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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
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    I remember the first time I went into a Bookoff I walked out with five loose Pokemon games from gen 1 and 2 and they were like a few dollars each. Getting them with a box + manual was like 10-15 bucks even. In America a boxed English pokemon game is going for hundreds right now.

    It's funny i can't read a lick of Japanese but I can play those games just from memory so I did end up actually using them lol

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
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    I found a 200Y copy of Para Para Paradise at BookOff in Akihabara, not much else though. It felt like the JP equivalent of a GameStop, mostly games that're extremely common or unwanted there.

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  • TraceTrace GNU Terry Pratchett; GNU Gus; GNU Carrie Fisher; GNU Adam We Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Oh also, the latest One Piece.
    Luffy's laughing.

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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    I found a 200Y copy of Para Para Paradise at BookOff in Akihabara, not much else though. It felt like the JP equivalent of a GameStop, mostly games that're extremely common or unwanted there.

    The ones in a place akiba are gonna be picked over and a bit more pricey. I found a lot of good stuff in Osaka compared to some of the nerdy spots in Tokyo as well. Got both Jet Set Radio + Future there after looking all over for them

    Super potato was pretty hyped up but the prices there seemed a bit higher for no reason. Got that impression from Mandarake but it depends on what you're looking at I suppose.

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    WfM19 thoughts and questions
    So Ochs Earth forced Vanadis to implement GUND into mobile suits in a bid to compete with and overtake Spacian mobile suit manufacturers. Ochs Earth was forcibly bought out by the Mobile Suit Development Council made up of Spacian manufacturers, the Vanadis Institute was covertly wiped out, and the Benerit Group was formed following.

    Ochs Earth’s leadership survived and would become the heads of the Space Assembly League, who are supposed to keep corporation activities under observation and intervene when necessary. Ochs Earth’s former leadership covertly provides remaining or the specs of GUND mobile suits to the Dawn of Fold.

    Feng seems suspicious of the Space Assembly League council and of Prospera. On Earth, Prospera finds the stockpile of GUND weapons and destroys it, seemingly bitter about Ochs pushing Vanadis to make mobile suits. Prospera’s associate silences Feng.

    Shaddiq realizes Prospera has figured out his ploy to move assets to Earth and his connection to Dawn of Fold.

    So is the conflict between the remnants of Ochs Earth using the Space Assembly League to go after Benerit while secretly arming Earth mercenaries and Prospera trying to control Benerit to complete Quiet Zero? Is Shaddiq working with the former or do they just have overlap on Dawn of Fold? Was Feng both skeptical of the League’s motivations and Prospera, but not necessarily in the same way?

    Not quite

    Ochs Earth was destroyed by the Benerit group during the Vanadis incident. But the space assembly league took note of the threat the GUND tech represented, and the fact that it scared the Benerit group and salvaged what it could/hid what it could. Those are all Lfrith pre-production models that Prospera wipes out.

    Those have since been converted into the Lfrith thorn, Ur and presumably the Gundvolvas as well, wielded by Dawn of Fold as a proxy weapon to bring down the Benerit Group.

    So currently you've got Benerit Group (with multiple sub factions, all working at cross purposes), dawn of fold (proxies for the SLA & Shaddiq - possibly working at cross purposes as well), Prospera's faction (wanting revenge for everything, possibly more), and the protags.

    In other words it's a giant cluster fuck
    The vibe I got was that with whatever happened with Ochs-Earth, their survivors wound up founding Dawn of Fold.

    The SAL wants to keep the Benerit Group’s power in check (since as a corporate oligarchy their power clearly rivals that of the SAL, which we can assume is the Spacian democratic government), so their High Council has been pulling a CIA and aiding/enlisting/funding Dawn of Fold for deniable black ops purposes

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
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    Spoilered for big, but not a spoiler:
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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Catching up on Ranger Reject, this series is wild, and I can't believe it's the same author as Quint Quints sometimes.

