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That reminds me of another question: When you rez an upgrade, can you only rez it on a run? And does it get unrezzed when the run ends, or does it just stay there. I got Akitaro Watanabe and it was awesome.

Oh snap I totally had that card in my hand, and didn't use it, because I didn't understand what it meant! XD Looking at that website real quick, with Cell Portal, if it is the only ice protecting the server, does that mean it's just an indefinite loop? (until the runner jacks out or the corp runs out of credits)

And you have to shake the wiimote to do a spin. Galaxy is fucking fantastic. I wish they had the first one too, because I felt like I hardly touched that game.

You also don't have to pay a penny until the thing is dispatched.

the New 3DS Majora's Mask pre-order is finally open in the UK! And it includes the skull kid figurine. And a Wall plug charger. Life is fucking good.

I generally try to go in as blind as I can into a film. I also watched birdman yesterday, and knew very little about it going in. This is generally harder in the UK, because the ads for the film tends to fucking ruin everything about a movie. Which is fucking irritating. I don't know why they do this. I thought that a lot of birdman didn't feel naturalistic at all. specifically My general impression of birdman was that it's a great film, but I'm not sure I know why yet. I need - and want - to see it again.

Sweet. That totally makes sense. Hopefully our 2nd game will be easier now! One more question: If a corp lays down an ambush card, can he advance it, to make it look like an agenda card? Is there special rules to advancing an ambush card? I was Jinteki and there's a snare (might be wrong about the name) which costs 0 credits to rez. What would happen to those advance tokens?

You never truly loved me, we both knew this wouldn't have worked. It's for the best that this happened. we miss you

What? Maybe it's a country thing, but it clearly states that the game is pre-installed onto the 3DS. Edit: I also agree with dium, I already have a 3DS charger, and I don't think it'll be a different charger. If so, it's only like £10.

hnnnnggggg do I choose the Monhun4 New 3ds or Majora's mask 3ds? DECISIONS. STILL FUCK YOU NINTENDO FOR NOT GIVING ME AMBASSADOR 3DS.

Holy shit, the closest thumb to me is monkehhh, whoever he is. :/ Here we go again....

So me and my girlfriend finally sat down to play or first ever game tonight. I have some super baby questions for y'all: So if on a run, an ice is rezzed, and the runner skips all the subroutines, what happens to the ice? Does it just stay there? And can you unrez an ice? If so, when? If a runner accesses an agenda and steals it, what happens to the ice protecting that server? Is it trashed? Can the corporation trash ice? Is there any point to doing so? This is my first ever card game, so sorry for the barrage of dumb questions.

