complicated

kid goes on journey to kill other kids pets

the mob is stealing pets

kid beats them up

[thorn gull]

yeah ik

[rotund ridge]

Cover for sma:tmnt issue 13

[prime badge]

breeding program successful

[wooden stone]

What's the gameplay like for breeding since you shove two mons in a box and call it good

[prime badge]

wierdly complex if you are cross breeding 2 different mons

if you arent, its simply wait until rng gives you the right combo of perks from the parents

for crossbreeding though, every pal has a hidden value, the parents value determine what the child egg will be

[wooden stone]

Interesting

That's a neat but complex way of doing that

[prime badge]

yeah theres a great spreadsheet for calcing a lot of stuff on it

[wooden stone]

Oh yes a spreadsheet

[prime badge]

xD

so i can seelct what pal i want and see the combinations

[wooden stone]

Wow

That's an well put together spreadsheet

[prime badge]

really solid yeah

[wooden stone]

Have you been enjoying the game

[prime badge]

really enjoying it yeah

[wooden stone]

I've looked at it but can't bring myself to get it

[prime badge]

obvious knock of of many games

actually fun though

[wooden stone]

Well it shows that it's a knock off but it's cool knowing it's fun

[prime badge]

its a very survival game gameplay loop, gather, blevel up, expand base with the new things from leveling up

adventure, catch pals, stick em in your base

its basic, but its just a good blend of a lot of things

if they dont get assassinated by nintendo, be interested to see where it goes

[wooden stone]

Same I'm intrigued but also expecting it to vanish

[loud sun]

well pocket pals better start putting effort into the pal designs because...

[wooden stone]

Oh boy

[prime badge]

yeah saw it earlier, could get spicy

[loud sun]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWw3OfUiloI

[prime badge]

will have a watch later! on a meeting atm 😄

looking at the thumbnail though, expecting it to be a fun watch

[manic birch]

Palworld looks like slop with gacha-mechanics

[twin oyster]

If it was with gacha therefore for free i would play it

[loud sun]

Can anyone tell me the plot of palworld?

[twin oyster]

I don't think it has one

As far as i saw and how no one talks about it

[prime badge]

there are journal entries i havent read which may give some indication, and the game from the start gives you a destination to go towards, otherwise not much in that department

[manic birch]

whenever did pokemon have a coherent plot as of late?

[muted sparrow]

pokemon has always had a plot

[manic birch]

"coherent plot"

[loud sun]

bro have you even played the games?

[neon shore]

We should sue nature

[manic birch]

until usum, and even their plots felt unpolished

[neon shore]

Uh idk enslave animals or smthn

[manic birch]

they just threw in the ultra recon squad without really putting in more effort in their storylines

[loud sun]

oh, so you haven't played sword and shield and scarlet and violet

[manic birch]

nope

are they better than usum plotwise?

[loud sun]

yes scarlet and violet is better plotwise than usum

[manic birch]

oh, well thats at least good

[loud sun]

i mean, suing god is possible

[twin oyster]

Nice strawman

[loud sun]

...unless what you said was a joke, then in that case.... sorry bout that

[twin oyster]

Not really just someone who takes stuff seriously

It's the thing that some actually argue like that is what baffles me

[loud sun]

dude I had to fight some palworld defenders two days ago

i didn't do so hot either, but at least I knew what parody is.

