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>>3867813>jannies deleted it because they thought Rika was a dudelmao
>>3867813>>3867814Rika's gigantic yaoi hands........
>>3867864rika has the power to turn even fujos gay for her.
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Yet another doujin.https://ec.toranoana.jp/joshi_r/ec/item/040031043276/
>>3867977i look forward to it being scanlated never
FE Engage copies are out in the wild a week early, as is tradition. We'll have the definitive answers on the game soon enough.
>>3867838There's a reason fujos are into her, I'm afraid.
>>3868254They're still pairing her with Juliana, who is a self insert. It's the first time any of them have even drawn yuri.
>>3868256Because aesthetic wise, she hits all the hallmarks of some Otome dude. In their mind, it's probably hetero
>>3868355Fujos don't do hetero.
>>3868209I just don’t see Edeleth level fanfare with any of the characters.The MC is just too silly looking.
>>3868355Also, even if that were the case, that's no different from a man claiming that fapping to traps is hetero. That's just being in denial rather than being genuinely straight. That said, I have not noticed that kind of dishonesty yet and they tend to point out to their regular fujo viewerbase that what they're about to see is some dyke ass shit.
>>3868359Good for memes at least
>>3868355Fujos would just draw her with a guy if that was the case...Why the fuck is there this insistence on saying that women down bad for Rika are all straight around here?
>>3868389/u/ going schizo over women liking masc women not that weird
>>3868389>Why the fuck is there this insistence on saying that women down bad for Rika are all straight around here?Is there? I haven't noticed other than that one post up there.
>>3868397I didn't want to bring up other threads here, but yeah. Some other retard was saying the same shit on the vtuber thread.
>>3868398Oh well that explains it.
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>>3868359Edeleth level is hard for any vidya couple, even outside of Fire Emblem. It's asking for the perfect storm of a character having Edelgard-level enthusiasm while also having yuri backing.But shit, who knows? Splatoon 3 set a Japan launch record I thought would stand forever since the last record was Pokemon Black/White on the fucking DS and that stood for over 10 years, and then Scarlet/Violet beat that joint just months later.Hell, at the rate all the Rika/Juliana stuff is going, before Golden Week the Japanese fanfics collectively will probably have more text than that fucking Smash fanfiction or the Kancolle one or whatever insanely bloated fanfiction holds the record for longest piece of written work now.
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>>3868977sauce?
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I still haven't played Scarlet/Violet yet, but I thought Nemona and whatever the player character is called would be a more popular ship, much like how Marnie and Gloria were pretty popular at the time.What makes Rika the more popular /u/ option? Is it just the fujos?
>>3869324Fujoshi aren't who like her, it's the yumejoshi.But the reason we like her is because she's hot.
>>3867838I've noticed that these threads always have several random pics deleted, not just Rika pics but also Splatoon and Fire Emblem pics. Anyone knows what's going on?
>>3869465could be people getting banned for shitposting in another thread and getting all their posts deleted. Also a good chunk of Splatoon art uses the player avatars, which aren't always obviously girls.
>>3868355All correct except the hetero part. I think the androgenous qualities in females (and males) is appealing as well and they dont care if it is some lez fest.
>>386946599% of those deleted posts are mine. I delete them myself because I notice that they have been posted in the past through the archive and I have a strict rule to only post new images.
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>>3868977Rika is overwhelmingly more popular. I like Nemona enough but I feel after MizuLili and Gloria/Marnie people might be drawn to a different dynamic as well, the suave and cool older woman vs energetic and friendly tomboyish onee-san.I'm just grateful for all the energy though, I'll take either/or when it comes to SV yuri.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjAxK_9nz3Q
>>3869699meant to reply to>>3869324
>>3869699Nemona has the mentor angle to work off of, though you could do the same with Selene I guess.
>>3870105This is like the third time this image has been posted in this thread alone.
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>>3867977And another one.
>>3870599Remember, kids, it might seem sexy but using chocolate or whipped cream during oral can lead to infections.
>>3870649It's okay, those don't exist in the world of 2D.
