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Wow...just realized, until last night, it had been nearly 7 years I had been on here. Sorry to anyone who still remembers me. Life happened and I completely forgot about this amazing place until last night. Recently survived a major hurricane. Which was historic. I live in the mountains of North Carolina and we got wrecked. Thankfully our home survived, but we took a hit financially. We were without power for two weeks, internet a month, and water for a month. Then there was three wild fires 13 miles away from our home. Anyways, my family is safe and I am going to try and get on here again and be more active.

That's interesting, you don't often see this kind of word in english; more so in other languages. In a way you could say the word is adscititious to the language in and of itself

Happy New Year!

The Erdrick Trilogy, also referred to as the Loto Trilogy or Roto Trilogy is a commonly used term used to refer to the first three games in the main Dragon Quest series, as these games not only share a similar setting, but also the same timeline. In particular, they all involve the kingdom of Alefgard and the hero Erdrick. Dragon Quest III is chronologically the first game in the trilogy. It tells the story of the Hero, child of Ortega, the previous champion of Aliahan, being chosen by the kingdom to likewise attempt to defeat the source of evil polluting their world, the Archfiend Baramos. Dragon Quest tells the story of a descendant of Erdrick stepping forward to defeat a new evil foe who has taken up residence in Zoma's former citadel. The new Hero follows in his forebear's footsteps and must emulate many of his actions in order to defeat the Dragonlord. Upon his victory, the hero takes the princess of Tantegel, Princess Gwaelin, as his bride and together they leave Alefgard to explore the larger world outside its boundaries, the land of Torland, founding in the process three new kingdoms. Dragon Quest II begins with an attack on Moonbrooke, one of three kingdoms founded by the hero of Dragon Quest, by an overwhelming army of evil monsters. In response, three descendants of Erdrick, each the heir the kingdoms of Midenhall, Cannock, and Moonbrooke, unite to defeat the foul High Priest Hargon, as well as the dark deity he served, Malroth, the Master of Destruction.

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Fall Anime 2024 AniChart | MAL Chart | AniDB Chart Finally narrowed down my listing somewhat after taking a more in-depth look into PVs, source material, the people behind the series, etc. This season is truly the season of sequels. Oh my. Sequels: Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest Season 3 Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War - The Conflict Blue Exorcist: Beyond the Snow Saga Dragon Ball Daima Gundam: Requiem for Vengeance Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? V KamiErabi GOD.app Season 2 Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 3 Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Disturbance Seirei Gensouki: Spirit Chronicles Season 2 Shangri-La Frontier Season 2 Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online II The Seven Deadly Sins: Four Knights of the Apocalypse Season 2 Continuing: Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest New Series Potentially Watching: Dandadan Orb: On the Movements of the Earth The Do-Over Damsel Conquers The Dragon Emperor Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror Some of the returning shows I'm a little iffy on because past seasons were kind of on the fence as to whether I should continue them or drop, but I guess I'm willing to give them a shot again. This includes Arifureta, KamiErabi, Shangri-La, and Gun Gale Online. Seirei Gensouki is listed under sequels but I've yet to watch the first season despite it being on my list since it originally aired. So perhaps I'll try to make some time to watch that soon and then we'll see if it's something I want to continue with or not. Seven Deadly Sins I'm multiple seasons behind on now and it remains to be seen if I'll continue watching it after the point where the original story ends and the new cast of characters take over. That may end up being my stopping point, but we'll see how I feel about things at that point and I'll try giving the new cast a shot... It's just history showcases that changes like this rarely turn out good. And while ReZero Season 2 was a huge let down after the first seasons highs... I'm going into season 3 hopeful that it may improve things. It's suspected to be at least 3 cours long so we'll see. Meanwhile I've yet to watch Season 4 of DanMachi so I've got some catching up to do on that front as well. It's clear to me that there is no way I'm going to be able to watch all of these during the season so plenty will end up on my backlog... but it is what it is.

