Otaku no PodcastNeural Cloud's story appears to be over, and the only content we've been getting is reruns. Time to try and pull for some characters that I missed during their first run.
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Aiko 🍀 ZeroRe: Neural Cloud
After releasing the grand finale of its overarching arc (but not reaching the ultimate goal), Neural Cloud CN hasn't gotten any updates (new characters, events, and such) for a few months now (around 6 months, I believe). Then, global servers, which were behind, started to rush major events one after another, when they're usually spaced out. To make matters worse, a major event in EN was clearly translated using MTL. Because of these happenings, a lot of players think either end of service is coming or MICA is trying to sync all servers.
Personally, I think it's the former. The game is modern, polished, and well-optimized, but it's pretty casual and never made it big, with low revenue similar to Girls' Frontline 1. I always think it's a miracle that these 2 games can keep going for so long despite all of that.
The writing's been on the wall for a while. Yesterday, the official JP account (which was a few days ahead of EN) just announced that all costumes and furniture will be permanently available in shop. This seems to confirm and seal the game's fate that it will be either in maintenance mode for a while or ending service sooner or later.
At first (when the game first started rushing major events, possibly due to incoming end of service), I was upset and sad. But now, at this point, I've gone through 5 stages of grief already and accepted it. I had no hope left, but when it's confirmed like this, it turns out it still stings a bit.
...I'll leave my essay (future blog post) for when the game announces end of service/maintenance mode for real lol. I already have an idea on what to write. At the very least, I'm quite positive there will be an offline version. Or so I hope. 🙏🙏🙏
Please don't say anything about "that's how live service games are", I know these things already, no need to say it. I've gone through some end of services, too. What makes it more unique is how this is a game by MICA, the developer of Girls' Frontline 1. It's well-known as a "cockroach of the gacha game" for a reason - it's old, outdated, and has low revenue, yet it kept going for so long (it only shut down in CN last year due to disagreements with the publisher and a new version will come). MICA even made more games in the franchise, including Girls' Frontline 2, which is a well-polished 3D game and got pretty big outside China. To put it simply, the franchise is a passion project of a wealthy man until it actually got profitable enough.
James EndicottI honestly expected more of my knowledge from #NeuralCloud to be transferrable. So far, knowing that doll means robot is the only thing I've gotten out of it. Oh, and I guess "hot zone" means irradiated area but that's not really a GFL specific thing.
I don't recognize any people, places, organizations, game mechanics, slang, or details about the setting. I know a tiny bit from Ferrari explaining stuff on Twitter because they're the definitive EN source of lore for the GFL universe but that's about it.
I don't recognize any people, places, organizations, game mechanics, slang, or details about the setting. I know a tiny bit from Ferrari explaining stuff on Twitter because they're the definitive EN source of lore for the GFL universe but that's about it.
I love the mini bots from #NeuralCloud so much.
They aren't fully sentient like dolls are. One of the big areas they lack in is how simplistic their goal seeking behavior is. In Helios sector, that takes the form of wanting chocolate and knowing that when they do work, they get rewarded with chocolate. So, they feel happy looking forward to work, talk to each other about how good chocolate is, and are scared to think of situations where there might not be chocolate.
But don't let how silly that is fool you, they are intelligent beings capable of executing plans and have emotional moments even if they don't fully understand them. The Jiutian sector shows us that. They are programmed to have their highest motivation be "love science, protect data". By the end of that story arc, we saw several of them sacrifice themselves. One does it to protect someone transferring data, one does it to tear out a piece of their body to repair data storage, and one of them hacked a server to reduce their own backups so that the science data would be saved first even if it meant they couldn't be recovered.
That last example shows off a paperclip problem. Their creators at Svarog Heavy Industries wanted them to work hard on scientific research but still considered them more valuable than experiment data. But they saw it as a needs of the many vs needs of the few situation and made that sacrifice without a second thought. Their brains may were not capable of considering the possibility that they weren't supposed to suppress one core goal for another goal, survival.
But, they are still fun to hang out with and work alongside. The Helios sector ones can be broken out of any melancholy, fear, or confusion if you just remind them chocolate exists because they'll happily look forward to it. I can see why their attitude can be infectious even to other dolls with more complex brains capable of more nuanced thought.
They aren't fully sentient like dolls are. One of the big areas they lack in is how simplistic their goal seeking behavior is. In Helios sector, that takes the form of wanting chocolate and knowing that when they do work, they get rewarded with chocolate. So, they feel happy looking forward to work, talk to each other about how good chocolate is, and are scared to think of situations where there might not be chocolate.
But don't let how silly that is fool you, they are intelligent beings capable of executing plans and have emotional moments even if they don't fully understand them. The Jiutian sector shows us that. They are programmed to have their highest motivation be "love science, protect data". By the end of that story arc, we saw several of them sacrifice themselves. One does it to protect someone transferring data, one does it to tear out a piece of their body to repair data storage, and one of them hacked a server to reduce their own backups so that the science data would be saved first even if it meant they couldn't be recovered.
That last example shows off a paperclip problem. Their creators at Svarog Heavy Industries wanted them to work hard on scientific research but still considered them more valuable than experiment data. But they saw it as a needs of the many vs needs of the few situation and made that sacrifice without a second thought. Their brains may were not capable of considering the possibility that they weren't supposed to suppress one core goal for another goal, survival.
But, they are still fun to hang out with and work alongside. The Helios sector ones can be broken out of any melancholy, fear, or confusion if you just remind them chocolate exists because they'll happily look forward to it. I can see why their attitude can be infectious even to other dolls with more complex brains capable of more nuanced thought.
@FandomChats I made a #NeuralCloud animatic before, all drawn and edited by me alone, does that count? 
CW // blood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPHzsnTgXzg&feature=youtu.be
[Neural Cloud] Simo of the Bakehouse (Animatic)
Wait, Florence spooked me when I was rolling for Xinghuan? That's Nanaka's job. She always spooks me as an off rate before I get the doll I'm rolling for.
#NeuralCloud
#NeuralCloud
Fun fact: in the game #NeuralCloud, that's what got the character Puzzle banished to the Magrasea (and thus appearing in the story at all). Cyber Media wanted an avant-garde artist so they removed some of the safeties from her programming. What could be more innovative than using colors in a way that the human mind can't process without breaking a little?
RE: https://posts.rat.pictures/users/hannah/statuses/112872437636712508
RE: https://posts.rat.pictures/users/hannah/statuses/112872437636712508
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Attached: 1 image My goal for this fabric is that looking at it will make you go crazy
I have officially seen the strangest collab announcement. Sunborn is doing a collab between their four games (GFL, GFL2, #NeuralCloud, and Reverse Collapse) and the UN. Specifically, they are appearing in the mid-summer concert promoting UN Sustainability Goals.
In the #GirlsFrontline universe, the UN split into two organizations, both of which are at least a little evil and one of them is the primary antagonist for a while. I mean the timeline between reality and the game already diverged so the game isn't positing that the bad guys are currently working there but it's still weird.
In the #GirlsFrontline universe, the UN split into two organizations, both of which are at least a little evil and one of them is the primary antagonist for a while. I mean the timeline between reality and the game already diverged so the game isn't positing that the bad guys are currently working there but it's still weird.
Bonneville's motorcycle apparently has a thing for redheads. It allowed itself to get hot wired more easily a few chapters ago when it showed up in a cameo simply because it enjoys the feeling of being ridden by a redhead.
I can't decide if that's cute or horny.
#NeuralCloud
I can't decide if that's cute or horny.
#NeuralCloud