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Rosa Gallica posted:But I'm not sure if that will ultimately mean anything or if it's just a consequence of having the same character designer.
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# ¿ Dec 17, 2012 09:02 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 11:50 |
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Having had full intros and a better chance to look at the characters, Nagito, Akane and Togami strike me as drawn to look older than the rest of the cast. Thought I was just imagining it at first, and that it wouldn't actually be the case, but now I'm starting to lean a little more toward the three of them being returning cast members (well, Fatogami's a bit of a no-brainer, but still). If Nagito isn't Naegi, he's a fuckin' plant. He knows way too much and is way too encouraging about playing along with the rabbit.
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# ¿ Dec 30, 2012 10:53 |
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God dammit, Aoi is fuckin' terrible at "in disguise." "Uh, I'm kinda bored. Mind if I go swimming?" <moments later> "Yeah, so we're trapped on this island. No boats, no planes, no communication, no nothing." "Can't we just swim back?" TheGreatGildersneeze fucked around with this message at 07:08 on Jan 3, 2013 |
# ¿ Jan 3, 2013 07:01 |
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Omniphile posted:As for the Akane = Aoi theorists, how do you explain her having a completely different voice/voice actress?
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# ¿ Jan 4, 2013 00:38 |
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Lady Rapunzel posted:
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# ¿ Jan 4, 2013 01:35 |
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:OK, I've got a question for Oren and/or Fedule.
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# ¿ Jan 6, 2013 16:53 |
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Author-Man posted:But I dunno, the wooden rod being stuffed into her kind of pushes it over the line. Not that I'm complaining, mind. This is totally in-character for Monobear and I for one am totally looking forward to seeing where they plan to go with this and also if we'll get more explanation of that drat rod (assuming it wasn't just a gag.)
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# ¿ Jan 6, 2013 17:43 |
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:What the hell? I'm legitimately curious about this since I work with translated material a lot as a historian and the actual process of translating things from one language to another interests me.
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# ¿ Jan 6, 2013 22:32 |
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SingerOfW posted:Sorry for interrupting DR0 discussion, but I just wanted to post something as a celebration of our new protagonist's birthday
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# ¿ Jan 8, 2013 01:53 |
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CrashScreen posted:Please don't do this. We don't need to apply Japanese words like the anime fan communities do. "Shut-in" more than does the job, and this should honestly not even be something of value worth debating. You might as well start using the Japanese word for chair because the chairs in the game were designed by Japanese artists.
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# ¿ Jan 14, 2013 00:24 |
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Trasson posted:Considering almost every time if not all the time the random references were there in the source material, I'm not quite sure why everyone persists in asking a question along these lines every time it comes up. Gotta be half of them at least.
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# ¿ Jan 14, 2013 16:54 |
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Antivehicular posted:It's not just you -- I'm pretty disturbed by Junko's treatment of Ryouko, and in general Ryouko makes me really sad. (I considered making an effortpost about how sad it was that her entire life is built around being a high-school student, and yet her neurological problems make her incapable of conscious learning.) I assume it's intentional, though, since Junko is well-established as a psychotic antagonist.
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# ¿ Jan 15, 2013 14:13 |
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Ratoslov posted:It is definitely a Wuxia thing. In a lot of kung-fu stories, your kung-fu style is a direct extension of your soul, your philosophy of life, and whatever skills you hold. So even if two people are trained in the same art by the same teacher, you can totally tell the difference between one student being a buddhist saint or a cynical legalist, or one guy being a poet and the other a fisherman, just by watching them fight. God drat I love bad kung-fu movies
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# ¿ Jan 27, 2013 10:43 |
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Six Of Spades posted:Daggers 8. Features a guy who runs a noodle store and proceeds to trash everyone with oversized chopsticks. It was my dad's favourite kung-fu movie, and now it's mine too! It's my all-time favorite bad kung-fu movie. This audio clip from the English dub is my current text message received sound. And this audio clip features the worst comeback to a death threat in history. TheGreatGildersneeze fucked around with this message at 09:19 on Jan 28, 2013 |
# ¿ Jan 28, 2013 02:08 |
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Ratoslov posted:Yeah, but more subtle wuxia stuff will have the same ideas, but implemented differently. In the classier kind of Wuxia story, the stereotypical Poet-turned-warrior will favor the jian, which is the favored weapon of gentlemen and scholars and whose fencing style is often compared to calligraphy. He'll also favor dramatic swooping strikes and maybe use a swooning movement to dodge, and will go for elaborate fancy moves. A fisherman will instead prefer a spear or Dao, prefer rapid thrusts and linear movements, and in general fight simply and pragmatically. Jeek posted:Why have I never seen this movie despite living in Hong Kong And regardless of where anyone lives, you should all sit down and watch that movie. It's delightfully insane. Also, I forgot about the part where Granny follows up Giant Pipe-Fu with a sword which would give Cloud Strife grounds to crack wise about "compensating for something."
