peffy

I cant believe you haven't played this. Makes me cry. What else is a lie?!?! lol
 
This game is a work of art. Everything about it is so drop dead gorgeous. It has got to be one of my fave top 10 games of all time.
 

RAP, you say?
Now I'm instantly more interested in listening to this single (which I have to do anyway because someone wants the lyrics). Can't compare to ANSIA cuz I never listened to them before.
 
After listening to the rap in Gossip's latest single, and Pentagon's "Stupid", I realized that I like rap-VK a lot.  hahaha
(maybe not surprising cuz a listened to a lot of hip hop in my youth)

I Am Setsuna
 
Started playing earlier today, I'm about 5 hours in right now and... loving every damn minute of it honestly. I'm really digging this game and it's throwback style and beautiful scenery. The music is god tier and as of right now is probably my favorite VG soundtrack I've listened to this year. This game is just scratching that old school JRPG itch right now in ways that I didn't even know were possible xD I'm very impressed with Tokyo RPG Factory right now with this being a very solid first game from them. Gonna continue playing before I really pass judgment on the game, because we all know that opinions can easily change in a 30+ hour JRPG, but as of right now I'm pleasantly enjoying this game so much.

Fuuuuck. I overslept for worrrrrk.
Fuuuuuuuuuuuck. I only slept for 3 hours. I'm groggy as shiiiiit.
 
FUCKING. A. I didn't realize I'm walking around with 2 different shoes on.
Really?
FUCK.
 
Thank you Flu. Thank you so very much.

you're not making this cold I have any less awful with me laughing peffs huehuehue. Jav Idols FTW.
 
Played the first Castlevania game at a friends house.
I owe him a controller. Whoops.
 

Rocklyric has posted it
 
http://rocklyric.jp/lyric.php?sid=165991/period/Girugamesh
 
.. I'll copy and paste it here to make it easy for you
 
 

It's funny you mention that.
 
The same people who tell me the same jazz, are the people who always complain that there is no more excitement in their relationship after kids.
 
We can make both games and life work together, right Peffs?
 
 

I pity people who think video games in general are for kids.
Like those oblivious parents who bought GTA5 for their 10-year-olds.
Or like those annoying older people who tell me I should "stop playing video games, grow up, look for a husband and have babies"
(including various relatives, co-workers, and my former boss)
fuck off, don't tell me what to do with my uterus

I pity people who think video games in general are for kids.
Like those oblivious parents who bought GTA5 for their 10-year-olds.
Or like those annoying older people who tell me I should "stop playing video games, grow up, look for a husband and have babies"
(including various relatives, co-workers, and my former boss)
fuck off, don't tell me what to do with my uterus

I pity people who think video games in general are for kids.
Like those oblivious parents who bought GTA5 for their 10-year-olds.
Or like those annoying older people who tell me I should "stop playing video games, grow up, look for a husband and have babies"
(including various relatives, co-workers, and my former boss)
fuck off, don't tell me what to do with my uterus

I pity people who think video games in general are for kids.
Like those oblivious parents who bought GTA5 for their 10-year-olds.
Or like those annoying older people who tell me I should "stop playing video games, grow up, look for a husband and have babies"
(including various relatives, co-workers, and my former boss)
fuck off, don't tell me what to do with my uterus

I pity people who think video games in general are for kids.
Like those oblivious parents who bought GTA5 for their 10-year-olds.
Or like those annoying older people who tell me I should "stop playing video games, grow up, look for a husband and have babies"
(including various relatives, co-workers, and my former boss)
fuck off, don't tell me what to do with my uterus

Fully agreeing with @Original Saku re: mobile gaming and the exploitative nature of microtransactions. (though I don't think it's that bad in this game, correct me if I'm wrong)
 
Haven't tried Pokemon Go for myself, and never will, based on what I know about it.
These two things rank very highly on my list of "things I hate the most"
- Meeting and talking to new people (hell, I barely like talking to people I know. I'm a writer, not a speaker)
- Sun/humidity/heat (walking around outside during this disgusting "feels like 40 degrees (104 F)" weather I have right now is just not going to happen)
 
So, obviously I'm not the target audience, lol. Also, I've seen a lot of alarmist reports in the media about the dangers of being inattentive (or trespassing) while playing the game... including a very sad article by a black man saying that the game endangers his life because police will be suspicious of a black guy walking in circles in the same area. These reports are actually far more interesting to me than the actual game, hahaha.

