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I'd need to invest into a half-decent PC that at least allows me to play a wide variety of games from the past say, 5-10 years, nothing overly powerful.

To some extent it feels like I've seen almost everything anime has to offer story and character-wise, I'm not gonna get something so jaw-dropping after so many years of familiarity. Least I don't think so. I'm gonna go back to OP, though, I've a pile of 100+ episodes, at one point I was even caught up on the manga.

I think I mentioned this before, but if you wanna keep in touch a bit more, I'm on Discord and I log in daily. You don't even need to join a server or anything, I don't think, you could just add me as a friend. Just a thought.

Well, I can't say when and if I'll see a use for Steam... For the time being and the foreseeable future I have a lot more PS4 games to go through, and that's kind of the crux of it for what I'm doing right now. Work, games, some minor stuff in-between, though I must say there's some burnout creeping in there, why I went back to check some anime to begin with, I wanna mix it up. It's more of a time management thing, I'd sooner put hours into games than anime and my enthusiasm was waning before this, even. There's some stuff I wanna check out, but at a decidedly leisurely pace. It just doesn't feel like I'm missing that much. But yeah, I'm doing alright myself, gonna take some time off towards the end of the month, so I'm looking forward to that. Oh and to go slightly back, I barely turn on my PC on as is, lol

So alive, in fact, I immediately slipped into another mini-hiatus. Right, sorry for the delay. How are you?

I don't know if you'll see this in time, but Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and all that.

See, I was right. I'd forgotten about Sailor Moon. It isn't something I remember ever watching in full but I got a particular scene stuck in my head from back then. I'm very curious to go back and see what it was all about.

When I started watching anime proper the first show I ever picked up that was airing happened to be Death Note. I had an older friend who was into anime and he told me about it 10 episodes in or so. That was a hell of a ride to see unfold in real time. We were talking about how only the Japanese could have come up with all the stuff in the show. Good times.

First completed show I ever sought out was Onegai Teacher and I don't even remember how that came about. I do remember being petrified about watching it and getting caught, lol. It isn't even that lewd! I still love Mizuho.

If I find RK a little daunting with its 90-odd episodes, Naruto's 220 (+500) are definitely keeping me away for a long while.

I'm not sure what my first anime might've been. Pokemon, Dragon Ball, maybe? I remember the earliest things I've watched more as an indistinguishable mass of shows from the early-mid 2000s (not when they aired, but when I watched them). There was this channel called Animax that mostly had stuff from the 90s with a couple of 00s anime thrown in (as I recall). It's where I discovered and watched InuYasha, Jigoku Shoujo, Kiddy Grade, Slayers, Trigun, YuuYuuHakusho and probably a handful more that I've forgotten. By late 2005 I had access to the internet and I just found my own stuff, only checking what was on TV every so often. I think the last thing I ever watched on TV was DBZ as it actually made it here very late and it was so long-running that it covered entire generations.

I really love the clothes everyone is wearing, I kinda want to see the entirety of the cast donning those kinds of outfits, heroes and villains alike. Get all the Emperors, Warlords, the Navy and random characters into the country. Nami's just... Rem is such a gatekeeper as my 5th favourite lady.

Is Naruto worth watching at all for reasons that aren't music?

RK is one the last big classic shows I've yet to watch and the only things keeping me at bay are the length and the knowledge that there's some heavy filler past a certain point (I think?).

On the one hand, yeah, it kind of deflates my newfound energy towards OP somewhat and in a good way (since the spoiler wasn't true), but on the other, I know we've talked before about how there's some big stuff going on in this arc so it would still be nice to get a bit ahead of the anime. By the way, how are you liking the show in terms of visuals and music 'cause I'm drooling all over it. All the traditional instrumentation makes me think I'm listening to Wagakki Band.

Well he certainly got me. Har har.

I d'nno, give it 10 years or so.

I doubt it, but just in case anyone else is keeping an eye on this...

