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That's insulting, I dated my left hand for 5 years.

I don't usually like to get personal on the site because I feel like the internet is not a hug box, but this is something I figured I'd get someone else's input about and maybe discover interesting information that could help me out in dealing with my sister, and potentially someone else's situation. Some context of my situation: I have a 10 year old sister who's just started her first year in middle school back in September. During elementary school she was pretty cheerful and seemed to have fun quite often when she came home; she did her homework with either my parents or me, and everything went decently smoothly for those 4 years. But now that she's in middle school it seems like things have started to take a toll on her. The amount of work obviously increased in comparison to what she had to do in elementary school and the academic pressure is something she clearly feels threatened by and I myself struggle to help her with her homework because she simply can not retain the information no matter how much I try to explain it, it's basically like she's alien to it. On top of that, my parents' work schedule basically makes it so that my sister is generally at home alone with me or at my grandmother's house. All this sorta resulted in her feeling sorta depressed, perhaps melancholic would be the best term. Her apetite has been decreasing, although it was never really great to begin with and she's began to get self conscious about her weight because of it, even though her BMI is absolutely normal for her age. Because of all this, my mother in particular has asked me to help my sister feel better by doing stuff with her and helping her out when she needs it. Seems pretty straightforward, I know, but here's the kicker: I am absolutely terrible with kids. I don't mean that as a way to say I don't like kids, just that I don't know how to deal with them at all, so my attitude towards children in general is usually one of indifference, this includes, to a certain degree, my sister as well. I never thought much of it, just because I don't really know what to do in these situations, but my mother has told me before that my sister really wants to spend time with me and feels like I don't like her very much because I kinda ignore her. I guess it's obvious to see why she'd think that, and I don't have any excuse for it, but it's really not that I don't like her, I just never managed to find a good way to socialize with her, so we don't really do much together. In general, I am not a person who enjoys getting too touchy with other people. This includes my family. I don't like hugging and kissing whenever it's not necessary, it doesn't feel natural to me and I really shy away from displays of affection between my family as much as possible. I never really tell anyone in my family I "like" them verbally either, it just gives me this inpending sense of embarrassment I can not shake off. But, once again, it's not like I hate anyone in my family, I'm just not into expressing affection so openly like that, it really makes me uncomfortable. And because I am this way, my attitude towards my sister over the course of her upgringing was never a really affectionate one as some other siblings might have had. In my earlier years I was quite apathetic towards her as well because I just felt super estranged to her, but I'm not really like that anymore. There were other factors like our 10 year age gap which essentially made me unable to have stuff to talk about with her or play with her where we both could have fun doing it. I hope the problem has become somewhat clearer now. I want to do something for my sister, but I'm terrible when it comes to all the touchy affection stuff (and to make matters worse, my sister is the complete opposite) so I was just hoping there would be something where I could, at the very least, get along with my sister so she doesn't feel as lonely. I was hoping I could find some common interest, now that she's in middle school, where we can both partake in it and have fun rather than me trying to suddenly get all affectionate with her (just the thought of that latter option gives me the shivers), just as a way to at least create a starting point to where we can have a more normal sibling relationship rather than such a distant one. My sister is very straightforward with her intentions when it comes to me, she's even left me messages in my room after cleaning it for me while I'm in college saying how she loves me and stuff, which I really appreciate and find sweet, but I'm terrible at expressing the gratitude back and I usually just muster a "thank you for [...]". My mother gets really mad because she expects me to hug her and/or kiss her and thank her, but I could never even do that with a friend to begin with, it's just not me, but I understand that at the same time not showing any form of affection or at least attention/care is not ideal either, so that's why I've come to the conclusion that I should really do something about it. And before someone brings it up, yes I know this is the age of puberty, I'm not at all discarding the possibility of this being "just a phase" and I'm sure she'll get over it once she's more used to the new environment she's in, but that's not really what I'm trying to solve here, I just kind of want to mend our relationship a bit so hopefully my sister knows I'm not just some stranger around the house and that if she's having problems she can come to me as well, and hopefully this will ease her life a bit. It was a long rant, sorry for getting so personal about my life, but I figured this would really paint the picture pretty clearly. So Fuwans, how do you bond with your siblings?

You're expecting that kind of advice from people who never even dated anyone, not to mention having sex?

In my opinion? No. I mean don't get me wrong, it's great, but it's definitely not as great as everyone makes it out to be. In my opinion it's less the act of sex itself, and more the feeling of being connected to someone on that level that is enjoyable. But everyone has different preferences I suppose. Some people are total sex addicts, others could care less. Personally, I could probably go without having sex again for the rest of my life and be okay with it, though that's just how I feel at the moment and it could easily change as I grow older.

