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Armanky posted:Syo was fun in her own way though. I like how after a while it just didn't really bother anybody that she had proudly murdered dozens of innocent men in cold blood. Well, from a meta standpoint, it's just hard to be bothered by that when she's so drat likable. Over-the-top characters like that are always just so much fun. Actually, it's sort of that way in-universe kinda? I mean, it's not something that would ever make sense in the real world, but in terms of the surreal internal logic of Dangan Ronpa it makes total sense. Syo was in her own weird way extremely personable. In fact, she was kind of a little bit easier to get on with than Fukawa. Fukawa was always quick to judge other people shallowly and harshly and kind of distanced herself from other people and was always in a bad mood. Meanwhile, Syo is clearly having the time of her life no matter what's going on. And I don't think Syo cared much about anyone who wasn't Togami either, but she never pushed anyone away immediately like Fukawa did. In conclusion, Genocider Syo is a genocider bro.
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I know that she's one of the ones under suspicion, but I really think we can eliminate Pekoyama as a suspect for a meta reason: There's no way they're going to specifically request a voice actress as famous as Kotono Mitsuishi just to kill off her character in the very beginning of the game by execution.
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prahanormal posted:Indeed, I can think of no work that has ever killed off the character played by a famous actor early. I have also never watched Psyco. And Scream. And the thousand other movies that have done that. Yeah, fair enough. As several people have pointed out, it could go either way. To be honest, I just don't want Pekoyama to be the killer cause I think she's cool and would like to know more about her.
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Feb 24, 2013 21:59
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Powerfrog posted:I really dislike the over-use of the word despair when it makes much more sense to use another word. Not sure if this is the game or the translation (Assuming it's the game) but it doesn't read very well and I feel you'd get the sense despair is being caused if the word wasn't forced into every sentence. It's kinda... both-ish? It's both a problem with being too direct in translation and Japanese just not having as many words as English to describe emotion. I'm like 100% sure that it's just a direct translation of "zetsubou", which is a word those familiar with anime/otaku media have probably heard an awful lot. Agreed that it could stand to be used a little less, though. "Despair-inducing" is just kind of a really awkward construction that comes straight from translating from Japanese way too directly.
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The mystery was never really the important part of the game to me, to be honest. I was always much more interested in the character development. I mean, granted, part of that is because I'm poo poo at figuring out mysteries. But honestly, the compelling part to me was the motivation for the murders and how the survivors reacted to them.
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Feb 27, 2013 03:11
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Joenen posted:I hate to ask this style of question but after reading these past few pages.... I don't really have words to express how loving not cute and inappropriate this is.
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TKMobile posted:Honestly with the exception of the Slayers and Kino's Journey novels (which also didn't read like Light novels to me...) I've found most Light/Japanese novels with anime or manga ties to be somewhat shockingly formulaic in one regard: 80-90% of the time, the plot is structured around an unassuming male character who either meets, or has known/been friends with a particularly eccentric, unique female character who will *always* possess a strange outlook and/or behaviorism, or worse, just a gimmick. They then have an adventure or a conflict. The male character tends to have a one-note quality to an otherwise bland characterization, or they did something interesting in the past and or have something way out of left field happen to them during the plot. I like how you list the "Unassuming male character meets eccentric female character with a strange outlook" genre of light novel and then don't include Haruhi Suzumiya in the list. Of course, those light novels are actually well-executed, so... Sporkaganza fucked around with this message at 04:43 on Mar 13, 2013 |
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What I am getting out of this is Everything On The Internet Is Sacred and that nothing is allowed even some honestly pretty drat gentle mockery. The retsuprae isn't suggesting that they're all losers who should kill themselves or something. VoidBurger even said not to go harass them and to leave them alone. No one says Mystery Science Theater 3000 is a horrible television program because it might hurt the moviemakers' feelings, and they were much more vicious than what was posted here. Unless the RP group specifically finds out about this and asks us to stop, I don't see a problem. Now let's quit being babies.
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Miss Kalle posted:It's also going to be one cour, which is roughly around 13 episodes or so. I'm going to need some citation for this. I've checked the sources and been unable to come up with anyone explicitly saying it's only going to be one cour. Until I can actually see this explicitly being confirmed, I kinda have a feeling you're just making assumptions.
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Meaning there's probably either going to be hella streamlining or things getting chopped out of the story to fit. Or both!
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Phelddagrif posted:I know the Phoenix Wright games used every piece of evidence, but did DR1? I seem to recall there being some evidence in the last pair of cases that wasn't used, like the giant plant and the chickens, though I could be misremembering. If the fanservice shot isn't relevant, it's literally just a fanservice shot in incredibly poor taste, so it freaking better become relevant.
