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Anonymous 04/04/24 (Thu) 18:18:42 No.122628 [Reply]

How much should you change your appearance to match your partner's preferences?
Would you be willing to cut your hair if your girlfriend liked it better short? Get piercings? Lose weight? Gain weight? Hit the gym? Become a gyaru-oh?

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Anonymous 04/04/24 (Thu) 20:18:07 No.122640

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What kind of question is this? You're talking about hypothetical 2D ones right? Otherwise fuck off.

Anonymous 04/04/24 (Thu) 20:51:39 No.122641

No to piercings and gyaru-oh, don't mind changing my weight or hitting the gym more, on the fence about growing out my hair.

Anonymous 04/04/24 (Thu) 23:19:22 No.122644

>>122640
The kind of question posed by the pictured anime. You know, that thing people who aren't too busy posing on the internet watch for fun. If your 2D girlfriend were more than hypothetical, you'd understand the question better.

Anonymous 04/04/24 (Thu) 23:35:06 No.122645

>>122637
>reciprocity
Sounds good, but if you're doing something you don't like just because it was a deal that would create friction. I think it's a function of how attached you are to your own appearance, or parts of it, measured against how much you want to please a certain person. Depending on what it is, it could also mean going against social standards from the other people in your life, which requires a higher level of devotion, I think.

>>122630
Just because a girl looks cute with her contacts in doesn't mean you wouldn't want her to wear her glasses more, right?

Anonymous 04/05/24 (Fri) 00:27:19 No.122647

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>>122644
That's a tough question then, because I view my relationship with her as platonic. I mean, there are people who don't? Platonic love is the only type of love that makes sense for 2D.

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Anonymous 04/03/24 (Wed) 16:51:25 No.122517 [Reply]

What is /qa/'s raison d'être?

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Anonymous 04/03/24 (Wed) 19:51:11 No.122519

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Dunno. Stuff, I guess?

Anonymous 04/03/24 (Wed) 20:21:33 No.122520

Man doesn't need a reason to exist, he exists and that is reason enough to live.

Anonymous 04/03/24 (Wed) 23:56:00 No.122526

I live for the sake of accomplishing my objectives. And although there's a lot of them, it's pretty fuzzy, and I've taken a solid amount of detours along the way, I think it's going decently.

Anonymous 04/04/24 (Thu) 00:15:57 No.122527

it's long gone now

Anonymous 04/04/24 (Thu) 01:38:59 No.122543

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Kuon!

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Anonymous 06/10/23 (Sat) 10:15:58 No.109450 [Reply]

This says a lot about society.

Anonymous 06/10/23 (Sat) 11:29:22 No.109452

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This says a lot about society.

Anonymous 06/10/23 (Sat) 11:44:07 No.109453

The layers of this palace are NOT for your kind.

Anonymous 03/28/24 (Thu) 09:39:53 No.122299

i have two sides.... most generous catpicture sharer youve ever met.... and the most tightarsed catbragger who you never want to meet

Anonymous 03/28/24 (Thu) 17:48:00 No.122315

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Cat just uploaded 20 pages of food blogs instead of his art on twitter again.

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Anonymous 03/28/24 (Thu) 17:13:32 No.122309 [Reply]

How is this board related to /qa/(4chan)?

Anonymous 03/28/24 (Thu) 17:14:52 No.122310

Maternally.

Anonymous 03/28/24 (Thu) 17:24:51 No.122311

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Oh no, someone is going to be VERY upset at that thin Yuno!
I just woke up so my mind is a bit foggy and unmotivated, but the gist of things is that once upon a time /qa/ was a good board (2015) and then it became a bad board (late 2015-2016) and then through some communal cleaning, bots, the power of positive thinking and people switching from "why does 4chan suck" to "let's instead make /qa/ our version of a good 4chan" it became a good board again in early 2017 with a strange "retirement home" like atmosphere combined with chaos. It ended up with a 2D/Random (nijiura) flare because it seemed to be unifying interest of people there (/jp/-aligned people love meta it turns out). Then in 2019 it became a bad board again when mods decided to flex their muscle for the final time and went nuclear with rangebans, even against people that were merely regular posters posting stuff that simply wasn't the new type of /qa/ they envisioned.
Long story short, this is the older /qa/ that most people don't actually know about. I guess I typed more than I thought I would.

