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    The Visual Novel Database ; VNDB.org is a misinformation website

    in Visual Novel Talk

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    I think Yorhel is in the top 1-2% of people I'd trust to implement both more Western and Japanese ways of looking at the issue as appropriate to the title. As for the argumentation, well, I think a quote from one of the threads you link says it quite well:
     

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    For someone to continually claim logic and reason above all else, you react quite emotionally.

    I am thoroughly unimpressed by your argumentative performance.

    Translating a VN made with unity.

    in Fan Translation Discussion

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    I remember managing to find the scripts for some by using generic "unity extractors" and just poking around the files. There are definitely a lot of irrelevant files to comb through though. If nothing else, it would help you find if it's based on any kind of VN engine framework made for unity, which could help in searching for tools/info later.

    Kirikiri saying "EAccess Violation"

    in Voluntary Tech Support

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    Based on a brief google, it's possible it's related to your drivers, maybe graphics drivers specifically. It could also be you need to update Windows itself. It looks like this is a fairly diffuse error with many different causes, as it just says that some program tried to access some memory it wasn't allowed to (and was blocked). You can try using compatibility mode as well.

    BRXKEN INSIDE review discussion

    in Visual Novel Talk

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    The description of issues with the prose reminds me of another VN that I thought has issues: Double Exposure. At the time, I wrote a vndb note with (among other things): A kind of cool concept with some nice moments both cute and tense. But god, the prose for the viewpoint character Serena and her narration is really bad. When you try to write something flowery — with big words and all that jazz — you really need to be on the ball, and the frequent awkward phrasings and plain misuses of words on show here fall very short of the mark. This also spills over into Lizzie's dialogue, which at times feels unnatural. I think I'm a bit unusually sensitive to this, as I realized when I discussed how turned off I had been with lesiak (I think I picked up the VN after he discussed it briefly in a post, so naturally I had to complain at him for a bit).

    Overall, I think the point I made in my old remark that writing more plainly is the safer option for most writers is very relevant. Most writers in VNs just are not good enough — often have not read enough in that style to know what is good — to make it work. I will be much more forgiving of writing that is a bit plain than writing with the ornamentation put on all wrong. But maybe it's just me.

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