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    I found a 200Y copy of Para Para Paradise at BookOff in Akihabara, not much else though. It felt like the JP equivalent of a GameStop, mostly games that're extremely common or unwanted there.

    The ones in a place akiba are gonna be picked over and a bit more pricey. I found a lot of good stuff in Osaka compared to some of the nerdy spots in Tokyo as well. Got both Jet Set Radio + Future there after looking all over for them

    Super potato was pretty hyped up but the prices there seemed a bit higher for no reason. Got that impression from Mandarake but it depends on what you're looking at I suppose.

    Mandarake Nakano is the real goldmine, at least it was last time I went. Found a ton of great artbooks for dirt cheap(Danganronpa, Shikigami, Robotics;Notes, like $10 for all of them).

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  • SkeithSkeith Registered User regular
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    cj iwakura wrote: »
    I found a 200Y copy of Para Para Paradise at BookOff in Akihabara, not much else though. It felt like the JP equivalent of a GameStop, mostly games that're extremely common or unwanted there.

    The ones in a place akiba are gonna be picked over and a bit more pricey. I found a lot of good stuff in Osaka compared to some of the nerdy spots in Tokyo as well. Got both Jet Set Radio + Future there after looking all over for them

    Super potato was pretty hyped up but the prices there seemed a bit higher for no reason. Got that impression from Mandarake but it depends on what you're looking at I suppose.

    I found some good stuff at Akihabara Mandarake the last time I went but I was hunting for nendoroids.

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
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    That might have been the best Demon Slayer episode this season, nicely focused.

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  • Mortal SkyMortal Sky queer punk hedge witchRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    I spent so much time in the Nagoya branch of Mandarake as a teenager that I probably could've paid rent there

    their prices are usually decent but the real magic of Mandarake is just how abyssally deep their selection can run, and even for old and obscure stuff

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  • HellboreHellbore A bad, bad man Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Lanz wrote: »
    WfM19 thoughts and questions
    So Ochs Earth forced Vanadis to implement GUND into mobile suits in a bid to compete with and overtake Spacian mobile suit manufacturers. Ochs Earth was forcibly bought out by the Mobile Suit Development Council made up of Spacian manufacturers, the Vanadis Institute was covertly wiped out, and the Benerit Group was formed following.

    Ochs Earth’s leadership survived and would become the heads of the Space Assembly League, who are supposed to keep corporation activities under observation and intervene when necessary. Ochs Earth’s former leadership covertly provides remaining or the specs of GUND mobile suits to the Dawn of Fold.

    Feng seems suspicious of the Space Assembly League council and of Prospera. On Earth, Prospera finds the stockpile of GUND weapons and destroys it, seemingly bitter about Ochs pushing Vanadis to make mobile suits. Prospera’s associate silences Feng.

    Shaddiq realizes Prospera has figured out his ploy to move assets to Earth and his connection to Dawn of Fold.

    So is the conflict between the remnants of Ochs Earth using the Space Assembly League to go after Benerit while secretly arming Earth mercenaries and Prospera trying to control Benerit to complete Quiet Zero? Is Shaddiq working with the former or do they just have overlap on Dawn of Fold? Was Feng both skeptical of the League’s motivations and Prospera, but not necessarily in the same way?

    Not quite

    Ochs Earth was destroyed by the Benerit group during the Vanadis incident. But the space assembly league took note of the threat the GUND tech represented, and the fact that it scared the Benerit group and salvaged what it could/hid what it could. Those are all Lfrith pre-production models that Prospera wipes out.

    Those have since been converted into the Lfrith thorn, Ur and presumably the Gundvolvas as well, wielded by Dawn of Fold as a proxy weapon to bring down the Benerit Group.

    So currently you've got Benerit Group (with multiple sub factions, all working at cross purposes), dawn of fold (proxies for the SLA & Shaddiq - possibly working at cross purposes as well), Prospera's faction (wanting revenge for everything, possibly more), and the protags.

    In other words it's a giant cluster fuck
    The vibe I got was that with whatever happened with Ochs-Earth, their survivors wound up founding Dawn of Fold.

