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My Grandfather smoked his whole life. I was about 10 years old when my mother said to him, 'If you ever want to see your grandchildren graduate, you have to stop immediately.'. Tears welled up in his eyes when he realized what exactly was at stake. He gave it up immediately. Three years later he died of lung cancer. It was really sad and destroyed me. My mother said to me- 'Don't ever smoke. Please don't put your family through what your Grandfather put us through." I agreed. At 23, I have never touched a cigarette. I must say, I feel a very slight sense of regret for never having done it, because your thread gave me cancer anyway.

I developed most of my cooking and baking skills living alone, though I refined them with my family as taste-testers. I used a lot of really simple recipes during my time alone, and I know what it is like to get tired of eating the same damned thing everyday. So, I thought it would be nice to leave some of these recipes for those looking forward to someday living alone themselves (or those who already are). Anyone who has ever figured out a tasty idea that is ridiculously easy and reasonably cheap to carry out should also post their recipes here. Clephas' ultimate lazy man's dessert (that requires cooking) Clephas' Ultimate Nachos... after hot dog night Somebody else will have to do healthy recipes. Almost all of my easy recipes other than curry are heart-cloggers made by a guy who didn't - and still doesn't - care about his weight. I should say that the first recipe is generally a hit at parties (whether familly or business related... or normal ones, even), simply because it is simple, can be picked up easily at parties, and is unbelievably addictive once consumed. That said, I suggest keeping it a once every few months thing... because you'll put on weight at a ridiculous speed consuming that stuff if you eat it regularly.

The Panthers have won me $300 today, I too shall celebrate:

I think the problem is that not many people in the West knows about it and therefore I developed a great idea. Just yell "Visual Novel!" while attempting to assassinate President Obama. I am pretty sure the event would be spread everywhere and everyone in the West will know what a visual novel is. And everyone would jump in the VN train when they learn that such a beautiful thing where you can date cute anime girls exist.

Key protagonists are the literal definition of not doing anything and being super useless (but nice) and getting every single woman to fall in love with you. Every Key protagonist also has the bumbling idiot friend who makes them look so much cooler than they actually are. They are the protagonists that never act on sex (because if men do that it's evil), thus showing ladies how it's done and then watching them become horny and proceed to consistently have sex until drama sets in. When drama comes up in a woman's life, they stand there pretending they can actually solve something. In the end, they do literally nothing and merely wait for the right opportunity to have an epic speech reminding their girlfriend that they will and have always loved them even though they [the woman] are insecure about themselves and don't believe it's possible to have such an awesome boyfriend. At this point, time leaps occur and some magic is sprinkled on and everything is perfect. The end.

^ wow, seriously? KS1 made me want to clean 100% of encounters and bad endings, because it's simply that good. And I heard (pleae don't spoil it's content to me) that true ending in KS1 is directly connnecting to KS2.

Wait, you're assigning that much weight to the giveaway? I think you're vastly overestimating how much people will care about or even notice SP forgetting to include a free option for an hour.

