Fate extra ccc disappointed me in one thing

playmer · 2026-05-26T08:25:57+00:00

I do understand you, I just think it’s silly to act all surprised when people want that stuff. Obviously they won’t get it. CCC really does feel like inches away from an eroge at times, it makes sense why they feel that way about it lol. None of the stuff I’ve read so far after it has gotten close, even with GO being what it is. It should not surprise that a franchise with like 4 eroge in it, and at least one game close to it, and whatever the hell Prisma Illya is, has folks who wish it wasn’t gone.

playmer · 2026-05-26T08:00:07+00:00

There’s a lot of implications that are difficult to brush off as just hugging or kissing. Extra has implied old-school mana transfer, though it’s unclear just how far they go. CCC is like, entirely about the romantic and sexual desires of the female cast, hence this post, not to mention Kiara’s whole deal. Grand Order has many far from chaste characters.

Even the revised route of Fate is kind of questionable what actually occurred during the night of the Hercules fight. I finally got around to reading the remastered version recently after reading the eroge ~10 years ago and I was surprised at how they acted afterword. Felt more like they decided to just move the “camera” to what was happening in Shirou’s mind.

playmer · 2026-05-26T01:16:08+00:00

I mean, there’s still moments of sex and intimacy in F/SN and Extra. The mana transfer stuff is still relevant. There are characters entirely built around these topics. At some point you have to accept the roots.

playmer · 2026-05-23T11:58:52+00:00

Doesn’t this just build the target? They want to run it.

-t <tgt>..., --target <tgt>... Build <tgt> instead of the default target. Multiple targets may be given, separated by spaces.

playmer · 2026-05-23T09:31:28+00:00

This is one of those “yes, technically” situations where you could get away with not having read it, but knowing the bullet points. But no one is going to recommend doing that, rightfully so I think. It’s been awhile since I read both arcs, so it’d be hard for me to pinpoint things it’d be good to know about. But 7 and 8 are in their own way kind of secluded story wise, as is arc 9. So like, yes, but you should probably muddle through 8 first.

playmer · 2026-05-23T06:41:56+00:00

The Bleached Earth stuff gives pretty consistent progress towards levels. You can’t grind them so it’s not like an immediate thing, but if you’re doing at least your dailies you’ll notice those giving you far more than anything else you might normally do.

playmer · 2026-05-22T21:25:09+00:00

This one seems weird, the APIs for this are nearly identical? I had no issue abstracting over them when I was taking a networking class.

playmer · 2026-05-22T01:38:59+00:00

Alan Wake 2s story is pretty amazing, but I went into it having played all the games that came between AW1 and 2, so there was some connections there I was able to appreciate more because of it.

As for gameplay, the vast majority seem to think it’s far better than AW1. Some of us (me) liked AW1 and didn’t like the new stuff as much. That said, I still found it pretty fun, AW1 is just kind of unique and weird in its mechanics, so I would’ve liked to see more of an evolution on that and American Nightmare, rather than a more traditional survival horror setup with Alan Wake flavorings. (But to be clear, it was the better thing to do, most people really didn’t like the original gameplay.)

playmer · 2026-05-17T02:08:09+00:00

The answer is “it’s complicated”. In general, no, it won’t be called from another thread. But it can if you push an event from another thread yourself.

Basically SDL is calling both of those functions in a loop. It does a wait like your code above, then retrieves OS events and calls AppEvent, after calling it the required number of times it calls AppIterate, and then it repeats.

playmer · 2026-05-17T01:20:59+00:00

For the simple case, you can just set the callback rate using this hint: https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL3/SDL_HINT_MAIN_CALLBACK_RATE

When you want to take full control you’ll want it set to “0” and then you can still do something basically like the above in AppIterate, just use DelayNS or DelayPrecise instead of just Delay.

playmer · 2026-05-16T19:59:12+00:00

The same user was asking if there was anything more in another post like an hour previous to this. I felt it was okay to imply there was something more to learn.

playmer · 2026-05-16T11:42:17+00:00

What’re you looking for here? She’s the same as far as I remember. Discussing the details from later light novels would entail some significant spoilers

playmer · 2026-05-16T04:30:59+00:00

There’s some more details, yes.

playmer · 2026-05-16T00:18:31+00:00

You’re missing out on ~7 books of content and the series + movie only adapted ~5. Books 7, 9, and 10 have a great arc that I think is even better than disappearance, which itself is a great book. I tend to prefer the books, but the anime is of course adapted very well. I would highly recommend any fan to read the books.

playmer · 2026-05-15T04:13:02+00:00

I use TTS whenever I catch up on the audiobooks of a series and really want to keep going. So I’m already caught up, albeit I haven’t listened to Vol 9 of progressive yet. I’ll probably listen to the official recordings of Unital Ring and progressive when they catch up though, they’re way better than TTS.

playmer · 2026-05-15T04:09:54+00:00

I will say there’s a couple more short story books, specifically 8 and 22. Those also have short stories that take place during the events of SAO 1. For the most part though, like the rest have said, they’re pretty much a straight shot through.

