neversung posted:

Hey, would it be possible to change the tab titles for the site so that "Dynasty Reader" came after? For example, right now on this page, the tab title reads "Dynasty Reader » Forum » Suggestions for Improvement V3".

The reason I ask is so that when you click>drag a page to the bookmark bar, the title of the manga would display first, so instead of "Dynasty Reader » Priv...", you'd see "Private Tsunderation..." as the text of the bookmark.

It also helps when going through multiple open tabs at once to see the title of the manga first.

This could be done through a userscript. Should actually be pretty easy too. If you'd like I can write one up quickly later when I'm not so busy/overheated.

I might have to look into getting this. Kara no Shoujo is one of my favorite VNs despite the fact its atmosphere really made the sex scenes feel completely out of place.

Kyonne posted:

You perv

This is hilarious to read if you view it as your avatar saying it.

Z. Long posted:

Question: What was the thing that got you guys into Yuri?

What got me into yuri was Girl Friends. Before that all I'd ever seen were those one chapter long porn doujins which didn't really catch my interest. It took me awhile after reading Girl Friends though before discovered there was more actually good yuri out there when I ended up coming across Lililicious' site then eventually ended up here (usually when searching for other chapters of a series Lililicious was doing since their site's search isn't all that useful in my experience) and found several other scanlators.

Nezchan posted:

I'm the same, but then I prefer reading manga to watching anime by a wide margin to start wtih.

I've always been an avid reader myself so it's my preference too. My MAL anime list is minuscule compared to my manga list and that's taking into account that I rarely actually bother updating my manga list. I use MAL's anime list to actually keep track of what episode of a given series I'm currently on (because I'm likely to forget since I often don't watch more than a few in a row) whereas I tend to use MangaMeeya (when it's not busy crashing at least, lol) for reading manga and it has a bookmark function.

EkichoSHIFT posted:

@ Alice Cheshire
Thanks! I might not be able to remember all that stuff though ^_^;

You can always bookmark it. It's also stickied near the top of the main forum page. Just look for the thread titled " Forum Post Formatting - Basic Markdown Tutorial". (It's currently the sixth from the top.)

EkichoSHIFT posted:

How do you do the thingy where suddenly a majestic box thing blocks the word and when you touch said majestic box thing, you see the words?

Put it in between two sets of == signs. Also for future reference, a lot of this stuff is explained in this thread.

Z. Long posted:

@Alice To be fair to all the other magical girls, Homura is the only one who has retained her memories and has mentally aged to around 26ish. (She's about 14ish + about 12 years from all the repeated cycles.) So that would make her 10 years old than Mami who's about 15 years old. That and Homura is kind of creepy and mysterious.

Yes but you're missing one vital part of it: No matter how she explains it to them they never believe her and never even consider questioning Kyuubey who's known to be pretty forthcoming, even if he has a bad habit of telling half-truths and leaving out vital information at times. They're simply completely unwilling to actually consider what Homura tells them which is kinda the definition of being close-minded. And that's exactly why Homura gives up on trying to convince them of anything and why she ends up looking like the villain for the better part of the series. Rebellion even more explicitly proves this point when Homura thinks Bebe is the witch who made the labyrinth and Mami tries to stop her. The moment Homura says anything at all contrary to what Mami believes is true, Mami simply stops listening to what she has to say altogether despite the fact that in that reality they had been working together for quite awhile and thus she should know she can trust Homura even if it seems Homura is acting strangely. At least to the point of actually considering what Homura's saying.

Blackkitty posted:

I've been recommended the anime Danganronpa. Is it worth watching?

I can't speak for the anime since I haven't watched it but I've played the first two games and they're both quite good if you're into mystery solving games.

Nidienne posted:

Also, am I really the first US citizen in the thread?

I really doubt you're the first in the entire thread. I'm pretty sure I commented earlier and I'm American't too. And there's probably plenty of others as well around here somewhere.

Z. Long posted:

@Alice Same, I don't consider Homura's actions wrong because she's looking for the bigger picture and she tried to find a solution that didn't result in the death of the other puella magi.

She's also fairly consistently shown herself to have the best judgment out of them all as well. Though most of that really doesn't help when nobody ever listens to her at best and at worst gets most of the others to actively consider her an enemy because they're fairly close minded and hostile. The only one who ever refrains from outright disbelieving her and being hostile towards her is Madoka and even then Madoka tends to give into peer pressure and side with the others in the end rather than speaking her mind.

Utoptia posted:

Alice

Yes, google translate kind of suxx, but it worked for me. I translated some part of the review with it, so even if it is sometimes inaccurate and google tr is dumb, the whole thing is still understandable. (I still corrected the biggest error it made)

Thanks. Google Translate just randomly breaks for me for some reason. It's rather obnoxious at times, lol.

