craneo87me
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Makes you wonder why he choice miho as a kamen rider (making her the first official female rider because fuck tackle i guess) unless he somehow thought miho was some very sexy dude and give her a card deck.
Kinda gay for Shiro Kanzaki to start the Rider War and then proceed to pretty much only pick hot guys for it like OK dude
Kinda gay for Shiro Kanzaki to start the Rider War and then proceed to pretty much only pick hot guys for it like OK dude
honestly a Warhammer collab could be kinda neat (though im mostly familiar with 40k) i like the concept of a space marine screaming "HERESY!!" when he see japanese teenagers summoning demons
Putting aside outliers like Sonic, what series would you think would be a good fit for a Dx2 collab?
Something that immediately comes to mind is Court of the Dead.It's basically a collection of lore to sell expensive statues and other merch of its collection of characters, but I like some of its designs:
I can't say I'm really in to the property, whose best days seem behind it, but it's more or less the American equivalent in quality/tone to the less-than-stellar JP series you'd see Dx2 collab with, like Seven Deadly Sins.
Ah, Dx2, you're the perennial "break glass in case of SMT main series doldrums," such as what we're in now.
Holy shit Kamen Rider Accel game
‘Kinetica’! A PlayStation 2 game where your body is the bike! The game actually came with a little art book too! This is the American cover artwork.
‘Kinetica’! A PlayStation 2 game where your body is the bike! The game actually came with a little art book too! This is the American cover artwork.
SMT Boardgame Kickstarter Smells Like Suspicious Fish
There's an SMT boardgame. Curb your enthusiasm, you shouldn't back it. And if you did, lower your pledge to like a buck until they clear things up, because as it stands it seems like an incredibly suspect product.
Checking through the Kickstarter comments and Japanese Tweets about the boardgame makes the entire thing seem poorly planned at best. I'll summarize as best I can;
The designer is incredibly infamous in the boardgame community
Naoki Matsunaga, a self-described "board game sommelier", is the designer. You'll find tweets lamenting that "the board game sommelier is involved". Why is he so hated? This thread goes into detail: co_boze on twitter. Part of it is they bashed Werewolf over one game they saw of it, another is they took on a kind of public-face role for boardgames appearing on late night TV shows to talk about them in ways that annoyed boardgamers. They seem to have designed a boardgame based on "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" which ripped off Sid Sackson's 'I'm the Boss". But it's what co_boze talks about next that's really bizarre. The game was apparently banned from most board game cafes and playing spaces. Seminars where people could play the game were hosted, but the venues that hosted these seminars all closed down.
If you keep looking through comments, you start finding claims that his company does multi-level marketing (ie pyramid schemes). To be honest, I don't know if this is true. But even if it isn't, it is really not hard to find people who know of this guy and would really really really REALLY prefer he was not involved.
"Oh fuck, it's THIS guy" is not a reaction that inspires confidence
2. Questionable development and presentation issues.
A regular collaborator with Atlus recently tweeted "The use of AI in Atlus works or derivative works is stictly prohibited." He responded to a reply asking if this was about a board game.
The staff running the SMT BG Kickstarter later clarified the actual -game- wouldn't use AI graphics... but from the looks of it, the promotional materials do.
Dig that... generic metal pipe aesthetic. Nothing screams MegaTen like black plumbing to nowhere.
In totally unrelated news, a board game manufacturer recently tweeted that a Kickstarter used their name without permission, and they're not sure why.
Quote tweets on the post would suggest it was the SMT board game. The comment they are loosely referring to is this:
In a follow-up post, they do specify "The product figures will be made of PVC." and "We will be manufacturing the games in partnership with a factory in China that has a proven track record... " "Figure director Kimura Yuzuru has over 10 years of experience..." and other boring development stuff that I have no issue with. What I do have issue with is how they can say things like they're "considering" which manufacturer to use and namedropping other companies that they're unrelated with. (While I was typing this post, they posted an update that clarified the CMON issue and literally nothing else: here.)
The boardgame is being presented with machine translated English printed on the same cards as the Japanese. But the actual game will have a translator check everything.
they hire translators to localize all game content
Additionally, there was a week long radio silence on the Kickstarter. For reference, Kickstarters are normally very active with the project planners dropping updates, responding to feedback and clearing up any concerns.
Some of the concerns were "How does the game actually play?", a question that would be best answered by dropping a rulebook for people to look at, or better yet showing them an entire run of the game. The SMT BG Kickstarter has boldly chosen neither. Devs have commented the game is on Version 11 and plays well, which makes it strange that they can't share any of it with anyone else.
