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With Lost Judgment (finally) beaten, that is every single mainline Yakuza game under my belt. I started Yakuza Kiwami around this time in 2023, so I’ve been at it for about a year. …what do I do now?
about 19 hours ago from web-
@zeldatra I'm also inflicted with the same life question. I'm suffering for any new RGG game while contemplating if other things in life can fill out the void but never can. You can play Ishin. If you're adventurous you may play Kenzan (the other that plays in old Japan) or Kurohyou 1 and 2 (the PSP games).
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@adiwan Kurohyo is probably where I’ll end up next.
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All of Ijincho only has one school and it’s a private high school, it’s no wonder everybody in town is either a yakuza, a triad, or homeless
about 17 days ago from web-
@zeldatra See what happens when you devalue public education, Larry? THIS is WHAT happens WHEN YOU devalue PUBLIC EDUCATION, Larry!! Do you see what happens? Do you see, Larry??
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@scribus unironically the dumbest person in The Big Lebowski probably was better educated than any single person in Ijincho is since according to Lost Judgment nobody at this high school actually attends any classes ever. They’re attending dance club, or reading mystery novels in a boiler room, or painting themselves to look like body models and hiding in classrooms for days at a time to steal test answers, or plotting murders, or getting beat up by me on the streets miles away from the school, but nobody’s learning, I guarantee you that
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@zeldatra It's a school for school delinquents. It's part of their curriculum to not attend school.
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So I guess Biden declared today to be the day that all trans people rise from their graves or something?
about a month ago from web-
@scribus Rise from your grave after top surgery call that Altered Breast
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@thelastgherkin Damn I was looking for an Altered Beast reference and it was RIGHT THERE all along?!
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@scribus Never give up looking for references, otherwise you it's a welcome to your doom!
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This toon is ten minutes and is fully PG in content, might be the first time I’ve done something so long and so tame in about eight years
about 2 months ago from web -
if anybody's wondering what the worst thing i've ever animated is, it's that
about 3 months ago from web -
“Kiryu has contracted schizophrenia from repeated exposure to Kasuga” is not a tutorial I thought I would read in this game
about 3 months ago from web-
@adiwan I dunno, maybe I’m just misremembering Nanba’s voice because I’m currently used to hearing him as Yagami’s, but Greg Chun constantly sounds like he’s about to lose his voice in Infinite Wealth. That and his audio mixing is like noticeably worse than everyone else’s, so he might actually just have done everything from home with no voice direction and the audio engineer didn’t fix anything. Mega jarring because the rest of the English voice dub is shockingly good.
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@zeldatra I'm playing with the Japanese audio. I don't know how good the English voice cast is but I'm very much used to listening to the Japanese voices. On the other hand the English of some characters is the epitome of bad. I cringe extremely hard hearing speaking English. If I were the director I'd rather have a voice-alike for the English. Maybe it was out of budget or time but it undermines his character in my opinion.
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@adiwan it’s mad unfortunate in some cases, they face scanned Daniel Dae Kim for the triad boss but when he talks it’s not Daniel Dae Kim’s voice and Daniel Dae Kim is Ebina instead???
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A group of dudes stole $2000 in merchandise in a single night at my store, and my dumbass hothead of a cart pusher threw hands. They came in again last night and brought mace. Now I kind of wanna wear goggles tonight in case they come in again but at this rate if they discover I’m immune to mace they’ll bring a gun tomorrow.
about 3 months ago from web-
@scribus my current plan is to stand around door and watch it so I can at least say I did something when they review cameras, ain’t getting close to these psychos though. My hero complex doesn’t run THAT strong.
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@zeldatra Isn't it the point to call the police? Or when you see them again to call for help (police/security...).
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@adiwan I do that too, but the cops in this county are mega slow. You call, they take 45 minutes to show up.
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My bank account has lost money after I pre-ordered Infinite Wealth.
about 4 months ago from web -
So, I notice I cant attach any images. Been like that for a few days. New setting or Chrome option I have to toggle?
about 4 months ago from web-
@firestormdangerdash I use firefox and have the same problem. I just upload to imgur or any other image hosting site and post the link.
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@adiwan huh. Do you think its a coding website issue, or just how modern browsers edited the upload system?
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@firestormdangerdash I think it's a server issue
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So. I was in a very bad car crash a a few months ago. Hit from two sides. Highway speed. Now insurance and law are sniffing at me with hunger no doubt, and medical is listing me with a hundred and one reasons why I can't be a functional adult, but my lack of injuries and lack of symptoms are making it worse, since I can't safely get any kind of long term income cause im not injured but the medical file bars me from working or driving. My only hope is loopholes in laws and maybe some good graces of those that dont care to sign off on me for the odd thing. But I bananaed off a higher power.
about 4 months ago from web-
@firestormdangerdash That's insane. Hopefully it will get better.
