Darklord Rooke

Congratulations for missing the point.

Ethan Ralph, for example, who's now on felony charges.

No. The reason Gamergate is associated with misogyny is because loud and visible people using their banner are on a crusade. Gamergate's negative reputation is the fault of themselves, and nobody else's. From Tycho, Penny Arcade. It is up to Gamergate to control their own image. This means loudly and visibly disassociating themselves from any toxic individuals who are using that banner to pursue the harassment of others. That Gamergate didn’t do this is their problem. That they couldn’t control their reputation is their problem. Most reasonable gamers want nothing to do with that banner anymore, and have moved on.

Bethesda emphasises exploration and character freedom, they're not great at (nor are they well known for) the world building part. Oblivion especially was terrible at world design, it was just a lifeless, generic, medieval world. But (luckily for Bethesda) that's not what people play the game for.

People want nothing to do with Steam because it's a big DRM service. You must play your games through Steam, if Steam closes down what happens to all your games etc etc growl growl. However Nutaku hosts downloadable games on their site which require no platform to get up and running. You just pay, download, then play like GOG.

I really don't give a flying rats arse what you like or dislike. If you can't stay respectful on the forum, leave the forum.

If people have a beef with Decay, take it to PM. The forum isn't the place to air the childish resentment of those whose feelings have been hurt and can't control their temper. Go to IRC, Twitter, 4chan, or one of the other trashy places for those comments. I'm also very surprised the mods haven't done their jobs yet. If such trashy comments continue, what I will do is find the longest song I can, and post the lyrics on here. One line per post. Not the place, people.

Considering the thread starter has dropped the translation project, this thread has suddenly become as useless as underpants in a nudist colony ... and probably just as unwelcome. Should probably be locked before the eye-stabbing starts ... but not before the beard pulling. Beard pulling is always entertaining. Good luck in your future projects, PUBAK. While you're not at a good enough level yet to translate, I'm confident you'll eventually make it. You have a good attitude and don't take criticisms personally.

I’m not getting triggered at all. What I did do was correct a mistake in your post which leads to assumptions drawn around members of the community. I’m really not interested whether you did it intentionally or not, the results are the same and therefore I made a comment. You then asked what difference it made to your point, and I made a post regarding that also - that is, it didn't affect your point but certain other realities. If you make an inaccuracy on a public forum, you should expect people will point it out. It's the same with everyone.

The thing about 'slice of life' stories is they can't rely on the plot to keep things interesting. Mainly because most slice of life stories don't have a plot, because the slice of life scenes ruin the pacing FOR the plot. So, in that instance either: 1 - the activities the characters perform must be interesting 2 - the world they inhabit must be interesting 3 - the characters themselves must be interesting. Generally, the habit of VN developers to set their stories in a highschool rules out possibility number 2 and almost always rules out possibility number 1. This leaves possibility number 3, and there's not that many ...

If you really want to go into it, the downplaying of unsavoury elements adds weight to your conclusion of the drama surrounding it. That is, if there were only rape ELEMENTS in the game, then obviously certain people were kicking up a stink for little reason (because the rape aspect was small and trivial, which is what 'elements' implies) and therefore the whole furore was 'retarded' because of how obviously unjustified (rape ELEMENTS remember) it was. Without this misleading assertion by you, it takes much more effort to show that the accompanied furore was unjustified. So your incorrect description of the game allowed you to easily paint a segment of the community as unreasonable and rabid. If you want to do that, you're going to have to work much, MUCH harder to show it

*Snort* Rape ... elements? In Rapelay? The sim all about groping, stalking, then raping girls? That's a mild way of putting it.

Trails of Cold Steel 2 has been released in America. Europe (and Australia) have to wait a couple of months though. But PS3 games are region free, so international gamers can just order the game from Amazon or something and it should work on their PS3. No need to wait for a local release.

The beginning is awfully dull, and the original (Japanese) story has so far been pretty badly written. I'm still struggling to get into it

FTB is totally wrong, BTW. And what a shame, he can't log in to argue about it :3

I despise self-insert protags with an unholy passion.

Belated congratulations on reaching your goal

It is. There is no inherent ability on Fuwanovel that allows users to childishly hide posts from the community merely because they don't wish to hear it. In fact there is no 'neg' ability on Fuwanovel whatsoever, and therefore nothing to dissuade you from speaking your mind (as long as it adheres to the rules.) Ergo, better.

I use my magical ESP abilities to predict the trolls at Reddit will downvote this out of sight. Not due to any fault of Aginyan, but rather that's just the community at Reddit these days. It's a pretty sad indication of community behaviour when members have to plead with the community to stop downvoting posts for no reason.

Be safe Valmore. Make sure your umbrella is sturdy

No. No.

To be fair, gracing people with 'silence' is one of the reasons why the previous President of Square Enix is gone, and the new President is embracing a much more transparent process. Because when everybody kept saying 'we don't want more FF13, we want FF15' and SE kept silent and kept giving the community FF13, and the sales of each version of FF13 kept declining and declining, along with their reputation, someone had to take the blame. Also telling people to 'wait patiently for FF15' since 2006 with zero information forthcoming is a nice way to tick off people. At the end of the day it's their business and they can run it how they like, but just saying they're moving away from silence and have been since 2013. That's why there's been a sudden flood of information about the new title, development process, and development problems. EDIT: It's why the director is out giving information on why they needed to delay the game and such. Addressing concerns on places like Reddit is good PR.

I think Sekai has failed to upload a single 18+ version to Denpasoft. I don’t think that’s enough to reverse default expectations. If they hadn’t previously ruled the 18+ version out, I also don’t think it’s rational to imply they ‘changed their position’ on it when it eventuates.

It doesn't. I think you misunderstand what censorship is. Either that or the misuse of the word by today's millennials are warping the definition in more people than I previously thought. Censorship is the suppression of information, not the failure to promote information, or the failure to endorse information.

It wasn't announced, but nor was it ruled out. And I believe it was assumed an 18+ version would eventually be available on Denpasoft :S. That's what I always assumed anyway.