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Shaiapouf 29-May-22 11:12 PM
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LMAO
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Jun predicted everything that was gonna happen lmao
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it's very funny how his voice starts to freak out about Ovan after being very placid and matter of fact through everything else
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archaeo 29-May-22 11:15 PM
Amadala: And then he prevented it from happening, right?
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Shaiapouf 29-May-22 11:15 PM
well, hold that thought
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because he's about to do something
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If you ever noticed that Pi's backstory, how she got involved with all this in the first place, was never really elaborated on in game at all
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Surprise. (edited)
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You've been getting Pi's backstory all along
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We'll stop it there
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archaeo 29-May-22 11:22 PM
Wow!
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Dang!
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TO THINK THIS COOL STORY COULD HAVE BEEN TEXT
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lol
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Shaiapouf 29-May-22 11:23 PM
lmao
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I mean
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It IS text
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just
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in a different area of the game
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I mean it's more accessible that understanding Haseo's whole backstory at least lmao
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archaeo 29-May-22 11:23 PM
I am going to make the best PowerPoint deck for the video game writers of the world
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It will be beautiful
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Shaiapouf 29-May-22 11:24 PM
lmao
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archaeo 29-May-22 11:24 PM
Animated, each transition crisp
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And it will patiently explain that you should put the story in the game
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Not in the stinger
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Not in data logs
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Stop doing FUCKING LORE
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Start TELLING STORIES AGAIN
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Fuck!
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That’s the last slide
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“Fuck!”
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Shaiapouf 29-May-22 11:25 PM
lmao truely .hack is made to enrage you because the whole conceit is like "what if we told a story across every possible media" (edited)
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so Bunny Syndrome would presumably just make everyone talk about their bizarrely named anime waifus who have all tragically sacrificed themselves before, I guess trying to get you to play the award-winning something something free to level 69
Happy Maria 29-May-22 11:25 PM
me
battler 2
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archaeo 29-May-22 11:26 PM
I have a lot of sympathy and interest in multimedia stories but like, also a lot of doubts about how people make them and how accessible they are
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That’s why I’m doing a multimedia story but it is all in ascii art you can print out
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Shaiapouf 29-May-22 11:27 PM
also there is one indication that this is what's going on in Vol 2.
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When Pi gets her Lost Weapons
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archaeo 29-May-22 11:27 PM
Ohhhhh
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Shaiapouf 29-May-22 11:27 PM
she says something like "My brother put these here" and hugs them
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and that's actually around the time we learned from the Terminal Disk that Jun stole the data for Tarvos
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archaeo 29-May-22 11:28 PM
Mmm
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Shaiapouf 29-May-22 11:28 PM
which then does raise the question--where did Tarvos's data come from in game
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so I was wondering if anyone would figure it out
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But it's a solid reveal here
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now what's REALLY funny
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archaeo 29-May-22 11:29 PM
Yeah
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Shaiapouf 29-May-22 11:29 PM
is you can interoperate the sequence of events as Pi getting this data a bit before Roots starts, so just before Haseo joins the world
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and contacting Yata to start investigating ovan
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and Ovan's arm specifically
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which is what triggers Shino getting into a coma
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and literally everything that happens as a result of that (edited)
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so uh
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Well you tried, Jun.
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Bless your heart
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archaeo 29-May-22 11:31 PM
Or
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Wild idea
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Tell literally any journalist you know
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Shaiapouf 29-May-22 11:32 PM
I mean to be fair
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archaeo 29-May-22 11:32 PM
Or the government!
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Shaiapouf 29-May-22 11:32 PM
Salvador Aihara did that
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and he mostly got arrested and beat up by 10 year olds for his trouble
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archaeo 29-May-22 11:32 PM
No he made tiktoks about it!! (edited)
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Shaiapouf 29-May-22 11:32 PM
same diff tbh
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archaeo 29-May-22 11:32 PM
But also lol
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And lmao
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Skeith 29-May-22 11:32 PM
I think that's a bit unfair to him. Ovan was inevitably going to screw things over for the Twilight Brigade as his original plan for searching for the Key of Twilight was just do anything until it worked. Yata definitely sped things up but as long as Ovan was just running around things were going to go wrong
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Shaiapouf 29-May-22 11:32 PM
also as an aside, for whatever reason we have a clear anime picture of Pi in the real world
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archaeo 29-May-22 11:32 PM
Oh no she’s hot
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I think that's a bit unfair to him. Ovan was inevitably going to screw things over for the Twilight Brigade as his original plan for searching for the Key of Twilight was just do anything until it worked. Yata definitely sped things up but as long as Ovan was just running around things were going to go wrong
Shaiapouf 29-May-22 11:33 PM
that is true, I just like blaming everything on Yata because it's funny.
