@Ronnie21093 It was a real good moment, simply for the fact it wasn't just "proof of destruction of evidence," it was an email that said "yeah we destroyed those Valve documents relating to the case like you asked boss." So absurd, can hardly make this shit up :flan_laugh:
@lina@MK2boogaloo Kinda, it's more that most of them are just autistic and partially retarded. The smuggest asshole in all of Gensokyo, Yukari, is in reality just a loner who has zero idea how to make friends so she made up this whole threatening personality to be able to socialize. She falls into a panic if someone actually suggests being nice to her. Aya though, while probably also partially mental, acts this way fully intentionally and goes out of her way on a daily basis to fuck with others while doing it. The only time she'll slip her personality is when a higher ranked tengu (that isn't Hatate) is nearby, and that's only out of fear.
@lina@MK2boogaloo Rather than a grudge against someone on the Fedi, I have a partial dislike of Aya as a person. I understand her whole shtick, but she causes a lot of distaste in doing it. She'll earn my respect when she starts acting honestly rather than playing the smug know it all over everything, including what she doesn't know and can't help with.
@Meemoo Whenever a video or article like this appears, all I can think of is how obviously pandering to the company they're claiming to spite they are. "Hey Nintendo, here's all the information about this emulator, how it runs, how people are using it for illegal copies of games, where the developer lives, proof he has no lawyers, but please don't take it down :cirno_heh:." They do this shit with romhacks and the like too, sometimes even directly telling companies like Nintendo about the hack because it's "so cool." Grifting at its finest, say just enough to appeal to the average reader while still trying to keep on the good side of big corporate identities by selling out the projects to them.
@Spooke@DarkMahesvara@Suzu I just want to add for clarification, this didn't happen. The staff didn't force a coup or anything, this studio was founded in 2018 in Washington to develop concord and nothing else, and sony acquired them in 2023, at which point the game would've already been almost entirely done and sony wouldn't have needed to interfere. It's very likely that they never had a lineup of "competent employees" considering this game took them 5-6 years of development and is still a mostly unfinished live service nightmare.
@Kyonko802 Yooo the bait image from last year I think. I like biting bait though, so the clarification on Touhou being dead. Touhou not taking up as much space in comiket is mostly due to Reitaisai and ZUN's greater freedoms given in recent years. Reitaisai is a Touhou only version of comiket that happens now twice a year, once in the spring and once in the autumn, at the Tokyo Big Sight like comiket is. On top of this, fans have now been given the freedom to sell their Touhou doujin works on a massive multitude of platforms, as ZUN's rule towards platforms is "wait for an official release on the platform first." This all means that creators are less stressed and put less focus on meeting comiket deadlines for Touhou works, and so Blue Archive took the majority role because of absurdly large popularity spiking. So no, Touhou isn't dead in Japan. Here's the promotional picture for the upcoming Autumn Reitaisai 11 also, it's nice (and low res because the site has hardly any good versions of the full image).
@lina Aya's already got 2 themes, 3 by technicality. She's also got more appearances than some of the outright most important characters to the series. Let the poor wolf have this, it plays while fighting Momiji after all.
@VTArgyle Man, I'm not sure there's anything to salvage of yiik. Also this is supposed to be the "revamp update" for the game, seemingly this is just a preview before they replace the original game. Still, calling the original release a dumpster fire would be insulting to the trash being burned. It's hard to even justify this with "well there's something this update could salvage" because the original game is just overly long shitty dialogue with bad combat and a by the numbers story, only special in the sudden disdain for both the player and the plot it obtains at the very end. A bad in the worst way possible, being genuinely painful with not a single bit of humor to be obtained :flan_disgust:
@poopernova@lina@Xeraser I seriously doubt Hatate's danger overall. She seems the type to be apathetic towards her job and the world unless something catches her interest. Just hope that her interest isn't caught up on you, since the other tengu may not be so uncaring if you're trying to escape from inside.