There is in my opinion the prevalence of the status quo , as the series has always sought to do with this idea of balance between hope and despair , the game between light and shadow , omnipresent even during the serie, and crystallized through that mid- light and mid- dark moon that we see at the end. When homura gives back the ribbon to madoka,, accept the answer of her previous question, and the cohabitation of the Order with the Desire. This cohabitation is enshrined in the universal balance , and underlies the tensions inherent in each of us . Madoka and Homura represent the two sides of the same coin , the " movements " of humanity. Homura and Madoka also acquired something like a divine rank ( God - Devil - Yin - Yang - Order - Desire etc ...). The conclusion is thus seeks to highlight a lack of Manichaeism , nothing is all white or all black.

In my personal opinion the god/devil and yin/yang comparisons are actually somewhat inaccurate. To most people they imply morality when neither Homura nor Madoka are actually acting immorally. All of Homura's actions that might seem immoral do make sense in context. Ie: Her trying to kill Sayaka in the series. It's completely logical and not really immoral. She realizes that Sayaka is going to become a witch no matter what she does. From a pragmatic standpoint it makes sense to take her out before she does become a witch since it's easier and endangers fewer people. And by taking her out before she can become a witch then she won't be able to go on a rampage and endanger or even kill innocent people. When you examine things like that it's not really immoral at all and shows more foresight than anything.

If it is hated by a big part of the fanbase, it is because it is really hard to fully understand (if that's even possible).

A lot of people have issues with it because they don't look into things as deeply as they really should and then are reluctant to consider that their original view might actually be wrong. It's annoying but it's human nature. It's also a good idea to keep in mind that a lot of people who are heavily into anime tend to be people who are known for struggling with compassion and empathy. (And empathy is something that can't really be learned. You either have it or you don't. As opposed to sympathy which is something based in your own personal experiences.) And most people haven't gone through anything remotely as awful as what Homura's been through so they simply can't understand her.

Rina posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJMWu9QJwnU

This might be of relevant interest to you, it's the 1st take cut of the final act. I find that the dub version was more in vein with this version than the final film version.

I've actually seen that before. It's interesting how subtle many of the changes between it and the final version actually are. And I think you're more or less right. Though I think some of the intonation and, especially, Homura's giggles sound really off compared to either the final subbed version or the dub.

Utoptia posted:

Reading all of your post, It makes me really want to write a lot, but everything I'd want to write is already on the best review on this film I've read. It really is a shame that it's not in english. It highlights how deep, philosphical, psychological, beautiful, well-written and complex the show and the movie are. I'm linking it again in the case some of you would be (really) interested.

Google Translate isn't wanting to cooperate with me right now so unfortunately I can't read it.

Yuki Kajiura really is a goddess tho'

Yeah, it has a really decent music. Always feels quite fitting.

Also one other thing that's always bothered me with peoples' complaints abut Rebellion: The majority of the people I see saying they dislike it tend to frequently complain that it was completely unexpected and an illogical turn. I strongly disagree. As we'd already discussed earlier the end of the series was a horrible ending for Homura. So it's only logical that she would end up in a worse mental state. And on top of that the series has consistently shown that reality tries to mend itself when a wish is made. Madoka's wish made her a god. So reality tried to mend itself with an equal and opposite reaction: Homura ended up basically becoming the in-universe equivalent to Satan. It's an imperfect end since Madoka's wish was so powerful that it can't simply be totally revoked but Homura's new powers put her in a position to bring better balance to reality on top of finally being able to accomplish her own wish (which she started suppressing at the end of the series to respect Madoka's wish because she saw no better solution to the situation herself and which she stopped suppressing during Rebellion) and saving Madoka as well as fulfilling her promise to Madoka to stop her from becoming a magical girl.

Really difficult to not go all out and write pages of stuff about my thoughts on the series and movie, lol. Shortly after one of my friends got me the special edition bluray for my last birthday they ended up having to listen to me ramble on about it for hours afterwards on Steam. Speaking of which: Did you know there's a character limit for Steam messages? I managed to hit it. Multiple times in a row.

Rina posted:

edit: if they're ever going to continue the storyline after Rebellion, I'm not going to bother watching it if it means undoing the already perfect world that Homura has created

They're already working on another, though how that one turns out has yet to be seen. I can't even speculate because I haven't bothered watching the trailer or preview or whatever that was people were talking about awhile back. I plan on watching it at least once just to see how things turn out. Pretty much agree with you on everything else though. You managed to pretty concisely say something that far too often takes me many paragraphs to say, lol.

Edit:

edit2: I actually prefered the english dub of Rebellion to the original, I found that the overal execution of the final act of the film was delivered better in the dub.

Unlike most people I prefer dubs in general (though I really didn't mind the subbed version of Rebellion) but the dub of Rebellion was fantastic. The out of reality scene near the end where Homura's talking to Kyuubey is exceptional compared to the subbed version and comes off as legitimately creepy in my opinion. And I'm not someone who's at all easy to creep out.