So this is what I understand about the anime buisness: Yes, it is a risk, assumedly the same risk that would come with producing any form of media at a professional level. With anime, I'd have thought that the risk would be higher, as the animation companies don't care for any international audience, and only focus on the internal audience, which you could argue is smaller than the international one. Also, pretty much every anime that isn't shonen (and even then, a large chunk of shonen anime) is shown after 1:00. This is because the general perception of anime in japan is that it's a 'creepy otaku thing', so it wouldn't do well in a 6-10 timeslot, as the audience wouldn't be there to watch a show on an expensive prime-time slot to make it worth it. Also the way anime fans generally watch anime is to record it on their ps3's and watch it the day after. Of course there will be some people who'll watch it when it airs, but they'll pretty much be uni students or NEET's. So from that standpoint, yes, it's risky, as the audience (that they care about) is relatively small. But from my understanding, they don't make their money in the airing of the show. All airing it on TV does is drum up hype, created by the anime otaku and fans that watched it when it was aired. The true money comes from merchandise and DVD's. Anime DVD's sell at around $100 a volume, of which contains 2 episodes of the anime. There'll be extra stuff, of course, and usually the last volume of a series will come with a DVD only OVA. A 13 episode (+ presumably 1 OVA) season will produce 7 DVD/Blu-ray volumes, each at $100 a pop, so a cool $700 for the whole season, which die hard fans will buy. On top of that, there are usually incentives to get the DVD's, like re-mastering, and even more appealing to the fans, uncensoring. Which is why so much anime has ecchi content because it's a garuanteed seller to the small fanbase who want to see 2D tits. Of course, there are other things that get censored, like gore (and in Jojo's case, smoking), which again is probably not because of stringent airing rules, but because they know it's a safe buck when it comes to DVD sales. Even then DVD sales aren't huge compared to the US. Looking at this weeks Animation DVD Ranking, the top spot is unsuprisingly One Piece, and on it's opening week of sales only sold 1,087 copies. In the same chart, My Neighbour Totoro has been in the charts for 26 weeks, and has only sold 24,116 units (I assume that this is some sort of Blu-ray remaster than the actual sales of Totoro). And then there's merchandise, which is something that Japan does very well. From bath salts to figurines to cosplay, the animation studio gets a cut of all of it that's officially licensed, and the licensed goods aren't cheap. Anime shops in Japan stock all kinds of wonderful crap that any fan would want, and it sells well. You can tell which anime isn't doing well by the amount of stock that is still on the shelves. When I last visited Japan, Free! was fucking huge, and there was next to nothing in animate, as it was all gone. Of course, they get more money if they produce an original anime instead of a manga adaptation, as they get a smaller cut. And how could I forget the anime openings and ending songs? The way that anime has songs from bands means that they probably get money from the sales of the single too, as well as a promotional tool for the band. As for the comparison of manga vs anime, of course the anime is going to be the more popular of the two, just like how the TV series of Game of Thrones is more popular than the Books, there is a larger audience due to the medium being easier to digest. Also if watching anime is considered creepy, reading manga is an even bigger faux pas. People generally only read shonen Jump because they're invested in the stories that they started reading when they were a kid. As a result shonen manga sells notably better than any other genre, unless it is a revered series or a break-out success story like Yotsuba or Attack on Titan. Whilst the production costs are cheaper compared to anime, the exposure is less, because the advertising revenue is less, and as books are much cheaper than DVD's (about $10 for a manga volume), the profits from sales are generally less. Manga that becomes anime does cause a huge spike in manga sales, and original anime can also be turned into manga, as well as popular light novels. Of course I'm not an expert and I don't think I'm right in everything, but that's my understanding. Sorry if it's long. If you're interested in how the anime is made, Watch Shiro Bako, which is about exactly that, and is great. Likewise for an insight into manga, Bakuman is both a manga and an anime and is flippin' fantastic.

I wouldn't be surprised if GOG campaigned hard to get exclusivity, if only for a while. Also given GOG's MO it makes sense it'll be the place where people will be the most hyped for this. Edit: The exact wording is "You can pre-order the PC version of Grim Fandango Remastered now, exclusively on GOG.com", reading it without the bold bit, it sounds like the pre-order is exclusive, whilst come January 27th, it'll be on steam/humble

Yeah, you put it much better than I ever did. I'll listen to it again in the next OP, but it did feel really out of place. And the visuals didn't match up to the song either, which is a shame. The theme is clearly time, because of Za World. I don't know what's going on with that. I just watched Maria. It's certainly got a degree of nudity in it, but it didn't feel like fan service. There were no low-angle shots or panty flashes that you'd expect. There was a quite awkward comical conversation about blow jobs though. From what I could gather, every witch has a succubus, (the girl that is wearing white belts in the PV), and then I'm not really sure what else there is. To be honest, the first episode wasn't anything amazing. It was alright, and worth at least one more episode, but nothing exceptional. The fuck Kuroko? Anime liscencing is messed up recently. As Crunchy has the first two seasons, I'm hoping that they'll somehow be able to get rights to the third.

