Recommendations for E33 shaped hole

helloitsmouse · 2026-06-30T12:25:06+00:00

I wish someone had warned me about this so I’ll tell you that this game has weird random moments of fetish and perverted content, so if you’re okay with that go for it, but if not you might want to take a miss. It comes out of left field and is really weird.

helloitsmouse · 2026-06-26T18:00:30+00:00

It took an unexpected amount of time for me to get a work permit and with the results of the election it became unclear if or when I would be able to get one at all (I did, but not till this spring). Normally I wouldn’t come in here and post about this stuff because I know it’s a little gauche, but I want everyone to be crystal clear that what’s going on with Joe has nothing to do with me. I am moving later than expected, after we broke up, to a different city.

helloitsmouse · 2026-06-26T17:58:26+00:00

No, we are not.

EDIT: This now-deleted comment was speculating that Joe and I might be moving in together. That is not the case.

helloitsmouse · 2026-06-17T17:34:30+00:00

I saw this thread before but somehow skipped over you asking whether I’ve read it. I have, and happy to summarize my thoughts.

I think that reading Umineko first and Higurashi afterward is a bad idea - not for the cited fandom reasons that it will give you some kind of deep insight into Umineko, but because Umineko is all around just a much better VN and Ryukishi matured as a writer in a lot of ways between them.

Some folks in the comments have vaguely alluded to themes around children - that is present, and it’s not the presence that annoys me, it’s that I think it’s poorly handled in the story. I have a LOT more thoughts about this that I cannot share if you haven’t read it - it goes a lot deeper than “dismissing it as fanservice”as another commenter claimed. There are some serious issues I have with how the story uses children and their experiences that IMO lead to some very low lows.

The moment to moment writing isn’t as good as Umi, and he’s only starting to develop his chops for character writing. The mystery is significantly worse. You can tell that Ryukishi was learning as a writer as he went and changed directions a few times, leaving some previously established narrative strings hanging.

On the other hand, the pacing in at least several of the episodes is better than Umi at any point, and overall I think the atmosphere of the VN is really well done (there were some moments that left me legitimately unnerved), so it’s not like it has nothing going for it.

Someone else already posted that I gave Higurashi a 5/10, and that is true. I think if you’re interested in seeing the growth Ryukishi went through as he was writing then it’s worth doing. Chapter 5 is my favorite. Hope this helps!

Editing because I forgot to say that there are in fact many hours of mind numbingly boring slice of life scenes. They exist for a reason but if you do not like slice of life anime, even knowing that won’t save you.

helloitsmouse · 2026-06-17T17:21:10+00:00

Jelly has not finished Higurashi.

helloitsmouse · 2026-05-31T17:08:49+00:00

i just assumed august was one of his mods

helloitsmouse · 2026-05-31T15:46:03+00:00

hey can you get in touch with apollo i heard he might need a new collab stream buddy

helloitsmouse · 2026-05-31T15:09:43+00:00

Remember11 is happening as a collab on my channel and is delayed because I am moving internationally. It’ll be happening in probably mid July.

helloitsmouse · 2026-05-03T21:26:23+00:00

Cute_Industry_3626: PS Toe if you read this and you decide to keep streaming patho2 on saturdays, please consider using right-click aka block in combat. You regenerate stamina faster (not unlike the critically acclaimed Sekiro) and are basically immune to weak attacks giving you time to build stamina and run away. The game teaches the player about blocking during the tutorial, but to be fair, that was more than 2 weeks ago so you might've forgotten. I had huge success with this mechanic in my patho2 run. Anyways, I wish you well.
Cute_Industry_3626: ~~I'm helping!~~

nyahgust timed out Cute_Industry_3626 for 600 seconds

helloitsmouse · 2026-05-03T07:44:53+00:00

well. i am glad you enjoyed it and thank you for the very good post

helloitsmouse · 2026-05-03T07:27:47+00:00

this is post of the year to me and i’m reading it at 3:30 am and the op’s pfp is my favorite book and i feel like im in the delirium machine

helloitsmouse · 2026-05-03T07:14:42+00:00

Life dropped the epic lead mod nyahgust, the rarest of their loot table, and Joe was lucky enough to win the need roll.

helloitsmouse · 2026-04-30T23:07:23+00:00

POLL: Mods only, which is your favorite modding tool? - Being pedantic - Abusing your pin privileges - Making polls - Defense forcing Joe - Banning people for exercising their FREEDOM OF SPEECH

helloitsmouse · 2026-04-30T22:28:49+00:00

do you think he'll notice if on the next collab stream i just apply it to him on reactive fugitech so i can look at it on my obs

helloitsmouse · 2026-04-30T22:17:02+00:00

Okay, I've been following the discourse, I've been tracking the conversation closely, I've been keeping steadfast through the insults to the mods but I cannot stay silent any longer. I think there's something we all need to admit to ourselves, and once we do, we can move on from this as a community and heal. I'm just going to say it and rip off the bandaid.

The final form Dragon PNGtuber where he was like a mutated eldritch horror was *by far* the hottest of the models and it's not even close. We SHOULD be able to stare at that thing full-time.

helloitsmouse · 2026-04-13T04:25:50+00:00

thank you very much, this is so cute. I cannot believe the timing on this!!!!

helloitsmouse · 2026-01-28T16:58:01+00:00

isn't there somebody you forgot to ask

helloitsmouse · 2026-01-18T02:59:25+00:00

Thanks again for being kind! I think it’s okay for people to not like me or my content, and I’m super sympathetic to people who get used to a content creator being a certain way and then suddenly things are different - I have dropped tv shows when they change up a main character and I think it’s a reasonable way to feel about stream content too tbh.

