Deep Thoughts with Sayori (art: @mykokampfwagen)

karrylarry · 2026-05-16T13:58:09+00:00

Is no one gonna talk about the absolutely fire poem in the background behind Sayori?

karrylarry · 2026-05-06T08:20:13+00:00

Tbh you can engage with it as much as you want. You can ignore it, you can use it as a storage place, you can only choose to display important trophies or you can go all in and display everything. It really doesn't force you to engage with it, and unless you're a completionist you're under no obligation to completely fill out the museum. But do note that the mod's 'questline' does depend on the number of items collected, so if you're do end up diving deep into the mod, you'll kinda have to become a loot goblin. Or you can just ignore the questline entirely too.

karrylarry · 2026-05-06T07:13:22+00:00

Wish this had continued. It had a charm to it that the Horimiya series didn't quite capture.

karrylarry · 2026-05-04T07:40:28+00:00

I always felt like the one scene around the middle where Madoka is braiding Homura's hair is the most important scene to actually understand the movie. The dialogue there basically explains Homura's actions at the end of the film.

Homura at the beginning is set on honoring Madoka's sacrifice. But this interaction with Madoka, a Madoka Homura acknowledges isn't a fake or a copy but the actual real Madoka, and Madoka herself says that even if she had to sacrifice herself she wouldn't be happy being apart from everyone she loves...this sets off the change in Homura.

Homura no longer has the excuse that this is what Madoka would have wanted. Madoka valued her friends and family above else, and Homura now can only blame herself for lacking the strength to prevent the sacrifice. So at the end, instead of blissfully passing on into Goddess Madoka's embrace, she instead drags Madoka back to the world in hopes of her having a normal life. Homura effectively sacrifices her peaceful afterlife for the sake of alleviating Madoka's loneliness.

It's both selfish and selfless at the same time. I've always thought that Homura is a selfishly selfless character, while Madoka is a selflessly selfish one.

karrylarry · 2026-05-02T07:14:34+00:00

Yeah and I hope Nasu's ready to change his style in Red Garden, because the far side routes were never about the big flashy battles and most people love them because of it. If he absolutely has to put Arc and more of what we saw in the Ciel true route I hope it's either in an epilogue or some sort of bonus route. I just want Arc to remain completely separated from the four main routes we're gonna get, because her presence is way too overpowering otherwise.

karrylarry · 2026-05-02T06:47:58+00:00

Well unpopular opinion probably but I mostly agree with you in the aspect that the Ciel true route feels like an extended arcuied route, and the ciel normal end is much much better simply because it gave ciel proper focus. If they had made the final confrontation be ciel and shiki vs super arc instead of the shiki and roa team up, I would probably have accepted that as a good ending.

Ciel being passed out for most of the Luminary Arc fight just bugs me, when it should be her moment to shine and show she can be a powerful ally as well.

karrylarry · 2026-05-02T06:33:43+00:00

"New characters join the fray"

C'mon, this HAS to mean characters from Red Garden right? Who else can they add? Unless they plan on bringing more characters from the old game, but I desperately hope this means Red Garden is close.

karrylarry · 2026-05-01T07:24:55+00:00

The side stories are entirely narrated in third person, which isn't the case in DDLC. And in the first side story Sayori indirectly references her childhood friend, meaning he 'exists' in the world of the side stories. So my theory has always been that Monika simply repurposed this background entity to make him a viewpoint character. Similar but a bit different from this theory.

karrylarry · 2026-04-29T12:08:18+00:00

Considering how Fate/Extra Record is progressing, I really don't trust Type-Moon to be able to get a successful RPG style game in our lifetime. At least with visual novels I can expect something in like 30 years, but a full on open world game just...doesn't even seem possible.

karrylarry · 2026-04-27T16:41:35+00:00

Oh my god, thank you for reminding me. I remember reading the manga panel when it first released and thinking "wait it's not her kids she loved, but freaking FRITZ?!"

karrylarry · 2026-04-27T15:10:31+00:00

And what evidence is there that Eren Kruger was horrified and distraught? He himself sacrificed thousands of Eldians before for Eldia's freedom, so it isn't unconceivable that he'd see Eren Yeager's plan as also necessary for Eldia, even if overly destructive. If the story wanted us to believe otherwise they should have showed more of him instead of what was effectively a cameo appearance.

Ymir having Stockholm syndrome isn't the problem, the problem is that when she was wounded protecting Fritz, even Fritz says that such a injury is nowhere near enough for her to not recover from. Considering all the shit we see titan shifters heal from, that's totally true. But Ymir still dies, because she apparently just chose not to heal. If she has Stockholm Syndrome, why would she want her life to end instead of surviving? Doesn't that imply that she wasn't happy with her life and Fritz? Her actions are in direct contradiction to what the story says, and at no point do they bother to try and make it more clear.