    The SAL wants to keep the Benerit Group’s power in check (since as a corporate oligarchy their power clearly rivals that of the SAL, which we can assume is the Spacian democratic government), so their High Council has been pulling a CIA and aiding/enlisting/funding Dawn of Fold for deniable black ops purposes
    I think it's less the SAL High Council is funding DoF specifically, and more that they're funding and arming terrorist groups in general. DoF is just the most relevant to the current story.

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  • CantideCantide Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I’ve spent the weekend binge reading Dungeon Meshi and am now completely caught up… but my desire to read more remains unsated.

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
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    Fun artistic representation of a scene from Gundam Witch 19

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  • AnzekayAnzekay Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited April 13
    G-Witch 19
    HAIR DOWN SULETTA SPOTTED

    THE ED IS COMING TRUE

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Asthariel wrote: »
    I will be honest with you, I am a person that likes complicated stories, but if not for reading stuff on the internet, I would have no idea what the subplot woth Orchs Earth is even about and how does it connect to the main plot. There has been so little focus in previous episodes on that, that dropping it now, 19 episodes into the series feels like a big "wait, what?".

    This is what I mean by I don't know what the show expects me to know. Some folks know all this extra lore from external resources that the show only maybe hints at our mentions off hand once, so it's not even clear what's supposed to be mysterious intrigue Vs stuff they released elsewhere that they didn't bother covering in the show

    I dont really feel that's true? even the reveals in this episode are working off stuff that's presented in show, no external references necessary

    Just offhand, this is the factions as we know it, all from info presented in show:

    Spoilers for latest episode.

    Vanadis Institute: Orignator of GUND tech, intended to let humans survive in space.
    Ochs Earth: Corporation, bought out Vanadis Inistatue and pivoted GUND tech towards military suit useage. Destroyed along with Vanadis 21 years ago by...

    Cathedra: Auditing orginzationof the Mobile Suit Development Council (Which appears to just be the Benerit Group when it's putting on airs and playing ethical). Unclear what has happened to them/how much power they still wield - but the big three were Peil/Jeturk and Grassly, just like in Benerit.

    Benerit Group: Businesses conglomerate of various corporations both cooperating and competing with each other. Grassly, Jeturk and Peil are the Big Three - but there are a ton of others who are members, including, notably, the Shin Sei Development Corporation
    Peil technologies: One of the big three corps. uses AI to decide their leadership and seemingly, major decisions. rescued at least one Vanadis researcher and has been contuining GUND research.
    Jeturk Heavy Machinery: Practically the top dog, to the point their leader felt confident making a play to assassinate the benerit group's leader. In dire straits since his death, has started building it's own Gundam after being blackmailed by Prospera.
    Grassley: most Gund-phobic of the corporations. Actively recruits and reeducates earthian children to become part of their leadership, something that is backfiring currently with Shaddiq.
    Shin Sei Development Corporation: Prospera's corperation. Mercury based, which is where Penet was orginally mined. VERY mysterious, there's a lot of questions about who's backing them and how for them to make not just one but two Gundams (Aerial and the Rebuild)

    Asstica school of technology: Benerit group created/dominated school, used to perpuate their power structures.

    Space Assembly League: seemingly the equivalent of the Spacian parliament in this setting. We dont know a lot about them - the big stuff we've learned is they ressurrected Ochs Earth or Salvaged Ochs Earth tech, and are backing...
    Dawn of Fold: Earthian liberation terrorist organization. For the longest time how they had Gundams was a major mystery, till it was revealed that the SAL was backing them with Ochs Earth Tech.

    That siad, remebering all of this/knowning all of this requires going back to the prolouge and having a pretty fine grained comb, due to the series breakneck pace.

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  • TraceTrace GNU Terry Pratchett; GNU Gus; GNU Carrie Fisher; GNU Adam We Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    That's Impel Down finished.