[twin oyster]

I read that made me rage very hard

Tried to not give my two cents

[loud sun]

Hell, I even tried to show the more blatant examples, and they said I was cherry picking
dude those examples don't even scratch the surface

[twin oyster]

My favorite parody cost 30 bucks

[loud sun]

my favorite parody is free on youtube

[twin oyster]

Plus they don't claim to own their designs

I also "loved" how they criticized you because you make here sprites

While the game says that all rights are own from gamefreak and nintendo respectively

And it is for free

[loud sun]

yeah it's a freaking leap

feels like a logical fallacy

[twin oyster]

Okay a game never claiming to be it's own thing just a nice fangame people enjoy and let other people get out their creativity should stay silent about a game from a company that uses ai and act like it's own original idea

[loud sun]

and even if the company didn't use ai, the fact that they half-assed what is essentially not a bad idea for a game and just copied pokemon and ark's homework without putting their unique spin on said homework kinda gives games like that a bad name

[twin oyster]

They are the can i copy your homework meme

And we never criticize the concept

Froslass blizzaria

Same concept way different designs

[loud sun]

The Hasty Generalization Fallacy in effect

[twin oyster]

Gamefreak has a zero crunch policy

[loud sun]

honestly that was my bad

[twin oyster]

It's not a well known fact

Especially if we are talking about japan here

[rancid bison]

TLDR; Shut the fuck up

[loud sun]

I think I've should've said "even if they were triple a, they are still indie and a little behind the times"

[loud sun]

oh would you look at that
the defender decided to come back.

[rancid bison]

[twin oyster]

I mean it was just a matter of time

[loud sun]

dude I don't have time to argue with your ass

have fun starving for attention

[rancid bison]

They are based off the same yokai/legend/mythical creature or whatever you want to refer to it as

[twin oyster]

Yokai correct

[rancid bison]

It very interesting to see the differences between YKW and PKMN

[twin oyster]

And yeah but there is a difference between 1 to 1 using the same design

Or the same concept

[rancid bison]

Same idea

Same source of inspiration

[twin oyster]

I mean pokemon uses more ideas for their designs

[rancid bison]

Yeah

Yokai Watch is a bit more direct

Nothing wrong with that but theres a yokai thats just a shoe with limbs

[twin oyster]

Yeah because they are just focused on yokais

[twin oyster]

Did you ever took the time to look up some yokais

[rancid bison]

Now that i look at it

Kutusutura and Nekidspeed look very similar

I can somewhat see it

Pittapat is one of the more obvious ones

[twin oyster]

They are more let just say child friendly versions

[rancid bison]

Yeah you could say that

No child abondaning (changelings) only silly red cat

Oddly Pokemon seems quite different

Theyre totally fine with referencing darker folktales

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changeling

Like this is just Impidimp

[twin oyster]

You sure?

[rancid bison]

Anyways

[twin oyster]

It's name is toiletta

[rancid bison]

I gonna assume Toiletta is referencing Anabell

[twin oyster]

?

[rancid bison]

Have you ever played Anabell

You stand in a restroom with the lights off and say her name three times

[wooden stone]

Dawg what

[twin oyster]

It's more hanako

[rancid bison]

Oh oops Bloody Mary not anabel

[twin oyster]

Even in the anime it's more based on hanako

[wooden stone]

I'm just impressed on how long this has been going on for

[twin oyster]

Because it's a yokai nothing western inspired

[rancid bison]

The Palworld yap?

[wooden stone]

Yes

[rancid bison]

Alright might just be a thing they added when localizing it

Christ i can not spell today

[frail pawn]

im not sure cuz time manegmant and beeing a casual if palworld is a game for me im bad at defending and building a good base

[rancid bison]

I guess its a really constroversal game (its just been one person complaning about it)

[twin oyster]

What

[rancid bison]

I mean minecraft is kinda the same

[twin oyster]

More but hey

[rancid bison]

If you dont want to deal with hostile mobs you only have 10 irl minutes to play

[twin oyster]

I just try to change the subject because how i read it you are pretty butt hurt when someone criticizes it

[loud sun]

have you been living under a rock?

[rancid bison]

Not really

[loud sun]

because it's not just me complaining/critizing about the game

its a butt ton of humans.

[twin oyster]

They really don't want to see my chats with my gf about it

Or my other friends

[rancid bison]

The game its self is fine, the design are very constroversial

Too be a bit more judgeful the models look like theyre from Birthdays to the Beginnings

[loud sun]

you capture humans without consequence, even though the game's lore states that it is illegal

[loud sun]

Birthdays to the Beginnings?