>>3870649Infections are sexy.
Rika & Poppy (2017 edition)
>Celine's retainer Louis is a yurifag who gets a buff when two girls are withing spitting distance near him
Okay what's the most popular Rika pairing and how do I get into it
CalliMari is justice
>>3870719Engage has been datamined, these are the yuri options: Framme Ivy Jade Veyle
>>3871367Please let either of the middle two become the most popular….
>>3871368Ivy is gonna be the most, if not 2nd place after Veyle.
>>3871370Also Louis is a yurifag >MID_GR_Louis_B_#001: \14\2\2\0\n\14\3\0\n\4ルイ\21\n\14\3\0\n\4リン\22\n\14\3\2\6\4リン\nThere was one friend I had called Florina. She\nwas adorable. We spent so much time together.\14\4>MID_GR_Louis_B_#002: \14\3\2\6\4ルイ\nPerfect! That's the precise sort of thing I had\nhoped for! Please, tell me everything.\14\4Also Final Boss summons previous games final bosses Three Houses' is Nemesis
>>3871373kek>>3871367I've seen this list posted several times but no one has been able to provide a screenshot unlike all the other text leaks.
>>3871374I think we should wait, this getting more confusing att.
>>3871367le sigh, time to waste another 40 hours of my life for something I could just youtube.
>>3871370I really hope it’s Ivy. Since Miss Colage looks on the younger side, I’m hoping it’s an older looking woman she gets to help and love
>>3871367Seems to be outdated. People are now saying basically every character can be S supported by both genders BUT some are platonic to both genders, some are platonic to one while being romantic to the other and some are romantic to both. Those four are romantic but there seems to be more.
>>3871374>I've seen this list posted several times but no one has been able to provide a screenshot unlike all the other text leaks.It's intriguing and just like when the leaked Three Houses list included Edelgard it sounded too good to be true, but I'm still just gonna wait 1-2 weeks for confirmed bonafides.
>>3871367Are these yuri only with the MC, or with each other as well?If the MC is as dull as in 3H I sure hope the latter.
>>3871408MC in Engage seems to be an actual character with dialogue and not just a self-insert so maybe it will be different?
>>3871367Well at least there's Framme and Veyle for cute girls. Though same could be said for Edelgard and personality ruined it so I'm not in the clear yet for a good yuri option
>>3871408Hoping for Celine x Etie
>>3871418MC is already a moeblob and you want only moeblob options for her? I thought /u/ was a 18+ board
>>3871422I like cute
>>3871420Me too, Mercedes x Annette was my favorite.
It turns out its playersexual
>>3871423Excellent taste.>>3871425Don't jynx it.
>>3871426Yeah, I just like more traditionally cute girls than traditionally sexy ones. It's not like I'm saying they can't have their options. I just want something after Three Houses gave me zilch
>>3871426S Support texts are out and there are no differences between genders as far as I know.Some characters are platonic (kid characters and the MCs sister) but a lot are romantic. Biggest controversy will probably come from it looking like none MC paired ending slides aren't in this one,
>>3871429>kid charactersWho?
>>3871431He means characters that are children, not like an Awakening-style 2nd gen.
>>3871433I'm asking which characters are considered children, the definition is pretty vague.
>>3871436It seems the characters' ages are found in the datamines, some of them are under 18 yo.
>>3871441Putting in ages was a mistake. Characters don't look any different yet I must have a platonic ending because they're 17 instead of 18. They never had an issue allowing us to marry Elise
>>3871367Isn't Veyle Alear's sister?
>>3871455Yes, which makes it even better.
https://forums.serenesforest.net/index.php?/topic/97641-engage-leak-thread-caution-spoilers-ahoy/page/11/&tab=comments#comment-6000868>I'd say the most explicitly romantic ones are Chloe, Goldmary, Kagetsu, Panette, Seadall. The only ones that go out of their way to be non-romantic by referring to Alear and their S support partner as 'friends' are Jean, Anna, Fogato, Hortensia, and Rosado. The rest exist in a gray space where they spend a lot of time together, are dear to each other, are devoted to each other, etc, but the word 'love' isn't used. Only Panette and Seadall's explicitly mention the word 'couple.' None of them mention marriage, though the use of the word couple can infer it in Seadall and Panette's.>Alear is the only character with paired endings.I feel like they're going backwards instead of forward, it's mostly yuri subtext now, and only with the MC.