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Pi's offline self is a woman currently residing in Tokyo named Reiko Saeki (佐伯令子). She is a workaholic, loves eating out, and has a pet cat. She enjoys driving and owns a Maserati.
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archaeo 29-May-22 11:33 PM
It is funny
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Shaiapouf 29-May-22 11:33 PM
Queen
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archaeo 29-May-22 11:33 PM
Damn
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Shaiapouf 29-May-22 11:33 PM
and she's a professional computer programmer
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what a combination of traits to find in an anime woman jfc
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archaeo 29-May-22 11:33 PM
Imagine this fucking queen driving up to your NEET apartment in her fucking Italian sports car and banging on the door yelling your screen name
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(Isn’t Kobayashi with the dragon maid a computer programmer)
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also as an aside, for whatever reason we have a clear anime picture of Pi in the real world
Skeith 29-May-22 11:34 PM
Quantum....
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Shaiapouf 29-May-22 11:34 PM
I don't know what that is and I do not care to.
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Skeith 29-May-22 11:34 PM
That's what that image is from
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archaeo 29-May-22 11:34 PM
Yata doesn’t know how good he has it
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Shaiapouf 29-May-22 11:34 PM
As I said
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archaeo 29-May-22 11:35 PM
lol
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Shaiapouf 29-May-22 11:35 PM
Recent .hack stuff is very much
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archaeo 29-May-22 11:35 PM
Shaia has given up on knowing
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Shaiapouf 29-May-22 11:35 PM
I pretend I do Not See It
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Skeith 29-May-22 11:35 PM
Pi is a major character in it and this is her avatar in The World
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archaeo 29-May-22 11:35 PM
So basically this server’s *lux’s FF14 wol
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I pretend I do Not See It
Skeith 29-May-22 11:36 PM
I wish I could but I have to acknowledge that a franchise that changed my life eventually got bad
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Shaiapouf 29-May-22 11:36 PM
It happens to the best of us
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I wish I could but I have to acknowledge that a franchise that changed my life eventually got bad
Zedd-Repulsa 29-May-22 11:38 PM
I'm going to age myself here, but I used to very much like another series that both was multimedia and got Bad. Weiss Kreuz
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archaeo 29-May-22 11:39 PM
That definitely is a series that apparently aged so poorly it went from being mentioned casually by anime fans I knew to never being spoken of again tbh
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Shaia, when is the last historical period that has such a sharp shift in moral perceptions like that? I don’t feel like, for example, we’ve seen this in the literary record that I can think of but I’m pretty bad and dumb at history
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Zedd-Repulsa 29-May-22 11:41 PM
it's most recent part stopped in the middle of a major battle. in 2004. and Koyasu laughs from his piles of money
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archaeo 29-May-22 11:41 PM
A bunch of things everyone agreed are good are now seen as decidedly unseemly, etc.
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it's most recent part stopped in the middle of a major battle. in 2004. and Koyasu laughs from his piles of money
archaeo 29-May-22 11:41 PM
I hate it when people do that
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Shaia, when is the last historical period that has such a sharp shift in moral perceptions like that? I don’t feel like, for example, we’ve seen this in the literary record that I can think of but I’m pretty bad and dumb at history
Shaiapouf 29-May-22 11:43 PM
Honestly It happens pretty often I think. You'd be surprised at how fast specific cultural ethics can turn on a dime if given a reason to. That may not be the case for people in rural area pre-modern times, but it's not like the history books are all that concerned with those people any ways, as a rule
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archaeo 29-May-22 11:46 PM
Mmm, sure
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Happy Maria 29-May-22 11:46 PM
I know this was a month ago but sakaki evolved into a guado between games
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not even seymour, just a regular-ass add npc
johji 1
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archaeo 29-May-22 11:46 PM
Don’t worry about bringing up old posts
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Shaiapouf 29-May-22 11:47 PM
yes it is very funny
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Sakaki transforms into a whole new type of guy, it's great
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archaeo 29-May-22 11:47 PM
Oh no
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How do I scroll back down
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lol reloaded discord
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Garbage app
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Garbage app
Shaiapouf 29-May-22 11:57 PM
I sometimes think about how I did an LP of the .hack//GU games for like 5 people on an app that is terribly suited for doing Lps
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This is, to me, the truest expression of friendship I can do
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archaeo 29-May-22 11:59 PM
Aw nipah satokodealwithit
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It’s been fun! Hopefully it hasn’t been too much work
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Shaiapouf 30-May-22 12:00 AM
honestly probably more work on your part to follow it than my work to throw it all out there
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archaeo 30-May-22 12:01 AM
I’m glad it didn’t take too much work
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I figure you can just hit screenshot, copy, paste, return without too much trouble
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This was on pc right?
