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I'm ready to be disappointed by another Rockstar game again, but at least it won't be a GTA situation where every character is an insufferable cliché dialed to 11.

Honestly surprised this comes to Steam only a month late. I'd thought Epic would've snatched that up for sure, but then again, they'd probably have to fork over a lot more than 10 million for a game that's surely going to sell a bazillion copies.

I can wait that one month and even if it were exclusive, I'd just not buy it and go on with my life.

Miss you, Ryan. Thanks for everything.

I also have to go with A Place Further Than the Universe.

If you want warm comfiness, Laid-Back Camp is a pure joy to watch and Violet Evergarden is the most emotional I ever got for a tv anime.

Also, Zombieland Saga. I never would've thought this type of show was for me, but it's both hilarious and heart-warming.

Zombieland Saga has been an absolute delight and my biggest surprise of the season. If it weren't for Bunny Girl Senpai (another surprise, due to its atrociously misleading title), this would be my favorite show by a mile.

It's amazing how they wrap absurd comedy, idol "drama" and some supremely emotional stories into a complete package while making it impossible to tell what'll happen next. I can't wait to see more from the girls and Hououin Kyouma Tatsumi Koutarou.

I think it's perfectly fine to have a great time playing the game (or any game, really, even Mario Party), especially if you're playing with friends, and people shouldn't have to feel defensive about saying that.

That doesn't mean Fallout 76 isn't a below average game riddled with bugs (even for Bethesda standards) that's both graphically inferior to contemporary open-world games and runs extremely poorly, as well as many, many other deficits that probably have been discussed to death by now.

It's ok to have fun with games that are bad, I played through Earth Defense Force with a friend and we had (generally) a great time, but I'm not going to argue that it's not a heap of trash in a lot of ways.

Favorite show of the year alongside Yuru Camp and Violet Evergarden. Funny, emotional, outstanding characters, gorgeous animation.

@puchiko: I never felt like they were ever gonna be able to recover from the flawed premise of Hanebado anyway. How could a mother abandon her child simply because she lost a game while extremely sick and no one points out how fucked up and wrong that is!? And then she brings the excuse of wanting to make her a better player on her own, when all it did was make her quit the sport altogether.

The real problem with the show though is how they seemingly change Hanesaki's character at the drop of a hat. First, she doesn't want to join the club, then they make her remember how much fun she had playing Badminton, then she's excited to have teammates that support her and bam, psycho Hanesaki is back treating everyone like garbage. Also, Connie's backstory seemed awfully melodramatic, although I did like that they showed her actually being a decent person later on (although the bathing scenes were really dumb fanservice.)

I was somehow convinced this had to have been released on consoles months ago, if not last year.

If you haven't played it, enjoy, I guess. Great game.

@dlemke: Windjammers?

@golguin:I jumped on the Hanebado train since I see a lot more talk about it compared to Harukana Receive (which, let's be clear, more slice of life than sports anime, but I like it a lot more.) That said, it feels thematically uneven where she's convinced to join the club by remembering how much she loves badminton, how she wants to succeed for the group and now she's back to yandere psycho girl. Let's be clear, her mother is definitely on the short list of "worst parent of the year" nominees, but there are a lot of weird, over-the-top characters that don't fit. Some of the side characters, like the blonde 2nd year girl, were much more relatable.

@sethmode: ah, episode 3, those were the days...