DOWNLOAD PROLOGUE HERE http://www.mediafire.com/download/as5br ... 283%29.zip Hello everyone! This is an attempt at making a fangame based on the Fate/Stay Night VN and the Fate franchise in general within the Nasuverse. We are a very small team working on this right now, consisting of three people of which two are helping on story only. Most of the coding, writing and art has been left to me. While I can handle it, any aid would be greatly appreciated. Hey, even if you're not interested in helping, your opinion on our main plot would be extremely helpful! Background story behind the project Now this is quite important because it might be a major dealbreaker for most in the western Fate fandom. The original idea for this game/story came from really wanting to see some Arturia/Gilgamesh interaction with Gilgamesh's personality being like it was during life and not messed up due to humanity being messed up during the time he was summoned. Gilgamesh being like he was in Fate/Extra CCC. We wanted to create a scenario that would fit into canon and would allow us to explore the dynamics between both characters, their personalities and their backstories. Of course, we don't want to romanticize it. We are fully aware of how problematic their relationship is due to Fate/Stay Night- we want to take all of this into account- but going further into the exploration of their relationship. Now that that has been taken out of the way, this is obviously not a fanwork solely made to have Gil and Arturia interact, we created a plot that would allow us to explore and create many other characters beyond that. We want to explore the stories of servants in the three first holy grail wars, their lives and legends. Plot During the events of the Fifth Holy Grail War, Ilyasviel von Einzbern, as the embodiment of the Holy Grail, sacrificed herself to close the pathway opened by a corrupted grail. The Greater Grail was destroyed, bringing the ritual of Fuyuki to a conclusion. However, the Grail had been in place for far too long, it held far too much concentrated magical energy; the sudden dismantlement of such a structure, which after 200 years, had almost become a natural part in the mana flow within the region, was bound to fail. The ritual ended, yet the mangled structure slowly begun to regenerate. After a couple decades had passed, the Magic Association began to become increasingly more desperate to reach Akasha. They turned their eyes to the previous ritual held in Fuyuki - and sought to recreate it. The Magic Association took their own path, straying from the knowledge of the three founding families. With the complete eradication of the Makiri/Matou line after Fifth War and the Tohsaka family head, Rin, refusing to help in any way with the recreation of the ritual, the Magic Association followed their own crooked path. The Association’s mixture of stubbornness and desperation led them to take a dangerous shortcut in their new establishment. Due to lack of planification and information, the site where the mangled grail stood was revisited and used as the centre for the newly established ritual. This reestablished Greater Grail was a source of great instability - forcing it to work like a properly built structure ignited the unstable magical energy engulfing it, resulted in the opening of a leak into Akasha. The leak led to the creation of a spiritual reality - a massive reality marble - a realm of spirits and magic with no physical manifestation, close to The Root. This realm, much like Akasha, is a place based on energy and magic, holding no connection to Gaia whatsoever. It is a place brimming with an aura of unfulfilled wishes, hatred and despair. Being influenced by the guidelines of the Grail War, the leak into Akasha serves as a way of summoning Heroic Spirits recorded within the Throne of Heroes. Due not being connected to the world in any direct way, true heroic spirits are summoned rather than emanations, as there is no need to worry for inconsistencies within the world in a spiritual realm. Similarly, the souls of magi are forcibly summoned into this realm to take part as "masters". -Except there is no Holy Grail to fight for. There is no point to the summoning. Any human with at least one working magic circuit is eligible for being summoned into this realm. Their soul will escape their body, leaving it in a coma like state. This results in many inexperienced and confused magi trapped in the place. A magus with enough magic circuits and great skill should be good enough to handle themselves and even be able to communicate with the outside world - but those with poor circuits are bound to get their minds twisted by the place, going so far into believing there actually is an omnipotent wishing granting device to fight for. While Heroic Spirits have no reason to fight each other, magi who find themselves in the realm need to fight for the existence of their soul. Upon the magic association noticing the great swirl of mana at the moment of the summoning of a master, they were able to investigate the potential of the leak in terms of reaching Akasha, and would continue to seek the exploitation of the system. If a soul - let it be heroic spirit or magus - is to perish within the realm, it will be collected by the faulty grail. The more souls the grail collects, the more power it gains to open a proper route into Akasha. Even if one does not wish to reach Akasha - they will still have to fight in order to survive against the vile attacks of the members of the Magic Association. Besides, if one wishes to escape the realm and return to Gaia, they will have to see the war through to the end. Characters ARTURIA PENDRAGON Voiced by: Adoxographist Better known as Arthur Pendragon or King Arthur, usually regarded as a male in history. She is Britain's "Once and Future King" reigning in Avalon until the day she'd be needed once more - or so was recorded in history. In reality, King Arthur was frozen on her deathbed, where she made a contract with the world.The contract stated that she would not die until she acquired the Holy Grail, which would serve as a way of amending her reign- erasing her existence in order to save her country. Despite having unlimited chances to acquire the Holy Grail, her failures in the Fourth and Fifth grail wars of Fuyuki have weighted heavily on her mind. She continues to struggle with herself, while seeking a self-destructive ideal. GILGAMESH Voiced by: Jon Bullock Mankind’s oldest hero, humanity’s first king. Despotic, arrogant and selfish. Gilgamesh was born with immense power, not being fully divine nor human, with his field of vision reaching extents which not even the gods were capable of fully comprehending. His power resulted in great isolation, but his strength of self kept him from abandoning his kingship or fleeing from the mission imposed upon him. He favoured isolation as he believed that by having chosen the path of a king he had to advance through it alone. Enkidu, Gilgamesh’s friend and companion was the sole exception to this rule. Gilgamesh is a guardian of humanity, yet he did not take upon this role by sheltering mankind. Instead, he sees himself as an observer, an adjudicator and sentencer of men. He alone bears all the burdens of humanity, of sin. He has accepted this as his role. JANE BASKERVILLE. Voiced by: Trina Deuhart Jane is a magus trapped within the reality marble, Apophenia. She was born within a minor magi bloodline from Wales specialized in the creation of puppet familiars and automata. Despite great potential and strong magic circuits, Jane seldom practices magic, as she has no control over her own mana, resulting in harmful bursts of power dangerous for both herself and those around her. Upon encountering each other, she forms a contract with Saber class servant Arturia Pendragon. Jane has a great interest on the new world that has appeared before her, and seeks to explore it to her heart’s content rather than focusing on escaping or fighting other servants and masters. ALLEN SAPIENTI CORTEZ. Due to being the son of an important archeologist, Allen has travelled across the world all of his life. He is well versed in different cultures and is very passionate about learning about myths, legends and stories from everywhere he has visited. He has some magic circuits within his body, passed on from his mother. However, as he never did live with her, he was never trained to be a magus. He is summoned to Apophenia and paired up with Gilgamesh. Allen is enthralled with the Gate of Babylon and all the different weapons within it. Despite his lack of talent at magic, he can easily identify different heroic spirits. Team http://fate-apophenia.tumblr.com/team Screenshots FOLLOW OUR TUMBLR TO FOLLOW OUR PROGRESS! http://fate-apophenia.tumblr.com/

