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Post by Lil Ninja on Dec 21, 2005 19:56:34 GMT -5
All right, the thing about Megatokyo is that it started out as a webcomic. But I don't wanna talk about he webcomic. I wanna talk about the book, because there are just some things you will find in the book that you will never find on the site.
Megatokyo takes you into the lives of two gamers, Piro and Largo. Both are gamers, but Piro also enjoys reading Shoujo manga. Yeah, so he is a little wimpy and nerdy, but he can own anyone when it comes to a game of Quake.
Largo... well too him, it's all about the zombies. Oh and about being l33t. Yes, ph34r his l33t nekkid skillz. ..Really, just don't ask.
And should I even mention Ping, the PS2 accessory and Junpei, the ninja that got whupped at Mortal Kombat. Oh, of course, there's Dom and Ed. One works for Sega, the other, Playstation. This story is really funny and it's just about games and anime. I believe it was also inspired by the Penny Arcade, so if you liked that, then you'll like Megatokyo.
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Post by Marik on Dec 22, 2005 0:51:14 GMT -5
Figures you start with this after you give me the first volume. Anyone who knows anything about the gaming life should read this, it's great.
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Post by Lil Ninja on Dec 22, 2005 12:43:52 GMT -5
Figures you start with this after you give me the first volume. Anyone who knows anything about the gaming life should read this, it's great. well yeah... if i did it before then, it would have kind of ruined the surprise of what i got you. oh yeah, so everyone knows, there is also a hamster in the story that serves as Largo's conscience. Poor Boo, he's no help whatsoever. I mean, come on, they released hordes of zombies in Tokyo. It's the next Resident Evil
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Post by flawd on Mar 5, 2006 7:04:21 GMT -5
Read it online for free (its well worth your time) but they do have awesome products. I'm getting the Ninj4 hoodie and the 3v;1 l33t T-shirt~
The characters are based on irl contacts of the artist, but I hafta say, he did a great job of molding his stories together, adding stuff, setting tone, etc. and I can't resist the Miho cuteness
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Post by Marik on Mar 5, 2006 13:32:49 GMT -5
Yea, I have the EV1L L33T shirt and the "without angst, there is no art" shirt. The fourth Volume is coming out in June or so. I still don't want to read it online for free.
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Post by flawd on Mar 6, 2006 0:55:11 GMT -5
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Post by Marik on Mar 6, 2006 1:05:05 GMT -5
Surprise, surprise, I'm Piro. Volume 4 is taking forever to release cause he dropped Dark Horse and now using DC's magna publisher.
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Post by flawd on Mar 6, 2006 1:22:34 GMT -5
Surprise, surprise, I'm Piro. Love is over. lol
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Post by Lil Ninja on Mar 6, 2006 18:14:51 GMT -5
Surprise, surprise, I'm Piro. Volume 4 is taking forever to release cause he dropped Dark Horse and now using DC's magna publisher. ....you are nothing like Piro. And yes, he did announce that Megatokyo is now a part of CMX. He announced that at the New York Comic-con. Oh, and flawd, there is a really good reason as why the volumes are coming out so slowly. You gotta think about how many of the strips are put into one book. he can only do so many and he even puts them online every few days. Once he gets everything that's online so far published... it's gonna be about another year or so before another one is put out. And I do read it online. I've been reading it ever since I read the first book cause I didn't know anything about it at the time. But really, it's a lot better as the book. Like Piro says, Save your bandwidth. Besides, it's better to read it all at one time than have to wait every so many days to see what happens next.
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Post by Marik on Mar 6, 2006 18:51:52 GMT -5
I'm totally like Piro. Name one thing on how I'm not, other than not being blonde. Hell I play as a female as much as possible in games too. Either by customizible characters... or one of the best DS games of all times, SUPER PRINCESS PEACH!!!!! Name one thing.