>>3871455>>3871456This includes implied children even with female Alear.
>>3871459that tracks with the de-emphasis on the social mechanics
>>3871459We laughed at Kana getting friend zoned, now we're the Kana
>>3871461Absolutely shocked if that gets through unhindered
>>3871468I mean, it's in the English datamine.
>>3871456>>3871461>>3871468>>3871469Sorry, I'm calling bullshit on this one, modern IS is not that based.
>>3871468>>3871469>>3871472It's debunked, or rather plausible deniability.See: >>3871459
https://forums.serenesforest.net/index.php?/topic/97641-engage-leak-thread-caution-spoilers-ahoy/page/13/&tab=comments#comment-6000975>Incidentally, some of the supports seem a bit different in JP in terms of romantic implications.>All the Alear paired endings start with 'your partner, ___' in JP, including ones like Anna's. And a lot of the random mentions of 'friend' from characters like Rosado aren't present in the JP.https://forums.serenesforest.net/index.php?/topic/97641-engage-leak-thread-caution-spoilers-ahoy/&do=findComment&comment=6000976>They found the JP text and its shown that some of the younger characters like Anna and Hortensia's more explicit romantic mentions are censored in the US version.Now we're going to need a translation-unfucking patch.
>>3871485Some lines that got censored:>Even if it's too early for us to be lovers, don't you think we can be partners?>You are the person I fell in love with! Continue to have confidence in yourself. I love you!Good to know Japan is untainted, it's just the west side that's ruining everything.
Can't they just age characters up to 18?I mean, wouldn't it already be a problem for them to be having child soldiers?
>>3871495We're talking west here, they could age them up to 90 but they still wouldn't be accepted because the pixels look too childish.And being soldiers is a non-issue, violence is all well and good, it's kisses that scare them shitless.
>>3871495I mean, fanservice and wrong type of pairings is all that people bitch about. You don't see anyone bitch about the shows with these fanservice scenes or wrong pairings also having their underage cast being used as fighters and deal and recieve ungodly amount of violence with magi/super powers/whatever
>>3871515Localized version.
>>3871518Welp.
>>3871518no...
>>3871525Think of the squids!
>>3871518>you are worthy of my grace
>>3871526fuck them squids
>>3871485The nintendo translation team strikes again......
>>3871425I dropped 3H cause of that shit, not again...
>>38715593H had specific characters who would gay you and others who would not.This game has every single declaring their deep friendship for you.
>>3871563Wanna try that again after taking a breath?
>>3871564S supports are possible regardless of genderNo one else gets to fuck
>>3871485It's been so long but is this going to be similar to how Fates localization went? Where, IIRC, it was completely garbage?Speaking of, how have Nintendo's localizations been lately? Last time I paid attention to the differences between the JP versions and the localized versions was Fates.
>all that metaphorical scissoring just to sneak in friend at the endcan't have shit
>>3871616meant this
>>3871620The lack of paired endings really sucks for everyone else.
>>3871616 I'm struggling to think the last time being a Nintendo fan wasn't akin to being a coprophage. What a dogshit fucking company.
>>3868254>>3868355YMMV but a lot of fujos I know are bisexual, most fictional women just aren't their type. Which is likely why Rika is popular among some of them.>>3871367I'd be thrilled that Ivy is an option if female Alear's design wasn't so goofy. Beggars can't be choosers, I guess.
>>3871738THEY CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT
>>3871738Iris is black Madoka>same face>same voice>same style
>>3871629Nintendo of Japan is fine, it's the west that's fucked up.
>>3871819NoJ still sent any relationship that isn't with Alear into the friendzone hell. NoA just followed their steps.
>>3871830I agree that sucks, but I doubt it was a Nintendo decision since the yuri is still there, just a bad developer decision.
