I enjoyed it, but not more than the original. From what I remember, which is not as much as I thought, it became a bit of a slog for me either midway through or towards the end, which didn’t really have a pay off like the first eps of the original did.

No, it took time to get Proton to where it is now. If it was released together with the Steam Deck, it just wouldn’t have had as much game support. Proton already existing also made the SD that much more trustworthy. Proton’s initial release was in 2018

Yes, otherwise the Steam Deck would probably not have as much game support as it did when it came out

Yeah, that actually surprised me the most here. The fact that all of it can leak at once seems like a good sign

Finished Gundam GQuuuux. Even though I read in many places that was no prior knowledge was needed, I felt lost a lot of times. I don’t know the characters that were actually important in the end and I missed a looot of context. It felt more aimed at fans of the original. It assumed you know the world, the terms, power dynamics etc, but as someone that only watched Witch From Mercury, I did not know any of it.

The characters that were posed as the leads were heavily underdeveloped, including their relationships to each other. I think they had potential (a duo of rebellious rich girl together with a refugee is an interesting dynamic to explore), but were shafted in favour of what felt like nostalgia bait. As a result, some of their actions made no sense to me.

Animation was nice though.

The exposure scenes feel more like a fan-service scene than what it was in the first season.

I recently rewatched S1 and was surprised how much fan service it had. I didn’t remember it at all. Definitely not less than what this episode displayed.

Filler? I skipped forward during the Uron Mirage thing, thinking CR mistakenly uploaded to the wrong anime. Then I saw they didn’t but I didn’t go back to watch it. Seems like I didn’t need to either. 9 minutes was way unnecessary

Gross, Netflix jail

Hmm, it didn’t bore me at all. Just hard to keep up with. It’s kind of the main theme of the anime. Season 1 was full of it as well, but not connected (or at least, it didn’t seem like it. Now we know it was).

But yeah, it seems like the new arc will be quite different, but it’s probably not just Maomao being Maomao

The catch is that Trump changes his mind somewhere between tomorrow and next week

Not surprised. I’ve seen some subs that felt off lately

Fuuuuck yes

I’m still not even sure if Maomao feels the same though I guess she’s not the most in-touch with her emotions

That, but she also just doesn’t seem to care and/or think romance can happen to her

Great final episode. A very good end of this arc, all things considered. The resurrection medicine was expected, but loved it nonetheless.

This season was great, but hard to follow sometimes due to how much there was to keep up with. It’s been building since season 1 episode 1 after all. Loved it though. Would probably be great on a binge rewatch.

I’m very curious how this continues. The status quo is very different now. Both Xiaolan (poor girl, she deserved to see them off properly!) and Shisui (or Tamamo I suppose) are out of sight, Jinshi is no longer just a pretty eunuch, Gyokuyou is empress (deserved!) and Maomao is back in the pleasure district. I’m sure Jinshi gets her back in the royal affairs somehow, but we’ll see. At the very least, he’ll get cockblocked again next season and I’m all for it.

Isn’t webview-based still essentially chromium-based?

In recent memory: Zenshuu. I was incredibly let down by the isekai bait and switch.

They don’t need Signal to do any of this though, so this doesn’t seem like a very plausible theory.

They have a Mastodon instance for the EC: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/

Which is a start

I think anime can be quite good at psychological horror, but yeah visual horror not so much. Like you suggest, I do think the disconnect might simply be too much, although I feel visual novels can be pretty good at it (haven’t played any, but that’s what I hear).

Makes me wonder, are there any western animations that do good horror?

Keeping an eye on this thread. I’ve tried many FOSS music apps, but never found one as nice as the non-FOSS Pulsar, particularly in regards to playlist functionality.