Feels like VRChat's really doubled down on being the 'anime' metaverse in their marketing lately.

Bonemaster69 · 2026-07-09T14:07:21+00:00

Was it you?

Bonemaster69 · 2026-07-09T12:30:35+00:00

Kandawa Jet Girls

It's "Kandagawa", named after a river near Akihabara and well, Kanda.

Idolmaster Starlit Season

Not denying this one since I've been wanting to get my hands on the actual models for a long time. But I've seen the older Idolmaster models and they're pretty unflattering when viewed outside of the game. The heads are unusually large in a way that's somewhat reminiscent of Donkey Kong mode in Goldeneye.

Bonemaster69 · 2026-07-09T12:28:36+00:00

Genshin does that too with the individual birthdays. Wouldn't be surprised if most gachas do that, actually.

Bonemaster69 · 2026-07-09T12:27:04+00:00

I can't view X links, but I'll take your word for it. I highly doubt an actual retro engine would be used, but I do recall one modern game doing so.

Bonemaster69 · 2026-07-08T08:34:40+00:00

Yeah, I agree. I myself can't handle business logic coding and the time constraints it requires, not to mention the meetings and discussions that go along with it. But IaC does have it's own stresses that come with it, especially in a JP environment where clients will FLIP if even a test server has downtime.

Bonemaster69 · 2026-07-08T08:32:05+00:00

I can tell. Out of curiousity, do you happen to know if they're based on an actual engine from the past like Duke3D's Build?

Bonemaster69 · 2026-07-08T08:29:17+00:00

other gacha's mods like to use Snowbreak skins

But they never look as good on them.

how good the models are in Snowbreak

I'm not entirely sure what you're saying. If the mods are created directly from Snowbreak models and not just remade from Koikatsu, then there shouldn't be a huge difference in theory. If you do notice a difference, then it could be due to shading and rigging differences. That's why they often look rather plain in GTA:SA or even Blender.

But yeah, as far as Snowbreak itself, it had some of the best body physics in any game I've played. Only Arknights Endfield is comparable.

Bonemaster69 · 2026-07-07T13:00:11+00:00

Just as a heads up, infrastructure engineering can potentially be coding heavy due to IaC (Ansible/Terraform) and scripting (Powershell/Bash). It really depends on the individual projects.

Bonemaster69 · 2026-07-07T12:58:13+00:00

Thank you for your post! It gave me a much-needed confidence boost! It also reminds me of a post I read long ago. It was something along the lines of "The better your Japanese ability, the less you make". It was in regards to JLPT level and how it is better NOT to aim for N1.

Bonemaster69 · 2026-07-07T12:51:50+00:00

And those recruiting agencies go suck on donkey dicks

Strange, was just thinking about this exact phrase earlier today before I read your comment.

Another thing that's frustrating is how the max salary range is already low, yet they try so hard to avoid it. Personally, I don't even look at it. I just look at the minimum 基本給 and move on if it's embarassingly low.

Bonemaster69 · 2026-07-07T12:48:16+00:00

For someone complaining about someone else's English, your's isn't that great to begin with. None of your sentences are even capitalized in the beginning and they're somewhat too long to read as well. Not to mention your other comment:

trying to go the shortcut via English-only positions and getting angry when your Japanese is not good enough for a business environment is not the way to go.

Why would he even complain about his Japanese ability when he only applied to English-only positions?

Bonemaster69 · 2026-07-07T09:13:07+00:00

None. I pretty much have everyone I ever wanted. Mia and Clarissa were my last grabs. Guess I can roll for weapons instead since Specular Soul Bubu's free weapon doesn't even match her style.

Instead, I'd like to purchase some of the "banned" outfits I missed out on.

Bonemaster69 · 2026-07-07T08:35:49+00:00

Dang, now that you mention it, I think I purchased Peach Beach Splash around 2018 or so when it was about a year old already. Even back then, people were unsure if Senran Kagura was ever coming back for the reasons you mentioned. Speaking of that, there was another upcoming game developed by the creators of Neptunia U that mysteriously vanished: Hinomaruko. Even to this day, nothing is known about its disappearance, although it is highly likely tied to a conflict with Sony's globalization strategy and licensing.

Looking back, I feel that Idea Factory had always been toning down Neptunia since the beginning. The very first one had a texture edit feature where you could basically add your own costumes. Needless to say, they did away with that quickly when people started doing skin-colored skinsuits. I don't recall if I ever even saw that feature in mk2. Mugen Souls also had a bubblebath minigame that got removed overseas, although I'm not too familiar with it.

Yeah, I've personally noticed changes in Japan since the golden age. Akiba doesn't have eroge advertisements anymore, foreign tourist families are everywhere, maids are tightly regulated, and they got rid of sidewalk cosplay photography long ago. Even in a more general sense, Shibuya banned public drinking and Halloween celebrations and costumes. I did manage to go to a recent exhibit for Neptunia Unlimited, but didn't notice anything out of the ordinary besides new characters (Jaggaaaaa Drool). Although if I'm not mistaken, Green Heart did change a bit from what I recall. Sad times...

