Essence_of_Meh
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- Comment on Silent Hill f, now on GOG 11 hours ago:
Things like this make me feel less bad about my backlog - got plenty of things to play while waiting for a price drop!
- Comment on Silent Hill f, now on GOG 11 hours ago:
It probably happened way earlier for me as well to be honest, I’m just mainly into older and indie games so I don’t really pay attention to new (mainstream) releases. Seeing this was a bit of reality check.
- Comment on Silent Hill f, now on GOG 11 hours ago:
Man, I appreciate this happened but seeing the price all I can do is chuckle and move on since this thing is almost 3x the reasonable price in my local currency. Never expected to get priced out of AAA gaming but here we are.
Still, nice catch for GOG. I hope this is a good sign for the future.
- Comment on Manga Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 41] 1 day ago:
Oooh, can’t wait! I won’t say no to more reading material.
- Comment on Manga Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 41] 1 day ago:
I’m glad I finally got to reading the series, it’s great. Thanks for recommending it!
- Comment on Manga Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 41] 1 day ago:
Just to clarify - my reaction to the twist has more to do with my expectations than the twist itself. I’m also not finished with the arc focusing on it so things might turn out to better than they appear right now. I’m just not entirely sold on where I think this is going but I might be completely wrong.
I do agree with the general sentiment though.
- Comment on Manga Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 41] 1 day ago:
Please Bully Me, Miss Villainess!
Still sticking with this one for now as the series started to move beyond the initial gimmick and opened a new significant mystery. Well, I say that but after reading some more the mystery seems to be going in a bit of a boring direction - we’ll see how things go in the future, I hope I’m wrong on this.
It managed to regain my attention for now so if everything goes well it should keep things engaging for a while longer.
For Better or For Worse
Book isekai, MC reborn as villainess, yadda yadda… It’s the usual setup with the main hook being: MC doesn’t want her little sister to marry the male lead because, according to the original story, she’ll die to provide him with a tragic background. While trying to prevent this from happening MC ends up marrying the guy instead.
This series has been rotting away in my backlog for a while now and I thought it we be just the thing to avoid doing other stuff I should be doing. It’s pretty fun so far, starting both as a full-on comedy (MC trying everything in her power to get rid of the male lead) and melancholy (getting married and shipped off with a guy she’d known for less than a month).
I ended up liking this one way more than I expected to - MC is great and plays amazingly well with other characters, including some introduced as possible villains, only to do 180 on their attitude after spending time with her. Also, the actual romance portion is really nicely done and managed to convince me to something I wasn’t really sold on initially.
Also also, the art is great. Both gag and hero panels look fantastic and sell the emotions they’re aiming for really well. It’s a treat.
- Comment on First Season of Mobile Suit Gundam Iron-Blooded Orphans is now on YouTube 3 days ago:
That may be the case but personally I find the smaller, personal scale way more impactful than “oh no, someone blew up a planet”. I don’t care about millions of blobs acting as background, I do however care about what happens to characters I got to know and love throughout the story.
I’m sure people have different views on that but for me personal is where it’s at and IBO delivers nicely in that regard.
- Comment on First Season of Mobile Suit Gundam Iron-Blooded Orphans is now on YouTube 5 days ago:
True, should’ve used engaging rather than fun. I blame ping - that’s always a good justification, right?
- Comment on First Season of Mobile Suit Gundam Iron-Blooded Orphans is now on YouTube 6 days ago:
I just started my own rewatch last week (completely unrelated to the anniversary though) so seeing it up on official channel was a fun surprise. Watch IBO people! It’s a flawed show but pretty fun.
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- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 6 days ago:
I honestly forgot that mod managers support Cyberpunk and got used to doing it manually. Can be a pain when something doesn’t work but I was lucky enough to not have too much problems with that so far.
At least current patches aren’t anything huge like the jump from legacy to 2.0 so it’s not like you’re losing much staying on the older version.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 6 days ago:
Cyberpunk 2077
I finally took the time to update my mod list to the latest version of the game as well as grab some new additions because I have no self control when it comes to modding.
