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shikaspots @shikaspots.bsky.social · 11h

if i'm enjoying it enough/find it compelling enough that i naturally want to exhaust every choice, i'm happy to do so, but doing it as a matter of course seems like a fantastic way to turn a bunch of enjoyable experiences into things i regret doing

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shikaspots @shikaspots.bsky.social · 16h

correct move, i think, by the sailor moon s creative team to realize that they weren't going to be able to outdo moonlight densetsu and so just replacing the op with a new version instead of an entirely new song

i do, alas, think it's still a downgrade anyway, but maybe it will grow on me

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shikaspots @shikaspots.bsky.social · 22h

my experience with popcorn chicken suggests that the difference is that the "chicken" part of popcorn chicken is more of a suggestion, and you're mostly just getting breading unlike tenders where you actually do get chicken in there

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🍞 Brad 🍞 @baust528.bsky.social · 1d

Today (10/9) is Kasumi Asou's birthday & I had an early morning meeting get cancelled so I spent that time putting together another stupid little scene using "Tokimeki Factory: Tokimeki Memorial 2"...

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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 1d

An old photoshopped image I previously posted to Cohost of a fake YouTube video titled, "2 Hours of Shiori Fujisaki Rejections to Fall Asleep to." The thumbnail depicts Tokimeki Memorial's own Shiori Fujisaki standing at the school gates at the end of the day, rejecting your character's offer to walk home together. As icing on the cake, the fake user icon is a picture of Tokimeki Memorial's crazed science girl Yuina, as depicted in the puzzle game spinoff Taisen Puzzle-dama.

It's one of the dumbest posts I ever ran on there and I'm still proud of it and completely forget I'd ever made it until browsing through my pictures folder just now instead of finishing this translation assignment I'm supposed to deliver.

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shikaspots @shikaspots.bsky.social · 1d

seems like it also has q3 cpm physics support (or at least some subset of it) judging by way the description of the defrag section is written on the website

this is rad

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shikaspots @shikaspots.bsky.social · 1d

easier to say, too. the human vocal tract was not designed to say "exclamation point", it's like gargling rocks

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shikaspots @shikaspots.bsky.social · 3d

i think it was really smart of them to not ask the author to wait more than zero seconds before getting back to posting after making the announcement, in order to make sure everyone involved came out looking as bad as possible as soon as possible

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shikaspots @shikaspots.bsky.social · 4d

the machine i was hooked up to kept chirping at the phlebotomist today who was getting progressively more annoyed at it and i was starting to get worried i was going to be told my blood was no good

shikaspots @shikaspots.bsky.social · 4d

it's so fucked that a 30 dollar mark down on that game brings it in line with where game prices were capped out a few years ago

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shikaspots @shikaspots.bsky.social · 4d

same energy as glaceon

shikaspots @shikaspots.bsky.social · 7d

you mean you don't love when people talk about how chrono trigger is good because it's unlike all the other jrpgs that are also doing the things they are using as examples of what sets chrono trigger apart?

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shikaspots @shikaspots.bsky.social · 7d

going for yukiko on my second run of this game entirely because i think her knock off team jersey rules

pia carrot e youkoso!! (pc-98) screenshot. kawai yukiko introducing herself, wearing an "oakland atlantics" jersey

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shikaspots @shikaspots.bsky.social · 7d

most depressing possible way to have the "there's never been less of a reason to do this" feeling i had at the start of me finally managing to stick with learning japanese for more than two weeks get proven wrong. it's not even like a fun personal victory, it just sucks

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shikaspots @shikaspots.bsky.social · 8d

oddly appropriate, in a way. trigger making yuri in a manner resembling that of many yuri protagonists

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shikaspots @shikaspots.bsky.social · 8d

i like the second one more

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shikaspots @shikaspots.bsky.social · 8d

back of the knee maybe

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shikaspots @shikaspots.bsky.social · 9d

mood

pia carrot e youkoso!! (pc-98) screenshot. imai saori sadly looking out a window, which she is reflected in, from a booth in the restaurant

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🍞 Brad 🍞 @baust528.bsky.social · 9d

(VOLUME WARNING)
Today I'm thinking about the time I tried "Sakura Wars 2" in that new Sega Saturn emulator "Ymir" & its audio issues in it were so funny that it brought me to tears.

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shikaspots @shikaspots.bsky.social · 10d

side benefit i got from this run is finally figuring out (i think, at least) what your hatsumoude omikuji result means. in hindsight, assuming i'm not wrong about it, it seems kind of obvious, but the fudging that the game has to be doing if that's the case does make it less clear

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shikaspots @shikaspots.bsky.social · 10d

sumire route in tokimemo 2 done. not really much to say about this one because there isn't really that much in it to talk about, but i like it for what it is. it's cool that they did the full evs treatment for a secret character with this little screen time who's meeting trigger is so easy to miss

tokimeki memorial 2 screnshot. nozaki sumire sits in a ferris wheel with daisy, her monkey, sitting on her shoulder

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shikaspots @shikaspots.bsky.social · 11d

the same guy who, of course, always makes sure to pull his way too big vehicle up on to the sidewalk when parking adjacent to one. gotta assert your dominance over the lowly pedestrians

shikaspots @shikaspots.bsky.social · 12d

it has been such a pleasure watching CITY these past 13 weeks, tragic for it to have only been given one cour, but what a cour it was

shikaspots @shikaspots.bsky.social · 12d

if the maintainers of the big media databases can be relied on for anything it's making the worst possible decision on how things should be labelled and grouped at every opportunity they are given

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shikaspots @shikaspots.bsky.social · 13d

does The Button That Makes You Go Slower count as The Button That Makes You Go Faster if the normal movement speed is fast enough to make you sometimes need to use The Button The Makes You Go Slower