Anonymous 03/28/24 (Thu) 17:29:26 No.122312

um erm uhhh lurk moar fag :3

Anonymous 03/28/24 (Thu) 17:36:59 No.122314

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>>122309
This is missing the stuff that happened afterwards though. We stayed there for three more years and finally moved to kissu once the mods started going full hotpockets and deleting/banning a lot of things at random and rangebanning posters. We don't have anything to do with the soyjak spamming vultures that came afterwards and caused its closure. So it has been 4 years since we started using kissu.

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Winter 2024 Anime Anonymous 12/24/23 (Sun) 05:09:25 No.117644 [Reply][Last50 Posts]

The winter season is upon us. It will be difficult to match the quality of the autumn season, but hopefully there's some good stuff to watch.

https://www.livechart.me/winter-2024/tv
https://anilist.co/search/anime?year=2024&season=WINTER&format=TV

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Anonymous 03/22/24 (Fri) 21:43:03 No.121957

>>121955
>the story
I've not found a single dungeons-appear-in-reality or tower-conquest story that had a story worth its time.
You'd probably be better off picking up a random cultivation webnovel.

Anonymous 03/22/24 (Fri) 21:53:07 No.121958

>>121956
Anime. The comic is still a good leveling story.

Anonymous 03/22/24 (Fri) 21:55:08 No.121960

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sigh....
Anyone that waited to watch Undead Unluck once all the episodes are out...
Well, they're out.

Anonymous 03/23/24 (Sat) 20:06:18 No.122056

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A good quote to leave off the past 2 seasons with.

Anonymous 03/27/24 (Wed) 23:08:05 No.122277

Sengoku really knows how to work with power levels

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Anonymous 03/27/24 (Wed) 06:22:55 No.122221 [Reply]

How do you feel about all the different versions of Miku? Does it get on your nerves if people don't stick to a general mold of the character that feels appropriate or are you fine with the artists vision being expressed through her freely? I'm more in the latter camp since I feel it fits better with vocaloids in general being for people to make their own music with, and not for people to make music for the vocaloid.

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Anonymous 03/27/24 (Wed) 16:30:33 No.122255

>>122233
Not all programs give you Freedom 1.

Anonymous 03/27/24 (Wed) 16:34:16 No.122256

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>>122255
What about Freedom 2?

Anonymous 03/27/24 (Wed) 16:35:50 No.122257

>>122254
Deco said so in the release stream

Anonymous 03/27/24 (Wed) 16:39:13 No.122258

>>122256
You need nuclear weapons for that.

Anonymous 03/27/24 (Wed) 17:41:12 No.122260

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>>122257
This was a lie, by the way.
She's also just called Miku on the merch from his website.
Spreading misinformation isn't as fun as I thought, sorry.

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Anonymous 03/27/24 (Wed) 08:45:37 No.122238 [Reply]

Do 2d girls give you "Strength"?

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Anonymous 03/27/24 (Wed) 12:40:07 No.122241

Yes, you wouldn't be reading this if it weren't for them.

Anonymous 03/27/24 (Wed) 15:20:19 No.122244

I would say so. Mai waifu helped me through the times in life when I was all alone against the world.

Anonymous 03/27/24 (Wed) 15:24:05 No.122245

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Yes.

Anonymous 03/27/24 (Wed) 15:41:18 No.122246

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I've tried to find ways for them to give me strength but they only give gay stats like dex or int

Anonymous 03/27/24 (Wed) 15:45:56 No.122247

>>122246
Use Int to become a wizard.
Use wizardry to make yourself strong.