I also decided to use this as an opportunity to end my previous playthrough (I did technically finish the game through one of Phantom Liberty endings) and start a new, themed one on a “I hate myself” difficulty. I’m exaggerating but it’s definitely not a way to play suitable for reasonable folks.This character will be a LONG adventure, regardless of whether I’ll binge the game or stick to my usual “play for a while -> take a few month break -> repeat” approach. It will also be a very different experience though and that’s something I’m really looking forward to.
Cyberpunk might not be a perfect game but boy do I love coming back to it.
- Comment on Ghost in the Shell – 1997 Developer Interview - shmuplations.com 1 week ago:
I played through the whole thing like 3 years ago, I think. It’s simple but really fun, especially after getting used to the controls - camera can get a bit disorienting at times though. Worth trying out if you’re a fan of arcade style action games.
Thanks for sharing, it was an interesting read!
- Comment on Manga Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 40] 1 week ago:
Scenes with the trio were definitely a highlight for me. Interactions with other characters however… I feel like there was a good chance things would get a bit stale in the long run unless author had a way to shake things up a bit. Too bad we won’t get to see that.
They did mention a plan to write something in the same universe (or at least reuse some character which didn’t make it in here) so there is a possibility we’ll get to see some nods to this series. I hope they get another chance to get published.
- Comment on Manga Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 40] 1 week ago:
I finished Gal Maid & Villainess: Only Milady’s Happy End Will Win!, it was pretty alright. Not the best thing ever or something I’m going to return to in the future but I had fun.
I was initially worried about the short length but I think that was honestly for the best - while the idea was solid, the execution could use some more cooking. I understand that this is author’s first published work and I think they did well for that - I hope they can make something even better next time as it was a pretty enjoyable read overall.I’m also slowly going through Please Bully Me, Miss Villainess!
MC is dropped in a world of otome game as a villainess and forced to act like it. She doesn’t like it and tries to do bare minimum which leads to a lot of misunderstandings with the her target, the heroine of the story, who’s really into being bullied by MC. Pretty funny and a light read. I’m not sure how much staying power it’s going to have in the long run.
I’ll stick with it until I’m bored, I guess.Finally, I’ve took the time to migrate some of my library as most of the series I read were on comick - didn’t get too far though, due to mix of laziness and the fact the many of those titles aren’t up to date on other sources. I’ll just have to chip away on it slowly as things change.
- Comment on Comick is becoming a tracking site 1 week ago:
Sure but there was talk about some kind kind of continuation so I decided to wait for details. Now that I know it’ll only serve as a tracking site I can safely proceed as planned.
- Comment on Comick is becoming a tracking site 1 week ago:
Welp, I guess I can safely remove their extension from Mihon at this point. Thanks for the update.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
Adventure Island (NES) / Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow
I mostly picked these two on a whim, when I couldn’t decide on what to play before sleep.
I can’t really focus on playing anything “seriously” at the moment so I don’t expect to stick with and finish either of the games any time soon but they’re a good fit for short sessions and that’s good enough for now.
Adventure Island was an especially interesting choice as I haven’t played any NES games in a while and will have to get used to how they play again. At least it’s not too difficult yet.
- Comment on Manga Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 39] 2 weeks ago:
I wanna start off by saying: every time I posted here over the last few weeks it was a ghost town. Every time I didn’t, other people posted instead - I can’t win! (๑•̀ㅂ•́)و✧
Didn’t have much time to read to be honest so I was mostly catching up on the stuff from the last two weeks or so. Now that Comick is down I should probably start migrating my library but I kinda don’t want to - it’s too much hassle. Well, that and some series weren’t updated anywhere else so I’ll have to wait and see where the wind blows next.
I’ll get to it when I get to it, I guess. I have some other reading to do for a project anyway.
- Comment on A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over? 2 weeks ago:
(…) I never once worked anywhere that there was a glut of jobs and “not enough bodies” to fill them.