And almost forgot... 'Libra of the Vampire Princess' FAQ

Swooping in real quick to let you know some important news is coming in the next 72 hours.

Oh boy, here comes the Sekai Project white knights. Do I need to summon the demon army now?

Everyone here is really awesome, but I have to be the one to post this. Narcissu was my first visual novel, and it is one of my favorite stories from any medium. Anyway, I will let you folks take a look: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sekaiproject/narcissu-10th-anniversary-anthology-project (^-^)

Yes, its fantastico. That said, dont get a hooker.

I just want the physical attribute that allows you to cum infinite times back to back without a break and ejaculate a litre of semen in the process.

Why does this thread exist? Why do we have a topic for this?

But all my 2D waifus say they feel kimochii.

Deep Blue, I like your avatar! Berserk is probably my favorite manga. Enjoyed the anime, too. - (Jon, Internet Lackey)

@Valmore, may i call you oficially the destroyer of hopes & dreams? :/

ignore our comments we are joking, well to be honest those anime are so bad that you can consider them as funny.

Aw man, I guess this whole kickstarter thing is a pretty tough topic at the moment . I have never managed any project that involves this amount of money, so I feel uncomfortable calling things either way. A few months back, I made a post sharing my photos from my 2011 Narcissu trip with a Japanese friend. Narcissu is a really important game to me, and if there is an opportunity to get something physical in my collection, I am just excited by the idea of that .

This is just solid life advice for all situations. I've seen people here and elsewhere go against this advice way too often, and it almost never actually works out like they expect.

Surprise surprise, I may just have a recommendation for you. Rakudai no Cavalry. It's focused on both romance and action, and fulfills all of your 'musts'. It also has the big plus of the main couple living together.

We need Cruncytaco here lol

Predictions for the death of moege? Yes please. As for the actual topic at hand, it doesn't surprise me at all. Likening it to the manga and anime industry seems somewhat apt, yet I feel like it's only a pseudo comparison at best. I'm not entirely sure about the culture as I'm typically oblivious to these types of things, but anime and manga don't seem to have the social stigma that I can guess that eroge might have. I feel like that sexual factor is a big difference and that it will cause a turn we might not expect. Truly this might be a sign of the death of eroge, but what we refer to the medium/genre of visual novels I doubt.

I can't say i like all tsunderes, some of them are so annoying, but in Michiru's case it was really perfect, i also liked Hibari in Swan Song. i can tolerate tsunderes up to a certain point but if they cross the line i just find them annoying, for both Michiru and Hibari they acted as tsunderes but you could tell they were sweet in the inside on the other hand the type of tsunderes that i don't like would be like that tsundere in Cross Channel, i forgot her name but its the heroine with the brown hair who is always alone, she is just annoying, i know the MC was also annoying her all the time but i didn't like the way she was overreacting over every small comment that the MC made.

Yep, the only route i liked was Michiru's, in fact i would say it is one of my favorite routes of all the vns i have played, i just really loved her character, i didn't like how Yuuji and basically everyone else was treating her badly, but i guess part of it is because of her tsundere acts

This thread is gold. I'm going to agree with Batman, this thread might be a favorite. My short stops for a VN are exceedingly few. Yaoi. I'm a man, a biased man. I don't enjoy it. As long as a man doesn't stick a phallic object into another man, we're all good. Futa, free changing hermaphroditic gender bending, gang bang. They're all okay. Utsuge/Nakige. These games really just grind me. Enjoying these in any respect in my opinion is akin to emotional masochism.

about x-rays...it is a bit creepy for me I don't enjoy eroge scenes at all even less when something weird is going on, I mean does anyone really turn on when seeing the uterus of a woman O.o. I do enjoy panty shots or something a bit lewd but once the sex is going on I just don't like it because it's totally bs.

In all seriousness though, or at the very least in my opinion, I think that your virginity is something to give to someone you love, male or female.

ever 17, the ending is really good.

Deep Blue, I like your avatar! Berserk is probably my favorite manga. Enjoyed the anime, too. - (Jon, Internet Lackey) Berserk is fucking amazing, and Gatsu is probably my fav character you sir have good taste. I know this has nothing to do with the novel but Eternal Maria looks really good, seems like it's going out on 2016( on dvd i guess) any other information about that you can give me?

