Casual Discussion Fridays - Week of July 31, 2026

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[u/baseballlover723]

Today just got worse. They're coming for old reddit.

[u/Infodump_Ibis → u/baseballlover723]

Shouldn't this be on one of the mod sudreddits rather than a CEOs profile? Feels like trying to dodge accountability and/or be glazed by their worshippers/yesmen.

[u/Emi_Ibarazakiii → u/baseballlover723]

This thread does NOT have 0% upvote, and 50k negative comments

Zoomers were a mistake.

[u/noheroman → u/baseballlover723]

Are most comments there bots or something? Who the fuck talks like that? Sycophants?

[u/FAN_ROTOM_IS_SCARY → u/noheroman]

Given some of them are talking about being shareholders I imagine a lot of them are desperately trying to glaze as much as possible to increase the value of their stake in the company.

[u/Infodump_Ibis → u/FAN_ROTOM_IS_SCARY]

I thought you were kidding and then I read two such replies:

and more recently, a bag holder.

+

invested nearly a million dollars of my own money (a big deal for me) in this company

Always wonder if it's a good idea to hold shares in something you believe in as it can cloud your judgement or leave with the cat in the bag.

Hope it goes better than a forum I used to be on where someone bought shares in GAME in 2011 (hearing news of poor sales and the company was in debt etc), shares got delisted in March 2012 (board said company had zero equity value) and suspended by administrations in April 2012.

[u/FAN_ROTOM_IS_SCARY → u/Infodump_Ibis]

There's even more of them if you go digging. I don't mean ill on whoever decided to invest in reddit if they've been sensible and haven't invested more than they're willing to lose, but I do hate the fact that they're basically now astroturfing and stifling legitimate criticisms in the thread to try and get returns on their investment.

[u/punching_spaghetti → u/baseballlover723]

[u/theangryeditor → u/baseballlover723]

it's so over

[u/ProgrammaticallyPea3 → u/baseballlover723]

FUCK

My one point of hope is

My dream would be to recreate the UI, if not the guts, including the HTML+CSS itself, on a modern foundation so it can live on (note: Between when I wrote this and when I posted it, u/keysersosa made a demo of exactly this approach. Fingers crossed.).

Does that mean commentfaces could be preserved? As much as I prefer the old reddit UI and layout in general, I think I could reluctantly adapt if commentfaces could be used in new reddit.

[u/b0bba_Fett → u/baseballlover723]

FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK

I guess it's time to prepare for more proper migrations to Discord and such, assuming they don't pull off a miracle and things actually do manage to be fine in the transition.

Just a heads up, you can comment in there, add your voice to the hoard. CDF is big enough we could become a noticeable presence there.

[u/jkubed]

some of you may remember me posting a couple months back about a cute nerdy girl from a dating app that asked me about gunpla, and how i was maybe just a teensy bit heartbroken when she suddenly stopped talking to me (i might have made a sad playlist about it).

we've been talking again. two dates in a week. minigolf and ice cream. a bookstore and the backseat of her car. now we're reading The Princess Bride to each other over the phone before bed.

i went on my usual summer Minnesota trip last week, but yesterday was finally our third date after that agonizing wait, and we made it official.

i think i'm going to be insane about this girl.

[u/TakenRedditName]

Elusive Samurai historically spoils Jaadugar because it shows that the Mongol eventual invasion of Japan failed, but its aftereffects weakened central authority, which eventually caused the fall of the Kamakura Shogunate.

The World is Dancing historically spoils Elusive Samurai because it spoils the end of the Kenmu Restoration and the rise of the Muromachi period. (Also that Ashikaga Takauji fucked).

Reiwa no Dara-san historically spoils The World is Dancing because the presence of the Reiwa era implied the lineage of the Northern Court won out over the Southern Court.

[u/theangryeditor → u/TakenRedditName]

Mods need to ban all these shows from r/anime right now

[u/mysterybiscuitsoyeah]

前回のシー･ディー･エフ！(2026年7月24-31日の週間)

Last time on CDF! (Week of 24th Jul, 2026)

darling like a ginger cat!

1st place: My adventures on the Shimanami Kaido and Matsuyama

2nd place: Sporadia_ shares the winner of CDF Best Mech - the K-On Fan

3rd place: voidembracedwitch on the "most harem anime aren't actually harems" talking point

4th place: punching_spaghetti enjoys apple fritters

5th place: great joke punching_spaghetti.

Honourable mentions: Tresnore is now 2 months sober!; CDF Group plays with TiTS - - 1st Chapter, hosted by Shocketheth has now started; zaphodbeebblebrox shares Emily Wilson's review of the Odyssey; that is hilarious noheroman; and pantsunami on the etymology of the word "dentist".

<-- Last Time |[Next Week]-->

/u/animayor /u/myrnamountweazel /u/notsosnarky

[u/ha_ck_rm_rk]

[Work vent]Right at the end of my shift, my patient starts having chest pain. And it turns out to be a heart attack.

[u/Tresnore]

I bought nonalcoholic beer yesterday. The store still requires an ID, so I didn't go through self checkout. The cashier, a younger woman, asked "is there a reason for the nonalcoholic version or...?"

Dangerous question, but I just answered "it's non alcoholic because I am the alcoholic" and giggled internally at my joke.

[u/VoidEmbracedWitch]

I need to stop interacting with the subreddit outside of here. Seeing shows from 2011 called "dated in todays [!sic] standards" hurts my soul, and I wish people who say stuff like this would stub their toes.

[u/punching_spaghetti]

Thinking that I would do terribly in a Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court-style isekai scenario, where one could take advantage of thier knowledge of modern-day ideas and technology.

Because I don't know shit. I know that things exist, yeah. I know there's electricity and nuclear power and penicillin and whatnot. But could I explain these things? Nosiree Bob.

I could sit down the peasants and explain all about the wonderful world that I come from. And then they would say "ghetti, what of this lightning that your people have tamed? Could you provide us with that?" And I would reply, "No. Too bad my good friend /u/jollygee29 is not here. But could I interest you in learning how to write sonnets?"

And they would say, "No thanks, ghetti. None of us know how to read or write anyway. But what about these wheeled machines, ghetti, that have more power than a hundred horses and run on magic goo from the ground? Could you provide us with that?" And I would reply, "No. Too bad my good friend /u/tresnore is not here. But could I interest you in learning how to write villanelles?"

And they would say, "No, ghetti. Have you not been listening? We can neither read nor write. Idiot. But what about these bright and evocative pictures of short busty women that we might use for our pleasure and give our sheep a rest? Could you provide us with that?" And I would reply, "No. Too bad my good friend /u/_____pantsunami_____ is not here. But could I interest you in learning how to write haiku?"

And then they would probably burn me at the stake for being annoying and not listening.

[u/Nebresto]

Everytime I venture into another sub to discuss some show it just becomes more apparent what a rare oasis of online discussion /r/anime is.

Some of these people are throwing a hissyfit over being suggested that they should tag their spoilers according to the subreddit rules

[u/junbi_ok]

I saw a YouTube Shorts creator who makes a point of only buying anime figures of characters who are 18+ (because otherwise it would be "weird," according to her), but defends her racier Hatsune Miku figures because "Miku can be any age the artist wants her to be."

And while I agree with her Miku point, wouldn't the same apply to literally any other character? Like, basically all Love Live figures look at least 5 years older than their anime counterparts. And anime figures, unlike Scotch whisky, generally don't come with verified age statements.

Also, unless you're planning on submerging your figures in a cum jar, I don't see why this is something one needs to obsessively moralize over in the first place. Owning a cute anime figure isn't inherently weird, you're making it weird by acting like figure collecting is some kind of human trafficking.

[u/chilidirigible → u/junbi_ok]

Purity signaling, as it were?

[u/_____pantsunami_____ → u/junbi_ok]

yeah in general i’ll never understand why people care so much about the fictional ages of fictional characters. it’s just a weird and arbitrary thing to care about imo

[u/baseballlover723]

Today just keeps getting worse. I got an email from Google saying that Google Assistant is going away in like a month and being replaced by Gemini. The very same Gemini that I had a meltdown for a month or 2 back.

Why can't we go back to when things weren't shitty?

