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Good luck with the exams! I'm sure you will do great, take it easy! Tbh, Hecatia looks really pretty, even though you know... It has a bit of fan service.. (especially the belly xd) Also The costumes are nice too, I like Eirin the most. And I'm glad we're getting more gen units. And yeah, I agree with the fact that the game is getting super boring now... I'd stop playing but I'm so scared on missing out on stuff. I already missed a lot of stuff from July 2021 to Feb 2022. The units are coming way too fast and it's a mess. I'll write something on the suggestion thingy.

so... after a bit of digging, I realized that Vietnam television does not have... a proper age rating system... or at least, the resemblance of it. so I'd go out on a limb here and assume that our system goes alongside the other Asian countries' age rating. There isn't any age rating badge on any of our shows, film series, so you could literally by accident let young child see adultery images in films. And it goes for most of the channels too, with I think the exception of the VTV (Vietnam Television) and HTV (Ho Chi Minh Television) branches not having any films that are too egregious on it, but still... some passes by. Violence is also courteous on our side, as TV films would show gunfights and stabbings, on scene, but subdue them down by having virtual blood gushing animations, or... just straight up dripping artificial blood on some characters. Which is a... way, I suppose. A nice touch. (any fellow countryman here that can address me, I would appreciate it a lot cause half of the words here are just a shot in the dark.)

Good luck with the exam Count! Thanks for sharing that scarlet spirit talk as well, the style is really cute! I'll share some thoughts now. I'm very happy that Kisume is here and that the SA cast is finally completed, which is my favourite one! It's nice to see Kyouko too and Tojiko is the only character left now from the TD cast. I also like the fantasy rebirths for Yuyuko and Suwako. However, I agree that they could've done more with all of the characters. I still feel the same way on the state of lostword. Trying to catch up to jp has been a nightmare for character releases. It's obvious how much they want to focus on the Epic and Ufes, with all the reminders and promotions. It makes everything worse when there's also the balance issues, inconsistent event planning and the incentives to buy god crystals. Honestly, I'm not sure about continuing once the year is over. We'll probably have the missing characters by then, so there wouldn't be much to look forward to afterwards. I'll be happy enough with Tojiko, Raiko and Sumireko being included, then take a break. I'd still make sure to check the news and talk with you guys though.

Huh, it is very precise like PEGI for video games here. Never knew it would be like that in the Phillipines.

Well, I really an not feeling in the finest of moods (basically a combination of fear, dread, panic and lack of self confidence) right now due to an upcoming exam retake, so I might be missing for a while, or at least reflect my problems into the way I will address the current news roundup. Anyway, with 1 day delay, emergency news roundup: News and updates This week, we have had a Dev Letter revealing the latest, shiniest stuff going to come to Global. Oh boy... - "I can't with this shit, I just don't have the words anymore man, like this is unprecedented levels of plain stupid beyond what I can comprehend, both for Global and JP, like someone explain to me how this could possibly be healthy for the game?" (u/Kdog8273) Anyway, overall information about the update can be found in here: Now, let's go into a bit of detail, shall we... Dev Letter has decided to start the roundup with new Fantasy Rebirth costumes - Suwako and Yuyuko Along with them, Nitori, Daiyousei and Patchouli will receive the Fantasy Rebirth 2.0 treatment? How useful will it be? Not very much, as it will more than likely barely make them any better? "2 times 0 is still 0". Since I do not know exactly what else to say, I will leave it in the hands of the users of r/touhou_lostword: "In response to Phantasma's concern of people not rebirthing their units: Give more meaningful buffs to characters. Daiyousei's ult is one of the worst ones in the game, yet they decide to make her a weird pseudo tank after she ults? What purpose does this serve? She can't do anything meaningful if she has no spellcards. - So many older units are terrible because they lack breaks, have no utility, and have unfocused kits that are completely outclassed by almost every modern unit. Rebirths can let these older units be viable in some way. L1 Reisen's ult buff actually makes her do damage. Focus on that, not gimmicky or meaningless stuff like Daiyousei's rebirth buffs. - Don't penalize farmers for rebirthing units. 