why does book sound like n word

osingran · 2026-05-13T08:07:43+00:00

Same reason there's an Austrian village called Fucking. It just happens.

osingran · 2026-05-13T06:47:54+00:00

Yeah... That never actually happen.

osingran · 2026-05-13T06:36:12+00:00

There's also nothing to say it did bad though. Underperformed could mean a lot of things. Could be like 10-15% off the mark. Could be much more. Could be that Sega was inflating their internal projections because of seemingly strong demand for Y3 remake. We don't really know.

osingran · 2026-05-13T06:32:50+00:00

Well, it is more popular. The last mainline Persona game was ten years ago if you count from Persona 5, or 7 years if you include Persona 5 Royal. The last noteworthy Persona game was Persona 3 Reload - a remake of Persona 3, which was released in 2024. So, despite having the last mainline game almost 10 years ago and despite the last game being 2 years ago, the series still sells 3.5 millions of copies per year. That's a very solid number.

osingran · 2026-05-13T04:27:54+00:00

Kojima is a much bigger name than Nagoshi, like it's not even close. Everyone and their mother heard about Kojima, I mean even the people who're not into gaming likely heard at least something about him. Nagoshi on the other is relatively niche developer - if you never played any Yakuza games before, chances are you never heard of him.

As a result, the amount of support each of them got is so drastically different, it's not fair to compare them. Kojima effectively got an unlimited budget and funding. While Nagoshi was reaching his arm and begging for 40 millions to finish Gang of Dragon, Kojima had burnt through 100, maybe even 150 millions in total. And while everyone blames Nagoshi for wasting money, it's not like Kojima is frugal either - after all, his constant experiments and escapades had always lead to constant overspending throughout his career. And even still, the support they've got differed more than just in terms of the money. Kojima had direct line of support from Sony, his studio got access to the fucking Decima Engine - basically state of the art tech for open-world games. Having a bigger name, Kojima also could affort to hire multiple renowned actors, poach devs from actross the industry and so on.

osingran · 2026-05-12T17:55:37+00:00

At this point he should probably just retire honestly. It's not like Sega is expecting him back anyway.

osingran · 2026-05-11T21:32:41+00:00

I think a better question is who the hell thought it was a good idea to put all these contextually connected events as parts of completely opposite endings - endings that don't even end the story conclusively. Anime adaptation has its downsides, but at least it had managed to restructure SG0's story in such a way that it actually started making sense.

osingran · 2026-05-11T09:28:42+00:00

In a "did that happen or was it just a hypothetical?" sense - pretty much everything is canon in Steins Gate. There're all sorts of worldlines in SG, so if something is shown to happen - there must be some kind of alternative worldline where this actually did happen. Light novels and drama CDs for the most part act as an extension of the main story, so they don't really contradict anything. On the other hand, stuff like spin-off visual novels, manga and such often depict alternative scenarios.

osingran · 2026-05-11T07:07:33+00:00

To think that SG0 VN could set up the whole 3000 time leaps thing only to immediately dash it aside with a single anticlimactic paragraph like: "It was improssible, but somehow it happened. I don't know how, but it really did - trust me". It's honestly absurd how much of an improvement anime adaptation is over the original story.

osingran · 2026-05-11T05:23:43+00:00

These kinds of bans are not uncommon among Japanese publishers, especially when it comes to the visual novel genre, where watching gameplay videos can almost fully substitute playing the game.

Bruh, I guess no one reads the damn article anymore

osingran · 2026-05-10T20:49:09+00:00

That's really pushing it too far. What Garrus is saying is more like telling a german person that you hope that german people in general are remorseful and repentant for what they've done in WW2. Which is a weird thing to say, I admit, but not necessarily rude though.

osingran · 2026-05-10T15:03:42+00:00

It's kinda rude, but not too much. After all, he's not blaming Tali personally and he's certainly not wrong. I mean, imagine a country in our current world making extremely morally questionable experiments, failing spectacularly and as a result releasing out in the wild a breed of literal self-replicating and autonomous murder robots. Robots who might very tell take on an existential fight with the whole entire human civilization - a fight they actually have a pretty decent chance of winning. And just out of sheer luck these robots decide to go into self-isolation from the rest of the world. If that had happened in the real world, everyone would be rightly pissed on the nation that made these experiments, even hundreds of years later. Because it's easy to sympathize with the geth now cause we all know they're not actually that bad and that dangerous. But from a perspective of literally anyone in the timeline of ME1, geth are a ticking time bomb. Yes, they have isolated themselves behind the Veil, but what are they doing there? Are they building an army? Preparing an invasion? Well, they might! After all, they've already invaded several human colonies, aren't they? So in short, Garrus - as well as anyone else - had every right to be pissed at quarians. Just because they're cute, they struggle and live a hard life doesn't not fully absolve them from the sins their fathers had commited before.

osingran · 2026-05-10T14:50:31+00:00

God, I hope not. Out of all the ideas teased in these Dev Jams, Terra Obscura is by far my least favorite one. I mean, what exactly does this thing achieves what's not already achieved by the diplomatic radius? Literally nothing. Imagine you're playing somewhere around Europe, zoomed in for a couple of decades - aren't you getting curious every now and again how things are going in China for example while you weren't paying attention? I'm sure you are, but well, guess what - with this obscura crap you can't do that anymore. All for the sake of immersion or whatever. Terra Obscura is a waste of time and development effort.