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Anzekay wrote: »
    G-Witch 19
    HAIR DOWN SULETTA SPOTTED

    THE ED IS COMING TRUE

    Just ask Terra,
    when the hair comes down, shit gets real.

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
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    cj iwakura wrote: »
    That might have been the best Demon Slayer episode this season, nicely focused.

    Demon Slayer this week:
    Besides all the fighting effects, I was stunned by the sheer vibrancy in Muichiro's flashback: the colors popped, individual leaves fluttered, light sparkled off the translucent, running water in the river, and you could see the rain blowing branches during the storm. The studio was flexing during a quiet moment in the story.

    Then in the end when Muichiro confronted the Upper Moon, the effects for the mist, the dynamic movement, the music composition and timing, and really everything about the scene was amazing in the way we've come to expect from this adaptation.

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Dandadan chapter 108:

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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] regular
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  • TraceTrace GNU Terry Pratchett; GNU Gus; GNU Carrie Fisher; GNU Adam We Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    That might have been the best Demon Slayer episode this season, nicely focused.

    Demon Slayer this week:
    Besides all the fighting effects, I was stunned by the sheer vibrancy in Muichiro's flashback: the colors popped, individual leaves fluttered, light sparkled off the translucent, running water in the river, and you could see the rain blowing branches during the storm. The studio was flexing during a quiet moment in the story.

    Then in the end when Muichiro confronted the Upper Moon, the effects for the mist, the dynamic movement, the music composition and timing, and really everything about the scene was amazing in the way we've come to expect from this adaptation.

    Demon Slayer is consistently awesome animation wise and I love it just for that reason.

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Hellbore wrote: »
    Lanz wrote: »
    WfM19 thoughts and questions
    So Ochs Earth forced Vanadis to implement GUND into mobile suits in a bid to compete with and overtake Spacian mobile suit manufacturers. Ochs Earth was forcibly bought out by the Mobile Suit Development Council made up of Spacian manufacturers, the Vanadis Institute was covertly wiped out, and the Benerit Group was formed following.

    Ochs Earth’s leadership survived and would become the heads of the Space Assembly League, who are supposed to keep corporation activities under observation and intervene when necessary. Ochs Earth’s former leadership covertly provides remaining or the specs of GUND mobile suits to the Dawn of Fold.

    Feng seems suspicious of the Space Assembly League council and of Prospera. On Earth, Prospera finds the stockpile of GUND weapons and destroys it, seemingly bitter about Ochs pushing Vanadis to make mobile suits. Prospera’s associate silences Feng.

    Shaddiq realizes Prospera has figured out his ploy to move assets to Earth and his connection to Dawn of Fold.

    So is the conflict between the remnants of Ochs Earth using the Space Assembly League to go after Benerit while secretly arming Earth mercenaries and Prospera trying to control Benerit to complete Quiet Zero? Is Shaddiq working with the former or do they just have overlap on Dawn of Fold? Was Feng both skeptical of the League’s motivations and Prospera, but not necessarily in the same way?

    Not quite

    Ochs Earth was destroyed by the Benerit group during the Vanadis incident. But the space assembly league took note of the threat the GUND tech represented, and the fact that it scared the Benerit group and salvaged what it could/hid what it could. Those are all Lfrith pre-production models that Prospera wipes out.

    Those have since been converted into the Lfrith thorn, Ur and presumably the Gundvolvas as well, wielded by Dawn of Fold as a proxy weapon to bring down the Benerit Group.

    So currently you've got Benerit Group (with multiple sub factions, all working at cross purposes), dawn of fold (proxies for the SLA & Shaddiq - possibly working at cross purposes as well), Prospera's faction (wanting revenge for everything, possibly more), and the protags.

    In other words it's a giant cluster fuck
    The vibe I got was that with whatever happened with Ochs-Earth, their survivors wound up founding Dawn of Fold.