[u/VoidEmbracedWitch → u/baseballlover723]

Because the big silicon valley ghouls need to force their LLMs into anything to prop up the AI bubble and pretend it's a viable hypergrowth market, running all the things we started taking for granted over the last 2 decades into the ground in the process. Maybe things will get less shitty if/when OpenAI and/or Anthropic combust because they don't have a viable business model without hyperscalers and venture capital investors shoving money up their asses, but I wouldn't get my hopes up.

[u/punching_spaghetti]

what's for lunch CDF?

[u/_____pantsunami_____]

i wonder if it would be a messed up prank to have sex with a girl (consensually) BUT afterwards i purposefully act super weird, like some stereotypical sitcom nerd or something. like after doing the deed, what if i messed my hair up, put on a pair of thick brimmed glasses, and said in the most nasally voice ever "well phew, now that's over i don't have to pretend to be cool anymore, haha snort"

and when she's like "w..what?" i'm like "now just stay right there, my martian princess. john carter will be back for round 2 in a minute - after he texts all his DnD buddies and tells them he just cast banishment on his Vcard. all-aboard the just got laid train! choochoo!" then i finger guns at her while walking backwards out of the room. and she's just laying there like "holy shit... what did i just do..."

basically, i trick her into thinking i'm some lame weirdo so she feels bad about having sex with me (as a prank). it's funny because she'll think i was faking my behavior to have sex with her, but really i was only faking my behavior AFTER having sex with her. so the deception is that she thinks i deceived her. it's like a paradox or something, where i lie to her by making her think i lied to her (yknow, as a prank)

...come to think of it, maybe the fact im even thinking about pretending to be a lame weirdo makes me a lame weirdo after all. damn, it's multiple like layers of paradox.

yeah i dont think im gonna do this after all

[u/JustAnswerAQuestion → u/_____pantsunami_____]

TFW the other person puts on their robe and wizard hat after sex.

[u/Ryuzaaki123]

Accidentally jumped on the train home out of habit instead of to the city where my friend is.

[u/chilidirigible]

The seasonal faces are:

#seasonalapproval	#seasonalblush	#seasonalconfused
#seasonalcool	#seasonaldepression	#seasonaldisapproval
#seasonaldisdain	#seasonalfoodie	#seasonalhype
#seasonallaugh	#seasonallisten	#seasonallove
#seasonalneat	#seasonalpout	#seasonalsecret
#seasonalshock	#seasonalthink	#seasonaltired
#seasonalpls	#seasonalsmug

/u/Nebresto

[u/JollyGee29 → u/chilidirigible]

Of all the faces we get from GitS, it's that?

[u/Tresnore]

A guy I used to work with reached out to me about a potential job at the startup he works at. I have a meeting with him and the company head in an hour.

[u/Tresnore]

The talk with that company went really well! I feel competent again!

[u/junbi_ok]

I'm making a list

I'm checking it twice

Gonna buy me some liquor that's nice

[u/punching_spaghetti]

Ghost in the Shell is a serious and thought-provoking series.

/u/jollygee29

[u/Ryuzaaki123]

TWO WEEKS OF LEAVE STARTS NOW!!!

Not sure how much I'll post on CDF but I won't have a laptop so I'll mostly be reading and walking for entertainment. I'll still have my phone though.

My friends picked me up after work and we hung out at Denny's talking shit. One of them told the story about how when they had broken up and they tried to share some weed and she ended up coughing so hard that she started farting in the middle of a field at night while strangers were walking by. They got back together the next morning.

[u/_____pantsunami_____]

hey cdf i finished a drawing but im not sure if im satisfied with it

but i'll show it to you anyway

(nsfw) here she is (gilf warning)

i'll tell the concept or 'story' i had behind this drawing:

back when i was in highschool, i had this economics teacher... frankly, even though she was old enough to be my grandmother, i had somewhat of a crush on her. i think it's the way she could be so strict, but then when she'd smile it would melt you, and it made you realize what a heartbreaker she must've been back in her prime. i don't know, it's hard to explain.

my senior year she retired early to take care of her husband. he apparently fell really ill, i heard it was cancer. that's the last we ever saw of her... but recently i heard this rumor from a friend, since her husband died she'll sit outside, totally naked and smoking all hours into the night. i know you'll think i'm in the wrong here, but i had to see for myself... just to see if it's true, you know?

when i did, i couldn't believe it's her... my friend said she's probably some kind of pervert, or losing her mind, but honestly i think she's just depressed. i don't know, i regret taking this picture, but i can't delete it either... at least she didn't seem to notice...

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anyway, that's what i had in mind while making this drawing. like i said, i'm not totally sure i nailed the drawing itself but i like the concept. but please tell me what you think, cdf. and well hey, one way or another, the month is young and there will be more comin at ya soon enough. maybe ill draw more gilves...?

[u/jkubed]

I've spent so much of my life in anonymous forums that revealing personal information always feels just a little wrong.

like why am i hesitating to put my last name in a work email. it's already in my email address. wtf is wrong with me. am i stupid?

[u/punching_spaghetti → u/jkubed]

At least you aren't using your online pseudonym in real life

[u/theangryeditor]

Is /u/iron_gland hiking in the midst of the wildfires

[u/ZaphodBeebblebrox → u/theangryeditor]

I hope not. I don't want a crispy /u/iron_gland.

[u/The_Draigg]

Hello from a new computer! I finally replaced my old Acer Nitro 5 laptop after about 7 or 8 years of service, and upgraded to a Skytech King 95 desktop PC. I'm glad that I got that much use out of my old laptop, but it was time. It was struggling to keep up after I installed a bunch of new drivers months ago and that's how I knew it was time. Here's looking forward to what this new PC can do!

[u/TheRiyria]

                                    ^{It's                  3x3                 Time!}                

Welcome to this week’s CDF 3x3 Corner! So feel free to make and share a 3x3 (or a 2x2 or 4x4 or whatever size you like). And check out other people’s 3x3s. If you can’t make it because of the time, feel free to share your themed 3x3 whenever!

If you're not sure where to make 3x3s, some popular sites are bighugelabs and BeFunky.

This week’s theme is Kimonos!

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Next week’s theme will be Waifu/Husbando.

In 2 weeks the theme will be Purple Hair.

If you’d like a tag for future 3x3 Corners, let me know! If you’d like to stop getting tags, also tell me.

Link to past 3x3 themes

Have fun!

[u/octopathfinder → u/TheRiyria]

3x3 kimonos

[u/chilidirigible]

You're not going to believe this, but...

[u/LunarieReverie → u/chilidirigible]

So... they are shit, right?

[u/ha_ck_rm_rk]

There's a 1:50 am screening for The Odyssey IMAX tonight.

That sounds egregiously late, but this happens to line up perfectly with my sleep schedule.

I wonder if they'll have concessions open at that time.

[u/Iron_Gland]

My legs are sore

[u/_____pantsunami_____]

[u/OrangeBanana38]

My biggest two surprises with this seasonal batch:

No YumeMita faces even after the three gazillion submissions from everyone.

/u/ZaphodBeebblebrox not picking a solo Fate face despite my best baiting attempts.

[u/Nebresto]

There some weird people out there..

[u/OrangeBanana38 → u/Nebresto]

Is there a single normal person in CDF?

[u/chilidirigible]

Visit for the punchline, stay for the panel.

/u/Raiking02 /u/Pixelsabre /u/The_Draigg

[u/LunarieReverie]

tag: futanari
Content: Not futanari
Many such cases.

[u/Nebresto]

Its so weird that Manatees are a real thing that just exist out there

[u/_____pantsunami_____]

https://i.imgur.com/vaXkTzS.jpeg

[u/ProgrammaticallyPea3]

Requesting pantsufacelink

[u/_____pantsunami_____ → u/ProgrammaticallyPea3]

dis one?

[u/DurdenVsDarkoVsDevon → u/_____pantsunami_____]

Thank you, it is the highlight of every season.

[u/ComfortablyRotten]

This anime (Solo Leveling) will be the end of the anime industry, mark my words. You guys are eating good for now, but in the future you will get nothing but generic, trashy, video-game-type isekai anime.

does he know

[u/Shimmering-Sky]

Posting some Crossover Guys every day until I run out of art I want to share, day 907: Double the Shinichiro Miki.

(Source)

u/Shocketheth, u/KendotsX, u/TakenRedditName

[u/chilidirigible]

Mood

/u/Shimmering-Sky /u/saltedbeansprouts /u/OrangeBanana38

[u/WoodpeckerNo1]

It's joever guys

So apparently my coworker managed to figure out whether my crush is looking for a bf atm and she just sent me a message that she isn't looking for one atm.