>>3871485>>3871546>still not proficient enough to play games in japanesenow the question is way until i'm good enough, which is still atleast a year away, or play it in english
>>3871860>a year awayIt's Fire Emblem, there's an active hacking community for it, just look at how quickly the game data was ripped.Before then there's going to be a patch that fixes the english version.
>>3871860I can't read it well but I'm good at understanding spoken Japanese so I'm glad these games are compoetely voiced now.
>>3871867The bad side of voiced cutscenes is that we can't have gay mods anymore.
>>3871862The bad thing is that we won't be able to patch our legit Switch copies.
Does anybody find a relationship between a 35 year old and a 17 year old more questionable than one between a 17 year old and a 14 year old? What a bizarre decision?
>>3872074Is this an actual hypothetical or are you shitposting?
>>3872074Just let it go and pretend that game doesn't exist, you'll be happier that way. I also did it with Fates, Heroes, Warriors and Awakening and now FE is still intact in my head with no shitty games.
>>3872077The localization deemphasizes the romantic elements of characters under 18 while leaving them for 18+. Its really weird because internal files show that Alear is intended to appear to be 17 years old so you end up with non romantic endings with other 17 year olds while you're able to date 35 and 45 (!) year olds. And like, I'm fine with being able to date much older characters, and the changes are just a few lines, they can still be read as subtextual but it's just really weird.
I was hopeful for Chloe since her FEH weapon seems to imply she'd be a shipper and I like the shipper turned lover arc.
>>3872074>>3872099I'm calling bullshit on the character ages unless they're directly mentioned in the script.
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>>3871373Talking with Lyn?
>>3871416You say that like it's such a good thing after Corrin. A silent protag is boring, but there's also less of a chance of being severely brain damaged too.
>>3871830>>3871831>IS took literally two steps backCan't make that shit up
>>3872580The silent self insert is only ever going to be above average at best. While a character could end up being extremely bad, there's also a chance for the opposite
>>3872590True. But can't blame people for going with the saver choice. We'll see how it pans out, but I'll keep my expectations low.
>>3871461wtf as soon as I S ranked Veyle in game she forced herself on me???seriously tho, her ending dialogue is kinda suspect
>>3871466Still not as bad as Radiant Dawn I suppose. Low hanging bar that one though.
>>3872648Human Nihilego?
>>3872718Yes, didn't watch the episode?
>>3872805>watching the pokemon anime after kanto
>>3872826Kanto is overrated because of nostalgia goggles. X/Y is the only good season by FAR, because at least it doesn't have a dollar store budget.
>>3872833Kanto has soul, the rest of the anime is soulless.
>>3872616Oh my
>>3872838Shut up you catchphrase-regurgitating meme parrot.
>>3872857But it's true. The first season was made with vision by Takeshi Shudo. It was quirky series that just did whatever the hell it wanted without feeling constrained by remaining faithful to the games. That alone elevated it above the average 24-minute vidya commercial. It's certainly not nostalgia goggles because I rewatched it a few years ago and it was just as fun as ever. Budget doesn't matter when it's creative and interesting. After Shudo left and the franchise became a worldwide phenomenon, the anime got castrated and turned into a sanitised, corporate-mandated, sterile version of itself, nothing but another gear in the machinery of the Pokemon brand.
As someone who uses male characters as well in FE I'm happy the yurifag seems really strong so far. Give him Sigurd's ring and he will tank everything on the map even on Lunatic except for mages
>>3872918>As someone who uses male characters as well in FEWith Three Houses/Three Hopes I can kinda get not wanting to compromise the F/F pairings even if it potentially deprives you of powerful male units like Hubert or Ferdinand(and in the relevant route might as well just pair with each other), but using exclusively female characters seems impossible for most FEs in general, especially since most of them have a male MC that's mandatory in every fight like Chrom in Awakening or Marth in Marth joints.I mean, this ain't X-COM or Wasteland or Empire of Angels or whatever where you can just SRPG your way across the world with a squad of exclusively women.
