AshTheAvaricious wrote:

yeas.... play it NYOW. go insane.

it's high up on my list for sure. i know it will 100% make me insane which is why i keep putting off sorryyy

LazyOwlViolet wrote:

i can send the link to my profile if you want?

the lore of that game is strange TWO character with a c for a secret identity? why not but still strange
 

don't worry I found it (thumbs up)

also I can see how it's confusing but it's very much intentional that there's two "C"s -- the best way to explain without overexplaining it is that the second guy was intentionally trying to copy the image of the first C, like a copycat criminal almost

It'll be fun!! Again it's not an obligation by any means, enjoying it is the more important part

in other news: I've been playing through Trails into Reverie this month and finally finished up the main story. I am [rambling incoherently noises]. Congrats to Mr. Spoiler Man for successfully completing his redemption arc and doing so in a way that made me want to explode (in a positive way?? I guess????)
^ I'm being vague but like. shoutout to these endgame lines they killed me even though they're so silly

(these images are only spoilers if you know what's happening. I imagine out out of context they sound baffling. also the image links may break in the future since they're from discord but shhhh. I am back in my Trails/Kiseki brainrot era)

Echo I think I found your account so I gave it a follow (thumbs up)

Also no worries Time and Vio! There isn't any really obligation with Artfight -- last year was my first year participating and I was completely surprised by the amount I managed to draw but even if you do join a team you don't need to force yourself to do anything. Even just making one attack is something, so long as you have fun while making it

stopping by to say hi! i will be doing artfight again this year !! sorry again for being super inactive but I'd love to attack you guys (artistically) if I can (:<
I know Specter and Galaxian are on there but if anyone else here does it please say hi

Time wrote:

 Ah that may be something. I most games I play really long so that's probably why I can't get much of a playthrough. It may also have to do with mindsets. Just to compare, when I start up a new playthrough, I predict that I will make a full run through the game, no matter how long. Is that the same for you? Or is it more just reliving the game once again?

Ah, that might be it. I don't have any qualms about playing longer games but very rarely do I actively start up additional playthroughs of them (ex: the Trails games. I put like 130 hrs in my first playthrough of Cold Steel 4 and though I've tried a second run I haven't really made much progress on it because I just cannot find it in me to commit to a new run, no matter how much I love that game); if I want to revisit certain parts, I'll typically search up specific scenes on YouTube or something. When I boot up a new run of Pokemon, though, I'm really just doing it for the gameplay, because that's where my fun is.

SpecterTheGreat wrote:

 That said, I'm greatly enjoying the book! Maybe more than I should, lol, cause I've noticed I'm getting a littttle obsessive over it, and I already know what happens to my mind when I start to get like that. I haven't finished but I'm drawing close to what seems to be the final stretch (if we count in remaining pages) and I can't wait to see what happens next now. I feel like I could write essays on the story and the metaphors and stuff, and I kind of wish I could but also I'm super lazy so no. What I want to do when I'm finished is to look up some analyses and then look up some references from the story that I didn't catch. Meanwhile, I'm still trying to stay calm about it haha, uhhh organize my thoughts and stuff so I don't just post the nonsense that goes on in the thing I call a brain.

Ahahaha I don't blame you for obsessing about it, it's a good book for sure! And don't worry about organizing your thoughts, sometimes just randomly speaking your

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Time wrote:

Oh shoot the curse of forgetting to look up when responding to posts. Always happens to me. Thank goodness Autumn responded or else I wouldn't missed your last response 💀

Queequeg design
Certainty a strong woman... she's like a full head taller than Ish. Say, was there any metaphors about rope or knots in the book?

Oooh that's a really good design. And yes, there were! Many! I don't remember them too well but if I remember right there's at least a whole chapter dedicated to rope/knots. One of the interpretations I remember is how the rope is a physical reminder of how the ship crew and their fates are connected

Time wrote:

As to the replay value...
I see, just to relive the tale again. I can somewhat get that. Yeah. While I haven't rewatched entire shows through and through or reread books all the way, I do still check out specific scenes mostly check for hidden details of get some creative inspiration. But I have not gone enough to complete a game say, 4 times, or start a new playthrough 25 times. Maybe it could also be the length of time it takes to complete a game? How long are Pokemon games and Zelda games?