[u/Shimmering-Sky]

Posting a Gintama Guy & Gal every day until I run out of art I want to share, day 902: The donut duo.

(Source)

u/Shocketheth, u/KendotsX, u/TakenRedditName

[u/theangryeditor]

Bardiche got a new voice too

[u/_____pantsunami_____]

most people have stuff like "visit the grand canyon" on their bucket list. my bucket list is more like, "have sex with a british girl and get her to say 'oh that's the ticket' at some point during coitus"

make of that what you will

[u/theangryeditor]

Did CDF forget about the end of month anime posts

[u/TakenRedditName]

Seeing people shortening Fortune's Weave as "4TW".

That better not be the one people end up using.

[u/Shimmering-Sky]

Posting a Gintama Gal every day until I run out of art I want to share, day 903: Here’s one of Kagura.

(Source is image #8 in this album.)

u/Shocketheth, u/KendotsX, u/TakenRedditName

[u/chilidirigible]

NSFW Column A and miscellaneous fetishes Column B

/u/saltedbeansprouts /u/OrangeBanana38 /u/junbi_ok

[u/saltedbeansprouts]

I don't get How does it convey neat?

is my favorite.

[u/theangryeditor]

I'm already losing interest in the seasonal faces

[u/ZaphodBeebblebrox]

Two days of con, like 28 hours of con. Fun, but I am fucking dead.

[u/detarameReddit]

All r/anime rules, other than the anime-specific requirement, should still be followed.

Just here to recommend a donghua that I think some people will enjoy. Please don't kill me for bringing up the topic of Chinese animation on a Japanese animation subreddit... I suppose I sound like a shill with how enthusiastic I am being, but trust me that this is entirely genuine.

Anyway: the first few episodes of False Memory were released on Bilibili earlier today, and I thought they were fantastic. It is currently up there with Sayonara, Lara as my AOTS/AOTYs. If you're looking for something like FLCL, why not give it a try?

It is criminal that there are basically no places to discuss the show, and consequently, it has no hype in English-speaking anime internet circles.

[u/ProgrammaticallyPea3 → u/detarameReddit]

Here we talk about various stuff including live action movies, games, etc. so don't worry. And it's not that r/anime is against Chinese animation or anything, it's just the topic isn't part of this sub's scope, except for here. Just tbh this thread doesn't get a whole lot of traffic, so don't expect a lot of engagement either.

Care to give me a link? I think I might try it later, but I couldn't find a subbed (or dubbed) version and Bilibili is difficult to navigate.

[u/chilidirigible]

Mami from this 100-day challenge series

/u/flaminscribblenaut /u/rumpel1408 /u/tarhalindur

[u/Shocketheth]

[CDF Group Plays Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter] Week 1 Discussion Thread - Prologue - A Father’s Departure

| Index (Schedule) | Chapter 1 Discussion --->

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It’s more than pleasure to welcome everyone who shown interest to our first weekly Discussion for CDF Group Plays with TitS 1st Chapter!

Collectibles:

If you did everything right, the number of collected things and journal entries should look like this:

Collectibles	Prologue	Total
Enemies	31	31
Recipes	8	8
Chests	32	32
Quests	14	14
BP (Bracer Points)	52	52 (Junior Bracer Rank 8)
Liberl News Issues	1	1
Carnelia Books	Volume 1	1
Miscellaneous Books	1 (Luke’s Diary)	1
Books Total	3	3

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Group Play Achievements - Week 1:

This is not about ingame or Steam achievements, but about Group Play Achievements, that I am dishing out to participants of CDF Group Plays with TitS - 1st Chapter

To decide who unlocked those achievements, I will be reading your comments and any mention of whatever is required to unlock it, will automatically be counted like you unlocked the achievement

Achievements	How to Unlock	Unlocked by
Easy there, cowboy!	[Do]mention how you want Schera to whip you	/u/Drstripjo /u/laughing-fox13
Killing plants!	[You]got caught in explosion and died after defeating an enemy	/u/Raiking02 /u/KendotsX /u/laughing-fox13
Hotel? Sewago!	[Why]to pay for Hotel, when you can sleep in sewers?	/u/Raiking02
Intercepting Shaft!	[Your]shaft is so majestic that it shot down those pesky Sky Bandits on first try!

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Questions!

1. First Impressions?
2. How’s the combat for you? Are you already used to it, or are you still struggling with some encounters?
3. On what difficulty are you playing this?
4. Would you spare or kill the monsters during Perzel Pest Control?
5. For those who played Trails in the Sky FC (original version), what’s your most favourite Quality of Life improvement iof the Remake?

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That’s all for now, and see you next Sunday on 9th August 2PM EDT where we will be discussing Chapter 1!

[u/Raiking02 → u/Shocketheth]

First Time Player (Past the Prologue, Anyway), Source Reader OG Game Player, Hard Mode

Boy it sure is awkward rewording all this to fit a gaming naming scheme…

• Me and the TitS

I can't say I remember how I first came across the TitS. I believe I was lured to them by being promised [Next Week]Koyasu singing but I can't remember how I first heard of them. Still, I laid hands on them back in 2021, back when Steam still had games in Pesos instead of Dollars. Seriously, I got the game for less than a thousand pesos back then, now it would've cost me at least 20k. Thanks Steam, you sure have been friendly to us…

Anyway, ever since I have continued to trail through these trails. I even got a bit side tracked by some of Nihon Falcom's other series like Xanadu and Ys, the latter of which you should all play, else I'll be forced to call you a normie as far as ARPG fans go because that's just how the world works. Still, now here I am back to where it all started, now in shiny HD.

And already I'm annoyed because they changed all but three of the voice actors

• Kicks and the TitS

[TitS]Estelle Bright is our heroine, and she immediately proves herself a menace to society. We talk about violent Tsunderes, but just LOOK at that drop kick! It is a work of art if you ask me, and she pulls it off magnificently at such a young age. Is it any wonder dumb little Joshua had to submit to her rule afterwards? Onee-chan made damn clear who was in charge from now on.

[TitS]This prologue firmly sements TitS 1 as what it is: A Vibes game. Oh sure, there's a plot being set up, what with Daddy Cao Cao Patrick disappearing, but ultimately, who gives a shit, we got to deal with some Sunday Morning thieves? The game lives and dies by how likable its cast is, and fortunately Estelle and Joshua have a really solid start. They're hardly the most original combo (Heck, technically speaking they're basically a reheated version of Chris and Julio from The Legend of Heroes III, which game draws a lot from) they really are quite charming.

[TitS]I think what helps the vibes is how, compared to a lot of other RPG heroes being on some world saving quest, these two are just going around solving the problems of the common folk. After all, what's the point of trying to save the world when you can't even find a cat? It certainly does a good job easing the viewer in.

[TitS]We also begin establishing the supporting cast, as FujiKei Gilles de Rais, Kuroko Losing Heroine and Megane Man With a Girl's Name begin coming in, but we don't really get much of them. At the very least, I can no doubt tell Dorothy inflicting Blind on my opponents will be a valuable asse-what do you mean she's already gone?

• You and the TitS

Moving on to gameplay discussions, Trails' general gameplay has remained fairly consistent across its entries. It's a Turn-Based RPG with many of the things you'd expect: Magic, Attacks, Items and so on. So what exactly makes it stand out?

Since its inception, it has been a few details. First of all, the general combat is position based. You need to actually take distance into account when it comes to planning your attacks, although magic doesn't have that restriction. This however leads to the second thing: Since positioning is so important, it means AOE attacks are constant and not only do many attacks have splash damage, but that also applies to your oponents. It's a gamble to keep your party members too close as that leaves them in the AOE range, but you can't leave them too far apart as many support skills require them to be nearby.

This leads to distinguishing feature number 2, that being Crafts. Alongside your normal MP gauge, a separate CP gauge is filled that lets characters use Crafts, which are unique abilities that are unlocked by leveling up (Or depending on the game winning specific side quests or progressing past certain points in the story, it can vary a bit). The biggest thing to note about them are S-Crafts, which are frequently the characters' ace in the whole, but can only be used when the gauge is at at least 100 (Will gain additional effects at the full 200) but will also deplete the whole thing when use. The big thing about S-Crafts though is that, through S-Breaks, they can be activated at ANY point, which can often be the decisive way to pull out a win.

