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And speaking of 3.1-

Am I the only one who noticed the similarities here? Kudos to the artist for the glowup tho :)

Also adding my two cents on the potential heartache if Mr. Karson-to-Duncan 2.0 actually applies here. Homegirl died to the bullet, now she mastered the bullet...and got a steam train too :)

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Idealist: How about some tunes to relax to, and not think about the nightmare of bureaucracy...

Merlin: ...And not the world-ending ritual Manus is performing-

Idealist: Of course~, the oiled freaks’ ritual in Antartica that Aleph had them take the boat to! Dear friend, could we also discuss why they're sending children into a war like that!?

Paracelsus, didn't existed in 1950's: Holy shit, that's Nate King Cole! :D

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Me, face down on the floor after week 1 of introductory semester work: I am having...Byeol Nexomon thoughts again....ughhhhhh.... [Obvious N:E spoilers, crack theories/storytelling, and/or silently praying for some future N3 character development for the little goober below]

While it's already set in stone that Palmaya is the ultimate vibe fest of an island both in N1 and Extinction, but I'm just itching to theorize about what the islanders were thinking once the Nexomon War started. It kept going for hundreds long long years, and the eventual fear and paranoia they felt about the unstoppable Tyrants invading their home to eventually turning it into a broken pile of sand and floodwaters...

Of course, we'll never truly know when or how Byeol first arrived on the isle (more than likely dumped on some random doorstep by the NexoLords), but you know for sure that the islanders would've absolutely had their guard up at first. Even if it's just a baby Tyrant, there's no telling when the Guild or even the Greater Drakes will strike with a vengeance, forever tarnishing their history as the only safe haven from the end of the world itself.

...But it doesn't happen, and even the little Tyrant seems to be the most oblivious of the war it's supposed to be a part of. It was quiet, polite, played with the local Nexomon and kept out of sight of any suspicious tamer or NexoGuard. Perhaps its potential Renegades adoptive parents taught it well despite it all, even spending all their time and effort to dress it up to look as Nexomon-like as possible (and more often than not getting mistaken as an albino Paupo at a glance).

The tipping point in Palmaya's opinion of Byeol (in my mind, fight me about it) was with the island's ship captain, ferrying recently-indicted Bronze tamers to and from the mainland and keeping any Nexomon off the boat if they try to sneak on... Of course, Byeol was a one of many problem "Paupo" in particular, no matter how much it begged and pleaded to ride along despite the extremely high risk of it getting caught/captured or worse. But it was one of those days when the captain's patience was already running thin, certainly running late on the next return trip, that he decided to do something daring; giving it a spare piece of lemon candy (or a random flavor but imagine the betrayal!) in his jacket instead of a stern lecture, and only on the promise to stop bothering him during work hours. The little Tyrant immediately melts into a puddle of tears and thank you's at such a tiny gesture of kindness for a solid minute until he finally runs back home to show his Ma and Pa the wonderful gift he got...And that's when the older grizzled sailor of a man had an epiphany. The kid did absolutely nothing wrong since Palmaya hasn't turned into a crater anytime soon, and treating him as less than dirt really isn't going to help their social standing and/or revenue with the Guild at all...

Long story short and after a much-needed run around the gossip mill, Byeol becomes the unofficial "Star of Palmaya" and any tamer/NexoGuard/Grandmaster that says otherwise will get the most apathetic smile possible as the locals deny from heaven and back about harboring a Tyrant. After all, Palmaya is their peaceful Tyrant-free paradise, and that isn't going to change anytime soon. :)

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Courtesy of today's daily log (and Leilani finally being mentioned again after who knows how long), I present to you a potential team setup :)

Team 25/75

Lorelei knows about the display/collection aspect of gatcha as "displaying dolls" and connected to the mysterious voices trails in the main story (the symbol is a seashell).

Aleph, Bearer of the Curse as the universe's consultant almost spoiled Recoleta's character arc to her face, and theorizing about the importance of Sharpodonty/Dust while reading their descriptions in his free time (Sharpodonty Empire and Dust Box are definitely his alters' answers).

Recoleta in the middle of an interview starts talking about the character profiles and is extremely into D&D (as a narrative template for her books much to everyone's chagrin).

Leilani on August 11th, despite her extensive training in Zeno, accidentally got high off of Wilderness mushrooms and starts seeing dialogue/character subtitles (Ezra immediately shipped her off to Laplace's medical wing).

(Bonus points: They all would indirectly assume they had the same 4th wall mind-fuckery)

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Me, even if comments are restricted for now: Number 8, let's go!! I was wondering what to describe my eye color besides a weird mix of green and grey...Though they were definitely greener when I was younger, that's for sure.

Which one is closest to yours? Mine is like 6ish-7ish.

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"-How did you know it was me!?" "YOU FROZE A LAKE FILLED WITH LAVA!!" "...Oh. Right..." [Waking up at the bottom of Lateria’s lift, Luke and Coco traverse the fiery land of New Ignitia to stop the Tyrant Mulcimer. And Nivalis, apparently...]

It's been 3,000 years!!! ...Nevermind, it's been about 3 months, but time really flies by! Besides getting a creativity boost just when I was working on a summer class, but I felt the drive to get it done before the fall semester starts...As if that isn't going to foreshadow how long it'll take before the next chapter comes around I guess. 👍

On another unrelated note, here's to me somehow getting the motivation to finish this before I get the news our childhood cat passed away this weekend. Even if his health was already declining a couple months ago, it's already something that he held out for this long...

