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Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Bholder posted:

Oh boy, you gonna love the Heaven's Feel movie!

Tell me, how do you feel about "dick-worms"?
Possibly the best part of the franchise

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... actually wait a minute, you watched KnK and ignored the part where the evil rapist guy literally liked and bite every part of Shiki's body in a painfully slow manner? Or where that woman whose name I've already forgotten got raped on screen?

It was a thing that happened in the movies, yes. Didn't approve though.

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Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Baal posted:

It was in the original VN and this was something they decided to be faithful to it for no real reason.
I'd imagine the reason was to tittilate the viewers.

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Bad Seafood posted:

Liveposting is cool and kosher, just announce you're doing it beforehand and check to make sure it's not in the middle of some big discussion going on. Otherwise you just look like a guy who's posting a lot for no reason, which ruffles feathers.

Thank you.

I approve of him breaking up the gatcha chat

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

BlitzBlast posted:

I'm so loving happy right now you have no idea.

im going to destroy your smile

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

The Unholy Ghost posted:

I'm new to the Fate series. I finished Fate/Zero recently and am about halfway through Fate/Stay Night 2006 (Yeah I know, wrong order. Blame my friend.)

No spoilery details, can someone give me a yes/no answer on whether Saber/Artoria remembers the events from Fate/Zero? It seems like she doesn't.

Kinda, but because zero is a prequel sequel not specifically

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Wuxi posted:

Why are you watching the 2006 series instead of the actual good anime, UBW 2014?

I'd imagine its because ubw is the second arc and he doesn't want to commit to a vn.

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

The stay night adaptation isn't the best, but I don't think there's too much lost in terms of critical plot beats. Problem with watching zero first is that you already know most of the big reveals

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

The Unholy Ghost posted:

I'll read ataraxia since there's no anime of it. (Yes, behold my revolting anime morality).

KnK I'll be watching at the same place I watch F/SN 2006. If Crunchyroll doesn't have something I have no choice but to use :filez:

You can pay money to own knk legally, and you should.

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

You can also pay money to own the stay night anime. You totally have a choice

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

The Unholy Ghost posted:

Yeah? Looking at this Kara no kyoukai box set on amazon, great price.

it's kind of like i have the choice to kill myself every day but i don't. yep, we all have choices

I paid for it.

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Sidesaddle Cavalry posted:

I would have had a respectable job with a great amount of disposable income to be able to afford the Kara no Kyoukai box set by now

Instead, I became interested in anime

I'm a nurse, just save up

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Nate RFB posted:

Yep, got a translation patch and everything. I've been slowly replaying FSN with this new setup (currently about 2/3 of the way through HF) and it's pretty cool. Much better effects and such compared to the original game with a separate RN patch. I think the RN art assets and new CGs are higher resolution too, since it's not an PS2 upscale anymore. There's an alternate version of that translation patch that also adds in the Vita music and openings, but it's not really worth it IMO because the Vita openings are implemented rather poorly and the Vita music sucks. It also added the porn back in as a toggleable option which it defaults to "On" for some stupid reason.

The porn is the true original experience is why

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

it is finally time. I have completed the fate route, now it is time for unlimited blade works. Tosaka's lewd anus awaits

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

My whole life has been unlimited poo poo posts

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

People getting trolled by the gatcha game is pretty good imo

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

I am the bone of my keyboard
Owns are my body and trolling is my blood
I have created over a thousand posts
Unaware of mods, Nor aware of self
Withstood pain to create jokes, waiting for one’s arrival
I have no regrets. This is the only path
My whole life was unlimited poo poo posts

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Sanguinia posted:

Did you mean Bane?

I always mean exactly what I type

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

The Unholy Ghost posted:

Two questions after watching Fate/Zero, Fate/Stay Night (2006), and beginning F/SN: Unlimited Blade Works...

1. When Saber says that her goal with the Holy Grail is to save her country, is she referring to the long-lost Britain of the past that was presumably wrecked in the war she died in, or is she referring to Britain in general and she knows that some future disaster is going to hit the United Kingdom?

2. Is the ending of Fate/Stay Night with Saber "going back in time" her dream/heaven? I'm assuming it can't possibly be real because her having Excalibur thrown back into the lake and denying her destiny would create a time paradox.

Obviously sabers story is based on the legend of king Arthur. Within the vn, Arthurian becomes the king and tries to be the ideal of the perfect king, winning many internal wars. After leaving the country to quest for the grail she comes back and finds the country in civil war led by her son. Arthur is then forced to fight and kill all her comrades and is the lone survivor of the battle on a hill of bodies.

As she lies mortally wounded she makes a wish, that if she finds the grail she will wish to go back in time and not pull the sword from the stone as she feels that there could have been someone more suitable to be king.