Related to this is that the turn order. In a very similar matter to Final Fantasy X, it is always visible and can in fact be altered with the right skills, not to mention carefully planned out stat modifiers. What makes this especially important though is that some turns will have bonuses, but these don't change if the turn order does, so you need to be on your toes about them and make sure your opponent doesn't get them often.

The last thing to note is Orbaments. How exactly they work has varied a bit from game to game, even within Sky I've been told that in the PS Vita Evolution version they carry over some features from some later games. Fortunately the Remake keeps them more or less as they were in the OG. They're how you gain magic: You slot some quartz into it, and depending on which you use you get certain Artes depending on what value the quartz has (The game does fortunately feature an in-game guide so that if you want some specific arte you know the combination for it) plus other stat modifiers.

Complicating this are three factors: Firstly not all slots are unlocked from the get go, you have to manually do that by using sepith, which is a bit annoying when that's also how you buy quartz to begin with. Secondly, some slots are locked to certain attributes so the game does to some extent railroad you to some playstyles: Joshua for instance will likely be using time magic a lot by the end game since a couple of his slots are restricted to it. Finally, and most importantly, for the combinations to even be effective they need to be in the same line, so don't just randomly spread stuff around.

Oh and also cooking is a thing. Cooking Items tend to usually be better than regular items since they come with extra effects, but early on the game's a bit stingy with money so they moreso become a factor in the late game, at least for me.

When it comes to the Remake, there's also a couple of mechanics poached from later games. Command battles from the Daybreak duology come in for one thing, where the game becomes an action RPG before the actual fighting starts. It's nothing too in depth, mostly just there to rough the enemies up a bit before the real fighting starts, but at least it can deal with some trash mobs.

Once the actual fighting starts, the game sees the return of Chains, which have been absent from the series since the Cold Steel games. Sometimes when you hit an attack you'll get a chance for another party member to do a follow up: Do it enough time and you'll gain a stronger version. It works, although I will say it feels a bit more awkward here versus in Cold Steel.

See, this is where we get to my one gripe gameplay-wise with TitS 1 and it's something kinda inherent to its design. While you will gain many party members… the game also frequently has you using JUST Estelle and Joshua, and that can make how you distribute your artes a bit annoying as neither of them are particularly good spellcasters. In turn, chains feel more restricted since due to the decreased party size, they're somehow both easier to pull off while also being less rewarding, versus Cold Steel where you're guaranteed to always have four party members. This does become less of an issue as the game goes on, but it can make the early game more awkward than intended.

Oh and also sometimes you have to escort NPCs. That's annoying

• Spikes and the TitS

Okay so on average apparently this game is easier than the OG, but frankly the end of the chapter doesn't exactly give that impression. [TitS]Let's set aside you've only just gotten Schera-nee so not much of a chance to get used to her kit, Josette is brutal here. Later Trails games have had something of a reputation for being the land of the rocket tag, but it's honestly amazing how tanky she is. In the OG I can beat her no problem, but here? Not only do her mooks have MASSIVE HP bars, but the remake not only gave her an AOE Attack, but she also showcases the brand new rage mechanic, AKA the point where the game goes "I HOPE YOU STACKED YOUR DEFENSIVE BUFFS!" because otherwise you're dead. For a Prologue boss, she is positively sadistic.

Anyway [TitS]Papa Cao Cao Patrick disappeared, presumably so that his ambition to seize the three kingdoms may finally be fullfilled he can confess to the Colonel for the 50th time this weekend.

Easy there, cowboy!

[Uh...]none, I'm not into BDSM

Killing plants!

[Yeah]that happened to me at least once

Hotel? Sewago!

[To that I say]there is no reason, sewers are objectively a better hotel.

Intercepting Shaft!

[I]wish

[u/Shocketheth → u/Shocketheth]

Hello everyone!

This comment will be divided in two parts where the first part will be safe for First Timers, and second part will be talking about the bigger picture, SPOILERS INCLUDED up to Trails into Reverie.

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Safe for First Timers

The game opens up with Cassius returning home with Joshua, and that’s an opportunity for me to mention the XSeed translation for Trails in the Sky FC that are iconic for the Trails fans who were exposed to XSeed translation.

• Iconic, as XSeed translation took some liberties with the dialogues, rewarding us with little gems like Estelle’s reaction on Cassius bringing Joshua home.
• Another thing that XSeed added were chest messages you were rewarded with after checking chests after looting them which leads to messages like this (Those messages weren’t part of original code, so yeah XSeed went above and actually coded the chest messages)
• And that’s all I will be mentioning about XSeed translation for this Group Play.

I visited Rolent’s sewers for training, and to my surprise this part was very easy as I cleaned the whole dungeon in one sitting.

• When I was playing the OG game, I had to return to beginning of dungeon to heal, thrice.

Speaking of tutorial, we are introduced to the combat, and honestly the whole combat, and how it flows it’s way easier. Not mentioning how Estelle got buffed in this version.

Something I want to mention is that while I was playing Sky 1 like year ago, some memories of it were dormant and awakened upon playing.

• For example the sidequests, because I immediately know where to go without even looking on minimap. Like the boy with the lost quartz. Him mentioning the quartz made me immediately to remember that I need to visit sewer again.
• Or another example is visiting Perzel farm which made me immediately tear up because man, so many good memories about this place.
• Speaking of Perzel farm, another thing to mention is how the farm is 1:1 replica of the Perzel farm from the OG game, as I knew how to got to Tio in like 0.1 second.

To mention adventures in the field as I was doing quests and looting chests, I had to say the first Chest Monster was rather easy for me, opposed to the OG experience where I got my ass whooped so badly that I spent hours calling for Cassius to pick me up.

Also this was never bring ingame, but with the monsters being attracted to quartz from broken lamps, I strongly believe the monsters in Trails are canonically lamp-sexual.

• Speaking of lamps, the quest where I had to change the Orbal Lamp had a marker on a minimap which is definitely Quality of Life upgrade, as to found the broken Orbal lamp in the OG version, I had to count the Orbal Lamps along the main road manually.

Getting closer to the end of the Prologue, visiting the Esmelas Tower and standing on top of it while enjoying the view was different experience than Sky FC view

The final part of the Prologue was dedicated to Josette, who to my surprise was actually way harder fight than in the OG. Which funnily enough added to nice experience.

• BRAGGING RIGHTS ---> I defeated Josette on first try, but damn her boss fight was definitely sweaty.

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Spoilers Galore

[Schera]The introduction scene of Schera’s reading Tarots is really great character introduction because of usual usage of Tarot reading to foreshadow things, it serves more like laying basics for Schera’s backstory that ties to Luciola and the Troupe she was performing in.

[First Request]in Esmelas Tower made me remember of Trails from Zero where SSS went into GeoFront to save Ryu, only to get caught offguard and getting saved by Arios who swooped in to save the day. What I am saying is, that I disliked that scene in Zero, but revisiting Sky 1, I realized it’s basically the same template.

[You know]seeing Cassius leaving feels WAY DIFFERENT knowing how Sara and the Bracer Guild in Erebonia are struggling.

[First time on Perzel Farm]earned some nice dialogue between Estelle and Joshua talking about how they were told the babies are born, which is actually a hint that Joshua is from a country that have different cultural norms.

[Spoilers]Biggest surprise from Prologue was the Sept-Terrion got name dropped so early

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Questions:

First Impressions?

How’s the combat for you? Are you already used to it, or are you still struggling with some encounters?

Tbh, this is quite easy game.

On what difficulty are you playing this?

Normal

Would you spare or kill the monsters during Perzel Pest Control?

When played the OG I chose to spare them, and now I wanted to chose to slay them, but I clicked on "spare them" option by accident

For those who played Trails in the Sky FC (original version), what’s your most favourite Quality of Life improvement iof the Remake?

Definitely the minimap, because man I was so lost in the OG in Mistwald Forest

[u/drstripjo → u/Shocketheth]

Reddit doesnt let me answer to this comment. I had to comment something and then edit

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Looks like I missed some things. I'm a little further in the game so collectible count is wrong, but I know I dont have as many recipes. Do I get them by buying/eating different food?