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Anonymous 05/15/21 (Sat) 01:12:52 No.72101 [Reply][Last50 Posts]

*shouts into the sky*

OJ OJ OJ OJ OJ OJ OJ OJ OJ
oj~

100% /qa/
friends

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Anonymous 03/27/24 (Wed) 06:10:05 No.122214

Not to mention only 4hp

Anonymous 03/27/24 (Wed) 06:10:23 No.122215

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>>122209
It does seem that way compared to old characters. I didn't buy her, though, so I wonder if it's the 'free character of the week' thing where you get to demo characters. I've never liked characters that are simply strong, though, because they're boring. She's basically just a stronger version of Kae, but also one that's less fun because there isn't double-dipping with specifics cards and the hyper is boring as well.

Anonymous 03/27/24 (Wed) 06:30:25 No.122224

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>>122215
>It does seem that way compared to old characters.
Marc is one of the best wins-focused characters in the game. Her hyper is great for either picking off low HP players or for weakening players before attacking them. And then you have Aru and Marie Poppo for star hoarding.

Anonymous 03/27/24 (Wed) 06:39:58 No.122226

>>122224
Don't forget Sugu for PURE BS

Anonymous 03/27/24 (Wed) 06:51:48 No.122231

>>122215
>old characters
*base game characters

>>122226
Sugu is just probability. If you crunched the numbers, you'd have seen she was the character most likely to win in the long run. Her victories just leave a mark because her results are almost always either winning big or losing big, which is what makes her fun to play.

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/qa/ works on the /qa/ mansion Anonymous 01/28/23 (Sat) 17:54:57 No.103053 [Reply]

https://www.gameroomcity.com/products/full-sized-3-sided-cocktail-table-arcade-game-with-1-162-classic-golden-age-midway-games-and-trackball

Gonna get one of these for the /qa/ mansion it'll be boson. What are you guys contributing?

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Anonymous 11/13/23 (Mon) 00:13:47 No.116027

>>115510
That's gonna be a lot of dust.

Anonymous 11/13/23 (Mon) 00:34:37 No.116028

>>116026
I hope she's strong enough to put the kimo posters in line.

Anonymous 11/13/23 (Mon) 00:39:44 No.116029

>>116027
More than dust the main issue will be getting them all to be friends. Someone's gonna have to do the research.

Anonymous 03/26/24 (Tue) 02:52:16 No.122176

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Seems like there are quite a few posters here who drives so a dedicated itasha parking lot might be a good idea.

Anonymous 03/26/24 (Tue) 05:18:30 No.122177

>>122176
I'd want some vespas. Ever since FLCL I wanted to try one of those...

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Anonymous 10/24/23 (Tue) 02:58:43 No.115444 [Reply]

Does it upset you when characters you like are mistreated in doujinshi? How much do you sympathize with them and how invested do you need to be before it starts bothering you?

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Anonymous 03/25/24 (Mon) 21:11:55 No.122166

>Love tardsperming to boobhus
And what do they think of that?

Anonymous 03/25/24 (Mon) 22:18:31 No.122169

>>122164
But if you only lewd series you aren't familiar with or don't enjoy, you only add to the mass of surface level horniness. You should strive to put affection and understanding into your lewdposting.

Anonymous 03/25/24 (Mon) 22:23:09 No.122170

>>115444
>Does it upset you when characters you like are mistreated in doujinshi?
I don't dislike it. Sometimes I'm in the mood to see a girl be tormented. When you like a girl, you want to see all sides of her, not just when she's happy.

Anonymous 03/25/24 (Mon) 22:58:20 No.122171

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>>122170

Anonymous 03/25/24 (Mon) 23:05:06 No.122172

>>122169
>you only add to the mass of surface level horniness
True, but the breadth of well-informed stuff vs generic lewd is so wide that I think it's unreasonable to disregard the latter. Affectionate + in-character sex is great. But sometimes a wank is just a wank, and good art of some random girl you stumbled across will suffice.
That's why original characters are best.

