Murmur - 13

[michifugu]

Long time no update, but my mom was discharged from the hospital on the 28th, and she’s been improving since then. Unfortunately, she was diagnosed with thyroid cancer, but I’m really hoping it isn’t too serious.

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The Epstein files got released, and honestly… I’m not shocked at how vile billionaires are. My deepest condolences to the victims. But I’m genuinely baffled by one detail: apparently Epstein visited the yuri (/u/) board on 4chan??? Like… what???

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Also, I haven’t logged into Uma in months. I think it’s because I’ve been hooked on Handora lately, but honestly, the whole “log in just to do daily chores” routine is so tedious. I don’t think I’m built for soshage anymore.

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I’m losing it over how Asada Nemui apparently got “cancelled” in Japan over a so-called “misandry” tweet. It’s honestly hilarious. And she wasn’t even wrong—if porn made by men can be full of misogyny, why can’t porn for women have a bit of misandry? The whole thing started because some joyless idiot tried to “well actually” her joke tweet (about not minding playboy-type characters suffering in BL manga) and insinuated she was being malicious. Like… no shit I'd get annoyed too lol.

It’s kind of funny as well, that she got cancelled by both Westerners and Japanese people over the exact same tweet. First Westerners called her misogynist and homophobic because she’s too male-centric and always tortures men, and now Japanese Twitter is calling her misandrist and homophobic too. like wtf?

Honestly, this whole debacle just reminds me there’s a subset of chronically online Japanese wokescolds (porikore) who’ve fully drank western reactionary puritanical kool-aid and get offended by everything. (kind of funny they believe misandry is real), and some are even accusing Asada's as misogyny because they think her latest work is insulting feminist organizations. really insane

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On a lighter note, I’ve been playing Pokémon Sun and Moon, and I’ve been downloading a bunch of PS1 and PS2 games because I realized I barely played JRPGs on those consoles. Lately I’ve been downloading a lot of SMT games too.

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I also read an article about how younger gamers in Japan might not form the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest, because modern dev cycles last as long as their entire childhood. And like… yeah, no shit. Waiting more than 3 years between entries kills that connection.

This obsession with chasing graphics was such a mistake. Nintendo was right not to go all-in on realism and insane budgets. Square Enix seems addicted to making everything hyper-realistic, and DQ feels like it’s stuck in development hell. Honestly, DQ should just copy Gust or Falcom’s approach and recycle assets—most DQ players don’t care that much about cutting-edge graphics anyway.

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I need Xenoblade fans to STOP insisting that Monolith’s fantasy artwork means their next game is some medieval RPG. Full stop. That was promotional art for Zelda recruitment. I’m so tired of people using it as “proof” of a new fantasy project.

Comments

[kalloway]

I don’t think I’m built for soshage anymore.

I just keep dropping games and half the ones I have left I just log in, get the gift, ignore dailies, and wander off. I think I'll always keep a few around to play during dull stretches at work but so much of the thrill is gone.

[michifugu]

Same lol, honestly I don't even play soshage anymore, only umamusu currently but even the honeymoon phase is already over.
Trying to log in seems painful now

[guildrone]

Long time no update, but my mom was discharged from the hospital on the 28th, and she’s been improving since then. Unfortunately, she was diagnosed with thyroid cancer, but I’m really hoping it isn’t too serious.

Sheesh—consider my fingers crossed, for both your sakes.

I also read an article about how younger gamers in Japan might not form the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest, because modern dev cycles last as long as their entire childhood. And like… yeah, no shit. Waiting more than 3 years between entries kills that connection.

This obsession with chasing graphics was such a mistake.[…]

It genuinely was; I still get a bit of whiplash listening to ’90s/’00s game (series) retrospectives on YT whenever the essayists say stuff like “after the success of the original release, a sequel followed two years later”—like, I don’t doubt that games were still a grind to develop back then, but I’d imagine that way more of it was spent on designing and playtesting rather than making sure every wrinkle on an NPC’s face is rendered just right across all their microexpressions…

[michifugu]

yeah, like I'm sure back then there's a lot of crunch to make dev able to release the game fast but at the same time, older game not demanding higher graphic does have its own perk & people can easily reuse asset multiple times.
Meanwhile, newer games with bigger scope & graphic demand more asset, doesn't help most mainstream game dev aiming for hyperrealistic graphic......