Melancholic

Fuck my life...

• 22nd of April: after years of making do with a barely working machine I finally get to order a new PC!
  
• It'll take the store two weeks to receive all the components and assemble the thing for me (I'm lazy/inept).
  
• Three weeks later when I call them for a status update they suddenly realize they somehow forgot to order the case I wanted. I tell them the case doesn't matter to me as long as it's decent, so they go ahead and order a different one that will take them two additional weeks to get regardless.
  
• After over a month the PC is finally finished. When I plug it in the keyboard and mouse are electrified!
  
• I take the PC along with said keyboard and mouse back to the store. In two days of testing they can't find a single problem and seem to believe I'm imagining things.
  
• Back home I test the PC with a wide variety of electrical sockets and cables, in different rooms and with all conceivable configurations of peripherals to eliminate them one by one. In the process I get minor electrical burns on my hands and feet and one of the harddrives dies presumably from being electrocuted. Nothing I do makes a difference.
  
• Back at the store they don't have a clue why the problem is happening and promise to send a mechanic my way, free of charge. ETA: 5 days.
  
• A week later I'm on the phone with them again. They forgot to actually plan me into the mechanic's schedule and tell me to wait until next Thursday.

The kicker is this store is somehow renowned for its amazing service!

Despite calls for manga imagery to be included in the new rules, there has been strong resistance from manga artists, free-speech advocates and publishers, who said it would impinge on freedom of expression and allow authorities to make arbitrary decisions about art.

Dangerous.

Of course I'm all for this law in its current form, and glad they seem able to make a distinction between reality and fiction (unlike some governments) but I'm still more worried for my lolis than I've ever been since there are apparently groups actively campaigning against them...

All the angry commenters calling for a ban on anime and manga across a variety of news sources aren't helping.

Edit:

Somehow missed:

The bill will replace the previously proposed child pornography bill that included instructions to investigate pornography in manga and anime.

I ordered a new PC. One whole month and countless delays later, the company is not answering their phone (or my e-mails) on the day it was supposed to finally be ready.

I am displeased!

I recommend J-List on the basis that the owner writes the best, most informative newsletters in the world.

Eiyuu Senki

PS3 version

no +18 version, only all-ages

Let me guess: they'll send cease and desist orders to anyone translating the full version?

How does one sell out the entire first printing of their game in under an hour and NOT have it leaked onto the internet several hours later? Less playing and more uploading, Japan.

Well, Kamidori had no story whatsoever

... I really hope we get another properly translated Eushully game at some point. They're so good...

I thought we created marriage as a means to ensure people still have someone to feed off of after they've grown too old, infertile and ugly to entice a partner through natural means.

I'm just an idiot though.

Madoka Movie 3 was fantastic until that happened, and now I'm in a confusing place between loving and hating it. :

http://i.imgur.com/Xc7cwGt.png

Artwork by ke-ta, master of lesbian touhous.

"Windows 98?!!" No.

Fortune Summoners is so good. It's like a mix of K-ON! and Zelda II, with a surprisingly deep combat system and really pretty pixel art. Amazingly everything except a couple of CGs was made by one man.

One man who was screwed over so hard by his publishing partner for this game it forced him to retire from making games and get an office job, so the other two chapters of this story will never be told...

I'd also like everyone to take a look at this exercise in pointless censorship and Carpe Fulgur's... problematic... attitude that made me boycott them.

I've been a big fan of the Ys series (and its awesome music) for years. I unfortunately don't own any consoles, so I'm stuck with the ones on Steam.

Of those, Ys Origin is probably my favorite. I like the pre-Fall of Ys setting, the focus on the Goddesses, and Yunica's adorableness. It's also a lot less unforgiving than The Oath in Felghana.

It's a shame Ys I is so archaic in its controls, since that's the one most newcomers would probably start with (and subsequently give up on). Even Ys II is way more advanced, with its larger world and magic system. I'd encourage everyone that is on the fence to start with Ys Origin instead, since it's a prequel anyway.