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fighting games Anonymous 01/12/24 (Fri) 10:15:23 No.118568 [Reply]

Anything fighting games can go here.
Going to post here whenever I'm up for some games, feel free do to the same if you want.

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Scarlet Ibis 01/26/24 (Fri) 03:43:44 No.119055

Also I forgot to include the audio in the recording feed so that was the biggest issue with clakclakclqk

Anonymous 03/24/24 (Sun) 07:29:51 No.122076

Just bought Uni2 and GBVSR. Open to playing w/ anyone. I also have MBTL and Melty AACC if anyone wants to play.

Anonymous 03/24/24 (Sun) 08:11:40 No.122078

>>122076
Haven't been doing much of anything recently so I kind off fell off as far as fighting games go. The one I'd want to play the most would be soku probably but I have all the ones you mentioned too and wouldn't mind playing any of them.
Organizing it in a thread seems like a pain, you can add me on steam if you want to play. Friend code is 78442473, never used it before but it should work I think.

Anonymous 03/24/24 (Sun) 08:46:08 No.122081

>>122078
I can also play Soku though I'm far from what you'd consider good at the game. Though I'm always down to play against people better than me. If anything I'm usually worried if I'm wasting people's time by being worse. Sent an invite btw but it's a tad too late for me rn to play games.

Anonymous 03/24/24 (Sun) 09:38:42 No.122085

>>122081
I'm new to soku myself and it's pretty different from other fighting games I played. As far as skill gap goes it's fine for me either way.

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꓄ꂦ꓄ꍏ꒒ ꉣꀤꌗꌗ ꀸꍟꍏ꓄ꃅ Anonymous 03/02/24 (Sat) 07:49:51 No.120591 [Reply]

Your board is cordially invited to piss in a SOKUNIGGER TOURNAMENT. Enter to compete for glory for yourself and your board.

TOURNAMENT STARTS AT MARCH 23RD, 8PM UTC https://time.is/ UTC https://prolikewoah.com/t/20240323T20

MAIN THREAD: https://zzzchan.xyz/japan/thread/11497.html
BRACKETS LINK: https://challonge.com/ SOKUAWAKENING
SIGN UP FOR THE TOURNEY HERE: https://challonge.com/tournaments/signup/KS4EWGAMZL#/signup/r6sdsoi3ztc
STREAM LINK (when the tourney starts): https://cytu.be/r/touhourney

For those that do not want to register manually, post the name that you are signing up with in the main thread. It will be added to the brackets.

Hisoutensoku is an expansion to Touhou 10.5 SWR and is a multiplayer fighting game made by Tasofro with ZUN's approval. It's easy to learn, hard to master battle system makes for fun and fast paced matches with counterhits often launching girls across the screen. Very fast when played right. As a P2P game, game hosts must forward ports in order to play it or use specific workarounds.

DOWNLOAD LINKS:

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Anonymous 03/23/24 (Sat) 20:02:53 No.122055

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PRESTREAM STARTS NOW

https://cytu.be/r/touhourney

Please enjoy the prestream. Tournament starts in approximately 1 hour. We apologize for the delay - and hope you have fun playing!

Anonymous 03/23/24 (Sat) 20:22:29 No.122057

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So you have something like a twitch stream feeding into cytube? That's really cool.

Anonymous 03/24/24 (Sun) 00:54:20 No.122062

FINALS

Anonymous 03/24/24 (Sun) 01:11:36 No.122063

Tourney's over and Az (Sakuya) won! Congratulations!

Consider practicing more on our board!

Anonymous 03/24/24 (Sun) 01:18:14 No.122065

>>122063
Hooray! But I suck at fighting games!

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Anonymous 03/05/24 (Tue) 02:08:55 No.120657 [Reply]

Do you think this will have a chilling effect on emulation?