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# ¿ Jan 28, 2013 09:17 |
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HelloWinter posted:A bit late for contributing, but here we go anyway: Did any of you weirdos going on about "doesn't want to swim, eeeeeeh? " ever think about more mundane reasons, like "aquaphobia?" wikipedia posted:People suffer aquaphobia in many ways and may experience it even though they realize the water in an ocean, a river, or even a bathtub poses no imminent threat. They may avoid such activities as boating and swimming, or they may avoid swimming in the deep ocean despite having mastered basic swimming skills.[3] This anxiety commonly extends to getting wet or splashed with water when it is unexpected, or being pushed or thrown into a body of water.
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# ¿ Jan 31, 2013 01:32 |
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Zaxoran posted:A lot of people seem to think that this is solid proof that Togami lost his memory, but then again maybe he doesn't mean what we think he means when he says this line. Perhaps he still knows Monobear, but his real question is who is the person controlling Monobear, which makes sense since he saw Monobear's original master die with his own eyes. As to why he worded it so awkwardly so that you can't tell if he's talking about the puppet or the mastermind, I'm pretty sure that's just Dangan Ronpa loving with us again. Tombolo posted:This would be a fine logic to apply in real life. I would like to remind you, however, that this is a anime-heavy, fanservicey visual novel about a bunch of over-the-top high schoolers being coerced to murder each other by a robotic teddy bear. Aquaphobia may be mundane in reality, but this is fiction, and not the kind of fiction where something like that is likely to occur. It is, however, the kind of fiction where crossdressing isn't out of the question! I could be wrong and Kuzuryuu is just too cool to join the group, but I don't imagine there's a deep reason behind the refusal other than that or something to hide physically. Edit: \/\/\/Maybe because this glorious leap of logic was in response to a post I made and I felt the need to rebut? I responded fairly harshly, I admit, but holy poo poo, that leap of logic is a) weird and b) stupid beyond belief. TheGreatGildersneeze fucked around with this message at 04:24 on Jan 31, 2013 |
# ¿ Jan 31, 2013 03:15 |
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I'm going to put forth this one last bit because I found this incredibly offensive, then I'm dropping this poo poo entirely until there's a reason (i.e., the character is revealed to be a crossdresser and I say "hey, y'all were right."). I am not "grossed out" by the concept of a crossdresser. Being grossed out by gender/sexual identity concepts is a pretty lovely way to think, to be honest, and I'd appreciate if you stopped trying to turn my distaste at your obsession with a pet theory into "oh you think crossdressers are gross!"
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# ¿ Jan 31, 2013 05:56 |
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Jeek posted:I assume Junko was saying that the kanji for "virginity" is similar to that of Dong Zhou and then went off a tangent on other characters in the Romance of Three Kingdoms? In that case, the English translation can probably do something similar with Virgil.
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# ¿ Feb 6, 2013 16:50 |
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SingerOfW posted:So basically, it would've been the same as misspelling "Fire" as "Fyre" and Hanamura saying that it's spelled with an I? Or is that mistake not common enough to match the original joke? It's more like when retards say "for all intensive purposes" instead of "for all intents and purposes," only if "for all intensive purposes" made the phrase mean "for all a lot of blowjobs." And then a perverted teenage master chef subtly calls you out on unintentionally offering everyone a lot of blowjobs. Basically, it doesn't happen very much in English. The joke is lost in translation. Now it's horribly unfunny because it had to be explained to death. This may be why orenronen seems to not want to go back and explain every last little barely translateable joke/pun translation decision. It makes things less funny. TheGreatGildersneeze fucked around with this message at 17:21 on Feb 7, 2013 |
# ¿ Feb 7, 2013 16:40 |
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Carlioo posted:Something tells me that it's the second option, considering how he has acted so far in the game. I mean, I know this is Dangan Ronpa/anime and all, but running a restaurant would probably be too much for a high school student.