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@adiwan Thank you. I never cared about life direction. But I knew how to handle my life. Now I was scared for a long time since I had rights and independence medically stripped from me on doctors orders. My future feels dead. My career probably is too. There is a slow path that might get my some rights back. But is that enough to be free? Idk. And easily undone if a doctor comes up with a new condition to give me. My only breaking point is just ignoring the medical and thus law to rebuild my life. Worst case I will lose what I already lost. Freedom.
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Also Unreal Engine 4 irks me a lot, especially loading scenes. There is so much texture loading delay that I'm not used to with the Dragon Engine. Also animations on load behave weirdly: A sitting person stands for a frame and snaps into a sitting position with physics-driven secondary animation wiggling wildly. In rarer occasions distant scenery also flash white.
about 5 months ago from web-
@adiwan It seems to actually be the Yakuza 5/0/Kiwami engine with an Unreal Engine wrapper over top which i think is part of why the game is so jank. Not sure what the game played like in Japan originally, but I imagine it wasn't very different.
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@zeldatra Makes sense that it is based on 5, as I found out that quite a few characters were in the original Japanese version. In the Unreal Engine remaster they were replaced by from 7. It's strange but I get it that Zhao is more popular than Baba.
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GTA 6... I wonder if there are realistic effects like someone's pee-pee and balls shrinking in the cold.
As expected I was not impressed by anything in the trailer, especially when the release date will be in 2025. It's a nothing burger.about 5 months ago from web-
@adiwan as somebody who spent the first several years of my life in Florida, my big takeaway is that it’s really cool that Rockstar is depicting what seems to be a fully realized version of South and Central Florida instead of just showing us pictures of Miami they got off of Google Images like they did with Los Santos and Liberty City. I’m excited for it.
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My morning cashier would’ve been real popular in the Miami clubbing scene in the 80s if you catch my drift
about 5 months ago from web -
I’ve been carrying foreign currency in my wallet for a bit too long but you have to actually go to the airport to exchange it so it stays with me
about 6 months ago from web-
@zeldatra I see currency exchange booths at the mall, but it is the mall right by the international airport so it's really not that much less hassle :-/
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@scribus I will simply wait to get mugged in DC on Friday and it will be off my hands then
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@adiwan don’t think the British pound is going away any time soon so I can’t even say it’s a cool keepsake
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I really, really wish I could just never have to drive again
about 6 months ago from web-
@scribus i just had to spend $1500 to fix my car so same
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I couldn't resist and bought LAD Gaiden yesterday. I'm almost like a fanboy at this point towards any game RGG Studio releases. I'm 12 hours in at the moment and it feels like a Kiryu Best Of.
about 6 months ago from web-
@adiwan gotta play the hits before they pretend to retire him at the end of the next game
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I'll probably buy Lost Judgment (+ DLC) as soon as there is a major discount. I ain't gonna pay almost 100€ for a game no matter how amazing it is.
about 6 months ago from web-
@adiwan @adiwan That neither Judgement game is on Xbox GamePass is why I haven’t played them yet. I’ll buy Judgement, but $60 for Lost Judgement is a bit insane considering as of next week there will have been two further games in the series out since LJ’s release (and one of them isn’t even full price!)
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@zeldatra Yeah. It's somewhat unfortunate. Last time I saw Lost Judgment on sale on Steam was about 60€ with the Kaito Files DLC. That price also stings. I don't know if I buy LAD Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name on release. I would like to but 50€ make me think twice, especially when I don't get it on a physical disc.
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Knew I was in for a fun time with this new transfer when I asked which store she came from and she replied “that’s personal information I’m not answering that”
about 7 months ago from web-
@zeldatra Hot diggity!!
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@scribus update on this: apparently she had somewhat successfully lied her way into the position she was in. She’d been hired as a deli clerk and was transferred to my store after basically becoming to much for the previous store to handle (thanks for that, guys!). Then when she got here she concocted this plan to basically act like she’d been promoted with the hopes that we’d give her the pay of an assistant manager for at least a while before we found out. Her refusal to answer most of my questions was because she didn’t want me finding holes in the story, like her refusal to tell me what store she came from was to stop me from contacting her previous manager and finding out that she was just a deli clerk - before the whole thing went down I had already figured out what store she was from because… it was listed under her file, which I genuinely can’t believe she didn’t think I would check. Before I was able to ask the manager there about her though, she’d already been fired.