[twin oyster]

The incoherent models

[rancid bison]

Undrelated please check out this gsme

[twin oyster]

It's kinda trash

And i can say it

I bought it

And played it on my ps4 while it was almost for free

[rancid bison]

The models do feel out of place in Palworld

Even SV changed the models to fit the setting

[loud sun]

not to mention that the fur textures are awful

[twin oyster]

Or sometimes missing

[rancid bison]

Well again to be a bit leanent here the game is in early acsess

[twin oyster]

The early access hell

[rancid bison]

(Hopefully not forever)

[frail pawn]

i wait until i got time or there are more customizable options

[rancid bison]

For what

Cause with your character its like Skyrim or Cyberpunk where you can change a lot pf stuff aboutnyour charactee

[twin oyster]

Eh i played games with better character creator then these two

[loud sun]

yeah, keep telling yourself that.

[rancid bison]

I mean you do have accounts sales and reviews and stuff

[wooden stone]

Boo-whomp forgotten game

[rancid bison]

I know if i had an early acsess game and it did terribly i would give up on it

And not give it a full release

[fair tapir]

They had two when they made palworld.

[twin oyster]

Until recently they just had positive reviews

Idk what you are trying to say

[frail pawn]

im not convienced yet but i may gonna test it

[twin oyster]

Ngl i never heard about their last two and i heard about craftopia first when i read a negative review talking about it

[fair tapir]

This is a company that can hardly do the bare minimum. Hell, palworld doesn't even have a soundtrack. Probably because they don't believe in hiring anyone with creative abilities.

[rancid bison]

I say just give it atleast 6 months and i think every thing will clear up (hopefully) but Pocket Pair is a farely new companynandnthere track record is non excistent

[twin oyster]

WAIT

WHAT

[rancid bison]

I can understand the designs where made by ai theory cause they have made a game that uses AI (AI art imposter)

[twin oyster]

WHAT AM I BUYING HERE THEN????

[loud sun]

fair point

[rancid bison]

An early acsess game

[loud sun]

for an early access game, I expect it to be free

[rancid bison]

[fair tapir]

Their track record is
Ai art game
Bad card game
Indie survival sandbox that's copying breath of the wild
Indie survival sandbox that's stealing from pokemon
Hollow knight ripoff (unreleased)

[twin oyster]

That's the 6 extra bucks for the soundtrack

[loud sun]

' smacks popcorn out of your hands '

[rancid bison]

[rancid bison]

(Yeah that is very skummy)

[loud sun]

wait.... the soundtrack is freaking dlc?

[twin oyster]

No wonder i can't pre listen to it

[loud sun]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRHbhU03QjI&pp=ygUTcGFsd29ybGQgc291bmR0cmFjaw%3D%3D
no need.
someone already got the thing posted to youtube

[rancid bison]

But yeah i am still willing to bite when/if the game comes into full acsess, even with its glarring flaws. Ark with pokemon like creatures is a very VERY ridiculous concept and not even the Pokemon Mod for Ark seems to scratch that itch

[twin oyster]

You mean the payed mod

[loud sun]

they still need to get through the plagiarism allegations first

[twin oyster]

Where it's creator now acts all butt hurt about it

[loud sun]

well now I see why nintendo and pokemon had to slam the ban hammer

who puts a mod with a pricetag?

[twin oyster]

And now he acts all whiny about it X3

[fair tapir]

Bethesda

[loud sun]

that seems pretty shitty

[rancid bison]

Give it a couple of months, people will be done with the honey moon phase and then the cracks will show themself to more people

[loud sun]

bethesda makes mods?

