If I have to pick sides, it is a no brainer for me; cats.

I haven't really played Dota 2 since the last International. There were so many changes and all this stuff and it was too much work to keep up on the game since I want to play more than just one game.

I only played Dota 2 against bots.

The game and drama CDs are both there; the Drama CDs are listed as movies on Steam.

http://store.steampowered.com/search/?snr=1_5_9__12&term=kindred+spirits+on+the+roof
http://mangagamer.org/kindredspirits/

I got my physical collectors edition in the mail a few days ago. :)

If you buy the Drama CDs on Steam or Mangagamer you get them subbed.

How about your favorite manga?
We never talked about that...
If you had to name 3...?

This is kinda hard. Honestly #1 is the easiest pick for me, as it changed my life.

1. Girl Friends

After that, I'm not sure. Probably two Yuri titles as that's what I pretty much have been reading exclusively for the last 8 years. Fullmetal Alchemist maybe? I don't know if I would put that in my top 3.

So:

1. Girl Friends
2. Hanjuku Joshi
3. Sweet Guilty Love Bites

Maybe?

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Yet another random question for you fellow citizens of Dynasty's Cafeville from the self proclaimed co-host Galich. What was the series that dragged you into anime/manga?

Probably Robotech. It had some rerun's airing on Cartoon Network's Toonami segment in the 90s. After that is was probably Sailor Moon and Dragonball. Though you probably could say I didn't get really into Anime until I watched Neon Genesis Evangelion.

Of course Robotech now disgusts me, not because of how it cut up 3 series, but because of how Harmony Gold runs their business. SDF Macross is pretty cool.

First Manga I probably read was Fullmetal Alchemist.

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I prefer Civ because it is easier to grasp and easier on the eyes. :P

@Galich
Accepted your invite on Steam (was surprised to see Russia though).

Oops. But I knew cause of the manga and that's why I perceived it that way.

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That scene was supposed to be over the top since it's Aoba meeting her idol.

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@Galich, well it's a good thing I am a Slav then. :P As you said you aren't exactly sober right now so maybe you missed that but I was born in Poland, as were my parents. All of us in the exact same city, actually. I'm from Szczecin. All my grandparents moved to Szczecin for whatever reason after World War II, so both my parents were also born in Szczecin. We just left the country in 1993.

But yeah, if you are Polish, and living in the USA, Pułaski and Kościuszko are always like propped up on a pedestal. And they were really important in the US. You have stuff named "Pulaski" all over the place; streets, cities, and bridges. Kościuszko helped with West Point. They do get mentioned in US history books as well, but it's not all that much. In Polish school it was oh so much about both of them. Mainly Pułaski, and we even had a contest on Pułaski in the school. It was like a yearly thing of how good your Pułaski knowledge is.

And sure, you can send me a invite on Steam.

@Galich
Well, they grew up in Poland (my parents were born late 50s). :p We all moved to the US in '93. (I'll actually continue more on this below if interested).

@Anon99
I know more but I don't know the titles. It's all oldish Polish stuff. We had a few cassette tapes and for like 8 years we went to Polish school on Saturdays so my parents would play it in the car.

This is the Polish school I went to... I think? http://www.psdholyrosary.com/ I guess they changed the name after the Pope died (also no English page) at some point. I know my mom said that one of the teachers really wanted to have it changed to John Paul II so I guess it happened eventually. It used to be "Kazimierza Pułaskiego." The site says it was founded in 2010 which is strange since went there before 2010 (I think I went 2001-2008? Or was it 2000-2007? I don't remember.) It was supposed to prep us for some language exam at NYU but the one they made us take was some 12 credit one but then when I applied for colleges they were like yeah this isn't enough, you need the 16 credit one so you need to take a bridge exam for 4 more credits and it was like whatever.

