peffy

I hope they do a better job with this one then they did with xillia and zestiria... hopefully a new engine is in the works.

http://gematsu.com/2016/02/tales-berseria-rokurou-eleanor-further-introduced
 
Two new characters have been revealed for Tales of Berseria .. The girl looks kinda weird, but hot damn, I like the look of that ronin-samurai-looking dude. Dual sword wielder too..  Getting too hyped over here... I might actually buy this off JP PSN .. can't bother waiting for localization .. nggggg...

D'espairsRay - my first male VK obsession.. HIZUMI was amazing, so sad he is not singing anymore.
 
CindyKate - Yui was so fun to listen to, so sad he is not singing anymore.
 
AYABIE (Yumehito vocal era) - I actually really liked Yumehito's voice (I did not like Aoi), so sad he is not singing anymore.
 
Dolly - actually they are "on hiatus" but it's been over 3 years and I feel like they will never come back. DOPPEL is good for my Mitsu fix and the songs are Dolly-like, but they don't release enough material.
 
amber gris - well, I felt like they ran out of steam towards the end, but I miss Temari & Koto.
 
lolita23q & DELACROIX - Both disbanded right after I started to like them.
 
ALDEBARAN & UnRealistic - disbanded way too soon.

Absolutely, pre-order culture is one of the worst things about video games these days. When you need things like the infamous Watch Dogs pre-order chart just to figure out what bonuses you get, you know there is a problem. And that's compounded with excessively buggy games that need extensive patching for weeks/months after release. There is almost ZERO purpose to pre-ordering a game, unless it's limited edition or you want those bonuses which are mostly crap/useless. Even worse are DIGITAL pre-orders...
 
 I've pretty much sworn off pre-ordering, especially since the price of games in Canada has skyrocketed because our dollar has tanked. Around 2 years ago they were $60, now they are $80.. but I just saw one upcoming game priced at $85, and some believe it could go up to $90 soon...... I now wait for price drops on everything because I refuse to pay more than the US$ price. Buying Japanese games (and music) has also gotten more expensive, because although the Yen's value crashed, the Canadian dollar crashed even harder.

Just seeing those two words together makes me want to drown in my own tears.

Well I have a full time job (with overtime currently), but I carpool, so I either pass out (most of the time), or play on my 3DS. I have class for most of the afternoon/evening and play there too in between breaks, When I get home at night I hop on my PS4 for an hour or so before bed.
 
I'd hop on a PC gaming binge, but I haven't been a PC gamer since '98 with Sonic the hedgehog lol. Plus I use an Apple Laptop and I just can't risk burning through my Mac too quick.
 
I've been a gamer since forever. It's not a habit you can just give up. If anything, I work my life AROUND my games.
 
I don't have time for an RPG or MMO anymore, but once FFXV comes out, I'm gonna try and make it work again. I must.

how do u guys play so many games

For me, "Oni to kage" was god-tier, "Shuuen" was meh-tier, and mostly everything they released after "Shuuen" was good-tier. High hopes for this new album, but it's gonna be damn hard to surpass the first one.

Maybe they were just really salty about not getting Budokan, which led them to write that song. Like "whatever man, we don't NEED Budokan, fuck going major"
 
Or maybe "going major" has nothing to do with Budokan? Major = (theoretically) making more money and having execs control your image & output.
 
Or maybe the whole Budokan thing was a joke in the first place?
 
Not that I care. As long as I like the new songs they can say whatever they want to say.

Maybe they were just really salty about not getting Budokan, which led them to write that song. Like "whatever man, we don't NEED Budokan, fuck going major"
 
Or maybe "going major" has nothing to do with Budokan? Major = (theoretically) making more money and having execs control your image & output.
 
Or maybe the whole Budokan thing was a joke in the first place?
 
Not that I care. As long as I like the new songs they can say whatever they want to say.

Maybe they were just really salty about not getting Budokan, which led them to write that song. Like "whatever man, we don't NEED Budokan, fuck going major"
 
Or maybe "going major" has nothing to do with Budokan? Major = (theoretically) making more money and having execs control your image & output.
 
Or maybe the whole Budokan thing was a joke in the first place?
 
Not that I care. As long as I like the new songs they can say whatever they want to say.

Maybe they were just really salty about not getting Budokan, which led them to write that song. Like "whatever man, we don't NEED Budokan, fuck going major"
 
Or maybe "going major" has nothing to do with Budokan? Major = (theoretically) making more money and having execs control your image & output.
 
Or maybe the whole Budokan thing was a joke in the first place?
 
Not that I care. As long as I like the new songs they can say whatever they want to say.

That's a shame, I really liked BANG ME cuz I thought it was really funny.
 
boy bang bang bang bang me now yeaaah

Maybe they were just really salty about not getting Budokan, which led them to write that song. Like "whatever man, we don't NEED Budokan, fuck going major"
 
Or maybe "going major" has nothing to do with Budokan? Major = (theoretically) making more money and having execs control your image & output.
 
Or maybe the whole Budokan thing was a joke in the first place?
 
Not that I care. As long as I like the new songs they can say whatever they want to say.

