/ot/ - Off-Topic

It's a bit random but I noticed that as I'm getting older I don't really give a shit about spin offs and sequels anymore. Like when I got into Persona 4 thanks to the anime in 2012 and I got a PS Vita and P4G as soon as I could I liked the game so much I looked up everything about Persona and then SMT, I wanted more of it and even bought Persona Q because I also loved P3P on the PSP. I actually hated Persona Q but didn't learn my lesson from it yet. I couldn't finish the game, I was kinda stuck in the second dungeon and never touched the game again, the gameplay wasn't my cup of tea at all and I didn't like how it made all the characters parodies of themselves with Akihiko and Chie obsessing over meat and protein. I still looked up other spin offs like the P4 fighting game to know what the story was, I was arguing over what in the story was canon or not despite not even playing it, etc. and other "fans" were annoying the fuck out of me over the whole "Naoto is a trans boy" discourse with some of my mutuals arguing over it and unfollowing each other, and asking when I was going to unfollow one of them. On the other hand if I tried P4G and P3P for the very first time today I would just enjoy the games a lot, maybe replay them depending on how much free time I have, and just leave it at that.

I think the last straw for me was how I hated the fuck out of Fire Emblem Echoes which everyone only praised for being less sexist than FE Fates (a total lie) and having better art and music than FE Fates (meh) as if the gameplay wasn't dog shit. I played it after loving FE Awakening and Fates and replaying them several times. And then I had fun with FE3H but its spin off was a Musou game of all things like, I don't give a fuck if the gameplay is going to be so insanely different but the story will be more of the same thing. They lost me with that game. There are other examples, I loved SMT4 Apocalypse and FF10-2 because they're very fun games on their own, otherwise I would have felt scammed for playing them. Now even tiny things can turn me off from entire franchises, like how I hated in Xenoblade 3 that Rex becomes a whore and has kids with Pyra, Mithra and Nia at the same time despite friendzoning Nia in a way that was so humiliating it that seeing Xenoblade 3 spoilers made me want to throw up a little. It even retroactively ruined the Rex and Pyra/Mithra romance from Xenoblade 2 for me, which I really enjoyed. I also avoided FEPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>13178
For the first part, as another fellow Atlusfag I feel like that was one of the worst periods in terms of character flanderization and honestly I never really quite liked the Spin-off games all too much. I think the only "safe" games out of all of them are P3D/P5D only purely because they're both glorified project diva mods with no story. But I never bought them or playing them despite being kinda happy at the time that P3 got it's own solo spinoff game.
Persona is honestly best enjoyed with your own experience, thinking "wow that was a fun game" and never interacting with the fandom whatsoever. After P5 everything has gone to total shit and most Personafags/Atlusfags don't even like to play games. They just like to shit on the anime aspects of the games while hoping it becomes "americanized".
I've never had much attachments to P5 so I don't care much what happens to it but it does piss me off knowing that P3 characters are currently getting gachafied by P5X. It feels like the biggest monkeypaw ever.

>>13178
>>13180
I find myself treating Persona 5 like how I treat Final fantasy 7. I enjoy the original game but when I look at all the spinoffs they started churning out I just find myself not caring. The Xenoblade series already lost me when I found out the second game tried to emulate your average waifu gacha game but the spoilered part about 3 was the cherry on top. I remember seeing a viral japanese tweet that went "I thought this was Monolithsoft but it's Alicesoft." I personally don't see the problem with Fire emblem echoes, though, aside from Celica having brain problems. I never played Fates but I liked how Echoes had certain gameplay elements that you didn't see in Awakening that gave it a unique identity like the dungeon roaming sections and how you start with a whole set of villager characters that you can turn into whatever you want.

>>13163
nta but you're missing the large tumblrina population that's on there. Many of the threads concern tumblr drama/current or ex-tumblrinas and those are usually pretty active which probably explains that.

>>13161
LC's userbase changed a lot over the years. It was full of more or less nerdy women from /cgl/interested in all sorts things over ten years ago, now we have to deal with insane anons who don't belong there at all. Like anons complaining that others often talk about Japanese or Korean pop culture. Or anons who think LC is a radfem imageboard and not a gossip imageboard so they're offended when anons gossip about women or talk about their favorite evil and problematic anime.

>>13171
I fully moved on from tumblr long ago, so these new threads surprise me a little. It looks like tumblr a lot, way more than I thought, but only for the worse.

>>13137
Cosplay sex sounds great until she's so worried about damaging or staining the cosplay all of the excitement is replaced with stress. Masturbating to the fantasy beats the reality.

>>13169
Transformers BL is about as strange and alien to me as that huge live action tv show shipping fanbase that apparently exists but may as well take place on a different planet for me. However I agree that it's good for them that they apparently seem to be having fun.

>>13173
My laptop is 14 years old this year, the hard drive has been replaced once though. I'm too cheap to upgrade as long as it works tbh.

>>13175
I planned to be just like you for several reasons but Microsoft is so retarded that the very last Windows 10 update is probably the reason why my last laptop can't be connected to any network without an ethernet cable that I can't use at all at home. I once had issues with my keyboard after fucking it up when trying to clean it by accidentally defying the laws of physics I guess, and went to a random place to replace it and the guy who replaced the keyboard butchered my laptop already. And then, unrelated to the keyboard, but turning on that same laptop started to be a pain in the ass a few years later and I had to press the on/off key for up to 15min non stop to hope to make it work. That was the last straw so I waited for black friday sales and bought my current laptop for half its price. I almost want to still try to repair the previous one as well but something is telling me it will cost me an arm and a leg because it has too many issues to fix at the same time.

>>13173
>The AI bubble can't pop soon enough.
I'm so sick of it, I'm also waiting for it to pop. I wish it were just a retarded trend that's easy to ignore like NFTs but it's literally making my job a major pain in the ass. I'm not going to say what my job is, but everyone uses AI for stupid reasons and is at least doubling my workload. And now my employers want to make me use AI but it's impossible for the tasks I have to do or even more inconvenient than doing everything myself, unless I "cheat" and use chatgpt instead of using our internal tools which is illegal because of potential chaptgpt data breaches and gdpr. My coworkers don't know how that works and don't give a fuck so they're willing to send a random their party company random people's full names, addresses and phone numbers without their consent and I refuse to do that.

Even when it comes to hobbies, AI bullshit is going to force companies to make their consoles cost more money because the components they need to build these consoles are costing a lot more. I already planned to not buy a Switch 2 yet and knowing Nintendo plans to increase its price soon isn't helping me change my mind.

>>13154
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>>13020
It's so deliciously blatant.

>>12739
I'm sad that he's gotten zero screentime since the first two episodes, oh well…

This anime still gives me a warm/fuzzy feeling after each episode. The characters are really sweet and thank god the MC isn't another edgelord.

I love this cute snek.

This fic intrigued me…

https://archiveofourown.org/works/298020

This one was funny: https://archiveofourown.org/works/2769302

I am a bit disappointed fans are abandoning AMVs in favour of tiktok and instagram edits. I admit some of the edits are pretty impressive but they just don't have soul.

>>13039
Tik Tok was a mistake. Ruining fandoms since its inception.

>>12400
It's not we have a general VN thread on /ot/ >>7596 or a /bl/ games thread >/bl/>>5283 (I think that's how you do cross board links?)

I have not read Hashihine but it's been on my to-read list forever.

>>12400
>Since this is the designated VN thread
Dumb troll.

>>12403
>I think that's how you do cross board links
This is how you do it >>>/bl/5283

I'm going to try this next I heard its good and it seems that it has an option to play with the browser:
https://lewdzone.com/game/daily-lives-of-my-countryside/

>>12318
turns out it's possible to play this from the browser super easily as well:
https://xgame9.com/game/insexual-awakening/

genderbent bloom and Icy

>>12613
Iginiononna, you lurk fc too? Male Icy is so hot

I normally ship Anna and Elsa, so this is like heaven to me