Noted and added to the pile, much obliged!

I’m a bit torn on this since with Melissa I always felt more like she’s beating some sense into unruly children rather than manipulating them. Still a great series though!

I went for a bit of a palette cleanser since last week and decided to read Hero Killer - a brutal action manhwa about a world with villains and heroes with magical gifts.

I’m a bit mixed on it to be honest. Not because it’s bad (it’s fine in what it tries to be), it’s just most of it doesn’t really vibe with me. The story is edgy and treats itself super seriously, action is flashy but can be messy and unintelligible at times while character proportions (especially MC) can vary widely panel to panel. I was actually very close to dropping it after a dozen chapters or so.

Then the unexpected happened - authors started to show how much of a goofy goober MC really is. Not only her! There’s a lot of side characters who feel like they’re from a completely different series, so you go from the main antagonists of the story who are edgy and serious to the other half of the cast being absolute weirdos in comparison.

This one thing is honestly the only reason I’m still reading for now - I don’t care about the epic conflict, I don’t care about hero/villains politics, I don’t care about MC’s motivations. I just hunt for the scenes of MC being silly and weird and acting like she’s part of a gag manga rather than a protagonist of a bloody action adventure.

Also a good amount of well built female characters is always a plus. They aren’t crazy buff for the most part (they’re mostly the lean fighter types) but compared to how scared many action series are of showing muscular women I’ll take what I can get.

Edit: OK, Senshu is my second favorite character after Ihwa. She went from a dangerous one person artillery brigade to a complete brat in no time. She’s great.

I’m not familiar with Welcome to NHK but I have something that might fit the premise.

Villains Are Destined to Die is a manhwa about a woman being transported into a video game as a villainess who, as the title suggests, is destined to die. Because she’s familiar with the game and REALLY doesn’t want to die she does whatever she can to manipulate the male leads of the game to avoid that outcome. That includes helping a slave whose sole purpose for her is to become her loyal servant/guard.

He actively misrepresented the campaign and spread misinformation about its goals. I don’t know if he genuinely didn’t understand or if he was too embarrassed to admit to a mistake but he did a lot of damage to the momentum and perception of the whole thing.

It sucks these big creators only now pick up the mantle but it’s better than nothing. There’s still some time left.

Another season was announced a while back, I believe - no specifics about the release though (or at least I’m not up to date with what’s going on with it).

Understandable. Last year (I think? maybe earlier) there was a discussion about people’s wants and needs for the community and someone mentioned having trouble with Japanese titles. While I personally don’t mind either way this is still an EN community so I decided to go with translated ones going forward to make it easier for people with similar issues. It can get a bit confusing when things go back and forth with every post though.

As for the nursing arc… yes, gimme!

That she is, though since you mentioned silver hair I can’t not respond with my a soft spot for Renee from The S-Class Lady.

To be fair, I did read this one too and mentioned it in previous threads (thanks for the suggestion, again). Besides, both MC’s do look pretty similar too.

That’s the one I meant, I guess some places use a different title for it.

Get well soon! 😊

If I die… tell my mom… I left some ice cream in the fridge.

I’ve been pretty sick and extremely busy so no much reading for me. I did keep up with the series I post here as well as catch up on Villains Are Destined to Die. One thing to mention on the latter - I really appreciate how done the MC is with everything. She had a shit life in real world, shit life in the game world and all she wants is to be left alone to exist in peace. It’s great.

Final update on my desktop app journey - I’ve decided to drop Komikku (it’s fine but has too many small and annoying quirks) and moved all the things I want to Suwayomi. The latter has it’s problems as well (to the point I use it less then initially planned) but the overall experience is better than Komikku so I guess I’ll manage.

A’ight, back to resting.

Patch notes:

• New Persistent Sandbox Activity: Storm Breaker
• New Environmental Hazard: Radiation
• Wikelo Emporium Exchange Updates
• Equipment Swapping Hierarchy
• Additional Gameplay Updates:
  • All medbeds will now protect players from damage for a small amount of time after respawning. This effect will last 30 seconds while in the bed and will be canceled if getting out of bed before the 30 seconds are up.
  • Increased refinery job speeds across all types and updated to allow complete orders to be loaded onto cargo ships.
  • Reward Balance for Rayari Gathering Missions
  • Updated Bounty Hunters Guild missions to use the rebalanced encounters from Patrol Missions V1
  • Slightly increased the numbers of Kopion in Acidic Caves
• Location Updates:
  • Exterior proxy polish pass to Space Stations and Landing Zone locations to reduce areas that can be used to clip into many of these locations from the outside
  • Added bigger cloud formations to Pyro IV
  • Increased Pyro IV temperatures
• New Player Hairstyles
• New Vehicles:
  • ARGO ATLS IKTI
  • ARGO GEO IKTI
  • ARGO IKTI RAD
  • Esperia Prowler Utility
• Scanning Mode and Targeting UI Updates
• Shield Regen Updates
• Ship Updates:
  • Prowler Series
  • Idris Series
  • Starlancer Series
• Missile and Torpedo Balance Updates
• Ground Vehicle Scanning Adjustments
• Additional Ship & Vehicle Updates:
  • Flight turbulence has been readded to ships. This will be most noticeable in storms and when near ground surfaces where proximity flight disturbances occur
  • Added Flight Blade controllers and Behring CST-313 Castillo bomb rack to PU shops
  • Updated all 300 series loadout kits to use 1:1 gimbal size setup to match current game design as originals used size down gimbals
  • Increased ship soft death ratio. This will cause ships to enter soft death at a higher health pool.
  • Updated all engineering component’s health scaling with increases and decreases across components
  • Swapped Regen & Slapdown balance for shield generators
  • ATLS Variants can now be called using the freight elevator in the hangar after delivering it to the location on the ASOP
  • Updated ship UI messaging to reflect the average distortion of the power plant(s) as a percentage
  • Enabled countermeasure actions while in scan mode
  • Added gimbals to ground vehicle remote turrets
  • Reduced the Anvil Asgard/Valkyrie cross-section emissions
  • Changed the Singe Cannons to be bespoke to the Banu Defender
  • Greatly increased Polaris and 890j hangar door and ramp health
  • Updated Gladiator to allow missile swapping
  • Slightly increased the Anvil Valkyrie and Asgard max ammo capacity
  • Increased Anvil Centurion max turret ammunitions
  • Slightly restricted the Polaris turret gimbal movement to avoid them clipping through the ship
  • Slight reduction in Gladius max pitch velocity
  • Added missing C8 Pisces armor damage reduction modifier
• Weapons and items:
  • Volt “Prism” Shotgun
  • New CureLife DeconPen Xtra
  • R97 Shotgun Balance
• Additional Weapon Updates:
  • Volt Shotgun Mag added to shops
  • Environmental suit added to shops
  • Adjusted Volt Weapon series modifiers to improve hipfire recoil feel
  • Updated all environment suit tolerances to approximately -150c to 175c
  • Added a base radiation resistance to all armors
• Dynamic Rain
• LTP Additions:
  • flight blades and bomb rack item types
  • Kopion Horn / Irradiated Horn
  • Marok Gem
  • Ranta Dung
  • Amioshi Plague
  • Irradiated Valakkar Fang (Adult/Juvenile/Apex)
  • Valakkar Skin / Chitin
• Additional Core Tech:
  • Tech update to add ability for locked doors to require multiple forms of authentication to open such as having to wear specific clothing, armors, or helmets. This tech is currently used at the new ASD locations in Pyro.
  • Routed Item Recovery item spawns through the player’s home inventory if the target medbed doesn’t have a valid Landing Zone. This will be a buffer zone for items to be stored in the player’s home location to add additional levels of reliability for when the player’s spawn point no longer exists.
  • Refactored of how we handle cleanup/lifetime of entities spawned by mission location modules to allow better handling after DGS crash recovery
  • New Spawn Closet subsumption logic to pause and reset auto spawn tasks. This will help limit locations to the amount of FPS AI we set for the area.
  • Slightly reduced water light reflections to be less intense due to intense flashing
  • Terrain Physicalization performance optimizations
  • Area18 traffic CPU to GPU performance conversion update
  • Further 3d comms call visual polish pass
  • Made various client and server performance improvements
  • Made various networking improvements

Technical updates:

• Fixed 5 Client Crashes
• Fixed 8 Server Crashes
• Fixed a Hybrid-Service Crash

This looks rather familiar - not that I played it but I’m pretty sure I’ve seen it before. Might have to dig through my back log to see if I didn’t burrow it somewhere for later. Either way, looks like an interesting find.

Solid choices! I completely forgot about Katawa Shoujo: Re-Engineered, might be a good idea to add it to our patch list.

Pretty much, at least based on what they showed and talked about before. During yesterday’s Q&A they did say this design changed somewhat over the last two years but we don’t know how or if in any significant way.

You’ll have to grind those ship tiers, I guess. That and drop as much weight as possible once that becomes a relevant factor.

Yeah, they talked about it a few times. NAV mode travel will be replaced by quantum boost (quantum jump with minimal “gameplay”).

In the future to get to the current NAV speed you’ll have to craft/buy higher tier ship (possibly just engine, I don’t think they clarified 100% if just component will be enough).

Nooo… the pressure! ( •́ᯅ•́ )

I returned to migrating my library away from Mangadex (I was lazy and took a break as doing so on a phone is a pain), while doing so I realised that some of the series I’ve moved over before stopped being updated on the new site and had to transfer them again. A bit annoying but thanks to that I found there were new chapters to catch up on and did just that. Other than that I’m still on the same binge as last week this time.

I Shall Master This Family
I caught up with all the available chapters and I can safely say I love this series. It’s engaging, has great art (and outfits!) and is simply a joy to read. It’s actually kind of bad because I ended up binging it too eagerly (as in, to the point of losing on sleep). Good thing I’ll have to wait for the updates now, I guess?

Random thoughts:

• I hate the extravagant displays of wealth. This isn’t a problem with the series specifically (it obviously fits the story) but rather a general sentiment I have towards such things.
• So many sweet and emotional moments, I love it!
• Lorraine is precious and has to be protected at all cost.
• I feel sorry for Ramona, getting NTR’d by a higher power sucks.
• I’m not a fan of the magical elements in the story and think they don’t bring anything of value to the series. Thankfully they are extremely rare and don’t add much (except for 2 or so events) but that only makes me feel they could’ve been removed without losing anything.

Sure but aren’t there like 8 or so lab locations? Plus a few of the initial, non radioactive facilities? I’m not saying it’ll be perfect, but should allow more people to do this stuff at once compared to 3 Hathor sites.