This wish makes her a special case servant, which is why she appears in two wars in a row and retains her memory from the first war. At the end of the fate route she comes to realise that her time as king was worth it and that she should embrace the pain. Saber is then able to use this resolution to personally reject the grail after she has the chance to gain it, thus breaking the wish.

All this time her original body has been in a state of magical temporal flux. She is returned and able to finish her life with the experience she has acquired.

Basically it's magical time travel and much better explained in the vn

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

The usual methods of servant generation is that a photocopy of a dead hero is summoned and destroyed at the end, they cannot gain experience between wars or retain memories.

As saber is not dead, she herself is summoned and fights, then returns to a state of stasis if unsuccessful.

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Tunicate posted:

3) If she takes avalon with her when she vanishes, doesn't that mean she survives her wounds and creates a new timeline anyway?

She only takes the experience and the lessons she learned back with her.

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Raenir Salazar posted:

I actually had decided I would just settle for the 35$ quartz buy since it would bring me to 44 quartz which would give me my second 10 roll in total and I was rewarded for my fiscal responsibility.*

*The phone itself costs 120$, plus 20$ for the protective case and screen protection and now another 30$ probably to fix the audio jack.

:stare:

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010


Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Nah real saber is the top tier wife

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

BlitzBlast posted:

The only good Saber is a Red Saber.

better dead than red (saber)

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Compendium posted:

I see that jail time is waiting for all of us

I don't play the bad mobile game

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Compendium posted:

It was funny before, but now not really

im waiting patiently for the fate movies or the tsukihime remake or literally anything else happening itt

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Things I like

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

TheLovablePlutonis posted:

Yeah and it has Casko and the artist was a known h-artist and he apparently has a Josh Tejada level giantess fetish considering how the current arc is Hakuno being bullied by Giant Sakura

I'm going to read this now

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010


I wish I wish I were that fish

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010


Looks like an expensive art book

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

I've been trying to read all of fsn for 4 years :(

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Captain Baal posted:

Why didn't I watch these movies sooner

I told you.

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Sylphid posted:

Assuming I *ever* get Artoria, she's going up to level 100 like crazy. The once and future queen of Type-Moon, and the truest waifu.

Blue saber best saber

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Endorph posted:

for real tho nasu's always had an interest in non-standard depictions of sexuality and gender. kara no kyoukai is really weird and ??? about it but it's also pretty much explicitly about ryougi's gender identity, tsukihime has akiha and kohaku loving and despite there being a plot reason for it i dont think akiha needed to get her blood from kohaku's fine titties, f/sn is basically filled with it. he hasnt really shied away from it in any place. enkidu and gilgamesh have a pretty explicitly loving relationship, and ccc especially is pretty much about how and why people might want to gently caress and the various combinations in which they'd want to gently caress, and what those desires to gently caress say about us as human beings.

nasu, honestly, is at his best when he's writing weird psychoanalytical comedy about sex, as opposed to horror or action. and i like his horror and action.

I normally agree with a lot of things you post but we both know that there was no alternative for akihas blood supply.

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Endorph posted:

also she could have sucked on kohaku's neck is what i meant. she literally chomps on kohaku's boobs. there are places on a woman's body that have blood besides the boobs.

I don't understand

Space Flower posted:



maybe gender identity is what started it all... makes u think

Even if I wonder how much of that he was thinking at the time and how much is him reflecting after 10 years, it's still interesting.

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

From what little of tsukihime ive read shiki seems like a badass

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

This translation is unacceptable

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Irony Be My Shield posted:

Leaving aside whatever retroactive lore stuff I thought the issue with what Artoria was doing in FSN was that she was trying to undo her own accomplishments in the misguided belief that someone else could've done better. I think she could reasonably go back to being a hero after her death once she had come to accept it.

her wish in fsn would have been to retroactively not have pulled the sword from the stone because her view of being a king was to live a life of service and it all fell apart. i dont play grand order so if they retconned that i dont know about it

Namtab fucked around with this message at 02:30 on Jul 31, 2023

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

she doesnt neccesarily win every fight in the vn, but she generally achieves her objective for the battle

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Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Going back to the original question, within the context of the universe at that point the saber class was agile, resilient, has the best magic resistance meaning that caster is less of a threat, and is just generally the strongest at fighting. The only real weakness saber class has is that they were all swordsmen, but this was compensated for by swordsmen generally having the most iconic legends - the legend of King Arthur being paramount among them.

Within universe despite being held back both times, first by a master who had no intention of using her and then by a master ill equipped to use her, artoria still managed to win the holy grail war in all routes where it was run “normally”. Saber lived up to being the strongest card throughout all the routes.

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