Fred the Barber

@tymmur Stop falling asleep in the middle of the day and that won't be a problem.

Looks like a hero to me. Does he have a name? Florence Ameghino Nightingale Hero or Villain?

Do it!

Confession: I'm having way too much fun writing character bios over in the Hero or Villain thread.

Looks like another misleading hero to me. Etheldreda Hero or Villain?

Obviously a hero. I challenge you to find me even one villainous bartender. Angel definitely has her good points Haru Kasukabe Hero or villain?

Well, to be clear, I do get ASMR, and pretty easily. A handful of visual novels, anime, and especially movies (mostly non-weeb ones) have triggered it, and I can actually trigger it on demand from reflecting hard enough on certain parts of those that I deeply enjoyed; apparently that's a documented but rare thing. Sasuga me. However, I don't get that reaction from any of these audio recordings. I'm actually surprised to hear that apparently other people don't know about the general concept - I get it somewhat frequently, so I guess I thought other people did too, but, you know... from good stories, not from audio recordings of people making ear licking sounds - which I have no problem with by the way, I just find it surprising given my own experience.

I saw this thread and thought "Oh, no, we lost another one." Listening to the youtube that Eclipsed linked. Like flutterz, not getting any reaction from it. I ran down some of the links from when Nosebleed talked about this last time, but didn't really spend much time with it. Probably for the best, for my sanity.

Lost Odyssey was pretty good! But, yeah, those were dark times.

^My kind of hero. Tatsuko Itagaki Hero or villain?

Also, more generally: You'd get squashed in the direction you're going (so if you're lying down in the direction of your motion, you'd get noticeably shorter) Time doesn't exist as a standalone coordinate system; you can only express simultaneity of two events using the complete coordinate system of spacetime. Or as Douglas Adams put it: time is relative, lunchtime doubly so. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz_transformation#Physical_implications

If you took this post seriously, please re-read the OP of this thread.

Dinner was good. My homemade curry and a simple nameless cocktail I put together (rye, amaro, vanilla bitters, simple syrup):

Geeze, guys, stay on topic.

True, I suppose, a long time ago. Now, doubt and self-criticism prevent that from happening. Next person can fly.

If it's any consolation, I'm also not actually named Fred. And while I'm at it, why haven't you watched Haruhi? The first season (watched properly, in original airing order, not chronological order) is a veritable landmark in the history of moe.

Self-censorship of H scenes in order to reach a wider audience on Steam is just good business sense.

Since they're all I've been reading lately, I'll take a moment to say good things about the last project I edited for and the one I'm currently editing: To Heart 2 is pretty entertaining. It's a straightforward moege with a huge cast of heroines, and to some extent represents the solidification of many of the tropes you see today. One interesting thing about this is that there are some tropes there that didn't end up being popular enough to become super common, but which might be to your taste. And on that note, I'd like to recommend: Tama-nee is the older sister figure you secretly wish you had in your life, but wouldn't admit to it even here. She was my favorite character I encountered in the game, even though her route didn't live up to her character. Also, her H-scene at the end of the route is intense And then there's the twins. They've got the opposite thing going on from Tama-nee - none of the characters on this route are as amazing as she, but the route is way, way better than I anticipated going in. The drama is surprisingly real. I was a little bit leery when I picked it up. I mean... twins? Sounds like an obvious play for whipping up teenage males into a frenzy without putting out too much effort. And, yeah, it is that. But it's also filled with relatable conflict and relationship difficulties that feel less like your typical moege artificial obstacles and more like understandable human problems. And then at the end: So yeah, play the twins' route, too. Also, I'd be remiss if I didn't heartily encourage you to play through all the bad ending scenes for the twins (one wrong choice and you'll land there, anyway). That's not just me wanting someone to read the stuff I edited - it's often legitimately hilarious, and one scene is crushingly heartbreaking. I'd find it a tragedy if nobody else ever played the game-within-the-game, Love Love New Heart, and equally tragic if you don't get to have your heart broken the way mine was by some of those scenes. And so, that leaves my current project, MajoKoiNikki: It's good. Like, really good. So far I've only read the prologue (which I've now read most of twice, and first-pass edited half of myself), but I'm very, very excited to keep reading and see what happens next, and I'm basically head over heels for all the characters. When we were divvying up first-pass edit duties for the character routes a couple days ago, I literally couldn't decide which routes I wanted because all the girls are so much fun. Look forward to it!

The title localization is so weird that I actually forgot that Wagnaria was the localized title, rather than the original, when I suggested that. Whenever I'm looking for it in someone's list (like, say, 35 minutes ago), I just search for both titles.

I am @suikashoujo's dakimakura. More details starting from here:

Here's to hoping it's at least half as good as HuniePop.

The second season of Kenshin is one of my long-time favorites, watched long before I really got into this stuff. I found the first season too episodic, and the third season couldn't help being random and anti-climactic after season two. But that Kenshin Kyoto arc was everything I could ever want from an action show; pretty much perfect.

Your MAL says you haven't watched Wagnaria yet. You should get on that, ASAP.

Confession: I haven't been posting to Fuwa much because editing Chinese porn games is pretty fun.

The VN medium is dying.