Lol, I guess this thread is also a nice place to expose people what weird vns and stuff in vns are out there. Japan is truly a wonderful place to come up with all sorts of fetishes and then when you get a hold of them..... wham... you are sucked in like a kid at a candy store. I so want to be called sempai... I need to talk my wife into it...

when you have this kind of fked up things going on (someone probably find this erotic) x-ray shots are nothing https://vndb.org/v11206 there are like 5 more vns like that that I know of is not just one Word of the day for those people who play that game: Formicophilia - Sexual arousal caused by insects crawling on one or others' genitals. Yeah I played lots of Ryona Hentai Platformer games when I was young and those involved insects, tentacles, and furries. Nothing fazes me when it comes to which partner or "thing" the girl has sex with: zombies, orcs, giants, men that are 3x bigger than them, sword, crucifix, even a damn edge of a table, you name it. I just brought up the issue since I kinda dont see the point and use of x-rays. It's like showing your intestines/stomach as you eat.... Do some people find the whole thing hot or what?

I am the third of five children, two brothers and two sisters and I have a different relationship with all of them. My Older brother is four years older than me. A few years ago I realized that I idolize him. Everything he would do I would try to emulate, he played guitar so I did, he played gridiron so I joined etc. There was a period where he was a bit of a bastard when he went to high school, and as if to personify how much I look u to him, this was what made me afraid of high school; I was worried I would change like my brother did. He moved interstate the other day and I'm really sad to see him gone but my relationship with him is still really good. My older sister is one and a half years older than me. she has had the most consistent relationship with me, She is the one II feel I can talk to the most and am able to open up to the most. My younger brother (two years younger) on the other hand I hated as a child. I'm not exaggerating, I loathed him, we fought constantly and I recall once even asking him to get out of my life. oddly enough we got very this very easily; one day I just said to him "let's knock it off" and we've been on good terms ever since. My younger sister is four years younger. She and I have the closest thing to a stereotypical anime bond; I tease her a lot, we have polar opposite personalities and tastes and I can be very protective of her. Sometimes I do hate her guts and she annoys me more than any other sibling but I still worry about her a lot, especially given some of the people in her friend-circle. Overall I've got a pretty good relationship with my siblings. If I ever left my room I might even interact with them, but lets not go crazy here.

Well if you want I can spare you an Alter + Tammamo Cat account if you're willing to raise an Alt? Really? How far into the story is it? I'm definitely willing to raise an alt, since the account my friend gave me is basically completed and there isn't anything for me to do until more content is released. Its a starter account, so its just after the tutorial. It also comes with some great CEs. Just PM me and Ill give you the code. EDIT: Let me take the chance to advertise this. https://www.reddit.com/r/GOtrades/comments/3q8lae/event_introducing_the_rgotrades_goodwill_charity/

I really hope this game is good

Hmm, well since i'm almost a decade older than my sister i'm the one responsible for leading her down the wrong path and i take that task very seriously. I always strive to be a bad influence on her life and bring her morals to ground zero but unfortunately i have failed by to do so by finishing college, getting a good job, buying a house and pissing on the neighbor's shrubbery every now and then. I hope one day she will do me pround and become a NEET, then i'd be promptly murdered by our loving parents. Stay out of school kids. -Totodile.

Like a spartan I have a brother who is 11 years younger than me and it's pretty tough to play with him. He lives with my father so I don't see him to often (every weekend/other weekend, sometimes not for three weeks) and that makes it difficult. He really does love me and I want him to have good memories and have fun, but I don't really know how to go about it. I will watch Pokemon with him, play Yu-Gi-Oh, sword fight, etc. but it's pretty hard for me to show continued interest in the actual playing. Anyways, I vote for the anime watching as well.

MangaGamer hires from the same pool of translators that Sekai Project does. Sekai Project also doesn't force anyone to pay for anything they don't want to. People know exactly what they're getting up front with these kinds of translation kickstarters. Mangamer mostly sticks with the people they have on board, while it seems Sekai Project goes for quantity. Though it's worth noting that a lot of the top notch translators in the scene are with Mangagamer and JAST, which is why their translations come out noticeably better than almost anything translated by SP. Also regarding Kickstarters, it's pretty silly to use the argument that they know what they're getting into. Since Kickstarter is basically a really in-advanced pre-order system, a lot of details aren't specific, or set on stone, or people simply never think about them. For example, people didn't even know Clannad was supposedly going to have a DRM system until just a few months back. Some people were even thinking about dropping their pledges solely because of that, meaning they never really thought about that back during the initial campaign.

biggest problem i´m having with said practice is, if non written well and thought through, the tension btw stories flow is like getting torn apart, which is abig moodkiller for i, so titles consisting of such thing called multiple protagonists are usually avoided by me, though there have been few, which managed to suprise me in a positive way. not to mention a vn with 2 (or more) badly portrayed protagonists character/personakity-wise leaves a more negative impact on your mind, than a classical one.

