The Bard

Hey man, that's not even half of them

An old photo, for reference:

Your spaghetti arms couldn't beat their way out of a paper bag, kid. But for real, those were only like £50 a piece, cheap as hell, which is why I let you two get your mitts on them. They still work but they're in the attic somewhere. Got about a dozen more since then with different grommet tensions, linear microswitches, buttons etc, and they're all totally worth it since I put them into practical use at weekly tournaments in town for a bunch of different games.

Yeah paying eighty buckaroos for a game is just a straight turd sandwich. Not even mildly interested in paying a premium for 8nm silicon that drains system battery in two hours. I'll just get a Steam Deck, and still be able to play Prime 4 on OG Switch.

Don't be a doomer bro, we got good games. A lot's riding on Virtua Fighter 6 now though...

Garou is one of my favourite games of all time, but all the shenanigans with silly guest character is kind of harshing my vibe with this game. I played both betas, and while I like the systems, the button arrangement makes it so awkward to pull off feints correctly. Also the KSI and Speed trailer was just Saudi oil money trying to make this game a bigger deal than it's ever going to be to the mainstream market. The hell is going on with fighting games recently?

Dope, Macht is a really interesting character and that whole arc really fills in some details of the world's recent history and the characters. Honestly there hasn't been a single arc that I feel has been anything short of exceptional. W series. Watched ^ all of the first season of Dandadan and then read the manga. I enjoy how silly and deranged it is. The quest for Okarun's nut continues.

Yeah I bought all the volumes immediately and then er...accessed the rest online. Have you gotten up to the El Dorado arc? Madhouse are doing the next season as well, and considering how the story progresses, it'll be just as good if not better than the first. Very few times I've read a manga that's been so consistent in quality. It's been on hiatus for a month now though. Guess the author's living that Frieren lifestyle :p.

Yeah it does. I hope it's more than just one new monster and some layered armour though. Guess the game came out less than a month ago though so it'll probably be a while before a more generously sized content drop.

You didn't get to be on the receiving end of her wr3,2 in early season 1, so you don't understand the horror :p. The goofy stuff is always great. I've mained Heihachi since T3, and I'm so bummed out that they removed his bb3+4 run just because it was such a hilarious move to grief with. City of the Wolves is literally a miracle. I never expected a follow up to Gorou, but here we are. Fighting games are so back.

Anyone fancy some coop hunts this weekend? It's been ages since I played games with anyone from N-E!

I spend some time drawing and making digital art here and there. Been working on art for one of my arcade sticks recently, just been a bit too busy to actually finish it: Also, brush pen sketch I did of the Dancer of the Boreal Valley from Dark Souls 3

Ayy, fighting game player. You still playing T8? Also how can you say Azucena is the best newcomer when Reina exists? Cmaaan.

Someone's probably already dropped this in here, but honestly any given version of this tune is elite.

Well, I did accost you at your workplace and got you to daydrink with me. Otherwise Drapers might have had something going on.

You never pulled up man.

I remember you at the 2009 meetup. I think most of the time was spent laughing at a certain individual who decided to bring their significant other along. I miss being a mean cunt. Jayseven was also there, as was usual in the early days. He's always a delight. The very first meet in 2008 when we all stayed at a shady hostel and spent most of our time getting drunk and climbing trees was the highlight of that summer. I can't even remember the usernames (or real names) of two of the people who were there with us. They've been MIA for about fifteen years.

I've got a good episodic memory, but I thought the Bengali kid was from a different night out. Remember that one time you came out with me and my mates, and Richard snorted peri peri salt? Absolute buffoonery. Come to think of it, a lot of the times I've seen you in the wild, it's been at a Nandos, which is weird considering you're vegetarian.

Necro. I remember this night. I miss getting hit on in gay bars.

Been "here" since 2005 but for some reason it lists me as a newbie. The fucking gall. Anyway, I'm back; returned from the realm of real life to spread chaos and unnecessarily idiosyncratic verbiage around as though I have two essay writing degrees that I use for literally nothing. Oh yeah, I used to type in red. I think that might have been my defining trait apart from stirring up shit for my own amusement. I am now too bored and old to press ctrl+a and choose red from the drop down though. Who else of note is still around apart from good ol' Gash? Edit: Anyone remember the good old bad days when we used to meet at Hyde Park once a year and get off our gourd on cheap cider? Give me something back from the young days. Preferably my BMI.

Obligatory "manga was better" post, but fr fr, Yu Yu Hakusho is one of the greats. Anyone here watched Frieren? Unironically one of the most beautiful (both visually and thematically) pieces of media I've seen for the last couple of years. Between that and Apothecary Diaries, we've been getting some wonderfully written female protagonists recently.

I have panic disorder! Which essentially means I'm afraid of being afraid. I'm also extremely phobic of tight spaces, to the point where I can abstract it and get scared of conceptual things like the thought of electrons being trapped in a circuit. That's been getting better though with some cognitive behaviour therapy. Also I have a variant of what's called Alice in Wonderland syndrome, but localised to haptic feedback. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and my fingers feel extremely small or inordinately large, and it's sort of a thing that happens in the borderlands between sleep and wakefulness. Also miniature representations of things that would be larger in real life make my palms sweat profusely, and trigger a mild adrenal reaction, and thus naturally, I was terrified when I first saw your cock.

Chrono Trigger is a perfect, self contained game. I'll take a concert, some events or a "making of" video etc. Don't particularly care for a sequel from S-E though. Especially when there are games like Sea of Stars, Threads of Time and other Noun preposition Noun games. Studios have taken up that baton and are running with it. But I don't think anything is ever going to match up to CT.

Yeah stamina surge is pretty much essential if you're running daggers or bow especially. I can't run charge blade without handicraft either because for some reason sharpness goes down so fast on that weapon. The other set I'm running apart from Guardian Arkveld is 2 piece G. Odogaron, 2 piece normal Arkveld, and Gore Magala greaves. Great mix of WEX and Surge, probably the two most useful dps attributes in the game right now until they release master rank armour sets with more deco slots. I can't get over how much they've improved glaive though. It was already my favourite weapon but rising slash + full kinsect extract gain from destroying wounds is just so fun.