Jill's birthday today!
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"On the Rocks" is a VA-11 Hall-A fanzine. This is the cover from volume 2. (No longer able to be purchased now).

I loved this piece when I saw it, very nice art for the cover.

Hi all, not entirely sure what the issue is here.

I made a community and I got a message from a user from another instance (u.fail) telling me they can't post threads/comments. I made a quick account to test and when I try it just spins forever on comments, and on threads it seems to go through if I don't select a language but not if I select English. On the android app I get the message language_not_supported but on both my test user and community itself I have unspecificed and English selected. I also tried a different instance to test and threads/comments seem to go through fine.

I'm assuming it's an issue with that instance but they can post to other lemmy.world communities fine.

First topic I figured might as well be about how people found out about this game and got to playing it.

I first saw this game way before it was released back on my days of /v/ on 4chan. I never ended up playing the demo (actually not sure if it was downloadable at that point) but I remember being interested in the threads with the pictures people were posting. I followed them for a bit but I remember people making jokes about the game never being released and when I found out it was more a VN I was somewhat disinterested in it. Plus I stopped using 4chan around that time too so I kinda forgot about it.
A couple of years after release, I had a real itch to play something in a Cyberpunk setting. I just looked up Cyberpunk games and saw VA-11 Hall-A and figured that maybe it was time to finally give it a go. Followed the screen where it said get yourself comfy and just went for it. From the get go I loved Jill, I don't know what it was, but her whole attitude and stuff was great for me. All the other supporting characters too. I really loved the setting, something big's happening, but it doesn't concern you, Jill is just someone trying to get through the day, maybe it's something to relate to there. Anyway I got a couple of friends into it too and they loved it as well, it's a bit of a hard sell with the gameplay for some people (like myself at first) but the characters and story are great.
Anyway that's that and now I own a few bits of VA-11 Hall-A merc including a Jill plush (regret not getting Dana when I could..) and now a Jill Nendroid!