I hope to play P5 eventually, I don't think I've seen more than 5-10 minutes of it since release. I stay well away from things I'm interested in but can't access immediately.

It's sad that it had to happen this way.

I don't know if they plan to cut back to the Reverie every so often since I don't think we learned anything thus far? I'll keep it in mind. I guess this will also be my first interaction with the manga and seeing how things are handled in the transition.

It's not so much in the realm of JRPGs as it is gaming as a whole. Technically I've not even played that many JRPGs but I love Persona games as well as Dragon Quest ones (despite only playing 3 and 5).

I'm not a true crime fanatic or anything but I do have a bit of a morbid, macabre streak, given my horror leanings.

Gantz evolved in some ways and didn't in some others; not a bad experience by any means, I'm just in two minds about it.

Catching up on One Piece was almost by necessity, as I've been potentially spoiled on something major regarding a certain blond cook. I wasn't even looking for anything OP related, it just sort of happened. I caught up so I can actually get up to speed with the manga. Not the best circumstance to do so, but here I am.

I don't know, I don't think so? It's good and it fits but I didn't focus on it in particular.

Unfortunately I have to say that overall I'm not ecstatic with my FF experiences, so when I'm ranking these it's on a "lower tier" by default, if you will. They don't even come close to other games that I like so I can only rate them amongst themselves, in the franchise. They're a very mixed bag across the board.

X - very fun to play, look at and listen to, but all over the place characters and story

VII - good main story, mostly likeable characters, best music thus far, but a little clunky to play and just a general subpar experience gameplay-wise

XII - reasonably fun to play, it looks pretty good, forgettable story and characters

VI - I like a good chunk of the main cast, music's good and it plays okay but I just couldn't get into the story all that much and I felt frustrated towards the end

IX - my first and worst experience with FF games; I don't know what went wrong but I just ended up really having a bad time with almost everything by the end (I still like Vivi a lot)

VIII - only about 6 hours in and I don't know what's up with this game but it felt like an absolute slog to play, I was just not having fun with it


I'm going to just list off a bunch of channels and give you a little tidbit about them:

Baumgartner Restoration - fine art restoration; I find it both engaging and relaxing
Bedtime Stories - mostly spooky stories about presumed supernatural occurrences and sometimes true crime stuff that's well written
Corridor Crew - typically post breakdowns of VFX found in film and TV
Fredrik Knudsen - covers both interesting real-life and internet stories in a very even-handed, documentary-like style and tone
Internet Historian - self-explanatory title
JCS Criminal Pyschology - similarly self-explanatory, it takes cases of real-life murders (mostly) and tries to break down the psychology of the perpetrators
MandaloreGaming - covers obscure/niche or otherwise older games
RedLetterMedia - they talk movies a whole lot, probably my favourite YT channel overall
SB Nation - very well made sports content
SsethTzeentach - a bit like Mandalore, but more unhinged
SummoningSalt - long videos about the history of certain speedrunning records
That Chapter - talks about various true crime cases


Hey, I hope it's helping you, with whatever you're contending with.

I d'nno, I read Gantz and Uzumaki recently and while I wasn't blown away by either I think it'd be nice to add something else to the rotation of watching films, anime, playing video games and wasting time on the internet.

I've been trying to watch some more anime, with varying results. Re-watching Samurai Champloo was really fun.

Been playing some stuff myself, funny you should bring up FF. I went through a bit of a marathon with XII, X, VII and a failed attempt to get into VIII (in that order). Before that I played SMT: Nocturne and Order of Ecclesia. Mostly a good time.

We should exchange some of our favourite channels, I'd be curious to see what you like. And, mental health? Anything in particular or just generalities? More as information or because you need it?

But yeah, been mostly okay given the circumstances. Starting to hate the heat.

Edit: oh yeah, I should probably say I'm also looking to get more into manga. I've updated both my anime and manga lists with stuff I'd be interested in checking out.

Hey there. I've been meaning to ask how you've been and what you've been up to in these weird times. So, how's it going?