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# ¿ Feb 8, 2013 02:11 |
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Poulpe posted:There's going to be a murder sooon! I'm so stoked!
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# ¿ Feb 9, 2013 08:46 |
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V!ntar posted:This might have been answered before in the thread (I'm pretty new to this one ), but what the hell is up with Ibuki's leg in the official art?
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# ¿ Feb 9, 2013 16:42 |
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Oh. Well in that case, clearly it's a male survivor from the last game who is wearing some poor girl's skin as a suit as the ultimate cross-dresser who secretly survived their execution through means unknown and now has teamed up with Alter Ego to create a VR simulation of a hope-filled field trip to combat the despair but will be killed by his own creation! Why do you think Ibuki talks in the third person? Yeah, that's right. Sure, you're calling it a stupid theory backed up by absolute bullshit I just made up right this very second now, but I'm sure I'll be vindicated in the end!
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# ¿ Feb 9, 2013 17:10 |
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RefinedUndefined posted:Besides, who would have enough free time and patience to go through the entire thread to find posts that awful.
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# ¿ Feb 9, 2013 18:07 |
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I know this is a big thread, but would you be a lamb and at least read the last page of the thread before mashing "reply?" Edit: or at the very least, the three replies after the post you were replying to? TheGreatGildersneeze fucked around with this message at 23:29 on Feb 9, 2013 |
# ¿ Feb 9, 2013 23:24 |
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Either the scar I missed shows up through the first hole in the blue one, or those are some REALLY specifically patterned tights. Edit: "And for all you girls who suffered massive trauma or had some surgery down the outside of your left leg, try these!" TheGreatGildersneeze fucked around with this message at 23:36 on Feb 9, 2013 |
# ¿ Feb 9, 2013 23:31 |
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Poulpe posted:Yes, okay, precisely, I get that, and while I'm not going back on the theory being completely stupid, for the sake of argument, why would they leave six people motionless/unsurrounded? It would have been trivial to illustrate some photographs or film blowing around Mahiru Koizumi, but they chose not to, while Nagito in particular really didn't.. need the motion blur. At all.
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# ¿ Feb 10, 2013 00:13 |
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ApplesandOranges posted:Yeah, I wonder how Nagito did that stick thing without Kuzuuryu being there? Did he remove a stick before the drawing? Or is that going to be an important thing later on? What's way more interesting is that he made the lots because he figured there wouldn't be a volunteer to clean up a house he supposedly didn't know they were going to use for a party he supposedly didn't know was going to happen. Unless, of course, the story's implying Nagito figured there would be a situation of any kind sometime in the future where they'd have no willing volunteers.
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# ¿ Feb 10, 2013 19:43 |
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CrashScreen posted:^^^ Keep in mind now that it's open to the public it'll be drawing the wrong sort of crowds too. There's also all the fanbases on Tumblr, so if a character is exceptionally outstanding later they'll probably get voted in now, regardless of how this thread feels. I won't doubt that there'll be eccentric fans who'll vote multiple times for their character too. orenronen posted:おはいただきますよう ...oren! That's not very nice at all! TheGreatGildersneeze fucked around with this message at 16:39 on Feb 11, 2013 |
# ¿ Feb 11, 2013 16:34 |
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Like I said before, the only thing that hints at any kind of a plot is that Nagito made the lots supposedly before Togami revealed the plan and the need to clean the house arose. It's easily explained by him having the foresight (note: not foreknowledge) to figure that a bunch of teenagers thrown together on an island might have to take care of some moderately disagreeable task that no one wants to do and drawing lots is the fairest way to go about picking the person(s) who will be responsible. Luckily (ho ho) for him, this very sort of thing came up and everyone present agreed to the idea.
