#and also remembering every accessibility option available

[malewifegustave]

OK sth I really, really love about fields of mistria is how accessible it is for an adhd hoarder that also forgets everything and what I was doing in like 5 minutes, like myself

the map has npc locations by default! so even if their schedule changes, you can always find them!

quests never expire! you can work on them at your own pace, and even hold onto one's that require a seasonal item that you didn't have enough of before the season was up, until the season rolls around again!

they don't take your damn money or items when you pass out or die because you lost track of time or are bad at combat!

there's free soup in the tavern that restores a little stamina, and a fountain behind a breakable boulder that does the same! the baths are also pretty cheap, and you even get a few free usages after a certain quest!

it starts with storage in your house, AND! anything you had in said storage can be used for crafting without having to go and retrieve it!

if you don't know where to get an item for a quest, talking to various npcs can tell you where it is!

if you need a certain item for the museum collection, you can check out hints on where to get those in the museum itself! and every item that can go in the museum has a tooltip when you over over it, to tell you if you have already donated it or not!

items don't despawn! you can just toss stuff on the floor and come back for it later when you have the inventory space!

if you forget to check your calendar, that's fine! the npcs will tell you about any upcoming events a few times before it arrives, and the start of a new day will tell you if it's someone's birthday!

they give you tutorials in a narrative way, gradually introducing new systems and mechanics as you progress! and these are done via quests that you can go and complete whenever you're ready!

the village progression gives you plenty of rewards and things to help you with your farm, which is very encouraging to keep at it!

the upgrade system just builds up along with doing normal tasks like farming! and you can spend these points however, whenever you like, with many being available right from the start! and you can have all of them if you want, so no need to worry about indecision!

you can go to your diary at home and save whenever you like, and even make another one so you can place them in other areas!

little heart notifications pop up over npc's heads when you progress the relationship, so you have a quick reference on how close you are!

every friday (and saturday after you fix the bridge), all the npcs are in the same place! this makes chatting to everyone and handing out gifts easier if you have trouble remembering to do so!

you have to hold down the button to eat an item! so you don't accidentally poison yourself!

other accessibility options ive really been appreciative of are: being able to turn off rain/snowfall, flashing, screenshake ect. for those with sensitivity, sight, or neurological issues that don't play well with those.

[oh-no-its-bird]

More early Konoha thoughts, specifically in culture sharing between the clans

Most clans have specific foods and types of products they use— they have their usual trades, usual hunting grounds, usual crafts and methods to make things, that sort of thing.

So when Konoha is created, there's this sudden influx in just the variety of things that are now easily accessible to them. Let's use alcohol as an example:

Most clans would have a specific way of brewing their own alcohol, not to mention what local ingredients they'd use, or they'd have a usual merchant they'd go to for their specific usual brands. For some clans, their situations, locations, and budget might mean they have less or more alcohol available to them

Then they come to Konoha and suddenly they have this big variety of all sorts of different drinks.

Suddenly, when before you would have to jump through several hoops and travel a stupid amount of miles to get yourself some Senju brewed beer, it's just. Right there. You can now ask your neighbor to pretty please share some with you

There's so much variety!!! So much to choose from!! I think it'd be overwhelming for some people, especially those from smaller clans who were used to having 3 options of food, drink and amusement to choose from for their entire life.

There's suddenly so much for them to explore

Especially having fun thinking about all these specific 'clan delicacies' in such close proximity ,,, I want to see some foodie losing their goddamn mind and legit crying as they realize their quest to taste the specific foods of every clan in the land of fire is suddenly so much more realistic than they thought before

This same thought process goes for pretty much everything crafts or culture related ^^

There's suddenly so many different games and rules and clothing styles and jewelry and courting traditions, all dumped into one big pot together

Some people are trying to play a simple card game together then realizing that their clans call the cards different things (named after different clan gods)

Someone lends their friend one of their shirts, and the friend finds that the shirt's weaving pattern is completley different from any of the clothes they're used to

Two farmers from different clans begin a heated debate over the "right" way to tend and harvest their crops, and what type of soil and watering schedule is best for what plants

By the time modern Konoha comes around, all of these things have found a new normal.

The mixing pot finished most of its stirring, and while there is still plenty of cultural separation between clans (particularly the larger ones, who stubbornly held on to their own identity throughout the years) there's also an overall 'Konoha culture.'

Konoha has its own signature crafts, adapted from several clan styles.

They have their own drinks, made from Konoha crops, with recipies argued over by several drink makers decades ago.

They have their own styles of card games, the rules adapted from multiple different clan rule-sets, into something most could agree on. (Bearing the most similarity to the Shiranui clan's rule-set, which became quite a popular middleground for most people to play— not that many remember that now)

Konoha found it's own identity, made up of all the clans who donated their own to it.

[araclectic]

٭❀٭٭❀٭ Sweetening Jars ٭❀٭٭❀٭

The basic function of a sweetening jar is to... sweeten! This spell can be used for relationships, situations, groups, organizations- really anything you'd like to make sweet towards the recipient.

Originally from hoodoo and folk magic, Sweetening jars have been used for centuries and in many different pagan and spiritual practices. Here are some variations of this spell:

Honey Jars

Perhaps the most widely used and known version of a sweetening jar is the honey jar. Many places around the world did not have access to sugar (or it was extremely expensive) for a good long while. Honey was often the main source of sweetness and was more readily available for use in magic.

Slow & Sweet:

Honey is a natural sweetener that undergoes a slow transformation as it is created. The nature of how it moves & flows is steady and slow. Magic incorporating honey will be slower, but the effects might be longer lasting. Sometimes fast working magic isn't always the answer, such as when we want a situation or person to slowly sweeten towards us over time. This is the place and time for honey jars!

How to Make a Honey Jar:

Also See:

Prepping For a Spell

Setting Up a Ritual Space For Spellwork

Components needed:

Honey

Jar/container with a lid

paper and pen

Casting:

Intention is everything, and all ingredients/components in a spell must know why they are there working for you. Make sure your intentions are clear going into the spell. Tell the honey that it is here to sweeten your intended person/place/thing/situation. Let your jar know that it is the container of this spell and these energies. Set powerful intention as you continue through the steps.

Begin to fill your container with the honey. About halfway full, pause and write out the recipient of the spell's full name on one side of the paper, and the target upside down adjacent to the recipient so as you fold the paper in half, the names meet.

Add the folded paper into the jar, then continue filling to the top, sealing with (yes) intention. Optionally you can light a candle of corresponding color on top of the jar, either sealing it with the wax (if you intend to not re-open it) or just letting the energy of the fire boost the working. You may add as many situations or people into the sweetening jar over time as you see fit.

Remember, honey moves slowly. Keep this in mind, as the energies may be powerful but slower working. Set the honey jar on an altar or in a space you often pass by in the home, re-energizing the jar every time you see it.

Sugar Jars

Sugar is another effective way of creating a sweetening jar. In this method, water is used as a vessel to contain and amplify the sugar. Water is faster moving than honey, so this version of the spell is best for workings that need to be fast acting.

Water is Receptive:

Water is one of the most powerful magical tools available to us. Our bodies are mostly water, we drink it in order to survive, it ensures that our planet and all living things thrive and grow. In combination with sugar, we have a highly effective mixture for ushering in an abundance of sweetness.

How to Make a Sugar Jar:

Components needed:

Sugar

Water

Jar/container

Paper & pen

Casting:

As stated above, intention is everything. Speak your intentions to your tools. Fill your jar/container with water, then scoop in the sugar while thinking about your desired outcome. Fill the water until it is properly saturated with sugar (it should be so sweet you wouldn't want to drink it). Once again, write the names across from each other on the paper, fold it, then add it to the jar. You can even add some glitter for added effect. Close the jar, then swirl the liquid creating a vortex inside. Seal the spell with a candle if you see fit and leave it on an altar or commonly seen space in your home. Swirl it to re-activate the spell.