There are more Ys games on the horizon: XSEED want to release The Ark of Napishtim on Steam (probably after Trails in the Sky -- which is a joint effort with Carpe Fulgur so look forward to censorship and joke translations), and the Chinese company that ported Ys Seven to PC is looking to translate that to English (though their port seems to be of dubious quality). Memories of Celceta for now remains a PSVita exclusive, sadly...

Sick of posts in the vein of "It has an anime art style, but if you look past that it's actually a surprisingly good game." Surprising why?

Sick of stupid censorship. If your target audience takes offense at lolis, stop localizing games with lolis in them.

Sick of the ongoing debate on sexism in videogames. I shouldn't have to explain this one.

Sick of CrunchyRoll slowly murdering the anime fansub community.

I swear these feel like the end times...

Can't be of much help since I never used that site myself, but I assume you've been here? One assumes a registered member can upgrade to a premium account there.

Oh snap, that looks fantastic. I know trailers are deceiving, but the animation looks even sexier than Fate/Zero.

How soon do you all suppose is "soon"? I didn't expect this show for another year at least.

I hope Yuki Kajiura will do the music again. Not entirely sure about the oontz in the second half of the video.

There are no official vocal versions of any Touhou songs.

Go to this page and scroll down to "Featured On".

That list of albums is but a fraction of the Touhou music the doujin scene has churned out over the years.

Now do an advanced search with the following parameters...

game -- Touhou, Hisouten, Scarlet, Weather, Rhapsody

anyfield -- wonderful, heaven

classification -- Arrangement, Vocal

sort by album titles

It won't let me link directly to the search results, sorry. Because Tenshi's theme isn't very popular at least you only have to hunt down 122 albums.

Edit:

Alternatively, this search query on YouTube.

Thank you very much! Looks like I'll be doing 4 playthroughs then.

I hope it's okay to necro this thread, because I have questions and nowhere else to go.

• Do the two new costumes each heroine gets in NG+ have their own h-scenes? Because that would mean replaying the route I chose in my first playthrough for 100% CG completion.
  
• If I fully upgrade the costumes of a heroine I'm not actively romancing, does this lock me out of the h-scenes when I get around to playing her route? Or will I just get all of them at once?
  

I don't like this loppez character very much. Is that just me?

good quality [...] (around 60-90 MB)

Unless you're downloading 2 minute clips you are asking for something that does not exist.

The best source for actual high quality anime downloads is in my experience BakaBT, if you're prepared to wait several months for their judgment process. I use NyaaTorrents for shows that are blacklisted on BakaBT because FUNimation are dicks for copyright reasons. For current shows you should probably look to some of the faster fansubbing/encoding groups out there, i.e. UTW, Commie and FFF.

No persons or groups in this post are guilty of compressing 20 minute anime episodes into 90 MB files though, because that's butchering -- not encoding.

Edit:

So I'm looking at this sedotmini place. Are they seriously trying to sell downscaled versions of other people's (free) work?!

Spent 2 days downloading and preparing for a movie (one does not simply watch a movie!). Just saw it. It was fun.

Now I'm bored again.

My 6 hour download on Steam is utterly raping my internet, making such things as watching videos on YouTube impossible. Valve, in their infinite wisdom, decided to focus on such nonsense as boxing steams and taking big pictures, instead of implementing some sort of bandwidth capper.

I solely "play" Skyrim to see how far I can push it with mods and graphical enhancements. The story is rubbish and the gameplay is only so-so, but with a good setup at least it looks stunning.

And then they release DLC that breaks all the mods, and you stop playing because you can't be arsed to sort out the mess.

http://i.imgur.com/z4iFrl.jpg

"Windows-classic" desktop style, painted black. 4 icons (games, programs, junk, recycle bin) because clutter disgusts me.

udizzle, my OCD begs you to horizontally mirror that image so her butt is no longer obscured by your icons.

If you have a new or recently formatted hard drive (for installing Windows 8, for instance) it may be split into 8 GB volumes, which would leave it unable to process files larger than that.

Admittedly, that would be silly.