To put it as simple as possible. A Pokemon game on mobile. just minus the story elements. Instead we got a gimped game with micro transactions, but anyone could have seen this coming, mobile games by nature are gimped. They are targeted at the casual market and thus are not very deep nor fun in the enjoyable sense, but in the addictive sense. So to answer your question I was hoping for something less shallow and truly enjoyable.
 
This all is more of a wider issue than just Pokemon GO but the mobile game industry as a whole. I don't want to be that guy but I will if it means one less person will fall victim to the scummy politics and nature of mobile game companies. Again I'm not talking about Pokemon GO right now, so don't jump down my throat please XD

The rabbit hole goes even deeper! YouTube personalities such as PewDiePie have gotten caught taking bribes by Warner Bros. for positive game reviews. Much like the original CS:GO situation this counts as inadequate disclosure on sponsored videos. I don't think PDP will go to jail but it's probably an ugly gaffe that will blow over in a few weeks.
 


 
http://www.theverge.com/2016/7/12/12157310/pewdiepie-youtubers-sponsored-videos-ftc-warner-bros

Hmm. I just want to say that... it should not matter how long a band sticks around before disbanding. They make music, and deserve to be supported (financially and emotionally) by fans of their music.
 
Suppose a hypothetical band releases one amazing masterpiece album that you loved so much that you bought it. You even saw them live. Then, they disband out of nowhere. Does that suddenly mean the album can't be enjoyed anymore? Does that mean you wasted your money? Do you wish that you never went to that concert?
 
Music has no expiration date. People still enjoy music by artists who are long dead, let alone disbanded. Just because they are no longer alive/active, does not mean that you can't still enjoy what they produced. And, fear that a band could soon disband shouldn't discourage you from listening to their music.
 
 
If you still like the music by the bands you listed, you still like J-rock. You might not like any NEW J-rock, but the old J-rock will always be there for you if you want it.
 
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Sorry if any of that sounded really corny. And you know, all that is my opinion of how music should be enjoyed. If you want to insist on only listening to "new music" or "bands that are unlikely to disband", feel free, you do you.

I don't want to wade too deep into this exchange for many reasons so I'll keep this as short as possible.
 
First, to "defend" WhirlingBlack's statement even though I hardly know him at all: every word has a unique political and ethical valence so it's important for us to be always sensitive to how we use words. I don't think he intended to downplay in any way the severity of the situation by suggesting that the word 'murder' is inappropriate for this context. It's precisely because there already is a great deal at stake, that we can do without further amplifying tensions through the careless use of laden words. Describing the situation in precise terms does not mean to trivialize the anxieties that black people in America experience, nor does it mean to nullify the tragic reality of recent events--if anything it enables us to see the injustice for what it is and equip us to better address it. Using words like 'murder' risks reducing the issue to one of individual hatred/racism (it's not at all uncommon to hear people make startling claims like "all we need to do is to go out there and get rid of all black-haters"), while failing to address the much more entrenched and challenging problem of institutionalized racism of which these events are merely symptomatic.
 
I don't question in the slightest how much this matters to someone like @CAT5 for whom racism is a daily struggle. It wouldn't make sense for any of us to try and pretend to grasp what living through all of that feels like. Yet, the capacity of the marginalized to articulate a legitimate and authentic account of their experience is often not ipso facto sufficient to precipitate fruitful transformative action, especially in a country like the US that is historically burdened by centuries worth of social structures in place to systematically work against certain groups of people. This is why I think it's crucial to not foreclose dialogue between the marginalized and people outside of that community simply because they cannot share the specificity of a minority's experience. To believe that these people have nothing to contribute to the existing discourse inhibits any potential coalition-building that can change things for the better. Likewise to claim that there's nothing of value that can be learned from someone living in a different place (or, for that matter, a different historical period) is a little too presumptuous.
 
In my view: the perennial problem with organized movements in the service of virtually any form of identity politics (and not just race) is that the situation quickly devolves into a case of where you stand being all that matters, instead of the actual merits of what you think and say in support of your position. I think this is troubling. Not surprisingly this only became worse with the all the pseudo-journalism creeping into the Internet and in some ways we're already paying the price for it.  We don't even have to look very far beyond contemporary US politics to find the opportunist par excellence of this flavor. Many condemn Trump's rhetoric as divisive, but they fail to see that he is doing nothing more than leveraging on the polarizing potential that has always been latent in discourse on identity politics, as well as the general inability of the public to appreciate the actual depth and complexity of human affairs beyond the 'us vs them' dichotomy, as if things are as simple as separating two immiscible liquids by letting the denser one sink to the bottom before draining it off.
 