This spell is highly effective if you are in need of fast acting magic and sweetness, but it may not be as long lasting as a honey jar. Try making one of each for the benefits of both spells.

In Conclusion:

Sweetening jars are a great way to bring some sweetness/love/luck into your life. They can be used to sweeten relationships, situations, groups, and even for self-love. Honey jars are slow moving but long lasting, and sugar jars are fast acting but shorter lasting. This magic is great for beginners and experienced witches alike. Go forth and add some sweetness to your life!

[copperbadge]

Sam - I know you’ve mentioned in the past that for monthly donations, you’ve used some sort of special account or app or something but I’m having trouble remembering the details (just that you’ve mentioned that when you put money into this thing, you don’t have access to it any more). Do you still use that service? What is it called? Would you be willing to discuss the pros and cons you’ve encountered with it?

Yes! I use Charityvest, which is a Donor Advised Fund. I'll throw the details behind a cut :)

A Donor Advised Fund or DAF is a kind of bank account (usually, not always administered by banks) that serves as a bag-of-holding between you, a financial institution, and a nonprofit. Basically you put money into the DAF, and the moment you do that it's considered a charitable donation; you can write it off your taxes for that year, but you can't claw that money back. The fund has custody of the money now. The reason it's called "Donor Advised" is that the money sits there until you advise the fund where to send it. In theory the fund doesn't have to listen to you, but in practice if it doesn't, it won't last long as a DAF.

The advantage for this in legal terms is that you can dump a bunch of money into it, write the money off in one year, and donate the money to multiple nonprofits across future years. The advantage for me, and for most people who aren't millionaires, is that you can automate and anonymize your monthly giving in a way that still lets you control it.

Like, if I want to give $20 every month to the Anti-Cruelty Society, I could just go to their website and sign up to do that. Most nonprofits offer a monthly option. But if I need to miss a month or increase or cancel my giving, I have to call them and have them do that for me, I can't do it myself on the website.

What I can do with Charityvest is tell them "Take $20 out of my bank account every month and give that $20 to the Anti-Cruelty Society." But because Charityvest has a login and a dashboard, if I need to cancel that giving I can login and tell Charityvest "Stop giving $20 a month to the Anti-Cruelty Society."

I put $70 into Charityvest every month and I give $20 each to three separate nonprofits. I give $70 and not $60 so that at the end of the year, I have $120 extra that I can give as a one-time donation somewhere. I don't really have to think much about my giving month to month. DAFs also let you anonymize your giving; you control whether the nonprofit gets your name, phone number, or address, which of course many people like because they don't want extra mailings. They don't take a few from either you or the nonprofit because they make their income lending and investing the money between you depositing it and them donating it.

The big downside is, of course, that if you suddenly need $120, what's in the DAF is not available to you, it doesn't belong to you anymore. Charityvest also has a $20 minimum donation -- you can put as little or as much as you like into the fund each month, but you can't donate less than $20 to a single nonprofit at a time. You also can't tell them what day to make the donation; they take the money out of your bank on a day of your choosing, but they donate the money on their schedule (all of my giving happens on the 20th of the month, for example). So if there's a special day where someone would match your giving, you can't tell Charityvest to give on that day.

You also can't give to gofundmes or through the nonprofit's website -- you can only give through Charityvest's website and only to accredited nonprofits that you can find on their list. Now, to be clear, they do not curate this list: if the org is registered legally as a nonprofit in the US, it's on that list, so it's not like they're preventing you from giving to certain things.

So, pros: Automation; anonymity; control over repeat giving; tax benefits.

Cons: usually a minimum donation per nonprofit; lack of control over date of giving; loss of access to cash even though it still exists in the account.

For me it's been very much worth it; the automation is super helpful and if I want to make a one-off gift I just do it outside of the DAF framework. But it really depends on what you want and how much control you want over which parts of your giving. Hope this helped!

[smutoperator]

Welcome back to the Glorious Glory! We hope that your experience this week will be just as good as the previous one!

As the owner of the golden ticket, you have the privilege to go first at every level of the Glorious Glory.

The theme for this week of the Glorious Glory is "3rd gen of Kpop idols"!

1st level:

You walk in the first level, is a semi dark room with purple neon lights and a sexy ambient music. This level is dedicated for blowjobs. In front of you there are 4 holes in the wall with a photo at eye level showing which idol is on the other side for you to choose. Upon seeing your options which 2nd gen idol will you choose to blow you?

1st level idols: Ahin, Heejin, Tzuyu and Yooa

2nd level:

You enter the 2nd level and is met with the same style of the previous one, except that this level is dedicated for vaginal fucking and now you can see the lower half (exposed up to the belly button) of the idols waiting to get ravished by you. Similar to the previous level you have a photo showing who's on the other side. Who are you gonna choose?

2nd level idols: Exy, Jisoo, Rosé and Seolhyun

3rd level:

After having fun with the previous level you move on to the next imagining that now would be anal sex, but you are met with a plot twist. You see photos above the holes for a full torso to fit in but there's no idol sticking out, you see a sign above the wall saying "choose which idol you want to ride you, then lay down with your lower half to the other side". Which idol are you choose to the cowgirl ride of your dreams?

BTW: there's enough room in the hole for you to stick your arms in and grope and spank the ass of the idol while she rides you.

3rd level idols: Hwasa, Mijoo, Sejeong and Sinb

4th level:

After a little break to recover your stamina you move to the 4th level, which is dedicated to anal sex. Same as the others, photos on the wall but with the idols lower half sticking out with their ass up. Which idols ass you will roughly fuck?

4th level idols: Choa, Joy, Mina and Sohee

5th level:

You probably thought that it was over, but as the owner of the golden ticket you have a additional special level.

At the 5th level you have to choose between two options, the standard or a compromised deal:

Standard option: have 24 hours escort services, in which you can choose one of the idols available for this level to take her to a 5 star hotel for 24 hours of free use no limit sex (just you and the idol, no one else allowed).

Idols for the 5th level standard option: Doyeon, Irene, Nancy and Sowon

Compromised deal: maybe you fell in love with one of your previous picks from the other levels, in this case you can have her for the next 8 hours at an exclusive room within the Glorious Glory premises.

Which option are you choosing and with which idol?

As the night ends, the Glorious Glory thanks you for visiting us and expects that you had a great time and will soon become a faithful costumer.

Also, remember that your golden ticket gives you access to the next week opening with a brand new theme.

1st level I'll probably last 15 seconds but it's an easy choice, the DSL queen YooA

2nd level the girls are all great but if you're vaguely familiar with Jisoo's incredible cameltoe you know it's no contest. Another easy choice

3rd level I feel like Hwasa has the best ass but Mijoo exudes such freaky energy I think she's going to be the best rider of this bunch

4th level the choices are top notch. Honestly I'd love to break the rules and take all of them. But really no one stands a chance against Sohee

5th level I take the standard option again with Irene

Bring the next gen on!

[kyuushi]

This post is long overdue but I figured better late than never!

There's a way to read Kyuushi in Japanese online and for free legally, something that was previously only possible during limited-time events. You can't immediately gain access to all 323 chapters so don't get too excited but it's still pretty cool. There's a (long) guide on how the site works below the cut!

A few months ago, Akita Shoten, the publisher of Weekly Shonen Champion, the magazine Kyuushi runs in, launched their Champion Cross site. This site allows users to read manga for FREE, legally!

To participate, you can make an account here. You're able to connect a Google or Twitter account, so it's quite easy. If you do use a Google account like I did, the site just asks for a username (it has to be unique, if someone is already using it, you'll have to pick something else) your gender (prefer not to say, male, female, or neither), and year of birth.

Then you just lie about reading the privacy policy by checking the box at the bottom and you're good to go!

If you don't want to connect an existing account, you'll need to supply your email and a password as you normally do when signing up for a new site.

Of course, as with most free things, there is a catch... or kind of several catches 😂 You must collect tickets (すぐ無料チケット) to unlock most chapters.