Shit sorry! I should really stop looking at this in work, as I can't read it properly :S I also finished Amagi Brilliant Park! It was pretty good, however the 13th episode was rather pointless. My main gripe was that it all ended a bit too cleanly and perfectly. From what I gathered, the light novels are still ongoing, and the light novel, manga and anime are all popular, so why end it? I haven't read the manga/LN though, so I don't know if that is the actual events and I'm just a moron. If it is, I still think the point is valid though. Anyways new season impressions! Death Parade was cool, a great first episode, although I wonder where they're going to go from there. From the looks of the preview of the next one, it's just going to be about the bar tender and the assortment of 'crazy' sidekicks he has. To be honest I'm a bit dissapointed about this. I thought it'd be something like Shigofumi or Tatami Galaxy where they're unrelated cases, but you find out more about the reoccuring charachters as new cases gets resolved. It still has my interest though, and I'm judging it on something that I haven't watched yet, merely hypothesising. Assassination Classroom was really dissapointing. The manga is so funny, yet the anime seems to miss all funny points. I knew from the OVA that it'd be bad, but I was holding out hope. Sadly they missed the comedy element completely, just making it a sub-par anime. And what the fuck was with that opening? It was fucking terrible! and it felt really cheap. Ugh, Really dissapointed. They animated Koro-sensei well though. JoJo: Stardust Crusaders part 2 had the worst opening song ever. It was so forgettable. The ending song also wasn't that great, but it was a marked improvement on the garbage that was the opening. All I remember is them forcing the 'ora ora ora ora' into the verse. what the fuck? And it was written by the same person who wrote the amazing first opening of the first season too. What happened? Durarara x2 was superb, but I've forgotten half the characters since the first season. Can't wait to see what happens though! I've still got Maria the Virgin Witch (the worst title ever) and Kuroko Season 3 on my watch list.

Oh. ._. Platinum Club isn't a thing in the EU Club Nintendo, so I don't even know what that's all about. :/ Either way I sent a support email to them expressing my disappointment. Seriously bummed out, but then again I think I'd prefer the New 3DS XL version anyways.

I get told "This Club Nintendo account is not eligible to take part in this promotion." when i plug in my nintendo account.

I didn't get one, and I'm an ambassador. Turns out that not every ambassador got the email, which is bull shit. If you're not going to get it, I'd really appreciate getting it from your account somehow.

Until you get to R'n'B world where it's just a sea of oiled asses

This season has an anime series called Death Parade which is a continuation of this short. Looks awesome.

I believe there is a bug on Basement 1 which means you're not guaranteed to get a devil room. There are some items that do guarantee a devil deal room on that floor (i.e. goat's head), but means that you won't get a faith room. If you finished a floor without taking red damage and you haven't got a devil room, it's probably because your faith isn't high enough to get a faith room.

Ahh the French Horn, the most metal of all instruments.

I've been meaning to do this earlier, but I've been extremely busy recently, so sorry for the delay! I mentioned it on the Xmas thread if anyone would be interested in a secret santa thing on the idle thumbs forum, and there was some interest, so here is a thread specifically about it. How to enter: PM me with your name, Address and country before the 30th November. In the PM, also state if you are up for: shipping (i.e. physical present), international shipping (i.e. present from abroad), digital, or all/mix of the above! Also state any important information like food allergies. If you are wanting a digital present, also include your steam ID/email address. Rules: Present(s) should cost no less than $20 - $25, excluding shipping (note: I have no idea how much international shipping costs, so if this'll cost too much, let me know!) You must be an established forum account to enter. This is to prevent flakey flakers flaking out at the last minuet, meaning someone doesn't get a present and being sad. They'll probably cry. I know I would. After the 30th, I shall randomly assign people according to their shipping options, and then hopefully people will send off stuff and it'll all be fun and games. You shall get the address of your secret Santa by the 1st/2nd Post on this thread what you get! Or don't! (but do) If there's anything I've missed out, please comment! This is the first time I've tried organizing something like this. I know Bjorn suggested Elfster, but I don't think that this forum is as big as the giant bomb forum. I could be wrong though! I guess I'll find out!