Summer Anime 2024 AniChart | MAL Chart | AniDB Chart Almost every season I make this thread and narrow down my own watch list after reading up about every show, seeing what studio is behind them, what staff is working on them, watching a preview, and reading others thoughts on the matter. Below you can see what I've narrowed down for my personal viewing this season. Let me know what you're watching! Sequels: Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest NieR:Automata Ver1.1a Part 2 Sengoku Youko: Senma Konton-hen Tower of God Season 2 Continuing: My Hero Academia Season 7 Spice and Wolf: Merchant Meets the Wise Wolf That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 3 New Series Potentially Watching: Atri -My Dear Moments- Delico's Nursery Failure Frame Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin Tasuketsu The Elusive Samurai The Ossan Newbie Adventurer Why Does Nobody Remember Me in This World?

Hello gentle people. So I was recommended to this place by Zemekis, a dear friend of mine, and he had me hooked up with an account from here. I didn't post until now, not because this seemed like a bad place, but because I figured that, since this place seems dedicated to JRPGS and me being a FPS/action gaming fan that I would be the black sheep of this board. Zemekis assured me that this was A OK so here I am making my introductory post. My hobbies include movies, anime, video games, guns, booze and just in general just taking it easy and relaxing. Kind of an old timer since I grew up with the heyday of videogames starting all the way on the NES and then growing up with almost every major console. So as far as my favorite video games go... 1. DOOM (1993) 2. Devil May Cry 3 3. Goldeneye 007 64 4. System Shock 2 5. Final Fight Those are my top 5 at least. As far as favorite animes go, My two big favorites are Outlaw Star and Guyver: The Bio-booster armor (1989 OVA). I'm more into classical anime though there are some new ones that I quite like (Konosuba springs to mind). Anywho, I think that should suffice as an introduction. I'll post as much as I can and hope to make a new friend or two!

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Hey everyone, My sincerest apologies first and foremost for that lengthy downtime we had. The previous host company and I kinda got on eachother's bad sides and there was a falling out as a result, and this required me to move the site to a new host post-haste. This of course meant DNS changes, file and database migrations, reconfiguration of the backend, etc - this is why it took so long to complete. Everything should be good to go now, but I'll leave this thread open in case anyone experiences difficulties somewhere in the site. I again sincerely apologize for that downtime!

What's the Word: ADSCITITIOUS pronunciation: [ad-sih-TISH-əs] Part of speech: adjective Origin: Latin, 17th century Meaning: 1. Forming an addition or supplement; not integral or intrinsic. Examples: "When the dense fog stranded hundreds of travelers, the resort struggled to feed the adscititious crowd." "The Sunday papers used to come with more than a half-dozen adscititious magazines and promotional flyers." About Adscititious “Adscititious” is based on the Latin “adscitus,” meaning “admitted.” Did you Know? The word “adscititious” has a two-part definition: “forming an addition or supplement” and also “not integral.” While both parts make up the definition, they can be at odds with each other — something that is not integral can be seen as unneeded. However, supplements are usually helpful additions, and sometimes even necessary. Consider the nutritional supplement folic acid. This might fit both sides of the definition of adscititious; it’s not integral to most adult diets, but it’s extremely important to supplement as a prenatal vitamin.

The last episode of season one of HoriMiya. It was such a a sweet episode. The whole series was wonderful, but I love how it came to a beautiful ending of Izumi proposing to Kyoko. It was in a tasteful innocent way, and not some cheesy over the top way.

Just sitting here watching snow and playing Pokemon Violet.

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HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!! What's the Word: EPHEMERA pronunciation: [ih-FEM-ər-ə] Part of speech: noun Origin: Latin, 14th century Meaning: 1. Things that exist or are used or enjoyed for only a short time. 2. Items of collectible memorabilia, typically written or printed ones, that were originally expected to have only short-term usefulness or popularity. Examples: "Realizing many of his belongings were basically ephemera, Greg donated them to charity before he moved." "When Sara is at the fair, she’d rather eat decadent foods than win ephemera on the midway." About Ephemera “Ephemera” is taken directly from the Latin, where it was borrowed from the ancient Greek “ἐφήμερᾰ” (“ephḗmera”), meaning “short lived” or “living for a day.” Did you Know? In the world of collectibles, “ephemera” refers to a broad category of items that were never intended to last a long time or have any particular value. This category includes things such as old periodicals, receipts, tickets, and product packaging, as well as outdated maps and documents that are now obsolete. All of these items were intended to exist for a very short period of time, but to modern collectors, ephemera from years ago provides a clear picture of life in the past.