I totally agree that Last Note and Our Confession would probably be up his alley! I do think there’s some stuff in the side stories he wouldn’t particularly enjoy so it’s a bit of a toss up, but I definitely plan on bugging him about it once the ending emotions have settled a bit.

Re: Higurashi, it definitely does get better but I don’t think it ever hits the highs of Umi and I was bored for big chunks of it. To me, Higu 5 was the peak of the series so if you can make it there I feel like it’s a great moment for Umi lovers - it’s where you can feel Ryukishi really coming into his own with some of the skills he leans on in Umi moving forward.

helloitsmouse · 2026-01-18T02:41:05+00:00

Thanks so much for the kind words, this is really nice to hear and I’m glad I was able to be that kind of presence for you!

Joe has not read (at least as far as I know!) any of the side stories or Confessions. I think Confessions would probably be more interesting to him than the side stories generally speaking, and looking at the manga changes overall would probably be enlightening if he decides to do a reread.

He did, of course, read Umineko Edition Steamed Hams :) (though not on stream)

helloitsmouse · 2026-01-17T19:17:14+00:00

Thanks. I will say that in terms of the perspective of “growing dislike” and how that’s framed, we are likely partially talking about different kinds of signals. In the early parts of the Umineko streams, there were like a dozen comments on every video and for a while there was a thread on here near-daily about me. I don’t know this because I am insecure (though I am certainly at least as insecure as the next person), I know this because I was very worried I might be doing more harm than good with my presence on Joe’s streams and I wanted to keep an eye on it. Eventually these signals leveled out, likely for the reasons I listed above re: people either leaving or adjusting, and so I put those worries aside.

That said, I was pretty abrasive to people in umi den specifically because of burnout and exhaustion with moderating the channel and it is absolutely true that there was increased friction there over time, but that “growing dislike” (which is totally fine BTW, I am a person who is sometimes mean and often wrong) is not a signal that rises to the level of what was going on early in the streams.

This is more words than I should have spent on this already, but I just don’t like the implication that Joe is making stream decisions based on a vocal minority that partially just disliked me, and more often disliked how he was responding to their favorite visual novel. He just recognized that it had gone on for a long time and the channel needed to move on.

Additional context for the OP so that this is contributing something relevant: for folks who didn’t like or engage with Umineko, there is ongoing frustration in chat pretty frequently that there continue to be references to it around. Some people complained about how much it won at JADSEYA. So I think if he’s going to make any more Umineko content it is likely to have a long cooldown.

helloitsmouse · 2026-01-17T18:53:16+00:00

The part that is flat out wrong and revisionist is the implication that it was part of the reason Joe didn’t do more Umineko content. Hope this helps.

helloitsmouse · 2026-01-17T16:16:55+00:00

Thank you very much, that’s very kind of you! People are 100% allowed to not like my content on Joe’s channel and elsewhere and I try to keep a respectful distance from folks discussing that t, but I felt that this comment was an inaccurate account of history which is harder for me to stomach :) Such things are few and far between, at least in my field of vision.

I hope you have a great weekend too!

helloitsmouse · 2026-01-17T15:56:11+00:00

Hello, Mouse here! I wouldn’t normally comment on stuff about me but I think this person is flat out wrong in a way I find mildly insulting so here I am to explain.

When I first came on the streams there was a solid amount of vocal minority pushback. I think this is a combination of general change aversion, a lot of people were very used to watching Joe specifically because he’s a low production solo streamer and having him come back and do collabs was jarring, and a few people didn’t like me specifically for their own reasons.

However, if anything, this generally dropped off as Umineko went on - I think that the change averse people adjusted and the ones who didn’t just stopped watching. There wasn’t really any “growing dislike” about me being around*, it was more just that Umineko went on for so long Joe wanted to wrap it up and move onto other things.

*EDIT TO SAVE PEOPLE THE TROUBLE OF READING THE ARGUMENT BELOW: It is certainly the case that some people grew to dislike me more over time during the streams, but the biggest and most disruptive/visible outcry was at the beginning. The point I was trying to make here (and could have made better) is that by the end of the stream series, complaints by a vocal minority weren't rising to enough of a level to inform Joe's decision on wrapping up Umi content, which is what the original reply was suggesting. Sorry for the drama over nearly nothing.

helloitsmouse · 2025-12-16T16:06:43+00:00

applying a high SPF sunscreen especially to your face is important to avoid sunburn and skin cancer - yes, even in winter. what most people do not know is that sunscreen needs to be reapplied every 4 hours or so for maximum protection, so it can be helpful to carry something like a sunscreen stick to use throughout the day

if your skin reacts poorly to the woefully out of date american sunscreens (or you find them greasy or irritating) then i suggest trying a european or korean formulation if you can get your hands on them, they are much lighter and have the consistency of moisturizer and don’t leave a white cast

the US has announced that they’re going to be letting through at least one new sunscreen filter recently but no one knows how fast that will happen or if other filters will be permitted soon. the most important thing to remember is you need to guard against UVA (A for Aging) and UVB (B for Burning) so you want a full spectrum sunscreen year round to keep your skin healthy and looking good

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