R.I.P. Pepper (Sept 29th 2011-August 1st 2025), you held out to your last whisker until the end, hope you know how much we loved you unlike your last family.

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Oh boy oh boy, another N3 devlog just dropped and it's the blueprints for the database! Also kinda curious how the element attributes are going to be distributed between each 'mon apart from the previous three-type delegation (or higher percentage most likely). Other than that; Nooble/Boosdra, Cheddery, and Corvoyant/Crosmos are some of my favorites so far :)

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So here's a quick fun fact on Aleph (and co.)'s crackpot dice minigame:

Idealist/"Carlos Argentino Daneri" and Zahir/Obsession can show up in mirrors interacting with each other (and they're somewhat on good terms too given their connection in Folie), so it's easy to assume the rest of them can too. And well, Kakania's arcane skill is based on mirrors reflecting a person's true self... Still holding out on the Daily Fun Fact of if/when Aleph passes by any mirror (Door included) and Kakania gets swarmed with visions of his alters trailing behind him bickering about Monopoly or some shit.

[Also here's the full event to recap on the pure whimsy and banter a single man can yap up on four different phone lines...And a computer chatlog too :)]

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Utterly wild for BluePoch to make these 2.6 patch goobers best pals, and absolutely nothing bad is going to happen inside that prison...Nope, not at all! :D

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Am I the only one that got major whiplash here?

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Me immediately: Awesome, amazing, finally a step up in the Tyrant gijinka area :D Also me: Now why was I thinking about Vados "babysitting" Byeol in the back since Solus would've explicitly told him the little cherub isn't allowed in the Tyrant King Protection club yet. ...Also I'm here for Vados going through the very real crisis figuring out how/why Byeol survived the Tyrant Orbital Lasers of Death over everyone else. The real answer is the little guy being Palmaya's favorite and already surrounded by humans, but it's better to let the thought fester a bit :)

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im at disbelief at the fact that a lot of folks are simply over palestine. like protests are dwindling down. people are not very interested in news related to gaza. some are simply over it.

israel hasn't let aid in gaza in 70 days. gaza has been starving for 70 days. the condition of people there is horrendous.

i find it distressing to think about children in gaza. how does one continue to have a childhood in a genocide? they don't have school. they don't have safety. they don't have food.

despite all this, the kids will be alright. they'll be alright once the genocide stops and they get back to 'normal'. till then, can we please try to support them however we can?

this fundraiser (verified) helps feed a family which includes two young children. please consider helping their mother take care of them.

donate here

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VOTE SIFFRIN SO WE CAN HAVE THE SIFLOOP FIGHT TO THE DEATH PLEAS

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While I'm obviously in the 95% of Limbus fans freaking over the Canto 8 teaser (especially with Hong Lu's therapy session finally having a date), I'm also in the 5% of fans who recognize the poem from the book (Book 2 Ch. 27 specifically, though it's courtesy to @lu-is-not-ok for me remembering what is was in particular). ...Although absolute kudos to PMoon's translation/editing department for industrial-grade compressing the paragraph+ to pages worth of dialogue so the Jia family/servants talk a reasonably normal amount on top of sounding pompous and articulate enough (bonus points if some of the dialogue taken from the book is unedited and/or the Limbus gang get frustrated about it); cause this is the full Flower Burial/Funeral of Flowers poem and it is long...

And I mean long long...

So again, props to the team for making this classic marginally easier to read and good luck to those trying to speed-read this goliath :)

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I am Once Again in the year 2025 telling kids to stop self-reporting to me that they read my 18+ comics, that's a good way to get an artist to shrink away and stop posting their vulnerable art online... or posting all together. If you went and read it despite the 18+ sticker I Just Do Not Want You To Tell Me. Again I realize at this point I cannot stop anyone I just don't want to know at least. I cannot imagine myself, as a kid, going up to an artist of some 18+ manga I read and being like "I read your comic even tho I am a kid teehee" . I know we all broke the rules at some point or another as a kid and read/saw something out of our age range, but tapping the glass like that just seems out of the question. A lot of the stories I want to tell are adult in nature, but if I keep getting kids messaging me about those adult works it just makes me feel like I cannot do it- I don't want them to get involved in adult communities so it is worrying. I will still try to make what I want but a matter of releasing it might be far more strict than before, I don't know

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A bit late to the party (heh) on talking about my first blind playthrough of Ena:DB, and honestly surprised that no one really mentioned how the Purge and Extinction Events are just connected to each other. Like you're just wandering around and accidentally step into another liminal space...

Other than the entrance fee being a blood sample of sort (though WebSeries!Ena was considered an uninvited guest and DB!Ena was obligated to trade an arm or leg) on top of both reasons having some form of deception/shield, believe me the whiplash I got when I saw that hall was immense!

Then the Extinction hall shut and I couldn’t access it…Then I got to the Bad Ending…And what a first run that was :) Also me on my third run, jumping straight into the taxi (after accidentally collecting the head on the humanoid side without knowing it) to get screenshots and he says “Have fun at the Extinction Party! -Wait wrong event.”

...So many secrets packed into just Chapter 1, and I'm already dreading the second (most likely Crowd Door since that's next in line on the save file pics) :)