Merry Christmas!

Kondo shared more info about the Trails in the Sky Remake. Saying the voice cast for Sky Remake is still undecided. So remains to be seen if we'll get the same cast from the recent games or brand new casting. Also confirmed that the game will feature new details that debuted in later entries of the series post-Sky that'll help cohesion and worldbuilding. So it's not a 1 for 1 remake. They're going to be adding stuff to make it better fit with later entries by including various additional details. Physical editions of Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter in the West were confirmed. Limited Run Games will handle the collector’s launch with a standard release made available via Amazon.

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Batman Arkham Asylum and Sonic x Shadow Generations. I'm not a gamer so these are officicially my first ever games I've spent money on.

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Will continue the season 02 ongoing breakdown of skipped, altered, and original content for the new anime below. Season 02 Episode 01 : Chapters 58-60, few pages of 62. Episode 02 : Chapters 60 (three pages), 61-63, a page of 64. Episode 03 : Chapters 64-66. Episode 04 : Chapters 67-69, half a page of 70. Episode 05 : Chapters 70-71. Episode 06 : Chapters 72-73. Episode 07 : Chapters 74-75, a few pages of 76. Episode 08 : Chapters 76-78. Episode 09 : Chapters 79-80, 81 (all but 2 pages). Episode 10 : 25th Anniversary's Extra Chapter, Chapter 81 (2 pages). Episode 11 : Chapters 82-84. Episode 12 : Chapters 85-87.

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Email functionality should be fixed now. Sorry about that!

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Final Fantasy IX is a 2000 role-playing video game developed and published by Square for the PlayStation. It is the ninth game in the main Final Fantasy series. The plot focuses on a war between nations in a medieval fantasy world called Gaia. Players follow a thief named Zidane Tribal who kidnaps princess Garnet Til Alexandros XVII as part of a ploy by the neighboring nation of Lindblum. He joins Garnet and a growing cast of characters on a quest to take down her mother, Queen Brahne of Alexandria, who started the war. Game development occurred in parallel with Final Fantasy VIII. Envisioned by developers as a retrospective for the series, it departed from the futuristic settings of Final Fantasy VI, VII, and VIII by returning to the medieval style of the earlier games. Consequently, it draws heavy influence from the original Final Fantasy and features allusions to the rest of the series. The game introduced new features to the series despite this approach, such as "Active Time Event" cutscenes, "Mognet", and skill systems. Final Fantasy IX was the last game in the main series whose music was composed solely by Nobuo Uematsu. Final Fantasy IX was released to critical acclaim and commercial success, selling more than 5.5 million copies on PlayStation by March 2016. It was re-released in 2010 as a PS1 Classic on the PlayStation Store—this version was compatible with PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable; PlayStation Vita support arrived in 2012. In 2016 Square Enix released an enhanced port featuring minor gameplay and graphical enhancements, which would be released on several platforms. An animated series adaptation by Square Enix and Cyber Group Studios was announced in 2021. We've had many discussions surrounding this game through the years but imagine my surprise when I tried searching for a general discussion thread of the game as a whole and came up empty. Guess back in the day we more focused on specific topics of the games and not one all-encompassing thread. Honestly these days the best way to play this game is most definitely on PC with all the modding capabilities. Things like Memoria and Moguri really do a number on improving the visuals, fixing bugs, and adding quality of life features. There is also the upcoming Echo-S voice mod that is working to voice all dialogue in the game (as of this posting only the first 4 hours or so is available via a "demo". Below I'll detail a bit of modding for the PC version to get you started.