You get some for signing up, completing "missions," and using your daily free gacha attempt. The gacha can only give you 0, 1, or 2 tickets. If you want to retry the gacha, you can earn another chance by sharing your result to Twitter...

aka you just let it open the new tab but don't actually hit the tweet button lol. Just keep in mind that the second number you get overwrites the first.

You can then head on over to Kyuushi's page (remember to hit the star ⭐ to add it to your favorites!) and pick which chapters you'd like to unlock using your tickets, 1 ticket per chapter. You also unlock the ability to read 1 chapter every 23 hours (the 待つと無料/wait and it's free option). When I made a new account I was immediately able to use this free chapter read!

The first time I used a ticket to unlock ("rent") a chapter, I got a popup asking me to confirm my email address. Not sure if this will happen to everyone or just those who used a Google or Twitter account to sign up.

If this does happen, you'll just get an email with a link to click that verifies your account.

When you use a ticket to rent a chapter, the chapter becomes available to you for 15 days.

However, after reading a chapter with your daily free 待つと無料 option, you have only 3 days to go back and read before it gets locked again. The remaining time is shown to the right in gray. (Please admire Bikimi-chan's beauty in the chapter 317 preview.)

Remember to give the chapters a like!

It's important to note that tickets DO EXPIRE. You can check your ticket information by clicking the number as shown here.

Tickets from different sources have different expiration dates. Daily gacha tickets expire within the day (the expiry date & time is shown in red).

On the other hand, mission tickets last longer.

This section at the top of the page shows you the soonest upcoming expiry date:

At least per my testing, the site does seem to automatically use the tickets that expire earliest!

As of right now, there are 2 chapters that can only be read by using coins, which are a paid currency.

I'm afraid I won't be testing coins out... I've already bought Kyuushi volumes as ebooks, and I'm not a fan of how you seem to have to enter your card information directly into the site. Guess they don't accept PayPal or similar services? I'm not even sure if they'd accept foreign cards. If anyone has tried/tries this out, please let me know!

So basically, you can technically read all but 2 chapters of Kyuushi for free, but it does take time to gather tickets or simply wait to read a chapter per day, and you don't get permanent access to the chapters. It's not the most convenient or reliable resource but it's a legal way to support the series. During this extended hiatus, I think it's important to continue showing that Kyuushi has an active fanbase eager for more vampire fun! 🦇

Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions about the site. I did my best to test out the features and explain how they work but this was a whole lot of information to just dump on people so I'll understand if there's still some confusion. I also could have gotten something wrong so do let me know if you notice any issues.

[shyolet]

i've not played either of the betas of monster hunter wilds because i prefer going in blind and getting a full experience my first time with a game, but based entirely on the last three games that have come out i am admittedly a bit nervous that it'll not quite be what i enjoy from the games

also, in saying all of this, i want to make it clear that i love the newer games quite a bit, monster hunter is my favorite series, they just have strayed further from my tastes in favor of wider appeal and marketability

like, mhx/mhxx's combat was unique and really interesting in a lot of ways, but felt at times like it was restricting tools and strategies that had always been a part of weapons with the newer moves available being primarily for the sake of flashiness and spectacle. as a result of that, the lasting impression i got from playing (and admittedly never finishing) it was that the creative play during combat that i adored from the series prior to it felt stifled in comparison since i no longer had access to the full set of options my weapon was capable of to use during optimal contexts also i'll never forgive it for what it did to insect glaive

with monster hunter world, i adored it going in but feel almost no motivation to return to it the way i repeatedly do with monster hunter 3u and 4/4u especially. i think this is in part because it simplified out a lot of the background non-combat related elements of the games that drew me in. like, in the older gens resource management is near constantly on your mind, you have to cycle item priorities and monitor currencies in the farming/trading sections based on what you're running low on or what you intend to do. it's a chore, sure, but it ends up being engaging. planning for hunts becomes as much something to focus on as the hunts themselves. your choices in what you prioritize matter, and you're punished if you don't give them the attention required. in world, there are so many ways to obtain items passively and without thought that its rare to run low on anything

in fact there seems hesitancy to punish players whatsoever? if you forget to restock on items, you can at any camp and don't even need to keep track of/remember a lot of the field items that have been present since the first game like whetstones. if you forget to eat, youre able to anywhere you go and even between carting (on timed intervals). on top of being able to dodge to cancel out of more moves than ever in combat, you have so many mobility options that it ironically ends up harder to learn fights since you're not as required to time things precisely as you're getting the feel for a monsters moves. the open nature of the levels meant you could no longer step out of a room to recover, so healing had to become less a risk that required reading when a monster gives you time to do so, now giving you the ability to move while drinking potions with the stages having dedicated healing spots and your palicos constantly hand delivering heals or the moxie food skill. between all of this, the feeling that's been central to monster hunter since the beginning, that the odds are constantly stacked against you as you slowly improve with the monsters having advantages over you in every way (mobility, navigation of the stages, damage), is lessened. it becomes a power fantasy

the equipment system is no longer a balancing act of positives and negatives to each piece that you need to spreadsheet out to optimize since it's now just a strict points system to boost skills to different tiers. i find it a lot less fun to think into and pre-plan build ideas since there's usually a clear and simple way to get what you're wanting from your armor, and rare drops aside you get so many more parts per hunt to do so. i get that not everyone was into the more complex and involved systems, but the thought and time requirements gave a weight to the hunts and your build that's no longer present, and i find myself zoning out while playing a lot more instead of being drawn deeper into the admittedly exceptionally beautiful world they've crafted

as a final point, i find turf wars to be a poor design choice. in a developer interview, it was stated that the reason they added visual damage numbers into the game was in part to obfuscate how people noticed that watching two monsters fight was just standing around for a bit, and that it was boring after the initial awe wore off. seeing how much damage the monsters do in comparison to you, stripping away chunks of the fight you'd otherwise need to actually play, feels like a very artificial and uninteresting way to justify its inclusion

rise did improve a lot on the core combat changes that mhx had made with its weapon attack choice system, and even made turf wars more of an active element the player has agency in, but it's overall faster, flashier, and simpler than ever, with the risks and required deliberate timing of every move being solidified as a thing of the past. the maps are far emptier since you can spiderman around them or sprint through them on a mount, and gathering is instantaneous.

older monster hunter was just more willing to inconvenience players, which was one of the strongest points of the series. the devs recognized that inconvenience benefits immersion, it makes choices matter and clicks together the various overlapping systems in a way that makes every minute of play have weight and meaning that isn't present in the newer games to me. i miss having to make shopping lists of parts and resources, to pour hours into theory crafting builds, to have to memorize fights so well that every frame felt important. i get that mh1-4u appealed to a far more niche audience, but for those it clicked with it ended up being really special

[sleepycelestialprincess]

My wife sent me a video of a woman painting with a tampon. (cute result btw) I'm not logged into ins+agram on my phone nor do I have the app and I see this message. "Restricted Video. You mist be 18 years or over to see this video. We received a legal request to restrict this content. We reviewed it against our policies and conducted a legal and human rights assessment. After review, we restricted access to the content in the location where it goes against local law."

This is the state of the internet in 2025. A video of a woman painting with a tampon is being censored because apparently the knowledge that tampons and periods exist is too sexual to be seen by children under 18. A tampon is blocked because kids can't know what a tampon is! WTF!

Remember, most kids start between 10–15, some even younger. About 50% of humans will have periods, and need to know what the fuck is going on and what to do before it starts.

If the mere mention of a tampon is censored, then anything relating to periods, period health products, and safety is certainly also censored. You can't trust that parents are going to teach their children. Lessons on puberty have been pulled from schools if they ever had them to begin with. Books on puberty have been banned from libraries... Where is a kid supposed to learn what is going on?!

Resources should be available and easily accessible and out there so one can just come across it. That way if a kid needs to know, they can find out even if no one tells them. Imagine starting your period, having no idea what’s going on, not knowing that pads or tampons exist, and being too embarrassed or scarred to ask anyone. If the info is just out there, a kid can come across it and at least have an idea what to do, what to look for, or who to ask about it.