Dovac is the source of much angst in the VN community, and the boss of Sekai. He's known for saying stuff like 'we're not interested in the serious VN fans,' and other silly stuff about trolling, which has caused much hate and whining within the fanbase and in places like 4chan (they're always bitching about Dovac over there.) His controversial comments mean he regularly has to switch his twitter to private, and delete various accounts (like his reddit one.) A lot of the hatred of Dovac tends to spill over in people's attitude towards SP, so they get less slack then they would have originally. People only really have 2 complaints about them - their over use of Kickstarter, and some delays, but they cop a lot of hate for it. Cause I know MG aren't doing that to me with bloody Haruka Beat Blades (not bitter about Rance at all )

MangaGamer hires from the same pool of translators that Sekai Project does. Sekai Project also doesn't force anyone to pay for anything they don't want to. People know exactly what they're getting up front with these kinds of translation kickstarters. And they choose whether or not they want to buy in of their own free will. The VN is only at risk of not getting a translation if they don't get enough money. But if this happens, Kickstarter works on an all-or-nothing basis, where SP will get no one's money if the project doesn't reach its goal. So really, I have no idea where you're coming from here. You sound heavily misinformed.

the derail aside, i find the idea of outsourcing based on trust only non acceptable, when a good amount of money is involved, especially if your companies good reputation is at stake by failing to deliver, or keeping up with schedules promised to the backers. but thats only my little opinion, which can be safely disregarded...

'Worthy' is subjective. They're bringing the two sequels of Grisaia, they've brought an excellent story by the creator of Spice and Wolf. They bring a lot of OELVNs, but MG bring a lot of nukige, so ... We're not blindly ignoring anything, we're just calling for a bit of perspective on the matter. The blind hatred Sekai generates tends to be incredibly over-the-top, and I suspect it has a lot to do with Dovac. Torment is going to be freaking awesome :3 MWAHAHAHAHAHA

I don't know, maybe you should stop. edit: Okay, I won't stoop to your level and will actually try to be at least halfway productive in my posting. If you have a rebuttal, then fucking post it instead of shitting and running. Bats' point was brief but salient. The doujin circle behind WAS was in almost complete control of the project and were making a mess of things. Sekai Project had to engage in a legal battle just so they can do this much and try to make things right for people. Apparently this makes them a villain? Shit happens with kickstarter projects. They almost never go as planned. What actually matters is how these companies handle things when they go bad and whether or not they'll actually deliver on their promises. It sounds like things will get on track with WAS again and they will actually deliver. That would make it a successful project in my books. Do you have an actual rebuttal for this or will you just post another asinine one liner?

Get out of your comfort zone nosebleed and just show her some attention. It doesn't have to be stifling or anything, but surprise her with a gift, or take her out shopping or something. You don't have to explicitly say anything like, "I love you" or anything. For example, I don't live with my sisters, but every so often, I'll drive across town, and just hang out at their place. Just being there, and spending some time with them can be more than enough. AND WHATEVER YOU DO Do not force your hobbies onto her. I see and hear about this a lot in otaku circles, where one person attempts to shove anime culture onto their family and can't understand why they hate it. People have different taste, so don't get bent out of shape if people don't like what you like. Your sister sounds super sweet nosebleed. Like I said, you dont actually have to say anything like "I love you" or "Youre a great sister" Just Do things with her she enjoys. And if you dont know what she enjoys, pay more attention to your family.

No, just no, I would love to support this but sekai project you can go to hell, it really really saddens me to not support this ):

The World Ends With You is the fucking tits (SPOILERS INSIDE) edit: Also the fucking OST, don't know where to begin. Finally got to where Twister pops up in the game, and it's glorious.

I'd assume it'd be good to get to writing, then.

The actual layout of the home/metaboard is the almost the same as the dark theme showed, however the wall of text I demonstrated did drop from 3.1 pages to about 2.5 It seems like most of that is due to a small reduction in font size and then line spacing accordingly. Bad math suggests a 9 to 8 font size.

