Darklord Rooke

Hmmm, not really. Check your PM/inbox for the site name.

Steve also. He's involved with another site now, I believe. There's been a few. Nothing unusual about it either.

Standard shounen action. It's why I'm not a fan of most shounen action. I'm of the belief that action scenes are paced quickly, but most shounen action scenes slow down to a crawl. It's a matter of preference, I suppose. One could argue that adds to the amusement … heh

Avernum 2: Crystal Souls is half price at GOG. You guys all know you want it :3

You guys are organising a trip to witness a spectacle you can't watch directly? I dunno, seems a bit weird to me

What I want to know is why Japanese quotation marks are still evident in VNs with ADV format. You know, the ones with the text box and the name of the person speaking. The quotation marks are replaced by the dialogue text box, Japanese quotations should only be used in NVL format. Also, I disagree with Zaka. Nothing pretty about corners of a box. They're functional, cause they're corners of a box and it's like they're enclosing the quotes ... in a box, but I wouldn't say they're pretty. Just my opinion there

I can't answer that, but if you want to read somebody's detailed thoughts on it (who's played the trial), here's an interesting post on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/visualnovels/comments/4kp9hr/what_are_you_reading_untranslated_edition_may_23/d3gqm3t

I have nothing against the guy, and I don’t really care if people criticise SP for incompetence. Just ... so much misinformation. Being someone who's invested and interested in the Western mediums, I can tell instantly when someone is fudging stuff. For example, Choice of Games is a company which regularly puts out text only interactive fiction. They regularly sell their games for thousands of copies, some sell more than 20,000 copies, some free ones have over 50,000 downloads. I'm kinda tempted to write something for them, for fun (on the whole though they seem to promote more choices in their text than I'm comfortable with. More choices means more superficial consequences for those choices.) The implication that Visual Novels are a big part of this resurgence of prose based games because Japanese have ‘no hang ups’ while the West is focused on graphics is ignorant. Deep breaths, Rooke, deeeeep breaths.

Tempting, but I don't do Youtube comments Do I even have an account? I can't remember, but I don't think so.

I have watched the first minute of this video, and I have the following comments: So that's my commentary of the first minute in this video. It's full of unclear and dubious assertions which he then extrapolates on to produce murky conclusions based on murky reasoning and little facts. My question? Is the rest of this video even worth watching?

I play very specific types of games, so Sony wasn't very exciting for me. People keep raving about it, however, but eh. Flicked through the recap/summary and not much.

From Moogy, who posted on Reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/visualnovels/comments/4noy5r/translation_status_updatediscussion_jun_12/d45tymw You may now commence your mass, ritualistic "I'm going to end it all" speeches.

Looks interesting, but the thing which made South Park: The Stick of Truth so good was that Obsidian developed it. Not sure how Ubisoft will go about it, and there's so many teams inside Ubisoft - this one's being done by Ubisoft San Francisco? I'm not familiar with game they have they previously developed (I legitimately have no clue here.) Something to keep an eye on, though

Where's the hype for Tyranny? Looks fab, and a first day buy :3 https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/06/13/tyranny-obsidian-e3-trailer/

I'm on Chrome, and Dark theme's about the same as yours actually. More CPU intensive than Temporal, but not too bad. And my laptop is pretty old also (4-5 years.) PS: Is that the same Firefox that used to leak memory like a bitch?

You wouldn't have this problem if you were using Rooke's superior theme, y'know ... Just sayin'.

It's no longer an 'implication' when they write the 'hidden meaning' across the knuckles of a big glove, put on that glove, then start smacking the fanbase in the face with it over and over and over yelling 'do you understand? DO YOU UNDERSTAND?!'

It's not unique to the modern world. Generally we're far more accepting of things than in the past. As in there are more protections in place for the worker than there used to be, mainly because it's easy to have 'more protections' when there used to be 'no protections.' So while workplaces are still demanding in that they will try and choose only the best workers, there are now limitations to what they can do. There are also different degrees of welfare you can go on if you have a mental disability, once again in the past there was none. In the past if you couldn't get a job because of your psychological condition, you'd be forced into crime (which would likely result in your disfigurement or death) or be homeless and on the street. Or maybe if your family were rich, you'd be reliant upon your family. However if your family were rich and your mental illness embarrassed them, they may have paid a mental institution to keep you (look up 'trade of lunacy.') In fact, it didn't matter if you had a psychological condition or not they may have paid a mental institute to keep you anyway, especially if you proved to be ... difficult (mental conditions are an imprecise science, after all.) And in the Georgian era (I think) some mental institutions (being privately run organisations) would charge money and people would come and observe the inmates like a zoo. Apparently it was quite popular. Comparatively we're a little better off in today's world

I dunno about anyone else, but I'm finding the common insults in the English language rather dull. Not that the English language is incapable of good insults, just that the majority of people rely on previously written ones which have been used to death and are just boring. An indication not only of people's general lack of creativity, but their uninspired use of language in all forms of their life. 'Go fuck [insert person.]' 'Screw you'. 'Fuck you.' 'Go home [insert derogatory term].' All generic, all boring. Do insults REALLY carry weight when we trot out regurgitated crap like this? Surely a few seconds of thought would be worth the added meaning it would give to the abuse?

Hmmm, sounds like you're leaping to some pretty serious conclusions. I'm gonna use google to present a milder alternative:

A lesser known piece of information – normally in English, people will end their sentences with a higher tone when asking a question, seeking verification, that sort of thing. Unless you go to some parts of Australia, where every sentence is ended with a higher tone. We must just like confusing everybody or something: And note this isn't even between languages, just different versions of English.

For example, while watching Cantonese movies I'm often lost at which tones are expressive and which tones change the meaning. Luckily the body language helps, but body language is minimal in VNs.

It does. I'm going to take an extreme example because it's easiest to see potential differences that way. Tonal languages change meanings between words by sometimes changing the tone of that word, non-tonal languages do not. So the changing of tone in a word in a non-tonal language could express emotion, whereas changing it in a tonal language could change the meaning. Personally, I rarely listen to any voice acting so none of this comes across to me In my defence, it's too slow. I'm finished a sentence a while before they say it xD

English dubbing allows the nuances not portrayed by the text but portrayed by the voice acting to be translated into a form understandable by the English audience. At the moment some text narration is not needed partly because of the voice acting. Keeping that Japanese only will mean some of those nuances will always be lost on the majority of the English audience. Providing an option for an English dub is merely completing the translation process, a process started but not completed with the translation of the text. So providing an option for English dubs is a good thing, although it may not be the preferred option for those who already know Japanese. Personally I still view voice acting in general as a waste of money. Adding textual narration for voices and eliminating voice acting all together would save Japanese developers a veritable warehouse of cash.

One of my emails has been compromised 4 times. Birthdate, name compromised. Good job.