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Mar 23, 2013 07:22
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Shadoweh posted:Since for once I don't think anyone's posted a theory like this, this is my current theory for how the murder went down. Wow, that's actually... really depressing. I don't think it's going to happen, though. Watch as this turns out to be the thing that does happen, I'm poo poo with predictions. Sporkaganza fucked around with this message at 09:43 on Mar 23, 2013 |
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GilliamYaeger posted:The fanservice shot is there to prove that Hanamura wasn't in the room and is the culprit. Its going to be the final trump card - because he said nothing. Huh, that's a really good answer.
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Heatwizard posted:I don't know if Oren and friends actually bother to read the thread, since I've just been using the twitter account, but is there any chance future subtitled videos could render the speaker's name on the text boxes in English text? It's not a huge deal, especially since their mugshots are added to the transcripts, but it'd be nice and doesn't seem like it'd be a disproportionate amount of work. I don't know if this is necessary when you can see the sprites, but sometimes a character speaks offscreen, and then I agree that a name in the text box would be helpful.
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At this point, it looks like the prevailing theory about the culprit is going to be completely correct. Despite all of that conflicting evidence, it turns out that the first trial still looks to be fairly easy after all. Especially if we're going to suspend the trial to look for more evidence. Honestly, it's kind of a shame. Hopefully we'll get some more interesting trials down the line.
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Kangra posted:Use this for a clean version of Youtube : This is really cool. Actually, I think it's better than Polsy.
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Jeek posted:This is better for me because Polsy scretches the video wider than my screen Yeah seriously every time I click the Polsy link the video is just way the gently caress too huge. I always end up clicking the YouTube link anyway, so quietube seems like the ideal option.
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And she even has a specific expression just for when she's being mean too. What the hell are you even saying dude.
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Serious Frolicking posted:He thinks that stating the obvious counts as a brilliant observation. Here are some other incredibly insightful predictions: poo poo man, don't blow my mind with this stuff. Next you're going to be telling me that one of Hinata's hairs sticks up!
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Paracelsus posted:Right now, somewhere on tumblr, someone is being triggered by this flagrant display of cisgender privilege. can you loving not like here is a list of things that suck about your post •being triggered is not just "being kind of annoyed" it means that people have like, actual serious panic attacks and isn't funny to make fun of •trans* issues are also loving serious and not cool to make fun of •no one here cares about tumblr but you •the joke doesn't even make sense because the original post was just saying "these characters are women and these characters are not" with no mention of chromosomes in conclusion, can you loving not (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Phimose Knight posted:I agree. Frankly, these loving cunts (sorry, oval office-kins) who make fun of people being offended on the internet should be taken care of, preferably, insanely and brutally with machine guns and rocket launchers. :iamafag: oh my god you actually made my brain hurt a little with that one the monomi cake is very lovely and i think we should talk about that for about 100 pages now
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You know, all the evidence pointing at him besides, it was really obvious to me that Hanamura was the culprit by watching his behavior during the trial. He has a terrible poker face and was constantly sweating to boot. Plus, his attempts at trying to direct attention away from himself were pretty transparent.
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legoman727 posted:He clearly needs to wait a whole month between updates, but have the entire trial as one big update. I would actually almost prefer this.
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orenronen posted:"There’s a certain truth we’ve known since we were young... The sad thing about the society that we live in is that this first part of Nagito's speech is pretty much spot-on.
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Tomn posted:Personally, I thought he was saying that the existence of the social message was true, not the message itself. That is, that society has a tendency to say that anyone who fails to work hard or succeed is pretty much entirely worthless, which as far as I can tell is a pretty widely-held belief in East Asian societies. Okay, yeah, let me make clear that I don't AGREE with that line of thinking, I just think it's sadly pretty prevalent. And yeah, I was referring to the US, which is where I live, although I'm sure it's undoubtedly prevalent in East Asia as well. Pittsburgh Lambic posted:I like that her rationale for not bathing was that she couldn't tie her obi herself. Rather than tying it in a way that she could handle on her own, or eschewing the obi, or getting some clothes appropriate for crawling around in the sand on her hands and knees and murdering small animals, she just decided to never remove the obi and consequently never bathe. Apparently the last time she got dressed was the same morning that she arrived at Hope's Peak Academy. Hey, she's Super High School Level. You gotta take your talent seriously, man. Sporkaganza fucked around with this message at 02:07 on Apr 29, 2013 |
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distactedOne posted:Here's my question; if they had to make blood in the main game pink, why could they get away with red blood in Monomi's minigame? I'm going to guess it's because they're nonhuman enemies.
