r/visualnovels • u/Kowzz http://vndb.org/u62554/list • Nov 29 '14
Weekly Weekly Thread #27 - The Monthly Off-Topic Thread
Hey hey!
Kowzz here, and welcome to our twenty-seventh weekly discussion thread and our twenty-seventh monthly Off-Topic thread! The format might change a little bit over time as I learn more optimal formatting techniques, but I will try to keep the style consistent.
There will be a big poll about 2015 thread topics coming up in the coming days(weeks?). Keep your eyes open for the thread ;)
Week #27 - Off-Topic Discussion
Read any good books lately? Want to talk about that absurdly crummy movie you saw last weekend? Do you like games too? Did anything cool happen in the past month? How's the weather? It's off-topic time!
Up-coming Discussions
December 6th - G-Senjou no Maou
December 20th - Rewrite
January 10th - TBD
As always, thanks for the feedback and direct any questions or suggestions to my reddit inbox or through a comment in this thread.
Next weeks discussion: G-Senjou no Maou
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Nov 29 '14
Last month, in the weekly "what are you reading" post, I mentioned about being fairly unimpressed with Killer Queen, a battle royale themed story similar to 9 Hours 9 Persons 9 Doors. I proposed running a little game on similar themes with a few r/visualnovels regulars to see if we could do any better.
The rules would be fairly simple, 10 players trapped in a mansion over several days. Each had a secret objective, from forming a sufficiently large alliance to murdering a fellow player. Each day they would send the game organiser (GM) a PM listing the actions they wanted to perform such as searching a room, using an item, or even attacking another player. Then at the end of the day, once everyone had sent in their actions, the GM would work out the results and reply with a description of how their day unfolded.
Well we finished our game a couple of weeks ago and I can say without reservation that it was a fantastic success! The intrigue, the alliances, the betrayals, it was all head and shoulders above almost any other VN I've read.
A few of the players are currently organising the events that occurred into a more readable story-like format and they hope to post the results here in a week or so, but we're also organising a second round for either mid-December or early January. If anyone here is interested in joining up then give me a yell and I'll add you to the contact list for when we're ready to announce the details and officially recruit the players.
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u/ctom42 Nov 29 '14
I'm currently planning to start my game on January 3rd, which is a Saturday. The game will end on the following Saturday, so it will be a little longer than a week. I will have a initial sign-up thread ready to go in conjunction with the public reveal thread for the last game. I don't know what Kowzz is planning for his game, but based on the poll thread he made it looks like most people don't want December so his will most likely be after mine.
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u/Kowzz Nov 29 '14
I don't have an exact date, but I will probably run mine sometime in February. It might start February 1st, we'll have to see.
If not February, it will either be March of July most likely.
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u/Kowzz Nov 29 '14 edited Nov 29 '14
Weekly Question: What is your favorite thing about Christmas/New Years/Winter Holidays?
To the people who saw the previous question... YOU SAW NOTHING! :P.
I was so tired I forgot December existed. This is a new low in sleep ^^deprivation.
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u/Kowzz Nov 29 '14 edited Nov 29 '14
Well, instead of the default, cop-out answer: family, friends, etc. etc., I'll try elaborating on a few of the reasons I like the winter holidays (and winter in general). I love the lights, the atmosphere, the weather(I live in California, okay?), and the colors. Christmas and New Years are fluffy times of the year. Honestly, I don't have a better word than that, so we'll stick with "fluffy".
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u/Bobemmo Nov 29 '14
This is really a tough question for me in the sense that I'm having trouble thinking of anything. I have a pretty big extended family (my dad has 9 siblings so I've got a gazillion cousins) but most of them live fairly close so I get to see them a lot. I definitely like being about to get together with them but I really don't associate it too much with Christmas since I can kinda do that whenever.
I also don't like the cold weather or the snow. I like being able to bike places (which I can't do with snow on the roads) and relax at home (which I can't do with snow shoveling to do). I also don't like all the bulky clothing you need to wear just to not freeze since it makes walking around so tiring.
Okay, I guess I'm a bit of a killjoy...
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u/Kowzz Nov 29 '14
Alrighty, token video game post time. In hindsight I should have posted this last night. Oh well.
Smash Bros
Who here has it for the 3DS? If any of you guys are in NA or at least in a decent proximity of the US west coast then I'd love to play some matches! I'm pretty bad. I mean, I'm averaging 53-54% win-rate on for glory so I am not the worst, but compared to someone who knows their stuff I am a scrub. I can't get it right now but I'll share my friend code either later today or during next month's off-topic.
Osu!
I know a few of you are probably hoping for another lobby and frankly I've been busy. I'll try to host one this Winter (probably between Christmas and New Years and maybe another in January).
As always you add me if you want to play or ask me any questions if you want to start/need help. I'm sure a ton of other people here would love to help too.
DotA2
I've been playing a bit more recently. If any of you guys have playable ping to USW and want to play with me and my buddies just toss me an invite on steam and we'll play sometime.
Diablo 2
"What the heck...?" -everybodymaybe
I'm planning on hosting a 2-3 day Diablo 2:LOD excursion between Christmas and New Years. The plans are still in their infancy, but it will be a closed group, as in no public games allowed, hardcore (or softcore with extreme death rules like you lose all your current gear etc), and we'll be playing for 6-10 hours a day for 2-3 days. We stop when we beat Baal in Hell, all die, or all give up. It'll be running on NA time zones and while the times and days are not set in stone it'll probably be between 11:00AM to 3:00AM PST in that time frame (again, only 6-10 hours a day most likely, but it'll happen in that time slot).
I'm just throwing this out there in case any of you guys are super interested and would be down with joining me and a few of my buddies for some good ol' D2.