>Nintendo wins $2.4M in Switch emulator lawsuit, Yuzu to shut down

>Makers of Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu owe Nintendo $2.4 million after reaching a settlement with the Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom developer, following a lawsuit over the open-source emulator just last week. Both Nintendo and Tropic Haze, the company behind Yuzu, filed for a final judgment and permanent injunction on Monday, according to court documents, after Nintendo accused the Yuzu makers of copyright infringement, circumvention of Nintendo’s Switch protections, and selling those circumvention technologies as Yuzu, among other things.

https://www.polygon.com/24090351/nintendo-2-4-million-yuzu-switch-emulator-settlement-lawsuit

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Anonymous 03/07/24 (Thu) 19:41:35 No.120805

Isn't it more likely to just have future emu devs act more like Monero devs?

Anonymous 03/08/24 (Fri) 03:19:18 No.120850

>>120692
>>120693
With that attitude you might as well be yourself on the spot.

The sort of doom-and-gloom extreme pessimism you espouse in your post is very easy to fall into; it happens to me all the time. But at the end of the day, it's simply not a constructive mindset to have. Nothing is accomplished by worrying about things that you have no control over, even when they are worrisome.

Miku 03/09/24 (Sat) 05:44:54 No.121246

>>120850
>The sort of doom-and-gloom extreme pessimism you espouse in your post is very easy to fall into; it happens to me all the time. But at the end of the day, it's simply not a constructive mindset to have.
If everything is on fire sitting in the middle of the room and thinking "this is fine" gets you nowhere.
>Nothing is accomplished by worrying about things that you have no control over, even when they are worrisome.
That's the thing though. Up until a few years ago I did have some control. It has been taken away from me and everyone else because we've been kicked out and excluded from a community we started and built. All in the name of control.

You're advocating that we do nothing and don't fight back against this. Well if that's your stance you should be overjoyed. Since most people have decided to quit and there is less and less original content coming out of every community each year. This is fine for people that don't mine being datamined and getting recycled content. For the rest of us it's a huge problem.

>>120706
>Why do devs do this?
Because that data is the most valuable data on the planet. Since you can sell it off to the highest bidder. It's the same reason why every website embeds google: They pay you for the data.

Miku 03/09/24 (Sat) 21:45:13 No.121268

>>121246
>If everything is on fire sitting in the middle of the room and thinking "this is fine" gets you nowhere.
That's not what I'm suggesting at all, although I could totally see how you got that from my post. Sorry for the lapse in communication.

I was trying to say is that you need to calm down and think about the situation to the degree that your actions can have tangible outcomes. Using myself as an example, I'm very pro-privacy and anti-censorship, so I use and advocate for things that improve both. For example, I use Tor for every website I can, and I tell others that they should too. I'm deeply afraid of attempts to reduce my privacy and access to information, but it does no good to think about a theoretical future where I have none beyond the extent to which it impacts my current course of action.

It's the difference between seeing fire and saying "the whole building is going to be on fire soon we're all gonna die!" and "I should grab the fire extinguisher".

Anonymous 03/23/24 (Sat) 05:11:08 No.122035

Hmm...
>Collateral damage
>In addition to Yuzu, the emulation scene lost these in a single week:
>The Citra emulator for Nintendo 3DS is gone
>The Pizza Boy emulators for Nintendo Game Boy Advance and Game Boy Color are gone
>The Drastic emulator for Nintendo DS is free for now and will be removed
>The lead developer of Yuzu and Citra has stepped away from emulation
>The lead developer of Strato, a Switch emulator, has stepped away from emulation
>Dynarmic, used to speed up various emulators including Yuzu, has abruptly ended development
>One contributor on Ryujinx, a Switch emulator, has stepped away from the project
>AetherSX2, a PS2 emulator, is finally gone (mostly unrelated; development was suspended a year ago)

https://www.theverge.com/24098640/nintendo-emulator-yuzu-lawsuit-switch-aftermath

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Anonymous 04/03/22 (Sun) 02:37:02 No.87121 [Reply]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRGdEBBKA-M

What are /qa/'s favorite scores for anime and such? Are they mostly comprised of scores for older series or has anything recent really drawn your attention and favor as well? Or, do you even notice the soundtrack while watching?