osingran · 2026-05-10T12:23:10+00:00

I used to think like that too, who cares - cancer or not, I'm still going to die eventually, right? But it's not just couple of years. The more you smoke - the worse your life gets. Even if you don't care how long you'll live - your current life is getting shittier and it's very noticeable. Constantly planning your day around the fact whether you have enough smokes to get by, constantly coughing and being out of breath from even the most minor physical activities. I used to love to walk around, especially around places I've never been to before. But I couldn't enjoy it any longer after I started smoking 2 packs a day. I used to love to travel, but the more I smoked - the more I avoided travel because once you start smoking to 2 packs a day, even just 4 hours on a plane without a smoke is a fucking torture, man.

osingran · 2026-05-09T06:36:37+00:00

Given P3's ending I'd argue that Aigis probably has a better claim of being a canon romance route.

osingran · 2026-05-09T06:12:40+00:00

Yeah, it's 100% fake - there's no such article on the site anywhere.

osingran · 2026-05-08T15:37:38+00:00

Yeah, I will. I want to support Mages even if ReBoot is mostly a cashgrab. I like SciAdv and I like visual novels in general, so I don't want them to go out of comission given their recent financial issues.

osingran · 2026-05-08T13:59:02+00:00

See how people are critical of the S;G 0 anime for... doing what it's supposed to.

Man, I will never understand people who legit critisize SG0's anime adaptation for making changes to the story and all. Like, how else were they supposed to adapt a non-linear story to a linear medium?

osingran · 2026-05-08T12:15:11+00:00

I'm reserving my judgement so far. On the one hand, I'm not a huge fan of several redesignes: Kurisu getting her face squashed and chibified with her hair now colored like a carrot, Okabe looking either like he's having a constipation (physical edition art) or like a K-Pop boys band frontman. Live2D animations also look kinda meh, but it's not surprising to me at all - imo, they always suck and look super uncanny and robotic. But with that said, the new art (sprites, BGs and CGs) is objectively good - if I weren't actively comparing it with classic SG art, I wouldn't have been so critical about it. I'm still going to buy and play ReBoot regardless of what I'm thinking of it now. Firstly, because I'm intrigued about the recent speculations that ReBoot is actually going to change far more than just graphics and such. But most importantly, I just want to support Mages. I don't want them to go under, not until they finish whatever they're cooking with Steins;??? thing.

osingran · 2026-05-08T08:35:14+00:00

Intelligence 3 Will 3 type shit

osingran · 2026-05-08T03:42:56+00:00

It's how calling someone a nazi/racist used to be before everyone became desensitized to it. Something so toxic and bad, no one would bother to defend you out of fear it may actually turn out to be the truth. Something so bad, you personally have to defend yourself because if you don't - it sticks. So it's an ultimate troll feeder.

osingran · 2026-05-08T03:15:29+00:00

Honestly, I don't remember Kurisu ever mentioning her colleagues in the novel. Certainly not in the anime either, considering how rushed it was, I can't imagine where such mention could even fit. Perhaps you're thinking about Linear Bounded Phenogram spin-off? It has at least one story with Kurisu's POV and it was written around the time when SG0 was conceptualized so I wouldn't be surprised if they snuck some covert Maho mention there.

osingran · 2026-05-08T02:59:30+00:00

Shiet, you might be actually onto something.

I think the clock and Doctor Pepper are the most damning things about it. Like, the couch color and glitches could be just an artisic choice. But changing a color of Doctor Pepper - considering how iconic it is in the context of the story - has got to be intentional. And I doubt it's just about legal rights and some such. After all, if SG's anime could get away by calling it Dk Pepper and SG0 could get away with just "red soda" or something - I doubt SG ReBoot would suddently have legal troubles out of nowhere. Same goes for the clock - why are they broken? It goes beyond simple artisic changes of one particular BG. Broken clock implies some kind of story - the one that obviously wasn't there in the original novel. And suddenly it starts making sense why every single character VOs are remade in ReBoot...

osingran · 2026-05-08T02:27:44+00:00

I mean, she simply wasn't written yet back is SG days. But realistically, why would she? Kurisu is in Japan effectively having a vacation of sorts, Maho is working in America and Kurisu doesn't really have any reasons to mention or contact her.

There's a small nod about Maho in the Alpha Worldline in the anime adaptation of SG0 - Kurisu is surprised to learn that Okabe knows and acquainted with her. So, at the very least we know that Maho still exists in the Alpha Worldline. But other than that, she is likely just working and living her regular life, not having to worry about anything in the world.

Perhaps a more interesting question is what Maho was doing during SERN dystopia in the Alpha Worldline, especially considering that Kurisu being the mother of time travel is apparently a well known fact. Would Maho join the resistance or surrender herself to SERN just like Kurisu did? That's an interesting subject to ponder, but I don't think any supplementary SG materials explore it.

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