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Usandru said:
There's nothing wrong with it if you want to make exactly the kind of game it's geared to make, but like most game engines, it's a near perfect example of false economy. A lot of game engines sell themselves on not requiring you to learn how to program, but unless you can content yourself with the likely very limited default options for easy scripting, you quickly run into the problem that for anything even slightly complex, you have to learn the engine's scripting language.

It's at this point where you end up in trouble. Game engine designers are, as a rule, not in the business of providing really good programming languages, in part because it's really hard to compete with the actual really good programming languages, and so at this point they have two options. Either they drop you out into a full programming language (probably the wiser choice) and now you have to learn how to program anyway and at this point a fuller, more extensible and better supported game engine like Unity is probably (though not necessarily) better for you, or they provide some sort of limited but likely increasingly complex and hacked together scripting language that tries to not expose you to more actual programming than it can avoid, to the overall detriment of trying to program in it.

For a pair of non-computer scientist working adults who probably have a low math background (although who knows, many VAs have university degrees and may have done engineering classes for all I know. Both Ueda Kana and Katou Emiri seem like smart cookies to me so) there's really nothing wrong with using RPGMaker. Especially since, you know, it appears to be sponsored by RPGMaker. But it's not what I would ever recommend someone do, because while the initial curve is probably worse if you need to learn some C#, if you really want to make some games it will most likely pay off in the long run.

Now doing some research, it appears that RPGMaker actually does drop you into JavaScript these days. At this point I'm mostly hitting snobbery and just sneering at programming in JavaScript when you could have used something less unpleasant, but my favourite language is Haskell so I'm just completely divorced from normal devs on this point :V
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Well...RPGMaker does save a bunch of the work of learning how to do tedious stuff like placing, animating, moving and removing visual assets.
...not sure if worth it if it dumps you into javascript though
 
Huh. Who here knew that Girlish Number has a 4koma spinoff? And who knew there were plans for a anime adaptation of said spinoff?

Well then, I have news...

Yep, the 4koma adaptation has been canceled. Apparently they couldn't get together a production team.
 
Guess what Isekai they're making this time?



Yes that's right. A spider voiced by Aoi Yuuki.
 
Article:
Crunchyroll and Adult Swim announced on Thursday that they are partnering with Alcon Entertainment to produce an anime series based on Blade Runner 2049, the sequel to the 1982 Blade Runner film. The series, titled Blade Runner — Black Lotus, will have 13 episodes.

Shinji Aramaki (Ultraman, Appleseed) and Kenji Kamiyama (Ultraman, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex) are directing all the episodes at Sola Digital Arts. Shinichiro Watanabe (Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo) is a creative producer on the series.

The series' story will take place in 2032, between the two films, and will include some familiar characters.

When I saw the headline I had no hope, but then I saw that staff list and what they've done in the past...........
 
The latest episode of Release the Spyce is one wild ride. I love it.
Mei being the traitor was the best. I just love how flippant the reveal was. In many such reveals the characters personality will change totally afterwards showing the the person we all knew and loved to be a false facade. Here, that does not happen. Mei is the same character after the reveal as she was before. I really hope it isn't found out that it was all really a ruse and she was good all along. I am fine if the deaths (spoiler alert but you are already reading a spoiler so...) are a ruse on their part but I the story would suffer a bit if Mei wasn't actually a traitor.

I also realised that the guy who wrote Yuuki Yuna also does the composition for this series. That explains a lot.
 
Got myself dunked in reading Aldnoah Zero and Mahouka discourse. Ended up coming to the observation that there may actually be a trend to writing emotionless protagonists like they have, in that they're presenting their ideal that the smartest, strongest and most morally righteous individual is one who is "incapable of allowing emotions to cloud their judgement or ability", and wouldn't humans all be better off as machines.

Probably an observation that a grade-schooler could both realize and understand as being bunk, but it's still something I felt I had to share with somebody.
 

Say what you will about the series, I consider this good news for the future dubs on Crunchyroll.

(Also, it's Funimation doing the dub, in case you're wondering.)
 
crunchyroll is literally on the production committee for shield hero, so however contracts work when one streaming company is bankrolling an anime, but another is dubbing it is how it works
 
Controversal but...



TLDR: Pirate anime, and use the money that you would have given to Crunchyroll to a charity that actually helps animators.

I'm curious as to what you guys think about this?
 
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Kokurokoki said:
Controversal but...



TLDR: Pirate anime, and use the money that you would have given to Crunchyroll to a charity that actually helps animators.

I'm curious as to what you guys think about this?
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I think that pirating anime is fine if:

If your interested into old titles don't want to shell out the money for them.

You're doing it to protest stuff.

The provider doesn't have your anime of choice or in the language that you want.
 
Participating in capitalist structures is arguably immoral, but on the other hand anime piracy and principled resistance against consumer culture are not even close to the same thing, and I think anyone who tells themselves that they're doing it for these reasons are fooling themselves.

Donating to a charity for animators sounds, to be perfectly frank, like a scam. I can think of so many dubious points if you talk about a charity to support people employed at corporations that frankly I don't even know where to start. I'll just be brief and note that:
1. how do you make sure the money goes to the people who made the show you watched?
2. how can these animators even realistically claim this kind of money? And even assuming they can claim it, won't it just lead to the industry solidifying in exploiting the animators since consumers are now subsidizing their exploitative practices?
3. you're getting this from a fucking youtuber, who probably isn't even Japanese, and probably has no industry connections.

I'm not really interested in standing up for either piracy or anti-piracy, but I think you should keep in mind that there are much more fundamentally complex questions at play when you discuss this, because paying for stuff means participating in a system that's much larger than just "giving money to the people who made the thing", and the ethical issues at play have a lot more things going on than you'd think at first blush.

I'm also going to say though, that anyone who suggests that you can spend your money more morally by spending it on a different product are just selling you something with better PR or marketing. Maybe there's even some truth to their claims, but I wouldn't bet on it being due to the goodness of their hearts.
 
Delphisage said:
Got myself dunked in reading Aldnoah Zero and Mahouka discourse. Ended up coming to the observation that there may actually be a trend to writing emotionless protagonists like they have, in that they're presenting their ideal that the smartest, strongest and most morally righteous individual is one who is "incapable of allowing emotions to cloud their judgement or ability", and wouldn't humans all be better off as machines.
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And both shows are utter trash. That should tell you something.
 
haha, I see the staff at GoHands continue to just trailblaze their own way in animation and compositions to create whatever it is they're doing with W'z (which is apparently in the same continuity as Handshakers)



 
Mizu said:
Is that a sniper rifle shield? How... how do you fire bullets? Or is it meant to be a hammer?
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I'm ashamed for looking at it this closely, but it's actually a crossbow shield that looks like a sniper rifle. And there's a hole in the shield above that blue gem thing on the front for shots to come through.
 
Finally. It's been three years since Konosuba aired, and only now have they finally dubbed it? Jeez, I hope this doesn't end up terrible.
 
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