—

If a mere tampon is blocked, any information on sex safety is also blocked. If that's blocked, then also the "disgusting" idea that LGBTQ+ people like myself exist is also going to be erased from the country!

I am a trans lesbian woman. I am a mother. And I exist.

I shouldn't have to say this, but I am just a lady trying to live my life like any other lady. It took me until I was 35 to fully realize that I am a lady. I always sorta' knew, but I didn't know growing up that there were options. If I knew trans people existed growing up, I would have known that I was a girl probably as early as 6. I'm not upset about it, nearly none of us knew at the time. But now, every kid deserves to know there are options. The idea that there are many people trying to hide that from kids and paint LGBTQ+ people as evil really really upsets me!

It starts with tampons, I don't want to know where it might end.

[miru-has-thoughts]

How To Watch Professional Wrestling (2023)

Hello people of earth, Jupiter, and wrestling Tumblr! I’ve seen many posts here asking about where to watch professional wrestling. After a few weeks of research and speaking with my buddies who work for various television networks, and those who navigate the interwebs, I have compiled a list on where you can watch your favorite wrestlers without breaking the bank in this economy!

I’ll first talk about the legal ways. 

WWE (for those in the states)

-For those in the states, to watch WWE live, you can get traditional cable, satellite or a streaming service with live tv that includes the USA network. (Fox is a free channel so every live tv service has Fox). I would suggest Youtube TV b/c you get a lot of bang for your buck, but it can be expensive if you do not watch a lot of channels. The other alternative is sling tv, which if I remember is much cheaper than YTTV (about $40). 

-Regular Hulu offers Raw and Smackdown, but it’s available next day.

-The other place you can get your WWE content is Peacock, though the problem is there is no live content and the episodes are uploaded after a month. Peacock is only useful for PLEs and to watch the back catalog of WWE ($5.99/month).

-There is an option to livestream the USA Network on their app and website HOWEVER, you do need a TV provider to access so it defeats the purpose. 

*What I will say is this option is useful for those who live in the West, have cable/streaming service and want to watch Raw live.

WWE (International)

-Most countries have the WWE Network but it is very similar to Peacock in that there is no live content

* This is b/c of broadcasting rights with other stations that stops WWE from putting Raw and Smackdown up straight away like the PPVs 

-WWE also has deals with broadcasting channels around the world, but they more or less work similarly to Peacock.

SO, for the U.S folks, the best way to watch WWE legally and for cheap would be to purchase Sling TV and Peacock to get the full experience that will run you ~$45-55/month.

International folks would benefit from getting a VPN and doing the same (Sling + Peacock)

….

AEW (stateside)

-Again the best way to watch AEW is cable/live TV. The best options here would be Youtube TV and Sling. 

-There is a TBS app, but like the USA Network app, you need a subscription to cable/live tv, and honestly the app lags and is very faulty. Would not recommend. 

-For PPVs, you can purchase from traditional cable providers/satellite ($50/PPV)

-The other one is Bleacher Report (Ditto).

-You can also watch at certain Bar/Restaurants and Movie Theaters which could be a cheaper alternative to buying the PPV, though not every place in the U.S offers this, so make sure you check with your local Dave & Busters, Tom’s Watch Bar, and movie theaters.

(AEW International)

-Now we are in murky waters as AEW has given the rights to a few apps for different parts of the world (besides watching it by cable)

-Canada has TSN, Latin America is getting stuck with ViX, others have DAZN, and the rest are still on Fite TV.

-All these options have faults. TSN is expensive with cable and if you want to watch Collision you need the TSN app and that’s expensive as well. 

-ViX, while the cheapest option of all mentioned, is a joke of an app. Those that have used it reported it’s difficult to find AEW on the app. You HAVE to watch it live as there is no VOD, no back catalog, and the commentary is only in Spanish.There is also no PiP, in fact they don’t even air the fight when they throw to commercial, it just goes to a “we’ll be right back screen”.

-DAZN is expensive, misses shows, starts late, and is buggy. It’s also inflated with commercials before, after and in the middle of the show and the video quality is garbage.

-For anyone with Fite, you get the live stream but you have to wait 30 days for the VOD. Though you do have access to the back catalog.

*This is due to AEW’s deals with the streaming platforms above.

-Fite UK really is the old faithful as you can pay for AEW+ to watch live, get  VOD next day, have access to the back catalog and no PiP.

-PPVs can be purchased and watched through traditional satellite/cable provider

-YouTube (Canada, Mexico, Germany, Italy, France, UK, South Korea)

-PPV.com (Canada, Australia, New Zealand, UK and Ireland)

-SKY Germany

-SKY Italia

-DAZN (UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Netherlands, Mexico, Brazil, France, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Poland, Portugal, Thailand, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Bulgaria)

-You can also buy through Fite (pretty much anyone)

…

Ok, so now you have all this info but you still don’t know what’s best for you? I would say if you want to watch both WWE + AEW, go with the live TV option. If you just want AEW, get yourself a VPN and go with Fite UK. This applies to Americans and International folks!

For PPV, the best option is Fite as when you purchase it, you have it for life and can replay it as much as you want. You also have the luxury of being able to watch on 2 devices simultaneously, so if you can’t fork out the money for a PPV, perhaps buddy up with someone, pay half and watch together on separate devices. 

-PPVs on UK fite are £13.99 each (about $16 American) and fite NZ are $20 American.

*If you cannot afford a VPN, the two free VPNs I recommend are Proton VPN and Urban VPN.

OK so now you have the legal ways of watching wrestling, but now you’re probably saying, “but Jei! This is great and all, but I don’t have money!”. Well my friend, this is where I give you a lifejacket and show you how to navigate the deep waters of the interwebs, and by the time you finish reading this, you will know how to be a damn great pirate!

-What you will DEFINITELY need is a good ad blocker 

-International folks, use a VPN that can connect to a US server.

Websites that have live streams, back catalog, PPVs, and wrestling from many promotions:

- Wrestling Network

- Wrestling Live

- PWrestling

- Watch Wrestling

- All Wrestling

- Watch Wrestling 24

- Watch Wrestling Up

*a lot of these have pesky ads you have to deal with and sometimes streams break in between, but since it’s free… Well, beggars can’t be choosers. Some will ask you to sign up, they are not asking for money, but if you are not comfortable sharing info, choose another site.

-Also while searching some of these sites, I came across a list from a website called Techlazy, and a person named Nagama Ansari compiled a list with more sites and gives an overview on sites I mentioned and others. I’ll link it here.

Well folks, if you made it this far, congratulations on successfully being able to navigate legal and pirated waters. In all seriousness, if you made it this far, I want to thank you for finding this helpful. I recently came back into the wrestling fold and the people in this community have been nothing but positive and friendly both in person and in real life. The best way I can give back to all of you is by using my knowledge working in television and journalism as well as using my network to help make it easier for all of you to enjoy what we love without worrying about paying a fortune to watch what you want.

Also, I am one of thousands of people getting screwed over by television monopolies and streaming services, so this is my petty way to get back at them! 

[oktobearfest]

hey @itsjos apologies for putting you on blast - i just didnt want to write a novel in the replies so i wanted to make a separate post. also maybe this will help others that struggle with how to build maelle??? i had to watch youtube videos as in act 3 i was getting curb stomped by all of the optional bosses and wished that i knew what i was doing beforehand lmao

firstly, i 100% recommend that you get the medalum weapon for maelle. you can get this weapon by choosing maelle to fight in the gestrel village arena tournament (do not pick any other characters to compete, just choose maelle). this weapon is missable by not doing this early on and you dont get another chance at getting it until late game where you can fight golgra and get it as a reward that way. this weapon is IMO really good as it starts you off automatically in virtouse stance and as you level it up you can apply extra burn damage. in act 2 you can get barrier breaker which is a REALLY good weapon for end game content (this is the weapon i used to kill simon, an optional act 3 boss as a fully upgraded barrier breaker can do over 10k damage).

medalum also scales with defense and agility stats so it's important to put attribute points into those! you get a lot of recoat items which can respec a character's attributes so don't worry about being locked into a specific build. i think i have like 30 of them in my inventory right now LOL

in terms of pictos, i dont really remember which ones are available to get in act 1 but i remember using roulette for maelle as every hit has a chance to deal 50% or 200% of its damage. recovery is a good one too though you can only get that one by giving 90,000 chroma to a cauldron in the red woods. i didnt have 90,000 chroma in act 1 but as you fight more difficult enemies it won't be hard to get 90,000 chroma.

