Masamichi pilots a police mech down a street past Anna Miller's restaurant and talks to Largo who is held in the mech's right hand. Masamichi: The Tokyo Police Cataclysm Division schedules 'events', cleanup and reconstruction. We're proud of the fact that we can facilitate 30% more disasters this year than last year.

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Erika wears a button-up shirt over darker tshirt as she sits on a bench and tells Largo about how Hitoshi had lied to her and about her. Erika: Why would he do that? Did he think I was a bad person? Was he ashamed of me?

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Uh.... that's a rather OMINOUS Ping-chan memory to post as i sit here working to bring Megatokyo back from the Mostly Dead. *frets*

and before you ask, i've had numerous requests for this on a mug, and i want one too:

Here's the start of my revamp and re-upload and re-release of designs for Megatokyo shirts, Hoodies and other related stuff. Anything i missed here that you want? Might even do a few new shirts from some recent artwork too...

which would mean she's 23 now... oh boy.

A hard to unsee history of Piroko and no, i do not like this conclusion... >_<

The things i find when digging through old files... Working on getting Megatokyo shirts going again and i found this:

A pencil drawing of Kimiko with her hair in a ponytail with a big bow, a short print vest over a short dress with sleeves to her elbows, dark thigh-high leggings with kitty faces around the top, several bracelets, and holding a microphone in her right hand as she takes a break between songs.

Megatokyo webcomic artwork - Kimiko - Between Versus (sic)
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In a bookstore, Piro sits on the floor reading shoujo manga while Asako, Yuki, and Mami are wearing their school uniforms and watching him from behind a bookshelf. Asako: <See Yuki? I told you! She's been here for hours -- She's just about read everything on the shelves. Isn't she cute?> Yuki: <Asako, I think that's a 'he'.> Mami: <No way! You think?>

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i fucking love installing

A picture of a library shelf with a small rolled up note on it. The note says “read this” in child’s handwriting.

A picture of the note unrolled. In the same child’s handwriting it reads “beware of the future!!”

Still thinking about this note I found in the children’s section of the public library when I worked there back in 2018. This kid tried to warn us…

Miho wears her hair ribbons and school uniform and stands with her head turned to the right and looking down. Miho: (Sigh..> <I don't feel like playing right now. Go teach your class, Largo-sensei.>

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Garmin Fenix 8 Pro AMOLED 51mm. :)

I wish. Less egalitarian, it's a bus :)

Yes indeed - An old 30 ft hybrid too. It's quite bouncy on the roads around here. I register around 8000 eronious steps on my watch in a 10 hr day of driving this thing. :)

When you research to find a chonky watch a character in one of your stories will wear that has to have built in GPS to fill a "find out where you ended up" narrative need and you end up with it on your own wrist as part of the reseach... *sigh* #garmin

As a random piece of trivia, Megatokyo arguably predates the concept of a Large Language Model approach to AI.

It's quite possible that modern AI engineers count the Emotional Doll System among their early inspirations. 😉

In the back room at MegaGamers, Piro sits on the floor holding his phone while Yanagisawa stands behind him wearing his shop apron and bowtie. Yangaisawa: <So, are you gonna call Nanasawa, or just sit there and admire your phone all evening?>

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Outside on a street, Ping wears a big sweater and talks to Yuki. Yuki: <I don't know what to do!!> Ping: <Don't give up Sonoda-san! We'll find him!! We'll take the city apart if we have to!>

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I think id like to be able to offer them. I'll think about how to best manage this. The main thing is, there are so many ways people do stuff these days i might not have been exposed to some of the best ways people read these days. The apps are a pain but the experience has been ok enough.

oh, yes, that is one of the options. This is mostly for myself really, since i have been shredding my reference versions a lot lately and they are getting tattered... the website is ok, but it is old and navigation is old. Thinking something digital that would be just... enjoyable to read through.

Which i think is a bit funny because it never occured to me that digital higher resolution versions of MT could be used to train AI crap. Didn't even cross my mind. I represent the innocence of a former ages sometimes (clicks my mechanical pencil a couple of times)

BTW, for the record, i so totally do NOT every use AI... ive never used Chat GPT, any of the image creation crap, etc. The only thing i use is probably what Google does with my searches and you cant help but look at the AI generated response... which i never trust and always look at the sites.

well, duh, of course... though i guess these days, anything like this is giving a honeypot of old drawn goodness for the AI machine to train on.

Outside of the collapsed school, Largo wears an open vest and talks to Piro while Erika wears a button-up shirt with rolled up sleeves and watches. Largo: Dude, WTF?

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Now, if i were to make a higher res fully digital version of Megatokyo (i have all the original files remember) and wanted to put something together that would be much easier to read than the website, but digital, what would you guys reccomend?

In Turkey, an elderly man who earns his living by shining shoes is visited every morning at the same time by a cat that asks to have its fur brushed. The man never turns down this little friend.😍👍💙

In the apartment above MegaGamers, Miho wears her hair ribbons, a dark top sleeveless top with long dark gloves, a kids backpack, and a skirt over polka-dot leggings. She is smiling as she banters with Largo after returning Ping to Piro. Miho: Isn't it though?

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At the Magical Cake cafe, Ping looks happy as she wears overalls and eats cake while sitting at a table with Miho, Largo, and Piro.

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In Yuuji's bedroom at the Sonoda's house, Yuuji sits on his bed playing a gameboy while Largo is shirtless and using Yuuji's computer and Erika has just walked in. Erika: <I should've known.> Yuuji: <Hayasaka-san. Please come in.>

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