That's a shame, I really liked BANG ME cuz I thought it was really funny.
 
boy bang bang bang bang me now yeaaah

ヶ is an abbreviation of 箇 , so they do mean the same thing. I am guessing both the band name and song name refer to the Shikoku Pilgrimage (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shikoku_Pilgrimage) . R-shitei is so educational!
 
I agree with the translation of the 2nd track.... or maybe it's "We don't give a shit about going major". Something like that.

I'm somewhat of a special case since I consider gaming to be my main hobby (even above anime and music) so I spend most of my money on it... Couple that with the fact that I'm a NEET (and the lifestyle that entails) and then you can probably guess why I have so much time to play all the games I want to.
 
I probably play on average at least 40 hours a week and at most 60 hours and that's not just one game either since I rarely play the same game the entire week. I have somewhat of a system where I have a "pool" of games that I'm currently playing and I try to switch the game I'm playing every few days or so, sometimes I even play more than one game in the same day depending on mood. When I get to a point where I feel like I've completed a game or want to "shelve" the game for a while I replace it with a new game.
 
I hope I explained that well...? I don't know I've been a gamer so long and I'm so involved with the industry and what's happening that I jkust have a way that I do things and it just works I guess xD
 
tl;dr - I'm a no lifer who has way to much time on my hands to play all the games that I want to.

My gut reaction upon seeing the group pic was "omg this is the first time I think Koichi looks bad"
But upon closer inspection of his solo pictures, I think he looks beautiful as usual. Probably the best feminine-looking VK dude, IMO.
This is possibly the first time I think Tsuzuku actually looks interesting.
Meto looks like 
MiA is so boring.
Also, I hate consecutive singles. MEJIBRAY does it so often that it's thoroughly annoying.

Ip Man are one of the best choreographed (martial arts) action films in the history of films, and along with films such as Ong Bak, The Raid 1 & 2 and Chocolate, one of the martial arts films one must see from the past 15 years, and this I base on the fights alone, something which says alot because I know my martial arts films. And on top of that Ip Man is alot more than just fights.
 
Ip Man is choreographed by Sammo Hung, one of my personal favourits (as an actor, director and choreographer) and he's not gained that status without a proper reason. Often considered the best fight choreographer in the world, and I tend to agree and Ip Man was just another film to prove his brilliance. The choreography is so smooth, so slick, so powerful and so beautiful, and Donnie Yen is one to really pull it off with conviction. The fight with the Japanese unit is more than fucking brilliant. Can watch that over and over and over, and I just won't get tired of it. So good.

Yeah, well as I said before, I don't watch a lot of movies, so I'm very much not a film nerd . I still enjoyed Ip Man 3, though there were some characters that probably had more back story in the previous films. I may eventually watch the first 2 films, but anyway I mostly watched it for cool action scenes and I was satisfied.
 
As for Star Wars.. I'm pretty sure I've never watched an entire one. I've definitely seen large chunks of the original trilogy, and chunks of ep 1..  I'm not really interested in sci-fi, so Star Wars isn't a series I'm into.. I actually looked up spoilers for ep 7 because I kept seeing people whining about getting spoiled, so I had to know.

Yes, that is certainly a confirmation that he's very ill.
 
I do stand by my original interpretation of the facebook post, though. They probably did not know or did not want to say how serious it was.
 
I don't have any attachment to PATA but I hope he gets well.

Star Wars (no interest)
The Revenant (too long)
Daddy's Home
Dirty Grandpa
Ride Along 2 
.. a few others I'd never heard of
 
Both of us were in the mood for some kung fu action, and thought it would be fun to see a Cantonese movie in a theatre (both of us speak/understand it on some level) and besides I was already familiar with the basics of Ip Man's real life story. .. Comparing it to something like Lord of the Rings is a bit much, obviously LOTR is a gigantic epic story, and in a case like that I wouldn't start from the middle.

Oh my god, I played this many many many years ago, totally loved it, don't remember much about it. How did I forget Jupiter goes to Canada??

...I put a lot of thought into this and it was really freaking hard to get my list down to 9.
I've tried to pull from a wider variety of times and genres.. but this still skews heavily towards Japanese & rock.
 
Click the spoiler for a short description and sample song!
 
In chronological order....
 
1. Matthew Good Band - Beautiful Midnight [1999]
 
2. fra-foa - 宙の淵 (Chuu no fuchi) [2001]
 
3. 周杰倫 (Jay Chou) - 范特西 (Fantasy) [2001]
 
4. 椎名林檎 (Shiina Ringo) - 加爾基 精液 栗ノ花 (Karuki, zaamen, kuri no hana) [2003]
 
5. D'espairsRay - MIRROR [2007]
 
6. 安室奈美恵 (Amuro Namie) - PAST < FUTURE [2009]
 
7. R指定 (R-Shitei) - 人間失格 (Ningen shikkaku) [2010]
 
8. Dolly - CAPSULE [2010]
 
9. Crimson Shiva - PANDORA [2014]
 
 
 
 
WOW I PUT WAY TOO MUCH EFFORT INTO THIS. but it was an interesting mental exercise.