>>3872942I actually used Ferdinand a lot because I found him hilarious. In my opinion, a guy that isn't threatening to the /u/ can still be an entertain character, but I can see why that's a controversial opinion.
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>>3871826This isn't implying what I think it is, right?
>>3873147Eh at least in terms of human-pokemon yuri it's on the tamer side of things. Some guys'll just slap the words pokemon and yuri into the world's least moderated boorus and just post whatever the fuck comes up first, actual art quality be damned.
>>3873147Everyone knows Diantha fucks her Gardevoir, it's nothing special considering how humanoid it is. The idea of Cynthia fucking her Garchomp, on the other hand, is a bit more hardcore.
>>3873190Ah yes, my favorite Nintendo franchise, whatever the fuck this is.
>>3873147>>3873184All female pokemon need love, anons. There's nothing hardcore about it, it's beautiful.
>>3873230Whatever you say, furry.
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>>3873455>Rotom phone smart enough to keep the headphone jack
Someone uploaded a video of all of the F/F S supports.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yypVa54F7Kg
>>3873665>dubIf it was atleast the JP voices so I would be able to hear the uncensored version.
>>3873665I'm glad that toothpaste gets to be good friends with so many female characters.
>>3873665This looks like those generic ps3 anime shovelware games that used to get announced on siliconera all the time.
>>3873689How is that different from the other Fire Emblems?
Datamined Engage DLC characters on top of the ones we already know.>Chrom>Camilla>Hector>Veronica>SorenSo at least two female characters, assuming each of the five aren't multiple characters like how all the game data just lists the House Leaders as Edelgard.
>>3873692Less generic artstyle. When I think of 3H's artstyle I can think of nothing else, whereas this looks like every other anime game ever.
>>3873696Also not only are they less expressive, it doesn't help that this dialogue sucks ass and is completely forgettable.
>>3873665Yeah I might just wait for a cheap copy or an eshop sale. First few months of the year are always packed anyway.
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>>3873665>In the Japanese version, the S Support for Veyle is VERY Romantic, rather than platonic, Alear and Veyle even have kids in their ending together. Check it out for yourselves, I cannot understate how Romantic it is.>I'm actually being denied sister yuri with yuri babiesOk, fuck you too NoA
>>3873761Give the the sauce.I thought the EN and JP endings both implied yuri babies even if the EN is less romantic.
>>3873765I'm quoting from the comment section of that video. Looked up on the archives on /v/ and it seems to be the case, romance in general was massively cut down in the English translation.I saw some claiming that the Spanish version might be better and closer to the Japanese original. I guess there's only one way to find out
Is there a spoiler free list of the gayest ones?I'm hearing alot of mixed things about which ones are the gayest.
>>3873665I'm starting to....not really like any of these characters. Something about them just dont stand out the same way 3H charactesr did
>>3873696Three Houses stands out because the artists did Otome games before that. Those tend to have really great artwork.
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>FE Engage is already publicly available for smooth emulation on yuzuImagine the poor saps who will actually waste money on that shit.
>>3873761My condolences to EOPs. I will be gunning for Veyle.I'm sure someone will compile the uncensored supports into a convenient format eventually.
>weapon triangle's backAlready like it more than 3H.
>>3873694Watch FE pop out 3D remakes like Pokemon does to milk fans and buy time for new mainline entries.
>>3873694If you wear Corrin and Cumilla's rings at the same time, will they have ghost ring sex?
>>3873837Do weapons also have only a limite number of uses? If not, get this casual shit out of my sight.
>>3873858they do, except for the ones the emblem carry, like marth's rapier
I didn't know that they have last names.
https://twitter.com/xinrame/status/1615678213623283714
Do you think Rika considers them to be her daughters, her wives, or both?
>>3873868Daughterwives
>>3873850They tried with Echoes but it flopped because making a nearly 1:1 remake of the worst game in the franchise (with some nice presentation to give credit where credit is due) on late 3DS turned out to be a bad idea.