14 SP cost is very high for one unit. This is the major reason I dont rebirth units unless they get significantly stronger for CQ. Maybe implement a system where you can choose specific rebirth units to have a lower SP cost." "You can't suggest them anything related to SP costs, I did try to make that suggestion through discord and it will never go through cause their rules. I bought 2 rings with fortune dust, other 3 were free, I'm not planning to use fortune dust to buy more because glorified 14SP bricks with a wedding dress simply do not work. I don't understand why after Rebirth the exp needed to bring our chars back to 100 is doubled instead of halved. Rings have a cost and right now two kind of dolls have more value than a nice jpg for a brick Rebirth 2.0, would be very fine if it only was about farming more mirrors and MAYBE use some coins to buff rebirthed units even more, but since it cost rare tiles and scrolls and since the drop rate of those mats it's now very null, you probably need around a month and an half to farm enough scrolls and tiles just to RE2.0 your 14SP brick, in the meanwhile in a month and an half I can brick around 2 retro units or a generic fes units which are more useful than L1 Marisa and L1 Reisen with RE 2.0. People it's bundled with waifus, I'm in Touhou cause Ran's dedication, Marisa and Aya freeloading attitude, Yuuka, Kokoro and Nue quirks, a certain Iku and Nue garage kit, Suika, Yuuka and Eiki songs and also MoF orchestra OST, Okuu and Orin cause, fuck it... M1 Grand Prix nonsense and other randomness that steered my attention towards this games which are made for no-braindead people (aka your average CoD, Siege or your generic modern console player). Too many waifus demand too many rings and my room it's filled with scale model kits and I still have my freedom of choice, so rebirth + rings it's a big no, so is a big no wasting SP, school slots, time and whatever to bring'em back to 100." Alright, it looks like we are getting the third rerun of this event. Meanwhile, Tojiko and Raiko waiting for their own events to be released because we have skipped them:... It also looks like the beach hag is getting her own EX stage. How unexpected... At least the story card's art has strong yuri smell, not gonna lie. Since I have not completed Chapter 4 yet, it looks like I will actually have to go through it now. Just for the Epic Doll I will not use anyway... Also I guess 1 free prayer (minus the 1500 coins) for completing a game related survey. From what it looks like, the survey will open up tomorrow and will last for a few days, until...well, scratch that, it will last this whole month. The survey has also been mentioned in here Oh, we are also having the release of 2 general units. It was about time for them to give us something that is not a FES reskin/UFES/EFES/Relic FES Let's not forget Summer Hecatia is also coming. This time, she is not coming with the free 140 prayers we got when Blue Reimu and Summer Yukari made their debut. And finally, new costumes, The only one that really caught my attention was the one for Eirin. Finally, she got something that is not...whatever the Christmas outfit was, This one is really fitting actually. Funny how we are getting the nurse outfits, given there is no sign for that event actually coming, and that we even skipped it long ago (that was supposed to be the event that would mark the debut of Tojiko) Community discussion and memes The colleagues from Scarlet Talk have decided to present the latest update their own way. At least this mad the day slightly better: You can always find Remi and Patchy presenting the news their own way right here Closing thoughts (new category) I would have written a long text here, but again, I think there are a few comments that, if put together, perfectly transmit the way I am feeling about this game right now: And there's the reason I started to slow down with/almost drop LostWord. The fucking EFes being dropped into the game every few months or so that have abysmal drop rates and the useless Fantasy Rebirths that should be ashamed to even be called such things. Between some Story Cards being locked behind paywalls (i.e. practically needing EFes due to the elements they have for the Elemental EX which you might as well be paying for) and the drop rates for any of the Story Cards on Hard/Lunatic, I stopped caring about Touhou LostWord and just kinda forgo about booting up the app whenever errands are finished. Doesn't help that there's still the endless black screens that show up from time-to-time be it trying to boot up the game itself or heading into the school in some capacity. I haven't even touched the Scarlet Devil Tower since that one update