[talk] Various highlights before I get sucked in the abyss of paper writing again

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Got myself a Japanese style userhead with the proceeds going towards Doctors Without Borders to help Japan :3
Special thanks to d_s_unit who actually gave me the LJ Tokens to get it, from way back on my bday. I'd been saving them up all this time for something like this

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[rollingpeach]

cute userhead!

I know exactly what you mean about gaming backlogs D: mine is so long (over 10 games and they're mostly rpg-ish stuff) it scares me ; _ ; what's worse is that I keep buying more before I've fully cleared any orz

I've still never played a tales game! I keep hearing good things about it and one of my friends is a massive fan... maybe it's time I tried one too! (and add to backlog wheee \:D/)

vitamin z revolution's been sitting on my psp for months... never got around to it... and made room for tactics ogre now :'D I'm terrible...

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N-Neverrrrr? YOU ARE MISSING OUTTTT
(and who is this massive fan friend of yours can you introduce me :D :D :D)
PLAY THE PS3 TALES GAMES!!!! YES YES YES!! \o/ Can I also gloat about the upcoming Xillia bringing in MUCH EXCITEMENT that the Tales series deserves *cough*overFinalFantasy*cough*? XDDD; Although I do still enjoy FF titles for the most part personally, I just think they're way too overrated

But yeah, there are Tales of Vesperia and Graces F out for the PS3 right now, they're both fine titles (although I have minor gameplay flaws to pick with either of them, but I have those for just about any game in existence XD) and I definitely recommend them ASAP! They're the only games I felt worth every single yen/cent (+ Trusty bell, but that's because I got that for really cheap anyway) on the PS3.

For PSP I'd recommend Tales of Rebirth and then picking off the cleared 3-time game save from Gamefaqs (assume you're using custom firmware too) XD ... But if it's your first Tales game ever it'd probably be better to do it as is for a

[rollingpeach]

massive tales fan friend is an offline friend :D I reorganized his game shelf once (lol I'm ocd :'D) and noticed he had a ton of tales games :O
after your encouragement to play graces f (and friend told me about a dlc where you can get the mc voiced by sakurai to cosplay as suzaku from geass!) I think I'm going to borrow his graces f \:D/

I've been keeping an eye on Xillia news too! (sugita's in it!) but think I'll be getting el shaddai in april XDDD

:/ out of all the ps3 games I've bought... I think... nier mighttt be worth every cent I spent on... valkyria chronicles was worth it too (but I bought it on special XD).

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UNF I kinda wanted to get those DLC but I can't afford to get all of them ORZ
The Geass ones are 500 yen each while most of the others are 400 yen. I ended up getting other ones for now like the .hack//Roots also for the Sakurai ref XD (some of these DLC come with custom battle themes and victory phrases too!)
omgggg, if you do get those DLC do you want to swap? TwT;; purchased DLC contents are shareable to 5 different consoles as long as you log into that user's PSN account, so I setup my account so that I'd be willing to share it with someone if they had something to share back and I trust them XD;
Plus I had to ask a friend in Japan to help me getting a PSN card for the Japanese store, so I was only able to get 5000 yen of DLCs (I got a few Vesperia ones too). uuuu, the moneysucking XD;

Ee yeah Sugitan in Xillia, I wonder if he's going to be the usual "ossan" or at least just one of the oldest of the playables XD;;

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Vitamin series REALLY tests your Japanese if you're not native XDDD
After Vitamin series, I'm doing Lucian Bees, and then Renai Banchou and then probably the upcoming Tokyo Yamanote Boys... and maybe some other otoge in between XDDD but alllll these come from the same artist, and many with same casts... but all from different publishers so it makes me wonder XDD
But dayummm the casts! And the CHARACTER SONGS! <3 ~~~

[tumbleberry]

HOMG Otome. <3

Which ones do you play?

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I'm starting to build a small repertoire? XD; They're listed up on Majinken! under the otome tag http://majinken.pmsinfirm.org/ . I actually prefer BL and associate BL with the best heart-clenchers evarrrrr, but the selection for otome is SO huge and most BL tend to be visual novels which I need longer chunks of time to get into. XD

[tumbleberry]

VITAMIN X <333
I need to get started on that. alskdgj;aoiewj;asdf I've heard many great things about that series. And I REALLY need a PSP/PS3 w/ backwards compat/etc etc

just... anything more than a DS. T^T

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Waa interesting, where do people hear about Vitamin X? XD; Most of this stuff I just end up trying on my own random curiosity + seiyuu fetishes. I couldn't bring myself to go very far on the DS version because of how much voicing they cut out :< ~

Ah yeah... most of the selection I've played happens to be on the PSP XD;;; There's actually a pretty big selection on the PC too (and PC gets the R-18 ones as well LOL) and I can recommend an LJ sharing com for getting games, but they require you share stuff before getting access to the archive and such and such (a lot of rules, basically) :x~ If you're up for it feel free to ask! At least it's a very active community XD

[d_s_unit]

No problem! Glad to help out =D

Oh, btw, do you know if they are still shipping out the I11 image song CD? I'd like to order one, but I'm not too sure where.

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yes, yes~~ Seeing as Level-5 and co are going out and about to not delay things, it's still going as planned. It's available at CDJapan although they haven't updated the listing for it XD; Since I've been following their twitter it's probably because they've got a backlog of orders to handle and such too. But yeah, I'm pretty sure it'll go as scheduled.
I'm sure it's going to be amazingggg and cheesy and full of good times ♥♥♥

[kouji_mustang]

Waaaaa, nice userhead~!! The only one I really wanted was the pirate-lookin' one, but seeing this one looks super cool too! :>
And for a good cause too? BONUS POINTS~ <333
And perfect name for the fan site! XD I convinced my friend Christine to watch the show; she's all like, "I'll totally watch it for the crazy soccer techniques and the PENGINS~~ (Thanks Kidou, you're the best, hahaa~)" so yeah. Kinda falling behind a bit though with that (ep. 115 atm) and Xros Wars (ep.27) due to cons, but let's get the ball rollin'! :D

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YAY KIDOU
YAY FOR CONVINCING FRIEND XDDDD Will she be joining in on the happy fandom times?!?!

[kouji_mustang]

I'm pretty sure it's said like that 'cos the letter "u"s are usually silent in the Japanese language, but Kidou saying it just makes it 9001 times cooler~ ;~;
I will be cosplaying Sakuma if I am going to AWA (since we both used crutches at one point, someone posted magazine scans on how to make Sakuma's eye patch, he's a tad more tanned and we both have a slight Kidou penguin obsession), but I wanna have a penguin pillow pet to carry around. XD
And HECK YES~!! Christine recently finished up Soul Eater and wants something new to watch. I think she saw episodes 1-5 (and episode 102, oops) and is already liking Kidou. XDDDDD
My friend Evyan says she thinks Fudou is an ass though, and she is in love with Fubuki. XD

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I have better quality scans on my site if you wanted to check those ;X I get the magazines mucccch later than the person who posts on lj com so I just stopped bothering to post them there though

of COURSE Fudou is an ass, that's part of what makes him awesome hurrr. >O