I'm playing in jap too so I'm tempted to go after one of younger girls to see the differences myself, but Ivy calling femc her "god" is making me want to cuddle her instead
>>3873944I'm talking about Fates (and maybe Awakening), the megahit weeb dating sims. Don't tell me you think it won't sell. They can even halfass a Fates sequel like Pokemon B2W2 as long as it has Kozaki's supreme designs. Echoes looks weird with that brown/yellow filter.
>>3873986I do respect it tried for an old school look but the dull colors like a perpetual sunset is just so uncanny.
>>3873944I'd still comsider the very first Fire Emblem to be the worst title in the franchise. Gaiden actually had a bit of interactivity to it and wasn't just simply the same game with a different color protag. Personally, I think the franchise peaked during the GBA era and then went on a weird up and down rollercoaster ride of adding and removing things. Like Path of Radiance had no paired endings, but pretty good supports, meanwhile Radiant Dawn had a handful of paired endings, but absolutely no real supports.
Just started playing EngageDamn… RIP dragon MILF, I guess. Should have figured she was raising death flags left and right when she started looking forward to all the things she was going to do with her daughter out loud
>>3874108They ham it up so much and I just find it hard to empathize with a character we've known for half an hour
FEH actually fucking spoils it for you too. I was just doing my leveling of the dragon lady and all of a sudden she says something like oh yeah I died in my world and I was pissed. FEH was pretty okay about not spoiling Flame Emperor.
>>3874127That they were making a collab so early was a dumb decision. Even the Three Houses collab took a bit to arrive at FEH.
>>3874108>>3874127I liked when Sigurd spoiled Genealogy of the Holy War for EOPs in a casual line of dialogue right afterwards.
I want art of Alear cucking Byleth by wearing Edelgard's ring and having spirit sex with her.
>>3873401I'm gonna miss the dumb looking shaggy Fodlan horses.
>that scene in the village when you meet VeyleThey really gave the "chance meeting, love at first sight" shtick to your little sister, huh?
Sucks that all the early characters fall off completely, I can't bring myself to dump some of them
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>>3874300I see what you mean. The goofy star-struck look one toothpaste's face also contributed.
>>3874300that scene was one of the first moments with the female MC ever shown of the game, so I was hoping she was a romance option, I'm happy they can even have babies
>>3874442>>3874451Why really bother with so many more romance options when it's clear which is the more "canon" one.
So it looks like who you talk to with the Edelgard ring is Bond based, because I reset like 10 times trying to talk to Edelgard in the Somnial and only ever got Claude.Is it one character for each Bond rank?
>>3874566Well, it plays just a little part in the game so you might as well go for who you like the most
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>>3874579Sure, but it's like with Azura. They clearly wanted people to romance her due to how close she is to Corrin. Basically the Caeda to our Marth.
Did Pepsi-chan go too far? Did she deserve it?
>>3874652They denied OneeLoliItou Hachi will deny their livesI'll make the call
>>3874652Nobody can seriously think they couldn't have changed this right
>>3874652FUCK LITTLE GIRLS
>>3874697I don't think Itou Hachi is playing in English so she has nothing to worry about
>>3874652Great, is not problematic anymore :)
If Byleth could have just smashed Rhea, none of this would have happened.
>>3874919Is it really okay to have sex with your daughter's girlfriend, and then to keep going even after she walks in?
>>3874920If she lets her join then yes, it's okay.
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you mean I have to restart my whole goddamn playthrough because the game didn't tell me that the rewind function was infinite in normal mode and makes the concept of difficulty non-existent?
>>3874996Just don't use it? Even on hard I haven't touched it. If you don't have the self-control to avoid using it then sure, but you'd be wasting your time.
>>3874999I don't feel satisfied if I have to gimp myself like that by straight up not using a gameplay mechanic the game hands over to me. Self-imposed tension is nowhere near as satisfying as genuine tension by the game's own limits.
>>3875002Do it like myself and just forget the feature exists.
>>3875002Can't say I relate since I've done lots of self-imposed challenges, but there's no harm in restarting either. Not like there's anything in particular to rush towards.
make another thread.
>>3875040Fine, you ashy bum I'll do it.>>3875086