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For starters let me show you the difference between vanilla and an older version of Moguri: Moguri Mod is a faithful revamp of the PC version of Final Fantasy IX helped by deep learning techniques (ESRGAN). The most important changes are in the background arts, that are now cleaner, more detailed and higher resolution. Featuring HD backgrounds (aided by AI and polished by hand), Manual redraw of all 11k layer edges and area names, HD textures (worldmap, NPC, battles), 30fps FMVs, and some various bug fixes. While Memoria, dubbed "Final Fantasy IX Engine", is a complete rewrite of the game's engine in C#. It maintains binary compatibility with the native parts of the game and the serialized data within the game archives, allowing the compiled version to be used in place of the original DLLs. The primary goal of this project is to provide mod makers with a convenient framework for developing gameplay mods, replacing game assets, expand original content, localizing the game into native languages, and fixing bugs of the original. Memoria addresses numerous bugs in the existing game port across various aspects like rendering, audio, and abilities. It includes built-in mods (turn-based battles, gameplay mechanics changes, a new card game system, cheat disablers, etc.) and provides a framework for integrating third-party mods, supporting import/export and modification of game resources. The engine integrates seamlessly with Unity, allowing the use of features ranging from loading external AssetBundles to manual manipulation of GameObjects and Components. However, many game elements like the event interpreter or animation pipelines emulate the PSX assembler, meaning significant modifications such as importing custom models, shaders, sounds, etc., require creating workarounds to either transform external data into the game's native format or completely alter the approach by transforming game resources into compatible formats and implementing custom rendering mechanisms. The engine introduces a new audio API, extending the native engine with the dynamic library soloud.dll, enhancing audio capabilities. To get started with modding, first install the game and run it at least once to ensure everything is good. Then download the latest Memoria.Patcher.exe from this link. Run the .exe program, and it should automatically detect your installation location. Once it's complete, launch the game through steam. These are just a handful of the settings you can modify with Moguri Mod. But you can enable or disable whatever you want on this window. The manual trance option is a godsend imo. In the vanilla game you waste trance on random enemies cause it just pops off whenever the bar hits max. Manual trance lets you hit the left d-pad to go into trance when you choose to. Similar to FFX's Overdrive system. So you can save it for the boss fights or whenever you like. Of course widescreen options are nice too, but some scenes will still be 4:3 due to limitations with the backgrounds and such. The No Random Battles toggle with F4 is also nice for when you're tired of running into enemies every few steps and feel like you're overleveled or already got all the AP you want. While the font options is great for getting rid of the terrible vanilla font they changed the PC version to and allowing you to bring back the original font the game used on PS1. ATB Mode lets you change the game to true turn-based if you want but that's also just a completely optional thing. Increasing UI lines to be less mobile-ish and more PS1-ish is good. Same with the Battle HUD option. Click Check for Updates (might have to check and uncheck a time or two) and install any updates if one pops up. Then Click ‘Play’ to run the game at least once to ensure the game will start. Exit the game and re-open the Launcher. Now click Mod Manager in the top right below the Play button and the following window will open: You can click the Browse Catalog tab and install the mods you want. I'd recommend at least getting Moguri - BETA 1, Moguri - 3D textures, and Moguri - 30fps videos. This is what is going to be the bulk of the visual enhancements. Though I'd also recommend High-Res