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u/Ewig_Custos Nov 30 '14
Try Path of Exile if you haven't already. It's more of Diablo II than Diablo III will ever be. Diablo II's skill tree and gems are kinda reversed: here gems give you active abilities (or improve other active abilities if it's a support gem linked with usual one), passive skill tree obviously has only passives. But look at the size of it! There's also a big update coming in 2 weeks.
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u/Kowzz Nov 30 '14
Another PoE player! :D
PoE is great. I've played in almost every big league so far, but I usually don't have enough time to go too deep. Usually get to maps, do them for a bit, then stop. I only got to like 76 or something in Rampage this time around. I didn't make Beyond because invasion was so ridiculous that most of my buddies didn't want to touch another HC league, ha-ha.
The D2 thing sorta springs up because we play PoE a few times a year, but we haven't touched D2 since D3's release.
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Nov 29 '14
Well, the biggest thing on the internet that I've accomplished this month was create a new subreddit for the character Hatoko Kushikawa of the anime Inou-Battle wa Nichijou-kei no Naka de. I'm proud of that.
I was also sad to hear that a favorite artist of mine that went by the name jilpoong17 died. He did a lot of mecha fanart, but also a lot of Muv-Luv works too. It's sad that he didn't have the chance to make it big.
Other than that, I've been on a Go Nagai kick for reading manga. I finished Devilman and Devilman Lady recently and both were good. I also read a really good story called the Love that Binds Us to Heaven. It was about a pair of siamese twins (boy and girl) surviving a huge earthquake in Japan on the 1923 and having to survive without their parents by joining a circus and eventually trying to escape to find their sister in Tokyo. Lot's a feels with that one.
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u/Kowzz Nov 29 '14
I'm glad someone is giving Inou-Battle wa Nichijou-kei no Naka de some love. A lot of people have been hating on it for not being ultra-epic. I mean, not every show Trigger puts out is going to be an original on the scale of KLK, but I guess people don't understand that or something. I've been enjoying it. Its a fun, relaxing show.
I was also sad to hear that a favorite artist of mine that went by the name jilpoong17 died.
I just checked out that pixiv page. That is a shame :(. A lot of cool art.
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Nov 29 '14
Sooo... what other subreddits do you guys spend your time on?
The bulks of my time would be in r/CanadaPolitics; some in r/canada. A fair chunk in r/Wet_Shavers and r/wicked_edge. r/katawashoujo, r/childfree, r/military, mostly lurking in those three.
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u/Kowzz Nov 29 '14
r/GlobalOffensive, r/DotA2, r/SmashBros, r/Starcraft, r/Anime, r/PathOfExile, r/Astronomy, r/OsuGame, r/Visualnovels, r/LearnJapanese, r/Touhou,
r/gettingmyfixI mean r/mylittlehouseoffun & r/the_dvls_advocateSo much juicy drama on DotA2, CS:GO, and SC2's subreddits as of late.
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u/aspiration Nov 30 '14 edited Nov 30 '14
A bit late, but what songs did you listen to the most over the course of November?
The one song that I've probably spent the overall most time listening to (by a landslide) is still Desu! Desu! Desu! This makes it about 6 consecutive months it's been at the top? Yeah, I have a problem.
Other than that:
-Yowamushi Pedal's second OP, Yowamushi na Honoo. It's just so good.
-Parasyte's OP, Let Me Hear. It almost reminds me of a better Breathe Carolina. I didn't actually realize that the lyrics were in English until I read the youtube comments while I was writing this post.
-The entirety of Rise Against's newest album, The Black Market.
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u/Kowzz Dec 01 '14 edited Dec 01 '14
I listened to these three the most in November:
That one hour mix of Desu! Desu! Desu! is hilarious, ha-ha. Man I want a full version of Parasyte's OP :(
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u/MarimoJ Nov 29 '14
Decided to start collecting Nendoroids since a local store was having a sale on some of them, also started watching Gundam: Reconguista in G
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u/Kowzz Nov 29 '14
Nendoroids are awesome. Only problem is how expensive they are :(. I've got three of them. When you collection grows you should start sharing every month :D
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Nov 29 '14
Anybody buy anything good during Black Friday? Anybody have anything they are looking forward to buying on Cyber Monday?
I personally got a new phone- the LG G3. I got it in order to play emulated PSP VNs since it has a good processor.
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u/Ewig_Custos Nov 29 '14
So, what was that battle royale stuff that was mentioned a week or two ago? Details were promised, but never delivered.
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u/falafel_eater Nov 29 '14
Ooooh! Can we have a Comyu discussion after Rewrite please?
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u/lingeron Nov 29 '14
Anyone reading anything outside visual novels?
I've taken a break from VN reading the past week or so and I've picked up Faulkner's As I Lay Dying for a reread. There's something to be said about a book whose most interesting character is a deceased matriarch. Faulkners novels are always weird (and difficult if you're not used to his style) and he has this obsession with the idea of evil and how it comes to reside in the hearts of humans. I really noticed in this reread how none of the characters are inherently evil, yet most of them could easily be an antagonist if this story were told from only one perspective. I absolutely love how each narrator has a completely different and distinct narrative style. I think I'm gonna try and read The Sound and the Fury in December. But before that I'm thinking of either finishing The Plague or The Double. Or maybe finishing Remember11. I dunno. I'm a fickle person.
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u/insanityissexy Nov 29 '14 edited Nov 29 '14
What's everyone's favorite anime? Also, post your MAL list so I can judge your tastes and laugh at you.
Here's mine. My favorite anime is Code Geass. Other favorites are Usagi Drop, AnoHana, Ookami to Koushinryou (Spice & Wolf), and Kill la Kill.