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Torin Kurai👁️

@torinkurai.bsky.social

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I fell down the rabbit hole, and now I'm here. Gamer, kaigai otaku, lore nerd, lurker, sometimes streamer.

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Torin Kurai👁️ @torinkurai.bsky.social · Oct 18

I should probably introduce myself.

Hi, I'm Torin.
I spend more time liking and reposting than I do sharing my own stuff. I don't make a lot, but sometimes I doodle. I made my own pfp and banner.

I'm good at responding to messages, but I don't send the first message often.

Thanks for stopping by!

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greeble @greeble.io · 1d

SimAnt but with the Borg from Star Trek

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Torin Kurai👁️ @torinkurai.bsky.social · 3d

A movie you've seen more than 7 times with a GIF

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nrcgray.bsky.social @nrcgray.bsky.social · 3d

It's a couple days late, but I did a halloween version of my Nekonyancer 🎃🐈‍⬛

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Vampire Survivors 🧄 @vampire.poncle.games · 8d

Multing on my Balatro until I deck my Survivors 😩

yeah that's right, Jimbo and his friends are joining Vampire Survivors in our newest FREE DLC!

🍌 Vampire Survivors: Ante Chamber 🍌 is OUT NOW

https://youtu.be/gB0begpTOdQ

Vampire Survivors: Ante Chamber | Free Balatro Collab | OUT NOW

Jimbo and his friends join Vampire Survivors in our new free DLC, “Ante Chamber”! 🃏 Now you can use Balatro characters in Vampire Survivors whilst using Vampire Survivors card skins in Balatro, the ultimate indie game ship came true 💞 thank you to re...

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noa @ working @idyllruin.bsky.social · 10d

contract

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Torin Kurai👁️ @torinkurai.bsky.social · 12d

It's also incredibly funny to me that 4's failed ritual is only 10 years before the game's story because the setting looks and feels so rundown it's as if it had been multiple decades since then

The previous games all take place 100 years after their rituals failed

Torin Kurai👁️ @torinkurai.bsky.social · 12d

You'd think at some point that you'd run out of these very specific isolated Japanese communities, or that they would have heard about how that village in the mountains screwed up their ritual and got wiped off the map

They need a death ritual convention for trading warnings

Torin Kurai👁️ @torinkurai.bsky.social · 12d

Currently playing through Fatal Frame 4, and it hits you immediately that you have stumbled upon another isolated community doing a ritual involving the underworld that requires sacrificing young girls

It's hilarious that the premise is the same but the details are so different

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ChatsVoid @chatsvoid.bsky.social · 12d

I’m a self-fulfilling prophet.

DON'T WORRY, I'M ALWAYS READY FOR THE WORST. I'VE GOT A TECHNIQUE!

ОН? WHAT'S YOUR TRICK?

I DWELL ON WORST CASE SCENARIOS IN MY HEAD ALL THE TIME, SO I'M READY FOR THEM IF THEY HAPPEN.
IT DULLS YOU TO IT.

FUNNY HOW BY DOING THAT, YOU'RE ALSO PROMISING THAT WORST CASE SCENARIO ALWAYS HAPPENS, EVEN IF JUST MENTALLY AND EMOTIONALLY.

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Sena Bryer @senabryer.com · 14d

Fork just gave me the most ominous error message I've ever seen in my life

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Torin Kurai👁️ @torinkurai.bsky.social · 28d

We went from a 2nd arc that got progressively darker and more serious in tone to something so laid back it was almost unrecognizable as the same show
All-in-all very confusing, though it can still be fun at times
Very Toei-coded

Torin Kurai👁️ @torinkurai.bsky.social · 28d

Then we get a kind-of 10th year anniversary of the first anime climax where the protagonists from past stories all show up via time travel and alternate world hopping ala Toei's tokusatsu anniversary story-telling
It unfortunately doesn't feel earned during this arc

Torin Kurai👁️ @torinkurai.bsky.social · 28d

The last monster of the week story is happening with its "haha funny" shenanigans when suddenly MetallifeKuwagamon tells them about a hunter who's feeding Digimon data to some weird boulder-faced creature and that he's just a shell of a Digimon because his data is almost all gone

Torin Kurai👁️ @torinkurai.bsky.social · 28d

But talk about burying the lede
It's all just monster of the week stories that are fairly light-hearted and silly with a slightly dark undertone of spiriting away kids
But the kids always make it home and the problems always get solved
There's no overarching narrative being built

Torin Kurai👁️ @torinkurai.bsky.social · 28d

Like there were obviously small hints
- DigiQuartz looks like a post-apocalyptic version of the city and they shout time shift to go there
- The cameo characters show up midway through the arc with the clockmaker saying "it's not time yet"

Torin Kurai👁️ @torinkurai.bsky.social · 28d

Rewatched Xros Wars recently
The 3rd arc isn't as bad as I remember, but it's still really weird that they tacked on the 1st arc of a sequel season to the end of the show
Then they made a finale with stakes just as high or higher than the end of arc 2 with nearly no build up

Torin Kurai👁️ @torinkurai.bsky.social · Sep 29

I'll let you know when I figure that out.

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Adam Ellis @adamtots.bsky.social · Sep 21

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PaulGQ @jpaulgq.bsky.social · Sep 18

091725
enemy mecha designs.

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Torin Kurai👁️ @torinkurai.bsky.social · Sep 15

(throw your hands up!)

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