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Beyond The Load Region :: Forum suggestions :: Author rancher

no_email@example.com (rancher) — Tue, 12 May 2026 20:45:51 +0000

Because I don't see a thread for it, and a general thread for suggestions may be a good idea.

Here is mine: a way to show who voted for what in polls! This would be useful, at the least, in the context of forum games, where giving participating members 1 and only 1 vote each, and knowing who voted what, is useful.

Beyond The Load Region :: Re: Forum suggestions :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Tue, 12 May 2026 20:51:57 +0000

Here is mine: a way to show who voted for what in polls!

This should be possible to add, but there's something on the technical end that's concerning me a bit so I am hesitant to change anything right now. Nonetheless, I'll keep this thread in mind and try to get a more advanced poll system added in soon.

Beyond The Load Region :: Re: Introduce Yourself :: Reply by Amlux

no_email@example.com (Amlux) — Sun, 10 May 2026 22:03:38 +0000

Hi there! Call me Amlux. I'm pleased to make everyone's acquaintance and hope to start contributing to this quality side of the web soon! I have a personal site of my own that I spend a lot of time working on and hopefully aim to turn into more of a communal space as well.

What makes SciADV special to you and what's your favourite entry?

I've read the original Chaos;Head and Steins;Gate. I do eventually want to read the follow-up series as well, though nowadays I read VNs in untranslated Japanese which means it takes me a lot longer to get through them, despite it being a more quality experience overall ^^;
I like these stories overall because they strike a perfect balance of a lot of things to me: philosophical depth, emotional pathos, real quality humor (I laughed out loud through so much of S;G especially), and everything unique and special about the particular era that was 2000s Akiba culture (right on the tail-end of it, I guess). I love science fiction in general because at its best it is the most philosophical of genres.

What's are your favourite pieces of non-SciADV otaku media? (can be other visual novels, anime, manga, jrpgs, etc.)

Too many to count! But I do love visual novels, and some of my other favorites are Subarashiki Hibi, Cross Channel, Ever17 -the out of infinity-, Symphonic Rain, and Higurashi no Naku Koro ni (I'm still in the midst of reading that last one, but I'm on the last chapter now!)

I'm also a big Touhou Project fan and my current top 10 characters are Sanae, Suwako, Reimu, Kaguya, Yuyuko, Kanako, Patchouli, Byakuren, Kogasa, and Remilia. My favorite games are Shoot the Bullet, Double Spoiler, and Great Fairy Wars, but I love all the classic run of 6-12. I'm currently trying to get a Lunatic 1cc in Undefined Fantastic Object and it's kicking my ass.

Also I love miko (shrine maidens) to an unhealthy degree.

How'd you find this forum?

I was invited by a close friend who is already a member!

What's your opinion on cyberspace as it is now?

I don't like to be fatalistic about it. Does "the internet" at large now suck? Sure, but it's not like we have to be a part of it. There are a lot of worrying trends about censorship and so on, but for the most part we should just carve out our own space and ignore large social media websites. One of the best ways to do that is having a forum like this. I've always loved forums like this and often felt somewhat orphaned without one to call home. I have to support anyone operating a forum.

What are some of your foremost hobbies?

Video games, reading, writing, drawing, studying Japanese, spirituality, cinema, music, and updating my website (in the interest of becoming increasingly more and more self-hosted).
Never feels like I have time for all of them these days!

Beyond The Load Region :: Re: Introduce Yourself :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Sun, 10 May 2026 19:24:08 +0000

Amlux wrote: Sun May 10, 2026 2:16 pm
Hi there! Call me Amlux. I'm pleased to make everyone's acquaintance and hope to start contributing to this quality side of the web soon! I have a personal site of my own that I spend a lot of time working on and hopefully aim to turn into more of a communal space as well.

What makes SciADV special to you and what's your favourite entry?
I've read the original Chaos;Head and Steins;Gate. I do eventually want to read the follow-up series as well, though nowadays I read VNs in untranslated Japanese which means it takes me a lot longer to get through them, despite it being a more quality experience overall ^^;
I like these stories overall because they strike a perfect balance of a lot of things to me: philosophical depth, emotional pathos, real quality humor (I laughed out loud through so much of S;G especially), and everything unique and special about the particular era that was 2000s Akiba culture (right on the tail-end of it, I guess). I love science fiction in general because at its best it is the most philosophical of genres.

What's are your favourite pieces of non-SciADV otaku media? (can be other visual novels, anime, manga, jrpgs, etc.)
Too many to count! But I do love visual novels, and some of my other favorites are Subarashiki Hibi, Cross Channel, Ever17 -the out of infinity-, Symphonic Rain, and Higurashi no Naku Koro ni (I'm still in the midst of reading that last one, but I'm on the last chapter now!)

I'm also a big Touhou Project fan and my current top 10 characters are Sanae, Suwako, Reimu, Kaguya, Yuyuko, Kanako, Patchouli, Byakuren, Kogasa, and Remilia. My favorite games are Shoot the Bullet, Double Spoiler, and Great Fairy Wars, but I love all the classic run of 6-12. I'm currently trying to get a Lunatic 1cc in Undefined Fantastic Object and it's kicking my ass.

Also I love miko (shrine maidens) to an unhealthy degree.

How'd you find this forum?
I was invited by a close friend who is already a member!

What's your opinion on cyberspace as it is now?
I don't like to be fatalistic about it. Does "the internet" at large now suck? Sure, but it's not like we have to be a part of it. There are a lot of worrying trends about censorship and so on, but for the most part we should just carve out our own space and ignore large social media websites. One of the best ways to do that is having a forum like this. I've always loved forums like this and often felt somewhat orphaned without one to call home. I have to support anyone operating a forum.

What are some of your foremost hobbies?
Video games, reading, writing, drawing, studying Japanese, spirituality, cinema, music, and updating my website (in the interest of becoming increasingly more and more self-hosted).
Never feels like I have time for all of them these days!

Welcome to the forum, I've been looking through your site and it's quite interesting and content-rich, cool stuff. Very much agreed regarding carving out your own space on the net and what you said regarding forums is precisely why I made this place actually; I've always loved them but didn't feel like I had one to truly call home. Hope to see you around!

Beyond The Load Region :: Re: Introduce Yourself :: Reply by rancher

no_email@example.com (rancher) — Mon, 11 May 2026 16:30:34 +0000

How'd you find this forum?

Saw it linked in a suspicious chatroom. Looked pretty neet, so I figured, why not join?

What's your opinion on cyberspace as it is now?

The internet was pretty bad for a while, but now that all the NPCs have sent themselves to quarantine zones (i.e. "social media", "discord") and opted out of cyberspace proper, it's been getting a lot cooler on the margins.

What are some of your foremost hobbies?

making software toys, clandestine chemistry & gardening , tabletop games, reading. especially literature and philosophy but I am reading all kinds of things all of the time.

Beyond The Load Region :: Re: Introduce Yourself :: Reply by AipiqiA

no_email@example.com (AipiqiA) — Sat, 23 May 2026 19:56:06 +0000

Hello I am AipiqiA.

What makes SciADV special to you and what's your favourite entry?

Steins;gate has always had a special place in my heart, mostly due to the weird and fun friend group that is at the center of the story. I also liked Occultic;Nine, mostly due to the wit of the funny detective guy. I'm still playing CHAOS;HEAD NOaH, and I like it quite a bit mainly due to Takumi and the early 2000s otaku culture shown in the VN. I look forward to getting to the Sena route especially since she had the most interesting things to say so far, atleast from my perspective. Ofc, I also like the science aspects and cultural references in the series.

Currently I'm leaning towards Steins;Gate as my favourite due to its slice of life and relationship aspects.

What's are your favourite pieces of non-SciADV otaku media? (can be other visual novels, anime, manga, jrpgs, etc.)

Currently I'm really into Type Moon. I was also into Nisio Isin stuff a while ago. I list more of my interests on my site.

How'd you find this forum?

I found it on owner's post in Cidoku's guestbook while I was lurking through it a while ago.

What's your opinion on cyberspace as it is now?

The internet? It's mostly slop due to the main mediums of big centralized social media platforms and they're recommendation/popularity based algorithms for displaying content encouraging less than likeable behaviour and content. When people aren't being political or pricks to each other, it's pretty nice. There are lots of nice places and people in the web. This site seems really nice too!

What are some of your foremost hobbies?

I like to listen to music, consoom otaku media, watch video lectures (though i want to read more texts instead), read internet articles.

I also like to make art, figuring out local ant populations, talking to my friends, working on my computer, and recently working on my site, where I will try to share a lot of my interests as well.

Beyond The Load Region :: Re: Introduce Yourself :: Reply by cidoku

no_email@example.com (cidoku) — Sun, 24 May 2026 03:17:57 +0000

AipiqiA wrote: Sat May 23, 2026 3:56 pm
I found it on owner's post in Cidoku's guestbook while I was lurking through it a while ago.

Hey, hello! It's so cool that you found this through my site! It would seem that @Maypews owes me some ad revenue now.

Beyond The Load Region :: Re: Introduce Yourself :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Sun, 24 May 2026 10:35:33 +0000

cidoku wrote: Sat May 23, 2026 11:17 pm

AipiqiA wrote: Sat May 23, 2026 3:56 pm
I found it on owner's post in Cidoku's guestbook while I was lurking through it a while ago.
It would seem that @Maypews owes me some ad revenue now.

5 dollars and counting...

Beyond The Load Region :: Re: Introduce Yourself :: Reply by Saki

no_email@example.com (Saki) — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:30:28 +0000

I've been ghosting my way through this forum for a little while, it was about time I introduced myself for real! I am Saki, though you might have already encountered me elsewhere as Saki Mondo, or Sakimotor. I used to upload video game music on a YouTube channel, but it was someday massively DMCA'd by hasu, so I'm not doing that any longer, it was good while it lasted.

What makes SciADV special to you and what's your favourite entry?

The SciADV series has been a part of my weeb life for as long as I can remember honestly. Steins;Gate was my first anime, Chaos;Head followed soon after as I didn't really know better. Once I'd get into visual novels, S;G1 and 0 would be the first ones I'd go through, followed by the Chaos duology many years later. I like sci-fi, conspiracies and pseudoscience like it's likely the case of many people here (Zero Escape is another series I'm fond of for that). Steins;Gate's characters are appealing, Takumi is my top guy, and chaos;child had a very fun detective story to untangle, just the way She intended it. I should eventually read the robotics entires and A;C, someday, surely...

What's are your favourite pieces of non-SciADV otaku media? (can be other visual novels, anime, manga, jrpgs, etc.)

I love the Xeno series, especially Xenogears and Xenosaga Episode III, very impressive J-RPGs. The most otaku interest of mine is likely rhythm games, I've been a BEMANI-head for about a decade at this point and couldn't imagine living without DDR or IIDX! Another game that defines me is Radaint Silvergun, I owe Hitoshi Sakimoto my nickname.

How'd you find this forum?

Shogun.

What's your opinion on cyberspace as it is now?

Quite bleak. I wish decentralization was still important for most people. I liked finding out about video game trivia and game mods through more outlets than a Bluesky thread and/or a half-private (and likely to be deleted soon) Discord server. I don't really see a problem in the existence of massive social media, their relevance and the way they are used reflect what people currently seek out of the internet. Mass consumption, short-spanned content, "entertainment". Forums like this one fell out of general relevance as more and more normies got access to the web, and that's fine. It becomes a problem when even the pioneers of the Internet are "forced" to use such networks to remain in reach with the new audiences.
Some people still take the time to make their own little home, I like them. I don't count myself into that category yet, my personal page is a bit too neglected to count.

What are some of your foremost hobbies?

Reverse engineering of video games is a field I've been getting into reliably for the past 3-4 years, one small step at a time. We were given Assembly and Compiler classes for my CompSci Master's, I use that knowledge as a pillar for the rest. Otherwise, as I mentioned before, I play a lot of rhythm games and try getting good at DDR mostly. Lately I've been 1ccing shmups too, Radiant Silvergun is the one I'd love to conquer the most. I already cleared the Very Easy Arcade mode half a year ago and even got the WR for it on the Steam release. I would like to eventually be able to clear the Story mode as well, and on the Normal difficulty instead.

Beyond The Load Region :: Re: Introduce Yourself :: Reply by Erin

no_email@example.com (Erin) — Mon, 25 May 2026 15:44:10 +0000

Saki wrote: Mon May 25, 2026 10:30 am
I've been ghosting my way through this forum for a little while, it was about time I introduced myself for real! I am Saki, though you might have already encountered me elsewhere as Saki Mondo, or Sakimotor. I used to upload video game music on a YouTube channel, but it was someday massively DMCA'd by hasu, so I'm not doing that any longer, it was good while it lasted.

What makes SciADV special to you and what's your favourite entry?
The SciADV series has been a part of my weeb life for as long as I can remember honestly. Steins;Gate was my first anime, Chaos;Head followed soon after as I didn't really know better. Once I'd get into visual novels, S;G1 and 0 would be the first ones I'd go through, followed by the Chaos duology many years later. I like sci-fi, conspiracies and pseudoscience like it's likely the case of many people here (Zero Escape is another series I'm fond of for that). Steins;Gate's characters are appealing, Takumi is my top guy, and chaos;child had a very fun detective story to untangle, just the way She intended it. I should eventually read the robotics entires and A;C, someday, surely...

What's are your favourite pieces of non-SciADV otaku media? (can be other visual novels, anime, manga, jrpgs, etc.)
I love the Xeno series, especially Xenogears and Xenosaga Episode III, very impressive J-RPGs. The most otaku interest of mine is likely rhythm games, I've been a BEMANI-head for about a decade at this point and couldn't imagine living without DDR or IIDX! Another game that defines me is Radaint Silvergun, I owe Hitoshi Sakimoto my nickname.

How'd you find this forum?
Shogun.

What's your opinion on cyberspace as it is now?
Quite bleak. I wish decentralization was still important for most people. I liked finding out about video game trivia and game mods through more outlets than a Bluesky thread and/or a half-private (and likely to be deleted soon) Discord server. I don't really see a problem in the existence of massive social media, their relevance and the way they are used reflect what people currently seek out of the internet. Mass consumption, short-spanned content, "entertainment". Forums like this one fell out of general relevance as more and more normies got access to the web, and that's fine. It becomes a problem when even the pioneers of the Internet are "forced" to use such networks to remain in reach with the new audiences.
Some people still take the time to make their own little home, I like them. I don't count myself into that category yet, my personal page is a bit too neglected to count.

What are some of your foremost hobbies?
Reverse engineering of video games is a field I've been getting into reliably for the past 3-4 years, one small step at a time. We were given Assembly and Compiler classes for my CompSci Master's, I use that knowledge as a pillar for the rest. Otherwise, as I mentioned before, I play a lot of rhythm games and try getting good at DDR mostly. Lately I've been 1ccing shmups too, Radiant Silvergun is the one I'd love to conquer the most. I already cleared the Very Easy Arcade mode half a year ago and even got the WR for it on the Steam release. I would like to eventually be able to clear the Story mode as well, and on the Normal difficulty instead.

Nice, I've only played Xenoblade Chronicles 1, 2 and X but I enjoyed them a lot. Cool that you're into IIDX, I'm into Sound Voltex myself, although I've only gotten into it very recently. Would like to get into IIDX at some point too, rhythm games are great.

Beyond The Load Region :: Re: Introduce Yourself :: Reply by Blond

no_email@example.com (Blond) — Mon, 25 May 2026 16:05:11 +0000

Flower, Sun and Rain pfp. Hell yeah!

Beyond The Load Region :: Re: Introduce Yourself :: Reply by Parzival

no_email@example.com (Parzival) — Mon, 25 May 2026 23:27:00 +0000

Saki wrote: Mon May 25, 2026 10:30 am
Takumi is my top guy

Hell yeah, that's my GOAT!

Saki wrote: Mon May 25, 2026 10:30 am
I love the Xeno series, especially Xenogears and Xenosaga Episode III, very impressive J-RPGs.

A fellow Xenochad! Let's GOOOOOO!

Shmups and FSR too? A man after my own heart.

Beyond The Load Region :: Re: Introduce Yourself :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Mon, 25 May 2026 23:36:42 +0000

You know, we could really use a shmups thread. I'm not any good at them (still don't even have a 1CC lol) but they are a lot of fun. I've always wanted to read more about the Japanese scene and playerbase they've got going over there. seems like a very interesting competitive scene and is rather otaku in nature too.

Beyond The Load Region :: Re: Introduce Yourself :: Reply by Nova

no_email@example.com (Nova) — Fri, 29 May 2026 12:51:16 +0000

Maypews wrote: Mon May 25, 2026 7:36 pm
You know, we could really use a shmups thread. I'm not any good at them (still don't even have a 1CC lol) but they are a lot of fun. I've always wanted to read more about the Japanese scene and playerbase they've got going over there. seems like a very interesting competitive scene and is rather otaku in nature too.

I am a shmup player. I can make one.

Beyond The Load Region :: Re: Introduce Yourself :: Reply by aeon

no_email@example.com (aeon) — Fri, 29 May 2026 14:39:16 +0000

Nova wrote: Fri May 29, 2026 8:51 am
I am a shmup player. I can make one.

That would be nice, I have been wanting to get into Touhou for a while but I have been kinda lost on where to start and how to improve :o

Beyond The Load Region :: 1000 Posts :: Author Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Thu, 07 May 2026 06:25:38 +0000

In honour of what is in my mind a major milestone, I thought I'd make a little meta thread reflecting on the forum up to this point. To be honest, I never thought that we'd reach this point. I have always loved forums and wanted to run one, but never really thought it'd ever happen because I saw the technical barrier as being too high for me to broach. Additionally I am rather reclusive in nature, in fact were it not for the efforts of @dokyun and @Parzival this place likely would've never developed a userbase of any kind; I deeply appreciate all that you two have done for the site.

Many say that forums are dying, but in some respects I still maintain a little optimism. The reason why? I think that a lot of people don't actually enjoy using social media. Rather I propose that they are dependent on it, they boot it up unconsciously like a heroin addict getting their latest fix. How much can you actually remember from your time on these platforms? The answer is probably "not much". I can effortlessly remember my DBZ roleplays on a forum back in 2010, yet I struggle to recall any memories from the many Discord servers I've been in save for one or two exceptions.

Do you know why that is? Because you get to know people on forums. You make friends, you forge bonds, you're apart of something greater and much more tangible. Much of this is caused by the medium itself facilitating longer form and most of all human discourse, as opposed to the addiction and dependency that characterise algorithimic social media platforms. It's for this reason that I think one day we'll perhaps start seeing something of an exodus.

When will this exodus come? Who knows, but all I can hope is that my site is still around when it does. Because as of now, it is very difficult to start running a forum. Used to be you'd set up a script, pick up a topic and users would come streaming in. When I tried doing the same, I learned the hard way that this is no longer the reality of it all in 「PRESENT TIME」. Even if I could get someone to join the site, at best they'd browse it for a day or two, leave a few posts and then stop coming back because nobody else was there except me.

I remember being giddy just to see 3 users (including myself) online at once. I've seen the countless forum script installations that are total wastelands. It was all very discouraging, and I had all but given up on growing this site by the time 2026 rolled around. Getting a forum off the ground in any shape or form in the current year is brutal, and were it not for all of you it never would have happened. So excuse me if this post seems melodramatic or overly grandiose, but seeing the total post count reach into the 4 digits made me very happy. Even if this place was beamed out of existence tomorrow by the Organisation I would never forget that time I ran a forum that broke 1000 posts that were not all just me schizoposting. It truly means a lot to me.

I would also like to thank @capstasher , @Blond , @nyan , @cidoku , @alix , @deha28 , @Duk3 , @DrSchnautz , @Kallisto, @John Titor, @StylusNine, @mihai.the.golan, @Dweeeb and @glass, Deluoode certainly would not be the same without the high quality contributions from all of you. And know that even if I did not mention you by name, I read and appreciate every post. In honour of the milestone, I've also decided to repurpose the previously-locked "Help Desk" subforum into a meta board for people to talk about the site itself.

With that, I suppose this tangent has gone on for long enough. Administrator signing off.

El Psy Kongroo.

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Beyond The Load Region :: Re: 1000 Posts :: Reply by capstasher

no_email@example.com (capstasher) — Thu, 07 May 2026 06:42:07 +0000

Do not apologise, my friend. Instead, embrace your chuunibyou, revel in it. For it is chuunibyou alone, the will to do the impossible, that makes said impossible become possible.

DELUOODE WILL DEFEAT THE ORGANISATION!

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Congratulations on the 1k. May this be but a tiny milestone in Deluoode's great future history.

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Beyond The Load Region :: Re: 1000 Posts :: Reply by capstasher

no_email@example.com (capstasher) — Thu, 07 May 2026 06:46:08 +0000

Also, "Meta Land", might as well call it "Beyond the Load Region" and keep in touch with the SciADV theme.

Beyond The Load Region :: Re: 1000 Posts :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Thu, 07 May 2026 06:48:27 +0000

capstasher wrote: Thu May 07, 2026 2:46 am
Also, "Meta Land", might as well call it "Beyond the Load Region" and keep in touch with the SciADV theme.

Oh shit, great idea. Gonna do that right now!

Beyond The Load Region :: Re: 1000 Posts :: Reply by aeon

no_email@example.com (aeon) — Thu, 07 May 2026 09:45:41 +0000

I have only just been shown this forum, but I'm really glad I was. A lot of what you said about social media rings true to me, it all just feels like mindless content to entertain you for the 5 seconds you see it. There really isn't much place anymore for real connections, but maybe that's just something I missed on. I have been looking for a while for a forum like this, I tried checking 4chan out but even the most mild topics end up being a cesspool of racism. Just from this post alone I can see that the people running this forum are motivated to create a fun space to hang around and have fun even if it's a small community.

Sorry for the cheesy rant, just happy to have found a place to chat on :O

Beyond The Load Region :: Re: 1000 Posts :: Reply by alix

no_email@example.com (alix) — Thu, 07 May 2026 13:11:50 +0000

were wer you when deluded 1000 posts

i was at home drinking dr pepper when computer ring

"deluded 1000 posts"

"yes"

Beyond The Load Region :: Re: 1000 Posts :: Reply by Hououin Kyouma

no_email@example.com (Hououin Kyouma) — Thu, 07 May 2026 14:03:36 +0000

capstasher wrote: Thu May 07, 2026 2:42 am
Do not apologise, my friend. Instead, embrace your chuunibyou, revel in it. For it is chuunibyou alone, the will to do the impossible, that makes said impossible become possible.

DELUOODE WILL DEFEAT THE ORGANISATION!

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Congratulations on the 1k. May this be but a tiny milestone in Deluoode's great future history.

I do not know what seized me when writing the OP. Perhaps it was some form of electromagnetic wave beamed into my neurotransmitters by the Organisation to force these sentimental inclinatons upon me. It is truly terrifying to think that, even after having established a clear-cut informational channel through which us anti-Organisation forces can congregate, that one can still fall into the clutches of their evil influence!

But worry not, all you observers who have gathered here. For Deluoode will always remain On・Guard against any nefarious takedown attempts or offensives aimed at our stronghold. We shall expose the Organisation's crimes for the entire world to see, and our BBS will remain online for all eternal to this very end. Even in the face of the most egriegous of takedown attempts, the most conniving of double agents, or perhaps even if a lightning bolt (surely contracted by them) struck the server that I'm running this site from out back in my barn, we will always come crawling back like a cockroach that refuses to die!

That is the choice of 「The Fate Stone Gate - Steins;Gate」. El Psy Kongroo.

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Beyond The Load Region :: Re: 1000 Posts :: Reply by Parzival

no_email@example.com (Parzival) — Sat, 09 May 2026 16:41:22 +0000

Happy to have been of assistance!

Admittedly, while Cap and I are probably the only ones who actually embody this ethos to any degree (and are actually capable of using more than one website or Discord server)- that's still what the CTRL is all about! A group of anons with bright futures who can't sit idly by when someone's in need!

Especially when the help needed is with something as noble and cool as establishing a forum in the age of social media, especially one centered around SciADV. Anyone fighting back against the machinations of the Committee like that is more than worthy of it in my book!

We're only about halfway through the year, but still, here's hoping 2027 will be even more fruitful!

Beyond The Load Region :: Re: 1000 Posts :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Sun, 10 May 2026 03:04:19 +0000

Parzival wrote: Sat May 09, 2026 12:41 pm
Happy to have been of assistance!

Admittedly, while Cap and I are probably the only ones who actually embody this ethos to any degree (and are actually capable of using more than one website or Discord server)- that's still what the CTRL is all about

Kal was the first person to ever actually look at the site semi-regularly besides myself, even though he never made too many posts. It would be nice to see him check in more often. There are unfortunately a few older users who I invited but nobody really posted besides me at the time that I brought them on, so most of them (understandably) got bored and left after a few posts. It's upsetting cause in a way it feels like a missed opportunity, like had I invited them now perhaps they'd have stuck around. Maybe one day they'll come back

Beyond The Load Region :: Re: 1000 Posts :: Reply by Blond

no_email@example.com (Blond) — Sun, 10 May 2026 07:01:32 +0000

Congratulations on the 1,000 posts!

I still remember how I got here. I was scrolling on Twitter and saw Parzival tweet about the site, and I thought to myself “Why not?” And here we are.

This forum is amazing, and it’s full of incredible people. I hope it goes on for many, many more years. Here’s to more Deluoode for years to come!

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Beyond The Load Region :: Re: 1000 Posts :: Reply by deha28

no_email@example.com (deha28) — Sun, 10 May 2026 07:18:56 +0000

Maypews wrote: Sat May 09, 2026 11:04 pm

Parzival wrote: Sat May 09, 2026 12:41 pm
Happy to have been of assistance!

Admittedly, while Cap and I are probably the only ones who actually embody this ethos to any degree (and are actually capable of using more than one website or Discord server)- that's still what the CTRL is all about
Kal was the first person to ever actually look at the site semi-regularly besides myself, even though he never made too many posts. It would be nice to see him check in more often. There are unfortunately a few older users who I invited but nobody really posted besides me at the time that I brought them on, so most of them (understandably) got bored and left after a few posts. It's upsetting cause in a way it feels like a missed opportunity. Maybe one day they'll come back

Don’t beat yourself up over it. This sort of thing happens all the time. People often come and go for various reasons. Maybe they’ll come back, or perhaps even more people will join in their place. This forum will continue to grow over time, becoming more interesting and likely to retain its audience much more successfully.

Beyond The Load Region :: Re: 1000 Posts :: Reply by cidoku

no_email@example.com (cidoku) — Sun, 10 May 2026 15:00:05 +0000

I may not post too often, but I'm always reading. Congrats on the 1k again, May.

Beyond The Load Region :: Re: 1000 Posts :: Reply by deha28

no_email@example.com (deha28) — Mon, 11 May 2026 10:52:21 +0000

cidoku wrote: Sun May 10, 2026 11:00 am
I may not post too often, but I'm always reading. Congrats on the 1k again, May.

Hahaha... That’s exactly what always happens to me. I read most of the posts, but I rarely post anything myself. Sometimes I simply don’t have the relevant experience to comment on something, and sometimes I feel my own opinion isn’t relevant.

Beyond The Load Region :: Re: 1000 Posts :: Reply by cidoku

no_email@example.com (cidoku) — Mon, 11 May 2026 22:24:58 +0000

deha28 wrote: Mon May 11, 2026 6:52 am
Hahaha... That’s exactly what always happens to me. I read most of the posts, but I rarely post anything myself. Sometimes I simply don’t have the relevant experience to comment on something, and sometimes I feel my own opinion isn’t relevant.

Don't beat yourself up; some of us are born natural lurkers.

Beyond The Load Region :: Re: 1000 Posts :: Reply by Erin

no_email@example.com (Erin) — Tue, 12 May 2026 03:33:51 +0000

ROM (Read Only Member). I think C;H LCC jokes about them at least once but I could be misremembering. I wonder if that's a word any of the VNs had as a keyword hint, feels like one probably did.

Beyond The Load Region :: Re: 1000 Posts :: Reply by dokyun

no_email@example.com (dokyun) — Tue, 12 May 2026 21:08:42 +0000

Ok, I said I was going to write some of my thoughts here since I guess I'm considered important enough to be mentioned up front, so I'll do my best even though the first part was written around 2AM in a stream-of-consiousness-as-I-recollect-past-events format. Prepare for a goddamn novel.

So I was clicking around, right, and I found May's website. It's cool in it's way, admittedly I'd be a bit more spartan if I did it as opposed to the whole neocities-ish thing, but I'm a hacker and not a web designer. My point is that it looked good and the effort shone through. And I saw this button that said "Deluoode" on it thinking hey I know what that is, but I didn't expect to be brought to a forum. I love Steins;Gate and Chaos;Head and all that, but shit, a whole forum for it? News to me, and it's rocking phpBB old style. Even if I could talk about Science Adventure type stuff at length you wouldn't catch me dead in a discord, that shit's poison. I browse reddit once in a while but same thing, pretty lame all around, I just keep this stuff to my friends-- people who "get it". Hopefully I'll find a couple of people who "get it" over here too. It looks a little dead, but the admin's online and I got nothing to be scared of, I'm not one of those self-doubting flouridated zoomers with a crunchyroll subscription who curl up in a ball when they see a magnet link or something. He's probably just waiting for people to show up, so I make an account. "dokyun" is clever, and shows a bit of my net heritage too.

I talk to the admin in the little chat box, he's a pretty cool guy. The situations a bit what I expected, he's got this site but people haven't really shown up yet and he doesn't really know exactly what to do. Not a hacker either, but hey we come from all walks of life, and this kinda stuff is the best way to learn so I'm willing to help. Made the first intro post to let everyone know what I'm all about and I keep the conversation going in the same thread cause that's how I roll. I guess he dragged a few of his neocities buddies on here the year before, but this is the most action the site's seen in a while. I never really got the whole neocities thing, but hey I got my prejudices; I'm sure we'll get along fine. I think Blond showed up shortly after, and I could tell right away from his Kaz avatar that he was legit. So things are looking up for the site, but the only way it's gonnna sustain life is if I do what I always do, try to drag some of /my/ friends into it. It feels weird being at the center of some kinda panopticon in a mostly dormant site anyway. I got May on XMPP too, more of you guys should use that. Things really started picking up when we started doing the anime nights. Introducing Gikopoi was a great idea, you can just stream without friction. Since then I kinda just advised on some technical stuff and have just been hanging out with everyone else. It's been fun man, this place has got my kinda people. I'll respond a bit now.

Maypews wrote: Thu May 07, 2026 2:25 am
To be honest, I never thought that we'd reach this point. I have always loved forums and wanted to run one, but never really thought it'd ever happen because I saw the technical barrier as being too high for me to broach. Additionally I am rather reclusive in nature, in fact were it not for the efforts of @dokyun and @Parzival this place likely would've never developed a userbase of any kind; I deeply appreciate all that you two have done for the site.

I appreciate it bro. To be honest it does take some balls to set up a public-facing site, especially if you've never done it before but you wanna build a community around it even though you don't really know what you're doing, but that's how you actually learn. I figure since I started running my own rodeo over on Fedi almost a year ago now is why I could relate a bit to your experience; you don't have to know everything all at once, and that's why it's /fun/: I probably wouldn't have made my site if I figured I wouldn't learn anything by hacking around on it.

Maypews wrote: Thu May 07, 2026 2:25 am
Many say that forums are dying, but in some respects I still maintain a little optimism. The reason why? I think that a lot of people don't actually enjoy using social media. Rather I propose that they are dependent on it, they boot it up unconsciously like a heroin addict getting their latest fix. How much can you actually remember from your time on these platforms? The answer is probably "not much". I can effortlessly remember my DBZ roleplays on a forum back in 2010, yet I struggle to recall any memories from the many Discord servers I've been in save for one or two exceptions.

Do you know why that is? Because you get to know people on forums. You make friends, you forge bonds, you're apart of something greater and much more tangible. Much of this is caused by the medium itself facilitating longer form and most of all human discourse, as opposed to the addiction and dependency that characterise algorithimic social media platforms.

Here's the thing right, I like long drawn out conversations. Creative writing, putting words on the platter, giving my ideas some substance. Where do the kids go to do that these days? Discord? Like hell, man. Most of 'em are so limp-dicked they can't even banter, and they aren't even fun to troll. What I tend to remember are the groups in which I made friends and still have some; playing games, shooting the shit all night.

Maypews wrote: Thu May 07, 2026 2:25 am
Because as of now, it is very difficult to start running a forum. Used to be you'd set up a script, pick up a topic and users would come streaming in. When I tried doing the same, I learned the hard way that this is no longer the reality of it all in 「PRESENT TIME」. Even if I could get someone to join the site, at best they'd browse it for a day or two, leave a few posts and then stop coming back because nobody else was there except me.

This is just straight up something that happens everywhere. It's basically a meme on IRC, someone joins a channel, says "hello" and leaves 5 minutes later. I couldn't tell you how many times it's happened on Gikopoi, 9 out of 10 people who show up to chat will never come back. I know it sounds disheartening but the bright side is that there's a 1 out of 10 that will stick around for a while. These are the people that are worth having around.

Maypews wrote: Thu May 07, 2026 2:25 am
I remember being giddy just to see 3 users (including myself) online at once. I've seen the countless forum script installations that are total wastelands. It was all very discouraging, and I had all but given up on growing this site by the time 2026 rolled around. Getting a forum off the ground in any shape or form in the current year is brutal, and were it not for all of you it never would have happened. So excuse me if this post seems melodramatic or overly grandiose, but seeing the total post count reach into the 4 digits made me very happy. Even if this place was beamed out of existence tomorrow by the Organisation I would never forget that time I ran a forum that broke 1000 posts that were not all just me schizoposting. It truly means a lot to me.

Don't know what else to write. Here's your prize. El Psy Kongroo.

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Beyond The Load Region :: Re: 1000 Posts :: Reply by DrSchnautz

no_email@example.com (DrSchnautz) — Sat, 30 May 2026 20:17:12 +0000

You are far too kind; I think @dokyun is the one to thank for introducing me to this site :D

Beyond The Load Region :: Re: Change Log :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Sat, 16 May 2026 12:11:01 +0000

Added an on-site currency, which you can obtain via posting and starting topics. Said currency can be spent in the "Shop" on waifus to showcase next to your posts above the profile flairs section. Will be adding more stuff to it soon. Also added extra poll options (including the ability to see who voted for what).

Beyond The Load Region :: Re: Change Log :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 05:08:27 +0000

Added new items to the shop including 2 new perks, anonymised all user IPs, and I believe I've fixed the disappearing profile banner issue. So if you had yours disappear you can reset it now and it should be fine.