Pokemon White is like, a 10 hour game maybe? Depends on how long you spend grinding. Most of my playthroughs of that game don't get past the 2-3 hour mark (what will happen is that I start a playthrough, play it for 1-2 days, and then forget about it for like 9 months and then want to restart). My most "current" one is probably the closest I've gotten to the ending in a while, I think I'm around 15 or so hours into it (I stopped right around Victory Road/pre-endgame) but that playthrough is very intentionally slower
But also yeah I do like to revisit specific scenes as well, especially with games that are on the longer end. The shear number of times I've gone back to watch particular clips from the Trails games is almost concerning (but it's still better than committing to a new 70hr long playthrough for each game)

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SpecterTheGreat wrote:

Procrastination (and actually doing some things for once) got me and I didn't reply until now
Anyways I feel like I might give a few thoughs once I'm done with the book. Genuinely haven't been reading much this week lol but it's always a good time to pick up the book and continue reading! I agree that it's a weird read, but part of that makes it super interesting to me. I remember when reading the first chapters my thoughts were literally "Wow, the style is so interesting. I wouldn't want to write like that though. But it's still so interesting." It's definitely out of the ordinary. 
I don't think that even being told that the author likes to infodump would have prepared me for that chapter which is like a whale encyclopedia 😭 although since everything is from the protagonist's pov it's more interesting to read? I do like the way his thoughts are sprinkled in between the narrative. That's fun.

 LOL yeah that's exactly the chapter I was thinking about I think. As a narrator, Ishmael is incredibly interesting to think about (what does he add? what does he omit?) but I'll wait until you get further because there's some chapters that really make you go "huh" if you think about the fact that it's Ishmael who's supposed to be narrating. Also yeah Moby-Dick is such an adventure precisely because you don't know what you're getting into before it's too late 

SpecterTheGreat wrote:

What work is Heathcliff from?

Heathcliff is from Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte! It's about a man (Heathcliff) who seeks revenge after the woman he loves marries someone else (it's been years since I read it, and to be honest I don't remember much from it other than that general gist. I think I'd probably get a lot more out of reading it now since admittedly 13 yr old me could not grasp what was going on thanks to the unreliable narration)

Also agreed that Don Quixote from Limbus is adorable lol. Her and Ishmael really had

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@Time: I'm glad it interested you enough to put it on your backlog! Also that's entirely fair -- I knew RGU was going to be a harder sell because it's really hard to talk about without delving too deep (and at that point, depending on your preferences regarding spoilers, it might ruin the experience). Admittedly I'm not much of a romance person either -- it was a friend of mine who convinced me to watch it, and the show is more a coming-of-age story than a romance to be honest. Umineko is absolutely a blast, even if it does make you go "what is even happening" every 15 minutes (fair warning though, the VN is... very long. It took me 2 years to read because I kept taking long breaks, but the VN is definitely the ideal way to experience the story your first time.)

SpecterTheGreat wrote:

Wait is Umineko the one from which the tape screenshot thing came from? I have a vague memory regarding that lol

I love looking at recommendations even if most of the time I end up putting them on a to-watch list haha. Those two seem very interesting, and props to you for explaining them in the most spoilerless way possible 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

YES HAHAHA Umineko is exactly what that was from! Even if you don't ever get around to reading/watching them I'm glad I at least piqued your interest <3 

Also forTime, if you're curious about what the duct tape screenshot was:

This is a major plot point!! And yes there is context but honestly I can't even get into half of what's going on without spoiling at least the first arc or three

it's been almost half a year! hello! I am still alive on discord mainly but my semester just started again so it's questionable how alive I will be in a few weeks time

recently (as in, in the last month) I watched Revolutionary Girl Utena for the first time, and finally finished Umineko: When They Cry. bizarre combination of works that have no obvious relation on the surface -- one is a kind of a magical girl anime and one is kind of a murder mystery visual novel -- and yet have so many shared themes that I could talk about for a while (the "kind of"
I absolutely do recommend both (I'd also love to talk about them if anyone is interested) but if you do watch (in Utena's case) or read (Umineko) please please please look up content warnings for both because oh boy do they both have some heavy subject matter and can be hard to stomach at certain points, especially if you go in blind

SpecterTheGreat wrote:

Reading Moby Dick and why does story Ishmael feel kinda gay 😭😭😭

as someone who did read Moby Dick: he absolutely is

My high school literature teacher loved to tell our class fun facts about the author, Herman Melville and Moby Dick as we were reading and since it's tangentially related I feel obligated to share that some scholars do believe that Melville had some sort of attachment to Nathanial Hawthorne (author of The Scarlet Letter), and his feelings were projected in some of his works -- Moby-Dick in particular (I think there's still records of some letters that Melville sent to Hawthorne??)

also welcome back! flight cancelations/delays can be super stressful, but it's great that you learned something from it

hi yes I know I haven't logged in for quite a while but I do promise that I was occasionally checking in on this place :') hope you all are doing well

if you've been wondering what I've been up to recently: I have a full time job this summer! I've been busy with that + art fight 

I read "its fate" and read it as though it was there for dramatic effect and did not realize what Time meant until Galaxian posted [sob emoji] I am very literate

Re: the coding conversation

I don't know how much this will help, but what I found works for me is to first think, "okay, how would I, as a human, approach this problem?" Then, after thinking about how a person would logically go about doing something, I would then transfer that process into code. Also: work through test cases! It'll help as well. 

Programming can be daunting for sure, but remember that you never have to do everything all in one go! Work on everything piece by piece - my preferred order is "logic --> syntax --> test cases" but other people might do it differently.

edit: realized I forgot a phrase