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The card in this update that was replaced was [ディアンドルガール] 北川真尋, which appears to just be backporting the SS version of the image.
ML card update packs aren't up yet. I'll check the uploader again tomorrow.
Zachary Morgan
There wasn't any rush to make this OP. Next time take your time and ask questions before making it.
Thomas Perry
I love Koume! i'm going to marry her!
Luis Butler
You didn't answer my question.
Juan Hernandez
Chie chie
Nicholas Mitchell
Really disappointed it's not a birthday op.
October 5th: SideM 2nd ANNIVERSARY DISC 03 October 12th: THE@TER ACTIVITIES 02 October 26th: SideM ST@RTING LINE-13-15 [Mofumofuen, F-LAGS, Legenders], Million Live 3rd BD [Nagoya]
Why am I the only one to check these. I figured putting the scales/manga up last thread would have someone check everything else. There's even a site in the OP that does these. Come on now.
Easton Young
Rin is my wife.
Sebastian Cox
If you're going to put upcoming ML birthdays, you have no excuse to forget CG birthdays, idiot.
Christian Butler
There's almost 200 CGs. There's no way anyone is going to be willing to update them all. I don't think that ML birthdays should be there either, but whatever
ML birthdays weren't even there until some retarded MLfag added a bunch in the last OP in a desperate attempt to make them relevant.
Dylan Russell
Remove all birthdays or put all of them.
Ethan Perez
I miss Uzuki
Christian Peterson
Misszuki
Ryan Sanchez
I got you, user.
Elijah Foster
October 5th: SideM 2nd ANNIVERSARY DISC 03 October 10th: Hibiki's birthday October 12th: THE@TER ACTIVITIES 02 October 26th: SideM ST@RTING LINE-13-15 [Mofumofuen, F-LAGS, Legenders], Million Live 3rd BD [Nagoya] October 27th: The iDOLM@STER Mana manga volume 6 October ???: Phat Rin and Crystal Night Party Uzuki scale
Is this everything that needs to be added to Upcoming next thread? I am of the opinion that only the OG13 + Kotori's birthdays should be in the OP, simply to prevent things from getting way out of hand.
Nolan Edwards
You shouldn't expect competency from the guy who did this OP.
Carter Torres
> Nao finally has a dedicated artist for cute-bullying pictures
What a time to be alive.
Nicholas Edwards
>I am of the opinion that only the OG13 + Kotori's birthdays should be in the OP, simply to prevent things from getting way out of hand Yeah. That's how it's been for who knows how long, and it's never been problematic. Switching it up just causes more problems we don't need to have.
Christopher Fisher
If I were to go gay for any sideM it'd be Jiro. Or Seiji. Or Michiru. Maybe Shoma.Maybe.
Lucas Parker
It's not him who added that. Just that nobody noticed it until the next OP missed other things, because nobody cares about birthdays.
Camden Gonzalez
I thought that was any NaoKare artist.
Sebastian Barnes
Excellent choices.
>Michiru He's taken.
Caleb Reed
Karen I'll never forget you.
Owen Moore
>It's not him who added that. Doesn't mean they can't be removed.
Thomas Johnson
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Kevin Young
That special area exposed by the hole in the middle underneath her breasts.
Luke Gomez
I usually don't make mistakes like this, I assure you. I genuinely fucked up by failing to read and I am sorry for making a mistake. If that's not enough to satisfy you, then I guess we'll just have to remain at odds.
Dominic Myers
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Charles Gutierrez
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Isaac Gutierrez
sugar free
Samuel Nguyen
> Already diamonds (and a flat wallet) from the upcoming Mystic Elixir figure > And then this happens
No no no, Stop. My penis can only get so erect.
Logan Flores
Dude no joke, put $2 in a jar every day and you'll have more than enough to get the scale from now until whenever it decides to be released. I don't get why people fret over scales.
Anthony Morgan
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Noah Myers
>Starlight Stage anniversary >No Starlight Stage OP
Games have feelings too!
Anthony Mitchell
Technically it's not for a couple more days. It's not the 3rd yet in Japan.
Christopher Davis
Shiki is pretty hot until you see her stupid face
Samuel Barnes
I wish these threads would go full autism about Kirari's birthday as much as it did for Makoto.
Jayden Gonzalez
Starlight Stage anniversary is 9/3. And an OP image doesn't even matter. There's enough talk in the thread about it anyway. Maybe tears when Chihiro gives literally nothing.
Owen Wilson
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Evan Roberts
>(Otonashi) Kotori has her birthday 3 days before (Minami) Kotori Golden Week.
Xavier Phillips
Ooh one more fap 'fore the road
Ryan Sanders
Thanks to DW my mind is steel. Chihiro could give us nothing, or even take away and I would be unfazed.
Aaron Torres
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Isaac Anderson
Shiki no! Please stop tempting me with your legs!
Owen Bailey
Was Platinum Stars made as an attempt to kill off the 765 girls?
Jaxon Jackson
It's not her legs that you should be worried about.
