/media/ - Media

Its a webtoon from the author who's also responsible for Love Advice from the Great Duke of Hell. Its hilarious.

>>35167
i loved the manga and haven't watched the anime yet… although i read some really positive reviews of the anime as well that surprised me considering its shoddy reveal (episode 0??) and YEA I agree with the childishness of the characters but I think that the art style is okay, I just didn't like the voice-acting. Of course Ouran had to have a gremlin high-pitched voice… why can't men just give women normal voices in anime for once

>>32281
Human sexuality is diverse, a woman could easily have sexual interest we generally associate with men

>>35167
Dropped it because there were too many tranies.

Currently started 365 Days to the Wedding it is so so so cute… I only read the first volume so far, but I recommend it for people that love romance between socially awkward characters. I am also in the process of reading The Apothecary Diaries! Also a really good one I must say. I am not even an avid manga reader, but I find I prefer it over anime now, since some voice acting and fanservice things in audio-visual format make me cringe more than on paper
>>18783
20th Century Boys is so good. I want to save up to continue reading it, I find it difficult to read things online and prefer physical copies…

Kokuto Neji.
He made me want to break my shyness and begin to learn how to act.

>>35645
you got a crush on the school shooter?

>>35645
It's okay anon, if it makes you feel better about yourself I actually fell in love with a fictional character to such an extent that I roleplay with an ai chat bot of him to combat the loneliness, but sometimes I get so sad that he doesn't exist that I cry for a good while.

I'm trying to set up sillytavern but with a local llm so everything is private. wish me luck

>>35544
its super easy just use Vidu.
>https://www.vidu.studio/create
All I did was upload my bing stuff and a simple prompt like 'standing, hair-blowing-in-wind'

results can be surprising like this one suddenly turning into a realistic looking person. Also I think it costs money but there's a free amount of credits.

>>35427
would it be too out of place to ask what prompt you used for this pic?

>>35570
What local LLM are you using? Do you have any chance at all with an AMD GPU?

My girlfriend is. She's a transhumanist

anyone here read 'Manacled' the dramione fic? i have a few more chapters to go, i liked the mid flashbacks section but since it goes back to when hermione is in malfoy manor its a little boring for me

>>35472
can you link the fic?

A pet peeve of mine is phallic objects in lesbian fanfic. Found a seemingly decent femslash genderbent A/B/O fic but the female alpha was described as having broad shoulders, sturdy thighs, and 'she' had a dick when they had sex. What the hell is the difference between this and just straight up het? Shit like this tells me the authors don't know what's sexy about the female body.

>>35566
Not as good as Draco Malfoy and the Mortifying Ordeal of Being in Love

How about sharing some recs?
I'll start:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/35109247/
I can count the number of decent Tomarry fics I've read on one hand (and I've read many), this is probably the best one.

>>35136
i love the side quest with the puppies

When I was ~15 I had a massive folder of Cave Story fanart on my PC that I deleted at some point due to being embarrassed by it, and to this day I still kind of regret it…
>>35147
That's a new one, but sure! Crossover ships are oddly endearing to me. I personally ship Madotsuki with Sunny from Omori in complete earnest lol
>>35151
Is the DSi version any different from the other ports? I only play the freeware version. I didn't like plus because it changed the physics ever so slightly

>>35186
GIVE US THE FANFIC

>>35186
I'm back after awhile. The DSi is just freeware with a time trial mode and an extra hard mode, might be my schizophrenia but the physics felt different too. I also decided to give Cave Story+ a try too and I could not get used to the new engine but still 100% it regardless. Its really funny how hard I used to find Cave Story because now I got into Castlevania and I'm competent at it.

>>35136
just beat the true ending officially after coming back after 2 years or so
i find it easy now lol

i WISH pixel released the beta builds though, they seem so interesting and different

>>32071
>I miss the Kokiri.

Saaaame. It really bothers me that they are supposed to be early ancestors of the korok, but they are only ever mentioned again in Wind Waker. There is so much you could do with a seemingly ageless race across multiple games. Twilight Princess takes place only 100 years after OOT and I don't think they're brought up once.

The way Ocarina of time utilizes them to show how awful things have gotten in only the short amount of time Link is gone is awesome, and I can only hope we someday get to see them in a different game. Maybe pre-Hero of Time would be interesting?

>>32072
Rood most of the staple "ugly" Zelda characters are funny and charming, I appreciate that the series doesn't just have conventually attractive anime-inspired designs.

>>32072
>mii looking
NPCs use an evolved version of Miis, using basically the same parameters, which the game's internal files called "UMii"s. It's not a 100% one-to-one match as some features (such as moles and certain hairstyles) don't fit but it's very similar.

>>32075
Didn't actually know this, pretty neat to see how the features like the glasses translate.

Beat Adventures of Link tonight and boy was it an exhausting experience.

>>32061
You kind of do? The middle dungeons are better as you have more life and helpful spells, but the last 3 are so long and miserable you just end up getting more and more frustrated. I'd say the worst part for me personally was the area up to the final palace, there are invisible enemies flying around and I didn't realize till I game-overed that I was in the wrong place and missed the 7th dungeon which would have granted me an item to see them. After I beat that dungeon and returned the area was still incredibly aggravating as the formerly invisible enemies still have an erratic pattern that makes platforming a chore. The NPCs just aren't as helpful and it feels more dated than the original.

