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god I love Umineko so much

I can add it when I get to my computer

It's a bit in Umineko, basically the main character is named Battler and has that as their kanji name. The other characters have a similar name scheme, so I’m wondering how much license that affords me if I want to link original names to kanji

japanese language understanders in chat—for purposes of calibration of my artistic license in the sketching out a potential fanfic—how fucked is it to derive バトラ from 戦人, on a scale of "unusual grab bag of regular interpretations" to "arcane nonsense"

gamers debating whether summons are part of miyazaki's vision is like abrahamic sects debating the canonicity of apocrypha but infinitely funnier because while the writers of the testaments are long gone, miyazaki is still alive and he has specifically said that they are

the reason this happens for FromSoft is of course Miyazaki, but w/rt Nintendo, it's developed a Bell Labs-esque mythos around it that runs parallel to auteurism—not to mention the individual actors in the company that are ascribed that label to a degree, i.e. Miyamoto, Sakurai, Aonuma

the tangible answers are Nintendo and FromSoft

the broad answer is that anything that centers an 'auteur' in its promotion/development or has a solo/main developer is going to make a notable amount of people who like it parasocial to at least some degree. I'm also guilty of this, I give a lot of reverence to Toby Fox and I actively follow what he outputs, as his work has earned a level of implicit trust that whatever he makes will likely resonate with me.

POV: you're trapped in purgatory and the couple's fighting again

why the fuck does he know about Treatler, stop intersecting my worlds

the old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of stripping the copper wiring out of the walls

I can confirm that the logo is not AI because a) it is a vector graphic composed of basic shapes, b) I have the SVG itself on my drive and have used it to make emotes such as

data science major btw

I did not make the logo itself—I made the larger watermark logo

Pizzaballa in control. Trust the plan

I'd add (for new readers) that if you can tank VNs conceptually and have time to do so, I'd recommend trying the VN first and not immediately defaulting to the manga. The manga is great and has its pros and cons compared to the VN but the source material uses the medium very well. The soundtrack is immaculate and there are certain tricks Ryukishi pulls that work best in the VN. There's no shame in switching to the manga, it's also very good (I read manga E1 after finishing VN E1), but I gotta also counter with glazing the VN here as someone who's chosen that route

i initially made this as battler proclaiming this with a pointing sprite but he has too much love in his heart to do that to anyone

I'm copying over a post I wrote for the hook a week ago. I won't expand or rewrite it because to do so would probably just introduce subtle spoilers, as I wrote this after finishing episode one, and I'm on episode three.

I will give a brief technical overview afterward because it's probably better not to google anything, so I will provide most of the needed links and information here. There is no spoilers beyond the first—I wanna say—2.5% of the VN here? unsure. It stops before the first moment that I consider a true spoiler. dropdown is just in case people want to go in blind. it is truly a ride to do so.

addendum: this, however, is real

VN is Umineko (which I will be relentlessly shilling for at least the next month or so, it’s so good)

text is my own in a faux scene generator for it that I was toying with