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Shaiapouf 30-May-22 12:03 AM
yeah
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I had the chat open on one screen and the game on another
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the hardest part of it on my side was like
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Trying to capture big movement scenes and make it actually read well in screen shots
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Like at the very end, capturing Atoli's face journey in screen shots
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really proud of that one
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but there are a lot of good expressions I failed to capture properly just because of how fast it is
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archaeo 30-May-22 12:10 AM
The aioli face journey was great
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So is that autocorrect
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....nevermind
Happy Maria 30-May-22 12:12 AM
nervous laughter what the fuck
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every fanart gets weirder, I am not sure I want to know what it's like where you all are
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every fanart gets weirder, I am not sure I want to know what it's like where you all are
Shaiapouf 30-May-22 12:13 AM
The Last Fan Art in the game is genuinely very funny just for it's sheer "why" factor
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archaeo 30-May-22 12:31 AM
It’s such a collection
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welcome back
Happy Maria 30-May-22 01:21 AM
okay I went through like 10 days worth of updates, I can take a break now
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okay I went through like 10 days worth of updates, I can take a break now
Shaiapouf 30-May-22 01:56 AM
I see you stopped just before our long digression into horrifying grunty designs from the og games
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Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni" 30-May-22 12:25 PM
til atoli is an actual word
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Shaiapouf 30-May-22 12:26 PM
Oh yeah, it's a Japanese name for a sparrow
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Atoli has a number of pet birds (and when annoyed at her, haseo jokingly compares her to a bird)
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Now what will really fuck you up with this
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All the squad leaders of moon tree--zelkovia, Kaede, sakaki, etc--are named after Japanese names for trees
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Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni" 30-May-22 12:28 PM
gudathunk
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let's see, I know maple
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Shaiapouf 30-May-22 12:29 PM
Nala, Hiiragi, Sophora, and Matsu are the rest of the names
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If you want to work it out
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Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni" 30-May-22 12:30 PM
sakaki: I'm helping!
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zelkova is zelkova
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Shaiapouf 30-May-22 12:30 PM
Indeed
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Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni" 30-May-22 12:31 PM
sakaki, low-spreading, flowering evergreen tree (Cleyera ochnacea), of the family Pentaphylacaceae, used in Shintō to demarcate or decorate sacred spaces.
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lol
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I can't find nala
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hiiragi is holly
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Shaiapouf 30-May-22 12:32 PM
Nala is apparently a word for oak
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Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni" 30-May-22 12:32 PM
sophora is a pagoda tree?
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ah, matsu is pine
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imagine all your squad leaders buying name changes for the viiiiiibes~
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archaeo 30-May-22 01:07 PM
lol
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Shaiapouf 30-May-22 01:30 PM
Honestly I would bet money that has happened in ffxiv
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Shaiapouf 30-May-22 01:59 PM
Still thinking about #haseosweep
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Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni" 30-May-22 02:08 PM
oh 100% yes
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Happy Maria 30-May-22 05:06 PM
me explaining to shaia that various .hack dudes are trees because I'm a botanist on an mmo
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archaeo 30-May-22 05:09 PM
Dang that is extremely dot hack
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.hack//grove understander
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Shaiapouf 31-May-22 08:35 PM
Just to be clear, it will be a while until my next proper update as I have a fair bit of grinding to do (I have two updates planned, one for the forest of pain, and one for weddings + interesting email chains, both should come out within a few days of each other) (edited)
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shortly after that we'll start our end run with vol 4
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just don't expect anything much for the next week
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archaeo 31-May-22 08:38 PM
Ugh wow typical content creator BULLSHIT
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LettuceKitteh 31-May-22 08:40 PM
Thanks for the update ❤️
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Shaiapouf 31-May-22 09:10 PM
as I work on affection levels, I am reminded of something I just wanted to point out. That Saku actually has min level affection with you, until you go through the e-mail chain that convinces her to not cease existing, after which she jumps up to the same affection level as Bo
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kite just floats there in your party lmao
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archaeo 31-May-22 09:12 PM
lol
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Floaty used protagonist
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