[rancid bison]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[wooden stone]

Haha

[loud sun]

i think the correct term is "required dlc"

[rancid bison]

Pokemon is too big to give a shit about Palworld

[rancid bison]

Truuuuuu

[fair tapir]

Reminder that japan doesn't have the same fair use laws as the west. Copyright is more serious there.

[rancid bison]

Yeah Japan is very laxed

Great example Jojo's Bizzare Adventure

In JJBA there are these things called Stands and nearly all of them have a reference to a western song or album

[loud sun]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2zi7XD8how

[rancid bison]

Stone Free --> Stone Ocean

[loud sun]

that's localization for ya.

[fair tapir]

Also the bethesda comment is referring to their attempt to mess with the skyrim workshop and later the creation club

[rancid bison]

Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap ---> Flithy Acts at a reasonible Price

[loud sun]

oh man i forgot about that snafu

[frail pawn]

https://tenor.com/view/neuro-sama-ai-vtuber-yup-uh-huh-gif-507006146594505608

[loud sun]

or D4C

[twin oyster]

Japan doesn't like mods

Idk why

[frail pawn]

every country have its quirk and is somewhat quastionable

[rancid bison]

Yeah

[twin oyster]

I want to make a joke that isn't allowed here but i won't do it

[rancid bison]

Like fun fact Golden Exprience a stand named after a Prince Album was why a Jojo game was unable to be localized for the West cause Prince's legal team threw a fit

[wooden stone]

Smart

[wooden stone]

^

[twin oyster]

Hm?

[fair tapir]

Eh, I'd say it's one thing for an eastern property to refrence something from the west. And a whole other thing for an eastern company to commit actual asset theft from not just another eastern company, but quite literally one of the biggest eastern properties overall

[loud sun]

oh god you can even pet them

.....

[twin oyster]

:3

I like that

[frail pawn]

huh

[twin oyster]

What is it weird that i like pet?

[wooden stone]

No

[loud sun]

WOW you are innocent.

[wooden stone]

But it was an odd move to allow the capturing of humans

[loud sun]

especially since in the lore, it is ILLEGAL

[twin oyster]

Heck i am not innocent at all

[wooden stone]

Yeah that's wild

[fair tapir]

The humans are probably just built on the same base as pals and they just decided not to tick the box

[loud sun]

and there are no consequences of doing so!

[wooden stone]

I hope so

[frail pawn]

oh that what i was thinking petting captured humans i mean idk if patting a person is weird

[wooden stone]

That's baffling

[fair tapir]

Half that game's text is probably just chatgpt anyway

[dusky sundial]

What is the law gonna do about it? Use a gun?🤨

[wooden stone]

Yes

[twin oyster]

XD

[loud sun]

revoke your rights to use balls

[twin oyster]

Put you in jail

[dusky sundial]

Then get killed by a monster?🤔

[frail pawn]

xd i just checked my switch and magikarp is in unite

[twin oyster]

Lol

[twin oyster]

Legends arceus be like

[frail pawn]

but can you catch the bad guys cuz i know what i do to the bad guys

[wooden stone]

That is impressive congrats magikarp

[wooden stone]

Fun game imo

[loud sun]

you see, if this game was a parody like many people defend it as, the creators would've thought of giving the player a punishment for putting a human in a ball
like, the milisecond the ball detects that it has a human in it it would probably release a signal and sic an overpowered dude on you that you can't defeat

...but nahhhh that would be too much effort

and these guys are doing the bare minimum

[twin oyster]

Ball explodes

[frail pawn]

why no a pmd like kecleon

[dusky sundial]

Only made to spite Nintendo

[twin oyster]

Ahhh that's why taking stuff from breath of the wild

[frail pawn]

i hate kecleon in pmd

[twin oyster]

Ngl not a great move no matter what

[gleaming willow]

So what you're saying is, you like stealing

[frail pawn]

depends on dem apples

and i took me long enough to recruit him

but like i say would be funny if pal world has a kecleon like enemy with op stats if u steal stuff or catch a human

[fair tapir]

Nah, too much work for a small indie dev to do anything interesting

[twin oyster]

I just wanted to say something similar X3

[fair tapir]

Besides, they've already moved on to copying another indie dev already, being Team Cherry.