Here's a full run down on why this will destroy the world. First off, the term futanari has been widely recognized and used in the hentai community to define a human being with both a penis and a vagina. People from all over the globe have grown fond of this term by now. Then you have the term Shemale. A shemale is someone with boobs and a penis (no vagina). By forcibly translating the term futanari to Dickgirl, one is causing a possible confusion with the word shemale, because both terms have male and female parts. Shemale = She (female) male (male) Dickgirl = Dick (male) girl (female) This will hurt future generation of baka hentais who haven't seen the term futanari yet and are confronted with two terms that seem to describe the same exact thing. If one has to translate the term futanari, at the very least translate it properly to "hermaphrodite" so there's no confusion, or leave it as "futanari" because people who read hentai are all weebs to begin with and prefer it that way. This change deserves a worldwide state of emergency. THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!11!!1

At least TRY to understand what I'm saying. I was asking why we didn't develop the VN genre in the 80's or 90's, independently form Japanese developers. Are Japanese people the only ones capable of discovering the VN genre? Do we have to "run into them" and "get a good impression", because we are incapable of developing new genres by ourselves? No - like I already said, we did attempt to make our own VNs. But they simply failed, so development of story-oriented games went in a completely different direction. Direction, that actually works on the West. That's why we are going with graphic adventure games, and that's why we became familiar with that medium, while the Japanese became familiar with VNs. VN community isn't even remotely relevant to what I'm talking about here. Japanese VNs became somewhat visible only recently. Up until that point, there was no VN community to speak of, and absolutely no bias against that medium - pretty much nobody knew about it. Nothing was stopping Western developers from creating their own text-based, novel-style digital gamebooks with visuals. Nothing, except for the lack of market for such works. Oh yeah, and what about VNs different from the typical otaku stuff that already exist? Those that don't have anime-style art, have different settings and/or more Western-style stroytelling? I mentioned 6 examples in this thread. For some mysterious reason, they aren't very popular outside of the VN community. Is this also only because of said community?