Edit (06/03/2026): I also added in a "My Inventory" button in the shop so that you can easily navigate to your waifus without having to do it from the counter on the miniprofile. To make them appear under your posts from the inventory, click "Showcase".

The Base :: Re: Chaos;Head Noah (General) :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Thu, 07 May 2026 22:01:44 +0000

Since my last post, I've gotten two more endings; the FES and Yua ones. Unfortunately I've been having a lot of technical issues getting the routes themselves, I don't know why but it seems like it's up to the game's interpretation even if I follow the guide to a tee whether it's going to put me on the route or not. I had originally planned to finish all the Noah endings after R;N but unfortunately this glitchiness was irritating me a great deal so I ended up pivoting to reading something else instead. Nonetheless I'll give my thoughts on the endings here.

The Yua route was solid, though I was unfortunately spoiled on the big twist because of aforementioned technical difficulties and, when looking for online help to fix them, Google decided to spoil everything so that's nice. It certainly reads like it was wrote by someone who's into femdom to the point of being a bit silly and immersion breaking, but it does end on a high note. I'd give it like a 7/10.

I was a big fan of the FES route. In the main story, Ayase feels as though she had been forgotten. We don't see much about her character and never learn what exactly all of her schizobabble means, so I'm glad the game takes a detour to clear that up. It also humanises her a lot and makes the reader ponder what or how differently someone may perceive the world from oneself.

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This isn't something I think I've seen many stories try to do. The way someone sees the world will obviously greatly affect their opinions on it, and as such what may seem utterly incomprehensible becomes much less so if you're able to place yourself in the exact same shoes as someone else. It's a very nice and human message, and it also fleshes out Ayase herself a great deal. 8/10, maybe an 8.5/10, really enjoyed this one.

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The Base :: Re: Scans & Official Art :: Reply by capstasher

no_email@example.com (capstasher) — Fri, 08 May 2026 20:20:04 +0000

Not enough Kurisu on here. Is this really a SciADV forum or are you all pretending?

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The Base :: Re: Scans & Official Art :: Reply by capstasher

no_email@example.com (capstasher) — Tue, 12 May 2026 01:15:27 +0000

You may roll your eyes at me for this, but I have just learned today that Steam trading cards have wallpapers attached! Here are all the SciADV ones I have (Only C;H and S;G, missing Daru):

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The Base :: Re: Scans & Official Art :: Reply by aeon

no_email@example.com (aeon) — Tue, 12 May 2026 03:07:18 +0000

You can find all the rest here or here!. Just search up the name of the game and the cards should show up. You can also find the steam profile backgrounds there.

I think this should be all, let me know if I missed one!

The Base :: SciADV Artbook Collection :: Author Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Tue, 19 May 2026 00:50:21 +0000

Hello observers, I come to you all today with a very special topic. If you've ever looked around online on places such as booru sites and the like, you've probably seen these sorts of ultra HD renders containing art that's not present in the source material.

These illustrations are most often found in art books. Art books are essentially these very large books that contain unique illustrations, character designs, rough sketches/concept art, and sometimes even world lore and production information. SciADV as well as a lot of other franchises have many of these. On the Western net you'll often see illustrations from them that aren't sourced and kind of just start to circulate around without people knowing where they came from. But in fact there are actually more things like it available in the source material that you probably haven't seen before!

As such, with the help of @capstasher's Webdex, I have shared all of the artbooks that I was able to find online pertaining to the series. To log in and download the files, use the username "Del-tan" and the password "Gateway;Pages26". There may be more out there, and if you know of them please do let me know. But as of now, these are all the ones I was able to locate;

Chaos;Head Artbooks
Chaos;Head Noah Visual Collection [2009, small artbook that released with Xbox 360 limited edition of NOAH]
Capture Materials & Guest Illustrations [2009, features guest illustrations of the characters from prominent third party artists]
Chaos;Head Complete Art Book [2011]
Chaos;Head Dual Official Design Works [2014, released with the PS Vita limited edition known as Chaos;Head Dual]

Steins;Gate Artbooks
Steins; Gate Official Material Book [2010, don't have this one but it's supposedly inferior to the 2011 artbook]
Steins;Gate Visual Works [2011, released at Comiket 78 by Huke and contains 32 pages of illustrations]
Steins;Gate Illustrations Collection [2011]
Huke Selected Works [2012. not a S;G artbook but rather a personal artist book but about 50% of it is S;G illustrations]
Steins;Gate Visual Works 2 [2014, was sold at Comiket 83 at the official 5pb booth]

Robotics;Notes Artbooks
ROBOTICS;NOTES Official Material Guide Childhood Dreams [2012]
ROBOTICS;NOTES OFFICIAL GUIDE BOOK [2013, this is more for the anime and largely just contains screencaps but figured I'd include it anyway]

Chaos;Child Artbooks
Chaos;Child Official Document: Here Without You [2015, C;C might only have one book but lots of cool stuff I hadn't seen before in this]

Miscellaneous
Nitroplus Art Masters [2016, contains illustration from a variety of Nitroplus IPs which includes some of Chaos;Head and Steins;Gate]

As of now this is all that I have been able to find, let me know if I'm missing any and most of all enjoy the art!

The Base :: Re: SciADV Artbook Collection :: Reply by capstasher

no_email@example.com (capstasher) — Tue, 19 May 2026 01:08:21 +0000

Terrible tragedy that Occultic;Nine and Anonymous;Code never seem to have gotten artbooks. It would have been amazing to see more materials for those two. Alas, such is the way of the Mages.

Thank you very much for tracking these down May! I have never seen a lot of the illustrations here before! I'm certain I can't be the only one here in that position.

The Base :: Re: SciADV Artbook Collection :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Tue, 19 May 2026 01:18:31 +0000

capstasher wrote: Mon May 18, 2026 9:08 pm
Terrible tragedy that Occultic;Nine and Anonymous;Code never seem to have gotten artbooks. It would have been amazing to see more materials for those two. Alas, such is the way of the Mages.

Thank you very much for tracking these down May! I have never seen a lot of the illustrations here before! I'm certain I can't be the only one here in that position.

A;C supposedly has an artbook on the Steam page called "ANONYMOUS;CODE - A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO EARTH SIMULATOR". I was unable to find a rip of it, and I am unsure if it contains original illustrations (which is what I assume most of us are here for since the text is in Japanese) because the description is rather vague;

"ANONYMOUS;CODE Interactive Digital Artbook: "A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO EARTH SIMULATOR"
You can enjoy the interactive contents of this digital artbook by listening to character voices and BGM as you flip through the pages and zoom into the artwork. "

Nonetheless this one is quite accessible it seems since you can buy it digitially. So if anyone owns it on Steam and would like to contribute it to the collection let me know! Unfortunately though I couldn't find anything for O;9.

The Base :: Re: SciADV Artbook Collection :: Reply by capstasher

no_email@example.com (capstasher) — Tue, 19 May 2026 01:34:02 +0000

Maypews wrote: Mon May 18, 2026 9:18 pm

capstasher wrote: Mon May 18, 2026 9:08 pm
Terrible tragedy that Occultic;Nine and Anonymous;Code never seem to have gotten artbooks. It would have been amazing to see more materials for those two. Alas, such is the way of the Mages.

Thank you very much for tracking these down May! I have never seen a lot of the illustrations here before! I'm certain I can't be the only one here in that position.
A;C supposedly has an artbook on the Steam page called "ANONYMOUS;CODE - A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO EARTH SIMULATOR". I was unable to find a rip of it, and I am unsure if it contains original illustrations (which is what I assume most of us are here for since the text is in Japanese) because the description is rather vague;

"ANONYMOUS;CODE Interactive Digital Artbook: "A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO EARTH SIMULATOR"
You can enjoy the interactive contents of this digital artbook by listening to character voices and BGM as you flip through the pages and zoom into the artwork. "

Nonetheless this one is quite accessible it seems since you can buy it digitially. So if anyone owns it on Steam and would like to contribute it to the collection let me know! Unfortunately though I couldn't find anything for O;9.

A few of the CTRL have it on Steam but it seems to actually be interactive, like, you click on buttons to go to specific sections for each character. See: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2459 ... SIMULATOR/

The Base :: Re: SciADV Artbook Collection :: Reply by Blond

no_email@example.com (Blond) — Tue, 19 May 2026 07:44:19 +0000

Man, I can’t wait for someone to translate the artbooks. I want to know what the thought process behind the saga was, especially on how they did the designs.

The Base :: Re: SciADV Artbook Collection :: Reply by Erin

no_email@example.com (Erin) — Tue, 19 May 2026 14:16:42 +0000

Maypews wrote: Mon May 18, 2026 9:18 pm

capstasher wrote: Mon May 18, 2026 9:08 pm
Terrible tragedy that Occultic;Nine and Anonymous;Code never seem to have gotten artbooks. It would have been amazing to see more materials for those two. Alas, such is the way of the Mages.

Thank you very much for tracking these down May! I have never seen a lot of the illustrations here before! I'm certain I can't be the only one here in that position.
A;C supposedly has an artbook on the Steam page called "ANONYMOUS;CODE - A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO EARTH SIMULATOR". I was unable to find a rip of it, and I am unsure if it contains original illustrations (which is what I assume most of us are here for since the text is in Japanese) because the description is rather vague;

"ANONYMOUS;CODE Interactive Digital Artbook: "A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO EARTH SIMULATOR"
You can enjoy the interactive contents of this digital artbook by listening to character voices and BGM as you flip through the pages and zoom into the artwork. "

Nonetheless this one is quite accessible it seems since you can buy it digitially. So if anyone owns it on Steam and would like to contribute it to the collection let me know! Unfortunately though I couldn't find anything for O;9.

The A;C thing isn't really an artbook, I've played through it. It's more of a lorebook if anything? It may have some art incidentally, don't recall.

Blond wrote: Tue May 19, 2026 3:44 am
Man, I can’t wait for someone to translate the artbooks. I want to know what the thought process behind the saga was, especially on how they did the designs.

Translating the art books seems like a ton of work, depending on the one. I wonder if any art books for vns/anime stuff with serious amounts of text have had fan translations. I could see if it was minimal, but this is outside of my knowledge area. You'd think sci;adv would be a prime candidate though.

The Base :: Re: SciADV Artbook Collection :: Reply by Blond

no_email@example.com (Blond) — Tue, 19 May 2026 14:29:25 +0000

Erin wrote: Tue May 19, 2026 10:16 am

Maypews wrote: Mon May 18, 2026 9:18 pm

capstasher wrote: Mon May 18, 2026 9:08 pm
Terrible tragedy that Occultic;Nine and Anonymous;Code never seem to have gotten artbooks. It would have been amazing to see more materials for those two. Alas, such is the way of the Mages.

Thank you very much for tracking these down May! I have never seen a lot of the illustrations here before! I'm certain I can't be the only one here in that position.
A;C supposedly has an artbook on the Steam page called "ANONYMOUS;CODE - A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO EARTH SIMULATOR". I was unable to find a rip of it, and I am unsure if it contains original illustrations (which is what I assume most of us are here for since the text is in Japanese) because the description is rather vague;

"ANONYMOUS;CODE Interactive Digital Artbook: "A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO EARTH SIMULATOR"
You can enjoy the interactive contents of this digital artbook by listening to character voices and BGM as you flip through the pages and zoom into the artwork. "

Nonetheless this one is quite accessible it seems since you can buy it digitially. So if anyone owns it on Steam and would like to contribute it to the collection let me know! Unfortunately though I couldn't find anything for O;9.

The A;C thing isn't really an artbook, I've played through it. It's more of a lorebook if anything? It may have some art incidentally, don't recall.

Blond wrote: Tue May 19, 2026 3:44 am
Man, I can’t wait for someone to translate the artbooks. I want to know what the thought process behind the saga was, especially on how they did the designs.

Translating the art books seems like a ton of work, depending on the one. I wonder if any art books for vns/anime stuff with serious amounts of text have had fan translations. I could see if it was minimal, but this is outside of my knowledge area. You'd think sci;adv would be a prime candidate though.

I see... Thanks Erin

The Base :: Re: SciADV Artbook Collection :: Reply by Erin

no_email@example.com (Erin) — Tue, 19 May 2026 14:50:06 +0000

Well I wasn't making a definitive statement or anything, just that I was personally unaware. Looking it up a bit it seems some VNs have had their art books at least partially translated, like the character profiles and potentially short stories. Mostly I had in mind like some of Dies Irae / KKK and related's art books have many pages of dense text. Or like the Science Adventure Series Maniacs book, which is pretty text heavy (though maybe that doesn't qualify as an art book exactly).

So rethinking it I could be wrong on the difficulty for regular art books

The only one of these I've looked at is Huke Selected Works, as I happen to own a copy.

The Base :: Re: SciADV Artbook Collection :: Reply by Parzival

no_email@example.com (Parzival) — Sat, 23 May 2026 15:51:56 +0000

capstasher wrote: Mon May 18, 2026 9:34 pm
A few of the CTRL have it on Steam but it seems to actually be interactive, like, you click on buttons to go to specific sections for each character. See: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2459 ... SIMULATOR/

I have it, yeah. Like Erin was saying, while there is art in it (and it's mostly scenery), it's mainly a kind of player's guide to A;C than anything else. Wish more fans would read it tbh, I'd say it's important to read it before going through A;C itself, and if more people did the questions everyone asks about Anon being a kind of character or supposed to be player themselves would be answered as the guide makes it clear that YOU are the "Anon" observing Pollon and all the games are canonically supposed to be observation terminals into certain points in the simulation.

The Base :: On The Potential of the Science Adventure Series :: Author Parzival

no_email@example.com (Parzival) — Sat, 09 May 2026 17:28:33 +0000

[Spoilers for SciADV as a whole, the Xeno series as a whole, and the works of Philip K. Dick ahead]

Now that Steins;Gate Re:Boot has been officially given a release date for later this year, I know many are left wondering if it will be successful enough to keep MAGES, inc. afloat for long enough to finish and release Steins;???, let alone any plans for the series going forward.

Those in the know have long been aware that MAGES, the company behind the bulk of SciADV, is and has been in dire financial straits for some time now. Having declared insolvency in 2022 after Anonymous;Code failed to meet expectations, this despite having been bought out by COLOPL in 2020, presumably to aid in funding and to help keep the company stable. Despite this, many believe that should the company's flagship series keep failing to meet expectations, the whole operation may be shuttered by COLOPL and Science Adventure will go the way of the Infinity series. This thread isn't to discuss that in particular though, rather, it's to bring up why I believe this would be a great tragedy.

Few discuss how much SciADV seems to borrow or take inspiration from pulp American scifi author Philip K. Dick, if only by pure accident or cultural osmosis. Reality being more malleable than most would hope, shifting and alternative timelines, the world as computer simulation and seemingly paranormal phenomena as consequence of that fact, AI and robotics, what defines and makes us truly human, themes of being but an observation terminal or pawn in the machinations of forces outside our simulated world, alien satellites beaming special awareness and powers into the minds and vision of people- all describe SciADV, but also the work of the aforementioned Phil Dick (henceforth referred to as simply "PKD"). The brand of "current day or very near future but still high concept" science fiction that SciADV is arguably the pinnacle if a rare instance of in the modern day was really created by PKD back in his heyday of the 60s and 70s. What started as pulp work became the stuff of Hollywood adaptations in the 80s and though he sadly would not live to ride the beginning of the wave of his rise to cult status, his work continues to inspire generations of scifi creators to this day. Though to my awareness no one who has worked on SciADV has stated any direct inspiration from PKD, all the ideas the series tackles were popularized by PKD or at least brought into some degree of mainstream awareness by him. Indeed, arguably more so than his actual work the series largely seems to be inspired more from ideas he actually espoused that he believed were true. I recommend looking up his 1977 speech he delivered in Metz, France: "If You Find This World Bad, You Should See Some of the Others" and the book he wrote based on the experiences he describes in that speech: "VALIS". Most of the series seems to be based on the ideas in those 2 works.

Fewer still discuss how in particular Chaos;Head seems to have taken from a video game released approximately 10 years before C;H: Xenogears. Originally developed under the working title "Project Noah". This initially may seem like just coincidence but again, despite no official confirmation, when you look at the themes of that work and how the term Project Noah was still used in it, I don't think my assertion that elements of Chaos;Head and the series at large were inspired by it. In Xenogears, Project Noah is the name for one of the primary antagonist's plan to create God. Utilizing the remnants of Deus, an ancient AI weapon that crash landed on the world of Xenogears and created humanity to rebuild it over the course of 10,000 years, this antagonist works to this end with the added effort of making his own additions in order to create a God machine truly worthy of the name of Deus. When taken into consideration and compared to the plot of Chaos;Head, there's not only something to be said about comparisons between Norose and Krelian (the aforementioned Xenogears antagonist), but between Deus and Noah II. Indeed, one almost wonders if Noah II is named such in homage to the original, 1998 "Project Noah" and the machine "Deus" created in that game. After all, what is Noah II other than an artificial God? A machine capable of rewriting reality and controlling all of humanity describes both a fully powered Noah II and a fully powered Deus, especially when taking the Zohar which powers Deus and its "phase transition" abilities, which is basically analogous to gigalomania, and which is responsible for the magical ether abilities in Xenogears- much like how Noah II served to grant gigalomaniac abilities to porters and later the chaos child syndrome sufferers.

And what do Xenogears and Philip K. Dick have in common? Quite a bit, but the primary for our purposes thing is heavy influence from a discovery made in Nag Hammadi, Egypt in the immediate aftermath of the second World War...

[To be continued in a later post when I find the time. Feel free to reply and discuss regardless though]

The Base :: Re: On The Potential of the Science Adventure Series :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Fri, 29 May 2026 21:25:28 +0000

Hope you give us a followup on this! The post might not get too much interaction because there's a lot of requirements in order to read it (namely having completed all of SciADV AND Xeno) but at the very least I am waiting eagerly to see where it goes.

The Base :: Re: Fanart Thread :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Fri, 08 May 2026 07:57:21 +0000

This is probably some of my favourite fanart for not just SciADV but anything ever tbh.

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The Base :: Re: Fanart Thread :: Reply by capstasher

no_email@example.com (capstasher) — Fri, 08 May 2026 18:40:49 +0000

Maypews wrote: Fri May 08, 2026 3:57 am
This is probably some of my favourite fanart for not just SciADV but anything ever tbh.
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I saw this!! Really made me want to try to draw a "lineart on photo background" type illustration. May do so in the coming week(s).

The Base :: Re: Fanart Thread :: Reply by Parzival

no_email@example.com (Parzival) — Sat, 09 May 2026 03:53:00 +0000

Maypews wrote: Fri May 08, 2026 3:57 am
This is probably some of my favourite fanart for not just SciADV but anything ever tbh.
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PEAK aesthetic, preem PFP material

The Base :: Re: Fanart Thread :: Reply by Maypews

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The Base :: Re: Fanart Thread :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Sun, 17 May 2026 05:02:19 +0000

You should be able to solve this.

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The Base :: Re: Fanart Thread :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Wed, 27 May 2026 18:33:59 +0000

MAGES really needs to see this one.

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The Base :: Re: Fanart Thread :: Reply by Amlux

no_email@example.com (Amlux) — Thu, 28 May 2026 00:26:00 +0000

Aidoru Kurisu!

This one is cute!

Poor Kurisu. I still love you!

Can I make a confession? I didn't really like the Occultic;Nine anime that much. It felt WAAAY too busy and cluttered, like there was way too much from the light novel they had to shove into an anime. But... how can I not love Ryouka's huge melons?

The Base :: Re: Fanart Thread :: Reply by Parzival

no_email@example.com (Parzival) — Thu, 28 May 2026 02:26:18 +0000

Amlux wrote: Wed May 27, 2026 8:26 pm

Poor Kurisu. I still love you!

lol, poor Kurisu... At least they seem to have buffed her in Re:Boot so maybe in new fanart she can maybe do it haha

Amlux wrote: Wed May 27, 2026 8:26 pm

Can I make a confession? I didn't really like the Occultic;Nine anime that much. It felt WAAAY too busy and cluttered, like there was way too much from the light novel they had to shove into an anime. But... how can I not love Ryouka's huge melons?

I kind of like how frantic the anime is but yeah, it is clear that it should've been longer because by the end there was too much going on too quickly, there was no room for a breather. Some more time to really take in all the reveals, stew in them, and elaborate on them and make us care about everything going on would've been nice.

But hey, if not for the anime O;N would probably be a lot more obscure and we wouldn't have gotten all that great fanart of her floating around, the kind we can't post on here, ya know? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

The Base :: Re: Fanart Thread :: Reply by thxnder

no_email@example.com (thxnder) — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:58:32 +0000

From wplace

The Base :: Re: Fanart Thread :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 23:01:27 +0000

Amlux wrote: Wed May 27, 2026 8:26 pm

Can I make a confession? I didn't really like the Occultic;Nine anime that much. It felt WAAAY too busy and cluttered, like there was way too much from the light novel they had to shove into an anime. But... how can I not love Ryouka's huge melons?

I do agree regarding the O;9 anime, though it at least has an ending unlike the other 2 versions of the story, albeit with many loose plot threads left open. I intend to try the light novels at some point, and I can see Parzival's point regarding the frantic pace being unique in a sense, but I do not think that this pace really compliments or suits the show personally. Unfortunately it seems the odds of the LNs ever being finished is rather low but I do intend to read them at some point, have heard they end on a shitty cliffhanger though

I did like the group dynamic in the show (though this is seemingly a rite of passage for SciADV entries), and the mystery is fairly engrossing. But it is unfortunate that none of it is given any time to breathe, and I'm sure many details were skimmed over too. I recall thinking that the directing was fairly impressive though; if only it had gotten a 2nd cour.

The Base :: Re: Steins;Gate Re:Boot (General) :: Reply by capstasher

no_email@example.com (capstasher) — Thu, 07 May 2026 06:34:04 +0000

GUYS! IT'S HAPPENING!

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Release date for Steins;Gate Re:Boot has been officially announced: 20th of August 2026
The pre-order date has also been announced, it begins tomorrow, 8th of May 2026.

It WILL be based on Elite, BUT!!! WE HAVE NEW WORLDLINES AND ENDINGS. And, If I'm reading this correctly we'll have twice as many CGs as the 360 version of Steins;Gate.

The OP for Re:Boot is here:

The sprites will also be animated, similar to how vtuber Live2D models work, using their "E-Mote" system:

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The Base :: Re: Steins;Gate Re:Boot (General) :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Thu, 07 May 2026 06:40:32 +0000

capstasher wrote: Thu May 07, 2026 2:34 am
GUYS! IT'S HAPPENING!
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Suzuha my love..

capstasher wrote: Thu May 07, 2026 2:34 am
The sprites will also be animated, similar to how vtuber Live2D models work, using their "E-Mote" system:

Uhhh hm. At first I was worried this would be 3d slop but it.. actually does look quite 2D. I dunno. Looks decent from the video but I'll need to see for myself before I can come to a conclusion I think. Glad that we've finally got a timeline on the release at least.

The Base :: Re: Steins;Gate Re:Boot (General) :: Reply by capstasher

no_email@example.com (capstasher) — Thu, 07 May 2026 06:43:52 +0000

Maypews wrote: Thu May 07, 2026 2:40 am

Uhhh hm. At first I was worried this would be 3d slop but it.. actually does look quite 2D. I dunno. Looks decent from the video but I'll need to see for myself before I can come to a conclusion I think. Glad that we've finally got a timeline on the release at least.

I don't know about you, but this announcement actually has me a little excited for it. New endings is a really good bonus, and it doesn't look as bad as I thought it would.

Mages... I have begun to belieb... don't let me down now...

The Base :: Re: Steins;Gate Re:Boot (General) :: Reply by JohnTitor

no_email@example.com (JohnTitor) — Thu, 07 May 2026 10:28:00 +0000

Never mind what's been said before, it's peak. Daru is a little funny though.

The Base :: Re: Steins;Gate Re:Boot (General) :: Reply by Blond

no_email@example.com (Blond) — Thu, 07 May 2026 11:04:51 +0000

capstasher wrote: Thu May 07, 2026 2:34 am
GUYS! IT'S HAPPENING!

ev8.jpg

Release date for Steins;Gate Re:Boot has been officially announced: 20th of August 2026
The pre-order date has also been announced, it begins tomorrow, 8th of May 2026.

It WILL be based on Elite, BUT!!! WE HAVE NEW WORLDLINES AND ENDINGS. And, If I'm reading this correctly we'll have twice as many CGs as the 360 version of Steins;Gate.

The OP for Re:Boot is here:

The sprites will also be animated, similar to how vtuber Live2D models work, using their "E-Mote" system:

I guess we'll have to wait and see. I'm not buying a game at full price just because now it as jiggle physics. But so far, I'm quite happy from what we got. What I said about Mages still applies.

The Base :: Re: Steins;Gate Re:Boot (General) :: Reply by Parzival

no_email@example.com (Parzival) — Thu, 07 May 2026 12:28:27 +0000

Under "INTORODUCTION", the text

"すべての観測者へ捧ぐ、未踏の体験。
物語は再び観測される。"

apparently translates to

"The experience of an unseen path(?) is offered(?) to all observers. You will once again be able to observe (reboot)"

You guys think post-A;C copers may have been right and the new endings and worldlines may have something to do with what happened in Anonymous;Code?

The Base :: Re: Steins;Gate Re:Boot (General) :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:17:24 +0000

From what I can gather, it seems the game will be available in three versions. The standard edition, limited edition and super limited edition. Per Gematsu, each edition contains the following;

Standard Edition (7,480 yen / 8,580 yen on Switch 2)
A copy of the game (full game card on Switch 2)

Limited Edition (12,980 yen / 14,080 yen on Switch 2)
A copy of the game
Special outer box with huke-illustrated artwork
Visual Collection art book
Soundtrack DVD-ROM
“STEINS;GATE 15th LIVE -ONE WORLD-” DVD and Blu-ray disc

Ultra Limited Edition (31,800 yen / 32,800 yen on Switch 2)
All the content from the limited edition
huke-illustrated framed illustration
STEINS;GATE All Complete Soundtrack DVD-ROM (the full soundtracks from all seven STEINS;GATE titles)

Converted to USD, the prices are roughly as follows.
Standard: 47.70$(Switch 1)/54.70$ (Switch 2)
Limited: 82.76$ (Switch 1)/89.77$ (Switch 2)
Super Limited: 202.77$ (Switch 1)/209.15$ (Switch 2)
Conversions are rarely perfect but assuming these are accurate/what they end up using if they bring it over, I think for what you get the Limited Edition is a pretty sweet deal. Only like 35$ more for all that shit? I am honestly quite tempted to buy it myself. Super Limited though...

I mean, the extra stuff in the Super version definitely cool. Like the framed Huke illustration (which I have heard is likely to be the one below) and the CD are definitely really solid inclusions, but 110$ more?? Uhh.. yeah that's kind of wild. I do hope the LE comes to the west though so that we don't have to import it, if it does I might pick it up.

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The Base :: Re: Steins;Gate Re:Boot (General) :: Reply by Blond

no_email@example.com (Blond) — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:47:52 +0000

Parzival wrote: Thu May 07, 2026 8:28 am

You guys think post-A;C copers may have been right and the new endings and worldlines may have something to do with what happened in Anonymous;Code?

Even better, they were right on the money. Look at what appears in the trailer and compare it to the A;N UI:

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Anonymous;Code stocks are going to the moon baby! Always believe guys, let's positive thinking!

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The Base :: Re: Steins;Gate Re:Boot (General) :: Reply by Erin

no_email@example.com (Erin) — Thu, 07 May 2026 21:07:57 +0000

It's been too long since I played Steins;Gate, did it talk about the 12th theory in the original? It probably did, but it's been a long time.

On the JP site it says, in the story section:

神をも冒涜する12番目の理論
―それは、俺たちが手にした偶然の産物。

The 12th theory which commits sacrilege against even god
― that is the result which we obtained by chance.

I noticed the opening movie puts focus on the other theories too. It shows:
01 Neutron Star Theory
02 Black Hole Theory
03 Light Speed Theory
04 Tachyon Theory
05 Wormhole Theory
06 Exotic Matter Theory
07 Cosmic String Theory
08 Quantum Gravity Theory
09 Cesium Laser Theory
10 Elementary Particle Ring and Laser Theory
11 Dirac Antiparticle Theory
And the 12th theory....

(That's what it says)

Kinda cool, look forward to checking this out.

The Base :: Re: Steins;Gate Re:Boot (General) :: Reply by dokyun

no_email@example.com (dokyun) — Thu, 07 May 2026 21:22:52 +0000

Erin wrote: Thu May 07, 2026 5:07 pm
It's been too long since I played Steins;Gate, did it talk about the 12th theory in the original? It probably did, but it's been a long time.

On the JP site it says, in the story section:

神をも冒涜する12番目の理論
―それは、俺たちが手にした偶然の産物。

The 12th theory which commits sacrilege against god even
― that is the result which we obtained by chance.

I noticed the opening movie puts focus on the other theories too. It shows:
01 Neutron Star Theory
02 Black Hole Theory
03 Light Speed Theory
04 Tachyon Theory
05 Wormhole Theory
06 Exotic Matter Theory
07 Cosmic String Theory
08 Quantum Gravity Theory
09 Cesium Laser Theory
10 Elementary Particle Ring and Laser Theory
11 Dirac Antiparticle Theory
And the 12th theory....

(That's what it says)

Kinda cool, look forward to checking this out.

I'm pretty sure the 12th is supposed to be Attractor Field Theory. I remember in the beginning of the story where Kurisu does her podium speech she goes through the different theories, but the 12th hadn't been invented yet.

The Base :: Re: Steins;Gate Re:Boot (General) :: Reply by Parzival

no_email@example.com (Parzival) — Thu, 07 May 2026 23:06:37 +0000

Blond wrote: Thu May 07, 2026 4:47 pm

Parzival wrote: Thu May 07, 2026 8:28 am

You guys think post-A;C copers may have been right and the new endings and worldlines may have something to do with what happened in Anonymous;Code?
Even better, they were right on the money. Look at what appears in the trailer and compare it to the A;N UI:
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HHtd26HWsAsPyJ6.jpeg

Anonymous;Code stocks are going to the moon baby! Always believe guys, let's positive thinking!

genuinely what do they mean by this

The Base :: Re: Steins;Gate Re:Boot (General) :: Reply by Parzival

no_email@example.com (Parzival) — Thu, 07 May 2026 23:09:35 +0000

dokyun wrote: Thu May 07, 2026 5:22 pm

Erin wrote: Thu May 07, 2026 5:07 pm
It's been too long since I played Steins;Gate, did it talk about the 12th theory in the original? It probably did, but it's been a long time.

On the JP site it says, in the story section:

神をも冒涜する12番目の理論
―それは、俺たちが手にした偶然の産物。

The 12th theory which commits sacrilege against god even
― that is the result which we obtained by chance.

I noticed the opening movie puts focus on the other theories too. It shows:
01 Neutron Star Theory
02 Black Hole Theory
03 Light Speed Theory
04 Tachyon Theory
05 Wormhole Theory
06 Exotic Matter Theory
07 Cosmic String Theory
08 Quantum Gravity Theory
09 Cesium Laser Theory
10 Elementary Particle Ring and Laser Theory
11 Dirac Antiparticle Theory
And the 12th theory....

(That's what it says)

Kinda cool, look forward to checking this out.
I'm pretty sure the 12th is supposed to be Attractor Field Theory. I remember in the beginning of the story where Kurisu does her podium speech she goes through the different theories, but the 12th hadn't been invented yet.

Isn't that scene removed from the Elite script, and thus Reboot's? Weird to put emphasis on an iconic scene from the original that it seems won't be in this.

The Base :: Re: Steins;Gate Re:Boot (General) :: Reply by dokyun

no_email@example.com (dokyun) — Fri, 08 May 2026 01:13:31 +0000

Parzival wrote: Thu May 07, 2026 7:09 pm
Isn't that scene removed from the Elite script, and thus Reboot's? Weird to put emphasis on an iconic scene from the original that it seems won't be in this.

I only played the original so I wouldn't know, but if it follows the anime script more closely then they probably cut it. That's my main gripe with the show, you know, I liked all of the drawn-out explanations and details from the game.

The Base :: Re: Steins;Gate Re:Boot (General) :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Fri, 08 May 2026 06:21:59 +0000

dokyun wrote: Thu May 07, 2026 9:13 pm

Parzival wrote: Thu May 07, 2026 7:09 pm
Isn't that scene removed from the Elite script, and thus Reboot's? Weird to put emphasis on an iconic scene from the original that it seems won't be in this.
I only played the original so I wouldn't know, but if it follows the anime script more closely then they probably cut it. That's my main gripe with the show, you know, I liked all of the drawn-out explanations and details from the game.

GIVE ME KURISU EXPLAINING PHYSICS OR GIVE ME DEATH!

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no_email@example.com (JohnTitor) — Fri, 08 May 2026 10:47:50 +0000

Parzival wrote: Thu May 07, 2026 7:09 pm

dokyun wrote: Thu May 07, 2026 5:22 pm

Erin wrote: Thu May 07, 2026 5:07 pm
It's been too long since I played Steins;Gate, did it talk about the 12th theory in the original? It probably did, but it's been a long time.

On the JP site it says, in the story section:

神をも冒涜する12番目の理論
―それは、俺たちが手にした偶然の産物。

The 12th theory which commits sacrilege against god even
― that is the result which we obtained by chance.

I noticed the opening movie puts focus on the other theories too. It shows:
01 Neutron Star Theory
02 Black Hole Theory
03 Light Speed Theory
04 Tachyon Theory
05 Wormhole Theory
06 Exotic Matter Theory
07 Cosmic String Theory
08 Quantum Gravity Theory
09 Cesium Laser Theory
10 Elementary Particle Ring and Laser Theory
11 Dirac Antiparticle Theory
And the 12th theory....

(That's what it says)

Kinda cool, look forward to checking this out.
I'm pretty sure the 12th is supposed to be Attractor Field Theory. I remember in the beginning of the story where Kurisu does her podium speech she goes through the different theories, but the 12th hadn't been invented yet.
Isn't that scene removed from the Elite script, and thus Reboot's? Weird to put emphasis on an iconic scene from the original that it seems won't be in this.

honestly seeing this gives me some hope...
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The Base :: Re: Steins;Gate Re:Boot (General) :: Reply by Erin

no_email@example.com (Erin) — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:27:54 +0000

Of the listed features, the first is:

FEATURE 001
より読みやすくなったシナリオ
The scenario has been made easier to read.