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Post by flawd on Mar 7, 2006 11:25:10 GMT -5
Hell I play as a female as much as possible in games too. Either by customizible characters... you too? O.o funny how some people find that weird. Canadian friends use to hit on my character since I played a female character just to tick me off lol >.< ( bastards) I'd hafta say thats the one drawback of playing a female character. Getting hit on.... ; ; I'm glad I experienced it though. or rather I should say experienced them. It gave me insight on what female gamers hafta put up with -.-;; I agree with you, Lil Ninja, but whats waiting a day or two compared to waiting months? I have no idea what "bandwith" is, but I run on dial-up and loading isn't that slow. Theres also two places on your pc that if you clear manually or via firefox (<3 firefox) it'll save space. Cookies and cache sucks. of course, if you revisit later after clearing those, you'll hafta wait for it to load like its the first time viewing it again.
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Post by Lil Ninja on Mar 8, 2006 17:26:34 GMT -5
well Marik... you don't really seem too much like an otaku type. And I didn't realize you were a loser. ...And you're scaring me if you're playing all kinds of dating simulation games. Also, I don't see you doing cosplay like Piro does. Honestly, you wouldn't even put Haru on your head when I said you should. No no, you're more like either Dom or Largo to me. Maybe more like Dom I think. But anyway, those are some reasons for you.
I've done a quiz like this a long time ago. ...I ended up being Miho. She's cute. A little scary but cute. ...I guess she probably is the closest character I can relate to in the story.
Oh, I should go check the updates now on that site. I haven't looked at it since last week.
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Post by flawd on Mar 9, 2006 1:49:26 GMT -5
I've done a quiz like this a long time ago. ...I ended up being Miho. She's cute. A little scary but cute. ...I guess she probably is the closest character I can relate to in the story. Miho scary....? ^^;; how so? and since you relate closely, what are some of the things you share in common? As for dating games, only played one, only own one. Thousand arms--RPG/Dating. Why do dating sim games scare you? I know quite a few females who like playing them. It might be a misconception or experience of bad ones that scares you, me thinks :x
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Post by IrisFaust on Mar 15, 2006 5:03:41 GMT -5
Ah dating games, a godsend for all with the 2-d complex ... a great thing they are. I wont deny loving em and having atleast 30 for the pc.. And because they dont require full attention they are great for playing while watchin tv.. i cant count the nights i have tuned into south park while chatting and playing one on the side .
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Post by IrisFaust on Mar 15, 2006 5:10:36 GMT -5
I've done a quiz like this a long time ago. ...I ended up being Miho. She's cute. A little scary but cute. ...I guess she probably is the closest character I can relate to in the story. Miho scary....? ^^;; how so? and since you relate closely, what are some of the things you share in common? As for dating games, only played one, only own one. Thousand arms--RPG/Dating. Why do dating sim games scare you? I know quite a few females who like playing them. It might be a misconception or experience of bad ones that scares you, me thinks :x Ah thousand arms... Making Nelsha go nuts was always fun i liked the military personality.. heh
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Post by flawd on Mar 24, 2006 0:30:32 GMT -5
Ah thousand arms... Making Nelsha go nuts was always fun i liked the military personality.. heh lol Nelsha scares me. On many, many levels. Everytime she smooched the screen, I wanted to do one of several things: [_] Go kill myself [X] Recoil in horror and repulse [_] Yell profanities at the screen because I was forced to date this chick for useful spells. [_] Feel guilty there was no love on this end of the screen, and too much on that end. [_] Go get drunk to make the memory of this experience go away. Far, far away.I've dated them all though, some were experiences I care not to repeat. Wyna was too butch for my romantic tastes, but she'd make a great friend. Kyoka was..... like soy sauce to me. Good on occasion, but definetly not a year round delight. Kyleen... liked money too much and im a poor bastard D: Metallia was.... too old. I enjoyed our conversations as opposed to the other girls when I needed someone mature to speak with. It comes to a tie between Sodina and Mil Wind. Hard to choose between them. Meis would definetly choose both. Then he'd spot a hot girl in the background and suggest her too. lol However, since I think Sodina would make a better mother and her personality wouldn't change that much as she aged, I think i'd go with her. Plus i'd be cute to break her in on some things ^_^ she'd like it. Mil Wind is a closet freak. I discovered that after many, many talks with her. She sees what you did there. and that kinda intimidates me lol