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@zeldatra That is at least a week's worth of comics right there
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Got the new Cities Skylines, fun times fun times! Got a weird fixation on a six-sided grid as opposed to the regular right angles and all. It's obsessive, I can't stop. It's like some kind of curse. Or maybe even a hex!
about 6 months ago from web-
@scribus I have hundreds of hours in the first one and the second one is driving me absolutely insane because of how much more in-depth it is, I can’t approach things the way I did in the first game because the first game didn’t have apple like air pollution, so now I gotta not put my factories upwind of a suburb. This is a good thing, I get sort of complacent in how I game, it just surprised me how much the game tries to kick old players’ asses in some regards.
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@zeldatra I spent half an hour relocating a water pump and even the road leading up to it, trying to get better than 10% efficiency. Then I found out that it actually needs to be fully staffed to be fully functional :o
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voting on Halloween because adulthood is tedium
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the kosher section of the store is expanding into the halal section and it’s causing some problems
about 6 months ago from web-
@zeldatra Can't we all just share one "international" aisle?
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@scribus true story: the fact that my store only has a kosher SECTION, rather than a kosher AISLE, resulted in me being called an antisemite by some elderly Jewish lady, like a) I was the one who decided this, and b) the section wasn’t as large or larger than the halal, latino, Italian, Japanese, German, etc sections on the same aisle
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But I have yet to watch the circus cartoon so that's unrelated
about 7 months ago from web-
@scribus it sort of feels like if Mondo Media was told they had to keep it PG and not everybody was on board with it
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So is it just me, or does the word "ret*rd" seem to be coming back around on the ol' euphemism/dysphemism treadmill?
about 7 months ago from web-
@scribus i noticed not only this but also the usage (or implied/cut off usage) of offensive words for shock comedy has also been back on the rise since wound 2021 or 2022, and very little complaints about it unlike before. Not certain what the cause of he change in attitudes was.
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Oh boy I hope the Thai place doesn’t racially profile me again
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In Yakuza 7, there’s a particular endgame boss with a one-hit KO move that you need to prep for in advance by using one of Ichiban’s defense moves to tank the hit. I did not know this until after the fight was over, because he attempted it once on my healer, missed, and then apparently got embarrassed because he never tried to use it again after that.
about 7 months ago from web-
@zeldatra You were so lucky. I had to fight that boss probably a dozen times. I had to switch up my whole party because of him. Without I couldn't get over that difficulty spike.
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@adiwan with that longass dungeon just before the fight, if I had to go back and change ANYTHING about my party I’d have probably just rage quit and not come back to the game for a couple of days.
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aww damn Dick Butkus died
about 7 months ago from web-
@scribus I know it's disrespectful to laugh about other people's names and dead ones but I've read that as "Dick Buttkiss".
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@adiwan Yeah; I'm sure it had nothing to do with his reputation as a "mean" player on the field....
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@scribus not that I really followed his career, but “probably deserved it” is one of my all time favorite replies to any angry tweet ever
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Somebody at Sega is going to hell for designing UFO Catcher
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this site needs to get about 20% cooler
about 7 months ago from web-
@liquidusmira ah, that should be fine then, i guess
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@mushi MUUSSSHHHHIIIII!!!!!!
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@scribus scriiiiiibusssss
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Silksong Never
about 8 months ago from web-
@scribus boo
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@liquidusmira the real silk song is the friends we made along the way
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@mushi that's the FAKE silksong
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Soo... how 'bout that Unity blowup? !vgp
about 8 months ago from web-
@scribus Unity is in the red for years and buying Weta wasn't cheap so they were grasping for the most stupid decision to gain (repeatable) revenue by choosing to get paid by the amount of installs of the games. The problem is that indie game developers have very little profit and it can cost more in the long run than it gained profit. Also the way to determine the amount of installs is not clear. The last information I heard was that Unity wanted to use a heuristic to guess the amount of installs. Also Unity did that decision out of nowhere and tried to cover their tracks by sneakily removing paragraphs in their license that would hinder that license change. Unity had image problems (being used for asset-flip games, taking a lot of time for updates and being behind on the technical side) before but that was a huge kick in the balls to devs and all people who bought games made with Unity.
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@adiwan their president also sold 2000 shares just before the install thing was announced, adding up to about 50k in the preceding year. seems bad
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@zeldatra Him being at EA before that goes great with that... I read that that amount of stocks was only a very small percentage of his stock holdings. Still looks scummy.
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