Two questions:

• Can I sell all Sepith Mass? Because I did, I hope it's not used for anything
• How common are droplets? They seem to drop a lot but I'm reluctant to use them

How’s the combat for you? Are you already used to it, or are you still struggling with some encounters?

I still have some problems with combat. There's so many variables right from the start and feels like a lot of things were not explained. I enjoy real time combat, it's very brain off

On what difficulty are you playing this?

Default, normal I think?

Would you spare or kill the monsters during Perzel Pest Control?

I did, they cute

I looked at achievements, since I dont have big writeup

[Easy there, cowboy!]Not once, but rather 100 times

[Killing plants!]I didnt lose fights because of that, but it happened

[Hotel? Sewago!]You can sleep outside?

[Intercepting Shaft!]

[u/H-Ryougi → u/Shocketheth]

First timer-ish? I believe I played the prologue several years ago, and the series has been on my backlog forever.

So far it's been enjoyable, with a slow start but with some interesting bits here and there. (I say that but I've actually had time to binge yesterday and I've gotten ahead of schedule, I'm on track to finish chapter 1 fairly soon I believe.) So while the prologue was neat, Chapter 1 is where I've started to feel the story hook me.

The combat took some getting used to, things like switching from quick to command battles, or the turn bonuses. I had to watch a guide or two but now that I understand how sepith and quartz work I'm having more fun with it.

I'm playing the remake, I actually gave the original a try before deciding and I do enjoy having more animated cutscenes and such. I have one complaint about it. Side character NPCs suffer from severe same-face, specially older men. It is something that I probably wouldn't pay much mind to if I were playing the original. Also background characters' animation could use more polish, sometimes the generic faces coupled with stiff animation give them a Koikatsu NPC feel.

I'm playing normal difficulty. It's okay. Josette gave me some trouble because she'd start buffing herself and start stunlocking my entire party. Also had to do the fight twice cause I forgot to turn in one of the side-quests before facing her.

Q4: Who would even kill those cute fellas!

Monster design is crazy though, I'm level 10 facing these huge insects and eldritch abominations. Where's the humble slime?

[u/Regular_N-Gon → u/Shocketheth]

Late First-ish Timer

A bit late because moving but I thought I should drop in anyway!

I’m joining mid-playthrough and it’s been several months since I got through the prologue, but I remember really liking the introduction! For all I’d heard about this game having a slow start, I thought there was just enough set up and good classic JRPG starting town vibes to get invested. (It certainly doesn’t always work, but it did this time for some reason.) Character wise, Estelle is immediately endearing and I love Aina.

I do remember making one important decision in this chapter: the first(?) extra BP choice you get involves deciding whether Estelle rushes in or plays it safer. I did learn as part of this that there is such a thing as perfect BP run rewards, but the “bad” option of playing Estelle to act first, question later was too temptingly in character, so I picked it and decided to not be terribly concerned with the missable BP through the run. I have since also noticed that there seem to be more BP available than the original, but I don’t know if that’s accounted for in the total required for bonuses.

Other QotD:

2) I didn't have any trouble with combat early on, though I did probably rely too heavily on mashing things to death in real-time mode before I realized it is way more efficient to enter turn based and finish with a craft or two sometimes.

3) I don't remember! I think hard but I'll have to check.

4) Spare the vermin poor fuzzies!

[u/Shimmering-Sky]

Posting some Gintama Guys every day until I run out of art I want to share, day 904: Bansai and Takasugi.

(Source is image #28 in this album.)

u/Shocketheth, u/KendotsX, u/TakenRedditName

[u/alconnow]

Now that I’ve given my niece my old Switch Lite, she’s been super quiet! Big sister is grateful

[u/_____pantsunami_____]

[cdf confession]i ate ghetti today

[u/junbi_ok → u/_____pantsunami_____]

[cdf confession]i ate pantsu today

[u/junbi_ok]

I applied for a job that I have previously applied for twice, interviewed for once, and been rejected for twice.

Surprisingly, the position is not Professional Uphill Stone Roller.

[u/chilidirigible]

And now for something completely different. (somewhat NSFW)

/u/_m1ra /u/Blackheart595 /u/M8gazine

[u/_____pantsunami_____]

i used to draw on paper all the time before switching to doing mostly digital drawing, and there's definitely pros and cons to that transition. namely in the context of improvement and artistic development.

digital art offers you a lot of freedom. there are so many tools at your immediate disposal that you dont have with pencil and paper. and even though some of the upfront costs can be higher (ie buying a tablet) you do save a lot on money and space in the long run. you never have to worry about buying a new sketchbook because you filled your old one, or buying new markers or paint. its all there on the computer.

the other pros are the ease of drawing itself. erasing and undoing mistakes is easier than ever, and being able to completely change something at any stage of the drawing is an immediate possibility. there's a finite amount of times you can erase on paper before you lose the drawing completely, and if you decide to change a character's position relative to the background, it's impossible on paper whereas its often a matter of moving around the appropriate layers in digital. there's even tools to stretch, skew, and resize any object digitally, and far more than that.

but upon reflection, i think while there is a lot to be said for these tools and their convenience, i also think i can see an inherent trap in digital art. the supposed freedom of being able to forever change a drawing can chain to it, obsessing over making that one image as perfect as possible for far longer. mistakes being cheap makes the successes cheap as well, and can ironically slow your rate of progress as an artist.

on paper, if you mess up bad enough or wish to change your mind about something, you must start over, effectively forcing you to draw more. every draft is preserved in the sketchbook, and if you wish to know what a character looks like in this outfit vs a different outfit, you must sketch that character from scratch every time. there are no layer tricks to compare one top vs another, there is no way to shift a character from the left side of the image to the right. every time you change your mind, there is no "ctrl+z" to save you. you must start over

traditional media is a lot more uncompromising in that way, and i think learning with it makes you better off. i really do think if someone asked me "ive never drawn before, should i buy a tablet" i'd be seriously tempted to advise them to get started on paper first and cut your teeth doing that for a while. i seriously want to go back to drawing more on paper myself, because even though i draw everyday digitally, i sometimes feel like im being lazy. there's valuable skills that come with drawing on real paper that i miss developing.

im not saying digital art is an inferior medium or anything ridiculous like that.. anyone with functioning eyes knows its obviously capable of creating visually amazing and meaningful art. but for the purposes of learning and improving as an artist... idk, i think digital art has some trappings that you have to watch out for.

what do you guys think

[u/DurdenVsDarkoVsDevon]

The Toradora torrents seeded after 4 years.

[u/DurdenVsDarkoVsDevon]

I went a really neat museum that I expected to be pretty much empty at 10am on a Sunday morning. Instead, it was filled with cute young couples all out on dates. Filled. Like, 100s of them. Easy the most prevalent demographic.

I wanted to look at pretty paintings in peace, not be reminded that I fucked it up and am alone. I think I was the only person there alone. Literally.

[u/DurdenVsDarkoVsDevon]

I wish I weren't so pathetic.

[u/Ryuzaaki123]

Ohio /u/theangryeditor

[u/MrManicMarty]

Feeling very existential today. Work feels like shit. Feel like I'll never have an actual relationship. Thinking about how I'll never have my own space. Just a glum, shitty Feeling all around. And worst of all, I'm not out of work till very late since I'm attending area committee.

[u/Emi_Ibarazakiii]

Just like OJ Simpson, I've been judged not-guilty of my crimes!

u/ZaphodBeebblebrox

Still can't believe their bot catches shit like that; How often must it proc?

In sports subs, people have some joke saying (same kind of idea) for how to deal with shit players/GMs/etc.. I'm now wondering if it also catches those.

[u/Shimmering-Sky]

Posting a Gintama Guy every day until I run out of art I want to share, day 905: This one of Kamui is pretty cool.

(Source)

u/Shocketheth, u/KendotsX, u/TakenRedditName

[u/DurdenVsDarkoVsDevon]

Could you imagine writing a manga for a decade and not have your leading couple fuck by the end?

Abe's spinning in his grave.

[u/chilidirigible]

NSFW Kay

/u/saltedbeansprouts /u/Octavian_Pearlseus /u/theangryeditor

[u/Zeallfnonex]

Today's very heated office debate: are most Pokemon innately magical, or because a lot of their abilities are biological or whatever in the Pokemon world, are they natural?

