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Better luck next time...

Do you know what's going to be cheap to find this coming holiday? An Xbox One. Microsft is lagging a lot behind Sony and I'm sure they will want to get rid of all that old stock they have laying around in many stores to make room for the new consoles.

If I see an Xbox One bundle this holiday going for around $150, I might go and get it depending on how much money I have available around then. I'm a cheap guy and it's difficult to resist such a good deal.

As for the scalpers, they can go fuck themselves. I really don't favor that kind of stuff. If they're willing to inflate the prices that much, my guess is that the supply is most likely not meeting the demand. I can sort of see it on Sony's side but I'm surprised even the Xbox is going through the same.

Hope all the scalpers lose all that money they forked out for consoles they didn't buy for themselves. Vultures. I'm happy not to have a PS5 before the year's end since the game I was most looking forward to is coming to PS4 now as well

It is beyond ridiculous. I seen one guy on Twitter say he had one pre ordered from each of the major retailers. 5 in total. Why would someone do that. That is probably some of the reason they are selling out. People ordering more than one.

@snakebit10 Two reasons:

1. For friends and family

2. (More likely) To resell

Just keep checking. Some may have more available in the future.

Pretty sure they are not going to meet up pre-order numbers based on expectations. A lot of people want the console right now for very good reasons, but due to current world events (the pandemic mixed with the recession), I really doubt they're going to be able to meet demand.

Be prepared to see peddlers selling the console on eBay for 3-4 times its price during launch week.

To be fair, this is pretty tame to be considered NSFW or even ecchi. x3 But I understand why you put those disclaimers there, I sometimes wonder that same thing when posting some stuff here. So far I've managed to get away with a number of them, but I'm always very careful myself too. Point is, from what I know, you can up the ante a bit more as far lewd images go around here. Of course not to full-blown nudity, but you can get away with a bit more ecchi on your posts. Trust me, I know.

As for the game, Kiritu is such a stud that he has no problems in getting all those ladies on the bed. He is supposed to be married to Asuna, but man, I really don't know what she's thinking or if she has ever found out about Kirito's extra-marital affairs, lmao.

Thanks for that lovely artwork. ^^

To be fair, if my boss had walked into my editing room and saw me looking at those images (the Lisbeth one, in particular), I'm pretty sure my ass would get into some serious trouble for violating the workplace code of conduct in regards to materials deemed to be NSFW. That is why I decided to post that warning just in case anyone here on the forums decided to view those images in a public (around others) or work environment. I just didn't want someone to open that "hidden contents" tab at work or around others and get in trouble for doing so, causing them to get mad at me for not warning them about the contents inside.

Personally, the images in question are not very lewd (I don't consider them to be, for I have seen much, much worse in my 10+ years of exploring...erm, *quality* artwork via Reddit/Twitter along with reading various hentai manga ). However, to certain people with a negative view towards anime/manga content featuring female characters under the age of 18 in any situation they deem to be inappropriate, the images would certainly catch their ire/negativity. I debated for ten minutes last night if I should or shouldn't include those images in my Status Update, but I ended up going with them since I decided that they didn't quite reach the threshold of being too lewd for most people to handle or have an issue with.

Back on topic (the game itself), I am still enjoying playing SAO Re: Hollow Fragment for the most part, outside of the repetitive affinity grinding part of the game with the main female NPC characters. I have noticed, however, that there are some areas in the game (the area around the in-town cafe/fountain locations in particular) where the game really starts chugging along performance-wise. The frame rate begins to stutter pretty bad, and the character/NPC movements along with simply moving the camera around causes the frame rate to dip into the low 20 FPS range. Sometimes it is pretty noticeable/awful, and other times there is little to no issues with the frame rate in that one area. I guess that depending on how many NPC characters are walking around in that specific area, it may or may not cause issues with the FPS.

Perhaps I should have at least watched the first season of Sword Art Online before I got into this game. Then I wouldn't be as lost as I currently am due to having very limited knowledge of the franchise (somehow managed to go all these years and avoided pretty much all of the major spoilers). I do find the in-game lore/world that all of the characters experience via the virtual world they are trapped in to be interesting, even if I don't know very much about it.

Good point there with the images. They aren't exactly lewd for any of us here, but I can totally see someone at work having problems with them due any other short-sigthed individual coming around and making any stupid remark on them. Speaking of the Internet... The things I've seen, man, they cannot be unseen! O_O All joking aside, there's a huge variety of NFSW art of all types around the interwebs, for all types of fetishes you can think of. Nothing wrong with that, in my opinion. Then again, I'm very open-minded when it comes to that, and I understand some people may outright dismiss it or find it inappropriate for a number of reasons, but eh.

With the buddies here, though, you know you are not going to face that problem. We're all going to revel with them titties and sing along the wonders of hometown and such.  

It's a shame the game gets so laggy in the more busy parts. I've definitely enountered a few other JRPGs that go through the same problem. I think what they lack is a little bit more of optimization and polishing in those areas. It's not as if their grapichal engines are pushing the machine to the limit, but more like the developers failed at optimize the power of the device. It can be somewhat annoying when it happens.

I think the first two seasons would probably get you up to speed with most characters in the franchise. (I cannot really speak about the latest seasons because I haven't seen them myself either yet 😅).