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Post by IrisFaust on Mar 24, 2006 2:11:54 GMT -5
Ah thousand arms... Making Nelsha go nuts was always fun i liked the military personality.. heh lol Nelsha scares me. On many, many levels. Everytime she smooched the screen, I wanted to do one of several things: [_] Go kill myself [X] Recoil in horror and repulse [_] Yell profanities at the screen because I was forced to date this chick for useful spells. [_] Feel guilty there was no love on this end of the screen, and too much on that end. [_] Go get drunk to make the memory of this experience go away. Far, far away.I've dated them all though, some were experiences I care not to repeat. Wyna was too butch for my romantic tastes, but she'd make a great friend. Kyoka was..... like soy sauce to me. Good on occasion, but definetly not a year round delight. Kyleen... liked money too much and im a poor bastard D: Metallia was.... too old. I enjoyed our conversations as opposed to the other girls when I needed someone mature to speak with. It comes to a tie between Sodina and Mil Wind. Hard to choose between them. Meis would definetly choose both. Then he'd spot a hot girl in the background and suggest her too. lol However, since I think Sodina would make a better mother and her personality wouldn't change that much as she aged, I think i'd go with her. Plus i'd be cute to break her in on some things ^_^ she'd like it. Mil Wind is a closet freak. I discovered that after many, many talks with her. She sees what you did there. and that kinda intimidates me lol But what about the military mode, or the Nelsha Vs Ratchet scene.. that was classic 5h1+ right there heh heh..
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Post by flawd on Mar 26, 2006 0:37:01 GMT -5
That wasn't attractive at all! but it was pretty damn funny ^^;; they really captured the essence of cat-fight in that scene lol
I wrote the entire quote/convo down, but I lost it in my mountain of game magazines/drawings/stories/poetry/etc. ; ;
Ah well, ill find it eventually or just play through the game again. Not that I mind. But hate Nelsha. Flawd haet Nelshas.
Good thing you can get by in that game by only dating one girl.... Sodina ^_^ healing spells galore. and all you use is Meis's elemental beast summons, (you can collect all of those w/out dating at all) so no need to collect everyone else's special attacks.
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Post by Marik on Jul 3, 2006 9:59:38 GMT -5
Well finished Vol 4 now. It's more story-heavy than ever and it's mad emo. Still good, and I'm still to stubborn to bother going to continue on their site and going on to the next comic. I'll wait for Vol. 5 whenever that comes out. I had to reread Vol 1-3 and it was fun starting over and rereading the series. This is such an indepth series now.
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Post by Lil Ninja on Jul 10, 2006 19:19:18 GMT -5
Oh, yeah. Especially the whole thing with Erika. ....Is that part in the book yet? Or maybe that's not till the next volume. ^_^ i don't know where they stopped in the book cause i haven't bought it. But Miho seems to be changing quite a bit.
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Post by Marik on Jan 9, 2007 20:50:24 GMT -5
Volume 5 is due out in Spring said Piro. Even though I can read it for free onine, it's better in book form.
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Post by Lil Ninja on Sept 13, 2007 14:51:26 GMT -5
Well... we should update this now. Volume 5 has been out for a while. Now we're waiting for volume six.
Way back when Yuki saved Miho in the store after Ping sorta... dropped her, I didn't think about it at the time that she was a magical girl. But he had hinted at it right then.
It must be hard switching back and forth between storylines for Piro. Cause it took quite a while to get back to Yuki who was up on the powerlines.
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