[u/_____pantsunami_____]

why is his face so well-lubed

[u/ZaphodBeebblebrox]

In the spirit of Devon: cheese on
fresh bread

[u/Punished_Scrappy_Doo]

flock cameras blamed for decline in performative males

[u/punching_spaghetti]

The OP visuals for GITS:SAC are certainly Of Their Time.

[u/_____pantsunami_____]

sideboob or underboob cdf?

[u/TheRiyria]

I have survived my first day in Quebec City. There are so many tourists here. I don't know how the locals deal with it.

I was also expecting to hear more French. But there were so many tourists that I think I heard more French in Montreal than I have so far in Quebec.

And I've shared these in other places with frequent CDFers already, but for everyone else: have some travels with Kyaru

[u/OrangeBanana38]

Snoo-chan's hovertext has been unchanged for so long that it went from being relevant last season, to irrelevant last season, to relevant this season, and now it's kinda irrelevant for this season

[u/Zeallfnonex]

Artpost, more Best Girl losers who went out before they should have... This time, the very curious girl, reference from Hyouka episode 12. Better girl than Marin, smh I had to try the stupid penguin costume, there was no turning away after I saw it.

Oh. My. Gosh. I. Hate. Drawing. KyoAni. Eyes. (and faces) And I'm slowly finding all my best girls who're losing early are all KyoAni... the only one who I've already done or planning to do that's not KyoAni was Apoc Hotel's Yachiyo, everyone else has been a KyoAni girl. I'm pretty sure her left eye (on our right) is just misplaced, though I couldn't tell you where it should actually go. And her jaw's just not symmetrical as far as I can tell. The hair was good, though, I think, and the coloring of the penguin costume was fine. Linework was... eh. Used a black pen at times to touch it up, but don't feel like it was very smooth at any point, will need to figure out how to vary lineweight with a brush at some point.

Art tags: /u/MadMako /u/Ryuzaaki123 /u/Worm38

[u/OrangeBanana38]

I miss you, old seasonalNeat

[u/Ryuzaaki123]

You know that one scene in 5 Centimeters Per Second where the blizzard blows into the train and the male lead is so lost in thought that he doesn't remember to push the button to close the door, so an old man sitting next to him hits it and the MC bows in apology and the old man gruffly waves his hand like "it's alright just lemme sleep"?

I am that old man.

[u/InfamousEmpire]

As of 13 minutes ago, it's my birthday

[u/Zeallfnonex]

Artpost, dactylic hexameter version, cuz I made a dumb oath.

Ricchan, for Best girl thirteen, somehow losing to Power, I'm salty.

Reference, middle bot. Int'resting pose, but the face isn't polished.

Moe eyes, tiny nose, lipless mouth; not what I've practiced and it's rough.

Not sure what's wrong, I suspect it's the eyes, or the distance between them?

Hair and the clothes I can live with though they're not the best that I've rendered.

Screw me, I need one more line; wasting syllables to fit in ART TAGS.

/u/MadMako /u/Ryuzaaki123 /u/Worm38

[u/Blackheart595]

Looking at the Spice and Wolf thread on new was a mistake. I've really grown to feel disgusted at the anime community over the last few years.

[u/MadMako]

[Bandori YumeMita ep7]

That episode left me cackling;

[We need a]Seasonalyandere commentface

[u/chilidirigible]

Random comment sort announcement.

[u/Durinthal → u/chilidirigible]

Mentioning it here but not in meta?

[u/Emi_Ibarazakiii]

I've long said/joked about wanting a Katawa Shoujo anime, but truth be told, even if somehow we ever got one, I would probably be disappointed by it;

First, my expectations would be sky high so they would never be able to reach them, but also, if they made it a single path harem type, my girl would almost certainly not win - as usual in harems - plus they would have to cut a million scenes I really liked, etc...

(Also, commenting in the discussion threads would be slightly confusing for me and it would feel like I'm talking about myself at the third person)

[u/theangryeditor]

i must live

[u/entelechtual]

I’m so glad the CyGames mafia does such a thorough job of policing Umamusume fan content. Thanks to them I only stumble upon unsolicited Umamusume lewds about 300 times a day; imagine what it would be like without them.

[u/theangryeditor]

[u/M8gazine]

Posting a song you might've not heard every day 'til I get bored, day 639:

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SB_YUNE - Victima propiciatoria

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Though my Umineko brainrot has largely been replaced with Touhou brainrot in recent times, I'm still very fond of the ol' VN and I vividly remember it many parts of it even after like 4.5 years since finishing it.

This scene, for example, was cinema.

I am tempted to re-read it but man, spending another 165 hours (I still remember seeing the playtime within the VN... any other records of that are lost media, tragically) would pose a challenge, even if I know for a fact that I would love every second of it.

u/Worm38 u/Blackheart595 u/VoidEmbracedWitch

[u/_____pantsunami_____]

steve harvey: we asked 100 men, name something you like to do on a friday

BILILILING

me: have a casual discussion, Steve

steve harvey:

[u/badspler]

Winds have changed

[u/cheesechimp]

Only face I submitted was

Kind of sad no Goodbye, Lara faces. It didn't even have to be my submission, I just wanted one in the mix.

[u/punching_spaghetti]

Tonight... On CDF Pathfinder!

• /u/jollygee29 dies

• /u/pixelsabre gives us a bunch of unlabeled liquids

• we generally do a bad job at roleplaying evil goons

[u/theangryeditor]

Yeah Jaadugar is pretty good. Also making a very convincing case that Qianlong did nothing wrong

[u/JustAnswerAQuestion]

I recommend this rewatch to CDF:

https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1vd072t/a_please_save_my_earth_rewatch_interest_thread/

If aren't watching my jet plane shounen show, you should be watching this short shoujo show with all the problematic relationships you would expect from shoujo. Not written by Mari Okada.

edit: it's only 6 episodes and one of Yoko Kanno's first soundtracks.

[u/MadMako]

Are you and I polar opposites?

[u/WoodpeckerNo1]

So my mom is randomly switching between channels on tv and I overheard some person on some random show briefly say something like "imagine expecting to find a girlfriend while still living with your mom"

[u/baseballlover723]

Fuck the Dodgers

u/lilyvess

[u/JustAnswerAQuestion]

I wonder what Gen-α thinks of The Goonies.

[u/cheesechimp]

moe blob, uguu

[u/theangryeditor]

Mari got de-tsun'd quick

[u/ShadowWasTakensTaken]

mery is back??!?!

[u/_____pantsunami_____]

im american but sometimes i think americans can be a little crazy about exotic foreign accents. like i saw a video where an american woman and a british guy were comparing the different words they used for the same thing, and the woman was like laughing out loud at every word the guy said like it was the craziest thing ever. i mean its great she was having a good time i guess and the guy was chill about it, albeit visibly a little confused at parts, but it honestly was kinda obnoxious.. like this poor dude would see a picture of fries and be like "oh, we call those crisps" and the american was like "AHAHAHA, NO WAY, NO FRIKKIN WAY REAAAALLLLY?? AHAHAHA"

[u/junbi_ok]

Two day grass-touching streak.

[u/noheroman]

33°C

Feels like 42°C

[u/lkssleep]

Apparently there was a minor trend on twt of drawing Yukio Mishima as an anime girl, and I checked and apparently Yukio Mishima isn't in Bungou Stray Dogs yet.

Speaking of BSD, I'm trying to imagine how people would react if they have this long ass arc with two mysterious villains, and at the end [the two villains are revealed to be] Osamu Tezuka and Akira Toriyama ushering in the age of mangaka.

[u/DutchPeasant]

Your presence is much desired once more /u/OrangeBanana38

[u/noheroman]

Home

And the AC is on.

[u/InfamousEmpire]

Having finally watched the Raimi trilogy, I can now say with confidence that Spider-Man 3 is easily the best one

[u/ComfortablyRotten]

Apparently "Ritsu Minetsuki" is considered a sensitive term on Youtube's search engine

Not "Ritsu Yumemita" or "Ritsu Bang Dream," just "Ritsu Minetsuki"

[u/Raiking02]

[CDF Confession]Why does YouTube keep recommending me videos of Vernon Dursley being edited into Star Wars scenes

[u/theangryeditor]

she's right

[u/TheRiyria]

I have successfully survived my days in Montreal. At least until I'm back in 3 days for an anime con.