「STEINS;GATE ELITE」のシナリオをベースに調整され、よりテンポよく読みやすい内容に。さらに、新たな世界線・エンディングシナリオが追加実装！まだ誰も見たことのない物語が、あなたを待っています。
With Steins;Gate Elite's Scenario as a base, the tempo has been made better to make the contents easier to read. Furthermore, a new world line and ending scenario have been implemented! A story yet to be seen by anyone is waiting for you.

Curious what they meant by this. I'm not too familiar with Elite but I know they cut some stuff, does "easier to read" mean "we cut more"? If you keep cutting things it'll get really easy to read but I'm not sure how that's a good metric. Alternatively, does them making it easier to read mean they added more explanations and more story, or put back the things they removed? (this is cope)

Same with a better tempo. That could mean "we cut out interesting bits so you can just turn off your brain easier". I'm honestly not too sure how else to interpret it because I never had an issue with the tempo of the original. But it is based on elite so maybe elite had tempo problems they're fixing. (this is cope)

I know some had guessed that the new story would be adaptations of existing side material, but looking at that last line now "A story yet to be seen by anyone" seems like it's brand new? Very much in the possible A;C connection faction even though I wasn't up until now.

The other features it lists are "All new voice and sound recording" "Refined graphics" (lol, original looked better) and "Lively character expressions via E-mote". E-mote is a system used to add motion to sprites in VNs, in case anyone didn't know. I've never really been a fan, but it doesn't kill anything for me so it is whatever.

So like, for me unfortunately three of the four features are not really features. New voice and sound recording is fine I guess, though I never had a problem with the original so I'm neutral though maybe I'll be surprised on release (for better or for worse). Refined graphics, the original S;G was well known for having great graphics, some of the best VN sprites for example I've ever seen. New looks good, but still worse than the original because it was a very high bar in my opinion. And then again Emote is neutral borderline negative from my perspective. The tempo part I don't know how to interpret honestly, but if it means cutting stuff I won't be too happy. New scenario for me is the main pull, because the Sci;Adv series releases new stuff so rarely that its one of those "I'll take anything I can get" situations. That, and while I've read it a few times in English I've since learned Japanese to a decent level and would like to read it in that.

The Base :: Re: Steins;Gate Re:Boot (General) :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Fri, 08 May 2026 19:19:34 +0000

Erin wrote: Fri May 08, 2026 10:27 am
Of the listed features, the first is:

FEATURE 001
より読みやすくなったシナリオ
The scenario has been made easier to read.

「STEINS;GATE ELITE」のシナリオをベースに調整され、よりテンポよく読みやすい内容に。さらに、新たな世界線・エンディングシナリオが追加実装！まだ誰も見たことのない物語が、あなたを待っています。
With Steins;Gate Elite's Scenario as a base, the tempo has been made better to make the contents easier to read. Furthermore, a new world line and ending scenario have been implemented! A story yet to be seen by anyone is waiting for you.

Curious what they meant by this. I'm not too familiar with Elite but I know they cut some stuff, does "easier to read" mean "we cut more"? If you keep cutting things it'll get really easy to read but I'm not sure how that's a good metric. Alternatively, does them making it easier to read mean they added more explanations and more story, or put back the things they removed? (this is cope)

Same with a better tempo. That could mean "we cut out interesting bits so you can just turn off your brain easier". I'm honestly not too sure how else to interpret it because I never had an issue with the tempo of the original. But it is based on elite so maybe elite had tempo problems they're fixing. (this is cope)

I know some had guessed that the new story would be adaptations of existing side material, but looking at that last line now "A story yet to be seen by anyone" seems like it's brand new? Very much in the possible A;C connection faction even though I wasn't up until now.

The other features it lists are "All new voice and sound recording" "Refined graphics" (lol, original looked better) and "Lively character expressions via E-mote". E-mote is a system used to add motion to sprites in VNs, in case anyone didn't know. I've never really been a fan, but it doesn't kill anything for me so it is whatever.

So like, for me unfortunately three of the four features are not really features. New voice and sound recording is fine I guess, though I never had a problem with the original so I'm neutral though maybe I'll be surprised on release (for better or for worse). Refined graphics, the original S;G was well known for having great graphics, some of the best VN sprites for example I've ever seen. New looks good, but still worse than the original because it was a very high bar in my opinion. And then again Emote is neutral borderline negative from my perspective. The tempo part I don't know how to interpret honestly, but if it means cutting stuff I won't be too happy. New scenario for me is the main pull, because the Sci;Adv series releases new stuff so rarely that its one of those "I'll take anything I can get" situations. That, and while I've read it a few times in English I've since learned Japanese to a decent level and would like to read it in that.

I will note that I have not read Elite and if anyone here has it would be appreciated if you could give us more detail on this. But I've always heard that the Elite script cuts 30% of the text (it might've been mentioned up-thread), but never what exactly that entails. After doing a cursory search online it seems that most core story details are kept. I did see it recurringly mentioned that the Faris chapter is trimmed down a lot and that a Luka CG at the end of his route is cut, but not much else besides that.

So given that the core story seems to be kept but so much of the text is still cut, I suspect the whole "making it easier to read" thing is them cutting down a lot of the science discussion. But that's like a huge part of what makes the game cool in my opinion, I don't think removing all the complexity is a good thing. There being actual logic behind S;G's time travel is a big part of what makes it so enjoyable, you can understand how it works as opposed to most stories where the time travel is basically just magic or mana that you aren't supposed to try to understand.

I suppose for that camp of people that thinks the beginning is too slow the Elite script would likely be a boon, but would such people buy a remake anyway? I doubt it, but companies are always trying to expand their audience so this is likely another case of that. But yeah, largely agree with your breakdown and I think most of us are just in it for the new story content.

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no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Wed, 20 May 2026 06:28:33 +0000

The English website for Steins;Gate Reboot has launched.
https://steinsgate.jp/reboot/en-us/

It confirms that we are receiving one new ending or worldline, as well as a new scenario. It also states that, while it is based on the Elite script, the game features a "substantially expanded volume of text" from said script. The most interesting (and perhaps grim) bit of news seems to be that the physical NX/NX2/PS5 releases are going to release 2 months later than the digital PC/Xbox versions, with the latter set to release in August while the former will be in October. This is rather strange to me, and while I'm not sure if it's exactly a delay it certainly does not inspire confidence.

It also seems that we will not be receiving the Limited and Super Limited versions in the West. Which is rather a shame as I was considering buying them, but us gaijin will have to import if we want them I suppose. We are apparently receiving a steelbook edition, though considering the C;C/C;H double pack came with the steelbook free if you bought it on launch I can't help but feel a bit miffed by that if they're charging extra for it. Oh well.

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no_email@example.com (Erin) — Wed, 20 May 2026 14:57:23 +0000

Maypews wrote: Wed May 20, 2026 2:28 am
The English website for Steins;Gate Reboot has launched.
https://steinsgate.jp/reboot/en-us/

It confirms that we are receiving one new ending or worldline, as well as a new scenario. It also states that, while it is based on the Elite script, the game features a "substantially expanded volume of text" from said script. The most interesting (and perhaps grim) bit of news seems to be that the physical NX/NX2/PS5 releases are going to release 2 months later than the digital PC/Xbox versions, with the latter set to release in August while the former will be in October. This is rather strange to me, and while I'm not sure if it's exactly a delay it certainly does not inspire confidence.

It also seems that we will not be receiving the Limited and Super Limited versions in the West. Which is rather a shame as I was considering buying them, but us gaijin will have to import if we want them I suppose. We are apparently receiving a steelbook edition, though considering the C;C/C;H double pack came with the steelbook free if you bought it on launch I can't help but feel a bit miffed by that if they're charging extra for it. Oh well.

Hmm, that's odd, cause as far as I can tell all the JP versions are releasing in August. Still (mostly) no pre-order links either for the western release. Debating whether I will buy this game period, but I probably will, and if I do I'll probably get the JP limited edition so I can get the bonus stuff like the special box, 「Steins;Gate Re:Boot」Visual Collection, and the soundtrack and 15th anniversary discs. My wallet won't be happy though. Shame the super limited edition is so expensive, the essentially all S;G VN soundtrack disc would be cool to have but not $100 or more extra cool.

As far as I can tell the western release special edition gets a steel book and a sticker (lol), but the special box for the JP limited edition it doesn't specifically say it is a steelcase, I'm hoping it's a more standard VN box, I'm a fan of those. I do like steelcases as well, I have the C;H/C;C double pack for example.

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no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Thu, 21 May 2026 20:51:17 +0000

Strangely enough, for the past near 24 hours, the English site has been showing a 401 Unauthorised error and asking you to log in. I wonder if they published it prematurely by mistake..

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no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Fri, 29 May 2026 21:23:23 +0000

Just thought I'd give a small followup to this saga with the site, it does indeed seem that the page was put up prematurely by mistake. None of the details about the release were changed now that the site is back up however, which begs the question of why they even bothered taking it back down to begin with.

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no_email@example.com (NonoEnjoyer) — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 04:25:06 +0000

If this game does anything meta it would be the only way A;C could be redeemed for me. Saw some retard say that because MAGES put out a notice banning streaming the game, it "must be" a meta sequel. Yeah right, as if a studio not wanting you to stream their VISUAL NOVEL (remake of an old story or not) is evidence that it's going to do anything interesting at all.

I also think the Live 2D is really weird looking. Don't think it fits the art style at all. In general, I'm not a huge fan of most of the redesigns. Lukako, probably my least favorite character in the game, actually looks the best I think. And Mr. Braun? Forget it man. Maybe the Live2D will grow on me... Robotics;Notes 3D stuff also wasn't my favorite, and I grew to appreciate it. Not so sure this time/

If the new ending is just Hyde of the Dark Dimension that's gonna blow dick, but I'm not expecting anything else.

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no_email@example.com (NonoEnjoyer) — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 05:06:52 +0000

I find very few stories that I actively latch onto in a meaningful way. Fate/Stay Night probably the first time this kind of thing really happened to me, first through the DEENime and then the VN.

I played Steins;Gate last year after buying it on a whim. I used to frequent the Fate reddit and the anime adaptations were always getting shit on (for good reason most of the time). People always said that S;G was basically a "perfect" adaptation of a visual novel (no the fuck it isn't). I kept that in my back pocket for a long time and, like I said, bought it on a whim.

Had no idea how much I would love it. Then I played 0, and then I bought chaos;head and child. Chaos;child ended up being my favorite, but at certain times of the year steins;gate can creep pretty close. It's still got my favorite true ending.

I think Science Adventure at large really encapsulates great storytelling through the VN medium. Strong art direction, compelling characters (most of the time), fantastic OST (always), and amazing voice acting (every time). You can do without some of these and still have a great VN of course, I just feel like Science Adventure really does it exceedingly well.

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no_email@example.com (NonoEnjoyer) — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 04:18:03 +0000

Gonna come out swinging and say I would straight up delete the ending of Anonymous;Code. Might be the worst thing the series has done narratively in my opinion. Honestly I would be fine with striking A;C from the record entirely.

I don't understand the point of "pulling back the curtain" if all you do with that is try to make the preceding works of your series (the ones everyone knows and loves) meaningless. This might be a dissenting opinion here, sorry if I sound rude but I just don't like what A;C does at all.

I definitely think some good anime adapations would benefit the series but I don't even know if it's possible with the likes of Chaos;Head/Child. Maybe if they had like 40+ episodes a piece, you might get somewhere, but with things like delusions, routes, and true ends to consider, I just find it basically unfeasible. Maybe if MAGES ever makes an assload of money and can afford to take a loss on it (lmao)

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no_email@example.com (NonoEnjoyer) — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:10:12 +0000

NonoEnjoyer wrote: Wed Jun 03, 2026 12:18 am
Gonna come out swinging and say I would straight up delete the ending of Anonymous;Code. Might be the worst thing the series has done narratively in my opinion. Honestly I would be fine with striking A;C from the record entirely.

I don't understand the point of "pulling back the curtain" if all you do with that is try to make the preceding works of your series (the ones everyone knows and loves) meaningless. This might be a dissenting opinion here, sorry if I sound rude but I just don't like what A;C does at all.

I definitely think some good anime adapations would benefit the series but I don't even know if it's possible with the likes of Chaos;Head/Child. Maybe if they had like 40+ episodes a piece, you might get somewhere, but with things like delusions, routes, and true ends to consider, I just find it basically unfeasible. Maybe if MAGES ever makes an assload of money and can afford to take a loss on it (lmao)

Fuck I remembered something else. I would un-fuck the marketing for Chaos;Child (implied spoilers ahead). Get rid of the map screenshot that spoils the entire plot up to Chapter 9 from the steam page. Remove Senri from all marketing material. Remake that intro movie that plays if you idle on the main menu for too long and remove the spoilery shit from it. Chaos;Child is so sensitive to visual spoilers and they honestly seemed pretty damn careless with it most of the time

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no_email@example.com (Blond) — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:49:15 +0000

NonoEnjoyer wrote: Wed Jun 03, 2026 10:10 am

NonoEnjoyer wrote: Wed Jun 03, 2026 12:18 am
Gonna come out swinging and say I would straight up delete the ending of Anonymous;Code. Might be the worst thing the series has done narratively in my opinion. Honestly I would be fine with striking A;C from the record entirely.

I don't understand the point of "pulling back the curtain" if all you do with that is try to make the preceding works of your series (the ones everyone knows and loves) meaningless. This might be a dissenting opinion here, sorry if I sound rude but I just don't like what A;C does at all.

I definitely think some good anime adapations would benefit the series but I don't even know if it's possible with the likes of Chaos;Head/Child. Maybe if they had like 40+ episodes a piece, you might get somewhere, but with things like delusions, routes, and true ends to consider, I just find it basically unfeasible. Maybe if MAGES ever makes an assload of money and can afford to take a loss on it (lmao)
Fuck I remembered something else. I would un-fuck the marketing for Chaos;Child (implied spoilers ahead). Get rid of the map screenshot that spoils the entire plot up to Chapter 9 from the steam page. Remove Senri from all marketing material. Remake that intro movie that plays if you idle on the main menu for too long and remove the spoilery shit from it. Chaos;Child is so sensitive to visual spoilers and they honestly seemed pretty damn careless with it most of the time

Totally agree with you about Senri. Her appearance should be a surprise that you can only guess if you really pay attention. The fact that she appears in the intro and has the same Di-Sword as Kurusu ruins the surprise.
But since we're talking about C;C, the biggest change I would make is that it wouldn't have been an exclusive launch title. The reason Mages. is in such a bad position, and why we have S;G Reboot in the first place, is because the Xbox One flopped hard.

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no_email@example.com (NonoEnjoyer) — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:16:07 +0000

Blond wrote: Wed Jun 03, 2026 10:49 am

NonoEnjoyer wrote: Wed Jun 03, 2026 10:10 am

NonoEnjoyer wrote: Wed Jun 03, 2026 12:18 am
Gonna come out swinging and say I would straight up delete the ending of Anonymous;Code. Might be the worst thing the series has done narratively in my opinion. Honestly I would be fine with striking A;C from the record entirely.

I don't understand the point of "pulling back the curtain" if all you do with that is try to make the preceding works of your series (the ones everyone knows and loves) meaningless. This might be a dissenting opinion here, sorry if I sound rude but I just don't like what A;C does at all.

I definitely think some good anime adapations would benefit the series but I don't even know if it's possible with the likes of Chaos;Head/Child. Maybe if they had like 40+ episodes a piece, you might get somewhere, but with things like delusions, routes, and true ends to consider, I just find it basically unfeasible. Maybe if MAGES ever makes an assload of money and can afford to take a loss on it (lmao)
Fuck I remembered something else. I would un-fuck the marketing for Chaos;Child (implied spoilers ahead). Get rid of the map screenshot that spoils the entire plot up to Chapter 9 from the steam page. Remove Senri from all marketing material. Remake that intro movie that plays if you idle on the main menu for too long and remove the spoilery shit from it. Chaos;Child is so sensitive to visual spoilers and they honestly seemed pretty damn careless with it most of the time
Totally agree with you about Senri. Her appearance should be a surprise that you can only guess if you really pay attention. The fact that she appears in the intro and has the same Di-Sword as Kurusu ruins the surprise.
But since we're talking about C;C, the biggest change I would make is that it wouldn't have been an exclusive launch title. The reason Mages. is in such a bad position, and why we have S;G Reboot in the first place, is because the Xbox One flopped hard.

While we'll never know, I believe that they ultimately recovered most of that money when they ported it to the Gaystation not long afterward. Steins;Gate 0 also probably helped. As has been said elsewhere, I think Anonymous;Code may be a more serious offender at this point in time. Not to say I disagree with the exclusivity thing, that was super retarded. I just am not sure if its impact was all that bad in the long term.

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no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:50:59 +0000

The harping on the C;C Xbox One launch is I think rather hindsight-ish.As @Parzival mentioned up the thread, it's more than likely that MAGES was locked into some sort of agreement with Microsoft that they could not easily break. They had started releasing their games on the Xbox 360 in the late 00s, and typically how it goes with exclusivity contracts is that the platform owner pays off a considerable chunk of the development costs.

This is why so many video games in general did not used to release on multiple platforms. It's a safe business strategy and a good way to ensure you don't take any losses if the game only does modestly well, which is more likely than not. Additionally, as I said earlier, the Xbox 360 did not perform poorly in Japan as it sold 1.61 million units. It is quite likely that they received profitable returns on Chaos;Head, Steins;Gate and Robotics;Notes' launch on the 360.

When Peter Moore was head of the Xbox division, one thing that he tried to do was strengthen the system abroad following the mostly regional success of the original Xbox (though the original Xbox had some great Japanese games too, mainly Sega ones who Microsoft formed a partnership with once they became a third party developer).

The 360 actually has a pretty killer lineup of Japanese games as a result, nothing like how the system is today. It had two RPGs, Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey, that were made by Mistwalker which was headed by the creator of Final Fantasy, Hinorbu Sakaguchi. Tales of Vesperia was exclusive to it for a long time (over a decade), as was Beautiful Katamari which are both fairly high profile Japanese game series. A lot of CAVE shmups were, outside of arcades, also exclusive to the 360; such as Deathsmiles, Akai Katana, Dodonpachi SaiDaiOuJou, Mushihimesama, probably a few more I'm forgetting. Even the original Idolmaster is still exclusive to the 360 in this fashion too, and some other higher profile multi-plat JRPGs such as Eternal Sonata and Star Ocean 4 were timed exclusives. The 360 also received most of the high profile multiplats during this time, such as the Metal Gear HD collection and FF13.

There are other Japanese games from smaller developers too, like Magna Carta 2, Sylpheed, Ginga Force, Spectral Force 3, but by now I think you get the picture. A lot of Japanese developers ranging from big (Bamco) to small put their games on Xbox, and it was more than likely quite profitable given how many of them did it. Unfortunately later in the Xbox's lifespan, Don Mattrick takes over the Xbox division and ruins this for everyone.

Although he's most known for the absolute disaster that was the Xbox One launch, Mattrick had planted the seeds for it much earlier. In the late 2010s Xbox began to wane out of the Japanese market, opting instead to focus their energy on trying to appeal to casual gamers. This manifested in attempting to copy the Wii with the Kinect. This is sort of a trend that's been the case with Xbox ever since, shitting all over their core base in order to appease casuals that only care about game consoles as a box to play the latest COD and FIFA on. It's no small part of why Xbox is in such dire straights these days.

But anyway, I guess I'm somewhat passionate about this issue because I really dislike the double standard that seems to exist with fans of Japanese games when it comes to the Xbox and PS. If something's exclusive to the Xbox it's considered "trapped" behind it, but if it's exclusive to the PS2 or something it's totally acceptable.

This is more than likely a runoff of the fact that the PS1's aggressive marketing campaign of FF7 was what made JRPGs somewhat popular in the West. The reality is though that Sony did nothing to earn those developers or games and also that RPGs existed beforehand just fine without Playstation. All PS did was moneyhat them just as Xbox did in the late 2000s.

So the notion that Japanese games need to depend on Playstation hardware, especially with how much Sony has begun to shun the domestic market and all the times they've fucked over Japanese developers (See: Japan Studio, Censorship, Rugpulling the Vita, etc), is rather silly to me. Sadly, most older Japanese games that weren't bound to Playstation have become rather obscure in the West as a result. This includes a lot of Sega games, especially their RPGs like Skies of Arcadia and Panzer Dragoon Saga which aren't talked about much in spite of their exceptional quality.

This mindset is more than likely also why we never got physical or US releases of a lot of these Japanese 360 games, which is such a shame. Part of why I like that we're getting Reboot is because it gives me a way to physically own a copy of the game in English, because the only physical port we have is the PS3 version of S;G. Anyway, nerd rant over but TL;DR Mages putting their games on Xbox wasn't a bad business decision at the time that they signed off on it. They had no way of knowing that Mattrick would show up and rugpull everything that his predecessor had built in Japan out of the blue.

Also here's a picture of my Japanese 360 games, some actually did get Western releases which is neat! I plan to pick up Chaos;Head and Robotics;Notes LE, as well as maybe the XB1 C;C in the future if I can.

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no_email@example.com (Parzival) — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 23:32:08 +0000

Maypews wrote: Wed Jun 03, 2026 2:50 pm

The 360 actually has a pretty killer lineup of Japanese games as a result, nothing like how the system is today. It had two RPGs, Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey, that were made by Mistwalker which was headed by the creator of Final Fantasy, Hinorbu Sakaguchi. Tales of Vesperia was exclusive to it for a long time (over a decade), as was Beautiful Katamari which are both fairly high profile Japanese game series. A lot of CAVE shmups were, outside of arcades, also exclusive to the 360; such as Deathsmiles, Akai Katana, Dodonpachi SaiDaiOuJou, Mushihimesama, probably a few more I'm forgetting. Even the original Idolmaster is still exclusive to the 360 in this fashion too, and some other higher profile multi-plat JRPGs such as Eternal Sonata and Star Ocean 4 were timed exclusives. The 360 also received most of the high profile multiplats during this time, such as the Metal Gear HD collection and FF13.

There are other Japanese games from smaller developers too, like Magna Carta 2, Sylpheed, Ginga Force, Spectral Force 3, but by now I think you get the picture. A lot of Japanese developers ranging from big (Bamco) to small put their games on Xbox, and it was more than likely quite profitable given how many of them did it. Unfortunately later in the Xbox's lifespan, Don Mattrick takes over the Xbox division and ruins this for everyone.

So the notion that Japanese games need to depend on Playstation hardware, especially with how much Sony has begun to shun the domestic market and all the times they've fucked over Japanese developers (See: Japan Studio, Censorship, Rugpulling the Vita, etc), is rather silly to me. Sadly, most older Japanese games that weren't bound to Playstation have become rather obscure in the West as a result. This includes a lot of Sega games, especially their RPGs like Skies of Arcadia and Panzer Dragoon Saga which aren't talked about much in spite of their exceptional quality.

Truth Orbital Bombardment

Just wanted to say thanks for reminding me that I actually own Tales of Vesperia and Project Sylpheed for my 360 and I ought to replay them.

Need to emulate Skies of Arcadia too, that's such a good game. I have nothing but fond memories of playing it at my cousin's place on his Gamecube. I love heady stuff like Xenogears but there's nothing quite like classic adventure tales.

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no_email@example.com (NonoEnjoyer) — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 05:50:31 +0000

I've thought a little bit about where the series could go from where we've left off. Emphasis on the 'little bit,' as I haven't fleshed out much about these ideas. Spoiler warning for the series at large, though as I'm writing this I'm not entirely sure what all I'll be bringing up. Really, this thread was born out of me brainstorming while bored during wageslave hours.

Though I'm really not the biggest fan of the simulation thing, I realize that it has always been (and always will be) a part of the series. So if I'm stuck with it, I might as well make the most of it. That being said, the idea of different simulation layers would be important for this story.

Since it's established that "lower resolution" layers of the simulation lead to more errors (gigalomania, reading steiner, etc.), I think it would be interesting to see a game take place on a layer that is much "lower resolution" than anything we've seen thus far. On the layer the bulk of the series takes place on, the errors we witness are more isolated and out of the view of the general public.

In this case, the layer would be so low resolution that errors would be commonplace. Universal laws and constants would break down, and conditions like gigalomania (and whatever else you could come up with) would be more frequent than not. I'm kind of envisioning something like the Zone from S.T.A.L.K.E.R., if anyone's familiar with that. In essence, there would be sporadic places and pockets in the world where things just don't make any sense. Time inversion, ripples into other layers, that sort of thing.

The world would be fairly chaotic. I imagine that the protagonist would be a character that was somehow flushed down to this lower layer from one higher up. He would meet a cast of zany characters, and together they would discover that their layer was doomed for one reason or another (corruption, culling, anything like that, etc.) and together they would work towards finding some means to escape to a higher layer.

Not really sure what you would want the gimmick to be for a game like this, and scientific technobabble isn't my forte either, but I'm sure you could come up with something. I think it would be cool to see some familiar concepts pushed closer to their limits. And don't worry, I'm sure we could somehow fit a Kurisu cameo in there somewhere /s

Maybe certain parts of the world would be completely fucked messes of time and space, with different eras of history smashing together like the Dreg Heap from Dark Souls 3 (underrated location imo). I think something like this would actually be a cool usage of the whole simulation thing. It never even has to be brought up that things are simulated by any of the characters, I'm sure you could come up with some in-universe terminology for layers.

Just something I've been thinking about. Hard sci-fi isn't really my area as a writer, I lean more on the Adventure part of Science Adventure.

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no_email@example.com (NonoEnjoyer) — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 03:39:34 +0000

whipped this one up in the studio a while ago

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no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:17:56 +0000

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no_email@example.com (NonoEnjoyer) — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:46:02 +0000

both of my shitty windows movie maker videos for chaos;head and child

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no_email@example.com (Blond) — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:06:28 +0000

NonoEnjoyer wrote: Thu Jun 04, 2026 2:46 pm
both of my shitty windows movie maker videos for chaos;head and child

Legit, I can see both of these being real videos and not shitposts. The first one gives ARG vibes, like the kids say.

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no_email@example.com (NonoEnjoyer) — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:08:36 +0000

Blond wrote: Thu Jun 04, 2026 4:06 pm

NonoEnjoyer wrote: Thu Jun 04, 2026 2:46 pm
both of my shitty windows movie maker videos for chaos;head and child

Legit, I can see both of these being real videos and not shitposts. The first one gives ARG vibes, like the kids say.

I was going for authenticity. I didn't want to just remake the child one when I made the chaos;head version, so I decided to capitalize on the game's creepy vibe and make something different. Trying to think of a funny joke for the s;g version, and if I make a R;N version it'll just be slander

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no_email@example.com (Blond) — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:28:30 +0000

NonoEnjoyer wrote: Thu Jun 04, 2026 6:08 pm

Blond wrote: Thu Jun 04, 2026 4:06 pm

NonoEnjoyer wrote: Thu Jun 04, 2026 2:46 pm
both of my shitty windows movie maker videos for chaos;head and child

Legit, I can see both of these being real videos and not shitposts. The first one gives ARG vibes, like the kids say.
I was going for authenticity. I didn't want to just remake the child one when I made the chaos;head version, so I decided to capitalize on the game's creepy vibe and make something different. Trying to think of a funny joke for the s;g version, and if I make a R;N version it'll just be slander

Just curious, why you dislike R;N so much?

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no_email@example.com (NonoEnjoyer) — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:13:26 +0000

Blond wrote: Thu Jun 04, 2026 6:28 pm

NonoEnjoyer wrote: Thu Jun 04, 2026 6:08 pm

Blond wrote: Thu Jun 04, 2026 4:06 pm

Legit, I can see both of these being real videos and not shitposts. The first one gives ARG vibes, like the kids say.
I was going for authenticity. I didn't want to just remake the child one when I made the chaos;head version, so I decided to capitalize on the game's creepy vibe and make something different. Trying to think of a funny joke for the s;g version, and if I make a R;N version it'll just be slander
Just curious, why you dislike R;N so much?

It's just not for me. I don't think the game is actually bad. Won't go into the major details since this is the meme thread but:

- I can't stand the protgonist. Kaito is just super obnoxious and irriatating. I was constantly imagining being in a group project with him while playing, if you get what I mean.
- I don't feel like all of the SoL and buildup lives up to the conclusion
- Kou is a very mediocre villain, even in a series not known for its strong non-twist villains. Very unmemorable.
- The game has too many really cheesy moments that I just don't think fit the rest of the series. The bird saving Airi, the hallmark movie stuff where the whole island suddenly cares about the robotics club and Gunbuild 1, and the final CG. Don't care for it at all
- My opinion is forever tainted because some idiot spoiled the twist with Kou way early on in my playthrough. That undoubtedly made my opinion of the game worse, but it's not the game's fault for that.

There's others but that's the major thing. It would require a total rewrite but I honestly wish Akiho had been the protagonist. Nothing with Kaito lands for me, even though he does have his moments that I do like. The slander stuff is mostly just jokes though, like I said I don't really think it's a bad game. Just not what I wanted

Future Gadget Laboratory :: Hydroponic Gardening :: Author rancher

no_email@example.com (rancher) — Tue, 12 May 2026 21:55:35 +0000

Note: this is not about a website or creative project per se, but seems appropriate for the Laboratory forum. (science!)

In a dream, an entity communicated to me: "begin hydroponic farming." And so, I began to research and move forward...

Quality soil is difficult for me to acquire. and I live in the middle of a concrete jungle, so space is limited. (My front and back yards are small and made of cement, very sad!) Making my own compost is not feasible, and buying giant bags of good dirt online is just silly. Being a bit of a science man myself, hydroponics was an appealing alternative to me over soil farming: despite the minor electricity use (maybe 5 watts per system), hydroponic farming uses >90% less water than traditional farming methods while growing plants 30-50% faster.

Compared with soil farming, being able to completely control what nutrients and pH are in the system is also appealing to me.

I have already acquired a 1 meter tall aeroponic tower full of many slots for netpots and am in the process of building a 20L "DWC" system as a part of a larger "space bucket" system for indoor growth. Seeds are currently germinating in rockwool .... salad, bok choy, kale, and many other veggie friends.. I am starting to see new friends popping out of the medium....

If anyone here has experience with hydroponics, hearing about it would be very cool! Otherwise, I'll use this thread to share updates of my hydroponic journey , possibly with photos, with also sharing notes along the way of what I learn by doing it. And if mods want to move this thread to "off topic" that's okay too.

Future Gadget Laboratory :: Re: Hydroponic Gardening :: Reply by capstasher

no_email@example.com (capstasher) — Wed, 13 May 2026 00:21:12 +0000

I've been curious about hydroponics since i was a teenager, always found the concept really neat. Wanted at some point to build a whole hydroponics enabled automated greenhouse with climate control, but I don't have the space, resources, or time for it.

I will be very curious to see how your project unfolds! Hell, if you have fun with it, I might try and start some small scale hydroponics myself sooner rather than later.

Future Gadget Laboratory :: Re: Online Homes :: Reply by JohnTitor

no_email@example.com (JohnTitor) — Sun, 10 May 2026 19:55:58 +0000

I am virtually homeless

Future Gadget Laboratory :: Re: Online Homes :: Reply by cidoku

no_email@example.com (cidoku) — Sun, 10 May 2026 20:10:05 +0000

Sorry to be a downer, but I guess I'm somewhat of a digital nomad. I never last more than a year in a single place, so I don't have a stable home. I added a guestbook to my site hoping that people would want to contact me and make acquaintances with me, but it's only happened once or twice in the four years that it's been open, and they rarely stay in contact. My experience is that "communities" are always appearing and disappearing: there is drama, and there is controversy; there's lack of commitment, and there's apathy, and I'll inevitably have to leave. People rarely care and they rarely stay. In the end, nothing lasts, but nothing is lost.

Future Gadget Laboratory :: Re: Online Homes :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Sun, 10 May 2026 20:34:08 +0000

cidoku wrote: Sun May 10, 2026 4:10 pm
Sorry to be a downer, but I guess I'm somewhat of a digital nomad. I never last more than a year in a single place, so I don't have a stable home. I added a guestbook to my site hoping that people would want to contact me and make acquaintances with me, but it's only happened once or twice in the four years that it's been open, and they rarely stay in contact. My experience is that "communities" are always appearing and disappearing: there is drama, and there is controversy; there's lack of commitment, and there's apathy, and I'll inevitably have to leave. People rarely care and they rarely stay. In the end, nothing lasts, but nothing is lost.

Realistically I suppose I'm sort of the same, given that I've gone through many spots over the years. Of course there will always be the natural user churn and other things you mentioned to contend with. I do think it's possible to ward such things off, there are places that have been operating for decades but they are admittedly few and far between.

Perhaps the key lay in how these things are responded to; to ward off apathy, you must create. To ward off drama, try not to give it much attention. To ward off the user churn that's inherent to this sort of thing, have a constant stream of new blood coming in (this is probably the hardest part I'd wager, especially with the net being as it is now). It's not easily done given that we're talking about continually following these steps over a span of many years, but well, I don't think that means that you (non-personal) shouldn't try either. Your view is however a measured and honestly quite rational one, and I suspect you speak for many in this respect.

Future Gadget Laboratory :: Re: Online Homes :: Reply by JohnTitor

no_email@example.com (JohnTitor) — Sun, 10 May 2026 20:42:35 +0000

cidoku wrote: Sun May 10, 2026 4:10 pm

I feel the opposite in my case; I don't leave communities, communities leave me behind. Without words, not even an apology. Just silent rejection.

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Future Gadget Laboratory :: Re: Online Homes :: Reply by Amlux

no_email@example.com (Amlux) — Mon, 11 May 2026 23:42:11 +0000

I love forums. Some of the most fun I've ever had online has been on forums. But I can never see a forum as my "home." Really, the name itself says it all: a forum was a PUBLIC place of meeting and action, and I see private sites as what should be our real "homes" and where we put projects that are meant to be accessed easily and consistently updated. Forums are great but I still don't think they're the ideal place to host some things like image galleries, lists, wikis, long-form writing, and so on.

Future Gadget Laboratory :: Re: Online Homes :: Reply by capstasher

no_email@example.com (capstasher) — Mon, 11 May 2026 23:45:32 +0000

Amlux wrote: Mon May 11, 2026 7:42 pm
I love forums. Some of the most fun I've ever had online has been on forums. But I can never see a forum as my "home." Really, the name itself says it all: a forum was a PUBLIC place of meeting and action, and I see private sites as what should be our real "homes" and where we put projects that are meant to be accessed easily and consistently updated. Forums are great but I still don't think they're the ideal place to host some things like image galleries, lists, wikis, long-form writing, and so on.

This forum is my home and all of you are my housemates.