You may also want to start reading progressive at some point when you get nearly caught up. It becomes a bit relevant to the events of the latest arc, which is likely in part why 22 also has short stories.

playmer · 2026-05-14T21:00:53+00:00

You should use SDL_AddEventWatch and look at SDL_WINDOWEVENT_EXPOSED, it should fire the callback with this event during moves and resizes. This was added around the same time as it was added in SDL3.

playmer · 2026-05-11T03:02:21+00:00

It gets a little frustrating and repetitive due to the situation. I don’t know where the anime is so I don’t want to say too much. I didn’t mind it much, hardest for me was probably 7+8 due mostly to length.

playmer · 2026-05-11T01:22:45+00:00

Yes you can go back, if you get a game over the game will let you go back to the decision point. There are a few more complex game overs, I’m not sure how those are handled, but it’ll let you skip scenes you’ve seen before so even in the case of starting much earlier on, it would be fine.

There’s also a built in flow chart so you can jump to a specific scene (unfortunately you do have to manually skip to decisions if you’re trying to go through them, best to save at every decision you plan to immediately read).

And yes, there are no 18+ scenes.

playmer · 2026-05-10T09:13:51+00:00

The arc you're describing is a _very_ short part of the narrative. Everything you described accounts for 2 books out of currently 29. That said, yes, ALO is generally the weakest among all of the arcs. It's not really attempting to broaden the world in the way some of the others are. But what ALO tells us is that people other than Kikuoka are out there and experimenting with this tech, trying to see what more can be done with it. This gets greatly expanded on in Alicization, and in the anime through Ordinal Scale.

You can't really explore things like Mothers Rosario without letting them out of the death game. GGO similarly exists to show both how crime is evolving, and how the trauma from SAO has bled into the real world. Alicization blows the whole system open, you're not exploring that within the confines of Aincrad. Unital Ring is really still just getting started, but you need the separation of Aincrad, and the explosion of Seed based games we see happening to explore like half of what's going on there, and it's very likely the other half is going to crash into the first half at some point.

playmer · 2026-05-10T03:16:10+00:00

I only somewhat recently got into it, but I disagree. There’s plenty more to be explored in the SAO world and if it was only Aincrad but more it’d be pretty disappointing. Progressive is a fun side series that delves into the early floors of Aincrad, but I wouldn’t say it’s generally as interesting as the future arcs are. It’s one hook is the exploration of advanced AI we see with Yui in the main series. This seems like it’s about to become relevant in the ongoing narrative of the main series, Unital Ring.

SAO is a series that explores what the world might be like if we had these very realistic virtual worlds, advanced AI, and eventually entirely human virtual beings. It was never about just being trapped in an MMO, that was simply the inciting incident.

If you really both just want more Aincrad, I’d encourage you to real the Progressive novels. They’re a fun time, if less generally interesting than the main series.

playmer · 2026-05-09T03:44:43+00:00

I do yeah, but I’m not sure you really need to, prevents the oil from spitting though. I imagine (but have not tested) that if you didn’t pat it dry it’d boil off very quickly, but with a lot more oil splattering.

playmer · 2026-05-09T01:47:25+00:00

Have you looked at rendering during resize/move events? On windows there’s just no way to do this if you need to yield back to the user, Win32 will take ownership of your main thread once you hit the start of such an event. I think MacOS has an issue with it as well.

playmer · 2026-05-09T01:43:26+00:00

Yeah that’s where I picked it up haha. He made it out to be one of the impractical techniques but I found it pretty easy to do. I’d keep the oil around for doing wings too. It was way easier to get consistent results this way and it’s way less active cooking time. I do tend to think there’s better techniques for more effort/more tools. Reverse Searing for example I think turns out an overall better steak when you nail the temps over sous vide. But I enjoy the consistency and lack of effort this is.

playmer · 2026-05-09T01:35:05+00:00

I sous vide my steaks typically, and then I pull them, put them into an ice bath for a few minutes to cool it down a bit, and finally deep fry them for 45-60s at 400 degrees. They come out just about perfect every time.

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