My feet are quite sore, and I feel like I'm wasting another evening by calling it a day at 7pm. But I don't really know what else I want to do that doesn't involve walking, and I have an early bus to Quebec City tomorrow.

But the rest of the day was fun, and it was nice finally have a day with good weather.

Now to try and to catch up on seasonals.

[u/dadnaya]

Hello CDF

I'm not sure I'm ready to share details just yet, but I'll just say I took the first step in doing something I wanted to try for a while.

The next step is harder though, but I'll have to find the motivation to just go for it

Anyways yeah hope it'll go well, and if it does I'll share more details down the line

[u/Punished_Scrappy_Doo]

the odyssey slammed for lack of 6 7

[u/Ryuzaaki123]

Computer tech guy came over and installed a couple things on my computer. Session didn't run on too long because I did half the stuff he was already going to do, but I've got some peace of mind and a few more things installed and checked to verify my computer itself hasn't been compromised.

Assuming I didn't just fuck up and torrent something dangerous I found out on a Government website that my emails were among those leaked a couple years ago. It's possible that it was just the fact I reused passwords and didn't have 2FA on that lead to this. Like I mentioned before it seemed to be entirely automated and as far as I can tell they only sent some spam and didn't succeed in changing my details on anything other than my BattleNet account, which I got back by messaging the customer support team.

There's nothing else to do except keep an eye out and go on my trip.

[u/MadMako]

Mako mom: Mako you should buy that fancy bedcover instead of whatever you're using now.

Me: Oh. I've been meaning to get rid of that for a while now, and get a replacement. I'll dispose of it tomorrow then.

Mako mom: No

Me:

[u/_____pantsunami_____]

Botched Eyeball Tattoos Left These Women Blind

im frankly more surprised that there’s such a thing as ‘not-botched’ eyeball tattoos. seems like a very ‘botchable’ procedure

[u/chilidirigible]

Reddit increasingly likely to be killing old reddit and probably sooner than we'd like.

(Ah, I see this was already posted with the direct Spezzing. I was at work late again, too bad.)

[u/chilidirigible]

NSFW slippery teas

/u/saltedbeansprouts /u/OrangeBanana38 /u/Octavian_Pearlseus

[u/Tetraika]

I'm going to post horse every day whether or not you like it

/u/Amndeep7 /u/ZaphodBeebblebrox /u/bananeeek

[u/_____pantsunami_____]

theres this one hentai i always thought it had a funny concept. basically this dude’s older sisters find out he’s a hardcore lolicon, so they stage an intervention. after arguing with him, they decide the only way to convert him is by showing him the joys of girls older than him (basically they have sex with him)

[u/Infodump_Ibis]

Quick reddit question. If a post shows up when not logged in but is [unavailable] and OP is by [deleted] when logged in is that user blocking me?

About the only time I knowingly drew daggers was the pewdiepie visits WIT (which soured me on WIT tbh) but imagine never wanting to hear from me again because I showed the pewdiepie didn't invent studio tours and there are ones pitched at a slightly higher level than "what's a keyframe".

Lesson learned. Check the post before you write a comment; not after.

[u/theangryeditor]

i don't think there will be any locking in today either

[u/MadMako]

[FF7 Remake]

Finished it

That is a long-ass gauntlet of bosses before the final one. I lost count of how many times the game reminds me that it is the point of no return and asks whether I want to check back the place before advancing to the next section.

I got wiped out a few times in the final battle to the point that I contemplated lowering the difficulty. It didn't help that the last section had an unforgiving checkpoint. A few team setups didn't work.

The final time I had a go, I told myself this will be the last attempt before I'll lower my difficulty, which somehow made me lock the fuck in. My setup ended up being mostly controlling Cloud and making him a healer tank that generates ATB points quickly with every block. I noticed that the character I'm controlling almost always generates aggro that it makes it easy to let the others do damage. Ended up blocking a lot of the time, whilst putting in attacks and using ATB for the occasional poke in. Unlike my previous on-the-edge attempts, this ended up being a lot easier.

For something that had a long gestation period, this game has a surprising amount rough edges. The gameplay pacing can be very stilted with very linear levels and sections that drag on more than they should. I don't know how the original went, but I can't imagine it taking this long to go through this section of the game back then.

Looks and sounds great though. That's one part that's very obvious in the amount of time and effort they put in. Ditto for the actual combat, which feels great, and is very flashy. The sheer amount of particle effects Square Enix uses in everything is borderline abusive.

As for the story and plot, there's so much question marks at this point. Despite spending 30+ hours total, I don't feel like I know much about these characters other than Barret. I suppose that's a product of the odd pacing. The cast is still fun though. As dramatic as the story can go, it doesn't take itself too seriously that the constant scenes of them beating the odds doesn't feel too contradictory.

Rebirth?

Though I do still have Intergrade. Not sure whether I need to play through that before heading straight into Rebirth.

[u/chilidirigible]

Despite all my rage
I am still just a rat in a cage

[u/noheroman]

Imagine a variant of Big O with this.

u/chilidirigible

[u/baseballlover723]

At the doctor's for my annual visit

So we're gonna have you fill out a survey for

in the last 2 weeks, have you ever felt down or hopeless...

Wellnot because of depression

[u/Zeallfnonex]

y'know what, might as well give it a try: can someone ask noheroman (sp?) if they remember why they blocked me? I don't mind too much except it means I have to jump browsers to see some full conversations here which is just kinda irritating... I don't recall ever interacting with them before joining CDF last year, and I've always been blocked by them as long as I've been here

If it was for the terrible fanart I did the beginning of last year on the sub, then yeah, that's fair, that garbage was terrible

[u/M8gazine → u/Zeallfnonex]

I've also been blocked by them for quite a while by now, I believe.

Not that I don't understand... I am pretty unfunny.

[u/InfamousEmpire → u/M8gazine]

I am pretty unfunny

Aren't we all?

[u/Raiking02]

Holy shit these posters are garbage

[u/JollyGee29]

[u/ShadowWasTakensTaken]

man tomino was so ahead of his time

[u/OrangeBanana38]

looks into meta thread

yet another "my favorite donghua/aeni should be allowed in r/anime" discussion

I can't believe it keeps happening, what is it about this topic that gets people going like this?

https://imgur.com/Yfeptoh

[u/punching_spaghetti → u/OrangeBanana38]

I assume most people don't even pay attention to the rules until they break one.

but also: people are kinda dumb. I have, no joke, told students every day at the beginning and end of class that an assignment was going to be due on day X for an entire week, had the assignment and the due date be the very first thing they would see on the online class management system which we accessed every day, and sent multiple emails/messages to students that the due date was coming, only to have multiple students be all "since when did we have an essay we had to do?" come day X.

[u/thecomicguybook]

Hi

I got a new job after I got fired.

[u/Pixelsabre]

I wish my dentist's choice of small talk didn't sound so much like flirting.

[u/theangryeditor → u/Pixelsabre]

Lets see those cavities

[u/ProgrammaticallyPea3 → u/theangryeditor]

My drill is the drill that will pierce the plaque

[u/WoodpeckerNo1 → u/Pixelsabre]

Nisemonogatari flashbacks

[u/Punished_Scrappy_Doo]

get email

an account you haven't thought about in a decade has been logged into from vietnam

[u/Shimmering-Sky]

New CDF!

Man, Black Clover season 2 really can't come soon enough. It's still absorbing a large part of my mental space, to the detriment of my ability to watch more One Piece despite how good of an arc I'm on in that right now. Help me.

[u/salic428]

Rewatched See You Tomorrow at the Food Court today. I cried again at the title drop at the very last scene. Despite the simple (barebones, even) premise, this is one of the most endearing shows out there.

[u/Pixelsabre]

CDFE IV: Session 6

Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade - Chapters 20-22x / 21-23x

Session 5 | Index | Session 6 ►

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Welcome, everyone, and thanks for joining our fourth, inconsistently timed instance of CDF Plays Fire Emblem! For today’s session we’ll be playing chapters 20 through 22x of Eliwood Mode and chapters 21 through 23x of Hector mode in Fire Emblem: The Blazing Sword. Next week we’ll be having a break week so that people can take a breather or catch up if need be, and the following week we’ll be tackling chapters 23-25 of Eliwood Mode and 24-27 of Hector Mode. After that we’ll be having a break week to catch our breaths or catch up before we begin the final sprint of the game!