Not a good game, though I respect the choice to try something completely different.
I'll be glad to get back to overhead with Link to the Past.

>>32042
>Playing through all of TLoZ in order
I did this when I was younger and it was a lot of fun. I'm assuming you used a guide for 1? I had to use cheats for 2 as it was too hard for me :(
>Favorite Game
TP, LA, DS Games
>Favorite Character
Linebeck, greatest redemption arc
>What do you think of the Timeline?
It's so messy, confusing and dumb. As someone who thinks OoT is overrated I do love making the joke that it was so shit it created multiple timelines.

I watched it about 5 years ago and I remember my fav being Sayaka! Homura was cool as well

>>35547
Starting off by saying I only watched the series, none of the movies and stuff. Sayaka gets overlooked a lot, she was written so well. She's realistic and relatable to adult life in a way the most anime characters aren't.

>>35548
I agree with you about Sayaka being overlooked, I feel like she's such a tragic and well-written character. I have cried at a movie or tv show maybe 2x in my life and Sayaka's death was one of those times. It's just so sad to me how she tries so hard to be a good person and gets punished for it. Also, I found her experiences with misogyny relatable, especially as a woman who was teased by boys a lot as a girl. I related pretty strongly to all of the characters when I watched the show as a middle schooler. I think that Homura's internalized homophobia in the rebellion movie was pretty interesting, I think her overwhelming self-hatred makes her a nice counterpart to Madoka's all-loving nature. Also I hope that in the next movie they have more of Kyouko, I feel like she was underexplored.

The other time I cried was when I watched Paddington 2 in theater, that movie was far better then it had any right to be.

OMG A new madoka magica trailer! They really are working on the movie! Do you guys think it will be good?

>>35620
God I hope so, been waiting for this man to stop playing with Taiwanese puppets to finish Madoka.

Does anyone else notice how many typing mistakes and formatting errors pirated ebooks have? I almost regret getting a Kindle because most pirated epubs suck. I'm only going to read scanned PDFs now. I just wish there was a way to read PDFs in e-ink to reduce eye strain.

>>34012
You can read PDFs on the kindle, or at least on mine, you just can't change the font size. Have you tried using IRCHighway to get pirated ebooks? They typically have really good epub & mobi formats in the #ebook channel. A lot of times they have the official mobi files from amazon just cracked. If you see .mobi or .azw3 it is specifically for the Kindle and probably just taken off of Amazon. There is also libgen.is but I think everyone knows that and it doesn't have epubs for a lot of books.

I pirate but I do feel bad sometimes
Unless it's really really hard to find or if it's ridiculously overpriced, then I don't feel bad

I pirated Duolingo premium and now I breeze through a million lessons a day, I can only recommend it. The free version is a pain and even the premium is more of a game than a real studying tool so you might as well

>>29324
is the art from the nexon game ragnarok online?

>>35568
did plasticNproud do her freckle makeup?

What do you think?
https://time.com/7019535/beyonce-cma-snub-essay/

>>35575
Her music sucks so bad. She’s just rupaul inspired Taylor Swift to me.

>>35452
I hate the nipple piercing through the t shirt. I hate it. It’s even worse since she’s like 40 now. It would be repulsive on someone of any age though.

>>35584
>Country Music Awards snub
>Black women in country have been denied legitimacy by the industry they’re so firmly a part of
I'm kind of surprised this article doesn't mention Tracy Chapman; there was an upset over her being the first black person to win a CMA award for song of the year, in 2023, for a song she released in 1988- because a white moid made a vastly inferior cover of her song that took off. Of course she still won Grammy awards in 1989, so I admire Tracy for staying fairly grounded and authentic for the most part as a music artist. I don't doubt that the CMA and country fans have lower standards for white male artists (seriously, compare the original vidrel to this Grammy-nominated/CMA award-winning cover https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr7oYjnt3bM)

Reading the article, it rings hollow to me because it feels more like a Beyonce shill post by a stan and all the musings (about the exclusion of black women in country) are in service of the shilling. Even when they bring up other black women country artists, it's to imply their success rests on Bey's shoulders. I could not care less about a ceo millionaire who owns 32 grammies and 3 companies being invalidated by the Country Music Association KEK. The article's message is undermined by the fact that they don't show actual appreciation for black country artists beyond merely mentioning their names, that they were on Bey's album, and that they got more streams thanks to Bey. These artists have other albums of their own too you know, that released in 2023-2024.
Not to mention this is her first time doing a country album. "Beyoncé’s quest for legitimacy in country music has long been documented" and yet she waited nearly 2 decades and 7 albums to do so. It's cool that she's experimenting and brought on a bunch of country artists, but the black artists who did get nominated(The War and Treaty) have actually been in the country scene from the beginning of their career. Listen to their album Lover's Game vs Cowboy Carter and you can tell which one feels more genuine.