Spent 35 hours leveling up Thomas and all the playable stars in both his chapters. Love this game. Best in the series but the True Runes were lackluster. All you get is an extra spell and it's not that good for the True Lightening, Fire, and Water Runes.

Suikoden IV and V weren't very good, IV dropped the party limit to 4 and V just didn't feel good.

Best western fantasy action RPG on PS2, it's settled, lol.

My entire month will be spent playing these and several horror games on PC-98 (Neko Project 21).

Going to play some PC 98 games on my old laptop with Gentoo for Halloween. I've seen some of the horror tittles and they look pretty good. I want to play both Dead of the Brain games, corpse party, and a cool RPG called Peret em Heru.

The compile for neko project 21 was quick and figuring out how to load games and getting the fonts wasn't too hard. PC 98 is the oldest system that I've emulated.

I've tried to find Japanese horror games from the PS2 era that has this same feel, but I can't :(

Some quick facts:

The VAs for Siren were British, so every Japanese person had a posh accent and didn't pronounce Japanese words so well

Siren 2's main setting, Yamijima Island, was inspired by an actual Japanese Island, Hashima island. The Island was an industrial hub for coal mining and was known for forced labor involving Korean and Chinese slaves.

Both games used facial scans from multiple angles to create the uncanny, and horrifying, expressions of the various protagonists and enemies

"According to documents obtained by the Kumamoto Nichinichi Shimbun, in addition to the names and biographies of the university professors surveyed, "emotions toward Japan," "emotions toward the Self-Defense Forces," and "ideas and beliefs" were compiled in detail in a report called "Personal BSD (Basic Source Data)," and at least several thousand people were stored within the Asaka Garrison It appears to be shared. One former member said, "We have not given consent to the target group." He testified that the purpose and legal basis for the activities had never been demonstrated within the unit.""

"The Ministry of Defense said, "We are not aware of the collection of personal information of citizens that is the basis for (Kumabi's) interviews. "It will take time to verify the facts, but we would like to take some kind of action," he said."

Another "democracy" that's closer to being like an authoritarian hellhole than the countries they criticize.

I'm about the dive into the life of a salaryman. How many unnecessary JAV style scenes will there be?

They attributed the contradiction largely to China as “the invisible hand that is rebalancing the market,” due to its ability to curb oil imports by about 3 million barrels per day – an amount nearly equal to Japan’s total crude demand.

China was able to significantly pare down consumption for several reasons. Before the war, China was building back-up crude inventories, aided by cheap deliveries of sanctioned oil from Russia and Iran

By cutting down on imports, relying on vast stockpiles and utilizing more clean energy, China has been able to cushion the impact of higher prices at home, if not alleviate it completely.

So...Trump went to war with Iran and China wins? Why is he so f***ing stupid? Also, can we just go full hog into renewable energy investment and side line naysayers? It's literally becoming a national security issue at this point.

Turn based strategy

Cheesy plot with JK Rowling tier Character names, like Hel Spites, as the main protag

Rock/paper/scissors style combat, simple, easy to understand

This is already good and I'm about 3 hours deep.

The Higginbotham family previously said that the 20-year-old went missing after an argument over artificial intelligence during a family trip and feared he could have been “emotionally distressed.”

His mother said that her son was last known to have entered the mountainous forest area near Yamashina, Kyoto, where there are water sources but limited food.

So what happened?

I don't think he decided to end it all over AI and his mothers use of ChatGPT. Makes more sense that he slipped and either broke something or fell in a body of water and drowned.

Either way, horrible way to go at such a young age.

“There’s no artificial intelligence without actual intelligence,” he said on “Mad Money.” “The knowledge has to come from somewhere, and Reddit is one of the primary sources for that sort of information that AI’s crave, but also that people crave.”

Reddit is one of the primary sources for that sort of information that AI’s crave

Now it all makes sense.

AI was trained on humans that don't know how to act like humans, so AI has like a double dose of uncanny valley to it.

That and it makes sense why AI uses so many emojis, cheesy one liners, and can a massive fence sitter. God forbid we get an LLM that can give a constructive, well thought out opinion.

Just like a typical Redditor, gotta get them stars and updoots.

Canto dub

This is going to be interesting....