DO NOT forget to upgrade weapons and give characters lumina points at camp!! i've talked to people that didn't even know lumina points were a thing until the middle of act 2 but they're SOO important! you can equip a pictos as a lumina so that a character gains that passive effect (if that makes sense, idk how else to word it). so while you can only have 3 pictos equipped, you can have an endless amount of lumina stat effects. some pictos cost more than others, like for example cheater (a 100% required lumina for one shot builds) cost 40 points where others cost 5. you can go to camp at any time in the over world which is something people didn't know either.

here is my maelle to show you an example of what i mean

i put the bulk of my atttributes into defense and agility as that scales with medalum but i also have 270 luminas equipped onto her (and im even trying to add more than that. ive seen some builds that have like 400). this did remind me that augmented first strike is a really good picto to have as well but you dont get that one until esquie's nest. i'd recommend putting that lumina onto other characters too like gustave (and later verso).

ignore the skills i have for now as you do not get access to last chance, phantom strike and stendhal until late game (last chance + stendhal is the combo that is so fucking OP that the devs nerfed it and it's still OP LMAOOOO). i did use rain of fire in act 1 and in virtuose stance you can do a decent amount of damage. fleuret fury is good to use on first turn as you stay in virtuose stance if you're already in it (so if you have medalum equipped, you get 2 instances of attacks being 200% damage).

sorry for this being a jumbled mess but i can clarify anything and answer any questions! can also give tips for sciel as i've made a build for her that one shots enemies despite the devs nerfing part of it in a recent update but it's still insanely good with some tweaks

[the-otome-freak]

Psychedelica of the Black Butterfly Review!!

This is my first ever official, extensive otome review!! I hope y'all enjoy, I went through so many ups and downs with this game. I hope this review inspires more people to get the game, or maybe even helps people realize it might not be for them! I also attempted to keep it as spoiler-free as possible, but there are parts that might dive into spoiler territory. I made sure to mention it, if so! Enjoy~ . . . .

Psychedelica of the Black Butterfly is a visual novel developed by Otomate and published by Idea Factory in 2015, available on the PS Vita and Steam. It’s an extremely dark, gothic story with very heavy themes and romance akin to Shakespearian tragedy. When I first picked up this game, I had been previously warned about the angst it contained but nothing prepared me for what I was about to experience. This game contains themes of death, guilt, regret, grief, trauma, isolation, and more. The last time I cried so much consuming a piece of media was when I watched Les Misérables for the first time when I was 15, so that says a lot. POTBB has an iffy system, but this is easily overshadowed by the incredible storyline, jaw dropping art, compelling cast, and beautiful soundtrack.  

Before we get into plot points and character routes, I’d like to talk about POTBB’s system. It’s a typical visual novel at first glance, which means mostly just clicking in order to read the text and watching the events unfold. The features that set it apart however were quite interesting- and frankly quite frustrating as well. This includes its combat system and its flowchart.

POTBB has a combat system that pops up a couple times throughout the story while you’re fighting monsters. The instructions for the combat system were very vague and confusing, especially since I played on PC where the button configurations aren’t clarified in the “Options” menu, so it was a lot of trial and error. It instructs you to shoot your gun, but not how (on PC). I had to figure out on my own that I had to use the left and right click of my mouse to shoot/lock onto targets, so the first couple of plays I was very confused and frustrated. The object of the game is to shoot as many butterflies as possible in the allotted time while also getting a good score, which is achieved by getting combos. Playing the game earns you points. Another problem is that it’s quite glitchy and hard to lock onto the butterflies properly to shoot them, but with practice you can improve (with the sacrifice of a couple of hand cramps). 

The other unique thing about POTBB’s system is its flowchart, which is useful because it allows you to jump to any point in the story you’ve already unlocked, but it can be very frustrating sometimes. You’re required to use the flowchart in order to access the “Side Stories,” aka extra content you slowly unlock as you play. To access the flowchart, you have to go to the menu. The game doesn’t notify you when you’ve unlocked a Side Story, so you just have to remember to check the flowchart every once in a while to see if any have unlocked. And even if a Side Story is “unlocked”, you still have to spend your points you earned in the minigame to actually view the content. Certain character routes, endings, and choices can’t be unlocked unless you’ve viewed these Side Stories. I actually got stuck a few times during my playthrough because I didn’t realize some of the Side Stories were unlocked, and you need to read them to progress. I found that the process of scrolling through the flowchart in the middle of the story often took away from the immersion, but it wasn’t awful. 

On a positive note, I have to talk about POTBB’s art, which was created by Satoru Yuiga. Yuiga has an expressive, sort of water-color art style that adds to the spiritual and mystic elements of the game. I actually didn’t like the style at first; I thought some of the character sprites looked strange, but I quickly got used to it and was soon blown away. The CGs were gorgeous and added so much life to the characters. The facial expressions were so vivid, they displayed perfect depictions of terror, shock, love… I felt every emotion through the art. I’m looking forward to playing more of Yuiga’s games just because of her art. (Images below are promotional CGs)

Now, let's talk plot! (I summarize the Common Route in this section, so feel free to skip if you consider that spoilers!) The story and characters are the best thing about this game, in my opinion. You play as a girl named Beniyuri who has just woken up in a strange mansion with no memory of her past or even herself. You see the world through Beni’s eyes as she traverses the mansion and tries to figure out what’s going on and why she’s there. The mansion is dark, gothic, and scary. Its halls seem endless, every window and door is locked, and mysterious butterflies can be seen practically everywhere. And just when things seem their darkest, Beni hears the loud roar of a beast. Two large lion-like creatures appear and attempt to attack her. Imagine if a Minotaur had a lion’s head; that’s what they look like. She thinks she’s a goner, but suddenly she’s saved by a mysterious man with dark hair and purple eyes. They hide from the monsters together, and Beni learns that this man also doesn’t have any memories. They team up and explore, eventually coming across 3 other men in the mansion who also have amnesia. The four of them find a large hall within the mansion to make their ‘base’ where they’ll be safe from the monsters. They realize that they all have phones on them, and though there isn’t any service, each of them has received one message. “Collect the shards. Complete the kaleidoscope.” They’re in this mansion for a reason, and clearly someone is pulling the strings.

I can’t go into too much detail about the individual routes because the amount of plot twists and spoilers in this game are insane. I will describe each guy and a summary of what their route meant for me and how it made me feel. Some of the routes were phenomenal in their story writing and character development, others not so much. 