Actually, when you compare this to how most Kickstarters are run, it becomes very clear the SMT BG Kickstarter is, uh, kinda failing in all possible regards. The first Backer Goal is "Jack Frost Dice" at 2000 backers (not funds raised, BACKERS). Despite getting 300%(!!!) of the initial pledge needed, there are no bonuses or unlocks.
Mind, this lack of information comes after they already delayed the start to supposedly improve Backer Goals and other aspects.
There aren't a shortage of issues - it's ICREA's first boardgame (but not their first tango with SMT; they made the SMT30th Logo, for instance.) The timeline seems totally wack. The staff have been incredibly slow to respond. Cards with tiny font and two languages printed on them. Etc, etc. Maybe individually these issues wouldn't be too concerning. But all of them combined make the product seem incompetently run at best, and at worst an actual scam.
I'm hardly a big influencer in the SMT scene (my biggest contribution is when that fucking succubus gif gets 36k likes on Twitter every 5 months) but I haven't seen any English speaking sources discuss this in detail, when there really should be at least some noise about all of this. Still. if just one of you end up saving 600 bucks on what ends up being a trashfire carcrash project because of this post, then that'll have made the past 30 minutes of typing this shit worth it.
Would you still love me if I was the official Kamen Rider Ryuki Chess Pcs (12pcs) by MegaHouse
There are so many different Amazons (I am very sorry Wikipedia).
(I am not entirely sure what "vinaceous" means, was not in the dictionary. But I think it means "wine-colored".)
The 2003 PlayStation 2 RPG Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne contains unused dialogue seemingly spoken by Luigi in its files. It is part of a text file containing placeholder messages for a negotiation system, with the Luigi message being called "DUMMY_SUCCESS_INFO", indicating that it was a placeholder for succeeding in persuading a character to divulge information.
Why Luigi was chosen for this is unclear, especially due to the lack of Mario references in the rest of the game and code.
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Screenshotsofdespair: Assorted Kamen Rider Edition
Animals of the Apocalypse
Random sketches of the day/night
Berdly and Magolor are the same guy with varying levels of pathetic-ness and they NEED to hang out
AND HAPPY DEVIL MAY CRY 5 FIFTH ANNIVERSARY 💙💥
...Akira Toriyama died, honestly, of all the people i i thought we might lose this year, no, THIS DECADE, that man was definitely the very last one. Rest in Power
I really thought he would experience Shigeru Mizuki levels of longevity. This one hit me hard, not like any artist or celebrity death in my lifetime. Just instantly felt numb and empty. As a toddler, drawing shovel-faced Dragon Ball caricatures in spiral bound notebooks was my formative experience with visual art and the bedrock for anything I've drawn or observed about art ever since. Only Kenji Watanabe's early TCG work had a comparable hold over me. Growing older and realizing that he was genuinely one of the greatest comic draughtsman and designers who ever lived ensured that impact would survive into adulthood. Can't believe he's already gone.
R.I.P.
the nahobino frost... at this point i dont care since WE GOT CHERUB ON 3 FUCKING D!!!!!!!!
SHIN MEGAMI RISING VENGEANCE WHEEEE
Here are all the new Kaneko models I could see; Cai-zhi, Dis, Pellaide, Cherub, Karasu Tengu, Efreet, Unicorn and Gogmagog.
And here are the returning SH2 models; Halphas, Vritra, Turbo Granny, Nezha, Armaiti, Kudlak, Fenrir, Vouivre, Zun Tun She, Halphas again just for @eirikrjs, Dormarth, Gremlin and Tzitzimitl!
And Then There's This Motherfucker
I don't give a fuck about the rest!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Guys 2014 is in two months
Can I stop getting attached to depressed lonely boys with trauma surrounding crowns please
this sequence of images is so mystical to me. it's like a prey animal noticing you
3 wild goofy goobers, clearly up to no good.
Reports say they are still at large for their ice cream related crimes.
This looks like Meta knight’s about to jump Dedede for 1st.
HEARTBREAKING ANNOUNCEMENT: Kaneko is back and he's making art for a fucking NFT/blockchain game
tomorrow……… is august„„„„,?????
its augu…….st?? tomorrW???????????
8th monTH???????? 4 ,more mont hs of 2013?????????????
what??????????????????????????????………………………..