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Tea Bee posted:Actually, the word 'Kira' is just how Japan pronounces the English word 'Killer'. So, there's a chance it's a Death Note reference, but I'm going to guess it's just supposed to be 'Killerkiller'. The "warrior of justice" thing points more to a Death Note reference, though. Plus, I'm pretty sure you're severely underestimating the popularity of Death Note here. If it's an otaku-aimed game like this, the possibility that it ISN'T one is honestly pretty drat slim.
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thrips posted:I'm just hoping Kirakira is none of the students, only because DR1 did it already with Syo and I think I'll be disappointed if DR2 recycles the same twist, no matter how well it's done. I like the idea of trying to frame someone as Kirakira and then have it turn out that nope, no serial killers here. That would be a much more interesting payoff than just "Oh look, it's ANOTHER serial killer, just like the first time we did that."
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May 5, 2013 17:36
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SingerOfW posted:Why do I have this funny feeling that Nanami is bad at dating sims? So I'm not the only one who thought so. Social interaction is hard, man! Even if most dating sims don't have much to do with how socialization and romance actually works. Plus, I'm pretty sure at this point that the game is setting up a romance between her and Hinata, which would kind of make that sort of a... foreshadowing, I guess? That would pay off with them becoming closer. The other way to pay off that setup, of course, is for Nanami to die.
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tiistai posted:This was just perfect. When Saionji says she wants to "take care" of animals, I really can't imagine that as anything good...
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Popo posted:If we're honest Namami was always fanservice of a kind. My cute videogame playing anime girl who solves mysteries with me. Someone earlier in the thread pointed out that people would see her in the same cynical way no matter HOW she was presented in-game, though. It's either "my cute videogame playing anime girl who solves mysteries with me" or "Yo, I'm the Game Grl and I've got the scores, 'cause I whoop butt and game hardcore!" There's really no way to do it that can't be interpreted cynically, so it seems a bit unfair to level those accusations. Not that I doubt at all that she's been received that way by countless gamers.
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Coolguye posted:I was finding Koizumi's misandry almost as grating as Hanamura's misogynistic attitude so I can't say I'm sad to be rid of her. Though I am glad that Hanamura died sooner than her. I gotta say, for me Koizumi's disdain for men was basically her only interesting trait. I was kind of hoping she'd start calling out guys for being sexist or something but I always knew that given it's a Japanese thing and how stuff like Mikan's fanservice pose was handled that the chances of that happening were pretty close to zero.
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MadRhetoric posted:Yeah, searching for DR and expecting not to get spoiled is like searching pussy on Google and not expecting pornography. You should not search it here or there. You should not search it anywhere. You should not search them in a house. You should not search them with your mouse. Yeah, I'll see myself out now.
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How much of a mean-spirited, awful douche do you even have to be to pull a stunt like that, is what I'm wondering. People who poo poo on fandom literally just because there are a lot of excitable teens participating in it are basically the worst. And make no mistake - that's entirely what's going on here.
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i300 posted:Isn't one of the general rules of Something Awful to not be a total shithead? Are we even using the same site?
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thevoiceofdog posted:Here is a thing I (and a bunch of other cool people) made for the thread. Enjoy! That was pretty funny, nice work. Sporkaganza fucked around with this message at 07:04 on Jul 23, 2013 |
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I wouldn't necessarily say that I trust this LP's translation more than any other - I did end up reading another fan translation and finishing the story after all - but I definitely wouldn't want to see this one end. I definitely can appreciate this interpretation and more than that, given that the LP of the first game is why it was localized in the first place, it just feels plain wrong to stop it before it's finished. I'm glad they're finally being brought over to the West, but I think all of us will always have a soft spot for "Super High School Level", 'right?
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Confused Llama posted:And it's likely that the more iconic/memorable/clever a given localization decision from the LP is, the less likely NISA is going to be to use it, because that begins to encroach on thorny IP rights issues. They are not going to want to look like they're stealing anyone's work, so they're going to use something, anything, else even if they think that oren and Fedule's solution was the best one. There's interviews with some members of the NISA localization team around online somewhere where they said they purposely avoided looking at the Let's Play at all. I mean, take that with a grain of salt because of how publicity works and things like that, but if true it could mean they come up with the same thing entirely independently.
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ApplesandOranges posted:I'm curious if they're going to give Gundam an accent, like what they did with Celes. Heck, even Hanamura might get a 'posh' accent. I don't think Gundam will get an accent, but I've been thinking Sonia might get some kind of goofy pseudo-European accent. I'd be all over that.
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