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Massive Spoilers, naturally.

I cannot BELIEVE that there's never an exchange with Maruki where you actually discuss anything with him, or address the hypocrisy of the Phantom Thieves, or any number of things. "Futaba, Makoto, and Haru's parents (and also Kasumi) could all just be alive? Ha, actually, it's better that they died because it made them stronger. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go back to my home planet with my talking cat who gets to live because I don't suffer consequences."

It's just such a massive missed opportunity for interesting writing, instead resulting in the blandest and stupidest defenders of the status quo I may ever have seen.

• The main person pushing you to side against Maruki is Akechi, who is a serial killer. I think Haru mentions this like once and everyone else tells her to just forget about him murdering her dad.
• The MC is going to go to jail, where by all means Shido's co-conspirators should just have him killed. Or at least that's what should happen, but you avoid that by using your powers to mind control people into getting you out. Convenient that you're allowed to use your powers to solve the problems of yourself and your friends but nobody else can solve broader societal problems. Curious.
• Maruki is messed up due to his own trauma, but instead of overcoming it and healing people's pain in a healthier way I guess he has to become a taxi driver lol.
• The MC really has no idea how personas or the metaverse actually work. If Maruki can create his own palace consciously, someone ELSE (like, say, Shido's co-conspirators?) are eventually going to figure out cognitive psience (they have Wakaba's notes, after all), and then what?

I've never played vanilla P5 but man, P5R is fucked gameplay wise. Camera Strap accessory gives everyone infinite SP, and you can just summon some of the past game bonus personas and win the game.

As a final aside, it is ridiculous to me that the MC can't just stay at Shujin for their last year of high school.

Really came down to the wire to get this done before pride month was over, but, after many months, I'm finally happy with how it looks! This was supposed to be my "low-effort army", so much for that lmao.

If you click the "Request Invite" button on the storepage, you instantly get one.

Performance is dogshit for me, 30-ish FPS on all lowest settings (with DLSS off). Water doesn't even render.

The whole "disrupting packs with dung bombs" mechanic is also pretty lame imo; every couple minutes the monster leaves to go rejoin the pack and you have to do it again.

Undecided on the wound mechanic because I only did the first two hunts. Optimistically, this could be like the clutch claw but actually good.

The relationship between doing infinite damage and being able to see is dialectical.

So my old wireless Xbox 360 controller is kind of on its last legs, bad stick drift, thumbstick rubber starting to rub off, and I'm looking for a replacement. Would gladly just buy another 360 controller but they haven't made them in years.

Got an 8bitdo Ultimate earlier this year and it has not lasted. Out of the box, the thumbsticks started losing sensitivity in one or two directions after a few hours of play, but I could get around this by messing with the deadzones in the software. Not an ideal solution, since it lowered the resolution, but it worked.

But now it's got new and exciting problems that I can't work around. Sometimes the B button won't register at all. Sometimes the A button will press on its own. And my favorite, sometimes the entire controller just freezes and won't accept any input for seconds at a time.

I had a coworker recommend a GuliKit but the face buttons are backward and that's enough to put me off it.

Any advice?

Honestly doesn't seem like my thing but a neat enough concept that I thought I'd post it here.

Also somebody in the comments mentioned that the itch.io bundle for trans youth earlier this year had this game.

Now to spend the rest of eternity painting them. Going Oops! All Aspect Warriors (plus some warlocks/farseers, purely because the models were cool). Mostly 3rd party, though the Striking Scorpions are GW because they were on sale (though where the FUCK is Karandras, GW)? The minis missing arms are the exarchs, as I'm going to magnetize all their options.

Timed the third party order pretty badly considering I missed the refresh on Swooping Hawks and Fire Dragons by like 2 months lmao. Though that said, the 3rd party models are a bit cheaper (~$100 for 10 Warriors + Exarch + Phoenix Lord, compared to $170 for GW), and it's really easy to repose resin models with a heat gun. Also, while I'm not sure if the other Aspects are/will be the same, I'm not a fan of how the torsos and legs are all locked together for the Scorpions, as it means that both my Exarchs will have identical poses...

Bonus Psychic Space Lenin in the back.

Was browsing the modlog and noticed this

It's good. Here's hoping Goodbye, Eri gets an adaptation some day.

He's smokin' entry plug, he's on that LCL.

He's got 4 knives

Stupid sexy Eva

*sort of, not a gundam but it's a kit by bandai so...

As someone coming at this from 40k, honestly pretty impressed with the kit. All snap-fit, with full articulation? Multi-colored sprues? Hell yeah, let's go. Really need some finer grade sandpaper; I had to make do with just a glass file which is a bit too block for some parts (and doesn't work at all for the metallic parts because it makes them way too shiny).

Only a couple things went wrong during building. The right metallic pectoral cover is loose for some unknown reason (I may have filed down a ball-joint too much?), and the left purple bicep cover doesn't rotate which means the rest of the arm likes to pop off if I'm not careful. There's a noticeable gap on the fingers in the left hand on the first image, and I don't know why since there were no sprue connections ono the surfaces that connect to each other.

Might put on some more of the stickers but the one on the entry plug is already peeling so idk it might be wasted effort. Also the kit came with two spare knuckle covers that I don't see a use for in the instructions.

Full kit name is "RG ARTIFICIAL HUMAN EVANGELION UNIT-01"

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3728953 (there are some close-ups of individual minis in the comments over there)

Finally finished the whole group! From left to right: Inquisitor Coteaz, Interrogator, Sister of Battle, Scrollboi, Feral Worlder, Mystic, Servitor, Booksy the Book Skull, Joe Krabo, and "Daemonhost".

I'd painted up Coteaz years ago (and it's good I did because his new model sucks lol). Eventually they'll all be based in the same style as Coteaz but the texture paint I use is all dried up.

Finally finished the whole group! From left to right: Inquisitor Coteaz, Interrogator, Sister of Battle, Scrollboi, Feral Worlder, Mystic, Servitor, Booksy the Book Skull, Joe Krabo, and "Daemonhost".

I'd painted up Coteaz years ago (and it's good I did because his new model sucks lol). Eventually they'll all be based in the same style as Coteaz but the texture paint I use is all dried up.

Close-ups of individual models in comments.