Tyler Torres
Jokes on them, you can't kill love
Josiah Green
I wouldn't be surprised honestly.
Parker Nelson
So Kozue is finally in SS; how long until a voice?
Jordan Martinez
5 years
Christian Myers
What does her addition to SS have to do with her getting a voice?
Plenty were addded before her, and some of their chances of getting a voice are still pleasantly dismal.
I wonder if they already recorded her lines for TA03.
Julian Gray
If it lasts particularly long, I wonder if they're going to delay TA 3 or substitute second place for her role.
Angel Scott
Fuck, I hope Tane-chan is alright.
Henry Jackson
I hope it doesn't affect TA and LTF, Kotoha's voice is always something to look forward to.
Mason Hughes
>16 year old Kozue
Henry Morales
I married her!
Angel Nguyen
Miku is a cat, so it isn't rape.
Xavier Young
An angel.
Carson Ramirez
> Ex-Aid Sana probably loves the looks, but goddamn do those suits look tacky.
Aaron Ortiz
How do we protect Arisu?
Logan James
Lock her up in my bedroom.
Parker Garcia
Brave is cool though
put inside van
Jaxson Campbell
Sounds more like KIDnapping
Jacob Miller
Platinum Stars is a bad game, but I don't think it's bad out of malice or even indifference. The graphic overhaul alone is proof that they at least tried.
I think the current state of PS is a combination of incompetence (the game doesn't really know what it wants to be and just kind of ends up not doing anything correctly) and greed (the P-Drop Jewery is outrageous EVEN BY SCAMCO STANDARDS and the drop rates are clearly "balanced" around goading you into paying for them).
Grayson Hernandez
Going by the article, it looks like a condition that has been affecting her for a while, so I assume they must have planned things out in a way that this hiatus wouldn't affect most of her work.
Gavin Peterson
The game just feels like a fucking mess, even if you ignore huge glaring issues like how the game is a huge grindfest and P-Drops.
It just feels "less" than your normal iM@S game, even though this series has been about hardcore jew-ery since Day #1. Master doesn't unlock until you beat the game with an idol. There's less commus, less costumes, less accessories, less songs, no strategy, no competition, no festivals. no unique costumes, you get the jist of it. There is nothing to the game.
The game was announced, I think three years ago in 2013. I absolutely fucking refuse to believe they've been working on this game for that long. The game has one good thing about it, being the graphical overhaul, but even then it's nothing truly incredible, and it honestly wouldn't look too out of place on a last generation console.
The 765 OGs are easily my favorite girls of the franchise by a landslide, but if this is the direction that iM@S console games is going to go from now on, I'd be much happier seeing them killed off right here and now than having their corpses beaten time and time again just to make some money.
Christopher Nelson
>The game was announced, I think three years ago in 2013. What? It was announced in 2015. The first time we heard of it was when they showed Haruka's commu in the 10th Live.
I will lend Tane my power by thinking about her rocking thighs tonight.
Matthew Diaz
If I can't read Japanese how difficult would it be to play Platinum Stars?
Carter Russell
You'll learn enough Japanese by the time you have the game booted up after buying it.
Oliver Powell
This is Nono.
Blake Wilson
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John Rogers
One of PS's biggest problems is that it supposedly wants to be a rhythm game instead of a "normal iM@S game", which is why it de-prioritizes the commus and management elements in favor of putting the live performances and rhythm game segments front and center.
Except it also wants to do so with the small song list that usually comes with a base iM@S game (and is usually compensated for by the commus and management elements you'd expect from a "normal iM@S game" that are lacking here).
And it ostensibly has the same structure as OFA, but because there's so little to do outside of the rhythm game segments, it just feels like meaningless padding here and all it does is waste my fucking time.
On top of that, it also seems to be deathly afraid of doing anything challenging even on the Master difficulty setting, plus the fact that it takes so long to even be allowed to play Master in the first place makes me wonder if they were afraid that making it seem too hard from the onset could "alienate" the people who usually play mainline iM@S (which has never really had a strong rhythm game component).
The problem is that if you decide to be a pure rhythm game, you're going to get compared to other pure rhythm games. And whether we're talking about mechanics, challenge, content, or just fucking progression, PS doesn't hold up when compared to even other iM@S rhythm games, let alone other rhythm game franchises like Project Diva.
And the thing is? I had no expectations of a "normal iM@S game" going into PS. I knew months before release that PS wanted to ditch the management aspects and go full rhythm game. So as far as I was concerned, PS had one job and ONLY one job: get the rhythm game part right. If it had just accomplished this ONE thing, I probably would have been happy with it, even with all its problems as it is now.
But it didn't. It's just a second-rate Project Diva clone with a third of the song list and 20 times the grind.
Joseph Ortiz
Psychic idol getting gay with her P.
Benjamin King
How is that gay?
Nathan Sanchez
I bet SumidaP cries herself to sleep every night.
She spent her youth acting like a dyke and now she's resigned to the fate of being Yuko's producer.