Future Gadget Laboratory :: Re: Online Homes :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Tue, 12 May 2026 07:47:05 +0000

Amlux wrote: Mon May 11, 2026 7:42 pm
I love forums. Some of the most fun I've ever had online has been on forums. But I can never see a forum as my "home." Really, the name itself says it all: a forum was a PUBLIC place of meeting and action, and I see private sites as what should be our real "homes" and where we put projects that are meant to be accessed easily and consistently updated. Forums are great but I still don't think they're the ideal place to host some things like image galleries, lists, wikis, long-form writing, and so on.

Hmmm.. in the case of very large general forums where a lot of the userbase has little if anything in common, I could agree that it feels more like a public place of meeting. But, at least from my perspective, most of the forums that I use today are much more tight-knit. There are less of those sprawling general sites than there used to be.

I suppose the contention arises in how the word "home" is defined. In my case, I mean in the same sense as perhaps how say everyone in a small town knows each other. The sense of homeliness that is fostered by shared experience and familiarity. Whereas my personal website feels much more like my room, something that reflects more of my personal side, messiness and all.

capstasher wrote: Mon May 11, 2026 7:45 pm

Amlux wrote: Mon May 11, 2026 7:42 pm
I love forums. Some of the most fun I've ever had online has been on forums. But I can never see a forum as my "home." Really, the name itself says it all: a forum was a PUBLIC place of meeting and action, and I see private sites as what should be our real "homes" and where we put projects that are meant to be accessed easily and consistently updated. Forums are great but I still don't think they're the ideal place to host some things like image galleries, lists, wikis, long-form writing, and so on.

This forum is my home and all of you are my housemates.

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Future Gadget Laboratory :: Re: Online Homes :: Reply by Blond

no_email@example.com (Blond) — Tue, 12 May 2026 11:24:02 +0000

capstasher wrote: Mon May 11, 2026 7:45 pm

Amlux wrote: Mon May 11, 2026 7:42 pm
I love forums. Some of the most fun I've ever had online has been on forums. But I can never see a forum as my "home." Really, the name itself says it all: a forum was a PUBLIC place of meeting and action, and I see private sites as what should be our real "homes" and where we put projects that are meant to be accessed easily and consistently updated. Forums are great but I still don't think they're the ideal place to host some things like image galleries, lists, wikis, long-form writing, and so on.
This forum is my home and all of you are my housemates.

So, does that mean that May is the landlord of the owner of the house?

Future Gadget Laboratory :: Re: Online Homes :: Reply by JohnTitor

no_email@example.com (JohnTitor) — Tue, 12 May 2026 11:43:23 +0000

Blond wrote: Tue May 12, 2026 7:24 am

capstasher wrote: Mon May 11, 2026 7:45 pm

Amlux wrote: Mon May 11, 2026 7:42 pm
I love forums. Some of the most fun I've ever had online has been on forums. But I can never see a forum as my "home." Really, the name itself says it all: a forum was a PUBLIC place of meeting and action, and I see private sites as what should be our real "homes" and where we put projects that are meant to be accessed easily and consistently updated. Forums are great but I still don't think they're the ideal place to host some things like image galleries, lists, wikis, long-form writing, and so on.
This forum is my home and all of you are my housemates.
So, does that mean that May is the landlord of the owner of the house?

Don't get it twisted, a landlord is a rentseeker.

Future Gadget Laboratory :: Re: Online Homes :: Reply by capstasher

no_email@example.com (capstasher) — Tue, 12 May 2026 17:01:59 +0000

JohnTitor wrote: Tue May 12, 2026 7:43 am

Blond wrote: Tue May 12, 2026 7:24 am

capstasher wrote: Mon May 11, 2026 7:45 pm

This forum is my home and all of you are my housemates.
So, does that mean that May is the landlord of the owner of the house?

Don't get it twisted, a landlord is a rentseeker.

Our rent is making quality contributions to the forum. Sounds fair enough to me!

Future Gadget Laboratory :: Re: Online Homes :: Reply by rancher

no_email@example.com (rancher) — Tue, 12 May 2026 20:59:29 +0000

Some of my "online homes" :

Fediverse -- aka "twitter meets email." Linux sysadmin geeks run their own servers and all the servers talk to each other. There are no ads or algorithmic "suggested posts" , no influencers , and basically no normies. I feel like this is where a lot of the kinds of people who made imageboards and IRC really sparkle moved to (at least the people who didn't migrate exclusively to discord/reddit). Bonus: people often write *paragraphs* to each other -- you won't really find that on twitter, discord, et al!
IRC -- it's older than me and probably older than you. Internet chat standard dating back to 1988. I have been a resident of some rooms here for over half of my life. Probably not a good option for people who are not already in it for life
Gikopoi -- more fun and dynamic than IRC. There's two servers and one is better than the other. Chats are ephemeral, chatters are anonymous by default, and there is streaming.
RSS feeds -- a number of people I know like to write blogs and this is how I follow them. I consume various forums and other online communities via syndication as well.
Small webforums -- ah, I went through a phase of preferring anonboards, but in practice they are inferior to webforums. When I want to participate in longer-form discourse, this satisfies a different, more organized itch than what fediverse does. Great places to learn and share knowledge, as well.

I am providing no links because these are tools for people who like to build their own homes on the internet.

Future Gadget Laboratory :: Re: Online Homes :: Reply by Blond

no_email@example.com (Blond) — Tue, 12 May 2026 22:31:22 +0000

capstasher wrote: Tue May 12, 2026 1:01 pm

JohnTitor wrote: Tue May 12, 2026 7:43 am

Blond wrote: Tue May 12, 2026 7:24 am

So, does that mean that May is the landlord of the owner of the house?

Don't get it twisted, a landlord is a rentseeker.
Our rent is making quality contributions to the forum. Sounds fair enough to me!

We only upload high quality posts.

Future Gadget Laboratory :: Re: Online Homes :: Reply by capstasher

no_email@example.com (capstasher) — Wed, 13 May 2026 00:15:50 +0000

Blond wrote: Tue May 12, 2026 6:31 pm

capstasher wrote: Tue May 12, 2026 1:01 pm

JohnTitor wrote: Tue May 12, 2026 7:43 am

Don't get it twisted, a landlord is a rentseeker.
Our rent is making quality contributions to the forum. Sounds fair enough to me!

We only upload high quality posts.

My grand dad loooved to make high quality posts on some forum or other. I forget exactly what it was about but it had like, some art of the Flintstones as a banner? Strange, but nevertheless.

Future Gadget Laboratory :: Re: Online Homes :: Reply by cidoku

no_email@example.com (cidoku) — Wed, 13 May 2026 13:20:47 +0000

rancher wrote: Tue May 12, 2026 4:59 pm
Fediverse

I never understood this. I guess I appreciate the Fediverse in theory, but in practice it's treated like a bunch of twitter clones, except they're monothematic echo chambers. Maybe it's just that don't care about the stuff they post there, usually just tech and politics, and I'm quite exhausted of all of that. That's been my experience with Fedi, at least.

Future Gadget Laboratory :: Re: Online Homes :: Reply by dokyun

no_email@example.com (dokyun) — Wed, 13 May 2026 20:21:37 +0000

cidoku wrote: Wed May 13, 2026 9:20 am
I guess I appreciate the Fediverse in theory, but in practice it's treated like a bunch of twitter clones, except they're monothematic echo chambers.

Thing about fedi (both me and @rancher have run instances before) is your view of the network depends heavily on the kind of people you talk to, who you follow etc. If you follow people on Mastodon who only talk about shit like EU politics and global warming then that's what'll fill your timeline, same if you follow wignats who just post lame /pol/ shit. The unfortunate consequence of existing as an alt-twitter means that there are several large droves of people who basically treat fedi as though it were twitter, but the plus side of your view of the network being informed by who you follow means you can mostly stay inside the margins where those people aren't. You're also given the tools to filter out instances you don't like at the user level, etc.

cidoku wrote: Wed May 13, 2026 9:20 am
Maybe it's just that don't care about the stuff they post there, usually just tech and politics, and I'm quite exhausted of all of that. That's been my experience with Fedi, at least.

Yeah, I get that. A big part of the reason why I like Fedi is just the nature of how it works. I like network effects and watching people hack on stuff and seeing what it does on the network, and I like being dragged into infinitely long hellthreads where we post memes and talk about radios and shit. At least that part of the network, the one filled with hackers and shitposters feels open and free in a way that simply doesn't exist in the same caliber somewhere else anymore, and it's the kind of thing that TPTB are actively trying to kill, so it's worthwhile for that alone.

Future Gadget Laboratory :: Re: Online Homes :: Reply by Amlux

no_email@example.com (Amlux) — Wed, 13 May 2026 21:34:18 +0000

I think the Fediverse would instantly be obsolete if every site just had the decency to have an RSS feed. I love firing up my RSS reader and instantly seeing if all the sites I care about have updated or not and then realizing when I'm "done" (with no endless scroll and attention-baiting algorithm) so I can focus on creating MOAR OC, which is what any online home desperately needs!

I respect the federating of any major service, including Twitter, but a "better" Twitter is still Twitter and is still shittier than any article being hosted on a site or discussion being hosted on a forum or imageboard... in my humble opinion. Just my two cents.

Future Gadget Laboratory :: Re: Online Homes :: Reply by dokyun

no_email@example.com (dokyun) — Thu, 14 May 2026 01:51:02 +0000

Amlux wrote: Wed May 13, 2026 5:34 pm
I think the Fediverse would instantly be obsolete if every site just had the decency to have an RSS feed. I love firing up my RSS reader and instantly seeing if all the sites I care about have updated or not and then realizing when I'm "done" (with no endless scroll and attention-baiting algorithm) so I can focus on creating MOAR OC, which is what any online home desperately needs!

I like RSS feeds too, and pretty much every blogsite has them cause the engine underneath already supports it. The only blogs I've encountered in the wild which don't have them are the ones on neocities and whatnot. They most likely have never heard of them, and if they had then they might have more important things to say. I've never read one of those blogs that was actually interesting.

There's no active component to RSS though. It's entirely one-way, which is good for a lot of stuff, but it's just another way to fetch an index.

Amlux wrote: Wed May 13, 2026 5:34 pm
I respect the federating of any major service, including Twitter, but a "better" Twitter is still Twitter and is still shittier than any article being hosted on a site or discussion being hosted on a forum or imageboard... in my humble opinion. Just my two cents.

Here's something anecdotal, but maybe important to what I'm saying: I've never used twitter. And I don't like the format of twitter either, never got the appeal of it. Granted the time when it was actually a happening thing is a bit before my time, you know, it used to have a chronological feed and APIs and whatnot, and when they got rid of that the smarter few tried to move on to something else (Fedi has all that). But like, calling fedi a "better twitter" is like calling email "better Gmail", is that actually what it is or just mindless branding? Here's something: I don't think normies actually care about the former. All the libtard normies left twitter for bisky because it was branded as the "better Twitter" for those who didn't like the new guy in charge. And like, it's the same fucking thing, there's nothing different about it. They only care about the interface.

So yeah, twitter-styled stuff is garbage. The culture is garbage, and so are the people dragging that garbage back into Fedi in order to make more of the network's total volume garbage. But I don't have to see that stuff because the network is the computer, and if I really wanted to I could write a script to throw posts that my server recives with gamer words or #openai #israel #mutualaid #nigger #rape #finance right into the garbage, or respond with a picture of goatse. And I don't think twitter-brained people can really comprehend that. You can't let these guys win.

And here's another thing: Articles are garbage too! Forums suck! Imageboards haven't been marginally cool for at least a decade! I'm not trying to be dismissive here, it's just Sturgeon's Law in action. You aren't gonna tell me that a good twitter post and a bad 4chan post side by side are somehow a contradiction. And you know, I'm not gonna pretend to be a prude or some moral bastion, I like low-culture schlock.

Anyway, rant over. I have no monetary incentive shill fedi (if that changes, I wll edit this paragraph. Right now I do it for free and the server costs for FBE have to come out of someone's pocket.), but you might actually like it if you give it a chance. If you get rid of your preconcieved notions and just look out for other weird hackers and nerds to shoot the shit with it's a fun time. Same reason why I stick around here.

Future Gadget Laboratory :: Re: Online Homes :: Reply by cidoku

no_email@example.com (cidoku) — Thu, 14 May 2026 02:37:45 +0000

Issue with all your fedi-posting is that you can't improve social media; social media is fundamentally rotten. The fediverse in its most common form is fundamentally rotten, shackled to a timeline-and-replies format. What frontend do you use? I see it's Pleroma, literally inspired by Twitter! I believe timelines are decadent, presentist slop. Slow-paced communication like in forums or personal sites is the TRUE way forward!

Even if I complained about it before, I feel deeper connections from randoms posting on my guestbook than I ever did shitposting on twitter (2014-2020) and my friend's fedi instance, because I know that people who read my site do it on purpose, not because it popped into their feeds. Effort more meaningful and thoughtful than just pressing follow on a bloated site that barely loads.

Sorry to be a hater. My soul burns with hatred towards anything resembling social media.

Future Gadget Laboratory :: Re: Online Homes :: Reply by dokyun

no_email@example.com (dokyun) — Thu, 14 May 2026 05:50:17 +0000

cidoku wrote: Wed May 13, 2026 10:37 pm
Issue with all your fedi-posting is that you can't improve social media; social media is fundamentally rotten. The fediverse in its most common form is fundamentally rotten, shackled to a timeline-and-replies format. What frontend do you use? I see it's Pleroma, literally inspired by Twitter!

I use the Bloat FE so to me Pleroma is just the backend. And I made it look like 4chan as you can see in the picture mostly just for the lulz and to see if I could make a stylesheet I liked more than the default one, but it turns out I actually did like it (and other people did too, surprisingly) and figured it fit my sensibilities in how I treat fedi more like an imageboard than social media. And that's an interesting thing to ponder right, aren't imageboards social media? I think people in Japan consider 2chan social media, and if the quantifier is being "fundamentally rotten" then I think it's hard to find evidence to the contrary, "/b/ was never good" etc.

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cidoku wrote: Wed May 13, 2026 10:37 pm
I believe timelines are decadent, presentist slop. Slow-paced communication like in forums or personal sites is the TRUE way forward!

I don't really know what that's supposed to mean. Like, if I stick this site's RSS feed into my reader then I have a timeline of all the posts. Mailing lists and Usenet are timelines. If you want something more spartan then there's FediBBS which is text only and at least one guy actually uses.

cidoku wrote: Wed May 13, 2026 10:37 pm
Even if I complained about it before, I feel deeper connections from randoms posting on my guestbook than I ever did shitposting on twitter (2014-2020) and my friend's fedi instance, because I know that people who read my site do it on purpose, not because it popped into their feeds. Effort more meaningful and thoughtful than just pressing follow on a bloated site that barely loads.

That's fine, I just think we have different perspectives. I follow people I like talking to and might consider friends to some degree and I can do it from several different interfaces; the interface isn't the big deal to me but the underlying thing. I also like big, drawn out effort posts. You can't do that on Twitter (or Mastodon.)

cidoku wrote: Wed May 13, 2026 10:37 pm
Sorry to be a hater. My soul burns with hatred towards anything resembling social media.

You're soaking in it!

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Future Gadget Laboratory :: Re: Online Homes :: Reply by rancher

no_email@example.com (rancher) — Thu, 14 May 2026 20:35:54 +0000

The right way to look at fediverse is -- it's an IRC channel (or "discord server" for the zoomers) but inverted.

Choosing who you follow is essentially building your own chatroom of people you want to engage with. Gyudon makes a good point that the view you see of fediverse is shaped by how you interact with it. And unlike corporate social media, the software will not try to force specific views of the service upon you based on spooky metrics.

Hashtags and threads split the difference between a big loud room where everyone is yelling about everything all the time and specific, focused, structured discussions.

I am a very heavy user of syndication (Atom/RSS) and even run several sources of syndicated information . When I want to consume data in a more serious context, feed readers are pretty good at filling that hunger. Fediverse is something in between feed readers and chatrooms. Similar with how imageboards and reddit were before the internet got got.

Sometimes I just want to snap random photos or share random links that I find. My blog is not set up for casual posts like that. But there's no chatrooms on my phone where random life photos or links seem appropriate. Fediverse is a reasonable place to throw random stuff at. Normies solve this instead via "stories" on "social media" but that's another conversation.

I think fediverse can serve nicely as a kind of "third space" online. People used to use webforums the way they now use fediverse but I think this was due to a lack of options instead of webforums being the best place for people to post everything that pops into their heads.

In the "glory days" of webforums where there were dozens or hundreds of posts an hour, most posts were easily forgettable bullshit. I'm glad that people can post low effort stuff to social networks instead now, so forums can instead focus on longer-form discussions, which is what they really do well, and places like fediverse, chatrooms, imageboards, reddit do poorly.

Future Gadget Laboratory :: Re: Online Homes :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Mon, 18 May 2026 12:33:43 +0000

rancher wrote: Tue May 12, 2026 4:59 pm

Small webforums -- ah, I went through a phase of preferring anonboards, but in practice they are inferior to webforums.

Very much agreed that imageboards sound great in theory but aren't as good in practice. The pure anonymity is often cited as the greatest strength of the format, and admittedly the cultural axiom of judging posts solely based on their textual content rather than who is saying it is a great one. But the problem is that pure anonymity encourages bad faith engagement since you can just troll and bait all the time without real pushback if you're a shit tier poster. Nearly every board on modern 4cuck has like 2-3 board schizos that run roughshod on the place, and the only way they are ever identified is via stylometry. This is by far the biggest problem with IBs because even the best gatekeeping in the world won't save you from another website/board going down causing an influx of stupid trolls or bad posters that ruin any high level of discourse or board culture that may have been fostered (ask me how I know..)

The anonymity also often leaves you devoid of context that go into posts. For example, if anon B says that he needs alternatives to an ingredient in a dish he's trying to cook, he might receive replies from anon A calling him a retard that should kill himself. So then anon B has to explain that he has an allergy to that food so he therefore cannot use it. That might not seem like a big deal but if you regularly talk about things on an IB, having to explain such contextual details every single time you broach a subject is rather troublesome whereas on a forum all of that often just ends up memorised if you read enough posts since people have names.

The things that are oft-cited as flaws with traditional webforums are not innate to the format in the same way that IB flaws are IMO. Commonly cited issues with forums tend for example to be a perceived cliquiness and overbearing moderators. I actually think that the former is usually just a result of the latter, because power jannies will be sympathetic towards their sycophants and give them unjust privilege over other users.

Meanwhile if your top janny barely moderates at all there aren't really going to be very many chances for him to favour certain users. In essence, I think that having a forum where moderation is viewed with a healthy dose of skepticism is the ideal. Such places possess all of the benefits of IBs without any of the downsides.

Future Gadget Laboratory :: MS-DOS SciADV :: Author FrauBrow

no_email@example.com (FrauBrow) — Tue, 19 May 2026 14:09:02 +0000

Greetings, and well met everyone!

Some of you may have seen my stuff from twitter or other platforms but I thought this forum would be a great place to publicly discuss and answer some questions about my Science Adventure project I've been working on. In this thread I hope to cover how it started, what happened and where its going in the future

So what is it?

The software I'm currently developing is an interactive MS DOS based Science Adventure experience, housing references, easter eggs and interactive sections for all things SciADV! From Chaos;Head to Anonymous;Code I want to make something thats not only a love letter to the series but also to the hardware its being built on!
(its a gimmick lol)

What is it going to do?

I wont give a full list of features right now as I still dont really know everything but I can sum up a few!

The D-mail screen which some of you may have seen me post is actually more than meets the eye! Although I only previewed briefly before I had restarted development the D-Mail function is actually completely usable (although still unfinished). Inputting a message into the D-Mail terminal on the 5155 will send the input over serial and to a small raspberry pi hidden in the housing of the PC, which then sends that message to my phone! (there is alot of jank in between atm but the core Idea for D-Mails are there!)

The software also contains small easter eggs like secret passwords and special VN scenes! And much much more, but I have to leave some surprise hehe

Can anybody download and use it?

This is the elephant in the room. In the beginning, no. When I had first started making this project I really didnt think it would be anything more than a short little gimmick I could post online and share with the community, but I later realized that the project had started to grow far beyond that, which ultimately led me to scrap everything I had built and rebuilt it from the ground up! So yes! In the future this project will be accessible for anybody to download and run on DOS (emulated) or bare metal! And I hope that it will live up to some of the expectations I have set for the scope of the project

Unfortunately this isn't the super amazing and detailed write up I wanted to eventually make, but I hope it gives some more insight into what It's actually about and if it was still in the works (it 100000% is) I'd love to hear some opinions and answer some questions in this thread if there are any!

Godspeed
El Psy Kongroo!

Future Gadget Laboratory :: Re: MS-DOS SciADV :: Reply by capstasher

no_email@example.com (capstasher) — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:14:02 +0000

I wonder if there's any way to spoof the date on email or SMS (unsure which one you use). This would add a neat extra element to this. Also, any plans of eventually porting it to SX-Window? If I remember correctly you do own an X68000.
Either way, good job! Looking forward to the release of this!

Future Gadget Laboratory :: Re: MS-DOS SciADV :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:16:55 +0000

Woah I had no idea you'd set up an actual d-mail system, that's very cool! Well... minus the time travel functionality, I assume (unless? ). I've never fiddled around much with DOS stuff, but this almost makes me want to pick up an older PC. Do you have the 36 character limit in the d-mails? Also, do you plan to use this thread for future updates? If so I will sticky it, but no worries if not.

capstasher wrote: Tue May 19, 2026 4:14 pm
I wonder if there's any way to spoof the date on email or SMS (unsure which one you use).

Ooh, that's a really cool idea, I second this!

Future Gadget Laboratory :: Re: MS-DOS SciADV :: Reply by dokyun

no_email@example.com (dokyun) — Tue, 19 May 2026 23:12:12 +0000

Love it man, also welcome to the site; glad to see more weird hackers on here!

FrauBrow wrote: Tue May 19, 2026 10:09 am
So yes! In the future this project will be accessible for anybody to download and run on DOS (emulated) or bare metal!

Hope you post the code soon, you got a repo anywhere? I'll definitely try this on my shitbox once it's out.

Maypews wrote: Tue May 19, 2026 4:16 pm

capstasher wrote: Tue May 19, 2026 4:14 pm
I wonder if there's any way to spoof the date on email or SMS (unsure which one you use).
Ooh, that's a really cool idea, I second this!

Spoofing email headers is actually really easy since mail servers rely on the client to supply them. (This is actually something I've thought of doing IRL since making a message appear to have been sent earlier than it was might have some practical uses: ever been late on a college assignment? And I think I have the skeleton of a "dmail" command somewhere in my emacs.) I'd imagine a hardened mail server would probably junk messages that say they come from 10 years in the future but I think they're normally pretty lenient backwards in time since delays between the time a message is created and when its sent are a real occurence (especially historically, but my old phone company would also take an hour to send a login code, so there's that). And if he's running a mail server on the raspi, which I'd figure he's doing, he can basically do whatever he wants with it. I'm not sure about SMS but I'd figure it's similarly spoofable.

Future Gadget Laboratory :: Re: MS-DOS SciADV :: Reply by FrauBrow

no_email@example.com (FrauBrow) — Wed, 20 May 2026 06:49:59 +0000

Maypews wrote: Tue May 19, 2026 4:16 pm
Woah I had no idea you'd set up an actual d-mail system, that's very cool! Well... minus the time travel functionality, I assume (unless? ). I've never fiddled around much with DOS stuff, but this almost makes me want to pick up an older PC. Do you have the 36 character limit in the d-mails? Also, do you plan to use this thread for future updates? If so I will sticky it, but no worries if not.

capstasher wrote: Tue May 19, 2026 4:14 pm
I wonder if there's any way to spoof the date on email or SMS (unsure which one you use).
Ooh, that's a really cool idea, I second this!

I am currently working on the 36 character limit! funnily enough with the restrictions in characters on the IBM has made making art for software quite difficult lol.

I was using sms and an app I was tinkering with making, but I'm switching to emails so spoofing might be possible!

and yeah I was just planning to update this thread when I make some more progress!

Future Gadget Laboratory :: Re: MS-DOS SciADV :: Reply by FrauBrow

no_email@example.com (FrauBrow) — Wed, 20 May 2026 06:58:03 +0000

dokyun wrote: Tue May 19, 2026 7:12 pm

Love it man, also welcome to the site; glad to see more weird hackers on here!
Thank you!! I hope to show off some more weird stuff I make on here lolol

Hope you post the code soon, you got a repo anywhere? I'll definitely try this on my shitbox once it's out.
I will setup a github soon, im not a super duper experienced programmer especially with Qbasic so itl be good to get peoples insight! I am just hurdling through exams atm so I havent had time to work or set anything up.

Future Gadget Laboratory :: Re: MS-DOS SciADV :: Reply by Parzival

no_email@example.com (Parzival) — Sat, 23 May 2026 15:43:27 +0000

Yoooo! It's the GOAT!

I didn't realize this is gonna be a SciADV fan experience! That's so sick. Not sure what all you plan to do, but I've always thought a kind of SciADV fandisk game that's almost like something like Uplink but more of a text adventure running on DOS and taking place back in the day would be super sick

Future Gadget Laboratory :: Re: Old Youtube finds :: Reply by aeon

no_email@example.com (aeon) — Fri, 08 May 2026 07:02:17 +0000

i can only dream of being this cool someday

Future Gadget Laboratory :: Re: Old Youtube finds :: Reply by capstasher

no_email@example.com (capstasher) — Sat, 30 May 2026 01:34:10 +0000

Future Gadget Laboratory :: Re: Old Youtube finds :: Reply by capstasher

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Future Gadget Laboratory :: Re: Website Updating Thread :: Reply by DrSchnautz

no_email@example.com (DrSchnautz) — Sat, 30 May 2026 20:45:23 +0000

I think I can probably post about my real life a bit now that I'm starting my Japan travelogue on my personal meatspace website (traveling in 2 days, the very early morning of the 2nd of next month), and planning on going to Akihabara and visiting a lot of the Steins;Gate shrines, posting about them on my site and on here.

https://codexderelict.github.io/

One of the articles I'm proud of is the one I wrote about a regex/constraint based Python project I'm working on that analyzes Akkadian nouns. If you're interested in theoretical linguistics, history, the ancient Near East, whatever, I think you might get a kick out of the article.

https://codexderelict.github.io/lmc/akkadianreport.html

I wrote it with the pretext of explaining it to theoretical linguists unfamiliar with the specifics of Semitic grammar, hence the explanations for the state/case system. I have a good number of ideas for articles on the mathematics of human language beyond just work I'd do, e.g. the linguistics of LLMs (massive can of worms), human language on the Chomsky hierarchy, how information theory explains the utility of languages' seemingly unnecessary complexities, things of that nature.

But most of what I know about this is intuitive rather than formal, so I'd like to strengthen my actual knowledge of the vocabulary and mathematical representations of it before I write them. I mention that in my article, as well, and kind of why I'm trying to do a Master's. It irks me how most discussions on language rarely touch on the empirical and theoretical work on why it is the way it is, it's just about the weirdness without the method.

Future Gadget Laboratory :: Re: Website Updating Thread :: Reply by Amlux

no_email@example.com (Amlux) — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:38:12 +0000

Created an icon on my main page of my site to show whether I'm live or not, so hopefully I shouldn't have to shill here every time I go live!
https://pantsuprophet.xyz

Edit: It sucked and didn't work very well so I removed it. My first and last experiment with vibe coding (I felt dirty having something an AI wrote for me on my site anyway, even if it was just a little icon to say if I was live or not. Trying to create a .php icon now but running into trouble. For now I will continue to post on my forum and in chat here when going live. I get more views that way anyway ^^

Future Gadget Laboratory :: Re: Website Updating Thread :: Reply by DrSchnautz

no_email@example.com (DrSchnautz) — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 05:55:04 +0000

Added the first entry in my Japan travelogue, check it out here.

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Moe Anthropomorphism :: Reply by capstasher

no_email@example.com (capstasher) — Mon, 11 May 2026 23:50:44 +0000

I feel like this image will be greatly useful in the future.

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The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Moe Anthropomorphism :: Reply by Blond

no_email@example.com (Blond) — Tue, 12 May 2026 20:12:15 +0000

capstasher wrote: Mon May 11, 2026 7:50 pm
I feel like this image will be greatly useful in the future.
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Mods, we need a redraw of this image but with Del-tan instead.

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Currently Airing/Seasonal Anime :: Reply by rancher

no_email@example.com (rancher) — Tue, 12 May 2026 21:34:18 +0000

My animes I'm watching this season, sorted roughly by quality:

Dorohedoro s2 -- imperfect but largely good manga with a great anime adaptation.
Kami no Shizuku -- dudes drink wine and trip balls and fight over who's better at drinking wine
Snowball Earth -- Shinji fucked up, the world mostly died, and aliens took over. What happens next?
Liar Game -- not good! But in the absence of a Nikaido Hell Golf anime this will have to do!
Tsue to Tsurugi no Wistoria s2 -- Harry Potter the shonen anime
Himekishi wa Barbaroi -- wifeslop
Mao -- I want to get into this but I can find literally no motivation to watch the episodes sitting on my disk.
Hokuto no Ken -- This is something I watch to punish myself after sinning

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Currently Airing/Seasonal Anime :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Tue, 12 May 2026 22:03:40 +0000

rancher wrote: Tue May 12, 2026 5:34 pm
[*] Liar Game -- not good!

That's a shame, I was looking forward to this one. I saw people online dooming about it potentially being outsourced though. What's wrong with it?

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Currently Airing/Seasonal Anime :: Reply by Parzival

no_email@example.com (Parzival) — Wed, 13 May 2026 01:27:26 +0000

rancher wrote: Tue May 12, 2026 5:34 pm
[*] Tsue to Tsurugi no Wistoria s2 -- Harry Potter the shonen anime

oh hey a fellow Wistoria enjoyer. pretty fun watch if not super deep

other big anime i'm watching this season is Iruma S4, is anyone else?

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Favorite Anime / VN OPs :: Author Erin

no_email@example.com (Erin) — Sat, 09 May 2026 20:30:31 +0000

Post some of your favorite anime / vn OPs. Here's some of mine, in no particular order:

NSFW:

Singer for the next should sound familiar. It's Ito Kanako. She does a lot of VN (including Sci;Adv of course) music. (This is a version edited without the character voicelines the regular version has in it. Also isn't the original's OP but the remake/remaster).

Propeller makes good OPs in general.

Another Propeller one (this one probably has spoilers for Bullet Butlers and probably Ayakashibito in it so beware. It's a crossover between both.):

A couple anime ones:

Crunchyroll vid cause I couldn't be bothered to find a better one:

These are just some that came to mind, got too many to list.

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Favorite Anime / VN OPs :: Reply by alix

no_email@example.com (alix) — Sat, 09 May 2026 20:49:51 +0000

First off, the obvious choice:

(Extra points to Kick Back for being one of the best electronic rock songs of all time)

(And double extra points to this one for being one of the best shoegaze songs of all time)

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Favorite Anime / VN OPs :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Sat, 09 May 2026 21:04:47 +0000

My favourite OP is Soul Eater's resonance. Soul Eater was the 3rd anime I ever watched about 14 years ago and it's OP remains on top in my eyes, shit is just perfect. Great show too!

Regarding Itou Kanako, I'd maybe put Find the Blue as my 2nd favourite OP. It's fantastic and I'm sure anyone here has heard it but posting it anyway. I also really like Hacking to the Gate and it'd likely crack my top 10. Higurashi's VN OP for chapter 2 done by her is also fantastic, love how Eastern it sounds. I'm not entirely sure where I'll put it cause I haven't heard it too much due to trying to avoid spoilers since I'm still reading it but likely quite high.

I love D. Grayman's first OP even though I'm not incredibly high on the show itself (still decent though)

One of my favourite shows and also favourite OPs, named my YouTube channel after this song.

Air Gear as a show just embodies the 00s in a way nothing else quite does, from the art to the music. Were it not so long I'd definitely suggest it for our Otaku Oratories, and I highly encourage anyone (especially if you're a Jet Set Radio fan with it's Naganuma-inspired OST) to watch it. It's OP sounds like Japanese Linkin Park.

Both of Muv Luv Alternative's OPs that I've seen are fantastic. I think I like the classic Asu e no Houkou a little bit more since it has more character and relevance to the story in it in my eyes in that it sounds like a war chant but I really enjoy the PS3 one too and think it deserves a lot more recognition. (videos may contain spoilers)

I love that Ashita no Joe's OP is an old-timey blues song a lot. Such a departure from most anime OPs with it's more classic instrumentation, but genuinely sounds very good too.

Lastly, for another nice and very Eastern OP, Basilisk's is a good choice. Very underrated show too!

Erin wrote: Sat May 09, 2026 4:30 pm
Propeller makes good OPs in general.

I like this one, both the song and the visuals. Very cool! I'll try to give more of them a listen after while.

alix wrote: Sat May 09, 2026 4:49 pm

Holy shit, can't believe I forgot about Lain. Yeah that one would be up there for me as well! I need to add some Lain emoticons to this place..

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Favorite Anime / VN OPs :: Reply by Blond

no_email@example.com (Blond) — Sun, 10 May 2026 06:45:01 +0000

And this one in particular, is very special to me.

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Favorite Anime / VN OPs :: Reply by cidoku

no_email@example.com (cidoku) — Sun, 10 May 2026 15:21:24 +0000

I hate youtube so I'm just gonna hotlink OP/ED sites. I have maaaany more that I like, but I'll post them some other time.

Pani Poni Dash! OP 2. Pure Shaft.

There will never be a third season of Testuwan Birdy Decode. Feels bad man.

Seitokai Yakuindomo*. This show is about penis jokes, btw, but they're the best penis jokes.

Want classics? Chobits, OP1.

While we're at it, more robot girls. Mahoromatic ED1.

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Favorite Anime / VN OPs :: Reply by Parzival

no_email@example.com (Parzival) — Mon, 11 May 2026 02:47:22 +0000

Man, so many of my favorites have been posted already but that's alright, there's plenty of peak out there.

I know the OP specified, well, OPs but Shiki no Uta will legit probably play through my mind as my life flashes before my eyes in my final moments on this Earth and for that reason I have to include it.

And who could forget, the otaku national anthem

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Favorite Anime / VN OPs :: Reply by glass

no_email@example.com (glass) — Mon, 11 May 2026 03:26:30 +0000

Here's a few assorted favorites that haven't already been shared. I read more than I watch so this is most of what I've got that isn't just more old shonen OPs lol

(this last one specifically always got copystriked until this one went up )

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Favorite Anime / VN OPs :: Reply by capstasher

no_email@example.com (capstasher) — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:51:31 +0000

Surprised no one has posted these one yet!

(Honestly any Monogatari OP works, but I am nothing if not a slave to Moe~)

Also, the original Eden of the East OP featured Oasis. They stripped this away on home release.