Here are my Top 5 VN Heroines: 5. Best escapism: Takabe Eri (Shusaku) There is really nothing I can say about Eri without spoiling the integral twist of the game. Just know that she is the reason to read this eroge. Especially if you are lonely and a degenerate. 4. Best tsundere: Casty Rianoit (Ciel/Ar nosurge) I actually bought the game for Ion, but Cass easily stole her place as my favorite Exa_Pico character after I got to know her better. This is pretty much the best interpretation of the modern tsundere trope I have ever seen. Everything about her behavior is just perfect. The tsun, the dere, the drama in between. I hated me, the player, for messing with her love life. I cried manly tears while she was singing Re:Incarnation. Sorry Ion, you may be the better waifu, but Cass is the better heroine (and has the better cosmosphere by far). 3. Best wife (sadly not your own): Asaka Reiko (Ushinawareta Rakuen) Reiko is awesome because she doesn't love the protagonist. And although the protagonist has a crush on her, he does not try to netori her. Instead, he tries to understand why she loves her husband so much, so he can become a better man, a man she would like, a man worth of her attention. Wow, how not VN-like! Leave it to the 25 years old games to tell a great character-driven story, haha. 2. Best romance: Midou Yuuki (Shitai wo Arau) I came for the gore, but stayed for the romance. Yuuki is one of the most "realistic" characters in a VN I had the pleasure of getting to know. If you want to characterize her, I guess she is a classic tsundere, but there is really much more to her. Her "tsun"-side really feels like a nurse who understands the responsibility she bears. Her "dere"-side really feels like a young woman in love. I also really like how she is neither a little girl nor an old woman. Something which is surprisingly rare in VNs nowadays. I also like how she is a nurse but not a slut. Something which is surprisingly rare in VNs, too. In fact, Shitai wo Arau is the only hospital VN I know of where you can romance actual angels in white, not some nymphomaniacs. 1. The ultimate girlfriend character: Sanjou Anna (Kawarazaki-ke no Ichizoku 2) She is everything a girlfriend should be. Can't really say much more without spoiling the game. 0. Mai waifu I got the bonus points. Her laughing at slaughtered enemies is just too cute. Waifus who are masochistic to you and sadistic to everyone else are just the best!

Since the meme age is still going on, we need to spread a visual novel meme. Maybe have OriginalRen sing something about visual novels.

The opinion was from Blick Winkel. He obviously loves S;G, but he likes Root Double more and wrote a little on why. I don't think anyone but the posters here looking for something to complain about were offended. I haven't seen much in the way of negative reaction elsewhere.

What I got from this thread is that Valve and Steam have psychic abilities and are brain washing people. >Do you believe gaves really do have x million players? Yes. And even if all these millions of players stopped playing the game after some years, the company who made the game still made a butt load of money. I don't know why you think it's so impossible for a game to sell millions of copies and have a really large user base. >We talked to a psychologist Well I talked to a drunk guy on the street, it's his word against yours mate. >people tend to stay on steam for the game but thats because they brought the game Well no fucking shit. How is this a bad thing? Just because you need to own Steam to play games does not, in any way, shape or form mean Steam is a bad platform. >Steam is making better and newer games while still making players have unplayed brought games. So fucking what? People choose to buy whatever they want, even if they don't play it. The act of buying is what supports a product, not the act of playing it after you buy it. I love the fact that you think Steam putting out new products while they already have tons of other products is somehow a bad thing. Seriously, do you even market? >certain people believe that everyone use steam (which no one can prove) I won't say literally everybody uses Steam, but it's undeniable that Steam has a huge chunk of the online gaming market and gaming community. Your denial of this by simply saying "no one can prove it" is absolutely retarded and ignorant. >i know people from other countries and they dont know what steam application is, they thought it was something to do with steam. Well good thing Google exists where you can learn what Steam is. Did you know I didn't know what Youtube was in middle school? Youtube is evil confirmededededed!!!11!! >Google is where the answer can be found, steam's keywords involved "steam, valve, greenlight, and (english game here)" but not native words That's because it would be really retarded for "Steam" to pop up when you search for vapor on Google. You need to understand the company name "Steam" is a PERSONAL NOUN, IT'S NOT MEANT TO BE TRANSLATED. When you talk about Youtube to other people do you translate the word "You" and "Tube" into your native language? Unless you're retarded, you don't, because it's a company name just like Steam and Valve. >another thing, since 95% of steam games are english (indie games included) many international users feel like its not for them. thats right, steam is not friendly to many well known gaming markets. I'd like to know about these "many international users", because English is a widely spoken language and even with the most basic of English skills a person can enjoy a regular game. When I was a kid I played pokemon in English despite not knowing anything about English. I don't know why anyone would feel like something is not for them just because "it's in English". Also Steam's front page exists in many different languages, making Steam very accessible to foreigners who don't know anything about English. Just because the games themselves are English does not mean the store isn't foreigner friendly. TL;DR You seem to have an irrational grudge with Steam which I'd love to understand but all you seem to say about it is crazy conspiracy theories with absolutely no data to back it up.