Also I don't mean an anime with say 1 good track throughout the whole thing with the rest forgettable, but one where the music as a whole is good.

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Anonymous 02/09/24 (Fri) 01:58:10 No.119560

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Anonymous 02/12/24 (Mon) 00:25:43 No.119671

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(bleh, reposting with fixed links hopefully)
Today is a sports day apparently, so how about some Dodgeball? Technos Japan had some truly amazing soundtracks on the NES and this game is part of the Kunio-kun series of games that had various localized names in the West. River City Ransom, Super Dodgeball, Crash and the Boys, etc.
Some of the songs borrow from known music (like the USSR theme here) while others are original as far as anyone knows.

Super Dodgeball:
USA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xi-6X7tmM4
USSR (yes it's that old) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bxqh18h7J5A
Clone team (have to beat the game without deaths until that point from what I remember): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBqXwm3MGm0
2Player Versus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_2xFCHz-wE

The clone team theme really highlights how special these games were. It has THREE different parts which was quite remarkable for a NES theme, or even today's VGM really. These themes really get you excited.

Of course if you would know any Technos Japan theme it would be this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoJ7YFUotTA
Actually, screw it LET'S LISTEN TO SOME DOUBLE DRAGON! There's no way this stuff hasn't been hugely influential to video game music for being so early and yet so elaborate and catchy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BN3g5OzgUI (this one is interesting for having what is basically a guitar solo)
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Anonymous 02/17/24 (Sat) 04:55:06 No.119930

Of course the Atelier series can't be ignored. I have dozens of their soundtracks and it's a fantastic mix of various styles with lots of celtic flair. Tons of piano stuff, tons of vocal stuff, and lots and lots of special albums. Atelier really has a magical, comforting feel to it and its soundtracks contributed greatly to it. Lots of great, relaxing instrumentals for gathering and towns, but hectic, energetic battle themes as well. Perhaps appropriately the music works really well in the background when you're working on stuff like drawing or whatever.
Most people have only played the Arland trilogy since it's widely seen as the highlight, but they're missing out on a lot of other stuff. I know I've talked about Atelier music before, but strangely none of it was in this thread.

I think my favorite song is still Atelier Rorona's... Atelier Rorona. I feel like I've spent at least a combined total of 30 hours listening to it.

Anonymous 03/22/24 (Fri) 04:47:30 No.121909

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Since someone mentioned Mitsuda in another /qa/ thread I'll link my favorite known soundtracks of his. (I don't listen to VGM without playing the game first)
I'll pick a few songs from each one if you don't have the willingness to listen to them all in order. I still have my old burned CDs of Xenogears and Chrono Cross. Ah, those were the days...

Chrono Cross:
Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40BZyMdDG4s&list=OLAK5uy_m0OQNm22GZz8ZKeymSPrtVBll9ykcwBWY&index=1
Great overworld track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVNkROZ0k2Y
Amazing dungeon theme. The part at 1:02 is so goooood: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9o68dG1INZA
;_; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtvKTCVC93E
Possibly the best ending credits theme of any PSX RPG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3a_iTwQIi4

Xenogears (some of these songs have updated names with translations and it's hard for me to accept them after 20 years...)
Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR1NcGdLgmg&list=PLAhS3AgXczdcpqZ8w5oty5hEoMu9xvcXv&index=2
One of the 'dramatic stuff is happening' songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfxaDEW4VuU
One of the 'mysterious' themes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvtS3AEW3zw
Hard to find a better BELIEVE IN YOURSELF AND DO YOUR BEST! theme: https://Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

Anonymous 03/22/24 (Fri) 05:48:57 No.121910

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>>121909
Budgets increased and Mitsuda has an orchestra for these two. Although it's arguable that he shouldn't have for Xenosaga because of how badly they apparently did their finances and it was reduced to a trilogy instead of 6 or more games. They actually used the London Philharmonic for Xenosaga which is probably very expensive. Soul Sacrifice is kind of weird because it had a second release with DLC on it, like a 'final edition' kind of thing and it had new songs. I think Soul Sacrifice in particular has an extremely atmosphereic theme that goes with its fascinating story elements tied to book pages. I've talked about it before on kissu, but it was years ago.