I have. My first job wasn’t the worst at this but it happened to some extent. My last company had such a huge disparity between work and employees that every single one of their IT projects (dunno about the rest) was in constant state of delays, hotfixing and putting out fires. Things were so bad people were moved between projects on daily basis and at one point management decided to throw everyone in the department (including folks who just joined the company and newbies with little to no programming experience) to triage one of them.
That’s not to mention poaching team members from projects they promised more bodies to (only informing the client about the latter decision) and many other issues. They absolutely needed more people but the way the company is run does little to help with that.
The worst party? They’re still growing as a company while their burnout rate stays unchanged. So yeah, it’s a thing.
- Comment on Twitch starts requiring face scans to watch mature streams in certain countries: Your face is now the key to unlocking gambling and hot tub content. 2 weeks ago:
Not that I was making or watching those but the requirement itself is definitely something I want nothing to do with. Thanks for reminding me to delete my account, I’ve been meaning to do so for months now but always forgot to. One more thing off the list.
- Comment on Manga Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 37] 4 weeks ago:
Not much time, not much reading, not much to write. I’ve been mainly catching up on the series I post here - just got to the new chapters of The Saga of Tanya the Evil. I like such large chapter drops but why do they have to happen when I’m busy!
Well, at least I have something to look forward to, I guess.
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- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 4 weeks ago:
Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown
I’ve been trying to power through the game since last week. To be completely honest I’m not having a great time with this one (key word being “great” here). It’s fun at times and a good game from a production standpoint but I end up playing in pretty short session because it can’t keep me interested otherwise. It’s a stark contrast to Project Wingman, where I pretty much binged through the whole thing twice (including DLC) and still want more. I’m slowly progressing but man, it’s night and day between the two games. I more or less got my input settings to what I’m used to (sans deadzone and sensitivity settings but it’s still better than nothing) and got over most of my issues with how it plays so things are a bit better now. Concepts for the missions are interesting and varied so far which is great, I’m a bit mixed on the execution though as there’s not a single mission that didn’t have something annoying in it. I have a similar sentiment towards ship upgrade tree - a neat idea, alright execution. I don’t hate any of this at least.
Story is… fine. The constant waffling about “sins” and how “you’re all expendable”/“you can die for all I care”/“you have my permission to crash” (that’s why we put you into extremely expensive machines armed to the teeth) mixed with the pretty common Japanese way of writing dialogues (person 1 say X, person 2 repeats it) got grating pretty quickly. At least it’s not a permanent focus of the game so there’s that.
There might be something a bit more interesting lurking in the background but I’ll have to see how things play out first to be convinced. On the “good” good side of things I really liked the thunderstorm mission gimmick, where getting hit by lightning is not only possible but it also affects gameplay in a significant way (disrupting the HUD and temporarily cutting off your controls). In general, the way they treat clouds as part of gameplay is actually pretty cool (targeting wise, not the icing). They also look pretty great.
Besides the already mentioned mission variety, I also liked the callback to AC04 - it was a nice surprise as initially I didn’t realise both games are connected (it’s been a few years since my playthrough of 04 and even then my familiarity with AC franchise is pretty limited). All in all, the game constantly edges on the brink of clicking with me, only to pull something annoying that brings it right back to making me feel mixed about it. I want to like it more, I really do but alas, so far it wasn’t meant to be.Persona 3 Portable
Not much to write about today as I mostly focused on AC7 and only did some light grinding to get all current party members to the same level. I’ll most likely switch full time to Persona once I’m done with the fly-boy campaign but for a few more days it’ll have to wait.
- Comment on [Discussion] Gal Maid & Villainess - Ch. 15.5 5 weeks ago:
I’ll keep that in mind since I do prefer longer series. Still, as long as it doesn’t end on a complete cliffhanger I’ll be fine… I think.
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- Comment on [Discussion] Gal Maid & Villainess - Ch. 15.5 5 weeks ago:
Ohhhh, new series for the villainess pile! Don’t mind if I do~