So isn't games like Dark Souls very niche too? It is a trial and error game where you die at least a couple of hundreds of times. You save every time you can but the community still loves the game. That game isn't for everyone because it is something for people who enjoy restarting and get a game over whenever you die. Why can't VNs be a niche thing that we who truly enjoy some parts of it could still do that? I still think that if we are going to make the VN market more mainstream we are no different from anything else. I know I have already said it before but no matter how something looks like you can't really change it. You may lose old customers for new ones? Who can tell if a more mainstream medium is successful? That's why the small steps we take every year is important. We get recognition on Steam, in PC reviews on sites such as PC gamer. A lot of games got two different sides with an 18+ release and all ages release. I think 2016 is yet another year we get more exposure and evolve this market. Could you tell us some small things of this idea of yours. You don't have to spoil anything but if you think we are "small minded" and can't grasp the "big revolutionary idea" you got we can't give you constructive feedback. So what if you want to do a game with real characters, go ahead. Please give us some information about it and we maybe can help you on your way. And who says we can't enjoy OELVN in different forms? Fuwareviews review anything from any part of the world. Discussions occasionally appears here about titles released in the west. So we aren't blind of the market in the west. Edit: And I like the artstyle. It is simple as that too.

Confession: It wouldn't ever be taken seriously by them, but I'm going to admit that I consider Nosebleed and Down 2 of my best friends even if I've only met one of them. Spending the last 2 years with these guys has been a blast, and I would totally invite them to my wedding someday as groomsmen.

As a European, I'm obligated to make a pretentious comment about your use of the word "football" in the US... But I won't just because you sound so goddamn happy. Making a comment like that would be meaningless, and would probably not be enough to rain on your parade.

*Double post because the mods could always do with more work* Also, why is this in creative corner? I realise Firecat's posts could be described as an example of extreme creativity, but is this really the most appropriate place? I would have thought either GD or gaming personally...

To me @Lumaria, the slogan "Make Visual Novels Popular in the West" is just that. It's just a subtitle to put under the name Fuwanovel. The truth is that visual novels are already popular in the West. In 2012, Telltale released The Walking Dead. You probably already know this, but the game made quite an impact on not only the western gaming community, but also the youtube world. A lot of popular youtubers started playing it for their channel, ranging from your Pewdipies to your Harshly Criticals, everyone was playing it and everyone was watching it. Last year, the game that several gaming communities were talking about was Life is Strange. Similar to TWD, Life is Strange was nominated for several awards. You may disagree with my opinion, but I believe that visual novels are already popular in the West. Just because TWD uses character models instead of sprites does not mean that it should be disqualified as a visual novel. So what if Japan drinks coffee in a can, and so what if the West freezes it, drowns it in syrup, throws a fistful of sugar in it, dresses it with whip cream and calls it coffee. At the end of the day they're still considered coffee. Now on the topic of your proposed VN concepts. If you want to create a visual novel, go for it. In fact, I implore you to do it, for I would gladly try out any visual novel that comes in my way, regardless of its method of execution.

Come on, we all know Rooke is our grumpy old man, how do you even call him a "younger"?

Pretty much the heart of this important issue.

People like to crucify Sekai Project for their unprofessional business manner, which eventually leads to claims of deceit and fakery. Yet people crucify AAA developers for being too professional, which also leads to claims of deceit and fakery. Either what the gaming community wants is for developers to be their 'buddies' and 'chums', or maybe we're just a community that is incredibly hard to please. In any case, I didn't see much wrong with what Sekai did, even if they probably did commit a faux pas. But alas that's what humans do.

Yeah it was really beautiful. Damn that sucks. You should get the game again and play. I mean ... Come on

Unsubstantiated statement. Unsubstantiated AND false, so that's pretty nice. Unsubstantiated claim. False also. Linking Steam going down once with an inability to ever handle a specific load without any additional information is what the scientific community calls 'a guess.' Blizzard was sued in Korea, and they somehow managed to stay standing. I don't know how such a multi-billion dollar organisation will ever handle the devastation of being sued not once, but TWICE. And you haven't proved Steam is worse. You've ranted a lot, about stuff which matters little, but it's contained little actual substance.