In sum: it is in our interest to engage every point of view on the table with a provisional openness, while always remaining vigilant to pernicious perspectives regardless of which side of the barricade they happen to fall on. Both sides deserve and demand equal measures of rational scrutiny. This is the only way to foster any kind of fruitful political dialogue that will, with a lot of effort and a bit of luck, translate into the beginnings of systematic change.
 
(Yes I might be typing all of these as someone who's 'living halfway across the planet,' but I'm far from being 'unconcerned.')

I understand that this is something that probably doesn't affect you, and perhaps an issue that you may not fully be able to grasp, but as someone that has experienced the effects of this, distinct racism both explicitly and implicitly for the entirety of their life, from my perspective, this comment reads as highly insensitive.  And so with all due respect, you'll understand me when I say the last thing that THIS particular debate needs is nitpicky, tactless opinions from people who are, admittedly, unconcerned about the issue at hand.
 
As for the choice of words - murder, homicide, manslaughter,  premeditated/unintentional killing  - whatever term you'd like to append to it -  I'm sure that's a REALLY minor detail to all of the people who are affected by all of the senseless, and very preventable deaths. I doubt it makes a difference to the little girl who lost her father right in front of her eyes, or the little 15 year old boy on the news crying how he wants and misses his dad. I doubt it makes a difference to my sister, mother of three young boys, who actually has to worry about the fact that she is raising her sons in a country where it has been proven time and time again that they are not valued, simply because of their skin. Where she has to teach 3 young boys that even if you do everything "right", you can still be punished because of your skin, and that the punishment may just be fatal. How do you even do that?
 
You know I got love for you, WB, and I'm certainly not trying to come at you sideways or anything - but for me, this is an issue that touches at home, so I wanted to let you know how I feel. I know all of this stuff seems like a fairy tale when you exist outside of the quagmire, but I was literally born into this, and it is very real for me. I would have talked to you about this privately, but since this is an extension of a public discussion (and this is an international forum with many ppl who may not quite grasp the situation), I wanted to put my perspective out there too!
 
 

Hmm. I just want to say that... it should not matter how long a band sticks around before disbanding. They make music, and deserve to be supported (financially and emotionally) by fans of their music.
 
Suppose a hypothetical band releases one amazing masterpiece album that you loved so much that you bought it. You even saw them live. Then, they disband out of nowhere. Does that suddenly mean the album can't be enjoyed anymore? Does that mean you wasted your money? Do you wish that you never went to that concert?
 
Music has no expiration date. People still enjoy music by artists who are long dead, let alone disbanded. Just because they are no longer alive/active, does not mean that you can't still enjoy what they produced. And, fear that a band could soon disband shouldn't discourage you from listening to their music.
 
 
If you still like the music by the bands you listed, you still like J-rock. You might not like any NEW J-rock, but the old J-rock will always be there for you if you want it.
 
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Sorry if any of that sounded really corny. And you know, all that is my opinion of how music should be enjoyed. If you want to insist on only listening to "new music" or "bands that are unlikely to disband", feel free, you do you.

Hmm. I just want to say that... it should not matter how long a band sticks around before disbanding. They make music, and deserve to be supported (financially and emotionally) by fans of their music.
 
Suppose a hypothetical band releases one amazing masterpiece album that you loved so much that you bought it. You even saw them live. Then, they disband out of nowhere. Does that suddenly mean the album can't be enjoyed anymore? Does that mean you wasted your money? Do you wish that you never went to that concert?
 
Music has no expiration date. People still enjoy music by artists who are long dead, let alone disbanded. Just because they are no longer alive/active, does not mean that you can't still enjoy what they produced. And, fear that a band could soon disband shouldn't discourage you from listening to their music.
 
 
If you still like the music by the bands you listed, you still like J-rock. You might not like any NEW J-rock, but the old J-rock will always be there for you if you want it.
 
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Sorry if any of that sounded really corny. And you know, all that is my opinion of how music should be enjoyed. If you want to insist on only listening to "new music" or "bands that are unlikely to disband", feel free, you do you.

^All of this.
 
If people don't support a band because of their fear that the band might disband in the near future, they are doing nothing but expediting the disbandment. Obviously that's not saying you should make it your mission in life to help bands stick around longer, but if you genuinely enjoy what the band is doing, then I think you do have an interest in helping to prolong the band's longevity so that they can produce more music without constantly fearing where the money for their next meal is coming from.
 