that lowered a few stats for the early floors and even then I didn't touch it after beating a few floors when it first released. The game is just that boring. It was fun at first but with the flip-flopping between updating the story and the constant events happening it stopped being fun and start looking like a wasted promise. Even the concepts in the game are wasted and stop being cute and start to feel creepy. The Fantasy Rebirths were cute at first, but once it was confirmed that the MC is basically a child thanks to several events scattered throughout the main story, SDT and even the weekly/monthly events (minus Hifuu which seems to take place in an alternate universe) it started to feel weird trying to gather tons of Mirrors just for a literal wedding costume, being booted back to level 1 for the character being rebirthed and some useless stat boosts. Like they look cute, don't get me wrong. And some characters probably would enjoy wearing such outfits. But canonically most of the characters that have Rebirth costumes could care less about getting married with a human. (Especially a child.) Most of them are youkai after all, they would probably be focused more on trying to either guide us to safety or trying to scare/eat/kill us. (Even youkai have morals and standards, may not be much depending on the youkai but it's there.) The only benefit some characters would have is Reimu getting tons of money or Marisa getting a free chance to steal more depending on the character rebirthed. Mokou's confuses the everliving daylights out of me. Rather than making it a suit (something that would have pants, something she would be familiar with fighting in), they made it a dress like everyone else. The only ones that don't wear wedding outfits are: Reimu (not even sure what the outfit is based off of). [CVN's note: it is a a traditional Japanese wedding dress called shiromuku] Reisen (a clichéd military outfit). Kasen (don't recognize the outfit design). Nitori (a white version of her normal outfit with more advanced machinery and no backpack in the art itself). Youmu (a kimono... yay?). Patchouli (an actual mage outfit complete with staff). Alice (something that looks like it came from the PC98 era or even Alice in Wonderland itself, fitting given the character). Meiling (a more fancy version of her usual outfit without her iconic hat). Sakuya (looks like she's going out for a night on the town if Gensokyo had one). Ran (not sure what the outfit is based off of). Chen (a shrine/shrine maiden outfit). And Kaguya (a strange futuristic princess-like outfit). Most of the other outfits are either literal wedding dresses or what might as well be the flower girl/ring bearer. They could've done something spectacular with the Rebirth outfits, but instead they just went the lazy route and just made them mostly wedding outfits with the characters listed being the only ones to go against the norm and have outfits that don't typically fit a wedding and look more like something that would be an event costume of some kind. (Which eventually became the case as depending on the event some Rebirth Costumes can be used to gain more Event Points.) Also looking at Kasen's rebirth outfit has me laughing, the dragon and tiger look extremely durpy while the eagle looks either pissed or scared shitless for what might be coming at it. But regardless, there's a myriad of reasons why Touhou LostWord is starting to dwindle in popularity. One of them is definitely the repetitive gameplay. It's just unbalanced. You're stuck with a limited selection of resources while the enemy gets an unlimited selection of resources. You permanently lose a Spell Card or Last Word meanwhile the enemy can use as many Spell Cards or Last Words as they please which can and will result in your defeat if you don't plan properly or don't have the resources necessary to beat them. The meta also doesn't help matters. Like I said before, a lot of popular/useful Story Cards are either locked behind events or Lunatic battles in the Story mode. Witch of Scarlet Dreams for example, is only obtainable through the final battle of chapter 2 and has a notoriously low drop rate like all 5 Story Cards. You have to do so many battles just to get a single one of those Story Cards. Also not helping it's case is the fact you need to spend thousands of God Crystals to increase the Story Card inventory to a reasonable amount before having to do it all over again thanks to the max prayers usually giving ten Story Cards at a time which can pile up really quick. So if you want the best Story Cards you need to spill an endless see of blood just to get the best cards and have a shitton of money to increase your Story Card inventory. This whole situation could've been avoided had they not made the default drop rate of God