There were also a few I was not able to find on Youtube (or at least not in decent quality):

I was going to attach the Kujibiki Unbalance OPs as well, since I uploaded them as they were not available, however those got copyright blocked entirely. Waiting for dispute (maybe Kadokawa loves me enough to let it slide). Until then, uploaded on catbox (sorry to those who can't use catbox, i tried to upload them to my website but neocities said no).

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Favorite Anime / VN OPs :: Reply by capstasher

no_email@example.com (capstasher) — Mon, 11 May 2026 20:53:21 +0000

The secret Middle Eastern version of the Evangelion OP

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Favorite Anime / VN OPs :: Reply by Amlux

no_email@example.com (Amlux) — Tue, 12 May 2026 01:57:12 +0000

It's hard to think of an OP for a show I like where I don't like the OP as well. But somehow the first few that come to mind aren't necessarily what I'd say are my favorite anime ever.

I've seen the OP to every season of Ranma 1/2 now and I definitely still like the first one the best:

The 1999 adaptation of Hunter X Hunter is great. The anime itself is superior to the 2011 one in several ways IMO (well, at least through the arcs it covers because I thought the Chimaera Ant arc was probably the highlight of the whole series). But the clearest place is stands out is its quality OPs. The 2011 ones are mostly generic shounen-core. This is nasty and angsty as fuck and I love it! It was one of my go-to songs at karaoke in Japan for a while because the tempo is slow and easy and the words aren't too hard:

The first series of Osomatsu-san was really amazing (no fujo). I thought it fell off in S2 but all the OPs were awesome. This is the best one though:

Do I even need to explain this one?

"I'M YOUR SLAVE!" Remember when anime was allowed to be cool because no one spoke English there?

Sure it's not the Hirasawa Susumu music but you know what? I like it in spite of the memes:

Speaking of Hirasawa, there's this. Can I confess a heresy? I've always thought this anime was overrated. Not bad, just didn't seem groundbreaking or amazing to me. But the OP itself is one of the all-time greatest, and not just because of Hirasawa:

For VNs, again I don't think there's one I like where I don't also like the OP, but this is probably the best one of all the ones I've played so far (yes, even Subarashiki Hibi):

Also, a special shout out to the ED of Scrapped Princess, a somewhat underrated fantasy series from 2003. The ED is by Oranges & Lemons, much more well-known for their iconic work on Azumanga Daiou. You can't mistake it for any other group:

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Favorite Anime / VN OPs :: Reply by Parzival

no_email@example.com (Parzival) — Tue, 12 May 2026 01:23:41 +0000

based fellow ever 17 enjoyer...

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Favorite Anime / VN OPs :: Reply by campanella999

no_email@example.com (campanella999) — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:59:16 +0000

Hoping I'm not making any reposts, my browser refuses to load some of the embeds. Only one VN opening comes to mind.

I learnt about Gilbert O'Sullivan from this, the opening was only around for a single episode due to copyright issues :-(

But, my real favourite of the anime was the final opening.

Not a TV series, but hopefully still counts; likely my favourite animated work. The song itself is Ryuichi Sakamoto's arrange of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg's prelude.

I wore myself out on this one from watching the opening on repeat.

Surprised if this hasn't been posted here yet, seems not.

I guess the 00s meant a lot of anime like these for me.

Last one, really unique visuals between this and the others for the anime.

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Favorite Anime / VN OPs :: Reply by capstasher

no_email@example.com (capstasher) — Wed, 13 May 2026 00:35:23 +0000

campanella999 wrote: Tue May 12, 2026 3:59 pm
Not a TV series, but hopefully still counts; likely my favourite animated work. The song itself is Ryuichi Sakamoto's arrange of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg's prelude.

I've got this on Blu-Ray recently. I should watch it sometime soon

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Favorite Anime / VN OPs :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Mon, 18 May 2026 07:29:01 +0000

Amlux wrote: Mon May 11, 2026 6:03 pm
The 1999 adaptation of Hunter X Hunter is great. The anime itself is superior to the 2011 one in several ways IMO (well, at least through the arcs it covers because I thought the Chimaera Ant arc was probably the highlight of the whole series). But the clearest place is stands out is its quality OPs. The 2011 ones are mostly generic shounen-core. This is nasty and angsty as fuck and I love it! It was one of my go-to songs at karaoke in Japan for a while because the tempo is slow and easy and the words aren't too hard:

I always scream about this at anyone who will listen. I can't think of an area that HxH 1999 at least up until they move to digital in the OVAs isn't better than 2011 in, it only suffers for it's lack of source material and occasional weird filler scenes in my eyes. The visual direction by Kazuhiro Furuhashi (also known for his work on the Tsuioku-hen masterpiece) is absolutely incredible and one of a kind, probably my favourite anime director due to his unique ability of utilising sombre visuals and creative shot composition to create an absolutely oppressive atmosphere but has the taste for it not to be overlaid in the show 24/7 like a lot of people mistakenly do when trying to go for that grimdark feel.

The OST also has a lot of earworms on it and the art is absolutely gorgeous for a TV anime, you can really see how big the budget was. The attention to detail throughout is much higher, they pay a lot of attention to the lighting and other minute details while HxH just puts a bright generic filter over everything and re-uses the same handful of cheap digital effects, namely that stupid purple hue. The brightness and kiddiness of the art style also greatly clashes with when the story takes more serious turns. I mean just compare Illumi's look in 1999 where he feels like a threat to the stupid Bozo the Clown look he has in 2011.

illumi.png

Imagine having the Chimera Ant arc done in the 1999 style. I'd do unspeakable things for it, my god. Also, even though I made an exception for some filler scenes being weird, I actually think most of them are good and add to the source material and characters. I enjoyed the stuff with the tree during the Hunter Exam and we even get this fight below that isn't really present in the manga or anime, and I think it's an incredible fight.

Was talking about this the other day at our anime watch meetup, but HxH 2011 is a good adaptation if your idea of a good adaptation is something that's just the manga in anime form and nothing else. But I hate that mindset because animation and comics are two completely different mediums, and if you want the manga you can just read the manga. A great adaptation in my eyes is something that adds to it's source and gives fans of the source a unique experience instead of merely shamelessly wearing it's skin.

Stuff like HxH 1999 has such a unique passion behind it, and the whole mindset about the anime needing to be 100% accurate I feel like mainly grew out of Shounentards in the 2000s complaining about filler scenes because it interfered with their powerscaling debates. When you view it from that perspective and then consider it was made in a time when that mindset was very pervasive, as well as it being able to adapt the Chimera Ant arc, it makes sense than 2011 became so highly regarded. But I think that perspective is very flawed.

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The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Muv-Luv (General) :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Sat, 23 May 2026 03:37:30 +0000

According to some Reddit guy who trudged through documents of Japanese companies, Anchor (and therefore the Muv Luv IP) has apparently changed hands from Avex to DMM. DMM worked with Anchor on Muv Luv Girls Garden which has evidently done decently well commerically even if I had never heard of it till now.

The previous owner, Avex, was apparently more of a music label than a proper gaming company. DMM meanwhile owns a gaming brand called Shiravune which has worked to bring several visual novels over to the West, most notably Utawarerumono. Shiravune's website in fact states the following -

"Shiravune is a Tokyo-based localization team dedicated to bringing Japanese games to fresh audiences in English and Chinese. We work with developers large and small to help them deliver their stories to players around the world."

Evidently true to their word, the final entry in the Utawarerumono is going to release worldwide on 05-27-2026, available in English from day 1. In short, this might be really good news for those of us who have been waiting with baited breaths for a Schwarzesmarken translation. Or it could just be nothing, but hey, still worth talking about I think.

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Currently Watching :: Reply by Erin

no_email@example.com (Erin) — Thu, 07 May 2026 22:15:08 +0000

For those who don't know, the original VN for Dies Irae is roughly 70 hours long. They packed 70 hours of VN into 18 episodes, so what, 6 hours? In the original you have loads of time to get familiar with each member of the cast, their backstory, their abilities, relationships, etc. In the anime, you get so little time to learn anything about anyone that it's hard to care. Not to mention it was originally 4/4.5 routes, cut down to one in the anime. So you miss a lot of buildup or it gets insanely rushed.

In addition, the anime starts with scenes you don't even see till near the very end of the VN! Spoiling the answer to mysteries you've not even encountered yet... While in the VN the antagonists are for a long period of time very mysterious, the anime shows you so much about them right at the start before you even meet the protagonist that it is ridiculous. And even though it tells you this stuff, to someone who isn't familiar with the VN it would likely just be completely confusing.

And it jumps around jarringly sometimes that its so hard to keep track of what's going on unless you've already played the VN, it must be a terrible experience for people new to the series.

Additionally, in a series that largely centers around personal combat, they decided to add giant (as in like, 100+ stories tall or something) skeletons that some characters fight using, which was not in the VN at all.

I could keep going on, but instead, I'll talk about the upsides. For one, in the blu-ray version it has audio commentary by many members of the cast, which is quite cool. To hear them joking around and such. Secondly, I was totally surprised (in a good way) to see that it depicted a hugely important scene (for a moment), that had never been shown in any entry to my knowledge, just implied. It was super cool to see, as a Shinza series (the series name) fan. What it was, was (Pretty large Dies Irae, Paradise Lost, and a yet to be released Shinza entry spoiler):

Spoiler

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Currently Watching :: Reply by cidoku

no_email@example.com (cidoku) — Fri, 08 May 2026 03:02:49 +0000

I just started watching Kimi to Idol Precure (2025). This season's theme is idols, obviously; a series first, although there have been idol precures before. It seems like a pretty traditional iteration of the franchise for now: a genki pink lead with a heart of gold and a pretty dumb, slightly manipulative (lol), fairy looking for girls to recruit on a mission to save a fallen magic kingdom. I watched all previous seasons, so I know what I'm talking about!

I had totally forgotten how happy Precure makes me, man. Just inject it directly into my veins.

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The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Currently Watching :: Reply by capstasher

no_email@example.com (capstasher) — Sun, 24 May 2026 03:55:23 +0000

Decided to take the recommendations from my pile of magazines and watch Onishi Mahou Gekijou: Risky Safety
It is very very good. Yoroshiku, baby!

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The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Currently Watching :: Reply by capstasher

no_email@example.com (capstasher) — Sun, 24 May 2026 07:31:07 +0000

Even better with the subs:

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The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Context-less Screencaps :: Reply by cidoku

no_email@example.com (cidoku) — Sun, 17 May 2026 03:38:25 +0000

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The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Context-less Screencaps :: Reply by Parzival

no_email@example.com (Parzival) — Sun, 24 May 2026 15:35:22 +0000

I love this show so much and I especially love Clara

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The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Context-less Screencaps :: Reply by Amlux

no_email@example.com (Amlux) — Sun, 24 May 2026 19:08:20 +0000

Spoiler

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Context-less Screencaps :: Reply by dokyun

no_email@example.com (dokyun) — Sun, 24 May 2026 19:42:38 +0000

Amlux wrote: Sun May 24, 2026 3:08 pm
Pictured: Henry Ford, ca. 1939

The dub of this show is phenomenal.

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Context-less Screencaps :: Reply by Blond

no_email@example.com (Blond) — Sat, 30 May 2026 13:59:06 +0000

Time to hop on R;N.

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The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: So... Who's Your Waifu? :: Author Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Thu, 14 May 2026 19:27:24 +0000

Waifus.. Across all tastes, shapes and sizes, whether you're an oyajicon or you're just a simple man who likes his tsundere saaavice, every otaku must have one. The 2D love of your life, the fictional character you'd give the world for. What do you like about them? What makes them special? Talk about that and more ITT!

When I first watched Nisekoi in early 2024 I completely fell in love with Chitoge. Just checks every box for me. From her confidence and strong will, to the more vulnerable softer side that even has some experience with social isolation, to her background, her mannerism of being easily flustered, and of course the fact that she is beautiful. To me she almost feels like something that came out of my imagination rather than something a mangaka actually wrote. While there are other anime girls that I love, if I were forced to pick one to realboot and marry it would assuredly be Chitoge. I have literally ran out of fanart and even stills from the anime to download, god I wish more people would draw her.

But anyway, what say you? Who's your waifu? Do you think they're your true love or could you see it changing in time? What do you like about them? Got any good fanart for us?

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The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: So... Who's Your Waifu? :: Reply by dokyun

no_email@example.com (dokyun) — Thu, 14 May 2026 19:35:12 +0000

I always liked Forte from Galaxy Angel. Unfortunately we live in this twisted hellworld where liking mature women nets you the least amount of fanart. She's probably the most well developed character in the show (for a gag anime, mind you). Also has big tits and shoots guns. The only thing they did wrong in the later seasons is change her design slightly so her bare chest isn't exposed.

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: So... Who's Your Waifu? :: Reply by Blond

no_email@example.com (Blond) — Thu, 14 May 2026 19:58:26 +0000

You guys know my taste in women, so let's get to the point. What can I say about Casca that hasn't been said before? Great design, great character, and her section in Elfhelm is just so fucking good. Probably the most developed character in the series alongside Guts, and one of my favorites.

I just hope that we get more info about her in later chapters, if they ever release them... It's been 8 months since the last one. I really need a new chapter as a reward for the weeks I've been through.

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: So... Who's Your Waifu? :: Reply by glass

no_email@example.com (glass) — Thu, 14 May 2026 21:19:54 +0000

Malon Ocarina of Time.

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Malon Ocarina of Time.

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Malon Ocarina of Time.

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What else can I say? I need her to call me "fairy boy", and get some of that Lon Lon Milk.

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The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: So... Who's Your Waifu? :: Reply by capstasher

no_email@example.com (capstasher) — Fri, 15 May 2026 01:26:01 +0000

After a long process of deliberation and rigorous scientific investigation, I have arrived at the conclusion that Chii from Chobits is my waifu.

She does the perfect job of combining the (clockwise from the top circle) trifecta of incredible affection and care, with the element of being a tragic robo-waifu with incredible power, while also being an absolute ditz.

She is the waifu just for me. Thank you Clamp.

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The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: So... Who's Your Waifu? :: Reply by Parzival

no_email@example.com (Parzival) — Sun, 24 May 2026 16:01:50 +0000

The thing I love most about her is how she pushes the MC she has a crush on to do and be better. She sees more in him than he does in himself and wants to draw that out and is arguably the #1 driving force for his development, and not because he wants to win her over or anything like that, but because she genuinely just makes him want to be a better, more driven person. She makes him want to find a reason for living, in a sense.

In turn, his development spurs her drive to keep bettering herself in ways she often didn't think of before, that she might never have thought of if not for him, and this dynamic leads to a slowly building but genuine connection between the two formed not by lust and childish affection but by gratitude, comradery, and understanding of one another's hardships and dreams.

A surprisingly mature romance for a shonen comedy about a kid who gets kidnapped by a demon and made into his grandson and now has to navigate daily life in the underworld and demon high school.

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The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: So... Who's Your Waifu? :: Reply by Amlux

no_email@example.com (Amlux) — Sun, 24 May 2026 17:45:20 +0000

I have a page for her on my site!

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: So... Who's Your Waifu? :: Reply by DrSchnautz

no_email@example.com (DrSchnautz) — Sun, 31 May 2026 16:43:16 +0000

My one and only love, my little knight of justice, the girl of my dreams with whom I've been in a committed relationship for 8 years, the one I've chosen for my life ever going forward... Sayaka Miki!

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The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: The Deluoode Otaku Oratory (Anime Club) :: Reply by Parzival

no_email@example.com (Parzival) — Wed, 06 May 2026 22:55:54 +0000

I'M GONNA GUNBUST A NUT!

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: The Deluoode Otaku Oratory (Anime Club) :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Sun, 10 May 2026 07:40:01 +0000

The 9th installment of the Otaku Oratory will be preceding as planned tomorrow (today?) at 9 PM UTC! We will be watching Gunbuster, Non-Governmental Organisation (?) Episode 6, and I may or may not have a surprise screening planned as well.

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The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: The Deluoode Otaku Oratory (Anime Club) :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Mon, 11 May 2026 01:48:59 +0000

The 9th installment of Otaku Oratory has completed, and with that our backlog is now finished! We watched Needy Girl Overdose episode 6, Gunbuster and Pale Cocoon which was a fun time.

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I need to make a list of everything we've watched thus far, but for now please nominate new shows in the other thread! We are totally out list-wise, as always the nomination period runs for 24 hours from the time this post is made and then the voting begins.

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Thanks to @Blond, @capstasher, @aeon, @Parzival, @Dweeeb and @k1n0_loVeR for showing up, as well as all of our other Gikofriends.

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The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: The Deluoode Otaku Oratory (Anime Club) :: Reply by Blond

no_email@example.com (Blond) — Mon, 11 May 2026 06:56:45 +0000

Please May, add the Jung Freud quote. That was really funny.

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: The Deluoode Otaku Oratory (Anime Club) :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Mon, 11 May 2026 06:58:16 +0000

Blond wrote: Mon May 11, 2026 2:56 am
Please May, add the Jung Freud quote. That was really funny.

Which one? You must recall it from memory for me.

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: The Deluoode Otaku Oratory (Anime Club) :: Reply by Blond

no_email@example.com (Blond) — Mon, 11 May 2026 07:00:55 +0000

No problem. "This is Jung Freud making bars about how I want to do your mom"

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: The Deluoode Otaku Oratory (Anime Club) :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Mon, 11 May 2026 07:01:52 +0000

Blond wrote: Mon May 11, 2026 3:00 am
No problem. "This is Jung Freud making bars about how I want to do your mom"

Wasn't it Yung Freud? Cause the joke was that someone typoed her name into sounding like a rapper's name. But anyway I'll add it here in a second, though as I said before you can submit stuff to the thread yourself.

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: The Deluoode Otaku Oratory (Anime Club) :: Reply by Blond

no_email@example.com (Blond) — Mon, 11 May 2026 07:04:39 +0000

If the typo makes it funny I have no problems changing it. What a great session that was XDDDDDD, whish I could stick out to the end.

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: The Deluoode Otaku Oratory (Anime Club) :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Tue, 12 May 2026 03:57:39 +0000

I have rewrote the OP for this thread so that newfriends can more easily understand how the whole thing works, since it was mentioned at last week's meetup. If you have any questions please consult the OP, and if it doesn't answer one that you do have then feel free to reply to me or PM me directly!

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: The Deluoode Otaku Oratory (Anime Club) :: Reply by capstasher

no_email@example.com (capstasher) — Wed, 13 May 2026 21:50:06 +0000

On our last OO session we watched Need Girl Overdose episode 6. It had a really cool scene where the plushie of KAngel comes out of the screen and plays around on a viewer's desk. Well we have the behind-the-scenes of that from the stop-motion team!

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The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: The Deluoode Otaku Oratory (Anime Club) :: Reply by Parzival

no_email@example.com (Parzival) — Thu, 14 May 2026 01:43:06 +0000

Totally forgot due to being wageraped and distracted by other goings on but I won't be able to make it to this Sunday's watch-along, as I'm gonna be at a con all weekend

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: The Deluoode Otaku Oratory (Anime Club) :: Reply by Blond

no_email@example.com (Blond) — Thu, 14 May 2026 08:11:19 +0000

Parzival wrote: Wed May 13, 2026 9:43 pm
Totally forgot due to being wageraped and distracted by other goings on but I won't be able to make it to this Sunday's watch-along, as I'm gonna be at a con all weekend

Damn, that’s a shame. Anyway, I hope you have fun at the con, and if you find any goodies don’t forget to post them. Take care Parz!

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: The Deluoode Otaku Oratory (Anime Club) :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Sun, 17 May 2026 01:18:23 +0000

The 11th installment of Otaku Oratory approaches! We will be watching Le Portrait de Petit Cossette and Read or Die tomorrow at 9 PM UTC on Gikopoi, don't forget to stop by.

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: The Deluoode Otaku Oratory (Anime Club) :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Mon, 18 May 2026 09:59:50 +0000

Finished up our 11th OO today. We watched Needy Girl Overdose ep 7, Le Portrait de Petit Cossette and Read or Die. Really enjoyed the latter, thanks for the good rec Cap. Was a fun session even if I was tired for much of it, and immediately afterwards I fell asleep and only woke up at a fucked up time, thus resulting in this post's long delay. Nonetheless thank you to @capstasher, @dokyun, @aeon, @Dweeeb, @Blond, and @JohnTitor for showing. Also thanks to our other gikofriends.

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The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: The Deluoode Otaku Oratory (Anime Club) :: Reply by aeon

no_email@example.com (aeon) — Mon, 18 May 2026 13:29:29 +0000

Although I wasn't able to watch along (the video player was broken for me lol), it was a fun session as always, we had some funny conversations.
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The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: The Deluoode Otaku Oratory (Anime Club) :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Fri, 22 May 2026 19:51:02 +0000

Hello everyone, we will be watching Needy Girl ep 8 and Gosenzo-sama Banbanzai this week. If I'm up for it I may also show a little something extra after. Hope to see you around!

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: The Deluoode Otaku Oratory (Anime Club) :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Mon, 25 May 2026 00:51:36 +0000

Thanks for coming out to the 12th edition of Otaku Oratory. We watched Gosenzo-sama Banbanzai and Needy Girl Overdose Ep 9, as well as a little bit of Extra Olympia Kyklos. Nominations in the other thread are now open!

Thanks to @capstasher, @Parzival, @dokyun, @Dweeeb, @Blond, and all of our other gikofriends for coming out. We nearly ran out of seats!

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The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: The Deluoode Otaku Oratory (Anime Club) :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Sun, 31 May 2026 04:13:14 +0000

We'll be watching anime today at 9 PM UTC, today's show will be Iria the Animation and Needy Girl ep 9. Hope to see you everynyan!

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: The Deluoode Otaku Oratory (Anime Club) :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:59:20 +0000

Session 13 is in the books! We watched Needy Girl Overdose Episode 9 and Iria Zeiram The Animation. It was a fun session, and I hope to see all of you again next week. Something I've been thinking of is that it's probably about time for us to think about what we're going to watch episodically once Needy Girl ends. It's probably best if we go for something that's episodic, so that you don't have to have seen the previous episodes for it to make sense. Ideally the more influential the better.

I might set up a poll in this thread to vote on that, and we'll have it run for the next 3 weeks until NGO ends. If you guys have any suggestions for the show let me know, personally I like the idea of watching Urusei Yatsura with you all. We don't have to watch the entire thing, maybe I'll cut it off at 20-30 episodes then we'll pick a new one episode a week show to watch. Dunno, what do you all think?

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The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Merchandise Thread (Figures, Manga, Posters etc.) :: Reply by Blond

no_email@example.com (Blond) — Sat, 30 May 2026 11:39:28 +0000

I was cleaning my room and I realized I never posted anything in this thread, so here it is. I can't wait to stop being poor so I can buy more merch.

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The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Merchandise Thread (Figures, Manga, Posters etc.) :: Reply by glass

no_email@example.com (glass) — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 02:39:29 +0000

I received some Mions from Japan this week, so I figured I would share them (and some others that I've had for a while) here. Here are the buttons/keychains I just got to put on my bag.

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...and the Mion I keep on my wall.

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...As well as most of my other Type-Moon/07th Expansion figures. I have a few more on a floating shelf that I'll share sometime later. Here are Aoko (Tsukihime ver.), Touko (Mahoyo ver.), Shiki Ryougi, smol Keiichi, three Mions, and a bonus Testament.

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The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Merchandise Thread (Figures, Manga, Posters etc.) :: Reply by capstasher

no_email@example.com (capstasher) — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 03:32:07 +0000

glass wrote: Sun May 31, 2026 10:39 pm
...As well as most of my other Type-Moon/07th Expansion figures. I have a few more on a floating shelf that I'll share sometime later. Here are Aoko (Tsukihime ver.), Touko (Mahoyo ver.), Shiki Ryougi, smol Keiichi, three Mions, and a bonus Testament.

Oh shoot, you've got a copy of Gaeolia 1 and 3? I've been meaning to get the first one because a mangaka I really like (Mishima Yoshiharu) contributed to it, but it's too damn expensive to ship to the UK to justify. The whole series looks interesting though, best I can hope is some britfag selling his off for a lower price online.

Edit: Nevermind, he seems to have been published in the second one, which is even harder to find!

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Merchandise Thread (Figures, Manga, Posters etc.) :: Reply by glass

no_email@example.com (glass) — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:11:24 +0000

capstasher wrote: Sun May 31, 2026 11:32 pm
Oh shoot, you've got a copy of Gaeolia 1 and 3? I've been meaning to get the first one because a mangaka I really like (Mishima Yoshiharu) contributed to it, but it's too damn expensive to ship to the UK to justify. The whole series looks interesting though, best I can hope is some britfag selling his off for a lower price online.

Edit: Nevermind, he seems to have been published in the second one, which is even harder to find!

Yeah, I was lucky (I guess? I think it's still in print) to get 1 after they reprinted it alongside 3's release, but have been waiting/hoping they rerun 2 at some point in the future. It's been a while, though, so who knows what its licensing/profitability is looking like now...

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Danganronpa Series :: Author aeon

no_email@example.com (aeon) — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 04:08:19 +0000

Recently I had a quick chat with May about having a DR thread here, so I figured why not start one myself since I just finished DR2. I've been loving the series so far, the mysteries are so captivating and the plot twists always catch me by surprise, you can never truly expect what's coming next. So I was curious, what are your opinions on the series?

What's your favourite game/entry?

What's your favourite character?

What's your favourite moment/chapter?

What's the most important aspect of the series to you?

Do you have any fanart or screencap you want to share?

And anything else you want to say related to the series

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Danganronpa Series :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 04:38:26 +0000

aeon wrote: Wed Jun 03, 2026 12:08 am

What's your favourite game/entry?

As of now it's the 2nd one, but I haven't read the 3rd yet. Maybe I will after I finish Higurashi and the remainder of Noah's endings. I will say that I think the 2nd starts a bit slow, chapters 1 and 2 are rather weak compared to the first game. The first entry really comes out swinging with that first chapter!

What's your favourite character?

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What's your favourite moment/chapter?

I'd say it's either chapter 4 of game 2 or chapter 1 of game 1. I really liked Sayaka and at one point was even writing a fanfiction of like an alternate version of chapter 1, though I haven't worked on it in a while.

What's the most important aspect of the series to you?

I think really just the the over the top nature of it all is what makes it special. There's also a lot of thought put into making the characters more than just archetypes, and I think that's why you see people connect so deeply with them. Chiaki from Danganronpa was the first anime gril I was truly crazy over and she's still pretty high up there for me, but there are really multiple great characters in every entry it seems like. Also the art is fantastic.

Do you have any fanart or screencap you want to share?

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And anything else you want to say related to the series

Danganronpa was kind of what made me start exploring the VN medium more, it was the first one that I truly thought was amazing. I still respect it a lot and it ranks quite highly for me, very special series for me.

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The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Danganronpa Series :: Reply by Parzival

no_email@example.com (Parzival) — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 23:52:54 +0000

Need Chiaki wife

NEED CHIAKI WIFE NOW

that is all

DR2 clear 1 even though I prefer 1's atmosphere. Chapter 1 really does come out swinging.

Masafumi Takada is a musical god amongst men and his work perfectly the over the top games he scores. Honestly, I've been thinking of making a "Takeshi Abo Playlist to Uncover the Committee's Plans To" type video for YouTube, might make something similar for his work on DR and the Kill The Past series.

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Danganronpa Series :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:01:25 +0000

Parzival wrote: Wed Jun 03, 2026 7:52 pm
Need Chiaki wife

NEED CHIAKI WIFE NOW

that is all

DR2 clear 1 even though I prefer 1's atmosphere. Chapter 1 really does come out swinging.

Masafumi Takada is a musical god amongst men and his work perfectly the over the top games he scores. Honestly, I've been thinking of making a "Takeshi Abo Playlist to Uncover the Committee's Plans To" type video for YouTube, might make something similar for his work on DR and the Kill The Past series.

"Masafumi Takada Playlist to School the Class Trial To"

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Higurashi First-Time Read :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Fri, 15 May 2026 03:57:56 +0000

Spoiler

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Higurashi First-Time Read :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Thu, 21 May 2026 07:25:19 +0000

I have recently completed the Question Arcs, the first half of Higurashi When They Cry's story, and have decided to write my thoughts on it. Normally I would wait until finishing the work in it's entirety to do this, but given that the All-Star Cast Review of Chapter 4 explicitly asks the player to theroise I figure I'd recognise the author's wish and do so. When I had started writing this I was firmly on the Team Curse side of the debate, but after logically considering the possibilities I have become rather split. It is funny how the human mind defaults to the supernatural as an explanation when it cannot understand things, isn't it?

First I will list all of the known pecularities so far that I have noticed in the story. This will be something of a stream of consciousness.

-The eye change (central to both theories)
From what we see of the story so far, the change in eye colour seems to signify that whatever character is being affected begins to act much different from their usual selves. In this state, characters have highly dulled emotions (thus enabling them to commit murder) and speak in flat and blunt tones. At first I had suspected some form of full-on mind control. But given what we see of Keiichi in chapter 3 still largely being himself and having his own motives, it seems more like something is edging them along so to speak by dulling their emotional senses when they enter this state. I believe this can be explained by both theories, if you are pro-human it could be explained as having been induced by the syringe, whereas if you are pro-curse it can be explained as having been induced by Oyashiro-sama.

-The syringe (Human theory)
The purpose of the syringe does not receive much explanation throughout the question arcs. We see Mion and Rena attempt to inject Keiichi with it, but he is able to fend them off and we thus never see the effects. I had initially assumed that this was some sort of psychadelic drug that would force one to claw out their own throat like Tomitake did, but given Keiichi's fate in chapter 2 that no longer seems to be the case.

In the event that all of the murders are being carried out humanly, perhaps it is the syringe which enduces the emotionally-numb discoloured eyes state. Perhaps this drug is forced upon all of the villagers, and those who are not injected with it are the ones who are killed. The main flaw in this theory is that in chapter 3 Keiichi seems to be in the discoloured eyes state and we never see him injected with it, I don't think it's impossible that it could've been forced upon him unknowingly while asleep or unconscious however.

As for what motive the villagers could have for injections, it could be some form of tradition or custom. The Hinamizawans firmly believe that they have demon blood, and perhaps the contents of the syringe are said to contain the demon blood in order to convince them to take it. A potential flaw in this arises in that we see in chapter 4 that the Watanagashi festival is but a shell of what it once was, which thus raises the question of how a village that was once so uninterested in it's guardian deity would suddenly become mass-injected.

It seems unlikely for the populace to agree to it, so it would require doing it to some 1000 people against their will which seems implausible. However there is a catalyst event which could serve to unite the villagers as one and embrace their cultural heritage, that of the dreaded dam project. Furthermore we see that the ritual sacrifices are almost always pro-Dam supporters, and this would also explain the later escalation to simply killing all "outsiders". The line of logic may follow from killing off pro-dam supporters to simply killing off the uninjected, as those who are not injected become seen as future threats due to the village's near end at the hands of the Dam project.

Another issue I see in this theory is that it does not account for Rika-chan's murder. If this injection is meant to dull the senses so that Hinamizawans can band together and resist the project by any means necessary, it would seem paradoxical to murder the village mascot. However perhaps it becomes so that their senses are nulled to a point where they no longer care about their original stated purpose and simply turn into monsters. That seems rather contrived however.

In my opinion the better explanation to this discrepancy is that Rika-chan's death is a red herring, because we receive very little information about it or who the culprit could be. Maybe it is not exactly related to the ritual killings but was instead carried out by the lone will of the Sonozaki family in order to eliminate any potential long-term threats to their strangehold on the village, something which the so-called living reincarnation of Oyashiro-sama certainly would be. This is especially given that the death of Rika Furude also means the complete elimination of the Furude bloodline. We also never see Rika enter the discoloured eyes state, so perhaps she refused the injection and was accordingly killed because of it. Perhaps the injection itself is a concoction of the Sonozaki family intended to strengthen their control over the other two families, and Rika thus refused it not seeking to cede her family's influence.

But then this runs into the problem of the Great Disaster, which obviously eliminates any motive for the Sonozaki family to kill Rika. But if we are sticking to an explanation grounded solely in reality, perhaps the given explanation for the cause of the gas eruption is actually correct and her dying on the same day is simply a coincidence, or perhaps it is as Akasaka said and the swamp was somehow manipulated by humans. Currently I am of the belief that the syringe and it's lack of explanation is probably the greatest data point in favour of the acts all being carried out by humans, but you could also dismiss the syringe as being naught but a red herring.

A thought that just occured to me is that perhaps the gas disaster was orchestrated by the politicians who sought the removal of the village in order to complete the Dam. I am unsure of how likely this is, but it does make more sense than the Sonozakis doing it. Takano is also very suspicious given that she seemed to have killed someone in chapter 3.

-Always being watched (Pro-curse theory)
This is a plot detail that not only makes for amazing horror but also throws a bit of a wrench into the pro-human theory. The way that the other characters are able to predict events in advance and see right through Keiichi seems near unexplainable. Rika's predictions in chapter 4 all being correct? The great disaster eerily matching the prophecies of what would happen if the village were to ever incur Oyashiro-sama's wrath? What about Akasaka being stared at from the bus by the locals? Even if the Sonozaki's had been informed of his dispatchment, how would random bumfuck villagers know that? Surely they would not allow such information to leak.

It is stated in chapter 3's all-star cast review that the reason Mion knew about Keiichi's talk with Ooishi in chapter 1 was because the business is Sonozaki-owned, but I do not find this explanation satisfying given all of the other instances of characters seeing right through him. Even in the slice of life scenes it's as if the characters know exactly what it is that he is thinking, which makes me wonder if that is meant to be for the sake of writing expediency as much as it is an ominous piece of foreshadowing.

Mion's explanation in chapter 2 also raises some alarm bells, with her acting as though another presence is inside of her body. In fact it is commonly remarked by Keiichi as though the characters are no longer themselves once the dreaded coloured eyes state emerges, and the characters say similarly to Keiichi when he enters that state in chapter 3. Additionally, it is also strange that it seems like the villains of each chapter vary. Chapter 1 is Rena and Mion, Chapter 2 is just Mion and Rena is as cool as a cucumber, Chapter 3 is Keiichi and this time it's Rena and Mion that are afraid of him.

If they were all under Oyashiro-sama's curse, why does Oyashiro seem to select who will carry out his deeds at random? There are other things too that in my mind that make some sort of supernatural involvement seem plausible, such as Keiichi's will manifesting in reality in chapter 3 with the deaths of Irie, Takano and likely Ooishi. It all just lines up too well with the legend to be entirely coincidental in my mind.