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muteKi posted:

If you need to open images at native resolution for editing, typesetting, etc. you might also be interested in GIMP which has a Windows version, though its interface for making edits is, well, decent at best.

I'd seriously recommend getting Photoshop instead, regardless of how you have to go about it. Or go for Paint.net if you're on Windows because while it has nowhere near the amount of functionality that Photoshop or Gimp have, it's actually usable in comparison to Gimp.

Z. Long posted:

@Alice Cheshire Yeah you're right, the series end didn't really solve anything for Homura. TBH I'm surprised that Homura maintained her sanity as long as she did. If it were me I would have lost it around 10 cycles.

The reason she survived so long was pretty much a direct result of the fourth timeline I think it was. The one just before she changes her appearance which ends with her mercy-killing Madoka. That act nearly broke her but she managed to weather it nonetheless because she knew Madoka would be there when she turned back time. After that she basically completely suppressed her emotions and became very detached. You only become a witch if you fall in despair. But Homura simply wasn't feeling anything and clung to what remained of her hope.

I'm actually far more surprised that such an enormous portion of the fanbase seems to completely miss the fact it was far from a happy end for her. And out of the entire cast she's by far the one who most deserves to have one, though I'm honestly not expecting a happy ending from the new movie either.

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Z. Long posted:

On a lighter note to everyone: It seems like everyone likes PMMM. What are your feelings on the Movie (Rebellion)? People I've talked to didn't much like the movie. I personally have I love/hate feelings towards it.

Personally I liked it more than the series since the series kinda blatantly left things not only completely unresolved for Homura but in fact made things worse.

MaartenAr posted:

Is Hakamada Mera a guy or a girl?
I'm assuming a girl but it would be cool to know if there are any yuri mangaka that are guys.

She's a girl. From what I recall she's friends with Morinaga Milk. One of the afterwords of one of Hakamada or Morinaga's mangas (I forget which) talks about them and one other mangaka going to a strip bar or something like that and specifically mentions them all being girls.

As for authors who are guys I know the authors of these two mangas are:
http://dynasty-scans.com/series/chatting_at_the_amber_teahouse
http://dynasty-scans.com/series/wife_and_wife

Those are the only two who immediately come to mind though.

ciega posted:

@Utoptia - ummm, unless it's animated, i'm not understanding the problem. why not just save the gif in another format?

Animation is really the only actual reason to use a gif. The format is otherwise pretty crappy.

Radzeer posted:

Feeling guilty that you didn't gave Kuro-chan the romance she deserved, huh Kaworu-sensei?

She should Kuro-chan was kinda annoying but she still deserved a better ending than that. Everyone else got one.

Nezchan posted:

I'd be happy to stop. Do you know of any similar sorts of mods where the general DOOM feel is maintained, but with more modern mechanics/new levels? I'd totally recommend that instead, but I don't know the scene well enough.

You might try looking up some of the mods from this image. I can't really recommend mods too much though since whenever I play Doom anymore I typically just stick to Oblige generated wads with huge amounts of monster.

I do get the impression that there's a lot of nasty infighting in the mod scene in general, which is off-putting.

What ZuljinRaynor is pretty relevant here, though that in itself is more of an issue with BD's fanbase than BD/Sgt Mark for once. A lot of the Doom modding community anymore tends to strongly dislike Brutal Doom due to flood of compatibility requests.

Nezchan posted:

I'd honestly rather play Brutal DOOM than the remake.

I'd very strongly recommend refraining from showing anything remotely resembling support for Sgt Mark. He's a despicable person. He's had numerous incidents in the past where he used other peoples' resources in Brutal Doom without crediting them. And even worse he actively encouraged someone to commit suicide when the guy was really depressed.

Luhood posted:

So I've seen one clip from the anime, and personally I usually regard the Lolicon + Age Gap tag-combo with suspicion, even more so when the Ecchi tag is there. Do I have anything to fear if I decide to read it, or are they surprisingly underplayed?

There's a fair bit of fan service crap mostly played off for comedy but the story itself is actually quite decent and a pretty compelling read.

Anon99 posted:

Tool – Schism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2iGVBlfg2E
(Great video!)

That one's my favorite song by Tool. It's pretty fantastic.

blinkkittylove posted:

I'm on a Halestorm kick at the moment, this is the first track from their second album which I've been looping in the car...profanity warning https://youtu.be/FmkHqUwa4zg

Lizzy Hale's voice is incredible.

Nezchan posted:

How does that indicate this isn't fucked up? Just because someone takes gold in the Edge Olympics doesn't mean the silver medallist didn't win anything.

Personally I would just classify this one as extremely weird. But I suppose to each their own, lol.

LexXxich posted:

Lobsters

These are not screams, it's just air escaping.

That's kinda pretty much what a scream is anyways though, lol. Just air escaping the lungs at a high velocity.