The first route recommended is a man named Kagiha, the 2nd person that Beni meets in the mansion, and I have complex feelings about his route. He’s a tall, soft spoken, polite man with light brown hair and green eyes. He’s very kindhearted and treats Beni with a lot of care, cheering her up when she’s depressed about their situation. Kagiha was my favorite in the beginning simply due to how kind he was. All of them were in a very depressing situation with no memories and barely any hope, so his kindness was a sort of light in that darkness. I was very excited for his route and to learn his backstory. It turns out, his route is a branch of the “Best Ending” of the game, so you get to learn the truth about almost everything as you play through his route. I certainly wasn’t expecting this. I had been warned in the past about POTBB’s bittersweet endings, but I really wasn’t prepared like I thought I was. Due to Kagiha’s circumstances (that I can’t go into detail about), his route has two endings, and neither of them are “happy” in regard to his relationship with Beni. The “Best Ending” of the game does indeed end on a happy note, but they don’t end up happy together (again due to circumstances I can’t talk about without spoiling). The “Kagiha Ending” of the game does have them end up together romantically, but with very bittersweet conditions that’s more depressing than the alternative, in my opinion. I was very upset and I cried at both endings, regretting that I loved Kagiha so much because neither ending let him and Beni be truly happy together. But even though I was upset, I have to admit that the “Best Ending” was written phenomenally and deals with the concept of death, grieving, acceptance, and change in a beautiful way. The themes in this game are very heavy but discuss them in a beautiful, important way that really gets your brain going. I sat in silence for a while after the “Best Ending” just… thinking. 

After that emotional wreck, I was ready for a happy ending or at least some more closure. Hikage’s route is recommended after Kagiha, which surprised me a bit. Based off of the cover art and his introduction, he seemed to be the “poster boy.” Hikage is the first man Beni meets in the mansion, the man who saved her from the monsters. I can barely describe his route without getting into spoilers, but it was intense. I didn’t like Hikage at first because he had this misogynistic mindset and constantly scolded Beni for being “weak, just like all women” and yelled at her for “slowing them down.” I wasn’t excited for his route because obviously it meant Beni would get more of this treatment, but I was honestly surprised at what his route had in store. There’s a major plot twist within the route and you come to understand why Hikage has this mindset, and that it doesn’t come from a place of misogyny, but rather trauma. The ending to his route shocked me so much and I bawled my eyes out. It definitely ends on a bittersweet note as well, but the very last scene offers some sort of closure (though not enough, in my opinion.) I overall liked his route plot-wise and thought it was also very thought provoking, tackling themes of abuse, death, mental instability, and despair. Romantically it was okay, but I felt like it took a side-seat to the plot which can either be good or bad, depending on how much you value romance and/or get attached to the characters. Without spoiling, I can tell you that Hikage is written in a way where it makes sense that romance isn’t the focus. Thankfully I wasn’t attached to Hikage as much as Kagiha, but I still cried a river anyway…

You’d think after two routes with horrifically bittersweet endings that the whole game will probably be this way, but surprisingly, the third route in POTBB filled my heart with joy. This route centered around Yamato, who’s a short-tempered, sporty guy with ice-blue hair. He has a bit of a foul mouth, often yelling or getting angry at their situation, but never in an irrational way. Yamato actually ended up being my favorite character overall. He has an unexpected soft side and his romance with Beni was the most realistic among the cast. I also felt his route was quite tragic, despite having the happiest romantic ending in the game. Yamato and Beni’s relationship is really complex, and they actually bond over grief and guilt. Both of them harbor so much guilt in their hearts and it shackles the both of them to their pasts, but by grieving together and finding strength in one another, they’re able to push each other to move on and grow. I really enjoyed this route in a moral sense. It teaches you that it’s okay to grieve and that people grieve at different paces, and sometimes it’s okay to bond over said grief. Healing and forgiveness take time, and having someone else there to heal with you can make you both stronger. The themes in his route were so beautiful and even watching his bonds with other members of the cast grow were incredible too. He has the happiest romantic ending in the game as well, which just added to how good it was. Interestingly enough, Yamato’s route also helped me come to terms with the bittersweetness of the previous routes. I was finally able to accept the circumstances and reasonings behind the depressing endings, allowing me to appreciate the game more as a whole.  

After Yamato’s romantic end, I was excited to finish the rest of the game. I prayed that this next route had a happy ending as well, and that Yamato wasn’t just an exception. I began to pursue Monshiro, who’s a mysterious man who wears a fox mask that Beni has spotted wandering the mansion sometimes. I didn’t know what to expect from him during the first bit of the game because he’s sort of absent until the end of the common route. I was pleasantly surprised, though! I learned more and more about him as I played, even in the other routes, and he’s wonderful. He’s adorable, loving, and incredibly sweet. His route tackles themes of isolation and loneliness, with Monshiro being severely traumatized due to being alone in the mansion for several years. He’s very clingy with Beni and values their relationship more than anything, his main fear being him getting left alone again. His ending was quite happy as well, but their romantic development and deep connection never really got the ending it deserved. Their bond was almost as strong as her bond with Yamato, but I feel like in the end they didn’t get to express that to each other properly. It also felt quite short to me, I wish I could have gotten more content with them that wasn’t plot-related and just focused on their bond and how much they care for each other. Overall, I enjoyed it because Monshiro is so loveable, but the ending just left me unsatisfied and begging for more.  

Now, the last route was a doozy. I’d like to clarify before I begin that this is all, of course, my opinion and perspective, so don’t let this discourage you from trying the game or loving this character! I will get into minor spoilers as well here, just because it’s hard to explain my feelings without talking about what happened. The last route I played was Karasuba, who is… not the best. I can confidently say I hate him, and his route didn’t really change that for me. He has bright yellow hair and yellow eyes, so his design was already creepy to me from the start, but his personality is much worse. At first glance he seems like a funny, happy-go-lucky class clown type, but his real personality is much more twisted. He flirts with Beni so intensely to the point of sexual harassment, but then backs off and laughs, pretending it was “just a joke.” Now this is already bad enough, but he’s just incredibly rude to everyone around him as well. He demeans Beni constantly for being “naive” and “cowardly,” all with a smile on his face as he pretends he’s saying it “for her own good.” He also constantly insults the other characters, starting fights with them whenever he can and giggling about it when it’s over. The whole “reason” behind why he acts like this is because he was bullied when he was a child. He projects his insecurities onto others and thus becomes the bully he hated so much when he was younger. He does later apologize for this at the end of his route, but I felt like one sorry just wasn’t enough to atone for the way he treated everyone? He sexually harasses Beni until she starts crying at one point, then backs away and claims it was “just a joke to teach her a lesson at how dangerous men can be.” He’s just awful and I don’t think he develops very much, even in his good ending despite his apology. His bad ending was even worse, which involved him brainwashing and manipulating Beni to be with him. I know some people who enjoyed his route and while I do respect that, it’s just hard for me to understand how someone would enjoy a character like him. I do think he’s interesting because he has deep flaws and trauma and instead of growing from it, he let them taint him and he ended up becoming the very thing he hated. So, he is interesting, but that doesn’t mean he’s a good love interest for Beni or even a good character in general. If I’d have to state one major flaw about this game, it’s Karasuba’s existence and his lack of character development or redemption.

After the 5 character routes are over, you’d assume that’s the end. The game actually continues after this, though, with the “Summer Camp” ending that unlocks last. This was my favorite part of the game. It’s a “What-If” scenario where every single character gets their happy ending, and offers a lot of closure after the despair you experience in the character routes. It healed me and freshened my mind after the tragedy. It’s a wonderful inclusion and I actually cried tears of joy while playing it, due to how emotional it made me. 

Overall, Psychedelica of the Black Butterfly was an emotional rollercoaster that I will never forget. While yes it has its flaws, I don’t regret playing it. The topics covered, such as isolation, death, and guilt, were so heavy and intense; but they were also so meaningful and I feel like everyone should experience them. I feel my favorite theme was the deep dive into Survivor’s Guilt and how people process and deal with it differently. The mystery surrounding the mansion and their circumstances was also very interesting and the plot twists were well executed. The whole cast is so full of life and each of their bonds are extremely complex. Beniyuri is a wonderful main character and I found myself rooting for her and her happiness the entire time. I definitely recommend this game to anyone who loves tragedy and complex plots, but I probably wouldn’t recommend this game to someone who’d be uncomfortable with really dark themes like graphic death. This game definitely took a toll on my mental health for a few days, but also offered life lessons that I’ll no doubt remember and value for a very long time. 

Rating: 7/10!