It was inevitable that the industry would suffer, as all the otaku industries suffered after reaching saturation. Just judging from my own experiences, base quality is going to fall more and more over the next few years, as companies desperate to make a few extra pennies cut corners where they shouldn't, thus driving more potential consumers away. Unlike anime, since most VNs have ero-content, there is less strategic depth in terms of a fanbase to depend on if more and more fans are driven away by poor works by previously good companies. Manga and anime both suffered similar problems after reaching their saturation points, though they've now more or less settled down into a regular up and down 'bumpy road' kind of industry rather than the kind of cliff we might see with VNs. Those of you who have been otakus long enough or who have a wider experience of more material will have noticed that while technology's advance has resulted in some base improvement in visual aspects, the basic quality of anime in general has actually fallen drastically in the last fifteen years or so, looking at it from a wider perspective. We are seeing a similar trend with VNs, with occasional truly good VNs interspersed with dozens of lower-quality works intended to make a quick buck by appealing to the 'wide and shallow' part of the fanbase (moe and nuki addicts) rather than entertain or stimulate (incidentally, truly good moege/charage still get produced... but they are proportionately lower in number). I'll be blunt, there hasn't been a significant work out of Elf since Biniku, which was critically acclaimed regardless of genre preferences, despite the difficulties a lot of people have with NTR. It was inevitable that Elf would have gone under, even without the current saturation of the market. Generally speaking, all of the 'otaku mediums' have had their golden ages, followed by an 'age of stagnation and saturation'. I'm curious to see whether VNs will actually survive their own trials... especially considering the social trends in Japan (anyone who plays eroge will have noticed the significant drop in loli-content, unless they are blind as a bat... and that is just the tip of the iceberg, speaking from the perspective of someone who plays sixty or more a year). Anime is currently in one of its ages of stagnation (similar to the eighties and early nineties, when just about everything was either giant robo/sentai rangers or felt like it was written by someone in a drug-induced haze). It produces maybe two or three series a year worthy of note, with the rest falling somewhere between horrible and decent. I honestly don't follow manga anymore, so I can't form a good opinion on it. Though, speaking like a doomsayer gets old, fast. I honestly think that VNs will survive... but the industry will probably be forced to alter radically in order to survive. My personal prediction is that there will be at least some movement away from extreme ero, isolating a few companies and the doujin circles that will continue to produce it for their audiences. Due to the current saturation of that genre, we are also likely to see a fall in the number of moe-moe releases (I'm already seeing this) with only the most visually polished selling well enough to keep their companies afloat. Chuunige, whose care fanbase is pretty... fanatical (lol) probably won't change that much in terms of sales or profitability. Some will leave, some will get interested, and the niche will remain more or less as it is... a high cost, potentially high return niche genre that will only turn a profit if people don't cut corners. Extreme nukige companies will continue to turn a decent profit... and find themselves backed into a corner, legally and socially. We'll probably see at least a small explosion of non-ero VNs that might or might not turn a profit (its about a 50-50 chance, depending on how they market them). The non-ero market over here will continue to grow due to Steam's influence. In exchange, we'll probably see at least some of the 'great classics' stripped of their ero by various localization companies for Steam releases. Companies that don't adapt well to changing times will probably go under (I honestly don't see JastUSA lasting more than another half-decade, unless they learn to actually market their stuff rather than just release it in an off-handed manner... they remind me of Working Designs, in a bad way). For OELVNs... I can't make a solid prediction, but since the current trends seem to still tend toward less than impressive imitations of Japanese themes and the occasional third-rate attempts at something unique, I can't see the market there standing fully on its own for some time. Edit: I'm going to say this outright. No Japanese industry is ever going to be considered flexible. They stagnate and lose momentum, as the natural preference of Japanese society is for stasis, rather than change. Japanese businessmen don't want endless growth, they want stable revenues. This is reflected in the way game companies tend to manage their development (think Konami and the revelations about its internal affairs recently). Total collapses in any profit-generating industry in Japan are unheard of, but stagnation of profits is almost a given, as more people with the same ideas try to do the same thing. Trends that would take a month here will frequently take two or three years there, simply because no one is interested in actively changing the status quo. Edit2: Ironically, people with tastes similar to mine are more likely to benefit from the ero-stripping than the moe-moe fans (proportionately anyway), since it is easier to strip a more story-focused VN of its ero without harming the story than to do so with any sort of moege.

* All the spiders clap along to the music. I really recommend people to play this. The WTFs are too manyz.

25 hours, and still enjoying it. Can't really find a reason not to like it yet (without talking about basic optimization of course)

What's wrong with you, man.