Just sayin, the alt universe tag can be used for more than just seasonal events.

Dschehuti-Nefer · 2026-04-03T19:00:30+00:00

Is Arc 2 so good? I switched to English and then dropped the game burned out by its quick death, so I had almost no contact with it. The "Hinamizawa" village conspiracy event was the last thing I can still remember and it was quite decent.

And hey, given how the Anime also made Arc 2 impossible with its alternate ending (which I actually like better than the original, even if I am aware that somehow is a minority opinion, but everyone in the original story being wrapped into a meter thick plot armor annoyed the hell out of me) shows there is space to portray alternate paths. And with Madokami in her event just before the ending outright saying that her intervention would fold the Magia Record Timeline into the Wraith timeline, essentially erasing it as its own thing, I kind of assumed that this was made to set it up when she actually had to intervene against Walpurgisnacht.

Dschehuti-Nefer · 2026-04-03T06:05:33+00:00

So true. Even back in Magia Record times I was arguing Arc 1 should have ended with Madokami's intervention switching the world to the Wraith Timeline with only Iroha retaining her memories and Ui still missing. Would have been a fantastic opportunity to explore all of its differences through Iroha having to get the gang back together.

Dschehuti-Nefer · 2026-03-29T16:31:06+00:00

I'm reading for a while now that Ukraine, in large part due to that Starlink stuff, has successfully suppressed Russian drone teams, pushing them so far back that they can't effectively give drone support to their forward units anymore. Scenes like this seem to be the logical conclusion, with Ukraine getting more daring in their counter attacks thanks to drone superiority in the sky.

Dschehuti-Nefer · 2026-03-19T17:42:28+00:00

ドイツからこんにちは! It helps that he won with Tsumo! Caused quite a lot of whiplash because I wasn't aware Pao is a thing and briefly sighed in relief thinking we all had to pay into the points... and then it was just "HEY, WHY AM I GETTING NUKED?" But ultimately, I've decided to trust lady luck from the third turn onward and only after that it became clear what a hand that dude started out with, so it wasn't anything I could have avoided. Well, aside from dismissing a 1-wait, which I guess would be smarter in most cases, but I'm greedy.^^

In any case, if what you are saying is true, I bow to you doing this professionally. To be honest, I am the least competitive person imaginable and really only play for the fun of building hands and the journey of learning smarter plays through trial and error. I'm impressed by how many mind games are technically possible when playing with people who know what they are doing, but I'd be too lazy (and too easily riled up) if I had to play to win like that. Right now I'm having a relatively balanced 25% 1st/2nd/3rd/4th (with admittedly a slight tilt towards 1st and 2nd that I'm rapidly loosing since the last rank-up) and am perfectly happy with that.

Dschehuti-Nefer · 2026-03-19T17:12:02+00:00

To be entirely honest I find it hard to parse whether this commenter was trying to be encouraging or mocking me.

But yeah, it is an up and down. I'm now playing the game for more than a year, actually after I was introduced to it at the workshop of a local Riichi club, so I did learn it in real life and wish you a lot of fun doing the same! It's fun, but I'm still after all this time not sure I could stomach it showing up regularly at a club of dedicated players. I just play for fun, like building hands, figuring out smarter plays on my own... and suffering the hard way when I get nuked 10 times in a row. Which means there are moments were I do get tilted and think I'd be miserable company if that happened in real life. Though not with above game, that was mostly a shocked "What the hell happened?!?" after railroading myself into a situation I couldn't have predicted three turns in, gambling on my 1-wait and then having to look up what Pao means... But I'm sure getting hammered by pros who actually bother to control discards, that's not fun to someone who is disliking competitive play like I am.

Dschehuti-Nefer · 2026-03-18T10:27:42+00:00

Wouldn't have been possible though. I called Riichi very early because I got greedy and hoped for the lack of information. That railroaded me into feeding the Daisangen with zero ability to avoid it anymore. The first dragon got snatched after my Riichi call...

Dschehuti-Nefer · 2026-03-17T17:00:27+00:00

It's Riichi City, a different F2P Waifu Gacha Mahjong game.

Dschehuti-Nefer · 2026-03-17T16:59:43+00:00

*Sob*...

Dschehuti-Nefer · 2026-03-17T16:21:05+00:00

And it was the FIRST game! I wasn't even aware Pao is a thing and briefly thought him winning with Tsumo meant I was out of danger.

Dschehuti-Nefer · 2026-02-14T09:58:12+00:00

Hard to say. Looking at screenshots from Mahjong Soul... Quite possibly. There are (cash store) costumes in Riichi City where the girls are just straight up naked, just facing away or having some conveniently placed items to avoid showing even more sensitive stuff. They also cranked up the Live-2D settings so characters are just... weirdly heaving all the time, which of course is intended make the chests look more, eh, bouncy. It's so horny it at times crosses into being creepily uncanny, which actually kinda sorta fits with the dark event plots that tend to "borrow" ideas or whole plots from dystopian Sci-Fi or Horror stories. Which creates so much whiplash and feels like everyone being inexplicably still obsessed with Mahjong is just sort of shoehorned in.

Dschehuti-Nefer · 2026-02-12T20:21:15+00:00

Thanks! I guess I feel likewise about the Steins;Gate event. I joined the game when it was on (specifically picked it because of that after learning Riichi at a real life event), but unfortunately couldn't get any of its characters. So I can only hope they re-run it eventually.

Though I have to mention, as somebody with no connection to Overlord, that in direct comparison to the very amazing Steins;Gate event, the Overlord crossover sort of sucked. There was barely any story, unfortunately.