Chocographs for better visuals of the Chocograph maps you get from the Hot & Cold mini-game... This will definitely help locate things on the world map. I'd also recommend Mog Addons for things like different button prompts depending on your controller, different avatars based on your preference (or just improved vanilla avatars), and darker ui options. Mog Addons also features some options for improving a few character related traits and some tweaks but these can alter the vanilla experience so it's up to you if you want to utilize them or not... they can easily be activated and deactivated separately. The other mods on the screenshot above that you see I have are just optional things. Like the Beatrice mod allows her to eventually become a permanent party member at a certain story point. The BetterCarpDrop improves the drop rate of cards and makes it so enemies will drop their specific card instead of whatever random card they might've been programmed for initially. As you probably already know, the actual card doesn't matter in the card game because stats of each card is random anyways. While the Black Cat - Endgame Shop literally just allows almost every item in the game to be purchaseable at the shop near End Game, which is neat if you missed specific stuff and wanted it but otherwise it's completely unneeded. So yeah just a bunch of optional stuff. There's a bunch of other stuff in the catalog but your mileage may vary on whether you see a use in them. Stuff like making Garnet the character you roam around as on the world map instead of Zidane. Improving and making Blank, Cinna, and Marcus actually useful and playable. Making Kuja, Fratley, and Lani playable characters. Increasing difficulty with Trance Seek mod, etc. Alternate Fantasy changing a lot of the game to give you a fresh take on the game. Etc... As for settings for the mods, you can click on them on the Installed mods tab and there should be a drop down box for the mods with options. Just go through each mod and each setting in the dropdown box and activate or deactivate what you want. Now lets get onto modifying other Memoria settings. Open the Memoria.ini file from the game root folder using any text editor, such as Notepad++ . I should note that the rule of thumb in configuring the settings FPS of the game is to understand that the Setting FPS should always be higher than Setting TPS, except for the menus. BattleFPS = 60 BattleTPS = 20 FieldFPS = 60 FieldTPS = 30 WorldFPS = 60 WorldTPS = 30 MenuFPS = 60 MenuTPS = 60 BattleSwirlFrames = 13 The BattleSwirlFrames is a new setting in the launcher to turn off the battle swirl animation, but I prefer it to be on and fast instead. 13 is about as fast as when the animation is turned off, but it doesn't just go black and start the battle. If you wish to skip the battle intro camera, you can disable that in the game config menu. RopeJumpingIncrement = 1, this is essentially cheating but if you don't want to sit there jumping rope for a 1,000 times in succession without a mistake, you can edit this so that each successful jump = whatever number you want. There is an achievement for hitting 100 and 1,000 and you need 1,000 to obtain the item from it. So something like 50 makes it possible to get everything to pop and that leaves you only having to successfully jump 20 times. ExcaliburIINoTimeLimit = 0, set this to 1 so that the Excalibur II isn't locked from being obtainable. As you're probably aware in the vanilla game you have to bumrush the game in 12 hours to obtain this sword. This setting simply disables the time limit so regardless of time the sword will be available when you reach it. To me this is a highly valued quality of life improvement, but for others they may see it as cheating, but whatever. I want to enjoy my time with the game not rush it for a sword. MaxCardCount = 100, this is how many cards you can have. By default its 100 and it discards any more cards you get. You can set this higher so you don't have to keep tossing cards. 100 only allows you to have one of each card if you're trying to collect them all. There's some other settings around there that have to do with the card game you can read the notes about them in the file.