In the legend, it is said that Oyashiro prevents people from leaving the village so that they do not run roughshod on the other villages. Perhaps Oyashiro has been angered by how Hinamizawa is performing the rituals and treating outsiders, so he chooses to destroy the village with the disaster.

I think my current final standing point is that the whole pro-curse and pro-human dichotomy is itself a ploy by the author to throw the reader off. I think that both are happening, that the humans are not wholly devoid of agency but that they are perhaps being influenced by some higher power. My prediction for the place that the narrative is going is that it will sort of head towards a conundrum where, though the characters may be being nudged, it is ultimately their choice and their actions that have lead to all of this horror which they will struggle to come to terms with.

With that said, were I forced to not be a fence sitter and pick one, I would likely lean pro-human as of now, as I believe it requires the least leaps in logic to explain. I am really excited for best girl's chapter, and for her to be the protagonist too. Exciting!

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Higurashi First-Time Read :: Reply by Amlux

no_email@example.com (Amlux) — Sun, 24 May 2026 04:19:57 +0000

I love that you're reading this right now as I just finished reading Chapter 8, the last chapter of Higurashi!

I won't spoil any of what happens of course, but I love reading your thoughts as it helps me remember what it was like reading before I knew a lot of the answers and it makes them more meaningful on retrospect as well. All I can say is that you're in for quite a ride!

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Higurashi First-Time Read :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Sun, 24 May 2026 14:52:39 +0000

I've been in this strange state where I am kind of enjoying the novel too much to actually sit down and write about it but episode 5 knocked my socks off in a way that few things ever have. I thought about it for like an hour after I finished reading it, went to bed, and then woke up still thinking about it. There are a very small quantity of artistic pieces that have rendered me into being almost in a state of shock, probably less than 5 in fact but this is now among them. I binged it for 8 hours yesterday because I truly couldn't put it down once the plot got going so I'm going to try to do this chapter justice and give it a proper review and analysis.

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I was already pretty firmly on Team Shion but this chapter truly elevates her to new heights. We finally get to learn about her family circumstances, it seems she had been exiled to a rather authoritarian school in lieu of the usual family tradition which stated that twin siblings must be disposed off and that only the inheritor should remain. The beginning of the chapter showcases Shion's escape from these circumstances.

Even after escape however, the new life in Okinomiya is not all it's hyped up to be. Shion is not allowed to be seen in public places due to "family circumstances" (which is essentially a threat backed by violence) and relies on the kindness others to supply her with basic necessities. She isn't permitted to go to Hinamizawa and generally seems to be something of a recluse without much in the way of friends. It's this which makes the immediate love for and almost dependence on Satoshi all the more believable.

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The immediate dynamic between her and Satoshi in the early going of the chapter is fantastic. Their personalities compliment each other perfectly, even if the love seems somewhat one-sided (which makes sense given that it hasn't been all that long since they met). It is also pretty cool seeing a character like Satoshi who's more nerdy and introverted playing and enjoying sports, you don't see that combination of traits very often but there are dozens of us out there!

I do wish we had gotten to see more of them together, but alas the good times come to an end rather quickly. While Satoshi is reserving Satoko's teddy bear at the toy store, Ooishi comes up and seems ready to interrogate him under suspicion of killing his abusive aunt. It seems rather cut and dry that he did it due to the fact that he was apparently absent from the Watanagashi (an interesting conflict with Keiichi's otherwise remarkably similar case), which forces Shion to have to reveal her identity since under the assumption that she is Mion, Satoshi would essentially have no alibi.

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Although the two survive interrogation, a pecuilar vehicle is waiting outside of the station for Shion once she is done. The family pretty much immediately caught wind of the identity reveal, and as such she is taken to the main house in order to receive retribution. Kasai and presumably the uncle who runs Angel Mort were both taken prisoner, and Shion is made to lop off 3 fingernails in exchange for them being forgiven. A quite cruel punishment, although this does have the added side effect of seemingly allowing Shion to finally live a normal life in Okinomiya once complete. Unfortunately, Satoshi then goes missing shortly thereafter.

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The banging in the storage shed when we get to see it from Shion's perspective is absolutely harrowing. I wonder how exactly that works, since we never hear of it happening outside of that specific scene. This ritual storehouse incursion unfortunately proves to be the beginning of the tragedy. Shion ends up spending the night at the main house, only to wake up in the middle of the night and incidentally end up eavesdropping on a conversation between Mion and Oryou. In this conversation they seem to somehow be aware of the incident, and Mion then catches Shion in the act and begins to behave rather threateningly.

Shion responds accordingly and ends up tasing her and Oryou, taking the two prisoner. Except it turns out that.. she actually killed Oryou when she tased her by total accident. I know a lot of people find Shion's actions in this chapter hard to justify and I don't entirely agree with all of them myself, but I don't think she was wrong at all to take the initiative here given that these people had shown they were willing to imprison those close to her and even torture her personally (though Mion later subjected herself to the same treatment in a showing of how whole a heart she has).

Had Mion behaved disarmingly here none of this would've happened, though I also understand that she was sort of forced to due to the responsibilities and whatnot of being successor. One detail though that I think a lot of people miss because the novel doesn't explicitly state it is that once she kills Oryou, accident or not, she's already well past the point of return. Even if the Sonozakis didn't actually carry out the curse murders as is mentioned later, they're still a Yakuza family with a torture dungeon and they carried out an abduction on at least one highly influential politician's grandson. If Shion were to admit her crime she'd almost certainly be killed if not tortured to death in turn, and given that she has pretty good reason to suspect that they murdered her love as well as Tomitake and Takano for entering the storehouse, I do not find what spurred her into action immoral in of itself.

With that said, the depths that we end up sinking to are truly astounding and make your skin crawl. For now though, Shion wants to get to the bottom of the curse murders and find out who exactly is responsible. Thus the killing spree begins. Shion's theory essentially ends up landing on the fact that the village itself fostered an atmosphere where if Oryou gave a vague suggestion, someone would "carry it out" for her without her direct interference. As such the blame could be said to fall upon the heads of the 3 families and the system itself, which is where her fury ends up being directed. She abducts and kills Kimiyoshi, and is then confronted by Rika acting very strangely in what ends up being a battle to the death. Rika then kills herself once she ends up on the disadvantage via using the syringe to claw out her own throat.

Something that is mentioned a few times by Shion is the presence of a demon inside of her. It's interesting because as the chapter goes on she seems to devolve more and more into being a sadist, seemingly enjoying the suffering she inflicts. I mean just look at this monologue, it's sort of wild in hindsight looking through the screenshot gallery and seeing how her thoughts develop over the course of the story and it all happens very naturally too. Impeccable character writing.

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After Rika ends up dead at her place, this leaves Satoko hanging and she calls the residence. Shion then has to lure Satoko over and dispose of her as well, since not doing so could alert suspiscion. The scene of Satoko at the end is very touching, and sort of drives home that had Shion been able to get to know Satoko more she would have likely realised that her anger towards her in the earlygoing was misplaced.

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We also discover that it was originally Shion who was meant to be the family head, but that during one of the family meetings Mion stood in for her and ended up receiving the tattoo instead. The two twins seem to have such a bizarre identity crisis that has persisted ever since as a result of this. Although the scene with Rena and Keiichi coming over largely plays out the same as before, Keiichi's refusal to condemn either Mion or Shion and instead blame the demon is rather touching. Oh and Mion of course unveils that the Sonozakis aren't actually responsible for anything and that it was all a big bluff shortly before her death. It was saddening that Shion could not bring herself to spare Mion, who from this episode truly does seem to have a heart of gold.

Remember how I was talking about how you see Shion devolve more and more into insanity? Past this point she becomes pretty much just a beast incapable of rational thought after finding out all of that death and revenge on people she cared about was for nothing. What a gutwrenching chapter man. We later get to see a vision of an alternate world where she had followed the promise made to Satoshi and looked after Satoko, which rubs a little more salt in the wound to end things off.

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As I said earlier, I think this is one of the best portrayals of a spiral into insanity I've ever seen. A true masterclass in character writing. Were I to critique one thing about this chapter it'd be that I'm not sure how well it would cause chapter 2 to hold up on re-read, since the whole thing is basically just a big lie.

Something I've been thinking about is the nature of Shion's relationship with Satoshi. I've seen some say online that it wasn't real love and that Shion was just using him as an excuse to do what she did. There are even monologues from Shion herself at times that halfway suggest this, but I think it's prudent to consider the context.

The one from earlier is her expressing regret and sorrow at her actions towards Satoko. It's in the context of her having essentially a mental breakdown over her failure to uphold the promise. Consequently I don't think those should be treated as wholly reliable statements of her intent. The feeling of jealously she possesses towards Satoko isn't really that hard to explain when you consider Shion's isolation due to the circumstances.

Mion states in the text that she was happy to see Shion in love with Satoshi because it was always her to had to suffer. Ooishi also states upon reading "Mion" (Shion's) diary that it was clear that she really did love him. I think in short that those monologue are from an unreliable narrator and that other neutral third parties seem to contradict them.

As for her not upholding the promise I think this was caused by her inability to cope with his disappearance and I think this is heartbreakingly symbolised by her mistaking the curse as being Satoshi. Shion had such a difficult time accepting it and then later on investigating it that it was overshadowed in her mind. There's some wisdom along the lines of how anger is a defense mechanism and how it arises out of a desire to protect something that you love. I think that applies very strongly here.

"Anger comes from love. You can not get angry unless you care about something. It is impossible to feel anger without love."

The additional unlocks for completing this episode are a bit different from the usual all-star cast reviews. This time we just get a heart to heart from Ryukishi, who asks the following questions that I will answer.

How did you feel?
I don't even really know where to begin with this. At first I was happy, it was nice seeing Shion finally have something in her life even if you knew it was going to go to shit when Satoshi gets demoned away. But once shit hits the fan I felt a rollercoaster of emotions, ranging from anger, shock, admiration (towards Satoko mainly), but by the end I was left with a pervasive sadness.

How much were you able to sympathise with her?
I will have mercy on her, because I sympathised with her a good deal. I don't know if I like the verbeage of "almost entirely" because she really does go off the hinges quite a bit, but like I said earlier I do find the initial motive for her capturing the two highly sympathetic.

This arc in my opinion is a classic tragedy. It reminds me of a certain character's betrayal in Berserk, where you find what they do to be revolting but on some intrinsic level you can also understand how that character felt so cornered that they acted in the way that they did. It may be disgusting but it also feels incredibly human and familiar, doesn't it?

I also found the ending to be remarkably heavy. I have not seen many things which touch on reflection and regret to the extent that this does. That feeling of crossing the point of no return, and knowing that you can't really go back. Then later looking up at the sky and wondering how it all went so wrong, reflecting on both the past and what could've been had things gone a little differently.

That's an emotion that I am sadly very acquainted with, being something of a daydreamer with an unfortunate background myself. It's really what caused this arc to tickle my heart in such a special way, the ending nearly made me start bawling to be honest. Even looking at these two attachments I've posted here makes me feel emotional, Shion's longing and distant gaze in the first especially. Fuck man.

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During the meeting with Rena and Shion at the bus stop, we find out that Satoshi is also apparently afflicted with the curse of hearing an extra footstep and sensing a presence behind you. Rena herself at this point has become a very mysterious character, she seems to know a little too much about this stuff and I've heard the next chapter is her arc so looking forward to learning more. Why does she know all of this about the curse? Why is Satoshi being afflicted by it? What is that banging noise?

I still can't shake the fact that the curse might be some sort of substance or mind alteration that causes people to act on whims because none of these people seem like they'd commit murder otherwise, and I wouldn't be surprised if the "demon" is related to that. Really for an answer arc I don't think this one answered a ton of questions (not that it's necessarily a bad thing). We find out that the Sonozakis arent the ring leaders, but don't really receive any hints on who the real ones are. I assume subsequent arcs will carry the torch in this respect.

Anyway, that's all for now. Very verbose post and sorry if it's a shitty read at times, but this arc was very special to me so I wanted to give it the retrospective it deserved. I took a day's hiatus, but I will continue now that I've gotten all of this out of my system. Loving the game so far, it's entered very rare territory for me now thanks to Meakashi.

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The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Higurashi First-Time Read :: Reply by glass

no_email@example.com (glass) — Sun, 24 May 2026 15:34:57 +0000

Chapters 5-7 are very much my favorite parts of the entire story so I'm definitely looking forward to your reactions from here!

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Higurashi First-Time Read :: Reply by Amlux

no_email@example.com (Amlux) — Sun, 24 May 2026 18:49:45 +0000

If you're playing the Steam version, that means you won't be experiencing the voice acting added for the PS3 versions, which is somewhat of a shame IMO. The original art is superior enough that you should definitely play with that. But there is a version floating around that combines the original art with PS3 audio. I cannot affirm or deny any method of getting your hands on it, but it's the ideal way to play the game. The voice acting is simply extraordinary, even if there are a decent amount of censored lines where the original text version has spicier content. I guess if you've gotten this far it's not like you're going to restart it but I think it would be worth it even for just part of the experience.

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Higurashi First-Time Read :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Sun, 24 May 2026 19:01:36 +0000

Amlux wrote: Sun May 24, 2026 2:49 pm
If you're playing the Steam version, that means you won't be experiencing the voice acting added for the PS3 versions, which is somewhat of a shame IMO. The original art is superior enough that you should definitely play with that. But there is a version floating around that combines the original art with PS3 audio. I cannot affirm or deny any method of getting your hands on it, but it's the ideal way to play the game. The voice acting is simply extraordinary, even if there are a decent amount of censored lines where the original text version has spicier content. I guess if you've gotten this far it's not like you're going to restart it but I think it would be worth it even for just part of the experience.

I'm using 07th mod, that's how I'm getting the PS3 CGs but keeping the original art. I did actually think about playing without the VA since iirc the original release didn't have it but decided that would probably be needless purism (same goes for disabling the CGs haha). But yeah unless you mean like extra lines or something I have the voice acting on, and it is indeed great.

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Higurashi First-Time Read :: Reply by Amlux

no_email@example.com (Amlux) — Sun, 24 May 2026 19:03:03 +0000

Ok, glad you are at least doing that. You were playing it in 4:3 so I wasn't sure. But yeah, I would hate to think of the VN without VAs at this point. Especially going forward. You'll see how voice acting adds a lot to Rika's story especially.

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Higurashi First-Time Read :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Sat, 30 May 2026 05:52:16 +0000

I've been told that episode 7 pretty much explains everything and that this is my last chance to try to figure it out, so I figured I'd throw my hat into the ring. Admittedly I'm kind of at the point where I'm just really excited to unveil it all, so this post/theory probably won't be as high effort as my other one was.

I enjoyed episode 6, and it does provide us with a few hints regarding the mystery as well as a few big reveals like chapter 1 being a result of Keiichi's own insanity. Rena's back story was very saddening, a shame that her mother was the way she was and the moral dilemma is quite compelling and believeable. The message on comraderie was also very solid and perhaps more poignant than ever today in a world where people are often afraid of showing any kind of weakness to others.

Regarding the mystery I think Shion's theory about the environment causing the murders is correct. The question remains on what exactly fosters said environment. The opening part of episode 7 (I didn't read past the title card don't worry) mentions that there are three rules, X Y and Z. Long story short, there IS something that happens in episodes 2/5 that doesn't take place in the others, and that is the Great Hinamizawa Disaster.

I'm not entirely sure what to make of this. Could this mean that one of the people that Shion kills is responsible for the disaster? That seems rather far-fetched to me, but what if one of the Three Families heads is secretly a traitor that's working with the minister? I'm just going to go and list off a few other things I found as strange while reading it

-The Great Hinamizawa Disaster does not happen in the world where Rule Y is broken

-It is possible to break rules in these different loops

-Why did the Sonozakis have Takano's other textbooks?

-On that note, if Mion had the bodies of Rena's victims dug up then I assume that's likely what happened in chapter 3 with Satoko's uncle too

-The swamp being filled with concrete is incredibly fishy and to me reeks of human involvement/coverup. Given that it was carried out by constructors, could it truly have been the will of government officials? But if that's the case, why didn't they go ahead with the dam project since the interlude with Akasaka is so far into the future?

-Why is the state okay with a Yakuza family having so much influence over such a large area of land anyway, stretching out from multiple locales? Is it possible that the Sonozakis are just the pawns of a hypothetical government big wig?

-The parasite theory is played off as a conspiracy theory and maybe that's true, but I still find it very hard to believe that all of these characters could be driven to murder like they are without some sort of external factor. Also why is Miyo working at the clinic? We still don't have very much actual info on that damned syringe, but I can't help but wonder if there's coorelation between these two things.

-Rena seems to have a dark inner voice/alter ego nudging her in the direction she goes. Is it the same thing as the "demon" Shion mentions? Perhaps it's just a result of mental illnesses shown in the tips but we have nothing to suggest that Shion had that specific brand of trauma as well. The game seems to be trying to downplay the syringe but I remain convinced that it's an important piece of the puzzle.

-Unit 731 is mentioned in some of the earlier chapters, which makes me wonder. Could this perhaps some big human experiment set up by vengeful dam project advocates in powerful positions to see how the villagers react to some sort of foreign substance that directs their will?

-Is the end goal of said experiment perhaps to sway the villagers into supporting the project somehow?

-Perhaps the murders or "curse" itself is organised by powerful government officials in order to scare the villagers in line so that they do not start poking their nose around. It would be trivial to setup patsies to take the fall in these cases.

-Is the story regarding the canned human flesh real? It could very well just be one of Takano's delusions, but Shion mentions having been told about it in Meakashi which causes her aversion to canned foods. Perhaps Hinamizawa has been a testing site for a lot longer than the scope of the game shows. Could it be that the real point of the dam project is to cover up the experimentation, and when it failed they had to use the disaster as the nuclear option so that their deeds would not be publicised? I think this is my acting theory for now.

I dunno what's going on with Rika though and her omnipresent nature, can't think of any explanation except her being some kind of reincarnation. Maybe she found out about the whole conspiracy and was put in some hell realm as punishment? lol. But yeah, I guess this is what I've settled on for now. Looking forward to ep 7.

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Higurashi First-Time Read :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 05:52:44 +0000

Finished ep7, it was cool and had me binging it fairly hard (though that's largely a rite of passage for this game at this point). I am actually pretty happy with my predictions, I got a few things wrong but overall think it went pretty well barring a huge last second twist in ch8. The main detail that I got wrong is that this seems to be a fringe group of researchers that wants to weaponise Hinamizawa syndrome rather than those that were behind the dam conflict itself, and also I wasn't able to figure that it was a disease but it was sort of a "Ahh shit of course" moment when that was unveiled.

Could parasites be the cause of the disease? It wouldn't be strange for Takano to have wrote about that knowingly in her journals. Also hadn't considered that the syringes could be used both as a cure and as a injection tool. Did enjoy seeing the cast overcome the situation with Satoko's uncle, that was quite lovely and there were lots of good character moments for the entire cast.

Still don't really get what's going on with the time loops though, and I am praying the game doesn't pull some multiverse theory bullshit on me. That's like the only thing that could happen for me to seriously lower my critical perception of it at this point. Please no!

I do wonder what exactly Takano's motives are, and I must say this game does such an incredible job of conveying the underlying message of comraderie. The scene at the end where Takano kills all of them, how all the characters refused to give in even in their last moments is very touching. Usually the whole "power of friendship" thing doesn't work on me, but I think Higurashi does an incredible job of handling this theme compared to most things.

Where in many narratives friendship is used as a plot device to rationalise unexplainable power jumps and plot contrivances, here it is simply explored in it's emotional depth and nothing more. I find it particularly poignant given that we're in an age where often times folks are afraid of forming connection with others. On to ep8 now!

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Otaku Oratory #8: Voting and Nominations :: Reply by capstasher

no_email@example.com (capstasher) — Sun, 10 May 2026 21:46:30 +0000

I propose we watch R.O.D - Read or Die. Yomiko Readman my beloved will be there.

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Otaku Oratory #8: Voting and Nominations :: Reply by capstasher

no_email@example.com (capstasher) — Sun, 10 May 2026 23:14:09 +0000

And if no one else suggests anything, "The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes" too. Gunbuster reminded me to suggest it.

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Otaku Oratory #10: Voting and Nominations :: Reply by aeon

no_email@example.com (aeon) — Mon, 11 May 2026 03:13:02 +0000

I nominate Iria: Zeiram The Animation for next week's watch party

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Otaku Oratory #10: Voting and Nominations :: Reply by Parzival

no_email@example.com (Parzival) — Mon, 11 May 2026 05:53:46 +0000

I nominate... Jungle de Ikou!

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Otaku Oratory #10: Voting and Nominations :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Mon, 11 May 2026 08:02:24 +0000

Nominating Le Portrait de Petit Cossette. It's an early work of Akiyuki Shinbou, who's most famous for his directorial style on the Monogatari series. I always read his name as Shinobu at first because of the titular imp from said work.

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The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Otaku Oratory #10: Voting and Nominations :: Reply by Dweeeb

no_email@example.com (Dweeeb) — Mon, 11 May 2026 13:34:27 +0000

I nominate Gosenzo-sama_Banbanzai
(https://myanimelist.net/anime/4639/Gose ... _Banbanzai)

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Otaku Oratory #10: Voting and Nominations :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Tue, 12 May 2026 03:27:09 +0000

First poll has been opened, thanks for all the nominations!

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Otaku Oratory #11: Voting and Nominations :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Thu, 14 May 2026 19:19:13 +0000

Cosette has won the first poll by a narrow 3-2-1 margin. 2nd poll is now open.

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Otaku Oratory #12: Voting and Nominations :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:37:34 +0000

I will nominate Koe de Oshigoto. And on that note nominations are now closed and the poll is open!

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Otaku Oratory #12: Voting and Nominations :: Reply by capstasher

no_email@example.com (capstasher) — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:48:50 +0000

Maypews wrote: Tue May 19, 2026 4:37 pm
I will nominate Koe de Oshigoto. And on that note nominations are now closed and the poll is open!

He forgot to include my past second nomination

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Otaku Oratory #12: Voting and Nominations :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:57:27 +0000

capstasher wrote: Tue May 19, 2026 4:48 pm

Maypews wrote: Tue May 19, 2026 4:37 pm
I will nominate Koe de Oshigoto. And on that note nominations are now closed and the poll is open!
He forgot to include my past second nomination

Well to be fair, generally you aren't supposed to nominate 2 at once. But I'll add it to the next poll we do, although Gosenzo-sama is long enough that we might not watch a 2nd show this week if it wins.

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Otaku Oratory #12: Voting and Nominations :: Reply by Dweeeb

no_email@example.com (Dweeeb) — Mon, 25 May 2026 01:22:33 +0000

Good streams today
I nomimate "Twilight Q". Its rather short with only 2 episodes
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1981/Twilight_Q

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Otaku Oratory #12: Voting and Nominations :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Mon, 25 May 2026 09:02:37 +0000

I nominate Ninja Scroll!

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Otaku Oratory #12: Voting and Nominations :: Reply by capstasher

no_email@example.com (capstasher) — Mon, 25 May 2026 21:17:10 +0000

You have my nomination from last time, The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Otaku Oratory #12: Voting and Nominations :: Reply by Parzival

no_email@example.com (Parzival) — Mon, 25 May 2026 23:28:14 +0000

Yeah mine's just the same as last time too

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Otaku Oratory #13: Voting and Nominations :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Tue, 26 May 2026 06:25:15 +0000

Poll's closed. Errr I mean open.

Parzival wrote: Mon May 25, 2026 7:28 pm
Yeah mine's just the same as last time too

Nominations stay until they're chosen, Cap was just saying that cause he nominated two things last week and I only added one of them. Nothing wrong with having multiple noms in the poll, I just have a one per week limit cause I don't want the backlog to get too big.

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Otaku Oratory #13: Voting and Nominations :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:05:17 +0000

Appears we have a three way tie, so I'll run it through a random number generator to determine what we get. 1 is Iria, 2 is Ninja Scroll, 3 is Tunnel of Summer.

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And so it seems our show will be Iria. Since it is 3 hours long, I think that means it'll be the only show we watch this week.

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The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Otaku Oratory #13: Voting and Nominations :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:30:19 +0000

Poll for this week's show is now open!

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Otaku Oratory #14: Voting and Nominations :: Reply by Parzival

no_email@example.com (Parzival) — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 23:45:52 +0000

raped by work again

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The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Otaku Oratory #14: Voting and Nominations :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:25:08 +0000

The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes has won the first poll. The 2nd poll is now open!

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: General Anime Art :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Sun, 31 May 2026 01:04:45 +0000

Potential Del-chan reference?

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no_email@example.com (Erin) — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:11:48 +0000

Maypews wrote: Sat May 30, 2026 9:04 pm
Potential Del-chan reference?
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First pic makes me want to visit Japan again.. I miss it.

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no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 03:15:59 +0000

Original Higurashi style fanart. If anyone has moar please post it!

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no_email@example.com (glass) — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:30:26 +0000

Maypews wrote: Tue Jun 02, 2026 11:15 pm
Original Higurashi style fanart. If anyone has moar please post it!

You got it.

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The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: General Anime Art :: Reply by Blond

no_email@example.com (Blond) — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:16:56 +0000

Just saw this on Twitter and I had to share it:

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Beatrice

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no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 02:07:17 +0000

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The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Gateway;Pages Deluoode! (Manga Club) :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Sat, 09 May 2026 23:04:23 +0000

Hello everyone, happy to present the first ever Manga Club book report. I hope it lives up to the standards of this thread.

I found Comic Party volume 1 to be an interesting little romp. The MC Kazuki, who seems to be some sort of art degree dropout, is introduced to the world of Comipa by his friend Taishi. The girl featured all over the cover, Mizuki, fills a familiar role similar to that of Saki from Genshiken, that of the love interest who resents otaku and the stigma that surround them. Of course this came before Genshiken, so it's possible that it was a source of inspiration for that series in some respects.

Much of this first volume seems to be laying the groundwork for what's to come. The cast and their base personalities are established, we see Kazuki drawing his first doujins, etc. There's also a little character drama with the rain incident and Yuu (who's a joy), which I found to be a fairly heartwarming read. The comedy leans into the slapstick and fantastical, as one would probably expect from this sort of series, and I found that it generally works well. The panel below is quite funny, arguably even moreso without context.

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The author also seems to really like referencing Western rock bands, I wonder if this was in the original visual novel or if it's a quirk of the manga. Nonetheless there are lots of references to that scattered throughout; there's one of Nirvana, another of Slipknot, there's even the lyrics to a song by Feeder playing over the radio at one point in the manga. Lots of pop culture references are sprinkled throughout even outside of music, such as this one of Chiyo from Azumanga Daioh and also a mention of the Dreamcast (itself likely a nod to the original VN since it released on the DC)

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I also really like the visual gag of imposing hyperrealistic images in the mentals of the characters. Hope to see more of that. I think that's all I have to say for now, there's not really a ton to analyse, but I thought it was an enjoyable romp and I look forward to reading moar.

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The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Gateway;Pages Deluoode! (Manga Club) :: Reply by capstasher

no_email@example.com (capstasher) — Sun, 10 May 2026 11:36:32 +0000

Comic Party... Comipa, for short. How incedibly entertaining this first volume was! Seriously, I was not expecting it to have this sort of tone. Most of us here have watched Genshiken, I assume, and if you've been attending the Otaku Oratory, then you will likely have watched Otaku no Video and Animation Runner Kuromi. Whereas Genshiken was quite down to earth and normal, trying to be accurate to the realities of being an otaku and publishing doujins, and OnV was what could best be described as a "Success Fantasy" (rather than a power fantasy), this is most like Kuromi, but in its own, unique, very violent slapstick way. The way it differs from Kuromi, is that while that OVA dealt with the hardships of animation in an over-the-top way, this is very... hopecore? Intense excitement and hope at the prospects of becoming a doujinshi mangaka. I loved every moment of it.

The characters so far have been fantastic. Sure, some of them are a little flat right now, but it's just the first volume. I am sure they will have their time to develop.

Taishi is what could best be described as a patriot for otakudom. Someone who takes full pride in his interests and believes with his whole heart in the beauty and glory of manga. He is an icon we ought to emulate. I saw some place say "he is not just an otaku, he is THE otaku" and this might be correct.

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He serves as both the call to adventure for our protagonist, Kazuki, and as his most trusted compatriot. Though it's not pointed to often, Taishi does a lot to enable Kazuki to properly begin his journey: Abandons him at Comipa so Kazuki can find his way on his own, helps Kazuki out with supplies when he decides to take on the challenge of working on a doujin, helps him mog* his tiredness, sets him up with the printers, even mans the booth when Kazuki twice, the first time for Kazuki to explore Comipa, and the second time while he looks after Yuu. All this to say, he's a real bro, and a strong supporting character.

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*I know it's supposed to say Mogu, but it is quite funny.

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The girls of Comic Party are the main attraction though, so let's talk about them, starting with...

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Mizuki is, as May said, our Saki-like character in Comic Party. Unlike Saki though, we often get to see her take her rage out on our guys using her nailed through baseball bat. What a fantastic opening to a manga. Violence right off the bat, so to say.

The three of them (Mizuki, Taishi, and Kazuki) appear to be long time friends, something which I am sure will be developed further on. At least Mizuki and Kazuki appear to study in the same classes, as she comes by his apartment to drop him the class notes while he's working on his first doujin.

Mizuki has a strong distaste for otaku, and otaku culture, or at least that's what she expresses throughout this volume. In reality, I think she is more worried about Kazuki wasting his talents on what she sees as a fruitless endeavour, rather than actual hatred of doujinshi. Throwing this out there, and I may be completely off here, but I suspect she has tried to publish a doujin before and was unsuccessful, and this is where her belief that Kazuki is wasting his potential comes from. We will have to wait and see as we read more.

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She is, herself, an artist, and when Taishi points out that she shouldn't be shitting on those who put their all into their work it does seem to sting her a bit.

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I love this panel so much, it's so beautiful...

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On the other end of the otaku spectrum, though not far apart on the violence one, we have Yuu, and fellow labmems, I think I have fallen in love.

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Like Taishi, she is a true otaku patriot. Though I have not read it yet, and base this on May's posts alone, she kinda reminds me of Frau from R;N, if you substitute the smugness for pure burning passion, and the interest in hacking for that of creating doujins. She even has a similar twin tail hairstyle.

Yuu is everything one could dream of. A passionate otaku, a talented artist, and a cute girl with a fighting spirit. Her design is top notch. Hell yeah I would love a girl with twin tails, glasses AND a cute fang. Sekihiko-san, I kneel.

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(Kazuki you idiot...)

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She's so cute bros.... T^T

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(Why is Kazuki living the dream and not me? Unfair...)

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She tried so hard to get make her collaboration with Kazuki a success, and she is so brokenhearted when she fails.

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But with a little push from our guy, she's back on her feet and figures out a way to make this Comipa a success.

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I must protect that smile at all costs.

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Well, I'm likely running low on text space in this post. All this is to say, I really loved this first volume. All the other girls here are incredibly cute as well, and I'm looking forward to their development as characters.

Thank you to all of you who partook or will partake in Gateway;Pages. I hope you're all enjoying it at least half as much as I am! Thank you, @Maypews for suggesting it, it's an absolute blast! Volume 2 is now up on A Certain Otaku Webdex, make sure to pick up your copy! Apologies for the late report, I have been quite tired lately and fell asleep before I could write it yesterday! The floor to discussing the first volume is now open, tell me all thoughts on what we've read so far, share your favourite panels, so on, and so forth!

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The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Gateway;Pages Deluoode! (Manga Club) :: Reply by capstasher

no_email@example.com (capstasher) — Sun, 10 May 2026 11:41:28 +0000

Oh, also a brief note. Volume one has been a scanlation, but further volumes are the official Tokyopop translations. I have all of them in print, so I have been reading the Tokyopop version, which is a bit drier than the fan translation. I do wish Tokyopop wasn't so adverse to Translator Notes, as they are quite sweet to have, and add a degree of sovl to it. Either way, all this is to say we will all be reading the same translation from this volume onwards. I apologise ahead of time if the translation is not as good or faithful as the one for volume one.

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Gateway;Pages Deluoode! (Manga Club) :: Reply by glass

no_email@example.com (glass) — Mon, 11 May 2026 02:42:47 +0000

Finals week is over so I finally had the time to sit down and read through the first volume of ComiPa. I'm vaguely familiar with Leaf's works/style/influence on the medium but had yet to directly interact with any one of their works myself before now. It's already been thoroughly noted here, but this definitely feels like a proto-Genshiken in terms of its general premises and vibes. You have characters that fill similar roles to the main Genshiken cast members here, but there is definitely a greater focus on the variety of distinct "heroines" that you presumably can pursue relationships with in the original game. Compare this to Genshiken, which is primarily focused on a male-centric group wherein each member embodies one or several aspects of otaku culture (though the ladies become the majority of the group over time). As far as both ComiPa and Genshiken's protagonists are concerned, they have a lot to learn about otaku culture, and slowly learn all about it directly from their interactions with the wacky club members/doujinka that they befriend.

That's not to mention all of the pop culture references that have already been screenshotted in the thread thus far, another trait shared with Genshiken and other meta otaku works. I'd be remiss to not shout out Chop Chop Master Onion (Tamanegi-sensei) from PaRappa the Rapper.

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Out of all of the heroines, I'm looking forward to learning more about Eimi Ohba the most. She's feisty and has green hair, which I find to be rather endearing if my avatar didn't make it obvious. (I actually do like redheads even more if you can believe it, but not when they disapprove of my hobbies *cough* Mizuki *cough*). But being honest, I don't think I actively dislike any one of the girls and am looking forward to seeing their storylines develop in future volumes.

Also, Taishi is pretty consistently funny. I like his Vash the Stampede glasses and That Guy From Gundam Wing That Inspired Yang From Street Fighter But I Forget His Name hair. We all need a "supportive best friend character from a dating sim" in our lives.

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The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Gateway;Pages Deluoode! (Manga Club) :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Sun, 17 May 2026 06:13:32 +0000

Sorry guys, slipped my mind to read today. I'll try to do it tomorrow and get a report done. I think this thread needs to be periodically bumped so that it doesn't slip your memory so easily, but I'm not entirely sure how we could do it.

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Gateway;Pages Deluoode! (Manga Club) :: Reply by glass

no_email@example.com (glass) — Mon, 18 May 2026 01:11:35 +0000

I read the last volume over the weekend, but I also work over the weekend and crashed out and fell asleep before writing something on time myself :/

I'll try to come up with something substantial to say later, but in the meantime: comparing the pages from the unofficial scanlation to the official Tokyopop translation back to back on some of the chapters was incredibly interesting. Nothing super-duper totally different (I think Tokypop forced in some more swearing and slightly dated lingo?), but it's interesting to note how the same dialogue can be phrased in subtly different ways and convey different information.