[satoshi-mochida]

Touhou Genso Wanderer: FORESIGHT coming to PS4, Switch on September 18 - Gematsu

Publisher Phoenixx and developer Aqua Style will release Touhou Project fan game dungeon crawler RPG Touhou Genso Wanderer: FORESIGHT for PlayStation 4 and Switch on September 18 for $37.99, the companies announced. It supports English, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese language options.

In Japan, the game will be priced at 4,950 yen. A physical edition will also launch for Switch on November 28 in Japan. It will cost 5,500 yen for the standard edition and 9,900 yen for the limited edition. The latter includes a special box, the original soundtrack and something secret, an art book, an acrylic diorama stand of the key visual, and two costume downloadable contents.

Touhou Genso Wanderer: FORESIGHT first launched for PC via Steam on May 15.

The PlayStation 4 and Switch versions will add the following features:

Hakurei Shrine Renovation Enhancements – Meet with a surprising new heroine after restoring the pond in the Hakurei Shrine. Help her by further reconstructing the shrine to access additional stories and events. This new release adds a whole new dangerous dungeon filled with unexpected twists.

New Costumes for Reimu – Dress up Reimu with the Winter Costume and Shrine Maiden Costume available for both PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch versions upon release.

Popular Bosses’ Special Moves Appear as Spell Cards – Gather newly introduced boss spell cards and harness their powerful effects. Cast spell cards for eye-catching animations and unleash the abilities of Touhou Project characters from previous entries in the Touhou Genso Wanderer series.

Here is an overview of the game, via its Steam page:

About

A new dungeon crawler RPG game in the Genso Wanderer series! Embark on an adventure with Reimu and friends to solve incidents! This title is a fan-made game based on the doujin game Touhou Project (by Team Shanghai Alice) as a dungeon-crawler RPG where the dungeon layout and dropped items change each time you play.

Story

In a corridor somewhere… Reimu Hakurei loses a battle and faints. She comes to and finds herself at Hakurei Shrine. She’s unable to remember anything… What had she even been doing in the first place? Having regained consciousness, Reimu sets out together with her friend Marisa Kirisame to solve incidents. Reimu must now save Gensokyo… From the various incidents, some of which she’d already solved before. —Reimu has no idea what she’s in for.

Gameplay

Leveling and Travel Mechanics

You lost a battle and ended up back at Hakurei Shrine?!

Just when you’d leveled Reimu up and upgraded her weapons, too…

Well, no need to worry about that anymore!

You get to keep your items and current level in the story’s dungeons.

You’ll also be able to fast travel to places you’ve already traversed.

Reimu Gets Stronger After Every Encounter With Friends!

Solve incidents and help those in the Human Village get through their problems…

Encountering the inhabitants of Gensokyo will help you acquire “boards” that can raise your basic stats.

Characters get stronger as you progress through the game!

Make Hakurei Shrine Better Than Ever

Restore the tattered shrine to its former glory by asking for help from Suika Ibuki, who’s settled there.

Invest in the building and facilities for more convenient travel.

Newly Revamped Illustrations

The inhabitants of Gensokyo are expressive.

Almost every character gets new illustrations.

Keep your eyes peeled for the girls’ new looks.

Almost Every Right Hand-Wielded Weapon

And left hand-wielded armor are newly drawn.

Equip them to discover the abilities each piece holds.

Watch a new trailer below.

PlayStation 4 and Switch Announce Trailer

English

Japanese

[holly-fixation]

Ever Crisis Tips!

For anyone who started this game or wants to know what the best way to use your time/resources is, here are my tips to get stronger faster:

1: They recently added a 9x stamina option. This means 9 times the rewards with 9 times the stamina, but you save so much actual TIME. This makes grinding for everything a lot easier.

2: Give yourself a specific goal for anything that uses stamina. These will keep you from going insane. "I'm going to max out Aerith's exp." "I'm going to get all the highest weapon materials." "I'll get all the ice materia materials I could ever want!" "I'm going to max out Zack's Ifrit rarity!"

3: Use auto battle. Specifically, if you don't want to be in the top 1,000 of the dungeon rankings (that takes so much time and I am also convinced it costs money), only play levels you do not need to pay attention to. This still applies for stamina cost battles only. Your life will be so much easier if you passively get stronger through a bunch of auto battles than forcing yourself to pay attention.

4: Check on the Cetra Tower every once in a while. You will probably forget about it. If you give it a couple of tries and realize you aren't getting any closer to winning, LEAVE. It's not worth the heartache.

5: When gaining weapon materials, all the metal cubes can be broken down to the smaller ingots and such in the Exchange menu. NEVER waste your time playing early weapon material quests when you have access/can reliably complete the difficult quests. - Even for later materials, you will always run out of the rarest first. The genome pods and such cannot be broken down, but you will not want to either.

6: Weapon enhancement (grindstones) same deal: always play the highest level for the best rewards.

7: I suggest having an A team for difficult battles, a B team for when the A team maxes out, and a C "this team is my lowest level" for daily missions. You might not like everyone, but it feels like you're still making progress even if your A team is maxed out.

8: If there is a free draw, try to remember it with everything you have. Free draws are rare and incredibly useful.

9: Personally I always keep 36,000 crystals on the back burner in case a specific costume I really want appears in the next banner. It is incredibly difficult to maintain crystals if you want something from every banner. The real money option is incredibly expensive. Be careful.

10: Try not to forget about the dungeons, especially early game. But also don't hurt yourself on the crisis dungeons. If you feel like you're hitting your head against a wall, it's not worth the medals yet.

11: You will reach a point where the only thing stopping your characters from growing stronger is the weapon rarity. This will suck. The best you can do is gain materials for other uses.

12: Materia in the microwave: try not to forget but not the end of the world either. I suggest cooking up 3* of every single materia type you have access too. Don't worry about the 4* and 5* materia until everything at least has 3*.

13: Speaking of materia: focus on Ruin when you're bored. They cook fast and since almost every boss requires them, it's better to do more damage in those required levels with higher stars *.

14: Summons: Very hard 1 is the only very hard you should ever do outside of coop. Only complete this to unlock the summon stream/stronger attack. Since Auto battle can't complete them, don't repeat these levels.

15: Double speed is great, but if you lose a level, try turning off double speed. The game won't register certain attacks that should go through on double speed. Normal speed can actually be your key to victory, since all attacks that can go through will.

16: Coop sucks. We all know it, but the rewards are incredibly useful. Usually just doing the event coop will cover the weekly requirement, but check the items available anyway. Item drops increase for coop levels.

17: Save 40 stamina potions before an event begins so if you have time or really want the rewards, you can blow through it. Any more than 40 will become 99 WAY faster than you think it will, so try to use stamina when YOU have time.

18: Yes the phone version drains battery life, but it's also easier for multitasking. I play while folding my laundry or watching youtube. If this is impossible, there is also a steam version. And you can link your account so you won't lose any progress!

Good luck! Hope this helps!

[smutoperator]

Really long, but fun game! Please answer with an image for each of the idols that you choose!

Congratulations! You've been gifted the golden ticket for the 3 opening nights (one each week) for the Glorious Glory, the 5 stars gloryhole that will grant you an experience second to none.

This golden ticket will give you a first pass experience for every level of the Glorious Glory before anyone one else gets access to it, in which you will be able to choose only one idol for every level.

The theme for this week of the Glorious Glory is "2nd gen of Kpop idols"!

1st level:

You walk in the first level, is a semi dark room with purple neon lights and a sexy ambient music. This level is dedicated for blowjobs. In front of you there are 4 holes in the wall with a photo at eye level showing which idol is on the other side for you to choose. Upon seeing your options which 2nd gen idol will you choose to blow you?

1st level idols: Dara, Krystal, Taeyeon and Tiffany

2nd level:

You enter the 2nd level and is met with the same style of the previous one, except that this level is dedicated for vaginal fucking and now you can see the lower half (exposed up to the belly button) of the idols waiting to get ravished by you. Similar to the previous level you have a photo showing who's on the other side. Who are you gonna choose?