Hahahaha, that's funny, Ion is the better heroine for me, while Cass is the better waifu :3 You described Cass PERFECTLY, btw +1. More tsundere lovers should play Ar Nosurge, if not just for Cass And yeah, messing with her love life... I seriously had a life morale crisis when I told her "Thank you, and don't worry" ...Only to go for a certain Shurelia ending later Seriously, I felt like utter scum for doing that ._. it's legit the best WTF PLAYER?! moment ever.

I regret nothing.

As much as I want VNs to be in mobile devices, I would not like it because every game that goes in mobile phones/tablets become a nasty cesspool of microtransactions. I've seen VN games ruined because routes are locked until you pay $2.99-$4.99 or whatever the app developers price their microtransactions crap nowadays. Imagine if they released Muv Luv or Steins;Gate on mobile devices but you can only play a 15 min segment/chapter while you have to buy the others separately..... That's really fucking dumb. Might as well charge me the full price instead of me going out of my way to charge, charge, charge separately for these little things.

@firecat My Grandfather smoked his whole life. I was about 10 years old when my mother said to him, 'If you ever want to see your grandchildren graduate, you have to stop immediately.'. Tears welled up in his eyes when he realized what exactly was at stake. He gave it up immediately. Three years later he died of lung cancer. It was really sad and destroyed me. My mother said to me- 'Don't ever smoke. Please don't put your family through what your Grandfather put us through." I agreed. At 28, I have never touched a cigarette. I must say, I feel a very slight sense of regret for never having done it, because your post gave me cancer anyway. [Abandons thread]

Yeah, the Santuria gacha was at least pretty amusing to do after every few runs.

It's no daft question, it's just that you don't know. Idol animes are ones about girls wanting to be idols (and some boys appear, in some). Most classic could be Idol Densetsu Eriko, niiiiiice songs. They portray their careers to some extent. Eriko was a hard shojo, for example.

To add a bit here: Steam isn't responsible for deciding if the games will have other languages available for the players, companies are the ones who take care of that. Your everyday indie developer is also obviously very likely not going to have enough funds to hire a translator for ten different languages. There's no reason for English not to be the main language used on games, it's our lingua franca.

Okay, this event is becoming really boring.

Yes, im indeed happy, harukuru all the way! Im pretty sure that Sakuuta is gonna be a relatively big success, it has some themes that are unorthodox while still delivering what you want from an eroge. (not first hand experience) I voted albatross though, but again thats because im a huge (liar)RaiL-soft fanboy. I would say that its a 50/50 with that and C;C for real doe

Easy food that tastes good generally isn't healthy, in my experience... of course, Japanese food does have some reasonably healthy stuff that you can make (other than curry) that is almost easy, like nikujaga... but in exchange, some of the ingredients tend to be hard to find and expensive if you do find them. Miso in particular is too expensive to eat as part of a normal meal here, though I made a nukadoko a few years ago and make nukadzuke pickles in it every day (usually eggplant, cucumber, zucchini, and cabbage). Dashi in particular - which goes in just about every Japanese dish - is just too expensive for how much it gets used in easy Japanese cooking, and there isn't really a suitable substitute.

You're clearly wrong. Superbowl is obviously about a certain kind of flying nocturnal hunter...

...... OOOOOOOHHHHHH!!!! That was why everyone next door was yelling at the tv. Well I'm happy that you're happy Bats.

Specific definitional arguments about pretty much anything are generally both fruitless (nobody can agree, because, for example, the Platonic ideal Visual Novel doesn't exist) and useless (they won't actually inform the situation). Here's a more useful phrasing of the question to argue: is the experience of playing a Telltale Games release similar enough to the experience of playing a visual novel that people who enjoy the former will likely also enjoy the latter? If arguing for, ideally present a VN with a substantially similar experience (differences, if any, should be reasonably excusable as not central to the experience); if arguing against, present differences vs. all other VNs that make for a substantial enough change in the experience as to render it not enjoyable for the (rather large) western audience for Telltale Games. The former case is probably quite a bit easier than the latter, but, well, that's the nature of the argument here... I've actually never played a game by Telltale Games before, so I offer no argument either way.