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Gateway;Pages Deluoode! (Manga Club) :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Sat, 23 May 2026 05:13:15 +0000

Finished up volumes 2 and 3. In volume 2 we are introduced to another new character, Subaru, who is great at martial arts, has a strong sense of justice and unfortunately... lacks in manga drawing skills.

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A nefarious organisation you say?

Kazuki covering for the Printer Girl is also sweet character moment, even if it ends up harming his manga ambitions. The meat of this volume begins to rear it's ugly head about half way through the 2nd volume. The story ends up taking a rather unexpected turn Volume 2, from the usual antics to... a terroristic bomb threat?!

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Yeah so, this guy with a silly mask shows up and stupidly announces his name to everyone. Apparently he feels spurned by the Comipa committee.. turns out he was an idiot who failed to follow basic procedure when submitting his works, who'd have thunk it? So of course the only rational response to this is to try to blow the entire joint up! Volume 2 ends on a somewhat brutal cliffhanger, so I am almost glad that I waited and did both volumes at once.

We eventually end up getting some pretty cool action sequences. The action paneling is actually a lot better than it has any right to be, it's very easy to follow but remains highly detailed and vivid. I'm definitely impressed with this shounen-ass combat sequence and almost hope that we get to see more. Honestly the art in this entire manga is excellent even outside of action sequences, that's one thing I've been very pleasantly surprised by while reading.

The back side of volume 3 begins to focus more on cosplay, as Mizuki is sort of forced into doing one. This section goes into a lot of cool detail about cosplaying and what it is and the ethos behind it. That's one thing about the fandom that I've never fully understood, so this has proved rather educational for me. Some choice panels below.

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The end result is Kazuki in a Cardcaptor Sakura cosplay! Cardcaptor Kazu is so very cute it makes your heart melt... ahhh me. Alright, this concludes my report for the time being. Apologies if this is brief, as I had to put together a bit quickly and also having to take photos of my reader can be a bit of a pain sometimes.

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The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Gateway;Pages Deluoode! (Manga Club) :: Reply by glass

no_email@example.com (glass) — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:53:47 +0000

Sorry for the super-late reply. We have a new kitten at home and it's taken residence in my room as well as most of my free time for the past few days, and this completely slipped my mind until now.

Volume three was another fun one! The conclusion to the terrorist plotline that started at the end of the previous volume was pretty good--all the action was very nicely drawn and choreographed--but I really liked the cosplaying story arc that filled the back half of this volume. Reiko being a very obvious Kyo Kusanagi (from The King of Fighters) fangirl was really fun to see as a big fighting game fan, and historically accurate as well!

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Kyo had a crazy amount of fangirls in the late 90s, many of whom were also into Kyo x Iori (the main rival character) yaoi doujinshi which is reflected in the story as well. In The King of Fighters 2000, one of the selectable bonus assists is Cosplayer Kyoko, who is literally just a Kyo fangirl dressed up in his original outfit.

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They have referenced this on occasion even somewhat recently. In SNK Gals' Fighters and later in SNK Heroines, a set of games that exclusively feature female fighters, Iori first appears as the secret final boss in a girls' uniform and then gets genderbent (and put into a Cosplayer Kyoko outfit).

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At the end of the volume, you can see a bunch of different cosplays, mostly of fighting game characters. From left to right, they would appear to be: seifuku uniform (I'm not 100% sure who she specifically is :/), Iori Yagami (The King of Fighters), Sakura (Cardcaptor Sakura), Kyo and Kyo again, Sophitia/Valkyrie (SoulCalibur/Valkyrie no Densetsu), and Nakoruru (Samurai Shodown).

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The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Gateway;Pages Deluoode! (Manga Club) :: Reply by capstasher

no_email@example.com (capstasher) — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 01:41:00 +0000

Apologies for lack of updates! Will drop my reports (hopefully) tomorrow (But I promise I've been reading them on time). Volume 5 is now up on ACOW.
(I had to scan that by hand, I hope you guys will overlook that it's a little rough around the edges )

Also that being said, it's time for everyone to suggest the next manga we'll read, as volume 5 is the LAST volume of Comic Party. Submissions from last time will be included, but if anyone wants to join for the next series and suggest a manga of their own, now its the time! Also as part of this, I'd like to ask, how did you guys feel about the structure of this? Do you have any suggestions for the future of Gateway;Pages? Is 5 volumes a good max length, or are you open to increasing the possible number of volumes? Are you happy with one volume per week, or would you like to do more (or less)? Let me know! Poll goes up probably around the end of Tuesday/start of Wednesday, to give us some time to discuss. Let me know your thoughts, and enjoy the last volume of Comipa!

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Gateway;Pages Deluoode! (Manga Club) :: Reply by capstasher

no_email@example.com (capstasher) — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 03:46:21 +0000

Oh yeah, poll is up guys. Forgot it doesn't bump the thread!

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Gateway;Pages Deluoode! (Manga Club) :: Reply by glass

no_email@example.com (glass) — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:01:35 +0000

At this rate, I'll be combining my writeups for volumes 4 and 5 in one post over the weekend to get it all done at once. Just wanted to bump the thread again to see if anyone might be interested in joining us on our next series (currently being polled) starting this next week!

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Gateway;Pages Deluoode! (Manga Club) :: Reply by capstasher

no_email@example.com (capstasher) — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 08:02:49 +0000

WE NEED A TIEBREAKER VOTE! @Blond you MUST read manga.

The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture :: Re: Gateway;Pages Deluoode! (Manga Club) :: Reply by Blond

no_email@example.com (Blond) — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 11:49:28 +0000

It is done.

Off Topic :: Re: Desktop Thread :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Fri, 15 May 2026 23:12:18 +0000

My laptop. I mainly use it for reading VNs and streaming anime over Gikopoi, dont have much space though so I have to delete stuff all the time. Maybe one day drive prices'll go down so I can move my external HDD over to this computer :^^^)

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Off Topic :: Re: Your username :: Reply by rancher

no_email@example.com (rancher) — Sat, 16 May 2026 18:26:37 +0000

I almost never use the same username in more than one place and have always liked changing my handles on whims. Who I am as a person is in flux and being stuck with the same label in all places at all times goes against how I see myself. Something I appreciated about IRC is I could instantly change my handle as I felt like it; when I take extended breaks from communities like forums, sometimes I feel more comfortable returning with a new handle than picking up an old account who reflected the kind of person I was months or years ago vs the kind of person I am now. Japanese BBS are more accommodating to this kind of feeling ...

Seeing all the people here talking about names they've been using for years or decades is appreciable. There is some value in making a brand of your handle, so to speak; it can make it easier for old friends to find you and reconnect after time has passed!

An added benefit to using a multitude of names is that it makes it harder for bad actors to keep tabs on me.

This name "rancher" was picked because I was feeling like a cowboy when I stumbled across this forum.

Off Topic :: Re: Your username :: Reply by glass

no_email@example.com (glass) — Sat, 16 May 2026 18:55:29 +0000

I came up with my current username almost a decade ago, trying to replace [insert cringey old username here] with something halfway better. I had recently hacked my Wii and gotten whatever games/emulators I wanted to run on it, and had just finished Sin and Punishment on the N64 Virtual Console when the credits started with this:

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The in-development name for one of my very favorite games became my own name. I usually just go by "glass" for short these days, though.

...Only problem is that when I'm in a call with someone and they say "glass" in any context my ears will perk up as if they said my name even though they didn't. Don't name yourself after an everyday object.

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Off Topic :: Re: Deluoode's very own /lit/ :: Reply by rancher

no_email@example.com (rancher) — Sat, 16 May 2026 19:00:18 +0000

I'm taking a break from reading while I play Metal Gear Solid 3 but can I recommend William Faulkner to anyone and everyone? Experimental writing styles and he takes a look at the (American) South post-confederacy. His prose is brilliant, comedic, and tragic. Not easy reading but it would probably make some Yanks more sympathetic to what the South went through.

@alix so I've read every book in your 3x3 and liked most of them. And I have a funny anecdote to share about Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience." During COVID-19 lock down I changed cities to a suburb of Seattle WA USA and found myself joining an "anarchist" reading group in my new city. I proposed we read C.D. and was shot down by the group because it was a book written by a white man. (interestingly the group was 100% white people in their 20s and 30s). It's a work relevant now as ever, but that incident simply shocked me. lol

My most recent reads were Don Quixote, an abridged version of the Mahabharata, and Wealth of Nations. They were books I picked up before my vacation to Thailand in February and they were all good reads. Don Quixote was the most fun and has definitely held up. Now that I am running a new reading group in rural Indonesia, they have elected we read 1984 together next. I probably last read 1984 when I was a teenager in between middle school and high school so I wonder how it'll be revisiting it.

Our reading group worked through Dostoevsky, Camus, and Kafka last, and they loved it all; if you're in the mood for a somewhat bleak but powerful work I strongly recommend Kobo Abe's "Suna no Onna" / "Woman in the Dunes" (1962, 240pp) which was also successfully turned into one of the greatest films of all time, and you can find the film on archive.org (1964, 146 minutes):

Off Topic :: Re: Deluoode's very own /lit/ :: Reply by Amlux

no_email@example.com (Amlux) — Sat, 16 May 2026 21:19:05 +0000

rancher wrote: Sat May 16, 2026 3:00 pm
Our reading group worked through Dostoevsky, Camus, and Kafka last, and they loved it all; if you're in the mood for a somewhat bleak but powerful work I strongly recommend Kobo Abe's "Suna no Onna" / "Woman in the Dunes" (1962, 240pp) which was also successfully turned into one of the greatest films of all time, and you can find the film on archive.org (1964, 146 minutes):

Woman in the Dunes is one of the best films ever. But you shouldn't sleep on Teshigahara's other adaptation of Abe, The Face of Another. Along with it is Pitfall, which is very underrated and had a screenplay written by Abe. I find these films so connected with Abe Koubou that it is hard to disentangle the two styles. I saw the films first but Abe went on to become one of my favorite novelists ever. I think his later novel Secret Rendezvous would have been an excellent Teshigahara film that never was. Its hospital setting would suit that clinical, high-contrast monochrome cinematography so well. But my two favorite Abe books are The Box Man and Kangaroo Notebook, neither of which I can ever imagine adapting to a movie because they are so strange.

Off Topic :: Do you use a planner or organizer? :: Author rancher

no_email@example.com (rancher) — Sat, 16 May 2026 18:07:47 +0000

Every so often I'm hit with the urge to have a physical notebook for tracking various things, such as my experiments, life events, mood health fitness, reflections on life, and so on. But most planners on the market are waaay too big for me (I don't need a full page per day! All that empty space intimidates me!) and too complex so I decided to cook up a minimalist weekly tracker wen the urge hit me this year.

It opens to a spread of the year and each day is about 7cm x 7cm (2.75" x 2.75")

Then each month begins with a spread of the month; a column is 7cm (2.75") wide with an implied height of 2.6cm (1") per day with a bit of spare space at the end of the month, more for February:

Finally, each week until the next month gets a spread. There's a bonus space that also has the ISO week number. Each square here is 7cm x 10cm (2.75" x 4") which is plenty of space for my purposes. If you're on a 4 day a week work schedule, it's split pretty well between the work week and free time. To prevent duplicating the week spreads, each week "belongs" to whatever month the Thursday of the week belongs to.

If you're familiar with regular organizers, you can probably see what I mean about it being a "minimalist" planner. There's no sunday-saturday 5 week chart calendars for the month anywhere, no holidays, or any other fluff. Printing this as a booklet on A4 pages should only require about 34 pages of printer paper which makes it very cheap to print.

Do you guys use any physical planners or organizers? I would love to hear about what helps you stay organized. I make the PDF for this organizer with CSS, HTML templates, and a simple python script, so if you want to spin this idea off and you are a hacker type, it should be easy.

If anyone else has a need for minimalist printable planners I'm curious what "mods" would be useful to you besides year, month, and week. One assumption I make is that if someone has a lot of things going on that they need to track/schedule all the time, they'll either go for a 1 "page per day" type planner or just use their phone/computer to track their schedule... as an aside, if you are in the market for a "page per day" notebook, I would recommend the Hobonichi Techo because they are pretty classy & they were made by the MOTHER games guy ... supporting him is cool

This project is absolutely public domain. Savvy business types can steal this project and sell their own minimalist planners for $15 a pop, drastically undercutting the competition and rake in a fortune in their sleep.

Blog entry with link to source code: https://4x13.net/blog/journal1.html

Off Topic :: Re: Do you use a planner or organizer? :: Reply by Blond

no_email@example.com (Blond) — Sat, 16 May 2026 19:01:27 +0000

Do you guys use any physical planners or organizers?

When I was a kid, like in middle school, I used to have a planner. But not a regular one, no. A planner based on the calendar from Persona 3. That summer, I played the game for the first time, and I loved it, so I thought to myself, “Why not use the calendar system for my day-to-day life?” And that school year happened to coincide with 2020. So yeah, by the end of it, I literally wrote “Wake up, eat, game, sleep.”

I tried using a physical organizer by March, but I came to the realization that it just isn’t for me.

Off Topic :: Re: Do you use a planner or organizer? :: Reply by cidoku

no_email@example.com (cidoku) — Sun, 17 May 2026 02:01:29 +0000

I was given one at work and it's pretty and all but I can't bother to use it. Gotta be spontaneous, you know? Never used a digital one either; I just keep everything in a long .txt file that I never actually read.

Off Topic :: Re: Do you use a planner or organizer? :: Reply by Amlux

no_email@example.com (Amlux) — Sun, 17 May 2026 03:16:37 +0000

I use calcure. It's a CLI calendar/planner:
https://github.com/anufrievroman/calcure

For larger-scale projects, I just have .txt files.

Off Topic :: Deluoode's AMV contest :: Author Blond

no_email@example.com (Blond) — Sat, 16 May 2026 19:48:12 +0000

We talked about AMV's and we even joke about making our own YTMND in one of our anime sessions. So why not? Doing one is not so hard, and we could even have a competition and everything.

Off Topic :: Re: Deluoode's AMV contest :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Sat, 16 May 2026 21:12:55 +0000

I'd be interested, but are you willing to host it? My hands are rather full haha. We could post the finished videos on the shared VidLii channel, sounds like it'd be fun to me. Could also pay the winner out in Upas, that was actually a big part of why I added the feature; to give people something to bet on the matches in the MUGEN tournament with and also something to spend the winnings on. Could have people vote on the best AMV and 1st-3rd get Upa prize rewards, or just 1st if we don't get a lot of people.

Off Topic :: Re: Deluoode's AMV contest :: Reply by Blond

no_email@example.com (Blond) — Sat, 16 May 2026 21:21:41 +0000

Maypews wrote: Sat May 16, 2026 5:12 pm
I'd be interested, but are you willing to host it? My hands are rather full haha.

Don't worry May, I'm the one in charge.

We could post the finished videos on the shared VidLii channel

Even though I have my personal PTSD with the site. Sure, bonus points if we make the AMV's look and feel like the 2000's. If I have time tomorrow, I think I’ll put together some rules for the contest.

Off Topic :: Re: Deluoode's AMV contest :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Mon, 18 May 2026 07:13:44 +0000

Thought I'd post some classic AMVs to maybe help form some motiviation for this. @aeon posted this yesterday in Gikopoi and I didn't really have a chance to sit down and watch it cause we were in the middle of shows but wow, this shit is what all AMVs should strive to be. I had originally planned to do a Chaos;Head AMV but now don't think I'm going to because it's impossible to beat this. The way he fucking superimposes MSN onto the PC screen, we literally do not have the technology to make shit like this anymore.

Some other really good ones that I like.

Off Topic :: Re: Deluoode's AMV contest :: Reply by Blond

no_email@example.com (Blond) — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:13:49 +0000

After talking at length with my dakimakura, I finally came up with some rules for the contest:

-There is no time limit.

-You can use any anime, as long as it isn’t modern (anything before the 2020's).

-To enter the contest, all you need to do is to upload the AMV to any site you want. Just don't forget to post your video on this thread.

-You can use any songs you like, just make sure they fit either with the themes of the anime or what’s shown on screen.

-Editing is highly encouraged, so go crazy with it if you can.

-The ranking system will go from 0 to 100. Whoever gets the most points wins and gets some Upas as a reward. Same goes for 2nd and 3rd place.

-And have fun. If it’s not fun, why bother?

So far, these are the rules, they will definitely change over time and get more polished as things go on. If you have any doubts or questions, don’t hesitate to ask me.

Off Topic :: Re: Deluoode's AMV contest :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Mon, 18 May 2026 13:50:45 +0000

Blond wrote: Mon May 18, 2026 9:01 am
After talking at length with my dakimakura, I finally came up with some rules for the contest:

-The AMV has to be a minimum of 2 minutes

Eh, I don't think having a minimum length is necessary. Because like, most of us are fairly amateur editors I assume. So the shorter the run time, the more crazy we could probably go with the editing. Not a huge deal but I think having shorter vids is fine and that the bigger concern would be longer ones.

-To enter the contest, you have to create an account on VidLii and post the video there. You can use this thread to link your video.

Unfortunately, VidLii doesn't work with the media embed system we have. I was thinking that if users want their videos could be reposted to the Deluoode VL channel, but not that every submission has to be posted there. People should be able to upload it to whatever service they want to I think, whether it's YouTube or their personal server.

I think those are my only two contentions, the rest seems good. Although the amount of Upas given out may vary depending on the number of contestants. Like if we get 5 people then in that case I think it'd only make sense for 1st and 2nd to get prizes. But otherwise seems solid, looking forward to it.

Off Topic :: Re: Deluoode's AMV contest :: Reply by aeon

no_email@example.com (aeon) — Mon, 18 May 2026 13:52:05 +0000

What will be the deadline? I might be busy with college stuff so I don't know if I will be able to participate but I'm definetely interested in it.

Off Topic :: Re: Deluoode's AMV contest :: Reply by Blond

no_email@example.com (Blond) — Mon, 18 May 2026 13:59:17 +0000

Maypews wrote: Mon May 18, 2026 9:50 am

Blond wrote: Mon May 18, 2026 9:01 am
After talking at length with my dakimakura, I finally came up with some rules for the contest:

-The AMV has to be a minimum of 2 minutes
Eh, I don't think having a minimum length is necessary. Because like, most of us are fairly amateur editors I assume. So the shorter the run time, the more crazy we could probably go with the editing. Not a huge deal but I think having shorter vids is fine and that the bigger concern would be longer ones.

-To enter the contest, you have to create an account on VidLii and post the video there. You can use this thread to link your video.
Unfortunately, VidLii doesn't work with the media embed system we have. I was thinking that if users want their videos could be reposted to the Deluoode VL channel, but not that every submission has to be posted there. People should be able to upload it to whatever service they want to I think, whether it's YouTube or their personal server.

I think those are my only two contentions, the rest seems good. Although the amount of Upas given out may vary depending on the number of contestants. Like if we get 5 people then in that case I think it'd only make sense for 1st and 2nd to get prizes. But otherwise seems solid, looking forward to it.

All right, thanks for the feedback May! I will definitely start changing things up.

Off Topic :: Re: Deluoode's AMV contest :: Reply by Blond

no_email@example.com (Blond) — Mon, 18 May 2026 14:03:54 +0000

aeon wrote: Mon May 18, 2026 9:52 am
What will be the deadline? I might be busy with college stuff so I don't know if I will be able to participate but I'm definetely interested in it.

Right now, I don’t have a deadline. I was thinking mid to late July would be good, but I’ll have to check with more members.

Off Topic :: Re: Deluoode's AMV contest :: Reply by Parzival

no_email@example.com (Parzival) — Sat, 23 May 2026 15:58:36 +0000

I'm God's worst video editor but I'm honestly so down for this

Off Topic :: Re: Deluoode Quotes :: Reply by Blond

no_email@example.com (Blond) — Mon, 11 May 2026 08:38:49 +0000

This ain't your granny forum!
Two otakus, one crazy idea
Deluoode > Discord

Off Topic :: Re: Deluoode Quotes :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Thu, 14 May 2026 19:57:58 +0000

"Mein fuhrer, vhat are you vorking on today?" "Ist mein most devilish invention yet. Zis vill bring humanoty to ruin for having made me retreat to Argentina. I call it Reddit." -@capstasher

Off Topic :: Re: Deluoode Quotes :: Reply by capstasher

no_email@example.com (capstasher) — Sun, 17 May 2026 21:59:32 +0000

Alex "Lolicon" Jones

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Off Topic :: Re: Deluoode Quotes :: Reply by Blond

no_email@example.com (Blond) — Mon, 25 May 2026 09:05:52 +0000

Only deep philosophical conversations here in Deluoode.

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Off Topic :: Re: Deluoode Quotes :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Thu, 28 May 2026 03:28:01 +0000

Fvck.. they're on to our scheme!

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Off Topic :: Re: The Organization's schemes :: Reply by cidoku

no_email@example.com (cidoku) — Thu, 14 May 2026 03:00:53 +0000

The organization surely pays all bus drivers in the city so they're never on time when I'm waiting at the bus stop. Today was such a day, but noticing the conspiracy immediately, unwilling to let them get to me, I walked home. Operation Hermes, I called it. The committee keeps forgetting that I have legs and that I love to walk. Yes, it's true that in my journey home many buses suddenly went right past me, but that's just a cheap psychological trick that will only taunt inexperienced freedom fighters, not me!!!

Off Topic :: Re: The Organization's schemes :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Mon, 25 May 2026 23:57:39 +0000

I've been struggling to try to get this website indexed on search engines, and Google (a Committee proxy) told me that we had a redirect error. I had setup a 403 redirect on the "https://deluoode.org" URL, but redirect errors are only supposed to occur if the page itself is a redirect, yet it was saying that forum.deluoode.org was the one with the error and consequently wouldn't index us, which makes no sense. At this point I can only assume that we are being blackballed for exposing their crimes!

I then waited months for them to revalidate us to see if it was some sort of glitch, only for us to still be rejected. This is surely the work of the Organisation. I ended up having to remove the redirect entirely and now forum.deluoode.org is the only domain that links to the forum, we must now wait months for them to crawl us again. Who knows if we'll ever make it onto search engines.. I'll have to contact Sawada-kyun regarding the matter later..

Off Topic :: Re: The Organization's schemes :: Reply by deha28

no_email@example.com (deha28) — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 06:47:25 +0000

Hey lads, long time no see! That bloody Organization won't give me a moment's peace. At university, they've bombarded me with such tough exams this semester that it's enough to drive me crazy. I'd bet my bottom dollar the Organization's got something to do with it. These bastards are truly despicable, messing with not just me but hundreds of innocent students too, just to screw me over. But luckily, I’ve only have one more week to get through. Once the exam’s over, I hope to finally spend more time on the forum.

Off Topic :: Re: Currently Listening :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Mon, 25 May 2026 10:17:52 +0000

Haven't listened to Strait's debut album yet, but might have to after the YT algo served this song to me. Really nice little tune.

Off Topic :: Re: Currently Listening :: Reply by Amlux

no_email@example.com (Amlux) — Mon, 25 May 2026 11:00:58 +0000

I still can't get over how miraculous this 2017 remaster of A Night at the Opera by Blind Guardian is! I generally am not a huge audiophile with stuff like this and am not the kind of guy who wants everything to be FLAC and the like, but it's no secret that the original mix of this album was murky as hell. And power metal is one of those genres that just doesn't work if the audio isn't clean. And it as all the more tragic as A Night at the Opera had what was unquestionably some of Blind Guardian's strongest work. An now we can enjoy it in all its glory...

Off Topic :: Re: Currently Listening :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Sun, 31 May 2026 10:31:02 +0000

I largely stopped listening to hip hop a few years back when I got more into music, but I decided to change things up today and give Illmatic a listen. Lovely flow and beats all over this one, impressive album that very much lives up to it's reputation. NY State of Mind is an absolute classic. Additionally that fuzzy sound that 90s rap has to it is so nice, the newer stuff just doesn't hit the same man...

Off Topic :: Re: Currently Listening :: Reply by Dweeeb

no_email@example.com (Dweeeb) — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:21:18 +0000

Listening to these lately.

Off Topic :: Re: Currently Listening :: Reply by aeon

no_email@example.com (aeon) — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 05:00:44 +0000

I have been listening to these albums a lot the past few weeks, so I figured I show post them here.

Off Topic :: What would you use time travel for? :: Author Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 06:52:15 +0000

Lab members, I come to you with a most urgent proposition! If you had access to a time machine, what would you use it for? For me, I really wish I could've been around to see the American arcade culture of the 80s and 90s.

The idea of using games as more of a social event, as opposed to the solitary hobby they are today, fascinates me deeply in spite of my hikikomori nature. The games of that time seem so pure and undiluted in comparison to what we have today. Additionally the idea of competing with local arcade regulars to see who could put up the highest score just sounds very fun, if I ever go to Japan I'd love to give a crack at some shmups there since they still have something of an arcade scene.

So what say you all? The machine beckons for you... it calls for you.

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Off Topic :: Re: What would you use time travel for? :: Reply by Amlux

no_email@example.com (Amlux) — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 07:10:03 +0000

Go back to pre-Meiji Restoration Japan when shrine maidens apparently sometimes served as sacred prostitutes!

Off Topic :: Re: What would you use time travel for? :: Reply by Blond

no_email@example.com (Blond) — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 07:23:11 +0000

Maypews wrote: Tue Jun 02, 2026 2:52 am
If you had access to a time machine, what would you use it for?

Now, seriously. I would go back to the 2000's and buy anything my hands could get ahold of: Dreamcasts, PS2, MP3 players. I would also try to get all the lost versions of Yume Nikki, as well as get in contact with Kikiyama. And lastly, I would spend all my money on Bitcoin and enjoy the millions.

Off Topic :: Re: What would you use time travel for? :: Reply by Parzival

no_email@example.com (Parzival) — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 23:41:34 +0000

Convince Steve Jobs to not invent smartphones

Failing that, beat him to death with a hammer

Off Topic :: Re: What would you use time travel for? :: Reply by capstasher

no_email@example.com (capstasher) — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 03:54:09 +0000

Parzival wrote: Wed Jun 03, 2026 7:41 pm
Convince Steve Jobs to not invent smartphones

Failing that, beat him to death with a hammer

I would convince him to heal his cancer (he had cancer in the 2000s) with some woo woo bullshit like fruit juice, or acupuncture or positive thinking of some shit. Even if he somehow ends up making the iPhone at least he dies definitely dies before the iThink implant. Fuck it, I might even go back, tell him to get a scan for cancer in 2003 so he believes i am a shaman, then once he's convince I'll try to feed him "magical fruit juice" to cure it until he dies.

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: Akihabara Arcade News :: Reply by capstasher

no_email@example.com (capstasher) — Mon, 11 May 2026 21:07:17 +0000

PLAYISM Publisher Sale is LIVE, with many otaku RPGs, shmups, platformers and more up to 80% off! (I believe it's their 15th anniversary, so show 'em some love). Most games are dirt cheap and seem pretty fun ^o^

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Akihabara Arcade :: Re: Akihabara Arcade News :: Reply by capstasher

no_email@example.com (capstasher) — Mon, 11 May 2026 21:10:48 +0000

capstasher wrote: Mon May 11, 2026 5:07 pm
PLAYISM Publisher Sale is LIVE, with many otaku RPGs, shmups, platformers and more up to 80% off! (I believe it's their 15th anniversary, so show 'em some love). Most games are dirt cheap and seem pretty fun ^o^

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This includes the Yume Nikki reboot, Yume Nikki -Dream Diary-!

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: Akihabara Arcade News :: Reply by Blond

no_email@example.com (Blond) — Mon, 11 May 2026 21:20:19 +0000

This includes the Yume Nikki reboot, Yume Nikki -Dream Diary-!

There is no Yume Nikki reboot.

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: Akihabara Arcade News :: Reply by capstasher

no_email@example.com (capstasher) — Mon, 11 May 2026 21:30:56 +0000

Blond wrote: Mon May 11, 2026 5:20 pm

This includes the Yume Nikki reboot, Yume Nikki -Dream Diary-!
There is no Yume Nikki reboot.

It looks neat though

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: Akihabara Arcade News :: Reply by capstasher

no_email@example.com (capstasher) — Mon, 11 May 2026 21:34:23 +0000

Oh, also also! If any of you have heard of it before, Motorslice is out now! Been out for a few days. Grabbed a copy, looking forward to it. It's a parkour game centered around fighting construction equipment :D

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Akihabara Arcade :: Re: Akihabara Arcade News :: Reply by Blond

no_email@example.com (Blond) — Mon, 11 May 2026 21:57:33 +0000

It looks neat though

It’s a little hard to explain here, but the TL;DR is that they turned an exploration game into a Unity asset-flip side-scroller.
Just look at what they did to Madotsuki:

Look how they massacred my girl...

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: Akihabara Arcade News :: Reply by cidoku

no_email@example.com (cidoku) — Mon, 11 May 2026 22:05:07 +0000

capstasher wrote: Mon May 11, 2026 5:10 pm
This includes the Yume Nikki reboot, Yume Nikki -Dream Diary-!

I will destroy you.

Akihabara Arcade :: Werewolf / Mafia :: Author rancher

no_email@example.com (rancher) — Mon, 11 May 2026 16:57:09 +0000

I was thinking it'd be fun to play this game together. We'd need one person as game master -- anyone can volunteer, I will assume the role if no one else does -- and 7 victims players for the game.

Game premise: there are two teams, mafia (2 people) and town (5 people), and game turns are split into two phases, day and night. During the night period, there is no public discussion; the mafia secretly talk to each other and choose a town member to kill, at which point the game transitions to day period, where all surviving players talk amongst each other and vote to kill the most suspicious person; the meeting begins with the announcement of who was murdered by the mafia that night, if anyone, and ends with a public hanging. Upon death, the game role of the player is revealed by the narrator. Mafia wins when they are 50% of the town or greater. Town wins when they find and kill all the mafias.

The inclusion of two roles among the town, the detective and the doctor, help the town greatly in the task of hunting down the mafia. During the night phase, the detective can choose a person to investigate and is told by the game master whether that person is town or mafia, and the doctor can choose a person to be saved -- if that person is targeted by the mafia to be killed that night, the doctor will block the kill attempt and no one will die during the night. The three townspeople who are neither mafia, detective, nor doctor spend the night period doing nothing and receive no special information outside of death announcements and by listening to what people say in the day's public discussion.

Mafia can lie and falsely claim to be the detective or doctor, complete with false reports.

There are many others clever roles people have came up with to add depth & strategy to this classic party game, but starting with this setup seems good. If people like the game, we can try more advanced setups / roles after we play a few rounds.

I am opening a poll for interested players: if we hit the minimum number by the deadline, I will be sending out PMs and we'll move on to actually playing.

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: Werewolf / Mafia :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Mon, 11 May 2026 20:52:27 +0000

I think it's an interesting premise. I'm willing to give it a shot, never played this before.

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: Werewolf / Mafia :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Wed, 13 May 2026 19:55:52 +0000

Bumping this back up the threadlist for interest since it got buried a bit.

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by Parzival

no_email@example.com (Parzival) — Wed, 06 May 2026 22:48:54 +0000

Roll will primarily go toward defending against Yugoslavia (+9)
If there's any spillage, that will go toward filling up toward the Kola Peninsula

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Thu, 07 May 2026 04:02:56 +0000

2nd Mongol Empire (+16) - Turn 12 - Ally: Egypt, NAP: Hyperborea
Lazypost, I'll try to RP some next turn. Mongols will put their entire roll towards defense of their existing territories and any spills go to breaking into India.

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by dokyun

no_email@example.com (dokyun) — Thu, 07 May 2026 05:29:21 +0000

Outer Heaven | Turn #15 | Bonus +15 | NAP: East Memphis | Ally: Yugoslavia

(Let's inject some fuckin' life into this dog and pony show.)

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by capstasher

no_email@example.com (capstasher) — Thu, 07 May 2026 06:52:31 +0000

The New Kingdom of East Memphis | Ally: 2nd Mongolian Empire, The Hyperborean Empire | NAP: Outer Heaven

Officiating the alliance between themselves and the Hyperboreans, Ryder pauses and thinks to himself for a moment:
"Hang on a second, what the hell was I doin' entering in them non-aggression pacts with the Yugoslavs. Those fellas are damned commies... I can't believe I'm sayin' this but maybe Bill was right to bomb 'em."

(Advancing further into France, taking 1 territory in Greece and re-taking at least one territory in Italy if we're pushed out. Bonus:+16)

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Thu, 07 May 2026 09:28:44 +0000

Present day, present time. Turn 16.

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Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by Parzival

no_email@example.com (Parzival) — Thu, 07 May 2026 12:06:47 +0000

Hyperborean Empire (+13)|Ally: New Kingdom of East Memphis|NAP: 2nd Mongol Empire

With Poland now fully captured, Hyperborea will sue for a temporary ceasefire with Yugoslavia. Should the Yugoslavs reject this offer, Yuriev will focus Hyperborean firepower on defense against their attack, with any spills going toward what will be the primary effort in the event they accept this temporary ceasefire- that being: the crushing of the remaining Bolshevik forces in the east, with any spills going toward extending down into Norway.

@Maypews Yuriev will also send a correspondence to the Baron von Ungern-Sternberg, asking for the Russian lands the Mongol Empire holds so that Hyperborea may be fully equipped to continue the fight against the Yugoslavs. In exchange, Hyperborea will grant the Mongol Empire access to and technical knowledge of the advancements its made in military technology utilizing Yuriev's knowledge of the future and the technical skill of other temporally displaced persons, for benefit of the war effort against Outer Heaven. Yuriev also expresses a willingness to advance further into Yugoslavia proper once Russia is fully under Hyperborean control to aid any Mongol effort to plug up the Anatolian gap between Yugoslavia and Mongol Persia, seeing that the Yugoslavs may make a move to fully take Turkey so as to not be spread too thin in its war efforts against both East Memphis and Hyperborea.

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by alix

no_email@example.com (alix) — Thu, 07 May 2026 13:09:45 +0000

Yugoslavia. - Turn 16 (+21)

BREAKING NEWS: Just one day after the mass-radio silence in Yugoslavia which happened after a bomb exploded during Marshall Selimović's tour of the Italian frontlines, connections have been restored again alongside a short appearance of Selimović herself, which has announced that "Yugoslavia has been ensured to be completely safe again" and that "Yugoslavian citizens do not have to worry about the recent advances of fascist troops, which have been safely contained". On the other side of the Atlantic, the Yugoslavian regime has been condemned by various organizations after it was noted that various Western contacts with the government have vanished out of thin air during the previous mass blackout. It's also been noted that the governance AI designed by the Yugoslavs has also completely vanished, with no additional information about it. So far, Selimović has made zero comments about any of this, and has locked herself inside Beograd. The world eagerly awaits to see what will come out of the new Yugoslav situation.