    The SAL wants to keep the Benerit Group’s power in check (since as a corporate oligarchy their power clearly rivals that of the SAL, which we can assume is the Spacian democratic government), so their High Council has been pulling a CIA and aiding/enlisting/funding Dawn of Fold for deniable black ops purposes
    I think it's less the SAL High Council is funding DoF specifically, and more that they're funding and arming terrorist groups in general. DoF is just the most relevant to the current story.
    Would make sense, and fits in well with what real life geopolitical hegemons do to maintain control overall

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Trace wrote: »
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    That might have been the best Demon Slayer episode this season, nicely focused.

    Demon Slayer this week:
    Besides all the fighting effects, I was stunned by the sheer vibrancy in Muichiro's flashback: the colors popped, individual leaves fluttered, light sparkled off the translucent, running water in the river, and you could see the rain blowing branches during the storm. The studio was flexing during a quiet moment in the story.

    Then in the end when Muichiro confronted the Upper Moon, the effects for the mist, the dynamic movement, the music composition and timing, and really everything about the scene was amazing in the way we've come to expect from this adaptation.

    Demon Slayer is consistently awesome animation wise and I love it just for that reason.

    It's really textbook by-the-numbers shonen stuff, but it's done with so much love that it's hard to be mad. No other studio would make something as mundane as two brothers arguing in a ramshackle shed look so engrossing and detailed.

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Gundam WFM ep 19: Protest Signs

    Good Signs

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  • TraceTrace GNU Terry Pratchett; GNU Gus; GNU Carrie Fisher; GNU Adam We Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    Trace wrote: »
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    That might have been the best Demon Slayer episode this season, nicely focused.

    Demon Slayer this week:
    Besides all the fighting effects, I was stunned by the sheer vibrancy in Muichiro's flashback: the colors popped, individual leaves fluttered, light sparkled off the translucent, running water in the river, and you could see the rain blowing branches during the storm. The studio was flexing during a quiet moment in the story.

    Then in the end when Muichiro confronted the Upper Moon, the effects for the mist, the dynamic movement, the music composition and timing, and really everything about the scene was amazing in the way we've come to expect from this adaptation.

    Demon Slayer is consistently awesome animation wise and I love it just for that reason.

    It's really textbook by-the-numbers shonen stuff, but it's done with so much love that it's hard to be mad. No other studio would make something as mundane as two brothers arguing in a ramshackle shed look so engrossing and detailed.

    Yup. It's an argument for studios to spend $$$ on animation quality as well.

    Also as by-the-numbers as Demon Slayer is, the story is -tight.- Like there's not really a whole bunch of filler bullshit and something is always in motion.

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Gundam WFM 19
    Re Eri:

    Less joking, I will say WFM's depiction of "Earth is Hell" in this setting doesn't measure up to Code Geass or what I recently watched, the Psycho Pass movie. Not even to G Gundam in some ways. Too little time spent on it for us to really FEEL it, and no, a roof caving in on ONE kid isn't gonna get us there.

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  • Dee KaeDee Kae Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Thoughts on Birdie Wing, they shouldn't of dropped the mafia storyline for a highschool one, blergh.

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  • TraceTrace GNU Terry Pratchett; GNU Gus; GNU Carrie Fisher; GNU Adam We Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    This Doflamingo guy seems like a bit of a prick.

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  • TraceTrace GNU Terry Pratchett; GNU Gus; GNU Carrie Fisher; GNU Adam We Registered User regular
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    lol Luffy immediately gets into a dick-swinging contest with Whitebeard

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Luffy has very strong "King? I didn't vote for you" energy

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  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I love how much of a huge asshole Doglamingo is. He legit might be the best One Piece villain because of just how much a piece of shit he is and how much he loves being a piece of shit.

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    GR_Zombie wrote: »
    One Piece episode 312
    Watching the funeral for the Merry the week after putting down my 17-year old cat was a hell of a thing.
    Condolences! That's never easy.

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Dee Kae wrote: »
    Thoughts on Birdie Wing, they shouldn't of dropped the mafia storyline for a highschool one, blergh.

    the mafia comes back, sort of

    you're right that it needs more mafia. should have been golf mafia vs golf yakuza

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