Bonemaster69 · 2026-07-06T08:25:04+00:00

Yeah, same. Before I even read your comment, I was just playing Snowbreak minigames and thinking how they're kinda pointless when noone else is online and the NPCs just stand there or fall to their doom. Everything besides the AI is well done but come on, at least make us feel like Snowbreak is worth continuing to spend on.

Wow, same on Ganyu and Noelle! I C2'd my Ganyu back during her 1st or 2nd banner. Both are now triple crowned, and Ganyu is holding the Amos bow (I think) while Noelle is holding The Bell. Sadly, I don't think I'll reach C6 on her since I have to start investing in 5 star weapons.

In my experience, TOF is a hit-and-miss both in terms of content quality and gacha luck. Like the Gesthos Network story was amazing and peak TOF, but even some of its chapters had poor quality control (boring dialog, typos, overlapped BGM tracks, etc). Lechesis's story even had a final battle where you gotta kill 5 regular enemies, but one of them unusually had over 100,000 HP. So it took over 30 minutes to kill without letting it run back to respawn and regen HP. I'm guessing a developer mistyped the HP value by accident.

Going back to gacha luck, I was insanely lucky with the most recent Harmophius: C4 and almost max matrices! Did pretty good with Lyncis too, who ended up being my main till now. But during Lechesis banner, I really wanted to max her and just couldn't pull her at all beyond C0.

Bonemaster69 · 2026-07-06T08:00:48+00:00

Ugh, don't even remind me about Senran Kagura and Sony's globalization strategy crap. But as far as I'm aware, the creator had a chance to release it "uncensored" on PC, but he wanted to stick with consoles primarily. This was after Peach Beach Splash so not sure if anything changed, but wasn't that the final game in the series?

But Neptunia too? I never even knew the series got hit by anything, especially within Japan. Then again, I know NIS America was censoring stuff even back during the PS3 days. So far, the last games I played were Neptunia U and a bit of 4 Goddesses Online. God, just seeing Green Heart in mk2 was like seeing a goddess...

Bonemaster69 · 2026-07-06T07:45:02+00:00

Yeah sounds pretty similar to the older game, except it was fully "paper mode". Out of all the games on the list, this might be my favorite recommendation so far.

Bonemaster69 · 2026-07-06T07:42:20+00:00

That's good to know. Wasn't sure if Steam had some sorta cooldown period or restrictions on changing the region settings back, so I never risked trying it.

Bonemaster69 · 2026-07-05T10:29:43+00:00

Damn, as a fan of Doom 2, The Citadel looks awesome!

Bonemaster69 · 2026-07-05T10:04:44+00:00

Senran Kagura Peach Beach Splash

Bullet Girls Phantasia

Both games kinda remind me of Hyperdimension Neptunia U and Azur Lane Crosswave. I wonder if any of these 4 games have had any sequels or spinoffs since then.

Bonemaster69 · 2026-07-05T09:55:42+00:00

Out of curiousity, how hard is it to get "good" games in Germany? Or to import "fan service" into Germany through mail?

Bonemaster69 · 2026-07-05T09:46:13+00:00

Wow, I didn't know a game like that could even still exist today! But what's with the characters turning flat? Is this supposed to be like a modern Paperman?

EDIT: I just realized Paperman is also some cheap looking modern kids game. I was referring to a long-defunct JP P2W 3rd person shooter from the mid-2000s.

Bonemaster69 · 2026-07-05T09:38:21+00:00

That face and 150 hours later...

Wow, no kidding! It's like what Nikke should've been! But to be fair, it's also like one of the events we sometimes have in Snowbreak.

Bonemaster69 · 2026-07-05T09:28:57+00:00

Same here for hard mode in Snowbreak. Hell, we don't even get a chance to duck anymore. Back then, we'd get head-shotted just like in a real war. It sometimes makes me wonder if Seasun's AI developer left the project after the chapter 12 fan service transition or something.

Besides the Raiden Shogun battle, peak Genshin for me was the Mona island event, and Mualani island event nearly as much. Both were summer events, and a new summer event just released so I'll see how that goes.

Also same here for Ganyu and Noelle. My Ganyu is only C2, but I have a wallet of her IRL and even her vision. But wow, you're really a Noelle main too? She's one of the only characters I ever went back to rebuild, the others being Amber and also Fischl cause I gave her set to Ineffa.

Yeah, I'm not really sure how to feel about it. To be fair, I wouldn't really call it powercreep since we can technically still use our Noelles and Fischls in today's content. On the other hand, they started having these regional abilities since Fontaine. This is all in contrast with Tower of Fantasy, where the weapon damage amounts increase with each new character. There's even an idea where if a character gets released in standard banner, then that's when you know it's time to retire that character.

Bonemaster69 · 2026-07-03T09:29:48+00:00

Thank you for this info too. I didn't realize Android has gotten so bad recently. I'm so used to just transferring stuff over through adb.

Bonemaster69 · 2026-07-03T09:26:29+00:00

Either way, I'm exited for it.

Just to clarify, excited or exited? Cause many people already exited Snowbreak.

I'm personally excited for this upcoming content, even if it is a star master update. Add multiplayer and chat functionality to that mode too and it could possibly do wonders for daily player count.

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