[wooden stone]

Elaborate

[fair tapir]

Look up 'palworld hollow knight'

[frail pawn]

oh boy hope its not another craftopia situation beeing stuck in purgatory

[wooden stone]

I looked it up and wow just wow

[dusky sundial]

I heard that the reason the the pals in pal world look similar to Pokémon is because Pokémon took all ideas which is so dumb because I made my own fakemon. They are just lazy

[fair tapir]

Their style feels like 'take ideas from big game. Release early access, pretend to support for years while just making it a dumping ground for random halfbaked concept'

[wooden stone]

Sadge

[fair tapir]

Let me guess, they're talking about the Dragonquest thing

[frail pawn]

imagine beeing years out and still beeing early accees

[fair tapir]

I've seen people make actual pokemon look less like pokemon then pals do

[twin oyster]

It's like the steam green light situation

[dusky sundial]

Nah saw a short which was giving a explanation to why pals look similar to Pokémon and their explanation sucks because I bet the creators of pal world are at least double my age and I could make my own fakemon

[twin oyster]

Most shorts use strawmans and i don't get why

Like come on if it was for free and on mobile people would slash it in the air

[fair tapir]

gestures at all the other creature catching games, like cassette beasts, monster hunter, and dragon quest

[gleaming willow]

dragon quest just had a spin off

[twin oyster]

I played lots and lots of hours in that spin off

And the only one i played because i love monster catchers

[frail pawn]

yeah the dark prince or something

[twin oyster]

That's why i am so conflicted in palworld like heck there were almost no monster catcher i dislike and i can remember even defending some when they were down right bad

Like copy cats always existed why are people now acting like this just because it cost 30 bucks?

[fair tapir]

Palworld would be servicable if not for blatent theft. As is if i wanted a creature catching game with questionable ethics, I'll just stick to rimworld with the pokerim mod

[twin oyster]

And if we talk about parody isn't something like Pokemon clover on that level

(Btw it's still free)

[dusky sundial]

Tell me they don’t give off the same kind of feel

One is ai both might be ai

[twin oyster]

They do and i can remember the right being an ai Video

If i am not wrong

[dusky sundial]

It is true7green(prob got his name wrong)

[twin oyster]

I also recently saw how people say palworld is only bad because of the "haters"

[frail pawn]

now i want pokemon rusty as a game or a game where u play peanutbutter

[dusky sundial]

I don’t know I heard it’s a good game but I can’t respect them for most likely telling an ai to combine two Pokémon or stealing models and making them look a bit different

[fair tapir]

(Why not both!)

[wooden stone]

Yeah why not

[dusky sundial]

Sorry meant they were doing both

Like one of them look like staraptor with braverys body

[wooden stone]

It really does seem like they said hey AI give me two pokemon to fuse

And then made a weird model based off of the pokemon that were chosen

[fair tapir]

Considering the ceo quite literally tweeted about how good ai is at making fake pokemon

[wooden stone]

Wow that's crazy

Laziness at its finest to say that

[dusky sundial]

Makes me so upset because if Gamefreak cares about anything it is the design of their characters

[wooden stone]

Yeah

So this is just an insult in my eyes at least

[dusky sundial]

It’s just a big middle finger in my book

[fair tapir]

Gotta be good enough to be merchandiseable afterall

[dusky sundial]

And still only use pikachu and charzard

[wooden stone]

Hey guess what it sells so...

If it works don't change it

[dusky sundial]

I mean I still love both of them

So I find it ok

[wooden stone]

Exactly

[loud sun]

oh so are we gonna forget that the eeveelutions, greninja, and mewtwo exist?

[wooden stone]

Uhhhhhh no

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