Crystals abysmal for errands. Because unlike Seal Crystals which have multiple ways of being obtained, God Crystals can only be obtained through either Errands or the occasional Everyone Wins Champaign without paying for them. Speaking of God Crystals and going back to talking about costumes, I really dislike the fact you have to pay with God Crystals instead of with something like Coins or Event Points depending on the costume. These aren't alternate characters for fuck's sake, they're quite literally just alternate outfits. If you really insist on making us pay God Crystals for more fancy PNGs to look at than at least make them cheap. Not like to voice changes depending on the costume anyway. (Greedy pieces of shit.) Why is GL so insistent in pumping out the next big character? JP’s at fault making these unsparkable EFes characters and GL’s at fault in trying to keep up. They really need to just slow down for their own good. Ugh, at least there’s a step-up (though I kinda liked the free summons before ngl). Also, skipping both Raiko and Sumireko yet again and not releasing Tojiko or her costume alongside the other event costumes is sorta criminal. But, at least we got more General pool units so eh. The JP team. They don't care if Global's release schedule is cohesive, has meaningful continuity, or is fair, providing it's meeting profit targets. JP is the "main" version, and they will switch Global servers off like a light if it stops making enough money. It's enough to question how anyone would invest money into gacha games, given how abruptly they can just shut them down due to the devs' own greed and poor decision making. LW has been spiralling in that direction for a while and is rapidly getting worse. I've spent a bit of money on the game (only on cheap packs/Nitori's delivery mind you) [not me, CVN, but the original person who posted the comment] but as it stands I'm not confident enough in the game's health to invest in it right now; and if enough people share that concern EoS becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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Here in the Philippines, there is technically no "age rating system" for TV; just general descriptors. We even had a simpler two-rating system before, I still remember the rating just being shown in plain text in mainstream channels instead of a pictogram with the plain text below (some channels still do this actually, like the government-owned IBC 13 and ABS-CBN's cable-only Kapamilya Channel).

Well, Poland Uses this system nowadays. The green smile means the content is available for everyone, the red key means the contents is 18+. The rest is pretty self explanatory. The old system looked like this. Green circle means it's available for everyone, the red circle means it's 18+. Now, when it comes to time restrictions when certain content could be broadcasted, 16+ content could be broadcasted from 20:00 to 6:00, when 18+ could be broadcasted from 23:00 to 6:00. Also, before the year 2000, the rating system didn't exist, though some TV stations had their own rating systems! Some only had a warning that the movie is for adult eyes only, some had their own rating system, with the 3 iconographics of a red, yellow and a green key. One had their logo pulsating in red for a few seconds and a lektor (reader, off-screen reader, they would read the whole script of the movie, it's an extremely popular translation technique in Poland, since it's cheaper than doing a full dubbing. Things like, Dragon Ball or Sailor Moon were also translated this way. Also, If you'll look well enough you should be able to find Bible Black translated this way. I'm not joking about this one. It was being read by the most popular lektor at the time, so, one day, you would watch Commando from 1985, and you would hear him in it, and the next, you would him him in Bible Black saying lines of some girl in the hentai (the man had a really deep voice). Truly, an unforgettable experience.) would say something in the lines of "This video is for adults only." Around the year 2000, major TV stations in the country came together and came up with a rating system that they all would use. It looked like this. Well, the green circle of course means the content is available for everyone, the yellow triangle is 12+ and the red square is 18+. the only one that had time restrictions was content that was 18+ and 18+ content could only be broadcasted from 23:00 to 6:00.

In France, its actually the system here is really simple, there just (-10, -12,-16 -18) and yeah its pretty easy over here. I never got to understand the USA age rating system. Before 2002, France has a system with figures and colors, before they switched to the really simple one. Here are the new ones that we still use. Here is the older one: