BV posted:

Apparently my grandma started listening to music from Madoka Magica.

Maybe she's a magical girl xP

myrrhmidon posted:

Also have to consider that Nian rerun banner is likely to be June which means Dusk will be the limited banner that comes after.

Wait, June? Isn't Nian's rerun banner and Dusk's banner on new year?

myrrhmidon posted:

It should be chapter 8. It will be Golden Week soon in JP so the stream is well timed for that.

But she's also half year anniversary operator and Nian dropped in June, so I was expecting her around that time. But it's true we run out of events to stall with unless they start throwing reruns.

myrrhmidon posted:

Upcoming JP livestream on April 21, 8 pm JST. Chapter 8 HYPE and Forget Me Not banner. I really hope I get Mudrock.

I only care about Rosmontis. So episode 8 is confirmed next or we still don't know?

After thinking about it I guess it is more story of redemption and them realizing they like each other, they just started their relationship on wrong foot, because of past bullying. My only complain would be that ending felt lackluster. It just kinda stops.

That was pretty predictable, though I guess bully being aware she was shit person and bullied realizing revenge was a mistake relatively fast was somewhat fresh, so you could say there was more room for them to naturally fall for each other, but resolution definitely felt lacking.

Lmao yes xD

random posted:

I mean databases like gampepress and aceship have ALL the arts and files and whatnot, those are what I consult for details on chars I haven't developed or don't have or...

Yes. I just didn't look at arts of OPs I don't have too much outside of just glancing few seconds on them.

*remembers not having Eunectes*
*curls up*
*tries not to cry*
*cries a lot*

pats

A dragon lady that's also a sniper? I'm sold

random posted:

Wait, winged horses? I don't remember any.

See: Nearl, Blemishine and Platinum's E2 art, Platinum's S2 name. also Blem's E2 art is a giant pegasus fursona 『stand』
Hell even hottaunt Zofia gets in on that. Grani seems about the only Kazimierz-related hors whose E2 pone isn't winged...

Right. I never got around to E2 any of them so I didn't see their art too much. I did notice horses when glancing over it, but somehow never taken notice of wings. For Blemishine when I was looking at her art, I focused more on looking at the big golden armor in the back, rather than horses. I know that when Nearl uses her S2, she has wings, but my first thought was more angels symbolism. Especially with title like Radiant Knight and all. Now I'm feeling ashamed as descended of Kazimierz that I didn't realize such obvious allusion to Husaria.

myrrhmidon posted:

I'm actually surprised cause I thought it was pretty obvious to be a Poland parallel.

I mean, we're such nothing country, with no influence whatsoever that nobody gives a fuck about us or even know we exist, so can you blame me for doubting they actually mean us and assumed name is just a coincidence/it's my wishful thinking speaking?

First time I saw Kazimierz and prominent characters having winged horses as motifs, I immediately thought of the Winged Hussars.

Wait, winged horses? I don't remember any. Yea, that'd be a much more blatant indication.

That said, congrats on that amazing roll. The Polish blood is strong.

Thanks x3

As for the event, gameplay-wise, I laughed when I saw that the two bosses in the last stage spawn close enough to one another such that Surtr can hit them both. It was too easy. I didn't even know what gimmicks they had. It did surprise me when I encountered the enemies and the boss that have a second life bar.

Yea. I just saw PureDark beating the stage using Surtr and Scene. On the other hand Dr. Silvergun once more proves that Jaye is absolutely broken and better than Hellagur...

Since I do not have Surtr, beating stage took me a while to figure out. Actually left guy was easy, cos Eyja was melting him in few seconds, but the issue was timing his death so I can kill the guy on right before he'll go on killing spree. Admittedly it wasn't that hard since I still beat stage trust farming 4 operators.

I didn't read entire story yet.

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random posted:

Also got spooked by cute dumb doggoCeobe, huh.

Nice! But also sorry for spook ;/

Finally beat MN-8. Now can just focus on mindless farming. Also I didn't really plan to do it since I was sure I won't drop her, but since I could and clearly my roots to Kazimierz are strong (also I do like a lot of operators from there), I decided to immediately E2 Blemishine No. Those aren't chips I had prepared for Eunectes...

塞雷娅 posted:

Like the news articles that go along with the event are really interesting. They read like genuine gossip pages and/or sports news that even have ads on them. Like bruh, that's cool as heck.

Yea. I really like them. They add a nice touch. I'm readying them carefully, expecting to notice some foreshadowing of future events in the event.

Speaking of Blemishine x Whislash, one of the news articles had a link to another article that said "Late Night Bar Visit, Intimate Relationship?! The "Family Secrets" of the Nearl Sisters and Zofia." Like... damn, even in-universe people think there's something up with them.

Yes, saw it xD

Ok, have to say all the polish words are funny to see and they even mostly makes sense!

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random posted:

It always was very blatantly Poland, or more specifically the old Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - decadence, decline and all.

Yea. The whole corruption thing also sounded pretty familiar with our history of nobility caring more about their own wealth and power, even trading to sabotage our country's stability for personal gains.

Name Kazimierz always was funny to me and gave me clearly Polish vibe (also this apparently is a thing) and I know that most countries are clearly based on existing ones like Ursus, Lungmen or Victoria, but I thought Kazimierz was more supposed to be just European countries that relied on knights in general. But now that I saw that event currency is called Mieszko Match Tickets, I'm 100% convinced it's supposed to be Poland. So, it seems like game decided to reward me for all my suffering with all those spooks and why not and so my single 10 roll went incredibly well. Bonus point for getting Platinum and Meteor first, 2 operators from Kazimierz. I guess I had perfect catalyst being from Poland stare

MacySan posted:

Anyway, I think the April's fool tag was mostly regarding the content of the story within, and not so much as the author writing a story for April's fools, whether that actually kinda happened or not.

Yea. Stuff just themed around april fools' is tagged as such as well. Can be a bit confusing.

Isn't it just the quality of life thing? Especially when cancer is very advanced, there's very little chance of completely curing it and at best it'll prolong your life by few months, year at best, but you'll spend few months in hospital being miserable during treatment, so some people just prefer to spend rest of their live living it and enjoying what is left of it rather than going through something that won't give much results anyway. That's my best guess anyway.

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Everything ok?

Faerilyn posted:

That's... really unintuitive. science babies for magic babies, with no science behind it? That's the silliest thing I've ever seen.

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic". How exactly babies are created isn't really relevant (and exact means are often hand-waved/omitted exactly for that reason). What matters is that they're their biological children.

non-science babies for regular children? that's even sillier. These tags need revision. Easy solution: adoption/adopted, step-child tags. Calling those "non-science babies" is the most ridiculous tagging thing I've seen in a long time.

It's really simple. Yuri about couple raising children that came from realistic means (adoption/only 1 of them is biological mother) is very rare and so since early on stories where children are actually biologically related to both of parents were majority, it made sense the first tag that would be created was Science babies. Now that we got stories where child didn't come from technology or w/e that isn't available to us yet, it only make sense that opposite tag would be created based on tag that was before, hence Non-science babies to inform reader that it's not another of those stories where author just decided to give yuri couple kids, because it'd be nice. Tag could be named differently? Sure, but I really don't think it's that complicated to grasp...

random posted:

Most appearances of child characters that don't fall under science babies (which in practice mostly applies to doujinshis and fanart anyway) went completely untagged since forever, irrespective of how important they might be in the story.

Or maybe it's that those doujinshi/images focused on couple having children and being family? So tagging it for people who look for that kind of content felt necessary and since kids were clearly biologically related to both parents, it felt appropriate to mention it, since otherwise readers wouldn't really expect seeing biological children of their favorite yuri couple.

Pretty sure nobody cared so the sudden addition of this counterintuitively and awkwardly worded tag is least said perplexing.

Pretty sure people care about stories about lesbian couples that raise kid together. Just there isn't many that mainly focus on that + those stories are very rare to begin with. Also just because something isn't tagged, it doesn't mean nobody care about it. It could simply be missed or nobody at the time think about creating tag and it just got forgotten. Also as I said, it's only really counterintuitively if you either didn't know or ignored that Science-babies tag was made and popularized first.

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johnb posted:

Why is it, when a relationship is on the rocks, some people think that having a baby is going to fix it?

It's probably related to surge of happiness and busywork related to having children/grandchildren. People push their problems aside in order to take care of them and joy of it can often overwrite their previous issues. It's of course not universal fix and doesn't always work, but it can definitely strengthen weakening bond. Think of it as giving your relationship a huge patch, that covers some of the problems, but depending on the size of them, it might not be able to support them and tear apart again.

Transcendent Egg posted:

[edit: what this means is that even if wanting to change your body is entirely internal, you still live in society. society is gonna look at you and say "why are you contradicting us, fuck you"]

Fair.

Also, gender being social doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Gender being social means it is a process that doesn't need to exist.

I meant it. I really don't think gender exists, but that's whole another topic.

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Altair posted:

Direct translation is for the birds. In a space where we have no editors to tell us not to get too creative, no investors wanting safe and proven production methods to get returns, and no need to worry that our readers won't be coming back (and if they don't, so what?), we continue to flatten character voices, blunt tone, produce unnatural dialogue, and remove characterization in service to finding the technically best way to do things. We do not seek to recreate the original reading experience, which is integral in translating the art on the whole.

Speak for yourself. I'm always trying to convey the same meaning and nuance the original had. And from stuff I read over the years, I'd say the exact opposite. Adding your own creative voice, trying to give characters personality and in general not being afraid of changing/localizing things is the staple of fan scanlations. Sure not every group is high quality and some definitely have mistranslations, but overall there's plenty of them that do try to keep high standards. In fact whenever something gets picked by official publisher the first thing people fear after w/e quality of translation will be good, is exactly that their translation is going to be much less creative and good to read than scans.

Best anime of 2021 started airing https://youtu.be/emrOpnSCYao

random posted:

myrrhmidon posted:

Maria Nearl animated PV

Nice! Can't wait to not drop Blemishine!

#metoo

[ BrazilVietnam flashbacks of too many pulls without single Eunectes intensify ]

I know your pain T__T
remembers getting spooked by Phantom

glad1983 posted:

I disagree. A translation is not about translating words. It's about translating the whole context. If you are not interested in Japan, you would be confused as to why the clerk would ask to put covers on magazines. Bagging it is a more natural situation for a western audience.

I'd agree depending on context, but it's still not what was said. It doesn't matter if reader isn't interested in Japan (and if they're reading manga they should), what they read should be reflection of what's actually going on in the story. What if covering magazine was actually relevant later? I agree that translation is more art than science, but you have to be really careful when you change or localize thing. As a general rule of thumb, I'm against changing or removing cultural nuance for reader's convenience, unless it's absolutely necessary.

Transcendent Egg posted:

To be transgender is to contradict the social forces that assign gender (male, female) to infants. This contradiction is necessarily socially contingent.

I agree that gender is social, since gender doesn't exist, but saying being trans is based solely on rejecting social expectations is flat out wrong. While gender is a lie, your biology is real and many trans people main source of dysphoria is disconnect between what they feel their body should be and what it is. Even without social expectations they'd still want to change it, because it feels wrong. There's no society at play there. So saying that being trans is all about rejecting social forces is pretty much straight saying people who mainly are unhappy with their biology aren't trans.

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