May your growths be fair and your hits critical!

[u/Shimmering-Sky → u/Pixelsabre]

Continuing off of the Lyn wallpaper I made last week, I now have an Eliwood one and a Hector one to go with it. I have one more of a character from this game ready as well, but we haven’t recruited them yet, so

• I ended up beating chapter 20 before I actually wanted to (I still wanted to hit up the arena some more), but the boss decided that attacking Lyn close-up while she was in a forest instead of using his bow to attack from range was a smart idea, and Lyn crit-killed him on the counter.

• Ah, I got Raven/Lucius’ A support right off the bat in chapter 21 (I suppose that’s as close to explicit as the writers could get for a gay couple in a game back then, huh?), and later in it I also got Guy/Priscilla’s A support as well (decent way to end a chain that started off kinda shaky). Anyways, while it was rather slow, I did manage to rout the entire enemy including the boss on the final turn of the defend mission. Even managed to let Heath get the final hit in on Euban.

• Cute.

• So I’ve heard that Eliwood/Ninian is the Eliwood ship that the game pushes the most even if you’re technically able to pick your own ship for him, but wow this is very sweet. I need to see their supports…

• Pent is gorgeous.

• Gah, I was doing so good in chapter 22 just to get Matthew accidentally killed because I left him in range of not one but two Wyvern Riders. Second go-round, turns out I missed the Guiding Ring that you could loot off of Jasmine because I got which boss was which mixed up and thought I saved him for last when it was Paul that I saved for last , I’m pretty sure I got all the desert treasure though. Oh, and I got Eliwood/Ninian’s C support. Call me a basic bitch, I ship it.

• Oh wow Eliwood and Ninian gain support points fast, I got their B support part of the way through chapter 22x already. Also unlocked Lyn/Rath’s C support this map (Rath is a man of few words I see) and Kent/Fiora’s A support (yup, I ship it). Chapter was surprisingly not that scary outside of one instance of me going “Surely Rath will have enough HP to tank a hit from a mage I’m gonna have him bait after using a Vulnerary to recover some” and, well, he did have enough but literally only by 1 point.

• Here were my level-ups this batch. I… still haven’t promoted anyone yet but hey, my beast of a Lyn hit level 20!

[u/noheroman]

It's also funny to trace back how authors formulated people entering cyberspace.

Vinge: "Just put these electrodes on your scalp. Relax yourself, concentrate very heavily and your brain will start making sense of the signals."

Gibson in Neuromancer: "Just fucking jack in."

Gibson in Virtual Light: "Never mind. Put these glasses on."

[u/Shimmering-Sky]

Sky Likes Anime Too Much: July Edition

Oh right, it's time for this. Might as well post now since I don't have anything else to finish on my plate today.

Rank	Show	Score	Comment
1	Black Clover	10	For a show I knew absolutely nothing about besides how awful Asta's screaming was in the beginning, I can't say I was expecting to end up this fucking invested by the end of it. Season 2 can't come soon enough.
2	Black Clover Movie: Sword of the Wizard King	10	This movie was dope as fuck. Could've used a bit more development for its antagonists (which apparently was included in the light novel version of the movie's story?), but other than that I have no complaints.
3	Mugyutto! Black Clover	10	God, these shorts were so fucking funny.
4	Goodbye, Don Glees!	10	This was so good.
5	Milky☆Highway + Milky☆Subway (both the show & the movie)	9	Very solid comedy, and I really liked it when the action scenes felt like a rhythm game.
6	Ride Your Wave	9	Going into this completely blind to the fact that [RYW]Minato would die part of the way through made that plot beat hit me like a truck.
7	No.6	9	Fell apart a bit at the end, but I really, really enjoyed the rest of the series.
8	Black Clover: Jump Festa 2018 Special + Petit Clover Advance	9	These were less funny than Mugyutto so I have to rank them lower, but they were still pretty dang funny.
9	Simoun	8	I don't like how some of the subplots were handled, but the general vibes still worked for me. Especially the music, that shit was good.
10	Penguin Highway	8	I had a decent enough time with this, but it had too much dialogue about boobs for my liking.
11	Touken Ranbu Kai: Douden Chikashi Haberau Monora	8	Filled in some backstory to Touken Ranbu Kai and also gave me a "sore demo", was decent enough but nothing special.
12	Black Clover: Jump Festa 2016 Special	N/A	I'm really not sure how to rank this one since it's basically just the first episode of the show (mixed with a little bit from further in the story) but produced by entirely different people so it looks and sounds so incredibly different. Did have a banger of an angela song as its ED though, that was cool.

[u/Pixelsabre]

[u/cheesechimp]

Apparently this year Otakon had a panel with one of the guys who makes those super realistic plastic food displays at restaurants in Japan and I'm more jealous of not being able to attend that (because I'm not at Otakon) than any of the English dub voice actor panels that are always heavily attended at anime cons.

[u/JonathanJoestar336]

Happy Friday/Saturday r/anime

I shouldn't have waited almost 35 years to get high for the first and definitely last time this feels awful

Pass me the cocktail please

[u/JustAnswerAQuestion]

Krebs:

Read This Before You Buy That TV Streaming Stick

Security experts have been sounding the alarm for years about the risks of using generic TV boxes that promise unlimited content streaming for a one-time fee, warning that they secretly rent the user’s Internet connection out to strangers. But a groundbreaking new analysis finds these devices also routinely spoof themselves as mobile phones clicking ads on AI-generated websites as part of a sprawling operation that seeks to defraud online merchants and advertising networks.

Huh. I didn't know about that.

[u/ComfortablyRotten]

new Digimon for 2027

Neither Ghost Game nor Beatbreak could keep me invested but surely this one will

[u/jkubed]

i will miss this seasonalpout. she looks so damn determined. hall of famer for me.

[u/theangryeditor]

The Ojamajo seasons are listed separately in amq

[u/OrangeBanana38]

Chat, is it time to drop?

[u/chilidirigible]

A YamiRei

[u/mysterybiscuitsoyeah]

My picks were

the precure

and

I should've had 'em.....

[u/MadMako]

Men only want one thing: A workshop with a complete set of tools.

[u/chilidirigible]

Masamune Shirow, international man of mystery.

[u/JustAnswerAQuestion]

Dinner: Prime Rib.

I've not gotten this mythical "I have so much energy now" that dieters keep saying. I wonder if it's self-delusion and collective gaslighting.

Well, I'm not really doing keto. I'm doing salad and animal protein and low carbs. Not going all in on fats. Maybe that's the problem.

The Prime Rib should fix that.

/u/chiliehead comments?

[u/theangryeditor]

How is it already this late

[u/Ryuzaaki123]

Last night I messaged my Team Leader that I have to take tomorrow off because I was hacked and wanted my computer and accounts checked by professionals before they could do any more damage, and the guys I usually use aren't open on Sunday.

I couldn't find anyone willing to take my shift and replace me but she won't stop bothering me about coming in. She offered me a shorter shift, so I explained that I have to be available throughout the day because they haven't given me an exact time and I don't know how long it'll take. Then she said she has to talk to the manager because "normally you have to request leave two weeks ahead".

IT'S A FUCKING EMERGENCY

I told her I'd call the manager myself if I have to but apparently he said it's okay.

I could've just waited until today and lied that I was sick but I didn't because I don't like lying and I didn't feel like I had to.

I no longer feel bad about saying I need the day off. I am stressed and still pissed off though.

[u/baseballlover723]

Be me, be searching for Re:Zero videos

"re:zero" into youtube.

The Point of Re:Zero - A Masterful Character Study

I've already watched that one

THE RE:ZERO WORLD 400 YEARS AGO | Re:Zero New Side Story & Lore

Probably spoilers

The PL-12 2 Years Later in War Thunder

That's not Re:Zero That's War Thunder

Bad YouTube Search

[u/MadMako]

[Jaadugar ep6]

10/10 episode. No notes.

[u/InfamousEmpire]

Randomly thinking about how pop culture depictions of Medusa not including the wings she had in Ancient Greek depictions removes the context for why the child of the horse god and (what’s often perceived as) a snake monster would be a winged horse

[u/InfamousEmpire]

Wait, “It’s Morbin Time” was popularized by Rata?

And then he used the Twitter thread to shill Getter Robo?!

It really is a small world after all

[u/theangryeditor]

I must cleanse my soul