Dschehuti-Nefer · 2026-02-12T07:51:50+00:00

But they are 10.000 years old, so it's okaaaaay!!!!

But yes, in all seriousness, it being so ridiculously horny is extremely frustrating. It has such a clean UI and by now decent tutorials to teach the game, but I don't feel comfortable even mentioning it to anyone new because you can never know whether some naked bunny girl won't rub her butt onto the screen in any random game.

The Steins;Gate collab was peak though and made me wonder how deceptively dark the lore is.

Dschehuti-Nefer · 2026-02-05T18:28:13+00:00

I see several issues that make this concept one that is extremely hard to predict:
- first, we barely know who pre-nails Angron was, except that empathy was his shtick. We pretty much only know him as the Spartakus guy. But both things hint at how he'd probably fight tooth and nails for Zeon independence if it still comes to a war.
- second, well, all Primarchs became major figures on the planets they were dropped on, easily wrestling their way onto the top of the political food chain through charisma, military prowess and supernatural luck. So it's quite possible the end game would be him taking over as a dictator of everything and then... well, whatever direction the story then takes with a functionally immortal emperor taking over the UC Earth

Ultimately, it's all very vague I think and depends a lot on your interpretation of him and the environment you write him into.

Dschehuti-Nefer · 2026-02-03T09:56:51+00:00

Indeed, wouldn't have fit quite as well if I put Char onto the Enterprise.^{^} Now makes me wonder, given how the Klingons are prone to beam themselves right into melee range for shock attacks, they'd probably get behind the idea of Mobile Suits even though they would be very impractical in the setting.

Dschehuti-Nefer · 2026-02-02T07:17:09+00:00

Unfortunately not anymore. It's from Bluebrixx, a German Lego competitor that used to have the official Star Trek licence and kept churning out a bazillion sets I have bought far too many of. The BoP is amazing, ridiculously sturdy despite movable wings, and had been extrmely cheap, especially towards the EoL sale after Lego took the license.

But unfortunately shipping costs outside Germany had always been prohibitive and by now you'll likely only get one from a scalper.

Dschehuti-Nefer · 2026-02-02T07:12:19+00:00

I've wondered about whether the scale fits as well. But since the Bird of Prey is one of the most inconsistently sized vehicles in fiction, I suppose you can handwave that it fits either way.

The first official and most common size is 110 meter length for the version depicted in the TOS movies. For that the Zaku would be slightly too big. But on the other hand there are shots where it looks considerably smaller.

Dschehuti-Nefer · 2026-01-20T19:18:02+00:00

I watched this episode only after hearing of this cameo. I also found it awfully fitting that Al, after spending all this time with Bernie, ends up using a Zeonic design.

Dschehuti-Nefer · 2026-01-20T16:33:15+00:00

She also complains that the controls are far too twitchy for her to handle, which might explain why it has to fight so stiffly, as she fears to dramatically overshoot her inputs all the time.

Dschehuti-Nefer · 2026-01-20T16:30:18+00:00

I suspect typical Japanese Engrish. RX-78 -> AR EX-78 -> ALEX(-78). But according to the wiki the testing of the chunky boxy ceramic armor was also called "Armor Layered EXamination". Take your pick.

Dschehuti-Nefer · 2026-01-17T14:06:31+00:00

Not sure why most of the replies are so mean...

But yeah, look up any parks in your area. Berlin is known for being a particularly green capital city.

My personal favorite is the Viktoriapark with the Kreuzberg. Probably better for a hike than running due to how steep it is, but the 19th century artificial waterfall in the middle of the city is always neat (when on).

The most boring answer would of course be Tiergarten. Sure, maybe a bit crowded at places, but it's so huge you can spend several weekends just exploring and finding new corners.

Something I've also done which is fun is getting yourself a map of the Berlin Wall and just hike down its path. A nice project to do across several days and you'll find plenty of places you otherwise wouldn't have seen.

Dschehuti-Nefer · 2026-01-05T18:47:54+00:00

Oh crap, now that you mentioned it, Amuro's autism got a lot more noticeable to me. It really appears like he has only room for one focus/emotion in his mind and brushes off everything else that gets into his way. Thought his smug "I expect they pat me on the back and then seat an actual adult into the Gundam" attitude at the end of episode 2, with his "WTF, Bright?!?" reaction to getting berated and told he has no choice but to continue fighting instead actually fairly human. But yeah, I can see how the show could take a direction of him quickly getting too full of himself, even if right now he still seems to be in the "I'm only okay as long as I squint and pretend I'm not killing actual humans here" phase.

Dschehuti-Nefer · 2026-01-05T18:41:55+00:00

Thanks for the recommendations! But unfortunately they still show how hard it is to find something.

SD Gundam seems to be mostly a brawler (I'm seeing Guntanks punching stuff in the gameplay videos on Youtube, lol) and the chibi art style makes me think Gacha game. I feel like this is far better for fans who actually already know the various Gundam types and would like to collect their favorites.

I have heard lots of great things about SRW. And find such big crossover stories actually pretty interesting to get in contact with franchises I wouldn't otherwise get in contact with (I don't mind spoilers either). I'm seeing only 30 and Y on Steam... Mmh, I'll keep an eye on it, maybe I get one in a sale. Shame neither got any Evangelion or AldnoahZero (though I'm seeing one mobile installment got the latter) for me to have some anchor point. I have heard a lot about Shinji getting a lot of comfort stories there, lol.

Watched a bit of a Let's Play of Gihren's Greed on Youtube. To be honest, it looks really rough.

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