i got decently far in (i think ~7-8 volumes) and ended up stopping myself when i noticed i was doing a "trying to figure out what everyone else is getting from this" thing rather than actually engaging with it on its own terms
but maybe it would be worth giving another shot at some point
this exact feeling is why i didn't end up even finishing part 1 when i tried reading it around when part 2 started
hinomoto hikari wearing a light green and white track jacket with red accents (tokimeki memorial 2 screenshot)
great jacket
miyo takano driving with keiichi in the back of the car. the first panel she's just driving. the second, she says: "did you know that even with seat belts people due all the time in car crashes? i just thought that was interesting."
her
hell yeah, this is what the internet is for
it's becoming increasingly hard for me to understand how lrg is still able to sustain itself, why is anyone still willing to give them their money at this point?
tokimeki memorial 2 screenshot. kudanshita maeka introducing herself to the player character while making a delivery, giving her name, that she is 20 and single, and starting to deliver her body measurements before being stopped by her pager going off
always be sure to introduce yourself in the manner customary to those in the delivery profession when interacting with customers
according to the japanese internet if you meet kudanshita's requirements and another heroine's the game does a coinflip to decide who's ending you get, and surely nobody would spread false information about a game on the internet so going to go for both in one run which definitely wont end poorly!
tokimeki memorial 2 screenshot. an event in the childhood prologue with the player character suggesting to hikari that they hold hands so they don't get separated again
returning to tokimemo 2 for the few runs i have left that i still want to do. i somehow managed to go all my previous runs not realizing you could get this prologue event with hikari, i thought she went home when you got separated! good timing for me since i was intending to go for her this time
+15 laps
for those not following along with the f1 race at home, this is a different driver than in the previous image
+25.8 +48.2 +10 laps out
unbelievably funny thing to show up on the timing graphic and not be in error
guy from sales being tasked with creating a bundle that will make people turn the slider for the humble cut of the bundle up for the first time
why is "this game doesn't respect your time" always deployed for games that have the gall to ask the player to engage with them mechanically instead of essentially playing themselves and not forever games employing all the strongest developed-by-casinos technology for monopolizing the player's time
A screenshot of a bsky post from @griph, which reads: "my coworker carries a taser that she says she doesn't let men hold anymore because they immediately attempt to shock themselves to see if they can take it. i found this out when i asked her to see it fully intending to shock myself." There is a PNG of Keiichi Maebara (from Higurashi: When They Cry) looking a bit chastened, while behind him is a partially transparent PNG of Shion Sonozaki looking perturbed. Keiichi represents the OP and Shion represents the coworker.
it's fucked up that the youth of today have to discover their music taste however it is you do that in 2026 instead of getting it all through quake 3 frag and defrag movies
I just recently learned that episode 54 of the anime Kochikame focuses on a character becoming obsessed with playing "Dokidoki Memorial", a parody of Tokimeki Memorial. This episode aired in 1997, two years after Tokimeki blew up in the mainstream after the release of the PlayStation port in 95.
[taking notes] playing quake rocket arena is praxis, got it
no punishment too harsh for the corporate lawyers of video game companies that are petty enough to issue takedown requests to archive.org uploads of scans of video game manuals
love to click on a post to see what it's replying to, scroll 1 pixel too far up, and have bsky completely destroy itself loading a thread of 500 image posts simultaneously
the next version windows will be called windows 11.0 + 1.0 and each copy will contain the soul of one of the user's ancestors
"science adventure"
look inside
it's a vn
it's been a real depressing reason to have the decision to do that be made to seem better on such a frequently recurring basis
yeah, real weird to see people pointing at this to be like "look it's not what everyone thought", even though the thread is describing them doing an mtpe pass, which is exactly what the readme made it sound like was done
skill issue
screenshot of powerslave exhumed showing the artifact "sandals of ikumptet", with the description "increases jumping ability"
i don't care how much magic they've been imbued with, there's no way wearing a pair of flip flops is going to increase anybody's jumping ability
If you feel that use of AI art assets at any stage of the process is an automatic out, but ChatGPT translations are fine if they're "checked" by people, it might be worth asking yourself why that is. Because it sounds a whole lot like valuing the work of translators less than other creatives to me.
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the higurashi no naku koro ni kai title treatment as shown at the end of matsuribayashi-hen
i have finally finished higurashi! it was fantastic! i never want to play anything this long again! (<- is expecting a copy of umineko for the switch to arrive in the mail in the next few weeks)
the big saving grace of ddg for me is that like 95% of my searches are me wanting to go to a specific website and the !bangs on ddg are extremely good for that without me having to set up 3000 search engines in firefox