2nd level idols: Chorong, Hyeri, Naeun and Suzy

3rd level:

After having fun with the previous level you move on to the next imagining that now would be anal sex, but you are met with a plot twist. You see photos above the holes for a full torso to fit in but there's no idol sticking out, you see a sign above the wall saying "choose which idol you want to ride you, then lay down with your lower half to the other side". Which idol are you choose for the cowgirl ride of your dreams?

BTW: there's enough room in the hole for you to stick your arms in and grope and spank the ass of the idol while she rides you.

3rd level idols: Gain, Hani, Jaekyung and Kyungri

4th level:

After a little break to recover your stamina you move to the 4th level, which is dedicated to anal sex. Same as the others, photos on the wall but with the idols lower half sticking out with their ass up. Which idols ass you will roughly fuck?

4th level idols: Eunji, Hyomin, Sunmi and Yura

5th level:

You probably thought that it was over, but as the owner of the golden ticket you have a additional special level.

At the 5th level you have to choose between two options, the standard or a compromised deal:

Standard option: have a 24 hour escort services, in which you can choose one of the idols available for this level to take her to a 5 star hotel for 24 hours of free use no limit sex (just you and the idol, no one else allowed).

Idols for the 5th level standard option: IU, Jessica, Nana and Yoona

Compromised deal: maybe you fell in love with one of your previous picks from the other levels, in this case you can have her for the next 8 hours at an exclusive room within the Glorious Glory premises.

Which option are you choosing and with which idol?

As the night ends, the Glorious Glory thanks you for visiting us and expects that you had a great time and will soon become a faithful customer.

Also, remember that your ticket is available for the 3 opening nights. Soon, you'll be invited again for the next theme with new idols!

1st level: Krystal is my favorite idol of that bunch but I feel like Tiffany would give the best blowjob

2nd level: top notch girls but for vaginal it's basically a very easy choice: Suzy

3rd level I'm choosing Hani for that magical anal ride. She's shown multiple times she's a pro at going up&down

4th level tough choice between Eunji and Yura but Yura is a top 5 ult of mine so her ass will be the lucky one

5th level I'm taking the standard option with Nana

[quietwingsinthesky]

I think I'm gonna start t soon and I am so so scared. Advice?

Don’t be scared. At least, not of your T or of the changes that’ll happen. You have ample access to resources to know exactly what those are from various gender health sites and the testimonies of other trans people online; if you ever need clarification, just go look for it, it’ll be there.

If testosterone works for you, it works for you, simple as that. Your doctor, if they’re any good, will be keeping a regular eye on your blood to make sure you’re healthy and check your levels. If you feel like you want more changes or for them to happen (slightly*) faster, don’t be afraid to bring up upping your dosage. (*There’s no way to insta-poof you into the body you’re making. It’s puberty 2, it’s mostly slow and gradual but it’s happening and you’ll get there, I promise. Took me like 3-4 years of being on T to get where I am.)

(on the off-chance you decide you don’t like the changes, or maybe you only wanted some of the early ones that’ll stick around even without continuing your dosage such as the voice drop or bottom growth, then that’s also fine. there’s no shame in changing your mind just like there’s no shame in continuing. it’s your body, and you do what’s right for you.)

i don’t know how you’re getting your T, but I’m presuming, if not now, then at some point needles will be involved. and those do seem scary at first, especially when it looks like it’s so easy to get it wrong. but it’s just a tool, you follow the steps and nothing bad will happen to you. sometimes you’ll nick a vein and bleed a bit, and worst case, you might hit a nerve and it’ll hurt like hell but it’s not going to kill you. but it’s just a tool and you’ll get used to using it. and if you can’t, there’s options, i think, for monthly injections from a nurse? in some places/practices. if i’m remembering correctly.

and the larger picture is. depending on where you live, it’ll look different, but it’s not a very nice world for us right now, no matter where you are. so, my advice there: remember that it is not something you, on your own, can fix or are required to worry about not being able to fix every minute of your life. you’re going to need a lot of energy saved for hrt, so save it. take it as long as you can, as long as it’s available to you safely, and don’t worry about the ifs of it not being so one day. you’ve got it now, so do it now.

[heptadecaph0bia]

about all my gods' main subplot: a rant

ok so just to preface this, this is basically the main subplot of the game. so venus approaches you when you start the game and tells you something that i dont remember but she tells you basically "wow hah hey cute boy build three flowerbeds for me? for me? please?" AND YOU HAVE TO FUCKING DO IT BECAUSE OTHERWISE THE GAME DOESN'T PROGRESS BUT JUST KNOW I WOULD KILL HER INSTEAD IF OFFERED THE OPTION. so i make the fucking flower beds (and i always fucking destroy them right after she completes the quest (also i fucking hate this AGAIN because it makes me spend science points on like. DECORATIVE SHIT WHEN IDGAF ABOUT THIS AT ALL. MY CITIES IN THIS GAME ARE ALWAYS FUNCTION ONLY)) and then you get a fucking cutscene about a messenger of mars informing him that I AM COURTING HIS GIRL WHEN IN FACT I AM DOING NO SUCH THING. so he gets pissed. he comes to me and says give me 10000000000 gold in 1 minute or face my Wrath like. WHAT DO YOU MEAN? WHAAAAT. LIKE AT THIS POINT YOU HAVE LIKE 400 MAX AT ANY GIVEN TIME AND EVEN THEN I WAS ALWAYS POOR AS BUNS. I HAD LIKE. 20. AT ANY GIVEN MOMENT. so he LIGHTS MY ENTIRE TOWN ON FIRE. and i don't have wells or access to the ocean so every single person has to go to the river to get water to put out buildings and then the fire spreads and 🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔 DING DING DING DING DING 🔔🔔DING🔔DI🔔🔔N🔔G. dont get me started. so i resolve that and surely you think this must be the end. surely angelicus has learnt his lesson from that to not even BREATHE in venus's direction. NO. now i have to build her statues and you see where this is going.

so mars gets mad AGAIN and i resolve it AGAIN and at some point HE BRINGS HIS MOM INTO THIS WHICH MAKES IT WORSE CUS SHE BREAKS BUILDINGS AND NOW I HAVE TO REPAIR THEM WHICH COSTS MATERIALS AND MONEY WHICH FUCK YOU. mars basically agrees "make me three obelisks and ill lay off" which i hate again cus the game only has 2 kinds of obelisk so i have to make two of one kind, kys. BUT THIS DOES NOT LAY HIS MOM OFF OF ME. SHE KEEPS FWACKING ME UP. idr how you get her to lay off but. THIS FUCKING COMIC CUTSCENE. AND LET ME PASTE THIS IN BECAUSE THIS MADE ME MAAAD

Meanwhile, the young god had gained the favor of fair Venus and asked her out on a date… …"Nor need I write - to tell the tale, My pen were doubly weak: Oh! what can idle words avail, Unless the heart could speak?" - he confided from his perch on one knee. They stood and freated their eyes on the sunet, watching as the sun slowly sank into the abyss of the sea… "She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes"… Let's leave these love birds…

THIS MADE ME SO MAD. CUS WHAT. LOOK AT MY BOY

AND TELL ME HE LIKES WOMEN. WHAAAT. ALSO HIS POETRY IS BUNS. PUT DOWN THE PEN BOY. AND IT JUST MADE ME ANGRY CUS LIKE. WHY WOULD YOU KEEP FUCKING COURTING HER IF YOU LIKE MEN AND ALSO HER MAN IS BEATING YOUR ASS AND HE ROPED HIS MOM INTO IT TO BEAT YOUR ASS TOO? FOOLISH BOY. anyways eventually angelicus is made a god and mars is like "yeah i believed in him all along" WHEN LITERALLY THE FIRST CUTSCENE MARS IS LIKE "FUCK HIS ASS AND HIS FATHER THIS KID WILL NEVER AMOUNT TO ANYTHING" and just die. die .die.deied.eididiel.d.de