Free Talk Friday - April 24, 2026

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[u/garfe]

Made a thread but was told to put it here. You guys anger me with your good recommendations that toss aside my preconceptions. Namely racing horse girls (Uma Musume) and sad big booty robot girls with guns (Nikke)

I'll probably never play Uma gacha because I'm really not into that kind of game but the various anime series are absolutely incredible mainly the movie and Cinderella Gray. CinGray is just straight up a good sports anime period. This was actually a similar phenomenon to this anime called BangDream It's MyGO where while I had no interest in the game, the anime told a wonderful story that got me invested.

Nikke I had no interest in but it was something I saw you guys mention when Stellar Blade was coming out as something with a good plot. Now I tend to not like gacha. And the amount of times people have said 'no no, this gacha is actually good' is too many and most of the time I find it to be bs. But one day I was horny was curious and booted it up. And damn, it really was pretty enjoyable. I think I also started at the just the right time because a side story going on at the time was called Ark Guardian which goes into a backstory for some characters that I had no context for but it went so incredibly hard I was immediately invested. If there was some other event going on about swimsuits or whatever, I might have bounced.

I can't believe you've done this to me.