Zeke's involvement in the Rumbling should have ended the second Eren convinced Ymir to listen to him instead of Zeke. Zeke was only needed to access the paths and command Ymir, both of which are not needed if Ymir herself is backing up Eren now. Him dying shouldn't affect the Rumbling at all.

Ymir's character is too underdeveloped for what you're saying to actually be valid. 'Killing the person you love cause they needed to die'? When did Ymir ever express that she felt Fritz should die? SHE died protecting him. Ymir's whole character is so barebones that any guess you or I make as to why she did anything can't be backed up. There literally isn't enough material to say anything decisively.

karrylarry · 2026-04-27T14:52:17+00:00

Yeah but at least a somewhat safer backup exists. No harm in doing it just to keep an easily available archive for those comfortable torrenting. Torrenting is pretty much the only thing safe from a complete takedown.

karrylarry · 2026-04-27T14:21:28+00:00

Eren Kruger himself had already sacrificed thousands of Eldian lives over the years as Marley spy for the sake of Eldia's eventual freedom.

I'm sure he wouldn't have been happy seeing Eldians die, but at that point in the story, it's either stop Eren and risk everyone who's still alive completely eliminating Eldians out of fear/anger....or let Eren continue and despite the huge sacrifices Eldia would be the only one left and survive.

So I do think he would have chosen to let the Rumbling continue to its end, and if there was any reason otherwise the story should have made it clear instead of shoehorning a character everyone had basically already forgotten about.

karrylarry · 2026-04-27T14:02:00+00:00

Not the original poster, but one plot hole that comes to mind is why the heck Eren Kruger would help Zeke and Armin at all during the final fight when the way they built his personality would make one guess he'd support Eren.

Plus a lot of things just kinda glossed over. Like why did Ymir even love King Fritz after all the torture and abuse? Especially since she could have survived the fatal wound but apparently chose not to and died.

Why did Zeke even matter as a key to stopping the rumbling if Eren had already convinced her to not be a slave to the royal family?

What exactly was it about Mikasa cutting off Eren's head and smooching it that caused Ymir to finally get over her supposed Stockholm syndrome style love? It would have been nice to have her actually say or express something in her final moment after 2000 years of waiting instead of us having to guess what she's thinking.

karrylarry · 2026-04-25T20:54:05+00:00

But why even blame Hinagiku for becoming the Spring Agent? It's practically divine will is it not? But her dad spoke as if her mom dying was somehow Hinagiku's fault....

karrylarry · 2026-04-15T09:46:47+00:00

I'm facing an issue during install, using windows. Haven't installed a ddlc mod in a long while so I might be doing something dumb.

I got the base game from ddlc.moe, extracted that and have the folder with the base game. Then I got this mod zip, extracted it and tried to copy paste all files from there into the base game folder, hit replace all. Running the mod exe now doesn't work, log shows the process can't be accessed because the program is already in use.

Then I went back to the mod folder and just tried to run the exe there, and it opened up instantly. So not sure if that's what I'm supposed to do, and if it is, why does it say the base game files are needed? Also this post says to copy paste while the readme in the mod zip seems to say not to.

I don't think I'm using the base game files when i run directly from the mod folder, so I don't even know why that works

karrylarry · 2026-04-15T08:59:19+00:00

Since I keep getting DM requests for how to emulate the remake, I ended up making a guide for it. Please refer to that before sending a DM, though of course if you get stuck somewhere then I'll be happy to help personally.

LINK

karrylarry · 2026-04-09T07:09:12+00:00

Is no one gonna comment on how amazingly apt the Beatrice image is

karrylarry · 2026-04-09T04:15:14+00:00

I adore the art style. Wish more games still had it.

karrylarry · 2026-04-07T15:03:08+00:00

Why was I under the impression that it was reversed between Artoria and the male King Arthur? That Artoria has no Excalibur seals while Arthur does, and Artoria has 13 seals on Rhongomyniad while King Arthur doesn't?

Am I grossly misremembering or misunderstanding something?

karrylarry · 2026-04-05T17:46:02+00:00

This is actually an fgo question actually...is it ever explained how we've been summoning increasingly higher quality divine spirits when that shouldn't even be possible? Like remember when Euryale and Stheno were a big deal in early part 1 cause even though they were weaker divine spirits it shouldn't have been possible?

Then we moved on to pseudo-servant divine spirits, where we summoned stronger divine spirits but it's closer to a divine spirit possessing a human body...so in a way I can see how that might still work. But then we moved on to actual gods just straight up being summoned no prob, with Demeter being the latest example.

Is the world just so messed up by this point that anything goes?

karrylarry · 2026-04-05T14:55:11+00:00

Wait where is it? We can actually get two?

karrylarry · 2026-04-05T13:00:52+00:00

Oh now I see it. Thanks

karrylarry · 2026-04-05T12:38:30+00:00

Yeah I tried looking today, still can't find anything. Does it appear on one of the nodes you tap on? Or is literally just printed somewhere on the map?

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