Studio quality Calli animation pog!!

The expressions especially are chef's kiss

To be perfectly honest, I don't think Makoto's feelings were mutual. Ryuji's evaluation was correct on why Makoto was dating him. That said, I don't think it's a bad reason. That's what dating is for. I think Ryuji made the right call.

I don't think Makoto feels any romantic attraction to Aoi either. This is just a part of Makoto's growth and experiencing new things.

That aside, I'm happy to see that Aoi recognises that she has friends who love her. It's sometimes hard to love yourself, and even harder to believe that anyone else loves you. I have a feeling that when she finally comes face to face with her mother, it's not gonna be pretty.

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I see Naori is playing dirty. I mean I expected that but it still caught me off guard because it just suddenly cut to credits.

This love pasta looks like my box of esoteric cables.

On the one hand, it's annoying to see Rumi not listening to the sound advice from her friend and blowing up at Jun. On the other hand I can see where she's coming from so I can't really fault her for anything.

Liar liar pants on fire

Nir challenged Sensei's worldview. That's probably one of my favourite instances of showing character growth.

Sensei paints the old man as weak and cowardly, but Nir shows that it's not a personal failing because he's fighting the same feelings.

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Oh wtf that's their plan??? I guess it'd work. Do those horns grow back? I can't remember if it was mentioned before.

This is the kind of energy that TraumatizeThemBack radiates.

Nukumizu thinks he's the tsukkomi, implying that he's the "normal" character... sounds of Kaju laughter

After seeing the club's new advisor, I sense great chaos in the future 🍿

That voice combined with that face helped with the trick lol. I was wondering if the in game voice is the same as the player's irl voice and when Gaydle showed up the voice mismatch legit made me think he was another debugger.

Now the question is will Haga interfere with the world outside of a quest line. Considering how qa brained he is, he's probably super conflicted right now.

Also I feel bad for Nikola. You can do it I believe in you! 頑張れ！

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It's a terrible day to have eyes

It's almost funny. Honestly, the only way I can see them regaining any trust at all is by a complete change in leadership and increased transparency and accountability.

I haven't calculated how much the new revenue split would be on average so take this as a random scribble on a napkin, but I wouldn't be surprised if most studios choose to never upgrade to the next version.

Just remember, the current CEO was too greedy even for EA.

I looked through the announcement post and all I can say is that this is beyond absurd. Can they even legally apply these changes retroactively? All these relatively large indie games used Unity. They can't exactly tear everything down and use another engine. They didn't even accept such terms at the time, so how can they suddenly be expected to pay for every download they get?

And I was so excited to finally start learning Unity too... damn. I probably should have seen something like this coming way back when they announced their IPO. I was going to learn Unreal at some point as well but I guess I'll just uninstall Unity and skip right to UE5.

There's definitely going to be huge action taken from every studio that used Unity in their games. I have a hard time believing that they'll get away with the retroactive part at least.

I don't know how popular this take is, but I pay for premium and feel like it's worth it. Granted, it's super cheap in my region and I get the student discount on top of that. I'm not a creator but last I checked, premium revenue is a little higher than ad revenue and isn't affected by demonetization.

There are multiple factors that convinced me to get premium and ads weren't one of them, since I've been using ublock and Vanced/ReVanced for years.

• Many creators I watch make excellent, high effort content but get demonetized for not being brand safe.
• I use youtube a lot. I'll be the first to try fediverse alternatives of anything, but unfortunately, youtube isn't something replaced so easily simply because the creators still need money to make the content I enjoy. That's reality.
• I can afford premium but not Patreon/merch/memberships/superchats frequently enough to matter if at all.

Content on the internet hasn't been free for a long time. It's been funded by shady and user-unfriendly means like ads, harvesting data and affiliate links. It's just that the money from these sources has started to dry up recently and people are panicking. I think the web monetization api has great potential if made easily and widely accessible, since I'm sure that a significant portion of people are perfectly willing to pay a little bit monthly for a better experience and to support the content they consume. I'm looking at using it in a project of mine as well.