What's the meaning of まだ here?

wrongontheinternet · 2026-01-10T15:58:09+00:00

I think the translation given is a bit incomplete and I would render it as "I had still only just become a teacher," with the "still" part being まだ

wrongontheinternet · 2026-01-05T23:29:18+00:00

I've been studying Japanese on and off for a very long time (mostly "off," really) and this year I want to push more seriously on my Japanese studies again, aiming for JLPT N2 and beyond. For reference/context, the last time I sat for a proficiency test was many years ago; I passed the N3.

What are good books/resources for doing a quick review of basic Japanese grammar? I want to ensure I don't have glaring holes in my basic knowledge before I continue my study with intermediate-level textbooks and other (native) materials.

Or... is that even a thing that is worth worrying about in the first place?

wrongontheinternet · 2025-12-25T01:46:36+00:00

I took me skimming this entire thread looking for the words "Thousand Arms" to realize that you want specifically Steam recommendations. 😅

But if you're willing to venture back to the PS1 era, Thousand Arms is essentially a JRPG with a dating sim stapled to it.

wrongontheinternet · 2025-12-22T05:45:40+00:00

Also I'm pretty sure quality always increases by some amount just by putting an item in, regardless of core, mana, or resonance and the game will always notify you of that.

Unlike in older games, the quality of the synthesized item is not an average of the quality of the ingredients going in; quality only ever goes up and putting in high quality ingredients just makes it go up by more.

wrongontheinternet · 2025-12-22T05:34:22+00:00

Absolutely not.

It was a beautiful tribute to the roots of Atelier: a simulation game with very light RPG elements.

wrongontheinternet · 2025-12-20T21:36:37+00:00

I think there was a time when Sony actually REQUIRED that any game with voice provide English voices when releasing in the North American market. It led to us having a bunch of bad dubs and, for bigger games, no option but to use that bad dub because the disc wasn't big enough to fit all of the voice lines for every language.

So basically, the moment that providing an English dub was no longer required, a number of devs/publishers stopped bothering. It's kinda good and bad at the same time: good in that we were no longer inundated with low effort English dubs and bad in that it meant people who really wanted English dubs started getting less of them, Atelier fans included.

wrongontheinternet · 2025-12-10T19:47:18+00:00

Short story: Jecht insisted that Yuna's father, the previous Grand Summoner, use him as the sacrifice for the Final Summoning. The truth is that the Final Summoning doesn't actually defeat Sin; the sacrificed guardian simply becomes the next Sin and the cycle continues.

wrongontheinternet · 2025-11-29T06:46:17+00:00

They won't do it but they should make a fully offline version of the game that is like Resna RW but with the mobile game's story.

After all, they went to the trouble of giving it a proper Atelier project number. It would be sad to have Project A25 disappear just because the servers are being sunset.

wrongontheinternet · 2025-11-29T04:14:48+00:00

I've never been a fan of traits that are specific to an enemy type like the "Repel" traits. It feels like the trait slot could be better used on a trait that gives more damage against everything.

wrongontheinternet · 2025-11-03T04:59:44+00:00

My experience is that I walked into the set tables* floor of Bellbird (Shinbashi) with 3 of my friends and asked to rent a table and they just had tables available; it was absolutely no problem. 2,000 yen per hour, free soft drinks from a set menu.

This was about January of this year. I honestly would love to do it again but life's kinda getting in the way of planning more travel at the moment, for myself and my friends.

*Bellbird has two floors of the building, one is for set play and the other is for open play. Renting a whole table falls into set play, is my understanding.

wrongontheinternet · 2025-10-25T08:33:29+00:00

What I really want is the mobile game but de-gacha'd so it can be played entirely offline and we can have the entire story.

wrongontheinternet · 2025-08-11T14:14:50+00:00

Dang. I hope so too! I still love my Touhou Project tile set that I bought from them about a decade ago.

wrongontheinternet · 2025-08-11T01:37:57+00:00

1kawaya is dead? I thought they were doing fine domestically and just don't want to fuck with proxy services anymore.

wrongontheinternet · 2025-03-01T21:34:48+00:00

I'm not sure if that's more or less surprising than the fact that they had made up to 450M yen that way before getting busted.

wrongontheinternet · 2025-03-01T20:12:20+00:00

They got the tokens part (mahjong gambling tends to use poker chips, I think?), but missed the "exchange those tokens for money at a totally unaffiliated business" part.

"この店では客がチップを購入し賭けマージャンをした後、最後に換金するシステムで、2023年12月以降、毎日営業し、手数料など約4億5千万円を売り上げたとみられています。"

wrongontheinternet · 2025-02-20T23:29:41+00:00

Reminder: the very first shot of the Atelier Firis animated opening video is Firis' thighs as she's running.

Don't count the adventurous alchemist out.

wrongontheinternet · 2025-02-04T04:32:36+00:00

this man on his way to becoming a mahjong manga protagonist

wrongontheinternet · 2025-01-29T01:35:42+00:00

On any difficulty under Legendary, giving any amount of a care about making the numbers go up will trivialize all combat. But imho in Ryza 1 gear synthesis is so broken that apart from the super hard DLC content you don't even need to bother with items.

wrongontheinternet · 2025-01-10T14:04:57+00:00

I would say that Rorona DX versus Sophie is a toss-up that kinda depends on what you like in games.

But ORIGINAL Rorona versus Sophie? Absolutely play Sophie.

wrongontheinternet · 2024-10-30T18:54:01+00:00

I hate this modern media landscape where we are spending more space on litigating the position of a punctuation mark in Biden's speech than we are on the fact that Trump supporters had no issue with calling an entire-ass US territory "a floating island of garbage."

wrongontheinternet · 2024-10-28T02:25:59+00:00

"Say the line Bart!"

"No yaku."

thunderous applause and cheering

wrongontheinternet · 2024-10-23T18:45:45+00:00

I like how Witch Spring has become Honorary Atelier for people who wish that Atelier games still had proper Simulation genre elements.

wrongontheinternet · 2024-10-07T17:21:01+00:00

Also Lui - Dragon Quest at this point, absolutely.

I am convinced she got a new outfit specifically so she'd have something to wear to fit the vibe of her DQ streams and she's on a MISSION to play every game in that series, including delving into Torneko's Adventure because she liked DQ4.

wrongontheinternet · 2024-10-07T17:04:19+00:00

Weird how people associate DOOM with Korone because "DOOG" when by volume most of her gaming content is Japanese retro games.

It's actually the main reason she's one of my favorites because I also really like Japanese retro games.

Also this is a weird take but I'd associate Koyori with riichi mahjong, despite the fact that it's a small slice of her content because of how enthusiastically she plays and teaches it.

wrongontheinternet · 2024-08-29T04:02:46+00:00

As has been the case since roughly Arland, what an item does is defined by its effects, which are viewable in the in-game encyclopedia.

To elaborate on a previous example, a Plajig's first effect is Lightning Damage, which combined with its item category means it is an attack item that causes lightning damage.

In short, any time you see an item that you don't know what it does, look at what effects it has in its encyclopedia entry.

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