Parmesan Cheese on the brain I think, lmao. Might not be the best, but it got me through the game. You probably won't have access to a lot of these quartz just yet though either. I'd show Altina, but this was before I started keeping more than one save slot for my games and the point I had saved at she's not on my party. Hard to believe CS3 was 4 years ago now.

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Told you, lol. Glad you got through it.

Watched Genius Party & Genius Party Beyond with @Dave55811 Also watched the first OVA of Armitage III

Well, I've been reading the manga since its first chapter... so I was gonna watch it anyway! But it definitely is a good watch, it's a typical shonen manga/anime with some crazy comedy and very nice action. The pacing is perfect, not too slow to lose the audience nor too fast that you can't tell what's heppening. And the opening and ending themes are SO good! I would definitely recommend this if your a fan of action and proper plot stories.

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If it's any constellation. Cold Steel 1 carries over nothing. Cold Steel 2 carries over only from Cold Steel 1. Cold Steel 3 carries over nothing. Cold Steel 4 carries over from Cold Steel 1, 2, and 3. So the only games you've messed up getting all the carry over bonuses for thus far is only Azure and Reverie... But Reverie would've probably been that way regardless of region considering you're probably jumping between Switch and PS4/PS5. That's the great thing about PCs, not having to jump between consoles or rebuy the game with a slight so-called "remaster" each console generation they port it to. On PC a lot of these games have included graphical feature settings for future proofing the titles (quality settings that even modern GPUs can't handle well but assumed future GPUs will be capable).

Both, in a way. There's a few different things I'll be taking care of at the same time that would fit into both categories. You can always switch it at any time, and if you need help with things you can always reach out to me or Koby in a private message. Microsoft's just incredibly strict about its anti-spam campaign. I had taken great care in ensuring that the mail servers would be seen as "in compliance" in terms of anti-spam rules. But Microsoft really just doesn't care about that; they'll ban entire IP subnets even if there's known good IPs in there. Don't worry too much about it.

Always enjoy tits.

Each new arc you jump into, except a bit of a learning curve when it comes to new combat mechanics and how the quartz system works. They tend to shake that up. I think going from Sky to Crossbell shook things up less than you'll find out future arcs do. But lets just say Daybreak for me is definitely going to have an adjustment period as I try to get used to the new setup it has. I won't go into that though for spoilers. You can learn that on your own when you get to that point. Also don't fret on game times. Everyone plays differently. I tend to have very short playtimes in comparison to other folks even though I also tend to go for 100% as much as I can as well. I think Nekone's times for example were higher than me for every single game.

These games it's not always going to be possible to "100%" it in terms of achievements/trophies/etc in one go so don't fixate on that too, too much. The Crossbell arc for me was quite enjoyable. I recorded quite a few clips of some pieces of my playthroughs of both games in the arc (Zero and Azure) as well. It did take me a little bit to get used to the changes to the combat system in this arc, but once I had it down I was cranking out those advantages like crazy As far as connections go, you are certainly correct - the series is very much connected, you're going to find that out quickly as you progress, that certain things tie back to other things, names and events mentioned, familiar faces, etc. That's not just going to be true with this arc but also with the arc that follows it. I won't spoil too much, if much of anything else, just enjoy the arc!

The only reason I still use my DA is because there's very little other places that'll host my work for free. https://www.deviantart.com/fireballdragon Here's some samples of my work:

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With July 4th coming up pretty soon, I have a little tradition I do to get myself into the patriotic mood. I do a replay of Medal of Honor for PS1 and Medal of Honor Frontline for PS2. I've always felt like I was the odd man out since when it comes to WW2 shooters everyone usually goes for the OG CoD but I've always loved Medal of Honor ever since playing the original. After I get that out of the way, I'll be doing a replay of Kingdom Come: Deliverance to prepare myself for Kingdom Come 2 which is supposed to come out later this year.

Continuing (Spring 2024) Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture New Series Potentially Watching Monogatari Series: Off & Monster Season Shoushimin Series Atri: My Dear Moments Tasuuketsu No big eye-catchers for me this season but at least its not all sequels like the previous one.

I've played DQ3 twice before, once via the GBC port and once via the Switch port. Yet I'm very much looking forward to replaying the remake. Seems like they've added some stuff to it like for example another class to play. I'm also very interested to see what they do with the first game, especially since the original had you going through the game solo and it was very short overall. 1 & 2 combined are only about equal to the length of 3. I feel like people could play through all 3 in about 50 hours. So definitely going to be interesting to see what kind of depth they add to it. Hopefully more interaction with NPCs and building of the characters. This stuff often fell to the wayside in games of that era where scripts had to be short and to the point to fit on the tiny cartridges, etc. My single gripe with the Remake of 3 is that you only see your characters in battle during the command phase. During the actual action phase of the battles, it zooms in on the enemy so you only see like the magic particles or the strike of your weapon. I feel like this was done to cheapen the cost by not having to show the characters animated for attacks. I know DQ 1-9 is this way so it's only keeping the old way, but I thought the point of this remake was to bring in modern things and feel like this is one thing I was really hoping they'd improve and do for it.

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