As you might be able to tell, it was at/next to a church, and they were borrowing rooms from the church there. At one point the church wanted everyone to say some sort of prayer (I have no idea what it was lol) and I just stood there like "uhhhhhhhhh," and one of the kids was like "you don't know the words?" That lasted maybe like a day or two and we didn't have to do that again. I was one of the best students in the school (I always behaved in school, which led to bullying in elementary school and middle school, so you know even though I don't want to be there in my Saturday, I'm not going to waste that time screwing around like everyone else did... plus Polish history is interesting) so I don't think they wanted me to leave over something like that.

Also there were some masses we had to go to, unfortunately, and I could never last any of them. I would just either stay seated but at one point I just started hanging around in the back. I just can't take Polish Roman Catholic masses physically. The way they sing song everything made my head spin.

Those were some interesting times. Looking back I'm glad I went to help improve my Polish (when we left Poland I was like not even three so I knew very little) even though it was like good bye half of Saturday. Classes were like 3 hours and driving was like 45 minutes one way.

Ano won.

You can still enjoy it that way if you want to. Just look at Joebtuba's post.

Hey, Poland has stuff like Czerwone Gitary (basically Poland's the Beatles)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEsbyPWTshE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0F7gqit2Y0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE1kCTsKVeU

Krzysztof Klenczon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RPsoR5gZuE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj7H6UGAnHA

Czesław Niemen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePNUSmH3dMI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kjGPgMKXF8

Tadeusz Woźniak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obvizJRnezA

... uhhhh, I only know Polish music my parents listen(ed) to. lol I don't actually listen to any of these regularly. I don't know any modern Polish musicians.

Oh that's really cool.

I think Murciélago has a higher chance of physical copies than Saki does.

That was a lot of fun.

Was hoping Nico would walk Nozomi down the aisle. Wish came true.

+1

Sometimes I forget that my 200 registered Steam games aren't actually all that many in the whole scheme of things.

I got all my games on Steam over a period of 11 years. Bundle here, bundle there. I rebuy stuff I have physically. Though that doesn't count how many gifts I bough for people. Lots of Judge Dredd when it was $2 a few years ago lol.

It's why new Steam sales get less and less from me (I already own all the other things I want). Mostly turn into "what do I get for my friends/brother."

I'll be getting a PS4 for Super Robot Wars V and Super Robot Wars OG - The Moon Dwellers as they will have english releases in Asia. Same goes for Gundam Breaker 3 and SD Gundam Generations Genesis (or whatever that game is called). Right now I am waiting for them to announce when the Neo comes out so I can buy that.

My PS3 turned into an import only machine and the PS4 will follow that trend lol.

I can't say I'm the best with money.

We didn't like L4D2 just dumped hordes on you almost all the time. There wasn't enough downtime.Also hated having the melee stamina in coop. It is fine for versus but for coop it was annoying in conjunction with all the hordes. That was probably the big one.We played so much L4D that we just ended up screwing around all the time on easy and medium after we were done with expert. L4D2 just couldn't hook us and these little changes made us feel like the game was built for versus inmind this time while L4D was built with versus as an afterthought and the focus was on the 4 player coop.

If you haven't played XCOM 2012, the Complete Pack is $10 on Steam right now and you can always refund it if it doesn't do it for you.

lmao

I was hoping for Battlefield 2143 but since that's not happening.... I don't know if I will get BF1.

I'm the only one of my friends who doesn't like the new Doom. They all love it and think it's great. I think it does what it set out to do, but it doesn't hit "what is Doom?" to me.

Never liked Left 4 Dead 2. Absolutely loved the original and put in a lot of time in that, but all the changes in 2 weren't to my groups liking.

Personally, I've been itching for more good CRPGs. Started playing Fallout New Vegas again since Fallout 4 completely threw away any Role Playing.

It pains me to say it, but I've spent more time playing Love Live School Idol Festival than anything else in the last 6 months. Second would have been XCOM 2, which I put in a lot of time into. I absolutely love Turn Based Tactics games, but alas there are only a few like the X-Com and Jagged Alliance games.