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# ¿ Feb 12, 2013 01:54 |
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Sweet crackers, the game is just beating us over the head with "It's the same Togami" suggestions in this free-time. Edit: note to self. If you answer a phone call mid-post, refresh before posting to see if what you're saying has been posted already.
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# ¿ Feb 13, 2013 07:13 |
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Security camera network notwithstanding, there's a big problem with faking a murder/death if the intent is to work against Monobear from behind the scenes. To truly fake a murder and be presumed dead, especially if you're working with an accomplice to set up the false murder, someone's going to have to take the fall and be executed unless the "victim" outs him/herself before the trial is over. That would defeat the whole purpose of the plan unless the information/goal/whatever you're after can be found in the brief amount of time Monobear/Junko allowed for investigation of the murder pre-trial. That, or your accomplice has to be willing to die for the cause of stopping Monobear, which seems relatively unlikely from a bunch of high school kids. Silly theorizing: I also wonder if, given a faked murder for which there is no actual correct culprit to nail yet one is chosen at trial, would Monobear call that an incorrect answer and execute everyone? It'd cut his despair game quite short but, given that we're in a sequel, it doesn't seem that Monobear's terribly short on participants for a round three, as it were.
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# ¿ Feb 23, 2013 02:03 |
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Waffleman_ posted:Alright, how the gently caress can this be relevant? The one other thing I haven't noticed anyone mention (apologies if I missed it) is that the knife is pretty clearly a kitchen knife and not (for lack of a better term here) a combat knife. It has a wooden handle with the little hole at the base of the hilt for hanging on a hook instead of a grip more typical of a knife intended for weapon use. Edit: thinking about it, I can't really come up with sound logical reasoning for Nagito to have been a secret co-planner of the party even with him just happening to have the lots made up for cleaning duty; I'm scratching that idea. TheGreatGildersneeze fucked around with this message at 07:35 on Feb 27, 2013 |
# ¿ Feb 27, 2013 07:24 |
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RefinedUndefined posted:I've actually mentioned a possible origin for the knife, the kitchen of the resturant that is in the hotel. It is, after all, the only other place that we know off that has kitchen knives, besides the supermarket, possibly. I wouldn't have figured on a multiple-location investigation right off the bat; usually even sequels have the first scenario as a "gimmie" style pseudo-tutorial to accommodate people who didn't play the first game, but perhaps Spike was figuring on more veterans than new players.
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# ¿ Mar 1, 2013 01:17 |
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Krinkle posted:I'm glad it's not a drainage grate, I mean for that to be the answer to the murder from under the floorboards they'd just have to be draining their loose meat juices into the dirt under the cabin. That'd have to be a health code violation or at least extremely nasty.
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# ¿ Mar 3, 2013 05:57 |
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Please, everyone knows that Monobear is the avenging angel of Santa Claus, here to rid the world of the Easter Bunny at the request of the Loch Ness Monster. The children are actually The Patriots (The PATRIOTS?!), the "traitor" is Solid Brady, and they're being virtual reality trained to win the World Series despite being AI versions of dead president football players. It's so obvious!
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# ¿ Mar 8, 2013 16:30 |
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Brannock posted:Oh, one more thing - I think Nagito knows who did it, or at least has a healthy suspicion. He might be figuring that, well, if there's already a murder, maybe it's better to just have the murderer win the game instead of keeping on forcing friends to kill each other. He was acting very strangely after we inspected the storage room and suddenly had to go brood and calm down.
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# ¿ Mar 9, 2013 19:41 |
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Exercu posted:Hm, yeah, if you want to keep with a strict blade metaphor, it's going to be hard to find something that isn't groan-worthy. "CUT THE BULLSHIT, [suspect]!" >slams fists into desk and looks menacing< It'd be way out of character for our hero. The current translation works fine even with the bad pun, and it's funny to imagine someone saying something so goofy anyway. It's like a kid trying to be a big shot lawyer (probably because he technically is trying to emulate a lawyer/investigator), but he's only seen those on TV dramas or something.
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# ¿ Mar 14, 2013 16:43 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 11:50 |
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Justin_Brett posted:Unless the glow can go through the table-cloth, doubtful. It is just packing tape. orenronen posted:
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# ¿ Mar 16, 2013 20:40 |