Actually, I'm not even sure if this entire 'vk bands today disband a lot faster' assumption even holds any water. The briefest look at the history of the scene will show you that no matter how far back you go, it's literally the case that bands form and disband every single day. Pick a random year, and in all likelihood there were as many bands with 5 fans that had released 2 songs before disbanding than there are today. (This is especially the case if we acknowledge that vk does not only exist in the major centers i.e. Tokyo, Osaka.) Our perspective is just heavily skewed today from perpetually looking at vk news under the microscope (thanks to Trombe, and well, social media in general). We think the 'disbandment culture' is a novel phenomenon, when in fact it probably has been there since vk (or any other scene you might care to name) existed. That's just how things work.
 

Hmm. I just want to say that... it should not matter how long a band sticks around before disbanding. They make music, and deserve to be supported (financially and emotionally) by fans of their music.
 
Suppose a hypothetical band releases one amazing masterpiece album that you loved so much that you bought it. You even saw them live. Then, they disband out of nowhere. Does that suddenly mean the album can't be enjoyed anymore? Does that mean you wasted your money? Do you wish that you never went to that concert?
 
Music has no expiration date. People still enjoy music by artists who are long dead, let alone disbanded. Just because they are no longer alive/active, does not mean that you can't still enjoy what they produced. And, fear that a band could soon disband shouldn't discourage you from listening to their music.
 
 
If you still like the music by the bands you listed, you still like J-rock. You might not like any NEW J-rock, but the old J-rock will always be there for you if you want it.
 
..
 
Sorry if any of that sounded really corny. And you know, all that is my opinion of how music should be enjoyed. If you want to insist on only listening to "new music" or "bands that are unlikely to disband", feel free, you do you.

Hmm. I just want to say that... it should not matter how long a band sticks around before disbanding. They make music, and deserve to be supported (financially and emotionally) by fans of their music.
 
Suppose a hypothetical band releases one amazing masterpiece album that you loved so much that you bought it. You even saw them live. Then, they disband out of nowhere. Does that suddenly mean the album can't be enjoyed anymore? Does that mean you wasted your money? Do you wish that you never went to that concert?
 
Music has no expiration date. People still enjoy music by artists who are long dead, let alone disbanded. Just because they are no longer alive/active, does not mean that you can't still enjoy what they produced. And, fear that a band could soon disband shouldn't discourage you from listening to their music.
 
 
If you still like the music by the bands you listed, you still like J-rock. You might not like any NEW J-rock, but the old J-rock will always be there for you if you want it.
 
..
 
Sorry if any of that sounded really corny. And you know, all that is my opinion of how music should be enjoyed. If you want to insist on only listening to "new music" or "bands that are unlikely to disband", feel free, you do you.

I'm right there with you guys too ;_; I'm all for converting people lol
 
Most bands I used to like are disbanding too... It's just how I said in my introduction post. But I've been finding more and more bands that interest me, so it helps. I started looking for more music when I noticed most of the artists I like were nowhere to be seen, and I managed to find some good ones. Plus I like finding new music.
About VK... yea, I'm in the same boat, it's hard, but j-indie isn't really different tbh. It's also sad how many people leave their bands because they have to work, because they can't live through music... So I'm trying to look around the forums to see if any of the "new" VK bands interest me, maybe doing so will help you too. I still haven't found any, but I probably should look harder. XD
YouTube also helps a lot. And Twitter.

Hmm. I just want to say that... it should not matter how long a band sticks around before disbanding. They make music, and deserve to be supported (financially and emotionally) by fans of their music.
 
Suppose a hypothetical band releases one amazing masterpiece album that you loved so much that you bought it. You even saw them live. Then, they disband out of nowhere. Does that suddenly mean the album can't be enjoyed anymore? Does that mean you wasted your money? Do you wish that you never went to that concert?
 
Music has no expiration date. People still enjoy music by artists who are long dead, let alone disbanded. Just because they are no longer alive/active, does not mean that you can't still enjoy what they produced. And, fear that a band could soon disband shouldn't discourage you from listening to their music.
 
 
If you still like the music by the bands you listed, you still like J-rock. You might not like any NEW J-rock, but the old J-rock will always be there for you if you want it.
 
..
 
Sorry if any of that sounded really corny. And you know, all that is my opinion of how music should be enjoyed. If you want to insist on only listening to "new music" or "bands that are unlikely to disband", feel free, you do you.