Secretly accept the Hyperboreans' ceasefire, and use all of our troops to retake Italy and Greece. Use the spills to secure the German border with Poland and if any remain push back into France.

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by capstasher

no_email@example.com (capstasher) — Fri, 08 May 2026 01:26:29 +0000

The New Kingdom of East Memphis | Ally: 2nd Mongolian Empire, The Hyperborean Empire | NAP: Outer Heaven

Tired. Advancing into France, and re-taking at least one territory in both Italy and Greece. Bonus:+16

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by dokyun

no_email@example.com (dokyun) — Fri, 08 May 2026 05:33:28 +0000

Outer Heaven | Turn #16 | Bonus +15 | NAP: East Memphis | Ally: Yugoslavia

(Straight into Iran from the right once we've got Pakistan.)

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Fri, 08 May 2026 05:51:05 +0000

2nd Mongol Empire (+14) - Turn 16 - Ally: Egypt, NAP: Hyperborea
Essentially same directions as the turn before, primarily put the roll into defense, split spills roughly in half between breaking the India bonus and reclaiming Pakistan. The Mongols have received the notice from the Hyperboreans and will respond next turn.

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Fri, 08 May 2026 06:18:45 +0000

Present day, present time. Turn 17.

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Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by alix

no_email@example.com (alix) — Fri, 08 May 2026 16:12:19 +0000

Yugoslavia. - Turn 16 (+21)

We'll push back the remaining bits of Memphis' troops on Italy and Greece, then use the remaining bonus to further advance into France. After that we'll use half of our troops to keep pushing on into France and the other half to secure the northeastern German coast and the border with Denmark.

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Fri, 08 May 2026 21:08:15 +0000

2nd Mongol Empire (+14) - Turn 16 - Ally: Egypt, NAP: Hyperborea

POV: Third Party Historian
The early phases of the second Mongol-Outer Heaven war did not begin favourably for the Mongols. Although their forces seemed poised to make a breakthrough early on, against all odds the invasion force completely fizzled out in what could only be described as perhaps God himself intervening with a horribly timed typhoon. The Mongol higherups had now become fearful that they had done something to anger the God of RISK, and this feeling was only reaffirmed when their ensuing roll was but a pittance compared to Outer Heavens.

With Pakistan now all but finished and the Outer Heaven forces poised to next attempt a break into Iran, all hope seemed lost for the Empire. But then something strange happened; OH's defensive line in Northern India, despite how heavily fortified it was, began to crumble. The Mongols took this as a sign that perhaps the Sky God had come to favour their righteous cause. May all praise fall to Tengri.

The Mad Baron had entered a state of deep depression following the early going ons of the war, but once news reached him at the higher ups much champagne was popped and a revigorated sense of energy filled the board room. The Mongols now sought to preserve their gains by any means possible, and liberate Pakistan.

(Lions share of the roll goes to defense, any spills go to retaking territory in Pakistan, if we lose the roll then make sure that we preserve one territory in India even if it comes at the cost of other locations)

@Parzival
OFFICIAL RESPONSE
Office of the Yeke Mongol Ulus
Winter Palace, Ulanbataar, Mongolia

The Mongolian people send their congratulations to the Hyperborean state for their impressive grit and determination, never faltering in the face of powerful adversararies. We also congratulate you for your vanquishing of the Soviet menace, a most noble imperative that is worthy of commemoration. Indeed the news of this exploit tickled the Baron's heart deeply.

We have received your request regarding the cession of the Russian lands. As was said before, we largely incorporated these lands in order to counterract the anarchic state they were in and as a preventative measure against foreign intruders. Now that these external threats have been quashed, it no longer makes sense for us to hold on to them. We further find your offers regarding armament agreeable and to be of a fair disposition.

There is one request that we carry however. While we do find the terms agreeable, we ask if it possible if Hyperborea could wait until our ongoing war is situated. To put it plainly, we will cede them once the war enters a definitive state. On the off chance that disaster strikes and we begin to rapidly lose the conflict, we pledge to cede them before falling.

As of now, most of our general staff is occupied in drawing up battle plans and tending to the conflict. Having to work out all of the contractual details regarding cession is time that we cannot afford to spare at the moment. If you are willing to showcase patience, perhaps an alliance could be on the table between our two nations.

Signed,
Bogd Khan, Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by dokyun

no_email@example.com (dokyun) — Fri, 08 May 2026 22:11:37 +0000

Outer Heaven | Turn #17 | Bonus +5 | NAP: East Memphis | Ally: Yugoslavia

(Recoup lost tip of India first. Don't bother defending Pakistan and just drill right into Iran.)

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by Parzival

no_email@example.com (Parzival) — Sat, 09 May 2026 03:44:09 +0000

Hyperborean Empire (+13)|Ally: New Kingdom of East Memphis|NAP: 2nd Mongol Empire

Seeing little option, Yuriev accepts the Barons terms, hoping to gain alliance with the Mongol Empire.

As the Russia bonus is currently out of reach, this therefore puts Germany once again at the forefront of the Hyperborean mind. He sends correspondence to Belgrave, drafting out what he terms as the "Rhine Agreement". The ceasefire will hold on the two nations' eastern borders, and establish the Carpathians and Alps (with the exception of Yugoslav Czechia which extends beyond the 2 mountain ranges) as the de jure boundaries of both empires in central and eastern Europe. He makes clear, however, that he can not tolerate Yugoslavia in Germany, and thus the agreement's primary focus is the divvying up of Western Europe, aiming to establish the bounds of the two nations in the region as roughly equating with the Rhine, with Hyperborea claiming Germany and the Netherlands, granting Belgium and France (should Yugoslavia succeed in its bid for it with East Memphis) to them uncontested.

Seeing as Yugoslavia has entered what the Empire considers rightful Hyperborean ground, the ceasefire in the west is considered breached, and Hyperborea will finish its conquest of Norway and then expend the rest of its energy into breaking into east Germany.

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Sat, 09 May 2026 06:30:23 +0000

Present day, present time. Turn 17. @capstasher did not get his roll in.

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Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by alix

no_email@example.com (alix) — Sat, 09 May 2026 08:29:27 +0000

Yugoslavia. - (+28)

Another lazypost whike the Commitee thinks of a good RP, take back all that's missing of France and then retake East Germany. Use all of the spills to take Denmark and parts of Poland. We aren't ceasefiring shit after the Mongol debacle.

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by Parzival

no_email@example.com (Parzival) — Sat, 09 May 2026 14:23:17 +0000

Hyperborean Empire (+15)|Ally: New Kingdom of East Memphis|NAP: 2nd Mongol Empire

roll goes entirely toward defending against Yugoslavia, if there are any spills they will go toward taking Moldova

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by capstasher

no_email@example.com (capstasher) — Sat, 09 May 2026 15:43:05 +0000

The New Kingdom of East Memphis | Ally: 2nd Mongolian Empire, The Hyperborean Empire | NAP: Outer Heaven

Ryder drank too much moonshine and slept through the attack. He had dreams of the Memphis, Tennessee pyramid in the in Cairo, Egypt. Yuriev has sent messengers urging Ryder to keep up the fight on the Western front.

(Taking one territory of Italy and one of Greece, and pushing with the rest of our force into France. Bonus:+16)

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by dokyun

no_email@example.com (dokyun) — Sun, 10 May 2026 04:07:59 +0000

Outer Heaven | Turn #18 | Bonus +5 | NAP: East Memphis | Ally: Yugoslavia

(Ptffthpfthpfthfhphfhf.)

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Sun, 10 May 2026 06:30:32 +0000

2nd Mongol Empire (+14) - Turn 16 - Ally: Egypt, NAP: Hyperborea
Bulk of roll to defense. Spills finish Pakistan, and into Arabia if any remain.

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Sun, 10 May 2026 06:55:36 +0000

Turn 18. Not going to lie the war in Europe threw me for a bit of a loop on what I should do, so if anything seems fucked up please let me know. Since Yugoslavia seemed to focus the bulk of their roll on France (and therefore Egypt), I put their individual rolls up against each other which means Yugoslavia wins by 14, thus allowing them to recapture the remaining 13 in France and then 1 in Germany. But since Hyperborea defended, that minor incursion of Yugoslavia's into East Germany was repelled, and that left the remaining 23 territories of Hyperborea's roll unaccounted for.

Thus the large-scale invasion of Romania. Basically, @Parzival give more detailed instructions on what to do with your spills in future turns if possible. I have also assumed that Yugoslavia would want to defend against Egypt's incursions into Italy and Greece, which is accounted for by their rolls being equal outside of the Yugoslavian spills (which mostly go to France), but I am not entirely sure since @alix didn't mention it in the last reply. Moral of the story, be very descriptive with directions if you can please, it makes my life a lot easier.

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Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by Parzival

no_email@example.com (Parzival) — Sun, 10 May 2026 16:20:53 +0000

Hyperborean Empire (+16)|Ally: New Kingdom of East Memphis|NAP: 2nd Mongol Empire

"It seems we've put up a decent defense against Yugoslav forces, sir."

"Good, good, and Moldova? Has Belov managed to take it?"

"Yes, sir, he's actually managed to take most of Romania in the process as well."

"He what?"

"Save for the westernmost regions, our forces have taken most of Romania."

"...Very well, I suppose that makes issuing the 1st ultimatum easier."

A Declaration!

The Hyperborean Empire has officially and publicly declared an ultimatum toward Yugoslavia. Retreat beyond the Northern Carpathian Mountains and the Empire will be willing to cede back Romania with no need for further conflict in return for Yugoslavia agreeing to remain out of Germany and ceding Czechia and Slovakia to be reunited with their Western and Eastern Slav kin in Hyperborea. Should these terms not be accepted, the Empire will have no choice but to hold Romania and reunite the Western Slavs by force. Should Yugoslavia continue its unjust aggression toward Hyperborea, the Empire sees no other options but to establish a buffer against such hostility in the rest of the gap nations between the Northern and Southern Slavs.

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"Do you really think they'll accept that?"

"Of course not, if anything it's probably pissed Selimović off even more."

"Then why?"

"Well, on the off chance they do accept our terms, thank God, right? Otherwise, to outside eyes and ears, we're doing our best to reach peace with an aggressor that struck first. Given the circumstances, it's not exactly untrue, either. I did try my best to not to extend into Yugoslavia itself, as I do wish to bring any more terror upon the Slavic peoples, but the Yugoslavs brought this war to us, and since they don't seem intent on reversing course- we'll return the favor, and in the most diplomatically intentioned veneer we can."

"Very well, what are our next moves, then?"

"First, send word directly to the Baron. Inform him that the war is ramping up, and that we're not certain our mutual Byzantine ally can keep up against the Yugoslavs on their front with them. Without Russia fully in our grasp, we are spread too thin to deal with the Neo-Bolshevik threat adequately. I genuinely do not wish to dissolve our NAP and bring war back to Russia so soon after our defeat of the Bolsheviks, but if it's for the service of keeping Europe out of Neo-Bolshevik hands and denying them the grasping of immeasurable power, I will do so next turn if need be. That I am not doing so this turn I hope shows the trust and patience I have in the 2nd Mongol Empire. I have staff at the ready to quickly, reasonably, and fairly establish the contractual details of the cession of Russian lands to Hyperborea. I trust that the war with Outer Heaven is or shall soon be definitive enough to peacefully work this out."

In order of priority:
>defense against any Yugoslav attacks and incursions
>completing the conquest of Romania
>invading Slovakia
>pushing further into Germany

(lesson learned, kek)

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by alix

no_email@example.com (alix) — Sun, 10 May 2026 18:32:35 +0000

Yugoslavia. - Turn 18 (+28)

We would pray if not for the fact that everything's alright in this world.

In order of priority, defend and retake Romania, then defend Slovakia, retake Moldavia, and then use our spills to move towards Egypt on the west and Germany on the east.

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by dokyun

no_email@example.com (dokyun) — Sun, 10 May 2026 19:38:12 +0000

Outer Heaven | Turn #19 | Bonus +3 | NAP: East Memphis | Ally: Yugoslavia

(It's basically impossible for me to win now so unless I roll triples or something on this next turn I'm just gonna give up.)

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by capstasher

no_email@example.com (capstasher) — Mon, 11 May 2026 01:48:04 +0000

The New Kingdom of East Memphis | Ally: 2nd Mongolian Empire, The Hyperborean Empire | NAP: Outer Heaven

Once again we go to fight, weary and underprepared, an enemy twice our might, and millennia ahead in tech.
Defend Egypt if it needs to be defended. Attack France with all our might. We will built glass pyramids to honour the dead, but only once victory is ours.

Bonus:+16

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Mon, 11 May 2026 07:36:49 +0000

2nd Mongol Empire (+16) - Turn 16 - Ally: Egypt, NAP: Hyperborea
Fill Arabia, spills Oman/Yemen and India

Edit: Holy fuck. The first ever trips roll, and it's even repeating 1s too. Iconic digits.

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Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Mon, 11 May 2026 07:58:34 +0000

Present day, present time. Turn 19.

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Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by alix

no_email@example.com (alix) — Mon, 11 May 2026 12:51:27 +0000

Yugoslavia. - Turn 18 (+24)

Well, the Fascist troops put on a strong defence, but the glorious JNA has resisted the eastern Hyperborean offensive. Now, as for the west...

First off, we will retake all that remains of Romania and Moldavia, and then we'll divide our spills in two: the first will take back France and the second will push back from any other offensives, with an hypothetical third spill being directed at East Germany.

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by Parzival

no_email@example.com (Parzival) — Tue, 12 May 2026 01:31:02 +0000

Hyperborean Empire (+16)|Ally: New Kingdom of East Memphis|NAP: 2nd Mongol Empire

the primary focus of this roll will be on the defense of Moldova, with the rest of the energy of Hyperborea's forces going into expanding further into Germany.

edit: woo baby a double

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by capstasher

no_email@example.com (capstasher) — Tue, 12 May 2026 01:42:58 +0000

The New Kingdom of East Memphis | Ally: 2nd Mongolian Empire, The Hyperborean Empire | NAP: Outer Heaven

Defense if need be, otherwise we push full biodiesel ahead into France. Bonus: +16

Watch these trips

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by capstasher

no_email@example.com (capstasher) — Tue, 12 May 2026 01:43:49 +0000

capstasher wrote: Mon May 11, 2026 9:42 pm
The New Kingdom of East Memphis | Ally: 2nd Mongolian Empire, The Hyperborean Empire | NAP: Outer Heaven

Defense if need be, otherwise we push full biodiesel ahead into France. Bonus: +16

Watch these trips

ONE OFF, DAMN

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Tue, 12 May 2026 03:30:40 +0000

2nd Mongol Empire (+20) - Turn 16 - Ally: Egypt, NAP: Hyperborea
Finish off India, if spills put them into Sri Lanka.

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Tue, 12 May 2026 03:33:08 +0000

It's the big 2-0! That's right, it's turn 20! We're in the end game now...

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Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by alix

no_email@example.com (alix) — Tue, 12 May 2026 12:52:42 +0000

Yugoslavia. - Turn 18 (+23)

We will retake France by any means possible. If we have any spills use them for defense.

Lord give me something good....

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by Parzival

no_email@example.com (Parzival) — Tue, 12 May 2026 14:09:03 +0000

Hyperborean Empire (+16)|Ally: New Kingdom of East Memphis|NAP: 2nd Mongol Empire

Hyperborea will put everything into spreading across Southern Germany

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by Parzival

no_email@example.com (Parzival) — Tue, 12 May 2026 14:31:52 +0000

@Maypews Yuriev sends further correspondence regarding the matter of Russian territorial integrity, and the lack of response to the prior correspondence, especially in light of the news that the war with Outer Heaven has gone exceptionally well

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by capstasher

no_email@example.com (capstasher) — Wed, 13 May 2026 03:37:51 +0000

The New Kingdom of East Memphis | Ally: 2nd Mongolian Empire, The Hyperborean Empire | NAP: Outer Heaven

R:"What's the plan once we've gone an' captured France? Theodore said somethin' about makin' me pharaoh, does that mean we'll finally be able to relax?"
L:"After Fraunce, we shul take over Italie. After Italie... we shul seen."
R:"Well they better let us catch our breath for a while. We've been at this for months now, and God only knows neither of us' a soldier."
L:"Allas, thilke been the ordres of the Strategos. Sholde we nat folwen hem, who woot what hap mighte us bitide."
R:"We oughtta get goin'. Our guys seem to be all ready to push forward."

Pushing into defending from the Yugoslavs and pushing further into France. Any spills go into Italy. Bonus:+16

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Wed, 13 May 2026 06:08:58 +0000

2nd Mongol Empire (+20) - Turn 16 - Ally: Egypt, NAP: Hyperborea
The Second Mongol Empire will break it's NAP with Hyperborea. Roll goes to filling India, Sri Lanka, all other Outer Heaven holdings, and Lebanon if it can be filled in full. If there are more spills do not use them.

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Wed, 13 May 2026 06:17:30 +0000

Present day, present time. Turn 21

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Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Wed, 13 May 2026 06:19:03 +0000

2nd Mongol Empire (+31) - Turn 16 - Ally: Egypt
Now that we've successfully given Yuriev the "nobody's home" treatment and the conquest of India is complete, attack Hyperborea. Establish footholds in Ukraine and snake our way up to Belarus, any spills will go to solidifying our grasp on these two countries split roughly 50/50 between them. Basically the same battle plan as before except compliant with the rules.

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by alix

no_email@example.com (alix) — Wed, 13 May 2026 12:48:28 +0000

Yugoslavia. - Turn 19 (+23)

With Mongolia having entered the war just now, we'll center all of our forces on taking down Memphis. Take all of France and use any spills for defense.

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by Parzival

no_email@example.com (Parzival) — Thu, 14 May 2026 02:12:43 +0000

Hyperborea will make will be to finish the conquest of Germany, with any spills going into pushing France from Germany (+16)

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Thu, 14 May 2026 02:09:27 +0000

Parzival wrote: Wed May 13, 2026 9:56 pm
A Historic Dealing!

After many talks and deliberation, Velimir Yuriev of The Hyperborean Empire has come to an agreement with Ryder Rowe of the New Kingdom of East Memphis to dissolve The Hyperborean Empire and has ceded all its territory to Memphis in the name of the goal of establishing the true Third Rome!

"I do not worship power," Velimir told the press, "All I have done and continue to do is for the continued preservation and greatness not just of Russia and her people, or even just the Slavs, but for all of Europe and her peoples. If it is not I who can ensure that, than I will gladly step down and allow those who can to do so.

I will make the reason for this all the clearer: Ryder Rowe, I implore you, save Europe. Save it from the Communist and mongrel Mongol hordes that threaten its very survival."

A Seismic Shifting of the World Stage! Does The Mad Baron dare attack an ally?

(IDK if the cession of territory takes hold this turn or not but if not then the last move Hyperborea will make will be to finish the conquest of Germany for Memphis, with any spills going into pushing France from Germany (+16))

I don't think I like the idea of someone ceding their entire country to someone else. If you insist then, since it's technically not against the rules I can allow it, but a lot of RISK maps had rules against ceding any territory at all because of people abusing stuff like this. Which I like people being able to cede land for RP reasons, so I'd hate to have to ban or arbitrarily limit it next time we play. How about just ceding Germany and Poland instead for something more realistic? Perhaps a 3 country limit would be best, in-line with the other rule.

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by capstasher

no_email@example.com (capstasher) — Thu, 14 May 2026 02:13:09 +0000

Maypews wrote: Wed May 13, 2026 10:09 pm

I don't think I like the idea of someone ceding their entire country to someone else. If you insist then, since it's technically not against the rules I can allow it, but a lot of RISK maps had rules against ceding any territory at all because of people abusing stuff like this. Which I like people being able to cede land for RP reasons, so I'd hate to have to ban or arbitrarily limit it next time we play. How about just ceding Germany and Poland instead for something more realistic? Perhaps a 3 country limit would be best, in-line with the other rule.

The Baron wants Russia uncontested

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by Parzival

no_email@example.com (Parzival) — Thu, 14 May 2026 02:14:53 +0000

Nevermind then, I'll keep going as is.

Though, I really won't be available the next couple days as I mentioned in the watch along thread, so if it would be cool I'd like Cap to roll on my behalf

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by Parzival

no_email@example.com (Parzival) — Thu, 14 May 2026 02:19:48 +0000

I do obviously grant permission for Cap to cede any land in France I take (presuming I do) to himself because that's what I would do

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Thu, 14 May 2026 02:25:33 +0000

Parzival wrote: Wed May 13, 2026 10:14 pm
Though, I really won't be available the next couple days as I mentioned in the watch along thread, so if it would be cool I'd like Cap to roll on my behalf

Yeah, that sounds fine. You can attach multiple rolls to a post after all.

Parzival wrote: Wed May 13, 2026 10:19 pm
I do obviously grant permission for Cap to cede any land in France I take (presuming I do) to himself because that's what I would do

Also fine. Like I said, you can even cede a full country or two just not a whole empire.

capstasher wrote: Wed May 13, 2026 10:13 pm

Maypews wrote: Wed May 13, 2026 10:09 pm

I don't think I like the idea of someone ceding their entire country to someone else. If you insist then, since it's technically not against the rules I can allow it, but a lot of RISK maps had rules against ceding any territory at all because of people abusing stuff like this. Which I like people being able to cede land for RP reasons, so I'd hate to have to ban or arbitrarily limit it next time we play. How about just ceding Germany and Poland instead for something more realistic? Perhaps a 3 country limit would be best, in-line with the other rule.
The Baron wants Russia uncontested

I just picked those countries because they are most proximate to East Memphis. Though really even Poland is a bit silly given the border situation. Just looked through my RISK folder though and here's an example I found of one banning territorial cessions outright.

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Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by capstasher

no_email@example.com (capstasher) — Thu, 14 May 2026 08:14:41 +0000

The New Kingdom of East Memphis | Ally: 2nd Mongolian Empire, The Hyperborean Empire

Pushing further trying to get all of France, then, if there are any spills, moving into Italy. Bonus: +16

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Thu, 14 May 2026 08:25:49 +0000

Present day, present time. Turn 22.

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Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by Parzival

no_email@example.com (Parzival) — Thu, 14 May 2026 12:19:17 +0000

Hyperborea will cede Germany and Poland to Memphis and Moldova and western Ukraine to Yugoslavia, end its alliance with Memphis, and then re-invade Belarus

(too busy getting ready to go to count up bonuses but uh yeah +whatever my current bonus is)

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by Parzival

no_email@example.com (Parzival) — Thu, 14 May 2026 12:52:13 +0000

oh and if the max is 2 countries total for ceding and not 2 per country being ceded to then cede Germany and Poland to Yugoslavia instead

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by Parzival

no_email@example.com (Parzival) — Thu, 14 May 2026 13:01:10 +0000

That decision might be difficult to make, but Yuriev would 100% prefer white Communists rule Europe than let the Baron's mongoloid hordes ravage the continent

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by alix

no_email@example.com (alix) — Thu, 14 May 2026 14:18:00 +0000

Yugoslavia. - Turn 19 (+23)

I'm not sure yet about what our new territories are, so... keep doing the same for this turn. Push into France and use any spills for its defense.

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Thu, 14 May 2026 19:44:37 +0000

I'll just stop being a killjoy and let the full territorial cession proceed. As long as it isn't being used repeatedly and abusively. I suppose it just threw me for a loop cause in RISK there was typically an unspoken rule not to do that, but it does make sense in universe especially given Yuriev's background as some sort of time traveler. Next turn East Memphis will inherit all of Hyperborea.

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by capstasher

no_email@example.com (capstasher) — Fri, 15 May 2026 01:28:29 +0000

The New Kingdom of East Memphis | Ally: 2nd Mongolian Empire, The Hyperborean Empire

Unsure of my current position, and terribly encroached on in France, we keep pushing forward. If there are any spills, somehow, we push those into Italy. Bonus:+16

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Fri, 15 May 2026 02:59:29 +0000

2nd Mongol Empire (+31) - Turn 16 - Ally: Egypt
Since I delayed the cession by a turn I'll be a good sport and not ruin the strategy @Parzival was going for, so I'll just leave the Russian borders as a status quo instead of counting the gains I'd make if I rolled. We also break our alliance with East Memphis, and the Baron has sent out feelers to @alix Selimović regarding a formal alliance.

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Fri, 15 May 2026 03:07:04 +0000

Present day, present time. Turn 23. This sure has turned into a mess, huh?

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Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by alix

no_email@example.com (alix) — Fri, 15 May 2026 12:47:10 +0000

Yugoslavia. - Turn 23 (+23)

We'll accept the alliance because if not we'll be dead in a day.

Push into uhhhh Germany, and the French border with it. Then defend or something.

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Sat, 16 May 2026 04:35:40 +0000

2nd Mongol Empire (+31) - Turn 23- Ally: Yugoslavia
Bulk of roll goes to defense, spills to finishing Ukraine and Russia if there are somehow more.

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Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Sat, 16 May 2026 08:58:32 +0000

Present day, present time. Turn 24. @capstasher didn't roll in time

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Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Sun, 17 May 2026 04:44:09 +0000

This may be a bit hasty, but I think this game has sort of run it's course given that it doesn't seem like either of the other players are going to roll this turn. If you guys want me to continue I can, but I think it's about peace map time. If you all would like to write epilogues to your characters feel free, I definitely will for mine after while. Here's my idea for a peace map, what do you think?

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Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by capstasher

no_email@example.com (capstasher) — Sun, 17 May 2026 05:09:07 +0000

Maypews wrote: Sun May 17, 2026 12:44 am
This may be a bit hasty, but I think this game has sort of run it's course given that it doesn't seem like either of the other players are going to roll this turn. If you guys want me to continue I can, but I think it's about peace map time. If you all would like to write epilogues to your characters feel free, I definitely will for mine after while. Here's my idea for a peace map, what do you think?
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Wtf I always roll late, you know this

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Sun, 17 May 2026 05:14:18 +0000

capstasher wrote: Sun May 17, 2026 1:09 am

Maypews wrote: Sun May 17, 2026 12:44 am
This may be a bit hasty, but I think this game has sort of run it's course given that it doesn't seem like either of the other players are going to roll this turn. If you guys want me to continue I can, but I think it's about peace map time. If you all would like to write epilogues to your characters feel free, I definitely will for mine after while. Here's my idea for a peace map, what do you think?
peacemap.png
Wtf I always roll late, you know this

Maybe but idk, the enthusiasm just seems a bit diminished now. Plus this war is going to be an absolute slog due to how much territory all the involved parties hold, and the alliances/relationships of old basically don't exist anymore so there's not as much to RP about. Just feels right to hang it up now I guess, instead of going for another 30 turns. But I'll let the players vote on it I suppose, you can click on the OP to get to the poll.

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by alix

no_email@example.com (alix) — Mon, 18 May 2026 12:52:46 +0000

I'm gonna be extremely busy these weeks so it's better to end it here. Shame Yugoslavia couldn't form the UESR, but alas...

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: RISK: Deloousional Edition :: Reply by capstasher

no_email@example.com (capstasher) — Mon, 18 May 2026 13:17:52 +0000

Owari da...

Akihabara Arcade :: Deluoode MUGEN Tournament :: Author dokyun

no_email@example.com (dokyun) — Fri, 15 May 2026 04:45:30 +0000

Alright so I think this could be fun and some of you guys are gonna love it. If you don't know what MUGEN is (I figure most of you have at least seen it or heard of it), it's a fighting game engine that's been around for years has a shit ton of characters and assets made for it. One of the most fun things to do in MUGEN is watch CPU controlled characters fight each other, and I've done this with the Gikopoi crew a few times so I figured why not here. I tried to do sort of a SaltyBet thing where people'd gamble on matches using the coins that the chatbot over there uses, maybe you guys'd like a different format, like polling on the forum or claiming a set of characters you think will win.

I have a good handful of characters and stages already but if there's any in particular you want to see I can go look for them, though keep in mind I'm limited to what actually exists. Doesn't matter to me if it's actually high quality or some strange meme character, anything goes. I'll stream it on Gikopoi, maybe after anime night or something.

Here's a demo of the kind of shit you can get up to in MUGEN: Total fanservice, I know.

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: Deluoode MUGEN Tournament :: Reply by capstasher

no_email@example.com (capstasher) — Fri, 15 May 2026 12:11:36 +0000

Post anime-night is quite late for me. Would there be another suitable time earlier in the day? Also when I read the title i thought WE would fight in the MUGEN championship! That could be fun as well at some point, but betting on digital dog fights can also be quite fun. Looking forward to it!

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: Deluoode MUGEN Tournament :: Reply by Blond

no_email@example.com (Blond) — Fri, 15 May 2026 14:40:53 +0000

Killer7 enjoyer, mah man!

Yeah, sounds like fun. I think we’ll have to talk about the timing, since I’m very occupied for the next couple of weeks. But besides that, I’m in. If there isn’t Joe Yabuki, I’m fine with Jotaro from HFTR.

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: Deluoode MUGEN Tournament :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Fri, 15 May 2026 15:03:55 +0000

Amazing idea, I always loved watching MUGEN fights on old YouTube. Foundational internet memory of mine. I agree with the concerns regarding the time, although I could probably stick around I am typically a bit exhausted and tired of watching things after the OOs since we go for hours at a time.

As far as characters go, seconding Joe Yabuki. Arcueid Brunestud, Ippo Makunouchi, Piccolo, Kenshin Himura and Spike Spiegel would also be cool to see I think. How many fighters will there be anyway? Will there be like, a bracket? I think maybe it'd be fun to host it like that and we could vote on who wins the championship or perhaps on how deep fighters will go into the tourney.

I haven't yet messed around with it as much as I should, but one of my friends used to do these MUGEN fights on YouTube back in the day through viewer requests and he sent me his heavily modded copy of the game with a ton of characters on it. Maybe I could forward that to you in private or something, not sure how much you have. Entering into a random match produces awe-inspiring results such as the one below.

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EDIT: Maybe we could call it like, MUGEN Madness or something.

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Akihabara Arcade :: Re: Deluoode MUGEN Tournament :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Thu, 21 May 2026 20:49:22 +0000

Any updates on this? I am pretty excited for it.

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: Deluoode MUGEN Tournament :: Reply by dokyun

no_email@example.com (dokyun) — Thu, 21 May 2026 21:12:35 +0000

Maypews wrote: Thu May 21, 2026 4:49 pm
Any updates on this? I am pretty excited for it.

Yeah, I've been a bit busy so I haven't prepared or anything. I don't know what time you guys actually wanna do this but doing it on around the same time we watch anime the day before might be good, if there's no objections then I'll roll with that.

The best thing you guys can do is give me a list of characters you want, there's been a couple suggested already but I'd like to have a good chunk that aren't just the ones I already have. I could also slap on a cool screenpack or something.

@Maypews if you send me that pack you were talking about I can pull some stuff from that too.

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: Deluoode MUGEN Tournament :: Reply by Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Thu, 21 May 2026 21:43:12 +0000

dokyun wrote: Thu May 21, 2026 5:12 pm

Maypews wrote: Thu May 21, 2026 4:49 pm
Any updates on this? I am pretty excited for it.

Yeah, I've been a bit busy so I haven't prepared or anything. I don't know what time you guys actually wanna do this but doing it on around the same time we watch anime the day before might be good, if there's no objections then I'll roll with that.

The best thing you guys can do is give me a list of characters you want, there's been a couple suggested already but I'd like to have a good chunk that aren't just the ones I already have. I could also slap on a cool screenpack or something.

@Maypews if you send me that pack you were talking about I can pull some stuff from that too.

Sure, here's a Mega link. There are probably lost characters in this from dead websites given the massive span of time that it ranges across so I figured it'd be a good thing to publicise instead of doing privately. There are over 15k files so you may have to take some steps in order to DL it all without your browser freezing, for me using the mega desktop app worked for uploading. The time given sounds fine for me, maybe if game night ever happens we could combine the two somehow heh.

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: Deluoode MUGEN Tournament :: Reply by Blond

no_email@example.com (Blond) — Thu, 21 May 2026 22:00:26 +0000

I don't know what time you guys actually wanna do this but doing it on around the same time we watch anime the day before might be good, if there's no objections then I'll roll with that.

I prefer doing both Mugen and the gaming night in Friday. But if we roll with doing them in the same day, I have no problems.

The best thing you guys can do is give me a list of characters you want

I check the Joe one, and it isn't very good, so I'm sticking with Jotaro instead.

Akihabara Arcade :: Emulation: News, Tips, Setups, etc. :: Author Maypews

no_email@example.com (Maypews) — Wed, 27 May 2026 06:46:10 +0000

Console emulation is a truly marvelous thing. Imagine going back to the 2000s and telling video game players back then that you'd be able to emulate just about every popular machine ever made. It's an incredible technology, one I hold a high reverence for, and as such I figured I'd make a thread about it.

Recently I discovered that the Sega Chihiro arcade board has had strides made in it's emulation. You can set it up through TeknoParrot (which gives off rather scammy vibes, but thankfully Xemu is also making breakthroughs that just haven't been released publicly yet) and CXBX. The Chihiro had an interesting lineup of exclusive titles such as Virtua Cop 3, Ollie King (by many of the developers of Jet Set Radio, including an OST made by Naganuma), Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune, and Gundam Battle Operating Simulator.

I was mainly in it for Ollie King as a Jet Set Radio fan, though I'll probably give some of those other ones I mentioned a shot at some point too. Unfortunately Ollie King experiences slow down specifically on high end Intel processors, so fuck me I guess. But I'm going to be keeping my eye on this to see how it develops.

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: Emulation: News, Tips, Setups, etc. :: Reply by Dweeeb

no_email@example.com (Dweeeb) — Thu, 28 May 2026 03:31:37 +0000

"Unfortunately Ollie King experiences slow down specifically on high end Intel processors" Good thing my Intel processor is low end ((´∀｀))ｹﾗｹﾗ
Being able to emulate games is super convenient, hopefully that issue gets fixed soon.

Akihabara Arcade :: Re: Console Hacking :: Reply by dokyun

no_email@example.com (dokyun) — Fri, 29 May 2026 06:04:35 +0000

First, you have to mod your console (duh). You need an SD card, 32GB is probably the best. Follow the instructions in https://wiiu.hacks.guide/ and then copy https://github.com/marco-calautti/Sigpa ... atches.rpx to /wiiu/environments/aroma/modules/setup on the root of the card. The sig patch will let you actually install and run your games once you've prepared them, so don't forget it. You'll also want to install the Homebrew Appstore and use it to get a program called WUP Installer GX2.

Spoiler