I'm guessing this is a handegg thing?

You and The Major should be very proud. Congratulations! In other news, Cam Newton is a monster tank and this game was quite literally a pack of panthers versus some weak ass cardinal birds. Demolished.

@Lumaria Correction - downsides AND: 1) explicit statement that I would like to see well-made Western VNs (that you dismissed as a lie), 2) summary of the evolution of VNs in Japan and a theory how they could realistically evolve on the West (that you ignored), 3) pointing out the risks that prevent bigger Western developers from creating high-quality VNs (that you ignored as well). Yeah, if you ignore 75% of what I write, you will be left only with downsides. Okay, I have no idea what are you talking about here. Is this about your claim that VNs lack diversity? If that's the case, then I just brought up 6 examples showing that VNs ARE quite diverse already, both Western ones and Japanese ones. Why they aren't more diverse? There are good reasons for that, and I already listed them (re-read the parts of my previous posts that you ignored). One of them is precisely what B0X0R mentioned - we are going more in the direction of interactive movies, like TWD or LiS, that most definitely are not novels. The new Sherlock Holmes series with that Cucumberbath dude (or something like that) did something kinda similar. They already did one Poirot anime - http://myanimelist.net/anime/244/Agatha_Christie_no_Meitantei_Poirot_to_Marple, but apparently it wasn't THAT bad (that reminds me I wanted to watch it someday). They must be text-based, written like novels, and have visuals?

You have my deepest and humblest permission to use my username in your report. In fact I am currently printing your last post out and plan to show my friends in the office tomorrow! Please do me a favor and send me a link to the article when you get the chance! The moments that we had during the last 3 pages is proof that a small group of people who are logically stating their opinions in an average vocal volume, can indeed overpower a single person who is ejecting large, illogical, masses of beliefs, using an above average vocal volume.

It's how I was taught!

I scrolled over this by coincidence and lmao wtf is this

Oh, I found this in the Neogaf forum: "Hey all, While ducking and avoiding your rocks, let me just first of say that I respect everyone's opinion on price and all that. I worked day and night for months to even get to this point, and we're not completely insane. At least I hope not. I'm not here to convince anyone, but let me clarify something, regardless of what you think of it. We faced an obstacle here where people wanted Vita, and we wanted to do Vita. Our Vita development has gotten solid and progressing nicely with our devkits getting hot lately, so we were always eager. I began working on getting this done before the campaign even. The issue is development and licensing. The whole dev team in Japan has to come back to refit the engine to work with the increased script size, voices need to be worked out, basically a bit ol licensing hootnanny. They were not easily convinced to go back to working on this engine just cause. Regardless of what people think of the tiers and that stuff, that's something we have to meet in the middle on with the developers and such, and we try our best and there's tons of great content there. But with Vita, we are left with few options. RD is not some sort of huge anime franchise which soars past stretch goal after stretch goal. So either we have to guarantee the port at a loss to us, or not do it at all and be even more meany heads for not caring about Vita. So the only option is to include it with other rewards (the price of the Vita port is not 225 by itself) and let those rewards directly fund the development, or nothing. So the Vita tiers go straight to funding the development to make this port possible in the first place, not to jack up the price for Vita just cause. Again, I am not asking people to like me by saying that, but its not just some sort of idiotic move made by me to screw myself over. I got everyone to agree to a term where we could offer Vita for sure without having to climb stretch goals, but rather that those who helps out the campaign and wants Vita gets it no matter what regardless. Hope we are all still cool no matter how it all works out."

after playing subahibi sakura no uta is my last choice over all those vns.... i still dont understand why there is so much love towards sca-ji :/

I'm in the Overdrive club, more precisely Kira Kira. Sarina was very sweet and not your typical ojou-sama by any means. Her route was very good. Her topless scene is also rad.

I thought we need a crying emoticon. Komari's face come to mind.

So, no computer hacking experience but you got some computer whacking experience. Nice. (may they rest in p...ieces) But really, it might be helpful to find a game and identify its engine first. That will help figure out what kind of tools are needed to get the data.

One that has a yuri, yoai, and normal sexual relationship routes. Go hard or go home!!! Or you're hanoko of the toilet and your goal is to drown everyone in toilet.

Works perfectly. Thank you so much.