Xenosaga
playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mawsXOEbne4&list=PL75103D71E579CE86
;_; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVG0bCOpWxI
Bad guys need a good theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlSertOUaZ4
Specific bad guy needs an even better theme (LOVE the opera singing in this): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlmQiHClfko
People compare this to June Mermaid linked in the previous post under Xenogears: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzVA4tDyVXk
I think this was dream sequence stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_2pKh5KiCk

Soul Sacrifice:
Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GMTKh2xNrM&list=PLm5gVPO9H5ouAyDEGmn6iNTaADuQZW59N
Sortiara ;_; https://www.Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

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Anonymous 03/21/24 (Thu) 00:48:00 No.121868 [Reply]

Something I've noticed of more serious otome/action-bishojo series is that they always try to upend society and replace the status quo with the politics and ideology that best suit them and their ideals. Homura, Utena, Dork, Euphie, Nefertima all act in similar ways to oppose the avatars of God(or God directly) who stand against them. Quite reminiscent of the Western media that conveys a similar concept of eroding status quo in favour of a rational society, except unlike in the West it's not done from a perspective of the moral choice and group harmony but pushes a more logical idea that directly criticizes the motives of those antagonistic of the protagonist.

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Anonymous 03/21/24 (Thu) 05:55:12 No.121872

>>121868
>perspective of the moral choice
>a more logical idea
In "Western Thought", there is an assumption that the the logical or Truth is inherently moral. So this is actually a moral choice to the Westerner, just one that he isn't always conscious of. For example, why is Hypocrisy bad? "Directly [criticizing] the motives of those antagonistic of the protagonist" usually means pointing out the logical fallacies or the hypocrisy within the motivations of the antagonist. But why is this bad? What meaning is there in this criticism and why should the antagonist care about it? The answer is that Truth and logic are moral judgements that are presupposed. In a more power centric moral framework, Truth and logic are just tools to use against others in the pursuit of power that enforces the antagonist's will. Here being a hypocrite isn't immoral, so long as it's done in service of enforcing one's will.

Anonymous 03/21/24 (Thu) 07:10:44 No.121876

Eh, I think that in Dork's case she's trying to solve a shallower issue that just affects her personally. While it's true that in her world there's prejudice against black people like her, it's not analogous to our world's prejudice where black people stood at the bottom of the social ladder due to slavery. Her world's prejudice is much more similar to this world's historic prejudice against g*ngers, which didn't need great societal upheavals to stop.

Anonymous 03/21/24 (Thu) 08:36:39 No.121880

Why do those with power use their power to alter the world in a way that suits them? I don't understand. Why can't they just be polite and avoid sticking out?

Seriously though. I fail to see the merit of this perspective.
The question of what kinds of problems they set out to fix, and what values the authors are (inadvertently) weaving into the frameworks of their stories feels like a more promising line of thought.

Anonymous 03/21/24 (Thu) 12:33:39 No.121883

Dorkness is doing it to mostly benefit herself, though

Anonymous 03/21/24 (Thu) 12:48:13 No.121884

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>>121880
>Why do those with power use their power to alter the world in a way that suits them? I don't understand. Why can't they just be polite and avoid sticking out?
This is literally what Dork wants; a quiet life. I think OP misunderstood her character a bit because she doesn't fit into this ideal he's talking about at all. She doesn't want to change the game, just defeat the Demon Lord if necessary. In real life she was basically the "I NEED MORE POWER" Vergil archetype.

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